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Socialists Sweep, Sativa Sleep, Sonic Syndrome · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez, powered by politiweek.
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Speaker 5: This is America, Richiev.
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Speaker 4: We have to kick this off tonight with stuff that's
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Speaker 4: lighting up America. Man, some of this news is not happy, right,
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Speaker 4: So it's a little bit somber in the trenches of
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Speaker 4: New York politics. The socialists have swept New York City
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Speaker 4: primaries like they were handing out free stuff, like like
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Speaker 4: free shots of coquito at Christmas. And it's not a
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Speaker 4: good thing. Nothing here to celebrate. Zora Mamdani's crew came
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Speaker 4: through big time. Dadi A Lisa Ali La Chevalier took
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Speaker 4: out five term incumbent Andriano Espayat in the thirteenth district
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Speaker 4: Brad Lander, he crushed it against Dan Goldman something like
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Speaker 4: sixty five to thirty four. Wow. And Claire Valdez I
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Speaker 4: did not know no relation. By the way, it's Valdessa
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Speaker 4: with a Z. Claire Valdez knocked off the establishment in
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Speaker 4: the seventh district. These candidates, they're straight out of a
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Speaker 4: wild campus protest, but they are positioned to win big
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Speaker 4: in these deep blue districts come November. Now, what's happening
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Speaker 4: in New York can happen anywhere, and it is happening right.
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Speaker 4: New York is just the fertile training ground for these people.
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Speaker 4: This is the same city where hardworking families like mine,
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Speaker 4: Puerto Rican families and those in Hudson County, New Jersey
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Speaker 4: back in my barbershop days. These people built their lives
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Speaker 4: through capitalism, through a leg up, not through a handout.
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Speaker 4: And yes, some people do make it in the beginning,
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Speaker 4: especially if you're new to the country, and this and that.
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Speaker 4: Whatever hard times, some people require a government assistance. I
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Speaker 4: get that, but there's no way that's sustainable in the
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Speaker 4: long term. And all this free stuff they want to
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Speaker 4: give is really just going to take take take from
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Speaker 4: people who've been successful. And guess what happens when the
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Speaker 4: people who've been successful realize, You know, if I don't
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Speaker 4: live in New York, if I live in in Tennessee, Texas, Florida,
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Speaker 4: I don't pay these taxes. All right, These states have
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Speaker 4: no income tax. So it's an interesting thing and it's
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Speaker 4: a sad thing at the same time. Anyway, big wins
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Speaker 4: for law and order. On a more positive note, Cash
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Speaker 4: Fattel and Acting AG Todd Blanche they just announced over
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Speaker 4: four hundred and fifty arrests in a massive healthcare fraud
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Speaker 4: crackdown billions of dollars in scams off of Medicaid and Medicare.
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Speaker 4: Those are your tax dollars, right, our tax dollars, yours mine,
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Speaker 4: everybody else finally being protected. Kudos to editor Compito's and
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Speaker 4: all this magnus to forty fifth and forty seven President
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Speaker 4: of these United States held PRESIDENTE Donald J. Trump and
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Speaker 4: his administration. They're they're moving swiftly right, like a well
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Speaker 4: oiled machine when it comes to cracking down on this.
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Speaker 4: Shout out to doctor Oz as well and the all
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Speaker 4: the DOJ staff, because there's a lot of people involved
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Speaker 4: in these things. Stuff Here on the Senate side, you
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Speaker 4: got four Republicans that joined the Democrats to pass a
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Speaker 4: concurrent resolution trying to limit the president's war powers on Iran.
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Speaker 4: This I'm sure is not going to go over very
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Speaker 4: well with President Trump, especially in a time where this
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Speaker 4: negotiations going on, and I understand their set to. I
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Speaker 4: have a discussion about that, have lunch to talk about it.
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Speaker 4: But these are these symbolic games that the swamp always
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Speaker 4: plays and Trump hates playing. Later tonight, we have some
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Speaker 4: research on whether marijuana helps you or hurts you when
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Speaker 4: it comes to your sleep. Some say it knocks you
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Speaker 4: right out, Others say it rex your em your rapid
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Speaker 4: eye movement. We're going to talk about that, and here's
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Speaker 4: some of the audio we have on that. Plus former
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Speaker 4: CBS News anchor Catherine Herridge, she has been speaking out
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Speaker 4: about directed energy weapons. You don't want to miss that
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Speaker 7: Rich Valdez, My friends, is why we need to elect Daria.
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Speaker 7: Alisa Dari is exactly who the people of the Bronx
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Speaker 7: and Upper Manhattan deserve representing them in Congress.
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Speaker 2: Is not going to surprise anybody these days. But New
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Speaker 2: York City Mayor Zora Mumdani is standing firmly by the
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Speaker 2: side of a fellow Democratic socialist running for Congress in
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Speaker 2: New York. And this is a person who has said
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Speaker 2: a lot of things that raise a whole lot of
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Speaker 2: eyebrows and has basically taken about as far left positions
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Speaker 2: as you can guess, So we'll get into it. Her
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Speaker 2: name is daria A Lisa Avila Chevalier. She's running for
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Speaker 2: Congress in New York's thirteenth district. She has said a
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Speaker 2: number of things in now deleted posts between twenty eighteen
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Speaker 2: and twenty twenty two on social media, including that she
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Speaker 2: wants to abolish borders, abolish prisons, and police is abolishing
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Speaker 2: all those things as quote possible, necessary and the only
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Speaker 2: moral way forward. She has also said that all deportation
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Speaker 2: is wrong end quote yes, literally abolished the border. She's
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Speaker 2: also made some anti American comments, saying quote this country
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Speaker 2: is an effing discript. In another post, she also added
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Speaker 2: quote I forgot to get napkins, so I just wiped
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Speaker 2: my hand on the American flag behind me. And yet
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Speaker 2: another post now New York City Mayor's Armumdani and Vermont
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Speaker 2: Senator Bernie sanators were both campaigning for Chevalier in New
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Speaker 2: York on Thursday.
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Speaker 7: And that, my friends, is why we need to elect
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Speaker 7: Daria Liisa Abyla Chevalier. Story is exactly who the people
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Speaker 7: of the.
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Speaker 8: Bronx and Upper Manhattan deserve representing them in Congress the.
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Speaker 3: Next four days. Everybody here and everybody in the city
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Speaker 3: has got to work hard to make sure that Brad
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Speaker 3: and Claire and Daryl Lisa become the next congress people
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Speaker 3: for New York City.
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Speaker 9: Now listen to this.
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Speaker 2: Chevalier sat down with the New York Editorial Board where
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Speaker 2: she repeatedly dodged questions on how she thinks murderers should
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Speaker 2: be handled as a self proclaimed prison abolitionist. The questioner said, quote,
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Speaker 2: I went to a sentencing last week. A man killed
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Speaker 2: another man didn't know the person just sitting on a
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Speaker 2: stoop got a ten year prison sentence. Should that person
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Speaker 2: not go to prison and what should happen instead? She replies, quote, So,
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Speaker 2: you know, for prison abolitionists, I think a lot of
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Speaker 2: folks misunderstand what that vision of the world actually is,
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Speaker 2: and it is one that actually centers this question of harm.
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Speaker 2: At the heart of what we're asking is Why is
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Speaker 2: that there? Why is there that there's so much harm
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Speaker 2: in our society? She ended up dodging that question multiple
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Speaker 2: times in Back out Here Lives. She's also running on
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Speaker 2: completely abolishing eyes. She's previously called Joe Biden a rapist.
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Speaker 2: She's previously said quote f Kamala Harris. Back during the
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Speaker 2: COVID nineteen pandemic, she urged the government to provide about
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Speaker 2: three thousand dollars a month to everybody in basic universal income.
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Speaker 2: She said pharmaceutical companies and private medical insurance should be dissolved.
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Speaker 2: She also suggested that Medicare should be expanded to every
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Speaker 2: single citizen and private property be seized from landlords. So that,
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Speaker 2: right there is what gets you an endorsement from Bernie
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Speaker 2: Sanders and z Armam Donnie these days.
