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Unknown Host 1
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Eric
All right, everybody. Happy Easter weekend. I don't think we say Happy Good Friday because I'm not sure we celebrate the crucifixion of Christ. I'm not really sure about that. You can hit me up on the chat and let me know. But happy Easter weekend anyway.
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Bo Davidson
Thank you.
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Eric
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Mark Lamb
Look, Eric, thanks for having me on. I'm far more disappointed in the Senate because they had a bill that the House put it over to their, put in their hands. They were scared to bring it to the floor. They blamed the filibuster, and in the end they sent something bad back to the House. The House has to look and say, how do we get these folks back to work? How do we get them paid? I know President Trump had the executive order, thank goodness for that, but we have DHS employees that need to get paid. I don't know all the nuances to this bill, but I want to see these folks getting paid. And right now is not the time to have DHS shut down. We need it now more than ever with what we've got going on across
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Eric
the world, you know, and, and Trump has made some amazing strides. Right. We've literally shut down the border, which is unheard of. A couple years ago, millions were coming across, pouring over, and he's got that down to a trickle, if, if any at all. And you, in order to, for that, to maintain, you need dhs. I mean, you need ICE and you need Border Patrol. You need everything all hands on deck. It's, it's very scary to me to think that they're going to figure this out later. Before I get, I just have to explain to a lot of people, don't understand. Yes, in the big beautiful bill, there is allocation for ICE paid, being paid through 2029, but that's every year. Every year they have to actually get the funding. So it's been approved through 2029, but, but it hasn't been funded. That's an annual basis. So you get into Congress in 2026, you're going to push to get those ICE folks and border Patrol paid, right?
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Mark Lamb
Absolutely. DHS is an integral part of what our federal government is supposed to do, which is to protect the American people. It's one of the few things that the founding fathers set forth. What's disappointing right now is the way the Republicans are acting. They're acting as if the Democrats were still. The majority of the Democrats are actually wagging the dog right now, and we've got to put an end to that. And the way we do that is by sending strong Americans that understand that we need to put the American people first. That will highlight the fallacies of the Democrat Party, which has really become the Socialist party. And we've got to get back to pushing bills that are beneficial to the American people. Having DHS funded, including Border Patrol, dh, ice, hsi, all of these organizations, they need to be funded if we're going to properly protect the American people from terrorist threats.
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Eric
Chairman, tell me about Trump's endorsement. Obviously means a lot to you. Who else is. And by the way, is an open primary. Tell us what's going on in the state.
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Mark Lamb
Look, I've got a primary contender. I would love to have any support that anybody wants to give me. You can go to Mark Lamb, us. We've got President Trump's endorsement. He says, I give my full endorsement to MAGA Warrior Sheriff Mark Lamb. I had a good time with that, with the friends. Also, we've got the House Freedom Fund, we've got the Club for Growth, we've got Speaker Johnson, Speaker, Leader Scalise. We've got a lot of really great endorsements. But what I'm looking for is the endorsement of the American people, in particular those of CD5 here in Arizona. That endorsement is what means the most to me. I want to be able to represent them and the American people in Washington D.C. i keep saying America needs more cowboy hats and belt buckles. We need common sense Americans who are unapologetic about God, family, freedom in the Constitution.
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Eric
So you, I would assume you can tell me. The polling internals tell me, I assume you're, you're probably leading with a, with a very comfortable margin as far as Republicans. Now, again, is this an open primary? Is it all everyone, everyone shows up and votes for whoever the hell they want? Or is it, is it Republican primary alone? And assuming you lock down a Republican primary, if it's that way, who would you be going up against? You have any idea?
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Mark Lamb
Right now in the Republican primary, we're ahead by 70 points. It's a Republican only. So independents can request a Republican ballot and they can vote in our primary. But it is a Republican primary. And then in the, the Democrats have about five candidates. But my understanding is the Democrats, they know this is a very strong anchor red district, not just for Arizona, but for this country. And people in Washington, D.C. understand it as well. President Trump understands it, which is why he was so quick. We got one of the first endorsements that came out, not the first, but we were right in that, that first mix because he wants to lock this down and ensure that a good anchor district like this is represented well in Washington D.C. andy Biggs has been our congressman. He's done a great job. I look forward to getting in the foxhole with President Trump and fighting for these things that we need to protect the American people.
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Eric
Well, I guess up to speed. I'm glad you brought it up because you're running in the seat for the seat that Andy is vacating and he's running for governor of Arizona. We've been really highlighting his. His run there and hopefully he locks that one down to where how does that stand the governor race?
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Mark Lamb
Well, thank you for highlighting Andy because we need Andy here in this state. Look, I think Andy's doing a great job. The people of Arizona are not happy with what we have. We've got to do a better job of highlighting as a Republican Party in this country just the problems that the Democrats continue to push on the American people. And we're not immune from that here in Arizona. Our governor has not been great for the state of Arizona. We've got to get somebody in there that's not only going to. That's going to fix election integrity in the state of Arizona, that's going to work with our federal partners, that's going to ensure that our borders are secure in Arizona. There is a lot of work that needs to be done here and we need a good governor to do that. We need to be able to turn on that legislature and Senate here in Arizona, which is red. But we've got to get them the governor that's going to sign off on the bills that we need to make Arizona a great state.
