Sedition, Stupidity, Spacey

Thursday, Rich calls out the seditious Democrat members of Congress for their shameless subversion of the military chain of command disguised as well-intentioned free speech. Then, more stupidity from Jasmine Crockett as she doubles down on her error. Plus, Kevin Spacey says he's struggling for work after his #MeToo acquittal in court. 

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(00:48):
The Komy indictment, the judge seems absolutely steadfast on making
sure they throw this thing out of court. Now it's
not thrown out of court yet. Man, it seems like
the judge is on his side. Wow. Anyway, I'll get
into that in a little bit. Also, you got a
Democrat congresswoman indicted for stealing disaster funds who would have thunked.
Huh wow. And the Democrats are back at it again,

(01:11):
this time telling troops to refuse illegal orders. Now, the
problem is that the commander in chief isn't giving any
illegal orders. You see, the Democrats. They released this video yesterday,
and you've probably heard the audio. You've probably seen the
video somewhere. If you haven't seen the video or you
haven't heard the audio, which I'm sure you have. It
came out last night. I could have played it last night.

(01:32):
I just didn't get into it because I wanted to
see how this would snowball. And man, it's snowballing, right.
President Trump taking exception to this, saying this is sedition
and it is punishable by death. That causing a stir
in the media, which again he is an expert at.
But listen to what these people say, because they're really
they're really, really trying to goad people here, it seems.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Talking Senator Mark Kelly, Representative Chris Deluzio.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Congressman Magi Goodlander, Representative Chrissy Wholahan, Congressman Jason crow. I
was a captain in the United States.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Navy, former CIA officer, former Navy, former paratrooper, and Army ranger,
former intelligence officer.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Former Air Force.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
We want to speak directly to members of the military.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
And the intelligence community to take risks each day to
keep Americans safe.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Americans trust their military, but that trust is at risk.

Speaker 5 (02:22):
This administration is pitting our uniform military.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
And intelligence community professionals against American citizens like us.

Speaker 6 (02:29):
You all swore an oath.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
To protect and defend this Constitution.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
Right now, the threats to our constitution aren't just coming
from a broad but from right here at home.

Speaker 7 (02:37):
Our laws are clear.

Speaker 6 (02:39):
You can refuse illegal orders.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
You can refuse illegal orders.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
You must refuse illegal orders.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
No one has to carry out orders that violate the
law or our constitution.

Speaker 5 (02:50):
We know this is hard and that it's a difficult
time to be a public servant.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
But whether you're serving in the CIA.

Speaker 8 (02:55):
The Army, or Navy, the Air Force.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Your vigilance is critical that we have your back because
now more than.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
Ever, the American people need you.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
We need you to stand up for our laws on
the Constitution and who we are as Americans. Don't give up.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Don't give up, don't give up, don't give up the.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Ship, don't give up the ship. My goodness, it's like
they're shoveling the ship in everybody's direction. Now, they've done
this before, right, I mean, we've seen this happen, right,
Not with illegal orders. That's the latest scam. And I've
got to say, I look at this and I say,

(03:35):
this is nothing more than a handful of Democrats. Handful.
There was four of them there, right, maybe five, I
don't really know how to count that well, but four
or five Democrats that were once in military service are
now veterans. None of them are currently serving as reservists,
so they can't be court martialed or anything like that.
And now they have this opinion that Ed Trumpito is

(03:57):
giving you illegal orders. At least they're trying to create
that image. It doesn't seem that way to me, right,
But again, we've seen this before. Democrats will do anything
to maintain power, including manipulating the truth to drive a
wedge into the body politic. This is what Marxists do.
We've seen it with the Mueller investigation. Right, they launched

(04:17):
a forty million dollar investigation to quote unquote Russian collusion
and they know it never happened. Why because it was
entirely fabricated by the fake phony fraud, dirty dossier from
the British spy Christopher Steele. Did it stop them? They
knew if they could create this Heglian mind trap, people

(04:40):
would fall for it, and they feed it to their
friends in the media. They give it to their most
loyal base and Valla. What else did we say? We
saw them impeacha President right, not once, but twice, once
for a phone call. As Trump would say, it was
a perfect phone call, perfect perfect call. And he was right.
He's allowed to make phone calls. Can't get impea each
for speaking on the phone. But he did. And then

(05:03):
again we saw him when he wasn't even president anymore,
the ex post facto impeachment. That was a first, by
the way. Now, let's not forget the entire sham where
they hired the former president of ABC News to run
the January sixth Committee to make it look like President
Trump waged war on the United States, only for absolutely
nothing to come of it except the reelection of Donald Trump.

(05:26):
So kudos to ed Trumpito, and of course thousands of
people being pardoned after that for being wrongfully imprisoned. This
is what the Democrats do They specialize in creating these
Hegalian mind traps, these vast manipulations of reality to try
to emotionally manipulate people into a place where they can

(05:51):
just get you to freak out.

Speaker 7 (05:53):
You know.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
So now we're at a time where you're allowed to
refuse an illegal order, and then they do it. I
don't know what I'm gonna say this like staggered format
where they just the clip is you must, you must,
you must the illegal orders illegal, or making it sound
like every member of Congress, right, because you always got
to remember what's the takeaway. Somebody's scrolling through Instagram, they're
scrolling through Facebook, they're doing whatever. They're working hard in

(06:15):
their blue collar job. It's a mom. She's got a
kid on her hip two in the back seat, you know,
Crumb's flying all over the place. She's just trying to
make things work. And she takes a moment to see
what's going on with her next appointment in her phone,
sees a notification for Instagram, opens it up, scrolls sees
this video that her friends just shared, saying, oh my gosh,

(06:36):
is that what's going on in the world right now?
Do we now have to worry about the president giving
illegal orders. Could it be all this rhetoric that they've
been spouting off about with respect to drug boats, saying
that Trump's doing illegal things, he's being unconstitutional or was

(06:57):
it the January sixth, or was it this or was
it that? Right? They have been trying to paint Trump
as a criminal, even ensuring that they can now call
him a convicted felon for a crime that wasn't even
a felony, and they created it just for him. I mean,
the stuff that we've seen happen here is really for

(07:20):
the history books, and it is hard to keep up,
you know. I mean, I do this stuff every day,
and sometimes I think, man, when you talk to somebody
that's a political you know, like if I go on
a date and somebody says, oh, so, what do you do?
And I try to tell them what I do, and
I just find myself explaining these things to people who,
you know, they're up to speed on the Kardashians, they're
up to speed on their bank account, their latest vacation,

(07:41):
but they don't know what's going on in the world,
and that's okay. And you start telling stories like this, well,
you know, you got some really radical members of Congress
that will, you know, basic, because that's the first thing
they'll do. Right, some unsuspecting woman that's on a date
with me, let's just say, she'll say, what about all
these congress people that are saying Trump's giving illegal orders? Now,
if it was one, you'd say, they would say, well,

