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Labor Day, Listener Calls, Legitimacy of Mail-in-Ballots · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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  Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez, powered by politiweek.com.
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  Speaker 2: And Rich Valdez is with us, former Christie administration official.
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  Speaker 3: You work for Chris Christie, you've been in politics, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of public service stuff. Rich Valdez, columnist now with
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  Speaker 3: the Washington Times.
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  Speaker 4: This is America.
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  Speaker 3: Richie V, you're on the air with The Nation.
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  Speaker 4: This is America with your host, Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 3: What's up, America? I am Rich Valdez. Valdez with an
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  Speaker 3: S at Rich Valdez on all of the social media.
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  Speaker 3: You know the number here, 877-VALDEZ-1 if you want to
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  Speaker 3: give me a call. And I had the opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: fill in for the great one, Mark Levin. I'll be
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  Speaker 3: bringing you some excerpts from that for this Labor Day special.
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  Speaker 3: Looking back at some of the clips that we've had
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  Speaker 3: to discuss. Of course, I'm taking off the last couple
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  Speaker 3: of weeks of the summer period. to do all sorts
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  Speaker 3: of fun things. I'll be visiting some family in Puerto Rico,
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  Speaker 3: traveling all around the island. You'll be hearing about that
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  Speaker 3: when I return from my vacation on the 9th of September. Plus,
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  Speaker 3: we're reflecting on all these different things we did while
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  Speaker 3: I was on vacation, like filling in for the great
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  Speaker 3: one Mark Levin. So I've got more of that coming
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  Speaker 3: up straight ahead. Plus, you don't want to miss my
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  Speaker 3: interview with myself. And I've got a really good special
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  Speaker 3: treat for you, I'm going to say. a surprise guest
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  Speaker 3: on the Lindsay Clancy stuff. We're going to get into that.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, we're also going to discuss political considerations in
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  Speaker 3: Puerto Rico, which have a lot to do with everything
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  Speaker 3: that's happening in the White House as well, as well
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  Speaker 3: as everything else that's been going on in America at night.
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  Speaker 3: So keep it locked right here because we will continue
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  Speaker 3: our conversation. And we're going to talk about Jelly Roll, right?
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  Speaker 3: His clash with President Trump. We're going to talk about
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  Speaker 3: what's going on with AOC and her whining about affordability
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  Speaker 3: as well as people leaving these big cities because things
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  Speaker 3: are so bad. And I want to get your thoughts, calls,
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  Speaker 3: and opinions on everything under the sun as well. Lindsay Clancy,
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  Speaker 3: the upcoming Republican convention. There's so much to discuss and
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  Speaker 3: so little time. Let's get this thing rocking and rolling
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  Speaker 3: on this special Labor Day flashback edition of Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 3: This is America. And I want to get to your calls.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see, where do we go? We're going to go
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  Speaker 3: to Grace in Nashville, Tennessee. Grace, go for it.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, I got to confess, I am a refugee from
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  Speaker 5: New York, but I'm loving it in Tennessee where we
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  Speaker 5: have voter ID. And there are plenty of conservative-thinking people
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  Speaker 5: in Nashville. They have the log cabin Republicans, young Republicans,
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  Speaker 5: and all over the state. And I think we're going
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  Speaker 5: to get a Republican elected in Memphis this election and
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  Speaker 5: get rid of Steve Cohen.
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  Speaker 3: You know what? I'm happy to hear that. All hope
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  Speaker 3: is not lost. I've only been to Nashville once, and
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  Speaker 3: I had a great time. And that was my consensus, right?
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  Speaker 3: I thought, man, this is a pretty conservative town. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I talked to my buddy, Sean Farrah. She
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  Speaker 3: tells me the same thing. It's a pretty conservative town.
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  Speaker 3: And I love it. I will say, though, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I start to look at things from afar and I go, man,
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  Speaker 3: this is what's happening in New York happening over there.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm glad that's not the case. Thank you, Grace.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate your call and your thoughts on this. Let
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  Speaker 3: me see. Let us continue. We also have Catherine on
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  Speaker 3: the line. We're going to go to her right now.
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  Speaker 3: But Kim, I think, was still hanging in there. Let's
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  Speaker 3: go to Kim in Hebron, Indiana. Kim, you're on with
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  Speaker 3: Rich Valdez, Mark Levin Show.
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  Speaker 6: Hi.
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  Speaker 7: So, you know, I listen to all this crazy madness
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  Speaker 7: about the Democrats and whatever Trump does, they just try
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  Speaker 7: and stop him, right? He wants to, you know, put
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  Speaker 7: a ballroom and they file, you know, legal action against
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  Speaker 7: him for everything. Well, Trump was a Democrat. And I
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  Speaker 7: would like someone to ask the Democrats, politicians or the news,
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  Speaker 7: the fake news or a damage crack voter. If Trump
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  Speaker 7: would have run in 2016 as a Democrat, as a
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  Speaker 7: Democrat with the same policies, would they have voted for him? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's a great question. I think, I think
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  Speaker 3: some would, and I'll tell you this. I think the
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  Speaker 3: MAGA coalition is broadly made up of, um, Democrats in,
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  Speaker 3: in many ways, right? Uh, The blue collar steel worker, plumber, electrician, carpenter,
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  Speaker 3: all these different union trades, steam fitter, pipe fitter, you
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  Speaker 3: name it, auto workers. There are so many teamsters that
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  Speaker 3: even if it wasn't outright endorsed Trump, endorsed Trump and
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  Speaker 3: voted for Trump. They're with Trump. That is a given.
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  Speaker 3: The MAGA movement is a broad coalition that really brought
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  Speaker 3: people together. from many different places, including Bobby Kennedy, right?
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  Speaker 3: And everybody that he represented in that race. So I
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  Speaker 3: think you're right that there is a lot of support
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  Speaker 3: there that goes across the aisle. Whether the media would
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  Speaker 3: admit that or not, of course not. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: that would happen. But Kim, let me ask you a
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  Speaker 3: question because I've had a couple of women on the
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  Speaker 3: line and women are always the deciding factor in elections lately,
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  Speaker 3: at least according to the fake news media. And I
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  Speaker 3: want to ask you, What is the number one issue
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  Speaker 3: for you heading into the midterms right now?
