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Tehran, Testosterone, Treason · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez, powered by poliitweek dot Com.
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Speaker 3: Rich Valdez columnist now with the Washington Times.
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Speaker 1: This is America, Richiev.
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Speaker 1: The Nation with America with your host, Rich Valdez.
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Speaker 3: What's up, America. I am Rich Valdez Valdesz with an
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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Monday Night Program.
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Speaker 4: I'm here.
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Speaker 3: You're liberty loving Latino amigo, seventeen blocks away from Madison
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Speaker 3: seven seven Valdez one eight seven seven eight twenty five
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Speaker 3: thirty three seventy one. Let's kick it off with the
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Speaker 3: big game, not the Super Bowl, but the World Cup,
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Speaker 3: because even in tough times, we have to celebrate the wins,
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Speaker 3: right and Spain took the win last night for the
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Speaker 3: World Cup Final, beating Argentina one zero in extra time
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Speaker 3: thanks to Ferron Torres. So if Panna, Now they don't
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Speaker 3: really pronounce it like that, but they do pronounce some
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Speaker 3: of their s's and z's as the thch sounds. So
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Speaker 3: in the sake of making fun of them, jovially and
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Speaker 3: fun I call them if Bana les Campeon. Anyway, happy
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Speaker 3: news for the La Roja fans. Sad news, of course,
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Speaker 3: to the families of four American soldiers that were killed
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Speaker 3: by Iranian fire missile fire as a result of the
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Speaker 3: war that's been escalating.
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Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 3: I think we're on day number nine, day number ten,
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Speaker 3: maybe day number eight. I don't know how to count anymore.
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Speaker 3: But we mourn the fallen, right, we honor their service,
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Speaker 3: and we stand strong. We are America. Heartbreaking, honestly, when
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Speaker 3: I saw one little girl nineteen years old, I have
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Speaker 3: a twenty year old's about to be twenty one years
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Speaker 3: old right now, six weeks or so, and you know,
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Speaker 3: you look at that and you think this girl had
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Speaker 3: her whole future. However, but we don't get to dictate life, right.
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Speaker 3: This could happen to me, It can happen to a
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Speaker 3: lot of people, and I don't want to see American
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Speaker 3: soldiers die, But I realized this is what people sign
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Speaker 3: up for, and I'm not going to get in the
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Speaker 3: way of that. People want to serve their country, and
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Speaker 3: they realize that, like the Bible says, no greater love,
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Speaker 3: there is no greater love than laying down your life
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Speaker 3: for your fellow man. So again, my thoughts and prayers
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Speaker 3: and condolences to those families. God bless them, amazing patriots. Now,
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Speaker 3: of course, Iran violating the ceasefire, attacking a ship in
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Speaker 3: the Strait of Hormuz, and we're back in the active
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Speaker 3: conflict on this ninth day since the breach. Excuse me,
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Speaker 3: I'm being told it's nine days. Our President Donald Trump,
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Speaker 3: I like to call him El Trompito. Don all this magnus,
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Speaker 3: the forty fifth and forty seventh President of the United States,
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Speaker 3: El Presidente Donald J.
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Speaker 4: Trump.
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Speaker 3: He vowed vengeance on our forces and says that if
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Speaker 3: this keeps going, they will continue to do another bridge,
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Speaker 3: another major piece of infrastructure last night, taking a nuclear facility.
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Speaker 3: And Trump's not into playing games. He's really given the
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Speaker 3: Iranians every opportunity to not wipe their all of them
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Speaker 3: off the map, right, And I guess you can't.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 3: This is one of those things where you don't want
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Speaker 3: to destroy a wonderful country with wonderful people suffering under
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Speaker 3: a horrible dictatorship regime. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has
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Speaker 3: dropped some truth bombs on this as well, saying no
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Speaker 3: more low testosterone soldiers. We'll get into that in a
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Speaker 3: little bit, because I thought that was pretty interesting. Then
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Speaker 3: right here in New York City, a bomb went off. Well,
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Speaker 3: it was more like gasoline and fireworks, right, some crazy
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Speaker 3: lefty set off some fireworks with gasoline outside the Federal
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Speaker 3: Building twenty six Federal Plaza where the ICE offices and
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Speaker 3: the FBI offices and the Department of Health and Human
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Speaker 3: Services and so many things. Right, it's a twenty six
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Speaker 3: federal plaza, and it was in fact an ICE domestic
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Speaker 3: terrorist anti ICE. I should say, you know what expect, right,
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Speaker 3: this guy, the mayor zoron Mumdani Mayor Mumdani. Now he
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Speaker 3: instead of, you know, giving a lengthy rebuke to this guy,
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Speaker 3: he just says, well, you know, we got to follow
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Speaker 3: the rules basically, But he does go into a lengthy
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Speaker 3: rebuke on Benjamint and Yahoo's scheduled to be here next
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Speaker 3: week for some un action and guess what he says, Well,
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Speaker 3: he's a war criminal. We're going to lock him up.
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Speaker 3: I mean, what is wrong with this man? I got
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Speaker 3: audio on all this stuff. We're gonna get to all
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Speaker 3: of that momentarily, but just crazy, right. The mayor doesn't
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Speaker 3: have the authority to lock up war criminals, but he
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Speaker 3: likes to think he does. I say, stick to the potholes,
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Speaker 3: not international arrests. Then we got the Democrats Socialists of
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Speaker 3: America and they're on a tear. Graham Platner has got
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Speaker 3: a potential replacement that we have been roasting for days now,
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Speaker 3: a woman named Ashley. But she's really not a woman.
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Speaker 3: She's a biological male. It's a trans woman, and that's
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Speaker 3: a story in and of itself. We'll touch a little
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Speaker 3: bit on that as well. What else do I got here?
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Speaker 3: I got a lot up my sleeve, Lots to catch
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Speaker 3: up on, lots to discuss Democrats, Socialists, Susan Collins. They
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Speaker 3: actually have a new person that will replace Platner. It's
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Speaker 3: not going to be this person, Ashley. I think it's
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Speaker 3: gonna be another person named Jackson. So most slyly, what
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Speaker 3: happens there. But they straight up one abolish the US
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Speaker 3: Senate because they don't like that all fifty states get
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Speaker 3: equal representation despite how big those states are. They want
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Speaker 3: to abolish Ice and their leader AOC. She's down south
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Speaker 3: campaigning and somehow, just like Hillary Clinton, she picked up us.
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Speaker 4: So well, they're an accent. Bless her heart, bless her heart.
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Speaker 4: We'll get into all that a little bit.
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Speaker 3: Plus, we've got Andrew Tait and his brother being arrested again,
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Speaker 3: similar charges, but new ones, not the old ones, new
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Speaker 3: allegations in those same trafficking and assault type of charges.
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Speaker 3: Those guys don't get a break. And maybe they did it,
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Speaker 3: maybe they didn't. Honestly, it's hard for me to understand
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Speaker 3: all of this. Honestly, I look at the guy and
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Speaker 3: it's I'm not a fan per se. I'm not a
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Speaker 3: detractor either. I don't know him personally, but it seems
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Speaker 3: like they don't really maintain a very low profile, like
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Speaker 3: oh my god, you got me like Epstein, did you know?
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Speaker 3: These guys are out there, they're doing their thing. And
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Speaker 3: some would argue, well that's because they're brazen, while others,
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Speaker 3: I think, like me, I just tend to believe that
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Speaker 3: maybe there's some malfeasans here, maybe they did something wrong.
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Speaker 3: I don't believe they did all these things that these
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Speaker 3: people were telling them, but we'll have to follow the
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Speaker 3: evidence to see how that goes, right. I mean, what
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Speaker 3: else can I say in actuality? I really don't know.
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Speaker 3: But we're going to get into that. And I got
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Speaker 3: a couple other things up my sleeve. Let me see
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Speaker 3: if I gotta just put him out here for now,
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Speaker 3: Latin plat platners, a lot of Platin planners out. In fact,
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Speaker 3: he is out, and we're gonna have this other guy's
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Speaker 3: platner light for the most part. Yeah, that's it. Talk
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Speaker 3: up a little bit about elections, a few other things.
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Speaker 3: Plus Secretary of Rubio weighs in on all of this
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Speaker 3: Iran stuff. We'll do that and Mamdani and everything else.
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Speaker 3: Straight ahead, don't go anywhere.
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Speaker 1: This is America. This is America. He's brown, he's bald,
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Speaker 1: and he's breaking it down.
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Speaker 4: Oh he's so handsome.
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Speaker 1: What's his day?
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Speaker 4: Rich Veldas.
