July 18, 2024 • 8 mins
Buck Sexton is joined by Erin Elmore. They delve into the early successes of PublicSquare and how platforms like Rumble and Twitter, under Elon Musk, are fostering a free speech environment online. Erin highlights the growth of PublicSquare and the importance of supporting businesses that share conservative values. Buck and Erin also touch on innovative ideas for the conservative market, such as a recruiting agency for conservative companies.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Make sure
you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or
wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the Buck Brief.
We have Aaron Elmore with us.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
She is the host of Public Square Alive, which is
on Rumble among other places. We're talking a bit about
the parallel economy. We're here at the R and C.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
All right, let's start with that.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Actually, for years, when I got into conservative media as
a career, as a calling, I might say, I was
always wondering, when are we going to have companies that
don't hate us? Outside of just media companies, I mean
products and companies that align with our values. You're on
the forefront of this. There's a lot of this happening now.
(00:53):
Tell people about how finally there are companies coming to
the forefront that like America, like the Constitution, like freedom.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Tell me about this well.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Public Square if people don't know about it, it's the
conservative Amazon, right, and we know Amazon mostly everything's from
communist China. Amazon, Jeff Bezos, Washington Post hates our values.
So a brilliant man by the name of Michael Seiffert,
who is my boss and CEO of Public Square, had
this great idea, let's create a parallel economy. Let's start
a platform. Whether it's businesses and services or goods. You
(01:25):
can come on the platform and shop just like you
shop Amazon, but you're buying from people.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Basically.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Public Square makes you sign a value pledge. You know,
you're not going to be posting about pride, You're not
going to be posting about liberal politics. You are aligned
with us. And it's all of these amazing small businesses,
a lot of veterans, a lot of police officers, organic products,
natural products, everything basically made in America. And you're not
supporting those big box retailers that I don't know sell
(01:51):
tucking bathing suits for little boys who want to be girls,
or diaper companies that support planned parenthood. So you're giving
your hard earned dollars away. Why not give them to
people who share your values?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
And what are some of the early successes I mean,
for example, you know, we will Rumble. Actually we were,
actually we were talking talking to David Sachs recently.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
There's a big Silicon valley.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
His name is coming up everywhere.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, well he's on the board of Rumble and we're
discussing how between rumbles assent Elon. Now we got kind
of lucky on this one. This is you know, from
on High or you know from Elon, switching Twitter from
a platform that is so dominated by the left to
now a free speech platform where you can build an audience,
(02:36):
you can sell products. They're rapping up their advertising. I
mean it feels like this is the beginning of not
just parallel economy, about parallel internet, information technology, the ability
to actually have freedom online.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
It's like a bifurcated system, right. It's there's cell phone
companies that are conservative, there's payment processing companies that are conservative,
there's credit card companies. So basically we are basically creating
our own lane, and we're doing it ourselves because when
they talk to us on the left, they'll say, if
you don't like it, you don't have to use it.
And we decided then we're not going to And things
are going very well at Public Scio, where we have
(03:10):
a diaper brand called every Life. They donate instead to
transgender surgeries, like Huggy's parent company does, into abortion clinics,
like Pampers does, they donate to pregnancy crisis centers. So
we're actually helping our values that we believe in, and
it's just we're doing all of these things that are
saying we actually care about America. We have conservative values,
(03:32):
and we're not afraid to say it, and we're not
going to be canceled for doing it.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I want to ask about the biggest challenges that you
face or that you're seeing to just get this up
to the place where people obviously know about it and
it can start to compete at the highest level, which
I think is going to be very important going forward.
