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Mamdani, Marjorie, Military · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez powered by politicweek dot com.
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Speaker 1: And Rich Valdes is with us former Christian Administration official.
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Speaker 2: You worked for Chris Christie, have been POLLOISI on a
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Speaker 2: lot of public service stuff. Rich Valdez calmunist now with
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Speaker 2: the Washington Times. This is America, Richiev. You're on the
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Speaker 2: air with the Nation. Nation with America with your host,
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Speaker 2: Rich Valdez. What's up America. I am Rich Valdes Valdez
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Speaker 2: with an s at Rich Valdez on all of the
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Speaker 2: social media. Happy to be here with you this Friday,
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Speaker 2: and it is truly a blessing. And check this out.
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Speaker 2: You've got mister Mamdani heads to Washington to meet with
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Speaker 2: President Trump in the White House. Then Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green,
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Speaker 2: MTG has resigned from Congress effective next year. And this
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Speaker 2: all comes after her beef with a Trompito and Aldis Magnus,
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Speaker 2: the forty fifth and forty seventh president of these United States.
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Speaker 2: Plus how House military veterans from the Republican Conference have
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Speaker 2: clapped back at the Democrat members and their seditious video.
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Speaker 2: So we're going to get into a bunch of this stuff. Tonight,
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Speaker 2: plus a little bit on Niccolo Machiavelli, because I think
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Speaker 2: it's so appropriate given the know how things are playing
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Speaker 2: out in politics right now. But I want to start
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Speaker 2: with a question, and my question is, would you be
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Speaker 2: against an America where we had less crime, less polarization,
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Speaker 2: and people actually got along. Is that something you'd be
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Speaker 2: opposed to? Some of our friends on the left, even
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Speaker 2: some on the right, are typically opposed to being colonized, right,
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Speaker 2: I don't think anybody likes that. Would you be opposed
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Speaker 2: to being colonized? I think I would. I don't want
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Speaker 2: to be colonized. Now, what would you say when people
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Speaker 2: from a different place, a different land, come to your
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Speaker 2: land in large numbers, wishing to make a change on
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Speaker 2: your land? Is that enough to characterize what's going on
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Speaker 2: as being colonized? Are these colonizers coming after you in
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Speaker 2: your way of life and your culture and things like that?
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Speaker 2: When you see the culture around you changing, in particular
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Speaker 2: in the Western hemisphere, North America, whatever, in particular religious culture,
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Speaker 2: is this not colonizers taking over? I don't know the
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Speaker 2: answer to that. Maybe you do. I'm just asking for
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Speaker 2: a friend, But we're going to ponder that question throughout
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Speaker 2: the program tonight, because those are things that matter, right
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Speaker 2: when you change language, when you change faith, these are
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Speaker 2: things that are truly, truly what make up a tribe, right,
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Speaker 2: and America has been a melting pot of many tribes.
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Speaker 2: And I get that, right. I mean, you go to
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Speaker 2: Puerto Rico, most people there are Christians. You go to
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Speaker 2: the Dominican Republic, most people there are Christians. You go
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Speaker 2: to Cuba, I don't know that most people there are Christians.
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Speaker 2: I believe if they are religious, they're likely split amongst
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Speaker 2: atheism because it's a communist country and they're not allowed
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Speaker 2: to celebrate Christmas. It's also a country that's steeped in
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Speaker 2: spiritual tradition, similar to the other islands, where you know
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Speaker 2: you have these what is that stuff called not voodoo.
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Speaker 2: I'm forgetting Santia, so I understand that too. But I
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Speaker 2: think by and large, the contiguous forty eight here in
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Speaker 2: the United States match what you see in the Caribbean,
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Speaker 2: match what you see in most of North America, if
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Speaker 2: not skewing in the other direction. Now that's not to
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Speaker 2: say that you know this is always going to be
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Speaker 2: the case, right, I don't think it is. I think
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Speaker 2: We're seeing a quick change, a vast change in that,
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Speaker 2: and I want to ponder that as we go through
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Speaker 2: this evening. Right, this is kind of like a tease
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Speaker 2: to put that out there, to wet the appetite. Wet
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Speaker 2: with an h and I'm gonna shift gears a little
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Speaker 2: bit to a meeting that occurred today, a meeting between
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Speaker 2: the President of the United States, and I was gonna say,
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Speaker 2: Barak Hussein Mamdani, and I didn't mean that to be funny.
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Speaker 2: I was saying that, you know, I guess Freudian slip
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Speaker 2: if you will, But between Mayor elect Zoran Mamdani and
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Speaker 2: a Trompezo DONALDUS Magnus to forty fifth to forty seventh
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Speaker 2: president of these United States.
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Speaker 3: And my.
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Speaker 2: Initial reaction to this, and you get most of it,
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Speaker 2: I just only saw these videos a little while ago,
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Speaker 2: is that there's been a real shift in the tone.
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Speaker 2: Right Zarah Mamdani was talking about I Am going to
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Speaker 2: be his worst nightmare. Remember that. I think I have
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Speaker 2: a clip of that. Play the clip.
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Speaker 1: My administration would be Donald Trump's worst nightmare. Thank you President.
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Speaker 2: That's today at the White House.
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Speaker 1: I appreciated the meeting with the President and as he said,
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Speaker 1: it was a productive meeting focused on a place of
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Speaker 1: shared admiration and love, which is New York City. And
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Speaker 1: listen to that, my administration would be Donald Trump's worst nightmare.
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Speaker 2: So what happened to his administration being Donald Trump's worst nightmare?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 2: Where's all that that grand standing, Where's all that that
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Speaker 2: tough guy talk. Now he's dealing with somebody. He's way
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Speaker 2: out of his league. He's a sharp guy. I can't
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to say he's he's dumb. I think
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Speaker 2: oftentimes I think my comments get you know, read the
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Speaker 2: wrong way. Just because I make fun of somebody doesn't
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Speaker 2: mean I always think they're dumb. I may not agree
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Speaker 2: with them, some of their ideas may be dumb, and
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Speaker 2: some of their responses in the media may be dumb.
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Speaker 2: But I don't think they're dumb, right, I don't think
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Speaker 2: people that are really dumb as rocks actually win elections.
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Speaker 2: They're cunning, their slick, they're sly. So let me put
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Speaker 2: that out there to preface that. But I'm gonna say
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Speaker 2: Mamdani met with President Trump today and I thought this
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Speaker 2: was interesting because it really it was a master class
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Speaker 2: in the art of the deal in many ways. It
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Speaker 2: was a master class in understanding, uh, Machiavelli. Right. And
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that either one of them is being
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Speaker 2: Machiavelli in per se. But Machiavelli was famous for you know,
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Speaker 2: they call him the godfather of modern political thought because
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Speaker 2: dealing with the body politic up until you know, his
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Speaker 2: thinking became popularized. At least my understanding of it was
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Speaker 2: based on one's morality, Right, you were in politics to
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Speaker 2: advance your morality, to advance kind of shared morality, to
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Speaker 2: maintain the morality and safety and security and order. And
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Speaker 2: Machiavelli had a different concept that was like, no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: this is politics. This is about balancing the influence of
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Speaker 2: power in my direction, gaining that power, amassing that power,
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Speaker 2: and influencing others. And in realizing that he would use
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Speaker 2: this pragmatic view that didn't focus on morality but focused
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Speaker 2: on political power it and you know, it creates opens
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Speaker 2: the door, opens up dialogue for an entire new dimension,
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Speaker 2: a new dynamic. And President Trump understands this. He understands
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Speaker 2: it better than most people because I think of his
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Speaker 2: experience as a businessman in New York. He realizes that look,
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Speaker 2: whether it's this mafia crime family, that mafia crime family,
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Speaker 2: the Ukrainians, whomever, waste management people, concrete people, electrical people,
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Speaker 2: inspectors that are on the take, you name it, Senators,
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Speaker 2: congress people, all sorts of people. I got to donate
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Speaker 2: to their campaigns. He knows he's got to get along
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Speaker 2: with everybody why to get his projects done. He's not
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Speaker 2: here to make enemies. He's here to make friends. So
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Speaker 2: when President Trump says things like, look, is it a
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Speaker 2: bad thing to get along? Is it a bad thing?
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Speaker 2: I love that. We need more of that in today's politics.
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Speaker 2: The problem is they attack him so much, and he's
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Speaker 2: so good at fighting back and coming up with these
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Speaker 2: great nicknames that cut right through the noise and these
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Speaker 2: catchphrases say you're fake news. Right. He's so good at
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Speaker 2: that that when he pushes back, he pushes back right.
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Speaker 2: They make a fifteen five six seven minute video he
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Speaker 2: comes back with saying one tweet, right, one truth social
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Speaker 2: post and his truth says punishable by death. That sedition
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Speaker 2: punishable by death. I mean, it's brilliant. Right. He cuts
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Speaker 2: through the noise each and every time. He's so scynct.
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Speaker 2: So we look at this and we say, what was
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Speaker 2: Trump's mo today? Why did he take the meeting to
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Speaker 2: elevate this guy as a rock star. I think it's
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Speaker 2: pretty clear he's already a rock star, right, whether you
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Speaker 2: like him or not. He won by great numbers. He
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Speaker 2: beat every single person on the ballot. Right, people that
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Speaker 2: are trying to say that Curtis Leeva did this, Curtis
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Speaker 2: Curtis lee was a patriot. In my opinion, he did
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Speaker 2: the right thing. And you could put all the votes,
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Speaker 2: even the ones that did writings, there wasn't enough votes
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Speaker 2: cast against mam donni for him to lose. That's the
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Speaker 2: bottom line. Doesn't matter. You put Cuomo together with Sliva,
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Speaker 2: with Eric Adams with writings. Still the math doesn't add up.
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Speaker 2: Mam Donnie still wits based on the numbers that we saw.
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Speaker 2: So what's Trump gonna do? He's already seen what this
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Speaker 2: guy does. This guy blows his load. I'm gonna be
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump's worst nightmare. Or Trump cannot take the high
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Speaker 2: road right publicly. He knows this guy's coming here to
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Speaker 2: yell at me. But this guy wants to cut a deal.
