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July 21, 2023 - The StoneZONE - Roger Stone
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Sound of Freedom Producer/Actor Eduardo Verástegui Joins Roger Stone in The StoneZONE
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And now, Lindell TV brings you The Stone Zone, with legendary Republican strategist and political icon, and pundit, Roger Stone.
Stone has served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents.
He is a New York Times best-selling author, and a longtime friend and advisor of President Donald Trump.
As an outspoken libertarian, Stone has appeared on thousands of broadcasts, spoken at countless venues, and lectured before the prestigious Oxford Political Union and the Cambridge Union Society.
Due to his four-plus decades in the political and cultural arena, Stone has become a pop culture icon.
And now, here's your host, Roger Stone!
Welcome, I'm Roger Stone, and yes, you are back in the Stone Zone.
Thank God it's Friday.
Sound of Freedom is the number one movie in America.
It grossed over $41 million at the box office in its first full week after theatrical release.
It has now taken in $100 million.
Thanks to the extraordinary technology being used by Angel's Pay It Forward process, fans can buy other fans tickets And this movie is having an extraordinary impact.
Joining us now to talk about it is a friend of mine, Eduardo Verrastegui, who I met several years ago in Miami when we both attended a Latin Mass.
He told me then he was going to make this movie.
He told me it was going to have this kind of impact.
From his mouth to God's ear, you have this enormous success.
Eduardo, welcome to the Stone Zone.
Get me Roger Stone!
Hermano, thank you so much.
Thank you so much for your friendship.
Thank you so much for your leadership.
And thank you so much for this interview.
I am just so happy.
I'm living the American dream and the Mexican dream at the same time.
What can I say?
Grateful, grateful, grateful.
That is amazing.
I must say that you look great, you sound great, it was great to connect with you in Palm Beach at the Turning Point USA conference last weekend.
I know that they had a special showing Wednesday night at President Donald Trump's exclusive golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
I was invited, unfortunately I couldn't make it, but it really looked like a great time.
Tell me, how was it?
Oh, it was a dream.
It was a dream.
Again, as I mentioned before, I'm living the American dream.
I never imagined eight years ago when I met Tim Baller in Los Angeles, California, when he told me in details what these children are going through in the whole world, especially in Mexico and United States.
United States is the number one consumer of child sex in the world and child pornography and drugs.
And Mexico is the number one provider of those three.
So, of course, when you hear things like this, you cannot look the other way around.
You have to do something.
And I wanted to do something.
And I told Tim Ballard, what can we do, brother?
I'm a filmmaker.
I have a weapon of mass instruction and inspiration.
Movies.
Movies can move people.
And right there, he said, before you commit, I need to tell you one thing.
I have a lot of friends, Eduardo.
I work with a lot of ex-Navy SEALs, ex-FBI agents, CIA agents, and we travel around the world undercover rescuing children.
So we have a lot of friends, but we have a lot of enemies.
And those enemies will be yours.
Are you sure you want to do this?
And I closed my eyes in that moment and I said, what if this is my son?
What if this is my daughter?
What would I do?
I will stop everything that I'm doing and I will hope that the entire world will stop everything they're doing so they can help me to find my son or my daughter, right?
So that's my motivation.
I don't want to wait until this tragedy comes to me for me to wake up.
I need to wake up now because God reveals to me this information through Tim Ballard.
So I said, brother, I welcome your enemies.
Let's do this together.
Let's start the movement, the Sound of Freedom movement right now.
I never imagined eight years later, I'm sitting down next to the President Trump, President 45 watching the movie with his friends and family.
It was just, uh, it was beautiful, especially because he's been a leader who has been fighting to end child trafficking.
In his administration, you know, those numbers went down because we have a big problem in the border.
These children are being trafficked right in the border, especially now.
This administration with President, uh, Well, not my president, Joe Biden.
Seems like he's helping the traffickers, the cartels.
He's doing everything.
He's making everything possible for them.
Make it very easy.
So we, I mean, I know that if President Trump wins again, and he will, we will work together to end child trafficking because we need to make America and Mexico free again.
We need to make America and Mexico great again, Roger.
Folks, if you haven't heard of the movie Sound of Freedom, well, you must be living under a rock.
This is a thriller based on the incredible true story of Tim Ballard, a former government agent turned freedom fighter, who embarks on a dangerous mission to rescue dozens of children from human trafficking.
This emotionally riveting narrative is a powerful story of heroism and it stands Very different than any other movie because evil is beaten by good.
That good succeeds.
That's a theme you don't see much in Hollywood.
We've got a very exciting trailer.
Let's run it right now.
How'd that make you feel?
Giving a child his freedom.
Felt good.
You have been at this for 12 years.
Why are you doing it?
Because God's children are not for sale.
It is the fastest growing international crime network that the world has ever seen.
For homeland security, you know we can't go off rescuing Honduran kids in Colombia.
This job tears you to pieces.
And this is my one chance to put those pieces back together.
And yet, somehow, you have failed to bring me one real-world lead.
It's over, Tim.
Close up, and come back home.
So you quit your job and you go and rescue those kids.
South of that river is all rebel territory.
