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Eric Bolling
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Mad Dog
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Rav Zone
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Mad Dog
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Rav Zone
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Mad Dog
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Rav Zone
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Mad Dog
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Rav Zone
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Mad Dog
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Rav Zone
In the emergency room. But, hey, at least you got your team that good medical.
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Mad Dog
I'm okay.
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Rav Zone
She's okay. Folks, we do your human resources right, so you can do right by your people. Just works for your people. Right?
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Mad Dog
Definitely below us today.
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Rav Zone
Hopefully the cold you get in Indiana doesn't turn into the flu in Michigan. Gruber, good to see you. Brother doesn't. Thank you. All right, I. Folks, 4 o', clock, markets close. Tough day today. There's a little bit of an AI bubble going on. They say it may be bursting a little bit. Down. Down 250. Well, you have a 206. I got 246. I got the NASDAQ down 4. Yeah, about the right. Bitcoin backed off a little bit. So markets were a little weaker across the board today, but those were some very, very strong markets leading into it. And those are your markets for today. All right, let's bring in our first guest, the congressman from Arizona. Congressman, for now, maybe we'll talk a little about something else that may be brewing in Arizona. He's now running for governor. That's what I'm talking about. He has been endorsed by the late Charlie Kirk and by President Trump. He says Democrats in the media push the tired talking point saying Republicans have no plan. He says that couldn't be heard further from the truth. Republicans do have a plan and have done more policy work on real reform than Democrats ever will. Happy to have back on the show, Congressman Andy Biggs. Congressman, thank you. Let's first talk about, I want to talk about your, your idea for health care now the finger pointing zone. This way, in this way we, we have, you know, Trump saying it's the Democrats fault, Democrats saying it's all on Trump. You have an idea and a plan. Tell us.
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Mad Dog
Yeah, so let's face it, the Affordable Care act is not affordable. It's the care you get is dubious. The, your access to care is dubious. I mean to say but here's what I'm looking at. There is a whole host of ideas, everything from letting you choose your physician. How about creating a marketplace so you have more insurance opportunities. How about allowing you to associate with people? So Eric, if you and your and you're golf foursome want to get together or eight of you want to get together and form an association, you can then go in and negotiate a price for insurance and the benefits for that coverage just the way big business does it, employers do it. How about allowing you as an individual to have the same kind of tax advantage as you pay for your insurance and care that you, that a big company has. So you get a pre tax, you're getting a pre tax deduction. These are the things that will actually bring down lower cost and expand freedom. How about if you like your carrier, let's say you're in New Mexico and you're moving to Arizona and you like your insurance coverage. How about if you can bring that with you so you have associates, so you have associational, you have, you're bringing insurance across state lines. You're creating a marketplace. You get rid of some of the restrictions that that Obamacare put on there so that you can have a high deductible insurance catastrophic coverage if that's what you want because you're young and you're healthy, that makes it cheaper as well. How about price transparency? So when you go in, you know how much you're paying for a, let's say a hip replacement. It's X thousands here but it's 2x thousand some other place you get to make those choices. That actually gives you more buy in, more freedom and that's, that's what we really want and that will actually force and bring down the, the cost because you're going to create markets and competition.
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Rav Zone
I love it. That was, they literally wrote that down as you're speaking. This is what we've always needed, Congressman. This is what they've always needed. They've had such a closed old boy network. Don't ask us about it. We're not going to let you do it. We're just going to charge you more and more and you're going to like it or we won't insure you. This is brilliant. This is genius. Open it up to competition, but shine a light on what people are paying and allow them, as you point out, to become a group of your own brilliant, brilliant ideas. You know, there's two senators in the state of Arizona that might disagree with you and they happen to be Democrats. The seditionist, Mark Kelly and I, you know, as of right now, I think he's being investigated, Ruben of Gallego, that is, of possible mortgage fraud as well. So what's going on with the Senate and specifically in the state of Arizona?
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Mad Dog
You know, you know, I gotta tell you, Eric, I, it's tough to say what's going on with these fellas. I, you know, I don't know what Mark Kelly's thinking, but it surely has the, has the impact of causing people, causing people to question the chain of command. I literally had in my office the day after he came out with those other five with their video. I had a young naval officer sitting in my office asking me, well, what, what does that mean for me? What does it mean? Because he's a young officer. And he said, someone going to be always questioning my command. Am I, and am I to question the orders that I'm given? And it's very disruptive, Very disruptive. And I understand he's being investigated for that. And Ruben, I don't know what Reuben's doing. That's Senator Gallego. I don't know what he's doing. I don't know what's happening with him. But whatever it is, these are, these are troubled times for Arizona's Democrats. And, and it's not just them and their positions as you know, whether it's our Secretary of state or attorney general or a governor, they all are having problems because they're hotly partisan.