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Speaker 2: All right, Let's cut a deal. And what does Trump
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Speaker 2: do meet when I'm privately first and tell him, look,
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Speaker 2: you've already seen what went down here. You've seen Zelenski
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Speaker 2: come in here, uh and get embarrassed and walk right
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Speaker 2: out with meetings cut short. For all intent and purpose,
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Speaker 2: I'd say we've seen Zelenski get bounced out of the
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Speaker 2: White House. So if we've seen all of that, and
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Speaker 2: Mamdanni is a stute and has seen that too, then
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Speaker 2: it behooves Mamdani to try and be friend Trump. And
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Speaker 2: Trump uses this not as president. This is Trump as Trump.
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Speaker 2: This is Trump as the author of the art of
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Speaker 2: the deal. This is Trump as the businessman he is.
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Speaker 2: He uses this he ingratiates himself with people because he
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Speaker 2: knows that they like something about the Trump brand or
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Speaker 2: the power that he possesses, in this case, the Oval
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Speaker 2: Office and his command of the Federal Executive Branch resources
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Speaker 2: that New York needs. So Mom, Donnie says, look, I'm
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Speaker 2: going to satisfy the base when I you know, my
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Speaker 2: acceptance speech and all that, I'm gonna beat up Trump,
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Speaker 2: And in real life I'm gonna say, Trump, Donnie baby,
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Speaker 2: come on, let's do lunch. Type your people call my people,
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Speaker 2: let's make a deal and guess who likes making deals Trump?
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Speaker 2: So how do you think it goes down? Mo'm donnie
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Speaker 2: going understand affordability, affordability, affordability, affordability, affordability. And then and
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Speaker 2: then you have Trumpito saying I think we should make
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Speaker 2: things more affordable, right, isn't nobody said yesterday, the day before,
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Speaker 2: we got to make America more affordable again. So it
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Speaker 2: seems like they have something in common there. They're both
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Speaker 2: New Yorkers. Seems like they have something in common there too.
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Speaker 2: Now listen, this is not a glowing endorsement of mo'm donnie.
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Speaker 2: This is me saying what is Trump doing?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 2: And I think what Trump is doing is saying, look,
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Speaker 2: I don't need another enemy. I've got plenty. Do you
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Speaker 2: do you want an enemy in this White House? Do
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Speaker 2: you want an enemy in me? Or do you want
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Speaker 2: to maybe stop with all of your song and dance
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Speaker 2: or guess what, sing your song and dance all you want,
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Speaker 2: But just know this is gonna go down like this.
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Speaker 2: You can call me a fascist, you can call me
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Speaker 2: whatever you want, but here's how it goes down. You're
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Speaker 2: gonna have more cops on the street. We're gonna have
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Speaker 2: these numbers down. Well, I don't know, mister President. All right,
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Speaker 2: I do know this. You can keep shouting at Tom
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Speaker 2: Holman the way you did, because you're gonna be seing
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Speaker 2: a lot of him. You're gonna see a lot of people.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna have I'm gonna have ice there and forcing
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Speaker 2: like you don't know. I'm gonna have the Federal Protective
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Speaker 2: Service on the streets outside every courthouse, at every single
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Speaker 2: federal building, Federal Applausas down the block from City Hall.
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Speaker 2: You watch, I'll be there. We'll be there all the time.
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Speaker 2: We will cost so much gridlock. Ahead, call my bluff,
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Speaker 2: right but in his Trump voice, go ahead, call my
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Speaker 2: bluffs or on my little Cami, my little COMI mayor
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Speaker 2: so I think President Trump basically said, look, this can
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Speaker 2: go poorly or it can go well. New York has
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Speaker 2: to improve, bottom line. Are you going to do it?
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Speaker 2: And I think mom Donnie turns around and says, well,
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Speaker 2: given that my bridge to nowhere project, or as he
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Speaker 2: would phrase it, millionaire, billionaire and taxpayer funded free quote unquote,
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Speaker 2: free air quotes, free subways isn't going to be a thing,
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Speaker 2: then maybe he can say, look me, personally, I'm a
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Speaker 2: socialist and I think you're a fascist. But I think
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Speaker 2: we can work together if we do things that you know,
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Speaker 2: if we can find those common areas. And this is
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Speaker 2: how politics works, and this is why maybe some of
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Speaker 2: you criticize me for it, but I've always felt this
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Speaker 2: is the only way that politics can work. You're always
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Speaker 2: going to have somebody that opposes to you, and you
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Speaker 2: can't just say I'm not going to make a deal
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Speaker 2: with you. You can sometimes right like President Trump. He
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Speaker 2: didn't bend at all on that government shutdown. Guess what,
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Speaker 2: he didn't blink. He stood his ground. The right thing happened.
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Speaker 2: But it's your experience, it's your ability to discern and
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Speaker 2: to be judicious that allows you to make these right decisions.
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Speaker 2: And then it's up to you whether you want to
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Speaker 2: kill with kindness or kill with a nuke. I think
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Speaker 2: Trump decided he wanted to kill with kindness. Listen to this,
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Speaker 2: mister President Republican.
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Speaker 3: At least Dephonic has campaigned multiple times by callings or
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Speaker 3: Amumdania Jahadist. Do you think you're standing next to a
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Speaker 3: Jahadis right now in the Oval Opera?
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Speaker 1: No? I know, but she's out there campaigning, and you know,
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Speaker 1: you say things sometimes in a campaign. She's a very
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Speaker 1: capable person, but you really have to ask her about that.
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Speaker 1: But I don't particularly I think I met with a
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Speaker 1: very I met with a man who's a very rational person.
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Speaker 1: I met with a man who wants.
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Speaker 2: To hold on a second. He's talking about Zora Mamdani.
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Speaker 2: He's standing right next to him, and he said, I
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Speaker 2: met with a man that's a very rational person. This
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Speaker 2: is the same rational person that was yelling at the
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Speaker 2: top of his lungs at Tom Homan, same rational person
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Speaker 2: that is called Trump a fascist, same rational person that
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Speaker 2: says he wants to arrest bebing At in Yahoo. So
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Speaker 2: what do you think happened in the first few minutes
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Speaker 2: of their conversation when they met, right, I say, probably
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Speaker 2: went something like this. Mamdani comes in and says, well,
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Speaker 2: mister President, thank you for the time. You know, I
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Speaker 2: really do appreciate it. And you know, all things considered,
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Speaker 2: as you know, having run for a president you know
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Speaker 2: multiple times, and having the experience you do on the
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Speaker 2: campaign trail that sometimes things get heated, sometimes things are said,
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Speaker 2: and I do want to say, outside of anything, I
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Speaker 2: respect your ability to win despite the odds. I had
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Speaker 2: you pegged for going to jail, and I'll be between
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Speaker 2: you and million the four walls. Listen. I thought that
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Speaker 2: what they did to you was a raw deal. I mean,
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Speaker 2: come on, this crime of falsifying documents wasn't even a
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Speaker 2: crime until they created it for you. Right now, I
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Speaker 2: think he gave him some area to say, oh, you know,
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Speaker 2: thank you, Zonon, my little commie. And you know, honestly,
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Speaker 2: you are a comedi, but you're a nice COMMI and
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Speaker 2: you know if you want to work with me, there's
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Speaker 2: none of that commy bs. I'm just telling you right now,
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Speaker 2: right And then they have this conversation and then eventually
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Speaker 2: Trump says, look, I have all the cards. You don't
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Speaker 2: have the cards. All you can do is bark and
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Speaker 2: fight for four years if I don't work with you,
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Speaker 2: and you're going to be fighting against me. And you
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Speaker 2: know the saying, if you're not able to ever go
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Speaker 2: on offense and you're spending all your time on defense,
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Speaker 2: you're not doing anything. You're not advancing if all you're
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Speaker 2: doing is fighting back. And Trump knows that firsthand. That
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Speaker 2: was his first term, right trying to advance forward yet
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Speaker 2: constantly having to fight back against the deep State. So
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Speaker 2: he gets to this place and now he's saying, Trump
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Speaker 2: makes a decision, what do I do?
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Speaker 3: Do?
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Speaker 2: I say, my little Kami, I told him, listen, if
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Speaker 2: you don't do what I say, what That leads right
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Speaker 2: into the whole fascistic stuff right O. He's holding it
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Speaker 2: over his heads. So what does Trump do? High Road?
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Speaker 2: I don't know. At least I fand it called the
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Speaker 2: guy at your hot It's not me. I think the
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Speaker 2: guy's rational. I met with somebody who wants what's the
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Speaker 2: best for New York play the tape.
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Speaker 1: Really wants to see New York be great again? And
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Speaker 1: I can say again because New York was great. You
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Speaker 1: know when I came down to Washington, initially the city
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Speaker 1: was so hot, it was doing great. We were having
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Speaker 1: some telltale signs and problems. We had a mayor that
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Speaker 1: was not doing a great job, but still it was
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Speaker 1: moving along. And it went bad. It really went, you know,
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Speaker 1: pretty bad, and he can. I think it's been at
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Speaker 1: lower points, but it went pretty bad. I think he
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Speaker 1: can bring it back.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: The question is will we bring it back all the way?
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Speaker 1: Will he bring it back greater than ever before? Which
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Speaker 1: is I guarantee that's his wish. I think it wants
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Speaker 1: to make it greater than ever before. And if he can,
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Speaker 1: we'll be out there cheering. I'll be cheering for him. Okay,
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Speaker 1: thank you very much, everybody.
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Speaker 2: So President Trump cheering for Kami Mamdani. Right, Maybe this
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Speaker 2: is why he got involved in the race. Maybe they
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Speaker 2: had a deal ahead of time. Who knows, right, this
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Speaker 2: is politics. I wasn't privy to any of those deals.
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Speaker 2: You know where I stood on that race. I wanted
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Speaker 2: courteously with the person who I thought was best to
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Speaker 2: win that race, who I think would have worked very
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Speaker 2: well with President Trump. But from President Trump's perspective, if
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Speaker 2: I were in his shoes, if Mamdani has the gravitas
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Speaker 2: to popularity to win, but not the experience to govern well,
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Speaker 2: but the popularity and the energy to govern poorly, then
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Speaker 2: perhaps Trump can try to intervene, being an elder statesman
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Speaker 2: and saying, look, you could drive this thing off a cliff,
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Speaker 2: or you can't. And I think his view with Curtis
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Speaker 2: Sliwa might have been we haven't gotten along ever. I
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Speaker 2: don't know that we're going to get along better now.
