Liberty RoundTable Podcast

Sam Bushman unpacks the collapse of Trump's Anti-Weaponization Fund and offers his own plan for the President to personally compensate January 6th victims like Stewart Rhodes and Jake Lang. He covers Dave Rubin's warning that Trump has only three months to deliver on his promises before the midterms, breaks down a heroic armed citizen intervention during an Idaho In N Out shooting, and pitches a b...

Sam Bushman breaks down the viral Flamin' Hot Cheetos cookie controversy sweeping TikTok, then digs into what really happened to the TikTok ban (spoiler: it's now a "forced restructuring"). He exposes the Senate's new funding deal that lets Congress skip town again before facing a real deadline, shares a former Planned Parenthood director's shocking testimony on abortion quotas, and lays out a sur...

In this FreedomFest interview, Sam Bushman sits down with Mike ter Maat, an economist and entrepreneur, as he prepares to make a bold announcement: a two-year campaign for the Republican vice presidential nomination, something never attempted in the party's history. Mike Ter Maat lays out his plan to unify the GOP by adding a liberty movement voice to the ticket and to hand the VP selection to nat...

Sam and Dr. Scott Bradley kick off with a surprising history lesson: today marks the anniversary of Lafayette's 1777 commission as a major general, plus the strange true story of George Washington's personal cologne and its link to Lafayette. They then dig into the founders' faith, tackling a Supreme Court justice's controversial comment questioning whether America is a Christian nation, and unpac...

Dr. Scott Bradley joins the Liberty Roundtable to break down America's undeclared, multi-front military entanglements from Ukraine to Iran to Israel, and the real risk of World War III. They dig into classified munitions depletion (Patriots, THAAD, Tomahawks), reports of China arming Iran with shoulder-fired missiles, and the growing possibility of a reinstated military draft. The conversation the...

Sam Bushman, Curt Crosby, and Heath Perkins dig into the economy and accountability on this episode of Liberty Roundtable: the Fed holding interest rates steady while divisions grow, how Federal Reserve meddling helped inflate the housing market, constitutional gold and silver currency (and the birth of "Curtcoin"), a plan to use Treasury notes instead of Federal Reserve debt, and current gold and...

Sam Bushman, Curt Crosby, and Heath Perkins break down a whirlwind of breaking news on this episode of Liberty Roundtable: gold and silver prices, US airstrikes on Iran amid Russia's ongoing assault on Ukraine, and whether any of it was ever constitutionally authorized by Congress. The panel digs into the "military industrial complex," the central banking angle behind the Iran conflict, reports th...

Sam Bushman and Sheriff Richard Mack (CSPOA.org) dig into Justice Neil Gorsuch's controversial Firing Line comments rejecting the idea that America was founded as a "white Christian nation," and unpack how the media frames loaded questions to divide the country. They trace the Founders' own words on God, morality, and government, discuss the difference between cultural and constitutional definitio...

Sam Bushman is joined by Sheriff Richard Mack (CSPOA.org) for a wide-ranging Liberty Roundtable discussion covering extreme heat records across the country, a quick trick for converting Celsius to Fahrenheit, the Senate's advancement of Jay Clayton to Director of National Intelligence, the deaths of long-serving politicians who refuse to leave office, and a deep dive into automated license plate r...

Sam Bushman and Lowell Nelson of Campaign for Liberty dig into Netanyahu's constant access to Trump, the Pentagon quietly revising Iran war casualty numbers, and Ron Paul's column on how to honor dead US service members by telling the truth. They trace the pattern of undeclared wars from Iraq to Libya to Syria to Iran, cover Judge Napolitano's warning about perpetual war turning a republic into an...

Sam Bushman breaks down a viral story about Scotty's Drive In, a 60-year-old burger joint in Idaho Falls that started selling burgers for 15 cents in 1964. That leads into a deep dive comparing minimum wage, burger sizes, cars, and homes then versus now, and a fascinating back and forth with ChatGPT about whether inflation (CPI) or gold and silver is the better measure of affordability. The real q...

Sam Bushman and Dr. Scott Bradley dig into why the Abraham Accords may violate the Constitution and national sovereignty, expose Section 219 of the National Defense Authorization Act that would embed Israeli military influence into US defense, and discuss the war with no off-ramp, rising oil prices, and the ongoing fudging of American military casualty numbers in the Middle East. Timestamps: 0:00...