(08:03):
maybe that person has an axtagrind. But when it's four
in a row, and a former CIA person and a
former Army ranger, and a former this and that and
a former astronaut who's an army captain, Oh my goodness,
I've been netho, what do we do? And this is
how they're able to do it right, Because when you
look at them and you say it's fake phony fraud,

(08:23):
they go, are they all fake phony and fraud? You
mean to tell me that five elected members of Congress,
a US senator, an astronaut who lost his wife to
gun violence, these people are all making it up. Or
maybe it's you, Maybe you've eaten a little bit too
many of those elder rito's. Maybe you're the one. Maybe

(08:46):
you're a closet fascist, right, and then they start to
look at you funny, and in reality they're the ones
that are shape shifting and mind bending reality just to
make it fit their narrative because they want to maintain
control and El Trombeto is a threat to that because he's,

(09:06):
like he said, standing in the way of them getting
to us. Man, I'll tell you this is a travesty.
I jumped on the phone right away with my friend,
retired Air Force General Blaine Holt, and I asked him,
I said, General, what's going on here? And he said,

(09:27):
this is sedition, he said, And if any of these
guys were actively serving, like even as a reservist, they
could get court martial for this type of stuff, he said.
So it's curious, right that every one of them is
no longer in service, so that not even as a reservist,
so that they can't get in trouble. So, you know,

(09:52):
I look at this and I say, you've got a
bunch of service members that are saying that their colleagues
in the military should refuse unlawful orders. Yet they refuse
to even acknowledge which of President Trump's orders are illegal?
Has he even given such an illegal order the commander

(10:14):
in chief? The answers, no, he hasn't, and they know it,
and that's exactly why they want to acknowledge what an
illegal order is. You know, this is like anybody walking
around saying thal shot not kill, but they add a
little spice to it. Right, what they're saying is true,
nobody should follow an illegal order, that's true. But they're
insinuating that President Trump is the one giving these illegal orders. Why,

(10:37):
because they're insinuating that with the drug boats. They're insinuating
that every step of the way. Meanwhile, here's the guy
who's helping to, you know, create peace globally. He's got
all sorts of people coming to the White House dropping
off a bag of a trillion dollars every time they come.
Who's mad at that? Jobs report is out today, one

(10:58):
hundred and nineteen thousand new jobs. Looking good. Right, things
are going in the right direction. There's a lot of
damage done to our economy and it's not getting fixed overnight.
And when you've got so much of the establishment that's
truly against what they see as one man, this threat

(11:18):
of Donaldus Magnus Edit Trompito, the forty fifth President of
the United States forty seven, now it really begs the question,
what are they so afraid of? Why can't they just
wait this sound and say, all right, you know why
because he's a visionary. You know why, because he's got
something they've never had, Truly the hearts and minds of
the people. People like to like Donald Trump, people like

(11:43):
to love this country, people like being a patriot. Nobody
ever said, oh my gosh, I love Barack Obama's presidency because,
you know, for the first time, I really loved this country.
You know, for the first time, I felt like there
was so much opportunit not even the black people that
voted for him because he was black. And I'm saying

(12:04):
this not because of any of my own personal opinion,
because the black people said it. During and after Obama's presidency.
There's nothing but tons of black men saying what did
he do for us? How did life change? How has
anything been more positive? I've never heard anyone say, my goodness,

(12:27):
I love aoc all out crazy. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is
my least favorite congresswoman from the Bronx and Queens. I
love her so much because I feel like I live
in a country that's worth living in. After I hear
her speak, nobody loves America more after Mamdani speaks, after
Jasmine Crockett speaks, after AOC speaks, after Joe Biden speaks,

(12:50):
after any of these Democrats too. It's almost like their
brand is we hate America. We hate America, and we're
going to try and make it what we think it
should be, a Marxist wonderland. And that's not cool. That's
not how it works, that's not what we should be doing.
So this little game they're playing with, you know, crying wolf,

(13:13):
it's kind of like the equivalent of a police officer,
you know, kind of gently putting somebody's hands behind their back, say,
you know, put your hands behind your back, and them cooperating.
But while they're doing it, they just start screaming, ah,
police brutality.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
And we've seen that, you've seen videos of that. Right,
this is a show, or as many of my friends
in the QAnon wing of the party would say, it's
a movie, so grab your popcorn. Now. In reality, I
would say, what they're doing is really sowing discord in America.
And this conduct, this type of speech, it's free, it's

(13:49):
called free speak, free speech right, right, you have a
right to speak and say what you want. But inciting
people to rebel against the authority of the United States
or the commander in chief is by definition seditious if
nothing else right. They could say that this is their opinion,
and it is. I never encourage a rebellion against Barack

(14:13):
Obama or against Joe Biden. I never said to disobey
their orders. I never even said that they're not even
the real commander in chief. And a lot of people
said that about Biden. I never said that, because, in
my opinion, if you get there, if the White House
Oval Office has your name on that door there, you're
it until you're impeached or you're voted out. You got

(14:35):
four years you're my president. That's kind of the rules
I play by. But that's not the rules anybody else
wants to play by. They know that Trump is a
visionary and that Trump's here to change things. Trump is
making the United States the crypto capital of the world.
Some of you are saying, well, he's not doing very
good because bitcoins down to ninety and xrps down close

(14:57):
to two bucks. Listen, listen to me by low sell High. Anyway,
they don't like Trump because he's not here to play
their game. They can't cut him in on the deal.
He got his own deals he doesn't need them. He's
always made deals internationally, he's always built hotels, He's always

(15:18):
done what he does and not for anything. He's a
wealthy guy, and he's up in years. He's not necessarily
strapped for cash. I've been to these places he lives.
I've been to Trump Tower, beautiful, mar A Lago, beautiful,
you know, not like inside his residence or anything, but
you go to these properties, they're gorgeous. So again it

(15:42):
begs the question, why are they mad. They're mad because
he's not in on their grift. He's got his own hustle. Now,
these Democrats, and I'll wrap up with this, these Democrats
with their military speech, they're couching their words, very careful,
making sure to call them me legal orders, never ever

(16:04):
citing any such illegal order to avoid any legal liability.
And this is why I say that Washington, DC the swamp.
It's filled with people who always know how to walk
right up to the line of breaking the law and
never crossing it because their former law enforcement, they're former politicians,

(16:25):
they're lawyers. This is what they specialize in. The People
that make the laws are the ones that know how
to break the laws the best. More on that when
I return.

