February 16, 2026 • 60 mins
On Monday, Rich kicks off with the 2026 Munich Security Conference clash: Marco Rubio's strong "Western Century" keynote defending American leadership, versus AOC's weak working-class foreign policy alternative. Two visions colliding abroad. Then, Mike Tyson fights obesity for MAHA. The boxing legend partnered with HHS in February 2026, starring in a Super Bowl LX MAHA Center ad—sharing family loss stories and pushing real food over processed junk. Plus, RFK Jr.'s February 5 speech claims the ketogenic diet could "cure" schizophrenia, citing Harvard's Dr. Chris Palmer's research. Experts push back: "cure" is too bold—most need meds and supervision. Later, a viral February 2026 video: Dad demands a refund on daughter's Girl Scout cookie donation because the buyer backed Trump. Petty politics hits cookie season—only in America.
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This is America, Richiev. You're on the air with the
Nation of the Nation with America with your host, Rich Valdez.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
What's up, America. I am Rich Valdes Valdez with an
as at Rich Valdez on all of the social media,
your liberty loving Latino amigo. Right here seventeen blocks away
from Madison Square Garden, New York City, in our New
Times Square studio, and I want to bring you the
latest on what happened this weekend. We took some time
off to upgrade some studio equipment. We're back in action.
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New show every night, nine pm. Check this out. AOC
she's owning and I that's right, AOC all out crazy.
My least favorite congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens Exandrio
Casio Cordes. She got stuck in a foreign policy question,
trying to be a foreign policy big shot in all
places she was in Berlin, Germany and Europe. It didn't
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work out too good for her. We're gonna go to
that in the moment. Blood we have good Take two,
but we also have more. We've got Hillary Clinton. Hillary
Clinton's also out in Europe this one. She's moderating an
event for women, and the very first guest she calls
is a man that believes he's a woman. You can't
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make this stuff up. We're gonna get to that as well.
Plus we've got Secretary Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State.
Let me tell you, Secretary of Rubio now blowing it
out of the water with these two. One is calling
transsexuals women and the other one is umming and eyeing
her way out of a question that she doesn't even answer.
Marco Rubio truly delivers. In my opinion, what's one of
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the best speeches I've heard in my lifetime. This is
definitely one for the generations. Check this out.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
For five centuries before the end of the Second World War,
the West had been expanding. It's missionaries, it's pilgrims, it's soldiers,
it's explorers pouring out from its shores to cross oceans,
settle new continents, build vast empires extending out across the globe.
But in nineteen forty five, for the first time since
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the age of Columbus, it was contracting. Europe was in ruins,
half of it lived behind an iron curtain, and the rest.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Looked like it would soon follow.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline, accelerated
by godless communist revolutions and by anti colonial uprisings that
would transform the world and drape the red hammer and
sickle across vast swaths of the map in the years
to come. Against that backdrop, then, as now, many came
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to believe that the West's age of dominance had come
to an end, and that our future was destined to
be a faint and feeble echo of our past. But
together our predecessors recognized that decline was a choice, and
it was a choice they refused to make. This is
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what we did together once before, and this is what
President Trump and the United States.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Want to do again now, together with you.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
And this is why we do not want our allies
to be weak, because that makes us weaker. We want
allies who can defend themselves so that no adversary will
ever be tempted to test our collective strength. This is
why we do not want our allies to be shackled
by guilt and shame. We want allies who are proud
of their culture and of their heritage, who understand that
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we are heirs to the same great and noble civilization,
and who, together with us, are willing and able to
defend it. And this is why we do not want
allies to rationalize the broken status quo rather than reckoned
with what is what is necessary to fix it. For
we in America have no interest in being polite and
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orderly caretakers of the West's managed decline. We do not
seek to separate, but to revitalize an old friendship and
renew the greatest civilization.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
In human history.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
What we want is a reinvigorated alliance that recognizes that
what has ailed our societies is not just a set
of bad policies, but a malaise of hopelessness and complacency.
An alliance is what The alliance that we want is
one that is not paralyzed into an action by fear,
fear of climate change, fear of war, fear of technology. Instead,
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we want an alliance that boldly races into the future,
and the only fear we have is the fear of
the shame of not leaving our nations prouder, stronger, and
wealthier for our children.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
You can tell me this isn't one of the best
speeches A that he's given, and B if you hear
the whole half hour speech, one of the best I've
heard in thirty years since Reagan. An alliance ready, and
Trump's first inaugural excellent speech.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Alliance ready to defend our people, to safeguard our interests,
and to preserve the freedom of action that allows us
to shape.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Our own destiny.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Not one that exists to operate a global welfare state
and atone for the purported sins of past generations. An
alliance that does not allow its power to be outsourced, constrained,
or subordinated to systems beyond its control. One that does
not depend on others for the critical necessities.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Of its national life.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
And one that does not maintain the polite pretense that
our way of life is just one among many, and
that asks for permission before it acts. And above all,
an alliance based on the recognition that we the West
have inherited together what we have inherited together is something
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that is unique and distinctive and irreplaceable, because this, after all,
is the very foundation of the Transatlantic bond.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
So Secretary of Rubio did an amazing job, right, amazing job.
And now the reason I applaud him is because I think,
number one, it's super important that the United States stick
with their policy positions, and in this case, we're talking
about upholding values that are consistent with Western civilization. He says.
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Firsty he goes to Europe and he tells the Europeans,
you're destroying Europe, and you're doing it because you're not
holding on to your values. This is important right now.
I always say, look, if you want to abandon your values,
that's on you. You can do that. You're free to
do it. But it doesn't mean the rest of us
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have to sit here and be quiet about it. Right
This is why I get on this microphone every day.
This is why a lot of people wake up and
do what they do because holding on to tradition. I
wish I could speak. Holding on to tradition is so important. Why,
because of many reasons. If you don't hold on your tradition,
you get what happens in Little Mogadishu. In, let's staying
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by that place in Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Saint Paul, that area,
same thing. Right, They totally abandon their tradition. And now
it's not about the Somalians being bad per se. It's
about the Somalians bringing a new custom, one where they
don't care because they come from a war torn place
where the governments are corrupt. So they're like, oh, if
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the government's giving up money, hey, we're going to be
corrupt and taken it just like they are to us.
That's the issue. And oftentimes that happens when people have
values that are inconsistent with Americanism. I'm going to use
that word. So anyway, I just wanted to say I
thought this was a fantastic speech. Leave it to Secretary
Marco Rubio to go to Europe to tell them what
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they're doing wrong and get a standing ovation. At the end,
he said, they've abandoned God and they've abandoned their values,
their common culture. This is true. I've done the show
from from Buddapest, Hungary, where Secretary Ruby actually landed today,
and I can tell you they hold onto their culture.
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Nothing wrong with holding onto your culture. Of the United
States is a different situation insomuch as we really are
a melting pot because we are one. You're hard pressed
to find black people in Hungary, hard pressed, you know,
for every hundred white ones, you might see two black ones.
At least that was my experience when I was in
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Blue Depeche. That was what I saw. It's not very common,
and it's not racism. It's that people tend to stick
with their own in that part of the world. Poland,
same thing. It's just a it's religious, it's cultural, it's
just how it is. That's how those societies largely are.
Switzerland is a little less so. Denmark, right, Bernie Sanders'
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favorite Denmark healthcare is all right, you've heard that, right.
That's another place where you're hard pressed to find black
people or Puerto Rican people or any other people that
aren't the brand of white that come from those Scandinavian countries.
So anyway, I bring that up to say there is
something to be said for holding on to tradition. Go
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again with that word, I can't say and for whatever reason,
and it brings me to mind, not to get to philosophical,
deep or preachy, but the Bible talks about being yoked
equally or unequally, and this idea of being equally or
unequally yoked is one of being with people that are
like minded in the sense of faith and the sense
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of you know, following Christ. However, you can use this
same advice for life, if you know, it's a nice
idea to say, oh, yeah, this one grew up Catholic
and they grew up Jewish and they got married to
live happily ever after. It's a nice idea to say that,
But in practice and in reality, I would say, in
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most cases it doesn't work. It's difficult to raise children.
And I knew kids like this growing up. They say, oh, yeah, yeah,
we have a Christmas tree out of Minora, I get
Christmas gifts and Hanika gifts. That's cute. But at the
end of the day, you've got to kind of know
what your faith is. And at some point when that
kid grows up, he's got to make a choice for
himself and say, what do I want to be? If
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I want to be anything at all, it's not a
I don't want to use the word real, because you
can make anything you want real in your own life.
But it's not a thing to do to take a
faith that pre exists, right, a culture that pre exists
and then change it. You can do it, but it
doesn't mean it's consistent with the rest of reality. If
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that makes sense. If you want to disagree with me,
go over to head give me a call. Eight seven
seven Valdez one. Will we get into your calls later on?
And seven Valdez one. Now straight ahead, I want to
show you what AOC did in contrast, right, AOC she
was not far behind Marco Rubio. She said, Oh, we
got this Latino over here that's coming to Europe to
school the Europeans on foreign policy. I'm gonna show you
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a thing or two. Listen to AOC dropping some pearls
of wisdom, dropping bombs of knowledge right here with respect
to foreign policy.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Take a look, would and should the US actually commit
US troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
You know, I think that, uh, this is such a
you know, I think that.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I think that it's clear she doesn't have an answer
or she's afraid to tell the truth.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
This is a.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
This is of course, a very long standing policy of
the United States, and I think what we are hoping
for is that we want to make sure that we
never get to that point, and we want to make
sure that we are moving in all of our economic
research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation,
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and for that question to even arise, would and should.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Be So the question is would and should You're hearing
it again. The United States defend Taiwan right where they
make a lot of our chips and where we have
an understanding that we're going to defend them militarily should
China strike again, AOC digging deep, the.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Unctually commit US troops to defend Taiwan if China were
to move.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
You know, you know, here's the issue again. Like I said,
disingenuous at at worst, and I'm gonna say totally ignorant
at best. Right, she really has no clue AOC all
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lot crazy by least favorite congress women from the bronx
end queens, or she doesn't want to tell the truth. Right,
We have to try everything first before we commit to
the bottom line is this. She can say exactly what
Trump would say. President Trump would say, well, you know,
if they want to play around, we'll wipe out their infrastructure,
We'll wipe up We'll drop a big bomb, mother of
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out bombs. Right, When was the last time Trump took
any troops and actually put them somewhere for more than
a little bit. Right, they were on the ground for
about five seconds with Maduu. They got him, they took him,
They left Venezuela. This is Trump's m He doesn't want
to put troops on the ground. That's what he ran
on in twenty sixteen. It's what he ran on in
twenty twenty. He tried to spear had the effort to
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get the troops out of Afghanistan in a very peaceful manner,
handed it off to joe Ed Baboso Biden, and man,
did he crap the bed just like AOC is crapping
the bed right now? This is again, what why people
criticize her. I don't think she's as dumb as she's
portraying herself to be right now. But she's not doing
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a good job now. I had a few other clips
I'm not going to get for the sake of time,
I'm not going to get to all of them. But
she had a couple where she was really talking about
collectivism and how we need to stand up for basic
Marxism communist ideology. That got a thunderous applause. The Europeans
really loved that. Id yea, this is the Puerto Rican
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Bernie Sanders hard pass for me. Now I want to
move on to Hillary Clinton. Secretary Clinton also in Europe.