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Eric
All right, let's jump back to this whole issue of Mike Johnson, Speaker Johnson, going to vote, taking the vote in funding parts of DHS, but leaving ICE and Border Patrol out of it. Let's say you win. First of all, I mean, would you vote to replace Speaker Johnson? Number one, if you're in that seat, Number two, if not, what's the message to. To the speaker?
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Mark Lamb
Well, look, I. Look, I hope to be part of that process when I get there. I've had good conversations with the speaker. He's been very gracious with his time and really kind of helping me along my path and helping understand some of the issues they're dealing with in Washington, D.C. i would be for continuing with ICE, continuing with border Patrol. I understand the value of them. I've worked hand in hand. I've seen the impact. If we were to move those components from our government from dhs, it would be an utter disaster. And ultimately that's going to fall even heavier on the heads and hands of the sheriffs and local law enforcement throughout this country. So I hope to be one that will stand up strong for these men and women who have been putting on the badge and going out and doing a difficult work. Let's remember the work that ICE and Border Patrol and everybody are doing is the work that Congress said they had to do. They're the ones that set the laws and these folks are just carrying out the laws. So I would be a strong supporter of ice, Border Patrol, HSI and our dhs.
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Eric
I think you're, you're speaking to the folks who are going to be voting for you with that 70% lead. And folks, remember you were sheriff and you know, look, you weren't on the board of the Pinal county, if I'm not mistaken, doesn't include the border, but certainly you include a lot of people, a lot of those caravans. The illegal migration that was coming on, the, the migrants, the invaders, they go through the border and they had had right up to the middle of state where Pinal county is. Tell us how with a minute or so, sir. Tell us why that means so much to the people of Arizona and frankly, the country.
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Mark Lamb
You're right. Pinal county was not on the border, but we have an Indian reservation on the south end of our county. We're 50 miles off the border and those people flowed right through. I could show you 100 spots in the desert where they discarded camouflage clothes, carpet, shoes, water bottles, the remnants of how they carried their drugs into this country, and not to mention all of the human load vehicles we had under the Biden administration. But those have not disappeared because we still have them coming across. We still have a job to do to find these folks. President Trump has done an amazing job. We just had a vehicle, we pulled over the other day. You go to our sheriff's office page. We had a bunch of them that fled out of the truck and then the trunk of the truck was full of people as well. We cannot allow that to happen again under the Biden. Like what we saw with the Biden administration. We got to have people that will solidify President Trump's executive orders into long term beneficial laws for the American people. I want to be part of it. I'd love you for you to support me@marklam us if you feel the same way.
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Eric
Good to have you, Mark. Always good to have you. We'll get you back again. By the way, maga make Arizona great again. I don't know, it has some sort of ring to it. I'm not sure if, if you use it. But feel free to Mark Lamb, thank you so much. Congressionals 5th District, folks, mark Lamb, Sheriff Mark Lamb running for Congress. Thank you. All right, folks, look at this. All right, folks, six months in, we're almost 3 million views. We got almost 90,000 watch hours. We're going to get to 15,000 subscribers. We're almost there. I need you to help me out. I'll tell you what, when we hit 15,000, should be very soon. We'll take the last five people who leave comments in the comments section and we're going to send you one of these, one of these Cool Edge T shirts right there. Again, leave a comment in the comment section. Be one of the last five that once we hit 15,000 and you're going to get a T shirt also, you got to be a subscriber. So do it now. All right. Let's bring our next guest, the former, say, former CIA covert operations officer, now CEO of Portman Square Group. He also has a very popular daily podcast called the President's Daily Brief. Happy to bring back Mike Baker to the show. Mike would let's get right to this. The news overnight that there was a US Fighter shot down. The Iraqis told us they did. It was confirmed by the White House a couple hours ago. What are your thoughts on this? And I hear there's one pilot rescued and I haven't heard the status of the second. Your thoughts?
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Mike Baker
Yeah, they've still got a search and rescue mission underway. They'll be doing that all through the night and frankly, nighttime is a real friend for this crew member who they're still searching for and for our search and rescue teams. And F15E hit by a surface to air missile of some sort that hasn't been discussed yet and causing both crew members to, to eject. The one, as you pointed out, has been been rescued safely. Now, what it points out in a sense is we've been talking and the administration's been talking a lot about obliterating their missile program, about obliterating their air defense systems having complete dominance over the skies. What this points out is that it doesn't take much for the existing Iranian regime to exert a cost here. And whether that's by downing a jet or whether it's by creating the chaos that still exists in the Strait of Hormuz. They don't really need much. And depending on who you talk to, they've still got to a relatively significant number of, of missiles, missile launchers, despite the fact that there's no doubt it's been a military success. If you're talking about degrading significantly their capabilities.
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Eric
So, yes, absolutely. Degraded them, degraded their ability to deliver a nuclear weapon, degraded their military, current military, and possibly any opportunity to rebuild the military anytime soon. The question is, yes, these, these little, they still have some, they still have missiles. They still have, and they still have the resolve. Mike, talk to us about the resolve of being an Iraqi, I'm sorry, an Iranian right now, irgc, they'll fight to the death. Right. And that doesn't bode well for boots in the sand, so to speak.
