February 2, 2026 • 60 mins
On Monday, Rich reacts to the Grammy Awards acceptance speeches and more. Then, the Gaza border at Rafah is reopened to traffic to and from Egypt, marking the first step in Trump's 20-point peace plan. Plus, the partial government shutdown no one noticed, what the polls say about photo ID requirements for voting, and more.
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It's a blessing to be here with each and every
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seven Valdez one. And I want to jump into a
few things today. Of course, the Grammy Awards were over
the weekends. We're going to talk about the Grammys. We're
going to talk about Gaza. The border in Gaza is
now open again in Egypt, so that there can be
some transit into the Gaza Strip we still have a
(01:09):
partial government shut down. I'm pretty sure nobody noticed, but
I'm just letting you know. Anyway, portsiakasom just in case.
And there was a couple other things I wanted to
talk to speak to, but we'll get to those momentarily.
There's plenty to get into with the news about the Grammys,
And of course what really strikes me here is that
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the Grammys were once something that I think a lot
of people enjoyed if they enjoy popular music, right, if
you listen to Wagner like German opera, or I don't know,
the Mamas and the Papas, then perhaps that's not popular
music today. That might have been popular music some years ago,
but popular music, you know, you're average top forty. If
you listen to that type of stuff, then you know,
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usually the performances are good, at least in the Grammys.
There's been plenty of times that, you know, I've been
let down by a performance there. But I have no
issue with the Grammys, right, not something I watched. Typically
if I have watched, I've watched it on a rerun,
you know, like the next day it had play shows
up on Hulu or something like that, or nowadays, so
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many big events. You know, if you don't make it,
you get the clips nearly in real time on any
of your social media. So that's where I see everything,
and I took exception to a Conejo model.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Bad Bunny Now, for those of you who don't know
who bad Bunny is, he's the most streamed artist on
the planet by Spotify standards. He's a very very popular
Puerto Rican rapper whose last album which one Album of
the Year and the Grammy Awards first album that's not
in English to win Album of the Year. And I'm
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sure some people are taking exception to that somewhere. I
know that it's the first album I've ever seen people
of all different races learning to speak Spanish. Right. There's
videos all over on YouTube in many places of people
translating this stuff so they can learn what these songs mean.
There are people that have dedicated this part of their
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channel right on Instagram and other social media where people
are explaining what the song means. And I find it fascinating.
I think it's a phenomena. I've never seen that in anything, right.
I know they're k pop. Korean pop music is a
is a thing, but I've never seen anybody try to
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explain K pop to me. It was kind of like
the Koreans liked it, and people that weren't Korean also
liked it, but nobody ever tried to explain to me
what they were saying, because I think K pop is
in English, if I'm not mistaken. But to have an album,
and in particular this last album of Bad Bunnies, that
was you know, he sings in Spanish for the most part,
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but this album wasn't a rap album, right. It was
really to the roots of Puerto Rican culture with salsa
and bomba and blena and different types of rhythms, very
typical to the island. And I thought it was a
great album. I enjoyed it. I've listened to it plenty.
It was great. It's called Devi dirad maas photos, which
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means I should have taken more pictures. And it's about
reminiscing about life, about family, about enjoying your neighbors, about
moving when you when you're a little kid, about growing up,
and it was just very typical against to Puerto Rico,
but again typical to many people's childhoods. Anyway, the reason
I'm opening the show with this is because A I
think it's it was what offended me most on Monday morning,
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and what offended me most was the post I saw.
I think it was might have been Curtis Sliba who
sent me a clip from somebody saying bad Bunny slights
God in his acceptance speech, and it was a clip
of bad Bunny saying, look, before I think thank God,
I want to say ice out. And I thought, now,
(05:05):
that's not cool. Uh, And I tweeted at bad Buddy,
which I'm sure nobody even noticed him, definitely not him,
but letting him know in Spanish that's not cool.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
If you're you're gonna thank God, you should thank God first,
all right. We should definitely not leave God for the end.
And I know some people say you saved the best
for a last, but to me, it seemed like a snub,
and it seemed like putting politics first. And hey, if
that's what he wanted to do, he's a week out
from super Bowl and he's the big show. Okay, do
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what you gotta do, brother, but I'm gonna do what
I gotta do, and I'm gonna call you out for it. However,
apart from that and trying to be fair and balanced.
I gotta tell you the rest of his speech, it
was as if he'd been watching some Charlie Kirk videos,
and I was actually happy by what I heard about
in those videos, minus the Ice out stuff. And again,
(05:59):
it's not that we should be saying ice in. It's
just I think his angst against ICE is that of
many people who think it's just an incredible injustice. This
is totally unfair. You're kidnapping small children. You are you
know right? This is what they believe. They believe because
the media is perpetuating so many lies that they are
locking up every last innocent person. That most of the
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people arrested by ICE are actually American citizens, right, these
are the stories that you hear. So again, I'm folks,
I'm marketing myself safe. I am safe again. Another day
of walking the streets of the United States as a
Hispanic Latino, not LATINX Puerto Rican American, and I have
not been arrested yet again by ICE. So thank you,
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thank you Jesus. But I want you to hear what
Elicnejomadel Bad Bunny had to say, including what I took
exception too, and the rest of it, which I thought
was pretty fair. This is only a little bit more
than a minute. Check this out.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Before I say.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Thanks to God, I'm gonna say ice out.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Now.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I just want to say, and we'll get back to this.
I don't think it's cool to put God on the
back burner, but I understand that room lit up with
this ice out. I don't support ice out. I think
ice is necessary. Have I been critical of their masks? Yes?
Why for public relations purposes, it's not. This is why.
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If you want Hollywood to turn on you, if you
want the people to turn on you, if you want
popular opinion to turn on you, you do stuff like that. Right,
You've got to play the game somehow. Right, I do
things from a very political perspective. Right, of course, there's
right and there's wrong. That's for you. I'm here to
talk about that gray area in between, how things get
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perceived and if you don't want to activate the emotions
of everyone in the middle. And that's really who's affected here. Right,
the left is recruiting new members. We're not very few.
I would say the conservative movement is not recruiting many
new people right now. It is something Nicki Minaj is
a relatively new convert if you will. But for the
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most part, the Left is racking up the points here
because this is something that really resonates with people, people
that are like, look, I understand how these people feel.
They're just trying to have, you know, raise their kids
and go to work and do whatever, and they're just
trying to do the right thing, right. They really don't
understand that these people have warrants felony warrants for child
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and endangerment, child trafficking, child assault, child rape, all sorts
of things right that they're going after, you know, drug
dealers and whatnot. The one dad who abandoned his kid.
So what do they do. They turn on the ice
guy and say the ice guy tried to use the
kid as bait. No, how about you left your kid
outside and we're trying to arrest you and you ran
inside and through the back door. But all that being said,
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bad Bunny is tapping in here to the crowd that
he's in. He's he's a performer, he's an artist. He's
playing to the crowd. If I were on stage at
sea Pack, I know what I gotta say. I've been
on stage at Seapack before. Right, you make sure you
give the crowd something that is gonna that is gonna
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get everybody excited. Somebody's gonna get everything enthused. Things that
are on brand for me. So he's doing things that
are on brand for him. I get it. Our brands
are somewhat diametrically opposed, and that only on that front.
On many other areas, when it comes to a good party,
to some good music, I think we're quite aligned right
when it comes to rhythms and things like that. Not
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necessarily some of the crazy stuff he's talked about are
making out with dudes on the MTV Awards and stuff
like that. That's kind of crazy, not for me. But
my point is what he's about to say I think
every American can stand behind. And it's the majority of
his speech that I didn't hear all over Twitter.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens. We
are humans, and we are Americans. Also, I want to
say to the people I know, is tough to not
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to hate on these days, and I was thinking, sometimes
we get contaminaos. I don't have to say that in English.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Contaminated.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
The hate get more powerful. With more hate. The only
thing that is more powerful than.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Hate is love.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
So please, we need to be different. If we fight,
we have to do it. We love if yeah, we
don't hate them. We love our people, we love our family,
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and that's the way to do it with love. Don't
forget that. Please, thank you, thank you God, and thank
you to the Academy.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
So let me tell you. I mean, like I said,
that sounds like a message you would have heard from
christ a message you would have heard from Charlie Kirk,
a message you hear from me on a regular basis. Right,
we can't hate the other side. That's the kind of
messaging I'm into. He just said, Right, we're in a
time right now where it's difficult not to hate. That's wild,
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but it was so accurate for a guy who's second
language is English. I gotta tell you he nailed it.
The eloquence of that. It is a time where hate
is difficult to avoid because we're almost being programmed to hate.
This is why we have to double down. We have
to make sure that we don't jump on that. I
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hate so and so bandwagon. This is why I criticize
the left and I will never become the left. This
is why people always come at me like, oh, you're
soft on this, you're soft on that. No, no, no, it's
not that I'm soft on these issues. It's that I
choose to not be hateful on them. And we have
to have I believe we have to have this extinction.
If we don't make a distinction here between us and
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the left, and that distinction being love, and if I
go a step further, God Christ Almighty, if that is
not the difference, then what are we doing? In my opinion? Right,
maybe you don't share my beliefs, and that's okay. I'm
not going to cut you off or tell you not
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to listen to the show. I'm just saying that there
has to be a distinction because the only way. And again,
you know, I love Charlie Kirk and I think his
his saying when the talking stop stops is when the
Civil War starts. Right, fighting starts when the talking stops.
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This is exactly what bad Bunny was talking about. Right,
whether you agree or not, you should, right, you really should.
I don't think anybody should take a position that's against that. Now,
the other artists tonight didn't have a similar message of love.
We're all Americans, right, We're not savages, We're Americans. He
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said that that's true. The other artists tonight, I think
took a different or last night, they took a different
approach they were talking about. I's that this is an
approach and I think is unhealthy. Right, It doesn't lead
to anything good. This is kind of like the debate
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style I like to call the New York City debate style. Right.
People will list a few things each time, more angry
in their list and end it with F out of here. Right,
you can talk to me about Donald Trump. You can
talk to me a guy who lies on his taxes,
who's got four wives, a guy who is a felon
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thirty four counts, convicted felon in the White House. The
guy's a convicted sexual abuser by some judge. F out
of here. They think this is a baiting style, right,
and they'll do it every time. They have no intention
of having a discussion. There is zero love involved in this.
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All they intend to do is try to ridicule you,
to one up you. It's a technique of gamesmanship. But
it's not about dialogue. It's not about intellect. It's not
about delving into the issues where we disagree and exploring
areas where we may find common ground or not. They
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don't want common ground. They are looking to excise you. Right,
They see you as a cancer and they want to
cut you out. Now, if you're listening, you're like, well, rich,
I see the left as a cancer. Well, then hey,
I hopefully can be your antidote. Call me chemo. I
don't think we should see the left as a cancer.
I think the effects of the left are cancerous. When
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they enact what they enact, it is hurtful to the body. Politics,
but them as people, they're people. There are brethren, right,
and we have to treat them as such. Now, I
understand some people are a little bit the word I'm
gonna use in Spanish ohlioso. Right, they're hateable. These hatable
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or hateful people are difficult to deal with. I totally
get that. But this is the task, right, This is
what makes us superior, This is what makes us better,
this is what makes us win. The argument is that
we're committed to something that's better. That's right, that's good.
So anyway, I wanted to discuss that little bit of
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bad money. Now, there's a few others, right, there's a
few others. Because another very popular one in recent years.
I couldn't name a single song of hers that I
like off the top of my head, but I'm sure
I've heard plenty of her songs. Her name Billie Eilish,
right like Eilish, within, like Irish with an L. I
said that wrong, Billie Eilish, and she and she may
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be popular for some of you because maybe you don't
listen to her, but maybe you have children or her grandchildren,
or you know a niece or a nephew or somebody
who listens.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Right.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I know, I don't think I listened to Billie Eilish.
