THE BRIAN RUST SHOW 10-9-25 w/ Mark Mix and Brian Reisigner

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Brian Russell's name.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
You know the brand.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Limping up the airways in this ing melting snow face
with a fiery head talking truth.

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You can't always stand fast tone show from Coast to coast,
got the facts, but it ain't no boast. Can't give
up the change and give it a toast to the
man who roasts the moose. Knock it off.

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It's rust on me.

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Speaker 1 (01:41):
All right, good morning, welcome to the show. Happy What
is today? It's Thursday? Almost? I'm sorry today I'm already
a little off off kilter, a little bit. The allergy thing.
Is it hit anybody else like this season? Already? Is
it is? Whooping my butt? And I don't know. I
think maybe it'd because it might it might just be this.

(02:01):
It might be like a sleep actually is what it
might be. It just might be here near where we
are in Panama City, there's another control burn that's going on.
And last night it started to smell really good. Like
I was, I was getting into a point of of
a little bit of jealousy where I was like, Oh,

(02:22):
I want to go camping right now. I do. I
would love to just go to some camping because I
can smell a campfire right now. And then on top
of it, just to add a little insult to injury,
while I was sitting up at the airport last night,
out there on the tarmac doing my my aviation job,
I could smell the the the campfire kind of smell.

(02:46):
And then I got downwind of the the exhaust vent
from the restaurants that are there at the hotel, and
now I can smell burgers. So now I'm doing the
I'm craving a burger. I've got the smell of camp fire,
and I'm just like, oh, this is Oh, this is delicious.
And then the campfire smell got worse and worse and worse,

(03:07):
and then by the time I woke up this morning,
I'm now regretting smelling that campfire because I think it
is just ricky. It just kind of it hit me.
It hit me hard. It's been building over the past
couple of weeks though of allergies, and today it's got me.
I just I didn't even want to get out of
bed this morning. I really didn't, But I'm glad that

(03:29):
I did. Glad that you're here. Thank you so much
for waking up with us today. Good morning to all
of our rusties over there at Wimkin dot com watching
the show there, and to our rumblers at Rumble dot Com,
and of course everybody listening right here on the Florida
Man Radio Network. Coming up on the show today, we
have Mark Mixed from the National Right to Work. He's
going to be joining us. We're going to talk about
yesterday's Health, Education and Labor Committee hearings that went down

(03:53):
and see what came out of that. Plus Brian Wrestler
is going to also be joining us. We're going to
talk about America's farmers and how the shutdown may possibly
affecting them, which again that would be affecting the food
that we get and so much more. Yeah, by the way,
there is a problem with Wimken's feed today. I don't

(04:15):
know what it is. It took like an extra ten
minutes for the feed to kick in. So there seems
to be an issue going on over there in Wimkins.
So I do apologize for that one. Not sure what's happening.
I can tell you it's not on my end this time.
It's not here, So just laying that out there. But
we do have a lot to talk about. There's also
another no King's event being planned and ready to go. Oh,

(04:39):
can't wait for that stupidity that the left comes out with.
Plus what else we got going on? Something about some
peace deal or something. I heard something about what we'll
research it. We'll get into that a little bit too,
see what that is all about. Because apparently there's some
sort of a peace agreement, I mean, a peace agreement

(04:59):
that couldn't happen be because Donald Trump is the worst
on the national stage. He's an embarrassment to the country.
Doesn't know what he's doing. So the idea of Donald
Trump getting a peace deal in the Middle East, I mean,
what a stretch that is, isn't it. We'll talk about
that coming up a little bit too. But in the meantime,
Adam Shift taking to his social media another day, another

(05:21):
presidential threat to jail too of his political opponents. What
will it take for Republicans in Congress to speak out?
Will we still have a democracy? Left? First off, asshat
we don't have a democracy to begin with. I'm sorry,
you know what this this should be an absolute disqualification
for you to be in Congress, especially in Congress, if

(05:43):
you don't understand that we are a constitutional republic. Point
playing you, if you continue to say that we have
we're a democracy, and you don't understand that we are
a constitutional republic, you should not be in Congress period,
because if you don't know the very basics about our nation,

(06:04):
then how are you supposed to come up with everything
that you're supposed to do to make our nation great
if you don't even know what the hell kind of
country we are. But Adam Schitch is responding to Donald
Trump's truth post. When they call it, are they just
called truths? Probably? But he said Chicago mayor should be

(06:24):
in jail for failing to protect ice officers. Governor Prisker. Also,
by the way, Adam, you're a lawyer, you should understand this.
It shouldn't take somebody, not a lawyer, to explain this
to you. But there are laws. There are laws to
protect the American people, there are laws to protect the

(06:46):
city of Chicago. There's laws to protect Illinois. And Prigsker
and Brandon have both been violating those laws by getting
in the way of law enforcement, by getting in the
way of of making your city safer. They're violating the law.
So yes, if the mayor of Chicago, and the governor

(07:09):
of Illinois, or the mayor of button Wipe nowhere USA
stands in the way of ice officers or any law
enforcement officers in general that are doing their job by
the law, then they should be arrested. Absolutely. Why is
that even a question if you break the law. I mean, look,

(07:31):
I understand the whole Democrat thing that if you're a Democrat,
you're not supposed to go to jail because you're above
the law. But if you break the law, you go
to jail. It's as simple as that, Adam, It's absolutely
simple as that. And what is going on in Chicago
is just another example of the the socialist Marxist agenda

(07:53):
of what they want to wait, wait till New York City. Wait,
wait for about a month or so from now in
New York City when they've got a new mayor and
Mama Donnie is the mayor. Imagine the s show that's
gonna be. It's probably gonna be worse than everything else
that we have seen. But you have Brandon who is
as dumb as a brick. I mean that man. I

(08:16):
can't even form the words to describe how dumb this
man is. But he has violated the law. He has
gotten in the way of law enforcement. So therefore he's
just got to kind of go. And if it means
that he has to be arrested for doing that, so
be it. And if Adam Shift, the Senator or a
congress person or anybody else that wants to also get

(08:39):
in the way and break the law, you should go
to jail. Which Adam, you, let's talk about some of
the breaking the laws that you've done. How's that house
of yours in Maryland? Wouldn't it be great to see
Adam Shift to do the Purp Walk? It really would
that would that would be?

Speaker 6 (08:56):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (08:57):
That would be an awesome thing to see Adam Shift
finally get what's coming to him, which, by the way,
speaking of which, James Comy was also arraigned yesterday in
court did plead not guilty. I mean a big surprise
by that, but he was. He pled not guilty yesterday
to the charges of making false statements and obstruction of

(09:17):
congressional hearing during his first quart appearance in Virginia yesterday.
And while he was there, of course, I love the news.
They've always got to tell you by this that his
wife Patricia and his daughter Maureen were spotted waiting outside
the court line on Wednesday morning to go in and
see their dad, to support him. Okay, but the district

(09:39):
judge that is overseeing this hearing, well you know you
can already tell where this is going to go, is
appointed by Yes, Joe Biden, and he was proceeding over
the hearing, and Comy's lawyer, Patrick Fitzgerald ended up telling
the judge that representing Comy is the honor of my
life and that his team will be filing motions alleging

(10:04):
a vindictive retaliatory prosecution, grand jury abuse, an outrageous government conduct,
because remember, if they do it, it's okay, it's okay
for it to happen to a Republican it's okay for
you to change the law so you can go after

(10:25):
Donald Trump. It's okay for you to make things up
so you can go after anybody Donald Trump related. But
if you were to actually take the FBI and go
after people politically, if you go and lie in front
of Congress and you're a Democrat, it's okay. I don't
know why they've even got James. Come me there. I mean,

(10:46):
it's sweet, innocent James, look his wife and daughters in
the audience, and it was Donald Trump and his vindictive
retaliatory prosecution. Hang on a second, didn't we see some
vindictive retaliatory prosecution of Donald Trump? So why why is

(11:06):
it okay? And I would love a Democrat to answer
that question, which I know they can't. Why would a
it be okay for a Democrat to do this stuff
but not a Republican? I don't care it. By the way,
it is cold in the knockodoff studio this morning. It's

(11:27):
it's actually what is it here in the studio? I
don't know what it is in studio for some stupid
hang on, let me, I gotta do the translation because
it's in celsius. So I have been able to figure
out that thing on how we change the celsius to fahrenheit.
Let's see in the studio it's sixty nine degrees in

(11:48):
the in the studio this morning, which, yes, for Florida,
that's cold. Outside it's seventy three. That's cold. We are
now in the the bipolar phase of transitioning into the
fall here on the Panhandle of Florida, where literally you
will have the temperature be sixty degrees in the morning,

(12:09):
which is close to it now, and then by two
o'clock this afternoon it's gonna be ninety five degrees, which
it was exactly what happened yesterday. So yeah, I'm actually
a little bit chilly this morning for some reason. The
hat today, I'm gonna be honest, I didn't feel like
doing my hair. I didn't feel like doing anything with
my hair. I need to get a haircut. It's past
due for that, and I just this is the look

(12:33):
that you're getting today on Rumble and Whimkin. Sorry, anyhow,
we got to take a quick break coming up. Temu
Obama ended up getting a cornered in the halls of
Congress yesterday by a Republican we'll play that for you
if you haven't heard it, TIMU this guy, he's such
a clown and I mean tied though. We got to

(12:53):
take a quick break, will be right back. This is
the Brian Rush Show. Good morning, all right, welcome back

(13:15):
to the Ryan Rush Show right here on Florida Man
Radio and of course on Rumble and Wimpken as well.
I love how the conversation of the chat turns to
the temperature and it does get cold here in Florida.
And you know, this is so funny because growing up
in New England, I was a ski bum and I
literally would go out and I would ski downhill, skiing

(13:37):
in short sead a T shirt. Sure it may have
only been thirty one degrees or whatever, not a big deal.
I still went out and did it. Once I moved
to the South, and I've been in the South now
for twenty five twenty five and a half years. I've
been in the South, and I've gotten to a point
now where, yes, when it dropped, when the temperature drops

(13:58):
below seventy, forget about it. I'm cold. And I never
thought that I would I would be that way. And
my mom used to make fun of me too when
she still lived up north. She would. I would. I
would have a conversation with her and be like, what's
going on? It's cold on here. She's like, seventy degrees.
How's it cold. I'm like, because it's cold, because it's
not eighty or ninety. I mean, once it started hitting

(14:20):
eighty degrees, we all started going, oh, falls here, it's
it's it's time. But the bipolar winter that goes on
here in the Panhandle in Florida, for those of you
that have that are not here on the Panhandle, and
for those that are just just coming to the pandle,
because I know we've had a lot of new people
that have come into this area, be prepared for it.
We have the strangest winters, like literally it snowed last

(14:43):
year or earlier this year, it snowed, I guess. And
and we will seriously go to like thirty something degrees
one day in the morning, it'll be seventy later on
that afternoon. The next day it'll be like eighty something degrees,
and then the next stay after that it'll be you know,
down in the forties all day long, and then all

(15:04):
of a sudden, it's one hundred degrees. Yeah, it's like
Mother Nature's just drunk. It's like she's just going, whoa,
Panama City, Let's go down there for spring break, and
she's drinking too much. And that is the official way
that I have described the weather in the wintertime and
the fall here on the panandle of Florida. It's Mother
Nature on spring break and she's drunk, and it's time

(15:26):
for somebody to get a hold of her and bring
her back to the condo and tuck her in so
that we can get a steady temperature. Like if we
could get a steady temperature of like in the upper seventies,
that'd be perfect. It'd be beautiful. But as I was
talking to somebody yesterday who was just coming in to
the area for the for the first time in a while,
They're like, oh my god, it's so beautiful today. And

(15:48):
I'm like, well, hang on a second, because it may
be ninety four degrees right now, but later on tonight
it's going to be cold. So just just prepare yourself
for that. Don't be surprised when you go running out
of the condo a bathing suit and the next thing
you know, it's, uh, it's it's cold. Just saying so
yesterday video that went viral. Was a congressman, Mike Lauer,

(16:10):
who ended up cornering Team Obama. You got to hear this.
This this this interaction that happened between the two of them.
It was pretty funny.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
We signed on the questions from your books? Don't we
sign on?

Speaker 7 (16:23):
Right?

Speaker 8 (16:24):
Your boss, Donald can easily extend your Donald Trump boss. No,
he's not.

Speaker 9 (16:29):
And by the way, let me ask you, why did
you vote to shut it down?

Speaker 1 (16:32):
I vote to shut show question.

Speaker 7 (16:33):
For years you always you leture about how we need
to get government.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
You're making a show.

Speaker 10 (16:37):
Of this to it's head.

Speaker 7 (16:39):
You could easily sign on your embarrassing sign on to
this the only embarrassing here.

Speaker 9 (16:43):
You're an embarrass to sign on to the You have
four Democrats on here as a questions, it's a clean semester.
For one year, you voted for the one I voted
for a large bill that gave the largest House cut
to Americans in history.

Speaker 7 (16:58):
And by the way, the average New York are getting
a four thousand dollars tax cut. Are you against that?

Speaker 1 (17:03):
You're embarrassed?

Speaker 7 (17:04):
You want to you want to cut the standard deduction.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
In the large way. You wanted to medicate.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
You voted for fraud.

Speaker 7 (17:10):
And abuse by the way voting Tom Dnapli, the Democratic
Controller of New York, your question pointed out that one
point two billion dollars waste.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
You're not You're not gonna waste. You're not gonna talk
to wasted. I'm not going to talk to me and
talk about New.

Speaker 7 (17:24):
York resident because you don't want to hear what I
have to say.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
Why don't you just keep your mouth shut?

