Latest / Rich Valdés: This is America! / Eggs, Earthquake, and Evans-Ellis
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- 0:05Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez, powered by poliitweek dot
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- 0:10Speaker 2: Rich Valdes is with us former Christian administration officials.
- 0:12Speaker 3: You work at Chris Christie and Folloisach and a lot
- 0:14Speaker 3: of public service stuff. Rich Valdez commn list now with
- 0:17Speaker 3: the Washington Times.
- 0:18Speaker 4: This is America, Richiev.
- 0:20Speaker 3: You're on the air with the Nation of the Nation
- 0:22Speaker 3: with America.
- 0:23Speaker 4: With your host, Rich Valdez.
- 0:26Speaker 3: What's up, America. I am Rich Valdes Valdez with ans
- 0:29Speaker 3: at Rich Valdez on all of the social media, your
- 0:33Speaker 3: liberty loving Latino. I may go seventeen blocks away from
- 0:35Speaker 3: Madison Square Garden right here in Times Square in New
- 0:38Speaker 3: York City. Blessed and honored to be with you, guys,
- 0:41Speaker 3: my wonderful audience this Monday night. And check it out.
- 0:44Speaker 3: We got our national town hall conversation going on every
- 0:48Speaker 3: night late night. I want you to be a part
- 0:50Speaker 3: of it. Give me a call eight seven seven VALVED'ST
- 0:52Speaker 3: one eight seven seven eight twenty five thirty three seventy one.
- 0:55Speaker 3: You could share your thoughts. We'll put it right into
- 0:58Speaker 3: our open Phone America segment just coming up. Maybe not today,
- 1:02Speaker 3: but I think tomorrow We're gonna do an open Phone
- 1:04Speaker 3: America segment, and I mean, I try to do it
- 1:06Speaker 3: every day, but oh, but so much time in the broadcast.
- 1:09Speaker 3: And I want to start with where we're going right
- 1:12Speaker 3: right now, we're going to be headed south of the
- 1:14Speaker 3: border for a live update from the ground in Kali, Colombia,
- 1:17Speaker 3: after a major seven point four earthquake. Our guest is
- 1:22Speaker 3: in Colombia. He's on the ground with the latest from
- 1:25Speaker 3: South America. Technology and culture commentator A. L. Fabre will
- 1:28Speaker 3: be joining us in the next segment. Later, we're going
- 1:31Speaker 3: to get into a sick, horrendous case of a trans
- 1:35Speaker 3: mom who duct taped her own seven year old in
- 1:38Speaker 3: a closet along with her two trans lovers and they
- 1:43Speaker 3: murdered this child. Plus your calls, like I said, are
- 1:47Speaker 3: going to be coming up, plenty of discussion, lots to
- 1:51Speaker 3: talk about with a dash of safritough of course, no
- 1:54Speaker 3: sugar coating, just the way we like it. Now. I
- 1:57Speaker 3: want to get into this because this is stuff I
- 2:00Speaker 3: saw on the New York Post and I thought, I
- 2:02Speaker 3: remember when and this is what's interesting, right, AOC all
- 2:07Speaker 3: out crazy herself, my least favorite congresswoman from the Bronx
- 2:11Speaker 3: and Queens. I remember a couple of years back, back
- 2:15Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen, when AOC was not very interested in
- 2:19Speaker 3: having children. Right now, some of her comments are being
- 2:24Speaker 3: spun around faster than some of those old school barber
- 2:26Speaker 3: chairs I used to use in Hudson County, And I'm thinking, hmmm,
- 2:31Speaker 3: does everybody forget these things so quickly? I definitely don't
- 2:35Speaker 3: listen to this clip of AOC back in twenty nineteen
- 2:38Speaker 3: discussing how she just really wasn't interested in having children
- 2:41Speaker 3: because the world was simply going to end in twelve years.
- 2:46Speaker 5: Millennials and people and you know, gen Z and all
- 2:49Speaker 5: these folks that come after us are looking up and
- 2:52Speaker 5: we're like, the world is going to end in twelve
- 2:55Speaker 5: years if we don't address climate change. And your biggest.
- 2:58Speaker 6: Issue is.
- 3:03Speaker 5: Your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?
- 3:08Speaker 3: Yeah, that's AOC all out crazy herself, my least favoriteccomplished
- 3:12Speaker 3: woman from the Bronx and Queens, and AOC allowed crazy
- 3:15Speaker 3: as changing her tune right now, we've got a whole
- 3:18Speaker 3: different story, a different story on the agenda. Wow, Well,
- 3:24Speaker 3: she's thinking of maybe having kids even though the world
- 3:27Speaker 3: is going to end in I guess five years according
- 3:29Speaker 3: to her math right, because there's been reports of a
- 3:33Speaker 3: breakup with her longtime fiance Riley Roberts. Now she's talking
- 3:36Speaker 3: about the pressures that women face in order to have children.
- 3:40Speaker 3: Listen to this one to.
- 3:43Speaker 5: Say that egg freezing is not a guarantee, and just
- 3:47Speaker 5: because you pursue egg freezing does not mean that it
- 3:50Speaker 5: is guaranteed to work.
- 3:52Speaker 3: So hold on a second. The world is ending in
- 3:54Speaker 3: five years, but you're thinking of freezing your eggs to
- 3:56Speaker 3: have kids at a later date. AOC's currently thirty six
- 4:00Speaker 3: years old, and she's freezing her eggs. She's making this
- 4:03Speaker 3: video for all of her public following while she's using
- 4:09Speaker 3: the injections she's using to freeze her eggs.
- 4:12Speaker 5: What gives I find that it's been very freeing for me,
- 4:17Speaker 5: even given that possibility, because I do think there's a
- 4:22Speaker 5: certain amount of anxiety or stress that can come with
- 4:27Speaker 5: feeling like you are in a race against biology that
- 4:35Speaker 5: men simply.
- 4:36Speaker 3: Don't have to aid, men simply don't have to endure. Now,
- 4:40Speaker 3: is this a dig at men? Is this one of
- 4:43Speaker 3: those It's so unfair. I don't like God, and I'm
- 4:46Speaker 3: going out on limb here, I'm definitely reaching, But that's
- 4:49Speaker 3: my question, right, I'm curious to know to us moriosi engageing.
- 4:56Speaker 5: In straight relationships, who are women supposed to be having
- 4:59Speaker 5: babies with? So naturally they want you to then not
- 5:02Speaker 5: only have kids young, but implicit in that, have kids
- 5:07Speaker 5: young with someone much older than you. Because the piece
- 5:10Speaker 5: that they aren't talking about, they aren't pressuring men to
- 5:15Speaker 5: be ready to have a baby as young as the
- 5:19Speaker 5: way that they are pressuring women to.
- 5:21Speaker 7: Have a baby.
- 5:22Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know, because it takes two
- 5:25Speaker 3: to tango right AOC So how are you being pressured
- 5:29Speaker 3: as a woman to have the baby young if the
- 5:31Speaker 3: man isn't being equally as pressured. Nobody's telling you you
- 5:35Speaker 3: have to pick an older man. Now, I guess the
- 5:37Speaker 3: argument she's making is that an older man will have
- 5:41Speaker 3: more stability, more ability to care for a child, more
- 5:45Speaker 3: calm leadership style, gotten a lot of the stress of
- 5:50Speaker 3: his younger life out of his system. This is all
- 5:53Speaker 3: my presumption based on what she's saying. But again, I
- 5:55Speaker 3: think this is why historically men and women have always
- 6:00Speaker 3: you know, had a little bit of an age gap
- 6:02Speaker 3: at least I look at relationships from when I say, yesteryear,
- 6:07Speaker 3: back in the days, and it wasn't uncommon for guys
- 6:10Speaker 3: to be ten or ten plus years older than the
- 6:13Speaker 3: women that they were marrying. Yet I think that gap
- 6:17Speaker 3: has reduced, and now everybody's freaking out about it. And
- 6:23Speaker 3: I'll join that chorus. Right If one of my daughters,
- 6:25Speaker 3: who are both in their twenties, told me they were
- 6:27Speaker 3: looking to marry a guy in their thirties, I'd hit
- 6:31Speaker 3: pause for a second because I'd held on a second.
- 6:34Speaker 3: This sounds a little odd. Whyn't you find a girl
- 6:35Speaker 3: your own age? But I understand, I understand the logic behind.
- 6:40Speaker 3: I'm not saying I totally want this from my children. Maybe,
- 6:44Speaker 3: you know, four or five years, i'd feel comfortable with that.
- 6:47Speaker 3: I think ten years not so sure. Anyway, let us
- 6:52Speaker 3: continue when they're young.
- 6:54Speaker 5: The basics are more expensive than they've ever been a
- 7:00Speaker 5: lot of people we would have kids at a much
- 7:04Speaker 5: younger age if the conditions were right, if women got
- 7:10Speaker 5: paid equally, and if people in general were paid enough
- 7:15Speaker 5: and things were affordable enough that you feel like you
- 7:17Speaker 5: could comfortably provide for a child.
