The View, Van Dyke Vets, Vanguardism

Friday, Rich breaks down the week and what to expect next week, including Stephen A Smith's visit to ABC's "The View." Then, a look at the idea of a leading party guiding the revolution, like Yeonmi Park experienced in North Korea, along with comparisons to NYC Mayor-Elect Mamdani's policies. Plus, we honor 12 centenarian survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack, as Dick Van Dyke turns 100 years old.

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Speaker 5 (00:26):
What's up, America.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
I am Rich Valdes Valdesz with an s at, Rich
Valdez on all of the social media. Welcome to the
Friday night edition of the program. We are live and national.
Happy to be with you. It is a blessing to
be with everybody that's here. Check me out at Rich
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again on all of the social media. And I want
to get into a couple of different things. Of course,

(00:49):
I want to keep it straight with you, Ran because
I like to be a straight shooting modiqua brother from
the Big Apple. But there's a lot to discuss, a
lot to unpack. So we're gonna keep it real, We're
gonna keep it fun, We're gonna keep the faith strong.

Speaker 5 (01:01):
Here from Mourca.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Right, So I'm gonna go strap in because this is
about to get really really interesting now Friday, December fifth,
twenty twenty five.

Speaker 5 (01:10):
Lots of headlines. I'm looking at a few of them.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Washington Times, New York Post, the Aggregator, my favorite aggregator
of the Mongino Report. If these headlines are any clue
of how we're wrapping up the week, you're gonna need
either to grab your confescito or a cold one, like
my dad would say, Una freya, because you know judgment here.

Speaker 5 (01:28):
But we're gonna jump into this with both feet.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
First up, we've got people beating up like usual on
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War, and of
course he's slamming the Biden administration, saying they were asleep
at the wheel, while crediting l trumpitos and all this.
Magnus the forty fifth president of these United States now
the forty seventh as well, for restoring order in the military.

(01:51):
And you know what, that's music to my years. I
think it's music to all of our years. And over
in the Washington Times, Heigseeth is continuing to defend the
drug boat strikes as he should, Right, if you're putting
a strike on someone that you've warned and said, hey, look,
if you're in international warders and you're headed towards the
United States and we catch you and we have the

(02:13):
intel that says you're bringing drugs into our country, we're
going to kill you. Pretty clear, right. Trump made that
very clear. And yet there's still people saying, I even
they shot the boat, they didn't let them most survivors. Well,
I think that's the point. That's how the military operates.
So no sympathy from me on this one anyway. President
Trump's team is celebrating wins like Indiana redistricting map, as

(02:37):
well as big wins that he's had in recent days. Now, Listen,
there's some things that you win on and some things
that you take an l on. And I gotta say,
it's been a lot of wins for President Trump lately.

Speaker 5 (02:51):
Right.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
They try to make it look like it's a series
of losses. But when you look at the border, when
you look at the fraud that's being uncovered in Minnesota, right,
it started out close to a billion dollars. Now they're
saying it might be up to eight billion dollars in
fraud with Somalians saying that they have Somalian immigrants saying
that they have children with autism, but these children were

(03:14):
never diagnosed with autism, and millions and millions of dollars
going to these autism centers. So you know, just imahina
thing right, Just really imagine this. Imagine giving all this
money to something that may not even exist, that isn't
even proven to exist. I mean most of us couldn't
even do that in a marriage, right. I used to
be married once. Imagine if I told my wife, well,

(03:35):
I'm going to be spending money on something I think
is happening.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
Right, I bought new tires from my truck. Why were
they bald? No?

Speaker 4 (03:42):
No, but I figured I might need some. Maybe it
just doesn't work that way, right, In real life, there
are consequences to one's actions, and I think that's pretty crazy.
So we're going to see that continue to unfold. What
else do we have here? There was another one here
about an interesting story here? Oh Joe Biden. Joe Biden

(04:02):
is back at it again, glitching. This time he made
a speech and he called it the United States of
America got it.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
We just have to get out as long as we
keep the faith. Someone hope we get back up and
remember who in the hell we are. We're the United
States of America, got it. That's who we are for
the US. And there's nothing I mean America, got it?

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Come on, man, Joe and Baboso Biden strikes again. And
I mean listen, even Maya Wela spanglish was smoother than that, right,
even Joe Biden's spanglish, right, And when she said the
bogadas and she was trying to say bole guys, see
say Podway, Oh man, I wish I had those clips available.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
They're so funny.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
So say it with me, see say wad Way.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
The future is ours?

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Anyway, this is America, got it.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
Joe Biden is back and and obviously is you know,
trying to defend the position of his former administration. While
there's all sorts of people uncovering the Obamacare subsidies, saying
they're full of fraud, large scale systemic failures, talking about
a mess that people would rather forget, and especially in Minneapolis,

(05:19):
like we talked about the other day, the police chief
warning police officers that they'll get fired if they mess
around with any ice agents. This is an interesting thing, right,
They're not supposed to help ice agents, right, so this
is like if you do anything, you're going to be
in trouble. The guy's name is may Or Frey. I
think it's Fry, but it's spelled fr e Y, and
I like to mispronounced things. So anyway, now, in the

(05:39):
latest video you've probably seen on social media, he's chowing
down on Somali food. And let me tell you, I
went to a Somali and restaurant. I actually really enjoyed it.
It was in Washington, d C. I went the inauguration
weekend and really good stuff. They had these this beef
that was really really good. It was like almost like
Korean barbecues, similar type of flavor. Anyway, shifting to the

(06:03):
political bignada, I want to talk about the United States
and what else is happening in America because there's a
bunch of stories. One of the interesting ones that I
saw was more like a video Steven A.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
Smith, right, the sportscaster.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
He was on the view Whoopy Goldwerg, take two, Whoopy Goldberg,
Joy behar Alyssa far or the rest of the ladies
on the view, you know, put him in the hot seat.
I think he held his own. He did a really
good job. I got a clip of that. We're going
to play on the other side. But that was really
humorous and interesting, I think, to say the least, a
pretty good clip for a Friday. And there was one

(06:43):
more thing I wanted to bring up here. Let me
see there was Oh Cinnebun employeed is a funny one.
Cinnabun employee got fired after hurling slurs at a Somali couple.
Now this is not so nice, but listen, times, you know,
New Yorkers can get rude. And she wasn't a New
Yorker per se, But you know, I've been exposed to

(07:04):
rude people before. Sometimes I'm actually the rude people. Anyway,
we have to rise above the hate, right and this
this is an interesting thing. Here does another one? Let
me see where did it go? Ah man?

