Trans law, Target Tirade, Tokenized Dollar

On Thursday, Rich reacts to the breaking news that the Brown University Shooter was found dead. Then, the House passes a ban on transgener surgeries on minors. Will the Senate pass it so the president can sign it into law? U.S. Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O'Neill and Secretary Bobby Kennedy (RFK Jr.) weigh in with new policies. Later, what will a tokenized dollar economy look like? Plus, Rich takes calls from listeners across America. 

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Rhode Island cops finally found the Brown University shooter. They've

(01:10):
been looking for it turns out he was tied in
with the MIT shooting and guess what, they find him
in a storage container and he's dead. I in Dato
and we have some breaking news here from the Chief
of the Providence Rhode Island Police Department, Oscar Perez, Colonel
Oscar Perez, police Chief.

Speaker 5 (01:27):
The least police department was desperate to put handcuffs on
an individual was identified as Claudio Nevis Valente Nado birth
and he was a forty eight year old man. He
was a Brown student. He was a Portuguese national and

(01:47):
his last name, non address was in Miami, Florida. And
I will tell you that he took his own life tonight.
We have members of the Province Police Department up on
Salem Massa, New Hampshire, and we also have the BCI unit. Obviously,
the FBI and their evidence Recovery unit is up there.
So the process is being conducted as we speak. And

(02:09):
he goes without saying that I would like to personally
think vif Fors again of the Province Police Department, that
are Island State Police, the Land Attorney General, the FBI,
the atf HSI, the US Marshals, Irs, dea Secret Service

(02:29):
and ncis.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
Coward to the end, right this monster. His name is
Claudio Nevez Valente, a forty eight year old Portuguese national
and former Brown University graduate student. They found him in
a New Hampshire stored unit with a bullet in himself.
I don't know if he shot himself in the head,
but that's usually the place right now. The cops that
he died days ago, right after shooting the MIT professor,

(02:54):
which followed the campus massacre at Brown where he killed
two students and wounded nine others. Fortunate, but we have
this the FBI making their announcement along with the Brown
University officials, the local government as well as the local police.
And here's the special Agent in charge weighing in on
the different investigative threads that they pursued and how they

(03:16):
actually cracked the case.

Speaker 6 (03:18):
But when you do crack it, you crack it. And
that person led us to the car, which led us
to the name, which led us to the photographs of
that individual renting the car, which matched the clothing of
our shooter here in Providence that matched the satchel that
we see here in Providence.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
He was found dead with a.

Speaker 6 (03:39):
Satchel with two firearms and evidence in the car that
matches exactly what we see at the scene here in Providence.
And so I know that you and the pub book

(04:01):
have questions about how we got from a place yesterday
where all we could share with you was a photograph
of something we wanted to talk to to where we
got to tonight.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
Well, your damn skippy chief, of course people have questions.
All right, it's taken forever and a day. Now, let's
not forget that there's been a lot of back and
forth with this stuff. And again he goes, this is
breaking news right in the nine o'clock hour Thursday evening,
and we've got this from the president of Brown University
checked this out.

Speaker 7 (04:30):
So Claudia Menuel Navis Valente was enrolled at Brown from
the fall of two thousand to the spring of two
thousand and one. He was admitted to Brown's graduate school
to study in the Masters of Science PhD program in physics,
beginning on September one, two thousand and He took a

(04:52):
leave of absence effected April two thousand and one, before
formally withdrawing effective July thirty first, two thousand and three.
During his time Brown Nuevas Valente was enrolled only in
physics classes.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
Days and days are going by. They show this one guy,
Mustafa Kombuch or something like that. Then they take his
name down and they say, he's not the guy. The
other guy is another guy, Davis, what some white guy.
He wasn't the guy either. Now all of a sudden,
they've got this guy, the dead guy. He's definitely the guy.
Now I get it. I get how investigative work works,

(05:30):
and I understand it's not a perfect world and we're
kind of bloodthirsty with wanting results. I get that too.
The part that I think I don't get is when
you have members of the community attending press conferences asking
questions like why are these cameras disconnected? Because members of
the local police department are telling me that it's because

(05:51):
you don't want to release the images, names and faces
of people entering and exiting this building because they're illegal aliens.
Now I don't know how that is, but that's something
that happened at one of these press conferences, and it
was quite eye opening. Listen to this. And then because they.

Speaker 8 (06:11):
Santo City law that we have, you don't want to
recall illegal email once and you don't want to provide
the footage to the PI or Immigration on one camera
and he come up from God Themphis, their friend of mine.
They aren't this investigation these people and.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
Can versal.

Speaker 8 (06:32):
Do you imagine how the family want to go through.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
To the media here we.

Speaker 9 (06:39):
Heard from both the Brown police chief and the provost
to Brown, who have shared that they have been fully
cooperative and shared. UH been forthcoming with all data and evidence.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
That they have.

Speaker 9 (06:50):
UH City of Province's experience is the same, which is
that Brown has been entirely cooperative and collaborative and fully
sharing with us. We will be back here to tomorrow
once again if you are not on the press list.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
So there you have it, members of the audience, people
from the public, questioning the Attorney General, questioning the investigative
team here. And I don't know how accurate this is
or not, but again it's Rhode Island, right, And I
say that in saying New England is buying large very
liberal who knows what's really happening here? Right? If we

(07:24):
didn't have sanctuary city policies, would we have gotten to
this killer a little bit quicker? Maybe, you know, before
he was able to put a bullet himself. I don't know,
but it doesn't help to hear the detectives are telling
their friends and their neighbors, you know, things will be
going better. And then those people coming to these press
conferences and calling these people out. Now, you could take
the position and say, well, come on, rich, you don't

(07:45):
know if that could have been staged. They're just trying
to attack these guys. Yeah, maybe, but really, who puts
that much effort into something like this. Really, who's really
sitting there saying, today, I am going to go and
derail a press conference, and I'm going to do it
in the name of illegal immigration. And to be a
guy with such a thick Hispanic accent, it's unfakable. The
man's accent. He's clearly an immigrant, was born somewhere else

(08:06):
and came to this country. And even he's bothered by
this stuff. So a lot of this stuff it doesn't
add up. But sometimes evil and crazy just doesn't add
up right, It just doesn't. It doesn't always fit nicely
and neatly into a little bow the way we'd like
it to. Sometimes you have a new police chief like
Oscar Perez here that people are saying he's dirty and
he's involved in drugs, and I don't know if any

(08:26):
that's true, and I don't think that this is some
sort of fake case that was designed just to expose
this man. If it is, then hey, they're elaborate, their genius,
and I wish them luck. I think the reality here
is people at times, many times are not ready for
what may come because you don't know what may come.
And I can only say that in the context of

(08:47):
the way I know my life. In my life it's
live radio. Sometimes in live radio, things happen all sorts
of things. You might lose a feed your live feed,
you might lose a guest, you might get knocked off
the air, some sort of breaking news may happen when
you had a great show planned and I want to
talk about all these great things, and then something else
comes in and you got to stick with that. Or

(09:07):
you're covering something live and you're trying to give the
best information you can and you can't because there is
no new information. You roll with the punches, You do
the best you can. You rely on your training, you
rely on your personality, you rely on your instinct, crack
a few jokes about AOC and move on to the
next topic, what are you going to do? But in
this case, it really is sad, and people do have

(09:30):
a lot of questions, and the way it ended up
is so unfortunate, all of this after a five day
man hunt to find a guy who'd already checked himself out.
And I don't mean to be sarcastic here, just you know,
these families are looking for justice, and here you have
evil doing what evil does, classic evil, taking the easy
way out, denying justice to these families. Now some might say, well,

(09:51):
he's dead, so you know, eye for an eye. I
think the fact that he died in his own hand
and didn't pay the price to someone else is really
it would bother me. But prayers and thoughts with the family,
for sure, And praise to the tipsters and the cops
who put this thing together through the rental car video.
They were searching through Reddit and good old detective work.

