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Democrats Losing Votes, Drones, Dissing Parents · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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  Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez powered by politicweek dot.
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  Speaker 2: Com and Rich Valdees is with US.
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  Speaker 3: Former Christian Administration official.
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  Speaker 4: You work at Chris Christie in fullisleach a lot of
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  Speaker 4: public service stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Rich Valdez calumnist now with the Washington Times.
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  Speaker 2: This is America, Richiev.
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  Speaker 5: You're on the air with the Nation of the Nation
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  Speaker 5: with America.
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  Speaker 2: With your host, Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 5: What's up America? I am Rich Valdes Valdez with an
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  Speaker 5: Welcome to the Thursday night edition of our program. It's
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  Speaker 5: and sound off with your thoughts on these topics that
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  Speaker 5: we're discussing. Stuff we talked about yesterday, this stuff we'll
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  Speaker 5: talk about today, the stuff that we'll be talking about
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  Speaker 5: for a long time, right because we talk about a
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  Speaker 5: lot of the interesting topics that are going on right now.
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  Speaker 5: Plus you know, every now and again an interesting interview
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  Speaker 5: to keep you up to speed on what's going on
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  Speaker 5: in real life. Right while people are out there making
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  Speaker 5: their lives and trying to earn a living, there's people
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  Speaker 5: like me that are you know, plugged into the news
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  Speaker 5: that hear what's going on. I know a few people,
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  Speaker 5: a few movers, a few shakers, and I'm able to
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  Speaker 5: bring you the scoop and try to, you know, sort
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  Speaker 5: out some of the noise. So I want to get
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  Speaker 5: into a little bit of good news that got me smiling,
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  Speaker 5: like I'm on a chincho raio, you know, like going
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  Speaker 5: from Kiosk to Kiosk in Puerto Rico buying free tures,
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  Speaker 5: you know, fried delicacies. President Trump dropped a big one.
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  Speaker 5: He says he's going to be expanding retirement savings accounts
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  Speaker 5: for working Americans. That announcement supposed to come tomorrow who
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  Speaker 5: don't particularly like four oh one K accounts or at
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  Speaker 5: least don't have one through their job. This is going
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  Speaker 5: to be coming out tomorrow. I will bring you the
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  Speaker 5: scoop on that as we get it. But I think
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  Speaker 5: This is a very big deal, a very big deal
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  Speaker 5: for Americans to have a four oh one K that
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  Speaker 5: is available to them. And again, anybody can get their
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  Speaker 5: own four to one K right just you know, call
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  Speaker 5: your financial advisor and you can get one. But one
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  Speaker 5: that is I think integrated with the government where it
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  Speaker 5: can be easily used and easily travel with you. Kind
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  Speaker 5: of almost like a addition or an addendum, if you will,
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  Speaker 5: to Social Security. I think is a big plus because
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  Speaker 5: I think a lot of people rely on Social Security,
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  Speaker 5: at least people older than me. I don't know that
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  Speaker 5: people my age or younger even believe that Social Security
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  Speaker 5: will be solvent. I don't know, say when we become
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  Speaker 5: old enough to collect it, we'll see. The economy is
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  Speaker 5: an interesting thing, and right now all numbers indicate that
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  Speaker 5: Social Security can't pay for itself. So anyway, we'll get
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  Speaker 5: into that maybe tomorrow. I just wanted to put that
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  Speaker 5: out there because there's a number of things that are
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  Speaker 5: happening right One of the big thing that's going on
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  Speaker 5: as President Trump winning more black votes. That's a big thing.
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  Speaker 5: I'll get into that in a second. You also have
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  Speaker 5: open foont America. We're going to be getting to your
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  Speaker 5: calls sooner rather than later. That's going to happen. In
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  Speaker 5: about thirty five minutes, the United States Senate voted to
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  Speaker 5: extend the FIS approval that's on the books, So that's
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  Speaker 5: an interesting thing. The rapper Ray j A was on
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  Speaker 5: a podcast and made a crazy revelation. I don't even
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  Speaker 5: know if I can cover it tactfully on this program,
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  Speaker 5: because you know, it's a pretty wide audience and I
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  Speaker 5: don't want to offend some people, and some of it's
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  Speaker 5: a little raunchy. And this singer Amy Grant had a
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  Speaker 5: little bit of an update as well, as you know,
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  Speaker 5: she had a traumatic brain injury. So I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: get into some of that stuff a little bit later,
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  Speaker 5: but I want to talk about some of these wins
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  Speaker 5: I think that the country is having, and speaking of winning,
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  Speaker 5: the numbers don't lie right. The Republican Party is making
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  Speaker 5: genuine inroads with black voters. Now, I'm not saying that
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  Speaker 5: it's becoming the party of Black Americans, but I'm saying
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  Speaker 5: that it's getting more and more feeling more and more
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  Speaker 5: of them away from the Democrat Party, which historically had
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  Speaker 5: like a ninety percent monopoly on black votes. Guess what,
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  Speaker 5: it's not the same anymore. Poles and analysts are showing
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  Speaker 5: different gains that we haven't seen in probably close to
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  Speaker 5: a generation. People. We're noticing the results a lot more
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  Speaker 5: than they're noticing the rhetoric that's out there. And I
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  Speaker 5: think that's a beautiful thing. A lot of people choosing freedom, opportunity,
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  Speaker 5: common sense. Really doesn't matter where you come from, right
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  Speaker 5: when you're looking at those things, that's part of the
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  Speaker 5: American story. It's part of building your own American dream.
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  Speaker 5: And that's something we're going to get into. Because the
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  Speaker 5: data analyst, the chief data analyst at CNN, he compiled
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  Speaker 5: some data on President Trump's involvement in securing more black
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  Speaker 5: voters over to the Republican side. And again, contrary to
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  Speaker 5: what people think, right, I get texts all the time
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  Speaker 5: telling me if people allow Trump because of Ice, he's
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  Speaker 5: losing all these Hispanics. And granted, I think there are
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  Speaker 5: a number of Hispanics that jump ship, but I don't
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  Speaker 5: know if it's the majority. I think most people outside
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  Speaker 5: of their race, but because of their race, Right, I'm
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  Speaker 5: gonna say it this way, Right, I don't vote for
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  Speaker 5: Trump because I'm Puerto Rican I would say, because I'm
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  Speaker 5: Puerto Rican and there are certain values that are inculcated
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  Speaker 5: into our culture, like law and order, doing the right thing,
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  Speaker 5: having a high degree of reliance on faith. Right. I
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  Speaker 5: think some of these things create a way people live,
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  Speaker 5: a way that people see the world, and when you
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  Speaker 5: are that person, the values that you possess tend to
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  Speaker 5: align with the policies that El Trompito did. All this
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  Speaker 5: Magnus the forty fifth president of these United States, as
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  Speaker 5: well as the forty seventh. It is bringing forward right.
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  Speaker 5: These are just things that make sense for these people
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  Speaker 5: based on how they look at the world and how
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  Speaker 5: they live their lives. It has nothing to do with
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  Speaker 5: how he came up as a billionaire playboy. It has
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  Speaker 5: nothing to do with Stormy day Kiels. That has nothing
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  Speaker 5: to do with looking at him as a spiritual advisor.
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  Speaker 5: As many people always say, how could you follow a
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  Speaker 5: man that's been divorced, How could you follow a man
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  Speaker 5: that was embroiled in this controversy, It's really if you're
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  Speaker 5: following the man, then you're following where he's going. And
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  Speaker 5: I like where he's going. I may not like where
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  Speaker 5: he's been, but I definitely like where he's going now.
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  Speaker 5: I want to switch over to the trade front, because
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  Speaker 5: on trade, President Trump is talking about hitting back at
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  Speaker 5: the European Union. He's talking about potential tariffs, he's talking
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  Speaker 5: about troop withdrawals, he's talking about all sorts of things.
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  Speaker 5: Because the NATO allies in the European Union did not
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  Speaker 5: support our efforts in Iran, which are largely ended. I
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  Speaker 5: would say, you know, right now, it's more of a
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  Speaker 5: peacekeeping thing than anything with the blockade on Iran to
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  Speaker 5: keep you know, strangling them economically. And again we could
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  Speaker 5: probably spend a whole segment on that too. But if
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  Speaker 5: tariffs come into play, I think tariffs are very effective,
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  Speaker 5: especially when you strategically this way. The troop withdrawals I
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  Speaker 5: think might be a little bit more of a challenge.
