Maduro Arrested, Mullahs, Military General Holt

On Friday night, going into Saturday morning, Rich reacts to the arrest of narco-terrorist and illegitimate dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife in Caracas, Venezuela—ordered by President Trump and executed by U.S. military forces. Hours before the strike, retired U.S. Air Force General Blaine Holt joined the show and predicted it was imminent, while Rich Valdés forecasted Maduro wouldn't leave voluntarily, as he only respects force. Then, there's turmoil in Tehran; will the clandestine forces help the Iranian people topple the regime? Plus, Minnesota Fraud daycare goes back decades. Later, New York City Mayor Mamdani is sworn in. 

Subscribe to "This is America with Rich Valdés" and follow @RichValdes on social media.

RichValdes.com

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is America with Rich Valdez powered by politweek dot
Com and Rich.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Valdes is with US former Christian Administration official.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
You worked for, Chris Christie. Have been follows each on
a lot of public service stuff.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
Rich Valdez Communist now with the Washington Times.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
This is America, Richiev. You're on the air with a
Nation Nation with the America with your host, Rich Valdez.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Happy New Year, America.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
I am Rich Valdes Valdez with an s at Rich
Valdez on all of the social media. Welcome to twenty
twenty sixth. Blessed, happy to be here, and what a
joy it is, man, I got so much to talk about.
I started the new year off right on January two,
did a live radio show for my buddy Rich Deoly
down in Philadelphia. I will bring you an excerpt of

(00:50):
an interview that I did with General Blaine Holt where
we discussed Venezuela hours before the capture of Maduro So Yes,
the illegitimate president, mister narco trafficker himself, Nico las Maluto
has been captured by the United States government.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
He was brought back to the United States.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
He's going to be going to prison in Manhattan where
they had a chapel for a while, and this is
very exciting stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
They went in there, the Marines.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
I remember there were some memes out there were people
saying there was all sorts of things going on, right
and there was four point five million Venezuelans and four
thousand Marines could not take them on. El Trompito did
his thing. He sent in the best men and women
in the armed forces anywhere, the United States military, and

(01:38):
they did what they had to do. Listen to President Trump.

Speaker 5 (01:41):
Late last night and early today, at my direction, the
United States Armed Forces conducted an extraordinary military operation in
the capital of Venezuela. Overwhelming American military power, air land
and sea was used to launch spectacular assault. And it

(02:02):
was a assault like people have not seen since World
War Two. It was a force against a heavily fortified
military fortress in the heart of Caracas to bring outlaw
dictator Nicholas Maduro to justice. This was one of the
most stunning, effective and powerful displays of American military might

(02:28):
and competence.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
In American history. Now that wasn't all President Trump said.
He went on.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
He talked about how the United States is going to
maintain control and how United States oil companies are going
to go there, invest money into their infrastructure to form
a partnership with the Venezuelans. Right, We're gonna help them
pump the oil. We're gonna make them some money. We're
gonna make some money, and we're gonna have oil because
Lord knows, we use lots of oil and.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
We need it.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
It's better we use their than we use ours. I
think this is brilliant go ahead play to take.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
As everyone knows, the oil business in Venezuela has been
a bus, a total bust for a long period of time.
They were pumping almost nothing by comparison to what they
could have been pumping and what could have taken place.
We're going to have our very large United States oil companies,

(03:26):
the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions
of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure,
and start making money for the country.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
And now ed trumpetos In all this, Magnus, the forty
fifth and forty seventh president of these United States, explains
how exactly he implements the art of the deal.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Here check this one out.

Speaker 5 (03:49):
China and Russia well Russia when we get things straightened out.
But in terms of other countries that want oil, we're
in the oil. We're going to sell it to him.
We're not gonna say we're not going to go for it.
In the other words, we'll be selling oil, probably in
much larger doses because they couldn't produce very much because
their infrastructure was so bad. So we'll be selling large

(04:11):
amounts of oil to other countries, many of whom are
using it now, but I would say many.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
More will come.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Absolute brilliance. Listen, I think El Trompito. And again some
will say, oh, you're just a fan of Trump's. Oh,
I'm a fan of Trump's because look at what he does,
a big show of military might. We had the ability
zero war, zero war. I think zero casualties. Think one
person may have been shot. We got the objective done.

(04:39):
Madudo is in custody, his wife is in custody. They
haven't harmed a hair on his head, so we could
still get some information out of him. We've got control
of the oil. The Venezuelans are jumping up and down,
cheering in the name of Trump. Listen to this sounds
like a win to me.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Hey, now, come celebrate with us.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
We love everybody because America has loft us so much,
so much. Thank you America, aig, thank you, thank you
so much for sharing those sentiments. Guys, this is something
that's local ten news in Miami, by the way, and
the Venezuelans are all over the streets. They're all over
the streets proudly thanking President Trump. Many they're making videos

(05:23):
all over the place social media, on the news, crying
tears in their eyes because they are so happy that
they have the ability to be free once again. I mean,
this is really quite remarkable. Right here's a chant of
the government of Maduro will fall.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Check this out.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
Are you talking about thousands and thousands of people in
the streets in Karaka's Venezuela, thousands and thousands of the
people in the streets in Chile, thousands of people in
the streets all over the place in Latin America celebrating
in Miami, flooding the streets, wrapping themselves in the Venezuelan flag,
thanking Trump. Yet here in America, the critics can't wait, right,
the critics can't wait to say he didn't do enough,

(06:22):
He hasn't done enough. He's a war criminal, he went
there illegally. Imagine this millions of people, or as Trump
would say, millions and millions of people, right, Imagine that
millions and millions of people, and they they are thrilled
thanking the United States. But yet Americans typically white liberals,

(06:42):
not to be racist or anything. I'm just pointing it out.
White liberals that work in the media or the government
in particular, or academia. They're the ones that are saying, oh, no, no, no, no.
Trump is a criminal. Trump sounds stupid. Trump is unintelligent.
How dare he say those words?

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Right?

