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What do you think makes the perfect snack?
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Hmm, it's gotta be when I'm really craving it and it's convenient.
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Eric Bowling
Could you be more specific?
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
When it's cravinient.
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Eric Bowling
Okay.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Like a freshly baked cookie made with real butter, available right down the street at am, pm. Or a savory breakfast sandwich I can grab in just a second at am, pm.
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Eric Bowling
I'm seeing a pattern here.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Well, yeah, we're talking about what I.
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Eric Bowling
Crave, which is anything from am, pm.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
What more could you want? Stop by AMPM where the snacks and drinks are perfectly craveable and convenient. That's cravingience amp too much good stuff. We got group. Well, I heard Cooper for a second, but we have to say goodbye. So that's where we are. Market's getting tanked right now. Oil, it was playing around unchanged. There you go. Gold still holding almost four $100 in the ounce. And this one, really, really. I cannot, I can't tell you. I've been trading a long time. Bitcoin. There are people who are getting dragged out when J. Paul Getty said by when. There's blood in the streets, folks. There's blood in the cryptocurrency streets right now. Bitcoin 86. Even when the Dow is up 700 this morning. Bitcoin turned around first, started to go south and everything kind of followed bitcoin down. So tough markets across the board today. All right, let's bring in our first guest who says Obamacare has actually increased premiums for Americans, making it unaffordable. Here to tell us about this is the great senator from the great state of Wisconsin.
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Guest Speaker / Interviewee
Senator.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Senator Ron Johnson. Sir, I find this whole, this whole government shutdown thing was such a joke because I was there. I remember when, when Obamacare was being pushed through to make it more look more affordable. In 2009, whenever the hell that was, they had the, the assistance sudden set in the end of 2025. Their idea. Not a single Republican vote. Am I right? Not one in the House nor the Senate. Not one Republican voted for this. And then it came back and then they wanted to blame you guys and Trump for, for shutting the government down on stuff that they created. Is that about right? Yeah.
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Benjamin
In terms of the enhanced subsidies, you're absolutely correct. But the bigger problem is Obamacare itself has failed miserably. You know, Obama said he could keep your doctor, your health care plan, you couldn't. That was the Politifacts 2013 lie of the year. They also said a average family would see their premiums lowered by $2,500 a year. That's a total lie. What we've seen. And again, it's difficult because every plan is different, states are different. But the analysis I looked at a 40 year old person buying the silver benchmark plan state by state. On average, those Premiums have increased 169% since the start of Obamacare. That's 4.3 times rate inflation, which was 39%. It's been a miserable failure. They've masked it with the subsidies. When we hear premiums that people pay, they're talking about the net premium. So, so let's say premium is $18,000. They get a $16,000 subsidy. They pay $22,000. That's kind of what happens. So we are, taxpayers are picking up about 90% of the total cost of premiums on the Obamacare exchanges. The patients themselves, the insured are picking up about 10% in total. And they don't really understand the massive amount of subsidies and the massive amount of increase in the premiums. And again, it's all masked by, as premiums skyrocket, the money flows in the insurance companies and the, the insured doesn't even realize how much these premiums are skyrocketing.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
And they, and they're going to, they're going to have a rude roy if the, if there's no more subsidies, if I'm not mistaken. And again, help us out here. So much that goes on in the halls of Congress that we get dribs and drabs trickle. So in order to defray some of these higher premiums coming up and some of the, I guess some of the losses that hospitals will be eating because people can't afford insurance and you go to the hospital, you have to be taken care of. Certain hospitals. Congress allotted $50 billion to help out rural hospitals. About right. And that seems like it'd be a drop in the bucket of what's needed. So how do we, how do we fix this?
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Benjamin
No, that was actually more than we needed for the rural hospitals. But again, the subsidies for the vast majority of people on Obamacare remain in place. They just go back to the original Obamacare subsidies, which at the very top end of the 4% poverty line, you were expected to pay 9.5% of your total wage toward your health care. Let's face it, health care is an important part. So you ought to be expected to pay some percentage of your wage. The enhanced subsidies lowered that to 8.5 and literally made no premium policies available to anybody at 150% of the poverty line or less. That created a situation. We probably have about 6 million policies given to people who don't even know they're insured. They made no claims, resulting in about 20 to 30 billion dollars a year in fraud. So extending those enhanced subsidies would perpetuate that massive level of fraud. So what I'm suggesting is let those enhanced subsidies expire for people at 400% of the poverty line or below. And the real problem is the expanded, the enhanced subsidies helped other people above the 400%. That was outside of Obamacare's original design. They weren't going to let, they weren't going to subsidize anybody making more than 400% of poverty line. Well, the enhanced subsidies did. A lot of people were lured into early retirement. Some of these older individuals that don't qualify for Medicare yet they're between 55 and 65, they are getting slammed with 30, $35,000 a year premiums. I'm willing to help those folks as long as the Democrats are willing to admit the miserable fare that Obamacare is and work toward fixing it so we don't have premiums continue to skyrocket that cost the American taxpayer hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Why don't we, you know, this is such a logical. I've been doing this for a long time asking the same question. Why don't we, why don't we fix the other part of it? Why don't we fix the cost side of it? I mean, there's, you know, Trump is trying to deal with pharma. I'm not sure that it's working, but there are easy ways. There are certain ways to do it. You can, you can require hospitals and doctors to post what they're, what they're charging. We hear the stories about a $500 aspirin being charged and those are real. Well, if hospitals had to list every drug that they use or every process that your procedure that they do and how much they're charging, this creates a comp, a competitive, the free market works. Create situations where other hospitals can Pop up. Independent private hospitals can pop up and compete with those people and bring prices down. We never address that. We just. Pharma do what they want, charges what they want. Hospitals charge us what they want. Don't worry, we'll let the insurers pay for it. And now it's coming back to the taxpayer, not the insurers anymore.