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Rav Zone
They're hotly partisan, yes, sir. And, and you know, in the event something is going on with those two, you remove a senator, the governor makes the replacement, at least temporarily until an election happens. And, you know, so let's bring, bring it to you. Potentially, you're, you're looking at being the governor of the great state of Arizona. It would really, really be good to get Arizona back right again. You know, I mean, I'm old enough to remember when Arizona was a solid red state and it's for whatever reasons became kind of purple lately. But putting Andy Biggs in the governor's mansion would be a great first step.
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Mad Dog
Yeah, I think so, too. Thanks, Eric. Here's, here's the deal. Arizona is actually center right for sure. And, and you get that and you understand that because you look at Donald Trump. Of all the battleground states, President Trump gotten more votes and won by a bigger margin in Arizona than any other battleground state. He won by 5 percentage points, 160,000 votes. And since Donald Trump was elected, he has brought, there's been 350,000 more Republican registrations than Democrats. So that's the gap right now, Eric. And we think it's going to be about 500,000 or more by the time the, the election takes place next year. And that is, that's huge. But it indicates the move that Arizonans are moving are, are getting away from the Democrats. They look at it, they don't like what's going on there. They have confidence in the Republicans on economy. They have conf. Republicans on the border. They have confidence in us that we're going to fix this ridiculous health care system that that's been been foisted upon all Americans. And so I think, Eric, that we're moving back to, to rationality in Arizona.
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Rav Zone
Is Katie Hobbs, I know it was her first term. Can, is she going to run? Is she going to be the incumbent or is she stepping aside? And the reason why I ask is because it's time, you know, it's really time to get a Republican back in the governor's mansion in Arizona for a lot of reasons. We're going to step into the Charlie Kirk effect in just a minute. But so it's likely the you or the Republican. But you're the odds on favorite against Katie Hobbs.
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Mad Dog
Yeah, it's, it is going to be, I think it's going to be Biggs versus Hobbs right now. If you take, if you took a generic poll, you'd see Republican, whoever, any Republican is four points ahead of Katie Hobbs. And a year out, or almost a year out, 10 months out, whatever, to have that kind of disapprobation reflected in these polls that are coming out. If you believe the polls, it indicates that Katie Hobbs is in a bit of difficulty and the Republicans are in a good position to retake this seat. That we have held for so long. I mean, it's, it's time to get Republicans back in these offices, these statewide offices.
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Rav Zone
Indeed, indeed. Let's talk a little bit about that. You were endorsed by Charlie Kirk before he was assassinated, and you have President Trump's endorsement. Very, very important, both of them. Let's talk a little bit about Charlie Kirk and the effect, you know, turning Point usa. And I didn't know this until I went to Charlie's, his memorial service a couple of months ago in Arizona, in Phoenix. And I believe it was, maybe it was Andrew Colvitt or someone else had said that Charlie wasn't sure where to move TP usa. And he chose Arizona because someone said it's the climate's right. It's, you know, it's a, it's a state that could be very red again at some point. Tell us the Charlie Kirk effect on the state of Arizona.
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Mad Dog
Well, it's been dramatic on politics. And so they, they actually supported a recall of a, of a Mesa City councilwoman recently. And, and she was defeated. And in the defeat, she said, well, I lost a turning point action, you know, and, and that's, that's it. But look, when they also turned out 300,000plus low propensity Republican voters in the last election cycle. And that gets to why, that's why Donald Trump won. That's why. So that's why we expanded our majorities in this, in the House, in the Senate and the state legislature. That's why we ex, we took back Maricopa county with some pretty, some really good leaders that are there now. And, and when I would go do Charlie's show in, in Phoenix and I'd sit there with him beforehand, or if I was here and we were doing it remote, he would always say to me, andy, I chose to come to Arizona because I believed it could be a red state.
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Rav Zone
How.
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Mad Dog
And then he'd say to me, how come you're not making it red? And I'd say, well, Charlie, you and I have to do it together. But, but Charlie was really the one who did it. And his team, Tyler Boyer and his whole team, they actually came in with a great strategy. And it's a ground game, Eric. And that's the biggest difference. The Democrats always controlled the ground game until Charlie Kirk and his team got involved. And now the Republicans control the ground game. And when you control the ground game that.
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Rav Zone
Well, you know.
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Mad Dog
Yeah, that offsets a lot of money.
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Rav Zone
What?
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Mad Dog
Offsets a lot of money.
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Rav Zone
What a great, what a great opportunity for the folks of Arizona to pay homage to Charlie Kirk by voting for the guy that he thinks should run the state. That'd be wonderful. Congressman, we're going to see you in at tpusa. We're going to do the show from the TPUSA AM Fest next, next week, Thursday and Friday of next week. And love to get you back on stage maybe from, from the, from that event.
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Mad Dog
I'd love to do it. I know we're, I know we're in session here. Let's see, let's see if we get out of session. Let's see if we get some of that healthcare stuff fixed up before we get out here and. But I'll be back. I'll be attending bits and pieces of amfest throughout and speaking on Sunday.