Speaker 4 (07:00):
We are putting form over function here, folks. This is
incredible for our country. The environmentalists are gonna cry they
don't care about these Venezuelans. Now, I understand. Trump is
not a priest. He's not a saint. He's not a pastor.
He's not a missionary. He's not Mother Teresa, he's not
on a retreat. He's here to position America for success,

(07:28):
for dominance. That is what it takes to be leader
of the free world. He didn't make it up. He
just happens to do it really well. And people don't
like to see how the sausage is made I get
that the United States being in partnership with Venezuela basically saying, look,
you guys have the oil, We're gonna invest billions in
this refinery.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Same thing we do it with all the drugs we create.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
And I don't mean like you know, fentonel and all
that I'm talking about, you know ozembic and all the
things that are you know, flying off the shelves that
people like that helping people. We used to have a
thing called AIDS. Now there's all these antiviral medicines. People
don't even have AIDS anymore, or it's undetectable. I'm talking
about that stuff. They make their money back, right, They
put all the research and developments into things, and then

(08:13):
they go ahead and they sell it and moss all
over the world. And President Trump just said it, we
are going to sell this oil to whomever needs it.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Now.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
The Venezuelans, because they're of their communist tendencies, have been
selling to Russia, have been selling to China and in
particular Cuba at very very cheap rates. How will Cuba continue?
They can barely put their lights on now, and I'm serious.
They have lights half the day and it's not the
half that's that night. At night it's pitch black in

(08:43):
most places, thirteen twelve to thirteen hours a day. You
can get electricity. The rest of it it's a blackout,
so they turn off the lights at night, no electricity.
They can barely function with half of the energy they have. Now,
imagine now when they can't get oil. Of course, someone's
going to say, but rich, how could you do that
to people? No, no, no, they can buy oil from

(09:04):
whoever they want. They just can't buy it from Venezuela.
They can now buy it from the United States. It
since we have an embargo, they probably won't buy from US,
and like you know, the same way, we won't sell
to them.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Got it.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
It doesn't mean they can't buy from Russia or China.
They can, but there might be a sanction on those two.
So they might just have to pay fair market value
like everybody else, like you do every time you fill
up to heat your home, like you do every time
you buy gas for your car. That's just the name
of the game and why you got to drown out
these regimes so that you have legitimate people that give

(09:39):
their people a chance. There's a reason these people are
dancing in the streets. Why aren't the Democrats dancing in
the streets. Why aren't the liberals dancing in the streets.
Why aren't the people at CNN saying, wow, President Trump,
we may not like him, but he did a good
job today. No, instead they're saying he's a war criminal.
Instead they're saying he's unconstitutional, that he's not allowed to
do anything. I'm gonna tell you this, and Trump has

(10:00):
done more in this second term than I've seen ever
in my life. Honestly, Oh, what do you mean, rich,
I haven't seen anything. My insurance, my health insurance just
went up, precisely, that's part of stopping this Opamacare stuff
and putting the country into more death than it can handle.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
But we've seen the big beautiful bill, Oh, you and
your big beautiful bill.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
Yeah, precisely, the big beautiful bill making sure that Americans
have tax cuts forever that are codified into law. This
is a big deal. Not to mention what he's doing
is constitutional. Presidents are allowed to make war. You've got
over one hundred examples since the beginning of this wonderful republic.
As I was reminded by the great one Mark Levin
that's true. That's just a matter of the historical record.
And of course we took out Manuel Noriega from Panama

(10:42):
and now we're doing it here and we may have
to do it again. Right, Watch out, Gustavo Petro, Watch out.
But the real issue here is you're always going to
have some Republicans like Representative Massy or Representative Green that
are Republicans and they don't like what's happening. They're going
to say it's unconstitutional. That is their right, and that
is why we have Congress, and that's why we debate,

(11:02):
That's why we have courts that need be And guess what,
Trump usually fares well in those situations because he's not
the tyrant, the dictator, the unintelligent, stupid person that doesn't
know how to talk Orange Man bad El Dorido. Instead,
I say he's a guy that dodged a bullet, he
dodged prison time, he dodged bankruptcy, and went from being
a multimillionaire to becoming a billionaire and happened to become president,

(11:23):
not once but twice. That's not something stupid people do. Anyway,
I got a lot more to discuss. We got to
do a little Nick Shirley conversation. We also have General
Blaine Holt, who joined me hours before this strike to
tell me that this was imminent, that this was going
to happen, and I pushed back, saying, listen, General, I
don't believe any of that stuff is going to happen
unless we go in there. The General believed that the

(11:44):
pressure campaign was right. I think he knew more than
he was letting on and was giving me a wink
wink and a nod nod. You listen to our conversation
with former Deputy NATO Representative United States General Blaine Holt
from the US Air Force retired, and you tell me
what you think from our conversation. That's coming up in
the next segment, and we go deep. We also talk

(12:06):
about i Ron and that all happened on Friday, the
second of January. I'm doing a little quick addition here
on Saturday, and I don't typically work on Saturdays, but
when I saw this stuff happening Friday night into Saturday morning,
I said, man, I've got to do a little addendum
here and tack this on to the beginning of the
show before it goes out to you guys. So I'm
glad I had the opportunity to do that. I'm glad

(12:29):
to be back. Happy New Year. We got our video.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Stuff coming out in a couple of weeks.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Stay tuned for the announcement on that, and of course
I need you to sign up for the regular video
streams right for Rumble for the YouTube channel. Just google
rich Fald does Rumble, Google rich Fald does YouTube, Click subscribe,
put on the little bell so that you get the notifications.
I really need your support there to help that stuff grow,

(12:53):
because that is truly the future of where we're going.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
And we've had some great conversations so far.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
About Zorammbani being born in first Muslim, first Socialist. I'm
one of the youngest in aocs's generations to take the
office of mayor, and it is very interesting to me
that we are in this position that we're in right now. Earlier,
I mentioned how I once did a fill in for
the great one Mark Levin, who's another radio mentor of

(13:18):
mine who I worked for for many years as mister
Kall Screener, Richiev mister Kallscreener. And I can tell you
that I did this monologue once where I said, just
imagine an inauguration day where as far as the eye
can see, it's AOC's and Bernie Sanders right, socialists everywhere.
And that literally happened yesterday in New York City. So
New York has fallen. Now does it fall forever?

Speaker 3 (13:40):
I don't know. Will it be the end of everything?

Speaker 1 (13:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
My thinking is that there is a big push towards
socialism and it's coming from multiple perspectives.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
This is America, This is a Maria.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
President Donalte Trump, mister President, welcome to the program, sir.