Everybody's in Europe this week trying to compete with Secretary
of Rubio, and like I said, she brings in the
first transcongress woman who was born a man, a biological male,
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to speak as the first guest in her panel on women.
Take a look at this one. All right, let's go
ahead with Madam Secretary. Go ahead.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Someone who's been involved in this work for a long
time in trying to explain and truly bring people together
around issues of gender, and that's Sarah McBride, US congresswoman
from the state of Delaware. You know as a gender
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rights champion and also the first openly transgender member of
the United States Congress.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
You've been holdout a second. Are there not openly trans
members of the United States Congress? Is what's going on?
I don't know if I heard that right? Which the
first openly trends that means that there are closed did
it trans people in Congress? Besides her? I did not
know this. Acquiring minds want.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
To know you've been on the front lines of this fight,
and you've also been on the receiving end of so
many threats and attacks that come from again, in many ways,
organized efforts. So when you hear Neil talking about it
from a European perspective, all these we did bring us
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in at the end. There, Sarah, how do you see
it from the United States? And I want to underscore
how truly effective Sarah has been in talking with her colleagues,
first in the legislature or the state legislature in Delaware,
now in Congress, and you have shown immense grace in
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the face of attacks, even from your fellow members of Congress.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
Well, thank you so much for those incredibly kind words.
It's an honor to be here with you, Secretary Clinton.
It's an honor to be here with another trailblazer speaker
Amrita Nancy Pelosi, and of course it's an honor to
be here with my fellow panelists and the Mayor of Boston.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Michelle Wu as well.
Speaker 9 (17:43):
Once politicians start naming other politicians in a room, it
never stops. There is no question in the United States
that after decades of historic progress on general equality, ri
at large and specifically more recently on LGBTQ rights that
we are facing saying, as you mentioned, a well organized,
well funded, right wing regressive movement, and they really have
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placed trans people at the center of that effort. But
we should be clear that the consequences of this anti
trans effort, not only out of out of proximity, but
out of intentionality, will include consequences for women of all backgrounds.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Hold on a second, that's a lot of words. Sounded
very fancy, very polished. Have no idea what she said,
But what I think she said, risk woman McBride is
that the right wing right conservatives Republicans in the United
States have launched a concerted, organized, and well funded effort
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against individuals that are trans, and that somehow this is
going to have an effect on all women. The only effect, Congressomen,
with all respect, that we've seen today is women who
are competing against trans women like you that are really
men in sports and getting their orbital their eye sockets
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broken in that one UFC fight right cranial fractures. We're
seeing these swimmers that are fantastic swimmers when they swim
against girls, they're champions. They swim against a boy like
Lea Thomas and then guess what, not the case anymore, right, So,
I mean we've seen this time and again, and yeah,
you're right, there is a real consequence for women. The
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consequence is that they're going to lose in sports and
they're going to be mistreated. My own daughter, when she
was in high school, had a situation where there was
a boy that was trans went into the girls room.
She told me she didn't feel comfortable, and she told
me that she told the teacher that was right outside
the girl's room, and the teacher said, well, you know,
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she he needs to be able to use the bathroom too,
and made the other girls leave so that the boy girl,
the trans girl, could use the restroom when there was
an available, single stall like handicapped bathroom right in the vicinity.
So the consequence for women is that they're going to
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be treated differently and that their definition and what they
truly are is going to be erased.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Because at the end of the day, transphobia, homophobia, misogyny,
and sexism are all rooted in the same prejudice.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
That's spelled rich Valdez with an S and I'm just
kidding ahead.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Prejudice.
Speaker 9 (20:39):
The belief that one perception at birth should dictate who
you are, how you act, what you do, who you love,
and how you drest.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Well, you're going a little far there, but it's one
thing that happens at birth, right, It's like a mandate
from God. You're born with certain genitalia and I don't
know what is it? Ninety eight percent who are not
her maes, who who don't have some sort of genetic malady?
Guess what, Yeah, you're a man or a woman. You know.
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What's interesting is in this era of artificial intelligence, which
is everywhere now right. We use it with some of
our production, we use it with you name it. AI
is being used everywhere to speed up workflows and whatnot.
When you ask AI to design something, let's just say,
or if it's reading something, it likely is going to
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fall on one of two sides, male or female. Right,
if it sees an image right here, right, this image
that we're looking at here on the screen, this paused
image of Congresswoman Sarah McBride. I doubt it's going to
say a transsexual woman unless it, you know, facial recognition
realizes that that's McBride. Otherwise it's going to say a
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woman wearing a beige turtle neck with a golden necklace,
a black blazer, and red auburn hair with glasses. Going
to say a woman, not a trans woman, not a man?
Why Because the AI isn't as i as you think, right,
it's not as intelligent as we think. So these nuances
that you're saying sentence you to a lifetime of manhood
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or womanhood. They kind of make sense, right, They're kind
of a real thing. Go ahead.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
And it's why threats toward trans people are threats toward
all women. Because when they use trans people as the
tip of the spear, when they come after trans people
as they are doing right now, using us as a
political wedge issue, using people like me, using me as
you mentioned, as a political pawn, not only are they
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licensing discrimination against trans people, they're sanctioning gender policing that
we know in reality actually disproportionately targets non transgender someone.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yikes, right, WHOA. This is what happens when people lose
sight of what really matters of who creates what? Right?
Who is our creator? Where do we come from? What
is what? And who is who? Excuse me? This is
what goes on in the minds of those that are
somewhere else. And all I could do is say, hey,
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I wish you the best. We're gonna pray for you,
but you can't impose the crazy on everybody else. And
I say the crazy because for many years this was
considered mental illness, this gender nysph you and only in
recent years that they got individuals that were trans themselves
within the medical community to change their consensus belief. So
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I'll stick with my story. She could stick with hers,
and we're gonna come right back because you won't believe
what this one dad did to a little girl scout
just trying to sell some cookies. Plus a mom tells
us this crazy story of what happened in a lift
iron Mike Tyson, he's back, He's back in a fight.
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You got to hear about this one. And Secretary RFK
has a bunch of things to say about the Keto
diet and what impact that may have on schizophrenia. Keep
your locked right here, don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Valdez,
this is Ameria.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
This is Ameria.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
President Tom take you up, mister president. Welcome to the program.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Sir, well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
I know you very well, and I have I listened,
but I have a lot of people that listen and
they love your show, and I appreciate it very much.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
What's up on me? He goes, Welcome back, Rich Valdez,
keeping your company live and national. Actually we're actually live
and international, believe it or not. Phone numbers you want
to join us? Eight seven, seven Valdes one and seven
Valades one. We're gonna talk about a bunch of things, right,
it's making America healthy again. Make America healthy again. That's
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the initiative by Secretary Kennedy RFK Junior and Bobby Kennedy's
been doing an amazing job, in my opinion, of running
the Department of Health and Human Services. One of the
things that I think is important to remember is these
guys are attacking big food. Right. There's big pharma, big this,
and big that, big food, the people that push the sugar,
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the people that push the foods that are carcinogenic, and
all sorts of other things that are bad for you.
This is a big deal. I think there's so many
fat Americans that have had to deal with just bad,
bad dietary policy. Right. The food pyramid. We talked about
that a couple of weeks ago. Well, one of the
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things that I think they did that is really worth
discussing is the research that they've done into the keto
diet and how that can actually affect schizophrenia. I want
you to take a look at this clip coming up
with Secretary Kennedy. It's an eye open all right. So
check this one out. This is Secretary Kennedy talking about
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the doctors now discovering they can cure schizophrenia with the
keto diet. How about that? Check this out.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Doctor Paulin up at Harvard has cured schizophrenia using ketodiets.
There are studies right now that I saw it two
days ago where people lose their bipolar diagnosis by changing
their diet. It's not only affecting our physical health. It's
affecting our metal health as well. And we're asking people
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now eat real food. I eat protein.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Eat real food, eat protein. How about that?
Speaker 10 (27:05):
Right?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
He also said if it comes in a wrapper, leave
it in the wrapper. I thought that was pretty cool.
I'm not there yet. I still eat food out of
a wrapper, but I get it. I get the point.
Eat clean, eat healthy, live longer. This is important, right,
Like I'm going to tell you a little bit about
the my own experience with Keto, because it really was
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something lost a good amount of weight, went from almost
three hundred pounds to uh at my lowest now I'm
about one. I haven't hit two hundred in a while, thankfully,
but I still try to watch what I eat a
little bit. But listen, I've been eating not as great
as I should. Right, I haven't hit my New Year's
(27:47):
resolutions yet. I haven't been to the gym since Thanksgiving. Confession, right,
do a little confession here. But again, I want to
remind you we're going to get to your calls and
a bunch of other stuff straight ahead eight seven seven
Velvet US one as well as the Dear Richie segment
at least I'm gonna tease that even if we don't
get to it today. But that's and it's basically our
(28:10):
television radio podcast advice column. Dear Richie, I'm going to
give you advice on things I'm not qualified to give
advice on. It's kind of funny anyway. I want to
get to the next clip. The next clip is really
interesting because it's Iron Mike Tyson. Now Iron Mike Tyson,
you know, him. This guy is a champ. He's in
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the ring. He's not taking any prisoners. And Iron Mike Tyson,
he says he's getting back in the ring. He's getting
back in a fight. Who he's fighting, what he's fighting.