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  Speaker 5: And I say that just to say the United States
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  Speaker 5: has a lot of the power it has because of
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  Speaker 5: its ubiquitousness. And by that I mean if you have
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  Speaker 5: the ability to be in all places at all times
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  Speaker 5: and fight over here and fight over there, and fight
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  Speaker 5: over here, and fight over there and fight over there too,
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  Speaker 5: it lets other armies know, Hey, look, many these guys
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  Speaker 5: are extremely well armed. They're extremely well trained. They have
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  Speaker 5: a lot of experience in fighting. I think there is
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  Speaker 5: no better war fighter than the United States. We've been
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  Speaker 5: in all the wars, and we win them, you know,
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  Speaker 5: largely speaking, in large part, I should say so. I
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  Speaker 5: say all that to say, when you have China that's
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  Speaker 5: building a military that isn't quite there yet, it gives
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  Speaker 5: them pause. I would suspect that it gives them pause
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  Speaker 5: that they're building. But they know. You don't take a
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  Speaker 5: shot of any army, of all armies the United States
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  Speaker 5: and think that that's just going to go away or
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  Speaker 5: go unnoticed. So I feel like a troop withdrawal might
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  Speaker 5: weaken our position. I understand these strategic value of negotiating
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  Speaker 5: this way, saying, oh, so you think I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: give you security for free, Oh listen, if you're not
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  Speaker 5: paying for it, I'm pulling our troops out. Good luck.
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  Speaker 5: The problem with that strategy, at least from my opinion,
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  Speaker 5: and it could be ill advised, it could be ill informed,
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  Speaker 5: it might be naive, is that that opens the door
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  Speaker 5: for China or Russia or any other large military operator
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  Speaker 5: to say, look, the Americans left you high and dry.
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  Speaker 5: We have an interest in coming in and taking over
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  Speaker 5: this security for you will do it for less money,
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  Speaker 5: or we'll do it for free because we have an
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  Speaker 5: interest in X, Y and Z happening, or we want
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  Speaker 5: to make sure this happens in this area and we
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  Speaker 5: have you know, whatever their interests be, if in reality
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  Speaker 5: their interest is just to supplant and replace the United
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  Speaker 5: States as number one, and I think that's why saying,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I'll pull my troops out. Maybe I'll pull
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  Speaker 5: my troops out of your base, but I'll put them
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  Speaker 5: on an aircraft carrier in you know, international waters right
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  Speaker 5: off your coast. Maybe that's better, right. And again, I
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  Speaker 5: don't know what Trump is planning. I just know he's
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  Speaker 5: made some comments about we'll see, we'll see, and I
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  Speaker 5: know he's negotiating, But I'm just saying I don't want
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  Speaker 5: to be in a situation where we open up a vacuum,
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  Speaker 5: and I don't think he will per se. But I
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  Speaker 5: am saying that, you know, based on what I'm hearing,
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  Speaker 5: that could be a you know, a question of an
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  Speaker 5: area of concern I should say, at least for me,
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  Speaker 5: So we'll keep our eyes open on that front as well.
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  Speaker 5: What happens with the European Union and all these guys
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  Speaker 5: that are you know, Oh we're with you, Oh we're
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  Speaker 5: not with you. Oh, once there's no more fighting going on. Hey,
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  Speaker 5: we'll send some mind sweepers if you need them, you
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  Speaker 5: know that type of stuff like we saw from the
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  Speaker 5: UK and from France. Then of course we've got Open
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  Speaker 5: Phone America. Open Phone America's coming up in about thirty
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  Speaker 5: five minutes from now, so make sure you're locked into
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  Speaker 5: this and you're not going anywhere. Plus, we've got our
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  Speaker 5: to participate in that. You'll get some additional information on that.
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  Speaker 5: I'll let you know where to go at the end
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  Speaker 5: of the program for that. That's coming out real soon.
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  Speaker 5: And let me see, there was one more thing I
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  Speaker 5: wanted to talk about here. Yeah, but it is escaping me.
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  Speaker 5: Let's see what we'll see what's going on. There's, like
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  Speaker 5: I said, plenty to discuss, both on the pop culture front,
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  Speaker 5: on the political front, on the major headlines front, and
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  Speaker 5: I'm here to talk about it all. So keep it right here.
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  Speaker 5: It's Rich Valdes coming right back.
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  Speaker 2: This is America.
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  Speaker 6: This is America, but English or primal nomrodos Bara richveld
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  Speaker 6: is e s dos America Awona.
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  Speaker 5: All right, he goes, welcome back, Pamelia. I appreciate you
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  Speaker 5: guys being here, and I'm here to to always to
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  Speaker 5: anger to irk the it's America speak English crowd. Anyway,
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  Speaker 5: I'd just like to tease you anyway. I want to
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  Speaker 5: get into that stuff we were just talking about, right,
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  Speaker 5: CNN data analyst Harry Enton. Right, he's got some new
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  Speaker 5: information with respect to Trump versus Trump. How much has
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  Speaker 5: Trump improved over Trump one point zero in this two
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  Speaker 5: point zero term? And you know, part of what I
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  Speaker 5: think is really cool with Trump's second term is that
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  Speaker 5: it's not consecutive, so there was time in between to
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  Speaker 5: really show a difference that you really couldn't see in
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  Speaker 5: in other two term presidents that are back back. It is,
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  Speaker 5: in my opinion, it's very different because there were policies
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  Speaker 5: in between that are drastically going to affect how people
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  Speaker 5: see things. Right. Plus, you're talking about four entire years later,
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  Speaker 5: so Trump won versus Trump two. You're talking about it
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  Speaker 5: could be a span of eight years difference depending on
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  Speaker 5: when you're measuring, And that to me is priceless information.
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  Speaker 5: And Harry Enton, like I said the chief data information
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  Speaker 5: analyst at CNN, of all places, the fake newspeople, as
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  Speaker 5: President Trump likes to call him. He's got this very
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  Speaker 5: revealing presentation that he did on the news last night,
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  Speaker 5: and I thought this was pretty interesting. Listen to this.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think what we're seeing right now in the
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  Speaker 7: numbers is President Trump and the Republican Party are chipping
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  Speaker 7: away at the long term advantage that Democrats have had
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  Speaker 7: with black voters, with African Americans.
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  Speaker 2: You can see it right here.
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  Speaker 7: Look Trump's approval among African Americans at this point in
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  Speaker 7: term one, he was a twelve percent. You know, he's
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  Speaker 7: been losing ground with a lot of it.
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  Speaker 5: He's gaining He's gaining.
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  Speaker 7: Ground with African Americans. He's up to sixteen percent at
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  Speaker 7: this point. And you say, this isn't that big of
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  Speaker 7: a shift, but I will tell you Republicans absolutely love
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  Speaker 7: this shift that's going on because Democrats have had such
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  Speaker 7: a long term advantage. The fact that he's actually gaining
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  Speaker 7: ground versus where he was in term number one, this
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  Speaker 7: has major implications for elections down the line because Democrats,
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  Speaker 7: especially in a lot of these type races. You talk
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  Speaker 7: about places like Georgia, right down on the South. You
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  Speaker 7: see this type of movement for Trump actually gaining ground.
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  Speaker 7: This could have major ramifications and help put Republicans over
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  Speaker 7: the top and a number of Southern places in the
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  Speaker 7: midterm elections.
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  Speaker 8: Do you see this as part of a bigger trend?
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  Speaker 7: I see this as absolutely part of a bigger trend.
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  Speaker 7: Donald Trump's Republican Party is absolutely gaining ground. Not just
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  Speaker 7: him gaining in terms of his approval rating, but look
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  Speaker 7: at the party. I d margin Kate, because this to
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  Speaker 7: me was absolutely stunning.
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  Speaker 5: Look at this party. Hang on, harryet and hold on now.
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  Speaker 5: I want to again emphasize what I just said, he's
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  Speaker 5: very excited about these numbers, because these are again eight
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  Speaker 5: years apart. This is not just from four years ago
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  Speaker 5: from the previous term. This is or even last year,
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  Speaker 5: because you know, if they're back to back, you could
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  Speaker 5: say last year at this time. This is from this
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  Speaker 5: same time in the previous term, which makes this eight
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  Speaker 5: years ago. I think it's remarkable to show that the
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  Speaker 5: president has had long standing gains the Republican Party gaining
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  Speaker 5: Black American voters and Democrats losing Black American voters over
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  Speaker 5: eight years. That's something I don't know fifteen years ago.
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  Speaker 5: If somebody were to tell you Democrats are going to
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  Speaker 5: lose black voters, you'd be laughed out of town because
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  Speaker 5: they had a ninety percent turnout with black voters. Go ahead,
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  Speaker 5: play the Harry Enton tape.
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  Speaker 7: Ad margin among African Americans. At this point and Trump
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  Speaker 7: term number one, Democrats had a sixty three point advantage.
