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Brian Glenn
lot to unpack here. I'll start with this. You know, President Trump has often bragged about how safe and secure our border has been. We have not had border crossings in months. It's one of the safest, securest border we've ever had. So let's, let's get that out of the way. But from what I'm hearing, there are a couple reasons why President Trump chose to fire Kristi Noem today, which, by the way, she was on the road in Nashville delivering a speech at a separate conference. We don't know if she got notice of this as soon as before she got the conference, during the conference, but she did make wholesome remarks at the conference. Now, Senator Kennedy yesterday, if you remember, Eric asked her about the 200 million dollar ad campaign that featured Kristi Noem, Department of Homeland Security, often on a horse in kind of a glamorized way, if you will, asked her if President Trump had approved of that ad campaign, and she responds, was that what she was aware that he had approved that ad campaign won't come find out. President Trump did not know about that $200 million ad campaign. So we got that. That strike one. Number two, President Trump had questions about the leadership in that department going back to the debacle, if you will, of Minnesota and Minneapolis and having Tom Holman have to eventually come down there, kind of a change of a guard, if you will, and rectify that situation in Minnesota. And then lastly, he had his concerns about an alleged affair that had been brought up numerous times to the secretary arrested as tabloid garbage, if you will. So those are the three main things. But really when you go back and you look at Eric, the Department of Homeland Security and what it's in charge of, I don't think anybody can question that Kristi Noem was not doing a fabulous job as far as securing our country. So a lot of people, Eric, are wondering why now? Why this change? Now we go fast forward, Eric, to Mark Wayne Mullins, the senator there in Oklahoma. Military background, if I believe, MMA fighter, kind of a tough guy, if you will, on the Hill. You've seen him almost get into fights during some of these Senate hearings. He has been picked to take over. Kristi Noem will assume that position at the end of the month, March 31. He's expected to be confirmed, no problems.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
And so we'll just let's reverse just a touch here. You know, Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski have been rumored to have fair for a long time, for a very, very, very long time before when she was still governor of South Dakota. So that wasn't new. I contend maybe that she will be the, let's call it the sacrificial offering from what happened in Minnesota. That may have been the nail in the coffin. I mean, these commercials that she's been on horseback and, you know, whatever, for whatever reason, in makeup, they've been around for a while, too. So none of that is new other than the Minneapolis, what turned out to be a disaster. Your thoughts on, on that assessment?
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Brian Glenn
Yeah, perhaps, you know, Minnesota got out of hand really quick. I mean, that thing got sideways and it rolled. It dominated the news cycle for weeks on that. And it really did put the department and the administration under a lot of stress. So I can perhaps understand that. Now, as far as the affair goes, I don't know if that necessarily, you know, interfered with her job. I can't really speak on that. Now as far as the ad campaign, though, that's what's interesting, Eric. And I have to almost think if that was somewhat of a planted question that might have came from the administration to Senator Kennedy. Look, out of all the things to ask the DHS secretary about, why in the world are you asking about an ad campaign, a public service announcement announcement, if you will, out of all the things to be concerned about, why do
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Eric Bowling (Host)
you ask about that? So I'll play devil's advocate here, Brian, because they spent $219 million. That just seems like an exorbitant amount of money to talk about. We're going to seal the border. It's just me. Listen, I've known Christine for a very long time. I've known Corey Lewandowski since 2015, since he brought Trump to prominence. I really enjoy both of them. I don't know, Mark Wayne Mullen, I like this choice, but what happens to that Senate seat is this. The governor appoints until the next election.
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Brian Glenn
Yes. I believe it's going to be a special election held. Now that does put the Senate down a seat until that special election is held. So you can, you can look at the SAVE act all you want. You throw that thing out the window. Anything else you want to pass in the Senate due to this. So that will be replaced. Now, look, Oklahoma is very deep red. A liberal is not going to take over that seat at all. But it will be some time before you get a special election. You do fill that seat.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
All right. So we're going to keep our eye on that. What happens to that going forward. But I am concerned, you know, certainly about the balance of power going forward because it was almost, it was kind of assumed that we were going to hold the Senate in. The House was kind of up for grabs as of, you know, recently. Like to see him locking both down. That puts a little.
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Brian Glenn
And you know what?
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Eric Bowling (Host)
Go ahead, Eric.
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Brian Glenn
It's been, it's been for the most part a very stable, a cabinet situation. The second term of President Trump, you remember the first term, it was almost a rotating door in the very beginning.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
So this, he didn't know anyone, has been B B. He didn't know anyone. He was a businessman from New York who walked into, into and if you know about these things, when you walk in as a new politician to D.C. you immediately have to hire 10,000 people. 10,000 people in the administration. And if you don't know any. Yeah, I'll give you a good example. I'm having a conversation with someone about Sean Spicer today. And I said, you know, Spice was at the RNC. Reince Priebus was at the RNC in 2016. And they were giving Trump a hard time. They made him sign a loyalty pledge he didn't want to sign. He said, I might walk that back. And they were no friends of Donald Trump yet. Spicer Priebus became his first chief of staff and then. And Spicer became one of his comms people, even though they weren't on the Trump bandwagon from the beginning. So the poor guy had to walk into D.C. and hire the 10,000 important people. And he didn't know who he could trust or didn't this time around. That's why you're seeing a lot less turnover. I Sorry, I digress. Go ahead.
