Patriotic SOTU, Prof. Giordano, Puck rant

On Tuesday, Rich reacts to the President's patriotic State Of The Union speech and the way he made Democrats very publicly live up to their own book of rules. Then, Professor Nick Giordano weighs in on what's next for Democrats following SOTU. Plus, the left-of-center, anti-American,  petulant puck rants continue.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is America. He's got the best head of hair
and podcasting. This is America with Rich Valdez.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
What's up America. I am Rich Valdes Valdez with an
s at Rich Valdez on all of the social media.
Welcome to our program this evening. If you want to
join me on the phone, feel free give me a call.
Eight seven seven Valdes one, eight seven seven Valdes one.
And I want to get into a bunch of stuff tonight.
Of course. It's an honor and a pleasure to be

(00:34):
here with you. It's a blessing to be with my
audience and I always appreciate that. And I want to
jump right in because State of the Union, right, we're
talking about that. Plus there's some breaking news. The FBI
has arrested a former Air Force pilot that has been
training Chinese agents. More on that later. Maybe we can
get General Blaine Holt to join us. He's a former

(00:56):
Air Force general that could talk about this. Let's see
if we line that up for this week. And I
also want to get into my State of the Union stuff,
of course, and I want to talk about this stuff
that you've seen wal to wall coverage on this woman
who was pulled out of a car for obstructing ice
officers in Minnesota. And equally, I'm sure you've seen wal

(01:18):
to wall coverage of a sixteen year old girl getting
beaten by two other girls for not answering a question
about ice. No, you haven't seen that. I wonder why
there's not wal to wall coverage of that one. Right,
very similar incident. Just one was the cops doing their jobs,
and this one was two girls acting like thugs, beating
up this poor girl because her boyfriend said when he

(01:39):
grows up, he wants to be an ice agent.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Now, whether it was.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Tongue in cheek or not, you don't do that. But
we're going to get into that in a couple of segments.
Right now, I want to jump right in because I
believe President Trump done all this magnus. They don't beat
though the forty fifth and forty seventh president of these
United States. I believe President Trump has outsmarted the bad
guy yet again. Mm hm. Now, is it unfair for

(02:05):
me to call the Democrats the bad guys? All right,
maybe it is, But his political adversaries, how about that?
President Trump lays it out beautifully in the State of
the Union, he gets Democrats on board with him, sets
it up. He says, it's about time we stop Congress
people from enriching themselves by being able to vote on

(02:30):
legislation that they get insider information on and being allowed
to go purchase these stocks and make money on that
insider information. And this is currently not prohibited, whereas you
have I don't know how many dozens and dozens and
dozens of Congress people that are loaded. They go in
with this to their name, and they come out with

(02:52):
a boatload of cash. Some of them go in rich,
come out even richer. Now am I criticizing the fact
that we have Congress. No, I think Congress is great.
You should run if you want to make a lot
of money. You just you can't say a lot of
things right because you start saying what you really think,
and then you might get yourself in trouble. But I
will say this, President Trump, lead this thing out.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
As we ensure that all Americans can profit from a
rising stock market, let's also ensure that members of Congress
cannot corruptly profit from using insider information.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
They stood up for that. I can't believe it. I
can't believe it.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
Did Nancy Pelosi stand up if she is here, doubt
it pass the Stop Insider Trading Act without delay.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
I wasn't sure if anybody, even on this side.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Was going to applaud for that.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
I was very impressed, Thank you.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
I'm very impressed.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Well, Lew Some say it's a booby trapp. I don't
think it was a booby trap. I think he gave
an opportunity for the Democrats to expose themselves to the
American people. Right, And he says, hey, look who's not
down with Congress not enriching themselves. And you see Democrats
getting up and they're applauding.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Right.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
You see Elizabeth Warren, who he calls pocahunters, PoCA hunters,
and others that are applauding this idea because they've been
trying to champion that cause as well. Right, this is
something AOC has been very passionate about. AOC all out crazy,
my least favorite congressman for the Bronx and Queens, all
out crazy herself, Alexandro Coscia cortesk. So this is not
a Democrat Republican issue. This is a America first issue

(05:05):
in my opinion, that is bipartisan and I'm bolao right.
From both sides, you see people getting involved. However, in
that same momentum, in his next line, he talks about
how this poor girl, Irena Zarutska, was sitting on the
train on her way home from work and was assassinated

(05:27):
by this man, murdered in very cold blood. Now, this
is something that I don't like to get into these
types of stories, because who likes a sad story. I
like to joke around too much. But I remember watching
this and it broke me on the inside. That girl
is twenty three years old at the time. My big girl,

(05:48):
she's twenty three years old. Same thing. My girl never
met a job that was too good for her. She'll
work in this, and work in that, and do that,
and then go get a fast food job on the side,
just to do what she wants to do to be
financially independent. She's always been a hustler. Straight through college,
She's worked. And I got to tell you, seeing that
girl at her little hat on her uniform looked like

(06:09):
she worked in a restaurant. My kids worked in a
bunch of restaurants. I got to tell you, I was like,
oh my gosh, this poor girl's there minding her business,
puts her her ear pods in, and then the unthinkable happens.
And it's all on camera, the camera from the train.
And if you don't remember this, I'm not playing it,
but you can read the articles about it. Absolutely horrific,

(06:32):
absolutely horrific. And President Trump acknowledges this person's mother, saying
we're sorry, but you know what, the first job of
government is to protect the citizens and not illegal aliens.
And everybody should be able to get behind that. And
while the guy wasn't an illegal alien, the point was,

(06:53):
you've got to protect the American citizens. And he invites
everybody who supports this idea of standing up to say, yeah, right,
it's the job of the government to keep the population safe.
Guess who visibly doesn't want to stand up? A whole
mass of Democrats, I think all.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Of them, arrested over a dozen times and was released
through no cash bail, stood up and viciously slashed a knife.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Through her neck and body.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
No one will ever forget there were people on that train.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
No one will ever.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
Forget the expression of terror on IRENA's face as she
looked up at her attacker in the last seconds.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Of her life.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
She died instantly.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
She had escaped a brutal war, only to be slain
by a hardened criminal set free to kill in America,
came in through open borders. Missus Zaretska. Tonight, I promise
you we will ensure justice for your magnificent daughter, Irena.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
How do you not stand?

Speaker 1 (08:18):
How do you not stand?

