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In this enlightening episode of The Free Thought Project podcast, Jason flies solo (with Matt on vacation) for a deep-dive conversation with longtime liberty activist and Free Talk Live co-host, Mark Edge. Note: Jason's mic wasn't working correctly for the first 17 minutes — but the insights are worth sticking around for. Mark's radio co-host and Free Talk Live co-founder, Ian Freeman, is currently serving time in federal prison for the "crime" of facilitating Bitcoin transactions — a glaring example of the federal government's ongoing war on crypto. We unpack Ian's unjust prosecution, his prank encounter with Joe Biden that may have put him in the feds' crosshairs, and the heartbreaking reality that Free Talk Live is now on life support. Jason and Mark also reflect on their time at the 2025 Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas, the energy and evolution of the crypto movement, and briefly touch on Roger Ver's new book Hijacking Bitcoin. We discuss the importance of decentralization, the co-optation risks crypto faces, and Ross Ulbricht's powerful first public speech since being imprisoned in 2013. The conversation turns toward the two-party illusion, the failures of political reform through party expansion, and whether a potential second Trump term could change the trajectory of the crypto crackdown. We wrap with a white pill: Mark's optimism, what keeps him going after nearly two decades in the fight for liberty, and how we can support Ian and others like him. This is a must-listen for anyone who cares about digital freedom, liberty activism, and the future of financial sovereignty. (Length: 51:10) Support TFTP with subscription: https://thefreethoughtproject.com Jason's Website for Upcoming 'KYR class': https://www.jasonbassler.com/ Free Talk Live – https://freetalklive.com Sign the Petition – https://www.change.org/p/free-ian-freeman Mark Edge on Twitter/X – https://twitter.com/Mark_Edge
Free Talk Cast - 034 - Silly Earth Monkeys by Free Talk Live
daylight savings :: Robert calls about GMT :: stop jacking the clock around :: teacher sells test score enhancement pills :: Russia missiles Ukraine :: "unprovoked" attacks highly provoked :: Ricky from the commonwealth calls about Ukraine :: skeeter calls with more contradictive nonsense :: solutions without tryanny :: Sarah calls about the public park being a tragedy of the commons :: she advocates for speeding cars hitting drunk panhandlers :: is animal "rescue" just theft? :: DOGE removes $18M/month funding for empty facility :: David in NM calls about avoiding taxes :: courtroom strategies :: 2025-03-09 Hosts: Stu, Rich E Rich
The State of the War on Crypto :: Trump signs execute order establishing US strategic bitcoin reserve :: Trump says bitcoin reserve will change everything. Crypto fans aren't so sure :: Skeeter says none of us understand value. We encourage him to publish a paper on whatever the hell he's talking about :: Sarah talks multilevel marketing :: Chinese man sends $6.8mm worth of Ethereum in donations and burn addresses to spread word of Chinese corporate mind countrol programs :: NH House passes Crypto Reserve Bill :: 2025-03-08 Hosts: Chris, Stu
Talking to Ben Weir who is running for Libertarian Party of New Hampshire chair :: LPNH's mean tweets :: Identity Politics :: Can Libertarians get elected? :: Local vs national elections :: Gun buy back event aimed at cops :: Cops kill 27 dogs a day :: End qualified immunity :: PunksForLiberty.org :: Free speech absolutism :: scaring Massachusetts people away :: Trading liberty for safety :: Communication with animals :: 2025-03-02 Hosts: Bonnie, Lori, Ben
Egg smuggling :: JD Vance and Trump yell at Zelensky :: Sara calls about network sales :: under review for welfare :: MLM sales tactics are annoying :: is the value of gold subjective? :: skeeter thinks so but fails to change my mind :: Bee vaccine :: falsified DNA tests lead to false imprisonments :: prisoner rates by country/state :: 2025-02-23 Hosts: Stu, Bonnie, Riley
Is the Libertarian Party growing up into a real party, complete with corruption? :: Call from Skeeter, we disagreed. Again. :: Are borders necessary? :: Israel and Gaza, caller calls for a violent end :: Dave Ridley Update on NH move to block international interference :: The best executive order yet? :: 2025-02-22 :: Chris R., Lori, Riley
