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.
Episodes
Jul 9, 2020
Jul 9, 2020
18 min
Sergio Flores: Education about what neoliberalism is and does to us is necessary. We need solidarity & the search for the common good. We also need concrete ideas such as how to properly fund public education.
Jul 9, 2020
Jul 9, 2020
17 min
Bob Ney: Harvard & MIT are totally online now & are suing the US gov't since ICE has said foreign students can't be in US for online-only college classes. The repercussions of this will be that home countries will tell their students to go to Canada instead of U.S.
Jul 8, 2020
Jul 8, 2020
1hr 59 min
Jul 8, 2020
Jul 8, 2020
25 min
Tom Arnold: Joni Ernst, 1st female Senator fm Iowa--I want to support her,I really do,but she can't say anything bad about Trump. She served in the military, she stood up to her ex-husband who was abusing her, but she won't speak up against Trump. Iowa deserves better
Jul 8, 2020
Jul 8, 2020
20 min
Emily de La Bruyère: The one hope, as we deal with COVID, is it will be the wake-up call as to how dependent on China we are. We're seeing that in the PPE chains. China has done this across industrial sectors, making us totally reliant.
Jul 8, 2020
Jul 8, 2020
17 min
Jamie Martin: As of today, all 14 PA state schools are planning to bring students back as soon as August 10th. We've been having discussions on safety issues based on CDC guidelines--masks, social distancing. My concerns: classrooms, dorms, off-campus housing
Jul 7, 2020
Jul 7, 2020
1hr 59 min
Jul 7, 2020
Jul 7, 2020
Jul 7, 2020
31 min
Propane Jane: Shut the state [of Texas] down. Masks are one thing, but that's not stopping people from going to work or going to places they don't necessarily need to be. Our numbers were not this bad when we were staying home. Shut things down till we have control
Jul 7, 2020
Jul 7, 2020
19 min
Will Bunch: It's a [police] culture that's really broken at this point, & we need to decide as a society how we're going to fix it.
Jul 3, 2020
Jul 3, 2020
1hr 59 min
Jul 3, 2020
Jul 3, 2020
12 min
John Bolton: If I'd come across the info [that Russia was paying bounty money for killing American soldiers] as Nat'l Security Advisor, I would have taken that information right to the President.
Jul 3, 2020
Jul 3, 2020
17 min
Joe Walsh: I'm launching a new group next week to get Republicans in key states to recruit more Republicans to vote for Biden. Trump is a cancer & we need to get him out of the White House. Rick: We'll get rid of Trump & then we'll go back to fighting each other.
Jul 3, 2020
Jul 3, 2020
26 min
Sarah Burris: About 200,000 Oklahomans will have health insurance when they didn't have it before after voting for Medicaid expansion. There are some counties in OK that have a 40% infant mortality rate b/c they have no healthcare, no hospitals.
Jul 3, 2020
Jul 3, 2020
17 min
James Mackler: Washington is failing Tennessee. Since I launched my campaign at a closed rural hospital, three more have closed. TN now leads the US in closed rural hospitals. This is why I'm running.
Jul 2, 2020
Jul 2, 2020
1hr 59 min
Jul 2, 2020
Jul 2, 2020
24 min
Sarah Kendzior: In a free & fair election, Trump would lose. With the coronavirus, economy, etc., Biden would stand a very good chance of winning...in a free & fair election. However, I'm worried we will not have a free & fair election.
Jul 2, 2020
Jul 2, 2020
15 min
Thomas Ultican: CREDO's founder wrote a paper that put him on the screen of the conservative movement when he claimed spending $ on better trained teachers, smaller class sizes, etc., wouldn't help education.. He's working to privatize schools.
Jul 2, 2020
Jul 1, 2020
Jul 1, 2020
1hr 59 min