Speaker 5 (07:19):
That one escaped me.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
There was a story about a news anchor, a very
curvy woman who was getting trolled by haters, and it
was pretty pretty funny. Anyway, let me see, is there
any more? Some Hollywood stuff that I'll get to a
little bit later. Sidney Sweeney, Bethany Frankel, some stuff from
the New York Post. Oh, and Dick Van Dyke is

(07:42):
about to turn a hundred. He gives some advice on
why and how he made it to this big, you know,
centennial celebration of his life. And to me, I thought,
why aren't we talking about how many more people are
reaching one hundred?

Speaker 5 (07:56):
Right?

Speaker 4 (07:56):
Because my buddy, one of my buddies I went to
high school with, which I tend to see five or
six guys that I went to high school with.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
We kind of always hang out a couple of times
a month.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
And I just had lunch with them the other day,
and he had just come back from the Dominican Republic
where he was celebrating his grandmother's one hundredth birthday. And
I remember meeting her back in high school, so and
she was probably late seventies then, so very very cool
to see a lot of these I think they're called

(08:28):
centagenarians and their achievement of reaching one hundred years what's
going on there? I know there's a lot of people
out in conspiracy land that would like to think it's
cyborgs and this and that. I think it's more like
people going to the doctor more often and keeping their
blood pressure low and eating right and you know, having
a good life, good life, good lifestyle. Voila, you live
a little longer anyway more to come straight ahead. I

(08:51):
got another story that I'm going to get into, but
I'll keep that one from my hip pocket just in case.
You know, I don't like to put too much out
there because then I promise it and I can't deliver
the get long winded, so don't go anywhere.

Speaker 5 (09:01):
It's Richald Desbert coming right back.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
This is a maria. This is a maria.

Speaker 6 (09:28):
So you recently accused Senator Mark Kelly, a veteran an astronaut,
of crossing the line for participating in a video reminding
troops that they can refuse to follow illegal orders. Let's
see some of what you said.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
My friends.

Speaker 5 (09:44):
Sure you know better, Senator Kelly, you know better? How
dare you do that? You could go to the house.
You could put a drawer of paperwork. You could try
to start articles of impeacement if you think there's something illegal.
I mean, damn it ain't like y'all haven't done it before.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
You had peace to man twice were that ditch got us.

Speaker 5 (10:04):
Behind back in the White House, had to left them alone.
In twenty since twenty twenty.

Speaker 7 (10:09):
Maybe you wouldn't be back.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
You don't tell military men and women to ignore an
order from the commander in chief.

Speaker 8 (10:17):
You don't do.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
That that funds him next.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
You know, let me just I just want to jump
in here for a second again. Welcome back on hegoes
Rich Valdez with you. And this is Stevid A Smith,
legendary sportscaster who has a political podcast. He launched a
couple of years ago, and he actually came on my
show when he when he launched a podcast to talk
about it. It's called straight Shooter and he talks about

(10:41):
new politics and is a day kind of similar to
White Dude, but it's always a hot take because you know,
he's a he's a hot take kind of guy. And
he's on on the View. You know, I think it's
five on one, right, Whoopy Goldberg and Joy Behar and
Alissa Fara and Sunny Houston and the other girl, I
forget who she is, the blonde one. This, you know,

(11:01):
is supposed to be a five on one.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Ear.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
You know, they're trying to tear him the shreds, but listen,
I think he holds his own despite the taunting from
the view listen to this.

Speaker 6 (11:10):
I knew that Pete Hegsath said in twenty sixteen. I
do think there have to be consequences for abject war crimes.

Speaker 8 (11:20):
If you're doing.

Speaker 6 (11:21):
Something that is just completely unlawful and ruthless, then there
is a consequence for that. That's why the military said
it won't follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief. Now,
given the fact that the Secretary himself said that, I'd
love to give you the opportunity to perhaps change your
position on.

Speaker 5 (11:38):
What you said, I'm not changing the thing.

Speaker 6 (11:40):
You want to stay loud and wrong.

Speaker 5 (11:42):
Well you could call it loud and wrong.

Speaker 8 (11:43):
Oh, you want it.

Speaker 5 (11:43):
You're entitled to your opinion. I'm entitled to my oker
o Ker. Now listen. Steven A. Smith.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
I always appreciate that I don't always agree with him,
and I don't live my life that way, right, I
don't necessarily only agree with the people that I am
a sick offan of right, It's not like that for me.
You know, there's people that I'm a big fan of
and I think they're wrong sometimes too.

Speaker 5 (12:03):
I like Stephen A. Smith.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
I'm not really a sports guy, so I can't really
say I like him for that. I like him for
just giving his opinions and being a straight shooter. I
thought he did a good job here holding his own
And there's other clips of him on the view, and
I might get to a couple more in a little bit,
but I thought it was interesting because he's condemning Senator
Mark Kelly's comments regarding what is now being called the

(12:25):
Seditious Six right, and those are those six members of
Congress that were former military or former intelligence people, saying
that you should never obey an unlawful order. And of
course it's kind of like a catch twenty two. It's right,
it's coming out there and saying, listen, you should never
break the law, telling somebody the obvious, restating the obvious.

