Bolling! - December 18th, 2025

Summary

Podcast Summary: Bolling! – December 18th, 2025 (Real America’s Voice)

Overview

This episode of Bolling! was broadcast live from AMFest 2025, featuring host Eric Bolling with appearances from Ben Bergquam, Maureen Bannon, Duke Tanner, and audience participants. The main themes centered on the state of the US economy under President Trump, border security and law enforcement, challenges facing conservative media, divisive political narratives, and the ongoing cultural battle in education. The conversational, high-energy tone matched the lively festival crowd, with multiple audience interactions and a focus on grassroots activism.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Trump’s Economic Policy and Affordability Crisis

• Trump Administration’s Impact: Eric emphasizes that "President Trump is talking about affordability" (04:45). He and guests argue the media has shifted its narrative to call today’s economic conditions a crisis while ignoring worse moments under the Biden administration.
• Media Double Standard:
  • “Where the heck was the media for four years under Joe Biden when we really did have an affordability crisis?” (08:28)
  • Comparison between claims of "affordability crisis" now and inflation and high prices under Biden.
• Industry & Retail Pricing: Eric notes that "oil comes down, prices come down. Problem is if companies don't bring their retail prices down … we're going to pay more and more and more" (08:05).
• Audience Participation:
  • Several audience members affirm that affordability and misleading economic reports are their biggest concerns (23:00).
  • A 14-year-old comments: “Being able to buy a house when I'm older. Way too expensive. Not enough jobs that pay enough…” (24:06)

2. Border Security, Law Enforcement, and Public Safety

• Highlighting Border Patrol and ICE:
  • Ben Bergquam, Maureen Bannon, and other guests stress supporting law enforcement and the tough conditions at the border.
  • “The left is nuts. Not border patrol. … the left, how evil they’ve become, where they're not just going after border patrol ... they're going after their family, their wives, their children. It is pure evil.” – Ben Bergquam (12:52)
• Support for First Responders:
  • Repeated encouragement for the crowd to thank law enforcement (15:50, 16:01), highlighting the risk faced by officers and agents.
• Border Policy under Trump:
  • Maureen Bannon credits Trump with lowering illegal crossings despite obstacles: “done a fantastic job. The numbers are lower than they've ever been. And he's done it even though he's had more obstacles...” (11:50)

3. Media Bias, Narrative Control, and Censorship

• Critique of Mainstream Media:
  • Eric Bolling derides the “two different entities … right and left. … left is like 90% of all the people delivering the news” (36:45).
  • “Has it ever been this bad? Can you believe … they would blame Charlie Kirk for his own assassination?” (35:22)
• Education and Indoctrination:
  • Claim that schools and colleges instill “socialist principles” (37:08)—“They're socialists. It’s terrible, scary, scary folks.” (37:29)
  • Call to stop "woke ideology" from being taught to children (38:10).

4. Grassroots & State Politics

• Conservative Organizing:
  • Focus on local activism, with Maricopa County, Arizona referenced as mobilizing for a “2026 sweep” (24:48).
  • Conversation on strategic state races in Arizona and California (25:21–27:33).
• Redistricting & "RINOs":
  • Sharp criticism of Republicans in Indiana for not redistricting, labeling them as “RINOs”—"They're liberal Democrats in disguise" (40:36).

5. Voter Integrity and Structural Reform

• Election Security Concerns:
  • Calls for “voter integrity,” claims about foreign manipulation in American elections referencing Venezuela (39:28).
  • Continued critique of GOP leadership for not codifying executive orders or bringing key bills up for votes due to fear of exposure (“cowardice” — 62:06).

6. Personal Stories and Second Chances

• Duke Tanner’s Story:
  • Duke shares being pardoned by Trump after serving 16+ years for a nonviolent crime. He now advocates for prison reform and credits Trump for bringing home “over 40,000 men and women” (50:20).
    • “I’m a black man from Gary, Indiana that he didn’t know. And he brought me back to being my family life ... letting me help so many people.” (50:20)
• Motivational Platform:
  • Eric touts his podcast, The Edge, as “a movement for guys, for dudes. We can be mad again. We could be motivated again. … In the day and age of Donald Trump 2.0, woke is dead.” (34:18)

7. Education Reform & Youth Engagement

• Critical Thinking on Campus:
  • College senior asks: “What is your idea of something we can do to fix and ... bring critical thinking back into the college atmosphere?” (58:07)
  • Maureen Bannon and Ben Bergquam urge courage: “Don’t ever let someone tell you that your voice shouldn’t be heard. Keep spreading the truth.” (59:27–59:58), “Courage is contagious.” (59:58)

8. AI, Technology, and Future Policy

• Audience Poll on AI:
  • “Who’s in favor of AI? … I was against it until I started using it. I can’t live without it.” – Eric (63:45)
• Preview of Coming Segments:
  • Maureen Bannon teases future discussion on AI with Joe Allen and the Brown/MIT shooting (63:21).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Economic Messaging:
  • “My first question was about affordability and it's really been the theme.” – Eric Bolling (05:52)
• Media Critique:
  • “The American media has become two different entities. ...The problem is the left is like 90% of all the people delivering the news.” – Eric Bolling (36:45)
  • “It's just indoctrination to the socialism starting in kindergarten.” – Audience member (37:03)
• Border Security:
  • “These guys need to know that we have their backs.” – Ben Berkquam (13:52)
• Civic Duty:
  • “When you see a law enforcement officer... thank them. ... If you don't, you're complicit on the other side.” – Eric Bolling (14:50)
• On MAGA and Movement Divides:
  • “We're fighting too much against ourselves. ... Let's just all be MAGA.” – Audience member via Ben Berkquam (56:41)
  • “I, I don't, I don't know what lane is MAGA, what lane is RINO ... I'm a little lost right now.” – Eric Bolling (57:46)
• Inspiration for Youth:
  • “Stand, even if you stand alone... because of what you're doing, your willingness to stand up, it empowered me to have the courage to do it, too.” – Ben Bergquam (59:58)
  • “Don’t be afraid. Do not silence yourself or let them silence you.” – Maureen Bannon (59:27)
• Personal Redemption:
  • “President Donald Trump granted me clemency and I was able to come home after serving 16 years, 6 months and 21 days.” – Duke Tanner (49:00)
• On Party Leadership:
  • “Cowardice. Anyone else we got? ... It's cowardice.” – Ben Bergquam (62:06)

