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Talarico, Towery, Trespassing · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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  Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez, powered by politiweek.com.
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  Speaker 2: And Rich Valdez is with us, former Christie administration official.
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  Speaker 3: You work for Chris Christie, you've been in politics, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of public service stuff. Rich Valdez, columnist now with
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  Speaker 3: the Washington Times.
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  Speaker 1: This is America.
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  Speaker 3: Richie V, you're on the air with The Nation.
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  Speaker 1: This is America with your host, Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 3: What's up, America? I am Rich Valdez. Valdez with an
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  Speaker 3: S at Rich Valdez on all of the social media.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the Thursday night edition of the show. We're
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  Speaker 3: talking about GDP growth and so much more. You want
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  Speaker 3: to give me a call? You know the number 877-VALDEZ-1, 877-VALDEZ-1.
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  Speaker 3: And let me tell you, we're on to a roll
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  Speaker 3: days away from the midterm elections. You've got James O'Keefe
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  Speaker 3: charged with a federal crime for voting. Right. He tried
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  Speaker 3: to expose voter fraud and they ended up retaliating against
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  Speaker 3: him and charging him. I'm going to tell you why
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  Speaker 3: that's wrong and why he's likely going to win like
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  Speaker 3: he usually does. That's going to come up a little
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  Speaker 3: bit later. Plus, we've got the Obama Department of Justice
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  Speaker 3: actually investigating Ilhan Omar even before Joe Biden was doing that.
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  Speaker 3: So El Trompitos is picking up the pieces and cleaning
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  Speaker 3: up the mess. Then you've got the New York Times
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  Speaker 3: exposing the Democrats' Dan Sullivan scam. You might have heard
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  Speaker 3: about that on this show. We talked about it for sure.
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  Speaker 3: And you may have heard about it on the news
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  Speaker 3: or on social media. But now it's coming from the
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  Speaker 3: gray lady, right? One of the most corrupt sources in news.
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  Speaker 3: Even they have to admit that Democrats may have gone
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  Speaker 3: too far. Plus, a little bit later in the show,
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  Speaker 3: I want to talk about some medical miracles. There's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things happening. I didn't know there was a
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  Speaker 3: guy who had, well, you know what? I'll just say
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  Speaker 3: it had something to do with amputations and Some incredible
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  Speaker 3: breakthroughs that we've seen that I was not aware of.
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  Speaker 3: And if I didn't know, maybe you didn't know either.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll talk about that a little bit later. But first,
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  Speaker 3: I want to get into this GDP growth because guess what?
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  Speaker 3: The economy isn't as bad as the Democrats will make
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  Speaker 3: it out to be. Listen to this.
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  Speaker 4: Point four percent annualized growth in the most recent quarter
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  Speaker 4: that was beating forecast mainly our gross domestic product hitting
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  Speaker 4: three point four percent annualized growth in the most recent
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  Speaker 4: quarter that was beating forecast mainly driven by the consumer
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  Speaker 4: The consumer drove about 74% of that increase, alongside major
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  Speaker 4: investments in the AI build-out from businesses. And President Trump
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  Speaker 4: is McLovin' it.
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  Speaker 2: We had a great morning from the standpoint of GDP.
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  Speaker 5: It came out at a much higher number than any projections, 3.4,
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  Speaker 5: which was.
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  Speaker 2: Almost double some projections.
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  Speaker 6: So we're doing great.
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  Speaker 2: The country is doing unbelievably well.
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  Speaker 3: The country doing unbelievably well when it comes to gross
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  Speaker 3: domestic product. And again, that is Americans buying stuff with
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  Speaker 3: money that they've earned, right? We can't say that this is, well,
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  Speaker 3: that's because of the COVID stimulus checks. Now we haven't
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  Speaker 3: had a stimulus check in a long time. We haven't
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  Speaker 3: even gotten tax returns. So people that are spending money
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  Speaker 3: right now, it's because they're spending the money that they have. And, um,
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  Speaker 3: That's important because this goes beyond necessities. If it were
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  Speaker 3: just necessities, you would see a flat, flat movement, no
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  Speaker 3: movement at all. Instead, you're seeing growth. And the reason
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  Speaker 3: you're seeing growth and double the projection is because people
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  Speaker 3: are spending money. I got to tell you, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: one of them. I am definitely clutching my pearls over
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  Speaker 3: here because I like me some steak and steak's been expensive.
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  Speaker 3: But that doesn't mean that all is lost and all
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  Speaker 3: is dire. And it also means that, guess what? I
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  Speaker 3: heated my home during the Biden administration when it was
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  Speaker 3: way more expensive to buy any type of fuel. So
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  Speaker 3: God willing, I'll be able to do it this time
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  Speaker 3: around as well. But you've got some people sounding the
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  Speaker 3: alarm out there trying to make it look like this
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  Speaker 3: is the worst time in the world. Now, it is
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  Speaker 3: for some industries. I'm not going to take that away.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to pretend to be an ostrich here
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  Speaker 3: with my head in the sand. I realize that there
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  Speaker 3: are people going through a difficult time and that when
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  Speaker 3: gas becomes expensive, a lot of people just freeze up.
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  Speaker 3: Yet again, I was at a steakhouse, Bergen County, New Jersey,
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  Speaker 3: Morgan Steakhouse, an amazing Italian kitchen in a modern-day steakhouse
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  Speaker 3: in Westwood, New Jersey. Johnny Centrella, who I call Johnny Presto,
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  Speaker 3: he had a pizza restaurant called Presto Pizza many years ago,
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  Speaker 3: and he had a meatball place, and he's been a
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  Speaker 3: restaurateur for the entire time I've known him, which is
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  Speaker 3: several decades. But I'll say this. I talked to Johnny
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  Speaker 3: Presto yesterday and he said, look, we're doing all right
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  Speaker 3: right now. You know that we've hit third, fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 3: but the beginning of the summer was brutal. And again,
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  Speaker 3: this is one of the biggest challenges he's faced as
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  Speaker 3: a restaurateur.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because he's selling steaks and steaks are expensive more than
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  Speaker 3: they've ever been. So less people are coming out to
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  Speaker 3: get steaks. And then there's other challenges that present themselves.
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  Speaker 3: But my point is I'm at no shortage of of
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  Speaker 3: a business owner that is crying poverty when I see them, right?
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  Speaker 3: I'm exaggerating a little bit, but the reality is people
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  Speaker 3: just aren't spending as much on certain things. So when
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  Speaker 3: you see GDP growth up, it's encouraging to me. I
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  Speaker 3: don't care if they're buying more toothpaste. I don't care
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  Speaker 3: if they're buying toilet paper because they think there's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a run on it. I'm glad that they're
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  Speaker 3: buying stuff period because that's how our economy works. We
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  Speaker 3: need people to buy things. We need consumer confidence to
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  Speaker 3: not only, um, remain high, but to go higher and
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  Speaker 3: higher so that people will spend more and invest more
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  Speaker 3: into the economy. It's the only way it works, right?
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  Speaker 3: Come on. I know I'm preaching to the choir over here. Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: moving along the Democrats, they have been caught with their
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  Speaker 3: hands in the cookie jar. What am I talking about?
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking about the New York times putting out an
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  Speaker 3: article today, Thursday, listen to this. This is wild, right? Um,
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  Speaker 3: They put this article out and it was scathing, in
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  Speaker 3: my opinion. Exclusive to the New York Times. This is
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  Speaker 3: the headline. Inside the Democrats' secret effort to stack Alaska's ballot.
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  Speaker 3: Operatives aligned with Mary Peltola, the Democratic nominee for Senate,
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  Speaker 3: spent months recruiting candidates to peel votes away from Senator
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  Speaker 3: Dan Sullivan, the Republican. This is by Kellen Browning. October 28th, 2026.
