Cea's collectivism, Councilman Morano, Curbing cocktails

On Tuesday, Rich reacts to Mayor Mamdani's new Tenant Czar, Cea Weaver's wildly communist statements that home ownership is akin to white supremacy and how private property should be viewed as "shared equity" for the "collective good." Then, New York City Councilman Fran Morano weighs in on Mamdani and his cabinet picks. Plus, President Trump says midterms must be won to avoid impeachment. Afterward, Generation Z is ditching alcohol, here's why. 

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Speaker 6 (00:27):
What's up, America.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
I am Rich Valdes Valdees with an S at Rich
valdest on all of the social media. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome,
Tuesday night edition of the program.

Speaker 5 (00:36):
It's the first.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
Whole week back right after New Year's and I'm happy
and blessed to be here with you, your liberty loving
Latino amigo, seventeen miles away from Madison Square Garden, New
York City. Get me at Rich Valdes with an S
on all of the social media. And I want to
dig into what's going on here because by now you've
probably heard about a woman named c Weaver, right or Sea,

(00:57):
I don't know how to say it. It's Cea Weaver
and Sea Weaver. She's quite the locita. Now we're going
to talk about Mam Donnie, quite a bit this program
because I've got New York City Councilman Frank Morano joined
me to talk about again his reaction to Mamdannie's inauguration. Right,
We're going to talk about plenty of things that are

(01:18):
going on, plus all of the fraud that's going on
in Minnesota that continues to unfold. But I want to
start with Sea Weaver, because miss Weaver is a real
genuine comy, right, she believes what she's talking about, from
the smugness of taking your property to the antagonistic view
that she has of property. She's the real deal. And

(01:39):
I want you to hear why she's in the hot seat.
Why you know, yesterday people were all over the place,
you know, piling on saying that this lady's out of
her mind, because well, quite frankly, what she said was
out of her mind. I mean, it's absolutely insane to
think that you could make these types of comments and
get away with them without any type of scrutiny.

Speaker 6 (02:01):
Listen to this.

Speaker 7 (02:02):
I think the reality is is that for centuries we've
really treated property as an individualized good and not a
collective good, and we are going to and transitioning to
treating it as a collective good and towards a model
of shared equity will require that we think about it differently,
and it will mean that family is especially white families,

(02:25):
but some POC families who are homeowners as well, are
going to have a different relationship to property than the
one that we currently have.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
A different relationship to property than the one we currently have.
This is again real deal communism. Now, I feel like
we're making a mistake. Some of you've been listening for
a long time, probably remember when Joe L. Baboso Biden,
when we started saying he's c nile, he's weekend at Bernie's,

(02:55):
he's all sorts of things, right, Even myself I called
him Joe L.

Speaker 6 (02:58):
Baboso Biden, but I.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
Always did with a caveat, And the caveat was we
can't undermine his success, right. We want him to be successful,
and we can't underestimate his ability to be cunning by
assuming that people right AOC, I say she's all a
lot crazy, but I don't think she's dumb.

Speaker 6 (03:17):
A lot of people paint there is dumb that's on you.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
Dumb is the guy who runs for Congress and doesn't win,
not the person that won. Ousted the number two guy
in Congress and has now been reelected time and again
and is the number one or number two fundraiser in
the United States House of Representatives. That's AOC without ever
passing maybe one or two pieces of legislation in the
six years or seven years she's been there. All Right,

(03:44):
you tell me who's the dumb one.

Speaker 6 (03:47):
It's not her.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Her net worth is going up, she keeps getting re elected.
She still has the same job, and she seems to
be poised for a promotion, right maybe going after jillibrand,
maybe going after Schumer, maybe going for one of those
United States Senate seats coming from New York. Heck, there
are rumors right now saying that she's the Democrat front
runner for president because now she's finally old enough. So

(04:11):
stupid isn't something I would call her. And if you
listen to some of my interviews from back in the days,
I always said she's crazy, but I don't think she's stupid.
She says dumb things, but I don't think she's dumb.
And there's a distinction here. Same thing with this lady.
I don't think that we can write off communists and
say they're stupid. Another thing I think we can't do
and that we shouldn't do is say that communism hasn't

(04:33):
worked anywhere. Yeah, what do you call China? Now you
could push back on me and say, well, rich, it's
not working there. I mean they're using capitalism to prop
up their communism exactly. That's what communism looks like today.
It's what it's always looked like. You take from those
that have and that a handful of people at the
top do better than everybody else at the bottom, and
they use humanity as a stepping stool. They have a

(04:55):
permanent underclass, which is why they always focus on this
class structure. But I don't make any mistake, I have
no illusions about it. China is communism and it's working.
They've got one of the fastest growing economies, at least
in the.

Speaker 6 (05:11):
Last decade they have.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
And they might be seeing some challenges right now because
of pressure that Trump is putting on them and really
making sure that they don't grow. But let's not get
it twisted. The communists Chinese have done a number on
this planet, not because they're stupid, because they're cunning, cunning commedies.

(05:33):
So with that in mind, I want to take a
part with this. Woman said right, she said, we need
to change our relationship with private property. It needs to
be a collective good, shared equity. She's out of her mind, right,

(05:56):
because the people who have not right, the have nots
want from the halves. They want your stuff because you're
somehow wrong or immoral for having things, for gaining wealth.

Speaker 8 (06:11):
Right.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Let the people get upset and they say there shouldn't
be billionaires.

Speaker 6 (06:14):
There just should not be. They shouldn't exist.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
I could say they're wrong all day long, but the
bottom line is they're real people, and I believe, and.

Speaker 6 (06:24):
Maybe I'm wrong.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
And you want to push back on me, go right ahead,
give me a call eight seven seven valvedst one. Let
me know your thoughts. But I'll tell you this, I
truly believe. We have to look at it like chicken
and steak, like Yankees and Mets. It's the only way
because it's here. Mamdani is here, She's here, AOC is here.

