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Borders, Bills, and Backlash · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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  Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez, powered by politiweek.com.
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  Speaker 2: And Rich Valdez is with us, former Christie administration official.
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  Speaker 3: You work for Chris Christie, you've been in politics, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of public service stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Rich Valdez, columnist now with the Washington Times.
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  Speaker 5: This is America.
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  Speaker 4: Richie V, you're on the air with the nation.
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  Speaker 5: This is America with your host, Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 4: What's up, America? I am Rich Valdez, Valdez with an S,
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  Speaker 4: at Rich Valdez on all of the social media. And
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  Speaker 4: I had the good pleasure of filling in for the
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  Speaker 4: great one Mark Levin the other day. And something that
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  Speaker 4: I want to talk about is the line separating good
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  Speaker 4: and evil passes not through states, not between classes, nor
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  Speaker 4: between political parties at all. but right through the heart
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  Speaker 4: of every human being. What's up, America? I am Rich Valdez,
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  Speaker 4: Valdez with an S, at Rich Valdez on all of
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  Speaker 4: the social media. Welcome to the Friday Night Edition. Happy
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  Speaker 4: to be here with you. It's truly a blessing. And
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  Speaker 4: we're going to get into a number of things tonight.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, some of you guys know me as Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Call Screener from this show for many years, where I
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  Speaker 4: was Mr. Call Screener, Richie V. And I'm working alongside
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  Speaker 4: the great one and Rich Cementa. And I'm happy to
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  Speaker 4: be back with all my Levinite family. It's always a pleasure.
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  Speaker 4: And I want to, you know, while I'm going down
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  Speaker 4: memory lane over here, I want to talk about a
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  Speaker 4: couple of different things, right? I want to encourage you
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  Speaker 4: to listen to my show, right? I do a show
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  Speaker 4: called This Is America with Rich Valdez, and you can
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  Speaker 4: find that wherever you get podcasts or wherever you stream
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  Speaker 4: your stuff, and I'd appreciate that. And we're going to
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  Speaker 4: talk tonight about a bunch of interesting stories about what's
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  Speaker 4: going on in America at night, right? Tonight, what's happening
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  Speaker 4: this evening? And there's a lot that's happened throughout the
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  Speaker 4: week that we're going to recap, we're Plus, I want
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  Speaker 4: to hear from each and every one of you, right?
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  Speaker 4: The Levinites, my amigos, my familia. If you want to
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  Speaker 5: 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811.
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  Speaker 4: If you're a Lib and you want to have a
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  Speaker 4: little discussion, I'm happy to do that as well. And
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  Speaker 4: of course, I encourage you to follow me on all
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  Speaker 4: of the social media at Rich Valdez with an S
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  Speaker 4: at the end. Now, have you heard about this one?
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  Speaker 4: This is a story I saw that I was like,
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  Speaker 4: oh man, they're getting closer and closer to home with
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  Speaker 4: the drug boats. A boat with 7,000 pounds worth of
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  Speaker 4: cocaine was found off of the coast of Puerto Rico.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it got blown up, but not before
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  Speaker 4: they grabbed the good stuff. I think we have a
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  Speaker 4: report on this one.
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Producer, go for it.
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  Speaker 2: The U.S.
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  Speaker 7: Coast Guard seized $ 54. 5 million worth of cocaine off the
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  Speaker 7: coast of Puerto Rico. The agency captured a suspected drug
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  Speaker 7: smuggling boat about 50 miles off the coast of the island.
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  Speaker 7: More than 7,000 pounds of cocaine was on board there.
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  Speaker 7: The Coast Guard blew up the boat. They say it
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  Speaker 7: posed a navigation hazard. The five people on board were arrested.
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  Speaker 4: Good Lord, that's a.
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  Speaker 5: Lot of money.
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  Speaker 4: And a lot of cocaine and a lot of everything else.
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  Speaker 4: And this stuff is always going around, right? Around Colombia,
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  Speaker 4: around Venezuela, all over the Caribbean. And, of course, 50
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  Speaker 4: miles south of Puerto Rico, you're talking about right around
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  Speaker 4: the Dominican Republic, not far from Cuba. And I can't
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  Speaker 4: help but think to myself, this stuff seems to be
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  Speaker 4: getting closer and closer to the U.S. mainland. So kudos
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  Speaker 4: to President Trump, who I've nicknamed El Trumpito de Naldes Magnus,
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  Speaker 4: the 45th and 47th president of these United States. because
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  Speaker 4: he does a great job at making sure that these
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  Speaker 4: things get interdicted and that, you know, they destroy these boats.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what happened in this scenario. But speaking of
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  Speaker 4: Puerto Rico, as many of you guys know, who've listened
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  Speaker 4: to my show in the past, if it's your first time,
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  Speaker 4: you know, bienvenido, welcome. My parents are born in Puerto Rico,
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  Speaker 4: and I was born in Brooklyn, New York. And I
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  Speaker 4: expect to be in Puerto Rico really soon. So I'll
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  Speaker 4: let you know if I see any drug boats while I'm,
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  Speaker 4: you know, visiting San Juan. But A couple of months back,
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  Speaker 4: I'd met with the governor of Puerto Rico at a
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  Speaker 4: fundraiser in Teaneck, New Jersey. Shout out to the governor,
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  Speaker 4: Jennifer Gonzalez-Colón. And she's facing a lot of backlash right now.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of things happening in Puerto Rico. Their water
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  Speaker 4: is all jacked up. Not all, I should say, right?
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  Speaker 4: I think 90 some odd percent of the island has
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  Speaker 4: water and it's working perfectly fine. And there's a small
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  Speaker 4: percentage of the island that doesn't. And taking a lot
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  Speaker 4: of heat. But anyway. That's not really the point I
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  Speaker 4: was making. That was a ADHD digression. The story here
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  Speaker 4: is I was thinking of Puerto Rico and I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to be in Puerto Rico next week because I'm on
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  Speaker 4: vacation this week. But when the great one Mark Levin
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  Speaker 4: calls and says, hey, Richie, can you do the show tonight?
