Omar squirted? Observer or aggressor?, Offing Trump

On Wednesday, Rich points out that a liquid was squirted at Congresswoman Ilhan Omar; was this a staged attack by progressive activists? Then, credit to the mainstream media for not being silent on new footage of Nurese Alex Pretti spitting and kicking a federal police SUV, 11 days before his fatal shooting by US Border Patrol. Plus, the left within the Democrat Party insists on violent rhetoric; this time, an Ohio Attorney General candidate, Elliot Forhan, is calling for President Trump to be killed. 

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(00:46):
give me a call. Eight seven seven Valdez number one,
eight seven seven Valdez one of course, that is Valdest
with an S and amigos. You want to grab your
cavecito for this however you like it, black, no sugar
the way God intended or good old cafe wonna let
you the way I like it, and I do splendid
just to cut back on sugar. But let's dive into

(01:07):
the Locuda, the craziness that's unfolding right now. First off,
Uno Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, went to the
Senate today a Foreign Relations committee. He had a hearing
there and he dropped some serious truth bombs on Cuba
and Venezuela, testifying before the Foreign Relations Committee that defending
the takedown of narco terrorism was paramount to the United

(01:29):
States national interest. In fact, taking down the narco thug
excuse me, Maludu like it was a Sunday family barbecue.
This was no small task, even though the United States
made it look easy. He said, we're not looking to
invade Venezuela. Here's a quote. He said, We're not postured too,
nor do we intend or expect to have to take
any military action in Venezuela at any time. But he

(01:52):
made it crystal clear that Maludo's old regime was a
playground for Iran, for Russia and every bad actor in
the Hempere with the interim leadership cooperating, which are Maluto's
co thugs. Talking about oil deals that put American companies
first and the cheap oil handouts to Cuba that were,
you know, basically funding the Cuban regime in many ways

(02:14):
with their oil. They could barely keep the lights on, right,
You're talking thirteen hours a day without that oil. Who
knows what's going to happen in Cuba, right, So it's
only a matter of time before those guys get chased
out of town, because even the soldiers in the most
loyal comedies are going to say, hey, hold on a
sec You know, I thought if I was a bootlocker
for you, you were gonna hook me up. They can't if
they have nothing to go by. Maybe, just maybe we
might get some real change down there in Cuba, Mamba,

(02:35):
and we're going to see, right. Rubio also warned the
Cubans after seeing what happened to Maluto. He said, I'd
be concerned. I'd say, man, I've bee. I think that's
the straight type of talk that we need, right. We
need a leader that's talking like Secretary of Rubio. No,
we're playing mister nice guy. No, we're playing around with
dictators who flood our streets with fentanyl, who were, you know,

(02:58):
part of the narcosystem and are sitting on this treasure
that we could totally benefit from and help their people
be free. Seems like a win win, but it takes
the right type of leadership, the right type of courage,
like what we see coming from Editron Pitos and all
this magnus to forty fifth and forty seventh president of
these United States. That's one of those things that I

(03:18):
think is a good thing, right I do. Maybe I'm wrong,
you know, Maybe I'm just Maybe that's my inner authoritarian
shining through. Who knows. Anyway, I think Marco Rubio, the
good Secretary of State that we have. I think he's
out here doing the Lord's work. And the left is,
of course clutching their pearls like it's the end of
the world. Newsflash, it is the end of their world
and the beginning of America's comeback. But wait, it gets

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better or worse, depending on if you're a Kammi sympathizer
or not. While Rubio's schooling the Senate on why we
can't let Narco States thrive, just ninety miles away from Miami,
you got ill han Omar getting a little taste of
her own chaos in Minnesota, which I would bet was staged.
But she was at a town hall meeting ranting about
abolishing ICE because apparently securing the border is racist now right,

(04:04):
It's racist, white supremacist, you know, all that calling for
Christy Nome to be impeached. Suddenly some guy rushes the
stage and sprays her with some mystery liquid from a
syringe boom. Tackled by security, she takes it off like
a champ, She says, Minnesota strong. Look, I don't condone violence,
full stop. But this is the same ill hand Omar
who spent years fanning the flames of the vision right

(04:27):
when she said things like some people did something right
when they attacked America, And now the tone in Minnesota.
Is it shifting? I don't know. I would hope. So.
I think people are fed up with the open border insanity.
I think people are tired of the Democrats protecting child
rapists and drug traffickers and all sorts of gangbangers and
trying to make it look like the Ice is out

(04:47):
there grabbing every last Tom Dick and Harry that works
in every last restaurant as a dishwasher, and is ignoring
these violent criminals that are seeking refuge here. You got
to remember Venezuela was emptying out their jail and sending
people to the United States so that they didn't have
to deal with that. Anybody forgot that part. I didn't
forget that part. Trump he says, Look, he's going to

(05:08):
escalate this. But when mayor's like Jacob Freyfry, say Minneapolis,
wont and forest federal immigration laws, who's the one playing
with fire here?

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Right?

Speaker 4 (05:15):
I think it's ilhann Omar. Right. She's been Trump's at
least for the last couple of years. She's been Trump's
favorite pinata. Right, She's the foil. That's why people say
she's gonna get locked up. I said, there's no way
she gets locked up. What would Trump talk about, right?
He can't talk about AOC the same way he talks
about ill han r. He can't say we're gonna deport
her and all that. He can only do that, Hey,
that she married her brother and all these This is
this is this is great stuff, right from the perspective

(05:39):
of having a foil, of having somebody you can beat
up publicly, this is it. Right. Used to be Hillary
Clinton befoilos lock her up, lock her up, because you'd
be in jail. Right. These are golden moments in Trump's rhetoric.
So I don't see il han Omer going anywhere, and
I see her raising a ton of cash in the process,
right to all of her friends supporters who hate themselves

(06:01):
and hate America, so they're happy to send her a
check anyway, speaking of Minnesota, and I'm trying to not
do it, but it's like that's all we can get
lately is Minnesota, which is crazy. New video that dropped
of Alex Preddy. This one is of him eleven days
before he was shot by federal agents. It shows him
spitting at the cops, attacking them, kicking a taillight right

(06:22):
out of their police vehicle, and looking like he's got
a gun tucked in his waistband as he's doing it. Now,
this wasn't some peaceful nurse protesting, although my comments on
social media were, yep, mostly peaceful. This is a guy escalating, resisting,
turning a routine operation into a brawl. The left wants
to paint this guy, Alex Preddy, the nurse that was

(06:43):
shot by Ice or the Border Patrol, rather as a
marty or as a victim, but the footage doesn't lie.
He resisted, things went south, and tragically he lost his life.
That sucks, right, just like that lady. That sucks. And
I would say in both cases, I'll be very frank.
I don't know if that lady was trying to murder
the cop. I don't know. I think she might have
been under the pressure of her partner that was in

