'Murica!, Mexico's El Mencho, Mamdani

On Monday Rich, joins team USA in celebrating their Gold Medal hockey win. Then, Journalist Bill Conroy weighs in on Mexican cartel boss El Mencho. Plus, Mamdani' pushes back snow shoveling ID's.

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Speaker 5 (00:26):
What's up, America. I am Rich Valdez Valdez with ans
at Rich Valdez on all of the social media. Welcome
to the Monday night edition of the program. It's a
thrill and honor, a blessing to be here with you,
live and national. You're liberty loving Latino. I'm me go
eight seven seven Valdez one. It's my thrill to speak
with you as well, So let me know if you
want to give me a call. And I want to

(00:46):
get into a bunch of stuff. A lot of things
happened over the weekend. Right one of the first things
that happened, I think, is the violence everybody's been seeing
coming out of Mexico. We're going to have an interview
with somebody from the news media. You know people like
President Trump says fake news news. Well, I've invited them
many times and they don't come. But we got a bite.
And I'm not saying this guy's fake news. I'm just
saying he's mainstream media guy and he's been covering Mexico

(01:09):
and the cartels and the CIA's operation down there for
about three decades, and he has agreed to join us.
We're gonna talk to him in the next segment, so
stay tuned for that. What I want to get into
right now, a little bit of the Olympics overseas, because
lots of drama coming out of there. Right Number one,
the US hockey team, Team America, Team America beat the Canadians.

(01:30):
I thought it was pretty funny. I should say they
tried to troll us. But our commander and trolling doing
all this, Magnus El Trompito, the forty fifth and forty
seventh President of the United States.

Speaker 6 (01:40):
Nope, nobody, nope, believe me, nobody chose better than El Trompeto.
Believe me, biglely, he chose Bigley.

Speaker 5 (01:49):
And guess what, Yes, he did troll Bigley. Justin Trudeau
and his funny socks. He tried to troll the United
States saying it's our game, you can't win, blah blah
blah blah blah. And of course President and Trump tweeting
probably the most epic picture ever on his truth social account.
Absolutely classic and I love that. But that opens the
conversation to so many things. There's a lot of heat

(02:11):
coming on a lot of people. There's a few stories here.
I want to talk about the huff Pot thing, and
I want to talk about the invitation of the teams
to the White House, to the drama with Cash Hotel.
So I don't know. Let's see where we start. Team wins.
They do some beautiful stuff. A fallen hockey player, they
bring his family up there. They do the right thing.
I think it's a classic thing to do. Kudos to

(02:32):
them for doing it. But then we get the locker room.
They go in the locker room, they're having a few
cold ones, and guess what, they're joined by another hockey fan,
a player himself, FBI director Cash Pattel. Now Cash Hotel
is in there, he's pounding a brew with them. This
is all on camera. All of a sudden, it's the
worst thing ever. And I'm gonna be honest here I'm

(02:54):
gonna say, had it been someone from the other side, right,
I am a conservative, so had it been a I
would have been like, unbelievable. These people, God, I'm better
to do than go hang out in the locker rooms.
I can't believe them. I might have said that. I
might or might not have. Why because I tend to
like to have a good time too, and I don't
want somebody doing that to me, so I try not
to do that to other people. Right. That's why I think, Hey, listen,

(03:16):
you might catch me one day at a red carpet
at the Oscars or the Grammys or something like that,
and not because I love all of those people, but
because that's a cool party. I know. I know, Q
the hate. I'm gonna get a little hate there, but
it's satanic. But it's this, But it's the degradation of
I understand. I'm sorry. When I go to bars, I
like to drink beer. So when I go to those parties,

(03:36):
I want to have a good time. You hang out
with the cool entertainers. Listen, I'm not that enlightened just yet.
I might have been in the past life, but I'm
not there now. But my point is I might have right,
I might have said, hold on a second, did they
use you know, air Force three or Air Force four
or whatever it is era The FBI director gets to
fly around and as I understand it, he was there
on some other business. And the argument I would make

(03:56):
for it is I would say, the FBI director, is
there a supporting team USA. They don't deserve representation from
the FBI. They flew there on a plane. That's team Morocca. Right.
President Trump offered a military escort to bring him to
the State of the Union, which is tomorrow, by the way,
So stay tuned for my thoughts on that Manyana at night.

(04:20):
But anyway, this viral clip of Cash Bettel drinking a
beer and showing his support and enthusiasm, I don't think
it's a big thing, and I could see why people
are critical of it, But I don't think it's the
end of the world. Right, what was Was there a
national secret that was somehow released or harmed? Now there wasn't,
So I'm letting that one go. Now, where I think

(04:42):
the media, the fake news media, the left within the
media was off their rocker and out of control. Is
in this regard this particular tweet I don't know if
you guys can get this one up for me, but
I'll read it to you off my phone just so
in case the team doesn't get it on screen quick enough.
If waiving the American flag or chanting USA turns you off,

(05:06):
right now, you're not alone. Now that wasn't some random
lefty that doesn't like America tweeting this. This was the
Huffington Post, right, started by Arianna Huffington way back when.
And she's a big media player, and it was her
and Matt Drudge it started, you know this and the

(05:28):
Drudge Report and stuff like that. These are big, major
y two K media players the blogosphere. But anyway, I
think she's since sold it. But my point is stupid
thing to say, and it really shows you the heart
of where the left movement in our country is. Right,
the leftist is a hater, a hater of Mourca Team America.

(05:53):
If the Olympics can't bring us together, right, I mean,
I think there's certain things where Look, I do this
all day. I talk about my opinion, my philosophy, all
sorts of things. But when it comes to the country,
come on, I think we should agree. Now, I'm not
saying you have to be in lockstep with me, not
at all. I don't believe that to be true. I
think what's important here is that you do what you

(06:16):
gotta do. If if you find it absolutely necessary to
hate America every day of the week, then you go
ahead and hate America every day of the week. I'm
not here to stop you, right, I'm gonna say that
you're right, But what I will say is, come on,
I mean, don't you think it's a good idea to
try and band together on one particular issue the Olympics
Team USA. Shouldn't that represent all Americans? Now, some of

(06:39):
these athletes that were in the Olympics, they were saying
things like, just because I'm playing for Team USA doesn't
mean I agree with everything our country does. I think
that goes without saying. But if you feel they need
to say that, go right ahead say what you want
to say. By the way. Consequently, every one of those
athletes that was making those types of critical comments about
you know, being on team but not from the USA,

(07:02):
or you know, I'm on the team, but I don't
represent them, kind of like the old women's soccer team.
They also took an l now who didn't take an
l is the women's hockey team. They won gold and
they were also invited to the State of the Union.
And they said, if you I don't want to go,
all of them, the entire women's soccer team is not
interested in coming to the president's invitation for the State

(07:26):
of the Union. Now again, that's again they're right. It's
not like you go to those things because you think
it's cool, like going to the Oscars or the Grammys
or something like that. No, it's more like an honor, like, hey,
I got to represent my country, and as part of that,
the president of the country I represented as an athlete
invited me to an official function and we're going to
go to pay our respects to our country. Salute hello, Marikrima,

(07:49):
bye bye. That's it. But there won't be any of
that for the girls team. But back to this story.
I was having an ADHD movement this huff Post piece
where they said, again, if waving an American flag or
chanting USA turns you off, right now, you're not alone.