Speaker 8 (17:29):
Because you know that the way you shot, you showed up,
and so you voted for this one day. You can
extend it right now, permanent extension of massive tax breaks
for your billion Americans can get a permanent ninety Americans
take the standard deduction.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
Is that right?

Speaker 7 (17:48):
Ninety percent of Americans take the standard deduction?

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Right?

Speaker 7 (17:51):
If you had your way, the standard deduction would have
been cut in half. That would have been a massive
taxing gan Americans all across the country.

Speaker 8 (17:58):
You're unfortunately you're again.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Stop stop Jesus, just oh my god, my head is spinning.
After that, You're you're embarrassing yourself. You're you're embarrassing yourself.
No team, the one that's embarrassing themselves is you and
I love his momentary where he's trying to be a
tough guy. It's like, dude, just because you're from New
York doesn't make you a tough guy. Hey, what are

(18:26):
you a tough guy?

Speaker 7 (18:26):
Over?

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (18:27):
What are you doing? What are you doing? Oway?

Speaker 3 (18:29):
Are you?

Speaker 1 (18:29):
You and your boss going over here telling you what
to do?

Speaker 3 (18:32):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Why don't you?

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (18:33):
I got a question? Hey, you got a question?

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Here?

Speaker 1 (18:35):
You gotta question? I got a question? And that is
why the hell does any New Yorkers keep voting for
that guy. The man is just so absolutely embarrassing every
time he opens up his mouth, and it's like the
the man can't form a sentence either. He's gotta stop
to think, am I am I sounding enough like Barack

(18:58):
ho sane? Oh Obama? I just let me ask you
a question. Can you form the sentence and just spit
it out? Timu. I always hate it when when people
try to to imitate other people, like and I know
some people get mad at me when I say this,
but Jesse Waters on Fox News. The reason for why

(19:21):
I can't stand Jesse Waters and Fox News is because
he is so desperately, desperately trying to be Bill O'Reilly
two point zero, Like all of his mannerisms, all of
his cadence, and the way he speaks, the way that
he tries to be like this superior. I can't stand
him because of that. I mean Bill O'Reilly, eh, I

(19:43):
can take him or leave him, but we don't need
somebody else to try and be Bill O'Reilly and that,
and he does that. It trives me crazy. And then
when Timu the fact that he tries to be literally
a Timu version of Obama, like he ordered it from
China and it showed up about six weeks later, a
little bit damaged, a little bit uh crinckled on the side,

(20:05):
but it kind of looks like an Obama kind of
acts like one a little bit not fully. But again,
the other thing that I just get baffled by is
of all of the Democrats that are out there, all
of the Democrats that are in Congress, why did they
pick this guy? I mean, what what is it about

(20:25):
Tiama Obama that the Democrats looked at and said, uh, yeah,
this is the one, this is the guy who should
be our leader. Now we we can criticize Nancy Pelosi
probably for the rest of the week and into next week,
because there's plenty of things about about her that was bad,
but you also got to give her credit. She was
she was a good leader. I mean, her message was

(20:48):
horrible and she was on the wrong side of everything,
but at least she had it together. Tiama, Obama, let me,
let me, let me ask you, let me, let me,
let me ask you, Let me let me. We gotta
take a break. We'll be right back, all right, Welcome

(21:14):
back to the Ryan Rush Show, Happy Thursday, right here
on Florida Man Radio and of course streaming as well
on Rumble and Struggling on Wimken. I don't know what's
happened over there there. Something's gone run with the video.
It's a little skippy. It's not our side though. I've
just thrown that out there. That loosed to be a
technical issue on the Wimken side, which I wouldn't be

(21:35):
the least bit surprised if they're not being attacked. Once again,
I don't think that there is a media platform out there,
social media platform out there that is attacked as much
as wimken dot com is, Which is another reason for
why I support Wimken so much, is because of the

(21:55):
fact that they are attacked so much for trying to
simply do freedom of speech, to be able to be
a platform to get out there to to talk about
things without all the censorship. And despite the fact that
YouTube has come out and has done the whole Oh
my god, we're so sorry. We didn't mean to do

(22:16):
the whole thing with like censoring people and and and
cutting people's accounts out and cutting their their their income out. Well,
we're sorry, We'll we'll let you back on I I
almost don't want to deal with with YouTube because of that.
Simply we may do it because there's been so many
requests for it, but in the meantime it's if if
I do go to YouTube, it will be under duress.

(22:39):
I'm just I'm gonna point that out. It'll be under duress.
But Wimken dot com, and we've talked with the founder
jac about this so many times. Uh that the the
level of attacks that happened on there, the the the
denial of service attacks, the constant hacking attacks that that
go on to them, and and they're team is good

(23:00):
at at deflecting them, but every now and then they're
getting in there. I mean, when when you're attacked as
many and Jasey told me one day the number of
attacks that he gets on a daily basis, and it's
just ridiculous, you know. And it's not like how you know, Facebook,
obviously they get attacked as well, but you know, it's
it's people that are just trying to attack for the
sense sake of attacking and everything. The attacks on Wimken,

(23:24):
and this goes all the way back to like January sixth,
when they tried to go after Wimken, uh to to
blame them essentially as part of the January sixth thing,
and and to get information on all of their their
their users, which they never gave to the government. And
ever since then, ever since, Chase has been a thorn
in the side of the leftists in our government. They

(23:45):
get attacked at a regular basis, and it's it's kind
of stupid. Uh and and the amount of money that
that they have to spend two to actually go off
and h and and defend the stuff and fix the problems,
and it's just stupid. They really need to knock it off,
absolutely need to knock it off. So Donald Trump, he

(24:07):
was out I guess playing catch and I don't even
know where the the the actual photo was and what
he was doing. Why he was doing. But he was
out playing catch and it looks like it's out on
the White House lawn. There's a still shot that got captured.
And of course the lefties they they they gotta be
out there and and and just be as negative as
they possibly can. Donald Trump is not an athlete. I

(24:29):
don't I don't know if the hang on is second,
this is this is probably some breaking news right now
that Donald Trump, Donald J. Trump, is not an athlete.
I know. This is has just become an absolute incredible
shock to so many people right now that Donald Trump
is not an athlete, and that you know, Donald Trump,

(24:50):
if if you see him doing some athletic stuff, it's
not that he is an expert at it. He's not
the best. And uh, Donald Trump and it up. I
guess he was playing catch and probably in in in uh,
in reference to the whole what is the World Series
or what. I don't know. I'm not an athlete either,

(25:11):
but he's out there doing it. And the picture that
they have him in that they posted on social media
is him with a glove and he's got the glove,
he's got one hand on the side and the ball
is coming to him and he kind of has that
oh kind of look. And I'm sure that the the
the ball that was thrown to him was was probably
a very nice, easy underhand. Hey, mister president, here you

(25:34):
go catch. And I'm sure his dad didn't play catch
with him a lot of times either. So again, not
an athlete. He's he's a great golfer. He's a great golfer.
But that is definitely wait to say there is some
athletic ability in there, because I keep forgetting every time
we're golfing, we're just drinking. But yeah, anyhow, the picture

(25:55):
is there and he just looks like an older guy
that's getting surprised. He's like catch and he catches the ball,
not like he dropped the ball or anythink he caught it,
because otherwise they'd be showing the video of him dropping
the ball. Is golf really a sport? Yes, it actually is.
I mean it does take a lot of physical stuff,
but you know, yeah, it is. It's a sport to

(26:18):
a degree. But it's also a workout, you know, with
the with the curling that you have to do. But anyway,
I digress on that, which I haven't played in way
too long. I wouldn't played, Oh squirrel, I wouldn't play
golf ish, I wouldn't. It did like it wasn't top golf,
but it was like there there are other things that
they actually have at golf courses. When I was on vacation,
I went and did that for a little while, and

(26:40):
I did the simulated golf course thing where I played
only nine holes and I forgot what golf course I played.
But it was the worst golf game I have ever played. Like,
I mean, the score that I got on that was
the absolute worst. And I regret it because it's after
I bought my new clubs. My golf game has has
gone to absolute just heard. It's just it's horrible now.

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But anyhow, back to what I was talking about. Sorry,
we'll squirrel social media. They post this one. He's scared.
He's old, he's in terrible health, he's mentally unfit. He's weak,
he's being laughed at by world leaders. He can't finish
a sentence. He's tired all the time, he falls asleep
a lot during briefings. He can't remember basic facts. Don't

(27:27):
be scared of this pathetic boy, This guy Don Winslow
who posted this one, which let's break down your analysis
there Donnie of mister Trump. He's scared? What is he
scared of? I mean, have we seen Donald Trump be

(27:51):
scared of something? I haven't? I mean, sure, this picture
of him catching the ball, I mean, he's eighty year old.
Man's trying to play cad. Ye, things coming at me.
You show me where he's scared. And is he old? Yeah,
seventy nine years old. Do you think that he's going

(28:12):
to be this spry twenty something year old. No, but
where was your criticism of Joe Biden? And when we
compare the two, come on, sure, Donald Trump is not
the same he was four years ago. In a lot
of ways, he's not the same that he was forty
years ago. He is getting old, but he's also not

(28:34):
in terrible health. I mean, there's obviously that issue that
they have that they talked about with the veins in
his leg, which they have been doing treatment for, and
he seems to be doing better about that, even though
he does spend a lot more time sitting down than
he used to. But he's not in terrible health. And
by the way, the White House has been pretty open

(28:55):
about it. They haven't hid that. And as far as
him being mentally unfit, where Where's he mentally unfit? Sure,
there may be a little bit of slowing response to
some things, and he might be thinking about things a
little bit more. But let's also break down all the
stuff that Donald Trump is going through right now, the

(29:16):
stuff that he's dealing with. But you want to call
Donald Trump mentally unfit when you compare him to Joe
Biden with the where where Where's? Where's? Where's the dead woman?
Where she she's dead? She can't be dead. I can
see her. She's right there. She's waving to me. Hey,

(29:38):
I know, I'm gonna shake the hands of the nobody there, Joe.
But Donald Jump, he's the one that's mentally unfit, and
he's weak? How is he weak? I just love how
the Democrats just throw all this stuff out there, just
got to insult. It's like, you know, they they just
pulled up an ai thing and said, give me all
kinds of good insight. Well to say, okay, I'm just

(30:01):
gonna copy paste of them all in there. And he's
tired all the time. Yeah, he is, first and foremost
Donald Trump. And I relate to this because the two
of us sleep like four hours a day. If that,
so I get it in my life. While nothing compared

(30:23):
to Donald Trump. Absolutely nothing compared to Donald Trump. But
I do have a lot going out of my life.
My life is very busy and I've got a lot
going on. I'm thinking about a lot of things, So
I understand. And again, I sleep maybe four hours a day,
so I get it that every now and then you
get a little tired. But I'm also about thirty something

(30:44):
years younger than Donald Trump. He's tired all the time.
He's falling asleep, and he's not falling asleep. Joe Biden
fell asleep. Donald Trump may close his eyes for a
second during something that is not falling asleep. Having to
have a staff member come up to you while you

(31:05):
are at a world event in front of world leaders
and tap you on the shoulder and whisper into your ear, Hey,
your jeriatric piece of wake up. Oh I'm awake. We're
all younger than Donald Trump, at least most of us are.
And how many times have you had that moment where

(31:25):
you just kind of you sit back a little bit,
you cross your arms, and you just close your eyes
for a second while somebody's talking about something you just
don't want to hear, or you're just like waiting for something.
You can close your eyes, You're like, okay, all right,
open your eyes back up, and you're at it. It's
a normal thing. And then then as far as him
being laughed at in front of world leaders, how is

(31:47):
Donald Trump being and who's laughing by the way, rather
than coming out and just giving a blanket statement there,
mister Winslow about how the world leaders are laughing, can
you give us an example, show us which world leaders
are laughing, because it seems like with all of the
stuff that Donald Trump is doing to improve our economy,

(32:09):
which yes, there's going to be some rocky roads to
get to the economy being better because the Democrats have
screwed it up really bad and it's going to take
a minute to fix it and it's not going to
be easy. But what world leaders have been that way
with Donald Trump? We have seen them all come to him.
If they're laughing at him, why is it that the

(32:32):
Prime Minister of Canada all of a sudden starts bowing
down to Donald Trump, going please don't destroy our economy, please,
oh my god, oh please, you know, oh please? How
many other world leaders have done the same thing? They're
not laughing at Donald Trump. See the thing between a
Democrat leader, whether it be Barack Obama or you know,

(32:53):
Anthony blinkin hanging everybody, it's me Anthony blinking here to
see the world, and Donald Trump is the fact that
he actually has some strength and some teeth behind what
he's doing. People were laughing at people like Anthony blinking
when he would show up. Hi, everybody, I'm here, I'm
Anthony blinking in this you continuing hears dating, I'm here

(33:15):
for Joe Biden. And we would really love it, guys,
if if me could, could we all kind of get
along a little pants here? Anyway? People laughed at Joe Biden.
When is the last time that you have seen a
president of the United States show up to an event
on the world stage with all the world leaders representing

(33:37):
the United States of America and they all stand together
for the event photo and the President of the United States?
Where is he in the photo? Where is he? Front row?
Should be a front row center right? No, where is he? Oh?
Fourth row? In the back up?

Speaker 2 (33:53):
There?

Speaker 1 (33:53):
Who's he sitting next to? Did anybody know that's what
we saw with Joe Biden on a regular basis. Donald
Trump plows through all of the leaders and tells them
to get out of my way so I can step
in front of you. They're not laughing. There are many
that that fear him, there are many that respect him.
And that's the way it's got to be. But another

(34:16):
example of Donald Trump doing well, and we saw it
now with the UH, with the the situation with Hamas
and Israel, where Donald Trump came out and he said it.
He's like, look, you don't agree to this thing, We're
going to annihilate you. We're gonna wipe you off the
face of the earth. Now, Joe Biden could have come
out and said that maybe, but we'll well, we're we're UH.