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  Speaker 3: In the summer of 2025, a staffer from Mary Paltola,
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  Speaker 3: the Alaska Democrat, who was eyeing a run for Senate,
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  Speaker 3: received unusual instructions from top campaign aides. And this was
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  Speaker 3: the instruction. Find as many people named Dan Sullivan in
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  Speaker 3: Alaska as you can. The staffer complied, combining all their information,
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  Speaker 3: combing through voter records, just to produce a list of
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  Speaker 3: Dan Sullivans from across the entire state of Alaska. This
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  Speaker 3: was no random request. Dan S. Sullivan is the name
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  Speaker 3: of the state's Republican senator. And if the Peltola campaign
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  Speaker 3: or its allies could track down and persuade another Dan
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  Speaker 3: Sullivan to run for the Senate, the confusion could cost
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  Speaker 3: the real senator many crucial votes on the state's unusual
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  Speaker 3: four-person ballot because they use something called rank-choice voting, which
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  Speaker 3: is a horrible way to do voting, but that's how
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  Speaker 3: they do it, rank-choice. Anyway, the plan worked. This spring,
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  Speaker 3: a retired teacher from a tiny fishing village along the
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  Speaker 3: Alaska Panhandle, reachable only by air and sea, announced his
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  Speaker 3: candidacy for the United States Senate representing Alaska. His name?
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  Speaker 3: Dan J. Sullivan. The Peltola campaign has repeatedly denied any
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  Speaker 3: involvement in his candidacy. But the Times found out, based
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  Speaker 3: on interviews and text messages, along with documents prepared for
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  Speaker 3: a potential lawsuit against the campaign, that not only did Ms.
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  Speaker 3: Peltola's team work with people trying to recruit Mr. Sullivan
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  Speaker 3: to run for Senate, but the effort was much broader.
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  Speaker 3: The group worked to coax other would-be spoilers into the
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  Speaker 3: race to dilute the incumbent's support and help catapult the
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  Speaker 3: Democrat to victory. Meaning, we know the Democrat can't win
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  Speaker 3: on her own, on her own name, on her own merit,
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  Speaker 3: on her own record. So we have to get someone
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  Speaker 3: with the same name as the Republican's candidate's name so
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  Speaker 3: that we can confuse these voters and take away some
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  Speaker 3: of those votes. I mean, that sounds like cheating to me.
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  Speaker 3: The article goes on. The endeavor, which was internally called
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  Speaker 3: the Ballot Composition Project, involved secret tips to far-flung Alaskan
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  Speaker 3: communities and the appearance of a mysterious Midwestern operative who
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  Speaker 3: traveled the entire state using a fake name and made
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  Speaker 3: his pitch to would-be Dan Sullivan candidates. over a few
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  Speaker 3: different beers at different brew pubs. It's also involved that,
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  Speaker 3: excuse me, it also involved the Peltola campaign's lawyers, as
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  Speaker 3: well as senior aides at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee,
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  Speaker 3: which directs the party's campaign directly and their campaign strategy
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  Speaker 3: and Senate races across the entire country. From Washington to Anchorage,
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  Speaker 3: these advisors participated in regular conversations about the effort and
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  Speaker 3: even considered forming a new political party to draw conservatives
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  Speaker 3: onto the ballot. Just imagine that. So the Republican candidate
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  Speaker 3: could be screwed. They were going to create, and again,
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  Speaker 3: this is not new. I've seen this happen in Hudson
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  Speaker 3: County politics. When they wanted to beat Democrats, the Democrats
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  Speaker 3: would make friends with the Republicans and call it Democrats
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  Speaker 3: for Fulano, whatever the candidate's name was, even though it
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  Speaker 3: was really Republicans coming out to vote for that ballot line.
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  Speaker 3: This is how politics work, but it's different in Hudson
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  Speaker 3: County where they don't have ranked choice voting. What ranked
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  Speaker 3: choice voting is, you get ranked, right? So the top
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  Speaker 3: two over here, the top three over here, and that's
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  Speaker 3: where it becomes very tricky. Anyway, ballot stacking tactics are
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  Speaker 3: common politics and generally considered legal and have been employed
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  Speaker 3: by both parties in Alaska. That's kind of what I
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  Speaker 3: was saying about New Jersey. But this operation, which hasn't
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  Speaker 3: been reported before, reveals the lengths to which Democrats went
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  Speaker 3: to seek advantage in a Senate race that could determine
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  Speaker 3: control of the entire Senate chamber. Here's a quote. Alaskan
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  Speaker 3: voters need to know, said Elisa Rios, Ms. Peltola's former
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  Speaker 3: campaign manager and longtime aide. She was fired amid a
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  Speaker 3: staff shakeup in August and agreed to a series of
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  Speaker 3: interviews with the New York Times. There was a lot
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  Speaker 3: of speculation and voters should get the full picture when
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  Speaker 3: making their decisions. Sounds like she has sour grapes, but
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  Speaker 3: doesn't mean she doesn't know where the bodies are buried either.
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  Speaker 4: Ms.
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  Speaker 3: Peltola was not directly involved in the project, Ms. Rios said,
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  Speaker 3: but was definitely aware of the project. The operation had impact.
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  Speaker 3: On Tuesday, Ms. Peltola will be the only Democrat on
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  Speaker 3: the ballot facing off against the two Dan Sullivans on
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  Speaker 3: the other ballot, and a long-shot candidate named Gerald Hikes,
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  Speaker 3: or Hikes, who was also recruited into the race, according
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  Speaker 3: to the New York Times reporting. These polls give Ms.
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  Speaker 3: Peltola a strong chance of winning on Tuesday because the
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  Speaker 3: electorate is so divided and diluted. The Justice Department, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 3: filed a lawsuit in federal court at President Trump's behest
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  Speaker 3: last week seeking to block certification of election results if
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  Speaker 3: the votes for the other Mr. Sullivan cost the real
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  Speaker 3: Senator Sullivan the actual victory. Both the Peltola campaign and
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  Speaker 3: the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Commission, the DSCC committee, rather, denied
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  Speaker 3: participating in any efforts to recruit spoilers onto the ballot
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  Speaker 3: in Alaska. Neither group has addressed a detailed list of
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  Speaker 3: questions provided by the New York Times. And here's another quote.
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  Speaker 3: The Alaskans for Mary campaign has no involvement with either
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  Speaker 3: Sullivan campaign and did not recruit any candidates into the race,
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  Speaker 3: is something that the campaign wrote in the statement. The
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  Speaker 3: Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee sent a similar response, saying it
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  Speaker 3: had no involvement in recruiting Mr. Sullivan or any other
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  Speaker 3: Republican candidate. This article is based on interviews over the
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  Speaker 3: past two months with 12 people who participated in or
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  Speaker 3: were told of the plan and who these would-be candidates
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  Speaker 3: would be. And they tried to recruit this team themselves.
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  Speaker 3: The Times also obtained dozens of text messages that provided
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  Speaker 3: updates on the progress of this very effort. The reporting
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  Speaker 3: included the extensive interviews with Ms. Rios during which she
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  Speaker 3: shared the details of the entire operation. So I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to continue with this article. It's a real deep dive
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  Speaker 3: and there's a lot to it. And I would suspect
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  Speaker 3: that there's going to be more over Halloween, more on
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  Speaker 3: Monday going into Tuesday. This is the real October surprise here.
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  Speaker 3: Will the Democrats win by deception? More to come straight ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 1: This is America. This is America. He's got the best
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  Speaker 1: head of hair and podcasting. This is America with Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 3: All right, America, welcome back. Rich Valdez keeping you company tonight.