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Brian Glenn
No, no, God, no. I agree with you. I 100% agree with you. Yeah.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
All right. So this other thing we wanted to show this, this is from one of the hearings. There's a, there's a guy who's running for Senate in North Carolina, Trish, and guys in the back, can you roll this sound bite? This guy disrupted one of the meetings. And watch what it takes to get this man. He's a, a Marine Corps veteran, Brian McGinnis. And he's going to try and lock down at North Carolina Sea. Go ahead.
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Eric Bowling
Sons and daughters, to war for Israel. Your inability to name that shows your as leaders out. This is wrong. And nobody wants to fight for Israel. Reminder to all our commandant, please stand up as a Marine and stand up Scopes for America. No one wants to fight for Israel, Man.
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James Talarico (The Wokenator)
Oh, my.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
Sir, thank you for your service.
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Eric Bowling
Broke his hand.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
The senator broke his hand.
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Eric Bowling
He's a Marine.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
Somebody come help him control your Senate committee.
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Eric Bowling
Look at you guys.
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Cameron Kinsey (Tax Network USA)
You're robo.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
We're just pointing out. Yeah, he's a fan, a former Marine, but he was disrupting this hearing. He was saying, no need to fight a war for Israel. That man did break his hand or his arm on the way out of that. And you saw Senator Sheehy from Montana assisting the, the, the police. The Capitol, I believe that's Capitol police, but go ahead, sir.
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Brian Glenn
No, I, I, I, you know, I've sat through many oversight hearings with protesters from everything from Palestine, you know, free, Free Palestine to the border to Epstein files. I've seen it all. That was the most aggressive I've ever seen of any protest inside any building on Capitol Hill. Now, granted, you know, Tim Sheehy from Montana rushed in there to help push him out the door. The gentleman did end up looks like injuring his hand in that door, Jim. I think we all kind of cringed, Eric, when we saw what was happening. Now, now here's the thing. He has every right to express his discontent for the fight in Iran. There's a lot of people against this war getting involved in a war with Iran on behalf of Israel. And that's exactly what this gentleman was trying to express. Now there's a time and a place for that. I don't necessarily think Eric, that was the time and that was the place for that. Now he is running like as you said, for a Senate seat. So I don't know if that boost his name recognition in that race.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
Probably did be. Probably did. Probably gave him a few Democrat votes there, I'm sure day because it's pushing against the Trump policy of going into Iran. And by the way that he said he was going to run on the Green Party ticket, which means he's not Republican or Democrat, the Green Party. And that would take, I guess, try and take votes away from Michael Watley who's up against Roy Cooper for that sentence, which by the way, Tomtos.
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Brian Glenn
Yeah, he smoked. Yeah. Which by the way, Michael Watley won by like 90%. Like he hunt a lot. So I don't know if this guy would even put a dent as far as Michael Watley is concerned. But who knows.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
Be always good having you, my friend. Good to get the insight from inside the Beltway. Inside the swan swamp. The swamp, yeah. They call you a swamp. We call you swamp. Swamp trainer. Creature trainer.
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Brian Glenn
Swamp slayer.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
Swamp slayer. I say that. Slay that swamp. Try and say that a few times. Brian Glenn, everybody. Thank you so much, brother.
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Brian Glenn
Thank you, Eric.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
All right, folks, we dropped another episode on the Edge today. This one I sat down and talked about the three arenas that I basically learned in. The first one was baseball, professional baseball. What an arena. What a fire that built. Then it went from baseball to Wall street. I spent 12 years in the the oil trading pits where pandemonium happened. I go through some of the stories there and I ended up one day at Fox News for whatever reason in the big seats. I I'll give you a little sound bite of what this episode looks like. I swear to God, the night, that night I do the five do the five a.m. call. I do the morning show. I do the five o' clock show. I do the eight o'. Clock. As I'm sitting down to the eight o' clock show. O'Reilly show. I get the call. Hannity can't get a satellite signal from Detroit. No show for him. He's the 9 o' clock host. He comes on right after O'Reilly and here's what they say. You're staying in the seat for 9pm of course I am. And of course I am. The reason we talk about this, we talk about the things that those moments in life where you either you fail or you you take the the bull by the horns and you win. I had the opportunity to speak in front of 19 million people in one day. It'll never happen again in the history of cable news that someone sits in for Both Hannity and O'Reilly the through a lot of the stories. Do me a favor, just hit that subscribe. Just aim your camera right at that QR code. We showed you how to do it the other day. Maybe we'll do it again later, show you how to do it. Eric Bowling and the Edge subscribe when a part of this journey it's growing. We love you. Love you for being here at Rev. We love you for watching bowling at 4:00 clock on Rav every day. Just keep it there. Some people are up in the morning at seven o' clock in the morning. I was on the chats. Some of the same people who are chatting right now. It's amazing. You guys are loyal. We love it. Please do subscribe and join me on the Edge as well. We'll be back in two and a half minutes.
