The Rick Smith Show

The Trump administration and the DOGE teenagers are doing everything they can to wreck the US economy, calling it "an adjustment period." What he means is, he expects us to adjust to no longer being free Americans, and it is now up tp us to figure out if we're going to fight back. Our guest today is Michael Sainato, Labor Reporter at The Guardian. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·       DirecTV (Channel 348) ·       Dish (Channel 9415) ·       Sling ·       Roku ·       Apple TV ·       Amazon Fire TV ·       Get the FSTV iOS app HERE Did you miss last night’s show? Miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work, or around the house? Download the podcast on our website at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com Want Merch? Check out our store HERE Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-rick-smith-show419/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Of all the things we have lost in the last several years, the loss of reliable information may be the thing that affects us the most. Right wing media is so dominant today that legacy media of all kinds is simply quitting on us and bending the knee rather than tell us true things that powerful people may not like. Everyone feels the pressure, and most can't stand up to it. So we get what we have, an information desert covered up by popular lies. We discuss this and more with Molly Weston Williamson of The Center for American Progress and Michale Tharp of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·       DirecTV (Channel 348) ·       Dish (Channel 9415) ·       Sling ·       Roku ·       Apple TV ·       Amazon Fire TV ·       Get the FSTV iOS app HERE Did you miss last night’s show? Miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work, or around the house? Download the podcast on our website at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com Want Merch? Check out our store HERE Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-rick-smith-show419/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Americans aren't very happy with Democrats today, and frankly, they have good reason. After Democratic Senators helped Trump pass a CR to avoid a government shutdown, their constituents are calling for heads to roll. And Chuck Schumer, the minority leader in the Senate, is the first head they want. We discuss this and more with Brent Booker of LiUNA, and Craig Harrington of Media Matters. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·       DirecTV (Channel 348) ·       Dish (Channel 9415) ·       Sling ·       Roku ·       Apple TV ·       Amazon Fire TV ·       Get the FSTV iOS app HERE Did you miss last night’s show? Miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work, or around the house? Download the podcast on our website at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com Want Merch? Check out our store HERE Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-rick-smith-show419/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Well, it looks like Chuck Schumer has gone and done something no one thought possible - he's stealing headlines from Trump. And all it took was complete subservience to the GOP thieves stealing our futures. We discuss this and more with Phil Glover of AFGE and Dave Madland of The Center for American Progress. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·       DirecTV (Channel 348) ·       Dish (Channel 9415) ·       Sling ·       Roku ·       Apple TV ·       Amazon Fire TV ·       Get the FSTV iOS app HERE Did you miss last night’s show? Miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work, or around the house? Download the podcast on our website at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com Want Merch? Check out our store HERE Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-rick-smith-show419/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Trump and his kind are taking a wrecking ball to the US economy. The market is dropping by huge numbers each day, and the response from this administration is to fire lifelong public servants by the tens of thousands, and pretend the loss of these family sustaining jobs will have no effect on the larger economy. They're wrong; they don't care that they're wrong, and just like in every other recession the GOP has caused, working families are going to have to pay for it all. Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and Alex Lawson of Social Security Works are our guests. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·       DirecTV (Channel 348) ·       Dish (Channel 9415) ·       Sling ·       Roku ·       Apple TV ·       Amazon Fire TV ·       Get the FSTV iOS app HERE Did you miss last night’s show? Miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work, or around the house? Download the podcast on our website at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com Want Merch? Check out our store HERE Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-rick-smith-show419/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

During the campaign, Trump and every GOP member running for office swore up and down that the GOP had no plans to cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. They lied, and it is nothing new. They lie about these things in every election, and in every election ,they never seem to have to pay a price for their lies, current or past. We discuss this and more with Economics Professor Matias Vernengo and Kieran Cuadras from the Communications Workers of America (WFWU-CWA) Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·       DirecTV (Channel 348) ·       Dish (Channel 9415) ·       Sling ·       Roku ·       Apple TV ·       Amazon Fire TV ·       Get the FSTV iOS app HERE Did you miss last night’s show? Miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work, or around the house? Download the podcast on our website at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com Want Merch? Check out our store HERE Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-rick-smith-show419/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

It's only been a few weeks, but our American freedoms are taking a beating, and if we're going to get out of this, we're going to need something from Democrats that has been lacking for the last half-century or so ... leadership. Our guests today are Scott Paul from The Alliance for American Manufacturing and Lori Wallach of The Economic Liberties Project. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·       DirecTV (Channel 348) ·       Dish (Channel 9415) ·       Sling ·       Roku ·       Apple TV ·       Amazon Fire TV ·       Get the FSTV iOS app HERE Did you miss last night’s show? Miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work, or around the house? Download the podcast on our website at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com Want Merch? Check out our store HERE Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-rick-smith-show419/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

