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Cinco De Mayo, Cent-Com, Cops · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez powered by politiweek dot
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Speaker 1: Com and.
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Speaker 2: Rich Valdes is with US former Christian Administration official.
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Speaker 3: You work for Chris Christie. You've been follows each on
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Speaker 3: a lot of public service stuff.
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Speaker 4: Rich Valdez commnist now with the Washington Times.
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Speaker 3: This is America, Richiev.
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Speaker 5: You're on the air with the Nation.
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Speaker 3: Of the Nation with America with your host, Rich Valdez.
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Speaker 5: What's up, America.
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Speaker 4: I am Rich Valdes valdeest with an s on all
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Speaker 4: of the social media. You're liberty loving Latino amigo right
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Speaker 4: here kicking off Sinco de Mayo my birthday seventeen blocks
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Speaker 4: away from Madison Square Garden here in New York City,
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Speaker 4: Times Square.
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Speaker 5: Blessed to be back with each and every one.
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Speaker 4: I use my late night fun media and it's the
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Speaker 4: Tuesday night edition of This Is America, which is our
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Speaker 4: late night national town hall conversation. I want you to
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Speaker 4: call the show with your opinion, your thoughts, anything you
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Speaker 4: got for me. Eight seven seven Valdez one, eight seven
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Speaker 4: seven Valdez one, and of course that's eight seven eight
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Speaker 4: twenty five thirty three seventy one, and you get to
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Speaker 4: sound off and if you have been calling, I apologize
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Speaker 4: if you're not able to effectively leave your voice note
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Speaker 4: or your voice message. I saw I had a couple
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Speaker 4: of calls that it looked like there was a message,
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Speaker 4: but when we tried to actually listen to it, we couldn't.
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Speaker 5: So I encourage you to try again.
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Speaker 4: If that didn't work out for you the first time around,
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Speaker 4: maybe you were on mute, maybe there was a malfunction.
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Speaker 4: I don't know, but I do always want to hear
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Speaker 4: the interactive conversation from across the country, So looking forward
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Speaker 4: to that anyway. Like I said, Sinko that Mayo, my
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Speaker 4: birthday is my forty eighth birthday. I want to kick
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Speaker 4: it off with a little personal note. I spent some
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Speaker 4: time with Faminia. I went out to dinner with my
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Speaker 4: two daughters. My daughter who lives out of state, came
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Speaker 4: to visit me, my younger daughter. They're only four years apart,
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Speaker 4: twenty one and twenty five, so they enjoyed me. Enjoyed
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Speaker 4: Taco Tuesday with me, I should say, And we were
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Speaker 4: at this really cool Mexican place. Service honestly wasn't fantastic.
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Speaker 4: I had a couple of complaints. Honestly, if anybody was asking.
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Speaker 4: So I won't recommend that place, but it was a
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Speaker 4: good time. The food was good, the ambiance was I'd
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Speaker 4: say about sixty five seventy percent. It could have been better,
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Speaker 4: but we didn't have a good seat, and overall, wonderful
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Speaker 4: time with my kids, right, because that's truly what matters
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Speaker 4: most in life, I think for many of us, is
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Speaker 4: spending time with the people we love. And it would
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Speaker 4: have probably been a little bigger celebration had it been
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Speaker 4: closer to the weekend. But with a single that Maia,
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Speaker 4: falling on a Tuesday, you get Tuesday, you know, Taco
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Speaker 4: Tuesday activities.
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Speaker 5: And it really was a good time.
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Speaker 4: So I'm grateful to my children, grateful to God to
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Speaker 4: be here for another trip around the Sun forty eight
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Speaker 4: years now. I want to get into a couple other
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Speaker 4: things that are going on in the news cycle right.
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Speaker 4: Things are heating up faster than that pernil in the cajachina.
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Speaker 5: Right. If you know what that is, you know what
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Speaker 5: that is.
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Speaker 4: If not, it's a roasted pork shoulder made in a
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Speaker 4: you know, an outdoor rotisserie, like like a good old
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Speaker 4: fashioned pig roast. But overseas we've seen a lot of
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Speaker 4: things going on, right, there's a lot going on. I
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Speaker 4: want to start with a little bit of the international stuff,
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Speaker 4: and i'll give you some audio on that in a moment.
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Speaker 5: Then we'll pivot to a couple other things.
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Speaker 4: But Defense Secretary or i should say Secretary of War
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Speaker 4: Pete Hegseth laid out the details on Operation Project Freedom.
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Speaker 5: We're going to get to that in a moment.
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Speaker 4: But there was a mission to reopen the strait up
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Speaker 4: Hormuz for commercial shipping and push back against the Iranian
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Speaker 4: aggression trying to collect these tolls aggressively or attack these
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Speaker 4: ships from the shores that they've been doing for a
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Speaker 4: generation through their proxies the Houthi rebels and some of
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Speaker 4: the ships have already made it through safely with US escorts,
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Speaker 4: but there's still thousands of ships that are stuck trying
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Speaker 4: to get through. And this is a focused, temporary operation
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Speaker 4: to protect innocent commerce, right, not the bad guys trying
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Speaker 4: to illegally smuggle gasoline or oil out of Iran to
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Speaker 4: Chin or wherever.
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Speaker 5: These are the people.
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Speaker 4: They're just trying to make it through the straight and
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Speaker 4: that's what the United States Navy is. They're trying to
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Speaker 4: ensure continues freely free trade now right on q Iran's
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Speaker 4: Foreign minister Abbas a Ragshi. He's out on all the media, right,
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Speaker 4: He's out there campaigning on MSNBC or ms now as
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Speaker 4: it's called, on ABC News, all the other places that
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Speaker 4: they go when he does the Sunday shows and his
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Speaker 4: special appearances. And now he's floating the idea of a
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Speaker 4: possible deal. We'll see if that turns into a real deal.
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Speaker 4: He had a lot to say with Joe Scarborough. I
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Speaker 4: got a clip on that gott to play for you.
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Speaker 4: And the Trump people are saying, look, we're willing to
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Speaker 4: make a deal, no enriched uranium, no nuclear bomb. And
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Speaker 4: I think that's where they keep stalling. And these guys,
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Speaker 4: you know, they put on a good song and dance
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Speaker 4: in my opinion, but I don't think anything major is
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Speaker 4: happening until it happens, and we might be on the
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Speaker 4: cusp of something, honestly. Then we got the Chairman of
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Speaker 4: the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Kine, Raisin Caine, right,
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Speaker 4: that's a Trump calls him Raisin Caine. He dropped a
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Speaker 4: couple of sobering numbers that during that same briefing, twenty
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Speaker 4: two thousand marines on over fifteen hundred commercial vessels are
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Speaker 4: essentially trapped in the region because of all the chaos.
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Speaker 4: Our military's ready locked and loaded if needed. They're keeping
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Speaker 4: the option open. This is moving quickly. There's been a
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Speaker 4: lot of up and down and fluidity to these situations.
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Speaker 5: So they will be free. You know, that's not a question.
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Speaker 5: It's doctor hostage.
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Speaker 4: It's just the the traffic pattern, for lack of a
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Speaker 4: better word, and.
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Speaker 5: Close to the home.
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Speaker 4: Here in New York City, things got ugly outside the
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Speaker 4: Park East Synagogue on the up each side protesters, you know,
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Speaker 4: the cafea wearing masked quote unquote protesters. They show up
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Speaker 4: for a real estate event that was tied to Israel.
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Speaker 4: It turned into a clash with police pushing the barricades.
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Speaker 4: You know, peaceful protest, chaotic chance, lots of tension, and
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Speaker 4: this type of targeted aggression and disrupting a house of worship,
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Speaker 4: in my opinion, has no place in our society. Imagine
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Speaker 4: if they were doing this sat a Catholic church. Imagine
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Speaker 4: if they were doing this like they did, you know,
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Speaker 4: like Don Lemon did, right, he started a trend and listen.
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Speaker 4: They've been doing this to synagogue in New York as
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Speaker 4: long as I can remember, honestly, maybe not to this
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Speaker 4: level with this many people, but the Jews have always
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Speaker 4: been targeted for their faith, and it's always been disgusting.
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Speaker 5: In my opinion, they shouldn't be let people pray the
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Speaker 5: way they want.
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Speaker 4: There's a lot of people that don't agree with someone
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Speaker 4: else's faith, and it doesn't mean we go outside your
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Speaker 4: house of worship and start protesting you.
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Speaker 5: Is that you're right? Sure? Does that make you a douche? Absolutely?
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Speaker 5: Who does that right?
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Speaker 4: And the cops instead of using pepper spray or batons
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Speaker 4: to these people that are pushing these steel barricades on
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Speaker 4: top of the police, and the police are pushing them back,
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Speaker 4: talking about five, ten, fifteen cops pushing barricades against twenty five, thirty,
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Speaker 4: forty fifty people. Instead of esque the force, which in
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Speaker 4: my opinion and the use of force guidelines that I've
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Speaker 4: read and understood, I would say, they should have used
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Speaker 4: some pepper spray, They should have used anything to escalate
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Speaker 4: the force to make this stop.