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Benjamin
But if you just post price prices and people aren't paying for it out of their own pocket, it's not gonna make any difference. So what you need is you need.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
To read I apologize, but I apologize, but I'm saying post, especially if you're gonna pull the subsidies. And all of a sudden the guy who's paying $2,000 a year premiums is doing 30 a year, 20 a year, whatever it is. And he says, you know what? I'm sick of this bs. What, why is this. And you go look at these hospitals, $500 for an aspirin, $2,000 for, you know, a Tylenol, it'll stop.
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Benjamin
But a lot of people want to pass a bill to force price transparency. The way you do it is you have people pay more of their own health care. You have them pay for things so they will demand to know what things cost you. Reintroduce consumerism. That's real free market capitalism. The problem is patients only pay about 10% of all their health care. It's otherwise paid by a third party payer, either the government or insurers. You need things like health savings accounts. So on the lower cost, provide healthcare items, people are paying directly out of their pocket. Insurance should be more about catastrophic illnesses. It'd be a whole lot cheaper. And you'd reintroduce competition through consumerism where patients actually want to know the price because they're going to, they're going to price compare that. Bring real competition into the market.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
That's we need, that's what we've always needed, I'm told. Free market libertarian. And it always, always works better. Make them compete for your. Especially if you. Like you said, if we're going to pay more out of our own pockets, then I'm going to go shop out where my best, where my best options are. And I'm not talking about catastrophic, where you have a, you have a stroke or a heart attack. Those are different. I'm talking about the, some of the elective procedures, some of the things that, that we're doing that could absolutely not drive up the cost of health care the way, the way it's going. But the fact is we had A great hearing.
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Benjamin
We brought in a surgeon from Oklahoma, set up a cash surgical site. There's. Their charges for surgery are a tenth of what you get at major hospitals.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Well, you know we can do it.
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Benjamin
Competition and it is high quality care.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
We know they can do Medicare. What Medicare, Medicaid. Medicare pays what, 10, 9, 10 cents on, on the, on the, the bill, the dollar of the bill. And they're doing it. They're making it, they're making it happen.
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Benjamin
Hospitals are making a lot of money in the current situation as our insurance companies. I mean the stock price of UnitedHealth is up 1,177% since the initiation of Obamacare. Of the top seven carriers, the lowest increase in stock price is 414%. That's all insurance companies, hospitals, they make out like bandits all thanks to the American taxpayer.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Is amazing. That is that that statistic right there, sir, has got to got to boil the blood of everyone who's paying through the nose right now and who's about to pay through the nose going forward. Is it, how do I ask this? Is there going to be help on the way and I'm not sure even what help, to be honest with you. I know a lot of people are going to get hurt by this, but I just hate government getting bigger and bigger. I'd rather fix the problem than continue to throw good taxpayer money at it. Quick thought on that.
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Benjamin
We're working on it. Rick Scott, expert President Trump just tweeted, really the macro solution, Rather than spend billions of dollars giving it to insurance companies, giving it to the American people, they can buy their own health insurance, they can buy their own health care. That's the direction HSAs put money in people's pocket and let them decide what they want to buy.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
It's always better. It's always better to let people decide how to spend their own money. That's the way you do it, my friend. And the problem is the country's moving the other way so fast, we got. You got to figure out a way to stop that slide. Senator Ron Johnson, thank you for your time. I appreciate you have a great day. All right, folks. You know that stubborn ache that never really kind of goes away? I'm not talking about Kamala Harris. I'm, you know the one that ice, heat or pain pills barely touch. What if you could target it at the cellular level instead of just numbing it? Right. That's exactly what felt Therablue was designed to do. Therablue is a next generation pain relieving peptide gel that works deeper than the skin surface. Powered by Aqua molecular delivery technology, it delivers peptides and botanicals directly into muscle tissue for legit, lasting relief. Its hero ingredient is copper. Peptide promotes collagen synthesis, reduces inflammation and helps accelerate repair nad restores cellular energy to aid recovery. While methylene blue protects your mitochondria and supports endurance. Natural extracts like msm, turmeric, white willow bark, arnica and ginger soothe inflammation while menthol, camphor and eucalyptus oil deliver distant cooling relief. It absorbs fast and leaves your skin refreshed, not greasy. Apply thin layer, massage until absorbed and let your body experience lasting recovery. And by the way, get 10 off by visiting TWC Health Voice. That's TWC Health Voice. And use the promo code voice to save 10 off every order. Move freely again with Thera Blue. Alrighty, folks. The latest episode of the Edge is live. And I'm gonna tell you something. I wore the shirt. I pushed it into a zone where most men avoid. There's a trend happening right now among high level men. Nobody wants to talk about it. Nobody wants to admit it. We opened it up. We talked about the pressure, the stigma and the truth. It dropped just this morning. Check it out. On the Edge on YouTube. Give me that screen real quick. Give me that qr code there. We're 5, 150 times faster than all other YouTube shows. New YouTube shows growing. 5, 5. We have 5,500 subscribers right now. That's because of you. Thank you. And the QR code. If you just shoot, shoot your phone, your camera right at that yellow line, press it, never going to charge you. It's just showing YouTube how fast we're growing. And we're one of the top growing shows in all of YouTube. There's a reason the content is off the charts. Cool. You're going to love it. At Eric Bowling the Edge on YouTube. At Eric Bowling the Edge on YouTube. We'll be back. Two and a half minutes. Thank you for your support.