As workers all over the country wait to be fired from their jobs, Trump has decided that it would be a great idea to remove collective bargaining rights from 50,000 union TSA workers, many of whom probably voted for him and will not understand how they voted away their own futures. But such is life in the Trump chaos bubble that we all now live in. To help us work through some of the crazy, we're joined by Arthur Stamoulis of the Citizens Trade Campaign, and Sarah Burris of Raw Story. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·       DirecTV (Channel 348) ·       Dish (Channel 9415) ·       Sling ·       Roku ·       Apple TV ·       Amazon Fire TV ·       Get the FSTV iOS app HERE Did you miss last night’s show? Miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work, or around the house? Download the podcast on our website at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com Want Merch? Check out our store HERE Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-rick-smith-show419/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

To tariff or not to tariff - that is the question. Trump, upon learning just how destructive his tariffs will be, is now "pausing" them as markets crash and prices skyrocket. It's typical Trump chaos, and it isn't going to stop anytime soon. We discuss this and more with Katie Harris of The Bluegreen Alliance and Will Rice of Americans for Tax Fairness. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·       DirecTV (Channel 348) ·       Dish (Channel 9415) ·       Sling ·       Roku ·       Apple TV ·       Amazon Fire TV ·       Get the FSTV iOS app HERE Did you miss last night’s show? Miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work, or around the house? Download the podcast on our website at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com Want Merch? Check out our store HERE Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-rick-smith-show419/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Trump's speech to Congress was a firehose of lies ... so of course it polled well. And Democrats chose a silly and disjointed response to it that left most of non-fascist America scratching our heads. We discuss this and more with Scott Paul of The Alliance for American Manufacturing and Professor Ken Mash. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·       DirecTV (Channel 348) ·       Dish (Channel 9415) ·       Sling ·       Roku ·       Apple TV ·       Amazon Fire TV ·       Get the FSTV iOS app HERE Did you miss last night’s show? Miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work, or around the house? Download the podcast on our website at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com Want Merch? Check out our store HERE Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-rick-smith-show419/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

As predicted, Trump used his SOTU speech to try to pin his wheelbarrow of stupid mistakes on Joe Biden as the US economy starts to nosedive. It's almost impossible to believe that an economy so healthy could go so wrong so quickly, but no one bankrupts businesses like Trump bankrupts businesses, so tanking the largest economy in the world is just more of the same. Sara Estep from The Center for American Progress and Alex Nguyen of Mother Jones are our guests. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·       DirecTV (Channel 348) ·       Dish (Channel 9415) ·       Sling ·       Roku ·       Apple TV ·       Amazon Fire TV ·       Get the FSTV iOS app HERE Did you miss last night’s show? Miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work, or around the house? Download the podcast on our website at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com Want Merch? Check out our store HERE Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-rick-smith-show419/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

With the stock market tanking and the Russians running the White House, President Trump is set to address Congress in what will certainly be the most bonkers State of the Union speech ... maybe ever. Our guests Sarah Burris of raw Story and Dr. Anthony Estreet will help us work through the Trump agenda and what it's doing to American working families. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·       DirecTV (Channel 348) ·       Dish (Channel 9415) ·       Sling ·       Roku ·       Apple TV ·       Amazon Fire TV ·       Get the FSTV iOS app HERE Did you miss last night’s show? Miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work, or around the house? Download the podcast on our website at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com Want Merch? Check out our store HERE Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-rick-smith-show419/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Anyone who saw that Oval Office hatchet job last week knows that we don't want to talk about it ... but we absolutely have to talk about it. To help us do so, we invited Trygve Olsen from The Lincoln Project, and veteran and longtime friend of the show Rich Ojeda, host of "Ojeda Live." Join us as we discuss the most disgraceful day in the history of US foreign policy and how it will likely affect America's working families. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·       DirecTV (Channel 348) ·       Dish (Channel 9415) ·       Sling ·       Roku ·       Apple TV ·       Amazon Fire TV ·       Get the FSTV iOS app HERE Did you miss last night’s show? Miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work, or around the house? Download the podcast on our website at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com Want Merch? Check out our store HERE Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-rick-smith-show419/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

