Hungary, Homeland, Hormuz Hostilities

On Monday, Rich recaps his trip to CPAC Hungary and interviews one of the conference speakers, Stefano Forte, live from Europe. Then, will the Homeland Security shutdown continue much longer? How is it affecting our everyday lives? Plus, some discussion on developments in Iran.

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Speaker 3 (00:32):
Welcome to our program.

Speaker 5 (00:34):
It is a little bit late at night if you
want to get me on social media at Rich Valdez
with an SBR seventeen blocks away from Madison Square guard
in New York City. It's a pleasure to be back
with you guys. God bless America. Happy to be in America.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
As you know.

Speaker 5 (00:46):
I spent the last couple of weeks, uh doing a
whole bunch of things. I went to Seapack in Hungary.
Then I on my way home, I missed a flight
and that put me in Zurich, Switzerland for a couple
of days and enjoying the site. And then I came
back home and I was not going to attend Seapack Texas,
the United States version of Seapack, because you know, it

(01:09):
was exhausted from going overseas. But SEAPEC Chairman mattch Slapp
graciously invited me to conduct the fireside chat with Ambassador
Mark Wallace. And who says no to an opportunity like
that from the main stage. So back on a plane
to Dallas, Texas. Spent a few nights there as well.
I think I was there for three days and I

(01:29):
just got back and I'm with you guys now doing
this show real late at night. So if I sound
a little bit discombobulated, I lost my voice out in Dallas.
That's why I sound a little rough around the edges here.
But what an honor and a pleasure it is to
be back with you, my audience.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
I love you guys.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
Sorry to leave you hanging in this digital world. It's
not the same as being alive all the time where
you can have somebody jump in your chair and you know,
cover the show for you. This is a little bit different.
So thank you for your patients, and I guess I'll
start with the recap of a little bit about what's
going on, what happened? How the vibe looks in Budapest, Hungary,

(02:05):
which was eight and a half hours to Zurk. Then
I switched in a lay over there for another hour
and forty minutes over to Budapest, Hungary.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Beautiful place.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
The people love America, they love liberty, very clean, very quiet,
so quiet that on a Saturday night I was like,
what do we do run here? But really really good people,
good people from America that I met there, good people
from Hungary that I met there, good people from.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Germany that I met there. Lots of really good people there.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
And what I think is so cool about all of
it is the fact that you have a place that
is pushing the anti globalist agenda so much so that
they have become the capital, right the capital of anti globalism,
the capital of the conservative movement in Europe is Budapest, Hungary.

(02:55):
The leader of that movement, Victor Orbon, the leader of
the Center for Fundamental Rights who hosted c PAC Hungary,
mik Lo Santo, great guy. I didn't get a chance
to speak with him very much. I said hello, and
he was in the middle of a million different things.
But grateful to him and his team for hosting me,
and lots of really good speeches, former prime ministers, the

(03:18):
President of Argentina, hobber Malay was there.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
It was really.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
Quite an event, really quite an event. Lots of energy
in the room because Victor ORBN is up for reelection
in a couple of weeks, so as we get more
on that election, excuse me, I will bring you up
to speed on that. But there was a number of speeches,
and many of them in different languages, and you had headphones,
you know, kind of like if you're at the un
where they would translate them. But one of the speeches

(03:47):
that was in English was from somebody well known to me.
He's Stefano Forte. He is the head of the New
York Young Republicans in New York City, and he did
a great job, as to say, a Marco Rubio esque speech,
and I'll play that for you in the next segment,
along with a quick interview I did with him following that.

(04:09):
And the audio is a little tough because you know,
it's a conference and there's people yelling and there's other
speeches going on. But we'll get to that momentarily. But
I wanted to kind of dig into a couple of
different things. One of the things that I thought was
really fun for me at the end of the whole
Seatpack experience was vice excuse me, Prime Minister Orbon and
his Minister of Defense arranged to have the Buddha Castle

(04:34):
available to Miklo Santo and match Slap. The Seatpack organizers
to invite some of their VIPs and guests and some
members of the foreign media, and I had an opportunity
to go, and I gotta tell you, this was absolutely gorgeous.
This was a thirteenth century castle, a real life castle
that during the day as a museum and that night

(04:56):
it was a nightclub. It was great. There were some
beautiful bar set up, an amazing dance floor, lights everywhere,
disco lights, that type of thing. It really was quite
a vibe, a great way to end seepack red carpet entrance.
There's lots of lighting. If you guys saw my Instagram post,
you could see, you know, what it looked like. And

(05:16):
it was really a nice touch and made me feel
so welcome, you know, in Budapest, and it's my second
visit there. But some of the big takeaways from that
were the conversations I had with people while I was there,
and what's interesting to note is that while some of
these people that I met were you know, millennial gen

(05:38):
z younger people, we shared the same goal, a goal
that focuses on liberty, a goal that shuns collectivism, authoritarianism,
and not always for the same reason. Right I was
talking to a young man and a young lady, they
were a couple. Part of what I found in interesting

(06:00):
about this was he was asking me a lot of
questions about what it's like, you know, in the US,
and why my interests are the way they are. And
I followed up with very similar questions to him because
he was interesting and so much as he was British,
so he was, you know, a Brexit type of guy,
which you know, there's a lot of those right now.

(06:20):
There's a lot of people Tommy Robinson, a large movement
of people fighting against what they call the Blob.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
And I thought it was quite.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
Interesting that he was an atheist, while so many of
the other people at these gatherings that I'd been to
were there because they were fighting for God and country,
their country and their god right. These are people from
the Orthodox Church, from different types of Christianity, but that's

(06:51):
the prevailing faith. And it was interesting as this guy
was like, I'm kind of godless, right. He was not
anti God, he just wasn't you know, he was atheist.
And it was a fascinating conversation that we had because
he was so aligned with Judeo Christian principles of conservatism

(07:17):
or I should say and conservatism that I found it
interesting where these things were coming from. And I guess,
without saying it, he really didn't explain much about where
he got these but they all seem to be rooted
in a God centered worldview, but he didn't want to
cite God for whatever reason. And I thought to myself,

(07:38):
this guy is the exception to the rule. Right, he
is an anomaly in many ways. Not often are you
going to see somebody twenty three, twenty four years old
that is going to embrace these big ideas without having
a desire to make a family, or without having the
desire to get married, or without having a background where

(08:00):
they were brought up in the church or had those
fundamental ideas.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Right now, I don mean morality.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Right.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
I once had an argument.

