The Dan Bongino Show - The Dan Bongino Sunday Special 03/17/24 - Bruce Pearl, Lauren Boebert and a tribute to Dan's mom

Episode Date: March 17, 2024

First, we talked with Auburn basketball head coach Bruce Pearl about March Madness, the war in Gaza, and the NIL rules. Next an epic Dan rant on "corporate greed" and how dumb liberals are to believe this. Then, we talked with Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert about Ken Buck leaving congress now, and it looks like an effort to sabotage her and the Republicans. Finally, a very moving tribute by Dan to his mother, who unexpectedly passed away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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and Bruce isn't afraid to speak out. You know, I love this guy. It's always great to have him on the show because he loves the country. He's not shy about it, and he's used his platform to speak out about issues that matter to America and that matter to America overseas.

Welcome back to the show. Coach of the Auburn Tigers, basketball coach Bruce Pearl. Bruce, welcome back to the show. Always good to have you. It's great to be with you again, Dan. Thank you. You got it. So before we get to the really critical, important stuff,

it is March Madness right around the corner. Bruce, you've had an amazing season yet again. You have really turned the Auburn Tigers into an incredible basketball powerhouse. I believe you guys are at 12 now. I think you should be higher personally. But how are you feeling about the tournament this year? I get the sense, I love college basketball like you do,

that this is one of the few times we've had in modern times where this thing's wide open. about the tournament this year. I get the sense, I love college basketball like you do, that this is one of the few times we've had in modern times where this thing's wide open. I mean, anybody could win this thing, including you guys. Well, Dan, it's March, and we're getting ready for one shining moment.

But there are a lot of teams that are in this thing and feel like they could cut down nets. The top seeds are probably going to be UConn and Houston. North Carolina's got a shot at one. Purdue and then maybe Tennessee. I think those are the five teams that have a shot for the top four seeds. Those teams are going to be hard to keep out of the

Final Four just because they've all had great, great years with dominating rosters, big, strong physical. They almost check every box. But Cinderella's are out there, and that is what is so special about the NCAA tournament. You know, 40 minutes, anything can happen. The upsets are, you know, obviously what people kind of live for to pick that 5-12 matchup

that somebody's going to go win a couple games he wouldn't have expected. And by the way, Dan, the game has never been better. Right now, the product on the floor is really good. Kids are playing hard. I think the referee in the game the right way, and

we're in for a real treat. Starting this week, because this week right now is sort of championship week as all the conferences have done with the regular season now, and they're beginning their conference tournament championships will be in Nashville this weekend as the having finished tied for second,

and we're three wins away from winning it, but it's going to be challenging, and then next weekend is the beginning of March Madness and the NCAA tournament. Yeah, I'm stoked. You guys played outside of a couple, you know, in a long season, of course, you're going to have a couple turkeys,

but your season's been solid. I mean, you have blown out some quality teams, and even the loss to Tennessee, you played them tough. I watched that game start to finish. That is a tough, tough team. Your team is great this year. But, Bruce, I to finish. That is a tough, tough team. Your team is great this year. But Bruce, I had you on because, you know, again, you're one of these guys that I really admire because you're not afraid to express your love for America and you're very vocal about

things that matter. And one of the things I know matters to you that matters to me is this ongoing crisis in the Middle East, Israel under attack in the horrific October 7 terror attack. And I'm finding that the PR war that the terrorist rapists at Hamas are conducting, Bruce, sadly, has become quite effective as people in this administration and some liberals are now vocally arguing for a ceasefire, just, I guess, suggesting that they should just let Israel be attacked again. I mean, they do PR and terrorism better than anyone at Hamas. They do. And they, and they've really done it for a long, long time. And of course, you know, Dan, you know, you just go all the way back to the beginning of time, and you go back throughout your Bible.

You know, the area, you know, God's area in Israel and Jerusalem has been fought over, and, you know, it has been a mess for a very long time. So why should we think that right now we have the potential to get it all right? But when policy and politics get in the way of each other, that's a real problem. And that's where we find ourselves as far as living in a way more dangerous world right now than we did three or four years ago. You know, when President Biden and his staff came in and they began to refund Iran and allow them to do business, they just put money in the pockets of all these terrorists and all their proxies throughout the Middle East. And the other thing they did was they gave the terrorists and some of the opposition hope for the impossible. possible. And those two things, I think, are what has led to the emboldenment of Israel's enemies and therefore the enemies of the United States. And right now, you know, if we could just turn

the tide back, the clock back to October 8th, when I thought President Biden did the right things by sending the fleet to the Middle East, by standing with Israel against the worst genocide since the Holocaust. He said the right things. He did the right things. But we all worried and prayed, how long would it last when his base would be calling for a ceasefire? Nobody wants to continue this war right now because it's anybody's desire to kill more people. Israel doesn't want to continue this war to put more death and destruction to the Palestinian people. The only reason why they have to continue this war is to destroy the enemy, their sworn enemy, that has been trying to eliminate them from their existence for 80 years.

them from their existence for 80 years. And if this country, if the president doesn't allow Israel to finish the job and remove Hamas and therefore free the Palestinian people and the Gazans from their own worst enemy, their leadership and the Israeli citizens from their ability to live in some peace and prosperity, we will have missed a terrible, terrible opportunity. Israel must finish the job. The world had to finish the job in World War II. And the German people paid a tremendous price. But they came out on the other end way better off than under Nazi rule. And that's what Hamas has been. Oh, there's no question about that.

