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- 0:05Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez, powered by poliitweek dot com.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Rich Valdees is with us former Christian Administration official.
- 0:13Speaker 3: You worked at Chris Christieve and follow us each on
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- 0:15Speaker 4: Rich Valdez calumnist now with the Washington Times. This is America, Richiev.
- 0:20Speaker 4: You're on the air with the Nation.
- 0:23Speaker 1: With your host, Rich Valdez.
- 0:27Speaker 4: What's up America, I am Rich Valdez. Valdesk with then
- 0:30Speaker 4: ask that Rich Valdez on all of the social media Welcome, Welcome, welcome,
- 0:34Speaker 4: blessed to be here with you. And it's Friday, by
- 0:37Speaker 4: the way, Friday, and check this out. I was at
- 0:40Speaker 4: Newsmax a little while ago. Put that on social media
- 0:42Speaker 4: a little later. But the importance of that was we
- 0:44Speaker 4: were talking about what's going on in Minnesota, and from
- 0:47Speaker 4: the trip over from the Newsmax studio to the radio studio,
- 0:50Speaker 4: guess what happened? Well, the Trump administration is investigating Tim
- 0:55Speaker 4: Walls and Mayor Freifrii for obstruct justice. And I've just
- 1:02Speaker 4: learned that a subpoena has been issued. So now I
- 1:06Speaker 4: don't know all the details with respect to what's going
- 1:09Speaker 4: on there, but this is a big deal. And you
- 1:12Speaker 4: know why because these guys are actively, actively out there
- 1:17Speaker 4: trying to get in the way. Right, They are getting
- 1:21Speaker 4: in the way of absolutely everything that's going on with
- 1:23Speaker 4: federal law enforcement that's on the ground now. Tim Walls
- 1:26Speaker 4: is trying to make it seem and sound as if
- 1:28Speaker 4: this is some sort of retaliation from retaliation for what
- 1:31Speaker 4: What did Tim Walls ever do to Trump? That's the
- 1:34Speaker 4: point I'm trying to figure out here. There are I've
- 1:36Speaker 4: seen political reality excuse me, take two retaliation in the past,
- 1:40Speaker 4: but this doesn't look like it. Right. It's typically Democrats
- 1:44Speaker 4: going after Republicans. But I'm very, very interested in knowing
- 1:49Speaker 4: what happens now, right, what is the next step here?
- 1:53Speaker 4: Because this is some pretty interesting stuff in my opinion.
- 1:57Speaker 4: But we've got Minnesota Governor Tim Walls and and Minneapolis
- 2:01Speaker 4: Mayor Jacob I believe it's Fry, but it's fra Y.
- 2:05Speaker 4: So I like to go to Frey Freyfry and Mayor Freyfry.
- 2:10Speaker 4: Both of them were subpoena by the Department of Justice
- 2:13Speaker 4: for allegedly impeding federal law enforcement operations. How about that?
- 2:18Speaker 2: Now?
- 2:18Speaker 4: What does that mean? Right? I don't know because if
- 2:21Speaker 4: I were to do that, I think they just locked
- 2:22Speaker 4: me up. So why are we treating them differently and
- 2:25Speaker 4: special because they're a governor and a mayor. Does that
- 2:29Speaker 4: mean they're allowed to take to the airwaves and say
- 2:32Speaker 4: crazy stuff, Because that's what's going on. I want you
- 2:35Speaker 4: to hear what Governor Tim Wallas was saying before and listen.
- 2:38Speaker 4: I'm all about Maybe they don't get it, but these
- 2:41Speaker 4: people get it. They know exactly what's going on. They
- 2:43Speaker 4: know exactly what they're doing, and they're doing it with intentionality.
- 2:47Speaker 4: They're doing it to hurt this work that's going on,
- 2:50Speaker 4: this operation, this enforcement removal operation, that's what they're doing.
- 2:57Speaker 4: Listen to this.
- 2:58Speaker 5: Minnesotans believe in the rule of law, and Minnesotans believe
- 3:02Speaker 5: in the dignity of all people. We're a place where
- 3:05Speaker 5: there's room for everybody, no matter who you are, or
- 3:09Speaker 5: who you love, or where you came from. A place
- 3:12Speaker 5: where we feed our kids, we take care of our neighbors,
- 3:15Speaker 5: and we look out for those in the shadows of life.
- 3:19Speaker 5: We're an island of decency in a country being driven
- 3:21Speaker 5: towards cruelty. We will remain an island of decency, of justice,
- 3:26Speaker 5: of community of peace. And tonight I come before you
- 3:30Speaker 5: simply to ask, don't let anyone take that away from us.
- 3:35Speaker 5: Thank you, protect each other, and may God bless the
- 3:38Speaker 5: people of Minnesota. Minnesotans believe in the rule of law.
- 3:43Speaker 4: Minnesotans believe in the rule of law. I gotta tell you,
- 3:48Speaker 4: this guy doesn't sell me, but I could see.
- 3:51Speaker 3: Look.
- 3:51Speaker 4: Imagine if you're an apolitical person, you're just doing what
- 3:55Speaker 4: you do, and you show up one day, you know,
- 3:58Speaker 4: from work, you get home, you turn on the six
- 4:00Speaker 4: o'clock news, and there's your guy Don Rickles as Governor
- 4:04Speaker 4: Tim Walls, and he's telling you, Minnesultans believe this, and
- 4:08Speaker 4: Minnesultans believe that, and we're about taking care of our neighbors,
- 4:12Speaker 4: and by golly, we're gonna do that right and all
- 4:15Speaker 4: his craziness and I call it craziness because it's you know,
- 4:19Speaker 4: I find him laughable, but again I get it. He's
- 4:23Speaker 4: just funny to me. But here we have him, Governor
- 4:26Speaker 4: Tim Walls. I think most people, if they hear their
- 4:28Speaker 4: governor speaking, most right. I could be wrong, but I
- 4:32Speaker 4: think most people go, oh wow, the governor said that
- 4:34Speaker 4: we should pull out our phones and record Ice. Then
- 4:38Speaker 4: we should do that, right, because he did say that.
- 4:40Speaker 4: Watch this, now he wants to go after these ICE agents.
- 4:45Speaker 4: Now that's all well and good, right, do what you
- 4:47Speaker 4: got to do. But the problem is they've now been
- 4:51Speaker 4: subpoena and this subpoena business I think is very interesting
- 4:55Speaker 4: because why, well, what happens?
- 4:59Speaker 3: Now?
- 5:00Speaker 4: What is this subpoena business all about? Right? I mean,
- 5:03Speaker 4: since when do we just suboena people are going to do?
- 5:05Speaker 4: Tell them to come to Congress. I mean, I don't
- 5:07Speaker 4: know what that means. Are they going to say, hey,
- 5:09Speaker 4: I need to see your cell phones? It's a little better, right,
- 5:12Speaker 4: It's that kind of subpoena. But I'm very, very interested
- 5:17Speaker 4: in knowing more. This is part of a criminal investigation.
- 5:20Speaker 4: Let's see. Let me go to one of these articles here,
- 5:22Speaker 4: one of the newer ones. Let's see here. All right,
- 5:26Speaker 4: here we go thirty minutes ago. Let's see what we
- 5:28Speaker 4: get here. This looks like a lefty publication, but we'll
- 5:32Speaker 4: give it a shot, shall we. So the Justice Department
- 5:34Speaker 4: has issued subpoenas form Minnesota Governor Tim Walls and Minneapolis
- 5:38Speaker 4: Mayor Jacob Freifry as part of an investigation alleging that
- 5:42Speaker 4: the two Democrat leaders are impeding federal law enforcement officers'
- 5:45Speaker 4: abilities to do their jobs in the state. Two people
- 5:48Speaker 4: familiar with the matter confirmed on Friday these subpoenas, which
- 5:52Speaker 4: are without recent precedent. See that's how you know, right,
- 5:56Speaker 4: without recent presence. This is the lefty isn't pouring out
- 5:58Speaker 4: of the paper. The subpoenas escalate an already bitter political
- 6:03Speaker 4: battle between the Trump administration and state officials. Well, I
- 6:06Speaker 4: think what's really happening here, is it. There's not a
- 6:09Speaker 4: battle between state officials and the Trump administration. There's a
- 6:13Speaker 4: battle between the immigration and customs enforcement officers and the
- 6:19Speaker 4: criminal illegal aliens that are on the ground. I don't
- 6:23Speaker 4: see them going after Frey Fry until today. They've been
- 6:26Speaker 4: there for a hot minute in Minnesota. Anyway, we continue
- 6:30Speaker 4: blah blah blah. Shooting happened the minisurge of federal office.
