Hit & Run shooting, Hegseth rips CNN, Honest singers

On Wednesday, Rich unpacks the hit-and-run of a federal police officer in Minneapolis, MN, resulting in an ICE officer using deadly force when the car was weaponized to run him over. Then, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth briefs Congress on the plan in Venezuela and rips CNN afterwards. Plus, listener calls and discussion on Romeo Santos and Prince Royce's recent New York Times interview and backlash. Afterward, Gabriel Boxer calls the show with the latest on the Mamdani administration eliminating the newly-created NYC office of anti-semitism.

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Speaker 4 (00:18):
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
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America with your host, Rich Valdez.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
What's up, America. I am Rich Valdez Valdez with ans
at Rich Valdez on all of the social media. Welcome
to the Wednesday night edition of the program. Happy to
be here with you, truly blessed Miamigos. And I want
to jump into what's going on here because as I'm
sitting here seventeen miles away from Madison Square Garden, there's
a lot going on across the country. So I'm going

(00:48):
to keep you up to speed and tell you exactly
what's happening in America. But the first story, our top
line is going to be this woman that tried to
run over an ice agent. Federal law enforcement officer partner
shot the lady. Now, all I can tell you is
that I saw the video and it was clear as day.
Any human being in my opinion that does that to
a cop is going to meet the same exact fate.

(01:10):
If you use deadly force against the police, local police,
county sheriff, federal cops, whatever, you're going to get killed.
That is as simple as it gets. Right. Maybe this
was an incident of suicide by cop. I would say
it probably isn't, because it apparently she had been antagonizing
the police all day. But you can't do these types
of things. You can't take your car and attempt to

(01:32):
run over the police. Pointing your car, weaponizing your vehicle
against the cop is only going to get them to
draw their weapon and use deadly force. That's the fact.
Secretary Nome took a press conference today and here's what
she had to say.

Speaker 5 (01:44):
I want to reiterate first with all of you the
facts of what happened today at ten twenty five am
Central time, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, we're carrying out lawful
operations here in Minneapolis because of the adverse weather that
Minneapolis has seen in recent snow vehicles became stuck and
ensnared in the snow. Law enforcement were attempting to push

(02:04):
out this vehicle and when a mob of agitators that
were harassing them all day began blocking them in, shouting
at them, and impeding law enforcement operations. ICE officers and
agents approached the vehicle of the individual in question, who
was blocking the officers in with her vehicle, and she
had been stalking and impeding their work all throughout the day.

(02:28):
ICE agents repeatedly ordered her to get out of the
car and to stop instructing obstructing law enforcement, but she
refused to obey their commands. She then proceeded to weaponize
her vehicle, and she attempted to run an law enforcement
officer over. This appears as an attempt to kill or
to cause bodily harm to agents, an act of domestic

(02:50):
domestic terrorism. The ICE officer, fearing for his life and
the other officers around him and the safety of the public,
fired defensive shots he used to training to save his
own life and that of his colleagues. He was treated
at a local hospital, has been released and is now
with family. I encourage the American people at this point
in time to pray for him, but also to pray

(03:11):
for the deceased family and her loved ones. Today alone
in this country, there have been four different domestic terrorist
attacks on federal officers by the ramming of vehicles. Three
of them happened here in Minneapolis.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
So there you have that right. This is absolute insanity.
It's been going on for a while. We've been seeing
it happen time and time again. These things have to stop.
If they don't stop, we're going to have more of this.
The reason they're happening is because we've had all these
defund the police types that are not enforcing law, so
people feel like they can abuse people in law enforcement,
which is not right. I'm not saying anybody's life is

(03:48):
above anybody else, as I am saying, if you've got
cops telling you to move your car, go over here,
do this, and do that, you don't really have the
right to sit there and say, uh no, you know what,
I'm going to do what I feel like, I'm going
to try and run you over. Have that right, and
if you think you do, fool around and find out
this is what's going to happen. Nothing about this was
an accident. This was calculated, and in my opinion, it

(04:09):
was incredibly stupid. I feel bad for this woman's family.
Quite frankly, unless she was a mental patient, she looked
for this problem. That stinks to say, but what are
you going to do anyway? I want to get to
some of the backlash on this because these protests and
begin with to begin with, I should say, are the
result of unscrupulous politicians in Minnesota, like Tim Walls saying

(04:30):
we're at war with the government. Like Jacob Frey, the mayor.
They're saying all sorts of crazy and I got some
clips on him. These people are out of control. They
are egging this stuff on.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
We've dreaded this moment since the early stages of this
ice presence in Minneapolis. Not only is this a concern
that we've had internally, we've.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Been talking about it.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
They are not here to cause safety in this city.
What they are doing is not to provide safety in America.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Well, excuse me, mister mayor. I think we all know
they're there to do their jobs, which is to arrest
people who are here in this country illegally, something that
you won't do. Because Tim Wall says, you guys are
a sanctuary state, got it, you don't want to support it,
go right ahead, which is not even legal, But go
right ahead, you go ahead and do that. But you
are the one inviting this chaos that you speak of, Right,

(05:26):
you're the one that won't facilitate this. So the federal
government says, hey, we're going there because we found massive fraud.
We believe these people are here illegally. We're going to
go ahead and do some investigating and we're going to
lock some people up. And they're there, en mos right,
they got vans, they've got a serious police presence there.
And instead of saying, how can we help our federal
partners to facilitate this or how can we make this

(05:47):
safer for everyone involved, Like, hey, people stay off the streets,
let them do their jobs, get out of the way.
You don't want to get caught in a cross fire
or anything like that. Nope, none of that, right mayor no. Instead,
you're turning a blind eye to telling your officers not
to stop people who want to go and blockade these
guys with their private cars or people that are now
weaponizing their vehicles to try and scare or kill these cops.

(06:10):
And you're not going to take any responsibility, are you.
You're going to say it's all their fault when you're
doing absolutely nothing to help.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
What they are doing is causing chaos and distrust they're
ripping families apart, They're sowing chaos on our streets and
in this case quite literally killing people.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
This guy's so full of crap, right, well, what about
what do you say, rich where's the lie? The lie
is that they're not there to create chaos. They're there
to arrest people, and if people don't come willingly, then
maybe there's a little chaos. And if people don't come willingly,
then maybe there's a little bit of chaos. But that's

(06:52):
not something that they're creating or manifesting. That's the result
of people thinking they can get away with everything because
of your policies as a sanctionry city in a sanctuary state.
Go ahead, play the tape.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
So they are already trying to spin this as an
action of self defense. Having seen the video of myself,
I want to tell everybody directly that is bold. This
was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody

(07:28):
dying getting killed.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
In my opinion, I also saw the video, and this
is a protester who clearly either has it in for
the government, has it in for the Trump administration, is
in love with illegal immigrants, or is being emboldened by
the rhetoric that you're spewing, tried to run over a
cop and got killed in the process. Come on, Mayor,
you've got to do better than that. But Mayor Fray

(07:51):
didn't stop right there, right He decided to go on.
He had a lot more to say. I got another clip?
Can we have that other clip? He wants to disinvite
them from the city. Listen to this to.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Get ice off of the scene.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
There were dozens, if not hundreds of Ice and federal
officers that were there at the time.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
So you've got dozens, if not hundreds of federal law
enforcement officers on the scene, and you think your job
as the mayor of the city is to get rid
of the federal agents instead of crowd control, to let
them do their job. In what world does that make sense?
In what world?