That's the part I think you're going to be surprised about.
He's fighting for your health. Check this out.
Speaker 11 (28:47):
I want to be a hero in this particular field
because it affects my life. Every time I see someone
who may be obefe that I have affinity for them,
I want to be close to I want to talk
to im, want to let them know that I'm their
friend without saying you remind me and my sister, And
I'm just very grateful to be here and fight this fight.
It's gonna be a fight that's I look forward to.
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I was telling my experience that I had a sister
that died at twenty five from on Ba City and
where I come from with Brownsville, Brooklyn. It's the most violent,
poverty strucken neighborhood in the City of New York, and
ultra processed food was just the normal. Everything was processed food.
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We didn't have much money, but we had food stamps
and food stamps from body, the candy, the sugar and
all that Solda seventh and all that rotten stuff. And
that's just all we knew. And the food that we
ate was pretty much processed. It was getting its guts
and stools and stuff with weird animals.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
For me, there, you can't make some of this stuff up.
But I'm happy to see Iron Mike getting back in
the ring. He's in the fight for something I think
is a good cause, and personally, this is something that
I could tended with. Right. I used to be almost
three hundred pounds. Two hundred and sixty nine pounds is
I think my top weight. I have a picture, maybe
I'll put it on screen. This was a big deal
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for me, right, I thought I was the best thing ever.
Right so right now, this is a forty two I
think this suit or maybe a forty I'm not sure.
Let me, I'm gonna check anyway. I used to wear
a fifty, right, and my next size was eighteen or
a seventeen and a half. Now I'm a medium. I
wear a medium shirt, so whatever, that's sixteen and a
(30:32):
half the regular size. You could buy stuff off the
rack now or you being me so anyway, I'm proud
of what happened. I'm proud of, you know, everything I
did to get there, and I did it through the
Keto diet. So to hear about how keto can affect
people with mental illness, I'm pretty sure I had all
sorts of mental illness right in addition to my ADHD
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I'm talking about, there's a lot of things that go on.
I had a skin conditioned ecima that I had no
idea that was linked directly to my diet. And as
soon as I changed my diet, and I had it
for years, I really thought it was the water. I
thought it was all sorts of environmental things. Right. I
went to the doctor that gave me allergy medicine. It
helped a little bit, but ultimately it was what I
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was eating. It was the amount of sugar in the
food was messing up my gut, causing me to have
these these outbreaks on my calves. And I always knew
if whenever I ate too much bread, too many carbs,
too much anything that had like I don't want to
say wheat, but wheat's probably a good indicator, but anything
(31:38):
made out of flour, that stuff right away got my
calf very itchy. It was like a mosquito bite almost,
and it was always itchy, always itchy, always itchy, to
the point where it was, you know, like a had
a scab on it and it never healed. And finally
my doctor told me, I don't know this is because
your your your diet is all screwed up. So I
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say all that to say this stuff is important. Taking
your health seriously is important. Now today, I'm happy to
say I've used a bunch of really cool things, like
this app called Noom had this app for a while.
They were a sponsor of the show and newm was
pretty cool and they helped you to kind of prioritize
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your day. The Keto diet was really the one that
did it for me, though, you know, apps are cool
as well as going to the gym. I went to
the gym for almost all of the last three years,
and this journey started in twenty seventeen, so it's been
a lot more than three years. But it was a
Keto diet where I really dropped about forty pounds and
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then sticking with low carb after that continue to lose weight.
The gym helped me lose some weight. Other peptide stuff
like that helped me lose a little bit of weight,
but the bulk of it came with Keto and that's
where it's at game changer, right. I mean I used
to have a whole extra had no neck, had an
extra gin. So listen. I say that because I think
the stuff that they're talking about is important and they're related.
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The food we eat directly impacts how healthy we are,
how happy we are, and how much we can make
a difference in society. Anyway, don't go anywhere, keep it
locked right here. There is more to come. We're going
to talk about Girl Scout cookies. No, I'm not trying
to sell you any but somebody was trying to donate
to a little girl Scout who was doing a great
job selling them, and this one dad got in the
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way of it. Unbelievable. So you're gonna hear about that,
plus what these influencers are doing to gain advertising and
help people at the same time. I think you're gonna
enjoy that story. Plus, if we have time for all
of it, we're going to get into how you can
communicate with this program. Eight seven seven Valdes one eight
seven seven Valdes and the number one at the end,
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and if we have a moment, we're going to get
to your calls. I know we've got calls from a
few people from California, from Canada. I want to get
to you guys as quickly as I can, as soon
as we get this stuff done in this segment, as
well as the Dear Richie segment. Now, this is probably
something I'm just going to tease because I don't think
we're gonna be able to get to it right away.
But the Dear Richie segment is something that I am
(34:13):
totally unqualified to offer advice on. Right, So if you
ask me about losing weight, I can give you a
little advice on that. If you're morbidly obese, I can help.
I'll tell you what my doctor told me. But I'm
talking about things where like I'm divorced, I was married
for ten years, didn't work, I never got married again.
Actually have been very unsuccessful even with relationships after that. Right,
(34:36):
there's a whole lot that I need to learn in
areas I need to work on. So when it comes
to relationships, I'm not the guy to give out advice,
but happy to give you some. Give me a call
during the Deer Richie segment. If you have any relationship
questions or you can send it to us on social
media at Rich Faldesk with an ass anyway, amigos, we're
coming right back. Don't go anywhere if i'ming ya, I'm
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Rich Faldesk.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
This is America in glace or primal bara Rich Valdez
e s O s America.
Speaker 12 (35:20):
Awara, what's up America?
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Welcome back? I am Rich val das Valdez with an
ass that rich Vald's on all of the social media.
And I want to get into this story about this dad.
There's a dad who did something to me, the unthinkable,
crushing his daughter's spirit. And she's such a good kid
that she is a good sport, right and and you
would have thought it was somebody else's dad, right, that
(36:07):
it wasn't uh, this girl's dad, But it was this
girl's dad. And I'm gonna play the tape for you.
Check this out. Watch. I'll move give you one hundred
for trying.
Speaker 13 (36:20):
But it's a stick.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Are you familiar with stick on me?
Speaker 12 (36:29):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (36:29):
Yeah, you get from all right, you know your people's
sport trump, right, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Get back your much.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Thanks anyway, god bless unbelievable. Right, Well, that's what happened.
These people are totally savage, right, these people that are
willing to destroy a kid's dreams, that are are happy to,
I don't know, just to just be totally unfair to
a little kid. I think, why, why all because you
(37:03):
want to hate on Trump? Listen, I'm not here to
be angry. Angry. He's not my stick, right, But we
have a very sophisticated term in Spanish for people like this.
They would say he is a tremendous tremendo bando this dad.
I think what he's teaching his kid, Listen, he can
teach his kid what he wants. Right. If it were
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some pro abortion people and they offered my kid something right,
something I vehemently disagree with, then I'd probably say the
same thing, give them their money back. But it sucks, right,
It sucks to have to tell your kid that, But
sometimes I have to learn those lessons. Now, I'm not
saying he's teaching his kid a good lesson other than
you know, I guess if we find a silver lining,
(37:47):
it's hey, we don't believe in that stuff. But she
did believe in that stuff, right, She liked sticker Mule.
She thought it was cool. Now, what's the story with
sticker Mule, And why is there this guy that appears
to be a very jelly roll or very slim teddy
swims right the country singers He's neither one. This guy's
name I haven't written down here, Jason Jensen. He goes
(38:10):
by the greatness. He's an influencer that has nearly twenty
million followers online and he makes videos where he gives
money away. That's his whole stick makes the videos, spreads kindness,
God bless you, right, that's how he does it. Well,
mister Jensen, mister Greatness has teamed up with the folks
(38:31):
from Stickermule. The CEO of Stickermule, Anthony Constantino, says that
instead of spending ten million dollars a year on advertising,
he'd much rather give this money to people who are
in need and just create videos around it, which will
generate the advertising he needs.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Watch this, Google along earns three hundred billion in advertising dollars,
and Facebook's right behind them, bringing in almost two hundred
billion a year in advertising revenue. My company, sticker Mill,
spends tens of millions of dollars on advertising annually with
these companies.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
I don't mind doing it.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
You have to advertise to grow your business. But today
I'm changing our advertising strategy in a way that I
hope others will copy. This year, five to ten percent
of our advertising budget will be giving back directly to
people instead of advertisers. It'll be given back in a
(39:33):
very simple way. We're just we're just gonna put cast
directly in people's hands. This year alone, were planning for
millions in cash directly into the hands of people we
meet on the street and shoot fun videos with It
will be shared on social media. Please follow us.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
So how about that this CEO, he's doing the right
thing right, He's out there, he's pressing the flesh, he's
meeting with people. He's really trying to make an impact here.
Rather than spending the ten million dollars that he spends
in advertising other ways, he's trying to do it to
actually help people. I think it's a great thing. So
(40:16):
he got this guy out there. He wants to give
the girl five hundred dollars or a thousand, whatever the
offer was for the trivia questions. He just wanted to
give her the money. And it was the dad who
gets in the way now. And I approach this from
two angles. One I tried to give you, you know, the
devil's advocates right side of it, which is, hey, if
that was your kid, how'd you feel if it was
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something you didn't believe it? Got it? But on the
other side of things, it's the girl Scouts. Right, even
if you don't believe in something. If some Sangublainhill comes
over and he says, hey, look I am. You don't
know me from a home in the world, but I
want to donate to your kids, girl Scout cookies, you know.