(10:14):
You know, sometimes as a New Yorker you grow up
knowing that the streets don't play.

Speaker 9 (10:18):
Now.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
I'm not from the roughest part of town, but you
see things. I guess you learn to comport yourself a
certain way. One thing that has always been wrong and
I think will always be wrong. Is innocent kids studying
for finals in a classroom, a brilliant professor murdering these people,
all because likely he had some failed academic grudge. I mean,

(10:39):
this is just tragic, to say the least. But thankfully
the threat is over and this clown is dead. And
we'll get into a little bit more of that a
little bit later. But it does beg the question how
did this guy get into the country, How did we
admit him? What was his purpose? Was he coming here
as a student? We'll get this. The shooter got in

(10:59):
through adversity vis a lottery program years back again, because
it's been twenty years since he was a student. Now
throwing beato. Donaldis magnus to forty fifth and forty seventh
president of these United States at presidente he's paused the
whole program to protect Americans. I think that's a smart move,
not necessarily because of this, but definitely in part smart move.

(11:21):
No more rolling the dice on who gets into the country.
At some point you have to say, hold on a second,
let's take a pause, Let's get a beat and see
what's going on. It's not anti immigrant, it's not xenophobia,
it's not what about the hardworking people looking for peace
and safety. It's none of that. It's how about the
hardworking people looking for peace and safety here in the
United States. We can't manage what we have, so we
can't take on anymore. It's that simple. Anyway, We've got

(11:45):
a couple other things here on the big win side
of things, my man Dan Bongino. Lots of conservatives are
celebrating his comeback to the microphone, which is anticipated as
he's announced that he has completed his work with the
FBI as of January, he'll be coming back. I think
that's a very important thing. Mangino is one of the

(12:06):
generals in conservative media and he definitely will be a
big value add as he was in the FBI in
the media for El Trampito, for the Movement for America.
So kudos to Dan Bongino. Godspeed, my brother. Let's see
what else do we got here? A couple of quick hits.

(12:28):
There's that viral Target meltdown, right. This lady's a nurse
and she goes on an all out crazy harassing spur
of hatred with this seventy two year old, sweet little
grandma who worked at Target, just because she was wearing
a Charlie Kirk freedom shirt. This bully apparently is now
begging for forgiveness. I got a couple of audio clips

(12:50):
I want to play for you on this one. This
is an interesting story that I think is totally just wrong,
and it's wrong with It's what's wrong with society right
now in my opinion. So now the hospital's saying, please
stop calling us, we can't handle the overflow. And there's
a GoFundMe account for the little Abbelita who is it's
blowing up. She's making a lot of money on this,

(13:11):
so good for her, and we're gonna get to that
in a little bit. And to lighten things up, I
got a funny human interest story that's gonna go viral.
Where it's been going viral, I should say, today Thursday,
and it's out of Los Angeles to real life. Reindeer
escaped from a transport trailer and went dashing through the snow.
There's no snow in California, but they went dashing through

(13:33):
the traffic on the five Freeway like they were, you know,
late for Santa's Workshop. And the drivers are slamming on
the brakes. Cops are chasing these antlered fugitives during the
rush hour, pure holiday chaos. You gotta love it. It's
like right out of a movie. And they got rounded
up safely. Good thing they didn't get shot like those
monkeys did a couple of weeks back. And I think

(13:56):
every now and again, you gotta let some steam off, right,
even if it's reindeer running around or throwing back a
few coquitos at the family Christmas party. No chebuena at
least navi that all that good stuff. We're gonna get
into that too, maybe maybe not later, but maybe Monday
or later on Friday. But ultimately in America, you've got

(14:17):
the target lady, you know, attacking the little grandma for
wearing the shirt that she didn't like. You've got the
graduate student that comes back shoots a professor and a
couple of students, and we have no idea why twenty
years after he was a student. Lots of unanswered questions
because evil oftentimes shrouds itself in cowardice, but good prevails, right,

(14:40):
and the Bible says you got to repay evil with good.
So it's kind of like adding a little bit of extraso,
a little extra sofrito to your Christmas Berdnina or whatever
you make on Christmas, you gotta give it a little extra.
You've got to look past the bad stuff to give
a little bit of extra goodness in life. At least

(15:00):
that's the way I see it, and I try. I
don't always get it right, trust me, I'd say most
times I don't get it right. But the phone lines
are open. Eight seven seven VALVEDESK one. I want to
hear your take on all of the stuff that's going on.
Is this camera system not working or not having enough cameras?
Is it helping? Is it hurting? Is it a fix? Tomorrow?
We got some big stories coming out as well. Friday.

(15:21):
You got the Epstein files that are dropping. Finally, some
additional transparency coming from a trumpito, which he said he
would do, and he signed the bill, and the day
of reckoning is upon us. We also have President Trump's
one PM address on slashing drug prices and a bunch
of other updates. Plus guess what inflation is down? And
we got some Harvard professor who's even had to admit

(15:44):
it on TV. We're gonna have more on that in
a little bit. Plus I want to chat with you
guys about cryptocurrency. As well, and former Vice President K. Maliadas.
She's back. That's right, KM Malidas, which means how bad
you are in Spanish. Kamala Harris was on Late night
TV attacking El Trompito the President Trump, and we've got

(16:04):
the receipts. We're going to get to that as well.
Plus what happened to this lady in the target incident?
I mentioned to you verbally berating this cute old lady. Well,
we're gonna hear all about it. Keep it locked right here,
there's more to come straight ahead. I'm rich Valdes.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
This is America, this is America. He's brown, he's bald,
and he's breaking it down.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
Oh he's so hadsome.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
What's his day, Rich Veldes?

Speaker 4 (16:45):
All right, he goes. Welcome back, Rich val Dead. He's
been your company here. And I want to get into
this statement made by President Trump from the White House. Nope,
I don't want to get to that. I don't have
it yet. That's tomorrow, so I want to get into
let me see much on my list here. Ah, it was.

(17:06):
I was going to call him JFK RFK Junior making
a statement that men are not women. This is a
good one. This is a statement that came out of Washington, DC,
but not from the White House. Listen to this.

Speaker 10 (17:19):
Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women.
Women can never become men. Children are innocent and they

(17:40):
need our protection.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
On this vote, the a's are two sixteen, the naser
two to eleven.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
The bill has passed without objection. The motion to reconsider
is laid on the table. That is Congressman Scott Dejarlais
who who is the Speaker pro tem passing the bill
to protect students and children across America With the new
bill that came out of the House with a transgender care,

(18:16):
I guess a gender affirming care is the best way
to put it. This has been passed by the House.
The question is will the Senate pass it? Is this
going to be allowed by the Senate. I don't have
an answer for that. I would suspect that they are.
If it does get through the Senate, this would in
fact become federally prohibited. And I think that's interesting. It's

(18:37):
an interesting place for the country to be. We went
from a couple of years ago bending over backwards, taking
parents hostage, telling people, hey, listen, you are going to
have a dead son rather than a living daughter if
you don't let your son become a daughter. And now
we've got this well. Secretary Kennedy also weighing in on
this policy. Check this out.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
Doctors assume a Solomon application to protect children. Yet doctors
across the country now provide needless and irreversible sex rejecting
procedures that violate their sacred hypocratical oaths and dangering the
very lives that they are sworn to safeguard. The American
Medical Association the American Academy of Pediatrics battled the lie

(19:22):
that chemical and surgical sex rejecting procedures could be good
for children who suffer from gender to ysphoria. They betrayed
the estimated three hundred thousand American youths ages thirteen to
seventeen conditioned to believe that sex can be changed. They
betray their hippocratic oath to do no harm. So called

(19:44):
gender affirming care has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage
on vulnerable young people. This is not medicine, it is malpractice.

