Joshua Rush
speaker
71 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Joshua Rush’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What's up? That's probably the weirdest thing that you could possibly know me from. Really? Well, you know, a voice character that I did... Oh, well, yeah, there you go. Well, then I'm sorry for all of the headaches that my very, very high-pitched pre-teen voice was doing on that show.
I have hit puberty. I no longer can do the voice. It's way up there.
That's the coolest thing that he could remember me from. And that's the most similar to how I sound now. And also, it's the most similar animated character that I ever played that looked like I actually do in real life.
We held hands and he said, I'm gay, which as we know is the pinnacle. That is the most progressive thing that you're allowed to do.
This was me in real life. Yeah, this was me in real life. I was on a show for four years called Andy Mack on Disney Channel. We were the number one children's show in America for quite some time. So, you know, thanks for remembering, Tim. And yeah, played the first openly gay character on Disney Channel and then quit that pretty much immediately after.
Now I'm the communications director for the Texas house democratic caucus. Um, which is, uh, yeah, a little bit of a left turn. Um, but I've been doing professional political communications, uh, first, uh, alongside my acting work, uh, and then full-time pretty much once I turned 18. Um, and I've been doing it basically for the last seven years now, I've been a professional political operative.
I've been taking a extended vacation from being famous and, uh, have instead been trying to make other people famous and trying to fix the world.
You know, I was a Bernie guy, 2016, 2020, convinced both of my like, you know, sort of moderate dem parents to vote for Bernie in 20, which I was very proud of. I was a surrogate for him. Yeah. But have worked for basically everyone at this point, have worked for Democrats, have worked for Republicans, have worked for independents.
My political philosophy is dictated by the work that I'm able to do and my personal goal, which is to be the absolute best Swiss army knife for beating fascism that I can possibly be. That's the that's the political philosophy is that there are bad people. They are on the rise. They're becoming more powerful. We're watching it happen.
And the opposition to the bad people is not doing a very good job at fighting back. And so we need to be as creative and different as we could possibly be.
It's the Swiss that didn't. That's a fair point.
Or like even an American army knife.
Cam and I have known each other for kind of a long time now, right? It's been, it's probably been upwards of, yeah, I was going to say five, six, seven, Cam's saying seven years. But like, yeah, Cam and I often talk about how we sort of switched positions. Cam was sort of starting to leave his advocacy universe that he had been in and was heading towards the performing arts.
and I was walking away from that and headed towards it. I, you know, like, I think there's a lot of reasons to get jaded. There's a lot of reasons to feel jaded. Um, at the same time, like the, um, The people that we serve cannot afford for us to be bored and half-assing our work. The people who need an opposition to fascism, it has never been more urgent than it is right now.
And you should know, like, you're hearing me at, like, my least jaded that I've been in years. Cam can probably tell you this pretty well. Right now? This is right now. February 25th? That's right. February 2025, I'm probably the least jaded that I've felt in years.
Not that I don't feel like we have a very big fight ahead of us, and not that I don't feel demoralized by it, but more so in the sense that I do not feel like I can afford to be doing anything right now other than working and trying. What the fuck are we supposed to do if we are not trying to beat them right now? Aren't you guys doing a white man podcast right now?
I mean, it's none of that's not none of it's not to say that I don't feel nihilistic right now. None of it's not to say that I don't feel like we might be pretty cooked, you know, but you know, right. But at the same time, it's like, you know, like, we're fucking good.
Like, I'm not going to do anything. I'm going to sit here all day and then I'm going to leave at five. And nobody's going to be any better for it. But I show up every day. I make these people as uncomfortable as they possibly can be. I make it as hard as possible for them to exercise their agenda.
I make it as loud as... I make it possible for Democrats to be as loud as possible in opposing their agenda. I am doing something. I am doing the absolute most that I can with these two hands that God gave me. Like...
And I do feel like if I'm in a position of power, and I'm not saying that everybody should be feeling like they have to do something right now, but I'm in a position where I have this ability, and I'm here, and I have been put in this position with the tools and the know-how to do what I need to do. Let's go. We should be making it as uncomfortable as we possibly can for them.
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