Speaker 6 (08:24):
Is there?

Speaker 3 (08:24):
A fire fire department pulls up and the cops were like, nah, nah,
we're gonna let traffic run through here, just go around
the fire truck. Everybody knows if there's a fire, the
cops close down the streets to divert traffic, pedestrian traffic
and automobile traffic. Why to let the firefighters do their
job and fight their fire. So it's your lack of collegiality,
it's your embrace of nullification. Right, this illegal process of

(08:47):
saying that you can claim to be a sanctuary from
the federal law. There's not a state government in this
country that has jurisdiction over immigration law that is a
federal issue with its own federal police. These are federal statutes.
You have no right to get in the way of
federal law enforcement in that capacity, in any federal capacity. Right,

(09:07):
it's not like they called the cops or of domestic violence.
Then that's all you. I mean, everything you're saying here
is wrong. I can't believe nobody calls you out play
to say.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Having them there was only causing more chaos. Having them
there was only making a difficult situation even more problematic,
and one that yes, they created themselves.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
What about your rhetoric? What responsibility do you have for
creating chaos? What responsibility do you bear for creating a
situation like this? Go ahead?

Speaker 2 (09:38):
There's little I can say again that'll make this situation better, But.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
I little you can say because you are a pendeho sar.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Do you have a message for our community, for a city,
and I have a message for ice two ice, get
the feet.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Out of Minneapolis, Well said sir, quite eloquent. Honestly, if
I lived in Minneapolis, I'd be saying that to you
and get you right out of city Hall. What a disgrace.
And again people are upset because of this type of
inflammatory rhetoric. And hey, he's free to say what he
wants to say. This is the result. I'm going to
go to sleep tonight and know that what I say

(10:17):
on my show doesn't get people hurt. And what this
guy says as a part of his job just got
a woman killed, just like people freaking out about the
United States taking on Russia, China, and Iran by way
of Venezuela. What seems to me to be a win
win win, right. America wins where we slow down drug trafficking.
America wins because we get rid of a dictator, and

(10:39):
America wins because we now have slowed down the supply
or maybe potentially ended the supply of subsidized oil from
a communist country to their communist allies, which was in
our hemisphere and creating an actual threat to the United States,
to our economic security and moreover, to our national security.
Because these guys are all in the business of trying

(11:01):
to undermine the United States? Right or am I wrong here?
I mean, you might disagree with that, but that's how
I see it. The back and forth today in Washington
has been incredible. So we're going to talk about that
in the next segment on Secretary heg Seth giving his
briefing to members of Congress. But before we get there,
I want to finish the topic we're on should you

(11:22):
be shot if you try to run the cops over? Now,
of course the debate is going to be in court
and elsewhere. Was this woman actively trying to run the
cops over? I saw a video and I see a
cop telling her to stop, and she attempts to move
the car around and points it seemingly at the cop
that was on the side. One guy gets out of

(11:44):
the way. The other guy doesn't get out of the way.
He draws his gun, which is by the way textbook.
I did a brief time in the police academy to
be a volunteer cop, and I was told, you get
out of the way so you don't get run over,
but you are able to use deadly force. So if
you can get to the side near the tire, so
you're not in front of the tire, but to the

(12:05):
side of the tire. To do what you gotta do.
You do what you gotta do. That's literally the training.
Now the Mamdani's of the world, the AOC's of the world,
they're gonna say, hey, well, that's exactly the problem. We've
got this militarized police force that's here to kill the
citizen ry. No, nobody's doing that until you're trying to
run them over. And this is the point, right, So
now every headline I'm finding ice shoots woman, I shoots woman. Meanwhile,

(12:28):
the headline should say woman tries to run over ice. Comma,
cop shoots back, right, or cop defends himself, whichever way
you want to put it. But to try to insinuate
that this man just pulled up in Indianapolis, or excuse me,
in Minnesota, Minneapolis and decided to just take this woman out,
it's not sensical. It's not real, it's fake. It's phony
as frog. And I hate to get into these really

(12:49):
heavy topics, Honestly, I'd much rather be joking around, making
funny names for those in the media and those in
the news and whatever. But this is very unfortunate This
is a human being that lost her life because either
she was hooped into believing that she should be antagonizing
the police, or she truly believed that this was her
calling in life. Either way, I think you'll agree with me.
This was a bad call. This is not how you

(13:09):
want to become a martyr. In a couple of years,
few people are going to remember this woman's name. The
media will do their best to try and paint her
as some sort of hero. People are already ascending on
Washington to have these vigils and whatnot. But the reality
is this is a problem of her own invention. She
tried to run over a cop and a cop shot her,

(13:30):
and now she's dead, and that's very unfortunate. We'll continue
this conversation as well as what's going on in Venezuela.
Straight ahead.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
This is America. This is America. He's brown, he's bald,
and he's breaking it down.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
Oh he's so has someome what's his dad? Rich Valdez?
All right, I goes to check it out. We're gonna
get to your calls momentarily. Then we've got a guy
named the Kosher Guru. He's going to be giving us
a call and talk about what anti Semitism looks like
in New York City. Now that's on Dining's in Office.
That's coming up in the next segment. But right now,

(14:16):
I want to get to some of your calls. Eight
seven seven Valdes one, eight seven seven valdest one. I
want to go to my buddy Pat in Sedona, Arizona. Pat,
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. Go right ahead.

Speaker 7 (14:31):
Hi, this is Pat from Arizona. I finally found you,
rich Oh my goodness. I've been looking for you. I
was worried about you for a while, but then I
heard you had a podcast and I found it me
and now Electrician, we know how to work computers and stuff.
I'm pretty bad at it, and I'm so glad during

(14:54):
the podcast. I've been watching it. I found it on
Apple TV good, So that was really great. I'm so
glad that you're still around.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
I'm not going anywhere back you, my.

