October 16, 2025 • 12 mins
We’re fortunate to live in a moment in history, in Florida and within this country, to have two of the rare leaders who’re more inclined to spend 90% of their time working on moving the needle and only 10% on the nonsense.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the Brian Mud Show. Thanks for listening. Passion
plus talent is unstoppable. It's time for today's Top three takeaways.
It is hope you're.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Doing well today as we get going on this Thursday,
more than halfway through October. It's October sixteenth, but it's
also the sixteenth day of the partial government shutdown. Oh
my gosh, Oh my gosh, how are you surviving? How
are you getting through the day? Every day you hear
these dire, dire things coming out of the left in Washington, DC,
(00:35):
Like this fox is christin Goodwin. They send it failing
to advance Republicans House past government funding measure for the
ninth time Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Republicans are unwilling to spend a time to provide affordable
healthcare to work in class Americans. That's unacceptable. The American
people deserve better.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We deserve not to have socialism in the United States
of America. We certainly deserve better than you. Hakeem Jeffreys,
Oh my gosh, do we deserve better than you. I'm
talking about the opportunity in front of you today because
you're probably one of them, working class Americans. Even if
(01:17):
you like are successful, because that's always one of the
things I love with these people. It's like, how many
hours in the day do you have to work? How
successful do you have to be?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Well?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Working your butt off so much harder than the average
person that's collecting the government benefits that you're paying for
before you're no longer working class. I mean, I love
what working sixteen hour days than having somebody who works
less than half of that be called working class.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
That's what's really fun. That is that's your American left.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
But anyway, it plays into where I'm going with the
opportunity in front of.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
You, because.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I'm talking about exceptionalism and really American exceptionalism that's being
put into practice right now compared to the status quo Alile,
what you've heard for your entire life out of people
like it, King Jeffreys, And my top takeaway specifically is
are you doing what you want to do? Or maybe
it might be better to frame the top takeaway as are
you doing what you feel you are meant to be doing,
(02:18):
or for that matter, what you think you're best at doing.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
And I don't say.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
This for like some kind of philosophical exercise or something
like that. The reason I thought of this today is
because the world in front of us right now presents
the epitome of the status quote compared to the exceptional.
Yet what I often read here and find myself at
times and discussions about is most of us defaulting to
(02:43):
the status quo, the way things have been done, the
lowest common denominator. And it's understandable. It's what feels like
a safe and easy thing to do. It's what the
unsuccessful people in life to But unfortunately even a lot
of people that want and work hard fall into the
(03:06):
trap it's easy to do.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Consider this.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
A study of greater than ten thousand employees found that
in the average work day, fifty eight percent of the
day spend doing what they called the work about work,
in other words, just task that are not going to
be moving the ball forward with your work objectives. Just
comes in the form of an internal meetings, reading, responding emails,
(03:33):
electronic communications, just all that back and forth nonsense that
doesn't go anywhere. What's more is that only a third
of employees were found to actually be applying the skills
that they were hired for to their work, only a
third actually being able to do what they do best.
(03:56):
Only ten percent of the time at work spent on
strategic objectives, you know, the stuff that really does have
the potential to make a difference. And it's kind of
sad when you think about it, but it's also the norm.
And by the way, it's nothing new. I've studied these
types of studies for decades and the numbers they might
(04:20):
move around a little bit, but that's about it and
the reason why it is ultimately what we get back
to the comfort zone, the status quo, that's what's been
established by most. It explains the malays that sets in
with many companies. This explains the malays with our governments.