Speaker 4 (08:20):
I'm asking this Congress.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
What a bad look this is. I think they set
themselves up. They absolutely set themselves up. He did the
setup with Pelosi getting everybody on board. Being a unifier, right,
really being a president that's trying to use patriotism to
unite people, and instead they come right in and say
not getting up. Some of those Democrats in Congress were

(08:44):
three or four seats away from this woman. And let
me tell you that's just uncouth, right, I mean, do
you want to be that guy? I don't like standing
ovations like the next guy. I really don't. I want
to get through things. I don't want to be up
and down, up and down. I'm with you. However, if
there's a grieving mother there whose daughter was killed for
the world to see, I mean, brutally for no reason,

(09:10):
zero reason, you've got to tell me and remember this
is the case for that guy long long dreads, he
walks away, and he says, I got that white girl good.
It's caught on the camera audio on that on that train.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Unreal?

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Unreal? Or was a bus? What it was? Public transportation?
All I could say is for these Democrats, it's a disgrace, right,
It's absolutely disgraceful that you wouldn't actually applaud or console
or say I'm sorry, or look like you're somehow contrite
that this happened to someone. I don't care who you are, right,
you could be uh uh. This is why I always

(09:47):
say I don't hate the Democrats. How could I hate
the Demo the one I was born in Brooklyn, and
I grew up in Jersey. How can I hate Democrats?
I've been surrounded by that my whole life. I always
said I'd probably never get a date in the world
if if I if I hated Democrats. But the reality
is the balls that it takes for you to sit there,

(10:08):
hard faced in front of the mother who lost her
daughter and just be like, mmm, I hate Trump more
than I love your kid. I hate Trump more than
standing up for what's right. I hate Trump more than
giving you the respect you deserve as a grieving mother.
Big fail. I believe that swing districts. I believe that
people that are apolitical, people that don't like politics and

(10:31):
don't like politicians, and people don't even like Trump, they're
gonna say when they see these videos, social media campaign ads,
that type of thing. They're gonna see this stuff and
they're gonna say, bad luck, really bad ye man, biem
bie man, like my mother would tell me, by mine,
by bye man. Anyway, I'm going to continue, so ed Trumpito.

(10:53):
He gets into this speech, longest State of the Union ever.
And I've been in the room with President Trump on
an number of occasions where he's been the keynote and
with notes, without notes, he can go off prompter. This
guy's good for two, three, sometimes three and a half hours.
He's good at it. He's good at it. He's entertaining

(11:13):
people bare leaving leave the room. Why Because A he's entertaining.
B he's informative. He also has this ability that few people,
unless you've been in one of those rooms, have the ability.
He has the ability to switch from serious policy discussion
to making jokes to being petty. I mean, all the

(11:35):
gamut of what Trump is able to do. And again
the pettiness that feeds the red meat, right, you have
so many people are like, that's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 5 (11:44):
Right.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
I always say he's the talk radio president. Right, he
comes up with nicknames just like we do in talk radio.
So I think very good speech. Did he leave anything
on the table? I think he could have been a
little more unifying, But again, did we need much much
more beyond Can we stand up and applaud this for
this woman in honor this woman, the dad and the

(12:06):
young daughter. I mean, there were so many people there
that he did the right thing, highlighting the best of
America even through the worst of circumstances. I thought that
was classy, and I think that's really what America is
all about.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Right.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
We want to live in a country where we support
our fellow man. Right, whether you believe that in that
Christian principle or not, of loving that neighbor, it should
be one we live by, that we stand by, that
we embrace, and we shouldn't be And I'm talking I'm
preaching to myself, right, I am the guy I hate
elevator conversations. You would think, man, you talked for a living,

(12:40):
you must like to talk. I don't. I don't like
talking on airplanes. I don't like talking in the elevator.
Sometimes I don't even know. There's a lot of times
I don't like talking to strangers. If you're with me
in my group, Gray, you're my boy. If I know
you have oh hey, how you been cool, we could
talk for an hour. But oftentimes just strangers, I'm just
a little bit suspicious. You know, my Project Veritas days,

(13:01):
I never know what people are up to. Anyway. That's
that I want to move on, because before Trump wraps
it up, he trades barbes with the hecklers. That's right,
Congresswoman ill hand Omar now il han Omar. She is
the congresswoman I was gonna say, the congressman from Somalia.
I mean, technically she is from Somalia. She came here

(13:22):
as as a refugee because both President Clinton and President
Biden honestly have this in common, where they had these
failed military actions that Marcho'd say, military actions that went south,
if you will, and she came here as a refugee
right black Hawk down Mogadishu. She came here following that
debacle at marines killed in that one and then President

(13:44):
Biden had his his own moment with the abby Gate
incident right where you had in Afghanistan, the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.
That was something that needed to be done, but the
execution of it was what was disastrous in my opinion,
and thirteen US military service personnel there killed. So this

(14:06):
was he did the same thing. He said, sure, let's
bring all the Afghan interpreters back home as refugees as well.
Hundreds of thousands, I believe the number was or one
hundred and something thousand. She comes in as a refugee
to a country that I believe has given her a
good life. She entered Congress had a net worth of

(14:28):
you know, like most people that work not a lot,
has one today of thirty million plus dollars. She's done well.
She's a United States congresswoman. Would you hate a country
that afforded you all of that opportunity? Now, maybe I'm
being too bold to say she hates the country, but
she definitely takes a lot of shots at this country,

(14:48):
that's for sure. And what's interesting, or moreover, I should say,
she's got her colleague there, right, Rashida Talaib, And they
start heckling President in trunk during the State of the Union.
This is nothing new, but it is always uncouth no
matter what right. It's just in poor form.

Speaker 4 (15:07):
Watch this oval of cuipment, Alans, in many cases, drug lords,
murders all over our country. They're blocking the removal of
these people out of our country.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
And you should be ashamed.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Of your saying it was right on this one. Right,
that's disgraceful, and I think most people are gonna see
it that way unless you're a real partisan, what I'm
gonna call a radical leftist. Right. If you're one of those, hey,
I've had friends that are like that. They typically don't
like me for long, but I have no issue they

(15:41):
are who they are. I'm not going to stop being
your friend because I disagree with your politics and your
take on America. I give people that freedom to make
bad choices and hopefully they figure it out. But straight ahead,
Another FBI raid going on, this time in the home
of the LA Superintendent of Schools. A guy named Carvalu.