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Speaker 2: And he made his choice, right. I think he thought
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Speaker 2: to himself. I'd probably do best with Andrew Cuomo if
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Speaker 2: I'm being frank, So you know, it is what it is.
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Speaker 2: I don't know his thought process. I haven't had this
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Speaker 2: conversation with the president. I'm just deducing what I see
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Speaker 2: based on the media reports. And one thing about Trump,
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Speaker 2: people say, oh, he lied, he lied, he lied. Trump
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Speaker 2: typically tells you the truth every single time, right, including
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Speaker 2: the things you don't want to hear, including the things
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Speaker 2: that hurt people's feelings. So again, my take on this
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Speaker 2: is that President Trump is trying to do what's right
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Speaker 2: for New York City. He's trying to amass some power.
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Speaker 2: Now in a Machiavellian way, What do you mean, Rich,
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Speaker 2: I don't mean that in a bad way. I mean
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Speaker 2: that in a good way. The enemy of my enemy
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Speaker 2: is my friend, right, Like from Machiavelli's book to the Prince.
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Speaker 2: So Mamdani while he's yelling at Trump, yelling at Trump,
20:08
Speaker 2: yelling at Trump, who are his allies? Alexander Soros? AOC? Now,
20:17
Speaker 2: if AOC is coming after Schumer, that means Mamdanni can
20:27
Speaker 2: come after Schumer. And Mamdannie was just in a back
20:29
Speaker 2: and forth with do I endorse the guy that's going
20:31
Speaker 2: with Hakim Jeffries or not. And at first he did,
20:34
Speaker 2: then he didn't, right. I think that's how that went,
20:36
Speaker 2: you know, kind of calling off the dogs. So the
20:39
Speaker 2: person that has the power here to run the primary
20:42
Speaker 2: is Mamdani. He's the shot caller. I don't think Chuck
20:45
Speaker 2: Schumer can say we've got a beautiful moderate candidate. We're
20:49
Speaker 2: gonna run him. We're gonna run him against Mamdani. You're
20:51
Speaker 2: gonna see because we've been seeing guys like Chuck Schumer
20:54
Speaker 2: lose when they run against the Democrat Socialists of America,
20:58
Speaker 2: when they run against the Burns, the Elizabeth Warrens, the
21:01
Speaker 2: AOC all out crazy. So what happens? So Trump now
21:05
Speaker 2: gives a what I would say is a tacit endorsement.
21:09
Speaker 2: Listen to this.
21:10
Speaker 1: Would you feel comfortable living in New York City under
21:13
Speaker 1: a MANDI? Yeah, I would, wrote, especially after the meeting. Absolutely,
21:18
Speaker 1: what makes you comfortable? We agree on a lot more
21:21
Speaker 1: than I would have thought. I think he's I want
21:25
Speaker 1: him to do a great job, and we'll help him
21:27
Speaker 1: do a great job. You know, he may have different views,
21:30
Speaker 1: but in many ways. You know, we were discussing when
21:33
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders was out of the race. I picked up
21:35
Speaker 1: a lot of his votes, and people had no idea
21:38
Speaker 1: because he was strong on not getting ripped off in
21:40
Speaker 1: trade and lots of the things that I've practiced and
21:42
Speaker 1: have been very successful on tariffs, a lot of things
21:47
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders and I agreed on much more than people thought,
21:50
Speaker 1: and when he was put out of the race, I
21:54
Speaker 1: think quite unfairly. If you want another truth, many of
21:58
Speaker 1: the Bernie Sanders voters voted for me, and I felt
22:02
Speaker 1: very comfortable, frankly, and seeing that and saying that, and
22:04
Speaker 1: you know, it just turned out to be a statistical truth.
22:09
Speaker 1: But no, I feel very comfortable.
22:12
Speaker 2: I would be.
22:12
Speaker 1: I would feel very very comfortable being in New York,
22:15
Speaker 1: and I think much more so after the meeting.
22:17
Speaker 2: There you go, Where does all that come from? Well,
22:19
Speaker 2: a number of things. Number one is Trump and nine
22:21
Speaker 2: to five working stiff. He's definitely more than nine to five, right.
22:25
Speaker 2: He's like four in the morning to four in the
22:27
Speaker 2: morning kind of guy. Right, guys, twenty four hours a day,
22:30
Speaker 2: maniac work ethic. God bless him. He also has serious
22:35
Speaker 2: real estate holdings in New York City. Like me, He's
22:37
Speaker 2: a New Yorker born in New York City. I think
22:39
Speaker 2: you have a conversation with somebody and you say, listen.
22:42
Speaker 2: Part of life is if you put your guard down
22:45
Speaker 2: for a second and really have that conversation, which I
22:48
Speaker 2: believe Trump does in his interactions with people. At least
22:52
Speaker 2: when I've met with him personally, he was extraordinarily engaged
22:57
Speaker 2: in the conversation we were having. I think Charlie Kirk
23:01
Speaker 2: was also the same way. I think you have this
23:05
Speaker 2: conversation between zoron Mumdani, who goes in there and has
23:09
Speaker 2: enough sense to realize, I'm not going to get Trump
23:12
Speaker 2: to tattoo a hammer and a sickle on his bicep,
23:15
Speaker 2: but I might just get him to not kick me
23:18
Speaker 2: out and try to deport me.
23:21
Speaker 3: Right.
23:21
Speaker 2: So each of them has an agenda going into this meeting,
23:25
Speaker 2: and now it's the political calculus. What do we do?
23:29
Speaker 2: How do we figure things out? So for Trump, a
23:32
Speaker 2: friend in Mamdani goes one of two ways. Either A,
23:37
Speaker 2: I can now I have I have the ammunition. I
23:40
Speaker 2: now have an alliance with the enemy of some Democrats,
23:46
Speaker 2: many who have Schumer and others like him over a
23:51
Speaker 2: barrel Number one. Number two, I've got him over a
23:57
Speaker 2: barrel because he needs funding and I can and ruin
24:00
Speaker 2: his trajectory here. So either he can play ball on
24:05
Speaker 2: the agenda that I have for New York, which is
24:07
Speaker 2: you're gonna work with ice. You could yell about it,
24:10
Speaker 2: but you're gonna do it. You're going to make sure
24:13
Speaker 2: that you know there's not people getting mugged in front
24:16
Speaker 2: of Trump Tower because New York City's great, we want
24:19
Speaker 2: it to be great again. And guess what, maybe just
24:22
Speaker 2: maybe you get re elected if you play my game
24:27
Speaker 2: or we make you look so bad for the whole
24:30
Speaker 2: time that you're in office that you become the next
24:33
Speaker 2: Derek Adams, a one term losing mayor. And I think
24:38
Speaker 2: that is again, what politics looks like. I'm not saying
24:42
Speaker 2: it's what I like. I'm not saying it's what should
24:44
Speaker 2: be done. I'm saying it's what I've learned in the
24:46
Speaker 2: years of having worked in government and being around politics,
24:49
Speaker 2: and I've seen it some parts of the country. I
24:52
Speaker 2: think Democrats don't even talk to Republicans in places like
24:55
Speaker 2: New York, places like New Jersey, where I think everybody
24:57
Speaker 2: here's a rhino. That's not the case. It's just that
25:01
Speaker 2: you're outnumbered so you have to learn how to play ball,
25:05
Speaker 2: and that's part of this game too, learning how to
25:08
Speaker 2: play ball, learning how to get along, learning how to compromise,
25:11
Speaker 2: learning the art of the deal. So that's my thought
25:15
Speaker 2: on that, and well, you know, we'll chime back in
25:17
Speaker 2: on that as we go through the evening. But what
25:21
Speaker 2: do you think was this a machiavellian move with Mamdanie
25:25
Speaker 2: visiting El Trumpito? Is this, like they say, four dimensional chess?
25:31
Speaker 2: Or is it a you know, Trump just being gracious
25:33
Speaker 2: and maybe he's getting duped. I tend to not think
25:36
Speaker 2: that's the case, but either way, I want to hear
25:39
Speaker 2: your thoughts. Hit me up at Rich valdesk on all
25:42
Speaker 2: of the social media and straight ahead Marjorie Taylor Green.
25:47
Speaker 2: She says loyalty should have been a two way street
25:50
Speaker 2: with President Trump. Instead it was only a one way street.
25:54
Speaker 2: Their battle ending with her saying no mas more after.
25:58
Speaker 1: This, this is a Maria.
26:02
Speaker 2: This is a Maria.
26:03
Speaker 1: He's brown, he's bald, and he's.
26:06
Speaker 2: Breaking it down. Oh he's still had someome what's his name,
26:09
Speaker 2: Rich Beldaz. All right, he goes, welcome back and we
26:14
Speaker 2: can take to the conversation. This Friday evening with Marjorie
26:19
Speaker 2: Taylor Green, Representative Green announcing in a very lengthy video
26:26
Speaker 2: released to Twitter and other social media that she is
26:29
Speaker 2: resigning her position effective January fifth, twenty twenty. So I
26:35
Speaker 2: guess at the end of this current term before the
26:37
Speaker 2: next Congress gets sworn in. And she explained a lot
26:41
Speaker 2: of things. I can't play the entire eleven minute video,
26:45
Speaker 2: but I can give you a couple of minutes of it.
26:47
Speaker 2: Listen to this.
26:48
Speaker 3: Standing up for American women who were raped at fourteen
26:53
Speaker 3: years old, trafficked and used by rich, powerful men should
26:56
Speaker 3: not result in me being called a trader, threatened by
27:00
Speaker 3: the President of the United States, whom I fought for.
27:04
Speaker 2: Wow, shots fired. She's not playing games. She also goes
27:08
Speaker 2: on to say there is no plan to save the world.
27:10
Speaker 2: There is no four dimensional chess listens it is.
27:15
Speaker 3: However, while yes hurtful, my heart remains filled with joy,
27:20
Speaker 3: My life is filled with happiness, and my true convictions
27:23
Speaker 3: remain unchanged because my self worth is not defined by
27:27
Speaker 3: a man, but instead by God, who created everything in existence.
27:32
Speaker 3: You see, I have never valued power, titles, or attention.