Any rational actor could tell you that we're talking to bruce pearl bruce one of the uh issues i get into debates about this often it's it's really incredible how when you just you mentioned israel the rules of debate go out the window and it becomes an emotional affair rather than a fact-based affair people say to me all the time well it's asymmetric they say bruce israel's killed 30 000 civilians i said well where'd you get that number they said well hamas i said uh you mean the same people who raped and murdered a bunch of women and kids on october so you believe them okay so even assuming that's true which i i sincerely doubt even assuming that's true that that number which i think is absurd

i don't i know you don't i don't support the death of civilians. Nobody does, but this is war. War Israel didn't start, correct? You can go back generations on the who did what, but there's no question October 7th was a Hamas attack on Israel. But I say again, I asked him, okay, even assuming your number's true, 30,000 civilians, which is horrible. I understand. Why are civilians in a war zone when Israel warned them to get out? And then they start stammering, Bruce. And I said, maybe it's because Hamas wants them there and they won't let them escape. Did you miss that in the news reports? That's why the civilian death toll, even if you accept Hamas's number, is so high. And that's a fact. Yeah. And the genocide is on the hands of the of the of the

palestinian authority hamas uh and the leadership of of palestinians and gazans because they have they've hid behind them they've dug tunnels under them um they've educated them and indoctrinated them and brainwashed them to things that just simply aren't false. And, you know, they've got the ability to do that because, look, there has been death and destruction on both sides. There's reason for both sides to have a level of animosity that has been built up over a period of time. You know, the bottom line is, look, Americans want freedom for people. They want freedom for all people. And so if you would believe the narrative that these Palestinians were there before the Jews, or they were there before somebody else, or so on and so forth,

and you want to feel like, well, they have a right to return. They absolutely have a right to return, as long as they live and want to live in peace with their neighbors. They don't have a right to return and be terrorists, and want to live in peace with their neighbors. They don't have a right to return and be terrorists and have antifata and blow up people left and right simply because they want a Palestinian state created for the first time. Like, Dan, there's never been a Palestinian state, okay, ever in history. I wish more people understood that, yeah.

They don't understand it. In 2005, Israel removed, for a chance for peace, over 30,000 Israelis and took them out of Gaza, removed them from their homes and their schools and their synagogues and said, okay, you know what? You guys, we're going to do what you ask. Here it is. You've got Gaza. Let's live in peace.

And two years later, we're at war right away. And so what are we supposed to do, create another state on the other side of Gaza? This is what kills me, Dan. We're going to reward the terrorists, and we're going to reward their atrocities by calling our government right now, calling for the creation of a Palestinian state. That ship has sailed. That is no longer an option. I mean, why in the world would this country, you know, call for the state of Texas to all of a sudden become some Mexican state, which it's sort of becoming at the southern border right now. We would not do that because we wouldn't put our citizens in harm's way.

As I'm sitting here saying that, it's kind of ironic that we're saying it. I guess we're sort of doing that anyways. It just flat out makes no sense. And when policy and politics intermingle, you know, I fear that our country is going to get in the way of Israel doing what must be done and leave the situation in a worse place than they found it. And oh, by the way, when our eyes are all focused on this, you and I both know that our eyes should be focused on Iran because they're the ones behind all of this. behind all of this. They're the ones that are pulling the strings, and they're the ones that are, oh, two or

three weeks away from being able to have a nuclear weapon, and nobody's talking about that. As bad as things have gotten in the last three years, it's going to get worse until President Biden is no longer in the White House. It's incredible.

We're talking to Bruce Pearl, basketball coach for the Auburn Tigers. Bruce, it's incredible. We're talking to Bruce Pearl, basketball coach for the Auburn Tigers. Bruce, it's incredible. We've befriended Iran and are making enemies out of Israel. It's just bizarre. Bruce, can I ask you one last question? Senator Ted Cruz has a hearing going on about NIL, name, image, likeness, that college athletes can now profit from their athletic prowess. This isn't going away, NIL. I know there's supporters and detractors, and I believe in economic freedom personally, but this is college sports.

We're going to have to live with it. This is the future, correct? Yeah, it is. And because you do believe in freedom and capitalism and the market, that's why you're a believer. The NCAA was very, very late to recognizing that the student-athletes were the last ones to be able to be compensated fairly. Everybody was making enormous money the last 40 years in intercollegiate athletics because

of television context, so know, so on. So the Supreme Court has spoken, and they have said that, you know, tuition room board books is no longer enough. These student athletes need to be able to participate in a fair market so they can benefit from their own name, image, and likeness. The issues right now is because the NCAA has not been able to provide any order, and that's the best way I could put it right now. There is just simply no order. You combine a transfer portal with the NIL and you have yearly free agency.

And so what we really need to do is the people that are way smarter than me need to get together with Congress and kind of figure out a way to provide some of those protections for the NCAA again so that we can sort of manage it. The student-athletes deserve everything they're getting. But right now it's just kind of a little out of control. Who should pay for it? We, universities right now, have the profits through what we're making in inter-class athletics to be able to compensate the student-athletes.

I don't think it should simply come out of the pockets of donors and industry. I'm not for having them be employees because there's a lot of things that could be a problem for the student athletes if they became employees. But what we're doing right now is we're trying to figure it out. It is what it is right now. It's good for the student athletes, but there needs to be some order provided in it. So I have three people that love it to support NIL. Support it.