(06:46):
These people are here. They're no longer the fringe, I
would argue, they are the fastest growing part of the
Democrat Party. They don't all succeed, but it's not going anywhere.
Find me a school anywhere, any college at isn't creating
these people, right, They own higher education in large part,
they own the legacy corporate media. So to say that

(07:12):
this is a fool's errand to say that this is
them losing, or that they're just simply wrong, I think
it's a mistake. I think we have to say I disagree,
and here's why. And we have to make the case
not that show me where communism has worked, where socialism's work. No,
we've got to explain to them why capitalism or what

(07:35):
they call capitalism, what we call the free market, why
that is truly the opportunity for people, Why that has
lifted more people out of poverty. And I think it's
a very distinct difference, because we're not going to win
everyone over. Right, We're doing the same thing. I think
it's called spinning one's wheels. We're doing the same thing
in the culture wars people instead of saying, look, we

(07:56):
need to love our neighbor. What Charlie Kirk was doing,
he was doing it like a champ. But too many
of us, I think, are going out there saying no, no,
I'm going to explain to you why being a Muslim
is not good. I think this is a losing battle
as well. I think we need to show people what
we stand for, not what we stand against. We need

(08:16):
to show people why it's good to do what we're doing,
not why it's bad to do what they're doing. Now,
maybe it's different strokes for different folks. Maybe those are
just my proclivities, my way of learning. Right, I'm more
apt to listen to you if you're going to tell me,
you know why what you're doing is working for you.

Speaker 6 (08:34):
Right, Let's say you're having success in the.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
Gym and I'm like, man, you know you're really starting
to fill up, hitting the weights heavy, And you say, no, well,
I'm actually I've changed my technique.

Speaker 6 (08:44):
I'm doing this.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
I'm talking my elbow when I'm going really slow on
these reps, and that's how I'm building those muscles. It's
a lot better, it's going to be a lot better
received by me for you to tell me why it's
working for you than for you to look at me
and say, ah, man, those guns aren't that hard you
to you need to pump a little more iron, bro.
That's not gonna get you anywhere. It's just gonna get
me to flip you the burd and be like few

(09:05):
pal right. So I think ultimately we've got to pay
attention to how we deliver our message because it's important,
and it's becoming incredibly important as things unraveled. Today, I
was watching this Twitter feud between Congressman Matt Gates and
my buddy Dan Bongino. We've been seeing endless war, if

(09:29):
you will, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Green versus President Trump,
Mark Levin. This has been the problem I've always had
with populism, And maybe tomorrow I'll focus a little bit
more on populism and why I think it's so important
for us to stand on principle, not on populism, on logic,

(09:52):
and not uncommon sense, because guess what you put zoron
Mombani and Sea Weaver in the same room, and they're
sense is going to look a whole lot different than
you're in My common sense, right, So common sense is
common to those who share common values, who share common beliefs.

Speaker 6 (10:10):
But when we live in.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
A disparate world where you have some that believe in
collectivism and some that believe in individualism, well, guess what,
We're at a crossroads, and we're going to have to
show you whose thoughts are better in the marketplace of
public opinion. So I want to continue talking about all
sorts of things tonight. I want to talk about dry January.
Gen Z has a band in the alcohol consumption. Pretty
much all sorts of millions one hundred six hundred million

(10:35):
dollars is being lost in alcohol sales because of gen
Z not drinking. And we're going to get into this
stuff with New York City again with Councilman Frank Morano
in a little bit, as well as some more nick
Shirley Minnesota stuff, which comes on the heels of the

(10:55):
big welfare bust food stamp bust that happened in.

Speaker 6 (11:00):
Austin.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
So I think we're going to see it blow up
in Boston, We're going to see it blow up in Illinois, Chicago,
We're going to see it blow up in California, and
we're going to see it blow up in New York.

Speaker 6 (11:12):
And I think when we see.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
The fraud in New York, when we see the fraud
in California, it is going to make Minnesota look like
child's play.

Speaker 6 (11:21):
Anyway, I wanted to end real quick.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
Right here on this segment with with something that makes
my heart a little bit heavy. The oldest son, the
eldest son of President Ronald Reagan, Ronaldus Magnus, has passed away.
Michael Reagan, somebody that I've interviewed a few times, somebody
I had a lot of respect for as a fellow
broadcaster and just an amazing human being, great patriot. And

(11:43):
I'm going to play a clip from the last time
we spoke.

Speaker 6 (11:46):
Check this out.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
The remains of four unknown American soldiers had been brought
to the town square from four American military cemeteries in France.
An American sergeant, Edward F. Younger placed a bouquet of
white roses one of the caskets. The American Unknown Soldier
of World War One had been designated. After transport across

(12:07):
the Atlantic aboard Admiral Dewey's flagship, the Cruiser Olympia, Our
Nation laid this hero to arrest in Arlington National Cemetery
on Armistice Day, November eleventh, nineteen twenty one. Sixty two
years have now passed. Millions of people from every corner
of the world have come to the tomb of the
Unknown Soldier to pay their respects to America's fallen heroes.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
That, of course, the immortal Ronald Reagan known as Ronaldus Magnus.
President Reagan was so profound on these things, so precient
and so eloquent at the same time. And to talk
about Reagan's legacy in the Reagan Legacy Foundation is Michael Reagan,
the eldest son of President Reagan.

Speaker 6 (12:46):
Michael Reagan, Welcome back, sir.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
It was great listening to that. It's psych a history lesson.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Is it.

Speaker 6 (12:50):
Absolutely? And most of his speeches I find are like that,
Oh they really are.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
He told story. Here's a storyteller of the family.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
And Michael Reagan himself was also a great storyteller. He
had a winsome personality again, a real gentleman, scholar and
a patriot. May God rest his soul. My thoughts and
prayers and condolences are with the Reagan family and amigos.
I ask you to keep them in your prayers and
to keep it locked right here. I'm coming right back.
I'm Rich Valdes, this is America.

Speaker 5 (13:33):
This is America.

Speaker 6 (13:42):
President Donald. Thank you for welp, mister President. Welcome to
the program, sir.

Speaker 5 (13:46):
Well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.

Speaker 8 (13:48):
I know you very well and I have I listen,
but I have a lot of people that listen and
they love your show, and I appreciate it very much.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
All right, amigos, welcome back. It's Rich Valdez and we continue.
El Trompito, don all this magnus the forty fifth and
forty seventh President of the United States, Donald J.

Speaker 6 (14:06):
Trump, El Presidente.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
He was at the Kennedy Center today on the fifth
anniversary of January sixth, and he was talking about a
bunch of things with members of Congress. I think it
was their annual retreat or their semi annual retreat or
something to that effect. And he said a lot of things,
but the main clip I want to play for you
right now is what he was talking about the midterms.

