From Hamas Horror to Hispanic Hope: Rob Carson and Chris Salcedo Expose the Truth!

Summary

The Rob Carson Show (Newsmax Podcasts)

Episode: From Hamas Horror to Hispanic Hope: Rob Carson and Chris Salcedo Expose the Truth!

Date: October 16, 2025
Host: Rob Carson
Guest: Chris Salcedo
Theme: Examining the realities of life under progressive policies, the transformation in Hispanic political identity, and faith’s resilience under persecution.

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Episode Overview

This hour of The Rob Carson Show delivers its trademark blend of humor, hard-hitting opinion, and cultural commentary. Rob critiques the current political landscape, is joined by guest Chris Salcedo (host, author, self-styled "Liberty Loving Latino") to discuss his new book, and examines transformations within the Hispanic community as well as stories of resilience from the aftermath of Hamas horror in the Middle East. Carson interweaves parody and personal anecdotes to underscore broader trends in American politics and society.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Decline of Political Leadership and Age in Office

• Rob Carson lampoons the advanced age and apparent decline of several political figures:
  • Mitch McConnell (“fell down again. He’s 82... I'm glad he's retiring”),
  • Eleanor Holmes Norton (“close to 90 years old and she can't even walk... massive cognitive decline”) [(01:00–01:30)].
  • Contrasts this with President Trump’s portrayed vitality.

2. Debate Over Quality of Life and Economic Decline

• Rob argues quality of life metrics plummeted under Biden (“every single metric of quality of life descended into hell”), offering personal vignettes about skyrocketing costs for vehicles, houses, and groceries [(03:51–05:08)].
  • “It was hell for most people, and nobody gave a rats behind about it until Donald Trump became the president.” (04:48)

3. Critique of Progressive Solutions

• Bernie Sanders’ talking points are played and dissected:
  • Rob points out the enduring nature of problems like healthcare and income inequality, despite Sanders’ decades in office [(05:08–07:39)].
  • “Why have you failed at everything? Why haven’t you fixed anything?” (06:37; Rob Carson to Bernie Sanders clip)
  • Mocks Sanders for accumulating wealth ("Yeah, you’re filthy rich. You’re a public servant.") [(05:38)].

4. Government Shutdown & Scapegoating

• Ted Cruz highlights Democrats’ strategy of taking extreme positions and blaming Republicans for shutdowns, particularly for prioritizing issues like healthcare for undocumented immigrants [(08:06–09:05)].
  • “It’s like every issue across the sun, they picked every 80/20 issue and decided, let’s take the 20% side of it and let’s abandon the middle class.” (08:15; Ted Cruz)

5. Healthcare Costs and Illegal Immigration

• Rob personalizes the hardships of U.S. healthcare ("$850 a month... deductible is $7,000") and contrasts this with Democratic politicians’ calls for healthcare for illegal immigrants [(09:05–09:58)].
  • Bernie Sanders: “...healthcare is a human right for all including, by the way, the undocumented in this country.” (09:46)

6. Hamas, Hostage Horror, and Faith Under Persecution

• Rob devotes a moving segment to recounting the testimony of Israeli hostage Rahm Brezlowski, detailing his torture in Hamas captivity and perseverance through faith [(13:43–20:30)]:
  • “They tried to make him convert to Islam, promising him food in return, but he insisted on preserving his Jewish identity. Can you say you would do the same thing?” (14:23; Rob Carson)
  • “Recited in moments of mortal danger, his captor returned with keys, dispensed the crowd and moved him to a slightly better place.” (15:38; Rob Carson recounting Rahm’s story)
• Emphasizes the calculated brutality of Hamas and the resilience of faith.

7. Introducing Chris Salcedo and 'The Rise of the Liberty Loving Latino'

• Rob introduces Chris with a parody movie trailer voice and themed music for comedic effect [(21:25–22:09)].
• The book’s purpose: To challenge the narrative equating Latino identity with progressive politics and highlight a conservative shift in the Hispanic community.

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Featured Interview: Chris Salcedo (22:09–37:18)

Chris Salcedo’s Journey & Conservative Roots

• Salcedo’s upbringing: Grew up with common-sense, patriotic, and faith-based values—“we appreciated those who kept those freedoms in place... [our rights] have been under direct attack... from within... in-your-face leftists, Marxist socialists.” (23:36; Chris Salcedo)
• Recalls childhood experience rejecting Cesar Chavez as a hero (“effing communist”, his father pronounced) highlighting an early divergence from the mainstream narrative [(24:35–25:32)].