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Rav Zone
Perfect. Perfect. Congressman Andy Biggs, thank you so much for your time.
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Mad Dog
Thanks, Eric.
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Rav Zone
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Eric Bolling
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Rav Zone
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Mad Dog
Today the Commission has issued a fine of 120 million Euro to X for breaching the Digital Services Act. This is the first ever fine under the dsa.
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Rav Zone
X has indeed breached its transparency obligation under the dsa. This includes X's blue check mark.
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Mad Dog
It deceives users.
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Eric Bolling
Anyone can pay to obtain the verified status and X does not meaningfully verify.
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Mad Dog
Who is behind it.
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Eric Bolling
Our objective is not a fine.
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Rav Zone
If you engage constructively with the Commission we settle cases.
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Eric Bolling
If you do not, we take action.
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Rav Zone
Comply or else. See how Soros esque that is. Listen to Mike Pence, good friend of the show and a good friend of this network, explain what the DSA is really all about.
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Mad Dog
The EU Digital Services Act. And I would caution you not to think in your mind the the bland blase name EU Digital Services Act. This is the NATO censorship law. Okay? This is what it is. It's the NATO censorship law. The EU is basically the commercial arm of NATO. NATO wants to stop the rise of populist parties in the US and all across NATO. This NATO censorship law is very nasty because what it does is it goes.
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Rav Zone
Beyond the simple hate speech laws that.
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Mad Dog
Europe have, and it imposes a new standard about disinformation. So it's creating a new industry for disinformation compliance. Now, the EU is a larger market than the United States. There's 550 million people in the EU. You cannot be a multinational tech platform without having access to the EU market. US companies operating in Europe are going to have to cooperate with this disinformation law.
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Rav Zone
What we just went through here in America, the censorship of dissenting voices and opinions on Covid measures and vaccines, the silencing of conservative voices hiding stories that could in any way do damage to the Democrat Party or their agenda. We're just now coming out from some of the darkest days of censorship this country has ever, ever seen. Elon Musk played a big part in that, getting us out of the darkness with his takeover of X. Trump's second presidency is helping to expose all more of what's really going on. But what the EU is doing right here, or trying to do right here at least, this is a globalist danger on a whole other level. It's more nefarious than we even think it is. And we have to put an end to this. Or else. Or else. Shortly after President Trump won the 2024 election, J.D. vance gave a speech at the Munich Security Conference that left the EU stunned. Vance threw their censorship right in their faces and boy, they weren't very happy about it. The threat that I worry the most about vis a vis Europe is not Russia, it's not China, it's not any other external actor.
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Mad Dog
And what I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe.
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Rav Zone
From some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America. That was great. He's not kidding. Listen to the EU chief, Ursula van der Leyen, talk about how to stop the spread of information her comrades don't really like. And of course, she compares it to the virus, just like the good little global soldiers that they are. And she is.
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Eric Bolling
Research has shown that pre bunking is much more successful than debunking. Pre bunking is basically the opposite of debunking. In short, prevention is preferable to cure. Perhaps if you think of information manipulation as a virus instead of treating an infection once it has taken hold, that is debunking. It is much better to vaccinate so.
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Rav Zone
That the body is inoculated.
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Mad Dog
Pre bunking is the same approach.
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Rav Zone
See, we're not talking about health here. We're talking about free speech, lady. Pre bunking, by the way, is just Code for never let him say it to begin with. It's code for silence. Voices we don't like. Thanks, but no thanks. Ursula. We have something called the Constitution here in America that protects our freedom to say what we want to say. Don't pre bunk me, but as Mike Benz talked about earlier, American businesses and online platforms unfortunately rely on the European Union for a big chunk of of their business. Elon Musk wasn't having it. Musk posted this late this last year, this quote, the European Commission offered X an illegal secret deal. If we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they wouldn't fine us. The other platforms had already accepted the deal, but X did not. Folks, the free speech war has begun. By the way, just to talk about how successful Europe's brand of administrative authoritarianism is, they're enjoying a rapid decline in the standard of living. Their obsession with being green has led to power rationing. People can't afford to heat or cool their own homes. Not to mention the import of the entire Middle east, many of whom have zero interest in assimilating, suck the government resources dry and actually hate the countries that have welcomed them in. That's the invasion of a Christmas market in Germany last month, by the way. Well done, Germany. Europe has lost all control to bureaucrats in government. But hey, at least their crappy rationed health care is free. Thanks, but no thanks. The only thing the EU leads in in the world is regulating. Hmm. And it's all just a political shakedown by an anti capitalist political class of globalist buffoons. But they sure do love pointing their fingers at America, don't they? You want to talk about racism? Sure. We got Barack Obama, Joy Reid, and many Democrats. But America's racism is nothing compared to the Europeans. And they claim to oppose Russia, won't shut up about it and yell about supporting Ukraine. And yet they buy Russian oil without a second thought. Interesting. And they gladly take America's military protection, yet thumb their noses at our country every chance they can. While America innovates, Europe regulates. Thanks, but no thanks. President Ronald Reagan summed it up better than I ever could.