(08:10):
Jimmy's famous seafood from I believe they're from Massachusetts, they tweeted,
go after yourself. This was met to the accolades of
many a lot of people thought that was the right
response and agreed with them and said they're following and
ordering and all that stuff. So shout out to Jimmy's
famous seafood. And again, am I encouraging that type of discourse? Absolutely, yes,

(08:35):
of course I am. I think that this is the
same free speech I was saying the lefties could have.
You could have it too. I mean, do you have
to be vulgar, that's up to you. I prefer not
to be, but listen, I think it's good to stand
up for the country you believe in. Right. My parents
are born in Puerto Rico. I don't know another country.
This is the only country I know. This is a
country where my parents, who were poor, by the way,

(08:57):
who we grew up in poverty, probably enough poverty to
allow us to live in the projects. But because of pride,
we didn't live in the projects. We just lived very poor.
And I can tell you that there was never a
not even a little bit of hating America, not even
a little bit. When I was growing up. We all
loved this country. We loved Hulkogan, we loved America. We

(09:20):
loved Sergeant Slaughter, we loved the World Wrestling Federation before
it was world wrestling entertainment. Right, we just loved being
Americans and what Americans did the Yankees? God, our flag,
our mom right, apple pie, That's what it's all about.
So you can love the country that you're in, the
country that you've come to, even when I'm gonna dare

(09:42):
say that you've assimilated to right, Because my parents didn't
grow up speaking English, but they definitely learned how to.
And my dad's name is Juan, and he could have
had sons named Louise, Jose, Alberto Ricardo, but instead he
got John and Joe and Lewis and Richard because he

(10:05):
felt the anglicized versions of our names were the appropriate
thing to do. His choice. I probably would not have
made that choice, but I would have made the same
choice to make sure that we spoke English and that
we learned how to speak it well, so that we
did the right thing, Because ultimately, I think assimilation doesn't
mean the erasure of your culture. It just means that

(10:26):
you embrace the one that's there. And nobody's saying that
you can't keep yours right. Nobody's saying you can't continue
eating corned beef and cabbage while you're learning how to
eat McDonald's right. It's just not a thing. I grew
up eating rice and beans and McDonald's right. That's how
that works. So I say all of that to say,
in a very roundabout way, none of these things are

(10:48):
as simple as people try to make them out to be.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Right.

Speaker 5 (10:52):
If these athletes want to hate on America, go right ahead.
If the huff Post wants to hate on America, go
right ahead. But don't be fooled and don't get it twisted.
America has every right to fire back. America has every
right to say, Hey, we don't want to be hated upon.
We don't like what you're saying, we don't like what
you're doing, and we're not messing with you anymore anyway.

(11:13):
I'm gonna put a pin in that, and I'll leave
you with the words of Jack Hughes. Jack Hughes, who
is the the hockey player who took the winning shot
in the game that won us the gold, had some
great things to say about being American as he was
sucking back the blood from losing his teeth. Amazing watched this.

(11:37):
This is all about our country right now.

Speaker 7 (11:39):
I love the USA, I love my teammates.

Speaker 5 (11:42):
It's unbelievable. The US or Hockey brotherhood is so strong.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
And we have so much to court for next players.

Speaker 7 (11:50):
I'm so proud of the Americans grow.

Speaker 5 (11:53):
This was such an incredible game to grind out. I
mean you're bleeding right through it just looking at you
right now.

Speaker 8 (11:58):
Can you just talk about how difficult this gold medal
was to win.

Speaker 7 (12:02):
Unbelievable game by Hellibuck, he was our best player tonight
by mile. Unbelievable game, unreal game by our team. That's
just a ballsy, gutsy win. That's American hockey right there.
That's a great Canadian team. But we're USA.

Speaker 5 (12:17):
We're so proud to be Americans.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Tonighter's all for the country.

Speaker 5 (12:20):
What does this gold medal mean to USA Hockey? It's everything.

Speaker 7 (12:23):
Like I said, the USA Hockey brotherhood means so much.
Look at these guys where it's such a team. We've
been to the Iver for two weeks. We're such a team.
The USA Hockey brotherhood is so strong, and we're so
proud to win.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
For our country.

Speaker 5 (12:37):
Jack Hughes is a Patriot. Kudos to him and the
entire team and all the Americans, even the ones that
were criticizing America, all the Americans that won in the Olympics.
I salute you. Now I want to get into this
stuff that's going on in Magel because these cartels are
at war with the government. A lot of things went
down here. It seems to me the Cartel Nueva Hennaedasiung. Right,

(13:02):
what do they call CJNG. I think that's the acronym
they go by. They they got done in. Elmentcho supported
that he was killed. I talked to some of my
friends that are former military, high ranking people, and they say,
we don't think he's dead. You think he's in US custody.
And why do we think that, Well, maybe because there's
one hundred of his friends are in US custody too.

(13:24):
Now there's a piece in the New York Post came
out just a few hours ago. Let's see if you
can put a screen grab of this up on screen. Please.
Trump quietly got Mexico to hand over one hundred cartel leaders,
including Elmencho's brother, before the Holy School raid. Now again
they bring you up to speed on this stuff. Elmencho

(13:47):
is the guy that's the head of the CJNNG cartel.
He is captured by US intelligence, they tell the Mexicans
in a joint effort that they're on. They say, hey,
we've got this guy, we know where he is, go
get him. So therefore the Mexicans say, let's go get him,
and they do. They go. When they get them, apparently

(14:08):
he's killed. That's the official report. Now some people are
saying it wasn't supposed to be that way. They were
supposed to capture him, not kill him. But it's because
the government had so many people that were complicit with
these cartels. They had to kill him because the Americans
were involved. They had no choice but to kill him
because he might talk to the Americans. I don't know

(14:29):
any of the details on that, but I do know
it's being officially reported that this guy at Menchell is dead.
It's also being officially reported that one hundred cartel leaders,
including his son, have also been arrested and are in
US custody. Right and again, Mexico's not making a lot
of noise about it, but they've quietly shipped one hundred
suspected cartel drug traffickers to the US to stand trial

(14:52):
after President Trump branded them narco terrorists last year. Let's
see what else is relevant here and just give you
a couple of and I think are pretty important. The
suspects include the brother of Namesio elmentcho O Segua Servantes,
the Brutaljalisco New Generation Cartel CGNJ CJNNG excuse me leader

(15:15):
who was killed by the Mexican Army on Sunday. Justice
Department said many of the ninety two defendants released to
the Americans had US extradition requests that were not honored
during the Biden administration. Now some are also saying that
this whole entire operation took place right now with the
urgency that it did for one reason, a strike that

(15:38):
is coming on Iran, and that this particular group had
some ties to Iran and they were known for working
with Iran, whether it's in the area of smuggling Iranians
terror cells things like that into the country or related.
And if that is in fact the case, then smart
moved by Eddrampito and the team, they say, those are

(15:58):
the assets they have close to the US. Let's take
them out right now this way when we do what
wherever we're gonna do, which I would suspect is to
take out the Aatola one way or another or the
Malas or some form of the leadership in Iran. Their
next move is going to be a cyber attack. Their
next move is going to be to activate whatever cells

(16:20):
they have on the ground.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
Here.