I think your analysis there is accurate. I mean, I'm a free market guy. These guys have demonstrated extreme prowess hours and hours of their lives. They should be fairly compensated. Bruce, I wish I had more time. Bruce Pearl, coach of the Auburn Tigers. I think you guys got an amazing shot. You know I'll be watching.

I'm thinking of heading to the SEC tournament. So if I go, I'll be in there in the stands cheering for you. And Bruce, please, I see you on the bench. You always look like you're five minutes away from... Yeah, I'm worried about you, buddy. You love your team so much, man. Watching you is as good as

watching the game. God bless you, my brother. Good luck in the tournament. I'm sort of a what-to-watch-for guy. I think really because my face is always red and I always look angry. Get bless you, my brother. Good luck in the tournament. I'm sort of a what to watch for guy. I think really because my face is always red and I always look angry. Get ready for me to drop. I mean, is Bruce Pearl going to drop in this game? Is this a game that passes out? Only the good guys on. No way.

I'm going to be fine. You're resilient, brother. God bless you, my friend. Good luck to the team. Extend my best. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Bruce Pearl. War Eagle, brother. You know know it i'm not kidding they got as good a shot as anyone man that was an interview jim ncaa tournament nil middle east policy hey financial experts thought we were in the clear they were anticipating around six rate cuts by the fed this year and then the inflation data came out higher than expected

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Most of the articles go live at about 7 p.m. Eastern, and I enjoy it. It's a center-right, if not sometimes center-left newspaper, but the articles and the opinion writers are pretty decent. So I like to read it every night. I haven't missed a column in a long time, and I'd forgotten last night,

so I'm walking upstairs between the break, and I realized, you know, darn, I missed last night's opinion section first time in a long time because I was doing the live show. And I'm reading reading through it and there's an article in there about there's two articles back to back one is about the biden administration's new war on corporate greed and then the second one is about letitia james uh they're suing big meat again or something like that big meat you're like what is that a porn no? No, no, Big Meat. Remember Jim did his thing? Remember Big Meat, Big Turkey?

If this is all laughable and stupid, don't laugh because this is what's really happening right now. And as I'm coming up, I'm just getting more ticked off as I'm walking back up the stairs into the studio. Because again, it goes back to my point about how dumb you have to be to be a Democrat. I mean you what it's it's it's really it's stunning

it's stunning the degree of of stupidity you have to embrace to believe this. So here's what's going on. The Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act spent hundreds of billions of dollars we don't have, which further fueled the COVID blowout, which was bipartisan, by the way, which printed a lot of money,

which caused inflation. It is a government problem, Republican and Democrat, that Biden has made geometrically worse. So because the government hates your guts, they hate you, they treat you like an idiot. A bunch of focus group tested Democrats sat around in a circle and said, our voters are stupid, we know that. So how do we

tell these dopey, stupid moron sheeps that'll believe anything we tell them? These sheep out there. How do we tell these idiots and blame this on anything other than the government that did it, this inflation crisis? And someone said, how about we start a task force on corporate greed? And they were like, yes, yes, that's a great idea. And maybe, let's assume for a second there was one non-moron in the room, which with Democrats, that's very hard to do. But say there was. And a guy comes up and, well, I mean, that's kind of dishonest.

That's not really, doesn't have anything to do with it. I mean, that's kind of dishonest. That's not really, doesn't have anything to do with it. I mean, if businesses were raising prices because of corporate greed, then other businesses would come in and take advantage of the greedy and undercut them on prices and steal all the business, right? I mean, that's how business works. We know that's how business works, smartass. We're not here to solve problems.

We're the government. We're not here to solve problems. We're the government. We're here to things up. It rhymes with schmuck. Okay? We're not here to fix things, dumbass. What kind of moron are you? It's the government. The government.

We're here to mess things up. Well, corporate greed, even if that argument was true, aren't we kind of making a political case against Joe Biden? That for some reason, corporations were not greedy under Donald Trump, but are now greedy under Joe Biden. Either way, it looks bad for us. Stop with the sanity. We're Democrats. I mean, we're the party of Fannie Willis and Letitia James, Liz Warren, and Bernie Sanders. The millionaires and the billionaires

are screwing up everything. We don't need these millionaires. We need more people like me. Bums who don't work for a living more bums this is going to be bernie sanders if he runs for president that's going to be a smuggler singer more bums less work this is their thing do you know how dumb you have why are you so stupid again i asked the democrats some people get they don't really like the tone of the show i don't care uh because it's true

why you you hate black people that's obvious i mean like the tone of the show. I don't care. Because it's true. Why you hate black people, that's obvious. I mean, we covered that in the first 20 minutes of the show. That's just a given. The Democrats are just the most racist people on planet Earth. Democrats can't get ID. Why? Now, why would you like to explain that? White people can?

Yes, they definitely can. They're so much smarter. They are? Then black people? That sounds awfully racist. Oh no, I didn't mean it like that. Wait, how'd you mean it? Like something else. Explain. We know you hate black people. We know you're racist. We know you're the party of the Klan. We know all that. That's all true. But why do you have to be the party of the imbecile class too corporate greed that's what's leading to the inflation crisis and magically so let me just i'm a business guy so i can actually speak from experience now you can look it up i mean i own stock in publicly traded companies you can go look at all kinds of things you can see it it's out there so i own a I own stock in publicly traded companies. You can go look at all kinds of things.