(34:42):
And I got oil on my nose from the windshield
of the cancers and I've got cancer and with the
and and anyhow. But Donald Trump comes out and says, look,
you either agree to this and you give up the hostages,
or we're gonna kill you. That's pretty's basic, simple, that's

(35:03):
all it is. Give it up, We're gonna kill you. Yesterday,
Donald Trump made the announcement when they was actually doing
a roundtable on on Antifa. More terrorists than we have
going on. Marco Rubio came in and give him a note.
He made a message of it, and yeah, we're now
entering phase one of the negotiations with Hamas, and as

(35:28):
Donald Trump had posted on his truth social that this
means that all of the hostages will be released very
soon and Israel will withdraw their troops to an agreed
upon line as the first steps towards a strong, durable,
everlasting peace. Now, the next part about this is gonna
be Hamas basically disarming and going away, go on vacation

(35:52):
and don't come back. That's that's what they're doing. But
the left continually bashes on Donald Trump with again some
of the absolute dumbest things, like they can't come out
and do something good. By the way, anybody see this
video with fart boy there, Eric Swalwell. Eric Swalwell is

(36:14):
doing these videos and you can tell he's now trying
to run for reelection in a most desperate way, and
he's going off to show that Donald Trump is not
lowering the prices of groceries. And he goes to this
grocery store and he's getting the different items and he's
of course trying to hide the labels of some of

(36:34):
them as well. But here's the thing. As he goes in,
he goes, look at this. This bag of chips is
six dollars. Oh, look at this, this this beer is
twenty something dollars. Oh, look at for this hamburger, it's
X number of dollars whatever it was. And oh, Donald
Trump is not lowering the costs. These are expensive. Yeah,

(36:55):
they're expensive because you're in a boogie ass grocery store.
You're not going off to Walmart and checking out the
prices there or to win Dixie or Publics or anything
like that. You're in a boogie grocery store and you're like, log,
how expensive this is. By the way, why don't you

(37:15):
show us the cost of things in Washington, d C.
And explain to us why the cost for those things
in Washington DC is lower than it is anywhere else.
Things that make you go hmm. We got to take
a quick break. We'll be right back. This is the
Brian Rush Show.

Speaker 10 (37:31):
Good morning, making liberals cry one happy show at a time.
This is the Brian Rust Show.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
All right, welcome back to the Brian Rush Show here
in Florida Man Radio and of course streaming at Rumbull
Wimkin and the podcast available at the Brian Rustshow dot
com with so much more so more of the lefties
are coming out and upset about Donald Trump's truth about
Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect
ice officers and Governor Prisker. Also Mayor Brandon Johnson responds

(38:18):
and only the way that a Democrat can. This is
not the first time Trump has tried to have a
black man unjustly arrested. I'm not going anywhere. Oh, Brandon,
sit down. This is not the first time. Donald Trump's
such a racist. He's sow. It's how horrible man. He

(38:40):
wants all the black men arrested and put in jail. Yeah,
because you remember that bill that Donald Trump put together,
the crime Bill, to make sure that more black people
got put into jail, got to round up that jungle.
We don't want that racial jungle out there in the
streets because look, I got grandchildren. I got grandchildren that
I got to go to school, and I don't I

(39:01):
don't want them going to the racial jungle. So I'm
gonna do this crime bill and make sure that all
of them black guys they get in jail. I want
that happening. Oh, I'm sorry, hang on my mistake. I
I really thought that was Donald Trump. No, that was
Joe Biden. That was Joe Biden. And the other thing

(39:23):
I guess I don't understand is if Donald Trump is
so bad towards black men and to black citizens as
a whole, why why is it that more black conservatives

(39:44):
have now come over to the Republican side where Donald
Trump is the leader of that party. I'm just I'm
curious how all that works. Maybe maybe somebody can help
me with that. Maybe it's a psychological thing that I'm
not not quite understanding. I don't know. Maybe what's that?

Speaker 11 (40:02):
De boy?

Speaker 1 (40:03):
Have I tried just cinnamon and by knocking off coffee
yet minus the alcohol? All right, I'm done talking to you.
I what what kind of nonsense is that?

Speaker 7 (40:13):
No?

Speaker 1 (40:13):
Actually I have not. I have not tried the uh
the the just cinnamon in the and and you you
ended up getting the same flavor that I'm drinking. I
think the whiskey barrel. So I haven't tried that yet.
I don't know. We'll see. But also Kathy Hochel jumping
into the uh the, the the the the bandwagon here

(40:33):
of of Jesus that okay, rule number one stop talking
about Joe Biden. There there there's like a Biden e
this thing where you say something about Joe Biden, you
bring up Joe Biden and the next thing you know,
you're guys, come on you you know the thing. This
this this stuff with the brain fart and the things.

(40:57):
But Kathy Hochle also jumping in on it and response
to Donald Trump saying that the Chicago mayor should be
in jail for failing to protect our ice officers, is
that this is blatant abusive power. Blatant abusive power, kind
of like when you change laws in a state so
that you can go after somebody because you don't like them.
Kind of a blatant use of abusive power. When you

(41:21):
campaign on locking up one individual in jail for whatever
reason we don't know yet. Well we'll figure it out,
we'll come up with a crime. Isn't that also a
blatant abusive power? Kathy, it's unreal. The Left, they really
truly are just And then Eric Swalwell against social media.

(41:46):
It really truly does show who these people are. Eric
Wallwell coming on and saying it's coming to an end. Guys,
I've spoken to a lot of house Republicans this week,
and they're confident that Trump's movement support is fading. As
one told me, this Epstein bomb is about to drop,
and no one wants to defend a pedo protector. It's

(42:07):
just a matter of time. No, it's not, No, it's not.
By the way, Eric, how's Fang Feng doing to asking
for some friends? All right, we got to take a
break for our top of the hour, coming over to
the next the third hour, Mark mix and Brian Restiger
is going to be joining us. We'll be right back.

(42:28):
Good morning. Brian Wilse's name, you know the brand.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
Limbing up the airways in this one.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Melting Snowfas were the.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
Fiery half talking truth. You can't always stand from coast
to coast.

Speaker 5 (43:02):
Got the facts, but it ain't no boast.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
Can't give up the chains and give it a toast
to the man who roasts the moods.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
Knock it off.

Speaker 5 (43:10):
It's Rust on.

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Me burning ridelick carera scenes did you mind? Don't don't
free frame in the top show silver screen the first
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(43:34):
breaking down walls of shame, Bryan Rust is here a
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Speaker 1 (44:10):
He Welcome back to our number two of the show.
It's the Brian Russ Show here on Florida Man Radio
and of course streaming fun Rumble and well sort of
streaming on Wimken wim wimkin Is. It's a little bit
of a problem over there. I don't know what's going
on there today, but something is a little wonky. So
sorry for those that are watching over there. Again, we

(44:33):
try our best. There's only so much that we can
do on that end. Hopefully they'll get it straight out.
But you can always flip over to Rumble for the
day because if you feel the desire to watch this
hot mess there. It is so John Stewart, which sometimes
I can't figure out John Stewart. It's like which which
side are you gonna be on today? That man teeter
totters and flip flops all over the place. But John

(44:55):
Stewart is on the show. The other night, he was
talking about Ice and he said that Ice went from
deporting the worst of the worst to throwing grandmothers on
linoleum and zip tying American children. This is one of
the things that he declared on the show Monday night,

(45:16):
and he said that everyone's just supposed to be cool
with the new massed, incredibly well funded paramilitary group as
he continues to kind of smear Ice and adding the
Democrats are just reduced to petty gestures of restroom resistance.
And he also went on to say that, look, I've
given Democrats an enormous amount of SS for their poor leadership,

(45:40):
lack of specific and actionable plans, terrible messaging, a dismal wordplay.
Did I mention poor leadership? And then he goes on
to say, but standing up for seventy five million Americans
in this moment, to defend the rights of the people
to go into a little less medical debt seems like
the least thing they can do. But let's talk about

(46:03):
this for a second. Let's break this down with a
simple question, what's the Democrats plan? Seriously that that's the
simple question, what is the Democrats plan? And that can

(46:24):
apply to be so many things, but let's apply that
to making sure that seventy five and it's odd number
that he picks out seventy five million Americans, but seventy
five million Americans right now to prevent them from going
into a little less medical debt. What's their plan, anyone,

(46:48):
They've got no plan. There's no plan of action, no
no ideas, no nothing that's coming out other than we
got to get everybody on the Affordable Care Act, which
again is not affordable, especially if you have any sort
of a health issue where you actually have to use

(47:09):
the insurance. It's not helpful. I've talked about this before
with the time that I had to be on the
Affordable Care Act, and I was on it for two months.
Two months, it cost me four thousand dollars between the
actual insurance and then the copays and everything else that

(47:31):
I had to do. And by the way, I didn't
get the basic plan. I got the Cadillac Plan to
be able to cover things so that it's not going
to be that much of a disaster. I did the
math on it before when I looked at what it
was going to cost me if I took the very
basic plan. Because remember with the Affordable Care Act. You

(47:52):
have different levels that you can pick based upon how
much money you want to spend on it and the
needs that you have and everything. And I knew what
I needed because of where I was medically and everything
and what I got to deal with. So I knew
what I needed and it still cost me four thousand dollars.
If I didn't pick that plan and I picked one
of those out, what's the chances of me getting sick plans? Oh,

(48:14):
it would have cost me way more than that in
a two month time period. So the solution of just
saying that, oh, we need to get more Americans on
the Affordable Care Act, that's not a solution. That's a
cop out. Not to mention, it is also a way
of putting more and more people into debt. At the time,
I was lucky that I actually had the money. I mean,

(48:36):
I would have loved to have spend that money on
other things, like I don't know, paying off other debt,
including medical debt. Maybe go on a vacation, like a
real vacation, not just a week and away, you know,
or you know, do some things around the house, something
along that line. Not having to pay medical debt, and
as somebody who has had medical debt for my entire

(48:57):
adult life. For literally the past thirty years of my life,
I have had crushing, overwhelming medical debt. Now, I I
don't make a ton of money, but I make more
money than the average median income. So I step back

(49:18):
and I look at this and say, wow, I don't
have any children. I don't have any dependence any whatsoever
except for you know, Charlie and Lucky, which to them
cost me enough money sometimes. So I don't have a
lot of these expenses. Now, I can only imagine if
I made the median income or less than the median income,

(49:40):
and I had children to support, I had things that
I had to do, and I fell into that medical
situation that I'm in now, it would absolutely destroy me,
absolutely destroy me, hands down, no argument about it whatsoever.
But where's the Democrats coming up with a plan, an
idea of actually keeping people out of medical debt. What

(50:06):
is your solution? What is your ideas to say, hey,
how can we make medical coverage medical care to be
more affordable. They have got absolutely nothing, and yet they
come out on a regular basis and they threaten Donald Trump,
Donald Trump is going to take away all of your

(50:27):
health care. And that sounds scary, especially if you're somebody
in a position like me medically where you know that
you're going to end up having to spend all these
thousands of dollars on medical stuff and it's going to
cost you a lot of money. The idea of getting
another big screen TV or something is out of the

(50:48):
future because you know that your health is going to
be costing you more money this year. I don't have
any children that I know of, Oh, trust me, trust me,
I don't. Yeah, I've never I've never been that kind
of person that. Yeah, so I know I'm not. I've

(51:08):
had very long, serious relationships, So I know that's a
it's a I'm safe on that one. But what have
the Democrats offered, and healthcare is just one thing, But
since that's the thing that they want to harp on
so much, what have they offered? Absolutely nothing? And honestly,
even on the Republican side, they haven't offered much either

(51:30):
when it comes to the idea of reducing the cost
of health care. But you have all of these politicians
who are so out of touch with it. And even
though as we were talking with Congressman Done yesterday on
the show, the members of Congress, if they're going to
take government and health insurance, they have to also be
on the ACA. And he even talked about how expensive

(51:50):
it is for him. And look, he is a he's
a business guy as well. He's been a doctor for
many years. He's done very well for himself. So I mean,
he's not a lower income person or middle income person.
He's he's got that higher income from all of his
stuff that he's done in the past. And you know
obviously that in making one hundred and seventy four thousand

(52:11):
dollars a year in Congress, so it's not like he's
struggling for money. And even he's got to pay ridiculous
amount of money for healthcare stuff, How is the average
American gonna survive? And I, honestly, I think about this,
and if I was in the situation that I am
in making the money and having the additional expenses that

(52:35):
so many people do have, it would crush me, absolutely
crush me. And telling me that, oh my god, we're
gonna get you on the ACA so you have health
insurance doesn't mean anything again when it cost me four
thousand dollars in two months and I was on the insurance.
I never had that happen to me when I was

(52:57):
working for a private company and you know I had
the insurance. I mean, obviously, there's there's some medical debt
that I that I crewe because look, I've got the
kidney transplant. There's a lot of doctors that are involved
in this, and and you know it does cause other
health problems, so there's there's also a lot of other
so there's a lot for me to deal with, and
and the majority of my extra money that I have

(53:21):
still goes to medical debt and to you know, medical care,
and it sucks. I hate it. I'm also thankful that
I make enough money where it's not destroying me. But damn,
I would love to do other things. I really would.
But you know what, I still have a lot of

(53:41):
medical debt that I have to pay off and I'm
not asking anybody to pay it off for me doing
the responsible thing. And it sucks. But when I see
these democrats attack like this, it's like, come on, give
me a break, all right, So I got a joke
for you. Ready. What did one cow say to the other?
I don't know. Let's find out what happened on Rachel
mad Cow Rachel mad Cow's show over this this week.

