Radio Show Hour 1 – 11/07/2024

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[00:01:07] Welcome to the broadcast.

[00:01:08] As you know, Tuesday night was a massive win for Donald Trump.

[00:01:12] No doubt about that.

[00:01:14] We'll drill into that as the broadcast unfolds,

[00:01:17] because, of course, you can't talk at all about anything unless it's Donald Trump these days, right?

[00:01:22] And his policies and what it's going to mean for the average American and so on and so on and so forth.

[00:01:27] And, wow.

[00:01:28] Anyway, there you have that.

[00:01:29] I want to talk about an interview I did with James Edwards, though.

[00:01:34] Great interview, by the way.

[00:01:36] I also had Sheriff Mack on with me yesterday as well.

[00:01:39] So James Edwards, Sheriff Richard Mack.

[00:01:41] And we talked about breaking unborn babies are the biggest election night winners and the biggest election night losers,

[00:01:51] depending on where you hail from, I guess.

[00:01:56] Yeah, you know, Donald Trump defeated Kamala, as you know.

[00:02:00] Kamala gave an acceptance speech that she accepted that Donald won, but she said they're going to fight, fight, fight.

[00:02:06] What does that mean?

[00:02:07] We'll drill into that as the broadcast unfolds.

[00:02:09] What does it mean?

[00:02:10] We'll transfer power peacefully.

[00:02:12] We support you 100%.

[00:02:13] That's the American way.

[00:02:14] But yet we're going to fight, fight, fight.

[00:02:16] We'll talk about that.

[00:02:17] Latino men embrace Trump big time.

[00:02:20] But the question becomes, will Donald Trump then actually undertake the largest deportation in American history?

[00:02:26] Time will tell.

[00:02:27] Will the enemies of liberty literally allow President Donald Trump to take office peacefully in 66 days or so?

[00:02:35] So beware, I warned of the lame duck session.

[00:02:40] Yeah, we also talked about our dear friend Jerry Sheridan likely wins the position of sheriff in Maricopa County,

[00:02:48] the third or fourth largest county in the country.

[00:02:53] Basically, it's the Phoenix area in Arizona, Maricopa County.

[00:02:57] Jerry Sheridan, our dear constitutional sheriff and friend, likely wins that.

[00:03:02] Spencer Cox wins Utah.

[00:03:05] As the governor, I submit to you, and I'm going to update this headline, he wins it by fraud.

[00:03:13] That's my opinion to which I'm entitled.

[00:03:15] All right?

[00:03:15] Now, I know that the debates about that are going on.

[00:03:18] I know Phil Lyman's going to the U.S. Supreme Court because the Utah Supreme Court literally rejected the truth.

[00:03:25] The audit committee agreeing with Phil Lyman.

[00:03:29] So it's a disaster, to say the least.

[00:03:33] Anyway, we talked about a lot of these different things with regards to President Trump's win.

[00:03:38] We talked about the incoming president will likely make more than 100 judicial appointments.

[00:03:44] That is huge.

[00:03:45] We'll see what that brings.

[00:03:47] RFK, JR, says that Trump will push to remove fluoride from drinking water.

[00:03:54] The gals over at the View lost their minds over that.

[00:03:57] They're like, oh, my gosh, nobody will have fluoride anymore.

[00:04:00] That's so bogus.

[00:04:01] You can go get fluoride tablets if you want to.

[00:04:04] You can buy drinking water.

[00:04:06] Pretty soon there'll be a big old market with drinking water with fluoride added.

[00:04:10] You've already got it in a bunch of products like your toothpaste and mouthwash and everything else all over the place.

[00:04:15] You can go to your dentist and get fluoride and put on your teeth.

[00:04:18] I mean, the idea that you're not going to be able to choose fluoride is bogus.

[00:04:21] This is the point.

[00:04:22] When it's in your water, everybody's forced to drink fluoride if you live in that area or just get bottled water on your own, right?

[00:04:29] Well, now the force is gone.

[00:04:31] So remember how all these women, including Kamala Harris, said, oh, there's nothing that a man is forced to do with his body except for go serve in the military, except for take a vaccine if you're in the military.

[00:04:42] Take the jab.

[00:04:43] But now there's another one.

[00:04:46] American men are forced to drink fluoride unless they can get unfluoridated water somewhere.

[00:04:52] So RFK, JR, believes fluoride in the water is bad.

[00:04:55] I concur with him.

[00:04:56] But he's going to make it a choice by taking it out of the water supply.

[00:04:59] It just means, hey, you can add fluoride anytime you want to.

[00:05:02] There'll be all kinds of fluoride pills you can take, like you do vitamins and everything else, right?

[00:05:06] So, I mean, come on.

[00:05:07] Anyway, the view just lost their mind over this.

[00:05:09] But I commend RFK, JR, and I hope Donald has the guts to truly make that happen.

[00:05:15] We talked about Donald Trump calls for a return of paper ballots.

[00:05:18] Amen.

[00:05:19] Just because Donald Trump won, folks, don't think this battle over elections is over.

[00:05:22] We've got to expose the criminal activity that happened in 2020 and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.

[00:05:27] Number one, the sham reports coming out of the Democratic-led Congress are a disgrace.

[00:05:32] We need to take action on that big time so that it never happens again is the reason.

[00:05:37] I get that it won't affect the future now that Donald Trump's president.

[00:05:40] And in my humble opinion, Joe Biden served for four years erroneously, criminally.

[00:05:48] But nevertheless, we've got to get to the bottom of that.

[00:05:50] So don't let that go, people, for sure.

[00:05:51] We've got to absolutely be laser focused on it.

[00:05:54] Don't let Donald dismiss it either.

[00:05:55] Donald's likely to be a nice guy and just be like, oh, it's in the past.

[00:05:58] Let it go.

[00:05:59] Leave him alone.

[00:06:00] No, no, no.

[00:06:00] Prosecute those criminals and put them in jail.

[00:06:03] Yes, obey the law.

[00:06:04] Yes, give them due process of law.

[00:06:06] But subpoena, subpoena, subpoena.

[00:06:08] Get the facts on the table and absolutely no games.

[00:06:12] We're taking care of business.

[00:06:14] Prosecute Hillary for her email servers and everything else, right?

