February 17, 2026 • 60 mins
On Tuesday, Rich muses on notable deaths, the latest transgender shooter, and their impact on humanity. Then, America's Psychiatrist, Dr. Carole Lieberman, joins Rich and weighs in on the Guthrie case, on diets that can help mental health, and how chemicals can disrupt one's endocrine system as outlined in the infamous "gay frogs" study. Later, his conversation covers a range of pressing topics, including the legacy of Rush Limbaugh and the importance of embracing those you love. The discussion also delves into the complexities of trans issues, the role of environmental factors in mental health, and the implications of AI in psychotherapy. Dr. Carol Lieberman provides expert insights throughout, emphasizing the importance of understanding the underlying causes of mental health issues and the need for a holistic treatment approach.
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Rich Valdez Communist now with Washington Times.
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Your host, Rich Valdez.
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What's up, America. I am Rich Valdes Valdez with an
s at Rich valdest on all of the social media.
Welcome to our program. We are seventeen blocks away from
Madison Square Garden, New York City, here in our Times
Square studio, and if you want to give us a call,
you know the number eight seven seven Valdess one, eight
seven seven Valdez one. I want to get into a
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bunch of stuff tonight, but I want to start with
some of the news that's out there right there's a
lot of mental health news. I'm going into that a
little bit of detail, but first I want to talk
about Iran. I think we're about to strike Iran as
a bunch of stuff headed over that way. We might
have to bring in one of our generals to talk
about that in the next day or two. Keep that
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on standby what else we got. There was another one
that I just saw here, a very big thing. Oh
my gosh, the Reverend Jesse Jackson died. I remember I
was in fifth grade when Jesse Jackson ran for president
of these United States, and the Reverend Jesse Jackson he
was back then. He was very popular. I mean, people
loved him afterwards. I think maybe it was me getting
older and learning more about the Rainbow Push Coalition and
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how he involved DEI and all of that stuff. He
was like the inventory of that stuff, right, pushing himself
onto corporation, onto their boards, getting them to I guess
what some would say is integrate civil rights and things
like that, and others would say was a strong arming right.
But there was a funny story that was told to
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me by a former colleague of mine named Rudy Giuliani,
America's mayor. He told me when he was sitting mayor
that Reverend Jackson once called him and said, listen, I've
got to make it to some board of directors meeting
at X time. I got to catch a flight at
this time, so I need you to lock me up
for this protest that we're about to have asap. Do
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you think you could arrange that a VIP arrest? And
he said that was one of his first instances as
mayor of arranging a VIP arrest for the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
So rest in peace, Reverend, not somebody I knew, not
somebody I was a tremendous fan of, but somebody who
definitely left his mark on society. So God bless you, sir.
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And obviously it's the seventeenth of January, so couple of
things happen on the seventeenth, the Jani There's a lot
of death on this date, not just Reverend Jackson.
Speaker 8 (03:05):
But the U.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
This is the evening that my mama went to be
with the Lord overnight on the seventeenth. The seventeenth is
actually her birthday. I'll get into that more maybe in
the fourth segment. And L Rushbo, right, L Rushbo also
this is his big day, So quick comment on L.
Rushbo and I'll get into him a little bit maybe
in the fourth segment as well. But Rush Limbaugh, what
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an absolute legend in this game, right, I mean, many
of us, at least me, I can tell you. I'm
sitting here today because I had a mentor. When I
was serving as a producer for the Mark Levin Show.
Mark Levin was mentored by L Rushbo. Without L Rushbo,
there is no Mark Levin, there is no Rich Valdez.
Isn't that something, or at least it seems that way
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to me? I mean, maybe God had a bigger plan
and we use different people but different players, but that
is how it went down. So kudos to L. Rushbo.
His memory lives on for sure and mental health. Right,
I went, oh, how could I forget the shooter? There
was a shooting, local tragedy. Right, Listen to this shooting
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at a hockey game in paw Tucket, Rhode Island. Multiple
people were killed others were critically injured. After this shooting
at a high school hockey rink occurred. The shooter is
among three that were killed. And this shooter was a
man dressed as a woman. They say had gender affirming surgery.
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I don't know what that means. I don't know if
that means he had his breasts done or if he
had a vagina created out of his manhood. I don't know,
but I do know that he looked like a dude,
bigger guns than me, and I work out a little
bit so, And I don't mean to be disrespectful of
the dead. It was just it's clear to me, right
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that when you see someone like this that they are
suffering when they can easily look in the mirror. I
look in the mirror, and if I ever come at
you like a woman, please somebody shake me right. Tell me, bro,
you don't look good as a woman. You're a very
manly looking dude. I wouldn't look good as I have
no hair. This guy had the long hair and all that.
It still didn't work. Anyway, That's not the point. The
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point is we have so many of these shootings that
are going on, and mental health continues to be an
issue in our country, and it's something that I want
to talk about on this program, and we're going to
do it tonight with America's psychiatrist, doctor Carol Lieberman is
going to join us in the next segment, So keep
it locked right here for that. But I want to
talk about some other health issues that are going on,
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because yesterday or the day before, I mentioned that Secretary
Kennedy had brought to the attention of the American public
that changing your diet and adding protein using the keto
diet somehow can help alleviate or even cure schizophrenia. So
we're going to talk about that in a moment as well.
But a few other things happen on that front, on
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the mental health front, and I got them right here
in front of me that I thought were really interesting.
Number one, This is kind of a drive by here,
but there's a rapid acting depression treatment called SPLO to six.
Sure whatever that means. Anyway, This apparently you can take
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a dosage to this and you'll see a statistically significant
reduction in depressive symptoms in just one week, and these
effects last up to six months in some patients. Interesting.
Here's another thing. If you spend two hours a day
or sixteen hours a week on social media, you are
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likely suffering from loneliness and isolation. And that makes sense
right by yourself. So you're like, hey, oh what's going on? Yeah,
look at this, how I'm scrolling here? It's a good
idea to get out, get some good old sunlight in
your life, right, I get it. There's days I had
a weekend recently. I don't think I went out from
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Friday to Monday. I was so busy doing stuff around
the house, getting different things in order for things I
had to do. So I get it. We have time
like that, but on the regular, work on your tan.
You gotta work on your tan. Listen to this. I
don't know if you know what a hippocampus is, but apparently,
depending on the size of yours or your hyperthealmus, you
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might be more susceptible to certain mental illnesses than others.
How about that one? This isn't the one. This is
the one I want to talk about.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Here is this.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Coffee, yet again being labeled as increasing your risk for dementia.
Now every couple of months, it seems like there's a
coffee revelation, Right, you get this revelation on coffee, and
it's either it's the best thing ever for you and
it helps heart disease, it helps this disease, it helps that,
or it's exacerbating them. I don't on that. If we
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have time, we'll get to that with doctor Carroll as well.
And this this comes up every couple of months. It
seems to be getting worse. The rise of AI therapists,
AI chatbots that people are using like chat, GPT and
other groc and whatever else is out there as their therapist.
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This is pretty wild because it's just an advanced search
engine that's getting you some information and it pieces things
together for you. But it's not somebody who understood how
you feel and how things work. But yet this is
what people are resorting to. Why because they're spending too
much time on social media sixteen hours a week scrolling, scrolling,
so they're suffering from depression and isolation and loneliness. I
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got to tell you, this stuff is out of control
and it's sad to see that it's happening. But that
was I think that was the last story in my
mental health loop over here that I wanted to talk about,
and I felt that that was important to talk about
because mental health seems to be the overarching issue when
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it comes to there's another shooter. Was he trans Yes?
Speaker 8 (09:10):
He was?
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Why does that keep happening? Right? We see that time
and again. And this is not to make people that
are trands feel bad in any way. This is really
my hope is that somebody will hear this, or know
somebody or see somebody and not get offended and they'll
actually say, you know what, it's important that we help
people that need help. In this regard, it's important that
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we say, hey, it's not okay for you to believe
that you're something that you're not. And I don't mean
like I want to be an astronaut, I'm an astronaut. No, no, no,
I mean really living your life as if you are
the opposite sex because you think that you're in the
wrong body, or because you think that somehow that is
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the right thing to do. This is wrong. Not wrong
because it's morally wrong, although I'm sure I could make
a debate for that, but it's wrong because it's just
not how you were created. It's not how you're designed.
And I feel like I'm preaching to a choir here,
and I don't want to get too caught up into this,
but I feel like we've given a pass right there
people that are like, oh my gosh, I identify as
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trans and we're like, yeah, high five, good job, you rock.
That's not good. These people going and shooting people. This
stuff is not because of something good that's happening. This
is not because of something that we should be celebrating.
This is a serious, a deep cause for concern, something
that is taking the lives of other people. These people
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said that this man had a history of mental health issues.
His family indicated that he was under serious psychiatric care
and medication because clearly he wasn't well and a lot
of these troubles stemmed from him saying he wanted to
be a woman. So yeah, I'm sure I'm going to
offend somebody somewhere and I'm going to say, look, it's
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not okay. Right. There are some people that are suffering
from the trans issue that is a mental issue, and
then there's some people that are trendy trands that they're like, oh,
the cool thing to do is identify as this, or
identify as that, or there's a new thing called Therian
where people are identifying as dogs. I'm not making it up.
There's furries. There's all sorts of crazy out there, and
(11:22):
I don't mean to call people crazy, but that's the
word that comes to mind. So that's the word I'm
going to use. Anyway. We're going to get into that
stuff with doctor Carol Lieberman. She's going to join us
next to give us an update on what's going on
with Savannah Guthrie's mom. Was she kidnapped, is she harmed?
Is she in Mexico. What is the story. We're going
to get an update. Doctor Carroll's a regular on Core TV.
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She's also america psychiatrist. She has been doing this a
lot longer than many of us have been around. She's
an expert. She's been diagnosing crazy people and creating profiles.
I said crazy again, right, But she's been doing it
so hence the days of nine to eleven where she
became known as the terrorist Therapist. Keep it locked right here,
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it's me Rich Valdes. We're coming right back with doctor
Carol Lieberman.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
This is America. This is America. He's got the best
head of hair and podcasting. This is America with Rich Valdez.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
What's up America. Welcome back. I am Rich Valdez Valdez
with an s at Rich Valdez on all of the
social media. And as promised, I've got somebody I like
to call America's terrorist therapist.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
Right.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
She garnered that name back when she was looking into
the nine to eleven hijackers. Since then, doctor Carol Lieberman,
America's psychiatrist, has been a numerab numerous trials as an
expert witness, and she's our guest now, Doctor Carol, welcome.
Thank you so much, my pleasure. Doctor Carroll, I want
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to ask you a question about the news. Right we're
looking at the news and I see there's a guy
that gets into a I guess a rage is what
we can call it with respect to the family, saying
that he was undergoing hormone therapy and all sorts of things.