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  Speaker 7: The number one issue for me is the economy. And
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  Speaker 7: I'm very nervous about this Iran war and people associating
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  Speaker 7: the crisis to it. So I've been driving around, I
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  Speaker 7: drive around Chicago for work and they have signs with
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  Speaker 7: Trump billboards with Trump's picture on it and gas prices
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  Speaker 7: at $ 2. 98 before the war and gas prices at, well,
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  Speaker 7: in Chicago, in Illinois, they have all those state taxes.
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  Speaker 6: At $ 4. 98.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, $ 4. 98.
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  Speaker 8: So I'm nervous that.
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  Speaker 7: People are going to associate taxes this war with the
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  Speaker 7: state of the economy, which was inflated by Biden.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And honestly, that is what they do best, right?
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  Speaker 3: They use misdirection and all of their media assets to
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  Speaker 3: try and pull that off. Now, on the other side
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  Speaker 3: of that messaging battle, you've got the Republicans and conservatives
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  Speaker 3: that are out there trying to explain the major difference
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  Speaker 3: between socialism and capitalism and really draw the contrast between
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  Speaker 3: the influx or growth, right, of Democrat socialists that are
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  Speaker 3: winning elections in key parts of the country. Feel free
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  Speaker 3: to be honest. Nobody knows what you look like, where
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  Speaker 3: you live. We just know you're from Hebron, Indiana, and
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  Speaker 3: your name is Kim. But tell us your thought. Which
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  Speaker 3: one of those messages do you think is the winner?
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  Speaker 3: Trashing Trump over the economy or trashing the socialists over
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  Speaker 3: being socialists?
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  Speaker 7: Given, unfortunately, given that the Democrats have media dominance, I
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  Speaker 7: think that the trashing Trump is going to be the
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  Speaker 7: larger or the more winning message, even though I personally
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  Speaker 7: think capitalism over socialism is. Now, I also have a
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  Speaker 7: 17-year-old son, and I just want to tell you this.
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  Speaker 7: I'm in a little small town, 17-year-old son. Him, he
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  Speaker 7: said 95% of his– he's in high school– They are Republican.
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  Speaker 7: So the next generation coming up, I have that I'm raising, although, well,
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  Speaker 7: I should be raising Granton. Now I had a child old.
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  Speaker 7: But this next generation coming up, they're seeing through the BS. And,
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  Speaker 7: you know, he actually he's 18. He can vote. So
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  Speaker 7: they're all seeing through the BS, and that's the one
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  Speaker 7: stated grace I have.
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  Speaker 3: I love it when all hope is not lost. Kim,
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  Speaker 3: I thank you for that. I appreciate your candor. Let's
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  Speaker 3: go back to Catherine Ann calling us from New York.
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  Speaker 3: I left you hanging before. Forgive me. Catherine, go right ahead.
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  Speaker 3: I know you wanted to bring something up about a
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  Speaker 3: current bill that was signed. Go right ahead.
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  Speaker 9: Americans pray the rosary every day to our blessed Mother
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  Speaker 9: Mary because Maura Healy, the governor of Massachusetts, signed a
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  Speaker 9: bill allowing mothers to get abortions in the ninth month
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  Speaker 9: of pregnancy. And this is not only a disgrace to
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  Speaker 9: the aborting of a baby in the ninth month, but
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  Speaker 9: the chances of the mother dying are about 70%. And
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  Speaker 9: I want to say one more thing. I love Trump
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  Speaker 9: as a person and I love Trump As a friend
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  Speaker 9: and as a president. And Trump is absolutely correct about
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  Speaker 9: the voting, mailing votings.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: It is so easy.
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  Speaker 9: I could send out 20 envelopes from my house.
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  Speaker 6: Who's going to know?
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  Speaker 9: Who's going to know who's who?
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  Speaker 3: Who's going to know if it's you sending the envelope, right?
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, listen, I'm a paralegal for 30 years, and
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  Speaker 9: mail is my thing.
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  Speaker 6: Trust me.
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  Speaker 2: 30 years?
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  Speaker 3: You sound like you're 18.
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  Speaker 9: Well, you know what? That's because I believe in God,
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  Speaker 9: and I pray my rosary every day of my life,
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  Speaker 9: and I live a Christian life, and I love Trump.
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  Speaker 9: What more can I tell you?
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  Speaker 3: Catherine, let me ask you the same question I just
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  Speaker 3: asked in Indiana, which was she said that when she's
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  Speaker 3: driving around, she sees these ads that they're trying to
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  Speaker 3: attach Trump to the increased spending and blame it on
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  Speaker 3: the Iran war. And when it comes to gasoline, clearly
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  Speaker 3: that's a given. But when it comes to everything else,
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  Speaker 3: not so much, at least in my opinion. What's your
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  Speaker 3: thought on who's going to win the messaging war completely?
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  Speaker 3: this fall with the midterms? Will we win with our
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  Speaker 3: message that capitalism beats socialism and how dangerous that can be?
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  Speaker 3: Just look at Zoran Mamdani in New York City. Or
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  Speaker 3: do they win saying, look at Trump and his horrible
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  Speaker 3: war in Iran and what it's doing to the country?
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  Speaker 3: Your thoughts.
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  Speaker 9: OK, we will win because the war in Iran is
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  Speaker 9: is was needed and necessary because they don't they believe
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  Speaker 9: in killing women for for any reason. They're they're not
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  Speaker 9: they're not civilized. OK, we had to do it. Every
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  Speaker 9: war that Trump has has done.
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  Speaker 6: So far and won.
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  Speaker 9: It's amazing. He's amazing.
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  Speaker 6: He's a superstar.
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  Speaker 9: He hits everything out of the park. I loved Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 9: I love you. I love your faith and I love
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  Speaker 9: your intellect and I love your instincts. And we are
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  Speaker 9: going to win because the inflation and the prices had
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  Speaker 9: nothing to do with Trump whatsoever. And no matter who
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  Speaker 9: is president, the prices were going up because. That issue
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  Speaker 9: is due to corporations versus mom and pop businesses. That's
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  Speaker 9: why the prices are high. It has nothing to do
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  Speaker 9: with Trump, nothing to do with war. It has to
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  Speaker 9: do with corporations. We need to get corporations to donate
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  Speaker 9: more food and resources to the little people, the people
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  Speaker 9: who can't get jobs in the corporations who don't have
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  Speaker 9: the perfect A college degrees.
