Massacre in Bondi, Manhunt at Brown U., 'Meat Head' murdered

On Monday, Rich breaks down the heinous Hanukkah horror of the 16 Jews massacred at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Then, a manhunt is ongoing after the deadly shooting of two students at Brown University. Plus, actor and producer Rob Reiner, who played "Meat Head" on "All in the Family," was sadly murdered along with his wife by their deranged son, and their bodies were discovered by their daughter. 

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What's up, America. I am Rich Valdes Valdez with ans
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liberty loving Latino Amigo, seventeen blocks from Madison Square Garden
in New York City. Blessed to be here with you
each and every evening. Welcome to the program, and we're
going to get into all sorts of stuff right now
because wow, today Monday, man, it was crazy. The weekend

(00:49):
was lit and not in a good way. Our voice line,
by the way, eight seven seven Valdez one. If you
want to chime in or leave us a message, feel free.
And I want to start with the heinous attack on
Hanukkah over the weekend. Like I said, it's Monday. Friday
was slow, but today's moving fast, folks. My heart is
broken for our Jewish brothers and sisters. Down in Sydney, Australia.

(01:09):
Father and son duo radicalized ISIS inspired terrorists opening fire
on a beautiful Hanukkah by the Sea celebration at Bandai Beach.
Fifteen innocent people were murdered, Families lighting Manora's kids, enjoying
the festival of Lights, and these cowards turn it into
a bloodbath. Anti Semitic terrorism, plain and simple, the worst
attack on Jews in Australia ever. You know, As an

(01:35):
American of Puerto Rican heritage, coming from Brooklyn, I was
raised on family and faith and fighting for what's right. Maam, wella,
my grandma used to pray the rosary and pray to
a little statue. She had called it in Nina de
Prague right, and it was another one Labdakri. I don't

(01:55):
know what these were all called in English, otherwise I
would tell you, and she'd be right to be praying
to them right about now. This isn't just senseless violence.
This is evil targeting Jews because they're Jews. In twenty
twenty five, while the world still pretends that October seventh
didn't happen, and anti Semitism is just a surging coincidence,

(02:19):
it's not. And listen to this. Australian leaders are now
getting ready to start talking about tightening gun laws, as
if they needed to have stricter gun laws for what,
like the bad guys follow the gun laws. Wow, the
whole thing is just crazy. But this is what they
do each and every time, right, Whenever the bad guys
do something like this, they blame the gun instead of

(02:41):
the bad guy. Criminals and terrorists always follow laws, right
of course, sarcasm alert. Listen, you guys are my radio
Familia and miamigos Valdez VIPs. I love you people, but
that's like blaming the aro condules for making you gain
weight instead of you admitting that ate the whole pot. Right, Listen,

(03:03):
if you eat all the rice and chickpeas, that's on you,
it's not on the rice and chickpeas, and it's definitely
not on the pot. Now. Critics of this type of
policy of the lefts insanity. They're right to criticize. I
think you know, we've got years and years and years
of appeasing extremists. Bea whatever. Let's say, let's see be

(03:27):
at the border policy being soft on that being a
pro crime, progressive, that's coddling the criminals, like we see
in many of our big cities, letting the radicals slip through.
The Left seems to have an obsession with tolerance. They've
never met a terrorist, a criminal, any type of devian

(03:49):
that they didn't love. It's crazy. So now the intolerant right,
because they love tolerance, the intolerant is now fueling global hate,
plain and simple. The Israeli intelligence people have warned about
Iranian linked networks months ago. They were ignored, of course.

(04:10):
And here in America, President Trump lit the minora at
the White House and calling out the anti Semitism that's
been creeping into Congress. And all I could say is
this is a scary time to be a Jew, right
And the reality is they're going after the Jews because
they're small.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
Right.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
When it ran attacks the Jews, what do they say.
They say that they are the little Satan and that
the big Satan is the United States. So it's only
a matter of time before they come after us, and
they will, I tell you, interesting times, really is. I mean,
the conflict has always existed, but it seems to be exacerbated.

(04:53):
Excuse me anyway, I want to get into you know,
besides the squad and their pals are saying a few
other things. But before I get into the clips, I
want to thank God for our heroes, right, because it
was a hero, a bystander that tackled one of the
gunmen that was shooting at these people in Bondai Beach

(05:14):
in Sydney, Australia. I think we need more of that spirit,
willing to give of yourself.

Speaker 6 (05:19):
Right.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
The Bible says no greater love can a man show
than laying his life down for a friend. I believe that,
and we need more of these everyday people, everyday heroes
standing up, not waiting for the government to come and
save the day, because they're not going to come and
save the day anyway. Let's move on shifting gears on
the home front. President Trump just designated fentanyl a weapon

(05:42):
of mass destruction. But before I get into the clip
of President Trump and the fentanel and the mass destruction
and all that, I want you to hear something that
President Reagan said about the Jewish people. I think it's
appropriate for such a time.

Speaker 7 (05:57):
Hanaka is symbolic of the Jewish struggle to resist submission
to tyranny and to sustain its spiritual heritage. No people
have fought longer, struggled harder, or sacrificed more to survive,
to grow, and to live in freedom than the people
of Israel. We appeal to people everywhere to open their

(06:18):
hearts and to raise their voices in support of our
brothers and sisters. Together, let us pray that the warm
lights of Hanikah will spread the spirit of freedom and
reach comfort and sustain every person who is suffering.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Tonight, that's President Ronald Reagan. He says, no people have
suffered more than the Jewish people, and he prays for
their comfort, and I join him. While he's nearly departed,
President Reagan, the sentiment lives on. Absolutely, we have to
pray for the Jews. Sadly, there's been an increase, I'm

(06:57):
going to say, or an unmasking one or the other
of people that love to hate the Jews. They love it.
They go out of their way to make jokes, they
go out of their way to just be hateful. And
this is problematic because it's counterintuitive to Christianity. If that's

(07:21):
your worldview. If it's not, then it's not. But that
is mine, and I try to make it more of
my world view each day, and the last thing I
want to do is hate any people group right the
same way when I see something that think is over
the top. With a critique on radical Muslims, I think
you should be able to criticize radical Muslims all you want.

(07:44):
But I think sometimes people don't clarify between radical Muslims
and regular Muslims Muslims, and they think that every last
Muslim is a terrorist, that when push comes to shove,
they're going to use takia, this ability to lie in
the name of their faith, and that it's not the
religion of peace but a religion of war. And while
the theological roots of this may be true in how

(08:06):
Muhammad started this religion, far be it from me to
judge each and every person that claims to be inadherent
why And I'll tell you why, because I can't even
do that with Christianity. In Christianity, there's always going to
be people that missed the mark and hopefully ask for
forgiveness and try better in Jesus' name. However, maybe they don't,

(08:29):
maybe they get stuck in sin. The Bible's clear on
what we do with people like that if they're in
your church and you know you're part of your fellowship.
I guess eventually, after a good counsel, you kind of
disassociate yourselves the words of Christ. The read letter here
is forgive seven times seventy rits. I don't want to preach,
but what I'm trying to say is that's really our call.