School uniforms. Unfair? :: But do we want to pay for them? :: Will they really get rid of the penny? :: The North American Union and using the Amero :: Donald Trump wanting to buy Bitcoin with gold :: Bill Gates is obsessed with IDing the world :: China so controlled that a girl got stuck there without internet :: Trump wants to buy Canada :: Canadian calls in to explain the Trudeau dictator situation :: Sarah may get her welfare taken away! :: Baby has two birthdays, weeks apart :: Legalizing drugs instead of war with Mexico :: 2025-02-16 :: Bonnie, Riley, Rich E Rich
Trump trolling? :: Religious fights over land :: Trump pranking Netanyahu? :: Hamas was created by Israel, anyway :: Teenage Dream, best album of all time? :: Will Turd's music heal the divide between men and women? :: FreedomLawSchool.org :: A man calls in who went to Larkin Rose's tax trial :: Taxes are theft :: Gov used covid to destroy small businesses :: Land of the fee home of the slave :: Traffic lights in Mexico and spontaneous order :: 80 million Americans don't file :: The bureaucrats are the minions of the banks :: The FBI falling apart? :: 2025-02-15 :: Bonnie, Riley, Stu
Dystopian Creep :: Trumps forbidden words :: Free Speech except against Jews :: God talks tro Sarah about traffic lights :: Beavers for president 2028 :: Rolling back MMJ legalization? :: 2025-02-09 :: Lori, Rich E Rich, Riley
Immigrants getting sent to Guantanamo Bay :: Torture and rendition in GB :: Problems with welfare and immigration :: Taxation and the fact it is theft :: California forced to release water :: Alternative history like who built the 1890s asylums :: Learned helplessness :: The Trivium method :: The public schools just brain wash the kids :: Update on Ian's case :: Left wing corporate media bias :: US gov is using torture :: Guantanamo taking US's illegal immigrants :: US relies on a facade :: Elizabeth Warren asked RFK Jr not to sue pharma companies :: Should you be on Prep if you're promiscuous? El Salvador taking US's immigrants in their prisons :: 2025-02-08 :: Bonnie, Riley, Stu
Trump freed Ross Ulbricht :: How libertarian is Chase Oliver? :: Trump executive order makes agencies need to delete 10 regulations to create 1 :: One coin national debt payment? :: The banks own the US :: DOGE has eliminated $1 billion of waste :: DEI workers :: 2025-02-02 :: Bonnie, Lori, Rich E Rich
Trump to end the IRS? :: Trump trade wars :: Dave Ridley calls about reopenNH :: should vaccines be required for services? :: Turd Fergusen calls about public/private hospitals :: Real McCoy calls about altcoin news interview of Roger Ver who mentions Ian Freeman:: libertytools.io :: John calls about immigration and job markets :: Tim in FL suggests under bidding :: Skeeter's mom thinks he's sexy and then he lies about Roger :: Paul calls about Roger and tax law :: Tom Woods cruise will stop in Honduras :: Dayna in Michigan calls concerned about missed show night, thanks libertarians for Trump votes :: Is Trump an insider playing an outsider? :: David in NM calls about something he never gets to because of his bigotry :: Michael calls to ask how Ian is :: Sarah in NM calls about bicycle activist getting killed by hit and run :: :: 2025-02-01 :: Stu, Mark, Bonnie
Ross is Free :: Dave Ridley calls about Allsides news :: police training regarding incels :: Preemptive pardons :: Fauci guilty? :: Skeeter makes no good points again :: Cadieux calls about dept of girlfriend efficiency:: birthright citizenship :: DEI good or bad? :: are elephants people? :: David from NM calls about savages :: :: 2025-01-26 :: Stu, Riley, Rich E. Rich
FTL Digest 2025-01-19 by Free Talk Live
Background checks for 3D printers :: does anyone pay use tax :: does tax evasion violate the NAP :: arsonist cites TikTok ban :: Texas morality police in supreme court to weaken 1st amendment :: Sarah wants snitch cars :: what is or isn't a cryptocurrency :: NH growing liberty representation :: compliance to business tax code impossible :: 01-19-2025:: Hosts: Stu, Riley, Mr. Penguin
California Wildfires and their multiple causes :: Prison slave labor :: Is insurance to blame for the wildfires? :: Private resources are evil? :: Sex trafficking in NM :: Sarah has converted top capitalism :: Bad government creates bad living conditions :: Facebook ending DEI and people are very upset :: Some in the trans community are harming the trans community :: Biology talk live :: 01-12-2024:: Hosts: Lori, Bonnie, Rich E. Rich
