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Silver soars, Sexes aging, SHEEN calls in · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez, powered by politicweek dot com.
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Speaker 4: third of December, keeping your company this evening uh telling
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Speaker 4: you all about what's going on in America tonight. This
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Speaker 4: is America with me Rich Valdez. By the way, and
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Speaker 4: up first, we're tackling the hard hitting headlines that have
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Speaker 4: the swamp sweating and the patriots cheering men Lisio not
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Speaker 4: the A little blessings to everybody. And you know we're
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Speaker 4: days away one day right tomorrow as Nocha went out
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Speaker 4: for me, for you guys, two days away for many
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Speaker 4: of you from Christmas Day. And it's very, very exciting.
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Speaker 4: I love this time of year. But we're gonna break
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Speaker 4: it down with some truth, with some humor, with a
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Speaker 4: dash of so free throw, as I like to say,
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Speaker 4: and like they say online, right, it's a good quote
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Speaker 4: I've seen online. It says freedom isn't free, but it's
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Speaker 4: worth every penny, all right. Kicking it off, today's blockbuster
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Speaker 4: GDP report should have a strong sentiment in everybody's heart
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Speaker 4: this holiday season, and it sends a strong reminder that
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Speaker 4: this year's biggest present to the American people came back
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Speaker 4: in July when President Trump signed the Big beautiful, Big
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Speaker 4: beautiful Bill. They signed it on July fourth, Trump and
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Speaker 4: the Republicans in Congress passing the Big Beautiful Tax Bill.
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Speaker 4: Every single House and Senate Democrat voted repeatedly to let
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Speaker 4: all of the Trump tax cuts expire, which would have
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Speaker 4: raised taxes on the middle class by about fifteen hundred
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Speaker 4: dollars per household this coming year. Think about that for
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Speaker 4: a second. Yeah, they're going to take more of your
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Speaker 4: money out of your hardworking paycheck. And El Trumpito put
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Speaker 4: an end to that, So I'm happy. And then they
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Speaker 4: want to complain about the quote unquote affordability crisis. Well,
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Speaker 4: here are some of the tax hikes that would have
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Speaker 4: been arriving January one if the Democrats would have gotten
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Speaker 4: their way. Check this out. The standard deduction would have
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Speaker 4: been cut in half, raising taxes and forcing millions of
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Speaker 4: people to itemize. This would have screwed a lot of
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Speaker 4: people up. Tax rates would have spiked with every rate
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Speaker 4: that goes up, with the top rate jumping from thirty
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Speaker 4: seven to thirty nine point six. How about that unlimited
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Speaker 4: salt deductions, state and local tax that would have come back.
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Speaker 4: Then you've got the child tax credit that would have
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Speaker 4: been slashed from two thousand to only one thousand bucks,
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Speaker 4: cutting it in half. Small business taxes would have went
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Speaker 4: up from twenty nine point six percent to thirty nine
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Speaker 4: point six percent. How about that? How about breaking the
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Speaker 4: back of the small business owner in this country? The
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Speaker 4: backbone of the American economy, and the alternative minimum tax
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Speaker 4: and the death tax would have snapped back to pre
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Speaker 4: twenty seventeen exemption levels, which is when he put the
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Speaker 4: Trump tax cuts in place to begin with. And this
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Speaker 4: would have trapped a bunch of families right and messed
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Speaker 4: a lot of people up. So Ami goes, I'm very
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Speaker 4: happy that the GDP surge is proof Trump's policies are working.
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Speaker 4: They're turbocharging the economy. It's like a shot of espresso
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Speaker 4: in your cafacito, if you know what I mean. And
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Speaker 4: I like it because I think we're about five or
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Speaker 4: six months away from seeing things really make a big change.
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Speaker 4: That's just me. I'm not a fortune teller, but I
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Speaker 4: did polish my crystal ball, and I think we're headed
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Speaker 4: in the right direction. But I got some more stuff
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Speaker 4: for you. I got some more national political headlines. The
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Speaker 4: deep state full meltdown going on. Why as we're on
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Speaker 4: the eve of No chevuin President Trump's ordering a total
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Speaker 4: blockade of Venezuela and oil tankers taking a third one now, saying, oh,
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Speaker 4: you owe us that. And when they asked them, they said,
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Speaker 4: mister president, what are you planning on doing with all
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Speaker 4: of these ships you're seizing? Listen to what he said.
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Speaker 7: United States sees one point nine million barrels of oil
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Speaker 7: on December tenth.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna keep it. We're keeping Where's it?
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Speaker 8: Are we gonna sell it?
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Speaker 4: A fut on the strategic.
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Speaker 3: Maybe we'll sell it, maybe we'll keep it.
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Speaker 4: Maybe we'll use it in the strategic reserves.
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Speaker 3: We're keeping it. We're keeping the ships.
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Speaker 4: Also, how about that, So we're keeping it, We're keeping it,
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Speaker 4: the ships, We're keeping those two. You gotta love it.
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Speaker 4: Trumpito right, not playing games. I love that. I think
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Speaker 4: this was a very very good thing. And why because
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Speaker 4: this is what you do. Right. First thing you do.
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Speaker 4: You designate the Madudo regime as a foreign terrorist organization. Boom.
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Speaker 4: I'd how you handle these thieves who stole the US
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Speaker 4: assets to begin with. Meanwhile, he's ending deportation protections for
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Speaker 4: Somalians in Minnesota, saying we're gonna send them back. We're
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Speaker 4: gonna send them back. Now he didn't say that. I'm
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Speaker 4: adding that for emphasis, accusing the state of laundering billions
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Speaker 4: of dollars, and looks like that that's the direction we're
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Speaker 4: headed in. Is more and more proof comes out and
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Speaker 4: borders are Tom Homan was in the White House recently
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Speaker 4: and he, you know, did a great job. He did
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Speaker 4: a great job explaining exactly what it is that they're
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Speaker 4: doing and why they're doing it. And oftentimes we get
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Speaker 4: this idea of immigration kind of twisted, I'm going to say,
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Speaker 4: and he brings it back to the basics. It's about
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Speaker 4: protecting children. In more cases than you'd think, listen to this.
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Speaker 5: Jane has done more than President Trump. What he has
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Speaker 5: done has gave us the most secure border in the
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Speaker 5: history of this nation.
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Speaker 3: Heart stop.
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Speaker 5: I went hundreds of miles of bordering didn't see one
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Speaker 5: illegal alien. Incredible considering a Biden administration, we had ten
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Speaker 5: twelve thousand a day, most released in the United States.
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Speaker 5: I'm probably be with these patriots behind me. I'm already
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Speaker 5: probably being the over loss of president, but being being
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Speaker 5: with these heroes. I met some of these soldiers down
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Speaker 5: on the border and actually a shout out to Fort Gum,
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Speaker 5: New York. We got some Tenth Mountain division in here,
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Speaker 5: so at least to find it, Claudia Attenant, we all
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Speaker 5: love Port Drumm and the Tenth Mountain. So look, this
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Speaker 5: is a game change. I want to make something perfectly clear.
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Speaker 5: Can we get attacked all the time? Being inhumane. The
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Speaker 5: Biden administration is much more humane. It just is a
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Speaker 5: bunch of crap, because there's been studies done that thirty
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Speaker 5: one percent of women and make that journey through the
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Speaker 5: cartels get sexy assaulted, they get raped and not just
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Speaker 5: the women, children too. I've done numerous investigations in that
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Speaker 5: sex trafficking was historic. Hies with that open border, Fatana historic,
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Speaker 5: heis killer quarterman Americans.
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Speaker 3: No inspected terrorists that came across the border record historic.
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Speaker 5: What happened under Biden administration was the most inhumane thing
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Speaker 5: I've seen in my lifetime.
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Speaker 3: Now that the border is ninety.
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Speaker 5: Six percent decline, ninety six percent, less people are coming.
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Speaker 3: How many women aren't being raped?
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Speaker 5: How many children I'm dying making that journey, How many
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Speaker 5: women and children aren't being sex trafficking to this country
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Speaker 5: every day? How many normal suspected terrorists aren't just walking
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Speaker 5: across that border. President Trump, in this administration's saving thousands
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Speaker 5: of lives every month.
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Speaker 3: Hard stop, that's just a stone cold.
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Speaker 4: Fat Tom Holman is right, You've got to keep the
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Speaker 4: border safe for a myriad of reasons. Let alone, to me,
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Speaker 4: the most important one protecting women and children so kudos
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Speaker 4: to Edge Trumpito on the team. I think that's a
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Speaker 4: good thing, and we got to give them credit what
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Speaker 4: credit's due. And I think we don't hear too much
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Speaker 4: of that in the mainstream media. So leave it to
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Speaker 4: us to make sure that we handle that and tackle that.
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Speaker 4: But I want to continue because I want to talk
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Speaker 4: about this again, the GDPs thing, and we'll do that
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Speaker 4: a little bit more. But with those economic wins, I
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Speaker 4: think there's also crypto. Cryptocurrency is seeking popularity, it's seeking
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Speaker 4: to gain recognition in the United States, and it's working right.