Or there's usually less accountability for inactivity and meaningful accomplishments
(04:44):
than in the private sector. And at the same time,
that's also what's different right now. That's also what's different
right now. We're seeing exceptional things take place. We're seeing
people just go out there and do the things that
need to be done, kind of like this guy.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
The FBI search stations across the US in Operation Summer
Heat over the past three months, making more than eighty
seven hundred arrest seizing more than twenty two hundred firearms,
and intercepting hundreds of kilograms of fentanyl.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Every American deserves to live in a community where they're
not afraid of being mugged, murdered, robbed, raped, assaulted, or shot.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Hey man, that.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Guy, just day after today goes out there and gets
it done right. And by the way, he knows what
it's like to be shot. There's that too. My second
takeaway for you today are your elected officials doing what
you want them to do. And as this partial federal
government shutdown enters at sixteenth day, I'm pleased to say, yes,
(05:46):
I was thinking about this. I am happy with the
performance of both of our United States senators. I am
very pleased with the President of the United States and
my elected repers, which also happens to be the President's
I'm happy for her never voting on anything in Washington,
(06:08):
d C.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Again, if it got down to it, Lois Frankel.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So, if I take a look at the actual performance
right now, they're doing what I would like if I
were in that position, what I would want to happen there.
So just but anyway, every federal government shutdown preceding the
current one has been a failed one. And that's because
every previous federal government shutdown has led to more costs
(06:31):
for taxpayers, not less. That's because of the previously mentioned
status quo. You know, there's never been a previous federal
government shutdown that led to a smaller government. So all
that's ever happened in the end is that the status
quo was kept in place, with back pay for every
furloughed government employee and essentially additional paid vacations for all.
(06:52):
It's been a terrible policy independent of politics. But this
time around, as President Trump has discussed the permanent riffs, well,
they are under and yes, yesterday you did have a
federal judge that you can't do this, same as we
saw with the Door's layoffs, they eventually went through.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
As I've covered before, ninety percent of lower court decisions
have gone against Trump. By the time the matters get
to the Supreme Court, ninety percent of the time, Trump
is won.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
So this was always going to be the case.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
The union is suing saying that they're entitled to jobs
for life or something like that, I mean, just whatever.
And it was a Clinton appointed judge yesterday said yes,
jobs for life. Trump's a bad orange bin. He didn't
quite put it that way.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
As close.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
But anyway, whenever this partial shutdown ends and whatever the
outcome is, the federal government won't be smaller than it
was before. Here are the five agencies that have been
most impacted by the riffs. They are, in order, Treasury,
Health and Human Services, Education, Housing and Urban Development, and Commerce.
(08:03):
But there's something I noticed yesterday when I was evaluating
the President's latest rifts during the shutdown, the extent of
the downsizing in these agencies since the onset of the
Trump two point zero presidency.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Year over year.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Here's how much smaller those five agencies are by way
of headcount. This is pretty impressive. The Treasury Department twenty
nine percent fewer people working in it. Health and Human
Services there are fourteen percent of fewer people there. How
about the Education Department forty three percent, fewer people working
at the Department of ed HUD thirty one percent, fewer
(08:37):
Commerce eleven percent smaller. So between dose in the recent riffs,
what we're seeing in DC is truly the end of
the status quo approach. It's not just in those agencies,
though they are among the most impacted.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
We need to make sure troops get paid.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
For that matter, everyone reporting to work for the federal
government in any capacity each day they need to get paid.
But otherwise, this partial shutdown prove to be one of
the most instructive and potentially pivotal moments in American history
because it's really representing a time where the government is
getting smaller. President Trump isn't just doing what others before
him haven't done to do things like bringing peace to
(09:15):
the Middle East and around the world.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
He's doing what even he didn't.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Do during his first term during the longest partial government
shut down the history, meaningfully change the size and trajectory
of the federal government, just as by the way Governor
DeSantis is doing here at home. My third takeaway today.
He was excellent before the Forum Club yesterday at the
Palm Beaches, and one of the things in particular says,
why can't government spend less? The state of Florida is
(09:41):
this year. By the way, an amen to you, Governor.
Yesterday I brought you the information that the average Lordian
pays one hundred and five thousand dollars in homestead of
property taxes in today's dollars, with much higher totals locally
over the course of the time the average person lives here.
If you're in Palm Beach County of one hundred and
forty two thousand dollars homestead of property taxes Martin one
(10:03):
hundred and seventy seven, Indian River one hundred and eighty four,
Saint Lucie two hundred and sixty six thousand, and I
pose this question as well. Would you rather save the
one hundred and forty one thousand plus dollars and truly
own your home with your local governments operating at the
size and efficiency of twenty nineteen, or would you rather
pay one hundred and forty one k and not truly
own your home and have your local governments operating as
(10:26):
they do today? Go again. That's your choice right now.
