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Well, hello, good morning, and welcome to the show, Happy
Red and Friday. It is a Red Friday today where
we remember everyone deployed, sponsored by our friends in American
Charlie Grill and Tavern. Of course, the best thing about
today is that we're finally back in the knock It
Off studio back from our vacations slash Mayo Clinic trip,
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even though we've been doing the radio show all week,
which I got to tell you was as much as
I love doing the show, and I do love doing
the show, it was taxing as hell to do the
show this week because we were obviously not in our
regular studio. We were in the remote stuff and didn't
have all the things that we normally had, and it
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was just awkward. And sometimes I was doing the show
from the couch. Sometimes I had pants on, sometimes I didn't.
It was just it was awkward. Not to mention, we
also did not have our rumble and wimkin audience that
we bounce off of throughout the show. So it's good
to see all you guys already chiming in this morning
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on the show. But it is good to be back,
it really truly is. The boys, by the way, were
also stupid excited that Daddy was home. As a matter
of fact, I think between last night, when I arrived
back at home until this morning, when I finally woke
up and had to kick Charlie out of the studio,
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I've gotten more kisses and hugs from him than a
horny teenager on a Friday night date. I mean, it's
just been unbelievable. He kind of missed me. So it
was kind of nice to see the rug Rats this
morning and last night, got all my cuddles and everything.
They were in the studio right up until about the
beginning and then they're like, oh God, this is the
time the dad gets all riled up. It's time for
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us to go and left the studio. But we do
have a lot to talk about today. Of course, with
it being Friday, we'll have the guys on from America
in View. They'll be joining us later on in hour
number three to talk about some of the things that
are going on around the state and around the country.
And you know, there was actually something that we were
talking about on the show the other day and now
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I can't remember what the hell it was, And I
was thinking to myself, oh, we got to talk about
this with the Doster boys coming up on Friday. I
don't know what the hell it was, So we'll figure
it out. Maybe they'll bring it up, but I'll be like,
that's what it was. Also joining us on the show
later on this morning, Linda Cope from The Warrior Beach retreat.
Their fall retreat is coming up, and we're gonna talk
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about that coming up in a little bit as well.
But in the meantime, the Left is it is not
even meltdown mode that they are in right now. And
Charlie was worried he was adopted by Haitians. He was like, hey,
who is this that's coming in and feeding me? He
was a little off by that for a little bit.
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But the Democrats, they are not in a meltdown mode.
They are in another level of emotional mode that we
haven't seen from them in a while. And it's all
because of Donald Trump, of course. And I gotta say this,
Donald Trump has taken his internet trolling to a whole
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new level. And it's just funny to watch the response
from the left when you start looking at how they
are responding to the memes. It's not fair Donald jump
as being a big meanie pants. And I love it
because when Hikeem Jeffries came out the other day and
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he was upset about the sombrero thing. There by the way,
they're also calling it racist, which I saw video pointing
this out, and it was actually kind of funny where
they're talking about Okay, so you're you're upset because Donald
Trump put a sombrero on Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.
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You do realize that a sombrero is not racist. If
you are looking at the sombrero being put onto somebody
as being racist, then you're the one who's racist, because
you're the one who thinks that's racist. And it's kind
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of a valid point because a lot of this stuff
that we always hear from the left with them, that's
some rained since no, it's not racist, it's you being emotional,
whiny brat, and that's exactly what the Democrats are right now.
And Donald Trump has not slowed down. And again, I
don't know who it is that's on his digital team
that is coming up with all of these things, because
I know it's not one hundred percent Donald Trump. I'm
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sure that there was some smart ass kid that is
on this team that that probably went to mimester President,
you want to say something like it us And he
looked at that and said, roll with it, absolutely, roll
with it. And there was another video and I don't
know if you saw this one where Keem Jeffries was
on I think it was CNN or MSNBC or one
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of those. I don't really care which one it was,
but he was on there complaining and whining about Donald
Trump doing this and it's not fair, it's so bad
what he's doing. And then all of a sudden, somebody
the team again took the video and put Donald Trump
in a mariachi band with sombreros and everything. Right behind
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came Jeffries doing his thing. It's just hilarious. And then
you get the moment. The moment that came Jeffries decided
he wanted to be a tough guy when he said,
the next time I'm in the Oval Office, or when
I'm in the Oval Office again, I'm gonna address him
and he could say it to my face. Dude, think
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about this for a second. Think about this for one second.
And I mentioned this the other day when talking about this,
that Donald Trump is the man who sat in front
of the United Nations, the world's leaders, sat there in
front of them and ripped them apart. These are people
who have militaries, these are people who have economies, These
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are people who could retaliate, and he slammed them to
their face. Do you even remotely think that Donald Trump
won't do it to your face. First off, he's a
New Yorker, and in old school New Yorker at that
he will have no problem with tearing you apart to
your face. But it's just not fair. It's not fair
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that Donald Trump is making fun of me, you poor
little whiny brat. And Pat, you're right, it was okay
for Kathy Griffin to hold up a severed body head
of Trump, but when you do these memes, it's the
worst thing in the world. It's so immature. Yeah, the
one where he threw the mustaches, that was pretty funny too.
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Every time you turn around there's another one. And again
I don't know who it is. It's on Donald Trump's
digital team that's doing these things, but they need a raise,
they need a raise, They need to be praised. But
sadly though, also needs to be hidden, like, don't say
who it is, because we know how the left is.
If the left finds out who it is that's actually
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doing it, they will go after him or her or
whoever it is that's doing it. And that's a sad
statement of our times too. But it ishilarious because it's
just good old poking fun. And maybe it's just the
gen x in me where you know, we find this
stuff to be hilarious because it's just it's all words.
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It's words, a little little poking fun. It's not that
big of a deal. You're gonna be okay, You're you're
gonna go to bed tonight, you're gonna wake up tomorrow morning,
and everything is still gonna be fine. But the left,
they can't handle it. They can't handle it. And it's
okay for them to slam on Donald Trump, it's okay
for them to go after Maga people, but when the
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favor is returned, it's so bad. You can't do this
to us, which is also kind of the same attitude
that they're taking it like during the shutdown, like they
I don't know, if somebody hang on a second, let
me let me write this down. Maybe this will help.
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And if you if you were watching in the video
version of the show, you'll get this. And I will
tell you right lights, you lost. That's the bottom line.
You lost. You lost the elections, and when you lose
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the elections, you are no longer in power. So therefore
we don't have to bow down to you, which is
exactly the attitude that they're taking. They don't understand why
the Republicans are not bowing down to us and why
they're not doing exactly what we say. This is wrong.
You had to listen to us, and you have to
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do what we want. You can't just do whatever you want.
This isn't right. No, this is exactly right. This is
how it works. You have to come to us to negotiate.
You have to come to us and say, hey, here's
some things that we would really like, and we're willing
to sacrifice this, this, and this so that we can
we can get a little something, because because that's what
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you did to us, it's just not fair. And I'm
again social media, I'm loving this Christy Jackson. This guy,
he's such an idiot. He really truly is posted a
photo of Joe Biden. So it's a good looking black
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and white photo. I'm gonna give the photos some credit.
It's a good looking photo, a little portrait thing. And
he said America traded competency and decency for chaos and deprivity.
I'll never understand it. Well, you know, here's the thing,
dumb ass, and that's what you are, Chris Jackson. You're
a dumb ass. What America could traded was we traded
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somebody to come in and remodel the kitchen because somebody
came in and splashed it with rainbows and DEI and
all this other bs and made it so that it's
so expensive to open up the refrigerator. And we said, no,
we don't like this. We want to renovate the kitchen.
And Donald Trump came in to renovate the kitchen. And
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in order to renovate the kitchen, one of the things
you have to do is tear out the crap that
was put in there initially. And that's what we have
seen Donald Trump do. And look, I think most of
us understand that in order to fix the problems, it's
gonna get a little bit worse because you have to
do the demo work first, and that's what Donald Trump
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has been doing. And now that the shutdown has happened, Oh,
there's a full on construction demolition team that is now
standing by and we're gonna get into that in just
a second, but first we got to take a quick break.
We'll be right back. This is the Brian Russ Show.
Do I't Forget? Today is a Red Friday where we
are brought to you by Oh wait, a second, there's
another one that just popped up. Trump just posted this
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incredibly weird AI video of himself and JD. Vance in
a band and Russ Vought as the Grim Reaper. This
is what the president is doing while the government is
shut down. We're so screwed. Oh, Harry sis On shut up.
Oh that's a great one. That is great. I'm gonna
have to listen to that one in the break just
to see what that one's all about. Anyhow, we are
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Read Friday, remembering everyone deployed, including our Ice agents that
are deployed around the country, in our National Guard that
is also out there doing their thing, and especially now
that we are in the shutdown and the potential that
they may not get paid, we got to remember them,
thank them for what they are doing. And of course,
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Right there at American Charlie, Welcome back to the show.
Thanks for waking up with us today. Do appreciate it.
Thanks for watching us today on Rumbleandwimken dot Com. Back
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to that for those of you that have missed that
torture of having to watch this hot mess in the morning,
there it is, there you go. It is good to
be back though from the vacation slash Mayo trip visits.
And I know a lot of people have been asking
me about the visit because I had made some posts,
you know, just kind of updating as we went along,
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and it looks a little bit like this. Just to
give you a quick update, I am once again one
of the male clinics most boring patients. Which I know
that seems like a contradiction to say me and boring
at the same time, but that is that is kind
of the case. All of my blood work, you know,
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looked great, the kidney function looked great. Still ready to
hear a couple of tests, but they're pretty confident that
everything is going to be pretty okay. I do have
to go back to the Mail Clinic though, for some
other things, because that's one of the problems when you
have when when you get older and with a kidney transplant,
sometimes it does cause other issues. But overall, I'm still
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pretty damn healthy and the checkup went great, so that
is a good thing. I just it wears me out, though,
And anybody that has gone through these these annual checkups
that you do at the Mayo Clinic, you know that.
And it usually doesn't matter what it is that you're doing,
whether you're going in for a cancer update or you know,
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a transplant update or whatever it might be. When they
start running all these tests on you to check everything,
it's exhausting, it really truly is. So yeah, it's good
to finally be home. I actually have a little bit
of energy today, mostly because I'm also able to drink
some knock it off coffee. I did not bring any
of it with me because you know, in the hotels
that you don't really have a good coffee maker, so
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I was kind of forced to drink some of that
hotel coffee. And let me tell you, that crap is
just I don't I don't know it's they call it
rainforest blend or something, and it literally tastes like you're
scraping the ground off of the rainforest. It's just the
nastiest stuff. So and that's right, Dean. A positive attitude
and trusting God goes a long way. And you know
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what I have, I've I've preached that for a long
time when it comes to you know, illnesses, and and look,
I have dealt with a lot of a lot of
health issues for a long time, specifically with the kidney.
Uh and uh, you know, having that positive attitude does
really truly help. And that was actually one of the
things that I was having a conversation with with some
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of the crew at the Mayo Clinic the other day
because they were getting it ready, getting you ready to
do the the the biopsy on the kidney, which was
the most intense thing that I actually had to do
the entire time that I was there. And uh, you know,
I'm I'm just I'm generally kind of a goofy guy anyhow,
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and I'm always got a pretty positive attitude. And when
I don't, you know that I'm probably really pissed off
about something and it's probably a time to head the
other direction and avoid me for a little bit. But
we were having the conversation about it, and uh, you know,
the the nurse that was setting everything up, she looked
at me and she's like, you know, it really is
great to actually have somebody with such a great attitude,
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because she was even telling me, she's like, you can
tell the people that always come through that are doing
the best, even if even if things aren't the greatest,
but they're still doing the best. Are the ones with
the best attitudes, you know, the ones that are not
coming in all fearful and scared and and everything else.
And when you're just in there to to uh, you know,
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be positive about it and know that that things are
pretty good, it, it goes a long way. And I
can't preach that enough for anybody who is who is
ill with anything, whether it be you know, a cancer
diagnosis or you know, a transplant diagnosis or whatever it
might be, having a positive attitude takes you so far.
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And the crew there at the Mail clinic as we
were talking about it, they agreed one hundred percent. They said,
you know, having that positive attitude is a good thing,
So you really got to do that. Just keep it positive.
Which I know nowadays is tough to do. With all
the stuff that's going on in our world, it is
hard to have a positive attitude, like even here in
the Knackadoff studio. As much as I love being in
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the Knockadoff studio, I have to admit it is time
for a new chair because this chair is the most
uncomfortable thing that I've sat on in a while. And
I'm just I don't know, it's time for this chair
to go. But I'm trying to be positive because look,
I'm back in the Knockodoff studio. I have our rumble
and whim can feedback up again. I've got all the
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equipment that I need. I've got my knock it off
coffee that I could drink. I've gone Charlie and Lucky
running around. Life is good. So having a little bit
of a positive attitude, even though there are some things
in life that are a little stressful, it does help
a lot. So Yeah, anyhow, what else we got to
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talk about today? We got so much to talk about.
But now that I've rambled on about stuff and took
up this entire segment, I don't really have enough time
to dive into anything and don't have enough time to
not dive into something because I boo booed, because we've
got our hard break coming up here at the bottom
of the hour. But the shutdown, this is becoming more
and more entertaining every moment, and we're gonna talk about
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it coming up in just a little bit. What's that
the X chair? See the problem with the X chair.
The X chair is low, and the studio is actually
it's not a low desk, it's like not in normal height.
The desk in the studio is about was that about
three feet high, so it's like a standard TV studio,
radio studio desk in the height side. So it's gonna
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be difficult to find that a chair that really truly fits.
And this thing squeaks. I don't know if you ever
hear it on the microphone or not, but it squeaks
like crazy. And the fact that it's uncomfortable and I
keep squirming in the chair because it's just uncomfy. You know,
it's just it's one of these things. But look, positive attitude,
even though there's one thing that just kind of tears
it apart here. Positive attitude. But yeah, the shutdown, this
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is becoming more and more entertaining. We're gonna talk about
that coming up after the break, because the Left screwed up.
They screwed up big time when it came to allowing
this whole shutdown to even happen. So we're gonna talk
about that coming up in a couple of minutes. So
for again, you could also check out the show at
the Brian Rushshow dot com. We finally got the new
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it anymore, because if they do, I'm probably going to jail.
I'm just saying, but go check that out. We got
to take a quick break though for a bottom of
the hour. We'll be right back. Good morning, all right,
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welcome back to the Brian Rush Show here at our
Red Friday. Happy Friday to you. We finally made it
to that big weekend road Gray, Good morning to you.
A good point. The Dems should get Kamala to explain
why they won't agree on the spending plan. Probably has
something to do with the electric yellow school buses. Can
you imagine? Can you imagine Kamala Harris having to get
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out and explain the reason for the shutdown. It would
actually be kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (21:41):
What happened was is okay, everybody, listen, listen, listen up.
It's Kamala has And and I'm gonna spend see you
the monies and the monies which with the with the
dollars and with the in the dollars that go in
your your purse.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I got a purse. What happened was is that.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
You see, we wanted to put more dollars in somebody
else's bust, and the Republicans said, no, you have to
pay your bar tab before you can leave. I don't
know why this's got a pat of barn tab all
the time.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
It would be hilarious to have Kamala Harris actually do
that and ap it would be pretty funny. If I
did have a sombrero. I don't have one, and if
I did, I would wear one in casey, you're right,
with all the Diegos that I consume, I should have
I should have one, and I don't know why you don't.
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But you know what, actually, now that I think about it,
with all the Diegos that I consume, I should also
have a Diego's T shirt. I'm just I'm throwing that
out there into the wind. I don't I do have
my uh what was that the T shirt that I got,
the the Barrito Benditto, the Barrito Benditto T shirt. Yeah. Anyhow,
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it would be pretty funny though, to have Kabala Harris explaining, uh,
the the the budget cuts, the shutdown because she couldn't
get through it. She couldn't get through, especially if the
teleprompter stopped, or like even if if Joe Biden had
to do it. Well, you see, when I was a kid,
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I'm not kidding. This is not hyperbole here, no joke.
When I was a kid, my dad uh bless his heart,
uh right, the rest of his soul with the windshield
and then with the cancer. It would be able to
figure it out. But the bottom line is, though, when
it comes to the shutdown, the Democrats, they got caught
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in their lie and they didn't even realize it. And
they still don't even really truly realize that they've been
caught in their lie because they're trying to do the
whole healthcare thing even though that's where their lie is.
They wanted to add another one point five trillion dollars
in spending in this fiscal year, one point five trillion
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dollars an addition to what we're already spending. I mean,
just the average. I mean, I think even Kamala Harris
in one of her drunken stupors might even be able
to sit there and reasoningly go, hey, wait a second.
Didn't for like the past seven months, didn't we go
through this doze thing where they exposed all of the
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waste and the fraud and abuse. Would it probably not
be a good idea for us to turn around and say, hey,
even though we were given a roadmap and a blueprint
on how to do all these cuts, would it be
a bad idea to say, hey, let's add another one
point five trillion dollars to the spending. But they did
it anyhow, And then on top of it, the argument
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about the healthcare, and of course they're not doing the
argument correctly with accuracy and not lying. They got to
use fear, you're going to lose your health care. You
know what, those of us that work in the private industry,
we've not lost our healthcare. We're okay, everything is fine,
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you're good, all right, cool, We're all good. The only
people that are really losing their healthcare in the cuts
that were proposed in the big beautiful bill are the
couple of million illegals that were on it and the
able bodied workers. They're not going after mom and dad
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and grandma and grandpa and cutting them off. They're not
going after the low income single mother who really needs it.
That's not who they're going after, but that's what they
make it out to be. And of course, the other
thing when it comes to the healthcare situation and jd
Ern JD Hakeem, Jeffries, Timu Obama, he's getting busted in
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his lie all the time, and so is it Chuck Schumer.
Because the thing that they keep saying is that there's
not a single dime, not one dime, not one dime
in federal money is going to the health insurance, remember words,
the health insurance of illegals, which we know is none
true because there was at least one point five ish
maybe a little bit more illegals that were on Medicaid
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by the way, that's health insurance. So yes, there was
some dollars in dimes going to the illegals with that,
but that is not the area that the illegals are
getting the free health insurance. The area that they are
getting the free health insurance. And this is where they
keep lying to everybody, is that there are subsidies that
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are given out to hospitals. And remember this is the
other thing. Oh my god, all these hospitals are going
to close down, and it's gonna be the worst thing.
And they're shutting down, and oh my god, the Republicans
are taken away your health care and your hospitals, the
subsidies that we're going to these hospitals specifically to pay
for the illegals who have had just walked into the
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emergency room and required healthcare. That's what they're doing. They're
basically saying, we're not going to pay for these people
to get health insurance or health coverage. Go home, go
to where you're from. Stop living off of our dime.
And of course the Democrats have been completely wrong about that.
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And of course King Jeffries trying to get out there
and and do his stuff without Donald Trump and putting
a sombrero on him and playing the mariachi band in
the background. And actually, you know what, it seems wrong
to be even to be talking about Hakeem Jeffries without
the proper stuff. So hang on with a second year.
We got to do this. If we're going to talk
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about Hakim Jeffries, let's do it right there we go, Yeah, oh,
this is bad news that I'm back in the studio
anyhow So, Hakim Jeffries now kind of contradicting some of
his fellow Democrats too when he claims that the government
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shutdown is not over giving healthcare to the illegals. He's
been taken to every place that somebody would put him
on camera to talk about it, and Jeffries told ABC's
Good Morning America, the federal law prohibits the use of
Medicaid and Medicare and the Children's Health Insurance Program and
the Affordable Care Act to provide health insurance in any way,
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shape or form to undocumented immigrants, period, full stop. That's
the law, and Democraocrats aren't trying to change that now.
He's right, However, explain the one and a half plus
million illegal that we're on Medicaid and medicare. Explain that
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one period, full stop. That's the law. How is it
that they're able to get it? And just because you're
saying that they are not allowed to have the insurance
doesn't mean we're not still spending money on the healthcare
of the illegals, and that is what we're doing, and
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they don't see it, they don't understand it, and we're
spending a lot of money on them. Now I am
I am totally okay with with the Americans who maybe
need help, because look, there are times when when things
happen to American citizens. And I'm not talking about people
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that are under the protective status. I'm not talking about
the the the visa holders or anything. I'm talking about
the American citizens. Some of them they need help. And
when you have a horrible health situation or your employment
goes away, your income is reduced to the point where
you can't afford your healthcare. And believe me, I've been there.
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I've been there where that has happened. So I understand.
Then let's help out our fellow Americans in their time
of need. When you are somebody who has cancer and
you can't work and you can't work to get your insurance,
we should be helping them out. But helping out just
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as somebody who came across our border illegally breaking our laws.
Even if you only broke the one law of crossing
the border and coming in here, you're still here illegally.
Even if you have been a productive part of society
and all the other stuff, you're still here illegally. Just
because you broke into the front door of my house
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and you're now sitting on my couch doesn't mean that
I need to be feeding you dinner because you cleaned
up the floor. I don't need to be taken care
of you. You broke into my house, get out, knock
on the door, ask me if you can come in,
Ask me if you can come in, and if I
can make some dinner for you, and I'll make that
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decision of yes or no. That's not how it's working
with these illegals. And and again, the the Democrats in
full beltown mode over all of this, and they're trying
their hardest to say that the immigrants are not getting
the illegal immigrants or the undocumented immigrants. I'm sorry, you've
got to get that right. Are we still using what
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was that other word that they had for a while.
I can't keep up with their their phrases all the time.
The what was it?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
It was?
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Uh newcomers, remember that one? What a dumb phrase that was.
But the illegal aliens? You can't call people illegal, Yes,
we can and we're doing it. So get over it
with the fact that they are here. This is what
the what the the left wants. And think about the
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hundreds of billions of dollars that we have already spent
on illegals and what it's doing to the the leftist communities.
And that's the other thing. We in the that live
in the the blue areas, the blue run cities, sure
we have them. I mean, look, there was just some
bust the other day again of some illegals here in
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Bay County, Florida. And you know, Bay County, Florida and
the surrounding area. We are very very much so Republican,
sixty seventy percent Republican. But we yeah, we've had some
illegals here, but we don't have the crime, the issues,
and everything else that that some of the blue areas have.
And again, Donald Trump is just going in and cleaning
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up the blue areas. He's not going after the citizens,
the hardworking Americans whose taxpayer dollars are going to all
this stuff, The hard working American citizens whose hall are
being broken into, businesses are being ravaged, and their children
are being murdered and daughters and wives being raped. We're
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not seeing that in the red cities. We're only seeing
that in the blue cities. And Donald Trump is trying
to help that, and the left like is completely opposed
to it. They just, oh, man, it's so mean what
you're doing to the illegals. What do you mean is mean?
What we're doing to the illegals? What about the young
woman who'd been murdered? How is that not mean? How
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about grandma who's trying to go to the grocery store,
go play bingo or whatever it is that she's going
off to do, and she gets to living crap kicked
out of her in the subway by an illegal immigrant.
What about Dad who's on his way into the office
to work a hard day's work so that he can
come home and provide for his family, and some piece
of crap comes up and carjacks's car and runs away
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with it. Or better yeah, carjacks the car and shoots
kills dad. Where's the outrage about that? And they don't
get upset up about it, And instead the left, the
politicians are jumping on this whole health care thing because sure,
it can be scary if you don't have health insurance
and you need it, But it's also kind of a
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it's kind of a false argument because look, the reality
is that most of Americans are healthy and don't need
the regular health insurance and don't need to be going
to the doctor all the time. So it's still a
small portion of the population that they're kind of fearing with.
But let's talk about the real problems that are out there,
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and they're not doing it. However, now with this shutdown
that the Democrats are trying to say is over healthcare
and trying to make sure that health care for everybody.
We had to get health care for everybody. That's what
Maxine Waters said when she was approached by a reporter
who approached her about saying, Hey, you guys are taking
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care of the illegals. No, we're not, stop saying that
you're a horrible reporter. We just want healthcare for everybody. See,
it's all in the words that they pick. But now
the budgets with the shutdown, and I don't have enough
time to dive into this, but we're going to in
a little bit with Russ Vaughant now teaming up with
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Donald Trump to go in and do the stuff that
the Democrats completely did not think about. They completely did
not think about the fact that once Donald Trump is
in the shutdown mode, he has the power and the
authority to cut programs, spending and personnel. So for the
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very few people in the country that are being affected
by the the health insurancey illegals, now you're going to
have programs, departments, people, budgets eliminated. Was it worth it, dems,
Because now in a very short period of time, you're
going to realize how bad of an idea that was.
