Day 198 of My Living Xperiment https://t.co/pFW1KtwHUf
— Carla Gericke, Live Free And Thrive! (@CarlaGericke) July 17, 2025
Here is the original Big Questions with Big John podcast:
Last Thursday, after my bedtime (by which I mean, after 8:30PM, when I stop functioning well because I get up at the crack of dawn), I joined the Libertarian Party of Massachusetts on their new show, Libertarian Nuts and Bolts with Lauren Cahillane.
Take a gander on their Facebook page (my segment starts around 35m) if you want to learn more about my theory of what sort of “planet” New Hampshire would resemble in a sci-fi movie–hint: it’s the cool spot where everyone goes to trade, have their ship fixed, meet business partners on neutral ground, and stock up on stuff, i.e. a FREE MARKET PLACE, and why I think we should always “Keep NH Open for Business,” no matter what everyone around us is doing, and always put New Hampshire First! (Which means Granite Staters are free to live their lives without intrusion by government into our homes, our health choices, and how we conduct our businesses.)
Liberty activist and NH state senate candidate Carla Gericke joins Tatiana and Josh in the first part of the show to discuss coronavirus response in New Hampshire and nationwide, and why she believes the full lockdown was an unnecessary infringement of our rights. She also discusses her ongoing New Hampshire state senate campaign and her plans for this year’s PorcFest.
Then, GIVE Nation co-founder and blockchain strategist Alyze Sam joins Tatiana to talk about Virtual Blockchain Week, a live streaming event featuring some of the biggest names in crypto (and Tatiana’s performance at the after party), as well as her involvement with the charity organization GIVE Nation.
About the Guests:
Carla Gericke (JD, MFA) is an advocate of liberty specializing in localized voluntarism, self-determination, and how responsible human action can lead to peace and prosperity. She is president emeritus of the Free State Project, and lives in New Hampshire with thousands of fellow freedom fighters. In 2014, Carla won a landmark court case affirming the 1st Amendment right to film police encounters. She has appeared on WMUR, CNN, and Fox News, been featured in GQ and Playboy, been quoted in The Economist, and has discussed libertarianism on the BBC. She has visited more than 40 countries, hiked to the base camp of the 10th highest mountain in the world, lost a shoe in a taxi more than once, had her passport stolen in Goa, got kidnapped in Vietnam, and has noshed on more “mystery meat” street food than she cares to admit. Carla once spent an entire summer while working as in-house counsel at Logitech eating tuna fish sandwiches with Doug Engelbart (the Mother Of All Demos dude), she worked on Apple’s acquisition of Steve Job’s NeXT, and bought her first Bitcoin for $6. Carla co-hosts the Told You So podcast, and co-chairs Manch Talk TV. She serves on several non-profit boards, follows a Keto lifestyle (read about her transformation), practices yoga and shooting, and plays a mean game of Scrabble. Carla enjoys cooking, gardening, painting, reading, and watching documentary films. She has twice run for New Hampshire Senate, garnering 42% of the vote in 2018 against an 11-term incumbent, and believes in 2020, third time will be the charm! DONATE to her race TODAY! Carla’s first book, The Ecstatic Pessimist, a collection of award-winning short stories, flashes, speeches, and essays is forthcoming next month. Show your support by pre-ordering the Amazon Kindle version of The Ecstatic Pessimist now!
Alyze Sam is a refreshing blockchain strategist, a novel educator, and vehemently driven advocate. First, dedicating her life to her patients in hospice nursing, Sam passionately embraced the world of financial technology after nearly losing her own life, not once, but twice! Sam feels her destiny lies within serving her community and assisting other ‘underdogs’ with love and education. She’s achieving these dreams with roles as; Co-Founder and Chief Executive Assistant for GIVE Nation, a non-profit children’s financial literacy AI/blockchain project which rewards altruistic behaviors. She’s a Founder and Community Director of Women in Blockchain International and sits as an ‘Social Impact Advisor’ for blockchain nonprofits; Blockchance.eu & Women in Blockchain Foundation. Alyze has been an active participant and speaker in the internationally known Women in Blockchain community.
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From 2018, you can LISTEN HERE.
EXTRACT: “In 2010, Carla Gericke says she was following a friend in her car one night through Weare, New Hampshire, when a squad car pulled up behind her. She says she pulled over, and the officer told her to drive away because he was actually pulling over the car she was following.
“The officer told me to leave and I was like ‘Well, I can’t leave because I’m following them and I’ve no idea where I am, it’s 11:00 at night. It’s dark, you know. No I’m going to stay here.’ But he really was a bit on edge so something was weird and I was just like, OK, something’s weird.”
At this point, Carla pulls out a video camera. For some reason, it wouldn’t record, but she got out of the car and started pretending to film the police anyway.
They told her to get back in her car, and then a second officer showed up and asked her where the camera was. She refused to tell him, and refused to hand over her license and registration.
“So things escalated. I was arrested. The people in the car that I was following got arrested and at the police station the police officers refused to give me my camera and they refused to give me a receipt to say they had taken my camera, and so I got a little stroppy and that’s when they decided to charge me with wiretapping.”
Carla told me this experience – of being told she could not document the actions of a police officer – re-affirmed everything Carla knew about the state. Not just New Hampshire – the very concept of a state.
“Government is force. And what I mean by that is for every law we write it is backed by the barrel of a gun. If you refuse to do whatever’s in that piece of paper and you keep saying I won’t do it someone will eventually show up at your house with a gun and make you do it.”