Mamdani, Marjorie, Military

Friday, Rich reacts to New York City Mayor-Elect Mamdani's visit with President Trump in the White House. Is this a Machiavellian move? Then, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) to resign from Congress following her beef with El Trumpito. Plus, House Military veterans from the Republican conference clap back at the Democrat members' seditious video. 

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
You worked for Chris Christie, have been POLLOISI on a
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social media. Happy to be here with you this Friday,

(00:35):
and it is truly a blessing. And check this out.
You've got mister Mamdani heads to Washington to meet with
President Trump in the White House. Then Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green,
MTG has resigned from Congress effective next year. And this
all comes after her beef with a Trompito and Aldis Magnus,

(00:55):
the forty fifth and forty seventh president of these United States.
Plus how House military veterans from the Republican Conference have
clapped back at the Democrat members and their seditious video.
So we're going to get into a bunch of this stuff. Tonight,
plus a little bit on Niccolo Machiavelli, because I think
it's so appropriate given the know how things are playing

(01:17):
out in politics right now. But I want to start
with a question, and my question is, would you be
against an America where we had less crime, less polarization,
and people actually got along. Is that something you'd be
opposed to? Some of our friends on the left, even
some on the right, are typically opposed to being colonized, right,

(01:37):
I don't think anybody likes that. Would you be opposed
to being colonized? I think I would. I don't want
to be colonized. Now, what would you say when people
from a different place, a different land, come to your
land in large numbers, wishing to make a change on
your land? Is that enough to characterize what's going on

(01:58):
as being colonized? Are these colonizers coming after you in
your way of life and your culture and things like that?
When you see the culture around you changing, in particular
in the Western hemisphere, North America, whatever, in particular religious culture,

(02:19):
is this not colonizers taking over? I don't know the
answer to that. Maybe you do. I'm just asking for
a friend, But we're going to ponder that question throughout
the program tonight, because those are things that matter, right
when you change language, when you change faith, these are

(02:41):
things that are truly, truly what make up a tribe, right,
and America has been a melting pot of many tribes.
And I get that, right. I mean, you go to
Puerto Rico, most people there are Christians. You go to
the Dominican Republic, most people there are Christians. You go
to Cuba, I don't know that most people there are Christians.

(03:04):
I believe if they are religious, they're likely split amongst
atheism because it's a communist country and they're not allowed
to celebrate Christmas. It's also a country that's steeped in
spiritual tradition, similar to the other islands, where you know
you have these what is that stuff called not voodoo.

(03:27):
I'm forgetting Santia, so I understand that too. But I
think by and large, the contiguous forty eight here in
the United States match what you see in the Caribbean,
match what you see in most of North America, if
not skewing in the other direction. Now that's not to

(03:49):
say that you know this is always going to be
the case, right, I don't think it is. I think
We're seeing a quick change, a vast change in that,
and I want to ponder that as we go through
this evening. Right, this is kind of like a tease
to put that out there, to wet the appetite. Wet

(04:10):
with an h and I'm gonna shift gears a little
bit to a meeting that occurred today, a meeting between
the President of the United States, and I was gonna say,
Barak Hussein Mamdani, and I didn't mean that to be funny.
I was saying that, you know, I guess Freudian slip
if you will, But between Mayor elect Zoran Mamdani and

(04:36):
a Trompezo DONALDUS Magnus to forty fifth to forty seventh
president of these United States.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
And my.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Initial reaction to this, and you get most of it,
I just only saw these videos a little while ago,
is that there's been a real shift in the tone.
Right Zarah Mamdani was talking about I Am going to
be his worst nightmare. Remember that. I think I have
a clip of that. Play the clip.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
My administration would be Donald Trump's worst nightmare. Thank you President.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
That's today at the White House.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
I appreciated the meeting with the President and as he said,
it was a productive meeting focused on a place of
shared admiration and love, which is New York City. And
listen to that, my administration would be Donald Trump's worst nightmare.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
So what happened to his administration being Donald Trump's worst nightmare?

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Right?

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Where's all that that grand standing, Where's all that that
tough guy talk. Now he's dealing with somebody. He's way
out of his league. He's a sharp guy. I can't
I'm not going to say he's he's dumb. I think
oftentimes I think my comments get you know, read the
wrong way. Just because I make fun of somebody doesn't
mean I always think they're dumb. I may not agree

(05:53):
with them, some of their ideas may be dumb, and
some of their responses in the media may be dumb.
But I don't think they're dumb, right, I don't think
people that are really dumb as rocks actually win elections.
They're cunning, their slick, they're sly. So let me put
that out there to preface that. But I'm gonna say

(06:15):
Mamdani met with President Trump today and I thought this
was interesting because it really it was a master class
in the art of the deal in many ways. It
was a master class in understanding, uh, Machiavelli. Right. And
I'm not saying that either one of them is being

(06:35):
Machiavelli in per se. But Machiavelli was famous for you know,
they call him the godfather of modern political thought because
dealing with the body politic up until you know, his
thinking became popularized. At least my understanding of it was
based on one's morality, Right, you were in politics to

(07:00):
advance your morality, to advance kind of shared morality, to
maintain the morality and safety and security and order. And
Machiavelli had a different concept that was like, no, no, no,
this is politics. This is about balancing the influence of
power in my direction, gaining that power, amassing that power,

(07:21):
and influencing others. And in realizing that he would use
this pragmatic view that didn't focus on morality but focused
on political power it and you know, it creates opens
the door, opens up dialogue for an entire new dimension,
a new dynamic. And President Trump understands this. He understands

(07:45):
it better than most people because I think of his
experience as a businessman in New York. He realizes that look,
whether it's this mafia crime family, that mafia crime family,
the Ukrainians, whomever, waste management people, concrete people, electrical people,
inspectors that are on the take, you name it, Senators,

(08:07):
congress people, all sorts of people. I got to donate
to their campaigns. He knows he's got to get along
with everybody why to get his projects done. He's not
here to make enemies. He's here to make friends. So
when President Trump says things like, look, is it a
bad thing to get along? Is it a bad thing?
I love that. We need more of that in today's politics.