Sam Bushman and Dr. Scott Bradley expose underreported US military casualties in the Middle East, the explosion of automated license plate readers and Flock camera surveillance across America, the bizarre DC Reflecting Pool debacle, and why accountability in the Epstein case remains elusive. A hard-hitting hour on the news the networks refuse to use. Timestamps: 0:00 Show open and introduction wit...

Sam Bushman and Heath Perkins of Freewater Coin Company open with today's gold and silver prices, then dig into the shocking labor report showing 105.8 million Americans classified as outside the workforce, the lowest labor force participation since 2021. They connect this to a startling fact: 1964's $1.25 minimum wage in silver quarters equals about $52 an hour today, meaning young men today face...

Heath Perkins of Freewater Coin Company joins Liberty RoundTable to break down the Senate's crypto legislation and what it means for a coming digital currency power shift. The conversation covers stablecoin debt tokenization, the risks of private versus central bank digital currencies, the BRICS nations' move toward gold- and silver-backed money, and the volatility built into any digital dollar. H...

Sheriff Richard Mack discusses his provocative new book "The Democrat Murder of America: Demagoguery in the First Degree" and its "jar of ants" analogy for America's political divide. Then James Cohen (Executive Director) and Anne Schocket (Co-Chair) of MoreLikeUs.org join to explain how their organization is bringing research-backed civil discourse training to college campuses — correcting misper...

Sam Bushman and Sheriff Richard Mack sits down with James Cohen (Executive Director) and Anne Schockett (Co-Chair) of MoreLikeUs.org to discuss how their organization is teaching college students — and everyday Americans — the skills to communicate across political divides without labeling or fighting. The conversation covers the "RUN" and "CAST" frameworks for civil dialogue, troubling revelation...

Sam Bushman and Lowell Nelson break down Ron Paul's warning about Trump-era corporatism and government stock ownership in private companies, tying it to the NDAA and a loss of free-market principles. They dive into the surprisingly deep history of time zones, solar time, and the daylight saving time debate playing out in Congress, then close with a hard look at Lindsey Graham's decades of hawkish...

Sam Bushman opens with a fun dive into Irish/Scottish surname history, then breaks down a viral brawl at an Arizona In-N-Out Burger and what it says about society's growing appetite for chaos. He shares a personal reflection on "remembering who you are" as a standard for behavior, then closes with the news the networks won't cover: TSA's new "Gold Plus" program, airport security overreach, the Bor...

Sam Bushman and Dr. Scott Bradley break down the Senate's near-miss vote to fuse the US and Israeli militaries in development, manufacturing, and deployment, why it fell just short of the 60-vote threshold but passed with a majority, and what that means going forward. They also cover the ongoing Iran conflict and its effect on oil prices, the Strait of Hormuz and Houthi threat, the death of Senato...

Sam Bushbaum and Dr. Scott Bradley break down the week's most censored headlines: a possible Congressional merger of the Israeli military into the US system, an anti-Semitism bill that could criminalize criticism of Israel, the strange staged optics around Lindsey Graham's death and Mitch McConnell's hospitalization, and how AI deepfakes are eroding trust in what we see. They also dig into dual ci...

Sam Bushman explains why "cooling inflation" doesn't mean lower prices, breaking down how a century of inflation, exploding personal obligations (AI bills, insurance, subscriptions), and a debt-based economy have made modern life far more expensive. He digs into the real numbers behind the "solar tops coal" headlines, breaks down the true cost of every major electricity source, and explains why po...

Sam breaks down why "cooling inflation" doesn't match reality, why solar power claims don't hold up, and why the housing market has spiraled into crisis, with starter homes now hitting $1 million in cities across America. He traces it all back to a debt-based economy, government regulation, and misplaced dependence on foreign supply chains, then makes the case for returning to constitutional curre...

Sam Bushman and James Edwards dig into the bizarre Hunter Biden–Nick Fuentes meeting in Philadelphia and why the mainstream media suddenly loves covering "unholy alliances" while ignoring their own work. They break down Hunter Biden's $1.7 million defamation win against Patrick Byrne, James's own history fighting a defamation case, and Ron Paul's warning that Trump's $27 billion in corporate inves...

Sam Bushman and James Edwards break down the suspicious circumstances surrounding Senator Lindsey Graham's sudden death after his Ukraine trip, the bizarre Mitch McConnell "proof of life" photo controversy, and why neither senator's colleagues seem eager to put the speculation to rest. They also cover the House's passage of the Sunshine Protection Act, JD Vance's surprise appearance on Joe Rogan's...