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Kristin Davis
Hi, it's Kristin Davis from Are youe A Charlotte Podcast. I just had the most epic girls day cruising around LA with my friend Heather Graham and thanks to Hyundai we even recorded a special episode for you. Yes, I have a good 90s story of Fred Siegel.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
What?
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Kristin Davis
I saw Alanis Morissette there one time.
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Cameron Kinsey (Tax Network USA)
It was so exciting.
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Kristin Davis
I was with my girlfriend Melanie.
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Eric Bowling
She saw you so that's like good.
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Kristin Davis
She was very it was like the height of Alanis time and she was with this beautiful man and I had a golden retriever puppy and the beautiful man wanted to say hi to the golden retriever puppy. We were eating at that little cafe there at the Santa Monica one and Alanis hung back in a way that made me wonder what was happening. Like who wouldn't want to pet this beautiful puppy? I was like, oh my God, it's Alanis. And then I was like, try to breathe, try to breathe, try to breathe because I love her so much. My new episode is out now, presented by the all new Hyundai Palisade Hybrid. Make Every Day Epic.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
April approaching fast, and that means tax day is almost here. So if you need assistance filing or setting up payment plans, my next guest says you should reach out to Tax Network. Here to tell us all about it is Tax Network USA spokesperson Cameron Kinsey. Cameron, good to have you back. What are you seeing this year saying different than any of the year as April approaches fast and furious?
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Cameron Kinsey (Tax Network USA)
Yeah, well, I mean, as we get closer to the deadline, Eric, we're seeing two groups of people right now. First, we're seeing the people who filed who are absolutely shocked by how much they owe, and second, people who haven't filed yet because they're too afraid of what that number or outcome is going to be. But, but, you know, the worst thing that people can do right now is panic and let this become a bigger problem than it needs to be. But the second worst thing you can do is ignoring it completely. The earlier you face it, the more options that you're going to be able to have and the more control that you can keep over the situation entirely.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
Kim, how, how recent? Let's say, like I, you know, if. What if it's five, seven, ten years ago that I maybe have forgotten something or I didn't file? Can we go back that far? Can you guys help people go back that far and get everyone up to speed? So you go, okay, I'm current now, finally.
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Cameron Kinsey (Tax Network USA)
Well, I mean, the worst thing you can do is ignore the problem completely, like I said. But it's good to have professionals like Tax Network USA in your corner because they can basically act as a liaison between you and the IRS so you're not having to jump on those calls and have that burden weighing on your shoulders when you can be spending time with your family and focusing on your job. I mean, first, file on time, no matter what. Filing protects you from a much larger failure to file penalty. And those penalties do stack up over time. After that, don't just set up the first payment plan that the IRS offers you without understanding it completely. There are structured resolution options available that a professional team can go over with you, but you want to approach it strategically before those penalties and interests start compounding. So acting as swiftly as you possibly can just really gives you that leverage and keeps the balance from spiraling.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
You know, I went just anecdotally one time I bought, I did. I was young. I bought some property. The first time I had some money, I bought some property, I sold it, made some money for God, I literally forgot about it. Wasn't a lot of money, but I. Someone sent a 1099 in up for the profit. I ended up owing more tax than I made on the transaction because I forgot about it. And so what you're saying is if you get with, if people call Tax Network usa, they can at least stop that penalty phase from expanding as fast. As long as you file and say we're working out a payment plan, is that about right?
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Cameron Kinsey (Tax Network USA)
Exactly. I mean, we go over every single option that may be available to you, offers and compromise. Innocent spouse relief, penalty abatement. You just have to act on this immediately. Penalties start right after the deadline. Interest compounds daily, like I mentioned. So the worst people can do right now, you know, they don't realize how quickly that number can eventually add up and snowball. I mean, a balance that feels manageable in April can look very different in just a few months if left untouched, especially once those additional notices and fees start, you know, stacking up on top of that. So it's really important just to have professionals that can go over and weigh every single options. We have CPAs, we have licensed tax attorneys, we even have former IRS agents who really just know the tax code inside and out. We don't expect, expect the average American to know the tax code inside and out like our professionals. So it's just good to have a team in your corner who has the same values as you, who doesn't want this government overreach, and we want to keep your money in your own pocket. And that's why it's just so important to have these professionals in your corner.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
It really is important because these people know how to talk to the IRS agents. As you point out, some of them are former agents. They, they know the words they need to say to, to kind of get them off your back temporarily. Final thought.
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Cameron Kinsey (Tax Network USA)
Well, no, you're absolutely right. And I mean, if I. The worst thing you can do is call the IRS or have conversations with them without getting a second opinion. It's always just a good, good idea to have professionals in your corner get that help. Our consultation is actually completely free, Eric, so you can call us at 1-800-905-8000. You can talk to one of our team members directly. Again, it's completely free. Or you can go to tnusa.com rav and we can go over everything with you. Just fill out a quick form and somebody will be reaching out soon.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
Awesome. Awesome. Cameron Kinsey for Text Network usa, thank you so much.