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Speaker 4: You've got massive mergers and acquisitions that are going on,
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Speaker 4: looking at a record eight point six billion and twenty
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Speaker 4: twenty five thanks to President Trump's pro crypto policies. You've
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Speaker 4: got deals that are exploding. It's very good stuff. You've
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Speaker 4: got different packs that are getting funded now to advance
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Speaker 4: this politically. Today, the market is dipping a bit, I think,
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Speaker 4: but bitcoin is still at eighty eight K, so it's
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Speaker 4: fluctuating between eighty and one hundred. I think that that
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Speaker 4: is going to continue to grow. And again I'm no
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Speaker 4: crypto forecaster. I'm just I look at the things and
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Speaker 4: I say, I think this is what it's going to do,
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Speaker 4: and I think it's going to continue to do. But
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Speaker 4: the one that really I'm watching that I think is
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Speaker 4: really interesting here silver silver prices thriving right really seventy
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Speaker 4: two bucks an ounce. It was just sixty seven bucks
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Speaker 4: a few days ago. That's up one hundred and forty
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Speaker 4: nine percent year to date. The industrial demand excuse me,
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Speaker 4: for electric vehicles or solar panels, for health care, for
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Speaker 4: anything that has to do with kind of electric conduction
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Speaker 4: is huge. Now. This also brings in to question the
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Speaker 4: issue of silver surging because China produces I don't know,
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Speaker 4: fifteen percent ten to fifteen percent of the silver that
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Speaker 4: we get globally, and they've said we're not giving out
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Speaker 4: any more silver right at a moment where JP Morgan
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Speaker 4: Chase just leased a bunch of silver from them to
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Speaker 4: complete a deal. So is this going to crash the
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Speaker 4: silver market?
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Speaker 9: Now?
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Speaker 4: I think it's actually going to set it on fire. Personally,
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Speaker 4: I think it's going to take off like a rocket ship.
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Speaker 4: But I'll get into that a little bit because I
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Speaker 4: know not everybody cares about precious metals, but I like
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Speaker 4: to bring it in. You know, it's Tuesday, we should
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Speaker 4: talk a little bit about that before we get into Christmas.
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Speaker 4: And the reality is, right now, the growth on silver
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Speaker 4: is outpacing gold and it has a tighter supply than gold,
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Speaker 4: So there's a lot of fear out there that it's
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Speaker 4: kind of fueling this. Anyway, if you're stacking up silver
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Speaker 4: for your family, this is a good time buy more.
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Speaker 4: All right, let me see what else do I got here? Ah,
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Speaker 4: this is a good one. Listen to this. The multi
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Speaker 4: a millionaire adulting struggle Sammy Sheen. She's the twenty one
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Speaker 4: year old daughter of Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards. She
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Speaker 4: went viral today after candidly admitting that she's so bad
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Speaker 4: at being an adult that she finds it impossible to
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Speaker 4: pay her bills on time because the task simply isn't fun. Well,
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna say it's not about being bad at it,
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Speaker 4: Sammy Sheen. I'm also bad at this. I don't like
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Speaker 4: paying bills. I put that stuff off. As a matter
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Speaker 4: of fact. One of the reasons I got divorced was
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Speaker 4: because she wanted to sit down and do bills, and
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Speaker 4: I said, we don't need two of us to sit
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Speaker 4: down and do bills. You do the bills and I'll
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Speaker 4: work and go make Somebodey And that didn't go well
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Speaker 4: for my ex wife. That's true story, by the way,
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Speaker 4: and the truth be told, I probably should have. I
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Speaker 4: was just not mature enough at the time to realize
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Speaker 4: I needed to be there, you know, emotional support or whatever.
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Speaker 4: But bottom line is, Sammy Sheen, you're not alone, sister,
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Speaker 4: God bless you. I would love to say it gets better,
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Speaker 4: but I guess it does get a little better. But
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Speaker 4: it's a struggle for me too. I have a parking
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Speaker 4: ticket I got in New York City. I know I
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Speaker 4: have to pay it. I just look at it and
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Speaker 4: I look at it. Why I don't pay it. I
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Speaker 4: have no idea. I usually you know, I go, oh
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Speaker 4: my god, I gotta pay it now, say ADHD. It
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Speaker 4: gets you going once you get that letter it says
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Speaker 4: you got to pay an extra ten bucks or they're
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Speaker 4: about to put you in jail or whatever the story is.
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Speaker 4: So anyway, maybe we'll talk about the ADHD procrastination a
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Speaker 4: little bit later. But you're not the only one. And
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Speaker 4: that's again the daughter of Charlie Sheen, who we interviewed.
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Speaker 4: By the way, Charlie was on the show two months
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Speaker 4: ago October. Maybe in our year end recaps, I'll play
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Speaker 4: a couple of minutes from that interview because it was
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Speaker 4: really good. It was a good interview. I really enjoyed
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Speaker 4: talking to Charlie Sheen, very candid interview. I think he
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Speaker 4: was really himself in that conversation. And you may have
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Speaker 4: heard it, but you'll get to hear a little bit
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Speaker 4: of it again. And for those of you who are
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Speaker 4: just tuning in for the first time, then you'll get
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Speaker 4: to hear it a well. Maybe we'll do it tomorrow
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Speaker 4: for Christmas Eve or even on Christmas Day. We got
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Speaker 4: we have plenty to do. I'm kind of on vacation
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Speaker 4: right now, but I'm working all throughout, so I don't
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Speaker 4: know if that's considered a vacation. But bear with me, folks.
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Speaker 4: We've got more to come straight ahead, plenty more to discuss.
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Speaker 4: Don't go anywhere.
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Speaker 6: I'm Rich aldess This is America, This is America. He's
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Speaker 6: got the best head of hair and podcasting. This is
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Speaker 6: America with rich valdeniz.
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Speaker 4: Well.
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Speaker 7: Silver is seeing an explosive move. It is now over
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Speaker 7: one hundred percent year to date, getting over sixty dollars
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Speaker 7: per ounce we've now overtaken the prior highs in silver
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Speaker 7: in twenty eleven and fifty around fifty dollars, and also
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Speaker 7: in nineteen eighty. Many of our guests have been discussing
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Speaker 7: the fundamental backdrop for silver, also talking about getting prepared
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Speaker 7: for a short covering rally. It appears that we may
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Speaker 7: be seeing this happen.
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Speaker 4: That's from the Silver Report, and yes, silver is making
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Speaker 4: a round. This is a pretty big deal, I think,
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Speaker 4: because oftentimes we don't see silver go up this much. Right,
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Speaker 4: it's above sixty. I think it hit just sixty seven,
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Speaker 4: close to sixty eight. I predict it's going to go
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Speaker 4: up another ten or twelve bucks to eighty, maybe even higher.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if it stays above eighty, but I
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Speaker 4: think it's going to get there. And the reason being
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Speaker 4: JP Morgan, right. JP Morgan takes these short positions pretty
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Speaker 4: often historically right, kind of controlling the the I guess
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Speaker 4: the ceiling if you will, on silver, And they just
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Speaker 4: made a different move with this least that they took.
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Speaker 4: I mentioned it before from the ICBC, And what's interesting
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Speaker 4: about this is by them making this move, it in
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Speaker 4: effect allows everybody to capitalize on silver Now, I'm no
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Speaker 4: expert in this stuff, right, I'm like the rest of you.
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Speaker 4: You know, I'm interested in hearing about it. When it's around.
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Speaker 4: I talk to people that know a little bit about it,
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Speaker 4: you know. I sell some gold, some silver.
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Speaker 10: But the.
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Speaker 4: Information is out there. And one of the reports I
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Speaker 4: check out is called crisis Economics. It's a pretty good one.
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Speaker 4: Here's a pretty good explanation on exactly what's going on
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Speaker 4: with the future of silver. Check this one out.
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Speaker 8: It's a documented, mechanically verifiable suppression mechanism that operates through
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Speaker 8: futures market dominance. Here's how it works. Silver trades on
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Speaker 8: two planes. Physical silver, the actual metal, trades in a
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Speaker 8: market constrained by mining output, industrial demand, and investment flows.
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Speaker 8: But the price of silver is not set in the
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Speaker 8: physical market. It's set in the futures market, specifically on
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Speaker 8: the comics, where paper contracts representing future delivery of silver
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Speaker 8: trade at volumes that dwarf actual physical supply. On any
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Speaker 8: given month, the notional silver represented in comics futures can
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Speaker 8: be fifty times the amount of physical silver that actually
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Speaker 8: exists in deliverable form. Now here's the key. If you
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Speaker 8: are a large commercial bank with deep capital reserves and
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Speaker 8: access to cheap funding, you can show silver futures in
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Speaker 8: size without ever worrying about physical delivery. You simply roll
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Speaker 8: your contracts forward every month, maintain your short position, and
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Speaker 8: every time silver tries to rally, you dump more paper
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Speaker 8: contracts into the market to suppress the price.
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Speaker 4: Now, that's in effect what JP Morgan does all the time. However,
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Speaker 4: here's where it's about to change.