Speaker 9 (16:38):
This is America. This is America, all right.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
I mean, hegoes welcome back, and again the Dems are
going nuts. A whole lot of things going on. You've
got a Jasmine Crockett out there. She's crying about her
comments from two nights ago where she said it was Epstein.
Now she's saying it like I said, it was, uh
Jeffrey Epstein, not the Jeffrey Epstein. You've got to be

(17:11):
a special type of special. That's all I'm gonna say
about her. To make an argument like that, she's not
in talk radio. She should look for a career in
talk where she would do great. Right, she would do fantastic.
I think doing a podcast, streaming show, YouTube live whatever. Right,
speaking of YouTube live, I've been encouraged to do that
for a long time, and I think we're going to

(17:33):
be doing some of that soon. So stay tuned for that.
And you can go right ahead now and subscribe. There's
no content really going up there, but you can get
in place so that you're ready and you can get
those notifications when we do. But Crockett says she wasn't
misled by the stuff that her team presented to her.
It was more so that she just was making mention

(17:57):
of the fact that it was a Jeffrey. I think
that is just so special. Now in addition to that special,
there's a couple other things I want to get into
because we've got uh let me see, well, let's talk
about this one. Here. Is it Crockett? Actually I wanted
to do a Caroline Lovett, but we can do the

(18:17):
Crockett if that's the one that you'd prefer, go right ahead.

Speaker 10 (18:22):
You mentioned DEALI zelden there, he's now a cabinet secretary.
He responded and said it was actually doctor Jeffrey Epstein,
who's a doctor that doesn't have any relation to the
convicted sex trucker. I'm fortunate for that doctor, but that
is who do it into a prior campaign of his.
Do you want to correct the record on the people.

Speaker 4 (18:37):
Need and I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein,
just so that people understand when you make a donation,
your picture is not there. And because they decided to
spring this on us in real time, I wanted the
Republicans to think about what could potentially happen because I
knew that they didn't even try to go through the FEC.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
What I wanted the Republicans to know that they weren't
going to even try and go through the Federal Election Commission.
The Republicans are saying that your leader, Haakim Jeffries, right,
the Democrat leader minority leader of the United States House
of Representatives, had a fundraising firm engage in an email

(19:17):
exchange with Jeffrey Epstein to raise money for your leader,
Hakim Jeffries your colleague, Stacey Plasquett. She also engaged in
a text exchange with Jeffrey Epstein, saying that her experience
as a prosecutor, you know, led her to get information
wherever she could get it. I don't know who she

(19:38):
was prosecuting. It certainly wasn't Jeffrey Epstein. So why she
would talk to this man that was at the time
a convicted pedophile and pimp, I don't know. But now
Jasmine Crockett says she wanted the Republicans to know that
her team knows how to use Google. Hmm, I don't
believe this. Let it play.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
So my team what they did is they and that
is specifically why I said a Jeffrey Epstein Unlike Republicans,
I at least don't go out and just tell lies
because it was not the same one. That's fine. But
when lee Zelden had something to say, all he had
to say was it was a different jefferent Jeffrey Epstein.
He admitted that he did receive donations from a Jeffrey Epstein.

(20:19):
So at least I wasn't trying to mislead people.

Speaker 10 (20:21):
Now have I what?

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Oh my god, I can't believe she said that with
a straight face. You know what is she's able to
hide behind those pretty eyelashes of hers. But listen, Jasmine Crockett,
come on, come on, counselor please, why don't you take
this one on the chin and say, look, my team
was trying to do the right thing and we messed up.
We were trying to make sure that we were holding

(20:50):
Republicans accountable and we failed. You can't you know why,
because you're too busy trying to defend Stacy Plasquett. I mean,
this is just out of control. Is there any more
on that? All right? Let it play.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
Dug in to find out who this doctor is. I
have not, so I will trust and take what he says.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
You have not. So she's saying, I don't even know
if it's true that the donation came after the Jeffrey
Epstein died a year later. What is going on here, congresswoman, is.

Speaker 4 (21:22):
That it wasn't that Jeffrey Epstein. But I was not
attempting to mislead anybody.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
No, you were the one that was misled and the unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (21:32):
I literally had maybe twenty minutes before I had to
do that debate.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, but people might then don't do it better? Get
that what is wrong with you?

Speaker 10 (21:41):
It's that say, well, you're trying to make it sound
like he took money from I did not registered sex offender.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
No, but I literally did not know when you searched Fie.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
If you didn't know, why did you come with all
of the attitude saying it with your chest right, all
of this umph that you brought when you didn't know
why or gay see files.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
And that's what I had my team to do. I
text him and I say, listen, we're going up there
saying that she took donators.

Speaker 9 (22:07):
Right.

Speaker 10 (22:07):
But someone might say, well, your team should have done
the homework to make sure it wasn't the condrinotics.

Speaker 4 (22:11):
Within twenty minutes, you could not find that out. Not
from just.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Then you don't say it. You say it when you
know for sure, instead of embarrassing yourself.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
Doing a quick search on fec SO number one.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
So you mean to tell us, as a sitting woman
congresswoman that you with twenty minutes to go, you say,
rather than let me you know, get this right, let
me just do a quick google and just say some stuff?
Is that right?

Speaker 4 (22:38):
Jasmine Crockett and I made sure that I was clear
that it was a Jeffrey Epstein, but I never said
that it was specifically that Jeffrey Epstein because I knew
that would we would need more time to really dig in'.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Pleaseultle believable. Lee Zelden roasted her, and good for all
of them. Really, this is remarkable, right, I mean it?
What do they say? Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Now this doesn't end there. This goes on. Excuse me,

(23:11):
this goes on? And where does it go? Let me
tell you. It goes on to her now making a defense.
And you just heard her defense for Stacy Plasquet. Listen
to this one.

Speaker 10 (23:25):
Well, Stacey Ploskett was texting the Jeffrey Epstein that we're
talking about. You voted against the centure for her to
remove her from her committees. You know, we pressed the
Minority leader had came Jeffreys on this last night, Maybe
you don't think she should be removed from her committees.
Why does so many Democrats seem unwilling to say it's
inappropriate to be texting with a registered sex offender about
what you're going to ask a witness at a congressional here.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
So I'm not going to necessarily say that that's the case.
Now this is somebody that was a former prosecutor. Now
I haven't sat down and talked about all the specifics
of why Stacy was doing what she was doing. I
know that when she got up and she spoke, she
talked about the fact that this was one of her constituents.
At the end of the day, Hey, what I know
of prosecutors is that they are typically talking to codefenders.
They are typically talking to the people that have the
best information. And what you had was you had the

(24:09):
former attorney for the president that was sitting there, and honestly,
we knew, or she knew, or at least Jeffrey Epstein
presented that he was very cozy with the president. He
had more information registered sex offender or not. The bigger
question is why is it that the president was so
cozy with the registered sex offender?

Speaker 2 (24:27):
All right, hold on a second, If he were so
cozy with the president, I mean, you're making such a
horrible case here, miss Crockett. If he were so cozy
with the president, why wouldn't he be texting the president
to say, brother, hauling me in front of Congress was good?
Help me out here? No, you know who? He did

(24:49):
that with the Democrat congresswoman from Little Saint James, from
Pedophile Island. So he hits up a big Democrat Stacey Plask,
your colleague, and he's like, okay, so I gotta go.
You know, I'm going into this congressional committee. What should
I say? But yet he's cozy with Trump, No, ma'am.