(08:28):
The problem is they attack him so much, and he's
so good at fighting back and coming up with these
great nicknames that cut right through the noise and these
catchphrases say you're fake news. Right. He's so good at
that that when he pushes back, he pushes back right.
They make a fifteen five six seven minute video he
comes back with saying one tweet, right, one truth social

(08:50):
post and his truth says punishable by death. That sedition
punishable by death. I mean, it's brilliant. Right. He cuts
through the noise each and every time. He's so scynct.
So we look at this and we say, what was
Trump's mo today? Why did he take the meeting to

(09:11):
elevate this guy as a rock star. I think it's
pretty clear he's already a rock star, right, whether you
like him or not. He won by great numbers. He
beat every single person on the ballot. Right, people that
are trying to say that Curtis Leeva did this, Curtis
Curtis lee was a patriot. In my opinion, he did
the right thing. And you could put all the votes,
even the ones that did writings, there wasn't enough votes

(09:33):
cast against mam donni for him to lose. That's the
bottom line. Doesn't matter. You put Cuomo together with Sliva,
with Eric Adams with writings. Still the math doesn't add up.
Mam Donnie still wits based on the numbers that we saw.
So what's Trump gonna do? He's already seen what this
guy does. This guy blows his load. I'm gonna be

(09:56):
Donald Trump's worst nightmare. Or Trump cannot take the high
road right publicly. He knows this guy's coming here to
yell at me. But this guy wants to cut a deal.
All right, Let's cut a deal. And what does Trump
do meet when I'm privately first and tell him, look,
you've already seen what went down here. You've seen Zelenski
come in here, uh and get embarrassed and walk right

(10:17):
out with meetings cut short. For all intent and purpose,
I'd say we've seen Zelenski get bounced out of the
White House. So if we've seen all of that, and
Mamdanni is a stute and has seen that too, then
it behooves Mamdani to try and be friend Trump. And

(10:39):
Trump uses this not as president. This is Trump as Trump.
This is Trump as the author of the art of
the deal. This is Trump as the businessman he is.
He uses this he ingratiates himself with people because he
knows that they like something about the Trump brand or
the power that he possesses, in this case, the Oval

(11:00):
Office and his command of the Federal Executive Branch resources
that New York needs. So Mom, Donnie says, look, I'm
going to satisfy the base when I you know, my
acceptance speech and all that, I'm gonna beat up Trump,
And in real life I'm gonna say, Trump, Donnie baby,
come on, let's do lunch. Type your people call my people,
let's make a deal and guess who likes making deals Trump?

(11:25):
So how do you think it goes down? Mo'm donnie
going understand affordability, affordability, affordability, affordability, affordability. And then and
then you have Trumpito saying I think we should make
things more affordable, right, isn't nobody said yesterday, the day before,
we got to make America more affordable again. So it

(11:47):
seems like they have something in common there. They're both
New Yorkers. Seems like they have something in common there too.
Now listen, this is not a glowing endorsement of mo'm donnie.
This is me saying what is Trump doing?

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Right?

Speaker 2 (12:00):
And I think what Trump is doing is saying, look,
I don't need another enemy. I've got plenty. Do you
do you want an enemy in this White House? Do
you want an enemy in me? Or do you want
to maybe stop with all of your song and dance
or guess what, sing your song and dance all you want,
But just know this is gonna go down like this.
You can call me a fascist, you can call me

(12:20):
whatever you want, but here's how it goes down. You're
gonna have more cops on the street. We're gonna have
these numbers down. Well, I don't know, mister President. All right,
I do know this. You can keep shouting at Tom
Holman the way you did, because you're gonna be seing
a lot of him. You're gonna see a lot of people.
I'm gonna have I'm gonna have ice there and forcing
like you don't know. I'm gonna have the Federal Protective

(12:41):
Service on the streets outside every courthouse, at every single
federal building, Federal Applausas down the block from City Hall.
You watch, I'll be there. We'll be there all the time.
We will cost so much gridlock. Ahead, call my bluff,
right but in his Trump voice, go ahead, call my
bluffs or on my little Cami, my little COMI mayor

(13:01):
so I think President Trump basically said, look, this can
go poorly or it can go well. New York has
to improve, bottom line. Are you going to do it?
And I think mom Donnie turns around and says, well,
given that my bridge to nowhere project, or as he
would phrase it, millionaire, billionaire and taxpayer funded free quote unquote,

(13:25):
free air quotes, free subways isn't going to be a thing,
then maybe he can say, look me, personally, I'm a
socialist and I think you're a fascist. But I think
we can work together if we do things that you know,
if we can find those common areas. And this is
how politics works, and this is why maybe some of

(13:48):
you criticize me for it, but I've always felt this
is the only way that politics can work. You're always
going to have somebody that opposes to you, and you
can't just say I'm not going to make a deal
with you. You can sometimes right like President Trump. He
didn't bend at all on that government shutdown. Guess what,
he didn't blink. He stood his ground. The right thing happened.

(14:11):
But it's your experience, it's your ability to discern and
to be judicious that allows you to make these right decisions.
And then it's up to you whether you want to
kill with kindness or kill with a nuke. I think
Trump decided he wanted to kill with kindness. Listen to this,
mister President Republican.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
At least Dephonic has campaigned multiple times by callings or
Amumdania Jahadist. Do you think you're standing next to a
Jahadis right now in the Oval Opera?

Speaker 1 (14:38):
No? I know, but she's out there campaigning, and you know,
you say things sometimes in a campaign. She's a very
capable person, but you really have to ask her about that.
But I don't particularly I think I met with a
very I met with a man who's a very rational person.
I met with a man who wants.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
To hold on a second. He's talking about Zora Mamdani.
He's standing right next to him, and he said, I
met with a man that's a very rational person. This
is the same rational person that was yelling at the
top of his lungs at Tom Homan, same rational person
that is called Trump a fascist, same rational person that
says he wants to arrest bebing At in Yahoo. So

(15:22):
what do you think happened in the first few minutes
of their conversation when they met, right, I say, probably
went something like this. Mamdani comes in and says, well,
mister President, thank you for the time. You know, I
really do appreciate it. And you know, all things considered,
as you know, having run for a president you know
multiple times, and having the experience you do on the

(15:43):
campaign trail that sometimes things get heated, sometimes things are said,
and I do want to say, outside of anything, I
respect your ability to win despite the odds. I had
you pegged for going to jail, and I'll be between
you and million the four walls. Listen. I thought that
what they did to you was a raw deal. I mean,

(16:04):
come on, this crime of falsifying documents wasn't even a
crime until they created it for you. Right now, I
think he gave him some area to say, oh, you know,
thank you, Zonon, my little commie. And you know, honestly,
you are a comedi, but you're a nice COMMI and
you know if you want to work with me, there's
none of that commy bs. I'm just telling you right now,
right And then they have this conversation and then eventually

(16:26):
Trump says, look, I have all the cards. You don't
have the cards. All you can do is bark and
fight for four years if I don't work with you,
and you're going to be fighting against me. And you
know the saying, if you're not able to ever go
on offense and you're spending all your time on defense,

(16:46):
you're not doing anything. You're not advancing if all you're
doing is fighting back. And Trump knows that firsthand. That
was his first term, right trying to advance forward yet
constantly having to fight back against the deep State. So
he gets to this place and now he's saying, Trump
makes a decision, what do I do?

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Do?