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Speaker 4: Wow, ain't that's something? Now? Do you see how it works? Yet,
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Speaker 4: when you're trying to build a broad coalition of malcontent people, right,
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Speaker 4: what you want to do as a populist to the
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Speaker 4: left is get around things that popularly people are angry with. Right,
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Speaker 4: So you want people who have been harmed by what
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Speaker 4: they feel is a wrongful incarceration. Two things you got
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Speaker 4: to do. One, you've got to say, I think we
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Speaker 4: should abolish prisons. The next thing you gotta do is
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Speaker 4: egg on the family members so that when they do
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Speaker 4: something right, someone does something and they are found guilty.
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Speaker 4: Then you turn to go, can you believe? I can't
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Speaker 4: believe they put you in jail? Right, And you promote
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Speaker 4: a lack of accountability for one's own actions, you eliminate
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Speaker 4: one's agency, and you villainize the government. The man, right,
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Speaker 4: you've never done anything wrong. Right. AOC said famously about
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Speaker 4: people that were looting, she said, they're just trying to
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Speaker 4: feed their children. Dudes are walking out of you know,
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Speaker 4: Walmart with screen TVs. They're just trying to feed their families. Now,
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Speaker 4: even if that were true, everybody's trying to feed their families,
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Speaker 4: does that mean everybody should walk into Walmart and walk
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Speaker 4: out with a big screen TV under their arm? I
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Speaker 4: mean it's laughable, right, But that's how this works. You
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Speaker 4: go to these different people that are just malcontent about something,
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Speaker 4: and you make a common enemy. The common enemy here
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Speaker 4: is capitalism. The common enemy here is Republicans. The common
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Speaker 4: enemy here is the Democrats. Right, So think of how
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Speaker 4: you peel votes away, right, people, Look, I'm a Republican.
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Speaker 4: But I don't know if I like Trump. I don't
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Speaker 4: know if I like what's going on. I feel like
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Speaker 4: they're all the same. And here comes this girl, you know, cute,
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Speaker 4: she's thirty something years old, she's young, she's full of energy,
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Speaker 4: she's a smartass, and she's like, well, you know, we
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Speaker 4: could start with abolishing borders. We could start with abolishing
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Speaker 4: pretty since and maybe, just maybe, if Joe Biden weren't
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Speaker 4: a rapist, right, And all of a sudden, you're like, man,
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Speaker 4: you know, I like half of what you're saying. Let
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Speaker 4: me listen to more. This is a technique. This doesn't
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Speaker 4: better anybody's life because it doesn't work, it doesn't happen.
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Speaker 4: The whole thing is farcical. What has Bernie Sanders done
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Speaker 4: in the forty years he's been in the Senate Absolutely nothing,
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Speaker 4: absolutely nothing, not a damn thing. But he talks a
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Speaker 4: hella smack, a whole lot of smack. So anyway, that
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Speaker 4: is what these people do. And I got a list here.
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Speaker 4: There was an article that I saw. I thought it
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Speaker 4: was interesting, so on I mightbewrong dot org listen to
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Speaker 4: some of the things that she mentioned here talking about
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Speaker 4: how crazy is daddie Alisa Avi La Chevalier, and I
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Speaker 4: think I might have called her on the Monday Night show.
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Speaker 4: Abilis it's Avi La anyway? DAC Right, she's a body double,
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Speaker 4: the stunt double for AOC. DAC. Now, she said we
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Speaker 4: need to abolish police, prisons and borders. Clarify her position
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Speaker 4: on defunding the police by riding that her version or
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Speaker 4: her vision of society means ending policing, full stop, period,
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Speaker 4: no more police at all. Ever, you tell me that
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Speaker 4: not only is going to appeal to the people that
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Speaker 4: wake up in the morning and use their standard greeting
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Speaker 4: for the NYPD, which is suck my bleep, but also
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Speaker 4: for those libertarian types like me, right that say, you
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Speaker 4: know what you mean, I get to run around with
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Speaker 4: a shotgun, my horse and a gun on my hip,
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Speaker 4: I'll take it right because honestly, I'd feel a little safer.
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Speaker 4: Imagine a world, just to get off topic for a moment,
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Speaker 4: just imagine a world where you know, I get in
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Speaker 4: my car I'm driving around, or my horse if I
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Speaker 4: felt like it. Honestly, I say horse all the time,
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Speaker 4: not because I have a love of equine therapy or
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Speaker 4: anything like that. I just think it's mine. I buy
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Speaker 4: a horse, I don't need to ensure it. I don't
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Speaker 4: need to do anything, just kind of make sure I
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Speaker 4: clean up its poop and I ride it wherever I
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Speaker 4: feel like, tie it to whatever tree, and I keep
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Speaker 4: it moving. I like the idea that nobody gets in
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Speaker 4: your way. I don't have to put money in the meter.
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Speaker 4: I don't have to do anything. I don't like to
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Speaker 4: play that game. I know, call me crazy. It's the uh.
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Speaker 4: I don't know the rebel in me, but she's as
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Speaker 4: no more police at all.
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Speaker 5: Ever.
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Speaker 4: Now I've heard all these different philosophies about ending the police.
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Speaker 4: If you're not prepared with a shotgun on your horse
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Speaker 4: or a gun on your hip, what do you do
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Speaker 4: when danger comes your way? You got to call somebody.
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Speaker 4: Your neighbor with the gun, your neighbor with a horse, right,
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Speaker 4: somebody's got to be able to help you, because the
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Speaker 4: bad guys have guns. So if the citizenry doesn't have
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Speaker 4: guns and there is no constabulary, there's no police, what's
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Speaker 4: left exactly right? And this is why the only people
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Speaker 4: that buy into this are people that may have perceived
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Speaker 4: harm as a result of being around the police, or
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Speaker 4: have actually experienced that. But anybody who's ever had a
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Speaker 4: police officer helped them out of a locked car, help
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Speaker 4: them in an emergency as their first responders, any number
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Speaker 4: of issues. They're thinking, No, that was very helpful when
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Speaker 4: I called the police when my drunk ex was pulling
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Speaker 4: up to the house and I had to call the police,
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Speaker 4: and you know they like the police. So that's just
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Speaker 4: the first point. Second point. She retweeted posts saying yes,
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Speaker 4: literally abolished the border and all deportation wrong. She called
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Speaker 4: the United States an effing disgrace and referred to the
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Speaker 4: US as occupied Native land and joked about wiping her
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Speaker 4: dirty hands on the American flag. There's also some innuendo
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Speaker 4: saying that she did the same She made the same
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Speaker 4: comment with the Dominican flag, which she's walking back saying
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Speaker 4: is not true. I guess it's not true because it
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Speaker 4: was about the American flag. I don't know anyway. She
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Speaker 4: called the United States an effing disgrace and then wrote
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Speaker 4: favorably about communism, saying seize the means of production. She
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Speaker 4: called for national I can't talk today, but I'm doing
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Speaker 4: it anyway, nationalizing utilities, pharmaceutical companies, and seizing all properties
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Speaker 4: from landlords. She wrote that the pyromania associated with anarchism
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Speaker 4: is very intriguing to me. How about that right, burn
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Speaker 4: it all down. This is straight communist talk. This is
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Speaker 4: not socialist talk. This is communist talk. If you ever
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Speaker 4: listened to some of the early episodes I did where
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Speaker 4: we talked about why communists have this fascination, this fixation
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Speaker 4: with fire, it's because it's like the universal language for disruption.
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Speaker 4: It attracts attention, It makes people feel unsafe so that
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Speaker 4: they can start yelling and shouting using what they call
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Speaker 4: a bird dogging technique and the maw mowing technique where
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Speaker 4: they can go ahead and complain. They just yell. It's
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Speaker 4: all about yelling. It's never about talking. It's always about yelling.