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Cameron Kinsey (Tax Network USA)
Thanks, Eric.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
All right, folks, our next Guest retired Border Patrol agent and now Border Security Advisor for the Federation for American Immigration Reform Fair. Always happy to have Art Del Cueto with us. Art, we got to go. In the news of the day, Kristi Noem been fired as Secretary. Dhs List your, your initial thoughts on her firing and then also on Mark Wayne Mullen as her replacement.
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Art Del Cueto
Look, I mean, obviously it's, it's shocking. It happened on a Thursday. That's what's even more shocking, Eric. Usually these things happen on Friday, right? That's when the news cycle should hit. So it is shocking. But I think we can't take away of what a fantastic job she did as the Secretary of Homeland Security. I've said it before and I will continue to say it. She is the best Secretary of Homeland Security we have ever had and she inherited a mess. She did a fantastic job. And I don't know, I have, I have mixed feelings though, when people say she was fired. And I get what you're saying, look, I'm not going to argue with you. But when I've been fired, I've been fired from jobs before. I don't have another job. I gotta go out and look for another job. But it almost seems like, okay, we're going to remove you from here, but we already have some position for you. So I don't know, I don't want to say fired. I would say more. She was removed from the Secretary of Homeland Security and she's being placed in another job. And then, you know, the senators getting a promotion to be the new Homeland Security.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
You make a good point. Mike Walz wasn't fired. He was put into an ambassadorship job or UN Ambassador, I believe it was, I think. But you're right, maybe she does land somewhere else within the administration. That's typically what Trump does. He's pretty loyal to the people who've been loyal to him. And, and he's, she's been loyal to him. But I think the issue that seems to be at the heart of it is this $219 million ad buy that DHS made. Trump says he didn't know about it when she was testifying yesterday, on several occasions said he did know about it. That seems to be the point that at least the point that they're, the White House is saying was the one, the kind of the, the straw that broke the camel's back on the other things too, the Corey potentially.
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Eric Bowling
Right.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
You know, relationship with Corey Lewandowski and
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Art Del Cueto
then, and I've been in places with them, Eric. I've been in places with all of them. And I've been in play and I've known Corey for, for quite some time. Right. And, and look, I won't even say I like Corey. I love Corey and I talk to him all the time. And, and you know, I don't know what's going on on that end. I'm not going to sit there and judge it. All I can do is judge her on what she's done within her job as a Homeland Security secretary and she's been the best that we've ever had.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
Yeah. And there's no question the results on the southern border are her scorecard and she's crushing it as far as she was crushing it. I love them both too. I've known them both of her very, very, very long time. They're great, great people. Whether or not people like them or not or they think she handled things the right way with that, that, that ad, whatever. Really, really good, good, solid people. Great governor too. She was. Absolutely.
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Art Del Cueto
And Eric, you know what, when you're on and you know, because you've been reporting on everything, you know, that some other people sometimes don't want to report on, when you're on top of that target, you're going to take a lot of shots. That's what it comes down to. And she's been on top of that target, making sure that our nation's safe. And again, I can't, I can't see enough good things of what she's done as the secretary.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
I just, I will leave it this. And I'm not accusing. It's just there was an instance that happen they were flying, Corey and Gnome were flying somewhere and then they were changing planes and coming back and something was left on one of the planes and then a pilot got fired, but they got rehired that there's something there. Honestly, Art, I just, I call balls and strikes.
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Art Del Cueto
No, and you know what?
- [30:11]
Eric Bowling (Host)
I don't want to like cover for anyone because that I get there's more there than, than weird knowing. Maybe that's. Anyway, go ahead.
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Art Del Cueto
This is the thing and I've already seen it happening on some of the social media platforms. Some of these guys that have spoken about issues with border security. It may be in the same spot that I have that have come on on different shows and praised what's been going on and praised Christine Ohm. All of a sudden it's like, oh, let me try to backtrack and say, well, maybe this is a good thing. Honestly, I felt this, I felt that. And I'm not going to be that guy. But you're gonna see a lot of those individuals come out of the woodwork now where all of a sudden, you know, they turn their back on certain situations because maybe they want to remain vocal or they want to remain the focal point. But at the end of the day, stats speak for themselves.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
They do. And she's got the great statistics. Very quickly, about a minute or so only. Art, sorry, a little bit of short segment here. Why Mark Wayne Mullen, I like him as a senator. I hate the thought of pulling a US Republican out of the Senate vote. Lose that vote. But. But why not Tom Holman? I still can't figure out why not Tom Holman.
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Art Del Cueto
Well, I mean, Tom Holman's already in his spot. He's very comfortable where he's at and he's doing a fantastic job. I mean, I don't think maybe, maybe Tom Holman didn't want that situation and he's just doing a good job where he's at. So I don't know. But I think the senator is going to do a good job. Look, I've seen him before. You've seen his track record, you've seen his voting. I think we're on the right step. He definitely gets handed over a Homeland Security that's much better off than it was when Kristi Noem first took over. We got to admit that as well.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
100 million percent she got. She inherited my Orcas is. Yes, Swiss cheese border. She closed the border. Some issues in Minneapolis. But yeah, we'll keep a track of all that. Art Del Cueto, always good having you. Border security advisor for the Federation for American Immigration Reform. Sorry about the shorter segment, Art. We'll get you longer next time. Appreciate your time. Thank you, Art. All right, folks, back two and a half minutes.