Speaker 4 (19:55):
That's a strong statement there from Secretary Robert F. Kennedy
on this process and practice. Some call it a brutality
that we call gender affirming care. I don't call it
kale call it. I call it exchange, but the new
euphemism that's been created for gender affirming care. And he

(20:17):
goes into talking about the impact that this has on
not only on the physical well being and the harm
that it causes the kids, but also on how much
money big pharma makes off the process. Go ahead.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
We're done with junk science driven by ideological pursuits, not
the wellbeing of children. A peer reviewed report published by
the HHS Authice of the Assistant Secretary for Health last
months confirms that sex rejecting procedures imposed medical dangers and
lasting harm on children who receive these interventions. So today

(20:55):
we are taking six decisive actions guided by gold standards, adience,
and the week one executive order from President Trump to
protect children from chemical and surgical mutilation. This morning I
signed a declaration sex rejecting procedures are neither safe nor
effective treatment for children, less genderness for you.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
Now he goes on, and I want to let him
go on because for the full context of his comments,
I'm only going to play another minute or so of
what we have. But ultimately this is a I think
a very important place, all right, a very very important
place for us to land. And the question is, now,

(21:46):
will the Senate honor the House vote that bans this
gender affirming care. I don't know that it's going to
I hope that it does. But it's a question that
we have to ask ourselves, right because we can't continue
to pretend that this is okay. It's not okay. I mean,

(22:08):
I don't know how many ways to say it. It's
not okay that we frame this in the light of
somebody who says, hey, it's not okay that you take
your kid and allow them to become whatever they say
they feel like they want to be. And the way
that we've changed as a society to accept that which
not is is wild to me. They'll go ahead and

(22:32):
say anything, they'll say no, no, no, But look, you believe
in a god. You can't see why can't I believe
in something that I feel. You could believe in whatever
you want. But we can't throw out the law. We
have laws, and the laws say that you can't do
harm to children, not just the doctors, the parents. As
a parent, you're in trouble if you hit your kid

(22:54):
too hard. What about saying all right, little Susie, we're
gonna let you get a mass dectory, or little Johnny,
we're going to start estrogen therapy to stop your testosterone
before your voice gets any deeper, before you start growing
hair in your armpits, before you actually become the biological
man God intended you to be. And if you don't

(23:14):
believe in God to be the biological man that you
were quote unquote assigned at birth, assigned by who, I'm
guessing God, it's not the doctor that assigns these things,
Mother nature, whatever you want to call it. Whole thing
is out of control, yet we somehow normalized it. And
if you say anything like I'm saying, or what RFK
is saying, or what Trumpito is saying, or what many
parents across the country are saying, all of a sudden,

(23:35):
now you're the bad guy. You're the crazy, you're the xenophobe.
You are somehow in the wrong for saying I want
to let my kid make their own choices when they're
a legal adult, but then it's too late and they're
going to kill themselves. I think the study show these
kids are killing themselves a whole lot more now than
they are if they don't do it all right, So
let's look at the facts, right. This is from the legislature,

(23:56):
the state legislature the State of North Dakota. Document is
titled the Myth about Suicide and Gendernice for Children. Why
would parents allow gender confused kids to undergo these dangerous
medical interventions? In many cases, the answer is lies, lies
about emotional health, and the blackmail that they use to
get it done. It sounds like this, if you don't

(24:16):
let me do this, I'll kill myself. They hear that
from their kid. The threat of suicide is then reinforced
by members of the transgender industry, saying would you rather
have a living son or a dead daughter? This is
what happens, and the health professionals are supporting this, and
it's very troubling. In no other medical or psychological condition

(24:37):
is suicide in a patient, let alone a child expected
and allowed to dictate the treatment. Children are cognitively immature
to begin with, so their thinking is further impaired when
it's suicidal. According to the document, they say this is
gross and medically negligent. Sounds right to me. The suicide

(24:58):
of anyone, especially person is obviously a tragedy. And all
suicide threats should be taken seriously, but the occurrence of
completed suicides amongst young trans children is very rare, and
it's comparable to that of other risk groups with anorexia
and autism. More importantly, there's no long term evidence that

(25:22):
puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, or transition surgeries actually prevent
suicide at all. On the contrary, the best long term
research shows that individuals who do go through a medical
transition kill themselves at a rate nineteen times greater than
the general population. So what's the scientific bottom line? Well,

(25:43):
in Sweden they did a study and the child and
adolescent psychiatrist Saven Roman, who's not a conservative by the way,
he sums up the research saying there's no current scientific
support for gender corrective treatment to reduce the ris risk
of suicide period the end. Punto iffinet Psychologist doctor Michael

(26:04):
Bailey from Northwestern University and doctor Ray Blanchard from the
University of Toronto, they agree the best scientific evidence suggests
that gender transition is not necessary to prevent suicide. There
is no persuasive evidence that gender transition reduces gender dysphoric
children's likelihood of killing themselves. So we look at this

(26:25):
evidence a you've got the suicide risk amongst transi identified
children is less than or comparable with other what they
call at risk groups in the same youth categories. Being
trans identified increases suicide risk by a factor of thirteen,

(26:50):
anarexia increases the risk of suicide by a factor of
eighteen to thirty one, depression multiplies the risk of suicide
by a factor of twenty, and autism raises the risk
of suicide by a rate of eight or a factor
of eight. So clearly the trans part of it is

(27:14):
less than anorexia and depression and slightly more than autism,
but in line with that range. And yet you never
hear them using the idea that your kid's going to
kill themselves because of this as the route for care. Instead,
you always hear them actually going for the care. So
why why have the medical professionals been so co opted

(27:37):
and corrupted? My guess is money. The other part of
my guess is always the same answer, emotionality. When you
use emotional blackmail with any group, this is what moves
the left. That's why they're called bleeding heart liberals. If
you can find the stone cold stoic, I don't give
a bleep inside of you and look at facts for facts.

(28:03):
We'd be so much better off as a society. We
wouldn't be dropping everything we're doing on the whim of
the next big thing that moves us emotionally, because ultimately
it's these emotional arguments about the downtrod and about this,
about that, the perceived injustice that every Marxist will use

(28:23):
every single time to drive a wedge in any situation,
irrespective of it being true. If I for a second
believe that I could never have made it in talk
radio to the levels that I did, getting a show
in the largest market in America, New York City, then
moving from having a show in New York City to

(28:44):
having a podcast that became nationally popular and has been
for the last eight years, to then getting a big show,
a syndicated show nationally on hundreds of radio stations, hurt
by millions of people, on one of the largest radio
syndicate in America. If I would have believed that because
I was a Puerto Rican kid born to parents from

(29:05):
Puerto Rico, an American from Brooklyn, New York, of Puerto
Rican heritage, if I believe what they're telling me that
because I'm brown and because of my heritage and the
history of my parents, I could never achieve anything. In fact,
I should probably be in jail, right, because that's what
the left would want you to believe, because they try

(29:27):
to dictate the future. Instead, I believed quite the opposite.
I believe most of what Ronald Reagan talked about when
I was a kid that I heard, and I heard
my mom, you know, intently listening to Ronald Reagan when
it would come on the television, the first and only
color television in our home, by the way. So I
say that not for a pat on the back or
anything like that. I say that because you have to

(29:49):
look at things for the fact that exists. When I
was a teenager, I didn't have enough money to buy
the cool sneakers I wanted to buy, so I figured
out different ways of getting that money, and one of
those ways was giving makeshift haircuts with a pair of
clippers that I happened to find around my house. And
while I started, I guess we can call it an illegal,

(30:12):
underground barbershop business in my dad's apartment, and that turned
into an actual business. I went to school to study
cosmetology while I was still in high school. These crazy
things I now understand was the ADHD in me. You know,
I didn't have a whole lot. My dad didn't hit
the brakes either. He didn't say, hey, listen, no, no, you're
going to finish high school and then you're going to go

(30:33):
to school. I said, no, no, I'm going to finish high
school at night, so I can go to school during
the day and go to night's school to get my
high school diploma while I'm getting my permit to cut hair.
To do cosmetology during the daytime made all a sense
in the world to me. And again, I didn't wait
for a to get to b It was kart before
the horse for me. I went. I took a lease

(30:55):
on a space and had a barbershop well before I
was ever licensed to cut hair in a barbershop, and
I had a guy that was quote unquote our shop manager,
the guy that we bought the equipment from. Anyway, that's
a story for another day. But my point is, if
you believe that there is opportunity, you'll you'll find the opportunity.

