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Fighting Resumes, Forgetting Italy, Flying Funny · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez powered bipolitweek dot com.
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Speaker 2: And richvaldees is with us former Christian Administration official.
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Speaker 4: Rich Valdez columnist now with the Washington Times. This is America, Richiev.
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Speaker 1: Of the Nation with America with your host, Rich Valdez.
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Speaker 4: What's up, America. I am Rich Valdez Valdez with an
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Speaker 4: Welcome to the Monday night edition of the program. Blessed
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Speaker 4: are here seventeen blocks away from Madison Square Garden in
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Speaker 4: New York City, and I want to get your thoughts
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Speaker 4: on a lot of things, so make sure you give
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Speaker 4: me a call. But it's Monday night and we're just
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Speaker 4: getting started, right, We're just unfolding things. The weather is wonderful.
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Speaker 4: I took some days off at the end of last week,
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Speaker 4: and of course celebrating my daughter's twenty fifth birthday. What
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Speaker 4: a tremendous milestone. Very proud of her, Praise God for that.
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Speaker 4: And I'm back. I'm feeling great. The beach was wonderful,
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Speaker 4: the pool was even better. And now I want to
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Speaker 4: talk about everything that happened over the weekend and over
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Speaker 4: the last couple of days, right once a Thursday Friday,
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Speaker 4: because wow, lots lots going on. We're going to kick
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Speaker 4: it off with the straight up hord moves. Iran attacked
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Speaker 4: the ship, and boom, we're back in live active conflict
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Speaker 4: with Iran, the United States and Iran. President Trump didn't
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Speaker 4: play any games. He spoke about Senator Lindsay Graham, of course,
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Speaker 4: talking about how that went down, Senator Lindsay Graham passing
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Speaker 4: away this weekend very unexpectedly. Let's get into that, because
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Speaker 4: I think you know, that was a very very interesting
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Speaker 4: it was a very very interesting turn of events. We'll say, right,
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Speaker 4: look at this timeline, all right, let me read it
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Speaker 4: to you. So he's one of the key figures in
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Speaker 4: multiple foreign policy deals, right, the US, Saudi Defense Treaty,
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Speaker 4: the Russia Sanctions Bill, as well as the ongoing conflict
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Speaker 4: in the Straight of Horne Moves. So Graham, he's all
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Speaker 4: over the place. A matter of fact, he was in Ukraine,
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Speaker 4: arriving back home on Friday and dying on Saturday night.
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Speaker 4: He was scheduled to do a TV hit on NBC News.
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Speaker 4: And listen to this. I mean, there's a good quote
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Speaker 4: here from somebody quote unquote familiar with the matter. Graham
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Speaker 4: intended to work with Trump on the deal. Blah blah blah.
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Speaker 4: Trump told Graham he was preparing to launch fresh strikes
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Speaker 4: against Iran after another attack on a commercial ship in
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Speaker 4: the Straight of Horne Moves. Somebody familiar with the Graham
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Speaker 4: team and had spoken with Graham, said that the Senator
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Speaker 4: complained that he was feeling unwell. The person urged him
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Speaker 4: to seek medical attention immediately, and Graham said he would
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Speaker 4: do so on Sunday morning, after his scheduled appearance on
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Speaker 4: NBC's Meet the Press. Instead, it was President Trump that
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Speaker 4: joined Meet the Press. And here's what President Trump had
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Speaker 4: to say.
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Speaker 3: So, what makes it even strangers that I got a
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Speaker 3: call last night sometime, you know, the early evening maybe
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Speaker 3: in the sevens. And he called and he said, we're
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Speaker 3: all set for the Save America Act. He was pushing
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Speaker 3: the Save America Act like crazy. He got back, said
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Speaker 3: he just landed from Ukraine. I said, that's a long
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Speaker 3: trip to Mecca said, he sounded a little tired, but perfect,
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Speaker 3: but a little bit tired. I had a right to be.
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Speaker 3: And he was a worker though he was really a worker.
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Speaker 3: But but he sounded great, actually, but he was. He
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Speaker 3: actually said he was tired, but he wanted to pass
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Speaker 3: the Save America Act. And I said, well, we're going
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Speaker 3: to get it done. Lindsay, we're going to get it done.
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Speaker 3: I'll see you like soon. We thought we might even
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Speaker 3: meet today. And then that was it. And that was,
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Speaker 3: you know, very around the time. It couldn't have been
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Speaker 3: much longer. It could have been his last call. I
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Speaker 3: don't know exactly, but I got a message about one
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Speaker 3: o'clock in the morning from one of the people at
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Speaker 3: his office that he had passed away. I said, you
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Speaker 3: got I just can't believe it. He was like a
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Speaker 3: member of the family to me. It's very tough. Actually,
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Speaker 3: it's amazing, mister Pett he was. He was, He was
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Speaker 3: such an advocate. He was, you know, if he if
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Speaker 3: he wanted to get something, and you know, you had
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Speaker 3: a unique ability. He was able to deal with Democrats
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Speaker 3: and report if I had a problem, a real problem.
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't often ask, but if I had a problem
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Speaker 3: with a Democrat, he could work it out. He was
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Speaker 3: a great He was a great politician actor.
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Speaker 4: That's President Trump on with Kristin Welker, host of Meet
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Speaker 4: the Press, discussing the death the passing of Senator Lindsey Graham.
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Speaker 4: Look at another piece in Fox News that was discussing
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Speaker 4: a little bit of his legacy dying. It's seventy one
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Speaker 4: years old, and he apparently, as I mentioned before, he
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Speaker 4: held off going to He wanted to hold off going
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Speaker 4: to the hospital for you know, whatever he was experiencing,
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Speaker 4: just so he could do that hit that President Trump
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Speaker 4: ended up doing on Sunday Morning. I say that kind
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Speaker 4: of li with a smile, because he was great to
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Speaker 4: watch on TV. Senator Graham, he really always had a
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Speaker 4: fire in his belly. Whether you liked him or not.
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Speaker 4: And I know a lot of people did like him,
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Speaker 4: a lot of people didn't like him, but I always
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Speaker 4: found him very entertaining, especially when he was on with Hannity.
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Speaker 4: He was the hawk that they brought out when it
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Speaker 4: was time to make some hawkish decisions, they brought him out.
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Speaker 4: He'd say like bs on Live TV, or he'd say
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Speaker 4: something a little off color and get people going, and
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Speaker 4: then everybody would like him anyway. Rest in p Center,
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Speaker 4: Lindsey Graham. Interesting turn of events, right, The guy was,
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Speaker 4: by most accounts, probably healthy, but putting out all these fires,
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Speaker 4: helping Trump with all these different problems. Who knows, the
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Speaker 4: pressure probably got to them, clog the pump and boom.
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Speaker 4: Some reports say that he'd been dealing with an ongoing
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Speaker 4: health issue, which again at seventy one, that could be
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Speaker 4: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, YadA, YadA, YadA, YadA. And
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Speaker 4: you know one heart attacker stroke is all you need
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Speaker 4: is that age to take you out. So rest in peace, sir,
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Speaker 4: Rest in peace. Now we continue, We have more to discuss.
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Speaker 4: What else do I got here?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 4: Yes, here we go. So now we've got the strait
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Speaker 4: of horror moves. Now President Trump's not playing any games there.
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Speaker 4: He spoke about what his plan was, saying, look, we're
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Speaker 4: just gonna keep hitting them. We're just gonna keep hitting
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Speaker 4: them and before I get to Trump, I want you
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Speaker 4: to hear a report. I think this is ABC News
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Speaker 4: reporting that Iran is attempting to close the strait, and
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Speaker 4: this is CBS. Excuse me, Uija Jang CBS News.
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Speaker 5: In news from the Middle East, where the US and
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Speaker 5: Iran are once again trading attacks. It's the latest sign
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Speaker 5: a ceasefire is crumbling. At issue here who controls the
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Speaker 5: Strait of Hormuz and a difference of opinion about what's
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Speaker 5: in the truth agreement.
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Speaker 6: The US has this latest wave of attacks. We're in
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Speaker 6: response to Iranian aggression, but Iran has condemned the strikes
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Speaker 6: and warrened. They have made all the recent diplomatic efforts feudal.
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Speaker 6: Now concerns are growing that there will be a return
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Speaker 6: to full scale hostilities. The fight to control traffic in
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Speaker 6: the Strait of Hormuz is escalating. The US announced it
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Speaker 6: unleashed fresh attacks on dozens of Iranian targets, including small
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Speaker 6: boats and drones, to limit Iran's ability to go after
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Speaker 6: commercial ships going through the crucial shipping channel. In response,
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Speaker 6: Iran says a lunched missiles targeting US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain,
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Speaker 6: and Jordan, and destroyed radar systems in Oman. The US
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Speaker 6: has yet to confirm if anything was hit. The strikes
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Speaker 6: capped a violent weekend of back and forth attacks. The
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Speaker 6: Pentagon says it struck more than one hundred and forty
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Speaker 6: military target Saturday in response to another Iranian attack on
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Speaker 6: a vessel in the Strait. During a phone interview with
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Speaker 6: NBC News on Sunday, President Trump claimed the strait remains open,
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Speaker 6: but Iran declared the straight closed, posting that passage quote
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Speaker 6: is currently not possible because of recent illegal movements by
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Speaker 6: US military forces in the region. Iran has not confirmed
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Speaker 6: they agreed to anything during crisis talks in Oman this weekend.
