Radio Show Hour 1 – 02/27/2025

[00:00:12] Broadcasting live from atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West. You are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. All right. Happy to have you along, my fellow Americans. Sam Bushman live on your radio. Hard-hitting news the network refused to use, no doubt, starts now. This, my fellow Americans, is the broadcast for, oh my gosh,

[00:00:40] the 27th of February already in the year of our Lord, 2025. Man, time flies when you're having fun. I'll tell you that right now. This is our one of two in the goal always to protect life, liberty, and property, to promote God, family, and country. And the news on your radio in the traditions of our founding fathers. Yes, indeed, we reject revolution unless it's a Jesus revolution. Then we're in, ladies and gentlemen, because we follow the Prince of Peace, right? You also know the checks and balances brilliantly put in place by the founding fathers,

[00:01:07] one of the peaceful, restorative solutions we have at our fingertips. So that's great news. You know, I want to do a recap of yesterday's show. We had on our buddy Lance Miliacho, one of the Big MIG brothers, host of the Big MIG podcast videocast, if you will, powered by Truth. And they're available if you look at Rumble and everything else. Look for the Big MIG. They also have thebigmig.com.

[00:01:32] And they also are on this network, the Liberty News Radio Network, every Saturday. So check that out. But Lance Miliacho doing a great job. And we talked a lot about cryptocurrency yesterday. And you know, I've not been a crypto fan, right? But I'm learning about it and realizing a couple of things. Number one, I don't think that we're going to be able to avoid it. Kind of like the U.S. dollar, you know, the Federal Reserve creation.

[00:02:00] Those thugs met in 1913 in secret on Jekyll Island and put together the Federal Reserve and criminally transferred authority from Congress. Yeah, that was given to them by the supreme law of the land. And they literally let a private banking cartel take over, right? The money supply and moved us from a constitutional asset-based honest weights and measures is what

[00:02:26] the Bible calls it, currency, to a debt-based fiat currency. All nations fail that continue down that road, just so you're clear. And so the problem is we've been doing that for a long time. Well, they're going to move us to a digital currency the same way. I don't like it. I don't want it. But, hey, it's either that or the economy fails because you can't have a fiat system succeed. The only way the Ponzi scheme continues is, quote, new blood, if you will. You've got to have new victims, right?

[00:02:55] The system's got to continue to expand, expand, expand, or it topples, okay? That's how Ponzi schemes work. That's how, okay? And the same thing's true with this fiat money system. And so they've got to move us to something. I'd love them to go back to constitutional currency, but they won't. They won't. As much as we want them to, they won't. We're too far afield from it. Now, do I think we should audit and end the Fed, Ron Paul-esque style? Absolutely. Elon Musk is advocating for it.

[00:03:24] Senator Mike Lee is advocating for it. Charlie Kirk, myself, many others advocating for it, justly so. I'd love to audit and end the Fed. I'd love to just waltz right in and check out, you know, what's going on with the gold and silver in Fort Knox, right? But I don't think we're going to get there. I mean, they might do a dog and pony show. But even at the end of that, you're not going to really know if it's there or not. And even if it is there, what good does it do? Because our currency is not backed by it. It says the Federal Reserve note on it.

[00:03:54] That is a banking cartel instrument of debt. You heard me, a banking cartel instrument of debt. Okay, that doesn't bode well for the future. So they're going to move us to a digital currency. They're going to move us to, you know, fiat-based, blockchain-centered, government-controlled disaster. Okay? But it's going to be crypto. And I don't see any way around it.

[00:04:22] They're nurturing the private sector now to bring us to the brink or the point of no return. In other words, they're going to let all private sector folks kind of help us get to the Rubicon. Then they're going to say the only way, you know, we can't turn around from this. It's way too big. There's trillions of dollars in it. And therefore, we've got to cross the Rubicon together. Thank you that the government is going to save you. And they're going to pitch it like that. And so then we'll cross the Rubicon and digital currency will be here.

[00:04:50] Crypto will be there, but it'll be government-controlled crypto. That eventually is where we're headed. I don't like it. I don't want it. But I see it. Now, here's the only question left. If we're going to move forward with crypto, can we back some of it with constitutional currency, gold and silver? Can we make it to our day-to-day locally? You could live on constitutional currency. And if you wanted to trade around the globe, you could do so with a digital crypto kind of currency that's backed by constitutional money. It's possible.

[00:05:20] If the right people got involved, it could be done. Okay? Because in modern society, you're going to have to have both worlds. You're going to have to have a crypto world or some kind of a digital currency world. Venmo, PayPal, you know, kind of come to mind. On to the digital currencies, the cryptos, the Bitcoins, the, you know, there's a ton of them. And how do you do that? Well, there's people that are trying to do it right, do it honestly.