- 6:32Speaker 4: I really can't. I can't with their leftyism. I haven't
- 6:36Speaker 4: seen a fact yet, one fact. One fact that I'm
- 6:38Speaker 4: only six sentence. That's why you can't mess with these things.
- 6:42Speaker 4: I'm gonna see you are we gonna go? And Spanish
- 6:44Speaker 4: is saying I don't want to go from Guate mata
- 6:46Speaker 4: to Guayoda, right, which translated in English isn't funny, but
- 6:51Speaker 4: it means I don't want to go from Guatta bad
- 6:54Speaker 4: to Guata worse. But anyway, I'm going to see an
- 7:00Speaker 4: let's see what they've got. Yeah, Rich, why are you
- 7:02Speaker 4: going to see in it? Because nobody else has it?
- 7:04Speaker 4: Nobody else has what I'm looking for? All right? Doj
- 7:07Speaker 4: investigating Minnesota? Blah blah blah. This one doesn't even talk
- 7:10Speaker 4: about spoenus. See what I'm saying. This can't be that
- 7:12Speaker 4: breaking that nobody's got the scoop on it. I know
- 7:14Speaker 4: about it. How could that be? Yep, this one in
- 7:18Speaker 4: the fourth paragraph, back to the fatal shooting by an
- 7:21Speaker 4: ice officer. Nobody's got what I'm looking for. Let's see
- 7:25Speaker 4: what Newsmax says. Unbelievable. Nothing from the New York Post,
- 7:30Speaker 4: nothing from Fox News, nothing from Newsmax just yet. Newsmax
- 7:34Speaker 4: reported it on TV that I saw, but Washington Post
- 7:38Speaker 4: has it. What does it be? Just because they're lefties,
- 7:41Speaker 4: they're faster at getting to the news. I mean, really,
- 7:44Speaker 4: come on, what is the story here? Let's see here?
- 7:48Speaker 4: Walls a subpoena from the United States Department of Justice
- 7:51Speaker 4: means they're officially requesting documents, testimony, or information from Governor
- 7:55Speaker 4: Wallas as part of a criminal probe. This particular probe
- 7:59Speaker 4: alleges that abstruction, auction a federal immigration enforcement and impeding
- 8:03Speaker 4: ice is what's going on. It's an investigation because no
- 8:06Speaker 4: charges have been filed just yet. New York Times, CNN, WAPPO,
- 8:10Speaker 4: so the only people reporting it. Well, anyway, that is
- 8:13Speaker 4: the story. The US Department of Justice has subpoena Minnesota
- 8:17Speaker 4: Governor Tim Walls and Mayor Jacob Freyfry from the city
- 8:20Speaker 4: of Minneapolis, and we'll see if anything comes of this. Anyway,
- 8:25Speaker 4: let me get back to my story, because I believe
- 8:27Speaker 4: what's happening in Minnesota is outrageous. Right, this is what
- 8:31Speaker 4: happens sometimes. Just FYI editorial note, I came to this
- 8:34Speaker 4: story first because it was the breaking news. It had
- 8:36Speaker 4: happened moments ago. That's why there's not a lot of
- 8:38Speaker 4: stories on it. But in the same way, this isn't
- 8:43Speaker 4: nearly as juicy as what happened overnight. Right, let's talk
- 8:46Speaker 4: about overnight. Overnight, A bunch of savages tore apart a
- 8:49Speaker 4: police car tied like a chain or a rope around
- 8:54Speaker 4: the gunlocker in the back of the police car like
- 8:56Speaker 4: an ice police car, pulled the safe out of the car,
- 9:02Speaker 4: the big black box, big metal black box, ripped it
- 9:05Speaker 4: right out, and then somebody, an upstanding citizen of course,
- 9:09Speaker 4: broke into it stole the guns. Now, apparently there might
- 9:12Speaker 4: have been some sensitive information in there as well. I guess,
- 9:15Speaker 4: like warrant information on other people. I can't imagine having
- 9:18Speaker 4: like the nuclear codes inside of the police car. But
- 9:24Speaker 4: I'm just being facetious. This to me is something we
- 9:30Speaker 4: can't take lying down right. You've gotta escalate this. You've
- 9:37Speaker 4: gotta hold this guy accountable big time. In my opinion,
- 9:40Speaker 4: Why because then every last protester, as they're called down
- 9:45Speaker 4: I'm gonna call them riotous criminals because not because I
- 9:48Speaker 4: want to be dramatic or I'm biased. No, because the
- 9:51Speaker 4: guy that they got, they got them on video, facial recognition,
- 9:54Speaker 4: whatever they got. This guy is a gang member. It's
- 9:57Speaker 4: clear as day. He's a professional criminal. He has no job.
- 10:00Speaker 4: He's a criminal. So when you see this video of
- 10:04Speaker 4: what they did to this car, I mean it goes
- 10:08Speaker 4: without saying this is absolute mayhem in Minnesota. And it
- 10:14Speaker 4: wasn't just that car. It was a bunch of cars.
- 10:16Speaker 4: I mean it was car after car after car that
- 10:18Speaker 4: they'd looted and broken the windows and just destroyed. Man,
- 10:23Speaker 4: it's amazing to me that the governor hasn't called in
- 10:27Speaker 4: the National Guard, because he had the National Guard out
- 10:30Speaker 4: in the streets to tell you to put a mask
- 10:31Speaker 4: on and to stay home during COVID. But for this, ah,
- 10:35Speaker 4: let them do what they gotta do. Let them blow
- 10:37Speaker 4: up a couple of cars. Anyway, This guy, Raoul Gutierres,
- 10:42Speaker 4: he's from the gang the Latin Kings, according to the FBI,
- 10:48Speaker 4: broke into one of the FBI vehicles and busted open
- 10:53Speaker 4: a weapons locker or someone else busted it open, and
- 10:56Speaker 4: he took the rifles out and walked right off as
- 10:59Speaker 4: every body else started stealing ammunition and the other weapon
- 11:02Speaker 4: and police patches and everything else they could find in
- 11:05Speaker 4: that little locker. And I gotta tell you, wild just
- 11:09Speaker 4: to think that you could just do that in public
- 11:12Speaker 4: that way, and that's okay anyway. Nick Sorder is one
- 11:17Speaker 4: of those journalists that's always on the ground when things
- 11:20Speaker 4: are tough. This guy's a pro at that if it's
- 11:24Speaker 4: going down, he's there. And he was on with lur
- 11:28Speaker 4: Ingram discussing this and I got a quick clip check
- 11:30Speaker 4: this out.
- 11:31Speaker 6: Did I know you just talked to a high play
- 11:35Speaker 6: source at DOJ?
- 11:36Speaker 7: Tell us more.
- 11:39Speaker 2: Yeah, so we Actually he wasn't arrested last night. He
- 11:41Speaker 2: could have been, but the Minneapolis police didn't bother chasing
- 11:45Speaker 2: the vehicle that had just stolen a high powered rifle
- 11:47Speaker 2: out of an FBI car, So that stolen out of
- 11:51Speaker 2: one of these weapons walkers that was in the back.
- 11:53Speaker 2: But what I can confirm now is that Raul Gouti
- 11:56Speaker 2: Era is aged thirty three, that you see in the
- 11:59Speaker 2: video that I hosted last night stealing a firearm from
- 12:03Speaker 2: an FBI vehicle has been arrested by the ATF and
- 12:07Speaker 2: the DOJ. They executed an arrest warrant today. And he's
- 12:10Speaker 2: a known member of the Latin King's Gang. I just
- 12:14Speaker 2: got all this information just before I came on air.
- 12:17Speaker 2: He's got a lengthy, violent rap sheet. Of course he
- 12:20Speaker 2: should have been in prison already, but in tim Waltz, Minnesota, like,
- 12:25Speaker 2: they don't arrest anybody here, so it's not surprising that
- 12:28Speaker 2: he was able to go out and beat this gun
- 12:32Speaker 2: safe to a pulp and pull this automatic firearm out
- 12:36Speaker 2: of it and run away with it. And you know, hell,
- 12:39Speaker 2: if it wasn't for honestly, as independent journalists on the
- 12:43Speaker 2: ground that were able to get a video of this,
- 12:46Speaker 2: nobody would have seen it happen. I were able to
- 12:48Speaker 2: find this guy based on a video from independent journalists
- 12:51Speaker 2: that the one that we posted last night. I mean,
- 12:53Speaker 2: it's crazy that it has to be us doing this.