This trans shooter in Rhode Island.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
At least two people are dead after that shooter opened
fire at a high school hockey game in Rhode Island
in what police are calling a targeted attack.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Listen.
Speaker 9 (13:32):
Upon arrival, police were met with several people obviously inside
the arena and there was two casualties within the arena.
The suspect was confirmed as one of those casualties. Later on,
we learned that another casualty from the shooting was at
the hospital that they succumbed to their injuries.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
After being at the hospital.
Speaker 9 (13:49):
And there's three additional victims at the hospital that all
are in critical condition.
Speaker 10 (13:53):
At this time, it.
Speaker 9 (13:54):
Appears that this was a targeted event, that it may be.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
A family dispute.
Speaker 8 (13:59):
Well yet to identify any of the victims. An ATF
source tells us that the gunman shot his wife and
two kids before turning the gun on himself, dying from
a self inflicted gunshot.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Won't.
Speaker 8 (14:11):
Police have identified the shooter as fifty six year old
Robert Borgan, but say he may have identified as transgender,
going by the name Roberta Esposito. An unnamed woman who
claims to be the shooter's daughter telling reporters that he
had mental health issues and that he was very sick. Meantime,
authorities are praising a good samaritan who stepped in to
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subdue the shooter, saying their actions led to a swift
end of the attack. Officials are still investigating, but are
expected to provide updates at a press conference later today.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
He went by the name I think his name is Robert.
He went by the name Roberta. The whole thing seems
very wild. What can you tell us about it?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Well, you know, there's been an increase in the number
of transmass shooters. It's becoming a real phenomenon, and there
are a number of reasons why.
Speaker 11 (15:06):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
This particular man very interesting. I was just reading today
about how he married his cousin once removed, the woman
who he shot his ex wife. She was actually also
his cousin. But anyhow, you know, the problem is and
he apparently his children. He had gender affirming surgery in
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twenty twenty, and before then though, he was already having
lots of family problems his kids. He had six kids
by three different women, and so he was rather active
as a male before he changed a roberta right, and
they didn't like him apparently, And then he had problems
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with his in laws once he had his gender affirming surgery.
They wanted him to get out of their house or
his house that they owned or something. They evicted him.
And then his wife, of course, when he got this surgery,
she divorced him, and she put for the reasons why
she divorced him that he had this changed his gender
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or at least you know, via the surgery, and also
that he was narcissistic. And then the courts, I guess
made her take across that out and just put irreconcilable differences.
So there were a lot of things in his life
that were really falling apart and for a while from
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before the time he got this surgery. So you know,
part of what happens. I mean, these are people who
there are people who are trans who are authentically trans.
In other words, they are born. When they were born,
there were hormones going around their mother's womb that affected them,
and then they had in their early childhood, they had
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relationships with their parents were skewed, and that can cause someone.
Then of course, we always have all the you know,
the chemicals that are in all the things we eat
and drink, so all of those things could actually create
someone who is authentically trans, you know, really believes that
they were born in the wrong body. The majority of
people today are not authentically trans. They have been convinced
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that they are trans, or they have been convinced that
if they changed from a man to a woman or
a woman to a man, their life would be great.
And they believe that, and so they had, you know,
took hormones or had surgery or you know, did something.
But they're filled with anger. They're actually they they loathe themselves.
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They're filled with self loathing. And when people don't want
to believe that they are whatever they are, like let's
say a man's saying that he's a woman, then they are,
their anger goes from self loathing to expressing it to
other people, like how dare you not believe what they
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want to be in control and so you know, so
this man, I guess he had finally he came to
his breaking point.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Yeah, Robert Dorgan the individual again in question here who
killed these people? And you know, doctor Carroll, I guess
my question to you hear is what you were talking about,
this self loathing and then it becomes explosive. Is this
kind of what we see when we see these videos?
At least I see them. I don't know about what
your social media looks like, but when I'm scrolling through
X or Instagram, I see a lot of videos lamentably
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of people that are just violent and their trends. They're
usually men that are just very aggressive. They want to fight,
they get into fights. I've seen a million different of
these videos, not a million, but plenty of them where
they just they start punching people and they get into
these things that normal people, I think, don't get into
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these incidents. Yes, and I don't know if normal people
is the right word forgive me.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Well, people who aren't trans also get into these kinds
of fights. But really, there is just such an anger
and increasing anger rage that's been growing in our society.
We see it in political divisiveness. We see it in
these mass shootings. It's just it's just out there. It's
been growing, and people are angry at them at their
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own lives, you know, dissatisfied, angry that their life isn't
you know that they're not I don't know Tom Cruise,
although I guess he's not doing much well. He is,
you know what I mean, Julia Roberts or something like that,
and some some fantasy kind of life, and they're angry
that their life isn't like that, and so they want
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to take it out on everybody else. They feel that
they were entitled to have whatever their fantasy was, you know,
to to live that, and when they don't have that,
they just explode.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Folks were on with doctor Carol Lieberman. She's America's psychiatrist.
She knows exactly what's going on when it comes to
these crazy things. And forgive me for using the word crazy,
but when people come to their breaking point and mental health,
doctor Carol Lieberman is there to tell us exactly what's
going on with the play by play, doctor Carrol, to
put a pin.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
In this thing.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Do you see the trans situation that we're having in
our country getting better or getting worse.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Well, it's getting worse because number one, there are more
people who it's like a pandemic. There are more people
who have been convinced. You know, part of it came
from talking about pandemics. Part of it came from COVID
when kids, you know, when they were kept out of
school for one or two or three years and then
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they came back and everything was very awkward, and they
really didn't they were very low us and when teachers
would tell them or their social media would tell them
that all you have to do is to just change
your your gender and and life will be great. And
then now they're realizing and a lot of people, of
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course did have hormones and surgery and all that, and
now a lot of people are realizing that they want
to de transition because no, the grass wasn't greener, and
so that is making them angry as well, like like
because they were really there were.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Collateral damage, unintended consequences, yes, and so so of course
that you know.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
They were right to be angry about that. Really that
they were, they were lied to, and it was just
all in all because of the left wanting to destroy
the the basic family, you know, the and this is
one way that they were doing it, you.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Know, doctor Carroll, I think that's an important point we
can end on. And it's it's fascinating because over the years,
I've interviewed a few individuals that were transd and detransitioned,
and some of what they've said was that they felt
they had to do it because when they were going
through this mental episode, uh, these feelings, they would go
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to the parents, and the doctors would push the parents,
coerce the parents and tell them you'd rather have a
living whatever gender than a dead whatever you had. And
this kind of emotional blackmail is wild.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yes, all of these lies, and I mean it certainly
is true. They would tell the parents that their child
would commit suicide if they didn't do this gender affirming care.
Now it's interesting that fortunately they're between Trump, you know,
putting like for example, at NYU just close their transitioning.
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The car saw that and and you know, they partly
because Trump was they knew that he was going to
take money away from their program. But it wasn't just that.
I mean, that was sort of the I think probably
the biggest push. But now there have started to be
cases where people who want to de transition are suing
the doctors and the hospitals where they were convinced to
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transition in the first place. And so you know that
certainly a lot of doctors are realizing, wait a sec,
and I better get out of here or I'm gonna
be sued.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Yeah, you know, I think when you hit people in
the pocketbook, that's when it usually wakes people up, right.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
And I just want to say, you know, the main
problem is, and it's kind of sad for the what
I was saying at the beginning, the people who are
authentically trans. If all of these places close, there won't
be gender affirming care for people who really authentically are
trans and would need that, because I think they're all
going to close.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
So what do you recommend for someone like that, someone
that you know legitimately they say, Hey, my kid came
to me. They feel like they are the opposite gender.
They want to get hormones and whatever I'm telling them
not to. What advice do you do?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Well, first of all, they shouldn't be doing anything until
they're at least eighteen, because they cannot possibly understand what
it would mean to not be able to have kids
or all the other things that going that direction would
cause you know, now, of course, the other the argument
to that is, well, yes, but if they get past puberty,
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it's going to be a lot harder to change these things.
You know, Really they need to be in therapy. And
that's the key problem that all of these clinics don't
really do enough evaluation psychological evaluation to determine, you know,
whether this is someone who really has gender dysphoria or
whether it's just some whim. You know, if they really
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did sufficient you know, I'm talking about like six months
at least of evaluation treatment, they would find that a
lot of these things they're not, you know, not that
they want to be the other gender, it's that they're
because their parents are getting divorced or some other problem.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
Absolutely, I mean, he goes, We're on with doctor Carrol Liberman.
We're coming right back and we're gonna tackle yet another one.
Right this topic is gonna be the update on Nancy
Guthrie Summer saying that maybe she's in Mexico. Others are
saying maybe she wasn't even kidnapped. Uh. Doctor Carrol always
has her finger on the pulse with the Guthrie stuff,
because she's a regular on Core TV. Keep it locked
(25:25):
right here. I'm Rich Valdez coming back with our guest
doctor Carol Liberman.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
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Speaker 4 (25:42):
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to speak with Rich Valdez. Oh, very good.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
The honor is all yours.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
Conservative talk with a dash of Sofrito. Now here's.
Speaker 10 (26:03):
Following breaking news in the search for Nancy Gothrie. News
Nation sources confirming the FBI has contacted Mexican authorities in
connection to this case. Senior correspondent Brian Inton is live
for US in Tucson. So Brian, breaking news here. But
you just spoke with Sheriff Nanos last night. He said
then that they don't have evidence to suggest Nancy was
(26:24):
taken to Mexico.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, and I don't think there is any evidence to
say that Nancy is in Mexico. But at the same time,
this is what's new and interesting. There is a federal
law enforcement source who confirmed to our Libbydan that the
FBI has now been in contact with Mexican authorities in
connection with the Nancy Gothrie case. So obviously they are
keeping that possibility open. And remember, the border is very
(26:51):
very close to where I am right now, in Nancy
Gothrie's house. It's just about an hour to an hour
and a half from here. It's close to where we
saw that swat raid the other night in connection with
the case. So now officially the FBI is in contact
with Mexican officials. I've been talking to sources here on
the ground for the last couple of weeks. All have
said the same thing that this does not appear at
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all to be cartel related. It shows no signs of
cartel involvement. Frankly, just because the cartel is very organized
in what they do and precise and they wouldn't go
in and kidnap an older woman this way. And then
what we saw in the video in terms of, you know,
putting grass in front of the camera, they're just you know,
(27:34):
better at it than that. They would have pulled the
camera right away. So there's no signs that it's cartel related.
But that doesn't mean that whoever did this did not
take Nancy to Mexico. It's two separate issues there, which
could be the reason now we're finding out that the
FBI has been in contact with Mexican authorities.
