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CHINESE BILLIONAIRES ARE BUYING AMERICAN BABIES

Lead in the Dino Nuggets, Chinese Billionaires Buying American Babies, and the Decade We Threw Away — Freedom Family Friday breaks down the stories every family needs to hear before the weekend. A viral X post about the 90s opens a real conversation about what we traded away for smartphones and algorithms. A WSJ investigation reveals foreign billionaires are mass-producing U.S. citizen babies with zero federal oversight. The USDA just confirmed the dino nuggets in your freezer may have five times the safe lead limit for children and called it an "alert" instead of a recall. Gen Z is walking back into church and the media doesn't know what to do with that. And nearly 30 percent of Joe Rogan's audience is women — so why does everyone keep calling it the manosphere? Austin is joined today by Steffi and Justin for a full Freedom Family Friday breakdown.

🦕 Walmart's Great Value Dino Nuggets may have lead levels five times higher than the FDA's safe limit for children — here is exactly what to look for in your freezer right now and why the government called it an alert instead of a recall

📼 What the 90s actually gave us that we don't have anymore — and why the answer is more uncomfortable than just missing Blockbuster

👶 A Wall Street Journal investigation exposes Chinese billionaires using the U.S. surrogacy industry to order dozens — and in one case over 100 — American-born children, and the FBI is now asking questions

🎙️ Women make up 28 percent of Theo Von's audience and 22 percent of Joe Rogan's — so why does Sheryl Sandberg want to shut the whole thing down

⛪ New converts are flooding into the Catholic Church at highs not seen in a decade and the surge is being led by people ages 18 to 35

🏠 A mom goes viral saying she is deliberately raising her kids to reject traditional household roles — is that smart parenting or is she trying to engineer her children's future marriages based on her own regrets

🌍 A viral post uses Japan's recovery from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to challenge the global grievance industry — and the conversation it starts is one most media won't touch

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The Palm Beach Begathon: Hochul’s Humiliation Is Complete FT. @maggiemodo and @patriot_savvy

KATHY HOCHUL TOLD THEM TO LEAVE. THEY LEFT. NOW SHE'S DRIVING TO PALM BEACH TO BEG THEM TO COME BACK.

New York lost 238,000 residents and $13.7 billion in personal income -- and the governor who told Republicans to "get on a bus and head to Florida" is now asking Florida if she can have them back. Meanwhile, Missouri just voted 98-54 to abolish its state income tax entirely, becoming the first state in 45 years to seriously attempt what Albany insists is impossible. Two states. Two governing philosophies. One winner.

Austin Petersen breaks down the greatest tax revolt in a generation, the MAGA civil war threatening the 2026 midterms, the national security bombshell that broke today, and why an American woman who built a show called Undoctrination has more to say about this country's founding than most people who take it for granted every single day.

🏃 How Kathy Hochul told an entire class of taxpayers to leave New York -- and then watched $13.7 billion walk out the door behind them

🏛️ Why Missouri's 98-54 vote to abolish the income tax is the opening shot of a national tax revolution nobody in the mainstream media is covering

⚡ The contrast that should make every American furious: Missouri heading to zero income tax while New York City pushes toward a 16.8% combined rate -- the highest in the country

💰 What happened to Wall Street when remote work unchained it from Manhattan -- and why Texas now has more financial services employees than New York

🌡️ The NYSERDA memo Hochul's own energy agency sent to her office -- and the staggering numbers it contains about what New York's climate law will cost ordinary families by 2031

🗳️ The viral message naming Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Steve Bannon, Rand Paul, Thomas Massie, the Hodgetwins, and others -- and threatening that if Republicans lose the midterms, the blame lands on their shoulders

⚔️ The real data behind the so-called MAGA civil war: 83% of Republicans back Trump on Iran, Tucker and Megyn sit at 6% trust -- so is this actually a crisis or a media narrative?

🚨 The Daily Mail bombshell that broke: Kristi Noem's husband, a double life, fetish models, fake breasts, and national security experts warning the former DHS secretary may have been a blackmail target

🇺🇸 Why an American woman who built a show called Undoctrination to reach the next generation is done watching her fellow citizens apologize for the greatest country in the history of civilization

🎓 How the founding values of this country represent a moral revolution that the left refuses to acknowledge -- and what the 250th anniversary of America actually means

📉 The Tax Foundation's 2026 verdict on New York: dead last. 50th out of 50 states. In every single category.