Speaker 7 (15:04):
Friend, you Liberty loving Latino.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
Thank you, Thank you, Pat. I appreciate it. God bless you.

Speaker 6 (15:11):
Man.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
We got to get Gill and the rest of the
gang together, and we're going to keep it going. Open
phones across America. I love hearing from my radio familia,
all of the amigos that are out there pat in Sidona.
You're a gentleman, a scholar, and a patriot. Something I
wanted to get into yesterday, and I didn't get into
it because we just had so much heavy news to
get to and President Trump had so many comments yesterday

(15:33):
and I wanted to make sure we got to those.
But it was Three Kings Day yesterday, right, Diablo Rea Mago.
And this is technically the twelfth day of Christmas. Some
known it this Little Christmas, some know it as the Epiphany,
but it is die right, the three Wise Kings, Looty Mago,
the Magi. And we we've spoken with Raymond Arroyo in

(15:56):
the past regarding this topic. He wrote a whole book
about it, children's book, which is really good. But I
wanted to play a quick report for you because in Connecticut,
in San Antonio, Texas, and all over the place, they're
celebrating a the other ree Mago. It's not just in
Puerto Rico, but the culmination of many days of truia
and many days of eating, and many days of baranda,

(16:18):
and just all sorts of fun that people are having
that I wish we had everywhere. Honestly, just imagine how
fun that would be for everybody to be drinking coquio,
dancing in the streets, going door to door singing Christmas carols.
I don't know, sounds like a good time to me.
Check this out.

Speaker 8 (16:32):
And families gathered in downtown San Antonio this weekend this
celebrateableloved tradition in the Latin community. Fiesta de los tresrea Smuggles.
The annual Three Kings Day celebration, hosted by the Puerto
Rican Heritage Society, filled San Fernando Hall with music, color,
and holiday spirit. Children had the chance to take pictures

(16:52):
with the Three Kings and take part in arts and crafts,
and even join in on on site holiday pageant. Lifelin
American Christmas music played throughout the afternoon while families enjoy
traditional Puerto Rican food. Not Three King's Day, also known
as the Epiphany, marks the biblical story of the Wise
Men and remains an important holiday in Puerto Rico.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
Well, it remains an important holiday for many people, I think,
and in many places.

Speaker 6 (17:22):
Right.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
It's not just a Puerto Rican thing. It just happens
to be in my family. But I wish everybody a
happy January sixth, and I don't mean the uh wanna
be insurrection. I mean and die derotre re margo feliciae,
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy three Kings Day. I
think it's a beautiful holiday, a beautiful you know, series

(17:43):
of days that we attribute to this holiday known as
the Twelve Days of Christmas and Sally lost to everybody.
And I want to encourage everybody to call in whenever
you have the opportunity, and you can actually now text
the line as well. I wasn't aware of that. I
found that capability is now functional, fully operational, same number.

(18:03):
Eight seven seven Valdes one. Eight seven seven valdest one.
You can go ahead and send a text message there
or give me a call. If it's during the live
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We'll go ahead and take the call live. If not,
just to drop a message and we will pop it in.
Either way, I'd love to hear from you. Eight seven

(18:24):
seven valdesk one. Now, I wanted to also talk about
another topic, and it sort of circles back to immigration, ice, enforestment,
all that stuff. And there are these two urban artists
in the Latin genre bachata. To be exact, Prince Royce
and Promeo Santos. I actually went to their listening party

(18:45):
not too long ago. Madison Square Garden. Shout out to
NIBCO and who made that happen on a podcast they
recently did with The New York Times. I think the
New York Times pop culture podcast is called the New
York Popcast or the New York Times Popcast. They were
put under the gun. I think there's a lot of
pressure on people in Hollywood to become political activists. It's

(19:07):
almost like the exception, and some people believe that music
solely exists to promote political messages, whereas many of us
believe that music exists to escape all the drama related
to heavy political topics. Now, of course, people get to
make whatever choice they want to make, but the host
of the podcast decides to ask them if they can

(19:31):
opine what their position is, what their role is in
speaking up for Hispanics.

Speaker 9 (19:44):
Listen to this all for Spanish language artists to speak
out about what's going on with departitions, and I.

Speaker 10 (19:55):
Think it's a complicated question. For me as a lane
Or has always been important to kind of represent my
family who are immigrants from the Dominican Republic who came
with a dream. Who then I you know, I'm from
the projects, Patterson Projects in the South Bronx. Right now,
it's all about just support, trying to sort of support
to the Latin community. People are going through tough times.

Speaker 6 (20:17):
You know.

Speaker 10 (20:17):
Obviously not everybody is a criminal in life. In general,
I say I'm two hundred percent. I feel like I'm
one hundred percent of American. I'm one hundred percent Dominican. And
I wasn't born in Dart and lived in dr with
every summer, but I feel very Dominican as I feel American.

Speaker 6 (20:33):
You know.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
Now, this is a guy, Prince Royce, who sings in Spanish,
but he's very frankly telling you he's born in the
Bronx and identifies through his culture the culture of his family.
His parents are immigrants. He's the first generation American, so
he identifies both as an American as and as a Dominican,

(20:56):
as do many people who are first generation Italian, at
first generation Irish, etc. Now I understand that I don't
have a problem with what he's saying at all. My
issues really with the interviewer, and again he's free to
ask whatever he wants as well. But the expectation that's
put on artists. These guys don't sing about political topics.
These guys sing about romance and heartbreak. And you know

(21:19):
what you typically find in bachata music. There's a morning
show that I used to listen to a lot. It's
not on the air anymore. It's called I forget what,
it's called Hot ninety seven in the morning, Ebro in
the morning. And they've gone digital, so there's still got
at it. They're just not on terrestrial radio, similar to

(21:39):
the move that we're making here at Rich Valdesk Media
and the ABC Recording Network. And what's interesting about their
commentary and I wish I had something I could play
for you, but they were making the case that bachata
and in particular music in general, is inherently political, and
that these artists should be offended by Prince Roy saying

(22:04):
or by Romeo Santos, who's about to say that artists
should focus on making music. I can say this. Look,
I am in the business of commenting on society, culture,
current events, politics, got it, That's what I do, So
I do it. But when I'm not doing it, when
there's not a red light that says on air, and
the microphone's not in front of me. I don't go

(22:24):
to every last barbecue or family party and go, well,
you know what the problem with the Democrats is. I
don't do that. This is my profession. I am here
to inform and to entertain. And the lights go off
and I go back to my normal life, listening to
my reggaeton, watching love and hip hop Miami, doing everything
I can to forget what I just watched on Fox

