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Halftime Special: Bad Bunny, Bias, Bifurcated Curtis Sliwa · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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  Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez powered by politicweek dot
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  Speaker 2: Rich Valdees is with us.
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  Speaker 3: Former Christian Administration official.
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  Speaker 4: Rich Valdez calumnist now with the Washington Times.
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  Speaker 3: With your host, Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 4: What's up, America. I am Rich Valdez Valdez with an
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  Speaker 4: Welcome to our program. I want to get into a
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  Speaker 4: miss that. Plus we're going to talk about Bad Bunny,
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  Speaker 4: the super Bowl, all of that and so much more.
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  Speaker 4: But I want to start with heikodej model Bad Bunny. Right.
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  Speaker 4: He seems to be the man of the hour. Everybody's
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  Speaker 4: talking about Bad Bunny. They're talking about their either how
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  Speaker 4: much Dave loved the halftime show or how much they
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  Speaker 4: hated the halftime show. I want to get into all
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  Speaker 4: of it because I've seen a lot of things. And
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  Speaker 4: we'll put a couple of graphics up so you could
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  Speaker 4: see these things. And I got to tell you, I
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  Speaker 4: might be the only person in America who watched both
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  Speaker 4: Kid Rock and Bad Bunny, right. I mean, I was
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  Speaker 4: watching the game with my friends. We put on the
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  Speaker 4: Bad Bunny. I was very pleasantly surprised. I know some
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  Speaker 4: of you, to your sugarn, you're thinking, how could your
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  Speaker 4: rich he's a what it was? And I'm hearing Jake
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  Speaker 4: Paul says he is a fake American citizen. What's that
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  Speaker 4: all about? Jake Paul lives in Puerto Rico with a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of other fake American citizens. I don't know how
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  Speaker 4: he gets to pull that off and the Puerto Ricans
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  Speaker 4: don't flip out on him. I got to tell you,
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  Speaker 4: as far as I know, Puerto Ricans are not fake
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  Speaker 4: American citizens. And if you want to talk about it,
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  Speaker 4: Jake Paul, come on the show. I'd love that, but
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  Speaker 4: I want to get it. We'll get into that a
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  Speaker 4: little bit. I really want to talk about the bad
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  Speaker 4: money stuff, because why, for some reason, somehow, somewhere, people
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  Speaker 4: have made it seem as if we go to the NFL,
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  Speaker 4: we go to Hollywood, we go to a halftime show
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  Speaker 4: for our portion right, for our source of all things
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  Speaker 4: good and holy. That's not the case. That's never been
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  Speaker 4: the case. So why why are we doing that? Listen?
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  Speaker 4: I have no idea why, but I've never turned to
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  Speaker 4: whether it was Lady Gaga, Madonna, Janet Jackson and the
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  Speaker 4: Nip Slip and whatever. Listen. The NFL has always brought
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  Speaker 4: on provocative halftime shows. This is what they do. This
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  Speaker 4: is their playbook. So why is everybody freaking out about this?
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you why. Because it's in Spanish.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Years ago, Julio Iglesias used to sing in Spanish. All
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  Speaker 4: sorts of people sing in Spanish. Ricky Martin, right, Vin Levello. God, Now,
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  Speaker 4: there was an English version of that song too. But
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  Speaker 4: everybody loved Ricky Martin, everybody, But for some reason, we
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  Speaker 4: don't want to like Bunny.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, Ricky Martin's as gay as all get out. Yet
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  Speaker 4: he's beloved by so many. Right, there's so many people
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  Speaker 4: that are And this is not an infomercial. Right, I'm
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  Speaker 4: not promoting the LGBTQ community. It's personally as a matter
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  Speaker 4: of faith. For me, it's not something I subscribe to.
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  Speaker 4: But I have to say to each his own right,
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  Speaker 4: this is what people do. I'm not going to hate
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  Speaker 4: somebody because they sin differently than me. That's not the
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  Speaker 4: business that I'm in, and it's not, as far as
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  Speaker 4: I know, it's not the business of conservatism to sit
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  Speaker 4: here and we can try to hold on to tradition,
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  Speaker 4: to tradition, excuse me. We want to do the right
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  Speaker 4: thing at the end of the day. The last thing
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  Speaker 4: I think we need to be doing is hating on people.