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Mad Dog
If it moves, tax it.
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Rav Zone
If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. And he was talking about government, not himself. A bad government. That's really why we have the Constitution. To protect us ourselves against a tyrannical government. Good luck with that, by the way. Europe, in the meantime, mind your own damn business. Seems like you got a lot of a lot of problems of your own to clean up before you start worrying about what we're doing over here, don't you think? We'll be back. Two and a half minutes. Well, I know the chat's going to be happy. The chat, the chats are all going to be happy because we have our next Guest, Rav Zone, Washington D.C. correspondent who knows a thing or two about football. Happy to have Brit McHenry back on. Every time you're on, chat's like, oh, give Brit my phone number. I'm like, guys, act. She's, she's amazing. We're here to talk football. All right.
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Eric Bolling
I mean, I am single. Maybe another day.
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Rav Zone
Well, now you just opened a whole other can of worms, my dear Gates. Philip Rivers. Philip Rivers, yes. Out of the league for more than 44 seasons plus the vast majority of this season already is being brought back. He's being called back to to quarterback the Indiana Indianapolis Colts. What are your thoughts on a 44 year old guy coming back after almost 5 seasons?
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Eric Bolling
I love this. I could not love it more. I also love, and I'm sure you'll weigh in on this that Tom Brady was asked, would you come back? Could you come back? And always the competitor. Even if I did not root for the New England Patriots growing up, he said I would and I absolutely think I could. But I'm 48 years old and I'm a minority owner now for the Las Vegas Raiders. I, I'm going to be watching the Colts from Must watch TV and I don't think I've ever said that. Eric, about the Indianapolis Colts, I texted with a source, someone who works for the team about it and he said I'm excited but I'm worried about him getting hurt. Like there is that concern because it's been five years. He's 44 now and I was listening to some of his press conference. He has such a great sense of humor. He was asked how much he weighs now and he said, well Greg certainly more than I did when I walked walked off the field when I was 40. I think it's interesting too that his eldest daughter get this is 23 and that is about the same age as you know, rookie QB they have. So he's a grandfather too. Like he is joining the ranks with your friend Brett Favre and others, a few others who are returning to the NFL and I think it's fantastic and I think the Colts definitely need this because Daniel Jones is out for the year. I mean that was a really painful.
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Rav Zone
I would love to see Tom Brady step back on the field and maybe even a new I Don't I just. I don't know how this plays out. But we do know what Aaron Rodgers thinks of this. We're gonna play it. I'm not the oldest guy in the league.
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Mad Dog
Love that.
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Rav Zone
It's pretty incredible though, because he's been.
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Mad Dog
Out for, I believe, four full seasons.
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Rav Zone
Plus this part of this season. I was laughing because a couple of.
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Mad Dog
My buddies hit me up asking what I would do in that situation. I said without missing a beat, I'm retired.
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Rav Zone
I'm staying retired. So big credit to Phil. You know, I've been a fan of his forever. I've known him a little bit over the years. I just love the way that he competes and plays.
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Mad Dog
Again, not the most gifted player, but cerebrals all get out. Hilarious trash talker and I wish him.
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Rav Zone
Nothing but the best. I've been a fan of his for.
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Mad Dog
A while and I hope he goes.
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Rav Zone
Out and it's just like riding a bike and he can jump right back into the saddle and I expect him to.
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Eric Bolling
All right, thanks, Aaron.
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Rav Zone
So. So the thing is, you know, he says, when I'm retired, I'm going to stay retired. You don't realize how, how big and how influential that spotlight is until you walk away from it. Every single star that walks away from a team or game one, you know, before, with a little gas left in the tank, either wants to go back or eventually finds a way back in. But listen, you're right. I'm going to watch it too. My question is, Brett, with the end, just very quickly, you'll know this. You'll. I'm pretty sure you're going to agree with this. In the last five years or so, college football up, upper level, high level college football programs are playing a similar game that the NFL is playing. The systems are getting very, very similar right now. So a great quarterback coming out of college 20 years ago took two or three years before he's ready to start in the NFL. Now this, it's almost seamless. It's almost seamless. So can't they find someone that was, you know, maybe, I don't know, cut last year as he was 23 instead of a 44 year old.
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Eric Bolling
It's interesting that you say that because Cam Newton went on his podcast and was a little, a little ticked off that he didn't get a call. But I think this is about system here. And also Philip Rivers is like a very likable guy. Definitely giving a little more ammo to the old man Rivers cliche. I was joking with friends. However, he was coaching this Same system the Colts run for his son's high school team. So I know that sounds a little off the wall, but when you're as knowledgeable about the game and Rivers said this, he goes, look, I wasn't running away from guys in my PR anyway. I'm not a JD5. I'm not one of these really mobile Lamar Jackson types. He's like, I wasn't doing it when I was young and great. So I think his knowledge is. Is what they're looking for. And he knows the players and he knows the system very well. But it's. It's a question of can everybody else around him step up? They do have a very solid team.