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Speaker 5: But they didn't.
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Speaker 4: They pushed, they pushed back, They pushed, they pushed back.
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Speaker 4: Guess what the bad guys figured out, and in this case,
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Speaker 4: the protesters are the bad guys, whether they're within their
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Speaker 4: rights or not. You don't get to go and start
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Speaker 4: pushing the cops around because you want to start yelling.
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Speaker 5: Whose streets are streets? Whose streets or streets?
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Speaker 4: I say, get the f out of here with that one,
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Speaker 4: you know, with all due respect, right part of the French.
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Speaker 5: But that's how that goes. You don't get to do that.
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Speaker 4: Everybody should be able to worship peacefully, whether it's in
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Speaker 4: their musteed, their mosque, their synagogue, their church, temple wherever.
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Speaker 5: I mean? Am I wrong here? Don't?
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Speaker 4: Aren't we supposed to have decency and you know, love
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Speaker 4: for our fellow man. Isn't that something that at least
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Speaker 4: the Abrahamic faiths are supposed to to share.
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Speaker 5: But now not when it's the Jews.
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Speaker 6: Not.
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Speaker 4: The Jews don't get to pray, they don't get to
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Speaker 4: have peace, They get to be shouted upon, disrupted, all
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Speaker 4: sorts of aggression. And you know, you got to call
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Speaker 4: a spade a spade. This isn't cool. And quite frankly,
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Speaker 4: we know exactly who's doing it right. It's usually a
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Speaker 4: bunch of college educated liberals that have nothing better to
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Speaker 4: do but go after the latest thing that they're upset
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Speaker 4: about today. They're upset about this. Last week it was
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Speaker 4: I saw are You Iceantai Ice?
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Speaker 5: The one guy.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if you heard that video. I wish
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Speaker 4: I had the audio for that. Hey, guys, if we
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Speaker 4: can get it, it would be great. Listen to this. The
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Speaker 4: guy is walking by and this woman, a very large woman,
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Speaker 4: large unattractive woman, with another older, unattractive woman. Just for
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Speaker 4: the sake of you understanding my story, I'm pointing this out,
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Speaker 4: they pull up to a guy who's on the street.
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Speaker 4: He's taping them. They're taping him and they're in a
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Speaker 4: car and they're like, are you Ice? And he's like,
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Speaker 4: what are you with Ice? And he's like, I don't
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Speaker 4: know you're talking about. And she says, do you work
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Speaker 4: for Ice? And he says, I don't have no ice.
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Speaker 4: I'm not even drinking anything. It was great. It was
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Speaker 4: a Who's on First? It was a real life who's
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Speaker 4: on first? Then he started busting their stones a little bit,
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Speaker 4: but it really really was funny. And if I can
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Speaker 4: find that audio, I definitely will play it for you.
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Speaker 4: But you might have seen it anyway on social media.
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Speaker 4: But this is what's going on. And you know they
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Speaker 4: do this because they know that they can, they can
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Speaker 4: turn public safety upside down on its head and get
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Speaker 4: away with it. Meanwhile, when it comes to hardworking people,
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Speaker 4: you me, everybody else trying to get back and forth
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Speaker 4: to work, We're the ones getting squeezed with congestion pricing. Right,
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Speaker 4: the sixteen dollars toll to get into Manhattan, the congestion
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Speaker 4: pricing which I think brings it up to twenty nine
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Speaker 4: dollars during peak hours. You got police cracking down now
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Speaker 4: on license plate covers and the frames that go around
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Speaker 4: your license plate because why because they want to collect money.
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Speaker 5: Why because easy pass, in.
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Speaker 4: My opinion, is a scam, because why they seem to
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Speaker 4: let real street thugs get a pass all too often.
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Speaker 4: And this is not a critique on the police, because
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Speaker 4: the police and for maybe if the shoe fits, feel
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Speaker 4: free to wear it. But this is you know, the
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Speaker 4: police are going to turn to me all but rich.
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Speaker 4: You don't understand that they got our hands tied, right
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Speaker 4: and then and then the unions are going to say,
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Speaker 4: oh yeah, look it's the administration.
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Speaker 5: It's Ma'm Donnie, it's whole cool.
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Speaker 4: They're they're you know, they're they're out here using us
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Speaker 4: as poets to do whatever and then Mamdani and whatever,
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Speaker 4: and they're gonna and everybody has someone else to blame.
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Speaker 4: And look, I get it, and I understand why NYPD's
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Speaker 4: losing a thousand plus officers a month and they're going
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Speaker 4: to places like Vegas and they're going to places like Florida.
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Speaker 5: I do get it.
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Speaker 4: And you guess what, I applaud each and every one
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Speaker 4: of you because there's one philosophy that says, hey, stay
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Speaker 4: and fight the good fight. Be the difference, which is
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Speaker 4: there's one that sounds respectable on his face, but in reality,
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Speaker 4: what are you gonna do.
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Speaker 5: You're gonna lock up.
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Speaker 4: Every last bad guy and then they're gonna get cut
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Speaker 4: loose and they're gonna go to a judge, and a
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Speaker 4: judge is not going to enforce the laws. And that's it.
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Speaker 4: That's what's happening left and right in New York City.
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Speaker 4: This truly, at where we are, is a lost cause.
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Speaker 4: Is there saving it?
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Speaker 5: I don't know. I wish, I wish I had a
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Speaker 5: better message for you guys.
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Speaker 4: I wish I could say you know if there were
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Speaker 4: a Rudy Giuliani available right now, and praise God, he's
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Speaker 4: doing really well, cracking jokes. I got a text from
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Speaker 4: Andrew Giuliani and he said that he's cracking jokes.
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Speaker 5: He's breathing on his own. He's doing great.
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Speaker 4: So amen, I'm happy to hear the prayers of Americans
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Speaker 4: like you that went out for Mayor Giuliani were answered.
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Speaker 5: But what is one to do?
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Speaker 4: Right The cops are leaving because they have to take
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Speaker 4: care of their families, and they're quite frankly, they're saying,
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Speaker 4: I'm not going to be a part of the Mumdani stoppo.
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Speaker 4: I'm not going to be a part of hokuls brown shirts.
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Speaker 5: I'm not going to do it.
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Speaker 4: And I respect that because sticking around for a pension
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Speaker 4: and a paycheck to go ahead and execute their plan
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Speaker 4: doesn't sound like a good deal. You know, you got
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Speaker 4: people that are driving across bridges and tunnels and when
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Speaker 4: they get out on the other side, they're being pulled
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Speaker 4: over because they have a plastic license plate frame. And
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Speaker 4: someone's going to push back on me and say, but Rich,
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Speaker 4: if you know those things that are not lawful, then
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Speaker 4: you shouldn't have one. But let's be real here, everybody
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Speaker 4: has one, and they've had one forever and a day.
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Speaker 4: So if they've been around forever. And I'm not trying
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Speaker 4: to normalize sin per se or normalize the you know,
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Speaker 4: the breaking of the rules. I'm just saying these things
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Speaker 4: were always okay. Nobody was getting pulled over for these things.
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Speaker 4: Now they are. So you can make the argument and say,
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Speaker 4: well that is because you know, one bad apple ruined
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Speaker 4: it for everybody else maybe, Or you could say they
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Speaker 4: figured out if we use these officers rather than eppor
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Speaker 4: spraying and billy clubbing these vicious protesters outside the synagogue,
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Speaker 4: and we put them on the end of the bridge
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Speaker 4: at the end of the highway and pull over every
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Speaker 4: last person with a license plate cover or that is
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Speaker 4: missing a front license plate but has their back license plate,
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Speaker 4: then we can go and give these people tickets and
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Speaker 4: we can get money from them, and that can bring
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Speaker 4: us millions and millions of dollars. And what do the
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Speaker 4: Democrats that are in power, because there really aren't any
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Speaker 4: Republicans at all, what do they These politicians love. They
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Speaker 4: love money, They love money, and they love money that
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Speaker 4: they didn't earn right. The government doesn't create anything. It's
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Speaker 4: not like they do anything to get this money other
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Speaker 4: than take it from you. So I stick with the
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Speaker 4: word on this one. Right, render on to Caesar what
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Speaker 4: is Caesar's and render unto God what is gone. So, yes,
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Speaker 4: we have to follow the rules. Yes, I have had
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Speaker 4: one of those license plate covers which looked I thought
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Speaker 4: kind of cool, and took it off because I got
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Speaker 4: pulled over by one of these license plate reading guys
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Speaker 4: that pulled me over as if I was, you know,
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Speaker 4: working with the Iranians. They treat you like an absolute criminal.
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Speaker 4: I think it's excessive. I think it's not cool. I
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Speaker 4: think it's a poor representation of how officers should interact
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Speaker 4: with the community. But you know their response is going
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Speaker 4: to be I thought you were going to kill me.
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Speaker 4: I thought I was going to die. I thought, And listen,
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Speaker 4: I understand. But I have to say, having had law
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Speaker 4: enforcement people in my family for ever and myself having
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Speaker 4: gone through some law enforcement training, all I could say is,
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Speaker 4: maybe this isn't the job for you. If you're constantly
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Speaker 4: living in fear and understanding the threat exists and living
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Speaker 4: in fear are two different things. Respecting people, respecting their rights,
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Speaker 4: respecting the Constitution that you took an oath to uphold.