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  Speaker 4: What's the harm in saying I don't know bad Bunny,
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  Speaker 4: I don't like him. I mean, I don't know him.
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  Speaker 4: I've never heard of him, or I'm not sure I'm
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  Speaker 4: not familiar with the music to this is an affront
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  Speaker 4: on America? How did we get there? How did we
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  Speaker 4: get to this as an affront on America? I don't
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  Speaker 4: see it happening to me. It seems like we're demonizing
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  Speaker 4: that which we do not know, and we in the
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  Speaker 4: past we haven't done that. Right. How many people do
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  Speaker 4: you know that aren't Mexican and love some Taco Tuesday? Right?
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  Speaker 4: They love it, they love carnitas. Right, come on, I've
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  Speaker 4: been to La I know how this goes, and so
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  Speaker 4: do you. This to me is beyond the pale people
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  Speaker 4: talking about. But he sings about what. Listen every time
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  Speaker 4: I turn on some of my favorite movies, Scarface, The Godfather, Casino, Goodfellas. Right,
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  Speaker 4: are we supposed to say that Joe Peshi was promoting
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  Speaker 4: womanizing because he was fooling around with de Niro's isn't
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  Speaker 4: that film? Or Or that they're condoning or promoting murder
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  Speaker 4: because they kill people left and right in these films,
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  Speaker 4: or that they're condoning or promoting organized crime. No, nobody
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  Speaker 4: was complaining when Good Fellas came around. But yet when
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  Speaker 4: it comes to music, all of a sudden, we've got
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  Speaker 4: a double standard. So I just want to call it
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  Speaker 4: out for what it is. Bad. Bunny is an artist.
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  Speaker 4: He does what he does, whether he likes men, doesn't
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  Speaker 4: like men. Honestly, I pray that he likes women. I
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  Speaker 4: pray that he marries a woman, and I pray that
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  Speaker 4: all goes well for him. But at the end of
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  Speaker 4: the day, that's not my issue. And my issue is
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  Speaker 4: do I want to listen to the song or not
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  Speaker 4: listen to the song. I don't go to the movies
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  Speaker 4: and say, oh, I don't watch horror films, or I
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  Speaker 4: don't watch action films, or I don't know, because I
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  Speaker 4: don't want to promote violence. Nobody does that why we
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  Speaker 4: choose to do it in particular with hispanics and blackses.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm not pulling the race card. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 4: it just happens to be. I've never seen anybody call
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  Speaker 4: out anybody else, and I think that there might be
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  Speaker 4: elements of that involved in that. I don't know, but
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  Speaker 4: it's fascinating to me how there's so many people jumping
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  Speaker 4: on this vandwagon saying that this is that, and how
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  Speaker 4: could they when it's the NFL. I thought we were
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  Speaker 4: done with the NFL in twenty thirteen. I didn't know
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  Speaker 4: that we were still doing NFL, and it's news to me.
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  Speaker 4: So I think we really got to check ourselves and
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  Speaker 4: really say, hold on a second, what is it that
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  Speaker 4: we actually believe? What do we really stand for as conservatives.
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  Speaker 4: Are we trying to hold on to tradition. Great, let's
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  Speaker 4: hold on to all the tradition we can. But if
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  Speaker 4: the tradition goes back to the last seven years with
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  Speaker 4: jay Z and years prior, right, we go back to
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  Speaker 4: early two thousands. If you're in your fifties and maybe
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  Speaker 4: in your sixties, then you might be able to say,
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  Speaker 4: I remember back in seventy nine. But every halftime show
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  Speaker 4: I can think of was either very boring or it
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  Speaker 4: was edgy. Right. Last year it was Kendrick Lamar with
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  Speaker 4: his He had a very political message in there. Right.
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  Speaker 4: Beyonce when she did her thing where they were doing
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  Speaker 4: the whole Black Lives Matter, it was almost like a
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  Speaker 4: Black Panther type of tribute because of what she called
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  Speaker 4: police brutality. Right. There was a little bit of pushback
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  Speaker 4: on that, but for the most part, everybody ate it up.