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Rav Zone
What do you know?
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Eric Bolling
I love this.
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Rav Zone
What do you know about Army Navy coming up this weekend?
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Eric Bolling
Oh, just that I'm probably going to root for army. And I know everybody is galvanizing. They're all getting read. I. I love this game, too. Bigger than. Than what's on the field. I'd love to hear what you're betting on. You're gonna place for it.
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Rav Zone
Navy.
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Eric Bolling
They are very good.
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Rav Zone
Yeah, that's. That. That's a. You know, usually these military teams, they're. Let's be honest, they don't really play very well against the bigs, but Navy's held its own. I think Navy played Notre Dame this year and it did okay for a while. Look, I like Navy -7 questions. Will Trump show up? He has tendencies to show up at these Army Navy games. Once maybe Hagseth would go to the Army Navy game.
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Eric Bolling
I think one of them. That would be great morale for all of the players.
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Rav Zone
And then this is the one, unfortunately, we're going to call it the toilet bowl because we have your Washington Redskins at the New York Ants. Oh, Giants. I'm sorry, New York Giants. And they're flushing the toilet. Besides Brit and Erica, anyone else going to watch this game?
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Eric Bolling
I don't know. I'm. I'm. You know what? Okay, a little story time. I was in Toronto this weekend and I was riding high, Eric, off of that game, that barely OT loss that they had to the Denver Broncos, which are a contender for the playoffs. And I was like, let me put the bet in. Let me put my bet in. I couldn't get a bet on Moneyline. Thank God, because what was the final score? 31 to nothing. I mean, I walked out in the fourth quarter. It was very embarrassing. I'm actually happy Marcus Mariota is playing. Jaden Daniels will not be. Is that the best thing for Jaden Daniels? I think they're babying him a little bit. I think reps are going to increase how good you are and the sophomore slump has been showing in some instances with him. But I actually, it's not my bias. I'm going to take the commanders because I think they proved against Denver that they can have a complete offense. They don't have tight end Zach Ertz anymore, but like the Giants defense really. I do worry about MetLife Field though. That's not great for injuries, as you know.
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Rav Zone
Yes, I do know. Saw a lot of games there.
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Mad Dog
Yeah.
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Rav Zone
I would tell you, I will tell you the coldest stadium in the entire NFL and people are going to say Lambeau. It's not. It's Soldiers Field in Chicago. It is the coldest 100%. It's right on the lake. There's no.
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Eric Bolling
I think it's supposed to be record cold this weekend. I think I read it's supposed to be like negative 10. It feels like negative 10 degrees at soldier field.
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Rav Zone
True story.
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Eric Bolling
It's brutal.
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Rav Zone
My dad used to take me to be Bears games in the dead of winter in late December, early January. You had the men's room to, to use a urinal. They were frozen. Swear to God, frozen.
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Eric Bolling
That's how I, I can picture it. It makes sense there. Cuz you're so nice. You got that Midwestern niceness to you so right.
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Rav Zone
Right until I moved to New York. Game of the week for us especially here Rams. Well see now we have that switched. It's the Detroit Lions at the, the LA Rams. Here's. Here's a question for you. At the beginning of the season, if I said Brit McHenry at 13 games into the season, who would be 10 and three and who would be eight and five and I would have said that they would have flipped those two teams 100%.
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Eric Bolling
100%. And the thing about the Lions is they're very inconsistent. They're like one week they're clicking on offense and it looks great and then the other they're taking a loss or they're barely making it by. I just have a really hard time at this point rooting against the Rams and I'm not an LA fan but like Matthew Stafford week in, week out, at his age, you want to talk Philip Rivers age, he's not far off and he's having an MVP type season and they're at home. I'm going to bet on a high scoring game for sure. But this is, this is big for seeding too for the Lions and the Rams are outright trying to win the division. I'm going to take Moneyline Rams and if it's, you know, points value pretty.
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Rav Zone
High for both teams, Moneyline Rams, it looks like it's the money line is minus 258. So you're going to have to lay a lot of wood for a lot of $8 to win 100.
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Eric Bolling
So that's what's always tempting with things like this. And I do think the Lions can win. But I will say I, I've had some winners. I was wrong, Eric, about Indiana and Ohio State. You were right. So kudos to you for that.
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Rav Zone
I was just, I was talking my Indiana win. I was talking my book, so to speak. Brit, always good to have you. We'll see you again next week.
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Mad Dog
Okay, thank you.
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Rav Zone
Brook McHenry, everyone. All right, listen, guys. Everyone thinks they know the story. You know, Wolf of Wall street, one of the biggest movies ever. But the real story, did, you know, the part that Hollywood didn't dramatize, it's even crazier. I was in jail and I had.
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Mad Dog
You know, just devastated them when I.
