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Christa Pike, Consciousness, and Co-occurring AuDHD · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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  Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez, powered by politiweek.com.
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  Speaker 2: And Rich Valdez is with us, former Christie administration official.
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  Speaker 3: You work for Chris Christie, you've been in politics, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of public service stuff. Rich Valdez, columnist now with
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  Speaker 3: the Washington Times.
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  Speaker 1: This is America.
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  Speaker 3: Richie V, you're on the air with the nation.
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  Speaker 4: This is America.
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  Speaker 1: With your host, Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 3: What's up, America? I am Rich Valdez. Valdez with an
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  Speaker 3: S at Rich Valdez on all of the social media.
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  Speaker 3: Your liberty-loving Latino amigo right here 17 blocks away from
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  Speaker 3: Madison Square Garden, New York City. Blessed and honored to
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  Speaker 3: be here with you guys, my wonderful audience. And I
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  Speaker 3: want to start with a story out of Tennessee because
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  Speaker 3: it's equal parts tragic, chaotic, and let's be honest, it's
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  Speaker 3: hard to look away from this thing with Krista Pyke.
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  Speaker 3: That's the woman who was supposed to become the first
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  Speaker 3: female executed in the volunteer state. But instead, and again,
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  Speaker 3: the first woman in more than two centuries, but instead
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  Speaker 3: she survived a botched lethal injection attempt. You've probably seen this.
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  Speaker 3: And again, the lethal injection is put into an IV
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  Speaker 3: and that was part of the problem, right? It's not
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  Speaker 3: like an intramuscular shot, like a vitamin B shot or
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  Speaker 3: something like that. This is more of something that has
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  Speaker 3: to go right in the vein. So two doses of
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  Speaker 3: the drug, her veins wouldn't cooperate. Her arms were swollen
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  Speaker 3: and blistered. You hear audible snoring still going on while
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  Speaker 3: the clock was ticking. And suddenly she's headed to the
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  Speaker 3: hospital instead of the hereafter. Second mess up in the
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  Speaker 3: state this year. Governor Bill Lee has paused all remaining executions.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's a good thing. And I'm sure the guy,
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  Speaker 3: if he hasn't been fired already, he's going to be fired.
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  Speaker 3: The guy is in charge of executions at the prison.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to order a full review. The lawyers are
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  Speaker 3: calling this torturous. And look, I would agree that I
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  Speaker 3: signed up to get killed on death row, not to
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  Speaker 3: pretend to get killed and live. That might be worse, right,
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  Speaker 3: than actually getting killed. That's bizarre to me. Honestly, I
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  Speaker 3: know this woman is a brutal killer herself, who even
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  Speaker 3: saved a piece of the skull of the lady she
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  Speaker 3: bashed to death as a souvenir, kind of like serial
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  Speaker 3: killers do. But look, you know what they say, justice
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  Speaker 3: delayed is justice denied. But This is justice that can't
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  Speaker 3: even get the IV right, right? It's something entirely different.
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  Speaker 3: So we're going to dig into what this means for
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  Speaker 3: the death penalty debate, for victims' families that are still waiting,
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  Speaker 3: and for a system that keeps promising a humane way
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  Speaker 3: and then delivers the exact opposite. And that's just the
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  Speaker 3: beginning of what we're going to talk about. Straight ahead,
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  Speaker 3: I got a few more things, but I want to
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  Speaker 3: get into this Krista Pike thing right here. Well, you
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  Speaker 3: know what? We'll circle back to it in the next segment.
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  Speaker 3: How about that? I'll keep giving you what I've got
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  Speaker 3: on the agenda tonight because there's more, right? We've got
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  Speaker 3: some energy talk, some jobs talk, a whole lot of
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  Speaker 3: America First momentum that feels like, you know, this is
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  Speaker 3: finally getting somewhere, right? It's kind of like that first haircut,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that you get from brand new clippers after
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  Speaker 3: they get, you know, come back from the sharpener or
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  Speaker 3: something like that. You guys aren't barbers, so you probably
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  Speaker 3: don't get that analogy, but things are starting to pick
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  Speaker 3: up in my opinion, right? Because we're going to talk
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  Speaker 3: a little bit about President Trump crisscrossing the nation. He's
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  Speaker 3: over in Nebraska. He's here. He's there. He's everywhere. He's
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  Speaker 3: talking about massive tax cuts on diesel fuel. And this
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  Speaker 3: is good stuff, right, for farmers, for every American. So
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  Speaker 3: we're going to get into that. Then we're going to
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  Speaker 3: talk about more campaign stuff, right, because we're less than
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  Speaker 3: a month away, I'd say three weeks away from the
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  Speaker 3: midterm elections where most people are walking around, most in
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  Speaker 3: my area, right? Remind you that I am in the
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  Speaker 3: New York City area and the suburbs in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 3: So most people around me have made the foregone conclusion.
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  Speaker 3: That Trump is getting impeached and the Republicans have lost
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  Speaker 3: control of the House and Senate. Some of them because
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  Speaker 3: they're expert handicappers like the people at Kalshi. They say,
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  Speaker 3: you know what? No, no, no. We're going to hold
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  Speaker 3: on to the Senate. Bob, but we're losing the House. Listen,
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  Speaker 3: I say none of that is etched in stone. Number one,
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  Speaker 3: you're dealing with a political animal that you've dealt with
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  Speaker 3: before and you should know the game already. This isn't
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  Speaker 3: your mom and dad's Republican Party. This is the Trump
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  Speaker 3: Republican Party. Donald Trump has pulled the rabbit out of
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  Speaker 3: the hat on more occasions than one. Come on. There's
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  Speaker 3: a few realities that are stark here. Like number one,
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  Speaker 3: I saw a video yesterday from an actor I love.
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  Speaker 3: I really respect this guy. His name is Louie. He
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  Speaker 3: played Pachanga in Scarface. And he's been in a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of movies. I mean, he's a legend. But I'll tell
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  Speaker 3: you this. He was saying, look, people are trying to
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  Speaker 3: figure out if they can afford their prescription drugs or
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  Speaker 3: heating their home because the cost of energy is so high.
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  Speaker 3: That is a reality for some people. I'm not going
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  Speaker 3: to negate that. But I am going to say with
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  Speaker 3: the gas at $ 4 a gallon here in Jersey, I
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  Speaker 3: remember when gas was $ 5 a gallon in 2022. Shoot,
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  Speaker 3: it's 2026 and we're at 407. I'll bet you anything
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  Speaker 3: by election day, we're probably around 350 or less. But anyway,
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  Speaker 3: my point is we've been down this road before. And
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to be in this road. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: advocating for higher gas prices, but I am advocating for
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  Speaker 3: relax for a second. We've actually been through worse and
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  Speaker 3: we survived. So tranquilo, papi.
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  Speaker 1: Tranquilo.
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  Speaker 3: Take it easy, brother. Come on. The reality is things
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  Speaker 3: were worse under Biden. That's a fact. Now, they weren't
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  Speaker 3: worse for everybody. I'll tell you one thing. The market,
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  Speaker 3: the stock market is hitting all these record highs and
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  Speaker 3: that's beautiful. And if you don't have something tied to
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  Speaker 3: the stock market Some people have 401ks and they get happy,
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  Speaker 3: but most people don't touch their 401k ever until it's
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  Speaker 3: time to retire. So that's the day that it needs
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  Speaker 3: to be up for them, right? For others who may say,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to do one of those qualifying expenses and
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  Speaker 3: like buy a home or something, good for you. Because
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  Speaker 3: you know what? Everybody, I'll wait for the market this,
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  Speaker 3: I'll wait for the market. When it comes to buying
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  Speaker 3: real estate, you rarely lose and you should make the
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  Speaker 3: deal yesterday. It's my opinion. But my point is, There's
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  Speaker 3: still some momentum on the ground for El Trompito. He's
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  Speaker 3: just getting started with his rallies across the country. Trust me,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to see those needles move. People think Tallarico
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  Speaker 3: is a shoo-in. People think El Sayed is a shoo-in.