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  Speaker 5: The little people.
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  Speaker 9: But other than that, I love America.
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  Speaker 6: I love corporations.
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  Speaker 9: I just think we should use corporations to our our benefit.
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  Speaker 9: You know, just listen, everybody help out.
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  Speaker 6: Like, you know.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean, what I'll say is, I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know that we can you know, we can ask
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  Speaker 3: for anything.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 3: We could say, hey, you need to give food to
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  Speaker 3: the little people. But I think that the counter to
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  Speaker 3: that is going to be we need the economy to
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  Speaker 3: be robust so that the little people can move forward,
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  Speaker 3: just like they did in the first Trump administration. And
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  Speaker 3: I think Trump is facing an uphill battle with so
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  Speaker 3: much of what he's trying to do economically, A, because
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  Speaker 3: of pushback from the left, but mainly, B, the damage
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  Speaker 3: that was done in the last four years where we
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  Speaker 3: didn't have him.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's an incredible yeoman's task to undo so
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  Speaker 3: much of that damage. So I agree with you. Listen,
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  Speaker 3: I love Trump. And I think that he's the man
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  Speaker 3: for the job and he's doing the right job. And
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  Speaker 3: this action in Iran is absolutely necessary, and that job
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  Speaker 3: must be completed. My compliment to the president is his
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  Speaker 3: steadfast commitment to making sure he does the right thing,
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  Speaker 3: because this is, I'd say, a once-in-a-generation opportunity to right
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  Speaker 3: the wrongs that were done in Beirut and by so
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  Speaker 3: many other things that have come at the hands of
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  Speaker 3: the mullahs. Catherine Ann, thank you for your call. Shout
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  Speaker 3: out to everybody listening in New York. And I take
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  Speaker 3: a pause right here. We come back, your calls, and
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  Speaker 3: a couple of other things I got up my sleeve. Remember,
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  Speaker 3: in the next hour, we're going to get into a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of things. And maybe this hour, maybe next hour,
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you a little bit about that story, that
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  Speaker 3: time that AOC ran away from me on Fifth Avenue.
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  Speaker 3: Don't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 4: This is America. This is America. He's got the best
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  Speaker 4: head of hair in podcasting. This is America with Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 3: All right, amigos, welcome back. Now, by now you've heard
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  Speaker 3: the name Hasan Piker, right? Hasan Piker is this Twitch streamer.
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  Speaker 3: He's very, very famous, especially on the left. He's said
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  Speaker 3: a lot of very incendiary things. And he's known for
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  Speaker 3: palling around with a lot of the... the extreme left
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  Speaker 3: in our country. Most recently, Abdulrahman El-Sayed, right? And I
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  Speaker 3: say it like that again at his request. So, Abdulrahman El-Sayed,
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  Speaker 3: he says he's not moderating his position on Israel. He's
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  Speaker 3: just trying to pull the wool over your eyes, right?
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  Speaker 3: He's basically saying that El-Sayed is a fake phony fraud.
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  Speaker 3: Check this out.
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  Speaker 10: There are going to be a lot of people who
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  Speaker 10: are already questioning Abdullah Syed's sincerity on these issues that
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  Speaker 10: will then turn around and say, oh, he's he's, you know,
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  Speaker 10: He's moderating his position on Israel, all this stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think he is. OK, I will say this.
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  Speaker 3: I am literally the person that is being dangled.
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  Speaker 10: And I'm going to tell you once again, he's not
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  Speaker 10: moderating on his his perspective on Israel or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: So he's not moderating his position on Israel or anything
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  Speaker 3: like that. Now, I took aim at Josh Gottheimer, the
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  Speaker 3: congressman earlier, because he happens to be my congressman and.
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  Speaker 3: I think that he's nothing more than a pro-Israel AOC.
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  Speaker 3: And I guess that scores him a couple of points.
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  Speaker 3: But he says there's no place for Piker or the
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  Speaker 3: DSA in the Democrat Party. And I wonder, is he
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  Speaker 3: doing the same thing, not moderating his position, just talking
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  Speaker 3: a lot of jazz like El Sayed? Listen to this.
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  Speaker 6: I think.
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  Speaker 1: The pressure is real on Assad. He said he's not
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  Speaker 1: going to campaign with him. I think the next step
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  Speaker 1: is to condemn him. And I think we've just all
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  Speaker 1: have to be clear as Democrats that there's no place
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  Speaker 1: for this kind of hatred in our party, this anti-American hatred.
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  Speaker 1: And we've got to stand up to it. And frankly,
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  Speaker 1: just like I've said very clearly. We've got to make
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  Speaker 1: it clear that the DSA, the socialists, are not Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: They're attempting to hijack the party, but they're not welcome
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  Speaker 1: in the party. And they're welcome to go do their
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  Speaker 1: own thing and have their own views and have their
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  Speaker 1: own party. But, you know, what's clear is some of
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  Speaker 1: their views and their approach is not welcome in the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Party, just like the fact that, frankly, Hassan Piker
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  Speaker 1: and his views are not welcome in the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 3: Now, no offense to Congressman Gottheimer. But can you pick
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  Speaker 3: out the truth that was spoken in anything he just said?
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  Speaker 3: He just said that the Democrat Socialists of America are
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  Speaker 3: not welcome in the Democrat Party. Forgive me. Aren't they
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  Speaker 3: the ones running the Democrat Party? Isn't Hakeem Jeffries beholden
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  Speaker 3: to these people? Don't they primary and beat every last
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  Speaker 3: traditional Democrat? Let me get this straight. Josh Gottheimer, who
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  Speaker 3: is a pro-Israel Democrat, he says that they The DSA
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  Speaker 3: have no place in the Democrat Party. Yet the entirety,
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  Speaker 3: minus Gottheimer and Fetterman and four other guys, are anti-Israel.
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  Speaker 3: Make that make sense, sir. You yourself know that El-Sayed
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  Speaker 3: hates Israel and so many others. Yet you're here trying
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  Speaker 3: to normalize him, saying that, no, he's not going to
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  Speaker 3: be with Piker. How dumb do you think people are?
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  Speaker 3: You don't think they could see through that? Come on.
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  Speaker 3: Por favor, is all I could say to that.
