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Brice, Bureaucrats, and Black Republicans · 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 worked for Chris Christie, you've been in politics, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of public service stuff. Rich Valdez, columnist now with
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  Speaker 3: the Washington Times.
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  Speaker 1: This is America.
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  Speaker 3: Richie V, you're on the air with the nation.
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  Speaker 1: 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: Welcome back for another edition of This is America. Happy
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  Speaker 3: to be here with you, 17 blocks away from Madison
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  Speaker 3: Square Garden, New York City. Blessed and honored to be
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  Speaker 3: here with you. And we have a lot to discuss,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of catching up to do. Of course, the
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  Speaker 3: Republican convention in Dallas went down. My buddy Brandon Bryce
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  Speaker 3: was on the ground with that. I did a one-on-one
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  Speaker 3: with him. We're going to get into that momentarily. But
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to talk about just the general sense of things, right?
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  Speaker 3: Because as we get closer and closer to elections, the
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  Speaker 3: media and the left have kind of perfected how they
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  Speaker 3: manufacture their hysteria. And they will gaslight you into thinking
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  Speaker 3: that what you're seeing isn't crazy, that when you're walking
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  Speaker 3: through New York City or Skid Row in LA, that
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  Speaker 3: that's how it's supposed to be. We're supposed to live
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  Speaker 3: in a place where people live on the streets. We're
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  Speaker 3: supposed to have Narcan available everywhere because people are overdosing
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  Speaker 3: on everything. You were supposed to be in this sad
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  Speaker 3: state of affairs. And this is why I think it's
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  Speaker 3: important for us to ground ourselves, right? You know, they
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  Speaker 3: tell you, take off your socks, walk on the grass,
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  Speaker 3: ground yourself a little bit. That's what we're going to
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  Speaker 3: do right now because this is truly one of the, uh,
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  Speaker 3: the biggest, um, I would say acts of gaslighting I've
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  Speaker 3: ever seen. It's not okay for little boys to be
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  Speaker 3: little girls, for little girls to become little boys, for
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  Speaker 3: little boys to want to be with little boys and
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  Speaker 3: for little girls to want to be with little girls.
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  Speaker 3: We have drastically changed society. We've, cracked open that closet
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  Speaker 3: and dragged people out into the streets. And there was
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  Speaker 3: a reason people stayed in the closet. It was because
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  Speaker 3: they knew that this lifestyle was sinful. It was shameful.
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  Speaker 3: You know, not to get too spiritual here, but there's
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  Speaker 3: one reality in life, right? What do you stand on?
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  Speaker 3: What are you willing to die for and with? And
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  Speaker 3: for me, it's got to be the Word of God, right?
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't mean that I... I'm a perfect believer or
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  Speaker 3: I'm even a good one at times, right? I would
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  Speaker 3: say sometimes I'm a very bad follower of Christ. But
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't make the rules, or I should say the truth,
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  Speaker 3: any less true, right? When God says, thou shalt not kill,
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  Speaker 3: when we know how we're supposed to comport ourselves in
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  Speaker 3: life and we ignore it anyway, that doesn't make God bad.
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  Speaker 3: That just makes us bad. And we know that. That's
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  Speaker 3: why we're all in need of a Savior. But it
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  Speaker 3: becomes egregious when we start trying to fool people into
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  Speaker 3: thinking that the bad is the good. Now, I use
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  Speaker 3: the examples I did because they seem to be top
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  Speaker 3: of mind in the headlines these days. But it's not okay.
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  Speaker 3: It's not okay for every last joke to be an
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  Speaker 3: offensive one that talks about the elimination of Jews or
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  Speaker 3: how the Holocaust didn't go far enough. especially in a
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  Speaker 3: time where we have groups like Hamas and the IRGC
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  Speaker 3: and the rest of these radical Islamists that want to
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  Speaker 3: rid the world of Jews and then of Americans. This
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  Speaker 3: is where we are, and yet the left is trying
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  Speaker 3: to tell you that their candidates, Abdul Syed, James Tallarico,
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  Speaker 3: and so many others, are the right ones for the job.
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  Speaker 3: You've got legislators like Cory Booker that are on their soapbox,
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  Speaker 3: whining about all sorts of things. And I think we
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  Speaker 3: have a clip of that, just to give an example
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  Speaker 3: of what I'm talking about. Listen to this. From the
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  Speaker 3: recent hearing in the Senate between Kash Patel and Cory Booker.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Her time's up.
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  Speaker 2: No, sir, my time is not up. You allowed Mike
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  Speaker 2: Lee to go two and a half minutes over, but
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  Speaker 2: yet a Democratic senator, you're.
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  Speaker 5: Going to cut him off?
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  Speaker 4: At a previous meeting, I let you go three hearings over.
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  Speaker 2: As you have other people. I have one more line
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  Speaker 2: of questioning to give. No, he's... So, Mr., then I'll
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  Speaker 2: make my.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about whining, right? He doesn't want to listen to
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  Speaker 3: the chairman. Now, granted, the chairman here is, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: pushing 100, right? Senator Grassley, God bless him. And Booker's like,
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  Speaker 3: but come on, you let the other guy go.
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  Speaker 5: Let me go.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead, play the tape.
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  Speaker 2: Concluding remark, and you can do whatever you want, sir.
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  Speaker 2: My concluding remark is we don't have an FBI director.
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  Speaker 2: We have a lackey here who is using government. And frankly,
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  Speaker 2: he's not even.
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  Speaker 3: A good lackey. Oh, we try to roast him. You're
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  Speaker 3: not even a good lackey, Cash Patel. Meanwhile, we've gotten,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how many of the FBI's 10 most
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  Speaker 3: wanted list. We have drastically cut the number of crime
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  Speaker 3: at the national level. They're taking back Memphis. They've taken
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  Speaker 3: back Washington, D.C. But no, no, no. He's a lackey.
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  Speaker 2: An incompetent lackey. He's like an 18-year-old kid who wants
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  Speaker 2: to join a fraternity that he could never be a
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  Speaker 2: member of, doing keg stands and chugging with friends. He's
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  Speaker 2: an embarrassment to the agency and wouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: Where have you been chugging, Senator? I know Cory Booker.
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  Speaker 3: I've met him several times many years ago. I was
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  Speaker 3: a police chaplain in the city of Newark. Actually, a
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  Speaker 3: really nice guy. I marched with him in the Puerto
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  Speaker 3: Rican parade in Newark. He's really bothered here. And when
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  Speaker 3: he gets bothered, he gets a little bit, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to say, a little overzealous, if you will. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Qualify even to be an FBI agent, sir. He won't
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  Speaker 2: answer questions for a committee. He insults Democrats here. And
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  Speaker 2: you don't step in.
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  Speaker 5: He has a little.
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  Speaker 3: That tapping in the sound, that is the chairman of
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  Speaker 3: the committee banging the gavel. And Booker could care less
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  Speaker 3: about the collegiality and the rules. of the Senate. He
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  Speaker 3: wants to get his licks in on Kash Patel.
