The Dan Bongino Show - The Bongino Weekend Report - 09/05/26

Episode Date: September 5, 2026

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All the time. On the side of freedom and liberty, your voice of hope and truth is here. The Bon Gino Report, PM, with Dan Bongino. You know, some people hate Mondays. They do. I mean, it's pretty common. I think it's a remnant. Maybe not a remnant, because maybe if you have a job, you're not really digging. Monday's probably not the best either. But it's probably a remnant for school where everybody hated going back to school on Well, it was always that one nerd. What do you think we are nerd?

Remember Rocky Ford? Yes, you are nerds. Like, there was always that one nerd. Remember in the class? It was like dirty kids in your class. I want the same pancreas in Glendale. Who wants homework? I do.

Well, Miss Crabtree. Oh, no, we don't. Like, shut up, Johnny. But I was in law enforcement my entire life where there's no, well, there's a Monday. Monday exists, obviously. But you'd work weekends, especially if you were the new guy all the time. so your Monday could have been a Wednesday or your Monday could have been a Friday. So I never really got into that.

But in radio, radio and podcasting are not obviously physically demanding spaces. Jim, we can agree, right? Like no one's asking us to dig dishes. So this is definitely not a boo-hoo moment. But, you know, going on the air, you better be damn sure you're mentally in the game. No listener wants to hear your stories. I got a call. My fingernail hurts.

Nobody cares. nobody cares shut your pie hole and do the show the thing about monday i always love with radio is if you've had a really good weekend you come back fully energized you glycogen stores are ready to go you're not like sore from a friday workout you may be a little sore from a friday workout with if you had some adult sodas but you're you're doing pretty good on monday so i feel pretty good jim did not have a great weekend everyone uh send j jrdi his back is hurt his back is hurt him. Backs are the worst. He's having a back issue. The worst. You can hurt like your wrist, your shoulder. You'll get through it. Your neck's not that great. But once you hurt your back,

I went through the gym is struggling. But Jim is a trooper. And he's in the studio. I noticed he hasn't shaved today either. He is just giving up. Mike's like, that's the downside of the Zoom thing. And Jim, Mike is totally ready to throw you to the curb. He just said me, standing by. He's totally ready. He's going to throw you right in the river right now. He's just waiting for a moment a weakness. All right, all right, get this. I know, but it's Monday. I don't have a big weekend update. I really didn't do anything exciting this weekend. So I used to do a Dan Boogino show weekend update. I have nothing to report. I didn't even go out this weekend. I watched a couple terrible movies and I finished the Charlie Manson special, the three-part documentary, which is

that was amazing because it reminded me of a bunch of crazy liberals, the whole Manson family, how they got gaslit into believing crazy things. And the minute they were exposed to reality again, they were like, oh my gosh, that was all crazy. Yeah, it was all crazy. It sounded crazy when they first said it. Let's start. I thought you did start. No, no, I'll start the content portion of the show. I actually have this all lined out.

This is like miscellaneous stuff I throw in. I can't shut up, but I guess that's good being a talk show guy. Folks, you know what horseshoe theory is? You can look it up while we're doing the show together here. But I'll explain anything. I'll make it really simple. But you can fact check me if you want. Horseshoe theory is this.

It's not a theory, by the way. It's now a fact as it's happening in live time and witnessing it. It's this theory that fringe movements on both sides of the ideological aisle, what you'd call the right and the left, that fringe movements on both sides will eventually join together in a horseshoe-type motion back towards the, and they'll both start repeating the same thing. I say it's not horseshoe theory, but it's horseshoe fact now,

because we're seeing this in live time as they both have the same goal. The radical left and these what I call Folex MAGA, these fake MAGA people on the right that are, just repeating and getting, you know, owned by the day now, as this just totally implodes, all podcasts, the stand, everywhere else. They're both saying that generally the same thing. And why are they saying the same thing? This is the important part about horseshoe theory, now horseshoe fact.

They're saying the same thing because they have the same goal. Their goal is to make sure that this MAGA movement, conservative movement, Republican party that's now starting to really gain ground in minority communities, and elsewhere amongst union families, places we haven't done well in the past, is completely destroyed. Podcastistan wants to do it because they don't like the movement as it is now.

A lot of these people were former Democrats who pretended to be Republicans, who now secreted their way into the, you know, maga tent, put their camel nose underneath first, and then got all the way in later, legs, arms, everything else. Toes. Some of you get there.

What? Let's get all the way in there. And then they're trying to just sabotage and throw like, let's call it a crap grenade in the tent. Their goal is to get you to not show up for the midterms because they want President Trump to lose. Horseshoe theory is now horseshoe fact. You're seeing it. I'm going to get to this later in the show, but the left-wing media that obviously hates President Trump, us, freedom and liberty and all that stuff. Some of the stuff they write is so insane.

I saw a story this weekend. I'm please stay too. And I'm not trying to unnecessarily tease things. but in raw story, which is like a level below, like the worst tabloid you've ever seen at the supermarket checkout line. It's like Elvis had babies with space. Then there's like raw story below that. Wrote this article about becoming an FBI employee and beastiality.

Yes, this is an actual. Jim, they'll shake your head. You may have heard some on the podcast earlier. If you ever want to listen to a podcast, by the way, we're live at 10 a.m. Eastern every day. However, I'll explain that. It's just a total nonsense story, but it's meant for stupid people. Like the headline was drafted up so stupid people will click on and be like,

yeah, man, that sounds great. Sounds good to me. They want a blue wave. And you've probably been told by a lot of folks in podcast to stand and elsewhere and in the liberal media that a blue wave, in other words, a midterm route for the Republican Party is inevitable. Now, I just want to preface this up front by saying, It is certainly a possibility.

And I don't like gaslighting people the other way either with faux bravado. You know, chest puffing, oh, we're going to win back. We're going to gain 22 seats in the Senate. That's not going to happen, okay? Let's just be real. That's just mathematically not going to happen, okay? There's no math or even decent polling that remotely says that. However, ladies and gentlemen, we do stand a pretty good chance if we show up,

we do stand a pretty good chance of holding the Senate, maybe even adding a seat in Michigan, maybe adding a seat in New Hampshire, which is looking good now. We may add a couple seats. It's possible. The House is a little bit of a struggle, but the same exact thing that the doom and gloom people are telling you now,

that it's a fate of complete, President Trump's going to get destroyed, the Republican Party's finished, we're going to lose 200 seats in the house. Do you realize the very same people? The very same people on our side made that same mistake in the Biden midterms. I'm just, listen, you got to call balls and strikes and be a legit umpire. The game doesn't matter, okay?

This was a really big thing. Jim was with me, so was Mike, so was my podcast team. You remember the Biden midterms. We told people every single day, you could probably pull Jim a super cut for me if you needed to. And we warn, well, not every day, but at least a few times a week. Stop with this red wave talk. There was all of this stuff out there on X and elsewhere. Biden sucks so bad.