Trump to annex Greenland and Canada :: Zoning laws kill imaginative/ improved designs for towns/cities :: Free Ross Ulbricht :: The Great Reset and the World Economic forum :: "They" want us to be miserable :: Could representative government actually work? :: Fascinating audio editing facts :: Montauk project and other secret underground government projects :: Police in the US are only around to harass people :: Tragedy of the commons :: Cold exposure therapies and heat exposure :: Doctor David :: Hosts: Bonnie, Stu, Riley
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Wizard in charge of slab city :: Barter and trade :: Prison guards murder inmate :: Skeeter makes no sense again :: Ohio charging for body cam footage etc. :: Film the police yourself :: Heavy metals labeling for baby food :: Health insurance messing up healthcare :: Ever growing vaccine schedule :: Bacterial induced pneumonia :: David in NM talks about trading strategies :: 2025-1-5 :: Hosts: Stu, Riley, Rich E Rich
Happy New Year! :: New Orleans - Truck drives through Bourbon Street crowd, Feds believe it to be terrorism :: Las Vegas - Tesla Cybertruck explodes outside Trump International Hotel killing driver, Feds believe it to be terrorism :: New Orleans gets 97 guns off the streets in exchange for 47K in PS5s :: Psychedelic Therapy Begins in CO causing tension between conservatives, veterans 2025-01-01 :: Hosts: Chris R., Riley, Stu
Florida using radioactive materials for roads :: Caller Matt likes to smell dog breath in cars and only cares about alcohol :: Ricky claims he is not racist :: Only feminism can solve global warming, apparently :: Sharing classified data on a video game :: Talking about how great of an activist Darryl Perry was in NH :: 2024-12-29 :: Hosts: Bonnie, Lori and Rich E Rich
Gentle Parenting :: The Telepathy Tapes Podcast :: LearnTheRisk.org :: There are no autistic Amish :: Do you agree to the government's rules? :: Sarah is upset with the customer service of the state :: Regenerative farming :: Cane sugar vs High fructose corn syrup :: Whatever the gov subsidizes it encourages it, even poverty :: The fear of being shunned keeps people in cults :: 2024-12-29 :: Hosts: Bonnie, Stu and Jay
A Very Special Chrismukkah FTL Edition! :: No matter who sits in the Oval Office, the US is a failed experiment:: Milei to eliminate all but 6 taxes :: The Story of Santa's Last Journey :: Godspeed, Bad Slave :: Rand Paul's 2024 Festivus Report :: Who is holding the $36 trillion in US Debt? :: Travel by horseback :: 2024-12-25 :: Hosts: Chris R., Stu
Sex laws are arbitrary and dumb :: Legal land where up is down and left is right :: Tax prostitution? :: Decriminalize prostitution? :: Valley Forge :: Constitutional carry in Pennsylvania :: Everybody has the right to protect themselves :: Black boxes collecting data on you in your car :: Why don't people mind when men do dangerous jobs? :: 2024-12-23 :: Hosts: Bonnie, Mr.Penguin
People are losing respect for "the authorities" :: Are you still rich if you're deeply in debt? :: The US is deeply in debt :: Car talk :: Problems with new cars being glorified smart phones :: Pee in your car's gas? :: X/ Twitter helped cut a bill down from 1500 pages to 116 :: Would you rather have a monarchy and king or Joe Biden as president for 80 years? :: States getting money for kidnapping not new :: Problems with private prisons :: Jay's Anarchapulcho code Jay :: Biden commuted the sentence of a total monster of a judge who sent kids to jail for money from :: 2024-12-21 :: Hosts: Bonnie, Jay, Stu
Criminal justice system reform could be coming :: Are crime rates getting better? :: Real conservatism vs fake :: Are libertarians all gamblers? No :: We don't have real free markets :: Food deserts :: Jesus models in Utah :: Flat earth man changes his mind :: Bonnie Dream City :: Lady in NM guilty after baiting cops to follow her wrong way on the HIGHway :: Best/ worst teachers and AI teachers :: 2024-12-22 :: Hosts: Bonnie, Stu and Rich E Rich
Argentina dismisses Tax Chief - Be Like Milei :: Milei dismisses tax authority over tax on streamers :: Musk comes out swinging against spending package, Republicans on board, sort of :: Yellen sounds panicky about Trump interfering with Banking Supervision (lol) :: Should there be competition in money? We say yes. :: Former libertarian says DOGE goal of cutting gvmt spending by $2T is a pipedream :: Sara talks Whole Foods and Amazon :: 2024-12-18 :: Hosts: Chris R., Stu