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  Speaker 7: That is absolutely fall and look at where it is now,
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  Speaker 7: a double digit shift away. Democrats, of course still have
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  Speaker 7: the advantage, but it's a twelve point shift to the
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  Speaker 7: report publican party. And I look back through GALLUS records
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  Speaker 7: they sent me their records, and this, in fact lead
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  Speaker 7: that Democrats have is actually smaller than any lead from
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  Speaker 7: two thousand and six to twenty twenty one. So Democrats
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  Speaker 7: all but again we're talking about chipping away. Republicans are
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  Speaker 7: chipping away at this long term advantage that Democrats have
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  Speaker 7: had among African Americans. We see it in terms of
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  Speaker 7: Trump's approval rating, and we even see it to a
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  Speaker 7: wider degree among the party I D margin, where all
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  Speaker 7: of a sudden, there are a number of African Americans
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  Speaker 7: who are walking away from the Democratic Party and a
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  Speaker 7: number of them who are walking into the Republican tent.
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  Speaker 9: That is very interesting looking at that pass gallop information.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, what does this mean for the race for control
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  Speaker 8: of Congress?
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  Speaker 7: Okay, so you see this right here, you see this
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  Speaker 7: fifty one point advantage that Democrats have significantly less than
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  Speaker 7: you see that sixty three point advantage. And what we
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  Speaker 7: will note was back in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 5: It's literally a dozen points less. That's a huge double
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  Speaker 5: digit game. I can't believe that there's not more news
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  Speaker 5: on this.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 7: Donald Trump put in a historically long performance. Among African Americans,
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  Speaker 7: Democrats performed the worse than the generation. Have they gained
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  Speaker 7: any of that coalition back from where they fell down
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  Speaker 7: to in twenty twenty four? But take a look here, Okay,
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  Speaker 7: choice for election among African Americans. Kamala Harris was leading
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  Speaker 7: amongst that group in the pre election polling by sixty
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  Speaker 7: three points. Are Democrats gaining back any of background? Uh huh,
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  Speaker 7: it's a sixty two point advantage. Now, Republicans are holding
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  Speaker 7: on to the gains that they made among African Americans
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  Speaker 7: in twenty twenty four. Republicans are gaining among African Americans.
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  Speaker 7: They are chipping away at that long term advantage that
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  Speaker 7: Donald Trump led Republican Party as making gains among African
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  Speaker 7: Americans that we simply putd have not seen the Republican
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  Speaker 7: Party make in a generation.
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  Speaker 9: Fascinating.
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  Speaker 8: Good to see her.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks so much.
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  Speaker 5: You can hear it in her voice. She's so excited. Okay, Harry,
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  Speaker 5: thanks man, Get out of here, loser. I'm surprised they
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  Speaker 5: didn't boot him out of town on CNN for talking
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  Speaker 5: about this, right, because this is the ultimate blow to
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  Speaker 5: the gut, the ultimate kicking the nuts. This is it
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  Speaker 5: right that you're significantly depleting the voting base of the
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: Democrat Party. There's no other way to look at it. Right.
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: You can't say that these are voters that are simply
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: just uninterested with Harris, They're uninterested in turning out for elections.
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: They're actually moving over to the other column. That's a
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: big deal, especially in an election year where everybody thinks
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: we're going to lose our shirts. And again, I ask me,
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: on which day of the week I might be one
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: of those that says, hey, we're losing our shirts. There's
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: a lot riding here, but we have to stay focused
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: on our message here. And the message today is very
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: different than the message that we had six months ago. Right,
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: six months ago, it was the Gestapo. It was men
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: in masks, it was ices in your streets and this
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: and that and blah blah blah, and it was turning
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: off Hispanics left and right. And now you don't hear
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: about that. Why you get the firing, reassignment of Secretary
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: Christy Nome. Everybody's made peace with the ice stuff, right
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: for the most part. You don't see too much of
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: that going on anymore. So this is the media world.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: In the media world, if those things go away today,
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: by tomorrow, at least by next week, that's it. It's
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: a thing of complete past. So now this news story
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: here Trump gaining with African Americans. I think he's going
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: to continue to gain with African Americans for the same
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: reason he always did. Trump does very well for African Americans.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: He does well with them. He does well for them.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: Every time there is a prison reform bill, every time
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: there is an openness to listening to people that are incarcerated,
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: Trump is leading the way, whether it's working with Kim Kardashian,
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: working with Van Jones, working with Alice Johnson, the czar
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: that's in charge of pardons. All those things lead to
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: a portion of the population doing that. But then there's
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: a significant portion of African Americans that are church goers
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: and they like the president's policy on a lot of
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: conservative Christian stances, right, So I think Trump is doing
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: well on those. Then there's the economic policy. I think
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: there's a lot of people that get it right. They
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: understand that we've given our votes for decades upon decades
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: to the Democrat Party, and I'm talking about African Americans,
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: and they haven't seen the progress or even the egalitarianism
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: that they thought that they were aiming for. Right. They
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: just want to be on an equal footing. And they've
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: got people in their face yelling at Hi Kamala Harris
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: and others saying that you know this is Joe Biden said,
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: I're going to put you back and change man. I
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: got hair relegs right, And none of it was true.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: And there is a presupposition if you're a Democrat and
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: you're telling your voting base, hey, the Republicans are taking
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: away democracy. They're going to destroy everything. And you say,
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: Trump got me no tax on tips, no tax on overtime,
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: he's working on, no tax on social Security. He went
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: to put it in Congress. Congress said, you can't do
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: a full no tax on this, but we can do
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: up to thirty three percent on this and that. And
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: those people today are getting their refunds, those that are
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: African American, those that are tip workers, those that benefited
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: from these particular policies. Now, of course, the naysayers are
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: gonna say, all but rich. That's there's a small portion
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: of people. And with the cost of living going up
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: by twenty percent, who cares if you save money on
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: your taxes. I'll tell you who cares. The guy that's
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: getting the money back on his taxes, the woman that's
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: getting her money back on her taxes. The woman that
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: wanted to get some sort of cosmetic surgery and it's
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: five or eight thousand dollars and she wants to get
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: that done, and she's getting it as soon as she
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: gets her tax on tips back. The guy that wants
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: to buy a new motorcycle, the mom that wants a
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: vacation home, the dad that wants to take his family
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: to Disney, all these things that you know you need
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: three four, five k four people are doing those things now,
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: why because of Trump's policies. But yet they're being told,
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: you gotta hate Trump, you gotta hate Trump. And here's
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: the big headline. People aren't stupid. The Democrats and the
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: left in particular within the media, the left, within academia,
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: the left anywhere. They presume that they're going to tell
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: you something that is rhetorically appealing and that you are
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: going to just buy at hook line and sinker without
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: pushing back, without actually thinking about it. They just want
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: you to not believe your lying eyes. Believe what I
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: tell you, and guess what, Try that in the streets.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: Try that in the hood. I've been in some hoods
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: throughout my career, and I can tell you people in
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: the hood, you can say what you want. It's hard
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: to get over on somebody in the hood. They see
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: it coming a mile away. Why, because of street life.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: With street life comes streets smarts. People know what it's
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: like to get had to get taken when you're trying
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: to get over, people can smell it coming a mile away.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: So don't discount African American voters because maybe you think
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: that they are not as politically astute. They are not stupid.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: They're tired of getting taken advance and they like to
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: keep their money, they like to work, they want to
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: own homes. I mean, these are just facts. Anybody that
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: presumes otherwise, I would say, is a mistake and then
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: be potentially looking at things the wrong way. Dare I
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: say bigoted? Right? The fact that a white guy, a
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: black guy, an Asian guy, Hispanic guy, you think that
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: any one of those people are They might have different
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: variations of the American dream, but they're not by any
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: means thinking the American dream is something that they're not
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: interested in. Some might think they're not available to it, right,
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: that they're not privy for that. Some might think that
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: that's for white people, right. And you've got Hispanics and
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: blacks out there. I know that growing up. I knew
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: that that they would say, no, that's not for me,
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: that's for white people. That's part of this problematic culture.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: But when you have the white guy with the money,
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: who's been praised by Snoop Dogg in fifty cent and
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: all these people for decades upon decade, Donald Trump, who
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: has always been a staple in hip hop culture, when
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: he's out there actually saying these things, doing these things,
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: creating the policies, people are going to say, hold on
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: a second, this guy ain't so bad. These people are
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: trying to get over on me. And that's why logic
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: over emotion always wins, and logic is always appealing for women.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Women tend to be way more emotional than men. This
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: is why they're good nurturers. And that's why I think
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: you see it happening with black women voters, Hispanic women voters,
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: whereas men are going in the other direction. It's not
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: because of the particular issues. It's really because these debates
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: that we're forming are logic versus emotion, and some people,
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: you know, you could tell somebody, let's just use the
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: abortion as example. You could make a lot of logical
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: arguments for abortion. But if you're arguing with a woman