Speaker 2 (17:06):
I say, my little Kami, I told him, listen, if
you don't do what I say, what That leads right
into the whole fascistic stuff right O. He's holding it
over his heads. So what does Trump do? High Road?
I don't know. At least I fand it called the
guy at your hot It's not me. I think the
guy's rational. I met with somebody who wants what's the
best for New York play the tape.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
Really wants to see New York be great again? And
I can say again because New York was great. You
know when I came down to Washington, initially the city
was so hot, it was doing great. We were having
some telltale signs and problems. We had a mayor that
was not doing a great job, but still it was
moving along. And it went bad. It really went, you know,

(17:53):
pretty bad, and he can. I think it's been at
lower points, but it went pretty bad. I think he
can bring it back.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Now.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
The question is will we bring it back all the way?
Will he bring it back greater than ever before? Which
is I guarantee that's his wish. I think it wants
to make it greater than ever before. And if he can,
we'll be out there cheering. I'll be cheering for him. Okay,
thank you very much, everybody.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
So President Trump cheering for Kami Mamdani. Right, Maybe this
is why he got involved in the race. Maybe they
had a deal ahead of time. Who knows, right, this
is politics. I wasn't privy to any of those deals.
You know where I stood on that race. I wanted
courteously with the person who I thought was best to
win that race, who I think would have worked very
well with President Trump. But from President Trump's perspective, if
I were in his shoes, if Mamdani has the gravitas

(18:40):
to popularity to win, but not the experience to govern well,
but the popularity and the energy to govern poorly, then
perhaps Trump can try to intervene, being an elder statesman
and saying, look, you could drive this thing off a cliff,
or you can't. And I think his view with Curtis

(19:02):
Sliwa might have been we haven't gotten along ever. I
don't know that we're going to get along better now.
And he made his choice, right. I think he thought
to himself. I'd probably do best with Andrew Cuomo if
I'm being frank, So you know, it is what it is.
I don't know his thought process. I haven't had this
conversation with the president. I'm just deducing what I see

(19:24):
based on the media reports. And one thing about Trump,
people say, oh, he lied, he lied, he lied. Trump
typically tells you the truth every single time, right, including
the things you don't want to hear, including the things
that hurt people's feelings. So again, my take on this
is that President Trump is trying to do what's right

(19:46):
for New York City. He's trying to amass some power.
Now in a Machiavellian way, What do you mean, Rich,
I don't mean that in a bad way. I mean
that in a good way. The enemy of my enemy
is my friend, right, Like from Machiavelli's book to the Prince.
So Mamdani while he's yelling at Trump, yelling at Trump,

(20:08):
yelling at Trump, who are his allies? Alexander Soros? AOC? Now,
if AOC is coming after Schumer, that means Mamdanni can
come after Schumer. And Mamdannie was just in a back

(20:29):
and forth with do I endorse the guy that's going
with Hakim Jeffries or not. And at first he did,
then he didn't, right. I think that's how that went,
you know, kind of calling off the dogs. So the
person that has the power here to run the primary
is Mamdani. He's the shot caller. I don't think Chuck
Schumer can say we've got a beautiful moderate candidate. We're
gonna run him. We're gonna run him against Mamdani. You're

(20:51):
gonna see because we've been seeing guys like Chuck Schumer
lose when they run against the Democrat Socialists of America,
when they run against the Burns, the Elizabeth Warrens, the
AOC all out crazy. So what happens? So Trump now
gives a what I would say is a tacit endorsement.
Listen to this.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Would you feel comfortable living in New York City under
a MANDI? Yeah, I would, wrote, especially after the meeting. Absolutely,
what makes you comfortable? We agree on a lot more
than I would have thought. I think he's I want
him to do a great job, and we'll help him
do a great job. You know, he may have different views,
but in many ways. You know, we were discussing when

(21:33):
Bernie Sanders was out of the race. I picked up
a lot of his votes, and people had no idea
because he was strong on not getting ripped off in
trade and lots of the things that I've practiced and
have been very successful on tariffs, a lot of things
Bernie Sanders and I agreed on much more than people thought,
and when he was put out of the race, I

(21:54):
think quite unfairly. If you want another truth, many of
the Bernie Sanders voters voted for me, and I felt
very comfortable, frankly, and seeing that and saying that, and
you know, it just turned out to be a statistical truth.
But no, I feel very comfortable.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
I would be.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
I would feel very very comfortable being in New York,
and I think much more so after the meeting.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
There you go, Where does all that come from? Well,
a number of things. Number one is Trump and nine
to five working stiff. He's definitely more than nine to five, right.
He's like four in the morning to four in the
morning kind of guy. Right, guys, twenty four hours a day,
maniac work ethic. God bless him. He also has serious
real estate holdings in New York City. Like me, He's

(22:37):
a New Yorker born in New York City. I think
you have a conversation with somebody and you say, listen.
Part of life is if you put your guard down
for a second and really have that conversation, which I
believe Trump does in his interactions with people. At least
when I've met with him personally, he was extraordinarily engaged

(22:57):
in the conversation we were having. I think Charlie Kirk
was also the same way. I think you have this
conversation between zoron Mumdani, who goes in there and has
enough sense to realize, I'm not going to get Trump
to tattoo a hammer and a sickle on his bicep,
but I might just get him to not kick me

(23:18):
out and try to deport me.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Right.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
So each of them has an agenda going into this meeting,
and now it's the political calculus. What do we do?
How do we figure things out? So for Trump, a
friend in Mamdani goes one of two ways. Either A,
I can now I have I have the ammunition. I
now have an alliance with the enemy of some Democrats,

(23:46):
many who have Schumer and others like him over a
barrel Number one. Number two, I've got him over a
barrel because he needs funding and I can and ruin
his trajectory here. So either he can play ball on
the agenda that I have for New York, which is

(24:07):
you're gonna work with ice. You could yell about it,
but you're gonna do it. You're going to make sure
that you know there's not people getting mugged in front
of Trump Tower because New York City's great, we want
it to be great again. And guess what, maybe just
maybe you get re elected if you play my game
or we make you look so bad for the whole

(24:30):
time that you're in office that you become the next
Derek Adams, a one term losing mayor. And I think
that is again, what politics looks like. I'm not saying
it's what I like. I'm not saying it's what should
be done. I'm saying it's what I've learned in the
years of having worked in government and being around politics,
and I've seen it some parts of the country. I

(24:52):
think Democrats don't even talk to Republicans in places like
New York, places like New Jersey, where I think everybody
here's a rhino. That's not the case. It's just that
you're outnumbered so you have to learn how to play ball,
and that's part of this game too, learning how to
play ball, learning how to get along, learning how to compromise,
learning the art of the deal. So that's my thought

(25:15):
on that, and well, you know, we'll chime back in
on that as we go through the evening. But what
do you think was this a machiavellian move with Mamdanie
visiting El Trumpito? Is this, like they say, four dimensional chess?
Or is it a you know, Trump just being gracious
and maybe he's getting duped. I tend to not think

(25:36):
that's the case, but either way, I want to hear
your thoughts. Hit me up at Rich valdesk on all
of the social media and straight ahead Marjorie Taylor Green.
She says loyalty should have been a two way street
with President Trump. Instead it was only a one way street.
Their battle ending with her saying no mas more after.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
This, this is a Maria.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
This is a Maria.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
He's brown, he's bald, and he's.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Breaking it down. Oh he's still had someome what's his name,
Rich Beldaz. All right, he goes, welcome back and we
can take to the conversation. This Friday evening with Marjorie
Taylor Green, Representative Green announcing in a very lengthy video

(26:26):
released to Twitter and other social media that she is
resigning her position effective January fifth, twenty twenty. So I
guess at the end of this current term before the
next Congress gets sworn in. And she explained a lot
of things. I can't play the entire eleven minute video,
but I can give you a couple of minutes of it.