(22:46):
News and Newsmax and read in Breitbart dot Com and
all of this heavy news that's like, ah right. This
is why I try to add a little humor and
a little bit of a conversational tone to the shows
that I do, so that you can feel like we're
talking about the issues that are important and you're staying
formed on them, and more than anything, hopefully you have
a at least a take on my worldview. But the

(23:08):
last thing that I want to do is is bird
and people make them angry or get them riled up.
Not my place, not my style, not my stick. For
some that is, and they're so good at it, and
God bless them. It's just I'm not good at it,
so I'm not I'm not here to throw political bombs.
I'm not a flamethrower. I'm not a bomb thrower. I'm
a talker. Let's talk about this anyway. The point I'm

(23:31):
making here is I do believe you should just let
people do what they want to do. If Romeo Santos
wants to make much out those songs, and he's damn
good at it, let him do that. If Prince Royce
wants to do the same thing, let him do that.
In fact, Romeo Santos in this interview, he says I
made some political comments in the back, saying f Trump.
And he doesn't get to the point where he says

(23:52):
he regrets it, but he pretty much explains that he
wouldn't do it today. Listen to this, and I will.

Speaker 11 (23:58):
Say this, you know, because I do remember that occasion.
Don't believe that was in the bartlace said yeah, no, no, no,
and I'm just going to take it back. I can't
say I regret what I said in the sense that
I'm always me and there's different versions of me. If
you asked me today it's my opinion about any of that,
I would tell you I think artists should stick to music.

(24:20):
I just regret not focusing on what I'm here to do,
which just give good music.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
At that time.

Speaker 12 (24:26):
Was their blowback, not at all. They're like, you can't
say that, You shouldn't say that.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Please don't say well, I tell you what.

Speaker 11 (24:32):
At the time, I had one kid, you know now
I have five in total. I think when you get older,
a good way to evaluate what you need to work
on is if they ask you, hypothetically speaking to want
your kids to be exactly like you, if you're able
to say, hell, yeah, I don't want my kids ever

(24:54):
to go on stage or any public like. They're like, so,
I'm like, you know what, lead by example.

Speaker 6 (25:01):
That's what I meant.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
How about that? I think that's a pretty good look
at things in retrospect. He was a new father then
he's had a chance to raise his kids. Wants to
lead by example and have his children be better than him.
I think that's what all parents want. I think it
also helps that many people were guided by the same
information likely that he was looking at. Where people are
saying f Trump because they didn't understand Trump. They didn't

(25:23):
understand the benefit of having Trump in America. Now we
see not only the benefit of Trump in America. We
see the benefit of Trump globally. Look at the Venezuelans.
Look at the fiesta right the party that's going on
all over the world celebrating the arrest of Nico las Maludo.
So this is just part of what I wanted to
bring up here, because again, different strokes for different folks,

(25:45):
and the folks at the old Hot ninety seven morning
show hebro and the gang there, they felt that this
was wrong of these guys and that they were in
essence selling out. They were having the backs of their
fellow Hispanics. I don't find anything wrong with what they said,
because I understand you do. You don't want people, good
hard working people to suffer, pay the price or anything

(26:07):
like that. But at the same time, you also don't
want some Ms thirteen tattoo on his face, likes to
rape little kids, an old ladies person running around your neighborhood. Now,
these are both extremes, right, and there's gray areas and
nuance in between. But ultimately people grow and people evolve,

(26:28):
People become more informed and even just having a simple
conversation like the ones that Charlie Kirk used to have,
or even like the ones that we have right here
on this program. Oftentimes people will say, you know what,
I look at that differently now. I know I've done that.
I've interviewed people and said, you know what, you've changed
my mind. I'm sold I have a different view of
something I had a different view on because sometimes your

(26:51):
views will evolve when you have a conversation, when you
learn a little bit more about something. So I'm glad
that these guys had this conversation, and I'm glad that
Romeo said what he said that he doesn't regret it.
At the time, it felt like the right thing to say. Hey,
good for you. Own it if you want. You know,
maybe a couple of years from now, he'll say, you know,

(27:12):
at the time, or even years later, I didn't regret it.
But now I look back and I say, you know what,
it wasn't the right thing to do, and I do
regret it. I don't know if that'll happen or not,
but I do know these guys show more humility and
more sense as musicians than many in Hollywood, and then
many in Washington. Straight Ahead Gabriel Boxer joins us. He's

(27:32):
known as the Kosher Guru and he's going to weigh
in on some of the crazy things Zara Mamdani is doing,
like folding up the Anti Semitism office in New York.
Why would you close that up? More to come straight ahead.
I'm Rich Valdes.

Speaker 4 (27:48):
This is America.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
This is America, Bara englz or primo norodos, Bara richvald
Is e s Nos America.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Awara, All right, amigos, welcome back, and I want to
continue the conversation talking about Venezuela. I got a report
on the latest on Venezuela, and we're gonna get to
that right now. I want you to listen to this.
Are you gonna let the music play a little bit? Okay?

(28:33):
I like this music. Some of the best bumper music
in town. Right here. DJ Regiev, how at your boy?

Speaker 12 (28:41):
This morning reports that the Venezuelan government and its armed
militias are cracking down on descent, trying to hold onto
power after the capture of Nicholas Maduro, the Interior Minister,
vowing revenge against the US, seen here wearing protective gear,
posing with armed security forces and marching in a pro
government rally yesterday. Paramilitary groups are on patrol, reportedly checking

(29:02):
phones and social media posts.

Speaker 13 (29:04):
We have seen extraordinary scenes of defiance on the streets
of Caracas. The security forces powermiitry out on the streets,
chanting loyalty, always traitors, never we're here that they've been
ordered to find people who they believe may have helped
the United States in that operation to extract Maduro.

Speaker 12 (29:22):
And now new details about President Trump's plan for Venezuela
and its interim president Delsea Rodriguez. Sources say the US
is demanding Venezuela cut economic ties with Russia, China, and
Iran and partner exclusively with the US on oil production.
President Trump already announcing Venezuela will turn over thirty to
fifty million barrels of sanctioned oil. Trump saying that money

(29:43):
will be controlled by me to ensure it is used
to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States.
But this morning questions about what comes next.

