Prescriptions, Pres. Michelle Obama?, Parents

On Friday, Rich discussed President Trump's prescription drug price drops. Then, former First Lady Michelle Obama was on late-night television; is she flirting with running for president despite being coy about it? Plus, a look at the role of parents in their kids' future relationships and whether or not cutting people off solves the root problem in family disputes.

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With America with your host, Rich Valdez.

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What's up, America.

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I am Rich Valdes Valdez with an ass at Rich
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All of the social media.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
Welcome to the Friday at night edition of the program.

Speaker 6 (00:37):
Blessed and happy to be here with you.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
Your phone number is eight seven seven Valdes one eight
seven seven eight two five three three seven one. And man,
where do I start? Lots to discuss, let me see,
let me see. Well, I guess we'll start with a
trompto Donaldus, Magnus and man if like Christmas came early?

(01:01):
Right because the President Donald Trump Donald J. Trump, the
forty fifth to forty seventh president of these United States.

Speaker 6 (01:07):
Guess what?

Speaker 4 (01:07):
He just dropped the hammer on big pharma today in
the Roosevelt Room with nine drug companies. Am Jen Murk Novartist,
the whole crew signing deals to slash pisces on medication
for Medicaid and cash payers matching the lowest costs worldwide.
Diabetes pills are going to be dropping hundreds of dollars,

(01:29):
cholesterol fighters way cheaper. Real relief actually hitting the wallets
of Americans right before the holidays. And it took a
little arm twisting, I would imagine from El Trumpeto and
those beautiful tariffs, the beautiful tariffs that he laid on
the table. But hey, negotiation works better than mandates, right,
at least that's what I think.

Speaker 6 (01:48):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
It's it's just how it goes, you know. It's kind
of like, you know, if you're at a paranda, right,
paranda is a cavan of singing and Christmas caroling, right,
Christmas carols in Puerto Rico they called them aguinaldos. And
if you are singing aguinaldos in the baranda, right, your
little caravan going door to door, getting people knocking on

(02:13):
the door, different people bringing their instruments, all the neighbors
coming out, and everybody's you know, drinking coquito and going
house to house down the block and just celebrating after midnight.

Speaker 6 (02:23):
Mess that's the tradition.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
So if you're doing that, and you tell, you know,
one of your theos, one of your mesinos, one of
your neighbors, you know, hey, lower the price on the
coquito or or no more. I don't know, little fried things,
little fried codfish fritters, bacala ethos. Right, no more bak

(02:46):
ala ethos for you, And guess what they say? All right,
hold on a second, let's work this out right. We
want to keep the bak ala ethos going. So that's
the the street analogy I'm giving you for how Trump
twisted their arms. And it's great. It's great to see
what happened. These drug prices needed to come down, and

(03:08):
they did come down, and I'm glad they are coming down.
I'm not like the guys on the left that'll sit
here and tell you, oh, because they've been ripping us
off all along. Now I think you know they're doing
what they do. The market is the market. If I
could charge seven hundred thousand dollars a year for the
work I do, I would do it. If somebody's paying me,

(03:28):
I'm taking it now. Guess what the market doesn't command that.
I can barely get half of that if I'm lucky
and I don't think I'm lucky. So the point is
you can only go as far as the market allows,
and then you negotiate to go below market. And that's
where it don't beat those specializes in getting things done.

(03:49):
Kudos to him. And again, like I said, several of
these companies really stepping in. I got a little audio
from this check this out, and.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
I said, you know, I'll bet you if I called
a meeting of the insurance companies see companies that are
involved with healthcare costs, I would be willing to bet.
I think that they would reduce their prices very very substantial.

Speaker 7 (04:10):
We could have fair health care in the country.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Now my initial thought, and this is what I want
to do as of right now.

Speaker 7 (04:16):
This is the alternative, is that all.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Of the billions and billions, ultimately trillions and trillions of
dollars that's paid to these companies, We're going to pay
directly to the people. But there's another way of doing it,
and that's getting the insurance companies to ease up and
to cut their pricing way way down and stay part
of the system.

Speaker 7 (04:38):
So I'm going to call a meeting.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
It could be in Florida this coming week, or it
could be back in the White House the first week,
not the second to third week.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
So that's President Trump talking about a meeting and again
in exchange, what the companies are going to do. They agree,
the pharma companies they've agreed to a three year grace
period during which their products won't face Trump's plan pharmaceutical
tariffs as long as the drug makers further invest in
US manufacturing.

Speaker 6 (05:05):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
It kind of sounds like America First, America First. I
think I love it. It seems to be working really
really well. The only thing you can do to criticize
Trump on this is, you know, hate the well being
of people. And I'm sure there's some people out there
that do hate the well being of people because that's
just how some people are. But anyway, I want to
keep going on this because Bristol Myers Squib is going

(05:28):
to offer Eloquist. It's a blockbuster blood thinner medicine. It's
their top prescribed product, and they're going to be offering
it for free to medicate. Talk about somebody trying to
one up the other guy. And you got all these
companies again, Merk, Bristol Myers, Squib, am, Jen, Gilead, Glaxo,
Smith Klein, Sonofi, Roche, Gene Tech, bull Ringer, Ingelheim, Novarties.

(05:55):
All of these companies agreed to a three year grace period.
I love it, do we got here? The companies make
up the majority of the seventeen drug makers blah blah
blah blah blah as of today. Let me see I
might have the audio on that too. Let's see if
we have a second clip of l Trumpito stand by
play it if you got it.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Next year, American drug prices will come down fast and furious,
and will soon be among the lowest in the developed world. So,
in other words, whatever the lowest price for a certain drug,
of which these companies make much of it, whatever the
lowest prices is, that price will come down to that price.

(06:33):
So we will get the lowest price anywhere in the world.
If they're lower in England than they are in Germany,
we take the England price. As of today, fourteen out
of the seventeen largest pharmaceutical companies, but they've all agreed
have now agreed to drastically lower drug prices for their
American patients.

Speaker 7 (06:50):
For the American people and patients, this.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
Represents the greatest victory for patient affordability in the history
of American healthcare by far, and every single American will benefit.
So this is the biggest thing ever to happen on
drug pricing and on healthcare.