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Speaker 4: And sadly, I've seen some people on the right now
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Speaker 4: embrace this. They do it's like they're doing the same
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Speaker 4: thing back right. So people, the lefty people are trying
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Speaker 4: to give a speech and you got somebody there. All
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Speaker 4: they're missing is the cowbell so they could interrupt. But
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Speaker 4: they're screaming and they're yelling, and then you got the
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Speaker 4: cops in their face. And I'll just ask one simple
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Speaker 4: question for this attempt right. People who think that that's
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Speaker 4: because the comments always light up on these things, and
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Speaker 4: people think, oh my gosh, this person is a hero,
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Speaker 4: they're doing an amazing job. And I think, what is
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Speaker 4: the outcome? What have you changed? Who have you influenced?
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Speaker 4: What major conversations have you been able to have? When
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Speaker 4: you're shouting at someone, you're a piece of bleep and
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Speaker 4: you're just shouting and shouting and shouting and just causing
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Speaker 4: bad blood all the time. All that does is make
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Speaker 4: people who are sick and tired and fed up, makes
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Speaker 4: them feel satisfied because they feel seen, they feel heard.
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Speaker 4: They're like, man, that's what I would have said. But
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Speaker 4: at the end of the day, you haven't made a difference.
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Speaker 4: In my opinion, I don't think that going and shouting
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Speaker 4: at the mayor, shouting at whomever, shouting at a political
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Speaker 4: opponent that you disagree with, whatever it is, shouting in
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Speaker 4: their face, cursing at them. I don't think that this
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Speaker 4: is the way. Personally. I don't think it works. I
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Speaker 4: don't think it adds value or benefit. I don't think
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Speaker 4: more people are I think the people that are already
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Speaker 4: on board are like, yeah, yeah, exactly, hell yeah. You're
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Speaker 4: not going to win new people with that, just my opinion.
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Speaker 4: What else we got here? She's called Joe Biden a rapist,
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Speaker 4: saying Israel doesn't exist, and she wrote that black and
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Speaker 4: Arab men fetishize, ugly colonize their women. I don't even
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Speaker 4: know what that means, but interested in knowing more about that.
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Speaker 4: Why do black and Arab men? So what about Hispanic men?
19:01
Speaker 4: And what's the fetish with the colonizer women. I'm just
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Speaker 4: really interested here. This is definitely going over my head.
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Speaker 4: I don't know it's a link to what he wrote,
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Speaker 4: but I don't think it's coming up. X Mamdani, campaign
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Speaker 4: lead running for Congress, has a history of racist re
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Speaker 4: marx against white women. Mm hmm, black man the same thing,
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Speaker 4: ugly colonizer women. All right, yeah, don't know. Sorry, can't
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Speaker 4: help you, but if you guys figure it out, give
19:26
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Speaker 4: got a couple of things I want to talk about,
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Speaker 4: like the Attorney General, Todd Blanche and Cash Betel announcing
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Speaker 4: four hundred and fifty plus arrests. And I'm going to
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Speaker 4: be hosting the Mark Levin Show on Wednesday night, the
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Speaker 4: twenty fourth of June, so make sure you're tuned in
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Speaker 4: for that wherever you listen to Levin, and there is
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Speaker 4: All right, Famedia, Welcome back, Rich Valdez. Keeping your company
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Speaker 4: you want to check that out. And I want to
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Speaker 4: get into this because this is pretty interesting stuff here.
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Speaker 4: This is this big healthcare crackdown. Got a clip on
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Speaker 4: this letter, WRIP.
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Speaker 9: You are announcing federal and state charges, all of which
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Speaker 9: were charged or unsealed at some point over the past
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Speaker 9: two weeks, the past fourteen days coordinated nationwide action. Since
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Speaker 9: June eighth, we've charged four hundred and fifty five defendants
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Speaker 9: across fifty six like I said a minute ago, US
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Speaker 9: attorney's offices and forty five US states and territories. As
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Speaker 9: alleged in the various indictments, these individuals participated in healthcare
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Speaker 9: fraud schemes involving over six point five billion dollars in
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Speaker 9: false claims submitted to Medicare, Medicaid, and other healthcare programs.
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Speaker 4: Good lord does a lot of money. Wow. So that
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Speaker 4: is where we are right the Trump administration cracking down
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Speaker 4: along with doctor Oz and I think Vice President Vance
21:57
Speaker 4: is in on this cash betel. I got a clip
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Speaker 4: from him coming up as well, talking about more than
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Speaker 4: four hundred and fifty alleged fraudsters. Ninety doctors and medical
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Speaker 4: professionals were busted for stealing six point five billion dollars
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Speaker 4: in fake Medicare and Medicaid claims. Man six point five
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Speaker 4: billion has a lot of money, even if you divvy
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Speaker 4: it up around ninety people or four hundred and fifty people.
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Speaker 4: One greedy nurse was spending her stolen money on a
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Speaker 4: Bugatti necklace that cost her eight hundred and sixty five
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Speaker 4: thousand dollars. Imagine splurging on something like that when you
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Speaker 4: know that you're a criminal. That's wild. I'm a nurse.
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Speaker 4: How do you get this nearly million dollar Bugarix necklace? Well,
22:47
Speaker 4: you know, overtime. Unbelievable. Anyway, another one or the same
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Speaker 4: person five hundred ninety four thousand dollars ferrari And to
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Speaker 4: top it all off, where's she going to park that
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Speaker 4: car at her Philippines beach resort? At whopping some of
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Speaker 4: four point six million dollars. That's a nurse. Unbelievable. The
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Speaker 4: colossal crackdown this is in the New York Post, by
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Speaker 4: the way, which spanned forty five US states, as the
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Speaker 4: Attorney General just mentioned, was the greatest combined federal state
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Speaker 4: effort combating healthcare fraud in history. Can you believe that?
23:27
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm glad it's happening. This is stuff we
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Speaker 4: pay for every time. Oh but what about the Medicaid?
23:31
Speaker 4: What about the seniors? This is what's happening. We're funding
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Speaker 4: palaces and ferraris and necklaces in the Philippines. Let's go
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Speaker 4: to FBI Director Cash Betel, and.
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Speaker 8: In just the last two weeks, thanks to the help
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Speaker 8: of the American people in the world, we have apprehended
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Speaker 8: two of the most wanted fraudsters.
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Speaker 5: Already.
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Speaker 8: One of those individuals, Herbert Leon Kimball, was apprehended in
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Speaker 8: the Philippines. He's an American citizen. He had been builking,
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Speaker 8: allegedly the system against medicaid for billions of dollars since
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Speaker 8: twenty fourteen, one point two billion dollar in telemedicine specifically alone.
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Speaker 8: That individual was apprehended in the Philippines and transported back
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Speaker 8: to the United States of America, while he will now
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Speaker 8: face justice.
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Speaker 4: Unbelievable, right, I mean, these numbers are astonishing to me.
24:16
Speaker 4: I always do. It was from but I didn't know
24:17
Speaker 4: it is this kind of fraud. So you got four
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Speaker 4: hundred and fifty five people in total, conartists, etc. And
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Speaker 4: this is big, all right, this is big. Let's see here.
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Speaker 4: One of the most egregious cases was a student athlete
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Speaker 4: in Florida who died during a basketball game practice after
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Speaker 4: the doctor who was part of an eighty nine million
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Speaker 4: dollar frauds came signed off on his cardiovascular test after
24:41
Speaker 4: giving it only a cursory glance. So we're running tests
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Speaker 4: on people that are dead. Unbelievable. And then people don't
24:52
Speaker 4: believe that dead people vote. Oh man, let's see what
24:57
Speaker 4: else we got here. The nurse from Texas. They got
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Speaker 4: a picture of her. Her name is Mari zell Yuki.
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Speaker 4: She's guilty, well, alleged to have stolen two hundred and
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Speaker 4: ninety seven million dollars. And she looks like she's no
25:13
Speaker 4: older than me, all right, a year older than me,
25:15
Speaker 4: forty nine years old of Las Vegas, Nevada. Oh wait
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Speaker 4: a second, no, no, No, two hundred ninety seven million.