[00:06:19] Trump pledges to, I don't know what you call this.

[00:06:23] He calls it boost homeschoolers with a $10,000 per child tax write-off.

[00:06:32] Well, I pray he gets that done because I don't like tax credits or, I mean, I don't like where you hand out money.

[00:06:37] Just give people less taxes.

[00:06:38] Just say, Sam, you know what?

[00:06:39] You've got whatever number of children, therefore 10,000 times, you know, three kids, whatever it be.

[00:06:44] Hey, you're virtually going to pay no taxes for a long time, Sam.

[00:06:47] Fine.

[00:06:47] Whatever you want to do.

[00:06:49] But don't have us get any money from the government.

[00:06:51] Otherwise, remember, they always give you money with strings attached.

[00:06:54] Don't be fooled on that altar.

[00:06:57] I guess Trump, his victory might mean that we withdraw support for the Ukraine.

[00:07:04] I pray so.

[00:07:05] I'm not a backer of Russia.

[00:07:07] Don't misunderstand me.

[00:07:08] That's the Hegelian dialectic.

[00:07:10] I don't want to go to war with either country.

[00:07:11] I want to have peace for both countries.

[00:07:13] I've got a Russian programmer that writes software for me.

[00:07:16] I can't even find a way to pay him right now, people.

[00:07:21] Russia blamed for mob threats at polling sites across five swing states.

[00:07:28] As you could tell, it didn't make a heck of a difference.

[00:07:31] Donald still won.

[00:07:32] But remember, if Donald is in bed with the Russians like the Liars claim,

[00:07:36] then why would they commit that at polling places?

[00:07:39] They would want all the people to go vote for Donald that they possibly could get, right?

[00:07:44] Suppression of the vote doesn't help Donald.

[00:07:47] So they're just not making any sense, right?

[00:07:49] Anyway, there you have it.

[00:07:50] Good news.

[00:07:51] Ken Paxton pushes back.

[00:07:52] The DOJ agrees to not enter polling and central count locations in his state in Texas.

[00:08:00] They said, yeah, we're going to come and check out the elections in your state.

[00:08:03] And Ken Paxton's like, no, you're not.

[00:08:05] You don't have any authority.

[00:08:06] Get out of here.

[00:08:06] And he threatened to sue him.

[00:08:08] And they backed off just showing the power of the several sovereign states in the United States.

[00:08:13] Richard Mack proved it.

[00:08:14] And now Ken Paxton proves the same point in modern times, 2024 over elections, I might add.

[00:08:22] Yeah.

[00:08:23] Anyway, my son created a, he calls it a tile map about the elections,

[00:08:27] showing the electoral votes given to each state,

[00:08:29] helping people kind of understand more about the Elector College.

[00:08:32] That's great stuff.

[00:08:33] We talked about more than a quarter of Americans say.

[00:08:36] They don't even care who wins the presidential elections.

[00:08:38] They just want it to end.

[00:08:40] That's according to a talker survey, as a research survey.

[00:08:43] I don't agree with that.

[00:08:44] I think what they're saying is they're sick of hearing about the elections.

[00:08:47] They're sick of the abuse that everybody's heaping on one another.

[00:08:50] They're like a more civil view.

[00:08:51] I think they care about who wins.

[00:08:53] They don't want policies they disagree with.

[00:08:55] But they do want it to be over.

[00:08:56] They're just kind of like get it over with already.

[00:08:58] I agree with that point.

[00:08:59] And I was sick of it too.

[00:09:00] Donald telling you that Kamala's an idiot.

[00:09:03] Kamala telling you that Donald's going to ruin the country.

[00:09:05] I mean, they really, really, really, really made a big old huge point

[00:09:09] trying to get you to believe that, oh my gosh, if Donald took over,

[00:09:12] man, the economy was going to tank.

[00:09:13] They told you that the first time Donald took authority in 2016,

[00:09:18] or, you know, 2017 when he started.

[00:09:20] And they said, man, he's going to melt down the economy.

[00:09:22] It's going to be horrible.

[00:09:22] And the economy was just phenomenal.

[00:09:24] Then Joe took over.

[00:09:25] The economy tanked and was horrible.

[00:09:28] Now Donald taking over again.

[00:09:30] And all the liberals are telling you, oh my gosh, he's going to destroy the economy.

[00:09:32] It's going to be horrible.

[00:09:34] But there's a good likelihood that the Federal Reserve will reduce interest rates again today.

[00:09:39] That ought to help.

[00:09:41] Not that I'm for them manipulating the interest rates.

[00:09:43] But hey, if they're going to lower it, it'll help the economy at least temporarily, right?

[00:09:47] And I will say this.

[00:09:49] How come if Donald Trump will ruin the economy, how come Bitcoin's price went to $75,000,

[00:09:57] beating the record high set back in March?

[00:10:00] If Donald's so horrible, then how would that happen, huh?

[00:10:05] Anyway, we digress.

[00:10:07] We'll get into the economy here in a minute with Brian Rust as he joins us for the Honest Money Report right after the pause.

[00:10:12] But in the meantime, Kamala Harris fell 20 million votes behind where Joe Biden was in 2020.

[00:10:21] So here's my question.

[00:10:23] How did Joe Biden get like 80 million votes and Kamala getting closer to 60?

[00:10:29] Where did those 20 million votes go?

[00:10:33] Did they go to Donald?

[00:10:36] Donald got about the same as he got last time.

[00:10:40] Oh, did they vanish into thin air?

[00:10:42] Did those people just not turn out at the polls?

[00:10:44] Or does it point to another lever of fraud that they weren't able to commit this time because of our laser-like focus on the elections, huh?

[00:10:53] Just an interesting question for you to hang out there in the ether.

[00:10:56] Hang tight.

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[00:13:22] Thank you much, Sam.

[00:13:23] Glad to be here.

[00:13:25] All right.

[00:13:25] I don't even know where to start with some of this because it's just such a target-rich environment.

[00:13:30] But I want to start with this.

[00:13:32] They say Spencer Cox won the election.

[00:13:33] I submit to you, in my opinion, it's by fraud.

[00:13:37] So by fraud, he won.

[00:13:39] He didn't win an election because it was more of a selection.

