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What an event and look at all of the friends of the podcast who is part. FOR KING AND COUNTRY, Jon and Andy Erwin, Kevin Downes, and Madeline Carroll are all participating. All FRIENDS OF THE ED BOSTON PODCAST!

This event will be announcing the creation of Kingdom Studios – a new entertainment content company in association with Lionsgate which is coming from the Erwin Brothers, Kevin Downes, and Tony Young.

Kingdom, a partnership between the creators of hits such as I CAN ONLY IMAGINE and Lionsgate^TM will reveal its unprecedented lineup of content exclusively at Proclaim 19, NRB’s International Christian Media Convention, on Wednesday, March 27. Convention attendees will be treated to a unique Super Session as Kingdom unveils its full slate of films with a celebrity lineup including Jon and Andy Erwin, Kevin Downes, Jeremy Camp, for KING & COUNTRY, Greg Laurie, Madeline Carroll, and an executive from Lionsgate.

“Following the success of I CAN ONLY IMAGINE, which was the number one independent film of 2018, we want to create quality entertainment with a partner that offers the widest possible audience,” said Kevin Downes, one of the creators of Kingdom along with Jon and Andy Erwin and Tony Young.

The company recently announced I STILL BELIEVE, the uplifting true-life story of Christian music megastar Jeremy Camp, as their next film.

Known for inspirational stories and epic cinematography, the Erwin Brothers have achieved the rare A+ CinemaScore twice, on I CAN ONLY IMAGINE and WOODLAWN. Past films from Erwins/Downes have all opened in the top 10 movies in America.

Kingdom is honored to serve as a Diamond Sponsor of Proclaim 19. The Kingdom Super Session will be held March 27 at 4 p.m. For more information visit KingdomIsComing.com.

In the past, doing a Mid-Term Review show was normally done the night of the election. The most recent national elections show that it’s difficult to call many of the races until the early hours of Wednesday, with some not being able to be called for weeks.

With that in mind, our Mid-Term Review show will take place on Wednesday. Hopefully, there will be a more complete look at what actually took place today and with very little speculation.

One difference it the show this year, it will be done by video. This way, we will be able to show visuals.

Here is the link to our interview with Ephraim Mattos on iHeartRadio.

The following has been released since our actual interview took place one day last week. Below that is the actual video of Ephraim being shot and following that is the promotion for City of Death.

Former US Navy SEAL, Ephraim Mattos, has responded to comments made this week by Don Lemon on CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time.

“We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them.” — Don Lemon on CNN (October 29, 2018)

Here is Mattos’ response:

After surviving three wars, a gunshot wound, a near-fatal drowning, a failed parachute, Taliban ambushes, ISIS snipers, mortars, mine-fields, suicide bombers and laying down my life for the cause of freedom while fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with my brother Arabs, Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Animists, and Atheists, I have now returned home to the USA where a CNN host has labeled me as a radicalized right-wing terrorist simply because of my gender and the color of my skin.

I represent just one of the hundreds of thousands of conservative white men who have fought to preserve freedom in this great Nation and in other nations.  My forefathers are the 3% who founded this Republic against the might of the British Army.  It was white Conservative men who died by the tens of thousands after charging into our southern states to free our black brothers from the slavery imposed on them by the Liberal left.  We were the ones who acknowledged that women have a right to vote.  We held the line in WWI and charged the beaches of Normandy in WWII.  We have fought for freedom and liberty for generations and we continue to do so today alongside all of our brothers and sisters regardless of their race or religion.

In the early 1930s, Hitler said the same thing about the Jews that Don Lemon of CNN just said about white men.  This is the true face of the Democratic Party.  First, they enslaved and killed blacks, and now they use them to spew hatred and lies against the very people who have fought for generations to free them and uplift them.

Remember that when you go to vote.

One final thought: To make a point, I have referred to myself as a “white male” in the previous sentences multiple times, but I must make it clear that I identify as simply “American,” not as “white” or “male” or “Republican.”

Although blatantly racist and hateful, do not let Don Lemon’s ignorant words drive you into viewing yourself only by your race and religion.  Identity politics does not lead to freedom.  It only leads to hatred and division and an “us vs. them” mentality.

