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"With Rich Valdez. So the main themes that tend to get books banned are race sexuality then and a couple to of some books degree on history school shootings. mostly black But Arch history Beagleman's but things Mouse, like 1619 a graphic novel we about have done the by Holocaust, the way a couple banned a young kid in some in places. a Japanese American internment George Takei's camp ban book they call because Lost Enemy there about are a bunch how of he people who grew. just don't He was a want sort of anything that feels like it paints American history or it brings up things about our past out The there. thing They think that's most sort people of anti fear -American is their but kid getting that's shot just in how you look the at safe it. space It could be the beauty that of is it. school. But to your point If you're really worried Alright folks about that's your kid's safety, Ali Velshi that's on where the your Morning energy Joe should go. today Not banning saying books. if you're worried about All your kid's safety, gun control is where you should go, not banning books. And The that notion again this is another it's gun control, political sleight gun control. of hand Taking that the we see guns but away again from law abiding always citizens and pushing really the doing nothing to stop it from getting in the hands of criminals and we've seen that because parts the street plainclothes of police guys departments that were very like the aggressive anti in -crime unit in unmarked New York City vehicles, that was they infamous were disbanded for because getting guns off the they so said it they was don't no good blend and in, now they have you a see new them version coming a of mile the anti away -crime and unit but it's they just totally have a ineffective. modified uniform but And they look like our cops guest is John Lott, founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center, crimeresearch .org is his website. Dr. John Lott from the Lott, Democrat Party why and is it, in all your of opinion, their acolytes that in the Washington left continue within the media, to the left push within the that gun this message? control is Is it going one to make that our you children feel resonates safer? with some people? Are people really Well, I mean, buying I think there this are some hook, people line, that and believe that? Look, I think the media has a lot to do with this. If people only always have hear about people bad who think, things if I that can just happen get with rid guns of guns, and almost they'll make never people hear safer. about the benefits. The problem is, you know, if you look at the best data we have, it looks like people use guns defensively to stop crime, about news media, five we times did a more deep dive frequently on each all the year than media they coverage use them to on commit crime. But if gun crimes you go and and look defensive at the news uses papers a in couple the United years States, ago, the New York in Times, 2021. the LA And if you Times, look at the Washington the Post, top five largest the USA newspapers the Wall Street Journal, between them, they had a total of 2700 plus newspapers news had stories a total about of gun five crimes defensive that gun were committed. use stories By in contrast, 10 defensive those five gun use stories something else and went wrong. most of those had something And, you go wrong, either know, the wrong person it really was shot or gives people a really biased view of how guns are used. It's not You necessary to fire know, a the vast gun, majority simply brandishing of times a gun that is people enough use to guns cause defensively, a criminal to about go 95 and break off % an attack. of them, it's not But even if where you the attacker look has been at killed. how defensive gun use stories Almost all are the rest covered, involve instances most where of them the involve attacker has instances been wounded. Only about 4 % of news stories actually involve brandishing, whereas about 95 % they do. of cases actually If involve you're brandishing. an editor of a news It's bureau, understandable why and you have a the dead media body covers on these the ground, things the way or they let's say you have a story where a woman's brandished a gun, and the would -be would -be criminals run away, no shots are fired, no crime myself is or actually you committed, would probably pick the first story you're as not even being sure more what newsworthy, crime would have been but committed, just I because something's think anybody, newsworthy mass doesn't doesn't shootings, mean mass happen. public that it shootings reflects There for reality example. are lots of in other things People like have terms this impression of the rates that that the things United States somehow somehow leads the world for in population, terms many countries of these attacks, in Europe and nothing have could higher be per further capita from the rates truth. of When mass you adjust public things can in understand why the the United US States. media covers attacks The problem in is, the United States more again, than they're going to cover them you in know, other I I'll give you an example, since the clip you had mentioned school shootings. Since ways. countries. We've had The country 10 like mass Germany public has school had three, shootings in the United States but where four more what people people have don't been killed. seem to realize is the United States has 330 million people. Germany has 80 million. So we have be the more equivalent than four of times Germany having the 12, number of population. which is If you more adjust than our 10. for population Or you take differences, a country like Finland, that would which be has had two mass public school shootings over that period of time. Finland has more guns in America, there's more gun violence. No, I think that's exactly right. And, or the Washington Post you have know, a graph there's so many that things will go and that are done. talk about gun You'll ownership go and in you'll see different the countries, New York Times and and the United States they'll look has at a like high rate 12 of or 13 murders developed compared countries. to these other countries. And then they'll go But, and they'll say, you know, you know, the United
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"Rich valdez all this is america right america at welcome night and and our guest uh... anthony i know you've done a couple shows recently russo that political are pretty cool analyst i'm and host looking of at this the one truth here will recent set you program free you did our country is racist as heck tell us about that that uh... uh... trumped is going i feel down a clickbait and that was after uh... the third one of indictment my most watched uh... shows recently and it was in was quotes when i but actually man did it get the uh... the ultra trumpers fired up tell me i'm a terrible person of the people on it that one uh... did the yeah though sometimes racist uh... i do the racist stuff one to try with to get regarding people to watch got it and hopefully they that watch with the that rest of the show last and week learn or some two weeks of the ago at the way it people think was involving i at got what was the fact the big that there's we bring so many a new great story into every everything week that there and is a big racial it was actually not the story last week and it was involving the fact that really the true the true racist or the the left everybody that that is that uh... was the big thing is we're it's creating a just racist a it's environment the way by that they look essentially at any evening black person cannot have an opinion that if is it racism is not that prevalent of what a in ultra the society liberal but what it's coming from happened the wrong to direction that that likewise was the whole point there is there there that very is much those was uh... that are fired on the because that and she she was are a there with was uh... that admitting right with can uh... how the texas she disliked elementary school texas teacher in teacher texas white with another story and she posted from all about out until finally finally she got fired she hated the fact that her sister brought home a white guy and just went involving ballistic on right it to so the which that is was not what getting that was a about a break little -in bit about of clickbait getting any to better get people i'll engaged be honest in the i conversation and i think that goes involving both ways it there's a reason uh... for black it we culture we that had from the society things of adopted that are this not the this hip unfortunate -hop which is complete view garbage of and we ignore we ignore the positive of the black community because we celebrate the negative and that it's all created black people this whole are you good have no matter to if they're you criminals have to or think not one and that's way creating and you have i to abide think by some every rule of those and people say that have been races and in two that thousand have their i families think generational it's starting to races come back and the that other slowly it's but starting surely the pendulum went swinging away through the the other sixties direction seventies because eighties of the way and that uh... the culture is portrayed whether it's in in mainstream media or whether it's just the equation and i at think hand what's they see things going from on a in slightly social different media perspective in yeah so much as i think and hip -hop you're is a saying is a and billion you know dollar i industry would and and it's made a lot of billionaires and millionaires and made a great life for a lot of people who've come up through hip -hop music and but you're right i i think there's i get we're a lot saying of the emphasis message sometimes on uh... on looking is at uh... the negative derogatory one aspects and of whatnot any culture and uh... and versus it's the like you positive know if you're aspects right here and if trying you're white to you're wrong pick if people you're against uh... one latino another and and and you're that against seems to be the new trend right illegal immigration you're a sellout and there seems to be such a a racial animus that uh... scores people feel every like that they're societal they're compartmentalized