(12:46):
This is clearly what they're doing, but they do it
for the sake of controversy. They're doing it for the
sake of saying, look, we know that they're trying to
cast this.

Speaker 5 (12:54):
I guess what's the word I want to use here, shade.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
They're throwing some shade on beat though, trying to make
it look like he's being shady, like he's doing something illegal.
So it's kind of like, listen, listen, you don't have
to follow the unlawful order, kind of insinuating he's asking
for unlawful things to be done. Then they go ahead
and in their official capacity they go ahead and say, oh,
another drug boat. You shouldn't do that. You're you in
a laterally doing that. And I think, like I said

(13:18):
yesterday or the day before, Jadie Vance JD Vance, he
made it very clear that America's used this authority to
defend itself and to preemptively strike and to do what
They've done it a million times and nobody's ever had
a problem with it up until now that Trump is
doing it to stop drugs, And it makes you think,
who's on who's payroll?

Speaker 7 (13:37):
Here?

Speaker 4 (13:38):
Are these people working for we the people? Are they
working for the cartels? That's what I want to know.

Speaker 5 (13:42):
Anyway.

Speaker 4 (13:43):
During the Friday episode earlier with Sonny Houston bringing up
the controversy, here, Smith says, like you heard, I'm I'm
not going back on my word. If you want to
call it loud or wrong, go right ahead. This is
I think the type of dialogue we need, right I
wish they had more of Steven A.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
Smith on there. Wish they got me on there.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
They one times at one time they had Matt Gates
on there, and I thought that was a pretty good
one because I think Ben Shapiro was on there once.
You want to invite people that don't always agree with you.
When I invite people on my show, I try to
invite everybody. You know.

Speaker 5 (14:19):
I've invited Bernie Sanders on my show.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
Guess what, surprise, surprise, he didn't come. I invited who else? AOC,
my least favorite congressman from the Bronx and Queens, all
out crazy herself Alexandria oh Casio test also never As
matter of fact, I tried approaching AOC. I saw her
at the Puerto Rican Parade. She was marching not far
from where I was marching in the parade, and I

(14:42):
walked over to introduce myself. One of her aides kind
of like body checked me, and she literally did the
dip cut and run literally like jogged away from me
on Fifth Avenue. If you don't believe me, check it
out New York Post. There's a whole story that they
did on that because somebody quote it on camera. The
bottom line is, you only can do so much to
get somebody to come on the show with you. To

(15:03):
have a conversation to talk about capitalism versus socialism, or
to talk about whatever the news of the day is.
Some people don't want to come on the show. Some
people don't want to defend their ideas. Some people just
want to broadcast their ideas and they don't want to
necessarily have a conversation about those ideas. And that's I
think what we have here.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
Right.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
So, you know, in many ways, you have to give
mad Many, right, the new mayor of New York City,
Mayor Elect Mamdani, some credit for showing up and meeting
with El Trompito in the White House, because I think
many others reject those opportunities to try and get things done.

(15:43):
So I have to say, you know, whether I agree
with them or not, whether I called him, you know,
the puppet to President Trump's ventriloquism while he was in
the in the Oval office, I'm glad he was there.

Speaker 5 (15:56):
And I think we need more of that.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
I think we need more of the the olive branch
to the other side. Right, we don't have to agree
with them, but we don't have to hate them either. Right,
we can hate your ideas without hating you. I believe,
I believe that wholeheartedly. I've always believed that, and now
it just brings me up quick aside, my buddy T. W. Shennon,
he was the Speaker of the House in the state
of Oklahoma, and he's a colleague over at Newsmax TV,

(16:21):
and he posted a picture where he was riding the
train with Donna Brazil, the former chair of the RNC.
I thought to myself, that's good, and I hope he
doesn't get a lot of hate on that, and I
don't think he did from the comments. I saw very
good to see that people can have different views, different
TV networks, different positions on things politically, and still say, hey,

(16:43):
how are you nice to meet you, you know whatever,
and be cordial with one another without you know, getting
in somebody's face and shouting them down, and you know,
calling the Antifa thugs and the people wearing the black
masks and just Buck Wilder like that. You know, we
don't need to be crazy. We can have dialogue amongst
our differences. Anyway, That's my belief. Maybe I'm wrong right.

(17:07):
Sometimes I get hot too.

Speaker 5 (17:08):
I get it.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
Like Senator Mark Kelly, he's always hot under the car.
This guy's always freaking out clutching his pearls. Anyway, there
was another story about this Ice ice pro or anti
ice congresswoman who just got sworn in recently, Rep. Grijalba,

(17:30):
and she got sprayed in the face with pepper spray.
I'm pretty sure on purpose, just so that she could
you know, have cred being like the pro ice people
or Ice themselves, you know, sprayed me in the face
to arrest me, and blah blah blah. This is how
the Democrats behave. I mean, if I wish I was
sitting here going and today Republican Congressman so and so
got sprayed in the face with pepper spray. The reason

(17:53):
it doesn't happen to Republicans is because they don't get
in the face of law enforcement trying to be crazy.
That's how it works, right, most people, and it's not
just Republics most people. Most people. If the cops say,
are do my favorite step back, most people go, oh,
excuse me, officer, let me step back.

Speaker 5 (18:09):
Right.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
Some people have a chip on their shoulder like me
saying hey, hey, hey, I don't want the government telling
me to do listen, I know my rights, right, And
then you got people have two chips on their shoulders
that want to get in the cops face and fight them.
I got nothing against law enforcement. I do have always
something against the government telling me what to do, so
I get it. I might have a chip on my shoulder,
but bottom line is, I'm not trying to get maced
in my face and for the sake of getting on

(18:32):
camera and saying that I got sprayed and blah blah blah.
And sadly, that's what I think is happening too often
in our society. People trying to you know, do it
for the cloud, do it for the plot, and it
just you know, nobody leta.

Speaker 5 (18:46):
It's not worth it. Just isn't worth.