Speaker 5 (08:07):
Or a debate with a atheist over you can be
an atheist and still want what's good for people. That's
not what I'm talking about. It's not about morality. It
was really about worldview and the focus that they had.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Right.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
One of the biggest things facing Europe, especially like places
like Berlin, France, Paris, France, London, England, that they're being
overrun with more immigrants from non westernized nations, in particular
North African nations that are emigrating there. That in some

(08:44):
cases illegal immigration where the incompatibility is resulting in rapes
and all sorts of other things that are commonplace in
North Africa. And I hate to put it that way,
but that's a thing, right that you can google this
stuff for yourself. There was a time where because of
the AIDS issue, they were saying, if you rape a virgin,

(09:06):
you would be cured. So you had these men all
over in North Africa raping young girls because they believed
that that was the cure to AIDS. Now, this type
of misinformation obviously leads to lawlessness, but if you take
someone who has that outlook on life, that cortumbre is

(09:27):
the word that's coming to mind in Spanish, right, those customs,
that way of living their life, that experience, and they
bring that to a place like London, England, or Dublin, Ireland,
or or even Paris, France, then of course you're going
to see a big change in the culture. And we've
been seeing that this is not six months old, this problem,

(09:49):
These problems are bordering the last several decades. So in
many ways, those of you who had traveled to London
some time ago, the London you once knew, eight, nine,
ten years ago, not the London of today. Right, That's
just how it is. And I'm all for people growing
and doing what they do, but I also think it's

(10:10):
important if you want to hold on to your traditions,
then you should and you ought to do what you
can to memorialize them and fight for them and ensure
that your way of life is not deluded by someone
that's new to the party. Right, you may want to
accept some of that, but you don't want to lose
yourself in the process. And it seems that's what's going on.

(10:32):
So that's what I think so many in the rest
of Europe, at least in that those areas close to Budapest,
you know, in the immediate surrounding area like Bulgaria, places
like that, there's a lot of people that are saying,
you know, we don't want that to happen here, or
you got people that are not in Berlin but outside
of Berlin and Germany saying, hey, we don't want to

(10:53):
have those problems here. So a lot of those people
converged on this confab in Hungary to here and to
connect and to network and to check out some of
those speeches, and let me tell you, they it was
a really refreshing thing to push back on the globalists.
And I wish I could play all these speeches for you,
and I have a few clips of different ones, but

(11:15):
I'm going to play a clip for you of the
Stefano forte one because I thought it was for a
guy who's twenty something years old, president of the Young Republicans.
I thought it was quite a speech. Reminded me of
Marco Rubio's speech in Munich, and I want you to
hear it when we come back. Of course, we're going
to talk about that. Then we're going to get into
all the things that are unfolding the rest of this week.

(11:36):
We've got some Supreme Court stuff coming up on April's
fools Day, it's a couple of days away. Then we've
got President Trump saying that the warrant around is over
and what that really looks like?

Speaker 6 (11:48):
Right?

Speaker 5 (11:48):
Will the Strait of Hormuz be opened up? The negotiations
seem to be ongoing. We'll give you the update on that,
as well as everything else I've gotten in store for you,
So keep it locked right here, don't go anywhere.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
I'm Rich Valdez.

Speaker 6 (12:02):
This is America. This is America.

Speaker 7 (12:19):
Bara in glas or primal nomrodos Blara, Richvaldez e s
dos America alwona.

Speaker 5 (12:30):
All right, amigos, welcome back, Rich Valdez. Thank you for
putting up with my Raspe voice. I lost my voice
in Dallas, Texas at the Sea Pack and Grapevine, and
we'll get to that maybe in the next episode, but
right now I'm recapping what happened on my trip to Europe.
I was in Europe for several days, just under a week,
and lots of lots of really beautiful things I saw.

(12:52):
I visited the basilica of Saint Stephen's Right I think
it's called buzz Zilika san Istivus in Budapest, Hungary, and
they have an artifact there in a private chapel known
as the Holy Right and the holy right right is

(13:13):
the right hand of Saint Stephen, who was uh, excuse me,
I think that was his name. I think it was
the first king of Hungary, if I'm getting it right.
And he fought to defend against a takeover at the time,

(13:34):
and his right hand is mummified in a glass case
and held in the cathedral in the Basilica, Saint Stephen's Basilica,
a beautiful place, incredibly picturesque. Guy put some pictures of
me having a little cafacito a little espresso right outside
down the block from there on my Instagram page. But

(13:54):
what I want to get into here is that is
the culture, right, This is largely a very homogeneous, homogeneous
culture that you have in Hungary. You don't see a
ton of diversity, although from my visit in twenty twenty
three to my visit in twenty twenty six, I can say,

(14:18):
or twenty twenty four, excuse me, there was quite a
bit of diversity, more diversity this time than last time.
It was a very large synagogue in Budapest while it's
there last time, I didn't see any Orthodox Osidic Jews
while I was. While I was there, you know, in

(14:40):
their long black trench coats and their big hats, but
I did see them this time. I also, I know
that there are four mosques in Budapest, I mean in
Hungary overall, and I'd not seen anybody traditionally dressed in
Muslim garb, but I did see that this time around.

(15:02):
And what I saw the most of, besides men that
looked Hungarian and women that looked Hungarian, many of which
were very pretty, was.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
The Asians.

Speaker 5 (15:14):
There was a very large, very vibrant Asian population. I
asked a couple of them where they were from. They
told me they were from Vietnam and China. And it
was a lot, a lot more than i'd seen the
last time. And maybe I didn't get out enough on
my previous trip, but I can say that I saw
a lot more diversity there this time than last time.

(15:37):
I'm not saying it's a good thing or a bad thing.
I'm just saying for someone who's on the outside looking in,
I saw some difference. So people are saying that Orbon's
not letting in this or not letting in that. Not
clearly not true.

Speaker 4 (15:51):
Right.

