Real America’s Voice: Bolling! – September 30th, 2025

Podcast: Real America’s Voice
Host: Eric Bolling
Date: September 30, 2025
Episode Theme: Unfiltered coverage and analysis of US markets, Iran sanctions, Trump’s executive action on childhood cancer, pharmaceutical price reforms, digital IDs, and government shutdown politics, featuring notable guests and emotionally powerful real-life stories.

Overview

This episode dives into a busy news day from a Real America’s Voice perspective, covering financial markets, major foreign policy developments around Iran and new sanctions, a White House event focusing on an executive order to fight childhood cancer using AI and data, sweeping reforms to drug pricing, and a monologue warning about digital IDs as a threat to freedom. The show combines expert commentary, interviews with opposition figures, and deeply affecting parent and child testimonies from within the White House. Political analysis, particularly around the government shutdown showdown, is interwoven throughout.

Key Segments & Highlights

1. Opening: Market Update & Economic Analysis

Timestamps: [01:35]–[03:58]

• The host tracks end-of-quarter market movements, recounting historically weak Septembers but celebrating robust growth this year:
  • “All four of the Biden years, including one end of Trump’s term in 2020... September has been historically very weak — down 4% across the board... This September, up 4% in the S&P, 5% in the NASDAQ. Very, very strong markets going into the fourth quarter.” (Bolling, [03:15])
• Brief coverage of movements in oil and metals prices.
• Notes on hedge fund behavior and end-of-quarter positioning.

2. Deep Dive: Iran Sanctions & Opposition Guest (Alireza Jafar)

Timestamps: [03:58]–[13:50]

Iran Sanctions Snapback & Protest Movement

• Return of stringent sanctions on the Iranian regime after a decade, with assets frozen internationally and strategic implications for US interests outlined.
• Special guest: Alireza Jafar, Deputy Director, National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

Highlights from Alireza Jafar:

• Massive Iranian diaspora protest during the Iranian president’s visit to the UN:
  • “[Iranians] rallied in front of the United Nations saying... Iran is not recognized by its ruthless leaders. Rather, Iran is recognized by its democratic alternative headed by a woman, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi...” ([04:20])
• On the global relationship with Iran’s regime vs. the alternative:
  • “The world... tried to reach out to the Iran regime, giving them concessions, giving them pallets of cash... We’re saying that era is over and must be over.” ([06:45])
• Calls for non-military support, emphasizing internal change led by Iranians themselves.
• Details the NCRI’s exposure of Iran’s nuclear sites and the group’s 10-point platform, focusing on democracy and secular government.
• Acknowledges the movement’s willingness to recognize Israel as part of Middle East peace ([07:54]).
• “Any way you pin hopes on the mullahs... you’re not going to get anywhere... This regime in nature is anti-human.” ([08:48])
• Recent “snapback” of UN sanctions by European nations ([10:22]) and challenges in sustaining isolation, given recent US policy shifts.

Host Interjections:

• Criticism of past US presidents for releasing Iranian funds and skepticism about ensuring such moves don’t recur under future administrations.
• “How do we ensure this time that a Democrat president down the road can't say, here, Iran, here's $200 billion?” (Bolling, [12:01])

3. Main Event: White House Executive Order on Childhood Cancer & Drug Pricing Reform

Timestamps: [13:53]–[40:30]

Featured Moment: White House Press Event

• President Trump, administration officials, medical experts, pharma CEOs, and families gather to spotlight:
  1. An executive order leveraging AI/data to accelerate cures for pediatric cancers.
  2. Sweeping reforms in prescription drug price negotiation.

Key Voices & Quotes:

• Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (pediatric/cancer expert):

  • “This year, nearly 9,500 children will be diagnosed with cancer in the US... In the mid-1970s, the five year survival for cancer was 58%. Today... 85%... But I say that 85% is still too low. We need to be at 100.” ([16:31])
  • “By uniting families, clinicians and researchers, by harnessing the power of AI, CCDI will accelerate diagnosis, inform treatment, and develop the next generation of life saving therapies. This is not about collecting data alone. It’s about giving families hope.” ([18:39])

• President Trump:

  • “No family should have to fight cancer without dated tools or without access to the very best science...” ([14:51])
  • “We're going to be lowering drug prices by 50, 100, 200, even 500%. Even a thousand... we have one coming up next week, a big one, a thousand percent reduction in price.” ([21:11])
  • “We're building a future where every child's data contributes to faster diagnosis. Artificial intelligence helps us uncover faster, more precise treatments, improve quality of life and better survival.” (paraphrased, [18:00–19:45])

• Parents & Children Testifying:

  • Josh Armstrong (father, West Virginia):
    • Heartbreaking description of daughter Laurel’s cancer battle:
    • “We wondered why there aren't better treatments available... what might happen if she doesn't get the drugs she needs... why isn't anybody doing more? What you're doing today gives parents like me... hope.” ([36:01])
    • Laurel is now in remission.
  • Carolyn Hendricks (16, Ewing sarcoma survivor):
    • “What you’re doing today, Mr. President, means that kids like me will get better options and so much more hope for the future... For kids, every day counts. This order shows that our lives matter enough to be first in line for innovation.” ([37:15–37:48])
  • Ailani Myers (9, leukemia survivor):
    • Highlights her cross-country search for treatment and thanks the President:
    • “Thank you, Mr. President, for making everything happen today.” ([38:34])

• Linda McMahon (cabinet): Emotional tribute to her daughter’s dedication in advancing pediatric research.

