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- 0:05Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez, powered by politiweek.com.
- 0:10Speaker 2: And Rich Valdez is with us, former Christie administration official.
- 0:12Speaker 3: You work for Chris Christie, you've been in politics, a
- 0:14Speaker 3: lot of public service stuff. Rich Valdez, columnist now with
- 0:17Speaker 3: the Washington Times.
- 0:18Speaker 1: This is America.
- 0:19Speaker 3: Richie V, you're on the air with the nation.
- 0:21Speaker 1: This is America with your host, Rich Valdez.
- 0:26Speaker 3: What's up, America? I am Rich Valdez. Valdez with an
- 0:29Speaker 3: S at Rich Valdez on all of the social media.
- 0:31Speaker 3: Welcome to the Friday night edition of the show. Happy
- 0:34Speaker 3: to be here. If you want to find out about me,
- 0:36Speaker 3: I'm at Rich Valdez on the social media. Check out
- 0:38Speaker 3: the website, richvaldez.com. Which America matters most to you? Are
- 0:43Speaker 3: you the type of person that says, you know what?
- 0:45Speaker 3: I did what I had to do. I raised my kids.
- 0:48Speaker 3: Good luck to the next generation. Or as my father
- 0:51Speaker 3: would say, que se jodan. Screw them. Or Are you
- 0:56Speaker 3: willing to try and pay it forward a little bit
- 0:58Speaker 3: to make sure? You know, I talk about this a lot.
- 1:01Speaker 3: You know, I don't mean to sound like a broken record,
- 1:03Speaker 3: but I've got two kids, 121, 125. I remember when
- 1:06Speaker 3: I was 21 and 25 and what the world was
- 1:09Speaker 3: like then. It's not the same. And I realized that
- 1:11Speaker 3: they're facing different challenges. You know, I never once ever
- 1:15Speaker 3: got into a problem over saying, yes, sir, or yes, ma'am.
- 1:20Speaker 3: And then saying, excuse me, I'm not a sir or
- 1:21Speaker 3: I'm not a ma'am.
- 1:23Speaker 1: I'm a they, them.
- 1:23Speaker 3: And that's just one example. There's a million different things
- 1:27Speaker 3: that are going on now that didn't go on before.
- 1:30Speaker 3: Which America do you want your children, your children's children,
- 1:33Speaker 3: your children's grandchildren to inherit? Guess what? You play a
- 1:39Speaker 3: role in shaping this. It wasn't that long ago that
- 1:42Speaker 3: I remember being on this show and on my show,
- 1:44Speaker 3: This Is America, with Rich Valdez, talking about how moms,
- 1:50Speaker 3: fed up moms, are going to save America from Joe Biden.
- 1:55Speaker 3: And they did. And God bless him for it, right?
- 1:58Speaker 3: Because there was all the talk in the fake news
- 2:01Speaker 3: media that the white educated woman would never vote for
- 2:05Speaker 3: Donald Trump. Women, he's got a big woman problem. He's
- 2:07Speaker 3: got a this and he's got a that. I'll tell
- 2:10Speaker 3: you what problem he doesn't have. Redecorating that Oval Office.
- 2:14Speaker 3: He's done it. He's put that helipad in there. He's
- 2:17Speaker 3: done the reflecting pool.
- 2:19Speaker 4: Why?
- 2:19Speaker 3: Because he won. El Trumpito. Now, they said it couldn't
- 2:23Speaker 3: be done. They're doing the same thing right now. You've
- 2:25Speaker 3: got pollsters everywhere. And listen, I'm going to say we
- 2:29Speaker 3: are in the perfect spot to get, as George Bush
- 2:35Speaker 3: once said one year, shellacking. We are in that spot, right?
- 2:40Speaker 3: It's the midterms. People are disgruntled about the cost of
- 2:44Speaker 3: steak and gasoline. I get it. And I'm just trying
- 2:48Speaker 3: to get people to see past that. Try to see
- 2:52Speaker 3: the forest beyond the trees. This doesn't last forever. It's
- 2:58Speaker 3: not the end of the world. I've got friends in
- 2:59Speaker 3: the restaurant business. I've got friends, partners in the jewelry
- 3:03Speaker 3: business that have told me in their respectively 24 and
- 3:08Speaker 3: 28 years in these businesses that this is the hardest
- 3:11Speaker 3: year they've had for cash flow. I get it. A
- 3:16Speaker 3: lot of people are feeling the crunch. But I also
- 3:19Speaker 3: realize that there's a lot of money that's poured into
- 3:21Speaker 3: this country. And maybe it's not in the area of
- 3:24Speaker 3: fine jewelry and but there's definitely a bunch of money
- 3:29Speaker 3: being poured into AI and AI requires data centers. And
- 3:33Speaker 3: of course, then you get people that want to hate
- 3:35Speaker 3: on the data centers. So pick the fight you want
- 3:40Speaker 3: to be in, figure out what you want to do.
- 3:44Speaker 3: Years ago, I saw a documentary. I think it was
- 3:47Speaker 3: on the history channel and it was about the Iceman.
- 3:50Speaker 3: And no, I'm not talking about the killer that, uh,
- 3:54Speaker 3: went up and down Tunnelly Avenue Route 1 and 9
- 3:56Speaker 3: in North Bergen back in the late 70s, early 80s.
- 3:59Speaker 3: I'm talking about the guy that delivered that block of
- 4:02Speaker 3: ice into a thing called an icebox to keep your
- 4:04Speaker 3: food cold back when television was black and white. That
- 4:09Speaker 3: job doesn't exist today. I'm sure those people were adamant about, no,
- 4:13Speaker 3: we don't want the people from Frigidaire making electronic refrigeration
- 4:18Speaker 3: for everybody in their home. I'm sure they didn't like
- 4:22Speaker 3: that idea at all. But there were people out there
- 4:25Speaker 3: that were innovative, that wanted to do what they wanted
- 4:29Speaker 3: to do. And they saw the opportunity and they did it.