You can see it. It's out there. So I own a lot of stock in Rumble. You realize Rumble's business model in the beginning and Rumble's business model now was to be price competitive by offering creators, many of them 100% of the revenue, so we could undercut YouTube. Undercut? That sounds awful. No, that's how business works. That's how products get cheaper.

Liberals are like, what? I didn't learn that in my communist college. Of course you didn't, because you're stupid. And you sat in a quad, smoking bowl with Samuel learning about the legendary Karl Marx. Oh, you love him. He's a legend to you. Shea Guevara is probably you. You probably get a t-shirt. Probably get a hat. I love Shea.

We came in with Rumble and we were like, wait. So if you put a video on YouTube, you get what? 50% of the ad revenue that runs on YouTube? Chris, the CEO, was like, what do you think if we give someone 100%? You think creators would come over? I said, I think they would. Now, it's interesting.

Is that corporate greed? We're taking no money. We're giving you, is that, how does that? But you see how the corporate greed, air quotes, quotes works for us we get more creators in the door and you get more money you understand how you have to explain basics this is what bothers me about democrats and i promise i'll get back to victoria newland i'm just in a mood right now it is a win-win capitalism has always been a win-win from time immemorial. You see what it's like talking to liberals though? You have to explain basic, I'm not talking about economic 707 courses. I'm talking about second grade level thinking why do prices go

down over time for flat-screen TVs well because companies find out to make find productivity measures to make them cheaper why would they do that because if they make their product cheaper than the other guys, more people will buy their product. Why? Because it's cheaper, you freaking moron. Are you stupid, Johnny? And then when it's cheaper, other companies find a way to undercut the price there and make it even cheaper. And when they make it cheaper, the consumer benefits by buying a cheaper product.

And then this weird thing happens. Cheaper products get even better. The $4,000 flat screen from 20 years ago doesn't even have a tenth of the quality of the picture right now that the $500 flat screen does that weighs probably one one-hundredth as much. It's called capitalism

but now you've got leticia james up in new york wants to uh what she's prosecuting here wall street journal the new york attorney general sues a meat company because it sells too much meat that's the actual headline too much meat. That's the actual headline. Gosh, I can't fake it anymore because I'm too old and I don't know how long I am for this earth. I'm not like dying. I don't have cancer again or anything, but I mean like anyone else. I really don't know. I've reached hopefully the halfway point of my life and I can't fake it anymore. Folks, I really hate liberals. I can't stand them.

I can't. I can't stand the stupid. I hate it that they hate black people and Hispanic people and immigrants. They hate immigrants. Yes, they hate immigrants. If you are a legal immigrant that comes here, they hate you. They do nothing for you.

They take care of other people at your expense who broke the law coming here. How do I know that? Well, because it happened to my wife, who happens to be a legal immigrant to the country. Oh, you didn't know that? They can't stand black people. They hate Hispanic voters. They hate anyone with half a brain. And they talk to you like you're an idiot.

Joe Biden wants to start a corporate greed task force that is hilarious hilarious because he knows he will prey on the moron class i'm sorry man i totally blew up my whole show hold on but you need a water break jim says no it wasn't because i can't let my i i really man i have a hard time if i would have read this last night the journal it would have all kind of settled by the morning but why why why are you so stupid democrats Democrats? Why? You choose to be stupid? Is anything I just said hard to understand?

If there's corporate greed going on under the Biden administration, have you asked yourself ever why it took a Democrat president in the Senate for corporate greed to set in? Does it ever register to you? And if corporate greed really exists to the moron Democrats out there in the audience, and there are a lot of them, why aren't you just going and taking advantage of it? Why? Big meat. Why don't you start a farm somewhere and undercut their meat prices and make a fortune oh well because i can't i can't learn to do things as efficiently as that oh so they're charging a market clearing price based on their knowledge of the meat market but oh uh okay

you guys are like you're just dumb i get here. I'm going to Facebook. I'll put this up now. I guarantee you there's a thousand messages here from liberals. They hate it when you call them stupid because they know it's true. They're racists. They're morons. And they're just killing the country. Come on.

Tell me in the audience out there. Tell me you don't agree with me why do we got to live with these people why can't they just go to you know the liberal states and all just coagulate there and then do their liberal stuff I mean the place would descend into a hellhole in 10 minutes we got to live next door to morons all the time. They really are. They're the dumbest people I've ever seen. They will fall for anything.

Anything. I'm sorry, man, but we're just not the same. You come to me and tell me about a, you know, new fair tax versus flat tax. I want to hear the specifics. Well, how does the fair tax work? How are we going to make this work? How are we going to sunset these income tax provisions?

I ask questions. Oh, you're going to do a flat tax? Okay, well, how does that work? How exactly are we going to do it? Are we going to flatten out corporate? What about cap gains? You know, Republicans ask questions. Democrats are so dumb. You could tell them anything.

