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In the pilot episode of The Unlimited Hangout Podcast, Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin discuss their latest investigation into Polymarket and how the company was born out of a desire to resurrect the US military's controversial Policy Analysis Market, also known as the Terrorism Futures Market, from 2003. Also discussed is the largely unknown background of Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan, the role of oligarch Peter Thiel in privatizing failed DARPA programs like the Policy Analysis Market, and how Coinbase helped sunset Polymarket's unofficial predecessor Augur after Coinbase's earliest employees poured money into Polymarket shortly after its founding. 0:00 Intro, Why A New Video Show, and Latest Piece Reactions 7:29 Brief History of Prediction Markets 18:57 DARPA, PAM, and Robin Hanson 32:07 Privatizing the Information Awareness Office 39:30 The Napsterization Model and Sean Parker 48:56 Shayne Coplan Before Polymarket 56:17 Joey Krug, Augur, Thiel Fellow and Founders Fund 1:05:52 Augur = Napster, Polymarket = Spotify Read Part 1 of UH's Polymarket investigation here: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/06/investigative-series/the-secret-history-of-polymarket-part-1/ Become a member of Unlimited Hangout to get early access to all UH content (videos, podcasts and articles) and participate in live Q+As with Mark and Whitney: https://unlimitedhangout.com/join/ Subscribe here, on YouTube, or elsewhere to help us fight AI impersonation of Whitney and other UH writers and to stop the slop! Follow and subscribe to us on other platforms here: https://linktr.ee/whitneywebb Intro/Outro Music by meanthemusician.bandcamp.com

Iain Davis joins Whitney Webb to discuss his forthcoming book, The Technocratic Dark State, which explores how the so-called “counter-elites” and tech billionaires behind much of the second Trump administration’s policies envisage a world remarkably similar to, and perhaps even worse than, that of the globalist oligarchs long reviled by Trump’s electoral base. Show notes. Follow Iain: Pre-Order The Technocratic Dark State : Trump, AI, and Digital Dictatorship, IainDavis.com, Iain Davis, Author at Unlimited Hangout, Substack, and Iain Davis | X.com. Originally published 12/18/25. Get early access to podcasts by becoming an Unlimited Hangout member. Find previous episodes on all podcast platforms. Order Whitney’s book One Nation Under Blackmail. Sign up for the weekly newsletter to receive updates on new articles, podcasts, and interviews.

The PayPal Presidency Part IV: Teaching Technocracy with John Klyczek Whitney and John Klyczek discuss how Big Tech, led by the PayPal Mafia, and neo-conservative think tanks are converging to influence Trump administration education policy and education financing. Show notes. Follow John: Unlimited Hangout, @ProfessorTaoist | X, School World Order.com, TrineDay Originally published 08/22/25. --- Get early access to podcasts by becoming an Unlimited Hangout member. Find previous episodes on all podcast platforms. Order Whitney’s book One Nation Under Blackmail. Sign up for the weekly newsletter to receive updates on new articles, podcasts, and interviews.

In this episode, Whitney is joined by Mark Goodwin to discuss how the passage of the GENIUS act is the culmination of decades of the PayPal Mafia's efforts in the digital finance space. Show notes Follow Mark: Unlimited Hangout, @markgoodw_in, The Chain Series Originally published 07/24/25. Get early access to podcasts by becoming an Unlimited Hangout member. Find previous episodes on all podcast platforms. Order Whitney’s book One Nation Under Blackmail. Sign up for the weekly newsletter to receive updates on the book, new articles, podcasts, and interviews.

In this episode, Whitney is joined by Iain Davis to discuss his recent article series on the philosophy and political theories that motivate the PayPal Mafia and their most prominent members like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. Show notes Follow Iain Davis: Iaindavis.com, Substack, OffGuardian, Unlimited Hangout, Geopolitics & Empire, Books by Iain Davis Originally published 03/31/25. Get early access to podcasts by becoming an Unlimited Hangout member. Find previous episodes on all podcast platforms. Order Whitney’s book One Nation Under Blackmail. Sign up for our weekly newsletter to receive updates on new articles, podcasts, and interviews.

In this episode, Whitney is joined by UH contributor Max Jones to discuss the influence of the PayPal Mafia's Peter Thiel on Trump's HHS, the likely policies of a RFK-led HHS, and what the expansion of the contracts between HHS and the Thiel-founded Palantir portend for the expansion of the surveillance state. Show notes Follow Max: @maxyyjones, Max Jones | Substack, Max Jones | Unlimited Hangout Originally published 02/10/25. --- Get early access to podcasts by becoming an Unlimited Hangout member. Find previous episodes on all podcast platforms Order Whitney’s book One Nation Under Blackmail. Sign up for the weekly newsletter to receive updates on new articles, podcasts, and interviews.

In this episode, Whitney is joined by Dr. Jacob Nordangard to describe the early influence of oligarchs like the Rockefeller clan in the development of the UN and other international institutions, efforts to hijack the environmental movement to further corporate control of planetary resources, and the UN policy agendas seeking to digitalize and surveil both people and planet. Show notes Follow Jacob: jacobnordangard.se, Amazon.com, Skyhorse Publishing, Jacob Nordangård - YouTube Originally published 11/25/24. Get early access to podcasts by becoming an Unlimited Hangout member. Find previous episodes on all podcast platforms Order Whitney’s book One Nation Under Blackmail. Sign up for the weekly newsletter to receive updates on new articles, podcasts, and interviews.