Speaker 5 (15:51):
There were a lot of people working there that were visiting,
I mean that were foreigners. You know, they weren't natural
born to to Hungary, and everything again, very clean, very quiet,
very nice. Now, all that being said, the folks at
the Sea Pack gathering, the folks supporting the Center for

(16:12):
Fundamental Rights make Locis Disentho and his team and everybody
that was there. Right, you talk thousands of people. They're
there to protect their way of life. They want to
hold on to their traditions. They want to keep Christianity
at the forefront of their culture. And this is not

(16:32):
about fear. It's not about what's the word they always
throw at you and you, xenophobia. It's not about that, right.
This is truly just about people holding on to what
they've got right. The Bible says to not be unequally yoked.
Now that that takes on a lot of different meanings
to a lot of different people, but I think their

(16:55):
sense in it doesn't mean that if you if you're
a white and you marry a black person, it's that
a bad thing in and of itself. I don't think
it's a bad thing if you marry outside of your culture,
your race. It doesn't, I guess, automatically create an issue.

(17:20):
And it's not about the race. Or the custom it's
moreover about the agreement on the future and childering. Right,
So if you marry somebody that's from a different part
of the world, they have different culture and different customs
and you want to do things a certain way, you
may find a lot of compromise going on, a lot

(17:40):
of discussion, a lot of disagreement, and some people want
to avoid that, so they marry somebody with similar cultures
and values and customs as they have. And I don't
think there's anything wrong with that personally either way. Right,
if you want to venture off into a different culture,
that's on. You just know the consequence when it comes

(18:02):
to child rearing, which could be a lot. And that's
really the extent of it for me. But there are
a lot of people that want to hold on to
to their traditions, excuse me in Hungary and they made
it clear. And when you look at your neighbors like
Berlin probably most notably, that is unrecognizable. And again it's

(18:26):
not about the people changing and looking different, because evolution
is evolution, it happens. It's really about the safety of it.
They brought in people that brought in crime. I'm not
trying to demonize every last immigrant. I'm trying to demonize
the immigrants that are in Berlin that are robbing people

(18:48):
and raping women. These are things that should never be acceptable,
yet they're happening. I just saw a video a couple
of days ago. This was in Barcelona, Spain of five men,
young men sitting down at an outdoor cafe, like a
sidewalk restaurant, and a young man from likely I'm going

(19:14):
to presume from somewhere North Africa, one of those types
of asylum seekers that have been going into Spain was
circling them, almost like a shark would circle prey, and
he was dragging a four or five foot metal pipe
along the cobblestone floor as he circled them, and all

(19:35):
you heard was the sound of that pipe dragging across
the cobblestone. I wish I had a sound effect to
mimic it, but it was an eerie sound. It was scary,
you know. And at one point he picks it up
and he's just staring at almost almost teeing up like
he's about to hit somebody with it, and they don't react.
And I thought to myself, I don't want to put

(19:55):
myself in their shoes. Because it is scary if you're
faced with somebody the really long pipe like that and
they're pointing it at your head and you think you're
gonna you know, even if you put your arm up,
your forearm up to block it, that could be the
end of your forearm. So I get the consequence of it.
But my thinking was there were five of them and

(20:15):
one of him. There was another guy looking in the background.
Don't know if he was with the guy that was
holding wielding the pipe, but either way, two on five,
one on five, I think I would have taken my
chances to just disarm him and take the stupid pipe away.
But you know, at no point did he actually threaten them.

(20:38):
He was just intimidating them. For me, you know, I
would not have accepted it. I think it's way too
much he was. He was way too close, and when
he picked it up off the ground and kind of
held it over the guy, I said, you know what, jegamo,
this is as far as we go. I think I
would have stood up and tried to close the distance
between the pipe and me so that it can't hit me,

(21:00):
and then hopefully the other guys come we overpower him,
take the stick. Away, send him on his way. But
all that being said, these are the types of things
going on every day all over Europe. And Secretary Rubio
recently gave a speech in Munich about really the world

(21:20):
and it was quite impressive, and equally is impressive. Honestly, equally,
I was very impressed to hear Stefano, the head of
the New York City Young Republicans, give an equally effective
speech that was on point, and I got a clip
of it. Let's see if we can get that queued up,

(21:41):
guys and play it for the audience, because I think
they'll enjoy it.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
Go right ahead.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
The New York Young Republican Club is proud, honored, thrilled
to endorse Victor Orbond for Prime Minister of Hungary in
the coming elections. He is one of the few men who.

Speaker 8 (22:04):
Could assist our great President in bringing peace to Europe
Donald J.

Speaker 4 (22:09):
Trump.

Speaker 6 (22:11):
Prime Minister.

Speaker 8 (22:12):
Orbon is the proud creator of the Constellation of Nationalisms
United at Sea pac Hungary, the man who made Budapest
the international capital of conservatism, and the leader that Hungary deserves.
God Bless Hungary, God bless the New York Young Republican Club,

(22:32):
and God bless the United States of America.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
Well, there you go again.

Speaker 5 (22:37):
That was Stefano Forte, the president of the New York
City Young Republican Club. And again I think he did
a great job here. I was very impressed. You didn't
really get a whole large clip. That was really just
the endorsement part of it. Ideally, it was well received
and it was on point with so much of what
I heard there.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
And I had a.

Speaker 5 (22:59):
Chance to catch up up with Stefano, and we're gonna
get into my conversation with him immediately following his speech.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
Straight ahead, don't go anywhere.

Speaker 6 (23:07):
This is America. This is America.

Speaker 9 (23:19):
The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
to speak with Rich Valdez.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
Oh, very good budget honor, Thanks Rich.

Speaker 9 (23:30):
The honor is all yours, conservative time with a dash
of sofrito.

Speaker 6 (23:36):
Now here's Rich Valdez.

Speaker 5 (23:40):
All right, I mean, he goes, welcome back, Rich Valdez,
here with you keeping your company the number eight seven
seven Valdez one. We do have a couple of messages
and we're going to get to those in a little bit.
I just need to do a lot of catching up
here because I was gone for a hot minute, and
I caught up with Stefano right after the speech. The
audio is a little tough to hear on, but I

(24:00):
thought it was a good conversation and I wanted to
share it with you.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
All Right, boyster, all right, what's up America? Rich about this?

Speaker 2 (24:09):
And I'm here with one of the speakers. This guy
is the seventy seventh.

Speaker 10 (24:13):
President of the New York New York City Young Republican Club,
Stefano Forte.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
What's my man?

Speaker 2 (24:18):
What's going on? My man? So good to see you.
Absolutely check this out. I'm here. I see if you
get up there, you tear it. I mean, you're the
speech for the agents into the Marvel Lubio's speech.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
Right now, I'm going to the mechanics of a little bit.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
I want to get in most of why you said,
I'm sure hungry you want to reinforce it. Know the
State stands with President Orbon and.