This is like of all the sucky presidencies, this is like a level 10 level of suck. The sucking sound was unprecedented in presidential history. And they were correct. The Biden presidency was an intergalactic embarrassment. Folks, he did, his party did not do that badly in the midterms. just like we have the potential in a non-sucky matter of fact very good couple of years under president drum border crime manufacturing returning some trade deals we were in you know not everything's been great but it's been a ton of really good news to run on borders are closed streets are safer

manufacturing's coming back we're building big things again in the united states we have enough to run on there is no reason comparing us to the biden midterms where he didn't do that historically he didn't do that bad his party that is there's no reason we can't hold the house and hold the sentence none it's just a matter of showing up folks the reason biden's team did not do that bad despite i think what we can all agree if we're not insane was a just his almost unprecedented level of suck in the presidency in the first two between afghanistan 9% inflation in one quarter i mean we hadn't seen that number since Jimmy Carter is because of gerrymandering. The computer programs that carve congressional districts up now have managed to carve these

districts into so many safe seats where even if there was a blue wave or a red wave, there's such a buffer in many of these seats that these safe seats aren't going anywhere. I mean, it would have to be even beyond the Biden level. of suck for really for people to vote against their party in some of these safe seats just like a 20 point buffer gerrymandering has carved the country up so there's really only i don't know maybe 20 or so seats or so that are really in play every cycle now that's a problem for the republicans in this cycle because we've only got depending on who's out who's in a one two three vote buffer on the republican side but having said that

that a lot of these districts, because here's, let me explain this. And Jim, if I get this wrong, say, shut up and explain it better. Because they have made so many safe seats, right, they have had to make semi-safe seats where, say, the Democrat voting advantage was 55 to 45. There's 55% Democrat. I'm just trying to do easy math for it, 45. So in order to make some of these seats safe, they've got to pull the Democrats from somewhere. Yeah, I get it cheating. But they have to pull them from somewhere. So say they make a 55% Democrat district, 51. They pull out 4% to make that 4% to make another seat safe. They still have an advantage, but it's not a great one. Meaning if you just show up, you could perform not that great and still win that seed. This is what's going on. So this is

why I'm trying to tell people, like, there's so much good stuff to run on that there's no reason to just throw in the towel. Oh my gosh, the doomers and the gloomers told me it's over. Oh my gosh. If I could count the time. We got them now, Jim. I know what you're going to say. What are you going to say? The walls are closing it again. The walls are closing it again. The walls are closing it again. I get it. We've heard it a quadrillion times. Obvious hyperbole. We've already heard it. If you just show up and vote and bring 10 people, there is a damn good chance. will do extremely well in this election. And the horseshoe theory, folks,

the Folex MAGA podcast to stand lunatics telling you everything sucks all the time. Again, I'm not telling you not to have an opinion. I'm just telling you to look at this stuff with an open mind. Do you like that the borders are closed? Do you like that there have been historic declines in violent crime and murder in the United States? Do you like the fact that deportations are at a record high? Do you like the idea again that in international relations were back to a position of strength with the president that supports our military? Do you like the fact that manufacturing is returning?

If you like that stuff, then you do have something to vote on. If you listen to the Dumers and the Grifters, however, it's all over. Everyone, you've seen the braver. Before you forfeit the election and don't show up, just hold everyone. Just hold, take in the info, any inputs. and process a new album. Man, you're getting them all in today. You still have that list?

Those P-1s, you know what we're going on. Jim, cue up for me to have Vox segment. I want to show you another. Just one moment before we take a break here. Really important. President Trump this week cuts a huge deal with his Department of State, the DOW Department of War,

for access to enormous Venezuelan oil fields. And immediately, old-school, establishment people are whining about it. And about, oh my gosh, I can't believe the deal's not even bad. What do you want? We just got access to a huge percentage of Venezuelan oil. You just said you wanted America first and cheap oil.

He just delivered it to you and you're already whining. Again, if you listen to the horseshoe theory liberal media lunatics and the doom and gloom crowd all the time, you'd never know that even happened. They're whining about the deal. I can't believe it. The Venezuelans may be a little upset about it. I thought you were America first. Who cares?

I don't care. Jim, do you care? I don't care. No, me either. I don't America for her. Don't we do in America first? That's what I'm doing. I got more of this coming up next.

We'll be right back. Ladies and general, I got some good news for you today. What? The Dumers and Grifters and every told us, we should all be miserable. The polls show that Americans who believe in the future of a great America are down to like 20 or Sunday percent.

What is going? on here? What is going on here? Folks, one, I don't believe any of that. I think those are crap garbage poles. You can roll them up in a ball. Jim's like, oh, no, here we go again. I'm the only allowed to say certain things about where the ball can go. And you can insert the ball and that. Dad, I don't buy any of that. I don't buy it. What? We can say that. Stop giving me the look. That's okay. That's okay. We are winning. When I say we, I mean the Republican Party. we are winning the messaging war the tides have totally shifted oh come on no i'm dead serious folks i always bring receipts to back this stuff up i don't like faux optimism i don't like faux depression

either faux optimism and remember in the biden midterm is going to be a red wave i told people please stop i'm not seeing indications of that and it wasn't a red wave it was a decent election but what i don't want to hear the faux depression either it'll be a blue wave we're going to lose 700 seats. It's not even 700 seats to lose. What are you talking about? Folks, when you're involved in politics, there are timeless kind of little nuggets of knowledge that I don't care if you're an activist, a candidate, or really just a concerned voter, you really should take them in and internalize them. And as I like to say, like make them a brain tattoo. And I'm going to say they're not mine. I'm not pretending here to be the Stygian witches from a, you know,

clash of the time, give me the eye. Like, I'm not pretending there at all to do any of that. These are things that have been passed on to me that I'm just passing to you as just a medium here. I don't mean like a psychic, you know. I'm just passing it. I'm a middleman messenger of timeless ideas to pass on to you. Republicans have gotten their collective rumps kicked in for,

decades in the messaging war. Folks, it's just true. There were a number of reasons for that. One of them that was told to me, again, by a very smart man involved in Republican Party activism for a long time. Grab me at an event one time. He said, no, I'm sorry.

This is a, this I read in a piece. I want to be precise. The other way, the assertions versus questions I get to in a second minute. I read this in a piece one time. And this is so incredibly spot on. The premise of the piece, forgive me. I don't remember the author, was that Republican messaging,

about their issues, even though we went on the issues all the time. We went on the tax issue. Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. How do we know? Democrats spend all their money on accounts to avoid paying higher taxes. Don't they love higher taxes? Democrats hate school choice. B.S. They send their kids to Sidwell friends in Washington, D.C. in school choices.