(16:02):
I guess he's Portuguese Carvaljo in English, and mister Carvallu
is h He's got a lot to say. More interestingly,
there's a huge number of people that are currently being
sued for sexual improprieties in California, and they all happen
to be teachers. More on that towards the end of

(16:22):
the show, Straight Ahead, I want to bring in our guest,
Professor Nick Giordano's going to join us for his analysis
on the state of the Union, where we're going to
talk about a number of things that went down. Keep
it locked right here, I'm Rich Valdez.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
If you agree with this statement, then stand up and
show your support. The first duty of the American government
is to protect American citizens, not illegal areas.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
What's up, America? Welcome back, It's Rich Valdez. We continue
the conversation, and did in fact the Democrats fall for it?
Did they take the bait? Did they decide to show
America what they're really made out of? Professor Nick Jordano
ways in. Professor Nick Jordano is professor political Science at
SAFA Community College here in New York. One of the
few conservatives in New York. He does a bunch of

(18:10):
other really fun things as well. Professor Nick Jordano, host
of the PAS Report.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
Welcome back, It's notf ranch always glad to be with you.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yes, sir, so let's get into this because State of
the Union, I want to get into this recap. I
was just sharing with the audience. I think that the
President not so much set a trap, but more so
really set a scenario for the American people to say,
do we agree with this or do we not agree
with it? And Democrats really, in my opinion, they really
jumped in head first saying yes, we support the killing

(18:40):
of innocent people on trains and subways, when they wouldn't
get up and applaud for this mom who grieving mom
who just lost her daughter, Arena Zarutzka, your thoughts, well, I.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Mean, if I was a political advisor to Democrats, I
would have been on the phone last night texting them
during the State of the Union, get your butts out
of o seats and start applauding because you look terrible
right now. You know, there's certain things that elevate above politics.
We all understand that Republicans and Democrats have differences on
the issues. But when you're talking about a girl that

(19:11):
came here from the Ukraine to escapeboard, to escape death,
and she comes here on a train she stabbed in
the neck, and Democrats don't applaud when Trump calls her out,
you know, gives her her praise, saying this should not
have happened in the United States. Her parents in that
room crying, the mother was crying, and Democrats just sat

(19:33):
on their hands. I think that's disgraceful, and you know,
I don't understand the logic behind it, because there's certain
things that are simply common sense, and that's one of
those things that are common sense that you stand and
applaud to make sure that you recognize the death of
this young girl, that how she died so needlessly. And
Democrats are more upset that Trump accidentally said that the

(19:55):
guy that killed her was an illegal immigrant, where no,
he was just released from police custody numerous times and
a mental institution. And yet they ignore Irena and how
she died so senselessly.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Yeah, yeah, listen, I believe you know, oftentimes in this
business that we're in, we talk about how the other
side can be tone deaf or they say that we're
tone deaf. But really, in this case, I think this
is really the height of crazy, right. I really think,
you know, with that woman just feed away from her,
certain congress people just cold shoulder to this lady that

(20:28):
did nothing right. She did nothing to them.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
But it's not new. I mean, don't forget during the
last State of the Union address where they didn't even
stand up for the little black kid that had cancer
who wanted to be a police officer. They sat on
their hands with that, and they look terrible. And yet
you know, it seems there are a lot of Americans
that don't care about, you know, any type of just respect, right,

(20:53):
I mean, that's what it comes down to, just decency
and respect within society.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Well, it's a good point. I'd forgotten about that. I
remembered when that happened, and I remember this, and it
seems to be to me that this I may be
too close to this, right, I just may be too
close to thinking that this is going to really harm
the Democrats. But what are your thoughts? Do you think
this is going to hurt them in the midterms? Because

(21:18):
I feel like this is a campaign ad that just
won't end.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
Well, I don't think it will hurt them necessarily. And
what I mean by that is, yes, Democrats made the
Republican's job a lot easier by cutting campaign ads. I mean,
when President Trump just asked that one question does the
government solely exist to protect the American people over illegal immigrants,
and everyone stood up in employed except for Democrats. That

(21:43):
right there is your campaign ad. You're going to see
that in every district where it's a close race, every
purple district throughout the United States. But we also have
to recognize that the left is energized, that the left
is going out to vote. There is no doubt about
it that they're the ones that are energized. The base
is motivated, they're organized, and so they're going to cast

(22:05):
their votes. It's how do the people in the middle,
How did they feel about it? And I think many
in the middle will be turned off by it, But
the question is are they going to turn out and vote.
We've seen disengagement from the political process over the course
of the last several years, particularly in midterm cycles. Republicans
don't do as well in midterm cycles, and it's usually

(22:27):
the party in power that loses. The only exception to
the rule was on two occasions Judge W. Bush in
two thousand and two and I believe Dwight D. Eisenhower.
So Republicans are already facing an uphill battle Democrats. It
seems that JFK party, the Bill Clinton party that's long debt.
This is now the Democratic Socialists of America party, And
I think Republicans need to start framing it that way,

(22:49):
like this is serious and the midterm elections do matter,
and what do you want to see happen in the
United States. Democrats don't have a real platform. Their platform
is I have Trump, wey going to impeach him. We're
going to try and get rid of them. We want
to defund DICE, we want to protect the legal immigrants,
we want boys competing in women's sports. So Democrats platform

(23:11):
is toxic and Republicans need to start exploiting it, calling
it what it is. This is nothing more than a
way to start to dismantle the United States of America.
And I think that if Republicans don't play it from
that angle, they're in for a road awakening.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Professor Nick Jordano, you just mentioned something that I think
is key. He said this may not hurt them, and
maybe right sadly that it may not hurt them, especially
amongst their base independence. I think it will move the needle.
But do you think that this is going to continue
to be the defining issue. I think in Trump's reelection,

(23:46):
this was the defining issue, not crime per se. Crime
was the byproduct of illegal immigration. We've seen a lot
of improvement in illegal immigration, so one would think that
the electorate may not be as hot on that issue.
But to me, it seems like many people, at least
in the base are as hot on this issue as
ever they are, And.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
The question is how motivated are they to get to
the polls though, So we know that when Trump is
on the ballot, Trump's voters turnout, and they turn out
ms we sorted in the last election cycle. But when
Trump is not on the ballot, then we see candidates
that do suffer because they don't have that extra push
that Trump gives them. Now, this is going to be different.

(24:29):
Don't forget President Trump. He is a showman and he
plans on doing one of those you know, Republican style
conventions before the midterm elections. He's going to try and
energize We already know he's going to go coast to
coast and campaign for a lot of candidates. But as
far as Republican voters go, part of the problem is

(24:50):
when you are successful, and you have success early on.
So take the border for instance, where border crossings are
down ninety nine percent. People tend to forget that success.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
They don't reward you know, when it comes to politics.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
One of the things that really stinks is that you
don't get rewarded on successes. You get rewarded on highlighting
the problem and saying how you're going to try and
solve that problem. But once you solve the problem, people
tend to forget about it. Right. So immigration was the
biggest issue in twenty twenty four. It got millions to
turn out to vote for President Trump. However, I think

(25:25):
it's going to come down to economics. You know, when
it comes to the midterm elections. People are going to
start making their decisions in July, August, since particularly September,
and they're going to say, is my economic livelihood better
today than it was a year ago? And that's what
it's going to come down to. But people do have
short term memories, and you don't really get rewarded for

(25:47):
having success early on, you know.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
All right, So two things there. Number one is I
think you're right, as Clinton said, it's the economy stupid.
I think that's always a thing. President Trump making a
point of saying, you know, gas was down, and this
was down, and those things were all terrific. He even
went as far as saying, we're getting beef down slowly,
and I haven't seen that yet. Personally. It hasn't reached

(26:11):
me in Jersey, So I haven't seen that in New
York City. I haven't seen that anywhere. And I go
to a steakhouser two every now and again. So you
tell me, have you seen the cost of beef coming down?
And if so, where do I go to get a deal?