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  Speaker 3: We have the Michigan debate coming up on Thursday. We'll
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  Speaker 3: talk about that more a little bit later. And of course,
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  Speaker 3: we'll bring you all the clips on that on Thursday night.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do it live.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be giving you analysis while that stuff happens or
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  Speaker 3: immediately after. But my point is, excuse me, bottom line
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  Speaker 3: here is don't count Trump out. Oh, but he's not
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  Speaker 3: on the ballot, Rich. It really doesn't matter, right? I
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  Speaker 3: understand that he's not going to bring out the people
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  Speaker 3: that he brought out when he was on the ballot.
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  Speaker 3: But guess what he's doing? He's in full campaign mode.
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  Speaker 3: He's not in midterm campaign mode. He's doing the rallies.
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  Speaker 3: He's all over the country. I think he's headed to
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  Speaker 3: New York this week, later in the week, right, to
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  Speaker 3: prop up Bruce Blakeman, who... Talk about a long shot
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  Speaker 3: of a race. And Trump used to not take the
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  Speaker 3: long shots. Now he's taking them. What does that show you?
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  Speaker 3: He's in it to win it. And it doesn't all
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  Speaker 3: hinge on Trump, but it does in many ways, right?
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  Speaker 3: You're no longer seeing the Strait of Hormuz dominating the headlines.
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  Speaker 3: Gas prices are starting to trickle down. We're going to
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  Speaker 3: continue to see that happen. I wouldn't be so concerned.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think, listen, the Democrats are doing their absolute
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  Speaker 3: best to try and tie gas prices to the war
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  Speaker 3: in Iraq. But the reality is that gas prices have
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  Speaker 3: a lot to do with most of the inflation that
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  Speaker 3: we're seeing. If you go to the supermarket and you're
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  Speaker 3: seeing either a little less in the container or a
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  Speaker 3: little more on the price tag, that's because it's costing
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  Speaker 3: more to get it to the store. I think everybody
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  Speaker 3: gets that. There's no secret there. The secret there is
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  Speaker 3: cheaper fuel, cheaper everything. Got it. That's something that we
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  Speaker 3: can remedy sooner rather than later. President Trump, I think,
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  Speaker 3: is trying to not put his thumb on the scale
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  Speaker 3: like Biden would have releasing a few million barrels of
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  Speaker 3: oil from the Strategic Reserve just to artificially lower the
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  Speaker 3: cost of gas. I wouldn't blame him if he did.
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  Speaker 3: Makes sense to do it. And now would be the time, right?
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  Speaker 3: So that it hits in the next couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he'll wait till the 15th or the 18th. Maybe,
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  Speaker 3: you know, even the 20th pushing it so that it
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  Speaker 3: could hit. It could affect the markets. Markets will start
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  Speaker 3: to rally. You'll start to see stuff coming down. That
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  Speaker 3: takes about three, four, five days. And you still have
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  Speaker 3: a whole week of campaigning left. before you get to
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  Speaker 3: election day. Wouldn't surprise me and I'd be appreciative. But
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  Speaker 3: my point is, this isn't all about the war, right?
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  Speaker 3: It's always all about your pocket. But when it was
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  Speaker 3: about your pocket with Joe Biden, people were pressured. And
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  Speaker 3: guess what? They did vote against Biden. I think Trump
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  Speaker 3: understands that reality. And that's not something that he's sitting
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  Speaker 3: here trying to take lightly. My two cents on that.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're going to see that continue to evolve. Plus,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to talk about This, what I just mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: El-Sayed versus Mike Rogers, this takeover of Michigan, that's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a really good one. We'll preface that a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. Plus, there's been this big Russian bio-threat mystery.
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  Speaker 3: It's like whenever there's not a lot to report or
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  Speaker 3: you need a good distraction two, three weeks before Election Day,
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  Speaker 3: let's talk about bio-labs. Oh my goodness, the bio-threat. The
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  Speaker 3: World Health Organization and the State Department are now demanding
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  Speaker 3: answers from Russia over the mysterious death of a young
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  Speaker 3: lab worker linked to a suspected pneumonic plague. Apparently there
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  Speaker 3: might be another outbreak. Here we go, folks. Now, State
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  Speaker 3: Department issued an urgent do not travel warning to Americans.
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  Speaker 3: When Moscow starts having unexplained lab deaths and plague rumors,
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  Speaker 3: you got to pay attention, right? So we'll touch on
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  Speaker 3: a couple of key facts. on what that's all about
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  Speaker 3: right now. I'm skeptical about that stuff, to say the least.
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  Speaker 3: And then to wrap it all up tonight, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to talk about whatever you guys want to discuss, open
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  Speaker 3: phones across America. We're going to talk about the manufacturing
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  Speaker 3: boom that Trump has been promoting, as well as The
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  Speaker 3: Green New Deal and how that restricts the economy. Plus,
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  Speaker 3: this tax cut on diesel, I think, is a good thing.
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  Speaker 3: The reality that there's a lot on the table here. And,
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  Speaker 3: of course, we're going to pick up with the Krista Pike, right?
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  Speaker 3: That's the woman who tried to be executed twice and
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  Speaker 3: it didn't work. So, we're doing all of that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And there's so much more to come. So, keep it
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  Speaker 3: locked right here. I'm Rich Valdez. Don't go anywhere and
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  Speaker 3: don't move a muscle.
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  Speaker 1: This is America. This is America. All right, familia.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back. Rich Valdez. And listen, America, I want to
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  Speaker 3: dig into this Krista Pike thing. And I want to
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  Speaker 3: do it as deeply as I can because I think
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  Speaker 3: this is a wild story. It really, really is. And
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  Speaker 3: I know you've been keeping tabs with it on television
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  Speaker 3: and whatnot, but this story coming out of Tennessee, because
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  Speaker 3: for me, it's got more twists in it than a
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  Speaker 3: Hudson County barbershop on a Saturday afternoon, to say the least.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to play three clips. I'm going to break
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  Speaker 3: them down in between. I'm going to keep it real.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to try and keep it as sharp as
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  Speaker 3: I can. And then I want to hear from you.
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  Speaker 3: First up, we got the initial hospitalization audio. This is
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  Speaker 3: right after the state tried to carry out the sentence
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  Speaker 3: on September 30th, two full doses of pentobarbital, per their protocol.
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  Speaker 3: They struggled for what felt like forever to get the
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  Speaker 3: IV lines in. Her lawyer, Randy Spivey, later said he
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  Speaker 3: counted at least seven needles in the left arm alone.
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  Speaker 3: One of them bent when they pulled it out. Pike
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  Speaker 3: herself was even trying to help, saying, please try higher
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  Speaker 3: on my shoulder. The curtains closed. Witnesses were still saying
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  Speaker 3: they heard her breathing, then snoring very loudly. They end
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  Speaker 3: up rushing her out to Vanderbilt Hospital. Her arms are
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  Speaker 3: very swollen. She had burns and blisters from the drugs
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  Speaker 3: seeping onto the tissue instead of going into the bloodstream.
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  Speaker 3: She's sent to the hospital, and she's in critical condition
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  Speaker 3: on a ventilator. Listen to this. Wild stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Wild stuff.
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  Speaker 6: Breaking news, they've now provided a new update on Krista's
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  Speaker 6: health condition. Krista is currently receiving care at the Vanderbilt
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  Speaker 6: University Medical Center. She is currently handcuffed to the hospital bed,
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  Speaker 6: and there is a police officer inside of the room
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  Speaker 6: and outside. They have officially confirmed that Krista is on
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  Speaker 6: life support and receiving help from a ventilator. They said
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  Speaker 6: she is still unconscious and still unable to speak. Now,
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  Speaker 6: with her being on a ventilator, it also shows she
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  Speaker 6: is unable to breathe on her own. At this time,
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  Speaker 6: medical professionals are trying to remove the chemicals that were
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  Speaker 6: ingested into her system through the lethal injection. However, unlike
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  Speaker 6: a standard overdose, there is no medication you can give
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  Speaker 6: to reverse the side effect. This must be naturally removed
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  Speaker 6: through the liver and kidneys. Some experts believe that she
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  Speaker 6: could make a full recovery if all of the chemicals
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  Speaker 6: are removed from her system. However, it depends on how
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  Speaker 6: long she was without oxygen before medical aid was rendered.
