Bolling! - January 2nd, 2026

Summary

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Real America's Voice: Bolling! – January 2, 2026

Overview

In this fast-paced episode of Real America's Voice, Eric Bolling opens 2026 with in-depth commentary on current political, cultural, and sports topics through a conservative, America-first lens. The show features on-the-ground border reporting with Ben Bergquam, sharp critiques of Democratic leaders, musings on the legacy of January 6th, audience interactions, and an expansive sports roundup with Britt McHenry. Bolling and guests emphasize themes of government accountability, border policy, and American values, while challenging mainstream media narratives.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Border Security Update & Policy Analysis

Guest: Ben Bergquam (Host, Law and Border)

• Trump’s Border Actions (00:56)
  • Trump immediately reinforced border security upon reentering office.
  • Discontinued “paroled release” and ended the CVP1 app, replacing it with CBP Home app.
  • ICE and Border Patrol resumed proactive enforcement rather than serving as “cartel Uber service.”

“President Trump stopped the bleeding... The border was almost completely sealed. They ended the paroled release of illegals into America.”
— Ben Bergquam, 00:56

• All-of-Government Enforcement

  • Trump administration’s “all-of-government approach” involves sending ICE and Border Patrol nationwide to apprehend those who entered illegally during previous Democratic administrations and over the last 30 years.

• Resistance from NGOs

  • Organizations that previously aided migrants are now “obstructing and protesting ICE” as they conduct enforcement action.

“It’s a night and day difference.”
— Ben Bergquam, 02:50

2. Farm Labor and Immigration

• High Proportion of Undocumented Farm Workers (03:21)
  • Fresno, CA: About 60,000 farm workers; more than half are undocumented.
  • The false narrative that “illegals do jobs Americans won’t do” is traced to policies from the New Deal and LBJ’s Great Society, which removed work incentives for citizens.

“If you’re on welfare, you should have to go out and pick crops.”
— Ben Bergquam, 05:47

• Wages and Exploitation (07:00)
  • Officially, legal and illegal workers are paid the same, but in reality, illegal workers are more easily exploited and sometimes involved in black-market economies, including cartel activity.

3. Self-Deportation Incentives (08:28)

• Controversy Over Paying Illegal Immigrants to Leave
  • The “opportunity cost” logic: paying a few thousand dollars to incentivize self-deportation is less costly than ongoing expenses for healthcare and benefits.
  • Criticism of prior spending: NGOs were paid $1,500 per day per migrant for services.

“The net net is a far better deal for the American citizen to give them a thousand bucks and give them a plane ticket, get them out of here…”
— Ben Bergquam, 09:08

4. Critique of Minnesota & Gov. Tim Walz

• Accusations Against Tim Walz (12:57-18:29)
  • Nicknamed “Tampon Timmy,” accused of overseeing massive welfare fraud, especially involving Somali immigrants.
  • Criticism of giving driver's licenses to noncitizens, which Bolling argues enables illegal voting.
  • Condemnation of Walz’s management during civil unrest and COVID-19 (mask mandates, lockdown “snitch hotline”).
  • Mocking Minnesota’s new state flag changes and policies perceived as pandering to minorities.

“Why in the world are we even spending time talking about Tampon Tim Wallace? Replace him. Let him go back to being an assistant football coach or a waterboy.”
— Eric Bolling, 19:48

5. January 6th Retrospective & Narrative (20:38)

• Bolling and Bergquam present January 6th as a misunderstood event, describing the participants (“J6 Patriots”) as persecuted.
• Allegations of government entrapment and unjust prosecution.
• Emphasis on the post-incarceration resilience of those involved.

“They tried to silence them. Instead, they woke up an entire nation.”
— Ben Bergquam, 22:08

6. Liberal Politicians, Culture War, and 'Accountability'

• Mockery of Democratic Leadership
  • Bolling ridicules Kamala Harris, AOC, and other progressive leaders for policies and public statements.
  • Notes AOC as a 2028 presidential contender, deriding her platform.

“Does she realize she’s condoning violence, theft, corruption?”
— Eric Bolling, 25:38

• Claim of Liberal Elitism

  • Clips and commentary paint Democrats as unconcerned with crime and corruption, allegedly prioritizing non-citizens and minorities over “taxpaying American citizens.”

• Denunciation of “White Supremacist” Accusation Against Tommy Tuberville (28:18)

  • Bolling challenges charges of racism against conservative public figures by highlighting their diverse professional associations.

7. Audience Feedback & Calls for Government Reform (41:57+)

• Calls for Accountability
  • Call-in segment focuses on perceived corruption in Congress and the lack of consequences for political elites of both parties.
  • Suggestions include using military tribunals for political crimes, enforcing term limits, and demanding “perp walks.”

“I don’t care if they’re Republican. I don’t care if they’re MAGA. Put them in jail.”
— Eric Bolling, 44:04

• Petroleum Reserve Policy
  • Criticism of past and current administrations for misusing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
  • Advocacy for Trump to refill the SPR to one billion barrels, exclusively for emergency use.

8. Sports Roundtable with Britt McHenry (34:00)

• NFL Discussion

  • Stand-out teams: San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, LA Rams, Denver Broncos.
  • Disappointing teams: Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Bears, Kansas City Chiefs.
  • Comments on Taylor Swift’s effect on the Chiefs and league attitudes.

• Upcoming Major Events in 2026

  • Winter Olympics (Team USA’s hockey prospects).
  • Soccer World Cup (hosted in the U.S.).
  • UFC event on Trump's birthday.
  • “Patriotic year of sports” theme, with reference to Donald Trump’s support for UFC’s rise.

• Pop Culture Anecdotes

  • Chat about Donald Trump’s wrestling bet with Vince McMahon (“loser shaves head”).