And we won on the news. We lost on the messaging. We won on the message, lost on the messaging. One of the reasons was, as I read in this piece, was that a lot of the heavy donors to Republican party politics in the past. Not so much anymore, but in the past, we're almost exclusively from commoditized industries like

oil and petrochemicals. Where advertising really wasn't a thing. You know, Jim, when you're going between like a sitcom and a Chevron and a BP or whatever, are you like really susceptible to whatever? Buy BP gas. It smells better? Like you just say, go, what's cheaper? Do you not?

Almost nobody out there. goes and buys gas based on some marketing pitch. It's a price elasticity. They're worried about the price. That's it. So a lot of these folks in the past that were in candidates' ears donated money. And listen, that's just the way politics. I wish it weren't that way, but it is.

It gives you access. People are likely to take a call from a guy who donated $100,000 to a pack. Hey, I think you should say this. They were just really bad at messaging. Meanwhile, who's in the lefty candidates here? You got Hollywood entertainers. artists, singers. I'm not telling you you got to like their politics.

I certainly don't. But they're obviously very creative. That's why they're artists. They'd be like, you know what? I think you should run this campaign in and talk about like hope and hope he changing, you know, sound familiar. Remember hope he changing?

Jim's like, sounds like Obama's, yeah, well, he probably got that from a bunch of artists and the Hollywood people who filtered their way into the consultant class. we were just really bad in messaging. Folks, it's totally flipped. It's totally completely flipped. Now, I'm going to give you the receipts here up front to show you what I mean.

The Democrats are now in a complete panic because, one, two, three, I have about five reasons, because it's one thing to say something, something to back it up. Four or five reasons, depending on how much time I can get to him here, on why the messaging war is totally flipped. The Democrats now have become none. nothing more than robots and NPCs, Laded Wembourg, wealth tax, boys suck, patriarchy. They all say the same thing.

They have no, meanwhile, you got Republicans argument about everything. The war in Iran, tariffs, that's a good thing. It's healthy. We all got opinions. Crazy how that's like not only not a bad thing, but a very good thing. It keeps people frosty and snappy, man. Get going. Get your ideas going.

No one says anything different on the Democrat side ever. They don't. I think there are four or five reasons we're winning, but I want to play this first. Jim put this together. First, I'm going to put together with a, well, I'm going to play a super cut for you, about a minute or so. But here is a cut of Democrats in complete total panic mode because they chose volunteer. They chose this to welcome a man into their tent, the Democrat tent, Hassan Piker.

And no, I'm not stopping talking. No one tells me what to talk about. The Democrats want to invite a guy in their tent who talks about rapes, you know, not changing his mind. Like he's not worried about rapes on October 7th. How he hates America, how we deserve 9-11. I'm not letting that go and you shouldn't either under no circumstances. It is a sticky note on their back. It's not going anywhere.

You want a campaign with this guy? Good. Own it. Be it. Own it. Love it. Remember that pretty woman day? Be it.

Own it. Yeah, as you. You're going to be it and you're going to own it now because I'm not letting it go no matter what. No one's talking me out of it. The Democrats used to be good at messaging this stuff away. Not anymore. Thanks for putting this together, Jim. Here's a little supercutter.

The Dem's in total panic mode about their own message. Check this out. My campaign has never been about a streamer in California. He doesn't speak for me. I don't speak for him. Here's what I can tell you on the ground from Michigan. We are sick of talking about Hassan Piker. Hassan Piker is not running for anything that I know of.

If I'm wrong, I hope that somebody corrects me. I... do not think that a Twitch streamer is what the people of Michigan are concerning themselves on. I am done, so don't any reporter ask me again about Hassan Piker. It's not what November is about. Folks, you never, ever heard this from Democrats in the past. I shouldn't say never, with few exceptions. maybe the Bill Clinton famous Sister Soldier moment where the rapper Sister Soldier had these really

offensive lyrics and Bill Clinton was asked about it and was like, I basically renounced that stuff and it's called the Sister Soldier moment. You can look it up yourself. Soul J-A-H. Check it out. It was maybe the only time Democrats used. Democrats used to run the most aggressive, crazy, insane, political ads ever and totally get away with it.

I know Jim and I are old enough with the Democrats used to run ads against Republicans. Basically, you'll be lynched and dragged through the streets like Emmett Tillview. People were like, what the? That's the craziest freaking thing I've ever heard my. And Democrats would be like, right on, man. That's awesome. Remember when Paul Ryan was throwing people off of a cliff. Paul Ryan, that's such a.

Yes, producer Jim from the bullpen. Remember the ad? fake Paul Ryan, he's walking this lady in a wheelchair and actually throws her off the cliff? Well, I mean, it's not a real lady, obviously. But who knew? Democrats, some of them are so dumb. They probably thought it wasn't. My gosh, he just killed that lady.

By the way, was there even a disclaimer on the same? You know when they say, this is a stunt, do not try this at home? Like car ads where they're racing. I don't even think they said that. Someone probably threw their grandmother off the cliff. It's okay. Paul Ryan said it's okay. Jim is right.

The ads were so insane, and they would win. Nancy Pelosi. That's another Democrat ad. It is. I don't remember that one. Yeah, I was taken from Poulter guys, too. Reverend Cain, you're all going to die. That was effectively Democrat ads.

Oh, Dan, that stuff's stupid. It's not stupid. They used to win. Nancy Pelosi routed in the George W. Bush midterms, the Republican Party. I don't know. They take back like 40 to 50 seats. It was ridiculous. Folks, it's been totally turned on its head.

They're in total panic mode. Here's Asan Piker. Their guy, he's their homie. They brought him into the state. We didn't bring him in. The Democrats wanted a campaign with a guy who thinks we deserve 9-11 and says he hates America. There is their choice. I don't know this guy never met us on Piker.

They brought him in. Now they're freaking out. They used to laugh about this stuff. Yeah, stupid Republicans, the media would cover for him. here's Asan Piker yesterday saying he's getting off X now. Listen, I'm not mad at him. You want to get off X? I got off X for a while.

I'm going to be a hypocrite about it. I got back on after Elon bought it. However, you're not getting off X. I thought you were proud of this message. The Democrats used to celebrate this stuff. You're all going to be lynched and dragged and murdered and killed. They used to say even crazier things in this guy. Not now because Republicans have gotten good at gluing this stuff to their backs.

Check this out. There has been a, we'll talk about all this stuff. We'll talk about all this stuff. We'll get into all of this and more in a second. Personal news-wise, there's not really much going on in my life other than just like incest and slander hour. I deleted Twitter off my phone finally. I'm going back to, I'm going back to the basics.

I'm going back to being normal. I'm going back to mental sanity. You heard it yourself? There he is. Hassan Pico, who by the way, Jim, did you catch it, by the way? And you're a super cut. They don't even mention them now.

they just talk them as a streamer as some random guy a streamer a streamer like they're talking about like pat mackoffy talking about sports or something they're the stream which streamer which because they don't want you to look them up folks we are winning now i told you i thought there were five reasons i'll try to get through them before the break if not i'll get to the rest of them after but this is really important the biggest reason of all by far is president trump Folks, pre- Donald Trump Republican Party politics. Many of you out there live through with me. The Republican Party ran some of the worst ads you have ever seen in your entire life.