27:36
Speaker 3: In spite of all the wrong assumptions about me. I
27:39
Speaker 3: do not cling to those things because they are meaningless
27:43
Speaker 3: and empty traps that hold too many people in Washington.
27:47
Speaker 3: I believe in term limits and do not think Congress
27:50
Speaker 3: should be a lifelong career or an assisted living facility.
27:54
Speaker 3: My only goal and desire has ever been to hold
27:57
Speaker 3: the Republican Party accountable for the prom us as it
28:00
Speaker 3: makes to the American people and put America first.
28:04
Speaker 2: Let me tell you that line about term limits, I'm clapping.
28:09
Speaker 2: I'm giving a standing ovation for that one. Go ahead.
28:12
Speaker 3: And I have fought against Democrats damaging policies like the
28:15
Speaker 3: Green New Deal, wide open, deadly unsafe border policies, and
28:19
Speaker 3: the trans agenda on children and against women. With that
28:24
Speaker 3: has brought years of non stop, never ending personal attacks,
28:28
Speaker 3: death threats, law fair, ridiculous slander, and lies about me
28:33
Speaker 3: that most people could never withstand even for a single day.
28:37
Speaker 3: It has been unfair and wrong not only to me,
28:40
Speaker 3: but especially to my family, but it's been wrong to
28:43
Speaker 3: my district as well. I have too much self respect
28:47
Speaker 3: and dignity. I love my family way too much, and
28:51
Speaker 3: I do not want my sweet district to have to
28:54
Speaker 3: endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me. By the
28:57
Speaker 3: president that we all thought for only to fight and
29:00
Speaker 3: win my election, while Republicans will likely lose the midterms
29:05
Speaker 3: and in turn be expected to defend the President against
29:09
Speaker 3: impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars
29:13
Speaker 3: against me and tried to destroy me. It's all so
29:17
Speaker 3: absurd and completely unseerious. I refuse to be a battered
29:21
Speaker 3: wife hoping it all goes away and gets better. If
29:24
Speaker 3: I am cast aside by the President and the MAGA
29:27
Speaker 3: political machine and replaced by Neo Cohn's big pharma, big tech,
29:32
Speaker 3: military industrial war complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor
29:37
Speaker 3: class that can never ever relate to real Americans, then
29:41
Speaker 3: many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well.
29:46
Speaker 3: There is no plan to save the world or a
29:49
Speaker 3: four D chess game being played. When common American people
29:54
Speaker 3: realize and understand that the political industrial complex of both
29:58
Speaker 3: parties is ripping this country apart, that not one elected
30:02
Speaker 3: leader like me is able to stop Washington's machine from
30:06
Speaker 3: gradually destroying our country, and instead the reality is that
30:10
Speaker 3: they common Americans, the people, possess the real power over Washington.
30:16
Speaker 3: Then I'll be here by their side to rebuild it.
30:20
Speaker 2: That's Marjorie Taylor Green and again announcing that she's retiring
30:25
Speaker 2: from Congress. Again, she said, regular Americans, there is no
30:31
Speaker 2: plan to save the world. There is no four D
30:35
Speaker 2: chess game. Is she talking to the QAnon people? I
30:40
Speaker 2: want to know. I'm just asking for a friend. She's
30:42
Speaker 2: got a couple more seconds here, go ahead, let her rip.
30:46
Speaker 3: Until then, I'm going back to the people that I love.
30:49
Speaker 3: To live my life to the fullest as I always have,
30:54
Speaker 3: and I look forward to a new path ahead. I'll
30:57
Speaker 3: be resigning from office, with my last being January fifth,
31:01
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six, and I look forward to seeing many
31:05
Speaker 3: of you again sometime in the future. May God bless
31:08
Speaker 3: you all, and may God bless America.
31:12
Speaker 2: Well amen, I'm happy for her if this is good
31:16
Speaker 2: for her. I've only met her one time, very very briefly.
31:19
Speaker 2: She was in a either in the suite I was
31:22
Speaker 2: in at the Madison Square Garden rally or the sweet
31:24
Speaker 2: next to us, and honestly, very nice, very nice, very
31:28
Speaker 2: very chill, very calm person. I guess you know those
31:31
Speaker 2: moments where she gets agitated and she is, you know,
31:35
Speaker 2: yelling at Jasmine Crockett about her eyelashes, which I think
31:38
Speaker 2: look nice on Jasmine Crockett, by the way, you know,
31:42
Speaker 2: you get that one side of her, But there's two
31:45
Speaker 2: sides to everybody, right, And you also see President Trump
31:48
Speaker 2: fighting back against the Median in real life. I think
31:50
Speaker 2: he's a charming guy. She's a nice person. So anyway,
31:54
Speaker 2: I want to know, this is going to be reported,
31:57
Speaker 2: of course, over the weekend and into Monday as Maga
32:00
Speaker 2: civil war Trump, you know, out for blood, blah blah blah.
32:05
Speaker 2: But again, this is yet another casualty of war in politics.
32:09
Speaker 2: That's just how it works in the media, in politics,
32:16
Speaker 2: in sales, in so much of any industry that's based
32:20
Speaker 2: on in meritocracy, you're only as good as your last day. Right,
32:24
Speaker 2: there's change lives there. The sharks are always there, and
32:29
Speaker 2: that goes both ways. It's not like, you know, you're
32:31
Speaker 2: always the guppy that's about to get swallowed by the
32:33
Speaker 2: big fish. Sometimes you're the guppy that says, I'm not
32:36
Speaker 2: interested in swimming in this pond anymore. Guess what I
32:40
Speaker 2: can go over here, do a little lot less swimming
32:42
Speaker 2: and eat more. Right, Sometimes there's better opportunities than other places.
32:46
Speaker 2: Sometimes the grasses and greener. These are the risks get
32:49
Speaker 2: take in life, right, These are the political calculations that
32:51
Speaker 2: people make. But make no mistake, this is not a tyranny. Right.
32:58
Speaker 2: People have a choice to run for office, they have
33:00
Speaker 2: a choice to get out of public life. They have
33:03
Speaker 2: a choice to make a different move. We all make
33:06
Speaker 2: those choices. So I say, God, speak to you, Marjorie
33:11
Speaker 2: Taylor Green, good luck. I applaud your decision to do
33:15
Speaker 2: what you think is right with your life, and say
33:19
Speaker 2: what I am. Right, We continue because what else are
33:22
Speaker 2: we going to do. We can't sit here and beat
33:23
Speaker 2: ourselves up over this. And I think, honestly it was
33:27
Speaker 2: it was a fair thing to do. She realizes she's
33:29
Speaker 2: a single person, that how can she how can she continue? Right,
33:36
Speaker 2: she's part of the mega movement, the mega people may
33:40
Speaker 2: or may not re elect her. She thinks she could win.
33:44
Speaker 2: She probably could, right, she knows her district. But what
33:48
Speaker 2: happens there, It creates this contention. It's more fodder, it's
33:51
Speaker 2: more distraction for the media and for her. And if
33:55
Speaker 2: she's sincere when she says she doesn't care about the accolades,
33:59
Speaker 2: the power and the attention, and I believe her. I
34:01
Speaker 2: take her out her word on that. I think she's
34:03
Speaker 2: had more more of that than anybody would want, quite frankly, right,
34:07
Speaker 2: And you look at guys like Kanye West justin Bieber.
34:10
Speaker 2: People think people get into certain businesses because they love
34:13
Speaker 2: the adulation, they love the adoration. But no, sometimes people
34:19
Speaker 2: think they like that and then they find it to
34:21
Speaker 2: be incredibly overwhelming. It's no longer what it once was,
34:25
Speaker 2: and they're not interested. That's not everybody. Some people still
34:28
Speaker 2: thrive on that, I guess, But this is why you
34:31
Speaker 2: have so many celebrities that wear dark glasses and a
34:33
Speaker 2: baseball cap and they're like using the back door in
34:35
Speaker 2: places because they don't want to be bothered. They just
34:38
Speaker 2: want to work and that's it. So anyway, again, I'm
34:41
Speaker 2: getting off the deep end here, but Marjorie Taylor Green says,
34:47
Speaker 2: I'm walking away. I recently had to walk away myself.
34:50
Speaker 2: But people make decisions in life, and sometimes it's not
34:53
Speaker 2: always the way you want it to be, right, just
34:57
Speaker 2: sometimes what you kind of gotta do. So I unders
35:00
Speaker 2: I understand where she's at, and I really do wish
35:03
Speaker 2: her God's speed because you know, she fought for a
35:07
Speaker 2: lot of good things and She's right when she says
35:09
Speaker 2: she had a very conservative record a couple of issues
35:12
Speaker 2: where she was going the other way, and she was
35:14
Speaker 2: very critical of net Yahoo and moreover, of foreign policy
35:17
Speaker 2: in general. And this is an area where she and
35:20
Speaker 2: I would disagree because I think the United States is
35:24
Speaker 2: the major player in foreign policy globally. That's just how
35:29
Speaker 2: it works. And you could say, but it shouldn't work
35:32
Speaker 2: that way, right, this is what Thanksgiving dinner sounds like
35:35
Speaker 2: with my brothers and I. You know, we start talking
35:38
Speaker 2: about the richie. It shouldn't be that way, And I say,
35:40
Speaker 2: but that's exactly Joe, why it is the way it is? Right?
35:44
Speaker 2: That is again, it's power. The United States maintains our power.
35:48
Speaker 2: We are the world's reserve currency. You've got bricks chopping
35:51
Speaker 2: at the bit to come and take us out. How
35:53
Speaker 2: do we maintain our competitive edge? But for maintaining our
35:57
Speaker 2: competitive edge the United States dollar, which is backed by
36:02
Speaker 2: the full faith and credit of the United States military
36:06
Speaker 2: and every last bomb and gun that we have, because
36:08
Speaker 2: we make sure we do what we got to do.
36:10
Speaker 2: That is what protects our dollar, That is what protects
36:13
Speaker 2: our everything. If we didn't have the military, might that
36:16
Speaker 2: we do. They would have knocked us off a long
36:18
Speaker 2: time ago in more ways than one. But we have that.
36:22
Speaker 2: We have money, so we've invested in infrastructure, in particular education.