Speaker 14 (29:52):
The government of Venezuela remains defiant, at least publicly. At
this point, the question is, are their diplomatic conversations being
taken place behind the scene that might be enough to
play kate president Trump steer him away from further military action.
We simply don't know, but at least publicly, the government
of Venezuela right now does not appear to be playing
ball in the way that the United States wants them to.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
That's a report from ABC News, and of course Venezuela's
not playing ball as they used to. You know what's funny.
The first part of that report talked about the Venezuelan
militia in the streets looking for people that potentially assisted
in this operation. I would submit to you that if
you're on a military base and this woman del Rodriguez
just took the oath of office, seems to me that

(30:34):
she's probably the first person i'd look at for the
people being involved in helping Trump execute this mission. Doesn't
she stand the most to gain? Seems that way from
where I sit. We'll find out. If she decides to
play ball and say, yeah, look, we'll go ahead, she'll
say something like President Maduro had agreed to give the
United States whatever concessions they wanted to avoid something like this.
I remain in the same position, also ready to negotiate,

(30:56):
and that's it. You want thirty million barrels, sure you'll
get it. We'll give you the third million barrels. And
I'll turn around and tell my people the United States
are imperialists and they are robbing us of our oil,
and they are doing this and they're doing that. Meanwhile,
you have the Venezuela and people saying, excuse me, China, Russia,
Iran for twenty five years have all been stealing the
Venezuelan oil. The people of Venezuela have never gotten that money.

(31:18):
Now Trump malo Gase, like my mother would say, right,
as bad as you may think he is, and I
don't think he is, but I'm sure you do some
of you. At least Trump's not going to let that happen.
He's going to make sure that this money somehow goes
back to the Venezuelan people so that they're not hopping
the fence to get into Colombia, so that they're not
coming here in droves. He talks about this type of

(31:39):
thing all the time. So it's clear as day now.
I want to move over to domestic policy because Secretary
Heckseth from the Department of War is what it's called now.
He used to be called Department of Defense. He gave
a briefing on Capitol Hill today and was taking some
questions afterwards and didn't like the question he got from CNN,
and he did a great job answer he got check
this out.

Speaker 15 (32:00):
I want to emphasize that question from CNN. The questions
never asked how much does it cost when they're in
the Mediterranean or the Red Sea or the Indian Ocean
of the Pacific. But now that they're in our hemisphere
on the countercrtel mission or ensuring that adicted individual comes
to justice, now you're asking the question of cost. It's
a disingenuous question to begin with. You're trying to find

(32:20):
any angle possible to undermine the success of one of
the more historic military missions the world has ever seen.
The level of sophistication that Senate just was briefed on
and the House was briefed on a classified level, is
something only the United States of America can accomplish. The
world is taking notice of that. Certainly Venezuela is taking
notice of that. And it continues because two oil tankers

(32:42):
two overnight were seized by the United States of America
state list or sanctioned because the oil blockade, the quarantine
of oil out of unsanctioned or sanctioned or stateless vessels
continues that leverage will continue, as Secretary Rubio outlined.

Speaker 12 (32:57):
So our military is prepared to continue this.

Speaker 15 (33:01):
As he said, the President, when he speaks, he means it,
means it. He's not messing around. We're an administration of
action to advance our interests and that is on full display.

Speaker 12 (33:10):
We're happy to breed.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
Secretary hegseeth laying down the law. Good for him. I
love what I'm hearing. And that's how you got to
handle the media. You've got to get assertive, you've got
to get tough, You've got to go on offense. Gone
are the days of just sitting there letting these people
figure out their question and try and twist it into
indicting you one way or another. That's what they do, right,
And he's one hundred percent right. They're asking about what

(33:35):
is it going to cost the United States? Shut up, man?
Why is it that we spend all this money in
our federal budget for the military so that we can
have moments like this? The reason we have I don't
know what is it? The first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth,
and seventh largest air force in the world. I think
that's how it works, right. I think our air force

(33:55):
is like six or seven times larger than the next
country up. Our navy somewhat similar. The reason we have
this kind of firepower is a God forbid we never
need it, and b we have it just in case
we ever need it. And I think that's the way
to go, peace, true strength. But one hundred percent right.

(34:19):
He's one hundred percent right, sophisticated mission. They did it right.
I would love to have seen them take five people.
Trust me, we all live in fantasyland and want, you know,
the most we can get, right, the most bang for
the buck. But I think this has sent a message
around the world. And watching Delsi Rodriguez, like I said,
the new executive vice President and now acting President of Venezuela,

(34:44):
she is to me going to be the telltale sign.
Did her and the inner Circle sacrifice their majuro so
that they could hold on to some semblance of power
and have a fighting shot, And I could see how
it goes. I could see it goes like this, Right,
it goes like this, mister President, we have a call

(35:05):
from the Federal correction facility. Who is it. It's the
former president of Honduras. He's a drug trafficker and he's
been convicted for bringing in I don't know, some godless
amount of cocaine into this country. What does he want? Well,
apparently he says he can set up Maduro. He'll give
you Maduro if if you let him out, give him

(35:28):
a pardon. Let's see what he has to say. He's
the president and I have I have a good relationship
with Delsi Rodriguez. I have some blackmail on her. I
can do this now whatever I can get you this person.
So you're saying you can get me Maduro because you've
got dirt and jealousy. Okay, let's see what you got

(35:51):
and boom, they start to make the deals. Right. This
is pure speculation, right, but makes sense to me. That's
why you let go of the one trafficker. Next thing
you know, we're landing airplanes and keeping them in hover
to extract the fugitive president of Venezuela, in and out,

(36:15):
in and out in record time. So let me tell you,
was this an inside job? You've got to be smoking
all sorts of crack to think it wasn't. Now. I
could be wrong. It'll only be time now. The rest

(36:37):
of that deal perhaps sounds like this, and O Delsi
hi DELSI. I want to introduce you to Marco. Marco,
he's terrific, does a great job. Jelusy. We're gonna give
you a fighting chance. You're gonna make a piece of
the pie here. We're gonna pay you to go away.
You can go to Russia, you can go wherever you want,
because you're gonna get us. Our guy, you get us,
our guy will leave you an interim power. Trust me,

(37:02):
A democratic Venezuela is in the very near future, but
we'll give you a chance to save some face. You understand, yes,
mister president, I understand all right? Boom, I don't. There's
not a part of me that exists that believes that

(37:22):
Venezuela is going to try and maintain the structure that
they have now. I could be wrong, and if I am,
feel free to say, Valdez you were overly optimistic. But
guess what I don't think I am. I don't think
that the momentum right now is is not weak. It's strong,

(37:44):
and people are going to take action. It may not
be Maria Corrina Mashadow and that's okay if it isn't right.
I mean, she's h she believes in democracy, but she also,
is you know a lefty that believes in democracy, right?
I mean, then you have these these guys that are
comedies that are socially conservative, So you need to find
the right person. And again, I don't live in Venezuela,

(38:05):
so I'm not going to be the one to vote,
but I will say, you want to make sure it's
someone that's going to play ball and has the ability
to keep people in line. Simultaneously, the same exact things
happening in Iran. And I don't for a second consider
myself fooled that we're not involved in both of these situations.