Outside of Reagan's morning in America, almost no Republican candidate. I'm not knocking them. I don't want to, from Santorum to Mitt Romney to other major party candidates who ran, ran any kind of memorable ads at all because I told you, They just weren't, they had people in their ear just weren't very good at this. And there were things prior to Donald Trump that were just unacceptable to say. They just were. I'll never forget being in an activist group after Mitt Romney lost to Obama and people were never talking about immigration again.

It was like, verboten. You were not allowed to talk about it at all. Of course, I was like, I'll talk about whatever I want. So were others in the group. They're like, you're not telling us what to talk about. Donald Trump comes out because not only am I going to talk about immigration, I'm going to tell them that they're sending their worst people here, and I'm going to make it the staple of my campaign,

and he wins multiple times. He changed the whole dynamic of what is, air quotes, an acceptable conversation to have. And Republican Party activist, donors, consultants and all took note. Like, hey, maybe we were wrong the whole time, and this guy was right. Some of them may not have liked him, but there's no doubt. He won multiple times, and you took the L.

Donald Trump is by far the biggest reason for the messaging shift. Not just in the message, i.e. Donald Trump, I'm going to talk about immigration. Swampy Republicans. Don't talk about immigration. We could alienate Hispanic voters, turned out to be completely wrong. But it's not just the message, it's the tone. Donald Trump changed the tone too.

Republicans in the past are like, yeah, we got to be on like the moral and ethical, right, course of history. You know what the moral course of history is to fight socialist and commies and people want to destroy the country? Donald Trump came out and was just like, Like, not only we're going to call out illegal immigration, some of these people are sending here are criminals and we don't want to.

And a Republican establishment was like, oh my gosh, you can't say that. He's like, now I'm going to say it again. He is the biggest reason. Because I hate teases because they're the worst thing ever, I'm going to give you the other couple and I'm going to explain more on the other side of the break. Here are the others in case you missed the next segment, which I don't want you to do. Elon Musk, you see where I'm going with that, the media monopoly getting broken. up and the parallel economy. Those are the reasons that the Republicans are now the kings

of messaging and they got Democrats on the run. We'll be right back. Bungino. I want to bring up something to you if you're an activist out there. If you're watching this online X and TikTok Snapchat ecosystem and you're swearing to yourself like the world has gone completely mad, I want you to just brave heart, whole, whole, I'm telling you it hasn't. I get out there in the real world like you do. I was out last night at volleyball game for my daughter. So many nice people came up to me and said the most amazing things. Like the world is a sane place.

X is not the real world. There are components of the real world in it. Don't ignore it. I enjoy it. I like being on the platform. It is not the real world. As you see the proliferation. of crazy nonsense on X.

Like space aliens killed this guy. Lindsay Clancy's a hero and all this other stuff. As you see it, you're swearing like I'm the only sane person left. Thankfully, and I mean this, you are not. There is an army of people out there that are not as crazy as you're seeing in this unrepresentative sample size on social media. I only brought up my history in the business, not to impress you, who cares? really, you talk for a living.

Great. I've always told you, like, you guys have real jobs. I talk for a living. That's my thing. But, and Jim's been around this business for decades, a lot longer than me. He's been with many hosts, one who shall not be known. Jim's been with many hosts. Jim can attest to this that if you are not comfortable taking uncomfortable positions in this business,

because you fear you may lose some people, don't get in the business. Folks, there is nothing. Listeners and viewers hate more than a guy who sits on the top of the fence with a pole up and we can't even talk about them. We're not allowed. Apparently we're not able to talk about that sand of stuff on FCC regulated airways. We learned that the hard way about five years ago in the first radio show. You got a poll right up there. Right up right there.

It's right there. Nobody likes that. They're not tuning into your radio show in this case or. podcast or cable news show or whatever your live stream to hear you go on one hand but on the other hand what was it arthur raccoon who said give me a one-handed economist because they're always saying out on one hand they want to hear what you have to say that's why they're listening to your show now sometimes you got to apply the bonjino room way for the facts to come in before you formulate an opinion but i only bring this up because if you're not comfortable taking uncomfortable positions

and losing some listeners or viewers over the course of your career, don't get in the business. It happens every primary season. Jim, am I right? You come out and you say, hey, it happened to me when I came out and support a President Trump. There were people who supported Ron DeSantis, people who supported Ted Cruz. I was a convert from this, but told me, I'm not listening to your show again.

Okay, I'm not mad at you. I believe in your, I love Ron DeSanth, I think he's great. I love Ted Cruz. I think they're great. I just had a different pick for that. that cycle. You know, then make you a bad guy.

But there are people who will legitimately tune out. But I'll tell you how to get everybody to tune out and to never maintain any sense of longevity in this business we've been in for over a decade.

It's to never take a position on anything to placate everyone at the same time. I say that because this Lindsay Clancy trial is, folks, I'm getting increasingly furious about this case.

I've not talked about it much because this is largely a conservative MAGA-based show, and I get that. But this is an issue that it's like a beach ball underwater for me. I can't contain it anymore. It's a sign of a growing type of psychosis we have amongst a small portion of the population. Small, I can't emphasize this enough. This is not the norm, but a small portion of the populace that has, and Jim and I debated, we were doing pre-production this morning, pre-pro, if you want to sell you.

Pre-pro, an industry guy, right? And we're like, how do we sum this up? And I had said to the guys, you ever heard that, you know, the kids, they have these terms like magging and main character energy and I don't try to talk like a kid. I'm not a kid, I'm 51. I'm a rotting meat carcass right now with osteoarthritis and everything. I'm not a kid. But I think some of their terms are funny.

And one of the terms they have is this MCE thing, main character energy. how you have these people with such big personalities. They have like this main character energy, you know? Here's the thing about a lot of leftists and lunatics and conspiracy nuts and doomers and crazies. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to bring this up again later. They live in a vacuum. Their lives are meaningless.

I'm sorry they are. They don't have kids like you do. They're not going to volleyball games and baseball games and soccer games. They don't have a business to run. They don't. So they fall in love with like only fan stars on X who are like, I'm a trained investigator. Space aliens.

Kill Joey Bag of Donuts. You're like, yeah, well, what? Where did you get that? They need something in their lives. This will come up throughout the show today. But they need what's called. This is not an SAT vocabulary course, but the word here is important. They need the raison d'etra.

What is the raison d'etra? It's a French phrase. This is from chat GPD. That literally means chat chabtiBt must not know. I hate the word literally. Rason Detre is a French phrase that literally means reason for being. It is used to describe the fundamental purpose, existence, or justification of a person, organization, object, or idea.

Yes. Folks, the problem with a lot of liberals and Folex MAGA, fake MAGA people who are trying to destroy our movement with all their nonsense and attacking everyone and every piece of evidence and going after people and the problem with both of those movements is they have no raison d'etra. I mean it. I'm not trying to sound like a pseudo-sophistic hint here, okay? They don't have anything. So they'll latch on to anything.

I saw at my time in law enforcement with people who get into the space and they were in finance or whatever before and they've never been involved in a critical, like, high-stress life or death situation. And they like, the first time they're in, they think they're in like a Netflix movie, that'll come up later. They think they're in a Netflix movie.

And they just panic. crap the bed, although we use the word that rhymes with hit instead. They crap the bed. And they take the run in a Nephlin movie. We're all going to die. We're not going to die. Shut up and calm down. Just calm down.

When I was at the FBI, people knock on my door all the time. They come in screaming with their hair on fart. Not all of them, I mean, but there was one dude in particular. And I would ask the same questions every time. Brother, is anybody dead? No. Is anybody going to die in the next 10 seconds? So calm down. Take a sanics.

Call a psychiatrist. You need to calm down. Go back. Go back. Take 10 seconds. Nasal breathing. Get the nitric oxide up. And then come back and represent your case.

Because I'm not getting into this crazy stuff. This is not some comic book we're living and it's the real world. Liberals do this all the time. They are totally detain. from reality. They write themselves into comic books their writing where they're the main character because they want to be heroes. They see themselves in the model of actual heroes, people who march for civil rights

and others. And because they feel like they should be an integral part of history too and that they have to be written into the longitudinal course of history as some heroic figure etched on the Capitol wall, they have to fabricate their stories. I'm fighting this heroic cause of men in the world. women's room. Dude, nobody wants a guy's unit in a girl's restroom. Like, nobody wants, you're not a hero. You don't have spidey sense. You know, you're not Batman. You're not like the dark night version of Batman. You're not even like Aquaman. Everybody thought Aquaman was stupid. Even a movie

was bad. That's not what you are. So they have to invent things. They have to make themselves a hero and the main character with fake main character energy in a story. In a story, their writing that never survives first contact with the real world. I saw it again yesterday. Jim and I have been laughing at ridiculous leftists who fabricate racist conspiracy theories for the last, what, five, six years we've known each other. And one of the things, this is an example right here. The leftists write themselves into a comic where they're fighting against a group of horrible racist Ku Klux Klan Republicans everywhere and around every corner. There's a white supremacist around every corner for them. So they've made up this.

Ghosts they need to fight called replacement theory. Now, you P-1s, though, where I'm going with this. But this is, is this Ariana? Iiana. Iiana Presley, sorry. I was thinking Ariana-Gra-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-Resley. This is Iiana-R-A-R-A-R-A-Las-A-R-Uhs a difference. This is I-A-R-Lef-Lefsler in Congress.

here she is talking about how birth tourism where Chinese Communist Party infiltrators will come here to give birth to their kids so they have American citizenship so they can use that American citizenship to infiltrate and attempt to destroy the country. That birthright citizenship is somehow evidence of this evil ghost they've been fighting replacement theory that catches this. This is a fake comic book they wrote. Because replacement theory... That the fuck back there is not real. She's back. She's calling in the show again. It's crazy.

Replacement theory, the problem is this actually is real. But it's the Democrats thing. They talk about it all the time. So listen to this lady, paint herself as a hero about replacement theory that liberals discuss openly all the time. This is an instant classic. Check this out.

Dr. Camerrata, yes or no. Are you familiar with the great. replacement theory. I read an article or two about it, so I don't know exactly... Well, let me elucidate you and the public watching at home because it's foundational to what's happening here. The great replacement theory is a conspiracy that falsely claims that white people are being deliberately replaced by immigrants and people of color. It is a far-right white supremacist ideology that far too many Republicans believe is real. In fact, in 2017 in Charlottesville, at the unite the right rally. When people were brandishing those tiki torches, that's what they were saying,

you will not replace us. So it often relies on invasion rhetoric to advance that narrative by portraying black and brown families as an invading force rather than as human beings. And people that are entitled to dignity. A parent crossing a border becomes the enemy. A pregnant woman becomes a threat. A child born in the United States becomes proof of a takeover. The consequences of this rhetoric have been deadly. Jim, she's fighting a deadly rhetoric. There's a Ku Klux Klan guy around every corner. And Ayanna Presley is bravely fighting those Ku Klux Klanhoods.

You see how she writes herself into the story with the fake main character? And look at me, what a hero. What she's not telling you is the idea of replacing American citizens with a foreign-born population, what they call demographic destiny, changing the demographic destiny, changing the demographics of the United States is their idea. Now, I'm going to do you a favor if you're a first time listener. Jim, isn't this thing like 20 minutes long? Now, of course, we're not going to play a 20 minute cut.

So we're going to do a little stunt Jim and I did last time we were on the 12 to 3 radio show. Can you just let this play like through the break and we'll come back through the break? I don't know three, what is it? Three, four minutes. I don't know. But we're going to start. This is the Democrats. This is a 20 minute supercut, 20 minutes of Democrats like Ianna Presley, right in

herself into this main character role, heroically fighting against a replacement theory, that her own party champions openly all the time. Check this out. Coming out into the open. In a few years, we're going to be a majority brown country. White people will not be the majority in the country anymore. This will be the first generation ever in American history in which whites will be a minority of the generation at some point. As of 2007, every year babies being born in this country, white now with a minority. In 24, everyone is going to be a minority.

As the demographics change, as white people become the minority in the country, which is coming. Demographics is destiny. We're going to let this play. Do the break. It's destiny, right? The country is changing.

No, no, we're just, that's how long this is. And we come back from the break. We will just pot it right back up so you can hear it. This is 20 minutes of Democrats talking about replacing you with demographics while simultaneously writing a comic book where they're fighting against the people talking about replacing you.

Who is them? Who is them? Stay tuned. We'll be right back. They all share a very similar characteristic. Which is they all want to take advantage of suckers to get you to believe something that's not only going to destroy your own life, but the lives of those around you, including your family and community. And sometimes, not with you in this listening audience, but with others, sometimes it works. we're going to expose a lot of con men doomers grifters zeros black pillars and others today as well

whether hollywood and elsewhere and unbelievably we're going to show you how a lot of these people believe this stuff these people say despite the fact that the people saying it never live up to the own the things they're saying i see this on x all day before we get to all that a big thank you a bonjino report p m i hope you're enjoying it with me and sean ferrish we are really honored to be on these stations. Thank you to the program directors and the staff at the stations around the country who air the show. We really love doing it. We will be launching an even larger footprint in the morning with Bongino Report AM if you missed the announcement from 5 a.m. to 6 a.m. for you early morning commuters on hundreds of stations across the country, September 21st. So we really appreciate

that. The footprint is expanding. We're going to get up a station finder at my website, bonjino.com. Soon. The only reason we haven't done it yet, is we're adding so many new stations quickly that we just don't want to update it every day. We just want to get it out there where people can go and look. So thank you all for your support. So getting back to the show, I like themes for the show, you know, for the podcast that airs live at 10 a.m. every day. Eastern Time.