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Speaker 4: These things are paramount to doing the job well. When somebody,
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Speaker 4: you know, when a cop comes to you and says
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Speaker 4: something like, hey, do me a favorite, can you do whatever?
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Speaker 4: You got whatever, and they're asking a question, you say,
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Speaker 4: with all due respect, I'm I'm not going to make
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Speaker 4: this easier for you, sir. I don't want to give
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Speaker 4: you a hard time, but I'm not going to put myself.
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Speaker 4: I'm not going to jam myself up either. They have
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Speaker 4: no choice but to respect that.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 4: They can keep trying and pushing and trying for you
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Speaker 4: to incriminate yourself somehow, but the reality is you shouldn't.
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Speaker 4: You shouldn't be incriminating yourself. They should say, oh, look,
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Speaker 4: this guy knows he's right. So you know what, have
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Speaker 4: a good day, sir, be careful or you know, slow
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Speaker 4: down or whatever it is they want to tell you.
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Speaker 4: But let's stop busting the stones of people that are
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Speaker 4: working for a living and hitting them over the head
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Speaker 4: with whatever. A fifty dollars ticket, two hundred dollars ticket,
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Speaker 4: three hundred dollars ticket, I just paid fifteen hundred dollars
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Speaker 4: in parking tickets in New York City. And if you
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Speaker 4: think that is me not paying tickets because I'm getting
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Speaker 4: so many, No, that was five tickets, five for different
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Speaker 4: appearances I had to do at Newsma's TV, which were
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Speaker 4: not long in length. But you know, the meter runs out,
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Speaker 4: you get a ticket, got it?
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Speaker 5: That was on me.
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Speaker 4: But it's a one hundred and ninety five dollars for
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Speaker 4: the ticket. I mean, now you tell me, it's kind
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Speaker 4: of two ninety five. And these tickets are obscene the
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Speaker 4: amount of money that they charge you. It's not a
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Speaker 4: eight dollars or fifty dollars or twenty five dollars. It's
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Speaker 4: an absorbitant amount of money. So they're out there getting
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Speaker 4: on you and if you don't pay it, then they'll
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Speaker 4: take you to jail. So imagine that having a jail
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Speaker 4: filled with people like, oh, I forgot to put a
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Speaker 4: quarter in the meter.
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Speaker 5: That's what What do you went for?
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Speaker 7: Murder?
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Speaker 5: What are you went for rape? What are you went
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Speaker 5: for meters? I didn't pay the meter.
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Speaker 4: It's a wild scenario that's going on in New York.
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Speaker 4: And to sit there and say, well, you should have
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Speaker 4: rendered on to Caesar. What was Caesar's. I mean, at
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Speaker 4: some point you have to say, I think Caesar's asking
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Speaker 4: for some crazy stuff.
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Speaker 5: It's just my opinion. Maybe I'm wrong. We'll find out. Anyway.
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Speaker 5: There is more to come.
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Speaker 4: We're going to get the audio on all those things,
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Speaker 4: from Hegseth to Trump signaling that there might be an
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Speaker 4: Iranian deal to everything else. Plus there's a few people
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Speaker 4: that I enjoy listening to on social media doing man
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Speaker 4: on the street interviews, you know, asking simple questions of
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Speaker 4: people that are espouse liberal logic and getting their take
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Speaker 4: on things, and those are always fun to listen to.
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Speaker 4: So we're gonna check out a couple those. All right,
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Speaker 4: keep it locked right here. I am rich Valdez Sinco,
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Speaker 4: the Mayo, my forty eighth birthday. I'm coming right back.
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Speaker 4: Don't go anywhere.
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Speaker 7: This is America.
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Speaker 3: This is America. He's brown, he's bald, and he's breaking
17:34
Speaker 3: it down.
17:35
Speaker 5: Oh he's still has some what's his.
17:37
Speaker 3: Day, Rich Valdez?
17:39
Speaker 4: All right for Amedia, Welcome back, Rich Valdez Sinco. Then
17:42
Speaker 4: Mayo Tuesday night, and I want to get into this
17:46
Speaker 4: stuff with President Trump, of course, responding to the Iranians
17:52
Speaker 4: and their claims of you know, we're willing, We're not willing.
17:56
Speaker 4: All sorts of things are going on. I got a
17:57
Speaker 4: bunch of clips here, so work with me here. But
18:00
Speaker 4: one here, let's see, this is President Trump. This one
18:04
Speaker 4: I think is probably the most recent one to give
18:06
Speaker 4: you the best flavor of what's going on. And then
18:09
Speaker 4: I guess I'll work backwards right so that here, this
18:11
Speaker 4: is what Trump said most recently, and then and then
18:15
Speaker 4: I'll play you what the foreign minister had to say,
18:18
Speaker 4: because again it's the back and forth, right, the usual
18:21
Speaker 4: back and forth. But I think we got this clip
18:23
Speaker 4: lined up. Let's go with El Trumpito in the Oval office,
18:27
Speaker 4: surrounded by a bunch of school kids, explaining what was
18:29
Speaker 4: going on with the run.
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Speaker 8: We just broke every record, and now we're going to
18:34
Speaker 8: take a hit because we have to make a journey
18:36
Speaker 8: down to Iran to take the nuclear weapon. They would
18:39
Speaker 8: have had a nuclear weapon and within two weeks, remember
18:43
Speaker 8: we sent that beautiful be two bomber in and we
18:47
Speaker 8: blew up their nuclear potential. It was obliterated for those
18:51
Speaker 8: that are not aware, and to a point where they
18:55
Speaker 8: it would take them weeks to dig down, and we
18:57
Speaker 8: wouldn't let them dig down we have our rise on
18:59
Speaker 8: a roll. But it was a very important thing. So
19:03
Speaker 8: we would have had a and Iran with a nuclear weapon,
19:08
Speaker 8: and maybe we wouldn't all be here right now. I
19:11
Speaker 8: can tell you the Middle East would have been gone,
19:13
Speaker 8: Israel would have been gone, and they would have trained
19:15
Speaker 8: their sights on Europe first and then us because they're
19:19
Speaker 8: sick people. These are sick people, and we're not going
19:22
Speaker 8: to let lunatics have a nuclear weapon. The power of
19:26
Speaker 8: a nuclear weapon is something I don't even want to
19:29
Speaker 8: talk about.
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Speaker 5: It's not going to happen. And we have beaten them badly,
19:35
Speaker 5: beaten them badly. We would have beaten them badly.
19:39
Speaker 4: Now that's President Trump telling this the school kids again.
19:42
Speaker 4: This is the subtle diplomacy that he's using from the
19:44
Speaker 4: bully pulpit of the White House. Right this his back channels,
19:47
Speaker 4: his phone calls, letting them know when he yells at
19:50
Speaker 4: the Ranians, as he says, they only say I have
19:52
Speaker 4: to yell.
19:53
Speaker 5: I gotta yea.
19:53
Speaker 4: But whatever he's doing, he's getting it done. Nobody said
19:57
Speaker 4: this was going to be easy. I mean, he said
19:58
Speaker 4: it would be easy to end the war with Ukraine.
20:01
Speaker 4: Right twenty four hours rushed in ukrainated twenty four hours
20:04
Speaker 4: that one has proved not to be accurate, right, and
20:08
Speaker 4: I got it, and thankfully lesson that he learned, and
20:11
Speaker 4: you could tell he's growing from this. He's not saying
20:14
Speaker 4: this one's going to be easy, but he's getting success.
20:18
Speaker 5: Right.
20:18
Speaker 4: This is I think a tremendous step in the right direction.
20:21
Speaker 4: The ceasefire is pretty much in place. I know that
20:23
Speaker 4: there's naysayers out there, and anytime you hear that somebody
20:26
Speaker 4: fired a gun or this or that or something happened
20:29
Speaker 4: that I guess in the common sensical world of people
20:34
Speaker 4: who don't do this type of thing right, they're not
20:36
Speaker 4: involved in diplomacy and wars. They think you shoot this
20:40
Speaker 4: and you shoot that, then that's that you broke the ceasefire. Right,
20:43
Speaker 4: it's a ceasefire, not allowed to shoot. But they're talking
20:45
Speaker 4: about major military operations that have ceased and they're not firing.
20:49
Speaker 4: They're big guns, they're not actively engaged in this hot
20:54
Speaker 4: war stuff. And that's held, you know, as loosely as
20:58
Speaker 4: it can. But doesn't mean they're not going to push
20:59
Speaker 4: with boats. They're not going to push over here, they're
21:02
Speaker 4: not going to try and do that. Does I mean,
21:03
Speaker 4: the Navy's not going to board a couple of vessels
21:05
Speaker 4: that might be acting like knuckleheads, right, so you know
21:07
Speaker 4: they're they're ruffling a few feathers, but it has largely
21:13
Speaker 4: been held intact. And Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth also
21:17
Speaker 4: weighing in on this. Let me see who do we
21:19
Speaker 4: go to first? Because I have a few good ones
21:21
Speaker 4: here I want to play for you.
