We did something new this week that many reading this email may never have tried. We did an aftershow, but not like normal. This time it was a YouTube exclusive AND it was in 360 degrees - both firsts for FTL. It went for about an hour and you can see it in full here . If you've never watched a 360 degree video before, here's how you do it. The neat thing about the 360, is YOU decide what to watch! If you are watching on a computer, you can click and drag in the YouTube player window to move the frame around. If you are on a smartphone, you can touch the screen and move the frame that way OR you can physically move your phone. Finally, you can also watch 360 videos in VR goggles like Google Cardboard!

It's a neat gimmick, and I hope you enjoy it.

In other news, the August 1st deadline for the Bitcoin not-so-civil war is coming up fast. What do you need to know? I just released a...

You can't keep a good activist down. After taking some time off from activism to launch a new business, former FTL co-host Derrick J Freeman has again taken to the web and has been making some great new blog posts over at Free Keene .

Here's his detailed piece he called in about earlier this week about the "expose" seminar the progressives held in Portsmouth, NH recently. Just today he also made a video about Shire Bitcoin , according to him the best vendor at Somaliafest/Shirefest/Porcfest. You can see all his blogs at Free Keene , of course, and now you can go follow and vote him up on Steemit !

Speaking of Steemit, you may...

Thanks to some fancy new software behind-the-scenes, we can now take video calls on Skype, and the video will go out over our cam feed on Free Talk Live and LRN.FM's Saturday late-night show, Off the Air Live, where the new features premiered last night . As always, you can skype in at username LRN.FM.

Welcome to KINA-AM/FM in Salina, KS. They're joining us for Free Talk Live weekends. Also coming back to our affiliate list in a big way is WMEL-AM and its three FM translators in Melbourne/Cocoa, FL. It's not the first time we've been on WMEL, but it's good to be back, and back five nights per week, Tue-Sat 10p-1a. Finally, our existing affiliate KZLS-AM in Enid, OK has expanded FTL to all seven nights per week. You can get full affiliate details for our over 170 radio stations here on our website .

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After a recent discussion with the AMPlifiers on the AMP-only facebook group about the budget for the program, it was determined that LRN.FM's international satellite feeds should be broken out into its own fundraiser and refocus the AMP program exclusively on Free Talk Live. If you think broadcasting the ideas of liberty to other countries 24/7 is a good project, please kick in at least $2 month and share our Patreon in places you feel appropriate.

Also, some of you wanted the opportunity to buy an autographed DVD copy of Derrick J's Victimless Crime Spree. You can now do that with cryptocurrency here !

We'll be announcing some new iedas for the AMP program soon. If you want to support Free Talk Live's continued expansion in the United States, please join the AMP program for at little...

This isn't the kind of news I like to report, but the AMP program is slowly losing money and has been over the last several years. While we have a couple of hundred great supporters in the AMP program, over time some people have to drop off due to their life circumstances (losing a job, tightning budget, etc). That's to be expected. Unfortunately, most months, the number of AMPers we lose slightly outnumbers the number we gain through new signups. As a result, the AMP program is dying rather than thriving. We'd love to do more to Advertise, Market, and Promote Free Talk Live (and LRN.FM), but instead I have to look at what to cut.

Rather than cutting, I've been subsidizing the AMP program with other funds, so we can continue everything we're currently doing (like paying Darryl to do affiliate relations for the show, TALKERS magazine ads, and having industry representation by talk radio...