(07:06):
the seat next to her saying go, go go, and
she was confused if she should turn the wheel this way,
that way, straight forward, left, right. But what she did,
as a matter of fact, as a matter of video evidence,
she gunned that car straight ahead of a cop and
hit him. And he was within his full rights to
empty out that clip to stop that threat. And I
don't say that with any pride or happiness. I say

(07:28):
that with I'm glad I know that that's a fact,
and I'm glad I can teach my children that don't
get dead right, don't do things that are stupid that
can hurt you. I do my best to not do
that stuff, because listen, you only get one shot at
this game, right, It's like your teeth. You gotta take
here of your teeth. You get one shot, you get
one set of choppers. That's it. After that, you got
a fake ones. And unlike teeth, you don't really get

(07:51):
nine lives, right, unless you're a cat anyway, These are
the same and those that like to scream defund the police, right,
the same people that like Alex Pretty and the rest
of these guys. I think we need accountability. They want
the agents to leave, they want the investigations to continue,
but that's not something that can happen, right, That's just

(08:11):
this honest, it's hypocritical because the agents are only there
because the state isn't helping and the city won't help.
They're not honoring those ice detainer requests. Now, they would
have been there on other related matters like oh we
have a warrant for this one, we got a okay,
but those are isolated and fewer incidents. But the way

(08:33):
they're there, in the force that they're in now, they've
got no choice. They've got no choice but to be there.
So I'm glad Tom Holman's on the ground. Mayor Frey
Fry has been kind of quiet. Governor Wall seems to
love Tom Holman. He's saying he called me, called me immediately,
a Christy Noman didn't call me, So maybe there is
going to be a change. Right again, I've been around

(08:55):
politics long enough to know that you know, sometimes you
get other people to do your dirty Maybe that's what's
happening here, right, Maybe there will be some changes in DHS.
Right Listen, I know I would be looking at this,
and I like Christine. I think she's a skilled operator.
I think she's a good administrator. But I'm sure somebody
hear me say that and say, you think she's a
good administrator. You got dead people in the streets two

(09:18):
and two weeks, three shootings in three weeks, all right,
and how do you come back from that?

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Right?

Speaker 4 (09:22):
And you could say, well, if these you know, of
course there are there's reasons, there are extenuating circumstances. I
get that. I'm not blaming her. I'm just saying somebody's
gonna blame her, right because I know how Washington works,
I know how politics are. That's just the facts of
life in this game. Somewhere, somehow, somebody's head is going
to roll. Don't know who's head, all right. I told

(09:43):
you this a while back too, when it was the
signal leak, right, not necessarily a head rolling, but movement.
You saw Mike Wallas, he was moved right out from
being National Security Advisor, got himself a nice cushy ambassadorship.
Good for him. What I would do to be an
ambassador to anything? Wow, what a great gig. First of all,

(10:03):
they call you your excellency. I think that's fantastic. That's
wonderful for my ego. Right, right, what's the other term
they have there, your excellency? There was another really fancy
term for them. Anyway, you can actually call them your eminence.
I think that's a little too much, and I'd feel

(10:25):
like I was some sort of pope or something. But anyway,
my point is what a great gig that is. And
I think Mike Wallas is qualified. But again, in that world,
accountability comes no matter what it looks like. Right you move,
they shift, even if it's just perceived. You can't stay
here today. You gotta go right, like the cops say,
you don't have to go home, but you can't stay

(10:45):
here anyway, let's continue. Oh, don't get me started on
this one. This one is Elliott foroehan Or. I guess
it's a silent age foreign but that sounds foreign. Ha ha.
This is the Ohio Democrat running for attorney general. He
posts a video saying I'm going to kill Donald Trump,

(11:08):
and then he clarifies. He says, no, no, I mean
through trial and capital punishment. Okay, what about this guy
is nuts. This is the same guy who trash talk
Charlie Kirk right after his murder. Threats like this, I
think will likely get you in trouble, right with the
Secret Service knocking at your door. But we'll see what happens.

(11:29):
I don't know how this ends up for this guy.
I think he's going to say, first Amendment, I'm a
political candidate. I said something. I misspoke, but he misspoke
for his benefit, right to get the headlines. He's getting
to get the coverage. He's getting to get me saying
what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Right.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
He wants everybody to know his name, Elliott Fourhan for him.
All right, so now we know you Europe and the
next story. But we can't really move that quickly because
I think we have to talk about this. This is
part of their strategy. Right when I say there, I'm
talking about the left. The left wants to use the rules,
break the rules. They want to walk right up to
the line and not cross it. They want to use

(12:04):
the system to destroy the system. This is what they do.
This is how they specialize. This is the Marxist Leninist
wing of the Democrat Party. Remember it's the Marxist Leninists
that were the revolutionaries Stalin the rest of them, some
of them are the guys from the Fabian's school that

(12:27):
believe that we don't have to have a revolution. We
can just take over all the institutions. Take over the schools,
take over the unions, take over the government, take over this.
We'll have so many of our people there that will
just make it our way. A right. So who's a
good example of that. This man who just became the
mayor of New York City, all right, Zorai Mundani. He
doesn't call for revolution. He yells a lot, he smiles

(12:50):
a lot, He puts his hand on his heart a lot.
At the end of the day, he's talking about you know,
I'm going to put se Weaver in here talking about
home ownership as a racist and white supremacist. He's going
to get the person that was the criminal defense lawyer
for al Qaeda and ISIS and whatever it was they were.
If I'm getting those confused, forgive me to be part

(13:11):
of his legal team. These are the people that he
wants running New York City, so that we can become
the next Minnesota. I say no, thank you, but hey,
that's why I live across the river. And look, Jersey's
no better with I was gonna call her Abigail Spamberger,
but that's Virginia with Mikey Cheryl. Anyway, that's another story

(13:32):
for another day. But this is why we fight, because
the double standard is thicker than you know, like the
big owl at the bottom of a rocanandules, you know,
the bottom of the pot stick like that. Anyway, America
we are in some wild times, and Rubio laying down
the law with dictators is good. Minnesota continues to boil over.

(13:54):
Hopefully this starts to cool. I'm personally bored of it.
My ADHD is killing me. I don't want to talk
about this anymore. I really don't. I want something else.
I need something juicy here but not this. And the
videos are out there exposing everything on this pretty guy.
The radicals are openly fantasizing about executing the president. We
saw this years ago with Kathy Griffin, and it continues.