Hispanic Cultural Values vs. Progressive Orthodoxy

• Family, faith, and language: Carson and Salcedo critique progressives' attempt to introduce terms like “Latinx” and the broader effort to promote gender ideology, noting the overwhelming rejection among actual Hispanic Americans [(26:29–27:16)].
  • “Latinx... polls at minus 90.” (27:03; Salcedo)
  • “It is an insult. It is an insult.” (27:19; Rob Carson)

The Immigrant Experience, Family, and Hard Work

• Both host and guest relate stories of humble beginnings, parental sacrifice, and the pursuit of the American Dream.
  • “My mom worked a couple of jobs... anything they could do to make ends meet... humble beginnings... but I never knew it.” (28:26; Chris Salcedo)
  • Rob: “I remember duct taping my shoes and using white shoe polish to make my Adidas look…” (30:53)

The Conservative Turn in the Hispanic Community

• The shift is explained by long-standing cultural dissonance with progressive values:
  • “I can’t remember a time when Democrats were for religious freedom. I can’t remember a time when Democrats were not attacking the Catholic faith...” (32:08; Chris Salcedo)
• Salcedo argues Hispanic Americans are fleeing leftist policies: “There are some that are pushing back [against] Communist China’s infiltration... people are fleeing them like crazy because nobody wants to be a part of a leftist country because it’s misery, it’s squalor, it is elitism. Only the elite survive and have it good. And that’s not America and the Latinos recognized it.” (33:13–33:54)

Why the Book?—Hispanic Identity, Trump, and the Path Ahead

• Book written to refute the idea that Hispanic equals liberal or open-borders supporter, and to provide a roadmap for the conservative future.
  • “I hope the people will read in this book... to destroy a left wing narrative that, hey, if you’re a Latino, you must be a liberal. No, that’s not true... I detail why Latinos left in droves from the left wing. And then I go through the steps of mapping the way forward, all in the context of my interview with President Trump in October before the election.” (34:32; Chris Salcedo)

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Memorable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• On Biden-era decline:
  “It was hell for most people, and nobody gave a rats behind about it until Donald Trump became the president.”
  — Rob Carson (04:48)

• On Bernie Sanders’ inaction:
  “Why have you failed at everything? Why haven’t you fixed anything?”
  — Rob Carson (06:37, re Sanders' decades in office)

• Ted Cruz on Democrats:
  “It’s like every issue across the sun, they picked every 80/20 issue and decided, let’s take the 20% side of it and let’s abandon the middle class.”
  — Ted Cruz (08:15)

• On ‘Latinx’:
  “Latinx... polls at minus 90.”
  — Chris Salcedo (27:03)
  “It is an insult. It is an insult.”
  — Rob Carson (27:19)

• Family story — Chris Salcedo:
  “This is when I knew that we were different... my dad looks at the paper, looks down to me and says, effing communist, and then walks away.”
  — Chris Salcedo (25:22, on Cesar Chavez presentation)

• Hostage story insight:
  “They tried to make him convert to Islam, promising him food in return, but he insisted on preserving his Jewish identity. Can you say you would do the same thing?”
  — Rob Carson (14:23)

• Salcedo’s vision:
  “...the premise for which [the book] was written, which was to destroy a left wing narrative that, hey, if you’re a Latino, you must be a liberal. No, that’s not true... And if the right does, they’re gonna know the way to success. And hey, this is what the Democrats did to screw it all up. Let’s not do that.”
  — Chris Salcedo (34:32–35:35)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:03–01:30: Show opens; Rob’s reflections on humor, political voice, and current political figures’ decline
• 03:38–07:39: Bernie Sanders clip; critique of progressive failures (healthcare, economy)
• 08:06–09:05: Ted Cruz on Democrat positions and the government shutdown
• 09:05–09:58: Rob on healthcare costs and illegal immigrant benefits
• 13:43–20:30: Israeli hostage story—resilience, torture, religious identity under Hamas
• 21:25–22:09: Dramatic introduction of Chris Salcedo
• 22:09–37:18: In-depth interview with Chris Salcedo—background, book, the Hispanic turn to conservatism
• 30:50–32:08: Shared blue-collar/cultural experiences between Rob and Chris
• 34:32–35:41: Salcedo’s hopes for his book’s impact; path for the future

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Overall Tone and Language

Rob Carson’s voice is energetic, punchy, irreverent, and blends satire with serious societal criticisms. Chris Salcedo’s tone is earnest and proud, sharing personal narratives that underscore his conservative, faith- and family-oriented worldview. The conversation is lively, both critical and optimistic about the future—especially regarding the shifting political identities within the Hispanic community.

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Summary Takeaways

This episode weaves individual experience, political critique, and cultural observation into a narrative challenging the default associations between ethnicity (especially Hispanic identity) and political ideology. It highlights both the failures of long-standing progressive leaders and the emerging conservative awakening among Hispanic Americans. Real-life accounts, including the harrowing story of a Hamas hostage and personal stories of family struggle, drive home themes of resilience, the importance of faith, and the search for true American opportunity.

Transcript

[Rob Carson]

Hold it.

[Jeff Bridges]

Now.