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  Speaker 4: So my point is bad Bunny, who's performed back in
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty. He was off stage with Jalo and Shakira,
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  Speaker 4: who also I think had a couple of songs in Spanish,
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  Speaker 4: or at least a couple of verses in Spanish. Lauria
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  Speaker 4: as Stefan the Miami Sound Machine. She almost exclusively sang
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  Speaker 4: in Spanish for most of her career, but had a
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  Speaker 4: big hit that was in English. Got it all good.
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  Speaker 4: I'm with all of it. I'm not here to begrudge
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  Speaker 4: anybody for the language that they speak. Come on, for years,
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  Speaker 4: I've been on the radio saying to all my friends
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  Speaker 4: in the what I call the it's America speak English crowd.
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  Speaker 4: I say, it's America, speak whatever language you want. The
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  Speaker 4: reason I say that is why could I speak a
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  Speaker 4: couple of languages? And I think, if you want to survive, right,
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  Speaker 4: if I want to get into broadcasting, I want to
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  Speaker 4: be in talk radio. Guess what language talk radio dominates
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  Speaker 4: in English? So I need to learn how to speak English,
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  Speaker 4: and I need to learn how to do it pretty
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  Speaker 4: well in order to get a broadcasting job. That's how
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  Speaker 4: that works. You can't really be involved in commerce if
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  Speaker 4: you don't speak the language. So it's kind of like
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  Speaker 4: a given it. It's a requirement, not something I need
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  Speaker 4: to sit here and tell you about. Now, listen, I
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  Speaker 4: don't have my head in the sand. We've had a
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  Speaker 4: problem with truckers who were in the country illegally. Don't
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  Speaker 4: learn the language by themselves the CDL license, and they're
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  Speaker 4: getting into accidents. That's a far cry from hiring or
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  Speaker 4: bringing on board a Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny to
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  Speaker 4: do the halftime show. Two totally different things. I didn't
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  Speaker 4: see Bad Bunny promoting any of the things that people
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  Speaker 4: are saying that he promotes. I honestly didn't see it.
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  Speaker 4: One thing I know I missed. I saw the video
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  Speaker 4: afterwards was to these two guys dancing, And I'm not
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  Speaker 4: trying to minimize that, but I'm just saying, have you
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  Speaker 4: ever turned on Glee? Right? I know I have kids
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  Speaker 4: that are in their twenties. I've seen them watch Glee.
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  Speaker 4: I've turned on the seat passed by the TV and
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  Speaker 4: I said, oh my gosh, what is this? What's going on?
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  Speaker 4: What you would see in Glee and the stuff they
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  Speaker 4: talk about in Glee far outweighs anything that I saw
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  Speaker 4: in the Bad Money concert, including the two guys for
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  Speaker 4: the zero point five milliseconds that was there. I'm not
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  Speaker 4: saying it's good. I'm just look, there's a populist movement
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  Speaker 4: in this country, which I don't necessarily count myself a
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  Speaker 4: part of, but the leader of that movement is President Trump.
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  Speaker 4: President Trump is extremely gay friendly, he's extremely pro gay.
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  Speaker 4: He's always been that guy. That is truly a big
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  Speaker 4: part of I think the gravitas for him and a
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  Speaker 4: lot of the populists. So how is it that Ed
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  Speaker 4: Trompito don all this magnus to forty fifth and forty
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  Speaker 4: seventh president of these United States? He gets to tout
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  Speaker 4: Rick Grennell and always talk about how he's supportive of
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  Speaker 4: this inclusive stuff. But if somehow the Puerto Rican rapper
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  Speaker 4: does it, it's a big deal. Now, I keep saying
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  Speaker 4: that because I don't see the difference in bad money
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  Speaker 4: being an ally of the LGBT community. That's what he
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  Speaker 4: wants to do. That's what he wants to do. I
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  Speaker 4: could sit here and say I don't like the guy,
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  Speaker 4: or I don't like his position, But wouldn't it be
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  Speaker 4: weird if I said I don't like his position, but
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  Speaker 4: I love Trump's. I'm doing what the great one Mark
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  Speaker 4: Levin taught me to do, to take an argument, to
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  Speaker 4: argue it to its most logical extreme. And that's where
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  Speaker 4: I end up with this. I think you let bad
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  Speaker 4: Bunny do whatever he wants to do. The guy is
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  Speaker 4: selling records left and right. He's streaming more than anybody.