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She saw you so that's like good.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
Foreign. This can we get Jasmine Crockett back, please? So Jasmine Crockett's out in Texas. Democrats, Senate primary voters send her packing. Which, depending on your perspective, might sound like a moment of moderation. Maybe the party's dialing back a little. Maybe the temperature's coming down. Breathe a little. And then you look at who beat her.
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James Talarico (The Wokenator)
Poverty is violence. Pollution is violence. And yes, prison is violence. Dismantle this system of violence. Build something new, something better, something rooted in love. It's hard to imagine a world without prisons, but also hard to imagine a world without telegrams and cassette tapes. Just because it's hard to imagine doesn't mean you shouldn't.
- [36:35]
Eric Bowling (Host)
Prison is violence. Let's put it this way. Ever try, I don't know, putting some milk in your coffee? And it's spoiled. The milk's bad, so you can't drink it. You won't drink it. But then your only other option is pour another cup of coffee and there's some soy milk there, which is even worse. All right, so now you understand that Jasmine Crockett, James Talarico conundrum. Anyway, here comes dollar store Beto o' Rourke vying for the Texas Senate seat, woke as woke can be, proving that Democrats have learned absolutely nothing. And boy, do we have receipts. This guy is the terminator of wokeness. He's the wokenator. Receipts coming. Any sigh of relief that Jasmine's been turned away turns into the kind of laugh you make when the roller coaster you thought was ending just clicks up another hill.
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Eric Bowling
How do you balance your feelings toward ICE versus the people you would represent who support deporting undocumented immigrants?
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James Talarico (The Wokenator)
You have 30 seconds. So my family is from the border. My mom grew up in Laredo, Texas. I feel like Texans understand this issue of immigration more so than people in other states, because we live with it, both the benefits and the challenges. So what I've said is that our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front and a lock on the door. We can welcome immigrants who want to live the American dream. We can build a pathway to citizenship for those neighbors who have been here making. Making us richer and stronger. And we can keep out people who mean to do us harm.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
Making us richer. But wait, there's more.
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James Talarico (The Wokenator)
Before we go further, I want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care, too. Defending trans Texans is something we have to do every day at the state capitol. And you better believe I'll be giving sermons on that, too. So when I use the word woman, it should not be understood as an exhaustive term, but rather as a. As a lens through which to understand, examine and interrogate patriarchy, similar to how we specify anti black racism.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
All right, little guy, are you okay? He's at a sermon talking about how men need abortions too. So I ask you sure you're all right? Talarico? Just because you say something in a well spoken voice doesn't mean you're not insane. And James doesn't just spout that nonsense in church, mind you, as a state. Texas state representative, by the way, the Wokenator makes it well known where he stands on the party's version of biology.
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James Talarico (The Wokenator)
I want us all to be aware of is that. That modern science obviously recognizes there are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six. Which, honestly, Representative Hefner surprised me too. Surprised me too, because I. I, you know, am not well versed in this. This issue area. I'm not a scientist, I'm a politician. A lot worse than a scientist.
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Eric Bowling (Host)
Not two biological sexes, he says. James says there are six biological sexes. Wait, Jasmine. Jasmine Crockett, let me ask you something. Where'd you go? But wait, there's more. Because once the Internet did what the Internet does. Because old tweets should actually be called gold tweets in this case. Turns out that Telorico the Wokenator spent the 2020 era enthusiastically posting some of the greatest hits of peak pandemic progressive activism. And I mean, this guy makes sir Pumps a lot look like Reaganite. We're talking about the kind of rhetoric that sounds less like a policy platform and more like a graduate seminar titled America the Disease. Watch this. There are tweets about how white people spread disease just by being white. You have to see it to believe it. I'm quoting. This is Talarico's tweet. White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus, but we spread it wherever we go, through our words, our actions, and our systems. We don't have to be showing symptoms like a White hood or a Confederate flag to be contagious. And because that wasn't enough for James the Wokenator, he followed up with his own tweet with this little gem quoting Talarico. The only cure is diagnosing the virus within ourselves and taking dramatic actions to contain the spread. The first small step is proclaiming loudly and unequivocally that hashtag black lives matter. Folks, we're going to cut into this monologue for the president before we get sick of Talarico any further.