(40:59):
But for somebody saying I eat small children, you know
we're evil, you know, I'm likely gonna say sure, because
we don't typically qualify those things, right, We don't typically
have a litmus test for people that are trying to assist. Right,
If somebody comes into a church and they're passing the
(41:21):
bucket around and the donation basket, people don't excuse me,
what do you do? Are you a hit man? Are
you a right? You put the money in, you say
thank you, got bus, have a good day, take care
between you and God. And I think this is much
the same way, right. I think the little girl should
have gotten her hundred bucks. I think that dad should
have gotten out of it, you know, pushing his politics
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onto his kid my belief. I don't think I would
have done that, but I might have. Right had it
been like, hey, we're here from Nayral, I likely would
have been like, what, bro keep a stepping right. I
don't think I would have wanted to engage in that,
or at least if nothing else, I would have taken
my my little girl and said, hey, these are the
people that you know stick a vacuum inside of women
(42:05):
and vacuum up baby parts before their full term, and
let her make that choice right. And my kids were
exposed to stuff like that very early in life so
that they wouldn't be led astray by the other people. Man.
You know, today they have whatever opinions they have. I
don't really get into it with them. I know, I
do my job. I teach them what I think is right,
and then I leave the rest to God. Anyway, that's
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that part. Let's see anything left here? Yep, your calls
and more, don't go anywhere.
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This is America. This is America.
Speaker 8 (42:53):
The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
to speak with Rich Valdees.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Oh, very good. The honor is all yours.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Conservative talk with a dash of Sofrito.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Now here's Rich Valdez.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
All right, Leaders, welcome back as Rich Valdez. Happy to
be here with you, keeping your company tonight and check
this out. We have maintained the tradition of open phones America.
Open phone America, open phones across America is a tradition
that was started by the late Great Larry King when
he used to have this time slot. I had the
good fortune of taking over for Jim Bohannon, who took
(43:34):
over for the late Larry King in a historic time
slot on Westwood One with millions of listeners all across
the country. And now that we've gone digital, we are
maintaining this tradition with you all. We've had some of
our favorite callers stick with us, and I think a
few more are going to be coming through. I miss
Paul and Miss Gil, I miss Denise. There's so many
(43:55):
regulars that have always given us a call. Pat called in,
which was really nice, and a couple other regulars we've
heard from. But I got a call right now from Robbie.
Robbie's calling us from San Diego. Let's hear what Robbie
has to say. He wants to talk about Iran. Go ahead.
I don't know how you guys are going to put
(44:16):
this stuff on the screen, but let me know how
it works, and hopefully everybody can hear the call. Yeah, Okay,
go for it.
Speaker 13 (44:25):
Robbie from San Diego, California, San Diego, California, Hey, rab
how are you? What I want to say is the
Iran regime is almost certainly going to start killing like
they did on January eighth to ninth. This time, there's
going to be large protests in Iran starting around now,
(44:45):
actually February seventeenth and eighteenth, which marks forty days from
the mass killings that happened mainly on January eighth and
ninth in Iran. And the regime already has said explicitly
they want to put down these purchase the revolution to
see it's not working, so they'd probably go to a
whole other level. That means that action, military action is
(45:08):
necessary now, not to wait until later. And that's for
two reasons. One is that the people in Iran, if
the people who support America and Iran are put down,
we don't have a support on the ground in Iran
anymore to anywhere near enough of a level. And the
second thing is that Iran there aren't.
Speaker 3 (45:27):
I think we lost for Robbie, but Robbie's right. What
ultimately happens here is I believe the President is being
very judicious here, and I think he needs to. I
would recommend right again. I don't have the information that
President Trump has, and I know he's very reluctant to
get into conflicts. But the numbers that we're hearing, I
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hope they're faked. That's okay. I pray to God that
they haven't killed forty thousand people for speaking out against
the Malas and the Ayatola and the regime in Iran,
because man, imagine that. Imagine forty thousand people being killed. Now,
I've seen some videos. He got a couple of cops
on these dirt bikes, motorcycles, ones on the back with
(46:10):
a rifle, drive by shootings of people that they believe
our protesters. They're they're pulling up on them and they're
filling them with lead. Crazy stuff. I mean, it doesn't
even fit in my brain. I have a friend that
we grew up together. When I moved to Jersey and
he's a good guy, got into some trouble. Was born
(46:34):
in a different country. And because he was born in
Nicaragua and came here as a young young man. After
he did his time, he had to go back to
Nicaragua when he's there now. And I remember him calling
me once and saying, Bro, it's a different story around here.
They do things different, you know, Daniel Ortega. These guys
are communists over there. And I remember him telling me
(46:55):
that they were shooting the people that didn't agree with them.
And he was like, it's why, bro, they just shoot
you in the street dead. And I had a hard time,
I don't want to say believing it, but believing it.
I didn't think he was lying. I just I didn't
know they still did that, right. And this is just,
you know, within the last ten or twelve years that
(47:15):
he told me that wild stuff actually does happen. Absolutely insanity.
All right, let us continue. I want to go to
our caller, Antonio. Antonio is calling us from Montreal, Canada. Antonio,
talk to us about Congressman Nathler.
Speaker 10 (47:34):
Tony in Montreal.
Speaker 3 (47:35):
How you doing, rich, good brother?
Speaker 10 (47:38):
The next novel I write will be the Death of
Shame and I'm going to start with politicians in the
United States. Will start with Jerry Nadler, the New York
con Edison gnom passing gas and sleeping in Congress on
a regular basis, come apart for the course over his
forty year career period, wasting wasting taxpayer money while thus
(48:03):
cropping his congressional associates by passing gas and snoring in
the Congress. Couldn't ask for a better rep from New York.
Speaker 3 (48:15):
Yeah, Yeah, Nadler is a piece of work, Tony. You know,
I mean he was incredibly fat. Right, If I was
pushing three hundred, he was pushing six. Right, he was
probably five twenty five five fifty some years ago. If
I'm exaggerating, it was four twenty five, four fifty, right,
I'm not off by much here. He was a or
(48:36):
extraordinarily large man. And it was wild to see, actually
how how big Nadler was. Anyway, Tony, I think you're
you're right that we should get a refund. Right, if
you're gonna be sleeping in Congress, we want a refund.
We don't want to pay you. I love that AOC.
If you're gonna be in Berlin and you're gonna be
all out crazy and you're not going to know how
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to answer an actual question about should the United States
do what it's supposed to do with respect to having
the back of Taiwan. Then yeah, you deserve to You
deserve to get a doc and pat it. I love
this plan, Tony, that we should be doing that. I
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think you've got my vote. Right if you ever come
to America and you become a naturalized citizen, you run
for Congress, You've got my vote because I think that's
something that we need to be doing. Tony in Montreal, Canada.
Thank you for your call. Anybody else want to join us?
You know how to do it? Eight seven seven Valdez
one one and I want to, uh, what's that? Okay? Sorry,
(49:48):
I go like that like I'm trying, I'm trying to listen.
I want to talk about a couple of more things
very quickly. There's something called the Valdez VIP vault. And
this is something I'm not even supposed to be talking
about just yet, but I'm putting out there just as
kind of like a tease. I guess this is going
to be a subscription that's totally voluntary. You're not going
(50:09):
to lose out on anything that you typically get for free.
We're still doing what we do absolutely free. Listen to
the ads. That's how radio and podcasts and TV work,
and we'll continue to do at supportive programming at no
cost to you. However, some people have reached out and
they've had very specific things that are like, Rich, I'd
like to pick your brain about something, or I would
(50:31):
love for you to maybe introduce me to somebody that
you had on the show that I know you have
a relationship and listen. I call you my film media,
I call you my amigos, and all of that is true.
I barely know most of you, but I want to
get to know as many of you as I can.
With ninety million subscribers in North America just on Roku alone,
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the millions that have listened on radio over the years,
as well as hundreds of thousands of podcast impressions that
we get every month. So I want to make sure
that we all have a chance to get together. And
that's why we're going to be having I don't know
if it's gonna be like a Liberty luncheon or like
a dinner, but that's just one thing that we'll be
doing once a year, as well as maybe a couple
(51:14):
of one on one calls or small group calls that
are kind of like this, almost like a zoom type
of thing. So we're going to be doing that. That's
the Valvedez vip vault. There'll be two tiers of that.
It's a membership, you buy it. This is something else
proposed to me, and I thought, actually, I like the
idea just because people have told me that they might
benefit from it. I'm not always looking for something else
(51:36):
to do unless it's more talking. I like more talking, right,
If it's a New York Post calls me, yes, I
will do it. News Max, you got it anytime you
need me? Who else? Who else? The radio stations, I
do those all the time. You know me. I love
radio runs in my veins. I need a microphone. But
before I go, I wanted to talk to you about
(51:56):
something that was interesting, because I've mentioned this Guthrie case
a number of times and I haven't gotten into it,
mainly because a true prime isn't my shtick, right. I
like to hear about it, but it's not really something
that I have a lot of experience in covering. I
never really know what details to bring you. And this
has been, in my opinion, a very slow moving case
(52:18):
where we don't have a lot of details. Then they
get the guy, then we don't have the guy, then
we get the guy, and then we don't have the guy.
So what I'm going to say is this, we have
a number of really good guests and one that I
in particular, I'm going to reach out to. I'm going
to have some of from our team reach out to
her people to see if we can get this going
(52:39):
is doctor Carol Lieberman. Doctor Carol Liberman is a fan favorite.
She's been on the show many many times, and she's
a forensic psychologist. She's known as America's terrorist therapist. She
is a profiler and expert witness. She's done this on
Court TV and in court forever since the time of
nine to eleven, right when she was headstreng the terrorists
(53:01):
that blew up the World Trade Center. So I want
to get doctor Carroll's take on what's going on with this.