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Speaker 4: I'm looking at the updated number. Oh. She billed nine
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Speaker 4: hundred and six million in claims and she was paid
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Speaker 4: two hundred and ninety seven million. Unbelievable. So she was
25:35
Speaker 4: funneling the money, the stolen money to buy these cars
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Speaker 4: real estate. You'll even built this four point six million
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Speaker 4: dollar beach resort in the Philippines. And when she was arrested,
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Speaker 4: the FEDS captured her with thirty million dollars in the bank,
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Speaker 4: four hundred and sixty seven thousand dollars in cash, nearly
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Speaker 4: six hundred thousand dollars Ferrari, two ninety six gts, and
25:55
Speaker 4: seven other luxury vehicles, not to mention her eight hundred
25:59
Speaker 4: and sixty tenty five thousand dollars custom Bugari necklace. Unreal,
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Speaker 4: that's wild. Now. Separately, three other nurses were arrested for
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Speaker 4: one hundred and eighteen million dollars of schemes regarding tissue grafts.
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Speaker 4: Lee Tasar allegedly spent two hundred and fifteen thousand on
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Speaker 4: a luxury box suite at the Raymond Jones excuse me,
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Speaker 4: Raymond James Stadium where the Tampa Bay Buccaneers play, according
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Speaker 4: to the criminal indictment, as well as spending four hundred
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Speaker 4: thousand dollars on fine art according to the court papers.
26:36
Speaker 4: Then you have the medical sales haun show the top
26:39
Speaker 4: of the food chain here spending twenty four million and
26:42
Speaker 4: buying himself a Maserati. Vice president of sales at a
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Speaker 4: company that sold bioengineered skin substitutes allegedly carried out an
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Speaker 4: illegal kickback scheme from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty four.
26:53
Speaker 4: That's a lot of money in three years, paying medical
26:56
Speaker 4: providers to push their product. Prosecutors say that Brian row And,
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Speaker 4: forty seven years old, of Las Vegas, made over twenty
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Speaker 4: four million dollars at the company and brought multimillion dollar homes,
27:06
Speaker 4: million dollar life insurance policies, and high end watches and cars,
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Speaker 4: including a one hundred and thirty five thousand dollar Maserati.
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Speaker 4: The Arizona based company was peddling amniotic wound grafts, which
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Speaker 4: it purchased from tissue banks and then sold them at
27:23
Speaker 4: a two thousand percent markup or one four hundred and
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Speaker 4: fifty dollars per square centimeter, which comes out to being
27:32
Speaker 4: two hundred and twenty four dollars and seventy five cents
27:35
Speaker 4: per square inch. The vice president and other executives used
27:41
Speaker 4: forty percent of their profits to pay out kickbacks, according
27:45
Speaker 4: to these indictments. Isn't this crazy? So they were targeting
27:50
Speaker 4: hospice patients for the skin grafts, which would be applied
27:53
Speaker 4: without the consultation of their doctors, without protecting against infections,
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Speaker 4: and sometimes applying them to to superficial wounds that didn't
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Speaker 4: even require grafts, or to larger areas. In total, this
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Speaker 4: guy and his co conspiracor excuse me, take two co
28:10
Speaker 4: conspirators build one point two billion dollars for unnecessary allographs
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Speaker 4: that were ultimately paid six hundred and fourteen million dollars. Wow, unbelievable.
28:24
Speaker 4: It's a whole lot of money. I don't think I
28:27
Speaker 4: can count that high. Jeffrey King and Alexandra Girk have
28:30
Speaker 4: previously been sentenced to fifteen years and fourteen years, respectively,
28:35
Speaker 4: behind bars for their role in this scheme, which netted
28:38
Speaker 4: them ninety seven million dollars in cash twenty one million
28:42
Speaker 4: dollars in life insurance policies for luxury cars, including a Ferrari,
28:46
Speaker 4: a convertible, and three top end Mercedes vehicles. So it
28:51
Speaker 4: almost sounds like they're getting charged for driving nice cars.
28:54
Speaker 4: Then mental health, right, I mean, this is big one.
28:59
Speaker 4: Another shraudster in Illinois build Medicaid for behavioral health services
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Speaker 4: for hundreds of hours a day, despite the fact he
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Speaker 4: didn't even have enough staff to justify it. Daniel Robinson,
29:11
Speaker 4: fifty one years old of Paddas Park, Illinois, allegedly build
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Speaker 4: sixty seven million dollars for counseling and therapy services that
29:19
Speaker 4: wouldn't even have been realistic even if all the providers
29:23
Speaker 4: at his company, ODA Solutions, Inc. Worked twenty four hours
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Speaker 4: a day, according to one complaint. I mean not that
29:29
Speaker 4: I'm advocating for anybody to do this, but if you're
29:33
Speaker 4: going to do this, wouldn't you say you're gonna do
29:37
Speaker 4: it in the timeframe that makes sense, right, I'm going
29:41
Speaker 4: to bill you thirty hours between the hours of you know,
29:43
Speaker 4: nine and five PM. That's crazy, especially if you don't
29:47
Speaker 4: have multiple people working. And there's a picture here. This
29:50
Speaker 4: guy looks like he's my age as well, and it's
29:53
Speaker 4: fifty one and got a lot more tattoos than I do,
29:57
Speaker 4: that's for sure. And I guess he's the mental health
30:00
Speaker 4: guy Daniel Robinson Counseling and Therapy Services. Look at that.
30:05
Speaker 4: His total claims ninety two million dollars and he received
30:08
Speaker 4: seventy five million. According to doctors, the money was diverted
30:12
Speaker 4: towards forty four million in investment accounts, ten million for
30:15
Speaker 4: a luxury car dealership, four million to buy real estate,
30:20
Speaker 4: homes and renovations, et cetera, et cetera. Man, and there's more.
30:26
Speaker 4: I mean, I can go on for days on this one.
30:28
Speaker 4: Texas doctor carried out an eighty nine million dollar medical
30:31
Speaker 4: fraud scheme that ended with his student athlete's death. Doctor
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Speaker 4: Jason Finkelstein, fifty three years old Fort Worth, Texas, allegedly
30:38
Speaker 4: tested the hearts of student athletes at campuses around the country,
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Speaker 4: submitting eighty nine million dollars in claims under his two companies,
30:45
Speaker 4: which are called Cardiovascular Testing Services PA and Cardiovascular Health
30:51
Speaker 4: Associates PA. Yet, doctor Finkelstein made up bogus conditions to
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Speaker 4: justify the cardiac testing of students, signed off on the
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Speaker 4: results only after reviewing them for seconds, according to the prosecutors.
31:05
Speaker 4: Back in October of twenty twenty four, he allegedly claimed
31:08
Speaker 4: one student's results were normal, even though tests showed that
31:12
Speaker 4: he potentially had heart problems. That student died twenty four
31:16
Speaker 4: days later of cardiac arrest during a basketball practice. That's crazy.
31:23
Speaker 4: I mean, you got to put in the work. You're
31:25
Speaker 4: here to protect people, right, do no harm. That's what's
31:29
Speaker 4: on the cadusis that's the oath. Unbelievable anyway. Florida man
31:39
Speaker 4: Ibrahim Hilmey fifty eight years old from Miami. He built
31:43
Speaker 4: for medical equipment and wound dressing at his company's abrh
31:47
Speaker 4: car Inc. Sunshine Senior Solutions LLC, and never provided any
31:52
Speaker 4: of that. Who else we got here? Most of the
31:55
Speaker 4: money builled that he got was five point seven million
31:59
Speaker 4: in his company. Within weeks, that money was transferred to
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Speaker 4: Hong Kong and Indonesia. Isn't that something? So you do
32:06
Speaker 4: the fraud here, then you take the money abroad. Now,
32:09
Speaker 4: when Hilmey started getting negative reviews accusing him of health
32:13
Speaker 4: care fraud, he fled the country and kept the racket
32:15
Speaker 4: going by getting others to run his business accounts. He
32:19
Speaker 4: was arrested in Cyprus and brought back to Florida for
32:24
Speaker 4: his first court appearance this week. Ain't that something, man?
32:31
Speaker 5: Oh?