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Welcome back to the Brian Rush Show here on Florida
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so much for getting your day started. With US Gavin
Newsom out to remind us about the shutdowns. October one,
twenty twenty five, President Trump, shutdown December twenty second, twenty eighteen,
President Trump. January two. It's twenty eighteen, President Trump. Almost like,
there's a pattern here, and you know what there is?
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There is a pattern here. There is a pattern here
where the Democrats have voted thirteen different times for this
pretty much exact same continuing resolution, but now that Donald
Trump is in office again they vote against it. I
was for it before, I was against it, when I
was against it before I was for it, And then
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there was the left back, forward, up, down, left, right,
and she's a he. But yes, under Donald Trump, there
have been more shutdowns. But it's not because it's Donald
Trump that wanted the shutdown. Every single one of them
were because of the Democrats. The Democrats wanting things that
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were unreasonable and the Republicans actually doing what they should
be doing and pushing back and saying no, I don't
think so. But again, we have to be selective when
it comes to the facts. We don't want to we
don't want to look at all of the facts and
and and actually well be honest about them. Then, of
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course the left takes this information and they run with it.
But there is a pattern, and the pattern is the
Democrats thinking that everybody must bow down to them. Know
if ans or butts about it when they're in power,
sit down, Republicans. You guys lost, We're the ones in control.
When the Republicans win, the Democrats throw their fit. How
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good we can't have Well, you have to listen to us.
No we don't. That's the reason for why you lost
the election. We don't have to listen to you. But
they continually do that. It's just over and over and
over again. It's like, I really truly do want Chuck
Schumer to get primary Chuck you Schumer. He's got to go,
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absolutely positively has got to go. And the other thing too.
I I've asked this before when it comes to the Democrats,
is King Jeffries really the best you can do for
leadership in the House. I mean, when you look at
all the other people that are Democrats, is a King
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Jeffries really the best you can do? And when you
look at who the Democrats continually elevate up to a
position of power, it just you got to scratch your
head a little bit. And just be like, is there
not anybody better? I mean, I understand that right now
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we are getting into a time where politics have gotten
so nasty, so ugly, that a lot of people don't
want to go down that road. And I understand that
even though the patriotic side of you should really say, well,
it's worth the sack her vices to be able to
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save our country. But we've gotten to a point now
where there's so much nastiness in our in our politics,
and they're in everything is just so negative, then why
would anybody want to get in it? So I guess
that's the reason for why we are stuck with people
like he Keim Jeffries, like AOC, like to lead a rashive,
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and all these others that are just the worst people ever.
You're right, Chew, He's a DEI guy, And maybe that's
what it is. Maybe the reason for why he came
Jeffries is in that role was because of the DEI
and the fact that he is like the Timu version
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of Obama. Maybe they looked at it and said, look,
if we're going to replace the white woman, we should
replace her with a good looking, well spoken black guy,
very light skin black guy. But still you could say
he's black, and again there's plenty of black Democrats that
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actually could have gone in there and done a much
better job. As a matter of fact, last night's dinner
that I saw this morning could probably also do a
better job than Hakeem Jeffries. But the thing that's just
gotten out of control is the amount of lies in propaganda.
And again, this is I think another reason for why
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the Smith Munt Act needs to come back and why
Donald Trump hasn't brought that back yet. It blows my
mind because it would force the media to stop with
their propaganda and going right along with it. It'll force
the media for the next time that you have Hakeem
Jeffries that comes on and says that not a single
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dime or even Chuck shu it comes on and says
not a single dime of tax payer money has been
spent on illegals healthcare or insurance. That's when they should
be doing their job and saying, well, actually, you know what, senator,
you are absolutely right, but however, according to these numbers,
we've spent X number of billions of dollars on their healthcare,
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not their health insurance, their health care. So explain that one,
but they don't do it because the media is bought
right into the loony left as well. All right, we
got to take a break for our top of the hour.
We'll be right back just a minute. This is the
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All right, welcome back to out number two of the show.
It is a Red Friday, brought to you by our
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remember everyone deployed, including our ICE agents that are out
deployed around the country trying to make this country a
safer place. And can I just say what Riley Gaines
last night gave birth to a baby girl. First off,
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I had no idea that Riley Gaines was even pregnant.
But aside from that, she posted a photo with her,
her the hubby and their their brand new daughter. Can
I just say for somebody who just gave birth last night? Durnam,
I mean, I'm ladies, I know you might not want
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to hear this because I know that you know pregnancy.
It it does something to a woman's body and it
changes it all up. But Riley, that is it's not fair.
It's not fair too well one men, uh and two
women for you to look that good after giving birth.
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I'm just I'm I'm a little loss at words there.
If you haven't seen the photo yet, she looks pretty good.
And again I had no idea she was pregnant like
I've been seeing her do all these things now. Idea,
I guess that whole thing about working out and staying fit,
actually there might be something to that, who dow. But anyhow,
congratulations to Riley Gaines on the birth of her her
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brand new daughter. And and of course now she has
even more of a a reason to fight for women's
rights and for women in sports because now she's got
a daughter to fight for. Right there, sot her congratulations.
By the way, today is also a Puffy sentencing. Sean
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Puffy Comb's puff Daddy is expected to be sentenced later
on today. We'll see what he gets, see if it
will be a slick sentence or not. If you get that,
you get that, and if you do, you're sick and
perverted just like me, and I appreciate that. So we'll
wait for that news coming up later on today what
he ends up getting for a sentencing and the the
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trolling continues with Donald Trump. Obviously. The one big thing
that's out there right now are the memes with with
the Keem Jefferies and Chuck you Schumer, which is absolutely hilarious,
But the White House has decided to step it up
a little bit now. One of the controversies that has
come about is the the halftime show that is coming
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up for the Super Bowl with Bad Bunny. Bad Bunny
is going to be doing the Super Bowl show, which one,
he doesn't speak English. If he does, he doesn't sing
anything in English. Everything is Spanish. The number of Hispanics,
the percentage of Hispanics that actually watched the Super Bowl
versus everybody else extremely low. On top of that, Bad
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Bunny is a anti Donald Trump, anti Ice, and illegal
immigration enforcement person, so he's not exactly somebody that the
majority of the football watching audience is going to want
to tune in to see. The White House has decided
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to troll a little bit more. The White House announced
that there's going to be Ice agents that will be
present during the Super Bowl for the Bad Bunny performance,
which I think is absolutely hilarious. Bad Bunny even said
that he is not going to perform anywhere in the country,
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and the reason why he didn't want to perform anywhere
in the country is that he is afraid that his
fan base is gonna get locked up by Ice, so
he's not going to do it. And now the fact
that Ice is going to be there at the performance
is hilarious. Shoes right, he's a trainning. I are we
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allowed to use that word tranning?
Speaker 6 (48:17):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (48:17):
Is that politically correct? I don't even know what the
hell he is, to be honest with you, I think
he's just I don't think he's a transgender or tranny
like the the the gen xers we like to call it,
because that's what it was. Let's let's just be what
it was. It's a tranny. I can't believe you'd say
those where there's so offensive, good sit down and cry.
But he's just a typical Hollywood entertaining freak is a
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freak show. And I think a lot of it is
that that whole attention getting thing. I'm gonna show up
to an award show or to some ceremony, you know,
dressed in high heels and a skirt. It's like, wow,
that's that's greater whatever. But again, the fact that ice
agents are going to be present and at the super Bowl,
I think it's hilarious and there'll be many ways that
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they can get away with it too. If Donald Trump decides, hey,
I'm going to go to the super Bowl, then the
Secret Service is going to take over security of the
of the super Bowl. And when they do that. They
do like to bring in other agencies for very large
events to assist in the UH in the security details.
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And if you have a bunch of ICE agents that
have to be scattered all around the super Bowl in
places where the camera could be there and they've got
to have I'm getting too much joy out of that,
I really am. I'm like, in the back of my head,
I've got the wheels rolling saying that, seeing how how
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that's going to impact him and whether or not he'll
be Like if ICE agents were stationed at the the
the en stands for where he would have to come in,
if ICE agents were the ones that had to like
escort him around, that would be hilarious. It would absolutely
be hilarious. Uh to see happen. I can't wait. I
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might watch the Super Bowl, uh, just to see what
happens with that. So we'll see. So the with the
continuing resolution that is going down which has now shut
down the government. Uh, this is again one of the
things that that Chuck Chuck you Schumer has has not
calculated into. And I don't think Keem Jeffries did either
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the steps that now Donald Trump is able to do.
And of course we are. We are hearing over and
over again about how the Republicans are not stepping up
to the plate to negotiate, and and they just walked
away from everything. It's like, no, they'd been trying to
get this done for a while because remember despite the
fact that the the the House should have been working
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on the actual budget for the past month, they have
been working on the Continuing Resolution. So for the past
month they've been working on the Continuing Resolution, trying to
get the Democrats involved, and the Democrats come to the
table say we might have spend one point five trillion,
now there's more, and we want more healthcare for all
the illegals. They've had the opportunity to do this. As
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Speaker Johnson had said, there's nothing to negotiate. It's something
that this Continuing Resolution is something that had been passed
thirteen times by Democrats. And now Donald Trump, who he
says he didn't want the shutdown, but there's parts of
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me that go, I think in the back of his
head he was kind of hoping for it. Because what
ended up happening as soon as the shutdown goes in,
the President and his team now gets to stemp up
and go all right, figure out what is essential, what's
not essential, who to lay off, what to close, what
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not to close. Let's go and now the President of
the United States and his team gets to unilaterally make
that decision. And at this point in time, and as
Donald Trump even said it, he's like, look, will close
programs and commissions and and you know, get rid of
certain people. And we're just going to do it. And
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he posted on his true social that he would be
meeting with is it vauked or vaunt vaut I? Hear
his name pronounced like fifteen different ways. So Russ. He's
going to be a meeting with Russ, the Budget Director,
and they're going to be determining which of the as
Donald Trump put to determine which of the many Democrat agencies,
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most of which are a political scam, he recommends to
be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be
temporary or permanent. And remember that's the catch right there,
that now Donald Trump can make some permanent cuts that
in order for them to be restored, they're going to
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have to go back to Congress. Then they're going to
have to pass a bill to restore those things. And
without the Republican's assistance, not going to happen. But Donald
Trump went on to say that I can't believe the
radical left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They're not
stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting
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to quietly and quickly make America great again. President DJ tamsprise.
He didn't end that with thank you for your attention
to this matter. But you know what, he's got a point.
I mean, first off, he now has this unprecedented opportunity
to do these cuts that could be permanent, shutting down
program sutting down commissions, getting rid of employees, and trimming
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the fat in our federal government. And he can't believe
that they gave him that opportunity. And to be honest
with you, I don't think most of them knew they did.
And I think that in the coming days, as Donald
Trump starts going and cut this and cut that and
cut this, that's when the radical left, the aocs will
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be like, oh my god, what's going on? Why is
Donald Trump doing this? He shaidn't be able to. You mean,
he can do it because we voted this shut down
the government. Oh my god, like my office door was open,
and why didn't these Republicans come negotiate with me. But
maybe there is some truth to what Donald Trump said
at the end of his statement that maybe this is
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their way of wanting to quietly and quickly make America
great again, because again, not all the Democrats are stupid,
but they also know that if they go down certain roads,
then it could affect them when it comes to reelections
and winning back the House. So if we come out
and say we shut down the government or that we
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voted to shut down everything, but it's all because of
Donald Trump, and it's his fault to Donald Trump bad.
But in the background, they can sit there and go, whoo,
it's not gonna be me getting the blame for shutting
down that program that never should have existed to begin with,
and said that program's gone like it needed to be,
and Donald Trump gets the blame for it or credit,
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however side you want to look at it. So there
may actually be some truth to that. But again, now
Donald Trump has got the free will to go crazy.
And of course that post that that Trump had made
on truth Social comes as him and Russ are continuing
to implement broad reductions in the federal bureaucracy, which is
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what we've wanted. We want that bureaucracy to be cut.
And remember, if somebody is a non essential government employee,
then that means they were not needed to begin with.
Now how they define the non essential is going to
be interesting, of course, they're going to be like, see,
we have janitors that are being let go. Now a
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janitor should be essential. A janitor that is cleaning up
the Capitol building and cleaning up the parks, and that's essential.
Got to have somebody to.
Speaker 1 (56:17):
Clean this up.
Speaker 3 (56:18):
So an essential employee Now, the assistant of the assistant,
of the assistant, and the intern of the intern of
the assistant. Those are things that are non essential. There
are departments in programs that are out there that are
non essential, that are not needed in this country. So
it should go. But russ He revealed earlier this week
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the cancelation of nearly eight billion dollars in the federal
green energy products, which targeted blue and blue leaning states
like California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, and a whole host
of others, didn't go to any of the red states,
all to the blue states, and the administration also confirmed
that eighteen billion dollars in infrastrutructure projects in New York City,
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including the Hudson Tunnel project and the second Second Avenue Subway,
would be placed on hold pending review of contracting practices. Now, remember,
if there's anybody that understands how to do that, it's
Donald Trump. You remember the man who said, hey, look
looking outside of my window. Here there's that skating rink.
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You guys, can you finish?
Speaker 1 (57:26):
All right?
Speaker 3 (57:27):
Tell you what, I'm gonna finish it. I'm gonna finish
it on time. I'm gonna finish it under budget. The
thing that the city has been able to do city
was like, all right, sure, Donald Trump turns around and boom,
done under budget and ahead of schedule. So that if
there's anybody that knows how to do that, it's the contractor.
And we have seen so many of these quote unquote
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infrastructure projects where they have not done well. Look at
the billions of dollars that have been spent for a
mile of the high speed rail in California, something they've
been working on for how long now, I mean, I
don't even remember when they started that project. You also
have the solar farm, the big solar farm that has
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been going down for what about ten years, and they
just shut it down because they went, huh, look at that.
It didn't work. It wasn't producing anywhere near the energy
that we thought it was going to, and it was
costing us billions of dollars. Sorry, we failed shut it down.
When it comes to doing infrastructure in this country, By
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the way, this is something that just it annoys me,
and I know it annoys a lot of you too,
especially those that live here in Florida. Because I don't
know who's in charge of infrastructure projects here in the
state of Florida. I'm beginning to think that it might
be a Democrat, I really am, because they can't get
anything done. How long did it take for the in
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the Central Panhandle area here to do roads like Highway
seventy seven. It had to have taken twenty year years
easily to do that project. And I don't even think
it's completely done yet. I think they stopped at a
certain point. How long does it take to get these
projects done? So, yeah, we need to work on infrastructure.
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We need to do the contracting practices a little bit better.
We need to make sure that we're not spending absorbent
amounts of money and things aren't getting done on time.
So sure, the Hudson Tunnel project, in the Second Avenue subway,
and all these other infrastructure projects, they need to be
put on hold and reviewed. We need to start doing
this in a smart, effective financial way. That's not going
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to be a problem. But Russ also played a pretty cool,
pretty central role too in shaping the federal operations. In August,
when it came to a whole bunch of other projects,
Marco Rubio, by the way, pointed him to oversee the
close out of the US Agency for International Development, the USAID,
following Congress's approval of the nine billion dollars recession package
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that eliminated funding for the USAID and PBS and everybody else.
The trimming is happening, and the trimming right now is
gonna be even more mouth watering than watching Dad stand
there in front of the Thanksgiving turkey and carving into
that and that first knife slice goes into that and
you see that juiceese stares come off of that thing
(01:00:23):
and your mouth starts to water. Oh, this is gonna
be good. I'm gonna enjoy every second of this, and
I'm also gonna enjoy the meltdowns from the left. Donald
Chump is a bad guy, and he's taking away all
of our infrastructure projects, and he's shutting down the healthcare
and oh this is the worst. Now, Actually, what this is,
this is what we wanted. It's a Red Friday, brought
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Was nice to also finally be back in the in
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the studio, back in the Nagodov studio, which which we
have completely missed the studio. Hang on a second guests
coming up this morning on the show. By the way,
we do have at the top of the hour, h
Linda Cope from the Warrior Beach Retreat is gonna be on.
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We're gonna chat with her about the upcoming event that's
going on. Also, we have the the Doster Boys that
will be joining us coming up later on this morning
as well in the next hour of the show, where
we'll talk about a whole bunch of Florida things and
and get some of their thoughts and opinions on the
shutdown as well. So what else we got to talk about.
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I'm sorry, I'm just I'm a little giddy today for
some reason. Oh, Donald Trump's unhinged. Donald Trump's absolute unhinged.
You don't you don't understand how bad it is. And
and we've got to go to Madeleine Dean. I know who.
Madeleine Dean is a Democrat congresswoman from from Pennsylvania, which
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if you're a Democrat right now in Pennsylvania, you are
probably not thinking that you have a great future in
politics because Pennsylvania, the amount of people that are switching
over to the Republican Party and what Scott Presler, by
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the way, I got a total hats off to him.
What Scott Presler is doing in the state of Pennsylvania
with getting the registration push out and getting out there
and getting people to switch over to the Republican Party
has been amazing. And the thing that I love about
it with Scott is he is pretty much the opposite
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of what the left would like when it comes to
an operative on the Republican side. First off, he's gay.
That right there that throws the Democrats off. They're like,
oh my god, why is there a gay guy helping Theublicans.
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Doesn't he understand the Republicans don't like him. No, we
have no problem with it. And on top of that,
he is young and he's got the long hair thing going,
not like you know, pretty boy here, but just like
rock band kind of long hair. But the kid has
done an amazing job at getting that message out. And
this is one of these things where I look at
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it and I say, hey, RNC, will you will you
take a look at these young people that are helping
out the Republican Party. What are you doing to help them?
What are you doing to understand what's going on here? Well, ye, see,
the book says that we have to on this point
in the time, we have to turn to page number
fifty three, and we have these procedures we have to follow. No,
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you don't think outside the box, and that's exactly what's
going on. So again, oh Squirrel, props to him, to
Scott Presler for the amazing work that he's doing. He
really is, and they're attacking him. They are attacking him
like you wouldn't Belie leave from the Left, which I
find hilarious because I didn't think you were supposed to
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attack young gay people like that. But I guess if
you're a Republican it doesn't really matter. But back to
Madeline Dean. Madeline was on Anderson Cooper three point sixty
And again I know you're saying who, because nobody really
cares about Madeline Dean, But this is again an example
of the left. They were having a discussion about with
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Speaker Johnson, and Dean had said that I have told
him how deeply concerned I am that the president is
unhinged and unwell and our allies are noticing it, and
they're looking elsewhere for support, and our enemies are enjoying
it and they're embolded by it. What where, where? Where?
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Where is this? Madeline? Is is this a movie that
you're watching, You're reading a book somewhere, or are you
living in an alternate universe? Where where exactly is that?
Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
Again?
Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
Is it in your own fantasy world? Is this one
of the Democrat fantasy stories that they're sharing on Reddit
or something? Is that where you get this information from?
But John Berman, who was filling in for Anderson Cooper,
had said, you just called the president unwell again, what
do you mean by that? And I love this because
her response was, well, he's aging, aren't we all? Yeah,
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we're all aging, some age differently than others. But she
goes on to say that I think we can very
much so notice that there's a different man than he
was in his first term. Yeah, he's four years older,
of course, he's a different man. He's also a different
man because he was somebody that was abused and took
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so much crap that he changed as a man. He
changed as a because of the lessons that he had learned.
So yes, he's a very much so different man this
time around. And it would not have been so bad,
by the way, if Donald Trump was reelected. I don't
think that Donald Trump would be doing the stuff that
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he is doing today if Donald Trump got reelected in
twenty twenty, I really don't. I think the absolute best
thing that happened to this country, And I know this
sounds hard to say, but I'm just saying anyhow, the
best thing that happened in this country was Donald Trump
lost the election in twenty twenty, hands down one of
the best things to happen, because one had gotten to
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expose the Democrats for who they really truly are. We
saw four years of absolute chaos, and yes, those four
years sucked for us, but it also made us realize,
and it made Donald Trump realize how good we actually
had it under Trump and what the Democrats are really
truly doing, and what the deep state and the bureaucracy
and all this other stuff the problem that they are.
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So Donald Trump woke up to it more. He had
a new mission. We woke up to it because of
the suffering that we had to do, and even Democrats
woke up to the suffering as well. So when Donald
Trump came around, it all changed. All right, we got
to take a quick break. We'll be right back. This
is the Brian Rush Show.
Speaker 7 (01:08:20):
Good morning, making liberals cry, one happy show at a time.
Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
This is the Brian Rust Show. All right, welcome back
to the show. Thank you so much for waking up
with us today. We went late on that break. My bad,
That's okay, it's all good. By the way, talking about Pennsylvania,
there's so much about Pennsylvania too that that is that's
got to be freaking out the Democrats. It really does,
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because the effort that is being put in and by
the way, not by the Republican Party, but by people
who want to make America better and starting off with
Pennsylvania because that is his home state. When we're talking
about Scott Presler and all the things that he's done,
it's amazing and it should be an example of what
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other states need to be doing and what other people
need to be doing. We need to be taking the
reins because look, I don't trust the Republican Party, the
National Committee, the RNC to do what is necessary to
do to win. I really don't. We have to get
out there and we have got to do more to
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spread the message and get that out. That's what we
need to do. And seeing him doing that, that is awesome.
And I know that we also have a lot of
people that listen to this show, watch this show, download
the podcast. In Pennsylvania. It's one of our top states
that we have often that is watching the show. And
we are still trying to figure out a good time
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to go up and do a visit to Pennsylvania, do
a weekend visit. I'm not sure when we're going to
do it, working on it. I mean, I just with
the week that I just had, I just spend a
lot of money on on on time away, which by
the way, I did not go to Disney at all. Well,
I can't say I didn't go to Disney. I did
go to Disney Springs, but I almost don't count that.
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But I didn't do the Disney thing, even though the
last day that I was in Orlando was when the
when the food, wine and food thing started at Epcot.
Has anybody ever been to that. I've been dying to
go to that, but fat boy Happy, I realized it
would probably have been a bad idea because immediately following
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my vacation, I had to go to the Mayo Clinic,
and if I spent all that day eating at the
wine and food festival, I probably would have weighed about
three hundred pounds when I got to the Mayo Clinic
on Tuesday. So I ruled that out, but instead I
did end up I didn't actually play any golf golf.
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I went and played. It's not top golf, but it's
the other subsidiary of theirs that they've got, and that
sucked that I was not feeling good and I probably
shouldn't have done it anyway because I wasn't feeling good
and my body was sore. So I was like, you
know what, I got nothing else to do, Let's go
ahead and just let's go play. And I played and
(01:11:27):
kind of regretted it. I really did. Ended up playing
one of the virtual golf courses and played the worst
game that I've ever played since I have been playing golf.
I mean, it was, it was bad. So now I
think what I need to do is get a new
golf coach. Ever since I got my new golf clubs,
(01:11:47):
forget about it. It's like maybe I just need to
revert back to my old clubs, bring the old game
back or something. I don't know either way, coming off
the top of the hour, we do have the crew
Linda the Cope, and I'm sure that the rest of
the gang will also join us on the phone as
well from Warrior Beach Retreat. If you don't know what
the Warrior Beach Retreat is, we'll get into the details
(01:12:10):
of a bit a quickie on this. It's basically a
retreat for some of our wounded warriors and their caregivers
that we do here in Panama City Beach. It's been
going on now for the bottom Golf There's so many
things I'm gonna I'm gonna let that one go. But
it's an event that we've been doing here and on
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Panama City Beach now for fourteen to fifteen years. It's
a great event for our wounded warriors that we have
out there. It's a local thing, it's not affiliated with
any of the big guys, so it's an amazing experience.
So we will be talking about that coming up at
the top of the hour of the meantime, we are
in date number three of the shutdown, and whether or
(01:12:52):
not we will see any relief on this, I don't know.
