National Guard, No Tax, New Traditions

Today, Rich reacts to the unfolding National Guard attack in Washington, DC. Then, will tariffs eliminate the IRS? Plus, are new changes or traditions welcomed?

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Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Black Friday, Happy Cyber Monday, all of
that good stuff. I missed you, guys. I hope you
had a good time off. I know I'm blessed and
extremely happy to be with you guys. And it's a
bunch of things we're talking about in the news. Of course,
there's a shooting in California. Some children we're celebrating a

(00:52):
birthday party when shots rang out. We're gonna hear about that.
We're also going to talk about the attack on thanksg
Giving of the National Guard members to members, one has
since been pronounced dead, the other one fighting for his life.
I'm going to give you an update on that, as
well as the Pope, the Pope visiting Turkey refusing to

(01:13):
pray in a mosque.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
We'll get into what that's all about.

Speaker 6 (01:16):
And we also have traditions, right, everybody was sitting around
the Thanksgiving table with their family and what were some
of the traditions, what weren't they And if a new
one is introduced, do we automatically just say yeah, let's
let's do that, or do people push back to people
say no, I don't want to get involved in your tradition.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:38):
So a bunch of different things, but you know, politics
is one of those things that is it's always tricky
for people, right, And as many of us were sitting
around our Thanksgiving tables with our families and our friends,
it becomes the game of politics in many ways. Right,
some people sitting there saying, oh, I don't want to
talk about this, I don't want to talk about that.

(01:59):
I want to get into the nuts and bolts of
everything that's going on. And you've got some people that
are like, yeah, yeah, pass the wine, and others thinking no, no, no,
that's no good. And it reminded me of a joke
about a politician that was running for office, who was
asked about his position on liquor. You know what's your policy, sir,
and he answers. If you mean the demon drink that

(02:21):
poisons the body, ruins the mind, destroys the family, and
creates criminals, then I'm against it. But if you mean
the beautiful drink used for a wedding toast, the foundation
of a fun Friday night, and the biggest source of
tax revenue to fund needy orphans, then I'm all for it,
and I won't change my mind no matter what you say.

(02:43):
And that, my friends, is what thanksgivings all about, right,
finding that happy medium and being able to make your case.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
I guess both ways.

Speaker 6 (02:51):
Anyway, I want to get into a bunch of things
because President Trump has declared the Venezuelan airspace closed, as
well as as people in that part of the world
expecting for the United States military to actually hit the ground.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Now, I don't know if that's going to be a reality.

Speaker 6 (03:13):
I think we're trying to arrest Madudo, and we did
arrest Manuel Noriega, and we did it that way, right.
I think it was marines on the ground handful and
we got it done. I think Trump's taking a different approach,
like I'm going to send you so much firepower that
you're not going to know what to do and you
better just give up. Well, I think that potentially may
have happened. Why because mister Maduro is I don't know,

(03:37):
he's running around. He's going to Brazil. Listen to this report.

Speaker 7 (03:41):
A presidential jet i'm by Venezuela's Nicholas Majeiro has been
caught flying from Crackers to the border with Brazil. According
to reports, The mysterious movements came just hours after Donald
Trump declared Venezuela's airspace it's closed in its entirety of
He vowed US land shikes will start very soon. According
to the ADSB Exchange websites, which wants US flight tracking data,

(04:04):
the aircraft departed from Crackers and flew to the border
with the Brazilian state of Rama before returning to the
Venezuelan capital hours later. The aircraft was an Airbus AIM
three to one nine operated by Conviasa, a Venezuelan state
owned airline.

Speaker 6 (04:20):
I just want to jump in here. Do we think
he's running away? Do you think he's hiding stuff? Do
you think this is business as usual for the President
of Venezuela. These are the questions that I have, because
you know, if you've got this large foreign army surrounding
your country telling you that we're about to come in
and you are a fugitive in our country and you
need to stand trial, I would suspect that either you

(04:42):
don't care and you're like it's all fake, forony fraud.
I'm going to fly around anywhere and show people I'm
not scared, or you're doing stuff. So what's the connection
with Brazil? Is Lula helping him? Are we going to
see a bigger play here?

Speaker 7 (04:54):
Play a tack seeing in Brazil reports. The plane is
described as a VIP government and has been used by
Dictator Maduro on official trips in the past. It is
not clear if he was actually on the plane during
the flight. It took place hours after Trump warned pilots
not to enter the Venezuelan airspace.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
However, in a post.

Speaker 7 (05:14):
Untrue social Trump announced to all airlines, pilots, drug dealers,
and humor traffickers please continue the airspace above and surrounding
Venezuela to be closed in its entirety.

Speaker 6 (05:27):
So all that is a second So Trump obviously he says, hey,
I'm just letting out all the drug traffickers know.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
The airspace is closed. You're closed for business. The United
States is here is a new sheriff, and down I
blow you up.

Speaker 6 (05:38):
In international words, I'm ad libbing, of course, And of
course Ma Lula does this little jet thing to taunt him,
to show strength, to say, I'm not gonna let you
push me around, you imperialist, capitalist, American pig headlate.

Speaker 7 (05:52):
The airspace closure comes as the US and Venezuela continue
to clash over Trump's war and drugs, and America ramps
up presence in the Caribbean. US military aircraft are already
said to be almost constantly conducting patrols in the international
airspace near Venezuela, a US official told the Washington Post,
and on Thursday, Trump vowed to escalate military action against

(06:16):
alleged drug smugglers, saying the military would start land operations
in Venezuela very soon. It comes as Trump and Maduro
continue to go toe to toe with one another. Trump
is accused Madua of heading a state embedded criminal empire
that has corrupted the military, intelligence agencies, the courts, and parliament,
whereas Maduro has alleged Trump's built up of pressure it

(06:37):
is designed simply to drive him out of power.

Speaker 6 (06:41):
So again, that's a report there from the Sun. And
it's always fun when you get the British gay right
military build up taking out to power power anyway, always
appreciate a good accent, so I let that play in
its entirety.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
It's a pretty long report, a little longer than I would.

Speaker 6 (06:58):
Have liked, but why because I think it's important that
we discuss what's going on here at the approach to
the things that we're doing internationally. And I wasn't going
to start with this story with all these shootings and everything.
I think they're more pressing, but this just came to
mind and I didn't want to skip it. So there's
a topic I want to get into of a color revolution? Right,

(07:19):
What is a color revolution?

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Why do we have them? Where are we seeing them?
Are we in the middle of one?

Speaker 6 (07:24):
And these color revolutions that we've seen and we as
the United States government have participated in in many countries
to topple regimes that were unfriendly to our interests.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Have occurred in history in the past.

Speaker 6 (07:39):
And my question is is that what's happening here well,
of course, our enemies like China and Russia and others.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
And I know there's some listening right now saying Richie,
come on, you're wrong. You don't understand. That's not it.

