The Dan Bongino Show - Thanksgiving SPECIAL: Fireworks With Geraldo

Episode Date: November 28, 2024

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Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host Dan Bongino. Hope you're all enjoying a very happy Thanksgiving with family. I mean, they come first, right? God, family, country, that order. Get it right and everything falls in line. Folks, I thought to myself, what do we do for folks for Thanksgiving to put a little smile on their face? And given that, Geraldo is back in the news,

who bizarrely wants to fight me again or something like that. Geraldo wants to fight me again, but he does end it off pretty nice, so it's all in good fun. Check this out. I'm going to ask you about Dan Bongino, because I'm sure that you saw this. He's been floated as Secret Service Director. The possibility of...

I mean, there you go. And I just want to be clear for our viewers who aren't familiar. You two sparred a lot on Fox and man, am I being understated when I say that? How would you feel about him being Secret Service director? I can't imagine anyone who I feel I feel more fiercely

combative with than than Dan Bongino. If he were to walk into a bar and I was having a beer, you know we we probably saw that. I mean, I mean, I mean, I feel more fiercely combative with than Dan Bongino. If he were to walk into a bar and I was having a beer, you know, we'd probably square off. We disagree on everything. You know, I think he has his own set of facts. I think he's a provocateur.

But I go back to what I said about Major Pete. I have no issue at all with his honesty, his credibility, his character, his patriotism, his love of the Secret Service. I think all those things are positive for Bongino. And I think that in some ways all of these people in the Cabinet, and you could name others as well, Dr. Oz, are great on TV, they are bigger than life, they're great communicators. I see where the President-elect is going with this Cabinet.

Can they do the job, you know, the day-to-day, the administrative stuff, running these businesses? And they are giant businesses, even though they're government agencies. You know, I guess we'll see some will some won't. But with Bongino, you know, I would let me put it this way. If I was a target and Bongino was on the job, I feel that Bongino would keep me safe. He would do the job. Brianna. A very nice compliment at the end.

It's all in good fun folks. Or like I said, we were in a that again, I don't know why everybody wants to fight me all the time. It's his fascination with me and fighting and we are not squaring. Can you imagine folks? I want to leave this. Yeah, I know I'm beating this. I just can't take pun intended.

Can you, I mean, listen, I'm 50 and I feel every second of it. The dude is 31 years older than me. Can you imagine squaring up with a guy you outweigh by probably 40 plus pounds in a bar? You're Oh my gosh, this is just insane. Real hilarious. How many people sent that? I thought it would be really great to go over some of our greatest hits pun intended and Mrs misses with Geraldo and a comment on him now years later. I kind of missed that stuff. I think you'll enjoy this. So I have not seen these in advance. However, I was there because it was me when it happened. But my team picked out a few of these. So I'm going to comment on them.

I'm going to tell you what I was thinking when I was there. And I think you're really going to enjoy this. But again, I have not seen these since I was there and it happened. Beam Cyber Sale is here. Bungino listeners enjoy up to 50% off at shopbeam.com slash Bungino use code Bungino. Get some sleep. Don't miss Beam's biggest sale of the year. Beam's Dream Powder. Check it out. All right. This is a surprise to me. The bell has rung. Let's see what you guys got. Bring it on. How about people like you that don't credit the humanity of half the country? They are they are running scared and they're scared of cops. And it doesn't matter that we love

lives. Why blue lives matter or that they're the thin line between civilization? What matters if a KT white white produce some actual data you're a reporter right because here's a Kid a 20 year old kid has an expired registration. He ends up dead in the same time with George Floyd was Exfixiated whether by a brutal cops knee on his neck. So by those incidents Don't you see as a reporter you've ex wait, wait, hold on Those two incidents you've extrapolated as a reporter data that every Afraid of the police and that's rational to you. That's rational explain that reason to the That's rational. Explain that reason.