I'm willing to bet not. I'm willing to bet that
we probably won't see a recovery from the shutdown until
probably sometime next week. I think that's probably what we're
gonna see. But as we also see, you know, the
the Democrats coming out and calling out Donald Trump with
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him being unhinged and everything else. Bernie Sanders now jumping
into this too, and he was on MSNBC's All in
Over last night, and when he was talking with Chris Hayes,
Chris said, you know, you've been You've been in You've
served in Congress, in the Senate, You've served through a
number of different administrations with different presidents. I've covered a
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number of shutdowns. I've never seen a president during a
shutdown kind of gloating about the ability to punish people
or take stuff away from the people in the states
that didn't vote for him. Have you seen that before?
And of course, what he's referring to is the fact
that Donald Trump now looking at things and saying, look,
now we can do some cuts that need to be
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done because we can't get it through Congress. Now, this
is not a and I love how they're framing this that, oh,
he's going to punish the people who didn't vote for him. Now,
the punishment, by the way, is when those of us
in red states, our tax dollars have to go to
something that is not effective in blue states. That's that's
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a problem. We got an issue with that. But of
course Bernie Sanders comes back and he's like, oh, of
course I have you know, Chris, we're living in an
unprecedented dangerous moment, possibly the worst crisis in America since
a Civil war. Holy hell, are you? It's the worst
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crisis in America since the Civil War, according to Bernie Sanders,
because of the fact that our government shut down because
the Republicans didn't want to spend an additional one point
five trillion dollars that we cannot afford, and also didn't
want to give money and healthcare expenses to illegals. So
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because of that, according to Bernie Sanders, we are now
in the most unprecedentedly dangerous moment, possibly the worst crisis
in America since the Civil War. I would say this
little thing that happened back in the early nineteen hundred there.
What does that thing called the Great something? Oh yeah,
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great Depression. I think that might have been worse, even
though the name had great in it. I think that
was a little bit worse, maybe more than just a
little bit, but definitely worse than the unprecedentally dangerous moment
that we are in right now here in America that
we are living in. But he went on to say
(01:15:48):
that you have a president who's acting unconstitutionally and illegally.
Guess what. These projects have been appropriated, They have been
signed by a president. It is legal to rescind them,
illegal to rescind them. And then basically to say, people
in Vermont, in New York and California, oh, you didn't
vote for Donald Trump, Well, we're going to take away
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funding that was supposed to go to your state. Illegal, outrageous, unconstitutional.
And then he continues on saying that you got a
president who's acting in an unprecedented way, who is a
megalomaniac who wants more and more power for himself and
his oligarchy friends. I want everybody to understand that, and
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you also to understand that if we can bankrupt this country.
There will be breadlines and soup lines for everybody. Nobody
will go hungry. It'll be amazing. I have been to
Soviet Russia where they had breadlines and it was delicious.
The bread was made every day and the soup was yummy. Bernie,
sit down and shut up. I mean seriously, because the
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things that Donald Trump is going after, like the eight
billion dollars in green energy projects, green energy projects that
don't work. Let's look at the Gigantic project right now
where it was it in California, the big solar plant
that had that was out there. We've seen it in
movies too. It's the one of the the big towers
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that are all up over the place. What was the
movie we've seen that in. I think it was in
one of the James Bond movies too. But there's there's
like these these towers that are up and it's surrounded
by solar panels and reflective things all over the ground,
and it was supposed to be a solar thing to
generate electricity. Well after billions of dollars that have been
dumped into this thing, it's not producing anything and it's
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not working, and they just shut it down after a
decade of that. This is the type of stuff that
is part of that eight billion dollar green energy initiatives
that they shut down. They're not going after just the
regular people and things that affect everybody's everyday lives and
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in these states, No, they're going after the things that
do not work in that are of fantasy, that are
spending billions of dollars of the American tax payer money. Now,
if we were able to Bernie, and I know you
don't understand this because it's complicated and its money, but
if we were able to not spend money on things
that are not effective, like solar farms out in the
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middle of the desert that doesn't do anything, then that
means that we the people would be charged less in
taxes because you wouldn't need to spend so much. And
then if you were charging less in taxes, then that
means we the people of Vermont and New York in
California would have more money in their pockets to be
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able to do the things that Oh ready for this one,
hang on, this is gonna hurt they want to do.
And I love it when you see things like the
politicians in places like Massachusetts where they get out there
and they keep spreading this, and I honestly don't know
where the poll was done. And I have seen this
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several times. And I can tell you as somebody who
is number one from Massachusetts and two I have lived in. God,
how many states have I lived in? Now Here nine,
ten or eleven different states that I have lived in
in my adult life. And I can tell you right
now that as much as I love Massachusetts, beautiful state
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really is at more than half the people suck there.
But when I live in other states where I am
not taxed to death like in Massachusetts, things are better.
Like I lived in Alabama, I lived in Mississippi and
things were okay. I moved to Florida didn't have to
pay any state income tax.
Speaker 6 (01:19:48):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (01:19:49):
Look at that. That's a lot more money in my pocket.
That's money that I can decide what I want to
do with it. That's fantastic. In Massachusetts, not only do
they have the income tax, but they we have the
tax on the income tax, the tax on taxing the
income tax, and then there's the tax of filing the tax,
and the tax for the paper that was filed on
the taxes. And then there was a tax for taxing
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the taxes, and then there's a tax just because of
the fact that we taxed you. They call it Taxachusetts
for a reason. And when you start taking more and
more of the people's money away and not giving them
anything in return, I mean, come on, I don't want
bread and soup. I want to make the decisions for myself.
If I want to go get a steak, I want
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to go get a steak. If I want to go
have you know, a nice bowl of soup, I'll go
have a bowl of soup. I don't want the government
forcing me into that position. And that's exactly what the
Democrats will end up doing. We're spending more and more
of our money we cannot afford, in addition to one
point five trillion dollars. As a matter of fact, we
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should be cutting one point five trillion dollars out of
our budget so that we can start paying some of
our debt. But the Democrats don't get it, and neither
does Bernie. But you have to understand. The bread, it's delicious,
it was made last night, doesn't have a lot of
ingredients in it because we can't afford it. But you
get it for free, and we have to stop the oligarchies.
(01:21:16):
To stop the oligarchies. Uh. Speaking of which, by the way,
can anybody point them out in the Republican Party right now?
Can anybody point out the Donald Trump Republican oligarchies who
are becoming wealthier right now? Anybody do it? Because yes,
we do have people like Scott Bessett, who's running the Treasury,
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very wealthy man. We have several other very wealthy individuals
that are in Donald Trump's cabinet, all of which have
left their multimillion dollar jobs for a job that pays
a couple hundred thousand dollars a year and you have
to be attacked in public and it's stressful and the
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whole nine yards, and they're the problem. Isn't it kind
of odd? How as Donald Trump and his administration dig
into all of the waste and fraud and abuse that happened,
and we shut down programs like the USAID that was
spending hundreds of billions of dollars on things, and all
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of a sudden, there are Democrats that are that are
complaining that they're losing their money, and Democrats that are
not becoming as wealthy as they once were.
Speaker 6 (01:22:33):
I want to.
Speaker 3 (01:22:34):
And it's also kind of amazing too that with all
of these programs that are going on where there are
people that are being paid enormous amounts of money through
projects like the USAID, and about seventy something percent of
the wealth in America is belonging to the Democrats. So
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if you want to start talking about the oligarchies, let's
talk about the Democrat all archies who have benefited from
all of these programs that have spent billions and billions
of dollars. Let's think about all of the Democrats that
got very wealthy during COVID. So Bernie, save it with
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the oligarchy thing. By the way, another person who mysteriously
became very wealthy at one hundred and seventy four thousand
dollars a year, Well, you have to understand, I wrote
a book, and I wrote a book and bought multiple
houses and cars. It's my money, leave it alone. Okay,
(01:23:38):
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know why these people cannot learn their lesson. I really can't.
Harvard University. Now, let's put some of this into context.
You think about Harvard University, what do you think about
You think about the elite, You think about the Fortune
five hundred companies with the CEOs of those companies. You
think about the top notch lawyers. You think about all
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of the elite of our educated. Right, Harvard University now
has has hired a drag queen named Lahorevajistan, who is,
by the way, a visiting professor. So it's not like
they just went down the street and they saw a
show and they said, hey, you want to come do
a class. No, this is somebody who's actually a professor
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at another university who's going to teach a course coming
up in this this spring semester, and they're going to
be teaching a course on the TV show RuPaul's Drag Race.
My only question is this, how the hell does that
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apply to anything that a Harvard graduate would be moving
on to doing. Now let me let me let me
put it in this Okay, So, hey, welcome in for
the interview. I have a seat. Okay, So Harvard grad. Awesome,
that's great. Let's see what are your business management's Oh
(01:26:07):
you took the Ruphaul Drag Show course. Oh you're going
to be you know what? Hey, excuse me a second,
cancel all the rest of the interviews. We found our
winner over here. No, no, no, you don't understand this
one took the Rupehaul Drag Show course. We got a winner.
Oh my god, this is amazing. When can you start?
Speaker 8 (01:26:30):
That is.
Speaker 3 (01:26:32):
Just as bad as these colleges which I believe Harvard's
also doing this one a course on Taylor Swift. The
Ivy League schools have turned into the poison type. You're right,
they have. It's the poison Ivy League schools. Now, I
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can understand doing a class on the drag thing, on
the transgender thing, where you look into it and you know,
actually study that type of stuff. I totally get that,
because this way you could you could actually do a
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course where you try to analyze the life of somebody
who has gone transgender, look into the medical aspect of it,
and there's so much that you could actually do. I
mean seriously, on a serious note, there's a lot that
you could actually do if you were to teach a
class on the transgender lifestyle. If you did it right.
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When you when you go down and you analyze the
mental health, you analyze what people are doing and how
they're doing things to their body, what's affecting them, that
would make sense. But to teach a course on Rule
Paul's Drag Race, which is a TV show, it's a
reality ish to TV show, and Harvard is going to
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have a visiting professor come in and do that. By
the way, the visiting professor is one from Tufts University,
where he taught theater, dance, and performance studies. And we'll
also be teaching a Studies of Gender and Sexuality program
thanks to the Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus. By the way,
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there is a difference, and I'm gonna point this out,
there's a difference between a drag queen and transgender. A
drag queen is a regular dude who goes off and
gets dressed up like a woman. A transgender is somebody
that will transform their body to be the other way around.
This person is not a drag queen because he's got
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a he's got a set of barrels on him that
are impressive. That is not something typically of a drag
And with that we'll be right back. Good morning.
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All right, welcome back to out number three of the show.
Good morning, and thanks so much for waking up with
us here on the Florida Man Radio Network and of
course also streaming line on Rumble and Wimkin and uh
want to welcome for the first time on the show
since we've been on Florida Man Radio. Been a longtime
guest of the show. But the Kope Clan, that's what
I'm going to call you guys because it's easier because
(01:31:03):
I know that there's multiple yew here. But you guys,
Linda and Philip and the rest of the game. You
guys are in charge of the Warrior Beach Retreat. You
founded that here in Panama City. And for those that
are listening on the network that I've never heard of
this because obviously you've been in an element of Panama
City for a long time. But we now have the
audience out in for Walton Beach and then the audience
(01:31:26):
out towards our east throughout Florida. Tell us what exactly
is the Warrior Beach Retreat.
Speaker 8 (01:31:34):
Hello everyone, and Brian, thank you so much for having
me and my husband, John's still in bed on the show.
We appreciate it. We started this about sixteen years ago
after our son, Army Sergeant Joshua Cope lost both legs
above the knee and wounded his hands buying Ied Blast
and Baghdad, Iraq, and we saw how war affects the family.
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You know, it's not just a veteran, but especially the caregiver.
So we began doing retreats twice a year for a
week for combat wounded warriors and their spouses or caregivers.
Sometimes we'll have a parent come with the veterans and
they come from all across the country and it's just
the time to reconnect, get away from in laws, outlaws, kids,
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doctor's appointments, and just to heal. And we have now
we have eight couples that come from all across the
country and they literally heal each other because they could
talk and communicate with what they're going through because war
is hell as a mom with a son severely wounded,
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and the ramifications are for a NiFe time. And we
also do smaller retreats twice a year. You come on
a big retreat once than a smaller retreat once to
continue to strengthen your marriage. And we're not affiliated, as
you know, Brian, with Wounded Warrior Project, not at all affiliated.
We are a local five O one C three charity
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right here in Bay County.
Speaker 3 (01:33:01):
Yeah. Yeah, And has it really been sixteen years? Because
I was I was talking about it earlier. I thought
it was like fourteen fifteen years, But man, it just
time flies.
Speaker 8 (01:33:11):
Yeah, time flies. And you've been part of it, Brian,
I think since from the.
Speaker 3 (01:33:16):
Gig go and you've been there with I think like
year two is I think the first time that I
got involved in that one.
Speaker 9 (01:33:22):
But yeah, and it yeah, broyh.
Speaker 8 (01:33:25):
Yeah, you can cry, Brian's.
Speaker 3 (01:33:28):
I'm not a cry baby. I could just be sensitive
at the appropriate times. And you know, when when you
see the stuff that you guys do with the Worry
Beach Retreat. This is one of these things that for
most people, they don't understand what really goes on because
what most people will see is the ceremony and the
(01:33:49):
big parade that is open to the public, and this
year it's going to be on November sixth, so mark
that down to your calendar. We'll get more into that
here in a second. But what people don't realize is
what goes on behind the closed doors. And like you said,
you're you're all about strengthening the marriages and giving it
an outlet to to get away from the normal life
and to help out and everything, and what people don't
(01:34:10):
see on the background is the absolute emotional aspect of it.
And again for those of us that literally we're not warriors,
we're not and there's a lot of people that have
been involved in this that don't have children that are
in the military. Unlike you. We also don't have people
who have been injured in combat. So we're just there
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to help out and to see what these people go
through on the really a spiritual healing and the experience
that they get. You can't help, but at least once
or twice when you're there, tear up and if not,
have to excuse yourself. It's happened to everybody that's been involved.
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I mean it really truly has.
Speaker 8 (01:34:56):
We put prayer and fasting honestly in these events that
we host, and we pray for God to send each
couple that's supposed to be here. And it's so neat
to see the dynamic when they come together. How wow,
because they connect her, they've known each other, even they
served in war together, because they don't know who's coming
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until they get here. But there's so many unseen wounds
of war that none of us can even comprehend that
have never been there. And you know, my dad was
in the military, have family that was in the military,
but until our son Josh was there, and you know,
we're I was with him at Walter Reed and oh
my gosh, so many you know stories of like a
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woman coming in and taking off her wedding band, laying
it down, saying I did not sign up for this,
and walking out the door with her husband laying there,
you know, because we were on the amputee floor at
Walter Reed and it just just broke my heart. And
people don't see from the outside what goes on in
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the inside. And with his families deal with It's just
and it's a lifetime. You know, our son mentioned well,
his wife mentioned us about a month ago. You know,
he lost his legs. What about seventeen years ago they
got blown up, And it's a miracle he's alive because
he lost too much blood. But my brother, who was
a flight surgeon in the Air Force to actually called
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ballade to give us. I knew his legs were gone
before his wife and she was in lonstool. He said, Linda,
the only reason Joshua is alive is because you fasted
and prayed for him as a mom, because he just
lost too much blood. He said, he lost too much blood.
So I just encourage every mother out there to always
pray for your kids, even if they're not in combat,
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because it's not the same world we were raised in.
But it just, you know, it's just I'm just grateful
God gave us this vision to help thousands that have
come through here over the years to have hope and
healing to carry on and they can relate to each other.
You know, when you've been there and you've been in
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the battlefield of fox All or whatever with other veterans
and you come together.
Speaker 6 (01:37:11):
You get it.
Speaker 9 (01:37:11):
Yeah, you know, you get it.
Speaker 3 (01:37:13):
And yeah, and the interesting thing too about this event,
And I know that you pointed out that some of
them have served together, but there's a lot that just don't.
And there's a thing with military and milituitary people know this,
that there's a camaraderie with one another, and the camaraderie
that you see that gets developed there because we're not
talking about people that just went through battle together. We're
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not talking about people who've gone through the wife leaving
them for whatever reason. We're talking about people who have
been emotionally hurt, physically hurt. It's a whole different level.
And to see the camaraderie build up. And you know,
I've been part of you guys for at least fourteen
fifteen years now, and there are people from the very
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first one that I that I have done that I
still communicate with on a regular basis. And and I'm
not even a warrior. I was just there helping out,
hanging out with these people and chatting with them, and
I developed a relationship with some of them. And I've
seen the relationships that they have built amongst themselves and
and what it does, it really truly is amazing. And
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to hear their stories and to see them bond with
each other. And again, most of what happens with the
Warrior Beach Retreat all happens behind closed doors, completely closed
to the public, because it's not about the public. It
is about these these warriors and you guys do some
amazing things of just it's really a mental therapy or
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a spiritual therapy for them, and it's it's just great
to see and and of course the big thing that
the public does get to see, uh, and that is
the parade, and that itself, that is that's an emotional
bag right there to say that, And the parade is
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coming up on November sixth, and again, Warriorbeach Retreat dot
org is the website where you can go for information
about everything as well as contribute because donations are always
needed to make this happen because it's expensive to do.
But tell everybody about the parade and the experience that
these guys get.
Speaker 8 (01:39:19):
Well, most of them went straight from the battlefield to
the hospital to home and never got a hero's welcome.
And then also in the very front of the parade,
we have veterans that served before nine to eleven.
Speaker 9 (01:39:30):
We try to get.
Speaker 8 (01:39:30):
About five Vietnam.
Speaker 3 (01:39:32):
We even have.
Speaker 8 (01:39:33):
World War Two vets that ride sometime, as everybody knows
how specially the Vietnam vets were treated. But they're in
the front of the parade, and thankfully our Sheriff's going
to have his helicopter flying over the parade this year.
We have tremendous support from the police escorting them. But
they have a car with a magnet with a flag
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on it with their name, and they ride down the
streets from the church, from the hotel well to the
church and healing. They're in their own cars, and healing
comes to them by seeing all these people on the
side of the road thanking them. They shout out their
name because their names on their magnents, and they have
their flags, they have their sides, all generations of people
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out there honoring these men and women that have served,
and that in itself is life changing for them. And
that's why they're in their own car. They have a
box of cleanic and they go, why am I getting
this box of cleanic?
Speaker 10 (01:40:34):
You don't find out, But I.
Speaker 8 (01:40:35):
Just cannot thank the beautiful community for getting out there
and lining the streets because they have no idea the
impact this makes. And I think it brings healing to
them too, because we've seen people out there holding pictures
of their child that was lost, that was killed in
the war, and it's like the parade is also for
their child, and they're holding a poster with their child's picture.
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And then we all lose it too when that happens.
And then the military behind the dive school is lining
the fence and also Coastguard in uniforms saluting these men
and women, which you know, I thank god when this
happened to our son. We were in Bay County because
this is such a patriotic community. But the parade route
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is on our website Warriorbeach Retreat dot org. And if
they want a flag, the halfway bridge is if they
go to the Hathway Bridge, they're giving out full size
American flags for them to hold. And that looks so
cool with the breeze blowing and all. But I just
encourage everyone to please go to the website Warriorbeach Retreat
dot org for the parade route and line the streets.
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And we are leaving at four o'clock from Peer Park
and we're going to the church's first Baptist Church in
Lynn Haven and the ceremony is at seven pm and
it's free and open to the public, and we have
two time Alabama Senator Hank Irwin is our speaker.
Speaker 3 (01:42:01):
Awesome, awesome, and of course you've in the past have
have had a lot of amazing speakers, including you know
the last one that you had, you know, Alan West,
who's who's now kind of just in love with this
this program and one of the things I also want
to talk about too when it comes to this parade,
because it's it's the emotion thing that that again people
(01:42:22):
don't understand. It's like you you're you're doing a very
patriotic thing when you go out by you know, spending
literally a couple of minutes because you guys are because
of the ad that this is escorted by the police and
they shut down roads for it. So I mean, it
is it is pretty on time. If you if you
look up your area and it says that they're going
to be coming through here at five fifteen. It may
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be five sixteen, it may be five fourteen, but it's
right then when they're going to be there, So you
don't want to be there and people will get out
there and they'll wave their flags, they'll they'll have their signs,
they'll just stand out there and shake their hands and
wave at them and stuff like that. What people don't
understand is at the end of that parade, when these
men and women are getting out of their car, the
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emotional overload of what hit them. I mean is it's powerful.
I mean, I've been there for so many of them
and to see these people come out of they're almost
zombified when they get out, Like holy cow. I mean,
that's just how patriotic this area is to subtly so
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that is fantastic and people really should get out there.
If you are in the Bay County area on Panama
City Beach, Panama City, Lynhaven, as the parade goes through,
just get out there and do it, because you just
you don't understand the impact of just that small few
minutes of your life of holding a flag and waving
to them and what it does.
Speaker 8 (01:43:46):
It's huge. And if you have a motorcycle and you
would like to ride in the parade, we love having
the people with their bikes, and a lot of the
bikers are veterans. Show up at three point thirty at
the JC Penny parking lot at Pier Park and they'll
they'll tell you where to ride in the parade and
it's it's powerful. But again and then we have so
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many people that support us, like the venues in restaurants
throughout Bay County and we you know, I don't want
to list them because I'll miss them, but that's what
makes these you know, possible. But and then line the
streets of the parade route with signs or flags, and
it's so beautiful to see these people out there, you know.
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And it's on Warriorbeach Retreat. Dot org is where you
can get the parade route. Like Brian said, my husband
is a man of detail, and he goes we drive
the parade route and he writes down the times where
we are at every place so people know, Okay, I'm
not having to wait out here for an hour. I
can be out here at this time and so and
it's just so special. We were bringing a sign to
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for our store to put in their window the other
day and the lady showed us that she has one
of the small American flags that for like ten years,
she's written a date every time she's been there and
gone outside to watch the parade she had the stick
was all these dates on it.
Speaker 6 (01:45:06):
I thought, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 8 (01:45:07):
So it's just it's just beautiful to live in a
patriotic community that wants to do what they can to
honor the sacrifice and service of these men and women.
And like you said, Brian, from when they get here
and when they leave. You were talking about after the parade,
But these guys when they get here, because some of
them do not leave their houses. Some of them don't
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leave their homes when they get here, and when they leave,
they're like a total different person.
Speaker 10 (01:45:34):
And they each get they are.
Speaker 8 (01:45:35):
They each get like a biobook, like a yearbook with
everybody's picture and their story, and they keep up with
each other. They give each other their contact information, and
so they, like you said, they've become friends for life
of people that get it. You know, you get it,
you know you understand, and it's just, you know, like
the ladies have a day where they're together for a
(01:45:57):
spa day and they can connect and share their stories.
And then the guys go deep sea fishing. Brian, You've
gone fishing with them, Hammionship.
Speaker 9 (01:46:05):
I have.
Speaker 3 (01:46:05):
I've done the deep sea fishing. But you know what,
Linda I gotta say this because you guys always do
this where you send the guys off fishing and the
women to the to do the SPA day.
Speaker 9 (01:46:14):
Rod, I know what you're gonna say.
Speaker 3 (01:46:17):
I look, I'm a huge proponent of the SPA day
because I don't I don't care how manly you are,
you go do it. And you're gonna just be like,
oh my god, why haven't When are you going to
do your spy day for the guys.
Speaker 8 (01:46:30):
I get that all the time from these veterans, But
I'm going sorry, from the guys. There are women veterans
that come to I'm going, no, you go out and
you get those smelly fish, you kiss us, you call.
Speaker 3 (01:46:41):
I'm telling you, Linda, you got to put that in there.
Give the guys that option, and they will. They will
walk away so relieved. But you know, there there's also
a darker side to a lot of what goes on
with our veterans. You know, there's obviously the twenty two.
Speaker 9 (01:46:57):
A day, yes.
Speaker 3 (01:47:00):
Which you know, I hate this. I thought I was
going to do this without crying the number of our
soldiers that that take their lives every day. Yes, I
know they say twenty to a day but that number
is way higher.
Speaker 9 (01:47:14):
It is it is.
Speaker 8 (01:47:16):
It's more like twenty three or twenty four.
Speaker 3 (01:47:18):
Yeah, on it.