[00:05:45] And so I've gone from don't dip your toe in the crypto to, you know what? We may all be forced into crypto, bro. That's right. Don't dip your toe in crypto to we may be all forced to be involved in the crypto, right? That's the problem. So anyway, they're calling it team crypto, I guess, in a way. Lance Miliacho and others are launching what they call Crypto Power Hour.

[00:06:15] It'll be a rumble show starting out on Friday. And, you know, how do you feel about that, right? Well, I'm concerned about it. I really am. But I will say this. The people that Lance are working with, they want honest money based on a cryptocurrency that's backed by constitutional currency. So, you know, how do you take a constitutional currency and expand its reach? Now, a lot of people have been doing a lot of things on it, right? And I think that's good.

[00:06:46] I really do. But it's something that we can't just ignore or pretend is going to go away. You know, I thought that with President Trump, we might be able to avoid crypto. And he used to be against crypto. But again, now President Trump has turned around and he's all for crypto. Now, at first you go, well, is there something that we just don't understand that we need to learn to where we'd like crypto? I don't think so. But how do you live? This is the question.

[00:07:11] The fundamental $64 million question, in my humble opinion, to which I'm entitled, right? How do you go from a fiat bogus currency, the U.S. dollar, that's been jacked up around the world by force, by threats of war, by coups, fiat money by banking cartels in bed with the military industrial complex, all that, right?

[00:07:39] How do you go from that kind of a world to a constitutional currency again? With global commerce, and I'm not really a global guy. I like America first. I get it. But, you know, you got commerce all around the world. When we can't even make things in America, the supply chain is not even there, right? Okay. How do you go from the modern world that we live in to a constitutional-based currency? And I don't think that it's doable in the modern time. And I know that sounds sad, and I'm not giving up.

[00:08:07] I think we ought to inch our way back. But literally, it's taken 100-plus years to get to the point where we are. And a lot of things have converged along the way, right? What do I mean? Well, we slowly but surely went off the constitutional currency. I mean, it used to be gold and silver was the key. And then it was, hey, we're going to lock gold and silver to be an appropriate relationship as they adjust the weights and measures. That's all constitutional and good. But then they pegged gold at $35 an ounce back in the day.

[00:08:37] Think about that. Gold at $35 an ounce back in the day. And now gold's what? $3,000 an ounce? Right? What's $3,000 divided by 35? Or, yeah, $3,000 divided by 35. Because if it's $3,000 now, $3,000 divided by 35, because it was pegged at $35 an ounce. I mean, it's 85 times out of whack.

[00:09:06] So, see, you've been fleeced. You've been robbed by dishonest money. Yeah, $20 gold piece. It used to be $20, not $35 even for an ounce of gold. But anyway, I digress, except to say we've lost so much buying power in America under the Federal Reserve. Their job isn't to make sure the money supply stays stable or good or auto. Their job is just to control and manipulate interest rates and inflation. Right? They love inflation.

[00:09:34] They just want inflation to be slow. They don't want a fast death. They just want a slow death, if you will. Right? That's the problem. And it's not going well. So how are they going to get out of this mess now that you've got $36 trillion in debt, publicly admitted to on a daily basis and growing, but then unfunded liabilities and everything else? Some people say it tips $200 trillion. I don't even know how to discuss those kind of numbers. They're so big. They're so gargantuan. Right? They're just off the charts to where it's like, I mean, I can say the words, but do you

[00:10:04] really understand the numbers? Do you really understand the totals, the ramifications? It's hard to really even fathom or deal with, right? In a meaningful way. So at the end of the day, how do you then deal with this now? How do we get out of the fiat system, which we know is going to fail? How do we move forward in a meaningful, productive way? How do we not get caught, you know, crashing the plane? Because right now the fiat currency is based on the confidence game, right?

[00:10:34] What if confidence is lost tomorrow? We'll be a big trouble. So how do you transition all that? I want to talk to Brian Rust about this because he's an expert and it's a great question. Hang tight. I'm Sam Bushman. You're listening to the one and only Liberty Roundtable Live, nationally syndicated radio talk show. As you are aware, America is divided over every fault line possible.

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[00:13:02] Live and on your radio, ladies and gentlemen, Brian Rust joins me now. Used to be RustQuinnandGift.com, now it's FreeWaterCoinCo.com. Free Water Coin Company. Brian Rust, welcome back, sir. Thanks, Sam. Glad to be with you. So I've gone from a don't dip your toe in the crypto guy to, man, I think we're all going to be forced into crypto, bro. What do you say to that, Brian? Well, it looks that way.