[Rob Carson]

You are about to hear the most interesting, informative, thought provoking and funny show in America on air and on the World Wide web. This is the Rob Carson Show. This is the Rob Carson Show. It's hour number three of the show. I hope you're enjoying it thus far. If you missed any of it, please feel free to download the podcast. We take the show every day. It's a three hour show. We get rid of all the commercials and everything. And my producer, redneck MacGyver Ken, he does it and we put it up on all the social media platforms, all the, all the podcast platforms. So if you would share with others. I'm very proud of the show. I'm proud of how it's developing. I like to say it's a work in progress. I never stop learning and I just think the, the comedy element is what I like to lead into. Obviously we lead edge with opinion, but if we can make a point with humor, that's what we do. Just like what Rush did. And I brought the comedy to Rush's show and it was funny. I wore one of my T shirts around the other day. Yesterday I wore the T shirt, my don't catch the stupid shirt. And I was at Target. Normally I'm not a Target shopper. It's just Walmart's another direction. I was over that in May or so I went and went to Target. There's a woman at the cash register, she's like, oh my God, that's fantastic. Don't catch this too. But I said, what's my. That's my slogan for my radio and television show. And she was like, oh my goodness. Okay. So I told her about the show and we'll see if she listens. It's, you know, I live in Alexandria, Virginia, so I'm not holding my breath. Although you do see Gasden flag cars with the license plate Gasden flag around here. And then you see. Oh, did you see that? I. That this is funny. I thought about doing this for Buck for Halloween. There's a, there's a viral picture of a guy with his truck. And on the front of his truck is a, is a mannequin wearing a black outfit. And on the back in white letters, it says Antifa. So it looks like he ran over an antifa member. I thought that'd be really funny for Halloween, right? Have an Antifa member stuck on the front of your truck. Oh, man, would I get some looks. I mean, it's bad enough I, I have these, I have a chrome badge on the back of my truck that says FJB edition. You figure it out. I don't think most people understand it until after, you know, I've already gone. But anyway, there's that. Mitch McConnell fell down again. He fell down again. He's 82 years old. I'm glad he's retiring. Eleanor Holmes Norton is supposed to be running again. She's close to 90 years old and she can't even walk. You know, it looks like massive cognitive decline and all of that. I mean, it's not good. And there's just got to be a point, honestly. You know, listen, Our president is 79 years old, and he is just kicking butt. But when you're starting to show like this and you're struggling physically to be able to walk or have a thought and, you know, like aoc, who's a moron, she tried to project on Donald Trump. Oh, yeah, he's falling asleep. Oh, really? He's falling asleep? Nobody has seen that. Please give me a. Give me a break. She was on stage yesterday with Bernie. Bernie Sanders. And Bernie tried to C block her, I guess, because they were asked about whether or not she was going to primary Chuck Schumer, and Bernie decided to talk all over her instead of letting her answer the question.

[Dana]

But are you saying that Senator Schumer should not be worried about a primary challenge from you?

[Rob Carson]

No.

[Bernie Sanders]

Let me jump in on this one.

[Dana]

This is what we're talking about.

[Bernie Sanders]

This is exactly what we're talking about.

[Rob Carson]

Now here is Bernie Sanders spewing a bunch of nonsense about the country that is absolutely untrue because when Joe Biden was the president, every single metric of quality of life descended into hell. I'll just remind you real quick, because I lived in flyover country when that was happening, and I saw people. I saw people worked to death. Yeah, a little grocery store that I would go to was a little. Kind of leaned into the Hispanic population a little bit. And I would go up there, and they were the women in their 70s working there, and they had to work there because, you know, they were broke. And two of them in the four years that I lived there died while working there. So they worked themselves to death. And I don't know if you knew this, but the price of cars doubled and the price of houses doubled and the price of most grocery items doubled. You don't remember that, do you? Yeah, they haven't come down either. It was hell. It was hell for most people, and nobody gave a rats behind about it until Donald Trump became the president. So here's Bernie Sanders spewing a bunch of absolute nonsense about the state of the country when every metric of quality of life now is going through the ceiling and it's amazing, falling apart.

[Bernie Sanders]

We had a house housing crisis, a health care crisis, and education.

[Rob Carson]

How are we having a health care crisis? You passed the damned Obamacare against the will of the American people. That was going to fix everything. You were gonna fix everything, Bernie. You've been in office 40 years, Bernie. Everything he just says right now he should have fixed by now. But you know all he did write books, sell books and buy houses. He's got four of them.

[Bernie Sanders]

Crisis, massive income and wealth inequality, a corrupt campaign.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, you're filthy rich, you're a public servant.

[Bernie Sanders]

And the media says, oh, you're gonna run. What are you gonna run for? Nobody cares.

[Dana]

So one more time, speaker and President Trump and the vice president saying it.

[Rob Carson]

All right. Pardon?

[Bernie Sanders]

Well, of course they're saying it. To deflect attention away from the real issue.

[Rob Carson]

Exactly.

[Bernie Sanders]

And here, let me tell you what the real issue is. But CMCNN talks about it.