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  Speaker 2: Book by his side that he literally is using to
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  Speaker 2: try to intimidate people in the same way he intimidates reporters.
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  Speaker 5: He is a disgrace, sir.
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  Speaker 2: And the fact that we are not asking him, in fact,
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  Speaker 2: demanding him to answer the most best basic oversight questions
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  Speaker 2: is a further testimony to what is bad is not
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  Speaker 2: just that we have a rogue FBI agent intimidating reporters.
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  Speaker 2: What's bad is that we have Republicans in the Senate
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  Speaker 2: that are enabling him.
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  Speaker 3: So what would you suggest, Senator Booker? You suggest that
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  Speaker 3: this man is because you don't like him, you think
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  Speaker 3: he's unqualified, you think he's a mockery to the United States,
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  Speaker 3: that somehow we're just supposed to pretend we don't have
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  Speaker 3: an FBI director, that he's not the duly appointed FBI
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  Speaker 3: director by the president of the United States just because
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  Speaker 3: he's not from your party and you don't like him?
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  Speaker 3: Come on, sir. You know that's not right.
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  Speaker 4: Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 5: Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: Without any objective oversight or transparency or accountability.
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  Speaker 6: Why do you, why do you, why do you, why
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  Speaker 6: do you figure you're something special?
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  Speaker 2: Now we've had, I'm not special. My time has now just,
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  Speaker 2: my sir, you are not being balanced in your way.
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  Speaker 2: My time has just now reached what Mike Lee did.
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  Speaker 2: And we as a committee have done what you've done before.
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  Speaker 5: What a wuss.
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  Speaker 3: Stop whining, ma'am.
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  Speaker 2: Which is ask him to answer basic questions. He won't
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  Speaker 2: even do it in writing. This is a mockery.
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  Speaker 3: And he doesn't stop. We're at a minute 43. I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to let it go because I want you to
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  Speaker 3: see how ridiculous this is. This is the filibustering that
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats do.
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  Speaker 2: And a sham. We have a rogue agent intimidating the press,
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  Speaker 2: violating people's First Amendment rights and doing everything the president has.
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  Speaker 4: You don't show much respect for your chairman. You've gone
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  Speaker 4: on now.
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  Speaker 3: I have utter respect for you.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, I have love for you. And this is
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  Speaker 2: why I know this.
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  Speaker 3: Sir, I have love for you. This is why I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to go and speak for another two minutes to
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  Speaker 3: show you how much love and respect I have for you,
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  Speaker 3: Chairman Grassley.
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  Speaker 2: It's not who you are. You are not holding this
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  Speaker 2: witness in an objective way to answer the questions that
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  Speaker 2: are given to him by Democratic senators, yet he insults
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  Speaker 2: them time and time again. What he did to Senator Walsh.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, I just heard you call him a lackey, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Should make this whole committee stand up and walk out
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  Speaker 2: and sanction this man... for speaking to one of my
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  Speaker 2: colleagues the way he spoke to them. Even Senator Whitehouse,
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  Speaker 2: who was then sitting in, tried to control.
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  Speaker 3: How dare you? How dare you? That's my Greta Thunberg impression.
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  Speaker 2: Control this witness who makes everything personal. I have a
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  Speaker 2: right to ask questions about how he's spending money on
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  Speaker 2: his girlfriend. And yet he stonewalls me, but will run
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  Speaker 2: on Fox News and talk about any and all these issues.
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  Speaker 5: This is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: This is a sham. And what's bad is not the
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  Speaker 2: person sitting there who's a mockery to the office he holds.
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  Speaker 2: What is bad is the people that are enabling him
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  Speaker 2: to do so.
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  Speaker 4: You understand, Mr. Director, why during the Kavanaugh hearings I
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  Speaker 4: let people talk and talk because it takes longer to
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  Speaker 4: shut them up than it does to let them talk.
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  Speaker 4: Now you go ahead and say what you wanted to say.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have much to say.
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  Speaker 7: This guy called me a thug. It's kind of ironic.
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  Speaker 7: He's running for president of the United States. He just
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  Speaker 7: got his 22nd ad campaign.
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  Speaker 2: Next.
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  Speaker 4: Senator Graham. I think Senator Graham's ex.
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  Speaker 5: Shame on you.
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  Speaker 4: Shame on you. He's still going.
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  Speaker 3: Shame on you.
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  Speaker 7: Somebody behind me is yelling.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, brother, I will repeat what you said. You're getting
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  Speaker 2: thrown out, but they can't throw me out. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to hold this man accountable for as long as he's
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  Speaker 2: in this job until he gets fired. which he probably
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  Speaker 2: will because he's incompetent at his job and continues to
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  Speaker 2: do things that merit his removal. Yes, shame on you, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Director Patel, were you done?
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  Speaker 7: By the way, violent crime arrests by the FBI in
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  Speaker 7: New Jersey are up 75% on top of the historic
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  Speaker 7: results we've already delivered for the American people.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks to the state police and local police officers.
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  Speaker 7: Irrespective of the lies that he continues to tell.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing I have said here is a lie.
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  Speaker 7: You said your time's up.
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  Speaker 3: Are you done or not?
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  Speaker 2: Are you done or not, sir? You want to answer
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  Speaker 2: my questions? If you want my questions, go to the
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  Speaker 2: next person. This is ridiculous. What a mockery you are.
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  Speaker 7: You are the biggest mockery in the United States Senate
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  Speaker 7: and you're sitting next to ship.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, 8 million people in New Jersey don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: At least I didn't get my job the way you
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  Speaker 2: got your job, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Are you going to interfere with Senator Graham asking her
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  Speaker 4: questions too?
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  Speaker 2: I certainly will not. Too as well?
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  Speaker 5: I certainly will not.
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  Speaker 4: Are you done now? Are you ready to shut up?
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  Speaker 2: I am done, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Are you ready to shut up? I waited all that
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  Speaker 3: time just to get to that part. Man, let me
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  Speaker 3: tell you, this stuff is as funny as it gets, right?
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  Speaker 3: Senator Booker, Kash Patel. Cash handles it like a pro,
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  Speaker 3: in my opinion. Yes, I'm biased, but I mean, one
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  Speaker 3: of those two men looked like they had it all together, right?
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  Speaker 3: One of them had composure, the other one didn't, and
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't Cash Patel that was lacking the composure, that's
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  Speaker 3: for sure. So anyway, we're going to take a look
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  Speaker 3: at the rest of what this fallout looks like, what
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  Speaker 3: happened at that Dallas midterm convention from my buddy Brandon Bryce.
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  Speaker 3: He's a black conservative that I know from my days
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  Speaker 3: in the Christie administration about a dozen or 15 years ago.
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  Speaker 3: And Brandon Bryce is now the secretary of the Delaware
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  Speaker 3: Republican Party. He's a professional in the area of, what
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  Speaker 3: do they call that? Development, right? University development. And he's
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  Speaker 3: going to be joining us next. Keep it locked right here.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 1: This is America.