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: and her principal argument is I am not going to
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: allow a man that cannot birth a child to tell
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: me what to do, you are never going to break
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: through the person. They don't care about the facts, they
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: don't care about the child being dead, they don't care
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: about any of it. They care about themselves, They care
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: about their genitalia, they care about their ability to carry
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: a child, and you have been completely discounted from having
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: an opinion. This is not logical right. Clearly, it's based
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: on emotion. It's based on emotion and biology, and that's
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: going to work for them every single time. So I
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: would say, don't ever waste your time, right. I saw
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: a very funny Instagram reel the other day by a
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: guy and his wife is a white guy with a
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: Latina wife, and he he says or the caption on
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: the video is something like the secret to keeping a
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: Happy Home. And she comes to him and she's like, hey,
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: I want to know why whenever we have a problem,
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: you seem to like never care. You're always so calm,
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: so cool, so collected. What's up with that? And he's says, well,
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: you know, I just think it's important that we take
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: it easy, as no need to overreact. And she's like,
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: but you know, these issues we're talking about are really important,
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: and he's like, look, I just believe that if I say, hey, listen,
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: you're right, you'll leave me alone. And she goes, well,
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: you know, you know what, I think that you're cheapening
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: our conversation. I think that you are not valuing my
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: opinion and you're just simply dismissing me. And he puts
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: a puzzled look on his face, and he puts his
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: hand on his chin as if he's thinking deep thought,
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: and he says, hmm, I didn't see it that way,
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: you know what, I think you're right. She smiled and
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: she walked away, and then he smiled and he made
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: his point that if you say you're right, you win
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: every time. And I thought that was brilliant. Now, yeah,
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: that probably works in marriages to some degree, until you
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: get in trouble for saying, you know, yeah, you're right, honey,
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: you're right. But the point was when you can't win
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: an argument based on fact, when you're fighting an emotional battle,
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: you can't change people's emotions with your logic. Sometimes you can.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: And I saw some great examples of that over the
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: weekend and my Instagram scrolling my Twitter also known as
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: X scrolling. You see if you know some of these
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: men on the street interviews that people do, and it's
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: like wow, when they're faced with you know, whether it's
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: the quote, they give you a quote and they go,
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: can you believe that the president said this? And they'll
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: give you like a quote from Obama or a quote
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: from Biden, and then at the end they'll go, you
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: know that was Biden or that was Obama who said that, right,
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: and they'll go no way right, And then people are
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: mind blown. Some people are mind blown again. Most of
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: them are revert back to ego. I have to win.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: I don't care what you say. I am doubling down
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: on my position and I'm unavailable to receive any objectivity
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: on this. People like that you don't deal with, right.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: Those are the people that hear my show and want
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: to call in. And don't they just yell at the radio.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: They yell at their whatever they're listening on their Amazon
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: Alexa or their cell phone or their tablet or however
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: they listen to their podcasts. Why because they know that
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: they want to be married to their perspective. I don't
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: necessarily want to be married to my perspective. I some
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: of my deeply held positions are because I believe in them.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: I think that they're right. They coincide with what I
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: stand for and I believe. But if I'm faced with
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: facts that open my eyes to something, I'll look at
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: every side of the issue that I can and then
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: look at the greater context of you know, for example,
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: just to be extreme, if somebody were to come and say, look,
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: the real benefit for murder being decriminalized is that we
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: would save so much money on just being able to
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: kill the people we think don't belong in society, whether
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: they are let's see, unwelcomed individuals or people that commit
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: certain crimes. Why waste the public taxpayer dollars on courts
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: and on jail time and on this. Let's just you know,
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: get John Q public to go ahead and put him
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: out of his misery. And if murder was just decriminalized,
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: then you know, I think we'd probably have a safer society.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: And blah blah blah. Right, somebody could try to make
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: an argument like that, and I would say, wow, you know,
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: you sound so persuasive in what you're saying. But I'd
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: have to look at the grand scheme of things. What
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: is my bottom line view of murder? And why do
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: I have that view? And if it goes back to
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: one of the ten commandments now shout not murder, then
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: I say, okay, well, then this is obviously not rendering
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: unto Caesar what is Caesar's because at first I have
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: to render unto God what is God's? And this clearly
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: is in contravention of what I believe my own internal Constitution,
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: so I can't subscribe to that, and I have to
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: push back on the basis of what I truly believe.
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: And that's very different than saying, look, I've listened to
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: the one side of the argument, and you know, makes sense,
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: and then they give you the other side and it
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: makes sense. But you don't have a position on anything
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: because you're just listening to both sides of the rhetoric.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: Then you end up in limbo. And this is why
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: I always end this program saying you got to stand
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: for something, because if you stand for nothing, you'll fall
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: for anything. And that's true. If you don't know what
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: you believe about murder, then you'll sit there listening to
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: both sides of it saying, ah, you not really don't know.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: I never put so much thought into it. And guess what,
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: there's at least a third to a majority of our
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: population that lives that way. They are so busy just
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: trying to survive, trying to make it, trying to climb
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: the corporate ladder, provide for their families, go on better vacations,
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: have a nicer car, upgrade their home, whatever it is.
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: And I'm not criticizing those things. I'm saying that's a
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: part of life. And many people dedicate a good part
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: of their life to making their lives better. There are
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: there's a group of people. I don't think it's a
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: large group, but a group that I admire nonetheless, of
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: people that dedicate their lives to improving the quality of
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: their life. They don't care where they're doing the you know,
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: if they're going on a better vacation. They just want
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: to make sure they're going on vacation with more and
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: more of their family, spending more time with the people
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: they love.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: So everybody's a different goal or different outlook on life
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: and how they're approaching life. And that's okay. That's what
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: makes us unique as a people. Right. I get to
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: see what you do and go wow, I like those traditions,
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: those are nicer. I get to look at you and
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: go wow, those people are nuts. They only get together
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: once a year, Klang, and you know we criticize them.
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: This is our freedom that we have, But we don't
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: have the freedom to decide what happens to things that
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: exist already, right, And I mean like the Ten Commandments, right,
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: we don't get to rewrite that. You can try, but
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: for many this would be sacrilege for many, This would
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: be just beyond the pale. So I think there are
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: certain things that are non negotiable, and there are other
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: things that are negotiable. Right, Like, somebody might come to
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: me and say, you know, Richie talked about these Trump
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: retirement accounts that he's supposed to announce I think tomorrow.
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: It sounds to me like you're endorsing big government. It
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: sounds to me that you've spent a career saying when
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: the government gets involved in running anything, it makes it worse.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: Then are you being hypocritical or are you just on
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: both sides of the fence here? And I would say,
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: we have not seen a government operator like Trump before.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: Here's an example, the Trump RX program. This is largely
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: beneficial to people and an extremely simple idea. Trump used
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: leverage and negotiation to go to the pharma companies to
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: get the the least amount right, the least favored pricing
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: whatever that's called the lowest price in any country. We
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: get whatever they're paying, we pay, and he tells them
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: that's what you're going to sell it to the Americans for,
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: and you're going to sell it right on this website.
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: So he uses the government to provide an infrastructure Trump
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: rx dot gov. But in actuality, they're just it's free market.
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: They're they're buying the product from the manufacturer. The government
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: involvement is they're telling them, you've got to sell it
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: for the lowest price that you actually sell it for.
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: So we're not telling you. You can say this is
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: a socialist price control, but I would say, if you're
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: already selling it for that price and I'm not forcing
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: you by regulation, I am leveraging by negotiation, sounds like
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: a win. And that's what Trump did, and I think
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: he's doing the same thing with these accounts. He's creating
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: opportunities for Americans to live better lives. And it's not
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: administered by the government, but I'm going to say assisted
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: or facilitated in part by and a website. To me,
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: sounds like a fair compromise on my small government. Big
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: government sucks attitude to say, I get to buy you
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: know what does he call it the fat drug? You know,
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: the fat drug? I cut it the fat drug. I
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: love it when he says that. But these GLP one medications,
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: when you have the GLP one medications, oh zempic, what's
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: what is the other name called Mount jarro zep Bound.
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: We go v all of that. When you have those
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: and you make the announcement to the world that they're
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: going for fifteen hundred bucks, they're going for twelve hundred bucks.
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: Oh boom, you can get it for three hundred or
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: four fifty. You think Americans don't like that when we're
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: the fattest country on the planet, of course they do.