Hey, black people don't know how to get driver's license. The Democrats are like, yeah, I know. They're really dumb. You're like, wow, that sounds racist. No, no, it's not racist. I didn't mean it that way. No, it's racist. You tell them, yeah, inflation, that's corporate greed corporate like

yeah i know i know corporate greed but that didn't happen under trump weird why is biden the king of corporate greed it's so weird so strange that that happened under biden man i didn't think of that i yeah we know we know we know you didn't god forbid you actually thought at all i don't like you i don't like you at all don't listen to my show get off the turn the radio off if you're a liberal no i'm serious turn it off you're too stupid to listen to this show you're too dumb and here's my fear if a survey comes out of voters and they ask you for an iq score you're like a 75 and it's going to make my audience look dumber than it is so stop listening turn off the radio and go away i don't

want you i hate your guts you guys suck you're ruining this. You suck immeasurably in ways suck has never been measured in American history. You are too stupid to listen to this show. Nothing will make sense. You are morons. The degree of dislike I have for you is hard for me to express on this show because you are too dumb. Just shut it off. Shut it off. I don't want you you buying anything you're just too stupid what are you laughing at i don't want them go away go just leave

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reporting where you see a story and you don't naturally accept it at face value, especially when it involves Washington, D.C. So Congressman Ken Buck resigned. We knew he wasn't going to run again, but resigned unexpectedly. He said he's leaving next week. He's a Republican from Colorado in a safe district. And I thought to myself, why would he do that? So I had some suspicions because a really, really terrific Congresswoman is going to run in that district. Lauren Boebert is going to run in that district. And I thought something may be afoot. So we decided to have the Congresswoman on to get her side of the story,

which I believe is the right one. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, thanks a lot for joining us. We really appreciate it. Dan, it is wonderful to be on with you and try to bring some understanding to the confusion that Ken Buck's resignation has brought to not just Colorado, but to the country. Yeah, it's really crazy because last night there was a segment of my show that made its way around social media. I noticed you picked up on it where I said, this is kind of strange. You've got this pro-America, relatively non-establishment MAGA congresswoman, Lauren Boebert, who's going to run in Ken Buck's district in November election day, like every other member of the House. And you probably have good duty or name ID,

and you got a pretty good name in Colorado. You probably had a good chance of winning that seat. So he leaves early, which creates a special election, which means there's going to be a primary for the November election and a special election on the same day. Now, Congresswoman, call me crazy, but you can't run in both of those, can you? That's correct, because if I were to run in both of them,

I would need to resign from my current seat, and that would take away our majority in the House of Representatives. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, time out. So what we take, so the, wait, wait, wait. My audience is shocked. So you, I mean, I don't mean to interrupt you. You know I don't do that, but.

Yeah. So some D.C. Swampies opened up a seat early in a safe Republican district that you're running in, knowing that if you wanted to get a leg up in that seat other than do it the right way, you would have to leave another seat which may give Hakeem Jeffries the gavel. I know this sounds crazy, but is that what you're telling me? That's what I'm telling you. You know, I would leave my current constituents without representation for three months like Ken Buck is doing here in Colorado's 4th District.

They won't have a representative for three months, and we would lose a second vote in the House of Representatives. And that is absolutely not something I'm doing. I'm not leaving my constituents abandoned and without representation, and I am not hindering our majority in Washington, D.C. So that is what eliminates my ability to run in the special election. Besides that, I don't want to play their swampy games. I made a statement yesterday and I said, I get it. You have a candidate that you like that is Ukraine first. Ken Buck knows that his endorsement of him only hurts that candidate. And so they did this backroom deal to have Ken Buck resign. And, you know, Ken Buck knew a week before he resigned that he was doing it because his staff

all got big bonuses and raises and promotions. So then he announced and now here we are. So this gives their choice, the establishment choice, a leg up in this race, because now he can raise double the money, one into a special election fund and another into his regular campaign. And he could raise double the money, get the name recognition, say, I am the nominee that the Republican Party has chosen, vote for me, and his name will appear two times on the same day. And we are, we are waiting to hear from the secretary of state if that's going to be one ballot or two ballots i i believe it will be two the way i understand it it has to be two but that's also going to cost the taxpayers

money to have two ballots sent on the same day all of this is a mess. It's selfish. It's, it is why we hate Washington, DC. It's why we hate politicians. And, um, this has caused such chaos and confusion in Colorado and throughout the nation. And it's going to take a lot of resources, certainly on my part to explain the voters exactly what is going on because I am running this race. Now, um, I, I, I talked for a long stint there, but I just want to make one more point clear. The one thing that could help alleviate some of this confusion is if the vacancy committee who nominates this person for the special election chooses someone who's not currently running for the seat. So I have 10 opponents right now who I'm running against in this primary for June 25th.

And if they were to go outside of us candidates who are running for the fourth district, that would help alleviate a lot of confusion. This is a different name. This person is a placeholder, will be there just a few months, and then we can continue on with our race and move forward. So right now it's our job to put pressure on the vacancy committee to do something like that. We're talking to congressman Lauren Boebert. Congresswoman, you know, the mercenary thing to do if you were that type of person would be to leave your current constituents behind and say, you know what, I've got a safe seat over there. I'm leaving now. I'm out.

But you're not doing that, and I appreciate that, because that would be doing significant damage to this already fragile majority. But I think what you just said is important. That seems like if Ken Buck is going to screw over America, and you don't know, I'm just going to, I don't like this guy. I've never liked this guy. You don't got to say I can't stand this guy. I met him a couple of times up on the Hill when I was given testimony. I don't like politicians at all present company excluded, but that guy, I genuinely don't like he did this to give the double barrel middle finger to America. It's the only reason there

is no, it's not a health thing. Thank God. I don't wish bad health on anyone. He's not coming down and going, I've got a fatal disease. Someone died. No, he's basically saying I'm just leaving to throw the Republican party into chaos and screw over Boebert. That's the only reason he's doing it. So this election committee that's listening, that's fair. It's a horrible situation he created, but that's perfectly fair. Put a placeholder in there who says, I'm not going to run. It's not going to be one of these candidates. And Congresswoman, you and the rest of the other candidates can duke it out like you have been, and the voters will pick. Nothing wrong with that, right? Exactly. That's exactly how it should be. We should run the race that we are in. And and I don't believe that anyone should be stepping up and saying, I will sacrifice myself to be in the special election.