I think many realize that Governor Destantus was truly a
transformational political leader during the pandemic. I'm not sure many
have looked at him the same way since, but his
last act in this state, truly allowing you to own
(10:47):
your home while also having a necessarily leaner and thus
what should be more responsive local government, is right there
for the taking. Just as President Trump has had to
push and pull those with a his ranks to stop
spending most of their time just kind of doing the
work of work and never really accomplishing anything meaningful. The
same is true at home. It's likely every tax and
(11:09):
authority in the state is going to oppose the elimination
of homestead of property taxes because the status quo of
largely unaccountable funding at ever at higher levels.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
But the roof over your head is all they ever.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Want, and that's the easy thing to do, because that's
what most people spend most of their time doing. Anyway,
more fortunate to live in a moment in history in
Florida and within this country to have two of the
rare leaders who are more inclined to spend ninety percent
of their time working on moving the needle and only
ten percent on the nonsense. So from West to Palm
(11:40):
Beach to Washington, DC, we really can't accomplish these things,
but only if we're willing to provide them with the
support they need to finish doing the big things that
we elected them to do.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
So breadbare minute on Monday, Hamas and Israel began implementing
the initial stages of the peace plan broken by President Trump,
raising the prospect of a lasting piece possibly in the region.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
For the first time in recent history in Egypt.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
World leaders gathered in a show of unity, many praising
the deal as a potential blueprint for resolving other global conflicts.
Function News Middle East correspondent Steve Harrigan reporting from Tel Aviv.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Some amazing reunions between former hostages and their family members.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Really the pictures that, and.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
Then some details about what people underwent. Some of those
hostages pretty much chained up in underground tunnels for two years.
One man said he lost all sense of space and time,
So a real glimpse of joy and of barbarism too
at the same time. So that's really been the focus
on these twenty live hostages who've come out. But like
(12:45):
you say, some real potential problems ahead. Will hamas disarmed.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I'm Brett Baron. We'll see you next time.
Welcome to the Brian Mud Show. Thanks for listening. Passion
plus talent is unstoppable. It's time for today's Top three takeaways.
It is hope you're.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Doing well today as we get going on this Thursday,
more than halfway through October. It's October sixteenth, but it's
also the sixteenth day of the partial government shutdown. Oh
my gosh, Oh my gosh, how are you surviving? How
are you getting through the day? Every day you hear
these dire, dire things coming out of the left in Washington, DC,
(00:35):
Like this fox is christin Goodwin. They send it failing
to advance Republicans House past government funding measure for the
ninth time Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Republicans are unwilling to spend a time to provide affordable
healthcare to work in class Americans. That's unacceptable. The American
people deserve better.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We deserve not to have socialism in the United States
of America. We certainly deserve better than you. Hakeem Jeffreys,
Oh my gosh, do we deserve better than you. I'm
talking about the opportunity in front of you today because
you're probably one of them, working class Americans. Even if
(01:17):
you like are successful, because that's always one of the
things I love with these people. It's like, how many
hours in the day do you have to work? How
successful do you have to be?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Well?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Working your butt off so much harder than the average
person that's collecting the government benefits that you're paying for
before you're no longer working class. I mean, I love
what working sixteen hour days than having somebody who works
less than half of that be called working class.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
That's what's really fun. That is that's your American left.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
But anyway, it plays into where I'm going with the
opportunity in front of.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
You, because.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I'm talking about exceptionalism and really American exceptionalism that's being
put into practice right now compared to the status quo Alile,
what you've heard for your entire life out of people
like it, King Jeffreys, And my top takeaway specifically is
are you doing what you want to do? Or maybe
it might be better to frame the top takeaway as are
you doing what you feel you are meant to be doing,
(02:18):
or for that matter, what you think you're best at doing.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
And I don't say.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
This for like some kind of philosophical exercise or something
like that. The reason I thought of this today is
because the world in front of us right now presents
the epitome of the status quote compared to the exceptional.
