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  • The Problem with Miss Rachel…

    THE PROBLEM WITH MISS RACHEL

    There is a difference between a free people and a managed people, and this week handed us four proof points. We start with the children's entertainer who spent her nursery trust on a democratic socialist slate three days before a Missouri primary. We get into the retirement promise being canceled in slow motion while the next generation walks into a job market the machines are already hollowing out. We walk you through the New York tax that turned into a searchable list of nearly a million homes, and the progressive professor who cheered it right up until his own name showed up on it. And we bring in a philosopher who has watched Europe forget how to defend a sentence and a border in the same week. A free people own what they earn, speak without asking permission, guard their own doorstep, and leave their children a country. We spend the hour making that case.

    🍼 MS. RACHEL PICKS A SIDE — The most trusted face in your toddler's day handed out twelve endorsements across eight states, led by a St. Louis democratic socialist, and told five million parents these are the only people who care about kids. We follow the money and the trust behind it.

    👴 THE END OF RETIREMENT — A record 11.6 million Americans past 65 are still on the clock, Social Security's cut date just moved to 2032, and the grandkids are graduating into 42 percent underemployment. Who broke the promise, and it was not the billionaire you were told to blae.

    🏙️ THE LIST WITH YOUR NAME ON IT — New York's pied-à-terre tax became a public roster of nearly a million homes by name and address, and Scott Galloway learned the hard way that the list is the tax. Useful idiots, and the oldest lesson in politics.

    🎙️ EUROPE'S TWO SURRENDERS — Dr. Stelios Panagiotou joins us on the Oxford Union meltdown and the fifty thousand who poured across one tiny Spanish border, and what both say about a civilization that no longer defends itself.

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    1 hr 58 min
  • Psycho-Therapists are Telling Kids to Cut off Their Parents

    PSYCHO-THERAPISTS WANT YOUR KIDS TO CUT YOU OFF


    This week we walk through a culture that keeps handing the most intimate parts of life to somebody else. We start with the "CEO parents" spending a quarter million a year on nannies, chefs, and potty-training consultants so they never have to clip a toenail, then jump to the Big Law partner whose ten-second park-bench kiss with a younger associate cost him tens of millions after a stranger's phone did the rest. We dig into the therapists coaching grown adults to go no-contact with their parents and the researchers calling it a family-wrecking racket, we meet the burned-out singles letting a spreadsheet decide whether their date went well, and then we clear the palate with an Australian mom who beat one-in-fifteen-million odds to deliver healthy identical quadruplets. We close in our own backyard, where the Bloodstained Men brought their anti-circumcision protest to a Jefferson City street corner, and we lay out the whole fight — consent, medicine, religious liberty, and where persuasion ends and the state has no business going.

    👶 CEO PARENTING: Wealthy families are running the household like a company and delegating the "low-joy" tasks, with governesses hitting two hundred grand a year and one mom admitting she outsourced the doing but never the worry.

    💋 THE TEN-MILLION-DOLLAR KISS: A Wachtell partner and a younger associate got caught on TikTok, and we ask whether a stranger should be able to torch your career from a park bench.

    ✂️ GO NO CONTACT: A third of estranged parents believe a therapist pushed their kid to walk away, and we follow the cottage industry cashing in on the cutoff.

    📊 DATING BY SPREADSHEET: "Love hackers" no longer trust their own gut, so they rush home and ask a chart whether they had a good time.

    👶 ONE IN FIFTEEN MILLION: A family that wasn't planning more kids said yes to four at once, and everybody came out healthy.

    🩸 I DID NOT CONSENT: The Bloodstained Men hit Jefferson City, and we take the circumcision fight seriously from every angle — bodily autonomy, the medical data, and the religious-liberty line the European bans keep crossing.