[Rob Carson]

What is the reality? What is the real issue? We got 7, $17 trillion of manufacturing coming in. Stellantis is going to start building cars again. Here we are, we're bringing back the military. We got too many people signing up for the military. We're projecting power around the world. Donald Trump has signed seven peace deals. Seven peace deals. Inflation is flatlining. People who have blue collar jobs are above inflation. Now, unlike when Joe Biden putting for brains was was auto pinning his way through the presidency.

[Bernie Sanders]

The richest country in the history of the world. Right. All right, you tell me why we're the only nation not to guarantee health care to all people.

[Rob Carson]

Why? Why have you failed at everything? Why haven't you fixed anything? Listen, everything you're saying right there has been this way since he got in Congress. Why hasn't he done anything?

[Bernie Sanders]

The only nation that could guarantee paid family and medical leave, why we have a $7.25 an hour minimum wage, why we have eight.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, God, I'm just so tired of your crap. Honestly, just so tired of your crap. Here's a guy in the audience destroying Bombay. When it comes to the government shutdown.

[Bernie Sanders]

How do you think this shutdown reflects on Chuck Schumer's leadership? Well, I think it reflects more on Mike Johnson's leadership and President Trump's leadership. Now this is a leadership. That said it's okay to give a trip. Well, how do you feel?

[Rob Carson]

Tell me.

[Bernie Sanders]

Think it's a good idea to Give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the richest people in the country and then make less.

[Rob Carson]

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The rich don't pay enough taxes. Health breaks for tax breaks for the rich. Fixed health care. We haven't done any of it.

[Bernie Sanders]

Cuts the health care for working class people. I think Chuck Schumer has voted for continuing resolutions 13 times in the last four years. And he has the opportunity to vote for one again, but he's refusing to come to the table. I take look.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, Bernie, you just got your wrinkly old butt handed to you there, which I would not want to have those hands. Weird. Here's Ted Cruz talking about what the Democrats have been doing the last nine months, which is exactly what they've been doing for the last 50 years. Nothing.

[Ted Cruz]

Nine, 10 months. With the Democrats embracing one extreme position after another, they learned nothing from the election in 2024.

[Rob Carson]

Told you.

[Ted Cruz]

It's like every issue across the sun. They picked every 80, 20 issue and decided, let's take the 20 side of it and let's abandon the middle class. Let's abandon ordinary working people. And you look at this shutdown. Now, the shutdown is driven by two things. It's driven, number one, by their desire for free taxpayer provided health care for illegals. That is an extreme. That's the 20% side of an 80 20. And they're willing to shut the government down. But number two, what this is really about is Chuck Schumer is facing a political crisis. He almost lost his job earlier this year when the Democrats agreed to keep the government open. And he's looking over his left shoulder at aoc. She is breathing down his neck. The reason we are shut down in day 15 of the Schumer shutdown is Schumer is trying to show the radical left he hates Donald Trump as much as they do.

[Rob Carson]

You know, it's amazing. Yo, Bernie there being and whining about health care for Americans, which, by the way, I just signed up for health care now that I'm not married, no longer in the family plan. It is not cheap. There was a couple plans that I was about. For one man, healthy workout. Don't drink, don't smoke. $850 a month. Okay, $850. The deductible is $7,000. $7,000. There you go. But here's Bernie. He says that illegal alien, illegal aliens, they should be taken care of.

[Bernie Sanders]

So I think the time is long overdue for us to be clear that health care is a human right for all including, by the way, the undocumented in this country.

[Rob Carson]

Illegal aliens. Illegal aliens. If you went to Mexico, they would never consider giving you health care, never consider giving you anything. By the way, another great story that happened that Bernie Sanders and the Democrats didn't bother to take to focus on is the price of prescription drugs is going to drop by 85% in our country. And under the last 50 years of both parties being in charge, people end up going to Canada, people going to Mexico, people in their senior citizens. I remember my, my in laws used to drive to Mexico to get their drugs. Every other shop in Mexico, you either get shot glasses or ponchos and then right next door you can get your prescription drugs because it's so damned expensive. Here Donald Trump is working with Pfizer and Merck and they're bringing down the price of prescription drugs up to 85%. Bummy. Bummy. You've been in Washington D.C. for 40 years. You've done nothing, nothing at all. It is ridiculous. Let's take a break and come back, shall we? This is the Rob Carson show.

[Joe Kiernan]

And only one person in the Democratic Party has broken with the ranks. It's like, I don't understand it. It hasn't been working well for Democrats.

[Rob Carson]

This is pretty simple. The, the government does not have to be shut down. It doesn't have to be shut down. We can, we can.

[Joe Kiernan]

Now you're just parsing a matter of.

[Rob Carson]

Just a couple days. I mean this could, this could be.

[Joe Kiernan]

Easily solved to go sitting at the table past 60. To get past 60, you need some Democrats to reopen the, that's what's going.

[Rob Carson]

To have to happen.

