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The raw, unlicensed brilliance of this multimedia newsletter—equal parts stand-up, law review, and peaceful revolt—is powered by the First Amendment and bankrolled by you. That’s it. Keep Banging!™
Here’s a sample show from June 27, 2025.
I have a spent my entire life thinking and creating freely and mostly getting away with it. By the decade:
20s: Dig hole
30s: Dig out
40s: Rebuild
50s: Unstoppable
60s: My best work
JUST ASKED MYSELF THE FOLLOWING SEVEN QUESTIONS
Q: What is the central promise of America’s Coach?
A: Subscribe for free and every time we upload a new episode, you will feel a vibration in your pants. Unless your phone is off or you don’t keep it in your pants.
Q: Speaking of not keeping it in your pants, where do you think you went wrong?
A: I was an altar boy for six years. Never molested by a priest. Not once. What was wrong with me?
Q: That’s funny. Made me chuckle.
A: I appreciate the kind words. Just know, there is no compliment you can give me that I have not already given myself.
Q: What is democracy?
A: The blank page is the purest form of democracy. Like a dunk tank clown, it is heckling and humbling you right now: “Come on, Dipshit! Show me what you can do!”
Q: With 45 years of experience what have you learned about people?
A: There are two kinds of people. People who have systems and people who are broke.
Q: Three rules to live by?
A: Phone off, always stand when you speak, never explain a smart joke to an idiot.
Q: Over 45 years of building small businesses, raising a family, owning a comedy club, touring the Fortune 500, Marriott ballrooms, winning independent theater festivals internationally, and creating a system for getting yourself out of federal prison, then licensing that system to tens of thousands of lawyers nationally over the course of 25 years, what is the one thing you’ve learned above all else?
A: Nobody reads the About Page.
Keep Banging!™
~Mark Whitney, America’s Coach
Meet America’s Coach: Mark Whitney
Mark Whitney, a.k.a. America’s Coach, is an autodidact and polymath with a one of a kind 45 year background as a fearless litigator, award-winning entertainer, entrepreneur, corporate strategist, crisis manager, and dynamic speaker.
Performer, Comic, Story Maker
Mark’s story making has been featured on Robert McKee’s Storylogue alongside screenwriting legends like Paul Haggis and Steven Pressfield. In 2011, he was humbled, shocked and honored to be the only spoken-word artist, besides Drew Carey and Russell Brand, to appear on the cover of Story Magazine.
In 2005, Mark founded the San Diego Comedy Co-op, a gritty underground venue that provided stage time to then-up and comers like Kyle Kinane, Dan Levy, Natasha Leggero, Anthony Jeselnik, and Erik Knowles. After years of touring nationally, San Diego’s own, Zoltan Kaszas, still considers the Co-op to be his “home club.”
From 2007–2013, Mark toured his award-winning solo show, Fool For A Client, based on the true story of representing himself in Federal court while facing 125 years in federal prison. He won the Boulder International Theatre Festival (twice), the Minnesota Theatre Festival, the D.C. Theatre Festival, and the San Francisco Comedy Convention for stand-up comedy.
Litigator
As a litigator, armed with only a high school education, Mark defeated the U.S. Department of Justice (three times), the IRS, and the FDIC. Mark was so-good at federal post-conviction law that in 1995, the United States sued him to stop him from consulting in federal cases it was actively prosecuting. Mark beat them like a rented mule.
In 2011, Mark unwittingly became the nation’s only citizen to independently sue the United States to end the unconstitutional participation of U.S. Armed Forces in the Libyan Civil War, seeking a universal injunction to enforce the citizenry’s 9th Amendment right to representation in the legislature on a matter implicating War Powers. The Government was ordered to respond and the case was fully litigated with both parties filing arguments and counterarguments. Ultimately, upon the assassination of then-Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, the Judge dismissed the litigation as moot.
Recruiting Industry Innovator
In 1996—two years before Google—Mark co-founded AIRS®, America’s first recruiting dot-com. His system for online talent acquisition was quickly adopted by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, Disney, and most of the Fortune 500. Over the course of three years and hundreds of personal appearances, Mark dominated boardrooms and ballrooms from coast-to-coast. AIRS® was later acquired by ADP®, where it remains a leading force in corporate hiring.
Legal Tech Innovator
From 2000–2023, Mark served as CEO of THELAWNET Corporation (TLN), leading it through nearly 100 straight profitable quarters.
After serving 452 days in federal prisons, Mark adapted and digitized for the nation’s lawyers, the same analog system he used to have his term of imprisonment declared unconstitutional, winning an order for his immediate release by now retired Supreme Court Justice, Stephen G. Breyer.
TLN’s flagship software, Equalizer 7, revolutionized legal research with the industry’s first downloadable app—years before Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play. TLN makes it fast, affordable, and intuitive for workaday attorneys on Main Street USA, to mediate, arbitrate, litigate and dominate in situations where they used to operate at an enormous disadvantage.
Mark is credited with introducing database syndication to the multi-billion dollar legal research space.
Podcasting
From 2016-2019 Mark created and hosted Late Nite Last Week, which quickly became the #1 political satire podcast in the world. He also founded the Late Nite Comedy Awards, in which he would annually name the top three in various categories such as best stand-up comedy performance, best monologue, and the coveted Sis Boom Baa Award for the longest laugh in late night.
Public Speaking & Communication
Mark serves as President of Hi-Fi Speakers Communication & Leadership Academy in San Diego, a club chartered by Toastmasters International. Hi-Fi is the fastest growing club (out of 103) in San Diego County. Hi-Fi meets every Thursday at noon, as it has for more than 20 years. Guests are welcome and meetings are open to the public.
Ben & Jerry’s
As a young entrepreneur in his 20s, Mark became one of the first Ben & Jerry’s franchisees. Mark borrowed a bunch of money and built stores all over the place. This did not end well. The bank froze the ice cream. The judge sent Mark to the cooler. He was licked.
