October 27, 2025 • 12 mins
There are two things that are particularly cool about President Trump’s dances. The first is that they’re just plain fun...
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey, thanks for listening, and welcome back to the Brian
Mud Show.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Time now for today's top three takeaways, Trump's Asian dance moves,
trade deals shutdown, showdown, My top three takeaways for you
on this wet Monday for many throughout the area, after
some real severe storms overnight into this morning, and some
(00:29):
more that could come up later in the day as well.
So you have a real significant system send just off
shore every now and then kind of lurches back over
and so coastal communities tend to get the worst weather.
Speaking of weather, say a prayer for Jamaica. Well, we
are seeing shape up and mentioned on Friday that had
(00:50):
the potential to be the worst situation we had seen
since Storian in twenty nineteen when it's stalled over Marsh Harbor.
You know, you have a lot of us that have
been through a lot of hurricanes over the years, very
few that have taken the direct impact of a Category five.
Far fewer that have been under those conditions for days.
And that's effectively what you're talking about now. A hurricane
(01:12):
willists the top wins one hundred and sixty miles an hour,
it's only moving at three miles an hour. Sitting just
south of Jamaica, and Jamaica has already been in the
soup getting a lot of bad weather for days now,
for a few days. And so now between now and
late in the day tomorrow you have this category five
hurricanes just slowly going to lurch towards and then through
(01:32):
the island.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It just.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, say prayer for those people. So a lot going
on there. Will have a bit more on it in
just a bit. Meanwhile, about the shutdown, as we are
in day twenty seven, I don't know how we got
this far without thirty four percent of the federal government
being online, without the full bloat of the federal government
(01:55):
and being in place. But nevertheless, foxes Jessica Rosenthal about
what's going on with this.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Last week, the Senate again failed to advance a GOP
bill to pay many government workers during this shutdown. The
Senate is due back in session this afternoon, and last
week before they had adjourned, Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson
said they would be working on another bill to get
some employees paid.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
That doesn't mean the discussions one continue.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
So I talked from both Senator Right Holland and Senata
Peters broad down at you got stats working on this.
Thanks see if we cant to iron out differences and
maybe maybe we can come to an agreement next week.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Again, the most absurd thing running is that you're going
to have people that are reporting to work, and then
you would have political parties that, yeah, but we're not
going to pay them on time. We're going to choose
to vote against paying them on time, which is what
Democrats have repeatedly done. It's unconscionable in every way. My
top takeaway for you today is not any of that stuff.
(02:49):
That actually is something that should bring far more joy
to farm greater numbers of people.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I think it really has in sertling parts of age.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
My top takeaway is Trump Dance Malaysia version, which I
am watching Joel do right now.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Actually could be good exercise for your arms.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I'm thinking if I just did this all morning, just right,
arm out, left arm hut right arm out left arm.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
There you go. I think so I might be dead
by nine Joel.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Joel has promised for his video I did not today,
that he's going to do his version of Trump Dance Malaysia.