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  Speaker 6: The brain not receiving oxygen could cause permanent brain damage.
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  Speaker 6: That is the main determining factor as to her recovery,
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  Speaker 6: if there will be a recovery at all. Witnesses in
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  Speaker 6: the execution chamber said that there was no oxygen mask
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  Speaker 6: within and that they had to call an ambulance and
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  Speaker 6: go get that from somewhere else.
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  Speaker 7: Else.
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  Speaker 6: After Krista Parks failed execution, the governor of Tennessee issued
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  Speaker 6: a state to all executions for the remaining of the year.
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  Speaker 6: At this time, there is no further information regarding Krista
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  Speaker 6: Pike's health. To stay up to date on this case,
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  Speaker 3: Now, that was an update that we got online. And
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  Speaker 3: this is a wild story, right? I mean, really wild.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we haven't heard of that. We've heard of
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  Speaker 3: it happening to, you know, well, we've heard of it happening.
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  Speaker 3: We just didn't know it happened to that degree, right?
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  Speaker 3: But there she is, critical condition on a ventilator. But wait,
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  Speaker 3: there's more. Of course there is. Now, you heard that, right?
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  Speaker 3: That's the sound of a system that's supposed to be humane, right,
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  Speaker 3: and clinical. Now, listen, I get it. We used to
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  Speaker 3: hang people and shoot them. I am pro-death penalty. But
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  Speaker 3: that's not death, right? I would have a problem with
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  Speaker 3: that if that happened to me or one of my
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  Speaker 3: loved ones. Even if I thought they deserved death, the
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  Speaker 3: Constitution prevents them, right, from from cruel and unusual punishment.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to say, trying to kill you and failing
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  Speaker 3: sounds pretty cruel and unusual to me. But granted, it
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  Speaker 3: was an accident, right? She's stronger than the average bear,
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  Speaker 3: let's say. So let's take a look at this a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more because it's really like a medical nightmare.
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  Speaker 3: This lethal injection was sold to us, the American people,
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  Speaker 3: decades ago as the civilized alternative to the electric chair
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  Speaker 3: or to the gas chamber. But Jay-Z said men and
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  Speaker 3: women lie, numbers don't. From 1890 to 2010, about 3%
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  Speaker 3: of all U.S. executions failed in some way. Lethal injection,
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  Speaker 3: that's got the highest rate, around 7%. So we've seen
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  Speaker 3: Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma in 2014. His veins collapsed, blood everywhere,
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  Speaker 3: nearly 45 minutes of agony before he died of a
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  Speaker 3: heart attack. Joseph Wood in Arizona that same year gasping
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  Speaker 3: and snorting over 600 times for two full hours. Brutal, right?
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  Speaker 3: That's not death. That's torture and death. Rommel Broom in Ohio.
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  Speaker 3: They stuck him so many times, they finally just stopped.
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  Speaker 3: Then there was John Wayne Gacy. You remember that one.
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  Speaker 3: The line clogged up with solidified chemicals. They got hard.
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  Speaker 3: And now in Tennessee, the second botched attempt this year alone.
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  Speaker 3: So history has... had these moments before, right? These protocol breakdowns.
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  Speaker 3: When your veins don't cooperate, the drug doesn't hit the
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  Speaker 3: bloodstream the way the textbook said it was supposed to,
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  Speaker 3: the whole thing becomes a slow motion failure. Now, guess
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  Speaker 3: what happens when that failure happens and you go to
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  Speaker 3: the hospital? Well, things start to get better for you.
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  Speaker 3: Listen to this.
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  Speaker 8: I am asking the state of Jersey to allow me
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  Speaker 8: to live, allow me to I am asking the state
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  Speaker 8: of Tennessee to allow me to live.
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  Speaker 5: Out the rest of my natural life inside of their
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  Speaker 5: penal facilities.
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  Speaker 6: Breaking news, Krista Pike has regained consciousness and is now speaking.
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  Speaker 6: Here is the full statement from her attorney. Against all odds,
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  Speaker 6: Krista Pike is conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical
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  Speaker 6: medical care. Despite the severe damage she endured to her arms,
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  Speaker 6: she is still handcuffed and shackled to her bed. Her
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  Speaker 6: recovery is medically unprecedented. Her prognosis remains unclear. She survived
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  Speaker 6: two complete rounds of the lethal injection per Tennessee protocol.
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  Speaker 6: despite her attorneys warning the state of specific challenges with
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  Speaker 6: her vein. She is the only person known to have
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: survived a complete execution attempt in the U.S. We continue
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: to ask the governor of Tennessee to commute Krista Pike's
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Now, just so you know, that second part there, that's
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: not a news report. That's supposed to sound like a
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: news report, but it's really from, I believe, their legal
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: team putting stuff out on the internet to... bring news
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: and create community and build a fan base for Krista, right?
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Same way they did with Clancy. That's the new way
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: defense attorneys are gaining support with the public. And, you know,
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: used to be the, a lawyer would do a press
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: conference and they still do that. But now they have
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: this ability to shape public opinion through viral videos. And
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: this is one of those hot button issues that people
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: really enjoy. So, Pretty incredible, right? What's going on here?
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: One minute the state is trying to end a life
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: that was lawfully sentenced for a brutal 1995 murder when
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: she was a teenager. The next minute she's asking the
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: nurses who they are. Her legal team is hammering the
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: point that she survived two complete rounds of the protocol.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: They're calling what she went through cruel and torturous. And
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: I would say I agree with that. And greater punishment
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: than any other person in history. I don't know. if
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: that's accurate, but that's what the lawyers are asking for.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: And we've got a clip from that. They're now asking
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: the governor to commute her sentence to life without parole
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: so she can go back to jail and they won't
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: be able to try again. That brings us now to
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: the third clip. It's a Fox News clip with a
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: report covering the press conference from her lawyer. And let's see,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: is that queued up? All right, let's... Let that one
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: rip as well. Go right ahead.
• 19:23
  Speaker 9: For Krista Pike, say that she has regained consciousness and
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: that she is speaking. They also say she is angry
• 19:32
  Speaker 9: and she is confused. She's the woman who survived not one,
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: but two lethal injections in Tennessee. Here is one of
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: her attorneys just moments ago.
• 19:41
  Speaker 10: She has wanted to know what's happened and she's asked
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: about several people. She's asked about her team, she's asked
• 19:48
  Speaker 10: about about the victim's family. I think she is angry
• 19:56
  Speaker 10: and confused about everything right now.
• 19:59
  Speaker 9: Pike was convicted in the grisly murder of this young
• 20:03
  Speaker 9: woman who was her 19-year-old classmate, Colleen Slemmer, in 1995.
• 20:08
  Speaker 9: Pike was convicted on bashing her in the head with
• 20:12
  Speaker 9: a chunk of asphalt. She took a piece of her
• 20:15
  Speaker 9: skull as a souvenir. Senior correspondent Jonathan Seri has the
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: very latest on this case that is getting everyone's attention.
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: Jonathan.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of people paying attention to this. And
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: earlier today, a judge granted a request from Krista Pike's
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: legal team asking that the state preserve all evidence of
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: that botched execution that occurred last week. This includes syringes, medication, trash.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: anything in that execution chamber that would assist with the
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: investigation into what went wrong. Krista Pike survived two rounds
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: of lethal injection drugs. Her lawyers say her arms have
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: burns and blisters from the box execution. She remains shackled
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: to her hospital bed, although her lawyers have a pending
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: request to remove her handcuffs to prevent further injury. Tennessee
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Governor Bill Lee has placed a temporary pause on all
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: executions in his state during the investigation, but constitutional attorney
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: David Rabin, who helped write the Tennessee death penalty statute,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: says prosecutors are likely to resume their efforts to execute
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Pike once the moratorium is lifted.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: So that's the big question now. Will there be a third, right?