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Important Segment Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment | |---------------|----------------------------------------------------------| | 03:25 | Live from AMFest 2025, crowd energy, opening remarks | | 04:45 | Discussion on "affordability crisis" & Trump speech | | 09:29 | Ben introduces his family, focus on values/home-school | | 12:52 | Critique of left's treatment of Border Patrol/ICE | | 24:00 | Youth perspective: concerns about housing affordability | | 25:21–27:33 | State/local political activism (AZ/CA focus) | | 35:22 | Attack on media bias; Charlie Kirk assassination reference| | 39:28 | Voter integrity/election rigging claims | | 46:43 | Truck drivers & language requirements controversy | | 49:00 | Duke Tanner’s story of pardon & second chances | | 56:14 | Audience Q&A session: Tough questions for panel | | 58:07 | College student asks about critical thinking on campus | | 63:21 | Preview: Upcoming AI and college shooting discussion | | 63:45 | Quick poll: Audience sentiment on Artificial Intelligence|

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Conclusion

Bolling! at AMFest 2025 was a high-energy, strongly partisan event, blending policy commentary, critiques of mainstream media and government, and call-to-action moments for conservatives. The episode’s key themes—economic policy, border security, media bias, education reform, party division, and redemption—are threaded with anecdotes and input from both panelists and an engaged live audience. The show consistently returns to a message of grassroots unity, civic courage, and support for traditional American values as defined by the MAGA movement, while openly questioning the direction and unity of the movement itself.

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For Future Listeners:
This episode offers a clear window into the MAGA-oriented grassroots discussions as of late 2025, especially regarding economic messaging, border policy, and the continued battle over media and educational narratives. Expect a fast-paced, conversational tone, with moments of both humor and serious critique, and several notable, emotionally-charged testimonies.

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All right, we're here. We're here. 4 o' clock on the East Coast. 2 o' clock here in Phoenix, Arizona at Ms. 2025. Amazing crowd. Wow. I walked in, I looked down at this. This a sea of people. I don't know. Can we get a camera? Can you show the people? Look at the size of this crowd. Real America's voice is bringing it out to AM Fest 2025 this year, folks. You're doing great. We're loving this. All right, Brian. Glenn, good to see you.

[Duke Tanner]

Good to see you.

[Eric Bowling]

Brian Glennon for buddy. Yeah. Where's President Trump? He's usually around here asking you a question or something. All right. Are we gonna have some fun today? I can't hear you. I hope you have some fun. There we go. There we go. This is what I'm talking about right here. Before we start, I'd love to tell you there's so much news happening. We have Dan Bonino, very close friend of mine, left the FBI. He's coming back to the podcast world, honestly, where he belongs. I know he was great at the FBI, but Dan's a great conservative podcaster. He'll get the message out. Don't frown on Dan. Dan's a good man. My right, yeah. President Trump's address last night, these guys are talking about it a little bit. Lot about affordability. It looked like that's what he wanted to talk about. Guys, can I come around the front here? Can I come around? Can I move? I just make sure I can move.

[Ben Berkbaum]

Yeah.

[Eric Bowling]

So President Trump is talking about affordability, right? Last night he was talking about gas prices are coming down, oil prices are coming down, egg prices are coming down. It was a really important message. Why? Because for the last four years prior to President Trump's second term, we had Joe Biden who jacked up prices. Bidenomics, 9% inflation, $108 oil, five dollar gallons of gasoline. Eggs were twelve dollars a dozen. He gets it down. And the media was. The media. Do they call it a affordability crisis under Trump? Never once did they say that under Joe Biden, did they? Not one time. So if I can't. Mad Dog, can you hear me? Mad Dog's our guy. And if you watch the show, you know, bad dog, Mad. A roll of sound bite from Caroline Levitt in the briefing room.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

To see you here. He's of real America's Voice. He's also the host of Edge, his interview and commentary podcast. Please, Eric, why don't you kick us off?

[Eric Bowling]

Caroline, thank you very much for this inviting me to the new media seat. As you point out, affordability crisis, it strikes me energy prices have been coming down aggressively since President Trump's second term. Approaching $55 a barrel for oil, gasoline, as you point out, under $3 a barrel nationally, first time in the way that $55 barrel oil is about half of the peak under the last four years. In the last administration, half price, wholesale prices come down. Yet affordability crisis, A lot of the folks in this room, a lot of legacy media, some of the people in the front row, seem to want to call this an affordability crisis right now, forgetting the fact that over the last four years prior we hit 9% inflation. Wages, as you point out, were stagnant at best, sometimes had dipped. That's a real affordability crisis there. But they weren't really calling it that. Then you point out how President Trump is changing the affordability in America, but how will he ensure that the legacy media doesn't flip the script and change it so that they're using affordability as their word, their idea, versus what the American people who know much better.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

Yeah, well, it's a great question, Eric, and it's a point of frustration for the president and for myself. I will say that's part of the reason I just kicked off this briefing, setting the record straight with facts about the economic mess that the president inherited from his predecessor, Joe Biden, and he's focused on digging our country and our economy out of that hole every day. Things are getting better and they will continue to. And President Trump understands better than any politician in this city the pain that the American consumer has been feeling for years now because of the last administration's. Policies. You heard him in the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania this past week campaigning and talking to these voters saying I was elect to fix this problem and I am fixing it. Don't forget who created it. And that's the Democrat.

[Eric Bowling]

And so a little, a little background on that. So I was invited to do the new media seat and the way you get the new media seat is they invite you in. You get the first question after Caroline makes some comments. And my first question was about affordability and it's really been the theme because yes, prices are coming down, they're coming down slow. They should be coming down faster. They could be coming down faster. It's not Trump's fault, by the way. He's getting the most important input. Costs down. Oil prices go into just about every product we buy and use. Oil comes down, prices come down. Problem is if companies don't bring their retail prices down to their wholesale, what it costs to build these products, then we're going to pay more and more and more. They're just going to get richer and richer. So Trump will probably, Brian will know this better than anyone. Probably bring a group of leaders of industry and to get their prices down. Here's my point though. Where the heck was the media for four years under Joe Biden when we really did have an affordability crisis? So that was an important moment and I think Trump last night hit the ball out of the park telling the American people exactly what he's doing and what he'll continue to do to bring prices down for, for all of us. So that was, I just want us to focus on how hypocritical the left wing media is. And really, let's be honest with you, I'm walking around this venue, I see Fox News over there. No one's there. I see Daily Wire, dead dead zone Rev. Look at this. Great crowd, great crowd. Can we do this? Let's do a couple of questions. Ben, I'd like to, to get you a quick. Get a question from Ben in the audience.