Speaker 6 (14:28):
All systems are go, all hands on deck.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
Everybody's got to get it in gear to make sure
that we don't lose any more seats. And another congressman
just died. You know, my condolences in prayers to his
family as well, a Republican congressman.

Speaker 6 (14:43):
It's a slim majority, and we've.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
Got to hold on and we've got to grow it otherwise,
it's guaranteed El Trompito will be impeached and he will
become a lame duck, and we none of us want
that to happen.

Speaker 6 (14:53):
Listen to this, go ahead, play the tape.

Speaker 8 (14:57):
So together, we had twelve months of unprecedent into success
in twenty twenty five, and now we're going to make
history and break records with the epic midterm victory that
we're going to pull off. It just doesn't seem to
happen for people that win the presidency. It's an amazing phenomena.
You know, you win the presidency and we sure as

(15:18):
hell are having a successful presidency. I will say that.
But even if it's a successful presidency, it's been nothing
like what we're doing. We had a very good day
two days ago too. But even if it's successful, they
don't win. I don't know what it is. There's something psychological,
like you vote against you can win by a lot.

(15:40):
We won every swing state. We want the popular vote
by millions. We want everything. But they say that when
you win the presidency, you lose the midterm. So you're
all brilliant people. Most of you're in this business longer
than me. That makes me smarter than you, because look
where I am right, No, it doesn't, but I wish
you could explain to me what the hell's going on

(16:03):
with the mind of the public, because we have the
right policy. They don't. They have horrible policy. They do
stick together. They're violent, they're vicious, you know, they're vicious people,
and they stick together like glue. They don't have a
couple of the people that we have a couple of
people not too many.

Speaker 4 (16:23):
So President Trump is hitting the nail on the head, right,
and quite brilliantly right. He's trying to not call people
out by name. He's trying to be classy and be
demurre if you will, and and kudos to him for
trying to do that. But the reality is, if we
don't win, they're going to try and impeach him. And

(16:44):
he alluded to that much as well. And it's important
that we recognize this because I think the problem when
he says there's a couple of people here, you know,
just a couple that they don't stick together. He's talking
about the infighting that we have going on. If that's
a word, I don't even like that word, but it's
the word I'll go with. I'd rather say it's disagreement, right,

(17:05):
we just don't all agree on the same thing, and
that's okay. That's kind of why I am a conservative,
so that we can have those disagreements so that we
don't live in lockstep like the left does. Right, we're
not doing the goose walk like the commedies would want
us to. And with that, sometimes you'll have people that
go off the reservation. And this is why it's politics.

(17:26):
It's consensus building. But he's right when he says that
they'll impeach him and you have to win the midterms.
That part's one hundred percent true. And when he calls
out these other people, it's because it's that type of infighting.
It's not the infighting I should rephrase, it's I'm going
to use this analogy. It's only a matter of time.

(17:49):
When you build consensus on certain things, right, it's only
a matter of time. There's always going to be somebody
where you don't do this enough or you're not that enough. This,
in my opinion, is the problem with populism. And while
somebody might say, you know what, I don't like President Trump,
but I like what he did with this, so I'm
going to back him. That's great, But guess what, that

(18:11):
guy's not going to be around for a long time
or girl. That guy's going to be around until the
next thing the president does it disagrees with him. Now,
I'm not advocating for people to be with Trump if
they don't agree with them, No, not at all. But
I am advocating for principle. You have to stand on principle.
If you stand on principle, you can't go wrong. However,

(18:32):
many times we find areas of agreement or consensus and
then all of a sudden, it's like if we can't
find them in other areas where like, oh, you know what,
I thought you were cool. I thought you were against
the Forever Wars. I mean, you show me a guy.
President Trump put a bunch of a carrier fleet in
the Caribbean. He sent into Delta Force. They went in

(18:55):
in the middle of the night. They grabbed Maluu his wife,
and they got out pretty safely.

Speaker 6 (19:01):
They killed a few bad guys.

Speaker 4 (19:02):
They killed what was that one hundred and fifteen other
bad guys on the drug boats leading up to this,
some you know, like they say, I don't need to
trivialize this, but you're gonna break a few eggs making
an omelet, right, and all of that happens is that
a forever war. Is that a war at all? Or

(19:24):
was it in and out because there was a warrant
on the guy? Right now, I understand his criticism. We
talked about that yesterday. If you didn't hear the comments
from yesterday, make sure you go back and check that out.
It was insightful, I think. But ultimately here this is
what happens with populism, and that's just a part of politics.

(19:46):
The problem is Trump is so magnetic in his personality
and in his appeal that he gets people. And Trump
doesn't always get his way right. For example, Trump said,
let's not do tax on tips, let's not do tax
on overtime, and let's not do tax social Security. And
what ended up happening right in order for it to
actually get through Congress, because you know, he made this

(20:08):
proposal and he wanted the.

Speaker 6 (20:09):
Big bit of a bell, big and beautiful.

Speaker 4 (20:12):
Right, So in order to keep him happy, they got
to give him some of what he wants. No tax
on tips up to I think it's twelve thousand or whatever.
The the cap is there, No tax on overtime again
up to a certain cap, right, because the congressman wanted
to put that in because they had to work with
the Democrats and they had to cut deals here and
there and whatever and do what they do.

Speaker 6 (20:34):
But Trump was like, hey, let's abolish the irs. Right.

Speaker 4 (20:37):
So this is why we love Trump because his mouth
is where our hearts are. He's saying what we believe.
But he's got to work with Congress, and Congress has
to work with each other. And speaking of that and
some of the people, the President was mentioning, populism brings
people to the table, but it won't keep them there.

(20:59):
Prince is what keeps them there. And I'm not saying
the people that defect if you will the Rand polls,
the Marjorie Taylor Greens, et cetera, that they lack principle.
They just have different ones, right, Marjorie Taylor Green believes
that what we did in Venezuela is something we shouldn't
be doing.

Speaker 6 (21:18):
Listen to this.

Speaker 9 (21:22):
Again from an America first standpoint, Caitlin, Venezuela belongs to
the Venezuelan people and they should They should elect their
own government leaders. We have elected our government leaders, the
Trump administration, and we've elected them to run America, not
to be globalist, not to run other countries, not to

(21:44):
pursue regime change and foreign wars.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
We very much.

Speaker 9 (21:49):
Need our government and our government leaders to focus on
the American people and the issues that we care about
on Main Street, USA.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
Understood, congresswomen. No disagreement there, but for we also have
things to do. When you are the leader of the
free world, there's things you gotta do. So ninety or
ninety five percent of the time you're focused on domestic policy.