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Speaker 6: Former commander of the US Central Command, or retired General
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Speaker 6: Frank McKenzie, said the US has the capability to take
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Speaker 6: control of the Strait if tensions worsen. Would require putting
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Speaker 6: warships up into narrow waters.
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Speaker 7: Look, the US Navy doesn't love to do that, but
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Speaker 7: they're very good at it.
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Speaker 3: If necessary, they can do it, and they can do
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Speaker 3: it well.
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Speaker 6: In the meantime, analysts warn gas prices could creep up again.
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Speaker 6: While the current national average of three eighty seven a
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Speaker 6: gallon is below the peak of four point fifty in May.
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Speaker 6: It's nearly one dollar more than the price was before
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Speaker 6: the war started.
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Speaker 5: They're breaking news from the.
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Speaker 4: Middle so that's the breaking news there from the Middle East.
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Speaker 4: And President Trump of course weighing in on this, saying
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Speaker 4: that you know, we're going to bomb them. We're going
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Speaker 4: to bomb them to pieces.
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Speaker 3: And most of their equipment is gone. They're anti aircraft
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Speaker 3: that is gone. We hit them very hard last night.
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Speaker 3: Every time they send a drone, we hit them very hard.
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Speaker 3: But we had a deal, but nobody knows we had
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Speaker 3: a deal. It was a done deal, and then they
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Speaker 3: broke it. They always break it. We've had ten deals
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Speaker 3: with these veeople, and so we're just going to hit
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Speaker 3: them very hard and we're going to keep the straight
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Speaker 3: and we'll probably run it. Will become the Guardian of
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Speaker 3: the st Maybe we'll go with the Guardian Angel of
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Speaker 3: the Strait. And we should be reimbursed for that. When
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Speaker 3: we do that, we're going to be reimburssed because the
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Speaker 3: other nations are very wealthy that are on our side,
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Speaker 3: and we can't be expected to do that for nothing,
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Speaker 3: unlike we had for many years. When most of their equipment.
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Speaker 4: Is gone, So that's President Trump again on the Fox
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Speaker 4: News channel just today this morning, talking about the progress
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Speaker 4: being made in the straight of her moves. I got
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Speaker 4: to tell you, where was that energy for the Guardian Angel,
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Speaker 4: right for Curtis Sleewoo during those New York City elections?
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Speaker 4: Come on, mister President, we could have tried to swing
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Speaker 4: this thing in different direction. Anyway. Good to see that
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Speaker 4: we're making moves in the strait. This has to be
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Speaker 4: an all out offense. We've got to pretty much finish
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Speaker 4: this job. In my opinion, there's not many options left
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Speaker 4: on the table. I don't think we have the time
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Speaker 4: to We can't wait out here on They can wait
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Speaker 4: us out easily. You know, Trump will be gone in
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Speaker 4: nine hundred and sixty four days. And they're like, hey,
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Speaker 4: it is what it is. And I don't think that's
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Speaker 4: the attitude that we should take. Anyway, we continue where
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Speaker 4: I want to go here. Blah blah blah, blah blah blah.
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Speaker 4: A couple of wild stories that'll leave your head scratching. Here.
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Speaker 4: Check this out. There's a professor, a college professor, using
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Speaker 4: his supply chain education not for his lectures, but allegedly
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Speaker 4: to run a fentanel operation with prostitutes involved. Unbelievable, right, Wow,
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Speaker 4: these are the elites that are shaping our young people's
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Speaker 4: minds in Texas. I believe this is where this happened.
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Speaker 4: And we're going to dive deeper into that in a
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Speaker 4: little bit. But wild story. Then we got some New
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Speaker 4: York City drama. The socialism continues. Mayor Mum Donnie's dropping
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Speaker 4: a new ethnic neighborhood map, and Little Palestine made the cut,
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Speaker 4: and all sorts of other enclaves that people didn't know existed.
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Speaker 4: They were in the spotlight. But guess who got the shaft.
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Speaker 4: That's right, Italy forget about it. They forgot, they forgot
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Speaker 4: about Italy got snubbed by the Mamdani administration. Of course,
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Speaker 4: he shifted the blame, saying of somebody else that did
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Speaker 4: it and that he loves the Italians. Hey forget about it,
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Speaker 4: you and me boom boom boom. But uh, that's Mam
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Speaker 4: Donnie and his cheap excuses. We'll get into that a
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Speaker 4: little bit because I want to talk about Mondanni. I
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Speaker 4: want to talk about the Democrat Socialists of America and
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Speaker 4: a couple other things that fit with that topic. So
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Speaker 4: make sure you stick with me. Then we've got some
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Speaker 4: lighter news, even though it's Monday, actually does on Friday.
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Speaker 4: But airlines. Airlines are banning humanoid robots from flights. Yep,
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Speaker 4: those little robots you've been seeing running around. Apparently you're
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Speaker 4: not allowed to bring one on a flight, at least
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Speaker 4: not in the cabin, which makes all the sense in
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Speaker 4: the world to me. Right, we look at people for
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Speaker 4: being suspicious. I'm already suspicious if you're bringing a humanoid
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Speaker 4: robot on a plane to sit next to you. So
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Speaker 4: we'll get into what that is looking like and what
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Speaker 4: prompted that type of action. And Waimo. Do you know
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Speaker 4: those self driving taxis, the Waimo, Well, one of them,
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Speaker 4: I think it was in Texas as well, was driving
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Speaker 4: around some teen passengers that were, you know, going wild
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Speaker 4: back there and drinking, shooting water pellet guns. The car
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Speaker 4: instead of saying recalculating route, well, the car decides to
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Speaker 4: rat out these guys. It's a straight narc, right, the
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Speaker 4: car Waimo nark car right, unbelievable. Oh and then there's
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Speaker 4: this one. This is a fun one. You've heard about
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Speaker 4: the new travel trend for married couples it's called airport divorce. Well,
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Speaker 4: you fly in together, you have a fight at the gate,
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Speaker 4: you leave single. No, no, I'm just kidding, No, no, no.
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Speaker 4: This is not a oh no no. This is all
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Speaker 4: about couples saying, look, we're gonna go there and have
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Speaker 4: a good time together, but you walk too slow in
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Speaker 4: the airport. I like to go get my bags checked.
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Speaker 4: I like to do this, I like to go get
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Speaker 4: a coffee blah blah blah, and your signific and other
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Speaker 4: may not like that. So they each go their own way,
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Speaker 4: and they meet at the jetway when the plane's about
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Speaker 4: to take off, which to me sounds like a dangerous proposition.
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Speaker 4: Given the amount of flights I've missed in my life,
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Speaker 4: probably at this point more than a dozen, I would
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Speaker 4: say this sounds like a recipe for not so good.
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Speaker 4: Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. You
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Speaker 4: let me know. Eight seven seven valved Desk one is
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Speaker 4: the phone number. Eight seven seven valved Desk one. We
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Speaker 4: definitely get into your calls today, trying to leave some
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Speaker 4: space for that in our Open Phone America segment towards
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Speaker 4: the end of the show. Plus everything else that I
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Speaker 4: mentioned is coming up, So keep it locked right here.
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Speaker 4: I'm Rich Childek.
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Speaker 1: This is America, this is America. He's brown, he's bald,
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Speaker 1: and he's breaking it down.
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Speaker 4: Oh he still has some what's his dag daz? All
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Speaker 4: right on egos, Welcome back, Rich Valdez, keeping your company
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Speaker 4: this Monday night, and remind me. I want to get
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Speaker 4: into a story about an Iranian smuggler that was arrested
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Speaker 4: at an airport. But before I do that, I want
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Speaker 4: to get into what I promised you i'd get into
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Speaker 4: in this segment, and that's zoron Mamdani and our socialism update, right,
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Speaker 4: a socialist update from New York City, and we're going
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Speaker 4: to talk about socialism. We're going to talk about Mamdani
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Speaker 4: dissing the Italians as well as what else is happening
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Speaker 4: on that front. And the leader of the Democrat Socialists
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Speaker 4: of America joined the Fox News Channel in New York
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Speaker 4: City for some comments. We've got that as well. But
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Speaker 4: I want you to hear a funny news package that
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Speaker 4: was on the Newsmax network that I thought was just hysterical.