Speaker 6 (07:51):
That's not how this works. China and Putin and Trump,
they're all working together. They're trying to get rid of
the deep state. Okay, you can think that all you want.
I don't necessarily see that. I think China will happily
eat our lunch any day of the week. In fact,
in many ways they are.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
So I get it. I get it if you want
to sit there and think that that's fine.

Speaker 6 (08:11):
And maybe there are times where there's a Machiavellian play
going on where the enemy of my enemy is my friend,
but doesn't really mean he's your friend. It just means
he's your enemy's enemy. He might be your enemy too,
and in that moment, or on that issue, or in
this particular instance. But by and large, these people oppose us.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
Right.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
We can never work hand in hand with Iran. Why
because they say death to America. They hate us.

Speaker 6 (08:36):
So a little bit later and it might even pour
into a second hour. But I want to talk about
color revolutions because I found a great explainer video that well,
you know, there's a little bit of a political bias
in it, it's a good explainer and it'll be something
good for us to kind of bounce some ideas around.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
I'm going to leave that out for a little bit later.

Speaker 6 (08:57):
But what I want to get into here is this
shooting in California because this, you know, the media is
now going bananas on this, as they should, right, anytime
you have children attacked, you want to take it seriously
and publicize.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
It and let the people know.

Speaker 6 (09:12):
I get that, But of course there's the left within
the media, and the left within the media always wants
to attack our Second Amendment. And I've seen already so
many comments about oh this, well, this is the price
you pay for having your beloved Second Amendment, And people
seem to lose sight of the fact that we never
say that when there's a DWI, well, that's the.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Price to pay for wanting to drive on the roads.

Speaker 6 (09:35):
Right, evil exists in this world, and because evil exists
in this world, it doesn't mean that we are.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
Ever going to be devoid of it.

Speaker 6 (09:45):
Right, We're always going to have to deal with evil,
whether it's by way of a hammer, by way of
a gun, by way of a car, by way of
somebody's hands. Evil is the condition of the heart, and
it manifests through people's actions. So these arguments I think
are very disingenuous, But I want to give you this
scoop here. This is the latest from the New York Post.

(10:06):
At least two children and two adults so four in
totals so far have been killed. Ten others are wounded
in this mass shooting at a little girl's birthday party
in Stockton, California. This happened on Saturday night. The gunman
is still on the loose. According to police. The shooting
happened that Monkey Space, a banquet.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Hall in the area near a dairy queen.

Speaker 6 (10:31):
The shooting broke out just before six pm inside the
banquet hall, and the quote from the detectives that were
onseen is that this is a very active and ongoing
investigation and information remains limited. Early indications suggests that it
may be a targeted incident. Investigators are exploring every possibility.
So as I learn more, you'll learn more. But really,

(10:55):
this is a horrible thing. Not the first time we've
seen it. Sadly, a couple of months ago there was
a wedding going on in New Hampshire. I don't know
if you remember that, but I definitely talked about it,
and if you were tuned in for that, you heard
about it.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
But I was out. It was the same thing. Saturday night.

Speaker 6 (11:12):
I was out with some friends and I got a
text from a very close family friend who is a
cop in New Hampshire, and he said, crazy shooting. Fifteen
people shot. Shooter yelled a la u ackbar. And I
looked around and the only reports I found of it.

(11:33):
There was nothing online at that moment except for a
couple of tweets about it from people tweeting on Twitter,
and the tweets were already saying before there was somebody
saying this happened, there was somebody saying, if you're hearing
that the gunman yelled a la u akbar in the
New Hampshire shooting, this is misinformation. And I thought to myself, wow,

(11:56):
there's no report about this shooting. About fifteen minutes later,
the reports started to show up online and there was
no mention of allah wakbar being shouted as the gunman
entered the banquet hall. Yet I followed up with my
cop who was on the scene, and I said, are
you sure about this? And he said, I've interviewed twelve witnesses.

(12:17):
They all have it in their statement. They were all
eyewitnesses in the room. So you tell me who's the
more credible source, the news or the police that are
on the scene, the witnesses in the room. Right, Isn't
this interesting stuff? So that's why I'm always a little
bit skeptical when I read these reports, especially initial ones,
because sometimes the fake news is fake, not because they

(12:39):
want to be fake, but that's just because it's already
been massaged. Right, there's certain details that just left out,
whether it's editors, whether it's reporters themselves making these editorial
judgments to not include certain things. Thinking, the biggest story
here is that there was a shooting at a banquet hall,
not that the shooter yelled alah wakbar. Now, I'm not
saying that happened to California. I'm making specific reference to

(13:00):
what happened in.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
New Hampshire.

Speaker 6 (13:03):
However, interesting nonetheless, right that that was the case a
few months back in New Hampshire. And I'm not trying
to make any correlation between the two except for the
fact that they both happened at banquet halls. Now, speaking
of the fake news, the White House is debuting a
media Offender of the Week website targeting the fake news.

(13:26):
I think this is terrific personally. I've always wanted to
do a segment on this. I just never knew what
to call it, right. I don't know if you guys
want to help me and maybe send me some tweets
or send me some dms with your thoughts.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
I'd love to know what a good idea for this
might be.

Speaker 6 (13:45):
Because you know, there's a morning show in New York
with the host you've heard of him plenty during the election,
Charlemagne and the God, and they have a segment called
Donkey of the Day, right, and it's you know, who's
the biggest jackass that day? And then you know, they

(14:05):
do a story. It's a really fun segment. I want
to do a segment like that, but I needed a
cool name for it, and I thought Docy other Day
was a great name, and it was already taken, so
I didn't have one. So therefore, you know, I might
mention the story's but never in that format encapsulated as
an actual segment, which I think would be really fun. Anyway,
Needless to say, I'm relying on you, miamigos, my Valdez VIPs,

(14:25):
my Radio Familia, my podcast for media to come up
with a name for that segment. But anyway, I am
digressing here. The White House debuted this new page on
its website Friday aimed at lambasting media outlets over fake
news and their false, phony and fake coverage of the
Trump administration's actions. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levin announced

(14:47):
the website on Friday, posting on X the White House
is holding the fake news accountable like never before and
posted this the story there. So that's great love that
this website as of late is listing CBS News, The
Boston Globe, the Independent as the offenders of the week

(15:09):
for their supposedly biased coverage of Trump calling out a
video by the seditious six congressional Democrats who apparently sought
to undermine the military's chain of command. This is, you know, again,
the Daily Callers reporting. I'm saying, if it was illegal,
then it should be punishable by death. Now this is

(15:31):
the senator from Michigan, at least A Slotkin and five
other congressional Democrats. I've played that for you where they
did their thing, and then a couple of Republicans kind
of retorted.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
And this has been going on on and on. People
keep talking about it. Excuse me. So the White House
has this new website, and I think that's great. She says.

Speaker 6 (15:51):
The media misrepresented the President's call for members of Congress
to be held accountable for inciting sedition by saying that
he calls for their execution. And of course, I mean
you had to see that coming, right, I mean, if
you say bad behavior punishable by death, what do you
think they're going to say. They're going to take the
ball and run with it.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
That's what they do.