- 12:56Speaker 4: You know, it's interesting, and he makes a very good point,
- 12:59Speaker 4: but it is. What's very interesting about this is that
- 13:02Speaker 4: this guy had like a red mask on, but it
- 13:05Speaker 4: slipped down in one of the you know, one of
- 13:07Speaker 4: his struggles with this big box. And I don't think
- 13:09Speaker 4: it mattered that much because he's got a tattoo, a
- 13:11Speaker 4: very distinctive tattoo. It's going up the side of his
- 13:14Speaker 4: cheek all the way up above his eyebrow. So good
- 13:18Speaker 4: luck saying no, it wasn't me when how many people
- 13:20Speaker 4: besides you Mike Tyson. Right, it's not even the same
- 13:22Speaker 4: kind of tattoo that Tyson has. But my point is
- 13:25Speaker 4: these are very clearly defining things, and you know, you'd
- 13:29Speaker 4: have to pull up to court with your lawyer going, hey,
- 13:32Speaker 4: I brought ten guys with me had the same exact tattoo.
- 13:36Speaker 4: You know what I mean. But anyway, this is to me,
- 13:39Speaker 4: the biggest defense, the biggest crime being committed right now
- 13:44Speaker 4: is Jacob Freyfry and Tim Walls having the local police
- 13:48Speaker 4: officers ignore their their federal brethren, just not being there,
- 13:55Speaker 4: not being there for crowd control or principally right. The
- 13:59Speaker 4: main reason it's not like they decided to go to Minnesota.
- 14:02Speaker 4: The reason they're Minnesota is because when they if they
- 14:05Speaker 4: do get locked up. To his point, if they get
- 14:07Speaker 4: locked up and there is an ICE detainer, they're released
- 14:11Speaker 4: without ever calling I saying hey, I got one of
- 14:13Speaker 4: your people, come pick them up. This could all be
- 14:16Speaker 4: handled in the jail. And in New York they're planning
- 14:20Speaker 4: on doing the same thing. This is the playbook for
- 14:23Speaker 4: Democrats in sanctuary cities and sanctuary states. This isn't helpful.
- 14:30Speaker 4: I'd say this is actually hurting not only our country,
- 14:33Speaker 4: it's hurting people. This woman was shot in the face
- 14:35Speaker 4: because she was led to believe that she was allowed
- 14:38Speaker 4: to pull over the Ice agents. She was led to
- 14:41Speaker 4: believe that she could run them over with impunity. And
- 14:47Speaker 4: I know that's the debate. Nobody got run over. The
- 14:49Speaker 4: guy just got hit in his hip. The fact that
- 14:52Speaker 4: we're even getting into that conversation that you are somehow
- 14:56Speaker 4: allowed even if she hit the guy by accident, it
- 15:01Speaker 4: doesn't work that way. You're not allowed to be like,
- 15:03Speaker 4: oh my god, I had the gun, but I was
- 15:05Speaker 4: just I was just trying to scare people. I shot
- 15:07Speaker 4: him by accident. You don't go to jail. You know,
- 15:10Speaker 4: you don't have to not go to jail for that right.
- 15:12Speaker 4: Nobody gets a pass. I'll give you a little bit
- 15:15Speaker 4: of analogy that you know I used to share with
- 15:19Speaker 4: my kids. Were like, oh, but I did it by accident,
- 15:21Speaker 4: And I'd say, listen, why you did it really doesn't
- 15:25Speaker 4: matter so much, and I'm going to tell you why.
- 15:28Speaker 4: And they were young. Maybe I was harsh, maybe I
- 15:30Speaker 4: was too heavy in my analogy, but I would tell them,
- 15:37Speaker 4: if you're driving a car and a little kid jumps
- 15:41Speaker 4: right out in front of the car, and you hit
- 15:42Speaker 4: this little kid, and God forbid, something bad happens, do
- 15:47Speaker 4: you think that kid's parents care what you have to
- 15:50Speaker 4: say when their kid is hurt or worse? And they
- 15:54Speaker 4: were like, yeah, Wow, you're right, dad. When something goes
- 15:58Speaker 4: down to pretend to be empathetic, some might actually be empathetic.
- 16:03Speaker 4: But the real bottom line here is nobody cares. Nobody
- 16:06Speaker 4: cares about how your day was, what's happening at home.
- 16:10Speaker 4: If there was traffic that you forgot this, and you
- 16:12Speaker 4: forgot that, you were late, and nobody cares about any
- 16:15Speaker 4: of it. They care about their bottom line. They care
- 16:20Speaker 4: about that kid that ran out in the street. Doesn't
- 16:23Speaker 4: matter why you didn't stop. You didn't stop. And that's
- 16:27Speaker 4: how real life works, at least for me. I'm maybe
- 16:30Speaker 4: I'm a psycho that just takes life seriously. And I
- 16:33Speaker 4: don't think I take life too seriously personally, but certain
- 16:36Speaker 4: things not negotiable. Certain things you got to show up.
- 16:41Speaker 4: And when it comes to the police and they're saying stop,
- 16:44Speaker 4: get out of the car, it's not a good time
- 16:47Speaker 4: to start turning the wheel and hitting the gas or
- 16:51Speaker 4: for your spouse to start yelling go go, go, go go,
- 16:58Speaker 4: because she went, went, went went, and that didn't work out.
- 17:05Speaker 4: All right, I mean, goes keep it locked right here.
- 17:07Speaker 4: More on this and everything else. When I come back,
- 17:08Speaker 4: I'm going to try and lighten it up. Put her
- 17:10Speaker 4: hair down a little bit. It is Friday. I'm Rich Valdesk.
- 17:13Speaker 1: This is America. This is America, all right.
- 17:28Speaker 4: And he goes, welcome back, It's Rich Valvedesk about with
- 17:31Speaker 4: then asked that Rich valdest on all of the social
- 17:33Speaker 4: media BA B B BET social media keeping your company
- 17:37Speaker 4: this Friday night. If you like the mic is a
- 17:39Speaker 4: little bit too loud, can we fix that anyway? I
- 17:42Speaker 4: want to get into something about the media. Very apropos.
- 17:48Speaker 4: There's a new morning radio host on the hip hop
- 17:51Speaker 4: station in New York. Now you're thinking, what does this
- 17:53Speaker 4: matter to me? Well, it may not. It barely matters
- 17:57Speaker 4: to me. But this used to be a great hip
- 18:01Speaker 4: hop station if people you know liked morning radio music radio,
- 18:06Speaker 4: and I stopped listening to it, honestly because I knew
- 18:08Speaker 4: where to tune in. If I wanted political news for
- 18:11Speaker 4: either side, right, If I wanted good political news early
- 18:15Speaker 4: in the morning, I would check out my buddy Bernard McGirk,
- 18:20Speaker 4: who was from the Imus Show with Sid Rosenberg. If not,
- 18:24Speaker 4: I would flip over to MPR and hear their craziness
- 18:28Speaker 4: right and then mid mornings I would listen to Mark Simone.
- 18:33Speaker 4: If I was in the car right he's on war
- 18:37Speaker 4: and until I started doing that same shift ten to
- 18:39Speaker 4: noon for a little bit out of WABC. But I
- 18:44Speaker 4: say all that to say is if I wanted to
- 18:46Speaker 4: listen to hip hop music, I would, But this station
- 18:49Speaker 4: went off the rails a while back. It became inherently political,
- 18:53Speaker 4: and because the view of the program director and the
- 18:55Speaker 4: morning show host, and they had a good show, but
- 18:59Speaker 4: his views became became more and more leftist and more
- 19:04Speaker 4: and more political, and people like me that I could
- 19:07Speaker 4: ignore as politics. I enjoyed the music and the interviews
- 19:10Speaker 4: and the personalities and the contests and the clever segments,
- 19:15Speaker 4: and it was just good radio. It became more and
- 19:18Speaker 4: more difficult because it was like, listen to this school song.
- 19:21Speaker 4: Here's what's happening with fifty cent and his beef with
- 19:23Speaker 4: so whoever, And by the way, blah blah blah blah blah,
- 19:28Speaker 4: you know Trump is bad or this is you know,
- 19:30Speaker 4: the Republicans are horrible, or you know the Israelis are
- 19:34Speaker 4: occupying Gaza or whatever it was, and it was like,
- 19:37Speaker 4: oh wow, that is so out of left field. Now,
- 19:39Speaker 4: I understand hip hop was born of people making statements
- 19:44Speaker 4: in general political statements at times about drugs and other things. However,
- 19:51Speaker 4: there was an evolution in hip hop where it was
- 19:53Speaker 4: just like every other form of entertainment. Not everybody look.
- 19:57Speaker 4: Robert de Niro is quite an activist. Mark Ruffalo quite
- 20:00Speaker 4: an activist, but they don't typically make films about their activism.