(54:03):
When she did the show on Monday, she had Governor JB.
Pritzker on. See that's the punchline. What did one cow
say to the other. But she had the governor prits
Gern and he was saying that the Trump administration was
normalizing the presence of military in cities and allowing them
to use these forces. Are you ready? This is the
new push that they're doing now. The new push now

(54:26):
is to be able to confiscate ballot boxes and recount
votes to alter unfavorable results of the twenty twenty six
mid term elections. Yep, that's the call. Now. Donald Trump
is sending the military into the cities, not to help
out the ice agents who are not getting help from
the local law enforcement. Because the politicians were saying no, no, no, no,

(54:49):
not that, not because of the fact that they're going
into these cities, because of the fact that Antifa and
all these uneducated rioters are going in there and causing problems.
Not because of that. No, this is a dry run,
according to the Democrats. This is a dry run that
Donald Trump is doing, and he's preparing you to be

(55:09):
normalizing it. And understanding that it's just this regular thing
having the military here. It's a regular thing that when
I go to vote, if I go to vote, because
you know, Donald Trump is going to cancel the elections,
that the military will be there to make sure that
the voting is safe, and then he's going to steal
the ballot box and he's going to change everything for himself.

(55:30):
You know, the only reason for why they're coming up
with that line is because they're the ones who've been
stealing the elections for so long. They don't realize that
they're reading out of their own playbook. And again, you
have to have fear and the fear that, oh my god,
the military is going to come into our town to

(55:51):
take over, and the military is going to come in
and steal our votes. Maybe I just won't vote. I'm
too scared. But Pritzer said that the broader goal I
believe is to militarize our major American cities before the
twenty twenty six elections. And let me be clear about

(56:11):
what's going on in the streets at Chicago. They have
ice and CBP in fatigues, put them in military gear,
including with automatic weapons. Oh Jesus, it's not automatic weapons,
you clown, their semi automatic they don't have. Matter of fact,

(56:35):
not very many of the branches of military use fully
automatic weapons. But I digress. But they had them marching
up and down the major streets in downtown Chicago. This
is a signal that they're trying to send that it's
okay to have troops on your street, that this would
be a welcome thing for people who live in Chicago.

(56:57):
Nobody here welcomes it, by the way, and I mean literally,
as they're walking down the street, people are yelling at them,
but they think they can get people used to the IDEA.
Wait a second, I don't do you guys remember seeing
the video. The video of the National Guard that was
walking down the streets of Chicago was they were going
over to the area that they were going to be protecting,

(57:17):
and there were some people that were sitting in a
cafe outside, some older people that were sitting out there
feeling pretty safe, and they were talking to these soldiers
as they walked by and thanking them for being there,
thank you so much for coming in, thank you for
making us safeer, thank you. So, where's where's the nobody?

(57:38):
Governor Pritzker, the nobody wants them there. Maybe you should
put down your milkshake in your cheeseburger and go out
and talk to the people in the streets. And I'm
not talking about going out onto a boat that's been
secured by your security team and sitting out there in
front of the Trump Hotel and say look how great
it is here, not by going out on a running

(58:01):
path that is out there by the water where it
appears that you're by yourself, but the reality is behind
the camera is your security team of ten people. Let's
not pretend this way, because we all know that you,
as the governor and as the mayor knit with there,

(58:23):
Brandon Johnson, they don't go anywhere without their security teams. Nowhere.
Governor Pritsker doesn't go out for a walk without having
a security team. It just doesn't happen. But he added
on saying the next year, I fear that what they're
going to do is deploy these folks eventually to polling
places and say they're protecting the vote. Which is possible

(58:45):
that they may do that to ensure that people who
are not legal citizens of this country are going into vote,
because by the way we've been hearing the story after
story after story, including the guy who ended up getting
a job as a superintendent of schools who's the here
illegally was also voting. So I think anybody who cares

(59:07):
about the safety of their vote will be okay if
Ice is sitting there at the polling booth, because they
know that if there's somebody who's not supposed to be voting,
they're not gonna want to go there. If Ice is
going to be there, right, so I'd feel pretty safe
about it. But again, I think some of these Democrats
need to get out of there that are a little
glass bubbles that they have and go talk to the

(59:28):
real people. But instead they're fear mongering. They are fear
mongering that this is what's going to happen. And even
joy Behar on the view on the show on Tuesday,
she even came out and said that that President Trump's
recent National Guard deployments to the major US cities were
not for crime control, but part of a supposed plan

(59:49):
to stop the next election. Oh, she slipped on that
with the supposed plan, you mean the supposed plan that
supposedly the Democrats think that Donald Trump was doing.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
You slip.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
Can we get a legal note in here on this
is the legal note. Can we have the legal notes
in here? But you went on and made the comments
during the segment discussing Trump's discussion to deploy troops to Washington,
d C, Memphis, Tennessee, and you know, also going into Chicago.
But you know what, Joy, why don't we also talk
about this because I know you won't the success of

(01:00:26):
Washington d C. The fact that Washington d C now
is cleaner and safer than it has been in decades
because of what Donald Trump didn't. Why don't you get
out there and criticize the political leaders of the city
that won't let the law enforcement do their job to
make these cities safer. And you can't sit here and
tell us that places like Chicago is safe. Oh my god,

(01:00:49):
Chicago's such a safe place. We don't need the military.
Wait a second, was it not just this past weekend
that fifty five zero fifty people were shot? Evan people
were killed. The weekend before that about twenty five people shot,
about six or seven people killed there as well. You
can't sit there and tell us that it is safe
and it is not safe. We know it's not safe,

(01:01:12):
but you be watching now because This is the new
talking point that the left has is that that basically
Donald Trump is getting the military into our cities to
normalize it, to get it ready so that we're used
to it, and then he's going to steal the twenty
twenty six election. Here's a thought. I'm just gonna put

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this out here for a quick thought. Maybe the Democrats,
rather than talking about all the bad that Donald Trump
is doing and baking up all these stories about what
Donald Trump is doing, and even though we're all seeing
the reality of it, why don't you come out and
tell us what you're gonna do better? Again the plan.
Come out and tell us what you're going to do better.

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How are you going to make healthcare more affordable? Because
let me tell you, if you can come out to me.
All right, this is kind of a stretch, but I'm
just gonna throw it out of here. If you can
come out to me and say, hey, look, I know
that you're on the ACA Act, which I'm not. But
if I was still on there and we know that
it costs you a lot of money, here's our plan.
This is what we're gonna do. We're gonna go with

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the hospitals. We're gonna give hospitals tax credits. We're gonna
do this that We're gonna deregulate some of these things
to lower the costs. This way, when you have to
go to the hospital, it's gonna be cheaper for you.
That might actually make me go, oh okay. Hey, We're
gonna give some subsidies to the farmers to ensure that
the food that we ends up being cheaper. Oh okay,

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so that's gonna make my groceries cheaper. Give us something,
But the Democrats aren't giving you anything except for fear mongering,
and that's not gonna help you win because Donald Trump,
by the way, is producing results, and even Democrats are
seeing the results that he is producing. All Right, we
got to take a quick break. We'll be right back.
This is the Briden Roth Show. Good morning. All right,

(01:03:11):
welcome back to the Brian Rush Show here on Florida
Man Radio. I appreciate you checking us out today. So
Gavin Newsom, here we go. Gavin Newsom, it's been over
nine months since the LA fires. We have asked for
federal disaster aid for months now, not a dollar from Trump.
He's abandoning Americans while building ballrooms and decorating his office gold.

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It's disgusting and disqualifying. Really, let me ask you this question, Gavin.
How many people have come to La, to the city
and said, Hey, I want to rebuild my house. All
I need is a permit. Can you give me a
permit to rebuild my house? Two people approved. It's been

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nine months and the city of la is not even
giving out building permits for people to rebuild their lives,
rebuild their homes. And you got to go off and
bitch about the fact that Donald Trump is not giving
you any disaster aid? And why didn't Donald Trump give
you any disaster ad? That should be another question. Ask

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that one, Gavin, And maybe you should ask yourself. Don't
ask him, ask yourself, go geez, why did he not
want to give us any aid? Could it be because
of the fact that my wife and I did a
benefit to raise money and all the money disappeared? And

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could that be? Could be the fact that you're not
doing anything to ensure that these fires don't happen again,
even though there was somebody that had been arrested by
the way for being somebody who started the fires and
the palisades. There's a man twenty nine years old Jonathan Rinder,
who is from Melbourne, Florida, who actually was charged with

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destruction of fire of property by means of fire. He
got arrested on Tuesday and he's being charged with starting
basically the Pacific Palisades fire. But you know, Gavin Douse
him again getting out there and putting the blame on
Donald Trump. It's all Donald Trump. He's not giving us
the money. Well, you can't manage the money, maybe you

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should say hey, and again here we go with the
idea of coming up with a plan, an idea saying, okay,
if you don't trust us on the money, let's come
up with some sort of a federal cooperation, a federal
program that you guys can distribute the money to those
who need the money in my community if you don't

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trust me to handle the money. And this would what
a good leader should do. I mean, first off, good
leaders' be in this position. But if you just go, look,
if you don't trust me and the government to do
the money, do something so that you directly the federal
government can give the money to my people. But he
doesn't even do that. Instead, it's it's got to be
more of the Donald Trump hatred. He doesn't love us.

(01:06:17):
He's not giving us any money. He's holding it back
while he's decorating his office gold and building ballrooms. Yeah,
with his own money. By the way, all right, we
got to take a break for the bottom of the hour.
We'll be right back.

Speaker 10 (01:06:30):
Oh they say he's got good jeans.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
I'm just glad he's wearing pasts. This is the Brian
rust Show. All right, welcome back to the show. Thanks
so much for getting your day going with us. Happy Thursday.
One more day till the big weekend. Not that it
matters to me. I'm not gonna work this weekend anyhow.
So coming up at the top of the hour, Mark
Mix the National Right to Work, he's gonna be joining us.
We're gonna chat with him about the Health and Education,

(01:07:00):
Labor Committee, the Pensions committee that went down yesterday, had
a big meeting. Get some updates on that. We also
some great information from Mark, and of course he also
helps out with some of the economy stuff, so we'll
chat with him also. Brian Wrestlinger, we're going to be
welcoming him back to the show. He's a guy who
family farmer. He's well, he's not doing the farm anymore.

(01:07:23):
But his family still doing the farm. Grew up in
the family farm, and we've had some great conversations with
him in the past. We're gonna talk with him about
how the shutdown is potentially affecting the small farms and
farmers in America. I'm sure that we don't have any
solutions from the Democrats and how to how to fix
that at all. As a matter of fact, Donald Trump
right now is warning the Democrats of the deadline, and

(01:07:46):
he said that you know, if you don't if you
don't get to get to work figure this thing all out,
that these firings will be permanent. Now you know that
the Democrats are going to take that and they're going
to use it as a guy. Look at Donald Chubby's
threatening your jobs. He doesn't care about you at all.
Look at what's going on. We know we know that

(01:08:07):
that's what he's going to do, or they're going to do.
But Donald Trump had warned that the prolonged inaction in
Congress could lead to significant reductions in the federal workforce
and cuts to government programs. As the standoff continues, what
are we on day number like, I don't know fifty
I've lost track. But we basically got until Tuesday because

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if we don't get everything up and going by Tuesday,
then a lot of government workers are not going to
get their paychecks, including ice agents, the military and so
many more. So they got to get it done. And
what have we seen. What have we seen from the
Democrats when it comes to getting this done. We saw
Mike Lauer who cornered team of Obama in the corner

(01:08:53):
about it and tried asking him about a few things,
and he couldn't answer any questions. He was argumentive about
things and didn't do Diddley squad. What has Chuck Schumer done?
By the way, anybody see it? Chuck Schumer cussed the
other day and now that this is the big news,
this is the big news that, oh my god, it's

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gotten so bad that Chuck Schumer had to cuss. Ah,
he had to say a bad word. Oh my god,
this is getting tragic. Now, how about just getting it done?
And you know, here's the other thing too, is I
want to know what John Thune, the leader in the

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leader of the Senate right now, but the leader of
the Republicans in the Senate, what he's doing. You know,
one of the things about politics, And it doesn't matter
what level it is that politics are on. It's about
relationship building. You have to build those relationships. You may
not like a person, and that's perfectly fine, but if

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you can't build the relationship, then you're never going to
get anyone. And in Congress right now, relationships have got
to be really strong. We've got to grow them more.
And the question that I have for John Thune is
what are you doing to get seven people over? Because
that's all it takes seven people. You get seven Democrats

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or combination Democrats and independence to come over and vote
for the continuing Resolution, which again is not even a budget,
just a continuing resolution. Let's continue spending what we were spending,
minus a few things like the twenty million dollars that
we went over the other day, that type of stuff.
Let's just get it back open and running. We'll just

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get it going for you know, until about Christmas time
when we could do this all over again and sound important.
Let's just get it up and going. What are they
doing is it for that they need for? Are you sure?
Wait a second, what's the math? No it's more than four?
Oh no, maybe no, damn it, Hang on now, you're

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making me question myself. I was doing good until until
I until I got that. No, it's seven. They need
seven because you need sixty votes and we've only got
fifty three, right, all right, now I'm questioning myself. Hang on,
how many sented? How many? Hang on? Taishoes?

Speaker 11 (01:11:24):
I was.

Speaker 1 (01:11:25):
I was on a roll for a second there. Then
you threw me off. Let me look up there seeing
here and yeah, we have fifty three senators. You need
seven or sixty. So yeah, yeah, I was right, seventy
They need sixty votes, so they need seven more. Okay,
who for a second there, I was, I was thrown off.