[00:13:28] I mean, I think everybody across the world are scrambling to try to get some kind of a hold or handle on crypto and how they might be able to use crypto because, you know, obviously the fallout of the dollar, you know, decline and so on as the power count in the world has changed. And so everybody's trying to scramble, well, what do we do next? And I think, you know, obviously the crypto has been brought up. Other countries seem to be using that.

[00:13:56] There's various countries in the world that are using crypto as a currency. But the issue that we, you know, it's hard to put your arms around basically is the fact of what is crypto and who can create something that's stable and isn't floating out there. You know, the crypto, you know, basically is something floating out there. You can't see it. You can't touch it. You can't. It's in some vault and don't lose your password.

[00:14:25] And I know there's just so many factors that I think people don't understand or somewhat leery of what it is. I mean, at one point it was a get rich quick and someone created something in thin air and all those that jumped on right off the bat became rich as ever. And it seemed like, and so there's a lot of factors I think are unknown. And I think that's really the problem. And that's why I don't want anybody to think that I've all of a sudden changed my mind. I'm somehow getting paid off. I'm this, I'm that.

[00:14:55] None of those things are true. Okay. But I am asking myself, and I kind of led up to this before the break. How do you go from a fiat based system, which, you know, every one of them historically fails a system that took us a hundred years to embrace to the point where we're at. So many things have changed along the way. Number one, we've got this economy where 90, 90% of the payments that I send out now or receive from different people are somehow, you know, digitally done because they're all

[00:15:25] over the world. Unless you send paper checks in the mail, which has become incredibly dangerous due to pirates and people who steal checks from the mail and all, you know, forge them and cash them and change the amounts and cash them. You write a check to somebody for a hundred bucks. They somehow magically add a zero and cash that sucker. Now you spend a thousand bucks and you can't get it back. And we go on and on with this. And so many things have changed. How do we do this? How do we not crash the plane, but gracefully move back to something more stable or better,

[00:15:52] or at least as good if we're going to have to, you know, have such a low bar. How do we do all that, Brian? And that's really the reason that I'm saying we may all be forced into the crypto. It may be better than just letting the dollar crash, even though we know that it's very, very dangerous. What do you do, Brian? Any ideas on this? Well, I see it's just a, it's a slippery slope that we don't really know. I mean, there seems to seem to be those people that do and they trade in it.

[00:16:18] They're having, you know, this thing, but there's always a, there's a learning curve. And so that learning curve is, is, is somewhat scary. I mean, right now, you know, the people use Venmo and PayPal and, and all these things, but it's tied to that, to your accounts in the bank. So we put a lot of, we put a lot of trust in the bank because they're holding our money supposedly. And, and that, that's another question for, for debate, I guess, because people get a little bit leery in the bank.

[00:16:49] And now I think, you know, you have this digital stuff out there. You know, if everything becomes somewhat digital, it becomes scary in the sense of control, in my opinion, because you have no control by, by a push of a button. One minute you had stuff, the next minute you don't, and you can't see it out there in a sense. And so how do you get it back? And I mean, it becomes a nervous, a nervous situation for a lot of people that don't really understand it.

[00:17:19] It's like, it's, you know, that's like these phone calls. How do I, you get a new phone and sometimes, you know, especially older people like myself a little bit, you can't even figure out the phone. I mean, I, how do I turn this on? I turned that locked it. I can't get, I don't know. There's just, so the fear factor, a little bit of this, especially when it comes to your money that you you're trying to protect and, and hold on to some, it becomes a scary, a scary thought for a lot of people. I agree. And there's a lot of, there's a lot of ways people are making a difference.

[00:17:49] People are really trying to work on this. And the people that I talked about yesterday, they want to create a digital currency or crypto, but they want to back theirs by gold and silver. So, I mean, I've got to applaud them because how do you bridge this gap? How do you deal in the digital, modern, online, global kind of economy world, whatever you want to say with these big corporations? But yet, you know, try to ground yourself in some way. I don't know that it, that there's any other option forward that makes sense.

[00:18:18] I mean, I support going back to constitutional currency, a hundred percent. Getting there though, becomes a real discussion. It's like, Hey, Sam, your ideas are great. The constitution is great, but practically how do you get there? And I think that's where we're going to get stuck, Brian. Yeah, I think so too. The thing is, is, is I like the fact of, okay, well, yeah, let's get back to constitutional currency, but it's, it's not as easy, easy as we say it is.