into and one group cultural or another and topic this is nowadays the very essence that of people find it interesting that's happening of right cultural before a us some marxist people revolution notice a that lot we've of seen people in are china talking and about elsewhere it but nobody and really seems i just to care they just gotta go with the flow and like you said it seems to be getting worse whether it's racism whether it's these things a are discrimination front and center uh... yesterday based on and again i don't even on know if it was gender real but uh... i saw a skittles or whatever rapper you it might know have that been the a prototype fact that i all of these haven't they're playing seen yet it in the store but there you go it said and i something saw like that black this trans is real or lives mark matter fit on a skittles that that rapper that no that the while no right that's right and this was sent to me by somebody that is extremely apolitical knows me from like my real real on life the radio outside right but they of sent radio this to and me because they doesn't have a even child listen to and the show this uh... isn't and they were like all this they seems know is weird assets are like republican what the why talks are on we having this type of messaging on on candy that's targeted to kids it's on so regular people that are again or is it there does no not engaged are they're it's realizing not working this for the and left and i i gotta think think it that's is because the reason why it not working is for killing the left the or far is left when you but do the i'd center like you is said starting somebody to see that really the doesn't lunacy have a in political some of bone that and i you i know remember in their body exactly and reaching what out the knowing lead story we were talking about it was the mississippi melee it was on the the montgomery or mississippi 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Call now 833 482 -833 -4 -5337 -Valdez. for That's Valdes. 833 Valdez Andy Berger, with an she is S. a human trafficking survivor All and right America welcome back. the head of We're on voices with trafficking voices against trafficking .com and she's telling us how she went through this really difficult time abused and got as away from a child her family from only the because age of she went six to college months and to then finished 17 college and went to law school years old and realized decided to that make a that's change not and how you live your life. we That's were just not the at right that way. point It's not where the normal she way was and in law decided school and realized this isn't how everybody else is living. Andy Berger, go right ahead. Yes, who had absolutely. been hurt like I So part was from of going to law school being was a desire to lost save other kids in the system or and hurt I saw even judges further, sending kids back but I realized to the abusing in law parents school that because, it wasn't well, really the every kid justice belongs I with was the looking mother for. or At that's that time, just a misunderstanding, right? And so that culture was every kid belongs with the parents, even if the parents are the kids, problem. and I still have trouble listening And as to a minor, younger people, kids had no you say know, whatsoever 14, 15. in the court We have national system. cases that, And even today, you know, we could we talk still about have too, but the victims were not listened to. And so after I got through that. law were school, like me I went back so to that they business, don't have I thought, to suffer you know what, because I'm going to go a back to victim business, lives and I'll with find another the way trauma to help kids their who's, you know, entire faith support life, even systems, like me, if I you get always healing, are affected like I did by through therapy, what someone counseling, has other done things, to you, especially with sexual violations and exploitation. You never live past that. You Here can't in it, go it's back heartbreaking. to innocence. So how do you, Yeah, I that's mean, really unfortunate, how did you move forward? Andy Berger, How did you cope really is. being I mean, I hear that, created a you know, new it normal doesn't go rich away? and that's when How do I you encourage manage people, on the day to day? a lot of the kids that my Well, husband and what I I have rescued, did was I you know, we encourage them, you know, to keep moving, don't buy the lives that you can't be better, that you can't have a life that could make as you in, happy, if that you can't I'm be successful, successful, all those if things. I live, So I then I win. had a primal And desire if I give to up or win, take my life or do any of that, then the evil people win. So it was kind of primal in the beginning. But once I got some success life, and I and finish law it was school, on me I was now, back in business you know, and I if I realized had that to decide I every could day probably to do be something the kind of in person I wanted life to right, be. but I didn't know And it that's at the what happened. time. Now, relationships were Yeah. a So unfortunately, struggle. I married you know, an first abuser. marriage ended, Big shocker, but then a couple years after, I did marry the most amazing human I've ever known. And two I will never things leave. really stuck And I'll always with listen, me. He said, even though I you know, don't understand everything yeah, that he said, happened you know, to you, I will always but I'll be always there be for there. you. I will And that was That's so impacting a big deal because to to know you have somebody, anybody in your support system, imagine. Just having that unconditional support makes a huge difference in anybody's life, let alone someone who's been through He's the head the of Voices type Against of Trafficking, abuse that you'd VoicesAgainstTrafficking gone through. .com, Again, America, our guest a is survivor Andy of Berger. human She's the trafficking, forward an attorney to and where an advocate we are today, against and what's going on against trafficking. And Andy Berger, so what's going on in the news. And there's this story right before I brought John, I was talking about eight on arrested the human trafficking Eric Johnson charges, case, part of a former gang NFL called the player Lotto Gang. who is among eight This is more common than I think we think, is that right? Absolutely. Just so the listeners know, that in means the they're US taken, alone, they're lured every into 40 something seconds, that they think is safe. a child 18 And years it's not or just younger kids is as teenagers, abducted. college levels, kids, however you you know, want young to call women. that, but every And so community this has goes this whether we on at want all levels, to acknowledge higher levels, the lower elephant in the room or not, because you can't have victims without predators. And this Lotto case is a great example. them sexual The gangs into are activities using their that they don't want to girlfriends do. They're using violence or women, and manipulation like they're coercing they did them in my college. case, So you know, the with family fact that members. they were So it's even found out a way and to arrested control is huge. their product. That's very rare. But again, people need to know that the average predator doesn't just look like the people in the movies, they it's could they an look epidemic, like a librarian or you know, a dentist or, human poaching you is know, an epidemic school teacher. in this And, country. you know, we have such an uptick So rich, you're saying the our idea that when you're walking down the street and you see some weirdo and you get this gut feeling you're like this sizes might be and one of those walks human of life. trafficking weirdos. Absolutely. That's not very Because accurate. the money You're saying they and come in all the greed shapes, it's one hundred and usually is sixty billion trafficking dollar is fueled global by greed enterprise. or perversion. But we hear mostly And then the about states the greed were because talking maybe, it's you know, forty two of that number. But sexual sex trafficking is friends the over for majority of a that. party. They tell their Because if girlfriend, you think the about girlfriend's it, a gang can like, say, hey, hey, you know, you know, great. I'm come on going over. to be popular. I'm going to have some My guy's that invited night. me He makes to a some lot of money kind doing of that. shindig. And she's not going And then to run he home ends up and selling say, hey, her guess what twenty, happened to me last twenty four times that time? Her boyfriend becomes a pimp and she becomes ashamed. Exactly. And so the day the average victim, each if they're lucky, victim does get, has a you know, seven most year victims lifespan average a and sale of twenty to usually twenty only five times one out a of over every the years. one hundred We see victims that some of the is victims who rescued managed to or kill escapes. their predator actually But then get also put in in jail news for headlines murder. over Wow. How crazy. That's crazy. That's insane. They should be awarded and applauded. Understand. Absolutely. And it's just like with I mean, prostitution. they have suffered I actually to had a district attorney a degree in my that no area one can say, ever Oh, well, if they're 18 and older and they're a prostitute, they chose that. Now, you mentioned you had children. that. I don't know that they're But growing up saying, yet gee, the I'd like to be a prostitute, 89 you percent know, when I grow up. of No, they're not. forced prostitutes into. That's their life. would not do that, but they were recruited as Yeah. minors very When I was young a kid, and they the thought was always, Oh, those are runaways. And because, you know, they wanted to get away from home, they ended up living on the street and that's how they survived. That's why When they chose that you lifestyle. look at how prostitution And I'm sure has there was some expanded truth to that. and it works But today I think where there's it's a lot a lot more more to organized, it