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Speaker 5: Let's you know what. I want to go straight to.
21:27
Speaker 4: The not Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister of Iran, mister
21:31
Speaker 4: Araghi a bass Araghi, because he was on with Morning Joe,
21:35
Speaker 4: former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough, and he, you know, like usual,
21:43
Speaker 4: sitting there smiling, smugly, just like Zara Mumdani if you will,
21:48
Speaker 4: And he decided to say, look, look, we're always willing
21:52
Speaker 4: to make a deal with problems. Every time we make
21:54
Speaker 4: a deal, Trump hits us, he fires on us, he
21:57
Speaker 4: breaks the rules, he breaks the deal, and you know,
22:00
Speaker 4: we're just we're we're respectful people and we want to
22:04
Speaker 4: be we want to be dealt with respectfully.
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Speaker 5: Listen to this.
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Speaker 2: Trump often watches this show. He may not admit it,
22:12
Speaker 2: but he often watches the show as two members of
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Speaker 2: the Senate and the House.
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Speaker 5: That's funny, Joe, because Trump admitted listening to my show,
22:19
Speaker 5: and that his team listens to my show, why would
22:23
Speaker 5: he secretly listen to you? Jos Garborough? Anyway, go ahead.
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Speaker 2: I'm curious before you go, what would your message be
22:30
Speaker 2: to the President and the members of Congress.
22:33
Speaker 3: The message is that.
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Speaker 9: Previous US administrations, even the current of US administration, have
22:42
Speaker 9: de troed almost everything against us a war, you know.
22:48
Speaker 10: Sanctions, snap back everything, but none of them work. If
22:56
Speaker 10: you talk with the Iranian people with the language of respect,
23:01
Speaker 10: we respond with the same language. But if they talked
23:05
Speaker 10: to us with the language of force, we will reciprocate
23:09
Speaker 10: with the same language. I think ir Onions have proved
23:12
Speaker 10: to be very proud people. They only respond to the
23:16
Speaker 10: language of respect. So and this is the way that
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Speaker 10: they can talk to us, and they would see the result.
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Speaker 2: During break, I spoke with someone very high in the
23:30
Speaker 2: Trump administration. I'll just say intimately aware of all the
23:36
Speaker 2: details of the negotiations and a few insights that this
23:40
Speaker 2: person had, this administration official had on what we just heard.
23:44
Speaker 2: The Foreign Minister said that there was at no time
23:48
Speaker 2: a demand for no further enrichment. What the negotiators, what
23:54
Speaker 2: are negotiators told?
23:56
Speaker 4: Hell?
23:56
Speaker 5: I just want to weigh in here quick.
23:59
Speaker 4: How could the oeign ministers say that the foreign minister
24:02
Speaker 4: is in Iran and he's on American television right his
24:06
Speaker 4: message is getting out to the Americans. Does he not
24:10
Speaker 4: watch these same shows he's on where Trump talks every
24:13
Speaker 4: day and says they're not going to get a nuclear weapon.
24:16
Speaker 4: They're not going to get a nuclear weapon? What does
24:17
Speaker 4: he think we're doing there? I mean, it's just beyond
24:21
Speaker 4: the pale?
24:21
Speaker 5: How how silly really is how unseerious some of these
24:27
Speaker 5: people are.
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Speaker 2: Go ahead, was the President's position is no enrichment. But
24:37
Speaker 2: the burden is on you. If you think you can
24:41
Speaker 2: come back with a counter, the burden is on you
24:44
Speaker 2: to show us what safeguards will be put in place
24:49
Speaker 2: so you will you will have a nuclear program for
24:53
Speaker 2: power like every other country. Also said, we want to
24:59
Speaker 2: de teled proposal. We've been talking about this for over
25:03
Speaker 2: a decade. We need it in a week, not in
25:06
Speaker 2: three years. That won't work. And finally I was told
25:14
Speaker 2: by this administration official that the burden placed on the
25:20
Speaker 2: Iranians was a heavy burden because of the lack of trust, because,
25:25
Speaker 2: in the words of this official, they have broken every
25:28
Speaker 2: agreement with us that they've ever had. So again it's
25:32
Speaker 2: Donald Trump, the president with a maximalist position that was
25:36
Speaker 2: taken to the foreign minister, and the US negotiators hold
25:41
Speaker 2: the foreign minister, all right, you don't like this maximalist position,
25:47
Speaker 2: convince us you can have a peaceful nuclear program.
25:51
Speaker 4: Good luck with that, right, good luck with that. I
25:54
Speaker 4: gave Morning Joe a little too much time. There the
25:56
Speaker 4: reality that we've seen time and again. I turned forty
26:00
Speaker 4: eight today and since I was a kid, because this
26:05
Speaker 4: has been going on for forty seven years. This has
26:08
Speaker 4: been the case with Iran. It's never changed. You had
26:12
Speaker 4: Opama with the JCPOA, You had Jimmy Carter turning a
26:16
Speaker 4: blind eye. You had Reagan saying you fool around, You're
26:19
Speaker 4: gonna find out. And they released our hostages. They bombed
26:23
Speaker 4: us in Beirut. They have death by a thousand cuts, right,
26:27
Speaker 4: that's been their goal all the time. And guess what
26:30
Speaker 4: of all the countries, it was one hundred and fifty
26:32
Speaker 4: hundred and sixty hundred and seventy five nations. Whatever there
26:34
Speaker 4: is of all the countries in this world, there's one
26:37
Speaker 4: country that opens their sessions of parliament with chance of
26:42
Speaker 4: death to America, death to Israel, the Great Satan and
26:46
Speaker 4: the Little Satan.
26:47
Speaker 5: So forgive me.
26:48
Speaker 4: If I am also not trusting what the Iranians have
26:52
Speaker 4: to say.
26:53
Speaker 5: They've never shown good faith.
26:55
Speaker 4: Ever, this isn't a simple dispute that got heated right
26:58
Speaker 4: where we can say a right, look, look, let cooler
27:00
Speaker 4: heads prevail and let's sit down and talk about this
27:04
Speaker 4: like gentlemen.
27:04
Speaker 5: They've never been a gentleman. What are they going to
27:07
Speaker 5: start today? Now?
27:08
Speaker 4: They put this guy out here because he looks like
27:09
Speaker 4: he might be a level headed person, and he's great
27:12
Speaker 4: at his job, you know, convincing the Americans that they're
27:16
Speaker 4: not crazy. But guess what, I think we all know
27:19
Speaker 4: they're crazy. On our worst day in America, ugly things happen,
27:23
Speaker 4: but it's not a government sanctioned or even a religiously
27:26
Speaker 4: sanctioned process to.
27:29
Speaker 5: Throw gaze off of.
27:30
Speaker 4: Roofs, to stone women for showing their hair. This type
27:34
Speaker 4: of barbarism is what we can expect. Now I'm getting
27:40
Speaker 4: off track here. He's kept talking about a administration official
27:45
Speaker 4: that's intimately involved in this process, YadA, YadA, and YadA.
27:49
Speaker 4: And I can tell you that there's two administration officials
27:53
Speaker 4: that are deeply involved in this process. And there's many,
27:56
Speaker 4: but the deepest are donaldis Magnus Eletro beat Though, the
28:00
Speaker 4: forty fifth and forty seventh President of these United States,
28:04
Speaker 4: and Mark Rubio, Secretary of State. So Mark Rubio had
28:10
Speaker 4: this to say a little while ago.
28:11
Speaker 11: Check this out, Well, oil blockade on Cuba. There's no
28:15
Speaker 11: oil blockade on Cuba, per se. Here's what's happening with Cuba. Okay,
28:18
Speaker 11: Cuba used to get free oil from Venezuela. Used to
28:20
Speaker 11: give them a bunch of free oil. They would take
28:22
Speaker 11: like sixty percent of that oil and resell it for cash.
28:25
Speaker 11: It wouldn't even go to benefit the people. So the
28:27
Speaker 11: only blockade that's happened is the Cubans have decided, I mean,
28:30
Speaker 11: the Venezuelans have decided, we're not giving you free oil anymore.
28:33
Speaker 11: And you can only imagine nowadays the way oil prices are.
28:35
Speaker 11: No one's giving away free oil, much less to a
28:38
Speaker 11: failed regime.
28:39
Speaker 5: So the problem with Cuba is worse.
28:41
Speaker 11: Okay, their economic model doesn't work, doesn't work, and the
28:45
Speaker 11: people who are in charge can't fix it. And the
28:47
Speaker 11: reason that I can't fix it is not just because
28:49
Speaker 11: they're communists. That's bad enough, but they're incompetent communists.
28:52
Speaker 7: Boy.
28:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, that wasn't the clip either, Thank you guys. That's
28:55
Speaker 4: when I wanted to play a little later. What I
28:57
Speaker 4: wanted to get to here was the the discussion on
29:05
Speaker 4: all right, you have a Trump for me? All right,
29:06
Speaker 4: give it to me. I'll take it. Go right ahead.
29:10
Speaker 7: I think it's working out very well.