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Speaker 8: You're not selling physical silver, You're selling the promise of
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Speaker 8: future silver. And because futures prices lead physical prices, because
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Speaker 8: derivatives set the marginal price in financialized commodity markets, your
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Speaker 8: short position in paper silver directly suppresses the price of
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Speaker 8: the actual metal. This is the game JP Morgan has
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Speaker 8: been playing for over a decade, massive persistent short positions
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Speaker 8: in silver futures that act as a mechanical sealing on price.
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Speaker 8: And it worked because they had the capital to sustain
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Speaker 8: the position, the market making infrastructure to control order flow,
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Speaker 8: and the regulatory blessing to operate without meaningful position limits.
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Speaker 8: But here's what nobody told you. While JP Morgan was
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Speaker 8: shorting paper silver, they were simultaneously accumulating physical silver. Hundreds
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Speaker 8: of millions of ounces quietly steadily over years. They shorted
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Speaker 8: the futures to suppress the price, then use that suppressed
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Speaker 8: price to accumulate the physical metal at artificially low levels.
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Speaker 8: It's one of the most brilliant and ruthless trades in
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Speaker 8: modern financial history.
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Speaker 4: How about that? I wish I would have known how
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Speaker 4: to do that, right. It's a little after the fact now,
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Speaker 4: but listen, I'm not, you know, a big bank with
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Speaker 4: the ability to buy hundreds of millions of ounces of silver,
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Speaker 4: but it does show you how big banks can control
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Speaker 4: certain commodities in the market. Terrific. So we're at sixty
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Speaker 4: seven dollars. Do we get to eighty something dollars? I
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Speaker 4: think so? Do we get to one hundred dollars? And
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Speaker 4: if so, do you remember that silver was literally at
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Speaker 4: fifty or fifty something dollars I don't know, a month
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Speaker 4: ago earlier this year? Hmmm? How's that for a way
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Speaker 4: to end the year with doubling the price of silver.
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Speaker 4: So again, I don't know what your position on silver is,
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Speaker 4: if you're into that or not into that, but very
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Speaker 4: very interesting stuff here, and I think it's it's worth
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Speaker 4: paying attention to, because why should we be left behind
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Speaker 4: in the UH. In the I was gonna say the
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Speaker 4: gold rush, in this case the silver rush. So anyway,
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Speaker 4: I'm not going to get too much into this because
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Speaker 4: this guy goes on and on and on, mister crisis economics.
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Speaker 4: It's about twelve minute audio clip. But I bring it
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Speaker 4: up to say that it should be a part of
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Speaker 4: everybody's portfolio, right, everybody should have some precious metals somewhere.
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Speaker 4: And this is not me doing an ad for any
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Speaker 4: silver company or any gold company, or even for my
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Speaker 4: own you know, find jewelry stuff that I sell, Not
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Speaker 4: at all. This is truly because I see the benefit
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Speaker 4: of it. And as far as I can remember, and
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Speaker 4: anything I've ever read, no matter how old it is,
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Speaker 4: they talk about silver and gold and copper everywhere in
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Speaker 4: every history document.
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Speaker 9: Right.
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Speaker 4: They might have shekels and rupees and rubles and denaris
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Speaker 4: and all these other types of currencies, but ultimately silver
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Speaker 4: and gold, right, they've been around forever. My gut tells
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Speaker 4: me they'll probably be around forever, and it's a good
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Speaker 4: thing to have, all right, I mean, he goes stick
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Speaker 4: with me. I want to talk about why men and
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Speaker 4: women age differently, and is it true that men age
18:27
Speaker 4: better than women. I'm gonna say, I get more compliments
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Speaker 4: now that I'm in my mid to late forties than
18:33
Speaker 4: I ever did when I was a really young man.
18:36
Speaker 4: And I wonder is that because of the grays in
18:38
Speaker 4: my beard that make me quote unquote more distinguished? Or
18:42
Speaker 4: is it because I don't know, you kind of just
18:46
Speaker 4: develop different features, you know as you age as a
18:52
Speaker 4: man that as a woman it doesn't work as well?
18:56
Speaker 4: And why doesn't it work as well?
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Speaker 3: Or does it?
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Speaker 4: Right? Do women in large part get more attractive as
19:02
Speaker 4: time goes on? Uh, I'm asking asking for a friend.
19:06
Speaker 4: This isn't an indictment on anybody. This is just some
19:08
Speaker 4: interesting stuff that I've seen, because ultimately what ends up
19:11
Speaker 4: happening is it doesn't matter how good you look. Men
19:14
Speaker 4: we die sooner, right, women are outliving us.
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Speaker 3: So what is it?
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Speaker 4: You know? Nike OBALI right? What's it matter to us?
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Speaker 4: What's it worth to look better and die younger?
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Speaker 3: More?
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Speaker 4: To come? Straight ahead? Keep a lock right here. I'm
19:26
Speaker 4: Rich Valdez.
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Speaker 6: This is America.
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Speaker 4: The forty fifth president. Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
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Speaker 4: to speak with Rich Valdez.
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Speaker 10: Oh, very good.
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Speaker 6: The honor is all yours.
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Speaker 4: Conservative time with a dash of sofrito.
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Speaker 6: Now here's Rich Valdez.
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Speaker 4: All right, Bambia, welcome back, Rich Valdez. A day away
19:57
Speaker 4: from Christmas Eve, not Chebuena. And I want to talk
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Speaker 4: about this men versus women aging, Right, the sexes are
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Speaker 4: aging and what that means, Why it matters, How it matters,
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Speaker 4: how it plays out. There's a lot of stuff here
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Speaker 4: that I want to break down because I find this
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Speaker 4: to be an interesting topic, right, interesting, very interesting in
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Speaker 4: my opinion.
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Speaker 10: Oh my god, yeah, dude, we're gonna totally look up
20:21
Speaker 10: to the guy that paints his nails.
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Speaker 4: Oh my god. Yeah, to stop it.
20:26
Speaker 10: Oh my god, yeah.
20:27
Speaker 4: Stop it. The deep state is interfering, mister sir, can
20:32
Speaker 4: you stop that? Thank you very much. All right, now,
20:35
Speaker 4: I didn't even call for the cut yet, and you
20:37
Speaker 4: play in the cut now. I do want to get
20:39
Speaker 4: to one of these cuts because there was a something
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Speaker 4: in the New York Post that I thought was pretty
20:46
Speaker 4: interesting about this men versus women versus women versus men,
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Speaker 4: and I found it to be interesting. All right, let's
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Speaker 4: now go ahead, uh and play the clip.
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Speaker 1: After watching Top Gun with Cruise last night, I started thinking,
21:02
Speaker 1: I mean, Tom Cruise looks pretty much the same as
21:05
Speaker 1: he did thirty years ago, and I didn't see any
21:07
Speaker 1: signs of like surgery or botox or anything like that.
21:10
Speaker 1: He does have wrinkles, but he looks great. So why
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Speaker 1: is it that men often age much better than women?
21:17
Speaker 1: It's not fair, I know. But first of all, women's
21:20
Speaker 1: hormones drop very quickly and very suddenly, especially after menopause
21:24
Speaker 1: when we start losing estrogen, and that causes loss of
21:27
Speaker 1: elastin and collagen in our skin, so the aging process
21:31
Speaker 1: is much more rapid. Men also have declining hormones, but
21:35
Speaker 1: it's a gradual process, so it doesn't happen so quickly. Also,
21:39
Speaker 1: we say that men with wrinkles and gray hair look
21:41
Speaker 1: more distinguished. And the third thing is that, you know,
21:45
Speaker 1: we women, we put so much crap on our faces,
21:48
Speaker 1: our body, our hair in an attempt to look younger,
21:51
Speaker 1: and these things are often full of toxins and will
21:53
Speaker 1: actually age you more quickly.
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Speaker 4: Hm, So is that what's really causing the problem here. Well,
22:03
Speaker 4: we've got a plastic surgeon from Beverly Hills winging in
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Speaker 4: on this as well. Listen to what he has to say.
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Speaker 10: Fine lines and wrinkles earlier. We still lose one percent
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Speaker 10: per year of collagen at the same rate, but if
22:16
Speaker 10: you start off with a thicker area of skin, you
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Speaker 10: have more time before you actually see it.