Speaker 6 (22:14):
It's America first. It's America first.

Speaker 4 (22:17):
And in that five percent, it's that gray area where
what we did benefits America first. Right, stopping the oil
supply for our enemies in Iran and China and Russia.
And President Trump's been doing this right, He's really trying
to choke out Russia. Why to end the war if

(22:38):
you can stop their supply. He did it with liquid
natural gas, with the deals that he cut in the
European Union with Ursula Vanderlyon over the summer. He's been
doing this every step of the way, trying to undercut
Putin the promis. Putin's got a lot of money and
a lot of wherewithal and a lot of men to
throw in the what they call the meat grinder. So
he can keep going, and if they don't volunteer, they'll

(23:00):
snatch them right off the streets and make them fight.
So the president has his hands somewhat tied. Right, he's
not in charge of Russia. He can't just go and
say Vled listen, Bled, if you don't step, we're gonna
shoot you.

Speaker 6 (23:13):
You can't do that, right.

Speaker 4 (23:15):
This is a game of diplomacy and what everybody likes
to talk about every time I hear it the dimensions
of chess. Here they add a number. You used to
be four D chess, five D chess, six D chess.
I'm gonna go with ten D chess.

Speaker 6 (23:29):
Anyway.

Speaker 4 (23:30):
The point is that's the strategy he's employing, and it's
slow working. I'm gonna say right because it hasn't ended
the war yet, but it makes sense to me. You
starve them out. Eventually they succumb. I think it'll happen
with China before it happens with Russia, my opinion. But
all that being said, this is the problem with populism,

(23:52):
and it's the problem I've always had with populism.

Speaker 6 (23:55):
I don't think it's a horrible thing. It's a great thing.

Speaker 4 (23:58):
When you're trying to win an election, and you want
to get people that are like minded on board, right.
I mean, look, you find me another candidate that has
attracted Bernie bros. Right people from the Bernie Sanders wing
of the party. Very few. The thing is with Trump
he's so unique is that he really does have conservative principles.

(24:18):
While he's pragmatic on certain issues, on issues where he
can have some crossover appeal, I mean, he makes pretty
strategic concessions in that area, I would say, and it
makes sense for him.

Speaker 6 (24:31):
Right.

Speaker 4 (24:32):
He's been unapologetic on his pro life stance, but when
it comes to gay marriage, there's not a lot he
can do there. It's the law of the land. It's
probably not a case that we can overturn. He's not
going to spin his wheels trying to get that change.

Speaker 6 (24:46):
So he says, you know what, we love the gaye,
we love the gaze.

Speaker 4 (24:50):
How about that? A conservative, Republican, pro life president. It's
pro gay right. I mean, Trump, it breaks the mold.
Done these things because he understands these issues. He understands
them well, and it's kind of what he was talking
about today. But I'll go on my tirade of the
problem with populism maybe tomorrow, because I've got a lot

(25:12):
to say here. But ultimately it's that it's based on
the mood of the day, how the majority feels. It's
what the Founders warned against when they said, beware of
the tyranny of the majority. This is why we have
to have principles. This is why we have to stand

(25:32):
on things, because if we stand for nothing, we'll fall
for anything.

Speaker 6 (25:35):
Right.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
Yeah, I usually say that at the end, but that's
the real deal here. Anyway, we can continue that conversation
straight ahead. We'll also add in the woman, the woman
again Sea Weaver. She says, we're going to take your property. Well,
Frank Morano's going to join me. We're going to talk
about not only the craziness with Mamdani and his inauguration

(26:00):
just happened and the seaweaver as a result of that,
but also the latest on his thoughts with the Minnesota
fraud stuff and what that might look like in New York,
plus a couple other things. He's always an interesting guy
to chat with. New York City Councilman. Frank Morano's joining
us next. Don't go anywhere, I'm Rich Feldes.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
This is America, this is America. He's brown, he's bald,
and he's breaking it down.

Speaker 6 (26:28):
Oh he's still hadsome.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
What's his name?

Speaker 6 (26:30):
Rich Beldes.

Speaker 7 (26:47):
At five billion dollars, we hope to be able to
set up and staff the agency, but also build new
housing across the state as well as acquired distressed housing
across the state. The mechanisms for acquiring distressed housing could
look different on a building by building basis. In some cases,
what happens is tenants form a tenant association. They have

(27:09):
a scofflaw landlord or someone who's not making repairs, and
they could pressure, you know, using organizing tactics, they could
pressure to this social Housing development authority to take over
their homes to buy their homes. In other cases, you
might happen through like the legal process. A couple of
days ago, one of the most notorious slan lords in
the city, his name is ok Shalom. He was arrested

(27:31):
because he is treating his tenants so badly hundreds of
thousands of opening code violations. In cases like that, where
the city is actively pursuing already sort of litigation and
enforcement mechanisms against the landlord, the SHDA is an option
and we can say, hey, you know you are not
maintaining this building, and we are the City of New York.
We have an interest in making sure that housing is

(27:52):
well maintained. And we're going to take this building away
from you.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
What say what We're going to take the building away
from you. That's crazy. Welcome back, Familia. I am Rich
Valdez Valdesz with an S on all of the social media,
and that is C Weaver, a CEA Weaver. I don't
know if it's Cia or C, but this woman is
an absolute crazy. I'm going to say she's all out crazy,
just like the rest of them. And she is Mom

(28:17):
Donnie's new tenant advocate. Now, I'm presuming that she was
there at the inauguration just like AOC. She was there
along with Bernie Sanders along with all the rest of
the crazy lefties welcoming the new mayor of New York
City at his inauguration. And I want to get some
reaction that from New York City Councilman Frank Morano. Frank, welcome, sir,

(28:40):
Hello Rich.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
It is great to be on with you in any circumstances.
If good to talk to you.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
Happy New Year, amen, brother, Happy New Year to you,
I want to a congratulate you. I know you were
just sworn in again just last week, so congratulations on that.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Thank you very much. I appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (28:58):
And let's get into this Zoram'mdani of course taking his
oath of office yesterday on the Quran and the first
Muslim mayor ever, the first immigrant mayor in a long time.
Not that those things are bad per se, but picking
some controversial individuals for his cabinet and for senior leadership positions.