Speaker 6 (16:11):
They're Democrats. They you know, hyperbole is their middle name.
So the Democrats and the fake news media subversively implied
that President Trump had issued illegal orders to service members.
Then every order President Trump issued has been lawful, she says.
And for it's dangerous for a sitting member of Congress
to incite insubordination in the United States military, and President

(16:34):
Trump called.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Them out for it to be accountable.

Speaker 6 (16:37):
Very good kudos to Caroline Love It an excellent job here,
and I think it's important that we always, you know,
call things out right. One of the reasons people like
Trump in my opinion, and definitely one of the reasons
I like him. He's a fighter. He fights back, he
pushes back. He does not accept the status quo. He
just doesn't say, oh, if I say that, you're going
to say this, or if you all you're going to
think this of me if I say that, But you know,

(16:57):
I don't really agree with that, And you know, eliminates
the sidebark conversation with your friends where you're like, isn't
that weird?

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Why would they do?

Speaker 6 (17:05):
No, he goes straight to you weird, wrong, bad, fake news,
you know, and you got to love him for calling
things out. He's got the courage that we haven't seen
in a very long time. So I'm going to keep
you posted on Venezuela. I'm going to keep you posted
on this California shooting. Straight ahead, we're going to find
out what's going on with Cyber Monday coming up. And

(17:27):
those numbers are not in yet, of course, but some
tariff numbers are in, and Jerome Powell had some interesting
things to say about these tariffs, so I want to
talk about that. Of course, I mentioned the pope. We're
going to get to that maybe in this hour, maybe
in the next hour. We'll see how that plays out.
As well as these traditions, family traditions, I definitely want
to get into that. There's a couple of family traditions

(17:49):
that I want to talk about, one of them being,
you know, like new things that people might do at
Christmas Eve or might have done it even at Thanksgiving.
And there's another funny story on one off story though
to get to, where a woman let her cousin crash
at her apartment and then she comes home to find
that her furniture had been completely rearranged, And I'm thinking.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
Who does that? So I could see that happening and
with you know, with some Puerto Rican family for sure.
I know this the Leaniadum vocal. You know I decided to.

Speaker 6 (18:20):
Clean up, rearrange a little bit anyway, uh more, to
come straight ahead, keep it locked right here.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
I'm rich Veldes.

Speaker 5 (18:26):
This is a Maria. This is Aria. He's brown, he's bald,
and he's breaking it down.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Oh he's still had someome what's his day? Rich Veldes?

Speaker 6 (18:49):
All right, and he goes welcome back. We continue the conversation.
Lots to discuss and I want to get into a
couple of things here. What did I say before I
said tariff's Jerome Powell Irs. And Plus there's a lot
to talk about these Afghans, a bunch of there's another
Afghan that was caught making a bomb from the same

(19:11):
program where Biden extended them that courtesy if they helped
us in afghanistand that he would allow them to come here.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
I'll get into that as well.

Speaker 6 (19:17):
We're definitely gonna have to go into a second how
I'm gonna have to keep this hour kind of tight,
and then we're going to keep moving. But I want
to continue with what Chairman Powell said, because again, I
think this is interesting. A lot of people were saying
this is going to cause inflation, this is gonna do
a bunch of damage in America. Tariffs are going to
break everything, and the markets reacted, I think, for three

(19:38):
days very poorly, and then stabilized and did better than before.
The inflation numbers continue to come down. So I think
Trump has proven everybody wrong here. Yet I don't hear
too much talk about that in the media. And I've
got this clip. Let me see if I could queue
it up quickly. Let's get that clip of Powell. Please
all right, listen to this one right at.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
We're now collecting a good bit of revenue. The government
is collector government collecting a good chunk of revenue three
or four hundred three or four hundred.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
Billion dollars a year pace. And the question is who's
paying that?

Speaker 1 (20:12):
And the candidates for paying that those tariffs would be
the exporter, the foreign exporter, or someone on our shores.
It could be a company or a retail or, someone
is using the imported product to manufacture something, or the
end consumer.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
And so there's so far, and it's incredibly early days.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
It doesn't look like the overseas exporters are carrying the
bulk of it. It looks like it's that middle group,
it's retailers and it's importers, and they're not passing along
to consumers that much of the cost.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
So the actual effects on inflation have been quite modest.

Speaker 5 (20:48):
So far.

Speaker 6 (20:49):
We're not passing all of that on to consumers, and
the impact on inflation has been very modest. Well, that
seems to make sense to me, isn't that it interesting? Well,
it doesn't come as a surprise to many. I think
many of us thought that this might be the case. Now, Again,
nobody was sure of that, right, because there's everything's balanced,

(21:09):
and sometimes things take a while to materialize, right. So
for example, that wasn't the case initially, but last month
very positive news on tariff's.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
Listen to this.

Speaker 8 (21:20):
The President Trump says that he relied on his tariff
policies to make all of this happen. In October, tariffs
brought in thirty three billion dollars. That's a three hundred
and sixteen percent increase from October of twenty twenty four,
not to the president.

Speaker 6 (21:32):
So check that out right, a three hundred and thirty
three percent increase. Not too shabby. Now, even some of
the researchers at the Federal Reserve in San Francisco are
coming to this realization that if you do a longitudinal
study and look at tariff effects over time, you might
see an increase in inflation. You might see an increase

(21:53):
in unemployment, but you might also see decreases in both
if you go a little further.

Speaker 9 (21:57):
Listen to this, Thank, sure is he going to be said,
these direct payments to Americans of two thousand.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Dollars or more, we will see we need legislation for
that and again President Trump is all about solutions, Maria,
and everything is on the table. But I will tell
you that again thanks to him keeping his campaign promises
to working Americans with the working tax and tips so
security over time, we are going to see a big

(22:25):
bump in the first quarter with the refunds and the
real incomes.

Speaker 6 (22:31):
Well, and that's the question. Are we going to see
this big bump with incomes? Are we going to see
this big bump with everything else?

Speaker 10 (22:37):
Well?

Speaker 6 (22:38):
This new analysis I was mentioning to you about from
the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco examine the impact
of tariffs on the economy based on historical examples, finding
that the effect of import taxes or tariffs on inflation
and unemployment vary over time. This was published just last

(23:01):
Monday in an economic letter by Senior Policy Advisor Oscar
Jorda and Vice President Fernanda Nescio, both of the San
Francisco Fedboard Economic Research Department, and they use data from
four decades of international trade to measure the economic shift
caused by tariffs.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Here's a quote from it.

Speaker 6 (23:22):
Tariffs can affect supply chains, investment firms output costs, resulting
in supply side effects such as higher inflation and higher unemployment. However,
tariffs can also affect spending the demand side of the economy.
Weaker demand translates to higher unemployment but lower inflation, right,
and it goes on. Estimates using forty years of international

(23:44):
data show that following the change in tariffs, initially the
unemployment rate increases and inflation declines. But over time, however,
the unemployment rate returns to normal levels while inflation may
go up. So this is what they're pushing, and this
is why people are so afraid saying it's gonna affect inflation.