Speaker 6 (07:06):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
The biggest thing to ever happen in American healthcare with
respect to drug pricing.

Speaker 6 (07:13):
El Trumpito.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
Is he gonna get credit for this or is he
gonna get overshadowed by the Epstein files that were released
with I don't know. It seems like picture after picture,
two hundred and thousand, two hundred thousand plus pages of documents,
and I would say, on one hundred and ninety nine thousand,
I'm just kidding, by the way, but being hyperbolic here,

(07:35):
most of them are Bill Clinton.

Speaker 6 (07:37):
Man.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
Bill Clinton was swimming naked with these people. Who's having
a grand old time. Bill Clinton hangs out with a
lot of women. I gotta say, Bill Clinton is a pimp,
and I mean that in the colloquial street sense of
the word, not in the actual dictionary definition. Anyway, That's
what's going on there. Let's see what else we got
going on here Epstein file. Let's see Clinton in the

(08:02):
hot to barely see anything about Ed Trompito and those things.
Last week they put out a week before, they put
out a picture of Trump, and there were some images
of him with a few women, like attractive younger women,
and their faces were blocked out. Turned out they were
all like, you know, in their twenties. They weren't miners
or anything, and they weren't a secret but the Democrats

(08:25):
decided to block their faces and make it look like
they were younger than they were, like protecting the identity
of the of a minor or something, when in reality.

Speaker 6 (08:35):
These are people that just were like, hey, are you
Donald Trump? I want to take a picture with you.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
Really, It's just crazy the way they do what they do,
but they do it. And I want to keep today's
show light and fun, not a lot of heavy political stuff.

Speaker 6 (08:47):
I just want to talk about I don't.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
Know what it's gonna be, like a morning drive radio
show where we talk about a whole lot of fun
stuff minus to traffic and weather and just keeping it
fun and light.

Speaker 6 (08:58):
There's a viral story it's blowing up today.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
The couple they meet when she slides into his DMS
after a chance, you know, to get to know each other.
The sparks fly a little bit. She flies all the
way to Ireland to meet this guy in person, and boom,
a proposal happens right under the cliffs. Millions watching their journey,
commenting all over social media like when's the wedding? I'm

(09:24):
bringing the air fryer. It's literally pure romantic comedy magic.
It reminds us that love is still out there. There's
no app, no algorithm needed, just courage and a plane ticket.

Speaker 8 (09:37):
Right.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
If there's that spark, you follow it. There's an old
saying it's better to have loved and lost than to
have never loved at all. And I would say three
to four days out of the week I believe that.
Then there's days right now, but I will say I've
been in love twice. Most days, I'll say it was
worth it each time.

Speaker 6 (09:58):
Anyway.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Then there's also a quick lifestyle hit that I want
to talk about, the quarter zip. Right this is the
uh I guess, the the pullover dajure. It's a viral
fashion takeover. According to what I'm reading here, guys are
ditching hoodies for that classy pullover vibe.

Speaker 6 (10:18):
I think that's true. Quarter zips are a lot of fun.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
They're versatile, you know, for the guys that drink macha
instead of cofasitos and Joan Didion, you better have her
quotes ready because you kind of look sophisticated comfortable, definitely,
rich Veld does approved. I only have one or two,
and I don't wear them all the time, only because
I like to be able to take things off without

(10:43):
using the pullover feature, right. I don't like to slide
them over my head, so I prefer the full zip
as opposed to the quarter zip. But hey, who am
I Anyway, you gotta stay sharp, and the quarter zips
are good because you know you don't have to tuck
them in. So if the belly grows a little bit
after that, no chebuena dinner, the feast for the holidays,

(11:06):
well guess what you know, you can kind of hide
it a little bit better, especially when you're taking those
family photos and you don't have to have any fair
need spilling out of your shirt.

Speaker 6 (11:17):
Anyway.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
The good news is stacking up, like presence under the
Christmas tree. We got lower bills, lower gas prices, the
Epstein stuff coming out, no edge trumpito anywhere inside. The
love is in the air with this couple that just
met and got married in the UK, or I should say,
in Scotland, and those things are all fine.

Speaker 6 (11:39):
And dandy and I love it.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
Now.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
If you want to chime in on any of that stuff,
plus other stuff that I'm going to get to, give
me a call. You know the number eight seven seven
Valdes one, that's eight seven seven.

Speaker 6 (11:50):
I hope I get to some of your calls today.
I may not.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
Eight twenty five thirty three seventy one. Don't go anywhere.
I'm Rich Valdez.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
This is America. This is America, all.

Speaker 6 (12:38):
Right, and he goes, welcome back.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
It's rich Valdes Valdeste with an s that Rich Valdesta
on all of the social media. And I want to
get into a few things. I forgot to mention something
I teased. I think yesterday's show I talked about Kim Madiadis,
the former vice president of these United States. Kamala Harris
cam Madadis means how bad she is in Spanish and

(13:01):
how bad you are technically. And I didn't get to
the clip of kem Alidis. I'm going to get to
it today. I promised a little bit later. But in
addition to ke Malidas, you got Michelle Obama, she's out
there making the rounds. There's a bunch of different people
out there making the rounds. Jasmine Crockets out there making
the rounds, you know, just a few funny ones. And

(13:24):
I don't know, I just don't feel like getting to
that stuff right now. I want to keep it.

Speaker 8 (13:29):
You know.

Speaker 4 (13:29):
Those people get my blood pressure going, and I like
to keep my blood pressure kind of cool, like a cucumber,
if you know what I mean. You know, every now
and again, if I can be so bold as to
go off my notepad here every now and again, I
want to just have fun. I started in radio on
the weekends, and weekend radios is a lot of fun

(13:52):
because it's the weekend, right, so you get to experiment
with things that you.

Speaker 6 (13:57):
Don't normally get to do.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
You get to do different tops, get you could do
whatever you want right because it's a chiller atmosphere. It's
not like, here's the hustle and bustle of everything going
on today. It's either Saturday or Sunday, and it's usually
a recap taking it easy, that type of thing. I
think that's kind of how I got my whole radio vibe,
you know, trying to have fun on the radio all
the time because it was it was so much fun.