No one goes in.
What if this was your daughter?
So, she's gone.
Hear that? - That's The Sound of Freedom.
The Sound of Freedom is one of those films that can legitimately change this world.
So we want to ignite a fire in audiences and open their eyes to the dark reality of millions of children that need our help.
Let's make this film a historic event and the start of the end of child trafficking.
Theaters across this country are already selling out.
Pre-order your tickets today and you can send the message that God's children are no longer for sale.
That is incredibly powerful filmmaking.
I was really honored to shake Tim Ballard's hand this past weekend in Palm Beach.
Of course, I know Jim Caviezel.
I always thought he was extraordinary in The Passion of the Christ.
And I understand that you and he and everybody involved here, although you're achieving great things, there is unfortunately a cost.
In other words, the fake news media, the jackals in the fake news media, Rolling Stone, The Huffington Post, other names too vile to even mention, they insist that this is some kind of fantasy.
They insist that you and I and Jim Caviezel and anybody Who's concerned about the atrocity of child sex trafficking, that we're members of QAnon, that this is some fever dream on our part.
But tell us about the reality of child sex trafficking, Eduardo.
Well, hermano, you know, this is ridiculous what these people are doing.
They should apologize to so many children that are dying right now.
I mean, we're talking about millions of children kidnapped every year in the world, and these kids are being Rape 10 to 15 times a day, Roger.
I mean, this is the most, I mean, this is the worst evil that's happening in the world right now for many years.
And then after they've been raped for many years, 10 to 15 times a day, after that, they're not fresh meat anymore.
That's, that's the kind of vocabulary that these perverts use.
So they go to the next business.
Some of them, you know, they kill them, they open them and they sell their organs.
This is true.
It's happening.
Not far from you.
Everywhere.
It's a global problem, as I mentioned before.
Especially US and Mexico.
It's happening.
It's happening every day.
In Mexico, more than 57 children disappear every day.
Those are the official numbers.
I think there's a lot more.
Every 20 minutes, one more, and then one more, and then one more.
21,000 a year.
Every 30 seconds, one child disappears in the world.
So this is something that You know, evil triumphs when good people remain silent.
But when good people remain silent, they're not good people anymore because they're part of the problem.
So we need to raise our voices.
We need to be the voice of those who cannot defend themselves.
Those who doesn't have a voice.
We adults, we need to assume our responsibility.
They're the future.
They're the future.
Children are the future.
This is not political.
I don't care if you're left, right, up and down.
Children Are the most precious, you know, this is, it breaks my heart when someone put politics, you know, or their whatever, you know, ideologies on top of this.
And I always use this, this analogy of this little house full of children and, and, you know, it's on fire.
And then from one direction, this fire truck is coming.
From another direction, this other fire truck is coming, and another fire truck is coming, and another one.
And when they get there, they start arguing.
They start arguing.
They're saying, one driver to the other driver, no, this is my territory.
The other driver says, no, this is my territory.
The other driver says, no, you want my commission.
You're a thief.
No, you're a thief.
No, this is my zip code.
No, they change it.
No, you're a thief, you're a thief.
When they finish arguing, the kids are dead.
The children are dead.
What they should have done to extinguish the fire is to put their water host right from the beginning out and finish with the fire and save the children.
And then they can continue with the arguments and the debates after.
But they did the most important thing, which is to save the children.
Well, millions of children right now are on fire.
And my invitation to all the leaders, all the presidents around the world, the Supreme Court judges, governors, candidates from both parties, it doesn't matter.
It's about bringing our water host out, extinguish the fire, and save the children.
Because God's children are not for sale.
So when these journalists are saying that this is not true, first of all, QAnom or whatever the name is, didn't exist when I met Tim Ballard eight years ago.
That thing didn't exist.
So these guys are professional liars.
The pedophile industry, they don't want this film to be successful.
But it's too late, Roger DeLong.
The movement started.
More than 5 million people show up the first two weeks.
And it's growing.
The movement of Sound of Freedom is growing and growing and growing.
We received like 700 emails the other day from every single country around the world wanting this film in their countries.
So there is no way they can stop this.
I mean, they can take me, they can take Tim or Jim.
They cannot take millions of people that right now are saying enough is enough.
God's children are not for sale.
We will end this.
We will put pressure in government because I told Tim Ballard from the beginning, hermano, if you have the most powerful country in the world, United States, you have the technology.
You have the intelligence, the army, the police.
I mean, everything.
Why don't we finish this problem once and for all?
And he said, because it's not a priority.
And I'm not the solution, Eduardo, for this.
I mean, I can be the solution for one child.
Thank God you saved one child.
You saved the world.
Thank God I can be the solution for the thousands.
3,000, 4,000, 7,000.
We're talking about millions.
This is beyond us.
This is too big.
We need a movement.
And that's when I realized eight years ago that movies, you know, they can move people and movies, when they are used, when they use it in the right way, you can start movements with one movie.
And I can believe that our dream came true eight years later.
This movement is growing and growing and growing and We are going to show the movie in Capitol Hill to all the Congress.
The Speaker of the House will host this screening.
It's going to be on July 25th.
And I hope this film will touch Washington.
Because if you touch Washington, not only you touch the United States, you touch the world.
Because the most important decision makers in the world They live in Washington.
So if someone can finish this problem, you know, we'll be Washington.
And I think we will put all the pressures in our hands.
We're just filmmakers.
We're not politicians, you know.
But I think the film is doing something really magical, my friend.
Well, there's a long history of that in this country.
Art has always affected politics.
It was Oliver Stone's powerful film, JFK, that caused the American people to start asking questions about the lies they'd been told about the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
That's why this film is so important.
As a father, as a grandfather, as a great-grandfather, I found this film extraordinarily gut-wrenching.
I understand what a phenomenal achievement this is because, as I understand it, there were many, many obstacles in the way.
Hollywood is hostile.
The Hollywood movie industry is hostile to this movie because they're hostile to the fundamental underlying message.
What was the most challenging aspect of bringing the story of Sound of Freedom to the big screen?
What was the biggest obstacle?
Well, so many obstacles, Roger, from the beginning.
You know, I remember when I started raising the funds, it was really difficult because a lot of the people that I was asking them to help me to put this movie together, the first thing they said, oh, Eduardo, this is too dangerous.
This is too dangerous.
You know, I have a family.
Well, precisely because you have a family, you should be involved in something like this, brother.
Don't wait until this tragedy happens to you for you to wake up.
Let's wake up now.
Let's do something now.
What if this is your daughter?
Really difficult, you know, to raise the funds in the beginning, but thank God, you know, I found the right people and that obstacle was, you know, crossed and we raised what we needed.
But then the second big obstacle was to find the actor.
More than 20 actors passed in this project.
I don't want to say the names, but all of them were saying like, whoa, this is not for us.
This is not for my client, whatever.
I represent this actor and he doesn't respond to the material.
He didn't respond to the material.
Whatever.
20 actors.
They passed.
They passed until I told Tim Ballard, brother, nobody wants to do this movie in Hollywood.
So who do you want to play you?
And he said, Gene Caviezel.
But Gene Caviezel, he doesn't look like you.
He's older than you.
He's taller than you.
It doesn't matter.
Eduardo, he's a godly man.
We need godly people, brave hearts, you know, and he's a brave man and I know he will do an amazing, amazing work because he's like a Michelangelo, Botticelli, he's a genius in the acting, but on top of that he has a great heart and I don't want an actor who comes here, we pay him, He does the movie, he comes to the premiere, and then he moves on to the next project.
I want an actor who stays here with us.
I want an ambassador of freedom, and Gene Caviezel, I think he has the heart for that.
So I sent him a text message, he responded, I called him, I talked to him, I met with him, Alejandro Monteverde, the director of this film, which by the way, he's another genius from Mexico, he's a Mexican filmmaker like me, He's a Picasso, Michelangelo, Dali genius.
The best part, he doesn't know it, so keep him humble.
Anyway, so finally, Gene Caviezel, after he heard the pitch, he said, hermanos, I'm in.
Let's do this together.
And look what happened when Two Mexican filmmakers who want to save lives meet with two American heroes who want to save lives.
When we meet, we shake hands, we work together.
What is the fruit?
What is the result of that?
Sound of Freedom, a movement that is designed to end child trafficking.
Now, what happened with the bad guys of Mexico meet with the bad guys of America and they shake hands and they work together?
Child trafficking happens, okay?
So anyway, we finished the movie and I made a beautiful deal with Fox Latin America.
It was a great deal.
It was the movie, the sequel, a documentary, a TV series.
I mean, they really wanted to push this.
But then later on, Disney bought Fox and all my friends who were working in Fox Latin America, they, you know, they left.
So now I'm with Disney and I'm thinking, well, what's going to happen now?
So they saw the film like three or four times and they called me and they said, Eduardo, we saw the film.
This film is not for Disney.
It's not for us.
Okay, well, give it back to me.
Yes, but you know what?
We have a contract, so we need to understand what's going on here with this contract because it seems like you owe money to Fox.
Well, now to us.
Yes, but you promised, well, not you, but Fox promised that you guys were going to be involved in a documentary.
In a TV series, are you going to do that?
No?
Well then, let's negotiate.
It took me one year, one and a half year.
Finally, I rescued the movie, and I left with the movie, and then I started knocking doors on Netflix, Amazon, and other studios, and the same answer.
This is not for us.
This is not for us.
Who's going to watch a movie about child trafficking, Eduardo?
I mean, sorry man, but you know, this is not for us.
Three years of that, Roger, and instead of me just sitting down, I started this tour in Mexico against child trafficking, a campaign against child trafficking.
I was invited by every governor.
I didn't care if they were left or right.
I was just asking them, please host a screening in your state, invite all the leaders from your state, and then at the end, let's sign an agreement where we commit to end child trafficking in that state.
We did that, I don't know, like 20 states.
It was a very successful tour in Mexico.
You know, we were I did a couple undercover rescue missions with Tim Ballard.
Kids were rescued while I was doing this tour in Mexico.
And then next thing you know, I was praying for an angel, for angels to come and rescue this film.