9. Closing Encouragement & Themes

• Promotion of “The Edge” Platform
  • Bolling invites listeners to join his YouTube channel for motivational content aimed at men (“serious men spend their time”).
  • Critiques self-help culture and presents his platform as a solution for building discipline and strength.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “President Trump stopped the bleeding... The border was almost completely sealed.”
  (Ben Bergquam, 00:56)

• “If you’re an able bodied person and you’re sucking off the government, you should go out and do a job that so called Americans don’t want to do.”
  (Ben Bergquam, 05:47)

• “We need some perp walks. We’ve been saying this for a better part of a year here. Do we? We just make 20, 26 the year of accountability…”
  (Eric Bolling, 44:04)

• “You can’t be a racist and get performance out of which is primarily, I would say, more than half, maybe two thirds, black athletes. If you’re a racist, you just can’t do it.”
  (Eric Bolling, 28:55)

• “This is where serious men spend their time. Don’t waste your time with self help books or stupid videos.”
  (Eric Bolling, 33:21)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Segment | Timestamp | |---------------------------------------------------|-----------------| | Opening, introduction of Ben Bergquam | 00:11–00:56 | | Trump border policy overhaul | 00:56–02:51 | | Farm labor, immigration, wages discussion | 02:51–08:28 | | Self-deportation incentives debate | 08:28–09:40 | | Rant on “Tampon Timmy” and Minnesota policies | 12:52–19:48 | | January 6th “real story” narrative | 20:38–22:24 | | Liberal politicians/2028 Democratic field | 23:58–26:23 | | Critique of ‘racism’ accusations/Tuberville | 28:18–30:06 | | Sports roundtable with Britt McHenry | 34:00–41:34 | | Listener voicemails, calls for accountability | 41:57–50:08 |

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Tone and Style

• Direct, combative, and irreverent: Bolling uses mocking nicknames, rhetorical flourishes, and pointed critiques.
• Populist and patriotic: Themes reinforce American values, individual accountability, and suspicion of government.
• Informal and engaging: Frequent asides, personal anecdotes, and banter with guests and callers.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This episode showcases Eric Bolling’s signature style—no-nonsense, confrontational commentary on border security, government accountability, sports, and “America First” politics, punctuated by interviews with on-the-ground reporters, sports experts, and audience interaction. The tone is unapologetically conservative, critical of Democratic leadership, and focused on galvanizing listeners for the year ahead. Regular features such as “law and border” updates and listener voicemails foster a sense of community engagement.

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Transcript

[Eric Bolling]

This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.

All righty, folks, 2026, come on, let's do this couple of days in. My first guest is our own Rev host of Law and Border, who heads out with the Border Patrol and ICE agents to find out what's really happening on the ground. Not what you hear on the mainstream, lame stream, progressive leftist media because it's all bs Hear real America's voice, real boots on the ground at the border. Happy to have Ben Berkwam back with us. Ben, what a year. What a year. What a year it's going to be. Let's look back, let's talk a little bit what was working and what has not been working over the last 12 months and then we'll take a look forward. Tell us where we are right now looking into 2026, knowing how Trump has changed the border rules and what we should expect over the next 12 months.

[Ben Bergquam]

Well, first off, President Trump stopped the bleeding and that was the major thing Joe Biden, the Democrats in the last four years of his administration allowed the largest invasion in American history. We saw millions, millions, you know, low estimates 10 million conservatives, somewhere between 15 and 20 million illegals that were let into the country on this paroled release idea. And President Trump came in and showed immediately, right away, in the first day, actually in the first hours of swearing into the oath of office again that it was all bs. He shut down the border within the first day. The border was almost completely sealed. They ended the paroled release of illegals into America. They ended the CVP1 app. They turned it into the CBP Home app. They had Border patrol actually do their job rather than be cartel Uber service. And they allowed ICE to go after illegals in our country. And that was the shift you saw. Our borders are secure now, both southern and northern border. You do have the cartels still operating. They're still working on getting their drugs into their people, but it's manageable at this point. And now what President Trump is doing through Tom Homan and Kristi Noem and Rodney Scott is actually sending ICE and Border Patrol and all of the branches. This is the biggest difference between President Trump and any other president is this all of government approach to fix this problem, sending them in to pick up the illegals and then within, within that and the illegals that were sent in all over the country by the Democrats in the last administration. So we're going to pick up all those illegals plus all the other other illegals that were let in over the last 30 years. And in Doing that. The same organizations that invited, encouraged and trained illegals on how to game the system and manipulate the system and commit fraud once they got here are the same ones that are obstructing and getting in the way and protesting ICE as they go in after these bad guys in every community across America. So it's, it's a night and day difference.

[Eric Bolling]

You know, Ben, I'm watching as you speak. You can see the breath coming off your, your voice. You're in Fresno, California, right? You know, I'm looking at the crop behind you, Fresno, well known for producing a lot of fruits and nuts. And I'm talking about crops. Not necessarily the other, the other kind, but, but interesting statistic. About 60,000 farm workers in Fresno. More than half are undocumented.

[Ben Bergquam]

