Big thanks to the crew at TALKERS Magazine for naming us #25 on this year’s Heavy Hundred! The Heavy Hundred is their list of the hundred “most important radio talk show hosts in America”. You can see the full list here.
FTL #25 on TALKERS Magazine’s Heavy Hundred 2023
I received news from the federal court that my sentencing date has been postponed again until August 17th at 10am at Federal court in Concord, NH. This may not be the last delay, so if you want to attend, just pencil it in on your calendar. I will update if it changes again. The good news about the delay is it gives you more time to write a letter to the judge if you haven’t yet done so. Please see the details on how you can do so, here.
Also, I received news from the federal court that my sentencing date has been postponed again until July 17th at 10am at Federal court in Concord, NH. This may not be the last delay, so if you want to attend, just pencil it in on your calendar. I will update if it changes again. The good news about the delay is it gives you more time to write a letter to the judge if you haven’t yet done so. Please see the details on how you can do so, here.
Hopefully Aria’s sentencing happens this Tuesday April 25th at 10am at 55 Pleasant St. in Concord, as hers has already been put off several months and she’s pretty frustrated by all the delays. If you can make it out to watch, my attorney says that can help. However, please stay tuned to the calendar entry here or on-air over the next few days to ensure it doesn’t get postponed again last-minute.
Some of you have asked for an alternative to supporting Free Talk Live on Patreon and now we have it thanks to Odysee! A few months ago Odysee introduced memberships, an option to allow viewers to support their favorite channels directly, and also support Odysee. All you have to do to support Free Talk Live via your dollars is click “Join” at the top of our Odysee channel.
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About two weeks in to the new show format, it’s been a major success. We are able to have deeper conversations with fewer interruptions and the show flows better and goes by faster. Radio and live streaming listeners hear 24 minutes fewer ads and all listeners including podcast listeners benefit from another 24 minutes per show of actual content.
Whether it is due to old media advertising losing its effectiveness or due to advertisers’ fear of advertising on a show being targeted by the federal government, we also happen to have zero paying advertisers. Though our decision to cut the eight mins per hour of ads was made months ago, so the two things just happened to coincide. Unfortunately, with no advertising revenue, we can’t afford to continue paying Riley for his service of producing the Daily Digest, which is something we just started doing in September when we switched the podcast to digest-only. Now that the Digest is no longer our only public offering and we also happen to have no ad revenue to support it, Riley is back to needing donations to sustain his efforts.
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Regarding Free Talk Live, I really don’t care if we never have another advertiser ever again, but it would be nice to have enough direct listener support to continue doing the things we’ve been doing via AMPS, like buying ads with TALKERS Magazine, paying industry veteran Skip Joeckel from Talk Shows USA for his representation, and most importantly being able to continue paying our co-hosts a small stipend for their appearances.
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We’re not happy about it, but the jury has spoken. I was found guilty of all eight non-violent, victimless charges I faced at trial last month. Though we are going to appeal all eight counts, I have to be sentenced before the appeal can be filed. The prosecution is asking for upwards of 20 years, however no charge has a minimum sentence, so in theory I could receive time served for the 69 days I’ve already done and then some amount of probation or home confinement in lieu of prison. It’s all up to the judge.
If I have had a positive effect on your life, perhaps you’d consider writing a letter to judge Laplante to explain why you think I should remain out of prison. What kind of benefit have I brought you and the community as a whole? Why does putting me behind bars cause more harm than leaving me out in productive society? These are some of the things you may want to focus on in your letter.
While you likely have strong feelings about the FBI, the prosecution, or the jury in this case, none of that will be relevant to the sentencing hearing, so leave out your opinions on the process, please. While I have my critiques of the prosecutors, I’ve said along the way that I was surprised at how fair Joseph Laplante was, so I’m optimistic. He’s been thoughtful, is capable of changing his mind, and played things fairly evenly during the process.
Please address your letter to “The Honorable Joseph Laplante” or “Judge Laplante”. You may want to talk a little about yourself and what you do for a living and what you have done, especially with regard to any military or government work.
You are welcome to send a draft to me via email at ian at freetalklive.com or if you are confident in what you’ve written, send a signed original via snail mail to: Ian Freeman 63 Emerald St. #610 Keene, NH 03431
Please don’t delay as we need these well in advance of the September 11th sentencing date. Thank you.
A few months ago, we made a big change to our main podcast feed, in the hopes it would help grow our online listenership. The idea was that our two-hour nightly radio show archive was just too long and contained too much radio content to ever be a successful podcast. It was an experiment, and it didn’t work, as our downloads didn’t increase much. So, effective this weekend, you’ll see the full radio show archives have returned to the main FTL podcast RSS feed!
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Thank you for listening to, sharing, and supporting as we enter 2023. Happy new year!
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