Speaker 1 (26:27):
Well? No, And that's this is the frustrating thing, because
there are several reasons why beef prices are so high.
One is because of a drought that took place over
the last several years in the Midwest in cattle country,
and that drought was really harmful. And listen, that's out
of the control of President Trump's hands. It was out
of the control of President Biden's hands. You can't control

(26:49):
the wet unless you're China. Then you're gonna start trying
to control it. But when we look at it, you
know that that's something that really raised prices of beef.
But also Democrat policies understand that the whole climate agenda,
the cows one of the biggest sources of pollution is
methane coming from the cows, and so they basically made
farming much more difficult for the cattle ranchers. We've seen

(27:11):
cattle stock drop and it takes time to bring cattle
stock back up. I mean, let's be honest here, it's
not like a quick process where you just plan some
seeds and they grow. You got to have cattle baiting
with each other, and you got to wait till the
cattle grows enough. So I think it's going to be
a while before beef prices get down. I think though,

(27:32):
gas prices, I think is the most important because that's
something that people see immediately right when they're at the
pumps and they're holding that pump and they're just sitting
there looking at the price, continuing to go and go
and go. If you bring gas prices down, that's immediate relief.
So I think President Trump should really take gas prices hard,

(27:52):
try and get them down to like a dollar seventy five.
If he could get them down to a dollar fifty,
I think that's huge, but also carries risk because the
cheaper guess gets, the more difficult it becomes for our
oil producers to get the gas out of the ground
because the loans won't be able to be covered, and
you know, there's not a lot of profit there. Yeah, yeah,

(28:13):
gets reduced, it does, and so it's like a catch
twenty two. But again, I think it's all about elections
in this cycle. I think it's all about the economy.
I think that's going to be the main thing that
gets people to vote. Again, I don't think that the
left is voting on the economics of anything. I think
that they're voting just with emotion. They despise Trump, they

(28:33):
despise Republicans. Ultimately, they despise the United States of America
and Western civilization, and so they're energized to come out
and vote against that. President Trump and Republicans need to
make this a pivotal election year that I know. We
say it every time, this is one of the most
important election years ever.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Each time it does.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
But the stakes are really high, Like, do Americans want
to live through another impeachment? How many impeachments? Are we
going to say impeachments? It's becoming far school at this point.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
And yet that's exactly what Democrats are campaigning on amgos.
We're coming right back with Professor Nick Giordano, host of
the PAS Report. And when we come back, Professor, I
want you to see a video. I was scrolling through
the social media and I saw a video of President
Trump last night at the State of the Union, followed
immediately by almost an identical speech by President Clinton back

(29:25):
in the nineties, about thirty years ago. And I thought, man,
he should have probably used Clinton's words when he did
that speech to see what reaction he would have gotten.
So keep it locked right here on. Migos are coming
right back. It's rich Valdees.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
To agree with this.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
Statement, then stand up and show your support. The first
duty of the American government is to protect American citizens,
not illegal areas.

Speaker 5 (30:11):
Not only in the states most heavily affected, but in
every place in this country. Are rightly disturbed by the
large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs
they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants.
The public service they use impost burdens on our taxpayers.
That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our

(30:32):
borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards,
by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before,
by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits
to illegal aliens. In the budget I will present to you,
we will try to do more to speed the deportation
of illegal aliens who a arrested for crimes, to better

(30:52):
identify illegal aliens in the workface, as recommended by the
commission headed by a former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are
a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation
of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self defeating for
a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse
of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years,

(31:13):
and we must do more to stop it.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
He goes, welcome back. We continue our conversation with Professor
Nick Giordano, professor of political science at Suffolk Community College
in New York. And yes he is a conservative, Yes
he is a tenured professor, and yes he's still with
us right now, Professor, I want to continue that video
that we just saw of President Trump followed by the
video of President Clinton. This juxtaposition, to me, is is

(31:55):
not much of a juxtaposition because they seem to be
saying the same exact thing. Yet would think that they
were both radical, right wing Republicans.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
Well, I think what you said.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Before the break leading into it is actually something that
would have been great to do. It's actually a brilliant
idea that Rich Fealtez put out there.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
He should have just read off Clinton's speech word for
word to see what the reaction would be.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
And I think it's clear that this is no longer
a Democratic party that we could consider part of moderate
or centrist or anything like that. I mean, when you
look at the nineteen nineties Democrats, and I'm talking even
about like people like Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden, if
you listen to the speeches, they sound like right wing

(32:38):
radicals in today's day and age. And I think that's
probably one of the more fascinating aspects to this, when
we look at what's happened and what's transpired in a
Democrat party. Because President Trump is not a conservative.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
He never was.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
I mean, the guy was a Democrat up until twenty
twelve when he switched political parties. He's not someone that
is idyologically tied down to Trump. Everything is negotiable. He
openly states that, and he states, you know, I'll start
on the far side of one end because I know
during negotiations, you're gonna build compromises in along the way.

(33:13):
And yet Democrats have made him public enemy number one.
They don't realize that he's someone that you can negotiate
with at maybe half of what you want, maybe even
a little more sometimes. And they've gone so farther left
to see who could out trump Trump. But they've been
able to move the entire debate of the United States
as well. They have redefined what it means to be

(33:35):
right wing and centrist. Don't forget during the Clinton era,
we were talking about, you know, pro life, pro choice,
but everyone agreed, you know, maybe twelve to sixteen weeks
and that should be the maximum. Today it's about, well,
should we have abortion up until childbirth? And you know,
Democrats maybe even talk about post birth abortions like it's

(33:57):
really sick and demented when you think about it. But
that's how far we've come. No Democrat would have taken
seriously men and women's sports. You go back to the nineties,
they would have left and said, we're not even wasting
our time talking about it. And yet today it's an issue.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
If you go back to the nineties, it was the
Democrats that were championing the Defensive Marriage Act and look
at where correct today the correct act on that too.
So without all that being said, because that those are
all really good points, and I want to kind of
stay there. If if Democrats are I guess Republicans have
remained conservative in terms of conserving their position on things

(34:35):
and tradition in America, and Democrats have gone further to
the left, which is what I believe is going on.
Talk to me about the effectiveness of this, because I
think they're looking at the long game. And when I
say there, I'm talking about AOC Bernie Sanders. You know
that that crew, the all out crazy wing of the party.
But there's also you know, this competing event yesterday that

(34:55):
I've seen very little coverage of, if any at all.
They announced that they were going to have their own
State of the Union outside the capital and I didn't
see anybody there. I didn't hear anything even.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Is that the one with the frauds in the draff?