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  Speaker 4: I say, absolutely, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: No problemo. So I'm happy to do it. But I
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  Speaker 4: brought up the governor because I saw this story. And
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  Speaker 4: if the governor, if you're listening, Madame Gobernadora, please. She
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  Speaker 4: had invited me to. to be her guest at the
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  Speaker 4: governor's mansion in Puerto Rico. She said, if you're ever
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  Speaker 4: in Puerto Rico, let us know. And, you know, we'd
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  Speaker 4: love to host you at La Fortaleza, the governor's mansion.
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  Speaker 4: And I reached out through the unofficial channels that I
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  Speaker 4: was given. And lo and behold, nobody got back to me.
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  Speaker 4: I felt dissed and dismissed. And I can't help but think,
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  Speaker 4: is that part of the reason why her popularity isn't
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  Speaker 4: going well? Not because she's not getting back in touch
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  Speaker 4: with Rich Valdez. No, but more so because people not
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  Speaker 4: keeping their word And that's something to be debated. So
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  Speaker 4: we'll talk about that because I'm a big fan of hers,
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  Speaker 4: but not a big fan of not visiting La Fortaleza
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  Speaker 4: on my trip. But needless to say, we're going to
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  Speaker 4: talk about a lot of things, not necessarily about Puerto Rico,
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  Speaker 4: but about all sorts of things going on in America tonight.
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  Speaker 4: And one of the things we're going to get into,
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  Speaker 4: maybe not right now, but speaking of Puerto Rico, is AOC,
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  Speaker 4: all out crazy, my least favorite congresswoman from the Bronx
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  Speaker 4: and Queens, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And AOC, all out crazy herself,
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  Speaker 4: she was speaking at the anniversary of the, is that
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  Speaker 4: the march, Mr. Producer? The march of Martin Luther King's
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  Speaker 4: march on Selma, Alabama. And she had a lot of
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  Speaker 4: things to say. So did a lot of her Democrat colleagues.
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  Speaker 4: And we're going to get into some of that in
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  Speaker 4: a little bit as well. We also have Hassan Piker, right?
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  Speaker 4: The Twitch streamer who's a huge fan of uh, Abdul El-Sayed. Now,
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  Speaker 4: a couple of weeks back, he said, if you can't
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  Speaker 4: say my name right, Abdul Rahman, Abdul Rahman, Abdul Rahman, right?
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  Speaker 4: He said it just like that. He said, if you
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  Speaker 4: can't get my name right, get my name out your mouth.
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  Speaker 4: So I said, I will say Abdul Rahman, Abdul Rahman,
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  Speaker 4: Abdul Rahman, just like you said it to make sure
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing it right.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not trying to mock him or his name. Um, just,
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  Speaker 4: you know, trying to get it right. Anyway. Um, Mr. El-Sayed,
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  Speaker 4: we've got some audio on him. We're going to get
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  Speaker 4: into that. I also want to get into this commentary
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  Speaker 4: from Congressman Josh Gottheimer. Now, he's moderating his position on
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  Speaker 4: a couple of things. I'm just setting the table here, right?
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  Speaker 4: I'm throwing a lot of things out there. We're going
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  Speaker 4: to break all this down as we go through the
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  Speaker 4: show tonight. But he's in a district that has been, historically,
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  Speaker 4: I'll say, for a long time, rather conservative. Now you think,
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  Speaker 4: how do conservatives vote for a guy like that? Well,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they didn't get it right that day. But
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  Speaker 4: this was historically a district that was run for a
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  Speaker 4: long time by Scott Garrett, who at the time was
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  Speaker 4: one of the most conservative members in the entire House
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  Speaker 4: of Representatives. And that office was run by a very
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  Speaker 4: talented now broadcaster who back then was a very talented
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  Speaker 4: state director, a guy named Rich Zioli. And guess who
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  Speaker 4: worked in that office about 25 years ago? Me, right?
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  Speaker 4: When I was about 23 years old, I worked in
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  Speaker 4: that office with Rich Scioli and Congressman Scott Garrett in Paramus,
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  Speaker 4: New Jersey on Route 4. So I know the 5th
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  Speaker 4: District in New Jersey very well, the 8th District in
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  Speaker 4: New Jersey very well. And there's some controversy around Congressman
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  Speaker 4: Scott Gottheimer. Is he genuine? Is he sincere? He happens
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  Speaker 4: to be my congressman. Every 4th of July parade, which
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  Speaker 4: passes right in front of my house, in Bergen County.
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  Speaker 4: He's always in that parade and never, you know, he
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  Speaker 4: never fails. He always shows up for the parades. But
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  Speaker 4: the question is, is a congressman like Scott, excuse me,
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  Speaker 4: Josh Gottheimer, is he being sincere when his voting record
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  Speaker 4: isn't that different than AOC's? But yet he's trying to
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  Speaker 4: say he's not. We're going to play some audio on
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  Speaker 4: that in a little bit and I'm going to let
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  Speaker 4: you guys be the judge of that because I'm not
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  Speaker 4: buying it, honestly. So we will get into that. Let's
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  Speaker 4: see what else we have here. I just want you
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  Speaker 4: to be ready to go, locked and loaded for this
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  Speaker 4: broadcast over the next three hours. We're going to really
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  Speaker 4: do a great job, not because I'm here, but because
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  Speaker 4: you're here, right? The audience, probably one of the most
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  Speaker 4: committed audiences in talk radio besides my own. So thank
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  Speaker 4: you for that. It's always a pleasure. Plus, I want
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  Speaker 4: to get into the Democrats, right? There's a lot of
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  Speaker 4: Democrats right now that are upset with President Trump. They
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  Speaker 4: want to, you know, they're beating him up because he
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  Speaker 4: wants to put an end to mail-in voting. Now, all
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  Speaker 4: over the world, mail-in voting is recognized as something that
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  Speaker 4: promotes fraud. So why would that be a bad thing? Well,
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  Speaker 4: maybe because we have the former vice president of the
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  Speaker 4: United States, Kamala Harris, who I like to call Que
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  Speaker 4: Mala Eres. Que Mala Eres herself, which in Spanish means
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  Speaker 4: how bad she is. Que Mala is out here saying that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, obviously it's racist, it's wrong. How dare you?