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  Speaker 7: Please.
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  Speaker 3: That's one of the silliest things I've ever heard. It
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  Speaker 3: really is. I was going to play the other Gottheimer,
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  Speaker 3: but honestly, you see, this is far-fetched effery, for lack
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  Speaker 3: of a better word. It's Friday night. I can't, right?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is a nonsensical argument saying that the
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  Speaker 3: DSA has no place in the Democrat Party. You're one
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  Speaker 3: of five people. But think that the rest of your
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  Speaker 3: party is rolling out the red carpet for them. Have
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  Speaker 3: you heard of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the squad? You lost a handful, right? You
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  Speaker 3: lost Crockett. You lost Jamal Bowman. But those are newcomers.
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  Speaker 3: But the core of your squad is there. Oh, well,
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  Speaker 3: we lost. Did we lose the bald one, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Producer?
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  Speaker 3: I forget her name. Forgive me. Ayanna Pressley. Is she out? Now,
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  Speaker 3: she's still there, too, right? So, yeah. Yes, Cori Bush,
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  Speaker 3: another newcomer that was short-lived. So, listen, they rolled the
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  Speaker 3: dice in some areas, and they were able to beat them.
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  Speaker 3: And thank God they were. But let's make no mistake, right?
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  Speaker 3: Let's make no mistake, right? In Virginia, Spanberger, the governor,
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Two years ago or four years ago when she ran,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: she said, I don't want any help from AOC. Her
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: and her defund the police is going to be hurtful
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: to my campaign. This time around, she said, hey, let's
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: do a fundraiser with AOC, a rally. So forgive me,
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Congressman Gottheimer. Forgive me, truly. I think the words you said,
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: they didn't add up for me. Anyway, I'm not here
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: to beat up Josh Gottheimer. I'm here to make sense
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: of this, right? We need 100 guys like Josh Gottheimer.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: to bring some normalcy to the Democrat Party. And saying
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: that the DSA has no place is a start. But
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: it's got to make sense. They're running the show. All right, amigos,
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: we've got calls. Jimmy, Curtis, Joy, and so many others.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Keep it locked right here. The big golden hour is
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: coming up. I am Rich Valdez. We're going to be
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: talking about my showdown with AOC on Fifth Avenue in
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: New York City some years ago. For those of you
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: who haven't heard that story, I'll share. Plus, breaking news
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: about Trump, United States, and Venezuela. Don't go anywhere. Valdez.
• 19:24
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• 19:26
  Speaker 3: What's up America? I am Rich Valdez filling in for
• 19:30
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• 19:50
  Speaker 3: just joining us in hour number three of this wonderful broadcast,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: this evening town hall across America, I invite you to
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: join us. I want to hear from you. I want
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: to talk about a number of things. We've talked about
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: a number of things this evening, right? I started off
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: with talking about life and death, right? Because I believe
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: that this next election is life and death. It's truly
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: about good and evil. And I guess that sounds hyperbolic,
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: maybe a little bit too intense, but the reality is
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: it's never been so clear, right? We've never seen so
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: many people support that which is evil to the point
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: that it's insanity. What do I mean? I mean, we're, Thankfully,
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: seeing some members of the Democrat Party push back on
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: the Democrat Socialists of America because of their hate for Israel,
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: because of their love of communism or sympathy for communism,
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: if you will. These are things that are destructive, right?
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: When people say that communism has claimed the lives of
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: so many historically, it's not hyperbole. That's fact. It's a
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: matter of the historical record. These are things that we're
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: facing right now. You know, I go to work and
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: I have a studio on 47th and Broadway overlooking the steps,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: the big red steps that say TKTS and Times Square,
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: New York City, right? 1560 Broadway.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: And I.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Look out there and I see a city that I
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I was born in Brooklyn,
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: Brooklyn Jewish Hospital. I look at what's going on. I
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: did grow up in New Jersey. I moved to Jersey
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: when I was 12, but not to give you, you know,
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: an hour-long soliloquy on my biography. But I'm just saying,
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: New York City is not what it used to be.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: And this predates Zoran Mamdani, right? He's really the result
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: of the decay really taking root in the city, right?
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: The end of the era of Rudy Giuliani, where he
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: was truly fighting the good fight, good versus evil, right?
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Taking on the mob, taking on FARC, The Colombian terrorists,
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Fuerzas Armadas, right? What do they stand for? Revolucionarios Colombianos.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: FARC.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: That was the end of that era. And after that,
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: you had Bloomberg who became, you know, he had a
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: couple of good years. Then he went soft. Then he
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: abused stop and frisk. And next thing you know, we
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: don't have stop and frisk.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: Boom.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: So then what happens? Then that ushers in the era
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: of Bill de Blasio, Eric Adams, and now Zoran Mamdani.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: This is a horrific thing for the city of New York.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Yet here we are. And President Trump often talks about
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: the gift that this is. And I get where he's
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: coming from, right? Because if people take a look at
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: how bad things are going in New York, They can say, wow,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: we don't want that in our part of town. But
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I think, sadly, too many people don't realize that this
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: is about life and death. This is about good and evil.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: They don't realize that that doesn't just stay contained to
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: New York. Some people have the gall. Yeah, I'm talking
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: to you in Florida to say things like, look, if
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: you're going to move to Florida, don't bring your voting habits.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: What do you what do you think you're saying? Of course,
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: they're going to bring their voting habits. This is a
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: deep systemic problem. Lefties, right? This is, they're here to
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: take over. They're trying to get Texas, right? They took
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: over Austin. Now they're trying to do it culturally, religiously,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: and in every way you can imagine. Good versus evil, right?
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Good versus evil. This is the best way I can
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: put it. I'm rarely at a loss for words. But
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: when I think about this, I say to myself, we're
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: looking at an election that's coming up in, I don't know, Mr. Producer,
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: am I right in saying it's 66 or 67 days away?
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Maybe I'm off by a day or three. And this
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: is a dangerous time right now. I don't want to
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: sound like the left. Trump is dangerous.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: The left is dangerous. The communist movement is dangerous. And
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: for anybody who takes the bait, hook, line, and sinker,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: the euphemism of democratic socialism, healthcare is a right, right?