(25:10):
It seems like he's actually very cozy with Stacy Plasquet
and Hawkeem Jefferies.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
Even after he ultimately ended up with some of his convictions,
and seemingly he had absolutely been on the plane with him.
We know about the birthday card. The bigger question is
why is the President of the United States not the
one that is in the hot seat for his relationship
instead of us saying, oh, you know what, we're gonna
take her off of her committee because he decided to

(25:36):
text her.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Hold on a second. The President of the United States
has been in the hot seat as long as he's
been a candidate. I mean, were you not there when
they tried to put him in jail for four hundred
years on thirty something counts of the same mis entry

(25:58):
labeling something as a campaign as a business expense when
they said it should have been a campaign expense. I mean, really,
you've got to be kidding, miss Crockett. Really, I mean,
you're grasping again. This is your I didn't have enough
time to google right type of argument here. The one

(26:18):
he's cozy with are the ones that he's hitting up.
Why is it he's so cozy with the president? He's
never made a donation to MAGA Inc. To Trump twenty
twenty to the RNC for Trump. Why he's so cozy
with the president. Why did the president kick him out
of mar A Lago for being a pervert. I mean,

(26:40):
the victims themselves, Jiufrey and others have cleared Trump. The
attorney for the victims have been on the record saying
the only person that was ever helpful in these investigations
for discovery and whatnot? Was Donald Trump? Of all these people.
I don't understand, miss Crockett. It seems like we're dealing

(27:01):
with two different sets of facts here.

Speaker 4 (27:02):
Stacy didn't initiate that chain. Jeffrey initiated that chain, and
she took the information.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
And he did it because he's cozy with her and
all of your Democrat friends, not El Trompito, just like if.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
Somebody text me.

Speaker 10 (27:16):
But she was responding and saying, you know, what are
you talking about?

Speaker 2 (27:19):
Quick?

Speaker 10 (27:19):
I'm up next? And then her questions were about Rono.
But do you think that was inappropriate? I mean, would
you text to someone who is a registered saxophone? I
mean about what you said?

Speaker 4 (27:26):
I honestly know that he had never been convicted of
any federal crimes at that time, but he had been
in jail.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Alright, Okay, So as long as it's a local crime
of prostitution and soliciting a prostitution from a minor, then
you're good, right, as long as it's not a federal crime,
because you know, if you're a federal douchebag, then you
can't mess with Jasmine Crockett. But Jasmine Crockett. You know
she's an equal opportunity person. You can solicit prostitution from

(27:55):
miners all you want, as long as you do it locally.

Speaker 8 (27:59):
Is that right he had?

Speaker 3 (28:02):
And my deal is this.

Speaker 4 (28:04):
The Republicans are constantly texting with a thirty four acount
convicted fell in. So if it's okay for them to
text him at any point in time, then I'm not
going to say that that's right or wrong, especially to
the extent that you're talking about kicking someone off their.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Committee, kicking someone off of committee. Look at how they think.
This is the fundamental disconnect that we have in government
today is that she believes, how dare you try and
kick me off of my committee? Or how dare you
try and kick Stacey Plasqat off of her committee? But

(28:40):
none of this ever comes down to I have failed
we the people. It's we, the people of the United
States that have put me here, and those are the
people I'm responsible to and I failed them, and I'm sorry, No,
it's never about that doesn't even cross her mind. This

(29:04):
is why people like me and others have such a
disdain and paint Democrats in Washington with a broad brush
because I haven't found one yet. I haven't found one yet.
That's like, you know what, I love this country. It's
a great country. Maybe John Fetterman right. Every now and
again he talks about America and doing the right thing.

(29:27):
How is it there's only one guy in this whole party.
It's got to be more. Where are they? These people
need to speak up. Anyway, We're gonna continue. I got
a bunch of crazy news items that I want to
get to. There really really is a bunch a bunch
of stuff that I want to get to. They double down,
these guys, the Trump people, trying to say that now

(29:49):
he's freaking out. He's trying to kill them because he
put out that tweet that said sedition or a seditions
conspiracy is punishable by death. Oh, they are quaking in
their boots. They were hoping he would say that. So
now they have the AMMO, they could take that little
truth social post and put it all over TV, all
over the media and say, Yep, we told you ed
Trumpeto is a mad man. We told you, we tried

(30:10):
to warn you. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah. Don't go anywhere this is America.

Speaker 8 (30:18):
This is America, but in glace or primo numerodos Blara,
rich veld is e s us America.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Awara.

Speaker 8 (30:42):
By the way, your ratings are up.

Speaker 5 (30:44):
Congratulations and somebody so it's nice to check.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
I like to see even of their friends.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
I like to see how are they doing? Are people
listening right?

Speaker 4 (30:51):
And that's what you're doing?

Speaker 7 (30:52):
Great?

Speaker 2 (30:54):
All right, and he goes, welcome back, rich Valda is
keeping your company tonight. Happy to be here, blessed to
be on this microphone with you. Make sure you are
subscribed to this on the podcast if you can. You
can check it out every day at rich valdesk dot com.
I want to get into what the Senator Chris Murphy
had to say. Senator Murphy was saying all sorts of

(31:18):
Lokuras crazy stuff. You know, again, this is because these
guys really are being seditious right in the eyes of
not me. I told you. I called my general friend
Blaine Holt, and he said, this is sedition. I'll probably
get him on just to do a segment on that.
But this is again, are they within their rights to
say what they want? Yes, they're American citizens and they

(31:39):
have free speech. Do they know that what they're doing
undermines the authority and the command structure of the United
States military because the ultimate commander, the commander in chief,
is Donald J. Trump. Yes, and they don't care. And
this is why I think it's important for us to
respect tradition, to respect systems. Again, General Blaine Holt saying,

(32:01):
had they not been in a capacity as a military person,
they'd be court martial if they were pretty remarkable stuff. Now,
I want you to hear what Senator Chris Murphy said today,
because this was just a battle cry. This was the
clarion call for everybody that's afraid, fearfully, fearfully afraid for
their lives, for the existence of America. Because Donald Trump

(32:23):
is going to be president.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
The President of the United States just called for Democratic
members of Congress to be executed.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
No, he didn't be there. He said that if you
committed the crime of sedition that is punishable by death,
go ahead.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
This is not normal. We cannot allow this to feel normal.
As far as I know, has never happened before in
the history of the country. Every Democratic member of the
Senate and the House, their life is in jeopardy right now,
especially those that were specifically targeted by this social media post.