I was praying my rosary.
I'm a practicing Catholic.
And three years ago, Roger, I started praying a rosary on Facebook with hundreds of thousands of people every day.
I think we did more than 100 million rosaries in three years.
And I was asking every day, among many other petitions, please pray for the end of child trafficking.
Please pray for this movie, Sound of Freedom, that one day this movie will touch millions of hearts.
And next thing you know, Angel Studios in Utah, in Provo, in the middle of nowhere.
I never heard this town.
I never heard Angel Studios.
I never heard, you know, who they, you know, I never heard about them.
And they told me, Eduardo, we are your only option.
We are your only option.
I'm sorry, but why don't we shake hands and let's work together?
We believe in your project.
We believe in your mission.
Let's do this together.
In five days, I signed the contract.
This is four months ago, brother.
Four months ago.
And then when they had this crazy idea of coming out on July 4th, I say, guys, hold on a second.
This is the best season for the blockbusters movies.
Indiana Jones, Mission Impossible.
I mean, the Disney, the biggest company in the world.
You're the smallest company in America.
We're going to compete.
I mean, we need a Goliath and David story.
Otherwise we're going to be killed like the first week.
Trust in God, Eduardo.
You know, you've been working for eight years.
Now it's time for us to do something for this movie.
I think something very special.
You know, I know, but hold on a second.
Why don't we do it Independence Day in Mexico, September 15th, so we have more time to prepare.
July 4th is like tomorrow.
Because if this is the number one consumer, if this is the country who is the number one consumer of child sex in the world, we need to shake the conscience.
Of America on July 4th, because we are celebrating freedom.
And you as a Mexican filmmaker, you're going to tell us what freedom you're talking about.
Yes, with one hand, let's celebrate freedom.
But with the other hand, let's do something so we can bring freedom back to the children that are not free.
Let's work together.
If America wake up in this issue, we save the world.
So that's why I'm saying let's make America and Mexico free again.
And if we do that, the impact is in the entire world.
We are not just neighbors, Roger.
We're brothers.
So let's make sure that the good people of Mexico and the good people of America continue to meet because only great things happen like Sound of Freedom.
You know, we want more Sound of Freedoms between these two countries, these two nations.
We can save Latin America right now.
You know, the socialists are in Latin America and China is in bed with them.
So we need to save America and Mexico and Latin America together.
To clarify, were you originally going to the studios in Hollywood in search of production money or for distribution?
No, distribution.
I had like, thank God, like, I don't know, maybe 30 executive producers.
And because of them, I was able to put this movie together.
But then after you finish your movie, you need distribution.
And that's where I was, you know, I was not succeeding, man.
It was very frustrating.
I was literally crying every day.
And now I'm crying every day, but now tears of joy.
Before were tears of sadness and depression.
You know, especially when you meet someone like Tim Ballard, who is a true American hero.
He's like my brother.
I mean, not only I respect him, I admire him.
He makes me a better person.
And when he trusted Alejandro and me to produce and to make this beautiful story, Sound of Freedom, which is about this rescue mission that took place in Cartagena, Colombia, you have to understand that Tim Ballard does what you saw in the film every two weeks around the world.
It's impossible to make a movie about, you know, what he's done around the world.
So I focus on what was the most difficult and most dangerous mission you've ever done in your life.
And he said, Cartagena, Colombia, and that's Sound of Freedom.
So, the responsibility, brother, that I had in my shoulders, in my hands, was huge.
Especially when he was calling me every day.
So, Eduardo, when is the movie coming out?
And I was like, man, I'm trying everything, Tim.
I don't know what else to do.
And now it's like, what happened?
All glory to God, man.
All glory to God.
I've been praying so hard.
Tim is praying so hard.
Gene Caviezel is praying so hard.
Alejandro Monteverde, the director, he prays so hard.
And I can hear the prayers of the children.
Who I can imagine them like every night praying to God, asking God, please send an army, send an army to rescue us.
And I think God heard those prayers.
And I think Angel Studios heard those prayers.
You heard those prayers.
President Trump heard those prayers.
I heard the prayers.
And now we are the army of freedom.
And we're coming to save these children.
But at the same time, we're coming for the bad guys.
I think our Lady Guadalupe It's coming after the bad guys.
So now they don't know where to hide anymore because it's too late.
This movement will end child trafficking.
Speaking of President Donald Trump, I spoke to him.
He was very, very impressed with this hard-hitting film.
He is a movie watcher.
He loved Braveheart.
He loved The Patriot.
He loved The Passion of the Christ.
He told me those were three of his favorite movies.
He had something very nice to say about you.
Let's roll that.
Thank you all very much.
That was incredible, Jim.
That was unbelievable.
What a job.
So, our President, it's a possibility.
I mean, you made this the hottest movie anywhere in the world, so I think maybe becoming the President of Mexico is going to be easy by comparison, right?
So, I just want to thank you all.
That was unbelievable.
There he is.
He just said it, so I have to ask you.
We talked about this when we first met.
Is it possible, even probable, that you are going to launch a candidacy, ultimately, to become President of Mexico?
And it's a two-part question.