[00:18:45] It's not because how do you back your, your, your company? I guess your crypto company, you've got to, you've got to pile X amount, I guess, and you have it involved to secure that, those trades and so on. But it's not just easy to go out and just purchase X amount to put in the vault. And do people, you're an up and coming business. People get a little bit leery because of, of past scenarios where companies have done

[00:19:15] some of this stuff. And before you know it, you don't have anything and the company's gone or they're, you know, someone's going to jail and they were, they didn't do what they said. It's kind of like Fort Knox. I don't believe there's any gold in Fort Knox. Now maybe they'll try to push, put paint copper bars or put borrow from, you know, I guess Britain just sent us a bunch of gold. So, I mean, maybe they're starting to stockpile some of that back. Who knows? But it's not that easy to all of a sudden back your company on, on just filling up your vaults with gold and silver off the market.

[00:19:45] So I don't know. I don't know what the answer. Well, let me ask you this. Do you believe, do you believe that we'll be forced into a crypto of some kind? I do believe it because I don't know if they have any other answers. What else is out there that, you know, the currency is going to fail. We've seen that. They'll devalue it. So it's, it's, it's already devalued really. If you, there again, like my quarter, silver quarter buys me a gallon of gas, the regular

[00:20:14] quarter doesn't, but I digress. But yeah, I think there will be because, but it's going to be a learning curve. I don't think it's just going to be solve all the problems answer. And here it is. And this is what we're going into. There's all, there'll be a learning curve and how's it going to be controlled and who's getting, yeah, you know. Well, and my question is how, I mean, even if we said, Hey, we want to go back to constitutional money, gold and silver. How are you going to use gold and silver in the modern economy?

[00:20:40] I mean, look, every transaction you do almost very few transactions are face to face now. Right. Yeah. And even the ones that are, even the ones that are Brian, um, people have their hands tied. Let me just give an example. Where's your nearest grocery store? Whatever it is. Is it a chain? Okay. Are they going to take your silver or gold? Even if, you know, unless they were forced to by law, they're just going to be like, when I don't know what you're talking about. We take, uh, you know, fiat money.

[00:21:10] We take checks, which we're going to stop doing pretty soon. In fact, we're going to stop doing cash pretty soon. And you know, what are you going to do unless you get all your food local from neighbors or farmers or somebody that, you know, will deal with you face to face. How are you going to even pay your groceries? How are you going to go ahead and get your electricity continued? Well, internet for that matter. How are you going to write? And if these big corporations wouldn't back the play, I don't see how you can ever get there. Am I good here?

[00:21:39] No, you're exactly right. That's what I'm saying that we're going to be somewhat. Yeah. We'll be forced into because otherwise, yeah. How are you going to do it? Like you said, we're going to go run down and give, uh, Kurt some, uh, silver and take his honey. And then we're going to run over. Uh, yeah, you're right. I don't know. Anyway, I don't mean this to be a negative conversation. I'm not trying to bring anybody down. I'm not trying to be discouraging, but I am really. Absolutely.

[00:22:10] Trying to be real. And what I mean by that is, Hey, you know, I'm not a dip your toe in the crypto guy. I don't like it. I don't want it, but I don't see any way around it anyway. So there you have that. I don't want to beat that to death, but I really wanted to kind of hammer that home because my conversation with Lance yesterday was very interesting. Um, you know, for example, crypto firm pleads guilty to operating illegally in the United States.

[00:22:38] So they pay a fine, but they made a whole lot more money than they paid the fines of, which means they're going to be staying around. This needle is very, very valuable was our next story yesterday. This guy literally over in, uh, he's in Newport, Wales or whatever. And he lost his drive, which had his cryptocurrency keys on it or passphrases or whatever. $800 million. He's trying to buy.

[00:23:04] Literally this guy is trying to buy the, uh, city's landfill. He's just like, Hey, if I can just buy it and search through it and they won't let him. And then days ago, North Korean hackers stole $1.5 billion in cryptocurrency in a single heist. And you just go, Whoa, I don't even know how to, I don't even know how to respond to that kind of stuff. Right. 1.5 billion in a single heist and a crypto scandal.

[00:23:35] See, at some point the government's going to go, we've got to, we've got to control this. Now, will the government do better at controlling it? No, of course not. But they'll still make that case and win. Right. Cause I'll be like, yeah, go buy silver Eagles. And they're like, whatever kid. Try to go to the store. All right. We come back. Let's get honest money. Cause I'll tell you what I think the answers are. I didn't build this up to leave you guys hanging. I always come back with solutions, right? This is solutions radio.

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[00:30:14] Casting live from atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West, you are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. Live and on your radio, it is the Honest Money Report. Brian Rust with me. Freewatercoinco.com. For 50 years, three generations, the Rust family has been helping people understand and take possession of precious metal, constitutional currency, honest weights and measures.

[00:30:44] Freewatercoinco.com. Brian, where's gold sitting? So gold is $2,876.5. Wow. Wow. That's down a teeny bit, right? That's down from last week, about $60 or so from last week. All right. $28,76.05. No. $50. $50. Correct. $28,76.50.

[00:31:13] Silver? $31.59. And that's down quite a bit, huh? That's down from last week as well. Yeah, it was $33 last week. $31.59. So it does, you know, chase around a little bit and stuff like that, ladies and gentlemen. But here's the interesting thing. Brian, Tucker Carlson made, did an interesting, I don't know what you want to call it, expose or piece on or whatever else.

[00:31:41] And he basically said more governments around the world are trading more gold back and forth than ever before. Why? And that was kind of the gist of his piece. Do you want to speak to that a little bit? Because on one hand, it seems pretty calm on the surface. But underwater, there's a lot of turmoil, sir. Well, I think one factor is they wanted to get away from the dollar.

[00:32:07] So instead of trading in the dollar or that the dollar gets, you know, part of that deal, they're saying we're not doing that. We're going to trade amongst ourselves and we'll do it with gold or whatever, but it's not going to be under the petrodollar. So it's, you know, that's one factor is break away from that.

[00:32:26] So BRICS and others, you know, they'll just pay their debt and trade in, you know, Russia sent a bunch of gold to China. And then you've got, you know, just others trading in gold. Yeah. All right. So I want to go now to solutions because on one hand, we just pointed out a constitutional currency is very stable. It doesn't change a whole lot. You know, people lose confidence in the dollar.

[00:32:54] The dollar goes down, but again, your constitutional currency holds well. You could buy a gallon of gas for a quarter. You could do that years and years and years ago, just showing the stability and the reasons the founders chose honest weights and measures or constitutional currency, metal with intrinsic value, if you will. But what do you do? Was the question that I brought up before the break. And I want to answer it a little bit and I want to toss it to you for a broader answer. But in my mind, here's what you do. First off, you don't panic. You don't melt down.

[00:33:24] You don't freak. You don't think the world's over. You don't do any of those things because that's fear. And you can't have fear and faith at the same time. So first off, reject fear, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just telling you right now, no fear, baby. Secondly, replace that with faith and an abiding, trusting God Almighty. He is the author of the universe. He is in control. He is not a deist God. He doesn't just wind up the clock like an earth, the earth like a clock and walk away.

[00:33:52] He's involved in our in the details of our lives. Brian, he's aware. He loves us. He's cognizant. He's ever present. He's omnipotent, omniscient, all those things. So first, have faith in God Almighty and do not spiral into fear. When fear starts to cut, reject it and replace it with faith. In my opinion, Brian, there's a preparedness reality here, and it starts with spiritual preparedness. So I know that sounds like, Sam, what are you talking about? You just left currency and you went faith on me.

[00:34:22] You went religious on me. There's no other way, people. I'm telling you right now, call it what you want. But I'm giving you sound, real guidance here. Brian, do you want to speak to that first? Yeah. Amen, Sam. I agree with you 100%. And if we have that fear, we don't need to fear. I've always said the preparation is peace of mind. And so if we're preparing, and we should have been preparing. We've been talking about that for years.

[00:34:50] Preparation, you basically just, excuse me, is put a little away. It doesn't matter a tremendous amount, but a little bit by a little bit, and it grows to be a pretty good chunk. So if you need that, and you need to fall back on that because of something's going on and you can't pay. I mean, how many people right now are living on credit cards to pay their debt? Well, what's the credit card? 20% interest.

[00:35:16] And so they're spiraling because they can't make even ends meet. And our country hasn't really cared in a sense because they've inflated everything. And, you know, our currency is inflated. But absolutely, we don't need to fear. If we prepare and turn to God and get our house in order, we don't have to fear. Amen to that. Now, Tucker Carlson, and I'm going to repeat this phrase because it's so startling to me.

[00:35:45] Tucker Carlson, quote, more gold is being shipped quietly between countries right now, more so than at any time in history. And he then asks the question, why? Why? And I think you've answered the question, why? Because they know where stability is. And they know that if they race towards that stability, hey, there's only so much gold and silver available without a lot of work.

[00:36:12] I mean, if you go watch Gold Rush, you'll see it's pretty hard to get at it many times. And so there's a rush to see who can't stabilize their economies. And the people that kind of take action late, you know, hey, they're going to be like the five virgins that didn't have oil in the lamps, right? They're going to be those kind of guys. So we've got to really understand this. And we first got to turn to God and put our trust in God. The second recommendation that I would have is this.

[00:36:42] Gold and silver is vital because there's nothing more adaptable than gold and silver to trade, meaning it's portable, it's flexible, it's sustainable, it's all these things. But in the end of the day, if you're bleeding, do you need a gold bar, Brian? Or do you need like gauze and a Band-Aid or something to stop the bleeding, right?

[00:37:12] You're correct. I'm not very smart. I'm just kind of simpleton. What if you're hungry? You know, do you eat your gold bar? So don't get me wrong. I'm not doubting gold or silver. I'm just putting it in its rightful reality. Based on circumstances, if you can't breathe, what's the most important thing, Brian? Yeah, you need to. Well, I can't breathe. What's the most important thing? Air, right? Yeah, that's right. Or if you need water, what's the most important? You got to have hydration.

[00:37:40] Okay, so there's kind of a hierarchy of reality. And I say that it goes along the food, fuel, clothing, and shelter. Okay, you got to have those things. And if you do, you can live for a long time with or without gold and silver. The only question left is how do you get those things? And the answer is gold and silver plays a vital role there. And that's why we push towards using it. But the reason I bring all this up is after you trust God, then you got to step back and say, hey, how do I live in a providential way?

[00:38:10] How do I live under God's guidance? How do I walk with God daily? And I think God would say, hey, you know what? Get a little bit of food. A little bit of, you know, what do they call it? A first aid kit. You know, get a little bit of first aid supplies. A little bit of food. Make sure you've got your clothes and your shelter and these basic things. And don't panic. Just work towards it a little bit at a time. And then when you're ready, get some gold and silver. Get food. Get medical supplies.

[00:38:40] Get the ability to defend oneself. Get, you know, and put all these things in a place. Just store up what you need a little bit at a time. And most importantly, have a balance in your life. Spiritually, you've got to have emotional preparedness. You've got to have relationship preparedness. So you've got to have mental toughness, mental preparedness, physical. Most people, when they think preparedness, they're like, hey, man, I got my guns and my food. I'm good.

[00:39:09] Well, you know what? Somebody could take that from you in two seconds. Or what if something happens and you're forced to leave it all? You know, if you've got, you know, 100,000 pounds of wheat, that's incredible unless you have to leave it all. Right? So you can't prepare for everything either. And so you've got to rely on God. And you can't prepare for everything, but you can do what you can. And I think God has taught us, well, do all that you can.

[00:39:37] And if you do right and obey me and do all that you can, I've got you. Isn't that his promise, Brian? Yeah, it is. And you're right on on all the scale. That's exactly right. Well, I don't think Trump is perfect by any means. And as you know, I'm not just a never-Trumper. And I'm not an always-Trumper. I'm a Trump realist. When he does good, I praise him until the cows come home. When he does bad, I say, Donald, you missed that one, buddy. You're a great dart thrower.

[00:40:07] But, man, you threw the dart really wrong on that one. You almost hit yourself in the eye. It almost boomeranged. It came back. Don't do that. It'll hurt you. Okay, I try to provide that kind of guidance because I'm not a guy that wants to attack people. I am a guy that wants to focus on principle and focus on issues. Well, believe it or not, Trump is kicking it off right. He had his first cabinet meeting. And, yes, ladies and gentlemen, he started it with prayer. I kid you not, President Trump's first cabinet meeting begins with prayer.

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[00:43:01] Back with you live, ladies and gentlemen. Brian Rust with me. Freewatercoinco.com He's got silver nickels available now below melt. You gotta check those out. You can also get that silver eagle, silver dollars. If you got a lot of money, you can get gold too. I'm not wealthy enough to do very much gold, people. But silver's great. You gotta have a little bit of everything. A little bit of food. A little bit of, you know, gotta have a lot of love. You gotta have prayer. You gotta...

[00:43:29] Well, President Trump doing it right, in my opinion, ladies and gentlemen. And I commend him for this. He starts out his first cabinet meeting with prayer. I want you to listen to this and then we'll comment on this. Here it is. You say grace and you say one of our many, right? Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. President. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for this awesome privilege, Father, to be in your presence. God, thank you that you've allowed us to see this day. The Bible says that your mercies are new every morning.