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Please come and spend some time in Times Square after
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: the sun goes down. That's all I could say. And
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: maybe get out of Times Square. Maybe go into Hell's
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Kitchen for a little bit. Maybe take a walk. Walk
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: your way over to Gramercy Park. See what you encounter
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: on that walk. It's high time. And again, I'm not
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: trying to be New York focused. I realize people are
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: listening from all across the country. I'm trying to describe
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: something that, in my opinion, is dire. And this is
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: from somebody who's there.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: You don't want this in your backyard, but yet we're
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: seeing it. Now we're seeing a couple of Democrats. I
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: just spent a little while beating up Congressman Josh Gottheimer,
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: who happens to be the congressman in the district I
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: live in in Jersey. He conveniently went on Fox News.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: I would say, Congressman, why didn't you say all those
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: wonderful things you said about the DSA having no place
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: in the Democrat Party? Why wouldn't you say that on CNN?
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Why wouldn't you go on MSNBC? You know they'll give
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: you an audience. So again, I'm suspicious because ultimately the
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: left is running the show. There are no more moderates.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: So it becomes a question, what America do you want
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: to see? Do you want to see the Hassan Pikers,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: the Bernie Sanders, AOC wing of this party at every
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: inaugural from here moving forward? And I don't mean for
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: like president and, you know, God forbid, that could be
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: a thing too. But I mean, every state house election,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: every congressional election, every Senate election, swearing in people, that
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: are doing it in the name of DSA, doing it
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: in the name of collectivism, doing it in the name
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: of Karl Marx himself. Come on. You know, this is
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: a paraphrase, but it's scary to me to think that
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: some people would not take heed to the writings of
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: scholars that have come before us and paying attention to
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: history and saying, my goodness. All of a sudden, we
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: are making cool, right? It's like communism is cool again.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Would that be?
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: I don't know if that's quite a hat just yet,
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: but I think they're working on it. So I want
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: to spend the next hour really taking this apart and
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: hearing from you guys and seeing, am I just suffering
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: from McCarthyism? Am I just bugging out here in New
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: York because things are so dire over here? The fact that,
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: you know, I'd rather walk than take a subway because
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: you never know what you're going to encounter in a
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: subway and you're trapped in there. And mind you, I've
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: been riding subways since I was a little kid.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: Is it me?
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Or is this problem really that bad? Is this midterm
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: election really that bad? And are we going to sit
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: here and listen to what Mark Levin, the great one,
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: calls the woke Reich cry about a forever war in Iran?
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: One that, in my opinion, has to happen? Are we
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: going to sit here and allow AOC to play her
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: violin with her communist grandpa, Bernie Sanders. Bernard Sanders, healthcare
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: is a right. Sit there and beat us over the
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: head with this has to be free and that has
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: to be free. We're going to sit here while Zoran
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Mamdani puts his hand over his heart and gives us
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: one big cheesy grin after the next telling us why
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: private property should be outlawed, why collectivism is king where
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: he comes from. How much of this are we going
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: to endure? Are we just Are we just has-beens? Are
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: we just washed-up conservatives that once ruled the roost in
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: America and are now a relic of the culture? This
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: isn't a good thing. I want to know what you think.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: This is America. This is America. He's brown, he's bald,
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: and he's breaking it down.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, he's so handsome.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: What's his name?
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Rich Valdez. All right, familia, welcome back. It is Rich Valdez,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Valdez with an S, at Rich Valdez on all of
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: the social media. Some of you know me as Mr.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Call Screener. Others know me as your liberty-loving Latino amigo
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: from the Mark Levin Show, from radio, from TV, a
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: few other places. And I want to share a quote
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: with you as I'm here filling in for the great one,
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Mark Levin. And it's from someone I met through Mark Levin,
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Paul Kengor, Professor Paul Kengor from Grove City College. He's
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: got a tremendous introduction to his book, The Devil and
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Karl Marx. And I recommend you read it. But I've
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: shared this before and I'll share it again. Something he
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: wrote in a poem back in 1837. Who's he? Not Kengor.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Karl Marx. He says, Thus heaven I've forfeited. I know
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: it full well. Now, he wrote this a decade before
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: he wrote the Communist Manifesto. And the sentence ends with this.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: My soul, once true to God, is chosen for hell.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: This is the crux of of communism. This, at its
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: deepest core, is what Marx was all about. Godlessness. I'm
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: not here to get on a soapbox. I'm not a preacher.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: But I know the difference between good and evil. And
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: this don't look too good. Give me your thoughts on
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: what we're talking about. Let's see, we got calls from
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: all over the country here. Let's see, where do we go?
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: We got Wilmington, North Carolina, WBAP, shout out to Dallas, Brooklyn,
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: New York, Orange County, California, Brooklyn, New York again. All right,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: let's go to Brooklyn, New York. Let's start there. I'm
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: partial to Brooklyn, New York. I was born in Brooklyn,
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Midwood in the building. Let's go to Jimmy, Brooklyn, New York.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: You're on with Rich Valdez.
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: Rich Valdez with an S. How you doing, buddy?
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: My man, Jimmy, how are you?
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: Okay, a couple of quotes real quick from the enemy.
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: Gus Hall, head of the American Communist Party, said, and
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: it's in writing, the best way to help the cause
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: of communism is through the liberal wing of a democratic party.
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: He also said and wrote, there's no way anyone can
• 30:46
  Speaker 8: unlink the Soviet Union and the socialist countries from the
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: world revolutionary process. They're winning, and it's not Marx, it's Lenin.
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: Most communists call themselves Marxist-Leninists. Marx was the philosophy. Sometimes
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: they call it the science. Lenin was strategy, tactics, and
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: Lenin's party of a new type. Evidence of Lenin's party
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: of a new type. When all these tourists came to
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: America for the soccer or football, as they call it,
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, they all said,
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: Their media lied to them about America. They came here
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: and pleasantly surprised. They fell in love with America. Some
• 31:25
  Speaker 8: of them cried when they had a lead. Now, the
• 31:28
  Speaker 8: only way you could have every country in the world
• 31:30
  Speaker 8: teaching their people hate America and the American media teaching
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: people hate America, that's Lenin's party of a new type,
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: communist party in every single country.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: Now, Jimmy, let me ask you a question because I
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: know that you know this topic well. But on the
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: premise of what I've laid out this evening, that this
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: is truly about good versus evil, and the crux of
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Marx's philosophy was him forfeiting his soul, that he was
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: truly chosen for hell and, you know, not for God.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: Do you think that it's fair to say that this
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: upcoming midterm and really this tipping point that we face
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: in America is truly one of good versus evil?