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  Speaker 3: All right, familia, welcome back. It's Rich Valdez keeping you
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  Speaker 3: company tonight. And tonight, I always have a treat. It's
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  Speaker 3: always really fun for me to connect with one of
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  Speaker 3: my old colleagues from the Christie administration in New Jersey,
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  Speaker 3: Brandon Bryce. Welcome to the program, brother.
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  Speaker 6: Always good to be on, Richie V.
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  Speaker 3: All right, my man. So, Brandon Bryce, I know that
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  Speaker 3: you're a fellow with Project 21. You work in higher ed.
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  Speaker 3: You got a lot of things going on. And one
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  Speaker 3: of the things that you guys do over at Project 21,
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  Speaker 3: I know it's a bunch of black conservatives.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And I want to get your perspective as a black
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  Speaker 3: conservative on some of the stuff we saw today unfolding
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  Speaker 3: on Capitol Hill, Senate hearing with Kash Patel, FBI director,
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  Speaker 3: and Senator Booker seems to have like a meltdown. He's
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  Speaker 3: got his panties in a bunch and he calls Kash
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  Speaker 3: Patel a lackey. Talk to me.
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  Speaker 6: Well, first of all, you act like black conservatives is this,
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  Speaker 6: you know, thing that just doesn't exist.
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  Speaker 5: We're out here.
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  Speaker 6: You know, one of the things that, and this is
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  Speaker 6: not the first time, Rich, that Senator Booker and Kash
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  Speaker 6: Patel have went at it. Here's the playbook if you're
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  Speaker 6: a Democrat in the Senate. First of all, if you're
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  Speaker 6: not proven, if your point isn't proven, then you go
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  Speaker 6: to insults. Then you go to calling folks out. It's
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  Speaker 6: the oldest playbook. Nowhere in there did the director of
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  Speaker 6: the FBI deserve to be called a lackey. And quite frankly,
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  Speaker 6: one of the bigger concerns is the guy was over
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  Speaker 6: his time. You know, there's something called respect in the Hill.
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  Speaker 6: That when your time is up, your time is up.
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  Speaker 6: And so I thought it was very inappropriate. But again,
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  Speaker 6: this is the games that Democrats on Capitol Hill play, Rich.
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  Speaker 6: You and I both know that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now, when it comes to political theater, I mean, all
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  Speaker 3: politicians are guilty of it. But it seems Senator Booker
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  Speaker 3: really allowed Kash Patel to get under his skin to
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  Speaker 3: the point where Senator Grassley was, you know, gaveling them
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  Speaker 3: like crazy and eventually tells him, are you ready to
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  Speaker 3: shut up, Senator? I haven't seen Grassley get that aggressive.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think?
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  Speaker 6: You know, maybe they're giving out Oscars on Capitol Hill now.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, who knows? I mean, you know, again, this
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  Speaker 6: is what Booker does. You know, again, also keep in mind,
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  Speaker 6: this is a guy that next year could potentially run
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  Speaker 6: for president or become someone's vice president. So what you're seeing,
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  Speaker 6: what you're really seeing on Capitol Hill, Rich, everybody's auditioning
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  Speaker 6: for that one or two spot now. You know, even
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  Speaker 6: our good friend Kamala, is now talking about considering running again.
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  Speaker 6: I hope that they run Kamala Harris because, again, she
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  Speaker 6: got wiped out and mollywhopped the last election. And apparently
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  Speaker 6: the Dems didn't learn from the last mistake.
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  Speaker 3: So tune in.
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  Speaker 6: It will be very interesting, Rich, in the next six
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  Speaker 6: months after we get done with the primaries to see
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  Speaker 6: what happens on Capitol Hill and who's starting to come out.
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  Speaker 6: You know, even our good friend Buttigieg even said, you know,
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  Speaker 6: maybe it's time for the country's first LGBT president. So
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  Speaker 6: folks are starting to line up. And it'd be interesting
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  Speaker 6: to see how they work against each other to try
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  Speaker 6: to get that top spot.
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  Speaker 3: Brandon Bryce with the Delaware Republican Party. Listen, brother, I
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  Speaker 3: want to ask you a question about, I know we're
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  Speaker 3: talking about Booker being the master of the filibuster today.
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  Speaker 3: Kamala Harris, right? I knew she would lose last time.
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  Speaker 3: She was a very unprepared candidate. They cheated to get
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  Speaker 3: her in there, basically not letting anybody else run. They
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  Speaker 3: had no primary. This time around, Do you think there's
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  Speaker 3: any sentiment from voters that felt like, oh, man, she
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  Speaker 3: should have won last time. Let's get behind her. Or
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  Speaker 3: will she be equally as disastrous of a candidate as
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  Speaker 3: she was last time?
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  Speaker 5: Well, she'll be more.
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  Speaker 6: I actually don't think that she'll make it out of
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  Speaker 6: the primary because, let's face it, she didn't make it
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  Speaker 6: out of the last primary. But also, and I tell
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  Speaker 6: all of my Democrat friends, yes, I do have Democrat friends.
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  Speaker 6: Me too. The president had the power to make her
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  Speaker 6: the president of the United States, and he didn't do it.
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  Speaker 6: So if Joe Biden, her president, her boss, if he
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  Speaker 6: didn't believe in her candidacy, why should the American people
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  Speaker 6: believe in her candidacy? And again, don't believe me. These
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  Speaker 6: are just facts. When Joe Biden announced that he had
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  Speaker 6: health issues, he had the power right then and there
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  Speaker 6: to step down. And, Rich, this would have been unique
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  Speaker 6: because now going into the convention, you know, with all
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  Speaker 6: the celebrities and what's the booty girl? What's her name?
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: Kim Kardashian?
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: All of them.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: Megan Thee Stallion.
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: Megan Thee Stallion. That's right.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: All these top notch celebrities came out. I mean, imagine
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: what difference it would have made as Kamala the candidate
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: versus Kamala the president of the United States. Different ballpark.
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: And so, again, Rich, I don't think she's going to
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: make it out of the primary. I think, I mean,
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: the people you need to keep your eye on, and
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: I've told people this, keep your eye on still Gavin Newsom,
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: even though he destroyed California. He's still the prima donna
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: of the Democratic Party. Also, a sleeper, keep your eye
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: on Andy Beshear. You know, there's a faction of the
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: Democratic Party that actually has sense that is saying we
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: need to go back to the old school, Clinton-Gore Southern Democrats.
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: And you know what's interesting? He actually could be a
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: wild card next election.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know a whole lot about Andy Beshear, but
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: it sounds like he lacks the name recognition to really,
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: really make things work. But I want to jump into
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: a You mentioned the convention. I know you were on
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: the ground in Dallas at the convention. Give me a
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: little bit of the bird's eye view of what was
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: going on, your sense of how the energy was at
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: the Republican National Convention in Dallas.