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"This is America at night with rich valdes. All right, America, welcome back. I am rich Valdez at Val de average Valdez I should try to get that handle. I found this At rich found us on all of these social media and our guest is Dana Killian. She is the author and former excuse me. Take two. Security. Author and former caretaker of an addict. Dan achille shares her hard earned education in her debut memoir, where the shadows dance, he got sober, I got broken, and you could check that out and buy a couple of copies of the book. I recommend giving one away. I think it's always a good idea. Matt Dana, we left off with, you know, you saw the warning signs, but didn't know that they were there. The doctors didn't alert you. What was the emotional side? Part of your memoir, part of your story. What was it like was it easy? I can't see easy, but how difficult was it being a caretaker of your former husband who was an alcoholic? I think that's probably one of the most difficult things about the experience. Alcohol slowly occupies your life and your thoughts. You are constantly in this place of does he have a problem? Is he drinking now? What do I have to look for? What am I watching for? Smelling his bread. Looking at his eyes, wondering when the world is going to crash around him and around you. And it is a process once you get into the haters of problem. And you start trying to figure out ways to work through it. It becomes a game. The alcoholic doesn't want to change. And there is this one step forward two steps backward process where the alcoholic kind of dicks in. And goes through the classic maneuvers that many, many alcoholics go through, which is trying to find ways to modify their drinking so that they feel like they're accomplishing something. Well, originally my former husband drank beer and as I became concerned about his drinking, it was, okay, I'll just drink wine with dinner. Okay, I'll just drink a special occasions. And these are just little games that the addict is playing to appease you and to. Their own problem. That's it correct. That's it. Exactly. They don't want to admit that they have a problem because the hardest person to face in anything that's difficult like this is yourself. But those of us on the sidelines and alcoholism, we just get caught up in trying to keep the person we love alive. Trying to keep the impact of their illness away from our children. Trying to keep the impact of the disease away from financial ruin. When is he going to crush the car and kill somebody? These are the things that just kind of constantly bubble under the surface in your life. And it becomes consuming and you almost because it's so slow, you don't even know what's happening. And how do you know it? You're not there anymore. Right. Right. And that's what I was going to get to. Around the booth. Right. The title is really what got me here, right? It's where the shadows dance, and hopefully you can tell us the meaning behind the title of the book. But I like the subtitle here. He got sober. I got broken. And I think that's really the story here is that while there may be recovery for the person that's an alcoholism and facing alcoholism, they can find that recovery, but then you yourself have to do some healing because of what you went through in the trauma of it all. So how did you guys get to that point? How did he get sober? How did he realize he had a problem? Like all of these things, it fits and starts and there are progressive actions and progressive behaviors of forcing therapy. Therapy game became a condition of marriage. Eventually there was a point where I he didn't get to the point where he was, he thought he had bought and but hadn't. And eventually we got to the point where I had to say you have two choices. You can have me or you can have vodka. There's nothing else in between. And this was years in. This was after health issues. This was after a DUI. This was after various events such as this, where it just, it's spirals down. And only when that point occurred where I said these other choices, that's the point when he eventually agreed to go into a rehab center. And that's sober then. All right, folks, we're on with Dana Killian. She's the author of this book where the shadows dance, he got sober, I got broken by a couple of copies and check her out on her website, Dana, Killian dot com, DA NA, KI, LL ION dot com. And when we come back, Dan, I want you to kind of describe to us what the journey was like for the rest of you. How have you got broken and where you're at in your process of healing to put a finer point on the rest of your story. Don't go anywhere. America, we
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"All right, America, welcome back. It's rich Valdez, our guest is Richard Lyons is the author of the DNA of democracy, volume one, and shadows of the acropolis volume two, I recommend picking up a couple of copies of each this is really good stuff, folks. And we were talking about the unique nature of our governance here in the United States and how it's set up as a constitutional republic. And my question to Richard Lyons are my request was that he kind of in the research that he did going back historically to kind of highlight why they landed on a constitutional republic and what the benefits are for us as American citizens. Richard Lyons. Well, yeah, that is the key question. The constitution developed in our country came from elements as we were speaking about rich from Greece from Rome and some elements from England. And in America, we had the advantage with the colonists that they literally grew their government out of the ground. They were left alone by any overarching government overseeing government. And so there are government was largely in the town councils. The state was a distant government at which their friends were their representatives. They knew that people who represented them. When it got to the federal level and we were constructing the constitution, the one thought was, how do we leave things as they are? What we do not want is another administrative government like the British monarchy was. They wanted to keep that. They wanted to keep powers apart and diffused and local. It was the local government that would concern persons first and the federal, which would concern them least. And that's interesting because that's one of the fundamental tenets of our government is separation of powers. And I just love to reiterate that it's not by accident, right? Quite frankly, by design. And it is what makes us I think so unique as a constitutional republic being one of the youngest nations in history, as well as the oldest constitutional republic at such an interesting place for America to be. That's really well put, rich, and perfectly true. And so yes, we have enjoyed the virtues of that, but then we've suffered in the last hundred years, and this is where shadows of the acropolis picks up. We've suffered the fear that all the founders had. Whatever entity has power will want to accumulate more power. And as it grows more powerful, it's able to assume more power. And so that's the situation that's been growing for the last hundred years and we're seeing a lot of symptoms of what can go wrong these days. Right, well, and I think one of the main things that, you know, if we go fast forward a little bit to the founders and those that were influenced by the enlightenment and those that immediately participated in the constitutional convention, there was this reticence, obviously, towards the tyranny of the majority. And it seems like we love that today. It's an if you're a conservative as I am, we're underdogs now because there seems to be a great weight placed in the government and specifically the executive branch of the government taking care of everybody as if the government were the mother, the father, and the dear aunt. With advice. And that it was never supposed to be that. It was supposed to be Uncle Sam, who is not in your house who lives somewhere else who you invite over for Thanksgiving, but you very rarely see. It's just it's been turned to upside down and it's become this sort of nanny state. And I think a big fuel of that has been the media with talk shows on every day talking about all the little pains in America that need government solutions. What we talk about the pains in America, but we never talk about government solutions. Thank God. But I think you might be right. I think you combine the media, the free press with academia. And I think now you're onto something. And as of late, even corporate America has chimed in on how they've kind of joined at the hip with partners in government. And I hate to oversimplify, but it seems like that's where we are. Well, you know what shocks me most rich and you'll probably agree. Is that they did a they did a survey of PhDs. These are persons who have spent their whole lives learning, but they haven't learned that there's never been a successful socialist government in the world. In history, there is always been tyranny and it's always been feeding on its own people. And why they would prescribe that as something that might be successful if the dream of an unexampled utopia finally occurs is beyond me because these are supposed to be smart people. This is a fascinating point that you bring up and one that also baffles me and I don't think either of us have the answer, but I don't mind commiserating with you for a moment. In so much as saying, it's amazing to me that the communist manifesto or just Marxism overall has grown to the level it has. And has influenced so much over the years. And I'd say it's probably one of the most pervasive pernicious ideologies that has existed in the last hundred, even 200 years, a 150 years or whatever. And we're seeing how destructive it's been, yet we're not getting further away from it. We're getting closer to it. Well, I detailed this in shadows to be acropolis rich. I'm going to take you back a hundred years ago. And this goes back to Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson was academic par excellence. He never spent a day of his life outside of a university campus until we became governor of New Jersey and then president. And his whole thinking and you can see it in his writings. His whole thinking was around the ideal state theory of Frederick Hagel, which is the opposite of our founders, belief in the philosopher John Locke, John Locke believes the individual should govern the government. Ideal state theory