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Speaker 6: I thought FIFA was incredible.
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Speaker 7: There has never been anything like it, probably in terms
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Speaker 7: of an event, let alone soccer or football, whatever you
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Speaker 7: want to call it.
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Speaker 6: But I thought it was incredible.
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Speaker 7: It was four times greater than any FIFA of a hell,
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Speaker 7: and it's probably about five times actually, they're telling me today.
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Speaker 7: So we're very proud of our country. We're very proud
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Speaker 7: of the job that was done by everybody. We congratulate
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Speaker 7: Johnny Infantino and all of his staff and the incredible
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Speaker 7: job they did. But this was one of the greatest
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Speaker 7: events of any kind ever held, So we're really happy
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Speaker 7: that it did so well. And all over the world
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Speaker 7: people have come and they've loved our country.
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Speaker 6: You know, it's shown off our country in a different light.
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Speaker 6: And it was a great thing.
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Speaker 7: It was a great event, and I'm glad you all
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Speaker 7: enjoyed it. But we hit him very hard again tonight,
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Speaker 7: and we did that in honor of the probably three
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Speaker 7: it's probably three as opposed to two great patriots.
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Speaker 3: That's President Trump speaking with reporters following the World Cup,
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Speaker 3: explaining his thoughts on the FIFA World Cup and of
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Speaker 3: course giving some reaction to the three soldiers that were
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Speaker 3: announced dead, and hours after that, of course, a fourth
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Speaker 3: being identified as being killed. So our prayers again and
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Speaker 3: thoughts go out to those families. Secretary Marco Rubio stepping
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Speaker 3: up and saying what he had to say with respect
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Speaker 3: to this.
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Speaker 4: Listen to this.
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Speaker 8: Sencom has laid it out exactly what the objectives are.
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Speaker 8: The only reason why the US is conducting strikes is
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Speaker 8: against the assets of Iran that are being used to
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Speaker 8: attack global commercial shipping. The Straits of Hormuz are international waterway,
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Speaker 8: and they continue to launch against the ships in that
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Speaker 8: international waterway. Other countries should join us in this effort,
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Speaker 8: but the United States is involved not just in protecting
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Speaker 8: those ships, but in targeting the places that they use
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Speaker 8: to launch these missiles and drones.
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Speaker 4: So that's what you're seeing.
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Speaker 8: That's what the objective of this mission, and that's what
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Speaker 8: it continues to be.
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Speaker 4: We continue on a.
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Speaker 8: Daily basis, very successfully to degrade Iran's ability.
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Speaker 4: To target and ships. You hear about the ships that
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Speaker 4: have been struck.
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Speaker 8: You don't hear about the ones that have been defended
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Speaker 8: and the ones they haven't been able to launch against it.
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Speaker 8: But as long as Iron insists on controlling an international waterway,
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Speaker 8: we're going.
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Speaker 4: To have to respond to that, all right.
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Speaker 3: Secretary Rubio making no bones about what they are there
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Speaker 3: to do, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth making an
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Speaker 3: announcement on Twitter, releasing a video indicating that the Department
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Speaker 3: of War will now be the High T Department of War.
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Speaker 3: Of course, high T referring to high testosterone. And I
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Speaker 3: couldn't be happier about this. I think it's a good thing, right.
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Speaker 3: You want the guy with the most testosterone, the most strength, aggression, clarity,
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Speaker 3: all those things that come with testosterone virility, all of that.
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Speaker 3: You want that guid to be the guy on the
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Speaker 3: front lines defending your nation. And here's the video that
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Speaker 3: the Secretary release. Check this out.
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Speaker 9: I'm authorizing a new screening program for testosterone deficiency for
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Speaker 9: our service members, ensuring you have the right testosterone levels
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Speaker 9: to operate at your absolute best, because it's well established
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Speaker 9: science that as we age, testosterone levels often naturally drop.
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Speaker 9: Under the supervision of our world class medical professionals, warfighters
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Speaker 9: age thirty and older are going to be tested annually
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Speaker 9: as part of their periodic health assessment. It's a health
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Speaker 9: assessment that happens every year. We're just adding this test.
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Speaker 9: Those under thirty can voluntarily choose to get the test
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Speaker 9: as well. If treatment is recommended. It's entirely your choice
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Speaker 9: to receive testosterone replacement therapy initiative. It's not about artificial enhancement.
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Speaker 10: It's about restoring and optimizing your natural capabilities, protecting your longevity,
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Speaker 10: and ensuring you have the biological foundation required to sustain
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Speaker 10: the fight.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think this is fantastic. Again, would you like
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Speaker 3: to be the low T military? I mean, you look
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Speaker 3: back at the Obama era, and you had people joining
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Speaker 3: the army just because they could get the benefits, and
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Speaker 3: he allowed them to have sex changes while they were enlisted.
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Speaker 3: And I remember seeing people arguing on Facebook back then saying, hey, look,
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Speaker 3: we can't have all these people out on medical messes
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Speaker 3: up our troop count, right, it's messing up their squads.
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Speaker 3: So I remember that stuff, and I love the direction
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Speaker 3: that the Trump administration is going in because this isn't
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Speaker 3: supposed to be like Schwartz, And I would say, a
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Speaker 3: bunch of girly men.
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Speaker 4: Right, we need to be hard bodied warfighters.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 3: That's why I'm not there, Right, I'm like the Pillsbury
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Speaker 3: doughboy over here. Last thing you need me is on
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Speaker 3: the front line. But if I were, that'd be the
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Speaker 3: first one saying let me get a double dose of that.
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Speaker 3: Even if I'm at the right level, let's go. I
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Speaker 3: want more put on, more muscle, more agility, more, all
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Speaker 3: of it. So kudos to the Department of War for
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Speaker 3: doing the right thing here. And you know, testosterone has
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Speaker 3: a number of positive effects for men, namely libido, which
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Speaker 3: is it's obvious for right, it's the male sex hormone.
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Speaker 3: But beyond that, there's plenty, right, especially even the guys
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Speaker 3: that are getting replaced right if they don't have if
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Speaker 3: their level is too low and they start doing testosterone
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Speaker 3: replacement therapy, this increases their energy, lean muscle mass, improves
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Speaker 3: bone density, mineral density, reduces body fat, increases red blood
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Speaker 3: cell production, and helps alleviate symptoms of depression or fatigue.
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Speaker 3: I don't know about you. That sounds like a good
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Speaker 3: deal for somebody that's on the front lines of our war.
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Speaker 3: Enhanced by decomposition, facilitating protein synthesis to build muscle, hypertrophy,
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Speaker 3: and strength, while simultaneously regulating metabolism, which would reduce fat
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Speaker 3: mass stronger bones. Testosterone is a primary regulator of bone metabolism.
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Speaker 3: Maintaining optimal levels prevents bone resorption. I don't even know
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Speaker 3: what that is, but I'm guessing that's what makes your
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Speaker 3: bones become weak over time, protecting men against osteoporosis and fractures.
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Speaker 4: Yep I was right.
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Speaker 3: Good old context clues, and it affects your mood and
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Speaker 3: cognitive health. Healthy testosterone levels are associated with increased motivation,
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Speaker 3: mental acuity, and overall improved sense of well being, helping
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Speaker 3: to combat fatigue and depression. Cardiovascular and metabolic support. It
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Speaker 3: stimulates the production of hormones that are needed, as well
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Speaker 3: as red blood cells, and may improve insolent sensitivity in
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Speaker 3: some cases, which would treat mild anemia and prevent diabetes.
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Speaker 4: That's good stuff. Now.
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Speaker 3: While it has a lot of significant benefits, excuse me
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Speaker 3: for men that are diagnosed with low testosterone levels. Medical
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Speaker 3: guidelines from places like the Mayo Clinic emphasize that testosterone
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Speaker 3: replacement therapy, like any other medical you know, process, has risk.
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Speaker 3: Potential Side effects include lower sperm count, so if you're
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Speaker 3: a young man that's never had children, you probably don't
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Speaker 3: want to do this. In some cases, sleep apnea has
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Speaker 3: become a little bit more severe fluid retention. When levels
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Speaker 3: are too high, it can increase blood clots and prostate issues,
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Speaker 3: so you want to watch out for those Obviously, this
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Speaker 3: is something has to be done under the care of
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Speaker 3: a doctor. And you know what's funny is this is
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Speaker 3: something that you know, for years, we've joked about this, right,
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Speaker 3: low T this, low T that. But it turns out
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Speaker 3: that we're even talking about this because I saw a
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Speaker 3: really really funny social media post from a Puerto Rican
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Speaker 3: radio host named Mulusko. And what's funny about this is
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Speaker 3: that he puts it on his social media and he
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Speaker 3: shows an old hernia exam of some soldiers from another country.
