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We got some good vibrations going here at the radio station. Every Friday, just like thousands of others around the Pine Belt and around the world, we wait for this moment with Jud, Zachary, Revon, and Ted Tibbett. We welcome into the house the Velvet Hammer, Gene Valentino.

1:02
With the vibration, the diamonds, and the rubies just dripping off of me and a ring on every finger of my hand, you know… I hope that we never grow up.

1:13
We need to get the Hammer intro music, like they used to have for pro wrestling. You remember when Hulk Hogan would come out, or some of the wrestlers from the WWF days? We need to get you something like that, sir. We need to find some “Hammer Time” music. Good morning, how are you doing?

1:28
We’re doing great. Yeah, that would be fun. I got a little theme music coming in here.

1:36
I think we do it. We’re telling everybody it’s Hammer time. That’s it, yeah.

1:40
Well, there’s a lot of crazy hammers going on around the nation and around the world right now. Talk about hammers—this Maria Elvira Salazar, Congresswoman from the South Florida, Miami-Dade, Broward County area… Oh, my word! She takes a shot at Trump yesterday, saying some of his policies are not reasonable.

Here’s a woman who was endorsed in the thick of the Democratic areas of South Florida for her reelection by Donald Trump, and that’s the love Trump gets in return, you see. So I think it’s incumbent upon Trump to just stay on course, hold his posture and position—whether it’s Trump on immigration, or trying to figure out what to do with Ukraine versus Russia.

You’ve got Trump scratching his head, getting ready for Xi Jinping next week at the White House. The man’s got an agenda of world-class issues that he’s trying to address. The one issue I find most interesting, gentlemen, is that he and his advisers are considering putting a permanent base in place in Poland, which may not be a bad idea because they’ve been quick to be victimized. It’s not just about Ukraine; it’s all of Europe that needs to worry now about Russia’s dominance coming into that region. It’s not unrelated to the oil issues—the oil issues in the Strait of Hormuz—and watching how oil becomes an important factor.

Then here at home, the Chinese perfectly put the fear of God into us through the Democratic “sky is falling” people. Remember yesterday, it was the Green New Deal, nuclear, and Y2K? Remember Y2K—how all our computers were going to go bonkers when the calendar turned to the year 2000 some 26 years ago? All of that nonsense is stirred up by these Democrats trying to make a scene to take your attention off the wrongdoing they’re trying to reinstate in our system.

No, I say there are too many bad children in the classroom right now. I think Trump can be bolder, more obstinate—some would call him a bully. Well, you fight fire with fire, folks. I think the real timing of the Velvet Hammer… it’s not the Velvet Hammer, it’s the Sandpaper Hammer. It’s time to really dial it up and give it back to these youngsters in government and throughout the world that are trying to unseat and destabilize America’s predominance in the world.

Don’t give in, is what I’m saying. Donald Trump: stay strong, stay firm, and hold the line. America succeeded not because we were wimps, but because we were objectors and strong in our resolution about our principles and policies. It’s why we left Britain in the first place.

5:33
If I had a little button here that does applause, I would hit it right now. I really would.

5:40
Well, Jud, get that music for the Velvet Hammer on!

5:44
Yeah, let’s work on that. You know, Gene, today—and I’m part of a program at 10:00 downtown this morning—this is POW/MIA Day. There are over 80,000 that are listed as not accounted for, and there are actually about 33,000 or 34,000 that they think could be found. You know that number.

This upsets me about our European allies and other friends: the American lives that have been lost. How many countries have given up hundreds of thousands of lives so they could have their freedom like America has? As we remember that day today—it’s no day to celebrate, it’s a day to remember—we have big pillars in our veterans’ park down here that say “Lest We Forget.” Too many people are forgetting. They don’t know what happened yesterday, and they could care less about tomorrow. It’s “take care of me today.”

We’ve never had it better than we’ve got it right now. We’ve got some hiccups, primarily caused by war that we will win, but you’ve got to win it the right way. You don’t want to go in there and have a lot of casualties. It just kind of upsets me. It’s tough, but I don’t understand some of the people with their short memories.

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Yeah, short memories, Ted. Also, many people aren’t aware of war in days gone by versus war today. Today, it’s a very strategic war from within. The wrongdoers in our backyard, in our neighborhoods, who leaked over the border because of the Biden administration’s ignorance and recklessness, have turned out to cause more damage to this nation than bullets and guns. You’ve got a war, all right.

