April 6, 2026 • 60 mins
On Monday Night, Rich breaks down President Trump's press conference and the important role the CIA played in the miraculous search-and-rescue extraction of two pilots caught behind enemy lines in Iraq despite fake news from the IRGC regarding the capture of a fictitious Air Force Major named Amanda Ryder, who they alleged was being held as a prisoner of war (POW). Then, Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Artemis II offer an Easter message just before they orbit the Moon. Plus, what's the real push behind the NBA's Chicago Bulls' removal of Jayden Ivory? One lesbian activist argues that the constant push to expand the LGBTQ community is to normalize child predators known as minor attracted persons or MAPs.
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With your host, Rich Valdez.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
What's up? What's up America? I am Rich Valdez Valdez
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Welcome to the Monday night edition of the program. I
hope you had a happy Easter. Joining me live right
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can leave us a voice note. It's fantastic and I'm
looking forward to hearing from you now. What I want
to get into today. Obviously, yesterday was Easter. Today's Easter. Monday.
Yesterday was Resurrection Sunday. I want to get into a
bunch of that stuff toward the end of the show
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what that was like over the weekend. But interestingly, over
the weekend, President Trump was presumed to be Mia. Now,
you know, the fake news media, like he says, oh,
the fake news, look of the fake news all the
way in the back, because he puts his hand over
his eyebrow. He isn't usually wrong on this stuff, right,
The fake news was making all sorts of cases of
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why he is missing in action? Trump canceling a trip
tomorrow Lago, which is unlike him, right. Well, obviously this
was because of the breaking news we heard on Friday
where a pilot was retrieved but a Weapons Service officer,
the other member of the flight crew on the down
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to F fifteen that went down on Good Friday. Well
guess what that person was Mia, and they needed to
find him, and a massive search and rescue operation went
into you know, was underway. And this was a very
very big deal, right, very very very big deal. I
thought that was quite miraculous. Both Secretary Henk Seth and
(02:21):
as well as I'm forgetting his name, John Ratcliffe, the
CIA director, both of them definitely chiming in on that
and the press conference that the President hosted earlier today,
and I got a clip on that. Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It's a great honor to be with you.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
And happy Easter. We had a great easter. This is
one of our better easters. I think in a lot
of different ways. I can say militarily, it's been one
of the best.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
That is President Trump again at his press conference earlier
today and emphasizing the importance of how well things worked
out over.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
The You don't come out like we came out Easter break.
God was watching us. Well, it was the Easter.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
We were in the Easter territory, I guess, but God
was watching this.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Amazing. You don't come out like we came out.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
God was definitely watching the President and all of the
folks that were mia. Apparently it was two people instead
of one person. Wait till you hear about this.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
This is a Fox News alert on Bridge Judson Live
in New York. The missing crew member from the F
fifteen to E fighter jets shot down over Iranian Territory Friday,
has been rescued after an hour's long search. There was
reportedly a heavy firefight before the crew members were taken
safely out of Iranian territory for now, and more on this,
we go to our chief National Security correspondent, Jennifer Griffin
(03:47):
on the phone. Who's confirmed and reporting on the details
of all of this.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Jennifer rich that's right.
Speaker 8 (03:54):
I can confirm that the second crew member of the
down to S fifteen E fighter jet has been rested.
You to end that he and the members of the
rescue team that extracted him from behind enemy lines in
Iran are all safely out of Iran. That is according
to two senior US officials and multiple well placed sources
in the region.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Well wait, there's more. We had a little bit more
detail on this from Trey yinst listen to this.
Speaker 9 (04:21):
For the US crew member who was missing in southwestern
Iran after his F fifteen fighter jet was shot down
has been rescued.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
The successful extraction.
Speaker 9 (04:30):
Was announced by President Trump overnight on True Social The
President simply said we got him, before providing new details
that dozens of US military aircraft were used to retrieve
him as US leadership tracked his location. It was a
daring operation that included hundreds of US forces racing against
the clock to rescue the crew member.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Fox News has.
Speaker 9 (04:51):
Learned that after the fighter jet was shot down on Friday,
the weapons systems officer hiked to an elevated mountain ridge,
where he hid and waited for retrieval. The pilot of
the jet was rescued by US special forces on Friday,
but President Trump said they waited to confirm as to
not jeopardize this second operation. The President added quote, this
is the first time in military memory that two US
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pilots had been rescued separately deep.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
In enemy territory.
Speaker 9 (05:15):
The IDF said they avoided striking this area as American
planes and helicopters flew at a low altitude, hoping to
find any sign of the service member. Israeli forces, however,
ramped up air strikes over the weekend in other areas,
targeting Iran's petrochemical plants. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu added
this about the operation.
Speaker 10 (05:35):
Minsta I promised you that we would continue to crush
the terrorist regime into Iran, and that is exactly what
we are doing. After we destroyed seventy percent of their
steel production capacity, which serves as raw material for their weapons.
Today we struck the petrochemical plants.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
While Israel went on the offensive.
Speaker 9 (05:53):
They also took numerous incoming ballistic missiles over the weekend,
despite mostly hitting civilian targets in Israel Iran, and to
ramp up attacks with newer, more advanced missiles. They're also
threatening to shoot down additional US.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Planes N'SOLLDHMI MO.
Speaker 11 (06:09):
The enemy should know that we rely on new air
defense systems built by the young, knowledgeable, and proud people
of this country. Unveiling them one after another in the field,
we will certainly achieve full control of our country skies
and prove the humiliation of the weak enemy to the
world more than ever.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
The Iroonians can say what they want.
Speaker 9 (06:29):
The reality is thousands of US and Israeli sorties have
flown through the skies of Iran, striking military targets across
the country, and overnight the excellence of the US military
on display, setting special forces in to rescue that crew member.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
President Trump added to this at his press conference right
after the Easter egg roll at the White House earlier today.
Check this out.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
But these two extraordinary rescues, because it was tue and
as you probably know, we didn't talk about.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
The first one for an hour.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Then somebody leaked something which will hopefully find that leaker.
We're looking very hard to find that leaker and talked
about there's somebody missing. They basically said that we have
one and there's somebody missing. Well, they didn't know there
was somebody missing until this leaker gave the information. So
whoever it was, we think we'll be able to find
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it out because we're going to go to the media
company that released it and we're going to say national security,
give it up or go to jail, and we know
who and you know who we're talking about, because some
things you can't do. Because when they did that, all
of a sudden, the entire country of Iran knew that
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there was a pilot that was somewhere on their land
that was fighting for his life. And it also made
it much more difficult for the pilots and for the
people going in to search for him. All of a sudden,
they know that there's somebody out there, they see all
these planes coming in.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
It became a much more difficult operation.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Because a leaker leaked that we have one, we've rescued one,
but there's another one out there that we're trying to get.
So actually, the country Iran put out a major notice.
You all saw it offering a very big award for
anybody that captures the pilot. So in addition to a hostile,
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very talented, very good, very evil military, we had millions
of people trying to get an award. So when you
add that to it, But we have to find that leaker,
because that's a sick person. Probably didn't realize the extent
of how bad it was. I can't imagine that the
person did.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
But we're going to find out.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
It's national security and the person that did the story
will go to jail if he doesn't say and that
doesn't last long. And I think everybody would understand they
put this mission at great risk, They put that man
at great risk, and they put the hundreds of people
that went in looking for them. Because everyone now knows that.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
We're going in.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
President Trump harping on this and rightfully so getting after
who leaked the info. But give me some details about
how they lied to Iran lied to the world as
a ruse to say, hey, look, no, we got everything
we need. We got them all so that they wouldn't
look for them and were able to safely extract both
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the pilot and the Weapons Service officer just absolutely fantastic
rescuing this crew aboard the F fifteen eagle that went
down on Friday. And Amen, Praise God, hallelujah. Right, truly
an Eastern miracle, and I think both President Trump and
Secretary Hegseth both alluded to that in their remarks. Now,
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I also wanted to get into to the rest of
this because there was a tweet, a tweet that has
been making its rounds from President Trump, and this is
pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Listen to this language and not to social thus only
to make my point.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I think you've heard it before.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
And the truth social posts that they're talking about, well,
I got it right here in front of me. Let
me pull it right up. This is from Donald J.
Trump just last night. Tuesday will be power plant Day
and bridge Day all wrapped up into one. In Iran.
There will be nothing like it. Open the effing straight,
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you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. Just
watch Praise Be to Allah President Donald J. Trump. So
when they asked him, why did you use such harsh language,
and he said, to make my point. He made his
point right. That tweet went around the world. And now
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the question will be how serious is this line? In
the sand. Deadline going to be right, it's Monday night.
This is the deadline is now Tuesday night. It was
forty eight hours from last night, so eight pm on
Tuesday is the deadline. What will happen? I don't know.
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I don't know the answer. Something tells me. You know,
it's unfair, right, I'm like a coin right now. On
one side, you know, heads, I say, the Iranians come
with something that's not enough, but maybe enough to buy
them a little more time. Or the absolute other side,
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which is Trump just starts blowing stuff up. And don't
believe the hype. It wouldn't be war crimes.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
He's trying to be fair, trying to give them an out.
He's trying to end this thing. There's talk about a
forty five day ceasefire. There's all sorts of ideas and
proposals out there, but none of them have been enough.
So the question becomes what type of damage will be inflicted?
While he says bridges, he says power plant. I don't know.
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Some are saying they're going to use a short, minimal
damage way of taking out the power grid so that
it doesn't need to be rebuilt. But it is inoperable
for X amount of time. I don't know. I don't
know if Trump's going to accept their plans for a
forty five day ceasefire, but it seems like they want
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something other than what they're suggesting. Right, Iran rejecting a
new ceasefire proposal from the United States, insisting instead on
a permanent end to the conflict with firm guarantees against
future attacks. And this is what they're reporting, And they're saying,
the only thing he's got to agree to is to
let them collect tolls in the Strait of Hormuz. And
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in addition to collecting tolls in the Strait of Hormus,
they also want to be able to enrich uranium. So
these are terms that I think the President is not
going to accept. So the question becomes now when they
start taking out every bridge. Are these bridges that the military,
the Iranian military, the IRGC, is this infrastructure these power plants?
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Are they gaining their electricity to advance the war from
these power plants? Are they using these bridges to transport
their surface to ground, surface to air missiles air defense?
If so, then these are legitimate targets in the war,
and the United States has every right to take out
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any infrastructure that helps those people commit their war. So
these would not be war crimes. And you can't be,
you know, gullible and listen to everything the left is
telling you, and listen. I know you people are smart.
I'm not going to tell you that war is good.
I'm going to tell you that war is sometimes necessary.
(14:17):
I know that the people listening to this show are smart.
You guys are smart enough to know that gas prices
with no war whatsoever, right remember when there was no
war at all, we're a dollar higher than they are
right now during the Biden administration. I remember that, So
I know you're not going to believe the hype on
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that about the gas prices and whatnot. The first three
weeks of this war, there wasn't a major impact on gas.
Here we are thirty five, thirty six days now we're
seeing some impact on gas prices. Got it. Not saying
it's a good thing, not defending it, just saying it's
an expected reality and it's something that I think can
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be mitigated. The minute strike a deal with Iran, these
things roll right back and we're in a good place.
And what that deal looks like, I don't know. You
heard my conversation with Ambassador Wallace the other night, and
we were talking about how many layers deep, how many
leaders in this leadership do you need to kill off
before you hit you know, the Tutsi old center of
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a Tutsi pup right when you hit the layer that says, Look,
we're not as radical as mosh Taba, how many we're
not as radical as General Solomani, as Larajani. These guys
that are sold hook line and sinker on this lifestyle,
hell bent on destroying the Great Satan and the Little Satan,
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the United States and Israel. So what happens? Where do
we go? How does it look? I don't know. I
don't have those answers, but if I had to guess,
like I said, I think we're going to get either
another weak plead from the Iranians, which seems like we've
already gotten those. I don't think they're ever going to
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agree fully. So it looks like the only way out
of this is for Trump to hit them extraordinarily hard
and hopefully that will jolt them and wake them up.
I don't know, I really don't know, but this doesn't
help anybody. And even though we're at war, and Trump's
favorability is taking a hit. Democrats still aren't in the
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best place. We're gonna get into that straight ahead. I
want you to keep it locked right here. I am
Rich Valdest. Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
This is America.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
This is America or primal barah, richveld is e s
nous America.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
All right, I goes, welcome back for Melia. I am
Rich Valdez keeping a company this Monday night and CNN
having to make a report, and you know they never
like making a favorable Trump report, But CNN making a
report that ed Trompito's and all this magnus to forty
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seventh president of these United States might just in fact
be doing better than they expect. Now, like I just mentioned,
we're in the middle of a war. Wars help certain people,
like during nine to eleven they helped Georgie W. Bush.
But for the most part, wars hurt your favorability. Nobody
wants to be in war, and that's understandable. Well, CNN
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doing their data analysis and their chief data analyst, Harry Enton,
well he was reporting on this earlier. And let me
tell you, it doesn't seem like things are going that
great for the Democrats. I want you to listen to this.
Speaker 12 (17:59):
Just take a look at this net favorability party ahead
at this point midterm of years with a GOP president
in twenty eighteen, demsro up by twelve. In two thousand
and six on net favorability, which party you like more?
Demsro hit by eighteen. Republicans are actually ahead on net
favorability at this point by five points. So Democrats are
just simply put running behind their previous benchmarks, and they'd
be running well ahead of them if they want to
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take back the United States Senate.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Really funny piece in RedState dot Com that really kind
of outlines this, and I got it up in front
of me. I'll give you a little bit of it.
Really a very pithy, very tongue in cheek. But Democrats
face a five alarm fire as poles reveal historic favorability lows.
This is by Rusty Weiss, and this is, like I said,
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it's a chuckle for Shisel. Democrats better go find Jamal Bowman.
Someone needs to pull a five alarm fire and alert
them with the fire alarm that they don't have the
midterms locked up at least as far as the Senate
is concerned, they don't have it by any stretch of
the imagination. Now, the Democrats, who are the resistance party,
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are going down a path of trying to reclaim the
Senate Chamber in twenty twenty six. But despite their six
point lead, and that is a modest six point lead
on the generic congressional ballot, that advantage is historically low
for the opposing party under a Republican president. According to
CNN data guru Harry Enton, who you just heard, the
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numbers fall dreadfully short of the eight point edge Democrats
enjoyed in twenty eighteen and the eleven point lead in
two thousand and six. So yeah, Democrats are ahead, explained
Harry Enton to John Berman, the anchor on the show.
But they're only a head by five with a president
who'se approval rating is bordering a negative attorney, excuse me,
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negative twenty to negative thirty. Depending on what polls you're
looking at, you'd make the argument that Democrats should be
way ahea, yet they're only slightly ahead. Newsweek reports that
the new polling should be a warning to Democrats and
notes that the numbers continue to show Democrats are not
particularly strong amongst the electorate, largely due to frustration from
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their own voters, and that sucks. It's going to be
tough to get those voters motivated and out the door
on election day, especially for those living in Democrat districts
who actually vote on that day, because many Democrat districts
vote well in advance. But when your base can barely
stand you, this is what happens, right no wonder the
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DNC and the Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House
print ear Leader Hakim Jeffries have been panicking over President
Trump's executive order cracking down on mail and voting, and
that's part of the Save Act that he's been pushing
for now. In my neck of the woods, Senator Corey Booker,
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he said as that his party's dropping the ball ahead
of the midterms, saying this, excuse me, so proud of
the things my Democrat colleagues are doing, but as a whole,
our party has failed this moment. M He's right. He
said that to meet the press. Just last weekend on Friday,
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I played rom Emmanuel Obama's former chief of staff and
former mayor of Chicago, saying the same thing. He says
Democrats have crapped the bed on social issues, the ones
where they used to lead, now they're not leading anymore.
So whether the numbers translated into election results remains to
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be seen. There's a lot of Democrat voters who would
likely hold their nose and vote for whoever the Democrat
is then see the president or any Republican you know,
win and that could be for a number of reasons. Right,
I tend to think that some of the most left
wing are starting to realize, maybe just a little bit,
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that they may have gone over the deep end. And
what do I mean by that, Well, recently he saw
a group named Code Pink, a bunch of communist sympathizers
that flew to Cuba, rented a five star resort and
stayed there to support the Cubans from being overthrown by
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the evil Americans. Right, that's what they said. However, in reality,
what they saw broke their heart. And there's a guy
named Hassan Piker. I don't know him, but he apparently
he's very big with the gen Z crowd, has a
streaming program on Twitch and does really really well for
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a progressive leftist streamer. He's the top dog from what
I hear, and this guy, Hassan Piker, was shocked, saying
he couldn't believe the sites that he was seeing. And
I don't think he meant that. He was thrilled by
his brethren, the comrades. Listen to this, and it's a
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picture of what it's like on the ground. What'd you see?
Speaker 13 (23:11):
When I first landed in Cuba, was taken aback by
how beautiful everything was. You know, you got the nineteen
fifties cars and it's a tropical island destination. But very
quickly thereafter, as soon as we got into Havana, the
main city area where people congregate, I couldn't believe the
site that I was saying.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
It was very sad.
Speaker 13 (23:32):
You had homes that looked like they were bombed out.
Our tour guide at the time said that this was
somewhat of a product of hurricane season and how difficult
it is to repair these buildings. And I already had
known about the rolling blackouts, and I experienced them later
in the day and it was definitely unlike anything I've
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ever experienced before. Everything's pitch black, there aren't any traffic
lights on. It's crazy, right, But I was taking back
I was very sad by all the poverty that I saw,
and then I was very angry.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Paint us a picture of what it's like on the ground,
what'd you see.
Speaker 13 (24:09):
It was actually Ben Rhoades who told me that I
would get.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Very sad when I first wonnd Obama foreign policy advisor.
Speaker 13 (24:16):
Former Obama foreign policy advisor Ben Roads, who was, you know,
a formative in the in the previous normalization agreement with
Cuba that Barack Obama had orchestrated. And and he was right.
It was very sad to see, but then it was
very angering. It was very angry inducing because I felt like,
you know, there was a lot of potential on this
island that we were just robbing the people of and
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uh and and it's it's totally cruel and totally unnecessary.
And it was part of the reason why I went
to Cuba, because I've heard a lot about uh, you know,
Cuban organizing, the Cuban government. I'd read a lot about it.
I knew about the island's history of developing sovereignty, but
I'd also heard about this blockade right and I wanted
to figure out exactly how this blockade was was harm
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people directly and in many ways that are indirect, because
the blockade itself is designed to be invisible.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
It's a system of sanctions.
Speaker 13 (25:10):
It's this like bureaucratic nightmare that basically renders it impossible
for the island to do regular commerce just like any
other country. Banks can't take out loans from any other banks,
and you, as an American citizen, as a matter of fact,
have a lot of restrictions on what you can and
can't do, both on the island or if you want
to even send money if you have relatives on the island,
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it's a very difficult process that like directly send cash
payments to your relatives as well.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
It's totally unnecessary.
Speaker 13 (25:38):
These rules are so arbitrary, and yet they're so damaging
to everyone to everyday Cuban exists.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
So like most good com is, he's trying to blame
everything on the United States. Cuba is starving because of
what we are eating, right, And I learned a long
time ago, and I think you know this to be true,
that you'll never get fat off of what I eat,
meaning what I doing nothing to do with you. So
then why why is it that things are going so poorly?
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Why is it that if the United States, we wouldn't
fall apart if we had to become an isolationist place. Right,
if we never bought a piece of plastic and cheap
stuff from China, a lot of people would freak out.
There'd be a lot of withdrawal, and it would hurt
us in many ways, I'm sure. But we wouldn't die, right,
We would continue. We'd figure out other ways of doing things.
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Yet Cuba didn't figure out other ways of doing things.
And that's the part mister Piker seems to miss. He
seems to miss that. Okay, so your bank can't borrow
from my bank, But guess what your bank should have
money in it. Why doesn't it Why aren't they doing
commerce locally? Why aren't they growing chickens and selling chickens?
Why aren't they doing what they do? Why aren't they
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just allowing people to come to their gorgeous beaches? And
they do right? This has nothing to do with the blockade,
the embargo. We're just saying we won't do business with communists.
But guess what, there are other communists out there. Why
is that not filled with people from Russia, filled with
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people from previously from Iran, filled with people from all
the socialist bastions all over the world, the Red Chinese,
the Venezuelans. How come the hotels are even no frills
in many ways?
Speaker 14 (27:25):
Right?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
I know people have been to Cuban. They tell me
the five star restaurants aren't that great. The five star
hotel experience isn't what you're expecting. It's not the same
as the United States. The view is the same. The
beach is gorgeous and superior to most beaches, but when
it comes to everything else, they lose power like everybody
else that have to go on their backup generators. So
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then the question becomes, why is Hassan Piker so blinded?
Is he blinded by hate? Is he just willing to
turn a blind eye to seeing what the Cubans have
done with Castros in charge? First Fidel, then Raoul and
now ds Canel And apparently Marco Rubio is cutting a
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deal with one of the other Castros, a grandchild that's saying, hey, look,
things might be better if we deal with the Americans directly.
Why doesn't he realize that? Why doesn't he see the
upside the way I see the upside? I don't know.
I guess we'll have to just agree to disagree, but
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it doesn't change his first few comments. What he saw
was very sad and sadly they want to turn around
and blame the United States, El Trompito and everybody else.
And the only one that got to pass on that
was Obama because he was the most communist sympathetic president
we've ever had. All Right, well that's how that goes. Anyway,
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there is more to come. Straight ahead, we're going to
continue our conversation. I'm gonna give a little recap of
my Easter weekend as well as a couple more things.
I want to talk what the Space Shuttle Artemis. We're
gonna talk about that. They are about four thousand miles
ahead of the last US crew to go up to
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the Moon, and they're gonna go dark shortly because they're
going to be going behind the Moon as they travel
around the Moon and they will be losing their communications.
So Artemis two, the Space Shuttle will experience a comm's
blackout today and we'll bring you some news on that
as well, plus some warm words from the crew. This Easter,
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All right, amigos, welcome back, and I want to talk
to you a little bit about this crew, the crew
of the Artemis two. Now Artemis two is the spaceship
that launched last week and made its way or is
making its way round the Moon, and these astronauts are
back in lunar space for the first time in more
than fifty years. Artemis two, Orion's spacecraft Integrity, crossed into
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the Moon's gravitational influence at approximately twelve forty one Eastern
time on April sixth, that's earlier today, officially making NASA's
Reed Weisman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, as well as
the Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hanson, the first astronauts to
enter lunar space in more than half a century. How
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about that, right? I thought that was pretty wild. And
over the weekend, Victor Glover was sending a message with
respect to Easter and reflecting on God's creation and I
thought it was pretty awesome, so I want you to
hear it. Check it out.
Speaker 15 (31:19):
I'm glad you brought that up though. I think these
observances are important, and as we are so far from
Earth and looking back at, you know, the beauty of creation.
I think the for me, one of the really important
personal perspectives that I have up here is I can
really see Earth as one thing. And you know, when
I read the Bible and I look at all of
the amazing things that were done for us who were created,
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it's you have this amazing place, this spaceship. You guys
are talking to us because we're in a spaceship really
far from Earth, but you're on a spaceship called Earth
that was created to give us a place to live
in the universe and the Cosmos. Think maybe the distance
we are from you makes you think what we're doing
is special. But we're the same distance from you, and
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I'm trying to tell you, just trust me, you are special.
In all of this emptiness. This is a whole bunch
of nothing, this thing we call the universe, you have
this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together.
I think as we go into Easter, Sunday thinking about
you know, all the cultures all around the world, whether
you celebrated or not, whether you believe in God or not,
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this is an opportunity for us to remember where we are,
who we are, and that we are the same thing,
and that we got to get through this together.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
That was really nice. And they shared a war.
Speaker 9 (32:32):
Well for someone who didn't have anything prepared, that that
was really quite extraordinary.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
It really was quite extraordinary. That was a clip of
the news anchor that was playing that clip. And you
don't want to lose track of while you're of why
you're there and who we are while we're there, and
while they're not parking their spaceship in lunar orbit or
attempting a landing like Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. The
point where lunar gravity becomes more powerful than the Earth
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is can considered the arrival point to lunar space. It's
a threshold that only twenty four explorers have crossed until now,
and again this is a piece in the Epic Times,
Today's epic times. The crew was scheduled to wake up
at ten point fifty am, when a historic day of
firsts and breaking records and new opportunities for discoveries was
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just before them. They are the largest crew to fly
around the Moon, and they are expected to set a
new distance record for the farthest human beings have ever
traveled from Earth. They're also expected to observe areas of
the lunar surface that have never been seen before firsthand
by human eyes, and a complete solar eclipse before Lunar
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gravity essentially throws their spacecraft on a course back home.
So imagine that they don't even need gas while they're
up there, right, No jet fuel, none of that stuff,
because gravity will send them right back where they're coming from.
NASA's live coverage is expect to begin at one pm
Eastern Time today. You can follow the play by play.
At one point thirty, the crew will have a conversation
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with mission control. At two forty five, Artemis two seven
hour lunar flyby will officially begin, and the Integrity's course
will send the crew behind the Moon, passing on lookers
left and swinging by to re emerge on lookers right.
Pretty cool now. From their vantage point, the crew will
be able to see the elements of both the near
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and far size, with about twenty percent of the far
side eliminated, with plenty of opportunities to see things for
the first time that we've never seen before, at least
human eyes have never seen before. The crew will work
in pairs, observing the Moon in fifty five to eighty
five minute shifts due to the limited windows space. Juliengross,
Artemis sample curation lead, who was asked with helping choose
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these sites, praise the in person human observation as being
the best for being able to provide immediate descriptions compared
to the robotic spacecraft. So yet again humans outdo the
robots and that's nice something that she told The Epic Times.
She said the human brain is so good at looking
at a surface and immediately picking out those changes in
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the blink of an eye. Orbiters and spacecraft take months
and years to get their data. Lunar scientists also told
The Epic Times that there are spots on both the
far and near sides that they're very excited to see.
On the far side, some of those targets include Oriental Basin,
which is an older basin called Hertz Sprung h E
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r t Z s p r U n g heurts Sprung.
On the near side, Gross said she was most excited
to observe the Aristitchios plateau. I'm sure I'm saying that wrong.
It's the Brooklyn and me it's the Brooklyn pronunciation. Kelsey Young.
This is the science lead aboard. Artemists too, said that
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the crew will also be able to see the Apollo
twelve and Apollo fourteen landing sites. How cool is that?
So excellent stuff here, and eventually they'll be going dark
when they lose their connectivity. By six forty five PM,
Artemis two will witness an Earth set and experience a
loss of communication with mission control as the Moon's position
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moves directly between Integrity and the Earth, just like the
Apollo missions that came before it. At seven oh two,
Artemis two is expected to make its closest pass to
the lunar surface, at an altitude of approximately just four
thousand miles. At that distance, mission leaders say that the
Moon will appear the size of a basketball held at
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arm's length. That distance will give Integrity astronauts a unique
perspective compared to those of Apollo, who flew much closer.
At seven to twenty five PM, communication is supposed to
be reacquired, and then Earth rise will be observed at
nine to twenty pm. Lunar observations are expected to be completed,
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and and it goes on and on and on until
about our time. So we'll give you an update on
that tomorrow. But I just wanted to share some of
that with you. I was getting bored of the article,
so I'm going to stop reading it. But it's not
a boring topic, right, It's a pretty interesting topic to
hear people going around the moon and that type of exploration.
And I know there's a lot of skeptics that think
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we didn't do it before, or that this is the
first time. There's some skeptics that don't even think we're
doing it this time. So take it as you will.
But I think it's a pretty cool thing. And I'm
just wondering if you know, they're going to come back
with stories about new life, right the way we have
new life in Christ with the resurrection of Jesus for
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Easter Sunday, will we have new life on the moon? Right?
Do we have little moon friends like we have on
Mars with the Martians. I'm just speculating, right, I think
I don't think those have been confirmed. Anyway, we'll discuss
that and so much more straight ahead. I'll give you
my recap on Easter Sunday and a couple other items
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that I want to get to. Don't go anywhere, We're
coming right back. I'm Rich Valdez.
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You have some NBA news out of Chicago. On Monday,
the Bulls release guarred Jaden Ivy for comments baby detrimental
to the team after Ivy posted some anti gay sediments
in a lengthy social media post. Ivy specifically took exception
to the NBA's Embrace of Pride month, citing the league's
quote unrighteousness end quote. Ivy has been active on social
media lately, vocalizing his religious views. Ivy's mother, Nielle, is
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the head women's basketball coach at Notre Dame right up
the road at South Bend.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Now, while it's their right to do what they do,
why exactly is the NBA, or better said, the Chicago
Bulls franchise, why are they specifically doing this now? If
this guy wants to say I don't like what the
NBA does that's fine. Listen, most employers if you trash them,
if you say I don't like that my boss does
this or this or this. Whether you work for Donald
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Trump or you work for a big radio company doesn't matter.
They're within their rights to say, hey, you're not allowed
to disparage the work we do here. You're supposed to
be part of the team. That's a term of our
employment agreement. That makes sense. I'm on board with that,
But I think when you're a person that's saying, look,
I am embracing my faith, and as a matter of
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my I no longer agree with these statements. I don't
like this, and I want to be on the record
saying that. This is very different than saying I don't
like the tablecloths they use at my restaurant or whatever.
And it falls into free speech, it falls into a
lot of other things. Now, granted, none of us have
free speech at work per se. Right, maybe I do,
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But someone could come to me and be within their
rights and say, hey, look, you keep trashing our company.
I don't want you doing it, and they be legally
within their rights. Because I'm not in the public square.
I'm working, so I get that I'm not here to
make the case against the Chicago Bulls for violating some
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sort of right or committing a crime. But I'm going
to say, what is up with this embrace? It's not
like it's a huge portion of our population that is
even gay. What gives? Where did all this pressure come from?
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And why? Well, there's an old saying that the squeaky
wheel gets the grease, right, squeaky wheel gets the oil.
Now that's true. I get that if you complain enough.
We've seen it in many different places, a bunch of
places where a minority of people will make enough noise
to get a majority's attention. The Marxist through this all
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the time. But to what end? What is the real
purpose here? And I asked these questions because mister Jaden
Ivy he shares his thoughts on Instagram. I have a
clip here of him, you know, taking exception to how
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they've treated him, And I thought this was very just
worth listening to listen to this.
Speaker 18 (41:53):
They said, my conduct is detrimental to the team. Right,
Why didn't they just say, uh, we we don't agree
with his stance on lgbt Q. Yeah, why didn't they
say that? But how how is it? How is it
conduct detrimental to the team? What did I do to
the team? What did I do to the players? I
did nothing but but but practice with them, play with them,
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passed the ball to them. Good teammates to them, said
good job, good shot. I said, I said, uh uh,
good job, good job, good past. Way to play bro right, I.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Said these things to my teammates.
Speaker 18 (42:32):
Was never detrimental to them. So why is it that
the NBA and the Chicago Bulls say that I'm detrimental
to the team. How because I because I have because
I believe in the truth, Because because I know Jesus
is the Way, the truth, and the life.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
Amen.
Speaker 18 (42:54):
How how is my conduct detrimental to the team because
because of what I believe, because of what the truth is.
He goes on that the world can proclaim l G
B t Q.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
Right.
Speaker 18 (43:13):
They have, they have, They proclaim Pride months and the
NBA they proclaim it. They they show it to the world,
they say, come, come, come join us for pride, for
Pride Month, to celebrate unrighteousness. They proclaim it. They proclaim
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it on the billboards, they proclaim it in the streets, unrighteousness.
So how is it that that one can't speak righteousness?
Speaker 3 (43:49):
How is it one that?
Speaker 18 (43:51):
How? How how are they to say that? Uh? You
you man, this man is crazy. I'm not. I'm not
the the jail used to be put, the old jazz dead.
A lot of christ you know, no matter what the
basketball setting is, you know, I'm born again the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 16 (44:15):
You know, I've been saved by Jesus Christ. No matter what.
Speaker 18 (44:20):
How many d MPs I don't get to play, or no.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
Matter now Jade and Ivy j I would not be
the first Christian to be kicked off his team, to
be waived, to lose a job, to be censored, to
be ostracized because of his faith. In fact, that's kind
of commonplace for Christians in many ways in recent history.
But that's a whole separate point. The bottom line is here,
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I want to take a moment to congratulate the guy
and tell him, Hey, good for you. I'm glad you're
saying what you want to say. You're speaking your truth,
and you've found a place to do it. And I
could recommend a few more, right Rumble, great place to
tell your truth some of the pod cast platforms. Also,
maybe the Chicago Bulls is not the best place for
you to tell the truth? Got it? And I believe
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that what God has for you will come your way.
But it opens up the conversation to a bigger question,
and the question is why is there such promotion of
this movement? What's in it for anybody? Why is there
such a push? And all I could tell you is
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there's a number of reasons, I'm sure, but the one
that's explained in this video by a man that has
very long green hair. He's wearing makeup and a Louis
Vatan shirt and he looks like a woman. Right, he's
dressed as a woman, he's acting as a woman, but
he is a man and it looks like he's on
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a show called Him and Her. And this is a
very interesting take, right this guy, I believe he goes
by the name jeffree Star, and he is I'm gonna
dare say gay looking if he's not trans. But listen
to what he had to say. Very interesting.
Speaker 14 (46:18):
The alphabet sweetie should be in your own category. Okay,
let me break it down for you. Straights, lesbian, gay
and bye. Is that not a sexuality? That's a sexuality? Okay, right, Okay,
your what you think your identity is has nothing to
do with what you're sexually attracted to. So why is
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T and Q on LGB T And now what I
that means LGB gay lesbian and by that is your
preference of who you are attracted to and what you like,
your identity issues and who you think you are is.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
So step Now this is patriot Anna, a lesbian that's
on the social media who wants to react to this,
and I thought her explanation was fantastic. Listen to this.
Speaker 19 (47:08):
I'm an agreement, Jeffrey. The eye stands for intersex, the
Q and the plus queer and then maps. Yep, it's
a whole thing. They're trying to normalize pedophilia. Let's take
a gander at this.
Speaker 11 (47:23):
So there we have it.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
Now. You know that, I don't know if it was
last summer or two summers ago, maybe even three summers ago,
the term maps became very popular minor attracted person or
the plural form m AP, m aps maps, and people
were freaking out about this, saying, hold on a second,
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don't try normalize pedophilia, and they were like, no, we're
not normalizing pedophilia. Pedophilia is a disease. We're normalizing the
people that suffer from that as minor attracted persons, and
we shouldn't ostracize them for being sick. And this is
how they're painting this was thinking to myself, someone who
is attracted to a child, and they try to separate
it by saying, just because you're attracted to a child
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doesn't mean that you're a rapist. Child rapists and pedophiles
are not the same. If you're a pedophile, you're just
suffering from this disease. You become a child rapist when
you give in to the disease. And I thought to myself,
look at this, an apologist for child molesters. How sick
and it hasn't been widely accepted, but there are a
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few people that have sipped on the kool aid. But
she goes on.
Speaker 19 (48:33):
Anti discrimination bill for gender attracted and same sex attracted pedophilia.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
Bill.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 19 (48:47):
So to understand their disgusting flag, the minor is attracted persons,
the other blues little boys, Pink represents little girls, Jellers
is attracted both, while wight represents their attracted to the innocence.
If you support this at all, you cannot say you
care about children at all. I can't believe I even
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have to make a video about this. This is not
the shit I marched for as an og lesbian.
Speaker 16 (49:18):
Mm hmm, nope.
Speaker 19 (49:21):
Sexual identity and sexual attraction are two different things. And
by the way, Jeffrey, there is something. It's called the
USA LGB Alliance Lesbian Gay Bisexual only we've been divorced
from a TQ plus and it's going to stay that way.
Get your wood chippers ready, because these folks are trying
to get rights.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
So they're trying to get rights, and looks she's right.
I was listening to a clip from a radio show
out of Philadelphia where somebody called in. A caller called
into like a morning radio show, not a talk radio
show where they talk about the news and commentary like
I do, but like a morning show, just like a
fun morning show where they talk about music and you
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know what Oprah did over the weekend or whatever. And
somebody called in and was making the case for why
we should support the pedophiles. And kudos to the hosts
of that show for saying, hold on a second, this
sounds like you're trying to make excuses for pedophiles and
we're not having it. Do we have that clip. All right,
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we do check it out Q one O two Radio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
I think this was twenty twenty four. Check this out.
Speaker 20 (50:32):
With IPCE if you don't know. That's International Pedophile and
Child Emancipation and our goal is to abolish the stigmatization
of people with pedophilia sexual interests in normalizing the potential
role and moderating pedophiles emotional well being. I know that's
a mouthful.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
Well, that's tar we get any further.
Speaker 4 (50:52):
Are we saying right now? Yeah, this is sounds disgusting.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
Are you saying you're a pedophile.
Speaker 20 (50:58):
No, I'm not saying that I'm a pedophile in the
sense that I've never had sexual relations with a person
under age. Accept because I'll illegal. Well, I just don't
believe we should be shunting those in our community that
have desires to engage in a romantic relationship with someone
in a drastically different age group.
Speaker 3 (51:15):
So you're saying you support pedophiles.
Speaker 20 (51:18):
I'm saying I support love. And just because America views
ages like eighteen as some sort of imaginary bar or
a line in the sand for humans to engage romantic
relationships doesn't mean it's right.
Speaker 15 (51:29):
So you don't see anything wrong with a tween year
old dating a twelve year old.
Speaker 20 (51:34):
That's not what I'm saying. But listen, in Nigeria, the
age of consent is eleven. It's fourteen in other countries
like Brazil Colombia. If we're taking them, excuse me, if
we're taking a month as a country to showcase our
pride for other communities of sexual explorations, then I think
we should add the letter P, which is just as
important as the LGB and T. I work with IPCEE.
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If you don't know, that's International Pedophile and Child Emancipation.
Speaker 3 (52:05):
Now, this woman, I thought wholeheartedly that this was a prank,
that they were doing this to push the troll. It
turns out that there are really people like this. And
I've played this clip several times on the show over
the last year or two to make the point that
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it seems like it's crazy and fake and wild to
you and to me, But there are people out there,
excuse me, that eat this whole thing up. They're truly
out there. These are the same people that they'll pick
up any cause, any cause, just to go against the grain,
you know, oh no, because they love the underdog. We
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can't be this dumb and we can't be this supportive
of evil. We've got to pay attention to what's going on.
So kudos to Jada and Ivy for calling things as
they are and standing on his business. Ten does down
is what I believe, and I'm not moving. Good for you, sir,
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because the minute you move is the minute you sound
like this woman here from Icpe. How crazy is that? Anyway? More?
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Yesterday was Resurrection Sunday. I want to get into a
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what that was like over the weekend. But interestingly, over
the weekend, President Trump was presumed to be Mia. Now,
you know, the fake news media, like he says, oh,
the fake news, look of the fake news all the
way in the back, because he puts his hand over
his eyebrow. He isn't usually wrong on this stuff, right,
The fake news was making all sorts of cases of
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why he is missing in action? Trump canceling a trip
tomorrow Lago, which is unlike him, right. Well, obviously this
was because of the breaking news we heard on Friday
where a pilot was retrieved but a Weapons Service officer,
the other member of the flight crew on the down
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to F fifteen that went down on Good Friday. Well
guess what that person was Mia, and they needed to
find him, and a massive search and rescue operation went
into you know, was underway. And this was a very
very big deal, right, very very very big deal. I
thought that was quite miraculous. Both Secretary Henk Seth and
(02:21):
as well as I'm forgetting his name, John Ratcliffe, the
CIA director, both of them definitely chiming in on that
and the press conference that the President hosted earlier today,
and I got a clip on that. Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It's a great honor to be with you.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
And happy Easter. We had a great easter. This is
one of our better easters. I think in a lot
of different ways. I can say militarily, it's been one
of the best.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
That is President Trump again at his press conference earlier
today and emphasizing the importance of how well things worked
out over.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
The You don't come out like we came out Easter break.
God was watching us. Well, it was the Easter.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
We were in the Easter territory, I guess, but God
was watching this.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Amazing. You don't come out like we came out.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
God was definitely watching the President and all of the
folks that were mia. Apparently it was two people instead
of one person. Wait till you hear about this.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
This is a Fox News alert on Bridge Judson Live
in New York. The missing crew member from the F
fifteen to E fighter jets shot down over Iranian Territory Friday,
has been rescued after an hour's long search. There was
reportedly a heavy firefight before the crew members were taken
safely out of Iranian territory for now, and more on this,
we go to our chief National Security correspondent, Jennifer Griffin
(03:47):
on the phone. Who's confirmed and reporting on the details
of all of this.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Jennifer rich that's right.
Speaker 8 (03:54):
I can confirm that the second crew member of the
down to S fifteen E fighter jet has been rested.
You to end that he and the members of the
rescue team that extracted him from behind enemy lines in
Iran are all safely out of Iran. That is according
to two senior US officials and multiple well placed sources
in the region.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Well wait, there's more. We had a little bit more
detail on this from Trey yinst listen to this.
Speaker 9 (04:21):
For the US crew member who was missing in southwestern
Iran after his F fifteen fighter jet was shot down
has been rescued.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
The successful extraction.
Speaker 9 (04:30):
Was announced by President Trump overnight on True Social The
President simply said we got him, before providing new details
that dozens of US military aircraft were used to retrieve
him as US leadership tracked his location. It was a
daring operation that included hundreds of US forces racing against
the clock to rescue the crew member.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Fox News has.
Speaker 9 (04:51):
Learned that after the fighter jet was shot down on Friday,
the weapons systems officer hiked to an elevated mountain ridge,
where he hid and waited for retrieval. The pilot of
the jet was rescued by US special forces on Friday,
but President Trump said they waited to confirm as to
not jeopardize this second operation. The President added quote, this
is the first time in military memory that two US
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pilots had been rescued separately deep.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
In enemy territory.
Speaker 9 (05:15):
The IDF said they avoided striking this area as American
planes and helicopters flew at a low altitude, hoping to
find any sign of the service member. Israeli forces, however,
ramped up air strikes over the weekend in other areas,
targeting Iran's petrochemical plants. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu added
this about the operation.
Speaker 10 (05:35):
Minsta I promised you that we would continue to crush
the terrorist regime into Iran, and that is exactly what
we are doing. After we destroyed seventy percent of their
steel production capacity, which serves as raw material for their weapons.
Today we struck the petrochemical plants.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
While Israel went on the offensive.
Speaker 9 (05:53):
They also took numerous incoming ballistic missiles over the weekend,
despite mostly hitting civilian targets in Israel Iran, and to
ramp up attacks with newer, more advanced missiles. They're also
threatening to shoot down additional US.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Planes N'SOLLDHMI MO.
Speaker 11 (06:09):
The enemy should know that we rely on new air
defense systems built by the young, knowledgeable, and proud people
of this country. Unveiling them one after another in the field,
we will certainly achieve full control of our country skies
and prove the humiliation of the weak enemy to the
world more than ever.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
The Iroonians can say what they want.
Speaker 9 (06:29):
The reality is thousands of US and Israeli sorties have
flown through the skies of Iran, striking military targets across
the country, and overnight the excellence of the US military
on display, setting special forces in to rescue that crew member.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
President Trump added to this at his press conference right
after the Easter egg roll at the White House earlier today.
Check this out.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
But these two extraordinary rescues, because it was tue and
as you probably know, we didn't talk about.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
The first one for an hour.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Then somebody leaked something which will hopefully find that leaker.
We're looking very hard to find that leaker and talked
about there's somebody missing. They basically said that we have
one and there's somebody missing. Well, they didn't know there
was somebody missing until this leaker gave the information. So
whoever it was, we think we'll be able to find
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it out because we're going to go to the media
company that released it and we're going to say national security,
give it up or go to jail, and we know
who and you know who we're talking about, because some
things you can't do. Because when they did that, all
of a sudden, the entire country of Iran knew that
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there was a pilot that was somewhere on their land
that was fighting for his life. And it also made
it much more difficult for the pilots and for the
people going in to search for him. All of a sudden,
they know that there's somebody out there, they see all
these planes coming in.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
It became a much more difficult operation.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Because a leaker leaked that we have one, we've rescued one,
but there's another one out there that we're trying to get.
So actually, the country Iran put out a major notice.
You all saw it offering a very big award for
anybody that captures the pilot. So in addition to a hostile,
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very talented, very good, very evil military, we had millions
of people trying to get an award. So when you
add that to it, But we have to find that leaker,
because that's a sick person. Probably didn't realize the extent
of how bad it was. I can't imagine that the
person did.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
But we're going to find out.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
It's national security and the person that did the story
will go to jail if he doesn't say and that
doesn't last long. And I think everybody would understand they
put this mission at great risk, They put that man
at great risk, and they put the hundreds of people
that went in looking for them. Because everyone now knows that.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
We're going in.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
President Trump harping on this and rightfully so getting after
who leaked the info. But give me some details about
how they lied to Iran lied to the world as
a ruse to say, hey, look, no, we got everything
we need. We got them all so that they wouldn't
look for them and were able to safely extract both
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the pilot and the Weapons Service officer just absolutely fantastic
rescuing this crew aboard the F fifteen eagle that went
down on Friday. And Amen, Praise God, hallelujah. Right, truly
an Eastern miracle, and I think both President Trump and
Secretary Hegseth both alluded to that in their remarks. Now,
(09:58):
I also wanted to get into to the rest of
this because there was a tweet, a tweet that has
been making its rounds from President Trump, and this is
pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Listen to this language and not to social thus only
to make my point.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I think you've heard it before.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
And the truth social posts that they're talking about, well,
I got it right here in front of me. Let
me pull it right up. This is from Donald J.
Trump just last night. Tuesday will be power plant Day
and bridge Day all wrapped up into one. In Iran.
There will be nothing like it. Open the effing straight,
(10:41):
you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. Just
watch Praise Be to Allah President Donald J. Trump. So
when they asked him, why did you use such harsh language,
and he said, to make my point. He made his
point right. That tweet went around the world. And now
(11:05):
the question will be how serious is this line? In
the sand. Deadline going to be right, it's Monday night.
This is the deadline is now Tuesday night. It was
forty eight hours from last night, so eight pm on
Tuesday is the deadline. What will happen? I don't know.
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I don't know the answer. Something tells me. You know,
it's unfair, right, I'm like a coin right now. On
one side, you know, heads, I say, the Iranians come
with something that's not enough, but maybe enough to buy
them a little more time. Or the absolute other side,
(11:49):
which is Trump just starts blowing stuff up. And don't
believe the hype. It wouldn't be war crimes.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
He's trying to be fair, trying to give them an out.
He's trying to end this thing. There's talk about a
forty five day ceasefire. There's all sorts of ideas and
proposals out there, but none of them have been enough.
So the question becomes what type of damage will be inflicted?
While he says bridges, he says power plant. I don't know.
(12:24):
Some are saying they're going to use a short, minimal
damage way of taking out the power grid so that
it doesn't need to be rebuilt. But it is inoperable
for X amount of time. I don't know. I don't
know if Trump's going to accept their plans for a
forty five day ceasefire, but it seems like they want
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something other than what they're suggesting. Right, Iran rejecting a
new ceasefire proposal from the United States, insisting instead on
a permanent end to the conflict with firm guarantees against
future attacks. And this is what they're reporting, And they're saying,
the only thing he's got to agree to is to
let them collect tolls in the Strait of Hormuz. And
(13:09):
in addition to collecting tolls in the Strait of Hormus,
they also want to be able to enrich uranium. So
these are terms that I think the President is not
going to accept. So the question becomes now when they
start taking out every bridge. Are these bridges that the military,
the Iranian military, the IRGC, is this infrastructure these power plants?
(13:33):
Are they gaining their electricity to advance the war from
these power plants? Are they using these bridges to transport
their surface to ground, surface to air missiles air defense?
If so, then these are legitimate targets in the war,
and the United States has every right to take out
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any infrastructure that helps those people commit their war. So
these would not be war crimes. And you can't be,
you know, gullible and listen to everything the left is
telling you, and listen. I know you people are smart.
I'm not going to tell you that war is good.
I'm going to tell you that war is sometimes necessary.
(14:17):
I know that the people listening to this show are smart.
You guys are smart enough to know that gas prices
with no war whatsoever, right remember when there was no
war at all, we're a dollar higher than they are
right now during the Biden administration. I remember that, So
I know you're not going to believe the hype on
(14:38):
that about the gas prices and whatnot. The first three
weeks of this war, there wasn't a major impact on gas.
Here we are thirty five, thirty six days now we're
seeing some impact on gas prices. Got it. Not saying
it's a good thing, not defending it, just saying it's
an expected reality and it's something that I think can
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be mitigated. The minute strike a deal with Iran, these
things roll right back and we're in a good place.
And what that deal looks like, I don't know. You
heard my conversation with Ambassador Wallace the other night, and
we were talking about how many layers deep, how many
leaders in this leadership do you need to kill off
before you hit you know, the Tutsi old center of
(15:20):
a Tutsi pup right when you hit the layer that says, Look,
we're not as radical as mosh Taba, how many we're
not as radical as General Solomani, as Larajani. These guys
that are sold hook line and sinker on this lifestyle,
hell bent on destroying the Great Satan and the Little Satan,
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the United States and Israel. So what happens? Where do
we go? How does it look? I don't know. I
don't have those answers, but if I had to guess,
like I said, I think we're going to get either
another weak plead from the Iranians, which seems like we've
already gotten those. I don't think they're ever going to
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agree fully. So it looks like the only way out
of this is for Trump to hit them extraordinarily hard
and hopefully that will jolt them and wake them up.
I don't know, I really don't know, but this doesn't
help anybody. And even though we're at war, and Trump's
favorability is taking a hit. Democrats still aren't in the
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best place. We're gonna get into that straight ahead. I
want you to keep it locked right here. I am
Rich Valdest. Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
This is America.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
This is America or primal barah, richveld is e s
nous America.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
All right, I goes, welcome back for Melia. I am
Rich Valdez keeping a company this Monday night and CNN
having to make a report, and you know they never
like making a favorable Trump report, But CNN making a
report that ed Trompito's and all this magnus to forty
(17:20):
seventh president of these United States might just in fact
be doing better than they expect. Now, like I just mentioned,
we're in the middle of a war. Wars help certain people,
like during nine to eleven they helped Georgie W. Bush.
But for the most part, wars hurt your favorability. Nobody
wants to be in war, and that's understandable. Well, CNN
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doing their data analysis and their chief data analyst, Harry Enton,
well he was reporting on this earlier. And let me
tell you, it doesn't seem like things are going that
great for the Democrats. I want you to listen to this.
Speaker 12 (17:59):
Just take a look at this net favorability party ahead
at this point midterm of years with a GOP president
in twenty eighteen, demsro up by twelve. In two thousand
and six on net favorability, which party you like more?
Demsro hit by eighteen. Republicans are actually ahead on net
favorability at this point by five points. So Democrats are
just simply put running behind their previous benchmarks, and they'd
be running well ahead of them if they want to
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take back the United States Senate.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Really funny piece in RedState dot Com that really kind
of outlines this, and I got it up in front
of me. I'll give you a little bit of it.
Really a very pithy, very tongue in cheek. But Democrats
face a five alarm fire as poles reveal historic favorability lows.
This is by Rusty Weiss, and this is, like I said,
(18:47):
it's a chuckle for Shisel. Democrats better go find Jamal Bowman.
Someone needs to pull a five alarm fire and alert
them with the fire alarm that they don't have the
midterms locked up at least as far as the Senate
is concerned, they don't have it by any stretch of
the imagination. Now, the Democrats, who are the resistance party,
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are going down a path of trying to reclaim the
Senate Chamber in twenty twenty six. But despite their six
point lead, and that is a modest six point lead
on the generic congressional ballot, that advantage is historically low
for the opposing party under a Republican president. According to
CNN data guru Harry Enton, who you just heard, the
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numbers fall dreadfully short of the eight point edge Democrats
enjoyed in twenty eighteen and the eleven point lead in
two thousand and six. So yeah, Democrats are ahead, explained
Harry Enton to John Berman, the anchor on the show.
But they're only a head by five with a president
who'se approval rating is bordering a negative attorney, excuse me,
(19:53):
negative twenty to negative thirty. Depending on what polls you're
looking at, you'd make the argument that Democrats should be
way ahea, yet they're only slightly ahead. Newsweek reports that
the new polling should be a warning to Democrats and
notes that the numbers continue to show Democrats are not
particularly strong amongst the electorate, largely due to frustration from
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their own voters, and that sucks. It's going to be
tough to get those voters motivated and out the door
on election day, especially for those living in Democrat districts
who actually vote on that day, because many Democrat districts
vote well in advance. But when your base can barely
stand you, this is what happens, right no wonder the
(20:39):
DNC and the Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House
print ear Leader Hakim Jeffries have been panicking over President
Trump's executive order cracking down on mail and voting, and
that's part of the Save Act that he's been pushing
for now. In my neck of the woods, Senator Corey Booker,
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he said as that his party's dropping the ball ahead
of the midterms, saying this, excuse me, so proud of
the things my Democrat colleagues are doing, but as a whole,
our party has failed this moment. M He's right. He
said that to meet the press. Just last weekend on Friday,
(21:20):
I played rom Emmanuel Obama's former chief of staff and
former mayor of Chicago, saying the same thing. He says
Democrats have crapped the bed on social issues, the ones
where they used to lead, now they're not leading anymore.
So whether the numbers translated into election results remains to
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be seen. There's a lot of Democrat voters who would
likely hold their nose and vote for whoever the Democrat
is then see the president or any Republican you know,
win and that could be for a number of reasons. Right,
I tend to think that some of the most left
wing are starting to realize, maybe just a little bit,
(22:03):
that they may have gone over the deep end. And
what do I mean by that, Well, recently he saw
a group named Code Pink, a bunch of communist sympathizers
that flew to Cuba, rented a five star resort and
stayed there to support the Cubans from being overthrown by
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the evil Americans. Right, that's what they said. However, in reality,
what they saw broke their heart. And there's a guy
named Hassan Piker. I don't know him, but he apparently
he's very big with the gen Z crowd, has a
streaming program on Twitch and does really really well for
(22:45):
a progressive leftist streamer. He's the top dog from what
I hear, and this guy, Hassan Piker, was shocked, saying
he couldn't believe the sites that he was seeing. And
I don't think he meant that. He was thrilled by
his brethren, the comrades. Listen to this, and it's a
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picture of what it's like on the ground. What'd you see?
Speaker 13 (23:11):
When I first landed in Cuba, was taken aback by
how beautiful everything was. You know, you got the nineteen
fifties cars and it's a tropical island destination. But very
quickly thereafter, as soon as we got into Havana, the
main city area where people congregate, I couldn't believe the
site that I was saying.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
It was very sad.
Speaker 13 (23:32):
You had homes that looked like they were bombed out.
Our tour guide at the time said that this was
somewhat of a product of hurricane season and how difficult
it is to repair these buildings. And I already had
known about the rolling blackouts, and I experienced them later
in the day and it was definitely unlike anything I've
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ever experienced before. Everything's pitch black, there aren't any traffic
lights on. It's crazy, right, But I was taking back
I was very sad by all the poverty that I saw,
and then I was very angry.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Paint us a picture of what it's like on the ground,
what'd you see.
Speaker 13 (24:09):
It was actually Ben Rhoades who told me that I
would get.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Very sad when I first wonnd Obama foreign policy advisor.
Speaker 13 (24:16):
Former Obama foreign policy advisor Ben Roads, who was, you know,
a formative in the in the previous normalization agreement with
Cuba that Barack Obama had orchestrated. And and he was right.
It was very sad to see, but then it was
very angering. It was very angry inducing because I felt like,
you know, there was a lot of potential on this
island that we were just robbing the people of and
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uh and and it's it's totally cruel and totally unnecessary.
And it was part of the reason why I went
to Cuba, because I've heard a lot about uh, you know,
Cuban organizing, the Cuban government. I'd read a lot about it.
I knew about the island's history of developing sovereignty, but
I'd also heard about this blockade right and I wanted
to figure out exactly how this blockade was was harm
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people directly and in many ways that are indirect, because
the blockade itself is designed to be invisible.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
It's a system of sanctions.
Speaker 13 (25:10):
It's this like bureaucratic nightmare that basically renders it impossible
for the island to do regular commerce just like any
other country. Banks can't take out loans from any other banks,
and you, as an American citizen, as a matter of fact,
have a lot of restrictions on what you can and
can't do, both on the island or if you want
to even send money if you have relatives on the island,
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it's a very difficult process that like directly send cash
payments to your relatives as well.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
It's totally unnecessary.
Speaker 13 (25:38):
These rules are so arbitrary, and yet they're so damaging
to everyone to everyday Cuban exists.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
So like most good com is, he's trying to blame
everything on the United States. Cuba is starving because of
what we are eating, right, And I learned a long
time ago, and I think you know this to be true,
that you'll never get fat off of what I eat,
meaning what I doing nothing to do with you. So
then why why is it that things are going so poorly?
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Why is it that if the United States, we wouldn't
fall apart if we had to become an isolationist place. Right,
if we never bought a piece of plastic and cheap
stuff from China, a lot of people would freak out.
There'd be a lot of withdrawal, and it would hurt
us in many ways, I'm sure. But we wouldn't die, right,
We would continue. We'd figure out other ways of doing things.
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Yet Cuba didn't figure out other ways of doing things.
And that's the part mister Piker seems to miss. He
seems to miss that. Okay, so your bank can't borrow
from my bank, But guess what your bank should have
money in it. Why doesn't it Why aren't they doing
commerce locally? Why aren't they growing chickens and selling chickens?
Why aren't they doing what they do? Why aren't they
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just allowing people to come to their gorgeous beaches? And
they do right? This has nothing to do with the blockade,
the embargo. We're just saying we won't do business with communists.
But guess what, there are other communists out there. Why
is that not filled with people from Russia, filled with
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people from previously from Iran, filled with people from all
the socialist bastions all over the world, the Red Chinese,
the Venezuelans. How come the hotels are even no frills
in many ways?
Speaker 14 (27:25):
Right?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
I know people have been to Cuban. They tell me
the five star restaurants aren't that great. The five star
hotel experience isn't what you're expecting. It's not the same
as the United States. The view is the same. The
beach is gorgeous and superior to most beaches, but when
it comes to everything else, they lose power like everybody
else that have to go on their backup generators. So
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then the question becomes, why is Hassan Piker so blinded?