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Speaker 3: So you know, somebody comes around to the soldier and
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Speaker 3: grabs them by their scrotum and tells them to cough,
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Speaker 3: and that's what the video is. And the caption is
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Speaker 3: US implements new testosterone test. So of course the comments
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Speaker 3: were off the chains here everybody talking about, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 3: are these guys going to go around grabbing people's scrotums.
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Speaker 4: Which I understand they did many years ago.
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Speaker 3: If you had a larger scrotal sac then they assumed
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Speaker 3: that you were producing more testosterone and you were primed
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Speaker 3: to be a warfighter. That's not what's happening in the
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Speaker 3: United States, but it was funny. Is everything now what's
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Speaker 3: happening in the United States is that you've got warfighters
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Speaker 3: that may be under the threshold for their age, and
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Speaker 3: this is applying for people under the age of thirty,
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Speaker 3: is what I understand. And they're going to be offered
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Speaker 3: hormone replacement therapy to increase their testosterone levels if they
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Speaker 3: wanted by the military to get them up to park.
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Speaker 3: And it's all voluntary. So this is something that I
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Speaker 3: found interesting and funny. Right, It's really what caught my eye. Iuse, like,
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Speaker 3: why is this guy going around grabbing these guys by
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Speaker 3: their Johnson's Anyway, listen to this. These are a couple
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Speaker 3: of stats that are out here that I thought were interesting.
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Speaker 3: Roughly twenty percent of men that are aged twenty to
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Speaker 3: thirty nine and nearly forty percent of men over the
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Speaker 3: age of forty five experienced low testosterone, which is clinically
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Speaker 3: known as hypogonetism. Man low testosterone sounds better than hypogonatism,
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Speaker 3: at least to me. While production naturally declines at about
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Speaker 3: one percent annually after the age of thirty, low t
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Speaker 3: can affect adolescents, teenagers, and men in their early twenties
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Speaker 3: that must suck. Recent data shows a steady generational decline
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Speaker 3: in testosterone levels among young adults. So we're seeing this
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Speaker 3: happen on a regular basis. Now, what are the signs
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Speaker 3: of low T something that we've popularized by calling it dadbod. Interesting, right,
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Speaker 3: dadbod is basically low T. Right as your T levels
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Speaker 3: start to drop, you start to gain fat in your midsection,
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Speaker 3: you get the man boob, You become softer, less hard
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Speaker 3: because you don't have as many muscles. And this is
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Speaker 3: something that has been glorified in many circles. Right, Oh,
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Speaker 3: dadbods are in? No, they're not in. That's the natural
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Speaker 3: or sometimes aggressive drop of testosterone in a male. And
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Speaker 3: guess what doesn't have to be that way at least
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Speaker 3: according to Pete Hegseth.
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Speaker 4: At least it doesn't have to be that way in
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Speaker 4: the military.
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Speaker 3: But if you look at this, some estimates very based
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Speaker 3: on the diagnostic cutoff.
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Speaker 4: Right, So.
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Speaker 3: Listen to this ages twenty to thirty nine studies are
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Speaker 3: showing that twenty percent of young men in this cohort
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Speaker 3: have low testosterone. That's I think that sounds like a lot.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I means eighty percent of guys are on
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Speaker 3: the right track, but twenty percent are off. You would
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Speaker 3: think that would be a little higher, like maybe eighty
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Speaker 3: five or ninety percent, at least that's what I would
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Speaker 3: have thought. Ages forty to forty nine, that's my group.
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Speaker 3: The rate increases sharply to roughly forty percent of men
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Speaker 3: in this age group. Then you've got guys older than me.
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Speaker 3: Ages fifty to fifty nine affects approximately twelve to thirty
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Speaker 3: percent of men continuing to climb each decade. Excuse me, now, people,
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Speaker 3: men in the age of eighty and higher. Up to
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Speaker 3: fifty percent of older men experience clinically low levels. Now,
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Speaker 3: how does this happen to young people? Well, low testosterone
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Speaker 3: can occur at any age, including adolescents in puberty, which
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Speaker 3: is catastrophic because you know your voice may not change,
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Speaker 3: you may not really come into yourself as a man
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Speaker 3: from adolescence. And when it's found in teenagers and men
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Speaker 3: under thirty, it's usually not caused by natural aging. Of course,
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Speaker 3: it stems from specific underlying factors. Now what causes us
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Speaker 3: here we go lifestyle drivers, surging rates of obesity, chronic
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Speaker 3: sleep deprivation, high stress, and of course physical inactivity. It
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Speaker 3: all suppresses the body's natural hormone signaling to produce testosterone.
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Speaker 3: So if you're up all night playing video games, you
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Speaker 3: sit down all the time, you don't work out.
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Speaker 4: You're a good candidate. What else we got here?
20:38
Speaker 3: Medical and genetic factors, conditions like Kleinfelter syndrome, a history
20:42
Speaker 3: of testicular injury or infection, pituitary gland disorders. These can
20:47
Speaker 3: also permanently limit production from a young age. And then
20:51
Speaker 3: they say there's some environmental factors, right, And this is
20:54
Speaker 3: research from the American Neurological Association revealing that millennial and
20:59
Speaker 3: gen Z men have a significantly lower average testosterone level
21:03
Speaker 3: than previous generations at the same exact age, even when
21:08
Speaker 3: controlling for weight and body mass index. Now, listen, I
21:10
Speaker 3: believe that I've met These are the guys, right, These
21:13
Speaker 3: are the guys that are out there, you know, screaming
21:16
Speaker 3: he identifies as a woman, all right, call him she?
21:20
Speaker 4: These are those people. And I get it, I understand.
21:23
Speaker 11: You know.
21:24
Speaker 3: My mom would say, right, you could see it from
21:27
Speaker 3: far away. So what are some of the benefits. And
21:31
Speaker 3: we talked a little bit about this, but I just
21:32
Speaker 3: want to go over it because I think everybody thinks
21:35
Speaker 3: it's it's all libido, sex drive, improved sexual function, which
21:39
Speaker 3: of course maintains erections and whatnot and supports your sperm count.
21:43
Speaker 4: But it goes beyond that.
21:44
Speaker 3: Right, you're talking about what we talked about earlier about
21:47
Speaker 3: muscle mass, right, enhanced body composition, helping to take protein
21:52
Speaker 3: into the body and build muscle and strength while reducing.
21:58
Speaker 4: The fatty tissue. This is I think important stuff.
22:02
Speaker 3: Stronger bones, mood and cognitive health, cardiovascular and metabolic support.
22:07
Speaker 3: So sounds like all systems are going now. The only
22:10
Speaker 3: drawback on this if you go too high on this stuff,
22:12
Speaker 3: higher than your natural numbers. So I guess at eighteen
22:15
Speaker 3: you're probably at a thousand or so. People that go
22:19
Speaker 3: higher than a thousand or fifteen hundred on their testosterone
22:23
Speaker 3: tests are probably putting themselves closer into the range where
22:29
Speaker 3: it can become harmful because while stimulating muscle growth, it
22:33
Speaker 3: could also stimulate growth in other things like cancer cells.
22:36
Speaker 3: So that doesn't mean don't take testosterone. That means take
22:39
Speaker 3: it to the level that is natural. When you go
22:42
Speaker 3: above that or double those numbers, you might see some
22:45
Speaker 3: bigger muscles, your hair might get thicker, and your voice
22:48
Speaker 3: can might get a little deep. But at the end
22:51
Speaker 3: of the day, you might sound and look like Arnold Schwarzenegger,
22:53
Speaker 3: but you might be putting yourself in the stroke zone.
22:56
Speaker 3: And again, I've never met somebody who's had a stroke,
22:58
Speaker 3: but I know a couple of guys from the gym
23:00
Speaker 3: that didn't have heart attacks, and likely because they were
23:03
Speaker 3: taking a little bit too much tea.
23:05
Speaker 4: So that's all I got on that one.
23:08
Speaker 3: There was one more thing I wanted to get into,
23:10
Speaker 3: and that was this article that I saw in the
23:13
Speaker 3: Nation Right online publication.
23:15
Speaker 6: Here.
23:16
Speaker 3: Let me see if I find it. It was written by
23:17
Speaker 3: a woman named Stick with Me. Her name is Andrea Becker,
23:24
Speaker 3: and the headline here is hegsth's testosterone program is a
23:28
Speaker 3: disservice to men.
23:31
Speaker 4: This is.