- 7:20Speaker 3: To say, well, let me say this, women being paid equally.
- 7:24Speaker 3: I think we've seen all the math, right. I've seen
- 7:26Speaker 3: the economist Thomas soul speak about this many occasions and
- 7:30Speaker 3: many others. The reason women don't make as much money
- 7:34Speaker 3: as men is because by and large, women do have
- 7:37Speaker 3: this God given ability to bring forth the next generation
- 7:42Speaker 3: from their womb, and as such they take time off. Right,
- 7:49Speaker 3: it's called maternity leave. Now they've tried to change the
- 7:52Speaker 3: name of that, but in reality, this was time given
- 7:55Speaker 3: to a woman to grow a child in her belly,
- 7:58Speaker 3: in my opinion, put there by God, and then take
- 8:02Speaker 3: that time off from work to tend to her calling
- 8:06Speaker 3: right to have children. Now maybe that's wrong of me, right,
- 8:09Speaker 3: Maybe maybe that makes me a misogynist to say that
- 8:12Speaker 3: women were designed by God to bear children. Then of
- 8:15Speaker 3: course somebody's going to say to me, what about the
- 8:16Speaker 3: women who are barren? I would say that, you know,
- 8:20Speaker 3: all of us face different issues and challenges in life.
- 8:23Speaker 3: It doesn't change the rule because one might be the exception.
- 8:28Speaker 3: I think that's pretty self explanatory. But the larger question
- 8:33Speaker 3: is women are designed for this right and men insomuch
- 8:39Speaker 3: as being able to inseminate but not carry a child.
- 8:44Speaker 3: So if women are carrying a child and taking time off,
- 8:48Speaker 3: and we know that they have to be replaced at
- 8:50Speaker 3: some point, even to the point of in order to
- 8:52Speaker 3: protect their careers, they have to or to maintain their careers,
- 8:56Speaker 3: they have to freeze their eggs. It makes sense that
- 9:01Speaker 3: a woman would earn less because the employer saying, I
- 9:03Speaker 3: can't count on you as long as I could count
- 9:05Speaker 3: on a man. I think the logic is self explanatory.
- 9:09Speaker 3: This isn't about fair, it's not about your feelings, it's
- 9:12Speaker 3: not about any of those things. It's just about reality.
- 9:15Speaker 3: But again, I'm sure I'll get criticized for this, but
- 9:18Speaker 3: I think that makes sense in my mind. I'm curious
- 9:20Speaker 3: to know what you think. Eight seven seven Valdez one
- 9:25Speaker 3: eight seven seven Valdez one. And I guess that opens
- 9:28Speaker 3: up a little bit of a bigger question, Ryan, a
- 9:30Speaker 3: question about women. I recently reconnected with an old friend
- 9:36Speaker 3: of mine who is a progressive liberal professor, and she's
- 9:39Speaker 3: a dear friend. Honestly, she told me I was not
- 9:42Speaker 3: a dear friend, and she got very angry at with
- 9:44Speaker 3: me some months ago. And I don't say that flippantly.
- 9:47Speaker 3: I just I say that, almost embarrassed, embarrassedly that's the word.
- 9:53Speaker 3: If i'm if that's a word, that's the one I'm
- 9:54Speaker 3: looking for. But I say that because she's always been
- 10:00Speaker 3: very thoughtful, very kind, a good friend that always tried
- 10:02Speaker 3: to avoid our political differences in order to protect our friendship.
- 10:06Speaker 3: And on occasion I would take jabs and try to
- 10:11Speaker 3: try to but I would trigger the snowflake and just
- 10:13Speaker 3: being myself. And the point of the story here is
- 10:17Speaker 3: not that. It was about the conversation we had, and
- 10:20Speaker 3: a conversation about how she's feeling really at peace and
- 10:27Speaker 3: really at one with herself. And I love that for her,
- 10:30Speaker 3: and it makes me think. She's telling me she's earning
- 10:33Speaker 3: a good amount of money, she's doing really well in
- 10:35Speaker 3: her career. Our child has moved out of the house,
- 10:39Speaker 3: and she's got the household to herself, just her her dog.
- 10:43Speaker 3: She goes to the gym, she's looking better than she's
- 10:45Speaker 3: ever looked. She's in the best shape of her life.
- 10:48Speaker 3: And I say, you know, a congratulations, that's fantastic. I
- 10:50Speaker 3: think these are all wonderful things. And for her, in
- 10:54Speaker 3: any ways, this came at the cost of saying I
- 10:58Speaker 3: don't want men in my life anymore. And for her
- 11:01Speaker 3: making the decision to eliminate men from her life, or
- 11:04Speaker 3: at least in large part, myself probably being one of them. Right,
- 11:08Speaker 3: just as a friend caused her to experience this new
- 11:12Speaker 3: level of happiness. And of course my immediate reaction to
- 11:19Speaker 3: that is to say, oh, come on, you've got to
- 11:20Speaker 3: be kidding me. That's not the case. You know, you're just,
- 11:23Speaker 3: you know, trying to justify the situation. But she's not alone.
- 11:29Speaker 3: I was scrolling through Instagram the other day and I
- 11:31Speaker 3: saw a video of a woman and I should have
- 11:33Speaker 3: played it. This was a pretty interesting one, but I'll
- 11:36Speaker 3: describe it to you. It's a woman and she says,
- 11:39Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you what the rest of the
- 11:40Speaker 3: people won't tell you. That when you start sticking up
- 11:43Speaker 3: for yourself and you start to defend yourself, the people
- 11:47Speaker 3: that have been abusive towards you in your life no
- 11:49Speaker 3: longer want to be around you because they can't push
- 11:51Speaker 3: you around anymore. In so many words, right, it's a paraphrase.
- 11:55Speaker 3: And she went on to describe how she'd been divorced.
- 11:59Speaker 3: She had permanently cut off her parents, doesn't speak with
- 12:03Speaker 3: her siblings because they had sided with her parents and
- 12:06Speaker 3: their family conflict, and now she says, without her spouse,
- 12:12Speaker 3: without her parents, without her siblings, and her toxic boss
- 12:18Speaker 3: who fired her or she quit one or the other,
- 12:22Speaker 3: she was now whole. And I couldn't help but ask
- 12:28Speaker 3: what I wanted to frame as a very serious question,
- 12:30Speaker 3: which was, is this considered a victory or a defeat?
- 12:34Speaker 3: You've lost everything that matters in life and you're happy.
- 12:41Speaker 3: Somehow the math didn't make sense to me, right, I guess,
- 12:44Speaker 3: but these are different value systems and I'm not in
- 12:46Speaker 3: her shoes. So I did post that comment on Instagram
- 12:50Speaker 3: beneath her video and maybe I'll make a video, separate
- 12:53Speaker 3: video just for this on Instagram, and if you're not
- 12:55Speaker 3: following me there, please do. But she responded, and she
- 12:59Speaker 3: said that her parents were abusive and they needed to
- 13:02Speaker 3: be cut off, and that these things were all part
- 13:08Speaker 3: of a larger victory because new characters emerge in the
- 13:12Speaker 3: new part of your story. And I couldn't help but
- 13:15Speaker 3: think that's sort of that new part of the story
- 13:17Speaker 3: part made me think about the conversation we had recently
- 13:20Speaker 3: with the doctor Keith Ablow, where he was talking about
- 13:23Speaker 3: rewriting the rest of your story, and I didn't think
- 13:28Speaker 3: he had that in mind, right, But again, I always
- 13:31Speaker 3: pursue things from keeping a family together trying to get
- 13:36Speaker 3: past the conflict. And we've talked about this on this
- 13:39Speaker 3: show as well, when I've talked about family estrangement. That
- 13:43Speaker 3: is a new way that a lot of psychologists, typically
- 13:48Speaker 3: those that themselves identify as liberal progressive, tend to view
- 13:55Speaker 3: the solution to the problem is if your family bothers,
- 13:58Speaker 3: you get rid of them. And I think we are
- 14:02Speaker 3: too quick, in my opinion. I think we're too quick
- 14:04Speaker 3: to judge people and call them a narcissist, and call
- 14:08Speaker 3: them a gas lighter, and to call them abusive and
- 14:14Speaker 3: all of the controlling. Right, that's another popular one. And
- 14:17Speaker 3: the minute we don't like something, they become the enemy.