(14:16):
It's not getting better. It seems either to be the
same or worse because he's been shot since then. We've
got to take out the threats and put America first.
That's all I could say. But we have to be strong.
No more weakness, no more apologies. Anyway, let me know
what you think. Give me a call eight seven to seven,
valdest one. Let's keep the conversation going. There's more to come,
straight ahead, keep it locked right here. I'm Rich Valdez.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
This is America, this is Aria.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
All right, He goes, welcome back, Rich Valdes. Valdes with
an ask at Rich Valdeest on all of the social media.
And I want to start off with Marco Rubio. He
was in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today and he
had plenty of things to say about plenty of things,
and I want you to hear them. I got a
couple of clips. We're going to walk through them. Nothing
too crazy, nothing much too exejet here right e xc

(15:17):
G e T E exejet. We don't have to do
too much exegesis on this stuff. I'm using my twelve
dollars words today because he does a great job explaining
this stuff. But good for him, right, I'm really impressed.
I just want to take a moment to say I'm
really impressed with Marco Rubio. I've always have been I
was on the fence between Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and

(15:41):
Donald Trump during that primary, and I think about maybe
the third way, the fourth debate, whatever it was, where
Trump just went buck wild on everybody, and it just
seemed like he lined up everybody on that stage and
just smacked him down one by one. Just Toma, bothfe
do Toma. He just buffeted each one of them. And
I said, man, Trump's the guy. Trump is the guy.

(16:03):
He's bringing the aggressiveness that we need to change the game.
And listen. I liked Jeb Bush. I thought he was
a viable candidate. I wasn't a Jeb Bush hater. But
Trump made a lot of great points. Right. He marginalized
Mark Rubio, he lion ted lion ted, right, he went
after Cruise. I mean he went after everybody in a

(16:23):
way that in a language I spoke, coming up with
funny nicknames and making fun of people.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Right.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
It was like he was a talk radio guy. I said,
oh my goodness, this is great. I feel like I'm
listening to the radio and Trump is the host. Obviously,
and I was already a fan of Trump's, but I said, man,
this is it. He's got what it takes because he
is a TV guy and he knew what you needed
to do when you get on TV. Anyway, fast forward.
I love what they've done together. I love that they're
all working together. I love that we have such a
solid bench on the Republican side at least for you know,

(16:51):
really good candidates that can really hold their own, that
can really make concise and cogent arguments, because otherwise the
Left is just out there every day with the same story.
If you can condone this man being killed, don't talk
to me. You're inhumane. If you think this is okay,
then right constantly trying to wedge and pivot and divide
and wedge and pivot.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Right.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
They don't want to have a conversation, They just want submit, submit.
Do you believe what I believe? Do you agree with
me on this topic? Yes or no? If you don't,
you're not allowed, right, You're not allowed to exist, You're
not allowed to be my friend, You're not allowed to
have an opinion, you are not allowed. Who's the real
authoritarian here when I'm the one saying, hey, let's talk
about it, well, let me tell you why I think

(17:32):
of the way I think. Mmm, yeah, no, maybe so no,
not at all. This is why I can never really
get down with the left, because they're never willing. It's
like they try to take this moral high ground like
they're somehow morally superior. But now again, yet again, right,
whether it was George Floyd or a million other situations,
now they are coming to the rescue of the guy
who's spat on the police, who who was at the thing.

(17:55):
And look, I don't care that he had a gun.
I want everybody to have a gun. If you've listened
to this show long enough, I think in armed society
is a polite society. Amen, Praise God, Hallelujah. I want
everyone to be armed. Lookay, I'm talking about Minnesota again.
I started with Marko Rubio. I'm in Minnesota. See what
I'm talking about Minnesota? Anyway, My point was they tried
to paint him as an angel, right, even using some

(18:16):
AI to soften his image, make him look like he's
smiling in some of the pictures, when he was actually
like had a scowl on his face. Anyway, bottom line is,
I don't think people are buying it anymore than people
can't look at the video in their face and go no, no, no, no,
that's not no, no, he had to do that. I mean,
wouldn't you be mad if they were, if ice were
kidnapping people, moms and dads and five year olds in detention,

(18:38):
wouldn't you be mad at spit at them, Nazis, Fascists?
Let me go die my hair blue. Anyway, we'll get
into that later, maybe, or maybe we'll just move on
because I really don't want to talk about that. I
want to talk about Marco Rubio and how he's laying
things down in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing today,

(19:01):
and I thought this is a good idea. He says, Look,
we can't let our foreign enemies, adversaries, however you want
to phrase it. I'll let you take your pick, become
the bullies on the playground that is Venezuela. Listen to this.

Speaker 5 (19:15):
We just want it to be a normal, prosperous country again,
not a playground for Iran, Russia and China in our
own hemisphere. And we're going to try to help them
get there because we think it serves our national interest.
That will require actions on our part, not money, but
ultimately that will require them. This is ultimately going to
be on the Venezuelan people and Venezuelan society and Venezuelan
leaders to make this happen. We're going to be there

(19:36):
to help and assist and create the parameters for it.
And we feel like we're making really good progress. If
we make as much progress over the next four weeks
as we've made in the last three and a half weeks,
I'll feel very good about that.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
Again, Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the Senate for
Relations Committee today, and I agree, right, Look, I get
it some people like rand Paul. Rand Paul made a
very eloquent argument today, very very very eloquent argument, and again,
not one that I am going to disagree with. I'm
not going to disagree because I think he has he
makes a point. He's just making the point from a

(20:09):
perspective that I think is not accurate, right, And I
think that there's a caveat here, and the caveat is
that we did not remove ahead of state. We removed
the pretender, right, somebody who was a pretender to the throne.
He was pretending to be the head of state. And
it wasn't just the United States that made that determination.
It was fifty four different nations that made that determination.
So when you have a good portion of the global

(20:31):
community saying, look, we agree with this, it doesn't mean
that it's right, but it means you have some ground
to stand on, some right. I mean, there's probably fifty
four nations that think that Yahoo's a war criminal because
they hate his guts and they hate what Israel is doing,
and they are sympathetic to the Islamo fascists. I get
that too. So listen, this cuts both ways. It can't

(20:53):
just be when it's convenient to me. I don't acknowledge maludo,
but when it's convenient to the others, well they're wrong, right, No, No,
I mean this is how things work. Right, we have
to be fair in our assessment, and I think that's
what rand Paul was trying to do. However, I think
this is the crux. I don't believe that we did that,
and I think Rubio answered this really well when he said, look,

(21:15):
we're always going to do what's in the best interest
of the United States, and that I think is the
right answer. Right. I'm not busting the kick, kicking down
the doorwave in the four four, right, I'm not doing
that to anybody. But guess what if you come to
my house. You may be very surprised if you're uninvited.
And I don't say that as a threat or as

(21:35):
an act of bravado or anything like that. I say
that as I feel like I have a duty to
do that or I must do this, because that is
what we are here to do, is to protect and provide.
But Rubio had a very interesting exchange with Senator Rand Paul,
a Republican from Kentucky, a libertarian, the son of Ron Paul.