After saying they wouldn't Social Security, they're now cutting Social Security. After saying they would never cut Medicare, they're cutting Medicare. And after they said they would never ever cut Medicaid ... and the list keeps growing. And days after calling the Ukrainian President a dictator, Trump just told the press "I would never do that" when asked about it. It's almost like they're making it up as they go. David Gonzalez from The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is our guest. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·       DirecTV (Channel 348) ·       Dish (Channel 9415) ·       Sling ·       Roku ·       Apple TV ·       Amazon Fire TV ·       Get the FSTV iOS app HERE Did you miss last night’s show? Miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work, or around the house? Download the podcast on our website at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com Want Merch? Check out our store HERE Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-rick-smith-show419/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In the history of American politics, there has never been a politician more immune to his own lies than Donald Trump. It's almost as if his minions feed on the lies, even when, perhaps especially when those lies harm them directly. It's a phenomenon never before seen in America, and frankly, we don't know what to make of it. We will discuss this and more with Jimmy Williams, President of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, and Jeff Hauser of The Revolving Door Project. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·       DirecTV (Channel 348) ·       Dish (Channel 9415) ·       Sling ·       Roku ·       Apple TV ·       Amazon Fire TV ·       Get the FSTV iOS app HERE Did you miss last night’s show? Miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work, or around the house? Download the podcast on our website at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com Want Merch? Check out our store HERE Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-rick-smith-show419/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

While Elon Musk and his team of teenage virgins is busy destroying our government, they're telling some pretty massive lies about their "progress." Many times now, they have lied, and lied big, about the amount of money they have "saved" us. What does this mean? Well, it means the $5000 check they promised is never going to come, and it means the lies are going to keep coming at us faster than we can refute them. Our guests are Christian Weller of The Center for American Progress, and Eric Blanc, author of "We Are The Union." Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·       DirecTV (Channel 348) ·       Dish (Channel 9415) ·       Sling ·       Roku ·       Apple TV ·       Amazon Fire TV ·       Get the FSTV iOS app HERE Did you miss last night’s show? Miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work, or around the house? Download the podcast on our website at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com Want Merch? Check out our store HERE Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-rick-smith-show419/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

During the campaign, Democrats warned the American people over and over again that Trump had not plane to make their lives better, or bring down prices, and that if he was elected, he would slash necessary programs to fund tax cuts for the rich. Now that he's president, Trump is gutting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security to fund - you guessed it - tax cuts for the rich. And the working class can't pay its bills with "I-told-you-sos." Scott Paul of The Alliance for American Manufacturing and former GOP Congressman Bob Ney are our guests. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·       DirecTV (Channel 348) ·       Dish (Channel 9415) ·       Sling ·       Roku ·       Apple TV ·       Amazon Fire TV ·       Get the FSTV iOS app HERE Did you miss last night’s show? Miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work, or around the house? Download the podcast on our website at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com Want Merch? Check out our store HERE Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-rick-smith-show419/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

After Elon Musk took the stage at CPAC swinging a chainsaw around and slurring his words badly, everyone simply gave him a pass. While the guy digging into every one of our national secrets likes to parade around in public completely wasted while firing career civil servants by the boatload - it doesn't exactly inspire confidence among America's working class. We discuss this and more with Phil Glover of AFGE and Sarah Burris of Raw Story. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·       DirecTV (Channel 348) ·       Dish (Channel 9415) ·       Sling ·       Roku ·       Apple TV ·       Amazon Fire TV ·       Get the FSTV iOS app HERE Did you miss last night’s show? Miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work, or around the house? Download the podcast on our website at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com Want Merch? Check out our store HERE Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-rick-smith-show419/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

When Teamsters President Sean O'Brien spoke at the RNC ahead of the 2024 election & praised Trump, he was hoping to be in a position to shape the administration's position on labor. And what did he get for his trouble? He got a fat sack of nothing, and now Trump and his goons are preparing to gut worker protections across the board. And O'Brien is now certain to become just another historical dupe used by the corporate class to demean and impoverish the working-class. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·       DirecTV (Channel 348) ·       Dish (Channel 9415) ·       Sling ·       Roku ·       Apple TV ·       Amazon Fire TV ·       Get the FSTV iOS app HERE Did you miss last night’s show? Miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work, or around the house? Download the podcast on our website at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com Want Merch? Check out our store HERE Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-rick-smith-show419/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We begin the show with a discussion of our broken healthcare system and just how much more broken it is going to become in the next four years. Then we speak to climate expert Jenny Rowland-Shea of the Center for American Progress about Trump's attempts to roll back Biden's progress on climate policy, and then we are joined by Veteran Rich Ojeda to discuss recent and upcoming cuts to the VA and various other administrative attacks on our soldiers. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: ·       DirecTV (Channel 348) ·       Dish (Channel 9415) ·       Sling ·       Roku ·       Apple TV ·       Amazon Fire TV ·       Get the FSTV iOS app HERE Did you miss last night’s show? Miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work, or around the house? Download the podcast on our website at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com Want Merch? Check out our store HERE Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-rick-smith-show419/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy