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  Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez, powered by politweek dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Rich Veldes is with us former Christian Administration official.
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  Speaker 3: You worked at Chris Christie and followsas on a lot
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  Speaker 3: of public service stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Rich Valdez Communist now with the Washington Times.
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  Speaker 5: This is America, Richiev. You're on the air with the
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  Speaker 5: Nation with America with your host, Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 6: What's up, America.
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  Speaker 4: I am Rich Valdes Valdees with an S at Rich
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  Speaker 4: valdest on all of the social media. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome,
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  Speaker 4: Tuesday night edition of the program.
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  Speaker 5: It's the first.
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  Speaker 4: Whole week back right after New Year's and I'm happy
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  Speaker 4: and blessed to be here with you, your liberty loving
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  Speaker 4: Latino amigo, seventeen miles away from Madison Square Garden, New
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  Speaker 4: York City. Get me at Rich Valdes with an S
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  Speaker 4: on all of the social media. And I want to
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  Speaker 4: dig into what's going on here because by now you've
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  Speaker 4: probably heard about a woman named c Weaver, right or Sea,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how to say it. It's Cea Weaver
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  Speaker 4: and Sea Weaver. She's quite the locita. Now we're going
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  Speaker 4: to talk about Mam Donnie, quite a bit this program
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  Speaker 4: because I've got New York City Councilman Frank Morano joined
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  Speaker 4: me to talk about again his reaction to Mamdannie's inauguration. Right,
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  Speaker 4: We're going to talk about plenty of things that are
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  Speaker 4: going on, plus all of the fraud that's going on
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  Speaker 4: in Minnesota that continues to unfold. But I want to
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  Speaker 4: start with Sea Weaver, because miss Weaver is a real
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  Speaker 4: genuine comy, right, she believes what she's talking about, from
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  Speaker 4: the smugness of taking your property to the antagonistic view
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  Speaker 4: that she has of property. She's the real deal. And
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  Speaker 4: I want you to hear why she's in the hot seat.
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  Speaker 4: Why you know, yesterday people were all over the place,
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  Speaker 4: you know, piling on saying that this lady's out of
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  Speaker 4: her mind, because well, quite frankly, what she said was
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  Speaker 4: out of her mind. I mean, it's absolutely insane to
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  Speaker 4: think that you could make these types of comments and
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  Speaker 4: get away with them without any type of scrutiny.
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  Speaker 6: Listen to this.
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  Speaker 7: I think the reality is is that for centuries we've
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  Speaker 7: really treated property as an individualized good and not a
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  Speaker 7: collective good, and we are going to and transitioning to
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  Speaker 7: treating it as a collective good and towards a model
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  Speaker 7: of shared equity will require that we think about it differently,
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  Speaker 7: and it will mean that family is especially white families,
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  Speaker 7: but some POC families who are homeowners as well, are
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  Speaker 7: going to have a different relationship to property than the
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  Speaker 7: one that we currently have.
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  Speaker 4: A different relationship to property than the one we currently have.
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  Speaker 4: This is again real deal communism. Now, I feel like
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  Speaker 4: we're making a mistake. Some of you've been listening for
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  Speaker 4: a long time, probably remember when Joe L. Baboso Biden,
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  Speaker 4: when we started saying he's c nile, he's weekend at Bernie's,
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  Speaker 4: he's all sorts of things, right, Even myself I called
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  Speaker 4: him Joe L.
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  Speaker 6: Baboso Biden, but I.
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  Speaker 4: Always did with a caveat, And the caveat was we
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  Speaker 4: can't undermine his success, right. We want him to be successful,
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  Speaker 4: and we can't underestimate his ability to be cunning by
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  Speaker 4: assuming that people right AOC, I say she's all a
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  Speaker 4: lot crazy, but I don't think she's dumb.
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  Speaker 6: A lot of people paint there is dumb that's on you.
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  Speaker 4: Dumb is the guy who runs for Congress and doesn't win,
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  Speaker 4: not the person that won. Ousted the number two guy
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  Speaker 4: in Congress and has now been reelected time and again
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  Speaker 4: and is the number one or number two fundraiser in
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  Speaker 4: the United States House of Representatives. That's AOC without ever
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  Speaker 4: passing maybe one or two pieces of legislation in the
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  Speaker 4: six years or seven years she's been there. All Right,
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  Speaker 4: you tell me who's the dumb one.
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  Speaker 6: It's not her.
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  Speaker 4: Her net worth is going up, she keeps getting re elected.
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  Speaker 4: She still has the same job, and she seems to
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  Speaker 4: be poised for a promotion, right maybe going after jillibrand,
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  Speaker 4: maybe going after Schumer, maybe going for one of those
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  Speaker 4: United States Senate seats coming from New York. Heck, there
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  Speaker 4: are rumors right now saying that she's the Democrat front
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  Speaker 4: runner for president because now she's finally old enough. So
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  Speaker 4: stupid isn't something I would call her. And if you
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  Speaker 4: listen to some of my interviews from back in the days,
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  Speaker 4: I always said she's crazy, but I don't think she's stupid.
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  Speaker 4: She says dumb things, but I don't think she's dumb.
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  Speaker 4: And there's a distinction here. Same thing with this lady.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think that we can write off communists and
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  Speaker 4: say they're stupid. Another thing I think we can't do
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  Speaker 4: and that we shouldn't do is say that communism hasn't
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  Speaker 4: worked anywhere. Yeah, what do you call China? Now you
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  Speaker 4: could push back on me and say, well, rich, it's
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  Speaker 4: not working there. I mean they're using capitalism to prop
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  Speaker 4: up their communism exactly. That's what communism looks like today.
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  Speaker 4: It's what it's always looked like. You take from those
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  Speaker 4: that have and that a handful of people at the
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  Speaker 4: top do better than everybody else at the bottom, and
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  Speaker 4: they use humanity as a stepping stool. They have a
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  Speaker 4: permanent underclass, which is why they always focus on this
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  Speaker 4: class structure. But I don't make any mistake, I have
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  Speaker 4: no illusions about it. China is communism and it's working.
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  Speaker 4: They've got one of the fastest growing economies, at least
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  Speaker 4: in the.
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  Speaker 6: Last decade they have.
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  Speaker 4: And they might be seeing some challenges right now because
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  Speaker 4: of pressure that Trump is putting on them and really
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  Speaker 4: making sure that they don't grow. But let's not get
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  Speaker 4: it twisted. The communists Chinese have done a number on
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  Speaker 4: this planet, not because they're stupid, because they're cunning, cunning commedies.
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  Speaker 4: So with that in mind, I want to take a
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  Speaker 4: part with this. Woman said right, she said, we need
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  Speaker 4: to change our relationship with private property. It needs to
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  Speaker 4: be a collective good, shared equity. She's out of her mind, right,
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  Speaker 4: because the people who have not right, the have nots
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  Speaker 4: want from the halves. They want your stuff because you're
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  Speaker 4: somehow wrong or immoral for having things, for gaining wealth.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Let the people get upset and they say there shouldn't
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  Speaker 4: be billionaires.
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  Speaker 6: There just should not be. They shouldn't exist.
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  Speaker 4: I could say they're wrong all day long, but the
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  Speaker 4: bottom line is they're real people, and I believe, and.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 4: And you want to push back on me, go right ahead,
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  Speaker 4: give me a call eight seven seven valvedst one. Let
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  Speaker 4: me know your thoughts. But I'll tell you this, I
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  Speaker 4: truly believe. We have to look at it like chicken
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  Speaker 4: and steak, like Yankees and Mets. It's the only way
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  Speaker 4: because it's here. Mamdani is here, She's here, AOC is here.
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  Speaker 4: These people are here. They're no longer the fringe, I
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  Speaker 4: would argue, they are the fastest growing part of the
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  Speaker 4: Democrat Party. They don't all succeed, but it's not going anywhere.
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  Speaker 4: Find me a school anywhere, any college at isn't creating
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  Speaker 4: these people, right, They own higher education in large part,
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  Speaker 4: they own the legacy corporate media. So to say that
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  Speaker 4: this is a fool's errand to say that this is
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  Speaker 4: them losing, or that they're just simply wrong, I think
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  Speaker 4: it's a mistake. I think we have to say I disagree,
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  Speaker 4: and here's why. And we have to make the case
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  Speaker 4: not that show me where communism has worked, where socialism's work. No,
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  Speaker 4: we've got to explain to them why capitalism or what
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  Speaker 4: they call capitalism, what we call the free market, why
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  Speaker 4: that is truly the opportunity for people, Why that has
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  Speaker 4: lifted more people out of poverty. And I think it's
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  Speaker 4: a very distinct difference, because we're not going to win
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  Speaker 4: everyone over. Right, We're doing the same thing. I think
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  Speaker 4: it's called spinning one's wheels. We're doing the same thing
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  Speaker 4: in the culture wars people instead of saying, look, we
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  Speaker 4: need to love our neighbor. What Charlie Kirk was doing,
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  Speaker 4: he was doing it like a champ. But too many
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  Speaker 4: of us, I think, are going out there saying no, no,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to explain to you why being a Muslim
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  Speaker 4: is not good. I think this is a losing battle
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  Speaker 4: as well. I think we need to show people what
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  Speaker 4: we stand for, not what we stand against. We need
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  Speaker 4: to show people why it's good to do what we're doing,
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  Speaker 4: not why it's bad to do what they're doing. Now,
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  Speaker 4: maybe it's different strokes for different folks. Maybe those are
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  Speaker 4: just my proclivities, my way of learning. Right, I'm more
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  Speaker 4: apt to listen to you if you're going to tell me,
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  Speaker 4: you know why what you're doing is working for you.
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  Speaker 6: Right, Let's say you're having success in the.
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  Speaker 4: Gym and I'm like, man, you know you're really starting
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  Speaker 4: to fill up, hitting the weights heavy, And you say, no, well,
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  Speaker 4: I'm actually I've changed my technique.
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  Speaker 6: I'm doing this.
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  Speaker 4: I'm talking my elbow when I'm going really slow on
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  Speaker 4: these reps, and that's how I'm building those muscles. It's
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  Speaker 4: a lot better, it's going to be a lot better
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  Speaker 4: received by me for you to tell me why it's
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  Speaker 4: working for you than for you to look at me
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  Speaker 4: and say, ah, man, those guns aren't that hard you
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  Speaker 4: to you need to pump a little more iron, bro.
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  Speaker 4: That's not gonna get you anywhere. It's just gonna get
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  Speaker 4: me to flip you the burd and be like few
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  Speaker 4: pal right. So I think ultimately we've got to pay
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  Speaker 4: attention to how we deliver our message because it's important,
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  Speaker 4: and it's becoming incredibly important as things unraveled. Today, I
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  Speaker 4: was watching this Twitter feud between Congressman Matt Gates and
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  Speaker 4: my buddy Dan Bongino. We've been seeing endless war, if
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  Speaker 4: you will, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Green versus President Trump,
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  Speaker 4: Mark Levin. This has been the problem I've always had
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  Speaker 4: with populism, And maybe tomorrow I'll focus a little bit
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  Speaker 4: more on populism and why I think it's so important
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  Speaker 4: for us to stand on principle, not on populism, on logic,
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  Speaker 4: and not uncommon sense, because guess what you put zoron
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  Speaker 4: Mombani and Sea Weaver in the same room, and they're
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  Speaker 4: sense is going to look a whole lot different than
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  Speaker 4: you're in My common sense, right, So common sense is
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  Speaker 4: common to those who share common values, who share common beliefs.
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  Speaker 6: But when we live in.
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  Speaker 4: A disparate world where you have some that believe in
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  Speaker 4: collectivism and some that believe in individualism, well, guess what,
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  Speaker 4: We're at a crossroads, and we're going to have to
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  Speaker 4: show you whose thoughts are better in the marketplace of
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  Speaker 4: public opinion. So I want to continue talking about all
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  Speaker 4: sorts of things tonight. I want to talk about dry January.
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  Speaker 4: Gen Z has a band in the alcohol consumption. Pretty
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  Speaker 4: much all sorts of millions one hundred six hundred million
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  Speaker 4: dollars is being lost in alcohol sales because of gen
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  Speaker 4: Z not drinking. And we're going to get into this
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  Speaker 4: stuff with New York City again with Councilman Frank Morano
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  Speaker 4: in a little bit, as well as some more nick
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  Speaker 4: Shirley Minnesota stuff, which comes on the heels of the
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  Speaker 4: big welfare bust food stamp bust that happened in.
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  Speaker 6: Austin.
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  Speaker 4: So I think we're going to see it blow up
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  Speaker 4: in Boston, We're going to see it blow up in Illinois, Chicago,
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  Speaker 4: We're going to see it blow up in California, and
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  Speaker 4: we're going to see it blow up in New York.
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  Speaker 6: And I think when we see.
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  Speaker 4: The fraud in New York, when we see the fraud
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  Speaker 4: in California, it is going to make Minnesota look like
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  Speaker 4: child's play.
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  Speaker 6: Anyway, I wanted to end real quick.
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  Speaker 4: Right here on this segment with with something that makes
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  Speaker 4: my heart a little bit heavy. The oldest son, the
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  Speaker 4: eldest son of President Ronald Reagan, Ronaldus Magnus, has passed away.
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  Speaker 4: Michael Reagan, somebody that I've interviewed a few times, somebody
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  Speaker 4: I had a lot of respect for as a fellow
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  Speaker 4: broadcaster and just an amazing human being, great patriot. And
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to play a clip from the last time
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  Speaker 4: we spoke.
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  Speaker 6: Check this out.
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  Speaker 3: The remains of four unknown American soldiers had been brought
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  Speaker 3: to the town square from four American military cemeteries in France.
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  Speaker 3: An American sergeant, Edward F. Younger placed a bouquet of
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  Speaker 3: white roses one of the caskets. The American Unknown Soldier
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  Speaker 3: of World War One had been designated. After transport across
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  Speaker 3: the Atlantic aboard Admiral Dewey's flagship, the Cruiser Olympia, Our
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  Speaker 3: Nation laid this hero to arrest in Arlington National Cemetery
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  Speaker 3: on Armistice Day, November eleventh, nineteen twenty one. Sixty two
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  Speaker 3: years have now passed. Millions of people from every corner
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  Speaker 3: of the world have come to the tomb of the
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  Speaker 3: Unknown Soldier to pay their respects to America's fallen heroes.
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  Speaker 4: That, of course, the immortal Ronald Reagan known as Ronaldus Magnus.
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  Speaker 4: President Reagan was so profound on these things, so precient
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  Speaker 4: and so eloquent at the same time. And to talk
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  Speaker 4: about Reagan's legacy in the Reagan Legacy Foundation is Michael Reagan,
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  Speaker 4: the eldest son of President Reagan.
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  Speaker 6: Michael Reagan, Welcome back, sir.
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  Speaker 2: It was great listening to that. It's psych a history lesson.
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  Speaker 3: Is it.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely? And most of his speeches I find are like that,
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  Speaker 6: Oh they really are.
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  Speaker 2: He told story. Here's a storyteller of the family.
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  Speaker 4: And Michael Reagan himself was also a great storyteller. He
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  Speaker 4: had a winsome personality again, a real gentleman, scholar and
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  Speaker 4: a patriot. May God rest his soul. My thoughts and
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  Speaker 4: prayers and condolences are with the Reagan family and amigos.
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  Speaker 4: I ask you to keep them in your prayers and
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  Speaker 4: to keep it locked right here. I'm coming right back.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Rich Valdes, this is America.
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  Speaker 5: This is America.
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  Speaker 6: President Donald. Thank you for welp, mister President. Welcome to
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  Speaker 6: the program, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
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  Speaker 8: I know you very well and I have I listen,
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  Speaker 8: but I have a lot of people that listen and
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  Speaker 8: they love your show, and I appreciate it very much.
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  Speaker 4: All right, amigos, welcome back. It's Rich Valdez and we continue.
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  Speaker 4: El Trompito, don all this magnus the forty fifth and
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  Speaker 4: forty seventh President of the United States, Donald J.
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  Speaker 6: Trump, El Presidente.
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  Speaker 4: He was at the Kennedy Center today on the fifth
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  Speaker 4: anniversary of January sixth, and he was talking about a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of things with members of Congress. I think it
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  Speaker 4: was their annual retreat or their semi annual retreat or
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  Speaker 4: something to that effect. And he said a lot of things,
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  Speaker 4: but the main clip I want to play for you
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  Speaker 4: right now is what he was talking about the midterms.
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  Speaker 6: All systems are go, all hands on deck.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody's got to get it in gear to make sure
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  Speaker 4: that we don't lose any more seats. And another congressman
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  Speaker 4: just died. You know, my condolences in prayers to his
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  Speaker 4: family as well, a Republican congressman.
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  Speaker 6: It's a slim majority, and we've.
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  Speaker 4: Got to hold on and we've got to grow it otherwise,
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  Speaker 4: it's guaranteed El Trompito will be impeached and he will
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  Speaker 4: become a lame duck, and we none of us want
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  Speaker 4: that to happen.
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  Speaker 6: Listen to this, go ahead, play the tape.
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  Speaker 8: So together, we had twelve months of unprecedent into success
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  Speaker 8: in twenty twenty five, and now we're going to make
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  Speaker 8: history and break records with the epic midterm victory that
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  Speaker 8: we're going to pull off. It just doesn't seem to
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  Speaker 8: happen for people that win the presidency. It's an amazing phenomena.
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  Speaker 8: You know, you win the presidency and we sure as
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  Speaker 8: hell are having a successful presidency. I will say that.
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  Speaker 8: But even if it's a successful presidency, it's been nothing
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  Speaker 8: like what we're doing. We had a very good day
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  Speaker 8: two days ago too. But even if it's successful, they
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  Speaker 8: don't win. I don't know what it is. There's something psychological,
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  Speaker 8: like you vote against you can win by a lot.
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  Speaker 8: We won every swing state. We want the popular vote
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  Speaker 8: by millions. We want everything. But they say that when
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  Speaker 8: you win the presidency, you lose the midterm. So you're
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  Speaker 8: all brilliant people. Most of you're in this business longer
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  Speaker 8: than me. That makes me smarter than you, because look
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  Speaker 8: where I am right, No, it doesn't, but I wish
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  Speaker 8: you could explain to me what the hell's going on
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  Speaker 8: with the mind of the public, because we have the
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  Speaker 8: right policy. They don't. They have horrible policy. They do
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  Speaker 8: stick together. They're violent, they're vicious, you know, they're vicious people,
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  Speaker 8: and they stick together like glue. They don't have a
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  Speaker 8: couple of the people that we have a couple of
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  Speaker 8: people not too many.
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  Speaker 4: So President Trump is hitting the nail on the head, right,
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  Speaker 4: and quite brilliantly right. He's trying to not call people
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  Speaker 4: out by name. He's trying to be classy and be
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  Speaker 4: demurre if you will, and and kudos to him for
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  Speaker 4: trying to do that. But the reality is, if we
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  Speaker 4: don't win, they're going to try and impeach him. And
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  Speaker 4: he alluded to that much as well. And it's important
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  Speaker 4: that we recognize this because I think the problem when
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  Speaker 4: he says there's a couple of people here, you know,
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  Speaker 4: just a couple that they don't stick together. He's talking
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  Speaker 4: about the infighting that we have going on. If that's
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  Speaker 4: a word, I don't even like that word, but it's
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  Speaker 4: the word I'll go with. I'd rather say it's disagreement, right,
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  Speaker 4: we just don't all agree on the same thing, and
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  Speaker 4: that's okay. That's kind of why I am a conservative,
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  Speaker 4: so that we can have those disagreements so that we
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  Speaker 4: don't live in lockstep like the left does. Right, we're
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  Speaker 4: not doing the goose walk like the commedies would want
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  Speaker 4: us to. And with that, sometimes you'll have people that
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  Speaker 4: go off the reservation. And this is why it's politics.
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  Speaker 4: It's consensus building. But he's right when he says that
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  Speaker 4: they'll impeach him and you have to win the midterms.
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  Speaker 4: That part's one hundred percent true. And when he calls
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  Speaker 4: out these other people, it's because it's that type of infighting.
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  Speaker 4: It's not the infighting I should rephrase, it's I'm going
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: to use this analogy. It's only a matter of time.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: When you build consensus on certain things, right, it's only
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: a matter of time. There's always going to be somebody
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: where you don't do this enough or you're not that enough. This,
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: in my opinion, is the problem with populism. And while
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: somebody might say, you know what, I don't like President Trump,
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: but I like what he did with this, so I'm
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: going to back him. That's great, But guess what, that
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: guy's not going to be around for a long time
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: or girl. That guy's going to be around until the
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: next thing the president does it disagrees with him. Now,
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: I'm not advocating for people to be with Trump if
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: they don't agree with them, No, not at all. But
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: I am advocating for principle. You have to stand on principle.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: If you stand on principle, you can't go wrong. However,
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: many times we find areas of agreement or consensus and
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: then all of a sudden, it's like if we can't
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: find them in other areas where like, oh, you know what,
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: I thought you were cool. I thought you were against
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: the Forever Wars. I mean, you show me a guy.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: President Trump put a bunch of a carrier fleet in
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: the Caribbean. He sent into Delta Force. They went in
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: in the middle of the night. They grabbed Maluu his wife,
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: and they got out pretty safely.
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: They killed a few bad guys.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: They killed what was that one hundred and fifteen other
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: bad guys on the drug boats leading up to this,
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: some you know, like they say, I don't need to
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: trivialize this, but you're gonna break a few eggs making
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: an omelet, right, and all of that happens is that
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: a forever war. Is that a war at all? Or
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: was it in and out because there was a warrant
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: on the guy? Right now, I understand his criticism. We
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: talked about that yesterday. If you didn't hear the comments
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: from yesterday, make sure you go back and check that out.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: It was insightful, I think. But ultimately here this is
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: what happens with populism, and that's just a part of politics.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: The problem is Trump is so magnetic in his personality
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: and in his appeal that he gets people. And Trump
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: doesn't always get his way right. For example, Trump said,
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: let's not do tax on tips, let's not do tax
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: on overtime, and let's not do tax social Security. And
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: what ended up happening right in order for it to
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: actually get through Congress, because you know, he made this
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: proposal and he wanted the.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: Big bit of a bell, big and beautiful.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Right, So in order to keep him happy, they got
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: to give him some of what he wants. No tax
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: on tips up to I think it's twelve thousand or whatever.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: The the cap is there, No tax on overtime again
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: up to a certain cap, right, because the congressman wanted
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: to put that in because they had to work with
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: the Democrats and they had to cut deals here and
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: there and whatever and do what they do.
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: But Trump was like, hey, let's abolish the irs. Right.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: So this is why we love Trump because his mouth
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: is where our hearts are. He's saying what we believe.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: But he's got to work with Congress, and Congress has
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: to work with each other. And speaking of that and
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: some of the people, the President was mentioning, populism brings
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: people to the table, but it won't keep them there.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: Prince is what keeps them there. And I'm not saying
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: the people that defect if you will the Rand polls,
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: the Marjorie Taylor Greens, et cetera, that they lack principle.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: They just have different ones, right, Marjorie Taylor Green believes
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: that what we did in Venezuela is something we shouldn't
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: be doing.
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: Listen to this.
• 21:22
  Speaker 9: Again from an America first standpoint, Caitlin, Venezuela belongs to
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: the Venezuelan people and they should They should elect their
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: own government leaders. We have elected our government leaders, the
• 21:35
  Speaker 9: Trump administration, and we've elected them to run America, not
• 21:39
  Speaker 9: to be globalist, not to run other countries, not to
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: pursue regime change and foreign wars.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: We very much.
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: Need our government and our government leaders to focus on
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: the American people and the issues that we care about
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: on Main Street, USA.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Understood, congresswomen. No disagreement there, but for we also have
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: things to do. When you are the leader of the
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: free world, there's things you gotta do. So ninety or
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: ninety five percent of the time you're focused on domestic policy.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: It's America first. It's America first.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: And in that five percent, it's that gray area where
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: what we did benefits America first. Right, stopping the oil
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: supply for our enemies in Iran and China and Russia.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: And President Trump's been doing this right, He's really trying
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: to choke out Russia. Why to end the war if
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: you can stop their supply. He did it with liquid
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: natural gas, with the deals that he cut in the
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: European Union with Ursula Vanderlyon over the summer. He's been
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: doing this every step of the way, trying to undercut
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: Putin the promis. Putin's got a lot of money and
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: a lot of wherewithal and a lot of men to
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: throw in the what they call the meat grinder. So
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: he can keep going, and if they don't volunteer, they'll
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: snatch them right off the streets and make them fight.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: So the president has his hands somewhat tied. Right, he's
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: not in charge of Russia. He can't just go and
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: say Vled listen, Bled, if you don't step, we're gonna
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: shoot you.
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: You can't do that, right.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: This is a game of diplomacy and what everybody likes
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: to talk about every time I hear it the dimensions
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: of chess. Here they add a number. You used to
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: be four D chess, five D chess, six D chess.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go with ten D chess.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: Anyway.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: The point is that's the strategy he's employing, and it's
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: slow working. I'm gonna say right because it hasn't ended
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: the war yet, but it makes sense to me. You
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: starve them out. Eventually they succumb. I think it'll happen
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: with China before it happens with Russia, my opinion. But
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: all that being said, this is the problem with populism,
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: and it's the problem I've always had with populism.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: I don't think it's a horrible thing. It's a great thing.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: When you're trying to win an election, and you want
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: to get people that are like minded on board, right.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: I mean, look, you find me another candidate that has
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: attracted Bernie bros. Right people from the Bernie Sanders wing
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: of the party. Very few. The thing is with Trump
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: he's so unique is that he really does have conservative principles.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: While he's pragmatic on certain issues, on issues where he
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: can have some crossover appeal, I mean, he makes pretty
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: strategic concessions in that area, I would say, and it
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: makes sense for him.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: He's been unapologetic on his pro life stance, but when
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: it comes to gay marriage, there's not a lot he
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: can do there. It's the law of the land. It's
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: probably not a case that we can overturn. He's not
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: going to spin his wheels trying to get that change.
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: So he says, you know what, we love the gaye,
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: we love the gaze.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: How about that? A conservative, Republican, pro life president. It's
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: pro gay right. I mean, Trump, it breaks the mold.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Done these things because he understands these issues. He understands
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: them well, and it's kind of what he was talking
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: about today. But I'll go on my tirade of the
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: problem with populism maybe tomorrow, because I've got a lot
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: to say here. But ultimately it's that it's based on
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: the mood of the day, how the majority feels. It's
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: what the Founders warned against when they said, beware of
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: the tyranny of the majority. This is why we have
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: to have principles. This is why we have to stand
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: on things, because if we stand for nothing, we'll fall
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: for anything.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I usually say that at the end, but that's
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: the real deal here. Anyway, we can continue that conversation
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: straight ahead. We'll also add in the woman, the woman
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: again Sea Weaver. She says, we're going to take your property. Well,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: Frank Morano's going to join me. We're going to talk
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: about not only the craziness with Mamdani and his inauguration
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: just happened and the seaweaver as a result of that,
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: but also the latest on his thoughts with the Minnesota
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: fraud stuff and what that might look like in New York,
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: plus a couple other things. He's always an interesting guy
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: to chat with. New York City Councilman. Frank Morano's joining
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: us next. Don't go anywhere, I'm Rich Feldes.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: This is America, this is America. He's brown, he's bald,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: and he's breaking it down.
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: Oh he's still hadsome.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: What's his name?
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: Rich Beldes.
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: At five billion dollars, we hope to be able to
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: set up and staff the agency, but also build new
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: housing across the state as well as acquired distressed housing
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: across the state. The mechanisms for acquiring distressed housing could
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: look different on a building by building basis. In some cases,
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: what happens is tenants form a tenant association. They have
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: a scofflaw landlord or someone who's not making repairs, and
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: they could pressure, you know, using organizing tactics, they could
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: pressure to this social Housing development authority to take over
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: their homes to buy their homes. In other cases, you
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: might happen through like the legal process. A couple of
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: days ago, one of the most notorious slan lords in
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: the city, his name is ok Shalom. He was arrested
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: because he is treating his tenants so badly hundreds of
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: thousands of opening code violations. In cases like that, where
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: the city is actively pursuing already sort of litigation and
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: enforcement mechanisms against the landlord, the SHDA is an option
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: and we can say, hey, you know you are not
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: maintaining this building, and we are the City of New York.
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: We have an interest in making sure that housing is
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: well maintained. And we're going to take this building away
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: from you.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: What say what We're going to take the building away
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: from you. That's crazy. Welcome back, Familia. I am Rich
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: Valdez Valdesz with an S on all of the social media,
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: and that is C Weaver, a CEA Weaver. I don't
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: know if it's Cia or C, but this woman is
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: an absolute crazy. I'm going to say she's all out crazy,
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: just like the rest of them. And she is Mom
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: Donnie's new tenant advocate. Now, I'm presuming that she was
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: there at the inauguration just like AOC. She was there
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: along with Bernie Sanders along with all the rest of
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: the crazy lefties welcoming the new mayor of New York
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: City at his inauguration. And I want to get some
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: reaction that from New York City Councilman Frank Morano. Frank, welcome, sir,
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Hello Rich.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: It is great to be on with you in any circumstances.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: If good to talk to you.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Happy New Year, amen, brother, Happy New Year to you,
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: I want to a congratulate you. I know you were
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: just sworn in again just last week, so congratulations on that.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much. I appreciate that.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: And let's get into this Zoram'mdani of course taking his
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: oath of office yesterday on the Quran and the first
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: Muslim mayor ever, the first immigrant mayor in a long time.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Not that those things are bad per se, but picking
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: some controversial individuals for his cabinet and for senior leadership positions.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: It seems like there's a lot of reaction to that,
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: And to me, I'm more concerned with his talk about
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: how you know, he's he's here to take on individualism.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: He's just openly hating capitalism, and he tried that with
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: the subways, but it didn't seem to go right.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: I think Look, I think there were a lot of
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: parts of his speech that were exactly what I was expecting.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: And the moments that you that you alluded to were
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: a couple of those. You know, he said that I
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: ran as a democratic socialist and I'm going to govern
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: as a democratic socialist. He talked about the I forget
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: the exact terminology he used, but gone with the frigidity
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: of rugged individualism and embrace the warmth of collectivism or something.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: And that's easily a speech that could have been given
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: by Stalin or Jishin Ping or anybody and any socialist
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: leader anywhere in the world. But those of us that
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: listened to what Mamdani said during the campaign weren't really
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: that surprised, because say what you want about the guy,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: he didn't campaign as a moderate and then fool everybody
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: and say, oh boy, I'm really gonna fool you now
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: I'm going far left. He did campaign as a far
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: left guy. And this is what a majority of New Yorkers,
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: not me among them, voted for. The one thing I
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: have to give him credit well, two things I guess
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: that I have to give him credit for. Is, even
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: though Mayor Adams has been very hostile to him, including
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: not giving him any honeymoon at all, he's been killing
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: him all day on Twitter for the last twelve hours.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Is he gave Adams a little bit of a shout
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: out in his speech yesterday, didn't take any shots at him,
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: which is more than can be said of Bill Deblasio,
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: who did nothing but take shots at Mike Bloomberg when
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: de Blasio came in. But the other thing is he said,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: and we'll see if it proved to be true, but
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: I'm glad at least he said it. He said, I
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: am going to be a mayor not only for the
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: million people that voted for me, but for everybody else
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: and for all New Yorkers. And it's funny. I was
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: there in the frigid cold yesterday for the inauguration, and
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: when he said, you know, I'm going to be a
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: mayor for the million people that voted for me, everybody clapped.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: And then when he said, and I'm also going to
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: be a mayor for the however many people that didn't
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: vote for me, And I was the only person that
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: shouted yeah. So it was a very lonely voice in
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: the wilderness. I'm getting. I'm guessing that I was the
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: only Republican at present yesterday. And we'll see where it goes,
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: you know, We'll see where it goes. He's made a
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: couple of very troubling picks so far, both to his
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: transition team and his administration, but he's made some very
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: sane and sober picks in terms of his governing team
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: as well. I think the most important pick Mayor can
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: make his police commissioner, and he's chosen to keep the
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: current police commissioner, Jessica Tish, who's.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: Done a very good job.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: But even if people disagree with her, you can't say
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: she's some radical that's going to defund the police. So
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: that's a positive. His school's cancellor. I have some concerns
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: about there's a lot of troubling things that I've been
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: hearing about a couple of the other appointments that he's
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: been making. We'll see where things go from here. But look,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: anybody that is expecting the third term of Rudy Giuliani
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: is going to be very disappointed.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: New York City Keelsman Frank Burano, Yeah, no, kidding, there's
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: no Rudy Giuliani.
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: Man.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: Listen, I hear a lot of what you're saying now
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: regarding Jessica Tish. Yeah, I'm with you on that. He said, hey,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: I'll keep her. She said, yeah, stay. My question is
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: for how long?
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: They had a very good person named Key shunt Sewell,
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: she was terrific until she felt hamstrung by Adams, and he.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Was well, look, there's no there's no it is a
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: long tradition of mayors feuding with their police commissioner. You know,
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: I mentioned the great Rudy Giuliani, who is one of
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: my heroes both personally and politically, and he had a
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: terrific police commissioner, Bill Bratton. But they clashed right and
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: within about two and a half years, Bill Bratton was gone,
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: and you know Adams, it's very clear he wanted to
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: be the police commissioner. Adams wanted to make sure he
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: had domain over the policing, and Adams he did this
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: not only with keechen Sewell but his next police commissioner,
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Eddie Kaban. It wasn't until Adams's administration got cleaned up
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: because all these people got indicted or had their houses
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: and phones raided and they were forced to leave that
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: we actually ended up with some pretty sane and sober folks.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: So the Adams had certainly a very unique way of
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: doing things. But as far as your main point goes
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: about how long Jessica Tis stays, I have no idea.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: I hope she stays a while, but if she leaves
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: after a certain time, a lot of people think maybe
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: she'll be a mayoral candidate herself. In four years to
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: run against Mom Donnie, and if she does leave, hopefully
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: there's somebody that has some sound policing experience and is
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: not going to be somebody that's reading from a DSA playbook.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with that, And it seemed like it
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: was a DSA convention at the inauguration, he goes, I
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: am on with New York City Councilman Frank Morano.
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: Now, Frank Morana, I.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: Want to switch gears just a little bit from policing
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: to other areas. You mentioned a concern with the school's chancellor.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: I know there was talk about having the fire alarm
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: guy be part of the administration as well. I'm talking
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: about Jamal Bowman, and there's a there's a number of
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: questions that are circulating over many of his picks. One
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: of them, her name is escaping me. But I just
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: had it in front of me, Adare Cowas, Abert Abert Cowas.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: I mean, just these are people that have openly supported
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: not just radical like collectivist ideas, but more so the
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: the radical Islamist faction of their support your thoughts, Yeah,
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: I agree.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, his new chief legal counsel is someone who
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: you know, has a history of defending.
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: A lot of.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Literally al Qaeda people and a couple of Ramsey Kassem
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: is his name. He also recently represented the person that
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: was on the receiving end of a deportation order from
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Acretary of State Marco Rubio, and he has a lot
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: of very concerning ties to groups like CARE and other
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: similar radical groups.
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: So I don't know, I don't know.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: You know, the head of CARE, A Fotnacher, put out
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: a statement praising Ramsey Cassam's appointment as the city's chief council. Now,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: in general, whenever CARE is putting out a statement praising anybody,
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: it's usually an indication that that's a pretty bad pick
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: if you're not interested in some extreme extreme ideology one
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: way or another. So, yeah, as I said, it's been
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: a mixed bag. But there's a reason that so many
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: of us were sounding the alarm about Mom Donnie during
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: the campaign, and ultimately New Yorkers, powered by young people,
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: primarily young white progressives, primarily, they chose to go in
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: that direction. So it's I don't This has been attributed
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: to so many different American political theorists throughout history, but
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: ultimately Americans get the or anybody gets the government that
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: they deserve, and if this is who we're going to
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: vote for, then hey, it serves.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Us right now.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: Frank Moreno, speaking of collectivism and all of this interesting stuff,
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: the Russians have now weighed in on this. Russian President
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: Vladimir Putin's close ally and Kremlin negotiator Kirol Dimitriev. He
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: says that this pledge to bring the warmth of collectivism
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: to the city is not necessarily a good thing. He
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: posted on x saying that this has been tried before.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: Comrade Mundani, what do you think about that?
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I agree. I mean I think there
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: are a lot of folks in Russia that remember what
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: it was like to wait in line two, three, four
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: hours when you wanted to go to the grocery store.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: And now you know the mayor is talking about bringing
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: that same concept literally public owned grocery stores, municipal grocery
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: stores to New York City. Now, I think New York
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: City is still going to have no shortage of grocery
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: options for rank and file consumers. And who knows, if
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: there are some areas that are literally food deserts, maybe
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: they want this kind of thing there. But I think
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: it's I agree. I think there's lessons that we've learned
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: through one hundred and fifty years of watching socialism and
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Marxism wherever it's been tried, and for the most part
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: it hasn't worked. So again, I think you know, when
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: you're the mayor, you're really defined by key moments. And
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: it's easy if you're Bernie Sanders, who swore in mayor
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Momdana yesterday, it's easy to be focused primarily on ideology.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: But when you're in charge with cleaning up the snow,
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: when you're charged with picking up the garbage, when you're
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: tasked with putting out the fires, arresting bad guys, and
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: when there's a blackout, the buck stops with you. When
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: there's a terrorist attack, the buck stops with you, when
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: there's an assassination at city Hall, the buck stops with you.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: When there are riots because of a reaction to a
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: police involved shooting, all of which has happened in recent
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: times in my lifetime in New York City. Those are
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: the moments that a mayor, judge is judged by. So
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: you could have great, soaring rhetoric, and I thought he
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: did give a good speech yesterday. Is very Obama esque.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: But until you can manage those crisis moments, you really
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: haven't had your metal tested as a mayor. So we'll
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: see where those go. I mean, we all know what
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: happened with Rudy Giuliani with when all those moments happened,
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: and we saw him rise to the occasion. We saw
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Bloomberg rise to the occasion when most of those moments
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: happened with the most part, for the most part, with
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Bill Deblasio, although he did handle some crises okay, we
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: saw everything from COVID to police assassinations, he handled those
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: moments very poorly. And I think it's one of the
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: reasons that he was so poorly regarded, even as a
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Democrat and a heavily democratic city, that he couldn't get elected,
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: had no prayer of getting elected to Congress, which is
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: what he tried to do after leaving office. So it's
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: those crisis moments that make a mayor of any city,
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: whether it's Philly, New York, or Atlantic City. And it's
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: those crisis moments by which a mayor is judged, you know,
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: nine to eleven for Rudy Giuliani, the blackout and the
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: assassination of James Davis for Mike Bloomberg and COVID and
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: the assassination of officers Ramos and lou for de Blasio.
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: Really well, put, counselman, can you stick with me for
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: another segment. I want to take a pause here to
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: switch gears, and I got to make a quick announcement.
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: Are you able to make with all yours brother outstanding? Well,
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: We're coming right back with Counselan Frank Morano. I'm going
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: to lighten this up a little bit, but I want
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: to remind you anybody's like, man, who's this ball head
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: of Puerto Rican guy on my microphone on my radio,
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: don't worry, and I'm coming right back with Counselman Frank Morano.
• 41:03
  Speaker 6: I'm Rich Valdez.
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: This is America, this is America, all right.
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: On egos, welcome back, It's Rich Valdez. I want to
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: bring it right back though to Councilman Frank Morano. Now,
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: Counselman Frank Morano is the councilman representing the part of
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: New Jersey known as Staten Island, New York, and I
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: would like to thank him publicly for presenting me with
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: the Pinky Kravitz Excellence in Media award at his annual
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: New Year's Eve Eve event in Atlantic City. It's a
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: long running tradition, so thank you for that, counselman. And
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: I mentioned that distinction earlier to our friend and colleague
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: Dom Giordano. It's domb time, and he said, Oh, my goodness,
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: you should be so happy, because Pinky Kravitz is an
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: absolute og in the radio game. I said, I know,
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: fifty seven solid years on the air, longest running talk
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: show in American history. Talk to us about why you
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: picked Pinky Kravitz as the namesake for the order.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: I think Tom really nailed it in that Pinky was
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: an institution. He was on the radio just about every
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: day for about sixty years literally until he passed away
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: a few years ago at the age of eighty eight.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: But more so than being on the radio, which is
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: impressive enough in and of itself, those of us that
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: you and me included, who've worked in radio know that
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: for a lot of talk radio careers, you can measure
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: them with an hour glass, not with calendars. And not
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: only was he able to be successful ratings wise and
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: revenue wise for much of that time, but he really
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: succeeded in using radio to instill a sense of community
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: and using media in general to make people feel like
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: they were attuned to what was going on with their neighbors.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: Because one of the things we've seen, and this is
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: why radio stations like WPHD are so important, is that
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: now it's almost easier to find out what's going on
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: in Baghdad than it is to find out what's going
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: on in Brooklyn. And that's why we need to support, encourage,
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: and patronize local media. And to me, Pinky Kravitz was
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: the best tradition of that, at least when it came
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: to Atlantic City in South Jersey. So we've been giving
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: this award out for the last few years since he
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: passed away. We've had a lot of great recipients, you know,
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: people like Whitney Ellman, people like Paul Kelly who's a
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: radio station owner, other radio talk show hosts. But we
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: really had quite an honor in that you were willing
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: to accept the award this year, and we were thrilled
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: that you were able to be on hand. You did
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: come a little late, but that's okay, that's okay.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: Well, I am Puerto Rica. Frank Morano, thank you, thank you.
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: It's an honor and privilege, and I appreciate it now, Frank.
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: For people who are very interested in everything that you're doing,
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: how do they keep up to speed?
• 44:20
  Speaker 6: I'll tell you. I put this on social media.
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: I put a photo of you and me and all
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: that stuff, and people were saying, how come I didn't
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: know about Frank Morano's long running tradition? And I'd love
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: to be a part of the Councilman's future events. Where
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: do they do, where do they go talk to us?
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: And how did this whole thing start? A New Year's
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: Eve Eve?