- 14:22Speaker 3: And now we just start cutting off everybody. And it's
- 14:24Speaker 3: as if we're going to surround ourselves with people that
- 14:26Speaker 3: agree with us or that we agree with and there's
- 14:30Speaker 3: no room for disagreement. And I was brought up, and
- 14:33Speaker 3: perhaps it's inaccurate, right, maybe I'm wrong here, but I
- 14:37Speaker 3: was brought up with the idea that you can choose
- 14:40Speaker 3: your friends, but you can't choose your family. So no
- 14:43Speaker 3: matter which ones you get you got to work with them,
- 14:45Speaker 3: because that is how love works, that is how family
- 14:48Speaker 3: structures work. Now, of course, I'm not saying if your
- 14:52Speaker 3: husband pounds your head against the wall every day, then
- 14:55Speaker 3: guess what, you have to stay there and take another beating. Now,
- 14:58Speaker 3: I'm not saying that at all, but I am saying
- 15:01Speaker 3: the moment that we make abuse anything that hurts your feelings,
- 15:06Speaker 3: anytime you're told any type of critique and you don't
- 15:10Speaker 3: like it and it makes you feel bad. I think
- 15:13Speaker 3: this is a communication issue, and for many I'm going
- 15:16Speaker 3: to say, I know people that would agree with what
- 15:19Speaker 3: I'm saying and say, you know what, I also thought
- 15:21Speaker 3: it was a communication issue. I tried to communicate, and
- 15:25Speaker 3: in that communication nothing happened. So after many times of
- 15:29Speaker 3: telling my siblings or my spouse, or my mom or
- 15:32Speaker 3: my dad, I don't like the way you're talking to me,
- 15:36Speaker 3: or when you talk to me it makes me feel
- 15:37Speaker 3: this way, et cetera, et cetera, nothing happens. So eventually
- 15:40Speaker 3: I had to create a boundary and end that relationship.
- 15:44Speaker 3: I feel like that's extreme in too many situations. I
- 15:47Speaker 3: feel like it's the easy way out. I'm not saying
- 15:49Speaker 3: it's not a way out and that it shouldn't be
- 15:52Speaker 3: done in some situations. Well, I see families getting wrecked
- 15:56Speaker 3: left and right, and we're almost creating a new normal
- 16:01Speaker 3: where nobody gets married, people have less children, and it
- 16:06Speaker 3: just it begs the question, who's really winning here? Just
- 16:11Speaker 3: a little food for thought on that. Now, speaking of
- 16:14Speaker 3: winning and losing, there's a loser in Washington State. This
- 16:19Speaker 3: guy his name, Let me pull it up here, because
- 16:22Speaker 3: this guy's a class a loser, a politician in Washington.
- 16:27Speaker 3: This guy needs a reality check. His name, Senator Jamie Peterson.
- 16:32Speaker 3: He's out there suggesting that if nine year olds are
- 16:34Speaker 3: old enough to ovulate and get pregnant, then they should
- 16:39Speaker 3: be old enough to consent to sex. I mean, who
- 16:47Speaker 3: is this guy? What is wrong with this guy? Anyway?
- 16:53Speaker 3: Listen to this clown.
- 16:54Speaker 7: It's about what happens with their boy.
- 16:57Speaker 3: Let's take it from the top.
- 17:01Speaker 7: Women have If they're old enough to get pregnant, they're
- 17:04Speaker 7: old enough to make their own decisions about what happens
- 17:08Speaker 7: with their bodies.
- 17:09Speaker 3: Unbelievable. Say it again for anybody, louder for the people
- 17:12Speaker 3: in the back.
- 17:13Speaker 7: Please, women, if they're old enough to get pregnant, they're
- 17:17Speaker 7: old enough to make their own decisions about what happens
- 17:20Speaker 7: with their bodies, okay, and parents do not have the
- 17:23Speaker 7: right to change that, or make a different decision, or
- 17:27Speaker 7: be notified in advance.
- 17:29Speaker 3: Women, have you heard it? You heard it three times already.
- 17:34Speaker 3: I mean, do I have to say much here? This
- 17:37Speaker 3: guy is a sick weirdo. This kind of talk makes
- 17:41Speaker 3: me miss the straightforward honesty of some of the guys
- 17:45Speaker 3: that used to hang out outside the barbershop. When I
- 17:48Speaker 3: first started as a barber at a place called rough Cuts,
- 17:51Speaker 3: and it wasn't really a rough neighborhood. It was very urban.
- 17:54Speaker 3: But these guys are pretty rough in and out of
- 17:55Speaker 3: jail doing what they did on the corner. Guys like
- 17:59Speaker 3: that would find a guy like this saying things like
- 18:02Speaker 3: that and do things that the rest of us wouldn't do.
- 18:08Speaker 3: And sometimes you got to look at that and say, God,
- 18:10Speaker 3: bless America, all right, thank God for those guys that
- 18:12Speaker 3: are willing to do those things. Because this guy is
- 18:17Speaker 3: sitting here with a straight face saying that if a
- 18:20Speaker 3: girl is you know, if you have a child that
- 18:22Speaker 3: begins mens stuating at nine years old, Let's say, maybe
- 18:26Speaker 3: not every girl does at nine maybe some are at eleven,
- 18:28Speaker 3: maybe some are twelve. But to say that that because
- 18:33Speaker 3: they're able or their body is preparing for this process,
- 18:39Speaker 3: that somehow parents don't play a role, it's sick. And
- 18:46Speaker 3: it's sick because we're not dogs, right, we are not
- 18:50Speaker 3: the rest of nature. Humans are very specifically, there's a
- 18:55Speaker 3: reason that we're at the top of the food chaine. Right.
- 18:57Speaker 3: Even if you want to take God out of this,
- 19:00Speaker 3: there's a reason we have laws on consent because people
- 19:04Speaker 3: have that ability, they have this right to their autonomy.
- 19:09Speaker 3: And for these people who were forcing us to wear
- 19:12Speaker 3: a mask, right, and I'm sure he was one of
- 19:13Speaker 3: those forcing people to get the vaccine and everything else.
- 19:20Speaker 3: To sit here and say that your kids should be
- 19:22Speaker 3: able at nine years old to decide if she wants
- 19:25Speaker 3: to have sex or get pregnant. This man, I'm not
- 19:29Speaker 3: going to say he should be in jail because he's
- 19:30Speaker 3: got the right to say whatever dumb stuff he wants
- 19:33Speaker 3: to say. But I mean, you've got to be kidding me, right,
- 19:36Speaker 3: I mean, seriously, something wrong with this guy. Anyway? There
- 19:42Speaker 3: is a lot more to come. Straight ahead. There's Kamala
- 19:44Speaker 3: Harris saying that she wants to you know, I'll save
- 19:48Speaker 3: that for another day. I want to spend a good
- 19:50Speaker 3: amount of time on that. Plus Todd Blanche was sworn
- 19:52Speaker 3: in as Attorney General. And coming up, we got this
- 19:54Speaker 3: live report from Kali, Colombia. Rafael Fabre, the Culture and
- 20:00Speaker 3: Technology a commentator from Colombia, will be joining us on
- 20:03Speaker 3: what's going on with the earthquake in Colombia. Of course,
- 20:07Speaker 3: my thoughts and prayers everybody affected there, one hundred and
- 20:10Speaker 3: eleven people, that is what I could see so far,
- 20:13Speaker 3: and so much more to come. Straight ahead, keep it
- 20:16Speaker 3: locked right here. I'm Rich Valdez.
- 20:18Speaker 4: This is America. This is America.
- 20:38Speaker 3: The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
- 20:41Speaker 3: to speak with Rich Valdez.
- 20:43Speaker 4: Oh, very good.
- 20:48Speaker 8: The honor is all yours, conservative time with a dash
- 20:53Speaker 8: of sofrito.
- 20:54Speaker 3: Now here's Rich Valdez.
- 20:57Speaker 2: All right to me?
- 20:57Speaker 3: That welcome back, Rich valdezk keeping your company. And we've
- 21:00Speaker 3: got our guest right now. Our guest is Fabre. He
- 21:03Speaker 3: is in Columbia. He's on the ground. He is a
- 21:06Speaker 3: very learned man. He does a lot of different things,
- 21:08Speaker 3: and one of the things he's doing today is informing us.
- 21:11Speaker 3: He's been on the ground in Columbia for four straight years,
- 21:14Speaker 3: and Rafayette, I want to bring you into Flores yours.
- 21:16Speaker 3: Tell us what's going on. What was it like to
- 21:19Speaker 3: watch this earthquake unfold?
- 21:21Speaker 6: Well, I got to tell you, rich it's an amazing thing.
- 21:23Speaker 6: I've been down here four years and I've experienced three earthquakes.
- 21:26Speaker 6: You know, the other first two were mild by comparison,
- 21:29Speaker 6: because the only last a few seconds.
- 21:31Speaker 2: But this one.
- 21:33Speaker 6: Shook for about a minute. You know, there was a
- 21:36Speaker 6: lot of shakings, a lot of screaming, a lot of
- 21:38Speaker 6: alarms going off, and you know, people just running out
- 21:42Speaker 6: into the street.
- 21:42Speaker 3: You know, we were talking about earthquakes, and they do
- 21:45Speaker 3: happen regularly, not often, but regularly. What's interesting is Colombia
- 21:50Speaker 3: is not typically the place that you hear in the
- 21:52Speaker 3: headlines for earthquakes. I think it's one hundred and eleven
- 21:55Speaker 3: is what the death count is what I've seen so far.