32:31
Speaker 4: I gotta tell you. I feel good about it. The
32:33
Speaker 4: more of that we do, the better it gets. Because
32:37
Speaker 4: health insurance isn't cheap. Obamacare put the nail in the
32:40
Speaker 4: coffin for that. I think some people think it made
32:42
Speaker 4: it affordable. I think for the most part, making it
32:46
Speaker 4: affordable for who and how? Right? So if you say
32:49
Speaker 4: I had a private health insurance policy, but now, because
32:52
Speaker 4: of a government subsidy, I pay a fraction of it,
32:55
Speaker 4: it's not really it's only cheaper for your immediate pocket,
32:58
Speaker 4: but it cost other people money not cheaper, right, In effect,
33:02
Speaker 4: they're just billing more. You might be paying a little
33:04
Speaker 4: bit less. And I would even argue, you know, maybe
33:07
Speaker 4: even not right. You might be paying for it through
33:09
Speaker 4: other avenues. But for argument's sake, I'll say, yes, you're saving,
33:12
Speaker 4: but now I'm paying for it. And I know that
33:15
Speaker 4: my health insurance skyrocketed, absolutely skyrocketed. And it's not Trump's fault.
33:20
Speaker 4: This is the fault of this industry running a monk.
33:24
Speaker 4: And Trump's figure that out, and that's why he's addressing
33:26
Speaker 4: these issues. I think for too long, we've become comfortable
33:30
Speaker 4: with crime, we've become comfortable with filth, and we've become
33:34
Speaker 4: comfortable with fraud, and none of those should be allowed.
33:38
Speaker 4: This is, you know, true of all people in many situations. Right,
33:41
Speaker 4: Sometimes we hold ourselves to a high standard. Then we
33:43
Speaker 4: make some friends, or we have some influences at work
33:46
Speaker 4: or whatever the case is. It's how you take yourself
33:48
Speaker 4: too seriously. Don't do that blah blah blah. You start
33:50
Speaker 4: to relax a little bit, next thing you know, you're
33:52
Speaker 4: all screwed up, you know, or you're just a lot
33:55
Speaker 4: less strict with yourself. I know, for me, I used
33:59
Speaker 4: to die it really hard. It was one hundred and
34:01
Speaker 4: eighty five pounds for a good while. Now I'm over
34:04
Speaker 4: two hundred pounds and I had lost nearly eighty pounds.
34:08
Speaker 4: Why because I started to Yeah, let me have a
34:10
Speaker 4: little bit of this. Oh it's breaded chicken. I usually
34:12
Speaker 4: do grilled, but all right, I'll have a little breaded chicken.
34:15
Speaker 4: And oh, you know, you start bending here, bending there.
34:19
Speaker 4: Next thing, you know, you've compromised your values and you're
34:21
Speaker 4: fat again. So I don't think I'm fat again, but
34:24
Speaker 4: you know, being over two hundred pounds is not good
34:26
Speaker 4: for me. So definitely watching what I eat, and maybe
34:30
Speaker 4: eventually I'll get back in the gym. I've taken off
34:32
Speaker 4: from the gym for quite a while, and I can
34:35
Speaker 4: tell you it's hard to get back in, right. You
34:38
Speaker 4: guys know all about that. Anyway, We're going to talk
34:40
Speaker 4: a little bit about what else is there on my
34:43
Speaker 4: list here. I've got a few things up my sleep
34:44
Speaker 4: before we go, but I wanted to talk about Catherine
34:47
Speaker 4: Herridge's conversation on News Nation regarding the directed energy weapons.
34:52
Speaker 4: I also want to talk about the economy a little bit,
34:54
Speaker 4: as well as marijuana and sleep. So I've got a
34:58
Speaker 4: lot to discuss and a little bit of time to
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Speaker 4: do it. Keep it locked right here. It's Rich Valdes.
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Speaker 4: All right, few media, welcome back. It's Rich Valdez Valdez
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Speaker 4: with ans at Rich Valdez on all of the social media.
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Speaker 4: And I want to get into this topic of health
35:45
Speaker 4: a little bit further because there's a doctor in New
35:49
Speaker 4: York City, doctor Sama ta here. She's an MD that
35:56
Speaker 4: specializes in sleep andingly she has some interesting takes on
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Speaker 4: marijuana and how that affects one's sleep. Now, for years
36:07
Speaker 4: we've heard people say they take a little bit of
36:09
Speaker 4: marijuana to go to sleep, whether in the form of
36:12
Speaker 4: smoke or vape or a gummy and some UCBD, which
36:17
Speaker 4: is derived from hemp. And there's a lot of interesting
36:22
Speaker 4: data coming out right now with respect to that. And
36:25
Speaker 4: I've got a clip from doctor to here, and I
36:28
Speaker 4: want to get your thoughts on this again. If you
36:30
Speaker 4: want to chime in. The phone numbers eight seven seven
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Speaker 11: Millions of people use marijuana to fall asleep. It worked, sure,
36:45
Speaker 11: it also quietly deletes the most important part of your
36:47
Speaker 11: night every single time. Here's the picture. Nobody gives you
36:50
Speaker 11: the part that does work and is true. We generally
36:53
Speaker 11: reduce as a time it takes to fall asleep, So
36:55
Speaker 11: for people dealing with insomnia, anxiety, or chronic pain, that's
36:59
Speaker 11: a real meaning benefit and not a placebo. The part
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Speaker 11: that doesn't get talked about is a marijuana suppresses REM
37:05
Speaker 11: sleep and REM is not optional. REM is the stage
37:08
Speaker 11: where your brain actually digests the day, processes emotions, dissolves stress,
37:13
Speaker 11: locks in memories. Think of it as your brain's overnight
37:15
Speaker 11: therapy session. You don't feel yourself losing it. The sleep
37:19
Speaker 11: feels fine, but the deficit builds quietly night after night,
37:23
Speaker 11: and then tolerance kicks in within days. Two weeks, the
37:25
Speaker 11: same dose of marijuana stops working, so the amount goes
37:28
Speaker 11: up and the sleep benefit shrinks. The REM suppression deepens,
37:32
Speaker 11: and then comes your exit. When people stop smoking marijuana,
37:36
Speaker 11: the brain aggressively reclaims everything it missed, Vivid, disturbing dreams,
37:42
Speaker 11: fragmented sleep for up to eight weeks. Not because something
37:45
Speaker 11: is wrong, but it's because your brain is finally trying
37:48
Speaker 11: to catch up and reset. This isn't a moral argument.
37:51
Speaker 11: This is just the other half of the data, the
37:53
Speaker 11: half that almost never gets shared. You're an adult. The
37:57
Speaker 11: trade off is totally yours, but you deserve the full
37:59
Speaker 11: picture to make.
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Speaker 4: That's doctor Sama t here she goes on Instagram as
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Speaker 4: she goes by on Instagram as the ny sleep doctor,
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Speaker 4: and I'm looking at this piece right. It's a It's
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Speaker 4: a journal article in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
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Speaker 4: from three weeks ago, from May twenty twenty six, volume
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Speaker 4: twenty two, article Imber eighty two and ins sites in
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Speaker 4: the introduction. The cannabis is increasingly used as a self
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Speaker 4: directed sleep aid, with clinicians being asked to counsel patients
38:31
Speaker 4: about harms and benefits. Blah blah blah, blah blah. The
38:34
Speaker 4: evidence base dose does not provide a straightforward answer. Recent
38:39
Speaker 4: syntheses of randomized trials may be interpreted as supportive of
38:43
Speaker 4: cannabinoid based interventions for poor sleep and perhaps even for insomnia,
38:48
Speaker 4: but the reported benefits are driven largely by short time
38:51
Speaker 4: horizons and subjective endpoints, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. The bottom line
38:56
Speaker 4: here is some are arguing that this stuff is good
38:59
Speaker 4: for you and it may help you sleep, but it
39:01
Speaker 4: may not actually allow you to enter our em rem sleep.
