The Wake Up America show with Austin Petersen

Homeland Security says Milo Yiannopoulos entered the United States legally, missed an immigration hearing, received a final removal order, and was sent back to Britain. Austin traces the political provocateur's rise through Gamergate, Breitbart, and Berkeley, then asks Tennessee Star reporter Tom Pappert whether the fast removal was routine enforcement, political revenge, or both.

The episode also examines Hollywood's expensive culture-war hangover, including Disney's Snow White losses and whether audiences—not studios—get the final vote.

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Gen Z has a list of Millennial habits it wants retired, from skinny jeans and side parts to LOL, Facebook Messenger, statement jewelry, and dial-up nostalgia. Austin and his cohost decide which critiques land and which can be ignored.

The show also remembers Dolly Parton's humor, Appalachian roots, philanthropy, and Imagination Library legacy.

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Bill Gates has issued a 5,784-word warning about artificial intelligence, and Austin examines Gates's proposals on employment, safety, regulation, and global coordination alongside the disturbing rise of autonomous AI agents.

Missouri attorney Jennifer Bukowsky joins to challenge Boone County's attempt to regulate a grandmother's free community breakfasts. Jon Harris breaks down the right-wing backlash over interracial adoption and explains how Christianity, masculinity, family identity, virtue, and liberty fit together.

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Austin examines the property-rights fight over a West Virginia city's attempt to outlaw backyard bees, then asks how Target's blackface-adjacent Halloween costume survived an entire corporate approval chain.

Judge Andrew Napolitano joins to break down Texas classroom Ten Commandments mandates, Supreme Court precedent, religious liberty, and government-compelled displays. Daniel McCarthy explains Hasan Piker's mockery of Charlie Kirk, the Democratic candidates who use Piker's platform, and what political streaming reveals about the American left.

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Artificial intelligence is moving software creation out of the gatekeepers' hands and into everyday life. Austin shows how vibe coding can build websites, automate work, create images, and even turn an idea into a physical object.

Camellia Peterson joins to debate marijuana smoke, neighbors, nuisance rules, and where one person's freedom collides with another person's property rights. Jon Miltimore examines J.D. Vance's invocation of Huey Long, the rise of economic populism, wealth redistribution, inflation, federal spending, and Washington's shrinking appetite for reform.

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Cambridge professor Jason Arday’s sudden death followed a rapid unraveling of plagiarism allegations, institutional loyalty, and a university DEI success story. Austin examines what Cambridge knew, how critics were treated, and the dispute over race, merit, and academic standards.

Jon Miltimore joins to explain why J.D. Vance invoked Huey Long and to debate wealth caps, UBI, work, and opportunity. Dylan Allman takes up Anna Faris, Christian conversion, whether atheism is a luxury belief, and his book The Windowless Room.

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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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