Speaker 5 (16:22):
These guys would be the guys that facilitate those things.
And there's been videos all week and long about these
army groups. Right, they look like, let me see if
we can, if you can put one up on the
screen for me right here. So you got these guys
that are basically mercenaries, right, these guys are hired guns.

(16:43):
For the most part, they are not necessarily the Mexican military,
nor do they exclusively work for the cartels. Some reports
are saying these guys are trained by foreign intelligence, not
expressly for the purpose of doing what they do in
this context, right, but similar to it during the Ukraine
War they had the Wagner group and other groups. There

(17:04):
are these groups of people that they are hired guns.
They go to the highest bidder. Now, what happens with
some of these cartel groups is sometimes they if they
represent one faction, they won't represent another warring faction because
turf and you know, they're exclusive in that sense. But
for the most part, whoever's paying is getting a hired gun.
And that's why they're so well equipped. And they look

(17:26):
like they represent some sort of nation state, and people
are like, oh my gosh, these cartel soldiers are so
well equipped. Yeah, they likely are. I mean, they make
more money than everybody else, and they have the access
to get in and out of the United States. Remember
a couple of years back, it was none other than
President Barack Obama. Right, what was that called fast and Furious?

(17:47):
I remember that, Like yesterday, who were they arming cartels?

Speaker 3 (17:51):
Right?

Speaker 5 (17:52):
So we were sending us guns down south of the border.
Why likely for guys like this for whatever reason, because
the CIA will go ahead and put weapons in the
hands of those people that even if they don't like them,
because they don't like somebody else. It's the Machiavellian concept
of the enemy of my enemy is my friend. So
this is what happens. So ultimately, now here we are,

(18:15):
these guys are acting up, They're setting things on fire,
all sorts of things are happening. This report that you're
about to see kind of sums it all up. And
then we're going to jump right into our guests. We've
got bill excuse me, what's that? Okay, thank you, Sorry
about that. But we have the author of the Great Pretense,

(18:37):
A Tour through the boneyard of the CIA War four Drugs.
Bill Conway joins us. And this is gonna be an
interesting interview because I don't know that I agree on
everything with Bill Conroy. But that's not why we invite
him on. We invited him on because he's been down
at the border and has his own views and understandings
of what's going on. And he says the approach that

(19:00):
the last five administrations in the United States have taken
against the cartels have only allowed them to get stronger.
So he's going to make his case about his book
and how the one thing I know that we do
agree on, the CIA is usually at the crux of
all this, Right, So we think that this is all
about drugs or about terrorism, about this, or about that,
A lot of times it's just the CIA doing what

(19:20):
the CIA does, whether it's to destabilize the nation, to
influence a certain nation, to keep certain things under control.
So we're going to get into all of that and
so much more. Straight ahead, keep it locked right here.
I'm rich Aldez.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
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Speaker 8 (19:38):
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Speaker 1 (19:44):
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Speaker 5 (19:49):
The honor is all yours. Conservative talk with a dash
of sofrito.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
Now here's Rich Valdez.

Speaker 8 (20:00):
Explosions erupting across Puerto Wayata tonight, black smoke seen rising
over the resort city on Mexico's Pacific coast. Mexico's military
forces launching a daring operation to capture cartel leader Reuben
n known as Elmentcho. Multiple cars on fire in the streets.
Mexican officials say during their operation, military personnel were attacked.

(20:24):
Several cartel members were killed, including Elmentcho, the head of
the New Generation Halisco cartel, who died while airlifted to
a hospital in Mexico City. Mexican authorities say the United
States provided complementary information for their operation, a US Defense
official telling ABC News Northcom provided information for the raid.

(20:46):
The violence forcing the Puerto Yeta Airport to suspend all flights,
this stranding many US citizens trying to get home. Border
cities like the Juana are now reporting criminal activity, and
the State Department is telling US citizens and impacted areas
in Mexico to shelter in place.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
All right, America, welcome back, which Valdez has promised.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
We've got a journalist who's got a lot of experience
in this. He's written a number of books, and whether
you think his opinion is popular or not, you're about
to find out what he thinks about this stuff.

Speaker 5 (21:16):
With else fight. Now, we've got Bill Convoy.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
Bill Conways spent several decades on this topic. He's the
author of a number of books, not to mention the latest,
The Great Pretense.

Speaker 5 (21:25):
Bill Conway, welcome.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
Glad to be here. Thanks for apps for having Eric.

Speaker 4 (21:29):
Yeah, thank you. I appreciate you being here because I
find this a very interesting thing. There is a war
apparently going on in Mexico, at least a bunch of skirmishes.
And what's interesting about this to me is that Number one,
what's interesting is that the cartels are getting some pressed.
I feel like the cartels never get pressed. They always
blame this, always blame that. They never blamed the cartels

(21:51):
for what's going on. So that's number one.

Speaker 5 (21:52):
Number two, what's interesting here is what's actually happening.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
People have seen the videos of people coming out of
armored personnel vehicle wearing military fatigues, and all of them
saying these are not the army, this is not the FEDS,
these are the cartels. So I'm curious to know your
thoughts bring us up to speed on what's going on
in put To Bayata and in the Kancun airport where
people were taking shelter, the United States telling Americans to

(22:17):
take shelter, take it away.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
Bill. Yeah, Well, first of all, there's the reporting on
it and the headlines, and then there's the situation and
reality on the ground. And I was able to talk
to people there this morning. And also I've covered this,
I've seen this act before. We have a kingpin strategy
that has never worked. And every time we do something

(22:40):
like this, the same thing happens, and then we forget,
and then we do it again and again. And I
guess it's because they feel like they're doing something but
it's not effective. And I'll tell you why. First, I
can name a dozen cartel leaders. You know, there's like
a half a dozen major cartels in Mexico, so cartel
is really the wrong word. They're organized crime group syndicates

(23:02):
and they're structured completely different than anything in the Middle
out East, we dealt with anywhere in the States that
we deal with. Their their they are command groups that
control plazas right or ports where the drugs come in
and out, and they demand tribute of anyone doing business
through those plazas. And that's really the cartel's big role.
And they have obviously big security forces and then underneath

(23:25):
them and a lot of what you're seeing are pairamilitaries
and mules and just thousands of people that work in
the business, and some of them work you know, mostly
they have to work exclusively for one cartel when they
when they're called up, but otherwise they could freelance, right,
so they could be kidnapping people on their own, and
then when the cartel needs them to do something, they will.