Speaker 10 (24:42):
Cepac and it talk to me about how you put
that together and and why.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Here absolutely, so I can't take all the credit for
the speech. And thank you for the kind words. Okay,
I know everything I know about public speaking because of
this guy over here. But what I will say is
the Marco Rubio was to speak. Marco Rubio's speech was
the one that I had in mind when writing this,
So I can't do all the credit. Our policy chairman
at the club, Dovid Holtzmann, he helps me with all

(25:13):
of my speeches. So when we were putting it together,
I told him, I said, I want this speech to
be high energy, right, I like my speeches to be
high energy to get the crowd involved. Thank you, I
appreciate that. And I said to him, I want this
speech to be why are we here and why should
we care? For an American perspective, and the reason why
we should care about Europe is because without a strong Europe,

(25:36):
Europe will get overwhelmed, and then Americans Germany like Germany correct,
and America's allies in the region, they're gonna be the
We're gonna be left without allies in the region essentially,
So when I said be strong, remember who you are,
I want the people in here to remember a vote
for Victor Ormond is a vote for sovereignty, it's a
vote for your family, it is a vote for their

(25:58):
Christian heritage, and a vote for Peter my Yard. That's
going to be a vote for Russells. That's going to
be a vote for the rubber staff in the Russells
that wants a war. Right, we want to end the war.
We want peace through strength, and the only way that
Europe will have peace is through strength.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
Let's talk about you just.

Speaker 11 (26:15):
Mentioned this connection to the Savior, to Christ, Jesus. This
is not something you hear in every speech, something you
hear in church.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
We're here lives, yes, give.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
Be back.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
And that's what will.

Speaker 4 (26:38):
But let's talk.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
About the importance of bringing Jesus into the speech. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. One.
I'm an Orthodox Christian first and foremost my faith. My
politics is downstream from my faith. My faith is important
to me, and I want to proclaim the name of
Jesus Christ wherever I go, wherever there's an audience. The
solution to every problem is faith in Jesus Christ. Right, So,

(27:03):
if we want to better our nations, if we want
to better ourselves, cement in our nations and ourselves in
Jesus Christ is the most important thing that you could do.
It will make you stronger, it will make you kinder,
and the hygiene of your soul is so important to
the hygiene of the nation. So I proclaim Jesus Christ

(27:26):
wherever I go. He is a part of my life.
He is my Lord and Savior. And I want people
to know that this is not a private thing. This
is something that I want to play. Yeah, amen, and
I think we should.

Speaker 11 (27:37):
I don't know how one can have a worldview that
isn't rooted in something. For as, I got to be
rooted in something and lot better than the Lord.

Speaker 12 (27:43):
Now, if I can add onto that just very quickly,
I just want to add on to that.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
If your worldview is not rooted in the Lord, it's
rooted in something else, and that something else can only
be yourself. If your worldview is rooted in yourself, you
will come from a place of arrogance. You will want
to be God right. That's why you see these people,
like the transgender movement. They're trying to play God right.
They're trying to say, no, the way God intended it

(28:10):
is a man and a woman. That's wrong. We're going
to recreates right. Yeah, exactly, I got this. So a
firm faith in God is so much.

Speaker 10 (28:19):
You mentioned keeping things kind of structurally whole, and this
structural integrity.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
It's kind of what we're talking about here. I think
with immigration immigration, if we're talking about this earlier a
few friends with Germany. I think that if you change
the bones of the building, the building gets weak. You
can add and you can have diversity, but you can't
change and you can't.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
Move the power.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Right, and if your immigration is unchecked, like we've seen
in Germany singing in the UK, talk to me about
the importance of that, Well, I'll talk from an American
perspective because that's what I know the best. And what
I can say is if you are bringing in people
that know nothing about your culture, nothing about your history,

(29:07):
your country will fundamentally shame. It's just the way it is.
The key here is not just illegal migration, legal migration
as well, making sure you're taking people in that have
some sort of cultural significance to your country where they
can understand your culture on a deep level. Right, look
at Soa Mamdani, he was a legal immigrant into the

(29:29):
United States. He is as un American as they get. Right.
When we want people to come into this country, we
want them to assimilate into our country. We want them
to understand the country that they're in. So Soa Mamdani,
like I said, he is the perfect example of an
unassimilated migrant.

Speaker 12 (29:46):
He came into our country legally, right, stayed in our country,
and was one American as it gets the most un
American mayor, I think in the entirety of the United States.
So it's about keeping the culture of your country being
your civilization.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
If you allow people in unchecked, things will change.

Speaker 9 (30:05):
What is your Club of New York City Public doing
to push back on Mamdani? And we had a very
big push to disqualify Mam Donnie on the grounds of
him being an insurrectionist, right, we had the deport Mam
Donnie campaign.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
As well, which it's never too late. But what we're
doing to push back against Mom Donnie is we are
trying to elect candidates that are going to push back
against them. We want to build an infrastructure that lasts
in New York. Maybe a Republican Mayor of New York
can't be attained now, but we put the groundwork into

(30:42):
future generations. Build an infrastructure, build a party. The party
in New York is severely lacking right now. Other than
some great Polans right the Staten Island GOP. I've had
a great relationship with them, as well as the Brooklyn
GOOP a great relationship with them and now growing relationship
with the GOP. But we want to offer that infrastructure.

(31:03):
We have the people, we have the manpower, we have
the know how to get things done. We have some
of the most talented people in our lawyers, people who
understand the law, people who are accountants, people that understand
how to build right. So we're trying to offer that
to the party and if they don't want us, we'll
do it without them, because we need to build a

(31:23):
Republican party in New York that is sustainable, that is strong.
The fact that we have one Congresswoman, Nicole Mallley pat
is the only Republican in New York the Lower Ranger,
that's unacceptable. We need to get her back up in
the Congress. So that's what we're doing, and that's why
we're here. The reason why we do these diplomatic missions
is it's a fact finding mission for us to learn

(31:46):
from what the Hungarians are doing that we could bring back.
One of the biggest things is the pro natalist policies
that they have here in Hungary. People can bring that
back to the United States. We need people to make
sure they can have children. It doesn't positive and I'm
gonna leg to do that right So absolutely, I want

(32:07):
everybody's how they can get it back in the club. Absolutely.

