Episode Details

⏱️ 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 fo