{"podcast":{"title":"Dangerous Intellectuals: The Podcast","slug":"dangerous-intellectuals-the-podcast-7526000","podcast_index_feed_id":7526000,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/dangerous-intellectuals-the-podcast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://dangerousintellectuals.com","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/dangerous-intellectuals-the-podcast/20251006_061005_d71530f37999c254095eee1a3434293a.jpg","author":"Brig Gen (ret) Blaine D. Holt","episode_count":40,"summary":"These men and women don’t just think outside the box… they never even acknowledged a box existed. These are the visionaries, the leaders who defy convention—razor-sharp minds in geopolitics, economics, technology, entrepreneurship, art, and science—driving debates that shatter illusions and forge new frontiers. Unafraid. Unfiltered. Unstoppable. They are… the Dangerous Intellectuals .","last_synced_at":"2026-06-16T02:19:42.058113+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dangerous-intellectuals-the-podcast-7526000"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 12:  Building the Future While the Old World Burns with Nick Smoot","slug":"episode-12-building-the-future-while-the-old-world-burns-with-nick-smoot","published_at":"2025-12-01T15:46:40+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dangerous-intellectuals-the-podcast-7526000/episode-12-building-the-future-while-the-old-world-burns-with-nick-smoot","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dangerous-intellectuals-the-podcast-7526000","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/dangerous-intellectuals-the-podcast/2360432","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/350297/2360432/dangerous-intellectuals-the-podcast/2025_12_01_15_45_17_ef0e98b1-787e-4aae-9153-ceadfd8d66b1.mp3","summary":"Nick Smoot is torching the old playbook: he’s aiming to shred Medicaid waste, envisions flipping dying schools into profit engines, and is building plans for tokenizing entire cities so citizens earn real equity instead of paying taxes to parasites. While Wall Street panics, and bubbles pop, Nick is building sovereign, gamified communities that run on code, not bureaucrats. This hour-long Dangerous Intellectuals firebomb is pure entrepreneurial rocket fuel: how to launch the next trillion-dollar company from flyover country, why legacy education is dead, and the exact moves to spark innovation and freedom-grade schools nationwide and beyond. Download now, share fast—this is the blueprint the gatekeepers don’t want you to have. https://dangerousintellectuals.com https://www.buildcities.com Duration 01:07:49","meta_description":"Nick Smoot is torching the old playbook: he’s aiming to shred Medicaid waste, envisions flipping dying schools into profit engines, and is building plans…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4068,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dangerous-intellectuals-the-podcast-7526000/episodes/episode-12-building-the-future-while-the-old-world-burns-with-nick-smoot/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dangerous-intellectuals-the-podcast-7526000/episode-12-building-the-future-while-the-old-world-burns-with-nick-smoot.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}