Speaker 8 (01:47:18):
And that's that's what that's what we try to do
to keep that from happening with the couples that come,
because what happens, what we saw with our son, the
eggs hit the fan when you get out of the military,
because your support group's gone, you're isolated, you're alone. And
so many of them they're finding demons that nobody can understand.
And so when they come and they have other people
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that get it, they feel like, I am not alone.
My my wife, I deal with the same things as
this other battle buddy, and so they have somebody they
can connect with. And and eight we felt, we felt
was a good number because so many of them, you know,
they all want to sit at a restaurant with their
back to the wall, but that you can't do that. Yeah,
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there's eighteen with the speaker in his life, that'll be
in the restaurant. We're going, okay. But they're all watching
each other's back and it's interesting to see.
Speaker 3 (01:48:14):
That go on.
Speaker 8 (01:48:15):
But you know, my brother talked to my son Josh
because you know, his legs are so high above his knee.
He can out wear prosthetics, and you know, he's tried
many times to do them. And I think I was
telling this story before I got off track. His wife
told me about several months ago that Joshua is really
(01:48:35):
missing his legs. I'm going I would have thought over
time you would kind of get used to it, but
you never get used to I mean, every time, even
at night, it gets up to go to the bathroom, has.
Speaker 10 (01:48:49):
Again this wheelchair. You know, you can't war as horrible
it is, and families instead have experienced it though, And
so I said, josh do you want to try to
get back on prosthetics, you know or what? But he,
you know, his wife said, he really misses his legs.
And so people need to understand that we need to
support these men and women that have have and and
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a lot of the injuries are the PTSD that you
don't understand, that we don't see, and there those were
worse for my son than losing his legs and his
hand being made, you.
Speaker 3 (01:49:22):
Know, but which is really one of more of the
big things with the Worry Beach Retreat that addresses it
addresses that that deep, dark, hidden pain that a lot
of them don't know how to come out and address
and you guys do a great job with that and Linda, Uh,
like we said, we can't do this without support. And
obviously support on the parade line is is a good thing,
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but it does cost a lot of money. I mean,
we're we're in a different time where you know, there
there's a lot of people that will will donate uh,
services and and money uh to make this happen, but
it still does cost a tremendous amount to do this.
How can people contribute to the Warrior Beach Retreat to
help out these these soldiers if they have I don't know,
(01:50:06):
five dollars or one thousand dollars or whatever it is
that they may want to contribute to this amazing cause.
How do people help out?
Speaker 8 (01:50:13):
Well, they can go to our website Warriorbeach Retreat dot
org and they can see how they can donate. And
like you said, Brian, you know, years ago they used
to donate the rooms, but they haven't for like five years.
We have to pay for room for them to stay,
so it's different. But I wanted to say one thing
that my brother asked Josh. She said, why have you
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considered taking your life, which is like, why did you
ask my brother myself that? He said, Brian, josh how
do you feel about that? And Joshua said, I Am
not going to take my life because I'm living my
life for my friends that couldn't. He had so many
friends that died because he was with the Big Red
Ones that lost. They have the most casualties of the
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war in Iraq. And he said, I'm living my friends
that didn't. And so that that that is a mom
made me proud of him. And he's going, you know,
it's I'm not going to go that route because so
I have so many friends that wanted to live that
that couldn't. You know that that gave the ultimate sacrifice
for our freedom. So it's just you know, and we
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appreciate the prayers of everybody for every couple coming for
their lives to be touched and changed and to be
made whole in every way that they can. But like
you said, by donations are needed at Warriorbeach Retreat dot org.
Speaker 6 (01:51:32):
It's much appreciated.
Speaker 8 (01:51:33):
And we are local, yeah, and that not that the thing.
Speaker 3 (01:51:37):
You guys are a local group doing some great work.
The parade is coming up on November sixth, go to
Warriorbeach Retreat dot org for information on that the route
and how you can donate or remember, every little bit helps,
whether it's five dollars or one thousand dollars or whatever
it is that you can contribute, it goes to uh,
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you know, really help out these these sould and I've
been part of it, so I can tell you, uh,
you know, from my own experience of what it is
like working with these people, and it really truly is amazing. Linda,
you guys do a great job, and we're gonna chat
with you again a little bit closer to the event,
but in the meantime go to Warriorbeachretreat dot org and
find out more about it. Linda, thank you, absolute that's
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a pleasure as well. We'll talk with you again real soon,
Linda Cope with the Warrior Beach Retreat. We got to
take a quick break. Coming up. We got the boys
from the uh the America in view. We're gonna chat
with the Doster boys coming up just a little bit.
And of course today just ironically also happens to be
Red Friday. We'll remember everyone deployed. Watch to you by
our friends at American Charlie We'll be right back all right,
(01:52:49):
welcome back to the show. Thank you so much for
checking us out today. We got to take it another
break real quickly. The Doster Boys of the America Inview on
the way. Next we'll chat with them, get some updates.
So let's going on in the state of Florida and
so much more. Hang on, we will be right back.
Good morning, all right, welcome back to the Brian Rush Show.
(01:53:22):
Happy Red Friday. Thanks so much for checking us out today.
And this is one of my best parts of the
My favorite parts of the week is the the hour
number three, bottom of the hour when we get to
bring in the Doster Boys from America in View. Guys, Hello, Hey.
Speaker 9 (01:53:40):
Hey, Glen, how you doing man. We found we're very
refreshed after your vacation.
Speaker 3 (01:53:44):
I am very refreshed that and you know, being back
in the Knock It Off studio and not having to
do the show via the remote gear, and honestly, I
was doing it lounging on the couch where we were staying,
and I got a little relaxed. So it's kind of
nice to be back here. I had to put some
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pants back on because we're obviously doing the show on
Rumble and Wimken as well, so I had to have
some clothes on for it. But it's good to be
back in the studio and also good to have you
guys on because there's so much to talk about. And man,
I'm not even sure where we begin. I guess we can.
We can hit on the Schumer shutdown initially with some
of your thoughts on that. What do you think?
Speaker 9 (01:54:28):
Yeah, it's been really going interesting this week. I think
the Democrats have really walked themselves into a blind canyon here.
You've called it the Schumer shutdown. It's clearly being aligned
with the Democratic Party. Interestingly enough, Brian, a lot of
the public public polls right now are splitting it about
fifty to fifty as who they blame more for it.
But I think the Republican base loves this right now.
(01:54:50):
And I'll tell you who else loves it is nonpartisan voters. Yeah, so, yeah,
the Democrats veteran voters matter, Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:54:56):
They do matter.
Speaker 9 (01:54:56):
But as we get into the midterms next year, I
think people like to se the Republicans holding the line
and hey, the Democrats are saying they want to shut
the government down because the Republicans won't spend more money
and ultimately that is a losing message.
Speaker 3 (01:55:10):
Mm hmm, yeah it is. And you know, I think
somebody else that might be a little excited about it.
And I think Donald Trump might have been onto something
when he said this in his post, is that there
are probably some Democrats that realized, oh crap, we really
got to cut some of the spending. We had to
cut some of this stuff. But I can't say it
because I don't have the cajonez that John Fetterman has.
So I'll just vote for the shutdown and see what happens.
(01:55:33):
There may be some Democrats out there that are excited
about it, going whoo now it can be done, and
I don't get to blame for it.
Speaker 6 (01:55:41):
Yeah, totally. Man, you looked at John Fetterman. I mean,
who would have thought that we would be in this
place where John Fetterman is like the reasonable guy, I know,
the one that we can you know, work with and
kind of talk some sense on some of the issues
that are out there. But man, you're exactly right, Brian.
These these whether you're Republican or Democrat, the financial position
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of the United States federal government is just not good.
And everybody knows that we're spending way too much money.
The federal debt is thirty eight trillion dollars. I mean,
it's a number that really kind of wrecks your brain
when you think about it, because it just doesn't make sense.
And we're adding to it a couple of trillion dollars
a year, and so yeah, everybody knows it. I mean,
(01:56:25):
it's the elephant in the room. Everybody knows at some
point we've got to stop spending like this. And you know,
these these kind of gymnastics that the politicians in Washington,
DC go through whenever we get to these points, and
then it becomes, well, you know, what deal are we
going to get? Whose fault is it that we're shut down?
In the end. In the end, we've got to figure
(01:56:47):
out a way to stop spending so much money.
Speaker 3 (01:56:49):
Yeah, yeah, we really do. And I think that Donald
Trump's got the ideas him and russ are going to
start cutting some things. So it could be interesting to
see what happens with all the cuts that that now
Donald Trump can do with unilaterally without Congress getting involved.
And I think the Democrats they boom booed on that
(01:57:10):
one big time.
Speaker 9 (01:57:13):
Yeah, you're spot on with that, and I think what's interesting,
Brian is that as you see the national mood sort
of elevate on the level of what I would call cuts,
you also see agencies coming at risk. Now you're seeing
agency expenditures coming up under the microscope. And that's even
having an effect on state like Florida, where now Blazing
(01:57:34):
Goalie is out on a crusade to peel back the
layers on all these cities in counties. So you know,
what's going on in DC right now is having enough
secon nationwide. And I think it's good.
Speaker 3 (01:57:45):
Yeah, yeah, it's absolutely good. And that's a perfect transition
too to get into the other topic, and that is doze.
You know, obviously the doze that Donald Trump and Elon
Musk did has exposed a lot of of failure and
are managing our money on the national level. But Rondes
santa Is not too long ago said you know what,
like so many other politicians, which I don't know why
(01:58:07):
it took, you know, the national level to do this,
and people to think we should look at what we're
spending on. But Ronda Santas jumped on that as well,
and Blazing Golia, who's now our new CFO replacing Jimmy.
They've they've been diving into some things in Man. The
stuff that they found. Let's talk about that mess.
Speaker 6 (01:58:26):
Yeah, a huge, huge effort by CFO, blazing Golia. He's
doing a great job just really bringing a spotlight on
man just some just some out of control stuff. He
I loved his tweet. I guess it was maybe yesterday
about the poet Laureate of Orlando and he even wrote
his own poem on Twitter to show that the expenditure
(01:58:49):
in the millions of dollars, you know, is not needed
for this kind of stuff. You were just telling me,
Brian about the drag show in Sante Polo that was funded.
What was the consultant was how much consulted?
Speaker 3 (01:59:01):
Was one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to bring in
a draft. I guess it's like an anti Christmas or
something drag show at the Sanger Theater. And that's just
the consulting. That doesn't include any of the other defenses.
Speaker 6 (01:59:14):
Yeah, just the consultant. And it underscores a lot of
the debate that's been going on on property taxes, regardless
of where that tax policy ends up landing over the
next few years. The reality is that these local government
budgets have increased dramatically over the last four years. They've
really benefited from the COVID expansion, the inflationary expansion, and
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then just these home values going way up, and a
lot of these local governments they're not giving the money
back to the tax payer. They're just going into these
kinds of projects that people don't know about, yep, and
they cost a lot of money. And yeah, I mean
it's got to get rolled back. And whether it's through
the pressure of what in Goalie is doing and just
you know, public opinion being educated on this sort of thing,
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it's got to get rolled back.
Speaker 3 (02:00:03):
Yeah, it really does. And you know, you look at
things like the Pensacola deal, and there there was so
much that got exposed in this too. I mean one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars just for a consultant to
do this. I mean, look in Pensacola, you could just
go down to civil quarters down there in the bottom
and good chances are you could find a couple of
drag queens and say, hey, you want to come do
a song and dance, come on over here. And I
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would have consulted I would have done that for ten
grand I would have gone down and just found a
couple of them and said, hey, here you go, And
that would have saved Pensacola one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
And the question that you have.
Speaker 6 (02:00:35):
To have a different good. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (02:00:39):
The difference is, Brian, is that you'd be doing it
with private money, not taxpayer money.
Speaker 8 (02:00:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:00:43):
Well maybe, I mean, if they're going to spend the
taxpayer money and they're going to spend one hundred and fifty,
I'll take ten and save them money. I'm off about that.
But the problem with things like that, though, is that
you know, with that one hundred and fifty thousand just
in the consultant, again, who knows how much more they're
spending for the promoting of it and the actual show
and everything else. What is it bringing in? You know?
(02:01:04):
I mean, obviously we see things like here in Bay
County with Panama City Beach with a TDC, where sure
there's a lot of people that get upset about some
money that gets spent, but they will spend money on
promoting something or doing a show or whatever it might be,
and we get hotel rooms filled, we get restaurants filled,
with people, and it's something that you know, translated into
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money into the community. I can't imagine that a drag
Christmas show is going to bring a huge draw that's
going to bring in millions to Pensacola. It's just scratches
your head a little bit.
Speaker 9 (02:01:37):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 6 (02:01:41):
A smart man, Yeah, go ahead, and we even want
to have that crowd show up in your town. I
mean I certainly don't.
Speaker 3 (02:01:50):
Yeah, yeah, I think a lot of people don't. But
there was also so many other things too that were
discovered during the Florida doze. And I think the dollar
amount that I think I saw it was something like
eight billion dollars statewide so far that Blaze and the
team has found of just wasted money. And here in
the state of Florida alone, that's insane.
Speaker 9 (02:02:14):
So as the fans right now, Brian, all the municipalities
in the state together, and there's about forty five percent
of Flordians that live inside municipalities they raise or levy
every year about well, they've levied this year about eight
point five billion dollars. They've already found enough to cover
eliminating property taxes for those eight point five billion dollars.
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Right now, if you go to the county level, there's
another twenty five billion on top of that. But you know,
Ron Desantas and Blaze and Goalie both started out with
the notion that if you could cut the expenditures in half,
stay wide, with all these perdicious spending patterns, then there
would be enough cushion there to really get on track
for eliminating property taxes with some other replacement revenue. And
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I think they're showing that that there's a lot of
efficiencies that can be found here. So I think this
is a good first step. They're embarrassing these public officials
and all these guys in Gallus who've been going to
Tallahassee wying with their hands out saying that they can
make it on the local tax base, are just well
they're off base. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:03:19):
Yeah, be careful what you're spending your money on. I mean,
it's very simple economics.
Speaker 6 (02:03:25):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:03:25):
The question that I think all these politicians should ask
when they spend money is what is the ROI on this?
You know, and things like the drag show. I doubt
that there's going to be much of a return spending
the money on a new fire truck. What's the return
on that, Well, we put out a fire and we
rescue our citizens, you know. So I think that there
needs to be better examining of our money, and we
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the people need to be more aware of this. I mean,
I was going through that list that was released the
other day, and I was blown away. I can imagine
how many other Floridians are reading that list and just
be shocked by the amount of money that's being wasted
on stupid things, especially when we have important things that
need to be done, like infrastructure and other important things,
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and here we are spending money on drag shows.
Speaker 6 (02:04:15):
You know, Brian, A lot of a lot of the
scrutiny on spending has historically been on the federal government, right,
A lot of the grants that you'll hear people talk
about like, oh, we studied, you know, some sort of
like really obscure scientific inquiry that you know, somebody could
have just figured out without spending the millions of dollars
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that it takes.
Speaker 1 (02:04:37):
Yeah, and now.
Speaker 6 (02:04:38):
We're learning, we're learning that a lot of that same
stuff is happening right here in our own backyards, you know,
right right here in our local governments. And so you're right,
I hope the word is getting out. I mean, there's
a lot in the news right now that that's keeping
people entertained or distracted. So I hope there is a
lot of people paying attention because this is one of
the most substantive things that's come out of of this
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review of our local governments in a long time. And
I really you know, there are some local governments out there,
they're doing things right. There's a few, there's a few
that are that are trying to be physically responsible and
trying to have good, good spending. But man, there's a
lot that are not.
Speaker 3 (02:05:16):
And you know, ironically, it just so happens to be
all of these cities that are very blue leaning in
the state of Florida, Jacksonville, Orlando, Pensacola, that have appeared
with some really extraordinarily high stupid things that they have
spent money on that you just don't need to be
spending money on.
Speaker 9 (02:05:38):
Yeah, it's a philosophical difference or a different mindset. Look,
whenever you are a lover of government and you believe
that all good things happen at the hands of government,
then you're looking to try to extract more money from
Brian Rust. You're looking to extract more money from other
citizens to essentially put yourself in a position of you
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allocating money for them to causes that you believe government
has designated as just or as designated as being culturally
important for the community. And you know, conservatives generally take
the notion that, hey, let the consumers decide. You know,
if people want certain things, let them find it, let
them keep their own money and make their own decisions.
(02:06:19):
And that makes for a more vibrant economy, It makes
for a more vibrant community, and you don't have all
this waste and garbage that we see in the public
sphere exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:06:27):
I mean, as as a concert promoter or show promoter,
if I look at it and go I can make
a lot of money by doing a drag Christmas show
in Pensacola. I'm going to invest in it. Go invest
in it and not be our taxpayer dollars. But you know,
it all boils down to two really good leadership and
the transparency. And coming up next year, we obviously have
a leadership battle that is going on. Let's talk about
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the run for governor. What's what's the latest news and
latest showdown that's going on there.
Speaker 6 (02:06:54):
Yeah, So Byron Donalds made a lot of news talking
about his fundraising over the last quarter. And uh, there's
a lot of rumors going around and that are not
even rumors that was coming straight from our new Lieutenant
governor Jake Collins, that he was possibly announcing his candidacy
for the governor's race. He's backed off that and so
(02:07:16):
he sort of pulled his name out at least for now.
It remains to be seen whether he's going to come
back and and launch into that. Then of course we've
got Paul Renner who's running for governor on the on
the Republican side as well. He has not released his
numbers yet, but he's out there. And then there's you know,
there's some fun stuff going on on the Democratic side.
I don't pay as much attention to that. I'll take
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care of it so well. And we're going to figure
out who their nominee is. But they're gonna have to
they're gonna have to battle that out. You know, that's
just a whole different animal.
Speaker 3 (02:07:47):
Yeah, yeah, that it is, and we'll we'll obviously dive
into that, but it'll be interesting to see who ends
up being the the governor coming up next year because
it'll be a make it or break it for the
state of Florida, especially if we allow the Democrats to
take any sort of charge on that the show coming
up tomorrow, you'd have no guests and hang on a
saying let me just check my email again. No, I
(02:08:09):
didn't see one there, So you don't have any guest tomorrow.
I was looking for an invite. So what's going on
this show in the American view tomorrow? I won't let
it go. I just won't let it go.
Speaker 9 (02:08:20):
All right, we're gonna have you on next week. We're
going to make this happen.
Speaker 3 (02:08:23):
There we go.
Speaker 6 (02:08:24):
But yeah, let me tell.
Speaker 9 (02:08:26):
You what we're debating tomorrow. So we are working on
the government shutdown. We're peeling that back. You've been doing
a good job of doing that. I don't think they're
gonna have a deal of this weekend, so we're gonna
have lots to talk about. Secondly, Trump and Pete Hegseth
made big news this week by calling all the top
brass in the military into DC and essentially I don't
(02:08:47):
want to say dressing them down, but briefing them on
the new standards for the military, basically throwing out all
the DEI will garbage that you've seen populated inside the
high brass in the military in the past years under
Biden and really going back to the Obama administration. More importantly,
he emphasized that he was going to reassert physical fitness standards,
(02:09:10):
which is going to put the best, brightest, and strongest
in cohesive come that units in a way that has
not been seen in probably fifteen years. And so this
kind of what I would call getting back to the
basics of our military, putting strong men out front on
the fighting forces is going to be really really good
(02:09:30):
for recruiting, and I think it's gonna payoff in a
big way. So we're gonna be talking about that a
lot this weekend as well.
Speaker 3 (02:09:35):
That's awesome. Sounds like it's gonna be a great show
coming up tomorrow America in View, which has heard right
here on Florida Man Radio. And I'll be looking forward
to that invite one day, and I might even come
up to Tallahassee and do it from there, just just
to add some chaos.
Speaker 6 (02:09:54):
Anytime, Brian, you know, we could, we could strip some
things out in advance. I can, I can argu the
wheels are spending I can already think of some fun
we get add with that.
Speaker 3 (02:10:03):
Oh yeah, and that, and see if we can keep
the radio stations licenses. That'll that'll be the big one too.
There may have to be some editing of that show
as we go along, and especially your guy John up there,
he knows sometimes it's it's tough with me. That's censor button.
You got to keep it ready. But either way, America
(02:10:24):
View always love our conversations with you guys, and of
course we'll do it again next Friday here on the show,
and hopefully we'll have some shutdown news at next week's show.
But in the meantime we'll check you guys out tomorrow
twelve noon right here in Florida Man Radio. And of
course you can check you guys out at America Inview
dot com where you guys have your podcast as well,
(02:10:45):
So if you miss a show, it's right there. Brett, Matt,
thanks for coming on. Appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (02:10:51):
Always good.
Speaker 3 (02:10:52):
Absolutely, you guys have a great weekend. We'll chat with
you real soon. America in View with Matt and Brett
Doster of course heard right here on Florida Man Radio
every Saturday at twelve noon. We got to take a
quick break. We'll be right back. This is a Red
Friday where we are remembering everyone deployed, and that includes
our ICE agents who are out there doing the tough
(02:11:13):
work to help clean up our cities. And it's all
brought to you by American Charlie Grill and Tavern right
there on Panama City Beach. We will be right back,
all right, Welcome back to the Bride Rush Show here
(02:11:34):
at Florida Man Radio and of course streaming on Rumble
dot com and Wimken dot com. And today is a
Red Friday. We remember everyone deployed, including our ICE agents, which,
by the way, Apple, I don't know if you've heard
this one. Apple has decided it's going to block the
ice block app, which is one of the apps that
has been used by a lot of the anti ICE
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people to track ice to be able to find out
where they are in real time so that they can
protest them and other things that of course, remember the
shooter down in Texas was also using one of the
ice tracking apps to be able to find out where
they were and was able to get up on top
(02:12:18):
of the roof and take some potshots at them, you know,
missing his intended target. Hitting the people that he allegedly
was supporting. But it's good on Apple to see that
they've done that. I don't know if Google has jumped
on it as well, but those are the type of
apps that are dangerous to society and they probably should
should really get rid of them, because that's just something
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that is not needed. It really isn't. So something else
that's going on too is the trust in the media.
I mean, I know that this is a big shocker
that the people are not trusting the mainstream media anymore,
but there's a new Gallup poll that is out that
shows that the public trust in the news has dropped
to yet another new low. I mean, I didn't think
(02:13:01):
it could get any lower, but apparently it does keep
getting lower. And after hitting a record lows last year,
the America's trust in the nation's legacy media has sunk
to a new level. And the Gallup reported yesterday releasing
its annual survey of US adults and when it began
back in nineteen seventy two. Just to give you some perspectives,
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so in the past fifty three years, seven in ten
adults either had a fair amount fifty percent or a
great deal eighteen percent of trust in newspapers, television and
radio to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. Today,
with the new report that was released yesterday, it is
once again seven and ten. However, it is seven out
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of ten either have not very much confidence or none
at all in today's media. According to the new Gallup
poll on the trust in the media, it's gone away
and it cracks me up though to watch how how
the mainstream media, the legacy media all stands back and
goes and I'm a samit it is money in the
(02:14:05):
watch ass. We should bring Joy Reid back in. Read
the room. That's all I gotta say. Just read the
room and you would be amazed at what you might
find out. All right, that's it for us. We got
to get out of here. Happy Friday, and of course
remember it is a Red Friday, brought to you by
American Charlie's Grill and Tavern where remember everyone deployed. Go
check them out on Panama City Beach. We'll be back
(02:14:27):
again Monday again on Rumble on Wimken on Florida Man
Radio and of course the podcast which you can grab
at the Brianrustshow dot com. Have a fantastic weekend. We'll
do it again Monday. Until then, see you later, Bye bye,
Brian Rust's name, you know the brand.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Limbing up the airways in this wing, belting snow face
with a fiery head talking truth. You can't always stand
fast to show from coast to coast. Got the facts,
(00:33):
but it ain't no boast. Can't give up the change
and give it toast to the man who.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Roasts the moods. Knock it off. It's rust on me.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
But in my life, care of scenes, did you mind no,
don't free free? In the top show Silver Street, the
such lords that's off the plane. Nothing never stays the same,
(01:04):
breaking down walls of shame. Ryan Rost is here, claim
voices rise a thing, and so through the censor to
the court all Ussians. Cheaper score for Ryan's battling in
this war knocking off its rushold.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
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Speaker 2 (01:27):
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Speaker 3 (01:41):
Well, hello, good morning, and welcome to the show, Happy
Red and Friday. It is a Red Friday today where
we remember everyone deployed, sponsored by our friends in American
Charlie Grill and Tavern. Of course, the best thing about
today is that we're finally back in the knock It
Off studio back from our vacations slash Mayo Clinic trip,
(02:04):
even though we've been doing the radio show all week,
which I got to tell you was as much as
I love doing the show, and I do love doing
the show, it was taxing as hell to do the
show this week because we were obviously not in our
regular studio. We were in the remote stuff and didn't
have all the things that we normally had, and it
(02:24):
was just awkward. And sometimes I was doing the show
from the couch. Sometimes I had pants on, sometimes I didn't.