You know, I have three opponents who have currently thrown their name in before the vacancy committee. But I'm making phone calls. A lot of Coloradans are making phone calls. We're reaching out to the vacancy committee and first of all, informing them because this is pretty unprecedented here. And we're informing them of the process, but then also encouraging them to choose someone who's not currently a candidate. Well, Congresswoman, I interact with my audience a lot.

I don't detach myself from, I follow them. We have a live Rumble show and they message me on Facebook and I read all their messages during the show. I haven't. There's not a single Colorado voter who doesn't see through this. Now, granted, this is not an accurate sample size. My audience is unusually politically active. So I don't want to act like this is some kind of independent poll. audience is unusually politically active so i don't want to act like this is some kind of independent poll however even with issues like this there's usually a few people who have something to say on the contrary every single person and there's quite a few here understands this was a nakedly political move to keep you out of that seat now here's what worries me ken buck

this is not a conspiracy theory these are ken Ken Buck's own words, not mine. Gave an interview apparently and told one of these outlets that he knows it, or he says there were three more resignations coming up that are going to surprise, I guess, Speaker Johnson in the House even more. If that's the case, Congresswoman,

this isn't just an attack on you. This is an attack on, hopefully soon to be president again, Trump, because they want Hakeem Jeffries to have the gavel during this president elect period from November to January. Yes. Well, and if that's the case, if we get those three resignations, then Congress may not gavel in. We may not provide a quorum because if we did, Congress may not gavel in. We may not provide a quorum because if we did, that would be the day that Hakeem Jeffries got the gavel. So that means we are in we we are essentially more ineffective than we already are in Washington, D.C., and won't get anything done. Because as soon as we gavel in, then they would vacate Mike Johnson and give the gavel to Hakeem Jeffries.

So to those members who are considering resigning, I mean, that's a pretty devastating blow to our country, to America. And, you know, I mean, Dan Bongino, can you imagine the post offices that won't get named for the rest of the year? Oh, I know. No, no, listen, I don't know about my life would definitely change for the way. I mean, if Congress isn't in session, Congresswoman, I don't even get up in the morning because I can't. I mean, I'm totally incapable of feeding myself or anything like that. I totally expect some ranking member or a congressman to come over and feed me every morning.

No, I'm glad you feel that way. And the fact that you can poke fun at this, but I say to my listeners all the time, I know you've occasionally heard clips from the podcast and this, but I say, listen, these people hate you. I'm sorry, but they do. They use you for power

and you should use them for the same thing. You should view Congress as political tools. Are they plus ones or minus ones? I don't mean it in a bad way. Do you have a Congresswoman say like Lauren Boebert, who's going to vote with they plus ones or minus ones? I don't mean it in a bad way. Do you have a congresswoman, say like Lauren Bobert, who's going to vote with us plus one or not? I don't care. I mean, listen, I personally like you.

I've liked you for a long time, but that's not what influences who I have on the show. You vote for stuff I care about the majority of the time. That's it. If you don't, you can be the nicest person on planet Earth. I'm not going to disrespect you, but you're a useless tool to me. And the thing is that they're trying to keep you. This is definitely directed at you out of this seat should really infuriate the voters of that district.

Because make no mistake, this is targeted at you directly and everybody knows it. You know what, Dan? Even Democrats know that this is an attack against me directly when i was on the house floor i had several democrats um you would cringe if i said their names but they came up to me with sincere compassion and said we see right through this we know this is an attack on you and they were asking how this affects me these people don't want me in congress any more than ken buck does and they see how dirty this is and. These people don't want me in Congress any more than Ken Buck does. And they see how dirty this is. And I wonder sometimes, we're talking to Congresswoman Lauren Boebert.

Folks, you have to go by the kind of, you have to do the dipsy-do-flipper-roo-damn-bongino theory. If they like you in Congress, I'm sorry, I think you probably agree, Congresswoman, if the media likes you, you're probably not an asset to us the conservative movement if the media hates you you should be asking why they really just don't like you and you should consider that a personal badge of honor they really hate your guts just like they hate me i've never seen a positive media piece about me or you or jim jordan or anyone else and that's for a reason they really dislike you that's exactly a reason. They really dislike you. That's exactly right, because we are there for the right reasons. You have your podcast for the right reasons. You are engaging with the American people to inform them to say this isn't over and you are the ones who hold the power. And, you know, they don't want the general public to be educated on on what is actually going on and how much influence people

at home actually have. They want them to feel helpless and hopeless. And like Washington, D.C. is the only end all be all and whatever happens there happens. So those of us who are exposing the dirty deeds in D.C., the corruption in D.C. We are the ones who get attacked. I'm fine with that. I didn't go to D.C. to make friends. I had plenty of friends in Colorado. I didn't go there for a lifelong career. I went there to save our country.