29:11
Speaker 5: We're going to see.
29:12
Speaker 8: I can say this, Iran wants to make a deal.
29:17
Speaker 8: What I don't like about Iran is they'll talk to
29:19
Speaker 8: me with such great respect, and then they'll go on
29:22
Speaker 8: television they'll say we did not speak to the president.
29:26
Speaker 7: We did not.
29:26
Speaker 8: I just spoke that we did not speak to the president.
29:31
Speaker 8: So they play games. But let me just tell you
29:34
Speaker 8: they want to make a deal, and who wouldn't When
29:37
Speaker 8: your military is totally gone, we could do anything we
29:40
Speaker 8: wanted then who wouldn't.
29:43
Speaker 12: Please.
29:44
Speaker 8: I think it's working out very well.
29:45
Speaker 5: We're going to see.
29:46
Speaker 4: So that's that one. All right, So listen, I'm putting
29:50
Speaker 4: my money on Trump here. Why because Trump's track records
29:52
Speaker 4: better than I runs. Trump says he's going to do
29:56
Speaker 4: no tax on tips. He does no tax on tips.
29:57
Speaker 4: Trump says he's going to liberate Venezuela. He liberates Venezuela.
30:00
Speaker 4: Trump says he's gonna liberate Cuba. Looks like it's happening
30:02
Speaker 4: sooner rather than later. My money is going on El Trompezo.
30:07
Speaker 4: Donaldis magnus, the forty fifth and forty seventh president of
30:10
Speaker 4: these United States, right, because why not? He seems to
30:13
Speaker 4: be doing a whole lot more winning, Right. You gotta
30:16
Speaker 4: get tired of winning, folks, winning, and I like to win.
30:20
Speaker 4: And this isn't really about winning and losing. This is
30:22
Speaker 4: really about stabilizing things, changing the game, if you will,
30:26
Speaker 4: running the chessboard a little bit better. And I think
30:28
Speaker 4: all of those things are happening. So despite what we're
30:31
Speaker 4: paying at the pump, despite some of what the media
30:33
Speaker 4: will try and make it look like it's the end
30:35
Speaker 4: of the world, you know, it's not as bad as
30:38
Speaker 4: you think. I guess it's kind of like any other
30:40
Speaker 4: thing in life you do, right. I used to be
30:41
Speaker 4: almost three hundred pounds. I had to give up food,
30:44
Speaker 4: my drug of choice. McDonald's, the French fries, the two
30:48
Speaker 4: cheeseburger meal and then you know I add on to that, right,
30:52
Speaker 4: add extra quarter pounder and whatever, or eat just two
30:56
Speaker 4: of those meals?
30:56
Speaker 5: Why not?
30:57
Speaker 4: But one was good, right because that was just one
30:59
Speaker 4: meal a lot of the three a day that I
31:01
Speaker 4: would do in fast food. And what I can say is,
31:06
Speaker 4: how do you think you feel when you stop a
31:08
Speaker 4: diet like that? When you do Duncan or Burger King
31:12
Speaker 4: for breakfast, McDonald's for lunch, get home and have my
31:16
Speaker 4: ex wife Dominican, big plate of rice and beans and
31:20
Speaker 4: kadaegi salaa right, and beef stew. I mean you're talking
31:23
Speaker 4: about I don't know, four or five thousand calories, six
31:27
Speaker 4: thousand calories a day, zero exercise, and lots of dopamine
31:32
Speaker 4: from all these carbs. I was the happiest guy in
31:34
Speaker 4: the world ten minutes after I ate, before I passed out.
31:37
Speaker 4: So trying to take that type of lifestyle away from people,
31:41
Speaker 4: they go kicking and screaming, don't they, right?
31:43
Speaker 5: I know I did.
31:44
Speaker 4: I was like, I was very upset with a lot
31:47
Speaker 4: of things. I remember my dad. My dad.
31:51
Speaker 5: He drank like a fish. Rum was this thing.
31:54
Speaker 4: He liked rum as a kid. I remember my dad would.
31:58
Speaker 4: He was always in Puerto Rico. There's a brand of
32:04
Speaker 4: rum called boo Yehoe, which means old stick, and it's
32:08
Speaker 4: common to invite people as a customed to have a
32:12
Speaker 4: shot with you, you know, say, b you know, let's
32:16
Speaker 4: have a little stick, let's have a shot, let's take
32:18
Speaker 4: a swig. And that was my dad all throughout my childhood.
32:22
Speaker 4: And when he got older, into his fifties and sixties,
32:25
Speaker 4: his health declined and he transitioned from the daily shots
32:30
Speaker 4: of Baccarty, which was his new brand, to beer. And
32:38
Speaker 4: that was okay for a while, right because it was lighter,
32:42
Speaker 4: and it was like, I'm gonna have a beer, and
32:44
Speaker 4: he felt like he was doing something better for himself.
32:47
Speaker 4: And so the doctor was like, look, man, you really
32:48
Speaker 4: can't drink like this all the time. It's not a thing.
32:52
Speaker 4: And my dad stopped drinking at sixty six years old.
32:56
Speaker 4: He didn't have another drink and it was brutal and
32:59
Speaker 4: why because his liver he was starting to begin the
33:02
Speaker 4: process of cirrhosis. And the doctor said, the veins in
33:05
Speaker 4: your liver are oozing blood. They can heal, but you
33:08
Speaker 4: got to stop now because if you continue they'll continue
33:10
Speaker 4: to dissipate and that'll be it for you. He took
33:13
Speaker 4: it seriously, and he just stopped drinking beer. And as
33:18
Speaker 4: a matter of fact, because of a heart issue, he
33:19
Speaker 4: had to stop drinking coffee at the same time. So
33:22
Speaker 4: the only things my dad drank water, coffee, and beer
33:26
Speaker 4: all came to an end at the same time at
33:27
Speaker 4: sixty six years old.
33:29
Speaker 5: And I used to see him.
33:31
Speaker 4: My dad was a pretty lively guy because again, you know,
33:32
Speaker 4: he was at any given time it was happy hours,
33:35
Speaker 4: so it was like, hey, he was like hey, you know,
33:36
Speaker 4: he was always in party mode, and he was he
33:40
Speaker 4: became a different person.
33:41
Speaker 5: He was always kind of off, always kind of error.
33:44
Speaker 4: And I remember, you know, if you asked him, hey,
33:46
Speaker 4: what's wrong, he'd go, it's just not He would tell
33:49
Speaker 4: me life ain't the same without a cold one, you know.
33:52
Speaker 5: And he still had a sense of humor. But it
33:55
Speaker 5: took a toll on him.
33:56
Speaker 4: And just like me giving up my McDonald's, you know,
33:59
Speaker 4: I'm not one of the those people are like, oh, donads,
34:01
Speaker 4: it's disgusting. It's fake food. No listen, it's the best
34:04
Speaker 4: fake food I've had. I enjoy it. I like those
34:07
Speaker 4: dry paper tasting patties, that sugary tasting bread, that gel
34:13
Speaker 4: looking thing they call sweet and sour sauce. It's like
34:16
Speaker 4: crack cocaine. I love that stuff and I pour it
34:19
Speaker 4: right into the burger and I put the fries in
34:21
Speaker 4: the burger. If you ever need to learn how to
34:23
Speaker 4: be a fat guy, I can give you a lesson
34:25
Speaker 4: or three. But my point is it's not always easy
34:28
Speaker 4: to break away from the sins of the past. Right
34:30
Speaker 4: your body gets used to these things that they enjoy
34:33
Speaker 4: because we get used to being comfortable. It's an addiction
34:36
Speaker 4: to comfort that we have oftentimes, and sometimes we got
34:39
Speaker 4: to get out of our comfort zone. And that's where
34:41
Speaker 4: we are with our four dollars and change gas prices
34:44
Speaker 4: because of this conflict with Iran.
34:48
Speaker 5: I get that.
34:48
Speaker 4: I don't like it either, but I understand that this
34:53
Speaker 4: is part of the process to get to where we
34:55
Speaker 4: got to go, and I think we're going to get
34:58
Speaker 4: there anyway.
34:59
Speaker 5: There is more to come. Straight ahead, We're going to.
35:01
Speaker 4: Talk a little bit more about what is going on
35:04
Speaker 4: in New York City with these protests on the synagogue.
35:08
Speaker 4: Plus the easy pass thing that these licensed plate readers
35:12
Speaker 4: ghost plates, is what they're claiming they're coming after. They're
35:15
Speaker 4: saying we have to go after the ghost plates because
35:17
Speaker 4: people are out there using fake plates or plates that disappear.
35:21
Speaker 4: And listen, I get that, and I'm going to venture
35:24
Speaker 4: to say, maybe people wouldn't do that if they weren't
35:26
Speaker 4: getting hit over the head by easy paths. Right, It's
35:28
Speaker 4: not just I want to defraud the government. I think
35:30
Speaker 4: it's oftentimes the government defrauding the public. I want to
35:34
Speaker 4: know what you think about that.
35:36
Speaker 5: Let me know. Eight seven seven Valdes one, don't go anywhere.
35:40
Speaker 3: This is America. This is America.