🛢️ Why Mayor Mamdani's plan for city-owned grocery stores and 16.8% tax rates on millionaires is the logical conclusion of a governing philosophy that has never once asked what happens when the productive class stops showing up

GUESTS THIS EPISODE: 🎙️ Tiffany Savage -- Georgia grassroots organizer, National Communications Director for Veterans for America First, author of Precincts Win Elections -- @patriot_savvy on X 🎙️ Maggie Anders -- Former host and writer at the Foundation for Economic Education, creator of Undoctrination, Vice President of ACC Atlanta -- @maggiemoda on X

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Mike Rowe vs. Jimmy Kimmel: Does America Need More Plumbers or More Theatre Kids?

AMERICA MOCKED THE TRADES FOR THIRTY YEARS -- NOW IT’S PANICKING.

This week Mike Rowe put the crisis in plain English: America told an entire generation that working with your hands was a consolation prize, and now the country is running out of the people who actually know how to build, wire, weld, fix, and keep civilization running. While college grads drown in debt and job applications, young electricians are making serious money, getting poached by multiple companies, and becoming some of the most valuable workers in the country.

Austin Petersen breaks down Mike Rowe’s viral warning, the collapse of the four-year degree myth, and why America’s ruling class is suddenly throwing money at the very workers it spent decades looking down on.

🔥 Mike Rowe’s explosive case that America broke its own workforce by treating the trades like second-class work

⚡ The three young electricians in Texas making huge money with zero student debt and more job offers than they can handle

🏗️ What the Fern Hollow Bridge collapse revealed about the real cost of a country that forgot how to build

🎓 Why the four-year degree stopped being a guaranteed path to success and became one of the most expensive gambles in America

💸 How student debt exploded while trade workers became harder to find and more valuable than ever

🤖 Why the AI boom, data centers, and massive new infrastructure projects all depend on electricians, welders, pipefitters, and builders

📉 The shocking mismatch between unemployed college graduates and desperate companies that still cannot find skilled workers

💼 Why BlackRock, Nvidia, Meta, and even Bernie Sanders are all suddenly admitting Mike Rowe was right

🛠️ How America turned shop class into a punchline and ended up with a labor shortage it can’t solve

🇺🇸 Why the so-called “consolation prize” workers may now be the most important people in the American economy

🚨 Plus: Scott Bessent’s new whistleblower fraud crackdown, the Minnesota scandal behind it, and the bizarre rise of America’s new bounty-hunter economy

🍦 And yes -- the Chick-fil-A in Maryland offering free ice cream to families who put their phones away at dinner, because apparently that is where we are now

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Kentucky Meets Kanto: Why Japan Loves BBQ, Country Music, and Trump... and the Left Is Seething...

JAPAN WANTS TO JOIN OUR BBQ -- AND IT JUST CHANGED EVERYTHING.

This weekend a Japanese man posted seven words on X: "I like this photo of American men and meat." Hundreds of Americans invited him to their backyard cookouts within hours. What followed was one of the most extraordinary cross-cultural moments the internet has ever produced -- and the mainstream media completely missed what it actually meant.

Austin Petersen breaks down the story that went viral this weekend and connects it to something much bigger than barbecue.

🔥 The Japanese X post that broke the internet and why it matters more than any summit

🔥 What Japan actually loves about America -- country music, monster trucks, big men, and brisket -- and why the left can't explain it

🔥 The 80-year history of why these two civilizations keep reaching for each other across the Pacific

🔥 The Trump-Takaichi White House summit that happened ten days ago and what it really means

🔥 Japan's immigration crisis, the protests in Saitama, and the political explosion the American media ignored

🔥 Why Sanae Takaichi -- Japan's Iron Lady -- just won the largest electoral mandate in postwar Japanese history with 84% of young voters behind her

🔥 The Pearl Harbor joke that made a Japanese citizen cry tears of relief -- and what it says about 80 years of guilt diplomacy finally ending

🔥 Why real soft power comes from a grill, not a billion-dollar State Department budget

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LEFTIES DECLARE WAR ON TRADWIVES

What happens when elite feminism sneers at stay-at-home motherhood, the modern workday starts dissolving into chaos, global travel starts sounding like a national security briefing, and colleges have to drag students back into face-to-face testing just to find out whether they actually know anything? On tomorrow’s Family Freedom Friday edition of Wake Up America, Austin Petersen breaks down the stories exposing the deeper fight over family, freedom, work, education, faith, and cultural authority in America right now.