Speaker 4 (18:48):
It, all right them, He goes, anyway, keep it locked
right here. We're going to continue the conversation. I got
some audio I want to play for you. There's a
few things I've been wanting to get to for a
couple of days with respect to just I mean a
lot of things. We got the news of Michael Dell
from a couple of days ago. I never played that
audio for you. Michael Dell from Dell Computer joining with
President Trump to give a homeless twenty five million kids

(19:11):
a Trump account. That's one of those savings accounts that
you know they can start now and they'll have when
they retire. I think this is a fantastic thing that
this guy's doing. He's giving a lot of money to
a lot of people, and he said he's going to
get some other people involved as well. We'll talk about that.
We also have let me see what else. I have
a few things here that I wanted to get to.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (19:31):
I wanted to talk about speaking of Zara Mandani Young
Me Park. You may or may not have heard the
interview that I did with her. She had written a book,
Excuse Me, and she escaped North Korea and she did
it by way of China, and on the way she
was raped, and it's a harrowing story of what she's

(19:52):
done to come to America. But Young Me Park was
speaking about Zori Mundani and really giving her two cents
on it, and it's moving. It's very moving to hear
it coming from somebody who understands socialism firsthand. So we'll
get to that as well. Plus FBI Director Cash Bettel
announcing a pedophile ring that is in their sights. We're

(20:14):
going to talk about the seven sixty four pedophile ring.
That's I'm glad that FBI's honing in on that stuff,
and it sucks that it's happening, but I'm glad that
we got the right people on the job. So all
of that and so much more straight ahead, don't go anywhere.
I'm Rich Valdez.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
This is America. This is America.

Speaker 5 (20:34):
The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
to speak with Rich Valdez. Oh, very good, bugg and honor, thanks, Rich.
The honor is all yours. Conservative talk with a dash
of sofrito. Now here's Rich Valdez.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
All right, I mean he goes, welcome back, Rich Valdez,
keeping your company. And I want to get into this
clip that I mentioned out yon me Park because I
thought she was absolutely terrific and something that she said
really grabbed my attention. It was a couple of days ago,
but man, what was it worth listening to check this out?

Speaker 7 (21:15):
They come and make these tweet three promises of paradise
like that's how North Korean regime began. The Kingneerstone came
to my grandmothers and said, look at the capitalists, they
are so rich, and look at the peasants. Their children
can't even get educated, and they cannot even be treated
in the hospital. How about I create a society where

(21:36):
everybody gets a free society, free education, free health care,
free housing, free food, and then we get rid of inequality,
because this is evil And why would you not want that?
It sounds so fantastic. Why everybody lived life with dignity,
nobody suffers from poor health, and people wanted that. So

(21:56):
my grandmothers gave up their private property, they gave a
freedom of speech, they gave a freedom of movement, they
gave up all their rights to live in this paradise.
But we know that when government took all the rights
away from people, they did not create a paradise. They
created the biggest constitution camp in human history. The whole

(22:18):
country became a constitution camp. Nobody is allowed to leave
North Korea, nobody allowed to enter even right now. Right
so Mandani exactly promised saying things that cameos of promise
to my grandmother generation, saying it's evil. There are billionaires
and there are people who are poor canting for the rent.

(22:39):
Why don't I come in and make or like free
for you guys. And nothing is free in the world,
Nothing is free, and this entirement generation. The young people
that I see in you, who are so unbelievably entire,
they some think they deserve free buses, and like, why
do you need to get that free? So we have

(23:01):
a shruge issue because American education system have failed teaching
its people about tyranny.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
The price you pay for socialism is your liberty. Listen,
I'm not looking to give up any liberty for the
only country on the planet that has as much of
it as we do. And I know as soon as
I say that, somebody wants to start talking about Denmark
or you know, any one of these other places where
there's a whole lot of things happening, but they don't
have a constitution that protects their free speech, which is

(23:31):
really what I'm talking about. I have a microphone tattooed
on my forearm because I believe in this is and
right next to it is the statue of Liberty in
the American flag. And the reason I have that is
it's a reminder of myself every day that, you know what,
this country had an idea behind it, an idea where

(23:51):
we the people, the common people, the farmers, the whomever's right, everybody,
the common man makes up the government. We elect people
to represent us in the government. Now, clearly it's gone awry, right,
I think we could use that word where we don't
conduct our business the way we're supposed to. But if

(24:13):
you've ever raised children, or have you ever run a home,
or you've ever run a business, there may have been
a time in your trajectory as a business owner, parent
employee where things didn't go the way you intended. They
were supposed to go left, but they went right, or
they were supposed to go right but they went wrong.
And listen, what do you do. Do you just keep

(24:33):
doing it wrong or do you try and correct course?
Now easier said than done when it comes to Washington,
because in Washington it's massive. You've got people that are
multi generational in this business. People are having their kids,
they're grooming their kids. Look at gold bar Bob, right,

(24:54):
gold Bar Bob was the mayor of Union City, New Jersey,
became a state assemblyman, then he was mayor of Union City,
ran for Congress, became the congressman for the thirteenth district,
became a Senator, and guess who the Congressman for the
thirteenth district is today? Now the gold bar Bob is
in jail. It's his son, Rob Menendez. And I'm not

(25:18):
taking anything away. I'm not trying to say that Rob
Menandez is not qualified for the job or anything like that.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
I don't know him. But what I am saying.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
Is that you see a multi generational approach to how
people involve themselves in politics. I'm not saying that's bad either.
What I'm saying is that it's a thing. And when
you know it's a thing, it's because people can grossly
enrich themselves and they figured out this is our family business.