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Speaker 4: So is it collagen production? Is it hormonal? Is it
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Speaker 4: the difference in how men and women produce collagen? What's
22:30
Speaker 4: the purpose of this? And that doesn't say anything to
22:33
Speaker 4: the fact of men being more quote unquote distinguished, right,
22:39
Speaker 4: or staying more attractive or in fact, some studies show that,
22:43
Speaker 4: or at least surveys show that women consider men to
22:46
Speaker 4: be more attractive as they get older. So what's the story. Well,
22:50
Speaker 4: Psychology Today has a piece that they put out saying
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Speaker 4: that men's attractiveness is relatively stable until age fifty, and
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Speaker 4: I think there's other studies out there that would say
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Speaker 4: they the exact opposite of this, right, that it's after
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Speaker 4: fifty that men become more distinguished and attractive, right the
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Speaker 4: Sean Connery look. So what does the science have to
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Speaker 4: say about it? While scientists have discovered some genetic keys
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Speaker 4: as to why women's brains actually age better than men's,
23:24
Speaker 4: now this has nothing to do with collagen production, but
23:27
Speaker 4: it has everything to do with women being smarter, right,
23:30
Speaker 4: or at least their brains aging better, which is likely
23:34
Speaker 4: why they live longer, or at least a part of
23:36
Speaker 4: why they live longer. So I want to get into
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Speaker 4: this because I think this is pretty interesting. And while
23:43
Speaker 4: men may have beauty, if you will, that age is slowly,
23:47
Speaker 4: women have brains that age slowly, and I think perhaps
23:52
Speaker 4: they might They might win in every category, right, because
23:55
Speaker 4: men have the X and the Y chromosome, while women
23:58
Speaker 4: have two chromosomes, right, two X chromosomes. Scientists have been
24:03
Speaker 4: dismissing one of the female X chromosomes is largely inactive,
24:09
Speaker 4: saying it doesn't really do much of anything, but a
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Speaker 4: new study shows that this dormant chromosome actually awakens later
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Speaker 4: in life and it turns on the genes that help
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Speaker 4: keep your brain healthy, which maybe why women tend to
24:24
Speaker 4: retain their cognitive ability longer than men, that's for sure.
24:29
Speaker 4: I just for Thanksgiving saw my mom's first cousin, who
24:35
Speaker 4: is eighty seven years old, and she is sharp as attack.
24:39
Speaker 4: It's almost like she gets sharper as she gets older.
24:43
Speaker 4: And that's I mean, it's not even the case for me.
24:46
Speaker 4: I listened to some of my early shows from just
24:48
Speaker 4: four or five six seven years ago, and I sounded sharper, faster,
24:52
Speaker 4: more youthful in those audio clips than I do now.
24:55
Speaker 4: And that's just a few years ago, so I can
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Speaker 4: only imagine what I'm gonna sound like if years from
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Speaker 4: now even though. But the researchers are from the University
25:06
Speaker 4: of San Francisco, and they discovered that when females genetically
25:12
Speaker 4: modify mice, right or when the scientists you know, genetically
25:17
Speaker 4: modify female mice, they reach the equivalent of about sixty
25:21
Speaker 4: five human years, and that their silent X chromosome begins
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Speaker 4: expressing genes that boost brain connections and increase cognition. How
25:31
Speaker 4: about that I need some increased cognition for sure. I
25:35
Speaker 4: need a little bit more mental bandwidth. Anyway, I'm just
25:38
Speaker 4: putting that out there. If anybody has any any for me,
25:41
Speaker 4: I'll take it. Doctor Dina Dubal, She says, in typical aging,
25:46
Speaker 4: women have a brain that looks younger, with fewer connective issues,
25:51
Speaker 4: fewer cognitive deficits when you compare it to the male brain.
25:56
Speaker 4: And again she is a uc S professor of neurology.
26:02
Speaker 4: She goes on to say that these results show that
26:04
Speaker 4: the silent X chromosome and females actually reawakens in late life,
26:10
Speaker 4: probably helping to slow down cognitive decline. How about that
26:16
Speaker 4: is That's why I love doing these scientific things, because
26:19
Speaker 4: I find this to be fascinating. Right, there's an actual reason.
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Speaker 5: Now.
26:23
Speaker 4: Another reason that people are saying that men tend to
26:26
Speaker 4: age better, at least apparently right in appearance, they seem
26:30
Speaker 4: to age better despite women living longer and being sharper
26:37
Speaker 4: than men in the later years, is the fact that
26:41
Speaker 4: men have higher levels of testosterone, and that testosterone gives
26:46
Speaker 4: you thicker skin, and in having thicker skin, it's less
26:51
Speaker 4: susceptible to wrinkling. Now. I don't know if that's true
26:55
Speaker 4: or not, but it sounded interesting.
26:57
Speaker 3: Now.
26:58
Speaker 4: There's also some thought around the idea that higher levels
27:02
Speaker 4: of testosterone produce higher levels of collagen, and it's the
27:05
Speaker 4: collagen that exists right within our dermis, within our skin
27:13
Speaker 4: that actually causes us men to have less wrinkles. I
27:17
Speaker 4: don't know how true that is, but I find it
27:20
Speaker 4: fascinating all this stuff because there is not really a
27:24
Speaker 4: huge industry for men trying to not have wrinkles. I'm
27:28
Speaker 4: sure there is an industry, but it's nothing like women. Right,
27:31
Speaker 4: I've met women in their thirties that don't even have wrinkles,
27:34
Speaker 4: that will make certain faces and scrunch their nose just
27:38
Speaker 4: to have wrinkles, to show you the ones they think
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Speaker 4: they're going to have ten years from now or five
27:43
Speaker 4: years from now. You know, they'll squint their eyes real
27:45
Speaker 4: tight and go, look, look, I'm getting crows feet. And
27:48
Speaker 4: I'm like, but you don't really have them, right, You're
27:50
Speaker 4: forcing yourself to pretend to have them. Anyway. It's a
27:54
Speaker 4: fascinating thing, right, Vanity is it's a thing. It's a
27:58
Speaker 4: thing for some people. I'm not brothers, and I'm not.
28:02
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna say I'm not vain, and I don't care.
28:05
Speaker 4: I'm pretty into my appearance. I try to do my beard,
28:08
Speaker 4: and you know I try to. I try, right. I
28:13
Speaker 4: was a barber, so I try to make sure my
28:14
Speaker 4: grooming is on point. I try to stay sharp. But
28:18
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't compare it anywhere close to what
28:21
Speaker 4: women do, the links that they go through. And I'm
28:24
Speaker 4: not This is not a criticism, right, I For one,
28:27
Speaker 4: I've met many men that say, oh, you know, I
28:29
Speaker 4: don't like a woman that's all made up. I love it.
28:31
Speaker 4: I love it. A woman who's made up head to toe,
28:34
Speaker 4: who's got well manicured nails and a fresh petticure to
28:38
Speaker 4: go with it, and just came from the spa super
28:41
Speaker 4: soft skin, no callouses anywhere, took care of everything. Who
28:45
Speaker 4: doesn't love that, right, go for it. I'm all for it.
28:49
Speaker 4: If women want to pamper themselves, I'm not going to
28:52
Speaker 4: get in the way. I don't have an issue lots
28:56
Speaker 4: of makeup. I'm not really a fan of lots of makeup.
28:58
Speaker 4: But if you want to use some makeup, you want
28:59
Speaker 4: to get your hair done, you want to do whatever,
29:01
Speaker 4: go ahead. You know you only live once, and if
29:05
Speaker 4: glam is your thing, glam is your thing. I was
29:07
Speaker 4: a barber for many years, and I've seen many men
29:12
Speaker 4: who are into their appearance, and I think it's a
29:15
Speaker 4: good thing to stay on top of your grooming, to
29:17
Speaker 4: stay on top of your beard, your mustache, if you're
29:19
Speaker 4: clean cut, whatever, just stay on top of it. And
29:22
Speaker 4: that's why wear a beard, because I hate shaving. So
29:24
Speaker 4: I can get by many days without ever shaving, and
29:27
Speaker 4: it doesn't look horrible because I'm already scruffy because I'm
29:30
Speaker 4: using a beard and that's kind of my excuse, especially
29:35
Speaker 4: in radio, right in the radio land where nobody gets
29:37
Speaker 4: to see me. Whoo, I love it. Now, What am
29:41
Speaker 4: I gonna do when next month when we launch our
29:45
Speaker 4: video stream and sign some new strategic partnerships and syndication
29:50
Speaker 4: deals and all that stuff, and for video, exclusively for video.
29:56
Speaker 4: What happens then when there's a camera in my face
29:59
Speaker 4: like l rush Bo's dittocam. Oh my goodness, I may
30:03
Speaker 4: in fact have to shave daily. I doubt I'll do it.
30:06
Speaker 4: I'm probably gonna do every other day. That's my thinking
30:10
Speaker 4: right now, every other day. And thank god for studio lights.
30:13
Speaker 4: Right the lights in the studio, they're very bright. They
30:16
Speaker 4: kind of block out a lot of that five o'clock shadow.
30:19
Speaker 4: So we'll see, we'll see you guys. Comment If I
30:23
Speaker 4: look too scruffy, you let me know. Hey, bro, time
30:25
Speaker 4: to take that razor to the face and get rid
30:28
Speaker 4: of some of those whiskers. But anyway, back to this
30:31
Speaker 4: Psychology Today thing, just to put a finer point on this, women,
30:35
Speaker 4: according to this piece in Psychology Today, experience a significant
30:38
Speaker 4: decline in attractiveness per decade, at a higher rate than
30:43
Speaker 4: men do per decade. That's, you know, shocking to me.