It was just it was awkward. Not to mention, we
also did not have our rumble and wimkin audience that
we bounce off of throughout the show. So it's good
to see all you guys already chiming in this morning
(02:44):
on the show. But it is good to be back,
it really truly is. The boys, by the way, were
also stupid excited that Daddy was home. As a matter
of fact, I think between last night, when I arrived
back at home until this morning, when I finally woke
up and had to kick Charlie out of the studio,
(03:05):
I've gotten more kisses and hugs from him than a
horny teenager on a Friday night date. I mean, it's
just been unbelievable. He kind of missed me. So it
was kind of nice to see the rug Rats this
morning and last night, got all my cuddles and everything.
They were in the studio right up until about the
beginning and then they're like, oh God, this is the
time the dad gets all riled up. It's time for
(03:27):
us to go and left the studio. But we do
have a lot to talk about today. Of course, with
it being Friday, we'll have the guys on from America
in View. They'll be joining us later on in hour
number three to talk about some of the things that
are going on around the state and around the country.
And you know, there was actually something that we were
talking about on the show the other day and now
(03:48):
I can't remember what the hell it was, And I
was thinking to myself, oh, we got to talk about
this with the Doster boys coming up on Friday. I
don't know what the hell it was, So we'll figure
it out. Maybe they'll bring it up, but I'll be like,
that's what it was. Also joining us on the show
later on this morning, Linda Cope from The Warrior Beach retreat.
Their fall retreat is coming up, and we're gonna talk
(04:08):
about that coming up in a little bit as well.
But in the meantime, the Left is it is not
even meltdown mode that they are in right now. And
Charlie was worried he was adopted by Haitians. He was like, hey,
who is this that's coming in and feeding me? He
was a little off by that for a little bit.
(04:30):
But the Democrats, they are not in a meltdown mode.
They are in another level of emotional mode that we
haven't seen from them in a while. And it's all
because of Donald Trump, of course. And I gotta say this,
Donald Trump has taken his internet trolling to a whole
(04:50):
new level. And it's just funny to watch the response
from the left when you start looking at how they
are responding to the memes. It's not fair Donald jump
as being a big meanie pants. And I love it
because when Hikeem Jeffries came out the other day and
(05:14):
he was upset about the sombrero thing. There by the way,
they're also calling it racist, which I saw video pointing
this out, and it was actually kind of funny where
they're talking about Okay, so you're you're upset because Donald
Trump put a sombrero on Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.
(05:37):
You do realize that a sombrero is not racist. If
you are looking at the sombrero being put onto somebody
as being racist, then you're the one who's racist, because
you're the one who thinks that's racist. And it's kind
(05:58):
of a valid point because a lot of this stuff
that we always hear from the left with them, that's
some rained since no, it's not racist, it's you being emotional,
whiny brat, and that's exactly what the Democrats are right now.
And Donald Trump has not slowed down. And again, I
don't know who it is that's on his digital team
that is coming up with all of these things, because
I know it's not one hundred percent Donald Trump. I'm
(06:20):
sure that there was some smart ass kid that is
on this team that that probably went to mimester President,
you want to say something like it us And he
looked at that and said, roll with it, absolutely, roll
with it. And there was another video and I don't
know if you saw this one where Keem Jeffries was
on I think it was CNN or MSNBC or one
(06:41):
of those. I don't really care which one it was,
but he was on there complaining and whining about Donald
Trump doing this and it's not fair, it's so bad
what he's doing. And then all of a sudden, somebody
the team again took the video and put Donald Trump
in a mariachi band with sombreros and everything. Right behind
(07:02):
came Jeffries doing his thing. It's just hilarious. And then
you get the moment. The moment that came Jeffries decided
he wanted to be a tough guy when he said,
the next time I'm in the Oval Office, or when
I'm in the Oval Office again, I'm gonna address him
and he could say it to my face. Dude, think
(07:24):
about this for a second. Think about this for one second.
And I mentioned this the other day when talking about this,
that Donald Trump is the man who sat in front
of the United Nations, the world's leaders, sat there in
front of them and ripped them apart. These are people
who have militaries, these are people who have economies, These
(07:46):
are people who could retaliate, and he slammed them to
their face. Do you even remotely think that Donald Trump
won't do it to your face. First off, he's a
New Yorker, and in old school New Yorker at that
he will have no problem with tearing you apart to
your face. But it's just not fair. It's not fair
(08:10):
that Donald Trump is making fun of me, you poor
little whiny brat. And Pat, you're right, it was okay
for Kathy Griffin to hold up a severed body head
of Trump, but when you do these memes, it's the
worst thing in the world. It's so immature. Yeah, the
one where he threw the mustaches, that was pretty funny too.
(08:30):
Every time you turn around there's another one. And again
I don't know who it is. It's on Donald Trump's
digital team that's doing these things, but they need a raise,
they need a raise, They need to be praised. But
sadly though, also needs to be hidden, like, don't say
who it is, because we know how the left is.
If the left finds out who it is that's actually
(08:51):
doing it, they will go after him or her or
whoever it is that's doing it. And that's a sad
statement of our times too. But it ishilarious because it's
just good old poking fun. And maybe it's just the
gen x in me where you know, we find this
stuff to be hilarious because it's just it's all words.
(09:12):
It's words, a little little poking fun. It's not that
big of a deal. You're gonna be okay, You're you're
gonna go to bed tonight, you're gonna wake up tomorrow morning,
and everything is still gonna be fine. But the left,
they can't handle it. They can't handle it. And it's
okay for them to slam on Donald Trump, it's okay
for them to go after Maga people, but when the
(09:35):
favor is returned, it's so bad. You can't do this
to us, which is also kind of the same attitude
that they're taking it like during the shutdown, like they
I don't know, if somebody hang on a second, let
me let me write this down. Maybe this will help.
(09:58):
And if you if you were watching in the video
version of the show, you'll get this. And I will
tell you right lights, you lost. That's the bottom line.
You lost. You lost the elections, and when you lose
(10:19):
the elections, you are no longer in power. So therefore
we don't have to bow down to you, which is
exactly the attitude that they're taking. They don't understand why
the Republicans are not bowing down to us and why
they're not doing exactly what we say. This is wrong.
You had to listen to us, and you have to
(10:39):
do what we want. You can't just do whatever you want.
This isn't right. No, this is exactly right. This is
how it works. You have to come to us to negotiate.
You have to come to us and say, hey, here's
some things that we would really like, and we're willing
to sacrifice this, this, and this so that we can
we can get a little something, because because that's what
(11:00):
you did to us, it's just not fair. And I'm
again social media, I'm loving this Christy Jackson. This guy,
he's such an idiot. He really truly is posted a
photo of Joe Biden. So it's a good looking black
(11:21):
and white photo. I'm gonna give the photos some credit.
It's a good looking photo, a little portrait thing. And
he said America traded competency and decency for chaos and deprivity.
I'll never understand it. Well, you know, here's the thing,
dumb ass, and that's what you are, Chris Jackson. You're
a dumb ass. What America could traded was we traded
(11:42):
somebody to come in and remodel the kitchen because somebody
came in and splashed it with rainbows and DEI and
all this other bs and made it so that it's
so expensive to open up the refrigerator. And we said, no,
we don't like this. We want to renovate the kitchen.
And Donald Trump came in to renovate the kitchen. And
(12:04):
in order to renovate the kitchen, one of the things
you have to do is tear out the crap that
was put in there initially. And that's what we have
seen Donald Trump do. And look, I think most of
us understand that in order to fix the problems, it's
gonna get a little bit worse because you have to
do the demo work first, and that's what Donald Trump
(12:25):
has been doing. And now that the shutdown has happened, Oh,
there's a full on construction demolition team that is now
standing by and we're gonna get into that in just
a second, but first we got to take a quick break.
We'll be right back. This is the Brian Russ Show.
Do I't Forget? Today is a Red Friday where we
are brought to you by Oh wait, a second, there's
another one that just popped up. Trump just posted this
(12:48):
incredibly weird AI video of himself and JD. Vance in
a band and Russ Vought as the Grim Reaper. This
is what the president is doing while the government is
shut down. We're so screwed. Oh, Harry sis On shut up.
Oh that's a great one. That is great. I'm gonna
have to listen to that one in the break just
to see what that one's all about. Anyhow, we are
(13:09):
Read Friday, remembering everyone deployed, including our Ice agents that
are deployed around the country, in our National Guard that
is also out there doing their thing, and especially now
that we are in the shutdown and the potential that
they may not get paid, we got to remember them,
thank them for what they are doing. And of course,
brought to you by our friends at American Charlie Grill
and Tavern right there on Panama City Beach. Hang on,
(13:31):
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Thanks for watching us today on Rumbleandwimken dot Com. Back
(14:12):
to that for those of you that have missed that
torture of having to watch this hot mess in the morning,
there it is, there you go. It is good to
be back though from the vacation slash Mayo trip visits.
And I know a lot of people have been asking
me about the visit because I had made some posts,
you know, just kind of updating as we went along,
(14:34):
and it looks a little bit like this. Just to
give you a quick update, I am once again one
of the male clinics most boring patients. Which I know
that seems like a contradiction to say me and boring
at the same time, but that is that is kind
of the case. All of my blood work, you know,
(14:55):
looked great, the kidney function looked great. Still ready to
hear a couple of tests, but they're pretty confident that
everything is going to be pretty okay. I do have
to go back to the Mail Clinic though, for some
other things, because that's one of the problems when you
have when when you get older and with a kidney transplant,
sometimes it does cause other issues. But overall, I'm still
(15:16):
pretty damn healthy and the checkup went great, so that
is a good thing. I just it wears me out, though,
And anybody that has gone through these these annual checkups
that you do at the Mayo Clinic, you know that.
And it usually doesn't matter what it is that you're doing,
whether you're going in for a cancer update or you know,
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a transplant update or whatever it might be. When they
start running all these tests on you to check everything,
it's exhausting, it really truly is. So yeah, it's good
to finally be home. I actually have a little bit
of energy today, mostly because I'm also able to drink
some knock it off coffee. I did not bring any
of it with me because you know, in the hotels
that you don't really have a good coffee maker, so
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I was kind of forced to drink some of that
hotel coffee. And let me tell you, that crap is
just I don't I don't know it's they call it
rainforest blend or something, and it literally tastes like you're
scraping the ground off of the rainforest. It's just the
nastiest stuff. So and that's right, Dean. A positive attitude
and trusting God goes a long way. And you know
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what I have, I've I've preached that for a long
time when it comes to you know, illnesses, and and look,
I have dealt with a lot of a lot of
health issues for a long time, specifically with the kidney.
Uh and uh, you know, having that positive attitude does
really truly help. And that was actually one of the
things that I was having a conversation with with some
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of the crew at the Mayo Clinic the other day
because they were getting it ready, getting you ready to
do the the the biopsy on the kidney, which was
the most intense thing that I actually had to do
the entire time that I was there. And uh, you know,
I'm I'm just I'm generally kind of a goofy guy anyhow,
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and I'm always got a pretty positive attitude. And when
I don't, you know that I'm probably really pissed off
about something and it's probably a time to head the
other direction and avoid me for a little bit. But
we were having the conversation about it, and uh, you know,
the the nurse that was setting everything up, she looked
at me and she's like, you know, it really is
great to actually have somebody with such a great attitude,
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because she was even telling me, she's like, you can
tell the people that always come through that are doing
the best, even if even if things aren't the greatest,
but they're still doing the best. Are the ones with
the best attitudes, you know, the ones that are not
coming in all fearful and scared and and everything else.
And when you're just in there to to uh, you know,
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be positive about it and know that that things are
pretty good, it, it goes a long way. And I
can't preach that enough for anybody who is who is
ill with anything, whether it be you know, a cancer
diagnosis or you know, a transplant diagnosis or whatever it
might be, having a positive attitude takes you so far.
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And the crew there at the Mail clinic as we
were talking about it, they agreed one hundred percent. They said,
you know, having that positive attitude is a good thing,
So you really got to do that. Just keep it positive.
Which I know nowadays is tough to do. With all
the stuff that's going on in our world, it is
hard to have a positive attitude, like even here in
the Knackadoff studio. As much as I love being in
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the Knockadoff studio, I have to admit it is time
for a new chair because this chair is the most
uncomfortable thing that I've sat on in a while. And
I'm just I don't know, it's time for this chair
to go. But I'm trying to be positive because look,
I'm back in the Knockodoff studio. I have our rumble
and whim can feedback up again. I've got all the
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equipment that I need. I've got my knock it off
coffee that I could drink. I've gone Charlie and Lucky
running around. Life is good. So having a little bit
of a positive attitude, even though there are some things
in life that are a little stressful, it does help
a lot. So Yeah, anyhow, what else we got to
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talk about today? We got so much to talk about.
But now that I've rambled on about stuff and took
up this entire segment, I don't really have enough time
to dive into anything and don't have enough time to
not dive into something because I boo booed, because we've
got our hard break coming up here at the bottom
of the hour. But the shutdown, this is becoming more
and more entertaining every moment, and we're gonna talk about
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it coming up in just a little bit. What's that
the X chair? See the problem with the X chair.
The X chair is low, and the studio is actually
it's not a low desk, it's like not in normal height.
The desk in the studio is about was that about
three feet high, so it's like a standard TV studio,
radio studio desk in the height side. So it's gonna
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be difficult to find that a chair that really truly fits.
And this thing squeaks. I don't know if you ever
hear it on the microphone or not, but it squeaks
like crazy. And the fact that it's uncomfortable and I
keep squirming in the chair because it's just uncomfy. You know,
it's just it's one of these things. But look, positive attitude,
even though there's one thing that just kind of tears
it apart here. Positive attitude. But yeah, the shutdown, this
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is becoming more and more entertaining. We're gonna talk about
that coming up after the break, because the Left screwed up.
They screwed up big time when it came to allowing
this whole shutdown to even happen. So we're gonna talk
about that coming up in a couple of minutes. So
for again, you could also check out the show at
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I'm just saying, but go check that out. We got
to take a quick break though for a bottom of
the hour. We'll be right back. Good morning, all right,
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welcome back to the Brian Rush Show here at our
Red Friday. Happy Friday to you. We finally made it
to that big weekend road Gray, Good morning to you.
A good point. The Dems should get Kamala to explain
why they won't agree on the spending plan. Probably has
something to do with the electric yellow school buses. Can
you imagine? Can you imagine Kamala Harris having to get
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out and explain the reason for the shutdown. It would
actually be kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (21:41):
What happened was is okay, everybody, listen, listen, listen up.
It's Kamala has And and I'm gonna spend see you
the monies and the monies which with the with the
dollars and with the in the dollars that go in
your your purse.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I got a purse. What happened was is that.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
You see, we wanted to put more dollars in somebody
else's bust, and the Republicans said, no, you have to
pay your bar tab before you can leave. I don't
know why this's got a pat of barn tab all
the time.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
It would be hilarious to have Kamala Harris actually do
that and ap it would be pretty funny. If I
did have a sombrero. I don't have one, and if
I did, I would wear one in casey, you're right,
with all the Diegos that I consume, I should have
I should have one, and I don't know why you don't.
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But you know what, actually, now that I think about it,
with all the Diegos that I consume, I should also
have a Diego's T shirt. I'm just I'm throwing that
out there into the wind. I don't I do have
my uh what was that the T shirt that I got,
the the Barrito Benditto, the Barrito Benditto T shirt. Yeah. Anyhow,
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it would be pretty funny though, to have Kabala Harris explaining, uh,
the the the budget cuts, the shutdown because she couldn't
get through it. She couldn't get through, especially if the
teleprompter stopped, or like even if if Joe Biden had
to do it. Well, you see, when I was a kid,
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I'm not kidding. This is not hyperbole here, no joke.
When I was a kid, my dad uh bless his heart,
uh right, the rest of his soul with the windshield
and then with the cancer. It would be able to
figure it out. But the bottom line is, though, when
it comes to the shutdown, the Democrats, they got caught
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in their lie and they didn't even realize it. And
they still don't even really truly realize that they've been
caught in their lie because they're trying to do the
whole healthcare thing even though that's where their lie is.
They wanted to add another one point five trillion dollars
in spending in this fiscal year, one point five trillion
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dollars an addition to what we're already spending. I mean,
just the average. I mean, I think even Kamala Harris
in one of her drunken stupors might even be able
to sit there and reasoningly go, hey, wait a second.
Didn't for like the past seven months, didn't we go
through this doze thing where they exposed all of the
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waste and the fraud and abuse. Would it probably not
be a good idea for us to turn around and say, hey,
even though we were given a roadmap and a blueprint
on how to do all these cuts, would it be
a bad idea to say, hey, let's add another one
point five trillion dollars to the spending. But they did
it anyhow, And then on top of it, the argument
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about the healthcare, and of course they're not doing the
argument correctly with accuracy and not lying. They got to
use fear, you're going to lose your health care. You
know what, those of us that work in the private industry,
we've not lost our healthcare. We're okay, everything is fine,
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you're good, all right, cool, We're all good. The only
people that are really losing their healthcare in the cuts
that were proposed in the big beautiful bill are the
couple of million illegals that were on it and the
able bodied workers. They're not going after mom and dad
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and grandma and grandpa and cutting them off. They're not
going after the low income single mother who really needs it.
That's not who they're going after, but that's what they
make it out to be. And of course, the other
thing when it comes to the healthcare situation and jd
Ern JD Hakeem, Jeffries, Timu Obama, he's getting busted in
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his lie all the time, and so is it Chuck Schumer.
Because the thing that they keep saying is that there's
not a single dime, not one dime, not one dime
in federal money is going to the health insurance, remember words,
the health insurance of illegals, which we know is none
true because there was at least one point five ish
maybe a little bit more illegals that were on Medicaid
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by the way, that's health insurance. So yes, there was
some dollars in dimes going to the illegals with that,
but that is not the area that the illegals are
getting the free health insurance. The area that they are
getting the free health insurance. And this is where they
keep lying to everybody, is that there are subsidies that
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are given out to hospitals. And remember this is the
other thing. Oh my god, all these hospitals are going
to close down, and it's gonna be the worst thing.
And they're shutting down, and oh my god, the Republicans
are taken away your health care and your hospitals, the
subsidies that we're going to these hospitals specifically to pay
for the illegals who have had just walked into the
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emergency room and required healthcare. That's what they're doing. They're
basically saying, we're not going to pay for these people
to get health insurance or health coverage. Go home, go
to where you're from. Stop living off of our dime.
And of course the Democrats have been completely wrong about that.
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And of course King Jeffries trying to get out there
and and do his stuff without Donald Trump and putting
a sombrero on him and playing the mariachi band in
the background. And actually, you know what, it seems wrong
to be even to be talking about Hakeem Jeffries without
the proper stuff. So hang on with a second year.
We got to do this. If we're going to talk
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about Hakim Jeffries, let's do it right there we go, Yeah, oh,
this is bad news that I'm back in the studio
anyhow So, Hakim Jeffries now kind of contradicting some of
his fellow Democrats too when he claims that the government
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shutdown is not over giving healthcare to the illegals. He's
been taken to every place that somebody would put him
on camera to talk about it, and Jeffries told ABC's
Good Morning America, the federal law prohibits the use of
Medicaid and Medicare and the Children's Health Insurance Program and
the Affordable Care Act to provide health insurance in any way,
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shape or form to undocumented immigrants, period, full stop. That's
the law, and Democraocrats aren't trying to change that now.
He's right, However, explain the one and a half plus
million illegal that we're on Medicaid and medicare. Explain that
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one period, full stop. That's the law. How is it
that they're able to get it? And just because you're
saying that they are not allowed to have the insurance
doesn't mean we're not still spending money on the healthcare
of the illegals, and that is what we're doing, and
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they don't see it, they don't understand it, and we're
spending a lot of money on them. Now I am
I am totally okay with with the Americans who maybe
need help, because look, there are times when when things
happen to American citizens. And I'm not talking about people
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that are under the protective status. I'm not talking about
the the the visa holders or anything. I'm talking about
the American citizens. Some of them they need help. And
when you have a horrible health situation or your employment
goes away, your income is reduced to the point where
you can't afford your healthcare. And believe me, I've been there.
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I've been there where that has happened. So I understand.
Then let's help out our fellow Americans in their time
of need. When you are somebody who has cancer and
you can't work and you can't work to get your insurance,
we should be helping them out. But helping out just
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as somebody who came across our border illegally breaking our laws.
Even if you only broke the one law of crossing
the border and coming in here, you're still here illegally.
Even if you have been a productive part of society
and all the other stuff, you're still here illegally. Just
because you broke into the front door of my house
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and you're now sitting on my couch doesn't mean that
I need to be feeding you dinner because you cleaned
up the floor. I don't need to be taken care
of you. You broke into my house, get out, knock
on the door, ask me if you can come in,
Ask me if you can come in, and if I
can make some dinner for you, and I'll make that
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decision of yes or no. That's not how it's working
with these illegals. And and again, the the Democrats in
full beltown mode over all of this, and they're trying
their hardest to say that the immigrants are not getting
the illegal immigrants or the undocumented immigrants. I'm sorry, you've
got to get that right. Are we still using what
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was that other word that they had for a while.
I can't keep up with their their phrases all the time.
The what was it?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
It was?
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Uh newcomers, remember that one? What a dumb phrase that was.
But the illegal aliens? You can't call people illegal, Yes,
we can and we're doing it. So get over it
with the fact that they are here. This is what
the what the the left wants. And think about the
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hundreds of billions of dollars that we have already spent
on illegals and what it's doing to the the leftist communities.
And that's the other thing. We in the that live
in the the blue areas, the blue run cities, sure
we have them. I mean, look, there was just some
bust the other day again of some illegals here in
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Bay County, Florida. And you know, Bay County, Florida and
the surrounding area. We are very very much so Republican,
sixty seventy percent Republican. But we yeah, we've had some
illegals here, but we don't have the crime, the issues,
and everything else that that some of the blue areas have.
And again, Donald Trump is just going in and cleaning
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up the blue areas. He's not going after the citizens,
the hardworking Americans whose taxpayer dollars are going to all
this stuff, The hard working American citizens whose hall are
being broken into, businesses are being ravaged, and their children
are being murdered and daughters and wives being raped. We're
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not seeing that in the red cities. We're only seeing
that in the blue cities. And Donald Trump is trying
to help that, and the left like is completely opposed
to it. They just, oh, man, it's so mean what
you're doing to the illegals. What do you mean is mean?
What we're doing to the illegals? What about the young
woman who'd been murdered? How is that not mean? How
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about grandma who's trying to go to the grocery store,
go play bingo or whatever it is that she's going
off to do, and she gets to living crap kicked
out of her in the subway by an illegal immigrant.
What about Dad who's on his way into the office
to work a hard day's work so that he can
come home and provide for his family, and some piece
of crap comes up and carjacks's car and runs away
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with it. Or better yeah, carjacks the car and shoots
kills dad. Where's the outrage about that? And they don't
get upset up about it, And instead the left, the
politicians are jumping on this whole health care thing because sure,
it can be scary if you don't have health insurance
and you need it, But it's also kind of a
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it's kind of a false argument because look, the reality
is that most of Americans are healthy and don't need
the regular health insurance and don't need to be going
to the doctor all the time. So it's still a
small portion of the population that they're kind of fearing with.