(23:46):
They all snap in line. And so trying to take
the head off that snake is very difficult because it's
actually many, many, many, many snakes that are of all
twewn together. You know, you got, you got. You can't
do it that way. It just doesn't work. And every
time we do it because during the Obama administration, this
isn't like which administration that none of them have had

(24:08):
a very good approach on the drug war. In my opinion,
a lot of money, billions of dollars thrown at it,
big budgets, real pressure to make cases and get headlines
and stats to keep the money flow. That's and corruption
on both sides of the border, because you're talking about,
you know, five hundred to trillion dollar business globally. There

(24:30):
is so much money that they can buy people off
easily on both sides of the border, and they do
mostly to get the drugs across on the US side.
I lived on the border, right I know, I covered
cases customs and spector border patrol and higher up you
know that were later you know, busted for you know,
taking bribe from the cartel it loads to it, stuff

(24:51):
like that. That's the that's the normal on the border,
you know. And once you get further away from the border,
you don't see it as much. Just like the ice
opera rations going out on in the city now, cities
now that are violent, that same violence has existed for
years on the border. That's how border patrol operates down there,
because it's it's kind of a different environment, right uh.

(25:13):
And so what you have happening in Mexico right now
is we chopped a head off another cartel just like
we took down al Mile and Choppa Guzman. The Cineloa cartel,
which is the other major cartel right now, big one
in Mexico that's still around. It's still moving a lot
of drugs into this country, you know. Uh, the new
the one we're attacking now, at least of a new

(25:34):
generation a cartel which sprung up in two thousand and
five after we chopped off the heads of some other cartels.

Speaker 5 (25:41):
They formed.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
The guy that we took out was you know, a
local cop. A lot of these guys get into the business.
They're cops there, they're they you know, or military. Not all,
but a number of them end up coming from that
background in Mexico. So the corruption is infiltrated into to
the all aspects of the Mexican business and law enforcement

(26:05):
and military. But that doesn't mean the whole government's corrupt anymore.
It means our whole government's corrupt because you have corrupt
actors within it doing things that are wrong. It just
means we have a problem, you know, Houston, and you
got to start thinking about this thing more holistically if
you want to solve it. So the violence that we're
seeing in Alisco that made headlines, you know recently, like

(26:26):
yesterday today, it's already dying down. Parts of Mexico have
already died down. And that happens every time that these
are more. No one was killed in violence. There's probably
be some that we hear about later, but it was
burning cars. It was like, you know, yeah, burning grocery
stores or convenience stores and jamming roads with these flaming

(26:46):
cars is more like a riot. Right. These people are upset,
they know that. Especially in Guanalajara. The guy they took
out they liked because he uses a lot of money.

Speaker 5 (26:57):
Talking about right elmnha, Yes he would.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
He was like Escabar did the same thing. They have
a lot of money and they you know, they dole
it out in the community and the community starts to
like them, love them whatever. They don't necessarily think about
the violence. And you remember in Mexico there's since two
thousand and six, there's at least a couple hundred thousand
people murdered murdered directly related to drug well mostly cartel battles.
Were a lot of innocent bystanders that you know, maybe

(27:23):
their cousin was involved, or maybe they were on the
wrong street. Corner and the bullets were flying, because they're
actual shootouts at times. What what we haven't seen so far?
And you mentioned the people coming out of the you know,
like that are dressed in paramilitary outfits. That's very crime.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Amen.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
I go to Mexico, I see that. That's like, that's
very co It's not unusual.

Speaker 5 (27:43):
These are the guns you're saying.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
Yeah, I mean I've run in the cartel people eating
at restaurants down there in in you know, southn Mexico City.
Everyone knows who they are in the community. Of course,
they're dangerous, of course that's that can be a problem
if you cross them. But most of the time there's
kind of a symbiotic relationship because they throw money into
the community and they stay out of the business of

(28:07):
the cartel for obvious reasons. So it's not like cartels
are just hated in Mexico. They're part of it. They're there,
they lived, they Yeah, it's part of their culture.

Speaker 5 (28:17):
Yeah, you know right, not the ethnic culture. Yeah, they're
ready to do business.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
I want to ask you gangsters just like the gangsters
were loved, I hate to say it, whatever, they were
admired whatever back in then, Like no in our country.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
Yess what I'm saying like the cosonstra the.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Well, yeah, yeah, you're talking about yeah, the Italian mom.
But I'm talking more way back to the component era. Okay, Yeah,
when those guys are running around the country, Robin Banks
and you know, you know, booze is the same as
drugs running. Drugs run booze. They weren't reviled by everybody, right,
many people were back. Yeah, exactly right.

Speaker 5 (28:51):
Right, they had a fan club. Well, so what I
want to go with this?

Speaker 4 (28:54):
So I saw a clip of the president Claudia schein Maum,
President of Mexico, is that they're saying, absolutely not, You're
not going to get bring a war against narco traffickers.
That's not going to happen. It's unconstitutional. It would deprive
them of any process rights because they're killing people as
if they were enemy combatants.

Speaker 5 (29:14):
Is wrong. And I thought to myself, that's the cheapest
rhetoric I've ever heard.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
But I happened to be a fan of Trump's idea
of labeling the narco terrorists because to me, that's a
step further than anybody else has done in trying to
combat this. So what do you think of President Shinebaum's
comments that it's on Mexican if you want to go
well the cartels, And.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
What she's saying is she doesn't want unilateral US action
like US going in there with drones and troops and
shooting things up. If we're going to do it, it's
got to be cooperative. And so in this case, US
intelligent agencies were providing real time intelligence to locate the guy,
right that's how they found them. And also there's at

(29:55):
least nineteen Navy seals down there were just sent down
there about a week ago. And in the past what
happened is they ebed. I mean, how do you train them,
get in bed with the troops, they go out in
the field. So I fully expect we'll hear more about
that later. That there was probably a good deal of
US support for this operation, but it was in cooperation
with the Mexican government, and that she's willing to do.

(30:16):
But what she doesn't in which most Mexicans know, this
kingpin strategy just creates carnage in their country. It doesn't
work if you don't well, because so many end up
getting killed because there's cartel violence, turf wars. After you
create a power vacuum like that. So it's not an
effective way.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
It doesn't effect in your opinion as a journalist.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
Sorry, I'll get in that because I wanted to make
one more point about her. What she's saying, here's her situation.
She knows this is the case. She would not be
cooperating with the US other than the fact that the
tariffs are key really socked it to them with tariffs
and hurt the country's revenues. That would hurt all their
social programs and would create even more social and rest

(31:00):
in the country, you know, if the volume of trade
really substantially was affected. So she's in kind of the
spot where this is the lesser too evils, really and
so they're cooperating, right, and then you, as you asked,
you better ask that other question again. That's the point
I wanted to make.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
Yeah, sure you've made it these three points so far
as saying that you think going after the chief of
the bad guys is the bad is the wrong way
to do it. Say, are you saying you should go
after the underlings or the tail of the steak rather
than ahead of this name?

Speaker 3 (31:31):
No, no, no, What I'm really saying and what we
haven't done we've made you know, done it here and there,
but always you pulled it back. Is go after the money,
because if you take them, that's what this is all about.
This isn't I hate it when people call it terrorism.
It's not terrorism. Terrorism has to have a political objective.
These drunk card tells they don't get it crap about politics.