- 4:33Speaker 3: You've heard Mark Levin talk about iPencil, right? That great
- 4:36Speaker 3: clip of audio. Same thing. If you build it, they
- 4:42Speaker 3: will come, they say. All right, got it. Well, this
- 4:45Speaker 3: is where we are. So yeah, there may not be
- 4:48Speaker 3: a future for certain career fields, but it's, It's going
- 4:53Speaker 3: to be night and day on what you can do.
- 4:56Speaker 3: The medical field is going to expand exponentially as it
- 4:59Speaker 3: has been. Skilled trades are going to expand exponentially as
- 5:04Speaker 3: they're about to, whether it's data centers or anything else.
- 5:09Speaker 3: I've already seen people looking to hire specially trained electricians. Now,
- 5:15Speaker 3: of course, if you're a naysayer, Your answer to that is, well,
- 5:17Speaker 3: you don't have that training. How are you going to
- 5:19Speaker 3: be a specially trained electrician in these years? They got
- 5:21Speaker 3: to go through the journeyman process and you got to
- 5:23Speaker 3: be an apprentice and blah, blah, blah. Listen, okay, got it.
- 5:27Speaker 3: It doesn't mean it's impossible. There's a lot of jobs
- 5:31Speaker 3: that people would do if they, A, knew about them
- 5:36Speaker 3: and B, if they thought they had an opportunity there.
- 5:40Speaker 3: Not everybody's like me, for example, and I'm not trying
- 5:42Speaker 3: to break my arm, patting myself on the back, but
- 5:45Speaker 3: I am trying to say, You know, I looked at
- 5:47Speaker 3: talk radio as something that I always enjoyed and liked
- 5:49Speaker 3: and listening to and arguing with, but I never saw
- 5:52Speaker 3: it as an opportunity for me. It was a friend
- 5:55Speaker 3: of mine. It was a friend of mine who I
- 5:57Speaker 3: had lunch with at Wendy's fast food restaurant. And he
- 6:03Speaker 3: asked me, what are you going to do? It was
- 6:04Speaker 3: right after I had taken a couple of years off
- 6:06Speaker 3: from work because my dad was ill and my dad
- 6:09Speaker 3: had passed away. And I said, I don't know. I
- 6:12Speaker 3: don't know. I don't want to go back into government.
- 6:15Speaker 3: at least not in New Jersey. It was a pretty
- 6:17Speaker 3: hectic place to be in that administration, not because it
- 6:20Speaker 3: was Governor Christie's administration, but because he was trailblazing as
- 6:25Speaker 3: a Republican in New Jersey. There was a lot of opposition,
- 6:29Speaker 3: a lot of pushback. People were out to get me.
- 6:31Speaker 3: They were out to get him. It was not great.
- 6:37Speaker 3: So I said, you know what? I don't want to
- 6:38Speaker 3: walk around having to look over my shoulder every day
- 6:40Speaker 3: to see who's the next knife that's going to fly
- 6:42Speaker 3: into my back. And I had worked in higher ed
- 6:46Speaker 3: and marketing and I enjoyed that work, but I just
- 6:49Speaker 3: didn't feel like that was where I had to go
- 6:50Speaker 3: back to either. And I was at a crossroads. I said, look,
- 6:52Speaker 3: I got an opportunity. I'm going to use this opportunity
- 6:55Speaker 3: for the best. And long story short, my buddy tells
- 6:58Speaker 3: me you should get into talk radio. My response to
- 7:00Speaker 3: him was, you know, you love sports center. You love
- 7:03Speaker 3: watching football games. Maybe you should get a job in
- 7:06Speaker 3: the NFL. He laughed and he said, yeah, the only
- 7:09Speaker 3: difference is I don't know people, you know, people. And
- 7:12Speaker 3: I said, you know what? That's actually true. And I'll
- 7:14Speaker 3: take you up on that. And I explored that opportunity.
- 7:16Speaker 3: And the next thing you know, I was talking to
- 7:18Speaker 3: Rich Cementa, Mr. Producer, the executive producer of The Mark
- 7:21Speaker 3: Levin Show. And the rest was history, honestly. But I
- 7:24Speaker 3: say all of that to say I could have sat
- 7:26Speaker 3: here and made up all the stories in the world
- 7:27Speaker 3: and say, you know, I've never heard of a Puerto
- 7:30Speaker 3: Rican kid in his 30s getting into talk radio in
- 7:32Speaker 3: the largest radio market in America. There's no way that
- 7:36Speaker 3: can happen. I've never seen it happen. And I was.
- 7:38Speaker 3: I was saying that in my head. And honestly, Mark
- 7:41Speaker 3: Levin was one of the first people that helped change
- 7:42Speaker 3: my mind. He was doing a monologue one day and
- 7:45Speaker 3: he said that he got into this business when he
- 7:47Speaker 3: was 40 or 41. And I thought, wow, I was
- 7:51Speaker 3: 30 something. I was 39. And I thought to myself,
- 7:55Speaker 3: I had just turned 39 and I was 38 at
- 7:58Speaker 3: the time, actually. And I said, you know what? This is,
- 8:01Speaker 3: this is it. Maybe I can do it. Maybe there
- 8:04Speaker 3: is one because everybody else I'd met in this business
- 8:07Speaker 3: and I'd met many of talk radio hosts throughout the years.
- 8:09Speaker 3: They all had the same story. What was the story?
- 8:13Speaker 3: I worked in the studio when I was 16. I
- 8:15Speaker 3: got into this and blah, blah, blah. I used to
- 8:16Speaker 3: sweep things and I worked here and whatever. If they
- 8:19Speaker 3: let me get five minutes on the air, I would
- 8:20Speaker 3: do it. You know, I worked here when I was 14.