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  Speaker 4: He beats Taylor Swift. He's the most streamed artist on
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  Speaker 4: the planet. Why people like what he has Listen? I pray,
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  Speaker 4: I read my Bible. I realize that the things that
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  Speaker 4: he's talking about are not congruent with my faith all
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  Speaker 4: the time. They're not congruent with the way I live
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  Speaker 4: my life. But I also realize I have a past
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  Speaker 4: life and I enjoy the entertainment. It's funny, right, Maybe
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  Speaker 4: you should come with a warning label on it, explicit
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  Speaker 4: lyrics eighteen and over whatever. I also like The Jersey Shore,
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  Speaker 4: both the place and the TV show right again, raunchy show,
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  Speaker 4: Call me crazy, forgive me Father, for I have sinned.
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  Speaker 4: People like all sorts of different things. I don't think
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  Speaker 4: you're necessarily a bad person or a bad Christian, even
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  Speaker 4: because you want to watch or binge watch The Jersey Shore,
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  Speaker 4: or if you want to listen to a couple of
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  Speaker 4: bad bunny songs. Now, if you notice the Rabbit Man
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  Speaker 4: did not come with address on, if you notice he
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  Speaker 4: was in dressed as a transvestite, If you notice it
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  Speaker 4: was a relatively toned down version of who you thought
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  Speaker 4: he was because as an artist, the guy was in
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  Speaker 4: his twenties and he was being provocative when he came out.
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  Speaker 4: He's been at this for nine years or so, and
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  Speaker 4: I think he's had a remarkable trajectory. I'm not mad
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  Speaker 4: at the guy. I understand about the Venezuelan connection. But this,
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  Speaker 4: here's another thing, jay Z. Why are we not begrudging
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  Speaker 4: jay Z? Jay Z raps about how he sold drugs
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  Speaker 4: to start his record company. Now nobody's beating him up
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  Speaker 4: about that, But because Bad Bunny signed a contract with
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  Speaker 4: a company that was started by some communists, crazy people
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  Speaker 4: from Venezuela, all of a sudden, he's Satan incarnate. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not here to defend Bad Bunny. I'm here to just say,
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  Speaker 4: let's be fair about things, right, Let's call a spade
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  Speaker 4: a spade, not when we feel like it, but all
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  Speaker 4: the time. Anyway, more on that straight ahead. Plus, I
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  Speaker 4: want to get into a little bit on my buddy
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  Speaker 4: Sean Farish. He's a great trumpetpersonator. He does a better
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  Speaker 4: trump than me by a mile, believe me and believe me.
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  Speaker 4: And Sean Farish has an amazing video that I saw
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  Speaker 4: where he's calling out Bad Bunny. I think you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: love it, don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Faldaz.
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  Speaker 1: This is America. This is America, all right.
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  Speaker 4: This one is terrific. This is my buddy Sean Farrish.
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  Speaker 4: He's a New Yorker, but he's out in Tennessee right now.
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  Speaker 4: He does an amazing job. You've seen this video, but
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  Speaker 4: check this out.
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  Speaker 5: This is your favorite president. And this message is for
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  Speaker 5: Bad Bunny, or as I call him, the nasty Rabbit,
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  Speaker 5: El Conejo Desagra Dable. He's a nasty rabbit and a
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  Speaker 5: stupid rabbit. Anytime you see a guy in a dress,
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  Speaker 5: that's a very stupid person. So he's a nasty guy,
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  Speaker 5: a horrible guy. They call him bad Bunny. I call
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  Speaker 5: him the worst bunny. Think about it, and nobody knows
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  Speaker 5: Bunny's quite like I do. I get along very well
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  Speaker 5: with many of the highly respected bunnies all around the world.
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  Speaker 5: I have a tremendous relationship with Bugs Bunny. He said
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  Speaker 5: to me, what's up, duc? He said, Sarah, what's.
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  Speaker 4: Up, Duck?
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  Speaker 5: Sir? I said, you don't have to call me duck.
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  Speaker 5: You could call me Donald. But Bugs Bunny is a
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  Speaker 5: tremendous bunny. He does a fantastic job on the baseball field.