But let's talk about the real problems that are out there,
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and they're not doing it. However, now with this shutdown
that the Democrats are trying to say is over healthcare
and trying to make sure that health care for everybody.
We had to get health care for everybody. That's what
Maxine Waters said when she was approached by a reporter
who approached her about saying, Hey, you guys are taking
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care of the illegals. No, we're not, stop saying that
you're a horrible reporter. We just want healthcare for everybody. See,
it's all in the words that they pick. But now
the budgets with the shutdown, and I don't have enough
time to dive into this, but we're going to in
a little bit with Russ Vaughant now teaming up with
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Donald Trump to go in and do the stuff that
the Democrats completely did not think about. They completely did
not think about the fact that once Donald Trump is
in the shutdown mode, he has the power and the
authority to cut programs, spending and personnel. So for the
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very few people in the country that are being affected
by the the health insurancey illegals, now you're going to
have programs, departments, people, budgets eliminated. Was it worth it, dems,
Because now in a very short period of time, you're
going to realize how bad of an idea that was.
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Welcome back to the Brian Rush Show here on Florida
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so much for getting your day started. With US Gavin
Newsom out to remind us about the shutdowns. October one,
twenty twenty five, President Trump, shutdown December twenty second, twenty eighteen,
President Trump. January two. It's twenty eighteen, President Trump. Almost like,
there's a pattern here, and you know what there is?
(37:06):
There is a pattern here. There is a pattern here
where the Democrats have voted thirteen different times for this
pretty much exact same continuing resolution, but now that Donald
Trump is in office again they vote against it. I
was for it before, I was against it, when I
was against it before I was for it, And then
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there was the left back, forward, up, down, left, right,
and she's a he. But yes, under Donald Trump, there
have been more shutdowns. But it's not because it's Donald
Trump that wanted the shutdown. Every single one of them
were because of the Democrats. The Democrats wanting things that
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were unreasonable and the Republicans actually doing what they should
be doing and pushing back and saying no, I don't
think so. But again, we have to be selective when
it comes to the facts. We don't want to we
don't want to look at all of the facts and
and and actually well be honest about them. Then, of
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course the left takes this information and they run with it.
But there is a pattern, and the pattern is the
Democrats thinking that everybody must bow down to them. Know
if ans or butts about it when they're in power,
sit down, Republicans. You guys lost, We're the ones in control.
When the Republicans win, the Democrats throw their fit. How
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good we can't have Well, you have to listen to us.
No we don't. That's the reason for why you lost
the election. We don't have to listen to you. But
they continually do that. It's just over and over and
over again. It's like, I really truly do want Chuck
Schumer to get primary Chuck you Schumer. He's got to go,
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absolutely positively has got to go. And the other thing too.
I I've asked this before when it comes to the Democrats,
is King Jeffries really the best you can do for
leadership in the House. I mean, when you look at
all the other people that are Democrats, is a King
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Jeffries really the best you can do? And when you
look at who the Democrats continually elevate up to a
position of power, it just you got to scratch your
head a little bit. And just be like, is there
not anybody better? I mean, I understand that right now
(39:40):
we are getting into a time where politics have gotten
so nasty, so ugly, that a lot of people don't
want to go down that road. And I understand that
even though the patriotic side of you should really say, well,
it's worth the sack her vices to be able to
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save our country. But we've gotten to a point now
where there's so much nastiness in our in our politics,
and they're in everything is just so negative, then why
would anybody want to get in it? So I guess
that's the reason for why we are stuck with people
like he Keim Jeffries, like AOC, like to lead a rashive,
(40:25):
and all these others that are just the worst people ever.
You're right, Chew, He's a DEI guy, And maybe that's
what it is. Maybe the reason for why he came
Jeffries is in that role was because of the DEI
and the fact that he is like the Timu version
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of Obama. Maybe they looked at it and said, look,
if we're going to replace the white woman, we should
replace her with a good looking, well spoken black guy,
very light skin black guy. But still you could say
he's black, and again there's plenty of black Democrats that
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actually could have gone in there and done a much
better job. As a matter of fact, last night's dinner
that I saw this morning could probably also do a
better job than Hakeem Jeffries. But the thing that's just
gotten out of control is the amount of lies in propaganda.
And again, this is I think another reason for why
(41:32):
the Smith Munt Act needs to come back and why
Donald Trump hasn't brought that back yet. It blows my
mind because it would force the media to stop with
their propaganda and going right along with it. It'll force
the media for the next time that you have Hakeem
Jeffries that comes on and says that not a single
(41:53):
dime or even Chuck shu it comes on and says
not a single dime of tax payer money has been
spent on illegals healthcare or insurance. That's when they should
be doing their job and saying, well, actually, you know what, senator,
you are absolutely right, but however, according to these numbers,
we've spent X number of billions of dollars on their healthcare,
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not their health insurance, their health care. So explain that one,
but they don't do it because the media is bought
right into the loony left as well. All right, we
got to take a break for our top of the hour.
We'll be right back just a minute. This is the
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It is a Red Friday, brought to you by our
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remember everyone deployed, including our ICE agents that are out
deployed around the country trying to make this country a
safer place. And can I just say what Riley Gaines
last night gave birth to a baby girl. First off,
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I had no idea that Riley Gaines was even pregnant.
But aside from that, she posted a photo with her,
her the hubby and their their brand new daughter. Can
I just say for somebody who just gave birth last night? Durnam,
I mean, I'm ladies, I know you might not want
(44:58):
to hear this because I know that you know pregnancy.
It it does something to a woman's body and it
changes it all up. But Riley, that is it's not fair.
It's not fair too well one men, uh and two
women for you to look that good after giving birth.
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I'm just I'm I'm a little loss at words there.
If you haven't seen the photo yet, she looks pretty good.
And again I had no idea she was pregnant like
I've been seeing her do all these things now. Idea,
I guess that whole thing about working out and staying fit,
actually there might be something to that, who dow. But anyhow,
congratulations to Riley Gaines on the birth of her her
(45:43):
brand new daughter. And and of course now she has
even more of a a reason to fight for women's
rights and for women in sports because now she's got
a daughter to fight for. Right there, sot her congratulations.
By the way, today is also a Puffy sentencing. Sean
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Puffy Comb's puff Daddy is expected to be sentenced later
on today. We'll see what he gets, see if it
will be a slick sentence or not. If you get that,
you get that, and if you do, you're sick and
perverted just like me, and I appreciate that. So we'll
wait for that news coming up later on today what
he ends up getting for a sentencing and the the
(46:25):
trolling continues with Donald Trump. Obviously. The one big thing
that's out there right now are the memes with with
the Keem Jefferies and Chuck you Schumer, which is absolutely hilarious,
But the White House has decided to step it up
a little bit now. One of the controversies that has
come about is the the halftime show that is coming
(46:48):
up for the Super Bowl with Bad Bunny. Bad Bunny
is going to be doing the Super Bowl show, which one,
he doesn't speak English. If he does, he doesn't sing
anything in English. Everything is Spanish. The number of Hispanics,
the percentage of Hispanics that actually watched the Super Bowl
versus everybody else extremely low. On top of that, Bad
(47:13):
Bunny is a anti Donald Trump, anti Ice, and illegal
immigration enforcement person, so he's not exactly somebody that the
majority of the football watching audience is going to want
to tune in to see. The White House has decided
(47:33):
to troll a little bit more. The White House announced
that there's going to be Ice agents that will be
present during the Super Bowl for the Bad Bunny performance,
which I think is absolutely hilarious. Bad Bunny even said
that he is not going to perform anywhere in the country,
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and the reason why he didn't want to perform anywhere
in the country is that he is afraid that his
fan base is gonna get locked up by Ice, so
he's not going to do it. And now the fact
that Ice is going to be there at the performance
is hilarious. Shoes right, he's a trainning. I are we
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allowed to use that word tranning?
Speaker 6 (48:17):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (48:17):
Is that politically correct? I don't even know what the
hell he is, to be honest with you, I think
he's just I don't think he's a transgender or tranny
like the the the gen xers we like to call it,
because that's what it was. Let's let's just be what
it was. It's a tranny. I can't believe you'd say
those where there's so offensive, good sit down and cry.
But he's just a typical Hollywood entertaining freak is a
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freak show. And I think a lot of it is
that that whole attention getting thing. I'm gonna show up
to an award show or to some ceremony, you know,
dressed in high heels and a skirt. It's like, wow,
that's that's greater whatever. But again, the fact that ice
agents are going to be present and at the super Bowl,
I think it's hilarious and there'll be many ways that
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they can get away with it too. If Donald Trump decides, hey,
I'm going to go to the super Bowl, then the
Secret Service is going to take over security of the
of the super Bowl. And when they do that. They
do like to bring in other agencies for very large
events to assist in the UH in the security details.
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And if you have a bunch of ICE agents that
have to be scattered all around the super Bowl in
places where the camera could be there and they've got
to have I'm getting too much joy out of that,
I really am. I'm like, in the back of my head,
I've got the wheels rolling saying that, seeing how how
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that's going to impact him and whether or not he'll
be Like if ICE agents were stationed at the the
the en stands for where he would have to come in,
if ICE agents were the ones that had to like
escort him around, that would be hilarious. It would absolutely
be hilarious. Uh to see happen. I can't wait. I
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might watch the Super Bowl, uh, just to see what
happens with that. So we'll see. So the with the
continuing resolution that is going down which has now shut
down the government. Uh, this is again one of the
things that that Chuck Chuck you Schumer has has not
calculated into. And I don't think Keem Jeffries did either
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the steps that now Donald Trump is able to do.
And of course we are. We are hearing over and
over again about how the Republicans are not stepping up
to the plate to negotiate, and and they just walked
away from everything. It's like, no, they'd been trying to
get this done for a while because remember despite the
fact that the the the House should have been working
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on the actual budget for the past month, they have
been working on the Continuing Resolution. So for the past
month they've been working on the Continuing Resolution, trying to
get the Democrats involved, and the Democrats come to the
table say we might have spend one point five trillion,
now there's more, and we want more healthcare for all
the illegals. They've had the opportunity to do this. As
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Speaker Johnson had said, there's nothing to negotiate. It's something
that this Continuing Resolution is something that had been passed
thirteen times by Democrats. And now Donald Trump, who he
says he didn't want the shutdown, but there's parts of
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me that go, I think in the back of his
head he was kind of hoping for it. Because what
ended up happening as soon as the shutdown goes in,
the President and his team now gets to stemp up
and go all right, figure out what is essential, what's
not essential, who to lay off, what to close, what
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not to close. Let's go and now the President of
the United States and his team gets to unilaterally make
that decision. And at this point in time, and as
Donald Trump even said it, he's like, look, will close
programs and commissions and and you know, get rid of
certain people. And we're just going to do it. And
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he posted on his true social that he would be
meeting with is it vauked or vaunt vaut I? Hear
his name pronounced like fifteen different ways. So Russ. He's
going to be a meeting with Russ, the Budget Director,
and they're going to be determining which of the as
Donald Trump put to determine which of the many Democrat agencies,
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most of which are a political scam, he recommends to
be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be
temporary or permanent. And remember that's the catch right there,
that now Donald Trump can make some permanent cuts that
in order for them to be restored, they're going to
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have to go back to Congress. Then they're going to
have to pass a bill to restore those things. And
without the Republican's assistance, not going to happen. But Donald
Trump went on to say that I can't believe the
radical left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They're not
stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting
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to quietly and quickly make America great again. President DJ tamsprise.
He didn't end that with thank you for your attention
to this matter. But you know what, he's got a point.
I mean, first off, he now has this unprecedented opportunity
to do these cuts that could be permanent, shutting down
program sutting down commissions, getting rid of employees, and trimming
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the fat in our federal government. And he can't believe
that they gave him that opportunity. And to be honest
with you, I don't think most of them knew they did.
And I think that in the coming days, as Donald
Trump starts going and cut this and cut that and
cut this, that's when the radical left, the aocs will
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be like, oh my god, what's going on? Why is
Donald Trump doing this? He shaidn't be able to. You mean,
he can do it because we voted this shut down
the government. Oh my god, like my office door was open,
and why didn't these Republicans come negotiate with me. But
maybe there is some truth to what Donald Trump said
at the end of his statement that maybe this is
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their way of wanting to quietly and quickly make America
great again, because again, not all the Democrats are stupid,
but they also know that if they go down certain roads,
then it could affect them when it comes to reelections
and winning back the House. So if we come out
and say we shut down the government or that we
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voted to shut down everything, but it's all because of
Donald Trump, and it's his fault to Donald Trump bad.
But in the background, they can sit there and go, whoo,
it's not gonna be me getting the blame for shutting
down that program that never should have existed to begin with,
and said that program's gone like it needed to be,
and Donald Trump gets the blame for it or credit,
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however side you want to look at it. So there
may actually be some truth to that. But again, now
Donald Trump has got the free will to go crazy.
And of course that post that that Trump had made
on truth Social comes as him and Russ are continuing
to implement broad reductions in the federal bureaucracy, which is
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what we've wanted. We want that bureaucracy to be cut.
And remember, if somebody is a non essential government employee,
then that means they were not needed to begin with.
Now how they define the non essential is going to
be interesting, of course, they're going to be like, see,
we have janitors that are being let go. Now a
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janitor should be essential. A janitor that is cleaning up
the Capitol building and cleaning up the parks, and that's essential.
Got to have somebody to.
Speaker 1 (56:17):
Clean this up.
Speaker 3 (56:18):
So an essential employee Now, the assistant of the assistant,
of the assistant, and the intern of the intern of
the assistant. Those are things that are non essential. There
are departments in programs that are out there that are
non essential, that are not needed in this country. So
it should go. But russ He revealed earlier this week
(56:39):
the cancelation of nearly eight billion dollars in the federal
green energy products, which targeted blue and blue leaning states
like California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, and a whole host
of others, didn't go to any of the red states,
all to the blue states, and the administration also confirmed
that eighteen billion dollars in infrastrutructure projects in New York City,
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including the Hudson Tunnel project and the second Second Avenue Subway,
would be placed on hold pending review of contracting practices. Now, remember,
if there's anybody that understands how to do that, it's
Donald Trump. You remember the man who said, hey, look
looking outside of my window. Here there's that skating rink.
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You guys, can you finish?
Speaker 1 (57:26):
All right?
Speaker 3 (57:27):
Tell you what, I'm gonna finish it. I'm gonna finish
it on time. I'm gonna finish it under budget. The
thing that the city has been able to do city
was like, all right, sure, Donald Trump turns around and boom,
done under budget and ahead of schedule. So that if
there's anybody that knows how to do that, it's the contractor.
And we have seen so many of these quote unquote
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infrastructure projects where they have not done well. Look at
the billions of dollars that have been spent for a
mile of the high speed rail in California, something they've
been working on for how long now, I mean, I
don't even remember when they started that project. You also
have the solar farm, the big solar farm that has
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been going down for what about ten years, and they
just shut it down because they went, huh, look at that.
It didn't work. It wasn't producing anywhere near the energy
that we thought it was going to, and it was
costing us billions of dollars. Sorry, we failed shut it down.
When it comes to doing infrastructure in this country, By
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the way, this is something that just it annoys me,
and I know it annoys a lot of you too,
especially those that live here in Florida. Because I don't
know who's in charge of infrastructure projects here in the
state of Florida. I'm beginning to think that it might
be a Democrat, I really am, because they can't get
anything done. How long did it take for the in
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the Central Panhandle area here to do roads like Highway
seventy seven. It had to have taken twenty year years
easily to do that project. And I don't even think
it's completely done yet. I think they stopped at a
certain point. How long does it take to get these
projects done? So, yeah, we need to work on infrastructure.
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We need to do the contracting practices a little bit better.
We need to make sure that we're not spending absorbent
amounts of money and things aren't getting done on time.
So sure, the Hudson Tunnel project, in the Second Avenue subway,
and all these other infrastructure projects, they need to be
put on hold and reviewed. We need to start doing
this in a smart, effective financial way. That's not going
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to be a problem. But Russ also played a pretty cool,
pretty central role too in shaping the federal operations. In August,
when it came to a whole bunch of other projects,
Marco Rubio, by the way, pointed him to oversee the
close out of the US Agency for International Development, the USAID,
following Congress's approval of the nine billion dollars recession package
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that eliminated funding for the USAID and PBS and everybody else.
The trimming is happening, and the trimming right now is
gonna be even more mouth watering than watching Dad stand
there in front of the Thanksgiving turkey and carving into
that and that first knife slice goes into that and
you see that juiceese stares come off of that thing
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and your mouth starts to water. Oh, this is gonna
be good. I'm gonna enjoy every second of this, and
I'm also gonna enjoy the meltdowns from the left. Donald
Chump is a bad guy, and he's taking away all
of our infrastructure projects, and he's shutting down the healthcare
and oh this is the worst. Now, Actually, what this is,
this is what we wanted. It's a Red Friday, brought
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the studio, back in the Nagodov studio, which which we
have completely missed the studio. Hang on a second guests
coming up this morning on the show. By the way,
we do have at the top of the hour, h
Linda Cope from the Warrior Beach Retreat is gonna be on.
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We're gonna chat with her about the upcoming event that's
going on. Also, we have the the Doster Boys that
will be joining us coming up later on this morning
as well in the next hour of the show, where
we'll talk about a whole bunch of Florida things and
and get some of their thoughts and opinions on the
shutdown as well. So what else we got to talk about.
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I'm sorry, I'm just I'm a little giddy today for
some reason. Oh, Donald Trump's unhinged. Donald Trump's absolute unhinged.
You don't you don't understand how bad it is. And
and we've got to go to Madeleine Dean. I know who.
Madeleine Dean is a Democrat congresswoman from from Pennsylvania, which
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if you're a Democrat right now in Pennsylvania, you are
probably not thinking that you have a great future in
politics because Pennsylvania, the amount of people that are switching
over to the Republican Party and what Scott Presler, by
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the way, I got a total hats off to him.
What Scott Presler is doing in the state of Pennsylvania
with getting the registration push out and getting out there
and getting people to switch over to the Republican Party
has been amazing. And the thing that I love about
it with Scott is he is pretty much the opposite
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of what the left would like when it comes to
an operative on the Republican side. First off, he's gay.
That right there that throws the Democrats off. They're like,
oh my god, why is there a gay guy helping Theublicans.
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Doesn't he understand the Republicans don't like him. No, we
have no problem with it. And on top of that,
he is young and he's got the long hair thing going,
not like you know, pretty boy here, but just like
rock band kind of long hair. But the kid has
done an amazing job at getting that message out. And
this is one of these things where I look at
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it and I say, hey, RNC, will you will you
take a look at these young people that are helping
out the Republican Party. What are you doing to help them?
What are you doing to understand what's going on here? Well, ye, see,
the book says that we have to on this point
in the time, we have to turn to page number
fifty three, and we have these procedures we have to follow. No,
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you don't think outside the box, and that's exactly what's
going on. So again, oh Squirrel, props to him, to
Scott Presler for the amazing work that he's doing. He
really is, and they're attacking him. They are attacking him
like you wouldn't Belie leave from the Left, which I
find hilarious because I didn't think you were supposed to
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attack young gay people like that. But I guess if
you're a Republican it doesn't really matter. But back to
Madeline Dean. Madeline was on Anderson Cooper three point sixty
And again I know you're saying who, because nobody really
cares about Madeline Dean, But this is again an example
of the left. They were having a discussion about with
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Speaker Johnson, and Dean had said that I have told
him how deeply concerned I am that the president is
unhinged and unwell and our allies are noticing it, and
they're looking elsewhere for support, and our enemies are enjoying
it and they're embolded by it. What where, where? Where?
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Where is this? Madeline? Is is this a movie that
you're watching, You're reading a book somewhere, or are you
living in an alternate universe? Where where exactly is that?
Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
Again?
Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
Is it in your own fantasy world? Is this one
of the Democrat fantasy stories that they're sharing on Reddit
or something? Is that where you get this information from?
But John Berman, who was filling in for Anderson Cooper,
had said, you just called the president unwell again, what
do you mean by that? And I love this because
her response was, well, he's aging, aren't we all? Yeah,
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we're all aging, some age differently than others. But she
goes on to say that I think we can very
much so notice that there's a different man than he
was in his first term. Yeah, he's four years older,
of course, he's a different man. He's also a different
man because he was somebody that was abused and took
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so much crap that he changed as a man. He
changed as a because of the lessons that he had learned.
So yes, he's a very much so different man this
time around. And it would not have been so bad,
by the way, if Donald Trump was reelected. I don't
think that Donald Trump would be doing the stuff that
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he is doing today if Donald Trump got reelected in
twenty twenty, I really don't. I think the absolute best
thing that happened to this country, And I know this
sounds hard to say, but I'm just saying anyhow, the
best thing that happened in this country was Donald Trump
lost the election in twenty twenty, hands down one of
the best things to happen, because one had gotten to
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expose the Democrats for who they really truly are. We
saw four years of absolute chaos, and yes, those four
years sucked for us, but it also made us realize,
and it made Donald Trump realize how good we actually
had it under Trump and what the Democrats are really
truly doing, and what the deep state and the bureaucracy
and all this other stuff the problem that they are.
(01:08:00):
So Donald Trump woke up to it more. He had
a new mission. We woke up to it because of
the suffering that we had to do, and even Democrats
woke up to the suffering as well. So when Donald
Trump came around, it all changed. All right, we got
to take a quick break. We'll be right back. This
is the Brian Rush Show.
Speaker 7 (01:08:20):
Good morning, making liberals cry, one happy show at a time.
Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
This is the Brian Rust Show. All right, welcome back
to the show. Thank you so much for waking up
with us today. We went late on that break. My bad,
That's okay, it's all good. By the way, talking about Pennsylvania,
there's so much about Pennsylvania too that that is that's
got to be freaking out the Democrats. It really does,
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because the effort that is being put in and by
the way, not by the Republican Party, but by people
who want to make America better and starting off with
Pennsylvania because that is his home state. When we're talking
about Scott Presler and all the things that he's done,
it's amazing and it should be an example of what
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other states need to be doing and what other people
need to be doing. We need to be taking the
reins because look, I don't trust the Republican Party, the
National Committee, the RNC to do what is necessary to
do to win. I really don't. We have to get
out there and we have got to do more to
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spread the message and get that out. That's what we
need to do. And seeing him doing that, that is awesome.
And I know that we also have a lot of
people that listen to this show, watch this show, download
the podcast. In Pennsylvania. It's one of our top states
that we have often that is watching the show. And
we are still trying to figure out a good time
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to go up and do a visit to Pennsylvania, do
a weekend visit. I'm not sure when we're going to
do it, working on it. I mean, I just with
the week that I just had, I just spend a
lot of money on on on time away, which by
the way, I did not go to Disney at all. Well,
I can't say I didn't go to Disney. I did
go to Disney Springs, but I almost don't count that.
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But I didn't do the Disney thing, even though the
last day that I was in Orlando was when the
when the food, wine and food thing started at Epcot.
Has anybody ever been to that. I've been dying to
go to that, but fat boy Happy, I realized it
would probably have been a bad idea because immediately following
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my vacation, I had to go to the Mayo Clinic,
and if I spent all that day eating at the
wine and food festival, I probably would have weighed about
three hundred pounds when I got to the Mayo Clinic
on Tuesday. So I ruled that out, but instead I
did end up I didn't actually play any golf golf.
(01:11:05):
I went and played. It's not top golf, but it's
the other subsidiary of theirs that they've got, and that
sucked that I was not feeling good and I probably
shouldn't have done it anyway because I wasn't feeling good
and my body was sore. So I was like, you
know what, I got nothing else to do, Let's go
ahead and just let's go play. And I played and
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kind of regretted it. I really did. Ended up playing
one of the virtual golf courses and played the worst
game that I've ever played since I have been playing golf.
I mean, it was, it was bad. So now I
think what I need to do is get a new
golf coach. Ever since I got my new golf clubs,
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forget about it. It's like maybe I just need to
revert back to my old clubs, bring the old game
back or something. I don't know either way, coming off
the top of the hour, we do have the crew
Linda the Cope, and I'm sure that the rest of
the gang will also join us on the phone as
well from Warrior Beach Retreat. If you don't know what
the Warrior Beach Retreat is, we'll get into the details
(01:12:10):
of a bit a quickie on this. It's basically a
retreat for some of our wounded warriors and their caregivers
that we do here in Panama City Beach. It's been
going on now for the bottom Golf There's so many
things I'm gonna I'm gonna let that one go. But
it's an event that we've been doing here and on
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Panama City Beach now for fourteen to fifteen years. It's
a great event for our wounded warriors that we have
out there. It's a local thing, it's not affiliated with
any of the big guys, so it's an amazing experience.