She's not on my playlist, but I can tell you
that she went off on a tangent. She had a
lot to say, as did another artist named Jelly Roll.
I'm going to get into that, as well as did
Brandon Lake. And there's a lot of people getting Grammys here.
Billie Eilish, right stand by, Here we go.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
No one is illegal on stolen Land. And yeah, it's
just really hard to know what to say and what
to do right now. And I feel really fool in
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this room, and I feel like we just need to
keep fighting and speaking up and protest and our voices
really do matter, and the people matter, and let's say sorry.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
She said f ice, f Ice got bleeped out. F
Ice is all I could say. It was how she
ended that. Listen, this is Billie Eilish again. Now she's
taken some heat now because a Native American tribe that
owns land under her La mansion. As a message for
her right, the Native American tribe said that celebrities should
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explicitly reference the tribes if they want to use them
when they're virtue signaling the tongue, but tribe confirmed the
Bad Guys singer that's her song, Bad Guy, her three
million dollar home does sit on ancestral land, after the
twenty four year old used her Grammy's Success Take two
her Grammy's Acceptance speech to rail against ice and insists
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that no one is illegal on stolen land. The indigenous
inhabitants of the Los Angeles Basin, known as the First Angelinos,
said they appreciate Eilish's sentiment, but noted that this performer
hasn't contacted them directly ever, and insisted that next time
she explicitly referenced them by name. Eilish has not contacted
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our tribe directly regarding her property. We do value the
instance when public figures provide visibility to the true history
of this country. A Tongva spokesman told The Daily Mail,
it is our hope that in future discussions, the tribe
can explicitly be referenced to ensure the public understands the
Greater Los Angeles basin remains Gabrielino Tongva territory. Eilish was
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widely mocked for her comments on Sunday as she yelled
f ice from the stage while denouncing the United States
as a stolen land. Ain't that something? Oh wait, and
there's a little more here. Horn DeSantis, the governor of Florida, said,
O g the stolen land nonsense again. Maybe she should
step up and forfeit her southern California mansions to supposedly
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on stolen land. Let's see Senator Mike Lee chiming in
from Utah saying, any white person who does a public
stolen land acknowledgment should immediately give his or her stolen
land back to the Native Americans. Otherwise they don't mean it. Also,
I'm pretty sure they don't mean it. I think you're right, Senatorly,
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I think you're spot on there. And that was Billie Eilish.
Now there's a lot more I want to get into.
There's the comments from jelly Roll. Now, jelly Roll is
a country singer, great voice, him and another guy named
Teddy Swims. These guys have great voices, really just big.
I don't know word I want to use, but strong voices.
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And I don't have jelly Roll in my playlist either.
I'm not a big country fan, but when it comes
on like every I don't know, let's say every thirtieth
song can be a country song, and I will enjoy it,
but more more than that, and I can't. For whatever reason,
I just can't get into country. It's just too uh
doesn't have enough beats per minuted for my ADHD. I
need a little bit of a faster pace. But jelly
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Roll fantastic job with his speech. I think we have
it fluqueued up. Do we have it? Yes?
Speaker 8 (21:15):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Maybe, so we let her rip.
Speaker 9 (21:20):
I know they're gonna try to kick me off here,
so just let me try to get this out. First
of all, Jesus, I hear you, and I'm listening. Lord,
I am listening Lord. Second of all, I want to
affect my beautiful wife. I would have never changed my life.
Without you, I'd ended up dead or in jail. I'd
have killed myself if it wasn't for you and Jesus,
I thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Before he goes on, I just want to say he
did thank Jesus first, and I gotta give him a
lot of credit for that.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Thank you for my label Broken Bow. It's a country.
Speaker 10 (21:46):
Radio, baby.
Speaker 11 (21:47):
What's up y'all?
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Ah Republic, John and Neely, we did it. Baby.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
There was a time in my life y'all that I
was I was broken. That's why I wrote this album.
I didn't think I had a chance, y'all. There was
days that I thought the darkest things. I was a
horrible human. There was a moment in my life that
all I had was a Bible this big in a
radio the same size, and a six by eight foot seal.
Speaker 12 (22:07):
And I believe that those two things could change my life.
I believe that music had the power to change my life,
and God had the power to change my life. And
I want to tell y'all right now, Jesus is for everybody.
Jesus is not owned by one political party. Jesus is
not owned by no music label. Jesus is Jesus and
anybody could have a.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Relationship with him. I love you Lord.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Well how about that mincing no words again, Jelly Roll
straight up preaching at the Grammy Awards. I gotta tell you,
if that would have happened five years ago, it would
be making bigger headlines than it did today, because it
was almost taboo to talk about Jesus back then. But
now you've got artists all over the place, right Justin Bieber,
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Jelly Roll, Nicki, Minaj, Daddy, Yankee. I mean, just everywhere
you look there's a different artist talking about g Jesus saying,
you know, I'm embracing my faith, I'm doing my thing
Jesus's Lord. And I've got to say I'm seeing more
of that now than I ever did. I remember years
ago my daughter telling me about Justin Bieber and I'd
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never heard of him, and she said, oh my gosh,
he's the biggest thing on YouTube, and I was like, well,
it doesn't take much to be big on YouTube. Again,
this was two thousand and six. I remember it like
yesterday she was five years old, and today, Yeah, it
takes a whole lot to be big on YouTube. You know,
back then it wasn't the same way and twenty years ago.
I remember it like yesterday, and I remember watching her
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grow up, listening to Bieber and then Bieber marrying Hayley,
Steve Baldwin's daughter, and Steve Baldwin was a friend, and
he'd invited me to a film premiere that they were
having a Union Square in Manhattan for a film he
was in called I'm in Love with a Church Girl
starring Adrian by Loan. The rapper Cha Rul, Stephen Baldwin,
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and Israel Houghten was involved in the film as well.
And I remember going to that and my daughter met
Stephen Baldwin and she was like, oh my god, that's
like justin Bieber's girlfriend's dad. You know, they weren't married yet,
and she thought that was so cool to meet him.
But I say all of that to say back then
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it was a big deal.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Now, I guess some of us are taking for granted
how the gospel is more acceptable, right, It's not as
taboo as it was during those years. Some of the performances,
even at the Grammys were a lot darker, right, A
lot of imagery that was ritualistic, right, that type of thing,
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and just more a darker imagery and some of the performances,
whereas now not always the case. Sometimes they're fresh, right,
but they're not necessarily like cult like, right, So, which
brings me to a tweet from Nicki Minaj. Now, Nicki Minaj,
this is a very interesting thing because Nicki Minaj talks
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about this tweet. Let me see if I can pull
it up real quick. All right, here we go Nicki
Minaj's tweet on here we Go. I did a podcast
over the weekend. It was our friend Nick Giordano, the
PAS Report, and he asked me, do I believe that
(25:23):
all of Hollywood is eating babies? And I said, no,
I don't believe all of Hollywood is eating babies, but
I want to make sure nobody takes my words out
of context. I do believe some of Hollywood might be
right or has an interest in it, and if not
necessarily eating the babies, but definitely in sacrifice and rituals.
I believe there's an element just like there isn't the
(25:44):
gang life that we've talked about on this program, like
MS thirteen has ties to Satanism, Right, That's not something
I made up. That's something that's been reported in the
news the same thing here right. Nicki Minaj put out
a tweet with respect to the Grammys, saying this, your
favorite artist has been practicing rituals and a Satanic cult
where they take babies from other countries and mutilate and
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kill them as a form of blood sacrifice to their god.
You see, when your master is Satan, you most you
must constantly shed blood. However, the jig is up. It's
got a picture of Chucky from the movie Child's Play
drinking a martini making a smug, snarky face, and it's
(26:31):
got fifty two thousand retweets, two hundred and sixty two
thousand likes, nineteen thousand saves, fourteen thousand comments. And let
me just see what these comments say, just to give
you an idea. If I can see some here we
go gunk thir Eagelman says, keep exposing them. Jamless says
Charlie kirk New, Let's see. Jason James says something about
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the Epstein list. Bridget Fertig says Nicki Minaj is the
biggest icon in music. And then she puts a video
from the actor who played Jesus, Jim cavizl Bo Louden says,
God bless you, Nikky. We all need to pray, pray,
pray for you and your safety. You're going up against
pure evil. I have your back, and so does America.
I'm grateful for you, aymen. I echo that as well,
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and a lot of support here look at us, Alex Jones.
He says, I want to thank you for your courage
and extend an invitation to you to join me on
my broadcast. Ps. I loved your comment about Don Lemon
don Ley Moon right. We played that in the last episode,
what she said about Don Lemon and Gizmo memes says
the Queen is cooking. Now listen, I understand the Overton window.
(27:40):
I understand how to shoot for the moon and if
you miss her amongst the stars and a lot of times,
that's what these things are. But that doesn't mean that
blood sacrifices are fake, that Satanism isn't real, and that
there are not people in Hollywood who are into this stuff.
They're sure are is it every last person? Is it
Tom Hanks? Is it hard Einstein?
Speaker 10 (28:00):
Is it Jay Z?
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Is it Beyonce? Is it all of them? I don't know.
I can't say I've ever seen any evidence to make
any certain statement that it is. But I can say
I'm pretty sure it's happening. Why because bad things happen
all over the place.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
The fact that we now talk about a guy that
trafficked underage girls as young as twelve and fourteen, Jeffrey Epstein,
and we just refer to it simply as the Epstein List,
And the most egregious thing about it is that Trump
was somehow affiliated with the guy because he rented an
apartment in mar A Lago or owned a condo there.
We're lost, right, We're lost as a society, We're lost
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as a people. It's wild to think that, oh my goodness,
because l. Trompito knew Jeffrey Epstein, that somehow we can
turn a blind eye to the fact that they're trafficking
young girls, drugging young girls, forcing young girls to have
sex for money. I mean, this is just crazy. It's
not just prostitution. This is human slavery. And it's become
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a part of our daily lexicon. The Epstein Files. That's
the new name for things. And the first people to
make a euphemism for it and kind of make it diminutive,
if you will, were the people that name this Pizzagate
right back when they said, oh, it's pizzagate and it's
all about the Pizzas, and I remember that, and I
remember reading the WikiLeaks emails and all of that, and
(29:23):
some people freaking out about it and others not giving
a damn. I'm just saying, look, just because something sounds
crazy doesn't mean that it's not happening, and it also
doesn't guarantee that it is. We have to be judicious,
we have to take time, we have to read, we
have to trust our gut, we have to trust our God.
We have to know the law, or at least you
don't have an understanding of the law. You got to
inform yourselves. Watch good stuff, listen to good stuff, know
(29:45):
some good stuff, talk to good people, and challenge your
own ideas. Just because you believe something doesn't mean if
you hear ten other people say the same thing, that
that's a fact. That's not how confirmation works. Confirming something
is really, you know, finding something substant about it, some
actual evidence. And again, I know, not everybody's an investigator,
and nobody really cares. People are trying to pay their
(30:06):
bills and raise their kids. I get that, but I'm
just saying I have had so many encounters of people
who will send me a video is posted on Twitter
or bit shoot or some other video place. It's a
video of somebody saying, I told you the twenty twenty
election was stolen. They got all the evidence. This is
a military operation, just just a plan, and they'll send
(30:28):
this to me and go, see told you told me what?