Speaker 10 (27:51):
Nicole and Brian really quickly back to your one on
one interview with the sheriff last night. He does tell
you he is confident that this case will be solved.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
All right, America, Welcome back, Rich Valdez, keeping your company tonight.
Happy to be here with you, and we are live
from Times Square with our guest, doctor Carol Lieberman keeping
us company tonight and doctor Carol Liberman, welcome back. I
want you to give us. You know, we had a
little clip. There's news clips all over the place where
people are hearing different things on this Nancy Guthrie case.
(28:21):
I know that you keep your ear to the ground
on these types of cases, these national cases. Talk to us,
tell us what you know.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
It's a tragic case, of course, because she's eighty four
years old. Well, first of all, what's really tragic is
that how could someone, how could an adult child who
has the means, you know, especially who has the means
like Savannah Guthrie, has let their mother stay in a
house all by herself without really a good, well working
(28:51):
enough of a security system, a stronger security system. Nobody else,
you know, you know, no housekeeper living with her or
or at least coming more often. I mean it was
she was, and it's a very very well people have
seen the photos. You know, it's a very desolate area.
I mean, we're not talking about living in an apartment
in New York. She's really out in the middle of
(29:14):
the desert. And I mean that was just poor. I
really don't understand how someone could do that, first of all.
Second of all, kind of similar to that. I don't
understand why Savannah hasn't raised from the beginning, didn't raise,
didn't put in money to for the for the reward
(29:37):
for information number one, it started out as fifty thousand
or I think it started out, and then now it's
finally gotten to two hundred thousand. But because somebody donated,
not her so that and then there were the ransom.
There's no you know, she made a video saying we're
(29:57):
gonna pay blah blah blah, but she hasn't paid put
any money in to the ransom. I don't understand that,
you know. I just I can't help thinking if that
were my mother, you know, And and let's say they
wanted a million dollars and I didn't have a million dollars,
I'd big borrow and steel to get a million dollars
to put the money into the reward and into the ransom.
Speaker 7 (30:17):
And so on. Now, I just want to backtrack a
little bit because I remember initially that it had taken
some time before they even asked for any ransom, and
they had caught a guy and they let a guy go.
What's the latest with the ransom?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
I mean, I think, you know, they're asking for money
to be bitcoin to be put into this. I don't know,
I'm not really familiar with bitcoin, but like to send
it to this particular place, which I would think, you know,
Apparently some people are saying, you can then detect whose
(30:50):
pocketbook that.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Is, you know who who's crypto wallet?
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, right, not a pocket but go wallet, and and
so you know, I don't I don't see the downside.
Some people are saying, well, she must have been told
not to put more money, and I don't know, I
don't get it.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
I don't Also, I would presume, so I would imagine
that somebody like Savannah got three as much as she
would want to say, I don't want the FBI. I'm
pretty sure they're in her ear, in her house, on
her phone, you know, guiding every step of the way,
and and and tell me what you've heard about this,
because I've heard that now the FBI is pursuing leads
into into Mexico. What do you know about that?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I think that, I mean, it's about time, because you know,
it's interesting because they didn't find a DNA match in
Codis and one explanation could be and it's because the
person who abducted her is from Mexico and went back
to Mexico and wouldn't be in Codis unless he committed
a crime in America, a different previous crime. So yes,
(31:58):
I think, you know, I think they've been moving so slowly,
and she has a pacemaker, she's on cardiac drunks, she
would be on probably you know, usually people with pacemakers
are on drugs for blood thinners, you know, which could
explain part of why her blood was on the ground,
you know, that it would be more it would be
(32:18):
thinner than usual normal people's, and then other medication for
her heart. So I mean, it's not just about that
she's eighty four. That's not that old if you're in
good shape, But she has all these medical conditions and
so every day makes it more and more likely that
she's not going to be alive.
Speaker 7 (32:38):
Such a sad story. Lastly, I saw a clip and
I played it on the show a couple of days
ago of Secretary RFK Bobby Kennedy making an announcement that
I think it was Stamford had discovered a connection or
what he labeled a cure for schizophrenia in the keto diet,
(33:00):
saying high protein would help you and changing your diet
would eliminate this.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Doctor paulin up at Harvard has cured schizophrenia using keto diets.
There are studies right now that I saw it two
days ago where people lose their bipolar diagnosis by by
changing their diet. It's not only affecting our physical health,
it's affecting our mental health as well. And we're asking
(33:27):
people now eat real food.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
I eat protein. He seemed to say this with a
lot of certifude. This is something I know that you
have a very good understanding of, not only because you're
a psychiatrist, but because you did your residency at Bellevue
specializing in mental health. And I'm a New Yorker and
that's where you were back in the days that I
remember as a kid. That was the joke, right, They're
(33:51):
going to go to Bellevue because they're nuts, right, so
you know you were there with all of those people
dealing with those mental health challenges. I'm not saying he's
right or wrong. I do believe that food plays a
huge role in so many things and this might be
a big breakthrough. But what is your take on Well,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I think and then apparently this was something that historically
it was discovered. You know, I do think that there
are certain things with food or you know, that can
that can help people with different kinds of mental illnesses.
With schizophrenia though, the only thing that I would caution
(34:31):
is that sometimes things come along, whether it's wheat or
whether it's you know, or even just or some people
are saying like there are different parts of your brain
that if you do certain kinds of stimulation. You know,
that's all great and if they work, great, But the
(34:52):
key to schizophrenia, to bipolar disorder, to any psychiatric disorder
is in understanding where where that started from. In other words, well,
first of all, schizophrenia is genetic. It's passed down genetically.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
You can't catch it.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
You can't really catch it, but certainly, you know there
are things that can make it worse to make it better.
But but my caution is that you have to look
at the family system, and you have to look at
that person's life, what is going They don't just pop up,
And especially now with we've talked about marijuana, you know,
marijuana making someone with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder all of
(35:35):
a sudden they manifest their symptoms.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
Not because you're saying dormant, right, we talked about that
a couple of months ago. Yeah, somebody that has it,
but we never knew they had it until they smoked
weed and then they got high and that repeated use
exacerbated it.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Yes, right, So I just would hate to take away
from the understanding of the psychological aspects. I mean, in
addition to wed and so on, there are things, There
are reasons why certain things are manifest at certain times, and.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
Not just so.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I don't like the idea of just looking at one thing.
But it has to do also with you know, what
was happening in that person's life when they had their
first episode of schizophrenia. That's very important. The first episode
is usually in the late teens to mid twenties, and
that's a time when you know there are a lot
of things going on in people. They sometimes they leave
(36:31):
home for the first time, they go to college or
go out of town, they have relationships, you know, there's
a lot of confusion and chaos in their life, and
so you have to kind of look at those kinds
of things as well.
Speaker 7 (36:48):
If it's determined that they were going through something that's
very emotional, I don't know, maybe a breakup or the
loss of a career, or the loss of a loved one,
you have some sort of loss, traumatic loss. Would would
those stressors be How would that be significant for you
as as a psychiatrist.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Well, it's just that it would be a place to
start to try to direct treatment. In other words, you
wouldn't want to just you wouldn't want to just look
at the physical, whether it's you know, keto or whether
it's a medication or you have to look at that
alone isn't going to take care. A medication alone doesn't
(37:30):
cure anything. You have to look at what's going on
in their life and what and you try to resolve
the underlying problem of at least this episode of.
Speaker 7 (37:39):
What triggered it. What triggered it exactly makes a lot
of sense, Doctor Carol, What do you think happens from
from here on out with with respect to this change
our diet, change our life stuff, I'm all for it.
I don't think it's the end all, be all of everything,
but I think it's a great first step. As you know,
I've told you a bunch of time, I don't take
(38:00):
anything for my ADHD. I just bounce off the walls
a lot. But I have since i've stopped using things
that have red dyet number forty and yellow the if
I forget the number there, I have felt a little
bit more focused. So I think that there's truth in
that stuff. Do you think how long before we see
I guess a lot of these things coming to fruition
(38:21):
because I know they've stopped using a lot of these
ingredients since I think President.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Yes, I think it's great that this has been happening.
You know, there is so much bad stuff in our food,
even in our water, and I think that the faster
we can well. I mean, obviously you don't want to rush,
you don't want to make mistakes, but I mean I
think it's a great plan to make our diets healthier,
(38:51):
to get rid of all these these kinds of additives.
You know, even things that are in the water in
our diet that can change our sexuality, change our you know,
there are all kinds of things.
Speaker 7 (39:06):
That have that come follow up on that. For years,
people have suggested that fluoride in the water could could
do that, both for for various people. And I remember
we we joked around a lot about that, saying, hey,
you get that flora in your water, you might not gay.
What do we know about that today scientifically, Well, you know,
(39:30):
I think.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
It's I think the jury is still somewhat out. There's
still study, there are still studies being done on it.
I know that rf K Junior wants to get rid
of the florid in general for various reasons. I don't
know that it was specifically that he was thinking specifically
of that, but but yes, there are studies relating to
(39:51):
how floride can can can affect your your intelligence, things
like that. I mean, we need to to look at
all of these things. I mean, originally it was thought
the reason they had they added fluoride for your teeth,
you know, that was the original thought. Put it in
your water and you'll have healthier teeth. That's great, But
(40:13):
then if other things that you're affected that are more important.
You know, there's still tooth based.
Speaker 7 (40:20):
It may not be worth it, doctor Carol. When you
talk about the additives and water that may affect sexuality,
what what other additives are part of that conversation?
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Well, I you know, I I mean I don't. I
can't tell you specifically which ones because it really is
still you know, you see different studies. Every once in
a while, the study pops up that talks about something.
Speaker 7 (40:48):
In the metals and other things.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I mean, for example, yes, for example, they were they
did a study where the frog there were frogs. Did
you hear about the frogs.
Speaker 7 (40:56):
Study where and the frogs were gay?
Speaker 9 (40:59):
Right?
Speaker 11 (41:00):
Right?
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Right? So it's things like that. But I don't know
that there's been any putting all those studies together.
Speaker 7 (41:07):
To make a conclusion to the jury is still out
drinking bottled water just.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Then if you drink bottled water in a plastic.
Speaker 7 (41:19):
Bottle, right, that's right. You gotta drink bottled water out
of glass. That's great, doctor Carol Liberman. Let everybody know
how they can keep in touch with you, how they
can follow you, and how they can check out more
of your work.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Sure well, they can go to Twitter or x I'm
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Therapist dot com or Expert Witness Forensic Psychiatrist dot com outstanding.
Speaker 7 (41:51):
Make sure you check her out on Core TV, go
to her website, give her a follow. I follow her
on X She's fantastic at doctor Carol MD. She's to
I recommend her and keep a lock right here. I'm
Rich Valdez. We're coming right back, all right, I mean,
he goes, welcome back. It's Rich Valdez, keeping your company
here and again our phone number eight seven seven Valdez one.