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Eric Bowling
Listen, we got a lot of them here today, too many to introduce our operations. A lot of them are political champions and we don't care about them. Today, right? The United States military, together with the love our country. And before we begin, I think I will say a few words about what's going on with respect to our operation in the country of Iran. The United States military, together with the wonderful Israeli partners, continues to totally demolish the enemy far ahead of schedule and at levels that people have never seen before. Actually, we're destroying more of Iran's missiles and drone capability every single hour, knocking them out like nobody thought was possible. As soon as they set off a missile, within four minutes, the launcher gets hit. They don't know what's happening. But we have the greatest military anywhere in the world. Their Navy is gone, 24 ships in three days. That's a lot of ships. They're anti aircraft weapons are gone. So they have no air force, they have no air defense. All of their airplanes are gone, their communications are gone, missiles are gone, launches are gone, about 60% and 64% respectively. Other than that, they're doing quite well. I say what's left. But they're tough and they want to fight. And they're calling, they're saying, how do we make a deal? I said, you're being a little bit late and we want to fight now more than they do. We've had 47 years, depending on the way you count it, but 47 years of horror with this group. And you know when you see somebody walking down the street without their legs, without the arms, whose faces so badly affected and hurt. It mostly came from 95%. Soleimani and Iran and we other presidents lived with it, I didn't live with it. And so our people are doing a great job. Again, the greatest military anyone's seen. Thank you. Thank you very much. And yesterday my administration announced decisive action to help keep down the oil prices, including offering political risk insurance for tankers transiting into the Gulf. As you know, pretty dangerous Territory. Further action to reduce pressure on oil is imminent. And the oil seems to have pretty much stabilized. We had it very low, but I had to take this little detour. If it's okay with everybody, Scott, it's okay with you. Scott is the one who has to put up with it. He said, you have to do this now. I said, I have to do it, Scott. Right. But it's been very strong. And everybody, including Scott, everybody feels we had really no choice. It was going to. They were going to hit us if we didn't hit them, because they're crazy. And in the long term, the actions we're taking will dramatically increase the stability of the region and oil prices and stock markets and everything else. You know, we set the all time record in history with the dow going to 50,000. So Dow is at 50,000. It was supposed to be maybe if we were lucky, within by the end of my presidency in four years. And we did it in my first year. We did the S&P 500. We did that in a period of less than a year. And that was even tougher than the Dow, they said so it wasn't going to happen. But we have a great country. We have a country that's never done this well. We've had tremendous success in so many different ways. I built the military and rebuilt it in my first term and we're using it more than I'd like to use it, to be honest with you. But when we used it, we found out it certainly did work. When we look at Venezuela, when we look at the first attack, Midnight hammer in Iran, which really set the stage for what we're doing right now, it's been pretty amazing. And I'm once again calling on all members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the military and the police to lay down their arms. They're only going to be killed. And now is the time to stand up for the Iranian people and help take back your country. You're going to have a chance after all these years to take back your country. Accept immunity. We'll give you immunity. And we'll be giving you really the right side of history, because that's what it is. So you'll be perfectly safe with total immunity or you'll face absolutely guaranteed death. And I don't want to see that. They don't want to see it either. We also urge Iranian diplomats around the world to request asylum and to help us shape a new and better Iran with great potential. It's a country with great potential. There's much better future for Iran it's now beginning. It's going to be, I think, a great future. And the United States will ensure that whoever leads the country next, Iran will not threaten America or its neighbors, Israel, anybody. If you look at what happened, they had missiles aimed at all of these other countries, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, uae, many others that weren't really involved very much. And they had missiles aimed. Well, they were aimed there long before this ever started. They were going after the entire Middle East. And then we came along, we blew up their party. So we have phenomenal people. I want to thank all of the people that have been involved. Marco, you've been doing a fantastic job, and you've been doing a fantastic job on a place called Cuba. And a Rod came in before. I said, hey, do you want to come up to a little awards? He's gone to plenty of awards ceremonies. Thank you. A Rod, big fan. But what's happening with Cuba is amazing. And we think that we want to finish this one first. But. But that will be just a question of time before you and a lot of unbelievable people are going to be going back to Cuba, hopefully not to stay. We want you back. We don't want to lose you. We don't want to make it so nice that they stay. But some people probably do want to stay. They love Cuba so much. I hear it all the time. That was another one that wasn't supposed to happen. Venezuela is going great. It's been stabilized. We have a wonderful person as your president elect, Delsey Rodriguez, and she and her staff have been doing a fantastic job working with us. We're taking out hundreds of millions of barrels of oil, and it's going to Houston and various other places where it's being refined. And we're sending them back far more money than they've made in many years. And actually, very shortly, it'll be more money than they've ever made. And Venezuela is working. So we've had a lot of. A lot of countries in places that truly love. You would say football, I would say soccer. But these are all countries that love football slash soccer. And so I think the group