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  Speaker 5: He plays every position you look at him, but he
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  Speaker 5: does a fantastic job. I get along very well with
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  Speaker 5: Roger Rabbit, and what happened to him was horrible. You know,
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  Speaker 5: they say, sir, who framed Roger Rabbit? Sir, I said,
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  Speaker 5: it was probably the fake news of the Democrats. They
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  Speaker 5: frame everybody. But he got a row deal, and so
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  Speaker 5: we gave him a parton because what happened to Roger
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  Speaker 5: Rabbit was horrible. It was a complete and total witch hut,
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  Speaker 5: so we gave him a parton. I got along very
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  Speaker 5: well with the Easter Bunny, who used to lead Crooked
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  Speaker 5: Joe biting around like he lost puppy. But the Easter
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  Speaker 5: Bunny said to me, sir, you have the biggest Easter
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  Speaker 5: eggs the world has ever seen. They're much bigger than
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  Speaker 5: cried Chuck Schumer or Pesosto Obama. You look at Hakim Jefferies,
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  Speaker 5: they have very small Easter eggs. But I have the
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  Speaker 5: biggest eggs the world has ever seen. Nobody's ever seen
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  Speaker 5: anything like it. I also got along well with little
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  Speaker 5: Bunny fou Fu, and I ended the war between Little
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  Speaker 5: Bunny fool fou and the field. He was bopping him
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  Speaker 5: on the head. I said, you can't do that. You
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  Speaker 5: have to stop doing that. Well, we're going to hit
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  Speaker 5: you with tariff. So we ended that war. You know,
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  Speaker 5: you look at it the peace president. So we get
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  Speaker 5: along will with a lot of bunnies, but not the
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  Speaker 5: nasty rabbit known as bad Bunny. He's a horrible person
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  Speaker 5: and a stupid person. El Canejo desa gradable bad bunny,
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  Speaker 5: nasty rabbit the hr country, and he has no talent.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you for your attention to.
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  Speaker 4: This matter, all right, So I think he does an
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  Speaker 4: amazing job, right, It's very funny, it's hysterical. I play
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  Speaker 4: it for comedic value. Listen. I think it's great that
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  Speaker 4: he knows how to make light of these things, and
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  Speaker 4: he's so good at making light of these things. That's
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  Speaker 4: what we need to do, everybody, just make light of stuff. Now,
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  Speaker 4: where I think things get out of control is when
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  Speaker 4: people are starting to beat up kid Rock. Now why
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  Speaker 4: beat up kid Rock? This is the part I really
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  Speaker 4: don't get, and I really don't I really don't get.
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  Speaker 4: It gets me a little hot under the collar, honestly,
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  Speaker 4: But why why are we beating up Kid Rock because
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  Speaker 4: he decided to do a halftime show for Turning Point.
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  Speaker 4: Listen Kid Rock and do whatever he wants. And I
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  Speaker 4: thought he did an amazing job. Right he shouted out
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  Speaker 4: the Lord the Savior, my man, j C. Does it
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  Speaker 4: get any better than that? If that's what you're looking
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  Speaker 4: for during a halftime show, you got it with Kid Rock.
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  Speaker 4: People want to beat him up and say about some
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  Speaker 4: lyrics he had again, same thing goes for him. Talked
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  Speaker 4: about art imitates life. That's how art works. Imagine if
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  Speaker 4: every movie were about what you think it should be about.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, come on, are we going to live our
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  Speaker 4: lives in a Hallmark movie? I don't think so, right?