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: First of all, I think a lot of people felt
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: that New Year's Eve was meaning conventional New Year's Eve
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: December thirty first, had become too much of a high
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: pressure event. Anywhere you go, every place is overpriced, it's overcrowded.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: To drive there, you have to dodge all these drunk drivers.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: And you can go to the same restaurants that you
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: go to three hundred and sixty or other nights of
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: the year, and on New Year's Eve, if you go there,
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: you can't get what you could order every other night. Instead,
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: they have a special menu. The special menu is never
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: what the best thing is, it's whatever they can make
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: the most of and dish out as much as possible.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: So a lot of folks just weren't happy with the
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: whole New Year's Eve vibe, so we wanted to create
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: an evening where it was a low pressure environment where
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: it's easy to have a good time when there are
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: not expectations of doing so. So that's that's basically the
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: that's basically the gist of it. As far as people
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: getting in touch with me, you find me on Twitter
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: at Frank Morano that's Frank m O R A n O.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: Or on Facebook at facebook dot com slash Morano fans,
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: or if you're lucky enough to have you know my
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: mobile phone number. As one of the best voiceover announcers
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: in the world, Steve came or does he just texted me?
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: Is there a Peaky Kravitz Best to Pay Award? There's
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: not currently, but who knows.
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: Maybe next shout out to Steve. I love Steve, let
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: me see if I could do it. And now Deborah Norville,
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: he's got one of the best voices in the world.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, it'll be at least a couple of months
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: before he's totally replaced by AI.
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: I don't say that all right, Frank Morana, I want
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: to thank you for being here and everybody listening. I'm
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: taking a break here, and when i'm coming back, we're
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: going to bang out some calls. I like to call
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: it the speed round, So you got to make it
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: short and punch you. Now. I know I'm up against
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: the challenge here. You're in the car, or you're leaving work.
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: You may not even mean near a phone, but guess
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: what I want to hear from you. So if you
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: will be so kind, give me a call. Frank Morano,
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: thanks for being with me. Godspeed the and we're coming
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: right back with a little bit more. Don't go anywhere.
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: This is America. This is America. He's got the best
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: head of hair and podcasting. This is America with Rich Valdenz.
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: All right, and he goes, welcome back. It's Rich Valdez.
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: And I'm want to wrap this up on this note here.
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: Young people aren't drinking now. Back in the days, everybody
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: used to drink to get loose at the party, go
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: to the nightclub, go to the bar. Well, apparently that's
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: not really a thing anymore. All sorts of money is
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: being lost by alcohol companies. And I got a clip
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: of audio that I'm going to play for you that
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: I think you're going to find very, very surprising, because
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: I know I sure did check this out.
• 47:20
  Speaker 10: Generation Z has just turned its back on drinking altogether.
• 47:24
  Speaker 10: You and I are both fifty, but Generation Z they
• 47:27
  Speaker 10: have never drunk less.
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: It is extraordinary.
• 47:30
  Speaker 11: And the liquor companies are scrambling like they are terrified
• 47:33
  Speaker 11: because there is a cultural trend happening now where people
• 47:36
  Speaker 11: are increasingly either reducing their drinking or quitting entirely.
• 47:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that should be a wake up.
• 47:42
  Speaker 10: Call for all of us.
• 47:43
  Speaker 11: And I think that in twenty to thirty years from now, as.
• 47:46
  Speaker 10: A society, we're going to look back on alcohol with
• 47:49
  Speaker 10: the same level of disdain that we currently do cigarettes.
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: So gen Z has never drank so much. Look, I
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: think that's a good thing. Drinking is not good. We
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: learned a couple of years ago that while a little
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: bit of wine might keep you some illness away, by
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: and large, drinking isn't good for you. It's bad for
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: your skin, it's bad for this, it's bad for that. Apparently,
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: it exacerbates cancer.
• 48:12
  Speaker 6: So I get all that.
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: But gen Z's relationship with alcohol has become quite complex.
• 48:17
  Speaker 6: Right the way.
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: This dummy woman Sea Weaver wants us to have a
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: different relationship with private property. Gen z wants a different
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: relationship with alcohol, saying they're driving this sober curious movement,
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: if you will, prioritizing their health and finances and digital socializing,
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: leading many of them to just drink a lot less,
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: or they choose non alcoholic options like functional beverages. I
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: can't even say that we'd beverages like prebiotic sodas, specialty
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: coffees and.
• 48:48
  Speaker 6: Mocktails. All right, Hey, to each his own.
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: However, recent data shows that there's an uptick in drinking
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: amongst legal age gen z ers, potentially due to more
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: disposable income, some of them embracing quality over quantity or
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: premium spirits and whatnot. So I think that's pretty interesting.
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: Now they still prefer moderation and you know, wellness focused
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: choices over getting drunk. I think they also seek different things,
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: you know, some of them on value driven brands. But
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: I think there's a big part of this that people
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: miss out on, and I believe that it is marijuana.
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: People are drinking marijuana infuse drinks. People are not only
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: smoking less marijuana, but they're chewing the marijuana now right
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: with the gummies. So I think as people do that,
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: there's a lot less people drinking. And the reality is
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: in many states you can drive around high as a kite,
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: even if it's not legal on paper. There isn't a
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: test to check people for being high as a kite,
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: whereas there is a total test to really get you
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: to blow into that little machine and boom, you're done,
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: ten fifteen, thirty dollars later, a year, two years, three years,
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: you know, with license suspension later.
• 50:05
  Speaker 6: And many people are learning their lessons. Some haven't.
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: I know a bunch of people who've gone down that path.
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: I've never met anybody.
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: Really.
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: I'm sure it's happy, but I've never met anybody. And
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: I get to meet a lot of people who's like,
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: oh yeah, I got one of those DUI's. Guy said
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: I smelt like weed, and man, he gave me a
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: yurine test right there on the spot. They were able
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: to get in fifteen minutes. You know, it just doesn't
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: seem like it's a doable thing. So what's the story here? Well,
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: I think the story is there's while there's an increase,
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: is slight increase in alcohol consumption by and large people
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: in this age group, they are not drinking right. And
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: I think this is true because the shift is everywhere.
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: It's not just this age group. It's been going on.
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: Bars are still a thing, and they will remain to
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: be a thing, but I'll tell you it's not really
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: a thing anymore. Nightclubs, right, the discotheque not a thing.
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: New York was once known so well for its discos
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: right Saturday night Fever. People were going out dancing, getting
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: dressed up. That's not a thing anymore. People aren't getting
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: dressed up and going out and dancing. Sadly they're not.
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: People used to come from all over the world to
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: some of the most famous nightclubs on the planet, which
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: were all in New York City, The Tunnel, Limelight, Carbon,
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: that became Exit, so many others, and guess what, none
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: of them are around.
• 51:31
  Speaker 8: Now.
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: It's all about the small lounge, which change every couple
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: of years because they barely survive. It's expensive to have
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: a night out on the town, and people just aren't
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: as interested as they used to be. Why.
• 51:43
  Speaker 6: I say, because they're getting high.
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: But these articles say it's because of health conscious choices
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: and all sorts of other things that young people, in
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: particular gen Z are choosing to do.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 51:56
  Speaker 6: I guess the millennials are.