(38:26):
And I don't just mean by what we can see.
I'm talking about what we can't see, what's happening behind
the scenes. When you see people running around with masks
over their faces, right, when you see people running around
masks over their faces here in the United States, I
would venture to say that that is likely foreign assets,
people that have been affected that are somehow part of
an intelligence operation from Russia, China or Iran. Pretty sure, right,

(38:50):
washing money, pretending they're this organization that organization. But that's
the goal. Destabilized America. Tear this bad boy down, lights
and fires, go stop ice right nor people don't do this.
These are our unscrupulous, corrupt actors that we want to
think are just radical left wingers, and they are, but
they're they're radicalized in the name of Marxism. They're radicalized

(39:13):
in the name of some other government. I'm pretty sure
that's my best belief. But anyway, I say all I
have to say that Mark Rubio also weighed in on
this briefing that they had today, and he also had
a lot to say. Check this out.

Speaker 7 (39:27):
Thanks Senatory Root.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
Some senators you were in not briefing describing your operation variously.

Speaker 15 (39:34):
Is that you're winging it, but there's no plan for
Venezuela going forward.

Speaker 16 (39:37):
Yeah, we're going to say I used to be a
senator too. That's what you always say when it's the
other party. The bottom line is we've gone into great
detail with them about the planning we've described as him.
In fact, it's not just winging it. It's not just
saying or speculating it's going to happen. It's already happening.
Like the oil arrangement that we've made with Pey Deavesa
on their sanctioned oral that they can't move. Understand they
are not generating any revenue from their oil right now,

(39:59):
they can't move unless we allow it to move because
we have sanctions, because we're enforcing those sanctions. This is
tremendous leverage. We are exercising it in a positive way.
The President described it last night. Secretary Will write, we'll
have more to say on it today. Who is involved
in running this portfolio, and we feel very positive. Then
not only will that generate revenue that will be used
to the benefit of the Venezuelan people, and we're ensure

(40:20):
that that's what the case is, but it also gives
us an amount of leverage and influence and control over
how this process is soil it.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
There you go, that doesn't sound like winging it. To me,
that sounds like a very confident person knows exactly what's
going on. And listen, this is a great thing. The
Venezuelan people who are going to benefit from this down
the road for sure, right there's going to be an
American investment into infrastructure to make sure that they can
refine and pump and do what they have to do.
This is going to be great for everybody in so
many ways, and to me, it fits so neatly into

(40:47):
the comments that President Trump made when he said maybe
Venezuela will be a fifty first state. Now, some people
thought that was a snub on Puerto Rico, but no,
what he's saying is we're not leaving, right, We're not leaving.
So yes, when they call us a cloist, imperialist, colonizer,
I don't know what else do they want to call us.
The reality is, look, if you have an investment that
you made in Venezuela and they reneged like they did

(41:10):
right and kicked us out, and they owed us a
billion dollars, nobody tried to collect. Everybody played ball with
Chavez and then with Maduro and here we are. So
now you've got Trump that's going to create a framework.
We're going to profit, they're going to profit. There's investment
going to be made, and we're going to make sure
that this thing happens. This is gonna happen well beyond

(41:30):
Trump's term. So we've got to make sure that we're
around to continue to protect them, to continue to make
sure that the influence that's in Venezuela is American influence,
not Chinese, Iranian or Russian influence. We've got to stop
using people that are our neighbors, if you will to
enrich and supply and power our enemies.

Speaker 17 (41:53):
The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
to speak with Rich Valdez.

Speaker 4 (41:58):
Oh, very good, budge and honor, thanks Rich.

Speaker 17 (42:03):
The honor is all yours. Conservative talk with a dash
of Sofrito. Now here's Rich Valdez, all.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
Right, I mean he goes. Welcome back, Rich Valdez, keeping
your company. And I want to get into this topic
of safety. Right. I'm a New Yorker. I grew up
in Brooklyn in a relatively mixed neighborhood, but a couple
of blocks away from my apartment building on Ocean Avenue
and Avenue M was a place called Kosher Plaza, right,
and it was a largely Jewish neighborhood in the area

(42:35):
around me in New York City remains one of the
largest homes to the Jewish community outside of Israel. And
for many the election of Zoron Mamdani is not just
questionable but fear provoking for some. I want to get
into that with our guest right now, Gabriel Boxer, welcome.

Speaker 6 (42:54):
Sir, thank you very much. And if President Trump says
is an honor speaking with you, then it must be
honor speaking with rich.

Speaker 3 (43:01):
Thank you, brother, I appreciate that, and I want to
get your perspectives as a businessman, as some as a
restaurant tour somebody who understands you know what it's like
to deal with the public on a daily basis. Talk
to me from your perspective, Gabriel, what what is the
I guess the sense that New Yorkers, in particular New

(43:21):
Yorkers of Jewish faith, what are they feeling like right now?

Speaker 6 (43:26):
You grew up in Brooklyn, he said. I grew up
in Queens, New York, down the block from Saint John's University,
in a mixed neighborhood as well. My parents still live there.
I moved many years ago out to Long Island in
Nassau County and traveled to New York City all the
time via trained subway. I have two kids who are
in Manhattan in university there. My entire life, I never

(43:48):
felt afraid to be walking around New York City with
Mayamica on being a proud New Yorker, a proud patriot
until recently, and now that Mom Dondie has sworn in,
I even feel more fearful, and I see the stairs.
I see people who are afraid, and they're taking off
the Yamaica. They're being afraid to walk and be in
New York City. I see men, women and children hiding

(44:11):
their Stars of David, their high necklaces, any semblance of
being Jewish and recognized. That's not American. That's not the
American way. That's not how we're raised in New York.
That's never how our parents and grandparents ever thought that
we would feel in New York. And it's happening and rich.
It's happening today on the streets of New York and

(44:31):
it's scary. It really is scary.

Speaker 3 (44:33):
You know, Gabriel, I have to agree with you in
that I've seen in recent years an increase of anti
Semitic attacks, right you're talking about. What I'm talking about
is attacks on houses of worship, synagogues in particular, where
things have gotten from vandalism progressively worse to you know,
real violence. And I used to think, ah, you know, interesting,

(44:58):
people are becoming either more open about their Jew hatred
or they're just becoming Jew haters. I'm going to say overnight.
I think both may be true. But I think the
latter more so than the former. And the reason I
say that is because when you look at the I'm
going to use the word propaganda that's online in particular

(45:19):
following October seventh and even the lead up to it,
it is almost become cool on social media to disparage
or dislike the Jews. And you know, it's a lot
of this is ignorance. From my perspective, I see a
lot of people targeting Hasidic Jews, but they put everybody
into the same bucket, right, and it's just like, oh,

(45:41):
those guys with the curly hair and the long hats
and the lung jackets. Yeah, yeah, no, those guys are terrible,
and everybody seems to be okay with this. This is
from my perspective what I'm seeing. Are you seeing similar
or do you have a different take on why this
is exacerbating?