Savannah Guthrie's mom and number one, I don't want to
sound flippant about this. God speak to this woman. This
poor woman's eighty four years old and the initial report
said she might have been abducted from her bedroom. I
can't imagine anybody doing anything so heinous. So my thoughts
(53:24):
and prayers are with the Guthrie family for sure, and
looking forward to getting doctor caroll On and a couple
other interesting people this week to get some updates on
a number of things that are happening. He's a lot
of movement going on. Maybe we've got somebody up. Maybe
we'll get General Hope to come on to talk to
us about some of this European stuff, since he was
the deputy representative over at NATO. But that's it for
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me today. Astall, aproxima, take care, good night, and God
bless you America. I always like to leave you with
a thought, and that is you got to stand for something,
because if you stand for a nothing, you fall for
absolutely anything. And the only thing necessary evil to triumph
is for good people like you to sit there and
do nothing. So now's the time for you to stand up,
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do something. I start, approxima. I'm Richilda, and this is America.
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What's up, America. I am Rich Valdes Valdez with an
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your liberty loving Latino amigo. Right here seventeen blocks away
from Madison Square Garden, New York City, in our New
Times Square studio, and I want to bring you the
latest on what happened this weekend. We took some time
off to upgrade some studio equipment. We're back in action.
(01:03):
New show every night, nine pm. Check this out. AOC
she's owning and I that's right, AOC all out crazy.
My least favorite congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens Exandrio
Casio Cordes. She got stuck in a foreign policy question,
trying to be a foreign policy big shot in all
places she was in Berlin, Germany and Europe. It didn't
(01:26):
work out too good for her. We're gonna go to
that in the moment. Blood we have good Take two,
but we also have more. We've got Hillary Clinton. Hillary
Clinton's also out in Europe this one. She's moderating an
event for women, and the very first guest she calls
is a man that believes he's a woman. You can't
(01:49):
make this stuff up. We're gonna get to that as well.
Plus we've got Secretary Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State.
Let me tell you, Secretary of Rubio now blowing it
out of the water with these two. One is calling
transsexuals women and the other one is umming and eyeing
her way out of a question that she doesn't even answer.
Marco Rubio truly delivers. In my opinion, what's one of
(02:12):
the best speeches I've heard in my lifetime. This is
definitely one for the generations. Check this out.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
For five centuries before the end of the Second World War,
the West had been expanding. It's missionaries, it's pilgrims, it's soldiers,
it's explorers pouring out from its shores to cross oceans,
settle new continents, build vast empires extending out across the globe.
But in nineteen forty five, for the first time since
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the age of Columbus, it was contracting. Europe was in ruins,
half of it lived behind an iron curtain, and the rest.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Looked like it would soon follow.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline, accelerated
by godless communist revolutions and by anti colonial uprisings that
would transform the world and drape the red hammer and
sickle across vast swaths of the map in the years
to come. Against that backdrop, then, as now, many came
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to believe that the West's age of dominance had come
to an end, and that our future was destined to
be a faint and feeble echo of our past. But
together our predecessors recognized that decline was a choice, and
it was a choice they refused to make. This is
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what we did together once before, and this is what
President Trump and the United States.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Want to do again now, together with you.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
And this is why we do not want our allies
to be weak, because that makes us weaker. We want
allies who can defend themselves so that no adversary will
ever be tempted to test our collective strength. This is
why we do not want our allies to be shackled
by guilt and shame. We want allies who are proud
of their culture and of their heritage, who understand that
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we are heirs to the same great and noble civilization,
and who, together with us, are willing and able to
defend it. And this is why we do not want
allies to rationalize the broken status quo rather than reckoned
with what is what is necessary to fix it. For
we in America have no interest in being polite and
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orderly caretakers of the West's managed decline. We do not
seek to separate, but to revitalize an old friendship and
renew the greatest civilization.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
In human history.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
What we want is a reinvigorated alliance that recognizes that
what has ailed our societies is not just a set
of bad policies, but a malaise of hopelessness and complacency.
An alliance is what The alliance that we want is
one that is not paralyzed into an action by fear,
fear of climate change, fear of war, fear of technology. Instead,
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we want an alliance that boldly races into the future,
and the only fear we have is the fear of
the shame of not leaving our nations prouder, stronger, and
wealthier for our children.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
You can tell me this isn't one of the best
speeches A that he's given, and B if you hear
the whole half hour speech, one of the best I've
heard in thirty years since Reagan. An alliance ready, and
Trump's first inaugural excellent speech.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Alliance ready to defend our people, to safeguard our interests,
and to preserve the freedom of action that allows us
to shape.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Our own destiny.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Not one that exists to operate a global welfare state
and atone for the purported sins of past generations. An
alliance that does not allow its power to be outsourced, constrained,
or subordinated to systems beyond its control. One that does
not depend on others for the critical necessities.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Of its national life.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
And one that does not maintain the polite pretense that
our way of life is just one among many, and
that asks for permission before it acts. And above all,
an alliance based on the recognition that we the West
have inherited together what we have inherited together is something
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that is unique and distinctive and irreplaceable, because this, after all,
is the very foundation of the Transatlantic bond.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
So Secretary of Rubio did an amazing job, right, amazing job.
And now the reason I applaud him is because I think,
number one, it's super important that the United States stick
with their policy positions, and in this case, we're talking
about upholding values that are consistent with Western civilization. He says.
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Firsty he goes to Europe and he tells the Europeans,
you're destroying Europe, and you're doing it because you're not
holding on to your values. This is important right now.
I always say, look, if you want to abandon your values,
that's on you. You can do that. You're free to
do it. But it doesn't mean the rest of us
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have to sit here and be quiet about it. Right
This is why I get on this microphone every day.
This is why a lot of people wake up and
do what they do because holding on to tradition. I
wish I could speak. Holding on to tradition is so important. Why,
because of many reasons. If you don't hold on your tradition,
you get what happens in Little Mogadishu. In, let's staying
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by that place in Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Saint Paul, that area,
same thing. Right, They totally abandon their tradition. And now
it's not about the Somalians being bad per se. It's
about the Somalians bringing a new custom, one where they
don't care because they come from a war torn place
where the governments are corrupt. So they're like, oh, if
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the government's giving up money, hey, we're going to be
corrupt and taken it just like they are to us.
That's the issue. And oftentimes that happens when people have
values that are inconsistent with Americanism. I'm going to use
that word. So anyway, I just wanted to say I
thought this was a fantastic speech. Leave it to Secretary
Marco Rubio to go to Europe to tell them what
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they're doing wrong and get a standing ovation. At the end,
he said, they've abandoned God and they've abandoned their values,
their common culture. This is true. I've done the show
from from Buddapest, Hungary, where Secretary Ruby actually landed today,
and I can tell you they hold onto their culture.
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Nothing wrong with holding onto your culture. Of the United
States is a different situation insomuch as we really are
a melting pot because we are one. You're hard pressed
to find black people in Hungary, hard pressed, you know,
for every hundred white ones, you might see two black ones.
At least that was my experience when I was in
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Blue Depeche. That was what I saw. It's not very common,
and it's not racism. It's that people tend to stick
with their own in that part of the world. Poland,
same thing. It's just a it's religious, it's cultural, it's
just how it is. That's how those societies largely are.
Switzerland is a little less so. Denmark, right, Bernie Sanders'
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favorite Denmark healthcare is all right, you've heard that, right.
That's another place where you're hard pressed to find black
people or Puerto Rican people or any other people that
aren't the brand of white that come from those Scandinavian countries.
So anyway, I bring that up to say there is
something to be said for holding on to tradition. Go
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again with that word, I can't say and for whatever reason,
and it brings me to mind, not to get to philosophical,
deep or preachy, but the Bible talks about being yoked
equally or unequally, and this idea of being equally or
unequally yoked is one of being with people that are
like minded in the sense of faith and the sense
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of you know, following Christ. However, you can use this
same advice for life, if you know, it's a nice
idea to say, oh, yeah, this one grew up Catholic
and they grew up Jewish and they got married to
live happily ever after. It's a nice idea to say that,
But in practice and in reality, I would say, in
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most cases it doesn't work. It's difficult to raise children.
And I knew kids like this growing up. They say, oh, yeah, yeah,
we have a Christmas tree out of Minora, I get
Christmas gifts and Hanika gifts. That's cute. But at the
end of the day, you've got to kind of know
what your faith is. And at some point when that
kid grows up, he's got to make a choice for
himself and say, what do I want to be? If
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I want to be anything at all, it's not a
I don't want to use the word real, because you
can make anything you want real in your own life.
But it's not a thing to do to take a
faith that pre exists, right, a culture that pre exists
and then change it. You can do it, but it
doesn't mean it's consistent with the rest of reality. If
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that makes sense. If you want to disagree with me,
go over to head give me a call. Eight seven
seven Valdez one. Will we get into your calls later on?
And seven Valdez one. Now straight ahead, I want to
show you what AOC did in contrast, right, AOC she
was not far behind Marco Rubio. She said, Oh, we
got this Latino over here that's coming to Europe to
school the Europeans on foreign policy. I'm gonna show you
(11:37):
a thing or two. Listen to AOC dropping some pearls
of wisdom, dropping bombs of knowledge right here with respect
to foreign policy.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Take a look, would and should the US actually commit
US troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
You know, I think that, uh, this is such a
you know, I think that.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I think that it's clear she doesn't have an answer
or she's afraid to tell the truth.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
This is a.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
This is of course, a very long standing policy of
the United States, and I think what we are hoping
for is that we want to make sure that we
never get to that point, and we want to make
sure that we are moving in all of our economic
research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation,
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and for that question to even arise, would and should.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Be So the question is would and should You're hearing
it again. The United States defend Taiwan right where they
make a lot of our chips and where we have
an understanding that we're going to defend them militarily should
China strike again, AOC digging deep, the.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Unctually commit US troops to defend Taiwan if China were
to move.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
You know, you know, here's the issue again. Like I said,
disingenuous at at worst, and I'm gonna say totally ignorant
at best. Right, she really has no clue AOC all
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lot crazy by least favorite congress women from the bronx
end queens, or she doesn't want to tell the truth. Right,
We have to try everything first before we commit to
the bottom line is this. She can say exactly what
Trump would say. President Trump would say, well, you know,
if they want to play around, we'll wipe out their infrastructure,
We'll wipe up We'll drop a big bomb, mother of
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out bombs. Right, When was the last time Trump took
any troops and actually put them somewhere for more than
a little bit. Right, they were on the ground for
about five seconds with Maduu. They got him, they took him,
They left Venezuela. This is Trump's m He doesn't want
to put troops on the ground. That's what he ran
on in twenty sixteen. It's what he ran on in
twenty twenty. He tried to spear had the effort to
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get the troops out of Afghanistan in a very peaceful manner,
handed it off to joe Ed Baboso Biden, and man,
did he crap the bed just like AOC is crapping
the bed right now? This is again, what why people
criticize her. I don't think she's as dumb as she's
portraying herself to be right now. But she's not doing
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a good job now. I had a few other clips
I'm not going to get for the sake of time,
I'm not going to get to all of them. But
she had a couple where she was really talking about
collectivism and how we need to stand up for basic
Marxism communist ideology. That got a thunderous applause. The Europeans
really loved that. Id yea, this is the Puerto Rican
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Bernie Sanders hard pass for me. Now I want to
move on to Hillary Clinton. Secretary Clinton also in Europe.