- 20:06Speaker 4: When they're at work, they're entertaining right now, I haven't
- 20:09Speaker 4: watched a Mark Ruffalo film film in a long time,
- 20:13Speaker 4: but I still love de Nero because you know, he
- 20:15Speaker 4: knows how to turn it on, makes a good movie.
- 20:17Speaker 4: He's a funny guy. He's a good action actor. He's good,
- 20:20Speaker 4: he's a very versatile actor. He's fantastic. Now if he's
- 20:23Speaker 4: speaking at an awards show, maybe not so much, right,
- 20:26Speaker 4: I may not want to tune in for that, but
- 20:28Speaker 4: that's how life works. Chew the meat, he spit out
- 20:31Speaker 4: the bones. Some people want to throw him out all together,
- 20:34Speaker 4: but I feel like that's throw or not. The baby
- 20:35Speaker 4: with the bath water, right, I'm not going to stop
- 20:37Speaker 4: watching The Godfather because I don't like the Nero. But
- 20:41Speaker 4: this show became pretty much all politics all the time,
- 20:45Speaker 4: Whereas I felt like, hey, there's really not much music
- 20:47Speaker 4: left in here. So much of it had become political
- 20:52Speaker 4: that it was too much. It was just too much leftism.
- 20:54Speaker 4: And it wasn't just you know, like liberal, it was
- 20:57Speaker 4: progressive left. It was you know, Donnie loving and AOC
- 21:02Speaker 4: loving and Bernie Sanders loving, like you know, that brand
- 21:06Speaker 4: of anti Israel, anti American rhetoric. Anyway, long story short,
- 21:18Speaker 4: that show was recently paused or it ended, and they
- 21:25Speaker 4: have a new host now. And a couple of years ago,
- 21:27Speaker 4: a couple of morning like four four years ago, I
- 21:30Speaker 4: interviewed the founder of the company that owned that radio station,
- 21:35Speaker 4: Hot ninety seven and we had a really good conversation. So, oh,
- 21:39Speaker 4: you have it. You have the clips, all right, So
- 21:41Speaker 4: we have a couple of clips from that interview. That guy,
- 21:44Speaker 4: Jeff Simullian. He is a very interesting guy, and if
- 21:48Speaker 4: you're interested, i'll play a little bit of that, a
- 21:50Speaker 4: couple of clips from that interview. But I still want
- 21:52Speaker 4: to talk about this the new morning show, because there
- 21:56Speaker 4: was some reception to that. I believe it just started.
- 21:59Speaker 4: So we're to get to that straight ahead. But first
- 22:02Speaker 4: check out this quick interview I did with Jeff Smullian.
- 22:05Speaker 4: I think you're gonna enjoy it. Jeff Smullian is an entrepreneur,
- 22:09Speaker 4: he's an author. He's been involved in professional sports and
- 22:14Speaker 4: an executive and broadcast. But there's lessons that he's written
- 22:19Speaker 4: in this book. And let me tell you, if I
- 22:20Speaker 4: were to give anybody advice, this might be the advice
- 22:23Speaker 4: I'd give you. Never ride a roller coaster upside Down.
- 22:27Speaker 4: And that's the title of his brand new book. Jeff
- 22:30Speaker 4: Smullien wrote this book, Never write a roller Coaster upside Down,
- 22:33Speaker 4: the ups and downs of and Excuse Me and reinvention
- 22:37Speaker 4: of an Entrepreneur. Jeff Smullian. Welcome to the program.
- 22:39Speaker 3: Sir rich. I'm really happy to be here. This will
- 22:44Speaker 3: be fun.
- 22:44Speaker 4: Thank you you me too. And you know what, I
- 22:47Speaker 4: very selfishly I saw the pitch. I said, man, this
- 22:50Speaker 4: is a radio guy. I am a radio guy. I
- 22:53Speaker 4: and you know, it's like I'm a young I'm forty
- 22:55Speaker 4: four years old. I love radio as if I was
- 22:58Speaker 4: an old guy, and I wish I had more institutional
- 23:01Speaker 4: memory in radio. And I said, this guy's got it.
- 23:04Speaker 4: So Plus, I'm a New Yorker and grew up listening
- 23:07Speaker 4: to Hot ninety seven and that's one of the things
- 23:10Speaker 4: that you launched. So I mean, I said, man, I
- 23:12Speaker 4: can't wait to get into this, and there's a lot
- 23:14Speaker 4: you've done, so I want to learn from you as
- 23:16Speaker 4: much as the audience does. And well, thank you for it.
- 23:20Speaker 4: All right, So let's start at the beginning. You know, Ala,
- 23:22Speaker 4: Larry King, if you don't mind, how does a nice
- 23:24Speaker 4: kid like you get involved in owning and running MS
- 23:27Speaker 4: communications and starting hip hop stations? And what comes first?
- 23:32Speaker 4: The love for radio?
- 23:32Speaker 3: Well, I love the radio. I was of the generation.
- 23:35Speaker 3: I have to laugh because rich I have actually done.
- 23:38Speaker 3: I did this show when Larry did it and when
- 23:40Speaker 3: Jim did it. I wish you all the best of it,
- 23:42Speaker 3: Thank you, sir. And when you said, when you said
- 23:44Speaker 3: you're forty four, my socks are older than you. So
- 23:47Speaker 3: I've done this job. But I always loved it. I
- 23:51Speaker 3: was one of those kids from my generation. You grew
- 23:53Speaker 3: up a transistor radios and I listened to top forty
- 23:56Speaker 3: music in baseball games, you know, under my pillow at
- 24:01Speaker 3: night when my parents thought I was sleeping. And I
- 24:04Speaker 3: just always loved it. Always wanted to be in radio,
- 24:06Speaker 3: and went to college and law school specialized in broadcast law.
- 24:10Speaker 3: And I always want to start my own company. And
- 24:11Speaker 3: here we are forty some years later.
- 24:14Speaker 4: Wow. I mean, it's an amazing story, it really is.
- 24:18Speaker 4: So you was it always broadcast for you? And I
- 24:22Speaker 4: know you've done some stuff with professional sports, so that
- 24:25Speaker 4: was in addition too.
- 24:27Speaker 3: Yeah, we started the first all sports station, WFAA and
- 24:31Speaker 3: New York along about the time we started Hot ninety seven,
- 24:36Speaker 3: and we had brought all the radio stations in the
- 24:38Speaker 3: top markets that we could, so we said, you know,
- 24:41Speaker 3: we were sort of known as the turnaround guys, and
- 24:43Speaker 3: the Seattle Mariners needed turning around. I had one chapter
- 24:46Speaker 3: in the book called Genius to Idiot and another chapter
- 24:49Speaker 3: called Idiot to Genius. I have a favorite saying that
- 24:51Speaker 3: the line between being a genius and an idiot is
- 24:54Speaker 3: very fine, and I've been on both sides. So one
- 24:58Speaker 3: chapter talks about the start of all sports radio, and
- 25:00Speaker 3: that's idiot's a genius because when we put it on
- 25:03Speaker 3: the air, everybody thought it was a disaster, and lo
- 25:06Speaker 3: and behold, it took off and now there's seven hundred
- 25:08Speaker 3: dollars sports stations around the country. We were the first,
- 25:12Speaker 3: and then a genius. The idiot was one about the
- 25:14Speaker 3: Seattle Mariners, and I was sort of the boy wonder
- 25:17Speaker 3: out there, and everybody loved me and they stood in
- 25:19Speaker 3: line for my autographs. And when the team didn't work,
- 25:22Speaker 3: I became a pariah. So I went from genius the idiot.
- 25:26Speaker 3: So I've seen all sides of.
- 25:27Speaker 4: The autograph out. Yeah, it's funny.
- 25:32Speaker 3: I had a friend who from Indianapolis. I'm always from Indianapolis,
- 25:36Speaker 3: even though I went to USC and he stood there
- 25:39Speaker 3: at the ballpark one night watching We signed autographs after
- 25:41Speaker 3: the game for like twenty minutes, and he said, any
- 25:44Speaker 3: society that wants your autograph is a society that is
- 25:47Speaker 3: a grave danger of collapse. I always remembered it.
- 25:51Speaker 4: That's terrific, folks. We are on with Jeff Smullyan. He's
- 25:54Speaker 4: the CEO of MS Communications, and he's written this great book,
- 25:59Speaker 4: Never Write a Roller Upside Down, The ups Downs and
- 26:02Speaker 4: Reinvention of an Entrepreneur. Now, Jeff Simullian. I started listening
- 26:08Speaker 4: to hip hop music as a kid, and my brothers
- 26:12Speaker 4: listened to you know, the old school Sugar Hill Gang
- 26:14Speaker 4: stuff like that, and I remember listening to Hot one
- 26:17Speaker 4: oh three and then it became a country station. I
- 26:21Speaker 4: guess you switched with Country ninety seven or something like that,
- 26:24Speaker 4: and then a little bit later it became Hot ninety seven,
- 26:26Speaker 4: and it was great. And I've never really stopped listening.