23:33
Speaker 3: A follow up, and this is interesting to me because
23:39
Speaker 3: her saying that this testosterone program, right of the secretary
23:47
Speaker 3: saying that they will assist any soldier that wants to
23:52
Speaker 3: improve their testosterone levels is a bad thing. Right, let'sten
23:56
Speaker 3: tell what she writes. By measuring manliness by muscle and
23:59
Speaker 3: testosterone levels, the Defense Secretary is peddling damaging stereotypes and
24:04
Speaker 3: legitimizing a narrow view of masculinity.
24:07
Speaker 4: Hm, is that interesting? Now?
24:10
Speaker 3: Last month, this was a couple of weeks ago, Defense
24:14
Speaker 3: Secretary Pete Hanksseth announced a new program to add testosterone testing.
24:18
Speaker 4: To regular health checkups for war fighters.
24:20
Speaker 3: This is in her article, and to offer testosterone replacement
24:24
Speaker 3: therapy TRT for anyone with low levels. Proper testosterone levels,
24:29
Speaker 3: he argued, would optimize performance and preserve America's lethality on
24:33
Speaker 3: the battlefield. We have a sacred duty to maintain that advantage,
24:38
Speaker 3: he said in a July fifteenth video, which was titled
24:42
Speaker 3: high tea Department of War, which I just talked about now.
24:47
Speaker 3: In the following days, journalists and scientists questioned the medical
24:52
Speaker 3: soundness of this initiative. According to her, I don't remember
24:56
Speaker 3: anybody questioning that because, quite frankly, testosterone replacement therapy, hormone
25:02
Speaker 3: replacement therapy, that stuff's been around for a long time,
25:04
Speaker 3: and I don't know that anybody's questioning it right now,
25:08
Speaker 3: And if they are, they're questioning it overall, not because
25:13
Speaker 3: it's being applied to this specific subset of humanity called
25:17
Speaker 3: the US military. Right, So that in and of itself, I
25:20
Speaker 3: think is a very hyperbolic statement. But anyway, she says
25:23
Speaker 3: that scientists questioned the medical soundness of this, which I
25:28
Speaker 3: think is farcical. Measuring testosterone is notoriously tricky, and there
25:33
Speaker 3: is disagreement on when TRT is needed. Well, I don't
25:38
Speaker 3: know about notoriously tricky. We just discussed this, right, there's
25:42
Speaker 3: two different levels you measure the two main ones that
25:44
Speaker 3: are used free testosterone and then the based testosterone. That's it,
25:51
Speaker 3: and doctors have these ranges. Different doctors feel comfortable in
25:55
Speaker 3: different ranges.
25:56
Speaker 5: Right.
25:56
Speaker 3: People that are actively living a more athletic lifestyle may
26:03
Speaker 3: be able to tolerate more, have more benefit from more.
26:06
Speaker 3: And by more I mean a level that's somewhere between
26:09
Speaker 3: eight hundred and a thousand. But I think most people
26:12
Speaker 3: that are on this stuff north of five hundred to
26:16
Speaker 3: eight hundred, the whatever that's called nanoleaders, destoleaders, they go
26:21
Speaker 3: ahead and they live just fine lives. And that's why
26:25
Speaker 3: you measure to make sure that you're not getting too much.
26:29
Speaker 3: But back to this article, it says, but whether the
26:31
Speaker 3: testosterone program will tangibly enhance performance is almost beside the point. No,
26:35
Speaker 3: it's not, ma'am. That's exactly the point. We just talked
26:39
Speaker 3: about how this ads lean muscle mass. It helps you
26:41
Speaker 3: to burn fat better, gives you increased focal ability, so
26:45
Speaker 3: you can pay attention better. So, if all of that
26:48
Speaker 3: is going on, doesn't that make a better soldier in
26:52
Speaker 3: my opinion? Yes, she continues, and she says, instead, this
26:56
Speaker 3: announcement indicates the arrival of a particular politic of testoso
27:00
Speaker 3: run at the highest rungs of power within the US government.
27:04
Speaker 3: Rebecca Jordan Young a professor at Barnard College and the
27:07
Speaker 3: author of Testosterone, an unauthorized biography called Hegseth's New Program
27:12
Speaker 3: another chapter in a very Long love Affair, with the
27:16
Speaker 3: idea that testosterone can solve any perceived crisis of masculinity. Now,
27:21
Speaker 3: I don't think he said that this can perceive any
27:24
Speaker 3: perceived crisis of masculinity. I think he wasn't even talking
27:27
Speaker 3: about masculinity at all. I think he was talking about
27:30
Speaker 3: health screening and adding a testosterone exam to the health screening,
27:35
Speaker 3: so that should you find that you are low in
27:37
Speaker 3: that department, they're going to be offering that to you
27:41
Speaker 3: as an option. It's not required, but they're freaking out.
27:47
Speaker 3: The question becomes, why are they freaking out? What's the
27:49
Speaker 3: big deal? Why did Rebecca Jordan Young, a professor at
27:54
Speaker 3: Barnard College, and mss Andrea Becker, Why are they so
27:59
Speaker 3: interested in testosterone? I'll tell you this, I have never
28:02
Speaker 3: written an article about estrogen. Why I have some that
28:05
Speaker 3: runs through me?
28:06
Speaker 11: Right?
28:06
Speaker 4: All men do.
28:07
Speaker 3: What's even more interesting is that this woman, this professor,
28:11
Speaker 3: She writes specifically, let me see if I could find
28:14
Speaker 3: this here, that there is a well established link between
28:18
Speaker 3: testosterone and sexual violence. I mean, you've got to be
28:22
Speaker 3: kidding me. I'll read it to you. There's already been
28:24
Speaker 3: a long standing cultural link between testosterone and violence, including
28:29
Speaker 3: sexual violence. I say to myself, Hold on a second,
28:32
Speaker 3: I've never heard this. I've never heard that there is
28:34
Speaker 3: a long standing cultural link between testosterone and violence. So
28:40
Speaker 3: I decided to see. You know, just a cursory search
28:45
Speaker 3: in Google tells me this. The link between testosterone and
28:49
Speaker 3: sexual violence is complex and indirect. Hmmm, how about that.
28:55
Speaker 3: Research shows that testosterone does not directly cause sexual violence. Instead,
29:00
Speaker 3: head the hormone can influence brain pathways linked to social
29:03
Speaker 3: dominance and impulsivity, while social, psychosocial, and environmental factors ultimately
29:10
Speaker 3: drive aggressive and criminal behavior. Research shows that there is
29:14
Speaker 3: no direct cause. Meta analyzes show that baseline testosterone levels
29:19
Speaker 3: do not differ significantly between sex offenders and non sex offenders.
29:25
Speaker 3: How's that, ma'am? Take that bing bang boom? What about
29:29
Speaker 3: this one? The amplifier effect. Rather than creating violent tendencies,
29:34
Speaker 3: testosterone can lower inhibitory controls and amplify existing behavioral patterns
29:39
Speaker 3: or status threats. So again, it's not the testosterone that's
29:43
Speaker 3: causing any of this aggression. If you are a whack
29:46
Speaker 3: job to begin with, this might lower some of that inhibition.
29:49
Speaker 3: According to what's written here the dual hormone hypothesis, interactions
29:54
Speaker 3: between testosterone and stress hormones like cortisol help regulate impulses,
29:59
Speaker 3: where high testosterone combined with specific stress responses may be
30:04
Speaker 3: the cause of increased behavioral risks. They don't know, pure speculation.
30:09
Speaker 3: Behavioral context, psychological factors, personal history, and social and environmental issues,
30:17
Speaker 3: as well as learned behaviors, remain the primary detriments of
30:22
Speaker 3: sexual excuse me determinants of sexual violence. So how about
30:28
Speaker 3: that it's not testosterone. This long established cultural link that
30:35
Speaker 3: our good friend the doctor over here was suggesting is
30:40
Speaker 3: not a thing, not a thing at all. Right, Again,
30:43
Speaker 3: that's doctor Rebecca Jordan, Young, professor at Barnard College who's
30:49
Speaker 3: the author of a book called Testosterone, An Unauthorized Biography.
30:54
Speaker 3: I mean, this is what's going on in academia today.
30:59
Speaker 4: Unreal.
31:00
Speaker 3: Now, let's just say these guys are both these women
31:02
Speaker 3: are both PhD researchers, and they feel the need to say, hey,
31:07
Speaker 3: you know what, Yeah, we do know about this, we
31:08
Speaker 3: know more about this than you.
31:10
Speaker 4: But I would say, how could you? How could?
