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Late-night conservative heat with caller energy.
Rich Valdez This is America moves fast through U.S. politics, foreign policy, crime stories, culture-war arguments, and caller reactions. It favors moral urgency, everyday analogies, clipped news audio, and a speaker who treats the night’s headlines like a national argument already in progress.
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Rich Valdez This is America is a fast, late-night conservative talk show organized around urgency. Rich Valdez starts with the headline that has him fired up, then keeps widening the frame until politics, faith, culture, crime, and foreign policy are all part of the same argument. The format is solo-led but not sealed off. Clips, news reports, caller voice notes, interview excerpts, and open-phone segments all feed the engine. The show likes interruption as a method. A clip plays, Valdez reacts, then the reaction becomes a larger point about motives, patriotism, media trust, or moral courage. Recent episodes move through Iran, Israel, Tucker Carlson, AOC, taxes, immigration, Cuba, NASA, jobs data, court cases, and violent crime reports. That range gives the program a restless, headline-stacked feel. It is not trying to sound neutral. It argues. It mocks. It moralizes. It also folds in prayerful language, Good Friday and Easter reflections, and repeated calls to stand for something when public life feels compromised. Valdez’s style is conversational and charged, with jokes, nicknames, self-corrections, personal detours, and quick pivots back to the point. The caller material gives the show a direct line to its audience, especially when listeners leave voice notes for Open Phone America. Guests and outside clips appear, but the editorial frame remains unmistakably his. Foreign policy becomes a debate over strength and sovereignty. Domestic politics becomes a test of common sense. Cultural flashpoints become evidence in a broader case about America’s direction. The show can move from a reported murder-suicide to tax policy to Cuba’s poverty to a presidential call with astronauts without smoothing the edges. That roughness is part of the product. It feels live, reactive, and impatient with polish. For listeners who want conservative commentary with humor, faith, confrontation, and caller energy, it delivers a nightly argument rather than a tidy briefing.
Made for: It suits listeners who want opinion-forward conservative talk that mixes breaking headlines, cultural fights, foreign policy, faith, and caller reactions. It is built for people who prefer forceful judgment over neutral recap.
What sets it apart: The show stands out through its rapid solo framing, frequent clip reactions, Open Phone America voice notes, and repeated blend of patriotism, religious language, humor, and everyday analogies.
America is complicated, so this show breaks it down to the basics with a fresh, urban view. Join Rich Valdés, nicknamed “our liberty-loving Latino amigo” by “The Great One” Mark Levin as he tackles news & pop culture with wit, humor, and a dash of sofrito.Rich Valdés is a nationally-ranked, globally recognized talk show host and commentator seen and heard across cable news, television, talk radio, and major conferences, bringing a distinct American-Hispanic perspective to today’s biggest issues in society and culture. He was nationally syndicated by Cumulus Media's Westwood One in 2022, taking over the legendary late-night timeslot pio...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Rich Valdez combines conservative political commentary, guest scrutiny, news audio, and listener responses in a lively current-events format.
Rich Valdez turns current events into an energetic mix of monologue, interview, news audio, and listener response. His political commentary is openly conservative, moving from Iran and the Trump administration's foreign policy to jobs reports and domestic disputes.
Rich Valdez turns political confusion into a late-night town hall where you always know the stakes.
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A brisk, conversational episode that threads Iran, domestic news, and Artemis 2 into a single live-wire run-through.
The episode moves from the Iran framework and the dispute over whether the Lebanon skirmish belongs in the deal, then turns to domestic legal and state-level stories before ending with the president's call to the Artemis 2 crew.
A brisk jobs-report debate that moves from labor data to media framing and wider uncertainty.
The segment makes a tight case that the latest jobs report says less than the headline suggests. Rich Valdez pushes a reading that looks past the surface, while the guest keeps coming back to the internals: native-born employment, the slowdown in recent gains, and the sense that…
An Easter Monday talk show that makes Cuba policy feel immediate through a firsthand Havana account.
Rich Valdez uses an Easter Monday broadcast to move from holiday reflection into Trump and Cuba, then anchors the discussion in a firsthand Havana account.
A brisk CPAC Texas segment centered on Iran, media spin, and movement politics.
Rich Valdes spends the hour moving between CPAC Texas, a packed interview schedule, and his running argument about disinformation and media framing around Iran.