Yeah, well, look, this is the whole nonsense, the game that's been played for years. This is where you get this idea of illegals do jobs Americans won't do. And this was all actually, you know, you want to go back, you get to the base of where that, that whole nonsense argument came from. It was really, you know, you have to go back in the early 20th century, the new Deal, the Great Society. So you had the New Deal coming out of the Depression, then you had the Great Society, lbj. And basically what you did in both of those scenarios is you took the incentive for working Americans and took it away from American citizens and said, well, you can live on welfare now. We'll take care of you. The government will take care of you. Single moms, we'll take care of you. You don't need a father in the household. And what you did was you created this undercurrent of low wage jobs for people that originally were done by migrant workers. So the whole, the Central Valley has used migrant labor for years and years and years. They used to be called the Bracero program. They brought in, these were legal immigrants. They would come in, they'd work every winter or the summer, depending on when the crops were being harvested. They would do the entire west coast. They'd start in California, they'd go up to Oregon and then Washington because the seasonality of the crops, and then they'd end up going back to Mexico every year and they'd take the money that they made back to Mexico. Ironically, that entire program was actually killed by the United Farm Worker Labor Union under Caesar Chavez. And so this is one of those things that nobody talks about. Caesar Chavez act is like this champion for illegals. He actually had goons that would go round up illegals and take them back into Mexico. They wanted to protect American migrant farm workers and they didn't want the illegals coming over, even the legal migrants coming over. So there's a long history of illegal and legal migrant farm work that goes on in the Central Valley. But the reality of it is all of these jobs are jobs that originally were done by American citizens, that were low wage jobs that were basically stepping stones to other jobs and even younger age. You know, I started working for three bucks an hour shoveling manure and digging trenches up in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada in California. And I realized if I worked really hard, I could make $4 an hour. This whole concept of hard work and labor and an honest day's work is just, it's, it's lost in this society. And so the moral of the story is, yes, now there's a major illegal alien workforce that works in California. And you have Democrats coming out and saying, oh, President Trump, all these policies are hurting these jobs, these, these migrant farm worker jobs. Well, it's a false economy that was created sadly because of bad policies in the past. And the reality is all of these jobs could be done by American citizens. And I have a very simple solution. If you're on welfare, you should have to go out and pick crops. If you're an able bodied person and you're sucking off the government, you should go out and do a job that so called Americans don't want to do. But every single job now, it's not just farm labor, it's hospitality, it's restaurants. Every, just about every industry in California and across our country has been invaded, for lack of a better term, by illegal alien workers because they'll do the jobs. And a lot of these businesses, the sad truth is they just want cheap labor. And whether that's slave labor from Mexico or Central America or Africa or the Middle east, they'll take it. And so you have this entire economy based on false, a false economy.

[Eric Bolling]

So here's the question then, and you make a great point. What is the going rate for labor from, you know, migrant picking crops and is it the same for an American citizen who's doing it? About half of them are. And the ones that are here illegally, do they, do they distinguish, if you're here legally or illegally, how much they're going to pay you an hour? Or do they. So what is the number?

[Ben Bergquam]

Well, there's major farm labor companies that work all throughout the Central Valley. They use both legal and illegal farm labor. They'll tell you that there is standard income for legal and Illegal. And there are American citizens that do these jobs. It's not just illegal aliens that do the jobs. They'll say that they get paid the same. The reality is it's, it's not true. So the illegals are very, they're a lot easier to manipulate. The cartels are involved, not just on the Mexico side, but on the America side. They extort a lot of the illegal alien farm workers. A lot of the illegal aliens that are working in the, the, the farm industry are also working for the cartels on selling drugs. And so there's this, there's this entire black market, gray market economy that goes along with it.

[Eric Bolling]

But you have these numbers.

[Ben Bergquam]

They should be making the same money.

[Eric Bolling]

The minimum wage is what, 735 an hour in America. But are these people being paid $10 an hour? 12. Or, or are illegals being paid 5? Because they're, they're, as you point out, they might be doing side jobs, side gigs, side hustles, you know, distributing or transporting drugs. What do we. Can just give me a sense of what a farm.

[Ben Bergquam]

Yeah, legally, Legally they're all make. Legally, they're all making. Yeah, legally, they're all making minimum wage, typically significantly more than that. And it all depends. It's typically batch work. So the more you, the, the more you pick or the harder you work, the more you make. But the reality is, knowing a lot of the guys that work in the industry, it's, you know, the illegals are much more, much easier to take advantage of the other and will work for a lot less.

[Eric Bolling]

Got about, about a minute or so, Ben. So this, this whole idea of self deportation, we're gonna, we're giving them, I don't know, a couple thousand bucks to deport themselves. A lot of Americans are upset about that. Like, what the hell are we paying someone who broke the law to come into the country, Paying them to go back to their own country? A number. When so many people are struggling right here in America, what's the sense on the ground of that program?

[Ben Bergquam]

Well, look, you're, it's, it's a opportunity cost. I would just couch it as that. So you're going to pay them one way or the other. They're taking advantage of our system, they're taking advantage of our health care, our education system. They're costing us a hell of a lot more than $1,000 or $3,000. And I'll just give you an idea. When we were inviting them in, when the Democrats were inviting them in, we were paying NGOs $1,500 per day per illegal to transport, to take care of, to move these people around our country. $1,500 per day. So to, you know, when you look at opportunity costs, the net net is a far better deal for the American citizen to give them a thousand bucks and give them a plane ticket, get them out of here or 3,000 than to keep them here and allow them to keep game in our system.

[Eric Bolling]

All right Ben, we'll leave right there. Ben Berkwam. That's the reason why his show is one of the most popular shows on real America's Voice, Law and border on rev. Ben, thank you so much. Be, be safe my brother.

[Ben Bergquam]

Hey, thank you brother. Happy New Year and let's pray for a great 2026.

[Eric Bolling]

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[Ben Bergquam]

Minnesota is a better place because Somalians chose to live here.

[Eric Bolling]

We are stronger because of it. It's 8 or 9 billion dollars poorer now. I'm definitely not here to play the blame game, maybe, but. But hindsight is a terrific thing, right? One to be taken advantage of as an important learning tool. And frankly, the red flags, emphasis on red flags, were there all along. What's that saying? When someone shows you who they are, just believe them.

[Ben Bergquam]

As far as childcare on this, you have to take it at both the supply and the demand side. You can't expect the most important people in our lives to take care of our children or our parents to get paid the least amount of money. And we have to make it easier for folks to be able to get into that business. And then to make sure that folks are able to pay for that. We were able to do it in Minnesota. And I'm still telling you this. We were listed as the best state. We're still in crisis on this. A federal program of paid family medical leave and help with this will enhance our workforce, enhance our families, and make it easier to have the children that we want.

[Eric Bolling]

Let me get that straight. Tampon Timmy. So 8 or 9 billion dollars that your Somalians stole using health care, child care and health care, that's what you want? You want more federal help? So what, they can steal some more just for those few votes and so you can act like you, I don't know, aren't white?

[Ben Bergquam]

Really.