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Mike Baker
Yeah, there was this, I, I think that there was this initial optimism in the White House and the administration and I'm sure the Israelis, because this was their, one of the primary objectives was to get this regime change right. And that's proven to be extremely difficult. Now, I know the White House has been test driving this message saying, well, we are dealing with a new regime and perhaps they're very reasonable. Well, I would push back on that. You're dealing with new faces in the same Islamic Republic regime. And it does appear as if what's happened is the political establishment, the clerical establishment within Iran has taken a step back. The irgc, it appears, has completely cemented their position at the top of that food chain there within Iran and are calling the shots. Massoud Bazeskian is basically, you know, irrelevant at this point, the president of Iran. And so you're getting a, you're getting what appears to be this, this tightening of the, of the existing leadership around the irgc. And they don't appear to be showing any interest in coming to the table in a meaningful way with negotiations. They've completely refused to consider or look at the peace settlements that have been put in front of them, whether it's by the US or mediators, including Turkey and Pakistan, Oman, Qataris. So I think the idea that you were going to get this regime change is it's still way down the road.
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Eric
Yeah. Regent yes, correct. And, and it's, it's, it could take months, could take years, depending how you want to go at it. Let's take a listen to President Trump from the, the address Wednesday night, especially this line which, you know, create a lot of opinion on both sides, so to speak. Watch. We are going to hit them extremely
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Gavin Newsom
hard over the next two to three weeks.
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Senator Cory Booker
We're going to bring them back to,
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Eric
to the Stone Ages where they belong. And so both sides are like, you know, yeah, we want to project a, a strong voice. And he is, he's crushing, he's obliterating him. I actually think this is the right strategy, to be honest with you. I think I want out. I don't want boots on the ground personally, just against this whole thing. But I think the way you do it is you, you, you, you bomb them into submission and you can't do it just hitting military installations. So the other side will tell you he, they feel he went too far. Your thoughts?
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Mike Baker
Yeah, look, I get it. It's kind of this dual track approach. You know, let's, let's continue to exert pressure. Obviously we're continuing combat operations at the same time saying, look, we've offered up a 15 point peace plan, we want to have discussions. We, we have been talking, right. And I think that confuses a lot of people, just kind of watching from the sideline thinking, well, which is it? Are you going to obliterate, you know, their, their capabilities or are you going to have these discussions? But doing this at the same time, that's not atypical. Anytime you're in a conflict, there's always some channel of communication that's open. I agree with you. I don't think anybody really is keen to see boots on the ground, whether it's, you know, taking Carg island or some of the smaller islands. Look, we've already got boots on the ground during the search and rescue operation, and thank goodness they were able to again, rescue one of the crew members already. But, you know, I, to be honest, you know, if this goes, if this escalates, and it already is, in a sense, President Trump was threatening to hit their energy infrastructure, their power grids, even talked about desalination plants. Well, guess what? Iran, over the past 24 hours has already hit in Kuwait and the UAE. Energy infrastructure, refineries, gas plants, aid, desalination plants. So again, the regime in Iran that exists now doesn't seem to have any interest in talking. And they, if anything, they're hardening their approach and getting on the offensive with what little they've got left.
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Eric
Mike, former CIA. Tell us, from, from that perspective, where the hell are all our quote unquote allies in the Middle East? You know, okay, Israel, got it. Not really sure what they're, where they are, what their motivation is, or they want to play Trump's strategy, or they're on their own. But where are the other ones? Where, where's, where's Saudi Arabia? Where's Oman, where's Bahrain? Where's where? Why aren't they assisting in opening the Strait of Hormuz?
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Mike Baker
Yeah, that's a great point. And people Talk about the eu, frankly, it would be much more effective if the Gulf State partners were, you know, jumping into this fray, getting on the offensive. Now we're seeing signs of that, right? The reporting that the Saudis, MbS and Saudi has been telling the White House, look, you got to, you know, keep up the fight, but they've got to be more visible in this. The UAE has actually put forward a resolution in the United nations talking about reopening the Strait of Hormuz with whatever it takes. Right. And so the UAE has been signaling that they're right on the edge. They're willing to get into this, I think. And if they and other Gulf actors would do that, that's a game changer, almost more so than getting the uk. Keir Starmer's been completely reluctant to do anything. Emmanuel Macron in France. Germans even talk about the Spanish, even the Italians. There used to be a good relationship there. So that you set aside, right? EU is being EU in a sense. But the Gulf State actors, if they join this, that really will be a game changer.
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Eric
So, Mike. Okay, so we were at the cpac and I was talking about an Iranian lady who was very animated, she was very upset. And I said something, it created a bit of a stir. People are mad at me for saying. I said, where are the Iranian people now? I know they were killed. And what. The only way, Mike, correct me if I'm wrong, the only way to really, really change what's going on in Iran is when the people decide to, it's over. Right? So doesn't matter who's helping us, who, Israel, we're doing it on our own. The Middle east, the Arab, our quote, unquote Allies are BSing us. It doesn't matter how much we throw at them. It won't happen until the people, the 90 million people in Iran say, that's it, we're going to start storming capitals, risking their own lives. Right? Am I wrong?