Is he blinded by hate? Is he just willing to
turn a blind eye to seeing what the Cubans have
done with Castros in charge? First Fidel, then Raoul and
now ds Canel And apparently Marco Rubio is cutting a
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deal with one of the other Castros, a grandchild that's saying, hey, look,
things might be better if we deal with the Americans directly.
Why doesn't he realize that? Why doesn't he see the
upside the way I see the upside? I don't know.
I guess we'll have to just agree to disagree, but
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it doesn't change his first few comments. What he saw
was very sad and sadly they want to turn around
and blame the United States, El Trompito and everybody else.
And the only one that got to pass on that
was Obama because he was the most communist sympathetic president
we've ever had. All Right, well that's how that goes. Anyway,
(28:51):
there is more to come. Straight ahead, we're going to
continue our conversation. I'm gonna give a little recap of
my Easter weekend as well as a couple more things.
I want to talk what the Space Shuttle Artemis. We're
gonna talk about that. They are about four thousand miles
ahead of the last US crew to go up to
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the Moon, and they're gonna go dark shortly because they're
going to be going behind the Moon as they travel
around the Moon and they will be losing their communications.
So Artemis two, the Space Shuttle will experience a comm's
blackout today and we'll bring you some news on that
as well, plus some warm words from the crew. This Easter,
(29:35):
don't go anywhere. I'm rich about that.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
This is America. This is America.
Speaker 12 (29:52):
The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
to speak with Rich Valdes.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Oh, very good, bugg and honor. Thanks Rich.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
The honor is all yours, conservative time with a dash
of sofrito.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Now here's Rich Valdez.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
All right, amigos, welcome back, and I want to talk
to you a little bit about this crew, the crew
of the Artemis two. Now Artemis two is the spaceship
that launched last week and made its way or is
making its way round the Moon, and these astronauts are
back in lunar space for the first time in more
than fifty years. Artemis two, Orion's spacecraft Integrity, crossed into
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the Moon's gravitational influence at approximately twelve forty one Eastern
time on April sixth, that's earlier today, officially making NASA's
Reed Weisman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, as well as
the Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hanson, the first astronauts to
enter lunar space in more than half a century. How
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about that, right? I thought that was pretty wild. And
over the weekend, Victor Glover was sending a message with
respect to Easter and reflecting on God's creation and I
thought it was pretty awesome, so I want you to
hear it. Check it out.
Speaker 15 (31:19):
I'm glad you brought that up though. I think these
observances are important, and as we are so far from
Earth and looking back at, you know, the beauty of creation.
I think the for me, one of the really important
personal perspectives that I have up here is I can
really see Earth as one thing. And you know, when
I read the Bible and I look at all of
the amazing things that were done for us who were created,
(31:41):
it's you have this amazing place, this spaceship. You guys
are talking to us because we're in a spaceship really
far from Earth, but you're on a spaceship called Earth
that was created to give us a place to live
in the universe and the Cosmos. Think maybe the distance
we are from you makes you think what we're doing
is special. But we're the same distance from you, and
(32:01):
I'm trying to tell you, just trust me, you are special.
In all of this emptiness. This is a whole bunch
of nothing, this thing we call the universe, you have
this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together.
I think as we go into Easter, Sunday thinking about
you know, all the cultures all around the world, whether
you celebrated or not, whether you believe in God or not,
(32:22):
this is an opportunity for us to remember where we are,
who we are, and that we are the same thing,
and that we got to get through this together.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
That was really nice. And they shared a war.
Speaker 9 (32:32):
Well for someone who didn't have anything prepared, that that
was really quite extraordinary.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
It really was quite extraordinary. That was a clip of
the news anchor that was playing that clip. And you
don't want to lose track of while you're of why
you're there and who we are while we're there, and
while they're not parking their spaceship in lunar orbit or
attempting a landing like Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. The
point where lunar gravity becomes more powerful than the Earth
(32:59):
is can considered the arrival point to lunar space. It's
a threshold that only twenty four explorers have crossed until now,
and again this is a piece in the Epic Times,
Today's epic times. The crew was scheduled to wake up
at ten point fifty am, when a historic day of
firsts and breaking records and new opportunities for discoveries was
(33:21):
just before them. They are the largest crew to fly
around the Moon, and they are expected to set a
new distance record for the farthest human beings have ever
traveled from Earth. They're also expected to observe areas of
the lunar surface that have never been seen before firsthand
by human eyes, and a complete solar eclipse before Lunar
(33:44):
gravity essentially throws their spacecraft on a course back home.
So imagine that they don't even need gas while they're
up there, right, No jet fuel, none of that stuff,
because gravity will send them right back where they're coming from.
NASA's live coverage is expect to begin at one pm
Eastern Time today. You can follow the play by play.
At one point thirty, the crew will have a conversation
(34:06):
with mission control. At two forty five, Artemis two seven
hour lunar flyby will officially begin, and the Integrity's course
will send the crew behind the Moon, passing on lookers
left and swinging by to re emerge on lookers right.
Pretty cool now. From their vantage point, the crew will
be able to see the elements of both the near
(34:28):
and far size, with about twenty percent of the far
side eliminated, with plenty of opportunities to see things for
the first time that we've never seen before, at least
human eyes have never seen before. The crew will work
in pairs, observing the Moon in fifty five to eighty
five minute shifts due to the limited windows space. Juliengross,
Artemis sample curation lead, who was asked with helping choose
(34:51):
these sites, praise the in person human observation as being
the best for being able to provide immediate descriptions compared
to the robotic spacecraft. So yet again humans outdo the
robots and that's nice something that she told The Epic Times.
She said the human brain is so good at looking
at a surface and immediately picking out those changes in
(35:13):
the blink of an eye. Orbiters and spacecraft take months
and years to get their data. Lunar scientists also told
The Epic Times that there are spots on both the
far and near sides that they're very excited to see.
On the far side, some of those targets include Oriental Basin,
which is an older basin called Hertz Sprung h E
(35:36):
r t Z s p r U n g heurts Sprung.
On the near side, Gross said she was most excited
to observe the Aristitchios plateau. I'm sure I'm saying that wrong.
It's the Brooklyn and me it's the Brooklyn pronunciation. Kelsey Young.
This is the science lead aboard. Artemists too, said that
(35:57):
the crew will also be able to see the Apollo
twelve and Apollo fourteen landing sites. How cool is that?
So excellent stuff here, and eventually they'll be going dark
when they lose their connectivity. By six forty five PM,
Artemis two will witness an Earth set and experience a
loss of communication with mission control as the Moon's position
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moves directly between Integrity and the Earth, just like the
Apollo missions that came before it. At seven oh two,
Artemis two is expected to make its closest pass to
the lunar surface, at an altitude of approximately just four
thousand miles. At that distance, mission leaders say that the
Moon will appear the size of a basketball held at
(36:41):
arm's length. That distance will give Integrity astronauts a unique
perspective compared to those of Apollo, who flew much closer.
At seven to twenty five PM, communication is supposed to
be reacquired, and then Earth rise will be observed at
nine to twenty pm. Lunar observations are expected to be completed,
(37:04):
and and it goes on and on and on until
about our time. So we'll give you an update on
that tomorrow. But I just wanted to share some of
that with you. I was getting bored of the article,
so I'm going to stop reading it. But it's not
a boring topic, right, It's a pretty interesting topic to
hear people going around the moon and that type of exploration.
And I know there's a lot of skeptics that think
(37:25):
we didn't do it before, or that this is the
first time. There's some skeptics that don't even think we're
doing it this time. So take it as you will.
But I think it's a pretty cool thing. And I'm
just wondering if you know, they're going to come back
with stories about new life, right the way we have
new life in Christ with the resurrection of Jesus for
(37:46):
Easter Sunday, will we have new life on the moon? Right?
Do we have little moon friends like we have on
Mars with the Martians. I'm just speculating, right, I think
I don't think those have been confirmed. Anyway, we'll discuss
that and so much more straight ahead. I'll give you
my recap on Easter Sunday and a couple other items
(38:09):
that I want to get to. Don't go anywhere, We're
coming right back. I'm Rich Valdez.
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This is America. This is America.
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He's got the best head of hair and podcasting.
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This is America with Rich Valdez.
Speaker 17 (38:46):
You have some NBA news out of Chicago. On Monday,
the Bulls release guarred Jaden Ivy for comments baby detrimental
to the team after Ivy posted some anti gay sediments
in a lengthy social media post. Ivy specifically took exception
to the NBA's Embrace of Pride month, citing the league's
quote unrighteousness end quote. Ivy has been active on social
media lately, vocalizing his religious views. Ivy's mother, Nielle, is
(39:10):
the head women's basketball coach at Notre Dame right up
the road at South Bend.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Now, while it's their right to do what they do,
why exactly is the NBA, or better said, the Chicago
Bulls franchise, why are they specifically doing this now? If
this guy wants to say I don't like what the
NBA does that's fine. Listen, most employers if you trash them,
if you say I don't like that my boss does
this or this or this. Whether you work for Donald
(39:37):
Trump or you work for a big radio company doesn't matter.
They're within their rights to say, hey, you're not allowed
to disparage the work we do here. You're supposed to
be part of the team. That's a term of our
employment agreement. That makes sense. I'm on board with that,
But I think when you're a person that's saying, look,
I am embracing my faith, and as a matter of
(39:59):
my I no longer agree with these statements. I don't
like this, and I want to be on the record
saying that. This is very different than saying I don't
like the tablecloths they use at my restaurant or whatever.
And it falls into free speech, it falls into a
lot of other things. Now, granted, none of us have
free speech at work per se. Right, maybe I do,
(40:23):
But someone could come to me and be within their
rights and say, hey, look, you keep trashing our company.
I don't want you doing it, and they be legally
within their rights. Because I'm not in the public square.
I'm working, so I get that I'm not here to
make the case against the Chicago Bulls for violating some
(40:44):
sort of right or committing a crime. But I'm going
to say, what is up with this embrace? It's not
like it's a huge portion of our population that is
even gay. What gives? Where did all this pressure come from?