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  Speaker 3: And I want to get into this topic because we're
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  Speaker 3: tracking a bunch of races all across the country with
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  Speaker 3: one of America's top pollsters. Back when Donald Trump was
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  Speaker 3: talking about running for president and people were saying, not him,
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  Speaker 3: not the billionaire who designed the New York City skyline.
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  Speaker 3: Matt Towery was calling these shots and he was calling
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  Speaker 3: them right. Matt Towery is a pollster. He's an accurate
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  Speaker 3: pollster at that. And he's the author of a book,
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  Speaker 3: The Honoring of Ignorance, The Seven Mirages Destroying America. Matt Towery, welcome, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. So happy to be with you, Rich.
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  Speaker 3: My pleasure. So I want to get into a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of things. Obviously, we're talking about the book. You're about
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  Speaker 3: to hit this New York Times bestseller list. I can't
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  Speaker 3: wait till that happens. I want to see you succeed
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  Speaker 3: with the book, but I want to pick your brain
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  Speaker 3: because there's a bunch of different things going on with
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  Speaker 3: the election. So let's talk about, I mean, here in
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  Speaker 3: New York, right? We had Kathy Hochul, Bruce Blakeman. They
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  Speaker 3: were going at it. I shouldn't say they were going
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  Speaker 3: at it. It seems to me Bruce Blakeman was having
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  Speaker 3: his way with Kathy Hochul. She seemed quiet. She seemed defenseless.
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  Speaker 3: She couldn't fight back. Your thoughts?
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know, here's the thing about New York, and
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  Speaker 5: I've polled it numerous times. I'm not an expert about
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  Speaker 5: New York like some. I often defer to my friend
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  Speaker 5: John McLaughlin and others. But, you know, New York, we
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  Speaker 5: seem to get closer every single time to seeing a
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  Speaker 5: Republican win, whether this is going to be the year
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  Speaker 5: or not. I don't know. The electorate, the makeup of
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  Speaker 5: the electorate is obviously not one that inures to the
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  Speaker 5: benefit of Republicans. Now, people don't realize when you get
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  Speaker 5: out and set up Manhattan and you go further upstate
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  Speaker 5: and the like, it's certainly Republican.
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  Speaker 3: Very red.
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  Speaker 5: Very red. And someday people are going to get fed
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  Speaker 5: up with all this stuff. And it may be after
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  Speaker 5: the mayor gets through the city and turns it into
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  Speaker 5: a complete disaster.
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  Speaker 4: But.
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  Speaker 5: I do think the candidates there, both the AG candidate,
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  Speaker 5: the candidate for governor, are waging strong campaigns. And their
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  Speaker 5: opponents are not.
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  Speaker 3: And they're strong candidates.
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  Speaker 5: They're very strong candidates. So anything can happen. And I'm
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  Speaker 5: seeing basically I've polled every battleground state in the country.
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  Speaker 5: We've not polled New York yet because it's not really
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  Speaker 5: a battleground per se. But if it holds in every state,
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  Speaker 5: we're seeing senior voters. saying they're more excited about voting
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  Speaker 5: than any other group. They are incredibly enthusiastic.
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  Speaker 3: They don't want to move.
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  Speaker 5: Well, and that's, by the way, Rich, that has not
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  Speaker 5: been the case since the pandemic. The Republicans weren't doing
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  Speaker 5: well with seniors. Seniors were sort of tepid about voting.
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  Speaker 5: That is completely reversed. They don't like socialism. They don't
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  Speaker 5: like what they're seeing. They don't like what I call
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  Speaker 5: the honoring of ignorance, which is the title of my book.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: And they are reacting to it. in a way that
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  Speaker 5: the pollsters didn't expect. So we're going to have to
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  Speaker 5: re-weight some of these polls in the coming days, because
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  Speaker 5: if this silver wave continues, like I think it's going to,
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  Speaker 5: it's going to change these numbers when we start cross-weighting
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  Speaker 5: these polls, including in New York.
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  Speaker 3: We talked about battleground states, and we're going to get
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  Speaker 3: into the book, but I'm just really curious about this stuff,
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  Speaker 3: because your counterparts at Calshi, they say Abdul El-Sayed has
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  Speaker 3: got this hook, line, and sinker. They say that James
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  Speaker 3: Tallarico is in the lead. So talk to me about
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  Speaker 3: Michigan and California, excuse me, and Texas, because I'm curious.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know, let me first reflect. What if you
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  Speaker 5: were someone who had, they say it's not betting, it's contracts.
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  Speaker 5: I don't get near that stuff because I feel like
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  Speaker 5: as a pollster, I shouldn't. Some pollsters do. I think
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  Speaker 5: shame on them. But how would you like to have
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  Speaker 5: been one of those people who had big bets on
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  Speaker 5: some of these candidates? When you saw their nomination battle
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  Speaker 5: and their primary go down to the wire where they
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  Speaker 5: thought they were going to win by 20 points and
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  Speaker 5: they're winning by like half a point. How would you
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  Speaker 5: feel if you put half a million bucks on that?
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  Speaker 5: I don't believe these markets know politics. I don't think
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  Speaker 5: they're good predictors. The way I see a lot of
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  Speaker 5: these battleground states is particularly in Michigan. Again, the seniors
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  Speaker 5: are voting in big numbers. Well, the Michigan polls aren't
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  Speaker 5: weighted that way. And when you look at the Michigan
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  Speaker 5: polls and you turn, you give the senior voters and
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  Speaker 5: I'm not talking to 65 and above. I'm now going
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  Speaker 5: to be 67. I can't believe it. But even 55
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  Speaker 5: to whatever, that's a big chunk of the vote. They're
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  Speaker 5: voting Republican. So I think these polls are off. I
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  Speaker 5: don't know that they're off so much that the Democratic
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  Speaker 5: candidates lose, but I have an inkling of a feeling
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: that places like Texas and Michigan are not going to
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: turn out the way the people betting on or placing
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: contracts on CalShear or PolyMarket think they're going. To have
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: a 67% chance of the Senate flipping, I think that
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: shows immaturity on the part of the people who bet.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: And this brings up a point that you just made,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: which is the honoring of ignorance, right? Not only the
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: title of your book, but truly, I think it's probably
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: a fitting title, right? Because when you talk about people
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: who aren't in the political game, taking these types of bets,
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: if you will, on political outcomes, it's a coin toss, right?
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: They might be right, they might be wrong, but there's
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: a lot on the line. For all of us, there's
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: a lot on the line. And part of what's on
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: the line, people are sounding the alarm.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: Because Taxes are on the line. Thank God President Trump
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: was able to put the big, beautiful bill through and
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: to do a lot of things prior to this election.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: But there's still a lot of the agenda that's yet
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: to be done. And I'm wondering how that that plays out.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: So let's talk about the the honoring of ignorance. How
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: did you come up with that? That that phraseology and
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: what what inspired you to use it for this particular book?
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: There's a funny story. I started at the University of Georgia,
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: but I was a dropout. I dropped out to work
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: with a guy. Pardon me. I dropped out to work
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: with a guy named Newt Gingrich, of all people. And
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: Newt Gingrich.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: That's Newt Gingrich calling you right now. Hold on.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: Let me tell him. Hey, Newt, can you hold off?
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: So sorry.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Newt Gingrich and Mack Mattingly running for the U.S. Senate
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: persuaded me to get out. And I was Newt's debate
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: assistant and I was Mack Mattingly's speechwriter. I went to D.C.,
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: And worked on Capitol Hill for a year and ended
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: up at Cambridge University. Long story made short, when I
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: was a student there.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: That's right next to DC.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, right. Well, I had to escape. These guys were
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: driving me crazy. And they're still great friends of mine.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: So I went to Cambridge University. I started working on
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: this book. I got a literary agent in New York.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: The agent took me on. They pitched me to big publishers,
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: same title, different times. They said, well, he's too young
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: to write this. We love the book. He's too young.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: Now I'm wondering if I'm too old to write the
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: book now, 40 years later. Here's the essence of the
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: honoring of ignorance. We have allowed straight news to fall apart.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: It's now a combination of infotainment. It's a combination of
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: what people want you to hear. They're censoring left and right.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: When it comes to pollsters like myself, you have these
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: folks like Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight that grade the pollsters.
