Wake Up America turns personal on Freedom Family Friday. Austin and Stephanie Petersen share their baby’s gender reveal and the name they chose, then take on the Lindsay Clancy case through Stephanie’s perspective as a social worker and mother.

They debate postpartum depression and psychosis, medication, personal responsibility, how life changes for both mothers and fathers after childbirth, and why class and social media shape public sympathy. Justin Petersen joins the family conversation in the second half.

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GLP-1 drugs are doing more than shrinking waistlines. Austin Petersen examines Ozempic pricing, possible side effects, and how food manufacturers are redesigning portions, protein, and marketing for smaller appetites.

He also follows the money behind Disney Adults and what the craze says about debt, nostalgia, and delayed adulthood. Camellia Peterson joins live from the Missouri State Fair for a look at state politics and the Lindsay Clancy case, including postpartum psychosis, treatment failures, and personal responsibility.

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Barry Goldwater is often reduced to a caricature. Austin Petersen revisits Goldwater’s record on desegregation, civil rights, constitutional limits, and the case for reviving his strain of Republicanism.

Judge Andrew Napolitano joins to discuss meeting Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, then explains how ICE uses administrative subpoenas to identify online critics and where the legal limits stand. Tom Pappert of The Tennessee Star details the three-year court fight over the Covenant School records and the institutional failures those files may expose.

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The Lindsay Clancy murder case raises a difficult divide: how should the law weigh psychiatric warnings, postpartum psychosis, treatment failures, and personal responsibility? Austin Petersen walks through the case and the competing arguments.

Camellia Peterson then examines the McKenna West surrogacy dispute after West refused an abortion request and traveled to Texas. Finally, Reason contributing editor J.D. Tuccille explains a Texas court ruling that could upend federal suppressor registration—and the important limits on what the decision changes today.

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Alberta voters are headed toward an October 19 ballot that could begin the legal path to a binding independence referendum. Austin Petersen breaks down the verified petition signatures, Alberta's economic leverage, and the argument for becoming a new country—or even joining the United States.

Economist Phil Magness then challenges JD Vance's case against the dollar's reserve-currency status and explains why federal spending, not King Dollar, is the deeper problem. Finally, Sam Brown explains how assassination conspiracy claims pushed him to reexamine his anti-Israel views, visit Israel, and publicly call himself a Zionist.

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Austin Petersen and Steffi Petersen open with a blunt debate over parenting, public shame, and modesty before turning to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's decision to freeze her eggs and what it says about relationships, ambition, and family planning.

Then they unpack fast-food workers' confessions about the menu items they would never order themselves—from kitchen shortcuts and nightmare customers to the McRib, buffets, and Golden Corral.

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Austin Petersen breaks down the WNBA fight that followed DiJonai Carrington's flagrant foul on Sophie Cunningham—including the ‘white privilege’ accusation, Caitlin Clark's impact, player safety, and a league struggling to turn attention into growth.

Camellia Peterson then joins Austin for a pointed debate over Massachusetts' new abortion law after Dobbs. New York Post columnist Kirsten Fleming closes the edition with her analysis of Cunningham, Carrington, Caitlin Clark, and the WNBA's activist culture.

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Austin Petersen confronts his own 2016 presidential-debate positions on Donald Trump, immigration, government, education, and foreign policy—and explains what changed.

Judge Andrew Napolitano then breaks down how Flock license-plate cameras enable warrantless mass surveillance and why the Fourth Amendment was written to prevent it. Erika Donalds closes the edition with a practical argument for rebuilding patriotism, civic education, parental rights, and school choice.

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Canada now records roughly one in twenty deaths through medical assistance in dying, and Austin argues that a program sold for the terminally ill has expanded toward disability, poverty, loneliness, and mental illness.

Camellia Peterson of Americans for Prosperity-Missouri joins the show on America's reading decline, whole books disappearing from classrooms, literature for boys, and why reading and handwriting still matter. Then Tim Golding of Michigan AFP explains Abdul El-Sayed's socialist agenda, why Republicans lost their edge on the economy, and the case for education, energy, and regulatory reform.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez filmed herself taking an egg-freezing injection and called it resistance. Austin examines what the spectacle says about delayed family formation and demographic politics.

Tom Pappert of The Tennessee Star joins the conversation on AOC, Abdul El-Sayed, socialism, and the Democratic Party's hard-left turn. Then Jeremy Kauffman debates the twenty-dollar burrito, food affordability, inflation, welfare, and whether the right still believes in free markets.

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