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    1 hr 2 min
  • Trump Takes a Shot at the Woke Smithsonian

    ⏱️ CHAPTERS

    0:00 Cold Open: Fauci Pleads the Fifth

    0:30 Good Morning, Rise & Freedom — Today's Rundown

    5:29 X Money: Elon Musk's FDIC-Insured Card Arrives

    8:55 The Airline Card Racket: Delta's $9 Billion Amex Deal

    11:41 Chase Sapphire's 100,000-Point Bonus & the $5,000 Leash

    13:27 $895 Annual Fees: When a Premium Card Actually Pays

    15:34 Shrinking Sky Club Access & the Pay-In-Full Rule

    16:31 Who Really Pays for the Points? $1.25 Trillion in Card Debt

    18:01 Swipe Fees & Harvard's $9 Billion Rewards Transfer

    22:05 Break — Made in America 3D-Printed Gear

    30:08 The Day the Smithsonian Told Austin to Put His Flag Away

    34:14 Trump's Executive Order: Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian

    35:58 Anthea Hartig & "History as a Prime Tool of Social Justice"

    38:17 Clinton Alum William Galston: "Trump Has a Point"

    39:27 Whoever Holds the Pen — A Libertarian Warning

    41:35 From Nixon-Maxing to Goldwater-Maxing

    42:33 The Goldwater Revival Starts Now + Ayn Rand's "Hippies of the Right"

    44:48 Conscience of a Conservative: Where to Start With Goldwater

    46:45 Break

    55:09 GUEST: Camellia Peterson, Americans for Prosperity

    55:55 Daniel Boone Regional Library Story Time & the Funding Threat

    1:03:45 Missouri Amendments 4 & 5: Undoing the 2022 Sales Tax Freeze

    1:17:53 Camellia's Goldwater Quote & Goodbye

    1:23:14 Welcome Back — Six Live Shows on the For Liberty Network

    1:23:52 GUEST: Tom Pappert, Tennessee Star — Month Five of the Iran War

    1:25:25 Rockets on the Strait of Hormuz & Gas Prices

    1:27:34 Caskets, Squeamish Voters & War Powers in Congress

    1:29:29 Marjorie Taylor Greene's "MIGA" — Is America First Still America First?

    1:34:31 The Strait Reopens: What Iran Actually Lost

    1:41:07 Wrap-Up — 4LibertyNetwork.com & the Goldwater Revival


    TRUMP TAKES A SHOT AT THE WOKE SMITHSONIAN

    President Trump is taking aim at the Smithsonian—and Austin has firsthand experience with the institution’s ideological capture. Last year, a security guard inside the National Museum of American History told Austin to lower a handheld American flag because “some people find it offensive.” Now Trump is ordering warning signs outside that same museum, and even a former Clinton White House official admits the president has a point. We break down how activism replaced history inside America’s taxpayer-funded museums and whether a government warning label is the right solution. Then we expose the billion-dollar credit-card rewards machine, the spending traps hiding behind massive sign-up bonuses and why “free” airline perks are never actually free. Camellia Peterson joins us to debate Missouri officials threatening to withhold funding from the Daniel Boone Regional Library over a controversial story time. And journalist Tom Pappert confronts the widening divide inside the America First movement over the unauthorized war with Iran.

    🦅 Trump vs. the Smithsonian — Austin recounts being told to lower an American flag inside the Museum of American History. Now Trump is ordering warning signs over the Smithsonian’s ideological activism.

    💳 The credit-card rewards trap — Banks and airlines sell “free” travel while profiting from fees, overspending and high-interest debt. We explain when rewards cards help—and when they become a financial trap.

    📚 Camellia Peterson on Missouri’s library fight — Missouri officials are threatening library funding over a controversial story time. We debate protecting children, local control and the dangers of government censorship.

    🪖 Tom Pappert on the Iran war — American troops are dying in a conflict Congress never formally authorized. Pappert explains why the war is dividing the America First movement and whether there is a realistic way out.


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    1 hr 48 min
  • The Fauci Files Just Dropped Courtesy of Rand Paul!

    ⏱️ CHAPTERS

    0:00 Cold Open: "No Justice, No Peace"

    0:28 Welcome to Wake Up America — Five Years After "Trust the Science"

    2:25 Today's Rundown: Ed Sheeran, the Fauci Files & Flock Cameras

    4:55 Ed Sheeran Tells America to Relax About Six Pints

    9:19 What the WHO Numbers Actually Say About Drinking

    11:55 Industry Pamphlet vs. Government Chart — Who Do You Trust?