So we will be talking about that coming up at
the top of the hour of the meantime, we are
in date number three of the shutdown, and whether or
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not we will see any relief on this, I don't know.
I'm willing to bet not. I'm willing to bet that
we probably won't see a recovery from the shutdown until
probably sometime next week. I think that's probably what we're
gonna see. But as we also see, you know, the
the Democrats coming out and calling out Donald Trump with
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him being unhinged and everything else. Bernie Sanders now jumping
into this too, and he was on MSNBC's All in
Over last night, and when he was talking with Chris Hayes,
Chris said, you know, you've been You've been in You've
served in Congress, in the Senate, You've served through a
number of different administrations with different presidents. I've covered a
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number of shutdowns. I've never seen a president during a
shutdown kind of gloating about the ability to punish people
or take stuff away from the people in the states
that didn't vote for him. Have you seen that before?
And of course, what he's referring to is the fact
that Donald Trump now looking at things and saying, look,
now we can do some cuts that need to be
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done because we can't get it through Congress. Now, this
is not a and I love how they're framing this that, oh,
he's going to punish the people who didn't vote for him. Now,
the punishment, by the way, is when those of us
in red states, our tax dollars have to go to
something that is not effective in blue states. That's that's
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a problem. We got an issue with that. But of
course Bernie Sanders comes back and he's like, oh, of
course I have you know, Chris, we're living in an
unprecedented dangerous moment, possibly the worst crisis in America since
a Civil war. Holy hell, are you? It's the worst
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crisis in America since the Civil War, according to Bernie Sanders,
because of the fact that our government shut down because
the Republicans didn't want to spend an additional one point
five trillion dollars that we cannot afford, and also didn't
want to give money and healthcare expenses to illegals. So
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because of that, according to Bernie Sanders, we are now
in the most unprecedentedly dangerous moment, possibly the worst crisis
in America since the Civil War. I would say this
little thing that happened back in the early nineteen hundred there.
What does that thing called the Great something? Oh yeah,
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great Depression. I think that might have been worse, even
though the name had great in it. I think that
was a little bit worse, maybe more than just a
little bit, but definitely worse than the unprecedentally dangerous moment
that we are in right now here in America that
we are living in. But he went on to say
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that you have a president who's acting unconstitutionally and illegally.
Guess what. These projects have been appropriated, They have been
signed by a president. It is legal to rescind them,
illegal to rescind them. And then basically to say, people
in Vermont, in New York and California, oh, you didn't
vote for Donald Trump, Well, we're going to take away
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funding that was supposed to go to your state. Illegal, outrageous, unconstitutional.
And then he continues on saying that you got a
president who's acting in an unprecedented way, who is a
megalomaniac who wants more and more power for himself and
his oligarchy friends. I want everybody to understand that, and
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you also to understand that if we can bankrupt this country.
There will be breadlines and soup lines for everybody. Nobody
will go hungry. It'll be amazing. I have been to
Soviet Russia where they had breadlines and it was delicious.
The bread was made every day and the soup was yummy. Bernie,
sit down and shut up. I mean seriously, because the
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things that Donald Trump is going after, like the eight
billion dollars in green energy projects, green energy projects that
don't work. Let's look at the Gigantic project right now
where it was it in California, the big solar plant
that had that was out there. We've seen it in
movies too. It's the one of the the big towers
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that are all up over the place. What was the
movie we've seen that in. I think it was in
one of the James Bond movies too. But there's there's
like these these towers that are up and it's surrounded
by solar panels and reflective things all over the ground,
and it was supposed to be a solar thing to
generate electricity. Well after billions of dollars that have been
dumped into this thing, it's not producing anything and it's
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not working, and they just shut it down after a
decade of that. This is the type of stuff that
is part of that eight billion dollar green energy initiatives
that they shut down. They're not going after just the
regular people and things that affect everybody's everyday lives and
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in these states, No, they're going after the things that
do not work in that are of fantasy, that are
spending billions of dollars of the American tax payer money. Now,
if we were able to Bernie, and I know you
don't understand this because it's complicated and its money, but
if we were able to not spend money on things
that are not effective, like solar farms out in the
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middle of the desert that doesn't do anything, then that
means that we the people would be charged less in
taxes because you wouldn't need to spend so much. And
then if you were charging less in taxes, then that
means we the people of Vermont and New York in
California would have more money in their pockets to be
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able to do the things that Oh ready for this one,
hang on, this is gonna hurt they want to do.
And I love it when you see things like the
politicians in places like Massachusetts where they get out there
and they keep spreading this, and I honestly don't know
where the poll was done. And I have seen this
(01:19:04):
several times. And I can tell you as somebody who
is number one from Massachusetts and two I have lived in. God,
how many states have I lived in? Now Here nine,
ten or eleven different states that I have lived in
in my adult life. And I can tell you right
now that as much as I love Massachusetts, beautiful state
(01:19:28):
really is at more than half the people suck there.
But when I live in other states where I am
not taxed to death like in Massachusetts, things are better.
Like I lived in Alabama, I lived in Mississippi and
things were okay. I moved to Florida didn't have to
pay any state income tax.
Speaker 6 (01:19:48):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (01:19:49):
Look at that. That's a lot more money in my pocket.
That's money that I can decide what I want to
do with it. That's fantastic. In Massachusetts, not only do
they have the income tax, but they we have the
tax on the income tax, the tax on taxing the
income tax, and then there's the tax of filing the tax,
and the tax for the paper that was filed on
the taxes. And then there was a tax for taxing
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the taxes, and then there's a tax just because of
the fact that we taxed you. They call it Taxachusetts
for a reason. And when you start taking more and
more of the people's money away and not giving them
anything in return, I mean, come on, I don't want
bread and soup. I want to make the decisions for myself.
If I want to go get a steak, I want
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to go get a steak. If I want to go
have you know, a nice bowl of soup, I'll go
have a bowl of soup. I don't want the government
forcing me into that position. And that's exactly what the
Democrats will end up doing. We're spending more and more
of our money we cannot afford, in addition to one
point five trillion dollars. As a matter of fact, we
(01:20:52):
should be cutting one point five trillion dollars out of
our budget so that we can start paying some of
our debt. But the Democrats don't get it, and neither
does Bernie. But you have to understand. The bread, it's delicious,
it was made last night, doesn't have a lot of
ingredients in it because we can't afford it. But you
get it for free, and we have to stop the oligarchies.
(01:21:16):
To stop the oligarchies. Uh. Speaking of which, by the way,
can anybody point them out in the Republican Party right now?
Can anybody point out the Donald Trump Republican oligarchies who
are becoming wealthier right now? Anybody do it? Because yes,
we do have people like Scott Bessett, who's running the Treasury,
(01:21:40):
very wealthy man. We have several other very wealthy individuals
that are in Donald Trump's cabinet, all of which have
left their multimillion dollar jobs for a job that pays
a couple hundred thousand dollars a year and you have
to be attacked in public and it's stressful and the
(01:22:00):
whole nine yards, and they're the problem. Isn't it kind
of odd? How as Donald Trump and his administration dig
into all of the waste and fraud and abuse that happened,
and we shut down programs like the USAID that was
spending hundreds of billions of dollars on things, and all
(01:22:23):
of a sudden, there are Democrats that are that are
complaining that they're losing their money, and Democrats that are
not becoming as wealthy as they once were.
Speaker 6 (01:22:33):
I want to.
Speaker 3 (01:22:34):
And it's also kind of amazing too that with all
of these programs that are going on where there are
people that are being paid enormous amounts of money through
projects like the USAID, and about seventy something percent of
the wealth in America is belonging to the Democrats. So
(01:22:55):
if you want to start talking about the oligarchies, let's
talk about the Democrat all archies who have benefited from
all of these programs that have spent billions and billions
of dollars. Let's think about all of the Democrats that
got very wealthy during COVID. So Bernie, save it with
(01:23:17):
the oligarchy thing. By the way, another person who mysteriously
became very wealthy at one hundred and seventy four thousand
dollars a year, Well, you have to understand, I wrote
a book, and I wrote a book and bought multiple
houses and cars. It's my money, leave it alone. Okay,
(01:23:38):
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know why these people cannot learn their lesson. I really can't.
Harvard University. Now, let's put some of this into context.
You think about Harvard University, what do you think about
You think about the elite, You think about the Fortune
five hundred companies with the CEOs of those companies. You
think about the top notch lawyers. You think about all
(01:24:58):
of the elite of our educated. Right, Harvard University now
has has hired a drag queen named Lahorevajistan, who is,
by the way, a visiting professor. So it's not like
they just went down the street and they saw a
show and they said, hey, you want to come do
a class. No, this is somebody who's actually a professor
(01:25:21):
at another university who's going to teach a course coming
up in this this spring semester, and they're going to
be teaching a course on the TV show RuPaul's Drag Race.
My only question is this, how the hell does that
(01:25:44):
apply to anything that a Harvard graduate would be moving
on to doing. Now let me let me let me
put it in this Okay, So, hey, welcome in for
the interview. I have a seat. Okay, So Harvard grad. Awesome,
that's great. Let's see what are your business management's Oh
(01:26:07):
you took the Ruphaul Drag Show course. Oh you're going
to be you know what? Hey, excuse me a second,
cancel all the rest of the interviews. We found our
winner over here. No, no, no, you don't understand this
one took the Rupehaul Drag Show course. We got a winner.
Oh my god, this is amazing. When can you start?
Speaker 8 (01:26:30):
That is.
Speaker 3 (01:26:32):
Just as bad as these colleges which I believe Harvard's
also doing this one a course on Taylor Swift. The
Ivy League schools have turned into the poison type. You're right,
they have. It's the poison Ivy League schools. Now, I
(01:26:57):
can understand doing a class on the drag thing, on
the transgender thing, where you look into it and you know,
actually study that type of stuff. I totally get that,
because this way you could you could actually do a
(01:27:18):
course where you try to analyze the life of somebody
who has gone transgender, look into the medical aspect of it,
and there's so much that you could actually do. I
mean seriously, on a serious note, there's a lot that
you could actually do if you were to teach a
class on the transgender lifestyle. If you did it right.
(01:27:41):
When you when you go down and you analyze the
mental health, you analyze what people are doing and how
they're doing things to their body, what's affecting them, that
would make sense. But to teach a course on Rule
Paul's Drag Race, which is a TV show, it's a
reality ish to TV show, and Harvard is going to
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have a visiting professor come in and do that. By
the way, the visiting professor is one from Tufts University,
where he taught theater, dance, and performance studies. And we'll
also be teaching a Studies of Gender and Sexuality program
thanks to the Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus. By the way,
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there is a difference, and I'm gonna point this out,
there's a difference between a drag queen and transgender. A
drag queen is a regular dude who goes off and
gets dressed up like a woman. A transgender is somebody
that will transform their body to be the other way around.
This person is not a drag queen because he's got
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a he's got a set of barrels on him that
are impressive. That is not something typically of a drag
And with that we'll be right back. Good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:29:07):
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it ain't no boast can't get up the change and
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mind o Joe.
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Speaker 3 (01:30:43):
All right, welcome back to out number three of the show.
Good morning, and thanks so much for waking up with
us here on the Florida Man Radio Network and of
course also streaming line on Rumble and Wimkin and uh
want to welcome for the first time on the show
since we've been on Florida Man Radio. Been a longtime
guest of the show. But the Kope Clan, that's what
I'm going to call you guys because it's easier because
(01:31:03):
I know that there's multiple yew here. But you guys,
Linda and Philip and the rest of the game. You
guys are in charge of the Warrior Beach Retreat. You
founded that here in Panama City. And for those that
are listening on the network that I've never heard of
this because obviously you've been in an element of Panama
City for a long time. But we now have the
audience out in for Walton Beach and then the audience
(01:31:26):
out towards our east throughout Florida. Tell us what exactly
is the Warrior Beach Retreat.
Speaker 8 (01:31:34):
Hello everyone, and Brian, thank you so much for having
me and my husband, John's still in bed on the show.
We appreciate it. We started this about sixteen years ago
after our son, Army Sergeant Joshua Cope lost both legs
above the knee and wounded his hands buying Ied Blast
and Baghdad, Iraq, and we saw how war affects the family.
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You know, it's not just a veteran, but especially the caregiver.
So we began doing retreats twice a year for a
week for combat wounded warriors and their spouses or caregivers.
Sometimes we'll have a parent come with the veterans and
they come from all across the country and it's just
the time to reconnect, get away from in laws, outlaws, kids,
(01:32:18):
doctor's appointments, and just to heal. And we have now
we have eight couples that come from all across the
country and they literally heal each other because they could
talk and communicate with what they're going through because war
is hell as a mom with a son severely wounded,
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and the ramifications are for a NiFe time. And we
also do smaller retreats twice a year. You come on
a big retreat once than a smaller retreat once to
continue to strengthen your marriage. And we're not affiliated, as
you know, Brian, with Wounded Warrior Project, not at all affiliated.
We are a local five O one C three charity
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right here in Bay County.
Speaker 3 (01:33:01):
Yeah. Yeah, And has it really been sixteen years? Because
I was I was talking about it earlier. I thought
it was like fourteen fifteen years, But man, it just
time flies.
Speaker 8 (01:33:11):
Yeah, time flies. And you've been part of it, Brian,
I think since from the.
Speaker 3 (01:33:16):
Gig go and you've been there with I think like
year two is I think the first time that I
got involved in that one.
Speaker 9 (01:33:22):
But yeah, and it yeah, broyh.
Speaker 8 (01:33:25):
Yeah, you can cry, Brian's.
Speaker 3 (01:33:28):
I'm not a cry baby. I could just be sensitive
at the appropriate times. And you know, when when you
see the stuff that you guys do with the Worry
Beach Retreat. This is one of these things that for
most people, they don't understand what really goes on because
what most people will see is the ceremony and the
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big parade that is open to the public, and this
year it's going to be on November sixth, so mark
that down to your calendar. We'll get more into that
here in a second. But what people don't realize is
what goes on behind the closed doors. And like you said,
you're you're all about strengthening the marriages and giving it
an outlet to to get away from the normal life
and to help out and everything, and what people don't
(01:34:10):
see on the background is the absolute emotional aspect of it.
And again for those of us that literally we're not warriors,
we're not and there's a lot of people that have
been involved in this that don't have children that are
in the military. Unlike you. We also don't have people
who have been injured in combat. So we're just there
(01:34:33):
to help out and to see what these people go
through on the really a spiritual healing and the experience
that they get. You can't help, but at least once
or twice when you're there, tear up and if not,
have to excuse yourself. It's happened to everybody that's been involved.
(01:34:54):
I mean it really truly has.
Speaker 8 (01:34:56):
We put prayer and fasting honestly in these events that
we host, and we pray for God to send each
couple that's supposed to be here. And it's so neat
to see the dynamic when they come together. How wow,
because they connect her, they've known each other, even they
served in war together, because they don't know who's coming
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until they get here. But there's so many unseen wounds
of war that none of us can even comprehend that
have never been there. And you know, my dad was
in the military, have family that was in the military,
but until our son Josh was there, and you know,
we're I was with him at Walter Reed and oh
my gosh, so many you know stories of like a
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woman coming in and taking off her wedding band, laying
it down, saying I did not sign up for this,
and walking out the door with her husband laying there,
you know, because we were on the amputee floor at
Walter Reed and it just just broke my heart. And
people don't see from the outside what goes on in
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the inside. And with his families deal with It's just
and it's a lifetime. You know, our son mentioned well,
his wife mentioned us about a month ago. You know,
he lost his legs. What about seventeen years ago they
got blown up, And it's a miracle he's alive because
he lost too much blood. But my brother, who was
a flight surgeon in the Air Force to actually called
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ballade to give us. I knew his legs were gone
before his wife and she was in lonstool. He said, Linda,
the only reason Joshua is alive is because you fasted
and prayed for him as a mom, because he just
lost too much blood. He said, he lost too much blood.
So I just encourage every mother out there to always
pray for your kids, even if they're not in combat,
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because it's not the same world we were raised in.
But it just, you know, it's just I'm just grateful
God gave us this vision to help thousands that have
come through here over the years to have hope and
healing to carry on and they can relate to each other.
You know, when you've been there and you've been in
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the battlefield of fox All or whatever with other veterans
and you come together.
Speaker 6 (01:37:11):
You get it.
Speaker 9 (01:37:11):
Yeah, you know, you get it.
Speaker 3 (01:37:13):
And yeah, and the interesting thing too about this event,
And I know that you pointed out that some of
them have served together, but there's a lot that just don't.
And there's a thing with military and milituitary people know this,
that there's a camaraderie with one another, and the camaraderie
that you see that gets developed there because we're not
talking about people that just went through battle together. We're
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not talking about people who've gone through the wife leaving
them for whatever reason. We're talking about people who have
been emotionally hurt, physically hurt. It's a whole different level.
And to see the camaraderie build up. And you know,
I've been part of you guys for at least fourteen
fifteen years now, and there are people from the very
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first one that I that I have done that I
still communicate with on a regular basis. And and I'm
not even a warrior. I was just there helping out,
hanging out with these people and chatting with them, and
I developed a relationship with some of them. And I've
seen the relationships that they have built amongst themselves and
and what it does, it really truly is amazing. And
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to hear their stories and to see them bond with
each other. And again, most of what happens with the
Warrior Beach Retreat all happens behind closed doors, completely closed
to the public, because it's not about the public. It
is about these these warriors and you guys do some
amazing things of just it's really a mental therapy or
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a spiritual therapy for them, and it's it's just great
to see and and of course the big thing that
the public does get to see, uh, and that is
the parade, and that itself, that is that's an emotional
bag right there to say that, And the parade is
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coming up on November sixth, and again, Warriorbeach Retreat dot
org is the website where you can go for information
about everything as well as contribute because donations are always
needed to make this happen because it's expensive to do.
But tell everybody about the parade and the experience that
these guys get.
Speaker 8 (01:39:19):
Well, most of them went straight from the battlefield to
the hospital to home and never got a hero's welcome.
And then also in the very front of the parade,
we have veterans that served before nine to eleven.
Speaker 9 (01:39:30):
We try to get.
Speaker 8 (01:39:30):
About five Vietnam.
Speaker 3 (01:39:32):
We even have.
Speaker 8 (01:39:33):
World War Two vets that ride sometime, as everybody knows
how specially the Vietnam vets were treated. But they're in
the front of the parade, and thankfully our Sheriff's going
to have his helicopter flying over the parade this year.
We have tremendous support from the police escorting them. But
they have a car with a magnet with a flag
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on it with their name, and they ride down the
streets from the church, from the hotel well to the
church and healing. They're in their own cars, and healing
comes to them by seeing all these people on the
side of the road thanking them. They shout out their
name because their names on their magnents, and they have
their flags, they have their sides, all generations of people
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out there honoring these men and women that have served,
and that in itself is life changing for them. And
that's why they're in their own car. They have a
box of cleanic and they go, why am I getting
this box of cleanic?
Speaker 10 (01:40:34):
You don't find out, But I.
Speaker 8 (01:40:35):
Just cannot thank the beautiful community for getting out there
and lining the streets because they have no idea the
impact this makes. And I think it brings healing to
them too, because we've seen people out there holding pictures
of their child that was lost, that was killed in
the war, and it's like the parade is also for
their child, and they're holding a poster with their child's picture.
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And then we all lose it too when that happens.
And then the military behind the dive school is lining
the fence and also Coastguard in uniforms saluting these men
and women, which you know, I thank god when this
happened to our son. We were in Bay County because
this is such a patriotic community. But the parade route
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is on our website Warriorbeach Retreat dot org. And if
they want a flag, the halfway bridge is if they
go to the Hathway Bridge, they're giving out full size
American flags for them to hold. And that looks so
cool with the breeze blowing and all. But I just
encourage everyone to please go to the website Warriorbeach Retreat
dot org for the parade route and line the streets.
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And we are leaving at four o'clock from Peer Park
and we're going to the church's first Baptist Church in
Lynn Haven and the ceremony is at seven pm and
it's free and open to the public, and we have
two time Alabama Senator Hank Irwin is our speaker.
Speaker 3 (01:42:01):
Awesome, awesome, and of course you've in the past have
have had a lot of amazing speakers, including you know
the last one that you had, you know, Alan West,
who's who's now kind of just in love with this
this program and one of the things I also want
to talk about too when it comes to this parade,
because it's it's the emotion thing that that again people
(01:42:22):
don't understand. It's like you you're you're doing a very
patriotic thing when you go out by you know, spending
literally a couple of minutes because you guys are because
of the ad that this is escorted by the police and
they shut down roads for it. So I mean, it
is it is pretty on time. If you if you
look up your area and it says that they're going
to be coming through here at five fifteen. It may
(01:42:43):
be five sixteen, it may be five fourteen, but it's
right then when they're going to be there, So you
don't want to be there and people will get out
there and they'll wave their flags, they'll they'll have their signs,
they'll just stand out there and shake their hands and
wave at them and stuff like that. What people don't
understand is at the end of that parade, when these
men and women are getting out of their car, the
(01:43:05):
emotional overload of what hit them. I mean is it's powerful.
I mean, I've been there for so many of them
and to see these people come out of they're almost
zombified when they get out, Like holy cow. I mean,
that's just how patriotic this area is to subtly so
(01:43:26):
that is fantastic and people really should get out there.
If you are in the Bay County area on Panama
City Beach, Panama City, Lynhaven, as the parade goes through,
just get out there and do it, because you just
you don't understand the impact of just that small few
minutes of your life of holding a flag and waving
to them and what it does.
Speaker 8 (01:43:46):
It's huge. And if you have a motorcycle and you
would like to ride in the parade, we love having
the people with their bikes, and a lot of the
bikers are veterans. Show up at three point thirty at
the JC Penny parking lot at Pier Park and they'll
they'll tell you where to ride in the parade and
it's it's powerful. But again and then we have so
(01:44:06):
many people that support us, like the venues in restaurants
throughout Bay County and we you know, I don't want
to list them because I'll miss them, but that's what
makes these you know, possible. But and then line the
streets of the parade route with signs or flags, and
it's so beautiful to see these people out there, you know.
(01:44:27):
And it's on Warriorbeach Retreat. Dot org is where you
can get the parade route. Like Brian said, my husband
is a man of detail, and he goes we drive
the parade route and he writes down the times where
we are at every place so people know, Okay, I'm
not having to wait out here for an hour. I
can be out here at this time and so and
it's just so special. We were bringing a sign to
(01:44:50):
for our store to put in their window the other
day and the lady showed us that she has one
of the small American flags that for like ten years,
she's written a date every time she's been there and
gone outside to watch the parade she had the stick
was all these dates on it.
Speaker 6 (01:45:06):
I thought, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 8 (01:45:07):
So it's just it's just beautiful to live in a
patriotic community that wants to do what they can to
honor the sacrifice and service of these men and women.
And like you said, Brian, from when they get here
and when they leave. You were talking about after the parade,
But these guys when they get here, because some of
them do not leave their houses. Some of them don't
(01:45:30):
leave their homes when they get here, and when they leave,
they're like a total different person.
Speaker 10 (01:45:34):
And they each get they are.
Speaker 8 (01:45:35):
They each get like a biobook, like a yearbook with
everybody's picture and their story, and they keep up with
each other. They give each other their contact information, and
so they, like you said, they've become friends for life
of people that get it. You know, you get it,
you know you understand, and it's just, you know, like
the ladies have a day where they're together for a
(01:45:57):
spa day and they can connect and share their stories.
And then the guys go deep sea fishing. Brian, You've
gone fishing with them, Hammionship.
Speaker 9 (01:46:05):
I have.
Speaker 3 (01:46:05):
I've done the deep sea fishing. But you know what,
Linda I gotta say this because you guys always do
this where you send the guys off fishing and the
women to the to do the SPA day.
Speaker 9 (01:46:14):
Rod, I know what you're gonna say.