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: Yes, it's good versus evil. I don't usually talk like
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: religious and spirituality, but it's definitely good versus evil, and
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: evil works really well among the Communist Party and the movement.
• 32:29
  Speaker 8: There's a lot of spin-off groups and offshoots, and there's
• 32:32
  Speaker 8: a lot of useful idiots, people who aren't willingly, knowingly
• 32:35
  Speaker 8: helping the Communists, but they are inadvertently. That's why they're
• 32:39
  Speaker 8: referred to as useful idiots. We are in absolutely big trouble.
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: Years ago, I talked about the Soviet hand in the
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: Muslim glove. A hundred years, the communists were working with Muslims.
• 32:52
  Speaker 8: I have the training manuals, how to penetrate the Negro organizations.
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: The communists, right, we have the ability to move tens
• 32:59
  Speaker 8: of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and millions of voters. They
• 33:03
  Speaker 8: talk about creating mass moods and mass trends.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Jimmy, I once read this article. That was
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: from like 1975. At least that was the copyright on it.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: And it was on either the plural or the singular, Marxist.org.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: And it was about what you're talking about, this union
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: organizing about African-Americans. They called them the national minority and
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: basically laid out a structure to give a superfluous title
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: called a shop steward. and had to go to an
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: African American in order to ingratiate themselves within that community.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: And I mean, it was just egregious, the stuff that
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: I read. And again, that was 1975. I read it in,
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: you know, maybe 2016, 2017. And here we are, you know,
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: years later, and it seems like they've really taken root
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: in what they've tried to do. It's truly astounding. And
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: I think you hit the nail on the head. The
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: Soviet hand inside the Muslim glove. That's definitely that red-green access,
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: if I've ever heard of it. Jimmy from Brooklyn, thank
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: you for your call. And this is one of those
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: things that it's not going to go away just because,
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: you know, we ignore it. We've got to pay attention
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: to this. And all messaging aside, all the BS you're
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: going to hear on the news about inflation, about this
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: and about that, if there's ever been a time for
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: Americans to band together like they did during the world wars,
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: where we really stood up for not only our fellow
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: man across this country, but for our own countrymen, right?
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: The rosy, the riveter days. This is that time. We
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: have to do this, right? Because the war is different now, right? Yeah,
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: there's a hot war going on in Iran and whatnot,
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: but there's a war going on outside right here and
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: nobody's safe from it. Your children aren't safe from it.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: Culture is at risk. Let me backtrack. culture is already
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: in the crosshairs and the shots have been fired. The
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: question really comes down to what are we going to do?
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: How are we going to defend ourselves? This is really
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: an incredibly, an incredibly consequential election. Anyway, more calls when
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: we return. Plus, wait till you hear about what the
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: governor of Virginia did in order to get more votes.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: It probably won't surprise you, but It'll disappoint you for sure.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: Keep it locked right here. It's Rich Valdez. All right,
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: it's good versus evil. 60 some odd days away. I
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: want to hear what you've got to say. Let's go
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: to Catherine calling from North Carolina. Catherine, you're on with
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Rich Valdez in for the great one.
• 35:50
  Speaker 11: Good evening. I'm very concerned about our nation. And it
• 35:57
  Speaker 11: is good versus evil.
• 36:00
  Speaker 9: And I just, we need to pray.
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: We need to pray.
• 36:06
  Speaker 11: I do a lot of reading about our nation's founding,
• 36:12
  Speaker 11: and they were men of prayer.
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you've ever seen that photo in
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: Constitution Hall of George Washington and all the rest of
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: the founders that were there on their knees in prayer, deep,
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: deep prayer, thrown about the floor, really trying to see,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: I guess, the the Lord's will for America. And it's
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: a powerful painting. And I don't know if they added
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: a little, you know, drama to it, but watching, you know,
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: just looking at that painting and thinking this is what
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: they were seeing at that time. Really, it speaks volumes.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: So I think you're right. When times get tough, we've
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: got to get tough and we've got to pray. Catherine,
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: thank you for that call to prayer. I appreciate that. genuinely.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: Let us go to Dallas, Texas, WBAP, Great Station. Roy,
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: go for it.
• 37:07
  Speaker 12: Yes, sir. Thank you for taking my call. I've been
• 37:10
  Speaker 12: in law enforcement for 35 years, and I went through
• 37:13
  Speaker 12: your call screener. And my perspective and whole wide picture
• 37:18
  Speaker 12: on what the Democrats and their influencers like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
• 37:27
  Speaker 12: and the Socialist Communist Democratic Party, some of those who've
• 37:31
  Speaker 12: been elected, especially like James Tallarico, they have made outside
• 37:37
  Speaker 12: statements that once they are elected, they are going to
• 37:41
  Speaker 12: take ICE apart. Well, Americans need to realize, like in
• 37:46
  Speaker 12: my field, for 35 years, we have worked with ICE
• 37:50
  Speaker 12: officials We have also worked with U.S. Cousins Border Patrol, DEA, ATF,
• 37:57
  Speaker 12: the FBI, and look how the actions, including the United
• 38:03
  Speaker 12: States Marshal Service, look at the worst of the worst
• 38:07
  Speaker 12: that's published each and every day on the U.S. government's
• 38:11
  Speaker 12: website of those that are on the streets of America,
• 38:17
  Speaker 12: that have national, international warrants out for their arrests. Some
• 38:23
  Speaker 12: of these were leaders in Africa, like a woman who
• 38:27
  Speaker 12: was using children to be armed and trained to kill
• 38:34
  Speaker 12: fellow people of their country over there.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, Roy, this is exactly what people need
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: to hear, right? I appreciate you telling us because people
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: don't realize how dire things are in a border state Right.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: I think they just think, oh, we're just, you know,
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: these people want to come here for a better life
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: and they want to, I'm not trying to demonize any immigrants.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: I'm not right. This is not about that. This is
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: just about things have gotten out of hand and you're right.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: You know, the cartels, uh, run the entire Mexican side
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: of the border and they have for ever. And to
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: think that we're going to just turn a blind eye
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: to the trafficking that goes on all because the media
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: and the left want to say things, cliche things like, uh,
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: kids in cages or bombing babies. It's asinine to think
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: that people will be that undereducated and that unaware.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: So thank you for what you're doing on the front lines, Roy.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: God bless you, my brother. We continue. Let's go to
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Joy in Brooklyn. She's been patiently waiting. Joy, I know
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: you had some things to say. Go right ahead.
