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November 13, 2025 13 mins
For 43 days 34% of the federal government was offline and the impact on the average American remained...absolutely nothing. In the end only about 27% of Americans felt a direct impact from the longest federal government shutdown in American history that proved to be every bit as stupid as every shutdown before it because we’re exactly where we were before, which has always been the case when these have happened before.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to the Brian Munt Show, and thank you for listening.
It's time for today's top three takeaways. Helpful, useful, repeatable. Hi,
you've done it.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh man, you've made it.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
It's happened. You survived, You survived. The shutdown is over.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
You have survived the longest federal government shutdown in American history.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
By eight days.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
You know, I want to see how quick my bank
is getting that. You remember they've had that message, Yes,
are you affected? Up? Still there? Still there? I guess
nobody was working late last night. Are you affected by
the government shutdown? Get help?

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Now? What happens when I call?

Speaker 1 (00:50):
You?

Speaker 5 (00:50):
Know?

Speaker 2 (00:50):
There was a something that crossed my mind actually in
this stud question. I think I'm on the TF for
tomorrow's Q and I all this talk about ACA or
bare subsidies, all these things of days gone by, wondering
whatever happened with the bailouts and all the corporate bailouts,
like the bank bailouts, and all that they ever paid
all that stuff back. That's just kind of dry. I'm

(01:11):
going to break all that down for you. I believe
on tomorrow's show, Joel, they've got to take care of
the federal situation there, they've received a lot of money
from the fence, you know every time.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
My guess is no, they probably have not.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
You have survived the shot. This is the important thing.
You made it forty three days without the full bloat
of the federal government, and you are a survivor, the survivor.
Everybody can be like a survivor now, you know, like
how they'll be like a branch that falls off a
tree and you'll have somebody in news the tree branch survivor.

(01:51):
What do you mean the branch fell over there? You
survived that. Everybody's a survivor. Now everything is strong, everything
is strong, and everything has been survived, right.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
I think the strong one annoys me a little more
for some reason.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
It actually doesn't annoy me more because if you have
pride in your community, organization, whatever else, if you're trying
to do something good, at least it comes from a
good place.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
In the case of newspeople are just.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Sensationalizing by overselling the situation, right, That's what annoys me.
It's just just news hype, sensationalism, nonsense. There are real
survivors of things. If you are shot and you survive,
you are a survivor of having been shot.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
If you were half.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
A mile down the road when somebody was shot, you
didn't survive that. You might have been close enough to
where you heard a commotion, you didn't even see what happened.
You didn't survive it, and you jew your point out.
Hurricane survivors they like.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
To do that.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Now, Yeah, how many can we say, like we're ten
times hurricane survivors?

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Is that it sounds about right?

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Oh my god, to just cut it out. But anyway,
you already shut down survivor. Today, Florida is a one
trillion dollar winner in teachers unions. There's still problems as
we dive into my top three takeaways today. So yes,
just after ten o'clock last night, El Presidente had this
to say.

Speaker 5 (03:17):
We went through this short term disaster with the Democrats
because they thought it would be good politically, and it's
an honor now to sign this incredible bill and get
our country working again.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
The key here is this is the incredible bill, not
to be confused with the one big, beautiful one that
was beautiful. This is incredible. Other things could be remarkable.
Stay tuned, so uh yeah. For forty three days, the
sun continued to rise in the morning and set at night.
I actually checked that because I was think it back,

(03:52):
and the rose in the morning each day.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
But then it along the way, the partial shutdown.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Started setting in the stinking afternoon like before six because
of stupid federal government intervention.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Right government even screw that up.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
It were shut down, we still have right which reminded
me because what I was thinking. And by the way,
I literally did type this. I literally wrote out began
to rise in the morning and said at night. And
I'm like, no, it wasn't nine. We had the freaking
arbitrary and unscientific time change take place in the middle

(04:31):
of it.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
That makes it dark before six. Now, oh, let me
to think.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
I'm like, hold on, if we have anything that stops
during a shutdown, shouldn't we stop the time change? Couldn't
we at least do that? That'd be something constructive. But
back to the point here. For forty three days, thirty
four percent of the federal government was offline, and the
impact on the average American remained absolutely nothing.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
The average American had.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Absolutely no, not any impact of thirty four percent of
the federal government being offline. Now, this is not to
upset you if you are directly impacted, I understand this.
I'm talking about the average American. You are not the
average American. You are, however, part of the twenty seven percent.
There were, in the end, approximately twenty seven percent of
Americans that felt a direct impact.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Okay, and this one.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Proved to be what every bit of stupid as every
shutdown before it, because we are exactly where we were
before we went through all of that for nothing, which
has been the case with every single one ever. So
the House passage of the Continuing Resolution last night, President
Trump's signature making a law, the just over a third
of the federal government that's been shut down has begun

(05:43):
to reopen, and you'll not hear any talk of a
potential shutdown for.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Potentially two months.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Maybe you see the Continuing Resolution fund some aspects of
the federal government through next September. Most only funded through January.
Sorry now, specifically, the Department of Agriculture, the FDA, the VA,
Military construction, and Congress's activities, the legislative branch. They're all
funded through the end of the next fiscal year in September. So,