Spit hoods, used by the police, are deadly :: Overreactions to the AIDS crisis caused a lot of bad pro cop laws :: Policing is inherently violent :: Robinhooding in Keene :: Institute for Justice cases :: We're all presumed guilty by cops :: Cops destroying people's houses when raiding all of the time :: Gov narrative on the Syria/ Assad over throw :: Cops shouldn't be handling mental health breaks :: Cops are parasites :: NH Business free speech donut sign :: Ghost guns :: Kids should learn gun saftey :: 2024-12-16 :: Hosts: Bonnie and Mr. Penguin
AI tells kid to kill his parents :: Rich E Rich and Bonnie's ideas on parenting :: Former NH state rep, Melissa Blasek, wants to end federal funding in this way :: What are rights? :: Brett Cooper leaving the Daily Wire :: Turd Ferguson will impregnate Greta Thunberg :: Dear law students, you're in a cult :: Jury nullification in the Luigi Mangione case :: Lawyers have never stood up for what is right :: Government enslaves business owners :: The law is not there to help :: David's new invention can't come to life because the gov would steal it :: Rich E Rich's podcast, The Anarchist Experience :: 2024-12-15 :: Hosts: Bonnie and Rich E Rich
Free Talk Live :: Inconsistencies with the story about Luigi Mangione :: the differences in his appearance and the pics that are allegedly the shooter :: the emotional nature of the jury makes the court system unfair :: if you're going to represent yourself in court, at least learn the objections :: Before Obama care we had lower costs :: anyone involved in health insurance in the US is a criminal :: What is self ownership? :: different forms of government :: lawyer parasites :: Is Sarah still for red light cameras even though she admitted people don't pay the tickets :: Sarah is pro violence :: Tragedy if the commons :: communism is good? :: 2024-12-11 :: Hosts: Chris, Bonnie
UnitedHealthcare CEO Killer suspect and all the craziness surrounding this person :: Ts healthcare in the US actually capitalist? :: No, it's fascist :: Some parasites don't work directly with the government :: Skeeter says there aren't enough cameras :: The good and the bad of insurance :: Gov mandates are the problem :: Gov took bus tamales made by abuela from us :: Gazans are still getting killed :: Project 2025 and Obamacare written by the same people :: Ditching DEI :: Trump to end funding to woke schools :: Social security is obviously socialism :: Possible psyop? :: Cops excuses for abusing people :: Alex Jones was right and the Sandy Hook shooting WAS a hoax :: Was Assad a good guy? :: Violence during the last few months of Biden :: Gaddafi murdered and now slavery is happening there :: Blowback :: The shooter had a ghost gun :: Good people can use cash and ghost guns :: People surrender privacy too easily :: Monopoly money found in backpack of the shooter, allegedly :: Cops gotta arrest SOMEBODY :: 2024-12-09 :: Hosts: Bonnie, Mr. Penguin
Renegade statesman and Free State Project Executive Director, Eric Brakey comes on to talk about liberty legislation :: Porcfest Taste the Revolution :: Defend the Guard :: Good news on senate in NH for liberty lovers :: People should be allowed to have monkeys as pets :: Public school is daycare :: Are R's better than D's? :: Drug legalization vs decriminalization :: Liberty Forum news :: Trump weaponizing tariffs :: Bonnie lies over the ocean :: Turd wants to fight Jerome :: Slavery's opportunity cost :: This is not what Skeeter actually wanted to talk about :: The Jones Plantation movie :: Ozempic lawsuit :: Dangers of supplements :: DEI hired pilots :: Colleges dismantling DEI :: Walkie talkies for the apocalypse :: 2024-12-08 :: Hosts: Bonnie, Lori, Rich E Rich
The gov is supposed to protect us but they're failing :: Trickery throughout history caused people to support war :: Sugar and opium were drugs :: United Healthcare CEO killed :: The immorality of fascist healthcare :: The absurdity of laws :: Hunter Biden pardon :: Legalland where rule number one is the judge doesn't have to follow the rules :: Is Bonnie perfect? :: Skeeter defines perfection for us :: What is morality? :: The immortal jellyfish :: Skeeter's deserves love too :: IP laws are all about entitlement :: David is gay for pay :: 2024-12-07 :: Hosts: Bonnie and Stu