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: When Real Clear Politics grades pollsters, it's just based on
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: your error rate. When it's based on that, Insider Advantage,
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: my firm, Trafalgar, Rasmussen, Atlas Intel, Emerson College are always
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: at the top. When you let these people who want
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: to influence things, or I think they do in my opinion,
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: they put all kinds of their opinion of your grade
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: and how much you know. They'll take a polling firm
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: that's ranked at the top in terms of accuracy, gets
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: everything right, and rank them 158 in the country and
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: name all these little pollsters in the middle. That's a
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: hide-the-ball sort of game. to make sure that you won't
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: listen to those polls. And then when you get to
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: the news, they will leave what President Trump says out.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: They will omit things. They will totally ignore things. And
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: then they'll use the fact checkers that they rely on
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: to say they're factually right and you're wrong. That whole
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: mirage machine comes together to create incredible public opinion mirages.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: And I'll give you a great example. The economy right now. Yes,
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: gasoline prices are high. They're about the same they were
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: Joe Biden was running in 2022, or not running, but
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: had his midterm elections going on. Inflation was 8.5% at
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: that time. It's what, 3.7% now? Unemployment was high. Unemployment's
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: the lowest it's been right now since 1964, okay? You're
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: not hearing that from the media because they don't want
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: you to know that. So they create this mirage that
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: the economy is terrible. Let me ask you this, Rich.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: If the economy is so bad, Why did we have
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: record numbers of people flying and record numbers of people
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: driving on Labor Day, our last big holiday? It's because
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: it may be pinching our wallets at the pump, but
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: it's not keeping people from having high 401ks or spending
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: or getting ready for Christmas. That's the mirage machine. That's
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: the honoring of ignorance. And that's what they want us
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: to do to keep the Democrats in power.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Amigos, we're on with Matt Towery. He is a pollster.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: He's an author. And he's an all-around really knowledgeable guy.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: I'm going to push back on this, what you just said.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: And I agree that the media is a spin machine
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: that will tell you what they want you to hear.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: But I will tell you, a number of interviews I've
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: done in the last, I don't know, I'm going to
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: say 45 days. A lot of business owners in the
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: jewelry business. I have some interest in the jewelry business.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Business owners in the restaurant business. These guys are telling
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: me they're seeing a cash flow crunch that they have
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: not seen in their 25 plus year careers as a
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: restaurateur or as a jeweler. And I understand that when
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: gas prices go up, people get scared, right? It's almost
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: like shrinkflation in products. People start shrinkflating themselves, right? Say, nah,
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: maybe I'm not going to go that far, right? Because
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Labor Day, Gas wasn't four bucks a gallon, right? We
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: had a pretty decent rate during Labor Day. So that
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: was a good thing. But now I think it's getting
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: a little bit more aggressive. And I'm wondering, is that
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: fear or maybe the media itself, what is causing people
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: to not go out to restaurants as much and not
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: buy that, you know, that upgraded diamond ring for their wife?
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: That's probably true. And I want to put it in perspective.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: I understand. I understand if they're businesses, they're seeing a
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: shrinkage right now in terms of their revenue or their
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: number of patrons coming. I get that. But I want
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: to put it in perspective with the Biden era. And
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: more importantly, with the time period that I look back
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: on when Jimmy Carter was president, I actually knew Jimmy
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: Carter pretty well as both a kid and as an adult.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: So I'm not putting him down. Those were days when
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: literally you had to be in line for gas all
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: day long. The interest rate was 18%. Yeah.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: I was going to say it doubled whatever Biden did.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: So where I think the failure is, to be honest
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: with you, if it's any failure on the Trump campaign side,
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: is that they have not properly explained why we got
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: into Iran. And that is because we knew that they
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: were capable of creating a nuclear weapon fairly quickly. We
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: knew that their ballistic missiles could actually reach Europe. That's
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: been proven because they actually used them and they reached
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: areas of Europe. They could reach our own bases. And
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: we knew that in the end, they wanted that nuclear
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: substance to somehow make its way through the United States.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: And Trump, for whatever reason, decided he had to pull
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: the trigger. Now, had that been John F. Kennedy during
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: the Cuban Missile Crisis? Or had that been Barack Obama
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: or Joe Biden? You wouldn't have heard all the trouble
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: you hear about the situation. Right, right.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: They'd be heroes. Resounding applause.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: But any time there's a vulnerability, and the vulnerability is
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: the gas pump, let's face it. And that's affecting the
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: rest of the economy. But, you know, years ago, I mean,
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: I'm pretty old now. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson was running
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: against a guy named Barry Goldwater who was portrayed as
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: being sort of a rogue who would be a cowboy
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: and pull the nuclear weapon trigger at a moment's notice.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: So they ran an ad called the Daisy Ad. And
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: in that ad, there's a little girl walking with a daisy.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: She's plucking daisies and counting the daisies, the petals she's
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: taking off the daisies. Suddenly you hear a countdown to
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: a nuclear weapon. You see the weapon explode. You hear
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: Lyndon Johnson come on in his Texas twang and say,
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: now is the time for us not to have war,
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: but to love one another. It was a direct hit
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: at Barry Goldwater. It was the most effective political ad
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: in the history of America. I believe the Trump campaign
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: should run a daisy ad right now with a little
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: girl and show that Iran was ready to have nuclear-grade
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: plutonium again within months, that they have the ability to
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: deliver this by ballistic weapons to Europe, and also that
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: they were willing to take that uranium and export it
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: to the United States in the form of a dirty bomb.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: This is the intelligence that they've not shared with the
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: American people. Don't you think a mother who's upset about
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: the gas pumps might think twice if their child is
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: being saved from that sort of catastrophe? That's the only
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: failure I've seen. You got to explain these situations. That's
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: part of what I talk about in the honoring of ignorance.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: I feel like if there and I've been involved with
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: the Republican Party since, you know, forever, obviously. And to me,
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: their biggest failure is they have never come up with
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: a mechanism to advertise on TV in off years or
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: before elections to get the news out. to overcome the
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: news that you and I have to watch every day
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: that just gives us these mirages and causes us to
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: believe the sky is falling down. That's the biggest problem
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: the Republicans have. We're going to find out if they
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: can overcome it in this election cycle.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Familia, we're on with Matt Towery. He is the author
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: of The Honoring of Ignorance, The Seven Mirages Destroying America.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: And I like the way you put it, these mirages,
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: because that's truly what it is, right? You know, we
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: don't think about them as mirages as probably as often
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: as we should, but it really is a smokescreen. And
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: when it clears up, you're like, oh, shoot, we've got
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Mamdani now. And people are sounding the alarm on that stuff.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: So let us know and let everybody who's listening know
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: a where they can get a couple of copies of
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: the book, one for themselves and one to give away.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: Well, so here's the thing, folks. When you get together
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: with your family these holidays, everybody's got a family where
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: they're not talking to each other. You got a liberal
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: in there. Give them this book. They can't refute it.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: I guarantee you, everything I researched, there's facts everywhere. Tell
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: me if you don't win the debate after you read
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: this book and give it to them. It's The Honoring
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: of Ignorance. You can find it on Amazon. It's doing
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: really well right now. Go to Amazon, buy some copies,
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: and give it to this family member who doesn't agree,
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: but read it first.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: One crazy left-wing uncle.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: Well, it's not just one crazy. I mean, sometimes I'm
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: in a room of folks that feel the other way.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: But instead of debating them anymore, I'm just saying, okay,
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: read my book, come back, debate me after that. So
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: The Honoring of Ignorance is on Amazon right now. And
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: by Matt Towery. And I would love for you to
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: tell me how you do with your family or your
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: friends or that neighbor you're having trouble with. Once you
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: just give them the book and say, read this and
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: then let's talk.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: Now, Matt Towery, after they get a couple of copies
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: of the book and they want to follow you online
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: on Twitter, on Instagram, on whatever social media you're on,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: let them know how to follow you and where to
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: go to your main website.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: You know, I've never been a big social media person.