Speaker 2 (35:10):
Yeah, that's the one. So what do you think of that?
Is this movement as successful as it ought to be?
Or am I underestimating it?

Speaker 1 (35:20):
I'd say be careful underestimating it?

Speaker 3 (35:23):
Right?

Speaker 1 (35:23):
And what I point to is look at his own
like mayor Mom Donnie here in New York. So he
was someone that was actually very honest and open about
his positions. He didn't hide. He wasn't an Abigail Spanburger
in Virginia. Right, she campaigned as a moderate. She's a
radical leftist with her policies. You look at Mamdani, he
was very open as to what he wanted to do,

(35:44):
and he did get millions of people to vote for him, right.
I mean, he defeated three other challengers combined, and he
did increase voter turnouts. So the message is appealing to
a large segment of society. Now some will back on
me and say, well, you know, Professor Jordano, that's just
New York City, it's you know, to the left. Well,

(36:07):
we saw it in Virginia, we see it in New Jersey.
We do see it throughout the country. And I don't
think people realize that the messaging is working for Democrats
because we have a failed education system that never taught
an entire generation of the importance of America of limited government,
self government, what it means, what the point of federalism is,

(36:30):
Why the founders created the system the way they do. Instead,
they've denigrated the United States. They they've instilled this disdain
for the United States, and so you have a large
segment that is now a voting age that's very bitter
and resentful. You factor that in with obviously you look
at who the Democrats base of support is. It's college educated.

(36:52):
It's those were college degrees. They went through these radical institutions,
they got indoctrinated, and so now we're seeing it in
the voting patterns. So while their ideas are crazy to me,
while the Democratic Party has certainly morphed into this progressive
socialist party, I don't undestimate it because I know how

(37:13):
powerful the messaging can be. And it's still it's based
on emotion. It's an emotional appeal. Republicans use reason and logic,
Democrats use emotion. Emotion actually does work. It's a very
powerful motivator, you know, and trying to be empathetic and
compassion and you want to be a good human being,
right and if you don't support this, well that means

(37:34):
you're a Nazi and a fascist. Nobody likes to be
called the Nazi and a fascist. You know, white supremacist
Larry Elda, the blackface of white sopremacy.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Unbelievable. Yeah, listen, I think you're you're right on that,
so and I think you're right. We should be cautious, right,
you know, because you make fun of them because it's
kind of silly. But at the same time, they're winning
elections and they raise tons of money and they're becoming
very wealthy in the process. So it to me, it
says you can't underestimate him. I make fun of AOC

(38:04):
all out crazy, my least favorite congress woman from the
Bronx and Queens on a regular basis. But guess what
AOC she's right up there with the top fundraisers in Congress.
She's a rock star. When people want Abaga Spamberger, I
can't say her name. But when she ran last time,
she said no, no, no, no, AOC for me, I'll lose.
She lost This time she said AOC for me please.

(38:26):
She did an event with AOC, got some campaign cash.
AOC helped her get across the finish line in Virginia.
So I think we'd be fools to underestimate the power
of the far left of Bernie Sanders wing of the party.
Where does that put the Republican Party in your estimation, professor.

Speaker 3 (38:42):
Well put them in a tough spot.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
I mean again, Trump knows how to motivate the base,
but he's not going to be on the ticket. And
part of our Republican problem is still say, look at
the other party, they're so crazy?

Speaker 3 (38:54):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (38:54):
Is that bad? So just vote for us? And that's
not the way people vote. You got to appeal to them,
you got to touch You've got to give am issues.
So to give you an example, New gingrich nineteen nineties
contract with America. He gave you know, ten precise points
of exactly what the Republican Party was going to fight for,
and the Republican Party did just that and they were.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
Rewarded for it.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Republicans don't have a new contract with America. I have
one on my website pasreport dot com. But we need
a new contract with America. We need specifics about what's
going to be done with fiscal responsibility, with reigning in
the deep state, you know, starting to limit this out
of control bureaucracy and taking the statutory authority back, voting

(39:38):
the Save Act very important. Republicans need to get over
that finish line. The biggest problem Republicans have and I'm
talking about the Republicans in Congress, is that they haven't
done much of what they promised to do throughout the years,
and so a lot of Republican voters they get turned off.
They begin to just stay home, saying my vote doesn't

(39:59):
matter because they're not doing what I want. And what
I mean by that is if you look at fiscal responsibility,
well the deck keeps on growing. You look at when
Congress tried to cut nine billion dollars worth of DOGE cuts.
We're talking about nine billion dollars in a six point
eight trillion dollar budget, and Republicans had a difficult time
getting that across the That should have been a layup.

(40:20):
That should have been a layup. You have to give
something that fires Republicans up and gets them out to vote.
And I think voter idea. I think this idea of
the Save Act is something that motivates them because everyone
is behind it except for the progressive wing at a
Democrat Party.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
And Zoron Mamdani right in the work.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
Unless you're shoveling snow.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
If you're shoveling snow, you must prove you're a citizen.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
You know this is an issue that I saw a
meme today and I thought it was brilliant and I
hope that it makes its way around. And it said
stop Trump from stealing another election vote for voter ID
paper ballots the same day results. And I thought that's
brilliant and if you could fool people into that, great

(41:04):
do you think that most Americans? I'll preface this with
a story and I wish I had time to put
the clip in, but there is there's a guy out there.
I forget the name of this channel, but it's funny
and I check it out. I'm scrolling and there he is,
and he's in the street and he's like, Hi, we're
with Second Chances something or other and we're trying to

(41:26):
help some of these people that have been deported by
ICE to come back home. Will you help us? And
they're like sure. He's like, will you sign our petition?
And they're like yeah, they start signing. He's like, this
is you know, I don't know Hector Salazar and Hector
was deported because he killed five people in El Salvador
and he's part of MS thirteen. But we want to
give him a second chance. We believe in second chances.