[Ben Berkbaum]

Well, first I just want to highlight these two young ladies. This is my beautiful wife and our youngest daughter, Lily. Lily. This is why we do what we do right here. This is what it's about. Eric, a beautiful wife. Raise them right. Homeschool your kids if you can. Here's your little doggy back. I love you girls.

[Eric Bowling]

It's awesome. Ben and this, you know, this is.

[Ben Berkbaum]

Why we fight the fight. We fight and then these are the guys who actually are fighting the fight. I don't know if you know this Eric.

[Eric Bowling]

The former. Can you come up?

[Ben Berkbaum]

Vice President.

[Eric Bowling]

Come on, you guys. Come up. Let's bring our Del Cueto up.

[Ben Berkbaum]

Oh, he's going down. He's used to climbing under walls and fences. Border Patrol, baby.

[Eric Bowling]

Come on up, Art. Come on up, Ben. All right. Good to see you, brother. Good to see you. Thank you for what you do, what you've done, what you continue to do. And, guys, Ben Berkbaum is at the border. He's running with ice. He's running with Border Patrol. And that's not a. Not a. Not dangerous activity. So thank you both to you guys, really putting your. Honestly, putting your lives on the line for the American people.

[Maureen Bannon]

Art, no. Well, I want to thank all of you guys. You guys do a fantastic job at bringing out the news. I mean, I watch you guys channel all the time. You guys are the one. And no knock on the other ones, because I'm on all the other shows as well. But, you know, knowing Ben. I've known Ben for a long time. He doesn't just go down, take a picture, and then good to go. He's in the thick of it. He's one of those that, you know, people need to follow him. They need to realize he brings you real news each and every time. It's fantastic to be here at this Turning Point event. I've spoken a lot of these events. It's great seeing individuals like yourself out here. It's great. They have a big lineup of speakers, which is. I'm really looking forward to seeing. I heard. I was down there with the Border Patrol. They haven't. They have their own booth here, so if you guys are interested, go down there.

[Eric Bowling]

They're recruiting, so it's great.

[Maureen Bannon]

But more importantly, they're recruiting. They're down there.

[Ben Berkbaum]

All the young people out there, Border Patrol, ice, they're recruiting.

[Maureen Bannon]

I went to one of them, and I told him, hey, how do I get a job? And then he recognized me, so I kind of messed it up. But more importantly, it's all these people that are here. People need to understand there's speakers here, but if it wasn't for each and every one of you, they'd be speaking to an empty room. So you guys are what makes everything happen.

[Eric Bowling]

President Trump last night and his Address of the Nation talked about the border, how he's really solidified the border and trying to deport as many illegals as possible. How effective is he? And what happens when Donald Trump is no longer in office?

[Maureen Bannon]

So that's what's important. We have to make sure that we pay attention to all the elections. People heard, they were saying, they were saying that this last election was the most important election of our lifetime. Every election moving forward is the most important one of your lifetime. You got to make sure that you have individuals in there that care about our future, that care about freedoms in America. He's done a fantastic job. The numbers are lower than they've ever been. And he's done it even though he's had more obstacles to do it than any other president. So a lot of it comes down on who we have in Congress, who your governor is. There's so much things that you got to make sure you take care of moving forward. But it's really fantastic what he has done, even with all the obstacles that have been thrown in front of him.

[Eric Bowling]

Yeah, Ben, you're right. Along with these guys a lot. I. I've ridden with them too. And, and there is a. You can. It's a palpable feeling of if the bad guys see our faces, my family might be at risk. Their wives and their kids could be at risk. And the left says, get the masks off. ICE and Border Patrol, Are they nuts?

[Ben Berkbaum]

Yeah, they're nuts.

[Eric Bowling]

This.

[Ben Berkbaum]

The. The left is nuts. Not border patrol. These guys, what these guys, some of us are a little crazy to, to put. Take that oath, put your life on the line every single day. They swear that oath for our nation individually. But you know, you think about what the left, how evil the left has become, where they're not just going after the. The border patrol or the ICE agents, they're going after their family, their wives, their children. It is pure evil. Now keep in mind, these are the same people, antifa scumbags that go around with masks on their face so that they can commit crimes and get away with it. These guys are covering their faces to protect their family. Those scumbags are covering their faces to undermine this country. And so I say, Border Patrol, ice, do whatever you have to do to secure this country, to do your job, to protect your family. But what I want to see is every single one of those scumbag traders that is inviting this. All these politicians like the mayor of Minneapolis or Johnson of Chicago or these governors that are inviting their citizens or non citizens to attack these guys for doing their job. I want to see those guys prosecuted. That's what really needs to happen. These guys need to know we, and for you, everyone out there, these guys need to know that we have their backs. When you see those protesters out there going against them, it's our duty to Stand up and say, we stand with these guys.

[Eric Bowling]

No, I appreciate. On this topic, where do we go from here?

[Maureen Bannon]

Look, years ago they were asking us to put masks on. Now they don't want you to wear them after all. So I'm trying. I'm kind of confused already.

[Eric Bowling]

But again, oh, no, no. The criminals could still wear the mask, right?

[Maureen Bannon]

It's not surprising they can't figure out what bathroom to use. So I understand that it could be confusing on that end, however, look, it's true. You got to support law enforcement, support border patrol agents. It's, it's. I was down there talking to some of them and they said, this is amazing. I particularly spoke to one and she said, it's amazing to be here because everyone seems to be happy we're here.

[Eric Bowling]

Right?

[Maureen Bannon]

We're not used to that. Right. We're too busy hearing the hatred. So, like, again, I can't stress it enough. It's people like yourself and all these.

[Eric Bowling]

People that are going to do this. Cut you out for one second. I want to talk to these people right here. Do you guys, when you see a law enforcement officer, whether it's a cop, state trooper, border patrol, ice, do you thank them? Do you tell them they're doing a good job? Do you tell them that you have their back? Because if you don't, you're complicit on the other side. You have to thank these people. Am I right, sir? These guys are doing a phenomenal job. They don't. We don't understand how much they're at risk out there to help us. And we just, like you said, we see the protesters, we need to be out there supporting these guys 100%. These people lie to us from that shirt real quick.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

I think the other really important thing is, is when we are out there, example, like if I'm in a restaurant and there's law enforcement there sitting there, I make sure not only do I go over and thank them, but I let them know just in case something goes down when I'm in there, hey, I'm a good citizen. I'm on your side. I'm concealed carrying because if anything happens at that time, they need to know if I step in to get their back because they're, you know, that I'm there and I got their back.