(25:52):
Our family business is in some cases defrauding the public
or lying to the public while defrauding the corrupt. Right,
if the allegations that were proven to be true, or
at least where he was found guilty of gold bar Bob,
Senator Bob Menendez of accepting cash or gold bar gifts

(26:14):
in exchange for different things while he was on the
Foreign Affairs Committee as the head of it, then this
is indicative of a problem that exists, right, and this
problem that existed it back in the days they called
it ambutus ambi t us, back in the days of

(26:35):
the Roman Empire. But what it is is political corruption.
And some years ago I did a whole half hour
show on that. It was really a really good couple
of segments on ambutus and how political corruption is as
old as politics itself. And I get that if you've
ever read a Bible, sin is an evil or as

(26:58):
old as humanity, because that's just how it works. But
what young me Park is talking about saying that Mamdani's
promising free buses and this, that and the third this
is all true, right, It's true that we can't just
go around giving up our liberty in order to in

(27:18):
order to have a free bus ride. And this is
why I think he's going to meet a lot of opposition.
And you're going to see opposition coming from the state
of New York right right from the governor, because I
think she's going to be the first one to say
no thank you, no thank you, and no thank you.

Speaker 5 (27:36):
So I think I have a clip on that listen
to this.

Speaker 8 (27:39):
Do you agree with Mamdani that Benjamin at Yahoo should
be arrested it becomes.

Speaker 5 (27:44):
New York No, I do know it.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
And the New York City mayor does not have the
power to do that. He doesn't have the power to
arrest that in Yahoo. He doesn't have the power to
make free buses. There's a lot of things he doesn't
have the power to do. But this is just another
example of how politics, especially when you're a pro crime
progressive like Mamdani, you're trying to change people's minds.

Speaker 9 (28:07):
Right.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
He's not just here to make the change today. He's
trying to usher in a whole new way of doing
things so that the old guard, the old system is gone,
so that the rich people will fund everything. Eventually there
will be no rich people. We saw this in Cuba,
We've seen it in Venezuela. Just take a Cuban who
grew up in Cuba, who used to go to Lajallana

(28:27):
when they were little or younger, when it was beautiful,
and bring them to like San Juan, Puerto Rico, which
looks a lot like Lahavana with the cobblestone streets, but
the architectures gorgeous in San Juan, and the buildings are
dilapidated and falling apart in La Havana.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
And it's that simple. I've seen it a million times.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
They cry, They just they start weeping, saying, wow, you know,
my country used to look like this before Castro, right
back when there were families like Bacardi, Fami Leacrdi. They
made rum in Cuba and they had to leave. Why
to keep their money, to keep their company so that
it wouldn't take it, and they fled to Puerto Rico.
God bless them. Listen, this is not for the week.

(29:05):
It's only the strong that survived when it comes to
socialism and communism, conflating the two, because there was an
actual revolution in Cuba. But when it comes to these policies,
it's all the same, right, And I know some people
try to make excuses or try to say, hey, look
it's not so bad.

Speaker 5 (29:21):
That's fine.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
If you want to have that position, that's okay, you
can have that position. I'm not going to have that position.
I've spoken to too many people, and I agree with
the ones I've spoken to, and listen, I've spoken to
ones that don't agree with me, Like my friend who
left Lahavana on a jet ski to Key West, Florida,
and he's the first one to tell me he's not
a big supporter of Trump or at all. He never
trashes America. He actually only trashes the socialists. He only

(29:45):
trashes the Communists and an Unlike many of his brethren,
he doesn't think that we're headed towards socialism. He doesn't
think we're heading off the cliff. He doesn't think that
Mamdani or Bernie Sanders or.

Speaker 5 (29:59):
AOC are Fidel Castro light.

Speaker 4 (30:04):
But he does think that Maluro and his predecessor, Ugo Chavez,
these guys are the devil incarnate. Now, I don't know
if it's just him sipping the kool aid in the
media where he just wants to hate Trump because he
was told to. He's a fairly intelligent guy, but he's
led by emotion on some of the issues. And I'm
gonna keep working on him. It's been a few years, though,

(30:25):
and my point is he's not alone. And that's why
we do what we do. We come out here, we
talk about what we talk about. I'm not here to
convince everybody. I'm just here to share a couple of
stories with you, hopefully entertain you and inform you along
the way and give you a perspective mine. If you
like it great, you want to add to it, hit
me up, send me a message on one of the

(30:48):
social media's tag me in one of the comments, and
I will see it and I will read it on
the air.

Speaker 5 (30:53):
Happy to do that.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
Plus, I think I've mentioned this already, but we are
going to be expanding to two hours this coming week,
this Monday, and we'll start that with you know, bringing
in a couple of key interviews. There's a few people
that I like to check in with often because they're
they're plugged in, like former generals and former CIA people

(31:14):
and people that are you know, in the mix, in
the know that can give me the scoop. So thankfully,
in my years in talk radio and you're doing television work,
I've gotten to meet some people in the green room
or some people that you know through my travels, and
they give me this scoop sometimes and sometimes they're willing
to come on air and talk about it. I'm happy
about that, and I want to bring you know that

(31:34):
to the table as well, so that we can have
a more robust, rounded out conversation.

Speaker 5 (31:39):
But something else I want to bring to the table
is the.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
Ability for you all to continue calling into the show,
and we're going to do that as well. But happy
to integrate that because it was something I've always loved
to do. I love speaking with the callers I love
to believe it or not having regulars, which you know
is kind of taboo right in the radio world. They
always encourage have different callers, trying not to make it
the same. But for me, it was kind of like Cheers.
You know, Cheers was a hit because the TV show

(32:04):
Cheers about the bar because it was the same cast
of characters, and I loved that cast of characters. It
was great when Norm would walk in and it'd say Norm,
you know, in Unison, and everybody knew what was going
on when Woody was about to make a joke. And
Rea Pearlman, and just a few staple characters like the
ones that used to call into the show. And hopefully

(32:26):
we can put that gang back together and have them
call the show and join us and you know, come
on board this late night conversation that we're having here
as well as you. So once that functionality is ready
to go and we've tested it and it's working right,
I will roll out that number. That's probably going to
be about another three and a half weeks or so,
but just putting it out there back of your mind anyway,

(32:47):
keep it locked right here.