39:07
Speaker 4: And that's a big deal. Right, because without that, you
39:10
Speaker 4: don't get to really renew yourself. You don't get to
39:12
Speaker 4: renew your brain. And it's not just marijuana that causes that,
39:16
Speaker 4: believe it or not. They're saying that some of those
39:19
Speaker 4: noise machines also can prevent you from entering our em
39:24
Speaker 4: and may comfort you to go to sleep, but not
39:27
Speaker 4: allow the rejuvenation that happens. So here's the breakdown of this,
39:33
Speaker 4: just skimming the article a little bit. Basically, this chronic
39:36
Speaker 4: suppression of our em sleep by way of THHC right,
39:42
Speaker 4: smoking weed, gummies, whatever, it leads to what they're considering
39:46
Speaker 4: a significant psychological, cognitive, and physical consequence, including emotional dysregulation,
39:53
Speaker 4: brain fog, and we can memory consolidation. Now, I find
39:57
Speaker 4: that interesting because they're saying that that's the result of
40:01
Speaker 4: weed interfering with ore EM, while I've heard others argue
40:05
Speaker 4: that all of those things are the result of just
40:07
Speaker 4: smoking weed. So I mean very interesting to see that.
40:12
Speaker 4: The I guess the research is advancing. Right, They're not
40:16
Speaker 4: saying those things aren't happening, They're just saying, maybe it's
40:18
Speaker 4: not directly related to your smoking weed, but it is.
40:21
Speaker 4: It's directly related to smoking weed because you're not entering
40:25
Speaker 4: ore em, which again fascinating to me. Furthermore, stopping a
40:30
Speaker 4: cannabis consumption triggers an intense ram rebound, resulting in vivid
40:35
Speaker 4: nightmares and interrupted sleep as the brain attempts to recover
40:39
Speaker 4: lost sleep stages. So something to look out for if
40:42
Speaker 4: that's you and you're participating in this type of party. Now,
40:47
Speaker 4: some years ago, when marijuana was legalized in Colorado, they
40:54
Speaker 4: experienced an uptick in unemployment and some said it may
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Speaker 4: delay others say lazy people liked it. Either way, the
41:04
Speaker 4: argument's the mood point. I'm switching gears from weed to
41:07
Speaker 4: AI because now the argument is we have to prepare
41:12
Speaker 4: for unemployment, not because of Colorado's that are going to
41:15
Speaker 4: be smoking all day. No, now we have to do
41:18
Speaker 4: it because the robots are taken over. And there's a
41:22
Speaker 4: very interesting piece in the in the Hill as well
41:27
Speaker 4: as one in the Wall Street Journal, and they're not connected,
41:29
Speaker 4: but they're interrelated. Right. One of them is saying that
41:33
Speaker 4: a record twenty five million adults under the age of
41:36
Speaker 4: thirty five are now living with their parents, and that's
41:39
Speaker 4: likely because it's difficult to earn a living the way
41:42
Speaker 4: it once was, so I want to get into this
41:45
Speaker 4: AI think it kind of explains what people can expect
41:49
Speaker 4: down the road, and then talk about this phenomenon of people,
41:51
Speaker 4: you know, living at home, which I don't think it's
41:53
Speaker 4: a bad idea personally, but Wall Street Journal piece here
41:57
Speaker 4: very interesting. It's a new push to get people ready,
42:01
Speaker 4: to get millions of people ready for AI career upheaval right.
42:04
Speaker 4: It's a coalition of employers and state governments developing a
42:08
Speaker 4: strategy to help workers respond to AI. And this is
42:12
Speaker 4: interesting because they say it's bipartisan, but it's those types
42:14
Speaker 4: of Republicans that you've never heard of, you know, or
42:19
Speaker 4: they were friends with Mitch McConnell, that type of thing,
42:21
Speaker 4: and the former Cabinet secretary for Joe Biden, Gina Ramundo.
42:31
Speaker 4: So to that end, the bipartisan consortium, which includes state governments,
42:35
Speaker 4: philanthropic groups, employers from Amazon to Microsoft to Bank of America,
42:39
Speaker 4: and Eli Lilly, they're coming together to develop a new
42:42
Speaker 4: people's strategy for the artificial intelligence era called raise US.
42:47
Speaker 4: It launches Manyana and No Thursday, and it'll be led
42:54
Speaker 4: by former Commerce Secretary Gina Ramundo and former Indiana Governor
42:59
Speaker 4: Eric Holt. Their mandate, they say, isn't just to build
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Speaker 4: a retraining program, but also to reconsider decades of old
43:07
Speaker 4: policies like unemployment insurance and see how that can work
43:11
Speaker 4: as a working lab to test the most effective ways
43:14
Speaker 4: to transition workers to new fields. This group is going
43:17
Speaker 4: to explore corporate incentives for employers to hold on to
43:22
Speaker 4: work and different things in different jobs that may be
43:26
Speaker 4: disrupted by AI to prepare them for new roles. So
43:31
Speaker 4: the organization Check This Out has raised five hundred million
43:35
Speaker 4: dollars so far, and that's only half of their multi
43:39
Speaker 4: year goal. And they've gotten this money from companies and
43:42
Speaker 4: nonprofit groups, and they say they will initially work with
43:46
Speaker 4: state governments in Arkansas, Maryland, Utah, and Connecticut. The companies
43:52
Speaker 4: Open AI and anthropic tech companies they're also involved, and
43:57
Speaker 4: certain academic institutions like are sending some of their people
44:03
Speaker 4: to sit on the advisory board to kind of guide
44:06
Speaker 4: or at least inform this effort. And very very interesting
44:10
Speaker 4: stuff here right. US workforce development efforts tend to be
44:15
Speaker 4: highly fragmented across state governments because they oftentimes don't know
44:19
Speaker 4: what they're doing, or I should say most governments the
44:21
Speaker 4: left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
44:24
Speaker 4: So I'm wondering, is this a good thing? Right? I'm
44:27
Speaker 4: guessing it is. I mean, people should be prepared for
44:29
Speaker 4: some sort of transition to AI. AI. Some people think
44:33
Speaker 4: is going to wipe out everybody's job. I hear it
44:35
Speaker 4: all the time about me. They're like, yeah, soon you'll
44:37
Speaker 4: be able to, you know, not work now. I guess
44:40
Speaker 4: if I opt for the AI, sure somebody has to
44:43
Speaker 4: train the AI. And if they're training it to be
44:45
Speaker 4: like me, you need me, right at least some some
44:49
Speaker 4: version of me. But I understand, I do understand that
44:54
Speaker 4: AI is a thing, and it's going to replace a
44:56
Speaker 4: lot of people, at least in the assistant category. And
45:00
Speaker 4: as AI develops more, we'll see more. I remember using
45:05
Speaker 4: AI early on just a few years ago, and it sucked,
45:09
Speaker 4: and now it's a lot better. So it's growing by
45:11
Speaker 4: leaps and bounds, and I think it's a good thing.
45:14
Speaker 4: It allows me to do more things. Like I've mentioned before,
45:17
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45:48
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45:53
Speaker 4: this allows me to truly scale in the sense of,
45:56
Speaker 4: you know, growing without investing, right or a minimal investment,
46:01
Speaker 4: without adding infrastructure, adding employees, or doing a new show.
46:06
Speaker 4: So if that's how it's affecting my business, my show,
46:09
Speaker 4: my work, just imagine what it's doing for other people.
46:14
Speaker 4: I'm just curious to know if this public private partnership
46:17
Speaker 4: is going to be as effective as they think it's
46:19
Speaker 4: going to be. I don't know the answer to that,
46:21
Speaker 4: but I do know that while people are losing their
46:25
Speaker 4: jobs and we've had some good jobs reports, there's still
46:29
Speaker 4: this article here in the Hill saying that a record
46:32
Speaker 4: number twenty five million adults under the age of thirty
46:36
Speaker 4: five are living with their parents. And I think this
46:40
Speaker 4: is an interesting fitbit here. They're saying more Americans under
46:44
Speaker 4: the age of thirty five living the parents, and it's
46:45
Speaker 4: not only because they don't have jobs. According to realtor
46:48
Speaker 4: dot com, analysis found that only one in three young adults,
46:52
Speaker 4: or twenty five million, we're living at home in twenty
46:55
Speaker 4: twenty five. After looking at why they have some of
47:01
Speaker 4: the reasons why, seventy percent of twenty five to thirty
47:05
Speaker 4: four year olds living at home are employed, and a
47:08
Speaker 4: share that's remained somewhat stable over the last twenty five
47:13
Speaker 4: years according to this report. Instead, the trend is likely
47:16
Speaker 4: fueled by a housing affordability crisis. And that makes sense, right,
47:22
Speaker 4: the difference between employed and underemployed, and if a house.