    15:55 Whiskey, Cruise Ships & a Bottle Through Customs

    17:55 Top Shelf vs. Bottom Shelf: Who's Still Buying Booze

    21:55 Break — Coming Up: The Trial of Anthony Fauci

    29:25 Rand Paul's Opening Statement: The Fauci Files

    33:55 1,100 Pages: Private Doubt, Public Certainty

    35:55 The DEFUSE Proposal & the Furin Cleavage Site

    37:55 Did NIH Supervise the Research? "The Answer Is No"

    39:55 "The Refusal to Admit Error Destroys Trust"

    41:55 Austin Reacts: The "Fauci 5" & Fauci on Trump

    43:55 Gain-of-Function & Wuhan: Where the Evidence Stands

    49:55 Fauci's Own Statement: 38 Years Running NIAID

    51:55 Fauci Invokes the Fifth Amendment

    53:55 Section 192: The Contempt of Congress Warning

    59:02 GUEST: Judge Andrew Napolitano, Judging Freedom

    59:55 Can You Reject a Pardon? Pardons vs. the Fifth

    1:01:55 Presidents Telling the DOJ Who to Prosecute

    1:11:55 Todd Blanche's Confirmation & Prosecutorial Independence

    1:13:55 "Take a Chainsaw to It" — The Flock Camera Clip

    1:15:55 Congress, the Strikes & Who Owes Accountability

    1:19:55 VAERS: 1.7 Million Adverse Events on the Record

    1:21:46 Mini-Documentary: Nathan Hale

    1:29:02 GUEST: Jack Codiga, Congressional Candidate From Charlotte

    1:30:59 North Carolina Made Flock Get a License — Why That Matters

    1:33:58 Guns, Principle & Filming the Camera on His Own Street

    1:35:55 Charlotte Housing Prices & What Broke for Young Americans

    1:42:36 Assimilation, Inherent Value & Closing Questions

    1:47:59 Wrap-Up & New Sponsor Disclosure

    1:52:11 Mini-Documentary: Nathan Hale (Full)


    THE FAUCI FILES JUST DROPPED

    Rand Paul just released more than 1,100 pages of Anthony Fauci’s pandemic diary—and the man who told America to trust the science apparently spent plenty of time documenting his own fame. We break down the “Fauci 5,” the celebrity encounters, the private warnings about a possible engineered virus, and the questions Fauci now faces under subpoena. Then we get into Ed Sheeran’s viral defense of British drinking culture, the federal government quietly abandoning its old drink limits, and why the real difference between a Friday night and a drinking problem cannot be calculated on a government chart. Judge Andrew Napolitano joins us to explain why Donald Trump’s former personal attorney should not be placed in charge of the entire Justice Department. And congressional candidate Jack Codiga exposes the Flock cameras quietly recording where innocent Americans drive.

    📔 The Fauci files finally dropped — Rand Paul published roughly 1,141 pages of Fauci’s pandemic diary, revealing the flattering press clippings, honking cars, selfie-seeking interns and the morning Fauci appeared on all five Sunday shows. But behind the vanity are serious questions about what Fauci privately heard regarding COVID’s origins, what he told the public and whether government records were hidden or destroyed.

    🍺 Ed Sheeran reignites America’s drinking debate — six pints and a bottle of wine might be “culture” in Britain, but the United States government just threw out its own numerical alcohol limits. We examine the collapse of the “sober Gen Z” narrative and why alcohol becomes a problem when it starts taking things from your life—not when a bureaucrat reaches a number on a chart.

    ⚖️ Judge Andrew Napolitano on the Justice Department — Todd Blanche once represented Donald Trump as a private client. Now he could become the nation’s top law-enforcement officer. Judge Napolitano explains why personal loyalty and the rule of law cannot share the same office, and why conservatives should fear a politicized Justice Department even when their side controls it.