[00:13:42] The bottom line is Spencer Cox didn't get the right number of signatures to even be on the ballot.

[00:13:47] Therefore, his signatures should be thrown out.

[00:13:49] Nevertheless, Phil Lyman was forced into a primary after big money and the media manipulated the reality.

[00:13:55] And then Phil Lyman won the caucus but lost the primary.

[00:13:59] And Spencer Cox got on the ballot.

[00:14:01] But then Phil Lyman said Spencer didn't get the right number of signatures.

[00:14:05] He went to the Utah Supreme Court.

[00:14:08] The Utah Supreme Court threw it out and said, oh, this is frivolous.

[00:14:11] Forget it.

[00:14:12] But then the auditing committee, they agreed to audit.

[00:14:14] They audited and said, yep, Phil's right.

[00:14:16] He didn't get the number of signatures.

[00:14:18] They said, who cares?

[00:14:19] Spencer Cox went and won the supposed selection.

[00:14:22] I think it's by fraud.

[00:14:25] What do you say, Brian?

[00:14:27] Yeah, I agree with you, Sam.

[00:14:28] You know, the process is there.

[00:14:30] And obviously, they kind of wanted to hide the fact that he didn't go through that process.

[00:14:36] And then there wasn't any transparency.

[00:14:39] He wasn't having to, I guess, show the count.

[00:14:46] And even if he, you know, even what they found was that obviously the board felt like he didn't have those signatures.

[00:14:54] So, yeah, the process was not done right.

[00:14:57] And it didn't help Phil Lyman because, I mean, it had to be a write-in.

[00:15:02] We had to write him in where it, I mean, which made that much harder for someone to look at the ballots and vote.

[00:15:10] So, you know, anyway, it was, yeah, I didn't agree with that at all.

[00:15:14] And it kind of, you know, is evidence of kind of following the pattern of what our government's done in the last number of years.

[00:15:24] I mean, they don't care if it's law or this is the way it was supposed to be constitutional and so on.

[00:15:32] They just did what they wanted to do.

[00:15:34] And we saw that at the top, and I think he just followed that same agenda.

[00:15:38] How would you like to be Spencer Cox, though?

[00:15:41] Because I'm convinced he knows it.

[00:15:42] He knows it wasn't honorable.

[00:15:43] He knows it wasn't right.

[00:15:45] How would you like to feel that you won an election by fraud or manipulation?

[00:15:51] By fraud, Spencer Cox wins.

[00:15:54] By selection.

[00:15:57] I'm going to say he wins the selection.

[00:15:59] He didn't really win.

[00:16:00] How would you feel if you were in that situation?

[00:16:02] I mean, I guess if you're that power hungry, maybe you don't care.

[00:16:05] But to me, that would just bug, though.

[00:16:07] I would just feel, I'd feel horrible.

[00:16:09] I could never get over it, Brian.

[00:16:12] Yeah, I think it's going to affect him somewhat.

[00:16:15] I mean, he's going to think about that.

[00:16:17] But maybe glad he got in there by deception.

[00:16:22] And eventually sin shows itself, I believe.

[00:16:27] So if he's doing that and going down that path, are there other things he might do as well that are unconstitutional and wrong?

[00:16:36] Yeah, he was against Donald Trump.

[00:16:38] But once he saw the tea leaves and put his finger in the wind, he realized Donald was going to win.

[00:16:42] And he kind of reversed him back Trump.

[00:16:43] And I think that helped Spencer Cox a lot as well.

[00:16:48] Yeah, I agree.

[00:16:51] All right.

[00:16:51] There you have that.

[00:16:52] I don't even know how to respond to all that, except I'm really disappointed in it.

[00:16:57] Because I would think in Utah, one of the most red conservative states, at least we used to think in the union, you would think they wouldn't do something like this.

[00:17:04] You would think they'd be like, okay, okay, okay.

[00:17:06] You know what?

[00:17:06] We didn't think that Phil was right, but it turns out that he was.

[00:17:09] We're going to do this honorably now.

[00:17:11] But I indict the whole kind of state of Utah's leadership or politicians on this.

[00:17:17] Nobody really spoke out about this, really, except for Phil.

[00:17:21] And a couple of people behind closed doors said, you're right, Phil.

[00:17:24] But nobody had the guts to really stand up and be honorable about this.

[00:17:27] And that concerns me to the core, Brian.

[00:17:30] Yeah, I think you're right.

[00:17:31] The thing that we kind of have talked about over the years here, Sam, is the fact of accountability.

[00:17:37] When things are done wrong and people are asking for, you know, saying, hey, we need to get to the bottom of this.

[00:17:45] And they're asking questions.

[00:17:47] And then there's no real accountability.

[00:17:49] They kind of push it under the carpet so no one really kind of gets any wind of it, per se.

[00:17:54] There's a few out there.

[00:17:55] But I think if, you know, the committee said, okay, wait, yeah, we find that this is wrong,

[00:18:02] then there needs to be some accountability in saying, yeah, this is absolutely wrong.

[00:18:06] And you're not going to be on the ballot.

[00:18:08] Yeah, sorry, you didn't do what was supposed to be done.

[00:18:11] And this is the process.

[00:18:12] And you didn't do it.

[00:18:13] Yeah, and they're saying, well, he didn't do it.

[00:18:15] But he could have would have had he known, had he realized, had he.

[00:18:18] No one else gets those kind of excuses, though, Brian.

[00:18:21] Right.

[00:18:21] I agree.

[00:18:22] So it's just wrong.

[00:18:24] And then now we, again, no accountability.

[00:18:27] And it doesn't help Phil.

[00:18:28] Phil's out there going, okay, well, I don't agree.

[00:18:31] And I'm going to keep pushing this.

[00:18:32] But still, why does he need to do that?

[00:18:35] I think others need to step in, you know, that have leadership or in roles that we demand this.

[00:18:41] So, yeah.

[00:18:42] Anyway, I pray for Phil Lyman's lawsuit at the U.S. Supreme Court.

[00:18:46] But likely the courts won't touch these things.

[00:18:48] The courts have proven if it's related to election integrity issues,

[00:18:51] they rarely have the guts to even adjudicate the case.