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: Well, first of all, Delaware was behind Iowa, but we
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: were second. So I got to see, touch, feel all
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: of the excitement. Seats were packed, unlike what you may
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: have heard. Also, you know, I never knew I would
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: be a fan of the Macho Man Village People song
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: all day long. You know, it was an amazing time.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: The president didn't mince words and the vice president did
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: not mince words. And so, you know, this was an
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: interesting time really to get folks out to get excited
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: about the prime, about the midterms. And, you know, Rich,
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: I actually think it was a brilliant idea to say,
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: you know what, let's get people excited early on. And
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: I think the president, you know, being who the president is,
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: he really gave a battle cry to say, we got
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: to win these elections.
• 18:40
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: I think you're right. Listen, it's nothing like a head start.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: I think that's what helped him in 2016, coming out
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: in 2015. I think the further ahead of the game
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: you are, the better you're going to do. When you
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: were talking to our fellow Republicans, conservatives, people that support
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: President Trump and his initiatives, what was the vibe you
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: were getting with respect to the Iran war? Was it,
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: let's get this thing done? Or was it, this thing
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: is going to kill us in the midterms? What was
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: the general consensus of what people were talking about?
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: You know, to be honest with you, Iran really didn't
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: come up rich. I mean, to me, the thing that
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: came up is they said, absolutely not. Can we allow
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: we're not even dealing with Democrats.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: Anymore, rich.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: I mean, let's be we're dealing with communists. That's what
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: we're dealing with. And so I think it's easy to say, listen,
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: the worst Republican is better than the best communist. And
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: I think one of the things is that, well, I
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: heard that we cannot allow people like Tallarico, who can't
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: even tell you who a woman is or what a
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: woman is. We can't allow these people in the United
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: States Senate, my home state. I am pleading to push
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: Mike Rogers, former law enforcement, got a big love for
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: law enforcement. But we're talking about a guy who's running,
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: who not only has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, that's facts,
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: but also his friend made a disparaging statement about 9-11
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: coming that we literally just had that ceremony in service
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: a couple of days back.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: These people, Rich, should not be in the United States Senate.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Some would say they shouldn't be in the United States.
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: Well, first of all, we got to make sure they
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: don't get to the Senate floor. We can have that
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: conversation afterwards. But, you know, one of the things that
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: the vice president said that I agree with is he said,
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: if you don't love America, why are you here? And
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: I think we've really got to say, you know, back
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: in the day, Rich, we would always hear on the memes,
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: people say, oh, I'm moving to Canada. This guy gets elected.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: And then they're, you know, literally down in South Florida celebrating.
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: It's like, well, I thought you were moving. So I
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: think we've got to start really getting serious about, you know, again,
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: the days of Tip O'Neill with Ronald Reagan and Tip
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: O'Neill where Democrat, Republican, yeah, they disagreed, but they cared
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: about the country. Those days are over. This new batch
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: of folks, I can't say that they share the same
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: sentiment and love for this country when they're talking about
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: people on 9-11 deserved it. 3,000 people, you know, Rich,
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: I know you were in New York. I was in D.C.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: during that time. That was one of the scariest moments
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: of our life. And for this nut job, I'll call
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: him back to say that. And then this is the
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: guy that you want to call a friend. My grandmother
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: always told me, Rich, show me who your friends are
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: and I'll show and you'll show me who you are.
• 21:22
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's 100 percent true. Amigos, we're on with Brandon Bryce.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: He's a fellow at Project 21. He's the treasurer for
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: the Delaware Republican Party. Secretary. Secretary. Forgive me.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: Secretary.
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: I don't handle the money.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Delaware. I'm not handling it either. And he's with us.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: I want to talk about some of the gubernatorial elections
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: that we got coming up. We've got Byron Donalds running
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: in Florida. T.W. Shannon, my man, T.W. running for lieutenant
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: governor in Oklahoma. John James running in Michigan. Let's start
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: with Byron Donalds. The odds look really good for Byron Donalds.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: He's a heck of a candidate. I think he's an
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: incredible politician. Um, what are your thoughts on this race?
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Do you think there's any potential for an upset or
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: is it smooth sailing for Byron Donald?
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: I think he wins. I think the Caribbean community, which
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: he is trust him. That's a big boat down in
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: South Florida. You know, I think he's a unique candidate because, um,
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: you know, you got a lot of folks who again,
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: don't want socialism and, and, and let's face it, rich.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: I mean, if you want to talk about a community
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: that firsthand understands communism, it's South Florida. Yeah.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: A hundred percent. Now, Brandon, let's switch gears and go
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: to your old stomping grounds, Michigan. You got John James
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: running over there. He's run in the past, close, right?
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Just didn't cross the finish line. How do you think
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: this one looks from in Michigan?
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: You know, essentially, so John and I go way back.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: We're high school buddies, fraternity brothers. John, I think he
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: should win. Businessman, family guy. The challenge, though, is it's
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: going to come down to the independents and the unions, right? Now,
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: let me say this. You know, I found it interesting that,
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: you know, Jocelyn Benson, when you start digging into her background,
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: a lot of her she's got some legal cases around,
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: you know, discrimination. And I find it interesting that you
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: would have a Democratic governor who's got discriminations against African-American women.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: It's legal.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: It's facts running against an African-American candidate. And I can
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: tell you, I have heard I've had so many calls, Rich.
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: For my friends on the left that have said, you know, quietly, hey,
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: how do I get down? How do I get on
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: the campaign? How do I support John James? And I said, well,
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: why don't you say it publicly? Well, you know, I
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: don't want to lose my job. So, you know, I
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: think that is more that that race is going to be.
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: I think I see John pulling it out. I think
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: he's an outstanding candidate. West West Point graduate businessman, very
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: successful businessman. Um, but I also think it's going to
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: come down to the independence and the unions. And I
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: actually think for once the unions are going to say,
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: you know what? The union member leadership doesn't always represent
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: the union membership. And I think they're going to go
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: with Jack.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Now looking at, um, let's see, we did, uh, Michigan.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: We did Oklahoma. Let's talk about my man, T.W. Shannon. Uh,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: this is a guy that I would vote for many
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: day of the week. I like T.W. Shannon a lot.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: He's a smart guy. He does the right thing. What
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: are your thoughts?
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: No, I agree with you. I think T.W. Shannon has
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: the look. I think he's got the brights. He's running
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: for lieutenant governor. But, you know, this is a test run.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: But the reality is if we can get T.W. Shannon
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: in as lieutenant governor, I think he's going to be
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: a front runner, a serious front runner for governor next election.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're right. He's a force to be
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: reckoned with. He was a former governor. Speaker of the
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: House in Oklahoma. He's got years of media training. He
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: knows banking. He knows a lot about a lot of things.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: And he's well-primed to be the next lieutenant governor, in
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: my opinion. Brandon Bryce, where do people find you? When
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: can they hear The Bryce is Right? What's going on
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: with you? Where can they expect to see you?
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: The Bryce is Right. Tune me in, www.brandonbrice.com. Find me
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: on Project 21, The Bryce is Right. Stay tuned because
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: in 2028, we got some bigger news coming. Always glad
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: to be on, Rich.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: 2028, big news. Hold on. You're going to face off
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: against AOC all out crazy?