    📸 Jack Codiga on the Flock surveillance network — license-plate readers are tracking vehicles across Charlotte and storing drivers’ movements for weeks. Codiga joins us to discuss how the cameras are used, how the information is shared nationwide and why supporting law enforcement does not require accepting a surveillance dragnet.

    GUESTS THIS EPISODE: Judge Andrew Napolitano, constitutional scholar and host of Judging Freedom; Jack Codiga, Republican congressional candidate in North Carolina’s 12th District

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    1 hr 57 min
  • M14’s for Everyone! Thank You, CMP

    ⏱️ CHAPTERS

    0:00 Cold Open: Trump on Jobs + RFK Jr.'s "Real Food"

    0:54 Good Morning — Today's Rundown

    6:00 Tour of the New 4LibertyNetwork.com

    8:20 The Central Park Kissing Video & the Internet Manhunt

    9:38 What the Comment Section Got Wrong About Two Strangers

    12:38 Is Filming Strangers Legal? Reasonable Expectation of Privacy

    13:34 Why This Isn't the Coldplay Concert Story

    16:09 Making Out in Central Park: A New York Tradition

    17:58 The Record-Low 1.6 Fertility Rate Connection

    19:09 Bars, Nightclubs & the Death of the Third Place

    21:33 If Every Bench Is a Broadcast, What Happens to Public Life?

    25:02 Break — Up Next: The Civilian Marksmanship Program

    33:07 Half a Million M14s Fed Into the Shredder

    33:34 The CMP Announcement: M14s Finally Come Home

    34:44 What the M14 Actually Is (Standard Issue, 1957)

    36:26 The Same Statute That Governs the Garand & 1903 Springfield

    37:59 Why Supply Will Be Tight: 5 Million Garands vs. Scarce M14s

    40:28 M14 vs. Springfield M1A: The Receiver Difference

    41:47 Not a Functional Gap — a Provenance Gap

    42:04 Price Talk: $4,000-$6,000 and a Likely Lottery

    43:25 The Maryland & Rhode Island Federalism Wrinkle

    44:34 How to Qualify: Gun Clubs, the VFW, the Legion & the FOP

    49:18 CMP History: From Teddy Roosevelt to Today

    52:20 Up Next: Kansas City's Bid Preference Program

    59:26 GUEST: Camellia Peterson, Americans for Prosperity-Missouri

    1:00:31 Kansas City Paid for the Study, Then Buried It

    1:02:32 Race & Gender Preferences in City Contracts

    1:04:42 The Baker Who Says the Program Is All She Has

    1:07:20 Countdown to the Missouri Primary

    1:08:53 Amendment 4 Explained

    1:12:04 Staying Grounded Without Getting Blackpilled

    1:23:28 Welcome Back — Rise & Freedom

    1:24:49 GUEST: Maggie Modas on What Gen Z Saw in That Video

    1:28:00 Why Nobody Can Get a Date Anymore

    1:30:00 Alcohol, Risk & Learning to Talk to Strangers

    1:34:00 Raising Kids in NYC & School Indoctrination

    1:36:00 The Cato Survey: Gen Z Can't Name Why We Left Britain

    1:38:00 Public School in Louisiana: What She Walked Into

    1:42:00 Teachers as Untouchables — Should Republicans Fight?

    1:44:00 America's 250th: Did We Do It Justice?

    1:48:05 Starship Troopers: Satire That Became a Recruitment Ad

    1:51:45 Mini-Documentary: Mercy Otis Warren


    THE CMP IS SELLING M14’s

    Today we're celebrating a real win for gun owners. The Civilian Marksmanship Program is bringing the M14 home, and we walk through what kept these American service rifles locked away for thirty years, why that barrier was never actually a law, and what it took to break it. Then we get into the Central Park video that turned two strangers kissing on a bench into a nationwide manhunt, and what it tells us about the surveillance state that showed up in your neighbor's pocket instead of on a government streetlight. Camellia Peterson of Americans for Prosperity joins us on Kansas City's race-and-sex contracting quotas and the lawsuit that could end them, including the part where the city paid for a study telling them to stop and buried it. And fan favorite Maggie Modas breaks down a new Cato Institute survey that found most young Americans can't say what the Fourth of July even celebrates. One more thing: our brand new website is officially live, so come see what we built at https://4libertynetwork.com/.