But we'll come back to that in one second, because
I want to talk about Tunnel the Towers Foundation for
a minute. Since nine to eleven, Tunnel the Towers Foundation
(03:57):
has been committed to supporting our nation's first responders and veterans,
heroes who put their lives in the line for our
communities in our country. Here is like US Army Major
Jonathan Turnbull. Major Turnbull sustained devastating, devastating injuries that the
hands of an Isis suicide bomber. But Tunnel the Towers
paid off his mortgage and gave him a specially adapted
smart home designed for his needs. He moves around in
(04:19):
his home much more easily now, and his home gives
him hope with help from people like you. The Foundation
supports families like the Turnbulls join Tone of the Towers
and supporting America's heroes, our nation's catastrophically injured veterans and
first responders, homeless veterans, gold Star families, and the families
of fallen first responders. Doing it eleven dollars a month
the Tune of the Towers at T two t dot org.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
That's t the number two T dot org.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Ninety five cents of every dollar goes directly to Tunnel
the Towers programs. Aaron, what are the biggest challenges you're
facing as you're trying to get this going?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
It just seems like a great idea.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You have this the old line about Fox News, right,
this tiny demographic of half the country to work with here.
I think a lot of people who have been voting
Republican for their whole lives are sick and tired of
what they had seen from corporate America, particularly with the
trends stuff in the last the trans agenda issue in
the last decade or or so.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So what are the headwinds that you're facing?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
What are the biggest challenges as you see it, for
this movement of the parallel economy to grow.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Well, the positive part is we are growing so rapidly.
I think the statistics something like we've grown faster than
any social media platform ever had. And look how successful
social media platforms are. So the challenge is getting people
to know exactly who we are and what we're doing.
The challenge is growing our brands that are on the platform,
because we want to find those people that have just
seen a problem in the market and they say I'm
(05:37):
going to create a business. I'm going to start this
company and I'm going to put it on Public Square.
So it's getting the awareness out and just letting people
know that we exist, we're here, and we really want
to do the same thing that you do. And what
I also say to people, why would you want a
dog walker, a plumber, a hairdresser that's liberal. You're giving
your hard earned money to someone that literally doesn't want
your way of life to exist, doesn't support your family values.
(05:59):
And we have on Public Square also businesses, so we
need more of those businesses on the platform. John Junior
said anytime he travels around, he's an investor in Public
Square he uses the APT to find a restaurant because
he's with a bunch of congressman and people that are
very important the political world. You don't want to go
to some liberal restaurant. God knows what they're going to
put in your food. He's had great success on Public
Square finding places to go in that capacity. So we
(06:21):
really are creating great opportunities for people. But we just
need to get the word out.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
What is the next great conservative product idea in your mind,
or the next area, the next sector that we're hoping
to get really involved in.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Well, I have an idea, but I want someone to
take it, so please do it. Okay, So recruiting, So
if you're like a recruiter, a company recruiter, you're a
conservative business and you don't want to hire these blue
haired people that want to use pronouns. You want to
hire someone conservative, a recruiting hiring agency that pairs conservative companies.
Conservative hire eaes.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Oh, that's a great idea.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Someone, please do it. Just call it Patriot Hire and
just I'll be your spokesperson for free fantastic.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I also want to tell you all about my friend
Porter Stansbury and what he's done at his company. By
the way, Porter has decided, even though he's the CEO
of a publicly traded company, to take a dollar a
year in salary. Now he's doing this to make a
point for his company and just in general. He thinks
there's a better way to save and get paid. Now,
this isn't cryptocurrency, it's not precious metals. It has to
(07:23):
do with a new form of currency that Porter wants
to teach you about because he thinks that every American
can benefit from this. All you have to do to
watch his presentation for free is go to Secret Currency
twenty twenty four dot com. That's Secret Currency twenty twenty
four dot com. Aaron Elmore, spokesperson and host of Public
(07:44):
Square Live, fantastic, Thank you for being here. We got
to get crack at coffee by the way on public Store.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
How do I do it?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Give us amazing coffee company. We're making the best coffee.
It's delicious.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Why are you doing it?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Probably the best coffee.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Best coffee, big leg, big leagu coffee.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
It's fantastic. How do we do we got you gotta
tell me who I have to email.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Or something I will message you with. It's very easy
and it doesn't cost you anything, by the way, And
then you come on Public Square alive. You can bot
a coffee and then you sell it.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Everywhere gets out fantastic. Thanks We're gonna make amazing things happen.