36:13
Speaker 5: President Donald takes your up, mister President. Welcome to the
36:15
Speaker 5: program sir.
36:16
Speaker 3: Well, thank you Rich, and thank you for everything.
36:19
Speaker 8: I know you very well, and I have I listened,
36:21
Speaker 8: but I have a lot of people that listen and
36:24
Speaker 8: they love your show and I appreciate it very much.
36:27
Speaker 5: All right for Emenia.
36:27
Speaker 4: Welcome back, Rich Valdez, keeping your company and on this
36:31
Speaker 4: sinkle of the night Tuesday night. Thank you very much.
36:34
Speaker 4: Happy birthday to me forty eight in the building. And
36:37
Speaker 4: you know, I was telling one of my kids yesterday
36:39
Speaker 4: just briefly that you know, when I was growing up,
36:41
Speaker 4: I never thought about what life would look like at
36:43
Speaker 4: forty eight years old.
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Speaker 5: I never did.
36:45
Speaker 4: A matter of fact, even in my twenties, I never thought,
36:48
Speaker 4: what is you know? To me, I thought twenty five
36:51
Speaker 4: was like the pinnacle. I was like, oh my god,
36:53
Speaker 4: if I'm at eighteen. I remember, I was like, if
36:54
Speaker 4: I make it twenty five, I'll be old. Then I
36:57
Speaker 4: remember being twenty five and going, man, this is the beginning.
37:00
Speaker 4: I got like ten years to make it in life
37:02
Speaker 4: because between twenty five and thirty five, Because to me,
37:04
Speaker 4: thirty five is the number. You're old by thirty five
37:06
Speaker 4: if you're not doing like the end of your career
37:09
Speaker 4: stuff at thirty five. This is my thinking, I'll never
37:13
Speaker 4: be able to retire at forty. And that was always
37:16
Speaker 4: my goal to retire at forty. Needless to say, it
37:19
Speaker 4: did not happen, but I did at thirty nine years
37:22
Speaker 4: old get into this business of talking to people, and
37:27
Speaker 4: my goodness, praise God, Amen, hallelujah, I'm still here. And
37:31
Speaker 4: game changer for me really was a game changer. I've
37:34
Speaker 4: seen ups, I've seen downs, I've seen ups again, I've
37:36
Speaker 4: seen downs again, and a faithful audience like you guys
37:40
Speaker 4: that are listening, have made all the difference and doing
37:43
Speaker 4: it for what's right, right, I think, yeah, ultimately, we
37:45
Speaker 4: do this because these conversations that we're having, I think
37:47
Speaker 4: are important and we need to have them. And if
37:50
Speaker 4: it weren't for people like you that are listening saying
37:53
Speaker 4: you know what, I really enjoy listening to rich and
37:56
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take this and text it to my nephew.
37:58
Speaker 4: I'm going to text it to my neighbor and just say,
38:00
Speaker 4: listen to this with an open mind, right, Because I
38:02
Speaker 4: always tell people listen, give me, listen.
38:04
Speaker 5: To five of my shows. Five give me.
38:06
Speaker 4: Five days, and if you hate me after five days,
38:09
Speaker 4: then that's on you. You can hate me and you
38:11
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38:16
Speaker 4: play it. Trust me. I play people who disagree with
38:18
Speaker 4: me all the time. You will get on the show
38:20
Speaker 4: and I will respond to your stuff because I think
38:24
Speaker 4: we have to have these important conversations. That's the only way.
38:28
Speaker 4: It's difficult sometimes to have these conversations, and we won't
38:30
Speaker 4: always agree. Sometimes you'll say, you know what, I don't
38:33
Speaker 4: like you and your type of people. You're what's ruining America.
38:36
Speaker 4: F you have a good day. I've heard that a
38:38
Speaker 4: million times hurt a lot worse too. But the point
38:41
Speaker 4: is we try, and I think that's important. So we'll
38:45
Speaker 4: do some of that. If anybody wants to get in
38:49
Speaker 4: on that, I'll get to you guys in a little bit.
38:50
Speaker 5: But right now I wanted to where did I want
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Speaker 5: to go?
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Speaker 8: Oh?
38:54
Speaker 5: Yes, I wanted to talk about these.
38:58
Speaker 4: This stuff going on with the nagogues, right because this
39:02
Speaker 4: is wild to me, wild that you've got these groups,
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Speaker 4: these people bashing the barricades where the police are, you know,
39:15
Speaker 4: trying to disrupt what's going on at the synagogues, whether
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Speaker 4: it's a real estate event or not. The point is,
39:22
Speaker 4: we don't do that, right, that's not what we're supposed
39:24
Speaker 4: to do. But nonetheless that's what they're doing. So you've
39:28
Speaker 4: got these protesters again, they're waving I guess, the Palestinian flag.
39:31
Speaker 4: They're masked like Ninja's wearing the cafia, which is that
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Speaker 4: checkered colored Middle Eastern scarf that goes around the neck
39:38
Speaker 4: and then the head and in this case around the
39:40
Speaker 4: neck end the head of many of them. So you
39:41
Speaker 4: don't you have no idea who these people are and
39:44
Speaker 4: they're out there doing their chanting behind a police line,
39:47
Speaker 4: and you know, it seems quote unquote mostly peaceful.
39:51
Speaker 5: Right, listen to this.
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Speaker 4: I don't even know what they're saying, right, but at
40:12
Speaker 4: some point I guess they go over the space that
40:14
Speaker 4: they were allotted for their permit, and the cops are
40:17
Speaker 4: not telling you got to move, you got to move,
40:18
Speaker 4: and they're moving these people and you're talking about I
40:20
Speaker 4: don't know, from my guestimation from looking at this crowd,
40:25
Speaker 4: fifty seventy five people in the first group, and it's
40:28
Speaker 4: probably a group of equal size behind it. So one
40:31
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty two hundred people at least as far
40:33
Speaker 4: as the camera can see, you know, plus not an
40:36
Speaker 4: equal number of cops, but quite a large amount of cops.
40:39
Speaker 4: And again, do you think they want to cooperate now?
40:42
Speaker 5: Not at all. Listen, getting in.
40:48
Speaker 4: The face of the officers. That's why all you hear
40:53
Speaker 4: the cops saying, back up, back right, in.
40:55
Speaker 5: Your face, move forward, forward.
41:02
Speaker 4: Right, so get on the sidewalk, it out of the street.
41:05
Speaker 4: They're pushing them.
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Speaker 2: Now.
41:06
Speaker 4: You've got at least one hundred people pushing back on
41:09
Speaker 4: a barricade with thirty cops pushing back. If that barricade
41:13
Speaker 4: goes over, those cops are going to get crushed.
41:15
Speaker 5: You're gonna get hurt.
41:17
Speaker 4: And then when one of them pulls out their gun
41:18
Speaker 4: and starts shooting these people, saying I thought my airway
41:21
Speaker 4: was going to be obstructed because of the weight of
41:23
Speaker 4: the barricade.
41:24
Speaker 5: Now, then they're going to be the bad gun.
41:26
Speaker 4: And then the prosecutor is going to prosecute the police. Right,
41:29
Speaker 4: and let me just put that down for a second.
41:34
Speaker 4: The prosecutor is going to prosecute the officers.
41:38
Speaker 5: Then you've got.
41:39
Speaker 4: The the mayor that's going to come out there and say,
41:44
Speaker 4: you know, we're very embarrassed about our police department doing this.
41:47
Speaker 4: The peaceful protesters, I mean, this whole thing is an
41:51
Speaker 4: organized show. And far be it from me to criticize
41:56
Speaker 4: people for their faith. Right, I am a member of
41:59
Speaker 4: a member, if you want to call a member. I'm
42:01
Speaker 4: a hearing the follower of Christ. That's my belief. That's
42:05
Speaker 4: what I do. I don't begrudge you for having a
42:07
Speaker 4: different faith. My hope is that you'll also have a
42:10
Speaker 4: relationship with Jesus and it'll change your life and bless
42:15
Speaker 4: you in the ways that it's changed mind and blessed me.
42:18
Speaker 4: But ultimately that's you and your salvation, your walk. You've
42:20
Speaker 4: got to work that out with fear and trembling, right.
42:22
Speaker 6: Not me.
42:23
Speaker 4: I can just pray for you and share what I know,
42:29
Speaker 4: and I think that's my approach. Do what you got
42:32
Speaker 4: to do. But some people take a step further. They
42:36
Speaker 4: like to debate this stuff. You got some apologists out
42:38
Speaker 4: there on both sides, right, people that want to, you know,
42:41
Speaker 4: be an apologist for their Christianity and people that want
42:43
Speaker 4: to be an apologist for their faith in Islam.
42:47
Speaker 5: And sometimes they end.
42:49
Speaker 4: Up on discord or other you know, video chat applications
42:54
Speaker 4: and they get into a back and forth. And I
42:57
Speaker 4: got one of these, and I got to tell you
42:59
Speaker 4: this one was interesting because again I guess I have
43:03
Speaker 4: a position of bias here, as like I said, someone
43:06
Speaker 4: that is a follower of Christianity again on my good days, right, I'm.