I may not be able to get the calls I
(42:11):
may or may not be able to. We'll see A
how many are in the queue, and b if there's time,
because a few things I want to cover. There's a
bunch of things I want to mention. It's Marty Gras.
Of course. The actor Shilah Boof was locked up in
New Orleans. Why, I have no idea. Why do I care? No,
I honestly don't care Shilah Boof. I don't even know
what movies he's in, but apparently he's an actor. So anyway,
(42:34):
enough about him. I just mentioned it because well I
should not have. Honestly, What I do want to mention
is that there's a bunch of interesting videos I'm seeing.
There was a video of these ups one ups delivery
guy who was running away from wild turkeys while making
deliveries to multiple houses on this block, and I thought
it was a hysterical and B if we could queue
(42:56):
it up, do you think we could get that mister? Yep,
hopefully if we can, we can get that up. I'm
I'm gonna play it in here so that you guys
could take a look at it, because I thought it
was very funny. But something that I do want you
to see is a video that I saw the other
day that really I was like whoa. And I think
I mentioned it, but I didn't get to it a
couple of nights ago, and it's this, Well you know,
(43:17):
I'm gonna play the video for you, But the preface
to it is it's really every parent's worst nightmare, or
at least one of your worst nightmares.
Speaker 11 (43:25):
Right.
Speaker 7 (43:25):
It's when your kid is trying to do the right
thing and take an Uber home and the Uber driver
decides to do something else.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
This morning. Dramatic surveillance video captures the moment a frightened
fifteen year old girl sprinted to safety after an alleged
attempted kidnapping.
Speaker 11 (43:44):
My whole world just shattered.
Speaker 5 (43:46):
Utah mom Karina Ramirez says she called a lift for
her daughter, Caitlin Saturday to take her to an appointment.
Then just moments after the driver picked her daughter up,
she says she received a chilling phone call.
Speaker 11 (43:58):
She's like, mom, you just counsel the lift and I
was like, no, I didn't. She's like, yeah, the driver
is stating that you canceled the lift and I was like, Katelyn,
he just canceled the ride.
Speaker 4 (44:11):
He did it.
Speaker 5 (44:11):
She says it was the driver who canceled the ride,
offering to drive Caitlyn to her destination anyway, But when
Karina used a location sharing app to track her daughter's location,
she says the car was moving in the wrong direction.
Speaker 11 (44:24):
She was like, sir, I need to get out. I
can hear it in her voice that it changed, and
she went, Mommy, he's not listening to me. Mommy, he's
not stopping the car.
Speaker 5 (44:35):
That's when Ramire says she told her daughter to get
out of the car and run as fast as she could.
Police are currently investigating. In a statement, Lift saying the
horrifying incident is reprehensible, adding they have removed the driver
from the lift platform and stand ready to assist law
enforcement with any investigation.
Speaker 11 (44:52):
I'm happy she took control of the situation. And to me,
she's just a brave teenager terrified.
Speaker 7 (45:00):
No, he's the father of a daughter that was Rhiann
and Ali reporting.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
Police say it is too early to say if the
driver will face any charges.
Speaker 12 (45:08):
And this all happened just a few days before Lift
announced new teen accounts designed for teens ages thirteen to seventeen,
where parents can monitor rides in the app. Lift says
it's safe for teens, but authority say teens should share
their location with family members, follow along with the ride
share with GPS, and request pickups and drop offs at
public locations.
Speaker 7 (45:29):
And that is a report from ABC News in California.
And forgive me, it wasn't Uber, it was lyft. But
come on, that is crazy, right, You're like, hey, where
are you all the guys going this way? You're going
the wrong way. This is an attempt at kidnapping, at
least it seems that way to me. Now, listen, if
you're the uber driver, the lyft driver, excuse me, and
you're thinking, all right, well, you know, let me go
(45:49):
this way because it's a better way. No, that's why
everybody can see the route you're supposed to take. You're
not supposed to just go and pick your own way
to get somewhere. That's in especially with a fifteen year
old girl in your car. This is not what I
would want from my kid. And my kids aren't even
fifteen anymore. They're legal adults. But I don't want that
(46:10):
for them. It wasn't that long ago. A few months ago,
my daughter was visiting from Virginia. She went to Hoboken
with some of her friends. It's kind of party town
in Jersey. And yeah, I guess who was there me?
I was there. I was outside of my big SUV waiting.
I was their driver. I made sure that I stayed
there because what if they need you? Right? And maybe
that's just me being a little, you know, extra, a
(46:31):
little overprotective, But I just don't trust a lot of people.
And I know a lot of people will say you
gotta trust more. Maybe I will, you know, maybe when
they're thirty thirty eight, forty forty two right, I'll feel
a little bit better about their situations then, but while
they're still young, you know, hey call me crazy. And
this mom, kudos to her. She did the right thing,
(46:52):
Absolutely did the right thing. This is the type of
thing that would make anybody medio local right. Anyway, I
want to move on from that, and I want to
get into a few things, right. I mentioned a few
things earlier and I said I'd get to them a
little bit later tonight, and I want to get to those.
One of those things is l Rushbo. L Rushbo obviously
(47:15):
an icon and talk radio somebody that when he passed away,
it was truly something that at least people in my
business we felt it. Right, everybody felt it. I was like, Wow,
it's the end of an era. And having the opportunity
that I know not many people have had, Right, I
got to start my radio career not in a small
(47:37):
mid market somewhere in America, but in market number one,
New York City, the biggest market on the planet, and
at the world famous WABC seventeen blocks from here, right
twenty ninth Street, thirty it's Madison Square Garden right seventeen
fours above Madison Square Garden is where our studios were.
And those studios, I think they were built in the
eighties and that's when l Rushbo started his show. He
(47:59):
was in two of the different studios there, but the
last one was known as the Rush Limbo Studio. And
while I was at WABC, you would think that this
just hollowed ground, it'd be roped off, none of the above.
It was a storage room. They had taken all the
mics out. They didn't really use it for anything other
than to just keep furniture and stuff in there. And
during COVID, word had gotten out that I was a
(48:23):
barber before I had become a broadcaster. And yes, lo
and behold people that I worked with, my colleagues like
America's Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the Guardian Angel of New York himself,
Curtis Slieb. But these guys were like, hey, can you
cut my hair? And guess where we did it. I
brought the clippers in, brought my scissors in, and we
did it in the old Rush Limbo studio. And if
(48:43):
you dig hard enough, you'll probably find somewhere on my
Twitter or my Instagram or somewhere on the Internet, you
can find videos of those things happening back in twenty
twenty during the COVID lockdowns where nobody can get a haircut.
But it was very cool to have started my radio
career in the same place that Limbos started his national show,
(49:05):
and it was just to me, it was legendary. It
was an iconic place to be. You know, ninety five
to five w PLJ, nash FM. There's a couple other
stations there, but those are the ones most people knew
in WNBM. And point was, Rush was one of those
people that love him or hate him. Most people knew him,
(49:26):
had heard of him, had an opinion formed about whether
they liked him or not. And it was it was
just great to see the master in action when you
could watch right, when you could see him do his thing.
He would snap paper as a sound effect. Because again radio,
and this is what I love about radio. If I
were to sit here and go all right and the
next story, it wouldn't be as cool, right because I'm
(49:48):
on video. You guys can see me. You're watching me
on Roku TV or on rumble dot com or however
you're catching the clips of this on social media. But
if you're listening to it and it's theater of the mind.
It becomes so much more or dramatic, it becomes What
he was known for was putting on an amazing show.
And he was a smart guy. He was a good debater.
He was a well informed patriot, no question. But he
(50:11):
was also very talented when it came to holding a
radio audience and creating a picture. And some of the
advice that he gave to Levin, which Levin in turn
gave to me. The advice was you're the show, right
And when I got it, it was kind of like
Mark Levin telling listen, Ritchie, you're the show, and he
was right right. He was explaining to me that, you know,
you don't need a guest, you don't need the phone calls,
(50:33):
you don't need anything. Just you be the show, be
the story, be be what people are tuning in for.
And it's not something you do or don't do right's.
It was more of a mindset of don't lean on
things as a crutch, and Rush never did that. Rush
did his three hours a day, occasionally bringing in a guest,
but not because he needed a guest, and not playing
(50:55):
and not doing as many, not nearly as many calls
as I would take. I enjoyed taking calls, right, I
love hearing from people. But Rush was a prescient and
prolific guy that had a lot to say. I oftentimes
have a lot to say, but it's not very prescient
or prolific. It's more, you know, more of what's in
here and coming out through here. And I really do
(51:16):
enjoy the conversation with you, with the people Miami, goos
all across America, the Valdez vipiece. But I sing all
of that to say Rush was truly a phenomenal broadcaster.
He was a great patriot, an amazing human. From those
that I know that knew him, that he helped dearly
when they were ill and whatnot. So kudos to l. Rushbo,
(51:41):
to his memory, to his family. Grateful for the impact
that he made on my mentor the great one Mark Levin,
and I'm grateful for that. Now, something else I wanted
to get into. Wanted to talk about my mom. My
mom was born on the seventeenth of February, and she
passed away on the eighteenth of February, technically in her
(52:03):
you know, overnight that night and a week earlier, which
is my sister's birthday. She was hospitalized and it was
like a Code blue scenario. And me, being you know,
the smart ass that I am, I pull up to
the hospital after all this happens and I'm like, hey,
I shake her on the bed at tap he him
(52:25):
you're right, and she's like this and she's got this
oxygen mask on, and I go, are you dying? And
she looks at me and she says, pulls down the
oxygen mask and says, not until my birthday, puts it
back and let me tell you. Seven days later, on
seven days after the eleventh of February, which is my
(52:45):
sister's birthday, that's when she died, right one twenty two
a m. The night of her birthday. So I want
to dedicate so much of this to my mother, my success,
my my show, this particular broadcast. But I bring up
that story really to give you a piece of advice
to say, listen, there are people in your lives that
will make an impact on you. There are people, whether
(53:07):
it's l rushbo and write the tangential effect that he
had on Mark Levin and Mark Levin had directly on me,
or the direct effect that you have on people where
you're able to deal with them and partake with them
and celebrate with them, and keep them company and enjoy
life with them while they're here, because we really don't
(53:30):
know when the day will come where they won't be here.
And you don't want to have regret. Thankfully, I don't
have any. I live a lot of life with my parents,
both more with my dad than with my mom. I
don't regret any of that stuff. But all I can
do is when I see someone that's experiencing hardship right
(53:51):
and they're like, oh, I can't my mother, she's driving
me nuts, or my father or this one or that,
and they're so frustrated. All I could tell them is listen,
tell them my story, and I tell her, Hey, by
the time I was thirty nine, my dad was gone
and my mom had already been gone for a couple
of years. It's a tough spot to be. And sometimes
if you like your parents, I love my parents. If
you like your parents, you enjoy their input, you enjoy
(54:13):
their guidance, and guess what, give them a hug, say hello,
make that call, send that text, do what you gotta do.