(21:56):
And I want you to hear it. I'm gonna play
the clip. I think I have a minute and a
half clip. It's a really good clip. Check this out.
Listen to this.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
Foreign country bombed our air defense missiles, captured and removed
our president, and blockaded our country. Would that be considered
an active war?

Speaker 5 (22:12):
Well, I think your question is about the and I
will acknowledge you have been very consistent on all these
points the entire career. So let me let me no
matter who the who's in charge. So I will point
the two things. The first is it's hard for us
to conceive that an operation that lasted about four and
a half hours was a law enforcement operation to capture someone.
We don't recognize as a head of state indicted in

(22:34):
the United States, wanted with a fifty million dollars.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
Bout would be if it only took four hours to
take our president.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
It's very short.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
Nobody dies on the other side, nobody dies on our side.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
It's perfect. Would it be an active war?

Speaker 5 (22:46):
We just don't believe that this operation comes anywhere close
to the constitutional definition.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
Of Well, would it be an active warf someone did
it does nobody dies, few casualties, their in and out, boom,
It's a perfect military operation.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Would that be an active war?

Speaker 4 (22:59):
Of course, it would be an act of war.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
I'm probably the most anti war person in the Senate,
and I would vote to declare war if someone invaded
our country and took our president.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
So my next question would.

Speaker 4 (23:10):
Be, now, before you go anywhere, Senator, I just want
to say I agree with that statement, right. I agree
that if someone came here and kidnapped Donald Trump and
left and try to make it look like, oh yeah, no, no,
we just win. He's ours. He broke international law. We're
just enforcing our warrant. We got your guy, and that's
a I don't think it's possible, but let's just presume

(23:32):
it was, I would say, oh no, no, no, we're coming,
and we're coming hard. However, the difference here is our
president is elected. And although Hillary Clinton said that he
was not the right president, he was not the legitimate president.
And so many others said, oh, he won't leave if
he's not elected, and watch out, they're gonna have to
force him out of the White House. All that was lies.

(23:53):
He happily left. He got on Marine one. He flew
to Marrow Lago, a house much nicer than the one
he lives in Washington. And this is my point that
rhetoric is a beautiful thing, right. It's great, it's persuasive,
it can attack, it can do lots of things. But
it's actions that speak louder than words, and those actions
aren't there. We do have a legitimate president. We wouldn't

(24:16):
need a foreign government to arrest our fake president. We
would do it on our own. We have the best
military on the planet. And that's the point that I
think the Senator is missing. He's this is an esoteric argument,
but I understand his premise because he is true to
the game. This is what he believes in.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
Go right ahead, Let's say it's not a war we're
just going to define it away and say it's not
a war.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
That's one of the arguments. So it's a drug bust.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
What if a foreign country indicts our president for violating
a foreign law, should we extradite our president or should
we be okay if they come in and get him
by force.

Speaker 5 (24:52):
Look, I think ultimately we're always going to act act
in our national interest, and so if somebody comes after
our national interest like the case you've described, which obviously
it does not exist at this time, but the case
you've described, the US always has the right to act
in its national interest and to protect itself. So I
don't know about this equivalency. Does this justify them doing it?
We're always going to do what's best for the United

(25:12):
States in America. We're always going to protect our system.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
But the point isn't then you're exactly right. We will
act in our national interest.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
We should.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
So I'm not disagreeing with you at all. What I'm
saying is though, that our arguments are empty. Then the
drug bust isn't really an argument.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
It's a ruse.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
The war argument, not a war is a war is
a ruse. It's not a real argument. And we do
what we do because we are we have the force,
we have the might.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
We do it because it's in our interest, So we wouldn't.

Speaker 4 (25:40):
Let I'm gonna pause right here because I'm going to
say no, and Secretary Rubio is going to respond, but
I'm going to say no, that's not just a ruse.
When President Obama issued strikes, and I use him because
he's an opposing figure, he's not on our side per se,
at least not in mine. When he did zone drone strikes,
when he did all the different military actions that he

(26:02):
took in his presidency, these were not acts of war, right,
even though it may look like war by the definition
that the United States has now ran. Paul back then
was saying the same thing he's saying now, don't use
our military without Congress saying it's okay, period bond if not.
That's Rand Paul's position, but all of his friends believe that, yes,

(26:23):
you can have these limited types of surprise strikes without
having to go to Congress, Mother may I every single time.
Because the president, as the chief executive of the country
and the commander in chief of the armed forces, has
to have that flexibility in leeway to do things in
the national interest, and you can't do that, especially if
you have an opposing party that could slow you down

(26:44):
and slow down the interest of the country, especially if
it's sensitive, highly classified information. And what are you gonna do? Convene?
All right, we found out the Chinese just left Maduro's
house in Mitra Flores, and we're gonna go. We have
twenty minute window to the vice president who turned States
on him, just told us he's going to be here,

(27:04):
and we've got fifteen minutes to get in and out.
There's going to be guards on this wall, the north wall,
the south wall. How do you do that? Go all right, quickly,
convene a session of Congress. Oh but they're in the district.
Oh but they're sleeping. Oh but they're at the local brothel.
Oh they're at the local bar. Oh they're you know,
hanging out with lobbyists. How are you going to convene
this group of Congress to get this going? You can't.

(27:24):
It's not feasible. This is why the president, any president,
has these powers. And that's to me, the bottom line
answer to this. It's just not an act of war.
We didn't go there to invade. We went there quickly
surgical extraction and we left boomtleef. You now very clear
to me, go right ahead, Senator.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
Let anybody come in bomb us, blockade us and take
our president.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
Let's call it what it is, and let's vote on
these things.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
But I think we're in violation of the ghost of
spirit in the law of a constitution by bombing a capital,
blockading a country, and removing.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
If we went to a different city, would you feel
better right? You see? That to me is an empty argument.
And again I like Grandpa a lot. I met him
last January. Very nice guy, very nice guy, very smart guy,
and I support a lot of what he does and says.
But I think on this point, I think there's a misunderstanding.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
Elected officials, and we certainly wouldn't tolerate it, nor would
I if someone did it us.

Speaker 4 (28:21):
But we didn't remove an elected official.

Speaker 5 (28:24):
We removed someone who was not elected, and it was
actually an indicted drug trafficker in the United States and
their as system.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Our laws indicted under our laws.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Look, Bolsonaro says that Dasil.

Speaker 4 (28:35):
Sir, indicted under our laws? Yes, because we are what
laws are we going to hear? By Venezuelan law?