- 26:30Speaker 4: I mean I switched back and forth to the talk stuff,
- 26:32Speaker 4: but uh, true story, I listened this morning. I love
- 26:35Speaker 4: to fight with my radio, and I always fight with EBRO.
- 26:38Speaker 4: And I used to call Believe it or Not, one
- 26:40Speaker 4: of the few places I've called. They let me on
- 26:42Speaker 4: a little bit, but my views were a little too conservative,
- 26:44Speaker 4: and then they stopped taking my calls. Well, you know it.
- 26:48Speaker 3: It's funny because and you mentioned we originally bought when
- 26:51Speaker 3: we bought the Double A stations, we bought WHN which
- 26:54Speaker 3: is ten fifty, which became wfan, right, and we bought
- 26:57Speaker 3: what was thebapp and and it became Hot one o
- 27:01Speaker 3: three five, And when we bought the NBC stations, we
- 27:04Speaker 3: moved everything. So Hot one oh three five became Hot
- 27:07Speaker 3: ninety seven and w Fan went to six sixty. So
- 27:10Speaker 3: amazing those days you couldn't own more than one station
- 27:12Speaker 3: in the market.
- 27:13Speaker 4: Oh wow, I didn't know that. Yeah, but I think
- 27:16Speaker 4: it's an amazing success story because I whenever I traveled
- 27:20Speaker 4: as a young man, and you know, people say, oh,
- 27:22Speaker 4: you're from New York and I again they oh, you
- 27:24Speaker 4: listened Hot ninety seven. I said, yeah, of course, how
- 27:26Speaker 4: do you know about it? And they were like, oh,
- 27:27Speaker 4: we listened to that too. We get tapes and everybody
- 27:30Speaker 4: was trying to get Hot ninety seven and nobody had
- 27:32Speaker 4: a station like it until like after I was in
- 27:35Speaker 4: high school, there was a station in Miami that did it.
- 27:37Speaker 4: And then you guys are like were syndicating your stuff
- 27:40Speaker 4: and it was it was just so cool to be
- 27:43Speaker 4: from the market where it was happening, and I thought
- 27:46Speaker 4: to myself, nobody's done it really even since.
- 27:49Speaker 3: Yeah, we we really started hip hop with both Para
- 27:51Speaker 3: one O six in Los Angeles and Hot ninety seven.
- 27:55Speaker 3: And when it started it was revolution Area, but I said,
- 27:57Speaker 3: you can't play this stuff on the air, and then
- 28:00Speaker 3: it just it took off. So you know, like I said,
- 28:03Speaker 3: we've had some fun, fun experiences.
- 28:05Speaker 4: Rich, Yeah, outstanding. I want to get into a little
- 28:08Speaker 4: bit more on your love for radio, because I think
- 28:11Speaker 4: that's an amazing story, and I want to get into
- 28:12Speaker 4: a little bit of your favorite passages from the book.
- 28:15Speaker 4: But folks, Aron with Jeff Smullian. Now, earlier I told
- 28:19Speaker 4: you a little bit about Jeff's background. He started a
- 28:21Speaker 4: broadcast company, has a love for radio, owns a sports team,
- 28:26Speaker 4: has represented huge stars like David Letterman, Ken Griffy Junior,
- 28:31Speaker 4: don Imus Goodness. That must have been tough, and here
- 28:34Speaker 4: he is sharing what most people want. You go to
- 28:37Speaker 4: a cocktail party and you're like, hey, Jeff Smullian's going
- 28:39Speaker 4: to be there, and you want to find out what's
- 28:41Speaker 4: the secret to your success? What's the secret sauce? He's
- 28:43Speaker 4: put it in this book. If you're an aspiring entrepreneur,
- 28:46Speaker 4: radio insider, media insider, you gotta get a copy. And
- 28:50Speaker 4: you know what I always say, get two copies. Why
- 28:52Speaker 4: because it's Christmas and you want to give one away,
- 28:54Speaker 4: you want to keep one for yourself. And when you're
- 28:56Speaker 4: done with reading it, pass it on because this is
- 28:58Speaker 4: the type of stuff that changes things. Quick story and
- 29:01Speaker 4: I don't want to steal too much time from Jeff,
- 29:02Speaker 4: but I went to a what's that called when they
- 29:04Speaker 4: induct you the Hall of Fame, the Radio Hall of Fame,
- 29:06Speaker 4: and Jim Kerr was telling a story about how he
- 29:09Speaker 4: slept overnight on the studio floor to get nine and
- 29:12Speaker 4: a half minutes of on air time before they shut
- 29:15Speaker 4: down a low powered station very early in his career,
- 29:18Speaker 4: and it was for that nine and a half minutes
- 29:20Speaker 4: he did everything. He swept the floor as he did this,
- 29:22Speaker 4: he did that, and obviously he's a huge success. It's
- 29:26Speaker 4: that love and that drive. I think that passion that
- 29:28Speaker 4: people have that gets them through. And it seems like
- 29:31Speaker 4: that's the same type of grit that you had in
- 29:34Speaker 4: order to get through, because you're still at it today. Jeff'smullion.
- 29:37Speaker 3: Yeah, it really is. I've always said I have. This
- 29:41Speaker 3: book was written because my now eighteen year old daughter
- 29:45Speaker 3: that were driver to school every day and we would
- 29:47Speaker 3: just talk about life and it was my favorite thirty
- 29:49Speaker 3: minutes a day from kindergarten, well until she fired me,
- 29:52Speaker 3: she got a driver's license, death. We would just talk
- 29:55Speaker 3: about life and she said, Dad, you got to write
- 29:57Speaker 3: this down. I used to say, you got to have grit,
- 30:00Speaker 3: you get at persistence. That's the most important lesson. One
- 30:03Speaker 3: day she had a paper and she said, so, Grit's
- 30:05Speaker 3: the most important lesson. I said, no, not really. The
- 30:08Speaker 3: most important quality is integrity. If if your word is good,
- 30:12Speaker 3: almost nothing else matters, And if your word isn't good,
- 30:15Speaker 3: almost nothing else matters. So you know those are and
- 30:19Speaker 3: hopefully the book just tells funny stories but also sprinkles
- 30:23Speaker 3: and lessons about the things that I've learned, you know,
- 30:25Speaker 3: riding the roller coaster.
- 30:27Speaker 4: Now, when you talk about grit, and again, I love
- 30:30Speaker 4: the roller coaster analogy because you know, some people are afraid,
- 30:33Speaker 4: some people love it, some people throw their hands up
- 30:35Speaker 4: in the air, some people hold on tight, and it's
- 30:37Speaker 4: such appropriate analogy. But grit is great, and I think
- 30:40Speaker 4: you throw it out there and it's it's wonderful. But
- 30:44Speaker 4: give me a little more, give me a little more,
- 30:45Speaker 4: give the listeners a little more of you know, what
- 30:48Speaker 4: was your go to, what helped you to continue to
- 30:51Speaker 4: have grit and to hold on to your grit to
- 30:53Speaker 4: keep pushing through.
- 30:55Speaker 3: Well. I always love the business. I love the people.
- 30:57Speaker 3: I was with Rick Cummings who set it up programming,
- 31:00Speaker 3: and it was really one of the great architects of
- 31:03Speaker 3: the hip hop that you talked about it about ninety seven.
- 31:06Speaker 3: We've been together since day one, and when things got tough,
- 31:10Speaker 3: we just all sat down and said, how are we
- 31:12Speaker 3: going to solve this? And as you know, the radio
- 31:14Speaker 3: industry went through some monumental collapses. We were like everybody else,
- 31:19Speaker 3: and we just we just basically said we're going to
- 31:21Speaker 3: do whatever it takes and we're going to save it.
- 31:23Speaker 3: And we saved the company. And that's all in the book,
- 31:26Speaker 3: you know, some of the great successes, some of the
- 31:28Speaker 3: fun stuff. But we've had everything rich. We got nationalized
- 31:31Speaker 3: and hungry. We had the largest radio network in Hungary
- 31:35Speaker 3: and we got nationalized. And I'll never forget. There was
- 31:38Speaker 3: a former chairman of the FCC named Bill Cannard who
- 31:41Speaker 3: had just been the US named the US Ambassador to
- 31:45Speaker 3: the European Union. And I called Bill and I said,
- 31:47Speaker 3: Bill would be nationalized in Hungary. He said, Jeff, they
- 31:49Speaker 3: can't do that. And I said, Bill, we're being nationalized.