(29:21):
It seems like there's a lot of reaction to that,
And to me, I'm more concerned with his talk about
how you know, he's he's here to take on individualism.
He's just openly hating capitalism, and he tried that with
the subways, but it didn't seem to go right.

Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
I think Look, I think there were a lot of
parts of his speech that were exactly what I was expecting.
And the moments that you that you alluded to were
a couple of those. You know, he said that I
ran as a democratic socialist and I'm going to govern
as a democratic socialist. He talked about the I forget

(29:56):
the exact terminology he used, but gone with the frigidity
of rugged individualism and embrace the warmth of collectivism or something.
And that's easily a speech that could have been given
by Stalin or Jishin Ping or anybody and any socialist
leader anywhere in the world. But those of us that

(30:19):
listened to what Mamdani said during the campaign weren't really
that surprised, because say what you want about the guy,
he didn't campaign as a moderate and then fool everybody
and say, oh boy, I'm really gonna fool you now
I'm going far left. He did campaign as a far
left guy. And this is what a majority of New Yorkers,

(30:40):
not me among them, voted for. The one thing I
have to give him credit well, two things I guess
that I have to give him credit for. Is, even
though Mayor Adams has been very hostile to him, including
not giving him any honeymoon at all, he's been killing
him all day on Twitter for the last twelve hours.
Is he gave Adams a little bit of a shout

(31:03):
out in his speech yesterday, didn't take any shots at him,
which is more than can be said of Bill Deblasio,
who did nothing but take shots at Mike Bloomberg when
de Blasio came in. But the other thing is he said,
and we'll see if it proved to be true, but
I'm glad at least he said it. He said, I
am going to be a mayor not only for the
million people that voted for me, but for everybody else

(31:25):
and for all New Yorkers. And it's funny. I was
there in the frigid cold yesterday for the inauguration, and
when he said, you know, I'm going to be a
mayor for the million people that voted for me, everybody clapped.
And then when he said, and I'm also going to
be a mayor for the however many people that didn't
vote for me, And I was the only person that
shouted yeah. So it was a very lonely voice in

(31:48):
the wilderness. I'm getting. I'm guessing that I was the
only Republican at present yesterday. And we'll see where it goes,
you know, We'll see where it goes. He's made a
couple of very troubling picks so far, both to his
transition team and his administration, but he's made some very
sane and sober picks in terms of his governing team

(32:09):
as well. I think the most important pick Mayor can
make his police commissioner, and he's chosen to keep the
current police commissioner, Jessica Tish, who's.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
Done a very good job.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
But even if people disagree with her, you can't say
she's some radical that's going to defund the police. So
that's a positive. His school's cancellor. I have some concerns
about there's a lot of troubling things that I've been
hearing about a couple of the other appointments that he's
been making. We'll see where things go from here. But look,
anybody that is expecting the third term of Rudy Giuliani

(32:41):
is going to be very disappointed.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
New York City Keelsman Frank Burano, Yeah, no, kidding, there's
no Rudy Giuliani.

Speaker 6 (32:50):
Man.

Speaker 4 (32:50):
Listen, I hear a lot of what you're saying now
regarding Jessica Tish. Yeah, I'm with you on that. He said, hey,
I'll keep her. She said, yeah, stay. My question is
for how long?

Speaker 6 (33:02):
Right?

Speaker 4 (33:02):
They had a very good person named Key shunt Sewell,
she was terrific until she felt hamstrung by Adams, and he.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Was well, look, there's no there's no it is a
long tradition of mayors feuding with their police commissioner. You know,
I mentioned the great Rudy Giuliani, who is one of
my heroes both personally and politically, and he had a
terrific police commissioner, Bill Bratton. But they clashed right and
within about two and a half years, Bill Bratton was gone,

(33:34):
and you know Adams, it's very clear he wanted to
be the police commissioner. Adams wanted to make sure he
had domain over the policing, and Adams he did this
not only with keechen Sewell but his next police commissioner,
Eddie Kaban. It wasn't until Adams's administration got cleaned up
because all these people got indicted or had their houses

(33:56):
and phones raided and they were forced to leave that
we actually ended up with some pretty sane and sober folks.
So the Adams had certainly a very unique way of
doing things. But as far as your main point goes
about how long Jessica Tis stays, I have no idea.
I hope she stays a while, but if she leaves
after a certain time, a lot of people think maybe

(34:17):
she'll be a mayoral candidate herself. In four years to
run against Mom Donnie, and if she does leave, hopefully
there's somebody that has some sound policing experience and is
not going to be somebody that's reading from a DSA playbook.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
Yeah, I agree with that, And it seemed like it
was a DSA convention at the inauguration, he goes, I
am on with New York City Councilman Frank Morano.

Speaker 6 (34:43):
Now, Frank Morana, I.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
Want to switch gears just a little bit from policing
to other areas. You mentioned a concern with the school's chancellor.
I know there was talk about having the fire alarm
guy be part of the administration as well. I'm talking
about Jamal Bowman, and there's a there's a number of
questions that are circulating over many of his picks. One

(35:07):
of them, her name is escaping me. But I just
had it in front of me, Adare Cowas, Abert Abert Cowas.
I mean, just these are people that have openly supported
not just radical like collectivist ideas, but more so the

(35:27):
the radical Islamist faction of their support your thoughts, Yeah,
I agree.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
I mean, his new chief legal counsel is someone who
you know, has a history of defending.

Speaker 8 (35:43):
A lot of.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Literally al Qaeda people and a couple of Ramsey Kassem
is his name. He also recently represented the person that
was on the receiving end of a deportation order from
Acretary of State Marco Rubio, and he has a lot
of very concerning ties to groups like CARE and other

(36:08):
similar radical groups.

Speaker 6 (36:09):
So I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
You know, the head of CARE, A Fotnacher, put out
a statement praising Ramsey Cassam's appointment as the city's chief council. Now,
in general, whenever CARE is putting out a statement praising anybody,
it's usually an indication that that's a pretty bad pick

(36:31):
if you're not interested in some extreme extreme ideology one
way or another. So, yeah, as I said, it's been
a mixed bag. But there's a reason that so many
of us were sounding the alarm about Mom Donnie during
the campaign, and ultimately New Yorkers, powered by young people,
primarily young white progressives, primarily, they chose to go in

(36:56):
that direction. So it's I don't This has been attributed
to so many different American political theorists throughout history, but
ultimately Americans get the or anybody gets the government that
they deserve, and if this is who we're going to
vote for, then hey, it serves.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
Us right now.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
Frank Moreno, speaking of collectivism and all of this interesting stuff,
the Russians have now weighed in on this. Russian President
Vladimir Putin's close ally and Kremlin negotiator Kirol Dimitriev. He
says that this pledge to bring the warmth of collectivism
to the city is not necessarily a good thing. He

(37:38):
posted on x saying that this has been tried before.
Comrade Mundani, what do you think about that?