That's some moron named Jack Maureen. And when you look
at the username, it's like ABC one two three sixty
nine seventy three forty two American flag emoji. Right that
that is somehow a definitive authoritative source on this topic
(30:49):
because they made a video some obscure person I've never
seen in my life. Come on. But for them, this
this hits the innermost part of their soul because it's
what they wanted to hear. I don't care if you
tell me what I want to hear. What I want
to hear is the truth. What I want to hear
is the facts. I don't need to hear what I
thought I knew to then feel good about myself, to
think that I'm not crazy. No, I need to know
(31:11):
what's going on, what's really happening. And again that doesn't
mean that people are I'm just saying. You listen to everything,
you take it all in. But just because you see
ten obscure Twitter accounts saying the same thing doesn't mean
that's actually happening. To me, that's more than anything. That's
if they add in some propaganda, like things like saying,
if you're not mad after hearing this, you should be
(31:32):
ashamed of yourself if you're not this right, if any
type of emotional language like that, it's likely propaganda. Regular
people don't talk like that, you know, or when they
give you false equivalencies, right, we either do this or
this happens. Right, you tell me. In life, when things
are that cut and dry, not always right, not always
many times, it's not always. If you do this, that happens. Now,
(31:53):
if you do this, this could happen. That could happen,
This could happen. This might have happened, But then that happened,
Then so and so happened. You never know. Life is
as neatly packed as some of these tweets would suggest.
But anyway, I digress. I'm still on the Grammys, folks,
before we hit the brake, and with respect to the Grammys,
Jelly Roll did an amazing job. Nicky, you know, gave
this tweet and there's a guy out there. His name
(32:15):
is Brandon Lake. And I'll finish with this one before
we move on to the Gaza strip and the government
shut down as well. The artist named Brandon Lake, he's
somebody that is on my playlist typically on Sunday morning
when I get into my church vibe and he he
won a Grammy Award for a song that he did
I believe with Jelly Roll if I'm not mistaken, And
(32:36):
he also gave a really good speech. And I've got
it right here. I think I think we've got it here.
And if we do, let's let the people hear it.
Call that graduation.
Speaker 13 (32:47):
Thank you, Thank you, oh Man, Wow, thank you Jesus.
I'm gonna thank my wife who's holding down the fort
back home with all my babies, crazy babies. Thank you
the Academy for honoring this category. Thank you Provident, my label,
Bright Group. Thank you Pastor Stephen Ferdick, Benjamin William Hastings,
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Chris Brown, Mike and Nichols for producing this song. And
all my local Charleston, South Carolina guys who played on
La Roderick Simmons shout out to him. I want to say,
obviously a huge thank you to Jelly for taking a
chance on this song, taking a chance on me. He
just took me everywhere he was performing and said, let's
do this song together. He took this song places that
I couldn't have by myself. And I've gotten countless messages
(33:32):
of how this song has literally saved people's lives and
pointed them to Jesus. If it wasn't for Jesus, I
don't know where I would be, y'all, y'all.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
This please wrap it up.
Speaker 13 (33:43):
Most important thing I could say is this world is
Craig Cray right now. But I was reminded of the
scripture this morning, John sixteen thirty three. I have told
you these things so that in me you may have peace.
In this world you will have trouble. But take heart,
I have overcome the world. He's overcome, so that means
we can too.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
Through Christ. Love you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
That's Brandon Lake. Brandon Lake again winning the Grammy for
Best Country Performance with a Jelly Roll song they did
together called the Hallelujah?
Speaker 8 (34:17):
Right?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Is it hard fought? Hallelujah? Let me tell you really
good track. I was listening to it earlier today and
happy for them. So listen. I say all of this
stuff to say, I think we're winning a lot more
than we're losing. We got bad Bunny giving a message
that although he left Jesus for the end and put
him on the back burner, I liked everything else he
(34:39):
had to say. You heard what he had to say.
If you disagree, you let me know. Eight seven seven
valids one, eight seven seven Valds one. Keep it locked
right here. I'm Rich Valdez.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
This is America, this is America. He's brown, he's bald,
(35:14):
and he's breaking it down. Oh he's so has some
what's his name, Rich Valdez?
Speaker 3 (35:23):
What's up?
Speaker 14 (35:24):
I mean?
Speaker 3 (35:24):
He goes, welcome back, Rich Valdez. Valdes with an ask
at Rich Valdez on all of the social media, keeping
you company tonight, Happy to be here with you, and
I want to jump into this stuff that's going on
in Gaza right the Gaza strip. You've got the what
is what do we call it? I guess the border?
(35:45):
Forgive me. The border is now opened. They've opened the
border for you know, back and forth transportation and whatnot.
In Gaza, between Gaza and Egypt. This is big. Hasn't
happened in a couple of years. This is all the
results of the ceasefire that people are not giving President
Trump any credit for. Right. I often say, you don't
(36:07):
hear people saying free Palestine anymore because Trump freed Palestine.
Listen to this report ABC News.
Speaker 15 (36:14):
It is really official, say the Rafa crossing is now
open to limited pedestrian traffic. The passage between Gaza and
Egypt has been mostly closed to Palestinians since October seventh,
twenty twenty three. Now it's reopening is the first step
in the second phase of President Trump's Gaza peace plan.
The Israeli military says it'll approve the Palestinians entering or
leaving Gaza according to the terms of the plan, but
(36:36):
it's not clear how many will be allowed to pass.
And now the Hamasran Gaza Health Ministry says it's already
submitted a list of fifty patients to leave the strip
through that crossing.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Now, of course, some are saying this is not very
significant because it's a very limited back and forth transit
that's going on. But finally the moment's here, right, It's
finally happened. The borders reopened. It's the first phase of
President Trump's peace deal coming to close. The opening will
allow for about twenty thousand sick and wounded Palestinians to
begin leaving the Gaza strip for treatment, and this is
(37:09):
according to local health officials and the World Health Organization.
Despite the uncertainties, traffic through the border has begun, as
the first phase of Trump's twenty point piece plan concludes.
Trying to give you the relevant points here now. The
border was meant to reopen during the hostage exchanges in
the fall, but Israel refused to seed full control until
(37:30):
every single captive was freed, which didn't happen until last
week when the body of ran Villi was located. The
crossing will now be operated by supervisors from the European
Union and by local Palestinian staff, with Jewish state officials
expected to conduct remote security checks. The traffic is also
(37:50):
expected to be slow, with only about fifty patients allowed
to leave each day and another fifty allowed to return,
according to initial Israeli reports. The World Health Organization is
now being tasked with transferring patients from the Hamas controlled
Gaza past the yellow line border controlled by the Israel
(38:12):
Defense Forces. Now, more than thirty thousand Gazans who are
outside the territory or who fled during the war have
already registered with the Palestinian embassy in Cairo to be
allowed to return to the Gaza Strip. Now with the
border crossing reopened, Trump's peace plan is officially in its
second phase, which is the Board of Peace, and they
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will take governance of Gaza until a group of Palestinian
technocrats can be tapped to actually rule this enclave. That's
pretty much the report. Otherwise, it remains to be seen
how the Board of Peace is going to establish Gaza
once the Trump Plan really kicks off. Hamas has also
been unwilling to demilitarize as part of the second phase.
(38:58):
So with the developments of the terror group refusing to
do that, they may not be able to move forward
if there's no disarmament. So Hamas is saying, hey, look,
rather than disarm, how about we include ten thousand of
our own police officers into the first government and see
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what happens. This has been opposed by Israel. Israel's warning
that if Hamas does not agree to give up its weapons,
the ceasefire would end in Israel will return to war.
So let's hope that doesn't happen. So far, it's been
so good. I think any day where we don't hear
about a bunch of dead Palestinian babies and a bunch
of dead Jews, that's a good day. Right, people alive
(39:44):
sounds good to me. So that's that. I'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
This is America, This is America.
Speaker 16 (40:08):
The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
to speak with Rich Valdez.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
Oh, very good. The honor is all yours.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Conservative talk with a dash of sofrito.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Now here's Rich Valdez.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
All right, and he goes, welcome back. And CNN's Harry
Entton had a clip that he played about government ID.
I'm going to get into that a little bit. I
also want to talk about this limited government shutdown because
why well, because government shutdown last time it was such
a big deal. This time, we're not hearing anything about
a government shutdown, right. I mean, I think we heard
(40:49):
a little bit last week that we're in a partial
government shutdown, but nobody seems to care. I wonder what's
up with that. Well, here's the deal, President Trump is
scheduled to sign a bill as soon as it's put
on his desk as early as tomorrow Tuesday, to end
this partial government shutdown. But that's where we are right now.
And I wonder how come the fake news media isn't
(41:10):
trying to scare everybody like they did last time, saying, hey,
look we're in a government shutdown, right That seems to
not be the case and not be as important as
it was last time.
Speaker 10 (41:19):
Hmmmm.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
Funny haha, No, funny, hmmm. Anyway, I want you to
hear this clip from Harry Enton on CNN. Now, this
is interesting because we're talking about the government here. This
is about government issued IDs, and how many people over
the last six or seven eight years, from twenty eighteen
and beyond actually agree with the rap Queen Nikki Minaj
(41:45):
that we should have voter ID. Listen to this CNN.
Speaker 17 (41:50):
So voter ID, just so people understand, is the idea
that someone shows a photo ID when they go to vote,
when they go to cast their actual battle Because there's
a separate discussion right now about needing a passport or
a bergertificate to register to vote, but the polling is
all on voter ID.
Speaker 10 (42:06):
Showing an ID to vote.
Speaker 16 (42:07):
Showing a photo ID to vote, And the American people
are with Nicki Minaj, because what are we talking about here?
So take a look here, favorite voter idea to vote. Look,
I got all this polling on the screen, going back
since twenty eighteen. You'll notice on all of it, it's
all north of seventy five percent, seventy six percent, seventy
six percent, seventy six percent, eighty one percent, and then
eighty three percent in the last year.
Speaker 6 (42:29):
Of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj.
Speaker 16 (42:31):
They favor photo ID to be able to vote.
Speaker 10 (42:35):
What about by party? What's the party berg?
Speaker 16 (42:36):
Yeah, normally you might expect, hey, there'd be a big
divide by party where Republicans really forward in, Democrats really
against it, But not really here.
Speaker 6 (42:44):
I mean, just take a look here, favorite photo idea vote.
Speaker 16 (42:46):
You got ninety five percent of Republicans, pretty much all
of them, but even seventy one percent of Democrats favorite
photo ID to vote. So again Nicki Minaj posting that
on X And what you see is is that the
American people, actually, it's not really all that controversial.
Speaker 6 (43:01):
The American people are with Nicki Minaj.
Speaker 16 (43:04):
Whether they are Republican or even if they are Democrats
who are talking about seven to ten.
Speaker 6 (43:08):
Democrats agreeing with Nicki Minaj.
Speaker 16 (43:10):
That you, in fact should show a voter photo ID
to vote.
Speaker 10 (43:13):
What's the racial breakdown? Okay, what's the racial breakdown on
this right?
Speaker 16 (43:17):
Because I think a lot of people make the argument
that people of color, non white Americans have a harder
time procuring a photo ID to vote. But even here,
take a look here, favorite photo ID to vote. Eighty
five percent of white people favorite, eighty two percent of Latino,
seventy six percent.
Speaker 6 (43:31):
Of Black Americans favorite.
Speaker 16 (43:33):
So the bottom line is this voter ID is not
controversial in this country. A photo ID to vote is
not controversial in this country. It is not controversial by party,
and it is not controversial by race. The vast majority
of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj that, in fact, you
should have a photo ID to be able to vote.
Speaker 10 (43:51):
So something of a nontroversy that is very good.
Speaker 16 (43:54):
The alliteration of mister John Berman that Harvard education paying
off once again, Harold, and.
Speaker 10 (43:58):
Thank you, thank you much.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
All Right, there you have a Berman and Harry Enton,
chief data analyst at CNN, making it clear that by
race and by the numbers twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, twenty twenty,
twenty twenty one, straight through twenty twenty five, nobody is well,
I shouldn't say nobody, but north of seventy five percent
each and every one of those years seventy six, seventy six,
seventy six, all the way up to eighty to yeah,
(44:21):
eighty two percent in twenty twenty five, So big numbers.