31:14
Speaker 3: It's like people who go to get their beard done
31:17
Speaker 3: by a barber who doesn't have a beard. How good
31:21
Speaker 3: of a beard can the barber without a beard do?
31:24
Speaker 4: Hm? That's my point exactly right.
31:27
Speaker 3: A barber with a beard has been doing his own
31:29
Speaker 3: beard forever and understands how beards work. Same thing with
31:33
Speaker 3: this testosterone stuff. I can't imagine why this is even
31:38
Speaker 3: a conversation that we're having. But the whole thing is
31:41
Speaker 3: so funny to me because this is truly just a
31:43
Speaker 3: war on men, right. They say that it's the Republicans war,
31:46
Speaker 3: and women know the real war here is on men.
31:49
Speaker 3: This is an attack on masculinity. If they call it
31:53
Speaker 3: toxic masculinity, they call it whatever they want.
31:56
Speaker 4: This is no good.
31:57
Speaker 3: And I'm going to continue this conversation on a for
32:00
Speaker 3: an episode because doctor Gilda Carl, who is I'm gonna say,
32:05
Speaker 3: she's very pro man, right, she leads the way on
32:10
Speaker 3: those issues. I think she'd have a lot to say
32:12
Speaker 3: about this, as well as doctor Dalia Wax, who's an MD.
32:17
Speaker 3: One of them is a psychologist, the other words, a
32:18
Speaker 3: medical doctor, and I'd love to talk to both of
32:21
Speaker 3: them about this because I think this whole thing it's
32:25
Speaker 3: a joke personally, not what Hexeth did, but what these
32:28
Speaker 3: women are saying about testosterone. And it seems like they're
32:31
Speaker 3: hoping that men would have more estrogen so that they
32:33
Speaker 3: could be softer and more feminine and women, right, sounds
32:37
Speaker 3: like they want men to be women. Anyway, I'm gonna
32:39
Speaker 3: pause right here. When we come back, we're gonna talk
32:41
Speaker 3: about treason. A lot of people say there's so many
32:44
Speaker 3: people guilty of it. Some are now saying, if you
32:48
Speaker 3: have participated in a paid protest, you should be guilty
32:55
Speaker 3: of treason. I don't know how that works. I don't
32:57
Speaker 3: think it can work, but I want to hear your
32:59
Speaker 3: thoughts about that. We're going to do Open Phone America
33:01
Speaker 3: on all the different topics. Plus we're going to talk
33:04
Speaker 3: about this treeson idea. I saw this in a tweet
33:06
Speaker 3: and now Joey from Brooklyn sent that over to me.
33:09
Speaker 3: So thank you, Joe, I appreciate that. Keep it locked
33:11
Speaker 3: right here for Melia. We're coming right back. I'm Rich Valdes.
33:14
Speaker 1: This is America. This is America.
33:26
Speaker 2: The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
33:30
Speaker 2: to speak with Rich Valdez.
33:32
Speaker 6: Oh, very good.
33:37
Speaker 4: The honor is all yours. Conservative talk with a dash
33:42
Speaker 4: of sofrito. Now here's Rich Valdez.
33:46
Speaker 3: All right, Familia, welcome back, Rich Valdez here with you,
33:50
Speaker 3: and check this out. I want to get into this
33:52
Speaker 3: topic again. Joe from Brooklyn sent me a image of
33:57
Speaker 3: a tweet and let me.
33:59
Speaker 4: See if I could pull it up for you.
34:00
Speaker 3: Really interesting because I get the anger right. People are
34:07
Speaker 3: angry at certain things. And what happens when they're angry is,
34:12
Speaker 3: you know, they're looking for relief, they're looking for help.
34:15
Speaker 3: And when people see what's going on with government and
34:19
Speaker 3: how things are, you know, just out of control. You
34:24
Speaker 3: look at everything that's happening in the media cycle and
34:28
Speaker 3: you say, man, this guy is ruining New York City
34:32
Speaker 3: mayor Mumdani. Others say he's the best things since life's bread,
34:35
Speaker 3: the best mayor they've ever seen. You've got all sorts
34:39
Speaker 3: of craziness happening in Washington, d C. People have been
34:42
Speaker 3: in and out of different hearings and whatnot, and then
34:44
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, you know, somebody will come out
34:47
Speaker 3: with a tweet that says, should paid protesters be charged
34:53
Speaker 3: with treason? And I think this is one of those
34:59
Speaker 3: false equival llencies. Right, we may not like paid protesters,
35:04
Speaker 3: but that doesn't mean that we get to charge them
35:06
Speaker 3: with treason, right, because I mean, last night checked. If
35:08
Speaker 3: you're an American and you're in America and you're you know,
35:12
Speaker 3: you're complaining about something, whether it's your government or something
35:16
Speaker 3: you don't like. I mean, last I checked, you're allowed
35:19
Speaker 3: to do that, right, That's the constitution. Remember, no constitution,
35:22
Speaker 3: no country. Everybody likes to make these very very cliche
35:28
Speaker 3: false equivalencies. But it's important for us to realize that
35:32
Speaker 3: all of that stuff flies out the window. And I
35:36
Speaker 3: say it flies out the window because ultimately we all
35:40
Speaker 3: have to rely on the Constitution. That's the bottom line.
35:43
Speaker 3: We can't just say, well, you know these people that
35:46
Speaker 3: were burning the buildings down in twenty twenty and George Floyd, Yeah,
35:49
Speaker 3: you can't burn buildings down. That's not a peaceful protest. Right,
35:52
Speaker 3: that's crazy, absolutely crazy, And.
35:54
Speaker 4: I get that. But what I'm talking about goes well
35:57
Speaker 4: beyond that. Right.
35:58
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about people that are actually vandalizing and
36:03
Speaker 3: being a domestic terrorist. Now, I'm talking about people that
36:07
Speaker 3: are actively in the streets protesting things in favor of
36:12
Speaker 3: things that they like or dislike. Right, And this can
36:18
Speaker 3: get tricky. It can get tricky, like, for example, if
36:21
Speaker 3: you are.
36:23
Speaker 4: If you are.
36:27
Speaker 3: On a green card or a student, and you're on
36:30
Speaker 3: a college campus and you're burning an American flag and
36:33
Speaker 3: you're saying free, free Palestine, it seems that the Secretary
36:39
Speaker 3: of State can turn and say, you know what, well,
36:41
Speaker 3: we don't have to honor that, we don't have to
36:44
Speaker 3: award you with a visa to be a student here,
36:49
Speaker 3: and we're going to revoke that and you have to
36:51
Speaker 3: go and you can be deported for that.
36:54
Speaker 4: That makes sense to me, right.
36:55
Speaker 3: Because you're a visitor in this country and you're calling
36:57
Speaker 3: for the downfall this country. But American citizens have the
37:00
Speaker 3: unique right to call for the downfall of the country.
37:03
Speaker 3: They have this unique right to insult their president.
37:06
Speaker 4: They have this.
37:09
Speaker 3: Unique right called the First Amendment that allows us to
37:13
Speaker 3: have redress of grievances with our government, to speak freely
37:19
Speaker 3: in the public square. And this is something that I
37:22
Speaker 3: think people oftentimes forget right. It's the reason why the
37:26
Speaker 3: Communists Control Act doesn't work anymore. It was challenged on
37:30
Speaker 3: its constitutionality and it was determined that you can't tell
37:33
Speaker 3: people that they can't be communists because they're free to
37:39
Speaker 3: be so. So in the same way, now we have
37:41
Speaker 3: this radical left movement that's, you know, in my opinion,
37:44
Speaker 3: growing in certain places in our country. And now people
37:48
Speaker 3: are desperate. They're like, that's wrong, that's dead wrong. We
37:51
Speaker 3: shouldn't we shouldn't do that. I get it. But remember
37:55
Speaker 3: what makes this country so great is the fact that
37:57
Speaker 3: we have this constitution and the separation of powers, all
38:00
Speaker 3: these freedoms. Right, So the pendulum will always swing both ways.
38:04
Speaker 3: There's always going to be another side to the coin.
38:08
Speaker 3: Just imagine if during the administration of Barack Obama or
38:13
Speaker 3: Joe al Baboso Biden, I decide to go protest in
38:19
Speaker 3: front of the White House, and they decide to arrest
38:21
Speaker 3: me because they don't like what I'm saying, or because
38:25
Speaker 3: I decided to go there and I had a bus
38:28
Speaker 3: ticket paid for by Turning Point USA, or Turning Point
38:32
Speaker 3: USA was organizing people and paying for lunch and giving
38:36
Speaker 3: a daily stipend to college kids for fifty bucks who
38:39
Speaker 3: want to help us get the word out with regards
38:41
Speaker 3: to the protest. Now that makes them a paid protester,
38:45
Speaker 3: and boom, we're going to say that they're guilty of treason.