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Rav Zone
Had to tell them I was going to jail.
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Eric Bolling
And then my love of my kids.
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Rav Zone
Whenever I felt like I couldn't go on.
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Eric Bolling
And I will tell you, that was many nights, there's many nights who you question, especially in jail, when I was teaching myself how to write and I.
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Mad Dog
Wrote the book the Wolf of Wall street, right. And it was like sort of this.
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Eric Bolling
Idea that I was going to come.
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Mad Dog
Back and show my children that their dad was a good man, could do.
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Rav Zone
It right, and be a role model.
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Mad Dog
And that was really the why that essentially trolled me.
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Rav Zone
Did you hear that he actually wrote the screenplay for the Wolf of Wall street while he was in prison behind bars, no phones, no shortcuts, just time to confront every decision he ever made and memorialize it in one of the most popular movie films in generations. If you're wondering what I mean about finding your edge when there's fire blazing around you, that, folks, right there is the edge. So just grab your phone, open it up, take, shoot the camera at that QR code, little yellow line, press it, you've subscribed. Or go to YouTube.comericboling the edge YouTube.comicballing the edge. You know, it's that kind of honesty that we bring to the Edge. The full Wolf of Wall street conversation is live on the Edge right now. So subscribed, please. I appreciate your support. YouTube.com the Edge we'll be back. Two and a half minutes. Well, we Got some good from. Good. Good sound bites for you right here. The House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Thursday was spicy to say the least. Democrats seem to get really upset at the concept of actually protecting our country and our citizens from harm and invasion. That's the only way to explain why the party that hates America actually believes that someone doing everything in their power to protest is their biggest threat. Listen to this.
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Eric Bolling
The greatest threat to the homeland right now is a Department of Homeland Security that the American people no longer trust. A department actively undermined by its own secretary. This is on you, Secretary Gnome.
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Rav Zone
Well, that was Congresswoman LaMonica MacGyver. Just a little reminder about LaMonica MacGyver, the New Jersey Congressman who spoke right there. She's calling Secretary Noem the biggest threat while she is the one assaulting federal officers at an ICE facility earlier this year. And you're looking at that right there. They got some guts MacGyver and gnome later threw down because somehow Monica, the assaulter of government officials, forgot that she assaulted government officials.
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Eric Bolling
Is Trump embarrassed by your 10 year or is this exactly the kind of God awful leadership he wants at dhs? Yes or no, Ma', am? We've already conducted more oversight visits. No, no, no. It's a yes or no. Yes or no. Okay. Secretary no. This is my time to talk, not your time to talk. I reclaim my time. I reclaim my time. I reclaim my time. Transparent Chair. I can reclaim my time. Secretary Noem, DHS is breaking the law, hiding information from Congress and shutting out oversight. So let me ask you, how can the American people trust your department with you at the helm with this kind of behavior? The American people absolutely trust this department to keep them safe. And we are showing that every day by the support we get across the country, the amount of people that we're recruiting to all of our families. Thank you. Secretary Noem, do you agree that using DHS resources to target members of Congress is an abuse of power? Excuse me, would you say that you would have heard me if you stop talking and listen to my questions. Do you agree that using DHS resources to target members of Congress is an abuse of power? We are not doing that. We are out there enforcing the law, doing our work, and we are allowing overtake. Of course we're not going to get any with that. Mr. Chairman, I yield back.
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Rav Zone
I got got a couple things to say about this Lamonica MacGyver. First of all, she asks Kristi Noem a question. As she's answering the question, she doesn't like the way it's going. So she starts to cut her off and ask her another question. And Christy continues to answer the original question. And MacGyver keeps yelling, I reclaim my time. I reclaim my time. And then she says, let me X you a question. Ask you a question. You don't ask someone a question. You ask someone a question, Ms. MacGyver. Do you understand? Can you speak English, Ms. McIver? And let the woman answer the question you asked. These people are despicable. But for some more despicable behavior from a Democrat at the hearing, Mississippi Congressman Benny Thompson. We know Benny actually called the shooting of two National Guard members an unfortunate incident.
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Mad Dog
NCTC reference the unfortunate accident that occurred.
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Rav Zone
With National Guardsmen being killed.
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Eric Bolling
You think that was an unfortunate accident?
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Rav Zone
I mean, it was a terrorist.
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Eric Bolling
Wait, wait.
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Mad Dog
Look, I'll get it straight. Then you can.
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Eric Bolling
He shot our National Guardsman in the head.
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Mad Dog
Look, Chairman, will you direct witness to.
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Rav Zone
Allow me to ask my question. It was an unfortunate situation, but you.
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Mad Dog
Blamed it solely on Joe Biden.
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Rav Zone
Did he say the same thing? Mad Dog. Mad Dog. I think he did. Can you play that again? I gotta hear this again. I literally didn't pick that up the first time. Can you play that again? Yes, sir.
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Mad Dog
NCTC reference.