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Speaker 4: It's got the Italian music playing in the background and
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Speaker 4: the most authentic New York Italian accents that I've heard
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Speaker 4: in a long time. I'm on TV. Check this out.
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Speaker 8: Frank Sinatra once said, shot spreading the news.
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Speaker 4: We're spreading the news. And here in Little Italy, local
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Speaker 4: Italians are still angry at Mayor Mum Donnie for leaving
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Speaker 4: their neighborhood off of the city's immigrant on Klaves map.
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Speaker 4: The mayor says he's going to fix this and is
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Speaker 4: blaming the previous administration for the snow, but the locals
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Speaker 4: say he's just full of baloney. Unbelievable word.
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Speaker 9: He says.
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Speaker 7: If he says he's going to put.
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Speaker 9: It on, then you better put it on.
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Speaker 2: And maybe forgot about No, I don't think he forgot
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Speaker 2: about it.
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Speaker 4: I think he forget about it.
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Speaker 10: My mother grew up here on Grand Street, My grandma,
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Speaker 10: my grandpa came from Italy.
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Speaker 4: He forgot who built this city. He's got to remember.
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Speaker 1: Maybe he just forgot about it night and he's just
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Speaker 1: a jarkoff the.
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Speaker 4: Very people that were the construction workers when they came
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Speaker 4: over through Ellis Island and came and built the city.
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Speaker 2: How do you leave them off.
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Speaker 4: To delete us from the map while we are here
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Speaker 4: as long as all his family, do you see one
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Speaker 4: that's missing.
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Speaker 2: With literally, you're gonna think about the Italians.
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Speaker 4: I don't know why anybody voted for this guy.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, he needs to go.
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Speaker 4: He's obviously giving us the shortened Listick's horrible, horrible, Yeah,
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Speaker 4: I think that's horrible.
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Speaker 11: What do you think Frank Sinatra would say to him
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Speaker 11: hearing him sing his song?
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Speaker 8: It's an insult of Rank Sinatra shot spreading the loose.
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Speaker 2: Oh dude, just get just turn out all man. I
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Speaker 2: don't even want to I give an f those words
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Speaker 2: not be coming out of his mouth. This guy, he's
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Speaker 2: the worst thing for New York City.
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Speaker 4: He's an impostle. Get up, thank you, don't forget the
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Speaker 4: little the hashtag that that's the little Italy report. Now listen,
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Speaker 4: Mayor Mom. Donnie went on to say, no, no, no, no, listen listen. Uh,
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Speaker 4: that wasn't me, that was the other guys. That was
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Speaker 4: the previous administration. And he had a whole litany of
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Speaker 4: excuses there blaming the other guy.
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Speaker 7: In New York City, where Zora Mam Donnie just offended
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Speaker 7: three of the most historic and culturally significant communities in
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Speaker 7: the city. Donnie released a map of the Big Apple's
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Speaker 7: immigrant communities, which includes places like Little Palestine and Little Egypt.
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Speaker 7: But the map includes thirty neighborhoods while omitting the most
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Speaker 7: famous neighborhood of all, Little Italy.
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Speaker 4: Imagine forgetting Chinatown, right, I mean the Diamond District, these big,
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Speaker 4: big things that are in the city. Now, I understand
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Speaker 4: that the Diamond District is not necessarily an ethnic enc life,
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Speaker 4: but my point is I agree with them here. This
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Speaker 4: is a glaring oversight. Right, There's a whole bunch of
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Speaker 4: these things that you just mentioned that I'd never even
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Speaker 4: heard of. Anyway, let's continue. I just want to get
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Speaker 4: to that part. Guys, if you could put the part
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Speaker 4: with mom Dini saying wasn't his fault.
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Speaker 7: The map also fails to mention New York's Jewish and
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Speaker 7: Irish communities. All of these ethnic groups have been in
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Speaker 7: New York since the sixteen hundreds, back when it was
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Speaker 7: the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. So how did New
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Speaker 7: Yorkers feel about this? Well, we said, Katie Palvich is
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Speaker 7: pretty sir, Maurica black to Little Italy to find out
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Speaker 7: take a look, all right.
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Speaker 4: I don't want to hear another package. Let's we got
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Speaker 4: to speed this up so that we can get right
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Speaker 4: to uh Mamdani saying that he didn't do it. Do
19:12
Speaker 4: we have that clip? All right? When you find it.
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Speaker 4: We're not stopping by anything, thank you. We're gonna keep
19:20
Speaker 4: it going because listen, this idea that Zora Mumdani is
19:25
Speaker 4: somehow Uh no, it wasn't our fault. It was the
19:28
Speaker 4: previous administration had to reapprove this map. We just distributed
19:31
Speaker 4: the map. Listen. They're gonna blame you for this anyway.
19:35
Speaker 4: Not his people though, I mean, let me tell you
19:37
Speaker 4: his people. Do you ever read their comments? They're like,
19:39
Speaker 4: oh my gosh, what is the right get to be
19:41
Speaker 4: mad at next? Because Zora Mumdani said he was gonna
19:45
Speaker 4: run on affordability and he won. He was gonna give
19:47
Speaker 4: us a free bodega and a city run bodega and
19:51
Speaker 4: we and he's doing that. And he said he was
19:53
Speaker 4: going to make the buses cheap, and he's doing that
19:56
Speaker 4: all right. He pulled up in a go cart at
19:58
Speaker 4: a press conference I think it was yes yesterday or Friday,
20:01
Speaker 4: and I mean, I guess this morning of Friday, and
20:06
Speaker 4: he says, we're going to make it faster by six minutes,
20:10
Speaker 4: and it's going to be free. Mind you, I think
20:13
Speaker 4: there's already a law that you know part of his
20:19
Speaker 4: savings plan is going to be to get rid of
20:22
Speaker 4: junk fees and whatnot that already does already this this uh,
20:27
Speaker 4: this plan anyway. I honestly, look, the guy could could
20:31
Speaker 4: come forward and say that he's discovered the cure for
20:35
Speaker 4: the greatest disease, and I'd be skeptical. I'll give him
20:38
Speaker 4: credit if it's real, but so far everything's smoking mirrors.
20:42
Speaker 4: You can't run around New York City saying, look, I
20:44
Speaker 4: balanced the budget when all you did was use political
20:47
Speaker 4: pressure to get the governor to give you eight point
20:49
Speaker 4: one billion dollars. That's not balancing a budget, right. That's
20:56
Speaker 4: if you got a checkbook and you are upside down
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Speaker 4: and you've got four thousand dollars in checks written, but
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Speaker 4: you've only got one thousand dollars in the bank, and
21:07
Speaker 4: you call your mom, your dad, your baby daddy, right,
21:11
Speaker 4: and you're like, hey, can you spot me four grand?
21:14
Speaker 4: Remember that time I washed your car, Remember that time
21:16
Speaker 4: I helped you with this whatever, And they're like okay,
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Speaker 4: and they send it to you. Does that mean that
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Speaker 4: you've now balanced your checkbook or does that mean you
21:26
Speaker 4: needed a cash injection to balance your checkbook, because clearly,
21:30
Speaker 4: if you were balancing your checkbook, you wouldn't have this issue.
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Speaker 4: And that's the point I'm making. But that's not the
21:37
Speaker 4: point that's going out there. People are saying, Oh my gosh,
21:39
Speaker 4: no cauz Zaram, I'm done. He fixed the budget, he
21:42
Speaker 4: did everything. The guy is a rock star and he
21:46
Speaker 4: lacks much to be desired for me, and not because
21:50
Speaker 4: I don't like him. I actually think he's a pretty
21:52
Speaker 4: cool guy. I think he's very smooth, he's very debonair.
21:55
Speaker 4: He's very affable, very likable guy. People like to do
21:59
Speaker 4: business with you. People they like. They don't want to
22:02
Speaker 4: sit here and feel like they're getting yelled at for
22:04
Speaker 4: doing something wrong. I get that. So when he says, hey,
22:09
Speaker 4: look I'm going to go into an apartment in New
22:10
Speaker 4: York City and we're going to bring cameras with us
22:12
Speaker 4: and we're going to do our press announcement in somebody's
22:15
Speaker 4: Nicha apartment building. You think that's not going to be
22:18
Speaker 4: a hit. Of course it is. So Zora Mamdani is
22:22
Speaker 4: doing what people, a political apathetic people want to see,
22:29
Speaker 4: especially in a city like New York, especially in an
22:32
Speaker 4: apartment building. We can't sit there and tell them no.
22:35
Speaker 4: But the landlords aren't able to raise the rents. Nobody
22:38
Speaker 4: cares that the landlord can't raise the rent except for
22:41
Speaker 4: the landlord. The million apartment people, renters, tenants, a million people.