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  Speaker 4: How dare you ask someone to prove who they are
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  Speaker 4: and vote in person and show an ID? Well, now
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  Speaker 4: you got a congressman named Bonta. He's saying the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: Now he's saying it's unconstitutional, unconstitutional to have somebody vote
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  Speaker 4: in person and prove who they are. I mean, this
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  Speaker 4: stuff gets crazier. They like to say the comedy. writes itself. Now,
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  Speaker 4: we're also going to touch a little bit on what's
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  Speaker 4: going on in Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, right?
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  Speaker 4: And there's been some audio reporting that we have from
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  Speaker 4: Admiral Bradley Cooper. He's the leader of the United States
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  Speaker 4: Central Command. And A lot of people think that Iran
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  Speaker 4: is the biggest issue on the table right now. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not totally convinced that it is. I still think that
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  Speaker 4: illegal immigration might be a bigger issue. And the reason
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  Speaker 4: being is the issue of Iran was predated by affordability issues,
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  Speaker 4: you know, well before President Trump decided to, you know,
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  Speaker 4: start this conflict in Iran. We had these issues already.
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  Speaker 4: And I think a large part of the affordability crisis,
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  Speaker 4: if that's a word I'm allowed to use here, I
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  Speaker 4: don't really like that phraseology, but I'll use it, really,
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  Speaker 4: to me, has stemmed from Joe Biden's introduction of, at minimum,
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  Speaker 4: 20 million new people in the United States who came
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  Speaker 4: by way of illegal immigration. Guess what happens when you
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  Speaker 4: have all these people that are going to hotels in
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  Speaker 4: New York City? I don't know what they do in
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  Speaker 4: your part of town, but I can tell you what
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  Speaker 4: they do in my part of town. I have a studio,
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  Speaker 4: 47th and Broadway. It's on the ninth floor. I look
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  Speaker 4: outside the window. I could see the red stairs in
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  Speaker 4: Times Square. And when you walk around there, you see
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  Speaker 4: these beautiful hotels, some of which in that area have
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  Speaker 4: been exclusively dedicated to housing illegal immigrants. And, of course,
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  Speaker 4: they get food and they get clothing and they've got,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we've got to be, right? You've got to
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  Speaker 4: be a good host to your guests. That stuff isn't free, right?
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  Speaker 4: So I would say the hidden tax on America really
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  Speaker 4: comes by way of all of the aid that's being
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  Speaker 4: given to 20 million new people. In the years that
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  Speaker 4: we've had illegal immigration problems, we didn't have problems in
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  Speaker 4: one or two or three given years where it was
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  Speaker 4: 20 million new people. Lamentably, that's exactly what we have now.
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  Speaker 4: So we're going to talk about that as well. I
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  Speaker 4: want to get your thoughts on everything as well.
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  Speaker 5: 877-381-3811.
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  Speaker 4: It's Friday night, so we're going to do calls. We're
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  Speaker 4: going to have a good conversation. I do have a
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  Speaker 4: lot to say. Plus, everybody's favorite Christian from Tennessee. I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure you could fill in the blank on a lot
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  Speaker 4: of those, but I'm talking about the Nashville country singer
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  Speaker 4: Jelly Roll. He's taken some heat for blasting El Trompito,
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  Speaker 4: Donaldus Magnus. And what's interesting here is that Trump is
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  Speaker 4: both taller and lighter than him, but he's still taking digs,
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  Speaker 4: even though he's not in better shape yet. as 80-year-old
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  Speaker 4: El Trompito is, which I thought was pretty funny. And
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  Speaker 4: kudos to Jelly Roll for losing his weight. But I
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  Speaker 4: don't know. I'm not totally sold. I'm not totally sold.
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  Speaker 4: I'll get into that in a little bit. Because my
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  Speaker 4: brother had gone to Nashville and came back, my big
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  Speaker 4: brother Lou. And big brother Lou came back and said, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I love it. It's a great town. It's beautiful. You're
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  Speaker 4: going to love it, blah, blah, blah. And it was,
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  Speaker 4: and I do.
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  Speaker 6: I love it.
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  Speaker 4: The only complaint I had was, you know, I'm just
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  Speaker 4: not head over heels about country music, right? I could
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  Speaker 4: do a few country songs, some Morgan Wallen, some of this,
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  Speaker 4: some of that, but eventually, eventually got to mix it
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  Speaker 4: up with some other stuff, right? Anyway, all that being said,
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  Speaker 4: what happens here is that Mr. Jelly Roll, he's One
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  Speaker 4: of those people that, you know, I saw him kind
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  Speaker 4: of emerge. I'm sure a lot of people followed him
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  Speaker 4: for a long time, but he kind of popped on
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  Speaker 4: the scene a couple of years back in a major
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  Speaker 4: way and didn't go away. And good for him, right?
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  Speaker 4: He's a talented guy. He's a good singer. But there
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  Speaker 4: was something about him. I just said, I'm not quite
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  Speaker 4: sold on this. And then little by little, you hear
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  Speaker 4: more things. And now forget what you hear. It's what
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  Speaker 4: you hear him saying. You haven't heard those clips, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure you have, from a couple of nights ago.
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  Speaker 4: where he was filling in. The way I'm filling in
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  Speaker 4: for the great one tonight, he was filling in for
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  Speaker 4: Jimmy Kimmel. And man, it wasn't, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 4: say it wasn't what I expected. Let's just put it
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  Speaker 4: that way. And I'll get into that in a little
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  Speaker 4: bit as well. So we're going to talk about that.
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  Speaker 4: And ultimately, you know, this stuff kind of opened my
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  Speaker 4: eyes a little bit. You know, The late Reverend Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Joseph A. Santos from Gospel Tabernacle Church in North Bergen,
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  Speaker 4: New Jersey. He was my first pastor. He's originally from
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  Speaker 4: the Bronx. God rest his soul. When I was about
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  Speaker 4: 19 or 20 years old, I heard him say in
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  Speaker 4: a sermon, he said, if I haven't let you down yet,
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  Speaker 4: it's because you haven't been here long enough. Because it's
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  Speaker 4: God that's infallible. All men are definitely fallible. And I
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  Speaker 4: was always prepared to be let down by men, so
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  Speaker 4: when I see these things with Jelly Roll or others,
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't really mess me up. But when I see
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  Speaker 4: things like what happened with this woman, Lindsay Clancy, that
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  Speaker 4: stuff does mess me up. So, of course, it's disappointing,
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  Speaker 4: and for some it may be surprising, but it's a
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  Speaker 4: wicked world, and we're going to talk about all of that. Because,
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  Speaker 4: like I started in the beginning, this is about good
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  Speaker 4: versus evil. And we're going to continue in that vein
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  Speaker 4: when we return. I am Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 5: This is America. This is America.