[Eric Bolling]

By the way, touting Those Minnesota child care programs. Interesting. I'm. That's all I'm saying here right now. The signs, they were there. Go easy on tampon Timmy, the fraud father Walls, the tampon Duke has been through quite a lot lately. Tim faced down those Tim Tiananmen Square tanks, didn't he? Except that he really didn't, did he? There were signs. Oh, and then he cheered on those mostly peaceful George Floyd rioters. The fraud father allowed 217 businesses to burn to the ground, including a police precinct, all while refusing National Guard intervention until it was way too late. And don't forget, his wife said she heard the window. She heard it. She left her windows open. She could smell the smoke from. From burning buildings as you could hear it. And somehow that just didn't register with the wife of the governor of Minnesota as the towns burned right around them. Just saying there were signs. I'm also sure it was no big deal. Nothing to see here. When Tim Wall signed a bill making it legal for anyone to get a driver's license, Anyone, including illegals. And that led to them being able to vote in elections.

[Ben Bergquam]

Right? It's done.

[Eric Bolling]

A packed room at the St. Paul Armory erupted after the governor's signature made.

[Ben Bergquam]

Driver'S license all the law of the land. So we give driver's licenses to anyone here.

[Eric Bolling]

You don't have to be a citizen.

[Ben Bergquam]

You don't have to. Which is a photo id. So if someone comes in, they register, they have the driver's license, but they have an incorrect social or no social or whatever. So then they become incomplete. But if they walk in to vote with their driver's license, does that make them all of a sudden now, okay, Mr. Linnell, Madam Chair. So the designation on the roster for someone whose registration had been incomplete, if they present the election judge with that acceptable identification document, that would clear the challenge from the roster and they would be permitted to cast a ballot.

[Eric Bolling]

So Timmy gives driver's license to illegals. They can show up with their driver's license. And wouldn't that make him complicit? I don't know. Just saying. Also just saying there were signs. I guess it was kind of strange when tampon Tim Walls changed out the Minnesota state flag for one that closely resembles a Somali flag. Really nothing to see here. Right, Tim?

[Ben Bergquam]

When we do better, we all do better. And the idea is of working together, lifting all boats.

[Eric Bolling]

It works.

[Ben Bergquam]

And so one vote majority continued to pass those things all the way down. The last one on the thing was, is we had a racist flag, so we got A new flag in Minnesota and got rid of it so it. It mattered.

[Eric Bolling]

A racist flag. We had a racist flag in Minnesota. Flags are racist in Minnesota. So new ones resembling a foreign country's flag. Much better, according to Tampon Tim. Got it. Just saying there were signs about this guy. Oh, and the king of tampons was draconian during COVID lockdown or else stay home or el mask up or else. This guy had a Covid snitch hotline. That's right. Waltz's government made sure there was a way for people to report their neighbors for failing to abide by social distancing that Timmy had set up as the law. That's some Soviet crap right there. Looks like somebody really absorbed the communist China ways on those many trips to China, including, by the way, tampon Tim and his wife honeymooned in China. Somewhere Stalin is applauding from hell. And then Guy sickeningly defends kids being out of school for so long. Like it's this amazing moment of perseverance making kids stronger and more resilient as long as they're not learning as a teacher.

[Ben Bergquam]

These kids learned resiliency. These kids learned compassion from one another. These kids learned problem solving. They had to figure out how to get online and do this. I'm working with my son, who's a seventh, eighth and ninth grader during all the. All this. I'm really proud of what he's been able to do, and I know this has been really challenging.

[Eric Bolling]

You call yourself a teacher? You're. You're an assistant football coach. You aren't a teacher, you're assistant football coach. It's like one step out of, like, I don't know, collecting tolls in a toll booth. Far from the truth, of course. There are countless studies that kids suffered immensely by missing that much school educationally, mentally, physically, because they're outside a classroom for too long. But liars be damned. Liars be liars. We're saying there were signs. By the way, the fact that we came very close to electing Kamala the Vapid and Elmer Fudd to the highest offices in the land should scare the bejesus out of anyone with a brain. That almost half of all voters voted for these two indicates to me that we are still in a very, very troubling place in America. Look, I'm just saying that there were obvious signs for years that that tampon Timmy Walls is not a stand up citizen, let alone a good politician and let alone leader of the state of Minnesota. Nothing, nothing about Tim has ever been about Loving this country first and foremost, his love for China, his distortion of the truth about his military service and the incessant need to put a minority group well above, well above the needs of all others, purely in the name of, I don't know, pandering for future votes. Just saying. There were signs. And by the way, those signs continue, continue to be red flags. When is this guy's 15 minutes up. He's an absolute loser. Why in the world are we even spending time talking about Tampon Tim Wallace replace him. Let him go back to being an assistant football coach or a waterboy. Even better. We'll be back. Two and a half minutes.

[Ben Bergquam]

The radical left knows exactly what they're doing.

[Eric Bolling]

They want to steal the election.

[Ben Bergquam]

We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.

[Eric Bolling]

Events in Washington have taken a violent and tumultuous.

[Ben Bergquam]

January 6th wasn't just a moment in history for thousands of Americans, it was the moment their voices were taken. It's in insurrection. They were persecuted, hunted, seditious conspiracy.

[Eric Bolling]

But behind prison walls, something unexpected happened.

[Ben Bergquam]

They found their voice again. Started singing the national anthem. We took it up to him at Mar a Lago. He goes, I'll put my voice on it. Our supporters made this go platinum. Real America's voice is telling the real.

[Eric Bolling]

Story of January 6th like you've never seen it before.

Everybody, this must be peaceful.

[Ben Bergquam]

This is not the story you were shown. I take responsibility. This is the story they lived government entrapment scheme that this actually was.

[Eric Bolling]

The J6 Patriots are no longer staying silent. They are speaking. They are standing and they are telling the truth.

[Ben Bergquam]

You can't kill us. You can't beat us. They tried to silence them. Instead they woke up an entire nation. The sleeping giant coming soon.