30:47
Speaker 4: Findings from the new study may help guide the timing
30:50
Speaker 4: of interventions for men and women. Now, I would love
30:55
Speaker 4: to get into this with somebody who two people, honestly,
30:58
Speaker 4: One would like a doctor, maybe like an endocrinologist or
31:01
Speaker 4: somebody who deals with aging specifically and hormones, but that
31:04
Speaker 4: would probably be an endocrinologist. And then somebody who deals
31:09
Speaker 4: with beauty, you know, somebody who does some spa treatments
31:12
Speaker 4: and stuff like that, because I find you might say,
31:17
Speaker 4: some might argue that a woman is at her the
31:20
Speaker 4: height of her beauty when she is I don't know,
31:24
Speaker 4: twenty something, right, early twenties, and I would argue that
31:30
Speaker 4: I think women hit the height of their beauty typically
31:34
Speaker 4: after they've given birth. Right at least I've seen that
31:36
Speaker 4: with many women in my own personal life, that after
31:39
Speaker 4: they give birth, my ex wife and others, that they
31:42
Speaker 4: just they look different and very beautiful. And it's a
31:48
Speaker 4: I'm going to call it a God thing, right, It's
31:49
Speaker 4: just something that God does. And their hair is more
31:52
Speaker 4: luxurious and shiny and thick and healthy, and their figure
31:59
Speaker 4: is it's fuller, and it looks more mature. Right, it's
32:04
Speaker 4: more I want to say womanly, right, you don't look
32:06
Speaker 4: as adolescent. And these things only happen typically as women age,
32:12
Speaker 4: not as they're younger. Now, maybe I'm alone in that opinion.
32:16
Speaker 4: I don't know, but I find it interesting that they're
32:20
Speaker 4: saying that women experience these declines and attractiveness per decade,
32:26
Speaker 4: so every ten years, as they get older, they are
32:30
Speaker 4: less attractive than men are every ten years. And again
32:34
Speaker 4: I don't know. I guess it all depends on what
32:36
Speaker 4: man or woman you're thinking of. If you're talking about
32:39
Speaker 4: a woman who likes to run a five k or
32:41
Speaker 4: a guy who likes to run a five k, people
32:43
Speaker 4: that are active hikers, people that like to go to
32:47
Speaker 4: the gym, or even if they don't like me, don't
32:49
Speaker 4: like going to the gym, but go anyway and try
32:51
Speaker 4: to watch what they eat. They'll, obviously, I think, be
32:55
Speaker 4: more attractive as they age if they're doing better with
32:58
Speaker 4: their diet and exercise and all that. But if you're
33:02
Speaker 4: a woman or a man and you're like, ah, what's
33:04
Speaker 4: an extra fifteen pounds, Yeah, you know, I'm gonna have
33:07
Speaker 4: that extra slice of bread, I'm gonna have the extra carbs,
33:10
Speaker 4: I'm gonna i don't like diet. Oh, diet is terrible.
33:13
Speaker 4: Let me go with the full sugar version, and every
33:16
Speaker 4: drink you have is the full sugar version. You never
33:18
Speaker 4: substitute for you know, if you make if you're one
33:20
Speaker 4: of those people that make that argument all that stuff,
33:24
Speaker 4: the fake sugar is even worse for you than the
33:26
Speaker 4: real sugar. It's actually not worse for you. It might
33:28
Speaker 4: be just as bad in certain ways. Like I interviewed
33:31
Speaker 4: a doctor once who said that your body might get
33:34
Speaker 4: kind of accustomed to the fake sugar, and it may
33:37
Speaker 4: not reduce insulin resistance. However, it does lower your A
33:43
Speaker 4: one C. Right, you will be less diabetic if you
33:47
Speaker 4: don't consume as much sugar. So yeah, a packet of
33:50
Speaker 4: Splendor or Stevia or Sweet and Low or equal or
33:53
Speaker 4: any of those sucro sacralose, sacharin whatever, any of those
34:00
Speaker 4: will be better for you in the glucose department than
34:03
Speaker 4: actual raw sugar, cane sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and
34:08
Speaker 4: any of the other sweeteners that are out there. I'll
34:10
Speaker 4: make that argument till I'm blue in the face. Why
34:13
Speaker 4: I'm living proof. I've been doing it for years. I
34:17
Speaker 4: haven't had any adverse reactions to the little yellow packets,
34:21
Speaker 4: but I had lots of adverse reactions to consuming high
34:24
Speaker 4: amounts of sugar eighty pounds lighter. Now, So you tell me,
34:28
Speaker 4: was it worth a little yellow packet? Heck? Yeah, So
34:31
Speaker 4: I always challenge people on that stuff. Yeah, diet soda
34:34
Speaker 4: all day, every day. I don't necessarily like it, right,
34:37
Speaker 4: I'd much rather have the full sugar version. But the
34:40
Speaker 4: difference is they're stark, and the benefits outweigh the slight
34:44
Speaker 4: difference in taste. So anyway, I say that to say,
34:47
Speaker 4: there's a lot of things that we can do. But
34:49
Speaker 4: if you're taking care of yourself and you're starting to
34:51
Speaker 4: watch your figure and you want to be in better
34:53
Speaker 4: health and your diet and etc. Then I would suppose
34:55
Speaker 4: that you're not going to have that extra ten or
34:57
Speaker 4: fifteen pounds between your hips and your belly button, right,
35:01
Speaker 4: and you're not going to have that extra tire. That's
35:04
Speaker 4: a good thing. It all depends on how you're approaching life.
35:07
Speaker 4: And if you know that your body slows down and
35:10
Speaker 4: hormones change and it's harder to burn fat and easier
35:13
Speaker 4: to store fat, then maybe you start to consume less
35:17
Speaker 4: food because you need less food for energy purposes. I
35:21
Speaker 4: don't know, just a thought, right, That's just part of
35:23
Speaker 4: what I was thinking. Anyway, I'd love your thoughts on
35:27
Speaker 4: this stuff. We'll hit the phones shortly. If there's anybody
35:31
Speaker 4: any takers there, we'll go ahead and go to that.
35:33
Speaker 4: You know, the phone number, eight seven seven Valdes one,
35:37
Speaker 4: eight seven seven Valdes one. Keep it locked right here.
35:41
Speaker 4: I am Rich Valdes. Let me know your thoughts on
35:43
Speaker 4: this stuff. Plus get me at Rich Valdes with an
35:46
Speaker 4: s on all of the social media with respect to
35:49
Speaker 4: this aging stuff. I'm probably gonna do this again. I'm
35:52
Speaker 4: scheduled to be on the radio in my old stomping grounds, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
35:57
Speaker 4: WPHD twelve ten, the Big Talker UH scheduled to be
36:02
Speaker 4: with them on January second, hanging out from my man
36:06
Speaker 4: Rich Zioli, And I'm gonna probably hit this topic there
36:11
Speaker 4: again to get Philly's take on it as well. But
36:13
Speaker 4: I'd love to hear from you as well right now,
36:16
Speaker 4: so let me know your thoughts on that. Plus we're
36:18
Speaker 4: going to get into a little bit on Oh there's
36:21
Speaker 4: a few more things I got up my sleeve. I
36:22
Speaker 4: can't I can't let them all out of the bag yet.
36:24
Speaker 4: Don't go anywhere.
36:25
Speaker 6: I'm rich valdesk this is America, this is America.
36:45
Speaker 7: Or primo nods Bara Richveld is e s nous America Awara.
36:54
Speaker 4: All right, I mean goes. Welcome back, Rich Valdez, keeping
36:57
Speaker 4: your company tonight Christmas Eve tomorrow nor cheva as we
37:00
Speaker 4: call it. And I want to get into a little
37:04
Speaker 4: bit of a flashback here. I mentioned earlier in my
37:06
Speaker 4: interview with Charlie Sheen. I'm going to be off for
37:08
Speaker 4: Christmas Eve. I'm going to be off for a few days,
37:11
Speaker 4: and I'll be back Monday with you with some updates
37:14
Speaker 4: and then again taking off for New Year's Day and whatnot.
37:19
Speaker 4: But I want to get into this flashback right because
37:23
Speaker 4: I mentioned the Charlie Sheen interview and again it was
37:25
Speaker 4: a really fun interview for me to do because I'd
37:28
Speaker 4: never spoken with Charlie Sheen and he's not typically the
37:32
Speaker 4: guest that we typically procure. In fact, there's most of
37:35
Speaker 4: the guests we don't typically procure. A lot of them.
37:37
Speaker 4: Oftentimes their pr people will reach us and say, hey,
37:40
Speaker 4: you know so and so would like to be on
37:42
Speaker 4: the show because they know, the show has a large
37:43
Speaker 4: reach and a big audience, and I love that, you know,
37:46
Speaker 4: why not. And of course there are some people, you know,
37:48
Speaker 4: like President Trump. Trying to get President Trump on the
37:50
Speaker 4: show that took a long time. I was, you know,
37:53
Speaker 4: constantly emailing people and having our team email people to
37:56
Speaker 4: make sure they stay on top of the emails. And
37:59
Speaker 4: he was gracious enough to join us when he did.
38:01
Speaker 4: Not an easy guest to get. Those that get him
38:04
Speaker 4: often kudos to them, but not the easiest guy in
38:07
Speaker 4: the world to nail down. You would imagine he's very busy.