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: And if you go a little bit further, you'll see
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: that these things uniquely affect who minorities. So does it
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: come as a surprise that black voters or Hispanic voters
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: are favoring Trump's policies on things. Of course not, because
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: there's just like just fat white people in West Virginia.
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: There's fat black people, there's fat Hispanic people. There are
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: fat Americans all across this land. And Trump just took
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: a small step, i should say, small action towards a
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: big step. You tell me if that's not government working
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: really well, keep it locked.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: Here's Rich Valdesk. We're coming right back. We're gonna talk
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: a little bit more about the fat drunk, oh, the
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: fat drug, and we're gonna talk a little bit about
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: Ray j Amy Grant open phones, America, and there's some
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: drone stuff in New Jersey, gonna We're about to get
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: grub hub by drone. Don't go anywhere.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: This is America, This is America.
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: President Donald J. Trump, mister President, welcome to the program.
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  Speaker 4: Sir, Well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: I know you very well, and I have I listen,
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: but I have a lot of people that listen and
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: they love your show, and I appreciate it very much.
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: All right, I mean, he goes, Welcome back, Rich valdezk
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: keeping your company tonight Thursday night, and Jersey where I'm
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: at where I lay my head. We have a new
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: drone right Well, first of all, we're going to talk
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: about drones, phones, and hormones Ray Jay's hormones. But I
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: want to start with the drones because Grubhub is unveiling
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: a drone that can fly by itself and deliver your
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: food a lot quicker than a human being. This is
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: worrisome to a lot of people. And I've heard about
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: driverless tractor trailers, believe it or not, those are being
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: tested right now. You've got driverless ride shares out there
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: like Waimo and Uber and all sorts of stuff is
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: going on. I got a lot to talk about on
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: this one, but I want to start with this one.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: This is from News twelve New Jersey. Check this out
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: to order dinner.
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  Speaker 10: Tomorrow, New Jersey's first ever drone food delivery service launches
• 36:26
  Speaker 10: in Somerset County. This is all thanks to a partnership
• 36:29
  Speaker 10: between Grubhub, Wonder and technology company Dexa. Officials say that
• 36:34
  Speaker 10: delivery could take less than ten minutes with no extra cost,
• 36:36
  Speaker 10: but during today's demonstration, strong winds kept the drone grounded
• 36:41
  Speaker 10: if you're looking to order.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: So all right, So if you're looking to order and
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: it's a windy day, like my dad was eight javat
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: the right, it's over for you because you're not going
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: to get it now. People, I understand this is the
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: testing of technology. And listen, when we were a little kids,
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: at least when I was a little kid, I used
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: to watch the Flintstones, and it gave us an idea
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: of what, you know, things might have looked like in
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: prehistoric times, right, getting on the back of the big
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: dinosaur and all that stuff. But there was a competing cartoon, right,
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: or a complimentary cartoon called the Jetsons, And in that cartoon.
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: Everybody had these video phones where they would talk to
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: one another, technology that didn't exist does today We call
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: it FaceTime and video calls and zoom and all that.
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: But they also had flying cars, and now we see
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: drones all over the place. I think this is very exciting,
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: very interesting stuff, and I understand the implications that it
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: causes because it's a shift in the economy. And I'll
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: always think of a I think it was History Channel,
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: but I could be mistaken documentary that I saw many
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: years ago about the iceman and not the killer, the
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: actual guy that delivered blocks of ice into a wooden
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: insulated box called an ice box. If you ever watched
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: the Honeymooners, that was how they kept their food cold, right,
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: And eventually that thing would melt and it was like
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: a tray at the bottom that would collect the water
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: that melted, and then the iceman would bring you another
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: block of ice. In x amount of time. That industry
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: fell by the wayside. With electric refrigeration that became widely
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: available through refrigerators and pretty cool, right, you know, not
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: everybody had one, not everybody could afford one, but little
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: by little, I think everybody has a fridge today, and
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: this is going to be the same way with innovation
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: and technology. Right. Not everybody's going to get their grub hub,
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: door Dash whatever it is, their you know, home food
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: delivery with the ease of a drone. I know, for me,
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't like it. You know, if I have a
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: way that I could keep drones away from my house,
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: I would do it, whether it's my own what we
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: would call it the Valdez Dome, right, there's like the
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: Golden Dome, the Iron Dome, the rich Valdez Dome, something
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: that would you know, this is like a zapper for bugs.
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: I would zap any that gets near my house if
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: I could. And I just don't like it. So of
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: course there's going to be old school people like me
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: that resist this type of thing. But I want to
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: know what you think, right, what is your thought on this,
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: because this is pretty wild stuff and it's interesting to
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: me that we have this technology coming as quickly as
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: it's coming. There's also more drone technology coming available. This
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: is not unman drone, right, this is a drone that's
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: operated by a commercial pilot, but in fact you're able
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: to fly. Now listen to this. If any of your
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: new Yorkers. You know what I'm talking about. If you
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: need to get to Jfcareport, and that's the international airport
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: that competes with Newark, liberty for me in my area,
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: JFK is so much further away. Hey, you got to
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: pay toll over the Washington Bridge, and b you're looking
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: at forty minutes just because of traffic. It's ridiculous. Sometimes
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: more Meanwhile, I can get to Newark in about twenty
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: minutes thirty five with traffic, so obviously Newark Airport's a
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: better option for me. But this drone, which again is
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: going to be operated by a commercial pilot, is now
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: doing test flights from the heliport, which is I think
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: on thirtieth Street on the West Side Highway in Manhattan,
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: two queens to JFK Airport, and you're not going to
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: believe how quickly it gets there. Listen to this.
• 40:22
  Speaker 11: Find Electric air taxi demonstration took off from Kennedy Airport and.
• 40:27
  Speaker 12: Made the short trip to the West thirtieth Street heliport
• 40:30
  Speaker 12: at eleven am this morning. If you were to drive
• 40:32
  Speaker 12: that sixteen miles, it would take more than an hour.
• 40:34
  Speaker 12: In this cutting edge plane, roughly seven minutes Joby Aviation's
• 40:40
  Speaker 12: goal is to make this type of travel the gold standard,
• 40:43
  Speaker 12: pointing out several pluses, including zero emissions and how quiet
• 40:48
  Speaker 12: it is one hundred times quiere than a traditional helicopter.
• 40:52
  Speaker 12: This so called air taxi would shuttle people from JFK
• 40:56
  Speaker 12: to the West thirtieth Street Heliport, as well as the
• 40:59
  Speaker 12: one at West third fourth Street and the Downtown Skyport.
• 41:02
  Speaker 12: The aircraft seats up to four passengers, there's one pilot,
• 41:06
  Speaker 12: room for luggage, and it will fly between one and
• 41:09
  Speaker 12: three thousand feet. Right now, Joby does have the green
• 41:11
  Speaker 12: light from the FAA for this phase, and if things
• 41:15
  Speaker 12: pan out, the company hopes to have its fleet up
• 41:18
  Speaker 12: in the air and running within the next year. But
• 41:20
  Speaker 12: for now, for the next week, you will see this
• 41:23
  Speaker 12: aircraft that kind of looks like a large drone buzzing
• 41:26
  Speaker 12: over our area.
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: Isn't that something? So I find out again fascinating. I
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: love that. I love the fact that I can get
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: to Manhattan pretty quickly. So if I could get to
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: the heliport there and get on one of those seven minutes,
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: Now a question that becomes how much does that cost?
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: And will will it make sense? Right? I mean, there's
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: they got the version of Uber for helicopters. I think
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: it's called Blade. Blade has a helicopter that you can
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: take from the heliport in Manhattan to the Hamptons, which
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: is a brutal drive. Anything having to do with Long
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: Island Expressway for me as a brutal drive, I'd rather
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: drive to the Jersey Shore than ever drive to the
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: East End. And I'm not hating on the East End.
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: The Hampton is absolutely beautiful, it's gorgeous. Is nothing like it,
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: But I am going to say it's just a brutal ride,
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: which is why so many people opt to take the
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: Hampton Jitney. You know, the luxury bus, leather seats, it relaxed,
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: three hour ride, blah blah blah. However, a lot of
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: people don't want to spend that kind of time on
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: a bus. So I think it's forty minutes if you
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: do the Blade helicopter ride. And I don't remember the price.
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: I think it was somewhere like seven hundred bucks or
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: a thousand bucks. It might be cheaper now because you know,
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: all of the ride share services are getting involved in
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: this stuff, and they're like, look, i'll sell your empty seats.
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: We'll get you more passengers, No question. Uber is going
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: to be jumping on this as well, this JFK Airport stuff.
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: So I just wonder, you know, is this a blessing
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: or a curse. I'd say, like most things, it's probably both. Right.