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: I do everything through our polling company, Insider Advantage, and
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: that's Insider Polling, at Insider Polling on X. And that's
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: about the only way I communicate. I found being on
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: social media became a big problem because I would end
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: up in the middle of the night giving my opinion.
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: And I do Fox every week and the like. I
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: really didn't want to give everybody my opinion and then
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: have to fight everybody out of my house to get
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: to the studio network. So I just don't do a
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: lot of social media. I just go to that one site.
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: You'll see my polls and everything else, and you'll see
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: a link to the book. But what a great pleasure
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: to be with you, Rich.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Matt. Same here. Folks, Matt Towery, Insider Polling.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Make sure you get the book. Again, it's The Honoring
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: of Ignorance, The Seven Mirages Destroying America. It's out right now.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: Make sure you get a copy for yourself, at least
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: one to give away. The holidays are coming. Matt Towery,
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: you are a gentleman, a scholar, and a patriot. Godspeed
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: to you, sir.
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: Thank you so much, Rich.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: You bet.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: This is America. This is America.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Conservative talk with a dash of sofrito now here's rich valdez.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: All right familia welcome back we continue the conversation thursday
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: right the 20 was 29th just days away from election
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: day when i rejoin with you guys i'll be off
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: tomorrow but when i rejoin you guys on monday night
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: we will have a pre-election show and then tuesday it'll
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: be the election recap or during the counting right? It'll be,
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: we're going to do at 10 o'clock instead of 9
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: o'clock on Tuesday night, because got to give me some
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: time to gather all these materials. Plus, we're working with
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: some of our sponsors in the field, and that's exciting
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: as well. So busy, busy days in the, you know,
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: week to come. But it's decision 2026, the midterms, what's
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: going to happen? Matt Towery laid it out really well.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: I'm glad we had a chance to reflect back on
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: that conversation from just recently. And I wonder what is
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: going to happen. Well, President Trump is not taking any prisoners.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: He's out there on the campaign trail. And President Trump
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: has been, you know, a different state or several states
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: per day. This is from his rally just earlier today
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: beating up on Talarico, the Senate candidate in Texas, who
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: is maybe not so affectionately known as Talafrico. Listen to
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: El Trompito.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: He has been more obsessed with turning your young boys
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: and girls transgender. I mean, he wants to, he said that.
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: I love, and I'm just saying this because it's on
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: my mind, the trans children who showed.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Up yesterday at the state capitol.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: And he knew all the names of the drag queens.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: My favorite drag queen?
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: Who the hell knows that?
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: Who's your favorite drag queen in Texas?
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, probably Alyssa Edwards.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Alyssa Edwards?
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: And not only to Talofrico State, that God is.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Hang on, Mr. President. Let me ask you something. If
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: you can name your favorite drag queen, look, under pressure,
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: if they said, who's my favorite drag queen, I'd say
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: I don't have one. If they said, can you name
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: a drag queen, I would say RuPaul. I think it's
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: the only one I've ever seen that's probably the most
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: famous drag queen. But this guy clearly has a list
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: of his favorites, and he looked almost like favorite. Oh,
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: it's too many to pick just one. Is Talafrico, do
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: they call him Talafrico because he himself is a connoisseur
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: of the drag world? I don't know. I'm just asking.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: Or like Tucker says, I'm just asking questions. Go ahead.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: Transgender.
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: God is both masculine and feminine.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Hold on a second. I'm going to let it play.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry to interrupt everything, but man, God is both
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: masculine and feminine. This is a great way to open
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: up the door, right? To make it seem like, because
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: in the Bible, they've always referred to God as she, right? No, wrong, blasphemy, lies,
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: come on.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Wrong.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: It's very clear about God's masculinity. And that the woman
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: was made from the rib of man. I'm just giving
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: you what the word says. But Talafrico, I promised myself
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't use that nickname the president gave him, but
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: it's really sticking. Here's the rest of what he had
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: to say. and everything in between.
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: God is non-binary.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: He actually said that if Jesus Christ himself came and
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: visited the Texas legislature, Jesus would be promoting sex changes
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: for little children.
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: What would Jesus do if he visited the Texas legislature?
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: I think he would tell us, blessed are the trans
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: children who are bullied.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: I think this man, James Tallarico, is likely one of
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: the most dangerous. And I say dangerous meaning the harm
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: that he and his rhetoric and a following that he
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: may be able to amass can cause for your children.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: Because in normal rebellion, let's say you try to raise
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: your kids in your home. Let's just say you're Roman Catholic,
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: you're Irish Catholic, you are Evangelical Christian. Pentecostal Baptist, you, whatever,
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: some sort of Christ following tradition. And you want to,
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: you do raise your children that way, but they decide
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: to rebel. It makes sense that they might say, look,
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: my dad liked America. I hate America. My dad liked Jesus.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: I hate Jesus. How about Muhammad?
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: And that seems very popular. That's why you have all
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: these people that are, you know, Palestine, you know, we're
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: sticking up for Palestine, sticking up for the underdog. I understand.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: It's a logical divide and conquer strategy. But Mr. Tallarico
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: brings something new to the stage.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Tallarico presents this idea that you can hold on to
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: the tradition that you were raised with. Listen, I'm just
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: showing you a new way of doing Christianity, a new
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: way of Jesus loving the trans. Let me tell you something.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Jesus loves the trans. He loves every person that's a sinner.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: He loves the murderers. He even loves the pedophiles. Yeah,
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: I said it, like Levin would say. That's right, I
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: said it. Jesus said to love the sinners and hate
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: the sin, right? In essence, right? That is the nutshell,
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: love God and love people. This is the two commandments
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: of the New Testament. Our job is not to embrace
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: the sin. It's not to love the sin nor to
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: help facilitate the sin. He must have missed the section
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: of the Bible that says those who cause these little
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: ones to be harmed should have a millstone tied around
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: their neck. Ah, did you miss that one, James? I
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: bet you did. Point here is, when people prostitute, my word,
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: better word, pervert the gospel, pervert the truth, to misinform,
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: to disinform for their own agenda, engaging in demagoguery, this
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: is the problem that we face in the body politic.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: This is the problem in our national discourse. This is
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: why I do this show. This is why I hope
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: that you are better informed and having these conversations so
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: that you can spot this stuff and call it out
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: as it happens. We have to, and it doesn't have
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: to be done in a harsh way. I don't do
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: it in a harsh way. I'm not saying you have
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: to do it like I do, right? I let people
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: talk all the smack in the world. I don't blow up.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: I don't sit there and fight, fight, fight. I'm trying
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: my best to become a person that, like the Bible says,
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: is quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: And I realized, you know, earlier, if you look at
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: some of my TV clips from earlier in my career,
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: I was making faces, shaking my head, giving people the
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: side eye, quick to argue with them because I just,
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: I didn't want you, I didn't like your truth, right?
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: That's your truth. May not be true at all, but
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: that's what you believe. Now I let you say what
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: you got to say and then I just tell you
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: how it is. And that's it. And, you know, we
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: live to fight another day because that is to me
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: the only way to get along We've gone way too
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: far to where we're ostracizing an entire community. I don't
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: want to live with the left. I don't want to
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: live with people that I disagree with. But guess what?