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: We're not talking about that here. Stay tuned. But folks,
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: always good to be on. Richie V, proud of you
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: and glad for your success. And I look forward to
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: coming back.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Thanks, brother. God bless you, man. That's Brandon Bryce, secretary
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: at the Delaware Republican Party, fellow at Project 21, my brother.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: I've known him for many years. Thanks, Brandon. Good to
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: see you.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: Thank you. Yeah, bye-bye.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: All right, and coming up straight ahead, We've got a
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: couple of questions for you. Is fitness fascist? And what's
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: this controversy that's been going on between Mark Lamont Hill
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: and Fat Joe, the rapper from the Bronx? We're going
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: to talk about that. It has a little bit to
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: do with the N-word. Don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Valdez.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: This is America. This is America.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: President Donald J.
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: Trump, Mr.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: President, welcome to the program, sir.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: I know you very well, and I listen, but I
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: have a lot of people that listen.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: And they love your show, and I appreciate it very much.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: We appreciate you too, sir. That is President Donald Trump.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: And I am Rich Valdez. Welcome back. I want to
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: talk about a couple of different things that are going on.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: And one of the things I like to do is
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: when I see something crazy, I like to dissect it.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: I like to call it out. And I spend enough
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: time scrolling to see a lot of crazy stuff. One
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: of the things I saw was this woman wearing a
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: mask by herself at a podium. And again, I don't
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: think this was a very recent meeting, but even if
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: it was in the middle of COVID, if there's nobody
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: next to you at the podium and within six or
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: 12 feet, you can take the mask off per Fauci's guidelines.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: This woman's wearing a mask and giving a speech about
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: how it's fascist to be fit. Yeah, fit, F-I-T, not fat, F-A-T, fit.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Basically saying having good health is a fascist doctrine. This
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: is part of the crazy, like when somebody tells you, oh,
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: you know, well, the reason these people are getting locked
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: up or the reason people are fighting in the streets, oh,
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: it's capitalism. They blame capitalism for everything as if this
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: is the cause. It's the greed. They're going crazy because
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: absolutely incensed over having to live in a capitalistic society.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: I'm convinced that those on the left that espouse this philosophy,
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: they're not using ration anymore, right? They're not using rationality
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: and logic. They've really just gone to emotionalism. And this
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: is a great example of that. Again, so this is a...
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: A girl, she's Caucasian. She's got red hair up to
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: her shoulders, lots of jewelry on, very shortly manicured nails,
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: black tank top or camisole with a black button down
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: on top, just to give you the visual, MacBook Air microphone.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: And she's speaking at one of these lefty rallies. I
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: don't know if it's the Democrat Socialists of America or
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: the Communist Party USA, but same difference to me. It
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: might be the Antifa convention. Listen to this.
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: Give up the fantasy of being fitter than the fascists.
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: It's not just that it's cringe or strategically bad.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Strategically bad to be fit. Or fitter than the fascists.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Though it is.
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: I think it's also politically revealing. Fitness is a measure
• 29:00
  Speaker 8: of relative disposability under capitalism. Our task is not to
• 29:05
  Speaker 8: become less disposable, to become more useful to the ruling order.
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: What we all need to be doing is rejecting disposability
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: in all of its forms.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Let's take that to its logical extreme, shall we? If
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: we reject disposability, if I agree to her crazy... She
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: says that by you being in good health, you being fit,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: this is not a measure of good health. This is
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: a measure of how useful you are to the ruling class,
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: how they can use you in their system. Now, even
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: if that's true, our generation, is to become as fat
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: as we can to show how useless we are because
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: under her thinking, that is our goal. That's insanity.
• 29:52
  Speaker 8: The point is not to beat the fascists at their
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: own game. It is not to lay a better claim
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: on their own territory by being fitter, more eugenic. In fact,
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: the more dysgenic, the better.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, so again, the fatter you are, the less healthy
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: you are, the less useful you are to society, the better.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: You tell me where there's any logic in this. Let
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: her continue. I think.
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: Revolution is not a contest between optimized and properly prepared bodies.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: No, but life and longevity and your life expectancy is.
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: She's bordering on Pendeja.
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: That idea is fascist in and of itself.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: Fascist idea to be healthy.
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: And erases the history of lost struggles around the world.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: So we should not erase the history of lost struggles
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: by being less fit. Follow her logic. People have had
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: difficult times. People have had struggles. So those difficulties should
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: be memorialized in your gut. All right, Shorty.
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: You have to give up the fantasy of being fitter
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: than the fascists.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: I think we have to give up listening to these
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: crazy lefties. Because to me, this sounds like we're trying
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: to create a system of people that are fat and unhealthy, right?
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Which we're already getting. I don't know if you've looked around.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Most people are less healthy.
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: Most.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: Even the ones that work out.
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: Right?
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: We have a food supply that's not as healthy as
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: it was 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago. We've got
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: young people that are way less capable. We've got more
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: fat people than anyone on the planet. The United States
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: is like the fat capital of the globe. And as such,
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: we have to have innovation for drugs like these peptides,
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: the GLP-1s, the Mount Jaro, the Ozempic, the whatever, because
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: too many people are fat, because too many people are diabetic,
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: because too many people eat whatever they want. Now, she
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: could turn around and blame that on the capitalistic society
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: that's evil and killing people, making them fat, right? She
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: could make that argument, but she doesn't. She's not saying
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: it's our addiction to consumerism and the fact that we
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: have so much disposable income we can afford to spend
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: it on McDonald's. I mean, some of her friends like
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: to make the argument that the reason so many people
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: that are black and brown are are in bad health
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: is because they're poor. And I would agree with that one.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: I would say when you don't have money, guess what
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: you're not buying? You're not buying that fish filet. You're
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: probably not even buying the McFish at McDonald's. You're probably
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: buying the cheapest meal on their value menu. So I
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: do agree when you don't have the resources to buy
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: the healthier foods, to go to the Whole Foods or
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: the farmer's market or wherever you got to go to
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: get fresh produce that isn't all jacked up, You know,
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: it's really like farm to table, that type of thing.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: You're going to spend more. You know, when I went
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: on the keto diet some years ago, 2017, I spent
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: a fortune eating. Every day I had a steak, every
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: single day. You know, I was 35 or 40 bucks
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: every day. Then that was dinner. Lunch was a full
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: pound burger wrapped in lettuce. I was getting that at
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: this place called the Fire Pit Grill. Fantastic. Gave me
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: a good deal. I think I was paying like 14
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: bucks with everything. 12 bucks.
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: Really good.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Occasionally with my sweet potato fries. And yeah, definitely not
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: the healthiest thing. But again, I was high fat, high protein.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: And I lost 40 pounds doing that in about three
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: and a half months. So I get it. There's a
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: cost that goes with these things. But if there's a
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: cost to these things, Wouldn't it make the argument that
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: we all need to make more money and not depend
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: on the government because the government won't give you what
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: you need?