Speaker 5 (14:16):
Well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything. I
know you very well and I have I listened, but
I have a lot of people that listen and they
love your show and I appreciate it very much.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
The other day on my podcast This is America, Rich Faldes,
I played a clip of Elon Musk speaking at the
Saudi American Investment Summit that recently occurred, when the Saudi
Prince came here and they pledged to give a bunch
of money to President Trump, who I like to call
donaldus Magnus El Trompito, the forty fifth to forty seventh
president of these United States. When l Trumpito secured this

(14:48):
huge investment from the Saudis. They had this big summit,
and in that summit, Elon Musk went on to tell
the interviewer that AI and the robots that are associated
with AI, AI powered robots are largely going to replace
a lot of jobs, and we're going to have too
many people, so we're going to have to go on

(15:09):
a universal basic income type of program. But he was
thinking more of something high end, like paying people a
lot of money. I don't know, seventy five K, one
hundred K, maybe one hundred and fifty, who knows what
the number is. Because you know, it's not easy to
live in a lot of parts of this country. And
if you don't want to have mass migration, right everybody

(15:29):
moving to Florida. We saw what that did right after COVID. Now,
Florida is just about as expensive as anywhere in New
York for the most part, minus the ability to get
work everywhere. They don't have work everywhere, so it's kind
of like, all right, you get that Florida living price
which is slightly lower still, and if you can get
New York money and live out there, then you're golden.

(15:50):
But otherwise people are moving you know, from North Jersey
to South Jersey, from the Five Boroughs to North Jersey,
from South Jersey maybe into pennsylvani like my brother is
out in the Poconos. Since when did we sign up
as conservatives? At least I consider myself a conservative. When
did we sign up to say, you know what, I

(16:10):
want universal basically income. But when the Democrats do it,
it's one thousand bucks a month. I want it to
be fifteen k or ten or twelve. How about I
don't want the government in my life. I don't want
the government being responsible for me. I want to do
what I got to do. I want to create my
own wealth. Let's have the government get out of the way.
When did that stop being a thing?

Speaker 3 (16:31):
Somebody let me know?

Speaker 4 (16:33):
Because apparently Elon Musk, who I'm going to you go
on a limb and say, is probably one of the
greatest capitalists of our time, just because he's amassed so
much wealth and he's so innovative and understands the system
so well.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
I don't think he's a crazy lefty. I think that
he really believes that this is where we need to go.

Speaker 4 (16:56):
Now, you combine that with the pragmatism and forward thinking
of beetled and all this magnus to forty fifth to
forty seventh president of these United States.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
And yes, I have to say it like that. It's
for dramatic effect.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
Who says that we have to change the way everything's
working and use tariff money to give it back to
the people. Now that's not tax dollars per se, although
you could call a tariff attax if you will. But
whomever wants to use foreign items is going to have
to pay this tax, and those tariff taxes will be

(17:32):
then distributed to people. And he had this huge number
the other day right that he was.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
Saying, you know, so far in America, we brought in X,
Y and Z, and I love it. I think it's great.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
I'm not I am against tariffs when they when they
are not used the way he's using them. Right, if
they're used as a blanket across the board thing where
they're not used strategically, where you don't pay attention, he's
paying attention. It's like driving fast. I'm not a fan
of driving fast, but I am a fan of driving fast.
If you a have experienced doing it, then you're on
a highway. You know, if you're going to try and

(18:04):
do sevent dy on a side street and a local neighborhood.
Not a good idea, right, So same thing with tariffs.
I think with tariffs you've got to be able to
use them strategically to get the other parties involved, i e.
Foreign governments, trading partners to bend to your will. But
if you're not right period the end, that's the easiest

(18:24):
way to use them. And that's working out well. And
we've got all this money sitting in the treasury and
that's great, and I think dividend checks are going to
go out right before the midterms, which is a great idea.
But if that continues, and we don't end our dependence
on foreign goods, and we want to continue to go
in that direction, then where does that put us? Will

(18:46):
we continue to amass wealth by the cost associated with
people who can't break their addiction to foreign goods or
who can't not right in certain instances, have to get
certain things that we don't produce here. Right, we don't
grow a ton of avocados in the United States, but

(19:07):
we well I should rephrase that in the continental United States.
In Puerto Rico, they do grow a ton of avocados.
Which they sell all over the world except the continental
United States.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Now, I know you're asking why.

Speaker 4 (19:19):
You're wondering, well, why wouldn't we take an avocado from
Puerto Rico and sell it in Florida. Well, there's something
called the Jones Act, and it's pretty stupid in my opinion,
But that's why we buy avocados from Mexico. Now, some
might argue that the Mexican avocado's better somehow, I would not.

(19:41):
I would I would make the bigger argument of saying, ay,
this was a political ploy to get people that were
involved in shipping transportation to have a seat at the
table and have control. So we're making sure that you know,
the Jones Act is in place so we can get
our money. And Nope, nothing's coming out that island if
it's not going on one of our ships. And it's

(20:01):
got to go here and there the other way. And
it's a very convoluted system. And there's a lawsuit right
now from the Pacific Legal Foundation that is challenging it.
Because you've got a I think he's a I don't
want to say rum or. I think it might be
whiskey or bourbon. Probably whiskey or vodka. I don't know,
forgive me, but there's a guy making a premium alcohol

(20:26):
in Hawaii and he's got a lot of customers in
the Philippines, and when he ships it out to the Philippines,
it has to go to California first because of the
Jones Act, and it's making it very difficult for him
to turn a profit and extraordinarily expensive and slowing down
his ability to distribute the product, which could easily go

(20:48):
right from Hawaii to the Philippines. But because it's got
to go to the US first on a US ship
and pay all that that money that has to go
in between California and Hawaii, he's got to eat that,
and so does the customer. So anyway, that's the basis
of the case, is that that is a violation of
the Constitution and violates the Commerce claus And if they win,

(21:12):
there won't be a Jones Act and we'll have Puerto
Rican avocados and they'll be cheaper than they are right now.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
But I'm digressing right.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
The point I'm making is the larger point that I
think it's a good idea to discourage foreign dependence and
to encourage domestic production.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
And that's the whole goal here.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
The goal here is to get Toyota to say, yeah,
we're going to build those cars here, to get Hyundai
to say, yeah, we're going to build a plant here
like many of them have, and to expand their footprint
in America, in the United States.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
So that's a win.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
That makes sense, that seems conservative and capitalists in my opinion, right,
or at least it's the free market working. What doesn't
seem like the free market working is taking the god
given ingenuity that people have and harnessing that to make
robots that are going to replace us, make us unemployed,

(22:11):
and then we're gonna turn around and look at the
government for a handout because we can't work anymore unless
we're plumbers, and no slide on plumbers. Just I happen
not to be one. So that's really the question. And
while all that's happening domestically, excuse me, there's a ton

(22:33):
of stuff going on internationally. Right there's unrest in Iran,
with the Iranians always up to something else. There is
the back and forth that seems to really not be
much of a back and forth with Russia and Ukraine,
and it makes me wonder, where do we go from here?