rumble.com slash Bongino if you'd like to join us. For the podcast, I like a title. Some people just put an episode number, episode whatever, 2046, whatever it may be. You know, Jim, I and the team and the production team, we like to, throw a title on some so you know where you're going to go with stuff. So I did. I titled that, the show on the podcast today. You know, con men, libs, media people, you know, what's the difference? And the answer is, it's a true question. There isn't a difference. And what made me think of this. Well, I like themes for the show because it helps people in advance kind of tell them, you know,

tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them what you're telling them. That's like the rules of teaching, train the trainer. Tell people what you're going to tell them, tell him and tell them what you told them. I was on X yesterday, and I'll get to this in a little more detail later. And I was doing some show prep. And I'm scrolling, I spend so much time almost as much as Haley, he was another one of her. I spent a lot of time online. I have to for good show prep.

And I saw a post about that movie Catch Me, if you can, about the conman Frank Abagnale. And I'll get into it a little more later, but it just made me laugh that there are some problems with the story about him being a conman. Like, who would have dunked it, Jim? like a con man wrote an autobiography and people are like, wait, the autobiography sounds like it's partially a con too. Who would have thunked? I'll get into that more and a little bit.

But there's a lesson there, which is pick the right heroes. Pick the right heroes and know where you're getting your information from and what said people have told you in the past. Is anything they've told you in the past in fact accurate? it folks there are a number of con men out there on X you'll see them say things and i can't believe people fall for it they'll say something ridiculous here's just a quick example again i'll i'll bring up in in different iterations throughout the show today to show you how like be careful who's here who you know what heroes you pick online your hero's your grandfather or your dad or a great baseball coach you

had or a mentor a teacher it's not people online it's not they'll say something stupid ridiculous and counterproductive. They'll get sued for it. They'll go out and puff their chest. Oh, look at me. You've seen this, right, Jim? I can't wait for discovery. And then you find out later that, like,

they were served with a subpoena and they ducked or their first motion in corpus that had the case thrown out. I thought you, I thought you said you couldn't wait. I thought that's what you said. That's what you said that, right? Pick the right heroes, man. They ain't people in the conservative content space

and yes, ain't a word. case. Speaking of con men, Jim's in Texas, and I'm not doing this as a courtesy to Jim or Texas voters, but I'm telling you, like, this guy, Talafrico, who has now been renamed Tala Cripo, President Trump says his nickname is now Tala Cripo from Talafrico. His name is, of course, Tala RICO. He is the Democrat nominee for the United States Senate in Texas, running as like a vegan who believes in six genders, which I don't understand, like, what political consultant told him that's a good idea. President Trump has this guy's number.

You want to talk about a con man. This guy has got to be the biggest con man running in this cycle. Democrats run a lot of con men. Like I think that Abdul L. he'll say, yeah, it's just a stupid smart person. He is. He's apparently a medical doctor who's never, I don't think he's actually practiced.

But he's not dumb. But he's one of the stupid smart people. He's the neurosurgeon who goes, you know what? I'm a neurosurgeon. I'm going to change royal. Have you ever changed the oil before? Nah. And your engine sees something.

Well, I'm a neurosurgeon. How did I screw that up? You're not a mechanic. That's Abdul Al-Sayette. This Tala-Crepo, Tala-Frico, whatever you'd like to call him, is really creepy and weird, folks. The guy strikes me as a complete total con man, indicative of the entire Democrat Party in this election cycle.

They say things that they never back up in their own lives. Bernie Sanders. I hate millionaires. Bernie, aren't you a millionaire? I didn't meet me. Democrats. I want government-run health care for all. When they passed Obamacare, didn't you guys lobby for Obamacare and apply to you?

I didn't mean me. Don't fall for con men. Now, I learned a valuable lesson with The Beast. This is for P-1s-only. P-1s-only. I was a T-S transportation agent in the Secret Service and the limo. You'd hear it called the Beast. When we were in the Secret Service, we did not call it the Beast.

We used to laugh at media people. President Trump, however, has decided it's going to be called the beast. I have forfeited. I lost. Jim, sometimes you lose. Sometimes it's okay. He wants to be called the beast. It's the beast because he has a bigger microphone than me.

He is now decided we're changing Tala Freco's name to Tala Cripo. Man, does he have this guy's number? He is warning you. The dude is a con man. Here's President Trump. I'm warning you about con men and Dumers. Everything sucks. We're all going to die.

Everyone's going to lose their job. The economy's terrible. The border's not closing. The Dumers are just lying to you. So are the con men. Here's President Trump on Tala Cripo now. Check this out. He was maybe the best attorney.

And everybody admits it. He was a great attorney general in Texas. And he's running against Tala Cripo. And this guy was, he has that name for a reason. He's terrible. He's radical left. Now he says he loves meat. You know what he does?

He eats meat and he goes outside and he throws up all over the place. Because in Texas, is if you don't eat meat, you're in deep trouble. It's not a good thing not to be able to eat meat. He was wearing a mask six months ago. He had a mask on. When somebody's wearing a mask six months ago, you're in deep trouble, right, Pete?

Dan, easy. I know the word mask was mentioned, but you don't have to go down that road. Now you see you did it. I was going to let it go. But now you did it. Again, for regular listeners, if you ever want to get me off track, ever,

mention the mask phenomenon during COVID, I was banned from YouTube for warning you about the stupidity of the face diaper. It is the only prophylactic medical device mechanism where you had a 100% success rate of failing. It was the condom that you used and got every single person pregnant. Every single person who wore a mask on the globe got COVID. It was a COVID. It was a It was, it's the condom where you got an STD and there was a pregnancy. Like, it's the anti-condom. The face diaper, I, all right, I can't. I can't with the mask.

I see a mask. I actually love when I see a mask because I know it across the street. Because if that person has any kind of a stupid virus, like some whatever, like, you know, these viruses out there, Epstein Bar, whatever, the monovirus, if there was a stupid virus, I don't want the infection. I see a mask. I run for the hills. Tala Freco is was wearing a mask. I got a video of him coming up. And Trump, this guy's got a feel for politics, Jim, like no one else.

Trump's stingers are just like, and he does him just extemporaneously because it comes natural for him to be like a pit fighter when it comes to politics. He doesn't have to like sit there, uh, think about, hold on, let me get the punchline. He just goes right for the jugular. And he's running as a vegan, he eats meat. He goes outside. He throws up. visual now is in everybody's head. Like, what kind of freaking guy's going to go in

and get brisket and throw up in Texas? You're running in Texas, bro, like the meat capital of the world. Don't go anywhere because I got another piece of audio video coming up later of a campaign thing, the Talakripo campaign put out there. Jim, you've seen it, right? You watch the podcast. It's Talakripo. And this is was his idea. They put this out there. Walking in a cracker barrel like it's like a museum, like it's the first time he's ever seen a cracker barrel in Texas. He's walking in there like Indiana freaking Jones on an archaeological expedition into a cracker barrel. Look at the people eating eggs and grits. Oh my God. You got to see him pick up the menu like confused as to what it is.