    🔫 THE M14 COMES HOME: The CMP will sell surplus M14 rifles to qualified citizens for the first time ever, and the wall that kept them out of your safe was an ATF memo, not an act of Congress. We break down the shredder, the reversal, and what it means for the rest of the fight.

    📱 THE CENTRAL PARK KISS: A man with a phone filmed two strangers kissing, posted it, and millions convicted them of an affair nobody can prove. The filming was legal, which is exactly why the only real check on this is the one we've stopped using.

    ⚖️ KANSAS CITY QUOTAS ON TRIAL: The city hands out contracts based partly on race and sex, its own consultants said drop it, and it refused. Camellia Peterson explains why Missouri's Attorney General is now in federal court over it.

    📜 GEN Z FAILS AMERICA 101: A new Cato survey says most young Americans can't name why the colonies broke from Britain, and a third can't name George Washington. Maggie Modas on what happens to a country whose heirs can't describe it.

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    1 hr 56 min
  • Flock Cameras: Safety Measure or Surveillance State?

    FLOCK CAMERAS: SAFETY MEASURE OR SURVEILLANCE STATE?

    This morning we walk into the two rooms nobody voted to build, one a bathroom designed to kill your grandmother and one a hundred thousand camera network watching every road in America, and we ask how both of them got assembled while everybody was looking somewhere else. We break down why forty-three thousand seniors died from falls last year in houses the code book says are perfectly safe, then we follow Flock Safety from a solar panel on a pole in your subdivision to a server in Atlanta that five thousand police agencies can search without a warrant. Then Camellia Peterson walks us through the August 4 ballot and the strangest primary season in modern memory, and voice actress Mary McDonald-Lewis tells us what happened when she declined to say things she does not believe.

    🚿 We get into the most dangerous room in your house, where falls now kill eleven seniors for every American killed by fire, where Medicaid must pay a hundred fifteen thousand dollars a year for a nursing home bed but not thirty dollars for a grab bar, and where six hundred thousand people sit on a waiting list for the cheaper option.

    🚨 We roll through Flock Safety, an eight year old company worth eight point four billion dollars scanning twenty billion plates a month, the LAPD inspector general finding a thirty-two percent false alert rate before the department walked away, the Texas deputy who searched the national network for a woman who had an abortion, and the Supreme Court decision in June that just moved the ground under the entire business.

    🗳️ Camellia Peterson of Americans for Prosperity Missouri joins us on Amendment 5 and the push to zero out the state income tax, the redistricting fight where six Republicans are running a primary in a district that may not exist in November, and what Massie, Paxton, and a wave of DSA wins say about where both parties are actually headed.

    🎭 Mary McDonald-Lewis, the voice of OnStar and Lady Jaye on G.I. Joe, tells us how a single Facebook post burned down a self-funded production thirteen days from opening, why the theater added a values clause to its rental contracts afterward, and what synthetic voice cloning is doing to the industry she helped build.

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    1 hr 58 min
  • Hasan Piker Praises Mao — Let’s Talk About the Tens of Millions He Starved

    The dictator Hasan Piker wore to a Democrat convention — and the tip screen America is finally revolting against | Wake Up America


    Hasan Piker put on Mao Zedong's uniform this weekend and a room full of College Democrats cheered. So today we tell you what that costume actually means: the largest famine in human history, the war on sparrows, the trap called "let a hundred flowers bloom," and the Red Guards who beat Xi Jinping's own father in a stadium. Plus — America is in open revolt against the guilt-trip tip screen, and the real history of tipping is more American than you think. Then: Camellia Peterson (Americans for Prosperity–Missouri) on the Missouri Republicans who killed school choice the second it hit their own backyard, and Tom Pappert (The Tennessee Star) on JD Vance declaring war on Milton Friedman — and squaring off with Marco Rubio for 2028.