(31:54):
They care about money and also maintaining their organizations. So
if you dried up the money, if you made it,
you know, like money laundering. This none of this happens
without all the money. All the drugs come north, all
the money goes south, it goes all around now, but
the point is it's laundered to our financial system, to
our banks, and now with crypto, well all the rules

(32:17):
taken off of that. It's a major way to launder money.
So if we were really serious about this, we would
shut the money down. But you know why we wouldn't
we haven't in the past, and I don't think we
will now is it would threaten our financial system and
potentially the stability of some of the governments in Latin
America because this revenue is coursing through the veins of

(32:38):
the global financial system and it ends up in real
estate and cars and whatever. Once it's cleaning, can buy anything,
and they do. They've invested in, you know a lot
of the resorts down there that these guys are staying at,
These Americans are staying at parts of them our own
indirectly through shell companies buy cartel money, okay, and I
guarantee in Miami or you look in our pass, you

(32:59):
go around the country here, you're going to find similar
uh scenarios. And that's they're trying to crack down on
it here by making you reveal the identities of the
players behind these shell companies. But uh, you know, I
think that programs didn't quite get off the ground with
the new administration. I haven't heard much since then. It
was it was something that was just getting put together
Treasury Department. But that would be the one key, right

(33:22):
is go after the money.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
So to stop the money. And then you say, if
we stop the money, then the whole world and no.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
You dry up. You If I can't make money off
of selling like cocaine because it's getting all my money's
getting seized, then I don't got money to pay anybody.
I don't have money to buy the buy the product.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
That is one way, just like we have a bunch
of reasons why it's not happening, because governments would become
unstable and the world would cease to exist.

Speaker 5 (33:47):
As we know.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
This is what I well, it cease to exist is
strong and we've been you know, we're kind of like ants.
We just rebuild the county. But the point I'm getting
at is this isn't just me saying this. This is
experts I've talked to and people that were involved in
these money laundering operations. They got shut down by the
government because they got too close to the wrong people
like heads of state, right, and they don't That suddenly

(34:09):
becomes CIA territory, and CIA has interest in maintaining you know,
the pre flow of capital in the regular economy in
these countries. I mean, if the Mexican economy collapsed, it
would have a major blowback in our economy. I mean,
even though we think of them as just these little
people in Mexico, they're a major you know, and Latin
American general has a lot of firepower economically when you

(34:32):
look at it, and it will affect us, it will.
We got banks down there, we got car we got
so much stuff across the border in Latin America that
is US owned, even if it's Mexican employees or Colombian
employees or whatever. So that's the point I'm getting at.
It would mess with the financial system because it's getting
laundered through the financial system. When you look at how

(34:53):
many banks have been busted for money laundering US banks
operating in Mexico, you know, it's got to be a
half a dozen, and this is in the last ten years,
maybe more. And what happens is they get a slap
on the wrist, they pay a fine, they agree not
to do it anymore, nobody goes to jail, what and
they actually probably made money on the deal because they
make a lot of money. And it's it's it's individual

(35:16):
players in these banking systems that get bought off, get corrupted.
It's not like the entire boards it's down. Let's launder money. No.
Money laundering is a clandestine act, but it happens all
the time, right, And it's the only way. The only
way that the drug business works is if the money
is laundered, you know, because how do you get if
I'm selling cocaine on the street ten twenty or one

(35:38):
hundred bucks a clip and I got all these bills
that cash has to get into the financial system and
it has to get laundered so it looks legitimate. Otherwise,
what's the point of they're not going to do this
for free. They're not. It isn't a terrorism thing like
they want to, you know, they want to wreck the
US economy.

Speaker 5 (35:55):
That's saying it is a terrorism thing. And it becomes
a terrorism thing when when they act like terrorists. And
for the most part, it's not.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
Well, you're talking about violence, Yeah, it is a very
I'm not gonna the violence is real, I mean, and
it's it's mostly perpetrated in Mexico. Okay, let's just keep
it to Mexico. Two hundred thousand plus dead there since
two thousand and six from the drug war. Another sixty
thousand disappeared, just nobody knows where they are. That's who
pays the price for the drug war we have. We

(36:23):
don't even track it up here. You know, I did
a story a number of years back trying to figure
out how many deaths were really related to drug crimes
or drug and you know, I had a reconstructive from
FBI data. It's very imperfect, but you know, it's like
you know, it's it's a tiny, tiny fraction of what's
who's dying in Mexico, right, It's just not comparable. And

(36:44):
so that's why the drug war in Mexico has a
different complexion than than us looking down at it. Because
all the demand is here, right, we don't do much.
That's the other thing we need to do is get
serious about addressing addiction and treat some of this as
healthcare prop them so we can get you know, reduce
the demand up here. Because as long as there's demand,

(37:04):
there will be drugs, and it will be people there
to serve those drugs up to make money off it.
That's the game. That's it. It's that simple. And we
put all this dressing on it like it's narco terrorism
and it's this and these are evil like all blackhead
guys like under you know, evil horses and dragons. It's
it's it's fiction, you know, it's what Hollywood sells us.

Speaker 9 (37:23):
And then let's be focused to put the spotlight on
the audits so they can focus your attention there.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
I think more so, Yeah, there's there's obviously there's programs
out there, but not enough, not many of them, not
well run, and many of them not uh, you know,
the people that need them the most have no money,
so you know, with insurance that kind of thing, right,
So it's it's very hodgepodge in this country. I think
a serious effort with some smart people that understand this,

(37:51):
this issue and and the healthcare implication, the addiction issue,
at least for fetanahl, because fetanoyl is a drug we
want off our streets because it I see it here
in Seattle where I live. You know, the fetanyl slump.
I mean they just stand up and slump over and there.
So it's it's it destroyed. It isn't good. And I
and when you talk to addicts will agree. But the

(38:12):
problem is between fetanah and heroin. Getting off it is
hard once you're addicted. So we yeah, that would help
because less heroin, we buy less money the cartails make.
You know. We saw this with with the legalization of
cannabis and the you know decriminalization anyway, and I you know,
Seattle was one of the it was the second state.

(38:33):
Colorado was first. And now you know half the states
in the Union have medical marijuana or recreational marijuana. And
you notice they're not making big buses of marijuana. It
still happens. There's still black market marijuana because it's a
little cheaper and people will pay want to pay a
little less. It's a lot of riskier to buy. So
you go down to the store. It's highly it's heavily regulated.
The prices are, you know, to be honest with you,

(38:56):
fairly reasonable. And that is a product that there's not
a lot of money in it for the cartels anymore.
Now they can get into the legal market up here,
maybe through through front companies and stuff. But you know,
that's why it's regulated.

Speaker 9 (39:10):
There's going to be organization or decolonization of sensia.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
Dude, No, that's what I'm saying that there's there's some
that we start with the drugs where we can decriminalize
or legalize and regulate, just like alcohol. Alcohol is far
more dangerous than cannabis. Let's be honest. It kills far
more people every year. Cannabis. What are you gonna Yeah,
But the point is, and we had to say problem

(39:36):
with alcohol during prohibition, This is not unlike dealing with
some of the issues we had. Prohibition. Is a incredible
demand for something and it's got you know, you know,
bad side effects. For the society and for the individual.
So alcohol I think is a bigger problem than than
has bigger problem as any of these other drugs coming
than in terms of sheer numbers. But fenyl, yeah, fenoyls

(40:00):
is a is not a good thing to have floating out.
There's a street drug for all kinds of reasons, and
we do. I'm not saying you don't have any law enforcement,
but I'll be honest with you. You're playing whackam trying to
bust you know, loads of little pills brought by you know,
by individuals by a hundred different ways that get injured,
so you know, so easy to smuggle. So you you've

(40:21):
got to work on, you know, making sure people don't
you can take it.