- 21:57Speaker 3: Does this come as a shock to you, It's shocking
- 21:59Speaker 3: to me.
- 21:59Speaker 2: Well, this is my third earthquake.
- 22:01Speaker 6: So you know, you see Venezuela, well, the disaster that
- 22:04Speaker 6: happened in Venezuela just recently, and and now this in
- 22:08Speaker 6: Columbia so you know, you start thinking, you know, what's
- 22:10Speaker 6: going on in this part of the hemisphere.
- 22:12Speaker 3: Yeah, this is one of those things that I guess
- 22:14Speaker 3: people like Californians, right, they get used to it. I
- 22:17Speaker 3: see it and I freak out. What's the economic impact?
- 22:20Speaker 3: Looking like from from your point of view? Did this
- 22:22Speaker 3: hit a major commercial center? Is it major residential damage?
- 22:26Speaker 3: What kind of area did it hit?
- 22:28Speaker 6: It hit all across, you know, I mean not only
- 22:32Speaker 6: commercial buildings, but some churches, as you've seen in some
- 22:36Speaker 6: of the videos that have been floating out there, apartment
- 22:40Speaker 6: buildings collapsing. I think we got lucky.
- 22:45Speaker 2: This was a strong earthquake.
- 22:47Speaker 9: But the real.
- 22:50Speaker 6: Lucky part is that it happened on the Pacific coast
- 22:55Speaker 6: about ten kilometers down, So had it been closer to
- 22:59Speaker 6: the surface, there would have been massive destruction, you know,
- 23:04Speaker 6: kind of like what you saw in Venezuela, Right.
- 23:07Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 23:08Speaker 3: I was watching one of those videos the when you
- 23:10Speaker 3: mentioned I probably the same one I saw of a church, right,
- 23:13Speaker 3: like a cathedral looking church and it's shaking like it's
- 23:17Speaker 3: made out of jelly. It was wild to watch this
- 23:19Speaker 3: stone church just going like that and people are in
- 23:22Speaker 3: awe abyss. And then the chunks of stones start falling
- 23:26Speaker 3: off the church. It was bizarre and I'd never seen
- 23:29Speaker 3: anything like that. And again the juxtaposition to what happened
- 23:32Speaker 3: in Venezuela, where it shook and everything just crumbled down,
- 23:36Speaker 3: like you said, massive destruction. Talk to me about headlines
- 23:39Speaker 3: that are looking like by you. How's the news coverage?
- 23:42Speaker 3: Are they able to give you up to the minute updates?
- 23:45Speaker 3: I mean, I'm getting what I'm getting from American sources,
- 23:48Speaker 3: but are the Columbian sources giving out anything better?
- 23:50Speaker 6: There's so much information out there on all the platforms,
- 23:53Speaker 6: typically short videos.
- 23:56Speaker 2: The news media is kind.
- 23:57Speaker 6: Of cobbling together iPhone and droid videos that people send in, you.
- 24:01Speaker 9: Know, verticale you know, with the black lines or whatever.
- 24:04Speaker 6: But everybody's pretty well informed about eighty seven injuries reported,
- 24:08Speaker 6: sixty one buildings collapse, almost sixteen hundred homes with damage,
- 24:13Speaker 6: and so we're lucky, you know, with the magnitude of
- 24:17Speaker 6: this seven point four it could have been it could
- 24:19Speaker 6: have been.
- 24:19Speaker 2: A lot worse.
- 24:20Speaker 6: But we're getting informed and I'm hearing the news in Spanish,
- 24:23Speaker 6: you know, So I've got to.
- 24:25Speaker 3: Talk to me about the response thus far. I know,
- 24:28Speaker 3: Colombia has a brand new president. They call him a tiger.
- 24:32Speaker 3: He is Alardo Espriat and he is he's a fan
- 24:37Speaker 3: favorite of President Trump's a lot of people in Columbia
- 24:40Speaker 3: seem to like him. He's bringing law in order to Columbia.
- 24:43Speaker 3: This is his first national disaster situation. As rescue workers scrambling,
- 24:47Speaker 3: talk to me about what that looks like from your
- 24:49Speaker 3: perspective on the ground.
- 24:51Speaker 6: You know, he's a lot like Trump in the way
- 24:53Speaker 6: he just communicates directly to the American people.
- 24:56Speaker 9: He doesn't go through the media.
- 24:58Speaker 6: The videos are out there and basically we canceled this
- 25:00Speaker 6: whole schedule. Aberdo de la s three eight, Yeah, that's
- 25:06Speaker 6: how you say it.
- 25:07Speaker 2: So we call them, we call him, we call him.
- 25:09Speaker 9: A d l E. That's what the media called them
- 25:11Speaker 9: down here, a d E.
- 25:13Speaker 6: And uh yeah, he's like the Trump of Columbia.
- 25:17Speaker 9: You know, he's he's.
- 25:20Speaker 6: Got American citizenship, his kids were born in the United States,
- 25:25Speaker 6: and he more than anything, he ran on that campaign
- 25:29Speaker 6: on having a strong what do you call relationship with
- 25:31Speaker 6: the United States, and so he fell right into the
- 25:35Speaker 6: shield of the Americas that has Naibuke out of El Salvador,
- 25:40Speaker 6: Javier mile out of Argentina, the new Costa Rican President.
- 25:44Speaker 6: And you know, I'll tell you what's really shocking. You know,
- 25:47Speaker 6: there's there's no money you know for left wing progressive
- 25:51Speaker 6: Marxist anymore since USA I d got shut down.
- 25:56Speaker 2: So that's what I'm noticing.
- 25:57Speaker 6: And so you know, the real politicians, the real people's
- 26:01Speaker 6: choices are are coming around. But you know, basically United
- 26:06Speaker 6: States has a lot of friends in South America and
- 26:08Speaker 6: Central America.
- 26:10Speaker 3: Yeah, there seems to be a spread of right leaning
- 26:13Speaker 3: politics spreading all through Central and South America, and I
- 26:16Speaker 3: want to get your take on that when we return,
- 26:19Speaker 3: I mean, he goes, keep in luck right here, coming
- 26:20Speaker 3: right back with Rafael Fabre.
- 26:23Speaker 4: This is America, This is America.
- 26:50Speaker 3: President Dama, take your up, mister president. Welcome to the
- 26:53Speaker 3: program sir.
- 26:54Speaker 4: Well, thank you, rich and thank you for everything.
- 26:56Speaker 9: I know you very well and I have I.
- 26:58Speaker 6: Listened, but I have a lot of people that listen
- 27:01Speaker 6: and they love your show and I appreciate it very much.
- 27:04Speaker 3: All right for Amia, welcome back. We continue the discussion
- 27:07Speaker 3: live from Colombia with Rafael Fabre. He's joining us from
- 27:11Speaker 3: the Cali section where in Columbia, right Cali.
- 27:16Speaker 6: I'll tell you what, it's salsa on steroids and it's
- 27:19Speaker 6: like a cardio.
- 27:20Speaker 9: Right.
- 27:21Speaker 6: The Cubans and the Puerto Ricans invented it, but they
- 27:23Speaker 6: you know, they took it to another level.
- 27:25Speaker 2: You know, yeah, yeah, not spinning on their head, but
- 27:28Speaker 2: almost like that.
- 27:30Speaker 3: We're talking about a a d l E.
- 27:32Speaker 2: Right.
- 27:33Speaker 3: The new president of Colombia, his response to this earthquake,
- 27:37Speaker 3: his response to the pushback from the left, his uh
- 27:41Speaker 3: commitment to law and order in Colombia. Talk to us
- 27:44Speaker 3: about El tig and what's going on on the ground politically.
- 27:50Speaker 6: Well, he just got through the election and he just
- 27:55Speaker 6: took control of the government on Friday at around four
- 28:00Speaker 6: thirty pm.
- 28:01Speaker 9: So there's a you.
- 28:02Speaker 6: Know, there's a lot of activity around that. But you know,
- 28:04Speaker 6: they have like jungle primaries here where you can have
- 28:07Speaker 6: you know, ten twenty candidates of all stripes, you know,
- 28:12Speaker 6: getting media from different angles, and it's a it was
- 28:15Speaker 6: a tough fight and it came down to you know,
- 28:18Speaker 6: twenty five million votes, so he got he got the
- 28:23Speaker 6: majority of that.
- 28:24Speaker 2: I think it was.
- 28:26Speaker 6: Fifty to forty nine or something like that.
- 28:28Speaker 2: So it's a real tight election.
- 28:30Speaker 6: But he ran on he ran on everything that somebody
- 28:35Speaker 6: in the HS would run, you know, that's supporting Trump, right,
- 28:39Speaker 6: law and order, anti terrorism, anti cartel, better human services,
- 28:46Speaker 6: and you know, getting rid of the fraud.
- 28:50Speaker 2: It's amazing.
- 28:50Speaker 6: I mean, Naibu kell in El Salvadorre says, you know,
- 28:54Speaker 6: it's amazing how many things you can do and you
- 28:57Speaker 6: when nobody's stealing money.