36:26
Speaker 2: We still lead the way we higher ed. I don't
36:28
Speaker 2: know for how long, but we do. So we got
36:32
Speaker 2: to take advantage of the places we have power. So again,
36:34
Speaker 2: this is part of why I get up, I stand
36:36
Speaker 2: on two feet night slow clap for Donald Trump elo
36:40
Speaker 2: Why because this is important. Making the United States the
36:44
Speaker 2: ai capital of the world is a huge deal Making
36:49
Speaker 2: the United States the crypto capital of the world is
36:52
Speaker 2: a huge deal making Sure the United States is not
36:56
Speaker 2: looking like Europe and so many other parts of this
36:58
Speaker 2: world that are era seeing their own national identity. And
37:03
Speaker 2: I don't mean whiteness. I'm not white, but I am
37:07
Speaker 2: saying Americanists right, Americanism, the american ness that we all share, patriotism,
37:17
Speaker 2: these things should never be erased. I've seen people be
37:22
Speaker 2: critical of me for loving America. I've seen people be
37:25
Speaker 2: critical of people that come to America from other countries
37:29
Speaker 2: and you know, after working for ten years, they finally
37:32
Speaker 2: go they apply for citizenship and they become a citizen.
37:35
Speaker 2: And then sometimes instead of people saying, hey, congratulations. Some
37:38
Speaker 2: people come and hate on them. Why, Well, the reason
37:42
Speaker 2: people do that is because they they hate America and
37:45
Speaker 2: they want everybody else to hate America. But the reality
37:49
Speaker 2: is that's not always going to be the case. There
37:52
Speaker 2: are people that come from other countries that love this country.
37:55
Speaker 2: There's a guy on social media. It's very funny. He's
37:57
Speaker 2: got a very thick Spanish accent, and he's funny about
38:01
Speaker 2: it too. And he goes in there and I talked
38:03
Speaker 2: to it. I think I even played it in the past.
38:06
Speaker 2: But he comes into a store and he says, he's
38:09
Speaker 2: too much money. When you go to this store, you inflation.
38:12
Speaker 2: He's getting in your pocket. Let me tell you what
38:14
Speaker 2: you gotta do. There's a place we call it dollar three.
38:18
Speaker 2: Dollar three. You go with a dollar twenty five. At
38:21
Speaker 2: dollar twenty five, you get this ant a twenty five,
38:23
Speaker 2: you get eggs, a dolla twenty five, you buy bread.
38:26
Speaker 2: And it's so funny. And I just thought to myself,
38:30
Speaker 2: it's great. And this guy is talking about the American dream.
38:34
Speaker 2: He's saying and then he says, he says, you don't
38:37
Speaker 2: need more food stamps, you don't need snap or you
38:39
Speaker 2: need you need a job I love. That right reminded
38:43
Speaker 2: me of the things my dad taught me growing up
38:46
Speaker 2: and didn't sound too differently from that guy. These are
38:49
Speaker 2: things that we all share, at least we used to.
38:52
Speaker 2: Now today we have a new generation that's very easily
38:55
Speaker 2: offended by a lot of people, and we have a
39:00
Speaker 2: situation where people are willing to to just give up
39:04
Speaker 2: on things and they don't want to work. And if
39:06
Speaker 2: it's not for this, I don't want to do it.
39:08
Speaker 2: And listen, you're allowed to know your worth. You're allowed
39:12
Speaker 2: to say, hey, look, I've worked a long time in
39:14
Speaker 2: this or at this, and I need this or I
39:16
Speaker 2: need this type of flexibility here. But not when you're
39:21
Speaker 2: out of school and looking for your first gig. This
39:24
Speaker 2: is grind time, you know. I switched careers in my
39:27
Speaker 2: thirties to get into radio, and guess what it was
39:31
Speaker 2: grind time for me. I had to do a lot
39:33
Speaker 2: of grinding. I have literally slept on the floor in
39:36
Speaker 2: a studio that I knew had mice. I've slept on
39:41
Speaker 2: the couch, the leather couch in a New York City
39:44
Speaker 2: studio and guess what the heat goes off in those
39:46
Speaker 2: buildings at night? It was freezing in there, but I
39:50
Speaker 2: was doing a morning show. Those start at four AM,
39:54
Speaker 2: and I had just finished a show that ended at
39:56
Speaker 2: one am. So you do the math three hours before
40:00
Speaker 2: I had to do it again. I need to sleep
40:02
Speaker 2: for those three hours. There's no time to go home.
40:05
Speaker 2: Point is, that's the type of grind you got to
40:07
Speaker 2: put in when you want to make it in an industry.
40:10
Speaker 2: And I've got to say, in less than a decade
40:12
Speaker 2: I now spent it's my eighth year going into my
40:17
Speaker 2: eighth year. I've spent four four and a half years
40:22
Speaker 2: in local radio and the balance of that nearly half
40:26
Speaker 2: of my career in national syndication until recently. And I'm
40:32
Speaker 2: enormously proud of that, right, And these are just opportunities
40:35
Speaker 2: that exist when you work hard and you find that
40:38
Speaker 2: inner drive. So anyway, when it comes to that whole
40:42
Speaker 2: gen Z stuff, I don't buy all that. Going to
40:45
Speaker 2: pause right here, and I want to continue with the
40:49
Speaker 2: reaction that the military has. Right, the military folks are
40:52
Speaker 2: clapping back at El trumpito the attack on him right
40:59
Speaker 2: from the Democrats in Congress. We played that one yesterday.
41:02
Speaker 2: Well today you've got Republicans that have now weighed in
41:05
Speaker 2: and they've got plenty to say, plenty to say, so
41:09
Speaker 2: we're going to do that. Plus we're going to talk
41:11
Speaker 2: about the colonizers I was talking about before, what happens
41:14
Speaker 2: with that, what's the future look like. And we're also
41:19
Speaker 2: going to talk about a guy named Jelly Roll. You
41:22
Speaker 2: ever heard of him? Don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Valdez.
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Speaker 1: This is America.
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Speaker 2: This is America.
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Speaker 1: The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
41:32
Speaker 1: to speak with Rich Valdez.
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Speaker 2: Oh, very good, thanks, Rich. The honor is all yours.
41:42
Speaker 2: Conservative talk with a dash of sofrito. Now here's Rich Valdez,
41:49
Speaker 2: all right, and he goes, welcome back, thank you for
41:51
Speaker 2: sticking with me. It's Rich Valdez. And of course at
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42:13
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Speaker 2: hundred at this point. Excuse me, over five hundred five
42:20
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42:24
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42:27
Speaker 2: one of you for that. So this is America with
42:30
Speaker 2: rich Valdees, and we talk about everything that's going on
42:33
Speaker 2: in America in the daytime, in the nighttime, anytime. And
42:38
Speaker 2: part of what's going on right now is a bunch
42:40
Speaker 2: of Republicans who have served their country and served their
42:43
Speaker 2: country faithfully have decided I've had enough with these guys,
42:50
Speaker 2: and we are going to make sure that we clap back.
42:54
Speaker 2: So the military members of the House of Representatives that
43:00
Speaker 2: are in the Republican Conference, they're not playing And I
43:06
Speaker 2: thought this was just terrific. I want you to listen
43:09
Speaker 2: to this.
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Speaker 3: We must be loyal to the oath that we swore
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Speaker 3: to stand firmly with America.
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Speaker 1: I'm Congressman Jim Bart, Representative John Maguire, Representative Keith sel,
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Speaker 1: Congressman Richmond Corn, Representative Barry Moore, represented Rick Crawford, August Fluer,
43:22
Speaker 1: Congressman Andre Klain.
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Speaker 3: Congressman Tom Barrett, former Navy, former Vietnam Army combat.
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Speaker 1: Vetter, retired Colonel of the South Army National Guard.
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Speaker 2: Marine court pilot farmer, members of Alabama National Guard.
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Speaker 3: Former Army Special Forces green Beret, former US Army.
43:36
Speaker 2: Soldier, an Air Force veterans, twenty eight year Navy officer,
43:38
Speaker 2: United States Army.
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Speaker 1: After my active duty service, I joined the intelligence.
43:42
Speaker 2: Community as a former Navy Seal veteran.
43:44
Speaker 3: I want to speak directly to the members of the
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Speaker 3: military and our intelligence community.
43:49
Speaker 1: I want to speak directly to the members of the
43:51
Speaker 1: military and the intelligence community.
43:53
Speaker 2: I want to speak directly to the members of the
43:55
Speaker 2: military and the intelligence community. Like you. I raised my
43:59
Speaker 2: right hand because I love this country. I believe in
44:01
Speaker 2: something bigger than myself.
44:03
Speaker 1: That freedom is not free.
44:04
Speaker 2: Mouth was cleared uphold the Constitution, that it is powerful.
44:07
Speaker 2: We all understand the importance of the chain of command.
44:10
Speaker 2: Troops listen up.
44:11
Speaker 1: Any service member who refuses a lawful order is subject
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Speaker 1: to court martial for violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
44:19
Speaker 3: We study what's lawful and what's not lawful, and the
44:21
Speaker 3: Democrats stunt insinuating that their illegal or unconstitutional orders.
44:26
Speaker 2: It's done right, dangerous, it is corrosive. It is meant
44:29
Speaker 2: to weaken our country and weaken the military to I
44:32
Speaker 2: give in stand farm.
44:33
Speaker 1: And your duty protect the American populace from an enemy
44:36
Speaker 1: that would do us harm.
44:37
Speaker 2: That's the right thing to do, and that is a
44:39
Speaker 2: lawful order.
44:40
Speaker 1: Your commitment to this nation is vital.
44:42
Speaker 2: Stay focused on the mission.
44:44
Speaker 3: Defend the constitution, and remember the oath we took to
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Speaker 3: defend America.
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Speaker 2: Remember the promise we may so help us. God, so
44:51
Speaker 2: help me, God, so help me, Gun, so.
44:53
Speaker 3: Help me God, troops, Thank you for serving.