[Eric Bolling]

You know, kind of hard to believe, kind of hard to really grasp this right up here. That Kamala Harris turned out not only to be the worst part of that Harris Walls presidential ticket. Isn't it crazy, just crazy to think about how close we came to Tampon Tim becoming the vice president of this country. It's not that crazy though, since someone actually let Kamala Harris become vice president in the first place and then the presidential candidate. But I do digress. Waltz's daughter proves that the apple doesn't far fall far from the cuckoo tree. Or as Kamal would say, the coconut tree. The fraud father and his family become targets since his state allowed billions of dollars of corruption to take place under his watch. And they. So King Tampon's daughter is breaking out the violin.

But living in like a post truth world is really scary. And though I'm hopeful for the future, we're gonna. We have a lot of work to do to like, get to a point where people don't just believe what their dear leader tells them to and like, spin reality to fit that, but instead, like have empathy and critical thinking.

Can't not see Tim Walsh's mouth when that young lady talks. Sorry, sorry, I digress. Dylan Mulvaney has helped tank more stock prices than Bernie Madoff. Seriously. The dude pretending to be a woman turned Bud Light into a mockery. Cost him tens of billions of dollars. But Dylan's not done yet. I had to watch this, so therefore I'm bringing it to you. Sorry.

[Ben Bergquam]

In the shower, on a walk through the Dylan hour.

[Eric Bolling]

Feeling sweet, feeling sour.

I feel nothing. The Dylan hour high couch is open.

It's better than therapy.

[Ben Bergquam]

All you soccer moms, all you they's.

[Eric Bolling]

And fems, all you bottom boys, my.

[Ben Bergquam]

Bisexual femmes, come one and all, disassociate with me.

[Eric Bolling]

It's free, grab a drink or two or three.

[Ben Bergquam]

You have no friends.

[Eric Bolling]

All good.

[Ben Bergquam]

You got me.

[Eric Bolling]

It's the dealing.

[Ben Bergquam]

Sorry.

[Eric Bolling]

Failing up like a good progressive Democrat. Folks, I don't know how to say enough is enough, but AOC is actually a front runner. Front runner to be the Democrat Party's presidential candidate in 2028. I think she's second behind, tied with Buttigieg, second behind Gavin Newscombe. That's nothing but great news for us, especially as she continues to go on word salad sprees like this one.

[Ben Bergquam]

Shout out to my fellow radicals in.

[Eric Bolling]

The United States who believe crazy things.

[Ben Bergquam]

Like a full time job should be.

[Eric Bolling]

Enough for you to live. And also, you know, believe in crazy radical things like if you kill someone, there shouldn't be impunity.

[Ben Bergquam]

And also who believe really crazy radical things like you should get a stimulus.

[Eric Bolling]

Check without having to bail out a.

[Ben Bergquam]

Corporation for it, or that you should get a stimulus check without your employer. You know, if you work for one of these huge conglomerate employers sending you into harm's way and being completely immune.

[Eric Bolling]

From any accountability for that.

[Ben Bergquam]

You know, shout out to my fellow radicals who think that, you know, we.

[Eric Bolling]

Should live in a humane, advanced society. Does she realize she's condoning violence, theft, corruption? Does she even realize what she's saying? Meanwhile, AOC is not hiding it. She fully thinks that she has more than a better shot at getting into the White House in 2028. Like we've said, always said, this entire party is beyond Delusional the reactions or.

[Ben Bergquam]

Do you think that you'll be, that you could be J.D. vance in a head to head race for president as polling suggests in 2028?

[Eric Bolling]

Listen, these polls like three years out are, you know, they are what they are. But let the record show I would stop him. I would stop him.

[Ben Bergquam]

Thank you, Congresswoman.

[Eric Bolling]

This pretty much sums up thinking of most of the left in America. The message is that only those who are broke or have nothing better to focus on actually care about crime and corruption right here in this country. They actually try to shame us for caring about them robbing the American taxpayers.

[Ben Bergquam]

Only Americans who's concerned with the Somali business is the ones who have no life. They don't have, they have a lot of time in their hand. They broke, they don't have no money, no ambition, nothing. They, not even, they don't have hobbies, they depressed, they lonely. You know, it's always those type of people who care about situations like this. You know, people who have something going on for their life, right? They busy in their career, their family, they taking vacation, they enjoying their life.

[Eric Bolling]

You know, they're not concerned with the.

[Ben Bergquam]

Somalians in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

[Eric Bolling]

That's, that's your, that's your liberal left party right there, folks. Right there. In, in a nutshell right there. The guy is embodying everything that they think of. That's the way they think. They're, they're America last America taxpaying American citizens last everyone else. Come on. In this point, I'm convinced that the liberal snowflakes only have about three or four words that they interchange when they're talking about either the president, President Trump or any Republican, let's call it conservative in this country because they love rhinos. They love the rhinos. So forget the rhinos. Talk about when they talk about Trump, MAGA or conservatives, you know, of course we're fascists or racist bigots. And another one of their favorite words to slur anyone who's at all related to MAGA is white supremacist.

This was not stunning because Tommy Tuberville in his Senate while he's been a sitting senator has proved that he is a white supremacist racist, full stop. He has never stood up for human rights. He is running for governor from Alabama. And to insult Muslim people and people that are worshipers of Islam is so horrific. I dare say that the white Christian nationalism is more of a concern than Muslims practicing Islamic Islam.

So lady Tommy Tuberville is a wildly successful college coach, a high level college football coach, you can't be a racist and get performance out of which is primarily, I would say, more than half, maybe two thirds, black athletes. If you're a race, you just can't do it. So stop with that bs. Yeah, of course he's calling out Muslims that come over here, don't assimilate. Somalians come over here, rob us blind billions of dollars. Of course he calls those people out because they don't assimilate. They're here illegally, a lot of them, or not. And then they just do what they do in their home countries and never realize what America is all about. If you don't want to be American, don't want to act like American, don't come. And don't blame Tommy Tuberville for being a white supremacist for calling that out. You're not. You're calling out corruption, lying, stealing. Simple as that. Finally, it's hard to find topics to cover these days. When you're over at cnn, Dana Bash must find it difficult to report on all the fraud and corruption cases coming out of the blue states. So instead, Dana Harding journalism comes down to reporting on what our founding fathers were thinking about way back when. Ask about the word men and the.