If you are, I just happen to know a political consultant strategist who's very, very good.
Get me Roger Stone now!
Well, Roger, you know, I'm not a politician.
I'm a filmmaker.
I don't think you have to become a politician to serve.
I think we are all called to serve.
And I made that commitment 20 years ago when I had my conversion in Los Angeles, California.
I grew up Catholic, but my faith was not the center of my life.
Not because I didn't want to, but because I didn't know my faith well.
So something happened when I was 28 years old.
I was living in Los Angeles, California.
I met this wonderful lady and she changed my life.
And after that, I made a lot of promises.
One was I would never work again in any project that would offend my faith, my family, or my Latino culture.
After I made that promise, I ended up not working for four years.
I lost everything because all the offers that I got, you know, they were exactly about the things that I promised that I would never do.
So I had to turn them down.
Until finally, one day, I was led to open a production company so I could have the power to control the message.
And since day one, I've been just, you know, asking God every day, You know, I only want to do your holy will.
Please help me to, you know, use my talents that you gave me to serve others and to make this world a better place.
And art has the power to change people's hearts.
Plato said if you have to choose between art and politics to govern a nation, he said I will choose art because art has the power to change people's hearts and changes and change their minds so therefore how they live how they behave how they everything right so but i've been working always since the last 18 years with this combination politics art ethics and values to serve the nations but me always from the uh field of filmmaking right
but when i moved to mexico 2000 it was in 2015 i was living in los angeles first and then miami then los angeles then i moved to mexico in 2015 i started touring my country with the movie little boy and then with another movie called unplanned traveling my country and I did 32 premieres with Unplanned.
It's a pro-life film.
And I started talking to the people and telling them that, you know, being pro-life means take care of those kids who are living in the streets as well.
Being pro-life means to take care of those who are suffering from addictions.
You need to put yourself in their shoes.
Being pro-life means to take care of those who are sick, those who are poor.
Those who are in prison, who were false accused, and they're innocents.
We need to be there too.
Being pro-life means to defend life from the womb to the tomb.
So people start asking me, Eduardo, why don't you run for president?
I said, no, no, no, no.
You know what?
My vocation is to be a filmmaker.
But then more people start asking me.
So a lot of people are asking me, why don't you put together an independent project so you can go against the establishment in Mexico?
You know, Mexico is not doing well, Roger.
There is more poverty right now.
There's more insecurity.
You know, there's more child trafficking.
Children are not protected.
And I'm tired.
And most of the people in Mexico are tired.
They're looking for another option.
We don't believe in politicians anymore in Mexico.
We don't believe in political parties anymore in Mexico.
Our country's been raped for decades.
And I'm thinking about it.
I'm praying about it.
I'm, you know, at the end of the day, it's not about me.
It's about, OK, God, if this is from you, please open all the doors.
But if it's not from you, close all the doors.
And because I cannot hear what you can't, I only want to do your will.
I love my country.
I'm willing to give my life for my country.
But I started this period of time of fasting and praying so I can hear God with clarity.
I have to answer very soon, Roger.
I have to make a decision.
I will make a decision and it has to be very soon.
It's going to be in September, the decision, whatever, if it's a yes or no, I'll make a decision.
I told President Trump, you know, we were talking about this and I told him, you will be the first one to know after my mother, of course.
And then my father passed away.
He's in heaven.
So he knows what's going on right now.
I feel him in my heart guiding me.
He was my best friend, my best mentor, and God took him.
And I think it's for a reason.
So now I feel like he's with me even closer now.
So I have my mother and she's very brave.
And of course, we talk about this every day and she's been praying for me for this decision.
So I want to ask all your audience, you know, please pray for me.
I have to answer this very soon.
I told President Trump, you will know very soon.
And he said, well, if you make whenever you're ready.
Whenever you're ready to make the decision, please let me know and see what we can do to help you, because I think we can do this job together, you know?
And I think that would be, I mean, it would be amazing.
It would be the first time in decades, maybe, that a real relationship, a brotherhood relationship between two presidents.
But it requires a miracle.
There's a lot of corruption.
We have seven political parties in Mexico.
They're all the same.
They're all the same.
Same promises.
Same, same, same.
And we're just tired of that.
So I'm the outsider.
We'll see.
We'll see.
If you say yes, you will know too, Roger, of course.
And I will call you, brother.
I will call you because you're a genius and a strategist.
And of course, I will love to hear your feedback, especially in the arena where Well, I would point out that Ronald Reagan was an actor.
He wasn't a politician.
but I love my country and I'm willing to die for my country to glorify God.
Well, I would point out that Ronald Reagan was an actor.
He wasn't a politician.
He was among our greatest presidents.
Donald Trump was a businessman, is a businessman.
He was among our greatest presidents, will be again, in my opinion.
And I think you said it exactly right.
The most important thing to do is to pray over it.
I mean, my life was spared by Jesus Christ through prayer.
And now I let the Lord guide my life.
When I have a big decision like this, I pray over it.
Here's what I learned, Eduardo.
God doesn't tell you his entire plan all at once.
He tells you his plan when he's ready for you to know it.