Yet what I often read here and find myself at
times and discussions about is most of us defaulting to
(02:43):
the status quo, the way things have been done, the
lowest common denominator. And it's understandable. It's what feels like
a safe and easy thing to do. It's what the
unsuccessful people in life to But unfortunately even a lot
of people that want and work hard fall into the
(03:06):
trap it's easy to do.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Consider this.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
A study of greater than ten thousand employees found that
in the average work day, fifty eight percent of the
day spend doing what they called the work about work,
in other words, just task that are not going to
be moving the ball forward with your work objectives. Just
comes in the form of an internal meetings, reading, responding emails,
(03:33):
electronic communications, just all that back and forth nonsense that
doesn't go anywhere. What's more is that only a third
of employees were found to actually be applying the skills
that they were hired for to their work, only a
third actually being able to do what they do best.
(03:56):
Only ten percent of the time at work spent on
strategic objectives, you know, the stuff that really does have
the potential to make a difference. And it's kind of
sad when you think about it, but it's also the norm.
And by the way, it's nothing new. I've studied these
types of studies for decades and the numbers they might
(04:20):
move around a little bit, but that's about it and
the reason why it is ultimately what we get back
to the comfort zone, the status quo, that's what's been
established by most. It explains the malays that sets in
with many companies. This explains the malays with our governments.
Or there's usually less accountability for inactivity and meaningful accomplishments
(04:44):
than in the private sector. And at the same time,
that's also what's different right now. That's also what's different
right now. We're seeing exceptional things take place. We're seeing
people just go out there and do the things that
need to be done, kind of like this guy.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
The FBI search stations across the US in Operation Summer
Heat over the past three months, making more than eighty
seven hundred arrest seizing more than twenty two hundred firearms,
and intercepting hundreds of kilograms of fentanyl.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Every American deserves to live in a community where they're
not afraid of being mugged, murdered, robbed, raped, assaulted, or shot.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Hey man, that.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Guy, just day after today goes out there and gets
it done right. And by the way, he knows what
it's like to be shot. There's that too. My second
takeaway for you today are your elected officials doing what
you want them to do. And as this partial federal
government shutdown enters at sixteenth day, I'm pleased to say, yes,
(05:46):
I was thinking about this. I am happy with the
performance of both of our United States senators. I am
very pleased with the President of the United States and
my elected repers, which also happens to be the President's
I'm happy for her never voting on anything in Washington,
(06:08):
d C.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Again, if it got down to it, Lois Frankel.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So, if I take a look at the actual performance
right now, they're doing what I would like if I
were in that position, what I would want to happen there.
So just but anyway, every federal government shutdown preceding the
current one has been a failed one. And that's because
every previous federal government shutdown has led to more costs
(06:31):
for taxpayers, not less. That's because of the previously mentioned
status quo. You know, there's never been a previous federal
government shutdown that led to a smaller government. So all
that's ever happened in the end is that the status
quo was kept in place, with back pay for every
furloughed government employee and essentially additional paid vacations for all.
(06:52):
It's been a terrible policy independent of politics. But this
time around, as President Trump has discussed the permanent riffs, well,
they are under and yes, yesterday you did have a
federal judge that you can't do this, same as we
saw with the Door's layoffs, they eventually went through.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
As I've covered before, ninety percent of lower court decisions
have gone against Trump. By the time the matters get
to the Supreme Court, ninety percent of the time, Trump
is won.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
So this was always going to be the case.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
The union is suing saying that they're entitled to jobs
for life or something like that, I mean, just whatever.
And it was a Clinton appointed judge yesterday said yes,
jobs for life. Trump's a bad orange bin. He didn't
quite put it that way.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
As close.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
But anyway, whenever this partial shutdown ends and whatever the
outcome is, the federal government won't be smaller than it
was before. Here are the five agencies that have been
most impacted by the riffs. They are, in order, Treasury,
Health and Human Services, Education, Housing and Urban Development, and Commerce.