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: It's probably going to be a blessing for those that
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: can afford it, and to help with the ease of use.
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: You got an electric plane or a drone that's being
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: flown by a pilot where you're going to be using
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: less fuel and just imagine, just for the environmentalists out
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: there saying, wow, you could take those trips in seven minutes.
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: Not only are you cutting down on the emissions that
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: you would seven minutes versus forty minutes, but there's gonna
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: be no emissions because it's electric. Of course, there are
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: emissions associated with creating electric batteries which far outpaced the
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: use of a fossil fuel engine, which nobody takes into account.
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: But long story short, for me, it's not about the environment.
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: For me, it's about getting their fast and getting there safely.
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: So at least this one is not being reported to
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: if it's a windy day, you don't get it. Now.
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: Something else I wanted to talk about now that we're
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: talking about door dash and whatnot. Was a door dasher
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: that got caught Well, I really, I wouldn't say got
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: caught that got herself into trouble. She delivered some guy
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: goes out drinking whatever, He gets home late and decides
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: he wants to order door dash, So he orders the food,
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: and then this girl arrives to drop off the food
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: at his door. His front door is wide open, and
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: he's on his couch with no pants on, and he's
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: knocked out and he's not wearing under her. So what
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: does she do. She decides to make a complaint to
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: the police, saying that this man indecently exposed himself to
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: her and she felt sexually harassed by this. Now, I
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: guess she's well within her rights to do that, But
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: was she well within her rights to do what she
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: did in between making the delivery and calling the police.
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: Now I know some of you were saying, well, rich,
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: what did she do? Well, what she did was she
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: took a video of this man, and not for her
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: own records or to say, look this is what I
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: found when I got here. No, she put it on
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: TikTok and it got thirty million views. Now was back
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: in December of twenty twenty five, so just around this
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: past Christmas time. This happened in New York and Oswego
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: County and guess what she got in all sorts of trouble.
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: So now she's doing court tomorrow where she's expected, I
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: guess to be indicted. She was subsequently arrested and charged
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: with one out of unlawful surveillance. And this is you know,
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: he said, she said, Right, He's like, look, I was
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: knocked out and I've been degraded by this video being
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: on the internet of me. And listen, I get it too.
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: If you can't be naked in your house, where can
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: you be naked? Now? I understand that you know the
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: guy ordered door dash or whatever, but listen, you know
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: how many times I've ordered for give me the food
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: at the door, because sometimes I don't hear it when
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: they drop it off, and then it's just sitting on
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: my front porch freezing because I may not have looked
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: at my phone or didn't hear the notification go off.
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: So I understand the door to door transaction. I also
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: do that just because if I want to give a
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: cash tip as well, Right, I think it's always better
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: you get it. You're already getting it like lukewarm as
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: it is. I don't even like these services for that reason.
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: I rarely use them. But my point is this guy's
• 45:48
  Speaker 5: pressing charges against her. So who's in the right who's
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: in the wrong here? I don't know, I really don't.
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: I would I would say I think I air on
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: the side of him being in his home because if
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: you again, if you can't be drunk and naked in
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: your home, where can you be? And I believe you
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: have a right to privacy when you're in your home. Now,
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: her argument is going to be your door was wide open.
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: What kind of privacy do you expect with a wide
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: open door? I think again, it's a reasonable expectation that
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: somebody either a don't look in, or B close the door,
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: knock on the door and say hey, I'm here, or
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: just leave right. I don't think that there is an
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: expectation that you'll end up on TikTok with thirty million
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: views of your junk on display while you're passed out
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: because you had three too many. So that's the case there. Again,
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: this is going to court tomorrow, so I don't know
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: what the outcome will be aby I'll give you an
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: update on it. But I thought it was very very
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: interesting to say the least, that this is the stuff
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: happening in this world that a couple of years ago
• 46:50
  Speaker 5: we likely wouldn't even have mentioned. Right, there would be
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: no mention of what's going on in food delivery because
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: food delivery consisted of I ordered some pizza and I
• 47:05
  Speaker 5: got my pizza from the pizza guy who delivers, right,
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: or I ordered some Chinese and I got it from
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: the Chinese restaurant that delivers. Now you have people that
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: make a whole career out of delivering these things through
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: you know, food delivery sharing programs like grub Hub, Uber
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: Eats another one I just mentioned door Dash and the like.
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: So fascinating stuff. So now does this guy end up
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: needing therapy? Is that what's going to happen here? Is
• 47:30
  Speaker 5: she gonna need therapy? And is therapy even worth it?
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: Or does therapy even work? Well, that's a separate question
• 47:38
  Speaker 5: that's being asked by Tanya Krazal. She's somebody that I
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: follow on Instagram. I think she makes a lot of
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: great points. They're usually countercultural. They're also I think to
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: many people if you're jen Z or younger, you might
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: think that she's counterintuitive because there is a difference in
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: the reality of someone that is a Gen X or
• 48:01
  Speaker 5: boomer than the reality that someone that is Gen Z
• 48:07
  Speaker 5: or younger experiences. Right in reality, in particular, when it
• 48:12
  Speaker 5: comes to parenting, many of them believe that they are
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: oppressed and that their parents are responsible for all of
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: their emotional failure in the future, whereas in my generation
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: we were like, oh, we were beaten and told we
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: were stupid and worthless by our parents, and we turned
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: out all right. Right, it's that whole resilience. It's just
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: a new world, right. They've been taught to have different
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: feelings and they feel different ways. Well, Tanya Casal, she
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: says that, well, you know what, I'm going to tell
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: you what she says. Let's take a pause right here,
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: will come right back with that clip. Plus I'll take
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: any of your thoughts on the drone stuff. I might
• 48:52
  Speaker 5: have some drone stuff to add to that, because I
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: think that Uber is going to be making an appearance
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: with this taxi service, So I'll do the therapy stuff
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: in the next segment, and I'll wrap this one up
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: with Uber joining the party for these drones.
• 49:16
  Speaker 8: Yeah, listen to this, or says it will launch Uber
• 49:19
  Speaker 8: Air in Dubai later this year, letting writers book all
• 49:22
  Speaker 8: electric air taxis directly in the Uber app. The Uber
• 49:26
  Speaker 8: Taxi flown by a certified commercial pilot. We'll see four
• 49:30
  Speaker 8: passengers and take off vertically with six propellers, flying up
• 49:33
  Speaker 8: to two hundred miles per hour. The aircraft is now
• 49:35
  Speaker 8: in the final stages of FAA certification.
• 49:39
  Speaker 5: Okay, that's ABC News And again I just wanted to
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: play that before I went to the break because again,
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: that is the same aircraft that is being tested at
• 49:47
  Speaker 5: JFK Airport by Jobi. Right, there's a technology company that
• 49:52
  Speaker 5: created these electric drones. But they're not drones because they're
• 49:56
  Speaker 5: flown by a commercial pilot. But it is in effect
• 50:00
  Speaker 5: they drone, right, because eventually that pilot will be gone,
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: just like they're doing with all of these autonomous vehicles.
• 50:06
  Speaker 5: And that is wild to me that you could jump
• 50:09
  Speaker 5: in this plane that flies itself, and they're gonna argue
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: the plane you're in now already flies itself. We just
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: have those guys in there kind of like safety, but
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: they're on autopilot most at a time using GPS navigation
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: blah blah blah blah blah, and listen, I get it.
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: I do realize that these planes are flown largely by
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: autopilot and whatnot. But I wouldn't be comfortable getting on
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: one that didn't have a pilot and a first officer. Right,
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: So now you're telling me to get on a smaller
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: one that only has a pilot because it's a shorter
• 50:34
  Speaker 5: flight or whatever. I don't know, I am I'm not
• 50:38
  Speaker 5: sold on this idea. Plus driverless cars, maybe tomorrow will
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: do something on that because there's the driverless tractor trailers,
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: driverless taxis like way mow, driverless ubers. These things have
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: killed people in the past. They're being tested right now.
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: They keep getting into accidents. I saw a video yesterday
• 50:55
  Speaker 5: of one that was blocking an emergency vehicle from getting
• 50:59
  Speaker 5: to a crime scene police car that had to go
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: in the opposite direction, both with their lights on. All
• 51:03
  Speaker 5: the traffic is pulled over and you've got this autonomous
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: taxi I think it was from a company called way
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: Mo blocking the road right in the middle of the
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: street like sideways, right, So they're trying to go straight,
• 51:15
  Speaker 5: the other one's trying to go straight in the opposite direction,
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: and this thing is sideways trying to make a U
• 51:20
  Speaker 5: turn because it was confused on which emergency vehicle it
• 51:22
  Speaker 5: needed to obey. Artificial intelligence not that intelligence. Yet, should
• 51:26
  Speaker 5: these things be on the road, I don't think so personally.