(14:20):
And then I had a Monday through Friday show ten
am to noon, and that was more news focused, but
because of the day part, people were already at work,
so it wasn't like a drivetime type of thing, so
you could be a little more serious and you had
to be more informative, but still equally as entertaining. Hopefully right,
fingers crossed. But every now and again, I just wish

(14:43):
I could do a I don't know, like a segment
like the ones that you.

Speaker 6 (14:47):
Hear on music radio.

Speaker 4 (14:48):
I think they have so much fun in music radio,
you know, like there's the one, the big famous show.
It's everywhere, I guess, but I used to hear it
in New York City where the and the girl they
do a skit, right, a little prank call on somebody
and they're like, oh, yeah, you just want a bunch
of flowers?

Speaker 6 (15:05):
Who do you want to give them to?

Speaker 4 (15:07):
And it's to catch people that are being unfaithful and
they're like, oh, I want to send it to my wife,
or usually they don't say that, though, they usually go, oh,
you know, let's say the wife's name is Debbie they're like, yeah,
I want to send it to Jane. And they're like okay,
and what do you want the card to say? It
comes to a free message, Jane, I love you. You're
the best. You mean the world to me. Ever since

(15:29):
I met you, my life has changed. You make every
breath worth breathing, you know, these types of things, And
then all of a sudden, Debbie comes on the line.
She's like, how dare you you pig unbelievable. If you've
never heard it, I think it's called War the Roses.
It's fantastic and they do an amazing job of that.
And I've always said I want to do something like that,

(15:50):
but more in my wheelhouse, you know, using some of
my Project Veritas roots, some of the undercover stuff I
used to do with James O'Keeffe, and maybe like, you know,
do a call and I don't know, just switch it up,
become somebody different, you know, become somebody British and Hello,
my name is Christopher Steel. I'm a British agent. I

(16:11):
don't know you know the Hello. My name is Raj
Gumard Makijani. I'm garding on behalf of there, you know
something where we fool somebody and we get them to
say some crazy stuff, but it's contradictory and it goes
in line with what we're saying.

Speaker 6 (16:27):
I've never really put the idea.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
Into practice per se, because you know, Monday through Friday,
late night radio, that type of thing, this show, streaming, podcast,
all that, It just it just didn't materialize. I didn't
have the team in place to make that happen. But
it's something I'd like to do. So I'm going to
be relying on you, we the people, the American people,

(16:51):
everybody that's listening right now, who I want to think.
By the way, you guys have left some amazing reviews
for our podcast, for or program, for the Facebook page,
for all that stuff. I mean, these five star reviews
have just been amazing. And if you think they don't matter,
they do. People really do listen to what you have
to say, and it helps with the promotion of the show.

(17:13):
It helps for the discovery of the show. More people
listen to it, more people hear about it. Obviously, the
more listeners you have, the more it is, the better
it is for all of us. So continue to do that,
and I want to thank everybody that's taken the two
or three minutes that it takes to leave a review
and to put a comment in there, it means the
world to me and I really appreciate it. Thank you

(17:35):
and godspeed to you, and the same thing for those
that are doing it on Facebook. But I'm going to
be leaning on you guys, we the people of the
American people, because I want to do more of that stuff,
and we're going to have a little bit more flexibility
moving forward to do those types of things that are
a little bit more fun where maybe we could set
up some libs right and try and bamboozle them over
the phone without breaking any laws. And if that's something

(17:57):
we're able to do, I want to do it, but
I need your help to think about it. So I
need your help for those reviews. I need your help
to share this stuff on your social media. Just share
the link to the show rich Veldes dot com or
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or any link you want. Just share it somewhere on
social so that one or two, or three or ten
or one hundred people can hear it, and let's keep

(18:18):
the momentum going. Just because it's the holidays, doesn't mean
we slow down, and I mean we can slow down
a little bit, right. I will continue to give you shows,
and some of our production staff is a little bit,
you know, taking time off, So that's why some of
these programs are getting to you a little bit later
than you'd like. And I appreciate your patience on that.

(18:39):
But ultimately, one of the things that I think is
most important here is is having that audience participation. So
if you guys have those have those ideas, then feel
free to call in if especially after the show's over,

(18:59):
you can go ahead and call in and you're guaranteed
to get the voicemail. So it's eight seven seven eight
twenty five thirty three seventy one. Leave a message, keep
it to about a minute because I think it times out,
and let me know what you're thinking, and we'll start
doing some of these, maybe uh, you know, skits to
get underneath the skin of the limbs, and maybe we'll
call James o'keeffen do an interview with him and see

(19:21):
what he comes up with, how he might want to
pursue that.

Speaker 6 (19:25):
That might be fun too.

Speaker 4 (19:26):
Anyway, I'm enjoying the conversation with you guys, and he goes,
and there's a couple of stories I want to share
with you that are a little bit lighter in nature,
and I'm going to get to them momentarily, but just
to give you a tease of what they are.

Speaker 6 (19:40):
Let me see.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
Let me see eight people won the lottery inspired by
either a dream or their pet's birthday. Isn't that wild?
That's fantastic. I'll get into that a little bit, lare.
It's perfect for our Midnight Zoo. Right The Midnight Zoo
is the midnight hour. And I used to do all
these stories and they for whatever, and there was animals
in them, so it became known as the Midnight Zoo

(20:03):
my production package for that. Anyway, I don't have the
audio that I wanted to get to, So what I'm
gonna do is, I'm gonna take a quick pause right here.
We're going to come back rack that audio. Make sure
you guys are ready to go when we come back,
and uh, we'll continue.

Speaker 6 (20:16):
Don't go anywhere.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
This is a Maria. This is a Maria.

Speaker 4 (20:57):
All right, amigos, welcome back. I've been over here with
you guys on a Friday night. Happy to be with you.
It's truly a blessing rich faldek richveldesk dot com and oh,
the deep state is getting into our music over here,
I see. Anyway, I want to get into this stuff here.
Of course, yesterday I said I wanted to talk about
ke mana edis the Vice President of the United States,

(21:19):
and I will I also want to get into this
Michelle Obama stuff and a couple others that we've got here,
because really it's just kind of crazy.