38:11
Speaker 4: But ed trumpeto aside, Charlie Sheen was somebody that a
38:15
Speaker 4: couple of guys that are PR guys that I met
38:17
Speaker 4: at the Talkers conference a couple of years ago, reached
38:20
Speaker 4: out and they were terrific. They said, hey, we're working
38:24
Speaker 4: with Charlie Sheen's PR team and they're interested in the
38:27
Speaker 4: show and they wanted to get him on, and I said, hey,
38:29
Speaker 4: let's do it. So shout out to McCormick and team.
38:32
Speaker 4: But I want to do a flashback to that because
38:36
Speaker 4: I started that conversation with Charlie Sheen talking about a
38:39
Speaker 4: crazy story that I heard when I was a kid
38:41
Speaker 4: when I was about eleven or twelve, maybe thirteen. My
38:44
Speaker 4: neighbor across the street, Kevin Rivera, had two uncles and
38:47
Speaker 4: one of them and I might mention this in the
38:49
Speaker 4: in the clip I'm Gonna play, but they'd grown up
38:51
Speaker 4: in Brooklyn and Heroin was at the height of its
38:54
Speaker 4: you know, it's heyday, and the mom, his mom, who's
38:58
Speaker 4: the sister of these two others that were involved with
39:02
Speaker 4: that early on, was telling us that when they would
39:04
Speaker 4: do too much Heroin, that everybody knew on the street
39:08
Speaker 4: to throw ice down their pants and this would prevent
39:12
Speaker 4: a overdose or wake them up or something like that.
39:15
Speaker 4: And I thought, that's crazy. How does that like medically work?
39:17
Speaker 4: Right today, we used Narcanda squirt in your nose and boom,
39:20
Speaker 4: we brought them back. Back then it was ice down
39:22
Speaker 4: the pants, and you know, I just always found it
39:25
Speaker 4: odd and something. In the Charlie Sheen documentary he mentions
39:29
Speaker 4: how he used an ice cube somewhat strategically in a
39:32
Speaker 4: similar manner, and I thought to myself, this is going
39:35
Speaker 4: to be where we start the interview and the craziest
39:37
Speaker 4: of all things. So I have a clip of me
39:40
Speaker 4: starting that interview with Charlie Sheen and just a short clip,
39:43
Speaker 4: but listen to this. I want to give you a
39:46
Speaker 4: little insight into the person we're about to talk to
39:49
Speaker 4: right now. Of course you know him. I think everybody
39:51
Speaker 4: knows Charlie Sheen, right, but he was in Platoon, Wall Street,
39:57
Speaker 4: Major League, and so many other television shows, Two and
40:00
Speaker 4: a half Men, killing the game and continues to kill
40:03
Speaker 4: the game right right now. He's got probably one of
40:06
Speaker 4: the top documentaries on Netflix. He's also got a book
40:10
Speaker 4: that came out recently called The Book of Sheen. It's
40:13
Speaker 4: a memoir about his life. It's a tell all and
40:15
Speaker 4: I gotta tell you, I just watched the documentary. So
40:18
Speaker 4: many things I didn't know, and I thought, I know
40:20
Speaker 4: it a lot. Have you seen all those movies and
40:21
Speaker 4: having been a fan all these years? But I want
40:24
Speaker 4: to get right into it with our guest, Charlie Sheen.
40:26
Speaker 9: Welcome, sir, Hey, thank you, rich, honored to be here.
40:30
Speaker 4: Likewise, it's an honor to speak with you, and you know,
40:33
Speaker 4: thank you. So so many things right that you talk
40:35
Speaker 4: about in the documentary that I was just like, wow,
40:38
Speaker 4: that's interesting. And I guess we'll break the ice with
40:41
Speaker 4: this one. There's a part where you talk about using
40:44
Speaker 4: an ice cube in a very interesting way. And it's
40:48
Speaker 4: funny because it brought me to my childhood. I grew
40:51
Speaker 4: up with a kid whose mom had brothers that had
40:54
Speaker 4: dealt with issues of addiction in Brooklyn with heroin, and
40:59
Speaker 4: that's what she would do. She said, you would have
41:01
Speaker 4: to throw ice down their pants and this would help
41:03
Speaker 4: them to prevent an OD And I thought that was
41:06
Speaker 4: wild when I heard it when I was like twelve
41:07
Speaker 4: years old, But then hearing it again, it kind of
41:09
Speaker 4: brought me back to my childhood, and I thought, how
41:12
Speaker 4: did you come up with that idea? Is this like
41:13
Speaker 4: a known secret that the rest of us don't know about?
41:17
Speaker 9: You know, it's interesting. I had never I mean, that.
41:22
Speaker 2: Was just an in the moment, Hail Mary, as it were.
41:27
Speaker 2: And I had heard about ice being used in you know,
41:33
Speaker 2: certain sexual fetishes or you know, something maybe I might
41:36
Speaker 2: have read in the Kamasutra or well whatever, in all
41:39
Speaker 2: my travels.
41:41
Speaker 9: And I just thought, Okay, I.
41:44
Speaker 2: Think it's about the only shot I have at staying
41:48
Speaker 2: awake for I don't know, the next twelve or fifteen minutes,
41:52
Speaker 2: you know. And because I use ice on my eyes
41:58
Speaker 2: just in the morning, right, just to kind of take
42:01
Speaker 2: the sting out. And that's you know, did it hammered
42:04
Speaker 2: and still do it sober. And so when I requested
42:09
Speaker 2: a cup of ice and a napkin, everybody assume I
42:13
Speaker 2: just wanted to give my eyes a little de stinging, right,
42:18
Speaker 2: And then I was like, I'll be right back and
42:20
Speaker 2: went to the bathroom in that cafe and just said
42:23
Speaker 2: all right, here's you know, here we go. Yeah, and
42:29
Speaker 2: and and it worked. So in some way, I think
42:32
Speaker 2: taking that maiden piece, uh were, for lack of a
42:37
Speaker 2: better description, h I think it serves as a public
42:43
Speaker 2: service message in a way to somebody that uh, you know,
42:47
Speaker 2: I'm not saying you fall it there it is there
42:49
Speaker 2: it is, And it could be you're on a road
42:51
Speaker 2: trip and you have to deliver your your you know
42:55
Speaker 2: whatever is you know they're they're they're waiting for and
43:00
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's just it's out there now as
43:02
Speaker 2: a as a possible go to, right.
43:05
Speaker 4: No, it's just a fascinating to me. It was an
43:08
Speaker 4: interesting throwback for me. Now there's there's a common theme
43:11
Speaker 4: in the documentary, and I would say, with your life,
43:13
Speaker 4: your career in general, which is remarkable by the way,
43:16
Speaker 4: you know you dealt with addiction. This is you know,
43:19
Speaker 4: widely known and you've been now cleaning sover eight years. Congratulations,
43:23
Speaker 4: God blessed.
43:24
Speaker 9: That's thank you, thank you. I appreciate it and thank you.
43:27
Speaker 4: And something Sean Penn said in the documentaries it alludes
43:30
Speaker 4: to you being kind of superhuman, saying that you know,
43:33
Speaker 4: you should have been dead. Nobody else can handle this.
43:36
Speaker 4: And and I guess the direction I want to go
43:37
Speaker 4: with that statement is what is it that that drives you?
43:41
Speaker 4: Is it God? Is it pure luck? Is it you know,
43:47
Speaker 4: your own personal drive or a combination of those things
43:50
Speaker 4: that gets you to the next big success after whatever
43:55
Speaker 4: setback you've had in the life of Charlie Sheen.
43:59
Speaker 2: Gosh, it's uh, I don't you know, I don't I mean,
44:05
Speaker 2: I I appreciate those words from Sean about being superhuman,
44:11
Speaker 2: but I think that that's that that that could be
44:14
Speaker 2: kind of a slippery place to to. You know, you
44:17
Speaker 2: can't you can't really fully buy into that, you can't
44:20
Speaker 2: rely on something like that. But yeah, it was just
44:26
Speaker 2: I don't know, it was I think we do talk
44:28
Speaker 2: about in the dock that even though though there were consequences,
44:32
Speaker 2: they were always sort of negotiable, you know, and there
44:36
Speaker 2: was usually an an off ramp, you know, there was
44:41
Speaker 2: usually a job waiting.
44:42
Speaker 9: There was usually.
44:43
Speaker 2: Something that that sent the message of Okay, yeah, you
44:47
Speaker 2: screwed up, but it really wasn't that bad. You know,
44:49
Speaker 2: the only person you hurt was yourself. So here, let's
44:52
Speaker 2: let's let's see let's let's you know, dust off and
44:56
Speaker 2: and and and get back, you know, get back to work.
45:00
Speaker 2: But what what what drives me or drove me? I
45:05
Speaker 2: think just comes down to passion, you know. I think
45:09
Speaker 2: it just comes down to you know, passion, and and
45:13
Speaker 2: also necessity.
45:15
Speaker 9: You know that that I.
45:16
Speaker 2: Don't have really, uh, you know, any other skills that
45:20
Speaker 2: I can make a living from, right, and so that
45:25
Speaker 2: I had to get back to the place where I
45:27
Speaker 2: could still you know, take care of all my children
45:32
Speaker 2: or you know whatever that that part of my life
45:35
Speaker 2: looked like at the time.