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Eric Bowling
Hey, this is Sarah. Look, I'm standing out front of a.m. p.m. Right now and, well, you're sweet and all, but I found something more fulfilling, even kind of cheesy. But I like it. Sure, you met some of my dietary needs, but they've just got it all. So farewell. Oatmeal. So long, you strange soggy.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Break up with bland breakfast and taste AM PM's bacon, egg and cheese biscuit made with K tree eggs, smoked bacon and melty cheese on a buttery biscuit. AM PM Too much. Good stuff. Well, my next guest. Awesome, awesome lady Says we need to keep our eyes wide open because as Mamdani was elected in New York city. Get this, 42 Muslim candidates backed by terror linked organizations have won key offices across America. Here to give us the details, national security analyst, best selling author of Rise in Defense of Judeo Christian Values and Freedom and chairman for ACT for America. ACT for America's the one, the only, Bridget Gabriel is back. Bridget, good to have you back. Now I had a little conversation with Rudy Giuliani yesterday about Mandami in New York. And, and I said, what advice would you give President Trump to deal with this? And he said, make sure that we, we, we move out the bad Muslims. There are good Muslims and bad Muslims. Let me tell you something. I do a voicemail thing at the end of the show and I agreed with Rudy that there are good and bad Muslims. I get lit up because there are so many folks that can't, can't find, they say they can't find a good Muslim. They're all the same. Bridget, these 42 Muslim candidates who now hold offices in America backed by nefarious forces, is it safe to say that there it's a group and not all Muslims? Or you tell me, am I, am I wrong?
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Guest Speaker / Interviewee
Our concern with Islamic elected officials is whether or not their loyalty is to the United States of America or to a foreign government or an entity. If you look at the track record of those who we already have in Congress, Ilhan Omar, for example, with a Somali flag in Congress now, is her loyalty to the United States or to Somalia? When you have Rashida Tlaib, we with a Palestinian flag in her office, is her loyalty to the American people or to the Palestinian people? Last time I checked, it was Americans who elected her to serve America's interests, American communities, not Palestinians living in Gaza. When you look at the guy who ran for mayor in Minnesota, when you look at the track record of the Muslims who are elected to office in the United States, we are seeing very clearly the loyalty leaning more towards another government and another entity. When you look at the students marching and demonstrating in the United States, including Mamdani, by the way, in demonstrations after October 7, where they were burning the American flag and waving the flags of different countries, Arabic countries in the Middle east, different terrorist organizations, you start to think to yourself, where is their loyalty? Are they loyal to us or to somewhere else? So when I see that 76 Muslims ran for office backed unfunded by CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations, who's an unindicted co conspirator in the largest terrorism financing trial in America's history. And 42 of them make it to office. I question their loyalty and I question the decisions that they're gonna be making regarding America, their cities and its interests.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
How do you explain. I agree with you. Agree with you completely. I've had how many arguments with that guy Doug? He calls himself Abraham Hooper, his name is Douglas Hooper, who is a spokesperson for CARE Council on American Islamic Relations, which is an unindicted coconspirator to 9 11, which means they. They had. They had a hand in that. And let me just tell you something. I was on. I went to ground Zero when they were trying to open the mosque at Ground Zero, I protested. I was a member of FOX broadcast team. And I went there on my own and pushed back against. There was a group of Muslims who purchased, I don't remember which, which sect. The building that the airplanes. One of the airplanes. Jet engines fell on. And it was going to be their trophy to take down the World Trade Center. It was going to be their trophy mosque. And I pushed against it. And we finally got that thing killed. And yet how is this 24 years later or so, 24 years later they elect a Muslim mayor of New York.
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Guest Speaker / Interviewee
Because the new kids who voted for him, the lefties who voted for him, well, the lefties. And you have the Islamists, you have a lot of people who were barely in New York for five years, barely in the country for five years. 20% of them don't even speak English. Those are the people who elected him. Working together with young lefty women in the United States, driven by emotions, do not know anything about socialism. The problem, Eric, is 30 years ago, when kids were in school, they were taught what socialism is. They were taught what capitalism is. They were taught information. And it was up to them to decide what is good and what is bad. Right now, our kids in school, they're not learning about socialism. So while they vote for a socialist, they have no idea what socialism is, whether it worked in the past or not, because they are not taught that. And that's how they are ending up voting for people like Mandani, who's promising them, you're gonna have free buses, you're gonna have free childcare, you're gonna have free this, free that. And of course, before he is even in office, Hokul comes out and says, no, no, no, no, no, we're not gonna be able to give you free buses because we need the money. You know, so he's not gonna be able to impose what? He duped them into thinking he can impose. But then again, you're looking at an idealist guy who never ran a company, who never ran a corporation, who never balanced the checkbook and actually balanced the payroll. And yet he is elected to run the biggest city in our country. There's a big difference between running and governing.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
And he can't push back on Hamas, what they did on October 7th. He's been asked several times. He just won't do it. No.
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Guest Speaker / Interviewee
And he wants the un he wants foreign law now applied in New York. I mean, we already see the writing on the wall.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Good luck with that. With the writing is clear when they made a makeshift mosque in Times Square and the place is blanketed with, with praying in Times Square. New York is going to be the next Minneapolis or Dearborn, Michigan, with Muslims will flock to that. That city. And I so thrilled I'm not there anymore. These 42 elected Muslim candidates who've been elected into offices around the country, is this some sort of cohesive unit? Is this some sort of plan or is it just dotting the map?
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Guest Speaker / Interviewee
Well, they are very well coordinated and very well organized. And they are funded in part and in large and with a lot of donations from the Islamic community, from organization like cair, the Council on American Islamic Relations, et cetera. And what is so concerning about them? CAIR actually right now is writing the 2026 manual and guide for the candidates who are gonna run for the midterm in 2026. So if they organize that well, and CAIR, by the way, have a super federal PAC, justice something or other fund, and they are funding candidates running for office. And what people don't realize is 76 candidates ran, 42 got elected. And we still have three positions that are pending. We're talking about six mayors, not only just Mamdani in New York, we're talking six mayors. We're talking 20 city council members and commissioners, two judges, six school board members, four state legislatures in no less than nine states across America. New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio, et cetera, et cetera. So people, while all their eyes were focused on New York, they were sweeping success across the country. And right now, they're very emboldened and very inspired. And that's why we are telling people, go to actforamerica.org, our organization right now. Click on Join us. Start a chapter in your community. We are organizing neighborhoods. We are organizing cities nationwide. We cannot gamble with the midterm election. And in a way, Eric, thank God this election happened now. And Gave us a year to plan. Can you imagine if this happened in the midterm? So we want people engaged, we want people organized. We need to match passion with passion. They are organizing their neighborhoods. We need to do the same thing. Go to actforamerica.org right now. Click on Join us. Sign up to volunteers start a chapter in your community and sign up to get our action alerts so together we can be prepared heading into 2026 so we're not caught off guard.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Indeed. Indeed. It's a great. It's a great cause. I'm glad you're doing that, Bridget. But very quickly, only about a minute or so care who funds them because if there's foreign funding for care, they're breaking the law. They can't have foreigners funding individual elections, mayor or other elections in America.
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Guest Speaker / Interviewee
Well, look, I do not know how much foreign funding they're receiving, but they're receiving plenty of domestic funding. See, the Islamic community has an end goal. And they are organized and they are passionate and they are all chipping into the same funnel, the same bucket of money that CARE is saying, look, we need your help. We are giving money to elected officials. We're even giving money to students organized to demonstrate on college campuses, to activists. So people are incentivized to give because supposedly CARE is fighting for them on our side. We have a lot of apathy. People think somebody else is gonna do it, somebody else is gonna find it. I don't have time. I need to go out, take my family to sushi. I work full time job and you know, I'm not really crazy about the candidates running for office. And therefore I'm not gonna go out and vote. Our enemy is apathy on the right. So we cannot blame CARE for succeeding in what they're doing because their people are on fire. And it's not the big donors, it's the small donors who are funding the organization.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
It's scary. Act for America.org Bridget. Bridget. Gabriel. Always good to have you on, my friend. Keep. Keep up the good fight, my friend. Thank you. We need more people like you. Thank you, Bridget.
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Guest Speaker / Interviewee
Thank you. Have a great evening.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
All right, you too. All right, we'll be back. Two and a half minutes.
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Eric Bowling
What do you think makes the perfect snack?
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Hmm. It's gotta be when I'm really craving it and it's convenient.
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Eric Bowling
Could you be more specific?
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
When it's cravinient.
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Guest Speaker / Interviewee
Okay.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Like a freshly baked cookie made with real butter, available right down the street at a.m. p.m. Or a savory breakfast sandwich. I can Grab in just a second at a.m. pM.
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Eric Bowling
I'm seeing a pattern here.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Well yeah, we're talking about what I.
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Eric Bowling
Crave, which is anything from am pm.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
What more could you want? Stop by AM PM where the snacks and drinks are perfectly craveable and convenient. That's craziness. AMPM Too much good stuff. Backfire is putting it lightly. Democrats are making fools over of themselves over these Epstein files. Just another misstep brought on by their collective Trump derangement syndrome.
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Benjamin
Democrats have had spent six months talking.
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Eric Bowling
About Epstein even though they had four.
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Guest Speaker / Interviewee
Years to do something about it.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Now why would they do that?
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Eric Bowling
Why would they do that?
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Benjamin
Maybe it's to go after President Trump.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Maybe. Oh I get it. It's a rhetorical question. Maybe. How about Definitely Democrats are tripping and falling over themselves out of sheer desperation trying so hard to smear President Trump and all the MAGA and all the Republicans. What a sad little Democrat clown posse they've become. These Epstein files they've chosen to place at the epicenter of America have only further exposed the Democrat party for what it is. Corrupt, swampy and sad. And as always we have the receipts. Democrats have made a mess that they can't really, really back out of now. They can't Michael Jackson moonwalk out of it. After years they've chosen to suddenly care about these Epstein files in order to smear President Trump. But this is all backfiring on the Democrats with the Epstein trial. I'm sorry, trail leading where? Right back to them. This is a common theme with Democrats. It's sending the cockroaches scurrying after the lights turn out and these popcorn worthy performances. Ready for this? Ever since the story came out about how Jeffrey Epstein was working with Democrat Congresswoman Stacy Plaskett in real time during a 2019 hearing, it's been fun watching Democrats weasel their way out of yet another self own.
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Guest Speaker / Interviewee
And I got a text from Jeffrey Epstein who at the time was my.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Constituent, who was not public knowledge at that time that he was under federal investigation and.