44:57
Speaker 2: Continue to prepare for the fight. Well. I thought that
44:59
Speaker 2: was fan tastic that was released by the House Republicans
45:03
Speaker 2: and great response. Excellent. We needed to hear that. People
45:06
Speaker 2: needed to hear that. And again it wasn't don't give
45:09
Speaker 2: up the ship. It was so help me God, that's
45:12
Speaker 2: your oath. Stick to your oath. Thank God, right, Thank
45:15
Speaker 2: god they pointed out the facts, and again I don't
45:17
Speaker 2: think they always need to be pointed out. Quite frankly,
45:20
Speaker 2: if there was any difference of opinion I would have
45:23
Speaker 2: with the Democrats doing that, I would just say, let
45:25
Speaker 2: them say what they want to say. I don't care,
45:28
Speaker 2: because ultimately I think we have people that we trust
45:32
Speaker 2: enough to arm and we trust enough for them to
45:36
Speaker 2: put their own lives on the line in defense of
45:39
Speaker 2: our nation, which I take as in defense of me,
45:43
Speaker 2: in defense of my children, in defense of my ability
45:45
Speaker 2: to go and talk smack. So if I can trust
45:49
Speaker 2: you enough for that, I can trust you to decipher
45:51
Speaker 2: whether the Democrats are going to fool you or not.
45:55
Speaker 2: I trust you to make a good decision. I'm not
45:58
Speaker 2: going to sit here. I've never believed that, you know,
46:00
Speaker 2: I need to shut you up because I don't trust
46:03
Speaker 2: you enough to make a good judgment for yourself. I
46:06
Speaker 2: don't believe that that may be true in certain individual situations,
46:11
Speaker 2: you know, with children and things like that. I mean,
46:13
Speaker 2: I have the life experiences why they have parents and guardians. However,
46:17
Speaker 2: I'm never gonna look you in the face and say,
46:19
Speaker 2: oh no, no, no, no, turn off the MSNBC. It's
46:21
Speaker 2: gonna I might say it jokingly, right and even half heartedly,
46:25
Speaker 2: you know, yeah, turn off that MSNBC. It's gonna make
46:27
Speaker 2: your mind mush okay, true, but it's not because I'm
46:30
Speaker 2: afraid that if you hear Rachel Maddow you might start
46:33
Speaker 2: hating America. That's a choice you're gonna have to make,
46:36
Speaker 2: and I've got to trust you enough to say, hold on,
46:38
Speaker 2: a second, what do you actually believe what too do
46:41
Speaker 2: you stand on? Are you standing on ten toes or not?
46:45
Speaker 2: If I could trust you to die for this country,
46:47
Speaker 2: I gotta be able to trust you to hear some
46:49
Speaker 2: bs from the Democrats. That's just how that goes, you know, Otherwise,
46:53
Speaker 2: what are we gonna do? Next? Thing we do is
46:55
Speaker 2: people that hate America, don't don't listen to the Iranians.
46:58
Speaker 2: They hate us. No, no, no, no, no oh. They
47:00
Speaker 2: are Islamists that run the Malas and around and all that.
47:06
Speaker 2: Come on, let them all talk, let them all say
47:10
Speaker 2: what they got to say. Go ahead, go for it,
47:12
Speaker 2: knock yourself out. We have to win in the battle
47:17
Speaker 2: of ideas, in the marketplace of ideas. That's where we
47:20
Speaker 2: win this thing, winning the hearts and minds, right, because otherwise,
47:25
Speaker 2: you know, look at the what's happening in Sudan, what's
47:31
Speaker 2: happening in Syria, what's happening in Nigeria? Right? Christians being
47:36
Speaker 2: slaughtered for their faith. Now, this is not just like,
47:42
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I can't believe you're a Christian. I'm
47:43
Speaker 2: going to kill you. No, no, this is more like,
47:46
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, these people are organized and there's hundreds
47:48
Speaker 2: of them. Maybe thousands of them. This is a direct competition,
47:52
Speaker 2: a direct threat to what we believe. And we will
47:55
Speaker 2: not debate you. We will not prove to you that
47:58
Speaker 2: our faith is better than your faith. Not live our
48:02
Speaker 2: lives by example and allow the marketplace of religious ideas
48:07
Speaker 2: to be the judge. Nope, We're just gonna eliminate you
48:10
Speaker 2: so that we're the only game in town that's cheating.
48:13
Speaker 2: And I'm not that guy. You don't like it, you
48:17
Speaker 2: don't like it, all right. I sit here and I
48:19
Speaker 2: do this show. I've been doing the show for a
48:20
Speaker 2: long time, since twenty eighteen, and I could tell you this.
48:25
Speaker 2: Some people start and listen and they like it. Some
48:27
Speaker 2: people get halfway into God, this guy's blowing it out
48:30
Speaker 2: the wrong end. Forget about them. Peace and the majority,
48:34
Speaker 2: like ninety percent of you, I think, is the listen
48:36
Speaker 2: rate on this program, listen to the whole thing. And
48:41
Speaker 2: I'm grateful for it. But you gotta trust people. I'm
48:44
Speaker 2: not gonna sit here and change what I'm saying because
48:46
Speaker 2: I'm my God. They might not listen, they might turn
48:49
Speaker 2: off the radio, they might stop their phone, they might
48:52
Speaker 2: hit pause on their Alexa device. By the way, here,
48:56
Speaker 2: let me mess you up a little bit, Alexa play
48:58
Speaker 2: this is America, Rich VALDEZK. Now, we have those smart
49:02
Speaker 2: speakers all over the country going crazy. Haha. I did
49:05
Speaker 2: that once and on the radio, and I thought it
49:08
Speaker 2: was pretty funny. So anyway, bottom line here, I'm not
49:12
Speaker 2: afraid to get into the engagement here of what I
49:16
Speaker 2: believe and what you believe and what's better. And we
49:20
Speaker 2: have to engage in those ideas. We have to because
49:23
Speaker 2: otherwise we're lost. Anyway, I'm gonna pause right here. I'm
49:28
Speaker 2: gonna come back talk a little bit about jelly Roll,
49:30
Speaker 2: a little bit about Machiavelli, and if there's time, I'll
49:33
Speaker 2: get into some of your comments. You guys have a
49:35
Speaker 2: lot of comments that have been putting out, a lot
49:37
Speaker 2: of nice words, a lot of nice things. I promise you,
49:39
Speaker 2: as soon as I'm able to make a formal announcement
49:41
Speaker 2: in January, I will and I do want to thank
49:45
Speaker 2: a lot of people for a lot of things. But
49:48
Speaker 2: you know I've been sworn to secrecy. Hush hush, mush mush. Right,
49:51
Speaker 2: That's just how the nature of certain contracts go. So anyway,
49:56
Speaker 2: keep it locked right here. I am Rich Valdez. We're
49:58
Speaker 2: coming right back. Don't go anywhere. This is America. This
50:05
Speaker 2: is America, but englis or primal norodos bara rich Valdez.
50:15
Speaker 1: S nos America.
50:17
Speaker 2: Awara, all right, I mean he goes, that's still me,
50:22
Speaker 2: is rich Valdez. There's that little bump that gets me
50:25
Speaker 2: in trouble.
50:26
Speaker 1: There, that little.
50:26
Speaker 2: Return where people hey, hold that it's America, speak English.
50:30
Speaker 2: What's going on here? Valdez? Listen. I like the ruffles
50:33
Speaker 2: of feathers every now and again. You know, it's like
50:36
Speaker 2: Dora the Explorer. You get to learn a little Spanish
50:38
Speaker 2: along the way. Anyway, that voice, by the way, is
50:42
Speaker 2: the amazing Chris Libertini, the old school in this game
50:48
Speaker 2: of imaging and being a production director at the world
50:52
Speaker 2: famous WABC in New York City. Great guy, great talent.
50:56
Speaker 2: I want to talk about Machiavelli a little bit, right
50:59
Speaker 2: because because we're looking at some of what's happening here,
51:02
Speaker 2: much of it, I'm going to say Machiavellian. Machiavelli was
51:06
Speaker 2: famous for coming up with this well several books. Right.
51:12
Speaker 2: He was, you know, after he was a philosopher of sorts,
51:16
Speaker 2: you know, a political theorist, political scientist. But he was
51:20
Speaker 2: one of the first thinkers to kind of separate politics
51:22
Speaker 2: from morality. And I'm not applauding this. I'm not a
51:25
Speaker 2: fan of that. I think when when you hear me
51:28
Speaker 2: talk about a biblical worldview or a christ centered worldview,
51:31
Speaker 2: and I don't want to hold myself out to being holy.
51:33
Speaker 2: I am the guy that wakes up and prays, gets
51:36
Speaker 2: in my car and it all goes out the window,
51:38
Speaker 2: and I'm just like, man, I wish I could run
51:40
Speaker 2: these people off the road. And it was Jesus that said,
51:43
Speaker 2: you know, as a so man thinketh in his heart
51:47
Speaker 2: right how it goes? So is he?
51:48
Speaker 3: So?
51:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am guilty of sin, but I will tell
51:53
Speaker 2: you that we should still be guided by morality. I'll
51:57
Speaker 2: make another confession to you, not a confession, but I
51:59
Speaker 2: wouldn't make this confession if it were true. If I
52:02
Speaker 2: were severely addicted to I don't know, crystal meth, crack, cocaine,
52:07
Speaker 2: some sort of controlled substance, I would not. I don't
52:11
Speaker 2: believe in good mind turn around to my children or
52:15
Speaker 2: yours and be like, oh, guys, you gotta try this.
52:17
Speaker 2: It's so good. When I don't have it and it's
52:20
Speaker 2: not running through my veins anymore, I get really itchy,
52:22
Speaker 2: and I get really sick feeling, and I have these
52:24
Speaker 2: horrible withdrawals. You're gonna love it. Try this, right, I've
52:28
Speaker 2: never heard of that. I've never heard of anybody was like, oh,
52:31
Speaker 2: you know, but when you go, hey, hey, have a
52:32
Speaker 2: drink toast, let's do salute, And then they're like, ah, no,
52:35
Speaker 2: I don't drink. And after, you know, twenty minutes hanging
52:39
Speaker 2: out with this person, you find out, yeah, no, excit.