Don't be a stranger, all right. I don't like to
get all sappy, but hey, it's my mama's day. I
start Approxima, take care, good night, and God bless you America.
I'm Rich Valdez.
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Welcome to our program. We are seventeen blocks away from
Madison Square Garden, New York City, here in our Times
Square studio, and if you want to give us a call,
you know the number eight seven seven Valdess one, eight
seven seven Valdez one. I want to get into a
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bunch of stuff tonight, but I want to start with
some of the news that's out there right there's a
lot of mental health news. I'm going into that a
little bit of detail, but first I want to talk
about Iran. I think we're about to strike Iran as
a bunch of stuff headed over that way. We might
have to bring in one of our generals to talk
about that in the next day or two. Keep that
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on standby what else we got. There was another one
that I just saw here, a very big thing. Oh
my gosh, the Reverend Jesse Jackson died. I remember I
was in fifth grade when Jesse Jackson ran for president
of these United States, and the Reverend Jesse Jackson he
was back then. He was very popular. I mean, people
loved him afterwards. I think maybe it was me getting
older and learning more about the Rainbow Push Coalition and
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how he involved DEI and all of that stuff. He
was like the inventory of that stuff, right, pushing himself
onto corporation, onto their boards, getting them to I guess
what some would say is integrate civil rights and things
like that, and others would say was a strong arming right.
But there was a funny story that was told to
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me by a former colleague of mine named Rudy Giuliani,
America's mayor. He told me when he was sitting mayor
that Reverend Jackson once called him and said, listen, I've
got to make it to some board of directors meeting
at X time. I got to catch a flight at
this time, so I need you to lock me up
for this protest that we're about to have asap. Do
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you think you could arrange that a VIP arrest? And
he said that was one of his first instances as
mayor of arranging a VIP arrest for the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
So rest in peace, Reverend, not somebody I knew, not
somebody I was a tremendous fan of, but somebody who
definitely left his mark on society. So God bless you, sir.
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And obviously it's the seventeenth of January, so couple of
things happen on the seventeenth, the Jani There's a lot
of death on this date, not just Reverend Jackson.
Speaker 8 (03:05):
But the U.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
This is the evening that my mama went to be
with the Lord overnight on the seventeenth. The seventeenth is
actually her birthday. I'll get into that more maybe in
the fourth segment. And L Rushbo, right, L Rushbo also
this is his big day, So quick comment on L.
Rushbo and I'll get into him a little bit maybe
in the fourth segment as well. But Rush Limbaugh, what
(03:31):
an absolute legend in this game, right, I mean, many
of us, at least me, I can tell you. I'm
sitting here today because I had a mentor. When I
was serving as a producer for the Mark Levin Show.
Mark Levin was mentored by L Rushbo. Without L Rushbo,
there is no Mark Levin, there is no Rich Valdez.
Isn't that something, or at least it seems that way
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to me? I mean, maybe God had a bigger plan
and we use different people but different players, but that
is how it went down. So kudos to L. Rushbo.
His memory lives on for sure and mental health. Right,
I went, oh, how could I forget the shooter? There
was a shooting, local tragedy. Right, Listen to this shooting
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at a hockey game in paw Tucket, Rhode Island. Multiple
people were killed others were critically injured. After this shooting
at a high school hockey rink occurred. The shooter is
among three that were killed. And this shooter was a
man dressed as a woman. They say had gender affirming surgery.
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I don't know what that means. I don't know if
that means he had his breasts done or if he
had a vagina created out of his manhood. I don't know,
but I do know that he looked like a dude,
bigger guns than me, and I work out a little
bit so, And I don't mean to be disrespectful of
the dead. It was just it's clear to me, right
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that when you see someone like this that they are
suffering when they can easily look in the mirror. I
look in the mirror, and if I ever come at
you like a woman, please somebody shake me right. Tell me, bro,
you don't look good as a woman. You're a very
manly looking dude. I wouldn't look good as I have
no hair. This guy had the long hair and all that.
It still didn't work. Anyway, That's not the point. The
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point is we have so many of these shootings that
are going on, and mental health continues to be an
issue in our country, and it's something that I want
to talk about on this program, and we're going to
do it tonight with America's psychiatrist, doctor Carol Lieberman is
going to join us in the next segment, So keep
it locked right here for that. But I want to
talk about some other health issues that are going on,
(05:41):
because yesterday or the day before, I mentioned that Secretary
Kennedy had brought to the attention of the American public
that changing your diet and adding protein using the keto
diet somehow can help alleviate or even cure schizophrenia. So
we're going to talk about that in a moment as well.
But a few other things happen on that front, on
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the mental health front, and I got them right here
in front of me that I thought were really interesting.
Number one, This is kind of a drive by here,
but there's a rapid acting depression treatment called SPLO to six.
Sure whatever that means. Anyway, This apparently you can take
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a dosage to this and you'll see a statistically significant
reduction in depressive symptoms in just one week, and these
effects last up to six months in some patients. Interesting.
Here's another thing. If you spend two hours a day
or sixteen hours a week on social media, you are
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likely suffering from loneliness and isolation. And that makes sense
right by yourself. So you're like, hey, oh what's going on? Yeah,
look at this, how I'm scrolling here? It's a good
idea to get out, get some good old sunlight in
your life, right, I get it. There's days I had
a weekend recently. I don't think I went out from
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Friday to Monday. I was so busy doing stuff around
the house, getting different things in order for things I
had to do. So I get it. We have time
like that, but on the regular, work on your tan.
You gotta work on your tan. Listen to this. I
don't know if you know what a hippocampus is, but apparently,
depending on the size of yours or your hyperthealmus, you
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might be more susceptible to certain mental illnesses than others.
How about that one? This isn't the one. This is
the one I want to talk about.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Here is this.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Coffee, yet again being labeled as increasing your risk for dementia.
Now every couple of months, it seems like there's a
coffee revelation, Right, you get this revelation on coffee, and
it's either it's the best thing ever for you and
it helps heart disease, it helps this disease, it helps that,
or it's exacerbating them. I don't on that. If we
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have time, we'll get to that with doctor Carroll as well.
And this this comes up every couple of months. It
seems to be getting worse. The rise of AI therapists,
AI chatbots that people are using like chat, GPT and
other groc and whatever else is out there as their therapist.
(08:22):
This is pretty wild because it's just an advanced search
engine that's getting you some information and it pieces things
together for you. But it's not somebody who understood how
you feel and how things work. But yet this is
what people are resorting to. Why because they're spending too
much time on social media sixteen hours a week scrolling, scrolling,
so they're suffering from depression and isolation and loneliness. I
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got to tell you, this stuff is out of control
and it's sad to see that it's happening. But that
was I think that was the last story in my
mental health loop over here that I wanted to talk about,
and I felt that that was important to talk about
because mental health seems to be the overarching issue when
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it comes to there's another shooter. Was he trans Yes?
Speaker 8 (09:10):
He was?
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Why does that keep happening? Right? We see that time
and again. And this is not to make people that
are trands feel bad in any way. This is really
my hope is that somebody will hear this, or know
somebody or see somebody and not get offended and they'll
actually say, you know what, it's important that we help
people that need help. In this regard, it's important that
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we say, hey, it's not okay for you to believe
that you're something that you're not. And I don't mean
like I want to be an astronaut, I'm an astronaut. No, no, no,
I mean really living your life as if you are
the opposite sex because you think that you're in the
wrong body, or because you think that somehow that is
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the right thing to do. This is wrong. Not wrong
because it's morally wrong, although I'm sure I could make
a debate for that, but it's wrong because it's just
not how you were created. It's not how you're designed.
And I feel like I'm preaching to a choir here,
and I don't want to get too caught up into this,
but I feel like we've given a pass right there
people that are like, oh my gosh, I identify as
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trans and we're like, yeah, high five, good job, you rock.
That's not good. These people going and shooting people. This
stuff is not because of something good that's happening. This
is not because of something that we should be celebrating.
This is a serious, a deep cause for concern, something
that is taking the lives of other people. These people
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said that this man had a history of mental health issues.
His family indicated that he was under serious psychiatric care
and medication because clearly he wasn't well and a lot
of these troubles stemmed from him saying he wanted to
be a woman. So yeah, I'm sure I'm going to
offend somebody somewhere and I'm going to say, look, it's
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not okay. Right. There are some people that are suffering
from the trans issue that is a mental issue, and
then there's some people that are trendy trands that they're like, oh,
the cool thing to do is identify as this, or
identify as that, or there's a new thing called Therian
where people are identifying as dogs. I'm not making it up.
There's furries. There's all sorts of crazy out there, and
(11:22):
I don't mean to call people crazy, but that's the
word that comes to mind. So that's the word I'm
going to use. Anyway. We're going to get into that
stuff with doctor Carol Lieberman. She's going to join us
next to give us an update on what's going on
with Savannah Guthrie's mom. Was she kidnapped, is she harmed?
Is she in Mexico. What is the story. We're going
to get an update. Doctor Carroll's a regular on Core TV.
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She's also america psychiatrist. She has been doing this a
lot longer than many of us have been around. She's
an expert. She's been diagnosing crazy people and creating profiles.
I said crazy again, right, But she's been doing it
so hence the days of nine to eleven where she
became known as the terrorist Therapist. Keep it locked right here,
(12:05):
it's me Rich Valdes. We're coming right back with doctor
Carol Lieberman.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
This is America. This is America. He's got the best
head of hair and podcasting. This is America with Rich Valdez.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
What's up America. Welcome back. I am Rich Valdez Valdez
with an s at Rich Valdez on all of the
social media. And as promised, I've got somebody I like
to call America's terrorist therapist.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
Right.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
She garnered that name back when she was looking into
the nine to eleven hijackers. Since then, doctor Carol Lieberman,
America's psychiatrist, has been a numerab numerous trials as an
expert witness, and she's our guest now, Doctor Carol, welcome.
Thank you so much, my pleasure. Doctor Carroll, I want
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to ask you a question about the news. Right we're
looking at the news and I see there's a guy
that gets into a I guess a rage is what
we can call it with respect to the family, saying
that he was undergoing hormone therapy and all sorts of things.
This trans shooter in Rhode Island.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
At least two people are dead after that shooter opened
fire at a high school hockey game in Rhode Island
in what police are calling a targeted attack.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Listen.
Speaker 9 (13:32):
Upon arrival, police were met with several people obviously inside
the arena and there was two casualties within the arena.
The suspect was confirmed as one of those casualties. Later on,
we learned that another casualty from the shooting was at
the hospital that they succumbed to their injuries.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
After being at the hospital.