Speaker 6 (45:57):
I think you are correct, but it goes even deeper
than that. And yes, it's easier to target the most
outwardly looking Jews, which are the hostetic Jews with their
side curls and their you know, their their garb that
they wear, but everyone is just as equally open target
now and NYPD Commissioner Tis James. I believe it was

(46:19):
yesterday earlier to take believe it was yesterday when they
announced the numbers of pats against people in New York City,
over fifty seven percent, if I'm not mistaken, was against Jews.
That means more than half of the biased crimes in
New York City are against the Jewish people. And I'm

(46:43):
gonna have to agree with you even more and go
into that that the propaganda and I'm going to call
propaganations like you did, that is being spread on social
media and in universities in New York and beyond is
really stirring the pot and the false narrative and all
of these falsehoods and the true propaganda that is out
there is creating more and more hatred against the Jewish people.

(47:06):
And if we see what this mayor what I call
a mayor, zarmamser this Zara and the moron like other
people are calling him all over social media and beyond,
which I believe is a great description of who he is,
because what he did to New York City in just
a few days that he took office within twenty four
hours of coming in. If you're see he smiles and waves,

(47:27):
he smiles. He has that smile.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
He's like the New York version of Tim Walls.

Speaker 6 (47:32):
He yes, But what he's doing is he is so
manipulated and his entire campaign was so orchestrated. You see
who his father is, this pro radical left, you know,
university professor at Columbia, and his mother, who is an executive,
a freak, an exact title, and an executive at Disney.
I feel that he's like a Disney movie. He was

(47:54):
curated while he himself is trying to look you know,
neutral or censrist. He's putting the most wo progressive liberal
left people in different positions and councils to run the city.
But what he did within twenty four hours of getting
into office, he's he has rescinded the ihr A, which

(48:15):
is the International Holocaust Remembers, the Alliance's working definition of
anti Semitism, which you know, in sense is denying also
the Jewish people's rights to self determination as anti Semitics.
So you know, his whole thing of oh, no Zionism
is you know, it's okay to go off for your Zionist,
but out a Jew. No, No, He's taking all that
away and giving zero protections against anti semitism. You know,

(48:40):
he says, Oh, I'm going to hold on to the
office that that that the previous may and Mary Eric
Adams in New York City start, I'm going to hold
onto the office of I forgot the exact committee, but whatever,
it's called antisemitism. But if you take away the definition
of antisemitism, what's left of the office right there with

(49:00):
absolutely no meaning?

Speaker 3 (49:02):
Yeah, now, you know, Gabe, I want to ask you
this because I find what you're saying fascinating and I
agree with you. This to me is interesting the critique
for many, right for many, and I mean the real
surface level critique that I've seen in my day. Because again,
I'm a gentile, I'm a Christian, so people are a
lot freer with their jew hatred around me than they
might be around you wearing a yamulka. But I see

(49:25):
things and I ask questions. And one of the things
that I see and hear often right that these tropes
that they're not necessarily I'm gonna say anti semitic when
they start, but they're clearly headed in that direction.

Speaker 6 (49:37):
Right.

Speaker 3 (49:38):
So if you're in a conversation or you're next to
a conversation and somebody says things, well, I mean, all
you got to do is stop for a second and
see who runs the banks, who runs Hollywood? Right the
next sentence, maybe the next word is gonna be Jewish
centric at best and anti Semitic at worst. And my
question here, and this is truly my position of of

(50:00):
naivete here, what sundarly alarm?

Speaker 15 (50:03):
What?

Speaker 3 (50:04):
Why is it? If the Jews are in control of everything,
the banks and the media, why are they losing the
propaganda war on social media? Because to me, it seems
that on social media it's been totally normalized. It's okay,
it's almost encouraged to hate the Jews.

Speaker 6 (50:21):
So let's take a step back. If we go to
nineteen thirty nineteen forties Europe, when the Nasal regime came
to power and started rounding up all the Jews, anybody
who's a Jew, father's a Jew, mother's a Jew. They
didn't care. You had I think one somethings of Jewish
blood in you. You know, they round up, they didn't care,
and they say the Jews were on this when in

(50:41):
reality JP Morgan. You know, people always say you could
go to JP Morgan Chase, you could pick any bank,
they would say the Rothschild. That's one banker who's Jewish.
But if we go through banks that are out there,
they're not run by the Jewish people on the jewsh
people who work for the banks. But the CEO seven
just you're taking one example, Jaco Morgan Chase Jamie Diamond
was the CEO there for many years, is not Jewish.

(51:02):
You go into many other banks, you go into Hollywood.
Now there might be people who work in Hollywood or
some who are you know, big people on them who
are Jewish. But let's take a step back when they
say they're Jewish. They might be culturally Jewish, they might
be whatever. But these are people because you know, people say, oh,
Jews voted for zorn in New York City. So the

(51:25):
majority of religious Jewish people, people who you know are
really practicing Jewish, did not vote for Zoron. They're talking
about the liberal world, progressive lefs. Some people might be
considered they might consider themselves culturally Jewish, but are they
are they religious? You know, they did not vote for
zorn And and it is such a breakdown of the

(51:45):
fabric of our society where we start blaming you know, oh,
so you know Hollywood is run or owned by the Jews.
It's not by people who might work in their proportionality
of what Jews could get and where Jews could have
got jobs many years ago, because many years ago, a
lot of jobs were not open to Jews, even in America,
just like for other minorities in America, and that they

(52:07):
go to where they can or could get jobs. And
that was just Hollywood was one of those examples if
you go into the history of Hollywood of we're Jews
at the time, we're able to take a job, and
it just continued. And with that being said, most of
the main celebrities in Hollywood are not Jewish, of many
of the most directors are not Jewish. Yes, you could
pick out a Steven Spielberg who's a very talented, you know, director, producer,

(52:30):
so on and so forth, and that's one out of
how many. So yes, some of the bigger names and
everything else. But what's being spewed all over social media
is you take the Jewish people that are are point
zero zero zeros do whatever number two of the entire
world population, and yes, have had to thrive because we
were thrown out of every country around the world and

(52:51):
there's always been you know, jew hatred and anti Semitism.
So yes, we went to go study, we tried to
better ourselves, do ourselves. The opportunities are out there, and
that he took this apport to them better themselves, to me,
that's more jealousy than anything else when you see someone
who was able to thrive in a society that always
tried to put them down.