(24:05):
It's gonna affect inflation, It's going to affect inflation, right,
because their fear is that it's going to be passed
on to the consumer, which is in the form of
an inflated good. However, you just heard your own Powell
be forced to admit too recently, was that this is
not being passed on, that people are eating that cost.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
Right.

Speaker 6 (24:25):
So I like to think of it in simple terms,
and it's not always going to be the case, right,
Sometimes it will, sometimes it won't depends on the operator.
If you go to the pizzeria and let's say you
pay three bucks for a slice of pizza, and now
there's a problem with cows. There's less cows, it's harder
to get milk, it's harder to get the mozzarella cheese,
and now they have to.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
Pay more for their cheese. Do they immediately go ahead
and start charging their customers more for cheese or do
they start making a little bit less right depending on
their margin.

Speaker 6 (24:56):
That's really what it comes down to. If the guy,
let's say, was you know, spending sixty cents to make
a slice of pizza or a dollar and was making
two dollars in profit, and now he's got to spend
I don't know, a dollar twenty five or eighty five cents,
you know, a twenty five cent increase, and it's up
to the sky this pizza man to say, am I
going to eat that quarter because it's a twenty five

(25:19):
cents more for me to buy this cheese and keep
my customers happy and keep my business going where I
make that much less? Or do I tell them it's
now three dollars and twenty five cents, risking them saying,
you know what, it was good, but it wasn't that
good and going somewhere else where somebody else is going
to eat it.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
So it depends on the percentage of increase that you,
as the operator, are choosing to do.

Speaker 6 (25:43):
Now, you could also say, you know what, this cheese
that I'm buying, I don't have to buy it from Canada.
Maybe I should just buy it from allbody New York
and avoid paying the tariff. So there's a lot of
nuance and a lot of interesting I guess extenuating circumstances
here that it's hard to say it's going to do
this or it's going to do that, except for when
you have hard numbers after the fact, And the only

(26:05):
hard numbers we have right now after the fact is
that Trump policies brought in thirty three billion dollars in
additional revenue, and that we have, in fact now not
seen an increase in inflation, and it's not being passed
on to the consumer. In large part that's coming from
Jerome Powell, who can't stand Trump. Now, President Trump, he

(26:28):
didn't stay behind. He says, we're going to use this
eventually eliminate the income tax.

Speaker 10 (26:34):
Check this out over the next couple of years, I
think will substantially be cutting and maybe cutting out completely,
but we'll be cutting income tax could be almost completely
cutting it because the money we're taken and is going
to be so large. And yet other countries who have
been ripping us off for many, many years and many years,
they've just been ripping us to shreds.

Speaker 6 (26:57):
So President Trump again proposing to almost completely eliminate the
income tax, cutting taxes like no other politician.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
I love this.

Speaker 6 (27:06):
And he says all this thanks to the effects of
his trade policies that again as a message he gave
on Thanksgiving from mar A Lago in Florida. Kudos to
Ed Trompito, because we need that right and this is
a big deal, the president again referencing investment commitments that
have been made by other nations, pledges from companies to

(27:26):
expand their production presence in the United States, as well
as revenue accrued from tariffs.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
I love it again. They got the transcript in front
of me.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
Over the next couple of years, I think will substantially
be cutting you've just heard it, cutting completely, almost cutting
out completely income tax.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
I think it's great.

Speaker 6 (27:48):
Look, this is the stuff that I became a conservative for, right,
ending the FED, stopping the income tax, open carry all
over the world. Right, these are the things things that matter.
I think you know, an armed society's a polite society.
And when you get to keep your own money, you
have the most level of liberty. The highest level of

(28:09):
freedom is the ability to transact to the ability to
do whatever you want. Right because you can you want
to move here, you can move there. Why Because you
have money, You were able to make money, you were
able to provide for your family. So I couldn't be
happier about this again, is this a empty suit politician promise?

Speaker 3 (28:26):
I don't think so.

Speaker 6 (28:27):
Why because I think Trump is a talking about it
and b putting the steps in place to do it.
Now you can be critical and say, yeah, but you
come on, rich, there's no way he's actually going to
be able to pull it off.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
He'll never get it through Congress. He'll never get this.

Speaker 6 (28:41):
Listen when he says, almost completely within the executive authority,
and at least while he's president, and or while we
have a Republican president that will continue his mantra, you'll
be able to kind of zero it out, just like
what they're trying to do with the Department of Education.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Right, So this is huge.

Speaker 6 (28:58):
Now, if you get somebody with enough hoodspot, enough political
will and enough political capital in Congress to be able
to pull that off by way of legislation as well. Well,
my goodness, we've got something good going on here. But
if you have to come up with clever workarounds like
saying no, no, no, we'll have this minimum effect, a
very dominimous income tax, a very non existent department of education.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
Right, that's very very shell of itself. I can deal
with that too.

Speaker 6 (29:29):
The key, I think is to take the steps to
actually reduce the size of government, to reduce more than anything,
the control that the government has over the people. To me,
that's one of the biggest things that we can do
as a people is elect people that are willing to
cut taxes and cut government out of our lives. So anyway,
I mean, guys, hope you're enjoying the show so far.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
There is more to come.

Speaker 6 (29:49):
Straight ahead. I want to talk about color revolutions. I
want to talk about the Pope and his trip to Turkey.
We're going to get into these traditions.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
What happens when you invite a guest to your house
and they just start rearranging furniture? Is that normal? Do
you perceive that or take that as wow?

Speaker 11 (30:04):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
That was so nice of you. Or is this a
step too far? Did they cross a boundary?

Speaker 6 (30:10):
Very interested in knowing your thoughts, and of course we're
gonna get my final thoughts on everything as we move
into the next hour.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
Don't go anywhere.

Speaker 5 (30:18):
This is America.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
to speak with Rich Valdez.

Speaker 10 (30:31):
Oh, very good.

Speaker 5 (30:36):
The honor is all yours.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
Conservative time with a dash of sofrito. Now here's Rich Valdez.

Speaker 6 (30:46):
All right, amicos, welcome back, Rich Valdez, keeping your company today.

Speaker 10 (30:50):
And check this out right now, I heard that Sarah
Beckstrom of West Virginia, one of the guards men that
we're talking about, highly respected, young, magnificent person, started service
in June of twenty twenty three, outstanding in every way.
She's just passed away.

Speaker 11 (31:13):
She's no longer with us.

Speaker 10 (31:14):
She's looking down at us right now.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Her parents are with her.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
It's just happened.

Speaker 10 (31:22):
She was savagely attacked. She's dead.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
It's now with us.

Speaker 10 (31:25):
Incredible person, outstanding in every single way, in every department.