Speaker 3 (01:46:17):
I look, I'm a huge proponent of the SPA day
because I don't I don't care how manly you are,
you go do it. And you're gonna just be like,
oh my god, why haven't When are you going to
do your spy day for the guys.
Speaker 8 (01:46:30):
I get that all the time from these veterans, But
I'm going sorry, from the guys. There are women veterans
that come to I'm going, no, you go out and
you get those smelly fish, you kiss us, you call.
Speaker 3 (01:46:41):
I'm telling you, Linda, you got to put that in there.
Give the guys that option, and they will. They will
walk away so relieved. But you know, there there's also
a darker side to a lot of what goes on
with our veterans. You know, there's obviously the twenty two.
Speaker 9 (01:46:57):
A day, yes.
Speaker 3 (01:47:00):
Which you know, I hate this. I thought I was
going to do this without crying the number of our
soldiers that that take their lives every day. Yes, I
know they say twenty to a day but that number
is way higher.
Speaker 9 (01:47:14):
It is it is.
Speaker 8 (01:47:16):
It's more like twenty three or twenty four.
Speaker 3 (01:47:18):
Yeah, on it.
Speaker 8 (01:47:18):
And that's that's what that's what we try to do
to keep that from happening with the couples that come,
because what happens, what we saw with our son, the
eggs hit the fan when you get out of the military,
because your support group's gone, you're isolated, you're alone. And
so many of them they're finding demons that nobody can understand.
And so when they come and they have other people
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that get it, they feel like, I am not alone.
My my wife, I deal with the same things as
this other battle buddy, and so they have somebody they
can connect with. And and eight we felt, we felt
was a good number because so many of them, you know,
they all want to sit at a restaurant with their
back to the wall, but that you can't do that. Yeah,
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there's eighteen with the speaker in his life, that'll be
in the restaurant. We're going, okay. But they're all watching
each other's back and it's interesting to see.
Speaker 3 (01:48:14):
That go on.
Speaker 8 (01:48:15):
But you know, my brother talked to my son Josh
because you know, his legs are so high above his knee.
He can out wear prosthetics, and you know, he's tried
many times to do them. And I think I was
telling this story before I got off track. His wife
told me about several months ago that Joshua is really
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missing his legs. I'm going I would have thought over
time you would kind of get used to it, but
you never get used to I mean, every time, even
at night, it gets up to go to the bathroom, has.
Speaker 10 (01:48:49):
Again this wheelchair. You know, you can't war as horrible
it is, and families instead have experienced it though, And
so I said, josh do you want to try to
get back on prosthetics, you know or what? But he,
you know, his wife said, he really misses his legs.
And so people need to understand that we need to
support these men and women that have have and and
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a lot of the injuries are the PTSD that you
don't understand, that we don't see, and there those were
worse for my son than losing his legs and his
hand being made, you.
Speaker 3 (01:49:22):
Know, but which is really one of more of the
big things with the Worry Beach Retreat that addresses it
addresses that that deep, dark, hidden pain that a lot
of them don't know how to come out and address
and you guys do a great job with that and Linda, Uh,
like we said, we can't do this without support. And
obviously support on the parade line is is a good thing,
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but it does cost a lot of money. I mean,
we're we're in a different time where you know, there
there's a lot of people that will will donate uh,
services and and money uh to make this happen, but
it still does cost a tremendous amount to do this.
How can people contribute to the Warrior Beach Retreat to
help out these these soldiers if they have I don't know,
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five dollars or one thousand dollars or whatever it is
that they may want to contribute to this amazing cause.
How do people help out?
Speaker 8 (01:50:13):
Well, they can go to our website Warriorbeach Retreat dot
org and they can see how they can donate. And
like you said, Brian, you know, years ago they used
to donate the rooms, but they haven't for like five years.
We have to pay for room for them to stay,
so it's different. But I wanted to say one thing
that my brother asked Josh. She said, why have you
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considered taking your life, which is like, why did you
ask my brother myself that? He said, Brian, josh how
do you feel about that? And Joshua said, I Am
not going to take my life because I'm living my
life for my friends that couldn't. He had so many
friends that died because he was with the Big Red
Ones that lost. They have the most casualties of the
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war in Iraq. And he said, I'm living my friends
that didn't. And so that that that is a mom
made me proud of him. And he's going, you know,
it's I'm not going to go that route because so
I have so many friends that wanted to live that
that couldn't. You know that that gave the ultimate sacrifice
for our freedom. So it's just you know, and we
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appreciate the prayers of everybody for every couple coming for
their lives to be touched and changed and to be
made whole in every way that they can. But like
you said, by donations are needed at Warriorbeach Retreat dot org.
Speaker 6 (01:51:32):
It's much appreciated.
Speaker 8 (01:51:33):
And we are local, yeah, and that not that the thing.
Speaker 3 (01:51:37):
You guys are a local group doing some great work.
The parade is coming up on November sixth, go to
Warriorbeach Retreat dot org for information on that the route
and how you can donate or remember, every little bit helps,
whether it's five dollars or one thousand dollars or whatever
it is that you can contribute, it goes to uh,
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you know, really help out these these sould and I've
been part of it, so I can tell you, uh,
you know, from my own experience of what it is
like working with these people, and it really truly is amazing. Linda,
you guys do a great job, and we're gonna chat
with you again a little bit closer to the event,
but in the meantime go to Warriorbeachretreat dot org and
find out more about it. Linda, thank you, absolute that's
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a pleasure as well. We'll talk with you again real soon,
Linda Cope with the Warrior Beach Retreat. We got to
take a quick break. Coming up. We got the boys
from the uh the America in view. We're gonna chat
with the Doster boys coming up just a little bit.
And of course today just ironically also happens to be
Red Friday. We'll remember everyone deployed. Watch to you by
our friends at American Charlie We'll be right back all right,
(01:52:49):
welcome back to the show. Thank you so much for
checking us out today. We got to take it another
break real quickly. The Doster Boys of the America Inview on
the way. Next we'll chat with them, get some updates.
So let's going on in the state of Florida and
so much more. Hang on, we will be right back.
Good morning, all right, welcome back to the Brian Rush Show.
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Happy Red Friday. Thanks so much for checking us out today.
And this is one of my best parts of the
My favorite parts of the week is the the hour
number three, bottom of the hour when we get to
bring in the Doster Boys from America in View. Guys, Hello, Hey.
Speaker 9 (01:53:40):
Hey, Glen, how you doing man. We found we're very
refreshed after your vacation.
Speaker 3 (01:53:44):
I am very refreshed that and you know, being back
in the Knock It Off studio and not having to
do the show via the remote gear, and honestly, I
was doing it lounging on the couch where we were staying,
and I got a little relaxed. So it's kind of
nice to be back here. I had to put some
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pants back on because we're obviously doing the show on
Rumble and Wimken as well, so I had to have
some clothes on for it. But it's good to be
back in the studio and also good to have you
guys on because there's so much to talk about. And man,
I'm not even sure where we begin. I guess we can.
We can hit on the Schumer shutdown initially with some
of your thoughts on that. What do you think?
Speaker 9 (01:54:28):
Yeah, it's been really going interesting this week. I think
the Democrats have really walked themselves into a blind canyon here.
You've called it the Schumer shutdown. It's clearly being aligned
with the Democratic Party. Interestingly enough, Brian, a lot of
the public public polls right now are splitting it about
fifty to fifty as who they blame more for it.
But I think the Republican base loves this right now.
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And I'll tell you who else loves it is nonpartisan voters. Yeah, so, yeah,
the Democrats veteran voters matter, Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:54:56):
They do matter.
Speaker 9 (01:54:56):
But as we get into the midterms next year, I
think people like to se the Republicans holding the line
and hey, the Democrats are saying they want to shut
the government down because the Republicans won't spend more money
and ultimately that is a losing message.
Speaker 3 (01:55:10):
Mm hmm, yeah it is. And you know, I think
somebody else that might be a little excited about it.
And I think Donald Trump might have been onto something
when he said this in his post, is that there
are probably some Democrats that realized, oh crap, we really
got to cut some of the spending. We had to
cut some of this stuff. But I can't say it
because I don't have the cajonez that John Fetterman has.
So I'll just vote for the shutdown and see what happens.
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There may be some Democrats out there that are excited
about it, going whoo now it can be done, and
I don't get to blame for it.
Speaker 6 (01:55:41):
Yeah, totally. Man, you looked at John Fetterman. I mean,
who would have thought that we would be in this
place where John Fetterman is like the reasonable guy, I know,
the one that we can you know, work with and
kind of talk some sense on some of the issues
that are out there. But man, you're exactly right, Brian.
These these whether you're Republican or Democrat, the financial position
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of the United States federal government is just not good.
And everybody knows that we're spending way too much money.
The federal debt is thirty eight trillion dollars. I mean,
it's a number that really kind of wrecks your brain
when you think about it, because it just doesn't make sense.
And we're adding to it a couple of trillion dollars
a year, and so yeah, everybody knows it. I mean,
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it's the elephant in the room. Everybody knows at some
point we've got to stop spending like this. And you know,
these these kind of gymnastics that the politicians in Washington,
DC go through whenever we get to these points, and
then it becomes, well, you know, what deal are we
going to get? Whose fault is it that we're shut down?
In the end. In the end, we've got to figure
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out a way to stop spending so much money.
Speaker 3 (01:56:49):
Yeah, yeah, we really do. And I think that Donald
Trump's got the ideas him and russ are going to
start cutting some things. So it could be interesting to
see what happens with all the cuts that that now
Donald Trump can do with unilaterally without Congress getting involved.
And I think the Democrats they boom booed on that
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one big time.
Speaker 9 (01:57:13):
Yeah, you're spot on with that, and I think what's interesting,
Brian is that as you see the national mood sort
of elevate on the level of what I would call cuts,
you also see agencies coming at risk. Now you're seeing
agency expenditures coming up under the microscope. And that's even
having an effect on state like Florida, where now Blazing
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Goalie is out on a crusade to peel back the
layers on all these cities in counties. So you know,
what's going on in DC right now is having enough
secon nationwide. And I think it's good.
Speaker 3 (01:57:45):
Yeah, yeah, it's absolutely good. And that's a perfect transition
too to get into the other topic, and that is doze.
You know, obviously the doze that Donald Trump and Elon
Musk did has exposed a lot of of failure and
are managing our money on the national level. But Rondes
santa Is not too long ago said you know what,
like so many other politicians, which I don't know why
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it took, you know, the national level to do this,
and people to think we should look at what we're
spending on. But Ronda Santas jumped on that as well,
and Blazing Golia, who's now our new CFO replacing Jimmy.
They've they've been diving into some things in Man. The
stuff that they found. Let's talk about that mess.
Speaker 6 (01:58:26):
Yeah, a huge, huge effort by CFO, blazing Golia. He's
doing a great job just really bringing a spotlight on
man just some just some out of control stuff. He
I loved his tweet. I guess it was maybe yesterday
about the poet Laureate of Orlando and he even wrote
his own poem on Twitter to show that the expenditure
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in the millions of dollars, you know, is not needed
for this kind of stuff. You were just telling me,
Brian about the drag show in Sante Polo that was funded.
What was the consultant was how much consulted?
Speaker 3 (01:59:01):
Was one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to bring in
a draft. I guess it's like an anti Christmas or
something drag show at the Sanger Theater. And that's just
the consulting. That doesn't include any of the other defenses.
Speaker 6 (01:59:14):
Yeah, just the consultant. And it underscores a lot of
the debate that's been going on on property taxes, regardless
of where that tax policy ends up landing over the
next few years. The reality is that these local government
budgets have increased dramatically over the last four years. They've
really benefited from the COVID expansion, the inflationary expansion, and
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then just these home values going way up, and a
lot of these local governments they're not giving the money
back to the tax payer. They're just going into these
kinds of projects that people don't know about, yep, and
they cost a lot of money. And yeah, I mean
it's got to get rolled back. And whether it's through
the pressure of what in Goalie is doing and just
you know, public opinion being educated on this sort of thing,
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it's got to get rolled back.
Speaker 3 (02:00:03):
Yeah, it really does. And you know, you look at
things like the Pensacola deal, and there there was so
much that got exposed in this too. I mean one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars just for a consultant to
do this. I mean, look in Pensacola, you could just
go down to civil quarters down there in the bottom
and good chances are you could find a couple of
drag queens and say, hey, you want to come do
a song and dance, come on over here. And I
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would have consulted I would have done that for ten
grand I would have gone down and just found a
couple of them and said, hey, here you go, And
that would have saved Pensacola one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
And the question that you have.
Speaker 6 (02:00:35):
To have a different good. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (02:00:39):
The difference is, Brian, is that you'd be doing it
with private money, not taxpayer money.
Speaker 8 (02:00:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:00:43):
Well maybe, I mean, if they're going to spend the
taxpayer money and they're going to spend one hundred and fifty,
I'll take ten and save them money. I'm off about that.
But the problem with things like that, though, is that
you know, with that one hundred and fifty thousand just
in the consultant, again, who knows how much more they're
spending for the promoting of it and the actual show
and everything else. What is it bringing in? You know?
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I mean, obviously we see things like here in Bay
County with Panama City Beach with a TDC, where sure
there's a lot of people that get upset about some
money that gets spent, but they will spend money on
promoting something or doing a show or whatever it might be,
and we get hotel rooms filled, we get restaurants filled,
with people, and it's something that you know, translated into
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money into the community. I can't imagine that a drag
Christmas show is going to bring a huge draw that's
going to bring in millions to Pensacola. It's just scratches
your head a little bit.
Speaker 9 (02:01:37):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 6 (02:01:41):
A smart man, Yeah, go ahead, and we even want
to have that crowd show up in your town. I
mean I certainly don't.
Speaker 3 (02:01:50):
Yeah, yeah, I think a lot of people don't. But
there was also so many other things too that were
discovered during the Florida doze. And I think the dollar
amount that I think I saw it was something like
eight billion dollars statewide so far that Blaze and the
team has found of just wasted money. And here in
the state of Florida alone, that's insane.
Speaker 9 (02:02:14):
So as the fans right now, Brian, all the municipalities
in the state together, and there's about forty five percent
of Flordians that live inside municipalities they raise or levy
every year about well, they've levied this year about eight
point five billion dollars. They've already found enough to cover
eliminating property taxes for those eight point five billion dollars.
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Right now, if you go to the county level, there's
another twenty five billion on top of that. But you know,
Ron Desantas and Blaze and Goalie both started out with
the notion that if you could cut the expenditures in half,
stay wide, with all these perdicious spending patterns, then there
would be enough cushion there to really get on track
for eliminating property taxes with some other replacement revenue. And
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I think they're showing that that there's a lot of
efficiencies that can be found here. So I think this
is a good first step. They're embarrassing these public officials
and all these guys in Gallus who've been going to
Tallahassee wying with their hands out saying that they can
make it on the local tax base, are just well
they're off base. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:03:19):
Yeah, be careful what you're spending your money on. I mean,
it's very simple economics.
Speaker 6 (02:03:25):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:03:25):
The question that I think all these politicians should ask
when they spend money is what is the ROI on this?
You know, and things like the drag show. I doubt
that there's going to be much of a return spending
the money on a new fire truck. What's the return
on that, Well, we put out a fire and we
rescue our citizens, you know. So I think that there
needs to be better examining of our money, and we
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the people need to be more aware of this. I mean,
I was going through that list that was released the
other day, and I was blown away. I can imagine
how many other Floridians are reading that list and just
be shocked by the amount of money that's being wasted
on stupid things, especially when we have important things that
need to be done, like infrastructure and other important things,
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and here we are spending money on drag shows.
Speaker 6 (02:04:15):
You know, Brian, A lot of a lot of the
scrutiny on spending has historically been on the federal government, right,
A lot of the grants that you'll hear people talk
about like, oh, we studied, you know, some sort of
like really obscure scientific inquiry that you know, somebody could
have just figured out without spending the millions of dollars
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that it takes.
Speaker 1 (02:04:37):
Yeah, and now.
Speaker 6 (02:04:38):
We're learning, we're learning that a lot of that same
stuff is happening right here in our own backyards, you know,
right right here in our local governments. And so you're right,
I hope the word is getting out. I mean, there's
a lot in the news right now that that's keeping
people entertained or distracted. So I hope there is a
lot of people paying attention because this is one of
the most substantive things that's come out of of this
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review of our local governments in a long time. And
I really you know, there are some local governments out there,
they're doing things right. There's a few, there's a few
that are that are trying to be physically responsible and
trying to have good, good spending. But man, there's a
lot that are not.
Speaker 3 (02:05:16):
And you know, ironically, it just so happens to be
all of these cities that are very blue leaning in
the state of Florida, Jacksonville, Orlando, Pensacola, that have appeared
with some really extraordinarily high stupid things that they have
spent money on that you just don't need to be
spending money on.
Speaker 9 (02:05:38):
Yeah, it's a philosophical difference or a different mindset. Look,
whenever you are a lover of government and you believe
that all good things happen at the hands of government,
then you're looking to try to extract more money from
Brian Rust. You're looking to extract more money from other
citizens to essentially put yourself in a position of you
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allocating money for them to causes that you believe government
has designated as just or as designated as being culturally
important for the community. And you know, conservatives generally take
the notion that, hey, let the consumers decide. You know,
if people want certain things, let them find it, let
them keep their own money and make their own decisions.
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And that makes for a more vibrant economy, It makes
for a more vibrant community, and you don't have all
this waste and garbage that we see in the public
sphere exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:06:27):
I mean, as as a concert promoter or show promoter,
if I look at it and go I can make
a lot of money by doing a drag Christmas show
in Pensacola. I'm going to invest in it. Go invest
in it and not be our taxpayer dollars. But you know,
it all boils down to two really good leadership and
the transparency. And coming up next year, we obviously have
a leadership battle that is going on. Let's talk about
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the run for governor. What's what's the latest news and
latest showdown that's going on there.
Speaker 6 (02:06:54):
Yeah, So Byron Donalds made a lot of news talking
about his fundraising over the last quarter. And uh, there's
a lot of rumors going around and that are not
even rumors that was coming straight from our new Lieutenant
governor Jake Collins, that he was possibly announcing his candidacy
for the governor's race. He's backed off that and so
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he sort of pulled his name out at least for now.
It remains to be seen whether he's going to come
back and and launch into that. Then of course we've
got Paul Renner who's running for governor on the on
the Republican side as well. He has not released his
numbers yet, but he's out there. And then there's you know,
there's some fun stuff going on on the Democratic side.
I don't pay as much attention to that. I'll take
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care of it so well. And we're going to figure
out who their nominee is. But they're gonna have to
they're gonna have to battle that out. You know, that's
just a whole different animal.
Speaker 3 (02:07:47):
Yeah, yeah, that it is, and we'll we'll obviously dive
into that, but it'll be interesting to see who ends
up being the the governor coming up next year because
it'll be a make it or break it for the
state of Florida, especially if we allow the Democrats to
take any sort of charge on that the show coming
up tomorrow, you'd have no guests and hang on a
saying let me just check my email again. No, I
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didn't see one there, So you don't have any guest tomorrow.
I was looking for an invite. So what's going on
this show in the American view tomorrow? I won't let
it go. I just won't let it go.
Speaker 9 (02:08:20):
All right, we're gonna have you on next week. We're
going to make this happen.
Speaker 3 (02:08:23):
There we go.
Speaker 6 (02:08:24):
But yeah, let me tell.
Speaker 9 (02:08:26):
You what we're debating tomorrow. So we are working on
the government shutdown. We're peeling that back. You've been doing
a good job of doing that. I don't think they're
gonna have a deal of this weekend, so we're gonna
have lots to talk about. Secondly, Trump and Pete Hegseth
made big news this week by calling all the top
brass in the military into DC and essentially I don't
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want to say dressing them down, but briefing them on
the new standards for the military, basically throwing out all
the DEI will garbage that you've seen populated inside the
high brass in the military in the past years under
Biden and really going back to the Obama administration. More importantly,
he emphasized that he was going to reassert physical fitness standards,
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which is going to put the best, brightest, and strongest
in cohesive come that units in a way that has
not been seen in probably fifteen years. And so this
kind of what I would call getting back to the
basics of our military, putting strong men out front on
the fighting forces is going to be really really good
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for recruiting, and I think it's gonna payoff in a
big way. So we're gonna be talking about that a
lot this weekend as well.
Speaker 3 (02:09:35):
That's awesome. Sounds like it's gonna be a great show
coming up tomorrow America in View, which has heard right
here on Florida Man Radio. And I'll be looking forward
to that invite one day, and I might even come
up to Tallahassee and do it from there, just just
to add some chaos.
Speaker 6 (02:09:54):
Anytime, Brian, you know, we could, we could strip some
things out in advance. I can, I can argu the
wheels are spending I can already think of some fun
we get add with that.
Speaker 3 (02:10:03):
Oh yeah, and that, and see if we can keep
the radio stations licenses. That'll that'll be the big one too.
There may have to be some editing of that show
as we go along, and especially your guy John up there,
he knows sometimes it's it's tough with me. That's censor button.
You got to keep it ready. But either way, America
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View always love our conversations with you guys, and of
course we'll do it again next Friday here on the show,
and hopefully we'll have some shutdown news at next week's show.
But in the meantime we'll check you guys out tomorrow
twelve noon right here in Florida Man Radio. And of
course you can check you guys out at America Inview
dot com where you guys have your podcast as well,
(02:10:45):
So if you miss a show, it's right there. Brett, Matt,
thanks for coming on. Appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (02:10:51):
Always good.
Speaker 3 (02:10:52):
Absolutely, you guys have a great weekend. We'll chat with
you real soon. America in View with Matt and Brett
Doster of course heard right here on Florida Man Radio
every Saturday at twelve noon. We got to take a
quick break. We'll be right back. This is a Red
Friday where we are remembering everyone deployed, and that includes
our ICE agents who are out there doing the tough
(02:11:13):
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all right, Welcome back to the Bride Rush Show here
(02:11:34):
at Florida Man Radio and of course streaming on Rumble
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Red Friday. We remember everyone deployed, including our ICE agents, which,
by the way, Apple, I don't know if you've heard
this one. Apple has decided it's going to block the
ice block app, which is one of the apps that
has been used by a lot of the anti ICE
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people to track ice to be able to find out
where they are in real time so that they can
protest them and other things that of course, remember the
shooter down in Texas was also using one of the
ice tracking apps to be able to find out where
they were and was able to get up on top
(02:12:18):
of the roof and take some potshots at them, you know,
missing his intended target. Hitting the people that he allegedly
was supporting. But it's good on Apple to see that
they've done that. I don't know if Google has jumped
on it as well, but those are the type of
apps that are dangerous to society and they probably should
should really get rid of them, because that's just something
(02:12:40):
that is not needed. It really isn't. So something else
that's going on too is the trust in the media.
I mean, I know that this is a big shocker
that the people are not trusting the mainstream media anymore,
but there's a new Gallup poll that is out that
shows that the public trust in the news has dropped
to yet another new low. I mean, I didn't think
(02:13:01):
it could get any lower, but apparently it does keep
getting lower. And after hitting a record lows last year,
the America's trust in the nation's legacy media has sunk
to a new level. And the Gallup reported yesterday releasing
its annual survey of US adults and when it began
back in nineteen seventy two. Just to give you some perspectives,
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so in the past fifty three years, seven in ten
adults either had a fair amount fifty percent or a
great deal eighteen percent of trust in newspapers, television and
radio to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. Today,
with the new report that was released yesterday, it is
once again seven and ten. However, it is seven out
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of ten either have not very much confidence or none
at all in today's media. According to the new Gallup
poll on the trust in the media, it's gone away
and it cracks me up though to watch how how
the mainstream media, the legacy media all stands back and
goes and I'm a samit it is money in the
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watch ass. We should bring Joy Reid back in. Read
the room. That's all I gotta say. Just read the
room and you would be amazed at what you might
find out. All right, that's it for us. We got
to get out of here. Happy Friday, and of course
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check them out on Panama City Beach. We'll be back
(02:14:27):
again Monday again on Rumble on Wimken on Florida Man
Radio and of course the podcast which you can grab
at the Brianrustshow dot com. Have a fantastic weekend. We'll
do it again Monday. Until then, see you later, Bye bye,
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