[Eric Bowling]

Perfect. Perfect. Let me hear it. Do you. Do you tell law enforcement you appreciate them? Do you all? Yes. You need to do this. Everyone needs to buy. Buy a cop. You see them in a bar, buy him a beer. You see a lady cop in in Starbucks. Buy her a coffee. Please do that. They appreciate it. Or if you just say, hey, take care of yourself, they, they really appreciate that. We have a lot more than thank you.

[Maureen Bannon]

Thank you guys so much.

[Eric Bowling]

Doing a great job.

[Maureen Bannon]

Thank you.

[Eric Bowling]

All right folks, we have a lot more coming up. We have a lot more coming up. And out in the crowd we're gonna get Brian Glenn up here. Don't, don't go anywhere. Nice try, Glenn. You see him try to sneak off the side of the stage. Don't let him go anywhere, folks. Thank you so, so much. Appreciate it. Stay right here. We'll be back in two and a half minutes.

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Back. We're back, we're back, we're back. Hey, everybody. Are we having fun? Do you realize this crowd is this big? Oh, I'm supposed to stay over here. This crowd is this big. And the. The event really, technically hasn't really officially started yet. It's amazing. Rap, real America's voice. Get. Getting it done, right? Getting it done. All right. Brian Glenn, our RAB senior White House correspondent. Brother, what a year it's been, my man. It has been an amazing year. I mean, you know, when you think about what President Trump had to do from day one, that laundry list of stuff, and we thought to ourselves, how in the world is he going to. To tackle all of it? Well, you. You kind of take it one bite at a time. And that's what we saw the first 90 days being this absolute mission to secure the border. And that's exactly what artificial was talking about. What's. What's in store for 2026 and is it? Look, folks, the reality is generally a president in his midterm election loses a heck of a lot of seats in the House, tends to lose the House. If they had the House going in. Obama lost the House. President Trump lost the House. First time. I'm pretty sure George Bush did as well. But the first time. Let's talk about the first time that we had a weak speaker of Paul Ryan in there. We had a feckless Congress that didn't do anything. So that's the reason why we, we pretty much launched that. I think this scenario is a little different. I think 2026 is a little different considering all the positive things he's able to do in the first year. That I think the American people can say, okay, I tell you what, yes, we have some inflation issues. We have an affordability crisis. And I know they get mad when you say that, but not everybody's on Wall Street. There's people that live on Main Street.

[Maureen Bannon]

America.

[Eric Bowling]

We got to remember that there's still people that are having a hard time paying their health insurance, their auto insurance, their food, everything. We get it. But I think President Trump is definitely laying out a little bit of a blueprint to tackle those affordability issues. Keep that in mind. Guys are going to hate me for this, but I'm going to walk around a little bit. All right, all right, you guys got to cut the camera for a minute. I want to talk to these folks over here for a minute. Swinging around, camera guys, swinging around. How's President Trump doing? Give him a, give him some grades on. Let's talk the economy. A. How about immigration? A plus. How about national security on the global level?

[iHeart Radio Announcer]

On the local level?

[Duke Tanner]

Global.

[iHeart Radio Announcer]

I would say A plus.

[Eric Bowling]

So you got straight. He's got straight A's. You think so, too? Oh, absolutely. 100. Where does he lack really?

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[Eric Bowling]

You're saying up there, I think it's going to be a sweep in 2026. Sweep in 2020. Everyone agree with that? You guys are optimistic, Eyes optimistic. What's up, sir? How you doing? Hey, doing great, Eric. How about you? What's the biggest issue Americans face right now that they're being lied to about what's going on, on with the economy? Absolutely, absolutely. Tell me more. Well, I could go on and on. Don't just give us a 22nd version. What they do is they produce a report, they seasonally adjust the data, they revise the data, the revise the data. That's, that's the history of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But they take it and they can make an up month, a down month or a down month, a huge up month. And no one. Can I tell you something? You're 100, right? During the Biden administration, there were months and months and months of unemployment numbers that are bad. And then they get revised the following month when no one's paying Attention. And they were much worse. Am I right, sir? How old are you?

[Ben Berkbaum]

I'm 14.

[Eric Bowling]

What is the biggest concern that you have in this country right now?

[Ben Berkbaum]

Being able to buy a house when I'm older.

[Eric Bowling]

Very interesting. Why do you say that?

[Ben Berkbaum]

It's just gotten way too expensive. There's not enough jobs that pay enough for us to buy houses. And we'll have to buy houses just way into the future, and we need to do it earlier so then we.

[Eric Bowling]

Could raise a family. What do you want to do when you finish school or wherever your life. Where do you want to head? I want to stay here in Arizona.

[Ben Berkbaum]

I want to go into law school, become a lawyer.

[Eric Bowling]

Oh, gosh, more lawyers, more lawyers. Am I right? How you guys? How's everyone doing? What's your name? Where are you from?

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

Sarah o', Neill from Scottsdale, Arizona.

[Duke Tanner]

Right.

[Eric Bowling]

From hometown.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

Yeah. Maricopa County. And we are going to do our. Our part to do to give you and President Trump a 2026 sweep. Maricopa County Republican Committee is having their organizational meeting in 2020 January. And, and, and we have two candidates that are running for members at large. We actually have a field of 12amazing conservatives to choose from for five seats. So Maricopa county is activated.

[Duke Tanner]

And.

[Eric Bowling]

Are you one of the candidates?

[Ben Berkbaum]

I am.

[Eric Bowling]

Tell us about it. What. What's the biggest issue facing the state of Arizona and maybe the country right now?

[Ben Berkbaum]

So the issue is everybody thinks the same is going to be one in social media. And the real problem is we have to make connections with our local voters and our local volunteers to get all of our conservative candidates elected next year.

[Eric Bowling]

Who's. Who's the next governor of Arizona?

[Ben Berkbaum]

Andy Biggs.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

Andy Biggs.

[Eric Bowling]

He's doing a great job. Charlie Kirk, by the way, endorsed Andy Biggs before he was assassinated. So I would agree with you, there's a couple people vying for that seat now. Now, Right, the seat that Andy's going to vacate.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

Yes. We have Karen Taylor Robinson Robeson.