45:38
Speaker 9: But it was also just a way to.
45:42
Speaker 2: Just to feel better about myself.
45:44
Speaker 9: And and and know that I that I that I.
45:46
Speaker 2: Wasn't the things I was, you know, the labels I
45:50
Speaker 2: was being described as or or the the.
45:55
Speaker 9: You know I I wouldn't I don't know.
45:58
Speaker 2: I just I wouldn't succumb to the judgment or or
46:02
Speaker 2: or or people's.
46:04
Speaker 9: Uh you know, like people were.
46:08
Speaker 2: People were done for you exactly, and people were like
46:11
Speaker 2: done with me over and over and over. And I
46:13
Speaker 2: guess there was some part of me that was, you know,
46:16
Speaker 2: like and and I'll show them, you know, and that's
46:20
Speaker 2: not always the.
46:21
Speaker 9: Best thing to you know, use as a.
46:24
Speaker 2: As a motivational platform.
46:27
Speaker 9: But but you know, in and.
46:30
Speaker 2: Around a lot of that craziness, it's kind of like
46:33
Speaker 2: whatever got me to the next moment and away from.
46:37
Speaker 4: A lot to be said about betting on yourself?
46:39
Speaker 2: Now, I think so, I think so, yeah. But then
46:44
Speaker 2: it's it's interesting, you know, having perspective and and and
46:49
Speaker 2: you know really kind of having time during these past
46:52
Speaker 2: eight years to just look back on all that and
46:54
Speaker 2: then document it, like like I was able to with
46:58
Speaker 2: with the doc and the book. And it's just the
47:02
Speaker 2: thing that's interesting for me is, you know, telling these
47:06
Speaker 2: stories or writing these stories was I I you know,
47:11
Speaker 2: I wanted to take the reader. I wanted to take
47:13
Speaker 2: the audience on the journey, you know, put them in
47:16
Speaker 2: the passenger seat, as it were. But there was that
47:20
Speaker 2: there was kind of this this this nagging thought or
47:24
Speaker 2: feeling of when I was remembering all this stuff and
47:28
Speaker 2: putting it on the page, like like, dude, what the
47:31
Speaker 2: hell man, how did it? Why did it have to
47:34
Speaker 2: go here? How did it go Why did it have
47:37
Speaker 2: to go that far? What were you trying to prove?
47:40
Speaker 2: What were you trying to prove?
47:42
Speaker 9: You know?
47:42
Speaker 2: And it was just and I don't, I don't. I
47:45
Speaker 2: still don't have an answer for that.
47:48
Speaker 4: You know.
47:48
Speaker 2: I think I think a lot of it was performance driven,
47:52
Speaker 2: you know.
47:52
Speaker 9: I mean obviously there was you.
47:53
Speaker 2: Know, drugs and booze, and there's that whole, that whole element.
47:58
Speaker 9: But but some.
47:59
Speaker 2: Of it, well literally like Okay, they've decided I'm this guy,
48:03
Speaker 2: and if that's the role they're insisting that I continue
48:07
Speaker 2: to play, then here we go.
48:11
Speaker 4: Right, you just get in where you fit in. Well,
48:14
Speaker 4: you've been blackballed by the cartels, the Mexican cartels, they
48:17
Speaker 4: cut you off and a little bit in Hollywood. But
48:20
Speaker 4: it seems like you're making a comeback. This is a
48:22
Speaker 4: great documentary. You got what's next? What can we expect
48:25
Speaker 4: next from Charlie Sheen?
48:27
Speaker 2: Well, I don't have anything specifically lined up or scheduled.
48:33
Speaker 2: I know what I want to do.
48:37
Speaker 4: That.
48:38
Speaker 2: You know, the material that I've been that has been submitted,
48:43
Speaker 2: that I've been reading is the best stuff I've seen
48:46
Speaker 2: in twenty years. So it's just I can feel the
48:51
Speaker 2: worm is turning on that front. That because I think
48:55
Speaker 2: what the documentary did a great job of was the
48:58
Speaker 2: like a whole retrospective, you know, archival filmography that that
49:04
Speaker 2: I think kind of reminded people that, Okay, he's not
49:07
Speaker 2: just the guy in the bowling shirt.
49:09
Speaker 9: He's you know, fake playing a piano.
49:11
Speaker 2: He's he's not just the guy you know, screaming winning
49:15
Speaker 2: in seven grad rocks. He's not just Oh, there was
49:18
Speaker 2: a whole thing. There was a whole career, a whole
49:22
Speaker 2: series of cool stuff that that that you know, that
49:26
Speaker 2: had to have happened for anyone to care about the
49:30
Speaker 2: nutty stuff, you know. And then I was talking to
49:33
Speaker 2: a friend yesterday and and you know, he asked me
49:37
Speaker 2: something I'm paraphrasing, like, you know, what's like is if
49:40
Speaker 2: you had to pick something that's like the most satisfying
49:43
Speaker 2: out of this reset, out of this return, you know,
49:46
Speaker 2: this this coming back into the fold, what would you
49:49
Speaker 2: know what what would you, you know, cite and I
49:53
Speaker 2: I thought about it. I said, you know, it's it's
49:55
Speaker 2: it feels.
49:56
Speaker 9: Really good to be.
50:00
Speaker 2: To be back in a way and front and center
50:03
Speaker 2: and and people not thinking that I'm that I actually
50:08
Speaker 2: went crazy and stayed crazy, you know, because just you know,
50:13
Speaker 2: I've always said, hey, it was like three months, man,
50:16
Speaker 2: it was three months. You know, I went, yeah, I
50:20
Speaker 2: went through crazy.
50:21
Speaker 9: Thank you.
50:23
Speaker 2: That is a that is a perfect way to frame it. Yeah,
50:27
Speaker 2: So that's that's that's cool, and I think that's something
50:30
Speaker 2: that people are responding to.
50:32
Speaker 9: You know, Okay, it's he's.
50:34
Speaker 2: Still He's still the guy that that that that we
50:37
Speaker 2: that we grew up with and that we you know,
50:40
Speaker 2: grew fond of or supported or embraced or any of
50:44
Speaker 2: the above.
50:45
Speaker 4: You know. You know, Charlie Sheen, something I've learned in
50:47
Speaker 4: this business that whether people like you, don't like you,
50:50
Speaker 4: criticize your support you, the talent typically speaks for itself
50:54
Speaker 4: and everything else is professionalism and showing up for the job. Right.
50:57
Speaker 4: So I think as long as you're doing that, you're
50:59
Speaker 4: going to do just fine.
51:00
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you. No, I'm excited to just give
51:03
Speaker 2: somebody my word, and you know, again and and honor
51:08
Speaker 2: it like I used to. Like I used to, it
51:11
Speaker 2: was always, you know, the mission always took priority. And
51:14
Speaker 2: then you know, the mission became you know the open
51:17
Speaker 2: booze and you know like that, and that's just uh
51:22
Speaker 2: but that's a that's a young person's game, you know
51:26
Speaker 2: all that stuff. I turned sixty a few weeks ago,
51:32
Speaker 2: and hey, thank you. And you know, I think if
51:36
Speaker 2: you if you thumb your nose at the universe one
51:40
Speaker 2: too many times, that's when that that that that piano
51:45
Speaker 2: from the sky has your name on it.
51:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, it sounds like like a like a cartoon from
51:50
Speaker 4: the eighties. Charlie Sheen. The book is a excuse me.
51:54
Speaker 4: The book is the Book of Sheen, a memoir. The
51:56
Speaker 4: documentary is a k a. Charlie Sheen. Charlie Sheen. If
52:01
Speaker 4: people want to keep up the speed with you, where
52:02
Speaker 4: do they follow you? Instagram, social media website? Where do
52:06
Speaker 4: they go?
52:08
Speaker 2: I'm on Instagram, I'm on X and I guess I'm
52:14
Speaker 2: supposed to say formally known as Twitter.
52:17
Speaker 9: Why does everybody have to write that every single time?
52:20
Speaker 3: I still.
52:22
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, cool, all right, I'm on I'm yeah.
52:25
Speaker 2: There you go, there you go. Us US Mavericks. Yeah,
52:30
Speaker 2: and then the website will probably get wrong. I don't
52:34
Speaker 2: have my finger on the pulse of all of this stuff,
52:37
Speaker 2: but I'm sure there's a Oh, I'm sure there's like
52:41
Speaker 2: a Book ofchine dot com. I'm sure there's a Charlie
52:43
Speaker 2: Sheen Tour dot com. Because I'm gonna be out promoting
52:48
Speaker 2: the book in a multi city tour, which is pretty cool,
52:53
Speaker 2: you know, but gosh, I should have had today.
52:58
Speaker 4: In the next segment, we'll plug it for you and
53:00
Speaker 4: when you get in New York doing the book tour,
53:02
Speaker 4: you could stop by the studio. We could get in
53:03
Speaker 4: depth in the book. I'm happy to help you promote
53:05
Speaker 4: it and continue and something that would be great about
53:09
Speaker 4: keeping your word. I want to let everybody know Charlie
53:12
Speaker 4: Sheen was on time for the interview, and it was
53:14
Speaker 4: our team that had a delay. So if we're cutting
53:18
Speaker 4: it short, it's my fault and not is Charlie Sheen.