Speaker 5 (32:49):
We're going to continue.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
I want to go into a couple of softer stories
as we head into the weekend. Hopefully everybody has a
lot of fun things to do. And I'll be right back.

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Alwona all right, and he goes, welcome back. Is Rich
valdezk keeping your company here? Friday, Friday night, and I
want to get into a couple of things that I
wanted to talk about, and I had them in front
of me and now they're escaping me. But one of
them was this Dick Van Dyke story. A little on
the softer side of things. But it is Friday, so

(33:52):
I'll allow it and listen to this Dick Van Dyke.

Speaker 5 (33:55):
You can let that play. I like that too. Just
keep it low, all right.

Speaker 4 (33:58):
So Dick Van Dyke, the legendary comedian Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,
I mean, Mary Poppins, He's it right. I mean, there's
so many things he's done. I'm you know, not recalling everything,
but he believes that ditching these two things is why
he'll likely make it to his one hundredth birthday, which
is coming up. And we're gonna get into a little
bit more on Dick Van Dyke straight ahead, but first

(34:21):
I want to talk about Ira Sharp and a couple
of other patriots, heroes, veterans that are also one hundred
years old, and they got here by fighting their ass
off after Pearl Harbor. These guys survived the Pearl Harbor attack.
His daughter, I forget her first name, Heinrich. She chronicled

(34:41):
this in a piece on the news and it's a
really moving thing.

Speaker 5 (34:44):
On a play of the clip. Check this out.

Speaker 9 (34:45):
These pages have aged and they are very delic hit,
but the story they tell of service and sacrifice hasn't
changed over time.

Speaker 8 (34:54):
That one, of course, is my father, Ira.

Speaker 9 (34:56):
Shop that are known as Ike was a young navy man.
He was stationed aboard the USS Dobbin at Pearl Harbor
in nineteen forty one when the Japanese attacked.

Speaker 8 (35:08):
Had just set down to a cup of coffee and
he heard all of it, and so goes up and
he sees the Utah Capsias.

Speaker 9 (35:16):
December seventh, will Mark eighty three years since that faithful day.

Speaker 5 (35:20):
A date which will live in infamy.

Speaker 9 (35:25):
When over two thousand lost their lives. It's an anniversary
shop his daughter, Kimberly Heinrix and a few caregivers will
commemorate in Hawaii tribute. You know, at one hundred and
four years old, he's one of the few survivors still
alive today.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
Going back there with cause people to remember the occasion.

Speaker 9 (35:45):
He's made a trip to the island a few years
in a row now thanks to some generous donations through GoFundMe.

Speaker 8 (35:51):
He goes out because he feels like he needs to
scan for those that camped anymore.

Speaker 9 (35:57):
Heinrich says, it's always emotional knowing what her father experience
that day.

Speaker 8 (36:01):
When I look at these guys who are one hundred
and four and one hundred and two, I see these guys,
you know, I see these young guys, right, they're just kids.

Speaker 9 (36:18):
This weekend, she'll stand alongside many others to honor those
who didn't return home while holding close.

Speaker 8 (36:24):
Dad is one hundred and four and I don't have
that much left with her.

Speaker 9 (36:28):
Each precious moment with her own personal hero, her dad.

Speaker 4 (36:32):
An amazing story, right talk about Dick Vandyke about to
turn a hundred.

Speaker 5 (36:36):
These guys are heroes.

Speaker 4 (36:37):
Irish Sharp and the rest of these guys, God bless them.
Only a dozen of these guys left. And that's just
a you know, a reality of life of how you know.

Speaker 5 (36:51):
The clockworks.

Speaker 4 (36:52):
But soon Pearl Harbor will have no survivors, none of
them will be alive. It's just quite amazing to me.
Today there's only twelve that are still alive, all centenarians,
and this year only one of them is able to
make it to Hawaii to mark the anniversary of the

(37:15):
Pro Harbor attack schedule for Sunday. And this is a
big deal, right, big significant part of American history. These
men are heroes. And Kimberly Heinrich, the woman you're hear
in the video, she's the daughter of Irish Sharp. And
I got to tell you it's just it's probably you know,

(37:37):
a different experience having one of those types of bets
the Greatest generation as a dad. But I've had two
or three occasions where I've interviewed people that served in
World War Two, and let me tell you, amazing, amazing
conversations that what I've learned from them was just eye

(37:59):
opening and most of them are chronicled and older editions
of this podcast, This is America at Rich Valdees, because
I wanted to make sure I was able to capture them.
At least one or two of those, I know I
got on audio. The other ones were just I met
them at events and we had great conversations and I
was just, you know, blow it away by what it
was like back then. You know, just a different world.

(38:21):
No cell phones. I don't mean to make light, but
you know, there was no cell phone, There was no Instagram,
there was no any of these things that we do today.
It was a different world, and they were giving up
their lives as young young men to defend this country.
It's really really kudos to them. Talk about turning one hundred.
He says that he gave up alcohol and smoking back

(38:44):
in his fifties. He says that's exactly why he's quote
still here now. His comments came when he was speaking
about working with Walt Disney, who actually died of lung
cancer back in nineteen sixty six, and he was at
a Vandy High Tea event in Malibu, California, where he lives.
Van Dyke recalled that mister Disney smoked too much. He

(39:06):
later corrected his son Barry Van Dyke, when Barry said
the actor didn't smoke much, which is pretty funny, he said, Oh,
I smoked a lot, actually, Dick noted, I think probably
into my fifties before it dawned on me that I
had an addictive personality. If I liked something, I was
going to overdo it. So I got rid of the
booze and cigarettes and all that stuff, which is probably

(39:29):
why I'm still here. The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang star
had previously discussed quite candidly quitting drinking and smoking, and
back in nineteen seventy two, he checked himself into a
hospital after revealing he was dealing with alcoholism. But the
star admitted quickly stopping smoking, and he said that was
twice as hard as anything he'd done before. He said

(39:51):
that a couple of years ago. Man, you got to
give somebody credit for that stuff, right, I know, I
give him credit for that.