52:41
Speaker 2: You know, one of my parents was an addictor one
52:43
Speaker 2: of my parents was an alcoholic. That's never happening. You
52:46
Speaker 2: never bumped into somebody like that. I have many times,
52:48
Speaker 2: and I say kudos to them, right, they have their
52:53
Speaker 2: heart and their head in the right place. So I
52:57
Speaker 2: bring up that example to say, even people that are
53:00
Speaker 2: in a bad spot, they know the difference between right
53:03
Speaker 2: and wrong, and they're still guided by morality even in
53:06
Speaker 2: the midst of their sin. But Machiavelli separated it. He
53:12
Speaker 2: kind of secularized the leadership function within public service. And
53:21
Speaker 2: this is what he's famous for it. Right, He wrote
53:22
Speaker 2: this book called The Prince you know, talks about many
53:25
Speaker 2: of these ideas and the most famous, I would say
53:28
Speaker 2: the most famous is the enemy of my enemy is
53:30
Speaker 2: my friend, right, you know, summarized that way. And that
53:36
Speaker 2: is the point that I want to make here, is
53:39
Speaker 2: that there are people that still use this type of thinking.
53:44
Speaker 2: It's not old, it's new, it's every day. And instead
53:46
Speaker 2: of thinking through what's the best way I can bless
53:49
Speaker 2: these people? What's the best way I can be used
53:51
Speaker 2: by God? Today? And again I'm not saying I do
53:53
Speaker 2: this either, right, I want to. This is what I
53:55
Speaker 2: aspire to do. There are times I do and times
53:57
Speaker 2: I don't, and the times I do, I'm enormously proud
54:01
Speaker 2: and grateful and humbled that I was able to do
54:05
Speaker 2: it right. But there are people that don't look at
54:09
Speaker 2: everything as in, how can I be of use? How
54:12
Speaker 2: can I be of service? How can I help? And
54:14
Speaker 2: there's some of the thing. How can I help myself
54:15
Speaker 2: to this? How can this person help me? How can
54:17
Speaker 2: I be you know, how can I make this more
54:19
Speaker 2: advantageous for my situation? And I think in life, some
54:22
Speaker 2: of that is survival and you need to have that.
54:24
Speaker 2: You need to have those instincts, you need to have both.
54:27
Speaker 2: You need to know when to navigate that way and
54:29
Speaker 2: when to kind of retreat and not. I think the
54:33
Speaker 2: majority of people exists in one of those two camps,
54:37
Speaker 2: and there's a small handful that exists in the middle
54:40
Speaker 2: where they can do both, and they turn it off
54:42
Speaker 2: and on. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, but either way, Machiavelli.
54:48
Speaker 2: So using the example from today with El Trumpezo and Mamdani,
54:53
Speaker 2: I think there are Machiavellian principles that are at play there, right.
55:00
Speaker 2: I also think you have President Trump as a very
55:06
Speaker 2: good relationship with Netan Yahoo and the Israeli people and
55:11
Speaker 2: the Jewish community, and now he allows this man to
55:14
Speaker 2: come to his office, who said terrible things, who supported
55:18
Speaker 2: the Holy Land five, who said he would arrest Netan Yahoo,
55:22
Speaker 2: who has called for maybe not through himself, but through
55:27
Speaker 2: his proxies his campaign people a ghad right, a moral
55:35
Speaker 2: war for their faith, And why would he do such
55:41
Speaker 2: a thing and risk Well, maybe that's the political calculus
55:44
Speaker 2: or part of it. Okay, I've given this guy. At
55:47
Speaker 2: the time of day, I'm going to look fair and
55:48
Speaker 2: balanced and great, and hey, maybe listen, I love you,
55:53
Speaker 2: I love you, baby, I do, but miss Trump right
55:56
Speaker 2: bybe I love you, I love you, but I need
55:58
Speaker 2: you to work with me. We got to say, stopped
56:00
Speaker 2: the bombing of Hamas, we got disarmed Hamas. It's so
56:03
Speaker 2: important to disarm them. And maybe that's the angle. I
56:07
Speaker 2: don't know, right, I don't know all of the the
56:12
Speaker 2: answers here. I do know that it's very easy to
56:15
Speaker 2: criticize people that are working in the government, and you know,
56:21
Speaker 2: having worked for Governor Christie, and then he hugged Obama
56:24
Speaker 2: and it was over right. People stopped caring about the guy.
56:27
Speaker 2: They didn't care what he did for New Jersey during
56:29
Speaker 2: the Hurricane Sandy debacle. They didn't care about anything other
56:32
Speaker 2: than he went too far. And maybe something in that
56:36
Speaker 2: particular situation, I don't think he did. He greeted the
56:39
Speaker 2: guy with a hug, and that was like, oh my gosh,
56:42
Speaker 2: he's hugging Obama. It was a time in New Jersey
56:46
Speaker 2: where people look at my house. We had no power
56:48
Speaker 2: for five days. Now, we also had a generator, so
56:50
Speaker 2: we had you know, we didn't lose any meat. We
56:53
Speaker 2: had the generator hooked up to a couple of lights
56:55
Speaker 2: and the refrigerator. Okay, so far, so good. Right, things
56:59
Speaker 2: were functioning for us. We were living a somewhat normal life.
57:02
Speaker 2: Some of the rooms were dark, you know, couldn't put
57:04
Speaker 2: juice in everything. But we had enough portable lanterns and
57:07
Speaker 2: stuff like that. We got through the five days. It
57:10
Speaker 2: was October or whatever it was, so it wasn't freezing. Now,
57:15
Speaker 2: there were some people who had water up to their
57:17
Speaker 2: knees had to evacuate. So it was brutal. The Jersey
57:23
Speaker 2: short it's infamous for some people and famous for others,
57:27
Speaker 2: all right, for being such a great time, was ripped up.
57:29
Speaker 2: The beach was destroyed, the wood was had flown away,
57:33
Speaker 2: it was just eaten up by the hurricane. So when
57:37
Speaker 2: you got the president of the United States and you're
57:39
Speaker 2: a sitting governor and he shows up here, and you know,
57:44
Speaker 2: you're very grateful for the support he brings. Again, that
57:47
Speaker 2: was Obama coming say, look, I'm gonna ingratiate myself with
57:49
Speaker 2: this guy. I know he's a loud mouth. I know
57:52
Speaker 2: he can be tough, I know he likes to bully
57:54
Speaker 2: people around. Blah blah blah blah blah. I'm gonna try
57:56
Speaker 2: and kill him with kindness. And guess what they shared
58:00
Speaker 2: an embrace in a moment of trying to get federal
58:04
Speaker 2: funding to help the people in New Jersey. And this
58:07
Speaker 2: was Christy's done a lot of things, but this was
58:10
Speaker 2: the one where people it really messed them up. Listen,
58:13
Speaker 2: I get it, But I will say something I learned
58:15
Speaker 2: from going to Christy. He basically said, it's very, very
58:23
Speaker 2: difficult to hate people to their face. And that's true, right.
58:30
Speaker 2: It's easy to criticize people when a you don't know them,
58:34
Speaker 2: be there, not in front of you. So I've always
58:37
Speaker 2: tried to keep that close. Tried right. Don't get me wrong.
58:40
Speaker 2: If you've listened to me for any extended time, you'll
58:42
Speaker 2: know I make fun of a whole lot of people.
58:44
Speaker 2: It's kind of what I do. But but I try
58:47
Speaker 2: to keep that in mind and realize that sometimes if
58:49
Speaker 2: I'm making a caricature of someone on the radio or
58:52
Speaker 2: on a podcast or on television, or if I'm creating
58:55
Speaker 2: a foil and a story that I'm telling, it's just that, right,
58:59
Speaker 2: it's for the sake of illustration, is for the sake
59:01
Speaker 2: of trying to show you how dire these ideas can be.
59:05
Speaker 2: And that's important for illustrative purposes. And sometimes it is
59:09
Speaker 2: very real, and sometimes you have to call these things
59:11
Speaker 2: out for what they are, right, We've got to try
59:13
Speaker 2: to be a straight shooter as much as we can be,
59:17
Speaker 2: and all we can do is do our best and
59:19
Speaker 2: live and learn. Now, speaking of doing our best and
59:22
Speaker 2: living and learning, there's an artist named jelly Roll. And
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Speaker 2: this guy has a phenomenal voice, and I want to
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Speaker 2: get into a little story about him. Straight ahead, don't
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Speaker 2: move a muscle.
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Speaker 1: This is America, This is America.
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Speaker 2: He's making podcasting great again. This is America with Rich Valdez,
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Speaker 2: all right, and he goes, welcome back Rich Valdez at
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Speaker 2: Rich Valdez on all of the social media. Thank you
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Speaker 2: for sticking with me and and be in here tonight,
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Speaker 2: and of course always check out the flagship Richbaldest dot com,
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Speaker 2: richvaldees dot com. Now Jellyroll he is a huge sensation
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Speaker 2: out in uh where's that Nashville and all over the country. Right,
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Speaker 2: he's really uh great in the country music scene. And
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Speaker 2: he's more than country music. It's like one of those
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Speaker 2: like Teddy Swims. He's got this very soulful voice going on.
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Speaker 2: But Jelly Roll he's married to a woman and that
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Speaker 2: thank god right named Bunny XO, and she's going to jail.
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Speaker 2: This is being reported by Page six New York Post,
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Speaker 2: and she's gonna be vlogging the experience with a video blog.
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Speaker 2: How about that Jellyroll's wife, Bunny, she was an escort
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Speaker 2: some time ago. She's a little younger than me, beautiful woman,
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Speaker 2: forty five years old. She took her quote unquote dumb
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Speaker 2: Blonde podcast. That's what it's called the title of it. Today.
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Speaker 2: She took it upstate so listeners could hear what happened
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Speaker 2: with this what she's calling unintentional trouble with the law.
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Speaker 2: She said, you guys, I'm going to jail. What should
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Speaker 2: we talk about? And she began, you know, just talking
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Speaker 2: on her episode. She got a ticket back in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty in Alabama. Now she lives in Nashville with her
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Speaker 2: musician husband, who's forty years old, and she began the
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Speaker 2: episode again talking about this legal issue, saying she'd completely
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Speaker 2: forgotten about the ticket when she got pulled over last
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Speaker 2: month while she was driving. And you know, I guess
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Speaker 2: since he's a big guy that's rich and famous. Now,
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Speaker 2: she said she was driving a car that quote looked
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Speaker 2: like a drug dealer's vehicle. I can understand that you know,
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Speaker 2: drug dealers like nice cars, and most people like nice
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Speaker 2: cars too, especially if they could afford him. The officer
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Speaker 2: asked her for a driver's license and ran it through
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Speaker 2: the system, which showed that her license was suspended, obviously
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Speaker 2: for not paying the ticket she forgot, and she says,
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Speaker 2: I was like, what, when, how? How could this happen?