(31:15):
If you ask for forgiveness rather than permission, you might
achieve the results you're looking for. But if you stop
and say, but what about? What about? What about because
they said I'm brown, or because they said I'm this,
or because my parents didn't go to college, or because whatever.
I need to go down this path because I'm downtrodden,
because the white people hate me, because there's inherent racism,

(31:36):
because the system is rigged against me, because because because
because whay whow why No, it doesn't work that way.
And it's that same emotionality that they're using now in
science of all places, to try and get people to
turn their backs on the reality of what God intended.
Boys are boys, girls are girls. It's like the most

(31:57):
basic elementary idea from the movie Kindergarten Cop. Boys have
a penis and girls have a vagina. Right, little kindergarten
kids said that it was hilarious, it was hysterical, and
it was true that and it's true. Now all right,
he goes keep it locked right here, we're coming back.
We're going to talk about the target. Abuelita, What else
do I got? And we've got some cryptocurrency I want

(32:18):
to talk about. Inflation is down. We got the Harvard lawyer.
We'll do that one straight ahead, the Harvard lawyer was
forced to admit that inflation is down. And you know,
they wanted to take shots at drunk Beat if they could.
But he's doing everything he can he's able to do
to move the economy forward. And rather than the positives
being noted, people are trying to paint it like it's

(32:40):
the end of the world. Don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Feldez.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
This is America. This is America.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
to speak with Rich Valdez.

Speaker 6 (33:07):
Oh, very good.

Speaker 10 (33:10):
And honor.

Speaker 11 (33:10):
Thanks.

Speaker 4 (33:12):
The honor is all yours. Conservative talk with a dash
of sofrito. Now here's Rich Valdez. All right, I mean
he goes, welcome back. We continue the conversation, and I
want to get into this back and forth. Inflation being down.
I think that is a huge deal, very important for

(33:33):
us to acknowledge and talk about inflation being down. I
got a story that I want to share with you,
an article I want to read. Plus I have this
clip from the lawyer. Let's start with that.

Speaker 12 (33:43):
I mean, I was surprised it was a better number
than anyone was expecting. Look, inflation has been very high.
It's stayed high and it's not been coming down. But
you know, people were expecting it to be above three percent.

Speaker 4 (33:58):
It was well below three percent.

Speaker 12 (34:00):
I mean, I think the president will take this as
good news. The investors will think that interest rates will
get caught more. So, you know it, it was a
positive news. There's no other way to spend.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
It, no other way to spend it, because people like
him and others are looking for our country to fail.
They're looking for our commander in chief to fail. They're
looking for our economy to fail, and they're looking for
you and me to fail. We the people, and listen.
I hate to put it so dire, right. I'm not
trying to throw bombs here, you know that's not my style.
But the reality is you've got to be all in

(34:33):
for America. You got to be. How could you not be?
How could you live here? It's like living on a
block and the president of the block association comes over
to you and says, hey, look, we're going to do
this thing. We're going to be you know, cleaning up,
cleaning this, fixing that, and you go, you know what,
I'm good. I don't want to be part of this block.
I don't want to be part of your association. I
don't want to help out. I'm not here to help you.
I'm here to help me. You can't be in it
all for self when you live in this place, if

(34:56):
you're in America and you're paying bills in America, and
you even and if you're independently wealthy. Look at Trump.
You think Trump, Do you think it makes a difference
for him or his kids or his grandkids if things
go up or down. Not really. They're still going to
live the same lifestyle they live whether they have thirteen

(35:17):
billion or three billion. They're rich. Rich people don't care
for the most part, right. That's why they usually get
into the most liberal politics, because they're just like, whatever,
I'll just move to my house in Nantucket. I'll just
go to my house in the Hamptons. I'll go to
my house in Miami. That's it. I don't have to
stay here. It's you and me, the working stiff that

(35:37):
say I got nowhere else to go for now. Look
at me. I've been trying to get to Florida forever,
and I could probably be in Florida. I mean, it's
not a question of can I afford it? Maybe sometimes
it is it's the question of can I afford a
three bedroom place in Florida as opposed to a one
or two bedroom, Right, That's really what it comes down
to them. I want to make sure I have enough
space like I do in Jersey, to provide for my

(35:58):
kids in Florida, should they want to come live with
me or if I don't want to host something. And
you know, real estate's expensive in Brickle Miami, that's where
I want to be. Anyway, that's a different point. But
the point is this professor says, there's no other way
to spin it. Its positive news. Of course, I expect
inflation to come down. I expect jobs to go up.
I expect real wages to go up. Why because I've

(36:18):
seen what Trump did in his first term, and I
don't think it was a fluke, unlike President Obama, who said,
but he's going to do wave a magic wand oh,
what's it going to do? Well? Uh, let me be clear.
He's going to wave a magic wand yeah. It's called
cutting back red tape and allowing our economic engines to roar,
allowing energy to do its thing. And he's been doing
it and now he's doing even better with the stuff

(36:39):
he's doing with Venezuela. Great. If we can reclaim some
of the energy that was once you know, part of
a lease deal with the United States that was taken
from us, great, I'm all for it, all for it now.
The markets reacted pretty strongly to this, as inflation dropped
to two point seven percent, so three tenths of a
point lower than three percent most people thought can be

(37:00):
higher than three percent. Those most people are those people
that are in the tank for the left, hoping America
will fail right, something Mark Levin calls to hate America
first crowd. But according to this piece in Red State,
inflation cool to two point seven percent in November, falling
short of economists expectations and offering what could be welcome

(37:20):
news for Americans struggling with high costs. The consumer price
index rose two point seven percent over the last twelve months,
according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, down to down
from three percent in September. Economists surveyed by the Dow
Jones expected it to be at three point one now.
Core inflation, which excludes food and energy. Why I don't

(37:44):
why they don't include that, I have no idea, But
that dropped to two point six annually, the lowest rate
since March of twenty twenty one, before prices started their
historic search. So we are now in pre Biden inflation,
or just about right. Biden was in office for two
months time, going into his third month. Great, but there's
a catch. There's an asterisk next to the numbers. According

(38:05):
to this piece, you have the shutdown problem. The forty
three day government shutdown that ended in mid November left
the BLS unable to collect most of the data that
it needed for October, so they couldn't retroactively gather the information,
leaving economists without the usual monthly comparison points. Data collection
for November didn't start until November fourteenth, meaning the report

(38:26):
captures roughly two weeks of prices rather than a full month.
And I'm saying that that you understand the caveat here.
It also includes because of the timing of it, you
get more Black Friday and holiday discounting than usual. So
it's hard to read too much into the November inflation data.
But I think we're going to see a trend. Even

(38:49):
Jerome Powell, who hates cutting interest rates, he continues to
do it because he realizes that I think it's necessary
to spur the economy. My good friend Steve Moore, who
comes on the program with me all the time, I
should have called him for today. It would have been
a great conversation about this. But and maybe I'll call
him for next week. He often says that we don't

(39:10):
need to lower the FED rate in order to see
the housing market boom. Now, while I think he's theoretically right,
I think as a practical matter, most people are waiting
to see the FED rate drop, and when they do,
they move. But for that reason alone, I disagree with

(39:31):
Steve on that. But it's not a disagreement in merit,
if you will right. It's because I think what he's
saying is accurate. But the reality is when people see
those rates come down, they get a little bit more
bullish on the housing market. We see it all the time.
So this is still overall good news. I wanted to
give you the caveat so that if the left tries
and spin it tea, you know exactly what's going on.