22:50
Speaker 4: That's what people concern themselves with, right, the big numbers
22:52
Speaker 4: where they can make their money. So just putting that
22:55
Speaker 4: out there, Zorn Mamdani, my friends, Now we will continue
23:01
Speaker 4: because that wasn't it. There was a report by Kaylee
23:06
Speaker 4: Mcananey on socialists and they're saying that the socialists are
23:11
Speaker 4: taken over the Democrat Party, which I would say is
23:14
Speaker 4: true in certain areas and might be true moving forward.
23:19
Speaker 4: And you know what she says it better than I do.
23:21
Speaker 4: Listen to this.
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Speaker 8: Box News has obtained documents from the Democratic Socialists of
23:27
Speaker 8: America revealing the group's updated platform, which is even more
23:31
Speaker 8: radical than before. Now they plan to release this next week.
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Speaker 8: Listen to this. The United States Senate eliminated, gone, the President,
23:39
Speaker 8: and the Supreme Court replaced, the Department of War defunded.
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Speaker 4: Up until that part. They were going to get a
23:46
Speaker 4: lot of support from small government conservatives.
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Speaker 8: All immigrants given amnesty. That is the plan. Now, who
23:55
Speaker 8: is driving this machine, Well, they say it's the people,
23:59
Speaker 8: but a new survey shows those people overwhelmingly identify as
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Speaker 8: anarchists and Marxists. Yet the media is running cover for
24:07
Speaker 8: the group. The Washington Post is claiming Republicans are falsely
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Speaker 8: labeling them as communists, and other members in the media
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Speaker 8: are mocking the idea of the Red Scare.
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Speaker 12: One of the things I've found very interesting is this
24:21
Speaker 12: pivot the president has made to communism coming after the community.
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Speaker 4: This is a clip on MSNBC of the panel there
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Speaker 4: with Michael Steele and others.
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Speaker 8: Ease, this is not Gulag socialism, this is not the
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Speaker 8: Soviet Union socialism.
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Speaker 10: Socialism much less democratic socialism is not communism.
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Speaker 8: But if those journalists so called spent the same amount
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Speaker 8: of time covering the DSA as they did a pool
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Speaker 8: that nobody swims in, they would find a web of
24:51
Speaker 8: caucuses within the group that explicitly push communism. Now, the
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Speaker 8: Marxist Unity Group, for example, says they are rallying thousands
25:00
Speaker 8: of Marxists in the DSA around a shared vision of
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Speaker 8: the future, and they plan to achieve that future by
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Speaker 8: adopting what they call a minimum maximum program.
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Speaker 3: Quote.
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Speaker 8: The minimum program refers to the party's comprehensive platform, the
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Speaker 8: policies that it will immediately implement upon taking power, and
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Speaker 8: the maximum program refers to the results of this process,
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Speaker 8: a world free of the market, borders, classes, and all
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Speaker 8: other oppressive structures that exist under capitalism and a word communism.
25:32
Speaker 8: They also proudly put on their website that they want
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Speaker 8: to overthrow our constitution. Another faction is a revolutionary Marxist
25:41
Speaker 8: caucus called Reform and Revolution.
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Speaker 4: Now, before you get to that, kaylebacken any let's just
25:46
Speaker 4: go back to the people who want to overthrow the
25:50
Speaker 4: US Constitution. I mean, these things are somewhat laughable, but
25:55
Speaker 4: this is truly their goal. And guess what, Zorimum nine
25:58
Speaker 4: he was one of these radicals just a few months ago,
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Speaker 4: right right before he became an ASSEMBLYMS. So let's call
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Speaker 4: it two years. Pretty scary that two years later the
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Speaker 4: guy is sitting in Gracie Mansion. Going ahead.
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Speaker 8: They draw influence from communist leaders like Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin,
26:17
Speaker 8: and Leon Trotsky, and on their website they promise the
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Speaker 8: Communist Manifesto, which they promote. There also is the Liberation Caucus.
26:25
Speaker 8: They push Maoism, saying this, Comrade Mao's call to combat
26:29
Speaker 8: liberalism must be heated and taken seriously, otherwise opportunist and
26:33
Speaker 8: revisionist trends will arise and wrought the soul of the organization.
26:37
Speaker 8: And they go on to say, we are unequivocally anti imperialist.
26:41
Speaker 8: Communist in the Imperial Corps have as our main duty
26:44
Speaker 8: the destruction of the imperialist system. And finally, there's also
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Speaker 8: the Red Star Caucus, which describes itself as the Marxist
26:52
Speaker 8: Leninist faction of the Democratic Socialists of America. Their stated
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Speaker 8: goal to abolish capitalism and ultimately to achieve of communism.
27:01
Speaker 8: They go on to say they are striving to weaken
27:04
Speaker 8: and ultimately dismantle the US empire. Red Star also notes
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Speaker 8: that nearly half of the DSA's National Political Committee identifies
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Speaker 8: as communist. That's what's hiding inside the belly of the beasts.
27:17
Speaker 8: In their own words, we just showed you communism. Now
27:20
Speaker 8: listen to how some of their members speak about America.
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Speaker 8: US imperialism is not a thing that can be reformed away.
27:27
Speaker 8: It has to be overthrown through revolutionary struggle to build
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Speaker 8: a mass movement that can.
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Speaker 4: Not for anything. I know you can't see these, but
27:35
Speaker 4: these guys, they look like girls. Garnet use the leverage
27:39
Speaker 4: of workers to hit the kill switch on American imperialism here.
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Speaker 8: So when do democrats and members of the media start
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Speaker 8: calling them out for this rhetoric? After the DSA takes
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Speaker 8: their voters and builds their own rival party, How.
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Speaker 4: About them apples they're trying to take over right. Meanwhile,
27:56
Speaker 4: you've got mom Dni. He never says, look, we're not communists.
27:59
Speaker 4: It's only the media that says that. Right Washington Posts.
28:02
Speaker 4: I think I have their article right here. I think
28:04
Speaker 4: I might have it, y nop, Is this it?
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Speaker 9: No?
28:07
Speaker 4: Oh, this is the caning they cane the woman in
28:10
Speaker 4: Indonesia and she passed out. We'll get to that a
28:14
Speaker 4: little bit later. I guess I may oh got it
28:16
Speaker 4: right here, Lucky Day. Here's the headline. This is what
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Speaker 4: Kayi Mcananey's talking about. As socialism rises in popularity, Goeop
28:23
Speaker 4: turns a new attack line communists Democrat voters are shifting
28:28
Speaker 4: to the left and primaries Republicans are doing the same.
28:31
Speaker 4: With the labels they used to paint them as extreme
28:33
Speaker 4: months into his first term in Congress, Congressman timber Chet
28:38
Speaker 4: from Tennessee slamms what he called on social media the
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Speaker 4: socialist Democrat wing of the Democrat Party, and he was
28:44
Speaker 4: talking about it in the context of a bipartisan bill.
28:47
Speaker 4: Seven years later, he's had to change his language. Listen
28:52
Speaker 4: to what he wrote on Twitter. He said, quit calling
28:54
Speaker 4: them progressives. He said that two weeks ago they're communists,
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Speaker 4: and a lot of people are saying the same thing.
29:02
Speaker 4: It's not that there's a secret here, it's that they
29:04
Speaker 4: realize out of sight, out of mind, so much easier
29:08
Speaker 4: for me to get you to believe what I'm saying
29:11
Speaker 4: when you're softening the language, when you're making it sound
29:14
Speaker 4: like it's so euphemistically nice. So yeah, I get that.
29:18
Speaker 4: I totally get that. Anyway, the leader of the Democrats
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Speaker 4: Socialists of America, she decided to stop by the Fox
29:25
Speaker 4: News channel, the leader of the New York chapter, and
29:28
Speaker 4: I got a clip of that, and this is eye opening.
29:30
Speaker 4: Check this out.
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Speaker 8: Do you really believe in open borders and not having deportations?
29:35
Speaker 8: That's just incredibly contrary to law enforcement and security.
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Speaker 13: America has a really long history of welcoming working class immigrants.
29:43
Speaker 13: My grandmother and her mother came through Elis Island and
29:47
Speaker 13: worked from Germany and worked as the seamstresses. I mean,
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Speaker 13: we believe that.
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Speaker 4: Hold on a second, she ne even answered a question.
29:54
Speaker 4: He's talking about illegal immigration. She's talking about her grandmother
29:57
Speaker 4: coming through Ellis Island. Last I checked, that's how they
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Speaker 4: it came through legally. What are you talking about, lady,
30:04
Speaker 4: Legal aliens in the country.
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Speaker 8: Don't they need to be removed.
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Speaker 13: We believe that demilitarizing the border, that violent oppression of
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Speaker 13: working class immigrants who come here is not something that
30:14
Speaker 13: most Americans want.
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Speaker 4: This girl that looks a little bit like a boy
30:17
Speaker 4: here is really you know, she's smiling through her responses
30:22
Speaker 4: as if she's thrilled to pieces to be giving them.