What is this? Is this a white paper speech on the marginal effects on taxation? of socialism and wealth. It's a freaking menu, Tala Cripo. You don't even need, who needs a menu in Cracker Barrel? What do you think you're going in there ordering? Fouacra? You think you're going in there going, do you have the beluga caviar?

Is that even a thing? Do you have, it's Cracker Barrel, bro. Eggs, crits, biscuits. It's Cracker Barrel. It's a freaking Cracker Barrel. What are you looking for? Do you have the prime choice cut A six year

Azeeer ribby From the black angoose cattle from the waggian farms of Japan This freaking Cracker Barrow, bro Just get some eggs And put the menu down Act like you've been there before

You know Jim, you got me start with the mask Now I'm in a mood Now the show is totally screwed up It's going to run. Not for you, because you don't even know where I'm going with this now. While we're on the topic of Texas, I'm watching this doc. I love documentaries.

I love him. I can't get enough of them. I'm watching this documentary about Vince Young. Jim's like, oh, here we go. Jim loves his Texas. You know, hook him horns. I'm an Auburn fan, but whatever, no disrespect. It's a great thing about Vince Young.

And, you know, they're talking about Texas. And was it, Mack Brown, the old coach in a Rose Bowl when they beat USC? Mac Brown, when Vince Young scores the, winning touchdown. He's the University of Texas. For the Rose Bowl, like the national championship, he just walks off the field like nothing happened. He's not going, you can watch the video. He's not like going crazy or anything. And Mac Brown, he said Mac Brown, the coach told him, man, act like you've been there before in the end zone. So he did. We won the game. Talakripo, act like you've been in a cracker bar before. Don't walk into like Rudy's barbecue

or like whatever, iron fork, iron spoke this iron and everything with barbecues, a thousand different derivatives. Just act like you've been there before. I'll change. the medium filet mignoni no dude do you want it extra moist or not it's briskin extra moister no act like you've been there it's texas you freaking con man i like how they showed him playing that pin game but they only showed like a second of it because he was absolutely because he doesn't know what he's doing he doesn't know the pin game at the table of crackerbell it's only been there for seven thousand years to Flintstones. Jumped to Flay.

You never, I can't, I gotta get, because I gotta talk about the Dumers too. Stop laughing at your own jokes. I can't. Jim's gonna have to use the dump button for me here. Stay tuned. More coming up next.

So this happened, right before I got on the air in the podcast earlier this morning, I'm watching the job report come out and for just to put some perspective on these numbers because they don't mean anything outside of context the expected job growth numbers for the release this morning were about 53,000, which would have been good but not great. I think everybody would agree. Well, as that's somewhat happened. Now, the doomers and the gloomers are going to be very upset about this because they only

want to focus on the bad news. Now, we should cover bad news. There's no doubt, but context does matter, correct? We'd all agree we should cover probably the good news too, so we can weigh the good news against the bad news to make a choice. Is the good news more important than the bad news? And I would say job numbers are really good news because if we're not working, we're not supporting our families and we're all starving, that's an easy way to get dead, which would violate the number one rule of the Dan Bongino show, which is don't get dead. This is Rick Santelli from CNBC about the numbers this morning. Keep in mind they were expecting $53,000. That's not what happened. Check this out. And we're hitting, hold on to your seats, folks.

Non-farm payrolls for the month of August, up 162K. 162,000. That's basically three times what expectations are. That sounds kind of like a good thing. I'm just saying, again, someone brought up in the podcast chat this morning. Dan, we're 40 trillion a day. Yeah, I know I only cover that probably 10% of the time on my show, if not more. we bring it up once a week, if not more.

We bring up all the problems we're having with Medicaid, Medicare spending, fraud and the government. We bring up all kinds of things, the 2032 impending bankruptcy of Social Security. I get it. But there are people trying to fix these problems and are people who are just complaining. And I'm really honored to be part of this radio show, a podcast, and content I do on Fox and elsewhere, where I give you both sides of a story. And I say, listen, on net, we've got to be.

a midterm coming up. I think between the border being closed, we covered this yesterday on the radio show, the crime getting crushed, the streets becoming safer, the manufacturing renaissance, the tens of trillions of dollars being invested back in the United States, the jobs numbers today,

inflation, it's still a thing to be tamed, but it's not the 9% under the Biden era, that there is a movement, the MAGA movement, and a new Republican Party, that's at least trying to fix this stuff, while the Democrats, and I'll get to this later, are focused on impeaching Pete Higgseth, impeaching Donald Trump,

impeaching the president's cat. He doesn't have a cat. It doesn't matter. They're impeaching him anyway. Freaking Garfield. You doubt me, stay tuned to the show. I always bring the receipts. I make a very concerted, concentrated,

laser light beam focused effort on understanding the other side. The left doesn't do the same front. They don't want to understand them. They just want to call us like white supremacist clan members and stuff. They're not interested in understanding us. I do my best to understand them. That's why we play so many clips from left-leaning outlets, audio clips on the show and video clips on the podcast,

where I say, hey, look, this is what they're saying. You think I'm making this up? That Buziomani and others, stay tuned if you want to know what that. That Buziomani and others segment totally off the real. Do you think Buzimani and others who are running against President Trump, you think they have an agenda? I mean an agenda for you. The answer is, I'll answer the question for you.

They don't. Their agenda is, we are going to go there. and impeach people. Well, what about gas prices? Iran, public school, education, you know, costs of college. What about affordability? What about a... That stuff is all Charlie Brown's teacher to them.

They hear one word. Impeachment, impeachment, impeachment. It's like never-ending tinnitus of the word. That's all they hear in their ear. How do we know that, Jim? Because they say it. Jim, let's see if you get this right. why do the Democrats running for office in this life,

if you screw this up, you were out, you and I are done forever? Why do the Democrats not want to put forward an agenda that involves jobs, health care, the things that matters to them? Why would they not want to do that, Jim? Because they don't want to. Because they don't want to. Correct. Because if they wanted to, they would do what they want to do,

but they don't want to do it, so there's no do in the do. So do. There's due, do, but there's no do in the do, if you know what I mean. So here's what I got. Let me lay out the show for you. I'm going to do this. I haven't done this, I think, ever. But we get a lot of letters in the studio from supporters and things like that.

It's always nice to read them. I read one today that was really kind of touching. It was from a young lady, Kirsten from Florida. She asked me for some life advice. And it's not, let me just warn you in advance. I'll address it later. but it's not the life advice you've heard from everyone else. I promise you.