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: I think in the in the event of an emergency,
• 51:31
  Speaker 5: the last thing you want is that. Then there was
• 51:32
  Speaker 5: another video of these girls tomorrow. We're gonna have to
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: do a whole segment on this, but another video of
• 51:37
  Speaker 5: these girls that are in one of these autonomous vehicles
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: as a taxi and it just gets into traffic while
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: oncoming cars are coming and it stops like it froze.
• 51:48
  Speaker 5: It didn't understand. I guess the sensors weren't working, the
• 51:50
  Speaker 5: cameras didn't register the traffic. Bottom line is, these things
• 51:53
  Speaker 5: are dangerous. They're gonna hurt people, and it's wild to
• 51:56
  Speaker 5: think they're gonna put this into tractive trailers. So I'll
• 51:59
  Speaker 5: spend a little bit of time on that on tomorrow's
• 52:00
  Speaker 5: show as well. But I want to talk about this
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: therapy thing, so we're going to move into that. I
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: want to get your thoughts cause reactions on that as well.
• 52:08
  Speaker 5: Is therapy effective and when it comes to parental estrangement,
• 52:11
  Speaker 5: which we talk about frequently here because it becomes more
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: and more popular. All right, there's more and more young
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  Speaker 5: people that are just cutting off their parents in the
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  Speaker 5: name of boundaries and mental health and protecting their peace.
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  Speaker 5: But what cost does that come with and is it
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  Speaker 5: truly fixing the problem? Well again, Tanya Kazal, who I
• 52:27
  Speaker 5: follow on Instagram, she has a couple of really good
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  Speaker 5: posts out there, and I'll play a couple of clips
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  Speaker 5: on those and get your reactions to that as well.
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  Speaker 5: On Open Phone in America eight seven seven Valdez one,
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  Speaker 5: eight seven seven Valdez one.
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  Speaker 1: This is America, This is America.
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  Speaker 5: He's making podcasting great again.
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  Speaker 2: This is America with Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 5: All right, I mean he goes, welcome back for me,
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  Speaker 5: all of our Valdez VIPs, everybody that's tuned in tonight.
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate it. We're gonna get to your calls momentarily.
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: But I want to talk about a lot of things,
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  Speaker 5: right I'm going to try and cram a lot of
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  Speaker 5: things into one because we talk about family estrangement a
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  Speaker 5: lot on this program. Because as I'm doing my show
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: PRIP I see article after article all the time about
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  Speaker 5: people that are getting rid of their parents. Mainly that's
• 53:20
  Speaker 5: usually I don't see too many parents saying I'm getting
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  Speaker 5: rid of my kids. I'm sure it happens where parents
• 53:24
  Speaker 5: are disowning children. That's happened, you know, for forever. But
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: in particular, the new trend is kids saying, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I want to protect my piece, I need boundaries, this,
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  Speaker 5: that and whatever. And I'm not trying to dismiss it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just trying to challenge it on its face because
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  Speaker 5: I think whenever you take any action like that, your
• 53:44
  Speaker 5: idea is to make things better. Right, maybe better for
• 53:46
  Speaker 5: yourself at the moment, but you should ideally try to
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  Speaker 5: make them better for everybody. And I feel like that
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  Speaker 5: part might be getting lost in conversation. And there is
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  Speaker 5: a YouTuber that I follow, Tanya Kazal is her name,
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  Speaker 5: and she always has a the same outlook, which is
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  Speaker 5: one that I appreciate in that you don't fix anything
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  Speaker 5: by divorcing your parents. And many of the people who've
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  Speaker 5: shared wisdom over the years have always said, you really
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  Speaker 5: can't move too far forward in life if you always
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  Speaker 5: have a grudge against your parents. It messes up your
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  Speaker 5: emotional and psychological growth. So I like to listen to
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  Speaker 5: the stuff that she's saying, because while I had plenty
• 54:29
  Speaker 5: of issues with my parents and whatnot, they weren't, really,
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  Speaker 5: in my opinion, major issues where I felt like they
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  Speaker 5: were impacting my life. I think maybe in my early
• 54:38
  Speaker 5: formative years, in my twenties, I might have felt like, damn,
• 54:41
  Speaker 5: I got to work so hard to get ahead in
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  Speaker 5: life because my dad isn't rich and my mom didn't
• 54:47
  Speaker 5: come from money, you know, that type of thing. And
• 54:50
  Speaker 5: did I resent them for it?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 5: Did I wish they would have planned better for their
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  Speaker 5: own futures so that I wouldn't have to worry about
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  Speaker 5: them financially and me financially. Yeah, I did. I definitely did.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, man, you guys couldn't have worried about this.
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  Speaker 10: You know.
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  Speaker 5: I was part of that Sandwich generation where I was
• 55:05
  Speaker 5: taking care of my own kids post divorce, so co parenting,
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  Speaker 5: you know, multiple days a week, three four days a
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  Speaker 5: week with overnight visits with my girls and who were
• 55:15
  Speaker 5: you know, nine and five and then you know, tween
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  Speaker 5: and preteen and all of that stuff, And that was
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  Speaker 5: never easy. While taking care of my mom with her
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  Speaker 5: health issues until her passing, and then my dad with
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  Speaker 5: his health issues until his passing. And you know, this
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  Speaker 5: wasn't a five minute thing. This was the span of
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  Speaker 5: close to a decade child rearing by myself with being
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  Speaker 5: the aid to both of my parents while trying to
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  Speaker 5: manage a career. And it was stressful to say the least.
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  Speaker 5: But I never felt like abandoning them or cutting them
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  Speaker 5: off or getting rid of them. I felt like this
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  Speaker 5: was my duty by God right to honor my father
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  Speaker 5: and my mother. Didn't mean I had to agree with them,
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  Speaker 5: and half of the time, at least half of the time,
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  Speaker 5: I didn't always respect what they were telling me or doing,
• 56:05
  Speaker 5: you know, but you figure out a way to work
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  Speaker 5: with it, right. And it's shocking to me that today
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  Speaker 5: there's so many people normalizing cutting their parents off and
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  Speaker 5: then celebrating it. And Tanya Khazal points out that some
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  Speaker 5: parents are now so beaten up by this that they're
• 56:24
  Speaker 5: taking their own lives, you know, committing suicide, parents killing
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  Speaker 5: themselves because their kids have cut them off.
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  Speaker 3: Listen to this, their own lives over estrangement, and adult
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  Speaker 3: children are calling it healing.
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  Speaker 11: Parents who spent their lives sacrificing for their children and
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  Speaker 11: protecting them and loving them and building their lives around them.
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  Speaker 11: Are now the same parents being completely erased from their
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  Speaker 11: kids' lives while they age and die alone. Some are
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  Speaker 11: taking their own lives because they can't bear the pain anymore.
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  Speaker 11: And then society is calling it growth and applauding it.
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  Speaker 11: Parents are locked out of their own families, grandparents who
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  Speaker 11: will never meet their grandchildren, brothers, sisters who have stopped
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  Speaker 11: speaking to each other and become complete strangers to each other,
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  Speaker 11: and everyone is clapping for it.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know who she's talking to, but it appears
• 57:07
  Speaker 5: she's talking to someone that's asking her questions. But either way,
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  Speaker 5: it's good content. Right. This is a very valid point
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  Speaker 5: that she's making, that people are applauding these things. And
• 57:20
  Speaker 5: she goes on to say that society is broken. Listen
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  Speaker 5: to this.
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  Speaker 3: Society is so broken, and people are congratulating each other
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  Speaker 3: for choosing themselves as at abandoning the parents and the
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  Speaker 3: family and the people around them gives them true life
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  Speaker 3: for meaning parents.