Speaker 10 (32:11):
If you live in New York and you're from eighteen
to forty eight.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
Rage, you can join as a general member at www
dot n y y r C dot com. Okay, you
could join on there, follow us on social media at
n y y r C on all platforms. And if
you're above the age of forty and let's say, oh man,
we're gonna miss out on the fund, you could join
as an associate members a member of our club on

(32:39):
www dot n y y r C dot com. You're
gonna see his smiling face at a couple of an
associate member. Yes, absolutely, I don't know how much funky
events are. This is the best plum. This is the
best club.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
Yes, let right back, all right.

Speaker 5 (32:56):
That's Stefano Forte, president of the New York City Young
Republicans Club, And there is more to come. Straight ahead,
we'll continue our conversation with you all the American people.
And I got a few more tricks up my sleeve.
Don't go anywhere, keep it locked right here. I'm Rich Valdez.

Speaker 6 (33:12):
This is America. This is America. He's got the best
head of hair and podcasting. This is America with Rich Valdez.

Speaker 5 (33:35):
All right, fun media, Welcome back, Rich Valdees keeping your
company tonight, Happy Monday.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
Happy to be back in America. And I was in America.

Speaker 5 (33:43):
I was in Texas at the seatback in Texas, and
again I'll dedicate.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
Tomorrow's show to that.

Speaker 5 (33:49):
But I want to talk a little bit about the travel,
right because one of the big things that was going
on was everybody was talking about how there was going
to be delays and it was going to be the
end of the world.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Then it was not like that at all.

Speaker 5 (34:03):
I traveled from the New York area out of Newark
Liberty International Airport to Zurich, Switzerland, and.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
No issue.

Speaker 5 (34:14):
Literally, I mean international flight and all that quick. Ten minutes,
maybe fifteen at the very most. In some cases it
was like between two and five minutes. Nobody was online.
I'm talking about leaving the Hungarian airport, leaving Dallas, Texas.
All of it very minimal line, if any at all.

(34:38):
I did see some ICE officers, DHS officers, despite the shutdown.
I did see them post it up, looking sharp in
their uniforms. But I say all of this to say
that people keep freaking about about these airport lines. And
again the airports I was at, I didn't see anything.
I guess I got really lucky. The DHS shutdown continues,

(34:59):
but President Trump waited on this. He had a little
bit to say, and I'm wondering when do we get
to the end of this. But check this out new one.

Speaker 8 (35:08):
Musk is offered a patsa workers during this DHS shut up.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Is this something that you've been picking him about?

Speaker 4 (35:13):
Yeah, I love it. I think it's great. Let him
do that. And I want to thank Ice because they
set SI so so strongly.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
They'll do gray and if that's not enough, I'll.

Speaker 4 (35:23):
Bring in the National Guard.

Speaker 7 (35:24):
We're not going to have the Democrats destroy our country.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
These people are the most destructive, sick people.

Speaker 10 (35:31):
Now.

Speaker 5 (35:31):
One that is President Trump speaking with Mike Carter from Newsmax,
and the question was about Elon Musk saying he's going
to pay the back pay. Looks like there's been some
movement there where the folks in the Senates that we've
come to a resolution. We will pay for DHS, but
we will not pay for ICE. Mike Johnson pushing back

(35:53):
saying Nope, we won't get that signed in the house.
It's got to have ice or nothing. And there's been
back and forth there. Excuse me, so anyway, it is
a little late here. But bottom line, the shutdown now
continues longest in American history. It seems like every time
we have a shutdown it becomes the longest in American history.
And the point I want to make to you, and
I hope that you're gleaning from this is despite shutdowns

(36:16):
longest in history, this that and the third the hype
on the news again, was your life greatly impacted by this?
I know I can tell you mine wasn't. And I
probably did more traveling in the last seven or eight
days than I've done in my whole life, right, I
don't think I've gotten it on two different international trips
plus a domestic trip, all in the same week or so,

(36:40):
and again to have the same experience each time. Now,
what I did have an issue with is this thing
called passport control man.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
That sucks.

Speaker 5 (36:49):
You would think that you should be able to scan
your way through things with all the barcodes on your passport,
all the cameras that are everywhere. Nope, they want to
give you a hard time talk about thirty minute, forty
bet wait times that stuff you know that blows so anyway,
I just wanted to share that with you.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
Happy to be back with you.

Speaker 5 (37:08):
I've got so much to unpack and uncover, and I
don't want to go over time here, but I did
want to get into that. I want to talk a
little bit about Iran. I wanted to make sure I
got you all the info that I had regarding the
event in Budapest, because I felt like there was a
lot that I wanted to bring up, and if I
don't talk about it now, I likely won't talk about

(37:28):
it later. I will talk a little bit about the
experience I had in the night life. Budapest is known
for its nightlife, but I didn't have that experience right.
I went to a couple of different bars and there
wasn't a whole lot of music. One of them had
live music. I had a great time. Let me not,
you know, cast any aspersions, but it just wasn't what
I was thinking. I thought there were going to be

(37:50):
some like really serious bumping nightclubs. Now there was one
by my hotel. I stayed at the Hampton by Hilton.
It was actually really really cool, very very nice place,
nicer than I expected it to be. And it had
a nightclub on the corner. There a couple of have
a blockdown.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
I didn't go.

Speaker 5 (38:10):
It looked a little not my scene, like too many guys,
you know, didn't have like a line of women outside.
I was thinking that probably isn't the best place to go.
But it wasn't what I thought. Cocktails, not a lot
of variety. Not a lot of places made cocktails. A
lot of places were kind of like pub style where
it was either beer or wine or your choice of

(38:31):
you know, whiskey or whatnot, but not too many mixed drinks.
And I did find one place interestingly named after Marx.
I don't know if it was after Karl Marx himself
or but it was called Mark something Bar and restaurant.
And they made me an old fashion there, and that
was actually pretty good. The but the scene again, if

(38:56):
there were twenty tables in the place, six of them
were empty, and this was on a Saturday night. Then
there was another place right across the street from there,
more like a diner looking place, but it was called
not Route sixty six, it was called Interstate fifty five
American bar and grill.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
That is interesting.