Speaker 9 (13:49):
And there's three additional victims at the hospital that all
are in critical condition.
Speaker 10 (13:53):
At this time, it.
Speaker 9 (13:54):
Appears that this was a targeted event, that it may be.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
A family dispute.
Speaker 8 (13:59):
Well yet to identify any of the victims. An ATF
source tells us that the gunman shot his wife and
two kids before turning the gun on himself, dying from
a self inflicted gunshot.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Won't.
Speaker 8 (14:11):
Police have identified the shooter as fifty six year old
Robert Borgan, but say he may have identified as transgender,
going by the name Roberta Esposito. An unnamed woman who
claims to be the shooter's daughter telling reporters that he
had mental health issues and that he was very sick. Meantime,
authorities are praising a good samaritan who stepped in to
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subdue the shooter, saying their actions led to a swift
end of the attack. Officials are still investigating, but are
expected to provide updates at a press conference later today.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
He went by the name I think his name is Robert.
He went by the name Roberta. The whole thing seems
very wild. What can you tell us about it?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Well, you know, there's been an increase in the number
of transmass shooters. It's becoming a real phenomenon, and there
are a number of reasons why.
Speaker 11 (15:06):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
This particular man very interesting. I was just reading today
about how he married his cousin once removed, the woman
who he shot his ex wife. She was actually also
his cousin. But anyhow, you know, the problem is and
he apparently his children. He had gender affirming surgery in
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twenty twenty, and before then though, he was already having
lots of family problems his kids. He had six kids
by three different women, and so he was rather active
as a male before he changed a roberta right, and
they didn't like him apparently, And then he had problems
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with his in laws once he had his gender affirming surgery.
They wanted him to get out of their house or
his house that they owned or something. They evicted him.
And then his wife, of course, when he got this surgery,
she divorced him, and she put for the reasons why
she divorced him that he had this changed his gender
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or at least you know, via the surgery, and also
that he was narcissistic. And then the courts, I guess
made her take across that out and just put irreconcilable differences.
So there were a lot of things in his life
that were really falling apart and for a while from
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before the time he got this surgery. So you know,
part of what happens. I mean, these are people who
there are people who are trans who are authentically trans.
In other words, they are born. When they were born,
there were hormones going around their mother's womb that affected them,
and then they had in their early childhood, they had
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relationships with their parents were skewed, and that can cause someone.
Then of course, we always have all the you know,
the chemicals that are in all the things we eat
and drink, so all of those things could actually create
someone who is authentically trans, you know, really believes that
they were born in the wrong body. The majority of
people today are not authentically trans. They have been convinced
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that they are trans, or they have been convinced that
if they changed from a man to a woman or
a woman to a man, their life would be great.
And they believe that, and so they had, you know,
took hormones or had surgery or you know, did something.
But they're filled with anger. They're actually they they loathe themselves.
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They're filled with self loathing. And when people don't want
to believe that they are whatever they are, like let's
say a man's saying that he's a woman, then they are,
their anger goes from self loathing to expressing it to
other people, like how dare you not believe what they
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want to be in control and so you know, so
this man, I guess he had finally he came to
his breaking point.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Yeah, Robert Dorgan the individual again in question here who
killed these people? And you know, doctor Carroll, I guess
my question to you hear is what you were talking about,
this self loathing and then it becomes explosive. Is this
kind of what we see when we see these videos?
At least I see them. I don't know about what
your social media looks like, but when I'm scrolling through
X or Instagram, I see a lot of videos lamentably
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of people that are just violent and their trends. They're
usually men that are just very aggressive. They want to fight,
they get into fights. I've seen a million different of
these videos, not a million, but plenty of them where
they just they start punching people and they get into
these things that normal people, I think, don't get into
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these incidents. Yes, and I don't know if normal people
is the right word forgive me.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Well, people who aren't trans also get into these kinds
of fights. But really, there is just such an anger
and increasing anger rage that's been growing in our society.
We see it in political divisiveness. We see it in
these mass shootings. It's just it's just out there. It's
been growing, and people are angry at them at their
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own lives, you know, dissatisfied, angry that their life isn't
you know that they're not I don't know Tom Cruise,
although I guess he's not doing much well. He is,
you know what I mean, Julia Roberts or something like that,
and some some fantasy kind of life, and they're angry
that their life isn't like that, and so they want
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to take it out on everybody else. They feel that
they were entitled to have whatever their fantasy was, you know,
to to live that, and when they don't have that,
they just explode.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Folks were on with doctor Carol Lieberman. She's America's psychiatrist.
She knows exactly what's going on when it comes to
these crazy things. And forgive me for using the word crazy,
but when people come to their breaking point and mental health,
doctor Carol Lieberman is there to tell us exactly what's
going on with the play by play, doctor Carrol, to
put a pin.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
In this thing.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Do you see the trans situation that we're having in
our country getting better or getting worse.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Well, it's getting worse because number one, there are more
people who it's like a pandemic. There are more people
who have been convinced. You know, part of it came
from talking about pandemics. Part of it came from COVID
when kids, you know, when they were kept out of
school for one or two or three years and then
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they came back and everything was very awkward, and they
really didn't they were very low us and when teachers
would tell them or their social media would tell them
that all you have to do is to just change
your your gender and and life will be great. And
then now they're realizing and a lot of people, of
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course did have hormones and surgery and all that, and
now a lot of people are realizing that they want
to de transition because no, the grass wasn't greener, and
so that is making them angry as well, like like
because they were really there were.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Collateral damage, unintended consequences, yes, and so so of course
that you know.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
They were right to be angry about that. Really that
they were, they were lied to, and it was just
all in all because of the left wanting to destroy
the the basic family, you know, the and this is
one way that they were doing it, you.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Know, doctor Carroll, I think that's an important point we
can end on. And it's it's fascinating because over the years,
I've interviewed a few individuals that were transd and detransitioned,
and some of what they've said was that they felt
they had to do it because when they were going
through this mental episode, uh, these feelings, they would go
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to the parents, and the doctors would push the parents,
coerce the parents and tell them you'd rather have a
living whatever gender than a dead whatever you had. And
this kind of emotional blackmail is wild.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yes, all of these lies, and I mean it certainly
is true. They would tell the parents that their child
would commit suicide if they didn't do this gender affirming care.
Now it's interesting that fortunately they're between Trump, you know,
putting like for example, at NYU just close their transitioning.
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The car saw that and and you know, they partly
because Trump was they knew that he was going to
take money away from their program. But it wasn't just that.
I mean, that was sort of the I think probably
the biggest push. But now there have started to be
cases where people who want to de transition are suing
the doctors and the hospitals where they were convinced to
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transition in the first place. And so you know that
certainly a lot of doctors are realizing, wait a sec,
and I better get out of here or I'm gonna
be sued.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Yeah, you know, I think when you hit people in
the pocketbook, that's when it usually wakes people up, right.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
And I just want to say, you know, the main
problem is, and it's kind of sad for the what
I was saying at the beginning, the people who are
authentically trans. If all of these places close, there won't
be gender affirming care for people who really authentically are
trans and would need that, because I think they're all
going to close.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
So what do you recommend for someone like that, someone
that you know legitimately they say, Hey, my kid came
to me. They feel like they are the opposite gender.
They want to get hormones and whatever I'm telling them
not to. What advice do you do?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Well, first of all, they shouldn't be doing anything until
they're at least eighteen, because they cannot possibly understand what
it would mean to not be able to have kids
or all the other things that going that direction would
cause you know, now, of course, the other the argument
to that is, well, yes, but if they get past puberty,
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it's going to be a lot harder to change these things.
You know, Really they need to be in therapy. And
that's the key problem that all of these clinics don't
really do enough evaluation psychological evaluation to determine, you know,
whether this is someone who really has gender dysphoria or
whether it's just some whim. You know, if they really
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did sufficient you know, I'm talking about like six months
at least of evaluation treatment, they would find that a
lot of these things they're not, you know, not that
they want to be the other gender, it's that they're
because their parents are getting divorced or some other problem.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
Absolutely, I mean, he goes, We're on with doctor Carrol Liberman.
We're coming right back and we're gonna tackle yet another one.
Right this topic is gonna be the update on Nancy
Guthrie Summer saying that maybe she's in Mexico. Others are
saying maybe she wasn't even kidnapped. Uh. Doctor Carrol always
has her finger on the pulse with the Guthrie stuff,
because she's a regular on Core TV. Keep it locked
(25:25):
right here. I'm Rich Valdez coming back with our guest
doctor Carol Liberman.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
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Speaker 4 (25:42):
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Speaker 3 (25:52):
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Speaker 7 (25:55):
Conservative talk with a dash of Sofrito. Now here's.
Speaker 10 (26:03):
Following breaking news in the search for Nancy Gothrie. News
Nation sources confirming the FBI has contacted Mexican authorities in
connection to this case. Senior correspondent Brian Inton is live
for US in Tucson. So Brian, breaking news here. But
you just spoke with Sheriff Nanos last night. He said
then that they don't have evidence to suggest Nancy was
(26:24):
taken to Mexico.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, and I don't think there is any evidence to
say that Nancy is in Mexico. But at the same time,
this is what's new and interesting. There is a federal
law enforcement source who confirmed to our Libbydan that the
FBI has now been in contact with Mexican authorities in
connection with the Nancy Gothrie case. So obviously they are
keeping that possibility open. And remember, the border is very
(26:51):
very close to where I am right now, in Nancy
Gothrie's house. It's just about an hour to an hour
and a half from here. It's close to where we
saw that swat raid the other night in connection with
the case. So now officially the FBI is in contact
with Mexican officials. I've been talking to sources here on
the ground for the last couple of weeks. All have
said the same thing that this does not appear at
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all to be cartel related. It shows no signs of
cartel involvement. Frankly, just because the cartel is very organized
in what they do and precise and they wouldn't go
in and kidnap an older woman this way. And then
what we saw in the video in terms of, you know,
putting grass in front of the camera, they're just you know,
(27:34):
better at it than that. They would have pulled the
camera right away. So there's no signs that it's cartel related.
But that doesn't mean that whoever did this did not
take Nancy to Mexico. It's two separate issues there, which
could be the reason now we're finding out that the
FBI has been in contact with Mexican authorities.
Speaker 10 (27:51):
Nicole and Brian really quickly back to your one on
one interview with the sheriff last night. He does tell
you he is confident that this case will be solved.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
All right, America, Welcome back, Rich Valdez, keeping your company tonight.
Happy to be here with you, and we are live
from Times Square with our guest, doctor Carol Lieberman keeping
us company tonight and doctor Carol Liberman, welcome back. I
want you to give us. You know, we had a
little clip. There's news clips all over the place where
people are hearing different things on this Nancy Guthrie case.