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  Speaker 4: All right, familia, welcome back. Rich Valdez. I see a
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  Speaker 4: couple of calls from Texas, from Georgia, from Colorado. We're
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  Speaker 4: going to get to your calls momentarily. I want to
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  Speaker 4: remind you guys that the great one Mark Levin has
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  Speaker 4: an amazing lineup this weekend on the Fox News Channel.
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  Speaker 4: Chris Ruffo and Rebecca Heinrichs are joining Mark Levin on Life, Liberty,
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  Speaker 4: and Levin on Sunday at 8 p.m. Then, right before that,
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  Speaker 4: on Saturday at 8 p.m. Don't miss this. Steve Moore,
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  Speaker 4: White House economist, Congressman Mike Lawler from New York. Good guy.
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  Speaker 4: Joining Mark Levin again on Life, Liberty and Levin on
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  Speaker 4: the Fox News channel this Saturday at 8 p.m.
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  Speaker 6: Eastern.
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  Speaker 4: Make sure you set your DVR. Right. Don't miss it.
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  Speaker 4: Record it. Watch it. These are those deep dives that
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  Speaker 4: you do not want to miss.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 4: That's all I could tell you. You've been warned. You
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  Speaker 4: have been told. Make sure you lock it in.
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  Speaker 8: Now.
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  Speaker 4: There's a couple of things I want to get into.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to get into like the things I said, right?
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  Speaker 4: And there's a few things that aren't on there, right?
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  Speaker 4: Did you know, and this is an old story, this
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: is not breaking news, that they have a certain level
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: of care that they offer through tax funds in Denmark
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: for people that have developmental delays and different challenges. And
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: I think you'll be floored when I tell you all
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: about it. Now, I am going to leave that for
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: a little bit later in the show for our power hour,
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: hour number three. We're doing it live, we're doing it national,
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: and we're doing it with me, Rich Valdez.
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: This is America. This is America. He's brown, he's bald,
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: and he's breaking it down. Oh, he's so handsome. What's
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: his name?
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: Rich Valdez. And I want to get some of your
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: thoughts on what we've been discussing thus far before we continue.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: We've got a few people on the line. Let's go
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: to Castle Rock, Colorado. Phil, go for it. You're on
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: with Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Rich. Can you hear me okay?
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, go for it. Okay.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: So three weeks ago, I was at the Jelly Roll
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: concert in Colorado, Colorado Springs. And I got to tell
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: you that he's got one of the worst voices I've
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: ever heard from a live singer. Now, he might be
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: good in the studio, but he was horrible. But anyway,
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: I'm thoroughly... And I was a big Jelly Roll fan,
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: and I'm thoroughly disgusted. I don't watch Jimmy Kimmel, but
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I saw the tape of it on YouTube. And I'm shocked.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: For a man that talks about God and talks about
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: loyalty and all that stuff, for him to talk the
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: way that he did, and to alienate probably half of
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: his fans... to me, is just stupid. And I don't
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: get it. I'm so confused by it. You know, I
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: don't know. Somebody else wrote the jokes for him, and
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: he just decided he was going to run with it.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: But it thoroughly disgusted me, and I will no longer
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: listen to his music. And I do believe that you've
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: got an awful lot of country fans and an awful
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: lot of Jelly Roll fans that were just kind of
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: shocked by that.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: I was surprised, to tell you the truth. And again,
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: I don't expect everyone to fawn over Donaldus Magnus El Trompito.
• 18:48
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: But I also don't. And I think it's fair game
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: if you're hosting a late night show to take shots
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: at the president. I just thought it was a unique
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: position for him to be in where, like you said,
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: I think it would it wouldn't play well for a
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: lot of people in his own audience. So, Phil, thank
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: you for that. I appreciate it. Thanks for sounding off
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: on that. And I don't know if you're right or wrong.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: I guess we'll see. We'll see how that totally ends up.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Quick shout out to our friends in the FBI. Got
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: a couple of messages coming through the transom over here,
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: as the great one would say. Friends at the FBI,
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: shout out to you. Of course, you know, I don't
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: listen to Jelly Roll, but I do listen to all
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: sorts of music, right? I listen to some country, especially
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: those mashups with Morgan Wallen and the... You know, a
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: couple of rappers that he's I'm a big hip hop fan.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: You know, I grew up in the golden age of
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: hip hop. I like Spanish music, salsa, merengue.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: I got a little oro solido in my playlist. I
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: was just listening to some before I came in this
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: old track with Fat Joe on it, believe it or not. And,
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: you know, it made me think that particular band. Oro Solido,
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: a friend of mine, Raul Acosta, who is a business
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: partner of mine, but he was recently in the news,
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: which was interesting. He's making headlines for being a write-in candidate,
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: a write-in candidate for the congressional seat that was formerly
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: held by Adriano Espaillat. And This is an interesting story
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: because you may have heard the new nominee for that
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: is a Democrat socialist named Daria Liza Chevalier. And Daria
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Liza is, I would say, she's to the left of AOC, right?
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: AOC is like the Puerto Rican communist sympathizer. Well, you
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: got a Dominican communist sympathizer in Daria Liza who's endorsed
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: by New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani. And it's almost
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: like her and AOC are birds of a feather, right?
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: And AOC, speaking of AOC, who I like to call
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: all out crazy. By the way, if there's time, I
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: will share with you a story about AOC and a parade, right?