Everybody's in Europe this week trying to compete with Secretary
of Rubio, and like I said, she brings in the
first transcongress woman who was born a man, a biological male,
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to speak as the first guest in her panel on women.
Take a look at this one. All right, let's go
ahead with Madam Secretary. Go ahead.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Someone who's been involved in this work for a long
time in trying to explain and truly bring people together
around issues of gender, and that's Sarah McBride, US congresswoman
from the state of Delaware. You know as a gender
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rights champion and also the first openly transgender member of
the United States Congress.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
You've been holdout a second. Are there not openly trans
members of the United States Congress? Is what's going on?
I don't know if I heard that right? Which the
first openly trends that means that there are closed did
it trans people in Congress? Besides her? I did not
know this. Acquiring minds want.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
To know you've been on the front lines of this fight,
and you've also been on the receiving end of so
many threats and attacks that come from again, in many ways,
organized efforts. So when you hear Neil talking about it
from a European perspective, all these we did bring us
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in at the end. There, Sarah, how do you see
it from the United States? And I want to underscore
how truly effective Sarah has been in talking with her colleagues,
first in the legislature or the state legislature in Delaware,
now in Congress, and you have shown immense grace in
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the face of attacks, even from your fellow members of Congress.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
Well, thank you so much for those incredibly kind words.
It's an honor to be here with you, Secretary Clinton.
It's an honor to be here with another trailblazer speaker
Amrita Nancy Pelosi, and of course it's an honor to
be here with my fellow panelists and the Mayor of Boston.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Michelle Wu as well.
Speaker 9 (17:43):
Once politicians start naming other politicians in a room, it
never stops. There is no question in the United States
that after decades of historic progress on general equality, ri
at large and specifically more recently on LGBTQ rights that
we are facing saying, as you mentioned, a well organized,
well funded, right wing regressive movement, and they really have
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placed trans people at the center of that effort. But
we should be clear that the consequences of this anti
trans effort, not only out of out of proximity, but
out of intentionality, will include consequences for women of all backgrounds.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Hold on a second, that's a lot of words. Sounded
very fancy, very polished. Have no idea what she said,
But what I think she said, risk woman McBride is
that the right wing right conservatives Republicans in the United
States have launched a concerted, organized, and well funded effort
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against individuals that are trans, and that somehow this is
going to have an effect on all women. The only effect, Congressomen,
with all respect, that we've seen today is women who
are competing against trans women like you that are really
men in sports and getting their orbital their eye sockets
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broken in that one UFC fight right cranial fractures. We're
seeing these swimmers that are fantastic swimmers when they swim
against girls, they're champions. They swim against a boy like
Lea Thomas and then guess what, not the case anymore, right, So,
I mean we've seen this time and again, and yeah,
you're right, there is a real consequence for women. The
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consequence is that they're going to lose in sports and
they're going to be mistreated. My own daughter, when she
was in high school, had a situation where there was
a boy that was trans went into the girls room.
She told me she didn't feel comfortable, and she told
me that she told the teacher that was right outside
the girl's room, and the teacher said, well, you know,
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she he needs to be able to use the bathroom too,
and made the other girls leave so that the boy girl,
the trans girl, could use the restroom when there was
an available, single stall like handicapped bathroom right in the vicinity.
So the consequence for women is that they're going to
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be treated differently and that their definition and what they
truly are is going to be erased.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Because at the end of the day, transphobia, homophobia, misogyny,
and sexism are all rooted in the same prejudice.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
That's spelled rich Valdez with an S and I'm just
kidding ahead.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Prejudice.
Speaker 9 (20:39):
The belief that one perception at birth should dictate who
you are, how you act, what you do, who you love,
and how you drest.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Well, you're going a little far there, but it's one
thing that happens at birth, right, It's like a mandate
from God. You're born with certain genitalia and I don't
know what is it? Ninety eight percent who are not
her maes, who who don't have some sort of genetic malady?
Guess what, Yeah, you're a man or a woman. You know.
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What's interesting is in this era of artificial intelligence, which
is everywhere now right. We use it with some of
our production, we use it with you name it. AI
is being used everywhere to speed up workflows and whatnot.
When you ask AI to design something, let's just say,
or if it's reading something, it likely is going to
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fall on one of two sides, male or female. Right,
if it sees an image right here, right, this image
that we're looking at here on the screen, this paused
image of Congresswoman Sarah McBride. I doubt it's going to
say a transsexual woman unless it, you know, facial recognition
realizes that that's McBride. Otherwise it's going to say a
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woman wearing a beige turtle neck with a golden necklace,
a black blazer, and red auburn hair with glasses. Going
to say a woman, not a trans woman, not a man?
Why Because the AI isn't as i as you think, right,
it's not as intelligent as we think. So these nuances
that you're saying sentence you to a lifetime of manhood
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or womanhood. They kind of make sense, right, They're kind
of a real thing. Go ahead.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
And it's why threats toward trans people are threats toward
all women. Because when they use trans people as the
tip of the spear, when they come after trans people
as they are doing right now, using us as a
political wedge issue, using people like me, using me as
you mentioned, as a political pawn, not only are they
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licensing discrimination against trans people, they're sanctioning gender policing that
we know in reality actually disproportionately targets non transgender someone.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yikes, right, WHOA. This is what happens when people lose
sight of what really matters of who creates what? Right?
Who is our creator? Where do we come from? What
is what? And who is who? Excuse me? This is
what goes on in the minds of those that are
somewhere else. And all I could do is say, hey,
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I wish you the best. We're gonna pray for you,
but you can't impose the crazy on everybody else. And
I say the crazy because for many years this was
considered mental illness, this gender nysph you and only in
recent years that they got individuals that were trans themselves
within the medical community to change their consensus belief. So
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I'll stick with my story. She could stick with hers,
and we're gonna come right back because you won't believe
what this one dad did to a little girl scout
just trying to sell some cookies. Plus a mom tells
us this crazy story of what happened in a lift
iron Mike Tyson, he's back, He's back in a fight.
(24:06):
You got to hear about this one. And Secretary RFK
has a bunch of things to say about the Keto
diet and what impact that may have on schizophrenia. Keep
your locked right here, don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Valdez,
this is Ameria.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
This is Ameria.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
President Tom take you up, mister president. Welcome to the program.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Sir, well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
I know you very well, and I have I listened,
but I have a lot of people that listen and
they love your show, and I appreciate it very much.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
What's up on me? He goes, Welcome back, Rich Valdez,
keeping your company live and national. Actually we're actually live
and international, believe it or not. Phone numbers you want
to join us? Eight seven, seven Valdes one and seven
Valades one. We're gonna talk about a bunch of things, right,
it's making America healthy again. Make America healthy again. That's
(25:19):
the initiative by Secretary Kennedy RFK Junior and Bobby Kennedy's
been doing an amazing job, in my opinion, of running
the Department of Health and Human Services. One of the
things that I think is important to remember is these
guys are attacking big food. Right. There's big pharma, big this,
and big that, big food, the people that push the sugar,
(25:40):
the people that push the foods that are carcinogenic, and
all sorts of other things that are bad for you.
This is a big deal. I think there's so many
fat Americans that have had to deal with just bad,
bad dietary policy. Right. The food pyramid. We talked about
that a couple of weeks ago. Well, one of the
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things that I think they did that is really worth
discussing is the research that they've done into the keto
diet and how that can actually affect schizophrenia. I want
you to take a look at this clip coming up
with Secretary Kennedy. It's an eye open all right. So
check this one out. This is Secretary Kennedy talking about
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the doctors now discovering they can cure schizophrenia with the
keto diet. How about that? Check this out.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Doctor Paulin up at Harvard has cured schizophrenia using ketodiets.
There are studies right now that I saw it two
days ago where people lose their bipolar diagnosis by changing
their diet. It's not only affecting our physical health. It's
affecting our metal health as well. And we're asking people
(26:54):
now eat real food. I eat protein.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Eat real food, eat protein. How about that?
Speaker 10 (27:05):
Right?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
He also said if it comes in a wrapper, leave
it in the wrapper. I thought that was pretty cool.
I'm not there yet. I still eat food out of
a wrapper, but I get it. I get the point.
Eat clean, eat healthy, live longer. This is important, right,
Like I'm going to tell you a little bit about
the my own experience with Keto, because it really was
(27:27):
something lost a good amount of weight, went from almost
three hundred pounds to uh at my lowest now I'm
about one. I haven't hit two hundred in a while, thankfully,
but I still try to watch what I eat a
little bit. But listen, I've been eating not as great
as I should. Right, I haven't hit my New Year's
(27:47):
resolutions yet. I haven't been to the gym since Thanksgiving. Confession, right,
do a little confession here. But again, I want to
remind you we're going to get to your calls and
a bunch of other stuff straight ahead eight seven seven
Velvet US one as well as the Dear Richie segment
at least I'm gonna tease that even if we don't
get to it today. But that's and it's basically our
(28:10):
television radio podcast advice column. Dear Richie, I'm going to
give you advice on things I'm not qualified to give
advice on. It's kind of funny anyway. I want to
get to the next clip. The next clip is really
interesting because it's Iron Mike Tyson. Now Iron Mike Tyson,
you know, him. This guy is a champ. He's in
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the ring. He's not taking any prisoners. And Iron Mike Tyson,
he says he's getting back in the ring. He's getting
back in a fight. Who he's fighting, what he's fighting.
