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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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Equal Under the Law ... Unless You're Rich

The Rick Smith Show ·

2024/03/28

March 28, 2024Right-wing political elites are simply laughing at the justice system here in America … and they are paying no consequences for it. In just the last week, Trump had his bond in the NY fraud case reduced, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had federal fraud charges dropped, and CPAC goon Matt Schlapp settled his harassment case without ever facing a judge. Meanwhile, a new report just dropped that says the billionaire class in American increased its wealth by 88% just in the time since

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Flying the Greedy Skies

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2024/03/27

March 27, 2024For as long as there have been corporations, those corporations have wanted full control of their industries so they can make the maximum profit with a minimum of responsibility to the public. And every time we give corporations this kind of power, they put profit over safety, and people end up getting hurt, or killed. Boeing is the latest example of this, and their willingness to cut corners that literally cause planes to fall from the sky, should surprise no one. We discuss Boeing’s

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Restoring American Manufacturing

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2024/03/26

March 25, 2024During the Reagan administration, we started a massive selloff of American manufacturing, choosing to buy cheap goods from China rather than make things here to be used here. It was a massive windfall for the wealth class, but since this time, the working class has lost trillions in wealth, and it all went to the top 1%. Now the Biden administration is trying to bring American manufacturing back, and working people are beginning to notice. Our guest today is Roxanne Brown of the United

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Lying Bigger & Louder at Election Time

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2024/03/25

March 25, 2024Saying things that aren’t entirely true has long been an American tradition during election season, but this time around, there appear to be no guardrails of any kind between the truth and the boldest of lies. Depending on which network they’re on, Republicans are either openly laying out their plans to gut Social Security & Medicare in order to “save” them, or they’re angrily denying that such a plan exists and shouting at Democrats for quoting them too accurately. In a world in

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How Corporations Steal Your Wages

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2024/03/22

March 22, 2024Corporations will do anything – and we mean anything – to keep profits away from workers and funnel them to the rich. Layoffs, stock buybacks, offshore tax havens – that’s where most of the money you earn goes, and the way to get it back is to join a union. We discuss this and more with Raymond Jensen of the United Auto Workers on today’s program.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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Tik Tok and the Dangers of Digital Communism

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2024/03/21

March 21, 2024Many of us use Tik Tok. Some of us are fully addicted to it. But whether it’s an addiction or an occasional distraction, this much is true: every bit of data we create as we watch is being mined by foreign adversaries who will use whatever info they get to hurt us. And the real owner of Tik Tok is the Chinese Communist Party. We discuss the proposed Tik Tok ban – and if it’s going too far – with China policy expert Emily de La Bruyere of Horizon Advisory.Don’t miss our daily TV show on

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Healthcare is a Racket

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2024/03/20

March 20, 2024Every time we privatize a public need to create a profit motive, people get hurt. Nowhere is this more evident than in our push to privatize Medicare. Our guest today is Jenn Coffey, a former State Representative and EMT who bought into the privatized Medicare Advantage program, and then had the audacity to get sick and need care. Since then, it’s been denial after denial, and red tape wrapped in red tape – it’s a cautionary tale, and one that is becoming more American every day.Don’t

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Productivity Should Pay

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2024/03/19

March 19, 2024American workers are more productive now than they have been at any point in human history, yet this increase in productivity is not leading to better lives for American families. The massive increase in profits is being entirely gobbled up by the wealth class. Bernie Sanders has just proposed a bill to address part of this injustice by creating a standard 32-hour workweek. Tune in to hear why we support this, and what might come next.Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech

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The Over-Misinformed Masses

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2024/03/18

March 18, 2024While the right-wing media machine has always fed its audience a ridiculous amount of lies and conspiracy theories, they seem to have created more “believers” for these lies ever since Trump came down that escalator in 2015. Now we can’t leave the house without running into half a dozen tinfoil hat-wearing flat-earthers who believe vaccines have microchips in them. We discuss the appeal of conspiracy theories and how they are used to manipulate us into voting against our interests, or

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Partisanship Over Decency

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2024/03/15

March 15, 2024It never ceases to amaze us just how cruel working-class Americans can be to one another, and we discuss this, and what we believe is causing it, at length in today’s episode. We also highlight the dysfunction in today’s GOP, in which Donald Trump has taken over the RNC and turned it into his personal slush fund, and how this ongoing march toward authoritarianism is causing GOP House members to leave their seats and quit the party at a staggering pace.Don’t miss our daily TV show on