From Sheryl Sandberg attacking the tradwife trend, to the rise of “microshifting” and the collapse of the normal workday, to travel warnings that make spring vacation sound like a geopolitical calculation, this show asks a bigger question: are the institutions running modern life actually making people freer, safer, and stronger, or just more anxious, more managed, and more dependent?

Then we get into the education and culture stories that say even more about where the country is headed: colleges turning back to oral exams because AI has made written work suspect, Peter Thiel drawing heat in Rome with his Antichrist lectures near the Vatican, and NYU replacing live student commencement speeches with pre-recorded videos after years of controversy over unscripted remarks. It is a packed show about control, competence, tradition, and what happens when the people in charge stop trusting the public, the students, the workers, and even the families they claim to serve.

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👩 SHERYL SANDBERG VS. THE TRADWIFE TREND

🏠 STAY-AT-HOME MOMS, ELITE FEMINISM, AND THE POLITICS OF “CHOICE”

⏰ “MICROSHIFTING” AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE NORMAL WORKDAY

✈️ TRAVEL WARNINGS, GLOBAL INSTABILITY, AND WHAT IT NOW MEANS TO VACATION AS AN AMERICAN

🎓 COLLEGES BRINGING BACK ORAL EXAMS TO FIGHT CHATGPT

🤖 AI, EDUCATION, AND THE OUTSOURCING OF ACTUAL THINKING

⛪ PETER THIEL, THE ANTICHRIST, AND TECH ELITES IN THE VATICAN’S BACKYARD

🎤 NYU ENDING LIVE COMMENCEMENT SPEECHES AND THE WAR ON UNSCRIPTED STUDENT VOICE

🇺🇸 THE BIGGER FIGHT OVER FAMILY, FREEDOM, COMPETENCE, FAITH, AND CULTURAL CONTROL

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Wake Up America with Austin Petersen covers Sheryl Sandberg, tradwives, stay-at-home moms, microshifting, work-life balance, travel warnings, AI in education, oral exams, Peter Thiel, the Vatican, NYU, commencement speeches, free speech on campus, family values, and the future of American culture.

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MAGA FOR DUMMIES… AND LIBERTARIANS

CANADA does not just get offended. It becomes the perfect test case for what MAGA actually believes about trade, leverage, alliances, and whether America should keep subsidizing old arrangements forever. What starts with tariffs, “51st state” taunts, hockey nationalism, and the “Elbows Up” backlash turns into something much bigger: a fight over whether Trump is wrecking the alliance system or forcing a long-overdue repricing of it. That is not just a Canada story. It is the clearest window yet into the emotional and political logic of America First.

Austin Petersen opens with the MAGA-vs-Canada clash, why “Elbows Up” became a Canadian rallying cry, and why Trump’s defenders see the entire fight as a revolt against allied entitlement, burden-shifting, and one-sided expectations. Then the show turns back home, where Philadelphia mayor Cherelle Parker’s rideshare tax proposal becomes the latest case study in blue-city shell games: tax the middleman, swear the company pays, and somehow the bill still lands on the person just trying to get to work, the doctor, or the airport. Then Camellia Peterson joins the show for a conversation about the increasingly unhinged world of supplement stacks, where wellness culture, influencer economics, and health anxiety collide. And Austin closes with a tour through the left-wing grift museum, where nonprofits, activists, and politically protected operators keep turning moral prestige into criminal allegations and cash.

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📍 WHAT WE COVER TODAY:

🍁 MAGA, CANADA, AND THE POLITICS OF LEVERAGE

Why did “Elbows Up” become a national Canadian mood? Why does MAGA see Canada not as an enemy, but as the perfect example of an ally that got too comfortable? Austin breaks down the emotional logic of the clash, the burden-sharing argument behind it, and why Trump’s defenders say this is not isolationism at all. It is a repricing strategy aimed at trade, defense, market access, and the terms of the alliance itself. Canada’s outrage, Mexico’s pragmatism, and the broader fight over who pays for the Western order all feed into one question: what does America First actually want from its friends?