Come on, come on, man, get the people.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
What they want. I hold the phone there you can
get a stand.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
We've got plenty of stands around there. And if it
really got down, the hold on the phone and I'll
do it. It's There are two things that are particularly
cool about President Trump's dance moves. The first is that
they're just playing fun. Like if you can't have fun
with Trump's dance moves, that is another sign that you've
got TDS right. And as opposed to your typically stiff, stale,
(04:07):
and historically awkward politicians, when Trump breaks into the dance
it just takes all those things head on.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I mean, the man knows he can't really dance right,
and he doesn't care. He's gonna have fun.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
And I've always appreciated that about him because on a
personal note, that's me. I'm that guy too. I don't
have like the signature dance move like he does. But
my wonderful wife, Ashley, she loves to dance. I'm a
terrible dancer, but I just don't care, and so I'll
go out in any venue. There have been a lot
of times at even prominent events actually, and I will
(04:39):
be the first people to dance for and just go
for it. She has fun ends up being fun anyway,
as long as you don't take yourself too seriously and
you don't go out of your way to do anything.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Stupid, then that's fine. It's fine.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
So there's a lot to be said for being comfortable
in your own skin, being less concerned about what other
people might have to say, and that is Trump to
a t pretty much in all respects. But specific about
the the Trump dance is that for many of us
with two left feet, it's actually made it that much
more acceptable for people not to be great. And over
the weekend, on the first leg of Hisation two, our
President Trump he made his way to Malaysia, where he
(05:17):
was greeted by the Prime Minister and a troop of
dancers as he exited Air Force one, and this prompted
the President to head over to the dancing troop they
got his attention straight away and do what he later
called Trump Dance Malaysia version.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And it also led to the Malaysian.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Prime Minister looking at Trump, look at the troop, and
then trying to do his own version of what that
was too, and so just played fun again. News said
politics had to be full of stiff and boring people
doing stiff and boring things. But anyway, the main reason
why top takeaway today involves a Malaysian dance actually isn't
(05:55):
due to the dancing. It's due to too highly impactful
things that are in the process of happening. The first
is this President Trump continued to share a peace around
the world by overseeing the ceasefire he recently negotiated between
Thailand and Cambodia being signed into a permanent peace agreement
about that. Today's signing represents just one of eight conflicts
(06:19):
that we've ended in eight months of the Trump President.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Saanburyan or to have done it. We saved millions of lives.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
But in other news, a tree frog has won the
Nobel Peace Prize. So anyway, we've literally never seen a
US president broker as much peace, never seen a world
later broker as much peace as Trump has already done
within your one of his presidency. But the bigger picture,
as it pertains to you and me in the future
(06:48):
of this country, has to do with.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
His latest trade deal. This is my second takeaway today.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
His latest trade deal, President Trump has focused on rare
earth and mineral rights, and over the weekend he struck
a deal with Malaysia that didn't and likely won't get
much attention, but that is ultimately critically huge to what
comes next. It was Monday of last week the President
Trump signed a massive rare earth the mineral rights deal
with Australia. The Malaysian deal further buttresses the US's position,
(07:17):
having offset much of the mineral demand that we've historically
relied on China for China. So turning to Australia and
Malaysia over China, I mean, that's just going to be
a smart thing to do in general, and the best
thing that we could do anyway. But it also places
President Trump in the United States in a much stronger
position heading into the final stop with Chinese President Shi
(07:38):
Shing thing this week.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
So about that.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
President Trump's art of the deal focuses on what it's
about leverage, right, It's about who has the cards?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
How can they use those cards? Well?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
When it comes to rare earth minerals, which are vital
for many technologies we use and rely on every day,
are critical for national defense, that are paramount, and the
AI race, China, they have most of the cards.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
To give you an idea, China.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Currently produces about sixty percent of the rare earth minerals
mind around the world. That's a number that jumps higher
still to approximately ninety percent, but accounty for the refining
of these materials for final distribution as well. China's strongest
position on the world stage isn't being the world's destination
for using slave labor to manufacture cheap things.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
A lot of people think that's what this is mostly about.
It it's not.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
It's their strongest position the production of rare earth minerals,
how much controls had over those minerals. The two deals
that President Trump is signed within the past week represent
approximately fifteen percent of the future rare earth minerals that
(08:54):
we need in this country.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
So we are far from.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Being completely decoupled from China's rare earth dominance. However, one
would imagine that China would much rather not lose fifteen
percent of its US mineral business and the influence that
goes along with that on other decisions that might come about.