(33:04):
Democratic senators and House members who were simply saying that
no member of the military should act illegally or in
violation of the Constitution. The President of the United States
just called for members of Congress to be executed. If
you are a person of influence in this country, maybe

(33:25):
it's time to pick a fucking side. WHOA If you
are a Republican in Congress, if you are a Republican governor,
maybe it's time to draw a line in the sand
and say that, under no circumstances should the President of
the United States be calling on its political opposition to
be hanged. We are a very dangerous moment right now.

(33:47):
The president is Let.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Me ask you something, Senator, what if the circumstances that
your political opposition is breaking the law right then?

Speaker 4 (33:59):
What so?

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Just imagine you're a cop in a local town and
you know there's people that you don't get along with personally,
right you went to the bar, the guy took your
bar stool. You don't like the guy. But now you're
on the job, you're patrolling. You're not at the bar,
it's not the weekend, and you see the same guy
and he is knocking the teeth out of his wife.

(34:20):
Are you gonna say, well, you know, under no circumstances
are going to make it look like I'm going after
this guy because he's my enemy from the bar. So
what I'm gonna do is just let him beat the
tart of his wife. Sorry toothless lady who does that. No,
there are circumstances. So if you're president and everybody hates
your guts, it doesn't stop you from being president. This

(34:41):
guy's a class ape and they'll got to come up
with a better name for him. Go ahead.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
He's engaged in the wholesale incitement, endorsement, and rationalization of
political violence in this country.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
That's why it's the left that's killing the right, not
some long throng of maga people that are killing guys
like you, Senator right. And I'm not saying that they should.
I'm just saying you're wrong. This is not the case. People.
He's not inciting violence. He's saying there are laws in
this country. He didn't make up the law that s
edition is punishable by death, did he, Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
This is a very slippery slope that we are on.
This is a moment for people to step up, for
Republicans to step up, for business leaders to step up.
Anybody who has a voice or a soapbox in this
country needs to draw a line in the sand and
say that it is not acceptable for the president of

(35:40):
the United States to call on the murder of his
political opposition.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
It's not murder when you're tried and convicted for a sedition.
That's just one of the you know, it's capital punishment.
I mean again, this is that same fake, phony fraud
stuff I was talking about before, massaging the manipulating the
circumstances to try and make it seem this is pure emotion,
pure political theater. There's not a drop of logic. And

(36:08):
I'm gonna say this is probably not a drop of
testosterone or manliness in this guy either. This guy what
a tremendous bendel. I'm embarrassed that he's the United States senator.
Embarrassed for the people of his state. Unbelievable, Chris Murphy.
But this is how they do it. The Democrats have
stolen the page from the Marxist playbook and they're never

(36:29):
giving it back. Anything that they can do to lionize,
to demonize someone, to try and get you to be
the other they always hell they're trying to other people
know you are the one that's othering people. You were
trying to dehumanize Donald Trump to the point where everybody
you want him to walk around the streets. He already
has security, and he's already been the target of an

(36:51):
assassination attempt, but you want him to walk around in
fear for his life because somehow he's telling you things
that you don't like. You don't like the fact that
if you make videos with your friends that say, don't
listen to Trump, he's the commander in chief, but you
don't have to listen to illegal orders. And then he
says that's seditious and by the way, sedition is punishable

(37:13):
by death. Somehow he's a murderer and we need to
draw an efing line in the sand. You are a clown, sir. Unbelievable. Anyway,
that's good old Senator Chris Murphy. And this is what
the Democrats do. So I don't want to be on
that soapbox forever, because honestly, that stuff gets me a

(37:34):
little fired up, and I don't want to be fired
up all the time. You know, this program is about
me enjoying my conversation with you so that we can
you know, have a really good time together and you know,
crack a few jokes and have a good dialogue. And
I'm about to add a feature here, by the way,
because you know me. You know, I've done Life radio
for many years, going into my eighth year radio. And

(37:57):
I started out in radio, and I I fell in
love with taking calls from callers, guys that were like
this guy, like Centa, Chris Murphy, you know, real interesting types.
They like to debate, They like to come in hot
with their emotion. Their debating style was to spit out
a couple of things like because Trump's a fascians, because

(38:19):
because he's bad, because he's orange, because because he's trying
to murder like this guy, and then just you know,
never listen to you and just you know, yell like
f out of here, and then that's the entire debate.
And I mean, clearly, these are people who don't bother
to read too much. They're reading. The only reading they
do is captions on social media, right, so like they

(38:40):
pick up a book, these as Levin would call them
mental midgets. They're dangerous to society, right, they can end
up becoming senators like Chris Murphy. They can end up
becoming congresswomen like Alexandriro Cascio Cortez all out crazy, AOC
my least favorite congress women from the Bronx and Queens.
This is how they roll. I've seen it a million times.
If I've seen it, you figure it out. You get

(39:01):
the flavor real quick with these people. So you got
to figure out a way to deal with their with
their shenanigans. You gotta deal with the stupidity, deal with
their seditious behavior in a way that is fair and balanced,
you know, kind of like the news. And I think
that's what Trump does a right. Trump didn't say I
want Chris Murphy dead because of whatever. No, Trump's just

(39:24):
saying what it is, seditious conspiracy is that, and that's
the penalty for it, punishable by death. It's clear he
put it in black and white when he doesn't want
to mince words. He puts it in a tweet, in
a truth social that's it. Anyway. I really can't. I
don't want to. I don't want to get too hot
under the collar over here, but I do want to

(39:45):
get into a couple other things. There's a couple of
stories from yesterday that I didn't get to that I
want to get to because I always enjoy, you know,
kind of taking a break from the politics and talking
about things that are, you know, a little nicer, A
little nicer, not a lot nicer, right, because one of
the stories I want to talk about and I want
to talk about entertainment a little bit. And the actor
who I think it's again, I don't discriminate against him

(40:09):
because he has a crazy life. I think he's still
a great actor. And I loved House of Cards. Kevin Spacey.
Kevin Spacey's making news why he says that he's homeless
now he's living out of hotels in airbnb. And I'm thinking, man,
that'll be the day when I'm homeless and live out
of hotels and airbnbs. Let me tell you that, in fact,
in my life, I have some of the best times

(40:30):
ever when I'm at a hotel or at Airbnb. Right,
most of us call it vacation. Kevin Spacey, But I
get what he's saying. Maybe he can't afford his big
house in the hills. A matter of fact, he was
saying something about having to sell a house that he
had in Maryland, and Maryland is no bastion for the
Hollywood elite. So we're gonna learn about what's going on
with Kevin Spacey. Towards the end of the program. I

(40:53):
also want to talk about let me see real quick,
I had a little run down here in front of me.
Also wanted to get into a few other things that
are on my agenda here. Bear with me, Bear with me.
I need some water too. Oh mister mam Donnie goes
to Washington. Now that'll be a drive by because I'll
do tomorrow Friday. I will talk about that because obviously

