Calling Out The BS (Ep. 2590)

8 Sep 2026 · 1 h 5 min · 25 chapters

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In short

Dan Bongino argues that “noise” from political opponents and media grifters is drowning out “signal” from real evidence and real-world results. He uses a weekend fishing trip as a metaphor for clarity, then pivots to national security, election urgency (early voting), and critiques of socialism/“doom and gloom” Democrats and “fake Republicans.” He cites claims about COVID-19 origin investigations, federal workforce cuts, crime and immigration trends, jobs growth, and Social Security funding.

Guests

No guests appear in the transcript. Bongino references “a professor” who criticized him on a New York Times article and mentions a friend (Jason) who served in Afghanistan, but neither is interviewed on-air.

Guest backgrounds

Not applicable (no on-air guests). Jason is described as a close friend and Afghanistan combat veteran whose email describes psychological trauma after combat.

Key claims

Bongino says COVID inquiry stalled investigations are being pursued; political opponents produce “noise” and no receipts; national security threats are real; early voting and turnout are decisive; U.S. economy and federal workforce are improving; illegal population has declined; Social Security’s issue is not taxes but spending/middleman failure.

Notable examples

Florida “palmetto bugs” (surviving roaches); fishing off the Bahamas catching grunts/yellowtail/grouper and a barracuda fight; Jason’s combat-trauma email; New York Times coverage of Bongino’s alleged COVID investigation push; jobs report (162,000 non-farm payrolls); federal workforce “lightest in history”; Social Security “runs dry by 2032.”

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Chapters

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Florida Bugs and Outdoor Adventures

0:10 to 2:12

Dan shares a humorous story about palmetto bugs and his newfound appreciation for fishing after a weekend outing.

“So I was coming into the office this morning, and right outside the office I saw one of these massive, what they call in Florida, palmetto bugs.”

National Preparedness Month

2:12 to 2:57

Discussion on the importance of being prepared for emergencies and how to take action.

“including the absolute zeros out there still getting exposed by the day how this is all signal noise.”

National Preparedness Month

3:43 to 4:59

Discussion on the importance of being prepared for emergencies and how to take action.

“If you already know, excuse me, what medication works for you, All Family Pharmacy makes it easy to actually get it.”

Reflections on Outdoor Skills and Regrets

4:59 to 8:01

Dan reflects on his lack of outdoor skills growing up and shares a recent fishing experience that changed his perspective.

“I know a lot of you on this show are kind of rugged outdoorsy type.”

Drowning Out the Noise

8:01 to 14:01

Dan discusses the importance of focusing on the truth amidst chaos and noise in politics, referencing his own experiences.

“Like the signal became clearer because the noise got really, really dim.”

Challenges and Signals in Today's World

14:01 to 21:03

Learn about the importance of distinguishing between real threats and distractions in the current political climate.

“Separating from the signal from the noise this week is going to be critical.”

The Impact of War on Soldiers

21:04 to 23:38

Hear a powerful email that reveals the deep psychological scars soldiers carry from combat.

“Our fight, just asking people to show up and vote to save our country from the destruction an entire class of politicians and people would bring upon us, Our fight pales in comparison to what these heroes bring back.”

The Impact of War on Soldiers

25:56 to 27:03

Hear a powerful email that reveals the deep psychological scars soldiers carry from combat.

“About 15 % of users quit because of the cost.”

Mobilizing for the Upcoming Elections

27:21 to 28:00

Understand the urgency of voter participation and the current state of Republican polling.

“You know, the elections aren't even in November anymore.”

Reflecting on Political Engagement

28:00 to 28:33

Discussion on the importance of showing up in political battles to avoid losing ground.

“But it's not apocalyptic if we actually show up.”
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Celebrating Job Market Growth

28:33 to 29:49

Highlighting the booming job market and its impact on skilled tradesmen.

“Before I get, put up the New York Post article about if you were a skilled tradesman.”

Federal Workforce Reduction

29:49 to 30:49

Discussion on the reduction of the federal workforce and budget cuts under the Trump administration.

“Ronnie built it and his team getting dirt under their fingernails.”

Analyzing Recent Job Reports

30:49 to 31:44

Examining the details of a positive jobs report and its implications.

“When you talk about this country and liberty, talk about it with a smile, as I've said many times.”

Mobilizing Voter Participation

31:44 to 32:55

Encouraging listeners to help others participate in upcoming elections.

“The economy saw solid hiring and leisure and hospitality of 62 ,000 in August.”

Illegal Immigration and Political Power

32:55 to 35:14

Discussing the decline in the illegal population and its political implications.