So all this is to say that, through tariffs and
(09:18):
trade deals, President Trump has put the US and about
as strong of a position as possible heading into this
week's high stakes meeting. Was jixhingping so about that Treasury
Secretary Scott dissent who's traveling with the President and is
involved actively in those Chinese trade negotiations.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
I believe that we have the framework for the two
leaders to have a very productive meeting for both sides,
and I think it will be fantastic for US citizens,
for US farmers, and for a country in general.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
And that optimism along with the good news economically we
received on Friday. Not only was the stock market at
a record high on Friday, we are seeing a massive
rally in pre market right now as well, and that
has a lot to do with them. So about that
meeting does figure to be interesting. The meeting and is scheduled
to take place on Thursday of this week in South
Korea at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, and the
(10:13):
President will, notably because of this my third takeaway today,
not be anywhere near Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Until the end of the week.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
And that is a rather clear indication today there will
be no negotiating with Chuck U. Schumer and the Senate
Democrats save three you know, of course, refuse to sign
on to a clean continuing resolution to fund the federal government,
or for that matter, to even just pay essential federal employees.
Who've been reporting to work for what is now over
twenty seven days, and in total, you have more than
(10:44):
one point two million current federal government employees that are
set to miss their regularly scheduled payday tomorrow, which is
the twenty eighth. Now, one might imagine that might place
additional pressure on Democrats to at least agree to pay
the people that show up for work every day. Because
of our GSS news media, it's likely to be spun.
(11:05):
But to be clear, Republicans have proposed paying all essential
federal employees as scheduled, but Democrats have voted against it
on multiple occasions, trying to use them instead as pawns
in their plans. Have ninety two percent of Obamacare plans
subsidized by you and me permanently, in addition to eliminating
the recently restored Medicaid work requirements. But while Marxist Democrats
seek to install socialism into our society, you might have
(11:27):
noticed something else happening. Not only is it the case
we're nearly four weeks into the partial shutdown, with most
people not even having to clue this thing's going on
if it wasn't in the news, you may have also
seen your four to one K and retirement accounts hitting
new highs by the day. Lower inflation than expected that
(11:48):
are corporate earnings reports, and expected lower interest rates that
are on the way this week continue to lead most
Americans with retirement accounts that are now showing record for
US Barne
Hey, thanks for listening, and welcome back to the Brian
Mud Show.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Time now for today's top three takeaways, Trump's Asian dance moves,
trade deals shutdown, showdown, My top three takeaways for you
on this wet Monday for many throughout the area, after
some real severe storms overnight into this morning, and some
(00:29):
more that could come up later in the day as well.
So you have a real significant system send just off
shore every now and then kind of lurches back over
and so coastal communities tend to get the worst weather.
Speaking of weather, say a prayer for Jamaica. Well, we
are seeing shape up and mentioned on Friday that had
(00:50):
the potential to be the worst situation we had seen
since Storian in twenty nineteen when it's stalled over Marsh Harbor.
You know, you have a lot of us that have
been through a lot of hurricanes over the years, very
few that have taken the direct impact of a Category five.
Far fewer that have been under those conditions for days.
And that's effectively what you're talking about now. A hurricane
(01:12):
willists the top wins one hundred and sixty miles an hour,
it's only moving at three miles an hour. Sitting just
south of Jamaica, and Jamaica has already been in the
soup getting a lot of bad weather for days now,
for a few days. And so now between now and
late in the day tomorrow you have this category five
hurricanes just slowly going to lurch towards and then through
(01:32):
the island.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It just.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, say prayer for those people. So a lot going
on there. Will have a bit more on it in
just a bit. Meanwhile, about the shutdown, as we are
in day twenty seven, I don't know how we got
this far without thirty four percent of the federal government
being online, without the full bloat of the federal government
(01:55):
and being in place. But nevertheless, foxes Jessica Rosenthal about
what's going on with this.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Last week, the Senate again failed to advance a GOP
bill to pay many government workers during this shutdown. The
Senate is due back in session this afternoon, and last
week before they had adjourned, Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson
said they would be working on another bill to get
some employees paid.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
That doesn't mean the discussions one continue.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
So I talked from both Senator Right Holland and Senata
Peters broad down at you got stats working on this.