Speaker 6 (21:27):
Plus that crazy lottery story. We're going to do that
as well.

Speaker 4 (21:29):
But I want to start with this right because it's here,
it's in front of me, and really there's just so
many interesting stories. But Michelle Obama says, look, look, after
the last four years or five years or six seven
years that they've been saying there's an attack on democracy,
we don't have democracy. Trump is a tyrant, he's a dictator,
he's an autocrat, whatever they call him.

Speaker 6 (21:50):
Fascist.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
Right now, she says, no, no, no, no, it's not
that we don't have a democracy anymore. We have democracy.
It's actually your fault for not participating in the democracy.
Isn't that something?

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Check this out for the young black girls who didn't
grow up with you, Sasha and Melia in the White House,
but are growing up in a moment when their very
identities are under attack and their history is being a race.
I mean Mlkday and Juneteenth have been removed as free
days at national parks, for instance. What message do you

(22:23):
have for them vote?

Speaker 9 (22:26):
I mean, it's always my message. You know, where we
are isn't a statement of the failure of our democracy.
You know, it is the failure of people to engage
in the democracy that's here. You know, people fought and
died for the right to vote. My father wouldn't have

(22:48):
thought about not voting, and things were way worse for
my father and his father than they were for any
of us today, and there would never have been a
situation where he felt like, ah, I'm not gonna bother
or everyone's the same, so I'm not going to engage.

Speaker 6 (23:06):
Well, hold on, skirt, skirt, skirt, hold hold your horses.

Speaker 4 (23:11):
I want to know something, madam, first, Lady Michelle, Michelle, Michelle,
are you giving El Trombito a ringing endorsement here? Because
it seems like you're saying that America is better today
than it was before, And I've heard you say that
you've never been proud of America.

Speaker 6 (23:26):
So I like this shift. And that was when your
husband was president.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
So if back then you were never proud of America,
but today you're saying things are better for us today
than they were before, then, maybe the fact that El
Trompito as president now has something to do with it now.
Of course, I'm doing a little word play here, messing
around with Michelle Obama, But the reality is I actually
agree with some of these comments, right. I agree that

(23:51):
you know, not that you don't get to complain if
you don't participate, but you definitely should be participating and complain. Right,
You've got to do both. I think everybody's got a
If I could learn how to speak, it'd be great.
Everybody has a right to complain. I don't think you
lose your right to complain just because he didn't vote.

(24:12):
It just means less people are gonna listen you don't.
What you lose is your credibility, and you can choose
to live life with credibility or without. I've lived on
both sides of that fence, and when I was a
new barber, I remember, you know, I'm always eager to
cut somebody's hair When I didn't have a clientele, and
I was like, hey, I got you. Come on, and

(24:34):
you know, people were very reluctant, staring at the haircut,
the entire haircut, looking in the mirror, making sure like, oh,
this guy really know what he's doing.

Speaker 6 (24:42):
He looks kind of young.

Speaker 4 (24:43):
I don't know, right, And even when back when I
had hair, I still shaved my head, so it was
always kind of my look and you know, think, oh,
the bald barber, a bald barber, what's that guy gonna
do for me? He doesn't even cut his own hair,
he doesn't have any hair. So you know, I was
used to kind of prove myself at that stage of life,

(25:04):
and I get that, and that's still part of how
life works now, right, there's still a part of that
because that's part of the grit that we develop.

Speaker 6 (25:16):
It's part of the.

Speaker 4 (25:17):
Sticktuitiveness that you need to have in order to succeed
in life. But I do agree that America is better
today than it was before, and I think there are
times from before that were slightly better than they are now.
Maybe not necessarily the economy, but when you look back
and you say, all right, with respect to I don't
know the world prers. Could we consider that great? I

(25:44):
would say, yeah, I would say, how bad was the
world doing when Vanderbilt was building that castle that he
has that he calls a mansion over on the Gold
Coast of Long Island, along with all these other mega
rich people that build these little literally castle like homes
palatial estates. Right, there's one that literally is a castle today.

(26:09):
It's called Ohica Castle. These things were all private homes
that are rich and famous. How do you think people
got that rich and that famous. Those homes are worth
millions today? What do you think they cost back then?
Exactly my point? Exactly my point. So those people were
rich back then, and there are rich people today. And
not that rich is the standard for success in every measure, No,

(26:35):
But the point I'm making is that certain things are
better today. Certain things were really great back then, when
they were building the railroad infrastructure, when they were building
Grand Central Station, all sorts of stuff like that that
just isn't happening today.

Speaker 6 (26:49):
But we have AI. And while a lot of people
don't like AI.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
And I was having an interesting conversation with my friend
Ruben the Cuban, you know, you know his story came
here on ajet Ski loves the Erica hard working guy
good man, not a fan of Trump's. I would have
thought that we were on different sides on most things,
but we're not. And he's telling me about how dangerous
he thinks it is to get all this AI. And

(27:13):
he said, we're eventually setting ourselves up to no longer
be a connected people, to no longer need as much
human labor as we do, which will ultimately turn us
into a welfare state because we'll have too many people
that can't afford to be alone at home without work.
And I thought to myself, I think you might be

(27:34):
onto something. So I'm wondering what happens there? Do we
And he was criticizing it in the sense that this
is reminiscent of communist Cuba and how the state promised
to take care of people, and Elon Musk recently making
comments similar to that, saying that we're going to get
to a point where we're going to have to have
some sort of universal basic income because that would would

(27:58):
be the only way given the AI. And I think
that was a scary comment for a lot of people.
I mean definitely was an eye opener for me, not
just for context. I want you to hear what he said.
He said this at the one of those Saudi US
summits with respect to all of the foreign investment.

Speaker 6 (28:21):
Listen to this.

Speaker 10 (28:22):
I think we're headed to a radically different world. I think,
I think a good world, an interesting world. My prediction
actually for humanoid robots is that ultimately there will be.

Speaker 7 (28:38):
Tens of billions.