A brisk, combative political conversation that treats accountability as a live issue.
Rich Valdez uses a heated hearing moment to build an argument about accountability, then keeps the exchange moving as Jennifer Kelly follows the thread from Minnesota and California into midterm politics and Trump's leverage.
Politics, war, media, and no patience.
Policy signals before they become consequences.
Chicago politics with national alarm bells.
This episode discusses President Trump's announcement that Iran has agreed to dismantle its nuclear weapons program and surrender enriched uranium stockpiles.
This episode discusses tax day benefits for Americans, including tax breaks on tips and overtime, and encourages listener calls to share their savings.
This episode of 'This Is America' with Rich Valdez promotes the CAMH Sunrise Challenge for mental health fundraising and engages the audience with podcast updates and call-in segments.
This episode discusses recent political events including J.D.
Rich Valdez hosts a Wednesday night conservative political talk show covering the Iran ceasefire negotiations, in which he reads through Iran's 10-point public framework demanding Strait of Hormuz toll authority, war reparations, and full US military withdrawal from the Middle East.
Rich Valdez opens with breaking news of a Trump-brokered two-week suspension of US bombing of Iran, contingent on Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz, after Pakistani Prime Minister Shabazz Sharif mediated the pause.
Rich starts on Easter Monday.
This episode covers breaking news about a downed U.S.
This episode discusses President Trump's unprecedented attendance at a Supreme Court hearing on the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship clause, with political commentary from host Rich Valdez.
Rich Valdés hosts a conservative talk radio show discussing political news and current events with a focus on American issues.
Rich Valdez is back from overseas interviews and CPAC Texas, and he casts the trip around America, liberty, and people standing up when it counts.
Host Rich Valdes recaps his recent travels to CPAC Hungary and CPAC Texas, and discusses his return to the show.
Rich Valdez discusses breaking news about US dropping bunker buster bombs on a missile facility near the Strait of Hormuz.
Rich Valdés discusses political news, defends Mark Levin against criticism, and critiques populist movements in a conservative talk radio format.
Rich Valdez discusses recent events including bombings in New York City and airplane incidents, along with political topics like Cuba and Iran.
Rich Valdes discusses breaking political news including a Capitol Hill incident, primary losses, a plane crash, and international reactions to Trump.
Rich Valdés discusses Spain's refusal to allow US use of air bases and Trump's response, blending political analysis with humor.
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Rich Valdés delivers a conservative-leaning political commentary show, discussing Trump's Supreme Court challenges and mocking Washington's absurdities.
Rich Valdés delivers conservative political commentary on current events, including criticism of AOC and Hillary Clinton.
Rich Valdés discusses the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show and political controversies surrounding it.
Rich Valdés discusses President Trump's appearance at the National Prayer Breakfast and the rollout of a website to lower prescription drug prices.
Rich Valdez discusses current events including the Grammys, Gaza border reopening, and partial government shutdown from a conservative perspective.
Rich Valdés discusses Marco Rubio's Senate testimony on Venezuela and Cuba, offering conservative political analysis.
Rich Valdes hosts a conservative talk radio show discussing news, politics, and culture with a Hispanic-American perspective.
Rich Valdez discusses fake news about ICE arresting five-year-olds and reports on arrests of agitators who disrupted a church service, emphasizing media accountability and First Amendment rights.
Rich Valdez discusses President Trump's tough stance on Greenland and criticism of his mental faculties in a political commentary episode.
The host discusses breaking news about the Trump administration investigating Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Frey for allegedly obstructing justice, questioning whether this is political retaliation.
Rich Valdez discusses a shooting video involving an ICE officer and President Trump's stance on Venezuela.
Rich Valdes delivers conservative political commentary, criticizing AOC and discussing ICE enforcement.
Rich Valdez discusses a woman attempting to run over an ICE agent and the resulting police shooting, with commentary on law enforcement and immigration enforcement.
Rich Valdes discusses a controversial figure named C.
Rich Valdes discusses the arrest of Nicolas Maduro and other political news, with a guest appearance by Curtis Sliwa.
Rich Valdés discusses the capture of Nicolás Maduro by U.S.
This episode discusses the latest GDP report and its positive economic implications, highlighting President Trump's tax bill signed in July as a key achievement for the American people during the holiday season.