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Speaker 2: Bunny recalled, responding, insisting that she's an upstanding citizen these days.
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Speaker 2: The officer explained to her that her license got suspended
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Speaker 2: because of the unpaid ticket that she got in Alabama,
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Speaker 2: so he let her go with a warning, but told
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Speaker 2: her get it fixed. So Bunny went home and paid
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Speaker 2: it and assumed that meant her license got reinstated, and
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Speaker 2: she was wrong. The other day she was driving the
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Speaker 2: same car might have been speeding, she says, on a
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Speaker 2: highway and got pulled over again. She was overcome with
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Speaker 2: anxiety as she thought to herself, as my driver's license
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Speaker 2: still suspended, it shouldn't be. Bunny claimed the officer was
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Speaker 2: being an efing d word when he informed her that
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Speaker 2: she was going eighty eight miles per hour. He asked
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Speaker 2: her for her license, ran it through the system, and
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Speaker 2: let her know she was in fact still suspended, calling
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Speaker 2: it an arrestable offense. However, the officer said he would
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Speaker 2: not arrest her as long as she agreed to go
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Speaker 2: down to the jail and book herself in within a week.
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Speaker 2: Well that's things, and I know a little bit about that.
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Speaker 2: I had a very similar story once, Bunny said. She
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Speaker 2: later learned that the ticket was paid on October twenty fourth,
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Speaker 2: so she's confused as to why her license would still
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Speaker 2: be suspended, adding that her attorney is on the case.
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Speaker 2: She finishes with saying looks like she's going to have
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Speaker 2: to book herself, and you know, went on to saying,
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Speaker 2: you know, you guys have seen all my previous mugshots.
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Speaker 2: Hopefully I'm glammed up so that I look really good,
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Speaker 2: and I'm going to bring the vlog along so that
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Speaker 2: we can document everything. So you know, she's taking it
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Speaker 2: in stride and making a light of it. She's not
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Speaker 2: the only one. In all reality, this happens to a
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Speaker 2: lot of people. And I can tell you that something
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Speaker 2: similar happened to me once a couple of years back,
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Speaker 2: like ten or twelve years ago. I was giving my
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Speaker 2: brother a ride somewhere in his car. He was like, hey,
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Speaker 2: can you take me in my car. I got to
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Speaker 2: do something, but I need to you know, I don't
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Speaker 2: know what it was, but he had to work on
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Speaker 2: his laptop on the way, and I was about to
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Speaker 2: go out with my kids. He's like, oh, you know what,
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Speaker 2: we'll all go to lunch right after what I got
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Speaker 2: to do as quick, so we all went. I grabbed
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Speaker 2: my kids they were younger, and got in the car
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Speaker 2: with him. And as we're all getting in the car,
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Speaker 2: I was the last one to get in. So I
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Speaker 2: was going to drive since he was going to use
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Speaker 2: his laptop. And I see a police car right next
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Speaker 2: to my car, right outside my house. But it's there
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Speaker 2: for a while, and you never see the cops on
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Speaker 2: my block. So I thought to myself, what's going on here?
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Speaker 2: So I look over and I go, you know, just
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Speaker 2: to look at my car, and like, did I park
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Speaker 2: in the wrong place, you know, on the yellow line?
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Speaker 2: Like what's going on? And as I look, you know,
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Speaker 2: behind my car, I could see inside the police car
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Speaker 2: and I see a picture of my face on his screen.
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Speaker 2: Of course, I don't think he's listening to This is
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Speaker 2: America on iHeartRadio, and he could see my face on
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Speaker 2: the screen. So I go over and I say, hey,
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Speaker 2: everything all right, and he looks at me as he
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Speaker 2: has the picture of my face up on his screen,
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Speaker 2: and he goes, is this your car? I said yes.
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Speaker 2: I felt like saying clearly it's my car because you
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Speaker 2: ran the plate and my face came up, but I
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Speaker 2: said yes it is. And he said, well, it's showing
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Speaker 2: that your license is suspended, and I was like really,
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Speaker 2: from parked In my head, I was thinking how did
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Speaker 2: he run my license as I was parked. I guess
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Speaker 2: it all comes up with those automatic plate readers and
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Speaker 2: I said, I said that can't be and he said, well,
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Speaker 2: it's showing Oh no, excuse me. It wasn't my license
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Speaker 2: was suspended. It was you have an outstanding ticket and
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Speaker 2: they've issued a warrant because you didn't pay the ticket
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Speaker 2: because you missed court or something like that. And I said,
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Speaker 2: well that can't be because I paid that ticket. It
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Speaker 2: was a parking ticket. And he says, well, you got
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Speaker 2: proof that you paid it, and I said, yeah, I do.
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Speaker 2: I took a screenshot, so I show him that it
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Speaker 2: was paid and he goes, yep, looks like that's the
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Speaker 2: same ticket number and showing paid but I guess they
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Speaker 2: didn't take it out of the system. He's like, so
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Speaker 2: you're gonna have to come with me. We're gonna have
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Speaker 2: to go clear this up in the police station. I
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Speaker 2: was like, well, i'll pass by later because right now
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Speaker 2: I'm going you know, I'm going out with my family,
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Speaker 2: going to the movies after an appointment that I have.
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Speaker 2: And he says, no, I don't think I understand you.
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Speaker 2: You have to come with me. I was like, I
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Speaker 2: have to come with you. I'm walking on the street.
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Speaker 2: I'm not even driving the car. The cars parked. I
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Speaker 2: just came over because I saw you next to my car,
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Speaker 2: and you know, now we're going back and forth and
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Speaker 2: I was like look, and he's like, well, you got
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Speaker 2: to come with me. I was like, right then, if
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Speaker 2: I have to do it now, then i'll do it now.
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Speaker 2: I'll meet you there, but it's gotta be quick. And
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Speaker 2: he tells me, no, no, no, you got to come
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Speaker 2: with me. I was like, oh, now you want me
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Speaker 2: to sit in your car. I was like, for what,
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Speaker 2: it's two blocks away. You know where I am. I'm
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Speaker 2: not running away anywhere. I came to you voluntarily. I
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Speaker 2: don't see what's going on. Here, and this is a
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Speaker 2: parking ticket we're talking about. He's like, oh, listen, our
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Speaker 2: rule is that you got to ride with us. I'm thinking,
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Speaker 2: oh my goodness, this is so Now my neighbors have
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Speaker 2: to see me go in a police car, and I'm thinking,
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Speaker 2: this is this is Insand to me. As I get
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Speaker 2: to the police car, I see him grabbing his handcuffs.
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Speaker 2: I go, what are you doing now, and he says, well,
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Speaker 2: it's policy if you're in the car. I got a
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Speaker 2: handcuffe you for my safety. I was like, for your safety.
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Speaker 2: I'm walking on the street and not bother at anybody.
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Speaker 2: I did ride with him. I did not use handcuffs.
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Speaker 2: He did agree not to put the hair. And I
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Speaker 2: was thinking, why am I negotiating so much for a
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Speaker 2: ticket that I've clearly paid. And this whole thing is
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Speaker 2: that obviously you get some very gung ho cops that
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Speaker 2: don't know how to use a lot of common sense.
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Speaker 2: My children were ten feet away watching me with this
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Speaker 2: look of fright on their face. Tad is everything okay?
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Speaker 3: You know?
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Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, the nice officers just being a
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Speaker 2: t bag, you know. I mean I didn't say that,
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Speaker 2: but you know, it's clear that this guy was having
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Speaker 2: a field day because he had nothing better to do. Again,
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Speaker 2: I live in Jersey on the you know, the Jersey
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Speaker 2: side of the Hudson River. There's been a homicide in
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Speaker 2: my town since nineteen fifty four. I'm proud of that,
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Speaker 2: but I mean, come on, stop harassing the local residents
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Speaker 2: who have proof that they paid the ticket. So I
1:07:54
Speaker 2: walk into this place and he's like, oh, you got
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Speaker 2: to talk to the clerk or whatever. It's a little window.
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Speaker 2: I go to the window and I tell the lady, look,
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Speaker 2: the cop came. He told me how to come here
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Speaker 2: right now and do whatever because this other town two
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Speaker 2: towns over said they issued a warrant because of whatever.
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Speaker 2: But I paid this ticket. I show her the proof.
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Speaker 2: She looks it up in the computer, because show them
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Speaker 2: paid to me. She goes, oh, but I guess there
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Speaker 2: is a thing here. She's like, all right, you know,
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Speaker 2: I'll just put a note on here that you know
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Speaker 2: it was paid and that you came in. I was like,
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to get locked up to this, like
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Speaker 2: you shouldn't. She's like, I'll even call just to have
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Speaker 2: them lifted if they haven't lifted anything. Sometimes, you know,
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Speaker 2: these things happen, but you should be okay. And I
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Speaker 2: was like, oh, thank you lady for being so nice
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Speaker 2: and normal and kind and you know, and the cop
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Speaker 2: was standing right next to me, like realizing, Wow, what
1:08:34
Speaker 2: a jerk he was. And he was a jerk. What
1:08:37
Speaker 2: can I say? You know, I still support the men
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Speaker 2: and women in law enforcement. My brothers served in law enforcement.
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Speaker 2: I was a volunteer for a little bit. I was
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Speaker 2: a chaplain for a couple of years. And it doesn't
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Speaker 2: change my view of law enforcement. It just changes my
1:08:50
Speaker 2: view of that dude. He was El Prico is what
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Speaker 2: we're gonna call him. So anyway, that's that story, and
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Speaker 2: kudos to Jelly Roll. He lost a lot of weight,
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Speaker 2: by the way, and I'm glad that hopefully. I'm glad
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Speaker 2: that things worked out with his wife. Anyway, that's all
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Speaker 2: I got for now. Don't be machiavellian unless you have
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Speaker 2: to be. If you stand for something, you're good. If
1:09:13
Speaker 2: you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. That's a
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Speaker 2: quote from Lord Acton, and also Hamilton is credited with
1:09:22
Speaker 2: saying that, as are many others. And as always, I
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Speaker 2: say take care, good night, God bless you America. I'm
1:09:30
Speaker 2: rich Valdez and this is America.
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Speaker 1: This is America.