Everybody wants voter ID. Then why is it that the
Democrats are so adamant about it? Well, of course Democrats
say that they're adamant about this because it's racist. Elizabeth
Warren said, you know, it's difficult for black people to
get IDs. Kamala Harris at black people don't know what
a fax machine is, right, I mean, really just crazy
(44:43):
stuff that you hear come from people. When you've got
doctor Ben Carson, for example, who I've interviewed before. The
guy has a movie made about him with Cuba getting Junior.
He is literally a brain surgeon, did the first surgery
separating brain conjoined twins, right, twins that are joined at
the head. Just wild to think that he's done these
(45:05):
types of surgery. He's the first one to ever do
it a black man by all means indicating to me
that not only can black people do whatever white people
can do, but perhaps more right based on what we're seeing,
the ingenuity in medical science, seeing the prowess in an
athleticism in professional sports, and yet somehow they want to
(45:26):
suggest that somehow black people may not be able to
get an ID to vote. I would be so mad
and offended if I was if I identified as black right,
because it's perto Rican's I guess we're you know, some
good percentage of black. If you look at me, you
could see the black right. I've got a pretty wide nose.
I've got a larger lips. You know, my dad was
darker skin, more Tino darker skin, But no question. You know,
(45:48):
Puerto Ricans are a mix of Spaniards and black and
Tino blood. That's the mix in Puerto Rico. So I
get it. But man, I would be beside myself if
I were, you know, a black American, truly I would be.
I'm offended as it is. So just imagine if you know,
(46:09):
if Elizabeth Warren and I guess if I were a
black Democrat. Right is the best way to put it,
because they seem to think that they just can't do anything.
I just imagine somebody thinking you're totally incapable. I guess
that's like some kids, right. I know my kids have
gone through phases like that where they thought, you know anything.
I tell them like, oh, remember this, and I'm like, hey,
(46:29):
I'm not stupid. I wasn't born yesterday.
Speaker 8 (46:31):
You know.
Speaker 3 (46:31):
It's like, oh, geez, take it easy. I just don't
want you to get sick or I don't want you
to get into a car accidenter. I just want you
to be okay, and I'm just caring for you. But
sometimes people take offense to that type of care. Here
it's the exact opposite. It's like, no, no, we don't think
you could care for yourself at all. Wild Now, moving
to New York a little bit, I want to talk
about this may Or Mom Donnie. He has now appointed
(46:54):
somebody who's very intimately aware of the jail system to
be his commissioner of the Department of Corrections. This is
a pretty wild one. Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Stanley will make history in this role as the first
ever formerly incarcerated person to serve as commissioners. That achievement
is not merely symbolic. It is a testament to the
thought and leadership he will bring to every member of
(47:26):
correction staff and incarcerated New Yorkers underneath his purview, and
as the former first Deputy Commissioner for the DOC and
the executive vice president of the Fortune Society, that work
has long been Stanley's purpose.
Speaker 5 (47:40):
When we provide support, when we center our collective work
on hope instead of fear, when we see what is
best in all of us, instead of judging people on
the worst thing that they've ever done, when we see
our commonality as opposed to our difference, we can achieve
(48:01):
the unimanageable.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
Well, I'll tell you this. It is unimaginable to me
to think that we would have a Commissioner of Corrections, right,
the guy who's in charge of the jails being somebody
that was once in jail. But I am going to
say this right a caveat. I never imagined that that
would happen. But I'm not going to say I think
it's a bad idea. Some people might take exception to that. Yep,
(48:24):
I liked Bad Bunny's speech, and I don't think this
is a bad idea. Why Because I think as a
guy that's been divorced, I can coach a lot of
other guys on how to stay married. I think that
sometimes going through is how you learn things. And I
don't know this guy from anything, right, I really don't know.
(48:46):
I know he was incarcerated for robbery and he's now
going to be the first commissioner of the City of
New York Department of Corrections. But I do know that
this guy, mister Stanley is he seems like somebody's willing
to do the jobs. Or Mamdani is the mayor, he
(49:07):
can appoint whom he wants, so we can critique all
his people, like Sea A Weaver and the other crazies.
I would imagine this guy's likely just as progressive. Hey,
let's let him all out. I'm sure he's nuts right,
just by virtue of his ideology, but not because of
the fact that he was in jail. I have some
(49:28):
friends that were incarcerated. One of my friends did twelve
years in different stints. He's a real estate investor today.
He owns properties and rents them out. He does really
well for himself. Guy's got a Porsche and he's a
He's a really good dude. He's got a great attitude
(49:48):
about life. He came up really rough in a rough neighborhood,
and life just was tough for the guy. And it's
all I can tell you he did. He was a
product of his environment, right, And I didn't have a
lot of guidance at home, and lamentably, that's how it
goes if you don't have great parents all the time.
And he had his mom. She died young. His dad
(50:08):
also died and wasn't around. It's a recipe for you know,
anything to happen. He learned eventually took him. I'm going
to call it the long way, right. He took the
long route. But I think he's an upstanding member of
society today. And I say that to say I think
he's a bright guy. He's a crypto investor, he's a
real estate investor. He's done well for himself financially because
(50:32):
he's had to. He figured if I want to have
a good life, and I know I can't get a
lot of jobs because of my criminal record, and I've
got to figure out how to make myself a job,
and he has. So I don't know this guy, Stanley,
and I'm pretty sure I'll be back in a couple
of weeks saying what a crazy radical lefty he is.
But I'm not going to say I don't think it's
a bad idea to hire somebody who has rehabilitated their life,
(50:56):
presuming that they have right. There should be some sort
of proof, some sort of evidence like, hey, I've been
out of jail for X amount of years and in
that time, I worked here, and I did this, and
I was able to go to this, to go to that,
and you know, progress in my field, and you know,
just something that shows you, hey, this guy's doing his thing,
and you know those things are all warranted by conversations
(51:18):
and looking at somebody's personal file and whatnot. But my
point is I could have been a lot more critical,
and on this one I'm just not. I'm not going
to be, not for that reason, but for his crazy
let's shut down rikers and let everybody out of jail
type of policies. He's an absolute nut job if he
thinks that's gonna work, because I think that's a very
(51:38):
bad idea. Now, I wanted to circle back to a
couple of quick topics, but we're gonna do that straight ahead.
Don't go anywhere this is America.
Speaker 4 (51:57):
This is America.
Speaker 1 (52:00):
All right, on me gooes, he's making podcasting great again.
Speaker 4 (52:04):
This is America with Rich Valdez.
Speaker 3 (52:07):
Thank you, sir. That's Chris Libertini, by the way, shout
out to Chris Libertini. I want to announcer, and I
wanna I want to get into a couple of things.
Speaker 8 (52:15):
Man.
Speaker 3 (52:15):
It's a couple of clips I wanted to play earlier
that I just I didn't. I didn't play. Had too many,
too many bullets in my in my magazine here, didn't
fire them all. But a couple of things I want
to talk about. There was an interesting Grammy clip that
I wanted to play, and there was one other one.
Let me see if I can squeeze those in here
before we before we wrap, all right, because we still
(52:38):
have some time and I love being here with you guys.
All right, here we go. Let's see we talked about
Mam diney. We did that. Tomorrow we'll talk about Robert
Reich in his attack on El Trampito. Oh, this was
a good one. To Jason Whitlock on the Grammys. That's
a very good one. I enjoyed that. Let me see
(53:00):
what else we had here and President Trump on the
Epstein Files. That was one that I think we could
have played. Also we should have played. But let me
do this. Jason Whitlock went first, and then and rap,
we're going to start here with President trumpets he's here right,
all right, here we go and Trumpeter on the Epstein Files.
(53:24):
Go ahead, play it.
Speaker 10 (53:27):
Files.
Speaker 11 (53:28):
If you think your critics will be satisfied me, well
they should be, because it looked like this guy Wolfe
was a writer, was conspiring with Epstein to do harm
to me.
Speaker 14 (53:39):
And I didn't see it myself, but I was told
by some very important people that not only does it
absolve me, it's the opposite of what people were hoping.
You know, the radicleb that Wolfe was a very great
writer was conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to hurt me politically
or otherwise.
Speaker 6 (53:59):
And I can't fee a.
Speaker 10 (54:00):
Loud and clear.
Speaker 14 (54:01):
So we'll probably suit wolf of it, and maybe the.
Speaker 1 (54:07):
State to state.
Speaker 10 (54:08):
I guess.
Speaker 6 (54:08):
I don't know, but we're gonna certainly super what do
you mean?
Speaker 14 (54:12):
I guess so because he was conspiring with wolf to
do harm to be politically, that's not.
Speaker 3 (54:19):
A brand, not a friend at all. That's right, And
I think that's a very astute point, and that was true,
and I mentioned that earlier. This would have been a
good time to play that clip, Senor productor. But bottom
line is that was President Trump aboard Air Force one.
If you didn't get that from the sound, These guys
(54:40):
were never in his corner. It wasn't like he was
going there like, oh here comes out Trumpito again. We
can't stand this guy here. He is to rape and
pillage the girls with us. It wasn't like that they
didn't like him, they didn't get along. He cut Epstein
off back in three or something like that. Anyway, I
think that was worthy of being played because again, while
(55:03):
he was speaking to these reporters on Air Force one,
he reiterated that he's been absolved from this stuff and
he was told by his team legal people that Wolf
and Epstein were conspiring against him. So now he's taking
a suing them. Now somebody else, he's taking a suing
Trevor Noah. Now why is he thinking of suing Trevor Noah? Well,
(55:25):
because Trevor Noah went after him and Nicki Minaj and
a bunch of other ones in one of his jokes.
And again I laughed at the joke, not specifically at
the Trump part that wasn't funny per se, but overall
I thought the bit was funny. Listen to this legend.
Nicki Minaj is not here.
Speaker 6 (55:42):
She is not here, she is.
Speaker 9 (55:49):
She is still at the White House with Donald Trump
discussing very important issues.
Speaker 2 (55:55):
Actually, Nicki, I have the biggest ass.
Speaker 3 (55:57):
I haven't. Everybody's saying it, Nikki. I know they say
to you, but it's me.
Speaker 6 (56:01):
Wo look at it.
Speaker 3 (56:02):
Look at it baby.
Speaker 4 (56:04):
Jennifer Hudson is.
Speaker 3 (56:05):
In the house now. He went on to make a
joke about how President Trump was on the Epstein Island
he needed an island to go to or something like that,
and that was where President Trump fired back and said,
I am gonna sue Trevor Noah. I am gonna sue
the whomever, right, the Grammys, whoever's got to sue. And
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because it's false information, there's never been an accusation of such.
And this is where people play fast and loose with
the facts, with the truth, trying to make a joke.
And I get it, there could be some elements that
are hyperbolic, but you know, and something like this, Trump's
gonna be well within his rights to sue, and I
bet you anything, he's gonna be suing whatever it is ABC, right,
(56:49):
I think that's who puts on the Grammy Awards. ABC here,
maybe CBS, I could be getting. They're confused, and of
course Trevor Noah and I wouldn't be surprised if he
wins or gets a settlement because they do this to
him pretty often, and he knows his rights. Even though
he's president and he is a public figure, he's still
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able to win some of these things, which I think
is phenomenal. So God speak to him and his legal team.
And the final clip I want to play for you
guys is one again reaction from the Grammys. Jason Whitlock
over at OutKick dot Com. It's a division of Fox.
He's always got something good to say, and I've got
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a really good clip of him. Let's see where is that.
Let's get that one cued up of Jason Whitlock with
Harvey Levin on TMZ. Go ahead, Oh, I see, we
don't have time, okay, So this is where I tell
you that we will get into that Jason Whitlock clip
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about Harvey Levin with Harvey Levin about the Grammys and
Satanism and all sorts of stuff and bad bunny manyana.
But I do want to say that the only thing
necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to
do nothing. You're good people, so do something. Number one.
Number two, you got to stand for something, because if
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you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. That's Lord
Acton and many others that have said that quote. And
it's as true today as it was back then. And
I say to you Asta abrosima, take care, good night,
and God bless you America. I'm Rich Valdez, and this
is America.