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I was, I was really thrown up. Yeah, so they
need seven people. They already have three or four, all right,
but they in total Okay, now, now we're getting down
to the nitty gritty. They've already got a couple of them, dummy,
You're right, they do. So they only need a couple
more to come on over. But it is a total
seven that they need. So John Thune basically needs to

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get down there and get these relationships going that and
and I don't know if he's done it yet, and
and maybe he should maybe or better yet, maybe Donald
Trump should do this one. Maybe it is time for
somebody to sit down with John Fetterman and go, hey, John,
but we know where where you are at this point.

(01:12:31):
We know that the Democrats are coming after you for
the uh, the next election, and Pennsylvania is turning maroon.
It's not even purple any more. We're going maroon. You
wanna you want to join here, I'll give you a sharpie,
you can you can change that D to an R
if you like. Help you out. But yeah, we just
need to get a couple more on board. Uh, and

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and this whole thing will be done and over with
for a couple of months, which they can't do. That's
a good one. Fetterman should count for two, as he's
twice as smart as the rest of the Democrats. Who
would have thought that too, By the way, I mean
John Fetterman. If you know the history of John Fetterman,

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you know he's he was kind of an entitled guy.
You know, Daddy basically bought him the mayor's seats in
the in the town in Pennsylvania, and you know he's
you know, and then all of a sudden, the man
has a stroke and and of course we in the
left are the right. We didn't make fun of the left.

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We on the right. We we just basically looked at
it and said, you know, that's horrible that he had
a stroke, but you should probably consider looking into your
health and not you know, going into this. But he didn't.
And then he had a couple of other issues, and
then he went to some hospitals and did some treatment.
Then all of a sudden he comes out of the treatment. Now,
granted there's the the Tinfoil had conspiracy of that's not

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actually John Fetterman and it's somebody else. I mean, first off,
I can't imagine that there's two men that are that
ugly on this planet that look the same. I mean,
I have not to be mean. I just have a
hard time believing that there's two people that are that ugly,
that big, that goofy, that that you could replace the
other one with. I have a hard time with it.
But then again, you know, maybe it's a maybe it's

(01:14:17):
a Tesla robot. I don't know. But whatever they have
done with Fetterman, with getting his brain to get back
up into it, maybe more Democrats need to get on
board with that that treatment. They really should, because what
has happened with John Fetterman. How he has gone from
almost a stuttering moron to the one Democrat that actually

(01:14:38):
makes any sense, and his speech has gotten better, his
thought patterns have gotten better. He still wears the hoodie
and the gym shorts, which at this point, I mean,
as disrespectful as it really kind of is. I mean,
it's just his thing, and I think we've come to
accept it that, you know, it's just the hoodie guy.
I mean, it just seems weird when we do see
him in a suit. But they need to work on

(01:15:01):
some relationships and get some people over because you know
that there's plenty of Democrats that are not thinking the
same way that the leadership is thinking. What's that he
used to live down the street from you, and he's hilarious,
to be honest with you. I bet he is a
pretty funny guy. I mean, I don't agree with him
on a lot of political things, John Fetterman, but I

(01:15:24):
believe that he's probably a funny guy, probably a nice guy.
Once that he chased down a guy down the street
with a shotgun whenever he was mayor, I can see
that too. I could see that the stroke had fixed
his brain it possibly did. Maybe we need to get
some more Democrats to have a stroke. But at this point,

(01:15:46):
all we need to do is just let Donald Trump
keep doing what their thing is, what his thing is,
and maybe they will end up having a stroke just
from dealing with Donald Trump. I mean, that's a good
possibility when it comes to that. But Donald Trump has
worn you know, ooh squirrel moment. Getting back to it,
Donald Trump warned that the Democrats, if they don't get
on board and get this thing done, then the proposed

(01:16:09):
cuts that he's going to do, they're going to be permanent.
And he took the truth social and said, I'll be
able to tell you that in four or five days,
if it keeps going on, it'll be substantial and a
lot of these jobs will never come back. You're going
to have to look a lot closer to a balanced budget, which,

(01:16:31):
by the way, I wish more people would remind our
politicians that it has been since nineteen ninety six that
we have had a balanced budget, not a spending plan,
a balanced budget, which for the Democrats and the Republicans
that don't understand that that is when you have the

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amount of money coming in and the amount of money
going out being the same, and not the amount of
money coming in being a lot lower than the amount
of money going out. That's not balance. That's called the
responsibility and you need to get with it seriously. But
it'll be interesting to see how this threat sets with

(01:17:14):
the Democrats. I'm sure it's going to be another one
of those. They're just gonna come out and go Donald
Jump is threatening. Donald Jump doesn't love you. He's getting
out there and he's threatening everybody, and he's gonna take
everything away from you. So in California, this school district
is probably not sitting well with people like Gavin Newsom.

(01:17:36):
California's largest school district has now basically said to the
state and to Gavin Newsom and the other blue haired
freakingoids that the whole transgender thing in girls' sports, yeah no,
we're not going to do it. They have adopted the
current high school district, which serves approximately forty thousand students

(01:17:57):
in Bakersfield. They voted three to two in favor of
a resolution that would bring the district into compliance with
Trump the Administration's Title four rules, which essentially bans males
who identify as females from participating in girl sports. But
the resolution also puts the district at odds, of course,
with the state's far left Democrat led legislatures and the

(01:18:19):
radical Gavin Newsom. But hang on a second, let's double
check on Gavin. He's still over on that side. We
got to check because every now and then he's like,
I don't know, Wait a second, which, hang on, where's
the way it coming from? Oh it's overhard, got got
this side. He's flip flopped so much with that particular
that issue. But the Chino Valley Unified School District Board

(01:18:41):
of Education President Sanja Shaw had wrote that I authorize
this resolution to be the voice of our communities, to
stand with our girls and protect the truth that should
never have been silenced. Boys are boys, girls or girls.
God made them beautiful just the way they are. It's

(01:19:04):
time to put fairness, truth and common sense back into education.
Oh that person's going to get a flaming bag of
dog poop on their step, you know that for sure.
But the Chino and Kern are both part of a
large number of California schools and districts that are now
adopting the similar resolutions. To date, so far, there are
fourteen other school districts that have passed the resolutions to

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ban trans athletes to essentially comply with Trump's title for rules.
And you know what it's It's really not about complying
with with Donald Trump's rules. It's complying with nature and
reality is what it really truly is. And more of
us have got to do that. We've got to protect
our girls. But the left, they don't see the purpose

(01:19:51):
of that. And like we need examples, like you need
any more examples. And the one that I bring up
all the time is the trans athlete volleyball player. The
boy that spiked the girl into a spiked the ball
into a girl's face and she had a stroke because
of it. She'll never be the same because this boy,

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who was not capable of playing it with other boys,
had to be a girl and beat the girls. That's
a concept too that I have a hard time understanding.
I couldn't be proud of myself. Like if I was
going off there and I was playing the girls and
I won, I mean, it would be one of those

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things where I go, well, I mean, I am a dude.
I'm a little bit more inclined to to be able
to be more powerful than the girl, so I mean
that was kind of expected. I mean, if if the
girl beat me, then I would also be like, oh damn,
I just can't believe the girl just beat me. I

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would have a little bit of shame in that, But
I would also have shame that, you know, I'm not
a good enough athlete to play with the other boys
that I have to go to the girls to beat them.
And that's not not very manly, it really isn't. I mean,
it's and I guess the problem too, is that these

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liberal men, and I hate to use that word men,
because it's really not true, they're raising their their boys
in such sissy little ways. I think that honestly, if
your testosterone level is too low, you shouldn't be allowed
to breed. I think that's what we should do that.
And if your your card says liberal on it, definitely

(01:21:44):
definitely hold off on the breeding capability. That's not a
good idea. All right. Coming up at the top of
the hour mark mix, National Right to Work is going
to be joining us. We're gonna chat with him about
the Health and Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing that
have been yesterday, and we'll get some other updates from
him as well. Plus Brian Ressinger is going to be
joining us at the bottom of the next hour talking
about Americans farmers and can they survive the shutdown. We'll

(01:22:07):
chat with them coming up just a little bit. I meantime,
we got to take a quick break. We'll be right back.
This is the Brian Rush Show.

Speaker 10 (01:22:13):
Good morning, making liberals cry, one happy show at a time.
This is the Brian Rust Show.

Speaker 1 (01:22:33):
All right, Welcome back to the Brian Rush Show here
on Florida Man Radio and of course streaming on Rumble,
streaming on Wimken, streaming on the Florida Man Radio app.
If you haven't downloaded that app yet, go greet that.
You can just find it in the app store. Just
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That way, you'll have access to us everywhere. And don't
forget the official website of the Brian Rush Show, well,

(01:22:54):
the Brian Rushshow dot com. Keeping it simple, so loving
the fact that the left is still harping on the whole.
Donald Trump is on the Epstein list. Donald Trump, he
was at the island. Donald Trump put the little children
not the case, absolutely not the case, because if it was,

(01:23:17):
and again we have to ask this question if Donald
Trump was in fact on the Epstein list in some
shape or form that where he was actually involved with children,
and not in something that could be explained like, hey,
Donald Trump, he was on Epstein's plane. Which I've explained

(01:23:40):
this before. Rich people share their planes all the time.
I know because that's what I do for a living.
Outside of the radio show, I deal exactly with the
private aviation. And I can tell you now that that
happens all the time. Hey going to Panama City? Yeah,
you going this weekend. I was thinking about it, But
my plane is down here. You want to ride mine? Sure,
let's go. Oh happens all the time. So the flight

(01:24:05):
logs where Donald Trump's name does appear, that is not
a big deal, not an absolute big deal at all.
But this is a concept that I don't understand why
the left doesn't get this because we know how evil
the left is. I mean, the left will make things
up just to go after Donald Trump. And if they're
willing to make things up to go after Donald Trump,

(01:24:28):
then if you actually had fact, why wouldn't you use it?
Think about what they had to do. They had to
make up crimes, they had to basically intimidate people to
testify against Donald Trump. They had to change laws so

(01:24:50):
that they could go after Donald Trump for something that
still most of us do not believe. The Egen Carroll situation,
the Egen Carrol lawsuit that never would been able to
happen if it wasn't for the fact that the state
of New York changed the law for one year. One year,
We're gonna change the law for a year so that
you can go after the people that did this stuff.

(01:25:12):
And and then then then then the law goes away again.
If they really truly had all this information, and again,
the Biden administration for four years, they were there, they
had everything. Why didn't it come out on Donald Trump?
Now here's a picture of him kissing a young girl. Yeah,

(01:25:33):
that's Ivanka Evanna Trump kissing his daughter. Okay, yeah, see
he's a pedophile. Oh yeah, because you know when a
father kisses their daughter in a very sweet way, that
that makes him a pedophile. That's right. I forgot about that.
Sorry my bad, But I love this other post that

(01:25:56):
comes out talking about Pam Bondi. She watched videos of
Trump raping children and she chose to protect him. Just
think about that. Yeah, I am thinking about that. If
there are videos that Pam Bondy has been able to
watch of Donald Trump raping children, how come James Comey

(01:26:19):
didn't release that video? How come the Biden administration never
released that video? Hell? Why didn't Hillary Clinton release the
video of Donald Trump raping children? Darre think that maybe
it's because it's not really there. I mean, that would

(01:26:42):
just be a common sense thing that if the video
was there, why didn't the Democrats use it? And you
can't give us integrity because the Democrats don't have the
integrity when it comes to that. They would have used
that in a heartbeat. Like I said, They've had to
make up laws, make up things, make up charges just
to go after Donald Trump. If you had the evidence,

(01:27:05):
hardcore evidence, why not use it. The lawyers for Epstein
have come out and said, yeah, all this stuff, it's
not true about Donald Trump. It's just not there. We've
had some of the Epstein lawyers that have come out
and said that Donald Trump was never part of the island,

(01:27:30):
never part of all of this stuff. It was never there.
So if they're saying that, where's this video that you're alleging,
and you know, at this point, I would love to
see Donald Trump set aside a couple million dollars several
million dollars for legal stuff to just go after every
single person who goes after him and accuses him of

(01:27:52):
this stuff with no evidence whatsoever. I would love to
see it. We got to take a break for the
top of the hour. We'll be right back with ark mix.
Hang god it, We'll be right back. Brian Russe's name,
you know the brand.

Speaker 3 (01:28:13):
Lining up the airways in this one, melting snow face
with the fiery half talking truth.

Speaker 4 (01:28:23):
You can't always stand fast tone show from coast to coast.

Speaker 3 (01:28:34):
Got the facts, but it ain't no boast, can't jam
up the chains and give him a toast to the
man who roasts the most.

Speaker 1 (01:28:41):
Knock it off.

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It's rust on me, but ter like.

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Nothing never stays the same, breaking down walls of shame.

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Ryan Roust is here, claim voices rise a thing and
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don't free fray in the so so silver screen?

Speaker 1 (01:29:42):
All right, welcome back down number three of the Brian
Rush Show here on Florida Man Radio networking of course,
also streaming on Rumble and Wimken. Want to welcome back
to the show for the National Right to Work, Mark
Mixed Mark, good morning and welcome back to the show.

Speaker 11 (01:29:56):
Ryan, good to be with you.

Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
Thanks for the opportunity. And I hope the sun shines
in Florida. I suspect it is.

Speaker 1 (01:30:01):
You know what, I haven't even looked out the window yet.
I have no probably, but you know what, here, it's Florida.
It's the winter time or a fall time. Give it
a minute, it'll change either way. So if you like
the sun, hang on. If you like the hot, hang on.
If you want a cold, hang on. If you want
to rain, yes, it's all coming, so just be prepared
for it and hang on.