Speaker 5 (39:18):
I go into this bar restaurant and I say, Hi,
can I sit at the bar? She says sure, she
brings me over to a table. I said no, I
just want to sit at the bar, and she's like,
oh okay. So she brings me to the bar and
it's like twenty or thirty feet long, but there's only
four barstools. So I sit down. Then a guy comes
over and he says, I'm sorry, you can't sit here.

(39:40):
I was like, oh, should I move over, like to
the other barstool, and he says no, no, no, there's
no service at the bar. If you want to drink,
you have to sit at a table and eat. And
I was like, oh, okay, why do you put bar
in your name?

Speaker 4 (39:54):
Right?

Speaker 5 (39:54):
I said restaurant, bar and restaurant anyway, So I left
there kind of puzzled. Went across the street to an
other bar that was about thirty five forty feet long
that also had four bar stools. I asked if I
could sit there, and the guy looked at me like, sure,
if you want to, Like why would you want to,
you know? And I guess it's not a custom in

(40:15):
the downtown Budapest area there to sit at the bar.
So I learned that, and I went to a third
place also that did not allow. It was a place
I forget it was called. It was an Argentinian steakhouse,
and I wanted to have a mal Beck. You know,
I'm a fan of the Malbeck Argentinian red wine, and

(40:36):
I figured if anybody was going to have it, they
were because a lot of these places didn't have any
imported wine. It was all Hungarian wine and that was it. Well,
guess what they told me when I walked into their
long bar that only had four bar stools. That's right,
we don't offer service at the bar. This was the
going trend in the three of the three places I

(40:58):
went to. I was able to sit at one, and
I wasn't there for long. I was only having one
cocktail because I was waiting for dinner. I had dinner
reservations at a restaurant that didn't make cocktails. But I
did have a filet mignon and it came served with
duck liver on top, and I wasn't a fan of
the duck liver. The filet mignon also wasn't that great.
It was a little bit chewy. I asked for medium,

(41:19):
I got it medium, but it just it was chewy.
It wasn't very juicy. It was very tasty. I'm not
blaming that on the Hungarians. I'm just saying I think
that cut that day, that shift whatever, it just wasn't
wasn't a thing. The potatoes were to dive for, absolutely fantastic.
There was a belly dancer and then there was like

(41:40):
a live sword fight. It was actually pretty cool, dinner
theater type of thing. I enjoyed that, and of course
the sight seeing nothing compares. Some of these sites are
just phenomenal. Saint I mentioned it earlier, Saint Steven's Basilica
where the Holy Rite is the right hand of.

Speaker 3 (41:59):
The King of Hungary. That was a pretty cool, very
very cool stop, and I got some good pictures of that.
There was also the.

Speaker 5 (42:09):
Buddha Castle that I mentioned earlier, absolutely phenomenal, you know,
people of all ages just really enjoying themselves in this
you know, cultural masterpiece, landmark icon in Hungarian history.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
And that was on the.

Speaker 5 (42:25):
Buddha side of Budapest. I also spent some time on
the Pest side of Budapest. Budapest, of course separated by
the Danube River, fascinating, lots of history, very rich, the
Parliament building absolutely gorgeous, And that was pretty much it.
Now I wanted to talk to you about the time
I spent in Switzerland. So this is interesting because I

(42:50):
wasn't planning on going to Switzerland. I had a layover
that was forty minutes. It took me more than forty
minutes to get from Terminal A to Terminal E of
the airport. And guess what happens when you get to
the gate two minutes after you're supposed to Yep, that's right,
they locked the door and they don't let you get
on the plane. But when you are in Central Europe

(43:12):
and you're trying to get back to the United States,
and guess what else they don't do. They don't have
hourly flights, so I had to wait till the next day.
So after fighting with a bunch of people about what's
going on and this and that, and what slowed me
down was a woman with many children who cut me
in line to get on the line I was on.

(43:32):
And I didn't want to fight with a woman, so
I let her go. But she had four children plus
her and her mother in law, so that was essentially
six or her mom some woman was with her six
more passports that needed to be scanned on the passport
control line before me, and at one or two minutes each.

(43:53):
That added, you know, somewhere between six and twelve minutes
of wait time for me, and I missed my flight.
So the lesson I learned there was the next time
a mom in a baby carriage with a bunch of
kids in tow tries to cut you in line. Instead
of being a gentleman saying go right to head, no, no, no,
you become like a alignment and you just knock her

(44:15):
out of the way. I don't know what to say,
but you tell her, sorry, I can't, I can't. She
didn't even ask. I mean, she literally just was slick
about it and started talking to the person in front
of me and pretending they were friends. And I knew
that they weren't because the lady was like, oh, you know,
you know that look of surprise. Anyway, bottom line is,
I missed a flight. I had to stay for one

(44:37):
night in Zurich. It was early in today. This was
an early flight. It was about ten o'clock in the morning,
so I left the airport went side seeing, enjoyed lunch,
had a nice day. Saw the Swiss Alps absolutely breathtaking.
When I talk about one of the one of the
most beautiful things I've seen ever in any of my travels.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
Besides you know, a.

Speaker 5 (45:02):
Like another thing I've seen was a sunset that I saw,
I want to say, over the Hoover Dam Grand Canyon,
absolutely stunning as well. Now these French Alps there just
like the movies. They're just very crisp, very wow, very
nice to look at. But for me, after I don't know,

(45:23):
thirty seconds, forty a minute, two minutes, I'm good. I've
seen all I'm going to see. Very good, Thank you
so much, let's continue. So I also went out in
Zurich at night there and that that one was a doozy.
And again I don't want to bore you with the
personal details of my trip, but I went to a
restaurant that served what did they serve there, I don't know,

(45:49):
seafood or something like that. It was all right, kind
of emptying out. So I left there and I stopped
at a place right by the hotel called the chot
Chot Club now the chat Chat Social club. This is
like a bar lounge type of place. Had a white
tiger attached to the ceiling. There was like a fifteen

(46:09):
or eighteen foot palm tree inside the bar, and lights,
you know, disco lights all over the place. Very interesting crowd.
It was like being in a bar in America. I
had a twenty five foot bar with barstools all across,
and people sat at the bar stools.

Speaker 3 (46:26):
They made cocktails. It was really cool.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
So I go in.

Speaker 5 (46:31):
And I speak with a Frenchman and a German and
they're asking about the United States and telling me about
politics there locally and all sorts of stuff. Very nice,
very very hospitable, very kind people and not very loving
of Trump though. You know, they didn't know why I
was there, they didn't know my political position, none of that.
But the guy just comes on and says, oh, so

(46:53):
you're you're stuck with Trump?