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Rav Zone
The unfortunate accident that occurred with National Guardsmen being killed.
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Eric Bolling
You think that was an unfortunate accident?
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Rav Zone
I mean, it was a terrorist.
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Eric Bolling
Wait, wait.
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Mad Dog
Look, I'll get it straight. Then you can.
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Eric Bolling
He shot our National Guardsman in the head.
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Mad Dog
Look, Mr. Chairman, will you direct the.
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Rav Zone
Witness to allow me to ask my question? It was an unfortunate situation, but you blame. Are you kidding me? What's going on with Democrats? Is this part of, like, you know, Democrat, House, House of Representative, Democrat training? You don't say ask. We ask questions on the Democrat side. Holy moly. By the way, isn't that guy Bennie Thompson, the guy who pulled the fire alarm when the vote wasn't going to go his way in the House? I think he is. This hearing felt a lot like the Democrats went into a challenging mode, challenging each other on who can be more ridiculous and depraved. In their statements, Bennie Thompson calls a shooting that killed a National Guard member an unfortunate accident. Accident. A Texas Congresswoman, Julie Johnson, says, hold my beer.
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Eric Bolling
You can't just snatch somebody walking into a coffee shop because of the color of their skin. There's no probable cause for that. And also that you will get due process. And that is not happening. And so what you're seeing is an overwhelming frustration of the American people in.
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Rav Zone
This country that the lack of respect.
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Eric Bolling
And regard for the rule of law by this administration and in particular by this secretary, is at a level that we have never seen and violates all of the constitutional norms and all of the principles of legal fairness in this country. And you're seeing that manifest itself in threats to law enforcement and bubbling over because people are frustrated and they are channeling that frustration because the administration is not listening.
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Rav Zone
Lady Democrat House member, Let me get this straight. A terrorist who never should have been in the country shoots National Guard members in the head, and that's because they're frustrated over the removal of illegals from this country. Am I getting that right, Julie? Moron Joyless Joy Reid decided to give yet another platform for Jasmine Crockett to prove yet again why she should be nowhere near Congress, let alone be rewarded with a Senate seat.
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Eric Bolling
And the only body that has oversight over the Supreme Court is the United States Senate. So ultimately, when it comes down to whether or not they have to finally have some ethics about themselves because they are the only justices in this country that do not have any ethical guidelines, or whether it is literally that we just are bringing them in and we are going to, like, have a little conversation with the justices that comes from only the Senate or when we're talking about confirming justices, if we're going to.
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Rav Zone
Expand the court, expand the court, expand this, leaving Joyless Joy Reid and Jasmine bring up the same ridiculous and slanderous tropes against the president because again, guess they're thinking, why not incite some more violence against him and the people who voted for him. She married her brother to get in, therefore she's here illegally.
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Mad Dog
She should get the hell out, throw the hell out. She does nothing but complain.
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Eric Bolling
It was giving clan rally. First of all, he's lying about Ilhan Omar. It's disgusting. I'm assuming that the attacks on you will be very similarly vicious, but I wanted to give you just your thoughts on that clan rally moment.
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Mad Dog
I think you summarized it.
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Rav Zone
No, I pretty much think she did marry her brother to get him citizenship. I'm pretty sure that's been proven. I'm. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that was a real thing. Speaking of Democrats inciting violence, Jasmine Crockett and other members of the party of violence love to make the ridiculous claim that they do not, in fact, incite violence. As if something called video never existed at all. Well, the GOP showed Jasmine exactly why she's wrong.
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Eric Bolling
I challenged somebody to go and find a clip of a Democrat invoking violence. Let's extinguish him for good.
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Rav Zone
I will go and take Trump out tonight.
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Mad Dog
We're going to fight it in the.
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Rav Zone
Courts and we're going to fight it in the streets. When they go low, we're going to bury them below the Capitol. That's what we're going to do.
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Mad Dog
We take them to the mud and choke them out.
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Eric Bolling
You know, there needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there's unrest in our lives.
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Rav Zone
I, I, I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country.
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Mad Dog
And maybe there will be.
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Rav Zone
We're walking down a damn different path. We're fighting fire with fire and we're going to punch these sons in the mouth by taking behind the gym and beat the hell out of them. Don't punch back. Kick back, dunk over their heads and win some power. Fight back, punch back and make sure.
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Mad Dog
That they stay down.
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Rav Zone
And you know what?
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Mad Dog
Kick them when they're down because they deserve it.
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Rav Zone
I think that you punch.
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Eric Bolling
I think you punch. I think you're okay with you, you okay with punching? We are at war, and that's why.
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Rav Zone
The gloves are off. We cut that out. We cut that soundbite in half. It gives on another double the amount of Democrats just calling, calling for violence against Trump and Republicans. Enough said, guys. No further commentary needed. We'll be back. Two and a half minutes. Are you leaving me voicemails? And there it is. Control row. There's a crew. Everyone say hi to the bowling at RAV Crew. Mad Dog, Can I ask you a question? Ask. Okay, I'll ask you a question. Do you have any voicemails for us? I do. Viewer appreciates your question to the press secretary.