🚕 PHILADELPHIA’S UBER TAX GRAB

Cherelle Parker’s rideshare tax jumps from 20 cents to a full dollar in just eleven days, supposedly to help schools. Austin walks through the shifting numbers, the fantasy that Uber and Lyft might just absorb the cost, and the reason ordinary people hear something much simpler: this is a tax on getting home. Philadelphia already taxes rideshare revenue, and now City Hall wants to shake the app again and pretend the passenger will not feel it. The bigger point is not just that Democrats love taxes. Everybody already knows that. The point is they keep lying about who pays them.

💊 CAMELLIA PETERSON ON EXTREME SUPPLEMENT CULTURE

The wellness world has turned pill stacks into identity, branding, and a side hustle. People are taking absurd numbers of supplements, spending serious money every month, and treating affiliate-coded health advice like a replacement for common sense. Austin and Camellia Peterson get into the culture behind the obsession, the salesmanship wrapped inside “optimization,” and the reason more of this world looks like consumer panic with a clean aesthetic.

🧾 THE LEFT-WING GRIFT MUSEUM

The show closes with a tour through some of the most shameless recent examples of progressive-aligned corruption, nonprofit fraud, and ideological money games. Austin walks through the pattern that keeps showing up: big moral claims, activist branding, little scrutiny, and then eventually the receipts.

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🔎 TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE:

MAGA Canada | Trump Canada tariffs | Elbows Up Canada | America First foreign policy | Canada defense spending | allied burden sharing | Mexico Trump negotiations | North American trade politics | Cherelle Parker Uber tax | Philadelphia rideshare tax | Philly school funding gap | Uber Lyft pass-through costs | Camellia Peterson | supplement stacks | wellness influencer culture | health optimization grift | left-wing grift | nonprofit fraud | activist corruption | progressive money scandals

2ND SHOOTER? JOE KENT THROWS CHARLIE KIRK MURDER CASE INTO CHAOS

JOE KENT does not just resign. He detonates a political and moral bomb inside the America First movement. The former National Counterterrorism Center director walks away from the Trump administration, denies leaking classified information while reportedly under FBI investigation, publicly casts doubt on the official narrative around Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and says he would testify even if it helps Tyler Robinson’s defense. That is not just a personnel story. That is a crisis of loyalty, judgment, and truth inside the movement that claims Charlie as a martyr.

Austin Petersen breaks down the full Joe Kent controversy, the legal and political implications of Kent’s remarks, and the deeper question nobody wants to answer: when does “just asking questions” start helping the other side? Plus, Judge Andrew Napolitano joins the program to connect Kent’s resignation to the administration’s case for war with Iran, and Georgia state Rep. Noelle Kahaian joins us from the Gold Dome on the push to keep roads clear for first responders and to finally end the clock-changing insanity.

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📍 WHAT WE COVER TODAY:

⚠️ JOE KENT, TYLER ROBINSON, AND THE DEFENSE THEORY

Joe Kent says there are still “unanswered questions” about Charlie Kirk’s murder. He says he would testify if called, even if it helps Tyler Robinson’s defense. Austin walks through the full timeline: Kent’s resignation, the FBI leak investigation hanging over him, the Tucker Carlson interview, the speculation about a foreign nexus, and why this story spirals into a full-blown fight over whether a former Trump national security official is now muddying a murder case that is already headed through the courts.

⚖️ JUDGE NAPOLITANO ON WAR, MORALITY, AND THE KENT RESIGNATION

Judge Andrew Napolitano makes a blistering argument: if there is no imminent threat from Iran, then the legal and moral case for war collapses. Austin and Judge Nap connect the dots between the administration’s public sales pitch, Kent’s reported break with the official line, Congress’s war powers, and what Kent’s resignation may reveal about what insiders really believe.

🚑 GEORGIA MOVES TO STOP PROTEST ROADBLOCKS

What happens when protesters block traffic and an ambulance cannot get through? Georgia lawmakers say enough. Rep. Noelle Kahaian joins the show to talk about SB 443, the bill aimed at increasing penalties for blocking roads, the public safety case behind it, and why Republicans say keeping streets open for workers, parents, and first responders is not anti-protest, it is common sense.