“So we've got the workforce booming, manufacturing returning, the border closed, the streets are being cleaned up dramatically, crime rates dropping.”

Deportation Efforts and Political Response

35:14 to 36:17

Reviewing the Trump administration's deportation efforts and Democratic reactions.

Analyzing Intra-Party Dynamics

36:17 to 38:23

Examining the healthy debates within the Republican Party and criticisms of the left.

“in an unprecedented deportation effort to send a message that you can come here, but you have to come here legally.”

Critique of the Democrat Base

38:23 to 40:17

Critiquing the cultural and political signals from the Democrat base and its implications.

“The Folex MAGA people who never say anything of substance at all.”

The Case Against Ohio's Gubernatorial Candidate

40:17 to 42:05

Discussing the shortcomings of a current gubernatorial candidate in Ohio.

“This was, Justin was like, wait, you got to listen to the end.”

The Inflection Point in Politics

42:05 to 45:53

Learn about the critical political moment and the importance of effective leadership in Ohio.

“Were there some skinny girl margaritas going around?”

Debating Government Programs and Policies

45:53 to 48:59

Discussion on the efficacy of government programs and the challenges they face.

“It's why government can, outside of our military and law enforcement, where we, again, we can't have a mercenary army after the incentives are all wrong, right?”

Debating Government Programs and Policies

49:06 to 49:16

Discussion on the efficacy of government programs and the challenges they face.

The Dangers of Universal Basic Income

49:16 to 58:23

Exploration of Universal Basic Income and its potential negative impacts on society.

“out so folks again like there are not this is never going to be the pollyanna everything's utopia show either.”

The Importance of Sleep for Productivity

58:24 to 1:01:48

How prioritizing sleep can significantly improve your life and health.

“Paying people to not work steals away everything God gave them, this ability to go into the world and use your brain and muscle to change the world for the better.”

Weekly Contest Announcement and Community Engagement

1:01:49 to 1:04:08

Details about the weekly contest and engaging with the audience.

“So you know we're running our contest, our 1776 contest, where we give away once a week$1 ,776 to a listener viewer of the show.”
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Transcript

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0:02All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for The Dan Bongino Show. So I was coming into the office this morning, and right outside the office I saw one of these massive, what they call in Florida, palmetto bugs. Which is hilarious because it's like a cool name for basically, right Justin, what would be like a big roach. and they call them palmettos. Palmetto bugs. I've been in Florida 10 years. It's not like yesterday. I've seen a lot of these, but these suckers never die. Anyone in Florida or even anywhere down south, we're certainly not the only ones. The roaches down here and they're not those New York City, what are they, the German cockroaches or whatever.

0:46They're just, you know, Florida's like the bug capital world. It's a good reason for liberals not to come down here. Liberals are probably afraid of bugs because they're not outdoorsy. I've got something coming up on that for a second too. I was a city kid. I'm having to learn outdoorsy. However, it's a good reason not to come to Florida. The Palmetto's, and they can fly too. Those suckers will attack you sometimes. They don't typically, but they will. I was talking to one of the guys that's working here this morning. And I'm like, dude, you got to hit these things with a freaking baseball bat for them to die.

1:13He's like, that thing's still alive. I'm like, unbelievably, it is. Speaking of outdoorsy, I got a pretty cool weekend update for you. Let me just preface this by saying this. i get it for the first time you get what for those of you out there who fish i'm gonna i let me finish the statement before you slay me in my own chat by the way i didn't get it i only fished once when i was a kid off a bridge uh going to rockaway with my friend uh andy's uh father for a little bit i didn't really catch anything and i you know i was young i don't know i was like 10 years old and i really know what i was doing we were city kids we were city i barely learned to swim i was in my teens you know there was no water around for us to go swimming outside of the beach and most of the time we couldn't get out there anyway the fishing thing i totally get it now i had like a mini awakening this weekend for those of you who fish i totally get it now i stay tuned all right i got a lot to talk about including the absolute zeros out there still getting exposed by the day how this is all signal noise.

2:21You've got to see the signal through the noise. When you see the noise, you'll never unsee it. I promise you are on the right side of signal with this show. I promise. And the evidence is everywhere as all of these people start to collapse. All right. It's national preparedness month. And this isn't just another made up observance. It was launched in 2004 in the wake of 9-11, one of the worst attacks on American soil. It was created to remind Americans to prepare for natural disasters, deliberate attacks, cyber attacks, and big emergencies. The goal's simple, reduce the loss of life, speed up recovery when systems fail, be able to rely on yourself for at least a month or two.