(41:15):
that's going to happen on Friday, and I'll give you
some reaction to that, and I'll call my people down
in DC and tell me what you know, what happened
on the ground, and we'll get some reaction to that,
and we'll do it all together when we get together
for this program. But there's also this other story about
Somali medicaid fraudsters that are tied to terrorism. Miss Palestine

(41:39):
a pageant queen also terroriortize, and I want to talk
about that because a few months ago I'd done an
interview with a guy named Jake Lang. We did it
from jail. He was a Jay sixer. He was pardoned.
Matter of fact, I was with Kara Castronova and John
Tobacco on inauguration night in Washington, d C. And Lang

(42:08):
was freed that night, the night that Trump became president.
He freed all the Jay sixers. And I remember he
placed a call to her and I was right next
to her when that happened, and the guy was thrilled.
He was so happy. And anyway, he's out there. He's
been very active. He's an activist, and he's got a
video that's going wild right now, totally viral on all
of the social media because he went to a dearborn

(42:33):
Michigan I guess, a town council meeting and told them
I don't want you in my country anymore. Get the
f out. And I laugh, I mean, because you know,
it's the incredulity of the situation that makes me laugh.
You know, I can't believe that he did that, but
he did. And that being said, I'm gonna if I

(42:53):
can grab a clean clip of audio for that, we
will have that for you upon our return. Don't go
any I'm Richvaldes.

Speaker 9 (43:01):
This is America, This is America.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
He's got the best head of hair and podcasting, This
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Speaker 2 (43:24):
All right, America, Welcome back, Rich Valdesk. Keeping your company
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I said that already, and of course richvaldest dot com
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(43:45):
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(44:06):
throwbacks from different segments I've done on a lot of
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show before I did the syndicate syndicated show in late night,
the thrust of my show was always kind of to
teach you something, so I would dig into, you know,
the different elements of what makes communist tic and I

(44:29):
did a great show once about this guy who was
a Soviet defector and he you know, he had like
this four or five six steps about how you take
down a society and it was just so really just
a brilliant take on things. And I remember doing that,
like all six steps, and that's one of my favorite

(44:51):
shows that I've done with you know, with respect to
like learning stuff and that type of thing. Anyway, I
wanted to talk about these Somali fraudsters, right that was
where we left off. So check this out. There is
a well I think I have a clip of audio
on it. First listen to this. Okay, no Somali fraudsters,
all right, So what we'll do is we'll go to

(45:13):
the clip of Jake Lang because, like I said, he
went to this town council meeting and you know, all
hell broke loose him and a couple of guys and
a lot of people are applauding this online. A lot
of people are very proud of the work he's doing,
saying we need more good Christian men to stand up.
I don't know that that is, in my opinion, the
best way to represent Christ, but I do know that
you need boldness to take on the culture. I'm gonna

(45:33):
let it rip, and you tell me what you think.

Speaker 6 (45:36):
The Muslim community is looking to drag us back.

Speaker 5 (45:38):
They're looking to oppress women, oppress homosexuals, They're looking to
destroy everything that makes America great. President trust Send Ice,
stand up, Send Ice.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
Andrew Dearborn.

Speaker 5 (45:52):
If people have overstayed their visas their H one B
chain migration invaders and they have come to this country
to destroy our way of life.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
Now, this is Jake Lang. He's been out of jail
for a few months. He was in prison for January sixth,
for something like four thousand days. He's addressing the town council.
You've got a number of people here. I'm going to
read you their names. Leslie Herrick, council President, Ken Harris,
council member Mustafa Hamund, council member George Darrony Clerk. Those

(46:25):
are the ones that I could see. The placards he's wearing,
like a military flat jacket, a black and white flannel
and some green cargo pants as he's giving his speech.
And this is where it gets Dicey.

Speaker 6 (46:37):
We know exactly your laws in your book about lying
to our faces, pretending to be Americans.

Speaker 5 (46:45):
Wearing your suits. But that doesn't happen anywhere else where.
You guys are in charge.

Speaker 6 (46:49):
There are fifty three Muslim majority countries, and in all
of them it is tyranny, destruction, it.

Speaker 8 (46:56):
Is ship whole living.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
We have to call it what it is.

Speaker 6 (47:00):
Guys, don't live like we do. We don't want you
in our country. We will come and eat your shwarma
in Somalia. Okay, we don't need it here in Michigan.
We don't need it in any part of America we have.
We have a right to self determination there surrounding fathers.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
For white Americans, and we're being driven out.

Speaker 7 (47:25):
You come here and you marry four or five women,
and you outbreed us, You change the laws, you make
all of our country look like the places that you
fled from.

Speaker 6 (47:36):
We don't want you here, respectfully, get the free out
of my country.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
I don't want you here.

Speaker 6 (47:47):
Country and your people. The veterans the world war like
this blood has so far constitutional republic or taking a
look around Europe. They're taking a look around America and
they're saying, what the hell did we fight for? We
have been taken over without a single shot fire. You

(48:08):
guys are outbreeding insidious parasites on the American way of life.
You will never look like us, you will never eat
like us. You won't build buildings like us.

Speaker 7 (48:17):
You are nothing.

Speaker 6 (48:18):
You can build nothing, just like President Trump's great American
friends have said, you guys are not us, and get.

Speaker 4 (48:25):
The fuck out.

Speaker 6 (48:26):
America First, America only, God Bless America.

Speaker 7 (48:30):
Jesus is King, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

Speaker 9 (48:41):
Is King.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
Jesus is King. Let me grab my feet, Jesus is King.

Speaker 6 (48:48):
Jesus is King.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
Gods, your hands on me.

Speaker 6 (48:52):
There's no reason, Jesus, I'm out of the first.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
So that this continues into the outside. They were escorted
outside of the council chambers. There's people in the audience
that if you see the audience, no one in the audience.
He's there with like three or four guys. They're obviously
on his side, and they're, you know, just shouting, christis King,
Jesus is King. Nobody else in the audience, and I'm
not going to say it was like a Holy Muslim audience,
but whomever was in that audience, nobody was standing up

(49:25):
to give a standing ovation, right, And I'm not criticizing
Jake Lang per se, I'm just saying I'm watching the
video and you're not, so I'm trying to give you
the best description I can. You know, they accompanied him outside.
From my view, the police officers looked like they were
also Muslim. A lot of Muslims in the room, a
lot of Muslims on the town council. It's a very

(49:47):
you know, Muslim area, this part of Michigan. So anyway,
point is, while this is social media gold right, you
put Jake Lang in on x Twitter, on you know, YouTube,
and he said, you're gonna find a lot of interesting stuff.
But does this move the needle? Now? The question is

(50:08):
move the needle? How does this get the guy that
feels just like Jake Lang to say, yeah, brother, right
on me too. Does it inspire him to now go
to some local town council meeting and a Muslim majority
neighborhood that has elected officials and go there and give
him a piece of his mind? Maybe? Do you think
any Muslims are going to get up and leave? Number one?