(22:55):
What is our next step? There was all this talk
about leaving NATO. NATO SI, we're going to cough up
more cash. Great, we've got this new revelation that we
see coming out of Minnesota where all this fraud is happening.
And the report we heard earlier that goes back to
twenty thirteen and was echoed in twenty eighteen.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
It's the morning of March fifteen. We're chasing a tip
about a man who's leaving the country. Our sources tell
us he just took a carry on bag through security
that was packed with a million dollars cash. You can
do that as long as you fill out one of
these government forms. We're told. These cloak and daggerlike scenarios

(23:36):
now happen almost weekly at MSP International. The money is
usually headed to the Middle East, Dubai and points beyond.
Our sources say last year alone, more than a one
hundred million dollars cash left MSP in carry on luggage.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
But wait, there's more.

Speaker 6 (23:56):
What we were interested in is where it was going.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
The national go to expert on what's behind these mysterious
money transfers is Glenn Kerns. He's a former Seattle Police
detective who spent fifteen years on the FBI's Joint Terrorism
Task Force until his retirement.

Speaker 6 (24:13):
It's an outright crime.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
It's unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Kerns tracked millions of dollars in cash that was leaving
on flights from Seattle. It was coming from howalas businesses
used to coury your money to countries that have no
official banking system hawalas.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
That's what they're called in Somalia, a hawala. They defraud
the local government and send it to a shell company
in Somalia hawala.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
Some immigrant communities rely on houalas to send funds to
help impoverished relatives back home. Kerns discovered some of the
money was being funneled to a hawala in a region
of Somalia that's controlled by the Al Schebab terrorist group.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
Okay, so the money is sent to impoverish people. No, no, no,
it's actually going to Al Shabab error network. Okay, now,
mind you this report again from twenty eighteen, and they're
referencing stuff that happened in twenty thirteen.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
Pay attention.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
How could they possibly come up with such big bucks
to transfer back home?

Speaker 7 (25:16):
We had sources that told us it's all about the
it's welfare fraud, it's all about the daycare.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
To better understand the connection between daycare fraud and the
surge and carry on cash, you have to look at
the history of this crime. Five years ago, the Fox
nine investigators were first to report that daycare fraud was
on the rise here in Minnesota. We exposed how some
businesses were gaming the system to steal millions in government

(25:44):
subsidies meant to help low income families with their childcare expenses.

Speaker 7 (25:49):
It's a great way to make some money.

Speaker 1 (25:51):
I think it's kind of that informal word of mouth.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
In order for the scheme to work, the daycare centers
need to sign up low income families that quality for
childcare assistance funding. These surveillance videos are from a case
prosecuted by Hennepin County.

Speaker 4 (26:07):
Now you'll see people going into the facility, four or
five adults with one or two little kids, and then
they come right out. But he'll explain that.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
They show parents checking their kids into a center, only
to leave with them a few minutes later. Sometimes no
children would show up, but either way, the center would
bill the state for a full day of childcare.

Speaker 4 (26:31):
That cash, cold hard cash was being extracted by way
of the airport and people were getting stopped for having
a million dollars in cash on flights to Somalia. Now
this is not tinfoil hat conspiracy stuff. This is Fox
nine and Minnesota reporting this right in depth reporting. So

(26:55):
again I beg the question, you can't always have this
domestic policy without having the international component, because it's real.
We are funneling money out of the United States through
these daycare programs, seemingly into the hands of al Shabab,
a terror organization that represents the Islamic state. We're seeing

(27:18):
Christians being slaughtered all over Nigeria, with some reprieve there
after President Trump. Trump launched a strike on Christmas Eve
Christmas Day in the morning. Thank God for that. America
First means America first all over the world, not America only.
I say that because it's important that we never forget
the importance of having America be the geopolitical leader of

(27:42):
the world. It's important that we have that leadership position
because if you're not number one, guess what, you're number two?
If you're lucky, and nobody really competes in global dominance.
Right when it comes to power, nobody's looking to be
number three, nobody looking to be number two. At least
the United States should never be looking to be number

(28:04):
three or number two. So I want to get to
all of that stuff, plus your calls, mister Oto, I
understand we have someone on hold.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
Is that accurate? All right? Let us go.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
What's the city. Let's go to Delaware. I love Delaware
except when Biden's involved. Let's go to Phil. Phil, you're
on with Rich Valdez.

Speaker 6 (28:19):
Al right ahead, Happy New Year, and you are a
refreshing addition to the team.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
Thank you your so far. I appreciate that.

Speaker 5 (28:28):
Well.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
You know, I cut my teeth on talk radio in
New York City.

Speaker 4 (28:31):
But immediately, like days after I did my first radio
show in New York City, I was on the air
on WPHD doing Sunday nights following like replays of Dom Jordana.
So I I have a lot of experience at WPHD
as well, and I love you guys in Philly.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
What's on your mind tonight, Phil, Well.

Speaker 6 (28:50):
Couple things, something that shouldn't surprise you at all. I'm
a curier, so I'm in different states every day, and
one particular time about four months months ago, I was
in Brooklyn and was eating at a corner little fast
food Filipino place, and there were a bunch of college
students with Mondamie buttons On and I struck up a

(29:14):
conversation and they basically were brought in to do canvassing
for the Mondami team. So I questioned him, I said,
do you know anything about him? Do you know where
he's from? Well, his ideals are good, and I think
they'll be good for New York. I said, well, can
any one of you tell me any details about his history,

(29:36):
about where he's at, where he's headed to. They didn't
have a clue, and I I just feel that New
York bought into something that wasn't true, and every day,
even before his taking the oath on Kuran's, which I
don't know how kosher that is, but you're.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
I said, quite technically, I don't think it's kosher at
all now.