47:26
Speaker 4: You know, when I bought my I bought a condo,
47:28
Speaker 4: two bedroom condo when I was in my early twenties.
47:31
Speaker 4: Whatever year that was, two thousand and three. Let's just
47:34
Speaker 4: say I think I paid one hundred and thirty thousand
47:37
Speaker 4: dollars for it, and I sold it for almost three
47:39
Speaker 4: hundred k not two years later. It was a great
47:41
Speaker 4: time to buy and sell real estate. But is that
47:45
Speaker 4: happening right now? No, most people are. You know, if
47:48
Speaker 4: they've made money, where can they move to Because wherever
47:51
Speaker 4: they're going, they're going to pay top dollar. It's going
47:54
Speaker 4: to eat up all their equity. So interesting, right, Yeah,
47:57
Speaker 4: it's a tough one. Life has to get more affordable
47:59
Speaker 4: or we all have to make more money. But the
48:02
Speaker 4: current play is not a working one, and I'm with
48:06
Speaker 4: you on that.
48:07
Speaker 12: Right.
48:08
Speaker 4: You can make six figures in whatever capacity, one hundred,
48:11
Speaker 4: two hundred, three hundred, whatever it is, and you might
48:14
Speaker 4: have felt like you were living and stashing and no
48:18
Speaker 4: problems back in twenty eighteen. But now we give an
48:22
Speaker 4: inflation given all of the growth of cost, right, really
48:29
Speaker 4: the expansion of what we have to spend to live life. Man,
48:35
Speaker 4: that's gone up. So anyway, I want to get your
48:38
Speaker 4: thoughts on that as well. You know the number eight
48:40
Speaker 4: seven seven Valds one, eight seven seven VALDESK one. Hopefully
48:46
Speaker 4: we get out of this war and we're able to
48:48
Speaker 4: focus on some domestic policy, which I think will drastically
48:53
Speaker 4: reduce some of the impact, right, some of the the
48:57
Speaker 4: heaviness of the burden that's currently out there. We'll see,
49:01
Speaker 4: I don't know. Eight seven seven Valdes one is the
49:03
Speaker 4: phone number. And straight ahead, Catherine Herrid says directed energy
49:09
Speaker 4: weapons are a thing, and she's gonna explain all of it.
49:12
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Speaker 4: All right, Emidia, welcome back Rich Valdez. Valdez with an asset,
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Speaker 4: Rich valdees on all of the social media, richvaldest dot com.
49:50
Speaker 4: And I want to get into this story here because
49:53
Speaker 4: this one's interesting. Right. Katherine Herod, she's been great at
49:56
Speaker 4: reporting things on Havana syndrome and so many things over
49:59
Speaker 4: the year. Right, She's just been excellent her time at
50:03
Speaker 4: CBS News and other places. And she joined Katie Pavlich
50:08
Speaker 4: on News Nation a couple of days ago, and they
50:12
Speaker 4: had a really good discussion about directed energy weapons. And
50:16
Speaker 4: I know that my brother, who is a huge tinfoil
50:19
Speaker 4: hat conspiracy person, loves to talk about directed energy weapons
50:24
Speaker 4: and weather modification and all sorts of fun topics like that,
50:29
Speaker 4: and this was an angle on that that I thought
50:33
Speaker 4: we should have a discussion about as well. It's not
50:35
Speaker 4: necessarily the realm of conspiracy, whether it's theory or fact.
50:39
Speaker 4: It's really just a frank conversation about what currently exists
50:43
Speaker 4: and what's going on. Due to some really good reporting
50:46
Speaker 4: from Catherine Herritch. So I want you to listen to
50:48
Speaker 4: this interview and just take a couple of minutes to
50:51
Speaker 4: take it in and then we'll talk about it together,
50:52
Speaker 4: because I think this is pretty interesting stuff. Check this out.
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Speaker 12: Of the twelve missing or dead scientist, one of them
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Speaker 12: was researcher Escridge, who, before her reported suicide, claimed she
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Speaker 12: had been the victim of a directed energy attack inside
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Speaker 12: her Alabama home. Directed energy weapons fire concentrated energy at
51:09
Speaker 12: the speed of light, and for years, intelligence officials working
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Speaker 12: abroad have reported brain injuries known as Havana syndrome.
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Speaker 6: The condition could be linked to directed.
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Speaker 12: Energy weapons, but now there could be a domestic threat
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Speaker 12: to our next guest has been looking extensively into these
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Speaker 12: weapons and has spoken to people who say they have
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Speaker 12: been injured by them.
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Speaker 2: Take a look.
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Speaker 13: Have directed energy weapons been used against US government personnel?
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, Mike.
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Speaker 13: You did Kennon intelligence work for the US government. You
51:39
Speaker 13: dealt with highly classified information.
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Speaker 5: We walked in on an operation that the hostile country
51:47
Speaker 5: was don So you.
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Speaker 13: Were attacked by a hostile intelligence service. It fundamentally disrupts
51:55
Speaker 13: the brain network.
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Speaker 12: Yes, man, all these people being injured and you're just saying, no,
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Speaker 12: it didn't really happen. And the award winning investigative journalist
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Speaker 12: Catherine Harridge joins us. Now, great to see you here,
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Speaker 12: Thank you so much. So, you've of course been investigating
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Speaker 12: reports of Havana syndrome, both abroad and domestically. Tell us
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Speaker 12: what it is for people who aren't familiar.
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Speaker 13: Well, a directed energy attack is, in simple terms, like
52:19
Speaker 13: putting your cell phone in a microwave just for a
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Speaker 13: couple of seconds.
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Speaker 6: When you take it.
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Speaker 13: Out, it looks undamaged, but in fact the electrical networks
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Speaker 13: have been completely disrupted. And what I've been able to
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Speaker 13: document in my reporting is that the injuries don't stop
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Speaker 13: with that initial attack, that it can be progressive, and
52:38
Speaker 13: in fact we've documented cases.
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Speaker 6: Of brain cell atrophy as well as brain cell death.
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Speaker 12: So this is something that was reported during the Biden administration.
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Speaker 12: They are members of the CIA who said there's something
52:49
Speaker 12: wrong with them. Is there a difference now on how
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Speaker 12: this is being handled versus how it was handled with
52:54
Speaker 12: the Biden administrations and being taken seriously at this point?
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Speaker 13: Well, just in the clip you saw that was retired
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Speaker 13: counter intelligence officer Mike Beck. He was attacked in nineteen
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Speaker 13: ninety six in a hostile country and he had to
53:07
Speaker 13: move into assisted living in his sixties because he had
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Speaker 13: this Parkinson's like syndrome. He was a classic case of
53:13
Speaker 13: the brain injury progressively getting worse.
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Speaker 6: It was that story that.
53:18
Speaker 13: Prompted d and I Gabber to do a new assessment
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Speaker 13: of these anomalous health incidents or Havana syndrome, and one
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Speaker 13: of her last acts was to recall all of the
53:28
Speaker 13: Biden era assessments.
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Speaker 4: Now this is some pretty good stuff, right, She's talking
53:33
Speaker 4: about the Director of National Intelligence, Telsea Gabbard, looking into
53:37
Speaker 4: this stuff because if this is going on, if hostile
53:41
Speaker 4: governments are using directed energy weapons at Americans, it might
53:45
Speaker 4: be something we want to know. I'd love to talk
53:47
Speaker 4: more about that, right because why it's news, and I
53:50
Speaker 4: love reacting to current events is kind of what we
53:52
Speaker 4: do here. This is interesting and I want you to
53:56
Speaker 4: continue listening. Check this out.
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Speaker 13: Because they were defective, and they were politically biased as well,
54:02
Speaker 13: and those assessments said that it was unlikely a novel
54:05
Speaker 13: weapon or a foreign adversary was responsible, and that is
54:08
Speaker 13: not backed up by the intelligence and the evidence.