43:10
Speaker 5: Not the best follower of Christianity.
43:12
Speaker 4: I try my best to and maybe not always my best,
43:15
Speaker 4: but it's always my default, right, let's say that. And
43:20
Speaker 4: I know what I believe, and listening to this, it
43:24
Speaker 4: seems to me that there's a clear winner in this
43:26
Speaker 4: back and forth argument. And I want you to hear
43:29
Speaker 4: it and tell me what you think.
43:30
Speaker 5: Listen to this. Go ahead, play the tape.
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Speaker 12: Stereotypical Americans defend is real.
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Speaker 13: We're against Islamic terrorism. Americans are against Islamic terrorism.
43:56
Speaker 12: I'm an American and I'm not against Islamic terrorists because
44:00
Speaker 12: that simply does not exist.
44:01
Speaker 5: Okay up, hold up.
44:04
Speaker 4: So again, it's this is why I don't engage with
44:07
Speaker 4: so many people, because you can't engage with people who
44:11
Speaker 4: don't agree with the floor and ceiling are right. You
44:13
Speaker 4: can't say, look, we're going to debate the existence of life,
44:17
Speaker 4: but you don't believe there's a sky. If you don't
44:20
Speaker 4: believe there's a sky, you know, and that's part of
44:22
Speaker 4: the equation of what we're going to talk about.
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Speaker 5: We have a problem here.
44:26
Speaker 4: If you are a Muslim and you can't say that
44:30
Speaker 4: there is in fact a radicalized segment of your population
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Speaker 4: abusing your faith and using it for their own political
44:40
Speaker 4: gain through terrorism, then I think you're asleep at the
44:44
Speaker 4: wheel or you're complicit in the problem. And I would
44:46
Speaker 4: say the same thing someone were to tell me Christians
44:49
Speaker 4: have bombed abortion clinics because they are so pro life
44:54
Speaker 4: and I weren't to say I don't support that. I'm
44:58
Speaker 4: not blowing up and I'm not gonna put a bum
45:00
Speaker 4: and an abortion clinic because I think abortion is wrong.
45:04
Speaker 4: If I don't take that stance, then I'm just as
45:06
Speaker 4: guilty as they are. In my eyes, That's how I
45:09
Speaker 4: see it. I understand I'm not the one bombing it,
45:11
Speaker 4: but I'm clearly condoning it. And that's clearly what's happening here.
45:15
Speaker 4: But he he comes back with some receipts.
45:18
Speaker 5: Listen to this.
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Speaker 13: The GTI, the Global Terrorism Index, which is an independent
45:23
Speaker 13: database that has the top ten terrorist groups in the
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Speaker 13: world and they're all Islamic and the top ten terror
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Speaker 13: attacks created statistic.
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Speaker 12: Where are you going to get the statistics?
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Speaker 13: It's independent, you know.
45:31
Speaker 12: Okay, here's the thing earlier.
45:34
Speaker 13: I'll pull it up for are you ruddy?
45:35
Speaker 5: Hold on?
45:36
Speaker 4: And now this is a classic example of don't believe
45:39
Speaker 4: your lying eyes. Right, you just can't believe everything you see. Now,
45:43
Speaker 4: I understand you can't believe everything you see, right Hebrews
45:46
Speaker 4: eleven one, walk by faith, not by sight and all
45:47
Speaker 4: that stuff.
45:48
Speaker 5: Got it.
45:49
Speaker 4: But this is a clear case if you can't deny
45:51
Speaker 4: reality either.
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Speaker 13: GT twenty twenty six, and you can look it up to.
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Speaker 12: You're gonna say it's an American scores. It's definitely false.
46:00
Speaker 12: Erica lies, it's an independent, you know the Orange.
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Speaker 13: But Hamas doesn't lie, right, dude, Your Profheit's a pedophile.
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Speaker 13: They married a six year old. Don't play that.
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Speaker 12: Oh, my prophet's a pedophile. First of all, he's not.
46:10
Speaker 13: Second of all, how old was Aishawahecca?
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Speaker 12: Isaiah?
46:14
Speaker 13: Rebecca wasn't three, Rebecca Isaac. Rebecca wasn't three. I can
46:18
Speaker 13: go over this.
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Speaker 12: Isaac was like twenty four twenty two, and Becca wasn't three.
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Speaker 13: Sixteen, twenty four and sixteen. That's the same thing as
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Speaker 13: fifty four and six.
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Speaker 12: Well, you're you're saying that my profits.
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Speaker 13: Twenty four and six, twenty four and sixteen, twenty four
46:31
Speaker 13: and sixteen is legal in America today. Isaac wasn't Isaac.
46:34
Speaker 13: Isaac wasn't a pedophile. Do you really think you are
46:36
Speaker 13: you gonna let me? Are you gonna let me talk?
46:38
Speaker 13: You're getting emotional? You think it's okay for a fifty
46:39
Speaker 13: four year old to Maria.
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Speaker 5: Six year old?
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Speaker 12: Getting emotional? I'm not sensitive, okay?
46:42
Speaker 5: Do you think it's that sensitive to me, that was
46:46
Speaker 5: the best part of this whole exchange. But I'm a
46:49
Speaker 5: cynic and I'm working on my cynicism. Go ahead, okay.
46:52
Speaker 13: For a fifty four year old to Maria six year
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Speaker 13: old Mohammed, your earliest sources, your Islamic scholars say he
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Speaker 13: was fifty four, I should narrate in the that you really.
47:01
Speaker 12: Think that every do you really think that every Muslim
47:04
Speaker 12: is going to live life exactly like how the profit
47:07
Speaker 12: did it?
47:07
Speaker 13: Why he's the most he's the most perfect.
47:09
Speaker 12: Man because let me finish time obviously not obviously, let
47:13
Speaker 12: me finish, let me finish.
47:15
Speaker 13: The floor is yours.
47:16
Speaker 12: So the profit was alive and in the year five
47:19
Speaker 12: hundred somewhere around.
47:20
Speaker 13: Yeah, this doesn't matter because he's supposed to say them.
47:23
Speaker 12: Let me finish, you not even let me finish.
47:24
Speaker 13: I already know what you're going to say. Oh, it
47:26
Speaker 13: was normal back then.
47:27
Speaker 5: You got a let to finish. You can't just predict
47:29
Speaker 5: her rhetoric.
47:30
Speaker 12: You know a lot of things back then were normal,
47:33
Speaker 12: but nowadays do not normal. Let me talk, let me talk.
47:38
Speaker 13: I already are already addressed this normal. So it was
47:41
Speaker 13: pedophilia back then.
47:42
Speaker 12: Okay, but okay, but okay, but okay, but okay.
47:45
Speaker 4: But okay, okay, but okay, But.
47:51
Speaker 12: Back then it was normal.
47:54
Speaker 13: Times have changed, Okay, So because it was, you really
47:56
Speaker 13: think that.
47:57
Speaker 12: You're going to go on the cross and sacrifice your
47:58
Speaker 12: life for our sins, just like how Jesus did know
48:01
Speaker 12: because he was alive a long time ago.
48:03
Speaker 4: I don't think, well, now, hold on a second, right now,
48:05
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't think I'm going to do that.
48:07
Speaker 4: I think he did that, so I wouldn't have to
48:09
Speaker 4: number one and number two if we look at you
48:14
Speaker 4: know how some of the apostles were killed. They were
48:17
Speaker 4: killed similarly, even requesting to be crucified upside down because
48:22
Speaker 4: they didn't want to die in the same way. They
48:24
Speaker 4: weren't worthy to die in the same way as Jesus.
48:26
Speaker 4: But the point is, yes, I mean, I think the
48:28
Speaker 4: Bible does say, right, no greater love does a man
48:31
Speaker 4: know than to lay down his life for his fellow man.
48:35
Speaker 4: This is, I think, still what we're supposed to do.
48:39
Speaker 4: Just because we may miss the mark doesn't mean the
48:41
Speaker 4: mark has moved.
48:43
Speaker 13: I think the human sacrifice for the atonement of sense.
48:46
Speaker 12: That's what Christ believed. I'm talking Christ.
48:49
Speaker 13: Oh, so you don't like whenever I cut you off,
48:50
Speaker 13: but you like to cut me off. Okay, But is
48:52
Speaker 13: Mohammad the most perfect men of all time?
48:53
Speaker 12: So you are going off of Is Muhammad the.
48:56
Speaker 13: Most perfect men of all time? Mohammed is considered to
48:58
Speaker 13: be the most perfect men of all time bound by
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Speaker 13: his time.
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Speaker 3: Do you want to bring up?
49:02
Speaker 12: Do you want to bring up?
49:03
Speaker 13: Yeah, you want to compare. You want to compare Jesus's
49:05
Speaker 13: life to mohammeds and see who was a better person. Yes,
49:08
Speaker 13: you don't want to You don't want to compare Jesus
49:09
Speaker 13: to Mohammed because you know Jesus was a better person.
49:11
Speaker 13: Why that's not true.
49:12
Speaker 12: That's not true. That's not true. Stereotypical Americans defend is.
49:15
Speaker 5: Yeah, of course.