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: I have to live with them. So therefore, it's not
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: a choice I make. I don't get to walk around
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: saying that this is some sort of false binary, right?
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: This false equivalency that we're going to create where we're
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: going to say, you know what? We got to get
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: two people in this society. We got rid of one
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: of them. We got to get rid of one of
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: them and then we'll be okay. That's crazy talk. You're
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: never going to get rid of them. And even if
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: you did, that's what Hitler said, right? Hitler said, we
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: got to get rid of it. They are the cause
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: of all problems, the Jews. Let's kill the Jews. That's
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: what Hitler said. And once he went on that, then what?
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: People are still killing people left and right. Why? Because
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: there's always going to be another group.
• 38:56
  Speaker 8: Right?
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: So it's not about eliminating the group that you disagree with.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: It's about dominating the conversation. It's about dominating the facts,
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: dominating the truth, making sure that you outwork these people,
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: that you speak to more people, that more people have
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: heard you present your side of the argument. That's it.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Then the chips fall where they may. And that's what's
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: going to happen this coming Monday. Everybody's going to start
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: making their last minute decisions to walk into that voting
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: booth on Tuesday. And for people who think there's no
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: elections coming on Tuesday, listen, I'm taking bets. Forget Kalshi
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: and Paul Just go to richvaldesk.com, right? I'm kidding. There's nothing.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: There's nowhere to bet there. But you can listen to
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: the show. It's free. Absolutely free to listen to the
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: show anytime. Video, you'll have to pay for. A video
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: in Spanish, if you have a Roku subscription, you can
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: get that on the Festiva TV channel. Quick plug, by
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: the way. But I love the audio form of this
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: show because it causes you to think. It makes you
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: use your mind's eye. You hear these clips that I
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: play and some of them are from video, some of
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: them for actual sound on tape. But when you're watching
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: a video, you already know what's going on, right? The
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: video I just played, you had to envision Trump standing
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: at that podium with the presidential seal emblazoned upon it,
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: leaning on one elbow as he often does. shifting his
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: weight to one side as he really gets into a
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: role as he's doing these things, right? If you've studied him,
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: if you've seen him, I've seen enough tape. I know
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: exactly what he looks like. And he starts, you know,
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: smirking that little smile. And he's like, James Talafico, right?
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: And he goes in and he's doing what he does best.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: He's an amazing communicator. And that's what I hope all
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: of us can become, right? Is better at communicating the
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: message the message that we believe to be true, the
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: message that is going to make a difference in this
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: coming election, because it's not about winning elections. It's about
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: having our say in the culture, the culture that our
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: children will be raised in. And maybe like me, I
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: have adult children. Now they have to live in this culture.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: And I'm proud of my children. None of our children
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: are perfect, all as much as we'd want them to be.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: But I'm very proud. The other day, my daughter, the
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: younger one, comes to me and says something about how
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: You know, her employer asked her to come into work
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: when she wasn't scheduled to come in. And she got
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: the call. It was the first phone call she got
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: coming off of a three or four hour ride, excuse me,
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: flight from Jamaica. And she landed and they were like, oh,
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: we need you to come in, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: And she didn't say, oh, I have my luggage. I'm
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: just landing. She said, you need me in 30 minutes?
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: She knew she was in Newark airport and she pulled
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: up with her luggage and showed up at work. And that,
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: that is the commitment that she has to her work ethic.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that to break my arm, patting
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: her on the back, but the takeaway that she got was,
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: you know, I really went out of my way to
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: get there. And sometimes I feel like they don't think
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: before they make the requests that they're making. They don't
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: see who's on vacation, who's not on the clock, this, that, whatever,
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: who's covering. And, And she learned a valuable life lesson
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: that sometimes you have to temper the expectations that people
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: have of you because you may give them 150% when
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: they're only giving you 20, 30, 40%. I'm not saying
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: that's necessarily the case with her. I think they treat
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: her well in her job. But my point was that
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: she learned something. And I think we all need to
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: learn the same type of lesson, right? We give in
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: to this culture we live in. And if we're not
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: getting out of it what we want, then we have
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: to temper our expectation and make sure we know what
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: we're doing. We can't expect to have a culture without
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: drag queens in it, or at least where drag queens
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: are not presented to our children if we don't go
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: and vote, if we don't put forward the effort. You've
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: got to be able to put in the effort in
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: order to have the expectation. And she was putting in
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: plenty of effort, so kudos to her. But anyway, that's
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: my point. Like Reagan said, we have to be informed patriots.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: So I leave you with that thought. Don't go anywhere.
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: I'm coming right back.
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• 43:32
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• 43:38
  Speaker 3: I like this song. It kind of winds me down
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: a little bit. Let it play for a second. Kind
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: of gives Nashville vibes, right? A little country vibe. Shout
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: out to middle America. Feeling kind of Yellowstone in here.
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: I don't know about you, but right now, this is why, again,
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: why I love the audio. If you're watching me, you'd
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: be like, this guy is out of his mind. But
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: in real life, I could just sit here and tell you,
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: I'm sitting here with my cowboy boots on. I got
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: my 10-gallon Stetson on. We're having a good old time.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: Look at this belt buckle rotter. It would be a
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: bunch of lies, right? Because I'm not wearing that. But
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: I love it. I love the theater of the mind
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: that we get with radio. Anyway, I want to continue
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: our little conversation, our journey through the news of the
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: day and everything else that's going on in America at night.
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: One of the things I want to talk about specifically
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: is immigration and illegal immigration. This is something that has
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: really become a hot button issue. And the reason it's
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: a hot button issue is not because it matters to people.
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: It's because it's been told to people that it should matter.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: And I'm not going to disagree. I think it's important
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: to have a distinction. But if I'm being normal, I
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: think to myself, is there a country... in the world
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: where you are allowed to just take up residence and
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: they don't have any immigration law, any immigration policy? The
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: answer is no. There's nowhere you can just go. Maybe Mexico,
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: but not really. That's just you paying people off in
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: the cartel to lay low. So flashback to a story.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: I was sitting in my favorite Colombian restaurant with my
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: favorite Colombian waitress. Shout out to Shorty. And We were
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: talking about something. You know, I think I was dressed
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: up because I'd come from the Newsmax TV studios. And
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: she said, oh, you look very handsome. You're dressed really nice.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: I said, thank you so much. And she said, what
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: were you talking about? And I said, I was talking
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: about illegal immigration. She herself, a Colombian immigrant that is
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: here legally, I might add. And she says, you know,
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: I understand the angst and She used a term that
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: we haven't heard in America in a long time. She said,
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: but you know, this is what they do, the yellow journalists.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: And I thought to myself, look at that, a normal person.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: Back before fake news, back before bias, back before the
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: radical left, it was just that, yellow journalism, because it
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: was something that was practiced by journalists of every persuasion.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: And the big secret was that journalists had no persuasion,
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: that they were somehow sacrosanct. I remember, I don't know
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: if it was, it was one of the greats, right?
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know if it was Cronkite or Hugh Downs
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: or maybe even Barbara Walters, some big figure in journalism
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: that they asked, but how do you separate your politics?
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: And they said, well, to be honest with you, I,
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: in fact, I don't even vote. I try not to
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: vote so that I can be as fair a reporter
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: on the electoral issues as I can be. And it
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: was presented in a light like, you know, we were
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: supposed to get on our knees and all hail this
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: sacrosanct politician that gives up their sacred right to vote
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: because they want to do what's right and just, good
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: and holy. And all I could think about was, that's
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: a pile of crap. You're a lefty and I know it.