Speaker 10 (28:40):
I think everyone will want to have their personal robot.
You can think of it like as though you had
your own personal C three PO or R two D
two or even better, then who wouldn't want to have
their own personal C three PO R two D two.
That would be pretty great. And I also think it

(29:03):
unlocks an immense amount of economic potential because when you
think of like what is the output of an economy,
it is productivity per capita at times population or capita.
The Once you have humanoid robots, the actual economic output
potential is tremendous. It's really unlimited.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
But of course, right they don't get tired, they're robots.
There are work courses. So I see what you're saying,
La Musk, but I think you're seeing it from the
lens of a trillionaire.

Speaker 6 (29:40):
Maybe I'm wrong. Go ahead, play to.

Speaker 10 (29:42):
Say, potentially we could have an economy ten times the
size of the current global economy where no one wants
for anything. You know, sometimes in AI they talk about
universal basic income. I think it's actually going to be
uni versal high income, where anyone can have any goods

(30:06):
or services that they want. Now, there obviously are some risks,
you know, which illustrate perhaps the if we don't do
this right, you know, you could have like a James
Cameron sort of movie, you know, Terminator. We don't want
that one.

Speaker 6 (30:24):
But now that's a stark warning.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
We don't do this right, we're going to get a
doomsday scenario with a robot that kills people.

Speaker 6 (30:32):
No, thank you, sir, But.

Speaker 10 (30:34):
Having sort of a star trek future would be great
where we're out there exploring the stars, discovering the nature
of the universe and and a level of prosperity and
hopefully happiness that we can't quite imagine yet.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
That is Elon Musk again at that US Saudi Investment summit,
and he said a lot of things there again, a
lot of it's pie in the sky for me because
I'm not in his shoes, but for a guy like
him who says everybody's gonna have a robot. Hey, maybe
he's right for a guy like him that says, hey,
we're all gonna have high income. It's not the first
one I've heard say that. I've heard of people tell

(31:15):
me that we're people are going to start retiring at
fifty and just getting this universal income based off the
tariffs and other revenue sources that the President is put
in line, the Sovereign Wealth Fund and others that will
pay off the national debt and create a stream for
this basic income in America. Now, it sounds nice, you know,

(31:36):
in theory I would suppose to some people, but I
think it also creates problems. It also creates a scenario
where we've got people that don't know how to fend
for themselves and now they're literally drowning in a cup
of water. We don't need that, and I think that
we're close to that if we don't play our cards right.
So I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, may even right.

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Speaker 4 (35:59):
Right, and he goes, Welcome back, Rich Valdez, keeping your company,
and I want to bring you up to speed on
a couple of different things. Kind of a break in
tradition here a little bit. Since we're a couple of
days away from Christmas Eve, and I want to get
into this clip of audio that I found. It was
about how dads raised daughters, and I thought it was

(36:21):
very interesting insomuch as it was kind of like conventional
wisdom but turned on its head in that doing what
you think is the right thing isn't always the right thing.
And what I mean by that is maybe not so
much what we think is doing the right thing, but
the I guess unintended consequence, if that makes sense, And

(36:44):
it was really eye opening.

Speaker 6 (36:45):
I've got a clip here. This is a conversation.

Speaker 4 (36:47):
Between the motivational speaker, Tony Robbins and a woman in
the audience who's there with her husband, I suppose. And
you know, like many times at these Tony Robins things,
he talks to people and he's like, you know, what's
your problem? And they go, well, I don't like the
way he puts his socks or I don't like that.

Speaker 8 (37:05):
You know.

Speaker 4 (37:06):
He tries to help them get there, but like usual
and his very raw kind of go straight to the
facts kind of way, he uncovers something that honestly I'd
never heard of, and I thought it was pretty interesting.

Speaker 6 (37:18):
Check this out.

Speaker 8 (37:20):
Your father taught you that his little princess, didn't he? Yes,
he taught you you're perfect, didn't he? He? Really, he
really grew up, didn't Hey?

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (37:33):
Yes, he taught you to expect the man in your
life to be the same as him. But see, there's
only one problem. He didn't have to put up with
your because you valued and admired him.

Speaker 6 (37:44):
Wow, Mike drop moment. Right.

Speaker 4 (37:46):
Your children value and admire you as their father and
as a man. Right, But when they find a man,
does that translate into valuing and admiring that man. I'd
never looked at them from that perspective, and I think
it's abundantly clear that if that isn't there for a
wife and a husband, they're going down a pretty dark

(38:08):
road in my humble opinion.

Speaker 6 (38:10):
Let's go back to the tape.

Speaker 7 (38:11):
Y'are good?

Speaker 6 (38:12):
Right, You're so good?

Speaker 5 (38:16):
Good? Wow?

Speaker 8 (38:18):
Yes, And he didn't have sex with you, so there
wasn't the peace of you feeling a sense of control
over him. It wasn't something you could give or withhold
from him. He would not affect his sense of love
with you, so you had no power. So you worked
to please him and made you believe that love is

(38:38):
something that should be expected and you could take it
away because it was always there from him, and you've
taken it away from this man. I'm not defending anything
this man has done. I don't know what he's done.
I bet he's done some stupid things that he probably
hates himself for that. So of you.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
So Tony Robbins really makes an interesting point here, right
because of this control thing and the ability that women
have to withhold right being in the bedroom with their
husbands and whatnot. And I'm not saying it's everybody and
it's a widespread thing. I'm not saying anything like that.
I'm just saying it's that dynamic that I'd never considered.
The other dynamic is you can right as a dad.

(39:18):
I can tell you have two daughters. The braddiest of moments,
you're like, go to your room, get out of here.
I can't stand you, blah blah blah, whatever it is.
But at the end of the day, if you've done
it right, they know deep down in their heart that
you're always going to be their dad, You're always going
to love them. They're always going to be your little girl,
your princess, and they're always you know, innately, And this

(39:40):
is I think all children, they innately always want to
impress or please their parents.