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: I mean, who would have made Jaws? Right? Jaws is
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: such a great movie. And I just bring that up
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: as an example there that way people dying getting eaten
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: by a shark? Is people going to say? Is this
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: what you stand for? Getting eaten by sharks? I think
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: the whole thing is ridiculous. I think people want to
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: make fun of people for the way they dance, for
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: the way that Listen. I don't want my kid doing it,
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: and that's what I do. I'm a parent. I say, hey,
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: don't I don't want you out there to working on
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  Speaker 4: top of police cars. I don't watch you out there
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: doing whatever whatever whatever. Right, Really, you have the conversation
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: with your children the way you want to have that conversation.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: But by no means are we here to impose anything
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: on anybody we can request, right, And I think this
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: is important for us to understand because I think there's
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: a thin line between being an autocrat and being someone
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: that is a traditionalist. It's not that thin of a line,
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: but lately it seems like there is, all of a sudden,
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: we're telling everybody what they can sing about, what they
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: should sing about, why they should sing Listen, I got
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: whiplash over here from We Love the NFL, We Hate
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: the NFL. NFL is the slice of Americana. Since when
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: the NFL themselves are going after South America or Latin America.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: They've hired Daddy Yankee, another big reggaetong superstar who's recently
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: had a conversion to Christianity. And shout out to Daddy Yankee.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: But guess what he's doing half time shows in Brazil
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: in Spain as part of their expansion into Latin America. Right,
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: even this show has expanded into Latin America. Why because
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: there is a big market in Latin America for lots
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: of things. American sports like the NFL basketball baseball's been
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: huge all over the Caribbean. Forever. Think about Robert de
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Clemente right twenty one, Pittsburgh Pirates, one of the most
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: famous Puerto Ricans on the planet. Twenty one. Listen. I'm
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: trying to make sense of these things because I start
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: reading the comments and I just get so disheartened. I
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: saw one comment. I don't know if we're able to
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: bring it on screen or not here, but this woman
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: is arguing with this guy who made a statement he said, oh,
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: you people are just hating because he's Puerto Rican. And
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: I think there are a number of people, and I
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: know this from my own experience in life, there are
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: people who don't like you just because you are able
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: to speak another language that's likely not you. But there
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: are people like that that they feel like there is
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: a superiority in being unilingual as opposed to multi lingual.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: There's people that have a horrible feeling that they think
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: multiculturalism is a bad thing. I don't think it's a
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: bad thing. I think you hold on to your culture.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: You don't want to water down any culture. You also
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: don't want to ignore other cultures, right. You don't want
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: to end up like they have in a little Mogadishu
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: right where we've lost Minnesota, right, Minnesota down, right, black
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Hawk down. But at the same time, you also don't
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: want to say I don't want to understand the culture.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: I don't want to know. I don't want to be
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: ignorant to the fact, right, And why The last time
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: when I was in DC for what was that called
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: the inauguration, I went with a state assemblymen friend of mine.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: We went out to a Somali restaurant right there, not
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: too far from Capitol Hill. Interesting, right, I had never
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: done that before. It's a very interesting experience that they
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: bring in this big platter you eat with your hands.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: I had the beef platter because they had all different
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: types of things and I wasn't familiar with a lot
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: of it. I had the meat. The meat was really good,
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: no complaints for me. It was a different way of
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: doing things. Everything was different, the way they serve it,
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: the way it's made, the condiments, all of it. I
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: did it. It's not at the top of my bucket list. Right.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying, oh my gosh, I can't wait to
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: go back to the Somali restaurant. No, that's not the
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: case at all. But I did it, and I don't
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: hate it, right. I also don't think that we need
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: to replace Minneapolis with any particular race, right, or any
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: particular culture. But it's important that we know it now.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: That being said, when I was a little kid, Sunset
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: Park was almost exclusively Puerto Rican, Canal Street in Manhattan
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: almost exclusively Chinese, Mulberry Street in downtown right off of
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Canal Street exclusively Italian. Nobody had an issue with those things, right.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: Everybody had their little place, their area there, Chinatown, whatever
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: it was. So again, I have a problem with fraud.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: I have a problem with leerings. I have a problem
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: with people that hate America. But when you say that
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: a conej model right bad Bunny, that somehow bad Bunny
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  Speaker 4: is hating America, I don't think he hates America. I think,
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: like most communists, they have disdain for what they see. Now,
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: I don't even think I can say with certitude that
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: bad Bunnies are full on comedy. I think that I
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: listened to his rhetoric, and he sounds a lot like
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: cayetrese Rene, right he is if you know who I'm
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: talking about. He's another Puerto Rican rapper. I'm pretty sure
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: he calls his friend's comrade. I don't think Bad Bunny's
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: that deep into this. And again, not a defense of him,
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: just my observation, giving you my two cents my opinion.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: I think he's very pro Puerto Rico. He loves the
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: island he was born on. He's a patriot. And you
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: know his speech at the Grammys. I played it for
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: you on the podcast.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: Before I say thanks to God, I'm gonna say ice out.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: I was personally offended and he said before I thank God,
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: I want to say ice out. I think that was
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: uncalled for. It was dumb. It wasn't the right way
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: to do things. That's what he chose to do. I'm
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: a free speech guy. You do you, I still think
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: you're wrong. I'm not gonna leave God for the end.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna, you know, thank God up front. But this
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: was an interesting speech.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens. We
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: are humans, and we are Americans. Also, I want to
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: say to the people. I know it's tough to know
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: not to hate on these days, and I was thinking,
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: sometimes we get contaminaos. I don't have to say that
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: in English. The hate get more powerful with more hate.