- 8:23Speaker 3: I used to sneak into this. Everybody was there as
- 8:25Speaker 3: a kid. Everybody went to school for broadcasting. What's the
- 8:27Speaker 3: story here? This is not a story about me. This
- 8:29Speaker 3: is a story about how where there's a will, there's
- 8:32Speaker 3: a way. And you can make it in pretty much
- 8:35Speaker 3: any industry that I think you apply yourself to if
- 8:37Speaker 3: you don't impose the self-limiting beliefs and behavior. And I
- 8:42Speaker 3: think that's what America is. It's the opportunity for people
- 8:45Speaker 3: to come from war-torn places like Somalia to come here
- 8:49Speaker 3: and say, you know what, I'm going to be a U.S. congressperson.
- 8:51Speaker 3: For people that say, I can't stand this country. I
- 8:54Speaker 3: hate capitalism. I am going to become a congressperson and
- 8:57Speaker 3: try and change it from the inside out. Well, guess what?
- 9:01Speaker 3: They're achieving their version of the American dream. Are we?
- 9:06Speaker 3: Are we stepping up? And again, if you're out there
- 9:09Speaker 3: every day, you know, banging the pots and pans for
- 9:13Speaker 3: liberty and freedom, then God bless you. But I know
- 9:15Speaker 3: somebody somewhere that's listening right now is thinking, I don't
- 9:18Speaker 3: want to have to do all that. I already did
- 9:20Speaker 3: what I had to do. I'm telling you, do a
- 9:22Speaker 3: little more. Because you know what? You may have kids,
- 9:25Speaker 3: you may not have kids, but your kids might have
- 9:28Speaker 3: kids one day. And there's more to come, right? They
- 9:31Speaker 3: have to live in this country. Guess what? Right now,
- 9:34Speaker 3: my kids are out of school. I'm still concerned about
- 9:36Speaker 3: my local government. Even though I don't have kids in
- 9:39Speaker 3: the school system, I'm glad I don't have kids in
- 9:41Speaker 3: the school system. I'm not going to say, well, what
- 9:44Speaker 3: the hell? Who cares if the place is filled with transsexuals? No,
- 9:48Speaker 3: I think we should care. We should all care. Right.
- 9:51Speaker 3: Two commandments from our Bible. Love God, love people. That's
- 9:54Speaker 3: a big part of what we're doing here. We got
- 9:56Speaker 3: to look out for our fellow man. Part of that
- 9:58Speaker 3: is looking out for our country. So when Ronald Reagan
- 10:01Speaker 3: talks about being an informed patriot, we got to know
- 10:06Speaker 3: what we're talking about. We've got to make sure we're
- 10:07Speaker 3: up on these issues. We've got to make sure that
- 10:09Speaker 3: we're ready to rock and roll. And I don't mean
- 10:12Speaker 3: anything crazy, right? I'm not talking about a militia or
- 10:15Speaker 3: punching somebody in the chin. Not at all. I'm talking
- 10:18Speaker 3: about being ready to bring people the truth because having
- 10:23Speaker 3: kids that are young, I occasionally meet their friends. And
- 10:26Speaker 3: when you meet a young person and they just say
- 10:28Speaker 3: things like the other day, my daughter's friend said, um,
- 10:33Speaker 3: something about mom Donnie. And she said, let me tell
- 10:35Speaker 3: you what a good mayor he is. And she lives
- 10:37Speaker 3: in Manhattan and I kept my mouth shut. I didn't
- 10:40Speaker 3: want to get into it. It was a short car
- 10:42Speaker 3: ride and I just, you know, bit my tongue and
- 10:46Speaker 3: she kept going. She said, you know, People will go
- 10:48Speaker 3: on TikTok and say, I can't believe these streets. They
- 10:51Speaker 3: got these huge potholes. And she said, I don't know,
- 10:54Speaker 3: an hour later, the next day at the latest, there's
- 10:57Speaker 3: Mom Donnie filling those holes. She said, man, I never
- 11:00Speaker 3: seen any other mayor do that. I'm giggling to myself
- 11:04Speaker 3: like a schoolgirl in the front seat thinking, oh, my goodness.
- 11:07Speaker 3: You know, like this isn't a plant, right? Of course,
- 11:09Speaker 3: he plans these things. But then she went on to say,
- 11:12Speaker 3: you know, and apparently they wouldn't let him go to
- 11:14Speaker 3: 9-11 because he's a Muslim. Well, guess what? I couldn't
- 11:18Speaker 3: stay shut there. The giggling went away, and I said,
- 11:21Speaker 3: hold on a second. Nobody said he couldn't go because
- 11:23Speaker 3: he's a Muslim. Not at all. They didn't want him
- 11:30Speaker 3: to go because the city attorney that he picked, guess what?
- 11:35Speaker 3: This guy is the brother-in-law of the guy representing Al-Qaeda. Crazy, right?
- 11:42Speaker 3: Who needs that? He's taking selfies and getting endorsements. from Shiraz,
- 11:48Speaker 3: what was his name? Hursan Siraj, I forget his name.
- 11:52Speaker 3: But the imam who was an unindicted co-conspirator in the
- 11:57Speaker 3: 1993 World Trade Center bombing. You don't get a pass
- 12:01Speaker 3: on that. You don't get to hang out with those
- 12:03Speaker 3: guys and then come over here and show face when
- 12:06Speaker 3: it's directly about that. So that was why they took exception.
- 12:10Speaker 3: And I told her, I said, look, this has nothing
- 12:12Speaker 3: to do with his faith. You know, growing up in Brooklyn,
- 12:15Speaker 3: I can tell you that I was around Muslims all
- 12:18Speaker 3: the time. Never had an issue. Today, there's an issue everywhere.
- 12:23Speaker 3: What does that tell you? That the Muslims I grew
- 12:26Speaker 3: up with weren't the problem. Those guys weren't strapping bombs
- 12:29Speaker 3: to their chest and doing anything bad. Neither were the Jews.
- 12:32Speaker 3: Never met a Jew who strapped a bomb to himself
- 12:34Speaker 3: and blew something up. Never even read about it in
- 12:36Speaker 3: the paper. But now, all of a sudden, you read
- 12:39Speaker 3: the papers and you hear stuff, and this stuff is
- 12:41Speaker 3: happening overseas. Happened in Times Square or in the... Between
- 12:46Speaker 3: 7th Avenue and 8th Avenue and one of those tunnels
- 12:48Speaker 3: in the subway, I don't know, two years ago, a
- 12:50Speaker 3: year and a half ago, maybe three years ago. I'm
- 12:52Speaker 3: not really great with time. And thank God it kind
- 12:55Speaker 3: of didn't detonate well. Bottom line here is, which America
- 12:59Speaker 3: do you want? The one that's going off to the
- 13:02Speaker 3: left and falling off the face of the earth? Or
- 13:05Speaker 3: the one you get to be proud of? The one
- 13:06Speaker 3: where you get to pick your career and say, you
- 13:08Speaker 3: know what, I'm going to be that young Puerto Rican
- 13:11Speaker 3: guy that gets into talk radio. Where there are no
- 13:13Speaker 3: other young Puerto Rican guys. And I didn't care. Because
- 13:16Speaker 3: I didn't see it that way. I saw it as
- 13:17Speaker 3: an opportunity. I saw America as a meritocracy. If you're
- 13:21Speaker 3: any good at this, you'll be around. You'll have some longevity.
- 13:25Speaker 3: And here I am going into my ninth year. So again,
- 13:28Speaker 3: not a pat on my back. That's a pat on
- 13:30Speaker 3: the back of America. On the people that have built
- 13:33Speaker 3: this great country. Keep it locked right here. I'm Rich Valdez.
- 13:37Speaker 1: This is America. This is America. He's brown, he's bald,
- 13:51Speaker 1: and he's breaking it down.
- 13:53Speaker 3: Oh, he's so handsome. What's his name?
- 13:55Speaker 1: Rich Valdez.
- 14:00Speaker 3: All right, familia, welcome back. It's Rich Valdez, and let's
- 14:02Speaker 3: go to the phones. William is calling us from Glasgow, Scotland. William,
- 14:06Speaker 3: go right ahead.
- 14:07Speaker 1: Hi there.
- 14:08Speaker 4: It's great to speak to you.
- 14:09Speaker 5: How are you?
- 14:10Speaker 3: Likewise. Thank you. What's on your mind?
- 14:12Speaker 4: Well, just in terms of answering your question about what
- 14:14Speaker 4: type of America do you want to live in? I
- 14:17Speaker 4: am not living in America, so I'm an outsider, but
- 14:20Speaker 4: I got a lot of love for America. And I've
- 14:22Speaker 4: been listening to your station for a while. I've been
- 14:25Speaker 4: listening to Mr.
- 14:26Speaker 3: Levin.
- 14:27Speaker 4: And, you know, I feel what's going on right now
- 14:30Speaker 4: is very worrying and almost feels like there's two options.
- 14:34Speaker 4: And obviously, you guys are kind of conservative inclined and
- 14:39Speaker 4: you feel that it's either America or the end of America.
- 14:43Speaker 4: It's common sense or chaos. And I just can't help
- 14:47Speaker 4: feel that there's more to come here and there's more
- 14:52Speaker 4: stories to come out. And I'm very worried, but I
- 14:56Speaker 4: just wanted to say as a foreigner, the type of
- 14:59Speaker 4: America I want is one that leads the world, one
- 15:01Speaker 4: that sets the trends, and one where not everything is
- 15:05Speaker 4: about chaos and in politics because I think America is
- 15:10Speaker 4: so much more than the red and the blue and
- 15:13Speaker 4: the differences between them. And the thing that was always
- 15:16Speaker 4: great for me about America was the unity, which I
- 15:18Speaker 4: think is lacking, and ultimately the love between different types
- 15:21Speaker 4: of people.
- 15:23Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what? Look, I agree with all those statements.
- 15:25Speaker 3: And I would say that many of us in America
- 15:28Speaker 3: would agree with your statement 100% in recent years. But
- 15:34Speaker 3: in the recent years that I'm talking about, We've learned
- 15:38Speaker 3: that there isn't much of a middle ground. The middle
- 15:41Speaker 3: ground that we thought that once existed, it A, has
- 15:44Speaker 3: dissipated and B, a lot of it was false. It
- 15:47Speaker 3: was platitudes that people were paying to one another in
- 15:50Speaker 3: order to go along to get along. And it got
- 15:54Speaker 3: us exactly where we are by saying, look, listen, I
- 15:57Speaker 3: respect you might have different beliefs, but I go ahead.
- 16:00Speaker 3: You do you and I do me. You know where
- 16:01Speaker 3: that got us? that got us the legalization of gay marriage,
- 16:05Speaker 3: that it quickly turned into transgender people everywhere, including now
- 16:12Speaker 3: trying to transition kids in kindergarten, first grade, second grade.
- 16:17Speaker 3: This has gone off the reservation. So I think people
- 16:21Speaker 3: are realizing we've gotten to a place where if you
- 16:24Speaker 3: give an inch, they're going to take half your body.
- 16:28Speaker 3: And that wasn't always the case, William. There was a
- 16:30Speaker 3: time where people were You know, if you were in
- 16:34Speaker 3: the LGBTQ community in New York City, you were in
- 16:37Speaker 3: the village, you were in the meatpacking district, everybody had
- 16:40Speaker 3: their area. You knew that those bars there, those were
- 16:42Speaker 3: the gay bars. And everything else wasn't. And that was
- 16:46Speaker 3: the world we lived in. But now, the lines have
- 16:49Speaker 3: been blurred. Nobody knows anything anymore. William, thanks for the call.
- 16:53Speaker 3: I appreciate hearing from you. Thanks for tuning in from Glasgow, Scotland.
- 16:56Speaker 3: If you want to join our late-night National Town Hall conversation.
- 17:00Speaker 3: And let's... Let's see where we go right now. I'm
- 17:05Speaker 3: going to go to a clip of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC,
- 17:09Speaker 3: all out crazy at a campaign rally for a guy
- 17:13Speaker 3: named Troy Jackson. He replaced that crazy that, that didn't last.
- 17:16Speaker 3: What was that crazy's name? The Nazi guy, Graham Platner.
- 17:19Speaker 3: Remember when he was the biggest thing, that guy was
- 17:22Speaker 3: in the news cycle forever. He could, he's, he's VP
- 17:25Speaker 3: candidate for sure.
- 17:26Speaker 1: Right.
- 17:26Speaker 3: Cause everybody knows that guy's name, but AOC is at
- 17:29Speaker 3: a campaign rally with Troy Jackson, uh, a lumberjack that
- 17:32Speaker 3: nobody even knows, but he's a crazy nonetheless, a little
- 17:36Speaker 3: less crazy, more palatable. And she, um, throws out these,
- 17:40Speaker 3: these bombs that they throw out, right? Like I'll call
- 17:43Speaker 3: her right now from Glasgow was saying, Hey, look, I
- 17:45Speaker 3: like the show. He's very respectful.
- 17:46Speaker 5: Right.
- 17:46Speaker 3: But he, he put it out there and he said, look,
- 17:48Speaker 3: you know, it's a shame that you Americans think that
- 17:51Speaker 3: America has to be one way or the other. And
- 17:53Speaker 3: if it's not going your way, it's absolute chaos. I
- 17:56Speaker 3: wouldn't say that it's just us Americans that think that way.
- 17:58Speaker 3: I would say I have, partners, business partners in the
- 18:02Speaker 3: jewelry business. They're from Paris. And guess what? These people
- 18:05Speaker 3: are lamenting. They are lamenting over what's going on in France.
- 18:09Speaker 3: France is on fire. It is set ablaze. This has
- 18:12Speaker 3: been going on for a long time. There have been
- 18:15Speaker 3: tent cities that have come and gone beneath the Eiffel Tower.
- 18:19Speaker 3: When you think of France, you're thinking of Brie. You're
- 18:22Speaker 3: thinking of good wine. You're thinking of ooh la la,
- 18:25Speaker 3: oui oui. You're not thinking of a bunch of people
- 18:29Speaker 3: from other parts of the world that have nothing in
- 18:32Speaker 3: common with your culture that are going to harass women and,
- 18:35Speaker 3: and rob you and intimidate you and stab you and
- 18:38Speaker 3: have knife attacks. But they've learned the way just they
- 18:42Speaker 3: did in London. And now they're doing it in Ireland
- 18:45Speaker 3: and maybe they haven't done it in Glasgow, Scotland yet.
- 18:49Speaker 3: And that's why he still has that open mind, but
- 18:53Speaker 3: it's happening everywhere. And this is nothing to do with, with, um,
- 18:57Speaker 3: religious belief. This has to do with political ideology. And
- 19:01Speaker 3: AOC also possesses that same political ideology. And here she
- 19:06Speaker 3: is talking about the Iran war and how it's paid for.
- 19:10Speaker 3: Talk about this for a false dichotomy. Check it out.
- 19:13Speaker 6: They are paying for it with your health care and
- 19:18Speaker 6: lack thereof. So it's about time that we flip that
- 19:21Speaker 6: equation and start asking, how can we afford war after
- 19:27Speaker 6: war after war? How are we going to afford Iran?
- 19:30Speaker 6: How are we going to afford Gaza? How can we
- 19:33Speaker 6: afford these things when our folks at home can't eat,
- 19:38Speaker 6: can't go to the doctor, and can't rebuild a bridge
- 19:41Speaker 6: to get to work?
- 19:44Speaker 3: I don't know. I've been to Astoria, Queens. There's plenty
- 19:47Speaker 3: of bridges there. Everybody seems to be eating. It's America.
- 19:50Speaker 3: Even the skinny people are overweight. What is she talking about?
- 19:56Speaker 3: This works for people. Now listen. I'm not saying to
- 19:59Speaker 3: not take her seriously. Because this girl should be taken seriously.
- 20:02Speaker 3: She's a serious woman.
- 20:04Speaker 1: AOC.
- 20:05Speaker 3: But I am going to say this. That's total BS.
- 20:09Speaker 3: that the Iran war is being paid. First of all,
- 20:12Speaker 3: what mandate does America have to provide healthcare? None. The
- 20:17Speaker 3: purpose of government is not to provide healthcare. The purpose
- 20:21Speaker 3: of government is and always has been to protect people,
- 20:25Speaker 3: not from disease per se, but from the enemy, right?
- 20:31Speaker 3: We started this country on a war because they were
- 20:34Speaker 3: infringing on our religious freedom and taxes. No taxation without representation.
- 20:43Speaker 3: This is the basis of America. Let me pray to
- 20:47Speaker 3: my God in a church other than the Anglican Church.
- 20:51Speaker 3: And I am oversimplifying grossly here. But I'm making my point.
- 20:55Speaker 3: Now AOC says, no, no, no, no, no. This is
- 20:59Speaker 3: being paid for with your health care.
- 21:00Speaker 1: No, ma'am.
- 21:02Speaker 3: I don't wake up with any expectation of anybody giving
- 21:05Speaker 3: me health care. And trust me, I would love it.