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Yeah, I mean I agree. I mean I think there
are a lot of folks in Russia that remember what
it was like to wait in line two, three, four
hours when you wanted to go to the grocery store.
And now you know the mayor is talking about bringing
that same concept literally public owned grocery stores, municipal grocery
stores to New York City. Now, I think New York

(38:07):
City is still going to have no shortage of grocery
options for rank and file consumers. And who knows, if
there are some areas that are literally food deserts, maybe
they want this kind of thing there. But I think
it's I agree. I think there's lessons that we've learned
through one hundred and fifty years of watching socialism and

(38:31):
Marxism wherever it's been tried, and for the most part
it hasn't worked. So again, I think you know, when
you're the mayor, you're really defined by key moments. And
it's easy if you're Bernie Sanders, who swore in mayor
Momdana yesterday, it's easy to be focused primarily on ideology.

(38:54):
But when you're in charge with cleaning up the snow,
when you're charged with picking up the garbage, when you're
tasked with putting out the fires, arresting bad guys, and
when there's a blackout, the buck stops with you. When
there's a terrorist attack, the buck stops with you, when
there's an assassination at city Hall, the buck stops with you.
When there are riots because of a reaction to a

(39:16):
police involved shooting, all of which has happened in recent
times in my lifetime in New York City. Those are
the moments that a mayor, judge is judged by. So
you could have great, soaring rhetoric, and I thought he
did give a good speech yesterday. Is very Obama esque.
But until you can manage those crisis moments, you really

(39:37):
haven't had your metal tested as a mayor. So we'll
see where those go. I mean, we all know what
happened with Rudy Giuliani with when all those moments happened,
and we saw him rise to the occasion. We saw
Bloomberg rise to the occasion when most of those moments
happened with the most part, for the most part, with
Bill Deblasio, although he did handle some crises okay, we

(39:59):
saw everything from COVID to police assassinations, he handled those
moments very poorly. And I think it's one of the
reasons that he was so poorly regarded, even as a
Democrat and a heavily democratic city, that he couldn't get elected,
had no prayer of getting elected to Congress, which is
what he tried to do after leaving office. So it's
those crisis moments that make a mayor of any city,

(40:21):
whether it's Philly, New York, or Atlantic City. And it's
those crisis moments by which a mayor is judged, you know,
nine to eleven for Rudy Giuliani, the blackout and the
assassination of James Davis for Mike Bloomberg and COVID and
the assassination of officers Ramos and lou for de Blasio.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
Really well, put, counselman, can you stick with me for
another segment. I want to take a pause here to
switch gears, and I got to make a quick announcement.
Are you able to make with all yours brother outstanding? Well,
We're coming right back with Counselan Frank Morano. I'm going
to lighten this up a little bit, but I want
to remind you anybody's like, man, who's this ball head
of Puerto Rican guy on my microphone on my radio,
don't worry, and I'm coming right back with Counselman Frank Morano.

Speaker 6 (41:03):
I'm Rich Valdez.

Speaker 5 (41:05):
This is America, this is America, all right.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
On egos, welcome back, It's Rich Valdez. I want to
bring it right back though to Councilman Frank Morano. Now,
Counselman Frank Morano is the councilman representing the part of
New Jersey known as Staten Island, New York, and I
would like to thank him publicly for presenting me with
the Pinky Kravitz Excellence in Media award at his annual

(41:55):
New Year's Eve Eve event in Atlantic City. It's a
long running tradition, so thank you for that, counselman. And
I mentioned that distinction earlier to our friend and colleague
Dom Giordano. It's domb time, and he said, Oh, my goodness,
you should be so happy, because Pinky Kravitz is an
absolute og in the radio game. I said, I know,

(42:15):
fifty seven solid years on the air, longest running talk
show in American history. Talk to us about why you
picked Pinky Kravitz as the namesake for the order.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
I think Tom really nailed it in that Pinky was
an institution. He was on the radio just about every
day for about sixty years literally until he passed away
a few years ago at the age of eighty eight.
But more so than being on the radio, which is
impressive enough in and of itself, those of us that
you and me included, who've worked in radio know that

(42:48):
for a lot of talk radio careers, you can measure
them with an hour glass, not with calendars. And not
only was he able to be successful ratings wise and
revenue wise for much of that time, but he really
succeeded in using radio to instill a sense of community
and using media in general to make people feel like

(43:09):
they were attuned to what was going on with their neighbors.
Because one of the things we've seen, and this is
why radio stations like WPHD are so important, is that
now it's almost easier to find out what's going on
in Baghdad than it is to find out what's going
on in Brooklyn. And that's why we need to support, encourage,

(43:31):
and patronize local media. And to me, Pinky Kravitz was
the best tradition of that, at least when it came
to Atlantic City in South Jersey. So we've been giving
this award out for the last few years since he
passed away. We've had a lot of great recipients, you know,
people like Whitney Ellman, people like Paul Kelly who's a
radio station owner, other radio talk show hosts. But we

(43:54):
really had quite an honor in that you were willing
to accept the award this year, and we were thrilled
that you were able to be on hand. You did
come a little late, but that's okay, that's okay.

Speaker 4 (44:05):
Well, I am Puerto Rica. Frank Morano, thank you, thank you.
It's an honor and privilege, and I appreciate it now, Frank.
For people who are very interested in everything that you're doing,
how do they keep up to speed?

Speaker 6 (44:20):
I'll tell you. I put this on social media.

Speaker 4 (44:22):
I put a photo of you and me and all
that stuff, and people were saying, how come I didn't
know about Frank Morano's long running tradition? And I'd love
to be a part of the Councilman's future events. Where
do they do, where do they go talk to us?
And how did this whole thing start? A New Year's
Eve Eve?