Speaker 5 (40:25):
And also.

Speaker 9 (40:28):
If you go after the demand side, right, you have
to supply side, but the demand side, and there because
the demand there's many wolves.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
Probably you're saying the demand is what I'm saying.

Speaker 9 (40:46):
If I'll take a final clock and I'm saying, oh,
I'm not going to go after Build Conrad for selling drugs.
I'm going to go after Michell blind them. I'm not
any more who all partings are going to go and
say control demand in a country.

Speaker 3 (41:00):
Yeah, well no it's not. It's not either or right.
That's what I'm saying. We don't have a comprehensive approach
to dealing with this. We have one approach, a hammer,
and then everyone goes, yeah, I hae them, mater. Every
time it gets worse, it gets worse. And we're going
the drug wars fifty years old. Fifty years old.

Speaker 9 (41:21):
If you want to go through now there's things that
will end one, then.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
No, because I think too many people have an interest
in keeping it going the way it is. It's it's
all budget like to get hot, well, it's all that,
and also huge careers are built on it. Do you think,
dee a, what would happened to DA of all drug traffickings?
Not you think they'd say, well, we're done, We're going
to pack up our bags and quit and retire. They're

(41:47):
going to find another got it? The get slashed, Yeah,
you've got it, you know, So they don't you know, Yeah,
they want to make busts, they want to get headlines
so they can increase their budgets. And there's all this
by selling his hype to the boorters to get more money,
to get Congress to push more money into these budget,
billions of dollars in this Trian's over the fifty year

(42:09):
history of it, and what do we have to show
for it. Drug prices are cheaper, there's more of them,
and there's more violence than ever salt of our border
and in our streets.

Speaker 9 (42:20):
So Fenton is doing as much damage to early as it.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
Was two years ago.

Speaker 9 (42:27):
Yeah, and any that are coming out saying that the
people buying one another row and there's less dediction.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
It ebbs and flows in a particular drug right fatnel.
That was more to do with dealing with China because
China create all makes all the precursor chemicals and it's
just made in Mexico and transport it. But that was
pressure on China that helped to reduce and is helping
to reduce that. But I'll tell you you know, cocaine
seizures at the border that we supposedly shut down are astronomical.

(42:57):
They went through the ceiling after these drug boat attack
you know why. And caeizars are not They're just like
a bell weather it's for everything seas. There's two loads
to get through and so those went through the ceiling. Well,
what's that tell you? It tells you, well, a lot
of them got you decide, let's move it through the
border instead of these boats, because they're they're picking off
our boats. They will find a way again. They bring

(43:19):
it on airplanes, they bring it in on There's so
many ways it's done. Yeah, yeah, there's so many ways,
by ships, by huge container ships. You know, there's just
too many. You can't plug all the holes. Now. It's
not to say you shouldn't have law enforcement effort on.
You should, certainly you should, but you gotta have more
and you got to look at it, you know, a

(43:39):
much bigger picture. And we can't do it without the
cooperation of nations south of our border where this is
coming from, because you know, it's a problem for them too,
when two hundred thousand people are dead there. They don't
they don't have a vested interest that the ones that
are not in the business in keeping it going either,
they would love to find ways to end this and

(44:02):
so we could actually have, you know, less death and
and more life right for for everyone. But you know,
I hope you can see what I'm saying. It's like.
And we've seen this with governments before. They don't they're
afraid to take risks. So and the and the people
that are shooting up new ideas are almost always causing

(44:24):
ways for the people that have done something the same
way for a long time and are getting paid big
money for it. So it's how do you break through that.
You know, you have to you have to have voters
who finally wake up and say, you know, I must
start voting for politicians that look at this not just
as a hammer, but you know, that's one tool in
the chest. But we got to we gotta work harder
on some of these other tools. And the money laundering,

(44:45):
on the on the addiction and healthcare aspects of it,
on the and the last one I didn't mention is
most of the guns used to kill these people. And
you know our U s guns. You can sell a
pistol form of the some pay for sending guns there.
Yea gun trafficking. Gun trafficking is a huge business is

(45:08):
up there with drugs. And they go together and get
one as another on this group together because they have
different objectives. Yeah, c I A is concerned about intelligence
and the national security objectives set by the White House,
which have nothing to do with drugs. Generally, it has
to do with regime change or are making sure the

(45:30):
right people. Yeah, exactly, and so you know that's that's
part of the part of the equation that you got
to consider. So the c I will to draw, cultivate assets,
or get the intelligence they need or or or to
move things the way they want them to. They will
let drugs in. They're not worried about drugs getting in.
You know, if if they cultivate a narco trafficker as

(45:51):
an asset because he has inroads into a government they
need some to put pressure on or get intelligence from,
they're not gonna They're not gonna make put the narco
traffic in jail. In fact, they're not gonna do anything
to them because they'll be suspicious. You won't be any
good as an asset. So they let them keep trafficking.
And that creates problems for de A, which I had
these conversations with d A and c I folks. Their

(46:13):
turf wars are like boom. They steal each other's informants.
They have opposite missions. The DA does everything it can
to keep cases away from CIA because they get blown
up by ci A. So there is within our own,
our own approach, our law enforcement and intelligence agencies. You know,
despite the rhetoric they put out, there are built in

(46:35):
long standing turf wars between F B I, D E A,
ICE C I A, N s A more so, you
know N SAS is the years down there and they
probably as much involved, but the you know, and to
the point in Mexico, you know what the cartels call.
They don't care which agency they're from. They just call
them the three letter agency that they look at them
the same. And in many ways, you can get it

(46:59):
on Amazon. Trinday Press is the publisher. You can get
it through them, and you know, there's a bunch of
other spots that will be in bookstores. It doesn't come
out till Friday, so I don't have a big map
on that, but I know you can request it at
Bookstars and you could just plug my name in in
the book's name and you know, great pretense, you know,
Bill Conray and Google and there'll be other spot. If

(47:20):
you really don't want to buy, you can get it
from Barnes and Noble. I know a lot of people
don't like to buy from whatever. Yeah, and so there's
options and uh, but I don't really control that because
it's the Polisher and I mean, you know, they're they're
going to get to get Yeah, that's kind of what
they're doing. Yeah, yeah, man, you know you know what
I it's I'm glad you talked to me about this.

(47:42):
I hope I didn't like you know, it is probably
not the dominant narrative out there, but I will guarantee
you it is the right one.

Speaker 5 (47:49):
Well, we'll find out.

Speaker 3 (47:50):
Saying Bill, yeah, we'll see it sounds arrogant, but it's
it's just after thirty years of this, the patterns of emerge,
and you.

Speaker 5 (48:01):
Know I can ask.

Speaker 9 (48:03):
I appreciate you coming on. Take care of God, bless
this is America.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
This is America.