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We Love Our Bread & Circus

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2024/03/14

March 14, 2024Both Biden & Trump have now crossed the delegate thresholds to win the nominations of their parties, setting up what will be the longest and likely the ugliest general election campaign in American history. The two candidates couldn’t be farther apart on policy issues, and we will discuss some of those differences with our friend and guest Mike Williams, Senior Fellow at The Center for American Progress.Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.orgFind us

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The Clearest Choice in American History

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2024/03/13

March 13, 2024Now that there are only two candidates left in the presidential race, it’s time to talk about their differences. Not this poll or that poll, or who has more trouble speaking in public – but what each man will do should he become (or remain) the leader of the free world. We discuss these differences, and trump’s recent threats to cut Social Security and Medicare, with Alex Lawson of Social Security Works.Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.orgFind us

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Creepy Republicans and Compromised Candidates

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2024/03/12

March 12, 2024People are still talking about Alabama Senator Katie Britt’s dark and unsettling response to Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech, and we have a few things to say about it as well. Also, we take some time to break down trump’s massive and growing debts, and what most believe he will do to get out of paying them. As hostile foreign powers line up to purchase an American presidential candidate, we discuss the potential dangers with former Republican Congressman Bob Ney.Don’t miss our

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State of the Union 2024

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2024/03/11

March 11, 2024In one of the most critical and high-pressure moments of the Biden presidency, Joe delivered a fiery speech, taking on his rivals and the corporate media’s constant attacks on the ability of a man of his age to run the country. And while the post-speech reviews will take on their expected partisan slants, the idea that “Joe is too old” is quickly becoming a silly position that only the bought and paid for talking heads will dare to keep pushing. We break down the speech with Sarah

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Manipulating Free Trade to Hurt the U.S.

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2024/03/08

March 7, 2024Put simply, when we engage with the world through free trade, some of our partners just don’t play fair. Some countries artificially manipulate everything from wages to safety to child labor, or they simply dump junk products into the market at low prices to chase competition away. In emerging markets, like clean energy, electric vehicles, and more, this manipulation is making competition anything but fair, and China in particular seems to be willing to do just about anything to make it

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Striking in the Sky?

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2024/03/07

March 7, 2024We start our show with a discussion of the latest right-wing puppet to quit Congress, and the potential of a third-party spoiler entering the 2024 race. Then we pivot to a discussion of American Airlines and the AA employees and flight attendants who are demanding fair wages, hours, and conditions that are over a decade overdue. Our guest is Julie Hedrick, National President of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants.Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech

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The False Freedom of the Billionaire Class

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2024/03/06

March 6, 2024The Heritage Foundation, perhaps the most powerful and harmful of the right-wing think tanks, has released its latest “Index of Economic Freedom” – a report that magically calls us free or oppressed based entirely on whether or not there’s a Republican in the White House. Join us for a discussion on phony scholarship and how the right spends tons of money to fake legitimacy for some of the most nonsensical arguments imaginable. Our guest is Matias Vernengo, Professor of Economics at

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Faking the Horse Race

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2024/03/05

March 5, 2024Legacy media is running story after story about a new CBS poll that has Trump leading Biden nationally, telling us why we should all panic about it. We take a different approach, pointing a finger at media itself and the unwillingness of Democrats and left-leaning interests to engage at all in the ongoing information war that is so clearly happening every day in America. We have surrendered the airwaves to the billionaire class, and they are filling the space with the kind of propaganda

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Your Right to be Exploited

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2024/03/04

March 4, 2024We start the show talking about the “Truckers for Trump” and their threats to “shut down New York City.” As expected, the movement was just a PR stunt, and has amounted to no real action of any kind … but loads of right-wing TV coverage. Then we host a discussion about the infamous topic of “Right to Work” which has once again been defeated – this time in New Hampshire. Our guest today is Liz McElroy, VP for Government Affairs at the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades

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Corporate Piracy & Your Grocery Bill

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2024/03/01

March 1, 2024Greedflation is a problem everywhere, but most families feel it the most when they’re trying to feed themselves and their loved ones. In this episode, we start with a discussion about the fast-food chain Wendy’s and its new “surge pricing” program, and then we discuss the proposed Kroger/Albertson’s merger, and why it could be a disaster for consumers. Our guest is Morgan Harper of The Economic Liberties Project.Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.orgFind us

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