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Mike Baker
No, you're not wrong. And that's always been the hope and the idea and the realistic expectation is that the only way this happens, the only way this regime finally goes away and the people of Iran and the region get a better future, is if the people themselves do it. But look again, depending on estimates, tens of thousands slaughtered in the streets by their own government. And the government came out, you know, early in this conflict and told their people, if you come back out in the streets, we will kill you. Right. And that's powerful incentive not to come back out when you don't have any.
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Eric
I Give you that. But what about can't. I mean, we're very good at this. Can't we drop some weapons into them? Can't we help help them do it themselves? I mean, that kind of takes our. Some of our. Not all of our fingerprints off. We're not actually firing the guns. Let them do. And we support them both with intelligence and with weapons.
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Mike Baker
Well, I think there's been an effort, in a sense, not necessarily, you know, dropping pallets of AK47s, but, you know, targeting the security apparatus that is responsible for the repression of protests, the besieged militia and other elements of the irgc, and going after their command and control, going after their facilities, going after the units that have been getting out in the streets. But the unfortunate reality is they're still, every night, they're still putting roving bands of these militias out in the streets to intimidate the people, keep them in their homes and, And. And remind them that they have no problem shooting their own citizens, you know, if they come out in. In the hopes of a better life. So I agree with you. It's got to come from the people.
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Eric
I got one minute left.
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Mike Baker
That's an enormous.
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Eric
I got to get this real quick. One minute left, Mike. Or less 45 seconds. Israel. Tell us, what's the mentality going on in Israel, Bibi, in their war rooms?
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Mike Baker
Yeah. You pointed out to it there's a bit of a divergence. Right. As this conflict went on, as we had more success in striking targets, the Israelis have said, the IDF said, look, we've already gone through our entire target list. We've checked off every target we started this conflict with. Now they're kind of moving towards economic targets inside of Iran, but they're also dealing with the issue in south Lebanon. And that, for them, I think, is becoming the primary concern or the primary objective. They feel as if they've done a great deal, obviously, alongside the US and degrading the missile capabilities, pushing back even the nuclear program further. And so I think that now, when they're not seeing the regime change, because, again, I believe that was one of their primary objectives, as opposed to with the US Administration, where it was sort of, well, hopeful that it happens, but if it doesn't happen, well, you know, we didn't expect it. I think they've turned their attention, for the most part to south Lebanon. Well, but they're still engaged in combat operations, obviously in Iran.
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Eric
Yeah, yeah. When they hit that, that gas plant against Trump's advice, that was kind of game changer in the Middle East. Mike how to Go. Appreciate your time. Happy Easter weekend. MIKE Baker CEO, Portman Square Group thank you, brother. Folks, watch us please. All right, folks, six months in, we're almost 3 million views. We got almost 90,000 watch hours. We're going to get to 15,000 subscribers. We're almost there. I need you to help me out. I'll tell you what, when we hit 15,000, should be very soon. We'll take the last five people who leave comments in the comments section and we're going to send you one of these, one of these Cool Edge T shirts right there. Again, leave a comment in the comment section. Be one of the last five that once we hit 15,000 and you're going to get a T shirt also you got to be a subscriber. So do it now, folks. Not even funny. This is the mayor of Chicago, one of the biggest and most important cities in America, actually my hometown, born and raised there.
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Mike Baker
Yikes.
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Eric
Also one of the most crime ridden. And this is what he says and believes the mayor says.
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Unknown Host 1
And so like, and finding that like, you know, the system of capitalism and racism and white supremacy etc, have all. And Islamophobia have all been used, you know, to colonize lands, right. To take resources from other people. And so this is like a long trajectory and we're just seeing the manifestations of that continuation. Right. With 9 11. And so a lot of times when people are asking us to respond about, you know, attack, right. When if you look back, like historically, right. You know, a lot of us come from lands that were colonized, lands where wars are being wage, right. A lot of Times because of U.S. policy or, or the policies in Europe. And so I find that we can connect over that. But then also that the idea that we have to apologize for like a terror attack that like a couple people did.
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Eric
All right, well, that wasn't Mayor, Mayor Johnson of Chicago. That was a sense of how bad it is in New York. Got it, got it, got it. All right. A couple people did it. She says couple people. Now we've heard something like that before. If you don't remember if it was Elon Omar and oh yeah, it was about the World Trade center attacks.
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Unknown Guest 2
Listen, CARE was founded after 911 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.
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Eric
That woman, after 9 11, when we lost nearly 3,000Americans, innocent Americans, to the Saudi Arabia pilots that flew planes into the World Trade center, the Pentagon in Pennsylvania, that woman said some people did something. She was saying that at cair, the Council for American Islamic Relations. Cair. If you don't know, it's a PR wing of Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood. And she was speaking to a crowd at cair. They're fake. They're. They're literally a PR group that's trying to put a positive spin on. On terrorists. And she said some people did something because she couldn't say Muslim terrorists killed 3,000Americans. That's what she was saying right there. And we talk about Sharia creep, folks. It's legit. It's real. That was years ago. It's getting worse and worse. Mind you, Mamdani in New York, mind you, Dearborn, Michigan, mind you, Minneapolis, Minnesota. They're trying to create a compound in Texas. Sharia creep is real. It's. It's one of the most dangerous things happening in America today. You think the southern border was bad? This is by far blows that away. And I do mean that literally. This right here has the leftist breakdown. Right? An NBA player coming out right in support of President President Trump. And what's he doing for the country? Somewhere Tampon Tim and Elon Omar crying crocodile tears and some Somali soup.
