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🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Welcome back! Former CNN reporter, now independent journalist Nick Valencia joins the show to kiki with Gabe about the ups and downs of working for mainstream media and why he's chosen to go independent for his coverage of immigration in this horrid time.
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| 0:00.0 | You had told a lot of lies about achievement. |
| 0:03.4 | They called you when they got you to believe it. |
| 0:06.1 | Thumb and finger held to their foreheads in an L shirt trapped in a capitalist hellscape. |
| 0:10.7 | Let's fight back in half some talks about class and the massive costs of the disasters. |
| 0:16.0 | Blots are fascists and Nazis and Nazis and Nazis. |
| 0:19.1 | It's a thousand natural shocks. |
| 0:21.2 | A Bad With Money podcast. |
| 0:23.2 | Hello and welcome to A Thousand Natural Shocks, A Bad With Money Podcast. |
| 0:27.1 | I'm your host, Gabe Dunn. |
| 0:28.7 | And with me today, we have Nick Valencia, journalist extraordinaire. |
| 0:33.8 | Can you tell my audience who you are and what you do? |
| 0:37.0 | Thank you so much for having me, Gabe. |
| 0:38.4 | I really appreciate the invitation. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm an independent journalist, but I'm a long-time veteran journalist. |
| 0:43.2 | So I left CNN after 19 years and now have my own media company. |
| 0:47.2 | And I've been out in the streets doing street-level journalism for the last six months. |
| 0:51.3 | But, you know, I've been in the trenches for years, for decades at this |
| 0:55.0 | point. I have a long history covering immigration. I've been, you know, to the border |
| 0:59.7 | countless times and spent a long time covering family separation during the first Trump administration. |
| 1:05.2 | But I started at CNN as a teleprompter operator back in 2006 and just worked my way up and, |
| 1:10.4 | you know, made it to the level of |
| 1:12.1 | correspondent. And now I'm on this new journey, which feels even more fulfilling in so many ways. |
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