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The Rick Smith Show

By working people. For working people. Welcome to The Rick Smith Show.Working Americans are tired of listening to think tank approved corporate news and commentary. They want a direct, honest approach to the issues that matter, so this is what The Rick Smith Show provides. No puppets. No focus groups. No talking points.Want more #RickShow? Go to https://www.thericksmithshow.comThe Rick Smith Show streams live every weeknight from 9p-11p EST on YouTube & Twitch TV, and the show runs every night

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Make Them Angry. Make Them Vote.

The Rick Smith Show ·

2024/05/23

May 23, 2024While we put very little faith in polls these days, sometimes the numbers are overwhelming. For example, recent polling tells us that Americans feels they are doing well financially … but at the same time they believe the country is on the verge of collapse. Only a well-funded corporate rage machine can make the masses disbelieve what they experience every day and instead believe what’s on their screens, but that is the current state of affairs in our America. We discuss this and much

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Let Them Eat Pizza

The Rick Smith Show ·

2024/05/22

May 22, 2024After Singapore Air announced record profits, they thanked their workers by giving them a bonus equal to almost 8 months of pay. If that sounds like a big number, that’s probably because you’re an American worker, and your employer thanks you for its profitability by throwing the occasional pizza party. We talk about this and more with Everett Kelley, President of AFGE (American Federation of Government Employees) and Scott Paul of The Alliance for American Manufacturing.Don’t miss our

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Union Busting Works

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2024/05/21

May 21, 2024In a close vote last week, workers at Mercedes in Alabama chose not to join a union. To understand this result, we must understand just how much power corporations have to bust unions, the tactics they use, and the laws they consistently break, and why they break those laws. We also discuss the attacks on public schools with Professor & Author Josh Cowan, and we get a state-of-the-race update from the Colorado 4th, where our guest Trisha Calvarese is the Democratic Nominee taking on

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Our "Great Society"

The Rick Smith Show ·

2024/05/20

May 20, 2024America is the richest country in the history of history, and we are at its richest moment. So how is it that so many still go hungry, or go without a roof over their heads, or die because they cannot afford healthcare? Simply put, the programs that make us great, or at least the ones that make us great to those in need, are under constant assault from the richest among us. It seems that no matter how much they have, they will always want more for themselves, and less for you and your

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Are You Better Off?

The Rick Smith Show ·

2024/05/17

May 17, 2024Well … the GOP is running against Democrats, and certainly against Biden, but recently it also looks like they’re running against reality itself. Asking questions like “Are you better off than you were four years ago,” the GOP seems to be trying to convince voters that 4 years of absolute chaos and criminality, punctuated by a failed response to Covid that caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans … never happened. We discuss this ridiculous strategy and more with guests

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Tariffs, Unions, and Books

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2024/05/16

May 16, 2024Joe Biden just announced a number of new tariffs on Chinese goods, but no one is hearing about it because corporate media is busy cashing in on tangerine-flavored courtroom drama. There’s also a monumentally important union vote going on at Mercedes in Alabama, and teachers are busy giving away books at a time when radicals are trying to ban them. Once again, corporate media is busy giving us the same hour of clickbait 24 times in a row. These stories and more with our guests: Saru

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Joe Did That

The Rick Smith Show ·

2024/05/15

May 15, 2024Infrastructure is more than bridges and potholes. It’s how we keep up in a very competitive world, and it’s about creating better lives for American families. It’s also the difference between saying and doing, as the last administration talked about it endlessly but did nothing, while the Biden administration got the legislation passed in very difficult circumstances and put America to work. We discuss this and more with today’s guests – Scott Paul of The Alliance for American

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The "Messaging" Problem

The Rick Smith Show ·

2024/05/14

May 14, 2024Every election cycle, we see the same thing over and over. The right floods the zone with fiction, and the left can’t get off the couch for long enough to compete. Dems call this a “messaging problem.” That’s incorrect. It’s a delivery problem, and no one is serious about fixing it. This and more on today’s show, with guest Emily de La Bruyere of Horizon Advisory.Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.orgFind us on:· DirecTV (Channel 348)· Dish (Channel

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Selling the Planet

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2024/05/13

May 13, 2024Well, the Republicans are impeaching Biden again, though no one knows why, and Trump just tried to sell the planet to Big Oil for a billion in campaign cash. These stories are so strange they shouldn’t be true, but when right-wing media is running the show, every day is a bit crazier than the last. We’ll talk about these stories and more with today’s guests – Liliana Calderon of International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers, and Journalist Sarah Burris of Raw Story.Don’t