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Unknown Guest 2
You were born in Canada, but you officially became a U.S. citizen in 2020. Congratulations.
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Senator Cory Booker
Thank you.
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Unknown Guest 2
Sure. That was a very long road.
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Senator Cory Booker
No, it's pretty quick, actually.
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Unknown Guest 2
Really?
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Senator Cory Booker
Yeah.
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Unknown Guest 2
Is it because you're in the NBA?
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Senator Cory Booker
I think it's just because of the pandemic. So they're just quick with it.
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Unknown Guest 2
What are your thoughts on President Trump's crackdown on illegal aliens?
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Senator Cory Booker
I mean, you know, with President Trump, what he's doing. First of all, I love what he's done so far for our country. I think he's helped our country a lot in terms of where he stands with that. I think, you know, I'm a firm believer because I have family members and I have people that are. That are immigrants, I think, you know, I believe, you know, for. For those that do the thing the right way and get the papers, I think they should be taken care of first and foremost. I think it's the right thing. Right. I think that's the right way of going about it.
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Eric
Yeah. There you go. How nice, Tristan. How nice is that? That's wonderful. You're right. Do it the right way. That's what everyone's saying. And when you do it the right way and you don't steal $19 billion, it's even better. I think NPR CEO Catherine Maher. Maher. Maher may have a warp sense of what the truth really is. She simply Seems to imply that NPR's clearly biased and left leaning agenda based journalism gets in the way of getting things done, whatever those things are. This may help you understand.
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Unknown Guest 2
I think our reverence for the truth might become.
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Eric
Might have become a bit of a
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Unknown Guest 2
distraction that is preventing us from finding consensus and getting important things done.
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Eric
Yes, it's become a distract. The truth in journalism is a distraction to getting things. What are you getting? What things you getting done? CEO of npr. What things? A little propaganda, a little biased reporting, a little help to your Democrats, your progressive Democrats. Interesting. Interesting. I don't know. Maybe. I wonder exactly what important things need to be done. And by the way, getting in the way of the truth, is that really something you want to talk about as a journalist? No wonder we shut down funding of npr. There seems to be some kind of outbreak of subpar politicians and media figures believing they should be the president of the country. We already had our fair share of Kamala Harris's, who probably coming back for 2028, if the rumors are correct. Don Lemon has entertained the thought. Can you imagine? We've got Gavin Newsom in the mix. Aoc. Cory Booker, who tried and failed miserably maybe twice before, is not saying no to another run, though.
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Unknown Guest 2
Sounds like you're saying she would be open to your running for president. So you're not ruling it out, Senator?
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Senator Cory Booker
I am definitely not ruling it out. I'm running for reelection. I hope New Jersey will support me for another six years.
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Eric
But what I love about her is
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Senator Cory Booker
she knows as a partnership, we are better than we were before we met. And I'm excited about whatever challenges we may take.
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Eric
I mean, does everyone think they can be Don Lemon? Corey Booker tried it. He failed miserably. I mean, I think he's ever done is stand on the senate floor for 25 hours in an adult diaper and literally relieved himself into his own adult diaper. How disgusting is that? That's his claim to fame. Cory Booker. Oh, and he had a friend. What was his name? T Bone. When he was mayor of Newark, New Jersey, he had a buddy named T Bone who was really cool and. Except T Bone was fictional and Booker wrote in his book about his buddy, T Bone, who was never even a real person. These people are wackos. They're perfect for the D.C. swamp. Back in February, the second largest city in Massachusetts, Worcester City, became a sanctuary city for transgender individuals, whatever the hell that means. And as you can imagine, some of the testimony was very interesting, to say the least. And steeped in, by the way, Trump Derangement syndrome. All I can say is some of these people should be firmly placed on an FBI watch list.
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Unknown Guest 2
I need the city to protect me because the federal government won't. And if you think you're afraid of Trump, you should see how afraid of Trump I am.
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Eric
Can you wrap up, please?
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Unknown Guest 2
Yes, I can. If you say that you're afraid of Trump and that's why you don't want Citizens City to be a safe space for trans people, you better prepare for trans people to make this a very unsafe space.
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Unknown Guest 3
I'm shaking right now. I don't want to be here.
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Unknown Guest 2
I'm sorry.
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Unknown Guest 3
Am I taking too long pleading for my life?
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Unknown Guest 2
You remembered how many children I have and how many, and that two of them are trans.
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Mark Lamb
I speak as both the B and
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Eric
and the T in the lgbt.
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Unknown Guest 2
I'm multiply disabled. I have Ehlers Danlos syndrome, which is a connective tissue disorder that causes me immense physical pain. I'm on the autism spectrum, and I have narcolepsy. And I couldn't drive myself here, so I had to hide from my driver that I was in drag, which is not an easy thing to do in drag. I do not want to be here. It's my day off. I do not want to be in your DMs. I do not want to be in your email inboxes. I do not want my creativity writing diss tracks like Kendrick. I don't want to spend an hour applying glitter on my face so that you will hear and see me. I want you to listen to me.