Speaker 11 (01:30:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:30:22):
Yeah, if you don't like the weather, give it a minute,
it'll change for you. So yesterday the Senate Health, Education,
Labor and Pensions Committee the help, they held a big
committee meeting yesterday. What's coming out of this mess and
what's going on? Here.

Speaker 2 (01:30:38):
Yeah, Brian, Well, the theme of the hearing was labor
law reform, and that's something certainly that we agree with,
is labor law reform. We think there's a need for
reforming the labor law that was written in the nineteen
thirty They give them union officials dramatic power over workers. Unfortunately,
the committee decided to have a hearing on a bill

(01:30:59):
that would basically expand union power over workers by getting
the federal government more involved in labor relations. And unfortunately
it's a bill that's sponsored by a Republican by the
name of Josh Hawley from Missouri.

Speaker 1 (01:31:12):
That doesn't surprise you, to be honest with you, because
I mean, Josh Holly is like there's times he's like
Florida Weather. You know, I like him for a minute
and then I'm like, oh damn, what is he doing now?
So I'm not surprised, I really am not.

Speaker 2 (01:31:25):
But what Yeah, you're a radio professional. If you can
make the transition from Josh Holly to the Florida weather,
so good for you.

Speaker 11 (01:31:32):
That's good stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:31:34):
You don't want to be in my brain. Trust me.
It's a scary place. So exactly what is this thing?
The faster Labor Contracts Act that Josh Holly is proposing.

Speaker 2 (01:31:44):
Yeah, one of the concerns in labor policies, particularly from
union officials, is that contracts don't get imposed on businesses
quickly enough. And obviously, Brian, when you're negotiating a labor contract,
you're talking about all the terms and conditions of employment.
So frankly, everything that's involved with the daily workplace is
being negotiated in a union contract. Sometimes those contracts take

(01:32:06):
a while because there are issues that someone wants to
negotiate over someone doesn't. For example, the idea of repeat
of union security. Putting in forced dues in a contract
is something that employers wants negotiate over, but they don't
have to agree to, so that oftentimes you will say, well,
it's that, or we're going to go on strike, or
we're not going to work or whatever. And so these

(01:32:27):
terms cognitions of employment are sometimes very difficult to come
to agreement on. What always Bill wants is an immediate
negotiation with a ninety day conclusion, And if there is
not a ninety day conclusion and a contract, then the
federal government will send mediators into the workplace and they
Brian can impose a contract out of private business for

(01:32:47):
up to two years. That's not free enterprise. That's not
really anything that we want to support. But yet that's
what this bill was about.

Speaker 1 (01:32:55):
And this is Josh Hawley, the Republican that is of
behind this one. That's that's a little disturbing to to
stay the least. And I think the last thing that
we want is government negotiators. I mean, granted, right now,
Nder Donald Trump, it's fine, but can you imagine Anthony
Blinkln coming in to have to be your negotiator. Hi, everybody,
it's me and Antony Blinkin and I'm here to make

(01:33:16):
your job better. That's that would scare the hell out
of me. I mean, I would find another job if
I saw Anthony Blinkinn coming in to negotiate. So, yeah,
that just doesn't sound like it's a good idea for labor.

Speaker 2 (01:33:30):
Yeah, it's not. And the problem. The other problem is
is that Josh Holly. You know, the the majority gets
to invite witnesses. And the witness that Josh Holly invited
was Sean O'Brien, the president of the Teamsters Union. And
of course he's a big fan of this because it
gives him additional power over workers, and so now hearing went, well,
there was talk about our National Right to Work Act,

(01:33:51):
which is a very simple one page bill that doesn't
add a single word to federal law. It simply repeals
the provisions in federal law that say that says union
officials can forced workers to pay dues to keep their jobs.
We believe that's great labor law reform. As opposed to
empowering union officials in a bigger way over labor policy.

Speaker 1 (01:34:11):
What a mess, I mean, just want a mess. Hey,
what else are we going on with when it comes
to all of our labor stuff?

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
Well, obviously, Yet with the federal government, there's lots going on.
There's lots of lawsuits pending over the president's moves to
roll in roll back government sector union members power over
federal employees. And that's a that's a battle that's really
really going on. And there's lots of lawsuits, about forty
lawsuits against the president. And I don't know that's when
that's going to end, Bryan, But it's about having the

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ability to control government and allowing you know, elected officials
to manage government, as opposed to union officials being in
between elected officials and the citizens.

Speaker 11 (01:34:50):
That elect them.

Speaker 2 (01:34:52):
It's a big deal. There's lots of action there.

Speaker 6 (01:34:54):
Obviously.

Speaker 2 (01:34:55):
With the government speck down, it looks like we're going
to see some layoffs, not only furloughs, but actually people
are going to losing their jobs in the federal government.
So there's a lot going on in that regard for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:35:04):
Yeah, and I don't think too many of us will
be all that upset to see our government shrunk down,
because it really does and it is kind of a
dangerous concept to have it so that the I mean,
we're already getting to that point because of the deep
state that goes on in Washington, that the elected leaders
losing their power to essentially run government, and the idea
that we'd have to have, you know, union to be

(01:35:26):
stepping in to run things, that is not good in
so many ways.

Speaker 2 (01:35:32):
Yeah, indeed, Brian, and you don't agree with Franklin Roosevelt
very often, but he agrees with you that it's unconsortable
to think that we would unionize government employees. He said
that in a letter to a friend in nineteen thirty seven,
after they had basically given the federal government control over
private sector labor manager relations, And you're exactly right. The
monopoly that is the federal government is no place for

(01:35:55):
another monopoly for unions that have exclusive bargaining privileges over
workers and the conditions that we employ federal employees, it
doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 1 (01:36:04):
Yeah, yeah, you're right. I mean government is bad enough,
and then you add in the in the union and
it's just going to make things probably a hundred times worse.
And I don't know how how much our government can
survive on that. I mean, we need to reduce the
size of our government to begin with. And I can
only imagine the nightmare it will be if it was
unionized and we find more waste and fraud and abuse

(01:36:26):
and want to get rid of more positions. How difficult
that would be if it's unionized.

Speaker 2 (01:36:32):
Yeah, well, we've seen examples. There's case studies all across
the country, including California and Illinois and New York and
New Jersey and those states that are in the biggest
fiscal mass those are the states that have the highest
government union density and the government and the government unions
had the greatest amount of control over what happens in
that government. So there is plenty of case studies out
there that says this is probably not a good idea,

(01:36:55):
And I think the President's right trying to reform it
and give accountability back to you know, the ability for
citizens and people that vote to give accountability and hold
elected official accountable for the actions of the federal government
as opposed to this kind of megabureaucracy that we have
little idea about how the whole thing runs and how
it works and how it's negotiated.

Speaker 1 (01:37:16):
Yeah, and it's just getting worse. I mean that deep state,
and you know, it just seems every time you turn
around and we uncover more and more of the deep
state and how much they are controlling things. The idea
of unionizing adding into that, we know is going to
make it worse. And so many of our politicians just
seem to be less and less control and it's our

(01:37:36):
government is going in the wrong direction, I think from
what our founders really truly wanted it to be.

Speaker 2 (01:37:42):
Yeah, I agree with you on that, and certainly, you know,
the idea of government being this large is another problem.
And to your point, and the fact that the President's
trying to reform it and trying to control it and
trying to bring it under control, is something and I
think is very important to the citizens and people that
voted for this president. I think to do just that.

Speaker 1 (01:38:01):
Yeah. And then there's that phrase non essential employees. That
is a phrase that I think we should look into
a little bit more because if somebody is not essential,
why are they there? You know, because any indeed, any
business on the planet. Because people don't understand this sometimes
and I have to explain it that the people are

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the most expensive element of most businesses. And when when
you're throwing in people after people after people, and you
don't need them, you know, businesses will look at it
and say, look, we need to cut our costs a
little bit, and we need to get rid of certain people.
And when you have government that does this, and they
just add more and more people and they're not essential
for the government to run, it's just costing us, the

(01:38:44):
owners of the company, a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (01:38:48):
Yeah, indeed. And it's it's something that we're starting to,
you know, startain to have an impact on taxpayers, and
it has an impact on all of us, and we
just need to be able to reform it. I mean,
in the private sector, there's a substitute. You know, if
you go on strike and you withhold goods and you
don't allow a company to produce the widgets that they make,

(01:39:09):
there's somebody that will come in and do that. When
it comes to government, there's allegedly no substitute for the
things that government does, and therefore, you know, how you
can apply them monopoly to that is really problematic. And
that's what we're seeing here is that problem growing and
growing and growing. It's not going to get better until
we start to say no to some of this stuff.

Speaker 11 (01:39:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:39:28):
Yeah, we have to absolutely say no to a lot
of it, and we just need to cut it back.
And that's a good analogy too, about the fact that
you know, with a regular private business, you know, you
could always get somebody else to come in and do it.
But with the government, you can think about how much
that would pretty much make government come to a screeching
halt more than so right now where people want to

(01:39:49):
go to work, but we're telling them no. If people
didn't want to go to work, what that would do
to our government as a whole.

Speaker 2 (01:39:57):
Yeah, and again, we've got lots, said lots of case
studies regarding this, and again as something that I think
is a topic that's it's not going to get easier
to deal with this. You're going to have to deal
with it sooner rather than later in every state for
that matter. And a lot of folks don't want to
do it, but there's some politicians that do. And you know,
sometimes there's hard choices to make in politics. And I

(01:40:20):
hope that the President continues on this vein of making
these difficult decisions and doing the things that need to
be done to help protect the American taxpayer and most
importantly the American worker.

Speaker 1 (01:40:29):
Yeah. Absolutely, And you know, one lesson that I want
to I want to hit on. I want to get
your thoughts and depinion on this because we've and by
the way, we're chatting with the market Mix from the
National Right to Work Committee, we saw after the Charlie
Kirk shooting or the assassination of Charlie Kirk that happened,
that people were coming out and obviously making a lot
of comments on social media and publicly, and we saw

(01:40:51):
the results of that and that being people being fired.
And some people just don't understand this concept of why
it is that you know, a business can fire some
but in all the violation of First Amendment speech. But
I think a lot of people don't ever pay attention
to that, that little thing that that handbook that's given
to them. You know, most handbooks for most companies there

(01:41:11):
will be a little section in there that will say that, hey,
if you, if you do things that are not becoming
of an employee of this company representing the company that
you know, we can terminate you. Essentially. What are some
of your thoughts on all of this message going down
and how the people are reacting when they find out, Oh,
my actions do have some consequences.

Speaker 2 (01:41:32):
Yeah, well, you know, Brian, there's there's labor law regarding
all of this as opposed to at will employment and
other conditions of employment. But yeah, I mean common sense
should prevail for oftentimes, and going back to the kind
of the union control, the idea of a company handbook
is something that's in anathema to union officials because it
has things in there like you shall not punch your
fellow employee in the face. You know, you may you don't.

Speaker 1 (01:41:55):
Trying to get that out of it too every every time,
but they won't let it come out for some reason.

Speaker 2 (01:42:03):
Yeah, most of that stuff is basically safety in the workplace.
It's common sense when it comes to human relations, and
those types of things make a difference. If you you know,
you're investing capital, you're risking capital in business, and you
have employees that are disruptive. In many cases, that's a problem.
If they're disruptive about things that are legitimately you know,
concerning as far as like workplace safety or things like that.

(01:42:25):
There's plenty of regulations or rules that protect that. But
when you're just going off and causing trouble and disruptions
in a workplace that are you know, basically common sense issues,
one wonders how you can protect that type of behavior
or whether or not you even should.

Speaker 1 (01:42:38):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. So I mean basically people just
need to understand that, you know, you can't go out there.
And and again a lot of companies are making that
decision to fire those employees because of how it reflects
upon the company itself. I mean, what kind of laws
are there that actually protect the employees from that and
and and essentially even the employers from that type of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:43:01):
Yeah, that's that's part of employment law. That's probably i
don't know, maybe a billion chapters deep in federal regulations,
and some of it's very necessary. Brian don't get me wrong.
There there's important things that need to be done because
taking care of your workers is something that most employers
want to do, they do do, and they should do.
From an employment low standpoint, there's lots of issues to

(01:43:22):
protect workers and things that would be you know, kind
of questionable when it comes to behavior that you know, hey,
they're raising an issue about a safety matter or someone's behavior,
and you know, protecting their their workplace rights in that
instance is one thing we should be doing. But when
they're making comments that are disparaging and do to cause
damage to a business. There's things that you should be
able to decision, you should be able to make and

(01:43:42):
I think that's probably one of them. And you know,
we have an attorney general's race up here in Virginia
right now where a guy says that if the former
Speaker of the House should get two goals to the head,
yeah he's going to continue running. I think the American
people or the Virginia rogers will have something to say
about that, let alone as employer. Yeah, yes, indeed.

Speaker 1 (01:43:58):
Yeah, that is that's a whole of a mess that
we don't even have time to get into, uh with
that guy, But uh, yeah, it's crazy. One last quick
update because we only got about a minute or so
the Starbucks thing. What's the latest with that? Because that
that that whole thing makes me giggy.

Speaker 10 (01:44:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:44:14):
Yeah, still litigating. We got another case on BAF from
another star Starbucks employee briefs I think in Texas that
we're litigating right now that calls out some of the
rules and regulations of the National Relations Board. There are
still lots of Starbucks priests are trying to get out
of a union, and they're and they're being blocked by
the federal government. We've got to get a National Relations
Board in place before we can start handling those cases.

(01:44:35):
We're working on it. There's a there's a vote today
in the Senate, the same Senate committee to to basically
vote out nominees that the President has for the National
Relations Board.

Speaker 11 (01:44:43):
We'll watch that very closely today.

Speaker 1 (01:44:45):
Interesting and I guess one of the lessons learned is
that you don't necessarily always need a union to just
make my damn cup of coffee. Lessons learned I think
for a few people, uh Mark Mixed and the National
Rights to Work Committee, How can people find out more
about you guys? So that they get involved.

Speaker 2 (01:45:01):
Yeah, they can find us on that amazing internet at
NRTW dot org and RTW dot org.

Speaker 1 (01:45:08):
All right, Mark Mix, always a pleasure having you on.
I know you've got another little event to go do.
Go do that, and thanks for watching out with us,
and we'll get back with you and get some more
follow ups soon.

Speaker 2 (01:45:19):
Thanks. Ryan, appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:45:20):
Absolutely, Mark Mixed from the National Right to Work. We
got to take a quick break. We'll be right back.
This is the Brian Rush Show. Good morning, all right,

(01:45:42):
welcome back to Brian Rush Show here at Florida Man Radio.
Of course streaming this morning on Rumble. We were streaming
on Wimden, but apparently the attack that's on them has
has crashed it, so we're not over there this morning
at this point. But anyhow, thanks so much for checking
this out, big thanks to Mark Mix. Coming up a
little bit Chad with Brian Wrestlinger. I'm going to talk
about the shutdown and the American farms and how this

(01:46:06):
may be affecting the American farms and of course the
politicians still out trying to score the political points when
it comes to the shutdown. Pete Hegseth had posted that
team minus seven days until Senator Schumer's variety shutdown means
our great troops won't get paid. Selfish Humer cares way

(01:46:27):
more about his own re election. He's scared of socialist
AOC than he cares about the essential paycheck. And of
course Eric Swalwell, fart boy, he's got to respond to that,
and he reposted in saying, yo, keg Seth, yes, keg Seth,
you know a little dish on him being drunk, learn

(01:46:48):
how to count. Republicans control the White House, Senate, and House.
You don't need a single Democrat vote to open government,
which includes the health insurance price hikes you all want
so pay the troops. Fard boy, I'm gonna help you

(01:47:14):
out with the math. Are you ready here? Well, we
got the pen, we got the paper. Okay. The Republicans
have fifty three members in the Senate. The Democrats have
was it forty five?

Speaker 4 (01:47:36):
You need.

Speaker 1 (01:47:38):
Sixty votes? Sixty votes in order to pass the bill
to open the government. Now, if you and here, we're
gonna we're gonna help this out of them. We're gonna
pull up the calculator too. Okay, you're ready, sixty minus
fifty three? That means you are negative seven, which means

(01:48:02):
because we're doing the math here, you know, we're learning
how to count. So if you need seven, then that
means you don't have enough. That means you need more.
And considering all fifty three Republicans have said yes, let's

(01:48:23):
open the government, let's keep it open and not shut
it down, and yet forty five of the Democrats said no,
plus a couple of independents said no, even though there
are a couple that have said, hey, yeah, I'm gonna
vote for the Republicans. But you still need a total

(01:48:44):
of seven to be able to do that, which means
you need seven. That's a single You need seven Democrat
votes to open the government. Eric, how is it possible
that you can be in government? You're a sitting congressman

(01:49:06):
and you don't know this. How is that possible? I mean,
is it possibly? Maybe Fang Fang could tell you, maybe
if you'd put down the weights for a minute and
stop counting reps, that maybe you could count votes and
see how many you need. I mean, this is a

(01:49:28):
simple thing. Granted, now with everything, do you need the
sixty votes, But with this you need the sixty votes.
And just because the Republican has control of the Senate,
doesn't mean that they can just simply do whatever they want.
They still have to have Democrat votes. So why lie?
I mean, it's one thing to get out there and

(01:49:49):
have an opinion on something. That's fine. You can have
your opinion about something. But when there is a factual
thing about something, like Republicans have fifty three and they
need sixt that that's not an opinion, that's a fact.
And yet we see the government officials continually go out

(01:50:09):
there and and again they're putting everything into the healthcare.
You notice everything is about healthcare, right, let me rephrase
it health insurance, not healthcare, health insurance. It came Jeffreys.
Airports are experiencing massive staffing shortages because of the Trump shutdown.
House Republicans remain on vacation. Get back to work so

(01:50:31):
that we can reopen the government. Hashtag Republican healthcare crisis. Hakim,
I don't know if you missed out on this, because
you're over. You're over in the House, and the and
the and the Congress is divided. It's a big building.
It's a divided over here. You have the Senate and
then you had like this big chamber thing in the

(01:50:52):
middle with the big dome and echoes and people and
the statues and paintings. And then over on this side
you have the house. They're separated and the House where
you happen to be, Hikeem Jeffries Timu. You guys voted
to keep the government opening. Regardless of whether you voted

(01:51:13):
against it or not. The House voted to keep it open.
So now the process, I'm just a bill, o Capital.
We need to bring those back for our politicians. You
bring that bill now over to the other side of
the Congress where it's now sitting in the Senate. So
this side done their job. Side you're on. Now it's

(01:51:34):
the other side's job to do their job. So yes,
the House Republicans are on vacation because there's nothing for
them to really do with this. They already did their job.
So again, it's one thing to have an opinion. It's
another thing to lie about the facts, which is all
the Democrats keep doing, lying about the facts. We just

(01:51:59):
got to keep exposing them. We got to take a break.
We'll be right back, all right. Welcome back to the
Brian Rush Show here on the Florida Man Radio Network
and of course streaming this morning on Rumble Whimigan. We
were trying but it uh, it had some mobile problems,

(01:52:23):
so not able to do it. I want to welcome
back to the show. It's been a little while since
we've had had Brian on. But Brian Resinger, who you Uh,
you're you're a an author, small farmer, You've you've you've
done a lot for things, and we want to welcome
you back to the show. Brian, how you doing.

Speaker 6 (01:52:41):
Hey, it's going to be with you. Thanks for having
me back.

Speaker 1 (01:52:43):
Yeah, I'm glad to have you back. Last time that
we had you on, we were we were talking about
the American farms and the small farmers. Uh. You got
your book that is outland Cash or Land Rich Cash Poor,
my Family's hope and the untold history of the Disappearing
American farmer. And there's more news about the book. What
you got a soft copy out now?

Speaker 11 (01:53:02):
Yeah, exactly. The new paperback edition came out here in September,
so folks can find that on Amazon or online or
bookstores nationwide.

Speaker 6 (01:53:09):
So we're excited about that.

Speaker 1 (01:53:10):
Excellent, that's what that's what we want to hear. And
if there's anybody that's been fighting for the American farm
You've been done doing a lot of this and this
is something that we've we've talked about often on the show,
you know, in addition to doing things like learning how
to do your own garden in the backyard, which is
one of the things we don't see very often. And
now we see things like you know, Robert Kennedy getting

(01:53:32):
into our food and trying to make our food a
little bit better. But there's a potential problem with with
the shutdown and American farmers tell us the danger that
could be going on there.

Speaker 6 (01:53:45):
Yeah, you know, you said it exactly right.

Speaker 11 (01:53:46):
I mean, farmers have been facing for decades the big
structural issues of our economy that have been wiping them
out right, and those things are continuing. We got to
continue to tackle those things. And where we were at
was there was a there was a mixed bag. There
was some good stuff happening, there some going challenges. You know,
That's where the farmer was at throughout this year. And
as we head into this crucial fall harvest season, to

(01:54:08):
shut down and what's going on in Congress is suddenly
having an incredibly direct impact. And we could talk about
you in the shutdown and the Democrats' latest you know,
move on the build that they didn't want to get
onto and all that kind of stuff. But while all
this you know, squabbling is going on in Washington, here's
what's happening. There were plans for there to be a
package around the way that tariffs are impacting farmers, because

(01:54:30):
the Trump Mustrician is admitted, hey, there's gon be some
shortterm impact, but long term benefit. There's a package around that.
There are all kinds of ongoing programs that make it
possible for farmers to get financing and different things like that.

Speaker 6 (01:54:42):
All those are halted by the shutdown. And we can discuss,
you know, whether we ought to have a tariff package
or not.

Speaker 11 (01:54:47):
You can have all those debates. But here's the point,
is that, you know, the squabbling in Congress is just
shutting this down and making it so that farmers are
having an even harder time. And it's at this crucial
season where we're harvest and corn harvest and soybeans. All
the farmers are making most of their money this time
of year, and here's the government, you know, just kind

(01:55:08):
of falling on its face right in the middle of
when farmers need them.

Speaker 1 (01:55:11):
Yeah, and it is it's very crucial, and especially since
like like I said that, you know, Kennedy is trying
to make our food healthier and better, and one of
the ways of doing that is having some natural food
and not so many chemicals. And if you're affecting our farmers, uh,
that is that is going to be a problem. What
could what could we be facing when it comes to

(01:55:31):
the you know, the the food supply should should the
shutdown effect of farmer's ability to do the harvest.

Speaker 11 (01:55:39):
Absolutely, you're you're hitting the nail.

Speaker 6 (01:55:41):
On the head.

Speaker 11 (01:55:42):
If we want to move toward making America healthier again,
if we want to move toward having a food kind
of where people know where the food comes from, much
more people care about that than ever. You've got to
have family farms to fuel that. And we already were
wiping out family farms at forty five thousand a year
just in the history of this country. That was already
making that harder. Right, So, here's what happens if we
have things like you know, the Democrats following of the

(01:56:05):
Republicans over healthcare or whatever the side issues, we have
things like that that are shutting down the government, impacting
the farmers even harder. When they're already facing these decades
long problems, we're making worse situation that we actually need
to be reversing. Well, if we talk about we're losing
forty five thousand farms, here's what that means, Brian, I'm
going forward. Yeah, it is, And if it continues on

(01:56:26):
a going forward basis, it means we lose the rest
of our family farms in this country in forty years.
I'm forty now, by the time my little girls my age,
well have lost the rest of the farms in this country.
So we're in that last climactic push here where if
we're going to reverse things, we have to do it now.

Speaker 6 (01:56:43):
And instead, here we are, you know, just kind.

Speaker 11 (01:56:46):
Of add and freight to the load here for the
farmer that's been carrying things on their back for a
very long time, and that's the source of that fresh
food you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (01:56:53):
Yeah, And as much as I love the family farm,
I got to guess this question. When the family farm
goes away, what's happening to the farms? Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:57:02):
Absolutely, Here here's what happens. There's been this relentless push
toward get bigger, get out, and nobody use farming wants that.
I mean, you know, whether they're a big farmer or
a small farmer, they're just trying to you know, keep
their farm going and make money, growing something people want
to buy.

Speaker 1 (01:57:15):
Right.

Speaker 11 (01:57:15):
But as farms disappear, the only farms that can make
it are the very, very biggest. So what happens is
we've got our small and medium sized family farms and
even some of the larger but not super large, smaller
farms are going to continue to disappear. But I always
tell people, do not think that hope is lost. Do
not think that it's all the big farms, because we've
still got nearly two million farms in this country, and

(01:57:36):
eighty eight percent of our family farms small farms so
and actually ninety six percent our family farms. So these
are farms that are holding on by people working two
three jobs at a time. Don't wipe those people out.
Because you wipe those people out, the only thing we
have left is the farmers that have had to get
mega big to survive.

Speaker 1 (01:57:54):
Yeah. Yeah, my aunt and uncle they have a farm
back in Massachusetts, and I remember that my uncle who
would be up at the absolute butt crack of dawn
to get out and do the farm and it was
not a huge farm. It was a good size farm,
but nothing really huge. And he easily worked two or
three other jobs. In addition, he would work in a

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factory overnight, you know, he would do all these other things.
I don't know when the man ever slept, I really don't.
And it's sad because they provided a lot of or
they still do provide a lot of food to the
local community, which you know, is another thing that a
lot of these farms that I think a lot of
people don't realize is that. And even here in Florida
we have a lot of small farms scattered all over

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the place. That supporting these little small farms, you know,
is a is a huge thing. And not to mention
it's fresh and good food that we got to support them,
you know, at all costs to be able to do that.

Speaker 11 (01:58:51):
Yeah, absolutely know what you're describing there reminds me of
my upbringing there in southern Wisconsin. My dad still farm
and my sister's were going to take it over, and
we both a worker with them sometime we could walk.
And the thing about farming is the hardship and the
beautyful hand in hand, you know, I mean, it's long hours.
It's grinding work, but the same time we get to
get up with my dad and you know, help help

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a cow in hard labor, you know, give bird to
a cap and see the first signs of life. You know,
we got to see our dad and ride to them,
bumping around in the track value put seed in the ground,
and then in the fall we said God's miracles of
crops coming up. You know, I mean is it is
a beautiful way of life. It is a challenging way
of life. And if we lean into trying to find
a way to fuel fresh, local, healthier, oftentimes more affordable food,

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by supporting our family farmers all across the country, we
can preserve that way life. But maybe more importantly for
people all across the country, we can put food on
the table that impacts them every day.

Speaker 6 (01:59:49):
Because what we've done right now.

Speaker 11 (01:59:50):
Is disappearing farms, food that's getting more expensive, less healthy.
We're going in the wrong direction.