Thanks see if we cant to iron out differences and
maybe maybe we can come to an agreement next week.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Again, the most absurd thing running is that you're going
to have people that are reporting to work, and then
you would have political parties that, yeah, but we're not
going to pay them on time. We're going to choose
to vote against paying them on time, which is what
Democrats have repeatedly done. It's unconscionable in every way. My
top takeaway for you today is not any of that stuff.
(02:49):
That actually is something that should bring far more joy
to farm greater numbers of people.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I think it really has in sertling parts of age.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
My top takeaway is Trump Dance Malaysia version, which I
am watching Joel do right now.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Actually could be good exercise for your arms.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I'm thinking if I just did this all morning, just right,
arm out, left arm hut right arm out left arm.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
There you go. I think so I might be dead
by nine Joel.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Joel has promised for his video I did not today,
that he's going to do his version of Trump Dance Malaysia.
Come on, come on, man, get the people.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
What they want. I hold the phone there you can
get a stand.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
We've got plenty of stands around there. And if it
really got down, the hold on the phone and I'll
do it. It's There are two things that are particularly
cool about President Trump's dance moves. The first is that
they're just playing fun. Like if you can't have fun
with Trump's dance moves, that is another sign that you've
got TDS right. And as opposed to your typically stiff, stale,
(04:07):
and historically awkward politicians, when Trump breaks into the dance
it just takes all those things head on.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I mean, the man knows he can't really dance right,
and he doesn't care. He's gonna have fun.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
And I've always appreciated that about him because on a
personal note, that's me. I'm that guy too. I don't
have like the signature dance move like he does. But
my wonderful wife, Ashley, she loves to dance. I'm a
terrible dancer, but I just don't care, and so I'll
go out in any venue. There have been a lot
of times at even prominent events actually, and I will
(04:39):
be the first people to dance for and just go
for it. She has fun ends up being fun anyway,
as long as you don't take yourself too seriously and
you don't go out of your way to do anything.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Stupid, then that's fine. It's fine.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
So there's a lot to be said for being comfortable
in your own skin, being less concerned about what other
people might have to say, and that is Trump to
a t pretty much in all respects. But specific about
the the Trump dance is that for many of us
with two left feet, it's actually made it that much
more acceptable for people not to be great. And over
the weekend, on the first leg of Hisation two, our
President Trump he made his way to Malaysia, where he
(05:17):
was greeted by the Prime Minister and a troop of
dancers as he exited Air Force one, and this prompted
the President to head over to the dancing troop they
got his attention straight away and do what he later
called Trump Dance Malaysia version.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And it also led to the Malaysian.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Prime Minister looking at Trump, look at the troop, and
then trying to do his own version of what that
was too, and so just played fun again. News said
politics had to be full of stiff and boring people
doing stiff and boring things. But anyway, the main reason
why top takeaway today involves a Malaysian dance actually isn't
(05:55):
due to the dancing. It's due to too highly impactful
things that are in the process of happening. The first
is this President Trump continued to share a peace around
the world by overseeing the ceasefire he recently negotiated between
Thailand and Cambodia being signed into a permanent peace agreement
about that. Today's signing represents just one of eight conflicts
(06:19):
that we've ended in eight months of the Trump President.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Saanburyan or to have done it. We saved millions of lives.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
But in other news, a tree frog has won the
Nobel Peace Prize. So anyway, we've literally never seen a
US president broker as much peace, never seen a world
later broker as much peace as Trump has already done
within your one of his presidency. But the bigger picture,
as it pertains to you and me in the future
(06:48):
of this country, has to do with.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
His latest trade deal. This is my second takeaway today.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
His latest trade deal, President Trump has focused on rare
earth and mineral rights, and over the weekend he struck
a deal with Malaysia that didn't and likely won't get
much attention, but that is ultimately critically huge to what
comes next. It was Monday of last week the President