Speaker 6 (31:31):
As President Trump again from Morlo Lago, weighing in on this,
and I've got a few other clips.

Speaker 11 (31:36):
I want to play for you all the people that
came to show support for what happened. It was just unbelievable.
And people know that this is something that was so
heinous that and they're angry, but they're also weighing in
so much on behalf of Andrew and the family, and
that is heartwarming.

Speaker 6 (31:56):
Andrew Wolfe, National Guard's been fighting for his life after
being attacked by gunman named Raman a lah la quanal
Afghan illegal alien who entered the United States under the
Biden administration of twenty twenty one, yelling alu akbar during
the attack. Sarah Beckstrom, also National Guard member, was shot

(32:17):
by this man. She's passed away sadly. Very bad news indeed.
And of course there's the back and forth with President
Trump and Nancy Cordis from CBS News.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
Here's a clip of that.

Speaker 10 (32:28):
You stupid, You're a stupid person because they came into
on a plane along with thousands of other people that
shouldn't be here, and you're just asking questions because you're
a stupid person.

Speaker 6 (32:40):
That's President Trump blasting CBS White House correspondent Nancy Cortis.
And I'm going to get to that in a moment.
I'll play the full exchange between the two of them,
But man, it was dicey. As I try to bring
everything that's going on in America at night, at day,
at any time that it's going on, I try to
give you my thoughts, my insight, my analysis, plus everything
else that's happening in our life to not keep it

(33:01):
overly political.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
The big story this week again was the horrific.

Speaker 6 (33:05):
Attack where this man yelled a la u akbar and
shot to National Guard soldiers.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
I'll tell you these things. For me, I'm a wus
or a caring dad, however you want to put it.
But this girl that was murdered, she's the same age
as my daughter. You know, I have two one, twenty
one's twenty four.

Speaker 6 (33:25):
So whenever news happens and involves girls of those ages,
it can't help but hit home in a particular way.
And the courage right, the girl signs up to be
a citizen soldier, she signs up to just better her life,
to serve her community, to serve her country, and she
gets taken out by an enemy of our country, the

(33:46):
most radical element of that. And there's a lot of
news about this, and there's no question that there is
somebody who doesn't like Muslims overall somewhere push a lot
of anti Muslim content, just as over the summer there
was a lot of anti Israeli, anti Jew, anti Semitic

(34:09):
content all over where. You had people from everywhere, right,
people from When I say people from everywhere, I mean
there's good people on both sides.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
I am saying that. I am saying that there are
people that.

Speaker 6 (34:25):
Are saying the radical element within Islam is a threat,
and there are people saying they don't like all Muslims.
I am saying that there are people that they disagree
with the Israeli government, but they have no problem with
the Jews. And I'm also saying that there are people
that say they disagree with the Israeli government as a

(34:48):
guise for the fact.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
That they hate the Jews. And this is a reality,
there's no way about it. There are people that say
they support an immigration reform because they believe that America
needs to have a controlled immigration system. And there are
people that say they hate and they need immigration reform
because they hate the fact that there are other people

(35:10):
in this country that aren't of European descent, that speak
other languages and bring their culture to the table. That's
a reality too.

Speaker 6 (35:18):
And I know this having done talk radio and I
get to talk to people all over the place, and
I've had people tell me that you don't think it's
a problem. The fact that there is a browning going
on in America, and it's typically the same type of person.
You know, if I can be so bold and say that,
it's someone that prides themselves on having family that were

(35:39):
on the Mayflower, or someone that has been in this
country for multiple generations and does not speak any other
language and feels like it is inconsistent with their values
that you do speak another language. Right, So the fact
that I was raised to speak English my parents that
spoke Spanish, and then learn to speak Spanish after I

(36:01):
learned to speak English, and then learn to speak Portuguese
after I learned to speak all that this is a
problem for people. They think it's bad, they think it's wrong,
it's somehow an affront to their way of being.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
And who am I to say, you know, you're a biggot,
you're this? I mean, I think it is bigoted, but
who am I? Right?

Speaker 6 (36:19):
They are well within their right, And that's why you
have people from all these different places, and sometimes the
bigoted people will make comments, and the people who aren't
bigoted but really do care about immigration reform, really do
have a legitimate gripe against the strategy of the IDF
for the Israeli government, or really do like Muslims but

(36:43):
have a problem with radical Islam, will gravitate to these
other people that are out there in fact being the
exact same problem they're describing. And this is why I
can never join any of those camps, because my issue
is if I believe in freedom of religion and free speech,
then I have to really believe in those things. You

(37:05):
have to be free to practice what you like, satan
wickan whatever right, whatever it is. Now, that does not
mean that I don't have the right to say I
am what I am. I believe that my faith is absolute,
and Christianity is a rather absolutist not rather a one

(37:26):
hundred percent absolutist faith, right. I think the First Commandment
says it all, thou shalt have no other gods before me.
That's pretty clear, I'm it. So I'm okay with that,
and I'm sure there are people from other faiths that
have the same beliefs in their faith, and that's why

(37:47):
I believe in the free market, the free market place
of ideas. And thankfully, as my mom would say, to date,
Christianity is still the largest religion in the world. However,
the Muslims are catching up with being the fastest growing.

(38:07):
So it becomes a question of how are you led,
what are you guided by? What is your belief structure.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
Do you believe that we need to be competitive for
the sake of I don't want to lose to them,
or do you believe we need to be competitive because
of the sake that we've been called to the great
commission to preach the Gospel to all people in all nations.
And if you hold true to the latter, then great,
do what you gotta do, and God speed my friends.

(38:36):
But I say all that to say because I feel
that there's a lot of noise out there and it's
easy to conflate things in a time like this, But
it doesn't change the fact that you're not allowed to
kill people. It doesn't change the fact that we have
a problem with people that have come from Afghanistan. Right,
that's a reality.

Speaker 10 (38:54):
Now.

Speaker 6 (38:54):
Someone was arguing with me yesterday at a post Thanksgiving function,
saying no, no, no, listen to me. You can't say
all the Afghans are bad when they were out there
saving you from the tally ban because two people, you
got two bad apples in the bunch. You can't say
they're all bad. And I said, look, I'm not saying
they're all bad. I'm saying we have a problem with
the group that came. Two of those people were problematic.

(39:18):
Therefore we have a problem, and it may be indicative
that we have a further problem. The problem is in
the vetting. The problem was how did we get this
vetting done? And President Trump was asked about that vetting,
and man, he let the media have it on this one.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
Check this out.

Speaker 9 (39:35):
Your dojig just reported this year that there was thorough
vetting by DHS and by the FBI of these Afghans
who were brought into the US. So why do you
blame the Biden administration for what this man did?