That one vividly sticks out because Geraldo claims to be a journalist, right guys? And here's the thing. If you actually look at the data, who is it? Roland Fryer and others who've done actual data research analysis on police interactions between minorities and the police, you'll find out that not only are the data on use of force incidents against black men and minorities are grossly exaggerated by the media narrative that black men are being hunted, but they're exaggerated so badly it's not even in the ballpark. It's not even in the ballpark. I

think the number of unarmed black men who were shot by the police was somewhere in the ballpark. I think the number of unarmed black men who were shot by the police was somewhere in the neighborhood of 11. And yet when you ask people out there who like Geraldo claim to be journalists and don't know the data, you know, what's going on with police interactions with young black men, you would think there were hundreds of thousands of people being hunted in the street. What killed me about that clip is I remember he's not he's not so much an opinion guy. He portrays himself as an investigative reporter. And he totally missed the ball on that. And when I asked him for the data, can you produce the data I stopped him. Do you notice he just kept filibustering. This

was kind of like one on what went on with me and her all over my entire time of doing this show. I handed he with him over the course of five years, He would never produce facts. He claimed to be a facts guy, but it was always some bizarre, crazy opinion that he got from like Joy Reid or something. That's a good one. What was that?

Yeah, all right, let me see the next one. Well, we have a process for that. And just injecting race into this, Geraldo, which you do on these police issues constantly, when you have none of the data, you have no evidence whatsoever, there's a racial component to this at all. Don't you have an argument to make

that doesn't concern me? I'm not making you the issue. I'm responding to your dopey comments. You have no idea that there's a racial undertone to this at all. And you're saying, oh, black parents have to worry because they're black kids. You have no idea that there's a racial undertone to this at all. And you're saying, oh, black parents have to worry because they're black kids. You have no data to back that up at all.

You're just further inflaming the situation and the country will burn to the ground because of people like you who say dumb things like that with no evidence to back it up. You see, anytime you ask Kerala though, I guessing guys, this is going to be a theme, right? That me asking Corraldo to actually back up his opinion and then watch, watch what he does every time instead of actually producing data. Show me, cause I will go to the mat for anyone being abused by police officers anytime. I will. If your civil rights are violated. I'm a civil libertarian. Call my show email us. I you know, we'll do our best. Well, if you can produce a viable case to us. We'll

highlight it. Okay. He never does that. Then he says you're making about me. I'm debating you you knucklehead. What the hell's the behind me and you on had me and you on the show so I can debate you you're gonna say something stupid It's about you saying something stupid Gosh, just give me some data I mean anything to chew on like Pac-Man and that maybe we can argue about some his opinions are just based in stupid stuff All the time. It's so ridiculous. Hey man, get out about me.

Of course about you, you said something dumb. Araldo's perfectly entitled to an opinion. Just because you weren't a police officer doesn't mean you can't comment on policing issues. I always hate when liberals say that about us. But whatever, going to dinner with a police CEO captain doesn't, I'm not suggesting you are I'm just saying that you know don't start minimizing my experience

listen this is fresh for you see me I remember This is actually right here. This is in this chair. I'm tired of this guy. He never shuts up. He's always got something to say. Now Hannity knows I'm pissed. See, Hannity and I are friends. He knows I'm pissed. He's entitled to an opinion. He's not entitled to a certain set of facts.

You don't know anything about actual policing if you haven't done it. Saying or suggesting you can relate to the experience of police officers, you haven't done it saying or suggesting, you know, you can relate to the experience of police officers you can't I'm not Suggesting what happened yesterday wasn't a tragedy. It was obviously There's a dead young man who's never gonna take another breath of oxygen again in his life We don't have all the facts on this. We know she said taser it appears appears to be a miss

You know listen Me commented on my own commentary taser. It appears appears to be a miss. You know, listen, me commented on my own commentary, kind of silly. However, on Thanksgiving, I think it's kind of funny. Do I say it is right? I mean, I'm listening to that trying to pretend it's not me. Who sounds irrational there? Is it me or her although I'm not talking over him. He keeps yelling and screaming and all I'm asking him is produce a fact set or a data set to show that he has evidence that this man in that incident where the woman thought she was grabbing her taser and grabbed her gun targeted because he was black.