(50:29):
Number two? Do you think any non believers, you know,
people that were like on the fence thinking, you know,
I got a lot of friends that go to church.
A lot of friends that are Christians. Maybe I should
visit their church, see what it's all about. Do you
think anybody who saw this said yep, definitely going to
that guy's church. And again, I'm not trying to be critical.
I'm just trying to draw an observation because while I

(50:49):
understand and I do, and I support everybody's right to
go and talk, and I like Jake Lang. I think
he's pretty cool. I think he's doing something unique here.
I think he's trying to draw attention to a matter.
And whatever he's doing, the attention is being drawn right
in many ways like Trump. Trump will say these bombastic
things and people say, I wish he was more presidential,
I wish he was more this, I wish he was

(51:10):
more that. But bottom line is, when Trump does these things,
they work. And when Jake Lang is out here, you know,
saying Christ is King and go to your house, that's
working too.

Speaker 6 (51:19):
Right.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
The cameras are all out, the fuss is being made.
And if that is what inspires people to have more children,
to get in touch with their faith, to forgive seven
times seventy, to operate in love, then amen, hallelujah. It's
not my style for sure, right to be up in
your face that way, but we're all different, right, That's
how I see it. I wouldn't like it if somebody

(51:40):
came to me and said those things to me. And
I try to treat people the way that I would
like to be treated. But I understand his rationale, and
I want to know what you guys think. Shoot me
a tweet at Rich valdesk with an s at Rich
Valdes or drop me a comment on somewhere on Facebook
or one of those places, and let me know your
thoughts about this video. I did share it on some

(52:01):
of the social media, so if you see it there
and you want to chime in there, let me know.
I'm really curious. I'm very interested in knowing what's going on.
When you know, you meet someone and you're like, hey,
how many kids do you have in you? They're like, oh,
four or five kids? Three kids? It's like the small family,
and you know I only had two. We have to
start with pointing the finger at ourselves. What am I

(52:21):
going to do start yelling at people now because I
only had two kids. Maybe I should have had more kids.
Maybe I'm only forty seven, Maybe I should have more kids,
you know, because of the point he made about being outbred.
That's true. Right. If your purpose in life is to
advance the cause of your face excuse me, advance the
cause of your faith. I said that wrong. You know,

(52:42):
to proselytize, to evangelize, to move forward your Christian beliefs,
then hey, God speak to you man. Whether it's preaching
the word, sharing the words, sharing the love of Christ,
however you do it, God bless you. And if it's
by way of having a large fan like nineteen kids accounting,
then get busy. I wanted a large family, and the

(53:05):
wife that God gave me only wanted to have two kids.
We got divorced. She later had one more and that's it.
She's got three. I've got two. That's it. That's kind
of over. I don't think I'm going to have more children,
but occasionally it pops into mind. But we have a system,
we have a set of laws and just repeating to ourselves.

(53:29):
And again, this is nothing against shake Lang, because I
don't think he's wrong on a lot of these things.
I do think that Christ is king. I do think
that there's a lot of inconsistency with people that are
you know, coming from non westernized countries here into the
United States, where yeah, I mean you got people coming
from the Caribbean that have a little bit of a

(53:49):
culture clash. So just imagine coming from Europe or Asia.
Got it agreed? However, what do we do right? I mean,
how is that a thing? I can tell you that
when I was very very young, my parents moved to

(54:11):
neighborhoods in Brooklyn that were not known for having Puerto Ricans.
And what they did back then and who they is,
I don't know. But if you moved to a neighborhood
and they thought that you were going to change the
makeup of the neighborhood, that you were incompatible with what

(54:31):
they did there, somehow a mysterious fire would start in
your apartment building and somehow you wouldn't be able to
be there anymore. And this was a pretty current, I mean,
a common occurrence, you know, in the late seventies and
early eighties in Brooklyn, New York, I guess, all over

(54:53):
the five boroughs of New York City. And I don't
know if that happened elsewhere, And I'm not condoning it.
I'm just saying that was life. I don't believe that's right.
I don't think we should burn somebody's house down because
we don't like them. But at the same time, I
realize that people should be, as the Bible says, equally yoked. Right,

(55:15):
if there is a neighborhood that meets your needs, best
go to that neighborhood. Now, I also say, hey, you
like that particular house on this particular block, You've got
the money and it's for sale. Knock your socks off
by the house. But when in Rome do as their
omens do, right now, you do that to an extent.

(55:37):
My family's background in our culture, right, we do midnight Mass,
we do no chewuenna and no cha wuena. Is you know,
it's full Christmas on Christmas Eve, the twenty fifth of
December is is like a day of rest. Nobody's opening presents,
nobody's eating, nobody's doing anything. I mean as little kids. Yeah,
we went to the tree at like you super early,

(55:59):
but we open most of our presence, you know, at
middlan like Happy New Year, not che when you know,
with the music cranking very loud, very late. And it's
that tradition that I love. I love that Puerto Rican
culture that I grew up with. And if I moved
to a neighborhood where I can't have a party that's
loud on Christmas Eve, now what Oh, then move to

(56:22):
a neighborhood with your kind rich Valdez. All right, maybe,
but what if those neighborhoods aren't good for my kids,
if they don't have good schools, I'm gonna have to
come and corrupt your neighborhood, right, I'm gonna have to
come and buy a house in a neighborhood that I
can afford to live in, that I want to live in,
where my kids can go to a good school, where
I can leave my door open without getting robbed, and

(56:43):
where I'm going to piss off a few people when
I play my loud music. Right, And I'm not saying
that to be a jerk. I'm saying because this is America,
and we're allowed to do those types of things here, right.
This isn't the Jim Crow South. So I understand this
this conundrum that we're in, and I think we didn't

(57:04):
always have this problem. I think of a time when
I grew up around Muslims and Jews, how about that?
And there was occasionally times that were contentious, but nothing
like today, nothing like the video we just saw. None
of this And it makes you think, how much of
this is genuinely happening. How much of this this, you know,

(57:26):
isn't being fed to us by the people that benefit
from one group of people being the next of another
group of people. Just curious asking for a friend. Anyway,
straight ahead, Kevin Spacey, don't go anywhere.

Speaker 9 (57:40):
This is Amarica, This is America.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
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Speaker 7 (58:11):
And I want to.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
Ask you a question. I know many of you like
TV like I do you like film? And I like
the House of Cards series on Netflix. Kevin Spacey terrific, right.
I thought he was a great actor, and I know
a lot of people. After that said, he was like,
I don't know involved with Epstein, are involved with some

(58:35):
sort of some sort of sexual assault scandal and now
bright bart News reporting Kevin Spacey's homeless years after his
sexual assault scandal. He says he's living in hotels and
airbnbs now the Oscar winning actor Kevin Spacey. This is
according to the piece by Alana Mastrangelo in Breitbartnews dot com.