Speaker 5 (39:57):
I have a friend, my buddy Chouch.

Speaker 4 (39:59):
May God rests his soul, Chew Jose Perez Barber, and
he I don't think he made it past forty one,
might have been forty when he died. Cirrhosis of the liver,
just couldn't stop drinking, couldn't get a handle on it.
Went to rehab, stopped for like two years, started again,
stopped again for six months, and his last run, he

(40:20):
just just went in. He became a different person. He
was such a shame. And what a talented barber, what
a talented, just funny guy, excellent human being in my opinion,
like I said, didn't make it past forty. So Dick
van Dyke, you know, kudos to him for making it
this far. And he wrapped this up. He was there
with his fifty four year old wife. Should he he's

(40:42):
forty six years older than her. Job, Dick Van Dyke,
good job, saying it's frustrating to feel diminished in the
world physically and socially. And he said, like my old characters,
I'm now a stupor, a shuffler and a teeterer. That's
the story there. But I wanted to talk about this.
How many people are becoming one hundred right, seems like

(41:03):
more and more people are becoming or reaching that age
of the big one, and currently it's zero point zero
three percent of the US population. Check this out. It's
expected to quadruple by twenty fifty four. So that's in
another thirty years, right, So in thirty years we're expecting
to quadruple, to be one tenth of the population. M Wow,

(41:28):
I'm sorry, yeah, zero point one. Check out some numbers
here in twenty twenty four and estimated one hundred one
thousand Americans were one hundred or older. I remember reading
this before because I was looking at the Doge Committee's
numbers on how many people were getting Social Security or
at least labeled as being over one hundred, and I said, wow,
it's like a lot of people. The trend right now

(41:51):
is that more people are living and the people becoming
one hundred years old centenarians, they are tripling. As of
the last three decades, that number's gone up three x.
The projection will have four hundred and twenty two thousand
centenarians by the year twenty fifty four. Seventy eight percent

(42:12):
of those are going to be women.

Speaker 5 (42:15):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (42:16):
I wonder maybe that's why Dick Van Dyke's wife is
forty six years younger than him, because there's just women
that are living longer. And No, that wouldn't make sense.
That should be the other way around. I'm really curious.
I'm really curious. And I'm not only curious. I think
I'm jealous, right, I think I want to be ninety
nine years old and have a fifty four year old wife,

(42:39):
right or whatever? Forty six years I mean, I don't.
I just say that because you know, who doesn't want
a young attractive woman? Now, how young is a question?

Speaker 5 (42:48):
Right?

Speaker 4 (42:48):
So I'm forty seven and I have children that are
twenty and twenty four, and I oftentimes when i'm out,
I will see young women that are in that age
group of my children, and I could spot them a
mile away. Typically, And sometimes when I'm with my friends,
will be out waitress, bartender or whatever, and they'll, you know,
they'll be how old do you think that girl is?

(43:09):
And you know, the right away they start, they're like
thirty something, thirty two, thirty this, And I'll say I
think she's twenty two, and they look at me like
I'm crazy, and they work up the you know, the
genetic goal to ask her, hey, how old are you?
We're trying to figure this out here. And I'm always right,
I'm always right. Sometimes I'm more right than I want

(43:30):
to be, and I don't want to be right on
these things, and it makes you wonder, you know. I think,
as a general rule, at least if you have children
that are girls, I don't feel comfortable dating a girl
that's the same age as my daughter. That just doesn't
feel right. But a couple of years older, like you know,
maybe ten eight, Yeah, I think I'm down with that,

(43:51):
maybe even more my daughter's twenty four. If a girls
thirty one, thirty two, I don't think i'd have an
issue with that.

Speaker 5 (44:00):
I really don't. I don't now what I find a
lot in common. Maybe not.

Speaker 4 (44:05):
I mean, maybe some of my musical interests are similar
to a woman that age, but I don't know. It
depends on, you know, what they do for a living,
what type of experiences. I guess everything's kind of out there.
But as a rule of thumb, I don't think I
want to date girls in their twenties. So I don't know.
Is mister Van Dink rocking the cradle over here?

Speaker 5 (44:25):
I don't know. I'd love to get your thoughts on it.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
I think I'm gonna share this article over the weekend
and see if you guys will share a couple of
comments on it, and we'll circle back on that, but
that's the latest.

Speaker 7 (44:37):
Here.

Speaker 4 (44:38):
Oh, one more statistic. Based on the twenty eighteen CDC
Life Table, a girl born in the United States has
a two and a half to five and a half
percent chance of living to one hundred, depending on her
race or ethnicity, while a boy has a way lesser chance,

(44:58):
only zero point nine to two point two percent chance
of living to one hundred. Does that mean men are
less healthy, No, it just means men do more dangerous
things in life.

Speaker 9 (45:08):
Right.