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5:08It's just the truth. The truth is the truth. I hate people in these shows and stuff who paint their mouth to be – they're everything to everyone. They're like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. They're always like repainting. I was a city kid. There are benefits to that. You kind of grow up a little edgy. You grow up kind of reading people really well. I was great being a New York City cop, great being a Secret Service agent in New York. You do get an edge to you. But the downside to it is I didn't – we didn't have a lot of money growing up. It's not a sob story, whatever. Who really cares? But we didn't have a lot of money at all.

5:41So all the stuff that I think guys should know, you know, horseback riding, maybe do a little mountain climbing. I didn't get to do anything. It's not a knock on my parents at all. They were great. Did what we could. My father used to take me to Action Park. If you ever seen the documentary, that was like the most action I had. That's all we could do. I say that because now in my 50s, I regret not doing all that stuff. I don't know how to ski. I barely learned to swim until I was a teenager. I'm not that great at it now. I've got this friend of mine. He's a really cool guy. He's a dentist friend.

6:16Him and his family, guys like freaking Indiana Jones. There's nothing the dude can't do. Spear fishing. He skis double black diamonds, jumps out of freaking helicopters. The dude's like freaking Indiana Jones and MacGyver. He saved his wife once choking on a piece of lobster by like doing some like crazy procedure the guy is like so he takes me out in his boat this weekend we took a little trip with the family and first day we went spear well spear lobster it's a little easier than spear fishing and i'm such a terrible swimmer i gotta tell you i was not very good at it all i did i wound up doing i'm like you know what give me this life and i'm just gonna float here and watch and i had fun watching i'm floating in the water got my snorkel i'm like i'll watch you guys kill some lobster it's kind of fun but i wasn't very good at it i'm just not a great swimmer i can swim to like stay alive not to go get joey bag of lobster at the bottom i'm just not good at it but day two he's like i'd only fish once in my life i know you're like how could you not fish you were do i just didn't know it takes a lot of time and i have we went out fishing and man i'm not kidding you i just told you guys i sucked at spearfishing okay so don't i'm not trying to be like the guy i go out fishing the next day with him and his three boys great kids and the youngest one Brendan's like this awesome kid he's a little young kid and he's like big fisherman guy and talk about beginner's luck I wind up catching like 12 15 fish in like an hour it's total beginner's luck I'm not claiming it was any skill at all matter of fact I bring up Brendan's name because he asked me he goes hey man where are you casting I'm like I don't know just out there why I'm like I don't know because I don't want to cross your line that was it total beginner's luck we wound up staying out there four or five hours paula was getting a little motion sickness at the end so we had to come back i could have stayed out there all day i'm just saying i get it now i totally get it the most relaxing thing and the reason i bring it up to tie it to this story today i thought about this what we're going to talk about in today's show is folks as a movement this was one of the few times in my life in the last few years which have been really chaotic where i had like this mini awakening moment i'm fishing out there it's raining by the way the weather wasn't even great we're in this uh we're in the atlantic off the bahamas right we're catching some grunts some yellowtail some grouper you hook a barracuda i had i got in a fight with a barracuda he won ripped the whole line off but i gotta tell you man i had seriously like a mini awakening i had this moment where all the noise like went quiet does this sound like weird or do you get it And really, I felt like now I get why people do this.

8:49Like the signal became clearer because the noise got really, really dim. And I came back today. Obviously, we had Labor Day off yesterday when you spend some time with your families. You have to do shows every day. It's more important you be with your family. And I thought to myself, folks, you see all the noise out there, all the people out there who go after me and go after people in the Trump administration, yet produce nothing but noise. The second you ask them to produce a signal, what happens? They get sued. They get defamation suits. They produce no receipts at all. They produce endless, endless data points unrelated to actual evidence.

9:26They never produce anything. And I'm telling you this because I know you're in the right place. And I know when this all settles down in a couple of years, this acute moment in time, politics never settles completely. But when this moment settles down, I am absolutely certain of this. as certain as my name's Dan Bongino, I'll cut off my right arm if this doesn't happen. I am sure when this is over and the record is complete and you see our body of work, what we put together, not just me at the FBI, but the administration versus the defamation suits, the lies and people get exposed as the truth gradually seeps out.

10:04You're going to say, I wish I hadn't wasted time with the noise and it focused more on the signal too. I promise. Folks, we got a lot of things going on. We got, you know, the 25th anniversary of the worst terror attack on U.S. soil in our history in 9-11. We got the sad anniversary of Charlie's murder. We've got multiple trials going on right now, which you would think due process would matter to people who call themselves lovers of liberty. It just doesn't to these people. It just doesn't. They hide behind their positions and their ex-accounts. trust trust process you can't say i respect the constitution and due process and then throw process out when you want to attack people for political reasons people are entitled to the presumptions of of innocence and constitutional protections it's really sad folks but i promise you over time you will never regret being part of this audience ever so this happened this weekend too related to the news because again you hear a lot of noise about what people speculate on and nothing happened and though this came out and the only reason i bring this up is i i debated putting this into the show but it's certainly a news item and it was on the front cover of the new york times i found out like you did my cousin susan sent me a text and said hey you're on the cover of the New York Times.