(41:04):
And why? Well, there's an old saying that the squeaky
wheel gets the grease, right, squeaky wheel gets the oil.
Now that's true. I get that if you complain enough.
We've seen it in many different places, a bunch of
places where a minority of people will make enough noise
to get a majority's attention. The Marxist through this all
(41:26):
the time. But to what end? What is the real
purpose here? And I asked these questions because mister Jaden
Ivy he shares his thoughts on Instagram. I have a
clip here of him, you know, taking exception to how
(41:47):
they've treated him, And I thought this was very just
worth listening to listen to this.
Speaker 18 (41:53):
They said, my conduct is detrimental to the team. Right,
Why didn't they just say, uh, we we don't agree
with his stance on lgbt Q. Yeah, why didn't they
say that? But how how is it? How is it
conduct detrimental to the team? What did I do to
the team? What did I do to the players? I
did nothing but but but practice with them, play with them,
(42:16):
passed the ball to them. Good teammates to them, said
good job, good shot. I said, I said, uh uh,
good job, good job, good past. Way to play bro right, I.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Said these things to my teammates.
Speaker 18 (42:32):
Was never detrimental to them. So why is it that
the NBA and the Chicago Bulls say that I'm detrimental
to the team. How because I because I have because
I believe in the truth, Because because I know Jesus
is the Way, the truth, and the life.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
Amen.
Speaker 18 (42:54):
How how is my conduct detrimental to the team because
because of what I believe, because of what the truth is.
He goes on that the world can proclaim l G
B t Q.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
Right.
Speaker 18 (43:13):
They have, they have, They proclaim Pride months and the
NBA they proclaim it. They they show it to the world,
they say, come, come, come join us for pride, for
Pride Month, to celebrate unrighteousness. They proclaim it. They proclaim
(43:39):
it on the billboards, they proclaim it in the streets, unrighteousness.
So how is it that that one can't speak righteousness?
Speaker 3 (43:49):
How is it one that?
Speaker 18 (43:51):
How? How how are they to say that? Uh? You
you man, this man is crazy. I'm not. I'm not
the the jail used to be put, the old jazz dead.
A lot of christ you know, no matter what the
basketball setting is, you know, I'm born again the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 16 (44:15):
You know, I've been saved by Jesus Christ. No matter what.
Speaker 18 (44:20):
How many d MPs I don't get to play, or no.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
Matter now Jade and Ivy j I would not be
the first Christian to be kicked off his team, to
be waived, to lose a job, to be censored, to
be ostracized because of his faith. In fact, that's kind
of commonplace for Christians in many ways in recent history.
But that's a whole separate point. The bottom line is here,
(44:47):
I want to take a moment to congratulate the guy
and tell him, Hey, good for you. I'm glad you're
saying what you want to say. You're speaking your truth,
and you've found a place to do it. And I
could recommend a few more, right Rumble, great place to
tell your truth some of the pod cast platforms. Also,
maybe the Chicago Bulls is not the best place for
you to tell the truth? Got it? And I believe
(45:08):
that what God has for you will come your way.
But it opens up the conversation to a bigger question,
and the question is why is there such promotion of
this movement? What's in it for anybody? Why is there
such a push? And all I could tell you is
(45:32):
there's a number of reasons, I'm sure, but the one
that's explained in this video by a man that has
very long green hair. He's wearing makeup and a Louis
Vatan shirt and he looks like a woman. Right, he's
dressed as a woman, he's acting as a woman, but
he is a man and it looks like he's on
(45:56):
a show called Him and Her. And this is a
very interesting take, right this guy, I believe he goes
by the name jeffree Star, and he is I'm gonna
dare say gay looking if he's not trans. But listen
to what he had to say. Very interesting.
Speaker 14 (46:18):
The alphabet sweetie should be in your own category. Okay,
let me break it down for you. Straights, lesbian, gay
and bye. Is that not a sexuality? That's a sexuality? Okay, right, Okay,
your what you think your identity is has nothing to
do with what you're sexually attracted to. So why is
(46:39):
T and Q on LGB T And now what I
that means LGB gay lesbian and by that is your
preference of who you are attracted to and what you like,
your identity issues and who you think you are is.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
So step Now this is patriot Anna, a lesbian that's
on the social media who wants to react to this,
and I thought her explanation was fantastic. Listen to this.
Speaker 19 (47:08):
I'm an agreement, Jeffrey. The eye stands for intersex, the
Q and the plus queer and then maps. Yep, it's
a whole thing. They're trying to normalize pedophilia. Let's take
a gander at this.
Speaker 11 (47:23):
So there we have it.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
Now. You know that, I don't know if it was
last summer or two summers ago, maybe even three summers ago,
the term maps became very popular minor attracted person or
the plural form m AP, m aps maps, and people
were freaking out about this, saying, hold on a second,
(47:44):
don't try normalize pedophilia, and they were like, no, we're
not normalizing pedophilia. Pedophilia is a disease. We're normalizing the
people that suffer from that as minor attracted persons, and
we shouldn't ostracize them for being sick. And this is
how they're painting this was thinking to myself, someone who
is attracted to a child, and they try to separate
it by saying, just because you're attracted to a child
(48:05):
doesn't mean that you're a rapist. Child rapists and pedophiles
are not the same. If you're a pedophile, you're just
suffering from this disease. You become a child rapist when
you give in to the disease. And I thought to myself,
look at this, an apologist for child molesters. How sick
and it hasn't been widely accepted, but there are a
(48:26):
few people that have sipped on the kool aid. But
she goes on.
Speaker 19 (48:33):
Anti discrimination bill for gender attracted and same sex attracted pedophilia.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
Bill.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 19 (48:47):
So to understand their disgusting flag, the minor is attracted persons,
the other blues little boys, Pink represents little girls, Jellers
is attracted both, while wight represents their attracted to the innocence.
If you support this at all, you cannot say you
care about children at all. I can't believe I even
(49:11):
have to make a video about this. This is not
the shit I marched for as an og lesbian.
Speaker 16 (49:18):
Mm hmm, nope.
Speaker 19 (49:21):
Sexual identity and sexual attraction are two different things. And
by the way, Jeffrey, there is something. It's called the
USA LGB Alliance Lesbian Gay Bisexual only we've been divorced
from a TQ plus and it's going to stay that way.
Get your wood chippers ready, because these folks are trying
to get rights.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
So they're trying to get rights, and looks she's right.
I was listening to a clip from a radio show
out of Philadelphia where somebody called in. A caller called
into like a morning radio show, not a talk radio
show where they talk about the news and commentary like
I do, but like a morning show, just like a
fun morning show where they talk about music and you
(50:03):
know what Oprah did over the weekend or whatever. And
somebody called in and was making the case for why
we should support the pedophiles. And kudos to the hosts
of that show for saying, hold on a second, this
sounds like you're trying to make excuses for pedophiles and
we're not having it. Do we have that clip. All right,
(50:24):
we do check it out Q one O two Radio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
I think this was twenty twenty four. Check this out.
Speaker 20 (50:32):
With IPCE if you don't know. That's International Pedophile and
Child Emancipation and our goal is to abolish the stigmatization
of people with pedophilia sexual interests in normalizing the potential
role and moderating pedophiles emotional well being. I know that's
a mouthful.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
Well, that's tar we get any further.
Speaker 4 (50:52):
Are we saying right now? Yeah, this is sounds disgusting.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
Are you saying you're a pedophile.
Speaker 20 (50:58):
No, I'm not saying that I'm a pedophile in the
sense that I've never had sexual relations with a person
under age. Accept because I'll illegal. Well, I just don't
believe we should be shunting those in our community that
have desires to engage in a romantic relationship with someone
in a drastically different age group.
Speaker 3 (51:15):
So you're saying you support pedophiles.
Speaker 20 (51:18):
I'm saying I support love. And just because America views
ages like eighteen as some sort of imaginary bar or
a line in the sand for humans to engage romantic
relationships doesn't mean it's right.
Speaker 15 (51:29):
So you don't see anything wrong with a tween year
old dating a twelve year old.
Speaker 20 (51:34):
That's not what I'm saying. But listen, in Nigeria, the
age of consent is eleven. It's fourteen in other countries
like Brazil Colombia. If we're taking them, excuse me, if
we're taking a month as a country to showcase our
pride for other communities of sexual explorations, then I think
we should add the letter P, which is just as
important as the LGB and T. I work with IPCEE.
(52:00):
If you don't know, that's International Pedophile and Child Emancipation.
Speaker 3 (52:05):
Now, this woman, I thought wholeheartedly that this was a prank,
that they were doing this to push the troll. It
turns out that there are really people like this. And
I've played this clip several times on the show over
the last year or two to make the point that
(52:28):
it seems like it's crazy and fake and wild to
you and to me, But there are people out there,
excuse me, that eat this whole thing up. They're truly
out there. These are the same people that they'll pick
up any cause, any cause, just to go against the grain,
you know, oh no, because they love the underdog. We
(52:50):
can't be this dumb and we can't be this supportive
of evil. We've got to pay attention to what's going on.
So kudos to Jada and Ivy for calling things as
they are and standing on his business. Ten does down
is what I believe, and I'm not moving. Good for you, sir,
(53:12):
because the minute you move is the minute you sound
like this woman here from Icpe. How crazy is that? Anyway? More?
To come straight ahead, I am Rich Valdez.
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(56:18):
for New Jersey pastor Anthony Fleming. You heard from him
on Friday on a Flashback Friday episode and he is
the pastor of the church that I attend. And great church,
great church, great theology, lots of positive changes happening in
the lives of many young people, many young people who
are getting married, young people who are expanding their families.
(56:41):
Just really nice to see in northern New Jersey and
truly truly a good experience that I think most people
would appreciate. If if you're looking for an encounter with
the Lord, you'll find it there. Anyway, I wanted to
share that. I wanted to share that. I also wanted
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(57:02):
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Good to hear from you, John, thank you for your
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