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Is the third time going to be the charm? And
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: I don't mean to be glib, right? I'm not intentionally
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: trying to be. Look, the governor's already paused the remaining
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: executions for the whole year. He ordered an independent review.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: And the head of prisons is out, right? I don't
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: know if he got fired or he quit. Either way,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: probably a good look for him, right? Find something new
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: to do because this isn't a good look. Now, legally,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: surviving a botched attempt doesn't automatically wipe the sentence away, right?
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: History shows courts have generally allowed states to try again.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: But politically, what are the optics? After this freak show
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: with the needles and the snoring and the hospital runs
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: and a woman who was supposed to be the first
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: female executed in Tennessee in over 200 years is instead
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: walking around talking in a hospital room, that's a heavy lift, right?
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: The victim's family wanted and they've waited for three decades
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: for this finality. The state promised a lawful constitutional process.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Neither side got what they expected. So here's the question
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: for you, America. Does this change how we view the
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: death penalty? Is the method broken? Or is the system just,
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: I don't know, working the way it should? Should the
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: governor commute the sentence? Should the sentence be reviewed once
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: all this happens? investigations, I should say, are done, you
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: could leave me a voice note right now. Here's the
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: phone number 877-VALDEZ1. That's 877-825-3371. Hit me up with your
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: take on the Krista Pike scenario or anything else we're
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: talking about. It's open phone, so you can opine on
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: anything you like, and I will respond to that. Again,
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: that phone number 877-VALDEZ1, 877-825-3371. And I want to hear
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: from everybody out there, right? From the truckers, from the nurses,
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: from the parents, from people who have been following this
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: case or the ones that are just hearing about it.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: All of that matters. And you're part of the fabric
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: of this conversation. And before we take a pause here,
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: I want to talk about a couple of things that
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: are coming up later in the show. It's Autism and
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: ADHD Awareness Month. And that's a big thing because a
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Hollywood actor from back in the days is speaking... about
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: their own diagnosis. More on that a little bit later. Plus,
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: I've got an interview that I did with Katie. She
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: had a near-death experience that she went through with her son,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: who in some ways suffered similar to Krista Pike, right?
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: It was a vaccine injury, not a botched assassination. I
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: keep saying assassination, execution. But the point was, it didn't
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: work as intended. And it's that kind of life-altering medical trauma.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: talking about here. Very powerful stuff. So we're going to
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: get into that and what that's been like for her
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: and for her son and how it's brought them closer
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: to their faith. Plus a little bit later, the ADHD stuff.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: And I may have said this or not, but I
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: just recently took, you guys know I have ADHD, but
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: you may not know that I recently took a level
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: one autism spectrum disorder questionnaire. I You may or may
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: not be surprised at the results. Anyway, keep it locked
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: right here. I'm Rich Valdez.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: This is America.
• 25:14
  Speaker 10: President Donald J.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Trump, Mr.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: President, welcome to the program, sir.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: I know you very well, and I listen, but I
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: have a lot of people that listen, and they love
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: your show, and I appreciate it very much.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: All right, Familia, welcome back. Rich Valdez keeping you company tonight,
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: and I want to get into this topic.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: I saw this run across my guest, my desk, and
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: our guest is going to get into it. Government visits
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: for every newborn. Now, this is the government coming into
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: your house to check on your baby. The last time
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: I heard about that happening, they were looking for Jesus
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: to kill them, right? This is one of those types
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: of crazy things that you think is science fiction, but
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: it's actually becoming a nightmare scenario, and they want to
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: test this in Massachusetts. Our guest, Katie Asher, She does
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: research on vaccines, and she's the author of The Book
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: of Heaven, A Story of Hope for Outcasts, the Broken,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: and Those Who Lost Faith. Katie, welcome.
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: Thank you so much for having me.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: My pleasure. So I want to get into this. Obviously,
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: you put a lot of research into your book, and
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: this is a topic that you follow closely, but we
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: always hear about these stories, right, in the news, and
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: we think, you know, like, They said, oh, the World
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Health Organization is going to take over all health decisions
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: for the United States. Or you hear about this and
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: people go, ah, that'll never happen. Ah, that's not a thing.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: And the next thing you know, there's these treaties that
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: they're coming up with and people testing things and trying
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: to roll it out in other places. Talk to me
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: about this. What's going on in Massachusetts? Help everybody understand.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: So Governor Healey, on the heels of signing the abortion
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: bill all the way up to the day of birth,
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: where you can legally kill your child up until the
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: day of birth. On the heels of that and the
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: Lindsay Clancy case, she basically said, you know what? Clearly,
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: people cannot self-govern. So we need to govern them. And
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: she basically said that they were going to add $ 2. 24
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: billion or something crazy like that to their welfare state,
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: which was going to pay for all of these home
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: visits after women gave birth. if you had a newborn,
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: that the state would be coming into your home to
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: assess you. And this has all kinds of terrifying markers
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: on it. First of all, who's doing the assessments? What
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: are the assessments? What are their markers? Who gets to
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: say if your assessment is correct? And then first of all,
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: why exactly do we need the state to come in
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: to govern whether or not we are parenting and capable
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: of parenting? That is the entire premise of self-government is
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: that we are capable of governing ourselves, that we have
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: both the right and the responsibility to govern ourselves without
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: the interference of any external rule. And that the only
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: government authority, the only authority government has is that which
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: we give it. And we do not give it. So
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: this is the same thing that happened with COVID, where
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: they go and they take authority that was never given
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: to them. And they do it under mandate, under health,
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: under anything that they can say that This fear is
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: more important than your rights. And there is no, absolutely
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: no reason for you to give up any civil liberty
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: to the government.
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: None.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: Zero. There's none.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: That's how you really feel.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry. That's fine.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: I feel like that too. Go ahead. Yeah.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: But the reason I feel that way is this happened
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: with vaccines. And of course, that not just with COVID,
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: but I mean, they force vaccines on all of these,
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: you know, young children. And many of them were injured.
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: And not only were they injured by these vaccines, but
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: then you were denied due process. So not only were
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: your rights taken away and they gave you a neurotoxin,
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: but then they said you had no right to be
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: compensated for your life being totally and completely destroyed. And
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: then you know what they do? And this is why
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: this topic really aggravates me. is they, as an adult,
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: because I have my sons now an adult, they, to
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: receive funding, and this is like bare minimum funding for
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: any assistance, just so I can work a job to
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: provide for our means, I have to have a stranger
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: from the state come into my home. They check on
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: me monthly. I have to have someone from the state
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: come into my home to see if I'm doing a
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: good job parenting, to do his well check. And then
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: I have to take daily notes that I have to
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: submit to the government about the care that I'm providing.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: And you know how much you get paid for this? Nothing.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: Receives, they will tell me they don't work for me.
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: They work for him. And it's this whole thing where
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: I'm not like they're taking away the role of the
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: family and they're inserting government as the role of the
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: guardian and the caretaker. even though you're the one doing
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: all of the work.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting. I've heard some people make proposals
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: saying that this type of intense supervision from the state
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: is exactly what we should be doing to women that
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: are suffering from postpartum depression.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: That's totally not true. If you are suffering from postpartum depression,
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: it is your responsibility to take care of your care.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: So if you need help, you go and you acquire
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: the care. If you need to separate yourself from your children,
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: then you do so. You take the means and the
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: remedies that are available to you as an independent adult
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: and the responsibility that you have as an adult and
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: a parent, and you take the precautions that you need
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: to take.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: I don't disagree with you. But I think that with
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: people trying to, I guess, scapegoat themselves saying, I don't
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: want the responsibility if I do something bad to my children,
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: people are saying, well, if that's going to be the standard,
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: It's going to invite the state to start coming and
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: checking on children because they can't rely on parents. And
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: I think this is a road we don't want to
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: walk down. You don't ever want to invite the government
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: into your home.
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: Well, when we have done such a horrible job of
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: teaching self-responsibility and making sure that people that, you know,
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: fathers are providing for their children, that mothers are caring
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: for their children, that we basically, as a culture, said,
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: you don't have to. You only have to think about yourself.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: Those things are, you know, optional. You don't have to
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: do those things. You don't have to care for other people.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: In fact, you should put yourself first. That's the exact
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: opposite of what God's Word teaches.