11:34I said, okay, that's interesting. It's a story about the COVID investigation that picture me looks so mean in that picture and Fauci. And I basically got hit by some university professor on the article who says one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. So I want to put up what the article says about our investigation at the beginning of it in the New York Times. It says, in early 2025, Dan Bongino, the fiery, fiery, we got to put that in there for the fiery number two official at the FBI, summoned dozens of agents to the Bureau's Washington headquarters. Mr. Bongino, a conservative media personality, recently elevated the deputy's role, demanded to know why a years long inquiry into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic had stalled and why investigators had not more forcefully scrutinized the role of government scientists, current and former official sites.

12:28So, you know, you can read the article yourself. It's in the New York Times by Benjamin Mueller and Glenn Thrush. Check it out if you want. I'm not even putting it up for like an SPS moment. I'm putting it up because I went and saw it, and then I go on the X account because I couldn't get any service out there in the ocean. I get back, and I see this response from a guy. I can't even get my name right. My name is Dan, not Don, but it's okay. Everybody does that. So, you know, Craig Calhoun on X. Craig, what is that? Craig J. Calhoun. He is, I guess, a professor at ASU, he says. He says Don Bongino is ignorant and destructive, but one has to admit he's determined.

13:09Inside the DOJ's investigation of Fauci and other virus scientists, and he attaches the article. So I just responded to him. I mean, what's ignorant or destructive about demanding answers? Now, of course, the haters out there who want to be all noise and no signal will insist to you that nothing's happening about this case or any other case out there, despite the fact that all of these items continue to happen. I can't tell you this enough. This battle with the Folex MAGA, people on our side who are nothing but nihilists and want to see this country collapse under the weight of Democrat socialist rule, have no perspective on the real fights right now.

13:45They just want to see the country burn exactly like the Democratic Socialists or the undemocratic Socialists. folks at that little moment fishing this weekend i really this kind of little mini awakening where you just drown the noise out you see pure signal for the first time in a while was another reminder of what's really important we got a lot going on this week you got the rnc i've got some travel some of the shows are going to look a little different some of the we'll be here at 10 a.m uh may have to record a little bit early in a couple of shows just to throw that out there But drowning out the noise is really hard.

14:21It is. Separating from the signal from the noise this week is going to be critical. We've got an election coming up. Try to challenge your priors always. Things you believe, question it. It's the best thing you can do. We have real fights going on, folks. And the noise hustlers out there, they're going to throw this whole thing away before the election. Folks, we've got real fights coming up. real for they're not coming up they're here you've got the persistent threat of a terror attack you've got the growing threat of a cyber attack on u.s soil you've got the chinese communist party saber rattling over taiwan you've got you know russia and ukraine ongoing you live in a very dangerous world i i i love the sunsets of night i love this you know serenity of being with friends but the hard reality is we live in a world full of challenges and you get these people talking about these things they just make up on x to distract people so i said to you last week that some of this stuff right now really matters these national security fights that i saw going on behind the scenes during the past year my life that president trump is dealing with right now are grave folks and we have heroes and patriots out there wearing our military uniform and others in our intel and law enforcement space who are fighting the bad guys every day they're the signal so i said to you last week that i had received a letter an email i should say to be precise a long time ago from a friend of mine i trained in the secret service academy he was a rookie agent i was his instructor the guy was very quiet he was a in our member of our military and he kind of out of the blue sent me an email that changed my life it did because it was one of those any other mini awareness moments in my life where these, I just saw pure signal.

16:15I read it on my Fox show when I had the show on the weekend, unfiltered. It's about two minutes. But folks, you want to separate signal from noise and see the real fights and learn to drown out the grifters, the bums, the Folex MAGA people, the fake conservatives, the nihilists. Listen to what this hero saw and what these real patriots, these men and women fighting for everything we stand for overseas have to go through and the baggage they take home, not just physical, not just the damage physical, but the mental damage they bring back as well. Hopefully you'll never have to write an email like this in your life.

16:54I strongly encourage you to listen to all of us. Check this out. I want you to listen to this. It's not going to be easy, but I think you need to hear it. This is an email from a very close friend of mine I've known for a long time. He served several tours of duty in Afghanistan, and it speaks to the damage some of these soldiers, these heroes overseas bring back with them. