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Could a Nonprofit Prison Actually Fix Corrections in America? Brian Koehn spent 28 years as a warden in private corrections, running five facilities and overseeing security at 65 more. Now he's building Social Purpose Corrections, a nonprofit prison model that doesn't exist anywhere else in the US, designed to fix the incentives that keep the system broken. Mark Edge talks with Brian about why cor...

Javier Milei AI :: Secession :: Belfast riots :: Elon Musk becomes trillionaire :: Murder season in China :: 2026-06-14 Host: Bonnie, Mark Edge, Angelo

Mark Edge reconnects with Carter Feldman, Founder and CEO of Psy Protocol, a new proof-of-work blockchain that promises to solve the impossible triangle of scalability, decentralization, and privacy all at once. Carter breaks down how Psy uses recursive zero-knowledge proofs to process transactions privately at internet scale, hitting 500,000 transactions per second on testnet before even launchin...

Javier Milei AI :: Secession :: Belfast riots :: Elon Musk becomes trillionaire :: Murder season in China :: 2026-06-14 Host: Bonnie, Mark Edge, Angelo

Mark joining Cameo :: Age gaps :: Mark's son salutatorian :: Free Staters who can't get along :: Scott the bigot, self-hating Jew :: Aborting Down Syndrome babies and Bonnie's controversial take :: How high should your IQ be to be allowed to breed, according to Mark :: Greg saidf Ashkenazi jews best at many things including anti semitic thought :: 13 presidents were Episcopalian :: 2026-06-06 Host...

Henry Nowak stabbing murder in the UK :: Cops told him he wasn't stabbed :: Lego Wars in Utah :: Cops arrest YouTuber for heling recover stolen Legos :: 2026-06-06 Hosts: Bonnie, Angelo, Lori

Mark Edge catches up with Dennis Pratt, co-owner of the Independence Inn in Stratford, New Hampshire, to make the case for why libertarians should stop talking and start moving. Dennis breaks down what the Free State Project has built in New Hampshire — 300 liberty groups, eight Liberty Clubhouses, and a thriving community of porcupines — and how the Independence Inn serves as a way station for vi...

Mark Edge charts new waters with Joe Quirk, Seavangelist and President of The Seasteading Institute and author of Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians, for a wide ranging conversation about why libertarians have won all the arguments but still can't change anything — and why seasteading might be the t...

Mark joining Cameo :: Age gaps :: Mark's son salutatorian :: Free Staters who can't get along :: Scott the bigot, self-hating Jew :: Aborting Down Syndrome babies and Bonnie's controversial take :: How high should your IQ be to be allowed to breed, according to Mark :: Greg saidf Ashkenazi jews best at many things including anti semitic thought :: 13 presidents were Episcopalian :: 2026-06-07 Host...

Henry Nowak stabbing murder in the UK :: Cops told him he wasn't stabbed :: Lego Wars in Utah :: Cops arrest YouTuber for heling recover stolen Legos :: 2026-06-06 Hosts: Bonnie, Angelo, Lori

Mark Edge speaks with Eric Brakey, Executive Director of the Free State Project, at the Libertarian National Convention about why concentrating libertarians in one state is producing real, measurable wins — while national third-party politics keeps spinning its wheels. They cover the culture of accomplishment over endless philosophical debates, New Hampshire's unique citizen legislature, the New H...

Mark Edge and Robbie Miles discuss something Robbie is passionate about at the Libertarian National Convention. He shares his journey from mainstream environmentalist to liberty advocate. Robbie breaks down why he believes the government is the wrong tool to solve climate change, how tort law and free markets could tackle pollution more effectively than regulation, and why the Live and Let Live Fo...

Sal and Mark are back for episode six, fresh off a month of travels — Bitcoin Vegas, Consensus Miami, and BCH Bliss in Slovenia. Before diving in, Sal recounts his wild Homeland Security detainment at Tampa Airport — arrested for weed on the jetway. The guys break down the chaos at the Libertarian National Convention in Grand Rapids — rubber chickens, stolen pamphlets, a gnarly slap, and the disaf...