I was tired of sitting at home and complaining about what was going on. I wanted to be part of the solution. And with that comes a lot of attacks on a daily basis. But, you know, I've learned crisis calms, and I have learned how to manage through that. And I do it with joy. And that is the key, because that is where we get our strength. We get our strength from joy. And joy is not just a suggestion. It is a battle plan. And if we're going to live by faith, first Timothy chapter six says, fight the good fight of faith. So if you're going to live by faith, you know that there is a battle ahead. So you better be ready to fight. And Dan,

I think you and I are the types that are in this for the battle. We are ever ready to fight, and we are not going to give up on the American people. for the battle we are ever ready to fight and we are not going to give up on the american people yeah yeah man you're 100 correct there's nowhere else to go we only got one country to save congresswoman i got to run i wish i could say what's your website if people want to help you out laurenforfreedom.com dan i don't come on your uh show peddling for money uh often but you know this is going to take a lot of resources to educate Coloradans on what is going on. That's all right. I'll do it for you because I'm brutally honest with my audience.

Lauren for Freedom. I am. Listen, money, I wish it weren't a part of running for office, folks. It sucks. I did it. You want me to lie to you? No, no. Don't donate. We don't. No, they need it. I'm sorry. Lauren for Freedom.com. Lauren Boebert, thanks a lot for your time. Really appreciate it. Thanks, Dan. You got it. Folks, Dan. You got it.

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It's about more than just my situation. We've all had some suffering in our lives. I think it's worth hearing. It's about more than just my situation. We've all had some suffering in our lives. Live radio, I've always told you guys, is a really different medium. It's even different than the podcast and TV. You know, I've kind of dipped my toes in all three of those.

And it's just different. Radio is just, I think, the the most intimate medium there's something about the power of the voice and sometimes i love video shows i i you know they're great i have one myself but uh the idea of just a spoken word you get to create your own video in your head and the thing about live radio is not only do you get that, the intimacy of the spoken voice, but it's live and life is live. As I say all the time, we have this perception of time, like there's like a past and a future and we're walking down this road and that's not how time and space are.

You're just living a series of nows. There's just a series of todays. Time's washing over you. You're not walking through it. You're only alive in the now. And I bring all this up because I got a job here to do. And you know, life happens. Life happens to all of us, me included.

And something really strange happened to me last night, and I've been kind of working through it this morning. I wrapped up my other show a little bit earlier, and I'm here with you all, and I'm going to be here for you. I'm with you, I should say, and you'll probably be here more for me in the next three hours or so. But I had a bad night last night and I chose to be here. I just want to be clear. And so no, before I tell you what happened, this was in no way the decision of this company at all. Westwood One and Cumulus, they could not be more supportive in this situation. They actually said, please don't come into work today. But I thought it was important that I do it because there's a lot going on

and I may need to take a day or two. And I thought, because I can work today, you know, I will. I put this thing together, this show, and we're darn well going to do it. But I do have some news to share with you because I don't, if you sense a change in my tone today in the show

I don't want you to speculate on anything and I think it would be unfair to not tell you what's going on because we live together for three hours a day in each other's eardrums I hear you the phone calls and I read what you're saying and then you hear

me in the radio. So I lost my mom last night. I don't know any easy way to say that because it was not expected. My mom had me when she was very young. She was only 21 and my mom was not very old. she was only 21 and um my mom was not very old she wasn't the greatest of health but she most certainly wasn't anywhere near death so when i say unexpected i mean unexpected uh she took a bad fall last night down a flight of stairs uh it was not uh night down a flight of stairs. It was not, unfortunately, it was not immediate like I had hoped. You always hope you're going to go, that you go in the most, not pain-free, but painless way possible. And that wasn't the case. But, you know, rather than reflect on the sorrows and the sufferings and all that we all go through, I'm not the only one who's lost anyone by any stretch. We've all experienced loss. It's a natural part of the creative destruction of life. Leave it to me, right? To use an economics analogy, talking about death,

but that's true. That's what life is too. This obviously is, this one hit me hard and I wanted to tell you something because I feel like, I feel like the Lord gave me an opportunity here, an opportunity to use this for something good. Folks, I don't know where you stand on faith and spirituality and the idea of a heaven or an afterlife. I have no idea. It's not my business. It's yours.

But I'm going to tell you something that happened to me last night, and you can take it or leave it because I'm telling you tell you something that happened to me last night, and you can take it or leave it, because I'm telling you it happened. And I am not crazy. I don't have any diagnosed psychiatric disorders. I'm not on psychoactive drugs. Nothing. So this is how I found out.

I was by myself last night at my house, which never happens. Paula and I are rarely apart. On the road, sometimes I'll be in a hotel room by myself if I'm traveling for say a show or something like that, but I'm never home alone. Why would I be? But Paula had gone down to Miami with my youngest daughter to look at some, so it was a business thing. And she took my youngest daughter because they were on a break this week. So they were down and I was home by myself for the first time in gosh, like forever. And something strange happened to me last night. And again, I get to all my people who hate me in the audience.

You can laugh all you want. I'm going to tell the damn story anyway, because I'm telling you it happened. At about three o'clock in the morning, I have a tough time sleeping because I go to bed too early. I go to sleep at like eight o'clock. I just get tired. It doesn't matter. It's a long story. But I go to sleep at about eight and I typically get up at around three and it takes me about a half an hour, an hour to fall back asleep.