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: I could just tell by the way you talk. Just
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: like if you would hear me talk. I don't need
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: to wear a red MAGA hat or tell you I'm
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: a conservative Christian. It'll come out. Give me five or
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: ten minutes. I'll make some reference that'll drive the left
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: crazy one way or the other. But the left is
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: great at concealing it. So when she talked about los
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: periodistas amarillistas, the yellow journalists practicing yellow journalism, it opened
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: my eyes and she said, look, I'm from Colombia. We
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: had a big immigration problem with people coming in from Venezuela.
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: She said at first it started with sex workers. Sex
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: tourism is big in Colombia. And the Colombian hookers were
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: upset with the Venezuelan hookers because they were coming in
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: and working cheaper. And the tourists started going to the
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: Venezuelan tourists as opposed to the Colombian hookers, excuse me,
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: for lack of a better word. And she said, and
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: then it happened in every industry. And then I started,
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: you know, sharing that when I was in Colombia, I
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: remember taking a cab and every cab driver I got
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: was from Venezuela. And they were all telling me how
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: they had to leave Venezuela to find work in Colombia.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: So the Colombians were upset that the Venezuelans were leaving
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: there because they wanted a better opportunity. And they were saying,
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: we have less opportunities now because of these people, the Venezuelans,
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: their neighbors. And I thought, wow, look at that. Somebody
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: being honest, talking about you have to have a border,
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: you have to have border control, you have to have
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: immigration policy, and you can't have this reckless illegal immigration.
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: Someone who is in fact an immigrant, came here on
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: a vacation, happened to meet someone, fell in love, got married,
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: and is making her life, raising her kid and stuff
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: here in the United States. And I said, so if
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: this woman, who is in fact an immigrant, can be
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: objective and honest and tell the truth, then why can't
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: the rest of us? Fascinating, right? Fascinating. Well, it's maybe
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: because the news is telling us that we have to.
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: They're telling us that illegal immigration isn't a crime. I'm
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: looking at a clip here from the Media Research Center.
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: It's a clip of 60 Minutes. And I want you
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: to listen to this interview because this is an interview
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: between the interviewer on 60 Minutes and Jamie Percival from
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: the Department of Homeland Security spokesperson who is expert in
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: answering this question and pushing back on it. Listen to this.
• 50:09
  Speaker 8: And that's why I'm going for the clarity here, you know,
• 50:11
  Speaker 8: because I hear a lot about the violent offenders, point taken.
• 50:15
  Speaker 8: But what I don't hear about is the law abiding
• 50:18
  Speaker 8: folks who are reporting is more than half.
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: Now, before he goes in, I just want to set
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: the tone here. They're talking about ICE and ICE removals.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: But the larger point here is that of is illegal
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: immigration in itself a crime or do we just look
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: the other way on misdemeanors and only focus on felonies?
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
• 50:36
  Speaker 6: You're suggesting that people who are in this country illegally
• 50:39
  Speaker 6: are law-abiding?
• 50:40
  Speaker 8: Let's say you don't have a criminal record outside of
• 50:42
  Speaker 8: an immigration offense. You'd be overstaying a tourist visa.
• 50:45
  Speaker 6: So if you are in this country illegally, it is
• 50:48
  Speaker 6: virtually impossible for you to live in this country and
• 50:50
  Speaker 6: not commit additional legal violations because, you know, working without authorization,
• 50:56
  Speaker 6: identity theft, there's a lot of illegality that goes on
• 51:00
  Speaker 6: when you are breaking the law.
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: Let's just stop there for a second. I don't want
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: to gloss over this. I'm going to go back to
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: my example. Let's say you have someone, someone that comes
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: to this country. A man comes here on vacation, comes
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: here to visit family. He has a, I don't know,
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: let's just say he can stay up to three months, right?
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: I think 90 days is a tourist visa for many places.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: And he decides, I love this place. I was here
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: for June, July, and August. I wanted to spend the
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: summer at the Jersey Shore. I'd seen it on TV.
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: I love it. I'm here. I've got I'm on my
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: third girlfriend. I love these Jersey girls. This place is terrific.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: And he decides, you know what? I've fallen in love
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: with the marrying the third girl. And now they're married.
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: He's technically now overstaying his visa. He hasn't gotten married yet.
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: He's in this stage of limbo. She's like, I'm not
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: marrying you if you don't have a job. And he's like, well,
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: I ran out of my vacation money and I don't
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: want to leave. I love it here. One of the
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: guys I met when I was at the bar told
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: me if I needed any work that he could help me.
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: So I call that guy and he's been paying me
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: cash and I'm making a thousand bucks a week. Now
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: I'm offered another job, but they told me I need
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: a social security, which I don't have. But I know
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: the other guy who's working there said, no, all you
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: need is an ITIN, you know, an individual tax identification number.
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: And that works like a social and, you know, and
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: just gives any old name. And sometimes they buy these identities.
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: And this is where this identity theft comes in, this fraud.
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: all of this illegality, and he's 100% right. While it's
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: a part of the culture, there are subcultures all over
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: that we don't look at and we don't talk about.
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: For example, when I was in college, I remember I
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: had a professor, horrible professor, by the way, but he
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: was teaching us about the subculture of transsexuals in New
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: York City and how really trying to describe the plight
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: that they went through. how because they were shunned and
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: ostracized by society and because they didn't have any money,
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: they were forced to create their own prostitution network and
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: have their own underground fashion shows during Fashion Week because
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: they weren't widely accepted by the society writ large. And
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: he talked about underground doctors that were using silicone tubing,
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: like caulking, like you would use in a bathroom to seal...
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: grout and tile and whatnot they were using that to
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: create fake breasts and augment their derriere and that this
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: was poisoning them and they were dying in the streets
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: and because they didn't have medical insurance and it's almost
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: as if it had nothing to do with their bad
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: choices but everything to do with they were trapped in
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: the body that they were born in and i thought
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: it was a crock right it was no this is
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: one decision uh after another decision after another bad decision
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: leading you to a lifestyle that's completely destructive. And that's
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: what Mr. Percival here is talking about. It's very difficult
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: to live in this country and abscond from immigration authorities.
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: You're going to commit one crime after the next, period,
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: the end, because these things are illegal. And for everyone
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: to look and say, look, well, look, illegal, shmeagle, they're
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: not selling fentanyl. They're not raping children. Who said that's
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: the standard, right? I mean, I remember the last time
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: I got a parking ticket for not having a residential
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: parking sticker in the township of Weehawken, New Jersey, and
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: I paid the ticket online. I was walking outside of
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: my house when I saw a police car staring at
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: my car. So I walk over and I tell the officer, hey,
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: everything all right? He looks at me and says, yeah,
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: is this your car? I take a step further and
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: I see he already knew that was my car because
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: there was a screen on his dashboard that had my
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: face on it from my driver's license photo. So clearly
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: he had run my plate, seen my license and knew
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: who I was because I look exactly like the guy
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: in the picture, maybe a little lighter. But I said, yeah,
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: that's my car. And he says, well, there's a problem.
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: And I said, what's the problem? And I've shared this
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: story on the air before, but I'll for context, I'll
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: share it again. And he says, uh, well, you've got
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: an outstanding parking ticket and it shows here that there's
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: a warrant for your arrest. And I said, well, that
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: can't be because I paid the parking ticket. So he
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: gets out of his car. I show him on my
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: phone the screenshot of when I paid the ticket some
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: weeks earlier. And he says, well, I see your proof,
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: but in my system, it's showing that the township of
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: Weehawken has a warrant, a bench warrant for not paying
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: the ticket. And this was many years ago. I'm shocked now.
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: And I'm with two small children in tow. They weren't
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: like they are now. They were like 10 and six
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: years old at the time or nine and five. I'm shocked.