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: And if you've listened to me before, you've heard it before.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: But the anniversary of that was just recently. So I'll
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: share that with you. But it's a funny story about
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: her running away. And you can Google it if you want.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: But I want to get into some AOC because she
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: was at the 63rd anniversary of the Reverend Dr. Martin
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: Luther King's March on Washington. Forgive me, I thought it
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: was the March on Selma, Alabama. But it was the
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: other way. And this March on Washington, earlier today, they
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: were celebrating this. And she says, look, we have to
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: have all of these things in order to be Americans.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Listen to this.
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  Speaker 10: We, the people, demand guaranteed health care for every American
• 21:33
  Speaker 10: as a right and not a privilege. We, the people
• 21:40
  Speaker 10: of the United States of America, demand that one job
• 21:45
  Speaker 10: with no need for overtime should be enough for our
• 21:50
  Speaker 10: most basic needs, which also include rest. And we must
• 21:59
  Speaker 10: recognize that that can only happen in an economy where
• 22:03
  Speaker 10: Black women are not the first to be pushed out
• 22:06
  Speaker 10: and the last to be brought back in.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: What?
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: What does one have to do with the other, right?
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: She's talking about guaranteed health care for every American is
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: a right and not a privilege. Now, I know where
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: she gets that. She gets that from her communist sympathizing grandfather,
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Bernie Sanders, right? Bernard Sanders, Senator Sanders. Health care is
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: a right. Health care is a right. Now, Bernie Sanders
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: and his health care is a right stuff. We've been
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: over this many times, right? Can we sit here and
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: just start asking for everything to be all right? Because
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: this seemingly will get out of control very quickly. As
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: soon as healthcare is all right, guess what's going to
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: be the next right?
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Housing.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: And I'm going to pick what kind of house I want, right?
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: I'm not talking about just basic shelter. No, no, no.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: I'm talking high ceilings loft, preferably in the Brickell area
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: of Miami. That's the housing right that I would like
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: allotted to me. And It's fascinating to me that the
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: left and, you know, one of their leaders, AOC, all
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: out crazy herself, think that somehow this is okay. It's
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: okay that the idea that we're just going to demand
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: health care for every American as a right, it's not
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: a privilege. We the people, right, tries to get all
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: patriotic with it. Every basic need should be met by
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: the government. Now, listen, I'm here taunting her and I'm
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: taking shots at her philosophy for sure. But one thing
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: I could tell you is she doesn't hide behind things
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: like some of her colleagues. AOC, Daria Liza, many of
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: the other Democrat socialists, they're in your face about what
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: they believe. They're letting you know, look, I'm communist light.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: Don't get it twisted. The rest of them are like, no, no, no, listen, no, no,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: come on, no, take it easy. But they're full of it.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: So I don't know, do we give her credit for
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: being honest with her crazy? Or, you know, do we
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: criticize her for being crazy?
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: But I will say, ultimately, it doesn't end until the
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: final sentence, right? Where she says, we have to recognize
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: that all of this can only happen in an economy
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: where black women are not the first to be pushed
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: out and the last to be brought back in, right?
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: So it's not just about healthcare. It's about now throwing
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: in the race card. It's about trying to muster up
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: whatever grievance you can. And this is not me trying
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: to minimize the plight of any black woman, right? The
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: other day I was visiting a friend in the hospital
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: and she herself is a, I guess we'll go with
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: whatever leftist term. I love to use the leftist terms.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: We'll call her BIPOC, right? She fits into black indigenous
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: person of color. She's Puerto Rican. Right. And my friend
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: tells me, you know, and she means it from a
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: good place, not from a political place. She's not even
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: a political person. But she says, you know, did you
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: know that more black women die in in hospitals and
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: especially while giving birth than others? And she found it
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: shocking and thought that this had to do with something racial. Right.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: And my I've seen these stats.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: Remember, I used to work in the government and. We
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: analyzed stats like this when I worked in the state
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: government about maternal child health and how it differed by race.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: And the overwhelming data that I looked at, the peer-reviewed data,
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: was always showing that the reason that women of color,
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: in particular African-American women, were dying during childbirth was because
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: of undiagnosed pre-existing conditions because they neglected their prenatal care.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: or because they didn't have a habit of going to
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: the doctor every six months or once a year for
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: a physical. It wasn't part of their routine. So their
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: pregnancies were oftentimes marred by different types of ailments. And
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: this could not be more evident than I told you
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: in the beginning. My parents are from Puerto Rico. I
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: was born in Brooklyn, but we have one big happy
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Puerto Rican family. Eating pernil. Rice, arroz con habichuela, you know,
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: all the good staples that one eats. And while this
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: food is delicious and I will never not eat it,
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: but you have to eat it in moderation and you've
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: got to make sure that, you know, you're exercising and
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: we can't normalize obesity, right? Which I think the left
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: will say, stop fat shaming. No, it's not about fat shaming.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: It's about telling people the truth that you're going to
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: die if you're fat. You're going to get diabetes. You're
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: more susceptible to cancer. It's not good, right? It gives
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: you a bunch of different comorbidities. So my point is,
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: when AOC makes a comment like this, clearly, clearly she's
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: trying to make it incendiary. She's trying to make it
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: seem as if there's someone or something always against this
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: person or that person because of their color, because of
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: their status, because of their this, So I'm going to
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: play the same game and say that there's always somebody
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: against me because I love America. There's always somebody against
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: me because I believe that we should have a free market.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: I believe in capital. And it just is shocking. Again,
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: another ADHD tangent for you. The other day I was
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: scrolling on the Instagram and I saw this post and
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: it was about a fight that broke out somewhere in
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: New York. And I put some sort of comment, you know,
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: something snide, something silly, whatever. Someone replied to me saying,
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: this is capitalism at work. Now, clearly they were trying
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: to bait me. That's what the trolls do. She wanted
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: to bait me into a conversation saying that people are
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: fighting in the streets because they're so damn greedy. Now,
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: one has nothing to do with the other. But again,
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: the leftist is stuck in this world. So it all
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: comes back to that. initial question I had, good versus evil.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: And truly, people might say this upcoming midterm is a
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: battle over capitalism versus socialism. I would step back and
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: say this upcoming battle is a battle over good versus evil,
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: because it's truly that simple.
• 28:46
  Speaker 11: Mr.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Producer, how am I doing? All right, we're going to
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: pause right here. We're going to come right back. We're
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: going to go to your calls and more. Don't go anywhere.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: I'm Rich Valdez.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: This is America. This is.