(08:53):
Excommunication may be something that can be a thing, but
the main thing we're supposed to do is love. Love
conquers all it right, it's the It covers a multitude
of sin. Anyway, I bring that up because they needed
more love in Sydney, Australia. Sadly this attack brutal as

(09:14):
it was. I got a clip of somebody who was
there when the shooting happened, eye witness, a guy named Lad.
Listen to this. Vlad is a first responder, all right ahead,
play of tape.

Speaker 7 (09:28):
Bludge all over his.

Speaker 8 (09:32):
So I was with my son eight years old. I
pushed him to the ground and I fell on top
of him. And then there's another security you got Fromsajsa
was hitting the shoulder and fell on top of me.
The shooting was going on five minutes non stop.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
How many gunshots.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
Do you think will fir it in that fight?

Speaker 8 (09:54):
Probably fifty sixty gunshots.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
It was non stop, and the whole time you were
lying on top of your eight year son.

Speaker 8 (10:01):
And then I was trying to give it first day
to the guy because he was bleeding profusely, sir.

Speaker 4 (10:06):
Which guy?

Speaker 2 (10:06):
A guy?

Speaker 9 (10:06):
Next year?

Speaker 8 (10:07):
Security guy that was shot? Yes, And then once the
shooting stop, I went out tried to help people. But
I'll tell you one thing I got. The scandal's there,
and I'm gonna go home and I'm gonna light them
up because we must light up and keep the show going.
We're not afraid.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
And in this video he is lifting up his hand
to show the blood dripping from his hands. Now, I
want to clarify this guy didn't work there. He wasn't
a guard there. He happens to be a guard, had
left work, picked up his kid and went to this
festival and then try to save another guard while he
was there helping his kid out. Crazy story, right, I mean,

(10:46):
doing everything he can to save somebody's life. I can't help,
but A thank people that are heroes like this, and
B think to myself, we have to call out problems
when we see them. My issue is not with Muslims
or Islam per se. My issue is with these radicals.
And I've seen in the past, not very often, but

(11:06):
we've seen radical Christians who will go to abortion clinics
and blow them up. That's his radical I've seen. I
haven't seen them killing people because they won't convert, or
killing people because they think they're infidels. Now, it's true,
if you have a religion that truly calls for the
death of infidels in modern day and modern time, in
modern interpretation, then hereston we got a problem. I even dietho.

(11:30):
But I don't think that the majority of Muslims are
trying to kill me. I don't believe that for a second.
I do think the majority of radicalized Muslims are out
to kill everyone that disagrees with them. This is a
fundamental part of the faith. And not because I'm saying it,
or because I'm some sort of Islamic expert I'm not,

(11:51):
or not because I spoke with doctor Rudy Jasser or
Zudi Jasser excuse me, from the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. No,
but because I'm listening to this man, this man who
has taken to the streets of Sydney, Australia to speak
specifically about this stuff. He's a former Muslim himself. His

(12:14):
name is Armand Navabi, and he's walking through the streets
of La Kemba in Sydney, Australia, asking locals if it's
okay to criticize Islam, and he gets some very interesting responses,
very strong ones. I might add, listen to this, Hey.

Speaker 9 (12:29):
At some point there's going to be this is more
goal and every Muslim is goal. You think established Sharia
law on earth, okay, But when there is Sharia law
on earth, then somebody like me should be killed because
I am immortad. It's up to the iman. But un
Islamic law, it says that I should.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
Be just clarifying, he says. These words he's saying are
translated on the screen in front of me. He says
that I'm an apostate, right because he left Islam. The
man he's speaking to says kind of like, it's not
up to me, it's up to the council, the Sharia law,
the Islamic council.

Speaker 6 (13:03):
He killed.

Speaker 9 (13:04):
So you think that's okay in the Sharia law, that's
what I followed. But do you think that's fair for me. Like,
let's say you're right, I'm wrong. Do you think it's
fair to kill me because I got the conclusions right wrong?
If sharia a law states that, then it should be
fair for me. There's always a safe haven for you
under Sharia law.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
Hold on, excuse me. So now he's telling him to
his face. He says, listen, if Sharia law says we
got to kill you because you don't want to be
a Muslim anymore, then hey, that's what I signed up for.
I'm good for that. Now. I respect his ability, choice, desire,

(13:43):
whatever word you want to use, to follow Sharia law
to pursue his faith. However, the pursuit of my faith
doesn't get in his way, but the pursuit of his
faith ultimately will kill me as an infidel. Where I'm
going with this, Go ahead, play the tape.

Speaker 9 (14:03):
Oh, because you said Sharia law on everywhere on Earth,
so there's not going to be any safe haven for
me if it all earth, if Islam dominates.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
If this were a funny meme, this is where you'd
see Chris Tucker going, or yeah, I think it's Chris
Tucker right, Ah, gotcha. You have to see the guy's face.
He's like, Hm, you got a point there. It means
we are going to kill everybody. Hmmm. Doesn't even look
like the guy answering the questions is comfortable with that idea.
Go ahead, all of earth.

Speaker 9 (14:29):
That's the plan. And so where I would where would
be very safe haven in Islam? But that would be
by force, then, wouldn't it if if if, if my
only safe haven is by Islam, and if I don't
go back to Islam, punishment is death.

Speaker 8 (14:44):
So there's two choices, Slam all death.

Speaker 4 (14:46):
There's two choices, Islam or death. Wow, now that this
was an eye opening take right, Islam or death. That's
coming from a man on the street interview of a
guy who was mining his own business. Doesn't look like
a radical crazy person to me, just doing his shopping,
going about his day to day stuff. Stops to do

(15:07):
an interview with a guy with a camera, do a
man on a street interview, and the conclusion that he
comes to is there's two choices, Islam or death. This,
my friends, is something I've never heard posited to me
as often as I hear it now. This is something
in long form discussions with friends of mine from Syria

(15:29):
that are Islamic. I've arrived at that. They've always kind
of downplayed as well, you know what I mean, that's
the old way. We get along with everybody. We're peaceful.
To their credit, I've always gotten along with them, and
they've always been peaceful. But to hear this man say, well,
there's no two ways about it. Just as me as
a Christian, I believe that I am part of a
absolutist faith, one true God, Jesus the Christ, he has

(15:51):
the same right to believe what he believes. Only one
of us can truly be right, but only one of
us wants the other guy dead. I want to see
his soul in heaven living eternally with our Lord. By
the way, Wednesday, we're gonna have Jake Lang joining the show.
You might know Jake Lang. I interviewed him when he
was in jail for January sixth. He's back out. He's
teamed up with Valentina Gomez in Texas doing a march

(16:13):
over there against the what's he's calling the Islamification of
the West. So don't miss that. More to come straight ahead.
Brown University gets shut up Summer's suspecting that it's for
the same reasons. Don't go anywhere.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
I'm rich Feldes, this is America, this is America. He's brown,
he's bald, and he's breaking it down.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
Oh he's still has some what's his day, rich Felds?
All right, he goes, welcome back, by the way. That
woman that you hear there, that's Cardi B. And we
got a clip of Cardi B that we're gonna play
maybe to tomorrow. But I want to get into that now.
I also want to get into this attack that occurred
in Brown University. This is another why I didn't even

(17:01):
know if people were still in school this late in
the game. But yes, people are still in school taking
finals in their geopolitical course, foreign affairs, etc. Let me
tell you very very very scary time. That's all I
could say. I have a kid in college, actually only
one now. The other one's graduated, and I'm glad that
she's done. I can't wait for my little one to
be done. Because going to college was once a place

(17:24):
for parents to be so joyful to say, oh my gosh,
look at all the great things that have happened. My
kid's doing so good. And now it's kind of like, yeah,
I hope whatever they're studying, pays them enough to pay
all the bill here. And we've gone from that now
to a place where now we're like, oh, I just
hope they don't get hurt. I hope they're not attacked

(17:45):
in a campus brawl or shot at by some lunatic
on a campus. A'lla Charlie Kirk or I'll what's going
on here with this Ella Wood? I mean, just really
really wild, is the best way to put it.

Speaker 10 (18:00):
This colonel managed to establish any condition between the suspects
and the university. Why did the suspect talk at the university?

Speaker 11 (18:07):
So that's whole part of the investigations that we're conducted.
And again it's complex, and we want to make sure
that once we have at the appropriate time and give
the accurate information, we'll be able to provide that information
for you. And that answer, Gray John.

Speaker 12 (18:18):
Colonel, the person of interest is that the same individual
that we saw on the surveillance video released.

Speaker 11 (18:25):
So again I'm not going to speculate. I want to
be made sure that if I give you an answer,
is grounded on facts, and so we getting to that point,
but it's going to take time. Detective work is not
something that you can answer or solve within a minute.
It takes time, and we have to make sure that
we have the right evidence in order to prosecute somebody properly.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
So in the time since this attack has occurred, we've
literally seen a whole lot of nothing. Now, look, I'm
not here to beat up the Rhode Island Comps. I'm
just saying, not a lot of cameras, not a lot
of anything. Apparently this thing happened. There was some trans
Muslim kid that they said did it. Apparently he didn't
work out. There was another guy, I think, a white guy.

(19:04):
He didn't work out. They have all these people of interest,
but nothing yet. No, maybe that's part of the strategy.
But we live in the microwave society. We live in
the microwave generation. Something happens today. I want to know now.
I want to know asap what's going on. Why don't
we know who this killer is? Right? It took what
three days thirty three hours to get the Charlie Kirk killer.
A whole bunch of people think they made it up.

(19:26):
They don't believe it's that guy because people are dissatisfied
with whatever they get. Honestly, we live in a new
world in a world where people just no longer participate
in the facts or in the truth, because it's hard
to tell what the facts and the truth are. A
friend of mine sent me a video of a woman,
an older woman, cute, older lady, right older, like I

(19:49):
don't know, sixty something, with a little, tiny dog, and
she's in her driveway and the caption on the video
says woman gets caught on cold case kidnapping after twenty
five years. Two cops roll up county sheriffs wearing like
green fatigues and they're like, ma'am, you're so and so.
She's like, yeah, what's going on? She's a very sweet

(20:10):
Edie mcclerk type of person. And they're like, oh, it's
time for you to come with us, ma'am. And she's
all like, what what did I do? What's going on?
Blah blah blah, And they're like, well, the detectives will
be here in a moment. They'll let you know what's
going on. All I could think to myself was who
on the left is going to take this video and
turn it into an anti Ice video saying that those
guys are Ice and now they're arresting American citizens happens

(20:32):
all the time. We see that type of crazy happen
all the time. So I understand where this fatigue comes from,
the fake news fatigue. But at some point we have
to develop our own media literacy and say, hey, look,
I know everything I hear and see isn't real. But
the minute you throw out the baby with the bathwater,
when you say everything I see and hear is fake,

(20:54):
everything that's happening isn't really happening, then we've now abandoned reality.
It's a dystopian way of looking at the world, and
I'm going to say it's there's no end to it.
It's a bottomless pit. I argue this with my brother
all the time, and it always comes down to, all right,
you believe what you want to believe. I believe what
I want to believe. Well, that's always where it started, right.

(21:16):
We all have our right to be entitled to whatever
belief system we want. But it is a nice place
to live in when you could say good morning and
somebody doesn't say, what do you mean morning? How do
you know it's morning? How do you know this is
an illusion? How do you know it's not the cloud ced?
How do you know that that's not the camtrails making
it look like a hologram of the sun when it's
really nighttime. Because aliens are controlling everything, and the aliens

(21:39):
are funded by the Jews. That's the type of crazy
I hear a lot of so a lot of speculation
about President Trump making an announcement on Wednesday night from
the Oval Office, from the White House talking about I'm
going to presume the economy, foreign policy, and domestic policy,
but summer saying this is it. He's going to end

(22:00):
anounced the all the arrests. This is why Dan Bongino's
speculating that he might be stepping down, et cetera, et cetera,
et cetera. We'll know more about that tomorrow and Wednesday.
Bottom line is we have to live and traffic and
deal in the truth. We have to get to a
place where we can agree on what truth is because
we're not there. He used to be just a left

(22:22):
Now it's everybody in the party, outside of the party,
in the movement, outside of the movement. You've got people
that in one breath will tell you I think Hillary
Clinton was executed for her crimes along with John McCain,
who they call no name, along with George H. W. Bush,
who they call Timberwolf, along with the host of other people.
They were all executed at Guantanamo Camp X Ray gitm

(22:47):
Okay super So now we're doing all of that, it's
all done with a wink and a nod in order
to drain the swamp and eradicate the deep state. Yet
despite all that being done, you've got President Trump continually
in the the bullseye. Literally, like on the thirteenth of
July two years ago, or I should say last year.
It's not twenty six. Just yet they still try to

(23:08):
put him in jail. They're still trying to do it.
They're still going to try and I peach him in
a couple of months if they can get their way
in the next eleven months. So I don't know if
I buy that that story. I don't think I'm buying it.
Are you Let me know what you think. Leave a
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Melissa from West New York, New Jersey in the building,
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Speaker 13 (24:28):
Ahead, Hey, how are you? How you doing? I am wonderful,
Thank you, wonderful, wonderful, great show. I wanted to actually
discuss the emotional support animal being brought to the nightclub
in Miami.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
Oh, isn't that a crazy story? This person? You know,
not only did they bring the animal, but they snuck
the animal in to the nightclub and when they were
getting searched. The bouncer decided to say, hey, look, you
can't really have that here, and the gators snapped at
the bouncer. That's how this person go got caught.

Speaker 13 (25:02):
Yeah, that was kind of my whole point, Like, you know,
I think they're taking this emotional support thing a little
too far.

Speaker 6 (25:07):
Yeah you think, you know?

Speaker 13 (25:09):
And furthermore, how is this good for the animal?

Speaker 6 (25:11):
Honestly?

Speaker 13 (25:12):
Like there' supposed be an emotional support animal and you know,
of course, of course the alligator reacted the way that
it did. You know, it knows it's being snuck in.
But furthermore, a nightclub, you know, think about the that
could have happened with that it's nighttime, and what emotional
support did exactly did they think this guy needed at
night in lub right, where's the where's the sport here?

Speaker 4 (25:33):
Yeah? Well, I think you know, people who use these
emotional support animals, I find what they typically are doing
is they're lonely, right, and because they're lonely, they've decided
to say, you know what, I'm gonna bring this animal,
whether it's a dog or whatever animal they have, and
it makes them feel like I can conquer the world.

(25:54):
That's otherwise scary to me, and I understand the purpose
behind it, I don't know if I agree with it.
I've seen a lot of people bringing pets into places
we've never seen pets before, like grocery stores, on flights
with little you know, badges on their little harness saying
emotional support animal listen, you know, to each their own.
But it's just very new. I mean, being a kid

(26:15):
from the late seventies, I can't think of ever going
to the mall and seeing somebody walking around with a
dog on a leash or a cat on a leash
or something like that. But yet today there's people even
with other types of animals unleashes.

Speaker 13 (26:28):
Yeah, absolutely, but I think there's you know, it's supposed to,
you know, kind of like lower anxiety and things like that.
I just feel like the nightclub is a place that
maybe most people who have anxiety aren't prone to going.
So I'm kind of like, I'm kind of torn. I
feel like this is not a real emotional support animal.
Not downing the emotional support animal thing, but I feel
like this one, you know, I hope you get in

(26:50):
a little bit of trouble for this one, just you know,
for the sake of you know, exactly like you said,
people who really need it and stuff like that. And
I'm making like a Marco Reivent right.

Speaker 4 (26:58):
And again I don't know if if they were were
doing that or not. I mean, this could have been
a situation of somebody that was super anxious and you know,
really really felt like they needed this gator. To me,
it speaks more to the delicate mental health situation that
we have in our country where people, you know, think, man,

(27:18):
I can sneak my gator into the club because who
knows this might have, you know, and I'm trying to
play it out of my own mind here. Just imagine,
you know, you're like, man, I am, I'm staying home
on a Friday night because why I'm I can't get
a date. I don't know where to go. I don't
want to go to the bar. All right, I'm going
to go to a bar that has a little bit
of a dance floor, but I don't want to go
without you know, Gary the Gator. So I'm going to

(27:41):
put Gary the cater down my pants. And when the
bouncer thinks that I'm smuggling in a rifle, snappy, snap snap,
there goes the bouncer's finger. I mean, it just it's
a crazy story no matter how you look at it.
And I think this emotional fragility that we're seeing people
all too often, our younger generations, millennials and Gen X,
gen Z rather, uh, it's happening all too often, and

(28:04):
it's to me, it's it's very scary. Melissa.

Speaker 13 (28:07):
Absolutely, I'm a little scared too. Next to emotional support animals,
is going to be a pit bull or something like that. Again,
I'm thinking cuddly little support animals. And maybe that's my
fault for just, you know, being so narrow minded.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
But maybe we put we put a little leash on
a rat, right.

Speaker 13 (28:22):
Well, you know, why not scared a bunch of people off, now,
you know, you know, I mean maybe you feel like,
you know, they didn't need to defend themselves and any
something that's going to defend themselves and maybe a cuddly
little animal is not going to do that for them.
I'm trying to think outside the box here.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
Yeah, Well, speaking of the box. On other news, there's
people that likely could use emotional support animals, like the
people that are shooting up college campuses, yelling a lot
acbar and this guy shooting people up in Australia. This
to me, some people will say it's a manufactured media crisis.

(28:55):
I would say there's always been violence, But would you
agree or disagree that there's seems to be a little
bit more of this radical Islamic terrorist type of violence
going on globally.

Speaker 13 (29:08):
Yeah, I mean, I think maybe there's part of it
is like maybe we didn't hear about everything all the time,
and it's affecting us here, you know, in the United
States a little bit more, and we're more aware because
there's more focused on other things going on around the
world that maybe are bringing attention to just everything together.
It's just been it's just been Yeah, I mean, you know,

(29:29):
I mean I don't know how to go about like
the Brown shooting especially, you know, because there's always been,
you know, you know, a call for to do something
about the you know, the actual school shooting because the
affects our children and things like that, and so it's
always like, does it go to the mental health crisis,
does it go to two different things as a go
you know, I think that one touches so many different

(29:52):
subjects as well, too, like gun violence, you know, just
overall safety and for our children in our schools, and
you know, things like that. I just, you know, I
have to figure that it all comes together in one point.

Speaker 14 (30:04):
You know.

Speaker 13 (30:05):
I'm just being able to get a lot more coverage
for things I don't think that we did before.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
Yeah. Well, sadly, I think we're in a place where
people want to do harm where people should ought to
be safe. Right, So they're like, Hey, I'm going to
go while somebody's at college and start shooting, or I'm
going to go to a school and start shooting where
I know nobody else has a gun and I'm the
bad guy with the gun, and with any luck, there
won't be any good guys with guns to stop me,

(30:32):
and I'll be able to get my way. And it's unfortunate,
but it seems to be the trend. And I think
the only you know, I can't say there's a solution
to fixing the depravity of one's heart, but there is
a mitigating factor, which is add more people with guns,
because ultimately, you know, people do like to rob banks

(30:53):
because they keep a lot of money in them. But
when you have banks that have armed guards, there's that
much of a chance that you're going to rob that bank.
And if you have schools with more security or harden
these you know, these soft targets a little bit more,
you're going to see less of this type of thing.
Do we eradicate violence from the hearts of the evil? No,

(31:13):
that we can't do, But we can take a couple
of steps, I hope, and I think from you know,
being doing a little bit more to protect our most
vulnerable people, especially when they're at school unarmed.

Speaker 13 (31:25):
I can't say I disagree. And I also feel like,
you know, you know, a lot of it has to
do with like mental health, because it seems like, you know,
anywhere there's like good things or joy, it would appear
like that's where they want to target, like you mentioned.
But also it seems feel like you can't really narrow
down like outside of you know, maybe you know, maybe
looking it backround.

Speaker 6 (31:45):
And stuff like that.

Speaker 13 (31:45):
But a lot of times there hasn't been anybody who
has any kind of like mental health issues in their background.
Sometimes it has been, sometimes there has been. But I
can't disagree. I don't have a problem with guns. You know,
people again are definitely not going to think twice if
there's somewhere that they're so they know that they're done
and they know they're going to get You know, even
if they may be successful, they at least not going
to come out completely successful. They're not going to come

(32:07):
out on farmed at least.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
Yeah, makes sense to me. Now, Melissa, final question before
I let you go. What are you thinking of our
new bumper music and our new format? How are you
enjoying it?

Speaker 14 (32:19):
I like it.

Speaker 13 (32:20):
I like it. It's very upbeat, energetic, goes along with
your energy, and so I'm really enjoying it.

Speaker 4 (32:24):
Definitely outstanding. Well, God, bless you, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 13 (32:27):
Talk to you, Thank you, God bless nice thing to
you and thank you Merry Christmas.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Amen. Now I mean continue with your thoughts her cause
your reactions online, the voicemails, everything else. And I want
to go to al. Al has given us a call
from Sam Bernardino, California. Al let's go for it.

Speaker 6 (32:46):
Hey, rich Al Martinez Second one, California. And there's a
great story about during Crocodile Dungee that he brings a
crocodile into the bar and they won't let him do it.
So then Crocodile Dundee wants to prove that it's a
It so he puts the bar on the table and
he opens up the mouth and he makes it try
to close, and he won't do it. In the bar,

(33:08):
he goes, no, that's not gonna work. So then crocodile
duh what do you call it, grabs the Elliott opens
it up. He pulls out his torriso and he puts
it in the crocodile's mouth, and he still won't buy it.
So the bar t he goes, I'm sorry, that's not
gonna work. You gotta get out of here. And then

(33:30):
all of a sudden, crocodile then he stands up and
he goes, anybody in this bar want to try this?
And this kid in the back raises his hand. He says, I.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
Think we lost al I really wanted to see what
happened with crocodile Dundee and the choriso and everything else
that was going on. When this guy raised his hand,
I was really curious. All right, man, try to keep
it to a minute. I'm not sure if you get
more than a minute on this new system. You got
to get those comments, concigns. But I appreciate the call. Brother,

(34:01):
godspeed to you. Marry Christmas. What's that we got him back. Okay, great,
I'll go right ahead.

Speaker 14 (34:07):
Rich, to finish the joke. Uh cuarking on the ask
for volunteer. Guy in the back raises his hand. He says,
I'll do it, but if you promise not to hit
me on top of the head.

Speaker 6 (34:20):
Aloha and man.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
Well, Aloha and malaca MICKI to you too, al And
I know I messed that up. I'm no Elvis, but
thank you brother Mahaalo to you. Merry Christmas for at
least Navidad. I'm glad we're able to get him back.
And I got a couple more stories for you. Don't
go anywhere.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
This is America.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
to speak with Rich Valdes.

Speaker 6 (34:55):
Oh, very good, Rich.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
The honor is all yours. Conservative talk with a dash
of sofrito. Now here's Rich Valdez, all right, and he goes,
welcome back. It's Rich valdesk keeping your company over here.
And I want to bring you some somber news. Somber
to many Meadhead from the famous All in the Family show.

(35:21):
I used to watch that growing up. Archie Bunker Meathead
says that you know he was always at odds with
Archie bunker Well, the actor portraying Meathead, was murdered. Rob
Reiner murdered, and we have a report from Fox News.
I want you to listen to this.

Speaker 12 (35:38):
A short while ago, we got that update from the
Los Angeles District Attorney and the police chief who said,
the deaths of Robin Michelle Reiner here are quote heartbreaking
and deeply personal for this entire city. And today the
officials announced charges against the Reiners son, Neck.

Speaker 15 (35:56):
These charges will be two counts of first degree murder
with a special circumstance of multiple murders. He also fauses
a special allegation that he personally used a dangerous and
deadly weapon, that being a.

Speaker 12 (36:11):
Knife and disturbing. New details have been emerging about what
happened in the hours before police say the Hollywood icon
and his wife were killed in their home. According to TMZ,
Rob Michelle and Nick Reiner attended comedian Conan O'Brien's holiday
party the night before the couple was found, where Nick,
their son, was reportedly acting strangely and later got into

(36:34):
an argument with his dad. TMZ also reporting the thirty
two year old checked into a Santa Monica Hotel around
four am on Sunday, and is said to have left
blood on the bed and in the shower, and photos
show Nick Reiner being arrested about fifteen miles from the
crime scene near downtown LA some six hours after his

(36:54):
parents' bodies were found, reportedly with multiple stab wounds. Reiner
is being represented by celebrity attorney Alan Jackson, who was
spotted entering the family's property today. Jackson says his client,
who has a history of drug abuse and mental illness,
was waiting to be medically cleared to be transferred to
court to face charges. Meanwhile, tributes to Reiner continued to

(37:18):
pour in from those who worked with him over his
five decades in Hollywood.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
Rob was like a.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
Father to me.

Speaker 12 (37:25):
Everything I have is because of Rob Reiner.

Speaker 4 (37:27):
It's just a sad, shocking day.

Speaker 7 (37:29):
The making of.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
That movie was one of the best experiences that I've
ever had on a set.

Speaker 7 (37:37):
He was so fun.

Speaker 5 (37:39):
Rob literally saved my career and really put me back
on track in a way that was so important and
rewarding in my life.

Speaker 12 (37:50):
And Nick Reiner faces life in prison with auparole or
the death sentence here in California.

Speaker 4 (37:56):
Brett Again, that's a report from Fox News, and you
heard the voices there of fellow actors like James Woods
and Kevin Bacon and others that you know, pouring out
their support for Rob Reiner. And I was never a
big fan other than his work in Archie Bunker. And again,

(38:19):
my fandom for Archie Bunker was really for Carol O'Connor.
And that's not to slight this man. I mean, nobody
deserves to die. I'm just, you know, saying I'm not
very incredibly knowledgeable on mister Reiner's career other than I
know he's always been rather antagonistic towards Republicans, and that's
that's what I know him for as being a Hollywood liberal.

(38:42):
But the bigger issue here, I think is that he
was murdered by his son. His wife was murdered by
her son, and these bodies were found by their surviving daughter.
Talk about an absolute disaster, absolute nightmare, horror, you know,

(39:04):
right before the first night of Hanukkah, right on Christmas.
I mean, just I have no worries other than that,
young ladies in my prayers. I think all of America
needs to be in all of our prayers right now.
For mental health and the issues that people are facing.
I don't know if it's drug addiction or what, but

(39:24):
whatever it is, we've got to get a handle on things.
And look, we can't stop evil. I always remind myself
of that. It's a sad truth, right, evil can't be stopped.
But I think we can try to let our light
shine enough to maybe affect some of those people in
a positive way. On a lighter note, Rob Reiner was obviously,

(39:49):
you know, famous for this particular role of playing Mike Stivick,
also known as Meathead on the show All in the Family.
He didn't like it. He didn't like the name Meathead.
He didn't like it in this show, and apparently he
didn't like it in real life, which I think is
kind of like a art imitating life type of thing.
That's pretty funny, right. It adds a little bit of

(40:10):
humor to this. And he talked about how he'd been
typecast by this one famous role that he'd played where
he is Meethead and he was meeting the Queen of
the Princess of England at the time, and they were like,
hey me, Dad, and I thought that was pretty funny.
Listen to this.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
We went to a royal premiere when Harry I could
win the Nobel Prize and would say, Meathead wins Nobel.
We went to a royal premiere when Harry Metsallion in
London and we're walking up this red carpet to me
Princess Diana, and I got I got meat heeaded a
couple of times with a with a with a British accent.
Hey Meadhead, as you go with Meathead, you know it's
a Copney accent.