(08:03):
But there's something I noticed yesterday when I was evaluating
the President's latest rifts during the shutdown, the extent of
the downsizing in these agencies since the onset of the
Trump two point zero presidency.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Year over year.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Here's how much smaller those five agencies are by way
of headcount. This is pretty impressive. The Treasury Department twenty
nine percent fewer people working in it. Health and Human
Services there are fourteen percent of fewer people there. How
about the Education Department forty three percent, fewer people working
at the Department of ed HUD thirty one percent, fewer
(08:37):
Commerce eleven percent smaller. So between dose in the recent riffs,
what we're seeing in DC is truly the end of
the status quo approach. It's not just in those agencies,
though they are among the most impacted.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
We need to make sure troops get paid.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
For that matter, everyone reporting to work for the federal
government in any capacity each day they need to get paid.
But otherwise, this partial shutdown prove to be one of
the most instructive and potentially pivotal moments in American history
because it's really representing a time where the government is
getting smaller. President Trump isn't just doing what others before
him haven't done to do things like bringing peace to
(09:15):
the Middle East and around the world.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
He's doing what even he didn't.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Do during his first term during the longest partial government
shut down the history, meaningfully change the size and trajectory
of the federal government, just as by the way Governor
DeSantis is doing here at home. My third takeaway today.
He was excellent before the Forum Club yesterday at the
Palm Beaches, and one of the things in particular says,
why can't government spend less? The state of Florida is
(09:41):
this year. By the way, an amen to you, Governor.
Yesterday I brought you the information that the average Lordian
pays one hundred and five thousand dollars in homestead of
property taxes in today's dollars, with much higher totals locally
over the course of the time the average person lives here.
If you're in Palm Beach County of one hundred and
forty two thousand dollars homestead of property taxes Martin one
(10:03):
hundred and seventy seven, Indian River one hundred and eighty four,
Saint Lucie two hundred and sixty six thousand, and I
pose this question as well. Would you rather save the
one hundred and forty one thousand plus dollars and truly
own your home with your local governments operating at the
size and efficiency of twenty nineteen, or would you rather
pay one hundred and forty one k and not truly
own your home and have your local governments operating as
(10:26):
they do today? Go again. That's your choice right now.
I think many realize that Governor Destantus was truly a
transformational political leader during the pandemic. I'm not sure many
have looked at him the same way since, but his
last act in this state, truly allowing you to own
(10:47):
your home while also having a necessarily leaner and thus
what should be more responsive local government, is right there
for the taking. Just as President Trump has had to
push and pull those with a his ranks to stop
spending most of their time just kind of doing the
work of work and never really accomplishing anything meaningful. The
same is true at home. It's likely every tax and
(11:09):
authority in the state is going to oppose the elimination
of homestead of property taxes because the status quo of
largely unaccountable funding at ever at higher levels.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
But the roof over your head is all they ever.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Want, and that's the easy thing to do, because that's
what most people spend most of their time doing. Anyway,
more fortunate to live in a moment in history in
Florida and within this country to have two of the
rare leaders who are more inclined to spend ninety percent
of their time working on moving the needle and only
ten percent on the nonsense. So from West to Palm
(11:40):
Beach to Washington, DC, we really can't accomplish these things,
but only if we're willing to provide them with the
support they need to finish doing the big things that
we elected them to do.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
So breadbare minute on Monday, Hamas and Israel began implementing
the initial stages of the peace plan broken by President Trump,
raising the prospect of a lasting piece possibly in the region.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
For the first time in recent history in Egypt.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
World leaders gathered in a show of unity, many praising
the deal as a potential blueprint for resolving other global conflicts.
Function News Middle East correspondent Steve Harrigan reporting from Tel Aviv.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Some amazing reunions between former hostages and their family members.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Really the pictures that, and.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
Then some details about what people underwent. Some of those
hostages pretty much chained up in underground tunnels for two years.
One man said he lost all sense of space and time,
So a real glimpse of joy and of barbarism too
at the same time. So that's really been the focus
on these twenty live hostages who've come out. But like
(12:45):
you say, some real potential problems ahead. Will hamas disarmed.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I'm Brett Baron. We'll see you next time.
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