    ⏱️ SEGMENTS 00:00 Cold open A1 — The war on the tip screen A2 — The dictator they cheered: the crimes of Mao B1 — Camellia Peterson: Missouri's school-choice collapse B2 — Tom Pappert: Vance vs. Friedman, Vance vs. Rubio


    🎙️ GUESTS: Camellia Peterson (@RareCamellia) · Tom Pappert (@TomPappert)


    👇 Sound off in the comments: where's YOUR line on the tip screen — and why is a Mao costume still a punchline?


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    1 hr 58 min
  • Whose AI is a Greater Threat to National Security? America’s or China’s?

    WHOSE AI SHOULD FRIGHTEN YOU MORE?

    A Beijing startup gave away an AI for free last week and knocked the American chip market into a bear market before lunch, and the two biggest names in American tech ran to Washington calling a free download a threat to your safety. We're also on the flag an HOA won't let a family fly, and the war power Congress hasn't used since 1942.

    🗽 THE FLAG YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO FLY — An HOA told Amy Cooke to pull the flag she's flown 20 years or pay a hundred bucks. 78 million Americans live under a government with no bill of rights, and in 30 states the board can take the house.

    🤖 THE FREE DOWNLOAD THAT TURNED WALL STREET RED — China dropped a model at half our price that beat every American one on a major benchmark. Within hours OpenAI was warning of "full AI communism," and Trump's own former AI czar called it a duopoly begging the government to strangle its competition.

    ⚔️ THE WORD CONGRESS WON'T SAY — The last time Congress declared war the way the Constitution requires was 1942. Judge Napolitano on how the power to send your kids to die slipped into one set of hands and never came back.

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    2 hr
  • Will DEI Ruin The Odyssey? Freedom Family Friday

    SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE CLICKED DISLIKE AND THE TICKETS SOLD OUT ANYWAY

    Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey opens tonight, and we're asking what it actually proves when the audience objects for eighteen months and Hollywood gets paid regardless. Then we walk through the Supreme Court quote everybody shared this week that Amy Coney Barrett never said, and what it costs us when we're the ones who stopped checking. We get into a Gen X psychiatrist's list of six things people miss about the eighties that reads like an inventory of liberties somebody took, the Wall Street Journal's push to rebrand middle age as "prime time" while the median first-time home buyer hits forty, employers quietly dropping marijuana screening because they can't find enough applicants, and the two-hundred-dollar-an-hour trainers selling American men longevity one hip thrust at a time.

    🏛️ THE ODYSSEY CASTING -- A quarter-billion-dollar budget, the first feature ever shot on new IMAX 70mm cameras, a trailer past seven hundred thousand dislikes, and IMAX seats that sold out a full year early. Nolan waved off the backlash. Tracking says opening weekend clears a hundred million. We ask which one of those is the real vote.

    ⚖️ THE QUOTE THAT ISN'T -- Clarence Thomas told Orrin Hatch in 1991 he'd rather die than withdraw. Barrett supposedly said she's scared for her life. One of those is in the transcript and one of them somebody made up. We go through what was actually said on July 14 and why the fake one is doing all the work.

    📻 WHAT WE MISS ABOUT THE 80s -- Being unreachable used to be the default state of a normal day. A repair used to be a fourteen-dollar part and twenty minutes with a screwdriver. Six things that came free and now have to be fought for.

    🏡 PRIME TIME -- The median first-time home buyer in America is now forty years old. The Journal files that under milestones pushed later. We file it somewhere else.

    🌿 THE TEST NOBODY'S GIVING -- Citigroup dropped it. Amazon dropped it. Home Depot dropped it. Employers quit screening for marijuana without a single federal mandate, and one lawyer says his clients would have no applicants left if they kept testing.

    💪 GLUTES AND LONGEVITY -- Equinox says male bookings for its "Best Butt Ever" class are up seventeen percent. One executive spends sixteen hundred a month on peptides. Somewhere under all of it is a real point about aging.

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    1 hr 3 min

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