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Look at all the things you're allowed to buy with
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: food stamps, SNAP benefits, and whatever. Some people are buying
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: all sorts of things they shouldn't be buying and they
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: shouldn't be consuming. So my point is, even when they
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: try to make sense, the skinny girl, right? Because you
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: couldn't see her, but she was skinny. She was probably 108, 110,
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: 112 pounds max. saying that fitness is fascist. This is
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: so rich. Who's she talking to, right? She's telling an
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: obese Puerto Rican person, an obese black person, the skinny
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: white girl with the red hair, come and say, hey, look,
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: you need to be less fit. You need to be
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: in direct opposition to the fascists. Please miss me with
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: that mess. That is horrible. People need to take their
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: health seriously. And listen, there are a lot of people
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: that do take their health seriously. They exercise, they eat right.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: And because of familial hereditary issues, they have different ailments.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: Just imagine if these people weren't fit, if they weren't
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: in the best shape of their life, what they'd be
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: going through, right? You can be 20 pounds overweight, or
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: you could be my 600 pound life on Lifetime TV.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: That's up to you, right? And these are the things
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: that I think matter most. We've got to really pay attention.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: to how seriously we take our health. I think too
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: many people have put their stock in, oh, they got
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: so many innovations. Big Pharma's the best. You know, I
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: could smoke two packs of cigarettes a day and guess what?
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: When it's time, I'll just get myself a lung transplant.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: By then, they'll probably have fake new lungs. You know, Neuralink.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: I'll reprogram my lung.
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: You never know.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: They got all sorts of stuff. The technology's amazing. Don't
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: bank on what's not there. That's all I'm saying. And
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: even if it's there, is it going to be for you?
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: There are people right now, I interviewed a guy on
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: my show, on the late night show. I remember he
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: had some money and he started harvesting stem cells from
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: his 18-year-old son and having them put into himself. And
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: he said he felt like a million bucks because young
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: stem cells repair your body at a quicker rate than
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: yours if they even work still. How do you like
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: them apples? That's fantastic.
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: Great if you can do it. This guy had enough
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: money to start a company, open a lab, do the research,
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: and pull this whole thing off. I mean, I guess
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: the rest of us can go to a doctor who
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: knows how to do it. This was a couple of
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: years back. Now I think that's available at places like
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Novus Regenerative. And I learned about Novus Regenerative from my buddy,
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Matthias the jeweler, from the appropriately named Matthias Jewelers, my
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: business partners over in River Edge. And those are the
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: only guys I trust when it comes to my gold, diamond,
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: or luxury watch needs. And you should, too. But the
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: other day I was over there. I was wearing shorts.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: And Matias looked down at my calf and says, my friend,
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: you got to do something about the Verkos Vin. You know,
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: they're French. And he tells me to get over to
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: Novus Regenerative. It's a medical practice in Rutherford, New Jersey.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: And let me tell you, it's the best recommendation I've
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: received in a long time. Right here in Bergen County,
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Novus Regenerative is what it's called. They have a vascular
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: specialist there named Paoli Sennett. She's an absolute miracle worker.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Paoli did an amazing job. She painlessly made that ugly
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: vein completely disappear in seconds. I'm telling you, it was instant, painless,
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: and it's gone. The hardest part was wearing this little
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: sock that I had to wear afterwards for several hours.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: I definitely recommend her. Now, Novus Regenerative isn't just for veins. Dr.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Sanchez there, he's terrific. The whole team there, Rose and Solange,
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: the massage therapist, fantastic. If you get a kink in
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: your neck at the gym, they offer incredible massages and
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: expert osteopathic manipulation techniques. Trust me, you want to know
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: what that's about. And it gets you aligned and it
• 37:59
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• 38:02
  Speaker 3: check it out. They got premium IV therapy. So you
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: can get whatever you need, hydration. They got B12 shots,
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: which I've gotten. And you can see me getting one, actually,
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: if you want to take a look at that on
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: my Instagram. I made a video of the first time
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: I got one. And this way, you're firing on all cylinders. Plus,
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: they specialize in advanced stem cell therapy for problematic shoulders, joints.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: This stuff, stem cell therapy, it doesn't have to be
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: just for millionaires anymore, right? You can do it too.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: Novus Regenerative makes it accessible for everybody. So that's how
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: I'm taking control of my health. And if you want
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: to do it, you can do the same thing. Call
• 38:39
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• 38:43
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• 38:54
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• 38:57
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• 39:03
  Speaker 3: at 844-668-8773. That's 844-668-8773. They also have a location in Fairlawn.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: And that's the bottom line. This stuff doesn't have to
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: be about you being a rich guy and having an
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: 18 year old son to get the type of care
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: that you need. I think that's probably the most important
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: thing that we learn. As each day goes by, we
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: get closer and closer to the in-the-future scenarios, right? In
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: the future, cars are going to fly. In the future,
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: you'll be able to go on a pod and get renewed. Well, listen, familia,
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: we're getting closer and closer to that. So give them
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  Speaker 3: a call and keep it locked right here because I'm
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: coming right back and we're going to talk about Mark
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: Lamont Hill and what he had to say about Fat Joe,
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: the rapper. Keep it locked right here. Don't go anywhere.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: I'm Rich Valdez.
• 40:06
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• 40:20
  Speaker 3: Alright amigos, welcome back. And you know, a while back
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• 40:41
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• 40:44
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• 40:47
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• 40:51
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  Speaker 3: you know, Jim's story is unique in many ways because
• 42:38
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• 42:46
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of options available. And I say pursue
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• 42:58
  Speaker 3: on my own health journey now. I've been on it
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: for years. My dad died of a stroke back in 2017,
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: and it woke me up. You know, it scared me.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: I went to the doctor, and he read me the
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  Speaker 3: riot act, one of the best doctors ever. My oldest daughter,
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: she had a pediatrician named Dr. Baker, and Dr. Baker
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: had four sons. And those four sons also became doctors.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: And they all went into pediatrics except for one that
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: went into adult internal family medicine. And he is my
• 43:28
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• 43:31
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  Speaker 3: They run a concierge medical practice that it's top notch
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  Speaker 3: in my opinion. And, you know, I could complain about
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: certain things, but ultimately he's a great doctor and everybody
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: there is trying their best. And that's what you want, right?