[00:43:58] And Father God, we give you the glory and the honor. Thank you, God, for President Trump. Father, for appointing us. Father God, thank you for anointing us to do this job. Father, we pray you will give the president, the vice president, wisdom. Father God, as they lead. Father, I pray for all of my colleagues that are here around the table and in this room. Lord God, we pray that we would lead with a righteous clarity.

[00:44:22] Father God, that as we serve the people of this country in every prospective agency, every job that we have. Father, we would humble ourselves before you. And we would lead in a manner that you've called us to lead and to serve. Father, the Bible says that blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Well, Father, we today honor you. And in your rightful place, Father, thank you for giving us this opportunity to restore faith in this country and be a blessing to the people of America.

[00:44:49] And Lord God, today in our meeting, we pray that you will be glorified in our conversation. In Jesus' name, amen. Scott, that was a very good job you did. All right. The leader of housing and urban development is who said that prayer from what I understand. Scott, I can't remember his last name. Anyway, great job, though. This is the difference, though. Have you heard anything like that in the last four years before this, Brian? No, I have not.

[00:45:16] I'm very happy that they're doing this. I hope this spreads across the country. Bring it back in our schools and let's teach prayer. Amen. And, you know, some people say President Trump is a Jew. Now he converted to Judaism. Some say, no, he's a baby Christian. Some say, you know, I don't care. Everybody around that table can turn to God Almighty and say, let's we need the Father. We love thee. We want to, you know, help us be on thy errand. Help us.

[00:45:45] The glory be to you, God. I love that stuff. I think that is the key to stability in society, the key to the solutions to the problems we face and more. And I just I'm telling you right now, it starts with trusting God and with prayer. And I really thought that was tremendous. I wanted to bring that up, Brian. And any comments more on that? I think it's awesome.

[00:46:07] I think, you know, this is this is a great start, you know, for them to just kind of, you know, the namesayers and all the negative people that are pounding him against this is it's it's not wrong. And we're so grateful that this is happening. How do we get Congress to follow Trump's example? You know, they used to pray in Congress, Brian. Right. Yeah. I don't I don't know. Let's just step up and do it. And these people are I don't know. It's Mike Johnson. Come on, buddy.

[00:46:38] That's right. Let's go. You know, we can do this, people. And I know it sounds like such a simple act and people might be, well, Sam, I'm not as religious as you are. I'm just telling you right now, I don't care about the keys to theology. Like, I'm not here to debate, you know, differences in religions or anything else. I'm just saying a united effort by the American people and their leaders to turn to God. I don't even know how to calculate.

[00:47:06] The good, the power, the value there, Brian, it's to me, it's incalculable. You're right. I agree 100 percent. Yeah, that's why I think we need to hopefully they'll take this example and keep rolling this stone down the road here. Yeah. Keep it rolling. You got the Utah legislative body still in session and everything else. You know, I hope they kick it off with prayer every day, too. We have got to do this. Anyway, just great work.

[00:47:35] Vivek Ramaswamy. Yeah, I guess it's official now. He's running for governor of Ohio. He says, I just launched my campaign for governor of Ohio. And believe it or not, President Trump and Elon Musk both endorse Vivek. I'm thinking he'll be the next governor of Ohio.

[00:47:58] I know he's not a Christian, but I do think he looks to his God and he says so publicly everywhere he goes. I got to give him credit for that, too. Again, I'm not looking for a litmus test on religion. I am looking for people who realize there's a higher power than government, Brian. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, that's that's exactly right. God fearing people. That's what we want.

[00:48:23] Well, and it's it's you know, I think as a as a Christian myself, you know, and I'm not saying I'm better than anybody else, but I I feel like I have, you know, more thoughts from my brothers and neighbors across the street. Or I'm willing to help and and serve where I can. You know, you know, I hope that I'm that person. And I hope that's kind of what we're trying. You know, it's not sometimes they take it and say, well, you feel like you're better than everybody. I'm not.

[00:48:51] I don't feel like I'm better at all, but I do believe that I I have a desire to not hurt or harm somebody. I'm more of a helping and praying and loving somebody. And so I think that's that's my issue. Well, I look at this and I go, I'm not I might not be better than everybody else because I'm not here to compare myself against everybody else. But I am saying that I'm better.

[00:49:15] As a follower, I'm better as a disciple, I'm better when I turn to Christ and put my trust in him. I'm better when I do that. Not better compared to other people, but better. A better Sam Bushman. It's like Sam Bushman gets reborn, baptized. And it's like Sam Bushman 2.0 now. I'm not the natural man. I'm a follower of Christ doing my very best to, you know, carry out his will and to mirror his image in my life. And absolutely, I'm a 2.0.

