As you probably know, Mark and I have been broadcasting this weekend from the Texas Bitcoin Conference . As always, it's been an excellent event. If you missed it, grab the weekend episodes and tune into Monday's show for even more interviews from the conference. Our live shows will resume midway through the show on Monday night. I'll be flying back and Mark will be taking a train, leaving Monday.

Also, last week we welcomed new affiliates WMCD-FM in Statesboro, GA, KORN-AM in Mitchell, SD, and a two station simulcast on FM and HD in Las Cruces, NM. Get full details at our affiliates list here .

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The LRN.FM DIscord is now better than ever! I've simplified the chat rooms by eliminating the show-specific rooms and replacing them with "on-air-now", which is now the default room for all new users to land when joining the server. This should make the experience more welcoming for new people, and less confusing for people who want to find the chat for whatever's live. I'd noticed people wouldn't necessarily move their conversations to a new room when a different show came on, so let's just keep all on-air discussion in one place, rather than breaking it up into multiple rooms.

Of course, many of our show hosts are partipants on the LRN.FM Discord , so in order to give them a way to reach you without having chat distract from their statements, there's now a host-announcements room where only LRN.FM hosts can post stuff they want you to know.

Also, if you missed my appearance on RT America on...

This week, LRN.FM, the Liberty Radio Network announced two podcasts joining our lineup: "We Are Change" with Luke Rudkowski and Jason Bermas and "Destination Unknown" with Vin Armani and Dave Butler. You can learn more and see our full program guide at http://shows.lrn.fm

Don't forget to join our Discord chat server to interact with other Free Talk Live and LRN.FM listeners and some of the hosts! In fact there's a new chat room there for the Tim Preuss show, since he's now a weekday, regularly scheduled program. Just grab the Discord App , create an account, then click on Discord.LRN.FM .

Thanks for listening to Free Talk Live and LRN.FM, Ian

I mentioned in last week's update that we are now using Telegram and IFTTT to feed Free Talk Live's social media. So is Call to Freedom. If you'd prefer to see FTL's posts before they hit any other platform, just join our Telegram channel here . You can also follow Call to Freedom's updates on their Telegram channel .

If you don't yet have Telegram , I highly recommend it. We've been using it in the Keene area for activist communications for years and it has been very effective. It's attractive, easy to use, for both groups and individual chats. Plus it's available cross-platform, so you can have your chats available on your phone, computer, and any other devices.

Of course, if Telegram isn't right for you, you can always follow Free Talk Live's posts on Mastodon and...

I am often asked "How many listeners does FTL have?" This question is as reasonable as it is unanswerable. One person could listen to every segment of FTL: are they one listener or more? One guy I know downloaded 60,000 episodes of FTL; we don't even have that many episodes! You can see the cunundrum.

So, knowing this, I propose a different question: How many listens, rather than listeners, does FTL get per month?

Podcast: We get around 100,000 downloads a month. I am fine with calling these one listen. The industry standard for podcasts is to just ask for downloads. More than one person could clearly listen to a podcast, but some downloads are not listened to.

Radio: I have seen radio ratings for FTL in the past - though not all stations are rated since the companies that release these numbers only provide ratings for stations that pay for inclusion. In round numbers, FTL's AQH (Average Quarter Hour ratings), for the stations that are included in the...