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"Right, welcome back. Rich Valdez and I wanted to, I wanted to share this other story. I mean, it's just crazy stuff out there. There's stuff like I said, it was literally for the birds. Not just this zoo in England that's getting a scarecrow dressed as to scare away seagulls. They're calling a seagull deterrent, but the CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Listen, it's a real story on the CBC. Parrots who learn to video call feathered friends feel less lonely, according to a study. We wanted to see how we could leverage technology to improve their quality of life, said one of the co researchers. Polly want a cracker, maybe after a FaceTime call, according to this recent study at northwestern university in Boston, parrots have been taught to contact their feathered peers with a video call app, and it's showing that the parrots have signs of feeling less isolated or lonely. Now, I don't know how a parrot even tells a researcher that they feel lonely, but this is what they've come up with. Now, many parent parrot species live in large flocks. When they live with humans, they are usually isolated from other birds. That can lead to heightened loneliness and boredom. Ha ha. Did you know that your parent is bored? So when they're kept as pets, they're very often the only bird around and this is when they start to identify as lonely. This is according to the researchers here. The parrots are taught the association between ringing a bell and their owner bringing them an iPad with a selection of birds. Then the parrot could choose which one they'd like to call via video. It was important to allow the parrots to choose which of their friends they were going to call according to the researcher named kleinberger here. Rebecca meager, she's an assistant professor at Dallas university's department of animal science and agriculture, aquaculture, or aquaculture, she said similar experiments could benefit other social animals. She also said similar work has been done before involving showing videos of other animals to primates. Now, that's their story basically, look, the parrots happier if you let them do FaceTime with another bird. I don't know that I buy any of this and I did a radio show in a podcast several years ago because one day I had to go run an errand on a weekend with my kid. And I turn on for fodder, I turn on NPR, a WNYC in New York to hear what they're saying. And I hear a girl saying, and I was so, I forget her dog's name, I'm gonna call him bruiser. And she was like, I was so concerned, every time I go out with bruiser, he's always lunging at men And then she works her way up to making the point that her dog always lunges at black men. And the question became that she starts asking on this radio program, public radio, she says, I wonder if my dog is a racist. So now they're going through this whole narration on this program of how she's going to take her kid to New Haven Connecticut to Yale University to the department of animal. And they're going to go ahead and study the dog to see if the dog is a racist. And this is like a serious hard news story that I'm laughing my butt off in my car saying, you've got to be kidding me. Clearly they've never had a dog. Before. I mean, if your dog is lunging at people, isn't that because the dog is a racist? It's because the dog senses your fear around those people so the dog becomes apprehensive on your behalf. If your dog is aggressive that way, you start the dog trains you. So you, oh my God, no, my doctor doesn't like people. So right away, you become nervous, your dog gets nervous and they do exactly what they're trained to do. Instinctually. To get aggressive. And again, dog owners who are listening to me right now know that what I'm talking about is a 100% true. And then there's NPR people that did this study. Anyway, I will replay that on the podcast. This is America with rich Valdez, make sure you subscribe to that. We'll get that in there. It's an older podcast, but I think it's worth an encore presentation because it's hysterical. Just like this parrot study, in my opinion, is hysterical. But I want to get to your calls. I know there's a lot of things to talk about. Let us go to Kim in Michigan, listening on KDKA, hey Kim, welcome. Hi, rich. Thank you. Yeah, I call then about well, I'll tell you right off the bat. So you don't have to ask me. I don't want to be applied for a single scarecrow job because I mentioned you get verbal style. But what I want to know, Kim, I do want to know, do you believe this parrot study? Do you think the parrots are happier when they FaceTime each other? I don't know. I was thinking if your parent, you could play a video just for him to watch. That's what people do for their cats and dogs. They'll put videos on it if their pets are lonely, you know? So maybe the video call is a substitute for a video that analog video. So maybe there's truth to it. You may have changed my mind. I see that on the Internet. But anyways, what I call the boat is Biden. And I don't know how far gone he's got to be to say the things he was saying about how great everything been the two and a half years. He's been in and how we don't want to go back. I mean, everything's gone wrong in the time. He spent it in our country alone. The prices, I mean, everything now the banks are starting to go. And they say in quarter three and four, we could see a depression crash in the stock market comparable to the 1991 crash. Just everything is going to how in the U.S. and the world it's not just Biden and their site is not just affecting us. I mean, the Ukraine Putin never would have went in there with president Trump in office. And now Taiwan has to worry because China's moving their fleet into the harbor there. You know, the whole world is gone crazy since they know the world knows that a senile nasty old crooked old man is in The White House and nobody's going to do anything about it. And they're going to take advantage of this. You know, I think you're right. I think you're right. And I think that Joe Biden is not just senile. I think he's lost a lot of luster and he's not as sharp as he was, but a lot of this, I think is just these are political deals that he's made and not with Republicans and not with other Democrats, but with politicians from other countries, and now he's got to live up to those deals, and it's a sad day for America. Thank you, Kim, I appreciate it. Let's continue our conversation here across America. It's got to marry Mary's in saint Joseph, Missouri on KMA listening from Iowa. Yes, you're streaming that. Mary, welcome, you're on with rich valdes. Go right ahead. Hi, rich. I think you've been talking a lot about birds tonight and I wanted to ask you a question. Why did ducks have tail feathers
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"At night with rich valdes. All right, America, welcome back, rich Valdez, here with you and our guest, Brent bozell founder and president of the media research center, Brent bozell. Welcome, sir. Chris, thank you for having me. Oh, it's my pleasure. I'm glad you're back. Now, I want to pick your brain. There's a lot to talk about. Yesterday, we played a brief clip of audio of my least favorite congresswoman from The Bronx and queens I call her AOC all out crazy Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and she said that Fox News and Tucker Carlson were inciting violence this that and the third. Now today she's on to saying that de platforming works and she's celebrating Tucker Carlson's exit at Fox News. What say you? Well, I think that she is this woman is a socialist by definition, but she's more than that. That's her definition. My definition is that she's a Marxist product tour in the United States and the body politics. There is nothing that will satisfy. We're not sure if you ever heard her give a speech saying I'm happy. Have you ever heard her give address saying this is the way the world should be? And I love my country. It's just believe in this. This woman is anti American. This is riches. It's a phrase I use very, very guardedly. Never before in my career that I accept the usage of the phrase anti American, but I do believe this crowd is I do believe these people hate this country and they want to tear this country down. So for them, ends justify the means. So yeah, they will try any dirt every dirty trick, including disparaging people's reputations at the drop of a hat should they go against this far left radical socialist agenda that they have. That's AOC. You know, Brent Bose, I think you're right. And I just want to add my opinion on that because I think you're a 100% right. And I don't want anybody to misconstrue any of that. It's not that they do hate America, but it's not just that they just hate the America that we currently have, the America that America was created to be. And they're trying to recreate this America and their beautiful utopian even dystopian vision of America. And I think this is the reason why it's never enough and they're never happy because they feel if we do this and we do that, then we'll get to this happy place. But we don't really ever get there, do we? No, no, but you know, I guess I'm gonna go for the look when George McCarthy ran for president in 1972. He was the most left wing senator ever around for us. With the exception, maybe not Roosevelt had a stronger, a more left wing administration. But he was seeing for his time as the most liberal in America running for president. In 1980, he was defeated for office, but I recall very strongly. In two years after that, he was on the cover of Time Magazine on July 4th, standing next to the person who was the furthest on the right and United States Senate. Jesse Helms. And they were standing by his side by side waving American flags. I'm sorry, but I don't see AOC waiting in American flag. I've never seen her do that. I don't see her wearing an American lapel. The American flag. I don't see her celebrating July 4th. This is a crowd that think where they're going. The CRT indoctrination campaign of children is meant to educate the next generation of Americans that America is fundamentally taught is fundamentally a bad country. This is a country that was built on racism. The 1619 Project then becomes the alternative to the United States. It becomes the alternative to 1776. This is what they want. This is why I believe they're anti Americans. They don't want a lovely American. Not just