That's the part I think you're going to be surprised about.
He's fighting for your health. Check this out.
Speaker 11 (28:47):
I want to be a hero in this particular field
because it affects my life. Every time I see someone
who may be obefe that I have affinity for them,
I want to be close to I want to talk
to im, want to let them know that I'm their
friend without saying you remind me and my sister, And
I'm just very grateful to be here and fight this fight.
It's gonna be a fight that's I look forward to.
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I was telling my experience that I had a sister
that died at twenty five from on Ba City and
where I come from with Brownsville, Brooklyn. It's the most violent,
poverty strucken neighborhood in the City of New York, and
ultra processed food was just the normal. Everything was processed food.
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We didn't have much money, but we had food stamps
and food stamps from body, the candy, the sugar and
all that Solda seventh and all that rotten stuff. And
that's just all we knew. And the food that we
ate was pretty much processed. It was getting its guts
and stools and stuff with weird animals.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
For me, there, you can't make some of this stuff up.
But I'm happy to see Iron Mike getting back in
the ring. He's in the fight for something I think
is a good cause, and personally, this is something that
I could tended with. Right. I used to be almost
three hundred pounds. Two hundred and sixty nine pounds is
I think my top weight. I have a picture, maybe
I'll put it on screen. This was a big deal
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for me, right, I thought I was the best thing ever.
Right so right now, this is a forty two I
think this suit or maybe a forty I'm not sure.
Let me, I'm gonna check anyway. I used to wear
a fifty, right, and my next size was eighteen or
a seventeen and a half. Now I'm a medium. I
wear a medium shirt, so whatever, that's sixteen and a
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half the regular size. You could buy stuff off the
rack now or you being me so anyway, I'm proud
of what happened. I'm proud of, you know, everything I
did to get there, and I did it through the
Keto diet. So to hear about how keto can affect
people with mental illness, I'm pretty sure I had all
sorts of mental illness right in addition to my ADHD
(30:54):
I'm talking about, there's a lot of things that go on.
I had a skin conditioned ecima that I had no
idea that was linked directly to my diet. And as
soon as I changed my diet, and I had it
for years, I really thought it was the water. I
thought it was all sorts of environmental things. Right. I
went to the doctor that gave me allergy medicine. It
helped a little bit, but ultimately it was what I
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was eating. It was the amount of sugar in the
food was messing up my gut, causing me to have
these these outbreaks on my calves. And I always knew
if whenever I ate too much bread, too many carbs,
too much anything that had like I don't want to
say wheat, but wheat's probably a good indicator, but anything
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made out of flour, that stuff right away got my
calf very itchy. It was like a mosquito bite almost,
and it was always itchy, always itchy, always itchy, to
the point where it was, you know, like a had
a scab on it and it never healed. And finally
my doctor told me, I don't know this is because
your your your diet is all screwed up. So I
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say all that to say this stuff is important. Taking
your health seriously is important. Now today, I'm happy to
say I've used a bunch of really cool things, like
this app called Noom had this app for a while.
They were a sponsor of the show and newm was
pretty cool and they helped you to kind of prioritize
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your day. The Keto diet was really the one that
did it for me, though, you know, apps are cool
as well as going to the gym. I went to
the gym for almost all of the last three years,
and this journey started in twenty seventeen, so it's been
a lot more than three years. But it was a
Keto diet where I really dropped about forty pounds and
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then sticking with low carb after that continue to lose weight.
The gym helped me lose some weight. Other peptide stuff
like that helped me lose a little bit of weight,
but the bulk of it came with Keto and that's
where it's at game changer, right. I mean I used
to have a whole extra had no neck, had an
extra gin. So listen. I say that because I think
the stuff that they're talking about is important and they're related.
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The food we eat directly impacts how healthy we are,
how happy we are, and how much we can make
a difference in society. Anyway, don't go anywhere, keep it
locked right here. There is more to come. We're going
to talk about Girl Scout cookies. No, I'm not trying
to sell you any but somebody was trying to donate
to a little girl Scout who was doing a great
job selling them, and this one dad got in the
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way of it. Unbelievable. So you're gonna hear about that,
plus what these influencers are doing to gain advertising and
help people at the same time. I think you're gonna
enjoy that story. Plus, if we have time for all
of it, we're going to get into how you can
communicate with this program. Eight seven seven Valdes one eight
seven seven Valdes and the number one at the end,
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and if we have a moment, we're going to get
to your calls. I know we've got calls from a
few people from California, from Canada. I want to get
to you guys as quickly as I can, as soon
as we get this stuff done in this segment, as
well as the Dear Richie segment. Now, this is probably
something I'm just going to tease because I don't think
we're gonna be able to get to it right away.
But the Dear Richie segment is something that I am
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totally unqualified to offer advice on. Right, So if you
ask me about losing weight, I can give you a
little advice on that. If you're morbidly obese, I can help.
I'll tell you what my doctor told me. But I'm
talking about things where like I'm divorced, I was married
for ten years, didn't work, I never got married again.
Actually have been very unsuccessful even with relationships after that. Right,
(34:36):
there's a whole lot that I need to learn in
areas I need to work on. So when it comes
to relationships, I'm not the guy to give out advice,
but happy to give you some. Give me a call
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Speaker 1 (35:07):
This is America in glace or primal bara Rich Valdez
e s O s America.
Speaker 12 (35:20):
Awara, what's up America?
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Welcome back? I am Rich val das Valdez with an
ass that rich Vald's on all of the social media.
And I want to get into this story about this dad.
There's a dad who did something to me, the unthinkable,
crushing his daughter's spirit. And she's such a good kid
that she is a good sport, right and and you
would have thought it was somebody else's dad, right, that
(36:07):
it wasn't uh, this girl's dad, But it was this
girl's dad. And I'm gonna play the tape for you.
Check this out. Watch. I'll move give you one hundred
for trying.
Speaker 13 (36:20):
But it's a stick.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Are you familiar with stick on me?
Speaker 12 (36:29):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (36:29):
Yeah, you get from all right, you know your people's
sport trump, right, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Get back your much.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Thanks anyway, god bless unbelievable. Right, Well, that's what happened.
These people are totally savage, right, these people that are
willing to destroy a kid's dreams, that are are happy to,
I don't know, just to just be totally unfair to
a little kid. I think, why, why all because you
(37:03):
want to hate on Trump? Listen, I'm not here to
be angry. Angry. He's not my stick, right, But we
have a very sophisticated term in Spanish for people like this.
They would say he is a tremendous tremendo bando this dad.
I think what he's teaching his kid, Listen, he can
teach his kid what he wants. Right. If it were
(37:26):
some pro abortion people and they offered my kid something right,
something I vehemently disagree with, then I'd probably say the
same thing, give them their money back. But it sucks, right,
It sucks to have to tell your kid that, But
sometimes I have to learn those lessons. Now, I'm not
saying he's teaching his kid a good lesson other than
you know, I guess if we find a silver lining,
(37:47):
it's hey, we don't believe in that stuff. But she
did believe in that stuff, right, She liked sticker Mule.
She thought it was cool. Now, what's the story with
sticker Mule, And why is there this guy that appears
to be a very jelly roll or very slim teddy
swims right the country singers He's neither one. This guy's
name I haven't written down here, Jason Jensen. He goes
(38:10):
by the greatness. He's an influencer that has nearly twenty
million followers online and he makes videos where he gives
money away. That's his whole stick makes the videos, spreads kindness,
God bless you, right, that's how he does it. Well,
mister Jensen, mister Greatness has teamed up with the folks
(38:31):
from Stickermule. The CEO of Stickermule, Anthony Constantino, says that
instead of spending ten million dollars a year on advertising,
he'd much rather give this money to people who are
in need and just create videos around it, which will
generate the advertising he needs.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Watch this, Google along earns three hundred billion in advertising dollars,
and Facebook's right behind them, bringing in almost two hundred
billion a year in advertising revenue. My company, sticker Mill,
spends tens of millions of dollars on advertising annually with
these companies.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
I don't mind doing it.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
You have to advertise to grow your business. But today
I'm changing our advertising strategy in a way that I
hope others will copy. This year, five to ten percent
of our advertising budget will be giving back directly to
people instead of advertisers. It'll be given back in a
(39:33):
very simple way. We're just we're just gonna put cast
directly in people's hands. This year alone, were planning for
millions in cash directly into the hands of people we
meet on the street and shoot fun videos with It
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Speaker 3 (39:56):
So how about that this CEO, he's doing the right
thing right, He's out there, he's pressing the flesh, he's
meeting with people. He's really trying to make an impact here.
Rather than spending the ten million dollars that he spends
in advertising other ways, he's trying to do it to
actually help people. I think it's a great thing. So
(40:16):
he got this guy out there. He wants to give
the girl five hundred dollars or a thousand, whatever the
offer was for the trivia questions. He just wanted to
give her the money. And it was the dad who
gets in the way now. And I approach this from
two angles. One I tried to give you, you know, the
devil's advocates right side of it, which is, hey, if
that was your kid, how'd you feel if it was
(40:37):
something you didn't believe it? Got it? But on the
other side of things, it's the girl Scouts. Right, even
if you don't believe in something. If some Sangublainhill comes
over and he says, hey, look I am. You don't
know me from a home in the world, but I
want to donate to your kids, girl Scout cookies, you know.
(40:59):
But for somebody saying I eat small children, you know
we're evil, you know, I'm likely gonna say sure, because
we don't typically qualify those things, right, We don't typically
have a litmus test for people that are trying to assist. Right,
If somebody comes into a church and they're passing the
(41:21):
bucket around and the donation basket, people don't excuse me,
what do you do? Are you a hit man? Are
you a right? You put the money in, you say
thank you, got bus, have a good day, take care
between you and God. And I think this is much
the same way, right. I think the little girl should
have gotten her hundred bucks. I think that dad should
have gotten out of it, you know, pushing his politics
(41:43):
onto his kid my belief. I don't think I would
have done that, but I might have. Right had it
been like, hey, we're here from Nayral, I likely would
have been like, what, bro keep a stepping right. I
don't think I would have wanted to engage in that,
or at least if nothing else, I would have taken
my my little girl and said, hey, these are the
people that you know stick a vacuum inside of women
(42:05):
and vacuum up baby parts before their full term, and
let her make that choice right. And my kids were
exposed to stuff like that very early in life so
that they wouldn't be led astray by the other people. Man.