[Joe Kiernan]

Senator, you close the government down because you want 1.5 trillion for all these different things that Schumer wants that it's obvious to everyone. Although, you know, maybe you can convince the public that it's the Republicans, but it's not.

[Rob Carson]

There you go. That is Joe Kiernan on CNBC calling out Mark Kelly who believe it or not, he was an astro, an astronaut. I just can't imagine someone that intelligent being an astronaut, you know. But then again, they, they sent Gayle King into space briefly. There is that. There is that, that was actually just a, that was a glorified roller coaster ride. I would do that. I would do that. I would get on one of Elon Musk rockets and go out and experience weightlessness for a little while. By the way, Chris Salcedo, my buddy joins us at the bottom of the hour. The rise of the liberal liberty loving Latino, a new American Revolution. He's a hell of a nice guy. And I mean that from the bottom of my heart. One of the, one of the best people I know. And he's going to be joining us at the bottom of the hour, so we're really glad about that. So those of you who are feeling like, like Zoran Mandami. Zoran Mandami refuses to condemn Hamas. He does. He's like, you know, whatever. He didn't answer a lot of questions yesterday during his interview with Fox. Here he is being asked about giving Donald Trump some credit for the ceasefire because Donald Trump did it. Really?

[Bernie Sanders]

If you are asked tomorrow night if you give credit to President Trump for the cease fire between Israel and Hamas and the return of the 20 living hostages, would you raise your hand?

[Chris Salcedo]

You know, first, I want to say it's a real pleasure to be here and thank you for having me. And it's an honor to have this opportunity to speak to so many New Yorkers and Americans across the country. And when it comes to the ceasefire, I am, am thankful and I have hope that it will actually endure.

[Rob Carson]

Who do you want to thank? She asked you about thanking Donald Trump.

[Chris Salcedo]

And that it will be lasting. And I continue to have concerns because I've seen reports still just this in the last few days that five Palestinians were killed by the Israeli military. And that's what gives me pause about issuing any kind of praise or celebration at a moment.

[Rob Carson]

The Palestinians, some of the Hamas people are, are killing Israeli sympathizers, by the way, and, and they haven't returned the bodies of the hostages that they murdered, you see. So I hope that just, you know, Fafo bleep around and find out. Hamas Ram Brezlowski, freed this week after two years in captivity under Palestinians. Islamic Jihad. Systematically tortured, kept in shackles, repeatedly pressed to renounce his Jewish faith and convert to Islam in exchange for food. His mother told Hebrew media Wednesday they tried to make him convert to Islam, promising him food in return, but he insisted on preserving his Jewish identity. Can you say you would do the same thing? You're starving to death, being tortured. We will feed you. All you got to do is convert. That's the ultimate man. I mean, wow. She said guards demanded that he convert to Islam if he would read from the Quran or fast during Ramadan. But Ram didn't break. They asked him to convert, tempted him. If you are, if you fast during Ramadan, we'll give you food, soap, all kinds of things that for us are banal. But Ram didn't break. He didn't asked him to read from the. From the Quran. We'll give you extra rations and hygiene items. Even as hunger and fear consumed him, he said no. He said no. The psychological manipulation left deep emotional scars. Now when he returned, you see, he keeps saying I'm Jewish. His mother said. I didn't understand why he kept saying I'm Jewish. I'm a strong Jew boy. It was so important for him to preserve his Jewish identity. In the early weeks of captivity, she said, Rahm was confined in a makeshift cell just 3.3 by 3.3ft, shackled on all four limbs. He received only a half piece of dry flatbread and a small portion of rice his evening, and he was forced to relieve himself in a bottle collected nightly by his cap. In one instant, driven by extreme hunger, he broke free and tried to cook pasta. When the gas stove failed, he set fire to clothes and a book to boil water in a small plastic covered bathroom. Smoke seeped out and a crowd from neighboring apartments gathered, pounding on the windows and doors. He feared lynching. Rahm thought about the 2000 Ramla lynching when a Palestinian mom murdered two Israeli reservists held up blood soaked hands from a window and told him, I'm not ending like that. He hid under a blanket and roughly 40 people broke the windows and stormed the room. They saw the handcuffs and understood he was a prisoner there. As the mob closed in, Ram whispered Shema Yisrael, the ancient Jewish declaration of faith. I didn't expect this to hit me like this. Recited in moments of mortal danger. His captor returned with keys, dispensed the crowd and moved him to a slightly better place. This spring they abused him more several times a day with a whip and with things I will not even mention. The torture only intensified in the last months between two propaganda videos Palestinian and Israeli jihad released flaunting Rahm's worsening conditions as part of their psychological warfare. The torture only intensified in the months between two propaganda videos flaunting Rom's worsening condition. Throughout it all, Rahm said, mom, I knew it would pass. I said to myself, it was only a period. It will pass, it will end, it will end. Captors flooded him with disinformation to crush his hope, claiming Iran had bombed Israel, that the country was nearly destroyed and thousands of soldiers killed, and showing selective protest footage to convince the parents he'd to get he'd given up, even insisting his photo was not at Hostage Square. They told him no one was talking about him, that we were broken, had no strength to protest. He was taken underground until two days before his release, she said. But at times he was forced to live alongside bodies of slain hostages. Remains among the roughly 20 bodies still in in in Palestinian territory in the recent days final days. Gars guards force fed him leaving with blood him with blood. Sugar swings. He still suffers. Rahm has rejected material gifts and attention. He still, he tells me I don't need anything. I don't want a phone, TV or computer. I just want the sky, the sun and the air. Former hostage Tal Shohan described Al Hamas weaponized starvation and beatings as part of their strategy to to crush captives held in sealed tunnels 20 to 30 meters below the ground underground, rationing them to less than 300 calories a day as scurvy sat in. Like them, Rahm endured deliberate starvation and torture as part of the calculated campaign of terror. And like them, he clung to his faith, his identity and his will to survive. I have no penny for Hamas. Screw them peace deal. Please, please, please bleep around and find out. Hamas, please give the the Israelis and America the green light to just get rid of you for good. For good, for good. His story of faith was a remarkable, remarkable story. Somebody just said proud to be a Jew, says Rob. It sounds like you're talking about Nazi Germany. You know, how about also who were held in, in Vietnam. How about that? Yeah, it's remarkable. What an amazing story. I'm glad I could share it with you. Let's take a break and come back. The man, the legend Chris Salcedo joins us next. Don't go anywhere. Hey guys, it's Carson. You know when I was a kid and I would ride in a car, I would get so car sick and so nauseous my parents would have to carry me into the house. Recently I went on a sailboat in Mexico and I got so motion sick I was sick all day. Then I found Relief Band. If you get nauseous, you absolutely must get Relief Band. 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So I'm gonna set this up like a movie trailer. Cause it is worth it here. I got some music here. Hold on a second. Let's get some music. Music here. Okay. Some music. Okay, hold on, hold on. Here we go. Let me get my announcer voice on here. Hold on.