[Ben Bergquam]

Fact that it's men.

[Eric Bolling]

And this sentence deliberately excludes women, slaves, indigenous people.

How do you reconcile this greatest sentence with the fact that it just said men? Well, it's an aspirational sentence that was.

[Ben Bergquam]

Definitely not true about the time they wrote it. And, and sometimes you may think, well, all men. That just means all humankind or whatever.

[Eric Bolling]

No, they pretty specifically.

[Ben Bergquam]

When Abigail Adams wrote her husband John.

[Eric Bolling]

And said, remember the ladies don't deprive of us, of us, of us, of.

[Ben Bergquam]

Our rights, he said, no, no, we're not going to give up our masculine powers.

[Eric Bolling]

So, you know, that was, that was a liberal journalist, CNN journalist talking to a white apologist. Liberal apologist. Unbelievable. Walter Isaacson, He's a historian. He used to run the Aspen Institute. As progressive left as they come. Alrighty, folks, take a look at this from the edge. This is very important from the edge. And this is a platform that's really, really growing, expanding at great rates. Watch. Here's the truth no one wants to tell men. Most of us don't fall in the big moments. We fall in the quiet ones. Not when life is chaotic, not when the pressure is high. That's when some of us are actually at our best. Now, most men lose themselves, ourselves in the slow weeks, the empty spaces, the soft seasons. The days off can be therapeutic or they May be deadly to keeping your edge. That's when your discipline phase, that's when the fire dims. That's when you stop moving forward and you don't even know notice it's happening. Not until one day you look in the mirror and you don't recognize the man staring back at you. And I'll tell you something else. It happened to me more than once. Baseball, trading, television. Every arena. Every time things got quiet, I started to drift. And every time I had to make a decision. Did I let myself get soft or did I sharpen? So if you're done with empty talk and ready for something real, just go there. Hit that QR code with your phone. You know how to do it. I've said it day in, day out. Please do it. We're growing fast. We want you part of the ground floor on a really exploding platform. Not just a show. A platform well rounded. Got a lot of things planned in store for 2026. It's going to be great. This is where serious men spend their time. Don't waste your time with self help books or stupid videos. The Edge taps into what makes great men great when it's not an easy path. Trust me, you'll be glad you did. YouTube.com ericbawling the Edge hit it up. Just join us. You won't be sorry. We'll be back. Two and a half minutes. Alrighty folks, it's a new year, but it's still that time of the week where we take a look at what's going on in sports with our own RAV Washington D.C. correspondent and sports expert extraordinaire, Ms. Britt McHenry. Britt, let's talk a little bit. So I'm wearing the Edge shirt and the Edge, it's all about motivation. It's all about making sure you get up the eighth time after you've been knocked down seven times. It's all about men's it's okay to be badass again, right? And instead of these woke up wussies. And so the reason why I bring this up is because we're at the point the year we're heading into playoffs in the NFL and there are certain teams that have absolutely shocked most of us. Most of us gamblers have just not seen some of these teams coming. Teams on the upswing and then there are teams that you expect to be there there on the downswing. Let's talk a little about your the give me the three or four or five, whatever it is, teams that you think have really shocked you and look like they're promising not just into the playoffs, but maybe into the next couple of years.

You know, I think San Francisco as a whole, in terms of how many injuries they started the 2025 season to pick up, the record they had is pretty incredible. And I think that goes to show when you have a savant as a coach, which I think Kyle Shannon Shanahan is. I continue to bet on him the Super Bowl. He's over three, Eric. But I think one day that's going to change. They've impressed me, but really I'm just going to say most of the powerhouses in the west, the Seahawks, what they've been able to do under their head coach who's new, relatively new, the. The Los Angeles Rams. I mean, Matthew Stafford, as we've discussed several times on the show, just slinging it and really could be the MVP of the season. And then the Denver Broncos, who had a scary injury with Pat Bryant that their wide receiver, he's okay, fortunately has mobility in him, all of his limbs. And we're going to see if their playoff chances have mobility. I've seen them falter against the Commanders. That game went to overtime, were brutally, you know, whooped by the Jaguars. But I believe the west is where it's at. And the teams that I have questions. Mark question marks on or think are a bit fraudulent are both the Philadelphia Eagles and. I'm sorry, Eric, the Chicago Bears. I have questions about those two. But when you have Saquon Barkley running for like 127 plus yards against the Commanders, I think if they get their, their right targets moving and get A.J. brown more involved with Jalen Hurts, which we haven't always seen this past season, they could be strong. But those teams I have question marks on.

Yeah, I would, I would agree with you with the Rams in Seattle. I think you write it spot on with with Denver. I mean, you have a great bonix quarterback, rookie, amazing. Doing amazing things. I saw him in that game where they get. Did get what by? By Jacksonville. He dropped one. He dropped a pass in. In the corner of the end zone like he had been doing it for, you know, like he was Brett favre in his 15th season. But yeah, so I like, you know, Jacksonville's doing great. Pittsburgh surprises me now. I know they got Aaron Rodgers, but he's been a dis. Serial disappointment for the last four or five years. Shows up in Pittsburgh, all of a sudden that team looks like it's for real. On the downside, Kansas City, obviously, and not because of Mahomes going down, but because they just started to suck this year. And I do, I do blame Taylor Swift. I will be honest with you. I, I blame this. That Stupid, stupid.

I'm not a Swift.

Up in the, up in the, in the booth where she's like hanging out with Britney Mahomes and it was just getting too gross. And I think, I think the team just started lacing into them because they didn't like it. The whole. I'm sorry, not the team. The league started lacing into, you know, hitting them a little harder, playing a little harder against them because of what the shenanigans that were going on up in the booth very quickly. Buffalo. Everyone loves Buffalo. I think they've lost. I think they just, they've lost the step A beat. I'm going to tell you, the Bears, I think they're, they're legit. What about Dallas? Dallas is one that can show signs of recovery.