Pharmaceutical Reform Details:

• Senior official:
  • “We will have most favored nation drug pricing... by the end of the president's term, 95% of all pharmaceutical drugs in America will be at most favored nation pricing.” ([21:33])
  • Pfizer and other companies have also agreed to onshore drug production ([22:35]).

Political & Social Commentaries:

• Questions from press about potential government shutdown and trade schools, with Trump criticizing Democrats and extolling tariffs and American industrial resurgence ([23:45–28:11]).
• “No country can afford to pay for illegal immigration, health care for everybody that comes into the country. And that's what [Democrats] are insisting.” (Trump, [24:10])

4. Segment: Digital ID, Surveillance & Globalism

Timestamps: [41:56]–[47:59]

• Host Monologue:
  • Strong warning against adoption of digital IDs following announcements in the UK.
  • Ties digital ID and cashless society to globalist ambitions and loss of personal freedom.
  • “Digital ID was the first step China took and it's the foundation of their social credit system. Now it's a surveillance state… Think it can't happen here? Think again.” (Bolling, [44:17])
  • Features a clip of RFK Jr.'s warning: “It’s been the ambition of every totalitarian state… to control every aspect of behavior, of conduct, of thought and to obliterate dissent… the mechanisms are being put in place.” (RFK Jr., [44:43])
  • Critiques Bill Gates and World Economic Forum as pushing the infrastructure for digital control.

5. Correspondent Check-In: White House Reporter Brian Glenn

Timestamps: [53:32]–[59:04]

• Brian Glenn recounts the day’s historic events and the emotional nature of the White House’s health announcements:
  • “I got about five text messages during this broadcast from parents who had kids that were either survived cancer or they're currently treating their kids for cancer. And this is a game changer.” ([56:08])
  • Reiterates skepticism that Trump will get credit from critics even for curing cancer.

6. Final Political Analysis: Looming Government Shutdown

Timestamps: [59:04]–[60:13]

• Host and Glenn discuss the shutdown standoff, with Trump blaming Democrats' stance on funding for illegal immigrants’ health care.
  • “Let the government shut down, point the finger at the Democrats... government gets bigger. I say shut it down and get a balanced budget. God, would that be amazing.” (Bolling, [59:04])

Notable Quotes & Moments

• “The people of Iran are capable to bring about change. All the rest of the world need to do... is that don’t give money and arms and legitimacy to the Iranian regime... The rest of it, the people of Iran can do it.”
  — Alireza Jafar, [04:52]

• “This regime [Iran] in nature is anti-human. And it’s not just anti-democratic, they’re anti-human. So they need to be removed.”
  — Alireza Jafar, [08:48]

• “No family should have to fight cancer without outdated tools or without access to the very best science.”
  — President Trump, [14:51]

• “Today, we commit to taking this work to the next level. With this executive order... we’re building a future where every child’s data contributes to faster diagnosis [and] artificial intelligence helps us uncover faster, more precise treatments.”
  — Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, [18:39]

• “What you’re doing today gives parents like me... the one thing we most desperately need. And that’s hope.”
  — Josh Armstrong, parent, [36:20]

• “Digital ID was the first step China took and it’s the foundation of their social credit system. Now it’s a surveillance system... Think it can’t happen here? Think again.”
  — Eric Bolling, [44:17]

Episode Structure & Key Timestamps

• [01:35] Market wrap and context for September’s strong results
• [03:58] Iran sanctions explained; analysis with NCRI guest
• [13:53] White House: Trump, AI, and cancer; pharmaceutical pricing reform
• [31:33] “Trump could cure cancer...”—host and press reflect on political climate
• [35:27]–[40:30] Raw parent and survivor stories: Laurel, Carolyn, Ailani, others
• [41:56] Digital ID warning: UK policies, global trends, tech dangers
• [53:32] Brian Glenn on White House announcements and parent feedback
• [59:04] Shutdown politics—host sign-off

Tone and Delivery

• Direct, impassioned, and often emotional, especially moving when spotlighting families battling childhood cancer.
• Unapologetically anti-establishment and populist, critical of “globalist” structures, Democrats, and elites.
• Strong emphasis on “American values,” sovereignty, and resistance to centralized authority or surveillance technology.

Summary

This episode weaves together market optimism, urgent foreign policy concerns (Iran), historically significant White House action on health/childhood cancer, and warnings about digital IDs. Emotional testimonies from cancer survivors and their families provided a striking human counterpoint to political and policy discussions. Commentary remains sharply aligned with Real America’s Voice’s themes: skepticism of centralized power, transparency, and a celebratory framing of “America First” reforms. The show concludes with a blend of hope—in advancements in health and policy—and warnings about threats to freedom, urging vigilance against new forms of control and celebrating American innovation and resilience.