Speaker 6 (30:04):
But it's interesting them and Omar and the others took
an oath to defend and support the Constitution and America,
but they're not doing it. I don't understand why there's
not more prosecution and the push to basically get them

(30:27):
out of office. They're not upholding their oaths for office.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
On that front, that's a political issue, right, it's not
a crime. And the political remedy to that is impeachment.
And before you get to impeachment, people are always going
to say, well, the reason we elect them to two
year terms of office is because, you know, should they
not meet the standard that the people that they're supposed
to represent expect, then they'll be voted out. And yet

(30:53):
she wins time and again, right because of jerry mandering,
because of the Democrat political machines that have been established
in so many places. So I understand your frustration, and listen,
I join you in it. Think that we have a
grand problem on our hand. And when you say New
York City brought into something, I'm going to say, it's
not only New York City that's brought into this. It's
the Democrat Party. It's a large segment of our country

(31:15):
that's brought into this idea for a long time already, right,
And it starts with, you know, the early nineteen hundreds
and organized labor.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
Right now, there's a lot of studies from them from
that side, from the Marxists. To go to Marxist dot org.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
You can read their studies on how they planned in
the early nineteen hundreds to take over a political party
and the political establishment in the United States by doing
it through organized.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
Labor, through labor units. And what's the site, Oh, Marxist
dot org. It's their website, gotcha.

Speaker 6 (31:52):
And you know what's interesting, This is why I missed WWDB.
But it's refreshing because the station and you're on now
is like a buffet.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
Who doesn't love a good buffet?

Speaker 6 (32:06):
Yeah, and you take what you want. But like they've
said over and over again, they're in no hurry. If
it takes ten years, twenty years, thirty years to reach
the goal that they're trying to achieve, don't sit back.
They're not in any big hurry.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Yeah. Now you mentioned WWDB A quick tidbit on that.

Speaker 4 (32:28):
That was the station that Bob Grant was on, and
Bob Grant is the mentor to two of my mentors,
both Mark Levin and Curtis Liwa.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
So small world. Yeah, get off firefol you're skunk. Go ahead.

Speaker 5 (32:40):
No.

Speaker 6 (32:40):
I was going to say it was the best of
its time and it really shocked that it went off
the air.

Speaker 4 (32:48):
Yeah, Well, you know, listen, I try to tell people
this as often as I can. Radio is a beautiful
medium that I don't think will ever ever go away. However,
people listening to audio, that habit of listening to audio
and or music will change and evolve with the adaptations
of technology. So it doesn't mean radio disappears. It'll always

(33:11):
be in cars and these antennas and these towers are fantastic.
But many people, myself included, do a lot of streaming,
and streaming is a very productive way to listen to
a show like The Rich The Only Show. For example,
if you're enjoying the show right now, but you're getting
home from work your short commute twenty six minutes, you're
pulling into your driveway and you're like, you know, I

(33:32):
love this guy Valdez. He's great. I hope they bring
him back again. I don't want to stop listening until
the commercial comes. Well, guess what if you were streaming this,
you just play it on your phone, go inside, and
while I you keep listening and hook it up to
your Bluetooth in your house, you're Alexa speaker and you
have a seamless transition from the car to the house
listening to live radio, all without ever using the terrestrial

(33:54):
radio network.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
So there's a lot of that happening.

Speaker 6 (33:58):
And you're a million percent right Because of my traveling
in all the way from Alexander, Virginia to Stamford, Connecticut.
I stream on my phone.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Right because you can't catch the same station between one
spot and the next.

Speaker 6 (34:13):
Nope. So you're a million percent right. But real quick,
I'll leave you with I was online and there was
a real playing this lunatic woman said the TSA made
her remove her headpiece. She's Islamic. And it was Trump's fault,

(34:34):
the weather up in Oregon, Trump's fault. I could jump
at himself morning, Trump's fault.

Speaker 4 (34:41):
I love it, Phil, Thank you for the call, brother.
I appreciate it. I appreciate the conversation. Anybody else that's
out there that wants to take me on, I'm game
for it.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
I am Rich Valt. Don't go anywhere.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
This is America. This is America.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
He's got the best head of hair and podcasting This
is America with Rich Valdeniz.

Speaker 8 (35:12):
Yeah, this morning. President Trump is now weighing in on
those protests, posting if Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters,
which is their custom, the United States of America will
come to their rescue, adding that the US is locked
and loaded and ready to go. A top Iranian security
official then warning that American interference would lead to the
destruction of American interests. Now, it's been nearly a week

(35:34):
of countrywide protests in Iran, and while they started over
the economic crisis partly caused by sanctions imposed by the
UN and US, they've now spread in scope, with some
university protesters shouting slogans like death to the dictator.

Speaker 4 (35:48):
Yeah, this trouble in Iran, right, a little a little
turmoil in Tehran, and.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
I'm going to get to the bottom of this. Welcome back.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
I am Rich Valdez, Valdez with an that's at Rich
Valdeta on all of the social media, liberty loving Latino amigo,
keeping you company this Friday afternoon drive home and I
want to talk to somebody. And I talked to a
lot of people, right, you know, you would think I'm
going into my eighth year in radio. I worked in
politics and government before that, and in media. I've met
a lot of people along the way. I was a

(36:18):
associate producer for The Great One Mark Levince. I met
a lot of people through that position, and I've interviewed
a lot of great people. I've interviewed President Trump and
doctor phil and the rock band, Leonard Skinnyard, the Tiger
King from Jail by the Way, Stephen A. Smith, just
a lot of really good people. But one of the
people that I interviewed, and I like to interview him

(36:40):
often because he's so up to speed on what's going on,
is General Blaine Holt. General Holt is a wealth of information.
He's an unapologetic patriot of this country, and I'm glad
to have him on the line right now.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
General Holt.

Speaker 7 (36:53):
Welcome back, sir, Happy new year, and thanks for that
build up.

Speaker 6 (36:57):
But I am so honored to be on with you today.

Speaker 7 (37:00):
It's wow, there's so much going on.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
Yeah, there really is. And you know, I'm looking at
what's going on in Tehran. I saw and maybe after
we talk about Tehran will touch on the the the
negotiator for President putin weighing in and trolling Mamdani on Twitter.
I mean, I've never seen such a thing. And just
so many things that are going on. But let's start

(37:22):
on what's going on in Iran. I see the President
going back and forth with the Iranians talk to me.

Speaker 8 (37:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (37:29):
So you know, if you recall back when we did
the B two strike and limited their ability to make
nuclear weapons or their development, you know, we said.