Speaker 4 (46:54):
Huh?

Speaker 5 (46:54):
And I said, ah, listen, he's not as bad as
the media says. And the guy looks at me like, huh,
how could that be? And I said yeah, I said,
I think the media tries to hype it up a
little bit. And I was like, you know, what's your take?
Why don't you like him? And he's like, what is
there to like? And I said, well, I mean you
talk about how he fixed our immigration problem relatively quickly,

(47:15):
how he's reversed so many of the destructive policies of
the previous administration. These are all wins. Our GDP is
really solid. And I think that what he's doing with
ending crazy regimes like the ones we saw in Venezuela,
like what we're seeing in Iran, and what's about to

(47:36):
happen in Cuba, I think are all pluses for the
Western hemisphere. He looked at me, raised an eyebrow and
said good night, and enjoy your drink. He had paid
for my drink, and because he didn't like my answer,
But I thought to myself, Wow, isn't that interesting how
Trump derangement syndrome is now an international disorder. People that

(48:01):
are not affected by Trump by any means whatsoever. This
guy's not a citizen of the United States, he's not Iranian,
this guy's German living in Switzerland.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
What does Trump do to you?

Speaker 4 (48:15):
Right?

Speaker 5 (48:15):
Maybe besides threatening leaving NATO? Fascinating, just fascinating, nice, nice
guy until all right? And all I said was, Oh,
he's not as bad as the media says. You know,
and I said, oh, I freaking love him. I've met
the guy. He's terrific. Imagine how that would have gone
and he got a chance. But there's another guy working

(48:37):
behind the bar and he comes over and we're talking
and he's like, what are you in town for?

Speaker 2 (48:42):
Where?

Speaker 3 (48:42):
I was like, oh, I was here for a conference
and in Budapest. And he's like, oh, yeah, you know,
what do you do?

Speaker 5 (48:48):
So we're talking about that and I said, hey, you know,
he says he's from Egypt. He actually he said I
am from Egypt and I said, oh, get out. I said,
you know what's interesting is Egypt has a seven mile
border between Gaza. What are your thoughts on that? And
he says, oh, it's very good. He says, Egypt's country,

(49:12):
his border have to protect Egypt and I said, okay,
very good. I agree we should have that in America.
We should protect our border too, and he seemed to
be on board. So we started talking about why. I said,
what do you have against the people in Gaza And
he says, no, no, no, he's not about the people
in Gaza. He's not about and he's explaining that it's

(49:32):
about these people. He says, they say they are a Muslim,
but they are not from this messenger. And he said,
excuse me, and he says, yes, they're enough from the
Messenger Muhammad. And I said, oh, okay, tell me more.
And he goes on to tell me that these guys
are basically political people that claim to be Muslim. The
Muslim brotherhood took over a political party in Egypt, caused

(49:53):
all sorts of problems there, and once they were able
to get rid of them, you know, they were exiled
to Gaza and other places. And he said, we want
to make sure we don't get him back. He said,
because these people are not what he say.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
I think.

Speaker 5 (50:03):
He said, they are not like the others. And I said,
who are the others? And he said Mount Sinai is
in Egypt. And I said okay, and he said Mount Sinai.
He tells me the Jewish brother comes to pray in Sinai,
the Christian brother comes to pray in Sinai. But this brother,
he is not from a messenger. He's not Muslim. And
he kept talking about the Hamas and I thought that

(50:26):
was a fascinating way of explaining it.

Speaker 3 (50:28):
He didn't speak the best English.

Speaker 5 (50:30):
It was, you know, a fascinating conversation, to say the least,
young man twenty two years old, and I thought it
was very eye opening. He had married a young Swiss
girl and she was the bartender. He was the bar back,
and that's what was going on there. We were talking
and he said he was a Muslim, and I said, yes,
I understand, I am a Christian. Jesus is my thing.

(50:52):
And at that moment, the disco lights hit like real bright,
and we both looked to my left and there is
this I don't know, six foot six Jesus right next
to me. And I said, oh, my gosh, and he laughs,
and I laughed because it was like odd that a
man that could be Jesus's stunt double appeared out of
nowhere while we were talking about it.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
So I said Jesus and he said, oh yes. In Spanish.

Speaker 5 (51:16):
Nonetheless, he says, oh, see, pasa arato, that happens to
me all the time. He was from Spain, and there
were tons of Spaniards frequenting and visiting in Zurich, in
old town Zurich. So we had an interesting conversation, a
lot of laughs. It was very funny. I also put
some pictures of the tigers suspended from the ceiling, the

(51:37):
palm tree, and the real life Jesus look alike with
the glasses on on my Instagram account if you're interested
in seeing those pictures. But that is just a little
bit of a recap of how my trip went. And
I had a voice back then. Then it was to
land and get home. And then after one day I
get a call from Chairman match Lap says, hey, I

(51:57):
have an opportunity for you to speak at Seapack to
interview Ambassador Mark Wallace and discuss Iran. We want to
do a fireside chat. I said, thanks for the opportunity,
count on me. I'll be there rebels on. I think
that was a Tuesday night or a Wednesday. The very
next day I booked the flight. I was out within hours,
back in the air over to Dallas, Texas.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
And what a vibe that was.

Speaker 5 (52:23):
And I feel like some people online are not giving
that SEAPAC conference it's due. It's due because it wasn't
that bad. I think the only thing missing was a
speech from Trump, but by and large, it was very
well attended. It was packed, and like I said, I'll
give you the host scoop on that tomorrow because I

(52:44):
have a clip of my fireside chat with Ambassador Wallace
that I wanted to share with you. Guys thought it
was a pretty interesting interview that we did from the
main stage at Seapack. But before I leave you, I
want to talk a little bit about risis Aaron and
what we can expect. I understand President Trump is scheduled

(53:04):
to speak from the Oval Office on April Fool's Day,
and I want to give a little bit of a
preview and some highlights on that before we go. So
thanks for putting up with my raspee dry voice. I
am working on it here, Tea, Lemon, honey, all of
that stuff. I appreciate your thoughts and your prayers, and
I'm coming right back. Don't go anywhere. I'm Richilde's this
is America.

Speaker 6 (53:32):
This is America. He's making podcasting great again. This is
America with Rich Valdez.