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Mike Baker
Let us remember that the Nazis burned the books that the. The Nazis buried burned. Books on gender sciences first.
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Eric
You know, I think if I died and God sent me to hell, it would probably be that. That meeting right there. I don't know. I'm not sure. I'm not sure what that was. What is that? This is a sanctuary city for folks like that. I'm not sure who the else else would want to even go to that godforsaken city. Knock yourself out. Should be great for you. All right, folks. Watch this. All right, folks, six months in, we're almost 3 million views. We got almost 90,000 watch hours. We're going to get to 15,000 subscribers. We're almost there. I need you to help me out. I'll tell you what, when we hit 15,000, should be very soon. We'll take the last five people who leave comments in the comments section, and we're going to send you one of these. One of these Cool Edge T shirts right there. Again, leave a comment in the comment section. Be one of the last five that once we hit 15,000 and you're going to get a T shirt. Also, you got to be a subscriber. So do it now.
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Unknown Guest 2
Everywhere you start, everyone you're building, everywhere
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Eric
you start, everywhere you know, at this point we should just call it the Hemorrhage state from now on. After more than 50 years. 50 years. Five decades. Yamaha, the corporation announced last month that it's moving its US Headquarters out of the Golden State of California and heading to the Peach State, Georgia. So, simple question. If Gavin Newsome has built such a progressive paradise, why does everyone keep fleeing billionaires leaving businesses, leaving middle class families leaving with them? Meanwhile, Sir Slickback is too busy lying about how great his state is. At this rate, the only things still moving into Golden State California are U Hauls and they're mostly there to help people get the hell out. Not so golden now, is it, Gavin? So Yamaha wants out of California after 50 years, half a century, that means that Yamaha stuck with California through eight presidents, disco, the invention of the Internet, and whatever TikTok is doing to our brains. And they finally said, yep, we're done. We're going to try Georgia instead. At this point. Also, California isn't just losing companies, it's hosting a corporate evacuation drill. Tesla leaves for Texas, Oracle leaves for Texas. Chevron leaves for Houston, Texas. And now Yamaha heads to Georgia. Gavin Newsom seems intent on killing California's economy for good. It takes real talent to ruin one of the richest economies on earth. Not just in America. On earth. But that's just the kind of guy Gavin is. It also takes great talent to ruin one of the richest economies on earth in one of the sunniest states in the country and still make Georgia seem like an upgrade. No offense, Georgia, of course. But think about what California has been for decades. Silicon Valley corporations are picking lower taxes and fewer regulations over the beautiful beaches and sunshine. But who can blame them, sir? Slick Back is far too busy ramping up for 2028 run, spouting absolute lies and nonsense to anyone who will listen and committing treason on foreign soil.
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Gavin Newsom
But I want to remember all those images of masked men, the secret police, something familiar in Germany. Those first images came out of my state, the second largest city in the United States of America. We saw 4,000 National Guard federalized.
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Eric
First time.
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Gavin Newsom
We'd never seen anything like this. And 700 active duty Marines sent not overseas, but to the second largest city in the United States of America. Militarizing the streets of my City masked men. Masked men showing up unaccountable. No idea IDs got.
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Eric
When he's not busy being treasonous overseas, well, of course he's busy insulting large swaths of Americans.
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Gavin Newsom
I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you. I'm like you. I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960sat guy.
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Eric
Pretty presumptuous, Mr. Gavin. You think you know what those people in that audience, what their scores were and they can't read. Like you say you can't. Supposed to be the future of the Democrat party right there, Mr. Slick back. So they actually think it's a good idea to consider a guy who's run his state into the ground. To run this entire country through the Democrats says something that polling still shows that Kamala Harris still tops the list for 2028 over that guy Gavin. How does that feel? She got like one vote when she really ran. She got no primary votes when they put her in. Of course the billionaires and companies want out because here's the Gavin rundown. California has the highest state income taxes in America by far. California has the highest gas tax in America by far. Which of course has the ladies of the View doing cleanup on aisle nine.
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Unknown Guest 2
For Newsom to eradicate homelessness in this country, it would only cost $20 billion. So while using this money to wage a war, which is a regime change war, which he said he wouldn't do it, the people that voted for him wanted America first, put America first and home homelessness. Why are gas prices in California $8 a gallon going up? $8 a gallon going up.
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Eric
So, yeah, because they're charging gas tax in California that the rest of the country is not being charged. Hmm, pretty interesting. Hey, Sunny Hosten, how about homelessness? Your boy Newsom has built his political career on the promises to solve homelessness ever since he became the mayor of San Francisco. Remember this soundbite because we do watch
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Gavin Newsom
what we call a 10 year plan to end chronic homeless in San Francisco. How are you going to solve homelessness? What are you going to do as a new mayor? And I said, well, what are you going to do? Focus on a housing first model, direct access to housing, shelter, solve sleep housing with wraparound and support services. Solve homelessness. Homelessness absolutely can be solved. Laid out a detailed homeless strategy. There's been no intentionality on homelessness in this state for decades. It's not been a focus. I don't think we can Solve homelessness. I know we can solve homelessness. We will reduce street homelessness quickly and humanely through emergency action. The highest investment the state's ever made is $1 billion on homelessness. We are poised to pass a budget in the next few hours that will provide $12 billion of investments. I can literally quantify 58,000 people that we got off the the streets last year, and none of you would believe it. The state has not made progress in the last two decades as it relates to homelessness.