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Guest Speaker / Interviewee
Who was sharing information with.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Me on the I messed up Riley. But Trump is yet another classic play out of their Captain Obvious playbook of crap Americans see right through. You want to talk about texting texting felons? How often do you text President Donald J. Trump? That's the individual we should be concerned about. And that guy Jamie Raskin. Possibly this is a tall order, but possibly one of the slimiest members of Congress there's a lot of them insist that Plaskett was just taking A phone call from one of her constituents. Well, they want to give them another headline, which is that they've arraigned a.
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Benjamin
Democratic member for taking a phone call.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
From her constituent Jeffrey Epstein in the middle of a hearing.
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Benjamin
And of course, I don't think there's.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Any rule here against taking phone calls in a hearing. No, just another phone call from one of her constituents, Jeffrey Epstein. Oh, hell, that's okay then. Nothing to see here, folks. But it was fun watching Stacy Plasket trying yet again to brush off her very friendly ties with Jeffrey Epstein and not back then.
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Eric Bowling
Last night, I believe that Jeffrey Epstein.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Had information and I was going to.
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Guest Speaker / Interviewee
Get information to get it.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
The truth.
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Guest Speaker / Interviewee
Having a friendship with him is not.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Something that I would deem to have.
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Guest Speaker / Interviewee
And so I'm just looking forward, I'm moving forward. And I think that that's what we as American people should do.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Well, in the immortal words of Marcia. Sure, Jan, but sure, let's just move on. Right. Stacey backfires, putting it lightly. And as you can always count on Jasmine Crockett to botch the facts in her defense of a corrupt colleague by trying to frame Trump Cabinet Secretary Lee Zeldin as someone who took money from Jeffrey Epstein. Except that, oops, that's not the right.
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Eric Bowling
Epstein, folks, who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein. As I had my team dig in very quickly. Mitt Romney, the NRCC, Lee Zeldin, George Bush win, Red McCain, Palin, Rick Lazio. I just want to be clear. If this is the standard that we gonna make, just know we gonna expose it all.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Okay, Jazzy. Okay, Jazz. Looks like Lee Zeldin enjoyed that particular Crockett gaff, pointing out that it was a different Epstein, a Dr. Jeffrey Epstein. And maybe one of the best moments of the week came last night in the form of utter humiliation for Crockett, who tried desperately to cover for her own mistake.
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Eric Bowling
Zelda there, he's now a cabinet secretary. He responded and said it was actually Dr. Jeffrey Epstein, who's a doctor that doesn't have any relation to the convicted sex trafficker. Unfortunate for that doctor, but that is who donated to a prior campaign of his. Do you want to correct the record on the people? I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein. Just so that people understand when you make a donation, your picture is not there.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
And.
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Eric Bowling
And because they decided to spring this on us in real time, I wanted the Republicans to think about what could potentially happen because I knew that they didn't even try to go through the fec. So my team, what they did is they googled. And that is specifically why I said a Jeffrey Epstein.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
You said Jeffrey Epstein, but then you said you said a Jeffrey out of your mind. Do the American people believe you, Jazzy? Nice try. Backfire is putting it lightly, folks, but it was the correct Jeffrey Epstein featured in the Epstein files who has ties to Hakeem Jeffries. Apparently Sunlight, of course, is the best disinfectant. And we've maintained from the very beginning that the American people just deserve the truth, the whole truth and nothing but.
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Benjamin
The truth as it relates to the Epstein files.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Another email shows Democrat fundraisers invited Epstein to an event or to meet privately with Hakeem Jeffries as part of their 2013 effort to to build to win a majority. So Hakeem Jefferies campaign solicited money from Jeffrey Epstein. That's what we found in the last document back. What about that, Jazzy Jasmine Crockett, you think of that? Your leader, your little House minority leader, soliciting money from the Jeffrey Epstein, not a Jeffrey Epstein. That's right. Epstein was invited to meet, as they called it, Brooklyn's Barack, also known as fake Obama, or we call him Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Interesting, right? Democrats are panicked now that their own Epstein connections are being exposed in 2013. Well after EPS, after he's convicted as a pedophile, went to jail, got out. Turns out that Hakeem's campaign solicited money from the Jeffrey Epstein. Yes, that Jeffrey Epstein, not a Jeffrey Epstein. That one. Interesting plasket Jeffrey's plate, as always. There's more. Newly released campaign finance records show that from 1990 to 1990 to 2018. So it was at 28 years, Epstein directed about 89% of his political donations to notable individual recipients including, oh, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and Chuck Schumer, just to name a few. Backfire. Putting it lightly. Want more? Why not? After President Trump ordered a DOJ investigation into leftist and Trump derangement syndrome victim Larry Summers relations with Epstein, Summers resigned from the board of Open AI and suddenly stepped back from his activities at Harvard. Even he had to mention it to the class. Some of you will have seen my statement of legrat expressing my shame with respect to to what I did in communication with Mr. Epstein. Karma's ain't it Backfire. Putting it lightly, folks, These people are so desperate to stick it to President Trump that they forget their own ties. Stones, glass houses. Hypocrites. They're really stepping in it, aren't they? And using this at every turn to try slam the President for Just doing his job is also top level, well, let's call it what it is, entertainment. The President is meeting with the Saudi prince. You know what America first means to me. How about meeting with the survivors? How about making sure that America's girls are not being raped? Interestingly, Democrats seem to care very little about girls being raped when it's being done by illegals or when it comes as the result of them letting boys into girls locker rooms and bathrooms. This party is so desperate to distract from their own failings and and destroy President Trump that they don't even notice their own hypocrisy when they say things like this to cover up their party's own crimes. You come to the House floor now that you've returned from your 7 week taxpayer funded vacation and come up with another stunt to try to distract the American people. Or perhaps you were ordered by your puppet master, Donald Trump, who wants to distract the American people today. How ironic, right? How ironic. The party that uses the Epstein files as a distraction every single time they lose a fight calling the Epstein files just a distraction. See that backfire. Putting it lightly, folks. Like I said, it's a popcorn worthy performance by the failing party of desperation every single time. And we're here for that. But we're gonna go away for a minute, two and a half minutes, and we'll be back right after this.
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Eric Bowling
Hey, this is Sarah. Look, I'm standing out front of a.m. p.m. Right now and well, you're sweet and all, but I found something more fulfilling, even kind of cheesy. But I like it. Sure, you met some of my dietary needs, but they've just got it all. So farewell oatmeal.
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Benjamin
So long.
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Eric Bowling
Use trained soggy.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Break up with bland breakfast and taste AM PM's bacon, egg and cheese biscuit made with K tree eggs, smoked bacon and melty cheese on a buttery biscuit. AM PM Too much Good stuff. What we talk about all the time. As many of you know, Americans are facing enormous financial pressure right now. Credit card debt in this country has surged past a trillion dollars in credit card debt alone. Interest rates are some of the highest we've seen ever. Families who work hard, pay taxes and do everything right are finding themselves drowning in monthly payments they can't escape. Joining us today to talk about real solutions is Melanie Picor, consumer finance advocate with iconic debt relief. Melanie, good to have you here. Americans have struggled before and then all of a sudden they find themselves underwater with credit card debt. Why is this happening so dramatically right now?
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Eric Bowling
Well, it really all boils down to pretty much everything except for pay going up. Right? So like, when's the last time most of us have seen a pay raise more than 1 to 3% annually. You know, interest rates have gone up, credit card on credit cards, personal loans, you know, which leads to of course, higher minimum payments, which most of us can't even afford to make double or triple those payments every single month. So we don't really see that debt move, you know, and then on top of that, we've got inflation, housing costs, groceries, everything going up except for our pay. So that's really what we're seeing. And it's just heartbreaking.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
And a lot of people can't manage it and they just, you know, they hit a certain lifestyle, they're doing things, and all of a sudden these things get more expensive. Pay doesn't match the. That's why interest rates, that's why inflation is the worst tax of all. As we say that we want inflation down. Melanie, what can I kind of debt relief do to help these folks?
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Eric Bowling
Well, it kind of really helps with consumers to understand their options and to enroll in legitimate structured debt relief programs. We aim to lower your monthly payments. We stop that constant feeling of that financial, financial pressure. I like to look at it as like a brick on your chest. Right. So we'll walk you through your financial situation. We look at it together, your goals. And of course, we want to remind people we're not a bank, but we are advocates here to listen, guide and help you.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
And so you're not a bank, but you guide and help you call. Do you also help negotiate with, with your creditors?
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Eric Bowling
Absolutely. You know, by the time we are speaking to you, most likely you've probably been paying on your credit cards. Minimum payments are a little higher for at least a few years, which adds up to you've pretty much paid your debt off, but your balance is the same. So we're going to negotiate to bring that down.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
How bad does it have to get before you pick up the phone and call iconic debt relief for help? I mean, if you're a little under underwater, do you do wait or just tell us? Maybe you call before you get too far underwater. What's, what's the recommendation?
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Eric Bowling
Either one. You know, unless you can personally, unless you can truly see that light at the end of the tunnel, like you have this big financial gain coming. It doesn't get better on its own. Right. So debt is really one of the greatest sources of stress, unfortunately, that people are facing today. You know, if you're feeling that mental strain you're feeling, relationship strains. You know, you're getting frustrated with friends, children and it, and you just kind of feel frozen. A lot of it is because debt is one of, if not the number one, stressor in life. So if you're feeling like you have nothing left at the end of the month, or you're laying there in bed wondering, what am I going to do with this bill? Can I move this bill around? So on and so forth, forth, stop worrying about it and start making a change. Give us a call. Right? It's, it's never too soon, it's never too late to make a change, to have that financial freedom.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
And we're putting the website and the phone number at the bottom of the screen right there, folks. Iconic debt relief.com use the promo code RAV TV. It looks like RAV TV is the promo code on that one. And they'll take care of you guys. Melly P. Cor, thank you so much for your time. Iconic Debt Relief. Thank you.
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Eric Bowling
Thank you.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
All right, folks, hide the booze, shield your portfolios, guard your China dollars, because Nancy Pelosi is on her farewell tour and, well, she's serving up some crazy interviews on her way out the door. So buckle up for some straight up doozies. Again, I'm not sure. Sounds like she's hitting the bottle once in a while. If we know anything about Nancy, one of the top questions, of course, is why now? Why retire now? Finally, enough millions made in insider trading. Something around $300 million for her and her husband as a congresswoman. Well, not really. Apparently, this is why now. Why go now?