[00:18:55] Oftentimes they throw it out and don't even look at the merits of the case.

[00:18:57] Then they claim we lost in court when it's not really true because they never really looked at it.

[00:19:01] They just threw it out on its face, just like the Utah Supreme Court did.

[00:19:04] They're like, oh, this is frivolous.

[00:19:06] Well, how do you say that when the auditing team after the fact comes and says, no, he's right.

[00:19:11] Now what?

[00:19:12] Right.

[00:19:12] That's the problem and the dilemma they find themselves in.

[00:19:15] And consequently, Kamala Harris fell 20 million votes shy of Biden's 2020 totals.

[00:19:26] So yournews.com is asking a fair question on this and I concur with them.

[00:19:30] Where did all those votes go?

[00:19:32] Did people just not come out to the polls in 24 when they did in 20 for Biden?

[00:19:36] Was there fraud?

[00:19:37] And now they can't commit the fraud so they can't materialize those votes like they did last time.

[00:19:41] And now that we're watching the polls more, I mean, Donald got very close to the same as he got in 2020 as he got in 2024.

[00:19:47] You know, give or take some votes or whatever.

[00:19:49] But you kind of go, there needs to be some explaining to do.

[00:19:53] When Kamala gets 20 million less than Biden and Kamala really got out the vote big time, you got to ask some questions.

[00:20:00] That's not like, oh, yeah, there's 2 million votes different or something.

[00:20:03] 20 million, that's literally 25 percent of the vote count Biden got, more than 25 percent, almost 33 percent of what Kamala got in total.

[00:20:14] This number is huge and we've got to ask these questions, Brian.

[00:20:20] Yeah, I agree, Sam.

[00:20:22] Well, 20, that's a big number.

[00:20:25] And I guess they weren't counting the fact of people that have passed away or, you know, who knows, they make up names or so on.

[00:20:35] And perhaps, you know, and they were being watched maybe closer.

[00:20:39] So maybe they weren't able to maybe, you know, some of the issues they had last time where they, you know, voter fraud.

[00:20:46] We probably are seeing some of this now.

[00:20:48] Maybe this relates to the 20 million dollars she's in debt.

[00:20:53] So maybe that 20 million and 20 million votes, it's the dollar.

[00:20:58] Dollar a vote there.

[00:20:59] Well, if she would have had some constitutional currency as a hedge, she might be all right, Brian.

[00:21:04] That's right.

[00:21:06] So maybe there's a tie to that.

[00:21:08] But, yeah, it's very puzzling why that's a big number.

[00:21:14] So, yeah, where do we get to the bottom of that?

[00:21:16] We got to dig.

[00:21:18] We got to find out.

[00:21:19] I'm going to tell everybody who I voted for and what I did on the ballot because I think it's kind of interesting.

[00:21:23] If you're comfortable and you want to tell people what you did, Brian, you're welcome to.

[00:21:26] If you want to withhold that, you're free to do so.

[00:21:28] But here's what I did on the ballot.

[00:21:30] I couldn't vote for Donald Trump because even though I think he's way better than Kamala, I couldn't vote for him.

[00:21:35] I don't think he's a moral man.

[00:21:37] That's just my opinion.

[00:21:38] And I can't vote for an immoral person.

[00:21:40] And so I didn't vote for Donald.

[00:21:42] However, I'll be clear, if I was in a swing state where I thought it really would have made a big difference, then I would have voted for Donald Trump.

[00:21:48] I didn't, though, because in Utah, you know what?

[00:21:50] I mean, he got, what, 60 percent of the vote in Utah compared to Kamala's 40 about?

[00:21:55] I mean, that's not exact but close.

[00:21:57] And so, you know, I knew there wasn't even really an issue.

[00:21:59] My vote doesn't matter.

[00:22:00] So I did more of a protest vote.

[00:22:02] And I basically wrote in Scott, Dr. Scott Bradley and Sam Bushman for president and vice presidents.

[00:22:08] What I did, Brian.

[00:22:09] That's awesome.

[00:22:11] There you go.

[00:22:12] Because they don't have none of the above or anything, so I couldn't do that, you know.

[00:22:17] I love it, Sam.

[00:22:18] I like your, you're right on.

[00:22:21] But it's pretty rough.

[00:22:22] My wife didn't even vote for me, so there you go.

[00:22:26] Actually, she didn't know to write in my name.

[00:22:28] People don't even know to write in.

[00:22:30] And that's kind of why I'm bringing this up, because for Phil, he got literally like 77,000 votes, not near enough.

[00:22:35] But for a write-in candidate, that's incredible.

[00:22:37] Most people just don't realize how to write it in.

[00:22:40] I mean, it's very difficult, the write-in options and everything else.

[00:22:44] But that's what I voted for president.

[00:22:46] And the same problem in Utah.

[00:22:48] I had to write in Phil Lyman for governor, which we did.

[00:22:51] Phil Lyman and Natalie Claussen.

[00:22:53] You say, well, Sam, why didn't you vote for Joel Skousen on the Constitution Party ticket or whatever in Utah?

[00:22:58] You could have done that.

[00:22:59] I know.

[00:23:00] But I had a protest vote because the Constitution Party was kind of fractured.

[00:23:05] You had Randall Terry in some states and Joel Skousen in other states.

[00:23:09] And mine was a protest vote in the sense that I would have voted for either of those guys.

[00:23:13] I'd prefer Joel Skousen by far to Randall Terry.

[00:23:16] But when they can't even come to the table and in their own party work out who their nominee is going to be,

[00:23:21] they have a fracture in their own party on a nominee.

[00:23:23] So it dilutes their vote even further.

[00:23:25] I had to protest that.

[00:23:27] You guys have to sit down to the table and humble yourselves and figure that out.

[00:23:31] Okay?

[00:23:31] But anyway, so I did not vote for Joel Skousen, although I like Joel.

[00:23:35] I believe in Joel.

[00:23:36] I think he's a great guy.

[00:23:37] And I would vote for him.

[00:23:38] But circumstantially, I couldn't.

[00:23:40] So there's that.

[00:23:41] I voted no on all the amendments.

[00:23:44] I voted no on all the judges.

[00:23:46] I said, don't retain them.