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[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

And she was a candidate in the previous election. She's very well known as well. And there.

[Eric Bowling]

Oh, you have Sheriff Mark Lamb, too, Right.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

For governor. No, for us.

[Eric Bowling]

For. For, for the seat that Andy Biggs is making.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

Oh, yes, I'm sorry. For a congressional district.

[Eric Bowling]

Yes. And you're talking about. You're talking about who else? And Randy Biggs is going to run again.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

Yes, exactly.

[Eric Bowling]

I think he. If I'm not mistaken, when I think I saw the last poll, he's at the top right now. He's beating the generic Democrat for governor of Arizona.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

Yes, I believe that he is. I'm not sure how the other candidates are measuring up, but we, we again have a great field to choose from.

[Eric Bowling]

Speaking of states that need to be changed, is this a California golden bear hat you're wearing? Right.

[Ben Berkbaum]

Well, we can't have the golden age without the Golden State. And I'm a volunteer for reform California and I'm here and we're going to lobby the president to come to California. Don't. We can't have. We'll never win an election out there without President Trump.

[Eric Bowling]

It's really fascinating that Eric Swalwell, Congressman, wants to run for governor of California replacing Newsom. But when he jumped in, he took Katie Porter voters lead and cut it in half. And now there's a conservative sheriff. Tell me his name again. I can't remember his name. There's a sheriff in California who's actually the leading candidate for his next governor.

[Ben Berkbaum]

Real good too. And I, I like Steve Hilton and I like the sheriff and I donate a small, small to both. And we're going to work hard to make sure that one of those guys wins the governorship.

[Eric Bowling]

But it won't happen without President Trump coming to California.

[Ben Berkbaum]

You like? I tried to get Steve Garvey to listen then before Coachella and his, his paid consultants, I'm free consultants told him not to do it.

[Eric Bowling]

Trump has been there. He'll go. Sir, how are you doing? My name is. What's your name? Charles Demaro. I'm the founder and organizer of 805 patriots. We're in California as well. We are the largest rally organization for Southern California. We organize from San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Louisiana. Orange County.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

Orange County.

[Eric Bowling]

Can California actually get another Republican governor at some point where we have Ronald Reagan and then kind of a quasi Republican Schwarzenegger. Yeah. Honestly, what he was saying is we.

[Duke Tanner]

Need a president or we need a.

[Eric Bowling]

Governor candidate sponsored by Donald Trump. Our candidates are our people don't come.

[Duke Tanner]

Out to vote unless there is a.

[Eric Bowling]

Trump candidate on that. I have one quick question for you. Thank you, guys. Thank you very much for coming. I appreciate you guys. I have one quick question. Hey, guys. Indiana. The state House Republicans in Indiana voted not to redistrict the state of Indiana. Why would they do that? Establishment.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

They're Rhino.

[Eric Bowling]

Rhinos. There it is. Rhinos. Guys, we'll come back out in the crowd in just a minute or so. Hey, bend that Berk one's back. Good to see you guys. All right, we're gonna. We're gonna just jump away for a minute. Can you throw me that read in here, please? Throw that reading. If you guys, if you don't mind. Just so I know. Because we gotta take care of the good folks at Birch Gold. Let's get. Let's get it up. Let's get it up. There we go. All right. There's. Oh, you want to see something cool? Can you bring a camera around? Can you move that or no? No. There's a lot. There's a lot of things that politicians should be getting cold reasons they should be getting cold in their stockings this Christmas. But thanks to the really, really good people at Birch Gold Group, they're phenomenal. They're phenomenal. They think a smart planner is one who maybe deserves a little silver. That's why for every $5,000 that you spend buying gold with Birch Gold Group between now and December 22, next week, week Birch Gold will send you an ounce of silver. It's around 65 an ounce right now. They're sending to you for free. It's up 60 this year. Smart people diversify and have a hedge and a plan. That's why I very much encourage you all to buy your gold from Birch Gold Group. I do. I literally buy gold from Birch Gold Group. With the rate cuts coming in 2026, talking about them all day, the dollar will be coming less and less. You cut the rates, dollar gets weaker. What happens? Gold goes up. What happens if the AI bubble bursts? Why don't you let Birch Gold help you diversify? Converting an existing IRA or 401k into a tax sheltered IRA in physical gold, actual gold coins and bars. And for every $5,000 you buy in gold, you'll get an ounce of silver for free for your stocking. Or how about this for your kids? What a great way to teach your kids about saving smartly. Just text that word. We've been talking about it. America, 989898. Text America to 989898. Claim your eligibility for this offer. Again, text the word America to 989-898 today because Birch Gold groups free silver with qualifying purchase. That promotion ends next week, December 22nd. Again, text America to 989-898. We'll be back two and a half minutes. Can we hear it for RAV in America Fest? Charlie Curry.

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[Eric Bowling]

All right, welcome. Hello y' all hear me? We're going out here, guys. What? We're back. Real America's Voice America. Hey, listen you see the shirt? There we go. You see the shirt? It's the Edge, right? It's my little podcast I do on the side. It's not political. It's just a lot of fun. They keep yelling at me when I walk away, right, Harry? I walk away. And it's so the Edge. Edge is a platform. It's a movement for guys, for dudes. We can be mad again. We could be. We could talk about being motivated again. We can talk about holding a door open for a woman again. It's okay. In the day and age of Donald Trump 2.0 woke is dead. All BS that they threw at us is dead. So I started a podcast called the Edge. And it's all about motivation, doing well, getting better, being a better man, being a better husband, being a better father, just being a more successful person.

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[Eric Bowling]

And it's been off the charts, top 1/10 of 1% of all new YouTube shows. I would love you all to subscribe if you don't know where to find. It's on YouTube at. Eric Bowling the Edge. Or hit me with one of these QR codes with your camera. I'm walking around with it right here. So just shine your camera, hit the little yellow line. I appreciate your support. Alrighty, so let's get back to the. The business business at hand. Does anyone think that the media is unbiased in America? Of course not. Right? Of course not. But has ever. Has it ever been this bad? Has it ever been this bad? Can you believe there's a day and age in American media where they would blame Charlie Kirk for his own assassination? Is this insanity? Are they nuts? What is this? What is. It's not getting better. It's getting worse. There's Duke Tanner, folks. Duke Tanner's gonna be. He's coming up in just a minute. What's with the American media? What's with the American media? They're communists. Communist news network. Cnn. I was at the briefing room at the White House. I said to Caroline, some of the same people in that first row of the same people that never mentioned affordability for four years, and I said, now they're calling this affordability crisis. And I said, you know those people in the first row? FOX was there, CNN was there, ABC was there, and. And I leaned over and said, isn't that right, Caitlin Collins? Oh, she didn't like that.