- 29:00Speaker 9: Right.
- 29:00Speaker 3: So the way he puts things so matter of factly
- 29:04Speaker 3: really just his eye opening, because you know, you can
- 29:07Speaker 3: think these things, but when you hear him say it,
- 29:09Speaker 3: it really is like, oh yeah that makes sense.
- 29:12Speaker 2: I think it makes a lot of sense. Yeah.
- 29:15Speaker 6: Yeah, So yeah, they line up very nicely with US
- 29:18Speaker 6: policy and with the Shield of Americas. They're you know,
- 29:23Speaker 6: they're having cooperation with the US military, right, they're getting
- 29:29Speaker 6: intelligence from the intelligence agencies in the US. So they've
- 29:35Speaker 6: identified like twenty cocaine factories.
- 29:37Speaker 2: That they're going after.
- 29:39Speaker 6: They're going to bomb them, and you know they're going.
- 29:41Speaker 9: To try to disarm the FARC or the e l N, which.
- 29:45Speaker 6: Are the the gorillas, you know, the anti government guerrillas
- 29:50Speaker 6: that were.
- 29:50Speaker 3: Friendly previous president who was a huge sympathet that's.
- 29:53Speaker 6: Right, yeah, you got elected. He was the first Marxist
- 29:56Speaker 6: to get elected in the history. So that was you know,
- 29:59Speaker 6: four years of craziness.
- 30:01Speaker 3: There's a new presidents in a couple of places, right,
- 30:04Speaker 3: you mentioned Naive Bukeley and Salvador that you mentioned other
- 30:10Speaker 3: others and and one of them is in Chile. Right,
- 30:12Speaker 3: in Chile they also elected a right of center president
- 30:16Speaker 3: that was supported by President Trump. Talk to me about
- 30:19Speaker 3: you know, from my perspective here right in New York,
- 30:22Speaker 3: we look at what's going on there, and it looks
- 30:24Speaker 3: like things are going red. Right does it seem that
- 30:27Speaker 3: way to you or does it seem like it's always
- 30:29Speaker 3: been read? But the corruption is getting handled?
- 30:33Speaker 6: Hard to say, I would have to say the corruption
- 30:36Speaker 6: is getting handled. You know, the wrong people are not
- 30:40Speaker 6: getting elected anymore. And I think it's common sense. You know,
- 30:45Speaker 6: people want to trade with the United States, and Senator
- 30:49Speaker 6: Senator John Kennedy says it best. He used to say,
- 30:54Speaker 6: you know, why are we giving our enemies so much
- 30:56Speaker 6: money they can hate us for free right, So so
- 31:00Speaker 6: you know, you.
- 31:02Speaker 2: Know, I think they see the connection.
- 31:04Speaker 10: I think they see, uh, a stronger economy connected to
- 31:09Speaker 10: the United States, right, so better free, better trade deals,
- 31:14Speaker 10: probably more favorable than somebody.
- 31:16Speaker 6: Else who's uh not treating as well, like in Europe, right,
- 31:20Speaker 6: the European Union or China or somewhere else. So they
- 31:25Speaker 6: all see I think, I think that's a great strategy, right,
- 31:28Speaker 6: connecting the economic prosperity UH, the anti cartel UH initiatives,
- 31:37Speaker 6: and it's just getting rid of the criminals. And they
- 31:40Speaker 6: you know, you see Costa Rica and a lot of
- 31:41Speaker 6: these countries, they want to build these gigantic prisons like
- 31:46Speaker 6: Naibukel has in El Salvador. I know, we keep mentioning him,
- 31:50Speaker 6: but he's a model and they keep, you know, they
- 31:52Speaker 6: keep referring to his prisons. How they want something like
- 31:56Speaker 6: that in their countries, which is great.
- 31:59Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean he have effectively got rid of
- 32:01Speaker 3: the biggest gang problem that they had, taking Al Salvador
- 32:04Speaker 3: from I believe they were once the only country in
- 32:09Speaker 3: the Hemisphere that had as many deaths as countries that
- 32:14Speaker 3: were at war. And that's wild to think, right, because
- 32:18Speaker 3: of the all of the gangs that were running and
- 32:21Speaker 3: ruling the roost in outside of by So I want
- 32:25Speaker 3: to get a sense of you know, you were in
- 32:28Speaker 3: the East Coast, you were in New Jersey, New York area,
- 32:31Speaker 3: and four years ago, you said, that's it. I'm packing
- 32:34Speaker 3: it up. I'm going I'm gonna, you know, going fishing.
- 32:37Speaker 3: How's it going? What are you doing there? How are
- 32:39Speaker 3: you enjoying life in Columbia?
- 32:42Speaker 6: Well, semi retired. I mean I was living in New Jersey,
- 32:46Speaker 6: mostly in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and then I moved to
- 32:49Speaker 6: Manhattan for about six years, and I traveled down to
- 32:51Speaker 6: Florida and I lived just north of Fort Lauderdale.
- 32:55Speaker 2: But I was always working from home.
- 32:57Speaker 6: I've been working from home for like fifteen years software development, right,
- 33:01Speaker 6: So you know, I mean I'd have a client in
- 33:05Speaker 6: New York City and I'm two blocks away. I'd say, Hey,
- 33:08Speaker 6: can I come over and meet you? And they'd say, no,
- 33:10Speaker 6: it's too much trouble. We've got to set up coffee.
- 33:12Speaker 4: We don't do that.
- 33:14Speaker 6: Yeah, everybody's got to come in from different offices. So
- 33:17Speaker 6: we'll just do a video. And you know, that's just
- 33:20Speaker 6: the way it is, you know, in our business here.
- 33:22Speaker 6: So knowing, you know, seeing that, I decided let me
- 33:26Speaker 6: come down to Columbia. I figured i'd stay for about
- 33:30Speaker 6: three months. And you know, it's a good place for
- 33:33Speaker 6: medical tourism. I mean, if you want to get your
- 33:35Speaker 6: teeth or you know, look a little better at less ugly.
- 33:40Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, actually I went. I visited Colombia
- 33:42Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, and my doctor turned to me.
- 33:46Speaker 3: I was I had a cold, and I was like,
- 33:47Speaker 3: I want to make sure this cold is nipped in
- 33:49Speaker 3: the bud before I go. I want to have fun
- 33:50Speaker 3: on my trip. And he says, what are you going for?
- 33:53Speaker 3: Restaurants or tattoo? And I said, tattoo they have They're
- 33:58Speaker 3: very well known for their body art as well, so yeah,
- 34:03Speaker 3: I guess they've expanded now into dental and medical tourism,
- 34:06Speaker 3: which is pretty cool.
- 34:08Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 34:08Speaker 6: I don't have any tattoos, no piercings, and I think
- 34:13Speaker 6: probably I've gotten got along pretty good without them, you know,
- 34:18Speaker 6: for all this time, so I might.
- 34:19Speaker 2: Not got on. You know what I used to want
- 34:21Speaker 2: to get when I was younger.
- 34:22Speaker 6: My brother was in the Vietnam War and I used
- 34:25Speaker 6: to worry about him, and so I used to think
- 34:27Speaker 6: it was a good idea to get the tattoo of
- 34:29Speaker 6: your social Security number on the bottom of your foot
- 34:32Speaker 6: or something like that. But that's about the only tattoo
- 34:35Speaker 6: I've ever wanted to get. But yeah, I think that,
- 34:37Speaker 6: you know what, most tattoos are pretty ugly, but you
- 34:40Speaker 6: know there's some nice artwork, you know, you gotta appreciate it.
- 34:43Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I tell you, in Colombia they really really
- 34:45Speaker 3: do an amazing job. And I enjoyed my trip, but
- 34:50Speaker 3: not only the tattoo obviously, the gastronomy, the culture, the history.
- 34:55Speaker 3: It was just fantastic. And the weather was interesting, which
- 34:58Speaker 3: was you know, I stayed at the ying and it
- 35:01Speaker 3: it's like summertime during the day and like the fall
- 35:04Speaker 3: at night gets like fifty sixty degrees every night.
- 35:06Speaker 2: That's beautiful in the valley that I like.
- 35:08Speaker 9: Yeah, I like that.
- 35:11Speaker 6: You just go fifteen minutes up the mountain over here
- 35:13Speaker 6: and your sixty degrees at night.
- 35:15Speaker 2: It's yeah, it's wonderful.
- 35:17Speaker 9: No way, cee.
- 35:18Speaker 2: Nothing's great.
- 35:20Speaker 3: If I let everybody listening know how they can find
- 35:23Speaker 3: you where they you know, how do they follow you?
- 35:25Speaker 3: What's the scoop?
- 35:27Speaker 2: Sure, let's see.
- 35:29Speaker 6: I'm on x at Ralph fabrae that's r E l
- 35:33Speaker 6: P h f A B r e uh Instagram, r
- 35:39Speaker 6: J fab that's r j A y f A B
- 35:42Speaker 6: and I'm LinkedIn I'm at fabra dot com. So I'm
- 35:46Speaker 6: F A B R E dot com.
- 35:48Speaker 2: My last name dot com perfect.
- 35:52Speaker 3: I want to thank you for being with us, brother,
- 35:53Speaker 3: Thanks for giving us an update. I appreciated. Godspeed to
- 35:56Speaker 3: you and we're gonna keep in touch with you for
- 35:58Speaker 3: all things Colombia.
- 36:00Speaker 6: Thank you, Cuban and Colombia updating on Colombian issues.
- 36:03Speaker 2: How about that. That's pretty new.
- 36:05Speaker 3: Talk to you soon, brother, Thanks you, take care, Thank
- 36:07Speaker 3: you bye.
- 36:09Speaker 4: This is America with Rich valdenis.
- 36:31Speaker 3: All right for Emania. Welcome back, Rich vald that's continuing
- 36:34Speaker 3: with you this Friday night. And I want to get
- 36:36Speaker 3: into this story. This is a tough one, real tough,
- 36:40Speaker 3: built to swallow because well, it involves the death of
- 36:45Speaker 3: a seven year old and that stuff always hits hard, right,
- 36:47Speaker 3: And I'm not going to soft pedal around any of
- 36:49Speaker 3: the details because I think we definitely have to talk
- 36:52Speaker 3: about this. There is a case out of Ohio. Just yesterday,
- 37:00Speaker 3: year old developmentally disabled boy named William Evans was found
- 37:05Speaker 3: duct taped and dead in a closet in Hamilton County, Ohio.
- 37:10Speaker 3: His mother, Caitlyn Evans, has two partners. They're both transgender,
- 37:17Speaker 3: Kirby Rankin and Nessakini, both biological males that identify as women,
- 37:22Speaker 3: and they're charged with the murder and child endangerment after
- 37:27Speaker 3: torturing this kid beatings, burns, choking, water, torture, blunt forced
- 37:32Speaker 3: trauma to the head that actually killed him. The bruises
- 37:36Speaker 3: are too numerous to count. The grandparents had raised alarms
- 37:40Speaker 3: and hired a private investigator because they feared that this
- 37:44Speaker 3: kid was living in a house of horror. That little
- 37:46Speaker 3: boy is now gone, God rest his soul. And this
- 37:50Speaker 3: isn't an isolated case of trans violence. Look at the
- 37:55Speaker 3: documented pattern of high profile violence involving transgender identified perpetrators
- 38:03Speaker 3: or even transgender networks. Twenty eighteen, Maryland, Aberdeen, Maryland. This
- 38:10Speaker 3: person's name is Snochia Moseley to transgender woman killed three
- 38:14Speaker 3: people and herself at a Right Aid distribution center. Twenty
- 38:20Speaker 3: nineteen Highland's Ranch, Colorado. Alec McKinney, transgender man and accomplice
- 38:26Speaker 3: was with him and they killed a student and eight
- 38:28Speaker 3: others at a STEM school. Twenty twenty two, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 38:33Speaker 3: Anderson Lee Aldridge, identified as a non binary person by
- 38:38Speaker 3: his own defense lawyers, killed five people at the Q Club.
- 38:41Speaker 3: Remember that twenty twenty three, Nashville, twenty to see Audrey Hale,
- 38:45Speaker 3: a transgender man, killed six people at the Covenant School.
- 38:51Speaker 3: Twenty twenty five, Utah. Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah
- 38:55Speaker 3: Valley University by Tyler Robinson, who was in a romantic
- 38:58Speaker 3: relationship with a transgender partner and had become more pro
- 39:03Speaker 3: trans rights as a result. Robinson says that Kirk's hatred
- 39:09Speaker 3: quote unquote as would cause him to do it. Twenty
- 39:12Speaker 3: twenty five Coventry, Vermont, The Visions or the Zizians zizi Ans.
- 39:18Speaker 3: We've talked about this before. I just don't know how
- 39:19Speaker 3: to pronounce the the name of their cult. They are
- 39:22Speaker 3: a transgender death cult online and network led by a
- 39:27Speaker 3: trans woman. Mostly transgender and non binary members engaged in
- 39:30Speaker 3: a shootout that killed a Border Patrol agent, David Mayland
- 39:37Speaker 3: may He rest in peace, and part of a larger
- 39:40Speaker 3: multi state murder ring that included a landlord and the
- 39:44Speaker 3: parents of one of the members. They eventually got caught
- 39:47Speaker 3: up in a sting operation twenty twenty five in Alvarado, Texas.
- 39:51Speaker 3: Autumn Hill, a transgender woman her legal name Cameron Arnold,
- 39:55Speaker 3: and her accomplices including other trans identified individuals, were among
- 39:59Speaker 3: those charms in an ambush on an ice facility that
- 40:02Speaker 3: left an officer shot in twenty twenty six tumbler Ridge,
- 40:06Speaker 3: Canada and in Rhode Island. This span back and forth.
- 40:08Speaker 3: These are back to back incidents involving two separate trans women,
- 40:12Speaker 3: Jesse Van Rutslar in the Canadian shooting of a school
- 40:18Speaker 3: and family members, and Robert Dorgan known as ROBERTA. Esposito,
- 40:23Speaker 3: who killed his ex wife and son at a Rhode
- 40:25Speaker 3: Island hockey arena. Again, those things happened in tandem. Not
- 40:30Speaker 3: sure of the connection if any. Now, obviously, the loss
- 40:34Speaker 3: of any human life is tragic, whether it's this little
- 40:39Speaker 3: boy in Ohio, the federal agent Charlie Kirk, the victims
- 40:42Speaker 3: and these other attacks, absolute tragedy. The families they all grieve, right,
- 40:49Speaker 3: everybody's feeling is total devastation. That's how people feel when
- 40:56Speaker 3: a loved one is robbed from them. And yet, if
- 41:00Speaker 3: you were to ask one of the search engines, hey,
- 41:03Speaker 3: could you give me a list? And again the list
- 41:05Speaker 3: I gave you is not exhaustive in anyway. That just
- 41:08Speaker 3: it took a little while to put together. Because if
- 41:10Speaker 3: you ask Google or chat or one of these things.
- 41:13Speaker 3: Oftentimes they'll say there isn't any data specifically around transgender
- 41:18Speaker 3: killings because no such trend exists, and it's a tiny,
- 41:23Speaker 3: a tiny fraction of overall violence. Imagine telling the parents
- 41:30Speaker 3: of these kids that this is you know, well, your
- 41:33Speaker 3: kid is the result of a tiny fraction of overall violence.
- 41:37Speaker 3: Do you think they care or they send you to hell?
- 41:40Speaker 3: I know I would. It's not acceptable when you have
- 41:45Speaker 3: an entire transgender death cult like Decisions or the Zizians
- 41:51Speaker 3: and the little kid here seven years old abused and
- 41:56Speaker 3: tortured by his mother and her two transgender lovers. I mean,
- 42:01Speaker 3: this is sick, absolutely sick. And then for the authorities,
- 42:11Speaker 3: the FBI, everybody that's compiling the data, the mental health
- 42:15Speaker 3: people in particular, to not count this and say trans Now,
- 42:20Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure under this FBI there will be markers
- 42:23Speaker 3: that say, hey, look, these incidents involve transgender individuals and
- 42:26Speaker 3: there's no reason we should ignore that. Right. The argument
- 42:30Speaker 3: on the other side would be, well, you know, we
- 42:31Speaker 3: don't do it when straight people do that. In fact,
- 42:34Speaker 3: what they do is they just turn around and say
- 42:35Speaker 3: most violence is committed by cis gender white men, so
- 42:40Speaker 3: they can continue to simply just attack white men because
- 42:43Speaker 3: they are the majority, because they came from Europe and
- 42:45Speaker 3: started this country. That makes sense to me. What doesn't
- 42:48Speaker 3: make sense to me is why we avoid labeling anything
- 42:52Speaker 3: else right, Because clearly this is a thing, right, And
- 42:56Speaker 3: clearly this was once a mental disorder and it's not
- 43:00Speaker 3: anymore now. When somebody's mental state or ideology gives them
- 43:06Speaker 3: the drive to murder, this factor must be named with
- 43:10Speaker 3: the same clarity that we apply to other incidents that
- 43:15Speaker 3: you know, the guy who cut the arena Zaruska, right,
- 43:19Speaker 3: he stabbed this girl in the neck. They say he
- 43:22Speaker 3: was schizophrenic. That's appropriate to name it. Why don't we
- 43:29Speaker 3: name it when it's the trans people and blame it
- 43:31Speaker 3: on their mental illness. It's because we stop viewing transgender
- 43:36Speaker 3: lifestyle as a mental illness. When it's severe bipolar disorder
- 43:40Speaker 3: or radical even religious extremism, right like you see the
- 43:45Speaker 3: the the Islamists, all that stuff has to be called out.