Speaker 4 (45:08):
The reason that we die younger, I think, is because
you ever seen a woman building a bridge or climbing
a telephone pole. And I'm sure somebody's going, yeah, I've
seen that. I know a girl. Okay, fine, you know
a girl. You've seen it once. By and large, it's
men that work on these things, right, oil rigs. We

(45:29):
had a guest on once and I remember seeing the
pictures of him on the Instagram and whatnot. You know,
working at these oil rigs, And it's hard work. These guys,
they work hard. They drill may be drill. And I'm
not saying that women can't do hard work. I'm saying,
you know what else is hard work? Taking care of children,
taking care of a home. I know a lot of
guys can't do that. Some guys do the whole stay
at home dad thing. I've raised my kids, you know,

(45:52):
in a co parenting situation where they were with me
alone for you know, days at a time, three four
days a week for many years. And was it wasn't
easy at all. Was it easier to show up at work? Yes,
it was easier. It was easier for me to go
and do whatever labor I did, whether it was talking
on the radio, talking in the state government, thinking, writing

(46:13):
on my laptop, whatever it was. All of that was
a lot easier than actually doing the hard work, the
elbow geriast that goes along with parenting. And I'm not
saying I didn't want to do it. I adored it.
It's one of the few things in life that I
think defined me. I don't feel defined by my career
per se. I feel blessed by it, but I don't

(46:35):
feel defined by it. But I do feel defined in
my role as a father. I think it's something you
can't shake. It's one of the few things you know,
maybe your faith, your role as a parent. I don't
feel defined by my role as a son, right I
think my parents aren't around anymore, and so I technically

(46:59):
not a son anymore. So I don't feel like that's
a part of my identity, but I do feel like
being a dad is part of my identity. It's truly
every breath I take that there's dad thoughts going through
my mind. I hope she's okay. I hope she has this.
I hope that you know. It's just always going in
the back of your mind. Anyway, some food for thought there.
Who's going to live to one hundred? I don't know anyway.

(47:21):
One more segment to go. We're going to talk about
what to expect in the week to come. I'm guessing
Democrats are going to be all over the Sunday Show saying, Hey,
guess what. We have got to make sure that we
keep blaming the Republicans for everything that's bad. We've got
to make sure that we double down and say that
Trump is doing illegal things, that he's blowing up drug terrorists,

(47:44):
and that's bad, and Pete Heseth has something to do
with it.

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we're wrapping.

Speaker 5 (49:33):
It up, so FAMDIA. Next week I think is going
to be a roller coaster, just like this week was.

Speaker 4 (49:39):
Right, some wins, some wits, and all that breakable American
spirit that we all love now, from hexap calling out
the Biden Cruz snoozefest on defense to the Trump team
scoring big on borders, I think we're going to see
a lot more of that in the week to come.
And hey, let's not forget what about the heartwarming stories.

(50:01):
I like those, Right, there's a story about the chess
whiz kid checkmating the world. That's a good one, and
in a couple others that I think are pretty interesting
and we're going to get to. But looking ahead to
next week, I think we should buckle up because we
got more of that holiday hustle. It's going to be
starting on Monday with people just going into holiday mode,

(50:22):
but ramping things up and amping them up so that
they can get as much attention as they can because
it's a little easier to get attention in December because
a lot of people take off two weeks out of
the year or three weeks out of the year like me. Right,
I plan to be in Puerto Rico for a good
part of the end of this year, and you know,
the headlines are always going to be there. I think

(50:45):
what's important for us is that we keep showing up.
We keep showing up to have these conversations. We keep
showing up to make sure that we stay informed and
in my opinion, more importantly entertained. Right, it's important that
we don't lose our humor in this Right. I don't
mean humor like funny, but I mean like in Spanish,
like buen. Right, you're having a good attitude, a good

(51:06):
outlook on things, where we're not trying to kill the world.

Speaker 5 (51:08):
We're not trying to kill our neighbor.

Speaker 4 (51:10):
We're trying to figure things out, We're trying to have
a conversation, We're trying to elevate the consciousness of the
national discourse. Those are the things that we want to do,
that we want to achieve, right, while not losing touch.

Speaker 5 (51:23):
Right.

Speaker 4 (51:24):
This is why I always try to include something from
the pop culture world, because it's a thing, and you
want to be as eclectic as you can be by
the way, I want to speaking of the media and
stuff like that, I want to give a shout out,
big shout out to the Christmas party I was invited to.
I was not able to make it because of a
train issue, So forgive me. I want to ask for

(51:46):
forgiveness from mister Bozell who's now serving in the Trump
administration at the US Agency for Global Media, Brent Bozell.
Of course, mister David Bozell, now the president over at
the Media Research Center. I want to give a big
shout out to Dan Schneider, vice president over at the
Media Research Center, and of course the whole crew. They

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did an amazing job at their holiday party on Thursday
last night, and big shout out to them. Also wanted
to give a shout out to the chair of the
Chairs in New Jersey Republican politics, a guy named Jose Arango.
He's the director of Economic Development for the City of
Jersey Cities, an old political mentor of mine. I like
to say in Spanish, he's my father, you know, political

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and Jose Arango was actually the youngest state assembly person
elected in New Jersey and got elected with Ronald Reagan
during the Reagan Revolution back in the eighties, so kudos
to him. He also had a great Christmas party, and
I wanted to thank him for having me as well.
So just I wanted to put those two things out there.
And of course a big shout out to Lydia Saranai

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from Newsmax for having me on her show, John Bachmann
from Newsmax as well. Just a lot of great people
having some great Desis discussions, and of course you all
the American people, always happy to have those conversations with
you guys. Anyway, we were talking about pop culture and
different things and different shenanigans. And you know, there's only

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twelve veterans left.

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That survived the Pearl Harbor attack.

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So I want to make sure I give them a
standing salute, right hand to the head salute to those guys.
They are patriots, God bless them. Stay vigilant, because man, we.

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Must.

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We just have to take their example of staying vigilant
and staying vicious quite frankly in our approach to our Americanism.
And finally, you know, I would be remiss if I
didn't say, look to the rest of all of us,
that we have to stay sharp, right, we have to

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stay sharp. We have to keep smiling, keep fighting the
good fight. Because while we do this, this conversation with
a dash of sofrito, we also have to make sure
that we keep doing it and that we don't burn
ourselves out, because there's so much more to come straight ahead.
You have to stand for something, right that old saying
from Lord Acton and others. If you stand for nothing,

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you'll fall for anything.

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And the only.

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Thing necessary for evil to triumph is for you good
people to sit there and do nothing. So make sure
you do something. Make sure you stand for something. I
start approxima, take care, good night, and God bless you America.
I'm Rich Valdez, and this is America.

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