38:49
Speaker 3: We're gonna give democrats that type of power. That's why
38:52
Speaker 3: we can't do it when we're in power, because it's wrong. Right, Plus,
38:57
Speaker 3: the statute for treason is it's very pacific to be
39:01
Speaker 3: frank simply put no enemy state, no treason case. Right,
39:07
Speaker 3: It's not simple, No enemy state, no treason case. We
39:11
Speaker 3: can't blame people for trees and unless they were working
39:14
Speaker 3: on behalf of an enemy state in a declared war.
39:18
Speaker 3: And if that's not happening, it's not happening.
39:20
Speaker 4: Now. Look, people can make all sorts of arguments.
39:23
Speaker 3: You know, you catch somebody that's working with China, somebody
39:26
Speaker 3: that's working with Iran would be ideal. Right, We're actively
39:29
Speaker 3: engaged in a war where they're on okay, great, whether
39:32
Speaker 3: it's declared by Congress or not, might be a legal
39:35
Speaker 3: hang up, but one that at least the spirit of
39:39
Speaker 3: this law would remain integrity, you know, it would hold
39:44
Speaker 3: on to its integrity. And I understand a lot of
39:50
Speaker 3: people are upset. Joe from Brooklyn tells me no, no,
39:56
Speaker 3: what do he say, no election? That there's not going
40:02
Speaker 3: to be an election. Now, this is not the first
40:05
Speaker 3: time Joe from Brooklyn has told me there's not going
40:07
Speaker 3: to be an election. He says people are going to
40:08
Speaker 3: be arrested for treason, that we're going to have mass
40:11
Speaker 3: arrests conducted by the United States military because they have
40:15
Speaker 3: all the evidence. They've had it and been sitting on
40:17
Speaker 3: it for the last ten years and the last nine years.
40:22
Speaker 3: And they've been doing this because it's a sting operation,
40:25
Speaker 3: and they want lots of things to happen. They want
40:28
Speaker 3: people to continue cheating in elections, They want people to
40:32
Speaker 3: continue working to undermine the United States. They want to
40:37
Speaker 3: do all of these things, some sort of nine year
40:40
Speaker 3: trap that's been going on. And while it makes a
40:44
Speaker 3: good spy novel, I guess it doesn't make a reality. Right,
40:49
Speaker 3: It doesn't make the reality that we're going to see
40:52
Speaker 3: people get arrested. We saw people get arrested for January sixth,
40:57
Speaker 3: write an engineered riot. We've tried to see James Comy
41:04
Speaker 3: get arrested, right, But guess what, he keeps escaping accountability
41:09
Speaker 3: because accountability is truly a false idea in our country.
41:13
Speaker 4: It's not a real thing.
41:15
Speaker 3: There's accountability for some people, but not for everybody. And
41:19
Speaker 3: that's the sad truth. And it goes from one extreme
41:21
Speaker 3: to the other. There are people killing each other in
41:23
Speaker 3: Chicago and so many inner cities across America getting away
41:28
Speaker 3: with it, and the same thing's happening at the upper
41:33
Speaker 3: echelons people that are in Congress. So listen, get it
41:41
Speaker 3: out of your head. Get it out of your head,
41:43
Speaker 3: because this mass arrests. Accountability is coming.
41:46
Speaker 4: The storm. Blah blah blah. Good luck.
41:49
Speaker 3: If you like that type of fantasy, that type of theater,
41:51
Speaker 3: that type of fiction, good for you. It's good to
41:54
Speaker 3: have a hobby. I like to watch the Jersey Shore.
41:57
Speaker 3: I jump right back into the matrix when I'm done
41:59
Speaker 3: with this, because you know what, it's more fun for me.
42:02
Speaker 3: I've dabbled with the QAnon stuff. I take a look
42:05
Speaker 3: at everything. But you know, when people are sending me
42:08
Speaker 3: messages saying that JFK. Junior is alive and he's working
42:11
Speaker 3: with special forces, and they're violating every every tenet of
42:14
Speaker 3: the Constitution that I know, every bit of reality that
42:19
Speaker 3: I know is being challenged by these statements, at some
42:22
Speaker 3: point I have to cut bait and say I'm sorry,
42:25
Speaker 3: I'm really not a part of this. I don't know
42:27
Speaker 3: what America you love, but I love the America that
42:29
Speaker 3: has a constitution. They retort with the constitution, the new
42:35
Speaker 3: one or the old one, the one for the Corporation America, Inc.
42:38
Speaker 3: Or the one for the Republic.
42:40
Speaker 4: Excuse you.
42:42
Speaker 3: I mean, the amount of disinformation that is out there
42:45
Speaker 3: is just astounding. It's astounding. You guys who've listened to
42:49
Speaker 3: me for quite some time know that right here hear
42:52
Speaker 3: that that is the Constitution. It's poster size, it's on
42:55
Speaker 3: my wall. It's been next to me for close to
42:57
Speaker 3: a decade, and I read it all the time, and
43:00
Speaker 3: I've needed to read it on many different occasions.
43:05
Speaker 4: And all I can.
43:06
Speaker 3: Tell you is I'm happy that people are enthused and
43:10
Speaker 3: learning because they're involved.
43:12
Speaker 4: In the Q movement. Good for them, honestly, good for you.
43:17
Speaker 3: I feel badly that they have a loose grip on reality.
43:24
Speaker 3: And I don't mean that offensively to anybody, right, I
43:27
Speaker 3: mean that genuinely people that are so well intentioned, they
43:32
Speaker 3: want to see the right thing happen in this country
43:34
Speaker 3: because they love this country so much that they're willing
43:37
Speaker 3: to believe anything they see from any Twitter user out there,
43:42
Speaker 3: anything from anonymous people, from somebody named Susie Q or
43:47
Speaker 3: mister Q seventeen or Q forty five, forty seven or whatever,
43:52
Speaker 3: and they put a picture of anything. President Trump tweeted
43:56
Speaker 3: a video that was a minute in seventeen seconds long.
44:00
Speaker 3: He wrote the number seventeen. He did this, He did that,
44:03
Speaker 3: He did the other. Wild stuff really just wild stuff
44:08
Speaker 3: that's going on that I honestly don't want any part of,
44:11
Speaker 3: because you go so far down this rabbit hole that
44:16
Speaker 3: you lose yourself. You lose yourself, and you lose reality.
44:18
Speaker 3: I like to know that I'm standing on a floor
44:20
Speaker 3: every day. I'm not going to become part of a
44:23
Speaker 3: movement that says, well, it's not really a floor. You
44:26
Speaker 3: thought it was a floor. That's because you were in
44:28
Speaker 3: the matrix. But now you may not. No, listen, it's
44:32
Speaker 3: a floor. That's the reason I don't fall into my basement.
44:36
Speaker 3: It's because of a floor. And there are certain realities
44:39
Speaker 3: that we can't refute, right, the fact that people are saying,
44:43
Speaker 3: Oh Biden didn't serve, Oh Biden, that there was a
44:45
Speaker 3: body double, Oh Biden had a mask Biden this It
44:48
Speaker 3: wasn't even Biden. Biden died years ago. I mean, which
44:52
Speaker 3: one of these stories is it? Clinton's in jail, Obama's
44:56
Speaker 3: in jail? What I see them on TV all that
44:59
Speaker 3: those are body double? Why would they get a body double?
45:02
Speaker 3: Why wouldn't we hold somebody to account and put them
45:04
Speaker 3: in jail publicly? I mean, the insanity of these arguments
45:10
Speaker 3: ultimately come down to you can never win an argument
45:13
Speaker 3: with a qan on person because they'll just keep making
45:16
Speaker 3: stuff up. Right, If you're going to argue with somebody
45:21
Speaker 3: and they're gonna say, well, that's because they've already been
45:23
Speaker 3: dealt with secretly by the patriots with the white hats.
45:28
Speaker 3: And what you're watching is an illusion, It's a hologram.
45:31
Speaker 3: These are actors. They're just part of a script. That's
45:34
Speaker 3: why Trump keeps saying central casting. That is insanity. That
45:41
Speaker 3: is the biggest fraud this country's ever seen, if that
45:44
Speaker 3: is in fact the case, and it's not, obviously not.
45:49
Speaker 3: But I wanted to share some of the elements of
45:51
Speaker 3: the trees and law so that you could walk away
45:53
Speaker 3: from this episode today feeling a little bit more knowledgeable
45:57
Speaker 3: when the next time somebody tells you that we should
45:59
Speaker 3: lock them up the key, charge him with treason.