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: You would think it's... I think the unwritten rule for
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: every parent is to be able to give your life
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: for your child if need be. And I understand people
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: are ill, right? I mean, people say, should criminally insane
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: people be held responsible? And I think, yes, because... I
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: think you have to be criminally insane to kill people, right?
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: That's what gets you from me and you to that level.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: But I've had debates with psychiatrists, and I don't know
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: if I've won those debates or not, but there are
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: definitely a lot of people with a lot of opinions.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: But before we get into more on that.
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: I think the field of psychology is absolutely completely corrupt.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: I have psychiatrists that would agree with you on that.
• 32:14
  Speaker 11: Yes, it is.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I had Dr.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: Carol Lieberman on recently, and she was criticizing the people
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: that were providing Lindsay Clancy with help, saying offering hope
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: and a friendly ear is not therapy. It's not helping anybody.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: So I think the criticism is all around. But I
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: want to get, I guess, the end game for you
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: on this particular topic of Massachusetts going into people's homes,
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: in particular to check on their kids. This is something
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: that I think Massachusetts, if they are successful with it,
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: they're going to want to parade it around the whole
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: country and California can jump on and New Jersey can
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: jump on. What do you think the likelihood of that
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: happening is? And is there any talk in your professional
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: communities about that happening?
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: This was actually the first governor who's even proposed it.
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: So I think there was a huge pushback.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: That's good.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: Comments were, and she immediately had to kind of retract
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: and she was, oh, it's just a suggestion. Oh, it's
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: a recommendation. And so, but that, that in my opinion
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: is too much. She should have completely like retracted the
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: statement in full and said, we will never do any
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: such things. Parents are perfectly capable of parenting their own
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: children without the interference of the state. And really this
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: gets back to who owns the child. And this is
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: what people need to understand is government does not own
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: your child. That child is a gift to you from God.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: And you are the one that is responsible for that child.
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: And it is a gift. And it is also a
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: responsibility and it does require your entire life. And that
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: is a blessing that we should welcome. Other statements that
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: people were saying were very much rejecting totalitarianism, which is
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: what this is. And that is, you know, stay out
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: of our homes, you power hungry creeps. You know, this
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: is government overreach. It's more of this, you know, paternalistic,
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: autocratic view of government where they're going to force on
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: you their will. even if it's against your will, even
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: if you haven't given consent, which is the basis of self-government.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: Right, yeah, the consent of the governed. Folks, we are
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: on with Katie Asher. She's a vaccine researcher and the
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: author of The Book of Heaven, a story of hope
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: for outcasts, the broken, and those who lost faith. Katie,
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: I want you to stick with me. We're going to
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: take a quick pause. We're going to come right back.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: I want to hear about your book, the impetus for
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: your book, what inspired you to write it, and what
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: you've learned since writing it. Amigos, don't go anywhere. It's
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: Rich Valdez coming right back with Katie Asher.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: This is America. This is America. He's brown, he's bald,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: and he's breaking it down.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: Oh, he's so handsome. What's his name? Rich Valdez. All right,
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: we continue the conversation with Katie Asher, and she has
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: written the book, The Book of Heaven, a story of
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: hope for the outcasts, the broken and those who lost faith. Katie,
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: let's talk about why you wrote the book and then
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: why you chose that name. Quite a title.
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: I know, isn't it though? The reason I wrote the
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: book was because my son, who was vaccine injured, forced
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: me to write the book. It was his, not only
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: his choice, but his mandate. And I tried to get
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: out of it. I tried to get him to write about,
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: can we write about anything else? And he insisted that
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: the only way he would tell his story is if
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: he got to write about God's love.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: Is he okay right now?
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: He's totally okay. He's still vaccine injured. And he communicates
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: by pointing to letters, one letter at a time, to
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: spell out what he wants to say. And he spent
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: two decades trapped in his body, unable to communicate. And
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: can you imagine that? Two decades.
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: No.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: I have a niece like that, that has been nonverbal
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: her whole life. And she uses an iPad and points
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: and stuff. And it always weighs upon me that like,
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: I don't know what that's like. I don't know what
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: to offer in consolation. I don't know what to say.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know how to, you know, you find yourself
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: at a loss. You're just like, hi, you know, I
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: wish there was something I could offer.
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: Well, what the problem with, you know, it gets into
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: kind of the psychology field, which is that they make
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: all these determinations about competence based on what they're observing.
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: And if your motor is broken, which is speech, is
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: 100% motor. And if you have very limited motor, then
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: people assume, falsely, that you don't comprehend or that you're
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: not intelligent. But really what it is, is the vaccine
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: injury causes several different problems. One, it demyelinates the sensory
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: neurons that develop in the second trimester. Then it causes encephalopathy.
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: that prevents the sensory synapses from pruning and the motor
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: and the sensory from integrating, which is a foundational part
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: of motor development. So if that doesn't happen and the
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: encephalopathy is still there, this autoimmune and autoinflammation are basically
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: preventing the intentional control of the physical body. It's basically
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: like the steering and the GPS on the vessel, which
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: is our body, has been cut off. And that's what
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: makes them trapped. Um, so spelling is a way for
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: them to develop just gross motor so they can point
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: one letter at a time and begin to spell out
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: complex thoughts. It's a little bit, it's actually quite different
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: than just pointing to things on the iPad because it
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: allows them, the problem with the iPad is it's, you're
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: only offering them a few pictures instead of the entire language.
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: And that's what we want to give people is the
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: entire language. And it's incredible that with 26 letters, you
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: actually have access to every single thought you could ever
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: want to communicate. Um, so what that injury did though,
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: other than destroying his motor, yeah, it is for sure. And, uh,
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: he was diagnosed with a vaccine injury. It wasn't even like,
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: this isn't gee, what happened? We were in the hospital
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: with a hematologist saying, this is a vaccine injury. What
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: we didn't know at the time was how significant the
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: injury was going to be. And it was catastrophic. Um,
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: there were massive, like catastrophic levels of aluminum and mercury
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: in his body. And you can't get that out easily.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: And that's what causes all of the damage. But because
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: of that damage, and because of his inability to control
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: his body, he was left disattached to his physical body
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: and operating in his soul, his etheric body, perceiving the
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: whole spiritual realm. perceiving everyone's thoughts, everyone's feelings, seeing all
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: the math that goes around all around us, seeing spiritual beings, angels,
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: the dark spirits.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Kind of like what people observe when they have the
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: outer body experience.
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: Exactly what it is. Because motor is what attaches us
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: to our physical body. And so with that loose attachment
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: to motor, he was left basically as his real self,
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: his true self, his etheric self, experiencing the spiritual realm
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: that's all around us. You and I only perceive 4%
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: of the energy around us. And thought is also energy.
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: That's what a lot of people don't realize. And so
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: their ability to perceive thought is because they are perceiving
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: so much more information than you and I are.
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: And you know what? It's funny. I don't know anything
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: about this, right? But the only thing I do know
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: about this is I have a brother. He's older than me.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: And when I was around six or seven years old,
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: he was stabbed and he bled out and he died
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: in the ambulance. And he's alive today, but he did
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: die and they brought him back to life in the hospital.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: And what you're describing are things he's described to me
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: my whole life. about how and i've seen it like
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: he can see things i can't see that most people
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: can't see and he's like and he gets kind of
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: stunned by like uh energy and light and certain things
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: and when he described this outer body experience he said
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: i saw them working on me and doing the paddles
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: and bringing me back and the white light the tunnel
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: all that stuff that you hear about from people firsthand
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: accounts he had a very similar account and no reason
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: to lie to me right uh it's my big brother So,
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: you know, that made me a, I won't say a
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: believer in everything, but it made me a understander of
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: people who go through those experiences, see things that you
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: and I who haven't been through them just simply can't comprehend.
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: Well, one of the big things that I wrestled with
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: when I was learning and trying to understand all this,
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: and as Houston, my son, was explaining things to me,
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: I started going to do the research. Like, I need
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: to understand this, just like you were saying, right? Like,
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: how is this possible? I don't understand because it didn't
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: fit my materialistic worldview.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: Which was very rigid and everything. The only things that
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: were real were what I could see, what I could reason, right?