(06:14):
for example, that does mean that a potential repeat early
next year would not include the potential for SNAP benefits
to lapse. They are covered VA services covered, among other things,
but it would mean that most other departments and agencies
could be impacted at some level once again.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
So this means that the.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Debate over what comes next to hash out those details
needs to begin almost immediately if a repeat is to
be avoided come February, which, by the way, President Trump
making clear what his thought process still is.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
If we had the philibus that terminated, this would never
happen again.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Uh huh. So he's not letting go of that, and
he's also right about that.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
On a second takeaway today, Florida's one trillion dollar play.
It's a number that sounds so large it could be fake, right,
just like the many fake politicians in Washington that played
around with trillions of dollars like it's theirs to take
from us, you know. So Anyway, while Washington, DC's numbers
do now routinely involve trillions, and actually Elon Musk's new

(07:18):
pay package too, I was thinking, what involves trillions? They're
like two things that came to mind, DC spending and
Elon Musk. Now who knows to him, But it's a
number that You never have heard thrown around at the
state level. We never have conversations of trillion dollar conversations.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
At the state level until now.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
One trillion dollars is the amount of income Florida has
gained over the past decade at the expensive high tax states.
You keep hearing about all the net migration, all the money,
high know with people, everything else, What does it actually
amount to. There's a new report, new study out from

(08:02):
Unleashed Prosperity. It's economist Stephen Morris organization, by the way,
showing that over the preceding ten years, net migration in
Florida has resulted in a bump of over one trillion
dollars in income to our state, holy count and the
second closest state, Texas. You know, I always hear about

(08:25):
Florida and Texas in the same breath. You know what,
everything's not bigger in Texas, not even clothes. Texas gained
two hundred and ninety billion. Wow, it's kind of like,
welcome to our party, hold our water, Texas. You don't.
You didn't even do a third of what we did
in Florida, not even a third.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
That's the story right there.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
So Florida is greater than three times the gainer of
the second biggest beneficiary. Massive And where did most of
that money and the people behind it come from, Joel.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
They came from the West coast, California. And the hair
or New York in calipright. I keep thinking of the
hair because Newsom's in the news lately. But yeah, New York.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Why do I feel like this has something to do
with your jealousy of Gavin Newsom's hair? Unless about what
the right answer to this question would be.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
I think you might be onto something.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
I have concerns that one day you're going to get
so jealous you bring a match in proximity to Newsome
just to no.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
I don't want to go anywhere near that guy.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Okay, so his hair is safe.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Would be interesting that how close can you get with
fire to New some before you got a big problem.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
So anyway, New York, New York number one.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
They lost five hundred and eighteen billion dollars in income
over the past decade. You imagine, as a state, you're
exporting fifty two billion dollars a year net income. That's
what New York's done with California shedding three hundred and
seventy billion. Illinois lost three hundred and fifteen billion. In

(10:07):
New Jersey they shed one hundred and seventy billion dollars.
And here's the irony I was thinking about this taking
a look at this study yesterday. The remaining voters in
these loser blue states continue to do what.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Vote for more of the same.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Three of these four just had elections last week or
they did what more of the same? The pro illegal
immigrant tax and spend kind of nonsense. And actually, in
the case of New York City, they just went full
mom Domi kami, right, So they just even more so
if we did a trillion dollars of the past ten years, man,

(10:44):
we'd do two trillion over the next ten. By the way,
on that note, the woman who wants to be the
next governor of New York Congresswoman at least Stefanek, had
this to say, the highest taxes in the nation, the
highest utility prices. People are suffering, and it's forcing people
to leave New York State.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
In New York City, there you go, come in here
with their money.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
A third takeaway for you today, teachers unions, they're the
most dangerous threat to our youth.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
No kidding.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
That probably has been true for the better half of
one hundred years now, but it seemingly is without a
doubt the case based on the latest from the American
Parents Coalition to the APC put out a Lookout warning
to parents, warning that the battles fought for rental rights
and education against indoctrination far from over. The APC said
that the two largest teachers unions, the NEA and AFT, which,

(11:37):
by the way, the American Federation Teachers is the parent
of every teachers union in the state of Florida, they
have quote invested hundreds of millions of dollars in woke
organizations and they're still doing it in real time, and
that they are as driven as they've ever been towards
educational in doctrination. Quoting the APC, teachers' unions were created

(11:58):
to support educators in a proof class from instruction. Instead,
they've been transformed into radical political organizations that exploit their
influence to push far left ideology instead of prioritizing student
academic success. Now, the organization points to the union's handbooks,
which currently instruct union members on things like this. This
is just one excerpt. I mean, there's so much here,

(12:18):
but just to give you an idea. This is in
their updated handbooks under the heading white Supremacy Culture. It reads,
in order to achieve racial and social justice, educators must
acknowledge the existence of white supremacy culture as a primary
root cause of institutional racism. And it goes on from
there about how to deal with this. So the bottom

(12:41):
line is that the battle for the hearts and minds
of our children is never ending. And the APC's warning
about the agendas of the teachers' unions which constitute in.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
General, the greatest threat to our youth.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
And notably, the unions have also backed the greater than
three dozen teachers known to have publicly celebrated the assassination
of Charlie kirk Kevin.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
One of them has been backed by them.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
I was thinking, you know, with white supremacy top of mind,
their comments, these teachers comments about him, he's a white
supremacist and all that.

Speaker 4 (13:13):
It's the union putting that in their head. They're constantly
being reminded.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Probably a factor.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
So it's a reminder that any teacher who chooses to
pay to be part of the union chooses to be
part of the problem too. And that even in Florida,
where we have the strongest educational choice options and printal
rights laws in the country, in doctrination could still be happening.
How many of those you know pro Charlie Kirk assassination
people are right here. So it's important to always be

(13:40):
minding this door when it comes to our kids what's
happening in the classroom. More than half of the teachers
still choose to adhere to an organization that demands that
they indoctrinate our youth.
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