(26:47):
Listen to this.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Standing up for American women who were raped at fourteen
years old, trafficked and used by rich, powerful men should
not result in me being called a trader, threatened by
the President of the United States, whom I fought for.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Wow, shots fired. She's not playing games. She also goes
on to say there is no plan to save the world.
There is no four dimensional chess listens it is.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
However, while yes hurtful, my heart remains filled with joy,
My life is filled with happiness, and my true convictions
remain unchanged because my self worth is not defined by
a man, but instead by God, who created everything in existence.
You see, I have never valued power, titles, or attention.

(27:36):
In spite of all the wrong assumptions about me. I
do not cling to those things because they are meaningless
and empty traps that hold too many people in Washington.
I believe in term limits and do not think Congress
should be a lifelong career or an assisted living facility.
My only goal and desire has ever been to hold

(27:57):
the Republican Party accountable for the prom us as it
makes to the American people and put America first.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Let me tell you that line about term limits, I'm clapping.
I'm giving a standing ovation for that one. Go ahead.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
And I have fought against Democrats damaging policies like the
Green New Deal, wide open, deadly unsafe border policies, and
the trans agenda on children and against women. With that
has brought years of non stop, never ending personal attacks,
death threats, law fair, ridiculous slander, and lies about me

(28:33):
that most people could never withstand even for a single day.
It has been unfair and wrong not only to me,
but especially to my family, but it's been wrong to
my district as well. I have too much self respect
and dignity. I love my family way too much, and
I do not want my sweet district to have to

(28:54):
endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me. By the
president that we all thought for only to fight and
win my election, while Republicans will likely lose the midterms
and in turn be expected to defend the President against
impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars
against me and tried to destroy me. It's all so

(29:17):
absurd and completely unseerious. I refuse to be a battered
wife hoping it all goes away and gets better. If
I am cast aside by the President and the MAGA
political machine and replaced by Neo Cohn's big pharma, big tech,
military industrial war complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor

(29:37):
class that can never ever relate to real Americans, then
many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well.
There is no plan to save the world or a
four D chess game being played. When common American people
realize and understand that the political industrial complex of both

(29:58):
parties is ripping this country apart, that not one elected
leader like me is able to stop Washington's machine from
gradually destroying our country, and instead the reality is that
they common Americans, the people, possess the real power over Washington.
Then I'll be here by their side to rebuild it.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
That's Marjorie Taylor Green and again announcing that she's retiring
from Congress. Again, she said, regular Americans, there is no
plan to save the world. There is no four D
chess game. Is she talking to the QAnon people? I

(30:40):
want to know. I'm just asking for a friend. She's
got a couple more seconds here, go ahead, let her rip.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Until then, I'm going back to the people that I love.
To live my life to the fullest as I always have,
and I look forward to a new path ahead. I'll
be resigning from office, with my last being January fifth,
twenty twenty six, and I look forward to seeing many
of you again sometime in the future. May God bless

(31:08):
you all, and may God bless America.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Well amen, I'm happy for her if this is good
for her. I've only met her one time, very very briefly.
She was in a either in the suite I was
in at the Madison Square Garden rally or the sweet
next to us, and honestly, very nice, very nice, very
very chill, very calm person. I guess you know those
moments where she gets agitated and she is, you know,

(31:35):
yelling at Jasmine Crockett about her eyelashes, which I think
look nice on Jasmine Crockett, by the way, you know,
you get that one side of her, But there's two
sides to everybody, right, And you also see President Trump
fighting back against the Median in real life. I think
he's a charming guy. She's a nice person. So anyway,
I want to know, this is going to be reported,

(31:57):
of course, over the weekend and into Monday as Maga
civil war Trump, you know, out for blood, blah blah blah.
But again, this is yet another casualty of war in politics.
That's just how it works in the media, in politics,
in sales, in so much of any industry that's based

(32:20):
on in meritocracy, you're only as good as your last day. Right,
there's change lives there. The sharks are always there, and
that goes both ways. It's not like, you know, you're
always the guppy that's about to get swallowed by the
big fish. Sometimes you're the guppy that says, I'm not
interested in swimming in this pond anymore. Guess what I

(32:40):
can go over here, do a little lot less swimming
and eat more. Right, Sometimes there's better opportunities than other places.
Sometimes the grasses and greener. These are the risks get
take in life, right, These are the political calculations that
people make. But make no mistake, this is not a tyranny. Right.
People have a choice to run for office, they have

(33:00):
a choice to get out of public life. They have
a choice to make a different move. We all make
those choices. So I say, God, speak to you, Marjorie
Taylor Green, good luck. I applaud your decision to do
what you think is right with your life, and say
what I am. Right, We continue because what else are

(33:22):
we going to do. We can't sit here and beat
ourselves up over this. And I think, honestly it was
it was a fair thing to do. She realizes she's
a single person, that how can she how can she continue? Right,
she's part of the mega movement, the mega people may
or may not re elect her. She thinks she could win.

(33:44):
She probably could, right, she knows her district. But what
happens there, It creates this contention. It's more fodder, it's
more distraction for the media and for her. And if
she's sincere when she says she doesn't care about the accolades,
the power and the attention, and I believe her. I
take her out her word on that. I think she's
had more more of that than anybody would want, quite frankly, right,

(34:07):
And you look at guys like Kanye West justin Bieber.
People think people get into certain businesses because they love
the adulation, they love the adoration. But no, sometimes people
think they like that and then they find it to
be incredibly overwhelming. It's no longer what it once was,
and they're not interested. That's not everybody. Some people still

(34:28):
thrive on that, I guess, But this is why you
have so many celebrities that wear dark glasses and a
baseball cap and they're like using the back door in
places because they don't want to be bothered. They just
want to work and that's it. So anyway, again, I'm
getting off the deep end here, but Marjorie Taylor Green says,
I'm walking away. I recently had to walk away myself.