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Bo Davidson
Why?
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Gavin Newsom
Not interested in funding failure? We're not interested in failing more efficiently when it comes to the issue of homelessness and the crisis on the street.
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Eric
Homelessness in California is not only the highest in the whole United States, it's also the highest it's ever been in 2025. So whatever you're doing, Gavin, how about you stop doing it? It's been more than 20 years since Newsom unveiled his 10 year plan to end chronic homelessness. And those high gas prices, those are thanks to Gavin's own policies. California also has a regulatory system so complex it makes the IRS look like customer service. Starting a project in California can take years of environmental reviews, permits, lawsuits, appeals, public hearings. By the time you finish the paperwork and the hearings, the project are building is probably obsolete. Meanwhile, states like Texas, or here in Florida, in Georgia, offering low taxes, reasonable regulations. And the governor of these states aren't globalist hacks lecturing you about carbon footprints. We've all known for years now about the exodus out of California. Texas and Florida know all about it. Let me tell you something. Last year, last reportable year, California lost a quarter of a million people, 250,000 people. Texas got 67,000. Florida got 68. More than half of all their transplants. Something's going on, folks. Transplants have become the norm. Families, entrepreneurs, high earners. Yes, billionaires. And then there's the cost of living. Housing prices through the roof. Energy prices through the roof. Gas prices so high that filling up your tank feels like a luxury purchase. And then we get to California's aggressive energy policies. The mantra has been ban everything that currently works. It's a state sitting on enormous energy resources while paying some of the highest fuel prices in the country. Not some of them, all of them. The highest fuel price in California. They have massive amounts of energy under their sand and soil and water. Make it make sense, because it doesn't. That's not climate leadership. That's climate cosplay. So when a company like Yamaha, which has been in California for half a half A century, decades, decides to leave. That's not a routine business decision. That's a vote of no confidence for the state and the governor. Weather is nice, sure, but staying in business, well, that's even nicer as a business. And yet Newsom continues pitching California as the model for the country. Really the blueprint, the future. But where's the future without companies at a tax base, taxpayers. California Standard has become homeless tents, drug addicts in the streets, feces in the streets, grossness everywhere. And mishandled wire wildfires. That's become the Newsome brand. That's what he's turned California into. Imagine what that feels like when your legacy is all about destroying everything a state once was. The Golden State used to be where people came to build something. Strike gold in California, the Golden State. Start a company, invent the future. Now it's become all about moving dates. Gavin Newsom can run for President in 2028, and I certainly hope he does. But if the corporate exodus keeps up, at this rate, he may have to launch his campaign from Texas. California used to be the land of opportunity. Now it's the land of please leave the keys with the landlord. The Golden State used to export movies and technology. Now its fastest growing export appears to be its own taxpayers. Congratulations, Gavin. We always knew you had it in you. We cannot wait for you in 2028. You and your sidekick, Tammy Harris. We'll be back. Two and a half minutes. When the world takes its shots. Some break, others rise. From Rachel Holt comes ammunition. In collaboration with Bass Records. Stand against against the noise, the hate
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Mike Baker
the voice is trying to tear you
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Eric
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Unknown Guest 2
So bring it. Knock me, tear me, rock me, mow me down. Take me out Keep on shooting and missing if it makes you feel strong and I'll keep stocking up on ammunition.
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Unknown Guest 3
This weekend is the most important weekend for all Christians as we celebrate our risen life, Lord this Easter. And if you're looking for powerful Christian movies and series, Angel Studios is the place to go. Angel has an incredible library of faith filled content that will inspire you and your family as you celebrate the resurrection of God's only son. Some of the titles that angel has brought you in recent years are Cabrini, the King of Kings, the Sound of Hope, David and Testament. All of these titles are part of Angel's online library which you can have full access to. But becoming an Angel Guild member And right now, angel is running an Easter special. So for just $8.99 a month for an entire year, you can watch all of these titles. When you sign up for the guild, you'll get two free tickets to any angel theatrical release of your choice, including Animal Farm and Young Washington, that are coming soon. So don't miss this offer. Sign up by this Easter Sunday to lock in this great opportunity by visiting the QR code on your screen or going to angel.com rav all right, that
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Eric
was a look at the great promotion Angel Studios has for you. Our audience to give us a little more insight is our own Rav Angel Studios ambassador. Oh, Mr. Ambassador. Bo Davidson. Mr. Ambassador, you tell us.
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Gavin Newsom
Tell us.
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Eric
First of all, tell us before we get into the deal, because that's amazing. Deal. Yeah. Tell us the type of content that folks will be attaining if they sign up.
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Bo Davidson
Yeah, of course. I mean, everybody knows angel from the Chosen and From the Sound of Freedom, which was huge. That was an $184 million grossing mov, which is incredible. But you've got titles like Cabrini, about the Italian nun Francesca Cabrini, who established 67 institutions for immigrants in New York. David, the animation, the musical, the King of Kings Testament, which is a modern retelling of the Book of Acts Miracle, this incredible docu series about miracles that happen in people's lives. His Only Son, about Abraham's journey to Mount Moriah and the sacrifice of his son Isaac. And then A Week Away, which is a series about Christian camp, kind of similar to high school musicals. So you. You get all this variety of content in one hub. So we think about prime Netflix stuff's out there. Maybe your whole family is not. They don't want to see. This is a hub where everybody can go and be happy about what they're seeing.