30:25
Speaker 4: She's doing the zoron Mamdani. Now, they didn't invent this technique,
30:29
Speaker 4: but they seem to have really mastered it.
30:32
Speaker 3: Right.
30:32
Speaker 4: She just sits there and smiles and smiles and smiles.
30:35
Speaker 4: She's so happy to answer and wants to bring it
30:38
Speaker 4: always back to the people. People, people, right. I mean,
30:42
Speaker 4: it's disgraceful in my opinion, but hey, it's rhetoric and
30:45
Speaker 4: it works.
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Speaker 13: It fools people one, and I think the backlash to
30:48
Speaker 13: President Trump's policies really show that I don't.
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Speaker 4: I don't. And the reason I think it's disgraceful is
30:56
Speaker 4: because you don't keep telling people that this is about
30:59
Speaker 4: the people. You mean we the government, not we the people.
31:03
Speaker 4: This doesn't belong to the people. They make it seem
31:06
Speaker 4: like the government owns this and shares it with the people,
31:08
Speaker 4: and when it's convenient to them, they say, look, this
31:09
Speaker 4: is our stuff, we pay for this. We But they
31:14
Speaker 4: don't really mean that. They don't. If they did, they
31:19
Speaker 4: promote private property. Instead, they're promoting the government owning everything
31:24
Speaker 4: so that they can share it around. It's not the
31:27
Speaker 4: society I'm looking for. Keep it locked. Right here, I'm
31:30
Speaker 4: Rich Valdesk. More to come straight ahead.
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Speaker 14: This is America. This is America.
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Speaker 4: The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
31:46
Speaker 4: to speak with Rich Valdek.
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Speaker 3: Oh, very good.
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Speaker 4: The honor is all yours. Conservative talk with a dash
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Speaker 4: of sofrito. Now here's Rich valdez All right, Emdia, welcome back,
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Speaker 4: Rich Valdesk. Keeping the company this Monday night. And I
32:08
Speaker 4: want to get into a couple of things here. A
32:09
Speaker 4: very few interesting stories that are out there that I
32:13
Speaker 4: think are interesting. We've got these robots that have been
32:16
Speaker 4: banned on a flight. We got a smuggler that was
32:19
Speaker 4: caught in in uh where was it an Iranian smuggler?
32:24
Speaker 4: I think they called him in California. You've got this
32:27
Speaker 4: thing called air what is it called air airport divorce.
32:32
Speaker 4: I mean, just a lot of interesting stuff, but I
32:35
Speaker 4: want to start with this one. This is a professor,
32:37
Speaker 4: a professor that was caught using prostitutes to advance his
32:43
Speaker 4: fentanyl business. Listen to this from Mark Lotter at Newsmax.
32:48
Speaker 4: Check this out o out of Texas Tech. That almost
32:51
Speaker 4: sounds too bizarre to believe.
32:53
Speaker 7: This is wild.
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Speaker 12: Federal prosecutors say a professor employed by the university use
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Speaker 12: the same supply chain expertise. Is he taught in the
33:00
Speaker 12: classroom to help run a drug network, complete with colorful
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Speaker 12: branding and prostitutes to help to move the product.
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Speaker 1: News Max CrIV correspondent Jason Montera has this a mixing story.
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Speaker 11: Eight people were on Death's door staff because of this
33:14
Speaker 11: fentanyl poisoning.
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Speaker 2: Daniel Taylor was an assistant professor of supply chain management
33:21
Speaker 2: at Texas Tech University, but According to the Justice Department,
33:26
Speaker 2: Taylor was also running a supply chain of his own fentanyl,
33:32
Speaker 2: and he didn't just deal it. He branded it as
33:35
Speaker 2: Pink Flamingo.
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Speaker 11: You have scales, baggies, the Pink Flamingo branding, the actual
33:41
Speaker 11: stickers that he was putting on the baggies.
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Speaker 2: Even a sign hanging in his kitchen Flamingo Lounge. Full
33:51
Speaker 2: record show Taylor used prostitutes to help move the drugs.
33:55
Speaker 2: Women he called his flamingos, and at one point i'th
34:01
Speaker 2: already say he talked about buying a house where they
34:04
Speaker 2: could all live together, referring to them as his Flamingo fam.
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Speaker 4: This guy thinks he's Charlie's Angels over here.
34:13
Speaker 2: According to US attorney Ryan Rabel, the DEA got a
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Speaker 2: tip back in June of twenty twenty five that a
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Speaker 2: male professor at Texas Tech known only as Dan, was
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Speaker 2: trafficking feentanyl around Lubvick.
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Speaker 11: Texas agents started surveilling the defendant Taylor. They also put
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Speaker 11: a GPS tracker on his car to see his movements, and.
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Speaker 2: In one recorded instance, they follow the fifty one year
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Speaker 2: old to a gas station and convenience store, where investigators
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Speaker 2: say he handed off feanyl that was later linked to
34:47
Speaker 2: an overdose when agents raided Taylor's house in February. They
34:53
Speaker 2: say the operation was sitting in plain sight a heat
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Speaker 2: sealer on the kitchen counter, gloves a fentanyl powder, along
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Speaker 2: with the fentanyl recipe handwritten on a note.
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Speaker 4: Texas sounds pretty slam dunk to me.
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Speaker 11: Tech immediately fired him upon unseiling of the criminal complaint.
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Speaker 2: On July one, Daniel Taylor pleaded guilty to conspiracy to
35:21
Speaker 2: distribute feentanyl, admitting that his expertise in supply chain management
35:26
Speaker 2: helped advance his drug distribution network, and the Flamingo Lounge closed.
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Speaker 2: As the former university professor now awaits federal sentencing.
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Speaker 11: It's emission to try to put away as many of
35:42
Speaker 11: these drug dealers in prison as humanly possible.
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Speaker 4: Again, this is all coming from a professor. I found
35:55
Speaker 4: it hard to believe too, But you know what, you
35:56
Speaker 4: really can't rule anybody out of anything anymore now, People
35:59
Speaker 4: from all walks of life for doing all sorts of
36:01
Speaker 4: crazy things. Right. So this guy again, he's a former
36:04
Speaker 4: technology professor. Well, actually no, he was a different kind
36:08
Speaker 4: of professor. Forgive me, that's fake news. He was a
36:11
Speaker 4: supply chain management professor at Texas Tech, and he put
36:16
Speaker 4: together this whole thing fascinating. Right, there's a piece in
36:20
Speaker 4: CBS News that explains that he once taught students how
36:24
Speaker 4: to manage supply chains, and now they caught him managing
36:27
Speaker 4: his own fentanyl supply chain. Daniel Taylor, fifty one years old,
36:31
Speaker 4: marketing and supply chain management professor. Imagine that I have
36:35
Speaker 4: a buddy who's in charge of supply chain for a hospital.
36:38
Speaker 4: This guy is your quintessential suburban married guy. Two kids,
36:42
Speaker 4: one play soccer, the other one was for a long
36:46
Speaker 4: time a very successful competitive dancer. You know, two great kids.
36:50
Speaker 4: And the last thing I would think to my friend,
36:53
Speaker 4: we're gonna call him Murray for argument's sake, here to
36:56
Speaker 4: protect the innocent. And the last thing I would say,
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Speaker 4: Murray's kids, or Murray and his wife and his kids
37:03
Speaker 4: are involved in or Murray, you know, with his unwittingly
37:07
Speaker 4: or unknowing family would be involved into something like this, right,
37:12
Speaker 4: I mean, it just it blows your mind a way
37:14
Speaker 4: to think that this is what's going on. But all
37:16
Speaker 4: sorts of people out here living double lives, this guy,
37:18
Speaker 4: you know, putting the little baggies together with his little
37:21
Speaker 4: logo on it. He pled guilty conspiring to distribute more
37:27
Speaker 4: than forty grams of fentanyl. The only way I see
37:31
Speaker 4: this guy getting out of jail if he clears his
37:34
Speaker 4: throat and gets ready to sing, to sing on how
37:38
Speaker 4: he's getting this stuff, on where he's getting it, how
37:41
Speaker 4: he's distributing it, everything, so that they could bring down
37:44
Speaker 4: not just his enterprise, but the people that supply him
37:47
Speaker 4: and with the chemicals, the precursor chemicals and everything like that. Right,
37:51
Speaker 4: according to the court documents, this guy Taylor was selling
37:55
Speaker 4: multiple types of fentanyl, including pink colored products which to
37:59
Speaker 4: prosecute to say was mixed with fentanyl and bro maslam
38:03
Speaker 4: and marketed with a pink flamingo theme. Isn't that something unbelievable? Now?