- 31:53Speaker 3: He said, Jeff, they remember the European Union. They can't
- 31:56Speaker 3: do that. And he said, Jeff, can't be and he
- 32:00Speaker 3: was very dismissive. Week later he called me, he said, Jeff,
- 32:02Speaker 3: I'll be darned if you're really being nationalized in Hungary.
- 32:05Speaker 3: And yet no kid can go. So we've seen everything.
- 32:09Speaker 3: I always say, until you've been nationalized, you really haven't
- 32:11Speaker 3: done much. So we've seen everything.
- 32:14Speaker 4: Fascinating now and putting this together because it seems like
- 32:17Speaker 4: it's part like manifesto, rule book, advice, and memoir all
- 32:22Speaker 4: in one. What's the passage that you wrote that stood
- 32:27Speaker 4: out most to you.
- 32:30Speaker 3: Well, I think there's so many different things. I mean
- 32:33Speaker 3: talking about how we built the company, talking about the
- 32:36Speaker 3: monumental downs that we had when the economy collapsed, when
- 32:41Speaker 3: you go from one day they say you're a really
- 32:42Speaker 3: rich guy to the next day or a poor guy
- 32:45Speaker 3: coming back out of that. But I think it was
- 32:47Speaker 3: just a level what I did, And there are so
- 32:49Speaker 3: many things. There was a time when Sam Zell wanted
- 32:52Speaker 3: to merge companies and he said, Jeff, let's put this together.
- 32:57Speaker 3: It will be one of the biggest companies industry. And
- 32:59Speaker 3: I said, if I wanted to make the most money,
- 33:02Speaker 3: I would do that because I know that in two
- 33:04Speaker 3: years you're going to say radio's topped out and you'll
- 33:07Speaker 3: sell and you'll be right. But I love this business.
- 33:10Speaker 3: I love the people I do with it, and so
- 33:12Speaker 3: I stayed in. Now a lot of people would say
- 33:14Speaker 3: that makes me an idiot, but I loved it and
- 33:17Speaker 3: my life has been very, very fortunate.
- 33:19Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I share that love with you. There's nothing
- 33:22Speaker 4: like radio, and I believe the old saying goes. People
- 33:25Speaker 4: have been saying radio is dying since TV.
- 33:28Speaker 3: That's exactly right. It's exactly right. So it has reinvented itself,
- 33:32Speaker 3: no question.
- 33:34Speaker 4: All right, now I want to get I guess in
- 33:38Speaker 4: the perspective of looking at this, you're a guy that's
- 33:41Speaker 4: done nearly everything. What's next for you?
- 33:46Speaker 3: Well, you know, we decided that we were going to
- 33:48Speaker 3: transition into other things. We have three new businesses and
- 33:54Speaker 3: you know, and so we're just looking at different things
- 33:56Speaker 3: and we're having fun. And we have kept our team together.
- 33:58Speaker 3: And we have a sound masking business of Control Sound,
- 34:02Speaker 3: and we have a dynamic pricing business that figures out
- 34:05Speaker 3: the operable price of you know, of any event that
- 34:09Speaker 3: you know ticket and all sorts of things. So we're
- 34:12Speaker 3: just having fun. We have a business that produces podcasts
- 34:15Speaker 3: for major for major corporations, and we're looking for other things.
- 34:19Speaker 3: But I'm one of those people. I've always said I'm
- 34:21Speaker 3: an entrepreneur because I was not hirable in a free society,
- 34:25Speaker 3: so I had to be an entrepreneur. And I'm also
- 34:29Speaker 3: you know, I'll never retire because those those people who
- 34:33Speaker 3: see me play golf realize that you know, I should
- 34:36Speaker 3: not I should stay at work.
- 34:37Speaker 4: No business on the greens.
- 34:39Speaker 3: Yep. Then whatsoever?
- 34:41Speaker 4: Now if you if you had to do it over,
- 34:43Speaker 4: and I'm pretty sure you'd repeat it. It seems like
- 34:45Speaker 4: youarely passionate. But if you weren't doing this, what would
- 34:49Speaker 4: you be doing?
- 34:51Speaker 3: You know, that's a great question. I have a favorite
- 34:53Speaker 3: saying that if any one of ten things that happened,
- 34:55Speaker 3: the company'd be one hundred times bigger, and if any
- 34:57Speaker 3: one at ten other things happened, I'd be sweeping streets,
- 35:01Speaker 3: probably somewhere around media. I've always loved to write. I
- 35:05Speaker 3: started as a sports writer. Never really knew that I
- 35:08Speaker 3: could do a book, and I did this for fun.
- 35:11Speaker 3: At the best of my daughter, I mentioned and the
- 35:13Speaker 3: next thing they know that, people said, you know what,
- 35:15Speaker 3: you really got something here? So you know I love
- 35:18Speaker 3: I do love management. I love working with people. I
- 35:20Speaker 3: love putting plans together and advancing businesses.
- 35:25Speaker 4: Outstanding, all right, Jeff Smullyan. I want to remind everybody
- 35:29Speaker 4: that they should get a couple of copies of this.
- 35:31Speaker 4: Never write a roller coaster upside down, the ups and
- 35:34Speaker 4: downs and reinvention of an entrepreneur. Get a couple of
- 35:38Speaker 4: copies now, Jeff Smullian in the minute We've got to go.
- 35:42Speaker 4: What is the impetus or the inspiration behind the title.
- 35:47Speaker 3: The title is that you know life is a roller coaster.
- 35:52Speaker 3: When I was in school a thousand years ago, I thought,
- 35:54Speaker 3: you know, your career was a straight lineup, and what
- 35:57Speaker 3: you learn is it's ups and downs. And yet mine
- 36:01Speaker 3: has been not only a roller coaster ride, but because
- 36:03Speaker 3: of some of the crazy stuff we did, that roller
- 36:07Speaker 3: coaster rider's upside Yeah, and maybe the lessons of the
- 36:11Speaker 3: book will say, well, maybe he did too many crazy things.
- 36:14Speaker 3: I don't want to do it that way, but at
- 36:15Speaker 3: least the lessons will come through and hopefully they'll be
- 36:17Speaker 3: helpful to people.
- 36:19Speaker 4: Outstanding folks. Again, that's Jeff Simullion, CEO of MS Communications,
- 36:24Speaker 4: has owned a bunch of radio stations, has been involved
- 36:27Speaker 4: in professional sports. He's done it all, and he's written
- 36:30Speaker 4: it down and it's kind of like a go to guide.
- 36:31Speaker 4: I know I'm getting a copy. Make sure you guys
- 36:33Speaker 4: get one. To Never Ride a roller Coaster Upside Down,
- 36:36Speaker 4: The ups and Downs and Reinvention of an Entrepreneur. Jeff,
- 36:40Speaker 4: it was my pleasure to meet you and speak with you.
- 36:42Speaker 4: I wish you godspeed with everything.
- 36:44Speaker 3: Thanks Rich, I really enjoyed it. This is a lot
- 36:46Speaker 3: of fun and good luck with the show.
- 36:48Speaker 4: Yes, sir, and I will be emailing you right after
- 36:50Speaker 4: this to get that interview with Ebro.
- 36:55Speaker 3: Listen. I don't know if they'll talk to me either,
- 36:56Speaker 3: but we'll see.
- 36:58Speaker 4: Take care.
- 36:59Speaker 3: Thank Rich.
- 37:00Speaker 4: All right, folks, more to come straight ahead, fun interview.
- 37:03Speaker 4: I enjoyed that Smolian smart guy, nice guy, and radio guy,
- 37:08Speaker 4: which is very very cool. Anyway, I want to talk
- 37:11Speaker 4: about the kid Miro. I don't know. I'm not familiar
- 37:14Speaker 4: with his work. I saw a couple of interviews that
- 37:16Speaker 4: he did because he's the new guy at Hot ninety
- 37:18Speaker 4: seven now, and I think it's great so far. He's
- 37:22Speaker 4: bringing high energy, seems like a positive guy. Doesn't seem
- 37:26Speaker 4: to be political, and nothing wrong with being political, right,
- 37:31Speaker 4: I contend to be political, but that's what I do.