Notice I repeat over and over. I am not denying the tragic nature of what happened at all. The young man will never be with us again. Okay? Period. I never denied that. the tragic nature what happened at all. The young man will never be with us again. Okay. Period. I never denied that. I'm simply asking Geraldo, show me your evidence this was race based because you keep making a race argument. Who's the crazy one? And he's screaming over me. Now I've known Hannity a long time. We're really good friends. He's a good man. He can tell I'm getting pissed off. And I got to tell you, of all the times I've debated for

all that, so one thing and again, this is not personal, we were always friendly off the air. That used to bother me the most. He could never, you notice how I sit there and listen to him? And then the minute you open your mouth, it's like he couldn't control himself. And it was so hard to make a point because he just couldn't stop talking

This is better than I thought it and I realized you guys dug all this stuff up All right, let me see the next one. Keep using the beer analogy. Geraldo. You're a lawyer I have not seen amendment 2.5 the right to buy a Coors Light shall not be infringed These are legal adults in the country now having said that if you're going to infringe on a constitutional right, according to the court system, you have to do it. It has to be a compelling government interest. We all agree preventing mass murders is a compelling government interest, point taken. Thank God that we agree on that, Dan.

Thank God. But it has to... Wait, I'm not done. There's a second part to that. You're a lawyer. I think you know this. It's through the least restrictive means The least restrictive means is not to tell every single 18 year old in the entire country Who's done nothing wrong? You can no longer purchase a rifle because of some nut

They want to tell them they can't drink beer. Why do you tell them they can't drive a semi? That's baloney He don't... Okay. Even these guys are laughing. This is like a totally unplanned show. We just thought of this the other day. We thought of this the other day, but we got to do this for Thanksgiving. This is another thing that used to bother me about these debates with Geraldo.

You make a point, he never addresses the point, and he brings up the same point you just countered without ever addressing what you said so just to be clear this segments about gun control and Legislation that would prevent 18 year olds who did nothing wrong from exercising their constitutional right to protect themselves, right? Geraldo's obviously a gun grabber. Okay, so Geraldo compares that to other things like buying a beer. But when I bring up the point that buying a beer is not a constitutional right, it is no, it's not addressed in the Constitution at all. However, the right to bear arms, which shall not be infringed is he just as a lawyer, he bypasses the point. Notice how I put an accent on that point because there are constitutional rights

that are infringed on. No, there aren't, yes, there are. If you have to say you have the right to freedom of religion, if your religion says, I get to go over and slash my neighbor's back with a razor blade because my religion told you to, the government's gonna infringe on it, correct? Constitutional rights are infringed on all the time,

but for the government to do that legally, it has to have a compelling government interest preventing you from getting slashed in the back, right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right?

Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right?

Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? right, but you have to defend it. You have to defend it. That is not the least restrictive means to ban every 18 year old for the acts of one person. It's not even close. And you notice how he doesn't address it at all. And he brings up the exact same point. He brings up the exact driving a car. That's not a constitutional right. There is no constitutional right to

driving a car on a public road with no license. There isn't. Oh man, this guy's an attorney too. I should have went to law school. Sheesh, they don't give these things out like Hershey bars. What else? Wait, hold on, let me take a quick break and we'll get to the next one.

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is 26 in COVID deaths per hundred. Dan, it's Dan. Heraldo, it's not my fault. You never know what you're talking about. It's not my fault that you never research anything before you come on the air. You're gonna fall for the COVID stuff too. Enough, this guy falls for every dog. Right? Guys, this guy's-