Trump signed a massive rare earth the mineral rights deal
with Australia. The Malaysian deal further buttresses the US's position,
(07:17):
having offset much of the mineral demand that we've historically
relied on China for China. So turning to Australia and
Malaysia over China, I mean, that's just going to be
a smart thing to do in general, and the best
thing that we could do anyway. But it also places
President Trump in the United States in a much stronger
position heading into the final stop with Chinese President Shi
(07:38):
Shing thing this week.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
So about that.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
President Trump's art of the deal focuses on what it's
about leverage, right, It's about who has the cards?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
How can they use those cards? Well?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
When it comes to rare earth minerals, which are vital
for many technologies we use and rely on every day,
are critical for national defense, that are paramount, and the
AI race, China, they have most of the cards.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
To give you an idea, China.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Currently produces about sixty percent of the rare earth minerals
mind around the world. That's a number that jumps higher
still to approximately ninety percent, but accounty for the refining
of these materials for final distribution as well. China's strongest
position on the world stage isn't being the world's destination
for using slave labor to manufacture cheap things.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
A lot of people think that's what this is mostly about.
It it's not.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
It's their strongest position the production of rare earth minerals,
how much controls had over those minerals. The two deals
that President Trump is signed within the past week represent
approximately fifteen percent of the future rare earth minerals that
(08:54):
we need in this country.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
So we are far from.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Being completely decoupled from China's rare earth dominance. However, one
would imagine that China would much rather not lose fifteen
percent of its US mineral business and the influence that
goes along with that on other decisions that might come about.
So all this is to say that, through tariffs and
(09:18):
trade deals, President Trump has put the US and about
as strong of a position as possible heading into this
week's high stakes meeting. Was jixhingping so about that Treasury
Secretary Scott dissent who's traveling with the President and is
involved actively in those Chinese trade negotiations.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
I believe that we have the framework for the two
leaders to have a very productive meeting for both sides,
and I think it will be fantastic for US citizens,
for US farmers, and for a country in general.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
And that optimism along with the good news economically we
received on Friday. Not only was the stock market at
a record high on Friday, we are seeing a massive
rally in pre market right now as well, and that
has a lot to do with them. So about that
meeting does figure to be interesting. The meeting and is scheduled
to take place on Thursday of this week in South
Korea at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, and the
(10:13):
President will, notably because of this my third takeaway today,
not be anywhere near Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Until the end of the week.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
And that is a rather clear indication today there will
be no negotiating with Chuck U. Schumer and the Senate
Democrats save three you know, of course, refuse to sign
on to a clean continuing resolution to fund the federal government,
or for that matter, to even just pay essential federal employees.
Who've been reporting to work for what is now over
twenty seven days, and in total, you have more than
(10:44):
one point two million current federal government employees that are
set to miss their regularly scheduled payday tomorrow, which is
the twenty eighth. Now, one might imagine that might place
additional pressure on Democrats to at least agree to pay
the people that show up for work every day. Because
of our GSS news media, it's likely to be spun.
(11:05):
But to be clear, Republicans have proposed paying all essential
federal employees as scheduled, but Democrats have voted against it
on multiple occasions, trying to use them instead as pawns
in their plans. Have ninety two percent of Obamacare plans
subsidized by you and me permanently, in addition to eliminating
the recently restored Medicaid work requirements. But while Marxist Democrats
seek to install socialism into our society, you might have
(11:27):
noticed something else happening. Not only is it the case
we're nearly four weeks into the partial shutdown, with most
people not even having to clue this thing's going on
if it wasn't in the news, you may have also
seen your four to one K and retirement accounts hitting
new highs by the day. Lower inflation than expected that
(11:48):
are corporate earnings reports, and expected lower interest rates that
are on the way this week continue to lead most
Americans with retirement accounts that are now showing record for
US Barne
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