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It's a blessing to be here with each and every
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seven Valdez one. And I want to jump into a
few things today. Of course, the Grammy Awards were over
the weekends. We're going to talk about the Grammys. We're
going to talk about Gaza. The border in Gaza is
now open again in Egypt, so that there can be
some transit into the Gaza Strip we still have a
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partial government shut down. I'm pretty sure nobody noticed, but
I'm just letting you know. Anyway, portsiakasom just in case.
And there was a couple other things I wanted to
talk to speak to, but we'll get to those momentarily.
There's plenty to get into with the news about the Grammys,
And of course what really strikes me here is that
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the Grammys were once something that I think a lot
of people enjoyed if they enjoy popular music, right, if
you listen to Wagner like German opera, or I don't know,
the Mamas and the Papas, then perhaps that's not popular
music today. That might have been popular music some years ago,
but popular music, you know, you're average top forty. If
you listen to that type of stuff, then you know,
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usually the performances are good, at least in the Grammys.
There's been plenty of times that, you know, I've been
let down by a performance there. But I have no
issue with the Grammys, right, not something I watched. Typically
if I have watched, I've watched it on a rerun,
you know, like the next day it had play shows
up on Hulu or something like that, or nowadays, so
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many big events. You know, if you don't make it,
you get the clips nearly in real time on any
of your social media. So that's where I see everything,
and I took exception to a Conejo model.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Bad Bunny Now, for those of you who don't know
who bad Bunny is, he's the most streamed artist on
the planet by Spotify standards. He's a very very popular
Puerto Rican rapper whose last album which one Album of
the Year and the Grammy Awards first album that's not
in English to win Album of the Year. And I'm
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sure some people are taking exception to that somewhere. I
know that it's the first album I've ever seen people
of all different races learning to speak Spanish. Right. There's
videos all over on YouTube in many places of people
translating this stuff so they can learn what these songs mean.
There are people that have dedicated this part of their
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channel right on Instagram and other social media where people
are explaining what the song means. And I find it fascinating.
I think it's a phenomena. I've never seen that in anything, right.
I know they're k pop. Korean pop music is a
is a thing, but I've never seen anybody try to
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explain K pop to me. It was kind of like
the Koreans liked it, and people that weren't Korean also
liked it, but nobody ever tried to explain to me
what they were saying, because I think K pop is
in English, if I'm not mistaken. But to have an album,
and in particular this last album of Bad Bunnies, that
was you know, he sings in Spanish for the most part,
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but this album wasn't a rap album, right. It was
really to the roots of Puerto Rican culture with salsa
and bomba and blena and different types of rhythms, very
typical to the island. And I thought it was a
great album. I enjoyed it. I've listened to it plenty.
It was great. It's called Devi dirad maas photos, which
(04:19):
means I should have taken more pictures. And it's about
reminiscing about life, about family, about enjoying your neighbors, about
moving when you when you're a little kid, about growing up,
and it was just very typical against to Puerto Rico,
but again typical to many people's childhoods. Anyway, the reason
I'm opening the show with this is because A I
think it's it was what offended me most on Monday morning,
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and what offended me most was the post I saw.
I think it was might have been Curtis Sliba who
sent me a clip from somebody saying bad Bunny slights
God in his acceptance speech, and it was a clip
of bad Bunny saying, look, before I think thank God,
I want to say ice out. And I thought, now,
(05:05):
that's not cool. Uh, And I tweeted at bad Buddy,
which I'm sure nobody even noticed him, definitely not him,
but letting him know in Spanish that's not cool.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
If you're you're gonna thank God, you should thank God first,
all right. We should definitely not leave God for the end.
And I know some people say you saved the best
for a last, but to me, it seemed like a snub,
and it seemed like putting politics first. And hey, if
that's what he wanted to do, he's a week out
from super Bowl and he's the big show. Okay, do
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what you gotta do, brother, but I'm gonna do what
I gotta do, and I'm gonna call you out for it. However,
apart from that and trying to be fair and balanced.
I gotta tell you the rest of his speech, it
was as if he'd been watching some Charlie Kirk videos,
and I was actually happy by what I heard about
in those videos, minus the Ice out stuff. And again,
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it's not that we should be saying ice in. It's
just I think his angst against ICE is that of
many people who think it's just an incredible injustice. This
is totally unfair. You're kidnapping small children. You are you
know right? This is what they believe. They believe because
the media is perpetuating so many lies that they are
locking up every last innocent person. That most of the
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people arrested by ICE are actually American citizens, right, these
are the stories that you hear. So again, I'm folks,
I'm marketing myself safe. I am safe again. Another day
of walking the streets of the United States as a
Hispanic Latino, not LATINX Puerto Rican American, and I have
not been arrested yet again by ICE. So thank you,
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thank you Jesus. But I want you to hear what
Elicnejomadel Bad Bunny had to say, including what I took
exception too, and the rest of it, which I thought
was pretty fair. This is only a little bit more
than a minute. Check this out.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Before I say.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Thanks to God, I'm gonna say ice out.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Now.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I just want to say, and we'll get back to this.
I don't think it's cool to put God on the
back burner, but I understand that room lit up with
this ice out. I don't support ice out. I think
ice is necessary. Have I been critical of their masks? Yes?
Why for public relations purposes, it's not. This is why.
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If you want Hollywood to turn on you, if you
want the people to turn on you, if you want
popular opinion to turn on you, you do stuff like that. Right,
You've got to play the game somehow. Right, I do
things from a very political perspective. Right, of course, there's
right and there's wrong. That's for you. I'm here to
talk about that gray area in between, how things get
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perceived and if you don't want to activate the emotions
of everyone in the middle. And that's really who's affected here. Right,
the left is recruiting new members. We're not very few.
I would say the conservative movement is not recruiting many
new people right now. It is something Nicki Minaj is
a relatively new convert if you will. But for the
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most part, the Left is racking up the points here
because this is something that really resonates with people, people
that are like, look, I understand how these people feel.
They're just trying to have, you know, raise their kids
and go to work and do whatever, and they're just
trying to do the right thing, right. They really don't
understand that these people have warrants felony warrants for child
(09:05):
and endangerment, child trafficking, child assault, child rape, all sorts
of things right that they're going after, you know, drug
dealers and whatnot. The one dad who abandoned his kid.
So what do they do. They turn on the ice
guy and say the ice guy tried to use the
kid as bait. No, how about you left your kid
outside and we're trying to arrest you and you ran
inside and through the back door. But all that being said,
(09:29):
bad Bunny is tapping in here to the crowd that
he's in. He's he's a performer, he's an artist. He's
playing to the crowd. If I were on stage at
sea Pack, I know what I gotta say. I've been
on stage at Seapack before. Right, you make sure you
give the crowd something that is gonna that is gonna
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get everybody excited. Somebody's gonna get everything enthused. Things that
are on brand for me. So he's doing things that
are on brand for him. I get it. Our brands
are somewhat diametrically opposed, and that only on that front.
On many other areas, when it comes to a good party,
to some good music, I think we're quite aligned right
when it comes to rhythms and things like that. Not
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necessarily some of the crazy stuff he's talked about are
making out with dudes on the MTV Awards and stuff
like that. That's kind of crazy, not for me. But
my point is what he's about to say I think
every American can stand behind. And it's the majority of
his speech that I didn't hear all over Twitter.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens. We
are humans, and we are Americans. Also, I want to
say to the people I know, is tough to not
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to hate on these days, and I was thinking, sometimes
we get contaminaos. I don't have to say that in English.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Contaminated.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
The hate get more powerful. With more hate. The only
thing that is more powerful than.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Hate is love.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
So please, we need to be different. If we fight,
we have to do it. We love if yeah, we
don't hate them. We love our people, we love our family,
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and that's the way to do it with love. Don't
forget that. Please, thank you, thank you God, and thank
you to the Academy.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
So let me tell you. I mean, like I said,
that sounds like a message you would have heard from
christ a message you would have heard from Charlie Kirk,
a message you hear from me on a regular basis. Right,
we can't hate the other side. That's the kind of
messaging I'm into. He just said, Right, we're in a
time right now where it's difficult not to hate. That's wild,
(12:19):
but it was so accurate for a guy who's second
language is English. I gotta tell you he nailed it.
The eloquence of that. It is a time where hate
is difficult to avoid because we're almost being programmed to hate.
This is why we have to double down. We have
to make sure that we don't jump on that. I
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hate so and so bandwagon. This is why I criticize
the left and I will never become the left. This
is why people always come at me like, oh, you're
soft on this, you're soft on that. No, no, no, it's
not that I'm soft on these issues. It's that I
choose to not be hateful on them. And we have
to have I believe we have to have this extinction.
If we don't make a distinction here between us and
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the left, and that distinction being love, and if I
go a step further, God Christ Almighty, if that is
not the difference, then what are we doing? In my opinion? Right,
maybe you don't share my beliefs, and that's okay. I'm
not going to cut you off or tell you not
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to listen to the show. I'm just saying that there
has to be a distinction because the only way. And again,
you know, I love Charlie Kirk and I think his
his saying when the talking stop stops is when the
Civil War starts. Right, fighting starts when the talking stops.
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This is exactly what bad Bunny was talking about. Right,
whether you agree or not, you should, right, you really should.
I don't think anybody should take a position that's against that. Now,
the other artists tonight didn't have a similar message of love.
We're all Americans, right, We're not savages, We're Americans. He
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said that that's true. The other artists tonight, I think
took a different or last night, they took a different
approach they were talking about. I's that this is an
approach and I think is unhealthy. Right, It doesn't lead
to anything good. This is kind of like the debate
(14:28):
style I like to call the New York City debate style. Right.
People will list a few things each time, more angry
in their list and end it with F out of here. Right,
you can talk to me about Donald Trump. You can
talk to me a guy who lies on his taxes,
who's got four wives, a guy who is a felon
(14:50):
thirty four counts, convicted felon in the White House. The
guy's a convicted sexual abuser by some judge. F out
of here. They think this is a baiting style, right,
and they'll do it every time. They have no intention
of having a discussion. There is zero love involved in this.
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All they intend to do is try to ridicule you,
to one up you. It's a technique of gamesmanship. But
it's not about dialogue. It's not about intellect. It's not
about delving into the issues where we disagree and exploring
areas where we may find common ground or not. They
(15:33):
don't want common ground. They are looking to excise you. Right,
They see you as a cancer and they want to
cut you out. Now, if you're listening, you're like, well, rich,
I see the left as a cancer. Well, then hey,
I hopefully can be your antidote. Call me chemo. I
don't think we should see the left as a cancer.
I think the effects of the left are cancerous. When
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they enact what they enact, it is hurtful to the body. Politics,
but them as people, they're people. There are brethren, right,
and we have to treat them as such. Now, I
understand some people are a little bit the word I'm
gonna use in Spanish ohlioso. Right, they're hateable. These hatable
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or hateful people are difficult to deal with. I totally
get that. But this is the task, right, This is
what makes us superior, This is what makes us better,
this is what makes us win. The argument is that
we're committed to something that's better. That's right, that's good.
So anyway, I wanted to discuss that little bit of
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bad money. Now, there's a few others, right, there's a
few others. Because another very popular one in recent years.
I couldn't name a single song of hers that I
like off the top of my head, but I'm sure
I've heard plenty of her songs. Her name Billie Eilish,
right like Eilish, within, like Irish with an L. I
said that wrong, Billie Eilish, and she and she may
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be popular for some of you because maybe you don't
listen to her, but maybe you have children or her grandchildren,
or you know a niece or a nephew or somebody
who listens.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Right.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I know, I don't think I listened to Billie Eilish.
She's not on my playlist, but I can tell you
that she went off on a tangent. She had a
lot to say, as did another artist named Jelly Roll.
I'm going to get into that, as well as did
Brandon Lake. And there's a lot of people getting Grammys here.