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: What my senses could perceive and grasp. And as I
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: began to research, I just did this incredible dive into
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: quantum mechanics and energy and really understanding that all matter,
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: in fact, matter itself cannot, it's the same as energy.
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: It's just, that's what E equals MC squared means is
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: that energy and matter are the same thing. Matter is
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: just slow moving, dense energy. Everything though, all matter comes
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: from spirit. And this is actually really easy to prove.
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: So for example, I have, you know, a bookmark right here, right?
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: It's pretty simple. And the question always says, what was
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: this bookmark before it was a bookmark? People go paper or,
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: you know, whatever.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: It was once a tree.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Right, exactly.
• 42:09
  Speaker 12: Exactly.
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: It was an idea. And if, right, if no one
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: had ever had this thought, would this bookmark exist? And
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: it wouldn't. It cannot exist. Thought is actually the source
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: of all matter. And that really opened up my understanding
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: of not just quantum mechanics, but the spiritual realm and
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: understanding scriptures through that perception. And, you know, it even
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: talks about, you know, Christ was telling the woman at
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: the well that, you know, you're going to be worshiping
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: me not at this mountain or that temple, but in
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: spirit and truth. And we have to shift back to
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: that understanding that we're actually in a spiritual realm with
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: physical bodies. And this spiritual battle is being played out
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: in this physical realm. But we still have a spiritual
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: obligation to live spiritually. for spirit and truth, for the
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: holiness and the will of God.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: That makes a lot of sense. And I guess that's
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: a big part of what informed the title.
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: Yes, that's exactly right. Because everything is about heaven.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: Talk to me about how people that are listening and
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: say one of two things, right? This woman's off her
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: rocker and so is Valdez. Or I want to learn
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: more about this. How do they get a copy of
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: the book?
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: So Amazon is the easiest way to get a copy
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: of the book. Also, it's available on Audible for those
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: who like to do audiobooks. And if you're not available
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: to get it from Amazon or Audible, you can reach
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: us at, what is my email? Asher.house.hope at gmail.com. And
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: you can email us and I can send you a copy.
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: But I will tell you, if you're out of the country,
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: the tariffs are pretty bad. So you might want to
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: try Amazon.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: Send the e-book. Send the e-book. That's right.
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: It's available on e-book. It's on all the different methods
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: and formats. You can go to any of them. And
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: our hope is to bring people back to believing fully
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: in the promises of God and what he accomplished in
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: the atonement. And what my son has seen and perceived
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: is so incredible. But it basically shows the spiritual nature
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: of all creation. of trees, of animals, of plants, of stones,
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: of the ocean, of the mountains. Every single thing is
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: from His hands.
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: You know what? They don't call it God's green earth
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: for nothing.
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: It's exactly right.
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: Katie Asher, I want to thank you for being here.
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: And again, just give everybody the website to get the book,
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: unless it's just Amazon or where they could find out
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: more about you.
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: You can find out more about us on asher.house. That
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: is the whole website. And The easiest way to get
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: the book is Amazon or Audible.
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: Outstanding. Again, folks, the book is The Book of Heaven,
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: a story of hope for the outcasts, the broken and
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: those who lost faith, inspired by her son's vaccine injury
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: and straight down the spiritual path it goes. It sounds
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: like a fascinating read. I want to thank you for
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: being here. I look forward to chatting with you again.
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: Thanks so much.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: Take care. God bless.
• 45:26
  Speaker 7: Thanks.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: This is America.
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: All right, familia, stick with me. There is more to
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: come straight ahead. My final recap, my final thoughts on
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: everything else that happened this Tuesday night. Keep it locked
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: right here. Don't go anywhere. There's more to come.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: This is America.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: He's making podcasting great again.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: All right, familia, welcome back. Rich Valdez keeping you company here.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: And we covered a lot of ground tonight. Now we're
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: bringing it all home with some of the stories that
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: show you exactly the direction that the country is headed in.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: It's like a little too much music, right? There you go.
• 46:39
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: There you go. I like to hear myself think. Thank you.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much. By the way, I wanted to
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: share that some of our production staff, I'm not going
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: to name any names, but have been dealing with health issues.
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: And I've gotten some notes, some inbox messages from you
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: guys saying, hey, what's going on? The show hasn't posted
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: on time. And my apologies to all of you. Join
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: me in having some compassion with the very skeleton crew
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: that we operate here. and their inability to get this
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: done on time, not a reflection of their character, but
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: more a reflection of their current health situation. So not ideal,
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: not making excuses, but I am grateful for the team
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: that I have around me, and I appreciate your prayers
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: for all of us, honestly, because, you know, nobody ever
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: wants to have health issues. So I have heard your
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: notes and I've seen them on the inbox and appreciate
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: your feedback and I promise you that those will be
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: getting posted sooner rather than later. Now, I want to
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: continue my soliloquy here because there's a lot I want
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: to cover in this segment and there's a few things
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: going on, right? The direction that the country's headed in,
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: the winds, the vanishing acts, the radical experiments, the bioweapons threat,
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: all those warnings, and a couple of powerful personal notes
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: that I think hit close to home. We'll start with
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: the high energy, the America First momentum. Donald Trump took
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: Nebraska by storm, announcing that massive tax cuts on diesel
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: fuel that every trucker, farmer, and small business owner could
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: feel in their actual wallet. And that's fantastic. And with
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: the stroke of a pen, President Trump signed an executive
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: order handed to him by Natalie Harp and unleashed virtually
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: a tax-free diesel proposal or executive order for truckers, farmers,
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: and everyday Americans. And this crowd in Nebraska loved every
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: second of it. Check this out.
• 48:54
  Speaker 7: Should I sign it or not? So Pete and Jim,
• 49:05
  Speaker 7: we should absolutely assure your election, I guarantee you that.
• 49:09
  Speaker 7: What's really going to ensure it, however, is in a
• 49:12
  Speaker 7: little while that is going to end and it's going
• 49:15
  Speaker 7: to be an amazing, and you two guys were great,
• 49:17
  Speaker 7: you stuck with us, and we have to, otherwise we're
• 49:19
  Speaker 7: not going to have.
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: A country anymore.
• 49:20
  Speaker 7: So I appreciate it.
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: And I'm going to sign this. I'm going to do
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: what Joe Biden.
• 49:30
  Speaker 11: Couldn't do, sign his signature.
• 49:43
  Speaker 7: So, yeah, I just did something what Joe Biden was incapable.
• 49:49
  Speaker 7: He could not sign. He only used auto pens.
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: Look at that.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: Isn't that nice?
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: Showing the audience in true Trump fashion. Fantastic. And that
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: is El Trumpito. Then he tosses out the pen and people,
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: the crowd, eating it up. And Listen, this is a
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: very good thing, right? Live on stage, signing this executive
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: order while taking a swipe at Joe Biden's old auto
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: pen reliance, you know, because he probably couldn't sign his
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: name and because they were taking advantage of the old guy.
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: Then he flies into Baltimore. He unveils a $ 3. 7 billion
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: nuclear submarine shipyard, 3,000 new jobs, the largest naval construction
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: project since World War II. And that's the contrast right there, right?
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: One side is talking stagnation, Green New Deal, restrictions. The
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: other side, the Republican side, talking about cutting diesel taxes
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: and rebuilding the Navy so American workers can actually clock
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: in and build something for real. That's El Trumpito, Donaldus Magnus,
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: the 45th and 47th president of these United States, El Presidente,
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: Donald J. Trump. And he's been at it since the beginning, right?
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: Putting the blue-collar worker back in the driver's seat. It
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: doesn't mean it's happening for everybody, but it means it's
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: going to happen for a lot of people. And those
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: data centers that everybody's against, well, guess what? Those data
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: centers are going to be built by plumbers and electricians
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: and builders. And if you're in one of those industries,
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: you're going to love it. And if you're not, you
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: probably should get into one of those industries, right? But
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: President Trump delivering. He's delivering on the manufacturing boom. He's
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: doing what he can to make it boom even more.