(39:53):
That we're dealing with two weeks worth of numbers than
the whole four weeks because of the government shutdown. But
it's the same thing, and that's why I think Powell
cut these the FED rate. He cut it by twenty
five basis points earlier in the month for the third
consecutive time, and that's good news. So that's what I

(40:14):
wanted to say about that. Now. Of course, whenever I
talk about this, I always get into my conversations with
my good friend Rubin the Cuban, now Ruben the Cuban.
As you know, he came from Havana, Cuba, to the
United States, Key West, Florida on a jet ski. That's
his journey to get out of communism, comes to America,

(40:35):
loves America, live in the dream. But he doesn't like Trump.
Excuse me why. Because he had a trucking business. He
was an independent contractor driving an eighteen wheel rig and
he was doing great, making like eighteen hundred bucks a week,
happiest guy ever. The Trump trade war kicked in with
China back in twenty twenty ish strike twenty nineteen and

(40:59):
twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, whatever that was, and he lost
his routes, he lost his money, and he pursued a
different business, which is where I met him. He opened
up a Cuban restaurant. It's a great restaurant. He hated
being in the same place all the time. Eventually sold
the restaurant and did well with that too, and I
told him, said, it's funny. You made all this money

(41:21):
with this restaurant. You were able to profit probably on
a higher multiple than most people sell restaurants for and
you did all that during the Trump administration. And he
was very upset by that. But my point is he
doesn't like Trump, and we always talk and he's like that,
it's funny because I went to go buy a steak

(41:41):
and we went out with another friend of ours, one
of my childhood buddies. He ordered a skirt steak at
the Colombian restaurant we go to Big shout out to them,
no ches the Colombia loved that spot, and notably the Turasco.
The skirt steak was noticeably smaller, and we eat this

(42:04):
pretty often there. And they both commented, they're like, man
that inflations kick it in, right, shrink inflation kick it
in on the steak. And it was funny. But Ruben
gives me the evil eye at that moment, saying, you see,
I told you, and he says, go to restaurant depot,
go to the store and try and buy a steak
and see how much steak you're getting for that money.
And then you tell me if inflation's down, You tell
me if Trump's fixing the economy. You tell me what's

(42:24):
going on. And he's always coming at me, and I
tell him, listen, I'm seeing changes at the pump. I'm
seeing the fact that everybody's dealing with this stuff. We
know that there were policies that were put in during
the Biden years, and I hate to be the blame
game guy, but I remember this, like yesterday, in an
effort to protect green whatever, remember that they started adding

(42:49):
an additional per head tax on cattle, and they said,
this is going to hit the cost of beef in
the United States like nothing we've ever seen before, adding
a couple of thousand dollars to the bill on the wholesale,
which obviously was going to come to us unless they
were going to eat it. But how much of an

(43:10):
increase can you eat before you don't make any money.
So responsible places like the place I go to, rather
than raise their prices on their menu, which I think
they've probably had to do, but by not by much,
they give you a smaller portion that's shrinkflation. So I'm
not here to bury my head in the sand like
an Ostrich and say it's not happening. I'm just here

(43:31):
to say this isn't Trump's fault, this is the fault
of the radical left. You realize that if we don't
have these stupid policies in place, and thankfully we have
people like Brook Rawlins and Secretary Vesant and the Secretary
of Commerce and others that are here trying to roll
back a lot of this red tape, but some stuff

(43:52):
still has to go through Congress. There's a lot of
different things that have to happen, and I think these
guys are firing. I don't have a complaint on any
of the I really don't. I think they show up
every day and they're figuring out how to roll things
back to de biden a fi if that's a word,
the United States and so many of our policies. But

(44:12):
it's not easy, and I think we're going to see
those improvements. We do have to see that deal go
through with Argentina. And now a lot of people are
upset about Trump's deal with Argentina. But that's how you
offset things. You say, all right, American beef is way
too expensive because of all these things, and we can't
roll those back just yet, or for whatever roadblocks they're hitting.
We're making a deal. No tariffs on the Argentinian beef.

(44:33):
Let's make a deal killing two birds at one stone.
Now you start to bring in the supply of the
foreign stuff, and guess what happens. Now, all of a sudden,
you might see a decrease on the domestic side. And
you put pressure in the right places, and that's what
has to be done. Sometimes you got to pressure people
so they can pressure the people that are giving you

(44:54):
a hard way to go. Now, another thing I brought
to the attention of my good friend Bruce Level, longtime
advisor to President Trump, who has recently sworn in. Congratulations Bruce.
By the way, I was invited to the swearing in
in Washington, d C. Where Secretary Brook Rawlins swore in
Bruce Level and he's now a director of one of

(45:14):
their top initiatives, and I sent him a video. It
was an AI video, but the point was valid, and
the point was, why do we have avocados and coffee
that are growing in the United States on American soil
that we don't use but instead we turned to Mexico
and ask them for avocados. Is this a ploy from

(45:37):
the Narco state? I don't know the answer to that,
but I do know this. When you have all sorts
of things growing in Puerto Rico, which is the United States,
which is about forty minutes away from Florida, you know,
at least when I fly to Florida, it takes me
about two and a half hours, takes me about two
hours and fifty minutes or three hours and ten minutes

(46:00):
to get to San Juan, Puerto Rico. You've got avocados
in Puerto Rico, You've got all sorts of produce in
Puerto Rico. You've got coffee in Puerto Rico. Why don't
we have Puerto Rican avocados in every Walmart in the
forty eight contiguous states? Why do they come from Avocado?
Why do we import from South America? Is the answer?

(46:21):
It's cheaper. I don't think that's the answer. The answer
is something called the Jones Act. And we talked about
the Jones Act and how the Pacific Legal Foundation is
out there trying to rule the Jones Act unconstitutional because
it is. You tell me what sense it makes if
you want to get something from Hawaii to Nebraska, or

(46:44):
from Hawaii too, I don't know the Philippines, which is
pretty close to it. You've got a mail it to
California first, what Jones Act. It's got to get shipped
to somewhere in the US port and then back out
same thing that prohibits the produce coming in from puertoc
You add all this extra shipping, all this extra red tape,

(47:04):
and guess what, it becomes unaffordable. Can't do it. It's done
by design. These are administrative, political things designed to marginalize.
This is a reality and one that we can erase
through legislation, through action, through awareness, through discussion. But these
things don't happen overnight, which is why I've long proposed

(47:27):
for Puerto Rico to be a state period the end.
It would solve a lot of problems, and it would
be a massive economic boom for Puerto Rico, which is
in fact a massive economic boom for America. However, the
cowardice of so many in our party, Mitch McConnell chief

(47:49):
among them, to obfuscate their congressional role. When the people
of Puerto Rico have gone to vote time and again,
three different plebiscite votes, all above seventy five or eighty percent,
saying we want to be a state. The people have voted.
What is the problem. The problem is you've got spineless