If you're waiting for like, follow your dreams and all stuff, that's not it. I hate cliches and I hate stupid life advice. That is not good life advice. Follow your dream. That's not. That doesn't help anyone. Someone read that in a Hallmark card. So I got that.

I'm going to, I want you to hear this AI promo video that came out today. It's lighting the internet on fire. Open AI put out a new AI program. Ladies and gentlemen, you are living in I mean, to call it a transformative time is kind of like almost reverse hyperbole. Like, I'm not exaggerating enough. You are living in the craziest time to be alive right now.

And I mean that in a good way where if you're 40, 50, 60 or 70 years old, you're going to have seen pre-A.I. America, pre-Internet America in many cases, I remember when there was no, you know, internet commercially. And you're now going to see what AI is capable of doing going forward. The world's going to be two different places. When you hear the video, the. audio of this video I'm going to play. You're going to be blown away. I promise you. I was. And I'm an investor in the tech space. I see a lot of this stuff. I was totally blown away.

But I want to get to this first because I do get letters, traditional letters, people write to the office a lot. But I get a lot of emails, a lot of direct messages from both supporters and detractors, and that's okay. No one, we don't do NPC stuff here. No one's forced to agree with me. We're not robots. But I did an appearance, call them hits in the media biz. I did a hit on Will Kane show yesterday on Fox. I enjoyed doing that show. Check it out 4 p.m. Eastern on Fox. I did an appearance at Will yesterday and the Lindsay Clancy failure to find a verdict was breaking news. The jury's deadlocked in the case. It happened about yet right before I got on the air and they said, hey, Dan, you know, lift and shift, can you talk about the clansy? The Clancy.

case. I said, oh boy, I got a lot to say about the Clancy case. So I do the appearance there. And folks, I'm going to tell you something. Commentary I've done outside of the political space, crime, sports, culture wars, everything like that. I have never in my 15 years of doing conservative talking head commentary ever got as much feedback, received as much feedback as I did yesterday after this appearance on Will Kane Show. I don't like playing my own stuff, but it's important because this is about not just the appearance, but the commentary afterwards. And I'm going to tell you it was about 70% roughly, we agree with you, and about 30% we

disagree. And of that 30%, about a quarter of that was people like really ticked off at me for this take on the Lindsay Clancy case. I'll explain. But first, I want you. to hear it's a little over a minute check this out the facts in this case are not in dispute and i say to these people who took the time to grab a pen or a typewriter and write some kind of you know love note to this lady i wish you could watch it i really do i wish there were video in this you want to

see what that's like strangling three kids to death you want to see whether you're probably begging for help what that look like if you watch it do you have to turn away why do you have to turn if it if it was a a fiction, an act of fiction on a Netflix show. You would look away in horror and go, I can't watch this fake mom strangle these fake actor kids. But this is, the facts in this case are not in dispute. There is no reasonable doubt about the facts. And Will, you know, I'm glad you brought up the analogy of, you know, would a man get the same, you know, leeway from a jury that can't seem to figure this out? Do you know how many people come back from overseas, our patriots and heroes in our military who see awful, unimaginable things that thankfully will, you and I don't

have to deal with every day. You know, they come back and they don't strangle their kids. I mean, listen, do you know how many people come back from overseas our patriots and heroes in our military who see awful, unimaginable things that thankfully will you and I don't have to deal with every day? You know, they come back and they don't strangle their kids. I mean, listen, mental illness is a horrible thing. But how much as a society are we willing to sacrifice to protect this woman's story? I mean, if this is dumbed down, the legal version of what it's like to murder three children, I got to tell you, man, I don't know how you come back from a verdict like this. I think this is why the national attention so focused on this case. Okay. You probably understand, given the passion surrounding

this case, why that would generate a lot of feedback. Folks, I've spent 15 years as a candidate and activist and elsewhere, whatever, who cares? No, well, it is relevant and I care for this. Because I feel like having done and had maintained a decent audience through the years, despite all the ups and downs and primaries and all that stuff, I feel like we do a pretty good job on the show of understanding our detractors, people who disagree, to the roughly 30% of people. people who send us emails and Facebook messages and elsewhere saying, Dan, I totally disagree.

You know, there was a reason and an excusable reason for this woman to kill her three kids. I'm going to tell you, I don't get it. I'm not trying to be a tool, a craftsman, a jerk, an idiot or anything else. I'm not trying to play stupid with you. I genuinely don't get it. I feel like I don't agree with, but I understand why gun grabbers are how they are. They're afraid of, you know, they don't want to get shot. So they think somehow stealing innocent people's guns.

I don't agree. I think that's ridiculous. But I get where you, I see how you could possibly think that if you weren't well informed on the issue. Again, I'm not agreeing with any of this. I could see how, you know, wealth tax supporters, you know, they think, oh, well, there's this rich pool of money out there. If we just steal it, everyone will be better off.

They don't take into account that then the wealthy people have no money to build jobs. And they, so I get why you would think that you're just wrong. I'm candidly, sincerely telling you in the audience, for the first time in a non-political commentary issue, I've gotten enormous feedback on it that I just don't understand. Folks, I don't get it. Three innocent children were killed by their mother. If collectively in this thing we call society, we can't enact a legal structure to appropriately punish and put up guardrails against killing kids, then I'm sorry, but all's for not. You know, I brought up the example in the appearance on Will's show.

Folks, I've got friends and colleagues and family members who served in public safety positions in law enforcement, EMS, fire, who served in the military. I lost my uncle in Vietnam and before I was born, it ruined my family from. My grandmother died depressed over it. He was killed in south of Thu Duk, got a bronze star with a V device on. And my grandmother was never the same. But folks, I bring this up because there were people heroes, real heroes, not comic book heroes, but real heroes who go and serve our country overseas and see horrific things you and I,

thank the Lord, we'll never have to look at. They see people stepping on minds and being killed and their buddies coming back with missing limbs shot in front of their eyes. They come back with mental scars that thank the Lord you will never understand. I won't either. I was not in combat. These are not the kind of things you would ever, ever want to live with. They come back with the deepest of emotional scars that they would give anything, anything to get rid of. come back with physical wounds and come back with these mental wounds that will never,

ever scar over. I covered a segment on my Fox show years ago where I read an email from a friend with his permission who had witnessed this stuff on the air talking about the pink mist. You don't know what the pink mist is? Yeah, I didn't either. It's when one of his battle buddies would step on a mine and just explode right in front of him into a mist of pink from the blood. folks these people aren't coming back and killing their kids they're dealing with a trauma in their own life and they're not taking out that trauma on others and if that in the rare occurrence that that does happen people in the military of course like anyone else's crime they are punished harshly if we cannot enact legal guardrails to make sure that the most innocent among us are

protected. And ladies and gentlemen, I'm really sorry, but we are in for a really dark future. And I don't believe that. I got more on this coming up next.