Speaker 3 (28:44):
We're not Venezuelan's is not really the president of Brazil.
Our president said, Biden wasn't really the president. Hillary Clinton
said in twenty sixteen, Trump wasn't the president.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
So you have these arguments, and I.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Agree with you him it probably was, and most likely
was most as surely was a bad election.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
He wasn't really elected.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
But at the same time, if that's our predicate, and
you don't have to come to us because as it's
a drug bust, we're just removing somebody, you can see
where it leads to, and it leads to chaos. And
that's why we have rules like the Constitution, so we
don't get so far out there that president.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Hold on, where is the chaos? Though? To me, this
is one of the cleanest things I've ever seen. I
don't see anybody besides Rampaul and a handful of Democrats
that are complaining.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
Suits can do whatever they want.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
If a foreign country bombed our air defense missiles.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
And nobody's bombing anything, sir, Now we're playing you know,
what if? What if? What if? And again I don't
mean to sound snide or anything. It's not how I
feel at all, Like I said, nothing but respect for Rampaul.
I really like the guy, but on this one, I
just think this isn't this is inaccurate, it's not right
at all. All Right, let us continue, because I thought
that was a fantastic discussion. Truly was, in my opinion,
a fantastic discussion and one that needs to be had, right.

(29:57):
I don't think we should not have those discussions. I
think we should have more of those discussions because I'm
with Rand Paul. I don't want the government to have
the power that they have, right, But that's a different
argument than the one being made. The one being made
is that we don't have it now, and good for
him for making it. Look I support his descent here,
I don't agree with it right now because, and I
say right now, because I think we have a lot

(30:18):
of established precedent teaching us that presidents of every stripe
of every political party have had, at one way, at
one time or another, in one way or another, use
military might in a non active war capacity. It happens, right,

(30:38):
It's just part of being a nation state. And I
don't believe that this was one of those cases. But
Rand Paul is an ideological purist, which I respect the
heck out of and that's his position on this, and
good for him. And it's the same way the grace
that I'm extending to him here, Right, some people don't
want to be so graceful. It's the same grace I

(30:59):
give to Bernie and the rest of those people. They
see things differently than I do. And I could sit
here and go, they're stupid every time? How could you
see it like that? What's wrong with you? Right? I've
got news for you. I happen to believe my own
preconceived notion that communism is a bad thing, to bad

(31:19):
ideology that leads to nothing good. I happen to believe
that the social economic theory known as socialism is also
a bad thing. There are many people who think socialism
is a good thing. That we should all play play,

(31:40):
pay sixty percent sixty five percent in taxes so that
everyone in society can be okay. Why should you make
four hundred k year and that guy only make eighteen thousand.
These are fundamental disagreements that I have. Right, I can
say that you're wrong, but I'd rather just say I disagree,

(32:02):
because the reason I say that is because I do
think it's wrong. But ultimately a You're not gonna get
that much done by telling somebody they're wrong, and b
the person that's wrong may end up one day in
power I e. Mamdani. Then what Right, Then we're gonna
freak out and get scared and go, my god, call Cuomo.
We'll take Cuomo back. He can kill more Grandma's let's

(32:24):
put a Democrat at office. No, no, we got to
stand on what we believe. Ten toes down and keep
it real. Keep a gangster. Come on, we lost, that's it.
Take the l move on. Let him do his COMI thing,
show people the contrast. That's it. There's not much else

(32:45):
we can do about it. If we believe in our system. Right,
you won fair and square, You did your thing. That's it.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Now.

Speaker 4 (32:50):
I could come back and say, yeah, come on, do
you really think he won? I do really think he won? Listen,
you tell me somebody. It's election day. My brother. My
brother's a doorman on Madison Avenue. He wants to vote
on election day. But you know what he wants to
do more than vote on election day. Make sure he
makes it to the f train on time. Make sure
he gets to work on time, sticks with his schedule,

(33:11):
gets to where he's got to go, gets back home
on time. Right, So if it's an inconvenience for my
brother to go and vote, because he's got to do it.
It's a duty and it's a right and now hopefully
it's an honor, but it is an inconvenience. It gets
in the way of his day, of his life in
that day. Right now, let's turn it around and look
at the Mamdani voter. These people spend three hundred and

(33:33):
sixty four days in the streets with Palestinian flags, gay flags,
you name it, whatever the latest victimhood flag is. They're
doing that. They're in the streets. They're having these protests peaceful, right,
mostly peaceful, with rocks and frozen water bottles and all that.
This is what they dedicate their lives to election day.

(33:57):
They live for election day. So yeah, when you tell
me that all these people voted, I believe it. What
else did they have to do? They work from home,
the ones that work, the ones that don't work, they
don't work. This is what they do do. They have children.
Many of them choose not to have children because they're
afraid to bring children into a world where somebody might

(34:19):
you know, have a carbon footprint right, AOC AOC is
afraid to have a kid. She said she's afraid to
bring a kid into this world. She's not alone. I
don't think that's hyperbole from her. I think there's a
lot of people like that. I'm in the dating world
a little bit when I do go out, and I've
met women that are my agents, slightly younger that don't

(34:40):
have children, Women between thirty six and forty seven, that
don't have children, never been married. Imagine that, right, And
it's not a critique. That's just I didn't see that
a few years back, now more prevalent. That's just how
people choose to live their lives. So it doesn't come
as a as a shock to me if somebody's not
had being a kid. It doesn't come as a shock

(35:01):
to me that people are waiting around to go and
vote and dragging everybody they can. And it also doesn't
surprise me if people are cheating their butts off. We've
seen so many cases of that with ballad stuffing and
the like. So anyway, you get the point, right. So
I'm team Rubio all the way. I support Ram Paul
and I think the left sucks. Is that something up right?

(35:22):
I think so. All right, taking a pause right here,
we're coming right back. We're gonna talk a little bit
about this guy who says he's gonna kill Trump and
a couple other things I got up my sleeve. Don't
go anywhere. I'm Rich Veldesk.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
This is America. This is America.

Speaker 4 (35:38):
The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
to speak with Rich Valdez.

Speaker 6 (35:43):
Oh, very good, Rich, The honor is all yours.