Billie Eilish, right stand by, Here we go.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
No one is illegal on stolen Land. And yeah, it's
just really hard to know what to say and what
to do right now. And I feel really fool in
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this room, and I feel like we just need to
keep fighting and speaking up and protest and our voices
really do matter, and the people matter, and let's say sorry.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
She said f ice, f Ice got bleeped out. F
Ice is all I could say. It was how she
ended that. Listen, this is Billie Eilish again. Now she's
taken some heat now because a Native American tribe that
owns land under her La mansion. As a message for
her right, the Native American tribe said that celebrities should
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explicitly reference the tribes if they want to use them
when they're virtue signaling the tongue, but tribe confirmed the
Bad Guys singer that's her song, Bad Guy, her three
million dollar home does sit on ancestral land, after the
twenty four year old used her Grammy's Success Take two
her Grammy's Acceptance speech to rail against ice and insists
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that no one is illegal on stolen land. The indigenous
inhabitants of the Los Angeles Basin, known as the First Angelinos,
said they appreciate Eilish's sentiment, but noted that this performer
hasn't contacted them directly ever, and insisted that next time
she explicitly referenced them by name. Eilish has not contacted
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our tribe directly regarding her property. We do value the
instance when public figures provide visibility to the true history
of this country. A Tongva spokesman told The Daily Mail,
it is our hope that in future discussions, the tribe
can explicitly be referenced to ensure the public understands the
Greater Los Angeles basin remains Gabrielino Tongva territory. Eilish was
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widely mocked for her comments on Sunday as she yelled
f ice from the stage while denouncing the United States
as a stolen land. Ain't that something? Oh wait, and
there's a little more here. Horn DeSantis, the governor of Florida, said,
O g the stolen land nonsense again. Maybe she should
step up and forfeit her southern California mansions to supposedly
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on stolen land. Let's see Senator Mike Lee chiming in
from Utah saying, any white person who does a public
stolen land acknowledgment should immediately give his or her stolen
land back to the Native Americans. Otherwise they don't mean it. Also,
I'm pretty sure they don't mean it. I think you're right, Senatorly,
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I think you're spot on there. And that was Billie Eilish.
Now there's a lot more I want to get into.
There's the comments from jelly Roll. Now, jelly Roll is
a country singer, great voice, him and another guy named
Teddy Swims. These guys have great voices, really just big.
I don't know word I want to use, but strong voices.
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And I don't have jelly Roll in my playlist either.
I'm not a big country fan, but when it comes
on like every I don't know, let's say every thirtieth
song can be a country song, and I will enjoy it,
but more more than that, and I can't. For whatever reason,
I just can't get into country. It's just too uh
doesn't have enough beats per minuted for my ADHD. I
need a little bit of a faster pace. But jelly
(21:09):
Roll fantastic job with his speech. I think we have
it fluqueued up. Do we have it? Yes?
Speaker 8 (21:15):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Maybe, so we let her rip.
Speaker 9 (21:20):
I know they're gonna try to kick me off here,
so just let me try to get this out. First
of all, Jesus, I hear you, and I'm listening. Lord,
I am listening Lord. Second of all, I want to
affect my beautiful wife. I would have never changed my life.
Without you, I'd ended up dead or in jail. I'd
have killed myself if it wasn't for you and Jesus,
I thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Before he goes on, I just want to say he
did thank Jesus first, and I gotta give him a
lot of credit for that.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Thank you for my label Broken Bow. It's a country.
Speaker 10 (21:46):
Radio, baby.
Speaker 11 (21:47):
What's up y'all?
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Ah Republic, John and Neely, we did it. Baby.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
There was a time in my life y'all that I
was I was broken. That's why I wrote this album.
I didn't think I had a chance, y'all. There was
days that I thought the darkest things. I was a
horrible human. There was a moment in my life that
all I had was a Bible this big in a
radio the same size, and a six by eight foot seal.
Speaker 12 (22:07):
And I believe that those two things could change my life.
I believe that music had the power to change my life,
and God had the power to change my life. And
I want to tell y'all right now, Jesus is for everybody.
Jesus is not owned by one political party. Jesus is
not owned by no music label. Jesus is Jesus and
anybody could have a.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Relationship with him. I love you Lord.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Well how about that mincing no words again, Jelly Roll
straight up preaching at the Grammy Awards. I gotta tell you,
if that would have happened five years ago, it would
be making bigger headlines than it did today, because it
was almost taboo to talk about Jesus back then. But
now you've got artists all over the place, right Justin Bieber,
(22:52):
Jelly Roll, Nicki, Minaj, Daddy, Yankee. I mean, just everywhere
you look there's a different artist talking about g Jesus saying,
you know, I'm embracing my faith, I'm doing my thing
Jesus's Lord. And I've got to say I'm seeing more
of that now than I ever did. I remember years
ago my daughter telling me about Justin Bieber and I'd
(23:13):
never heard of him, and she said, oh my gosh,
he's the biggest thing on YouTube, and I was like, well,
it doesn't take much to be big on YouTube. Again,
this was two thousand and six. I remember it like
yesterday she was five years old, and today, Yeah, it
takes a whole lot to be big on YouTube. You know,
back then it wasn't the same way and twenty years ago.
I remember it like yesterday, and I remember watching her
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grow up, listening to Bieber and then Bieber marrying Hayley,
Steve Baldwin's daughter, and Steve Baldwin was a friend, and
he'd invited me to a film premiere that they were
having a Union Square in Manhattan for a film he
was in called I'm in Love with a Church Girl
starring Adrian by Loan. The rapper Cha Rul, Stephen Baldwin,
(23:56):
and Israel Houghten was involved in the film as well.
And I remember going to that and my daughter met
Stephen Baldwin and she was like, oh my god, that's
like justin Bieber's girlfriend's dad. You know, they weren't married yet,
and she thought that was so cool to meet him.
But I say all of that to say back then
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it was a big deal.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Now, I guess some of us are taking for granted
how the gospel is more acceptable, right, It's not as
taboo as it was during those years. Some of the performances,
even at the Grammys were a lot darker, right, A
lot of imagery that was ritualistic, right, that type of thing,
(24:41):
and just more a darker imagery and some of the performances,
whereas now not always the case. Sometimes they're fresh, right,
but they're not necessarily like cult like, right, So, which
brings me to a tweet from Nicki Minaj. Now, Nicki Minaj,
this is a very interesting thing because Nicki Minaj talks
(25:03):
about this tweet. Let me see if I can pull
it up real quick. All right, here we go Nicki
Minaj's tweet on here we Go. I did a podcast
over the weekend. It was our friend Nick Giordano, the
PAS Report, and he asked me, do I believe that
(25:23):
all of Hollywood is eating babies? And I said, no,
I don't believe all of Hollywood is eating babies, but
I want to make sure nobody takes my words out
of context. I do believe some of Hollywood might be
right or has an interest in it, and if not
necessarily eating the babies, but definitely in sacrifice and rituals.
I believe there's an element just like there isn't the
(25:44):
gang life that we've talked about on this program, like
MS thirteen has ties to Satanism, Right, That's not something
I made up. That's something that's been reported in the
news the same thing here right. Nicki Minaj put out
a tweet with respect to the Grammys, saying this, your
favorite artist has been practicing rituals and a Satanic cult
where they take babies from other countries and mutilate and
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kill them as a form of blood sacrifice to their god.
You see, when your master is Satan, you most you
must constantly shed blood. However, the jig is up. It's
got a picture of Chucky from the movie Child's Play
drinking a martini making a smug, snarky face, and it's
(26:31):
got fifty two thousand retweets, two hundred and sixty two
thousand likes, nineteen thousand saves, fourteen thousand comments. And let
me just see what these comments say, just to give
you an idea. If I can see some here we
go gunk thir Eagelman says, keep exposing them. Jamless says
Charlie kirk New, Let's see. Jason James says something about
(26:54):
the Epstein list. Bridget Fertig says Nicki Minaj is the
biggest icon in music. And then she puts a video
from the actor who played Jesus, Jim cavizl Bo Louden says,
God bless you, Nikky. We all need to pray, pray,
pray for you and your safety. You're going up against
pure evil. I have your back, and so does America.
I'm grateful for you, aymen. I echo that as well,
(27:17):
and a lot of support here look at us, Alex Jones.
He says, I want to thank you for your courage
and extend an invitation to you to join me on
my broadcast. Ps. I loved your comment about Don Lemon
don Ley Moon right. We played that in the last episode,
what she said about Don Lemon and Gizmo memes says
the Queen is cooking. Now listen, I understand the Overton window.
(27:40):
I understand how to shoot for the moon and if
you miss her amongst the stars and a lot of times,
that's what these things are. But that doesn't mean that
blood sacrifices are fake, that Satanism isn't real, and that
there are not people in Hollywood who are into this stuff.
They're sure are is it every last person? Is it
Tom Hanks? Is it hard Einstein?
Speaker 10 (28:00):
Is it Jay Z?
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Is it Beyonce? Is it all of them? I don't know.
I can't say I've ever seen any evidence to make
any certain statement that it is. But I can say
I'm pretty sure it's happening. Why because bad things happen
all over the place.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
The fact that we now talk about a guy that
trafficked underage girls as young as twelve and fourteen, Jeffrey Epstein,
and we just refer to it simply as the Epstein List,
And the most egregious thing about it is that Trump
was somehow affiliated with the guy because he rented an
apartment in mar A Lago or owned a condo there.
We're lost, right, We're lost as a society, We're lost
(28:39):
as a people. It's wild to think that, oh my goodness,
because l. Trompito knew Jeffrey Epstein, that somehow we can
turn a blind eye to the fact that they're trafficking
young girls, drugging young girls, forcing young girls to have
sex for money. I mean, this is just crazy. It's
not just prostitution. This is human slavery. And it's become
(29:03):
a part of our daily lexicon. The Epstein Files. That's
the new name for things. And the first people to
make a euphemism for it and kind of make it diminutive,
if you will, were the people that name this Pizzagate
right back when they said, oh, it's pizzagate and it's
all about the Pizzas, and I remember that, and I
remember reading the WikiLeaks emails and all of that, and
(29:23):
some people freaking out about it and others not giving
a damn. I'm just saying, look, just because something sounds
crazy doesn't mean that it's not happening, and it also
doesn't guarantee that it is. We have to be judicious,
we have to take time, we have to read, we
have to trust our gut, we have to trust our God.
We have to know the law, or at least you
don't have an understanding of the law. You got to
inform yourselves. Watch good stuff, listen to good stuff, know
(29:45):
some good stuff, talk to good people, and challenge your
own ideas. Just because you believe something doesn't mean if
you hear ten other people say the same thing, that
that's a fact. That's not how confirmation works. Confirming something
is really, you know, finding something substant about it, some
actual evidence. And again, I know, not everybody's an investigator,
and nobody really cares. People are trying to pay their
(30:06):
bills and raise their kids. I get that, but I'm
just saying I have had so many encounters of people
who will send me a video is posted on Twitter
or bit shoot or some other video place. It's a
video of somebody saying, I told you the twenty twenty
election was stolen. They got all the evidence. This is
a military operation, just just a plan, and they'll send
(30:28):
this to me and go, see told you told me what?
That's some moron named Jack Maureen. And when you look
at the username, it's like ABC one two three sixty
nine seventy three forty two American flag emoji. Right that
that is somehow a definitive authoritative source on this topic
(30:49):
because they made a video some obscure person I've never
seen in my life. Come on. But for them, this
this hits the innermost part of their soul because it's
what they wanted to hear. I don't care if you
tell me what I want to hear. What I want
to hear is the truth. What I want to hear
is the facts. I don't need to hear what I
thought I knew to then feel good about myself, to
think that I'm not crazy. No, I need to know
(31:11):
what's going on, what's really happening. And again that doesn't
mean that people are I'm just saying. You listen to everything,
you take it all in. But just because you see
ten obscure Twitter accounts saying the same thing doesn't mean
that's actually happening. To me, that's more than anything. That's
if they add in some propaganda, like things like saying,
if you're not mad after hearing this, you should be
(31:32):
ashamed of yourself if you're not this right, if any
type of emotional language like that, it's likely propaganda. Regular
people don't talk like that, you know, or when they
give you false equivalencies, right, we either do this or
this happens. Right, you tell me. In life, when things
are that cut and dry, not always right, not always
many times, it's not always. If you do this, that happens. Now,
(31:53):
if you do this, this could happen. That could happen,
This could happen. This might have happened, But then that happened,
Then so and so happened. You never know. Life is
as neatly packed as some of these tweets would suggest.