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: While the other side keeps handing out regulations, crying about things,
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: giving you more crime, and then telling you to defund
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: the police. Absolute insanity what's going on. So we will
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: open up the phone lines for you guys in a
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: little bit. If you want to chime in, you know
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: the number. Next thing I want to discuss is the
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: silent campaigner in Texas. You've got Senate candidate Ken Paxton.
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: He was on the Sean Hannity show blasting his far
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: left Democrat opponent, James Tallarico, for completely vanishing off the
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: campaign trail for nearly two weeks. No events, no answers,
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: just radio silence. He's due to be at a rally
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: with Trump tomorrow on Wednesday. Let's see what he'll have
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: to say when that happens. But this is what happens,
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: I think, when your agenda is radical, just like Joe Biden, right?
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: He disappeared during his campaign. Oftentimes these guys disappear because
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: they don't want to put their foot in their mouth.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: Look at Kamala Harris just a couple of years ago.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: She did the same thing. Maybe that's the safest strategy, right?
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: To hide it until after the midterms. Classic move, right?
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: Paxton's not letting him get away with the good for him.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: Then we look to Michigan. We've got the Michigan Senate race.
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: The debate is set for this coming Thursday night. Like
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: I said, we'll be covering that and bringing it to
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: you as it happens or immediately after. And that's the
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: far left agenda of Abdul El-Sayed. He's putting it front
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: and center. The corporate media is putting all their eggs
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: in his basket saying he's the guy. And listen, he's
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: got a good shot, right? It's a Democrat replacing a Democrat.
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: I get it. But they're tying themselves straight to the
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: AOC all-out crazy, my least favorite congresswoman from the Bronx
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: and Queens, and Bernie Sanders. Bernard Sanders. Senator Sanders. That's
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: their playbook. Now I'm going to do the show in
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: a little bit of my Bernie just because I have
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: fun doing the Alta Caca.
• 53:15
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: They've been trying to hijack the traditional working class. And
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: Michigan used to mean auto plants and lunch. Lunch pail Democrats.
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: Now it's becoming ground zero for the most progressive experiments
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: like me. Crazy Alta Kakas who want your money. If
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: you're a billionaire, you're the billionaires. We want your money.
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: All right, that's enough of that. So we're going to
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: watch that debate very closely. And it's going to tell
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: you everything that you need to know about what's going
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: on with the left and what they plan to do
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: with the rest of the industrial heartland in America. And
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: I want to move on to this Russian bio-threat mystery.
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: The World Health Organization and the State Department are demanding
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: answers from Moscow over the mysterious death of a young
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: lab worker that was linked to a suspected pneumonic plague outbreak.
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: Oh boy, that sounds familiar.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh boy.
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: Anyway, the State Department already issued their urgent do not
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: travel list warning to Americans. Guess what? You never had
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: to tell me to not go to Russia. FYI, I
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: wasn't going. But this lack of transparency from Russia is
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: probably where the real story is. So speaking of that,
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: I've got a former White House COVID response coordinator, Dr.
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: Ashish Jha. He's weighing in on this on Fox News,
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: Fox Now, I believe, on the Russian situation. Listen to this.
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: Here's what we know. A young woman, 28 years old,
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: lab worker, died of pneumonia.
• 54:44
  Speaker 11: The federal authorities in Russia are saying it's a pneumonia
• 54:46
  Speaker 11: where they don't know the cause.
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: Local reporting is saying it might be pneumonic plague. The
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: bottom line is we don't know. But there are enough
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: features of what is happening here that have raised concerns
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  Speaker 4: both for me, but also inside the administration.
• 55:00
  Speaker 11: I've been talking to friends in the senior leadership of
• 55:02
  Speaker 11: the administration, a lot of concerns about what's going on.
• 55:05
  Speaker 11: So let me lay out those red flags. One is
• 55:09
  Speaker 11: a 28-year-old woman should not just die of pneumonia. If
• 55:12
  Speaker 11: it was a lab leak, she should have started antibiotics
• 55:14
  Speaker 11: right away, would not have expected to get sick and die,
• 55:18
  Speaker 11: even from plague, if you started antibiotics early. There's all
• 55:21
  Speaker 11: this talk about 200 people being quarantined. That's not normal
• 55:24
  Speaker 11: for a lab accident. We know there's some evidence that
• 55:27
  Speaker 11: maybe the security services have gotten involved. And there's a
• 55:31
  Speaker 11: long history of bioweapons programs in Russia. All of that
• 55:35
  Speaker 11: is concerning a.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: Lot of us.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, there's a headline that I was reading, Dr. Jha,
• 55:40
  Speaker 13: that says, is Russia a plague, a bioweapon leak? The
• 55:44
  Speaker 13: mystery outbreak sparks fears of malicious experiments at the secret
• 55:48
  Speaker 13: Siberia lab. And that, you know, is what you were
• 55:52
  Speaker 13: kind of talking about. Could this be, you know, a
• 55:54
  Speaker 13: bioweapon issue more than, you know, just a lab test
• 55:59
  Speaker 13: tube drops, oops, woman's dead.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: So two things.
• 56:04
  Speaker 11: First of all, the whole point of these very secure
• 56:06
  Speaker 11: labs is that a test tube drop should not lead
• 56:09
  Speaker 11: to somebody getting sick. I mean, they're supposed to be
• 56:11
  Speaker 11: very strong safety protocols. So that's, again, a little concerning. Look,
• 56:16
  Speaker 11: Russia has had a very big bioweapons program for decades
• 56:20
  Speaker 11: when there was a Soviet Union. And in the last
• 56:23
  Speaker 11: few years, our intelligence agencies have publicly reported that they
• 56:26
  Speaker 11: believe Russia has been substantially expanding its bioweapons program.
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: Is this part of that program? We don't know. We
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: don't know. This is the kind of stuff we need
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: to learn more about.
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: That's Dr. Ajish Jha, former White House COVID director, telling
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: us we don't know. And Listen, I don't know either.
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's one of those things, but you
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: never know, right? You never know what's going on. We'll
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: keep you monitored on this. But speaking of tests and
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: test results, this is where the direction I'm going in. Earlier,
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: I teased a couple of things, right? Because we have
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: to pay attention to what's going on. And part of
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: what I want to talk about right here is that
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: it's Autism and ADHD Awareness Month. So I mentioned a
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: Hollywood TV star from back in the days who's speaking
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: out about this diagnosis. And who is it? It's the
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: one and only Tisha Campbell, right? She is from the
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: TV show Martin, Martin, right? The Martin Lawrence show. And
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: I loved that show when I was younger. If I
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: could still watch it, I would. I don't know if
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: they play reruns of it. I haven't seen too many
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: of them. But anyway, she was on My Wife and
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: Kids and House Party. And she revealed that she has
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: a very popular diagnosis lately or combination of diagnoses called ADHD.
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: That is the co-occurring autism and ADHD diagnosis. She got
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: tested after finishing her memoir about raising her son, who
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: is also autistic. She took a round of assessments and
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: finally got the answers that explained a lifetime of masking.
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: I want you to listen to Tisha Campbell on Angela
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: Yee's show. Go ahead.
• 58:14
  Speaker 8: Talking about it feels like we all know somebody who's
• 58:18
  Speaker 8: autistic and you talk about the numbers from back then
• 58:21
  Speaker 8: yeah versus where they are now yeah one in I
• 58:24
  Speaker 8: think you said it was like one in.
• 58:26
  Speaker 12: In 40 something now or something like that I can't.
• 58:29
  Speaker 8: Remember my before it was like one in a hundred
• 58:31
  Speaker 8: something people and now.
• 58:32
  Speaker 12: In a hundred and A 10 or something like that.
• 58:35
  Speaker 8: And now it's like one in every like 40 or
• 58:37
  Speaker 8: something like that.
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: We don't know these.
• 58:39
  Speaker 5: I can't remember the exact numbers.
• 58:40
  Speaker 12: Sorry, my brain ain't working.
• 58:40
  Speaker 5: Y'all been talking all day.
• 58:42
  Speaker 8: I wonder if that means that more people are getting
• 58:44
  Speaker 8: diagnosed or if it means that there are more people.