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: Hi, good evening. Yes, so this is about Jelly Roll,
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: even though I have other stuff to say, but Jelly Roll,
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: he's an American. He has a right to say what
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: he wants. There has been many conservatives, I've been listening
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: to conservatives for years, who's made jokes about the presidents
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: while they're sitting in office, while they're not sitting in offices.
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: It's all fair game. Just because he's a white male
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: Christian and he's from the South and he sings country music,
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: people should not assume that he thinks one particular way.
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: In addition, he may think two ways. He could be
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: pro-abortion but against the death penalty.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: You're right. My issue wasn't necessarily on any of those points.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: It was really on does this hurt his career or not?
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: Because I know that in Nashville, at least my thinking is,
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: has always been that it's a very, you know, country
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: music in general, I think, is a rather, you know, pro-Americana,
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: Christian conservative type of genre. And he's done a lot
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: of collaborations with a lot of other Christian artists. So
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: my thinking is, does this hurt him in the long run?
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: And I don't know that any of us know the
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: answer to that until it happens. But that was really
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: my thinking joint.
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't. I mean, like you said, none of
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: us really knows what will happen. But I think that
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: the fact that this is a question kind of shows
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: the time that we are in now. People are so
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: in the trenches with their particular position that you have
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: to be scared as an artist, as an individual, as
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: an average everyday American to even express your views because
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: you automatically are branded a particular way. And it goes
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: for both sides. Yeah.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: Well, you know what? You bring up a good point.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: I think I think you're you're you're spot on here.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: that I think Jelly Roll isn't afraid and likely because
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: he doesn't fear getting, quote unquote, canceled by the country
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: music crowd, probably because they're so forgiving. Right. Where you
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: may not see the same when others, you know, when
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: it's the other way.
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: When somebody says, I like President Trump, all of a
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: sudden they're like, you like Trump, you're out of here.
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: And I think there's a double standard there. And I
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: think it's the other side of that double standard that
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: I was just mainly questioning, will it strike back on him?
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I support everything you're saying. Yeah, I made
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: fun of Joe Biden and still occasionally do. And I
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: love the fact that I can. So, you know, kudos
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: to Jelly Roll and his attempt at humor and, you know,
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: trying to poke shots at the president. But yeah, my
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: question still remains, does this hurt him in the long run? Now, Joy,
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: other question I had for you was, The same question
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: I asked some of the other women earlier, which was,
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: what do you think, I guess, is the winning messaging
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: strategy for the midterms? Is it Trump broke the economy
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: with the Iran war or the evil socialists are coming
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: for capitalism?
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: I don't think either one really works. And I think
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: it depends on which segment of society you're talking to.
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: I think that both sides have a real problem, especially
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: with black Americans in the country. The Democrats candor to
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: black Americans and think that we're all interested. I'm a
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: black American. They think that we're all interested in having
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: no police. They think that we all are advocates of crime,
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: which is not true. The Republicans, on the other hand,
• 43:01
  Speaker 6: they think that we're just a bunch of lamb just
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: following the Democrats blindly. And we're just going to vote
• 43:06
  Speaker 6: because apparently we're all on welfare and we like three things.
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: So you have two extremes. You have two parties who
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: don't know how to speak to either one. And what
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: I'd like to say, I take this time to say it,
• 43:17
  Speaker 6: is that Black Americans are some of the most loyal
• 43:22
  Speaker 6: people in this country because this is the only country
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: that we have allegiance to. That is not... That is
• 43:29
  Speaker 6: overlooked by both parties. They don't understand that the black
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: Americans in this country are the most loyal people in
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: this country. This is the only country that we have
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: allegiance to because we are Americans.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Listen, I think you're right. And I think for
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: years now, I think Donald Trump is probably the only
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: politician that's tried to make that same correlation that you
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: just made. I think being the one out there, Over
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: and over beating the drum, saying that, you know, illegal
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: immigration hurts black Americans more than others because of exactly
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: what you're saying, because black Americans are Americans at the
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: end of the day.
• 44:06
  Speaker 6: But when you see Republicans on television, so this is
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: a point that Republicans can use. However, when they're on television,
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: they're not very articulate at saying that. Okay, Trump will
• 44:16
  Speaker 6: just say plain, oh, you know, it hurts the blacks.
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: You have Republicans and Republicans. I watch both sides of TV.
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: I watch CNN. I watch Fox. You have Republicans who
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: poorly explain this. They don't explain to black Americans that
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: when you have groups coming in and their children are
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: then born to be United States citizens, that it dilutes
• 44:33
  Speaker 6: the black vote. You don't hear them say that. They're basically....
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: I don't know that they're scared. I would say I
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: think they just don't know how to articulate that. And
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you, I'm Puerto Rican and I don't know
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: that I can articulate it that well. I have heard
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: some of the most eloquent people, right? John Amanchuku is
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: a black pastor. He came out by going to school
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: board meetings and he was incredibly eloquent making these cases against,
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: you know, LGBTQ and like trans issues, ideology being pushed
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: on children in the district that he was in. there's
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: a woman, I forget her name, but she's fantastic. She
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: goes to all of Brandon Johnson's meetings, the mayor's meetings,
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: and she calls him out, you know, saying they're making
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: a war zone here. And she's incredibly eloquent. I mean,
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: I don't think anybody could say it better than she does.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: So I think you're right. There is a messaging problem
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: and they need the right messengers. I think you should
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: be at the top of that list, Joy, in my opinion.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: Joy in Brooklyn, thank you so much. I appreciate you. Mr. Producer,
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: how am I doing on time here? All right, I
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: have time for one more and I love that.
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: Great call, by the way. Joy in Brooklyn. Let us
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: continue here. Where do we go here? Let's go to
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: the shortest one on this list, which is going to
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: be Curtis in Orange County, California. Go for it.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Hi.