[Announcer]

For decades, leftists in the media and the Democrat party have tried to sell a simple equation. To be Latino is to be liberal. They've claimed that any resistance to their radical anti American agenda, whether it's open borders, defending the police or socialist economic policies, is racist. Narrative was never true and millions of Latinos are proving it wrong every day.

[Rob Carson]

The rise of the liberty loving Latino tells the story mainstream media refuses to cover how a growing number of Hispanic.

[Announcer]

Americans are stepping up for faith, freedom, family and the Constitution.

[Rob Carson]

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the one and only Chris Salsano. Did I do you justice there, brother?

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

That was epic. Absolutely.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, brother. You got a book? You got a book. I love it.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

Yeah. Number two, this is the second book. I'm not even sure I'm gonna write a third.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

The first. First one was an act of fiction. This one is kind of the embodiment, my friend, of, of basically the Chris Salcedo show, getting out of news and getting into opinions. So, yeah, 15 years I've been putting all this stuff together and finally put it down on paper.

[Rob Carson]

Well, I know that a lot of people who've been a part of this movement, and I've been a part of it for 10 years, although three of it I spent selling cars, for God's sake. But it has inspired so many to move to acknowledge the history that we have witnessed and the history that we are witnessing now. And none of this, I believe, is by accident, Chris. None of this. You arriving where you are right now was by accident, certainly by effort. Don't. Don't get me wrong. But certainly it's a serendipitous time. Let me talk about your journey here, bud. Because, you know, you mentioned also that most of the time you're expected to be a Democrat if you're Latino. Things really changed. Things really changed. Tell me about where you started and where you are now.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

Well, I have always been. And whether I knew it or not, I was raised with conservative values. Although, you know, it wasn't something we sat down at the kitchen table and said, hey, you know, we're conservatives. You know, it was just. It was, as President Trump says, it was common sense. We were patriotic. We loved our country, we loved our freedoms, and we appreciated those who kept those freedoms in place. And as we marveled and watched over the. Over the last couple of decades, those rights and constitutional liberties have been under direct attack. Not from the usual suspects, you know, the commies and foreign countries, but from within and in a not so subtle manner. In your face, leftists, Marxist socialists. So I've always had. I'll give you a story real quick.

[Chris Salcedo]

Story.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

Yeah, I'm. It's little Chris Salcedo comes home, he's in the fifth grade, and daddy, Daddy, Daddy. I said, daddy, I. Look, I. We covered Cesar Chavez in school today, and I and I had this, you know, this color colored paper, you know, that we used to color our crayons. We would color in. They would give us something. And it had the words about who says who they say Chavez was. They didn't tell us the truth, of course. And I remember this is. This is when I knew that we were different or that we were. That there was something that I wasn't being told that was right, because my dad looks at the looks of the paper, looks down to me and says, effing communist, and then walks away.

[Ted Cruz]

Wow.