Speaker 5 (48:15):
Bara in glace or primal noumerods Bara, Rich vald is
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(48:36):
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(49:19):
there are people that are interested in a funko pop,
which is like a bubblehead of me. Imagine that I'm
like a bubblehead. Enough, I thought, anyway, I want to
get into a few things, and one of the things
I want to start with, excuse me, is the snow.
I even litho. Have you seen the snow? Okay, for
those of you who are watching the show and you

(49:40):
don't know that it has snowed a minimum of twelve inches,
might be a foot and a half out there. My friend,
he's Cuban, so he exaggerates a little bit. But he
tells me there's two feet of snow outside his house
in North Berger, New Jersey. I don't know if that's
accurate or not, but I do know there's a bunch
of snow out there, and I know we're scheduled to
have more snow in the days. Come. Oh, I want

(50:01):
to talk about the snow because of course Mayor Mom
Donnie on Friday was taking some heat because he said, hey, look,
if you guys want to shovel, the city has a
snow shoveling program. You could come. You could make nineteen
or twenty something dollars an hour. And who isn't going
to sign up for that? Right? Who's even going to
check to see if they did the work. If they
sign up, trust me, they're getting paid. There's nothing the
city loves to do more than give away money, tax dollars, right,

(50:22):
because you know, they're like rich people in a strip bar.
That's just how they work. But Mam Donnie took all
that heat and he came back and he said, none. No,
Hold on a second, what do you think this is?
Listen to what he had to say in response to
his critics, like me, check this out.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
There's been this controversy over the snow laborers and the
sort of what some see his onerous need to have documentation.
Can you just talk about it if that's new, and what
you make of the controversy.

Speaker 10 (50:57):
This is all long standing. This is a long standing
program and long standing requirements, and this is a way
that New Yorkers get paid to shovel snow in assistance
with the city's response to a winter storm event. Federal
law requires that employers get authorization and documentation to pay
people for their work. We are not allowed to just

(51:18):
cut checks to individuals for their work. And these are
the policies that we've had in place. But I understand
that for many it's the first time that they've ever
heard about it.

Speaker 5 (51:28):
All right, Mayor Mom, Donny, So the bomb slid clone
has gotten the better of you. And I don't care
how many shovelers you have out there. Ay, it's a
very difficult amount of snow to manage, but b you're
doing a piss poor job of it. Sir, you really are.
And the argument remains, one of the most important things
we do is not shovel snow. One of the most

(51:48):
important things we do is go ahead, you fill in
the blank, vote right, vote for people. And the fact
that we can double down and say that it's racist
and bad and all things evil to ask someone for
ID to vote. It's racist to do that, but it
is not racist, bad and evil to ask them in
order to get a paycheck. Right. And this has been

(52:12):
the point I think the Conservatives have long made in
asking for voter ID to eliminate.

Speaker 6 (52:17):
You know, it's rigged, folks, It's rigged. They get the
whole thing rigged.

Speaker 5 (52:21):
And guess what you know. A bunch of years ago,
four score and seven years ago, I just had to
I ran for office, for public office. Wow, I'm doing
the math. It was twenty one years ago. I ran
for the new Jersey State Assembly, the thirty third Legislative District,
which encompassed Union City, where I lived at the time.

(52:42):
Forty ninth Street in Palisade is where I lived.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
And.

Speaker 5 (52:47):
Parts of Jersey City, parts of I think all of
Guttenburg and some other areas anyway, but largely that part
of northern Hudson County. There it was so interesting in
that time. I mean, it's just a different world back then.
But you needed ID for all sorts of things back

(53:07):
then too, twenty one years ago. And yet here we
are today having the same debate about no voter ID
and people don't want voter ID, and I just I
find it phenomenal. But one of the things I learned
back then was that, yeah, dead people do vote. And
I'm not saying my election was rigged and I didn't
get beat fair and square by a powerhouse local politician.

(53:29):
I did, but and I think I did a pretty
good showing for the numbers I had for first the
guy who first ran that I think it was only
twenty maybe twenty, I want to say, twenty five or
twenty six years old. But the point here is that
there was no shortage of people telling me, oh, yeah,

(53:50):
i've worked the polls. Oh you got to see some
of the things I've seen people that would pull me
to the side and say, hey, listen, kid, I like you,
and I'm glad that you're involved in this, and I
like what you stay for, and I'm going to try
and vote for you. If they're not watching, and I said,
what does that mean. Nobody goes in the booth with you.
They said, they have a way of knowing. And they
tell us that they have a way of knowing. I'm like,

(54:10):
who's they? And they would always tell us the Democrats,
and these were democrats. These were people that worked within
the city, within the county, and because they had these
public jobs, they said, look, as long as I have
this job, I keep this job. As long as I
give money to a certain event every year. It's like
one hundred and twenty five dollars a person, and I
give the donations I got to give, and I support

(54:31):
the things they tell me to support. They put us
on a list that we supported and were good. And
when I heard that the first time, I was like, oh,
what an exaggerator. When I heard it the second time,
I said wow, could it be? When I heard it
the third, fourth, fifth, and probably fiftieth time, I said, wow,
this reminds me of a little old man that had
a bookstore on Burgoline Avenue. I want to say twenty

(54:53):
first Street or thirty first Street, Bergoline Avenue, Union City.
His name was Nidio Martinez, and Nibio Martinez was a
very smart guy who was born in Cuba, came to
the United States, loved America. I had a bunch of
great books on the US Constitution and other things. We'd
have these interesting conversations in his bookstore about politics and

(55:13):
really about liberty. And as Nibbio would tell me these things,
he too would tell me about what it was like
in Cuba, how they forced people to vote a certain way,
that's how communist regimes work. So at a very early age,
I was exposed to a lot of this information that
I couldn't help but make these parallels and say, wow,
the Democrats, at least in New Jersey and Hudson County

(55:34):
at the time, Bob Menendez, Brian Stack, there was a
group of them that made up the local establishment there,
in my opinion, operated like the Castroites in Cuba, hardcore communists,
Marxists down to the bone. And to me, that was

(55:58):
a bad thing. Right today, I say that to something
if AOC were here, all out crazy, my least favorite
congressman from the Bronx and Queens, if I were to
say that to her, she would turn around and say, no, no, no, no,
that's a good thing, right, It's good that we follow
car Marks. I'm not going to debate the goodness or badness,
if you will, of Karl Marx, but I'm going to
say twenty one years ago, when I was in my twenties,

(56:20):
it was widely known and understood that there was a
lot of voter fraud. People knew how to do it,
they were experts at it. It was part and parcel
of the process. I never saw anything happen to change that,
like perhaps voter ID right, if you have to show
an ID to vote, Missus Smith, who's been deceased for

(56:40):
the last three election cycles, can't vote. But Missus Smith
would not be able to vote if they were checking
her ID. And that's my point, right, if she were
really dead, None of those changes ever happened. So it's
difficult for me to think that that stuff just isn't
happening somehow. Because the guy who ran the Critical Infrastructure

(57:05):
Cyber Security Administration or CISA the season he said that
the twenty twenty election was the most secure election in
American history. Just because that guy said that doesn't mean
that I necessarily believe that, right, So take that for
what you will. Right, you can call me a tinfoil

(57:26):
hack conspiracy theorist, election denier, or just somebody who's looking
at things how they ought to be and how they are.
In my opinion, one part of that, but that was
my rant. I'm Mamdani and his silliness regarding the snowshoveling people. Right,
it's not that we shouldn't have to take ID for paychecks.