Speaker 6 (39:48):
That's just the parent child dynamic.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
Some kids work really hard to get away from it
with modern age psychology and things like saying, I'm not
going to be a people pleaser anymore. And they start
with their parents and they go to war with their parents,
and obviously that's the wrong thing to do. And maybe
I'll do a segment on that right after this, because
there's some interesting information out there. But staying on this
theme very interesting. So where is the disconnect and whose

(40:14):
job is it to teach children that they need, at
least female children, right daughters, that they need to cherish
value and you know, otherwise admire the man in their
life the way they have their dad.

Speaker 6 (40:35):
And is it the dad's.

Speaker 4 (40:37):
Job to teach that? I don't know if it is.
Is it the mom's job to teach that. I would
suppose probably better positioned to do it, to say, hey,
look this is why I love your father, et cetera,
et cetera. And I think when that goes away, we
have what we have today, many many relationships that end
poorly because of well, I guess we would call feminism

(41:00):
or what we would call a liberal view, but I
think it's really it's that particular component. And if we
want to get crazy and use a biblical worldview here,
I'd say it's that first Corinthian's idea of love and
even further biblical the idea of wives respect your husbands

(41:23):
and husbands love your wives. Right, these are biblical commands.
Doesn't tell husbands to love their wives. That would be
too easy. I mean, it doesn't tell wives to love
their husbands because that would be too easy. It tells
them to respect them, which is harder for them. So
obviously this is something that God knew was difficult for
us as human beings. But not trying to preach, but

(41:45):
we are close to Jesus' birthday, say hey, why not
share a couple of thoughts on this? But I thought
this was a very interesting thing, and I want to
get your thoughts on it, if you care to chime
in on that, if you want to challenge me on it.
It's not like I came up with this theory, so
I don't mind. I'm happy to hear all the conversation
in the world about it. You know, the number eight
seven seven Veldusk one. But even if we just continued

(42:05):
down this road that leads to ultimately the destruction of
the family. And I don't mean like divorce or anything
like that. I mean literally the destruction of the family.
In so much as if I start to hold my
parents accountable for whatever ills I feel are in my life,
you know, they didn't love me enough, they didn't do

(42:26):
this enough, they weren't prepared enough, whatever you want to
blame on your parents, which is a thing, right, Because
I happen to have social media and I see these
posts that are out there. There's actually a woman I
started following where she talks about one thing every day.
It's the same message in a different way, and I
find it to be interesting because a she reaches a

(42:47):
lot of people, and b I think it's a message
that many of us need to hear. It's ultimately the
message of forgiveness, right, But beyond that, it's particularly stop
being angry with your parents. Even if your parents let
you down, what good is there in holding them responsible forever?

(43:07):
And I just thought it was a really interesting thing
because I haven't heard many people talking about that, saying,
you know, your life will get better the minute you
forgive your parents. Maybe I'm late to the game. But
you know, or maybe I'm spending too much time on
social media one in the other. But that is the
way of the future, right I watch less TV, I
watch more Instagram, more truth social more of the tweets

(43:29):
that I try to stay away from. Honestly, I try
to stay away from them because you can get sucked
into all sorts of rabbit holes with that. Anyway, let
me see if we can get that clip cued up
of this woman. I think her name is Tanya Hazel
or Hazal, and she dedicates herself to talking about the
importance of children forgiving their parents and being able to

(43:50):
move forward in an emotionally healthy manner. And I mean
now and again, I think it's good for us to
talk about these things because mental health is where it's
at for a lot of people, especially in this day
and age, especially for younger people, people that were in
school or deeply, deeply impacted by separation from the world
at an early age.

Speaker 6 (44:09):
And I'm talking about COVID.

Speaker 8 (44:11):
Right.

Speaker 4 (44:11):
If people were in school during COVID and they just
stopped going to school, they're number one social activity. These
kids are still recovering from that. Thank God, I have
a kid that's very precocious. You know, the only one
I had that was in high school at the time.
My other kids were ready in college. But my youngest
daughter who went through that, you know, she is that kid.
She found other ways of being very social. She you know,

(44:32):
talks a lot, and she's very out there. She was
a cheerleader. But not everybody's like that. And I saw
it even with her, how withdrawn she became because nobody
could go out and the world changed, and that's affected people,
and I think some people were holding their parents responsible
for that. So we're going to get into that in
the next segment. If we could get that clip, try
and get that cued up for me, which thank you,

(44:53):
and I mean goes keep it locked right here. I'm
Rich Valdez.

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Rich Valdez, all right, and he goes, welcome back.

Speaker 4 (45:32):
Now our parents to blame, our parents, to blame for
everything that's going on in one's life under the sun,
I say not so much. I'm sure there are cases
where parents are directly responsible for, you know, so many
of the things that happened, but there's also cases where
we have to say, hold on a second, am I
looking for a fall guy? I looking for the person

(45:54):
to blame when I've got to take this up with
God and just say, you know, God, what's the way
forward here?

Speaker 6 (46:00):
How do I move forward?

Speaker 4 (46:01):
Instead of in regret and in anger, but in just
looking past it and saying, look, I'm not going to
let this situation control me or shape my future. And
I guess that's a level of maturity that many of
us haven't reached. I know I'm not always like that.
There's times where I say no, no, you did this
and you're paying right, that's what our these fleshly bodies

(46:21):
we live and like to respond that way. But some
people are getting it and some people are talking about it.
So the question becomes, if you are at odds with
your parents, with your family in general, do you now
say you know what? The answer to this is called boundaries,
But by boundaries you really mean isolation, right, instead of
saying a boundary being look, I'm going to go there,

(46:42):
but I'm not going to talk about this or I'm
going to go there, but I'm not going to allow
myself to become angered by the things that you know
tick me off that so and so does my.

Speaker 6 (46:52):
Mom, my dad, my aunt, whomever. Right, those are boundaries.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
What a boundary is not is saying I've decided to
make a boundary. I no longer to to my mom.
That's crazier. I cut my sister off. That's the boundary.
These aren't boundaries. This is the devil's work, right. This
is the destruction of the family that's not as God
intended it to be. I think I can say that
pretty authoritatively from why because I've read my Bible and
hopefully you are too. But ultimately, this is one of

(47:19):
those things that I think we need to listen to
and is the answer? Isolation is the answer? Cutting everyone off?
Is that really how you're going to get better and heal?
Check this out.