(28:21):
I know that you keep your ear to the ground
on these types of cases, these national cases. Talk to us,
tell us what you know.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
It's a tragic case, of course, because she's eighty four
years old. Well, first of all, what's really tragic is
that how could someone, how could an adult child who
has the means, you know, especially who has the means
like Savannah Guthrie, has let their mother stay in a
house all by herself without really a good, well working
(28:51):
enough of a security system, a stronger security system. Nobody else,
you know, you know, no housekeeper living with her or
or at least coming more often. I mean it was
she was, and it's a very very well people have
seen the photos. You know, it's a very desolate area.
I mean, we're not talking about living in an apartment
in New York. She's really out in the middle of
(29:14):
the desert. And I mean that was just poor. I
really don't understand how someone could do that, first of all.
Second of all, kind of similar to that. I don't
understand why Savannah hasn't raised from the beginning, didn't raise,
didn't put in money to for the for the reward
(29:37):
for information number one, it started out as fifty thousand
or I think it started out, and then now it's
finally gotten to two hundred thousand. But because somebody donated,
not her so that and then there were the ransom.
There's no you know, she made a video saying we're
(29:57):
gonna pay blah blah blah, but she hasn't paid put
any money in to the ransom. I don't understand that,
you know. I just I can't help thinking if that
were my mother, you know, And and let's say they
wanted a million dollars and I didn't have a million dollars,
I'd big borrow and steel to get a million dollars
to put the money into the reward and into the ransom.
Speaker 7 (30:17):
And so on. Now, I just want to backtrack a
little bit because I remember initially that it had taken
some time before they even asked for any ransom, and
they had caught a guy and they let a guy go.
What's the latest with the ransom?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
I mean, I think, you know, they're asking for money
to be bitcoin to be put into this. I don't know,
I'm not really familiar with bitcoin, but like to send
it to this particular place, which I would think, you know,
Apparently some people are saying, you can then detect whose
(30:50):
pocketbook that.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Is, you know who who's crypto wallet?
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, right, not a pocket but go wallet, and and
so you know, I don't I don't see the downside.
Some people are saying, well, she must have been told
not to put more money, and I don't know, I
don't get it.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
I don't Also, I would presume, so I would imagine
that somebody like Savannah got three as much as she
would want to say, I don't want the FBI. I'm
pretty sure they're in her ear, in her house, on
her phone, you know, guiding every step of the way,
and and and tell me what you've heard about this,
because I've heard that now the FBI is pursuing leads
into into Mexico. What do you know about that?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I think that, I mean, it's about time, because you know,
it's interesting because they didn't find a DNA match in
Codis and one explanation could be and it's because the
person who abducted her is from Mexico and went back
to Mexico and wouldn't be in Codis unless he committed
a crime in America, a different previous crime. So yes,
(31:58):
I think, you know, I think they've been moving so slowly,
and she has a pacemaker, she's on cardiac drunks, she
would be on probably you know, usually people with pacemakers
are on drugs for blood thinners, you know, which could
explain part of why her blood was on the ground,
you know, that it would be more it would be
(32:18):
thinner than usual normal people's, and then other medication for
her heart. So I mean, it's not just about that
she's eighty four. That's not that old if you're in
good shape, But she has all these medical conditions and
so every day makes it more and more likely that
she's not going to be alive.
Speaker 7 (32:38):
Such a sad story. Lastly, I saw a clip and
I played it on the show a couple of days
ago of Secretary RFK Bobby Kennedy making an announcement that
I think it was Stamford had discovered a connection or
what he labeled a cure for schizophrenia in the keto diet,
(33:00):
saying high protein would help you and changing your diet
would eliminate this.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Doctor paulin up at Harvard has cured schizophrenia using keto diets.
There are studies right now that I saw it two
days ago where people lose their bipolar diagnosis by by
changing their diet. It's not only affecting our physical health,
it's affecting our mental health as well. And we're asking
(33:27):
people now eat real food.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
I eat protein. He seemed to say this with a
lot of certifude. This is something I know that you
have a very good understanding of, not only because you're
a psychiatrist, but because you did your residency at Bellevue
specializing in mental health. And I'm a New Yorker and
that's where you were back in the days that I
remember as a kid. That was the joke, right, They're
(33:51):
going to go to Bellevue because they're nuts, right, so
you know you were there with all of those people
dealing with those mental health challenges. I'm not saying he's
right or wrong. I do believe that food plays a
huge role in so many things and this might be
a big breakthrough. But what is your take on Well,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I think and then apparently this was something that historically
it was discovered. You know, I do think that there
are certain things with food or you know, that can
that can help people with different kinds of mental illnesses.
With schizophrenia though, the only thing that I would caution
(34:31):
is that sometimes things come along, whether it's wheat or
whether it's you know, or even just or some people
are saying like there are different parts of your brain
that if you do certain kinds of stimulation. You know,
that's all great and if they work, great, But the
(34:52):
key to schizophrenia, to bipolar disorder, to any psychiatric disorder
is in understanding where where that started from. In other words, well,
first of all, schizophrenia is genetic. It's passed down genetically.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
You can't catch it.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
You can't really catch it, but certainly, you know there
are things that can make it worse to make it better.
But but my caution is that you have to look
at the family system, and you have to look at
that person's life, what is going They don't just pop up,
And especially now with we've talked about marijuana, you know,
marijuana making someone with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder all of
(35:35):
a sudden they manifest their symptoms.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
Not because you're saying dormant, right, we talked about that
a couple of months ago. Yeah, somebody that has it,
but we never knew they had it until they smoked
weed and then they got high and that repeated use
exacerbated it.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Yes, right, So I just would hate to take away
from the understanding of the psychological aspects. I mean, in
addition to wed and so on, there are things, There
are reasons why certain things are manifest at certain times, and.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
Not just so.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I don't like the idea of just looking at one thing.
But it has to do also with you know, what
was happening in that person's life when they had their
first episode of schizophrenia. That's very important. The first episode
is usually in the late teens to mid twenties, and
that's a time when you know there are a lot
of things going on in people. They sometimes they leave
(36:31):
home for the first time, they go to college or
go out of town, they have relationships, you know, there's
a lot of confusion and chaos in their life, and
so you have to kind of look at those kinds
of things as well.
Speaker 7 (36:48):
If it's determined that they were going through something that's
very emotional, I don't know, maybe a breakup or the
loss of a career, or the loss of a loved one,
you have some sort of loss, traumatic loss. Would would
those stressors be How would that be significant for you
as as a psychiatrist.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Well, it's just that it would be a place to
start to try to direct treatment. In other words, you
wouldn't want to just you wouldn't want to just look
at the physical, whether it's you know, keto or whether
it's a medication or you have to look at that
alone isn't going to take care. A medication alone doesn't
(37:30):
cure anything. You have to look at what's going on
in their life and what and you try to resolve
the underlying problem of at least this episode of.
Speaker 7 (37:39):
What triggered it. What triggered it exactly makes a lot
of sense, Doctor Carol, What do you think happens from
from here on out with with respect to this change
our diet, change our life stuff, I'm all for it.
I don't think it's the end all, be all of everything,
but I think it's a great first step. As you know,
I've told you a bunch of time, I don't take
(38:00):
anything for my ADHD. I just bounce off the walls
a lot. But I have since i've stopped using things
that have red dyet number forty and yellow the if
I forget the number there, I have felt a little
bit more focused. So I think that there's truth in
that stuff. Do you think how long before we see
I guess a lot of these things coming to fruition
(38:21):
because I know they've stopped using a lot of these
ingredients since I think President.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Yes, I think it's great that this has been happening.
You know, there is so much bad stuff in our food,
even in our water, and I think that the faster
we can well. I mean, obviously you don't want to rush,
you don't want to make mistakes, but I mean I
think it's a great plan to make our diets healthier,
(38:51):
to get rid of all these these kinds of additives.
You know, even things that are in the water in
our diet that can change our sexuality, change our you know,
there are all kinds of things.
Speaker 7 (39:06):
That have that come follow up on that. For years,
people have suggested that fluoride in the water could could
do that, both for for various people. And I remember
we we joked around a lot about that, saying, hey,
you get that flora in your water, you might not gay.
What do we know about that today scientifically, Well, you know,
(39:30):
I think.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
It's I think the jury is still somewhat out. There's
still study, there are still studies being done on it.
I know that rf K Junior wants to get rid
of the florid in general for various reasons. I don't
know that it was specifically that he was thinking specifically
of that, but but yes, there are studies relating to
(39:51):
how floride can can can affect your your intelligence, things
like that. I mean, we need to to look at
all of these things. I mean, originally it was thought
the reason they had they added fluoride for your teeth,
you know, that was the original thought. Put it in
your water and you'll have healthier teeth. That's great, But
(40:13):
then if other things that you're affected that are more important.
You know, there's still tooth based.
Speaker 7 (40:20):
It may not be worth it, doctor Carol. When you
talk about the additives and water that may affect sexuality,
what what other additives are part of that conversation?
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Well, I you know, I I mean I don't. I
can't tell you specifically which ones because it really is
still you know, you see different studies. Every once in
a while, the study pops up that talks about something.
Speaker 7 (40:48):
In the metals and other things.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I mean, for example, yes, for example, they were they
did a study where the frog there were frogs. Did
you hear about the frogs.
Speaker 7 (40:56):
Study where and the frogs were gay?
Speaker 9 (40:59):
Right?
Speaker 11 (41:00):
Right?
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Right? So it's things like that. But I don't know
that there's been any putting all those studies together.
Speaker 7 (41:07):
To make a conclusion to the jury is still out
drinking bottled water just.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Then if you drink bottled water in a plastic.
Speaker 7 (41:19):
Bottle, right, that's right. You gotta drink bottled water out
of glass. That's great, doctor Carol Liberman. Let everybody know
how they can keep in touch with you, how they
can follow you, and how they can check out more
of your work.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Sure well, they can go to Twitter or x I'm
at at doctor Carrol MD, which is at d R
C A R O L E M D or Terrorist
Therapist dot com or Expert Witness Forensic Psychiatrist dot com outstanding.
Speaker 7 (41:51):
Make sure you check her out on Core TV, go
to her website, give her a follow. I follow her
on X She's fantastic at doctor Carol MD. She's to
I recommend her and keep a lock right here. I'm
Rich Valdez. We're coming right back, all right, I mean,
he goes, welcome back. It's Rich Valdez, keeping your company
here and again our phone number eight seven seven Valdez one.
I may not be able to get the calls I
(42:11):
may or may not be able to. We'll see A
how many are in the queue, and b if there's time,
because a few things I want to cover. There's a
bunch of things I want to mention. It's Marty Gras.