- 43:51Speaker 3: Severe gender dysphoria carries extraordinarily high rates of what they
- 43:58Speaker 3: call co ocurring conditions like depression, anxiety, autism, and other
- 44:05Speaker 3: spectrum disorders. The twenty thirteen Diagnostic Statistical Manual, so that's
- 44:13Speaker 3: version five. They made a shift in twenty thirteen in
- 44:17Speaker 3: the DSM from gender identity disorder GID to gender dysphoria,
- 44:24Speaker 3: and this came as the result of intense lobbying from
- 44:30Speaker 3: advocacy groups, right, and this is what they do. They
- 44:34Speaker 3: have intense lobbying. They go after the transgender ideology or
- 44:40Speaker 3: the identity itself should not be classified as a disorder.
- 44:44Speaker 3: So the clinical focus moves from treating only the distress
- 44:48Speaker 3: of it, and when that distress goes unaddressed or it's
- 44:53Speaker 3: amplified because of all sorts of things that are happening
- 44:56Speaker 3: in these people's lives, the pathway to harm to themselves
- 45:00Speaker 3: or to others become so much more clear. Mental health
- 45:05Speaker 3: standards treat risk of harm to self and to others,
- 45:08Speaker 3: and we need to continue to do that. In particular
- 45:10Speaker 3: in this case, if you're a doctor and you have
- 45:13Speaker 3: a patient that says that they identify as transgender, we
- 45:17Speaker 3: should put that right back in the DSM and say, hey, listen,
- 45:20Speaker 3: over the last ten years, we've seen more transgender acts
- 45:25Speaker 3: of murder and violence than we've seen in the past. Therefore,
- 45:30Speaker 3: we want to let you know that you may have
- 45:32Speaker 3: a higher propensity for violence, and everybody needs to know,
- 45:37Speaker 3: in particular the patient and stop coddling people when they say,
- 45:41Speaker 3: I think I'm trapped in the wrong body, Right, I
- 45:44Speaker 3: think it's a time in life where we have to say,
- 45:48Speaker 3: hold on a second. We have to prioritize, prioritize this
- 45:52Speaker 3: for the same reasons as we do with the others
- 45:55Speaker 3: the other mental illnesses. Is what I'm talking about anyway.
- 45:58Speaker 3: So these common threads that you know, we observe obviously
- 46:01Speaker 3: very deep, very volatile, and these many of these people,
- 46:08Speaker 3: especially the shooters like Decisions and the other people, the
- 46:12Speaker 3: trans Tifa, the queer Antifa group, all these people that
- 46:16Speaker 3: you know, there's radical elements that happen online and they
- 46:21Speaker 3: have grievances against the system or against you know, political
- 46:25Speaker 3: enemies or ordinary people. They start to justify this stuff.
- 46:28Speaker 3: Then you have the institutional reluctance to name the actual problem,
- 46:32Speaker 3: the patterns that exist. Federal crime tracking doesn't log biological choice, right,
- 46:39Speaker 3: doesn't you know, say, if you're cis gender, or if
- 46:42Speaker 3: you're if you're whatever, sound the alarm on that stuff.
- 46:46Speaker 3: So this is one of those things I think we
- 46:50Speaker 3: really have to pay attention because these lobbies, they they
- 46:55Speaker 3: quickly respond to these high profile cases with coordinat messaging
- 47:00Speaker 3: and they start framing any discussion of the perpetrator's identity
- 47:04Speaker 3: as disinformation or an attack on a vulnerable minority group.
- 47:09Speaker 3: All that does is it creates a professional and social
- 47:11Speaker 3: pressure on the media and on officials to downplay and
- 47:15Speaker 3: omit their background. So when officials actually have to give
- 47:22Speaker 3: the facts, like they did in this case with this
- 47:25Speaker 3: little boy, they leave out critical details and that's not
- 47:31Speaker 3: something we should accept. So I want to play you
- 47:34Speaker 3: this audio from doctor Lakshmi Samarco. She is the Hamilton
- 47:40Speaker 3: County coroner, describing exactly what happened in this case, and
- 47:47Speaker 3: it is heart wrenching. Listen to this.
- 47:50Speaker 8: We always say that we expect the worst, but sometimes
- 47:56Speaker 8: we get it. I think I opened the closet door
- 47:59Speaker 8: and just froz for a while. Cause of death for
- 48:02Speaker 8: this little boy was want trauma to the head, and
- 48:09Speaker 8: he did have a number of other injuries. He had
- 48:14Speaker 8: a comminudd supercomdler fracture of the distal humorous and then
- 48:24Speaker 8: he had bruises that were too numerous to count and
- 48:28Speaker 8: of various ages. Yes, I know you already have information
- 48:34Speaker 8: that he was bound, and yes he was bound. When
- 48:36Speaker 8: we found him. There were no other children found in
- 48:40Speaker 8: the house, just him, and we thought he had been
- 48:45Speaker 8: there for at least a day.
- 48:48Speaker 9: Now.
- 48:48Speaker 8: I don't have a presentation for you. I don't have photos,
- 48:51Speaker 8: you don't do the it's too graphic and we don't
- 48:54Speaker 8: want to do that to anybody, especially out of respect
- 48:57Speaker 8: to his grandparents.
- 49:01Speaker 3: I don't even know what to say. You heard what
- 49:04Speaker 3: I heard. This lady said. They water tortured this kid.
- 49:09Speaker 3: They burned this kid. He's seven years old and he
- 49:11Speaker 3: had developmental disabilities. They duct taped him and hid him
- 49:16Speaker 3: in a closet, left him for dead, and beat him
- 49:19Speaker 3: in the head senselessly until he was dead. His mother
- 49:24Speaker 3: and her two transgender lovers did this murder. I'm not
- 49:31Speaker 3: trying to be overly dramatic. I'm genuinely taken aback by this,
- 49:37Speaker 3: the fact that people can be a this sick to
- 49:39Speaker 3: their own child and be that we as a society
- 49:46Speaker 3: aren't talking more about this. And yes, I do call
- 49:50Speaker 3: it out when other people do this. There was a
- 49:52Speaker 3: case not that long ago, a similar neglect case about
- 49:58Speaker 3: another young kid. We talked about that on this show.
- 50:02Speaker 3: So this isn't about solely calling out the transgender stuff
- 50:05Speaker 3: and turning up blind eye to the other stuff. Child
- 50:08Speaker 3: abuse is child abuse. But I am calling out the
- 50:10Speaker 3: transgender stuff because clearly, when you try to put together
- 50:14Speaker 3: an exhaustive list, no list exists. So therefore the answer
- 50:20Speaker 3: to that question is it simply doesn't exist. There's no pattern.
- 50:25Speaker 3: It's zero point one five percent of overall crime. It's
- 50:29Speaker 3: not really a problem. How do you tell the parents
- 50:34Speaker 3: of the grandparents of this kid, how do you tell
- 50:37Speaker 3: any anybody that, what a straight face, that there is
- 50:40Speaker 3: no crime that is zero point whatever I gave you
- 50:45Speaker 3: close to uh ten examples come on. Failing to name
- 50:51Speaker 3: the problem precisely doesn't protect anybody. It ensures that the
- 50:55Speaker 3: warning signs continue to get ignored until the next tragedy.
- 51:00Speaker 3: In this case, the primary common denominator is not crime.
- 51:06Speaker 3: It's people that are suffering from transgenderism right there in
- 51:10Speaker 3: a profound identity crisis, severe untreated mental illness, distress, radicalized
- 51:18Speaker 3: by subcultures that didn't exist at least in this form
- 51:22Speaker 3: decades ago. So we have to ask every question, not
- 51:26Speaker 3: only the ones that satisfy the lobbies, every question, this
- 51:32Speaker 3: reclassification of gender dysphoria, the reluctance to track these patterns,
- 51:37Speaker 3: all of this is the product of successful political pressure,
- 51:42Speaker 3: not neutral science. The body count is real, the pattern
- 51:47Speaker 3: is observable, and the effort to obscure the common threads
- 51:51Speaker 3: is deliberate and active. That's not something we should put
- 51:56Speaker 3: up with. Keep in locked right here. I'll be right back,
- 52:00Speaker 3: Rich Valdez.
- 52:01Speaker 1: This is America. This is America.