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: So please, we need to be different. If we fight,
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: we have to do it we love if Yeah, we
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: don't hate them. We love our people, we love our family,
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: and that's the way to do it with love, and
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: forget that. Please, thank you, thank you God.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: That doesn't mean now that I hate the guy and
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: I wish him harm. I don't doesn't mean I'm gonna
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: say I don't want to go to your concert either.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Still like the music. I know who this guy is.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: It's not like I didn't know who he was. He
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: didn't fool me or dupe me. I know exactly who
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: he is. I don't need to have a personal relationship
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: with Robert de Niro to enjoy his films. I don't
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: need to have a personal like for al Pacino to
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: like him in a movie. Right, And this is the
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: point I'm making that this selective I don't like what
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: they stand for. Who says they stand for it? These
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: people are entertainers. Now, like I said back to bad Buddy,
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: I don't necessarily believe that he's a comedy. I'm not
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: saying I don't think he is one. I'm just saying
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: I don't believe that he can't be one, is what
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: I'm saying. Right, he can be one. He might be one.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: I don't know. He's not an overtly political person, but
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: when he does get involved. And they led this a
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: big march, biggest march in Puerto Rico history, to oust
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: the previous governor, Ricardo Ro said, yo him, and we
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: sing and a few others Cayarese that these guys got
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: together and they did their thing. They showed up, they represented.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: I was not on their side, but I see the impact.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: So I realized, Okay, these guys know how to organize, right.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: They're not sloppy, they're not haphazard, they're not emotional. They
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: probably are emotional, but they had a plan and they
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: executed the plan like most good Marxists do. So again
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: my point, I just want to call a spade a spade,
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: and I feel like pet Bunny honestly, as much as
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: we may not like his politics, and you may not
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: even like his music. Somehow the guys become like public
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: Enemy number one, when what he said was, we're not animals,
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: we're not savages. We are Americans. Let's do what we do.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: We can disagree, but let's not do it in hate.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Let's do it in love. That's a message I can
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: get behind. I think that's a message you can get
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: behind too. Straight Ahead, Curtis Leewa wighs in on the
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: importance of reaching out to different communities. He's been out
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: in the streets in New York City for years, right
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: decades with the Guardian Angels Safety Patrol Group, and he's
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: going to weigh in on the importance of this program
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: reaching more people in the world in Latin America, as
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: well as his work in reaching people in different places.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: Don't go anywhere.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: This is America. This is America.
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  Speaker 7: The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: to speak with Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, very good.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: The honor is all yours.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: Conservative talk with a dash of sofrito.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Wow, here's Rich Valdez.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: All right, and he gooes, welcome back. Now, we just
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: made this announcement and about syndicating my show ag Espanol.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: And I got to say, there's very few people that
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: have seen my journey in radio like my mentors. And
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: I've had some great mentors, the great one Mark Levin,
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Curtis Sliwa. You might have known him as the who
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: ran from mayor in New York City, right, the guardian
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: angel of New York himself, And he's here with me. Now,
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: he's here with me on my special day. Curtis Lee, Well,
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: thank you a for being here. You've always been a
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: mentor to me. You're you're a lifelong hero and a
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: friend and not fishing for compliments. But your reaction to
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: seeing one of your mentees get into streaming talk media
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: on the video side of things, streaming video and doing
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: it in Spanol.
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: Of course, Well, look, you know what a tough journey
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: you had because I was out there from voting you
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: with so many others in a a what we'll call
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: a white out at a blackout, a whiteout where the
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: fact that you are a Latino, proud, liberty loving Latino
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: obviously has strong patriotic roots, Republican roots, conservative roots. And
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: now you've come into your own and by the way,
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: on a global level, so from a very local level.
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: Now I got to tell you a little story about Rich.