But anyway, I digress. I'm still on the Grammys, folks,
before we hit the brake, and with respect to the Grammys,
Jelly Roll did an amazing job. Nicky, you know, gave
this tweet and there's a guy out there. His name
(32:15):
is Brandon Lake. And I'll finish with this one before
we move on to the Gaza strip and the government
shut down as well. The artist named Brandon Lake, he's
somebody that is on my playlist typically on Sunday morning
when I get into my church vibe and he he
won a Grammy Award for a song that he did
I believe with Jelly Roll if I'm not mistaken, And
(32:36):
he also gave a really good speech. And I've got
it right here. I think I think we've got it here.
And if we do, let's let the people hear it.
Call that graduation.
Speaker 13 (32:47):
Thank you, Thank you, oh Man, Wow, thank you Jesus.
I'm gonna thank my wife who's holding down the fort
back home with all my babies, crazy babies. Thank you
the Academy for honoring this category. Thank you Provident, my label,
Bright Group. Thank you Pastor Stephen Ferdick, Benjamin William Hastings,
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Chris Brown, Mike and Nichols for producing this song. And
all my local Charleston, South Carolina guys who played on
La Roderick Simmons shout out to him. I want to say,
obviously a huge thank you to Jelly for taking a
chance on this song, taking a chance on me. He
just took me everywhere he was performing and said, let's
do this song together. He took this song places that
I couldn't have by myself. And I've gotten countless messages
(33:32):
of how this song has literally saved people's lives and
pointed them to Jesus. If it wasn't for Jesus, I
don't know where I would be, y'all, y'all.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
This please wrap it up.
Speaker 13 (33:43):
Most important thing I could say is this world is
Craig Cray right now. But I was reminded of the
scripture this morning, John sixteen thirty three. I have told
you these things so that in me you may have peace.
In this world you will have trouble. But take heart,
I have overcome the world. He's overcome, so that means
we can too.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
Through Christ. Love you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
That's Brandon Lake. Brandon Lake again winning the Grammy for
Best Country Performance with a Jelly Roll song they did
together called the Hallelujah?
Speaker 8 (34:17):
Right?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Is it hard fought? Hallelujah? Let me tell you really
good track. I was listening to it earlier today and
happy for them. So listen. I say all of this
stuff to say, I think we're winning a lot more
than we're losing. We got bad Bunny giving a message
that although he left Jesus for the end and put
him on the back burner, I liked everything else he
(34:39):
had to say. You heard what he had to say.
If you disagree, you let me know. Eight seven seven
valids one, eight seven seven Valds one. Keep it locked
right here. I'm Rich Valdez.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
This is America, this is America. He's brown, he's bald,
(35:14):
and he's breaking it down. Oh he's so has some
what's his name, Rich Valdez?
Speaker 3 (35:23):
What's up?
Speaker 14 (35:24):
I mean?
Speaker 3 (35:24):
He goes, welcome back, Rich Valdez. Valdes with an ask
at Rich Valdez on all of the social media, keeping
you company tonight, Happy to be here with you, and
I want to jump into this stuff that's going on
in Gaza right the Gaza strip. You've got the what
is what do we call it? I guess the border?
(35:45):
Forgive me. The border is now opened. They've opened the
border for you know, back and forth transportation and whatnot.
In Gaza, between Gaza and Egypt. This is big. Hasn't
happened in a couple of years. This is all the
results of the ceasefire that people are not giving President
Trump any credit for. Right. I often say, you don't
(36:07):
hear people saying free Palestine anymore because Trump freed Palestine.
Listen to this report ABC News.
Speaker 15 (36:14):
It is really official, say the Rafa crossing is now
open to limited pedestrian traffic. The passage between Gaza and
Egypt has been mostly closed to Palestinians since October seventh,
twenty twenty three. Now it's reopening is the first step
in the second phase of President Trump's Gaza peace plan.
The Israeli military says it'll approve the Palestinians entering or
leaving Gaza according to the terms of the plan, but
(36:36):
it's not clear how many will be allowed to pass.
And now the Hamasran Gaza Health Ministry says it's already
submitted a list of fifty patients to leave the strip
through that crossing.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Now, of course, some are saying this is not very
significant because it's a very limited back and forth transit
that's going on. But finally the moment's here, right, It's
finally happened. The borders reopened. It's the first phase of
President Trump's peace deal coming to close. The opening will
allow for about twenty thousand sick and wounded Palestinians to
begin leaving the Gaza strip for treatment, and this is
(37:09):
according to local health officials and the World Health Organization.
Despite the uncertainties, traffic through the border has begun, as
the first phase of Trump's twenty point piece plan concludes.
Trying to give you the relevant points here now. The
border was meant to reopen during the hostage exchanges in
the fall, but Israel refused to seed full control until
(37:30):
every single captive was freed, which didn't happen until last
week when the body of ran Villi was located. The
crossing will now be operated by supervisors from the European
Union and by local Palestinian staff, with Jewish state officials
expected to conduct remote security checks. The traffic is also
(37:50):
expected to be slow, with only about fifty patients allowed
to leave each day and another fifty allowed to return,
according to initial Israeli reports. The World Health Organization is
now being tasked with transferring patients from the Hamas controlled
Gaza past the yellow line border controlled by the Israel
(38:12):
Defense Forces. Now, more than thirty thousand Gazans who are
outside the territory or who fled during the war have
already registered with the Palestinian embassy in Cairo to be
allowed to return to the Gaza Strip. Now with the
border crossing reopened, Trump's peace plan is officially in its
second phase, which is the Board of Peace, and they
(38:37):
will take governance of Gaza until a group of Palestinian
technocrats can be tapped to actually rule this enclave. That's
pretty much the report. Otherwise, it remains to be seen
how the Board of Peace is going to establish Gaza
once the Trump Plan really kicks off. Hamas has also
been unwilling to demilitarize as part of the second phase.
(38:58):
So with the developments of the terror group refusing to
do that, they may not be able to move forward
if there's no disarmament. So Hamas is saying, hey, look,
rather than disarm, how about we include ten thousand of
our own police officers into the first government and see
(39:20):
what happens. This has been opposed by Israel. Israel's warning
that if Hamas does not agree to give up its weapons,
the ceasefire would end in Israel will return to war.
So let's hope that doesn't happen. So far, it's been
so good. I think any day where we don't hear
about a bunch of dead Palestinian babies and a bunch
of dead Jews, that's a good day. Right, people alive
(39:44):
sounds good to me. So that's that. I'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
This is America, This is America.
Speaker 16 (40:08):
The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
to speak with Rich Valdez.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
Oh, very good. The honor is all yours.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Conservative talk with a dash of sofrito.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Now here's Rich Valdez.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
All right, and he goes, welcome back. And CNN's Harry
Entton had a clip that he played about government ID.
I'm going to get into that a little bit. I
also want to talk about this limited government shutdown because
why well, because government shutdown last time it was such
a big deal. This time, we're not hearing anything about
a government shutdown, right. I mean, I think we heard
(40:49):
a little bit last week that we're in a partial
government shutdown, but nobody seems to care. I wonder what's
up with that. Well, here's the deal, President Trump is
scheduled to sign a bill as soon as it's put
on his desk as early as tomorrow Tuesday, to end
this partial government shutdown. But that's where we are right now.
And I wonder how come the fake news media isn't
(41:10):
trying to scare everybody like they did last time, saying, hey,
look we're in a government shutdown, right That seems to
not be the case and not be as important as
it was last time.
Speaker 10 (41:19):
Hmmmm.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
Funny haha, No, funny, hmmm. Anyway, I want you to
hear this clip from Harry Enton on CNN. Now, this
is interesting because we're talking about the government here. This
is about government issued IDs, and how many people over
the last six or seven eight years, from twenty eighteen
and beyond actually agree with the rap Queen Nikki Minaj
(41:45):
that we should have voter ID. Listen to this CNN.
Speaker 17 (41:50):
So voter ID, just so people understand, is the idea
that someone shows a photo ID when they go to vote,
when they go to cast their actual battle Because there's
a separate discussion right now about needing a passport or
a bergertificate to register to vote, but the polling is
all on voter ID.
Speaker 10 (42:06):
Showing an ID to vote.
Speaker 16 (42:07):
Showing a photo ID to vote, And the American people
are with Nicki Minaj, because what are we talking about here?
So take a look here, favorite voter idea to vote. Look,
I got all this polling on the screen, going back
since twenty eighteen. You'll notice on all of it, it's
all north of seventy five percent, seventy six percent, seventy
six percent, seventy six percent, eighty one percent, and then
eighty three percent in the last year.
Speaker 6 (42:29):
Of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj.
Speaker 16 (42:31):
They favor photo ID to be able to vote.
Speaker 10 (42:35):
What about by party? What's the party berg?
Speaker 16 (42:36):
Yeah, normally you might expect, hey, there'd be a big
divide by party where Republicans really forward in, Democrats really
against it, But not really here.
Speaker 6 (42:44):
I mean, just take a look here, favorite photo idea vote.
Speaker 16 (42:46):
You got ninety five percent of Republicans, pretty much all
of them, but even seventy one percent of Democrats favorite
photo ID to vote. So again Nicki Minaj posting that
on X And what you see is is that the
American people, actually, it's not really all that controversial.
Speaker 6 (43:01):
The American people are with Nicki Minaj.
Speaker 16 (43:04):
Whether they are Republican or even if they are Democrats
who are talking about seven to ten.
Speaker 6 (43:08):
Democrats agreeing with Nicki Minaj.
Speaker 16 (43:10):
That you, in fact should show a voter photo ID
to vote.
Speaker 10 (43:13):
What's the racial breakdown? Okay, what's the racial breakdown on
this right?
Speaker 16 (43:17):
Because I think a lot of people make the argument
that people of color, non white Americans have a harder
time procuring a photo ID to vote. But even here,
take a look here, favorite photo ID to vote. Eighty
five percent of white people favorite, eighty two percent of Latino,
seventy six percent.
Speaker 6 (43:31):
Of Black Americans favorite.
Speaker 16 (43:33):
So the bottom line is this voter ID is not
controversial in this country. A photo ID to vote is
not controversial in this country. It is not controversial by party,
and it is not controversial by race. The vast majority
of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj that, in fact, you
should have a photo ID to be able to vote.
Speaker 10 (43:51):
So something of a nontroversy that is very good.
Speaker 16 (43:54):
The alliteration of mister John Berman that Harvard education paying
off once again, Harold, and.
Speaker 10 (43:58):
Thank you, thank you much.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
All Right, there you have a Berman and Harry Enton,
chief data analyst at CNN, making it clear that by
race and by the numbers twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, twenty twenty,
twenty twenty one, straight through twenty twenty five, nobody is well,
I shouldn't say nobody, but north of seventy five percent
each and every one of those years seventy six, seventy six,
seventy six, all the way up to eighty to yeah,
(44:21):
eighty two percent in twenty twenty five, So big numbers.
Everybody wants voter ID. Then why is it that the
Democrats are so adamant about it? Well, of course Democrats
say that they're adamant about this because it's racist. Elizabeth
Warren said, you know, it's difficult for black people to
get IDs. Kamala Harris at black people don't know what
a fax machine is, right, I mean, really just crazy
(44:43):
stuff that you hear come from people. When you've got
doctor Ben Carson, for example, who I've interviewed before. The
guy has a movie made about him with Cuba getting Junior.