🕒 NO MORE CLOCK-CHANGE MADNESS?

Georgia lawmakers are also pushing a creative way to stop the yearly time change by moving the state to Atlantic Standard Time year-round. Austin breaks down the bill, the federal roadblocks, and why more states are getting tired of waiting on Washington to fix a problem everybody hates and nobody seems willing to solve.

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🎙️ TODAY’S SHOW:

▶ Austin Petersen — Host, Wake Up America

▶ Judge Andrew Napolitano — Legal Analyst, Former New Jersey Superior Court Judge

▶ Rep. Noelle Kahaian — Georgia State Representative

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🔎 TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE:

Joe Kent resignation | Joe Kent FBI investigation | Joe Kent Tyler Robinson | Charlie Kirk murder case | Tyler Robinson defense | Joe Kent Tucker Carlson | Joe Kent testimony | Judge Napolitano Iran war | war and morality | Iran imminent threat | Congress war powers | Georgia SB 443 | protest roadblock bill | Noelle Kahaian | Georgia daylight saving bill | Georgia Atlantic Standard Time | TSA crisis | airport chaos | America First civil war | national security leaks

ZOHRAN MAMDANIS WIFE HAS A TERRORIST PROBLEM

New York City did not just elect a socialist mayor. It elected a mayor whose personal and political world is now colliding head-on with questions about extremism, judgment, and ideological rot. Zohran Mamdani sold voters on affordability, cool aesthetics, and a new progressive future. What they got instead is a city facing a multibillion-dollar fiscal hole, a mayor struggling to deliver his promises, and a mounting controversy over his wife’s social media activity and radical associations that City Hall cannot explain away forever.

Austin Petersen breaks down the full Mamdani story — from the budget fantasy to the political liabilities inside his own orbit — plus the airport chaos that ended with ICE agents stepping into major U.S. airports as TSA staffing buckled, the Democrats’ bizarre new obsession with “hotter candidates,” and a tribute to Chuck Norris that separates the real man from the media caricature.

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📍 WHAT WE COVER TODAY:

✈️ ICE AT THE AIRPORT: HOW TSA CHAOS GOT THIS BAD

The DHS funding fight, the airport lines, the TSA staffing crisis, and the extraordinary image now defining the story: ICE agents stepping into airports as the federal government scrambles to keep security functioning. Austin explains how we got here, why Democrats own more of this than they want to admit, and why the public is turning against a political class that keeps breaking basic systems.

🔥 ZOHRAN MAMDANI’S WIFE HAS A TERRORISM PROBLEM

The scandal hanging over New York’s new mayor is no longer just about socialism, free buses, or budget gimmicks. It is about judgment, associations, and the radical worldview inside the mayor’s own household. Austin walks through the controversy surrounding Mamdani’s wife, the posts and political questions fueling backlash, the dinner guests and ideological signals coming out of City Hall, and why this story is becoming much bigger than a tabloid sideshow. This is about who New York actually elected and what kind of politics is now sitting inside Gracie Mansion.

💋 DEMOCRATS WANT HOTTER CANDIDATES NOW

After losing the country, the Democrats may have found their newest strategy: better jawlines. A new elite liberal conversation says the party’s problem is not just policy or messaging, but optics, charisma, masculinity, and sex appeal. Austin breaks down the absurdity of a movement that spent years policing beauty standards and “objectification” only to decide it now needs hotter candidates to survive.

🥋 CHUCK NORRIS WAS MORE THAN THE MEME

The media and the internet turned Chuck Norris into a joke. The real story is better. Austin closes the show with a tribute to the man himself — his rise from poverty, his discipline, his friendship and rivalry with Bruce Lee, and why the real Chuck Norris represented something far more serious than a punchline.

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🔎 TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE:

Zohran Mamdani wife controversy | Zohran Mamdani wife posts | Mamdani NYC mayor controversy | Mamdani budget crisis | New York City deficit 2026 | Mamdani socialism | ICE in airports | TSA staffing crisis 2026 | DHS shutdown airports | airport security chaos | Democrats hotter candidates | Democratic Party image problem | hot candidates Democrats | Chuck Norris tribute | Chuck Norris Bruce Lee | Chuck Norris legacy | Gracie Mansion controversy | NYC mayor scandal | progressive extremism | New York politics 2026