(58:57):
He revealed that he's homeless year after his sexual assault
scandal that left a stain on his career, saying that
now he's forced to live in hotels and airbnbs. And
this all took place during an interview he did with
The Telegraph. Spacey noted that he lost his house in Baltimore, Maryland,

(59:20):
where he had lived for over a decade, because the
costs of these last seven years have been so astronomical
for him. He said, he's had very little coming in
and everything going out. That's a shame. Honestly. I feel
bad for anybody who, you know, works an entire career
and then you know the tail end right when you're
older and you're should be looking at retiring. Now you're broke.

(59:44):
You know, It's not like anyway. I don't know what
he did. I don't know. I've seen stories that say
he's done everything under the sun, and I see others
that say they set them up and he didn't do
any of it. But last year, Spacey broke down in
tears in an interview with Pierce Morgan discussing the millions
that he owed and legal debt because of fighting a

(01:00:06):
hashtag me too case from a sexual assault allegation that
was still in court, and he says, you get through
it in weird ways. He says, I feel like I'm
back to where I first started, which is I first
went to work, you know, as an actor. Spacey said
to the Telegraph. Everything was in storage, and I hope
at some point things continue to improve. I'll be able

(01:00:29):
to decide where I get to settle down again. Spacey,
who has been exiled from Hollywood following these sex offense
allegations despite his acquittal in court, Imagine that acquitted at
court and they still say that you're guilty of sin.
He went on to say, I'm living in hotels, in airbnbs,
I'm going where the work is. I literally have no home,

(01:00:50):
and That's what I'm attempting to explain. And again I'm
sympathetic to that. I feel badly, you know, I think
everybody you know likes having a home. Although I'm a
little bit of a nomad myself. Like most people think
I've had a lot of money to buy a house.
I think to myself, i'd probably you know, buy multiple houses.
But if I was really, really wealthy. But I do

(01:01:12):
think I would spend my money. I'm not taking it
when I'm dead, that's for sure. And I do believe
that I would do a lot of hotelling, a lot
of airbnbing, because that's literally what I do now when
I have time off, Like right now, I'm gonna be
off in November. I'm gonna be off in December. And
my thinking for Thanksgiving and for Christmas, you're gonna go

(01:01:36):
spend some time on my brother's farm in Pennsylvania. Then
for December, I want to go, you know, for at
least a week or two to Puerto Rico and just
you know, while it's getting colder here, enjoy some beach,
enjoy some palm trees, all of the great food, the music,
the culture. I live for this. Now, what's that that
costs money?

Speaker 9 (01:01:57):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
So I have to spend money to go away from
my house, and I think that's what many of us
do so. When Kevin Spacey, excuse me, I was gonna
call him Stacy Kevin. When Kevin Spacey decides to say
that he's upset about this situation for whatever reason, all
I could think is, look, it could be worse, right,

(01:02:21):
you got to quit it. You're still working, keep hitting
it right, there's always a way to go. And honestly,
the guy's an incredibly talented actor. And this isn't the
old Hollywood that he used to live in, you know,
even this world of mine, there was a time where
you you know, you had to sweep the studio floor

(01:02:42):
to get into a radio station, a local radio station,
and make your bones in radio and move up the
ranks and be able to you know, make the right
relationships and work for peanuts. And you know, in my case,
I literally have slept on the studio floor, left in
studio offices just you know, to get that next air

(01:03:03):
shift when I worked at WABC and WLR, and I
love those days. I absolutely adored it. It was some
of the best time in my life. But I can
say that that's not the case anymore. And not that
you don't have to work hard. You do have to
work hard. You just don't need that angle anymore. You
don't need that plug.

Speaker 9 (01:03:25):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:25):
For some people, becoming a nationally syndicated host is the
biggest thing ever. For some, having longevity and local radio
is the best thing ever. For others, they walk away
from radio altogether because they realize that more people are
listening to streaming and podcasts and videos then they might
be listening to terrestrial radio. And none of them are

(01:03:50):
right or wrong, right, It's all a matter of preference.
I'm saying, do all of the above. But I learned
a lot from my friend Dan Bongino. Haven't seen them since,
you know, Ration day in DC. But Dan was is
a smart guy. He was a smart businessman. And now
he's you know, deputy director of the FBI. But he's

(01:04:11):
a smart man. And he you know, had a master's
degree in psychology, if I'm not mistaken, working in federal
law enforcement and decided to retire a little bit early,
so getting a little bit less of a pension to
pursue a career in podcasting and radio and public service.

(01:04:32):
And it went extraordinarily well for him. You know, he's
the exception, right, not the rule. I wish he was
the rule. I wish everybody was doing it like Dan,
but it's not that easy. But my point is it's
an example, it's a pathway, it's a framework. And you know,
I think Dan had a three hour radio show that

(01:04:53):
he walked away from to serve in the Trumpet administration
because he felt, you know, this was a big deal
and it was important to him understood. But it's not
like he didn't make it with his podcast, right. He

(01:05:14):
had his podcast when I first met him, probably twenty
eighteen or so. I think back then he was getting
a million downloads on the podcast, which put him in
a very competitive category that not many podcasts, you know,
can exist in. And he did so for an impressive
stretch of time and built himself an amazing media company,

(01:05:40):
bought into several other like social media outfits, and then
into rumble dot com, in my opinion, one of the
best online video streaming platforms there is. And I think
it's no secret, you know, when that IPO hit, he
became a really rich person. And good for him. And
I say this not to put his business on the street,

(01:06:02):
but more so to give him kudos, but to make
the example here for Kevin Spacey that the old Hollywood
way of looking for that producer that'll take a chance
on you and whatnot. It may not be necessary anymore.
Nothing stopping Kevin Spacey from controlling his own air, starting

(01:06:22):
a paid YouTube channel, you know, three four bucks a month,
ten bucks a month, whatever he wants to do. He's
just used to doing it with Netflix and getting that
payday where they make all the money. And I get it.
That's a comfortable place to be the old way of
doing things. But when you look at so many of
the new media entrepreneurs that are out there, guys like

(01:06:43):
Benny Johnson and so many others that just have phenomenal followings,
they're doing it from every angle, you know. I mean
they've got monetized TikTok, monetized Instagram, Facebook. This is a
full business. It's not like a happenstance, and it's not luck.
They work hard at it every day. They invest into

(01:07:05):
themselves and into their company, and God bless them for it.
So anyway, I say all that to say, Kevin Spacey,
you're still Kevin Spacey. Get out there and give your
fans what they're used to, and that's it. That's my
advice to you, all right, America a stall approxima, take care,
good night, and God bless you America. And remember, if

(01:07:26):
you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. I'm rich
Valdez and this is America.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
This is America.