crap. And you know, Ted Kennedy, background did as far left as they were. They loved America. I just don't think she does. I've never heard her say it. Have you ever heard of America? Can you imagine her singing? I love America. You know, it's a brilliant point that you point out there. And it's accurate. And it's shameful, honestly, for her and the rest of her squad members to take this position. But that's where they are. And now they're celebrating the success. Now, look, I'm not gonna make some tongue in cheek comments. It's part of what I do. But I'm not happy that Don lemon is without a job. I mean, I guess I'm happy that there's this movement at CNN. But I don't want to see the guy unemployed. I hope he gets a job at news nation or somewhere else. And it seems like one side is just happy to have a political debate. And the other side is happy to relish in the de misfortune of another person. What is that rooted in? That's good Christian thinking. And maybe some of us do go report in our police sometimes. You do that because conservatives were sick and tired of the gun that means the world. Equating them with fascism, equating them with racism. He called the people and he called them racists. So he's calling after this country racist. And not two lovers. And not to mention, not to mention, I never really forgetting how obscene this man could be. How on New Year's Eve, drunkenly? Folks at CNN, I will just leave this phrase because they used it on television, but they were joking about tea back. Now I won't go any further than that. If you don't know what I'm talking about wonderful, if you do, you're disgusted. Well, they were doing better on national television. This is the problem with CNN. The wheels fell off this network. Many years ago, got lemon with CNN for 17 years, but let's be Frank about this. He was never a success. He was the numbers as CNN, are so rich, they're so awful. When they're in the last year, I was looking at some numbers. Fox is down 22%. MSNBC is down 17%. That's from last year when the war started and everybody was watching television. Well, if there's one thing CNN is good at, that's war coverage. And yet, since the war began, CNN's audience is down 61%. Wow. It's collapsed. His audience, the audience that he had been at 25 to 40 year old, a demographic, which is the key demographic. He had 75 thousand viewers in a nation of 340 million. Wow. I've never to have that show. When he was suspended, the ratings for his show went up 5%. That's horrible. I didn't know that. That's really terrible. I feel badly. I mean, this man, he didn't have a candy Kirk, some years ago. She was the darling of The Today Show in the morning. Just crushed it with the ratings. And they put her on the nightly news and she tanked like a rock. She wasn't made up for nightly new stuff. The limit wasn't made up for nightly new stuff. But he certainly wasn't made out for morning television. That was a disaster from the get go. They should never have done that. They should never have given him an anchor slot. He just simply never earned it. Get old, done limon. Well, I want to shift gears a little bit and get to the Tucker Carlson controversy because again, it's a similar story, but yet very different, and we're going to get your take on that when we come back from the break. I do want to remind everybody who you are. Folks who are on with Brent Bose, the founder and president of the media research center, you can check them
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"All right, America, welcome back, rich Valdez, we're here with Nina may from the renaissance foundation. She was filming a documentary on January 6th at the capitol, and earlier, right before the break, she mentioned that one of the gentlemen who was there was part of the crowd that had flashbangs deployed on them, died. And two of the individual I see listed here, Benjamin Phillips, and Kevin Greece and could you clarify which one of them you know was there when that happened? Oh, I don't remember the name. I know that there were 5 people that died. One died of a stroke and one died of a heart attack. And in fact, two people collapsed right next to where we were, and it was cold. So it wasn't because of the heat. So we don't know what caused that. Where we were, we wanted to send it outside and I don't know if east west north or whatever. We were on the Washington Monument side. I call that the front of the capitol over on the Senate side. Another thing that we noticed was that the white plastic was up for the inauguration as it was hard to see kind of around the corner of everything that was happening, but what we did see was very consistent with what was going on on the other side. But again, there was another one of those clips that they would show with people pushing against the bike racks with the policemen. Right. Well, one of the clips I showed was right there where we were. So this is the second clip. This was right next to where we were. The only problem is when you look in the background of this little struggle they're having, the bleachers are just half covered with the white plastic. So it was obviously shot at a different time. It's kind of like the other one, the white, the green grass and back, is obviously shot at a different time. And again, I'm looking at this as a producer. We make movies of a producer writer director, I know how this stuff is set up when there was a scene of the not the guy with the horns with the guy with the buffalo skin around his torso. He was in the hallway dancing for the two or three as a captain of police and they were laughing and cutting up and all. And I said, that was like what you're doing during a break between cut or takes. Okay, everybody cut with a rack to one. Go back to your spots, blah, blah, blah. I saw that same guy in the street. Marching without marching, but walking all the way back from capital and thinking, how in the world did he get into The White House? I mean, into the capital that quickly. It's impossible. So that was another indication that it feels like they filmed a lot of this stuff in advance or at a different time. And another thing that was really weird, there were no sirens, the entire time we were out there, there was no ambulances. There were no fire trucks or no EMTs, no sirens at all. And where does townhouse right behind the capitol right next to the Supreme Court? And we're looking through binoculars seeing a very peaceful group of people, but on the TV is showing right. It says live. This is impossible. I'm looking at it and I'm seeing it. It's not the way they're saying it is. So I said, I got to go back over so we walked all the way back over. And again, it was the same thing as you saw in the front. People are just standing there, you know, they're Trump flags. Lots of Capitol Hill police just kind of hanging out and getting the pictures taken with the Trump people. And this is like two 30, almost three. And I thought at that point, all hell had broken loose. What happened to the insurrection? What happened to, oh my gosh, the sacred House of the people has been destroyed. It didn't look like that to me. And that's the footage we've got. I mean, in fact, if anything, it looked like the police and standing on the steps of the Senate with the other Trump supporters there wouldn't look like they were ready to sing acquire or something. It just wasn't just of what happened when Ashley babbitt and others were making their way through the glass and she was eventually shot and killed by capitol police. That is one of the weirdest things that bizarre. Is it your contention that that was also staged? Well, I mean, she's dead. So I can't imagine that you could you would stage a death. But the man that got the footage is one of the people that was getting paid to get the footage of the quote riot. The thing that really was very curious about this for me is that how did he know to have the camera exactly where he did when the man with the gun came out? And that's called the money shot. I mean, how did he get the money shot? It's impossible. I mean, that's a one in a million shot. Why was he focusing down the hall of nothing really happening when this woman is trying to climb through
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"Night radio, 6 years in a row. It's rich valdes. All right, America. Welcome back, it's rich Valdez and we're on with doctor Tracy Campbell PhD. She's the author of nark sheary the narcissistic abuse recovery dictionary. And I want to pick up where we left off. We were talking about the behaviors that the narcissist displays and things that people could look out for in whatever kind of relationship they're in within narcissist doctor Tracy Garret. Yeah, so thanks for coming back. So this the thing about an archive system is to repeat really quickly is that you felt when you're in it, you feel so much alone and that you're tolerating things or being conditioned to things that nobody else would ever experience. And there's actually a very predictable responses from the narcissist. So part of the recovery is really becoming educated on how to recognize the shenanigan techniques that they do. The manipulations that they do all with the goal of getting fuel IE reaction that makes them realize that they are still alive. Or that they have power and control over another person. And is there like three or four telltale signs or three or four things people could look out for? Well, let's talk about the cycle of narcissism. So when a person first enters into a relationship with a narcissist and it's going to answer your question in a broad sense. When a person first enters into a relationship with a narcissist, one of the first things a narcissist will do is become completely enamored. With the what they call the target. And that can be so misleading because. Opposites attract in this is that normally the narcissist is attracted to somebody who would be a self deprecate, somebody who was wounded some somebody who is a wounded empath as I would say. So what happens is that this person comes in and they present themselves as basically the night shining armor. And they when they go in for their target or their victim, they literally put them up on this pedestal and show it's called love bombing. It's not love. It's love bombing. And it's meant to bomb you. It's meant to overload you meant to overwhelm you. So then you slowly get manipulated, I