If CNN does not fire Don Lemon immediately, it only goes to show that they are truly the “enemy of the people.”

— Ephraim Mattos, Former US Navy SEAL

Former US Navy SEAL Ephraim Mattos teamed up with New York Times bestselling author Scott McEwen (American Sniper) to write the upcoming book, City of Death: Humanitarian Warriors in the Battle of Mosul — available everywhere on October 23 from Center Street / Hachette Book Group. City of Death tells the unforgettable story of an American warrior turned humanitarian forced to fight his way into and out of a Hell on Earth created by ISIS.

City of Death is the true story of Ephraim Mattos and what he witnessed while volunteering as a frontline combat medic during the historic battle to retake Mosul from ISIS – the deadliest urban combat the world has seen since WWII.

After leaving the US Navy SEAL teams in 2017, Mattos, age 24, flew to Iraq to join a small group of volunteer humanitarians known as the Free Burma Rangers, who were working on the frontlines of the war on ISIS.

Until being shot by ISIS on a suicidal rescue mission, Mattos witnessed unexplainable acts of courage and sacrifice by the Free Burma Rangers, who, while under heavy machine gun and mortar fire, assaulted across ISIS minefields, used themselves as human shields and sprinted down ISIS-infested streets – all to retrieve wounded civilians.

In City of Death, Mattos recounts in vivid detail what he saw and felt while he and the other Free Burma Rangers evacuated the wounded, conducted rescue missions, and at times fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the Iraqi Army against ISIS. Filled with raw and emotional descriptions of what it’s like to come face-to-face with death, this is the harrowing and uplifting true story of a small group of men who risked everything to save the lives of the Iraqi people and who followed the credence, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

This picture should anger any person with a conscience!

This is from JACKSON, MS (WLBT) – Pictures of the Forest Hill High School halftime band performance during their game against Brookhaven High School are going viral on social media. Many are saying the performance depicted students dressed as doctors and nurses holding SWAT team members at gunpoint. Two Brookhaven police officers were killed in the line of duty responding to a shots fired call last week.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME???

I first thought that surely this must be a made-up story like we so often see on Social Media. Two police officers were killed there in the line of duty last week and this happens.

Each staff member that had ANY involvement in this needs to be immediately fired! And for the students involved, I’m shocked that they didn’t either report what they had planned or just refuse to participate in such a despicable performance. I will take it a step further and say that if they were in this unbelievable display of hate and intolerance, they should be suspended from school.

There is no explanation that would make this acceptable! I don’t care if this was their excuse: 

Reports said the performance was based loosely on the movie “John Q,” in which a father played by Denzel Washington takes patients at a hospital hostage in order to secure treatment for his son.

Law enforcement is under attack – and that must stop!

Memorial Day is all about the memory of those brave men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our great nation. Today, as I had the privilege to speak about the history of Memorial Day,  I also had the honor of talking with a 93-Year-Old World War II Veteran. I’ll call this hero Mr. S and I will try to share with you what a joy it was talking with this member of “The Greatest Generation”.

The picture above was taken just before Mr. S was about to depart from New York Harbor on his way to LaHavre, France when he was 19 years old. After heading to Germany to the Reception Center near Cologne, Mr. S was assigned to the 35 Infantry Division Signal Company.

Once the hostilities in Germany concluded, our hero arrived back in New York after being transported on the Queen Mary.  He was discharged from the Army in July 1946 at Fort Sheridan, IL with the rank of Sergeant.

Mr. S proudly showed me this polo shirt that shows the medals that he earned while serving our great nation.

The thing that I noticed the most about Mr. S was that he totally knows the true meaning of Memorial Day. You see, Mr. S reminded me that there were those he served with didn’t come home alive. Yes, that’s what Memorial Day is all about.

As a final note, you might wonder how I got all of these specific details about Mr. S and his time in service. He showed me his Military Service Record that included all the information. I love any time I get to spend with a World War II hero. Mr. S made this solemn day one that I will remember forever.