Speaker 4 (35:51):
Conservative talk with a dash of sofrito. Now here's Rich Valdez.
All right, I mean he goes. Welcome back, Rich Valdes
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(36:12):
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(36:56):
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(37:18):
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Speaker 1 (37:25):
You know.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
I spent many years on a couple of different radio stations.
I spent the last almost four years on hundreds of
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they sell soros about a bunch of those radio stations,
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they want to go in different directions. I was on
his one legendary station in Chicago, WGN, and they loved

(37:50):
my radio predecessor, Jim O'Hannon, because he was moderate, and
he was very kind, and he was a lot of
things that I was not right. He was very gentlemanly,
and I have a very different approach. Jim is a
newsman and a fifty year veteran on the radio, and

(38:10):
I am a guy that worked in politics and worked
in marketing, and we're different people. So of course my
approach to things is different, and my outlook and my
approach on how I analyze these things is going to
be different. And the WGN audience was very liberal, center left,
and they tolerated Bohannon at night, but they wouldn't tolerate me,

(38:32):
you know. They sent me packing as soon as I could,
and guess what, I landed so nicely there on another
legacy station right across the street, WLS in Chicago. And
let me tell you what it was. One of the
highlights of my radio career is that is being on
both of Chicago's biggest radio stations that both happened to
be centennial stations, legacy radio stations both more than one

(38:56):
hundred years old, that only have three call letters in
their hall sign WGN and WLS. Anyway, just a quick
thought on that. But again, people were freaking out on
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you do? You know? Meanwhile, I was putting updates saying, hey,
that was on a Friday. Next Monday, we're starting at
nine pm at night or whatever, ten o'clock at night

(39:18):
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(39:38):
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(39:59):
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Eight seven to seven val Desk number one, eight seven
seven Valdesk number one. Okay, Now I want to get
into this conversation that is going on with this Attorney

(40:23):
general candidate in Ohio. Now, this guy he's uh, I guess,
but for lack of a better word, truly, right, I
don't think it was a better word. This guy's up
in THEIL. And his name, let's see if I can
find it here? What is his name? Oh man, I
had it right here. Now it's gone farhand something right,

(40:47):
Elliott Farhan forehand fo r h A n foreign All right,
So this is cut number twenty and this is again,
this is what our discourses come to and these things,
in my opinion, should be discouraged on both sides. Right,

(41:08):
If if a Republican were to make these comments that's
running for office, I think President Trump or some other
prominent Republican or the RNC chair or somebody should should
weigh in and say, look, you know, in the nicest way,
I would pick Mike Johnson to make this admonition, right

(41:28):
to say, look, look, look, we appreciate your zeal, we
appreciate their energy. But the bottom line here, right, you
can there's so many ways that you can correct someone
without having to, you know, publicly admonish them and you know,
beat them. It's it's it's fine, but it should happen.
We should say, look, we do not stand for telling

(41:49):
the electorate that we're going to kill the opposition. Right,
And I don't mean using that word figuratively. I mean,
wait till you hear this audio. Then you're gonna say,
what's going on? Now? Something're gonna say, Rich, I thought
you were a free speech I am and in the
same way I'm saying, and in the free speech of
those that are the powers that be, they should say, look,
you're free to say what you want, but I think
you should say this. Check this out.

Speaker 7 (42:12):
This is Elia Fourhand, candidate for Ohio Attorney General. I
want to tell you what I mean when I say
that I am going to kill Donald Trump. I mean
I'm going to obtain a conviction rendered by a jury
of his peers at a standard of proof beyond a
reasonable doubt, based on evidence presented at a trial conducted

(42:36):
in accordance with the requirements of due process, resulting in
a sentence duly executed of capital punishment. That is what
I mean when I say that I'm going.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
To kill Donald Trump.

Speaker 4 (42:51):
Now listen again, I think this guy, somebody should say
something to him. Shouldn't be the government, shouldn't be anybody
else saying you can can't say that. He can say
whatever he wills, right, whatever his desire is, he should
say it. But we have the right to say it too.
So I'm going to be the first one to say,

(43:12):
mister Foreand it seems like a low rent strategy to
get your name out there. Not like you want to
be taken seriously as a chief law enforcement official for
any state, Not like somebody that wants to be taken
seriously as a jurists as a state Attorney General. To me,
it seems like you are using a cheap marketing ploy
to try and gain some political points, to either stand out,

(43:36):
to gain and listen, a lot of people are doing it.
Trump is great at this, He says things. It's natural
for him. He knows how to cut through the noise
and get those headlines. There's another candidate in Texas that
she does similar names, Valentina Gomez. She's fascinating to watch, right,

(43:56):
She's very, very creative. I would say, look to take
my own advice. I would say, Valentina, do not go
burning the Koran with a blow torch. But she did,
and it was a social media sensation for a lot
of the people that enjoyed that. I'm gonna say I
think that misses the mark. But that is a central
part of her campaign, so it's on brand for her. Ultimately,

(44:19):
I think that is not the message. But guess what
she's delivering the message she needs to deliver in the
most inescapable way, just like mister Forehand is. So, everybody's
within their rights, within our free speech to do what
they want. Right, they can burn our flags, she can
burn some Korans. I get it. But what I'm saying is,

(44:40):
if we want to attract a civil diffscourse, if we
want to have a conversation where people are willing to
listen to your opposing viewpoint, put the blowtorch down right,
they might actually, you know, instead of running for cover,
they might listen. That doesn't mean it's not effective. From
the marketing standpoint. Her social media is absolutely on fire,

(45:03):
and should she not get elected to Congress, she's gonna
be commenting on politics. I'm pretty sure for a very
long time. She's got a lot to say, and she's
got a lot of courage and a lot of bravery.
And this guyforehand, I wouldn't say he's got courage and bravery.
I would say this is a cheap trick. And the
reason I say that for him and not for her

(45:25):
is because I really think there is substance behind her message,
and I think for him, Trump has done nothing, nothing
to warrant capital punishment. So this guy truly is just
talking smack. It's fake, it's phony, it's fraud. Ms Gomanz
is really talking about the dangers of radical Islam and
how the associated costs of that are weighing heavily on

(45:48):
society and not just in America, right, I mean she's
talking about in Texas, but in real life. I was
at lunch today with a couple of my buddies and
let's see, we were talking about local stories and then
a couple of national stories, and the conversation centered on

(46:11):
current events, and there was so many different opinions on
things on should ill han Omar be deported? And for me,
the question is not should she be deported? I guess
the answer to that for me is if ill hand
Omart is convicted of a crime and she loses her citizenship,

(46:34):
she can be deported. I don't know that any of
those things are true right now. I don't think that
she's lost her citizenship. I don't think she's been convicted
of any crimes. And I don't think she's even really
being considered for deportation because we don't typically deport people
unless there's some serious issue, right, And that would be
a nightmare I think for this administration. Right talk about

(46:56):
swimming upstream. You got to do that when you have
the political will and the win that your wings, and
not when it's against you. And right now, with this
ice stuff, nothing's really going for us right. The economy
would be reported that much better if we didn't have
this big domestic thing going on my opinion, Right, that's
my critique. I think it's a necessary thing, but I

(47:17):
think we got to I would try and clean it up,
and I think they're doing that now. I think that's
why Homan is there. They got Christy nomout because she
likes the cameras and she's good at it. And Greg Bovino, right,
the mean green board tack machine, right, he's out of there.
Homan's also great on camera, but I think he's here
now to bring that professionalism, that pit bull that you know,
I'm not playing. We're going to do what we got

(47:38):
to do. We could do it the hard way, the
easy way, you decide, right, because that's one thing he's
really good at is giving options. So we'll see how
that works out and hopefully nobody else sends up dead.
And again, this is not the result of ICE. I
don't think ICE is killing anybody on purpose. Right, They're
doing what they have to do within their rights and
within the scope of the law. For sure. This is
a political arm twisting that has to happen, in my opinion,

(48:01):
from the White House or whomever has the power to
say to Mayor freyfry and to Governor Wallas, Listen, Tom
and Tim, put the tampons down, show me your hands.
Let's make a deal, right, And we have to make
this deal in order to get the peaceful resolution that
we need. Right, ask what is it that you want?
Trump's so good at making deals, and I think that's
what he's done and that's why things are going smoothly now.