Speaker 10 (40:49):
They meet it.

Speaker 4 (40:52):
You can't tell me that's not funny, that's hysterical. Hey, hey, madhead, Maidhead,
you say, let me go ahead play to say.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
Most memory roles in television history, a kind that most
actors would kill for. But the name doesn't have much
to do with who he is today.

Speaker 10 (41:08):
It's like dopy to me. Now, it's like dopy. I mean,
it's like it's so far away from who I am
that I find it odd. It's just odd, I mean,
And yet I understand people have that association with me
so that they're gonna call me that, But I mean,
it is so far away from who I am.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
And who he is is one of the most powerful
men in Hollywood, A forty six year old studio books.
He lives comfortably with his second wife, photographer Michelle Singer,
and their two sons in a house that once belonged
to Henry Fonda. His films have ranged from mock rock
documentaries to court room dramas, from fairy tale to romantic comedy.

(41:47):
But if there's a trademark to a Reiner film, it's
a main character who usually has something in common with
Rob Reiner.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
So again, that's the clip from sixty Minutes. That's, by
the way, from sixty Minutes. In nineteen ninety four. They
mentioned he was forty six years old. In fact, Rob
Reiner was seventy eight years old at the time of
his murder on Sunday. And it's a shame to see,
obviously anybody get killed, especially with their wife, especially by

(42:17):
their own son, especially found by their daughter. I mean,
just again, the whole thing is horrific. And I don't
have a lot of words, and it's rare that I
don't have words, but this is one of those things.
I don't wish this on the people that I dislike,
I don't wish it on my enemies, I don't wish
on anybody. It's a horrible thing. I'm sorry that it
happened to him, and I pray it doesn't happen to

(42:39):
anybody else. But it does shed a light on what
we face. And President Trump actually waited on this, and
he took some heat for his comments as well. Check
this out.

Speaker 7 (42:56):
She was a number of Republicans have denounced your statement
on True Social after the murder of Rob Reiner.

Speaker 9 (43:03):
Do you stand by that post?

Speaker 16 (43:04):
Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He
was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.
He said he liked he knew it was false effect.
It's the exact opposite that I was a friend of Russia,
controlled by Russia. You know, it was the Russia hoax.
He was one of the people behind it. I think
he heard himself in career wise, he became like a

(43:25):
deranged person Trump derangement syndrome. So I was not a
fan of Rob Reiner at all, in any way, shape
or form. I thought he was very bad for our country.

Speaker 6 (43:34):
Yeah, President, a number of Republics.

Speaker 4 (43:39):
So that's President Trump said. I think it was a
matter of fact. I think some people are freaking out
about what he said. And I guess, uh, you know,
call me the biased part of the minority. I always
thought I was in the majority. But I think if
you are respectful, I don't think he was disrespectful in
what he said. I think he could have turned on

(44:02):
some theatrics. Sure do I think he should have. No,
I think he was very matter of fact. Number one,
this was not a press conference about Rob Reiner. He
answered the question, all right. He was there talking about
a bunch of different things. And obviously it's a press conference,
so it's wide ranging. But ultimately, you know they're saying
his truth social post was a little rough, and I'll

(44:25):
read it to you. Maybe it was. You'd be the judge,
he says. And I'll do this in my Trump voice.
And again, I'm not a professional Trump impersonator, but I
have a good time doing a little bit of Trump.
I try to practice the menderisms. And a very sad
thing happened in Hollywood last night. Rob Reiner, a tortured

(44:46):
and struggling but once very talented movie director and comedy star,
has passed away together with his wife Michelle, reportedly due
to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding
and uncurable affliction. They mind crippling disease as Trump derangement syndrome,
sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have

(45:08):
driven people crazy by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump,
with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump
administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with
the golden Age of America upon us perhaps like never before.
May Rob and Michelle rest in peace. Now, this is

(45:32):
what they're asking the question about. I think his answer
here was a lot more respectful. Would I have put
out this tweet? Likely not that way. I think the
first part and the end part are good. It's the

(45:53):
middle that I think is a little bit tough. When
he goes into the TDS. You know, I might have
said things like, you know, it's unfortunate what happened to him,
despite him being a very vocal critic of mine and
me not being a fan of his. I don't wish
it's not anyone, you know, kind of what I did say.
But that doesn't mean that Trump is now somehow unworthy

(46:14):
of anything. He can't be president. He's not a good
human being, none of those things. I mean, if anybody's
going to give him. Some counsel, maybe it's Pastor Paul White,
that might say, you know, President Trump, we want to
operate within the fruit of the spirit, love, kindness, gentleness, meekness. Right,
these are challenges for me too, so I relate on

(46:34):
that front. But do I think that this is something
to stop the presses? Listen to what President Trump said.

Speaker 16 (46:42):
Now.

Speaker 4 (46:43):
Meanwhile, we've got so many interesting things going on with
the with the what's the word blockade, that's the word,
the blockade of the Maduro ship, and so many other
things that are happening right, Progress, albeit extremely slow, I think,
being made with Russia and Ukraine, and maybe it's you know,

(47:07):
progress by President Trump's definition, maybe not by everybody else's.
I will conceive that point too. I think that little
by little we're seeing Zelenski come to reality with the
fact that this is a war that likely cannot be won.
I have been of the opinion that Ukraine should give
it all they've got and we should support them, and

(47:29):
we did. Write President Trump sold them all the weapons
that they needed. I think they have everything they need.
The problem is Russia has support and money and apparently
an unending supply of men, and I think that when
it comes to attrition, they win the war. So I
don't know where this ends. If anybody thinks that we're

(47:52):
going to eliminate Russia, I don't think that's happening. If
anybody thinks that we're going to dethrone Putin, it doesn't
seem that's gonna happen. You know, at first I thought
maybe Zelenski would send in his equivalent of Sealed Team
six and try and take out the president. That didn't happen.
So what is the strategy? Doesn't seem like there is one.