(41:47):
And most of them go okay, and they keep going.
And I've watched like six or seven of these videos
and his follow up once they're filling it out, he
always says, now, would you mind, would you be able
to help us with quartering them, with housing them, because
when they come back, we might need some interim housing
for them that could be a couple of months. Can
they stay with you? And most of them go, oh no, sorry,

(42:08):
and they give them back the clipboard. Today I saw
one where this lady was like, sure, of course. She
was like, I believe in second chances and if my
husband is okay, one percent and she said, but just
check with us first, And I thought, wow, these people
really do buy this stuff. I'm not letting Ms thirteen
with five bodies under the belt into my house, are you.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
I'm not letting any strangers into my house, so I
don't care if they're a criminal or not, you know,
not for nothing. This is the stupidity we have to
deal with it today's America. Like, my role is to
take care of my kids, to raise them to be
responsible human beings and to protect them. I'm not going
to invite strangers into my house. And I know exactly
who you're talking about. I can't recall his name off

(42:52):
top of my head. He did another video about abortion,
and he was talking about abortion. The lady had all
these abortion stickers on his car, and then he told
her that it was abortion for puppies, that we needed
to get rid of their puppies, which was like, you
can't abort puppies. That's inhumane, right, Like they got the
logic behind that. You're saying it's inhumane to abort puppies,
but it's not inhumane to abort human beings.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
Right.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
But this is the insanity that we have to deal
with today. And that's what makes it a very dangerous
time in America because it seems like reason and common
sense has gone out the window. It no longer exists anymore.
And where this takes us, I don't know. But what
I do know is that if we don't make our
constitutional republic successful, if we don't succeed in with a

(43:38):
founding father's vision that we deviated far from, I could
guarantee you what comes next isn't going to be any better.
And I could guarantee you that all these fools that
run and operate solely on emotion they're going to regret
it because sooner or later it doesn't matter, you know,
sooner or later it comes for them, and they're going
to witness that. So we have to smarten up as

(43:59):
Americans and Republicans have to do a better job of
energizing people, of talking to people, explaining to people. Right now,
you have Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, White Americans, Asian Americans.
They're all hungry for a message. Most of them do
love America. They want America to thrive, they want America
to succeed. And yet Republicans continue to ignore areas. And

(44:22):
I don't know why, because I think the areas of Chicago,
the areas of New York, they're not set in stone
that they're blue. They can change. We've seen them change
over time. And Republicans need to get off their butts.
They need to start talking about education, exposing the failures
in the education system, like one point five trillion dollars
a year and the results are less than twenty five

(44:44):
percent of students are proficient in the subject material. If
that is not an abject failure, I don't know what is.
Like what other industry would we tolerate that in and
Republicans should put it to the voter, like, is this
acceptable to you? Is it acceptable to spend this much
money only twenty five percent in the student body is
proficient in the subject material? How can you say that

(45:05):
we should continue that structure going forward? And if you
say it's a failure, well what about every single government entity?
Do you want government involved in your healthcare? Like? Would
you want to get heart surgery in a system where
they're only twenty five percent proficient and dealing with heart surgeries?

Speaker 2 (45:22):
That's a scary proposition, brother man.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
But they want government to control healthcare, they want government
to control food, they want government to control all aspects
of our life. Well, government wasn't designed for all this,
especially our government, and that's why we don't. Nobody ever
deals with a government department, an agency, agency, I don't
care if it's federal, state, or local, and walks away
from it being like, wow, that was a really pleasant

(45:46):
eff I wish I could do that again.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Yeah, yeah, you're one hundred percent right, Professor Nick Jordane.
This is I guess my final question to you. Thanks
for being generous with your time. The other day we
saw SCOTUS ruling on tariffs very narrowly on the AIPA tariffs.
And there's a lot of speculation now about what happens
with the Supreme Court of the United States ruling on

(46:09):
the Fourteenth Amendment case that's before them on citizenship and
birthright citizenship. I've done some research into the Senators that
proposed this originally. It seems like the spirit of that
bill when it was a bill, before it was signed
into law, was what the Trump administration is talking about.

(46:29):
I'm just curious to see how the political considerations. And
I know it's an a political court professor, but it
seems to me that every now and again they either
punt on things they don't want to talk about, or
they punt like they did with this, saying no, well,
on this AIPA, you can't do this, but you can
do all these other things, and you know, making sure

(46:51):
it's like you can still do a whole lot, but
you can't do this. We did our jobs, thank you
very much, have a night, get you.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
Could do all these tariffs, so that these statutes right.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
Here, Yeah, it seems so so fake, so phony, and
so fraudulent. But what do you think happens with this
Fourteenth Amendment scenario.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
You know, it's really hard to tell, to be honest
with you, and it's always hard to predict how the
Supreme Court's going to rule. I never pretend like I
know the which way they're going to rule, because I don't.
And sometimes you get these issues where I think it's
actually clear. You know, the Fourteenth Amendment, it was for
black Americans. That's what it was solely meant for. That's
what it was meant at the time, and then it
got interpreted differently. And okay, find you interpreted differently, But

(47:31):
what do you do now? And I think that's the
difficult question. See if we go to something like gay marriage.
You had the Supreme Court rule that gay marriage is
legal and it has to be upheld by every single
state they have to recognize it. And it was I
believe Anthony Kennedy was the deciding vote on that, and
he said, listen, this isn't a constitutional argument. It's just

(47:53):
a reflection of the way society is today. So you know,
there's nothing constitutional about it. We're just saying, hey, you know,
this is just the way it is. How they're gonna
rule with this, I don't know. I have a feeling
it's going to go obviously one or two ways. I
think either they're gonna say, you know what, the statute
was misinterpreted. It was misinterpreted for over one hundred and

(48:15):
something years, and we need to rain that in. So
going forward, anyone that's born in the United States, well,
you're not a citizen unless you're born to American citizens.
That you can't just be an anchor baby here in
the United States. It's not going to change the status
for people that were previously born here. It will change
for those forward in the future. So I think it's

(48:37):
either gonna rule that way or they're just gonna sit
there and say, listen, it might not be constitutional. We
think that, you know that the interpretation in you know,
eighteen sixty five or whenever, that it was meant for
black Americans. But because it's been so long that we've
allowed this to be interpreted this way, we're gonna stick
with it. It could go either way, and you're our

(49:00):
guess is as good as mine is how it goes.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Yeah, listen, yeah, mine too. I can come up with
a million scenarios, but I have no inside track, I
have no anything. I think that they should do the
right thing, and I think the right thing is that
to say, hey, look this has been wrong. Just like
what abortion the Roe v. Wade case, all right, when
they overturned that case, they said it was bad law.
We're overturning the case. You can't reverse the abortions that

(49:23):
have happened over the last fifty years, but you can say,
moving forward, this is how we're going to do it.
The states are free to do what they want to do,
which they did. The Brewin decision I think was a
good thing, not as monumental, but still great. And this one,
I think is going to be a really big deal
and I'm super curious. I can't wait, honestly, because I
feel like this is still an incredibly hot button issue

(49:48):
in our country. You've got the left and the right,
and it kind of falls on those lines. There's some
people that are in between on the issue, but I
think it's a really hot button issue for sure.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
Well, you know, people need to be aware of that
this is actually turned into one hundred million dollar, hundreds
of millions of dollars to over a billion dollar industry
of people getting people here that are eight nine months
pregnant so that they could have their baby in the
United States, particularly China. We know that the Chinese Triads
and other groups actually do this and the human trafficking