Thank you, thank you. Good to see you.
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Make sure
you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or
wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the Buck Brief.
We have Aaron Elmore with us.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
She is the host of Public Square Alive, which is
on Rumble among other places. We're talking a bit about
the parallel economy. We're here at the R and C.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
All right, let's start with that.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Actually, for years, when I got into conservative media as
a career, as a calling, I might say, I was
always wondering, when are we going to have companies that
don't hate us? Outside of just media companies, I mean
products and companies that align with our values. You're on
the forefront of this. There's a lot of this happening now.
(00:53):
Tell people about how finally there are companies coming to
the forefront that like America, like the Constitution, like freedom.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Tell me about this well.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Public Square if people don't know about it, it's the
conservative Amazon, right, and we know Amazon mostly everything's from
communist China. Amazon, Jeff Bezos, Washington Post hates our values.
So a brilliant man by the name of Michael Seiffert,
who is my boss and CEO of Public Square, had
this great idea, let's create a parallel economy. Let's start
a platform. Whether it's businesses and services or goods. You
(01:25):
can come on the platform and shop just like you
shop Amazon, but you're buying from people.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Basically.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Public Square makes you sign a value pledge. You know,
you're not going to be posting about pride, You're not
going to be posting about liberal politics. You are aligned
with us. And it's all of these amazing small businesses,
a lot of veterans, a lot of police officers, organic products,
natural products, everything basically made in America. And you're not
supporting those big box retailers that I don't know sell
(01:51):
tucking bathing suits for little boys who want to be girls,
or diaper companies that support planned parenthood. So you're giving
your hard earned dollars away. Why not give them to
people who share your values?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
And what are some of the early successes I mean,
for example, you know, we will Rumble. Actually we were,
actually we were talking talking to David Sachs recently.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
There's a big Silicon valley.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
His name is coming up everywhere.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, well he's on the board of Rumble and we're
discussing how between rumbles assent Elon. Now we got kind
of lucky on this one. This is you know, from
on High or you know from Elon, switching Twitter from
a platform that is so dominated by the left to
now a free speech platform where you can build an audience,
(02:36):
you can sell products. They're rapping up their advertising. I
mean it feels like this is the beginning of not
just parallel economy, about parallel internet, information technology, the ability
to actually have freedom online.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
It's like a bifurcated system, right. It's there's cell phone
companies that are conservative, there's payment processing companies that are conservative,
there's credit card companies. So basically we are basically creating
our own lane, and we're doing it ourselves because when
they talk to us on the left, they'll say, if
you don't like it, you don't have to use it.
And we decided then we're not going to And things
are going very well at Public Scio, where we have
(03:10):
a diaper brand called every Life. They donate instead to
transgender surgeries, like Huggy's parent company does, into abortion clinics,
like Pampers does, they donate to pregnancy crisis centers. So
we're actually helping our values that we believe in, and
it's just we're doing all of these things that are
saying we actually care about America. We have conservative values,
(03:32):
and we're not afraid to say it, and we're not
going to be canceled for doing it.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I want to ask about the biggest challenges that you
face or that you're seeing to just get this up
to the place where people obviously know about it and
it can start to compete at the highest level, which
I think is going to be very important going forward.