[Ben Bergquam]

Yeah.

[Eric Bolling]

Dak Prescott back. They, they look like a team that could bounce back. Your thoughts on them?

Look, they have some great wide receivers, right. With CD Lamb and George Pickens. I think their offense, to your credit with Dak, if he can throw more than 20 yards, I think is pretty effective. I don't know though. With Jerry, it's always a question of what, what holes are, is he going to fill? Is it going to be bravado or are they going to actually stick to a plan and let the head coach orchestrate things through the draft?

Jerry Jones, Guy's got a 300 foot yacht that's parked over here. Yeah. Now he'll be all about bravado and show. And he once said something very important. He said, I really don't care about the critics. If I'm having fun, I'm just going to keep doing it. And I think he's really, he's always had fun with the Dallas Cowboys, all his other businesses. He's just loved the Dallas Cowboys. Just to be the guy that says, why is he doing that? Why didn't he let the GM make that call? Or why didn't he let the coach make those calls on the place. He just likes being part of it. So maybe you're right. Maybe there'll be a perennial average team.

Yeah. And I mean, and real quick to touch on the Chiefs as we discussed off camera as well. You know, no matter how great. Patrick Mahomes. Mahomes, you know, it's nine to 12 months to recover from an ACL. I think he will have the best trainers. He's a workhorse. So let's say he's back by October of next year. Maybe a little September, but that will be an impediment. And Travis Kelsey referred to retirement. So if you don't like the Swift.

Wait, hold on. Travis Kelsey, didn't he retire last year?

No, he had, he has brother Jason.

No, no, I'm kidding, I'm kidding because he's really, he stunk up the field this whole year. That's what I mean. He's been non existent.

Yeah.

So we. Work with me, work with me, McHenry, work with me here a little bit.

Glitch there.

Yeah, yeah. And yeah, we can, we can just do me fair. We have a couple of minutes. So. Yeah, what else? What's now, you know, 2026 is upon us. What are the big sports stories going to be this year?

Well, I think for real, America's Voice, we have an American patriotic year of sports ahead. You have the Winter Olympics in Milan and I'm really excited about Team USA's chances. Their goalie stack is incredible. You got Swayman, you got, you got a really impressive goalie lineup. I like the Hughes brothers, Auston Matthews, who's a scoring machine, he doesn't get enough credit. He had a 60 goal season one year. Although this past recent games, I don't know how, how into it he's been, but I think we actually as a country can beat Canada. And I'll give you this, Eric, they had the best ratings ever in the four nations tournament because you want to know why Americans care about their country. I believe that better than any Stanley Cup. So I think that continues. And then we have the World cup starting. Airbnb rentals are up 56% in Los Angeles, so people want to see it. And we have a UFC match on President Donald Trump's birthday in June. So it is just quite the lineup to look forward to.

That's going to be at the White House, if I'm not mistaken.

At the White House.

See, Dana White is a good friend of Trump's and who. What a story in itself. Dana White was a trainer for one. One of the fighters somehow worked his way into being part of the ownership group of ufc, then cut some deals, bought UFC and now has sold pieces of UFC for multiple, multiple of billions of dollars. I just saw UFC this year is going to be on Paramount. Plus I'm sure he punched his ticket, so to speak, quite well for that one.

And you know, and to add onto that, you know, who was the one person who kept the UFC afloat when it struggled in the late 90s was Donald Trump. He allowed them to have matches at his hotel in Atlantic City. And when he was asked recently, he said, dana, how much is the UFC worth now? What was it, 4 billion before when you started selling off pieces? And he said 23 billion approximately. And of course, Trump laughed and said, well, that's good to know. That's good to know.

How can I get a piece of that?

Yeah, business deals always going. But I think it'll be incredibly patriotic and I think we have a really great lineup. If you like sports like I do. And you do.

I do. I do. And if you've never seen it, folks, one of the best things you've ever seen ever on television was the bet between Donald, Donald Trump and Vince McMahon, who, I can't remember who is one. One picked one fighter and the other took the other. And the loser was going to shave his head. And you didn't know who was going to end up shaving their head. Two multi billionaires. You couldn't figure out which one you wanted to shave. Obviously you want Trump to shave his head, see what he looked like. And it turns out, I mean, I won't blow the entry is phenomenal video. If you haven't seen it, we're going to leave it there. Britt McHenry, Happy New Year and look forward to seeing you as we go through the year.

Thank you and happy New Year to you and your show and Trisha producing. Everyone back in the control room. I really appreciate all the work you do.

Yep, they work hard. They work hard. Thank you, Brittany. All right, folks, we will be back two and a half minutes. All right, folks, you've been leaving some amazing, great messages. We love the voicemails. Love the segment as always. Mad Dog, how you doing? How's it going, Mad Dog?

[Ben Bergquam]

Oh, you know, the new year, new.

[Eric Bolling]

Me, new everything, hopefully. Are you, as one of our callers said a couple of days ago, it's, is it Mad Dog or Bad Dog?

[Ben Bergquam]

I don't know. Depends on the day.

[Eric Bolling]

It's a weekend. So on the, on the, on the verge of a bad dog weekend. All right, how about a couple of voicemail. What do you got? Yes, sir. This is Scott's opinion on Obama saying.

[Ben Bergquam]

No one else is above the law. Yeah, I was watching your show here. My name Scott Mellonois, and you showed an episode of Obama saying nobody's above the laws. Well, there's nobody's above the law. That means the law should be able to go after him and put him in prison. Also, he's like any other American citizen. So what do you say? All right, thanks.