Speaker 5 (53:45):
All right, amigos, welcome back Rich Valdez, keeping your company
live this evening and happy to be able to do
truly a pleasure. And for those of you that are
not listening line because you aren't able to, that's okay.

Speaker 4 (54:00):
Stand that.

Speaker 5 (54:02):
I love you just the same eight seven seven. While
that's one is the phone number. I'm not going to
get to the calls today. I just don't have the
voice for it. And I do appreciate your willingness to
stick with me despite my raspiness. I know that sometimes
a raspy voice kind of grates on the ears, and
then people say, you know what, should have taken the

(54:22):
day off. But I've had too many of days off lately,
so I can't do any more of that. But what
I am going to do is tell you a little
bit about my thoughts on what's going on with Iran
and the different conversations I've had with a bunch of
different people from all over the place. And there's a
clip of President Trump here Monday in the Oval Office,
and I think it's very fitting. They're asking him about

(54:44):
gas prices and whatnot.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
Check this out.

Speaker 4 (54:46):
I says today they hit four dollars, were four dollars?

Speaker 7 (54:51):
Yeah, And we have a country that's not going to
be throwing a nuclear weapon edicine.

Speaker 12 (54:55):
But Americans are feeling the effects in the interim as.

Speaker 4 (54:58):
They're also feeling a lot safer. What is the plan
to bring them back down?

Speaker 7 (55:02):
All I have to do is leave around and we'll
be doing that very soon and they'll become tumbling down.
And stock prices were up today almost to a record
because they know two things.

Speaker 4 (55:15):
Number One, we have a safe country.

Speaker 7 (55:17):
We had to take a little detour because we had
a madman named Kamani, who sadly is no longer with us.
And we had regime change already. We've knocked out one
regime that we knocked out the second regime. Now we
have a group of people that's very that are very different.
They're much more reasonable, I think, much more, much less radicalized.

Speaker 4 (55:36):
It's a we've had regime change.

Speaker 7 (55:39):
I see CNN did a poll and they talked about
voters or MAGA voters, and my poll came out at
one hundred percent. Nobody covers that pole they had another
poll whereas at ninety two percent approval.

Speaker 4 (55:51):
I think that the people understand it.

Speaker 7 (55:54):
We'll be leaving very soon, and if France or some
other country wants to get or or gas, you'll go
up through the straight and Hormoes straight. They'll go right
up there and they'll be able to fend for themselves.
I think it'll be very safe, actually, but we have
nothing to do with that. What happens of the Strait.

(56:14):
We're not gonna have anything to do with part.

Speaker 4 (56:17):
The US will be gone or done with the words.

Speaker 7 (56:19):
I think we two of three wigs. We'll leave because
there's no reason for us to do this. Look probably
the straight. A guy can take a mind, drop it
in the water and say, oh it's unsafe. It's not
like you're taking out an army or you're taking out
a country.

Speaker 4 (56:34):
Or they can drop it.

Speaker 7 (56:36):
Or you can take a machine gun from the shore
and shoot a little fue boga, set a ship, or
maybe an over the shoulder missile, small missiles. That's not
for us, that'll be for France. That'll be for whoever's
using the straight. Again, we have had regime change. Now,
regime change was not one of the things I had
as a goal. I had one gold they will have

(56:58):
no nuclear weapon, and that goal has been attained.

Speaker 4 (57:01):
They will not have nuclear weapons.

Speaker 7 (57:04):
But we're finishing the job, and I think within maybe
two weeks, maybe a couple.

Speaker 4 (57:09):
Of days longer to do the job. But we want
to knock out every single thing they have.

Speaker 7 (57:14):
Now it's possible that we'll make a deal before that
because we'll hit bridges, and we've hit some, we'll hit
some bridges, a couple of nice bridges in mind, But
if they come to the table, that'll be good. But
it doesn't matter whether they're coming up. We've set them back.
It'll take fifteen to twenty years for them to rebuild
what we've done to the gas.

Speaker 4 (57:35):
Right.

Speaker 5 (57:36):
So there you have it, President Trump laying out that
he slowed them down in their nuclear ambitions by about
twenty years. And the conversation started with cast prizes, it
ended up with the security and the strait of our moves.
President Trump, I think is smart enough to avoid the
quagmire of you know, Hoothi rebels and others that are

(57:56):
going to be along the straight doing what they do,
doing what they've done notoriously, and of course they want
to wipe out as much of that as they can.
But President Trump's a realist and he realizes, look, we're
not going to end all malevolent behavior there. We're here
to take out their nuclear capability and their ability to

(58:19):
put that nuclear capability on a rocket and send it
to us, wiping out their navy, wiping out their air force,
wiping out their ability to produce more of these drones.
And by most reports seems to be that they're almost there.
They're still in the fight, largely because Iran has been

(58:40):
getting a little bit of support. And I think I
mentioned this the last time I was with you from
the Russians. All right, Russia sharing some satellite imagery and
drone technology with Iran. This was reported by the Wall
Street Journal on the seventeenth of March. So I get
it they have a little bit of help. But by

(59:01):
and large, it looks like we will likely be out
of there very soon, and the goal remains the same. Now,
there is some talk about removing yellow cake uranium, that
it may be hidden inside of a mountain somewhere, and
that's been a debate.

Speaker 3 (59:22):
As of late.

Speaker 5 (59:23):
I'm going to talk about this a little bit more
tomorrow because this idea of boots on the ground, I
don't think it's a thing. All of my military friends say,
if there's gonna be any boots on the ground, it's
gonna be the boots of the people who need the
oil there, like President Trump is referred to, and that
there may even be a genuine willingness to leave NATO
after not seeing our NATO partners kind of step up

(59:44):
and help with this effort. So there's plenty for us
to discuss tomorrow. I want to thank you for being
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(01:00:29):
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Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
Every year.

Speaker 5 (01:00:36):
It's a New Year's resolution to make three or four
posts a day. I'm lucky if I do three or
four posts a week. So pray for me and he
goes anyway. That's all I've got. I always tell you,
if you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything.
And the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is
for good people like you to do nothing. So now's
the time for you to do something. Stay informed like

(01:00:58):
Reagan called us to be informed, paid priots. Aestalla proxima,
take care, good night, and God bless you America.

Speaker 3 (01:01:05):
I'm Rich Faldas.

Speaker 6 (01:01:07):
This is America.