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Eric
And some of the stuff is theatrically, some goes straight to streaming. Not that that's a bad thing. There's some major motion pictures going straight to stream, but you're getting both.
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Bo Davidson
And there's two that are coming out, Eric. One is Animal Farm. That's an Andy Circus thing, which Seth Rogen is in it. It's all animation.
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Eric
The other one is Rogan.
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Bo Davidson
Yeah, he's a big, big name. So this is the other thing is, like, I was just down in Miami for the premiere of Solo Mia, which Kevin James, and I think we did a thing together. Angel's getting big. They're providing a huge competitor in the marketplace to what Hollywood has to offer. Young Washington is coming up soon. That's Amazing. That's directed by John Irwin. It's all about the life of George Washington before he became president. That's a theatrical release. With this membership that you're getting for 8.99, you get two tickets to any theatrical release of your choice.
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Eric
And just very quickly, before we get to the deal again, there's a partnership that's been struck between Real America's Voice and Angel Studios Television.
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Bo Davidson
Exactly. This is an important partnership because we want to do the same thing angel does, which is stories that amplify light. So when you go to the Guild, you're not just supporting angel, you're supporting us as well, because we have a great partnership between us. We want to amplify their mission and the types of content that they put out.
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Eric
Tell us about this deal.
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Bo Davidson
So this deal, 8. 99 for an entire year. That's down from, I think, 12 bucks. For a month. For a year. So for an entire year, you get 8.99 access to the entire Angel Online Library, plus two tickets to any movie of your choice. And like, Eric, I don't know, last week, movies.
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Eric
The Theatrical. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So 8.99amonth.
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Bo Davidson
Yeah.
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Eric
And. And two tickets to any theatre to your choice. Just think about the Seth Rogen movie.
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Bo Davidson
It could be that one.
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Mike Baker
Yeah.
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Bo Davidson
I just think you go to movies.
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Eric
I don't know.
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Bo Davidson
The last time you went though, it's like, I don't know, 50, 70 bucks just for two people to go to the movies. So this is a great value for the family. And you know what you're seeing, too. So some really good stuff.
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Eric
And where do folks sign up for this?
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Bo Davidson
They go to angels.com rav where there's going to be a QR code on your screen that they can take a picture of and you can sign up there. Pretty easy.
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Eric
Yeah.
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Bo Davidson
But got to do it by Easter Sunday to get this deal.
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Eric
Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. So you only have a couple more days to get that in the books.
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Bo Davidson
And there's just a lot of Christian content on there for the family that's watching for Holy Week, Easter Sunday, Good Friday. Everything that you want to see this week and this weekend housed right there.
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Eric
About a minute left, Paul. There's a resurgence of faith based content out there. We talk a lot about real America's music, some of the faith songs, faith based songs, and now film as well.
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Bo Davidson
Yeah. And like Eric, you go back to what unfortunately happened to Charlie Kirk and the revival that happened afterwards. I think there was a moment in America, at least I hope that it continues that there is a resurgence of faith and people turning to faith. We have, you know, of course we're in a very holy week right now. Passover is beginning. Holy Week is beginning. And so I think for everyone that's out there, they want to have a restoration of spirit and soul. Charlie Kirk taught that message. And I just think that I hope, Eric, my hope is that people take what Charlie did and continue to lead that generation very quickly.
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Eric
Gotta get to this. You have an Easter special. Tell us.
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Bo Davidson
I sure do. I sure do. It's called. I've gotta think about what it's called now. The Living Word. From Scrolls to Resurrection. I went and visited the Museum of the Bible where the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition.
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Eric
How is it? There's some abnormal on tv.
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Bo Davidson
Absolutely phenomenal. When you see the words that were written 2,000 years ago. And here's the other deal. I put a little thing in the Western Wall. They've got a big 4,000 pound stone for the Western Wall. You can't even go to the Western Wall right now because of what's happening in Israel. So the fact you can do it in Washington D.C. you should be going to the museum.
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Eric
Actual piece of the western wall, actually
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Bo Davidson
4,000 people is the one Trump put in there.
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Eric
Remember, if Trump.
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Bo Davidson
You can do it in D.C. and you can't do it in Israel right now.
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Eric
Trump's gonna call it the Trump Western Wall. No, that.
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Bo Davidson
I don't know. I like the ambassador title you gave me. I'll take that.
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Eric
Oh, that's right. Ambassador Bo Davidson. Rev Angel Studios Ambassador, thank you so much.
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Bo Davidson
Thank you.
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Eric
Hey, folks, there you go. Got something to do now. Sign up for the Angel Studio Real America's Voice partnership and we will see you. Happy Good Friday. Happy Holy Saturday and Happy Easter. We'll see you Monday.
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Unknown Guest 2
God really love. Take your aim and take me out. Keep on shooting. Miss it if it makes you feel strong and I'll keep stocking up on it.