You know, today they have whatever opinions they have. I
don't really get into it with them. I know, I
do my job. I teach them what I think is right,
and then I leave the rest to God. Anyway, that's
(42:28):
that part. Let's see anything left here? Yep, your calls
and more, don't go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
This is America. This is America.
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The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
to speak with Rich Valdees.
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Oh, very good. The honor is all yours.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Conservative talk with a dash of Sofrito.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Now here's Rich Valdez.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
All right, Leaders, welcome back as Rich Valdez. Happy to
be here with you, keeping your company tonight and check
this out. We have maintained the tradition of open phones America.
Open phone America, open phones across America is a tradition
that was started by the late Great Larry King when
he used to have this time slot. I had the
good fortune of taking over for Jim Bohannon, who took
(43:34):
over for the late Larry King in a historic time
slot on Westwood One with millions of listeners all across
the country. And now that we've gone digital, we are
maintaining this tradition with you all. We've had some of
our favorite callers stick with us, and I think a
few more are going to be coming through. I miss
Paul and Miss Gil, I miss Denise. There's so many
(43:55):
regulars that have always given us a call. Pat called in,
which was really nice, and a couple other regulars we've
heard from. But I got a call right now from Robbie.
Robbie's calling us from San Diego. Let's hear what Robbie
has to say. He wants to talk about Iran. Go ahead.
I don't know how you guys are going to put
(44:16):
this stuff on the screen, but let me know how
it works, and hopefully everybody can hear the call. Yeah, Okay,
go for it.
Speaker 13 (44:25):
Robbie from San Diego, California, San Diego, California, Hey, rab
how are you? What I want to say is the
Iran regime is almost certainly going to start killing like
they did on January eighth to ninth. This time, there's
going to be large protests in Iran starting around now,
(44:45):
actually February seventeenth and eighteenth, which marks forty days from
the mass killings that happened mainly on January eighth and
ninth in Iran. And the regime already has said explicitly
they want to put down these purchase the revolution to
see it's not working, so they'd probably go to a
whole other level. That means that action, military action is
(45:08):
necessary now, not to wait until later. And that's for
two reasons. One is that the people in Iran, if
the people who support America and Iran are put down,
we don't have a support on the ground in Iran
anymore to anywhere near enough of a level. And the
second thing is that Iran there aren't.
Speaker 3 (45:27):
I think we lost for Robbie, but Robbie's right. What
ultimately happens here is I believe the President is being
very judicious here, and I think he needs to. I
would recommend right again. I don't have the information that
President Trump has, and I know he's very reluctant to
get into conflicts. But the numbers that we're hearing, I
(45:49):
hope they're faked. That's okay. I pray to God that
they haven't killed forty thousand people for speaking out against
the Malas and the Ayatola and the regime in Iran,
because man, imagine that. Imagine forty thousand people being killed. Now,
I've seen some videos. He got a couple of cops
on these dirt bikes, motorcycles, ones on the back with
(46:10):
a rifle, drive by shootings of people that they believe
our protesters. They're they're pulling up on them and they're
filling them with lead. Crazy stuff. I mean, it doesn't
even fit in my brain. I have a friend that
we grew up together. When I moved to Jersey and
he's a good guy, got into some trouble. Was born
(46:34):
in a different country. And because he was born in
Nicaragua and came here as a young young man. After
he did his time, he had to go back to
Nicaragua when he's there now. And I remember him calling
me once and saying, Bro, it's a different story around here.
They do things different, you know, Daniel Ortega. These guys
are communists over there. And I remember him telling me
(46:55):
that they were shooting the people that didn't agree with them.
And he was like, it's why, bro, they just shoot
you in the street dead. And I had a hard time,
I don't want to say believing it, but believing it.
I didn't think he was lying. I just I didn't
know they still did that, right. And this is just,
you know, within the last ten or twelve years that
(47:15):
he told me that wild stuff actually does happen. Absolutely insanity.
All right, let us continue. I want to go to
our caller, Antonio. Antonio is calling us from Montreal, Canada. Antonio,
talk to us about Congressman Nathler.
Speaker 10 (47:34):
Tony in Montreal.
Speaker 3 (47:35):
How you doing, rich, good brother?
Speaker 10 (47:38):
The next novel I write will be the Death of
Shame and I'm going to start with politicians in the
United States. Will start with Jerry Nadler, the New York
con Edison gnom passing gas and sleeping in Congress on
a regular basis, come apart for the course over his
forty year career period, wasting wasting taxpayer money while thus
(48:03):
cropping his congressional associates by passing gas and snoring in
the Congress. Couldn't ask for a better rep from New York.
Speaker 3 (48:15):
Yeah, Yeah, Nadler is a piece of work, Tony. You know,
I mean he was incredibly fat. Right, If I was
pushing three hundred, he was pushing six. Right, he was
probably five twenty five five fifty some years ago. If
I'm exaggerating, it was four twenty five, four fifty, right,
I'm not off by much here. He was a or
(48:36):
extraordinarily large man. And it was wild to see, actually
how how big Nadler was. Anyway, Tony, I think you're
you're right that we should get a refund. Right, if
you're gonna be sleeping in Congress, we want a refund.
We don't want to pay you. I love that AOC.
If you're gonna be in Berlin and you're gonna be
all out crazy and you're not going to know how
(49:01):
to answer an actual question about should the United States
do what it's supposed to do with respect to having
the back of Taiwan. Then yeah, you deserve to You
deserve to get a doc and pat it. I love
this plan, Tony, that we should be doing that. I
(49:21):
think you've got my vote. Right if you ever come
to America and you become a naturalized citizen, you run
for Congress, You've got my vote because I think that's
something that we need to be doing. Tony in Montreal, Canada.
Thank you for your call. Anybody else want to join us?
You know how to do it? Eight seven seven Valdez
one one and I want to, uh, what's that? Okay? Sorry,
(49:48):
I go like that like I'm trying, I'm trying to listen.
I want to talk about a couple of more things
very quickly. There's something called the Valdez VIP vault. And
this is something I'm not even supposed to be talking
about just yet, but I'm putting out there just as
kind of like a tease. I guess this is going
to be a subscription that's totally voluntary. You're not going
(50:09):
to lose out on anything that you typically get for free.
We're still doing what we do absolutely free. Listen to
the ads. That's how radio and podcasts and TV work,
and we'll continue to do at supportive programming at no
cost to you. However, some people have reached out and
they've had very specific things that are like, Rich, I'd
like to pick your brain about something, or I would
(50:31):
love for you to maybe introduce me to somebody that
you had on the show that I know you have
a relationship and listen. I call you my film media,
I call you my amigos, and all of that is true.
I barely know most of you, but I want to
get to know as many of you as I can.
With ninety million subscribers in North America just on Roku alone,
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the millions that have listened on radio over the years,
as well as hundreds of thousands of podcast impressions that
we get every month. So I want to make sure
that we all have a chance to get together. And
that's why we're going to be having I don't know
if it's gonna be like a Liberty luncheon or like
a dinner, but that's just one thing that we'll be
doing once a year, as well as maybe a couple
(51:14):
of one on one calls or small group calls that
are kind of like this, almost like a zoom type
of thing. So we're going to be doing that. That's
the Valvedez vip vault. There'll be two tiers of that.
It's a membership, you buy it. This is something else
proposed to me, and I thought, actually, I like the
idea just because people have told me that they might
benefit from it. I'm not always looking for something else
(51:36):
to do unless it's more talking. I like more talking, right,
If it's a New York Post calls me, yes, I
will do it. News Max, you got it anytime you
need me? Who else? Who else? The radio stations, I
do those all the time. You know me. I love
radio runs in my veins. I need a microphone. But
before I go, I wanted to talk to you about
(51:56):
something that was interesting, because I've mentioned this Guthrie case
a number of times and I haven't gotten into it,
mainly because a true prime isn't my shtick, right. I
like to hear about it, but it's not really something
that I have a lot of experience in covering. I
never really know what details to bring you. And this
has been, in my opinion, a very slow moving case
(52:18):
where we don't have a lot of details. Then they
get the guy, then we don't have the guy, then
we get the guy, and then we don't have the guy.
So what I'm going to say is this, we have
a number of really good guests and one that I
in particular, I'm going to reach out to. I'm going
to have some of from our team reach out to
her people to see if we can get this going
(52:39):
is doctor Carol Lieberman. Doctor Carol Liberman is a fan favorite.
She's been on the show many many times, and she's
a forensic psychologist. She's known as America's terrorist therapist. She
is a profiler and expert witness. She's done this on
Court TV and in court forever since the time of
nine to eleven, right when she was headstreng the terrorists
(53:01):
that blew up the World Trade Center. So I want
to get doctor Carroll's take on what's going on with this.
Savannah Guthrie's mom and number one, I don't want to
sound flippant about this. God speak to this woman. This
poor woman's eighty four years old and the initial report
said she might have been abducted from her bedroom. I
can't imagine anybody doing anything so heinous. So my thoughts
(53:24):
and prayers are with the Guthrie family for sure, and
looking forward to getting doctor caroll On and a couple
other interesting people this week to get some updates on
a number of things that are happening. He's a lot
of movement going on. Maybe we've got somebody up. Maybe
we'll get General Hope to come on to talk to
us about some of this European stuff, since he was
the deputy representative over at NATO. But that's it for
(53:45):
me today. Astall, aproxima, take care, good night, and God
bless you America. I always like to leave you with
a thought, and that is you got to stand for something,
because if you stand for a nothing, you fall for
absolutely anything. And the only thing necessary evil to triumph
is for good people like you to sit there and
do nothing. So now's the time for you to stand up,
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