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  Speaker 8: America.
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: This is America.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: President Donald J. Trump, Mr. President, welcome to the program, sir.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything. I
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: know you very well, and I listen, but I have
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: a lot of people that listen, and they love your show,
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: and I appreciate it very much.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: All right, Fabinho, welcome back. We're going to grab a
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: couple of calls here, just because they've been there, and
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: I love talking to people. But we are going to
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: get to everything I said we were going to get to, because...
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: there's a lot to talk about. A lot happened this week.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: Plus that whole Lindsey Clancy thing. Man, that was a doozy. Anyway,
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: let us continue. Where do we go? We're going to
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: go to Rod calling us from Atlanta, Georgia on SiriusXM.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: Go for it, Rod. Hey, what's going on?
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Wonderful.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Can you hear me?
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: Go for it.
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: I just had a quick question.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: I just looked up the U.S.
• 30:07
  Speaker 11: Customs and Voters, and it says like 11 million illegals.
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: But my question is, if you're not from New York, California,
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: and probably Texas, I don't feel like the illegal.
• 30:25
  Speaker 11: immigration problem which I was 100% in favor of closing
• 30:29
  Speaker 11: the border because you got to get control of it
• 30:32
  Speaker 11: right and I'm in favor of deportations which that's the
• 30:37
  Speaker 11: law you're just enforcing the law but I'm trying to figure.
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: Out how does it affect me Georgia Southeast anybody that's
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: not from New York California and we'll say Texas.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: The point that I was making, Rod, was really exactly that,
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: that I think most people don't realize. I think people
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: are walking around kind of, I don't want to say misunderstanding,
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: but being misdirected, right? I think a lot of people
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: right now are saying, you know, this war in Iran,
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: oh my goodness, this war, it's costing us an arm
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: and a leg, billions of dollars a day. And then
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: when they go to buy a steak and it's, you know,
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: $ 10 a pound, they're like, yeah, you see, that's because
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: of that damn war in Iraq. And I'm going to
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: say that, no, that steak has been 9.50 and 10.50
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: a pound since well before this war. And what really
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: sparked this increase in cost? Now we could talk about
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: the cows and there was an issue with cows and
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: a lot of them had to be killed. And I
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: get all that. But nobody can argue that it's more expensive,
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: way more than the government's planned 2% planned inflation, right?
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: So Where does this hidden tax come from? Some will say, well,
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: that's Trump and his tariffs. He's killing us. They're passing
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: it on to the consumer. And I would say in
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: some degree, but when you really dig into it, you
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: see that it's really not there either, right? It's not
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: in large part. And all I could say is when
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: I see my taxes going up, why is my, let
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: me ask you this, Ron, why is my auto insurance
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: going up like I'm having an accident every renewal when
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: I'm not? I'm 48 years old and I haven't had
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: an accident in years. And I can tell you why.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: Because people are having accidents like crazy with uninsured drivers who,
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: in many cases, don't even have a legitimate driver's license.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: That's the number one factor that's pushing these things up.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: And it's going unnoticed. People are pretending like the cost
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: of living is going up and it has nothing to
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: do with the 11 million or 20 million, by other
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: people's count, illegal immigrants that are in the country. So when...
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: I look at all of those things and I say, man,
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: we have a big problem. Thank God Trump closed the border.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Thank God he's enforcing immigration laws. But the reality is
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: a lot of the damage is done. And until we
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: have 20 million less people in our country, we're going
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: to continue providing welfare for families that are here that
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: are not supposed to be here, but we can't watch
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: their kids starve either. And this is an issue. The
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: fact that we had to put all this money into
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: ICE to even address this problem That's another hidden tax
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: on these things. So I would say this is one
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: of the biggest fires that I think Trump is putting out.
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: And just because the border is closed and we're not
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: seeing the influx that we once saw doesn't mean that
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: the problem is gone forever. At least that's my thought.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Rod. I appreciate your call. Shout out to
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: Sirius XM and everybody in the A, Georgia in the building, Atlanta.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: Let us continue. I want to go to. Let's see.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: Let's go to Andy calling us from Richland, Washington. Andy,
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: go right ahead.
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: Hi.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just wanted to comment on Ayak's comments. Somebody
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: should remind her that this last hired, first fired rule
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: is a union rule. In non-union workplaces, it goes by.
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: Merit, right? It goes by whoever's better at their job.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: They don't use seniority in most places. Yeah, it's a
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: great point.
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: Seniority and what they call LIFO, right? Last in, first out.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: These are union rules, and the unions were the number
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: one target of communists 100 years ago, right? Workers of
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: the world unite. Vita Peron would be proud of AOC.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Andy. I appreciate it. Very good point. And
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: with seconds to go on the clock, let's go to
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: Catherine Ann calling us from New York. Go for it.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: Yes, hi.
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: Thank you so much.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: I think you are beyond brilliant, and you were made
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: perfectly by God, our king. Oh, amen to that, especially
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: my hair. Go right ahead.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Well, listen.
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry. Catherine, if you don't mind hanging on,
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: they played the music, and that means I got to go,
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: but we're coming right back. It is Rich Valdez, hour
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• 35:11
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• 35:17
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• 35:19
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• 35:22
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• 35:30
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• 35:32
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• 35:34
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• 35:37
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• 35:40
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• 35:41
  Speaker 4: Strait of Hormuz. A couple of stories regarding China this week.
• 35:47
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• 35:49
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• 35:51
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• 35:54
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• 35:58
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• 36:00
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• 36:04
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• 36:07
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• 36:10
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• 36:20
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• 36:26
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• 36:29
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• 36:31
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• 36:35
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• 36:50
  Speaker 4: because I try to be active there. Probably not as
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: much as I should be, but I do give that
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: a shot. And we were talking earlier about this backlash, right?