38:09
Speaker 4: I mean, it's unbelievable to me, right, I find it
38:11
Speaker 4: very not hard to believe. I should say, I'm not
38:14
Speaker 4: really incredulous to this. It's surprising, right, That's really the
38:18
Speaker 4: word I should say, very surprising. Let's see what he
38:21
Speaker 4: had a recipe for flamingo, which indicated to be sixty
38:25
Speaker 4: percent ghost fentanyl powder, eight milligrams bro masolam and a
38:32
Speaker 4: little bit of what they use in xenix. Ain't that something?
38:36
Speaker 4: I'm learning something every day. Agents also located a pink
38:39
Speaker 4: container with several doses of narcan. The flamingo related paraphernalia
38:45
Speaker 4: included small flamingo stickers, keychains, and pink envelopes. Inside the kitchen,
38:50
Speaker 4: agents found a sign with cartoon flamingos holding cocktails. This
38:54
Speaker 4: guy was fascinated with this flamingo brand. Mister Taylor remains
38:58
Speaker 4: in federal custody awaiting his sentencing. He faces up to
39:01
Speaker 4: forty years in prison and a possible five million dollar fine.
39:06
Speaker 4: The case was investigated by the DEA and the Texas
39:11
Speaker 4: Anti Gang Center. Man, let me tell you that's something.
39:16
Speaker 4: That's something. Now straight ahead, I want to get into
39:18
Speaker 4: a little bit of something else. I think I do
39:20
Speaker 4: have a couple of calls as well. But before we
39:23
Speaker 4: get to those, we're going to get into some flying
39:28
Speaker 4: funny business. Right. There's this guy that they caught smuggling. Well,
39:34
Speaker 4: i'll give you the story when we come back, but
39:36
Speaker 4: apparently he's a bad Iranian guy and they caught him
39:39
Speaker 4: being smuggled into the US. We also have this thing
39:42
Speaker 4: called airport divorce, and a couple of other funny flying stories.
39:46
Speaker 4: So keep it locked right here. You know, it's me,
39:47
Speaker 4: Rich Valdes. Don't go anywhere.
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Speaker 4: All right, eMedia, welcome back. It's Rich Valdez Valdez with
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40:36
Speaker 4: Happy to be with you this Monday night. And I
40:39
Speaker 4: want to get into a little bit of a plane
40:41
Speaker 4: controversy stuff that's going on in the skies. I mentioned
40:44
Speaker 4: that the Secretary of Homeland Security announcing that they'd caught
40:50
Speaker 4: someone that they believe was related to the Islamic Revolutionary
40:55
Speaker 4: Guard Corps, and that happened in Los Angeles. I'll give you,
41:01
Speaker 4: I mean, it happened a while ago, but there really
41:03
Speaker 4: doesn't seem to be too much of an update on that.
41:05
Speaker 4: So if I get a little more on that, I'll
41:06
Speaker 4: share it with you. But I thought that was interesting.
41:09
Speaker 4: It was somebody that they detained headed to the World Cup,
41:12
Speaker 4: which was about nine minutes away from where I live
41:15
Speaker 4: in Jersey, the MetLife Stadium, and no, I was not there.
41:19
Speaker 4: I was really hoping fingers crossed that you know, I
41:22
Speaker 4: don't know. Secretary of Rubio would bail out and Trump
41:25
Speaker 4: would tell Andrew Giuliani, the executive director of the FIFA
41:29
Speaker 4: Task Force, Hey, we have an emptc call Valdez. But
41:32
Speaker 4: that did not happen. It did not happen. So anyway,
41:37
Speaker 4: I'm not a huge soccer fan. I'm not even a
41:39
Speaker 4: small soccer fan. I'm not even a soccer fan, to
41:41
Speaker 4: tell you the truth. But who wants to miss a
41:44
Speaker 4: World Cup when it's you know, right there in your backyard.
41:46
Speaker 4: So I didn't want to miss it. But you know,
41:50
Speaker 4: hearing everybody talk about how much they paid to get
41:53
Speaker 4: in twenty thousand and thirty thousand definitely not something that
41:58
Speaker 4: I was going to be participating in. Now, I do
42:01
Speaker 4: want to talk about some funny plain stuff, funny flight stuff,
42:04
Speaker 4: because you know, there's some funny stuff out there. And
42:07
Speaker 4: one of the things that I saw was an article
42:11
Speaker 4: about something called airport divorce. And I've got a couple
42:17
Speaker 4: of clips on to play for you to kind of
42:18
Speaker 4: set this up, because it's pretty interesting. This one here
42:21
Speaker 4: is from E News. Listen to this.
42:24
Speaker 10: Why Kelly Ripa is proposing that she and husband Mark
42:27
Speaker 10: Nzuelo's get a quote airport divorce. The Live with Kelly
42:31
Speaker 10: and Mark host playfully trade barbs while discussing their travel
42:34
Speaker 10: habits during a segment.
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Speaker 15: Couples are doing something unique, and I want to run
42:39
Speaker 15: this by you. Okay, I think we could. I think
42:43
Speaker 15: we could do well with this. Okay, an airport divorce.
42:46
Speaker 4: Okay.
42:49
Speaker 15: You and I have different traveling philosophies, different traveling styles,
42:55
Speaker 15: and I just feel like, what.
42:58
Speaker 4: Do you mean like I walk fast in the airport.
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Speaker 15: No, I just feel like you need to get there
43:03
Speaker 15: between four to sixteen hours before that takes off.
43:06
Speaker 16: That's that we've never been there, never been there less
43:09
Speaker 16: than more than an hour hours.
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Speaker 1: Our international flight, they say to get their two hours.
43:15
Speaker 15: I'm not talking about international flights. I'm from here, Toledo hour.
43:19
Speaker 4: And a half. I to get there an hour and
43:21
Speaker 4: a half before.
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Speaker 15: But then you get irritated when people are like, oh
43:25
Speaker 15: my gosh, I love you on the show. You're like,
43:27
Speaker 15: everybody's noticing us, and I'm like.
43:29
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't get, but I don't get. Okay. Now,
43:33
Speaker 4: I find this funny because everybody has a different take
43:37
Speaker 4: on these things, right, And I remember traveling with my
43:40
Speaker 4: ex wife really wasn't an issue, and we traveled with
43:42
Speaker 4: little kids and stuff. We didn't go away often, but
43:45
Speaker 4: when we did, I think we enjoyed just being away
43:47
Speaker 4: and it wasn't an issue. But I do remember traveling
43:51
Speaker 4: just a couple of years ago with a girlfriend that
43:56
Speaker 4: I found myself in the same thing. She was walking
43:58
Speaker 4: really fast, she was all ahead of me. It became
44:00
Speaker 4: a thing, right, and this might have been a good
44:03
Speaker 4: solution for us, although to me it defeats the purpose
44:05
Speaker 4: of bringing your partner while you're traveling. Right, you want
44:08
Speaker 4: to hang out and talk and do things, at least
44:10
Speaker 4: I do. I always want somebody to talk to, right,
44:14
Speaker 4: that's fun. Not a stranger, though I'm not, and I'm
44:16
Speaker 4: gonna go on a little tangent here. You will never
44:19
Speaker 4: ever find me talking to the stranger next to me
44:23
Speaker 4: on a flight. I don't care how long the flight is.
44:27
Speaker 4: I will treat you just like a New Yorker and
44:29
Speaker 4: an elevator. Right, I'll look at you, you'll look at me.
44:31
Speaker 4: You might get a nod, and that's it. I'm not
44:33
Speaker 4: looking to make small talk. It's rare. You will have
44:37
Speaker 4: to be a very skilled conversationalist to get me to
44:40
Speaker 4: start talking because obviously, you guys know, I get triggered,
44:44
Speaker 4: right they might say something like, oh my gosh, that
44:47
Speaker 4: Trump or oh man, I can't believe these conservatives or whatever.
44:51
Speaker 4: You know, I'm not gonna hold back. I try. I do,
44:54
Speaker 4: I honestly do try to not take the bait to
44:57
Speaker 4: not get engaged. But ultimately that's not how it works
45:00
Speaker 4: in real life. Sometimes we end up having those unpleasant conversations,
45:04
Speaker 4: which I try to avoid at all costs. So I
45:07
Speaker 4: typically just don't talk to people. And it might be
45:09
Speaker 4: a little bit of the ADHD in me that I'm
45:12
Speaker 4: just like, you know, walls up. I don't know, I
45:14
Speaker 4: have no idea, but I do know that I don't
45:17
Speaker 4: like to talk to strangers unless it's like an actual
45:20
Speaker 4: social interaction. You know, we meet at a cocktail party,
45:23
Speaker 4: some sort of event, Hello, how are you nice to
45:25
Speaker 4: meet you? That type of thing. But outside of that,
45:27
Speaker 4: I'm not interested. And so I could understand Mark Consuelo's here,
45:30
Speaker 4: the co host of the show with Kelly Rippa, when
45:35
Speaker 4: he says he doesn't, you know, he doesn't want to
45:38
Speaker 4: sit in the airport and start fielding people from fans. Now,
45:41
Speaker 4: I don't mind talking to people. Now, if you tell me, hey,
45:44
Speaker 4: I love your show, I'm like, oh, super, let's talk,
45:46
Speaker 4: because now you're not a stranger anymore. Right, if you
45:48
Speaker 4: listen to my show, you know a whole bunch of
45:50
Speaker 4: things about me. You know about my children, you know
45:51
Speaker 4: about my likes and dislikes. I feel like we're family.