(48:11):
Republicans like Mitch McConnell. Let's say, well, what's going to
help ourners. We're gonna get two Democrats senators. But I
would submit to you and say, the last Resident Commissioner
we had, which is the one congress person that's non
voting from Puerto Rico because they can't vote because they're
not a state, but they have representation, was a Trump Republican,
Jennifer Gonzalez Cologne. Guess what, Jennifer Gonzalez Cologne, a conservative

(48:36):
Trump Republican, is now the governor Puerto Rico statewide elected.
So now you tell me why we would come to
the conclusion that we're automatically going to get two left
wing senators when we have a Trump Republican literally elected
for the last number of terms as the Resident Commissioner
and literally sitting in the governor's mansion La Fort Teresa

(48:57):
in Puerto Rico. Yeah, I'll wait, it's not a valid
argument and operating by fear. Oh, because the Democrats might win.
That is not an answer to anything. You're not going
to hold an entire island and the American economy that
could be unleashed with so much that we could do
what they call what is it called near shoring, right,

(49:20):
because it's not offshoring. But you know, Pfizer was a
powerhouse in Puerto Rico. Healthcare, pharmaceuticals, these things were all
powerhouse industries in Puerto Rico. The Jones Act is destroying
a lot of this and it only helps the shipping companies. Now,
I'll ask you this, of any congressman that I've mentioned
since the top of this program, which one of them
has a direct tie is married to a Chinese shipping

(49:43):
company who is former secretary by the way, Elainen Chow.
That's right, Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell's wife secretary of Elaine Chow.
She comes from a family that deals with the transportation
and a big shipping company. Now does that have anything
to do with this that they're pro the Jones Act
and against Puerto Rico becoming a state and me eating

(50:06):
avocados for cheap from Puerto Rico. So I got to
get them from Mexico. I don't know. Is this their
way of saying, no, we need Mexican avocados, so that
maybe in those avocado containers we can also sneak in
a few other things because maybe some people, not her.
I'm not alleging it's her, but I am alleging that
there's likely politicians somewhere that are saying, you know what,

(50:27):
we will do our part to turn a blind eye,
wink wink, nod, nod and help the drug trade, because
the Narco states are powerful, and you're a fool if
you don't think they have American politicians that are going
to try and sell you some sort of demagoguery, some
sort of fear based response to why we don't use American.

Speaker 13 (50:45):
Stuff, Oh, because we need it for Mechicano. Well you're
sure we need it from Mexico. Well, Puerto Ricans will
become two left wing shutters. Come on, Mitch McConnell and
anybody else buying that line. I'll tell you who didn't
buy that line, Marco Rubio. And I'll tell you who
is currently the Secretary of State, Marc Rubio. And it's
about time Mark Rubio get in the ear of El

(51:06):
Trumpito like he has in the past, and say, look,
we got to make moves on Puerto Rico. Not because
Valdeza is Puerto rican No, because it's good for the country.
It's good for our economy, and quite frankly, it's just
the right thing to do. More to comes straight ahead,
target Grandma, cryptocurrency and more.

Speaker 4 (51:23):
Don't go anywhere. I'm rich Faldez.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
This is America. This is America.

Speaker 8 (51:47):
Bara in glas or primal nomerodos Bara richveld is e
s nos America.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
Awa.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
All right. I love that one. I know that always
ruffles feathers every now and again. Some people, I like
Baltez with all that Spanish stuff, to go back to
your country. Get out of here. It's America. Speak English, listen.
I always say the same thing. I always say, it's America.
Speak whatever language you want. And if you don't speak English,
you're probably gonna be screwed. Right. I have a whole
lot of things, but I encourage people to speak as

(52:19):
many languages as they can. I happen to speak three.
I'm trying to get some mastery on French. A fourth
you should mael Rishi La America. How's that not too bad, right,
I'm working on it anyway. I want to get into
this Target grandma situation because look, I think people are
free to speak whatever language they want. People are free
to wear whatever shirt they want. If you're employer, even

(52:40):
a lefty employer like Target says that you can wear
any red shirt you like to work, then you should
be able to wear any red shirt you like. But
this one beautiful grandma, nice lady. Everybody's saying she's America's
favorite grandma, and I believe it because she just was
a sweet woman that really embodied the love of Christ.
When she was being attacked, she was so much more

(53:02):
graceful and gracious than I would have been. And I
want you to hear what happened to her when this
lefty Karen woman named something Punts, which is spelled just
like Bonce de Leone, right like the city in Puerto
Rico Ponse. This woman MICHAELA Punts. She's a registered nurse,
apparently some sort of medical assistant according to her employer,

(53:25):
and she went on a tie rate on this lady,
and she videotaped the whole thing. So imagine you're in Target.
You see somebody with a shirt you don't like you
whip out your cell phone, you turn it on and
you get into some crazy check this out.

Speaker 14 (53:41):
They let you wear that shirt shirt?

Speaker 12 (53:42):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (53:45):
Why are you taking to my picture?

Speaker 14 (53:46):
Why are you wearing that shirt? You're working?

Speaker 4 (53:49):
It's not red shirt. I can wear red, gitty red shirt. Now,
this sweet old woman is saying she can wear any
red shirt. She's got a little push cart in front
of her. She's hanging stuff up, putting it back on
the shelves. And this woman is harassing an old lady.
What a d bag? The woman, of course, not the
elderly woman. Go ahead, it's not a plane shirt.

Speaker 14 (54:13):
It doesn't have to be so Charlie kirkshirt. Yes, oh yes,
I know. Are you fucking stupid?

Speaker 7 (54:19):
No?

Speaker 14 (54:19):
Why the fuck would you wear that? You're at work
at Target. That's not a Target shirt?

Speaker 4 (54:24):
How dare you speak to somebody like this? Now? Listen,
I understand people could say what they want, but there's
consequences in life, and this woman faced them, and I'm
so happy that it went the way it did and
she handled this. I'm trying to learn from her, Honestly,
in situations like this, cooler heads don't always prevail. My
mouth gets the better of me all too often, and

(54:47):
I've kind of just worked it in. It's kind of
like shrinkage in business. You go, all right, so you
can make this much money, But I got that's not
gonna work for me that long. I'm probably gonna tell
somebody to go to hell and I'll earn less and
that'll cost me. But you know, sometimes you gotta do
what you gotta do. You gotta know who you are.
But the fruit of the spirit, right galicians five, we
gotta learn to embody that stuff through our holy spirit,

(55:07):
Praise God, Hallelilia. And I'm still working on that. But
this woman is a saint in my book. Go ahead,
it's not a plain rich shirt. You support a racist,
it's not racist.

Speaker 14 (55:20):
You support a racists. Yes he is, Yes, he fucking is.

Speaker 4 (55:26):
I'm sorry, but I'm not sat here and arguing you're not.

Speaker 14 (55:28):
You should go get your manager. You should not be
allowed to wear the artwork unacceptable, unfucking acceptable.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
Got your appear.

Speaker 14 (55:36):
The opinion is he's a fucking racist and you support him. Yes,
you're a par and you shouldn't say you should not
be allowed to wear that. This is going to be
taken above your fucking head that's insane and sane.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
And fucking safe.

Speaker 4 (55:58):
She keeps going. But yet this this woman, Michaela Ponce,
continues going in so apparently she works out for a
place called end Low Health. And I'm not trying to
out her a doctor. This is media reports. People I
guess found out the Internet found out was disgusted by
what they saw. Why because this woman, miss Michaela Ponce,
put this video on her TikTok. Apparently she's some sort

(56:19):
of lefty influencer when she's not being a nurse, and
I guess, you know, trying to make some sort of
income or a bild of following for herself online. And
she was kind of bragging about what she'd done to
this woman, which I think is the most crazy part
of this. Truly disgusting. And America stepped up and called
her job and said, this lady's disgusting. You should know

(56:41):
what she's doing. You know what they've done to us
throughout the years. And the justice was poetic, I would say,
because now her job did a press conference and they
said that you know, we're not going to take any questions,
we're not going to violate any privacy, but we are
aware that an low health person was in something that
you know was untoward, and we are investigating that along

(57:06):
with the police. Apparently the police are investigating it because
of all the crazy stuff she says. And there's a
clip of some of the crazy stuff she puts on
her YouTube channel. This one is going to blow you away.
Number A dual moment with her.