In this episode of the Mark Edge Show, Mark sits down with comedian and author Andrew Heaton to discuss his new book, Tribalism is Dumb: Where It Came From, How It Got So Bad, and What to Do About It — a book Mark calls the best he's read in a decade. Blending Douglas Adams-style wit with serious anthropological and evolutionary research, Heaton explains why humans are innately tribal, why politic...

Handless woman arrested for phone in hand :: Cop caught red handed :: Skeeter calls Penguin out for "lies" :: The honorable, scrupulous, ethical Ricky from the Commonwealth pays his debt to Rich E Rich :: Luckily, we are not currently third world in the US :: How long will the dollar have the petrodollar status? :: Uber Jorge talks about why he quit the TSA :: You can't send your own property over...

Sal and Mark are back with a special episode recorded live at BCH Bliss 2026 in Ljubljana, Slovenia — the premier Bitcoin Cash conference. We've put together a montage of the best interviews from the event. Featured guests include Ken Bozak and crypto OG, Kalisti, lead developer of Selene Wallet, and Steve Thurman of Cash Stamps — all breaking down the future of Bitcoin Cash, privacy, peer-to-peer...

Through overcharging, excessive sentencing, and inconsistent enforcement, IAN FREEMAN is being unjustly prosecuted for standing up for financial privacy. The government has targeted Ian for his role in promoting financial privacy through cryptocurrency, with made-up charges built on false narratives. His case represents a dangerous precedent: if we allow this to happen, anyone who advocates for pr...

Dan McMillan joins Mark Edge at the Libertarian National Convention to discuss Make Voters the Donors — a proposal to give every registered voter "voter dollars" to fund the candidates of their choice, shifting political power away from lobbyists and billionaires and back to everyday Americans. McMillan breaks down how the voluntary public financing system would work, why it doesn't require a cons...

Handless woman arrested for phone in hand :: Cop caught red handed :: Skeeter calls Penguin out for "lies" :: The honorable, scrupulous, ethical Ricky from the Commonwealth pays his debt to Rich E Rich :: Luckily, we are not currently third world in the US :: How long will the dollar have the petrodollar status? :: Uber Jorge talks about why he quit the TSA :: You can't send your own property over...

Does AI deserve Personhood? :: Libertarian Socialism? What's that??? :: Should politics come with a dress code? :: What is YOUR pet freedom? :: Compelling people into your beliefs is bad, guys. :: Should the libertarian party exist? :: Public schools aren't teaching anyone anything. :: Bonnies LNC highlights and lowlights :: Libertarian on Libertarian violence :: How big of a society can you reall...

Does AI deserve Personhood? :: Libertarian Socialism? What's that??? :: Should politics come with a dress code? :: What is YOUR pet freedom? :: Compelling people into your beliefs is bad, guys. :: Should the libertarian party exist? :: Public schools aren't teaching anyone anything. :: Bonnies LNC highlights and lowlights :: Libertarian on Libertarian violence :: How big of a society can you reall...

Can California Secede and go it alone against the US :: Skeeter - property rights, what property rights? The federal government owns everything and libertarians needs to learn that :: David Ridley - suggests we call the Sununu Center embroiled in decades of controversy the Sununu Rape Center :: Sarah calls, here favorite politician will solve everything :: Woman Arrested in TX for Facebook Post ::...

Turd calls in anticipation of a new matrix server :: Matrix gives the user more control :: Rob from VT calls about bad cops (all cops) :: Forkfest is going to be rad :: Sarah in NM calls about more noise cameras :: Cops in Gilford NH behaving badly again :: Skeeter calls to cry "hypocrite!", but just sounds dumb again :: Kalliste calls about the Libertarian National Convention :: router takeover b...

Turd calls in anticipation of a new matrix server :: Matrix gives the user more control :: Rob from VT calls about bad cops (all cops) :: Forkfest is going to be rad :: Sarah in NM calls about more noise cameras :: Cops in Gilford NH behaving badly again :: Skeeter calls to cry "hypocrite!", but just sounds dumb again :: Kalliste calls about the Libertarian National Convention :: router takeover b...

Can California Secede and go it alone against the US :: Skeeter - property rights, what property rights? The federal government owns everything and libertarians needs to learn that :: David Ridley - suggests we call the Sununu Center embroiled in decades of controversy the Sununu Rape Center :: Sarah calls, here favorite politician will solve everything :: Woman Arrested in TX for Facebook Post ::...