Of course. The actor Shilah Boof was locked up in
New Orleans. Why, I have no idea. Why do I care? No,
I honestly don't care Shilah Boof. I don't even know
what movies he's in, but apparently he's an actor. So anyway,
(42:34):
enough about him. I just mentioned it because well I
should not have. Honestly, What I do want to mention
is that there's a bunch of interesting videos I'm seeing.
There was a video of these ups one ups delivery
guy who was running away from wild turkeys while making
deliveries to multiple houses on this block, and I thought
it was a hysterical and B if we could queue
(42:56):
it up, do you think we could get that mister? Yep,
hopefully if we can, we can get that up. I'm
I'm gonna play it in here so that you guys
could take a look at it, because I thought it
was very funny. But something that I do want you
to see is a video that I saw the other
day that really I was like whoa. And I think
I mentioned it, but I didn't get to it a
couple of nights ago, and it's this, Well you know,
(43:17):
I'm gonna play the video for you, But the preface
to it is it's really every parent's worst nightmare, or
at least one of your worst nightmares.
Speaker 11 (43:25):
Right.
Speaker 7 (43:25):
It's when your kid is trying to do the right
thing and take an Uber home and the Uber driver
decides to do something else.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
This morning. Dramatic surveillance video captures the moment a frightened
fifteen year old girl sprinted to safety after an alleged
attempted kidnapping.
Speaker 11 (43:44):
My whole world just shattered.
Speaker 5 (43:46):
Utah mom Karina Ramirez says she called a lift for
her daughter, Caitlin Saturday to take her to an appointment.
Then just moments after the driver picked her daughter up,
she says she received a chilling phone call.
Speaker 11 (43:58):
She's like, mom, you just counsel the lift and I
was like, no, I didn't. She's like, yeah, the driver
is stating that you canceled the lift and I was like, Katelyn,
he just canceled the ride.
Speaker 4 (44:11):
He did it.
Speaker 5 (44:11):
She says it was the driver who canceled the ride,
offering to drive Caitlyn to her destination anyway, But when
Karina used a location sharing app to track her daughter's location,
she says the car was moving in the wrong direction.
Speaker 11 (44:24):
She was like, sir, I need to get out. I
can hear it in her voice that it changed, and
she went, Mommy, he's not listening to me. Mommy, he's
not stopping the car.
Speaker 5 (44:35):
That's when Ramire says she told her daughter to get
out of the car and run as fast as she could.
Police are currently investigating. In a statement, Lift saying the
horrifying incident is reprehensible, adding they have removed the driver
from the lift platform and stand ready to assist law
enforcement with any investigation.
Speaker 11 (44:52):
I'm happy she took control of the situation. And to me,
she's just a brave teenager terrified.
Speaker 7 (45:00):
No, he's the father of a daughter that was Rhiann
and Ali reporting.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
Police say it is too early to say if the
driver will face any charges.
Speaker 12 (45:08):
And this all happened just a few days before Lift
announced new teen accounts designed for teens ages thirteen to seventeen,
where parents can monitor rides in the app. Lift says
it's safe for teens, but authority say teens should share
their location with family members, follow along with the ride
share with GPS, and request pickups and drop offs at
public locations.
Speaker 7 (45:29):
And that is a report from ABC News in California.
And forgive me, it wasn't Uber, it was lyft. But
come on, that is crazy, right, You're like, hey, where
are you all the guys going this way? You're going
the wrong way. This is an attempt at kidnapping, at
least it seems that way to me. Now, listen, if
you're the uber driver, the lyft driver, excuse me, and
you're thinking, all right, well, you know, let me go
(45:49):
this way because it's a better way. No, that's why
everybody can see the route you're supposed to take. You're
not supposed to just go and pick your own way
to get somewhere. That's in especially with a fifteen year
old girl in your car. This is not what I
would want from my kid. And my kids aren't even
fifteen anymore. They're legal adults. But I don't want that
(46:10):
for them. It wasn't that long ago. A few months ago,
my daughter was visiting from Virginia. She went to Hoboken
with some of her friends. It's kind of party town
in Jersey. And yeah, I guess who was there me?
I was there. I was outside of my big SUV waiting.
I was their driver. I made sure that I stayed
there because what if they need you? Right? And maybe
that's just me being a little, you know, extra, a
(46:31):
little overprotective, But I just don't trust a lot of people.
And I know a lot of people will say you
gotta trust more. Maybe I will, you know, maybe when
they're thirty thirty eight, forty forty two right, I'll feel
a little bit better about their situations then, but while
they're still young, you know, hey call me crazy. And
this mom, kudos to her. She did the right thing,
(46:52):
Absolutely did the right thing. This is the type of
thing that would make anybody medio local right. Anyway, I
want to move on from that, and I want to
get into a few things, right. I mentioned a few
things earlier and I said I'd get to them a
little bit later tonight, and I want to get to those.
One of those things is l Rushbo. L Rushbo obviously
(47:15):
an icon and talk radio somebody that when he passed away,
it was truly something that at least people in my
business we felt it. Right, everybody felt it. I was like, Wow,
it's the end of an era. And having the opportunity
that I know not many people have had, Right, I
got to start my radio career not in a small
(47:37):
mid market somewhere in America, but in market number one,
New York City, the biggest market on the planet, and
at the world famous WABC seventeen blocks from here, right
twenty ninth Street, thirty it's Madison Square Garden right seventeen
fours above Madison Square Garden is where our studios were.
And those studios, I think they were built in the
eighties and that's when l Rushbo started his show. He
(47:59):
was in two of the different studios there, but the
last one was known as the Rush Limbo Studio. And
while I was at WABC, you would think that this
just hollowed ground, it'd be roped off, none of the above.
It was a storage room. They had taken all the
mics out. They didn't really use it for anything other
than to just keep furniture and stuff in there. And
during COVID, word had gotten out that I was a
(48:23):
barber before I had become a broadcaster. And yes, lo
and behold people that I worked with, my colleagues like
America's Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the Guardian Angel of New York himself,
Curtis Slieb. But these guys were like, hey, can you
cut my hair? And guess where we did it. I
brought the clippers in, brought my scissors in, and we
did it in the old Rush Limbo studio. And if
(48:43):
you dig hard enough, you'll probably find somewhere on my
Twitter or my Instagram or somewhere on the Internet, you
can find videos of those things happening back in twenty
twenty during the COVID lockdowns where nobody can get a haircut.
But it was very cool to have started my radio
career in the same place that Limbos started his national show,
(49:05):
and it was just to me, it was legendary. It
was an iconic place to be. You know, ninety five
to five w PLJ, nash FM. There's a couple other
stations there, but those are the ones most people knew
in WNBM. And point was, Rush was one of those
people that love him or hate him. Most people knew him,
(49:26):
had heard of him, had an opinion formed about whether
they liked him or not. And it was it was
just great to see the master in action when you
could watch right, when you could see him do his thing.
He would snap paper as a sound effect. Because again radio,
and this is what I love about radio. If I
were to sit here and go all right and the
next story, it wouldn't be as cool, right because I'm
(49:48):
on video. You guys can see me. You're watching me
on Roku TV or on rumble dot com or however
you're catching the clips of this on social media. But
if you're listening to it and it's theater of the mind.
It becomes so much more or dramatic, it becomes What
he was known for was putting on an amazing show.
And he was a smart guy. He was a good debater.
He was a well informed patriot, no question. But he
(50:11):
was also very talented when it came to holding a
radio audience and creating a picture. And some of the
advice that he gave to Levin, which Levin in turn
gave to me. The advice was you're the show, right
And when I got it, it was kind of like
Mark Levin telling listen, Ritchie, you're the show, and he
was right right. He was explaining to me that, you know,
you don't need a guest, you don't need the phone calls,
(50:33):
you don't need anything. Just you be the show, be
the story, be be what people are tuning in for.
And it's not something you do or don't do right's.
It was more of a mindset of don't lean on
things as a crutch, and Rush never did that. Rush
did his three hours a day, occasionally bringing in a guest,
but not because he needed a guest, and not playing
(50:55):
and not doing as many, not nearly as many calls
as I would take. I enjoyed taking calls, right, I
love hearing from people. But Rush was a prescient and
prolific guy that had a lot to say. I oftentimes
have a lot to say, but it's not very prescient
or prolific. It's more, you know, more of what's in
here and coming out through here. And I really do
(51:16):
enjoy the conversation with you, with the people Miami, goos
all across America, the Valdez vipiece. But I sing all
of that to say Rush was truly a phenomenal broadcaster.
He was a great patriot, an amazing human. From those
that I know that knew him, that he helped dearly
when they were ill and whatnot. So kudos to l. Rushbo,
(51:41):
to his memory, to his family. Grateful for the impact
that he made on my mentor the great one Mark Levin,
and I'm grateful for that. Now, something else I wanted
to get into. Wanted to talk about my mom. My
mom was born on the seventeenth of February, and she
passed away on the eighteenth of February, technically in her
(52:03):
you know, overnight that night and a week earlier, which
is my sister's birthday. She was hospitalized and it was
like a Code blue scenario. And me, being you know,
the smart ass that I am, I pull up to
the hospital after all this happens and I'm like, hey,
I shake her on the bed at tap he him
(52:25):
you're right, and she's like this and she's got this
oxygen mask on, and I go, are you dying? And
she looks at me and she says, pulls down the
oxygen mask and says, not until my birthday, puts it
back and let me tell you. Seven days later, on
seven days after the eleventh of February, which is my
(52:45):
sister's birthday, that's when she died, right one twenty two
a m. The night of her birthday. So I want
to dedicate so much of this to my mother, my success,
my my show, this particular broadcast. But I bring up
that story really to give you a piece of advice
to say, listen, there are people in your lives that
will make an impact on you. There are people, whether
(53:07):
it's l rushbo and write the tangential effect that he
had on Mark Levin and Mark Levin had directly on me,
or the direct effect that you have on people where
you're able to deal with them and partake with them
and celebrate with them, and keep them company and enjoy
life with them while they're here, because we really don't
(53:30):
know when the day will come where they won't be here.
And you don't want to have regret. Thankfully, I don't
have any. I live a lot of life with my parents,
both more with my dad than with my mom. I
don't regret any of that stuff. But all I can
do is when I see someone that's experiencing hardship right
(53:51):
and they're like, oh, I can't my mother, she's driving
me nuts, or my father or this one or that,
and they're so frustrated. All I could tell them is listen,
tell them my story, and I tell her, Hey, by
the time I was thirty nine, my dad was gone
and my mom had already been gone for a couple
of years. It's a tough spot to be. And sometimes
if you like your parents, I love my parents. If
you like your parents, you enjoy their input, you enjoy
(54:13):
their guidance, and guess what, give them a hug, say hello,
make that call, send that text, do what you gotta do.
Don't be a stranger, all right. I don't like to
get all sappy, but hey, it's my mama's day. I
start Approxima, take care, good night, and God bless you America.
I'm Rich Valdez.
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