(48:24):
So anyway, those are my thoughts there, but I feel
like I was making a point and I kind of
stopped midway. Anyway, Mayor Frey Frye and the other Bendel,
the guy who wants to kill Trump. These guys are
a sham. They're stupid, and this is not the type
of thing that we need to be focusing on. But
yet it seems like we are dumbing down our public

(48:46):
discourse more and more, right, instead of focusing on real issues,
things that matter. You know, just compare and contrast Marco
Rubio's testimony earlier in front of the Foreign Relation Committee
and then this idiot who's talking about I'm going to
build a capital case against Trump and have him killed.

(49:07):
I mean, clearly, night and day. One guy's up in there.
One guy's a serious person. Understood and listen. I don't
even claim to be a serious person, but I could
tell the difference. Keep it locked right here, coming back,
more to come. I'm Valdez.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
This is America. This is America. He's got the best
head of hair and podcasting. This is America with Rich Valdenz.

Speaker 4 (49:34):
All right up, migos, welcome back. It is Rich Valdenis
Valdez with an s at Rich Valdez on all of
the social media. Happy to be here with you. Thank
you for I been seeing a lot of new followers
coming in. So for those of you who are just
starting to follow the program, thank you for those of
you that are sharing the program right. I know a
lot of you via text message. People write me and
they tell me, hey, I got a text from my

(49:55):
friend with a link to your show. Absolutely loved. Thanks
for keeping me company on my way to work and
every day on the way to work or back and
forth whatever. And which is again why I love radio,
and I love streaming, and I love the fact that
people can listen when when they're able to listen. But
nothing is better, and I can't lie on this. Nothing's
better than when we're all listening together. Right when you

(50:18):
turn on a radio and I say something and you
laugh and you call and then you get to talk
to me, that is beautiful. And I love live radio,
and yeah, maybe one day I will continue with my
live radio stuff. But the financial upside that I needed
to be there wasn't quite there the way I wanted
it to be there. And I think, you know, they

(50:40):
wanted a certain level of control over the content that
we create, the videos and the YouTube channel that they
had created, which wasn't really video, right. It was a video,
but it was a static image of me, and I
wanted a real video because it's hard to compete in
the video marketplace when you don't have videos that are
up there. Right, Some people were listening very happily to
the show, but the numbers weren't where they needed to be,

(51:02):
in my opinion, because they needed a video, right like
everybody else that's doing this, you see them talking into
a microphone. And I've always resisted that truth be told
because I feel like there's a degree of magic that
goes with the radio that you have to imagine things right.
You have to use the mind's I what we call
theater of the mind in broadcasting. And I think that's

(51:24):
part of what I love, is that I could do
all these fun things. You know. For example, if I
were to tell a story, and you know me, I'm
full of stories and I wanted to. Earlier, I mentioned
my friends and I were out at lunch, right and
I was there with my buddy Henry, another friend of mine, Kalani,
another friend of mine Anthony. And if I were to,

(51:46):
you know, use my my impressions to recreate this thing,
it would sound like this. So rich, Joe, what do
you think about ilhan Omar? I think they're gonna lock
her up and throw away to key. What do you think?
And I, well, you know, Henry, I think that I
think that they don't have much of a case on
il hand Omar. If they did, they wouldn't be talking

(52:08):
about it. They would be bringing it. That's my personal belief.
I think that it's always good to have a foil, right.
I don't have any case against AOCI, but I'm always
gonna say, ah, see all lot crazy, my least favorite
congressman for the Bronx and Queens, because having a foil
on my show is great radio. So you know it.
Trumpito does politics like he does radio, and he has

(52:30):
a foil in illen omar oh ill end. She should
be deported. She married her brother. Really bad people, bad ombres.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
You know.

Speaker 4 (52:39):
He's terrific at that. So he loses all of that
if he doesn't have this person. Right. But as long
as you get to keep talking about it, you've got
material that you can use in front of the crowd
that you're talking to. So I think that that is,
you know, And that was the response I gave him.
Then my buddy Anthony, He's said, no, you crazy, rich,
just not how it is. It's not like that. It's

(53:00):
not like that at all. She's going to jail, she should.
You just got to follow the money. I say, all right, well,
maybe they do need to follow the money, right. And
then then my buddy Colin, he said, well, you know,
maybe maybe, but I think you might be right. If
they had something on they probably locked her up already.
I think you're right. So I could not have re

(53:21):
enacted that conversation on video as well as I just did,
because you couldn't see me making all these voices, right,
And that's the theory of the mind that I'm talking about.
That I love what comes at audio, whereas when you
see me doing it, you lose. You know, It's like
watching the magician from from backstage. It's not as good

(53:43):
as watching the magician from you know, the front row.
That's the point I'm making. Anyway, what's next on my
hit parade? Here? There's two more things I wanted to
talk about. Bear with me, Bear with me. We're extremely
prepared here. All right, here we go. I have the
next clip lined up. I don't really have a line up.
I'm about to line it up for you. Oh, this

(54:04):
is it. So you know, part of my career I
did some weekends and even some weekdays recently. Earlier this year,
twenty twenty six, I did a couple of afternoon drive
shows for my friends at WPHT. And there's always a
lot to talk about in Philly because a crime is
through the roof, and b they have this horrible George

(54:27):
Soros type of prosecutor named Larry Krassner. Larry Krasner yesterday
said some crazy stuff about ice officers that I thought, man,
even for Krasner, this is beyond the pale. Listen to this.

Speaker 6 (54:42):
This is a small bunch of wanna be Nazis. That's
what they are in our country of three hundred and
fifty million, we outnumber them. If we have to hunt
you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades,
we will find your identities, we will find you, we

(55:04):
will achieve justice.