Speaker 6 (37:39):
Back then that.

Speaker 7 (37:41):
This is probably planting the seeds of revolution that will
come to full bloom one day. And that's exactly what happened.
They got organized and they put together what you now
see before you, and they have every reason to the
police state there with the mullas has only gotten more pressive.
Hyperinflation at seven hundred percent, no water, no food, shopkeepers

(38:05):
can't they have nothing to sell. And when you have
nothing left to lose, what do you do? You take
to the streets. And everybody in the pundits rich have
been saying, oh, this has happened so many times, it's
another flash in the pan. I knew this was different
because of the desperate conditions there and the fact that
so many people are just risking it all for this.

(38:27):
Millions now fifty cities, five of them now captured by revolutionaries,
some cases where the secret police or the IRGC is
now siding with the actual revolutionaries themselves. This is freedom's
fight right here. They're getting a little help. There's some
clandestine help on the ground, but this is an amazing
time for Auran.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
Listen, General Holt, I always value your opinion, but I'll
tell you I always use my common sense approach. And
I'll tell you this after looking at what I saw
during the Obama years, going back eleven years now. Might
on square Ukraine when you start seeing people with these
masks on, that's my opinion.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
These are not regular people, right.

Speaker 4 (39:10):
They may follow the lead, they might cover their face, like, oh,
that guy's covering his face, I'm going to cover my
face too, But when you see these guys that are
literally professional destabilizers of governments, these are clandestine people working
for who I don't know. Maybe they work for the Americans,
maybe they work for some other partner. But they're there
to throw something over. And we saw it in Ukraine,

(39:33):
and I see the markings of that all over Iran.
And you're right when you say this one looks different.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
It does. It looks very different. It looks like it's
really going to happen. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (39:43):
Another you know, to your point, another real telltale sign
that they're getting some help, that there are some clandestine
thumbs on the scale here is is they've got Internet
you can go all over social media and see right
time feeds of what's happening. And the first thing the
Malas do when anything like this happens is they shut

(40:04):
down all communications. And more importantly, it's not just that
we can look in. It's also important that they can
all talk to each other and coordinate their activities. So look,
I'm not one for color revolutions. I don't want to
see the United States, or Israel for that matter, in
the regime change business never works out for us. But
if you were to pick a group of people that

(40:26):
have been kept down for so long and just murdered
by their own government, this would be the people. And honestly,
the Iranian people are so warm and friendly, especially towards Americans,
and they're rejoining the government or the world community would
be a boon to all of us. They have so
much to contribute. What I don't think we should do
is there's been so much talk about putting Raisa Palavi

(40:48):
back in as the new Shaw, the new king. Let
the Iranians figure that out. Let them have self determination
about what will be like. Yeah, that's the Shaw sign.
He's the crown Prince. And and and my advice to
the president would be, don't make that happen. Just let
let Aron decide who's going to lead them.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (41:08):
Now, and there's another group out there, led here Stateside
by the whistleblower for the Iranian nuke program, Ali Raza
Jafarza Day, who promotes.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
Miriam.

Speaker 4 (41:23):
I forget her last name. But are you familiar with
that group and what do you think of them and
their platform?

Speaker 6 (41:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (41:29):
I am, And look, I think that there's a lot
of good stuff going on there. Miriam is really good.
They could play into what this looks like.

Speaker 6 (41:40):
And here's the thing.

Speaker 7 (41:41):
I do have very good friends who are Iranian, very
high net worth friends here made it well in business
here in the United States. Look, they all want to
help in any way, shape or form that they can,
much the way the Cuban American community does down in
Miami and around Florida for the eventual liberation of Cuba.

Speaker 4 (42:00):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (42:00):
But but again, the where I think we play a
role is let's help. Let's help the Iranians where we
can in securing their freedom without us putting outright forces
on the ground.

Speaker 5 (42:13):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (42:13):
But but then let let's let self governance take over
and not impose a solution on a people that has
had too many solutions imposed on them.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
Yeah, that makes sense, and I agree with that.

Speaker 4 (42:26):
I think just we've seen in the past when, like
you said, when we've been involved in that business, which
I'm gonna dare say, and again I'm speaking out of school,
I know, but I would say, I think we've always
been in that business.

Speaker 3 (42:37):
Just depends on how far involved we get.

Speaker 4 (42:40):
But we did it in Iraq, and when we did
it in Iraq, it birthed ISIS and a lot of
a lot of problems over the next two decades. So
I think learning from history, we look at that and
we say, all right, let's not do that again. Right,
let's not have that same problem. You got to make
sure you if you're going to topple the malas, you've

(43:03):
got to make sure that the next person isn't as
bad and can't get as bad as quickly, and is
capable of holding it down.

Speaker 3 (43:10):
How do you do that if you're not already in
bed so to speak with somebody?

Speaker 6 (43:15):
True, that's true.

Speaker 7 (43:16):
You know, there's a there's a fine line between facilitation
and friendship and then outright clandestine color revolutions, and the
United States has a horrible track record at this the
ever since the Central Intelligence Agency was formed. Go into
the fifties, go into South America, look it right on

(43:36):
into the eighties with Nicaragua, Iron Contra of all things,
and what you're going to find as a pattern where
were consistently picking the wrong guy. Go to Vietnam, and look,
we picked Deem, We could have picked Ho Chi Minh.
We didn't like his price tag. He wasn't really a
communist as it turns out, he was just looking for
the best possible deal, and the one we picked was wrong,

(43:59):
and we just have to get out of that business.
And hey, there's great guidance here. It comes straight from
George Washington himself in staying out of dreaded alliances and
foreign entanglements.

Speaker 6 (44:09):
And this is what he meant.

Speaker 4 (44:11):
Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, And I'm with you, right,
So I'm with you. I think, you know, we don't
want to be the guy that picks the guy. But
at the same time, you don't want to create a
vacuum and then have the next problem on your hand, right,
because you know the jury is out, as you and
I have spoken before, and I'm going to kind of
go all over the place here. But just to make
my point, I don't know his name anymore, forgiveness. This

(44:32):
is really my own ignorance. Al Janni or al Sharah.
He's the same guy, yeah, I don't I don't know
if he's I don't believe he's a good guy. I
just believe he's playing nice right now because of a
Machiavellian principle that tells us the enemy of my enemy
is my friend.