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: You know, they're all hitting forty this year, so they're
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: they're not out there like they used to be. But
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: the gen Z people, they just don't want to drink.
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: And I find it fascinating that this much money is
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: being lost by alcohol companies other than the ones that
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: are you know, putting out whiskey and you know, bourbons
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: and the more premium drinks. So I wonder what is
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: the story here, what is the deal? Well, we're gonna
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: take your calls on this stuff, and plus calls on
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: any topic. I know it's a couple of people that
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: called over the holidays. I want to get to those
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: as well, So let's start with that. Let's cueue up
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: the first call.
• 52:36
  Speaker 6: Shall we go? Right ahead?
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: It's Johnny Jacob jingle Heimer Schmidt. No, no, for real,
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: that's what he goes by on Twitter, and he's got
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: something to say.
• 52:45
  Speaker 6: Johnny, go for it, yo, Retchie.
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: This is Johnny Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt from Mammarillo, Texas.
• 52:51
  Speaker 8: Man.
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: I I just want you to know, brother, I'm catching up.
• 52:54
  Speaker 7: On the podcast.
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: I'm so happy.
• 52:56
  Speaker 6: That I've found you here.
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 52:58
  Speaker 6: My radio is still tuned in to the same affiliate station.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: That you were on.
• 53:05
  Speaker 7: And what happened?
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: Man?
• 53:07
  Speaker 6: Did Sorows by the station or something?
• 53:10
  Speaker 5: I only halfway kid, and I'm halfway serious, because you left.
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: This guy took over.
• 53:16
  Speaker 5: He's so planned, man, and he was.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: Ruth of Paul.
• 53:19
  Speaker 7: Screw that and excuse my language.
• 53:22
  Speaker 5: And Richie it's they were playing like really anti Trump stuff.
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: This morning on the same station. So I'm wondering, did
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: sorows by station?
• 53:30
  Speaker 6: Anyways?
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: I'm glad I found you much love, man, You're doing great.
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  Speaker 4: Let's keep going, all right, my man, Johnny. All I
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  Speaker 4: could say to that brother, is a happy New Year
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  Speaker 4: to you. Thanks for the call. And b I'm not
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  Speaker 4: gonna malign anybody, but I will say that I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't as far as I know. No, it was
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: not a Soros thing. It was just generally a few
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  Speaker 4: key areas that we couldn't agree on. Part of it
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  Speaker 4: was compensation, but a big part of it was just
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  Speaker 4: the ability to do some video stuff that some opportunities
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: came my way that I really didn't want to say
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  Speaker 4: no to, and contractually I had to say no to
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  Speaker 4: unless I wasn't under contract anymore. So I opted to
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  Speaker 4: not be under contract because people who want to hear
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  Speaker 4: me are going to hear me right here. People who
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: want to share this show are going to share this show.
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: This late night national town hall conversation will continue. And
• 54:21
  Speaker 4: as sad as it is for me to say, there
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: is a huge boom in digital media. Podcasts continue to grow,
• 54:29
  Speaker 4: streaming audio continues to grow. Here's a couple of examples. Right,
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: Joe Rogan a couple of years ago, he didn't sign
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: a radio deal. He signed a Spotify deal one hundred
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  Speaker 4: and fifty million dollars. They gave him for three years
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  Speaker 4: to be exclusive with them. Now, I'm not saying anybody's
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  Speaker 4: offering me one hundred and fifty million dollars. But I'm
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: saying is if there were that kind of money, opportunity
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  Speaker 4: and growth in terrestrial radio, Joe Rogan would have been there.
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  Speaker 4: But he's not because there's not. Spotify did that deal
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  Speaker 4: three years ago. iHeartRadio, which is the platform I use
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  Speaker 4: for distribution. Now they just signed a deal with Netflix
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  Speaker 4: to put their podcasts in video form on Netflix. Right,
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  Speaker 4: Just imagine that these powerhouse companies and again, iHeartMedia is
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: three times the size and reach than any other radio
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  Speaker 4: company in America. And this is not to be little
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  Speaker 4: radio in any way. I'm really just looking at growth.
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  Speaker 4: I'm forty seven. What does this industry look like when
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: I'm fifty seven and then when I'm sixty seven, still
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: a relatively young man, right.
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  Speaker 6: So that's really where it's at for me.
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: It's about the future, and it takes It doesn't take
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  Speaker 4: five minutes to build up a big video following, right,
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  Speaker 4: That's a multi year task, just like it took me
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  Speaker 4: many years to get to this level in my eighth
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: year in broadcasting. So everything takes time. And if I
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: don't start now, I won't get there in time, is
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: my fear? Right, So kind of somebody and interviewed me,
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: and the article said that this path that I've chosen
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  Speaker 4: follows the trajectory of other young conservatives at my former
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  Speaker 4: network like Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Matt Walsh, all of
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  Speaker 4: my colleagues there that went on to do digital streaming.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm not turning my back on radio at all.
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  Speaker 4: I'm open to it. There just has to be an
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  Speaker 4: opening and exclusivity to allow me to do some of
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  Speaker 4: the digital media stuff that I'm doing on the video
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  Speaker 4: side of things, so that can happen. With that being said,
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: there is a announcement that's coming out in a couple
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  Speaker 4: of weeks when we launched the video stuff, so I'll
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: let you know as that happens. You'll see the videos.
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  Speaker 4: And I urge everybody please follow me on social media.
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: It is one of the best ways for us to
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: keep in touch.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: I am.
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  Speaker 4: I gotta tell you, I am kind of surprised as
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: much as I tell people to follow me at richveldesk
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  Speaker 4: with an ass on all the social media.
• 56:50
  Speaker 6: There are people tagging me on social media saying where
• 56:52
  Speaker 6: are you? What's going on? How do I get your show?
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: It's really easy. Go to richfldesk dot com and hit
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: the redplay button and you're in. We got new shows
• 57:00
  Speaker 4: that are posting every day at nine pm. Sometimes they're
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: a little late, we're working on getting the bugs out
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: and stuff like that, but sometime between nine and midnight,
• 57:08
  Speaker 4: you're gonna have a new show five nights a week.
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  Speaker 6: And thank you again, Johnny for the call.
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: Shout out to you and everybody at Amarillo, Texas and
• 57:15
  Speaker 4: everybody else out there, and remember, you got to stand
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  Speaker 4: for something, because if you stand for nothing, you fall
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: for anything.
• 57:20
  Speaker 6: And the only thing.
• 57:21
  Speaker 4: Necessary for evil to triumph is for good people like
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: you to sit there and do nothing. So now's the
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: time for you to do something. I start up, Rosima,
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: take care, good night, and God bless you America. I'm
• 57:32
  Speaker 4: Rich Valdez and this is America.
• 57:36
  Speaker 5: This is America.
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  Speaker 4: We live in a remarkable time in human history right now,
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: one in which our technology has dramatically improved our living standards.
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: That's because the people that design and build the modern
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: wonders that make our lives better are bound by physical reality,
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: a world in which things either work or they don't work. Unfortunately,
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: those who oversee our political and educational institutions aren't limited
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: by these same constraints. Instead, they often implement their agendas
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: by exploiting people's ignorance on issues like taxes and immigration.
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