(34:50):
But people make decisions in life, and sometimes it's not
always the way you want it to be, right, just
sometimes what you kind of gotta do. So I unders
I understand where she's at, and I really do wish
her God's speed because you know, she fought for a
lot of good things and She's right when she says
she had a very conservative record a couple of issues

(35:12):
where she was going the other way, and she was
very critical of net Yahoo and moreover, of foreign policy
in general. And this is an area where she and
I would disagree because I think the United States is
the major player in foreign policy globally. That's just how
it works. And you could say, but it shouldn't work

(35:32):
that way, right, this is what Thanksgiving dinner sounds like
with my brothers and I. You know, we start talking
about the richie. It shouldn't be that way, And I say,
but that's exactly Joe, why it is the way it is? Right?
That is again, it's power. The United States maintains our power.
We are the world's reserve currency. You've got bricks chopping
at the bit to come and take us out. How

(35:53):
do we maintain our competitive edge? But for maintaining our
competitive edge the United States dollar, which is backed by
the full faith and credit of the United States military
and every last bomb and gun that we have, because
we make sure we do what we got to do.
That is what protects our dollar, That is what protects
our everything. If we didn't have the military, might that

(36:16):
we do. They would have knocked us off a long
time ago in more ways than one. But we have that.
We have money, so we've invested in infrastructure, in particular education.
We still lead the way we higher ed. I don't
know for how long, but we do. So we got
to take advantage of the places we have power. So again,
this is part of why I get up, I stand
on two feet night slow clap for Donald Trump elo

(36:40):
Why because this is important. Making the United States the
ai capital of the world is a huge deal Making
the United States the crypto capital of the world is
a huge deal making Sure the United States is not
looking like Europe and so many other parts of this
world that are era seeing their own national identity. And

(37:03):
I don't mean whiteness. I'm not white, but I am
saying Americanists right, Americanism, the american ness that we all share, patriotism,
these things should never be erased. I've seen people be
critical of me for loving America. I've seen people be

(37:25):
critical of people that come to America from other countries
and you know, after working for ten years, they finally
go they apply for citizenship and they become a citizen.
And then sometimes instead of people saying, hey, congratulations. Some
people come and hate on them. Why, Well, the reason
people do that is because they they hate America and

(37:45):
they want everybody else to hate America. But the reality
is that's not always going to be the case. There
are people that come from other countries that love this country.
There's a guy on social media. It's very funny. He's
got a very thick Spanish accent, and he's funny about
it too. And he goes in there and I talked
to it. I think I even played it in the past.

(38:06):
But he comes into a store and he says, he's
too much money. When you go to this store, you inflation.
He's getting in your pocket. Let me tell you what
you gotta do. There's a place we call it dollar three.
Dollar three. You go with a dollar twenty five. At
dollar twenty five, you get this ant a twenty five,
you get eggs, a dolla twenty five, you buy bread.

(38:26):
And it's so funny. And I just thought to myself,
it's great. And this guy is talking about the American dream.
He's saying and then he says, he says, you don't
need more food stamps, you don't need snap or you
need you need a job I love. That right reminded
me of the things my dad taught me growing up
and didn't sound too differently from that guy. These are

(38:49):
things that we all share, at least we used to.
Now today we have a new generation that's very easily
offended by a lot of people, and we have a
situation where people are willing to to just give up
on things and they don't want to work. And if
it's not for this, I don't want to do it.
And listen, you're allowed to know your worth. You're allowed

(39:12):
to say, hey, look, I've worked a long time in
this or at this, and I need this or I
need this type of flexibility here. But not when you're
out of school and looking for your first gig. This
is grind time, you know. I switched careers in my
thirties to get into radio, and guess what it was
grind time for me. I had to do a lot

(39:33):
of grinding. I have literally slept on the floor in
a studio that I knew had mice. I've slept on
the couch, the leather couch in a New York City
studio and guess what the heat goes off in those
buildings at night? It was freezing in there, but I
was doing a morning show. Those start at four AM,

(39:54):
and I had just finished a show that ended at
one am. So you do the math three hours before
I had to do it again. I need to sleep
for those three hours. There's no time to go home.
Point is, that's the type of grind you got to
put in when you want to make it in an industry.
And I've got to say, in less than a decade
I now spent it's my eighth year going into my

(40:17):
eighth year. I've spent four four and a half years
in local radio and the balance of that nearly half
of my career in national syndication until recently. And I'm
enormously proud of that, right, And these are just opportunities
that exist when you work hard and you find that

(40:38):
inner drive. So anyway, when it comes to that whole
gen Z stuff, I don't buy all that. Going to
pause right here, and I want to continue with the
reaction that the military has. Right, the military folks are
clapping back at El trumpito the attack on him right

(40:59):
from the Democrats in Congress. We played that one yesterday.
Well today you've got Republicans that have now weighed in
and they've got plenty to say, plenty to say, so
we're going to do that. Plus we're going to talk
about the colonizers I was talking about before, what happens
with that, what's the future look like. And we're also

(41:19):
going to talk about a guy named Jelly Roll. You
ever heard of him? Don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Valdez.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
This is America.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
This is America.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
to speak with Rich Valdez.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Oh, very good, thanks, Rich. The honor is all yours.
Conservative talk with a dash of sofrito. Now here's Rich Valdez,
all right, and he goes, welcome back, thank you for
sticking with me. It's Rich Valdez. And of course at
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(41:57):
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(42:20):
star reviews or close to five star reviews, and I'm
enormously proud of that. So thank you each and every
one of you for that. So this is America with
rich Valdees, and we talk about everything that's going on
in America in the daytime, in the nighttime, anytime. And
part of what's going on right now is a bunch
of Republicans who have served their country and served their

(42:43):
country faithfully have decided I've had enough with these guys,
and we are going to make sure that we clap back.
So the military members of the House of Representatives that
are in the Republican Conference, they're not playing And I

(43:06):
thought this was just terrific. I want you to listen
to this.

Speaker 3 (43:10):
We must be loyal to the oath that we swore
to stand firmly with America.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
I'm Congressman Jim Bart, Representative John Maguire, Representative Keith sel,
Congressman Richmond Corn, Representative Barry Moore, represented Rick Crawford, August Fluer,
Congressman Andre Klain.

Speaker 3 (43:23):
Congressman Tom Barrett, former Navy, former Vietnam Army combat.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
Vetter, retired Colonel of the South Army National Guard.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
Marine court pilot farmer, members of Alabama National Guard.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
Former Army Special Forces green Beret, former US Army.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
Soldier, an Air Force veterans, twenty eight year Navy officer,
United States Army.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
After my active duty service, I joined the intelligence.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Community as a former Navy Seal veteran.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
I want to speak directly to the members of the
military and our intelligence community.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
I want to speak directly to the members of the
military and the intelligence community.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
I want to speak directly to the members of the
military and the intelligence community. Like you. I raised my
right hand because I love this country. I believe in
something bigger than myself.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
That freedom is not free.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
Mouth was cleared uphold the Constitution, that it is powerful.
We all understand the importance of the chain of command.
Troops listen up.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
Any service member who refuses a lawful order is subject
to court martial for violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
We study what's lawful and what's not lawful, and the
Democrats stunt insinuating that their illegal or unconstitutional orders.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
It's done right, dangerous, it is corrosive. It is meant
to weaken our country and weaken the military to I
give in stand farm.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
And your duty protect the American populace from an enemy
that would do us harm.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
That's the right thing to do, and that is a
lawful order.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
Your commitment to this nation is vital.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
Stay focused on the mission.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
Defend the constitution, and remember the oath we took to
defend America.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
Remember the promise we may so help us. God, so
help me, God, so help me, Gun, so.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
Help me God, troops, Thank you for serving.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Continue to prepare for the fight. Well. I thought that
was fan tastic that was released by the House Republicans
and great response. Excellent. We needed to hear that. People
needed to hear that. And again it wasn't don't give
up the ship. It was so help me God, that's
your oath. Stick to your oath. Thank God, right, Thank
god they pointed out the facts, and again I don't