Speaker 4 (55:06):
So Marco Rubio, he's like, yeah, I think you know,
we're not gonna do the regime change in Cuba, but
I think we should have regime changing in Cuba. Right,
he said that, He said lots of things very eloquently.
Then you've got this guy forehand that says, yeah, I'm
gonna kill Trump, and I'm gonna kill him by locking
them up and killing them in a capital punishment scenario
with a conviction. And now you've got Krasner saying, these
guys are a bunch of Nazis and the Ice agents.

(55:28):
We're gonna track you down just like they track down.
Then who's the authoritarian here? Who is the autocrat? You
tell me if there's not a trend on the left
with the Democrats and the way they talk about Republicans.
And then you listen to how Republicans talk, and they're
talking about solutions, they're talking about ideas, they're talking about
making America great again. And while they're creating a picture
for what they think that should look like, the Democrats

(55:50):
are just so when was America ever great to begin with?

Speaker 7 (55:52):
Pal?

Speaker 4 (55:53):
I mean, how do you have these conversations many In
many ways you can't have them. You can try, which
is what I try to do on a daily basis,
but I also realize, Look, there's certain people you can't
talk to when you have people that are caught up
in the emotionality of things. And whether this guy is
doing this because he wants to use this strong, harsh
rhetoric to evoke emotion, because he knows exactly what it'll

(56:14):
do to people, or because he truly SIPs that kool
aid and believes that Ice officers are Nazis putting Jews
in ovens. I mean, I feel bad for the guy.
The guy's nuts, but whatever the case is, it's stupid.
Again within his riots, he's the top cop in Philly.
He gets to decide who gets locked up and who doesn't.

(56:35):
Elections have consequences, for sure. Obama taught us that one.
But man, should we have something called integrity? Should we
have something called an internal locust of control where we
decide what's right and wrong? In our lives, and perhaps
he does have one and he's decided that was right. Again.
This is why I say the people that disagree with us,

(56:58):
because I could tell him they're wrong, and they'll just
tell me, Nope, you're wrong, Nope, you're wrong, and it's
a pointless debate that doesn't get anywhere. To me. You
just got to get to the people that are willing
to have the conversation, and sometimes it's more than one conversation.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
Right.

Speaker 4 (57:12):
It's why, thankfully I do this thing five days a week.
I understand there was a problem with the Monday show,
so it'll eventually load. I don't know what happened there,
and that was a glitch or something with the snow,
but anyway, that's just a quick programming note. Bottom line here.
We have to be responsible for ourselves. We have to

(57:33):
live our life according to the things that we believe
are right and wrong, not the things that others believe
are right and wrong. Right, that's just facts. Otherwise, how
else does it work. I'm gonna sit here and go, well,
they poked my eye out. Oh, then eye for an eye?
What's the old saying? If everybody does an eye for
an eye, we're gonna have a blind society. Nobody's gonna

(57:55):
have any eyes left. Somebody's got to take the high road.
Somebody's got you know, follow christ say turn the other cheek,
or how about turn the other cheek because I don't
want to hear this. I'm out of here. Whatever your approaches,
we can't continue to fight, right, is what Charlie Kirk
talked about. He said, let's talk, because the minute we
stopped talking, that's when the fighting begins. That's civil war,

(58:19):
all right. I mean he goes, coming right back our
final segment, don't go anywhere.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
This is America. This is America. He's making podcasting great again.
This is America with Rich Valdez. All right.

Speaker 4 (58:42):
I mean he goes, welcome back. And if you didn't
hear my interview with White House Economic Advisor Steve Moore,
who is one of the guys who architected the big
beautiful bill tax cut program, make sure you check it out.
That was last night, So comes next on your if
you are catching up, but very good conversation. I want

(59:04):
to recommend that you listen to it, and I'll be
bringing more guests on. I got to tell you I
got into this business doing a talk show, mainly by myself.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
Right.

Speaker 4 (59:12):
That was what Mark Levin taught me, because Mark told
me that he was taught by Rush. You don't need callers,
you don't need guests. You just do your show. Just
give them your thoughts. You are the show. And that
was how I came up in this business, right, and
in the biggest market in America is where I cut

(59:33):
my teeth on talk radio. I had to quickly realize
if I'm going to hold the attention of an audience
for a full hour, right, a full hour of live
air and my voice, and I better have a lot
of interesting things to say, or things that at least
are interesting, entertaining and informative. And that's how I learned
how to do radio. And then I had this opportunity

(59:56):
to host the nationally syndicated show on Westwood One, and
this was fantastic. This was a show that was once
Larry King's show and then Jim Bohannon's show, and Jim
kept the format that Larry had with you know, an
our long guest in the first hour, hour long guest
in the second hour, and then the third hour being

(01:00:17):
open phone in America, right, And I love that until
they you know, changed our clock a little bit, and
then we had to kind of modify each hour because
they were not always running in succession, and every hour
had to be, you know, two or three segments of
a guest followed by a segment of open phone America
at the end of the hour, and I got used

(01:00:39):
to that after a while. But I did love the
straight hour of calls because it was just like, here's
what's going on in America at night, right. It really
was fantastic to get that perspective. Plus that hour used
to be from midnight to one am, so it was
really late night and it was different. But either way,
my point is, as you know, we grew with radio stations.

(01:01:00):
Each year, we added dozens each year, we had earlier slots,
And the point I'm making is I loved that. I
love that, but it took me a long time to
get used to doing the interviews because I got into
radio and podcasting at the same time, and podcasting was

(01:01:22):
me sharing my thoughts kind of like I'm doing now,
you know, having this conversation with you guys. And then
it was radio, and then it was more interactive with
phone calls and whatnot. And then when I integrated with
allowing others to share my platform right to me stop
talking and start listening. That was a nuance for me
that I had to get used to and I enjoyed

(01:01:42):
as well, because Mark always said, look, listen, Richie, if
you're going to bring a guest, to make sure they
know more than you, because if you could say something
better than they can, then they don't need to be
on your show. And I said, you know what, Mark,
You're right. It's one hundred percent right. So I try
to follow that model to bring you people that I
think are the best guests possible, that will give you

(01:02:04):
something of value that you're gonna walk away with something
saying wow, I didn't know that, and I learned a
lot here. So that's what I intend to do. So
some of you looking for guests, we'll have more of them.
You know, we have a lot of our regulars that
should be coming back. I just haven't called them, Honestly,
I've been catching up getting a lot of my thoughts
out there. Anyway. That's all I wanted to say. A

(01:02:25):
star Aproshima, make sure you stand for something, because if
you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. And the
only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good
people like you to sit there and do nothing. So
do something. Take care, good night, and God bless you America.
I'm rich Valdez and this is America.

Speaker 1 (01:02:44):
This is America.