Speaker 12 (47:28):
There is an emotional cost of a disconnected generation, and
we don't realize how deep this runs. We think estrangement
is just about family fights or parents and children not talking,
but it's so much bigger than that. We're living through
a mental health crisis that didn't appear out of nowhere. Depression, anxiety,
suicide is at the highest levels it's ever been. And yes,
there are many reasons, but one of the biggest least

(47:49):
talked about is human and love disconnection. It's created a
generation that's emotionally starving and fragile, a generation that's being
told independence means isolation, that you don't need anyone, that
family is optional, that if someone hurts you, you cut
them off, and then we wonder why people are so lonely,
angry and depressed. When you remove family, you remove the foundation.
You remove the place where people learn forgiveness, patience, resilience,

(48:12):
love that isn't performative. You remove belonging, and once belonging
is gone, identity becomes unstable. People start attaching themselves to
trends and communities online and anything that fills the gap,
but it never truly fills it. It just distracts them
from the ache. And yes, emotional regulation starts in childhood
through connection. When a child feels safe, seen and loved,

(48:34):
they learn to regulate emotion. And when that bond is broken,
whether through trauma, neglect, or this new culture of cutting
them off, that regulation disappears.

Speaker 4 (48:43):
So hold on a second again, This is Tanya Khazal.
I think she's making a lot of sense. Are we
teaching people through modern age psychotherapy? Or bad advice, however
you want to phrase it to isolate and disconnect from
what matters most in life, their familial bonds, their mom,
their dad, their siblings, their family. And does she have

(49:05):
a point here that when you cut off your family,
are you now eliminating your sense of belonging?

Speaker 6 (49:11):
Do you now feel like you do not belong?

Speaker 4 (49:13):
Do you feel like an outcast in every situation because
you've decided to respond this way. So we hit the
pause button for a second and say, if I were
to approach this differently, if I were to say hold on,
instead of me attacking all of these people and saying
I'm cutting you off, I'm cutting you off. I'm creating
these quote unquote boundaries where nobody's allowed to cross them anymore.

(49:35):
And you're now on an island by yourself. You're the
happiest person ever, but you got no one around you,
and you think that's fantastic.

Speaker 6 (49:41):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (49:42):
Is that a win? Is that a w? I think
she's making sense here. In effect, what's happening is we
are creating or normalizing this idea of being an island.
It's exactly opposite of the ecclisia, right, what the Greek
calls the church body of believers. Right, they call it
the body of Christ. And again, I don't mean to

(50:03):
sound like I'm preaching over here, but this is I
think worldview one on one. If you're not part of
the group, you're an outcast. Why would we volunteer ourselves
to become outcasts? Because then, like she says, you fall
into everything else. This is part of the rise of
people becoming trans people falling into all sorts of rabbit holes,

(50:25):
people falling into all sorts of things that happen when
you're in isolation and you break apart from the tribe,
the family.

Speaker 12 (50:33):
Go ahead, and now we have adults who can't sit
with that discomfort, who shut down or explode when life
gets hard. And then they call it a mental illness.
But mental illness, but a lot of it is just
emotional starvation. And you have to think about it. We're
the most connected generation online at the most disconnected generation
in real life.

Speaker 4 (50:53):
Are we really mentally ill or is it, like she
just said, just emotional starvation? Are people feeling anxious and
overly anxious and dealing with anxiety disorders and panic disorders
and depression because they've opted to cut off their family
in thinking that the family was the source of all

(51:13):
their problems. Are they actually exacerbating a problem that could
have been solved by maybe better communication or changing their
worldview right, changing the way they were seeing the situation
and realizing these people aren't the problem, They're part of
my solution.

Speaker 6 (51:33):
Just the thought. Yeahead, play to tay.

Speaker 12 (51:35):
People are scrolling for hours a day, comparing their lives,
chasing validation, pretending they're healed while silently falling apart inside.
And then they post about protecting their peace while crying
themselves to sleep. Because peace doesn't come from cutting everyone out.
It comes from connection and love. And everywhere you look,
people are breaking. Young adults in their twenties and thirties
are medicated, lonely lost, parents are grieving, they're living children.

(51:59):
Children are unresolved resentment instead of understanding, and society keeps
cheering this on like its growth.

Speaker 6 (52:05):
She's one hundred percent right here. This isn't growth.

Speaker 4 (52:09):
Breaking families in the name of preserving and protecting your peace.
Uh uh, This to me sounds like people are getting
bamboozled by clever Instagram quotes that fly in the face
of reality.

Speaker 12 (52:25):
Go ahead, and this is emotional extinction. It's raising generations
that don't know how to repair, how to apologize, how
to sit and discomfort, how to communicate effectively, how to
rebuild trust. They know how to leave, they know how
to block, how to disappear, but not how to heal.
And that's why suicides are rates are climbing because you
can't medicate what's missing when what's missing is a human connection.

(52:46):
It's not all hopeless, but it does take courage to
talk again, to reach out again, to love again, even
when it hurts, because real healing is found in repairing
the bonds that shaped us, even if it takes time,
even if it means forgiving people who didn't know better.
And you can't keep labeling everything else talksic just because
it's imperfect, or replacing connection with content. If we want

(53:06):
to stop this emotional crisis, we have to start at home.

Speaker 6 (53:09):
We have to.

Speaker 12 (53:10):
Rebuild where the break even started, because every healed family
creates a ripple, and that ripple might be the very
thing that saves the next generation from falling apart.

Speaker 4 (53:19):
Wow again, Tanya Khazal, I think she's hit the nail
on the head here. And if she doesn't have a book.
I don't see a book that she's written, but she
should write one, and you should follow her on YouTube
or wherever you see her. I see her on Instagram
every now and again. But let me tell you really
really smart stuff here, because I think she's figured out

(53:40):
through her own experience that I've seen her share about
that she had this problem with alienating her own parents
and fascinating to me, right, fascinating something so simple, Right,
it's very Freudian, Right, everything Freud says everything goes back
to your parents, I guess sure, but not in the
way that I think Freud took it the other direction.
Every problem you has have is because of your parents.