likes it. And if you'd like, you could sit. I know I'm a very exciting speaker, but you can sit down if you'd like. Okay. I'm looking at everybody standing. I'm saying let's sit down because we're here to honor these great champions and we want to take our time. Right. Let's get to the reason that we're here, and it's a beautiful reason, because we're honoring truly talented people today. We're thrilled to host the 2025 MLS cup champions, Inter Miami. Great job. And it's my distinct privilege to say what no American president has ever had the chance to say before. Welcome to the White House. Leonel Massey. Lionel Massey is my son. Said, dad, you know who's going to be there today? I said, no, I got a lot of things going on. He said, messi. I said, really? He's a big fan. He's a big fan of yours. He thinks you're just a great person, and I think you got to meet a little while. So he's a big soccer fan, but he's a tremendous fan of yours. And a gentleman named Ronaldo. We have. Cristiano is great. You're great, boy. Some big champions, some great, great athletes in that sport, and people that really, they really love. They really love what they're doing, and they're doing it well. And it's an honor for us and everybody at the White House to be honoring you today. So congratulations as well to co owners Jorge and Jose. Jose Mas Mars. We came from Cuba, right? Originally from Cuba. Your parents came. And you're going to go back, huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's going to be. And you won't need my approval. You just fly back in. When I can just see that. That's going to be a great day. Right? We're going to celebrate that separately. I just want to wait a couple of weeks. I wanted to wait a couple of weeks, but we'll be together again soon, I suspect. Celebrating what's going on in Cuba. They want to make a deal so badly. You have no idea. As well as head coach, who I hear is a phenomenal coach? Javier Mascherano. I've heard he's a great coach. Well, anybody who wins is a good coach in my book. But I heard you're a hell of a coach and all of the tremendous players that are just amazing. We're also grateful to be joined by the MLS commissioner, Don Garber. Don, where are you? Don? Stand up. Don. Good job. Good job. As well as proud Miami sports fans. Secretary of State. I'm telling you, he's going to go down as the best secretary of State in the country's history. Marco Rubio. I don't want him to get too popped. It's true. I don't want him to get too popped. You know, when they get Tupac popular, all of a sudden you see. Where's Marco? He's not around anymore. I don't see him he's doing some job. And your next one is going to be, we want to do that special Cuba. He's waiting, but he says, let's get this one finished first. We could do them all at the same time, but bad things happen. If you watch countries over the years, you do them all too fast. Bad things happen. We're not going to let anything bad happen to this country. Also with us are Attorney General Pam Bondi, who's a terrific person and fan. And she's proving how tough she is. And I think the next three years she's going to really prove it. Right? Huh? Like these people, Secretary Scott Besant, Lori Chavez Durima and Sean Duffy. Thank you everybody. What a great team. And U.S. trade representative who's done incredible deals. Unbelievable. Jamison Greer. Thank you. Jamison Greer. And our country has never been bigger, better, richer or stronger. And the deals we're making are unbelievable. And a lot of it's because of the tariffs and a lot of it's because of everything else. We had a little, a complicating factor with tariffs the other day with the Supreme Court. They did the wrong thing, but it didn't make any difference because we have another way of doing it. They always have to make it the hard way. Do you know about that? You always have to. Is it like that? It's always got to be the difficult way. Right? It's a little bit hard, makes you work harder. Right. But we're doing great. Our country is doing incredibly well. Never, it's never done like this. It's, you know, I was with the king of Saudi Arabia. He said, you know, a year and a half ago, we thought your country was dead, would never come back. And now you have the hottest country anywhere in the world, which was sort of cool. I'll relate that story. But many, many leaders say the same thing. We have the hottest country anywhere in the world. 2025 was the record shattering season for Inter Miami. Beginning last summer at the historic FIFA Club World cup, hosted for the first time right here in the usa. So exciting. I shouldn't say this because you'll say I'm old, but I watched Pele play. He played for the Cosmos. Do you know that? And Steve Ross was a great friend. I don't know how many people remember Steve. He was a legendary businessman. He really started cable at cable tv. He was way ahead of time and ultimately passed away. Terrible, tragically. But he started the Cosmos team and he wanted to get some good players, so he started with Pele. I don't Know, you may be better than Pele. Pele was pretty good. Who's better, him or Pele? I think. I think he is. But he was pretty good, right? Pele was pretty good, but it was very exciting. And I went to the games, I'd go every once in a while, but soccer just didn't catch on. And then Steve, when Steve got ill, it sort of went away. And then it came back. And now it's just turning out to be amazing how it's coming back in this country. But the Cosmos were a very hot team, playing with other teams that weren't so good. But I got to watch Pele play and he was. He was something too. In the June group stage of that tournament, these players went toe to toe with some of the best teams anywhere in the world. You tied Egypt's best club, supposed to be an unbelievable, talented club, with a gutsy performance from veteran goalie Oscar Ostari, who has played a great game. Then you tied the top Brazilian club. Wow. Thanks to a brilliant goal from one of the greatest strikers of all time, Luis Suarez. These are good looking people, Marco. I don't like good looking men. You don't feel so good about yourself standing up here. Good looking people. In the 65th minute, Louie gathered the ball around midfield and turned for a vintage solo run, dribbling through the defense, driving past defenders like few people have ever seen before, cutting to his left, hammering home a goal that secured Miami's place in the next round. But no match in the 2025 FIFA Club World cup was more important than the match