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  Speaker 5: So this stuff that she's talking about here with parents,
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  Speaker 5: I think is very important, right. I think it's an
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  Speaker 5: important issue to discuss because I think it's fundamental. It
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  Speaker 5: doesn't go away. I don't care if you're ten years
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  Speaker 5: old and you feel like, you know, mommy or daddy
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  Speaker 5: said something to hurt your feelings, or you're sixty and
• 57:50
  Speaker 5: your ninety year old mom makes you feel like you
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: live in some sort of shadow. Right, if you have
• 57:55
  Speaker 5: these unresolved issues, you have these unresolved issues and to
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  Speaker 5: be empowered by forgiving them, because you know, somebody once
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  Speaker 5: told me in the church group that I go to
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  Speaker 5: on Monday's, the guys group that forget, unforgiveness is like
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  Speaker 5: poison that's just for you, right, Drinking the poison that's
• 58:16
  Speaker 5: only meant for you, it only hurts you. So in
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: that vein of thinking, I wonder is therapy helping people
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  Speaker 5: or are people going to therapy and finding out? And
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  Speaker 5: I'm speaking very broadly. I'm sure there are many wonderful
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  Speaker 5: therapists out there, but I also think that there's a
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  Speaker 5: trend that is emerging in therapy. And we talked about
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  Speaker 5: this when I played those clips from the Oprah interview
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  Speaker 5: where she interviewed both a therapist who his daughter had
• 58:47
  Speaker 5: quit on him and another therapist who was encouraging other
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: therapists to advise their patients to create these boundaries of
• 58:56
  Speaker 5: exactly what she said, you know, abandoning their parents. And
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: it's a debate that they're having amongst themselves. Some say,
• 59:04
  Speaker 5: if there's no abuse, you don't do it, but others
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  Speaker 5: are saying, do it for your own peace of mind.
• 59:10
  Speaker 5: And Tanya Becauza says it's not a good idea to
• 59:12
  Speaker 5: do it for your own peace of mind because you're
• 59:14
  Speaker 5: eventually just avoiding the work of putting it in, saying
• 59:17
  Speaker 5: that therapy is creating the trauma that it actually claims
• 59:20
  Speaker 5: to heal. And I got to clip on that as
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  Speaker 5: well before I get to your calls. Listen to this.
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  Speaker 11: Therapy is creating the trauma that it claims to heal.
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  Speaker 11: How many online therapists and social media experts are pushing
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  Speaker 11: emotionally immature parents and your partner is a narcissist, Like
• 59:33
  Speaker 11: it's a diagnosis for every conflict.
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  Speaker 5: She's got a point there, right, That is true. There's
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  Speaker 5: a lot of people if things don't go right right away,
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  Speaker 5: you are a narcissist. Everybody is diagnosing this. And I've
• 59:44
  Speaker 5: talked about this a number of times. I even brought
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: in the doctor who wrote the book The Narcissist Dictionary,
• 59:50
  Speaker 5: The Narctionary, doctor Tracy Campbell. Because this is such a
• 59:54
  Speaker 5: big topic, so many people want to go this route,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm not saying that they're wrong and the others
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  Speaker 5: are right. I think it's just being so loosely thrown
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  Speaker 5: around that we're not really considering what narcissism is and
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 5: by and large telling somebody when you're here to help people, right,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 5: if you're a therapist, you're supposed to give people tools
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 5: to manage the stressors that trigger them. And if your
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 5: advice is, oh, your mom gets you all messed up,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 5: cut her off, create a boundary, I don't know if
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 5: that's always going to be the answer to me. It
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 5: sounds like the easy way out, go ahead.
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  Speaker 11: The writing books that teach people to diagnose their parents
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  Speaker 11: and partners and find something wrong in them, make everything
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  Speaker 11: their fault, and position themselves.
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  Speaker 5: TikTok also helps with this, as does all the other
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 5: social media.
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  Speaker 11: As a victim to their circumstances, like everything is wrong
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  Speaker 11: around them and nothing is their responsibility, And now protecting
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 11: your peace means avoiding anything that challenges you. Boundaries are
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 11: used to out loving, caring, people parents. Instead of creating
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 11: healthier ways to stay connected and healing, it's now become
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 11: a justification to walk away from anything that requires effort.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 11: Patients forgiveness and repair. The moment someone challenges you, they're
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 11: labeled as toxic, narcissistic, or harmful. So people aren't learning
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  Speaker 11: how to communicate or understand. They're learning to run, to
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 11: cut off and create distance. And once that belief and
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 11: that labels in place, everything becomes someone else's fault and
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 11: they stay the victim.
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  Speaker 5: How about that for a mic drop moment? They stay
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  Speaker 5: the victim. Well, I want to know what you guys
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  Speaker 5: think on this because I think there's a hot button topic.
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  Speaker 5: This is what I could do every week on the
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 5: Ask Ritchie segment, but this is the Open Phone America segment.
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  Speaker 5: So let's go to some calls here. Catherine in Connecticut,
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  Speaker 5: what do you think about this whole thing?
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  Speaker 9: Go right ahead on the topic of immature parents and
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  Speaker 9: how therapists are diagnosing family members or partners with narcissists
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  Speaker 9: or any other type of label without further investigation on
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  Speaker 9: this topic, it's becoming more of doctor by diagnosing family
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  Speaker 9: members' parents has become a bigger problem in today's society,
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  Speaker 9: it's hard when someone has to look within themselves to
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  Speaker 9: see what things are affecting them about the relationship as
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 9: much as that the label that they have put on
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 9: the person they're having the conflict with, which seems to
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 9: be the end all be all to the issue. And
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  Speaker 9: it's not not to downplay victims, but it is a
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  Speaker 9: reoccurring thing and a person of what they do well.
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  Speaker 5: That makes sense. But let me ask, what do you
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  Speaker 5: recommend as a solution to this, Like, how do we
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  Speaker 5: fix this whole thing?
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  Speaker 9: It is basically brought boils down to morals and traditions
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 9: or laws, and somewhere along the line, society has just
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 9: glorified these trends that are so embedded into our kids
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 9: has as they're growing up that you lose them as
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 9: adult and those traditions are lost as well, and as
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 9: well as the morals. The morals are lost. I believe
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 9: that more people should definitely have that fear of God
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  Speaker 9: and that sometimes can put together back the sense of
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 9: the old traditions where the family was united. Yeah, we
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 9: don't have that anymore.
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  Speaker 5: I think you're right. I appreciate the call. Thank you,
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  Speaker 5: Kat from Connecticut for the call and for your comments
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  Speaker 5: on this, because I think you're speaking my language here. Right,
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  Speaker 5: God is to me the glue that holds it all together.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 5: And I don't mean to come across as a holy roller.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 5: I'm the guy that leaves church and then you know
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 5: you'll find me at a night club a couple hours
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 5: later having a good old time. But it doesn't mean
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 5: I don't know right from wrong. Even if I do
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 5: wrong right, it doesn't mean I don't know the difference
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 5: between the two. And I think it's always important for
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 5: us to know where true north is, irrespective of whatever
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 5: decisions we make as flood people. Right has to be right.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 5: Wrong has to be wrong, and we need to teach
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 5: that to our children. And somewhere along the way maybe
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 5: we did teach that to them, but society's been teaching
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 5: them more. And there's an old saying that if you
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 5: don't teach your children about whatever, someone else is going
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 5: to teach them, or society'll teach them. And that's the truth.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 5: Sometimes even when you teach your children right, it's not
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 5: as safe as you think. Right. You might think, oh,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 5: I send my kid to a Catholic school or a
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 5: Christian school or to you know, the best schools, and
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 5: I try to reinforce that with the teaching them the
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 5: right thing at home. It doesn't mean that your kid
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 5: is fool proof. It's just like the advice I give
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 5: my own children and people in general. I say, look,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 5: if you're looking for a good partner, I think you
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 5: should look in church. And the response I get from
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 5: many people is, oh, there's messed up people in church. Yeah, well,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 5: is there a better place than church where you're not
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 5: going to find messed up people? Of course not right.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 5: You're gonna find messed up people at the bar, You're
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 5: gonna find up messed up people at work. You're gonna
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 5: find messed up people everywhere you go. So you might
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 5: as well find, you know, filter through the messed up
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 5: people in a place where at least you know they're
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 5: looking for the same things you're looking for spiritually. And
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 5: it's that spiritual grounding that I think we all need.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 5: This least common denominator of Yep, Jesus, yep me too.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 5: We believe in forgiveness, we believe in love, we believe
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 5: in the resurrection. Right, certain shared beliefs that translate into
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 5: shared values that I think are so important for the
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 5: way we live, our lives and the way we see
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 5: the world. Right. Worldview and personal philosophy are key to
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 5: anything in life. So spot on there, and I agree
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 5: with that, and I appreciate it again, and it reminds
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 5: me of how important these two things are. Worldview and
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 5: personal philosophy. What do we believe right? What do we
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 5: stand for? And I always say that at the end,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 5: it's probably good time for me to say it now.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 5: If we stand for nothing, will fall for anything. And
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 5: clearly this is one of those situations. We got to
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 5: stand for something because if we don't, we'll be screwed.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 5: Our kids won't talk to us anymore, or we won't
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 5: talk to our parents anymore, and that's not a good thing.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 5: So I say to you, the only thing necessary for
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 5: evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 5: So make sure you're doing something. I start approxima, take care,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 5: good night, and God bless you America. I'm Rich Valdess
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  Speaker 5: and this is America.
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  Speaker 2: This is America.