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: And the fact that he wouldn't give me a break,
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: you know, he wanted to put me in handcuffs, put
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: me in his car and drag me to the jail
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: in my town in order to clear this up. I said, well, look,
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: this is clearly a misunderstanding. I'm on my way out
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: right now, but you know, I could come in tomorrow
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: or something. He says, no, no, no, no. Right now
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: I have to take you into custody. I said, right
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: now I have two kids with me. And he's like,
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: can you put the kids inside? Can you have somebody
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: pick them up? And I was like, are you for real?
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: Is this actually happening right here? And it did. It
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: all happened. I refused to be put into handcuffs. I
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: quickly became the people that I criticize online, right? Just cooperate.
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: Just do what the officer says. Now, I was not
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: going to be handcuffed outside my house because I paid
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: a parking ticket. That wasn't happening. So another question. Patrol
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: car comes. I explained to him the way I explained
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: to the other guy. Look, I paid the ticket. I
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: did my part. There's a problem here. I'll walk over
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: there and whatever. And they're like, well, we can't let
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: you walk or you got to come with us. I
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: was like, I got to come with you. Like I'm
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: some sort of criminal, right? So I understand both sides
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: of this thing. I'm a human being. And I was
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: not about to be handcuffed in front of my kids.
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: And I told him, I said, look, I'll sit in
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: your car if you want. This is bad enough. I'm
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: out here talking to the police and my neighbors are
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: watching me. And I'm going to get in the backseat
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: of your car as if I did something wrong, but
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: I'll do that. But I'm not going in handcuffs. I'm
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: not being violent. There's no threat to your safety. We're
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: talking about a parking ticket. So, yeah, it's policy. If
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: you get in the car, you got a handcuff. Yes,
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: I don't care about your policy. I was a volunteer
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: cop in Nutley, New Jersey, and we gave old ladies
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: a ride when we needed to, and we didn't put
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: them in handcuffs. And that's when they were like, all right.
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: So I met them in the middle. I got in
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: their car. I drove with them about 45 seconds or
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: 60 seconds because the police department is very close by.
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: Walk in there. Guy's like breathing down my neck, literally.
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: Like I could almost feel his breath hip to hip
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: over here as I walk up to the clerk's window.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: He says, yeah, he needs to check out a discrepancy
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: in a parking ticket. He says he paid. He's got
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: the proof, but it's showing up in my system as
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: a warrant, an active warrant. So I go to her
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: and she says, oh my. So she goes in again.
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: This is a different town, the town I live in.
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: It's not the township of Weehawken. She says, oh, I see. Yeah,
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: this was issued by Weehawken. But it shows cleared here.
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: Shouldn't be showing up in your system. She says, you're fine, sir.
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: There's no warrant for your arrest. I looked at him
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: like you are the biggest pendejo in the world. And
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: I just, you know, I walked away. And now I
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: was not about to say, oh, thank you, officer, for,
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: you know, ruining my day and playing coy all day
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: because all he wanted to do is put me in
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: handcuffs and drag me there for a parking ticket. And again,
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: he wanted that because what was there to gain here?
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: I had the proof. But again, I'm not going to
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: add insult to injury, but I am going to say, look,
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: I love the police, right? You know, my brothers were cops.
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: You know, I served with the police for a little
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: bit as a volunteer. I love the blue. But sometimes
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: you get a pendejo that doesn't know how to use
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: their system or there's an error and doesn't use real
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: common sense humanism. judgment. They sit there, they stick to
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: the book and they treat you like you're selling crack.
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: And this is why people become indignant when they're stopped
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: by the police because they're like, hold on a second. No,
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: I didn't become indignant, but I definitely was feeling a
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: certain kind of way. And I think I had every
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: right to feel that way. How would you feel? Just
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: think about that, right? You go outside to throw out
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: your garbage or you're about to leave. I was taking
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: my kids to the movies and you have some cop.
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: I should never have walked over to my car because
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: I was going out with my brother in his car
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: with his kids. It was going to be family day
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: at the movies. Instead, I said, oh, I see the
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: cop over there. Let me be a good John Q
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: public citizen and go over there and say, hey, officer,
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: anything wrong? Can I help? What's going on? I thought
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: maybe I was illegally parked or in my town sometimes,
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: even if you're legally parked, They'll make you move because,
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: you know, one of the utility companies needs to dig
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: there and they start running the plates to go knock
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: on your door and say, hey, do you mind moving
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: the car? Yes, I thought it was something like that.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: I never thought they were going to try and handcuff
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: me and take me to jail for a ticket that
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: I paid for residential parking in the township of Weehawken, right?
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: Not even a crime. There was not even misdemeanors here.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: These are all parking violations. So I understand. Both sides
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: of this coin is the point I'm making here. This
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: has nothing to do with illegal immigration, but had to
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: do with, you know, a story that I thought fit here.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: But Mr. Percival is right that these people are here.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: And sometimes we think that every, you know, every illegal
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: alien here is not guilty of a traffic ticket. And
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: if they were looking to lock me up, a citizen
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: that has all my paperwork in order, Of course they're
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: going to look to lock you up because I had
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: a traffic infraction. You're talking about a misdemeanor federal crime.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: And I'm supposed to think that that's something we'd look
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: the other way on? I think not. Anyway, play the tape.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 6: But I do really reject your characterization of someone who
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 6: is in this country illegally and breaking our laws as
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 6: quote-unquote law-abiding. I think that's fundamentally inaccurate and unfair.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 8: Okay, fair enough. And that's why I'm going for clarity.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: Fair enough. And she, you know, relented on her doubling
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: down at that point of defending the illegality of the
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: illegal alien. But this is part of the issue. Now,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: of course, it probably comes to you as no surprise
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: to you that the Department of Justice is still at it, right?
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: They just announced a couple of days ago, 18 more
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: charges now in North Carolina with illegal voting in the
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: 2024 election. The Department of Justice has charged 30 people
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: in North Carolina this year for voting illegally. Here's a
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: quote from the acting deputy attorney general. Illegal voting is
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: just that.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: Illegal.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: How about that? Again, this is from the acting deputy
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: attorney general serving under Todd Blanche. If you're not an
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: American citizen, you cannot vote in U.S. federal elections. We
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: want to prevent illegal voting from occurring, which is why
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: we now have charged 30 people just in North Carolina
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: who violated our laws. Sound the alarm. Sound the alarm.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: Who violated our laws by illegally registering to vote and
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: illegally voting. We need to preserve the integrity of the
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: ballot box by ensuring only those eligible are casting ballots. Yeah,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: I agree. And just so you know, They've got photos here.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: This is from the Department of Justice Twitter account that
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: I'm reading to you. HSI and FBI Raleigh, along with,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: let's see what this says, Police Homeland. I can't read it.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: I can barely see it. So it looks like HSI and,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: what did I say, ICE? HSI and FBI. All right,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: not ICE, just HSI and FBI. Three of the people
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 3: that they have pictured here, Two of them are white.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: Just FYI. Very white. Like pale. Like they turn red
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: in the sun. Why does that matter? I'm not saying
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: it matters. I'm just saying that this is bigger than
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: we think. This isn't just one type of person that's
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: in this country that may be voting illegally. There's all
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: sorts of people in the country that are doing this.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: And this is something we should always do in every administration.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: The fact that the Democrats are trying to position this
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: as somehow we're trying to chill the effect of the
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: election or something like that, that is just completely farcical.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: So anyway, take that to the bank. And remember, you
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: got to stand for something. If you stand for nothing,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: you'll fall for anything. And the only thing necessary for
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: evil to triumph is for good people like you to
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: sit there and do nothing. So make sure you get
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: ready to vote. You're voting this Tuesday because the only
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: poll that matters is the poll when you pull that
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: lever again. in the voting booth. Hasta la proxima. Take care.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: Good night. And God bless you, America. I'm Rich Valdez,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: and this is America.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: This is America.