like to call it at this stage of my recovery onboarded just like cults onboard their victims. You get onboarded into the world of narcissism. And it is as though it can take anywhere from a matter of month to two years that this person who loved and adored and had you on the pedestal suddenly click in turn. This is it goes from phase one, which is like the dream girl of the dream boy. Because females can be narcissistic too. Stage in to the next stage, which is when we start to go from a love to a hate. They go from the knife to the knee and suddenly everything that you do that evoked a positive emotion from your narcissist suddenly doesn't work. Now it is such a confusing time for the person who has fallen in love with a narcissist because suddenly the role has changed. And you're thinking we were so good yesterday and when I did a B and C, they responded with lab and now they're responding with irritation. What's happening here? And this is all part of the process of getting you to start your pursuance, your performance, your pining after the narcissist love. And what will happen is a telltale sign is that that when you, I'll just speak in a female right now. Begin to cry in a relationship and express the fact that you have been hurt by the actions of this person that says that they love you. It's that they don't care about your tears. And the thing is, is that they do care about that your tears, but they see it as a fuel source. So they actually want to bring you to a point of pain in order to extract fuel. Look how powerful I am to make that person hurt. And then the third thing that happens, the third phase, yeah. Third phase is called the Discord. Before you get into the third thing, I'm going to take another quick pause and we're going to come back and continue with that third piece. Folks around with doctor Tracy Kimball, she's the author of nocturia. You don't want to miss this keep it locked right here
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"On the air. It's rich valdes. All right, America, welcome back. It's rich Valdez Valdez with an S at rich valdes and all of the social media and if you have a reaction to the border crisis or James O'Keefe that we were talking about, feel free to give us a call 8 three three four 8 two 5 three three 7 8 three three four vowel desk and what's interesting today in the news and there's a lot of news out there today. So hopefully we can get through everything. But one of the things that I think is being ignored is this story about James O'Keefe and his new project, which is his investigative journalism company. It's a nonprofit that he started many years ago, project veritas and you know he was ousted by people saying that he was whatever reckless careless he spent too much money this time the other. The money that he was out there raising. And nobody had a problem except for that board, right? Because if you're donating money to an organization that you know goes through whatever length they need to go to to achieve the desired result, they don't stop because they say, oh my gosh, we can't get here on time or we can't get there. They find a way and they make it happen. And people are donating because they are appreciative of the results. But a select number of folks on the board felt that it was their duty to do this and to do that and to do the other. And again, maybe we could have that argument the other day. I think what they did was foolish and likely selfish and designed to promote themselves and destroy he who was the brain thought leader here. Of this brainchild known as project veritas. But he's back and he said he's got a new company OMG, the O'Keeffe media group, listen to this audio from James O'Keefe. The irony
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"All right, America. Welcome back. It's me, rich Valdez. I'm here with you guys. And, you know, it was a nice message to hear from pastor Sam that you can turn messes into miracles. And I'm very hopeful that that is in fact the case. But there are realities. And one of the realities is that the things that we see at the border that make headlines aren't always isolated. Sometimes they happen more than we think. And with that, I want to go to Manila, Philippines and check in with our buddy Gil, Gil, welcome, brother. Yes. Today, for me, it's good afternoon. But what I wanted to say is this, I think, you know that I lived on the water for a long time, did a lot of business legal legitimate business in Mexico. And first of all, I want to take you to task for something you said yesterday. There are very, very large amounts, very, very large number of excellent medical practitioners in Mexico. Many members of our healthcare system in the United States got their training in Mexico. The doctors. Large number. Well, I didn't say anything disparaging that. I said, I had a guest who was disparaging medical tourism. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, your guests sure did about plastic surgeons. I have, I don't know if he's still alive He was a good friend of mine in chihuahua, Mexico. He got all the plastic surgery on all of the well paid people in media in Mexico, the television stars, the movie stars. He was their plastic surgeon. And he was great. He did a job on our friend of mine. But anyhow, that's not really why I call. The reason we're getting so much publicity about this particular incident is because we have a video. There's a saying in the newsroom, if it bleeds, it leads. And you can flash that video all over the place, it becomes viral, but thousands of Americans are kidnapped and murdered in Mexico every year. The statistics are up on the Internet. And I was just going to say, you're right. Yeah, I was just going to say, I have a buddy who lives used to live in LA now he lives in San Diego. And he constantly would be at his wits end battling with his mother in law because he was married to a girl who was of Mexican descent. And he would ask his mother in law not to go into Tijuana or to rosarito because there were these kidnappings and they knew that they could, you know, they could get you for four or $5000 by kidnapping money or in laws. And he was like, I don't want to have to pay the ransom and he knew people, this was happening to, and on their local news, it was all over the place. So yeah, you're right. And that's not something I think most people know unless you live down there, you know, near a border. And one last comment if I may. Of course. Mexico has, in my opinion, has one possible Salvation. That we go back to the era of the 1920s and 1930s and there's a strongman that runs the whole show and he doesn't care about drug money and they reinstate the death penalty and they clean the slate because that's the only way they're going to get rid of this. It just because Americans put so much of this stuff up there knows and they take the sentinel and other things that we're financing it and we're making a lot of people rich and we're our own worst enemy. That's goodness said it any better myself. I think you're a 100% right guilt if there wasn't such a demand there wouldn't be such a supply and I realized when we see these cases of rainbow rainbow colored fentanyl that looks like skittles and whatnot. That's demand generation. They're trying to create demand. That's why they're going after people that are younger and younger. And when you see fentanyl being used for counterfeit Xanax pills or counterfeit Adderall pills, these aren't people looking for fentanyl, these are people finding fentanyl looking for other drugs that they're trying to buy. So yeah, I agree with what you're saying, but I realized that there's also an attack. There's an attack in addition to the massive demand that we have here. And it makes a lot of sense what you're saying. I appreciate it, brother. Okay. Thank you. To the ratings of a crazy old man nah, you're not a crazy old man. You're like an expert who lived on the border and has a lot to offer, a regular on this program. And I thank you for your thoughts. Gil in Manila Philippines, listening online. And by the way, if you want to
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"America, welcome back, rich Valdez Valdez with an SR guest Adam Missouri cofounder chief marketing officer at a firm called agency partner interactive. You can check them out at agency partner dot com. Adam Rosie, I wanted to get your take on a story I read in the last week or so. Titled disinformation Inc left wing groups funneled millions to entities that were blacklisting conservative news groups. And this was part of a Washington examiner investigative series on this information, tracking organizations that are secretly blacklisting and taking the names of people to defund conservative media outlets and we've seen this happen with ocn and now it's happening with newsmax by way of AT&T and this global disinformation index that was brought about by the State Department. It was backed by the State Department, was using a group funded by Soros, and none of this comes as a surprise. Obviously, it's always the same. It's always the same bad guys, right? It's always the same bad guys. It's always a different story with the same bad guys, just like we just talked about with Jim Bakker. But what's your take on this? Yeah, well, it's funny you mentioned stories, right? And I remember this cartoon from the 90s inspector gadget and there was the evil guy who sat in the chair. There was the bad guy who sat in the chair with his metal arm, petting the cat. And then George Soros, right? And so, you know, to see what's going on here behind the scenes that should shock nobody, and now we have one of my favorite guys from Missouri Eric Schmidt, who obviously I think as attorney general did great things that I hope they'll do. Even better things as a senator. And he was one of those attorneys general who really led the fight against the collusion that was taking place between the big tech companies being like all of them Amazon Google Apple met up and our government. I mean, there's a lawsuit right now where the attorney generals identified federal officials across 11 different federal agencies that were working with groups like the groups that you mentioned. These groups that were creating these basically these blacklists, these lists that would be used to literally push people away from the mainstream and to silence people from being able to connect with