FBI says everyone should use encrypted text and voice - they must have broken encryption :: Discussion on Biden's pardon of Hunter :: Will Kash Patel do anything serious with the FBI? :: United Healthcare CEO assassinated in NYC, seems like a professional hit or government :: The FBI has been political from the start and shouldn't exist :: 2024-12-04 :: Hosts: Chris R., Stu
Google forced to demonopolize and crazy proposals to force them to help their own rivals :: Gov are thieves and parasites :: Does Zelenskyy want Ukrainians to be exterminated? :: Ian most deserving of all Freedom of Speech award recipients :: Can androids have rights? :: RIP Peanut the squirrel :: The government is nothing but a bunch of criminals :: 2024-12-02 :: Hosts: Bonnie, Mr.Penguin, Riley
Coming changes to Free Talk Live :: Man sends life savings to a streamer so that she will call him "Bro" :: Age of consent laws :: Bonnie on being married young :: If Bonnie was a black person would the raid have been worse for her? :: Lawyer in NH bad mouths the Free Staters :: Should white people rally behind their own martyr against cop violence? :: Simps and what is and isn't simping :: Cadieux found Skeeter's YouTube channel :: David's being so rude, bro :: Biden just pardoned his own son :: 2024-12-01 :: Hosts: Bonnie, Rich E Rich, Riley
Jesus in India :: Did aliens help us evolve? :: Libertarianism in One Lesson :: How could a libertarian support Trump over Oliver? :: The Libertarian Party functions as a CIA asset :: Trump has a debt to the Rothschilds :: The Balfour Declaration :: Israel First Trump :: USS Liberty :: Psychopaths and secondary psychopaths :: "They" are making people hate themselves :: Welfare and other programs to incentivize homelessness :: What is right and what is wrong? :: Contradictions are always a mistake or a lie :: People in gov are all thieves at the least :: 2024-11-30 :: Hosts: Bonnie, Stu, Riley
Free Talk Live :: Why did the Libertarian Presidential Candidate Underperform? :: Skeeter - Inflation is great! :: Political Labels and why they don't work :: Sarah's MLM :: WEF pushes for metaverse digital IDs because Klaus needs a new evil talking point :: Crypto under attack and Roger Ver :: The Fed is Evil, and where it came from :: Is CA poised to secede from Trump's US :: 2024-11-27 :: Hosts: Chris R., Riley, Stu
The Department of Government Efficiency :: More AI Jesus :: Martin Luther and the Thirty Years War :: Can Trump end the war in Ukraine? :: Regulatory bodies are the deep state :: The government is getting bigger than most people know :: Too much focus on safety costs us money :: Old people taken advantage of because of the Covid lockdowns :: FreeIanNow.org :: DARE, Did it work on the kids? :: Will Trump harm women's rights? :: Cops in GA wanted to put GPS on a kid :: People who cant handle debates :: Public school brainwashing tactics :: Vocabulary and Yogisms :: When is something worth taking to court? :: Public school is child abuse :: A Caller, Sarah, calls this food "Black people slavery food" :: 2024-11-25 :: Hosts: Bonnie, Riley, Mr. Penguin
Man found dead in tanning bed :: Don't take the plea deal :: AI Jesus takes confessions :: Purgatory :: Japanese Senator wants to take women's uteruses :: Jerome mad about Matt Gaetz :: Trump Train Gang Bang :: Corporal vs Capital punishment :: Is spanking violent? :: Lori Vallow Daybell :: 2024-11-24 :: Hosts: Bonnie, Riley, Rich E Rich
Ian and Mark fights acted out by us :: Wednesday's flat earth calls explained :: Call in and use your free speech abilities :: Scientists protecting their cults :: Objective reality vs subjective :: Did aliens create then abandon us? :: You manifest things into the world :: Polymarket owner FBI raid :: Jim Bell Assassination Politics :: Flouride in Florida getting banned? :: Law of attraction :: Demons :: The media is for propping up corporations :: 2024-11-23 :: Hosts: Bonnie, Stu, Riley
Free Talk Live :: How much DC bureaucracy would people live without? :: libertarian thinking people thing all of it but two party people would be hard to convince :: RFK :: Sarah talks success of speeding cameras :: Flat Earth Callers get waaaaaaaaaay too much airtime :: The Free County Project? David in New Mexico weighs in :: 2024-11-20 :: Hosts: Chris R., Stu, Riley