Minnesota loses, Moore, Marriage

On Tuesday, Rich looks at the Trump Administration's victory in Minnesota with a federal appeals court siding with ICE's use of force against agitators, following President Trump's phone calls with Governor Walz and Mayor Frey. Then, former White House Economist Steve Moore weighs in on Trump's economic speech in Iowa. Plus, a special "Dear Richie" advice segment where Rich gives unsolicited advice (on marriage) that he says he's not qualified to offer.

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

RichValdes.com

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Rich Veldees is with us former Christian Administration official. You
work for Chris christie've been in policies on a lot
of public service stuff.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Rich Valdez calumnist now with the Washington Times.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
This is America, Richiev.

Speaker 4 (00:20):
You're on the air with a nation Nation with America.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
With your host, Rich Valdez.

Speaker 5 (00:31):
What's up America?

Speaker 3 (00:33):
I am Rich Valdes Valdez and then asked at Rich
Valdeest on all of the social media, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.
It's a blessing and a privilege to be here with
you this Tuesday night. And I want to, of course
invite you to join us in our late night national
town hall conversation eight seven seven. What is the number
eight seven seven validest number one eight seven seven VALDEZK

(00:56):
one And I'm looking forward to your calls. I've had
the pleasure of talking with Pat in Arizona, Tony and
Canada and a few other great people. Job John Jacob
Jingiol Himmerschmid from Twitter, he calls in. We had a
lot of good people have called it, and many more
that I just can't think of at the top of
my head. But I want to say that it seems

(01:18):
like the page is turning in Minnesota. Right, Well, what
do you mean by that, Well, it seems like the fight,
the fight is I don't know if it's I'm gonna
say it's over, but it seems to have definitely changed.
Right the back and forth with Mayor Freyfry and of
course and Tim Walls ed Trompito picked up the phone,

(01:41):
got on the phone with him and said, hey, let's talk,
and talking they did. Now, I did not have a
chance to speak with President Trump, but my buddy, my
former colleague from WABC Radio New York City, Sid Rosenberg,
did and I got a clip of that, and it's
it's a really good conversation.

Speaker 5 (02:01):
Stick with me here, don't go anywhere. Check this out.

Speaker 6 (02:03):
But I had two very good talks. I had Jacob
Pry and I had Governor Waltz, And I mean, they
were great calls. So let's see how they reported. But
they were very nice calls, very respectful.

Speaker 7 (02:16):
So is there a possibility President Trump of some type
of compromise. I read that some of the guard we
leave in the state of Minnesota, some type of compromise
to I guess make those guys feel like they're in charge.
God help us.

Speaker 6 (02:30):
Yeah, well, well we're I think so, yeah, I mean
I think so what we need is there criminals. You know,
they have criminals, and all I said, just give us
your criminals. And if you give us the criminals, it
all goes away. They're there to pick up murders. I
don't know if you saw it, but it was a
couple of days ago now and said crime is the
lowest in the history of our country, the recorded history

(02:51):
of our country. That's a big statement. That's because of us.
That's because we go into cities and towns. Usually were embraced.
Sometimes we're not.

Speaker 8 (02:59):
Chicago goes like.

Speaker 6 (03:00):
Pulling Keeeth with Pritzker and with the mayor, the mayor
of Chicago, low Iq person and usually we're embraced, but
sometimes we're not. And when we're not, it just makes
it harder.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
It just makes it harder.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Again, that's President trump ed Trompito than all this magnus
the forty fifth, forty seventh president of these United States.
El Trumpito on with sid Rosenberg on the WBC and
he says it was a good call. Listen and this
is again another example of Trump negotiating. Right, So Trump says, okay,
let me get the criminals.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
No, go pound salt. Oh okay, I'll go pound salt.
Send in Gregory Bovino, send in the lean, green board
tack machine.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Right, and they send in these really tough embrace and
they they do what they gotta do, and they're saying no, no,
no mas, no mos. Right now, listen, you have to
be willing to play hardball when you negotiate. You have
to be willing to walk away from the table and
actually walk away from the table. That's a reality. So

(04:06):
all I can say to that is good for Trump.
Seems like a win to me.

Speaker 9 (04:10):
Right.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
What I hear him saying is they've agreed we'll give
you the criminals. Just get out, get out. We'll give
you the criminals.

Speaker 9 (04:18):
Now.

Speaker 5 (04:18):
If that's true, that's great. Now.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
There's other reports saying that Greg Bovino, the head of
Border Patrol, that he was asked to step aside, demoted,
relieved of command.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
I don't think any of that's true.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
I can almost guarantee you that Greg Bovino is gonna
go somewhere else and continue this good cop, bad cop
that he's playing with Tom Homan.

Speaker 8 (04:41):
Right.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
To me, it seems like this is a win for
the Trump administration. But of course Rachel Maddow she says, no,
it's not. And I'll get to her in a second.
But I just wanted to say that there's some beef
saying that there's a little bit of beef between Christy
nome Ptel even Scott Bessen not being on the same page.

(05:06):
And this is reported by town hall dot com by
Matt Vespa, that they're not on the same page as
the rest of the administration, and those things happen. They
shouldn't happen, but they do. I mean, I worked in government.
There were times where you know, half the team was
going this way to the other half was going that

(05:27):
way very few times, very few times. But it happens,
happens in many organizations. Has nothing to do with government,
per se. Right, I've worked in radio organizations where you've had,
you know, similar shifts. Sometimes all you need is one
or two people. You could have the entire organization pulling

(05:48):
in one direction of one or two people that are
able to amass the power or the gain the influence
through like a CEO position or some other leadership role
and they can start to balance, you know, and shift
the balance of power. That's just that's the dynamic of power.
That's how it works. But anyway, this is reported by

(06:14):
Breaking nine to one one on Twitter. Gregory Bovino removed
from his role as Border Patrol Commander at Large and
this is let me see, Oh here we go. DHS
Secretary Christy Nome and Corey Lewindowinski at risk of losing
their jobs, as being reported by the Atlantic. Then you

(06:37):
have he's relieved of his role as commander at large,
but not as chief of El Centro sector. Jenny Tare
reported that on Twitter, Jenny Tair is actually a good
reporter from the New York Post. I don't know if
she's at New euro Post anymore, but I know that
she was at New York Post before and I have

(06:59):
followed her work. Let's see who else we got here
relieved of command? So again, I don't know all of this.

Speaker 5 (07:09):
Here.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Ali Bradley TV was reporting that one, I do know
Tom Holman's going in there and what a direct line
to the president. And Jacob frey Fry says okay, and
so does Tim Wall. So are they losing? Is the
Trump team losing and are the bad guys winning? Well,

(07:31):
Rachel Maddow says that is the case. She claims that
the bad guys are winning her team. You know, the
bad guys. I say they're the bad guys because they're
the ones that are, you know, protecting criminals, harboring criminals,
not allowing ICE to deport people. But here's what she

(07:51):
had to say on ms NOW, the new name of MSNBC,
last night on her show, Check this Out.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
They went big with this on their own terms. Nobody
asked for this, Nobody put them up to it. They
decided to launch this in order to show off what
they could do, and now they are in full retreat
with it being viewed both as a practical debacle and
a moral debacle, and they are paying a considerable political
price for it. If you were one of millions of

(08:19):
Americans who protested Ice out of Minneapolis, you should know
tonight you are winning this thing and is worth understanding
the power of what you have done.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Well, the power of what you've done. I guess she
didn't hear what the appeals court had to say, because
the appeals court said no Ice is free to detain,
arrest Pepper spray Minnesota agitators. The Appeals Court raised concerns
that the injunction that was filed functioned as a de

(08:51):
facto nationwide universal injunction by extending protections beyond the six
named plaintiffs to a broad, uncertified class future protesters and observers.

Speaker 8 (09:02):
Right.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
That was what we talked about.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
When we spoke last with with our legal eagle as
I'm gonna call her, Sarah partial Perry, who really explained
that to us and explain it really well. And maybe
we should get back with her to see you, you know,
get an update with her. I've been just so caught

(09:25):
up in the news lately, I haven't really put too
many guests on the radar. But we are going to
speak with Steve Moore, by the way, Steve Moore, who
is an economist to Ronald Reagan, economist to Donald Trump
both of their presidencies. He'll be joining us to give
us his reaction to President Trump's speech in Iowa today.
But I wanted to do just a little bit on

(09:45):
this Minnesota stuff because I know you're all Minnesota out
right now. But that was it, and this was a
big court case that happened today. Regarding Minnesota, which I
think also kind of gave you the perspective change from
Mayor Free Fry and from Tim Walls.

Speaker 8 (10:01):
Right.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
Big victory on Monday from the Federal Appeals Court. Given
that key legal victory, this is in the post millennial
putting a hold on restrictions that limited the US and
ICE Immigration Customs Enforcements agents on how they could respond
to protesters and observers during immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota.
In the brief order, a three judge panel of US

(10:24):
Court of Appeals judges for the Eighth Circuit stayed a
preliminary injunction, which a stay is when you know, they
say it's you know, it's whatever, it's blocked. I guess right,
it's a stay. It's like what they do in bankruptcy
or whatever. It's one of those legal terms that I
don't know a whole lot, but I know it doesn't

(10:46):
mean they went forward. It meant it's over all right,
it's struck down, and good good on them. The injunction
curtailed ICE agent's ability to arrest, attain, pepper spray, or
otherwise act against protesters, and they had no support from
the police. Well, guess what happened after the talk with
police with I'm sorry with the mayor and the governor,

(11:08):
the state police. Minnesota State Police were out there assisting Ice,
keeping the protesters at bay. I've been talking about that
for two or three weeks. Now, good, that's where they're
supposed to be. We needed the Minnesota cops to step up.
I said that on Newsmax a couple of weeks ago
when I was on there. This weekend, I did a
couple of hits with the Wendy Bell Show and John
Tobacco's show, Wise Guys, really really good stuff. If you

(11:29):
caught those good If you didn't, you missed it that
it was really good stuff.

Speaker 5 (11:33):
Anyway.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
So, while Rachel Maddow was saying that if you're out
there protesting, you're winning, to me, it seems like you're losing.
Trump's got the Minnesota State Police out there, He's got
the mayor on his side. Now he's got Mayor Frey
Fry of all people. I don't know what kind of
win that is, but anyway, enough Minnesota. I want to
talk about the economy. President Trump headed over to Iowa
today to talk about the economy. He talked about no

(11:56):
tax on tips. He talked about healthcare. He talked about
other ways of really leveraging the economy to make it boom.
We're going to talk again with economist Steve Moore from
the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, former White House economist to
Ronald Reagan, former White House economists to President Trump, and
he's coming up with us in the next one.

Speaker 4 (12:15):
Don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Feltes, this is America. This
is America.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
President Roman take Trump, mister President, welcome to the program
Sir well.

Speaker 6 (12:38):
Thank you, Rich and thank you for everything.

Speaker 10 (12:40):
I know you very well and I have I listened,
but I have a lot of people that.

Speaker 6 (12:44):
Listen and they love your show and I appreciate it
very much.

Speaker 5 (12:48):
All Right, amigos, welcome back. Rich Veld.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
That's with you, and I want to bring in special guests.
But before I do, I want you to hear what
President Trump had to say today.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
He was in Iowa talking about a.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Number of issues, not the least of which was his
economic policy. And on the economic policy, he's done really
really well. I would say he's really kind of sparked
an interest with Americans, in particular with respect to how
Americans are going to buy.

Speaker 5 (13:17):
Homes to become rich again.

Speaker 10 (13:20):
According to Press, I'm also making it a lot easier
to buy. I think called the house the American dream.

Speaker 6 (13:27):
Last week I.

Speaker 10 (13:28):
Signed an executive order to ban Wall Street and large
institutional investors from buying up all the single family homes
in America because we don't want America to become a
nation of renters. And that's what they force stopped. I mean,
you have these companies, they owned five thousand houses, twenty
thousand and one has hundreds of thousands of houses.

Speaker 5 (13:51):
We don't want that.

Speaker 10 (13:52):
We want people to be able to buy houses. At
the same time, I want to keep the value of
the house very high. Of those people who already own
a house, We're not forgetting about them because they don't
necessarily match those two things. You know, we get the
prices down, well, what does that do? Very important to me.

(14:12):
More important to me is, you know, people have become
rich by owning the home.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
We're going to people have become rich by owning their home.
That is the American dream. I want to bring in
former White House Economic advisor Steve Moore, both to President
Trump and the President Reagan.

Speaker 5 (14:30):
Steve Moore, welcome back.

Speaker 8 (14:31):
Sir Hi Rich, great to be with you. Thanks for
having me.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
Oh my pleasure. So now the President mentioned a number
of things today on his I guess he's come back
to it, right, we're gonna call it because he's he's
out there like he's a campaigning for president again, and
he's gonna need that, I think politically speaking for the enthusiasm,
they're going to need to hold on to political power
in the House and the Senate. But what are your
thoughts on this executive order? Is this politics or is

(14:57):
this a real thing? I know that there was you know,
we talked about this last summer and even last year,
the institutional investors buying up some homes, and I believe
you told me it's happening, but it wasn't happening in
a large degree. Talk to about the impact of this
from your perspective.

Speaker 8 (15:12):
Well, let me just start by saying, Rich that you know,
we have an absolutely booming economy right now. I'm just
so optimistic about where America is right now. And I
know I'm somewhat flummoxed because I saw these latest consumer
confidence numbers and they are way down, and I don't
quite understand this disconnect between all of the economic statistics

(15:36):
which are so positive, you know, declining inflation, big gains
and incomes for the vast majority of American families. We're
seeing you know, gas prices now a lot of parts
of the country down to two dollars and fifty cents
at a gallon. You know, four to one K plans
are doing great, et cetera, et cetera, and yet you know,

(15:57):
people are unhappy now. Trump is very, very active on
the economy, as you know, and I don't always you know,
I've worked with Donald Trump. I'm a great admirer. Is
I agree with about eighty percent of the things he
wants to do. I'm not a big fan of this
idea of restricting who can buy housing. I don't think

(16:18):
that the institutional investors are the real problem here. I
think the real problem is the you know, a lot
of the restrictions at the local level, you know, zoning
issues and so on, and restrictions. I'm building multi family housing.
So I don't think that this is the right solution

(16:39):
to that problem.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
So are you saying that it's not the right solution.
Are you saying that it's not really a problem.

Speaker 8 (16:46):
It's a good question. So it depends on who you are.
You know, well, let me say this. I'm sixty five.
So one of the principal assets that my wife and
I have is our house. So the fact that our
house is more valuable is a good thing. It's not
a bad thing, right, I mean, of course, it means
that we have grained equity. And so now, if you're

(17:10):
a young person in your thirties you want to buy
a house, high priced housing is a bad thing. But
I just want to let people know that every time
housing values go up, there's a winner and a loser,
and the winners are, you know, older people who own homes,
and the losers tend to be the younger people. Although
the younger people are going to inherit the housing eventually,
so they will benefit from arising home value as well.

(17:33):
But we do need more affordable housing. I mean, I
have two sons that are in the early thirties. They're
doing fine, but they can't afford to buy a house
right now. I bought my first house at age thirty one,
a little condo, but I got started and then you
build up.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah, listen, I bought a condo when I was twenty.
I'm going to say maybe twenty four twenty maybe for
you and I did great on this, Steve.

Speaker 5 (17:57):
I did great.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
I bought in a play Union City, New Jersey, and
you walk outside you could see the Empire State Building.
That's how close we were to the Hudson River. But
what really worked well for me just this happenstance, since
you brought it up. I was a block away from
an old Roy rogers Hamburger place, which happened to be

(18:20):
yeah remember that. And it happened to be built on
top of an old train tunnel that they used to
use to transport different materials back in World War Two. Well,
fast forward a couple of years. The government decided to
use that as a new Jersey Transit light rail system,
and they put a train a block away from my house.
And when they did that, everything jumped up. I made

(18:43):
almost one hundred grand. I sold that place within like
two or three years and moved to the suburbs. So, yeah,
that was a thing for me, buying a place for
less than two hundred K when I was in my twenties. Now,
I don't think I could do that now, It's almost
an impossibility for anybody in that age group.

Speaker 8 (19:00):
Well, there's also a problem in that age group too,
is that the Boss Returnal is reported a month or
so ago that young people are getting married at an
older age. So it used to be, you know, the
average woman would marry at twenty twenty one, twenty two
years old. Now the average age for a woman to
get married is like thirty. And so my point is

(19:21):
that it's easier to buy a home if you have
a couple. You know, if you're a couple, have two
people hoarding an income rather than one. So there are
a lot of social factors behind this as well. But
the most important thing is we want people's incomes to rise.
We want to make sure that we have enough affordable
housing for everyone. Now I'm on the board of a
company called light Speed. I don't know if you've heard

(19:42):
of this.

Speaker 5 (19:42):
Yeah, it took a look, you had a really cool
map a while back.

Speaker 8 (19:46):
Yeah, Well, they make we build houses with robots, and
so we will be able to build houses at forty
percent lower cost when we want to get this scaled,
and that will bring Certainly, if the lost of building
a house is lower than the cost of buying a
house is.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Lower, well, one would hope, now right, one would hope
this is the big question. So do you you agree
that the issue is more affordability and I guess income
and marriage rates, and I think all of that is
accurate than institutional investors buying property.

Speaker 8 (20:24):
Okay, Bay the way rich. Only only two to three
of the homes on the market are bought by institutional investors,
so they can't really account for the doubling and the
value of homes over the last twenty years. They're a
small component of that.

Speaker 5 (20:42):
Oh sure, yeah, I think that.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
I think the word on the street, you know, and
when I say the street, I mean X and Instagram
and places like that is there's video after video out
there saying that Black Rock and Vanguard are are buying
up every last single family home and that you won't
be able to live in this single family home type
of neighborhood unless you rent one from them or to

(21:05):
one of the fifteen minute cities they want to build,
which they are building. I know they're building one in Paramus,
New Jersey, near the Garden State Plaza. And there's a
lot of questions about this type of living where you
don't have to go anywhere because everything's at your fingertips.

Speaker 8 (21:19):
Well, I love me say something about that if I
may rich sure, I had not even heard that heard
that term until about a week ago, and now I
hear you're the second person I've used that term fifteen
minute city. And this is part of the I don't
like the idea, because what this really is is a
war against the automobile. You know, the left hates cars exactly,

(21:39):
so they don't want people to get in towers and
drive to where they want, or buses even, and so
they want people using mass transit, or they want you know,
people walking to work. And I'm like, wait a minute,
you know what's wrong with driving a car.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
To work one hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
And that's why when people hear this stuff, at least
put folks on the right side of the aisle. They say,
hold on a second, this isn't good if Vanguard and
Black rocker buying up all the single family homes in
the suburbs and they're going to force us to live
in one of these fifteen minute cities.

Speaker 5 (22:10):
So I think that's.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
Why, you know, that's the base that Trump is playing
to here when he's saying, look, I'm going to help
you own a home, and the reality is, and you
correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that was
a staple, and this is when you were in the
White House with him of twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. This
is a staple of the first Trump administration was how
many people became homeowners.

Speaker 8 (22:35):
Well, people are angry. I'm going to put this in
a bigger context, if I may, right, which is that
people are angry about prices. You know, people are My
wife is angry every time she comes back from the
grocery store, and that's a very common thing. People are
angry about the cost of healthcare. People are angry about
the we've just been talking about, you know, housing costs.
And yet I want to make sure people understand two things.

(22:58):
Number one, eighty six percent of the increase in the
prices that people are angry about happened under Guess.

Speaker 5 (23:04):
What President Joe Biden.

Speaker 8 (23:06):
Joe Biden. So you're right to be angry, but don't
be angry about Trump. He's bringing the inflation right down.
Second of all, guess what states are the most expensive
states to live in. Oh, let's be New York, California,
New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, my home state of Illinois. What
are those states alli in common? Oh, they're high tax
high regulation the states that have.

Speaker 5 (23:29):
Raised the cost of everything one hundred percent. I agree
with that.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
Now, you mentioned two things that I think are important
when your wife is upset about the grocery store, so
am I. The cost of beef is incredible, And after this,
I want to talk about healthcare, but let's talk about
beef because this one. And look, I love El Trumpito
as much as the next guy, or at least as
much as you do, but this is one of those areas.
I'm going to say, this went up since he's taken office,

(23:54):
and I would have hoped that the deal with Milay
would have helped offset that, but it doesn't seem to
have happened, at least not yet.

Speaker 5 (24:00):
Your thoughts.

Speaker 8 (24:03):
Yeah, I mean, beef is one of the things that's
gone up more in price than just about anything. By
the way, you know, I said about the cost of steak,
you might want to buy a pork chop because pork
prices have actually gone down, whereas these prices have gone up,
egg prices have gone down. So maybe you might want
to make an omelet. And I think this is part
of the problem with this whole argument about affordability. People

(24:24):
are looking focusing on the things that are going up
in price, not the things that are stable or going
down in price. And you know, there are a lot
of things like that actually have fallen in price, including
airline tickets have fallen in price, hotels, motels have fallen
in price, TVs, computers have followen in price. So I
don't know. Maybe it's just human nature that we get

(24:46):
upset about the things that are more expensive and don't
pay What about gasoline, My goodness, gasoline was for fifty
cents a gallon under Biden. Now it's down to I
think nationally about two seventy ninety gallons. So I don't
Maybe it's just human nature. We only notice the things
that are going up in price.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah, and before I jump into healthcare, I want to
just follow up on this because I think you're right
with gasoline.

Speaker 5 (25:10):
What do you think the upside is?

Speaker 3 (25:13):
I guess both the short term and long term, you know,
macro and micro. Of the deal that we've made with Venezuela.

Speaker 8 (25:23):
Well, first of all, this is one of the greatest
military you know missions history. I mean, this will go on.
We liberated thirty million people, thirty million people from a
narco terrorists without a single loss of American life. I mean,
you got to whether you love Trump or hate him,

(25:44):
that's the most amazing.

Speaker 7 (25:47):
You know.

Speaker 8 (25:47):
And then contrast that with our leaving Afghanistan and what
an embarrassment that was to America. So and look, this
Maduro was a tyrant. He was starving his own people.
I don't underst and liberals who say, oh, we should
have left Maduro and practical.

Speaker 5 (26:03):
The care free Maduro.

Speaker 8 (26:04):
Right, I mean, so it was an amazing feat. And yes,
by the way, then here's the statistic. Seventy percent of
the people were living in poverty, and forty percent of
the people were living in abject poverty, which means they
could barely feed themselves. So that's how bad things were.
And you listen to the left, I don't understand, Oh,

(26:25):
why did we take on Maduro. We took him out
because he was starving his own people, that's why. And
Venezuela has huge amounts of oil, but he, you know,
Madua was such an idiot that he basically their their
oil production continued to fall, so they had no economy left.
And so hopefully, you know, with the help of American companies,

(26:50):
we can get those oil wells flowing again and that
can provide an income for the people in Venezuela and
provide oil for people.

Speaker 9 (27:00):
On the world.

Speaker 8 (27:01):
So I think it was an amazing feat.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
Do you think there's a significant financial upside for the
American people in terms of continued I guess affordability in
the in the gasoline and having them as as a
backup and cutting them off from China.

Speaker 8 (27:22):
Yeah, but you know what, richards can take a long time.
I mean, communists and socialists, they do great damage to
the infrastructure of a country. Yeah, and so it's gonna
I'm reading now from some of Chevron and some of
the countries that are companies that are looking at investing there.
It's I'm told it's gonna take two, three, four years
to get the oil fields running again. That's how that's

(27:42):
what happens when you when you put in socialists into
run economy.

Speaker 5 (27:47):
All right, Steve Moore, stick with me. We're gonna come
right back.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
I want to talk about healthcare a little bit before
I let you go, Amigos, don't go anywhere. We are
coming right back with the Man, the myth, the legend himself.
Former White House economists both to press sident Reagan and
to President Trump, Steve Moore, don't go anywhere.

Speaker 5 (28:03):
I'm Rich Valdez.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
This is America. This is America. He's brown, he's bald,
and he's breaking it down.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
Oh he's so has some what's his day, rich Veldes.

Speaker 10 (28:31):
I've recently introduced my plan to repair the damage of
the Unaffordable Care Act, the worst disaster which now costs
many families more than a mortgage. If you look, a
number came out a bigger cost than a mortgage.

Speaker 5 (28:46):
And it's bad healthcare.

Speaker 10 (28:48):
Obamacare was created to make insurance companies rich with government subsidies.
I want all that money that gets paid to the
insurance companies to get paid directly to the people.

Speaker 5 (28:58):
That's all I want.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
That is President Trump in Iowa today making his economic speech,
talking about bigger paychecks and lower prices and talking about
bringing down the cost of Obamacare. And I know many
people who've seen those COVID subsidies disappear and seeing their

(29:22):
premiums triple that I have Obamacare. I want to continue
our conversation with Steve Moore. Steve Moore was an economist
to Ronald Reagan and to President Trump in his first administration.
He is in charge the main man, the head honcho
of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, and he's got a
kick ass newsletter that you have to get every single day.

(29:45):
I use it as show prep on a regular basis.
Steve Moore, welcome.

Speaker 8 (29:48):
Back, Thank you rich And by the way, if people
want to get that newsletter, we call it the Hotline,
just go to Unleashed Prosperity dot com and sign up.
And we're talking about inflation, but there's no inflation here
because it's absolutely.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
Free, absolutely free, and absolute worth it. It's worth your
time reading. And like I said, I read it every day.
It's really good stuff. I always appreciate it. Thank you, Steve.
And let's see President Trump talking about bringing down the
cost of healthcare. I think one of the things that
he's mentioned recently, and he's done a lot in this area.

Speaker 5 (30:14):
I would say, with what he calls.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
The fat drug, I call it the fat drug right now,
I go zempic and things like that. But he's also
with insulin and things like that. He's done a number
of things. But with respect to that lowest nation pricing,
I think that was a really big deal in a
game changer. Talk to me about bringing down the cost
of the what he calls the unaffordable car.

Speaker 8 (30:35):
At You know, the Democrats lied to us fifteen years ago.
And I remember when we were debating Obamacare, all the
predictions that people like me and others made about how
this would explode costs and make everything more unaffordable and
lead to a lower quality of healthcare. That's exactly what
has happened. It was as predictable as you know, the

(31:00):
sun rising in the east and setting in the west.
So now, as you just said quite correctly, premiums that
Americans are paying for healthcare have doubled and in some
cases tripled, And so we have a crisis at our
hand with health care and the you know what the
Democrat solution is rich more Obamacare subsidies. See that's worked

(31:22):
out so well, hasn't it.

Speaker 5 (31:23):
More spending. Yeah, it's not going to work.

Speaker 8 (31:25):
No, it's going to bankrupt our country. It's going to
be here's the thing. Not only are we paying record
amounts in taxpayer subsidies for the healthcare, then the amount
the insurance companies are charging us. And we just got
our forms for our deductibles, I mean, our premiums this
year from our health insurance company. They're going up sixteen

(31:46):
percent in one year.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
Yeah, yeah, I just got to increase myself. That I
don't like. And I'm waiting for Trump's planning. It is affordable,
Well it's not.

Speaker 5 (31:56):
Now, talk to me.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
What do you think the likelihood of President Trump's plan
is saying, you know what, We're going to take those
subsidies given back to you, so you have the right.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
I love that money. Me too. I love love control.

Speaker 8 (32:05):
Yeah, give the money directly. Here's the thing that people
don't understand. You know who's in on this scam. The
biggest cheerleaders for Obamacare subsidies health insurance companies. The insurance company. Yes,
they need bundle their profits keep going up and up
and up and up with this because you know, if
we give these extensions of the Obamacare subsidies by some masterm,

(32:27):
it's fifty to sixty percent of that money we'll just
go right into the profits of the health insurance companies.
So I believe we have a much better since we
could have better health care in this country. I really
believe this rich and spend half as much money. We
there's so much waste, so many middlemen in the in
the in the equation and if everybody just had a

(32:48):
standard kind of catastrophic insurance cover it. So if you
have you know, something serious happens, you're covered for for
if you get cancer, god forbid, or you have a
terrible accident or becoming incapacitated. You know, you're not financially ruined.
That's why you have insurance. But that's not what we
have right now. I mean, everybody's got like first dollar coverage.

(33:09):
And so by the way, rich, when was the last
time Ane or anybody went to the hospital or doctor
or the pharmacy or and asked you how much is
that going to cost? It's the weirdest thing. We don't
use the free market system in healthcare. And that's a
big surprise then that this is the industry where the
costs are catapulting.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Obviously, he's got some hurdles to achieve that goal, But
do you think he gets that goal? Do you think
he gets to a place where Americans are in charge
of their own health care?

Speaker 8 (33:41):
You know, I mean, I certainly love to see it.
It's so obvious what the solution is. But the Democrats
want you know this, I mean, when Obamacare was being debated,
people like you, and I said, well, wait, at the
ultimate goal here is just to create what a lot
of Democrats will admit, they just want the government to
run the healthcare system. Yeah, like they run the schools,

(34:04):
like they run the posts, they run everything else. I
think that's a really, really bad idea. And I think
we need more free markets than healthcare, not more government.

Speaker 5 (34:15):
I agree.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
And you know, when it comes to people's money, right,
not only just letting people keep their money and figure
out their own healthcare, but let people keep their money
on their paycheck. And that was something President Trump campaigned on.
No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax
on Social Security. And of course he had to get
it through Congress, and he got, you know, two thirds
of that through Congress.

Speaker 5 (34:34):
And today he spoke about that.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
I got a fifteen second clip where he brought somebody
on stage to talk about it because it was such
a big deal.

Speaker 5 (34:41):
Listened to this.

Speaker 7 (34:42):
Thank you, President Trump.

Speaker 11 (34:43):
No tax on tips is huge for everyone in the
service industry.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
Thank you very much, Thank you very much.

Speaker 9 (34:49):
Congratulation.

Speaker 12 (34:55):
I would just like to say the same thing, thank
you very much.

Speaker 5 (34:58):
We appreciate it, thank.

Speaker 6 (34:59):
You very much.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
So there we have President Trump being thanked by these
two women that work in the service industry. One was
a bartender, the other one was a bar manager. And again,
real people. Now, I know people who are critics of
President Trump's and they're like, oh, you know what he
told me. They weren't going to take money out of
my check. They're taking it out of my check. I said, well,
that's that was the goal, right. What Congress approved was

(35:23):
these credits when you do your taxes, which we're on
the cusp of now in the next few days.

Speaker 5 (35:28):
Right, it's the end of January.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
This is when everybody's about to see there what I
assumed to be one of their bigger tax refunds because
of this.

Speaker 5 (35:36):
What are you hearing? What are you thinking? What are
your thoughts?

Speaker 8 (35:39):
Well, you know, as you you know you and I've
talked about as many times over the years that it
was Larry Coppo and I who met with then Donald Trump,
not President Trump, back in early two twenty sixteen, and
we outlined the idea of a more rational, more pro
growth tax code. And that's exactly what Trump not exactly,
but very close to what we had proposed. And it's

(36:02):
been an amazing success and the average family Look, people
come up to me all the time, right, should say, Hey,
you know you're Steve Moore. You worked on that Trump
tax cut. What am I going to get the tax cut? Well,
guess what? You're going to get it now? Right here,
it's twenty because a lot of people didn't get the
tax cut in twenty twenty five, but they're going to
see it in twenty twenty six. You're going to get

(36:23):
less money withheld rich from your paycheck for most people,
and that'll be a nice bonus. It'll be a lot
of people will save as much as two thousand dollars
off of their federal taxes this year. And so this
was a big boom for middle class, hardworking people outstanding.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
I agree, Listen, I can't wait for this to actually
hit because you know, lately, it's just been bad news
after bad news, despite the wins, right, It's just it's
bad news on top of bad news. And I think
once this was what made the game change for many
people back in twenty eighteen twenty seventeen. In that era
was when median householding cups went up by six or

(37:03):
seven grand, and people were buying homes and interest rates
were dirt cheap. And it was just a great economy
running on so many cylinders until COVID hit.

Speaker 5 (37:12):
Do you believe?

Speaker 3 (37:13):
It's my belief? And again, you know, I'm an armchair economist.
I used the Big Mac Index and whatnot. I'm thinking
that we're going to be able to start seeing that
economic engine per like it did back then. I'm thinking
between somewhere between like June and October.

Speaker 8 (37:32):
Your thoughts, Oh, I think it's already moving. I mean,
look the fourth quarter of last year, which was let's
see October through December. We've just got the latest estimates
of five point four percent growth, which is enormous. That's
like a blockbuster number.

Speaker 7 (37:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (37:50):
Yeah, So this economy is out of terror right now.
We have an all time high virtually in the S
and P five hundred, the Nasdaq, and the Dow Jones.
We've got gas prices down. You headed, the two fifty
a gallon inflation hit nine percent under Biden. Now it's
at two points, still too high, but coming down. Real

(38:12):
incomes for middle class people have risen twenty five hundred
dollars since Trump came into office. So it's all all
systems are gone.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Well, I realize that, but I'm saying, so we're up
twenty five hundred dollars, but are we back at that
like seven thousand figure that that Trump was a way
back when, because I think he's got to beat his
old number.

Speaker 8 (38:31):
Oh yeah, but that was over four years. This has
only been one year.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
Yeah, all right, soon, hopefully we'll look at a ten
thousand dollars number by the end of it. All right, Now,
final question, do you, Steve more is this not giving
much veracity to the claims? But Axios put out a
story yesterday about Ted Cruz criticizing the administration on tariffs,
saying it's going to cost us in the midterms. I'm
not saying he said it or and I'm saying that's

(38:56):
what Axio said. But I do know that there are
many a Republican that get very squeamish when you know,
when certain things happen, when Trump is tough on certain policies.
And I'm wondering, and I know you've been critical of
him in this area as well in the past, what's
your take on tariffs as of late.

Speaker 8 (39:19):
Well, I'm not a big fan of terrorist tarrifts are taxes,
and I don't likes taxes, and me I do believe,
as Milton Friedman taught me, that free trade is benefits everyone.
But I also think that what Trump? So, you know,
that's my kind of training in economics. But then I
look at Trump and some of the terrorists. You know,
you asked whire beef prices expensive? Well, because we put

(39:42):
Paris on beef, and a lot of those costs, you know,
go right down to the consumer. However, what's really I
think exciting about what Trump has done is negotiated amazing
trade deals and he's using the threat he look. Let
me put it like this. I've known Trump now for
eight years. He is the single greatest negotiator I've ever seen. Yeah,

(40:05):
and he's negotiating better deals for the US. So I'm
off for that.

Speaker 5 (40:10):
Now.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
I agree that tariffs have pushed the cost of beef up,
but I know that there was some taxes that Biden
had put in and some shortage of cattle supply. How
much of each of those do you think weighs into this?
And what do you think? I guess the number is
on that coming down because I can't.

Speaker 5 (40:28):
Walk into a room.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
You know, it used to be people would throw eggs
at me right there, are like, oh, what are the
eggs coming down? Eggs came down? Now I walk into
the room and they're like, when is the beef coming down?
Everywhere I go, I'm catching beef.

Speaker 8 (40:41):
Well, I'll say this. Look, if you impose, for example,
Trump put terrorists out of coffee beans from Brazil and Columbia,
why do we import coffee beans from Columbia and Brazil
because they make really good coffee beans there, and so
what happened to the price of coffee? The coffee price
went up, so you know, relative relative prices changed when

(41:01):
you put a terrify on it. On the other hand,
the reason overall prices didn't rise as much as a
result of these terrorists because people forget all the other
things Trump was doing. We're disinflationary. He's got one hundred
dregulations for every new regulation he is. Basically, we have
cheaper oil and gas now than we've had in probably

(41:23):
ten years. We're producing more oil and gas than number before.
What about the tax cut that had a disinflationary effect,
So overall inflation. I'm going to make a bet to
you that we're going to see inflation in twenty twenty six.
We'll be right about the fat target of two percent.
So look, I'm the most bullish guy you can talk to.
I think this economy is ready to explode.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
I love it, Steve Moore. If people want to hear
more about what you're doing with both the committee and
all the other stuff you're doing, where do they go?
Where do you send them? And tell them one more
time how to get that newsletter?

Speaker 8 (41:58):
Yeah, just get the hotline. It's free and you can
read it in five or six minutes every morning. It's
just five or six bullet points. And just go to
Unlis's prosperity dot com and click the button for the hotline.
And as I said earlier, Rich, we will send it
to you for a thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
Now outstanding, Steve Moore, good to hear your voice. Thank
you for joining me. I really appreciated God's speed, d
And I'll talk with you again soon.

Speaker 8 (42:25):
Thank you, Rich.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
You bet amigos, we're coming right back. Don't go anywhere.
There's more to come.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
This is Ameria, this is America. He's making podcasting great again.
This is America with Rich Valdez.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
All right, amigos, welcome back. It's Rich Valdeesa. Then Sat
Rich valdees Son all of the social media. Happy to
be here with you this Tuesday night, And I want
to talk about marriage, something I don't really feel qualified
to talk about because I was only married for about
ten years to a girl I dated for seven years prior,
so seventeen years, but it ended. It ended in divorce,

(43:20):
and I think for many people the question becomes how
do you stay married? And for others, some people fear
getting married because they don't know how to stay married
or they just can't fathom the idea of marriage. So
I want to talk to everybody about this, and we're
gonna call this an unofficial Dear Richie segment, even though
nobody reached out saying we want marriage advice. I want

(43:40):
to give you some unsolicited marriage advice that I'm unqualified
to give you. But I'm gonna have a little help. Right,
you've all heard the term love languages, right, Yes, I'm
sure you haven't. If you haven't, it is a theory
that became a book by doctor Gary Chapman. And in
a little bit, I'm gonna play you a clip of
him doing an interview with Jim Daily from Focus on

(44:01):
the Family. But before I do that, I want to
get your intention, and I found a clip that was
funny and at least funny to me, And maybe it's
offensive to you, but I want you to listen to this.
This is one of my findings from scrolling on Instagram.
This is a girl asking another girl in a podcast.

(44:22):
She's saying, so tell me why you're marrying a liberal guy.

Speaker 11 (44:28):
Listen to her response, would you ever marry someone that
has different political beliefs in you? I would never marry
a guy that's liberal. Why not because he's going to
raise my son to be a factor. I just I
don't want a man that's feminine at all. I want
a strong cord man who believes in guns and being.

Speaker 5 (44:42):
Strong border control. Yeah.

Speaker 11 (44:44):
I want my sons to grow up and be like,
you know, tough and manly. I would marry somebody that
maybe like disagrees on smaller stuff.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Now, this is a topic that I always find very
interesting because you know me, I'm always saying, hey, I'm
happy to date the liberal girls. But I'll tell you
it's becoming more and more difficult to do that because
while I am happy to look the other way and so,
so you're not into what I am into politically, all right, Well,
you know, what kind of wine do you like? That

(45:13):
doesn't always work, right, because some people are just fixated
on the emotionality of Trump hatred. This is a big
problem that I think this country has to contend with,
and it's going to take a while to undo all
of this damage. But the reality is that's a thing,
It's there, it's for real. So what happens when you

(45:34):
do find this person right now? I think you do
need to have a basis of yeah, we agree on
different things. You know, there's gotta be some non negotiables, right,
And I guess if for those who date because they
don't want to stay home on a Saturday and they've
got no dog to take care of, then do whatever
you got to do right for the casual dating scene.

(45:55):
But for people who are interested in dating to be
married right, dating within intentionality, this is more my speed
at this point of my life. I would say that
it's it's a very important thing, and it's a very
wise thing to make sure that you do have some
parameters set forth so people know who you are and
what you believe. Only fair, It only makes sense, right.

(46:17):
So that being said, she says, I want my sons
to be manly well, presuming you have sons. Yeah, it's
a good idea. I don't disagree with any of them.
I love how the girl who was doing the interviewing
she said border control. I thought that was great. You know,
went from being a manly man to border control and listen.
I think it's the most primitive, innate instinct of a

(46:39):
woman to be attracted to a man that they believe
can protect and can provide, right, who has the industriousness,
the ingenuity, the strength, the wherewithal to do the things
they don't want to do. I saw another video clip today.
I shared it on my Instagram stories if anybody's interested
at Rich Valdes with an s at Richvealdes and on Instagram.
Part of what I thought was interesting about this clip

(47:00):
was the podcaster. Her name is Pearl. I forget her
last name, but I think her handle is pearly Things,
and she's a pretty pro man podcaster that often challenges
feminists and she was debating Anna Kasparian. Let me see
if I could find this clip so that I could
play it for you, because I think it's it's worth

(47:20):
listening to standby.

Speaker 5 (47:21):
All right, so we do have the clip, all right,
then go ahead and rolling again.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
This is Pearl, the podcaster at Pearly Things. I believe
it's her Twitter handle, and she's asking Anna Kasparian from
the Young Turks, what is your plan when men stop
doing manly jobs? Listen to this really interesting and when.

Speaker 12 (47:40):
Men stopped doing the dirty and dangerous jobs that keep
society running.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
Can you give me an example of which jobs you're referring.

Speaker 12 (47:48):
To, logging, plumbing, crabfishing, oil rig When min stopped doing
the dangerous jobs, when man stopped getting married, when men
stopped having kids, what's your plan? I'm not worried about that,
of course you're not. No, I don't have a planned
Pearl for asamination in which men no longer do those jobs.

(48:12):
The very microphone you're using was built by men. The
building was built by men, and there's no gratitude or appreciation.
You just tell them they're not doing enough. Future is
not going to be great for feminists. You guys are
going to get the equality that you're asking for. Men
are not going to protect women in the streets. Men
are going to stop signing up for the infrastructure jobs.
The birth rate's going to keep falling, and the future

(48:34):
is going to be bleak.

Speaker 5 (48:37):
Wow. So listen, it's going to be hard to debate that. Right.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
Some would say no, no, no, because women are going
to fill all those functions, and maybe they will.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Right.

Speaker 3 (48:48):
I've never seen so many women construction workers on job
sites that I have in the last five or seven years,
so maybe that's a thing.

Speaker 5 (48:56):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
I have a friend out in Texas who works on
an oil I'm gonna have to call him a shoutout
to our guy, Paul. Hey, Paul, do you have girls
working those oil rigs with you? I'm curious to know,
curious to know. I did not know that a man
made the microphone, but it makes sense to me. Although
if they would have told me it was a woman,
I'd say, yeah, it makes sense to me too. Women
love to hear this. This is the sound of their

(49:17):
own voice, just as much as I do. Right, these
are one of those things that you could have sold
me easily on. But the real question here is what
do people do right? And Interestingly enough, and this is
not a critique, this is just an observation. Anna Kasparian,
who has you know, critiqued me in the past on
her show, I will say that I'm not here to

(49:39):
critique her. I know she's married to a guy. I
believe he's a Hispanic guy who's a minor league baseball
player or Major League baseball player, professional baseball player that
I know. And that's why she's not worried, because she
has a husband who's got a good paying job, and
she's got a good paying career and she's sticking. I
don't need that, and you know it. Everybody needs everybody,

(49:59):
is my point.

Speaker 5 (50:00):
Right.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
I believe that women need men, men need women. This
is not some sort of I can live without you.
You have some women, many lately that have become you know,
the type that are like, no, no, I got this.
I'll shovel my own driveway, I'll dig my own car,
and I'll do this.

Speaker 5 (50:16):
I got this.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
Nothing wrong with that, I guess, But let me rephrase.
I think there's something wrong with that insomuch as you
gotta let men do what they feel they need to do, right,
You let them be men and let women be women,
and we have to stop encroaching on the other's role
or job.

Speaker 8 (50:34):
Right.

Speaker 5 (50:34):
I guess that's a sexist, misogynist thing to say. Right,
I'm gonna get accused of that.

Speaker 3 (50:38):
But the reality is what Pearl mentioned makes sense. It
really does, logging and crabbing and all these other things
that I've never seen women do these jobs, not because
they're incapable, because they're uninterested, period the end. That's really
all it ever comes down to. Say thing with why

(51:00):
you don't see too many Puerto Ricans in my line
of work.

Speaker 5 (51:05):
Or many others.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
Right, it's certain people find certain jobs interesting. I don't
think that there is a barrier of entry other than
skill and ability and network. Right, it doesn't matter so
much what color you are as much as what you
can provide and what you can bring to the table,
and for many of these things. So I think that

(51:28):
you can. I'm all about the most qualified person. If
that's a woman, great, If it's a man, that's great too. However,
there are certain jobs that I think men can do
better than women, And there's plenty of jobs that I
know women can do better than men. But on the
other side, you've got men who also And I was
in this group for a long time. I got so

(51:50):
used to living alone after I got divorced. For about
i'd say good twelve years, I slept how I wanted, right,
I want to sleep like a like the letter, I
could do that. I want to sleep on the left
side or the right, didn't matter how I slept. Why
Because I could do what I wanted, put my clothes

(52:10):
in a hamper, throw it on the floor, whatever I
want to do.

Speaker 5 (52:13):
And I felt like that was freedom.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
Now, yeah, granted it was freedom, But ultimately I've realized
that's not the end game for me, right.

Speaker 5 (52:21):
The end game for me is.

Speaker 3 (52:22):
Not to be able to be neat or to be
messy at my heart's desire. That's not really, ultimately what
we're created for. None of us really crave to be
messy or crave to be neat. Those are kind of
learned things, but people in general crave to be around
other people.

Speaker 5 (52:39):
That is a human need. So I think Pearl is
onto something.

Speaker 3 (52:43):
And I think Anna Kasparian dug herself into a hole
there and just didn't know how to get out of it,
so she doubled down. It was evident, right, she wasn't
arguing that hard because I think she realized she didn't
have much of a position. Now fast forward to doctor,
excuse me, doctor Gary Chapman, the author of the Love Languages,
The Five Love languages, and this is not about that.

Speaker 5 (53:06):
Per se.

Speaker 3 (53:06):
This is really about him giving his advice on how
to maintain and have a better marriage.

Speaker 5 (53:13):
Again.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
This is doctor Gary Chapman, the author of the Love
Language Book, and an interview that he did several weeks
ago with focus on the family and Jim Day.

Speaker 5 (53:24):
I thought this was really interesting. Check this out.

Speaker 9 (53:28):
I think it's because we come down off that high.
You know. I was always told when I was growing up,
if you're really in love, if you've got the real thing,
it's going to last forever. And that's what I anticipated. Well,
we studied it now. Average lifespan of that uphoric state
is two years, some a little longer, some a little less.

(53:51):
Average two years. My wife and I had dated two
years before we got married. I came down rather soon
after the honeymoon, So hold.

Speaker 5 (54:00):
On a second.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
Two years is all you get with the butterflies and
the stomach. Two years is all you get of being
head over heels in love. How do you make a
marriage last, doctor Gary Chapman, If you don't do it
like that, I mean, that's what I want to know.

Speaker 5 (54:15):
Ageah play to take.

Speaker 8 (54:17):
Right.

Speaker 9 (54:18):
And then we found out we didn't agree on some things.
And when we were in love, we never had any problems.
You know, whatever she wanted to do was fine with me.
You know, we came down off that high and then
we had these conflicts, and so I knew I was right,
she knew she was right. So we ended up arguing
with each other. I remember one night it was pouring

(54:41):
down rain outside and we got into an argument. And
in the middle of the argument, my wife walked out
the front door in the rain, and I thought, man,
this is bad. When a woman walks in the rain,
it's bad.

Speaker 8 (54:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (54:55):
So then not only did we have all those arguments,
but then I not only did and I lose the
positive feelings. Now I had some negative feelings toward her,
you know, just because she wouldn't listen to me, and
da dah da da da, And so the emotions became
negative instead of positive. So it was a hard time
for me. And what compounded it for me, Jim, is

(55:18):
two weeks after we got married, I enrolled in seminary
to study to be a pastor. And here I am
studying to be a pastor and just miserable in my marriage,
you know, just.

Speaker 13 (55:30):
Yeah, I wanted to ask you about that because you
kind of came to that conclusion. But I wanted to
know the timeline. You and Carolyn were in this season
of disagreement and fighting and you kind of are coming
to your wits end about did I marry the wrong person?
She may have been thinking the same thing. But then

(55:50):
you had this turn where you were prompted, you said
in the book to start studying the teachings of Jesus
for your marriage. Now, I don't think I've ever had
that kind of specific thing. Look at the words of
Jesus for your marriage. So how did that happen for you? Gary?
And well, how was.

Speaker 5 (56:07):
It so pro That is an excellent question.

Speaker 3 (56:10):
And by the way, I just want to say, I
think most of us have never thought about that, right
and for those of us that have kudos to you,
that's probably the right way to look at it. But
I'm curious to see what doctor Chapman says, go ahead,
play to take.

Speaker 13 (56:22):
Profound.

Speaker 9 (56:23):
Well, I was pretty desperate and just struggling with this
whole thing, and I said to God, there's no way
I can ever stand in front of people and preach
if I'm this miserable in my marriage. I mean, I
I just couldn't conceive of doing that. And I said
to God, I don't know what else to do. I've
done everything I know to do. It's not working. She

(56:45):
won't listen to me. You know, I'm still blaming her.
And I just said to God, I'm asking you, asking
you to help me. I don't know what to do.
As soon as I said that, it came, I'm a
visual image of Jesus on his knees washing the feet

(57:05):
of his disciples. And I heard God say to me,
that's the problem in your marriage. You do not have
the attitude of Christ toward your wife.

Speaker 3 (57:16):
Boom, bottom line might drop. Doctor Gary Chapman, love your
wives like Christ love the church. Now again, it's coming
from me, the divorced guy, a single guy. Take it
for what it's worth. But Chapman, he's the love language guru.
I'd listened to him. I'm going to pick up here
with one of our resident psychologists that frequent the program,

(57:41):
and they're not going to join us today, but maybe tomorrow,
just because I think this is interesting.

Speaker 5 (57:47):
There's a group.

Speaker 3 (57:49):
That I go to on Monday night, a men's fellowship
from guys from my church, and you know, they talk
about lots of things, mainly just you know, character development
and you know, staying accountable, focusing on how we can
always be disciplined and you know, more follow through and
you're just making you a better person. But part of

(58:09):
that is making you a better husband for those of
the guys that are married. And I think that's important
for married people. And I figured if we're talking about
it in our men's weekly meeting, then maybe we should
be talking about it on the podcast, right, And this show,
I think is important for a lot of people. People

(58:29):
are listening to it and hoping to benefit from it.
So I don't typically get into this type of stuff,
but I figured why not. So we'll expound upon that
a little bit as well as we continue to delve
into this topic. And like I said, we'll do it
with one of our psychologists, and we have many that
have joined us on the show and will continue to

(58:50):
join us that are really just experienced and display a
lot of expertise in that area, right, not just experience,
but really expertise and understanding. So that's all I've got
on that front. And that's why I always say you
got to stand for something. Is if you stand for nothing,
you'll fall for anything, and the only thing necessary for

(59:12):
evil to triumph is for.

Speaker 5 (59:13):
Good people to do nothing. So you know what to do.
It's time to do something.

Speaker 3 (59:17):
Amigos asta labrosima, take care, good night, and God bless
you America. We'll be back tomorrow, God willing with the
Wednesday night edition of our program. Make sure you are
subscribed to this program on the Rumble channel Rich Valdees
This is America as well as YouTube, and if you're
not already a member, go to Festiva togo dot com.

(59:41):
You can set up a free account to stream our
news show, which will be available in espanon from mid February.
So that's that's all the instructions I've got for you tonight.
Make sure you're following me on all the social media
just so you can stay in touch with all of
the updates that we have. A lot of expansions and
developments are going on as this media industry is quickly changing.

(01:00:05):
I realize many of you are radio listeners and have
converted to become streaming listeners or listeners on the app
or listeners on the podcast. This is just the ever
expanding and evolving nature of the media and I want
to commend you for making those changes, write along with me.

Speaker 5 (01:00:23):
Thanks for sticking with me.

Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
Amigos, Asta labrosima, take care, good night, and God bless you.

Speaker 5 (01:00:28):
America. I'm rich Valdez and this is America.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
This is America.