(45:17):
think they always need to be pointed out. Quite frankly,
if there was any difference of opinion I would have
with the Democrats doing that, I would just say, let
them say what they want to say. I don't care,
because ultimately I think we have people that we trust
enough to arm and we trust enough for them to
put their own lives on the line in defense of

(45:39):
our nation, which I take as in defense of me,
in defense of my children, in defense of my ability
to go and talk smack. So if I can trust
you enough for that, I can trust you to decipher
whether the Democrats are going to fool you or not.
I trust you to make a good decision. I'm not
going to sit here. I've never believed that, you know,

(46:00):
I need to shut you up because I don't trust
you enough to make a good judgment for yourself. I
don't believe that that may be true in certain individual situations,
you know, with children and things like that. I mean,
I have the life experiences why they have parents and guardians. However,
I'm never gonna look you in the face and say,
oh no, no, no, no, turn off the MSNBC. It's

(46:21):
gonna I might say it jokingly, right and even half heartedly,
you know, yeah, turn off that MSNBC. It's gonna make
your mind mush okay, true, but it's not because I'm
afraid that if you hear Rachel Maddow you might start
hating America. That's a choice you're gonna have to make,
and I've got to trust you enough to say, hold on,
a second, what do you actually believe what too do
you stand on? Are you standing on ten toes or not?

(46:45):
If I could trust you to die for this country,
I gotta be able to trust you to hear some
bs from the Democrats. That's just how that goes, you know, Otherwise,
what are we gonna do? Next? Thing we do is
people that hate America, don't don't listen to the Iranians.
They hate us. No, no, no, no, no oh. They
are Islamists that run the Malas and around and all that.

(47:06):
Come on, let them all talk, let them all say
what they got to say. Go ahead, go for it,
knock yourself out. We have to win in the battle
of ideas, in the marketplace of ideas. That's where we
win this thing, winning the hearts and minds, right, because otherwise,
you know, look at the what's happening in Sudan, what's

(47:31):
happening in Syria, what's happening in Nigeria? Right? Christians being
slaughtered for their faith. Now, this is not just like,
oh my gosh, I can't believe you're a Christian. I'm
going to kill you. No, no, this is more like,
oh my gosh, these people are organized and there's hundreds
of them. Maybe thousands of them. This is a direct competition,

(47:52):
a direct threat to what we believe. And we will
not debate you. We will not prove to you that
our faith is better than your faith. Not live our
lives by example and allow the marketplace of religious ideas
to be the judge. Nope, We're just gonna eliminate you
so that we're the only game in town that's cheating.

(48:13):
And I'm not that guy. You don't like it, you
don't like it, all right. I sit here and I
do this show. I've been doing the show for a
long time, since twenty eighteen, and I could tell you this.
Some people start and listen and they like it. Some
people get halfway into God, this guy's blowing it out
the wrong end. Forget about them. Peace and the majority,

(48:34):
like ninety percent of you, I think, is the listen
rate on this program, listen to the whole thing. And
I'm grateful for it. But you gotta trust people. I'm
not gonna sit here and change what I'm saying because
I'm my God. They might not listen, they might turn
off the radio, they might stop their phone, they might
hit pause on their Alexa device. By the way, here,

(48:56):
let me mess you up a little bit, Alexa play
this is America, Rich VALDEZK. Now, we have those smart
speakers all over the country going crazy. Haha. I did
that once and on the radio, and I thought it
was pretty funny. So anyway, bottom line here, I'm not
afraid to get into the engagement here of what I

(49:16):
believe and what you believe and what's better. And we
have to engage in those ideas. We have to because
otherwise we're lost. Anyway, I'm gonna pause right here. I'm
gonna come back talk a little bit about jelly Roll,
a little bit about Machiavelli, and if there's time, I'll
get into some of your comments. You guys have a
lot of comments that have been putting out, a lot

(49:37):
of nice words, a lot of nice things. I promise you,
as soon as I'm able to make a formal announcement
in January, I will and I do want to thank
a lot of people for a lot of things. But
you know I've been sworn to secrecy. Hush hush, mush mush. Right,
That's just how the nature of certain contracts go. So anyway,
keep it locked right here. I am Rich Valdez. We're

(49:58):
coming right back. Don't go anywhere. This is America. This
is America, but englis or primal norodos bara rich Valdez.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
S nos America.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
Awara, all right, I mean he goes, that's still me,
is rich Valdez. There's that little bump that gets me
in trouble.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
There, that little.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
Return where people hey, hold that it's America, speak English.
What's going on here? Valdez? Listen. I like the ruffles
of feathers every now and again. You know, it's like
Dora the Explorer. You get to learn a little Spanish
along the way. Anyway, that voice, by the way, is
the amazing Chris Libertini, the old school in this game

(50:48):
of imaging and being a production director at the world
famous WABC in New York City. Great guy, great talent.
I want to talk about Machiavelli a little bit, right
because because we're looking at some of what's happening here,
much of it, I'm going to say Machiavellian. Machiavelli was
famous for coming up with this well several books. Right.

(51:12):
He was, you know, after he was a philosopher of sorts,
you know, a political theorist, political scientist. But he was
one of the first thinkers to kind of separate politics
from morality. And I'm not applauding this. I'm not a
fan of that. I think when when you hear me
talk about a biblical worldview or a christ centered worldview,
and I don't want to hold myself out to being holy.

(51:33):
I am the guy that wakes up and prays, gets
in my car and it all goes out the window,
and I'm just like, man, I wish I could run
these people off the road. And it was Jesus that said,
you know, as a so man thinketh in his heart
right how it goes? So is he?

Speaker 3 (51:48):
So?

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Yeah, I am guilty of sin, but I will tell
you that we should still be guided by morality. I'll
make another confession to you, not a confession, but I
wouldn't make this confession if it were true. If I
were severely addicted to I don't know, crystal meth, crack, cocaine,
some sort of controlled substance, I would not. I don't

(52:11):
believe in good mind turn around to my children or
yours and be like, oh, guys, you gotta try this.
It's so good. When I don't have it and it's
not running through my veins anymore, I get really itchy,
and I get really sick feeling, and I have these
horrible withdrawals. You're gonna love it. Try this, right, I've
never heard of that. I've never heard of anybody was like, oh,
you know, but when you go, hey, hey, have a

(52:32):
drink toast, let's do salute, And then they're like, ah, no,
I don't drink. And after, you know, twenty minutes hanging
out with this person, you find out, yeah, no, excit.
You know, one of my parents was an addictor one
of my parents was an alcoholic. That's never happening. You
never bumped into somebody like that. I have many times,
and I say kudos to them, right, they have their

(52:53):
heart and their head in the right place. So I
bring up that example to say, even people that are
in a bad spot, they know the difference between right
and wrong, and they're still guided by morality even in
the midst of their sin. But Machiavelli separated it. He
kind of secularized the leadership function within public service. And

(53:21):
this is what he's famous for it. Right, He wrote
this book called The Prince you know, talks about many
of these ideas and the most famous, I would say
the most famous is the enemy of my enemy is
my friend, right, you know, summarized that way. And that
is the point that I want to make here, is
that there are people that still use this type of thinking.