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: There's been some online backlash about some criticisms of someone
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: I like to call El Trumpito, Donaldus Magnus, the 45th
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: and 47th president of these United States, Donald J. Trump,
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: El Presidente. And the artist known as Jelly Roll, this
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: guy was filling in for Jimmy Kimmel. And he took
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: aim at the president. Again, listen, President Trump's got thick skin.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: He's a tough guy. He's a big guy. Matter of fact,
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: he's a taller guy than Jelly Roll and a lighter
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: guy in terms of weight. And yet Jelly Roll wanted
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: to pick on his weight, saying he gained 14 pounds,
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: this and that. You know, I guess maybe it hit
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: a nerve for me because I used to be pretty
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: fat myself. I lost a bunch of weight with the
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: keto diet. And then I started exercising and got into
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: my health a lot more and did a bunch of
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: other things in order to stay, you know, in good shape.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: But after my birthday this year in May, my birthday
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: is Cinco de Mayo, by the way. I started eating
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: like food was going out of style. And I just,
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: I didn't meet a carb that I didn't love. And
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: I ate them all. And I think I gained 30 pounds,
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: like May, June, July. And I just started losing weight again.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: I think I'm down 20 now because I've been hitting
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: the gym every day. But we shouldn't have 30 pound,
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: you know, swings in our weight. But sometimes that stuff happens.
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: And jelly rolls, wanted to beat up President Trump for
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: putting on 14 pounds. And I think we have a
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: clip of Jelly Roll also taking shots at President Trump
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: on how he waves the race car flag and a
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: couple other things that, you know, didn't necessarily make me laugh,
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: but made me think, come on, you can do better
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: than that. Listen to this.
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  Speaker 9: And there's Donald Trump, who apparently has never held a
• 38:50
  Speaker 9: flag before.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: What a job. How do you up waving a flag?
• 39:03
  Speaker 9: But the president seemed to enjoy the IndyCar race, which
• 39:06
  Speaker 9: was a real switch up for him because normally he
• 39:08
  Speaker 9: only likes his own race. Trump also drove around the
• 39:16
  Speaker 9: track in his motorcade doing what they call the lap
• 39:19
  Speaker 9: of honor, which sounds like a loyalty program at a
• 39:22
  Speaker 9: strip club. 5% cash back in the champagne room for
• 39:28
  Speaker 9: all Map of Honor members. Sadly, those are the only
• 39:33
  Speaker 9: laps Trump's been doing lately. According to the Washington Post,
• 39:38
  Speaker 9: a lot of doctors are worried about the president's weight.
• 39:41
  Speaker 9: After his last physical, we found out Trump gained 14 pounds,
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: which means he's now tipping the scales at almost 240.
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  Speaker 9: It's crazy. Think about this, y'all. In the last few years,
• 39:52
  Speaker 9: I've lost 300 pounds. That means I've lost an entire
• 40:07
  Speaker 9: Donald Trump. And let's be honest, based on his approval ratings,
• 40:13
  Speaker 9: it seems like most of the country wants to do
• 40:14
  Speaker 9: the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: So, again, I pledged as much of it as I
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: could there. He was on a roll. I guess some
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: people in the audience thought that was funny, but it's
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: Jimmy Kimmel.
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: So a lot of people who are there are already
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: Trump haters.
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: I think that's Jimmy Kimmel. I feel like stopped being
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: a comic along with a few others a while back. Now,
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: there's a couple that are funny, like Trevor Noah. I
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: do find Trevor Noah funny. But and Colbert, I think Colbert,
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: he goes down this same rabbit hole.
• 40:45
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: The anti-Trump. I hate Trump. But he makes me laugh,
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: or at least he used to make me laugh a
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: lot on the Colbert Report when he played a conservative.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: I thought that was so funny. But going back to
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: this one, and this is really, you know, I guess
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: there's no right or wrong here, right? You're free to
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: not like whoever you don't like. A lot of people
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: don't like me. But why, if you're a Nashville country singer,
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: would you take this position that might piss off a
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  Speaker 4: lot of your audience?
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: And I'm wondering... Am I looking at it the wrong way?
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: Is this one of those things where I'm the last
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: one to find out? Like, is Tennessee not a red state?
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: And last I checked, it was. My nephew is a
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: state trooper in the state of Tennessee. And when I've
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: been there, it looked pretty darn conservative to me. But
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: Nashville is a different beast, right? It's kind of like
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: the New York of Tennessee that is, you know, down
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: the middle at best, I would say. And I'm wondering,
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: am I... putting too much stock in the conservatism of Tennessee.
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: If you think I'm right or wrong, give me a
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: call if you're in Tennessee. I want to hear from
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: you on this because I'm not sure. And I would
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: think that it takes a lot out of an artist
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: to do this, right? Dolly Parton, a couple of days ago,
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: you may have seen this clip of her doing an interview,
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: and she's being goaded, G-O-A-D-E-D, baited, B-A-I-T-E-D, by the interviewer
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: to say something anti-Trump. And she doesn't take the bait.
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: And she's adamant about it. And she's like, look, man,
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: I'm an entertainer. I'm not here for that. And good
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: for her, right, for taking that position. And again, if
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: you're an entertainer that wants to be outspoken about your
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: conservatism or your liberalism, that's on you too. But my
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: question is, I guess you've got to know your audience
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: well enough to say, do I have an audience after
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: I out myself? as a whatever. Now, for me, as
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: a talk show host in the radio space, in the
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: podcast space, even in cable television, many of you see
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: me on television occasionally. This is one of those things
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: where I've always been upfront about my conservatism. Pardon me.
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: So for me, the other side of the coin is
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: do people that hate me, hate me because I've been
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: so honest about it? I don't know. But I'm curious
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: to know how this hurts or helps an artist, right?
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: Because you've seen, you know, interview after interview of people
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: in Hollywood and other places. They come out and they're like, hey,
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: I like this or I like that. And for many,
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: it hurts. Now, I think for those that are in Nashville,
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: usually it doesn't hurt them at all, right? Because there's
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: still a conservative bastion in Tennessee. But is that changing, right?
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: Is there a rift amongst the... the folks in Nashville.
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't think so. I think Jollyville
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: might be the exception to the rule, but I'm curious
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: to know your thoughts on this. And I want to
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: hear from you on it. Now, a couple other things
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: I want to get into before we move on. One
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: of the things that gets under my skin is when
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: people try to invoke the name of the constitution, right? They, they,
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: they start talking about, this is a violation of the constitution, right?