• 58:48
  Speaker 12: No, I think there are more people getting diagnosed. I
• 58:50
  Speaker 12: think people are having a better understanding of autism. And
• 58:55
  Speaker 12: so I even got tested.
• 58:57
  Speaker 8: I thought so. Now, I heard somewhere you can't as
• 59:00
  Speaker 8: an adult get tested.
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: That's not true.
• 59:01
  Speaker 8: Yeah, because I saw people having this conversation online.
• 59:04
  Speaker 12: No, that's not true. As a matter of fact, the
• 59:06
  Speaker 12: same test that Zen had to go through, I had
• 59:08
  Speaker 12: to go through.
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: So I.
• 59:10
  Speaker 12: I actually saw two specialists. And I took 12 tests each.
• 59:16
  Speaker 12: And they all vary from oral tests to written tests
• 59:20
  Speaker 12: to just Q & As. And so I took all
• 59:24
  Speaker 12: 12 twice. And I just got my diagnosis back.
• 59:28
  Speaker 8: What did they say?
• 59:29
  Speaker 12: I have ADHD, which is a newer diagnosis where you
• 59:32
  Speaker 12: have partial ADHD and autism. So I have a lot
• 59:36
  Speaker 12: of autistic tendencies and I'm level one.
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: Well, how about that? Now, Tisha Campbell still looks great,
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: by the way. She looks fantastic, aging like fine wine. But, ADHD. Now,
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: this is not necessarily a new diagnosis, if I can, right?
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: It's a... Let me see. I'll look it up for you.
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: We'll do it together, right? ADHD. Because it's all over
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: TikTok and Instagram and whatever. And it's a non-medical community
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: coined term to describe individuals who are both autistic and
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: have ADHD. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Even that one, there's
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: a question about renaming that to Attention Deficit Hyperreactivity Disorder.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: Some want to change it to executive function disorder. I
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: don't know if that's going to happen anytime soon. But
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: when people are believed to have ASD, autism spectrum disorder,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: and ADHD or ADD, attention deficit disorder, they call this
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: distinct neurodevelopmental condition, ADHD, right? That's what they're calling it.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: It's a novelty, right? but honestly, there's more to it.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: And the same thing she did. Now I didn't take
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: 12 tests. I've, I've known I've had ADHD for a
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: long time. I went to a psychiatrist, uh, one of
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: the top guys at NYU medical school, and he gave
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: me a diagnosis, um, many years ago. And I, I
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: opt to not use any, um, stimulant medication. It doesn't
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: work great for me. Um, Maybe I will in the future.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: But I prefer, I tend to not like to take
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: medicine in general. Excuse me. Now, for the autism, I've
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: taken three different assessments. And I'm going to give you
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: the names of those just because they're interesting. One is
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: called a CAT-Q, the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire. The next
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: one is what I understand to be the gold standard
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: in this, which is called the RADS-R. R-A-A-D-S dash R,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: stands for Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale Revised, and the
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: third one being the AQ, the Autism Spectrum Quotient. And
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: what these things measure is a number of things, right?
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: I think people automatically tend to say, oh, if that's
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: what that means, then that means I have autism too. Well,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: I think that's what the test is for. It depends
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: on how often you have these things, right? But what
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: the The scale itself and some of the subscales within
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: it actually measure is not just hobbies that one has,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: but it measures how your brain naturally organizes information and
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: finds comfort. So I got out of 42, which is
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: a perfect score for having autism in that category, I
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: got a score of 41, indicating a very deep alignment
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: with three core autistic traits. One is hyper-focused and special interests.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: Possessing an intense, passionate capacity to lock on to specific topics, hobbies,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: or historical eras. Deep diving into subjects until you master them.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: Finding immense joy and comfort in collecting facts and organizing information. Now,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: you would think that I was just really good at
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: my job as a talk show host. No, it's that.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: And I've had it my whole life, which is kind
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: of funny. The need for predictability and routine, yeah. this
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: part of the score indicates a strong reliance on consistency.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: Deep internal distress or anxiety or irritation when your schedule
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: changes unexpectedly or when plans are disrupted, that's for sure.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: I was very angry, honestly, during my 20s and 30s,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: especially when, you know, plans change. I was not happy-go-lucky
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: or easy-going or, yeah, no problem, easy-peasy, lemon-squeezy. No, not
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: at all. It was like crisis, like, Let's fight because
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: I just couldn't. I didn't know how to handle those changes.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: Bottom up processing. Let's see your brain naturally focusing on
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: micro details before zooming out to see the big picture.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: Noticing patterns, errors and other things in environmental details that
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: most people typically gloss over. So my threshold here firmly
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: meets the autism screening threshold. I scored 144 overall. The
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: threshold for autism is 65. So I thought that was
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: pretty interesting for that particular subscale. And it really helped
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: me understand a lot of things, right? Now, some of
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: you might think, like I did, nah, that's not me.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm just one of those people that experienced
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 3: some of these things, but I don't want the label.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 3: I don't necessarily want to have this. I'm just saying
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: I took these assessments because I was told by an
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: ex-girlfriend who has an autistic brother, and she said, you know,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: you really, you have a lot of tism. That's the
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: quote that she gave me. And it stayed in my head.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: And I said, you know, let me check it out.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: And I've realized that in this day and age, there's
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: a lot of people that have ADHD and also have
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: autism at the same time. So this is not woe
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: is me. Honestly, it makes no bad difference in my life.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: If anything, it makes a good difference in my life
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: because now I can safely say, oh, I do all
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: of these things that I already knew I was doing
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 3: because of this rather than going, I don't know why
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: I do that. I guess I'm quirky or I guess
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: I'm weird, right? Or I'm different. I look at different.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: I process things differently. I have a different view on that.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: I've always known those things. Now there's a clinical name
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: for these things. It wasn't as earth changing as learning
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: about ADHD. That truly was like hitting the lotto. That
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: I realized, wow. So now there's a name for people
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 3: to go, hey, look, I'm going to go to the
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: store and buy milk. I'll be right back and come
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: back two hours later With everything that you could find
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: at Marshall's or HomeGoods or TJ Maxx. Never going to
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: get the milk. Coming home with a new tie. Coming
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: home with new electronic gadgets that were in the clearance section.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: And literally just, you know, thinking, oh, I forgot. Oh,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: I got distracted. And thinking that was okay. And I did. Forever.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, you can ask my ex-wife. Well, you probably
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: can't ask her. But she would definitely tell you, I
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 3: did things like that. I still do, but now because
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: I'm cognizant of it, because of the ADHD label, I
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 3: realize that I'm doing these things. And I'm like, you
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: know what, let me try to do it a little less.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: But definitely, I have these tendencies for sure. And I
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: still tend to do them. You know, as bad as
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: it used to be?
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: No.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: You live and learn and you get better at managing things.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: Kind of like people lifting weights in the gym. Some
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: people have a genetic predisposition to grow muscles very quickly
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: and they learn the proper technique to make muscles and
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: lift weights accurately. And boom, then there's me, right? I've
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: been going to the gym for a couple of years
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: now and I've got a little bit of muscle, but
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: definitely not where I should have or where I could
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: have if I was a little more focused, a little
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: more disciplined, if I ate a little bit better, if
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: I was better at the technique. But that's life, right?
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 3: We're not all on the same schedule is what I'm saying.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: So anyway, that was my personal big news, finding out
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: that I have tested, I guess the word is positive,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: or I passed the autism test, meaning two out of
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: the three say that I have this spectrum disorder. And
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: eventually I'll go to, I guess it's a neurologist to
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: confirm those results and get the additional nine tests that
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: Tisha Campbell was just talking about. But I'm not that
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: interested in it. So we'll see how it goes. I
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: don't think I need any medicine for this. It's more
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: than one of those things. You just know that how
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: your brain works. So happy autism, ADHD awareness month to you.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: It happens to share part of the month with Hispanic
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: heritage month. And I always leave you with the saying,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: and I say, you got to stand for something because
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: if you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. And
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: good people like you to do nothing. So make sure
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: you do something. Hasta la proxima. Take care. Good night.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: And God bless you, America. I'm Rich Valdez. And this
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: is America.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: This is America. This is America.