Speaker 10 (39:48):
Are you stupid? You're a stupid person because they came
into on a plane along with thousands of other people
that shouldn't be here, and you're just asking questions because
you're a stupid person. And there's a law passed that
it's almost impossible not to get them out. You can't
get them out once they come in. And they came
in and they were unvetted, they were unchecked. There were

(40:11):
many of them, and they came in on big planes
and it was disgraceful. And if you look, you'll see
there was a law pass. It makes it almost impossible
not to let them in, not to certify them, so
to speak, once they come in, and they came in,
and they shouldn't have come in, and frankly, the whole
thing was a mess. The whole Afghanistan situation was a mess.

(40:33):
We shouldn't it should have never taken place.

Speaker 6 (40:36):
And of course people's temperatures are very high over this.
This is a horrible thing that's going on in America.
People have long been very skeptical about allowing people from
other countries into the United States. This mass asylum seeking
scam that the Biden people put together were they pretty

(40:59):
much convinced most Americans to think, listen, you are a
bad and evil individual if you don't allow more immigrants
into this country. This is a nation of immigrants. You
yourself come some way, somehow from somebody that was an
immigrant in this country. How dare you be a zenfob
and a bigot and not want people to come here. Now, this,
of course, is a disingenuous argument, because we're not saying

(41:20):
that we don't want people to come to this country.
We're not saying that the country is browning like some
have told me. Now, what we're saying is we have
to pause this. We have to make sure that we're
allowing people in that are going to help the country. Why,
because we're at capacity.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
This isn't you know when we were building the railroads
and there was a need for a lot of people
and we needed all sorts of help.

Speaker 6 (41:42):
We have the infrastructure in place. Now there may be
a need for more infrastructure. And that's why you look
there's all this AI. You think they're not gonna continue
bringing in people from other places?

Speaker 3 (41:51):
Sure they are. Are they going to slow down on
the H one B stuff because one country seems to
have a hold on H one b's being India in particular.

Speaker 6 (41:59):
Yeah, there might be a whole done that. These are
policy issues that you're going to work through.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
But this is not a.

Speaker 11 (42:05):
Right.

Speaker 6 (42:06):
Nobody has a right to come to any country. I
don't have a right to visit Columbia. I don't have
a right to visit the Dominican Republic. I don't have
any rights. I can go there and ask if I
can get a visa to go there for tourism. Super
I have a right to live my life, but it
doesn't mean I have a right to what's yours.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
Right.

Speaker 6 (42:22):
I don't have a right to be in your country's borders,
nor does anybody else have a right to be here.
And we've heard, you know, Tom Holman's been on my
program many times talking about how if you're seeking asylum,
you go to the first safe country, not the one
of your choice. That's how the law works. So if
you're in Honduras and crossing in Costa Rica and Nicaragua
and a bunch of other places on your way to

(42:44):
the United States, you're not following the asylum law. So
we have to be fair and call it what it is. Now,
in a situation like this, you've got people that have
associations to organizations that hate America. I don't think that's unfair.
I think that's a fair statement. Right now, the Iranians

(43:07):
have embraced the mantra Death to America, shouting it and
chanting it. When they open their sessions of parliament the
way we do a prayer to open Congress. That's norm
for them. So if that's the norm for them. And
we have people that may subscribe to some of those ideologies,

(43:27):
which in this country we call terrorist sympathies, right, some
might want to call them antagonistic towards America, whatever you
want to call it. The United States is within its
rights to not allow people that don't like the United
States to enter the country.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
That's fair.

Speaker 6 (43:44):
You can call it fascistic, you can call it dictatorial
or autocratic, you can call it whatever you like. But
that's within our law. And you have the same thing
in your business, You have the same thing in your home.
You don't want to let somebody in, don't let them in.
Because the country has a right to protect itself, the

(44:05):
country has a right to promote its own national interest.
That's just a matter of fact as well as a
matter of law. So I bring that up to say that,
of course, there are going to be people in the
media that are going to come to the immediate defense,
just like they did for Kilmaro Brigo Garcia, right, the
human trafficking, wife beating illegal alien that was deported to

(44:31):
El Salvador and then came back amidst all a whirlwind
of Democrat Congress people going there standing up for him,
a guy who was entitled to do process, but not
the same rights as every other American.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
And I thought that was a joke. I thought it
was a travesty.

Speaker 6 (44:46):
And look, I could even look the other way for
those who are just you know, civil liberties purists that
just see things differently than me, and I will concede
to saying maybe we just don't see eye to eye
on this issue. I think they're misunderstanding the law and
they probably think the same of me. But when it

(45:07):
comes to people that want to walk around your country
and shoot people dead, a young woman and a young man,
there has to be a line drawn. There should be
nobody on the other side of this argument. Nobody, nobody
should be arguing for why we shouldn't have a review
of anybody that came in of this Afghan policy. I
don't know what that review looks like. And moving forward,

(45:30):
we should completely seal our borders period. I think there
should be zero immigration moving forward until we figure things out.
You're Canadian, sorry, can't come today. You're Fromidably, Sorry you
can't come today. You're from Persia, Sorry, can't come today, right,
the region once known as Persia. Whatever I think? Right now,
we need a pause, right, a moratorium on immigration. Now

(45:54):
will that affect our economy? Yes, but you have to
identify hotspots in the world where people are coming and
causing harm. Now, of course my critics are going to say,
what about all the white people that are committing crime
that are born in America? Yes, what about them? We
have a system for that too. It's called jail. Right,
what you guys like to call mass incarceration. Let's mass
incarcerate all of the American born citizens that violate law.

(46:18):
Let's not let them go like Alvin braglights to do
downgrading sixty percent of the crimes committed in New York City.
Let's stop with these prosecutors that are trying to legislate
from their office by not prosecuting crime.

Speaker 3 (46:34):
Let's prosecute the crime.

Speaker 6 (46:36):
Stop with the pro crime, progressive stuff that just collllles
criminals and creates more madness chaos. I say, that's how
we handle that. But let's put a pause on this
so that we end some of this madness. Just like
President Trump put a cabash at the border.

Speaker 3 (46:54):
Good for that too.

Speaker 6 (46:56):
These are the things that have to happen. These are
the things that are necessary in order for us to
do well. Otherwise we're going to keep running into situations
like this one. Check out this alert that just came out.

Speaker 12 (47:10):
You have a Fox News alert from Brook Taylor. You
won't believe this. DHS is confirming that an Afghan national
was arrested Tuesday after posting a video of himself on
TikTok indicating he was building a bomb with an intended
target of the Fort Worth area. Mohammed dahwood alo Kazi

(47:31):
is charged at the state level with making a terroristic threat.
According to DHS, listen to this. He came to the
United States as part of Operation Allies Welcome. So here
you have it. This happened tuesday, Texas Department of Public Safety.
This is a second Afghan national, second one this week
Operation Allies Welcome. He had a terror plot. We know

(47:55):
comes the same week that that deranged individual, that alleged
assassin took out two of our heroic National Guard came
here on the same program Operation Allies Welcome, a program
that we were assured time and time again by my orchist,
by Jensaki, by Joe Biden himself was safe and secure.
But here we have a second data point in one

(48:17):
week that it was not safe, it was not secure,
and we've got to look very hard at this program.
As President Trump is vowing to make change.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
That's one hundred percent right.