In this episode, Whitney is joined by independent media veteran James Corbett to discuss the upcoming US presidential election, how it differs from previous cycles and why rejecting the corrupt political duopoly is more important than ever. Published 10/25/24. Show notes Follow James: The Corbett Report | Open Source Intelligence News, The Official Corbett Report Rumble Channel, The Corbett Report Official LBRY Channel Get early access to podcasts by becoming an Unlimited Hangout member. Find previous episodes on all podcast platforms Order Whitney’s book One Nation Under Blackmail. Sign up for the weekly newsletter to receive updates on the book, new articles, podcasts, and interviews.

In this episode, Whitney, along with UH contributor Mark Goodwin, talk to John Titus about the recent US economic crises, the role of BlackRock on US fiscal policy during crisis events, and the brazen criminality of Wall Street and how deeply corrupted financial institutions enable their plunder of taxpayer wealth. Show notes Follow John Titus : BestEvidence – YouTube, Odysee, Bitchute, BestEvidence | Substack, Money & Markets with Catherine Austin Fitts & John Titus - YouTube Originally published 10/04/24. Get early access to podcasts by becoming an Unlimited Hangout member. Find previous episodes on all podcast platforms Order Whitney’s book One Nation Under Blackmail. Sign up for the weekly newsletter to receive updates on new articles, podcasts, and interviews.

Whitney is joined by Unlimited Hangout contributor Stavroula Pabst to discuss Peter Thiel, the man behind Trump's VP pick J.D. Vance and the CIA-linked architect of key aspects of the technocratic surveillance state. Show notes Follow Stavroula: @stavroulapabst / X and Stavroula Pabst | Substack Originally published 07/25/24. Get early access to podcasts by becoming an Unlimited Hangout member. Find previous episodes on all podcast platforms Order Whitney’s book One Nation Under Blackmail. Sign up for the weekly newsletter to receive updates on new articles, podcasts, and interviews. Podcast available now on all Podcast apps. Clips on Podverse.fm

In this episode, Whitney and Mark Goodwin discuss their recent article on GREEN+ and its efforts to impose a carbon market on Latin America through satellite surveillance and opaque contractual agreements as well as attempts to obfuscate a shift to totalitarianism as "free market" capitalism and altruism. Show notes Follow Mark: @markgoodw_in, BTC Magazine. Originally published 04/29/24. Get early access to podcasts by becoming an Unlimited Hangout member. Find previous episodes on all podcast platforms Order Whitney’s book One Nation Under Blackmail. Sign up for the weekly newsletter to receive updates on new articles, podcasts, and interviews.

In this episode, Whitney is joined by UH assistant and podcast producer Star to discuss key aspects of the AI "revolution" including its short and long term effects and if it is possible to use AI without succumbing to its negative impacts. Show notes Originally published 02/01/24. Get early access to podcasts by becoming an Unlimited Hangout member. Find previous episodes on all podcast platforms. Order Whitney’s book One Nation Under Blackmail. Sign up for the weekly newsletter to receive updates on the book, new articles, podcasts, and interviews.

In this episode, Whitney and Ryan discuss how the epidemic of narcissism feeds the ambitions of the powers that be and leads many to invest in a false, virtual self. Show notes Originally published 09/19/23. Get early access to podcasts by becoming an Unlimited Hangout member. Find previous episodes on all podcast platforms Order Whitney’s book One Nation Under Blackmail. Sign up for the weekly newsletter to receive updates on the book, new articles, podcasts, and interviews.

Whitney is joined by Bitcoin Magazine's Mark Goodwin to discuss how bitcoin is being used by some to dollarize the world and entrench the very same financial power structures, particularly in the developing world, that bitcoin was ostensibly created to challenge. Also discussed are suspect stablecoins and the roles of some in crypto in building out the global digital surveillance panopticon and testing those technologies on vulnerable populations. Show notes Follow Mark Goodwin: @markgoodw_in, Bitcoin Magazine Store, and Articles by Mark Goodwin - Bitcoin Magazine. Originally published 06/02/23. Get early access to podcasts by becoming an Unlimited Hangout member Find previous episodes on all podcast platforms Order Whitney’s book One Nation Under Blackmail. Sign up for the weekly newsletter to receive updates on the book, new articles, podcasts, and interviews.

In this episode, Whitney talks to Stavroula Pabst about the reconstruction efforts in Ukraine and how much of Ukraine's government and infrastructure has been outsourced or sold off to Western corporations that are using the country as a testbed for 4IR technologies. Show notes Follow Stavroula: @stavroulapabst and Substack Originally published 05/11/23. Get early access to podcasts by becoming an Unlimited Hangout member. Find previous episodes on all podcast platforms Order Whitney’s book One Nation Under Blackmail. Sign up for the weekly newsletter to receive updates on the book, new articles, podcasts, and interviews.