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The Rick Smith Show
By working people. For working people. Welcome to The Rick Smith Show.Working Americans are tired of listening to think tank approved corporate news and commentary. They want a direct, honest approach to the issues that matter, so this is what The Rick Smith Show provides. No puppets. No focus groups. No talking points.Want more #RickShow? Go to https://www.thericksmithshow.comThe Rick Smith Show streams live every weeknight from 9p-11p EST on YouTube & Twitch TV, and the show runs every night…
Episodes
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 10-29-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, with Election Day a week away, Rick talks with Labor journalist Steven Greenhouse to break down his Guardian piece…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 10-28-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, with Election Day a week away, Rick talks with David Janovsky, acting director of The Constitution Project at the…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 10-27-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, with the midterms just days away, Rick talks with AlterNet senior editor Sarah Burris about the races that could decide…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 10-26-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, about what's at stake for your benefits in…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 10-23-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage, about the Trump Labor Department's new tipped-work guidance…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 10-22-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with labor attorney David Borer, former general counsel of the American Federation of Government Employees…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 10-19-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Andrew Miller, Senior Fellow for National Security at the Center for American Progress, to break down…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 10-16-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Can anything still bring a divided America back together? Rick talks with Tim Stretton, director of the Congressional…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 10-15-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Trump cut a diesel deal with Vladimir Putin, and Beijing is cheering. Rick talks with Emily de La Bruyère, co-founder…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 10-14-2026
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The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 10-13-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works, about the leaked audio from the Texas Senate…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 10-12-2026
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The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 10-9-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Dr. Katrina Gamble, founder and CEO of Sojourn Strategies, about defeating authoritarianism and…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 10-8-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Leonard Aguilar, President of the Texas AFL-CIO, about the Contract with America's Workers and the…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 10-7-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Rick sits down with Don Bell, policy counsel with The Constitution Project at the Project On Government Oversight…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 10-6-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Bucknell economics professor Matías Vernengo about September's weak jobs report, just 29,000 jobs added…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 10-5-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Laurel Kilgour of the American Economic Liberties Project about their Phoenix case study, which shows…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 10-2-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Guardian labor reporter Michael Sainato about the week's top labor stories and the union members and…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 10-1-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Joe Spielberger, senior policy counsel at the Project On Government Oversight, about Trump's…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 9-30-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, about…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 9-29-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Rick sits down with AlterNet Senior Editor Sarah Burris to break down the top stories hitting America's working people…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 9-28-2026
Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: · DirecTV (Channel 348) · Dish (Channel 269) · Sling · Roku · Apple TV · Amazon…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 9-25-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Tony D. Cardwell, President of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division-IBT, about CSX…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 9-24-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Rick sits down with Bill Scher, Politics Editor at the Washington Monthly, to break down Trump TV, the president's…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 9-23-2026
Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: · DirecTV (Channel 348) · Dish (Channel 269) · Sling · Roku · Apple TV · Amazon…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 9-22-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with newly elected AFSCME President Patrick Moran about the CLARITY Act being halted, for now, and his…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 9-21-2026
Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: · DirecTV (Channel 348) · Dish (Channel 269) · Sling · Roku · Apple TV · Amazon…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 9-18-2026
On this edition of The Rick Smith Show, Rick speaks with Don Bell, Policy Counsel at The Constitution Project at the Project On Government Oversight, about the…
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The Rick Smith Show 9-17-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Katie Harris, Vice President of Federal Affairs at the BlueGreen Alliance, about the Trump EPA’s…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 9-16-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Bobby Kogan of the Center for American Progress about Trump's $5,000 promise, who actually pays for it…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 9-15-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Alternet Senior Editor Sarah Burris to unpack Trump's $5,000 promise, his choice to mark 9/11 in…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 9-14-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Greg Regan, President of the Transportation Trades Department at the AFL-CIO, and Johnny Jones…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 9-11-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Labor reporter Michael Sainato to break down the week's top labor stories, Trump's former labor…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 9-10-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks Labor journalist Steven Greenhouse who makes the case that Trump has been the worst president for workers…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 9-9-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Brent Booker, President of LIUNA, to mark Labor Day and discuss the dignity of work and the fight ahead…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 8-31-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick tackles “Reunionizing America,” starting with LaborLab Executive Director Bob Funk, who exposes how corporate…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 8-28-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, digs into the affordability crisis with CAP’s Natasha Murphy on a Patients’ Bill of Rights to Lower Health Care Costs…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 8-27-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Rutgers education lecturer Mark Weber about robo-sex-doll teachers in classrooms and what it says about…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 8-26-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with veteran labor organizer Rand Wilson about his recent writing on how workers can organize Amazon and…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 8-25-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick welcomes Bowzer of Sha Na Na fame to talk about who is really fighting to protect Social Security and who is not…
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The Rick Smith Show 8-24-2026
Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.freespeech.org Find us on: · DirecTV (Channel 348) · Dish (Channel 269) · Sling · Roku · Apple TV · Amazon…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 8-21-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick Smith opens with Alex Lawson of Social Security Works, asking what kind of future today’s politics are leaving the…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 8-20-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Joe Spielberger of POGO about National Whistleblower Day and why whistleblowers matter in exposing…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 8-19-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick takes aim at Trump’s latest distractions, suggesting a political motive behind the delayed Gordie Howe Bridge…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 8-18-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick is joined by Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage, to make the case for a true living wage and a fairer…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 8-17-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Sarah Austin, Senior Analyst at ITEP, about the latest report showing how states shift taxes away from…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 8-14-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, about a so-called centrist plan to gut…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 8-13-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, about the bizarre push toward robot…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 8-12-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick takes on GOP "family values" hypocrisy in light os Florida gubernatorial candidate Bobby Williams sounding…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 8-11-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with AlterNet's Sarah Burris about Trump bristling at being called a "tenant" of the White House…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 7-28-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick first talks with Sarah Burris of Alternet about the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and the…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 7-23-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with union organizer and author Phil Cohen about his new book Maximum Leverage and the lessons it offers for…
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The Rick Smith Show 7-22-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Ryan Mulholland, Senior Fellow for International Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 7-21-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with John Logan, Professor and Director of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco State University…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 7-20-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, about Trump’s national address, his…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 7-17-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Rebekah Caruthers, President and CEO of Fair Elections Center, about Trump’s latest primetime speech to…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 7-16-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with LIUNA organizer Taf Sourov about the East 42nd Street high rise in New York City that was at risk of…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 7-15-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Sam Ratner, Director of Policy at Win Without War, about the death of Trump’s Iran ceasefire, why the…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 7-14-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with AlterNet Senior Digital Editor Sarah Burris about the sudden passing of Sen. Lindsey Graham at 71, his…
The Rick Smith ShowThe Rick Smith Show 7-13-2026
On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, about his new piece “Trump’s Latest…