(48:14):
Looks like the upper hand little by little is being
gained by President Putin, President Zelenski losing ground. At some point.
You've got to make a deal, right, this is a
deal that they're trying to make. You can make the
deal in your favor when you have hand, as they
say in Seinfeld, When you don't have hand, you know
you don't have especially the upper hand. When does My

(48:37):
dad would say that Chabat, you're screwed. So what are
you gonna do? You got no choice but to make
a deal. But it seems like the Europeans are doubling down,
saying no, we're with Zelenski. Then they're saying, no, we're
not with Zelenski. You know, we're kind of signaling that
they'd want to pull out. Listen, I think at the
end of the day, and I don't know how long

(48:57):
this day is, but we've got to get to the
end of it soon. The killing has to stop. The
killing has to stop, and whatever it is that reasonably
makes sense to get there, we got to get there.
I know that's easy for me to say and not
to enact. I get that, but we'll get an update
on that. I'm going to invite General Blaine Holt to
join the program, have him call in, and I've been

(49:20):
in touch with him, I just haven't had him on
the show. He's been busy doing a little traveling and whatnot.
But I want to get his intake on that. As
the former Deputy Representative to NATO and Air Force General,
he always has a unique insight for that region of
the world. And again, rip to Carl, excuse me, Rob
Reiner who was murdered by his son, and his wife

(49:43):
who was murdered by her son, and to the young
woman their daughter who found their bodies absolutely horrible, and
my condolences and prayers are with the family. Now, straight ahead,
I want to talk about the state of the media.
Just a couple of articles I saw that are pretty interesting.

(50:04):
It's some news that came out about a deal with
actually two deals that were made by a big company,
and a couple of Christmas traditions. As we get closer
and closer to at least now, I want to share
some of that with you as well. So keep it
locked right here, folks, it's Rich Valdez. Don't go anywhere.

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All right. I mean he goes welcome back, welcome back,
welcome back. That's like a what's that welcome back?

Speaker 10 (50:55):
Donter?

Speaker 4 (50:56):
Hey, I like this song, but I feel like it's
a little long. Me I get. Let's start bringing that
one down. Here we go, see how that works.

Speaker 12 (51:05):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (51:06):
So I want to get into some of its discussion
here about the media, right I saw this article. It
was a couple of months old, but it popped up
in my feed and let me see if I could
find it right now on my desktop very quickly. I
doubt I can. I probably close it whenever I need
something it's it's always because I've opened it and then

(51:26):
I've closed it. But it was in Fortune magazine. And
look at this. Here we go broadcast TV in no
man's land as younger viewers flocked to streaming and boomers
turn to Fox News. So apparently TV networks are doing
so badly that there's not much left for them to do. Now,

(51:49):
this is a very interesting take, right, because I'm come
you know, I come from radio, excuse me. And in radio,
the old joke is radio is dying, Radio is dying,
and the answer is always, you know, the death of
radio came when TV started. And guess what Radio is

(52:11):
still around. It's still alive and well despite not going
I mean it went HD, but that didn't make a difference.
It went satellite. That made some difference, but no major difference. Right.
The reality is AM radio FM radio, getting in your
car and turning on that little box for free that
plays commercials and talk and music. That little thing still

(52:32):
works today like it did one hundred years ago, and
that's fantastic. Radio is terrific. However, TV is a little different,
and the saving grace of radio is the fact that
you could hear it in your car and that you
can bring small portable radios in different places. Right, you
can just take it with you. You hear lots of

(52:53):
people talking about when I was a kid listen to
ball games on a small transistor radio. Now, what's interesting
about all this? Excuse me? What's interesting about all this
is that radio also is pairing down in a certain way,
while it's also exploding exponentially in other areas. So, for example,

(53:16):
most radio companies have switched from calling themselves radio to
calling themselves audio. I'll start with a company called radio
dot com, right, Odyssey. I used to work for Odissey
WPHT twelve ten, Philadelphia. They changed their main logo. They
got rid of their website, radio dot com. They didn't

(53:37):
want it anymore. Radio dot com was their website, and
they changed it to audisse Au dac y Right. Why
They explained that at the time, but had something to
do with audio. And that's the new name of the company, Odyssey. Now,

(53:58):
I don't think that was in a great marketing plan.
I think radio dot com is a better way because, ultimately,
my opinion, whether you're watching TV on your cell phone,
on your iPad, through a streaming television, through cable or
through broadcast. Everybody pretty much says they're watching TV. I

(54:22):
think even the young people. Now, if you're very very young,
you might say I saw it on TikTok, or I
saw it online, or I don't know, I saw right,
because maybe they don't give attribution the same way. But
for the most part, it's TV and radio. Whether it's

(54:43):
podcast or streaming or those things, is still radio, I believe. Now.
I understand that there's a lot of people that take
exception to podcasting and digital and streaming and things like that.
I understand that has a lot to do with one's
age and the facility of use, right, the ease of use.

(55:03):
Many people like me. You get in the car your radio.
You got six preset stations, once for traffic and weather,
once for the music you like, one's for your favorite
talk station, once for your second favorite talk station, right,
and so on and so forth. I get that, and
I love that, and I do the same thing. What
is different now? I'm gonna tell you about a couple

(55:25):
of conversations I've recently had with some dear friends, old
radio friends, colleagues of mine, and one of them works
for a large company, and I guess I could say
and right, fox News Radio And he said, oh, you know,
we're called Fox News Audio now. And I said, oh, okay,

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Well what are you doing over at Fox News Audio
these days? And he said, Oh, we're doing a lot
of YouTube videos. And I thought, huh, that's interesting. So
the radio division of the biggest cable news player in
America is doing a lot of YouTube videos. Now, does
this mean that they're missing the mark? Does this mean

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that they're losing money? I'd say no on both accounts.
What I'd say is that it means that they've figured
out that listening habits of many listeners have changed. It
doesn't mean all and it doesn't mean it's permanent, and
it doesn't mean it's a zero sum game either. That

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doesn't mean people are gonna stop listening to their preset
stations in their car, but it does mean that some might,
and that some might be me. I can tell you
this because there's a few radio shows that I like. Right.
I've had him on the show before, Mark Simone. He's
a New York radio host, local host WR seven ten AM.