He might tell you increments of his plan along the way, which is why you need to pray for daily guidance.
I'm highly confident that you are going to make the right decision.
I'm also very happy to announce that you're going to be on my WABC Radio Show this Sunday.
This is the most powerful AM radio station in the United States, WABC Radio, making AM radio again.
But I want to warn you in advance that because of your long career in telenovas, I'm going to ask you to sing Tequila and Suave, both on the air, just to give a little snip so people know where you came from, okay?
Of course.
But, Roger, something very important because, you know, there is a lot of people watching this right now, and because you and I agree that the power of prayer is the most important thing, right?
Especially when you are in this discernment, asking God word Where do you want me?
What do you want me to do?
And I have done this in a few places, and I trust you because I know you, and you're a man of God.
We went to mass together, we've been praying together, but this is an amazing opportunity.
Do you allow me, with your permission, to say just one Hail Mary for this project and for this discernment with you and your audience, please?
Let us pray.
Go ahead.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for our sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen.
Our Lady Guadalupe, Pray for us.
Our Lady Guadalupe, protect America, protect United States, protect Mexico, and protect the world.
We love you and we trust in you.
En el nombre del Padre, y del Hijo, y del Espíritu Santo.
Amen.
Thank you, Roger.
So, final question.
Once this historic movie, Sound of Freedom, is out of the theaters, what is the plan for streaming?
How will people be able to see it?
Well, right now, I mean, the numbers are going crazy.
I mean, I think we just beat Mission Impossible today.
And this is already another miracle.
I mean, I'm just living a miracle back to back.
So many miracles.
So the movie is coming out in Mexico, Latin America.
This is big.
This is going to be huge on August 31st.
August 31st is a big launch in Mexico, Latin America, then the rest of the world.
Then we don't know.
The movie in Mexico, Latin America, can be in theaters for like four months, five months.
I mean, we are living things that we never imagined.
So anything is possible at this point.
Eventually, after the film is being seen in theaters all over the world, it's going to be in the Angel app.
But right now you can go to the Angel app, angel.com slash freedom, angel.com slash freedom, and you can buy tickets for you right now for your family or through Pay It Forward.
You can buy tickets for other families who cannot afford to buy a ticket, tickets for the entire family, and because of your generosity, they can see the film for free.
This is what is changing the game.
And then Elon Musk offered that after all this theatrical release and after we finish all these windows, he offered to show it That's very, very exciting.
You know, Elon Musk has his critics.
talking to him and to his people, because can you imagine by that time, it's going to be millions of hundreds of millions of people will be touched by Sound of Freedom.
It's unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
That's very, very exciting.
You know, Elon Musk has his critics.
I happen to think he's a very great man, a great entrepreneur, a great believer in free speech.
He's changed the entire course of history.
He's revealed to the American people some of the atrocities that were committed by the one worlders, by the globalists when they own Twitter.
And that is really heartening to hear.
Yes.
Final prayer here for my Christian brother, Eduardo.
I want to thank you very much for joining us on The Stone Zone.
We're very excited to have you on WABC Radio.
It is the most powerful radio signal, AM radio signal, in the United States.
You're not going to want to miss that, folks, from 3 to 5 Eastern Time this Sunday.
Eduardo, thank you, God bless you, and Godspeed.
God bless you, my friend.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
See you on the radio.
Excellent.
All right, there you have it, folks.
Eduardo Verastegui, a Mexican actor, got his start in telenovelas, but now has really changed the course of history with this hard-hitting thriller, Sound of Freedom.
He told you where you can go get tickets.
It's very interesting.
There it is.
We put it up on the screen for you.
Free tickets.
I interviewed somebody for this show the other day who told me they attempted to see the film at an AMC theater.
They called and they said online that the show was sold out, but they decided to go to the theater.
When they got to the theater, the theater where this was being shown, a multiplex, it was virtually empty.
Also, the air conditioning in that particular theater was turned off, while the air conditioning for all of the other theaters within the complex were working perfectly.
There is a willful effort to try to limit people from seeing this movie.
That's why you need to go see it immediately.
And you're going to want to see Eduardo on our upcoming radio show this weekend.
Again, if you don't live in the greater New York, New Jersey, Connecticut area, if you do, you can listen to it at 770 AM on the radio dial, but if you don't, you can listen to it at wabcradio.com.
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Colby Covington, the UFC welterweight challenger and an extraordinary fighter, joins us, as does Barry Habib, one of the country and the world's foremost experts on mortgage and the housing market.
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Alex, welcome back on The Stone Zone.
Roger, thank you so much for having me back on.
It's an honor to be with you today.
Every week, I love being on your show and talking with you.
You did a great interview just now.
While I was listening to it, I looked down and my computer mouse was sitting on a book called Forbidden Secrets.
On the cover of that book, it says, there is a battle for your children.
Are you equipped to protect them?
And we need people who will protect them and you are doing so by promoting the movie Sound of Freedom.
But we need more and more people all over the world to protect the children.
I just find it astounding that there are supposedly responsible, I would admit biased, but responsible media outlets out there That are trying to say that the scourge of child sex trafficking literally doesn't exist.