(53:44):
It's not old, it's new, it's every day. And instead
of thinking through what's the best way I can bless
these people? What's the best way I can be used
by God? Today? And again I'm not saying I do
this either, right, I want to. This is what I
aspire to do. There are times I do and times
I don't, and the times I do, I'm enormously proud
and grateful and humbled that I was able to do

(54:05):
it right. But there are people that don't look at
everything as in, how can I be of use? How
can I be of service? How can I help? And
there's some of the thing. How can I help myself
to this? How can this person help me? How can
I be you know, how can I make this more
advantageous for my situation? And I think in life, some
of that is survival and you need to have that.
You need to have those instincts, you need to have both.

(54:27):
You need to know when to navigate that way and
when to kind of retreat and not. I think the
majority of people exists in one of those two camps,
and there's a small handful that exists in the middle
where they can do both, and they turn it off
and on. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, but either way, Machiavelli.

(54:48):
So using the example from today with El Trumpezo and Mamdani,
I think there are Machiavellian principles that are at play there, right.
I also think you have President Trump as a very
good relationship with Netan Yahoo and the Israeli people and

(55:11):
the Jewish community, and now he allows this man to
come to his office, who said terrible things, who supported
the Holy Land five, who said he would arrest Netan Yahoo,
who has called for maybe not through himself, but through
his proxies his campaign people a ghad right, a moral

(55:35):
war for their faith, And why would he do such
a thing and risk Well, maybe that's the political calculus
or part of it. Okay, I've given this guy. At
the time of day, I'm going to look fair and
balanced and great, and hey, maybe listen, I love you,
I love you, baby, I do, but miss Trump right

(55:56):
bybe I love you, I love you, but I need
you to work with me. We got to say, stopped
the bombing of Hamas, we got disarmed Hamas. It's so
important to disarm them. And maybe that's the angle. I
don't know, right, I don't know all of the the
answers here. I do know that it's very easy to
criticize people that are working in the government, and you know,

(56:21):
having worked for Governor Christie, and then he hugged Obama
and it was over right. People stopped caring about the guy.
They didn't care what he did for New Jersey during
the Hurricane Sandy debacle. They didn't care about anything other
than he went too far. And maybe something in that
particular situation, I don't think he did. He greeted the
guy with a hug, and that was like, oh my gosh,

(56:42):
he's hugging Obama. It was a time in New Jersey
where people look at my house. We had no power
for five days. Now, we also had a generator, so
we had you know, we didn't lose any meat. We
had the generator hooked up to a couple of lights
and the refrigerator. Okay, so far, so good. Right, things
were functioning for us. We were living a somewhat normal life.

(57:02):
Some of the rooms were dark, you know, couldn't put
juice in everything. But we had enough portable lanterns and
stuff like that. We got through the five days. It
was October or whatever it was, so it wasn't freezing. Now,
there were some people who had water up to their
knees had to evacuate. So it was brutal. The Jersey

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short it's infamous for some people and famous for others,
all right, for being such a great time, was ripped up.
The beach was destroyed, the wood was had flown away,
it was just eaten up by the hurricane. So when
you got the president of the United States and you're
a sitting governor and he shows up here, and you know,

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you're very grateful for the support he brings. Again, that
was Obama coming say, look, I'm gonna ingratiate myself with
this guy. I know he's a loud mouth. I know
he can be tough, I know he likes to bully
people around. Blah blah blah blah blah. I'm gonna try
and kill him with kindness. And guess what they shared
an embrace in a moment of trying to get federal
funding to help the people in New Jersey. And this

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was Christy's done a lot of things, but this was
the one where people it really messed them up. Listen,
I get it, But I will say something I learned
from going to Christy. He basically said, it's very, very
difficult to hate people to their face. And that's true, right.

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It's easy to criticize people when a you don't know them,
be there, not in front of you. So I've always
tried to keep that close. Tried right. Don't get me wrong.
If you've listened to me for any extended time, you'll
know I make fun of a whole lot of people.
It's kind of what I do. But but I try
to keep that in mind and realize that sometimes if
I'm making a caricature of someone on the radio or

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on a podcast or on television, or if I'm creating
a foil and a story that I'm telling, it's just that, right,
it's for the sake of illustration, is for the sake
of trying to show you how dire these ideas can be.
And that's important for illustrative purposes. And sometimes it is
very real, and sometimes you have to call these things
out for what they are, right, We've got to try

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to be a straight shooter as much as we can be,
and all we can do is do our best and
live and learn. Now, speaking of doing our best and
living and learning, there's an artist named jelly Roll. And
this guy has a phenomenal voice, and I want to
get into a little story about him. Straight ahead, don't
move a muscle.

Speaker 1 (59:35):
This is America, This is America.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
He's making podcasting great again. This is America with Rich Valdez,
all right, and he goes, welcome back Rich Valdez at
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richvaldees dot com. Now Jellyroll he is a huge sensation
out in uh where's that Nashville and all over the country. Right,
he's really uh great in the country music scene. And
he's more than country music. It's like one of those
like Teddy Swims. He's got this very soulful voice going on.

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But Jelly Roll he's married to a woman and that
thank god right named Bunny XO, and she's going to jail.
This is being reported by Page six New York Post,
and she's gonna be vlogging the experience with a video blog.
How about that Jellyroll's wife, Bunny, she was an escort

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some time ago. She's a little younger than me, beautiful woman,
forty five years old. She took her quote unquote dumb
Blonde podcast. That's what it's called the title of it. Today.
She took it upstate so listeners could hear what happened
with this what she's calling unintentional trouble with the law.