(50:19):
that goes on or to have babies in the United States,
so they get to claim citizenship, and I think that's
a big deal. People need to be aware of that
that it's not people that are seeking a better life.
It's not people that are seeking you know, their love
for America and their loyal and patriotic Americans. It's people
that are getting here by devious means, for potentially devious purposes.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
Really well put, Professor will leave it right there and
want to thank you for your time. You are a gentleman,
a scholar, and a patriot. Folks check him out at
the PAS Report podcast A Professor. Where do people go
to subscribe to the podcast and to learn more about
the work you're doing.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
So on every single podcast platform. Just go to pasreport
dot com and you can link up from that perfect.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
I appreciated my brother, godspeed to you, and he goes.
We continue. There is more to come straight ahead. We're
just getting started. I'm rich Aldek. Welcome back America. Now
some Americans might soon be receiving a tariff refund check
sounds like a familiar idea. Right, Well, it was just
proposed in Congress as a new bill. Now you're asking yourselves,

(51:25):
why is this news, Rich Faldiz, I'm gonna tell you why.
Why Because anthrom Pito has been talking about this forever.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
Right.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
He was saying, if we save money with Doge, we
could give that back in a Doge dividend. He's been
saying the tariffs as well, should be put into a
sovereign wealth fund that we can also get back to
the American people. He said a lot of things and
was criticized for them.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
Right.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
Matter of fact, one of the critics of the presidents
was Jasmine Crockett, congress woman from Texas who's running for
the United States Senate. Listen to her just a few
months ago, saying, nobody wants Trump's five thousand dollars.

Speaker 4 (51:59):
Check this out, and Trump says he likes the idea
of giving some of the savings from doors back to
Americans as kind of a dividend.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
Would you support that?

Speaker 6 (52:07):
Listen, He's just telling a lie. He's not the one
that had anything to do with the twelve hundred dollars
refunds that people had during the midst of COVID that
was done by a Democratic House and Democratic Senate. Right now,
what they're going to do is say, hey, we want
to give you a refund, but Congress won't let us
because they already know that there's just no money for that.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
Right, So it wasn't news per se. Right. The real
news is that it's Jasmine Crockett now who is proposing
a new bill called the Payback Act. According to her,
she needs to introduce this legislation that would direct the
United States Treasury to refund Americans for the higher costs
that her bill says were caused by Trump's tariffs. Trump

(52:54):
brings in all this money that is a combination of
people paying for corporations for corporations, people that want to
buy foreign goods, and he says, We're gonna give this
money back to the American people, believe me. And now
Jasmin Crockett says the same thing Trump is saying, but
she's trying to make him the bad guy. Somehow. We

(53:15):
have almost two hundred billion dollars in this tariff account,
and now she's saying we should give that back to
the American people. Jas mccrockett, you are classic. I gotta
tell you anyway. That was her take on this. She
says that this is all because of the Supreme Court
weighing in and saying that this stuff was outside of
the purview of the president's office. Now you've got the

(53:37):
White House spokesman pushed asigh. He told Newsweek, I have
a quote right here. Listen to this. He says, Democrats
spent decades talking about lopsided free trade deals, reshoring the
middle class manufacturing jobs, and lowing lowering prescription drug prices.
President Trump used tariffs to actually deliver where Democrats were

(54:00):
only talking. So naturally, Democrats are resorting to gathering more
meaningless popcorn headlines. Pathetic but unsurprising, Well said brother, and
I would have thrown in and stealing our idea of
giving the money back to the American people. Right, that
was always the plan. Trump wants to give you money
back on four to one K so that everybody can

(54:20):
have a four to one K, including the government contributing.
He wants to give money back on tariffs. He wants
to give money back on doge. He wants you to
keep more of your taxes on tips. Right, it was
Congress that put some limitations there because they came up
with their formula and whatnot and did what politicians do.
But I think the stuff that Trump puts out there
is pretty pretty straightforward. He thinks and acts like a

(54:44):
business person, and most business people don't want to pay taxes,
and he wants to transfer that to the American people.
I love that, love that about Trumpito, Now, I thought
that was pretty funny. I also want to go into
a different story here. Right. The other story was this fight. Right,
So woman removed forcibly from her car. Happened on her

(55:06):
three four weeks ago. She was in Minnesota. She's trying
to get away from Ice. She ends up in traffic.
They're like, all right, get out. She's like, no, I'm disabled. Right,
she has this whole big fit. Anyway, this woman, she
got wall to wall coverage. They were saying Ice is
the Gestapo, this, that, and the third. But when two
teenagers approach a girl in school and say, hey, your

(55:26):
boyfriend said he wanted to be Ice when he grows up,
are you down with Ice? And when she says no comment,
they start pounding her in the head. Watch this, come on,
You've gotta be kidding me. This girl is attacked. She's

(55:48):
attacked by two other girls in school. If that was
your kid, you'd see it exactly the way I'm seeing it.
Who cares why she didn't do anything to those people
she refused to answer their their litmus test. Come on,
things don't work that way, not how we roll in life.
And this is what should be receiving wall to wall

(56:09):
coverage across the country, that this middle school, high school
is ground zero for this stuff. This is likely happening
all over the place, and people are covering it up
because somebody saying good. Good. Even if you say good,
talk about it. Let's have it in the news media.
I haven't seen large reports about this on CNN. They

(56:30):
may have mentioned it, but nothing like what I saw there.
Where was every news outlet for days on end. What's
the difference here? That the girl was blonde that was
getting beaten up. And I'm not trying to push the
race card. I'm asking a legitimate question. If she were
brown like me, if she were black, if she were
a Muslim, if she were some other brand, right, some

(56:50):
other race. It seems like it's okay to beat up
white people. That's not news. No news here, no news here.
But oh, she was maybe she was with Ice, maybe not.
The jury's still out. Is that how we do this?
Are we actually fair and saying, hey, look, whether I
like it or I don't like it, that's wrong. We

(57:11):
got to call things out for what they are. Disgusting anyway.
This is why people call them the fake news media,
and Trump always says the fake news, the fake news
all the way at it back. But I want to
get into one more thing before we part ways, and hegos,
and it's this story. This is more more, less, the story,
more of video. All right. Somebody sends me. One of

(57:33):
our listeners, actually I think from Canada sent us this video.
And through our text line which is eight seven seven
valid Desk one eight seven seven valid Desk one, you
can leave a message. You can even call and talk
to me, so you can do that as well. But
they sent a text on this one, and I appreciate that.
Shout out to everybody listening in Canada. Shout out to
everybody across the country. I love and adore our listeners,