He is literally a brain surgeon, did the first surgery
separating brain conjoined twins, right, twins that are joined at
the head. Just wild to think that he's done these
(45:05):
types of surgery. He's the first one to ever do
it a black man by all means indicating to me
that not only can black people do whatever white people
can do, but perhaps more right based on what we're seeing,
the ingenuity in medical science, seeing the prowess in an
athleticism in professional sports, and yet somehow they want to
(45:26):
suggest that somehow black people may not be able to
get an ID to vote. I would be so mad
and offended if I was if I identified as black right,
because it's perto Rican's I guess we're you know, some
good percentage of black. If you look at me, you
could see the black right. I've got a pretty wide nose.
I've got a larger lips. You know, my dad was
darker skin, more Tino darker skin, But no question. You know,
(45:48):
Puerto Ricans are a mix of Spaniards and black and
Tino blood. That's the mix in Puerto Rico. So I
get it. But man, I would be beside myself if
I were, you know, a black American, truly I would be.
I'm offended as it is. So just imagine if you know,
(46:09):
if Elizabeth Warren and I guess if I were a
black Democrat. Right is the best way to put it,
because they seem to think that they just can't do anything.
I just imagine somebody thinking you're totally incapable. I guess
that's like some kids, right. I know my kids have
gone through phases like that where they thought, you know anything.
I tell them like, oh, remember this, and I'm like, hey,
(46:29):
I'm not stupid. I wasn't born yesterday.
Speaker 8 (46:31):
You know.
Speaker 3 (46:31):
It's like, oh, geez, take it easy. I just don't
want you to get sick or I don't want you
to get into a car accidenter. I just want you
to be okay, and I'm just caring for you. But
sometimes people take offense to that type of care. Here
it's the exact opposite. It's like, no, no, we don't think
you could care for yourself at all. Wild Now, moving
to New York a little bit, I want to talk
about this may Or Mom Donnie. He has now appointed
(46:54):
somebody who's very intimately aware of the jail system to
be his commissioner of the Department of Corrections. This is
a pretty wild one. Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Stanley will make history in this role as the first
ever formerly incarcerated person to serve as commissioners. That achievement
is not merely symbolic. It is a testament to the
thought and leadership he will bring to every member of
(47:26):
correction staff and incarcerated New Yorkers underneath his purview, and
as the former first Deputy Commissioner for the DOC and
the executive vice president of the Fortune Society, that work
has long been Stanley's purpose.
Speaker 5 (47:40):
When we provide support, when we center our collective work
on hope instead of fear, when we see what is
best in all of us, instead of judging people on
the worst thing that they've ever done, when we see
our commonality as opposed to our difference, we can achieve
(48:01):
the unimanageable.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
Well, I'll tell you this. It is unimaginable to me
to think that we would have a Commissioner of Corrections, right,
the guy who's in charge of the jails being somebody
that was once in jail. But I am going to
say this right a caveat. I never imagined that that
would happen. But I'm not going to say I think
it's a bad idea. Some people might take exception to that. Yep,
(48:24):
I liked Bad Bunny's speech, and I don't think this
is a bad idea. Why Because I think as a
guy that's been divorced, I can coach a lot of
other guys on how to stay married. I think that
sometimes going through is how you learn things. And I
don't know this guy from anything, right, I really don't know.
(48:46):
I know he was incarcerated for robbery and he's now
going to be the first commissioner of the City of
New York Department of Corrections. But I do know that
this guy, mister Stanley is he seems like somebody's willing
to do the jobs. Or Mamdani is the mayor, he
(49:07):
can appoint whom he wants, so we can critique all
his people, like Sea A Weaver and the other crazies.
I would imagine this guy's likely just as progressive. Hey,
let's let him all out. I'm sure he's nuts right,
just by virtue of his ideology, but not because of
the fact that he was in jail. I have some
(49:28):
friends that were incarcerated. One of my friends did twelve
years in different stints. He's a real estate investor today.
He owns properties and rents them out. He does really
well for himself. Guy's got a Porsche and he's a
He's a really good dude. He's got a great attitude
(49:48):
about life. He came up really rough in a rough neighborhood,
and life just was tough for the guy. And it's
all I can tell you he did. He was a
product of his environment, right, And I didn't have a
lot of guidance at home, and lamentably, that's how it
goes if you don't have great parents all the time.
And he had his mom. She died young. His dad
(50:08):
also died and wasn't around. It's a recipe for you know,
anything to happen. He learned eventually took him. I'm going
to call it the long way, right. He took the
long route. But I think he's an upstanding member of
society today. And I say that to say I think
he's a bright guy. He's a crypto investor, he's a
real estate investor. He's done well for himself financially because
(50:32):
he's had to. He figured if I want to have
a good life, and I know I can't get a
lot of jobs because of my criminal record, and I've
got to figure out how to make myself a job,
and he has. So I don't know this guy, Stanley,
and I'm pretty sure I'll be back in a couple
of weeks saying what a crazy radical lefty he is.
But I'm not going to say I don't think it's
a bad idea to hire somebody who has rehabilitated their life,
(50:56):
presuming that they have right. There should be some sort
of proof, some sort of evidence like, hey, I've been
out of jail for X amount of years and in
that time, I worked here, and I did this, and
I was able to go to this, to go to that,
and you know, progress in my field, and you know,
just something that shows you, hey, this guy's doing his thing,
and you know those things are all warranted by conversations
(51:18):
and looking at somebody's personal file and whatnot. But my
point is I could have been a lot more critical,
and on this one I'm just not. I'm not going
to be, not for that reason, but for his crazy
let's shut down rikers and let everybody out of jail
type of policies. He's an absolute nut job if he
thinks that's gonna work, because I think that's a very
(51:38):
bad idea. Now, I wanted to circle back to a
couple of quick topics, but we're gonna do that straight ahead.
Don't go anywhere this is America.
Speaker 4 (51:57):
This is America.
Speaker 1 (52:00):
All right, on me gooes, he's making podcasting great again.
Speaker 4 (52:04):
This is America with Rich Valdez.
Speaker 3 (52:07):
Thank you, sir. That's Chris Libertini, by the way, shout
out to Chris Libertini. I want to announcer, and I
wanna I want to get into a couple of things.
Speaker 8 (52:15):
Man.
Speaker 3 (52:15):
It's a couple of clips I wanted to play earlier
that I just I didn't. I didn't play. Had too many,
too many bullets in my in my magazine here, didn't
fire them all. But a couple of things I want
to talk about. There was an interesting Grammy clip that
I wanted to play, and there was one other one.
Let me see if I can squeeze those in here
before we before we wrap, all right, because we still
(52:38):
have some time and I love being here with you guys.
All right, here we go. Let's see we talked about
Mam diney. We did that. Tomorrow we'll talk about Robert
Reich in his attack on El Trampito. Oh, this was
a good one. To Jason Whitlock on the Grammys. That's
a very good one. I enjoyed that. Let me see
(53:00):
what else we had here and President Trump on the
Epstein Files. That was one that I think we could
have played. Also we should have played. But let me
do this. Jason Whitlock went first, and then and rap,
we're going to start here with President trumpets he's here right,
all right, here we go and Trumpeter on the Epstein Files.
(53:24):
Go ahead, play it.
Speaker 10 (53:27):
Files.
Speaker 11 (53:28):
If you think your critics will be satisfied me, well
they should be, because it looked like this guy Wolfe
was a writer, was conspiring with Epstein to do harm
to me.
Speaker 14 (53:39):
And I didn't see it myself, but I was told
by some very important people that not only does it
absolve me, it's the opposite of what people were hoping.
You know, the radicleb that Wolfe was a very great
writer was conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to hurt me politically
or otherwise.
Speaker 6 (53:59):
And I can't fee a.
Speaker 10 (54:00):
Loud and clear.
Speaker 14 (54:01):
So we'll probably suit wolf of it, and maybe the.
Speaker 1 (54:07):
State to state.
Speaker 10 (54:08):
I guess.
Speaker 6 (54:08):
I don't know, but we're gonna certainly super what do
you mean?
Speaker 14 (54:12):
I guess so because he was conspiring with wolf to
do harm to be politically, that's not.
Speaker 3 (54:19):
A brand, not a friend at all. That's right, And
I think that's a very astute point, and that was true,
and I mentioned that earlier. This would have been a
good time to play that clip, Senor productor. But bottom
line is that was President Trump aboard Air Force one.
If you didn't get that from the sound, These guys
(54:40):
were never in his corner. It wasn't like he was
going there like, oh here comes out Trumpito again. We
can't stand this guy here. He is to rape and
pillage the girls with us. It wasn't like that they
didn't like him, they didn't get along. He cut Epstein
off back in three or something like that. Anyway, I
think that was worthy of being played because again, while
(55:03):
he was speaking to these reporters on Air Force one,
he reiterated that he's been absolved from this stuff and
he was told by his team legal people that Wolf
and Epstein were conspiring against him. So now he's taking
a suing them. Now somebody else, he's taking a suing
Trevor Noah. Now why is he thinking of suing Trevor Noah? Well,
(55:25):
because Trevor Noah went after him and Nicki Minaj and
a bunch of other ones in one of his jokes.
And again I laughed at the joke, not specifically at
the Trump part that wasn't funny per se, but overall
I thought the bit was funny. Listen to this legend.
Nicki Minaj is not here.
Speaker 6 (55:42):
She is not here, she is.
Speaker 9 (55:49):
She is still at the White House with Donald Trump
discussing very important issues.
Speaker 2 (55:55):
Actually, Nicki, I have the biggest ass.
Speaker 3 (55:57):
I haven't. Everybody's saying it, Nikki. I know they say
to you, but it's me.
Speaker 6 (56:01):
Wo look at it.
Speaker 3 (56:02):
Look at it baby.
Speaker 4 (56:04):
Jennifer Hudson is.
Speaker 3 (56:05):
In the house now. He went on to make a
joke about how President Trump was on the Epstein Island
he needed an island to go to or something like that,
and that was where President Trump fired back and said,
I am gonna sue Trevor Noah. I am gonna sue
the whomever, right, the Grammys, whoever's got to sue. And
(56:28):
because it's false information, there's never been an accusation of such.
And this is where people play fast and loose with
the facts, with the truth, trying to make a joke.
And I get it, there could be some elements that
are hyperbolic, but you know, and something like this, Trump's
gonna be well within his rights to sue, and I
bet you anything, he's gonna be suing whatever it is ABC, right,
(56:49):
I think that's who puts on the Grammy Awards. ABC here,
maybe CBS, I could be getting. They're confused, and of
course Trevor Noah and I wouldn't be surprised if he
wins or gets a settlement because they do this to
him pretty often, and he knows his rights. Even though
he's president and he is a public figure, he's still
(57:11):
able to win some of these things, which I think
is phenomenal. So God speak to him and his legal team.
And the final clip I want to play for you
guys is one again reaction from the Grammys. Jason Whitlock
over at OutKick dot Com. It's a division of Fox.
He's always got something good to say, and I've got
(57:31):
a really good clip of him. Let's see where is that.
Let's get that one cued up of Jason Whitlock with
Harvey Levin on TMZ. Go ahead, Oh, I see, we
don't have time, okay, So this is where I tell
you that we will get into that Jason Whitlock clip
(57:51):
about Harvey Levin with Harvey Levin about the Grammys and
Satanism and all sorts of stuff and bad bunny manyana.
But I do want to say that the only thing
necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to
do nothing. You're good people, so do something. Number one.
Number two, you got to stand for something, because if
(58:13):
you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. That's Lord
Acton and many others that have said that quote. And
it's as true today as it was back then. And
I say to you Asta abrosima, take care, good night,
and God bless you America. I'm Rich Valdez, and this
is America.
Speaker 4 (58:32):
This is America.
Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
Sai
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