- 37:34Speaker 4: If somebody hired me tomorrow to host I don't know,
- 37:37Speaker 4: a show like Regis and Kathy Lee, which is now
- 37:42Speaker 4: Kelly and her husband Mark No more politics. Why, because
- 37:47Speaker 4: I realize people aren't tuning in for that. Somebody hires
- 37:51Speaker 4: me to do a political show and I do a
- 37:53Speaker 4: political show. Somebody hires me to do something else, doing
- 37:57Speaker 4: something else. I just have never been hired to do
- 38:00Speaker 4: something else. I wish I was, because politics it gets
- 38:05Speaker 4: to me after a while. You know, how much? How
- 38:08Speaker 4: much can you talk about how terrible the Democrats are?
- 38:11Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, anyway, bottom line is you can touch
- 38:15Speaker 4: on politics from time to time. But the guy seems funny.
- 38:18Speaker 4: He seems good energy, and he grew up in the
- 38:23Speaker 4: city and it seems like he can, you know, relate.
- 38:25Speaker 4: He finds the funny things in life. He's got an
- 38:28Speaker 4: eye for life, and it's a funny eye. And I
- 38:33Speaker 4: think that's great. So congrats to the kid, Miro. If
- 38:37Speaker 4: there's anything to report in days to come, like oh boy,
- 38:40Speaker 4: he's a crazy left, he's trashing Israel, he's hating America,
- 38:44Speaker 4: he loves Karl Marx, then I'll bring that to you.
- 38:47Speaker 4: But otherwise I think I think he's trying to bring
- 38:50Speaker 4: it back to the roots, kind of like ninety seven
- 38:52Speaker 4: always was, whether it was ed Lisa Andre in the
- 38:55Speaker 4: morning or Missus Jones, right Jones, So anyway, that was that.
- 39:03Speaker 4: Now I'm gonna leave that there. I'm gonna come back
- 39:07Speaker 4: and wrap it up. We got a few thoughts. I'm
- 39:09Speaker 4: running out of steam. It is Friday, looking forward to
- 39:12Speaker 4: the weekend. I'm sure you are too, and man, I
- 39:15Speaker 4: feel like I'm forgetting to say something. Anyway, I'll be
- 39:17Speaker 4: right back. I'm Rich veld Does.
- 39:19Speaker 1: This is America, This is America.
- 39:31Speaker 4: He's making podcasting great again.
- 39:34Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdas.
- 39:37Speaker 4: All right, I mean it's welcome back. It's Rich Valdas
- 39:39Speaker 4: Friday Night. And I should have probably done this a
- 39:41Speaker 4: little bit earlier before getting into some of the other
- 39:44Speaker 4: stuff because it's a little heavier than the latest hosted
- 39:47Speaker 4: on ninety seven. Coach is a little softer of a topic.
- 39:50Speaker 4: But this is heavy, but interesting and wild. So I
- 39:53Speaker 4: kind of left it for a little bit later to
- 39:55Speaker 4: make sure that any little ears that may be listening
- 39:58Speaker 4: on your Amazon Alexa, just in case you decided to
- 40:01Speaker 4: say I likes that play Rich Valdez. Now your Alexis
- 40:05Speaker 4: are all going nuts like mine?
- 40:09Speaker 3: You hear that?
- 40:11Speaker 4: Anyway, I want to get into this story. It's a
- 40:13Speaker 4: wild story. This story's nuts. It's from a few months ago,
- 40:17Speaker 4: but there's an update as of this morning. And well,
- 40:21Speaker 4: let me bring you down memory Loan memory Lane.
- 40:26Speaker 3: Right.
- 40:26Speaker 4: This woman, she made headlines over the summer for having
- 40:36Speaker 4: sex with her step son. She's a nurse from Florida
- 40:42Speaker 4: and she got in trouble and she went to jail.
- 40:48Speaker 4: Listen to this court today for a pre trial hearing
- 40:51Speaker 4: what attorneys told the judge they had reached a pleading.
- 40:54Speaker 6: The Florida nurse is accused of raping her fifteen year
- 40:56Speaker 6: old step son back in July twenty four. Was originally
- 41:00Speaker 6: charged with sexual battery of a minor by a person
- 41:03Speaker 6: and familial custody. The judge would not accept the plea
- 41:06Speaker 6: agreement until he was assured that the victim's family approved.
- 41:11Speaker 8: Their desire for Mistates to do additional time. Indoc is
- 41:17Speaker 8: outlaid by their overall concern for the victims mental and
- 41:22Speaker 8: emotional health. He has made substancial progress from some issues.
- 41:26Speaker 9: That he has dealt with in the past, and whether.
- 41:29Speaker 8: There is more concerned and feels though it's justice for
- 41:32Speaker 8: him to not have to relent this situation and they
- 41:36Speaker 8: are ready and to.
- 41:38Speaker 9: Get its behind them, for him to not have to
- 41:41Speaker 9: talk about.
- 41:41Speaker 8: If they've had aligned inside me about the thought of
- 41:44Speaker 8: him having to testify and talk about this at a
- 41:47Speaker 8: trial and be cross examine due to some of the
- 41:50Speaker 8: past issues that he has had and because of that,
- 41:53Speaker 8: Dave Felis though he is justice for them for.
- 41:56Speaker 9: Her to be for this encounter offer to be accept.
- 42:02Speaker 5: How do you plead to the lesser included defensive leader
- 42:05Speaker 5: of the Sibius battery.
- 42:06Speaker 9: I'm pleaded no contest?
- 42:07Speaker 5: Are you pleading no contests?
- 42:08Speaker 7: Say?
- 42:09Speaker 6: Because you believed to be in your best interest?
- 42:10Speaker 9: Yes?
- 42:11Speaker 6: San, Would you like you to accept your plea in
- 42:12Speaker 6: the first sentence until September sixteenth at eight o'clock.
- 42:15Speaker 9: I would much appreciate it, all right, I.
- 42:18Speaker 4: Will accept your plea. I do find that you are alert, intelligent,
- 42:20Speaker 4: and competent to interrupta that you were doing so freely involuntarily,
- 42:23Speaker 4: that you had the assistance of an attorney with whom
- 42:25Speaker 4: your sas thought and who was spin effective.
- 42:27Speaker 3: Again, that there's a actual basis for it.
- 42:34Speaker 4: So this woman, again, I don't know how old this
- 42:37Speaker 4: kid was, right, Maybe I'll find out as I'm looking
- 42:40Speaker 4: at this. I think he was a teenager, about fourteen fifteen,
- 42:43Speaker 4: So all I know is when I was fourteen or fifteen,
- 42:47Speaker 4: this would have probably been a home run. You know,
- 42:50Speaker 4: if I was in a situation. Really yes, but that
- 42:55Speaker 4: wasn't the case, right, thirty four years old. She's not ugly.
- 42:58Speaker 4: I mean, I would say she's pretty pretty, but she's
- 43:00Speaker 4: not ugly. Anyway, She's in jail and she got some
- 43:07Speaker 4: bad news today. Listen to this from The New York Post.
- 43:10Speaker 4: That perverted Florida nurse who's currently behind Barnes for sexually
- 43:14Speaker 4: assaulting her then fifteen year old step son, had her
- 43:17Speaker 4: state medical license revoked just three weeks after her husband
- 43:22Speaker 4: filed for divorce. She's a native of O Calla, Florida.
- 43:25Speaker 4: Alexis von Yates, thirty five years old, now currently serving
- 43:29Speaker 4: a two year prison stint after being caught red handed
- 43:32Speaker 4: by her husband Frank, having sex with her teenage step
- 43:36Speaker 4: son on the couch in their family home in July
- 43:40Speaker 4: twenty twenty four. Miss von Yates pleaded no contest to
- 43:43Speaker 4: loot and lascivious battery and was locked up in September
- 43:46Speaker 4: of twenty twenty five on a reduced sentence. You just
- 43:49Speaker 4: heard that plea, And following the meeting of the Board
- 43:53Speaker 4: of Nursing and her attorney last month, the Florida Department
- 43:58Speaker 4: of Health has taken away her nursing license, and I honestly,
- 44:04Speaker 4: irrespective of what she did, it's always tough when you
- 44:08Speaker 4: hear about people losing a license for whatever. You know,
- 44:11Speaker 4: it is how they make their living. But I understand
- 44:14Speaker 4: it's not like it was a patient. Right, I'm not.
- 44:16Speaker 4: Don't wait to lay here. But it wasn't like she
- 44:18Speaker 4: was having sex with a patient. No, it's worse. She
- 44:20Speaker 4: was having sex with a kid. I get that, And
- 44:22Speaker 4: if it was the other way around, it'd be a
- 44:24Speaker 4: big deal. And I guess we have to stop looking
- 44:26Speaker 4: at it like, you know, me wishing I was fifteen
- 44:30Speaker 4: and some thirty four year old woman found me attractive.