[Ben Berkbaum]

No, they don't like that at all.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

To be called out.

[Eric Bowling]

They don't like that at all. The American media has become two different entities. There's a right and A left. The problem is the left is like 90% of all the people delivering the news.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

Yes, that's true because they go to.

[Eric Bowling]

College for this and this is an important topic. Tell us about that.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

Well, it's just indoctrination to the socialism starting in kindergarten.

[Eric Bowling]

Kindergarten. So that's why the teachers unions are so strong. Campfire teacher teachers are liberal. They teach your kids to learn the same socialist principles. Woke ideology. It's okay to Change your gender at 5, 7, 10, 12, 15 by the time they hit college.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

They're socialists.

[Eric Bowling]

They're socialists. It's terrible, scary, scary folks, man. What's the biggest problem in America right now with our education system? The education system.

[iHeart Radio Announcer]

The main problem is they are not.

[Eric Bowling]

Teaching our children God values. And that is. That's my opinion. But I believe it's true. How about what they are teaching?

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

Not good, Eric.

[Ben Berkbaum]

Not good at all.

[Eric Bowling]

I, I'm pretty sure com in the communist system that becomes our education system from the bottom all the way up. Free market capitalism is a bad thing. It's a no no. Even though it built this whole car country everything. You're, you're nodding your head.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

Gotta stop the WOKE ideology. It's being taught to our kids.

[Eric Bowling]

But I thought Trump won and woke is dead. No, it's not dead folks. It's not dead. It's very, very quiet. Very sneaky quiet.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

We have the right woke now that we have to deal with.

[Eric Bowling]

Tell us about who's, who's woke on the right.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

The Rhinos.

[Eric Bowling]

The Rhinos? The people from the Republicans in Indiana who voted against redistricting. Right, right. California did it. We need Texas. We need Florida. We need Ohio, Idaho. We can win this. But it's going to take some real, real smart people like the group over here from Arizona and the group over there from California who are making sure everyone gets out and votes. Sir, what's on your mind? We need voter integrity. Voter integrity. Did you see? I had to show. I had Laura Logan on the show yesterday and she talked about the people. The groups in Venezuela have actually figured ways to rig vote for their candidate. Venezuela would bring the votes for the candidate and therefore her comment was. Maybe they're doing it here too. Absolutely.

[Ben Berkbaum]

They're doing it there. They're doing it in all over in South America.

[Eric Bowling]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, good, good. What else? Anyone else? Heavy? Yes, ma'. Am.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

What am I supposed to do?

[Eric Bowling]

What do you want to talk about? What's on your mind?

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

Let's talk about how woke universities are now.

[Eric Bowling]

Let's do it. Which ones and how woke are they?

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

So we both graduated from Indiana State University and we survived without becoming liberals. We were probably the only ones that were not. We were a part of a women's organization on campus. That was the only organization not being able to be funded by the university because we were a Christian organization.

[Eric Bowling]

What happened? My fault. What happened with the people in Indiana? Come over here please. I gotta get away from that. Speaker. What happened to the Republicans in the state House of Indiana decided not to redistrict the state of Indiana.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

So they decided not to redistate district the state of Indiana. So I actually grew up in Indianapolis the outside. So they didn't redistrict because they know that Maran county, which is the seat, this is Indianapolis, is a very blue city. If they were to redistrict it, that would have changed the whole sector of the whole state voting system.

[Eric Bowling]

Who says we should get rid of those Republicans in Indiana? Because they're not Republicans. You know what they are? They're liberal Democrats in disguise. That's what I'm saying that they are. Okay. Hey, Mad Dog, what do you have here? Do you have that other sound bite? Yes, sir. Yeah, the second sound bite. Mad Dog, talk to me. All right, we're going to go to break in a second. On the, on the back side of the break, the second question I asked Caroline Levitt was we've taken 10,000 truckers off the roads because they don't speak English. 10,000. That's not enough. We know that in certain states like California, you can take the CDL license, commercial driver's license in 17 different languages. How many of those people can read or speak English? Probably none. Right? When are they going to do that for Uber, Lyft and other gig economies. And we're going to show that question and answer when we come right back.

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[Eric Bowling]

All right, we're back, we're back, we're back as promised. Wow, what a crowd. Awesome, awesome, amazing crowd here, folks. I don't. I'm pretty sure this thing hasn't even started yet and we got like wall to wall people. It's amazing. You're doing a great. As Trump would say, there's two or three hundred thousand people here or so I hit that dog. So my second question to Caroline Levin in the briefing room last week was, Caroline, we pulled 10,000 truckers off the roads because they don't speak English. And we found out that up to 17 different languages are being Offered to take the trucker license. You imagine people not being able to read or speak English, driving 40 ton trucks down the road. Insanity. So here's what I asked about. What about Lyft and Uber drivers?

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

Listen, I will just reiterate. The Trump administration's position is that truck drivers, particularly those driving big rigs on our nation's road and highways, who have a great responsibility to keep the American public and their fellow citizens safe, should be speaking English and should have an ability to read English proficiently. I think that's a very common sense policy to have. And we've unfortunately seen and the Department of Transportation has uncovered and is actively working to fix these state sponsored commercial trucking driving driver licenses which were going to people who are not qualified to be driving these massive trucks on American roads. And they're endangering the lives of our fellow citizens. We've unfortunately seen many vehicle accidents across the country where people have lost their lives because of drivers that were just simply unqualified to be driving these trucks.

[Eric Bowling]

All right, so really interesting, right? I was. I was thrilled to hear that they took 10,000 drivers off the roads. We probably need 100,000 drivers off the roads because they're not speaking English. Ben, talk to the folks and ask them what they think about truck drivers driving big rigs down our highways and they can't speak a lick of English. And then again, you're maybe getting into an Uber and have the same problem.

[Ben Berkbaum]

That's unbelievable. What do you. What do you guys think about that? Semi truck drivers. I mean, think about what the left did se. But semi truck drivers? Illegal aliens in our country?

[Eric Bowling]

Sure.