Speaker 2 (44:37):
First of all, I think a lot of people felt
that New Year's Eve was meaning conventional New Year's Eve
December thirty first, had become too much of a high
pressure event. Anywhere you go, every place is overpriced, it's overcrowded.
To drive there, you have to dodge all these drunk drivers.
And you can go to the same restaurants that you

(44:58):
go to three hundred and sixty or other nights of
the year, and on New Year's Eve, if you go there,
you can't get what you could order every other night. Instead,
they have a special menu. The special menu is never
what the best thing is, it's whatever they can make
the most of and dish out as much as possible.
So a lot of folks just weren't happy with the
whole New Year's Eve vibe, so we wanted to create

(45:19):
an evening where it was a low pressure environment where
it's easy to have a good time when there are
not expectations of doing so. So that's that's basically the
that's basically the gist of it. As far as people
getting in touch with me, you find me on Twitter
at Frank Morano that's Frank m O R A n O.

(45:39):
Or on Facebook at facebook dot com slash Morano fans,
or if you're lucky enough to have you know my
mobile phone number. As one of the best voiceover announcers
in the world, Steve came or does he just texted me?
Is there a Peaky Kravitz Best to Pay Award? There's
not currently, but who knows.

Speaker 4 (45:57):
Maybe next shout out to Steve. I love Steve, let
me see if I could do it. And now Deborah Norville,
he's got one of the best voices in the world.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
Absolutely, yeah, it'll be at least a couple of months
before he's totally replaced by AI.

Speaker 4 (46:11):
I don't say that all right, Frank Morana, I want
to thank you for being here and everybody listening. I'm
taking a break here, and when i'm coming back, we're
going to bang out some calls. I like to call
it the speed round, So you got to make it
short and punch you. Now. I know I'm up against
the challenge here. You're in the car, or you're leaving work.
You may not even mean near a phone, but guess
what I want to hear from you. So if you
will be so kind, give me a call. Frank Morano,

(46:32):
thanks for being with me. Godspeed the and we're coming
right back with a little bit more. Don't go anywhere.

Speaker 5 (46:37):
This is America. This is America. He's got the best
head of hair and podcasting. This is America with Rich Valdenz.

Speaker 4 (46:53):
All right, and he goes, welcome back. It's Rich Valdez.
And I'm want to wrap this up on this note here.
Young people aren't drinking now. Back in the days, everybody
used to drink to get loose at the party, go
to the nightclub, go to the bar. Well, apparently that's
not really a thing anymore. All sorts of money is
being lost by alcohol companies. And I got a clip

(47:13):
of audio that I'm going to play for you that
I think you're going to find very, very surprising, because
I know I sure did check this out.

Speaker 10 (47:20):
Generation Z has just turned its back on drinking altogether.
You and I are both fifty, but Generation Z they
have never drunk less.

Speaker 5 (47:29):
It is extraordinary.

Speaker 11 (47:30):
And the liquor companies are scrambling like they are terrified
because there is a cultural trend happening now where people
are increasingly either reducing their drinking or quitting entirely.

Speaker 5 (47:40):
Yeah, and that should be a wake up.

Speaker 10 (47:42):
Call for all of us.

Speaker 11 (47:43):
And I think that in twenty to thirty years from now, as.

Speaker 10 (47:46):
A society, we're going to look back on alcohol with
the same level of disdain that we currently do cigarettes.

Speaker 4 (47:53):
So gen Z has never drank so much. Look, I
think that's a good thing. Drinking is not good. We
learned a couple of years ago that while a little
bit of wine might keep you some illness away, by
and large, drinking isn't good for you. It's bad for
your skin, it's bad for this, it's bad for that. Apparently,
it exacerbates cancer.

Speaker 6 (48:12):
So I get all that.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
But gen Z's relationship with alcohol has become quite complex.

Speaker 6 (48:17):
Right the way.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
This dummy woman Sea Weaver wants us to have a
different relationship with private property. Gen z wants a different
relationship with alcohol, saying they're driving this sober curious movement,
if you will, prioritizing their health and finances and digital socializing,
leading many of them to just drink a lot less,
or they choose non alcoholic options like functional beverages. I

(48:42):
can't even say that we'd beverages like prebiotic sodas, specialty
coffees and.

Speaker 6 (48:48):
Mocktails. All right, Hey, to each his own.

Speaker 4 (48:52):
However, recent data shows that there's an uptick in drinking
amongst legal age gen z ers, potentially due to more
disposable income, some of them embracing quality over quantity or
premium spirits and whatnot. So I think that's pretty interesting.
Now they still prefer moderation and you know, wellness focused

(49:13):
choices over getting drunk. I think they also seek different things,
you know, some of them on value driven brands. But
I think there's a big part of this that people
miss out on, and I believe that it is marijuana.
People are drinking marijuana infuse drinks. People are not only
smoking less marijuana, but they're chewing the marijuana now right

(49:35):
with the gummies. So I think as people do that,
there's a lot less people drinking. And the reality is
in many states you can drive around high as a kite,
even if it's not legal on paper. There isn't a
test to check people for being high as a kite,
whereas there is a total test to really get you
to blow into that little machine and boom, you're done,

(49:57):
ten fifteen, thirty dollars later, a year, two years, three years,
you know, with license suspension later.

Speaker 6 (50:05):
And many people are learning their lessons. Some haven't.

Speaker 4 (50:08):
I know a bunch of people who've gone down that path.
I've never met anybody.

Speaker 6 (50:13):
Really.

Speaker 4 (50:13):
I'm sure it's happy, but I've never met anybody. And
I get to meet a lot of people who's like,
oh yeah, I got one of those DUI's. Guy said
I smelt like weed, and man, he gave me a
yurine test right there on the spot. They were able
to get in fifteen minutes. You know, it just doesn't
seem like it's a doable thing. So what's the story here? Well,
I think the story is there's while there's an increase,

(50:35):
is slight increase in alcohol consumption by and large people
in this age group, they are not drinking right. And
I think this is true because the shift is everywhere.
It's not just this age group. It's been going on.
Bars are still a thing, and they will remain to
be a thing, but I'll tell you it's not really
a thing anymore. Nightclubs, right, the discotheque not a thing.

(51:00):
New York was once known so well for its discos
right Saturday night Fever. People were going out dancing, getting
dressed up. That's not a thing anymore. People aren't getting
dressed up and going out and dancing. Sadly they're not.
People used to come from all over the world to
some of the most famous nightclubs on the planet, which

(51:20):
were all in New York City, The Tunnel, Limelight, Carbon,
that became Exit, so many others, and guess what, none
of them are around.