Sometimes I'm not the greatest sleeper in the world. I wish I was. So I get up at three and I was just really dehydrated. I had a long day and I really didn't drink enough water. And it was a little hot yesterday in Florida. If you're down here in South Florida, I was really dehydrated. So I got up and I walked into the kitchen and again, I'm by myself in the house and I went to go get some water. So I got up and I walked into the kitchen and again, I'm by myself in the house and I went to go get some water. So I'm up, I'm up about 10 or 15 minutes had passed. And

I was having such a tough time falling back asleep. I propped up a pillow behind me in the bed. So I had two pillows and I was just breathing, just taking some deep breaths. It helps me relax that box breathing thing and helps me relax and go back to sleep. And it was weird because I had these two pillows. So I turned to my side, but you know, my head was still angled up because I had these two pillows underneath me.

And I turned onto my right shoulder and I was just sitting there breathing. And I remember because I was trying to avoid the pillow from blocking my nostrils as I was breathing. Cause I, I've kind of buried my head in a pillow and I was just sucking in that oxygen. And it's three o'clock. I think it was three Oh three to be exact. Cause I looked at that. We have one of those digital thermostats and it said three Oh three as I passed by it. And I felt someone grab me. No, folks, I don't mean like grab me.

I mean, I felt someone physically grab me. I jumped. I felt someone actually grab me like an embrace. And the weirdest things went through my head. I thought, did Paula come back home last night and not tell me? Is she playing a game with me? Paula doesn't, she's not, she doesn't do practical jokes. I felt someone grab me.

I'm not crazy. I'm not delusional. I was not in some fugue state. I was not daydreaming. I was not night dreaming. I was not sleepwalking. I felt someone grab me. Now keep in mind in the case you're thinking, oh, this is some kind of thing because of the grief of your mom. I don't know my mom's dead. My phone is on do not disturb. I don't keep it in front of me.

I keep it in the bathroom charging because I don't like the wifi thing near my head. So I'm walking around the house I'm looking for my gun I someone grabbed me this has never happened to me before so I'm walking around my house and I'm thinking maybe my daughter came back from college and didn't tell me and she wanted to say something and but I was up I didn't see any I heard my door didn't open to the bedroom and I have a slider door a second door no the slider didn't open I'm thinking who's in my room I'm looking under the bed so I I'm in like a cold sweat because this never happened to me before and listen i'm not the antsy type i'm

not trying to play captain bravery with you but you know i don't really kind of startle easy but someone's in my house so i'm i go to my phone because i'm looking to see if paul is here maybe she sent me a. I'm home and I pick up my phone and I had gotten a text. It's now, I don't know, 3.05 in the morning or whatever. And I had gotten a text from this lady who lives in the same building with my mom

where they found her at the bottom of the stairs struggling to save her own life. And the text says, Dan, I'm sorry to bother you at this time of night, but I need you to call me as soon as you see this. I knew my mom was dead. No one ever texts me at that time of night

who knows my mom, 2.49 a.m. I'll never look at 2.49 a.m. again the same way. Luckily, I'm not up much at that time. But apparently my mother was pronounced dead right around 3 o'clock in the morning. At the same time, I felt someone grab me Folks I'm not crazy I'm telling you I'm not crazy I don't smoke dope

I don't do drugs I'm not crazy I was not drinking I felt someone grab me I'm not crazy. I was not drinking. I felt someone grab me at the right in that exact time. My mom, my mom died. It's the weirdest thing. And I'm starting to put two and two together. I'm convinced God gave me this microphone for a reason.

And one of them is to use it. To use it for very specific things. Something else happened with my mother. Listen, I'm not going to spin your wheels because we're a big family here. something else happened with my mother. Listen, I'm not going to spin your wheels because we're a big family here and I love you guys. We spent a lot of time together. I did not have the greatest relationship with my mom. It's a story at this point,

I'll keep the rest to myself. I think you all understand. But I've shared some of it in the past. But we tried, the both of us. And my mom, she was the only one on this planet we call Earth that called me Danny. No one calls me Danny except my mom. No one calls me Danny now because she ain't here.

But I called her last week on speaker in front of Paula which I typically don't do and it was for an it was for an interesting reason that uh but I wanted to see something if my mom was going to complain to me about something on the phone because it's a strange story but it's neither here nor there but she didn't my mom never complained to me on the phone, no matter how bad things got for her. She had a lot of issues. She just didn't complain. She said, I'm all right, Danny. But Paula used to hear me talk to her once in a while

and she'd hear me hang up. And if you ever talked to me on the phone, you know, I abruptly hang up all the time. Jim, do I not? Isn't it uncomfortably weird? I'm not good with goodbyes. So Paula would always say, when your mom says, I love you, Danny, why don't you say, I I not? Isn't it uncomfortably weird? I'm not good with goodbyes. So Paula would always say, when your mom says, I love you, Danny,

why don't you say, I love you? And I said, it's a long story. I'll tell you sometime. Not proud of that, but I'm being straight with you. But I spoke to her a week ago and it was strange. Paula was right there and said, I love you, Danny. And I said, I love you too, Mom.

It's the strangest thing. It's like Jesus wanted me, wanted to close that book and wanted those to be the last words. I can't even, Paula looked at me. She said, you know, why'd you say that? Not why'd you say that like it was bad, but she gave me the, and we talked about it this morning and she said the same thing. She's like, remember that conversation?

I said, I do. She's like, that was, there was some inspiration there. There's some spiritual world out there we don't understand. Folks, there's something bigger than us. I'm so sure of it. And I woke up this morning,

never so sure that there's something out there we don't understand. So I wanted to get that out of the way, because my I'm going to try to just do a regular show because life goes on. And we've all suffered loss. I may need to take a day or two. But world's a tough place for suffering. But life goes on for all of us.