Speaker 1 (01:59:55):
Yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right. And you know, myself and
all my cousins can tests to the fact that you know,
working on the farm does help build a lot of character.
I can't tell you how much the manure I have
shoveled how many tomatoes I have had to pick, how
many hay bales I've had to throw when I was
a little kid. And that did build character, I think
for all of us. Some of it may be a

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little bit warped, but it did help build us some character.
And you really do see that. I mean, I got
to witness, you know, my aunt's farm. They have a
farm stand where I mean they obviously they're one of
their big things big crops was corn, so they did
a lot of corn, and it would go to all
the grocery stores. But you would see the people that
would come in to the farm stand and we're excited

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that the farm stand was opening. So they get the
fresh tomatoes and the fresh cucumbers, and you know, the
fresh squash and and all these very fresh foods. And
you're right that they are actually cheaper in that way
than they are at the grocery store because the grocery store,
you know, you got to factor in all the stuff
that's got to be done these major farms, the transportation aspect,
the distribution, and on and on and on, so it

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becomes more expensive. And that that's another great way of
saving some money and getting some good.

Speaker 6 (02:01:04):
Fresh food yeah, that's right.

Speaker 11 (02:01:06):
Well, look on the consumer side of things. I mean,
you know, if they're grocer stores that will carry local
goods if you ask them, because they'll they'll carry it
if they know people about stuff like that. But on
the big national supply chain, that food's been getting way
more expensive really ever since COVID. It's going faster than
the rate of inflation. And the reason is because those
supply chain of Vuller bills, one big distribution center goes down,
the supply of food takes a hit, and the price

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goes up. We saw that with eggs and chicken during
bird food. It happens all the time. So that food
is getting more expensive and isn't really all that affordable
relatives to what you can find with a local farmers
market anymore. And that's on the consumer side. You look
on the farm side to exactly what you were just saying.
You know, my nephew, he's sixteen years old and he
just started a business inside the farm that's helping to
bring revenue to the farm. My dad and his mom

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are running and he's out there bayl and hey for
other farmers and bailing cornstocks for other farmers during harvest.

Speaker 6 (02:01:55):
Season.

Speaker 11 (02:01:55):
I mean the sixteen year old kids side, and you know,
I'm working on the farm.

Speaker 6 (02:02:00):
I'm going to start a business.

Speaker 11 (02:02:01):
You know, that's the kind of thing that fuels America,
whether they're doing the business at farming or whether they
go on to start a small business parwn, concrete, whatever
else it is. You know, on the consumer side, we
have a chance for affordable, healthy food. On the farm side,
that new entrepreneur opportunity can allow these families that are
working two three jobs to instead make their full time
income on the farm. And it's an opportunity for young
kids to learn about that kind of work ethic, to

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learn about a circle of life, to learn about earning
your dollar and what that dignity of hard work means
to build something in this country, you know. And that's
the kind of thing that's being taught in farm country.

Speaker 1 (02:02:33):
Yeah, and it needs to be taught in more than
just farm country. And you know, speaking of farm country,
I want to point this out and you can you
can kind of help me with this detail. And I
just learned this the other day when I was watching
a documentary believe it or not, on farming, that that
of all of the places around the world that have done.
You know, obviously every country grows their own food, but

(02:02:55):
the the farm belt, that center section of our country
is actually the best farming land in the world. This
is what I was learning from this documentary. How true
is that?

Speaker 11 (02:03:09):
That's absolutely true, And when you combine it with some
the other key regions of the country at action means
that America is a farming and agricultural powerhouse. So you
go through the Great Plains, you know, you hear about
those amber waves of grain, you drive through grape planes,
you see the wind sweeping over those fields. That is
some of the most fertile land in the country. And
then if you go north and a little bit east

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there up into the Upper Great Lakes area where I'm from,
where our farm is in the hills of southern Wisconsin,
that land is hilly. It's not as wide open fields,
but it's incredibly fertile and it's good for feeding animals.
That's why we had dairy country. You travel arrestedly across
that country out to California, the Central Valley, places like
that around Salinas and other places are again some of
the most fertile ground. There's a reason that grapes a

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rat and other books were written about, you know, farming
in the day, So you take that altogether, America is blessed.
We are blessed with the land that we have beneath us,
and we're blessed with hard working people.

Speaker 6 (02:04:04):
And for a long.

Speaker 11 (02:04:05):
Time, we were blessed with small individual landowners who meant
that no one person could control the food supply or
undo the food supply because you had all these small
farmers working hard to feed the country. We still have
a lot of those farmers, but we risk losing them,
and we're still going to have that fertile land. But
the question is how are we using it. Are we
using it in a way that allows us to have
our own domestic food supply, healthy food, affordable food, and

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support small entrepreneurship, or are we using it only for
the biggest to really just ship stuff around the world
and then we import the food that we eat.

Speaker 6 (02:04:35):
You know.

Speaker 1 (02:04:35):
Yeah, yeah, it's amazing when you really start digging into
how our food supply is done and how many foreign
entities have come to here. I mean, like Canada is
the number one farm owner farm land ownership outside of
Americans here in America, so they can grow their food

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here so, and we see other countries doing the same thing.
They grow their food here and ship it out to them,
and then sometimes we're having to buy it back from
them for our own things. So there's so many things
that we need to do to make our food better.
This is one of the things that I hope that
you know, Kennedy will jump on. But we've got to
spread the word on it too. And even doing just
your own local garden thing. I mean, you don't have

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to be a big old farmer. You could do a
little thing in the backyard and help grow food. But
supporting the local farms and I've done that around here.
We've got so many great farms here in the Panhandle
of Florida that sometimes you can go up to their
farm stands or you know, go pick the strawberries or
whatever it might be. It's a great experience to do.
And the food is there's just something about it to

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have real food versus the chemical stuff that we see.
And we got to support this without a doubt. What
can people do, by the way, to to kind of
push this whole thing with the shutdown to help the farmers,
you know, avoid any problems.

Speaker 11 (02:05:53):
Yeah, absolutely, you know, the biggest thing is people reaching
out to their representative, whatever side of the representative is
on reach out tome and you know, look, we've got
bigger economic issues then the things that are causing the
fight over the sheckdown. We got bigger issues around the
American farmer who's impact by the sheckdown. We got bigger
issues around the American worker. We got bigger economic issues
than the stuff that's being squabbled about in Congress. And

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so people people getting the word out that they want
this thing solved, they want it moving forward. That's the
thing that don't let politics get in the way of
our farmers and others. And but then it connects to
the other thing is when you're when you're talking acted
official more generally about farming, or when you're talking to
someone else, ask people what they're doing to create new
entrepreneur opportunity for our farmers. Don't ask a politician what

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are you doing? Support the farmers because they all got
a vote, they can raise their hands say oh I
voted for this program or that program. Ask them what
are you doing to create new entrepreneur opportunity, you know,
for the kind of food that you want in your community.
That'll make them think. And if they don't know, then
they got to figure it out. Maybe they'll start studying
the connection between the family farm and the food on
the table and figuring out how to do something about

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our farms and our food. And that's the thing we
got to.

Speaker 6 (02:06:59):
Do to channel our leaders over the long term.

Speaker 1 (02:07:01):
Yeah, what about regulations. I noticed somebody just pop that
into the chat, regulations on farmers. Is that something else
that we need to kind of give Congress a hard
time about it and tell them to kind of ease
up a bit.

Speaker 6 (02:07:13):
Yeah, that's absolutly right.

Speaker 11 (02:07:14):
I mean, look, the government is in the way of
the American farmer in so many different ways. There's the
tax burden, there's programs that don't work, all kinds of issues,
and regulation is a huge part of this. The federal
government and many other state governments and others they have
been they have been levying regulations on top. And here's
what happens. Sometimes those regulations are coming in there hitting everybody,

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and they're not given any regard for the farmer. Sometimes
you hear someone saying, hey, we got to regulate the
big guys, because you know they and they talk like
they want to help a small family farm. They may
or may not want to. I mean, they may just
be misguided, or may they may be bs and you.
But here's what happens when you do a regulation that
hits the entire industry. The biggest ones and I'm not

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even bashing them for this, the biggest ones have the
money to be able to deal with a compliance costs.
They also have the lobbyists escape in the first place,
they got the lawyers and the tax accountants to help
them work through it.

Speaker 6 (02:08:06):
It's the small one.

Speaker 11 (02:08:07):
And that's true of every industry when the government gets involved.
It's the small mom and pop the individual American entrepreneur,
whether it's a farmer or a shop owner or whatever,
who gets impacted by those regulations because they're the small
ones and they can't figure it a way to absorb
it or avoid it.

Speaker 6 (02:08:22):
So even people who say they want to help the farmer.

Speaker 11 (02:08:24):
By using the government, you know, as Ronald Reagan would
have said, you know, government in the solution the governments
the problem. That is very true here, especially when you
get down to these small entrepreneur families that are just
trying to make make a penny digging around in the dirt.

Speaker 1 (02:08:38):
Yeah, and somebody else just pointed this out in the chat.
And remember the FIASCA that was going on with that
and the John Deere thing, because people don't realize how
he spends some of that equipment is I mean, some
of that equipment is a million dollars plus to get
some of that equipment. And when they had the situation
with John Deere, and I don't know if you can

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fill me in on this if it's been resolved, but
you know, John Deere wasn't letting farmers essentially fix their
own equipment, which became another big expense for farmers because
then you had to have John Deere do everything. Has
that changed at all?

Speaker 11 (02:09:14):
That issue is getting better, but the big picture reason
it was happening is still there. Here's what I mean
by that. So what was going on. It was called
right to repair. There's a lawsuit over there that the
farm bureaus work with John Deere and other manufacturers and
they've been trying to find solution to this.

Speaker 6 (02:09:27):
But basically this stuff is.

Speaker 11 (02:09:28):
So high tech that you know, a farmer is a mechanic,
a carbon or plumber, electrician, all kinds of things, right,
And you got all kinds of great tractor mechanics, but
this equipment was getting so complex that and the way
that the information is being shared is it was really
only the manufacturer that fix the computer kind of thing
that didn't work for the farmer who's dealing with the
breakdown in the field, you know. And so it was

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a real problem and people are trying to work through it.

Speaker 2 (02:09:52):
Big picture.

Speaker 11 (02:09:53):
Here's why that was going on. Why that was going
on is we've got technology just generally, it's not about
anyone manufacturer. All the research goes into technology.

Speaker 6 (02:10:01):
Everything, all of it for the.

Speaker 11 (02:10:02):
Last seventy years has mainly been aimed at technology that
can help farms get bigger. And that was needed to
a degree years ago, but we never stopped and said, hey,
are creating technology that can work for the medium and
small farm as well as the large farm. We need
to get back to that scale neutral technology in this country.
And when I say to manufacturers or researchers or anybody

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working on this, whether they're part of a small empathy,
a university, a big company, I say, hey, we need
technology that can work for all of our farmers in
terms of being affordable, in terms of being scalable. It
can work on a big scale or a small scale,
because if we don't, we're going to lose the rest
of our farmers in the next forty years and nobody's
going to have any customers anyway.

Speaker 1 (02:10:40):
So it's in the interest of all.

Speaker 11 (02:10:41):
These players in agriculture to look and say, hey, what
can we do to serve and do business with the
small medium as well as large farmer in this country.

Speaker 1 (02:10:49):
Yeah, looking at that big picture, and I can tell
you some of that equipment is pretty badass. Some of
them will do things on his own. But at the
same time, there is nothing better than that hundred year
old John Deere tractor that just about anybody can walk
up to and with a wrench and a hammer and
fix it and get it going again.

Speaker 11 (02:11:09):
I'll tell you what, if you see a farmer with
a great, big piece of equipment, don't assume that they're rich.

Speaker 6 (02:11:14):
Most times they aren't. There are some real, real, real,
real big guys.

Speaker 11 (02:11:17):
But for the most part, what's going on is that
farmer's taken out debt finance and that, and they're what's
called land rich cash court right where they got the
land where they're able to take out alone. But that
land is getting more expensive, and the money they can
make on that crop is getting tighter and tighter and tighter,
and they may be dangier on verge of being foreclosed
down or having to sell or what have you if

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they have a bad year. So big equipment doesn't mean
big money. It just means big investment and having pay
that often a lot of farmers are doing what our
farmers do. You know, We've got a you know, John
Deere tractor we bought some time in the last decade.
We've also got John Deere tractors that are older than
me and I'm forty. And we even use my grandpa's
old McCormick super m red one that they think pops

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like popcorn in the microwave. I'm a oh, and we
use that thing each each year. So farmers, man, they've
got the wrench in their hand and they're just trying
to keep that equipment running so that they can keep
the food coming out of the fields.

Speaker 1 (02:12:09):
Yeah. Well, we got to support all of our local farms,
So support them, especially in the harvest time right now
as all the farm stands are opening up all around
the country as well. Brian. The book is called land Rich,
Cash Poor. My Family's Hope and the Untold History of
the Disappearing American Farmer now on paperback, So go on
out there and get that book. Brian. Always enjoy our

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conversation about some farming. We got to do what we
can do. Get out there and reach out to our
politicians and let them know protect the small family farm
because it is crucial for the survival of our country.

Speaker 11 (02:12:43):
Hey man, that thank you for having me, and thanks
to you and all your listeners there in the Panhandle,
growing food, eating good food. It's great to have people
in the country who care about this.

Speaker 1 (02:12:51):
Yeah, absolutely, Brian, thanks so much for coming on. We'll
talk with you again real soon.

Speaker 6 (02:12:55):
You take care.

Speaker 1 (02:12:56):
Absolutely see it. Letter by the book again. It's called
land Rich, Cash Poor, My Family's Hope and the Untold
History of the Disappearing American Farm. We gotta take a
quick break. We'll be right back. Good morning, all right,
welcome back to the show. Big thanks to Mark Mixed
from the National Right to Work. Also Brian Westlinger with

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the book land Rich, Cash Poor. Go out and get
that book. It's a great book. It helps out some
of the family farms as well, and you can learn
more about it. That is it for us. We got
to get out out of here. Have a fantastic day.
We will see you tomorrow for the Big Red Friday.
Until then, see you later.