[00:23:47] Kick them all out.

[00:23:48] Yeah, when in doubt, kick them out.

[00:23:49] So I got rid of all those suckers.

[00:23:51] There you go.

[00:23:52] And then I voted for Carlton Bowen for Senator.

[00:23:56] And I voted for some independent American and Constitution Party folks all up and down the ballot other than that.

[00:24:05] Anyway, when we come back, Brian can update you on his voting experience.

[00:24:09] Hopefully he voted.

[00:24:09] And he doesn't have to get into the details.

[00:24:11] If he doesn't want to, we can do that.

[00:24:13] Then we'll talk about the interest rates and a bunch of other things going on in the economy and how it's going to look with Donald at the helm.

[00:24:19] Well, first off, will Donald even get to the helm?

[00:24:21] That's a question for Brian, too.

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[00:30:24] Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.

[00:30:28] Here with Sam Bushman on LibertyRoundtable.com.

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[00:30:33] He's awesome and really brings forth the truth, especially when we're trying to treasure our liberty and protect our family and God and country.

[00:30:43] I'm Brian Rust, known as the Honest Money Guy, and glad you could be with us.

[00:30:51] We're talking a little bit about our ballot when we cast our ballots and who we voted for.

[00:30:57] I'm kind of disappointed that I didn't vote for Scott Bradley and Sam Bushman.

[00:31:04] That would have been a good one to write.

[00:31:07] Nobody did because nobody knew, except for me.

[00:31:09] Well, I kind of, I should have known.

[00:31:13] It was a great idea.

[00:31:16] I did have to write in Phil Lyman, and I think that was, you know, for most people that didn't know maybe and he's not there to look at on the ballot, I think that hurt him.

[00:31:28] And a lot of people, I'm sure, wanted to vote for him.

[00:31:30] And then when they didn't see him on the ballot, they didn't really realize they could either.

[00:31:33] A lot of people aren't familiar with the write-in process.

[00:31:35] They're just kind of like, oh, I guess that's not a choice.

[00:31:37] I better, so that plays a big part too, Brian.

[00:31:41] Yeah, and maybe if they only knew Phil, oh, I think his name's Phil.

[00:31:45] Well, if you don't have the right, the full name, it doesn't come into play as well.

[00:31:50] So, yeah, I just thought that was a bad thing for him.

[00:31:55] And so, yeah, and I think it definitely hurt.

[00:31:58] Hopefully he can get somewhere as he goes back to, you know, to get some help on the federal level.

[00:32:06] Yeah, hopefully the Supreme Court will be honorable and take up the cause and look at it and say, hey, this is wrong.

[00:32:11] The problem is once you have Spencer Cox already in office and everything else, what do you do?

[00:32:15] Do you unwind the whole thing?

[00:32:16] And what kind of panic will that cause?

[00:32:18] And, you know, courts have a difficult balance here, I'll be the first to admit.

[00:32:20] But I say we need to do the honorable thing so it never happens again.

[00:32:25] Right, absolutely.

[00:32:26] That's so we don't repeat ourselves.

[00:32:27] And like you say, that path is going to be a little uphill battle because it's a lot of things to undo.

[00:32:34] And so it would be nice to see that, but it's a set of precedents.

[00:32:38] But we'll see what happens.

[00:32:42] All right.

[00:32:44] Let's see.

[00:32:44] Let's talk about the Honest Money Report.

[00:32:46] You know, everybody kind of mocked the economy and said, oh, my gosh, when Donald gets in in 2016, it's going to just ruin the whole economy.

[00:32:52] It turned out to be incredible.

[00:32:54] Then Joe got in.

[00:32:55] The economy tanked.

[00:32:56] Now Joe's in again, and they're telling you how horrible the economy is going to be.

[00:33:01] I'm not seeing that personally.

[00:33:06] Basically, the U.S. stock market surged Wednesday following Donald Trump's victory.

[00:33:12] They're about to reduce the interest rates, which will heighten things further.

[00:33:15] Bitcoin went up to very, very high levels, the highest levels ever.

[00:33:19] The people don't agree with the bureaucrats is the bottom line on this thing.

[00:33:23] Brian?

[00:33:25] Yeah.

[00:33:25] You know, I think the issue is, is I think that, you know, they tend to follow these patterns a little bit.

[00:33:32] Okay, well, now we've calmed the storm.

[00:33:34] The dollar is definitely going to show strength.

[00:33:37] We're $100 trillion in debt.

[00:33:40] You've got to take into consideration if we're that far in debt, how does the dollar have any real say anymore?

[00:33:47] It's so weak that, you know, I hate when they bring that factor in.

[00:33:53] Well, the dollar showed strength.

[00:33:54] Why?

[00:33:54] This news, okay, they're thinking Trump's going to turn things around.

[00:33:58] I get the fact, but the dollar's toast because of the debt.

[00:34:02] I don't know how you come out of this $100 trillion when you factor all these things in.

[00:34:07] So that's one play.

[00:34:09] Then, you know, the Treasury yields there, they've increased because that's a good thing now.

[00:34:14] And let's get back to the stock market, that's going to be a good thing.

[00:34:16] Well, these are all paper assets.

[00:34:19] Somewhere down the line, those paper assets don't tend to hold because it's not backed.

[00:34:24] It's just paper.

[00:34:25] So does that mean we've got to print more paper to support the paper?

[00:34:29] I mean, the factors or the stability is not there.

[00:34:32] So eventually, something's going to happen and the crash of those markets or whatever based on paper.

[00:34:38] That's why we protect ourselves with metal or some other factors.

[00:34:43] And don't put all your eggs in one basket.

[00:34:45] But I think that's the issue.

[00:34:48] You know, well, everything's back to normal per se because Trump's in.

[00:34:52] And I don't believe that's going to be the case.

[00:34:56] It's going to get worse.

[00:34:57] It's going to get worse fast, ladies and gentlemen, because other nations are deciding to jettisoning the dollar.

[00:35:04] And the only way the Ponzi scheme works is if you keep expanding the pool of suckers.

[00:35:09] Okay?

[00:35:09] Okay.

[00:35:10] That's the facts on this thing, ladies and gentlemen.

[00:35:12] All right.