[Ben Berkbaum]

I think the issue is the illegal immigration. We love immigration. We love folks, folks that speak other languages. But I think it causes a practical.

[Eric Bowling]

Problem if you can't speak English.

[Ben Berkbaum]

Yeah. Hey, by the way, Eric, just real quick, I want to show this. How many of you. Is this your first AM fest? Raise your hand. Look at this.

[Maureen Bannon]

Wow.

[Ben Berkbaum]

Incredible. Incredible. Young. Now, you don't have to answer that question. I'm gonna. But how old are you? Where are you from?

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

I'm 12 and I'm from Sherman, Connecticut.

[Ben Berkbaum]

And you're out here with your family for Amfest. Are you having a good time?

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[Eric Bowling]

Hey. Hey, Ben.

[Ben Berkbaum]

God bless you.

[Eric Bowling]

You found the two conservatives in Connecticut. Three. Two, three. Three.

[Ben Berkbaum]

We got three. And I think we met one earlier. Who's running for office.

[Eric Bowling]

Who. Raise your hand if you want to talk about illegal. Illegals driving our trucks on our highways. And it can't speak a word of English.

[Ben Berkbaum]

Who wants to jump in? Jump over here. Jump over here.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

I can address that because I drive about a hundred thousand miles a year. And about, about two years ago, I noticed the craziest stuff going on. I felt like I was watching a truckers show on TV with crazy truckers and they were definitely not from this country. So they're causing a lot of problems, sir.

[Eric Bowling]

The, the uniparty is concerned about Trump taking out narco votes, but they're not concerned about 6 ton missile going down the road taking out people left and right. There is the, the term accountability should.

[Ben Berkbaum]

Not be used anymore.

[Eric Bowling]

It says watered down as racist. We need to see people in jail. Amen. Amen.

[Ben Berkbaum]

And who else agrees to that?

[Eric Bowling]

Awesome. Awesome. All right, let's bring it back up here. Maybe we'll talk about that in just a minute. But we have a good friend of mine, good friend of the show, a good friend of real America's Voice, good friend of Julio Gonzalez as well. Let's all welcome Duke Tanner. Duke has got an amazing, amazing story. He's got a book out too. But to tell us your. Tell us your story. Tell the folks why, why we're listening to Duke Tanner right now.

[Duke Tanner]

First and foremost, I, I just love seeing all you guys here. We're gonna give God all the glory for it. I was arrested and got arrested for a non violent crime and was given a double life sentence in federal prison. The Obama administration denied me. But October 21, 2020, President Donald Trump granted me clemency and I was able to come home after serving 16 years, six months and 21 days. I came home pushing the fatherhood initiative. Julio Gonzalez gave me me a job tour. Now I'm the vice president of engineering Tax services, doing all the top major grants throughout the United States for municipalities all the way down to the small businesses and opening up new businesses. And on May 28th of this year, I get a call from the White House and President Trump said, hey, son, I'm giving you your whole life back. I'm giving you a presidential party.

[Eric Bowling]

And this is what it's all about, Duke, second chances, my man. And be honest with you, that's what the edges, edge is about, guys. Most men, 3/4 of audiences, men who've had a rough go, got knocked down, maybe was convicted on something that maybe you shouldn't have been convicted on, but you found a way to get back up and you're gonna make right by it. Tell us.

[Duke Tanner]

We're doing these grants to help the minority cities, but one of the main things I'm doing is I'll be in the forefront to let the people know what the president has done for prison reform that he's not getting the credit for. Everyone keeps saying, oh, he only letting his friends go. He only parting his friends. That's a lie. I'm a black man boyfriend Gary, Indiana that he didn't know. And he brought me back to being my family life and doing and putting me in position to. I'm able to help show many people and with step back. The president have let over 40,000 men and women come home that nobody's saying nothing about. And they came home and doing great things for this country. And people need to know that and understand that. And they need to thank the president for that because without him signing that bill, these men and women will still be in prison and you guys would be paying taxes for us to be sitting there riding away.

[Eric Bowling]

Oh, good news too, Duke. I heard he did not use the auto pen.

[Duke Tanner]

Great news.

[Eric Bowling]

This one. This one's official, right? This one's official.

[Duke Tanner]

It's official.

[Eric Bowling]

It's official. All right, guys, I want to do this. We have. We have A little bit. Very quickly, if I just would like to tell you about birch gold one more time, if I may. Unbelievable. I. I swear on my life, I wouldn't tell you this, but I didn't mean it. I've been buying, buying gold since I was like 30 years ago I started buying gold. I should walk into a gold coin store and buy a quarter ounce of gold. That's all I could afford. And buy another quarter ounce, maybe a half ounce. When I started to make a little bit money. Buy an ounce. I've never sold a single ounce of gold, but it's so expensive to do it that way. When I bumped into birch gold group, they're amazing. It's just you. They're. They're. It arrives at your house, you get the price exactly that the gold price is on that moment. They're amazing. They get to your house, you can get coins, you can get gold bars. And right now they've got a promotion. If you text the word America, the 989898. For every $5,000 of gold you buy, they're going to send you a silver ounce for free. Really shows your kids how important it is. If you notice what's going on in the markets lately, we talk about the markets.

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[Ben Berkbaum]

You got questions? Come right here.

[Eric Bowling]

Yeah, instead of us asking you questions, you got a question? Bring it over to Ben right there. Right after the break. We'll be right back.

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[Eric Bowling]

Right, we're back. We're back. And guess what, Ben Bur. Look who showed up on stage. Maureen Bannon. Maureen.

[Ben Berkbaum]

Maureen, we love.

[Eric Bowling]

Maureen's here from morning. Bannon. So the questions will be now for Ben, Eric or Maureen.

[Ben Berkbaum]

So now we got Maureen in the house. Okay, Linda, by the way, I want to introduce these ladies real quick. Linda, Hannah and Angie Morphine. Angie Morphine is an angel mom. Her son Reuben Morphine was murdered by an illegal alien.

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This is why I fight on the border. Angel moms, angel dads that have lost everything because of the policies of left. Linda, what do you want to say?

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I just want to say, you guys, quit fighting amongst ourselves. Let go Trump, okay? We're fighting too much against ourselves. For Israel. No Israel.

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[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

Candace owns all kind of zones.

[Eric Bowling]

Margie, Tilly Greene. Let's just all be maga. That's right.

[Ben Berkbaum]

And the question, question, how do we do that, Eric?