Speaker 6 (48:27):
And again, I was at a gathering with my Cuban friend, Ruben,
the Cuban who came from Havana to Key West on
a jet ski to come for the American Dream and
somebody I have a lot of care for. I respect
the lives as a good friend, got a lot of
love for the guy. And I'll tell you I don't

(48:49):
agree with him politically on anything, but whenever I see him,
we always get into things. And he's telling me, listen,
these are your allies. These are people that helped and
now you want to turn your back and kick them
all all the country.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
I mean, how do you do that?

Speaker 6 (49:01):
And he believes everything he's told, And I guess that's
part of my downfall, if you will, is that I
don't believe everything I'm told.

Speaker 3 (49:11):
So if you tell me that.

Speaker 6 (49:12):
Operation Allies Welcome or whatever the name of the program,
that Kaylee Mcanane just mentioned whatever that was. I'll say this,
it's a bunch of lies. It's just like saying we're
helping asylum seekers at the border. They weren't seeking asylum.
We were shoveling people into our country. Human smuggling, human trafficking, endorsed,

(49:33):
aided and embedded by the Biden administration. That's what happened,
point blank. Joe Biden was a new capo in the
cartel's human smuggling operation. Hands down. That's how I see it.
Proved me wrong, right, that's the only way to look
at this. And just because you have official statements from
the government, from this and from that, people just lying,

(49:56):
lying and more lying. Now, this is a difficult position
to defend because when I say something that people are
going to say, well, they're going to make the same claim. Well,
Trump is a liar, Trump's a fascist. He's just saying
this and that, but he's really doing this. But I
feel like there's a difference. When I make a statement
like the one I made, I have the proof, right
at least I can say I can support my statement

(50:18):
by saying, was there not twelve million excuse me, twelve
million new human beings that entered this country by way
of the southern border that did not live here before.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
That's a fact.

Speaker 6 (50:34):
Was that not sanctioned by our government? And have we
not I'm going to use the words systemically now seen
that these were children that were brought here without parents,
but came with a man or a woman that look
like their parents. Are we not seeing twelve year old
fourteen year old boys working in factories overnight where their
hands are getting caught in chicken machines, mechanical chicken separators

(50:57):
and they're losing their fingers. Young girls being sold into
sex slavery that are being now rescued through operations like
the ones that cash but telling Dan Bongino are spearheading
to rescue these kids. Do we not hear about Tom
Holman talking about tracking down three hundred thousand missing unaccompanied minors. Now,
when you say fascist, fascist, fascist?

Speaker 3 (51:16):
Trump? Is this Trump?

Speaker 10 (51:17):
Is that?

Speaker 6 (51:17):
Trump's where's the proof? What has Trump done? He's a
felon with thirty four counts?

Speaker 11 (51:23):
All right?

Speaker 3 (51:23):
What has he done with his fascistic tendencies? What has
he done? He's going after his political enemies. Who's he
going after? Letitia James and James call me whose cases
both got dismissed. He's the worst fascist in history.

Speaker 6 (51:38):
He lets Mamdani into the White House, he lets the
media talk bad about him, and never seen a fascist
like this. These are baseless claims. There is no root
in reality. You could say it all you want, You
could try to paint the picture. It's always, Oh, he's
about to, He's about to. They try to build the hype.

(51:58):
The shoe never lands, the shoe never drops. Sadly for them,
Trump is not imprisoning Americans, right, And when an American
is arrested by ICE, it's because they use their vehicle
to ram an ICE vehicle to impede the apprehension of
an illegal alien. But they leave that part out when

(52:19):
they say now Ice is arresting American citizens. Ice is
gonna arrest whoever gets in the way. Don't get in
the way. We all know right from wrong. We've got
to be real careful with how the media portrays things,
the manipulation of truth, the misrepresentation of facts, because anything

(52:43):
that gets people to act overly emotionally and is devoid
of logic is a threat and a danger to what
we do. They use our good intentions against us every
single day. Consider yourselves warned, and don't go anywhere. Keep
it locked right here on RICHALDESK.

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Speaker 6 (53:21):
All right on egos. Welcome back Thanksgiving weekend. Happy to
be back with you guys, and so much I want
to get into. I am going to do another hour
right after this, but it won't post immediately.

Speaker 3 (53:32):
Because I've got to get to the studio. This is
Max TV.

Speaker 6 (53:35):
Make sure you check me out on news Max TV
this Sunday. I'll be on with Lydia Sarana talking about
all the biggest headlines. But something that I want to
get into before I did part was this really good
human interest story that I thought was fascinating.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
Honestly, we're going to add a phone line to this
so that I can get you guys to weigh in,
and I'll tell you exactly what time we'll be doing
this so that you can call because really, it truly
is a A something I miss and b something that
you really need to give me your input on. And
of course you can do it digitally.

Speaker 6 (54:03):
You can weigh in at Rich feldesk dot com on
any of my socials, drop a comment just at me
and tag me so that I can get your response.
But listen to this and I'll post the article as
well so that you can see it and maybe put
your comments beneath it. But this is something that I
found interesting. There's two of them, and I'm going to
try and combine them here because I thought they were

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kind of appropriate with the Thanksgiving we just had as
well as the Christmas that we're about to have. Right,
so they're separate stories. But this one here is an
interesting This interesting one. This woman lets her cousin crash
at her apartment, then comes home to find furniture completely rearranged.

(54:43):
Right here are the facts that twenty three year old
woman living alone recently let her twenty six year old
cousin crash at her place. At first, everything seemed to
be going well, especially with her cousin helping clean around
the apartment, But one day she was shocked by how
far her cousin went to organize her home. When someone
offers a relative a temporary place to stay, they usually
expect a little disruption, but not to complete some sort

(55:08):
of makeover of their home. Now that's what happened here,
and she didn't anticipate this. She asked her twenty six
year old cousin asked to stay at her house, and
after a few days she was already posting on Reddit
what was going on. At first, the arrangement felt like
a manageable, even pleasant situation, as the cousin helped with

(55:29):
groceries straightened up around the house. She was genuinely grateful,
But after a few days she said things changed, and
she was saying not just the cleaning, but also moving things,
beginning with the bathroom cabinet, the spice rack, eventually the bookshelves.
The situation then escalated when the girl, the host, not

(55:49):
the twenty six year old visitor, returned home from work
to find the entire living room was rearranged. The couch
had been moved, the desk was relocated, and several decorations
had been tucked away because the cousin felt they made
the space too cluttered. She appeared very proud of the changes,
presenting them as an improvement rather than an intrusion. When
the poster simply said, the poster is the person posting

(56:11):
on Reddit. So the twenty three year old whose apartment
it is, She said, oh, you move stuff around. The
cousin became defensive and insisted that she thought the redesign
made the apartment look more put together.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
I ain't. That's something I told her.