Speaker 3 (53:09):
So I get it, you know, And I just want
to say I say that very tongue in cheek, right,
because I feel like this argument is somewhat nonsensical. If
the Jews are truly in charge of everything, then you'd
be winning the pr war, right, and everybody would think
that the Jews are fantastic and everything's hunky dory, and
yet that's quite not the case. Just open up Al Jazeera,
just open up anything, right. There's even the Jews at

(53:32):
ABC News, if you will, are oftentimes very unfavorable towards Netan,
Yahoo and the Jewish government. So my point is, I
agree with you. There is a massive amount of propaganda
that's out there, and I guess we could all try
to figure out where that comes from. I would guess
that the modern day Nazis are somewhere in the Middle

(53:55):
East today, but perhaps they are still alive, and well
your thoughts.

Speaker 6 (54:00):
They're funding when you just said the Mona day Nazis
are funding the university's Qatar, the country of card is
the biggest number one enemy of capitalism of the United
States of Israel. We see what's going on in Iran,
and I hope Iran, you know, I hope that people
in Iran finally have enough power themselves to overthrow you
know what's going on there right now and take back

(54:23):
their country, take back their country. But Quitar that's the
number one supporter monetarily, I believe, to the majority of
universities in the United States, backing chairs of different departments
and making sure that what they want their narratives. The
propaganda once again is being spewed, and you have to
follow where these donations and what's coming from. So besides, yes,

(54:46):
we have modern day Nazis, and you want to, you know, say,
white supremacists or anti Americans within the US, where are
they being funded from. And the number one funder out
there that we see is Qatar. And right now New
York City, and we could see what's going on in
Minneapolis and other cities around the country, but New York.
Everyone looks towards and looks to New York. They look

(55:07):
to see what's going on in New York City right
now has fallen for a lack of a better term,
which means we have a governor's race this year also,
and the people of New York really have to wake up.
Do they want the entire state to fall and continue
to fall or we have a chance Right now there's
an amazing candidate on the Republican ticket, a National County executive,

(55:28):
Bruce Blakeman, who was actually backed by President Donald Trump
gave his full support. We need to stand up and
really wake up New York. But America as a whole
and in America is watching to see what happens in
New York and this upcoming election. We have to wake up.
We have to get behind someone that could save the
state because if it's going on the same path and

(55:49):
you put four more years of Cassy Hochlin, who when
zorraon on his inauguration was talking about socialism and a
collective whatever. There's video of Kassi Hoko clappy hands and
smiling and going along with it instead of saying, Hey,
if I'm an American, do I support this talk, this

(56:09):
rhetoric which is anti American, or do I go along
with it? And as it is for clapping smiling, Yeah,
what is going on in America right now? If we
don't wake up, we're gonna lose it. And societies and
emperors and countries have lasted for so many years. But
you know what, unfortunately nothing as much as I wish
and I pray that America is forevan, how many hundreds

(56:32):
of years and more we have in reality only God knows.
We don't know, but we as a people have to
do our best to make sure that America stays strong,
that our constitutions stays strong, our bill of rights stay strong,
but our way of life as Americans stay strong. On
we have to wake up.

Speaker 3 (56:46):
It's scary now, Gabriel Boxer. For people who want to
know more about your business, where do they go? How
do they find out more about you?

Speaker 6 (56:52):
I live mostly on Instagram. You can find me at
Kosha Guru on Facebook as well and YouTube and LinkedIn,
But really I spent a lot of time time I
for various reasons, have not got into tiktoking on TikTok
of the conversation. But I live mostly on Instagram Kachha Guru,
and that's where you'll find.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
Me outstanding brother. Well, God speed, do you keep up
the good work. I appreciate it and we'll talk again soon.

Speaker 6 (57:13):
Thank you, be well and God bless America.

Speaker 3 (57:15):
You bet amen, This is America.

Speaker 4 (57:21):
This is America. He's got the best head of hair
and podcasting. This is America with Rich Valdeniz.

Speaker 3 (57:32):
All right, amigos, welcome back. It's rich Valdez Valdez with
an ass a Rich Valdez on all of the social media.
It is Wednesday night, and again I'm happy to be
here with you. We're wrapping this bad boy up right now,
but I wanted to let you know we've got some
interesting stuff coming up. On Friday, we're expected to have
Jill Robin Paine with us first interview of the new year.

(57:54):
She'll be with us. Of course, I want to encourage
you again to use the text line now eight seven
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eight seven seven Valdes one. Or just give me a
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We've never had before that I'm really excited about. And
I also wanted to thank you. I see that some

(58:15):
of you are now leaving reviews five star reviews, which
are always appreciated. Thank you for doing that. I also
want to thank you for everybody that's taken the time
to share this on social media and say, hey, look
this is my guy, Rich Valdes. I love this topic,
or I loved this segment, or I love this guest,
and give this a listen. That is how things grow,

(58:36):
and I'm so grateful for you to do that. To
take the time to share the conversation that we're having
together with your network absolutely is heartwarming to me. I
always say, I'm talking to myself in a padded room
if you guys aren't interacting with me. So I always
appreciate the interaction, whether it's sharing, whether it's a comment,

(58:56):
whether it's a phone call or now, whether it's a
text on that text line seven to seven Valdez one.
I guess final thoughts that I had for you. I
was going to get into a topic about who's got
their Christmas lights still up because most people take them down.
I think New Year's but it's always been the tradition
in my house for the Christmas tree to go up.
My mom always put up the Christmas tree on Black Friday,

(59:16):
and it came down yesterday. Little Christmas Epiphany and the
Mogo lore Maggle the sixth of January. So today's the
seventh of January. So I'm wondering if anybody still has
their Christmas tree up. If you do, call in let
me know. And I also want to know do you
know any young people who stop drinking. We talked about
dry January yesterday and how gen Z is leading the

(59:38):
pack with that. They just don't want to drink. Some
say it's because of marijuana, but I'm really curious. I
saw some interesting comments online. I'm wondering if you guys
want to chime in on the phone as well, and
we could play that for everybody to hear. But either way,
I want to say, it's important for you to stand
for something, because if you stand for nothing, you'll fall
for anything. And the only thing necessary for evil to
triumph is for you to sit there and do nothing.

(01:00:00):
So you know what you gotta do. I start approxy,
my take care, good night, and God bless you America.
I'm rich Valdez and this is America.

Speaker 4 (01:00:09):
This is America.