[00:35:12] Where's gold sitting right now, Brian?

[00:35:15] Gold is $2,693.

[00:35:19] Even?

[00:35:20] Yeah.

[00:35:21] All right.

[00:35:22] There you have it, ladies and gentlemen.

[00:35:26] $2,693.00.

[00:35:28] Silver?

[00:35:30] $31.85.

[00:35:35] I guess it's down quite a bit, isn't it?

[00:35:38] Yeah.

[00:35:39] Silver's dropped about a 5%.

[00:35:41] Level gold's down about 3%.

[00:35:43] Yep.

[00:35:46] All right.

[00:35:47] So silver, $3,185, ladies and gentlemen.

[00:35:50] In my mind, it's the time to buy constitutional currency because I think there's a little bit of a lull in that the dollar is falsely strong over Donald's win.

[00:36:00] Everybody's all excited about that.

[00:36:02] But, you know, the proof is going to be in the pudding.

[00:36:04] Can Donald really change the economy around?

[00:36:06] And I think he can, but I think he's got a lot of, and I'm going to use the word headwinds, dealing with this thing.

[00:36:13] I mean, hurricane kind of headwinds.

[00:36:14] We're talking about the BRICS, alternative option out there globally now speaking.

[00:36:20] We're also talking about inflation at home.

[00:36:22] You know, how are you going to bring down prices?

[00:36:24] Everything is more expensive, expensive, expensive.

[00:36:26] Why?

[00:36:27] For a lot of reasons, environmental reasons.

[00:36:31] A lot of the world playing in other currencies.

[00:36:33] A lot of the world playing and just saying, hey, we don't need the United States like we once used to.

[00:36:37] Trade deficits at an all-time high.

[00:36:40] Now, what Donald Trump is proposing to do, Brian, to solve this is put tariffs.

[00:36:45] And I support tariffs 1,000%.

[00:36:49] I love them.

[00:36:50] Now, I don't want tariffs to be 1,000%.

[00:36:52] I'm just saying I support them 1,000% because that's the way that the United States government used to run was on tariffs.

[00:36:58] The founding fathers said we don't want direct taxes on the backs of the American people.

[00:37:01] We'll have tariffs.

[00:37:02] And if you want to play in the biggest, most free economy in the world, then you're going to pay a little piece of the pie to do so.

[00:37:08] And that's going to pay for the proper role of the limited government.

[00:37:10] Well, we've jettisoned that and gone to the progressive communist-style income tax and everything else since then.

[00:37:16] And so if Donald just puts tariffs on top of what we've already got, it will be a disaster.

[00:37:21] On the other hand, if Donald really gets rid of the IRS entirely, shuts that sucker down, and then puts some tariffs in place,

[00:37:28] and so, in other words, we're just simply replacing monies, not taking monies away, I think it will go very, very well.

[00:37:35] The question becomes will Donald be as aggressive on the cutting spending side and the cutting government side

[00:37:41] and the taking from government people on the other side as he is aggressive about the tariffs?

[00:37:46] And if he is, it will be successful.

[00:37:47] And if he's not, it won't be, Brian.

[00:37:48] That's my take.

[00:37:49] What do you think?

[00:37:50] Yeah, I think you're right, Sam.

[00:37:52] Some factors that you have to look at.

[00:37:54] Basically, he's going to get in office here.

[00:37:57] Hopefully, he doesn't have any kind of threats or other setbacks that could happen.

[00:38:03] I mean, you know, obviously, we've just seen the election take place.

[00:38:07] This all isn't going to turn around tomorrow.

[00:38:09] It's a process.

[00:38:11] Hopefully, he can get the right people in place that will help him with some of these things,

[00:38:15] some making good decisions.

[00:38:17] But it's not going to be just a quick fix.

[00:38:20] It's a process that takes time to accomplish.

[00:38:24] And, yeah, it's an uphill battle.

[00:38:26] I think, yeah, like you say, tariffs are a good thing.

[00:38:30] But on top of what we already have, plus when you factor in, okay, if we've eliminated so much of the ability for the U.S. to just create product because of cost.

[00:38:42] So we're exporting all these goods, bringing them in.

[00:38:46] Well, if we now just stop some of that export or some of the things that happen, well, we're not in a position right now in the U.S. to catch up with some of those things that we need.

[00:38:58] So there's a whole big, you know, problem out there on this, and it's going to take time to solve it.

[00:39:05] Yeah, we'll just have to see how this goes.

[00:39:07] Hopefully, he can make headwind, like you say, and, you know, headway and get things done.

[00:39:13] But it's going to take time.

[00:39:15] All right.

[00:39:16] So here's my proposal.

[00:39:17] People say we could never pay for the government if you went to tariffs, Sam.

[00:39:20] It would never work.

[00:39:21] They're completely out in the weeds.

[00:39:24] It would absolutely work.

[00:39:27] Let me throw out a thought for you, Brian.

[00:39:29] I don't know if you know this, but if you take the total annual expenditure of Americans, okay, you can look at it by measuring consumer spending.

[00:39:41] Data usually measured is what's called personal consumption, which includes all the goods and services that, you know, households spend or buy in a given year.

[00:39:52] All right.

[00:39:53] They range from basics like food and clothing to services like education, health care, recreation, the whole bit.

[00:39:59] As of 2022, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the total personal consumption expenditures in the U.S.

[00:40:09] is approximately $17.2 trillion.

[00:40:15] $17.2 trillion.

[00:40:16] So if you just put a 10% just say tax on expenditure, sales tax, completely abolish the IRS and everything else, no other income for the general government, just 10% sales tax.

[00:40:29] You would have 17, what is it?

[00:40:33] $1.7 trillion.

[00:40:35] That's 10%.

[00:40:35] $1.7 trillion.

[00:40:37] That's half of a realistic budget already.

[00:40:43] When we come back, I'll talk about imports and tariffs for even more money for the government.

[00:40:49] If we cut spending and shut down unnecessary government agencies, this is achievable in a heartbeat, Brian.

[00:40:56] Hang tight.

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[00:43:25] Anyway, so I'm saying it's like $17 trillion for the average expenditures that the American people total yearly.

[00:43:30] It's about $4 plus trillion in imports of goods and services.