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: Insurance companies make things very difficult these days in order
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: for people to get the results they need or at
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: least to remain calm and peaceful while you're getting the
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: help that you need, whether it's routine stuff or navigating
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: some sort of health challenge. So it started with Dr. Baker.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: And since then, I've gone to, like I said, I've
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: gone to Novus. I've gone to a lot of places
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: because there's different things everywhere you go. And ultimately, you've
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: got to give your body what it needs to food
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: and exercise, uh, are probably the top two and in
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: that order, right? Food is the number one thing. Even
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: if you don't exercise a ton, you've got to watch
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: what you're eating. Anyway, I don't want to lecture you
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: on health stuff, but I do want you to understand
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: that this journey doesn't end, right? It's, um, there's no
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: particular destination. It's just an ongoing journey. And as you
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: get older, new challenges are presented and you learn about
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: new things or things that used to, um, work easily
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: in the past, you know, like I used to go
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: uphill and no problem. And now, you know, I get
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: a little winded going uphill, even though I'm lighter, you know,
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: I've lost close to 80 pounds. At times I got
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: down to being down a hundred pounds from my top weight.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: And I did all of that with diet exercise, about
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: 20 pounds. I lost through some peptides and it's a
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: lot of work. The keto diet, like I said, it's
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: a lot of work, a lot of investment, but you
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: do it anyway. That was a little spillover from the
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: previous segment, but I wanted to talk about something different
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: in this segment, which was this controversy that's been floating
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: around for a week or two with Fat Joe, the
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: rapper from the Bronx, who when I was heavier, people
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: always confused him for me, even still the other day,
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: because now he's lost weight and I've lost weight. And
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: somebody's yelling at me from like a red light. And
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: I was at a coffee shop. Shout out to Cortaditos.
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: Cortaditos makes some amazing Cuban coffee. And And they have
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: a little ventanilla, a little window. And I was sitting
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: at the stool, you know, just drinking a little espresso.
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: And the guy's yelling, Fat Joe, what's.
• 45:52
  Speaker 9: Up, man?
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: And I just laughed and I waved. You know, I
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: didn't have time to say, no, it's Rich Feld as
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: the other fat, bald Puerto Rican guy. Anyway, but the
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: point of bringing up Fat Joe was not my cafecito story.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: It was to talk about Mark Lamont Hill, who I
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: don't know what he is, an author, an influencer. Every
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: now and again he says things and he thinks people
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: are supposed to listen to him. But I want to
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: get your thoughts on this topic because Fat Joe was
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: on a podcast called the Joe Budden Podcast. And he's
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: a rapper. They're both rappers that have very large followings
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: now in podcasts. And one of the co-hosts asked him
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: why he still uses the N-word. And Joe defended himself
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: by saying that he grew up on the exact block
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: where hip-hop was literally created in the Bronx. And he's
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: always seen himself as part of the culture, and that
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: word was always used. The conversation obviously sparked a backlash
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: towards the podcast for not pushing back on Fat Joe's comment.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: Mark Lamont Hill, who was not on that episode but
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: later joined the conversation and explained why he believes Joe
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: should not use the N-word. And this is an interesting thing.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, like Bill Cosby said, if everybody stopped using it,
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: I'd be okay with that. It's not a word I
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: use often. But I can tell you a lot of
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: my contemporaries growing up, this was commonplace vernacular, right? People,
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: instead of saying my friend, they would say my N-word.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: This is street slang in this part of the country.
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: It genuinely is. It has nothing to do with race.
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: But listen to what he had to say.
• 47:30
  Speaker 5: You should be black.
• 47:32
  Speaker 9: If you're going to use the N-word, you should be
• 47:34
  Speaker 9: somebody who could actually be called a nigger.
• 47:38
  Speaker 5: That's my position. That's my belief.
• 47:41
  Speaker 9: Now, Fat Joe is making a claim here that he
• 47:43
  Speaker 9: didn't make before, which is I'm the blackest person. You know,
• 47:45
  Speaker 9: he's saying he is black. I am not trying to
• 47:48
  Speaker 9: police anybody's ethnicity. I am not trying to.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: And nor should you. And Fat Joe is a white skin,
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: light eyed person. But I'm going to say. He's Cuban
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: and Puerto Rican, right? That's his black background. That's his background,
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: which has a lot of black in it. So I'm
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: not saying that I'm black, but I definitely realize when
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: I look in the mirror, I see my wide nose.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: I see I have larger lips. These don't come from
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: the Caucus Mountains, my friend. There's some black in me too.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: My dad's nickname in his family is El Negro. So
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: my dad was very dark. My mom was very light.
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: My mom was part Panamanian. I don't know if you've
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: ever been to Panama. They're black too. So the idea
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: that Hispanics... don't have black in them, or in some
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: cases have more black in them than not, or more native.
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: And my family, it's more like European Taino than it
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: is black, but it's still there. And this is, you
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: can debate all day, right? We're going to do pull
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: out ID cards and be like, well, yeah, you know,
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: my ancestors came from Spain and then, you know, from
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: Colombia and from Panama and ended up in Puerto Rico where,
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: you know, my immediate grandparents met and blah, blah, blah.
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: You know, I mean, How do you quantify or qualify
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: this stuff? Where's the number? This is where I find
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: this interesting. And all of this to be able to
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: use a word? That sounds insane to me.
• 49:19
  Speaker 8: Believe.
• 49:20
  Speaker 5: Anybody's racial identity.
• 49:22
  Speaker 9: But what I will say is Fat Joe seems to
• 49:24
  Speaker 9: be using black here ironically, or he's using it metaphorically.
• 49:29
  Speaker 9: Fat Joe has love for black people. Fat Joe is
• 49:31
  Speaker 9: not racist. Fat Joe cares about black people. But Fat
• 49:33
  Speaker 9: Joe is not black. I have no issue with Fat
• 49:36
  Speaker 9: Joe's relationship to the black community. But Fat Joe is
• 49:39
  Speaker 9: not black. Fat Joe was basically saying I grew up
• 49:41
  Speaker 9: around black people. I grew up in hip hop. I'm
• 49:43
  Speaker 9: a part of the culture. I am ensconced in the culture.
• 49:45
  Speaker 5: I agree with all of that. But Fat Joe is
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: not black. So while I love.
• 49:50
  Speaker 9: Fat Joe and I admire Fat Joe and I appreciate
• 49:52
  Speaker 9: Fat Joe, I don't share his position that he can
• 49:56
  Speaker 9: use the N word by virtue of his proximity to
• 49:59
  Speaker 9: the culture or his.
• 50:02
  Speaker 5: His love for the culture. I don't think that that's
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: enough now.
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: What would be enough, sir? And again, I'm not defending
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: Fat Joe's right to say this. Again, I could care less.
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: I couldn't care less. It just, it gives me a
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: low frustration tolerance here. But what does it matter? What
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: is the, can't we debate other things? I don't understand.
• 50:28
  Speaker 9: Some of y'all are saying, oh, this is bullshit. You know,
• 50:31
  Speaker 9: blacks and Latinos grew up together. And I know lots
• 50:34
  Speaker 9: of Latinos that use the N word in front of
• 50:36
  Speaker 9: black people and nobody trips, nobody bugs out.
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: That's actually true. Happens all the time. Just walk through
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: the Bronx, walk through Harlem, walk through anywhere in New
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: York City. I mean, watch one of those subway videos
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: where people get into a fight, right? Whether they're Dominicans
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: or Puerto Ricans or black, everybody speaks the same way.
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: It's kind of how people talk around here. Just a
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: fact of life. Untrue.
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: But that's all.
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: No, no, that is true.
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: Also complicated. First, we have.
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: I'll agree that it's complicated.