Speaker 6 (56:24):
I actually preferred things the way they were, and that
I would have appreciated if she would have just asked first.
Now she's been very quiet and very petty, staying in
her room with the door half shut. She said, I've
spent my evening putting my place back together because it
doesn't even feel like my apartment anymore. In the aftermath,
she questioned whether she had overreacted, wondering if stress had

(56:47):
pushed her cousin into overstepping or if she was herself
being overly sensitive. And maybe both of those are true,
but it doesn't move the line on right and wrong right.
And this is interesting because I've never been in this situation.
But I will tell you one time I went to.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
Where did I go? I visited a friend and they
had little kids and my kids were a little bigger.
But we went. We had a good time, beautiful people.

Speaker 6 (57:11):
But you know, when you have little kids, life is
very hectic and very busy, right, And I remember he
was an incredible host, you know, staying in a different stay.
We're there for a while visiting with them, but they
had their own busy lives and he was like, take
my car.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
Do what you got to do. And I did.

Speaker 6 (57:25):
And it was a big family car, and I love
the fact that I had a car to move around in.
But I noticed, you know, like many cars when you
have little kids, you know, there was a few crumbs
on the floor, a couple of rappers for this and that.
So you know, I said, you know what I'm doing,
I'm gonna wa wash this car.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
It took it.

Speaker 6 (57:39):
I got a great car wash for the guy, and
he was actually very appreciative of that. And I felt
good because I'm like a car wash crazy, right. If
I don't watch my car at minimum every seven days,
I freak out.

Speaker 3 (57:49):
I literally do. So I I realized that, Okay, I
did something good. Plus I think most people, if.

Speaker 6 (57:55):
You watch their car, they are most people they're gonna
appreciate it because a lot of people don't have time
for that.

Speaker 3 (58:00):
They're just like, oh, I'm too busy, I don't have time.

Speaker 6 (58:02):
And I really went above and beyond, you know, I
did all the detailing myself in side, getting all the crevices.
Really went in with the vacuum after the car wash
guys did, so I think he was happy with that.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
Then I don't know. I did something. I was like,
I put it in the sink. He's like, no, but
just put it in the dishwasher. And I put in
the dishwasher. And I realized that the dishwasher was not
only full, but it needed a little, a little uh,
you know, a little cleaning of its own. So I
was like, do you mind if I do that? He
was like, oh, knock yourself out. So I did, and
I did a deep clean on the dishwasher, and I

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remember his wife was saying, oh, my goodness, we should
have you over more often. And they were very appreciative.

Speaker 6 (58:37):
And the whole time I was doing it, I was like, man,
I hope they don't get offended that, you know, I'm
a visitor here and I'm cleaning this up.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
But the point was they took it well.

Speaker 6 (58:43):
They're wonderful people, and they also knew they were busy
and that, you know, their lives are busy with the
with their small children.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
And this is many years ago, and I was, you know.

Speaker 6 (58:51):
Incredibly grateful for their hospitality opening their home to me
and to my children so we could enjoyed this nice
visit with them. So I say that to say, that
was the only time I done anything like that. And
I'm not typically like that, you know, I'm not.

Speaker 3 (59:03):
I don't. I don't deep clean my own dishwasher.

Speaker 6 (59:06):
It's just I felt like I had made a mess
sort of, you know, and I was like, I want
to make sure it's clean, and it looked like it
needed more cleaning than I was able to afford it.
So I said, let me get in here and really
get into the nitty gritty. So that's as close as
I've ever gotten. But how close have you gotten? And
is this right or wrong? Is it okay to help
somebody if you see things disheveled, and you know how

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much of it is appreciated. If there's like a few
blankets that are messed up, you fold them, you put
them on the couch or something. All right, a couple
of throw blankets are now neatened up, that might be acceptable.
But when it goes to redoing the spice rack or
you know, maybe that's also acceptable, right, Like, oh my gosh,
I made I made I thought I made a mess
when I was making lunch. But you got to say something, right,

(59:50):
You got to say, hey, look, I wasn't sure where
you put your oregonos.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
I kind of did it like this.

Speaker 6 (59:54):
I'm not sure if you had a system and I
messed it up, but this is how I did it.
And they might go, oh my gosh, that's beautiful.

Speaker 3 (59:58):
I love it. Thanks for doing that the way you did.

Speaker 6 (01:00:00):
But when it comes to moving the couch, moving the
desk and putting decorations away, you gotta be out of
your mind. I think that's insanity.

Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
So I believe that.

Speaker 6 (01:00:10):
You know, when in Rome, you do as the Romans do.
You have to respect people's customs as best you can.
Right in Puerto Rico, for Christmas, people drink coquito and
take to the streets right after midnight Mass and they
sing and they dance. It's called a paranda, right. They
bring their instruments, they sing, they go from house to
house picking.

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
Up more people.

Speaker 6 (01:00:31):
It's a caravan of people singing and dancing, very jolly,
celebrating the birth of Christ. And I think it's a
beautiful tradition, one that I'm always wanting to go to.
Puerto Rico to participate in during Christmas time, one that
I know, if it happened right here where I live now,
may not go over so well. Not everybody, I think
in the East Coast of the United States is waiting

(01:00:54):
for a neighbor, maybe even a new neighbor that you've
never even met before, to knock on your door with
some moroccas and something males or you know, some tambourines
and say, hey, let's send Christmas carols and bring out
the rest of the neighbors and make a little Christmas
parade out here right A because it's cold, and b
because not everybody does midnight Mass and has a Noche
Buena celebration like the Puerto Ricans do. So I understand

(01:01:17):
those cultural differences, but you know, rest assured there's always
a celebration in my house or wherever I'm at, So
I always try to keep those things in mind. But
I'm wondering how this is going to end up for
these people. You know, this girl, apparently her cousin's now
mad at her because she tried to clean the place up,
trying to you know, I think they're both in their

(01:01:39):
right to feel how they feel, even though the visitors
should be like, hey, look, I'm a guest here and
I should act like a guest. But I think she's
in her head. She's twenty six, and she's thinking I
was just trying to help. And oftentimes I think these
things are misunderstood, but very very fascinating to me human behavior.
Probably gonna have to call my buddy, doctor Vince Callahan
in to see what he says about this. We're going

(01:02:00):
to be continuing our programming this week. We're adding some
guests to the equation and we're also going to add
another hour to the program as well.

Speaker 3 (01:02:09):
That's coming up this week as well.

Speaker 6 (01:02:11):
I just wanted to drop in here this Thanksgiving weekend
and say hello and to thank you again for tuning in.
There is more to come straight ahead, the lots that
we're going to be unfolding and discussing in the episodes
to come.

Speaker 3 (01:02:23):
So of course, do not go anywhere, keep it locked
right here. I am Rich Valdez, and I always say this,
if you stand for nothing, you're going to fall for anything.
So make sure you stand for something and a start aproxima,
take care, good night, and God bless you America. I'm
Rich Valdez and this is America, this is America.