[00:43:33] You're talking about $20 trillion.

[00:43:35] $20 trillion, 10% of that's $2 trillion.

[00:43:39] You know what?

[00:43:40] I know you say, well, Sam, it takes like $4 to $5 trillion for the government to fund itself right now.

[00:43:44] I know.

[00:43:45] But if you got rid of all the foreign aid, it wouldn't even affect the American people negatively at all.

[00:43:49] If you got rid of a lot of the unconstitutional government programs and the waste and everything else, you're getting close to there.

[00:43:55] And all you'd have to do is, you know what?

[00:43:57] Get rid of the IRS.

[00:43:57] Get rid of the education department.

[00:43:59] Get rid of all these unconstitutional government agencies.

[00:44:01] Hey, you have a 10% tax on the people plus a 10% tariff and boom, you're done.

[00:44:06] You could even reduce that further by cutting spending.

[00:44:10] There's a lot of ways you could get this done.

[00:44:12] What people erroneously assert is, oh, the tariffs will never work because they want to not touch spending, Brian.

[00:44:19] And that's the big key here is you've got to just absolutely get crazy on spending and say we're just not going to have the government spend that kind of money anymore.

[00:44:28] Brian?

[00:44:29] Yeah.

[00:44:30] Yeah, I think you're right, Sam.

[00:44:31] I mean, it's reckless abandon.

[00:44:33] That's basically it.

[00:44:34] I mean, you just look at all these programs.

[00:44:36] Nobody wants to cut anything.

[00:44:39] You know, even when they're on the floor saying, hey, how about a 1% cut?

[00:44:43] No one wants to cut until we have to cut.

[00:44:47] Let's just keep spending.

[00:44:48] I mean, it's out of control.

[00:44:51] Yeah.

[00:45:01] Yeah.

[00:45:20] They need to rein this in.

[00:45:21] There's a lot of things.

[00:45:32] There's a lot of factors on the table.

[00:45:36] Well, he's supposed to be partnering with RFKJR on the health side of things to decrease all kinds of crazy expenditures at the government level.

[00:45:43] He's supposed to be working with Elon Musk, who's going to do basically an audit, you know, department by department and get rid of waste and get rid of government agencies and everything else.

[00:45:52] Do you think they'll get as aggressive as they need to be, Brian?

[00:45:56] Well, I would hope they would, but I don't because, I mean, basically keep kicking this can down the road.

[00:46:01] They haven't been aggressive now.

[00:46:03] And so those are still – and it takes time.

[00:46:05] You know, guys that drag their feet or something, well, I'm going to do that or I want to do that.

[00:46:09] They just – yeah.

[00:46:10] I mean, it's habit forming is where it's been, and it's not a good habit.

[00:46:15] And so, yeah, it's not going to be an easy deal.

[00:46:19] And even with Elon Musk and others, I mean, some like and can he – hopefully both sides will work with him and Trump.

[00:46:27] But we've seen in the past they don't.

[00:46:29] You know, they have their own agendas.

[00:46:31] And so if you don't do a little for me, I'm not doing anything for you.

[00:46:33] It seems to be that game.

[00:46:35] And, yeah, we need to get back to constitutional currency and all these things that really matter and help us, you know, get back on track.

[00:46:45] And it's a long road because we're so far down this path.

[00:46:50] Listen, as of 2022, the United States paid about $475 billion, so half a trillion dollars on just interest alone.

[00:47:02] So one of the ways you solve this thing is you jettison the Federal Reserve.

[00:47:06] And you say we're not going to have a third-party banking cartel that literally charges us that much interest.

[00:47:11] We're not doing that.

[00:47:13] You can save a half a trillion there alone.

[00:47:15] I mean, see, our budgets are getting in line quickly with the statements that I'm making right now.

[00:47:19] Wow, all of a sudden we just got rid of a half a trillion because we're not using the bogus – why do we need the Federal Reserve at all?

[00:47:25] We don't.

[00:47:27] Yeah, I agree.

[00:47:29] Are you putting your name in the hat for that?

[00:47:32] Because I'd like to see you again.

[00:47:33] I put my name in the hat for president already, and I've got to vote a one.

[00:47:36] So that's not going very well.

[00:47:37] No, I think that Ron Paul would be the man I'd put in place to run the Treasury personally.

[00:47:43] Yeah, yeah.

[00:47:43] He'd be good.

[00:47:45] And I'd put people like Richard Mack in charge of the FBI.

[00:47:50] It's interesting.

[00:47:51] I guess an administration has about 10,000 people to place.

[00:47:54] Did you know that, Ryan?

[00:47:56] No.

[00:47:57] I mean, again, there's an example of where I think I would cut that 10,000 to two.

[00:48:02] I'd pull an Elon Musk.

[00:48:03] I mean, he had tons of employees, and he got rid of most of them.

[00:48:07] And people criticized him big time for that.

[00:48:09] But I would take that kind of massive cut to the government, though.

[00:48:11] We don't need 10,000 people in the administration.

[00:48:13] We just don't need that kind of people.

[00:48:15] We could save so much money.

[00:48:18] How much do we spend, by the way, on government jobs?

[00:48:22] In other words, to have all the government people.

[00:48:24] How much do we spend on everybody's job at the government in total?

[00:48:28] That's an interesting question.

[00:48:30] Sure.

[00:48:31] I'd like to see that number.

[00:48:32] No doubt about it.

[00:48:33] Let's get rid of half of them.

[00:48:36] Like you said.

[00:48:38] That would be good.

[00:48:41] I would love to have you up front saying, you know, when the press conferences and that,

[00:48:46] and they're shooting these things and these things, and, man, you just tear them apart.

[00:48:49] You'd be the person up there just saying, well, why?

[00:48:51] You asked that question right here.

[00:48:52] Well, let's just go through.

[00:48:53] And they might not ask those questions anymore.

[00:48:55] They might not even be backed.

[00:48:59] You'd put them in their place.

[00:49:01] All right.

[00:49:01] So here's what they say.

[00:49:02] I asked ChatGPT this question, and it says, hey, it can vary year to year depending on how many employees, da-da-da-da-da.

[00:49:07] And then it says the federal government, which includes various departments and agencies, employees,

[00:49:12] several million people across the United States and overseas.