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Speaker 12: So for those to say they were injured, are they
54:13
Speaker 12: able to get help with their injuries? You just mentioned
54:17
Speaker 12: he had love into assisted living, but clearly there's damage here,
54:20
Speaker 12: brain damage.
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Speaker 13: I've spent twenty five years doing a lot of accountability reporting,
54:25
Speaker 13: especially with veterans, intelligence officers, military personnel active duty.
54:32
Speaker 6: I have never seen such a case of government cruelty
54:35
Speaker 6: in my entire career.
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Speaker 13: You have people who raise their right hands to defend
54:40
Speaker 13: this country, some of the most capable and brightest people
54:44
Speaker 13: we have, and then when they get attacked and they
54:46
Speaker 13: get injured, they're told that they're crazy, it's all in
54:50
Speaker 13: their heads, and they're being gas lit on a level
54:53
Speaker 13: that I have never seen before. And they're absolutely cases
54:56
Speaker 13: where they have been denied access to healthcare and to
54:59
Speaker 13: treat that would have made a difference to the progress
55:03
Speaker 13: of these injuries.
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Speaker 12: So Americans hear this and say, you know, this is horrific,
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Speaker 12: but something's happening overseas and that's not correct. You've investigated
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Speaker 12: a lot of this, and you've found that there are
55:13
Speaker 12: domestic attacks as well. Can you tell us more about that.
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Speaker 13: I think one of the most worrying things I'm seeing
55:17
Speaker 13: in my reporting is that it's no longer isolated to overseas.
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Speaker 13: People talk about Havana syndrome in twenty sixteen. That's kind
55:24
Speaker 13: of a foreign thing. What I've been able to document
55:27
Speaker 13: in the last year as an independent journalist is multiple
55:30
Speaker 13: cases inside the United States. Earlier this year, a Space
55:34
Speaker 13: Force veteran went on the record about five attacks at
55:38
Speaker 13: his home in northern Virginia, which also affected his wife.
55:41
Speaker 6: She was collateral damage.
55:42
Speaker 13: And if there's a common thread to all these cases, Katie,
55:46
Speaker 13: it's that all of them seem to have a portfolio
55:48
Speaker 13: that in some way touches Russia.
55:51
Speaker 6: And that is really the third rail in this story.
55:53
Speaker 12: So in terms of the story about the twelve missing scientists,
55:56
Speaker 12: there's obviously that each case is different, but they all
55:59
Speaker 12: have very similar aspects to them as well. The case
56:02
Speaker 12: of Amy Eskridge, for example, she died allegedly of a
56:06
Speaker 12: self inflicted gunshot wound, but she claimed before that that
56:09
Speaker 12: she had been hit by.
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Speaker 4: I just want to chime back in here, might drop
56:12
Speaker 4: on what Catherine Heritage just said, right that the reoccurring
56:16
Speaker 4: theme is Russia, because there's a lot of my friends
56:19
Speaker 4: in conspiracy world that I call them the pro Putin patriots.
56:24
Speaker 4: They absolutely adore Putin. I mean they love Putin and
56:27
Speaker 4: Russia more than they love America. Putin has so many
56:30
Speaker 4: apologists right now in this country that are Oh they're
56:35
Speaker 4: not communists anymore. Oh, he's just defending his country. The biolabs,
56:39
Speaker 4: come on, he's just please stop. Stop. Pay attention.
56:42
Speaker 12: Garde a directed energy weapon in her home that she
56:45
Speaker 12: experienced burns. And based on what you're telling me, of
56:48
Speaker 12: people who are victims of this being told that they're crazy,
56:50
Speaker 12: there's nothing wrong with them, do you think that she
56:53
Speaker 12: maybe he would have had a case.
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Speaker 13: Well, I think I would need to have more information
56:57
Speaker 13: inside of that investigation. But I think this idea that
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Speaker 13: there aren't domestic attacks and that they haven't targeted civilians
57:03
Speaker 13: is just not correct.
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Speaker 6: It's not borne out by the evidence.
57:06
Speaker 13: And again, the trend that I'm seeing is that the
57:09
Speaker 13: cadence of attacks inside the United States I think has escalated.
57:13
Speaker 13: My information is only anecdotal, but I do believe that
57:17
Speaker 13: the four years under the Biden administration where we said
57:20
Speaker 13: there's nothing to see here, there's no novel weapon, there's
57:23
Speaker 13: no foreign adversary, I think this was a tremendous disservice
57:26
Speaker 13: and emboldened those who are behind it.
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Speaker 12: So what kind of weapons are we talking about? Is
57:31
Speaker 12: this something that someone wears that they can walk up
57:33
Speaker 12: to your house and then walk away. Are they built
57:35
Speaker 12: into a room? I mean, how would you carry out
57:38
Speaker 12: something like this if you were a Russian asset allegedly
57:41
Speaker 12: or someone else who has this technology.
57:43
Speaker 13: Well, based on my reporting, there seemed to be multiple
57:45
Speaker 13: types of weapons. I think what I'll call the old
57:48
Speaker 13: school style weapon are weapons that are built into the infrastructure.
57:52
Speaker 13: Many of the people that I've spoken to say they
57:55
Speaker 13: were attacked in hotel rooms. They were essentially had their
57:58
Speaker 13: brains kind of fried overnight. I mean, that's the simple explanation.
58:02
Speaker 6: Others describe a portable device.
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Speaker 13: I've spoken with people who say that they were hit
58:08
Speaker 13: at the Executive Office building just next to the White
58:11
Speaker 13: House here in Washington, while others who say it was
58:14
Speaker 13: in suburban Washington other parts of the country.
58:17
Speaker 6: And these aren't people just talking.
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Speaker 13: I authenticate and I look for receipts, and virtually all
58:22
Speaker 13: of these cases they have receipts. They have the type
58:24
Speaker 13: of injuries that you can only see with a directed
58:27
Speaker 13: energy weapon. I have some new reporting which certainly suggests
58:31
Speaker 13: that there is another iteration of this weapon.
58:33
Speaker 6: Maybe I'll come back when I have a little bit more.
58:35
Speaker 13: But I can tell you it's the most frightening element
58:38
Speaker 13: of this reporting so far, because I think it will
58:40
Speaker 13: be very hard to defend.
58:42
Speaker 4: Most frightening, hardest to defend. Catherine Herridge. Catherine Herridge reports
58:47
Speaker 4: on the Katie Pavlet Show. This was quite the exchange
58:51
Speaker 4: right on News Nation. Catherine Herridge has never been a
58:54
Speaker 4: fly by night. She's always been a very legitimate journalist.
58:57
Speaker 4: She is digging, She's doing a lot a lot of
59:00
Speaker 4: digging here, and she's finding a lot of good stuff,
59:02
Speaker 4: and people have twisted her reporting. She'd done some reporting
59:06
Speaker 4: on Gittmo and expansion efforts at Gitmo for the nine
59:10
Speaker 4: to eleven people and whatnot, and you know, of course
59:13
Speaker 4: that was hijacked by some of our brethren in the
59:16
Speaker 4: Quanon section of the party, and you know, they're absolutely
59:21
Speaker 4: convinced that this is where they're hanging people, and you
59:24
Speaker 4: have to hang people need places to sleep. I don't know,
59:27
Speaker 4: I never really keep up, but I can say this
59:31
Speaker 4: is a very fascinating topic because it hits a nerve
59:34
Speaker 4: both figuratively and literally. So let me know what you
59:37
Speaker 4: think about that. We'll do some open phone in America
59:40
Speaker 4: when we get together next time plus tomorrow, I'll be
59:43
Speaker 4: filling in for the great one, Mark Levin, and i'll
59:45
Speaker 4: bring you some of my comments on that on this
59:47
Speaker 4: show as well. We'll add some clips, and of course
59:50
Speaker 4: I always end with reminding you that the only thing
59:53
Speaker 4: necessary for evil to triumph is for good people like
59:56
Speaker 4: you to do nothing. And if we stand for nothing,
59:59
Speaker 4: we'll for anything. I style a proxy. My take care,
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Speaker 4: good night, and God bless you, America. I'm rich Valdez,
1:00:05
Speaker 4: and this is America.
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Speaker 5: This is America.