[Eric Bolling]

Bye. All right. Thank you. Yeah. No one should be above the law. Except all Those clowns in D.C. on both sides of the aisle seem to be above the law. I mean, there's plenty of cases for people to be behind bars so far at least investigated greatly. I would include Obama, include Biden, Pelosi. I would love to find out how she traded her stocks. I know they got the stock act thing which kind of shields them from prosecution, but I don't know if there's any sort of tie to her regulating. Remember, she makes laws, she approves laws. When she was speaker of the House, she'd push laws through on her side. And maybe some of those laws affected some of the stock positions that she and Paulie have. Somehow they walked into Congress not with a lot of money and walking out with $300 million. Wow. I think there's a lot of graft BS that goes on in D.C. on both sides. I'm not going to be sit here and pretend it's only one side. It's both sides. And you want to know some? Put them all in jail. I don't care if they're Republican. I don't care if they're maga. Put them in jail. If they. It's a. It's a. An absolute insult to the American people. Absolute insult to any maga. America first person. If you're claiming to be MAG in America first and then you're lining your own pockets versus doing the right thing by the country on the left. We know they do it. Throw them in jail to put them all. We need some perp walks. We've been saying this for a better part of a year here. Do we? We just make 20, 26 the year of accountability we're talking about doing. I think we should. The year of accountability perp walk these sobs, please. Thank you for the voicemail dog.

[Ben Bergquam]

Viewer has a thought about the oil tankers. Hey, Eric, everyone's talking about these oil tankers coming back to the United States. I wonder if they've thought about there being spy devices put on those tankers by the Chinese or by the Cubans. And if those tankers are going to be scrubbed for such devices. Something to think about. All right. This Preston in Pomona. Talk to you later.

[Eric Bolling]

So the tankers, right? The theory is we're taking the Venezuelan tankers. What are we doing with the oil? A lot of people say put it in this strategic petroleum reserve. I'll get to that in a Second, but as far as spy, I'm not sure the tankers are the, where they're going to put the spy equipment because I don't know what we do with them. Maybe we should just sink them. Take the oil out and sink them. That'd be a great idea. It's not our money anyway. And what's Venezuela going to do? Fight for, fight for their tankers back. The SPR is very interesting to me. I've done this really, really long time with oil. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is there to provide a cushion in the event there's a supply disruption to create crude oil coming into the country. Right now we use 40 million barrels of oil per day. 40 million per day. We produce 20 of our own. We import 20 from outside sources, outside countries. The 20, if it gets disrupted, that means we have to replace that. We have the SPR Strategic Petroleum Reserve. 750 million barrels is the limit, right? So right now Joe Biden reduced that 750 down to 400 million barrels. He just sold off the oil to try and keep prices down because everything was exploding on him price wise. He thought bringing the oil price down, releasing SPR oil would bring oil price. It didn't work. It didn't work. It's never worked. Bill Clinton did the same thing. It didn't work under Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, same thing. Didn't work. When you use it for things that you're not supposed to be using it for, they know you have to replace it, right? So at some point, oil oil traders realize you got to replace that oil. I've been begging Trump, begging Trump to replace the oil at $55 a barrel. Starting to move up now. I would love to see him replace all of that. Get us to 750, in fact, go even higher. Go to a, go to a billion barrels. Just go to 1 billion barrels of Strategic Petroleum Reserve and give us, I don't know, 60 days of supply. If there's a total disruption, it's a smart thing to do in these prices and then, you know, make some sort of law that says you can't just tap into it because you feel like prices are too high. You can only tap into it in emergency, which is the mandate for, for that thing. It's just like everything else in D.C. though. They, they use the, the highway fund to fund other projects. They use Social Security to fund other projects. And then we end up broke. God forbid we end up without a Strategic Petroleum Reserve. And all of a sudden the world says, you know what, we're cutting, we're shutting off oil to you. Or if Canada or Mexico say, we're not going to sell the oil to you, we'd be really screwed. Really screwed. Trump raised that SPR to a billion. At this price, you're never going to regret that. Mad Dog Vera has an idea to use military assets.

[Ben Bergquam]

Hello, this is Jim Tillman from Pop Up Bluff. I enjoy your show. I just want to make a statement saying that the military should prosecute all political crimes. Bondi is so busy just trying to take a handle of all this other crime in our country. I think we should split it up and let the military take, you know, the three judge deal and just run them through that, get them out, out of here. Thank you.

[Eric Bolling]

So the idea is the military tribunal, instead of going through our regular legal, legal processes, use the military tribunal for that type of crime. Not a bad idea as long as the Constitution protects it. I don't know. I'm not a constitutional lawyer. Maybe we can ask. Maybe Bannon would probably know that. We could ask Banner. But as long as it doesn't violate any sort of constitutional legal or rights of, of the criminal. I mean, he doesn't want to. You don't want them getting out on a, on some sort of. Oh, you shouldn't have done it that way. But military tribunals is great for trying military criminals, and a lot of these folks could be deemed military criminals. I like that idea. Not bad. Mad Dog, we got time for another one. Yes, sir. Viewer has an option on corruption.

[Ben Bergquam]

Good morning. I was listening to you make a comment about California. The problem is with California is everybody's corrupt. The problem is with Congress is everybody's corrupt. And until we get some accountability and we get some people in there that are going to arrest these people, things are never going to change in California. Things are never going to change in Pennsylvania. And we need to start talking about who are we going to get to arrest these crooked politicians. Thank you. Have a nice day.

[Eric Bolling]

Yeah. Such an important comment. In fact, yesterday, the first day of the year, the, the monologue was accountability. 2026 should be the year of accountability. I, I don't know how you do it, because these clowns in D.C. make their own laws and they protect themselves. And I'll use this example again. There's something like $130 million that's been paid to protect some people in Congress from sexual harassment claims. We don't even hear about it. We don't know about it. We don't hear about it. And you taxpayer and I, we pay for their, for those for. For those expenses. $130 million in sexual harassment claims over the years, and we never hear about it. That's our money. So, I don't know, it's like. It's like term limits. Everyone wants term limits. But why? Why would they ever vote themselves out of a job? They get into Congress broke, they leave 40 year, 50 years later with tens of millions of dollars. In Pelosi's case, hundreds of millions of dollars. They never get the message. Throw them out. Throw the bums out. Great week. Great week. Have a great weekend. Banning up next. See you Monday.

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