Speaker 5 (57:18):
But I was just with her this morning.

Speaker 4 (57:21):
She's talking about her mom. She said she visited her
mom this morning and it's never a dull moment with
her mom. And she was with her mom this morning
and listened to the suggestion that her mom made that
triggered her.

Speaker 14 (57:31):
And she told me what she wants to get my
teenage nephew for Christmas.

Speaker 4 (57:38):
A damn Bible.

Speaker 14 (57:40):
The hell she is He's a teenage boy living in
a mile military house with two lesbians.

Speaker 4 (57:46):
Do you think he wants the damn Bible? Wow? So again,
this woman, Mikayla punts ponc she is a a just
a crazy and she he this crazy lady that I
just mentioned to you got into this thing with this woman.

(58:07):
And this woman was interviewed and she has a very
very great response. The woman's name is Genie and I
gotta tell you she's a real class act. She's taught
me a thing or two. Listen to this, Miss Jeanie Beeman,
aka America's Target Grandma. All right, there, you got the

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first question. You may not have heard it. Well, let
me get the volume up. Please, can we put that
up a little bit? She asked her, This woman MICHAELA. Ponce,
who you know verbally assaulted you or whatever is, has
been fired by her employer. Do you think that was right?
And Miss Beeman says no, I didn't want her to
be fired. Go ahead to play the tape, or maybe
we could rerack it. Can we just rerack it with that?

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That'd be nice if we could get that from the top.
All right, go ahead? What a class act this woman? Right?
What a class act? Good for her? Really embodying forgiveness,
embodying kindness, just being honest, missus Genie Beeman. So they've
raised a bunch of money. I think probably somewhere between

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seventy five and one hundred thousand dollars in a guilt
GoFundMe account because why not? Right? I guess some people
thought maybe she was gonna need a lawyer, or she
was gonna lose her job. Apparently, Kudo's to target, and
that's rare for me to say, But Kudo's to target
for not firing the grandma, for wearing the Charlie kirkshirt,
for letting her wear the shirt, for you know, not

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doing something against her, and actually just staying out of this.
I think that's fantastic. And honestly, kudos to end Low
Health for whether it was through pressure or not, sometimes
you got to do the right thing. And again, I'm
not saying it's right to fire people. I don't believe that.
I believe that this woman was a nurse and she

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dealt with the elderly, and this is how she was
dealing with the elderly, and this is something that should
never be acceptable, right. I mean, if you're gonna beat
an old lady like that, and I mean verbally right,
if you're gonna treat someone that way, and that's the
same vulnerable population that you deal with, you have no
business being near those people. That's my opinion. Anyway, more

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to come straight ahead, we're gonna wrap it up. I
want to talk about cryptocurrency a little bit that might
spill over into Friday's show, but anyway, I'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
This is America. This is America.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
He's making podcasting great again. This is America with Rich Valdez.

Speaker 4 (01:00:40):
All right, and he goes, welcome back, Rich Valdez, keeping
your company, And I guess I'm committing you a do
as well. This Friday, Thursday, Friday is tomorrow. We're gonna
pick the weekend on We're gonna do some cryptocurrency conversation
or a couple of clips. I want to complain for
you about crypto really just kind of set the stage

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for a larger conversation because I think it's something that
we need to talk about that kind of goes, I
don't know, underrated or under the radar. We don't hear
from it about it as much as we should, and
it's to me, it's the game changer here right now.
I'm not saying everybody's going to make a fortune with crypto.
You might, and many that are in from the early

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inception of it will, But I like to look at
certain trends, right, and not everybody's right right, So there's
no guarantee in anything. But when you look at what's
going on and you say, the other day, I saw
this video and I might have played it. I don't
remember if I did or not. I hear so much audio,
but it was Eric Trump and Eric Trump was talking
about Actually I think I sent it to my family

(01:01:47):
group chat. It was Eric Trump saying how he wasn't
the big believer in bitcoin, but now they've just invested
in a bitcoin mining operation in Texas. Now we just
heard it was Wednesday or Thursday that President Trump's company,

(01:02:07):
Truth Media Technology Group, merged with a nuclear power company
because they need to have a partner on board to
power all of the energy that they need for all
of this bitcoin mining and all of the fintech stuff
they're working on, as well as all the social media
revolution that is happening over at truth Social. By the way,

(01:02:31):
you can follow me on truth Social at Rich Faldas,
and we're going to be once we launch the streaming
version of this show, the video streaming version of the show,
you'll be able to see that on truth Social as well.
But I say all of these things because I think
there's a very big conversation here and a lot of
people look at bitcoin like like something they can't wrap

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their head around. And I was one of those people
some years ago and I've learned to understand it a
little bit better. I don't fully understand it. Some people
are well ahead of me, like Eric Trump, like Don Junior,
like some of my siblings, that they're all on board.
They're all in, and they're like, man, there's no way
to go. But the future, we're not going to need

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banks anymore. We're not going to need the traditional financial
systems that we're used to really won't be necessary because
of the technology that exists now. I guess I'm going
to liken it to a I. Right, So, for some
of you calling into this show, you are realizing that

(01:03:39):
if you're able to call in during the live production
of this show in real time, you'll get somebody in
the studio that'll answer the phone and put you through
as a caller. If not, you're going to get an
automated attendant that's going to ask you, you know what
city and state you're calling from, and what you want
to say to me, and it will record that and
we can play those recordings, which is something that we've

(01:04:01):
never had before. Right, it was either you got to
call into the show live or you didn't get to
join the late night National Town whole conversation, and I
think that's something that I think is fantastic about technology. Right,
it's not necessarily AI, but I'm sure AI powers some
of it, but that was a facility we didn't have.

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Now I'm sure it's only a matter of time before
we'll have some AI that will be able to replace
the function of certain people, not all people, but some people,
and make life easier for certain people. For example, I
remember years ago, if you wanted to have a phone number, right,
let's just say our phone number eight seven seven VALDESK one,

(01:04:44):
and you wanted to have music on hold, you had
to hire a music on hold company. You had to
buy a host separate machine that connected to your phone
system where if a customer called, you would put them
on hold. They would hear music on hold. If you
wanted the music to say something like, you know, in
addition to the music that's playing, they would say, you know,
like some sort of ad like hey, you're listening to

(01:05:05):
the Rich Valdes show. Thank you for whatever. For those
of you that are interested in the Rich Valdes liberty
loving Latino Amigo hat press one for those of you
that want the Rich Valdez K and I had a
signature T shirt, press two right, and things like that
to sell merch while you're on hold. And that might
be something we do in the future, but right now.
Back then, when I had a business in the early

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two thousands, this was very expensive endeavor. You had to
hire a voice actor to cut the audio, to record
the recording for you. You had to get the technology for that.
Now it's free in certain places, and if you pay
for it as a service, it's a couple of bucks
a month where you can have, you know, some sort
of automated attendance, say X, Y and z. I mean,

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the technology is unreal. So I bring that up to
say that bitcoin is going to facilitate a lot of
that same ease of use. Where we needed to go
to the bank before noon on Saturdays or before five
a clock on most days, and we had to fill
out the deposit slip and do that, and if I
needed a loan against my four oh one k, I
had to do this week's long process. A lot of