45:54
Speaker 4: That's why I call you familia. But I could understand
45:58
Speaker 4: somebody who doesn't have that approach, and I could respect
46:01
Speaker 4: his difference of opinion on that. No, Biggie for me,
46:04
Speaker 4: seems like she's very comfortable with it. But she's grown
46:06
Speaker 4: up in the same public eye as him. But more so,
46:08
Speaker 4: she was a teenager the first time I saw her
46:11
Speaker 4: on all my children, so I can imagine that, you know,
46:16
Speaker 4: she enjoys dealing with the public, just my thoughts. So
46:21
Speaker 4: they have this difference, right, maybe he should sit at
46:24
Speaker 4: the gate while she walks around, goes to the Starbucks,
46:27
Speaker 4: gets a drink. Who knows or whatever she likes to drink.
46:30
Speaker 4: I don't know, but this is the idea, right, this
46:33
Speaker 4: airport divorce, and this is something I saw in Forbes
46:37
Speaker 4: because of the way that air travel has a way
46:40
Speaker 4: of kind of exposing how couples handle pressure in these situations,
46:45
Speaker 4: whether it's a security line or the anxiety from you know,
46:48
Speaker 4: getting ready to get on the flight and all that stuff.
46:50
Speaker 4: So there's a new trend now where people are saying,
46:53
Speaker 4: you know what, we're gonna intentionally split up after we
46:56
Speaker 4: clear security and we're going to reunite at the gate
46:59
Speaker 4: before we take off. Now, the instinct in doing all
47:02
Speaker 4: of this was to help the relationship, and the trend
47:06
Speaker 4: that's emerged from it has a tongue in cheek name
47:08
Speaker 4: that I mentioned earlier called airport divorce. So they say
47:13
Speaker 4: this is about managing your own airport nerves. And it's
47:20
Speaker 4: funny because I think this would make me more nervous.
47:25
Speaker 4: If I were there and I'm with my person, my
47:27
Speaker 4: significant other, and I'm like, hey, you know, let's go
47:31
Speaker 4: over here, and she's like, no, I'm going to go
47:33
Speaker 4: over there and walk around. I'd be nervous that, you know,
47:35
Speaker 4: wh if she gets stuck in the bathroom, what if
47:36
Speaker 4: she forgets what we're gonna miss our flight. That's the
47:39
Speaker 4: way my brain works, which is why I could probably
47:43
Speaker 4: never do radio with a partner. Right. I don't know
47:46
Speaker 4: if i'd be into that. Who knows I've done it
47:48
Speaker 4: on a couple of occasions and it's always been successful.
47:51
Speaker 4: But we've been in the same room. We don't walk away.
47:54
Speaker 4: I can imagine walking away that I don't know, that
47:57
Speaker 4: would make me nervous, And because you know, well, I
48:00
Speaker 4: guess it wouldn't make me nervous. I would just carry
48:01
Speaker 4: the show on my own. I'm used to doing the
48:03
Speaker 4: show by myself. But anyway, my point is, you know,
48:06
Speaker 4: I guess in life broadcasting, you want to have a
48:11
Speaker 4: clean show. You want to come back from the commercial,
48:14
Speaker 4: you want the music volume to be right, you want
48:16
Speaker 4: to whatever your format is right. You just wanted to
48:19
Speaker 4: go the way you anticipated in your mind. And again,
48:22
Speaker 4: adhd issue because the way it's in my mind is
48:25
Speaker 4: what makes me feel comfortable so that I can perform well.
48:29
Speaker 4: When it doesn't go according to Hoyle as they say,
48:32
Speaker 4: or according to Robert's rules of order, then guess what now?
48:36
Speaker 4: You adapt? And I'm great at adapting. I can improvise
48:38
Speaker 4: like the rest of them, but I prefer for things
48:41
Speaker 4: to run smooth. Would you agree anyway? This psychologist who
48:46
Speaker 4: put this piece in Forbes, guy named Mark Travers. He
48:49
Speaker 4: says that number one, you're dealing with managing your airport nerves.
48:55
Speaker 4: A nervous partner's tension rarely stays contained to that person
48:59
Speaker 4: that's feeling that the nervous energy, it transfers through the
49:02
Speaker 4: tone of their voice, their pace, their posture, even their breathing.
49:06
Speaker 4: So whoever standing nearby is going to get a piece
49:08
Speaker 4: of that anxiety, that stress. And in a piece that
49:13
Speaker 4: was published in the Nature Review of Psychology, it talks
49:18
Speaker 4: about this and how your anxiety could affect one of
49:21
Speaker 4: your partners, not one of your partners, I guess your
49:24
Speaker 4: partner right on a trip like this. And that's interesting
49:29
Speaker 4: to me because I have a friend that is a
49:32
Speaker 4: very anxious person, very anxious, and I mean just any
49:36
Speaker 4: time I'm with him, there are times where I have
49:38
Speaker 4: to go, oh, whoa, take it easy, You're taking me
49:40
Speaker 4: with you down this rabbit hole and I don't want
49:42
Speaker 4: to go. And he looks at me like I'm nuts
49:45
Speaker 4: when I do that, But it's because I really feel it. Right,
49:48
Speaker 4: Like if he says, oh, let's let's go to this restaurant,
49:51
Speaker 4: I know, great steak place, I was like, all right, cool,
49:54
Speaker 4: let's go. We'll get a drink, we'll get a we'll
49:56
Speaker 4: get a steak super So I do what I do
49:58
Speaker 4: before I leave. I go, oh, I check, you know,
50:01
Speaker 4: I may make sure I have my keys. I got
50:03
Speaker 4: my wallet, I got my phone. Right away. He goes, no, no,
50:06
Speaker 4: come on, come on, come on, let's go. Let's go.
50:07
Speaker 4: Don't think so much.
50:07
Speaker 3: Let's go.
50:08
Speaker 4: And I'm like, I'm not thinking. I'm just getting my keys.
50:09
Speaker 4: So no, no, no, come on, come on, And he immediately
50:13
Speaker 4: transfers the the anxious state that he's in onto me.
50:18
Speaker 4: And he's a very handy guy, so whenever he helps
50:21
Speaker 4: me out with stuff different projects around my house, I
50:23
Speaker 4: love him to death, but I always tell him, no, no, no,
50:25
Speaker 4: take it easy, take it easy, or I'll offer him
50:27
Speaker 4: a drink. Well, hey, you want to be here, take
50:28
Speaker 4: it easy, relax for a second because he's so amped up.
50:33
Speaker 4: So I get that now. I haven't ever traveled with
50:36
Speaker 4: someone like that. If anything, I am, that's someone that's,
50:39
Speaker 4: you know, giving other people anxiety. So I can understand
50:41
Speaker 4: somebody doing that to me saying, hey, look I'll see
50:43
Speaker 4: you at the gate, bro. You know you and your
50:46
Speaker 4: your ADHD crazy keep it over there, all right. I
50:48
Speaker 4: get that, but I'm curious to know from you all.
50:52
Speaker 4: Have you done this because anybody have experienced being an
50:55
Speaker 4: airport divorce person an airport divorce say, we can say,
51:00
Speaker 4: because I haven't for sure. Eight seven seven Valdez one
51:04
Speaker 4: is the number if you want to chime in on
51:06
Speaker 4: that or anything else we've talked about. Now, something else
51:09
Speaker 4: that's interesting that you know coincides perfectly with this airport
51:14
Speaker 4: stuff is this story that happened on a Southwest Airlines flight.
51:19
Speaker 4: Somebody brought one of those three and a half or
51:22
Speaker 4: four foot tall humanoid robots on the flight and it
51:29
Speaker 4: triggered all sorts of things over at. Southwest. Listen to this.
51:33
Speaker 16: Airlines is banning all robots on flights.
51:36
Speaker 4: You heard me correctly.
51:38
Speaker 16: The move comes after a video when viral of a
51:40
Speaker 16: man bringing a humanoid on a plane, raising some eyebrows
51:43
Speaker 16: among passengers and staff. A Southwest spokesman says the policy
51:47
Speaker 16: change was not in response to a specific incident, adding
51:50
Speaker 16: that the main issue is the robot's lithium ion batteries,
51:54
Speaker 16: which can pose risks during flights. Good point there, Southwest Airlines.