When you’ve got two Chinese people in a mansion in California who are using their sperm and eggs and have procreated through surrogates allowed to be used in the United States—surrogates holding the embryos and babies through gestation for delivery in the United States—they’re nothing but biological Chinese people born to certain Chinese individuals here in the United States. Then that one couple, one husband and wife, produces over 100 children. China, through the Chinese Communist Party, takes these children back to China to get indoctrinated and brainwashed over their formative years. Then those same children come back to the United States.

Now they’ve been born in the United States through the stupidity of our surrogate program, and now they’re entitled to what? Run for President of the United States! As President of the United States, a Chinese-indoctrinated individual can espouse the principles that they were brainwashed with in their earlier formative years in China. They can do so as congressmen, senators, and now even the President of the United States.

See, China’s a little more patient than us. For example, with our economy, we want immediate gratification. The gas price is too high, so we go into a damn tailspin, pissed off about the economy being out of line over a transition period, trying to manage after five years prior of bad behavior under the Biden administration. He’s doing it in less than a year. Yet, he still has the challenge of dealing with all these disgruntled individuals, including the one you started the show with: Maria Salazar, the Republican representative Trump endorsed from South Florida, getting upset because Trump allegedly had gone too far with immigration enforcement issues.

We’ve got to mow these no-goodniks out of the nation, and it ain’t a pleasant discussion. If the wimpy people who would rather sit on the couch waiting for the next check don’t like it, the answer is tough. We’re going to save America whether you like it or not. This is what Trump’s dealing with against the likes of a Maria Salazar, who’s more worried about instant gratification for a reelection rather than the sovereignty, security, and safety of a nation that has made it 250 years.

God willing, we’ll have this discussion in 250 years to discuss again how we saved this nation—not how it got destroyed by people in government and their constituents who are looking for salacious instant gratification. Shame on any American who doesn’t look at the big picture to defend this nation.

11:13
Wow. There you go! We don’t have an applause button, but that’s a real clap for you. Part of the problem—we see it, too—is when I tell you I needed a pep rally, I made the mistake of watching a little news the last couple of days. If you believe the media… and you can’t believe them. I’m in the media, too. If I tell you the temperature and the weather, that’s pretty accurate. But when they’re interjecting their own opinions, like on late-night shows, they’re just trying to distract from the big things we’ve got to conquer in this country. We need good leadership. We’ve got it. Turn your TV off between now and the election!

You, I, and Zach right here—we’re in a bubble. Florida’s a good place; Mississippi is a good place. But some of the rest of this country is not. Let me tell you, if the Democrats take over the House, we’ve got a problem.

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Oh, you’ve got that right, Ted. The answer is simple. I would never believe I’d be saying this on a news broadcast or an interview like this, but I’m asking everyone who can hear me to vote Republican this midterm—not because the candidate is absolutely the best candidate, but because the Democrat Party has been overrun and overcome by communists who admit they’re now communists and are posing a communist agenda, not to mention the socialism through the DSA that they have some alignment with in the Democrat Party.

I don’t think the Republicans are totally virtuous either, by the way, so I don’t want anyone accusing me of being MAGA extreme, because I’m not. But I am interested in what MAGA is doing to protect the long-term longevity of a democracy, not the Democrats’ ability to take it down.

So that’s where it’s going, Ted. Zach would probably agree with me as well. It’s not like if the Republicans lose, you get someone like Hubert Humphrey—there are no more Hubert Humphreys or any of those old Democrats. Harry Truman? They’re gone, they’re dead, they’re in the ground.

How about Tip O’Neill, a strong Democrat from Massachusetts who was good buddies with Ronald Reagan? They’d have a scotch together, sit down, work out their differences, and try to come to some middle ground so they could bring legislation to the floor in the House and the Senate. That’s the collaboration needed that doesn’t exist anymore. They just hate Republicans. In fact, look at the scorecard of the last 10 years: how many Democrats have Republicans killed? How many Republicans have Democrats nearly killed?

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You know, Gene, when you talk about how divisive the country is, Justice Scalia was one of my favorite justices, if not my favorite. Do you know what his vote was in the Senate to be confirmed—how many for and against for Scalia back in the ’80s?

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You’ve got about 10 to 15 seconds. Go ahead.

14:28
My understanding is it wasn’t a narrow vote; it was pretty significant. It was 98-0. That would not happen today! 98-0 for Scalia. He used to come to Hattiesburg. Scalia was a fine man.

Gene, you have woken me up. I’m all fired up and I can handle it. I appreciate that pep talk on a Friday.

14:49
Boy, I’m glad I didn’t drink a lot of coffee before this show! We’ll have another segment…

14:56
The Velvet Hammer is going to have a coffee now and then go do his morning workout. I wish everyone the very best this weekend.

15:04
Take care, Gene. Until next week!

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