(54:04):
She's saying, every problem you have can be solved by
strengthening the relationship with your parents and strengthening the family unit.
How's that for a novel idea and one that is
way more in line with at least the view of
the world that I have and I think many of
my listeners do as well, that we believe in family. Right,

(54:25):
in a couple of days, it's gonna be Christmas Eve,
and we're gonna be celebrating at least, if you know,
like in my family, it's the noche went up party
on Christmas Day is not much of anything in many
Hispanic households, even the ones that are Americans of Hispanic descent,
because the culture runs deep, and we love our culture
and we like to roast that pork. And guess what,

(54:45):
you know, people who don't like pork, they probably won't
enjoy themselves at a Puerto Rican Christmas. But if you do,
you're gonna have some roast pork shoulder. You're gonna have
those those green bananas made into bastelas if you ever
had those that has pork inside of it as well,
and they're boiled and then prepared in this banana leaf.

(55:07):
I mean, really is. I guess it's an acquired taste
for some. I know a lot of people who don't
like bastendas. And then of course the age old coquito,
right our coquito, which is that rum infused condensed milk
with coconut water or coconut milk. I'm not sure of
the recipe, but it is fantastic. And anyway, I'm getting

(55:30):
off topic here. Bottom line here with this is I
think miss Hazal are Kasal, excuse me, I think she's
onto something big here do we as people advance and
make progress and heal by getting rid of quote unquote

(55:50):
toxic family members. Now, I know the easy thing. It
sounds like saying, look, these people are toxic, They're like cancer.
I gotta cut them out and then I'll be better.
And I know some people in the beginning of that
they think that that's the answer. And I'm speaking from
my own experience, right, I never thought my mom was toxic,
but I knew we argued. But I you know, me
being the jokesterre I am, I always say she's a

(56:12):
dinosaur lady. You know, I'd say you're like a t rex.
All you do is yellow. Yeah, every time I come in,
you're all you do is yellow? And she you know,
it was that type of love hate banter. But I
never not came for the fight. I always came for
the fight. And that's just how it worked. That's you know,
my mom was going to say something that she didn't
like and I dealt with that. And I think that's

(56:32):
kind of how we all do it. But this New
age psychology tells us that whether it's your parents or
not right, your boss, whoever, I mean, somehow we all
have these rights that we didn't have before. A couple
of weeks back, maybe a couple of months ago, you
know me and my quote unquote time blindness. I talked
about something called the gen Z stare, and the gen

(56:54):
Z stare is something that, again to me, is emblematic
of this. When you talk to a gen Z person
and they think that you're off your rocker because you're
supposed to know the answer to the question you're asking,
they will give you this look like are you stupid
or retarded?

Speaker 6 (57:07):
Forgive the use.

Speaker 4 (57:07):
Of the R word there, but that type of approach
is I think part of what's taking this society down
the tubes. Suicides are up, transsexuals are up, all sorts
of people going off the deep end here. Just tell
your parents you love them, figure it out and follow this,
Lady Tanya Gazal, All right, guys, I'm Rich Faldesk coming

(57:27):
right at richfald Deesk on all of the social media,
and I just want to remind you guys that I
want to thank you again. I should say, right, there's
so many of you that listen to this show, and
I know you're used to listening to a longer version.
And we did a two hour version, and quite honestly,
it was just a lot on the production team. But
we may advance to that two hours that I promised

(57:48):
you in the new year. Just with the holidays and
the transition to the new platform, it's been you know,
different people, different schedules, so it's not that easy to
crank things out, and I know there's been some delays,
so forgive me for that. But the intention is for
you to be able to check in at Richveldes dot

(58:08):
com or iHeartRadio or your app or however you listening
to the show and have a brand new episode for
that day at nine pm, and we will have that
for you. Of course, I'm asking you for some grace
as we are navigating the holiday season and you know,
some of us already half in the bag drinking the coquito.

(58:29):
Not me, of course, but I want to thank you
for all of the support. I've seen so many positive
comments online and just to let you know the project
we're working on is going well. There's just a lot
of people involved, there's a lot some travel involved, and
those are things that I'm ready to go, you know me,
I've got my foot on the gas, ready to rock

(58:49):
and roll. But there is, there's a lot. There's a
lot to do, but I suspect that between the beginning
of the year and the middle of the year or
summertime around the fifteenth, it might be the middle of
the January to the end of the year, perhaps that
might be where we start to target an announcement on

(59:12):
a new syndication that is coming your way and in
conjunction with seeing my face for radio in addition to
hearing my voice. So I'm excited about that. A lot
of this stuff we're doing is non exclusive, leaving the
door open for further expansion because that is the name
of the game in this world. And an exciting time,

(59:35):
a really exciting time. And I'm grateful to each and
every one of you, the listeners that have been on
board since day one. I'm talking since twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen,
but thank you from the bottom of my heart. And
of course, as we head into the weekend next week,
we've got Amfest happening over the weekend. That's America Fests,
Charlie Kirk's big annual gathering, and this is going to

(59:58):
be the first one without Charlie Kirk, so we will
have somebody on the ground joining us on Monday. I
believe our buddy Kevin Smith from the Long Island Loud
Majority is going to be joining us.

Speaker 6 (01:00:09):
Kevin Smith's cool guy.

Speaker 4 (01:00:11):
Him and Sean Farish did an amazing job with all
of their partners with Long Island Loud Majority because the
Silent Majority was silent no more, and they did an
amazing job and the team that they put together was fantastic,
still rocking and rolling with activism and getting people excited
about elections and whatnot. So kudos to them and Kevin Smith,

(01:00:35):
he's former MMA fighter by the way, he'll be joining
us from Amfest to give us the scoop on what
happened at Amfest on the Monday night show. And of
course Astal Aproxima take care, good night, and God bless
you America. And I always say when we wrap up
the show, you have to stand for something, because if

(01:00:56):
you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. And the
only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good
people like you, miamigos, my familia to sit there and
do nothing. So it's time for you to do what
you gotta do, stand on what you stand on, and
get her done. I'm rich Valdaz and this is America.

Speaker 5 (01:01:16):
This is America.