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She said, you guys, I'm going to jail. What should
we talk about? And she began, you know, just talking
on her episode. She got a ticket back in twenty
twenty in Alabama. Now she lives in Nashville with her
musician husband, who's forty years old, and she began the
episode again talking about this legal issue, saying she'd completely

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forgotten about the ticket when she got pulled over last
month while she was driving. And you know, I guess
since he's a big guy that's rich and famous. Now,
she said she was driving a car that quote looked
like a drug dealer's vehicle. I can understand that you know,
drug dealers like nice cars, and most people like nice

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cars too, especially if they could afford him. The officer
asked her for a driver's license and ran it through
the system, which showed that her license was suspended, obviously
for not paying the ticket she forgot, and she says,
I was like, what, when, how? How could this happen?
Bunny recalled, responding, insisting that she's an upstanding citizen these days.
The officer explained to her that her license got suspended

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because of the unpaid ticket that she got in Alabama,
so he let her go with a warning, but told
her get it fixed. So Bunny went home and paid
it and assumed that meant her license got reinstated, and
she was wrong. The other day she was driving the
same car might have been speeding, she says, on a
highway and got pulled over again. She was overcome with

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anxiety as she thought to herself, as my driver's license
still suspended, it shouldn't be. Bunny claimed the officer was
being an efing d word when he informed her that
she was going eighty eight miles per hour. He asked
her for her license, ran it through the system, and
let her know she was in fact still suspended, calling

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it an arrestable offense. However, the officer said he would
not arrest her as long as she agreed to go
down to the jail and book herself in within a week.
Well that's things, and I know a little bit about that.
I had a very similar story once, Bunny said. She
later learned that the ticket was paid on October twenty fourth,
so she's confused as to why her license would still

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be suspended, adding that her attorney is on the case.
She finishes with saying looks like she's going to have
to book herself, and you know, went on to saying,
you know, you guys have seen all my previous mugshots.
Hopefully I'm glammed up so that I look really good,
and I'm going to bring the vlog along so that
we can document everything. So you know, she's taking it

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in stride and making a light of it. She's not
the only one. In all reality, this happens to a
lot of people. And I can tell you that something
similar happened to me once a couple of years back,
like ten or twelve years ago. I was giving my
brother a ride somewhere in his car. He was like, hey,
can you take me in my car. I got to
do something, but I need to you know, I don't

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know what it was, but he had to work on
his laptop on the way, and I was about to
go out with my kids. He's like, oh, you know what,
we'll all go to lunch right after what I got
to do as quick, so we all went. I grabbed
my kids they were younger, and got in the car
with him. And as we're all getting in the car,
I was the last one to get in. So I
was going to drive since he was going to use
his laptop. And I see a police car right next

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to my car, right outside my house. But it's there
for a while, and you never see the cops on
my block. So I thought to myself, what's going on here?
So I look over and I go, you know, just
to look at my car, and like, did I park
in the wrong place, you know, on the yellow line?
Like what's going on? And as I look, you know,
behind my car, I could see inside the police car

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and I see a picture of my face on his screen.
Of course, I don't think he's listening to This is
America on iHeartRadio, and he could see my face on
the screen. So I go over and I say, hey,
everything all right, and he looks at me as he
has the picture of my face up on his screen,
and he goes, is this your car? I said yes.
I felt like saying clearly it's my car because you

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ran the plate and my face came up, but I
said yes it is. And he said, well, it's showing
that your license is suspended, and I was like really,
from parked In my head, I was thinking how did
he run my license as I was parked. I guess
it all comes up with those automatic plate readers and

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I said, I said that can't be and he said, well,
it's showing Oh no, excuse me. It wasn't my license
was suspended. It was you have an outstanding ticket and
they've issued a warrant because you didn't pay the ticket
because you missed court or something like that. And I said,
well that can't be because I paid that ticket. It

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was a parking ticket. And he says, well, you got
proof that you paid it, and I said, yeah, I do.
I took a screenshot, so I show him that it
was paid and he goes, yep, looks like that's the
same ticket number and showing paid but I guess they
didn't take it out of the system. He's like, so
you're gonna have to come with me. We're gonna have
to go clear this up in the police station. I
was like, well, i'll pass by later because right now

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I'm going you know, I'm going out with my family,
going to the movies after an appointment that I have.
And he says, no, I don't think I understand you.
You have to come with me. I was like, I
have to come with you. I'm walking on the street.
I'm not even driving the car. The cars parked. I
just came over because I saw you next to my car,
and you know, now we're going back and forth and
I was like look, and he's like, well, you got

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to come with me. I was like, right then, if
I have to do it now, then i'll do it now.
I'll meet you there, but it's gotta be quick. And
he tells me, no, no, no, you got to come
with me. I was like, oh, now you want me
to sit in your car. I was like, for what,
it's two blocks away. You know where I am. I'm
not running away anywhere. I came to you voluntarily. I
don't see what's going on. Here, and this is a

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parking ticket we're talking about. He's like, oh, listen, our
rule is that you got to ride with us. I'm thinking,
oh my goodness, this is so Now my neighbors have
to see me go in a police car, and I'm thinking,
this is this is Insand to me. As I get
to the police car, I see him grabbing his handcuffs.
I go, what are you doing now, and he says, well,
it's policy if you're in the car. I got a
handcuffe you for my safety. I was like, for your safety.
I'm walking on the street and not bother at anybody.

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I did ride with him. I did not use handcuffs.
He did agree not to put the hair. And I
was thinking, why am I negotiating so much for a
ticket that I've clearly paid. And this whole thing is
that obviously you get some very gung ho cops that
don't know how to use a lot of common sense.
My children were ten feet away watching me with this
look of fright on their face. Tad is everything okay?

Speaker 3 (01:07:31):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
I was like, yeah, the nice officers just being a
t bag, you know. I mean I didn't say that,
but you know, it's clear that this guy was having
a field day because he had nothing better to do. Again,
I live in Jersey on the you know, the Jersey
side of the Hudson River. There's been a homicide in
my town since nineteen fifty four. I'm proud of that,
but I mean, come on, stop harassing the local residents

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who have proof that they paid the ticket. So I
walk into this place and he's like, oh, you got
to talk to the clerk or whatever. It's a little window.
I go to the window and I tell the lady, look,
the cop came. He told me how to come here
right now and do whatever because this other town two
towns over said they issued a warrant because of whatever.
But I paid this ticket. I show her the proof.
She looks it up in the computer, because show them

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paid to me. She goes, oh, but I guess there
is a thing here. She's like, all right, you know,
I'll just put a note on here that you know
it was paid and that you came in. I was like,
I'm not going to get locked up to this, like
you shouldn't. She's like, I'll even call just to have
them lifted if they haven't lifted anything. Sometimes, you know,
these things happen, but you should be okay. And I
was like, oh, thank you lady for being so nice
and normal and kind and you know, and the cop
was standing right next to me, like realizing, Wow, what

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a jerk he was. And he was a jerk. What
can I say? You know, I still support the men
and women in law enforcement. My brothers served in law enforcement.
I was a volunteer for a little bit. I was
a chaplain for a couple of years. And it doesn't
change my view of law enforcement. It just changes my
view of that dude. He was El Prico is what
we're gonna call him. So anyway, that's that story, and

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kudos to Jelly Roll. He lost a lot of weight,
by the way, and I'm glad that hopefully. I'm glad
that things worked out with his wife. Anyway, that's all
I got for now. Don't be machiavellian unless you have
to be. If you stand for something, you're good. If
you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. That's a

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quote from Lord Acton, and also Hamilton is credited with
saying that, as are many others. And as always, I
say take care, good night, God bless you America. I'm
rich Valdez and this is America.

Speaker 1 (01:09:33):
This is America.