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Guest Speaker / Interviewee
Why did I retire? Yeah, well, I've been eager to sort of go into another phase of life. For a while I thought Hillary Clinton was going to win in 2016 and the affordable Care act would be intact and our country would be in great hands. He was so qualified. And then that didn't happen. So we had to stay to make the fight. Now we're making the fight again.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
We had to stay. We had, you know, you know why now? She can't handle Trump. That's what it is. Nancy just can't seem to wrap her brain around the fact that America didn't want Hillary Clinton to be president back in 2016, not because she's a woman, but because she was a lying, corrupt, deep state swamp politician who ruined thousands.
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Guest Speaker / Interviewee
Of lives, set out to be Speaker.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Really? You thought there would be a woman president before speaker of the House? Why?
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Guest Speaker / Interviewee
Because I thought the American people were much more ready for a woman President, just the thought of it says, so exciting. And the message it sends to the world faster than there would be a woman speaker has this place. I mean it's, shall we say, oh.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
We'Re gonna miss her. We're gonna miss playing her sound bites and that, that little like little face she does. She does that thing. Of course. Wouldn't be an interview, it wouldn't be an interesting interview without a real unhealthy dose of slander, would it? Now Nancy makes sure to pedal the party line about how President Trump is not about the flag or the Constitution or something, whatever it is, which is rich coming from a woman who staged an insurrection and then a coup to remove a president from running again.
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Guest Speaker / Interviewee
And this is so sad because again, with liberty and justice for all pledged to the flag. And that's what our country is about. When you look at the experience that we're going through and you see that due process, forget about it, right? Independent judiciary, that's not what they believe in. And the Justice Department to be an arm, a political arm of the White House is really not what our founders had in mind in that oath of office that, that we take to pledge to protect the Constitution of the United States.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Benny Willis, Alvin Bragg, Letitia James goes on and on. Folks, you want to talk about litigious and removing the constitutional rights of a citizen, you guys did it, not Trump. Jasmine Crockett, she's just the Democrats party secret weapon, isn't she? Always firing lines on all cylinders, serving up some race baiting, bold faced lies. And above all else, she always does it with class, doesn't she? Here's your daily serving of Crockett, Jazzy Jasmine Crockett talking about propaganda on the network of propaganda to someone who traveled.
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Eric Bowling
This country as it relates to the election. I think that one of the things we've not done a really good job is of Israel communicating our wins, right? So a lot of times Democrats, their goal, their job is to get in there, put their heads down and make sure that they do the work. They haven't really been going around and doing the propaganda side of things.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Right, okay, sure, sure, sure. Jazz Also, Jasmine still just doesn't seem to understand why Americans so overwhelmingly chose President Trump.
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Eric Bowling
I don't understand why they like him so much because he clearly don't like them because when 42 million people and I know some of them had to be MAGA when they needed to line up to get their ebt and it wasn't, it wasn't nothing there, he didn't care so you know, I think that people need to get back to prioritizing themselves and their families and their future instead of being dragged to hell by this dude who obviously has them in a culture.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
This dude, that's your president, Congresswoman Jazzy Jasmine Crockett. The other Democrat party secret weapon is our second favorite little socialist. Sorry aoc, but Zoran Mandani is our new favorite. We think when he lies through his creepy commie smile to get votes, just a lot more effective. Well, here's AOC saying things about AI and health care to try and sound smart again. My colleague from Massachusetts mentioned the level of AI lobbying that occurs here in Congress.
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Guest Speaker / Interviewee
Should this bubble pop.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
We should not be entertaining a bailout.
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Eric Bowling
We should not entertain a bailout of these corporations.
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Guest Speaker / Interviewee
As health care is being denied to everyday Americans, as SNAP and food assistance is being denied to everyday Americans, precipitating.
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Eric Bowling
Some of the very mental crises that people are turning to AI chatbots to.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
To try to resolve. Your EBT card is not working because of Democrats in Congress and now it's causing some mental duress on people. So they are turning to chat GPT to spaghetti up here folks. Can I please be a fly on the wall when our border czar Tom Homan hears what New York City Mayor elect Zoran Mamdani has to say about Tom Homan coming into the Big Apple to remove illegals. Watch this and what you did see play out a couple weeks ago.
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Benjamin
What is your response to Tom Homan.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Who yesterday said we'll be back. I will tell Tom Homan what I will tell anyone who asks, which is the fact that I am looking forward to representing the entirety of this city. And this city is also an immigrant city. It's a city that's proud of its immigrants heritage. It's proud of the fact that so.
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Benjamin
Many from across the world find their.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Home in this city.
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Benjamin
And we will protect those New York.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
As we protect every New Yorker. One more. Not that we need any more evidence that the left is filled with pure evil and hate, but Charlie Kirk's assassination seemed to bring out the worst in them. But in case you weren't fully sure of that, here's leftist Sam Harris blaming MAGA for Kirk's murder.
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Benjamin
A political assassination is, is genuinely dangerous because we are so combustible as a society. And the fact that we're this combustible.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
A lot of the onus goes to, I mean it goes to both sides. But I would put most of the.