- 21:07Speaker 3: I would love some free government health care. And I'm
- 21:11Speaker 3: not a supporter of that. But I understand that people
- 21:16Speaker 3: from other parts of the country, of the world, like Canada,
- 21:19Speaker 3: sneak into our country to go to an emergency room
- 21:23Speaker 3: when they have severe cardiac problems because they know they
- 21:26Speaker 3: might die while they're waiting to see a specialist in
- 21:29Speaker 3: Canada where they have government health care. So now you
- 21:33Speaker 3: tell me, do you want to be in the country
- 21:35Speaker 3: where you can live because you can go to the
- 21:38Speaker 3: emergency room where you can work somewhere and get some
- 21:41Speaker 3: health insurance where you can apply for the marketplace discounted
- 21:44Speaker 3: health care that President Trump just renegotiated not that long ago,
- 21:50Speaker 3: where we have Medicaid and Medicare and S-CHIP and so
- 21:53Speaker 3: many other ways to insure people.
- 21:56Speaker 4: Come on.
- 21:57Speaker 3: You've got to be kidding me. Of course I want
- 21:59Speaker 3: to be here. I want to be here where they
- 22:02Speaker 3: have the best machines, the best doctors are trying to
- 22:05Speaker 3: do the most competition. This is it. This is the
- 22:08Speaker 3: marketplace of ideas. I've never heard anybody say, oh, you
- 22:13Speaker 3: know what? You're having a triple bypass? Listen, I know
- 22:18Speaker 3: a great place, Zimbabwe. The doctors there are world renowned.
- 22:23Speaker 3: They're the best. And I'm not trying to slight Zimbabwe.
- 22:25Speaker 3: I just picked them out because it's far. Now, conversely,
- 22:31Speaker 3: you got people, doctors from all over the world that
- 22:33Speaker 3: want to come here to come to the big hospitals
- 22:35Speaker 3: here to do the latest in robotic this and that.
- 22:38Speaker 3: So please miss me with that. Nobody has an expectation
- 22:41Speaker 3: of health care. We have an expectation of life, liberty,
- 22:46Speaker 3: and the pursuit of happiness. And if along the way
- 22:48Speaker 3: we get some health care, great. And guess what? The
- 22:50Speaker 3: government provides plenty. And if you're really down and out,
- 22:54Speaker 3: like many of us have been, you'll get it. I mean,
- 22:59Speaker 3: if worse comes to worse, what do you do? You
- 23:01Speaker 3: run for Congress. You'll get the best health care there is.
- 23:05Speaker 4: All right?
- 23:05Speaker 3: I rest my case. Anyway. So trying to make it
- 23:09Speaker 3: sound like, you know, you can't eat, you can't go
- 23:10Speaker 3: to the doctor, you can't rebuild a bridge, you can't
- 23:12Speaker 3: even get to work because we're at war. It's a lie.
- 23:16Speaker 3: But you know who believes that? That same young person
- 23:20Speaker 3: that's very dangerously close to turning 26 years old and
- 23:24Speaker 3: they won't be on their parents' health care anymore. That
- 23:27Speaker 3: doesn't have their dream job yet where they're making 80, 90, 100, 120,000
- 23:29Speaker 3: a year. Where they're living in a city Let's say
- 23:34Speaker 3: like Chicago, Miami, somewhere like that. And they're like, hey,
- 23:37Speaker 3: you know what? Podunk, Iowa sounds really good right now
- 23:40Speaker 3: because I might have to go somewhere more affordable. When
- 23:45Speaker 3: that person hears AOC talk, their ears open up and
- 23:49Speaker 3: they say, you know what? I like that idea because
- 23:52Speaker 3: here I am riddled with student loan debt. And between
- 23:57Speaker 3: paying my loans and paying for my ramen noodles to
- 24:00Speaker 3: make sure I eat this week, things are rough. And
- 24:05Speaker 3: I get it. I get it. I was young once, too.
- 24:09Speaker 3: But I was young in a way more vibrant America
- 24:11Speaker 3: than we have today. And that's not a slight on
- 24:14Speaker 3: President Trump. That's a slight on the Democrats that came
- 24:16Speaker 3: before him. But anyway, I want to continue. And I
- 24:21Speaker 3: see we've got calls from all over the place. We're
- 24:23Speaker 3: going to get to those momentarily. AOC, she didn't stop there.
- 24:28Speaker 3: She keeps going with her talk about the the investigations now.
- 24:38Speaker 3: Investigations into all the agencies, right? So she's planning a
- 24:40Speaker 3: takeover by the Democrats so that they can now begin
- 24:44Speaker 3: to undo everything President Trump has done if they get control.
- 24:48Speaker 3: Day one, she says she's going to investigate all the agencies.
- 24:52Speaker 3: Listen to this.
- 24:53Speaker 6: We've known that a Department of Justice has also been
- 24:56Speaker 6: weaponized in its absolute groundless indictments of everyone from Tish
- 25:01Speaker 6: James to Jerome Powell.
- 25:05Speaker 3: And so on and so forth.
- 25:06Speaker 6: Day one, we need to be opening investigations into the
- 25:09Speaker 6: heads of every single one of these agencies and we
- 25:12Speaker 6: need to hold them accountable. I'm talking subpoenas, I'm talking investigations,
- 25:18Speaker 6: I'm talking if necessary and if the evidence leads us
- 25:22Speaker 6: there to court. Because I don't care if you are
- 25:26Speaker 6: a criminal on Main Street or a criminal on Pennsylvania Avenue.
- 25:32Speaker 6: Everyone must be held to the same standard and rule
- 25:37Speaker 6: of law.
- 25:40Speaker 3: What about Ilhan Omar? Is she going to be held
- 25:42Speaker 3: to that same standard? I'm just curious. Go ahead.