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Saying vs. Doing

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2024/05/10

May 10, 2024Earlier this week, Joe Biden went to Racine, Wisconsin, to the site of Trump’s failed Foxconn disaster, to announce a $3.3 billion investment by Microsoft that will bring the jobs to the area that Trump promised but never delivered. It’s just another example of the difference between saying something and doing something. Today’s guest is Corey Hill, President of UAW Local 3250.Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.orgFind us on:· DirecTV (Channel

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All Work and No Play

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2024/05/09

May 9, 2024On today’s show, we start with a discussion of child labor in America. In its never-ending search for cheap exploitable workers, corporate America has used its stable of GOP legislators to weaken child labor laws in many states and find ways to get around existing laws in order to force kids into dangerous industrial jobs. We discuss this and more with our guests: Greg Regan of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, and former GOP Congressman Bob Ney. Don’t miss our daily TV show

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American Carnage

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2024/05/08

May 8, 2024We’ve done it. We’ve finally done it. For the first time in American history, the wealth class now pays a lower tax rate than the working class. Now we just have to wait for all the wealth we simply give the rich to “trickle down” to the rest of us. Unless it was all just a big lie … Our guests today are Julie Hedrick – President of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, and Scott Paul of The Alliance for American Manufacturing. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech

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The Lies We Want

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2024/05/07

May 7, 2024Kristi Noem, Governor of South Dakota and wannabe Trump VP-pick just released a new book, and it appears to be full of carefully chosen lies. In fact, so much of what comes from the right these days is just carefully chosen lies. On today’s show, we discuss why this is the case, and what we can do about it. We also spend some time with Will Bunch of The Philadelphia Inquirer, and our resident expert on all things China – Emily de La Bruyere of Horizon Advisory. Don’t miss our daily TV

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The Greed Train

The Rick Smith Show ·

2024/05/06

May 6, 2024Apple just announced a $110 billion stock buyback plan. That’s billion with a B. We discuss this, and also get into a new plan in Congress to protect warehouse workers, which will surely be attacked by corporate Republican and corporate Democrats alike, and then we talk about disinformation with Carlos Alvarez-Aranyos of The American Sunlight Project, and then break down the week with reporter Sarah Burris of raw Story.Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.orgFind

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Grievance Theater

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2024/05/03

May 3, 2024Simply put, America is getting tired of the Trump sideshow. As he whines about being held accountable for crimes he thinks only the rest of us should pay for, and as he grifts ceaselessly because he needs the cash – most of us are simply tuning out. And that’s dangerous, because if he wins, it’s going to be much worse that it was last time. This and more with journalist Shaun Richman of In These Times and Ken Grossinger, author of Art Works – New Organizers and Artists Are Creating a

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Pigs at the Trough

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2024/05/02

May 1, 2024Some of our richest citizens gathered last week to game out ways to defeat Joe Biden and restore the guy who will keep the tax cut gravy train going. They have the tax code they like, and they’re looking for ways to keep it. And if a dictator will make them richer, then a dictator we will have. We discuss this and more with guests Jean Ross of The Center for American Progress, and Iowa State Representative J.D. Scholten.Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech

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Our Top-Heavy Economy

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2024/05/01

May 1, 2024It’s official – the top 1% in America now own more wealth than the entire middle class, or what’s left of the middle class, that is. Turns out buying government is a great way for rich people to get a lot richer, and many of us are either standing by as it happens, or actively helping the rich steal from our families. This and more on today’s show with guests Scott Paul of The Alliance for American Manufacturing, and Jim Slevin, President of The Utility Workers Union of America.Don’t miss

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Our New Normal Isn't Normal

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2024/04/30

April 30, 2024Are we becoming accustomed to corruption in our politics? Are we so divided that we can no longer make judgements based on our values and sense of right and wrong? Given the fact that the last administration survived literally hundreds of scandals that would have ended the careers of any politician that came before, it appears that we no longer care if we elect criminals. This and more on today’s show, plus a conversation on China policy with our resident expert Emily de La Bruyere of

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The Tool Belt Generation

The Rick Smith Show ·

2024/04/29

April 29, 2024America is just beginning to pull itself out of the Reagan era. We now understand that trickle down economics doesn’t work, and the jobs that were given away to China need to come home again. But how do we do it? We discuss these issues against a backdrop of rising divisions in America, and how we can bring people together around the idea that one good job is all a family should need. Our guests are Reed Galen of The Lincoln Project, and Sarah Burris of Raw Story.Don’t miss our daily

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Stolen Overtime

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2024/04/26

April 26, 2024The Biden Administration just changed the overtime rules in a way that will make millions of abused workers eligible for overtime pay that corporations had previously stolen from them. It’s a small change with massive impact, and it will most often affect lower wage workers who often work way over 40 hours in a week without any overtime pay. We discuss this change, and also get into the subject of price gouging with Bilal Baydoun of The Groundwork Collaborative, and other relevant

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