Speaker 8 (51:31):
Now.

Speaker 4 (51:32):
It's all about the small lounge, which change every couple
of years because they barely survive. It's expensive to have
a night out on the town, and people just aren't
as interested as they used to be. Why.

Speaker 6 (51:43):
I say, because they're getting high.

Speaker 4 (51:46):
But these articles say it's because of health conscious choices
and all sorts of other things that young people, in
particular gen Z are choosing to do.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
Now.

Speaker 6 (51:56):
I guess the millennials are.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
You know, they're all hitting forty this year, so they're
they're not out there like they used to be. But
the gen Z people, they just don't want to drink.
And I find it fascinating that this much money is
being lost by alcohol companies other than the ones that
are you know, putting out whiskey and you know, bourbons

(52:18):
and the more premium drinks. So I wonder what is
the story here, what is the deal? Well, we're gonna
take your calls on this stuff, and plus calls on
any topic. I know it's a couple of people that
called over the holidays. I want to get to those
as well, So let's start with that. Let's cueue up
the first call.

Speaker 6 (52:36):
Shall we go? Right ahead?

Speaker 4 (52:38):
It's Johnny Jacob jingle Heimer Schmidt. No, no, for real,
that's what he goes by on Twitter, and he's got
something to say.

Speaker 6 (52:45):
Johnny, go for it, yo, Retchie.

Speaker 4 (52:47):
This is Johnny Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt from Mammarillo, Texas.

Speaker 8 (52:51):
Man.

Speaker 5 (52:51):
I I just want you to know, brother, I'm catching up.

Speaker 7 (52:54):
On the podcast.

Speaker 4 (52:55):
I'm so happy.

Speaker 6 (52:56):
That I've found you here.

Speaker 4 (52:57):
Man.

Speaker 6 (52:58):
My radio is still tuned in to the same affiliate station.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
That you were on.

Speaker 7 (53:05):
And what happened?

Speaker 4 (53:07):
Man?

Speaker 6 (53:07):
Did Sorows by the station or something?

Speaker 5 (53:10):
I only halfway kid, and I'm halfway serious, because you left.

Speaker 4 (53:14):
This guy took over.

Speaker 5 (53:16):
He's so planned, man, and he was.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
Ruth of Paul.

Speaker 7 (53:19):
Screw that and excuse my language.

Speaker 5 (53:22):
And Richie it's they were playing like really anti Trump stuff.

Speaker 4 (53:27):
This morning on the same station. So I'm wondering, did
sorows by station?

Speaker 6 (53:30):
Anyways?

Speaker 4 (53:31):
I'm glad I found you much love, man, You're doing great.
Let's keep going, all right, my man, Johnny. All I
could say to that brother, is a happy New Year
to you. Thanks for the call. And b I'm not
gonna malign anybody, but I will say that I don't know.
I don't as far as I know. No, it was
not a Soros thing. It was just generally a few
key areas that we couldn't agree on. Part of it

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was compensation, but a big part of it was just
the ability to do some video stuff that some opportunities
came my way that I really didn't want to say
no to, and contractually I had to say no to
unless I wasn't under contract anymore. So I opted to
not be under contract because people who want to hear
me are going to hear me right here. People who

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want to share this show are going to share this show.
This late night national town hall conversation will continue. And
as sad as it is for me to say, there
is a huge boom in digital media. Podcasts continue to grow,
streaming audio continues to grow. Here's a couple of examples. Right,
Joe Rogan a couple of years ago, he didn't sign

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a radio deal. He signed a Spotify deal one hundred
and fifty million dollars. They gave him for three years
to be exclusive with them. Now, I'm not saying anybody's
offering me one hundred and fifty million dollars. But I'm
saying is if there were that kind of money, opportunity
and growth in terrestrial radio, Joe Rogan would have been there.

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But he's not because there's not. Spotify did that deal
three years ago. iHeartRadio, which is the platform I use
for distribution. Now they just signed a deal with Netflix
to put their podcasts in video form on Netflix. Right,
Just imagine that these powerhouse companies and again, iHeartMedia is

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three times the size and reach than any other radio
company in America. And this is not to be little
radio in any way. I'm really just looking at growth.
I'm forty seven. What does this industry look like when
I'm fifty seven and then when I'm sixty seven, still
a relatively young man, right.

Speaker 6 (55:38):
So that's really where it's at for me.

Speaker 4 (55:40):
It's about the future, and it takes It doesn't take
five minutes to build up a big video following, right,
That's a multi year task, just like it took me
many years to get to this level in my eighth
year in broadcasting. So everything takes time. And if I
don't start now, I won't get there in time, is
my fear? Right, So kind of somebody and interviewed me,

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and the article said that this path that I've chosen
follows the trajectory of other young conservatives at my former
network like Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Matt Walsh, all of
my colleagues there that went on to do digital streaming.
So I'm not turning my back on radio at all.
I'm open to it. There just has to be an

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opening and exclusivity to allow me to do some of
the digital media stuff that I'm doing on the video
side of things, so that can happen. With that being said,
there is a announcement that's coming out in a couple
of weeks when we launched the video stuff, so I'll
let you know as that happens. You'll see the videos.
And I urge everybody please follow me on social media.
It is one of the best ways for us to

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keep in touch.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
I am.

Speaker 4 (56:43):
I gotta tell you, I am kind of surprised as
much as I tell people to follow me at richveldesk
with an ass on all the social media.

Speaker 6 (56:50):
There are people tagging me on social media saying where
are you? What's going on? How do I get your show?

Speaker 4 (56:54):
It's really easy. Go to richfldesk dot com and hit
the redplay button and you're in. We got new shows
that are posting every day at nine pm. Sometimes they're
a little late, we're working on getting the bugs out
and stuff like that, but sometime between nine and midnight,
you're gonna have a new show five nights a week.

Speaker 6 (57:11):
And thank you again, Johnny for the call.

Speaker 4 (57:12):
Shout out to you and everybody at Amarillo, Texas and
everybody else out there, and remember, you got to stand
for something, because if you stand for nothing, you fall
for anything.

Speaker 6 (57:20):
And the only thing.

Speaker 4 (57:21):
Necessary for evil to triumph is for good people like
you to sit there and do nothing. So now's the
time for you to do something. I start up, Rosima,
take care, good night, and God bless you America. I'm
Rich Valdez and this is America.

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