[00:49:15] See, I'd chop that several million big time.

[00:49:18] To get an accurate and current figure, you'd have to look at the budget of office and management or whatever to get that.

[00:49:30] But it's significant, though.

[00:49:33] I mean, think about this.

[00:49:35] I mean, what do you think they get paid?

[00:49:37] At least 50 grand a person?

[00:49:38] 30 grand a person?

[00:49:40] I don't know.

[00:49:41] If there's several million of them, you know, three million people times whatever dollars.

[00:49:44] I mean, we're talking big money people.

[00:49:48] And so I'm just telling you, this is an example of where I'm just picking a few things right around the edges.

[00:49:53] Just imagine if we were to really drill in.

[00:49:55] Sam Bushman, Brian Rust, Elon Musk, Ron Paul.

[00:49:59] You know, a lot of us, just a few of us, you know, just imagine what we could do.

[00:50:04] And that's really what I think is critical.

[00:50:06] It turns out that the interest rates are going to drop a quarter point, they claim today.

[00:50:10] The feds are meeting and everything else.

[00:50:11] And I'm not really for the government manipulating the interest rate in the first place, but that will help temporarily.

[00:50:17] The only question is how much?

[00:50:19] And with all these other headwinds, I don't think it'll help enough, Brian.

[00:50:22] Right.

[00:50:23] That's why I say we're down this path and it's not going to be just an easy turnaround.

[00:50:27] Like here, we'll just, here's the interest rate happening.

[00:50:32] And yeah, it's a path and it's, you know, we're going to have to get down that path.

[00:50:36] Plus, what are the other hurdles that are going to be thrown in his way going down that path?

[00:50:42] You know, I'm sure there's going to be a lot of negatives here and there.

[00:50:45] So obviously by still some that hate that he's in office and what's the backlash?

[00:50:52] Is it going to take time to get these people in place?

[00:50:54] Or why did you get that person?

[00:50:55] Or look at his records or who knows how it all works.

[00:50:59] But it's going to take time to get things turned around.

[00:51:02] It is going to take time.

[00:51:04] But, you know, I had a big event on Tuesday night, five hours of, you know, election coverage.

[00:51:12] And one of the people we had on was former Congressman Steve Stockman, who is incredible at this stuff.

[00:51:18] He's just, he's been on the inside.

[00:51:19] He really knows.

[00:51:20] He got elected to Congress twice, several years apart.

[00:51:23] So it kind of mirrors how Donald got elected in many ways and how Grover Cleveland got elected.

[00:51:28] Anyway, the reason I'm telling you all this is because Steve said, listen, Donald and company have one year to get their crap together.

[00:51:36] One year.

[00:51:37] Why one year?

[00:51:38] Because every two years, a third of the house gets replaced.

[00:51:40] And so the second year, they're already going to be in election mode.

[00:51:45] And if they've done well, they can run on the things they've done and it'll elect them again.

[00:51:48] If they haven't done well, they're going to be backing away from things the next year, all year long.

[00:51:52] So you're not going to get much done.

[00:51:53] So you literally got about one year.

[00:51:56] By the way, for fiscal year 2022, the United States spent a big amount of money.

[00:52:04] On a large number of federal workers across various departments and agencies.

[00:52:11] Significant number, right?

[00:52:14] Hundreds of billions of dollars on civilian and military payroll.

[00:52:21] There you have it.

[00:52:23] Hundreds of billions of dollars, Brian.

[00:52:29] Yeah.

[00:52:29] Big, big money.

[00:52:30] And yet, you know, probably a big chunk of kind of all the things that we spent were just donated to some of these other countries because they're in the middle of war.

[00:52:39] And we're kind of right there with them.

[00:52:41] So, you know, let's cut that spending.

[00:52:44] That would be good.

[00:52:47] Yeah.

[00:52:47] And I'll tell you two other tidbits before the end of the hour that's really important.

[00:52:51] Crypto's in the crosshairs, ladies and gentlemen, amid the CBDC push.

[00:52:59] I always have trouble with that.

[00:53:01] All these acronyms are just crazy.

[00:53:02] Anyway, the bottom line is they want the federal government crypto.

[00:53:05] They don't want private crypto.

[00:53:06] So it's all in the crosshairs.

[00:53:08] Donald Trump's mandated victory dominates the news cycle.

[00:53:12] But the deep state is still pushing for a centralized digital currency that will shred privacy and liberty.

[00:53:18] That's Alex Newman, our dear friend over at LibertySentinel.Substack.com with the details on this.

[00:53:25] Brian, that's significant, too, that they're pushing for the Donald's got to first stop that clown show.

[00:53:30] Right.

[00:53:31] You know, we kind of felt like this was happening.

[00:53:34] And you've got other countries out there that are creating their own and using crypto in trade.

[00:53:41] You know, obviously, we thought that the U.S. would be in this same kind of a situation going forward that they were trying to get their act together.

[00:53:49] It's yeah, I don't know.

[00:53:53] Who knows?

[00:53:55] Yeah.

[00:53:56] You know, it's crazy.

[00:53:56] It's crazy.

[00:53:57] And let me give you one other statistic that I find fascinating.

[00:54:00] Scam losses worldwide this year alone.

[00:54:02] So in other words, people getting scammed have reached $1 trillion.

[00:54:08] And USA Today has an article of how to protect yourself.

[00:54:12] What in the heck is $1 trillion?

[00:54:16] You think there's ways to stop that fraud and protect us and use that kind of money?

[00:54:21] I hope so.

[00:54:21] There's money everywhere, folks.

[00:54:23] It's just a matter of who's in charge of it and how they use it.

[00:54:25] Brian Russ, thank you so much, sir.

[00:54:28] Hey, thanks, Sam.

[00:54:29] Great show.

[00:54:30] There he goes, Brian Russ.

[00:54:31] Russ, Quinn and Gift, always doing a phenomenal job.

[00:54:34] Their website, freewatercoinco.com.

[00:54:37] That's freewatercoinco.com.

[00:54:38] You've got a friend in the honest money business.

[00:54:40] Back in seconds, hour one of the can, hour two coming up.

[00:54:42] And God save the republic.