Speaker 7 (44:49):
Right, that's exactly right. And he's a creation of Airdowan.
And rather than holding the Turkish accountable for the Islamist
invasion of Europe and wondering why Erdowan still even got
a NATO membership, we allow him to take al Qaeda guy.
And they were training al Qaeda folks for this army
that would go in and Airediwan just wanted to go

(45:10):
kill Kurds. He doesn't really care about the stability of
the region, the region at all. And now it's backfiring
on him because the al Jilani's friends who have trained
in the Turkish armed forces are now infiltrating that body
and maybe threatening the power structure in Turkey soon. And
so you know, I think facilitation is a better way

(45:32):
to go so let's put it this way. Our intel
people on the ground in Iran or Masades, intel people
they know who would get leadership structure is of these revolutionaries.
They should meet with them and say, Okay, look, we're
glad things are going so well for you. It looks
like you're on the right track. When we get through
with this phase, how can we help. How would you
like us to help If you're the ones that secured

(45:54):
the piece for your freedom for your countrymen, how do
we put an arm around you and bring you into
the world commons. And it's when you ask questions. I
saw this in Kyrgyzstan when I was when I was
there and I had to felt pick an interim leader.

Speaker 6 (46:07):
When you ask.

Speaker 7 (46:08):
Questions instead of making demands, you do so much better.
And especially if you have a basis in their language
and culture. And the Persians have a very rich language
and culture. And it is not Islamic extremism.

Speaker 3 (46:21):
Yeah, that's for sure. We've seen that time and again. Amigos.
We are on with General Blaine Holt.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
He is a former Deputy Representative to NATO for the
United States, retired Air Force general and contributor to Newsmax
Television and just very knowledgeable on these things, and in general,
I want we talked about a number of things, and
you know, oftentimes when we talk about geopolitics and international affairs,

(46:48):
they are interrelated, right, not always interdependent, but interrelated. And
while we see this thing happening with Iran, and I
tend to be somewhat pragmatic, like you, I feel on
these things.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
You know, I don't like tariffs, but I think Trump
uses them.

Speaker 8 (47:03):
Well.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
I don't like regime change, but I think we need
it in Iran.

Speaker 4 (47:06):
I don't like regime change, but I think we need
it in Venezuela as well, and potentially in Cuba.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
But we don't have to do it.

Speaker 4 (47:14):
My people tell me, my people, which you're part of
my people, but my sources in Cuba tell me that
if they they will take it as a green light.
If the United States arrests Maduro the way we arrested Noriega,
they will overtake Cuba.

Speaker 3 (47:34):
Do you think that's true.

Speaker 7 (47:37):
I'm hearing the exact same thing, rich from folks that
I talked to, And again it's it's kind of the
art of the strategy. We know the outcome that would
be very helpful here and especially in making all these
things happen. Who doesn't want to see a free Cuba.
I mean, what an incredible achievement that would be for
President Trump.

Speaker 6 (47:58):
But in the strategy piece, what.

Speaker 7 (48:00):
What I think should be considered is keep the pressure
on the cartels, keep the cost imposition high, and let
Maduro fall on his own. The byproduct will be Maduro
is going to be gone one way or another, because
pretty soon the people around him will go. You know,
that guy's worth fifty million dollars if we just turn
him over to the United States.

Speaker 6 (48:19):
It's going to get that way.

Speaker 7 (48:20):
And they're already because of the costs that President Trump
has put on them in this cartel war, they're already
turning on each other. They're providing us with very valuable
intelligence on how to even do more. And so I
think for our friends in Cuba, this day is coming.
Maduro's He's not long for that seat he's in. He
won't be staying entrenched. But this is not a war

(48:40):
about Venezuela. This is a war about the cartels, and
that leads to every illicit activity, including money laundering through
private shadow bankers, rogue intelligence agencies, crooked and bought off
politicians all around the planet, from Beijing to Davos.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
You know, general, I agree with a lot of what
you're saying.

Speaker 4 (48:58):
However, I'm going to say this because I have a
different perspective when it comes to Maduro.

Speaker 3 (49:02):
I look at.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
Castro, and Castro died right. We were just close in
the sixties, with missiles pointed at them. We had our moment.
We didn't take it. Bay of Pigs JFK. A lifetime
goes by and he dies. He never left. Every communist

(49:23):
and this is my admonition to anyone who cares about
what I have to say. The Communists will wait as
long as it takes, if they only respond to strength,
and if we continue to tell Maduro, oh, well, you
know we're gonna wait and see. He's just gonna figure
out more ways to turn around and say, told you
Trump was a chump, told you the Americans were afraid.

(49:46):
They can't touch us. They'll never set foot on his ground.
They're afraid of me, and they will only embolden him
in the eyes of his followers.

Speaker 7 (49:54):
I agree with you. I'm gonna put a new layer
on this. And why this time, when we were working
against Castro, we weren't using fifth generation warfare techniques, meaning
indirect means Scott Descent is doing more than our United
States Navy is doing in splashing drug boats. Scott Descent

(50:15):
is working behind the scenes. We're doing all kinds of
clandestine things that nobody can see. And and again, the
the art is not in taking out Madua. We can
do that at the flip of a switch. Sure it's
not that sacred task, but but it's it's okay now
that we know we can go get him and take
him out, what are what are the second and third
order effects that we want to see happen from that

(50:37):
removal if we can make the removal happen in a
certain way.

Speaker 6 (50:41):
So I would say Maduro is on the hook, so
to speak, if we were fishing.

Speaker 7 (50:47):
Yeah, And it's how you pull him in the boat
that's important. And and I and again, it's a global problem,
it's not it's not just a regional problem.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
And I sure, I agree, I'm.

Speaker 7 (50:56):
Awfully optimistic about how this one's going to close out.
But I don't see him being able to pull a
castro at all.

Speaker 4 (51:02):
All right, Look, I stand encouraged by what I'm hearing.
I remain though, that if if we don't go and
handcuff this guy like we did before. I hope that
this strategy works. I just I look at it like this.
Venezuela is oil rich. So every time he puts a
boat out there with a million barrels of whatever he's got,
he's sitting on more than most people.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
So what does he care?

Speaker 6 (51:25):
That's right, Oh, he doesn't.

Speaker 7 (51:27):
And the good news is every time he makes a
phone call or screams into his computer that the United
States is coming after him, he's doing it with one
of the really truest bad guys in this world, sitting
at the City of London or at Davos.