(57:48):
We should also have to take them for voting. And
there shouldn't be a double standard, right, It shouldn't be
making it prohibitive to go and vote. I think that's
the bottom line here, and I think most people, when
they stop and they think about this, they agree. They say,
you know what, No, you're right. Why on earth should
we Why on earth should we think that it is
racist to ask you for an ID? I would argue

(58:10):
that it's racist to presume that because you're a certain
color that you can't produce an ID. You tell me
if that's not racist. Imagine somebody coming to me going, hey,
you're kind of brown, You sure you're able to get
an ID. I'd be taken aback and I'd be offended.
I would anyway. You want to chime in on this,

(58:32):
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(59:14):
we will go ahead and chop it up. Whether it's
live or not, you'll get my response. Now I want
to get into something else, something that I think is
important for us to discuss, and it's kind of I
guess from yesterday's news. If I could find my notes
from yesterday's news, yesterday being Friday, right, I guess. But
there were a number of things I wanted to cover

(59:35):
that I oftentimes don't get to cover everything. Oh, this
was it. It was about Prince Andrew. Prince Andrew, of
course a former part of the royal family. He's now
being suspected of. Not suspected. I think he got in
trouble and he's been arrested for some sort of malthfeasons.
But he's the one that was, you know, like this

(59:55):
with Jeffrey Epstein. This is something again that I've heard
for a long time. And when I say a long time,
I mean nine years easy. Had to be the first
time I heard that for me had to be around
twenty seventeen that I heard Jeffrey Epstein was selling young

(01:00:15):
girls to powerful people, including the royal family in the UK,
and I didn't know it was Prince Andrew in particular.
That was what I'd heard, and I thought to myself.
Rich people do all sorts of crazy things, right. They
ever seen that movie The Most or the book The
Most Dangerous Game? They did a remake some years ago

(01:00:37):
with Iced Tea. Shout out to Iced Tea. They get humans, right,
Rich people would get humans that go run and then
they would hunt them down humans. This is no different
than what they did in the Roman colosseums. This type
of blood sport has been around since the beginning of time.
People having fun at the expense of others. I get it.
Not condoning it. I'm just saying I understand it's real.

(01:00:57):
Something else that happened back then in the Roman era,
the grecor and era something called pederaste. Look it up
p E D E R A s t Y. Pederaste
was a highly regarded practice back then where parents would say, oh,
my gosh, I want my son to study with so
and so. I'm not going to say Socrates, because I

(01:01:18):
don't know if Socrates was a part of that, but
somebody of socrates stature, let's say, a man of wisdom.
They would say, here, take my son, teach him what
you know and do with him what you must. They
knew in handing over their kid that he was going
to be a sexual toy of this professor. This was

(01:01:39):
a well established practice back in those days until it
was outlawed, similar to what the moms did when they
gave their daughters over to r Kelly. R Kelly was
known for doing what he did is so known that
moms are like, hey, we want her to succeed. If
she got to fool around with you a little bit,
then so be it. Some moms did that. That's a shame.
I don't know anybody who would actually do that, But
the fact that it happened just shows you about the

(01:02:00):
depravity of man, right, that's just truly. People are falling,
you know. I mean, we all have our moments, right,
I know I do. I may not act on every moment,
but trust and believe how I feel right after I
get cut off on the highway or things don't go
my way in a certain situation. I'm not saying bless
your heart. I'm definitely not saying that. Right. It gets
ugly sometimes now abusing somebody's kid for the sake of whatever,

(01:02:23):
that's a whole different world. But this was the norm
back then. And so this is just to add some
context to this. So this Prince Andrew guy, now he's
been indicted for this, and a lot of people are
very excited saying, well, finally somebody's been indicted for the
Epstein files and whatnot, or who's on there. That's great.
I'm going to say, look, and this is not a

(01:02:44):
defense of any of that, but it really to me,
if you going back to our previous conversation right with
our journalist friend Bill, he was saying, going after the
head of the snake, the hydra, it's not the way
to do it. And my argument with that is still
the same. Then what do we do? Go after the tail?
So if you go after the people that are abusing
the kids, and I'm saying you should, right, I'm not

(01:03:05):
saying you shouldn't, but I'm saying if you go after
the people that are abusing the kids and you get them, great,
they tend to be really good at hiding. But getting
Jeffrey Epstein, I think put a hamper on the Jeffrey
Epstein operation. I don't think that you took out Epstein.
You took out Gilane Maxwell and now the X the

(01:03:26):
Epstein cartel. If you will that traffic children, it's no
longer an operation. So to me, that's a very successful
example of how you take these things out and now
you can continue to you know, follow the money, follow
the whatever, and go after the the next big fish,
in this case somebody from the royal family in the UK.

(01:03:47):
And I would guess that we all saw this coming
when they stripped him of his royal titles right and said, hey, no,
you can't be down. Another interesting tell on this was
when Prince Harry right think it was Prince Harry met
and they said, we don't want to be in the
royal family. WHOA, What was that all about? Was that
really how it was portrayed. We just want to live
like normal Americans in America, We just want to be

(01:04:10):
regular people. Or was there more to it, like, hey,
we're not down now. I'm no expert on the royals,
honestly not even interested in the Royals. But I say
all of that to come full circle here and say
I'm glad that they're getting people that are involved in
this Epstein debacle. But I don't want to say stuck here.

(01:04:30):
I think the focus should always be on finding the kids,
on rescuing kids that may be trapped, on releasing them
from captivity. To me, that's the most important thing that
we can do, and we shouldn't lose focus over fighting
about the guy that we got and whether he's a
live or dead we don't know, but the official story

(01:04:53):
he died in jail. That's a good thing. Gelan Maxwell,
she's still in jail. That's a good thing. I think
it's a bad thing when we get so distracted with
the bad guys. We've already caught that everything else falls
by the wayside. So anyway, that was me on my
best behavior in the interview before, not interrupting, not arguing,

(01:05:14):
hoping he'll come back another day. Because I believe something
I learned from President Trump, believe it or not, And
you could check out the interview I did with him
a couple of years ago. He said something I was
really profound and not many people notice, and it was this.
He said, you know, it's not an easy job you
have because if you're too easy on a guest, people
won't respect you, and if you're too hard on him,

(01:05:36):
they won't come back. Nobody will come back. And he's
right right, it's a balance. So I get that, and
you want to be fair to people. So I appreciate
that advice from President Trump. Kudos to him. Shout out
to Trumpito, And like I tell you always, we got
to stand for something. If we stand for nothing, we'll
fall for absolutely everything. And the only thing necessary for

(01:05:58):
evil to triumph is for good people like you to
sit there and do nothing. So time to stand up
and do something. I start approxy my take care, good night,
and God bless you America. I'm rich Valdez and this
is America.

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
This is America.