- 25:45Speaker 6: If we allow criminals to have cabinet seats in the
- 25:49Speaker 6: United States of America.
- 25:52Speaker 3: Well, who are we to allow that?
- 25:54Speaker 5: Right.
- 25:54Speaker 3: Because this is the problem I have with the leftist.
- 25:57Speaker 3: They want to come up with all these. These moral equivalencies,
- 26:01Speaker 3: they want to come up with all this stuff that
- 26:02Speaker 3: they're mad about. We shouldn't allow criminals. We shouldn't then
- 26:06Speaker 3: change the law. You're the one that's in Congress, AOC.
- 26:09Speaker 3: Last I checked, I could be wrong and you guys
- 26:11Speaker 3: can hold me my feet to the fire on this.
- 26:13Speaker 3: But correct me if I'm wrong. Chat GPT, do what
- 26:16Speaker 3: you want to do. I think AOC has passed one
- 26:19Speaker 3: piece of legislation, maybe two, that she introduced and got passed.
- 26:23Speaker 3: And one of them was renaming a post office in
- 26:25Speaker 3: her district. She's been here for years. She is a
- 26:29Speaker 3: rock star in the media. She hasn't proposed a single
- 26:34Speaker 3: law on anything here that became law.
- 26:38Speaker 2: Right.
- 26:38Speaker 3: She may have proposed bills, but not a single one
- 26:41Speaker 3: of them she could get across the finish line. She's
- 26:44Speaker 3: raising this money. She's doing this. She's doing that. And
- 26:46Speaker 3: she's unable to do that.
- 26:48Speaker 5: Right.
- 26:48Speaker 3: She's unable to create universal health care. She's been unable
- 26:52Speaker 3: to do this now to investigate all the agencies. Come on,
- 26:55Speaker 3: stop singing that song. I wasn't born yesterday. I might
- 26:58Speaker 3: have been born at night, but I wasn't born last night.
- 27:02Speaker 3: You can say all the things you want in the world,
- 27:04Speaker 3: and it's only going to work on the people who've
- 27:05Speaker 3: heard those lies for the first time. Once you've been
- 27:07Speaker 3: lied to a few times, you kind of become a
- 27:10Speaker 3: little bit hip to the game, right? And you say,
- 27:13Speaker 3: you know what? This girl's full of it. And guess what?
- 27:16Speaker 3: AOC is all out crazy. She's full of it. She
- 27:19Speaker 3: wishes these things were happening, but she builds a following
- 27:22Speaker 3: because she's hitting the nerve. And guess what? El Trumpito
- 27:25Speaker 3: does the same thing. This is political brilliance. This is
- 27:28Speaker 3: what works. When you're able to hit the nerve, when
- 27:30Speaker 3: you're able to get to people. Anyway, speaking of getting
- 27:34Speaker 3: to people, we're going to get to calls from Washington,
- 27:36Speaker 3: New York, New Jersey, Long Island, and more straight ahead.
- 27:40Speaker 3: Keep it locked right here on Rich Valdez.
- 27:42Speaker 1: This is America.
- 27:47Speaker 3: All right, amigos, welcome back. It's Rich Valdez, Valdez with
- 27:49Speaker 3: an S, at Rich Valdez on all of the social media.
- 27:51Speaker 3: Your liberty-loving Latino amigo, happy to be with you this evening.
- 27:54Speaker 3: We're going to get to your calls momentarily, 877-381-3811, The
- 27:59Speaker 3: Mark Levin Show. And I just want to preface everything
- 28:05Speaker 3: I'm saying with, it looks like it's ladies' night here.
- 28:08Speaker 3: We've got a bunch of women on the phone. It's
- 28:10Speaker 3: always nice to have female callers and Joe. And we're
- 28:13Speaker 3: going to get to you right now, Catherine Vancouver Washington. Hey,
- 28:17Speaker 3: you're on with Rich Valdez. Mark Levin show.
- 28:20Speaker 2: Yeah. Hi, Rich. Hey, I think that every single Republican
- 28:25Speaker 2: who is running for office all throughout the country should
- 28:29Speaker 2: say two things in their advertisements. Number one, the reason
- 28:34Speaker 2: why health care, when Democrats go, oh, health care is
- 28:38Speaker 2: too expensive, throw it back in their face and say
- 28:41Speaker 2: it's because of Obamacare that was shoved down our throats.
- 28:45Speaker 2: And that wiped away competitive pricing and so on and
- 28:51Speaker 2: so forth and forced younger people to buy stuff that
- 28:55Speaker 2: they didn't need. Number one. Number two, I am so
- 28:59Speaker 2: sick and tired of hearing Marie Glusenkamp-Perez. She's like, oh,
- 29:06Speaker 2: she's running for the third congressional district against Republican John
- 29:10Speaker 2: Braun here in Vancouver, Washington. Oh, gas prices are too expensive, blah, blah, blah. Well,
- 29:19Speaker 2: they're the ones that hate fossil fuels. They're the ones
- 29:24Speaker 2: that shoved electric vehicles. They want electric diesel trucks. They
- 29:30Speaker 2: want electric vehicles. They want electric uh, uh, blowers. Uh,
- 29:37Speaker 2: they want electric. So why are now, why all of
- 29:41Speaker 2: a sudden rich, are they complaining about gas prices are
- 29:45Speaker 2: too high? They're the ones that want everything to go electric.
- 29:50Speaker 3: And a hundred percent. Right. And I think the reason
- 29:52Speaker 3: they want that is because they know it works. Let
- 29:55Speaker 3: me tell you, I've got a friend, very conservative. He's
- 29:57Speaker 3: in the medical field. And, uh, His last car, he
- 30:01Speaker 3: had a white BMW. And he said, I'm going to
- 30:03Speaker 3: get the same car, the newer version. I'm going to
- 30:05Speaker 3: lease the new one, but I'm going to get a four-door.