46:02
Speaker 4: All right, here's treason.
46:06
Speaker 3: This is the US law is defined by Article three,
46:09
Speaker 3: section three of the United States Constitution and codified as
46:14
Speaker 3: eighteen United States Code, Section twenty three eighty one. The
46:19
Speaker 3: act of a person owing allegiance to the United States
46:23
Speaker 3: who levies war against them or adheres to their enemies
46:28
Speaker 3: by giving them aid and comfort, period. That is the
46:36
Speaker 3: only crime explicitly defined in the US Constitution. Now, let's
46:42
Speaker 3: go into these statutory definitions levying war, waging armed force,
46:47
Speaker 3: or physical hostility to overthrow the US government or prevent
46:51
Speaker 3: the enforcement of its laws. I believe some of that
46:53
Speaker 3: has happened. I believe Liz Cheney may have been involved
46:57
Speaker 3: in this.
46:57
Speaker 4: I believe that.
47:00
Speaker 3: James Comy may have been involved in some of this.
47:03
Speaker 3: I believe that there are a number of famous deep
47:05
Speaker 3: state actors that have been involved in preventing the enforcement
47:12
Speaker 3: of our laws in an attempt to overthrow the government covertly.
47:20
Speaker 3: I believe that to be true. I think we've seen
47:23
Speaker 3: so many examples of that in Crossfire, Hurricane, Russia Gate.
47:29
Speaker 3: I mean, really, it's a lot of examples. But there
47:36
Speaker 3: was no physical act of war. So treason is iffy
47:42
Speaker 3: on that one. But I'll go with that one. Adhering
47:45
Speaker 3: to enemies, joining, supporting, or sympathizing with an official enemy
47:49
Speaker 3: of the United States. That doesn't mean being on the
47:51
Speaker 3: wrong side of history. That doesn't mean getting paid by
47:55
Speaker 3: a left winger who hates America.
47:58
Speaker 4: That means.
48:01
Speaker 3: You are making a paycheck from Iran, from some sworn
48:07
Speaker 3: enemy of the United States. That's what that means, even
48:11
Speaker 3: if it's laundered. Right, Iran is paying this one and
48:14
Speaker 3: by proxy they're paying.
48:15
Speaker 4: You, and you can make that trail.
48:17
Speaker 3: You've got yourself a case for treason if it's happening
48:20
Speaker 3: on college campuses, which could be true. Right, somebody's pro
48:24
Speaker 3: Palestine protests that turned violent, that turned into kidnapping. If
48:30
Speaker 3: we can prove that that money came from Iran, through proxies.
48:33
Speaker 3: Guess what, we've got a case. Then we've got aid
48:38
Speaker 3: and comfort providing any material, logistical, or practical assistance to
48:44
Speaker 3: an enemy. This is probably the easier one, right, as
48:48
Speaker 3: long as they are an enemy. Right, it seems like
48:51
Speaker 3: we never know who the enemy is. When you hear
48:55
Speaker 3: President Trump speak a lot of these excuse me about
48:58
Speaker 3: a lot of these countries.
49:00
Speaker 4: Russia, I really I respect Vladimir. Vladimir I got a
49:04
Speaker 4: lot of respect. He's a very smart man.
49:06
Speaker 6: Right.
49:06
Speaker 3: He always strokes there ego and I get it. It's
49:08
Speaker 3: a it's a masterclass in dealing with with highly powerful people.
49:16
Speaker 3: But guess what if they're not viewed as enemies of
49:20
Speaker 3: this state, that stuff is out the window. Now, what
49:23
Speaker 3: do we need to get a conviction? Well, according to
49:27
Speaker 3: what I'm reading here and the source on this is
49:32
Speaker 3: one of those academic research tools EPSCO, the accused must
49:38
Speaker 3: admit excuse me, the accused must commit a clear observable
49:43
Speaker 3: action in furtherance of the treason. So they have to
49:47
Speaker 3: have a treason this act, and you must have two witnesses.
49:52
Speaker 3: Conviction requires the testimony of at least two witnesses to
49:55
Speaker 3: the exact same overt act, overt act, not covert overt act,
50:02
Speaker 3: or a full confession in open court. Now, what happens
50:09
Speaker 3: if you get convicted, well, you know, death firing, squad,
50:12
Speaker 3: lethal injection, whatever they got, or a minimum of five
50:15
Speaker 3: years in prison, a fine of ten thousand dollars, permanent
50:20
Speaker 3: disqualification from holding any office under the United States. That's
50:24
Speaker 3: a good one. But what does that matter if you
50:26
Speaker 3: get somebody like Pelosi? Right, I mean, she's her days
50:31
Speaker 3: are numbered. Mitch McConnell, days are numbered. Anyway, if you'd like.
50:37
Speaker 4: And you want to.
50:38
Speaker 3: Weigh in on this and talk to me about this,
50:40
Speaker 3: we can. If not, we can talk about the other
50:42
Speaker 3: topics because there's plenty to discuss. We're going to go
50:45
Speaker 3: to your calls when I come back. Plus a couple
50:47
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51:16
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51:18
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51:24
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51:26
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51:28
Speaker 3: I got to make sure I say it before we
51:30
Speaker 3: run out of time. One of those things is make
51:32
Speaker 3: sure you check out the interview with doctor Keith Ablow.
51:35
Speaker 3: That is a standalone interview that I put out there,
51:38
Speaker 3: and that's something new we're doing. By the way, whenever
51:40
Speaker 3: we have certain interviews, we're trying to put them into
51:44
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51:48
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51:52
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51:54
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51:58
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52:00
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52:02
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52:05
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52:07
Speaker 3: shoot me a note on social media at Rich Faldees
52:11
Speaker 3: on any of the social media and speaking of social media,
52:14
Speaker 3: I was on Instagram and I tend to enjoy Instagram
52:17
Speaker 3: because it just I find it easy to use. Out
52:20
Speaker 3: of all of them, I enjoyed True Social because I
52:22
Speaker 3: like the content on there and I get to see
52:24
Speaker 3: a lot of President Trump and what he's talking about.
52:27
Speaker 4: But Instagram is.
52:28
Speaker 3: Easy for me to use for whatever reason, it works
52:30
Speaker 3: well with my ADHD brain. But there is a video
52:35
Speaker 3: that I wanted to play the audio for you because.
52:39
Speaker 4: It was interesting.
52:40
Speaker 3: It's just it's a question about dating, and we're going
52:43
Speaker 3: to do this in I guess in a grander way
52:46
Speaker 3: missed with excuse me, with doctor Gilda Carl or one
52:52
Speaker 3: of our other dating people, maybe Jennifer Steyers. But there's
52:59
Speaker 3: been a lot of talk about inflation affecting you know,
53:02
Speaker 3: what a date costs nowadays, and that's opened up the
53:08
Speaker 3: conversation about the dynamic between who earns more money with
53:11
Speaker 3: a first date costing some people two hundred bucks. People
53:15
Speaker 3: are thinking, you know what, we're gonna do a lot
53:16
Speaker 3: more coffee dates, We're gonna do a lot more you know,
53:20
Speaker 3: walks in the park and stuff like that. And some
53:23
Speaker 3: people are saying that makes guys look cheap. But I
53:26
Speaker 3: want to go a different direction with this, and just
53:29
Speaker 3: I want you to hear this audio. There's a woman,
53:32
Speaker 3: she's in fitness attire, she's on the street. And there's
53:35
Speaker 3: a guy who runs a channel.
53:36
Speaker 4: That I really enjoy.
53:36
Speaker 3: He interviews a lot of interesting people. I think it's
53:39
Speaker 3: usually in Miami, but I'm not sure if he travels
53:41
Speaker 3: the country or not. But the channel's called The Desirable
53:44
Speaker 3: Truth and he just goes up to random people and
53:47
Speaker 3: ask them questions. And over here he's like, excuse me, miss,
53:50
Speaker 3: and you know she responds.
53:51
Speaker 4: And listen to this.
53:52
Speaker 3: It's a very interesting take on the breadwinner in a relationship.
53:57
Speaker 2: Do you think it's okay to date a man for
53:59
Speaker 2: money man for money?
54:01
Speaker 11: No, actually it's gonna be funny.
54:04
Speaker 2: No, but you're an attractive woman. So if you could
54:06
Speaker 2: land a millionaire, do I not do it?
54:09
Speaker 11: I mean, money can't buy happiness. You see a lot
54:11
Speaker 11: of people that have a ton of money and they're
54:13
Speaker 11: still missing something.