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Benjamin
Onus, as will not surprise you, on.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
The President and his Cult Kirk gets assassinated. Trump assassination attempts times two. Supreme Court justice assassination attempt. I mean, where are these? They just try and gaslight us, folks. They just lie. Lie through the teeth. We'll be back two and a half minutes. So every Thursday we drop a new episode of the Edge. And today we dropped yet another one. This morning, it's already blowing up. I tackle the topic men almost never talk about but millions quietly think about every single day. It's about competition, it's about pressure and what guys are really doing to stay sharp and competitive in today's very competitive business landscape. If you haven't seen it yet, gotta check out the Edge on YouTube. Trust me, this one is different. Look what we are doing here. Look at the full screen right now. You can do that one, but show me the other one with the numbers. There you go. 5, 500 subscribers now 5520. Almost 3, 000 watch hours in just seven or eight weeks because of you. 150 times faster than the YouTube average new show. We're growing like crazy. The other screen, you just point your camera at that QR code, hit the yellow line. You subscribe. Now I'm asking. This means very, very much to me, to us. Because it tells YouTube that we're. We're liked. We're developing something that people want to see. We're growing fast and it pushes it out to more people. You'll be the first. The ground floor of a platform. I. I'm telling you, this thing is going to catch fire. It's going to be a huge platform. YouTube.com EricVolling the Edge YouTube.com Eric@ Eric Bowling the Edge Please subscribe. Thank you for your viewership. Thank you for your support by subscribing. You support us and the Edge and you're going to love it. You're just going to love it. I'm sure of it. All right, we got some voicemails. Ben, we got some bandits not available, right? We can do some voicemails. Yes, sir.
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Eric Bowling
We can do some voicemails.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
There it is. There. Look at that control. Look at those handsome devils in the control room. There they are. Where's that? Where's the cowboy at Mad Dog? Come on, man. All right, what do you got, Ben? We have a viewer who says military members and congress members who disobey the orders should be charged with trustees treason. Hello, Eric. This is Terry Sheridan in Black Florida.
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Benjamin
I believe that all these congressmen who advocating military disobey orders should be tried for treason. And any generals that go along with.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Them I think it bank mistaken. The Supreme Court is the one who decides what's illegal, not Congressman.
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Benjamin
That's all I wanted to say.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
You got a good show and I appreciate watching. Goodbye, Goodbye, goodbye. Thank you, sir. Appreciate that very much. Yet, if you disobey superior's orders, it is technically treason. They should be punished for that. And by the way, we talked about this yesterday. When Trump removes illegals from the country, we have activist judges that probably know what he's doing is constitutional, but they try and stop it through the courts. The Supreme Court has ruled twice on this now that twice they stopped Trump's deportations. Supreme Court said, no, no, you can't stop it. It's constitutional. So anyone who tells the military to stop or don't do what they're told to do because of deportations or ice, that could be criminal. That literally could be criminal. These congressmen and senators who said it, I think they should bring them up, bring them up on charges. Benjamin.
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Eric Bowling
Yes, sir. We have a viewer asking why Democrats.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Are allowed to actively sabotage Trump. Hey, I want to thank you guys for all the great work you guys do. You know, I just want to bring.
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Benjamin
Up, you know, if the Democrats will get behind Trump, imagine what he could do then, you know, it should be illegal for Democrats to constantly try and get him impeached and get him caught.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Up in some hoopla. It's just, it's disgusting. You know, it breaks your heart.
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Benjamin
It's not the America I grew up.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
In, that's for sure.
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Benjamin
But anyway, I appreciate the work you guys are doing.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
Thank you. Now. Thank you. Thank you for the comment. Yeah. Can you imagine if Trump had the support of at least a portion of the Democrat Party? I mean, what he's getting done is amazing. And I still contend, whether you believe he lost in 2020 or not, whatever happened for those four years from 2020 to 2024 got him so riled up, he realized he was going to come out of the box fast. And he has. He has. That's why. That's why these midterms are really, really important. Otherwise, we have one, effectively one more year of what Trump is doing. If we lose the midterms to, if the House goes Democrat in the midterms, you've effectively, you've made Trump a lame duck two years too soon. Let's hope they don't do that. He really needs to get the affordability, the inflation numbers down. Ben, we got time.
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Eric Bowling
Yes, we do.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
We have a frustrated viewer wondering why Dems seem to get away with everything.
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Eric Bowling
Hi, Eric. Love your show. I am just beyond bewildered about why the Dems get away with everything they do. And Joe Biden got away with raping the one of the girls that worked there in the White House when he was there. Not the White House, the Congress. So if you have any clues, give me a shout out. And everybody else who's worried about this thing. Yeah, there was evidence and lots of it. Thanks, Eric.
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Eric Bowling (Host/Main Speaker)
So not only that, you're right. Democrats say, by the way, it's both sides. Let's be honest. They get to the swamp, they get to D.C. and their whole mentality changes. It's how can I get reelected again? What can I do? How much money can I grift off of what? What can I take? What can. How much. How much can I pull in for my next election or for my livelihood? I mean, Nancy Pelosi walks into Congress and walks out with $300 million. Others have walked in broke and walked out with 5, 5. $10 million on $174,000. It's insane. I'll tell you, there's a dirty little secret. We should find this number. We should have someone talk about it. Maybe get. Get Mike Benzon or. So there's about $100 million that's been spent paying off sexual harassment claims against Congress members. Paying them off to shut them up. We're worried about Epstein. How about the dozens, if not more, creepy congressmen and women who've used taxpayer money to pay off victims of their sexual harassment? Let's expose them. Let's find out who they are. Right. Let's do this. We want Epstein. Fine. Get Epstein. But get these guys. Too many. That was good. There's a couple of nice questions in there. Maybe you get a few more tomorrow. Everyone good? Everyone good in control room? Thumbs up. Thumbs up, guys. All right, we will see you tomorrow. Is this Thursday? Yeah. We have show Friday, then the weekend. Have a great night. Warm is up next. Always tell Bandon, come on, let's do these tosses. And we'll have a lot more fun when he's on the toss, too. Have a great night. Worm bowling out. Warm up next.
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Eric Bowling
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