everyday Americans. And so you have this activity being kind of waged by these surrogates of the Biden administration, these surrogates of the DNC, and it's pervasive. I mean, 11 federal agencies were identified by Schmidt, when he was an attorney general. And several other AGs, and I'm talking about the FDA, the FBI, the State Department, the Treasury Department. I mean, we're talking about a censorship enterprise here. And what does that sound like? It sounds like communist Russia. It sounds like Soviet Russia. And that is not what America is all about. And that's not what we're supposed to be about. We have to find ways to make sure that those who are basically trusted with powers that are public in nature, whether it's a politician or a bureaucrat, we have to find ways to make sure that these people actually have the best interest of our country at heart, but unfortunately it seems like they have this desire, this thirst to aggregate power by abusing the power that we trust them with. And that's a terrible thing. So to sit here now and to reconcile the fact that there are conservative voices that are being added to lists and they're doing systematically blocked from social media from banking institutions. It's really tyranny. At its best, right? And so that's something that we have to stand against. Social media is nothing more than a tool and it's a tool that's been weaponized by one side of the political elite our country. And so now it's time that we really I think diversify the distribution of power so that both sides have an equal voice. At the end of the day, whatever solution comes from the need for. I guess kind of a new operating model for these big tech companies at the end of the day, neither the left nor the right should be a 100% satisfied. We need something in the middle that's going to kind of anger everybody, but it's going to work. And allow for constructive criticism and friction to actually exist because right now, not enough friction exists. You have a bunch of bobbleheads who basically say, yes, to whatever is coming down from the DNC. And as a result, our economy is in the tanks. It costs $10 to go by eggs, gas is super expensive. There are very simple logical solutions to a lot of the problems we're facing as a country today, but none of those solutions are ever going to make it to the surface. If we're being gas lit at every corner, Adam rosary, I think you made a series of great points. And one of the things I just want to just add to is when you mentioned these federal agencies, there's also a couple of names on this list that I'm looking at from the GDI, the let's see what that did for the global disinformation something or other. Global rings of belt, right? Ding ding ding. This information index. And the disinformation index Inc is the U.S. version of it. One is from the UK and whatever. But let's just say some of the outlets that are on their blacklist. I just think it's hysterical. The American spectator, newsmax. The federalist, the American conservative, one America news, the blaze, the daily wire, RealClearPolitics, reason magazine, and the New York Post. You look at this and. So yeah, I'm on newsmax once a week. So I'm just thinking, this is an incredible way to really just silence every last voice that you just don't care about, because they say, you know, I don't like your opinion, you have to shut up. I mean, if this isn't a Stalin esque way of dealing with things, I don't know what is. Right. Very much so. And they'll you're a fantastic conservative influencer and thought leader one of the things that I advise everyone and that's just the truth, right? You're doing great things for the country by saying things that need to be said fearlessly. And one of the things that I always advise people who are trying to build a following, you have to own your marketing assets and by that I mean collect email addresses have direct ways to engage with people that you want to connect with. And then message them proactively, right? Email campaigns still work, and there's still a strong way to pull people directly to your website or directly to an online property that you know is safe because the fact is you might have a Facebook page. That could be taken down at any time. You might have a Twitter page. That could be taken down at any time. Thankfully, Elon Musk is here. And I think he's doing some good things. But the bottom line is, is we have really very little control over our world, and that's just that thing to realize. So if you have, if you have data that's yours, you have direct access to your customers or to your audience, message them proactively and bring them to a place like your actual website, your domain. And connect with them there. And just build a relationship directly instead of really relying on Facebook to potentially give you impressions and
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"rich valdez" Discussed on WGN Radio
"There, good evening and what's up America I am rich Valdez, that's valdes with an S, by the way, at rich valdes on all of the social media and you're welcome to join the conversation we're taking calls all night in the first couple hours. We'll be taking calls on what we're talking about with our guests and then of course it's open phone America and that is your chance to sound off to be heard on this program from New York City straight to Alaska and everywhere in between and happy president's day today is president's day which was back in the days used to be George Washington's birthday and Lincoln's birthday and we're gonna have an expert coming on a little bit later to talk about Lincoln. But I love presidents day. I'll tell you a quick story. I started my podcast that you hear me very rarely plug. This is America with rich valdes. I started that on president's day in 2019. I've done the first episode in 2018, but we didn't get rolling and signed to do it until 2019. And so today is that anniversary of this is America four years of this is America. So happy birthday to the podcast. And make sure you subscribe to that, by the way. And to the podcast for The Daily Show as well. America at night, rich Valdez, you want to make sure you get that one as well. But I want to talk about a few things, right? Because obviously over the weekend, there's a lot of news. We woke up on Sunday morning and say, oh my gosh, our president is in Ukraine. And we're going to get to the bottom of that hour number two. But just to give you some thoughts on that, I know there's a lot of people being critical, but I think this is what Biden needed to have done a long time ago. I think he needed to step up because you know what? It's one thing for people to saber rattle like they like to do when Biden's in D.C. and the other one is in the Kremlin and everybody's hanging out in their own place. But it's quite the other. When you have the president of the United States, whether he's Biden or not, he's still the president. I know a lot of people say he's the resident. But he is president. And if something happens to that guy, we've got a big problem. They've got a big problem. So I think this is the type of I'm going to use the term leadership loosely, but action. Let's use action. This is the action that I think he needed to take early on. Was to show up and say, all right, look, this thing's got to end, right? And he I don't think he said all the right things today. I don't think he said many of the right things. I think he said very little of what is the right thing. But he said something and he showed up and these things matter. It's kind of like Trump showing up in South Korea, North Korea, excuse me. When he showed up and he met with Kim Jong-un in the demilitarized zone, this was a big deal. And there were, again, there were critics saying, oh my gosh, he's cheapening and devaluing the presidency by meeting with a dictator at a tyrant blah blah blah. And again, they're entitled to that opinion. However, that handshake giving him that status, there's a negotiation. And now little rocket man had what he needed in order to feel like he could walk around with his chest puffed out a little bit. So today, I don't know if that was the goal, I think it's quite the opposite. I think Putin might be a little bit angered, or he might say, you know what, man, this is getting serious. This guy actually showing up here unannounced. This is a big deal. And I think that's something honestly if we just look at the actions for what they are, I think that's something Trump would have been way earlier if it was even necessary because I think he would have been a lot more vocal from the beginning. But I wouldn't have put it past Trump to just show up somewhere and be like, hey, I'm here. What you gonna do about it? What's up? What's good, right? It's just so I think that is one of those things where I think Biden actually did the right thing by going. I know there's a lot of criticism on that and I will talk about it more a little bit later and see if our guests disagree with me. But I just want to give you a couple updates because House speaker Kevin McCarthy, he has given Fox News channel, Tucker Carlson's program, the access to 41,000 hours of January 6 footage. Now I think that's a pretty big deal because this is footage that we've been trying to get. And of course, anytime McCarthy doesn't move fast and have Friday to globalist rhino deep state puppet. I mean, the amount of emotional knee jerk reaction that we have today is just I just find it astounding sometimes. I'm like, man, give people a break. The guy's done a lot of things. He put a lot of legislative priorities out there. And I'm not trying to be an apologist for Kevin McCarthy. I just think we've got to give people a chance. He's our guy, and he's in. What are we going to do, right? The time to sabotage him was before the time to say, look, no, we want this guy, not that guy. But when I said things like, I want Jim Jordan and Jim Jordan came on his program and said, no, I'm with McCarthy. What are you going to do? I mean, at some point you have to say all right, then I'm with you guys. If you want to see a win. And it's all about getting to the win. It's all about getting to yes. And I think we got yesterday, right? So step by step, these are the levers of government. They move very, very slowly. But I think to his credit and to the credit of the Republicans, all of the Republicans, things you're moving a lot