(57:53):
especially our new viewers and listeners.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
Right.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
You know, I've done radio over the years and I
adore radio. Right. Normally in radio, I've got my headphones
on and I don't even shave, and I'm just like
ah blah blah, blah blah blah, and I love it.
But in doing this format, it's a little different, Right.
You got to be, you know, kind of camera ready.
And I've done TV for years, but I never did
them at the same time. Right, So this is me
doing my radio show on camera, which is always odd

(58:20):
to me. Just a quick aside, why is it on?
I'll tell you why it's on because I love the
eater of the mind. I love the idea of being
able to do stuff that you can't see. And I've
talked about this in interviews I've done. But whether it's
the famous from l Rushbo, right, the fact that you
get that nice sound effect on your mic, or anything
else if you're telling a story, I've oftentimes cited one

(58:42):
of my early inspirations for radio host named Luis he
men Is. I would say an influence more than an inspiration.
I thought, man, what a good radio host he is.
The guy was fantastic and he still is. He's in
podcast land now and he's you know, had a tremendous career.
Something Louise he men has used to do all the time.
I forget the guy's name, but he had this character
that he played off mic, right, so he would tell

(59:03):
a story. He would start telling a story and say,
you know, blah blah blah. You know, walking down the street,
I bump into a guy and the guy tells me, hey, pal,
what are you doing over here? And then I go
back to the guy right, and he plays both parts
of the skit himself. One was off mic, and he
changed his voice up a little bit and he made
a little deeper you know, he would come back. It
was absolutely hysterical, true talent. That's what radio is all about. Right,

(59:26):
And he's thrown a couple of sound effects. Oh my god,
and now you've got the makings of fantastic radio. Which
seeing me do that on TV, it's kind of like,
what's he doing? He's freaking out? Why you're shaking your
chair and punching your hand. You lose a lot of euto, right,
But ultimately I was saying all of that to say,
I want to welcome all of the new people watching
us on Festiva TV on Roku. The Roku streaming television

(59:50):
platform reaches ninety million registered subscribers in North America and
each subscriber. The other day, I just had a plumber
in my house and shout out to Richie Flynn and
shout out to Kyle Demski, the plumber. They were doing
a great job on my boiler, and they asked a
house the show, and I said, oh, we've expanded to
doing roku and they were like, get out. He said, man,

(01:00:13):
I got a rokup. I got one, My girlfriend has one.
I think her mom has one. He's like in my house,
we've probably got four or five. So that's one household
with five different users. If those are the kind of
if you got ninety million household and five years in
each one, Amen, Praise God, Hallelujah. This show is greatly expanded,
and I'm super grateful for that. Of course, I miss

(01:00:36):
a lot of my radio familia, because you know, to
restaurant radio was a fantastic time the years I spent
on therestrial radio. But digital and streaming is a whole
new world, and I'm thrilled to be here. Now. I
want to continue my story because I got off track right.
I was talking about this hockey story and the fight,
actually the fight before I get to the hockey. The fight.

(01:00:58):
Now I want to say, which gears to this hockey thing,
because I forgot the point I was making with the
radio statement. But one of our listeners sends me this
this video, and it's of a woman giving a RNT
on hockey. Now, some of you might think, well, Rich,
isn't that you right now on your cell phone giving

(01:01:18):
a rent. No, I'm not on my cell phone number
one doing a show, but number two. I think it's
a very common thing for people to be upset. People,
i'm gonna say, on the left, to do these very
highly emotional rants right oftentimes in their car or their
living room, and they just go off and it's die
or it's.

Speaker 7 (01:01:38):
Like, don't you fing understand we're dying, You're gonna die.
Trump is the devil, you know, something like that. Maga maggots, right,
they freak out.

Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
And I find humor in that because I'm the maggot
they're talking about, right, They're talking about Trump and the maggots.
I'm the maggot, one of many maggots. But it's fascinating
to watch because on the other side, when I see
somebody grab a camera, they're usually just criticizing those people.
I've never really seen too many people say, hmm hmm,

(01:02:13):
I think I'm gonna make a video here and crash
out on camera. That's not a thing that you see
the people in the maga world do. I'm sure some
have done it, but it's not a typical thing anyway.
I say all that to say this hockey story. This
woman goes on this rant over the hockey stuff and

(01:02:35):
where she takes it fascinating. This is why I make
fun of them and I call them all out crazy
because you go from perhaps I don't like what you
believe in that, perhaps I don't believe what you believe politically,
but to take it to this fundamental place, and many
of you might agree with this, I certainly don't, I
think is passenine. Watch this.

Speaker 8 (01:02:57):
I do love that we all love heated rivelry. I
do think it did a little bit of damage because
I think that we all kind of like maybe collectively
forgot that like hockey is one of the most if
not the most conservative sports with the most conservative fan base.
Like this isn't anything new. I would say it's comparable
to golf or lacrosse, but like, here's the thing, Okay, hockey.

(01:03:20):
I don't know if you guys have seen like the
USA national team, everybody's white. Everybody on the team is white,
everybody affiliated with the team is white. All the coaches
are white. Like there is not a lot of people
of color in that space. And like a huge draw
to hockey is it's violent, Like you are encouraged to
be violent, Like the fans love to watch the violence,
the players love to enact violence. Like what type of

(01:03:43):
ideology do you think a white man that comes from
insane amounts of wealth for his entire life, that like
has these violent tendencies? What type of ideology do you
think that they lean towards? Like, like, obviously they were
on the phone with Trump making fun of the women's team,
because that's what violent, rich white men do, Like that's
what their favorite thing to do is is to like

(01:04:04):
make fun of women and shit on women that are
doing the same thing, if not better than they are.
And they were all creaming in their fucking pants because
they were on the phone with their dad. Like it's
so like, I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
Know, unbelievable, right, what an unhinged rant. Listen, She's free
to believe what she wants. But all of a sudden,
of course, Trump calls the hockey team. He's a man,
he's white, he's rich. He's white, rich Christian men. I'll
throw that in for for for good measure. This is
what they do. They play hockey. They're violent, they're naturally

(01:04:37):
violent people. Amazing how she gets from one thing to
the next instead of saying wow. The President called this
team to congratulate them. He also try to congratulate the
the women's team in person. They declined the invitation. All right,
do you but listen. I think it's it's funny to watch.

(01:04:58):
I mean, that's why I played it without interruption. Normally interrupt,
but I gotta say these things are funny. Please, my
friends on the left, keep them coming, because this stuff
keeps us all entertained. All right, that's enough for me
for today. We're gonna do it again tomorrow. Astall approxima,
take care, good night, and God bless you America. And
remember I always say this, If you stand for nothing,

(01:05:19):
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. This is America.
I'm Rich Valdez