- 44:33Speaker 4: But I understand, right if it was my fifteen year
- 44:36Speaker 4: old daughter, I'd i'd be losing my head, my hair
- 44:40Speaker 4: I already lost anyway. Florida health officials temporarily suspended the
- 44:44Speaker 4: nurse's license last April, but final review showed that they
- 44:48Speaker 4: were going to postpone it until October, and now they
- 44:51Speaker 4: decided the final outcome. Now, let's see here, if there's
- 44:57Speaker 4: anything else I can add to this, Yep, that's it. Okay,
- 45:02Speaker 4: So that's uh. I mean, there's some more there, but
- 45:05Speaker 4: it's not of no consequence here. Ultimately she loses her license. Anyway,
- 45:10Speaker 4: that's the double whammy there. She's not only in jail,
- 45:12Speaker 4: but she gets divorced and she loses her law license,
- 45:17Speaker 4: I mean her medical license, I mean her nursing license.
- 45:20Speaker 4: You know it's too late, but I can't talk straight.
- 45:23Speaker 4: All right, here's the last one we're gonna talk about.
- 45:25Speaker 4: This guy, crazy dude from a Jersey goes to the
- 45:29Speaker 4: city to eat something and ends up wilding out. I'm
- 45:34Speaker 4: guessing that he was drunk to begin with, because from
- 45:38Speaker 4: the surveillance video that they put on the uh on
- 45:41Speaker 4: the oh there goes that. Don't have that one? Oh,
- 45:44Speaker 4: what a great story, this one is. Hold on here,
- 45:47Speaker 4: let's see if I can find that. Yeah, this is
- 45:49Speaker 4: pretty good. So this guy dresses up like his mom
- 45:54Speaker 4: in order to get her pension. Yep, wild check this out. Australia.
- 46:01Speaker 7: An Italian man who's dressed up as his dead mother
- 46:03Speaker 7: to keep collecting her pension payments. In what's been called
- 46:06Speaker 7: the Missus Doubtfire scam. The fifty six year old unnamed
- 46:10Speaker 7: man got away with the fort for three years by
- 46:13Speaker 7: hiding the deceased body of his mother inside his family home.
- 46:16Speaker 7: The unemployed nurse went very method with his disguise, donning
- 46:20Speaker 7: a skirt, a cane, makeup, and even his mother's jewelry
- 46:24Speaker 7: to keep himself hidden. Mister doubtfire pocketed around ninety thousand
- 46:28Speaker 7: dollars a year thanks to his mother's pension and property assets.
- 46:32Speaker 7: It wasn't until an employee realized that his elderly customer
- 46:36Speaker 7: had a bizarrely large neck, a deep voice, and didn't
- 46:40Speaker 7: look at all like an eighty two year old woman
- 46:42Speaker 7: that any suspicion was raised. Police were notified and confronted
- 46:46Speaker 7: the man, and when they asked to search his home,
- 46:49Speaker 7: the man allegedly just sighed and said go ahead, leading
- 46:52Speaker 7: police to find his mother's mummified corpse. He's been charged
- 46:55Speaker 7: with the illegal concealment of a body and benetvertraud.
- 46:59Speaker 6: Wow.
- 47:00Speaker 4: Wow, that's wild, right. This guy never buried his mom
- 47:05Speaker 4: just to keep cashing in on her check. This guy's nuts.
- 47:09Speaker 4: He's also a nurse, an unemployed one, thankfully unemployed.
- 47:14Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 47:15Speaker 4: I wish I could say, let me know if you've
- 47:18Speaker 4: ever mummified a corpse to cash in pension shacks, give
- 47:21Speaker 4: you a call. Eight seven seven Felvedst one, but I
- 47:24Speaker 4: don't think I'm going to get much action on that.
- 47:26Speaker 4: I really don't. Now if you know somebody, if you
- 47:28Speaker 4: had a neighbor that did that, or even something even
- 47:30Speaker 4: remotely close, I'm happy to do it. Working on tracking
- 47:33Speaker 4: down I was great to hear. Let me back up
- 47:36Speaker 4: a little bit. It was great to hear from some
- 47:38Speaker 4: of our regulars that are called in, you know, in
- 47:41Speaker 4: the last couple of days and last week. But I
- 47:44Speaker 4: still have yet to hear from Gil from Manila, Philippines,
- 47:47Speaker 4: or as we know him, the Gilla from Manila. So
- 47:51Speaker 4: for those of you that have a beat on him,
- 47:54Speaker 4: let him know I'm waiting to have that talk. Anyway,
- 47:58Speaker 4: this is the kind of crazy that's going on right now.
- 48:02Speaker 4: You didn't get to see the video that I just saw.
- 48:04Speaker 4: That guy did look a lot like his mother. She
- 48:07Speaker 4: you know, didn't look like a man, but neither did he.
- 48:11Speaker 4: He had this wig on that looked a lot like
- 48:13Speaker 4: her hairstyle. And I'm surprised he got caught, honestly. I mean,
- 48:19Speaker 4: women do not get prettier typically as they get older,
- 48:23Speaker 4: they you know, they age, and he looked like an
- 48:27Speaker 4: old lady. He really did, So I don't know, I
- 48:30Speaker 4: guess they said he didn't look eighty something, and that's
- 48:33Speaker 4: probably true. And the pictures that they're showing of the mother,
- 48:35Speaker 4: though she didn't look eating something there either. You know,
- 48:37Speaker 4: she still had mostly black hair, even if she was
- 48:40Speaker 4: dying it, she didn't have that many wrinkles. So and
- 48:43Speaker 4: I'm not saying him saying the real mother from the
- 48:45Speaker 4: image that they showed. So from the image they showed,
- 48:48Speaker 4: looked a lot like the sun. All Right, that's all
- 48:52Speaker 4: I've got as La Brosima. Take care, good night, and
- 48:55Speaker 4: God bless you America. If you're a teacher, do not
- 48:57Speaker 4: cross the line. If you are an American, make sure
- 49:01Speaker 4: you are ready to be vigilant and informed and ready
- 49:07Speaker 4: to rock and roll because things are getting wild. We're
- 49:09Speaker 4: gonna bring you up to speed on what's going on
- 49:11Speaker 4: in Minnesota that's coming up on Monday, as well as
- 49:17Speaker 4: everything else. I mean, it's Friday evening. You're gonna hear
- 49:20Speaker 4: a ton of things on Saturday on Sunday, plus all
- 49:24Speaker 4: the regular news of the day, not to mention the weekend.
- 49:27Speaker 4: So we're gonna unpack everything on Monday. I might do
- 49:30Speaker 4: a breaking news show if there is something to discuss
- 49:34Speaker 4: over the weekend. Like last weekend, there was a lot.
- 49:37Speaker 4: That's why I had to do a little addendum on
- 49:38Speaker 4: last Friday's show to add in some Saturday stuff. So
- 49:43Speaker 4: if that happens, I will do that as well, because
- 49:46Speaker 4: you know, the news is only good when it's new, right,
- 49:49Speaker 4: when it gets a little too old, it's like, oh boy,
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- 50:44Speaker 4: my reports now don't show me which states I do well,
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- 50:55Speaker 4: Apparently it's caught the attention of Venezuelans as Venezuela is
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- 51:51Speaker 4: they don't. I get it. There are some of the
- 51:52Speaker 4: ads that get inserted, you know, through our third party
- 51:54Speaker 4: partners and whatnot. Sometimes they're not good. I was listening
- 51:57Speaker 4: to one the other day and I had two back
- 51:59Speaker 4: to back ads for cannabis. I don't use cannabis, not
- 52:03Speaker 4: even like on the weekends, so you know, as far
- 52:07Speaker 4: as I go is a little Malbick red wine from
- 52:10Speaker 4: Argentina and the occasional whiskey. But that's it. But my
- 52:15Speaker 4: point is, it's not that I'm a goodie two shoes.
- 52:17Speaker 4: The point I'm making here is don't try and sell
- 52:20Speaker 4: me a drill. If you know I'm drinking Malbick, right,
- 52:22Speaker 4: I hire a guy with a drill. That's my point.
- 52:25Speaker 4: You know, we want to get you the most relevant
- 52:27Speaker 4: things that you can actually benefit from, and putting marijuana
- 52:31Speaker 4: in my feed isn't really going to help me buy
- 52:34Speaker 4: your marijuana because it's not something I'm on the market
- 52:36Speaker 4: for So I get it. The advertising model is not perfect,
- 52:40Speaker 4: but it beats one more subscription, right, That's what I say. Anyway,
- 52:46Speaker 4: Thank you for that again. Subscribe on Rumble dot com.
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