That we're conspiracy theorists.
By the way, that's a term invented in 1964.
by the FBI to discredit anyone who might question the completely ridiculous conclusions of the Warren Commission regarding the murder of President John F. Kennedy.
But how could anyone with any plausibility or any credibility try to say that this whole thing is some kind of fever dream by people in QAnon?
I'm not in QAnon.
You're not in QAnon.
Eduardo's not in QAnon.
This has become the broad brush insult, the smear, the pejorative that is used to shut down free speech and shut down the free expression of anyone who disagrees with the conventional establishment narrative.
Is it not?
No, you're exactly right, I agree with you.
I said it last week, anyone who's promoting Sound of Freedom as a QAnon conspiracy theory or a fever dream, they are in bed with these pedophiles and they might just be them.
And anyone who is giving any credit to these people, they need to stop now.
Because what we see is an evil day and age, a wicked day and age.
And Scripture is very clear.
Jesus is very clear.
He says, it is better that a millstone be wrapped around your neck and you be drowned in the depths of the sea to offend these little ones of mine.
And that's what's going on all over the world.
And people are just okay with it.
That's a problem and it needs to be dealt with now.
It is really quite extraordinary.
Eduardo is not exaggerating.
The Biden administration has basically removed from the entire process at our southern border the ability of our border agents to even ask questions or investigate the possibility of child sex trafficking.
This is almost impossible to believe, but it is a fact.
President Donald Trump had a very forthright Agenda 47 statement.
We're going to get that teed up here in one second, but there's no question that President Trump made enormous strides against child sex trafficking in his four years in office, and this administration Tries much like those news outlets to pretend like it just doesn't exist.
What do you think of that?
Well, it does exist very, very clearly.
And, you know, one of the things that I have done as a teenager, there's a website that I oftentimes have gone to, it's called Omegle, and basically it's a chat room where I go and talk to a bunch of strangers, and there's different tags that you can put in, and one of the tags that I put in is Trump.
And something that I see is a bunch of people who hate Trump, and they ask me why I like Trump.
And I tell them one of the reasons that I like President Trump is because of his willingness, not only willingness, but the fact that he did fight against child sex trafficking during his tenure as president, and he will do it again.
This thing is happening, it's happening at the border.
I have many friends who have been to the border, Ann VanderSteel, Christy Hutcherson.
I know that General Michael Flynn is going to the border very soon.
This is happening at the border, and anyone who is silencing anyone of asking questions about it, they are trying to silence any dissenters.
Right?
And that goes obviously against the Constitution of the United States of America, but it's also immoral to silence any questions about this.
And the questions should be asked because it's happening.
I don't know if you saw it, but Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a Democratic candidate for president, not a candidate that I'm supporting.
I'm 100% for Donald Trump, and I'm a Republican.
I'm ineligible to vote in the Democratic primary anyway, testified before the House committee that is investigating the FBI-induced and abetted censorship of social media platforms and other media outlets here in the United States.
This was, and I played it in yesterday's show with Vito Glazier, this was one of the most powerful moments in American public life that I have ever seen.
It was a tour de force.
Over 103 Democratic members of Congress actually signed a letter objecting to Kennedy testifying in public under oath before the committee.
In other words, they wanted to censor him.
It's mind-blowing.
It's Kafka-esque.
It almost it's mind blowing.
It's Kafkaesque.
It's so weird.
And he took it on very frontally.
I mean, he explained exactly what his experience had been when he announced his candidacy.
He was five minutes into his announcement.
He was talking about the cost of groceries.
He was talking about utility costs.
He was talking about the hollowing out of the middle class.
He wasn't even talking about vaccinations or health freedom, yet he was deplatformed mid-sentence by YouTube.
As President Donald Trump would say, these people are sick.
All right, we have that video now.
I want to roll it.
Here is President Donald Trump with part of his Agenda 47 addressing the scourge of child sex trafficking.
I was thrilled to host a screening at Bedminster of the important new film.
Sound of Freedom, about the power of faith in overcoming evil, and in particular, the evil of child trafficking.
Big problem.
We had it down to the lowest number in many years just four years ago, and now it's gone through the roof.
Even though the fake news media has tried to ignore it, Sound of Freedom has been a national sensation and a colossal success at the box office.
Really big numbers.
Everyone should see it.
This is a very important film and Very important movie and it's a very important documentary all wrapped up in one.
It's really...
About an issue that has to be discussed.
Under my leadership, we did more than any administration in history to combat human trafficking and to end modern-day slavery.
In one of my first acts in office, I signed an executive order targeting transnational criminal organizations that traffic and exploit innocent people.
I signed the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act, authorizing $430 million to fight sex and labor trafficking.
I signed legislation to crack down on foreign countries who are not meeting standards for eliminating trafficking, of which there are many.
I also signed into law the Abolish Human Trafficking Act, which strengthened programs supporting survivors and provided more resources for ending modern slavery.
We do have modern slavery, if you can believe it.
Additionally, I created the first ever White House position focused solely on combating human trafficking.
And perhaps most importantly, we created the most secure border in U.S. history by far, dealing a major blow to the cartels and traffickers.