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- 52:28Speaker 3: All right, Hombia. Welcome back, Rich vald that's keeping your
- 52:31Speaker 3: company tonight. And I want to get into this bad
- 52:35Speaker 3: parents a little bit more, because we talked about the
- 52:38Speaker 3: bad mom who drove the getaway car allegedly for her
- 52:43Speaker 3: son who is involved in a gang shooting. That's crazy,
- 52:47Speaker 3: especially when you're a deputy police commissioner out here in
- 52:51Speaker 3: New York and Mount Vernon. We talked about this other
- 52:54Speaker 3: woman who had two transgender excuse me lovers and murdered
- 53:00Speaker 3: her own son. And I gotta tell you it genuinely
- 53:04Speaker 3: bothers me to make statements like that as if they're normal, right,
- 53:11Speaker 3: that that should be a headline that we talk about
- 53:14Speaker 3: it shouldn't be. But life I'm learning in my forty
- 53:22Speaker 3: eighth year around the Sun, that really comes down to
- 53:30Speaker 3: so many issues, but they're all in one. All right,
- 53:34Speaker 3: What am I saying? I'm gonna give you a little
- 53:35Speaker 3: Kamala Harris word salad here. We could say life is
- 53:39Speaker 3: all about accountability, or that it's all about our faith,
- 53:44Speaker 3: or that it's all about doing the right thing. But
- 53:47Speaker 3: I think all these things kind of reinforce each other
- 53:50Speaker 3: and lean on the other and are one and the
- 53:54Speaker 3: same in many ways. And I'll explain, for example, if
- 53:59Speaker 3: this police commissioner woman, or this young mom of the
- 54:03Speaker 3: seven year old kid that was murdered by her and
- 54:06Speaker 3: her transgender lovers, or anybody honestly who's involved in anything
- 54:12Speaker 3: you me, any one of us when we're involved in
- 54:15Speaker 3: making bad choices of any kind. Right, if we rely
- 54:17Speaker 3: on our faith, it's like, all right, what would Jesus
- 54:21Speaker 3: do if we just look at it from the secular
- 54:25Speaker 3: standpoint of accountability. I'm going to be held accountable for
- 54:30Speaker 3: these actions? Am I accountable for this? Do I want
- 54:33Speaker 3: to be accountable for this?
- 54:34Speaker 4: You know?
- 54:34Speaker 3: Are we thinking things through in that accountability mindset. Are
- 54:40Speaker 3: we emotionally mature or immature? I would say most people
- 54:43Speaker 3: are emotionally immature. Psychologists like Young right, Carl Jung talk
- 54:50Speaker 3: about and others who built on his work talk about
- 54:54Speaker 3: the inner child wound, right, that people oftentimes spend their
- 54:58Speaker 3: entire lives reacting and evolving around a wound that they
- 55:02Speaker 3: received as a child, whether it's from a parent or
- 55:04Speaker 3: a caregiver, or whatever, the loss of a grandparent, it
- 55:07Speaker 3: could be many things, and it creates the personality that
- 55:13Speaker 3: you espouse. But that's not truly your personality, right, it's
- 55:18Speaker 3: the personality that you adopt as a result of dealing
- 55:23Speaker 3: with or coping with these traumatic events. That's what I'll
- 55:27Speaker 3: call them. For example, I'll say this like, let's say
- 55:31Speaker 3: you meet somebody and you go, man, that guy's got
- 55:32Speaker 3: a chip on his shoulder, or that one really has
- 55:34Speaker 3: a chip on her shoulder, and you know the type, right.
- 55:37Speaker 3: They are the people that in a group setting, they're
- 55:40Speaker 3: not chill, they're not calm in any way.
- 55:43Speaker 9: There.
- 55:44Speaker 3: We'll call them anxious, we'll call them high strung. You
- 55:47Speaker 3: can even call them a bully if you want, Right,
- 55:50Speaker 3: They're the people that feel the need to constantly correct
- 55:54Speaker 3: or constantly disagree, or constantly because they lack their own
- 56:00Speaker 3: internal reassurance make sure that things are on track right,
- 56:07Speaker 3: you know, And they would see it themselves as, Oh,
- 56:10Speaker 3: I'm just an anal person or I'm just trying to
- 56:12Speaker 3: be precise, which not a bad thing. But if we
- 56:16Speaker 3: look at it through this psychological lens, right of emotional
- 56:20Speaker 3: maturity or people being at one with or solving with,
- 56:25Speaker 3: or dealing with their childhood wound, if you will, why
- 56:30Speaker 3: do you have the chip on your shoulder? Is it
- 56:32Speaker 3: because you were brought up in an environment where everything
- 56:34Speaker 3: you did was questioned, you were yelled at for not
- 56:36Speaker 3: doing it. That type of thing, right, Those people contrary
- 56:41Speaker 3: to the people that grew up differently with either very
- 56:43Speaker 3: soft or gentle parenting or parents who were just aloof
- 56:46Speaker 3: and out right. Let's say they had more money and
- 56:50Speaker 3: it was like, oh, well my dad was around, you know,
- 56:52Speaker 3: he was blah blah blah, and he was, you know,
- 56:54Speaker 3: the nicest guy ever because he wasn't under the same
- 56:58Speaker 3: pressures as other people. And there's also cultural inputs that
- 57:01Speaker 3: come into this, you know, immigrant families versus non immigrant families,
- 57:05Speaker 3: socioeconomic so there are so many things that go into it,
- 57:08Speaker 3: but at the end of the day, it's like who
- 57:09Speaker 3: you are as a person, and a lot of things
- 57:12Speaker 3: make these up. And this is why through life I've
- 57:15Speaker 3: learned that whether it's self help and training from work
- 57:19Speaker 3: or this, that and the other books, ultimately for me,
- 57:24Speaker 3: the best thing for me is to do my best
- 57:28Speaker 3: to be more like Jesus, to be more like the
- 57:30Speaker 3: Bible describes me to be. The more scripture I can
- 57:34Speaker 3: internalize and act out in my own life, the better
- 57:38Speaker 3: my life will be. Right, A soft answer turns away wrath.
- 57:41Speaker 3: I haven't learned that lesson yet, right, listen to me
- 57:44Speaker 3: half the time with some of the callers on the radio. Now,
- 57:46Speaker 3: if you listen to the tapes over the years, you'd
- 57:49Speaker 3: see that in the beginning I used to, you know,
- 57:50Speaker 3: get into big shouting matches with them, and now you know,
- 57:54Speaker 3: I laugh. I keep it jovial and try to keep
- 57:57Speaker 3: it moving. It's a little bit of both, right, a
- 57:59Speaker 3: little bit of maturity, a little bit of strategy. Performance
- 58:02Speaker 3: aren't on air because I know what I want to project.
- 58:08Speaker 3: I don't always want to have a fight. I usually
- 58:10Speaker 3: want to have a conversation. But in the beginning of
- 58:12Speaker 3: my career, I would say that I always wanted to fight.
- 58:15Speaker 3: I was always looking for the smoke. So I bring
- 58:17Speaker 3: all these things up to say that I think as
- 58:19Speaker 3: people were always evolving, and I try to remain compassionate
- 58:23Speaker 3: towards the fallen man, right, the fallibility of humanity. But
- 58:31Speaker 3: when it comes to certain things that are as egregious
- 58:33Speaker 3: as these hurting children, putting kids in harm's way, helping
- 58:37Speaker 3: your kid commit crimes, these are things where we have
- 58:40Speaker 3: to draw the line as a society, and we can't
- 58:42Speaker 3: make them normal. We can't look at this police mom
- 58:45Speaker 3: and say things like any good mom would do it,
- 58:49Speaker 3: any good mom would help her kid out. No, any
- 58:52Speaker 3: good mom would not, especially any good mom. That's a
- 58:55Speaker 3: deputy police commissioner. I could tell you right now, somebody
- 59:00Speaker 3: hurts my kid in some way, and I'm able to
- 59:02Speaker 3: hurt them back. I likely will. But that doesn't mean
- 59:05Speaker 3: if my kid tells me, hey, look these people they
- 59:07Speaker 3: did whatever to me, and I'm gonna thing with them,
- 59:09Speaker 3: and I'm gonna go, We're gonna do a drive by
- 59:11Speaker 3: and spray them up. I'm not gonna drive the car.
- 59:14Speaker 3: I'm not gonna try and justify it like some parents
- 59:17Speaker 3: who over the years say things like, look, if my
- 59:19Speaker 3: kids are gonna do drinking or drugs, I'd rather them
- 59:23Speaker 3: do them here with me than out in the streets. Now,
- 59:27Speaker 3: I say, certain things are better left for the streets, right,
- 59:31Speaker 3: don't bring the streets into my house. Better yet, don't
- 59:34Speaker 3: do them. I'm not one of those guys that believes that,
- 59:36Speaker 3: uh oh, they're gonna do it anyway. No, I don't
- 59:38Speaker 3: believe they're gonna do it anyway. I know many people
- 59:40Speaker 3: I grew up too, and there were a lot of
- 59:42Speaker 3: people that didn't do a lot of things. So anyway,
- 59:45Speaker 3: I could go on about this stuff for days, but
- 59:47Speaker 3: I wanted to leave you with that thought. You have
- 59:49Speaker 3: to stand for something, because if you stand for nothing,
- 59:51Speaker 3: you fall for anything. And the only thing necessary for
- 59:55Speaker 3: evil to triumph is for good people like you to
- 59:57Speaker 3: sit there and do nothing. A style Brooks my take care,
- 1:00:00Speaker 3: good night, and God bless you, America. I'm Rich Valdess,
- 1:00:03Speaker 3: and this is America.
- 1:00:06Speaker 4: This is America.