Geraldo, let Dan talk. Geraldo! Dan. He doesn't like to do that, Sean, because he always gets caught- See? He can. Never knowing what he's talking about. he's embarrassed and his position on the border I did stick to the facts you don't know them you never know them and then you just keep coming back

chasing my class do you want to bet me a thousand dollars? you want to bet a thousand dollars? you want to put your money where your mouth is? 16,000 in fact alright guys $20 in your benefit. You want to put your money where your mouth is you want to put your money where your mouth is? Again talk so he cannot stop talking ever and whenever he had this bad habit Harald though of coming on the air and he would fall for every media narrative You just saw a couple that guns guns randomly kill people that it doesn't matter about the person. It's the guns that we got to control the guns, not the people right? Black men

are being hunted by cops everywhere. That segment I do remember that was during the COVID hysteria, where Ron DeSantis very smartly opened up the state and the schools are early earlier than a lot of these other COVID COVID lockdowners. And Geraldo was going nuts because he fell for the media narrative, of early, earlier than a lot of these other COVID lockdowners. And Geraldo was going nuts because he fell for the media narrative, of course, because he always does that,

because he just doesn't do his homework. That COVID deaths were the highest in Florida or something like that. And my data was accurate, of course. They were not, and he just made it up. And what happens is when he gets called out on the facts, he tells you you don't know the facts while he presents facts that are wrong. And then he says, stick to the facts, he tells you you don't know the facts while he presents facts that are wrong,

and then he says stick to the facts when you correct the facts that were wrong every single time as he talks over you. I remember that one. That one really pissed me off because I went back and looked later, I'm like this guy will fall for anything. I'm like damn, at least one time,

can we agree on anything? All right, let's see what you got next. This is it? There are dozens of Palestinian children dead. And whose fault is that with? ammunition provided to Israel by the United States without demand for Ceasefire I

Israel needs to win the war against terrorism the war against terrorism. And terrorists that are firing rockets at their people. All these children. I'm going to bet he interrupted me. Geraldo, you do this every time. This is such garbage and I'm really getting sick of it. You play this emotional game with the audience and use your position of responsibility to put out misinformation and BS.

You know, stop attacking me, punk. Get it on the police thing. Address the issue. This is the best way to address the issue. You can't control yourself me punk. Get it on the police thing. Address the issue. This is the best tool. You didn't address the issue and not address it. You just, this is not about me. You didn't come on the show to attack me. You came on the show to talk about the issue.

Because do you have a point about the issue? You're using your position of authority here to say things. I'm sick of you, Pongino. I'm sick of you. You're absolutely out there. You're absolutely out there. Harappan. Harappan. Harappan.'s up there. Harald, you're just control lunatic.

Harald, we still gotta talk. Because you can't go on the air. I'm an out of control lunatic. Can you calm down? Yeah, you really need to calm down. I'm a 10-time Emmy winner with deep experience in the Middle East. Have you ever even been there?

Harald, I don't wanna make my point show. Is that, that one, folks, just so you know, I'm sitting here, and a little background on that clip I Did not know do you guys know why I didn't know I did not know he threw the paper at the screen You know why I think he you may even do it. We didn't have return So I'm not seeing him all I see is a black screen in front of me I didn't find out the next day. The next day I'm watching the club like did he throw a piece of paper at the shop in Stewart, Florida? He said 800 not

miles away. Throwing paper at his screen. That was Geraldo, man. That's how he would do it all the time. This thing on the on the Israel-Palestinian issue too, he falls for every single media narrative. He never did his homework. And you notice his impulse control is so bad, he simply can't stop talking when given the opportunity for me to make a counter argument. All he does is start screaming every single time. But I didn't see that when it happened. Now I take the back, I think someone texted me about two hours later. I was like, did he throw a piece of paper at you? And I went and looked on Twitter. I'm like, holy Moses, he did. He's throwing paper at the screen.

I throw paper at the screen. What a lunatic. Folks, is that his? Is that the last one? Oh man, those are good ones. We gotta do this again sometime. We may do a, listen, I gotta get a thing going with Geraldo. Sean, if you wanna set it up,

I will do another round with Geraldo, but it's gotta be like multiple segments, all right? If you wanna do it, I'll do it. The ratings would be killer. We'll do it, we can do a round with her all the but it's got to be like multiple segments. All right. If you want to do it, I'll do it. The ratings would be killer. We'll do it. We can do around two of this. Hey, folks, thanks for tuning in. Hope you're enjoying your Thanksgiving.

I thought you'd enjoy that. We really appreciate it. I'll see you guys back here on Monday. You just heard the Dan Bond Geno show.