[Rob Carson]

First time.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

The first time I had ever heard my father cuss wow. In my presence. That's how strongly. And you know what, by the way, Cesar Chavez was.

[Rob Carson]

Yes.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

And you know what? From that point on, buddy, I knew that, hey, maybe the Salcedo family is not what. We're not fitting into this narrative that so many. This box that so many want to put us into.

[Rob Carson]

Well, you know, I started to notice, you know, a few years ago when we were talking about the stream of people coming across the southern border, and the Democrats just immediately said, oh, they're going to vote Democrat. And I said, I'm not so sure about that, because a good share of them are Catholic. A good share of them want their families to be intact. And all of them, I would say 99% of them, don't think that a girl can become a boy and vice versa. And then I'll also say they sure as hell don't want to be called Latin X. And erase the masculinity and femininity that is based in the freaking language. And I said, that is ridiculous. And then we started to point this out and that's when the Democrat party really stepped in it.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

Well, I got a couple of sections basically on Latin X alone.

[Rob Carson]

You're right.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

The language, the Spanish language has, for those of you who don't speak it or have never been, didn't take, you know, first or second year Spanish in high school. The Spanish words often have masculine and feminine genders assigned to them. And then because it didn't fit in with their, their, their leftist Marxist agenda, their, their trans agenda, folks, which we can talk a whole hour about that. Yeah, because it didn't fit with that. They said, hey, you Latinos are gonna have to give up the beauty of your language.

[Rob Carson]

Wow.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

And we said, huh? No, don't think so. No. Dare you Latinx, no matter whether you're Democrat, Republican, leftist, conservative, it polls that, that term, Latinx polls at minus 90.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, brother.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

Hate it.

[Rob Carson]

I mean, it is, it is an insult. It is an insult. By the way, we're talking to Chris Salsaino. He's got a book, the Rise of the Liberty Loving Latino. I do it that way because that's what we do with newscasters. Out of nowhere they just suddenly say, you know, use the language, use the accent. I want to do the same thing, even though I'm not Latino. But, you know, I studied, I wasted time on French four years high school. French was the only language that they had in my school. And then I took four years in college and wow, what a waste. Never been to France, have been to Mexico a freaking dozen times. But, you know, you do, you, you have in, in French, you have a le or la, depending on the, the gender of the thing. You know, they always said that how you can tell if, in this, in the French language and Spanish language, uh, if a table is masculine or feminine, you know how that is. Look between its legs. That's the. Let us do that. But let me ask you about your family, bro. Let me ask you about your father. Tell me about your father.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

Worked 30 days. 30 days, 30 years. Packed bell. Got in when he was young, worked his, his entire time. Retired. They gave him a watch and that's. That was, that was his experience. You know, my mom, when, when my parents sadly divorced, my mom worked a couple of jobs, worked as a real estate agent, worked as executive assistant, worked as. What else did she. Oh, yeah, she tended bar, which is, you know, anything they could do, make ends meet, you know, living in apartments, living. It wasn't until later in life that I got my first house, got my first dog, you know.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

I wasn't a teenager until I got my first dog because we couldn't afford it.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, yeah.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

You know, and yeah, it was, as they say, humble beginnings.

[Rob Carson]

Yes.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

And it was, but it was, but I never knew it. I never knew that. I know that wasn't, I mean, it was, I was coming up in the era of Reagan. I was a Reagan baby. I was. Ronald Reagan to me was Optimus prime from the Transformers. He was our leader. He was, he was the one who always knew what you to do.

[Rob Carson]

He was strong.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

He believed in principle and that's who Ronald Reagan was. I mean, seriously, man, in my, in my, my preteen teen mind, Ronald Reagan is Optimus Prime. I mean, still to this day.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

You know, a humble and good hearted leader who wanted to defeat evil. And guess what? Both of them did in real life.

[Rob Carson]

Absolutely.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

And in fake life.

[Rob Carson]

Now, Chris, we got to take a break here. I want to, I want to continue on the other side. I want to know more about you and, and the certainly the MAGA movement and your life. The Rise of Liberty Loving Latino the New A New American Revolution. Chris Salcedo on the Newsmax sideline will return right after this. Let's take a break and come back. You're listening to the Rob Carson Show. This is Rob Carson. Joe. Chris Salcedo, the Liberty Loving Latino, has a new book, it's called the Rise of the Liberty Loving Latino, A New American Revolution. And he's on the Newsmax hotline. And I've always had an enormous kinship with particularly the Hispanic community because very similar. I grew up in a Catholic household. You know, I didn't know I was poor either, Chris. You know, we got one pair of shoes a year.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

Yeah, if we were lucky.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, no kidding. I literally, I remember duct taping my shoes and using white shoe polish to make my Adidas look. Oh my gosh.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

I did the same thing.