- 30:07Speaker 3: Comes back, it's the electric version. And he tells me, man,
- 30:10Speaker 3: I love this thing. And he's like, I may not
- 30:12Speaker 3: be able to drive cross-country in it, but he's like, bro,
- 30:15Speaker 3: you don't know how nice it is to not spend
- 30:17Speaker 3: any money on gas. And he loves it. And the
- 30:20Speaker 3: point I'm making here is that they do this because
- 30:23Speaker 3: they know that when people... are vulnerable to high gas
- 30:28Speaker 3: prices or whatever. That's why they like to jack up
- 30:30Speaker 3: the price and raise the gas tax. They realize that
- 30:33Speaker 3: they'll get their way on their policy issues. And guess what?
- 30:37Speaker 3: For some people, he stays a conservative and he just
- 30:40Speaker 3: gets an electric car. But for others, they buy their
- 30:43Speaker 3: platform hook, line, and sinker. And they go, you know what?
- 30:45Speaker 3: These people really care about me. And they're able to
- 30:48Speaker 3: start peeling off Republican votes for Democrat. And this is
- 30:51Speaker 3: why they exploit that. And you're a hundred percent right
- 30:53Speaker 3: that the Democrats, uh, In particular, Obama. They caused this
- 30:59Speaker 3: mess with the insurance reform known as Obamacare. It was horrendous.
- 31:05Speaker 3: Let me be clear. If you like your doctor, you
- 31:07Speaker 3: can keep your doctor. That was a lie. That was
- 31:09Speaker 3: one of the biggest lies ever. 100% right. Catherine in Vancouver, Washington.
- 31:13Speaker 3: I hope you're enjoying life in Vancouver. Beautiful Washington state.
- 31:18Speaker 3: Hopefully you're not dealing with some of the crazy that's
- 31:21Speaker 3: in the other areas. All right. Thanks for your call.
- 31:24Speaker 3: Let's continue. We're going to go to Sandra. She's calling
- 31:27Speaker 3: us from Guttenberg, New Jersey. I used to live in Guttenberg,
- 31:30Speaker 3: New Jersey. Sandra, go right ahead.
- 31:34Speaker 1: Hi, Rich.
- 31:35Speaker 5: I met you in Northvale, New Jersey when Mark was
- 31:38Speaker 5: promoting his last book.
- 31:40Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
- 31:41Speaker 3: I was there with Mark Levin, the great one, and
- 31:43Speaker 3: with Mr. Producer.
- 31:45Speaker 5: That's right. So I remember you and I always remember you.
- 31:49Speaker 5: And it's a nice memory. So this is a little
- 31:52Speaker 5: different topic. I was reading an article today in The
- 31:54Speaker 5: Post about a prisoner that was released from Russia four
- 32:01Speaker 5: years instead of seven. So that's good. We got him back.
- 32:05Speaker 5: So he describes how he was treated because he was
- 32:09Speaker 5: an American. Like, oh, my God, they would make him
- 32:12Speaker 5: go on his knees and walk around like he was
- 32:15Speaker 5: an animal. And and they tortured him and they did
- 32:18Speaker 5: the worst things you can imagine for four years. So
- 32:21Speaker 5: when he learned that our advisor said to Putin. You
- 32:27Speaker 5: are a great humanitarian for giving us back this man.
- 32:31Speaker 5: Maybe he should have just said, thank you for giving
- 32:33Speaker 5: us this man who he was really, really angry that
- 32:38Speaker 5: that was said. That's all.
- 32:39Speaker 4: Right.
- 32:39Speaker 3: Well, listen to this. And I could totally understand this.
- 32:43Speaker 3: This is the release of the American prisoner named Stephen Hubbard.
- 32:47Speaker 3: He's 74 years old. He's a retired teacher from Michigan.
- 32:50Speaker 3: And he'd been in Russian detention in prison since twenty
- 32:54Speaker 3: twenty two. And you're right. I wouldn't like it either.
- 32:57Speaker 3: But President Trump has a way about himself. And Ambassador,
- 33:01Speaker 3: excuse me, Envoy Witkoff, who is in charge of those negotiations,
- 33:04Speaker 3: or at least on the ground, hands on, I'm guessing
- 33:08Speaker 3: likely emulates that model of praising people. You could be
- 33:13Speaker 3: the worst in the world. And he's like, listen, listen,
- 33:16Speaker 3: you're just a. You're a great guy, very strong. You're
- 33:18Speaker 3: a very strong thinker. You're a very serious person. I
- 33:20Speaker 3: have a lot of respect for you. He says that
- 33:22Speaker 3: all the time, in particular about the biggest despots that
- 33:25Speaker 3: we have in the world, President Xi and President Putin.
- 33:30Speaker 3: So I know that this is Trump's velvet hammer, right?
- 33:33Speaker 3: Killing them with kindness. And I think that's the same
- 33:35Speaker 3: thing we're seeing from Ambassador Whitcomb. And President Trump made
- 33:38Speaker 3: a comment to Caitlin Collins the other day that I
- 33:41Speaker 3: think is still right. And he said, if I wouldn't
- 33:43Speaker 3: have done those things, he wouldn't be home. We wouldn't
- 33:46Speaker 3: have him back. And I think that's probably true. If
- 33:49Speaker 3: you don't stroke the ego, you probably don't get the
- 33:52Speaker 3: result you're looking for. You get more with honey than
- 33:55Speaker 3: you do with vinegar. And that's the truth. Thanks for
- 33:57Speaker 3: your call. Coming back to more of your calls. Plus,
- 33:59Speaker 3: wait till you hear what's going on in hour number three.
- 34:02Speaker 3: Keep it locked right here. It's Rich Valdez.
- 34:24Speaker 5: Thank you.
- 35:02Speaker 1: Thank you.
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