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Mad Dog
Ah, Eric is Dolan again. Hey, I appreciate you asking that questionnaire, Ms. Press Secretary, about truck drivers. You know, I had to prove that I was an American citizen to keep and retain my CDL driver's license. And now they're giving it out like it's candy. Only American citizens should be driving trucks in this country. Only American citizens. Get the government out of the trucking business. They have totally destroyed the trucking business. You realize Pennsylvania, the state of California, and I don't know how many other states, they give the CDL test in 17 different languages. This is asinine. Only English. America is a Christian Nation. Only English. 17 different languages. Give me a break. But I appreciate you asking that question. And it needs to be brought to light more. It has to be brought up more. More time. Get the government out of the trucking business. They're destroying the trucking company, trucking business, this damn Elog bullshit. And the EDR stuff on these trucks is asinine. Cameras in the trucks to keep an.
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Rav Zone
Eye on a driver.
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Mad Dog
To invade the privacy of a driver 24, 7 is asinine. Thank you for the question. Thank you, Eric. Keep up the good work.
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Rav Zone
Really good comment. You're 100, right? What, are you kidding me? You, you shouldn't be able to take the truck. The CDL license exam in a foreign language that by in itself is detrimental to putting those people on the streets. If they can't pass a test, a driver's test in English, how the hell are you going to read the road signs? And by the way, the question I asked Caroline was they got 10,000 truckers off the roads that weren't proficient in English. Uber and Lyft might be next. Should be next. I can't tell you how many times I've gotten into an Uber going the wrong way. And I can't communicate with the driver because he or she doesn't speak a word of English. Not a word. Scary. Scary folks. Mad Dog, can I, can you. Can I ask you for another voicemail? Yeah. Vera has comments on illegal truck drivers.
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Mad Dog
Yeah, I was a long haul trucker for quite a long time, but California regulated me out of business pretty much over carb compliant, over a truck that was seven years old. But about them immigrant drivers, I can remember getting behind them son of a guns. At the truck stop, I'd be waiting to get fuel. They were parked at the fuel alley inside taking a damn shower. You know, get them off the damn road. They could just start growing fig trees to wipe their asses on. California Newson. Thanks.
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Rav Zone
You know, this really struck a nerve. Folks are really, really concerned about this and for many reasons. It's the, the illegal aspect of it. The illegals in the country taking very, very good jobs. Trucking is a great job. I mean, it's a very, very good job. Pays very well. A lot of freedom, a lot of autonomy. And then the fact that they're putting, you know, I don't know, 10, 10 ton trucks on the roads, you can't read them. Can't. You can't read the road signs. These are weapons. These are killing people. People. Mad Dog. Yeah. Vera has some thoughts on Charlie Kirk's assassin.
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Eric Bolling
Hello, Mr. Bolling. Angela, Bradenton, Florida.
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Mad Dog
I agree with everything you had to.
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Eric Bolling
Say about that assassin and his poor shackles. He should be shackled. He's a danger to society. People should be offered salvation. Through the blood of Jesus Christ and his mercy, like those of us have chosen that. And if they don't want to accept that, oh, well, they should get their trial found guilty within a year. No more than two years.
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Mad Dog
They should have a death penalty and.
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Eric Bolling
They should be put to death. Jesus said, thou shalt not. He was talking about murder. This man is a murderer.
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Mad Dog
Self defense is totally different. Good show, Eric.
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Eric Bolling
Thank you, sir.
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Rav Zone
Well, thank you, Angela from Bradenton. And by the way, that's in response when. When the. When the judge was worried about the cameras catching the shackles on. On the assassin, Charlie's assassin, I lost my mind because. Are you kidding me? That guy who assassinated Charlie did it in broad daylight in front of thousands of people in. In the arena, let alone millions of people watching. He wasn't worried about who was seeing what he was wearing. Why the hell does a judge care about seeing if this guy's shackled or not? He's the defendant. He's coming from prison. You know he's shackled. What the hell does a camera on his feet change the dynamic at all? We are. Our justice system is screwed up backwards. Protect criminals at the expense of victims. Mad. We don't have time for another one. But, man, that one got me riled up. I'm sorry about that. I'm just gonna ask you guys to do me a favor. Say thank you to these guys in here. They do a great job. All guys and gals in the control room. They do a great job on the bowling show. Rav does a great job. We're going to be, by the way, we're going to be in Phoenix next Thursday and Friday for the Amfest TP usa, delivering the show from there in Phoenix. I hope you join us. I hope you have a great, safe weekend. Stick around Bannon's worms coming up next. But again, have a great weekend. We'll be back here Monday. Always good to spend time with you. Thank you for your voicemails. Hey, thank you for subscribing to the Edge. Have a great weekend bowling out.
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Eric Bolling
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