[00:49:43] I'm a better Sam Bushman than I was before as a result of that. And I think that's where we should be looking at it. How can we be better tomorrow than we were today, Brian? Well, that's it. Well said. I mean, you know, maybe it starts here in my house that I might be a better father and a better husband and a better, you know, person. And that starts here. And let me then I can, you know, you know, continue that to the people I meet and come in contact with, the happier and better. So, yeah, I agree. Well said. All right.

[00:50:13] I can't take credit for this, but I will say I've been calling for this. And like-minded people actually got it done, Brian. I don't know who where yet. I'm digging into this. I'm going to find out. But I did sign up for this. Listen carefully. You know how I said, hey, we need President Trump and Melania Trump and everything. We need them to release every morning kind of an update from the White House, like an email that we could get that would give us the stories and things straight from the White House. Interviews that you could, you know, conduct with people and numbers. And, you know, we could do the Be Best Press.

[00:50:42] And I've talked about this a lot. I've talked about the new media taking center stage. Well, believe it or not, they just got it done. And the reason I said I don't want to take credit for it, I don't know who got this done yet, but I will say this. Bright minds think alike. Let's say it like that. Here's the headline. President Donald J. Trump and his administration are doing so much each and every day. It's hard to keep up with all they're doing, all of the winning, all they're doing, right?

[00:51:08] So they say we put together the Trump report, daily highlights from the Oval Office to help us all keep up. This daily email will provide you with a summary of the day's top activities with links so that you can obtain more information, more in-depth reporting and analysis should you want even more. And the best part is it's absolutely free.

[00:51:38] Yeah, just share your email address. And very soon you'll start to receive it in your inbox each and every day. And then I got this after I signed up. Thank you for subscribing to the Trump report. Daily highlights from the Oval Office. You should receive your first edition in your email box soon. And guess where I got that? SalemNewsChannel.com.

[00:52:05] So the folks over at Salem Radio Networks, and we take their news at the bottom of the hour, so we already partner with Salem. And they've got a lot of, I don't know if you know, but Salem's a pretty good Christian organization. They've got secular hosts and Christian hosts, and they do a great job. They have news and commentary. They run the TownHall.com website, just so everybody knows who's who here. And now they emailed me out and said, there's this Trump report. You can get it every day. So now I'm going to be getting the Trump report every day. I've been calling for that very thing, Brian.

[00:52:35] So I'm not trying to say that I did it or anything else, but I am saying bright minds think alike. That's awesome. Yeah, no doubt about it. You have been, you know, kind of, you know, you're voicing that. And now things are starting to happen, and others are doing the same. I agree. It's awesome. Because I can provide the analysis, but I want the White House to tell me what they say they're doing, not what the mainstream press gatekeeping, you know, thugs say, oh, this is what Donald did or that or whatever. I don't want that. I want to know, hey, purely, hey, what did you do, President Trump?

[00:53:04] And, you know, hey, let's get the who, what, when, where, why, how, you know, facts of a story. And then let me provide the commentary of what do I think about it. So I'll give you a quick example. Hey, Trump had his first cabinet meeting, and they said a prayer. Here's the link to the audio for the prayer. Now I can bust out and promote that and tell the tale and supply the commentary and the support for this. And that's what we need, Brian. That's the, that's the answer right there. I agree. It's awesome. I love it.

[00:53:34] And if Trump's like, oh, yeah, I just took over the whole world, then I'd write, you know, Trump says he took over the whole world. I think that's a bad idea. The only time I want the whole world taken over is when the Savior comes, my friends. There you go. Then I'm all ready to just sit back and let the king take over until then. I'm not in. You know, I'm kind of a simpleton guy. I can say yay, yay, and nay, nay, Brian. You're great, Sam. You're right on. I love it. I don't know if I'm great, but I do try to tell the tale in a way that can encourage people.

[00:54:04] You know, I listen to a lot of talk radio in my years of being in this business. And when I get done, most of it's negative. And I go, man, that just sucked. That was horrible. I feel worse than when I started. We can't have that, Brian. You are right. Let's be positive. All right, buddy. We appreciate you and all that you do. You've got a friend in the honest money business. Freewatercoinco.com. Thanks, Brian. Hey, thank you, Sam. You're doing a great job. Hour one in the can. Ladies and gentlemen, hour two coming up. I've got my buddy PeteSephNTU.org. And a whole lot of commentary coming your way.

[00:54:34] I am Sam Bushman, syndicated by the Loving Liberty Radio Networks. LovingLiberty.net. Spread the word. Share their love. Download the app to listen. iPhone and Android. And God save the republic.