We built hundreds of miles of wall.
We renovated hundreds of miles of wall.
We never had anything like it.
And then I got Mexico, free of charge, to give us 28,000 soldiers to protect us from people coming into our country illegally.
When I am back in the White House, I will immediately end the Biden-bordered nightmare That traffickers are using to exploit vulnerable women and children.
We will fully secure the border.
I will wage war on the cartels just as I destroyed the ISIS caliphate 100% gone, 100% destroyed.
They'll come back now because we have a weak administration.
I will use Title 42 to end the child trafficking crisis by returning all trafficked children to their families in their home countries and without delay.
And I will urge Congress to ensure that anyone caught trafficking children across our border receives the death penalty immediately, and that includes also for women.
Because women, as you know, are number one in trafficking.
Children are actually number two.
I want to thank Eduardo, Jim, Tim Ballard, and everyone else involved in this film for their incredible efforts and their great genius.
Together, we will end the scourge of human trafficking, and we will defend the dignity of human life.
Thank you very much.
Well, there's Donald Trump that I know and love.
Extraordinarily powerful.
You've got your Trump statuette there.
So Alex, tell me what you thought of that.
Very good, very good, as I just pulled out my President Trump bobblehead.
I agree with everything that he just said.
We need to get rid of it, and President Trump is the man to get rid of it.
One of the people that is running against President Trump is none other than Chris Christie, and it says in his bio, running for president, when rather what he should be doing is just running.
The thing that he is trying to do is fight back against President Trump when President Trump is the only obvious person who is going to win this election and who is very clearly with that video.
Going to fight back against child sex trafficking.
I love it.
I want to take a shift because I want to announce something on your show today.
This is going to be huge.
I, last Sunday, had the opportunity to talk to General Flynn on the phone and talk about ways we can get Donald Trump re-elected.
And one of the things that I've observed is we need young people involved.
And there's organizations here and there that will get young people involved.
Uh, but it's, you know, sometimes it doesn't work, right?
And so I have thought up of some different ways that we can do this together to get Generation Z to vote for President Trump.
So I have thought up Operation Z. One of the things that the Democrats have done is they have gotten together and they have pushed forward with one agenda and that's to take back our country.
Meanwhile, the Republicans We've been fighting about this person and that person and this thing and that thing when we need unity to fight forward to win our country back.
One of the ways that the Democrats and liberals have taken advantage of different things is with the app TikTok.
There's a TikToker on that app.
His name is Harry.
Sisson.
He's a complete sissy boy liberal.
And what he does is he stays on TikTok pretty much all day and he will put videos out there of liberal propaganda, you know, promoting that thing so that people my age would vote for President Biden instead of President Donald J. Trump.
So here's an example of some of the videos that he puts out.
There was one time he put out a video where President Trump was drinking water with two hands and he says, look at this.
President Trump is unfit for office.
Look at the way that he's drinking water.
It's stupid things like that.
He'll look at headlines and promote those headlines as if it's the absolute truth.
They're doing that all over the place.
If it was just a TikToker who was doing this because he had fun doing it or he actually believed this, that would be one thing.
But this guy Harry, he is managed by Pallet Management Group.
And if it was just a management group, that might be fine as well.
But the DNC themselves is funding Pallet Management Group To fund Harry with this and then also another friend of Harry's is named Chris Mowry.
The Democrats have fought for Generation Z vote and it is time that we fight back for the Generation Z vote which is why I am now announcing Operation Z To get young people, Generation Z, to vote for President Donald J. Trump.
Your book, Stone's Rules, and Stone's Rules, Rule 65, it says, use the internet to do with thousands of dollars what once required millions.
The Democrats are doing that and the Republicans are not doing it the way that we should.
And I believe that TikTok is the key to get Generation Z voters to vote for President Donald J. Trump.
Very, very good.
There you have it, folks.
An innovative new idea using the existing social media platform to reach millions of young people with common sense.
I've watched Harry and his sidekick.
They're not very entertaining.
They're not very funny.
They are kind of funny in the sense that they're a couple of soy boys.
But I have a feeling that you do much better at this.
So I'm endorsing your Project Z because I think every vote is going to count in the upcoming election.
We call this segment the Rolling Stones.
That's because it's Alex Stone and Roger Stone.
And beyond that, I just want to thank everybody for coming to the Stone Zone today.
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Alex Stone, thank you as always for dropping in for this segment of the Stone Zone.
Roger, thank you so much for having me on.
It's always an honor to be on the show.
If you guys would be willing, please go check out my show, A Stonewall's Perspective.
I just interviewed and released an episode with Captain Seth Keshel about election fraud.
It was a great episode, so go check that out right now.
I think a show that we need to do soon is Alex Jones, Roger Stone, and Alex Stone.
That might be interesting.
Call it the Alex Yeah, that'd be great if Jones let either one of us get a word in edgewise.
All right.
Many, many thanks, and God bless you for being here on The Stone Zone.
Thank you, sir.
All right, folks, that's it for us.
We're out of time, but one more reminder, you want to tune in to wabcradio.com this Sunday from 3 to 5.
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