[Eric Bowling]

I don't know. That could be the hardest question to answer right now because there are so many things that MAGA stood for. Right? Maureen's dad will tell you. He and I, he. First of all, Steve Bannon is the original gangster of maga. He is, he, he invented MAGA and tried to. Trump was there by his side. But Steve was the one who was the visionary. He and Andrew Breitbart. I remember your dad and Andrew doing a radio show in California. I used to go on all the time. It was a brilliant America first thought that they, that your father developed. Why don't we save that question for, for Maureen or Steve in the five o' clock hour? Because it's too.

[Ben Berkbaum]

Think about, think about that, Maureen.

[Eric Bowling]

I, I don't, I don't know what, what's going as America first. What lane is maga? What lane is rhino? What lane is some of the above. I, I'm a little lost right now.

[Ben Berkbaum]

And I think, and I think that's part of what this event is about because we're coming into it with that, that question, where are we at where do we go from here? Yeah, that would be my answer. Young lady.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

Hi. So this is a question for any of you. So we briefly touched on what is wrong with the education system in America. So I'm currently a college student, a senior, graduating in May. So. So what is your idea of something we can do to fix and kind of bring critical thinking back into the college atmosphere and just allow students to really think for what they believe in and what is going on, rather than just hearing what a teacher says and believing that.

[Eric Bowling]

This is a really, really important question right there. Really important, folks. Have you hear it? She said, how do we bring. How do we bring the college campus back to, I would say, a fair. A fair environment. I'll tell you. Years ago, my son, we ended up at University of Colorado. We walk on campus, he was 18 years old. He was hit up by 20 or 30 people trying to get him to register to vote for Hillary Clinton. Not one conservative. So I think what the answer to your question is this. Charlie Kirk, whether he knew it or not, in his. In his action aftermath, and his legacy is bringing people out to realize that there are two voices on college campuses again. Yeah, we heard about Charlie saying, prove me wrong or let's have this debate. But it took what happened for the world to see that there are two voices, and one had been censored for the vast majority of the last 20, 30 years. Maureen.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

And. And don't ever let someone tell you that your voice shouldn't be heard. Keep spreading the truth. Truth, get it out there. Because the left wants to silence us. They wanted to silence us by assassinating Charlie Kirk, and they haven't silenced us. So we just need to keep spreading the truth because eventually their eyes will open up to what is America first and what belongs back on college campuses. So just don't be afraid. Do not silence yourself or let them silence you.

[Ben Berkbaum]

Yeah. And if I could on that, I started my journey where we are today, on a college campus out in California. Yeah. And that was the most important thing, is to not be afraid. My motto always was stand, even if you stand alone. And to have that if you're courageous. You know, there's cliches. Courageous courage is contagious. But it's true. It's one of the cliches. That's absolutely true. I had so many people come up to me and say, because. Because of what you're doing, your willingness to stand up, it empowered me to have the courage to do it, too. And that's what Charlie's legacy really Is it's God, family, country. But it's really at the heart of it is courage to stand for what you believe in.

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

And you'll inspire others, people that are maybe too afraid to actually speak out. You'll inspire them to actually speak out as well.

[Ben Berkbaum]

Great question.

[Eric Bowling]

Great question, sir.

[Ben Berkbaum]

Yeah. So my question. Question for you, Ben. So you're good at chasing people down and getting them to answer one way or another, whether shutting the door in your face or, you know, having the bravery to actually answer a question. So why is the, why are all the MAGA movement codifying bills being installed in the Senate? Why aren't they being brought up for a vote? That's a very good question. Because my simple answer is because we still have too many rhinos in the Senate. It.

[Eric Bowling]

I know.

[Ben Berkbaum]

I think Eric, I think Eric can.

[Eric Bowling]

Jump in on that one. You want to know the real reason? Sadly, it's the real reason Ben is hitting on it. It's because when you go to a vote, the vote is public to everyone else. Right. And so the speaker of the House, love him or hate him, particularly not my cup of tea. And Thune, I, I think they're, they're both rhinos. I think they don't want to show. Expose who's voting for and against some of the. Of the eos, the executive orders that Trump is signing and codifying them into law. Because there are a lot of people who are going to vote against it and, and what, the speaker of the House and, and John Thune, the, the Senate senior.

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[Eric Bowling]

They don't want to do that. They don't want to expose their own caucus. That's exactly what the problem is. And they, for that reason, they're rhinos.

[Ben Berkbaum]

The cowards.

[Eric Bowling]

I mean, cowardice.

[Ben Berkbaum]

It's cowardice. Anyone else we got. We got Santa Claus. Come on.

[Eric Bowling]

Come on. Ho, ho, ho. You did it better. What do you, sir, want for Christmas? What do I want for Christmas? I want you to. I want you to subscribe to the Edge. That's what I want you to do. And if you don't see it, here's the QR code on the back of my shirt or it's on my. I would love to have. Have Santa Claus as part of the. The Edge movement. If Santa Claus has got an edge to him, he'll subscribe. Maureen, I'm sorry. Go ahead. What do you want for Christmas?

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

And War Room follow War Room too. That's what I want you to.

[Ben Berkbaum]

I have a feeling he's already with.

[Eric Bowling]

Both of you, but why don't Listen guys, we have what matter. We have a minute. Is that right?

[Ben Berkbaum]

Yeah.

[Eric Bowling]

We got about a minute left before we turn over to the war room. We're going to stay up here. We're gonna bring some other folks up here. But before we go, can we do do me a favor, will you give Real America's voice a round of applause. Rob Sig. Parker. Sig. It's not easy put on a production like this. Costs a lot of money. But look at the turnout. You guys are amazing. Do you watch the show? Does any how many watch the show? I love you. I love you guys. I love you for doing that. Maureen, what do we have at the 5 o' clock hour coming up?

[Eric (Guest/Commentator)]

So we're going to talk about the Brown shooting and also it's there was a tweet that came out. So we'll have Rav put it up about maybe a correlation between mit, what happened to MIT and Brown. And then we're also going to talk about where Joe Allen has been because he's been all over and he'll probably scare you guys half to death with all of his stuff about AI.

[Eric Bowling]

Well, AI, AI, who's wait real quick, who's in favor of AI? Hand up. Who's against AI? Interesting. See, I was against it until I started using it. I can't live without it. Maureen. Really good. We're have the war room turn over in about five seconds. Thank you guys. Round of applause for Rav, please.

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