54:14
Speaker 2: So so where does happiness come from?
54:16
Speaker 5: Now?
54:17
Speaker 11: You're being really trivial.
54:18
Speaker 9: I don't know.
54:19
Speaker 4: Next with your partner, if you're a single.
54:21
Speaker 5: Comes from within, learning to love yourself, understanding who you
54:24
Speaker 5: are as a person.
54:25
Speaker 2: Are you single currently?
54:27
Speaker 8: No?
54:27
Speaker 11: Dating him?
54:28
Speaker 1: All?
54:29
Speaker 2: All you guys been together over three years, but between
54:32
Speaker 2: the two of you, who makes more money? Thank guys,
54:34
Speaker 2: I do you're the breadwinner? Have you always been the breadwinner?
54:38
Speaker 11: Yes?
54:39
Speaker 2: Do you think that being the breadwinner as a woman
54:41
Speaker 2: changes a dynamic in the relationship with a man.
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Speaker 11: No, I mean I see other couples struggle with it,
54:48
Speaker 11: but not necessarily us like I don't care. I mean,
54:50
Speaker 11: I make more, but it's our money, like with mine
54:53
Speaker 11: is his and vice versa.
54:54
Speaker 2: How do you feel, as the man being that your
54:57
Speaker 2: woman makes more money?
54:58
Speaker 5: There are season for everything.
55:00
Speaker 4: He feels terrible? What are you kidding me?
55:02
Speaker 2: No?
55:02
Speaker 4: God thing.
55:03
Speaker 5: Miss at a time where she was able to carry
55:07
Speaker 5: us while I was figuring out job life with school,
55:12
Speaker 5: moved around, figuring out my passion in my path, she
55:14
Speaker 5: was a lot more stable than I was.
55:16
Speaker 6: At some point.
55:17
Speaker 5: A tide is going to change where the goal is
55:19
Speaker 5: for her to stop working at some point and then
55:21
Speaker 5: she had to take time up and focus on other
55:23
Speaker 5: things that she wants to. So it doesn't make me fe.
55:25
Speaker 3: I don't know, Listen, I don't want to hate on
55:27
Speaker 3: this guy. He seems like an incredibly awesome guy, very
55:29
Speaker 3: nice guy. They seem like a beautiful couple. But I'm
55:32
Speaker 3: gonna say this, This girl's very happy and proud that
55:37
Speaker 3: she is the breadwinner. She doesn't want to she doesn't
55:40
Speaker 3: seemingly on her body posture, she doesn't seem like she's
55:43
Speaker 3: holding it over his head or anything like that, but
55:47
Speaker 3: she seems proud of herself for achieving that. And as
55:52
Speaker 3: he's saying this, her face is changing like, hmmm, I
55:55
Speaker 3: don't think I'm gonna stop working, Like what are you
55:57
Speaker 3: talking about?
55:57
Speaker 6: Bro?
55:58
Speaker 4: But let's let him continue.
56:00
Speaker 5: Feel any type of way. There's no ego, there's no
56:03
Speaker 5: demasculating or emasculating me.
56:05
Speaker 2: Why do you think so many men feel emasculated being
56:08
Speaker 2: in a position that you're in.
56:10
Speaker 5: The anxiety, the pressure they put on you to do
56:12
Speaker 5: what a man does, or you're not doing anything if
56:15
Speaker 5: you don't act like what the definition of a man is.
56:19
Speaker 5: And in that way, they are living to please other
56:21
Speaker 5: people and not themselves.
56:23
Speaker 2: Do you guys split the bills fifty to fifty or
56:25
Speaker 2: does your man cover everything?
56:26
Speaker 4: We have a joint account even though you're not married.
56:28
Speaker 11: Yeah, we have a house account that we both pour
56:31
Speaker 11: into and it covers like our bills, and then we
56:34
Speaker 11: each have our own fun money.
56:35
Speaker 2: So if you make more, why not just cover everything.
56:38
Speaker 11: I mean, we're kind of doing life together at this point.
56:40
Speaker 11: Like it's not worth anything for him to have to
56:43
Speaker 11: like struggle and not have any experiences just because I
56:46
Speaker 11: make more. At the end of the day, we're both
56:48
Speaker 11: like trying to achieve the same thing. So it just
56:50
Speaker 11: seems silly.
56:51
Speaker 3: Yes, Okay, so it's not fun for her to go
56:55
Speaker 3: on vacation alone, so she's bringing him on vacation. That's
56:58
Speaker 3: what I heard anyway. Trying to to get at anybody,
57:03
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to create some perspective here to have
57:06
Speaker 3: this conversation right before we wrap, because I think it's
57:09
Speaker 3: very interesting to see this dynamic, right I personally, I
57:13
Speaker 3: don't know. I don't think I've been ever with a
57:15
Speaker 3: woman that makes more money than me. And that doesn't
57:17
Speaker 3: mean to make a lot of money. It just means
57:18
Speaker 3: I just haven't been in that situation, you know. I
57:23
Speaker 3: don't know what that feels like. But I am from
57:26
Speaker 3: the old school where I believe that, you know, guys
57:28
Speaker 3: pay and that type of thing. Chivalry's not dead over here,
57:32
Speaker 3: but it's a different world and women are every day
57:37
Speaker 3: making you know, advances in all sorts of things. More
57:42
Speaker 3: and more women are not having children, and that's the
57:44
Speaker 3: number one reason that they don't earn as much because
57:46
Speaker 3: they have to take off from the workforce. So my
57:50
Speaker 3: thinking here is that I don't personally right, I don't
57:54
Speaker 3: know how I would feel about it. I think that
57:57
Speaker 3: if the person truly like the guy I said, if
58:00
Speaker 3: the girl was not coming at it from a perspective
58:03
Speaker 3: of ego, if she didn't feel like, you know, ah,
58:06
Speaker 3: I'm taking my man out again, you know, then I
58:10
Speaker 3: would say, Hey, it doesn't matter, right, because in a
58:12
Speaker 3: partnership in life, that's how it is. Sometimes one is up,
58:16
Speaker 3: the other one might be down. And I don't mean financially,
58:18
Speaker 3: I mean emotionally. I mean in every aspect of life.
58:21
Speaker 3: Maybe you know, somebody's on their diet, they're they're in
58:23
Speaker 3: the gym, they're hitting it hard, and then all of
58:26
Speaker 3: a sudden they're not. And that's part of the job, right.
58:29
Speaker 3: There's an old saying that it's not really fifty to
58:31
Speaker 3: fifty relationship. It's one hundred and one hundred. Each of
58:34
Speaker 3: you has to give one hundred percent to the other
58:36
Speaker 3: in order for it to work. And I think that's right.
58:39
Speaker 3: So let me know your thoughts on this. I wish
58:41
Speaker 3: I could get into all the open phone stuff, but
58:44
Speaker 3: we're out of time on this one. But give me
58:46
Speaker 3: a call on this and I'll get to your calls
58:48
Speaker 3: on this on the next hour and the next segment.
58:52
Speaker 3: Eight seven seven valdesz one eight seven seven Valdez one.
58:57
Speaker 3: Should we be intimidated by a woman that makes more money?
59:02
Speaker 3: If you're a guy, and if you're a woman and
59:05
Speaker 3: you're making more money, let me know what that dynamic
59:07
Speaker 3: is like, because I'm wondering does that transcend into the relationship.
59:12
Speaker 3: Does he take a more subservient role. In recent years,
59:16
Speaker 3: we've been hearing about guys that are stay at home dads,
59:19
Speaker 3: and I'm just curious, curious to know your thoughts. Going
59:21
Speaker 3: to be a call on that if you can, and
59:24
Speaker 3: keep an eye out for that interview with doctor Keith
59:27
Speaker 3: Ablow as well as We've got an interview with doctor
59:30
Speaker 3: Elaine Haley coming up, and former Capitol Hill Police chief
59:35
Speaker 3: Stephen sund.
59:36
Speaker 4: Will be joining us this week as well.
59:38
Speaker 3: So I bid you ado, but I will be back
59:43
Speaker 3: and we will continue our conversation on everything that's going
59:46
Speaker 3: on in America at night. But the number one thing
59:50
Speaker 3: I want to impress upon you is to stand for something,
59:54
Speaker 3: because if you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.
59:57
Speaker 3: And the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is
1:00:01
Speaker 3: for good people to sit there and do nothing. I
1:00:04
Speaker 3: start approxym, I take care, good night, and God bless you, America.
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Speaker 3: I'm Rich Valdas, and this is America.
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