• 45:50
  Speaker 13: I think that John Thune is significantly responsible for some
• 45:54
  Speaker 13: of the socialism that's in the United States. I think
• 45:58
  Speaker 13: he works for Mitch McConnell. I think Mitch McConnell works
• 46:01
  Speaker 13: for the rhinos and the Trump haters in Washington. I
• 46:04
  Speaker 13: don't think Thune.
• 46:06
  Speaker 13: He will get rid of the filibuster because there were
• 46:09
  Speaker 13: higher votes and voting would show the rhinos. I seem
• 46:13
  Speaker 13: to recall that Harry Reid got rid of the filibuster.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: Listen, Curtis, I don't disagree with you on a lot
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: of that, honestly. That was always my concern. I also
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: am cognizant.
• 46:24
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: I realize that Washington is still Washington, irrespective of who
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: we like. And it works a certain way. And you
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: have to do things a certain way, at least for
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: the time being. right? And while President Trump, I think,
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: has done an amazing job at draining some of that swamp,
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: it's still a swamp nonetheless. And these are the things
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: that we deal with there, right? I don't think we
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: ever get a lockstep Washington that we love that's a
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: rubber stamp for any faction or any party. So it
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: really comes down to wheeling and dealing and making political calculations.
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: And what can you do, right? All you can do
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: is fight the good fight. Curtis, thank you for your call. Amigos,
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: we're coming right back. We got calls from Texas and
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: Missouri and more. And a couple of closing thoughts from me.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: Don't go anywhere. It's Valdez. I'm here for the great one.
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: This is America. This is America.
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: All right. Welcome back. It's Rich Valdez. And I want
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: to go to Independence, Missouri. Check in with Mark. Mark,
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: make it quick. Make it count.
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Rick.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: All I got to say, yes, there's good and evil,
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: but there's also life and death of the country on
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: the line. And the Republicans, with a few exceptions, like
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: President Trump and a few others, don't seem to get it.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: There's a lack of urgency. They can't get on the
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: same page. They don't even seem to realize this danger
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: we're up against. Mike Johnson recently made some good statements,
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: strong statements, but no follow-up. This has to be a
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: daily exercise of relentlessness about exposing these. I think it's
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: the whole party. I mean, we talk about a few communists,
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: but it's the whole party. And they have to educate
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: the country. This is more than just a midterm election.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: Our country is on the line, and they have to
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: treat it that way.
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: Outstanding. I couldn't have put it any better. I think
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: you nailed it there. The country's on the line, truly.
• 48:20
  Speaker 7: Right?
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: Whatever's left of this country, right? You've heard Mark and
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: Hannity and others say that we are in a post-constitutional America.
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: And to some degree we are. Do we want to
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: see that get worse or do we want to see
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: it get better? Do we want to turn the pendulum
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: the other way? How do we survive any other way?
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: Excellent point, Mark. Thank you. I appreciate it. I'm not
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: sure if we lost you or not, but I definitely
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: appreciate it. Thank you so much. And We're going to
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: find out what happens, right? We're going to see what happens.
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: I know that we're all going to show up to
• 48:49
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• 48:51
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• 48:54
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• 48:57
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• 48:59
  Speaker 3: the conversation. And you are able to call into the
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: show and chat with me. And we can continue this
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: conversation from, is this about life and death and good
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: and evil? Or even I can give you an update
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: on my upcoming trip to Puerto Rico. And will the
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: governor actually respond? And make good on her promise to me,
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: Governor González Colón. of Puerto Rico, who said, I'm inviting
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: you over for a tour. I'm looking forward to it.
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: But so far, crickets, crickets, or maybe in Puerto Rico,
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: it's coquí, coquí. I don't know. We will find out.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: And I do like her. She's a lovely woman. And
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to visiting La Fortaleza if I If
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: they do get back to us, we'll see what happens.
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: And the other thing I had left on the table
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: that I didn't get to was the showdown I had
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: with AOC. Now, for those of you who've heard this story, well,
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: you'll have to hear it again. But I don't know,
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: I think eight years ago, it was 2019. Yeah, so
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: it's eight years ago or close to it. seven years ago,
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: I was marching in the Puerto Rican parade and I
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: saw a banner coming my way on Fifth Avenue that
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: said all together, but it was in Spanish, todo junto.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: And in the middle of it is Congresswoman AOC wearing
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: this like blue, magenta, violet, purple type of thing. And
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: she's saying hello, you know, to the folks on the
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: sidelines of both sides of Fifth Avenue. And I was
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: with my probably 11, 12 year old daughter at the time.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: And I said, well, you know what? I had been
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: inviting Congresswoman AOC on my radio show. At the time,
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: I did a local show at New York City, WABC radio.
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: And again, crickets, crickets, crickets. I was like, hey, you
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: want to come on the show and talk about capitalism
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: versus socialism? I got no response. I said, let me
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: go over there and let her know in person that
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: she's got a warm invitation to my show. And guess what?
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: She ran away. I said, Congresswoman. And she looked at me,
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: gave me the evil eye, And she literally jetted across
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: the street to the other side to say hello to
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: the parade goers on the other side of the street
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: by the barricades and left me in the dust with
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: one of her aides who was kind of like shoulder
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: checking me. And it just goes to show you that
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: sometimes the people that have all these crazy ideas, they're
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: not willing to stand by them. They're not willing to
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: have the difficult conversations or the honest conversations, the transparent
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: conversations about what they believe. So that's why we're doing
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: it here. And I, for one, would still love to
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: have AOC on. I want to go to Puerto Rico
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: and hang out in the governor's mansion. I want to
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: have a debate with AOC. So many things on my
• 51:34
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• 51:36
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• 51:40
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• 51:42
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• 51:46
  Speaker 3: I want to leave you with a thought. And the
• 51:48
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• 51:50
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• 51:52
  Speaker 3: at stake, with the upcoming election, you've got to tune
• 51:55
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• 52:01
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• 52:04
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• 52:08
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• 52:12
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• 52:16
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• 52:19
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• 52:24
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• 52:27
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• 52:29
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• 52:31
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• 52:33
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• 52:37
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• 52:42
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• 52:44
  Speaker 3: for nothing, we will fall for anything. And the only
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people
• 52:51
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• 52:54
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• 52:57
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• 52:58
  Speaker 8: Good night.
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: And God bless you, America.
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: This is America.
• 53:19
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• 53:57
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