against FC Porto. Porto took an early lead, but you came back strong. In the 54th minute, tied one to one, Leo lined up for one of his iconic free kicks. He struck the ball decisively, bending it over the wall and beating the keeper with a sensational left hook. Would I be able to do that if I practiced? He said no. I think he's. I think he's right, my friend. Great. In that moment, you sealed a truly historic Inter Miami victory, becoming the first club from North America ever to beat a European club in official competition. Unbelievable. Thank you. You know, I have to just interject. So over the years, I love sports and I've. I've watched my friend a rod with George Steinburn. I'd sit in his box, just the two of us. He would never have anybody but me. He liked me, right? He liked me and he liked you. He liked almost nobody. It would be a world series where baseball was hot. It's not as hot now. I'll be honest with you, they do things wrong. But when baseball was hot as a pistol with George, and I'd sit and I'd watch the Yankees and he'd have 30 seats and it would just be me and him. And I said to a rod would say, say, what was the most difficult thing you've ever done? I said, it's probably sitting for three hours with George Steinbrenner watching a Yankee playoff game or World Series game. You know what I mean by that? He was a difficult guy, but he was great, right? He liked me, I liked him, and we both liked nobody else. And that's, that was a good combination. But I have to say this. So I've seen a lot of great players come into the world of sports. And they came in from all different countries, all different players. They've come, in some cases just from different states. They come to the Yankees or they come to the Dodgers or they come to whatever. But I've seen them come in from other countries and there's such a clamor. Oh, so great, so great. Everything's great. But they don't win. This guy won. He came in, there was tremendous fanfare and he won, right? But they, it's true, they don't win. They come in and you know, they're great, great players and they can even play, okay, but they don't win. And Leo, you came in and you won. And that's something very hard to do. Very, very unusual. And frankly, there's a lot more pressure put on you than anyone would know because, you know, you sort of expected to win. But almost nobody wins. They come in, they're great, they're the best in the world, they get paid a fortune. You came in and you won with all that pressure. That's an amazing, an amazing tribute. So congratulations,
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Art Del Cueto
right?
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Eric Bowling
But in that moment, you sealed a truly historic Inter Miami victory. And think of that first club ever North America to top the so called European clubs. Pretty amazing thing to do, returning to the mls. Inter Miami built on that incredible momentum, playing a record number of games and scoring a total of 101 goals, the most in MLS history. Is that correct, Mr. Commissioner? That's pretty good. How's Andrew? Is Andrew treating you okay? He's a good golfer too. Actually, people don't know it. He's a very good golfer. Right, Andrew? But Trump's a good golfer too. Andrew. That's far right. Thank you. With 29 goals in the regular season alone, Leo won the prize Golden Boot, becoming the first player to be named the league MVP twice in a row. Amazing, you know, comes in a lot of great players. Pretty amazing thing to do. Very hard to do. Exploding into the playoffs, this team racked up a series of statement wins, big wins, frankly wins that a lot of people didn't think they could do. You secured a 31 must win victory over Nashville SC. You thrashed FC Cincinnati 4 to nothing on the road. And then you routed New York City FC 5, 2, 1. Led by a hat trick from youngstar Tadeo Allende. Where is Tadeo? What a group of people. I could, we could have a lot of fun with these guys. You can imagine when they win, how they celebrate. We don't want to talk about it. We don't want. We don't want to talk about it. In that MLS cup final against the Vancouver Whitecaps, the entire team played together as one flawless unit. Just flawless, they say. After Vancouver tied the game one to one, Leo picked the pocket of a white cap defender and sent a pass to the great Rodrigo DePaul. Where the hell is Rodrigo? Do you have any bad looking players? I like the bad looking guys much better. Who stuck a low driving shot into the side net, taking the lead. And then in the sixth extra minute of stoppage time, Tadeo drove home your third and final goal, making the score three to one and securing your status as the first champions in club history. What an amazing accomplishment. Coach Mascherano became one of the few head coaches to win the MLS Cup Finals and is very first year. And Leo claimed the 47th trophy of his storied career. 47th. Can you imagine that? The most of all time. That's the most of all time. So Leo is the reigning FIFA World cup mvp. You could have gone anywhere in the world. You could have chosen any team in the world and you chose to go to Miami. I don't blame you. The weather is extremely good. Do you go to Doral? You go to Doral and play golf. And I just want to thank you for bringing us all in this ride because you are hot and talented and a great person. I look forward to seeing many of you on the. Really on the summer. We're going to be out there in the summer 2026 FIFA World cup and we have a lot of interesting things because we have the World cup and we have the Olympics and we have the 250, you know. And I was responsible for getting the Olympics in my first term. And I was responsible for getting with Johnny, we got the World cup and Johnny's a good man. Do we like Johnny? Do we like? I think so, right? Like you say? Yeah, I think so. He's a good guy, but you know they're setting records on the World Cup. Setting Absolute On Deck is built to
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Kristin Davis
Hi, it's Kristin Davis from Are youe A Charlotte Podcast. I just had the most epic girls day cruising around LA with my friend Heather Graham and thanks to Hyundai, we even recorded a special episode for you. Sex and the City got me into Magnolia Bakery Cupcakes, which I'm obsessed with. The last time we did a Hyundai film we went to the Magnolia and we sat on the bench. My new episode is out now, presented by the all new Hyundai Palisade Hybrid. Make Every Day epic.
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