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I like Mark Simone's show when I can I listen
to it. I like Levin's show when I can I
listen to that, But I can tell you the truth
that I don't listen to either of them on my
car radio. But I listen to both of them through

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my car radio by pressing the button on the side
of my iPhone and saying, Siri play seven to ten
WOR or Siri play one oh five point nine WML
to listen to Mark Levin. And I find that's so

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easy for me. It goes right through because my phone's
already connected via Bluetooth, and I get the digital clear
signal without the little bit of static. Now, I used
to be a fan of the static that goes with
the AM radio. You know, it's a little bit. It
just sounds radio ish if you pass you know, certain
big concrete buildies. Yeah, you know, it's annoying, but you

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get used to that, right because it's it's a I'm radio.
But when that doesn't happen, I'm old enough to remember
when I used to drive through the Lincoln Tunnel, I
would lose radio. Now I don't why, because of streaming
and things like that, And of course now they've put
different antennas and whatnot repeaters down there. So I bring

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all that up to say that while people are going
to continue listening to actual physical radios, whether it's in
their car and their house or in their job, there
are still entire industries where people are creating digital radios
so that people can listen to digital radio programs like

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this one and others where they can hear it a
when they want to, or B if it's streamed online,
they can do that. That's Part A now Part B video.
It came as no surprise to me that my other
friend from a big major market talk radio station told

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me that they had launched a big initiative to start
putting every host you know on TV if you will,
or on camera, you know, think of the Russia Limbaudito
cam for every single radio show. And it did so
well that they pulled the plug on it. And they
only they stopped live streaming every show on video because

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they found that it was cannibalizing their live stream. And
I thought to myself, there's two ways of looking at
that problem. A as a problem and B as an opportunity.
Number One, if you have a device that is becoming
increasingly easy to use to listen to things, right, I

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have a radio in my kitchen, and I have a
radio in my car. If I'm in my backyard, I
cannot hear the radio unless I get a sm all
one and bring it outside one of my cool see
crane radios. Now, if I don't do that, or if
the battery's not going right or whatever, I'm done right.

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But I can always play it on my phone, play
it on the iPad, that type of thing. Right. Plus
there's Alexa, So these things are are real. Now. The
station that I'm talking about, this major market station, they
decided to stop using their you know, one hundred percent
live stream of every show and going with just using

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that video to promote clips online through social media so
that people would listen to the show. Fine, and I
think in their opinion, they figured, we are fixing the
problem of people not live streaming us or tuning in
live on radio. But the reality is it wasn't cannibalizing it.

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It was just adapting to the updated usage patterns of
many listeners. And when you're a young radio host like me,
I have to look at the trends in the future.
I have to realize that the fact that I don't
put myself on YouTube every day, or my network or
my former network doesn't put me on YouTube is something

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that will come back and bite me in the long run.
And that's where you know, constructing or crafting a contract
that allows you to do all of those things is
very important for the longevity of your own career and
for the continued messaging of you through your platform. So

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that being said, listen to this. There is some news
today or yesterday or whatever. It was the fourth largest
cable company in the United States, Newsmax Television. They just
re signed a deal with YouTube. YouTube TV the premium

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the subscription part of YouTube where you can watch premium channels.
It's almost like Amazon Prime right again, Amazon Prime, just
look at Amazon Prime started out as something you paid
for every month so you can have cheap shipping. Then
it had Prime Video. Now it's a whole thing where
they've launched their own TV shows, it's their own network,
they have their own movies. You've got Apple TV doing

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the same thing. And now another big deal. Let me
see if I could find this one. This one's even better. iHeartMedia.
So that's iHeart used to be iHeartRadio, right and they
still have iHeartRadio as a brand, but iHeartMedia includes their
podcast division, their streaming division, and now their video podcast division.

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And who are they partnering with? Netflix? Probably the biggest
streaming video company in the world. So now iHeartMedia is
now partnering with Netflix for video podcast distribution. How about that?
iHeartMedia is entered into an exclusive video podcasting partnership with
Netflix for some fifteen of its video podcasts to be

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available on Netflix in early twenty twenty six. How's that?
So the millions or I should say tens of millions right,
Roku tv has something like ninety million subscribers, Netflix buries them.
So with Netflix being the biggest fish in the pond

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and iHeart now scoring their video podcasts there, do you
think Iheart's sitting back going I wonder what's gonna happen
to the ratings on radio? I wonder what's gonna happen
to people streaming the audio? No, of course not. They're
doing this because they realize that there's a need for
people who want to watch people who are already in

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the Netflix ecosystem that are like, hey, I'd like to
watch some iHeart. Right, the other day, I was listening
to an iHeart talk radio show through Roku tv just
because I happened to be watching TV, I hit the
back button, I saw the ROCUD channel. I went out
over to the iHeart, and I just it was convenient,
it was there, and it was easy, and I listened

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to what I wanted to listen to. So I say
that to say I am not an early adopter or
some sort of techy young guy, I'm really not. I'm
a very old soul for a young guy that loves
talk radio. But I realize that there are generations coming
behind me, and there are generations that have already come

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that are quicker to adopt than I am, and they
are very apt when it comes to streaming digital when
it comes to doing that. In fact, the term cord
cutter not even used anymore. But most people I know,
I don't know about you, and maybe it's a good
call on topic for tomorrow's show. Most people I know

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don't even pay a cable bill anymore. They pay three
or four subscriptions on streaming services like Hulu or Netflix
or Amazon Prime or some other streaming service that they use,
and that's it. And they probably spend forty fifty or
sixty dollars a month as opposed to the one hundred
or one hundred and twenty one hundred and sixty dollars

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a month they used to spend on their optimum TV
or their spectrum cable, And that, to me is the
way the future is going to go. Why Because every
time you get a new update on your phone, it's
to accommodate more Internet. The video ability has taken over.
Instagram was once an app that sold for a billion

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bucks when I first sold because it was for photo sharing.
People still put photos on Instagram, but it's dominated by
video YouTube dominated by video. Have you been on Facebook lately?
Dominated by video? Why? Because we can all consume and
process massive amounts of video at the same time without

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buffering issues anymore. So now the question becomes who's watching TV?
I watched my news on my iPad. I rarely even
watch the TV in my living room. And again, I'm
just saying that that happens to be my life. So
I think that that is indicative of a shift, not
one that's permanent. I mean it's permanent, but not one

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that is all encompassing. It doesn't mean that people are
going to give up on TV entirely, and it doesn't
mean that people are going to give up on radio entirely.
I would not want that or expect that, but it
does mean there are a lot of people that are
looking for new ways to consume, just like electric cars.
Who thought that that was going to be a thing.
Now most of you know somebody, at least one somebody

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that has a Tesla, that has a Rivian that has
an electric Beamer or one of the other electric cars.
So that being said, we are going to be navigating
those waters as well and launching a streaming show. And
I'm excited to talk about it more as we get
closer and closer to our launch, which will be in

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early twenty twenty six. But these are the reasons why.
Because of the iHeartMedia partnerships with Netflix, because of the
Newsmax partnership with YouTube TV, one of their biggest carriage deals,
not even a TV network, right, So that is the future.

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A cable company sees the light and says, hey, we're
not talking about running this through coactual cable anymore. We're
talking about streaming this over the internet with the giant
in streaming YouTube TV. So I just wanted to bring
that up because all of us need to be aware
of the coming changing trends in how we consume our news, information, entertainment,

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and honestly, how we get together each night for our
town hall conversation. So that's all I've got for now.
I'll share the Christmas traditions with you on the next episode.
And of course I bid you ado by saying that
we have to stand for something. If we stand for nothing,
will fall for anything. And the only thing necessary for
evil to triumph is for good people like you to

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sit there and do nothing. I start approxima, Take care,
good night, and God bless you America. I'm Rich Valdez.

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