51:58
Speaker 4: Is yeah, listen, the lithium ion battery. That's the reason
52:03
Speaker 4: you have to bring your laptop on board or whatever
52:05
Speaker 4: it is. You know, you can't have it in the
52:07
Speaker 4: downstairs compartment. I understand. I understand that, and that makes sense,
52:13
Speaker 4: and I'm pretty sure it'll before too long they'll say,
52:16
Speaker 4: maybe you can't even bring these things because the batteries
52:18
Speaker 4: are too big. Because they're too big. Because this guy
52:21
Speaker 4: in the video I just played, the guy had a
52:24
Speaker 4: humanoid robot and I guess he bought a seat for
52:26
Speaker 4: it so that he could let it walk around the
52:28
Speaker 4: plane and sit next to him. And I guess he
52:31
Speaker 4: did that. I don't know, maybe he was making a
52:33
Speaker 4: video for like social media or whatever. Point is. I've
52:38
Speaker 4: never been on a flight where there was a robot.
52:39
Speaker 4: A couple of robotic flight attendants. Yeah, a hank won
52:42
Speaker 4: though right from time to time. But I've never seen
52:44
Speaker 4: an actual robot on an airline flight.
52:46
Speaker 3: Have you?
52:48
Speaker 4: How would you react? What do you do? Because sometimes
52:50
Speaker 4: walking around the city, they have these robotic dogs. I've
52:53
Speaker 4: seen the robotic the same robot that this guy had,
52:56
Speaker 4: the same little tiny guy. I saw him in the
53:00
Speaker 4: Puerto Rican parade and he was dancing with all the
53:02
Speaker 4: women in the street. It was really really a sight, right,
53:05
Speaker 4: I thought it was really funny, and I shared it
53:06
Speaker 4: on my Instagram. If you happen to see it, you
53:09
Speaker 4: saw it. If you didn't, you missed it because you
53:11
Speaker 4: know that was back in June. But my point is,
53:14
Speaker 4: I've never seen anything like this, And I wonder what
53:17
Speaker 4: other headaches is the future going to bring, right, What
53:20
Speaker 4: other issues are going to be coming to the forefront,
53:24
Speaker 4: whether it comes to AI or robots and stuff like that,
53:27
Speaker 4: things that you know, if you're in your forties like me,
53:31
Speaker 4: you didn't have to deal with five ten, twelve, fifteen
53:35
Speaker 4: years ago. It wasn't a thing. And of course nobody
53:38
Speaker 4: who dealt with that five ten, twelve years ago. But
53:43
Speaker 4: we also didn't grow up with phones in our hands.
53:46
Speaker 4: There's a whole generation of people who did. There's a
53:48
Speaker 4: whole generation of people who grew up thinking that LGBTQ
53:55
Speaker 4: is an actual thing, that sexuality is a spectrum, that
54:00
Speaker 4: socialism somehow works right. These are just things that are
54:05
Speaker 4: popular today amongst in particular young people, some young people,
54:10
Speaker 4: college graduated young people. They believe a lot of these
54:13
Speaker 4: things to be true. So I wonder how much more
54:18
Speaker 4: of this, what else comes down the pipe, what other
54:21
Speaker 4: surprises will be afoot?
54:24
Speaker 16: I don't know.
54:24
Speaker 4: I don't know the answer. I do know, I don't
54:26
Speaker 4: like this idea of the robot. The robot They're creepy
54:30
Speaker 4: to me, and I always feel like somebody's gonna hack
54:32
Speaker 4: one and you know, do something bad with it. You know,
54:36
Speaker 4: have the robot hurt people? Just like you know, too
54:38
Speaker 4: much Terminator movie? Yeah, me suffering from too much Terminator too.
54:45
Speaker 4: Rise of the cyborgs and the humanoids. Who knows, right?
54:50
Speaker 4: I mean, stranger things seem to be happening anyway, your
54:54
Speaker 4: thoughts on that, of course, when you decide to call in,
54:57
Speaker 4: if you do now. I also want to talk about
54:59
Speaker 4: the what I mentioned before, which was just to put
55:03
Speaker 4: a pin in it before we wrap this story. Forgive me,
55:08
Speaker 4: I'm a little distracted here with all of the things
55:11
Speaker 4: that are going on. Still, FIFA news coming all over
55:13
Speaker 4: my feed over here. This Revolutionary Guard person right. Secretary
55:19
Speaker 4: of Homeland Security Mark WAYN. Mullen told Fox News that
55:22
Speaker 4: somebody with direct ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
55:26
Speaker 4: tried to board the Iran team's flight to Los Angeles.
55:31
Speaker 4: The Iran team playing in the World Cup for the
55:36
Speaker 4: Mexico versus Belgium game, or the day before that game,
55:40
Speaker 4: So the Iran soccer team or the Iran Football Federation
55:45
Speaker 4: on Sunday denied that this happened, saying it was an
55:47
Speaker 4: outright lie and calling the allegations fabricated and entirely baseless.
55:52
Speaker 4: The claim that an official representative of the Iranian Football
55:55
Speaker 4: Federation attempted to board a flight to enter the United
55:58
Speaker 4: States yesterday and was prevented from doing so is an
56:01
Speaker 4: outright and undeniable lie, is what they put in their statement.
56:06
Speaker 4: It's regrettable that senior US officials have resorted to spreading
56:09
Speaker 4: false statements and misinformation in order to justify restrictions that
56:13
Speaker 4: have been imposed upon members of the Iranian national delegation.
56:18
Speaker 4: When specific, verifiable, and individually targeted allegations are made, and
56:24
Speaker 4: that allegation is fundamentally false, it naturally calls into question
56:28
Speaker 4: the credibility of the accusers as well. Ooh, they're getting nasty.
56:33
Speaker 4: Secretary Mullen told Fox News that most teams travel with
56:37
Speaker 4: about one hundred and twenty players, but the US had
56:40
Speaker 4: accepted fifty three in Iran's case. He said the rest
56:43
Speaker 4: of the people Iron tried to secure visas for had
56:46
Speaker 4: direct ties to the IRGC and aren't in their normal
56:49
Speaker 4: traveling group. The Federation called Mullen's claims completely unsupported by
56:53
Speaker 4: any evidence or documentation, but also said that this is
56:58
Speaker 4: a clear attempt to cover up for discriminatory behavior and
57:01
Speaker 4: unreasonable restrictions. Uh, well, now you know who's right or
57:05
Speaker 4: wrong here, right? Because Shoot, if you're the Secretary of
57:07
Speaker 4: Homeland Security and you're saying, look, I don't want X,
57:11
Speaker 4: Y and Z in my country and the only defense
57:15
Speaker 4: that you have is a clear attempt to cover up discrimination,
57:22
Speaker 4: well guess what, I'm not buying it right now, you're
57:25
Speaker 4: just crying. So Mullin didn't name who they stopped from
57:29
Speaker 4: coming in, but just that it happened, And I guess
57:33
Speaker 4: it opens up a bigger conversation, which is is this
57:36
Speaker 4: a bad thing that a country that we're actively at
57:40
Speaker 4: war with is being limited from who they can send
57:45
Speaker 4: to our country. The fact that we let anybody from
57:47
Speaker 4: Iran in I think is a good thing. I know
57:49
Speaker 4: some people say I'm an extremist. They wanted to play
57:52
Speaker 4: in the in the World Cup tournament, That's fine. They
57:56
Speaker 4: could do it in one of the other countries that
57:59
Speaker 4: isn't at war with their on right. There are two
58:01
Speaker 4: other countries hosting part of this didn't have to be here,
58:05
Speaker 4: So that's all I'm saying. I don't think the administration
58:09
Speaker 4: is bad for doing that. Personally, I think we need
58:12
Speaker 4: more of that, more of that level of thought and discrimination,
58:16
Speaker 4: if you will, towards people that are clearly, at least
58:19
Speaker 4: in the moment, enemies of the state, or at least
58:21
Speaker 4: people coming from countries that are enemies of our nation state. Right,
58:25
Speaker 4: I mean, it makes sense to me. Anyway, they went
58:28
Speaker 4: on to complain, YadA, YadA, YadA, and of course things
58:30
Speaker 4: are heating up, and we're going to get into that
58:33
Speaker 4: on the next episode. I'll be off for a couple
58:36
Speaker 4: of days, but when we come back, we're going to
58:38
Speaker 4: resume with all of the good stuff that's going on. Anyway,
58:42
Speaker 4: I always end this program by telling you that to
58:44
Speaker 4: stand for something, because if you stand for nothing, you'll
58:46
Speaker 4: fall for anything. And the only thing necessary for evil
58:50
Speaker 4: to triumph is for good people like you to sit
58:52
Speaker 4: there and do nothing. So do something. I start ap
58:55
Speaker 4: rosy my take care, good night, and God bless you America.
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Speaker 4: I'm Rich Valdez, and this is America.
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