faster. Now, another thing I want to get to before the end of the night, if I could squeeze in a segment somewhere between now or one an hour or two, I will. I want to talk about what's going on with project veritas, it's an investigative nonprofit that is really an educational organization. Focused on exposing people through hidden camera stuff and exposing self dealing and whatnot. And any type of malfeasance that may be going on, whether it's corporate or government, et cetera. And James O'Keefe founded that organization. I worked with him early on in 2013, 2014 and 2015. And all I can tell you is, oh, keeps a lot of things. He's eccentric, he's this. He's not whatever. But he's never changed. He's the same guy he's always been, and he's brilliant when it comes to putting these long-term plans to get this information to get it out of the people that are hiding it. And to do it in a really impressive way. And the things that I think that they're alleging that he took too many black car services and, you know, he flew around every now and again to do his fundraising. I think they're incredibly unwarranted and there's so much more to this than meets the eye. I mean, they would be like saying, you know, this foul does, he's just, he talks all day for three hours. That's been happening for a while now. So that's not really what's happening, right? So what they're accusing him of isn't something that's even egregious enough to I think remove somebody from an organization they started and brought to $20 million a year and fundraising. So I think it was a really bad move and somebody's trying to be a hero and be a little bit overzealous or altruistic. But we're going to get to that because I think there's a lot to talk about there as well. Plus, it's president's day and we're going to get to that. So lots to talk about, I don't want you to move a muscle. I don't want you to go anywhere because we're going to get into what's going on in the swamp what's going on with the latest from the Biden administration in particular K JP, and I've been for days I've been wanting to play this clip of audio of Klaus Schwab from the World Economic Forum from I think from last Thursday, and I've been holding on to it because we just ran out of time each day, but here we are and we're going to play it tonight with our next guest Roma de Ravi is scheduled to be with us special assistant to
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"rich valdez" Discussed on WGN Radio
"What's up America I am rich vow des valdes with an SEO liberty loving Latino amigo, and it's Valentine's Day, so I agree, yes, yes, yes, I will be your Valentine. All right, I've given in. And I like chocolates. I like dark chocolate, by the way. And I'm not very partial the flowers, but I'm okay with giving them out every now and again. Happy Valentine's Day, there's a lot of news going on with respect to the shooting in Michigan yesterday. We're gonna jump into that in a little bit. There's also dianne Feinstein, who's announced the retirement of her extraordinarily long career in the United States government as a U.S. senator and dating back to her days as mayor of San Francisco. But anyway, she started her career during the prehistoric era and she's announced that that's coming to an end. Kudos to her, congratulations on your retirement. Let's see if Adam Schiff steps up and let's see what happens with that. There's also there's also a one off story here about the nuclear official from the Biden administration who became an alleged serial luggage thief. He's scheduled to be in court to face charges. And I think his name is Sam brinton. So I'll bring in an update on that in a little bit. But first, I wanted to start off with a Valentine's Day story, because obviously this is funny. So the headline here, this is in BBC News. And it's this Valentine's Day how fake dates are helping Indians find love and intimacy. Now by Indians they're talking about folks from India. And they're actually using something called a dating surrogate. Yeah, this is a real thing. And they're saying that because you could feel anxiety welling up inside of you when you sit opposite of your date, they started using now dating surrogates. That's an actual thing. And listen to this, right? So they said, look, one date tells the other data. And it says, look, you don't have to be worried. It's okay if you're anxious, and you could steady yourself and be less nervous by clasping your hands. Under the table and taking a deep breath, because the person opposite the young lady who is on the date was a dating surrogate. Someone hired to go on a mock date with her, observe her behavior and share tips and insights in real time for her to deal with anything preventing her from enjoying herself on a date. Her name is akansha and says that she turned to a dating surrogate, a service offered to the listen to this. The intimacy curator and online platform providing dating relationship and intimacy coaching services about three months ago. It's among a bunch of firms and apps such as dating accelerator and have me to yourself. That's an app that have come up in India over the past few years, pointing to a shift in the way relationships are formed and perceived in the entire country. While the majority of Indians are opting for arranged marriages in premarital, sex is mostly a taboo subject, to date, bees, companies are teaching their customers new ways to date and fill and fill in the blanks as they fall in love. So that's what's going on there dating surrogates. So I just want to announce in addition to my role as the head of trust and safety here at America at night, I am also the chief dating surrogate. So I am available as long as I'm not on the air for dating advice because this seems like an excellent gig you go, you get a meal, you tell her, hey, listen, put your hands under the tail, take three deep breaths, go to the bathroom do a few yoga poses, you're gonna be okay. I tell you, you can't make this stuff up. I'll put this out on social media at rich Valdez with an S, by the way, if you want to take a look at it for your perusal, because this is interesting to me, really is. And throughout the evening, feel free to chime in with whatever funny, crazy, off the wall Valentine's Day story that you have, happy to entertain those throughout the evening as well. But I wanted you to hear a clip of audio. Onto some harder news, where the governor of California, the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, was speaking about this horrific shooting that occurred yesterday, and we brought you updates on it as it was unfolding yesterday evening, and we now have a statement from Gretchen Whitmer. This is a clip number three, and where she says we know that this is a uniquely American problem. Of all the things you could say, following a shooting, you have to say that. Check this out. We're all broken by an all too familiar
Mark Levin
A Special Christmas Song for Joe Biden
"I wanted to play a Christmas song Now I know I know it's still a little early but it is Christmas week And it's a parody from my favorite satirical a newspaper the Babylon bee and they do just a great job highlighting so many of the great things to appreciate from Joe el Babel so Biden Listen to this I know that your party is what drive a song to water Biden did you know that your partner sees what trans our sons and daughters did you know that you're part of the seas will party what is true the church that you subscribe to does not subscribe to you Biden did you know Oh I didn't did you know that your baby boy made cheese deeds in Ukraine I didn't did you know that your baby boy loves Parmesan and cocaine did you know that you should touch these women like you do when you sniff bad little girls hair it's boring me too it is borderline me too Merry Christmas Welcome back rich Valdez here A little bit of humor on Biden did you
Mark Levin
First the Left Shoves CRT Down Our Throats, Now It's 'Neopronouns'
"Welcome back America rich Valdez filling in for the great one Mark Levin and we're gonna get to your calls in a moment but I want you to hear this clip of audio Now this is something again I got from lives of TikTok Make sure you follow them They have some of the best crazy woke culture wars type of post everyday stuff that you just don't see they go out of their way to find it on TikTok and Instagram and they put it on Twitter and it's of benefit because there's a lot of things going on that I think a lot of us just aren't aware of because we're like oh I got to pay my bills They got to go to work I've got to do this I got to run my business I got to drive my truck I've got to do this that and the other thing right Et cetera et cetera et cetera And it escapes us But when it comes down to parental authority being usurped this is a very big thing And I think we need to play close attention This is not about the issue of LGBTQ that happens to be the issue here This is about you no longer having control over your child It's just as insidious as vaccinating a child against the parents will And that seems to be the next thing to it's kind of like hey look if you're dumb enough to put your kid in public school then you deserve what's coming to you It wasn't always like that but it seems to be the case now and it's unfortunate to put it that way But I want you to hear this woman Now I don't have her name and I'm calling her a woman but she's actually a he she it won What do I say here An individual they them with green hair that appears to be a woman and she's gonna get into that in her diatribe here Has a lesson on pronouns for you and for me check this out I am stitching this video again to give further clarification Again because cis people keep asking stupid questions again Again since people being you and me right Those of us that were more and into the gender that we happen to claim to be right So we are cis male Go ahead By any and all pronouns This includes newer pronouns I am non binary not gender fluid My preferred pronouns are they them However I go by any and all pronouns because I know that if I go by they them I will face misgendering And I just don't have the mental energy for that Hold on a second so who's got the mental energy for this I mean I get so mentally exhausted I lose so much mental energy when I'm walking down the street and people say hey aren't you they them And I go yes that's me Because otherwise