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: When I wasted four years in my life that I'll
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: never get back. At AM ninety seventy, the an Rich
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: was living in Jersey and he was right near the tower,
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: the only person ever to say that he had ever
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: heard me in four years on the radio. I was
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: doing morning Drive and afternoon Drive, and it said, how's
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: that Rich? I live right next to the tower. So
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: he started from the bottom, had a number of setbacks
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: like we've all had, and has always persevered. And that's
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: why I'm proud to say I'm your friend than your
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: radio colleague, and more importantly, a person who has seen
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: your trajectory now take you on a global level. I
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: only wish I knew a few words in Spanish other
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: than the bad words that people sometimes scream at me
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: when I'm in the subways of the streets.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: You know, Curtis Sliva, most people think that you're like
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: part Puerto Rican. Yes, they think you're Curtis Silva instead
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: of Curtis Sliwa. And I always tell people your story.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: It's a funny story that in the Bronx they made
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: him the Grand Marshal of the Puerto Rican Festival because
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: they thought he was Puerto Rican.
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I had to disappoint him. Was at that time
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: Al Ramon Valles, who ran the annual Puerto Rican Day Parade.
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: We as the Guardian Angels were ostracized by everybody back then,
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: and he was the only one to embrace us. He
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: invited us into his Board of director's meeting. Even to
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: this day, most people think of Puerto Rican because they
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: think the name is Silva, and I don't change their
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: minds by yo Silva. Yes, yeah, yes see see. And
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: so he said, you know, we'd like to have you
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: as our Grand Marshal of the annual Puerto Rican Day Parade.
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: This is the early eighties, and I'm looking at all
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: the board members. I said, I hate to disappoint you,
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: but my father was Polish, my mother was Italian, and
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: so they're shaking you.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: Are you sure?
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: Can you find somebody in your bloodline who may have
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: some Puerto Rican blood? I said, now, I really can't
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: do that. You've got a lot of really well renowned
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: Puerto Ricans who deserve this honor. But I want to
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: thank you. And he always had us in the parade
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: when nobody else would have us in parades. That's why
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: in the debate against Roan Mondommi Andrew Como, remember after
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: that first the bear said all parades matter, Yes, absolutely,
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: because that's really what put us on the map. The
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: fact that the annual Puerto Rican Date Parade would recognize us,
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: allow us to march really forced open the doors to
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: so many others, including Hispanic media Channel forty seven, Channel
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: forty one at the time, the Ario La Prensa, and
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: the various Hispanic radio outlets. Lamega and some of the
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: others had always give it us a shout of radio
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: radio juado. I mean, they embraced us before anybody else
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: did it. I'll never forget. And this is the guy
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: who's going to take broadcasting right to the top with
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: a Hispanic emphasis.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: Curtis Lee, you're a gentleman, a scholar, and a patriot.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: Thank you, sir. I appreciate you. Can we expect to
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: see another run from you.
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: Ah well, I haven't missed the beach since I lost,
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: and the subways in streets every day doing what I've
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: always done. Stay tuned, watch the pivot in shift that
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: I undergo.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: There's more to come straight ahead. I'm rich Aldez.
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  Speaker 3: This is America.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: This is America.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: He's making podcasting great again. This is America with Rich Valdez.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: All right, and he goes, welcome back anyway. I just
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: want to thank you for checking out the new studio.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: As you could see in the clip that we had
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: with Curtis Lee, it's a really nice place. I hope
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: you enjoy it. I'm looking forward to bringing you a
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: lot more on the video platform. Believe it or not,
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: Video it's not my first love. I love radio. I
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: love being on the mic. I love the ability to
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: use theater of the mind to get into people's psyche
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: and whatnot. And this is truly what I love. But
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: I realize times are moving and they're moving fast, so
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: we got to get out the way, jump on board,
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: and that's what I'm here to do and bring you
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: the best material that we could bring you every day.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: I appreciate you sharing the show, recommending people to the show,
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: and for listening each and every day. Like I always say,
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: you got to stand for something, because if you stand
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: for nothing, you'll fall for anything. And the only thing
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: necessary for evil to triumph is for good people like
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: you to do nothing, do something. I start a Brokesimon
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: until the next time America. I'm rich Valdez and this
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: is America.
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  Speaker 2: This is America.