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that's going out the window if you have crypto. If
you own some bitcoin and you let's say you've done
fifty thousand dollars in bitcoin or five thousand dollars or
fifty dollars whatever it is, right. I mean, a bitcoin
is like ninety grand or one hundred grand, depending on
the day you buy it. So if you have one,
you have one. But if you're only owning a fraction
of one and it goes up and down, whatever, you

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add that to your portfolio of other crypto coins. Now
you have this portfolio of this money you can't see,
which in effect is similar to your cash dollars now, right,
because that's also money you can't see. You think in
your mind, I can go to the bank and take
it out, but in many ways they don't want you
to do that and it might cause a run on

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the bank, so they won't even let you. In some cases,
I tried to take out like four thousand dollars not
too long ago, and they were like, I'm sorry, we
need to we need a manager. I was like, for
four thousand, but not that that's you know, anything to sneeze at.
But it's mine, you know. I keep it here just
for the sake of interest and the facility of using
a bank. Well, anyway, I bring all that up to
say people that have crypto they can take loans against

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their own crypto right from their own crypto wallet. That's
the direction that we're headed. We don't need the bank.
You can pay yourself the interest because other people will
take that note and say, oh, yeah, you're good for
it because you have X, Y and z. But you're
talking about in seconds not having to deal with a
banker and somebody filling out a form and cross your
fingers and hope you're lucky that stuff's happening now. And

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that's a fascinating thing. So I saw this clip from
that seventy show I think it's called and it was
very funny and it described this whole thing to me.
Listen to this.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
Hearing, will you be accepting bitcoin?

Speaker 6 (01:07:56):
Well, I don't know what that is, but it's got
coin in it, and my cash register doesn't.

Speaker 11 (01:08:00):
So yeah, what's bitcoin is a new online currency that's
been developed. It's just like actual money, except you can't
see it, hold it, or spend it on anything.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
Sounds like the kind of money I'm familiar with.

Speaker 9 (01:08:18):
If it's not tangible, how do you know it's not
just going to vanish tomorrow?

Speaker 15 (01:08:22):
Really, you're dating penny and you're going to poke at
something that could vanish tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
I'd niceeing bitcoin.

Speaker 5 (01:08:29):
I just came into a little extra money when my
dad raised my allowance.

Speaker 15 (01:08:35):
You don't have to buy bitcoin, you can mine it,
mine it like mining gold sort of. There's a limited amount,
and we find it not by tunneling into the earth,
but by using a computer to solve complex mathematical problems.

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
So let me get this straight.

Speaker 11 (01:08:49):
We have to write an elaborate program in order to
find a fake coin that we can't spend on anything.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
Yes, that sounds fun.

Speaker 4 (01:08:59):
So again they're having some fun at the expense of bitcoin.
But yet everybody that I know that has bitcoin has
made a ton of money on it. So again, this
is part of I guess, a longer segment on something.
But ultimately, I think there is a conversation that has

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to be had around the idea that we will likely
not need to do things the way we've done them
for a long time. And I'll leave you with this thought.

Speaker 16 (01:09:32):
Listen to this well, bankers about what's going on in
the global economy, I would say the biggest question from
central banks is what is the role of tokenization and digitization?
How quickly should they think about digitizing their own currency?
What does that mean? For the role of the dollar.
If every currency digitizes and we have a you know,
what does that mean for bank payments? What does that

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mean for the for the payment companies like MasterCard and Visa?
All these are question right now. I will make you know,
I think we spend so much time talking about a AI.
We're not spending enough time talking about how quickly we're
going to tokenize every financial assets and the opportunity we're
going to have to have a digital wallet and moving

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you know, ETFs and other things through a digital wallet.
And I think that's going to happen worldwide very rapidly,
and I think most countries are ill prepared for that.
And I underappreciate how technology is changing that not unlike
how technology is changing AI and other things. It will
be changing the technology around the plumbing of finance.

Speaker 4 (01:10:42):
That's one hundred percent true in my opinion. And I
think everything he said, whether I agree with everything else
he said or not, everything he said in that statement
that I played for you is true. The system's going
to change. Quantum computing, lots of things are going to
kick in in the next you know, one to five years,
i'd say, And the United States is going to be
leading the charge on that thanks to El Trompito and
the Genius Act and the stable coin that he's created here.

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And yet I find so many people that I talk to,
like he said, underappreciating this and ill prepared for it.
And I don't want anybody who listens to this show
to get caught with their pants down, at least unless
you want to get caught with your pants down. That's
up to you. I don't judge, but look into this stuff,
learn more about it. And I've got some more clips

(01:11:26):
on this. I could have spent probably thirty forty minutes
on this. I've got a lot, So I'm going to
carry that over to the Friday show and make sure
you're tuned in for that. Make sure that you're subscribing
to this program This is America Rich Valdez and sharing
it with people. That's one of the beauties of having
an electronic medium is that you can grab the link
for this, send them to iHeartRadio or Spotify or Apple podcasts,

(01:11:50):
and people could listen whenever they feel like. And now
they could call in any time they like and speak
it of call in. Somebody called in that I didn't
want to end without playing their call was it was
a very kind call. All right, let's go to Ryan Canton, Ohio.

Speaker 17 (01:12:05):
Go right ahead, mister Valdez. I'm so mad that they
took you off America at night. I know they didn't
just take you off. You couldn't come to get terms
on your contract. Man. Somehow they need to get you
back on there. Love listening to your show, so I was.
I'm a server in Can't Ohio. I called in only

(01:12:26):
one time to talk about, you know, the tax cuts
from President Trump for servers, and how thankful I was.

Speaker 13 (01:12:33):
I wanted to.

Speaker 17 (01:12:34):
Mention a couple of other things, like, you know, I
live in the Pro Football Hall of Fame city and
the Pro Football Hall of Fame was just coming up,
so we were gonna have a great weekend for a
couple of other things I wanted to mention. But I
know you don't have a whole lot of time on
the show, or you didn't then, so I didn't get
to say a whole lot, but I was glad for
the opportunity. Thank you. I wanted to say this. I'm

(01:12:56):
listening to your podcast now, never listened to for because
I always listened to you on the radio and anyway,
the main reason I'm calling is because I was listening
to the December seventeenth podcast and you gave the phone
number one eight seven seven Valdez. The number is maybe
to help some of the other listeners. It's one eight

(01:13:16):
seven seven eight two five three three seven one. So
it's one eight seven seven Valdez one. I just thought
maybe maybe i'd throw that out there. That's what worked
for me. But listening to your podcast, maybe one of
these times I'll get to join join the town hall conversation.

Speaker 4 (01:13:35):
Well, thank you, Ryan, I appreciate it. Listen. I'm glad
you're listening to the show. I'm glad you're sharing the show.
I'm glad you're enjoying the show. We do this show
for you. I always tell people you are literally insane.
If you do a talk radio show, or even a
TV show for that matter, and you don't have a
viewer or a listener, you're literally just talking to yourself,
especially in radio, right because at least in the big

(01:13:56):
TV studio, like there's stuff going on, you're usually not alone,
but oftentimes in radio it's you. It's you in a
soundproof room. Imagine that a room with foam Walls right,
you're literally like a crazy person. So thank you. I
appreciate it. I call in as often as you want,
anytime you want, twenty four hours a day now with

(01:14:17):
our new technology, and I appreciate it. Ryan and Canton, Ohio,
thank you, sir.

Speaker 17 (01:14:21):
All right, Thanks Ma, and.

Speaker 4 (01:14:23):
For everybody else, I say, look, I start approxima, take care,
good night, and God bless you. America. You got to
stand for something, because if you don't stand for anything,
you'll fall for anything. And the only thing necessary for
evil to triumph is for good people like you to
do nothing. So make sure you do something. That's all
I've got. I'm Rich Valdez, and this is America.

Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
This is America.