But we'll come back to that in one second, because
I want to talk about Tunnel the Towers Foundation for
a minute. Since nine to eleven, Tunnel the Towers Foundation
(03:57):
has been committed to supporting our nation's first responders and veterans,
heroes who put their lives in the line for our
communities in our country. Here is like US Army Major
Jonathan Turnbull. Major Turnbull sustained devastating, devastating injuries that the
hands of an Isis suicide bomber. But Tunnel the Towers
paid off his mortgage and gave him a specially adapted
smart home designed for his needs. He moves around in
(04:19):
his home much more easily now, and his home gives
him hope with help from people like you. The Foundation
supports families like the Turnbulls join Tone of the Towers
and supporting America's heroes, our nation's catastrophically injured veterans and
first responders, homeless veterans, gold Star families, and the families
of fallen first responders. Doing it eleven dollars a month
the Tune of the Towers at T two t dot org.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
That's t the number two T dot org.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Ninety five cents of every dollar goes directly to Tunnel
the Towers programs. Aaron, what are the biggest challenges you're
facing as you're trying to get this going?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
It just seems like a great idea.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You have this the old line about Fox News, right,
this tiny demographic of half the country to work with here.
I think a lot of people who have been voting
Republican for their whole lives are sick and tired of
what they had seen from corporate America, particularly with the
trends stuff in the last the trans agenda issue in
the last decade or or so.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So what are the headwinds that you're facing?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
What are the biggest challenges as you see it, for
this movement of the parallel economy to grow.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Well, the positive part is we are growing so rapidly.
I think the statistics something like we've grown faster than
any social media platform ever had. And look how successful
social media platforms are. So the challenge is getting people
to know exactly who we are and what we're doing.
The challenge is growing our brands that are on the platform,
because we want to find those people that have just
seen a problem in the market and they say I'm
(05:37):
going to create a business. I'm going to start this
company and I'm going to put it on Public Square.
So it's getting the awareness out and just letting people
know that we exist, we're here, and we really want
to do the same thing that you do. And what
I also say to people, why would you want a
dog walker, a plumber, a hairdresser that's liberal. You're giving
your hard earned money to someone that literally doesn't want
your way of life to exist, doesn't support your family values.
(05:59):
And we have on Public Square also businesses, so we
need more of those businesses on the platform. John Junior
said anytime he travels around, he's an investor in Public
Square he uses the APT to find a restaurant because
he's with a bunch of congressman and people that are
very important the political world. You don't want to go
to some liberal restaurant. God knows what they're going to
put in your food. He's had great success on Public
Square finding places to go in that capacity. So we
(06:21):
really are creating great opportunities for people. But we just
need to get the word out.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
What is the next great conservative product idea in your mind,
or the next area, the next sector that we're hoping
to get really involved in.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Well, I have an idea, but I want someone to
take it, so please do it. Okay, So recruiting, So
if you're like a recruiter, a company recruiter, you're a
conservative business and you don't want to hire these blue
haired people that want to use pronouns. You want to
hire someone conservative, a recruiting hiring agency that pairs conservative companies.
Conservative hire eaes.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Oh, that's a great idea.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Someone, please do it. Just call it Patriot Hire and
just I'll be your spokesperson for free fantastic.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I also want to tell you all about my friend
Porter Stansbury and what he's done at his company. By
the way, Porter has decided, even though he's the CEO
of a publicly traded company, to take a dollar a
year in salary. Now he's doing this to make a
point for his company and just in general. He thinks
there's a better way to save and get paid. Now,
this isn't cryptocurrency, it's not precious metals. It has to
(07:23):
do with a new form of currency that Porter wants
to teach you about because he thinks that every American
can benefit from this. All you have to do to
watch his presentation for free is go to Secret Currency
twenty twenty four dot com. That's Secret Currency twenty twenty
four dot com. Aaron Elmore, spokesperson and host of Public
(07:44):
Square Live, fantastic, Thank you for being here. We got
to get crack at coffee by the way on public Store.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
How do I do it?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Give us amazing coffee company. We're making the best coffee.
It's delicious.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Why are you doing it?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Probably the best coffee.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Best coffee, big leg, big leagu coffee.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
It's fantastic. How do we do we got you gotta
tell me who I have to email.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Or something I will message you with. It's very easy
and it doesn't cost you anything, by the way, And
then you come on Public Square alive. You can bot
a coffee and then you sell it.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Everywhere gets out fantastic. Thanks We're gonna make amazing things happen.
Thank you, thank you. Good to see you.
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