53:20
Speaker 4: You're a gentleman, a scholar and a heck of an actor,
53:24
Speaker 4: and I appreciate your time.
53:26
Speaker 9: No thank you.
53:27
Speaker 2: As I said, it's an honor to finally chat with you.
53:31
Speaker 4: Thank you. Likewise, we'll do it again.
53:33
Speaker 3: Sue.
53:33
Speaker 4: I promise God.
53:34
Speaker 9: Bless him, all right, Yeah, and let's do it in studio.
53:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely in New York City. I'm right by World Trade.
53:40
Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to it.
53:42
Speaker 2: Likewise, thank you so much.
53:44
Speaker 4: You bet all right. I'm back with you. And that
53:47
Speaker 4: was a really fun conversation. Again, that's part of the conversation.
53:50
Speaker 4: Can hear the whole thing when I originally did it
53:53
Speaker 4: back in October. But the point of this was to
53:58
Speaker 4: give you a little bit of a flashback now we're
54:00
Speaker 4: in the holidays and still give you a new show,
54:02
Speaker 4: right without giving you totally best of show, which we'll
54:06
Speaker 4: probably do in the future, but I wanted to give
54:08
Speaker 4: you a little bit of a mixture of those things.
54:10
Speaker 4: But very interesting, right, What an interesting guy. How you
54:14
Speaker 4: could take somebody with so much talent and go in
54:17
Speaker 4: so many different directions and at the end of the day,
54:19
Speaker 4: he's just a pretty humble guy that's trying to do
54:21
Speaker 4: the right thing. So kudos to Charlie Sheen and thanks
54:25
Speaker 4: for tuning in for that. I'm gonna go ahead and
54:27
Speaker 4: wrap us up in the next segment. Keep it locked
54:29
Speaker 4: right here. I'm Rich Valdez, This.
54:32
Speaker 6: Is America, This is America. He's making podcasting great again.
54:42
Speaker 6: This is America with.
54:44
Speaker 4: Rich Valdez, all right, and he goes, welcome back, Fat
54:57
Speaker 4: Least Navidad, Happy Christmas Eve, tomorrow, Christmas Eve. And of
55:02
Speaker 4: course we're going to be talking about everything on our
55:04
Speaker 4: next episode, but I wanted to wish you and your
55:08
Speaker 4: families just an amazing, an amazing Christmas holiday, and for
55:14
Speaker 4: those of you that are wrapping up Hanukkah, blessings to
55:17
Speaker 4: you of course as well. And I tried to always
55:21
Speaker 4: remember Jesus as the reason for the season. Right, it's
55:23
Speaker 4: Happy Birthday, Jesus. When my kids were a little bit
55:26
Speaker 4: used to saying Jesus, Happy Birthday. And of course I
55:28
Speaker 4: know there's people out there that say, we don't really
55:30
Speaker 4: know that Christ was born in December, and we don't
55:33
Speaker 4: know this and we don't gotcha. But we do know
55:36
Speaker 4: Christ was born. We do know he was born in
55:37
Speaker 4: a major to the Virgin Mother. And in looking at that,
55:42
Speaker 4: we had to pick a date. So whether it was
55:44
Speaker 4: a pagan holiday that we took over, the Catholic Church
55:46
Speaker 4: took over, whomever took over, so be it all right.
55:50
Speaker 4: The point is that is the date that's been chosen
55:52
Speaker 4: to acknowledge this, and I think that it's important that
55:55
Speaker 4: we acknowledge it without losing sight of the importance of
55:58
Speaker 4: it because of the concer huomerism, which I'm a big
56:01
Speaker 4: fan of. Right, I'm a big fan of jewelry. I'm
56:03
Speaker 4: a big fan of things, nice cars, nice homes, you
56:09
Speaker 4: name it. I'm into that stuff. I'm not that guy
56:11
Speaker 4: that says, oh, why would you spend all that money
56:13
Speaker 4: on that thing when you could get this thing. No,
56:15
Speaker 4: I'm not that practical. I'm not that frugal either, go
56:18
Speaker 4: for it. You only live once. You never know. My
56:20
Speaker 4: mom died the night of her sixty second birthday. She
56:25
Speaker 4: got to be I mean presuming, yeah, right, she died
56:28
Speaker 4: on February eighteenth, or birthday February seventeenth. Listen, it's going
56:31
Speaker 4: to be a tough sell on me to tell me
56:33
Speaker 4: to not live life because we are here for a
56:36
Speaker 4: good time, not necessarily a long time. That doesn't mean
56:39
Speaker 4: to be reckless, that doesn't mean to not plan for
56:41
Speaker 4: the future, but it does mean carpet dim right, seize
56:45
Speaker 4: the day, live in the moment, treat your friends and
56:48
Speaker 4: your family and strangers and enemies and anybody else treat
56:52
Speaker 4: them like you're never going to see them again, right,
56:54
Speaker 4: like today's their last day on this planet. That's something
56:56
Speaker 4: that I try to do and I fail at miserably,
56:59
Speaker 4: but it's something I tried to do because sometimes we
57:01
Speaker 4: get caught up and being who we are. We get
57:03
Speaker 4: caught up and being short tempered, We get caught up
57:06
Speaker 4: and being short sighted on certain things. We get caught
57:09
Speaker 4: up and just being ourselves, you know, giving into the
57:12
Speaker 4: proclivities of our personality, which aren't always great. Right. Sometimes
57:16
Speaker 4: we're funny, happy, go lucky life of the party, and
57:18
Speaker 4: that's sometimes we're the biggest jerk behind the wheel when
57:21
Speaker 4: we're stuck in traffic. That's me. But whatever your situation is,
57:25
Speaker 4: my advice to you, excuse me, is to try and
57:31
Speaker 4: be aware of those things. Then try and be a
57:33
Speaker 4: better person, and try to be a blessing to someone else,
57:36
Speaker 4: and really go out of your way to be intentional
57:38
Speaker 4: to be the best human being that you can be.
57:40
Speaker 4: For me, the standard is to try and be christ
57:43
Speaker 4: Like in everything. Of course, it's a losing battle, right,
57:47
Speaker 4: I'm not God, but I realize that if I keep
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Speaker 4: the focus there, I get to keep looking in the
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Speaker 4: mirror kept saying, Ah, I screwed up again. I need
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Speaker 4: to fix this. Screwed up again. Let me work on this,
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Speaker 4: asking for direction through prayer. So anyway, I bring all
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Speaker 4: that up, not to get spiritual and not to get preachy,
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Speaker 4: but really to just wish you the absolute best holiday season. Right.
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Speaker 4: It's sometimes difficult for those of us that have lost
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Speaker 4: our parents, but there's the rest of our loved ones.
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Speaker 4: I'll be celebrating with my kids on Christmas Day. I'm
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Speaker 4: going to the Broadway show Wicked, and I'm looking forward
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Speaker 4: to that. Of course, I'm looking forward to having some
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Speaker 4: roasted pork shoulder, which we call bed neil, some call
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Speaker 4: it lecho asalo. And I'm gonna have some benil with
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Speaker 4: some aroscongandulas, which is rice with chickpeas mixed together, not
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Speaker 4: on the side, not separate, but it's it's made together rocandulas.
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Speaker 4: And we're gonna have pastells, which are those ground banana
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Speaker 4: leaf tamalies that are called pastellis in Puerto Rico, filled
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Speaker 4: with diced up pork. You can also get them made
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Speaker 4: of yuca, which is cassava in English. And these are
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Speaker 4: some of the things that we have on Nochewuena, which
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Speaker 4: is Christmas where we do midnight Mass, and of course
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Speaker 4: then we celebrate in the tradition in Puerto Rico is
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Speaker 4: to go door to door with your neighbors and create
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Speaker 4: a caravan of cars or people and get your instruments.
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Speaker 4: The wheedle, which is a gourd that's been hollowed out
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Speaker 4: and you play it with something that kind of looks
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Speaker 4: like a fork. It's like a whisk and it makes
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Speaker 4: some noise and like really cool. And of course moroccas.
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Speaker 4: You can use moroccas, and you can use you know,
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Speaker 4: some sort of drums. Some use the pandera, which is
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Speaker 4: a handheld drum. Some use bongos, which are you know,
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Speaker 4: small like congas. Anyway, I digress. My point here is
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Speaker 4: if you have instrument and you're making you know se, Yeah,
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Speaker 4: if you're going on a paranda for Christmas, great and
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Speaker 4: if you're not, that's great too. Whatever your traditions are,
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Speaker 4: God speed to you in those traditions, as lapproxima, take care,
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Speaker 4: good night, and God bless you America, and make sure
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Speaker 4: you stand for something, because if you stand for nothing,
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Speaker 4: you'll fall for anything. And the only thing necessary for
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Speaker 4: evil to triumph is for good people like you to
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Speaker 4: sit there and do nothing. So do something. I'm rich
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Speaker 4: Valdez and this is America. Merry Christmas, this is America.