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: And in cut 12, we've got the Attorney General of California,
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: Rob Bonta. I think I called him a congressman earlier.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: That was probably a compliment, or maybe it was an insult.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: I don't know. Depends on how you look at it.
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: But General Bonta, he was on CNN today, and he
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: says that President Trump is violating the Constitution because he
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: wants to restrict mail-in voting. Listen to this. He is
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: trying to violate the U.S. Constitution. That's par for the
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: course for him. Unfortunately, he has trampled over the U.S.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Constitution time and time again, at least tried to, and
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: we've stopped him multiple times, whether it be birthright citizenship
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: or his unlawful unconstitutional tariffs or other.
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: Actions he's taken.
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  Speaker 1: And he's doing it here. There's a part of the Constitution,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: a clause in the Constitution, right on point, the elections clause.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: It says the states and to a degree Congress determine
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: the time, place, and the manner of of elections, and
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: the United States Postal Service and the President of the
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: United States have no authority in that regard. So he
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: is violating the Constitution, and rightfully and appropriately, a federal
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: judge has blocked him from implementing this unlawful and unconstitutional action.
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: Now, Rob Bonta is doing his victory lap here. But
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: the bigger question here is, what is Rob Bonta missing?
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: I think he's missing the will of the people, right?
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: Because while It is the state legislatures that do this.
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: They do this at the behest of we the people, right?
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: We the people of whichever state. Americans, by and large,
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: whether you're looking at the polling or anecdotal evidence or
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: just honest common sense, don't want crooked elections. None of
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: them do. That's a fact. I'm pretty sure that it's
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: kind of irrefutable unless you're in a very blue county
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: and a very blue state, then they're like, no, no, no, no,
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: we want this. But by and large, right, roughly 3,000
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: counties across the country, roughly 3,000 counties across the country
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: want fair elections. I would be, you know, remiss if
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: I didn't count a couple of blue ones, like I said,
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: but for the most part. So, okay, they take this
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: legal action against the president, but they're missing the bigger point.
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: Trump's just played them. This guy's now on television saying
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: that it's Trump that's violating the Constitution because he's saying
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: he doesn't want ballot fraud. You don't have to be
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: a rocket scientist to realize that this guy, who happens
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: to be a Democrat, is advocating for ballot fraud, trying
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: to wrap it in the patina of Trump hatred and
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: Trump derangement syndrome and Trump's all things bad and it's anti-constitutional.
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: Guess what? I think even the Democrats look at this
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: and say, yeah, you know, come on, let's be honest here.
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: This isn't really what's going on, right? I mean, come on.
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: When people of all walks of life, from all stripes,
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: when they see these videos that James O'Keefe puts together
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: or others that are showing people how blatant it is
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: when people refuse an ID, it makes people scratch their
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: heads and think and say, hold on a second. Why?
• 47:35
  Speaker 9: Why?
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: Why are you so adamant about making voting so easy
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: to be rigged, making it so susceptible to fraud? And that,
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: to me, is a losing position. Anyway, I want to
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: know what you think about that as well. I'm Valdez.
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  Speaker 5: This is America. This is America.
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  Speaker 4: States do not have to comply with it, and they're
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: going to have a preliminary injunction.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: A hearing next week, and hopefully we'll get an order
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: that goes even longer all the way through the election
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: to make it clear that this order from the president
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: will not be implemented before this election.
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: That is Attorney General of California, Rob Bonta. And Mr.
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: Bonta argues that the states have the time, place, and manner,
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: they control the time, place, and manner of elections in
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: their state. And this is a right given to them in,
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: you know, or enumerated in the Constitution. OK, and I
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: will say this, that same Constitution says that the plenary
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: power that the executive has. that of the president being
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: the entirety of the executive branch, I don't think is
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: going to be undone by him saying, I control USPS.
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: I don't know how the state in controlling their time, place,
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: and manner is going to overrule the POTUS controlling the
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: postal service. Now, forgive me for being an ignoramus, right?
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: When it comes to issues like this, I'm not a
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: learned man like Attorney General Bonta. But if you are
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: a learned man of constitutional law, get Mark Levin on
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: the phone, right? I don't think I'm wrong here. I
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: don't see this man going to the Supreme Court and
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: the Supreme Court saying, yep, yep, you got it. the
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: state of California is going to now dictate what the
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: United States post office does. And the president is going
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: to fall back. How does that make any sense? It doesn't,
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: it doesn't. And I think he's barking up the wrong tree.
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: He's just trying to get a show. This is how
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: the left works. They go after stuff. They get their
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: preliminary injunction. They get a little order here from a
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: circuit court or from one of the other federal courts.
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: And then eventually if it even makes it up there. Now, listen,
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: if I have to, eat crow on this, you know,
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: next August or next July or next June, or if
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: they even take this case. All right, I'll eat crow.
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: But I'm going to say, nice try, Attorney General Bonta.
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: I don't think this is a long-lived victory, right? Because
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: Clarence Thomas and Alito and even the late Justice Antonin Scalia,
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: they all spoke a lot about executive authority, and the
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: idea or the theory of unitary executive theory. And this,
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: to me, slam dunk, and it's not for Bonta. It's
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: going to be a slam dunk for John Sauer, if
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: he argues this case, for Attorney General Blanch. It's going
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: to be a slam dunk for El Trompito. Now, that's
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: my thought on that. Mr. Producer, do I have enough
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: time to go to calls? I have one minute. That
• 51:26
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• 51:28
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• 51:29
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• 51:31
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• 51:33
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• 51:35
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• 51:39
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• 51:42
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• 51:46
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• 51:49
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• 51:53
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• 51:55
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• 51:56
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: Sunday. Mark is back. Same time, same channel. Chris Ruffo
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: and Rebecca Heinrichs are joining Mark on Life, Liberty, and
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: Levin on the Fox News channel Sunday at 8 p.m.
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: Eastern time. So make sure you lock in for that.
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: We're coming back. I'm going to do your calls. We
• 52:14
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• 52:16
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• 52:19
  Speaker 4: rest of this hour, plus the power hour coming up
• 52:22
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• 52:25
  Speaker 4: I am Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 5: This is America.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Bye.