[Rob Carson]

Oh yeah, man. But you know, I remember one time, Chris, I was, I had guys working on the house next door and there was a group of Hispanic men working on this. One guy's very ambitious and I asked him to come over and give me a, you know, an estimate on the paint. And I was talking to him very quickly. You know, the Democrats are make you want to feel like if you tell somebody, hey, man, I just want to say your English is great and it means a lot to be able to communicate like that. They say it's racist. And I told the guy that and he goes Rob, come here and let me show you something. He walked me to the front door and he pointed out this beautiful Ford F150 is about a $90,000 truck at the time. And he said, you see that truck? I said, yeah. He goes, the guys who drive the truck speak Spanish. The guy who owns the truck speaks English. And I was like, okay.

[Chris Salcedo]

Yeah.

[Rob Carson]

But I think that, you know, certainly the Hispanic culture, family, faith, they're very important and the Democrat Party completely abandoned them, didn't they?

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

Well, it wasn't. I don't think their heart was ever in it to begin with, to be honest with you, Rob. I mean, I can't remember a time when Democrats were for religious freedom. I can't remember a time when Democrats were not attacking the Catholic faith, not attacking Christians in general. And it's gotten exponentially worse in the era of Obama. I believe the open downhill slide for the Democrat Socialist Party was this infection into our government of anti American kooks, freaks and nuts. And it all started with Barack Obama.

[Rob Carson]

Well, you look at some of the names that generally, you know, whenever they have these big Hispanic whatever festivals, they celebrate Quevara, you know, they celebrate, as you mentioned, Alvar Chavez, Castro even, to some degree he's Cub. But you know, I've always thought that was ridiculous because that's the antithesis of the family, that's the antithesis of faith. Right?

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

It is, it is. And if you look everywhere around the globe where the Democrats have, their ideology has taken over Venezuela, Cuba, most of these South American, Central American countries with some rare and notable exceptions, and they're. There are some that are pushing back the Communist China's infiltration. They're infiltrating in these left wing countries and guess what? People are fleeing them like crazy because nobody wants to be a part of a leftist country because it's misery, it's squalor, it is elitism. Only the elite survive and have it good. And that's not America and the Latinos recognized it.

[Rob Carson]

But it's coming. Things are coming for the Latino community. Venezuela's about to fall. Mexico's getting colonoscopy from Donald Trump. Things are going to change, brother. Things are going to change. Your book is, your book is called the Rise of the Liberty Loving Latino. Chris Salcedo, what do you hope people, what do you think people will find extraordinary about this book in your life? And just even the last few years, going through the tribulations and the abuses and usurpations we all experience to ultimately come to this point in history where Good appears to be putting evil back on its heels.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

Well, yeah, there is a resurgence, there is a defense of this last best hope for mankind on planet Earth, right, The United States of America. And what I hope the people will read in this book is a, the premise for which it was written, which was to destroy a left wing narrative that, hey, if you're a Latino, you must be a liberal. No, that's not true. Hey, if you're a Latino, you must support illegal immigration. Right? No, that's not true. That's one thing. But I hope they recognize because I detail why, why Latinos left in droves from the left wing. And then I go through the steps of mapping the way forward, all in the context of my interview with President Trump in October before the election. So it is very much a retrospective and a roadmap all at once. And I am confident the left won't read it. And if the right does, they're gonna know the way to success. And hey, this is what the Democrats did to screw it all up. Let's not do that.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, I just ordered it, by the way. Just ordered your book. Thank you very much. Absolutely.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

You know what? Tell the folks how easy it was. You go to Amazon, you type in the rise of the liberty loving Latino and there it is. And type in Chris Salcedo and there it is. And you can save a couple of bucks if you order it now. Because I did my publisher very, very happy.

[Rob Carson]

I did. I ordered it now. And I do mean it. I, you know, I've gotten to know you, brother. I really, you and I, we hit it off, right? I mean, immediately. We just immediately started giving each other crap, like big brother, little brother kind of stuff.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

And I was the big brother, right? That was me.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, you were the big brother.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

The underwear over the head and the swirly in the toilet, that was me to you.

[Rob Carson]

I gotta tell you. Are you gonna do an audiobook? Because there's nothing I like better than, you know, you know, going to bed there, got my jammies on, get to hear Chris Salcedo, just. Guys, fade off of this. No, brother, I, I do appreciate you. And by the way, how's the new time slot working for you on Newsmax?

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

It is chugging right along. Right before 5 o' clock Eastern on Newsmax. As a matter of fact, the book will be the subject matter today because there's one aspect that you and I didn't talk about that I'm saving for the show. And actually I'll give you, I'll give your audience a Sneak peek.

[Rob Carson]

Okay.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

This was the book nobody wanted until now.

[Rob Carson]

Good, good. Well, I'm looking forward to it. It's nice to hear the perspective that you have with regard to the Latino community and the revolution that has happened that it wasn't a left leaning revolution. Chris Salcedo. God bless you, brother. I'll watch you tonight at five o', clock, baby.

[Chris Salcedo (continued)]

Rob Carson, brother from another mother. Talk to you soon.

[Rob Carson]

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