49:16
Speaker 4: So this is a good example of people making arguments
49:20
Speaker 4: based on emotion, right because they feel that they're right,
49:23
Speaker 4: but being faced with the facts, knowing that they're not right.
49:29
Speaker 4: Dare I say wrong? Are unwilling to admit that they're wrong?
49:34
Speaker 4: That is pride, It's ego. Listen, sis, I also suffer
49:37
Speaker 4: from pride and ego. I suffer from all of them.
49:39
Speaker 5: You name them.
49:40
Speaker 4: I suffer from all of them. But we have to
49:42
Speaker 4: get to a point where we can get past those things.
49:45
Speaker 5: Right.
49:45
Speaker 4: So anyway, you tell me, what do you think? Who
49:48
Speaker 4: won this one? Give me a call. Eight seven seven
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Speaker 1: This is America. This is America.
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Speaker 3: He's making podcasting great again. This is America with Rich Valdez.
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Speaker 5: Dirty.
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Speaker 6: Think of riding dirty? Think again?
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Speaker 13: Sorry. The reason was to stop.
50:53
Speaker 5: You have it from plate in your car.
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Speaker 11: You have a plate cover, we have good plate.
50:56
Speaker 5: We're going after the motorists.
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Speaker 2: I think that they can break the law and not
50:59
Speaker 2: facing consequences.
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Speaker 6: Using license plate scanners to identify suspicious vehicles in real
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Speaker 6: time that alert the officers up ahead.
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Speaker 10: King William Larry.
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Speaker 6: The Born, aiming to crack down on ghost plates. Drivers
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Speaker 6: can face tickets that tolds, repossessions, and in some cases
51:20
Speaker 6: even arrests. With a row of more than a dozen
51:23
Speaker 6: cars all stop within the first few minutes of this operation.
51:26
Speaker 6: Police say. The message they're trying to send is simple.
51:29
Speaker 11: Is it about accountability?
51:33
Speaker 6: Riding dirty? Think again?
51:35
Speaker 8: No?
51:35
Speaker 5: Good right? Riding dirty? Think again?
51:39
Speaker 4: Thank you, guys, And Mike was off there for a second.
51:42
Speaker 4: The report you just heard, that's from these twelve New
51:46
Speaker 4: York Jody Juliana reporting there, and it's a bunch of
51:51
Speaker 4: NYPD traffic enforcement people with the New York State Police
51:55
Speaker 4: Joint Task Force blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
51:58
Speaker 4: with this cracked on quote unquote ghost plates.
52:01
Speaker 5: But who's really getting ticketed?
52:03
Speaker 4: People who have a cracked license plate cover and maybe
52:05
Speaker 4: their license plate fell off because they got reranded, or
52:08
Speaker 4: they park on the streets in New York City somebody
52:12
Speaker 4: like me that somebody hit mine and my front plate
52:15
Speaker 4: fell off, And I haven't gotten in trouble for that,
52:16
Speaker 4: thank god. But my point is there are people that
52:21
Speaker 4: are out there committing crimes. And I know every bad
52:24
Speaker 4: guy says that, right, every last guy speeding is like.
52:26
Speaker 5: Oh, go out there and catch the rapists. Listen, understood.
52:31
Speaker 4: I get that where we're supposed to do the right thing, right,
52:33
Speaker 4: you need two plates, You should have two plates.
52:35
Speaker 5: You have this, you should got it.
52:37
Speaker 4: But I want to open the conversation to push back
52:40
Speaker 4: a little bit. And why because when it costs twenty
52:46
Speaker 4: nine dollars to go into New York City, at some
52:49
Speaker 4: point I think we should have a right to say
52:51
Speaker 4: I don't think it's worth twenty nine dollars or I
52:53
Speaker 4: don't think it's fair to charge people twenty nine dollars, right,
52:57
Speaker 4: And the way they get that is through a political
53:00
Speaker 4: idea called incrementalism.
53:02
Speaker 5: Right.
53:02
Speaker 4: It starts with tolls. Oh, it will be fifty cents,
53:05
Speaker 4: just as a fifty cent toll you go in here.
53:07
Speaker 4: They try to justify it when they build a new
53:09
Speaker 4: road or a new tunnel, saying, oh, look, we have
53:13
Speaker 4: to offset the cost to this, so we're going to
53:15
Speaker 4: charge you even though you're already paying taxes for these things.
53:18
Speaker 5: Right.
53:18
Speaker 4: So if you're paying taxes both federally and locally, and
53:21
Speaker 4: they're using federal funds oftentimes to offset the local cost
53:26
Speaker 4: of these things, then why are we paying for things twice?
53:31
Speaker 4: And when it comes to easy pass and things like that,
53:33
Speaker 4: I mean, I've had it up to hear what easy pass?
53:35
Speaker 4: I have an easy pass, I keep money in the
53:37
Speaker 4: easy pass. If it depletes, I replace the money. Look
53:40
Speaker 4: everybody else, and I've had nothing but a world of
53:43
Speaker 4: headaches with easy paths. Now, I understand, maybe my administrative
53:47
Speaker 4: ability is not as good as the next person's. Okay,
53:50
Speaker 4: granted maybe it's not, but the fact that we live
53:53
Speaker 4: our lives this way where everything is directly tied to
53:56
Speaker 4: some sort of toll, especially in the New York, New
53:59
Speaker 4: Jersey area. If you guys are listening from the other
54:01
Speaker 4: fifty states or the other forty nine, I should say,
54:04
Speaker 4: or you know, Puerto Rico, or the Dominican Republic or
54:08
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54:10
Speaker 4: I want to thank you guys, everybody listening to the podcast.
54:13
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54:16
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54:43
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Speaker 4: I really, I truly thank you. Right, I can't pay
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Speaker 4: you for these things, but I am grateful to you,
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Speaker 4: and whenever we get them, I do shout them out.
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Speaker 4: So if you want to leave a comment and let
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Speaker 4: me know how I'm doing or how you think the
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Speaker 4: show is going, feel free to do that. That's always appreciated.
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Speaker 4: Thank you. But my point is here in this area
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Speaker 4: in New York, I mean, it's it's getting kind of crazy.
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Speaker 4: It's getting kind of hectic, like the song goes, and
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Speaker 4: this isn't something that I think people are going to
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Speaker 4: continue to tolerate because it's becoming exorbitant. It's becoming like
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Speaker 4: a trip to New York twenty nine bucks with congestion
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Speaker 4: pricing sixteen without it. Maybe I don't do that. And
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Speaker 4: guess who's not going to dinner in the city like
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Speaker 4: they used to. A lot of people, a lot of
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Speaker 4: people aren't going to Broadway like they used to. A
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Speaker 4: lot of people aren't going to dinner like they used to.
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Speaker 4: A lot of people are just abandoning ship when it
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Speaker 4: comes to New York because you're taxing the common man
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Speaker 4: every day, the hard working stiff that's trying to, you know,
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Speaker 4: put food on the table. Mom's trying to take care
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Speaker 4: of their kids. Dads trying to put their kids through
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Speaker 4: college whatever it is, right, even if their kids are
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Speaker 4: taking loans, you want to help with the loans. You
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Speaker 4: want to help with your with your kids life as
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Speaker 4: much as possible. But when you're getting taxed up the wazoo,
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Speaker 4: you get to a point where you're saying, look, it's
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Speaker 4: it's me or them, And that's not the way it's
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Speaker 4: supposed to work. It isn't supposed to be. I work
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Speaker 4: for the government. It never has been and it never
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Speaker 4: should be. And if you want to see that, just
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Speaker 4: look at Cuba, look at Venezuela, look at all the
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Speaker 4: different places that use that model. They're not good and
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Speaker 4: they're not winning. So my word to the.
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Speaker 5: Wise, Mom Donnie mayor, Mom.
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Speaker 4: Donnie governor, Hokeel governor, what is her name, Cheryl in
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Speaker 4: New Jersey, people that have oversight over easy Pass and
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Speaker 4: all this crazy tolling that they're doing the New Jersey turnpipe. Goodness,
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Speaker 4: I go from here to Union City, right, I live
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Speaker 4: in right off of the Washington Bridge on the Jersey side.
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Speaker 4: So if I take the turnpike one or two exits,
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Speaker 4: it's five dollars.
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Speaker 5: I mean, it's just out of control.
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Speaker 4: Right for that, you take the streets, you spend the
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Speaker 4: next few minutes, and it just doesn't make sense to me.
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Speaker 4: So my word to all of you is you're cracking
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Speaker 4: down on ghost plates, but people are now using ghost
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Speaker 4: plates quote unquote because they're getting robbed by the government.
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Speaker 4: And the more you rob people, the more people are
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Speaker 4: going to figure out ways to protect their money. And
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Speaker 4: you're gonna call it robbing them, and then you're gonna
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Speaker 4: want to imprison them. And right now you're finding them.
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Speaker 4: And where does it end. Listen, taxation and tea started
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Speaker 4: a big old deal in this country a long time ago.
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Speaker 4: That's my warning. I hope you heat it anyway me,
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Speaker 4: stand for something, because if you stand for nothing, you'll
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