Speaker 3 (51:43):
Mm hmm. But here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (51:45):
When when it comes down to all of this happening,
I think ultimately Maduro will Will let's say he finally
has to succumb. What does he do, right, get killed
by the cartels or work with the America. He's gonna
work with the Americans. Set a screaming at the computer.
He's gonna scream at the computer. Now he's gonna tell Trump, Trump,

(52:05):
I got a deal for you. I'll give everybody's name.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
I need this.

Speaker 4 (52:08):
I need you to do what you did for El
Chapl's family help me out right, and he's gonna get away.
And that's the part I think that if if we
don't show strength to remove him, I don't think the
chain reaction happens in Cuba and other countries stand kind
of warned, like maybe uh correcting their behavior in Colombia, right.

(52:30):
I think if we show a little strength in Venezuela,
the Colombia say damn, these guys are on our butt.

Speaker 3 (52:35):
You know, we better slow it down. Well maybe that's
just my own naivete general No, no.

Speaker 6 (52:39):
No, no, I couldn't agree with you more.

Speaker 7 (52:40):
And that's what I'm saying is how does he exit?
And I think there will be a theatrical exit for
him that sends a deterrent message to the rest of
the region.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
Has to be there to walk away with a deal.
It's not good.

Speaker 4 (52:56):
It's not good for everybody else because then they're all
going to say, oh, it's the cost of doing business.
They'll work with us, that's what's the businessman. He's going
to make a deal and at some point they have
to go. Trump's a madman and he'll eliminate our whole
country if we don't play ball.

Speaker 3 (53:08):
It has to be that way all right, by being took.

Speaker 7 (53:11):
I agree, No, you're not being too hawkis. But but
there's an elegance in the in the how you do
the strike to get the maximum benefit out of it,
and we're going to get that.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
I like what I'm hearing now, General, oh man, it's
time to end shoot. I had so much more to
go and even talk about Russia.

Speaker 6 (53:30):
Well, let's do it again.

Speaker 4 (53:31):
We will, General Blainholt. Let everybody know how they can
find you. Listen to your podcast and all that.

Speaker 7 (53:39):
Thank you so much. Come visit me at Dangerous Intellectuals
dot com, Listen to my weekly podcast on Mondays, and
visit me at newsmax dot com where you can read
my articles at the Irascible Disruptor. I write once a
week there on the Insider's page and it's always my
honor and pleasure.

Speaker 3 (53:56):
And Happy New Year to you, my brother, Thank you, brother,
God bless you. I apree shot you being here. General.

Speaker 4 (54:01):
You're a gentleman of scholar and a patriot, and I
thank you for your time. Thank you you bet and
the rest of my Philly familia. That's tuning into the
Rich Zoe Show with me Rich Valdez sitting in for
the leader of the Zeoli Army. We are gonna come
back more to come straight ahead. Guess what did you
know that they could steal your car by putting an

(54:21):
antenna outside of your house.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
I just learned this. That's crazy.

Speaker 4 (54:24):
Plus what do we do with these adult kids that
say I don't want to talk to my mom and
they just stop talking to their mom forever. Well, anyway,
we're going to talk about that as well as everything
else is going on. Plus your calls. If there's another
taker out there, I am game. I'm Rich Valdez.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
Don't go anywhere.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
This is America. This is America. He's making podcasting great again.

(55:03):
This is America with Rich Valdez.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
All right, I migees, welcome back.

Speaker 4 (55:14):
It's Rich Valdez Valdez with an s that Rich Valdez
on all of the social media. And again I did
not forget about Zoron Mamdani getting sworn in. I did
not forget about Nick Shirley and all the Somalian stuff
that happened over in Minnesota. We're gonna get to that
straight ahead in the next hour that we do, but

(55:34):
I wanted to wrap this one up before we moved
on to the other stuff, and I want to tell
you we are going to have some pretty exciting guests,
like the guy who tackled the task of going head
to head with Zoron Mumdani. That's right, Curtis Sliwa. Curtis Sliwa,
not all heroes wear capes is going to be joining
us with his red beret to talk about the inauguration

(55:55):
of Zoron Mumdani. I'm going to tell you a little
bit more about my New Year's Eve, very impron two,
very last minute trip that I took at like eight
or nine o'clock at night into Times Square because my
brother had the hookup, got me some VIP straight next
to the stage. I got to see Diana Ross perform
live as well as I think it was a de
la getto.

Speaker 3 (56:15):
And who else there was?

Speaker 4 (56:17):
Who's a reggaeton artist from Puerto Rico, Mexican ranchero artist
I named Savi xav I.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
Who else was there? Some blonde lady. She did a
really good job too. I forget her name, but it
was really good.

Speaker 4 (56:29):
And honestly it was cold, but it wasn't you know,
with the hat on, a coat on and all the
people that were there, you barely could feel any of
that cold. So anyway, we'll talk about that more, as
well as what happens when your kids don't want to
talk to you anymore. Right, you got adult children that
are ghosting their parents. We're going to talk about that
with Jill Robin Paine, plus Councilman Frank Morano, who just
recently awarded me the Pinky Kravitz Award for Excellence in Media.

(56:54):
He's going to join us as well. So what a
new year it's been already, it's only the second third
day of the year, and we've got a whole lot
going on. There are more interviews to come, there's lots
more commentary to come. If you're enjoying what you're hearing,
please share this stuff with your friends and family members
that might benefit from it. And of course, in a
few days or I should say a few weeks, we're

(57:15):
going to be launching our video stream that I think
some of you may enjoy. Others I know are very reticent. Right,
I got a lot of radio listeners. They're telling me no,
but you know, I like the radio.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
Listen.

Speaker 4 (57:25):
Everybody loves the radio. The thing is, it's so much
easier to listen when you stream the show. And some
people like to believe it or not, they look they
like to look at my face for radio.

Speaker 3 (57:36):
Go figure.

Speaker 4 (57:37):
Anyway, I just wanted to tell you about all of
those interviews and different things, conversations that we're having that
I think you want to be privy to, and we're
going to continue our talks, are going to continue everything
that we're doing. And until then, I have to bid
you ad and I say start up, Rosima, take care,
good night, and God bless you America. And remember you

(57:57):
got to stand for something, because if you stand for nothing,
you'll all for absolutely anything.

Speaker 3 (58:01):
I'm Rich Valdez and this is America, this is

Speaker 1 (58:05):
Americas, USA, US