• 51:07
  Speaker 9: To make a distinction between race and ethnicity. There are
• 51:10
  Speaker 9: black Puerto Ricans. There are black Dominicans. You're damn right.
• 51:14
  Speaker 9: There are black Cubans. There are black Venezuelans and Colombians, etc.
• 51:19
  Speaker 5: etc., etc.
• 51:20
  Speaker 9: Ethnicity and race aren't the same thing. Ricky Martin is
• 51:24
  Speaker 9: Puerto Rican. Ricky Martin ain't black.
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: But Ricky Martin don't look black, right? And I don't
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: think he's using the N-word either.
• 51:35
  Speaker 9: All of this is messy and complicated, but at some
• 51:37
  Speaker 9: point it becomes... What do you look like? How do
• 51:41
  Speaker 9: you navigate the world? How does the world see you?
• 51:44
  Speaker 9: How do you self-identify? That stuff has to matter.
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: So if Fat Joe says, I identify as black, which
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: I've heard him say in the past, because he's a Latino,
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: he feels that he is Afro-Latino. If he self-identifies that way,
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: then a ti que te importa. What does it matter
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: to you, Mr. Lamont Hill?
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: Hip-hop doesn't make you black. Being in Scots and hip-hop.
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: He starts by saying, I don't want to police his ethnicity.
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: But here he is policing his ethnicity.
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: Doesn't make you black. Loving black people doesn't make you black.
• 52:19
  Speaker 9: If Fat Joe said, look, I got enough African roots
• 52:21
  Speaker 9: in me and I moved to the world like a
• 52:22
  Speaker 9: black person.
• 52:23
  Speaker 5: So that's why I say it. I would say cool.
• 52:25
  Speaker 5: But he's not saying that.
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: So Fat Joe now has to make a disclaimer. If
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: he's like, yeah, what's up, my ninja? Oh, by the way,
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: my grandmother on my mother's side was a black Cuban.
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: And my great-grandmother on my dad's side, that whole family
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: comes from Loiza in Puerto Rico, which is all black.
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: At that point, then he can gain approval from the crowd,
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: to use this word. Is that what you're suggesting?
• 52:51
  Speaker 9: He's saying, I do all this other shit that gives
• 52:56
  Speaker 9: me almost like credit as a black person. There's no
• 52:58
  Speaker 9: honorary degrees in blackness. You don't get that. That's not
• 53:02
  Speaker 9: an option. There is a fascination.
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: With race and ethnicity held by people on the left. Fascination. Obsession.
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: I understand the importance of it. I'm not ignorant to history.
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: Tribes exist because of survival, because of mutual understanding, because
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: of a lot of things. But Fat Joe is clearly
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: in this tribe. He's never harmed this tribe. Whether the
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: tribe is hip-hop, whether the tribe is the Bronx, whether
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: the tribe is New York City, whether the tribe is black,
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: whether the tribe is Puerto Rican, whichever of the tribes
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: you want to name, which he's a part of all,
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: he hasn't brought harm to them. So why, in your
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: attempt to say you're not policing anything, are you policing
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: this man? I mean, that's really what I want to know.
• 54:02
  Speaker 9: The street or of our going through the world trying
• 54:04
  Speaker 9: to stop this. Will Fat Joe be the first person
• 54:05
  Speaker 9: I start with? No, there's a lot of people that
• 54:07
  Speaker 9: use the N-word inappropriately who don't have his bona fides.
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: According to him, Fat Joe doesn't have the bona fides.
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: According to him, Mark Lamont Hill.
• 54:18
  Speaker 5: Have his commitment, who don't have his connection.
• 54:20
  Speaker 9: But that doesn't mean that he's right.
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: And what would make him right? Are you going to
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: be there every time he opens his mouth? The catalog
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: that this man has for 30 years of being a rapper,
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: of that word being used, I'm sure, colloquially and as
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: part of a metaphor for generations now, or at least
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: a generation in his music.
• 54:45
  Speaker 5: You can do it. Doesn't mean that you should do it.
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: I'm going to give you some of your own advice, Mr.
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: Mark Lamont Hill. Just because you can sit here and
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: make videos and talk about Fat Joe and whatever else
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: you want to talk about doesn't mean you should. This
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: is a losing argument, a silly argument. And as you saw,
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: so many more videos came out, probably close to a
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: hundred of black rappers coming to the defense of Fat
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: Joe saying Fat Joe's as black as he wants to be.
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: He's been there since day one. He was carrying records
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: for the people that invented hip hop. I don't know
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: about you, but those sound like some serious, uh, credentials
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: to me. And, uh, I don't think Mark Lamont Hill
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: expected that type of backlash. Or maybe that's exactly what
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: he wanted, to get his name in the mouths of
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: all these people. Who knows? Anyway, that's all I've got.
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: I think we need to stop this obsession over race, right?
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: You see rivalry amongst Puerto Ricans and Dominicans. And I'll
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: tell you this, look. Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, maybe not so much. Cubans, definitely.
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: As a kid growing up, the first N-word I heard
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: was negrito. You know, I once worked at a radio
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: station in New York City, WABC, and I was setting
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: up an interview or trying to set up an interview
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: with salsa legend Willie Colon. And he and I had
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: been in touch on Twitter a little bit through DM
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: during COVID or right before COVID, right before they started
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: acting up a lot with the Twitter files and freezing
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: my account after I tweeted Trump and all sorts. And
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: he retweeted me. But all that to the side. It
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: was around that time. And I remember I said, hey,
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: let's talk. And we talked on the phone. He called
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: me and he said, hola, negrito. First thing he said
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: to me, right? This is a term of endearment. Little
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: black person, little black guy. Hola, negrito. This had nothing
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: to do with race. This is a term of endearment.
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: And I've been hearing this since I was a kid,
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: well before I ever heard anybody use the N-word. Willie
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: Colon is probably the same complexion as me, right? Light
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: to fair, I would say. I tan really well, but
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: my complexion is pretty light. Are we going to sit
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: here and say that he's not allowed or I'm not allowed?
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, really? Why even bother with these debates? I
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: don't know. It just makes me laugh. And it reinforces
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: what the left is truly doing here. absolutely nothing, pure distraction,
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: trying to divide and conquer at every turn. Where there's
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: no beef, they're trying to make some beef. They say,
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: I don't want no smoke, but they want all the smoke.
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: I'm not trying to police your speech. I'm not trying
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: to police your ethnicity, but he tries to police all
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: of it. That's what the left does. They lie and
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: they're fake and they're phony and they're fraud. That's why
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: you got to stand for something because if you stand
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: for nothing, you'll fall for anything. And The only thing
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: necessary for evil to triumph is for good people like
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: you to sit there and do nothing. So make sure
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: you know something. Make sure you do something. Hasta la proxima.
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: Take care. Good night. And God bless you, America. I'm
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: Rich Valdez, and this is America.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: This is America.
• 58:13
  Speaker 10: This is America. Thank you.
• 59:09
  Speaker 8: Bye.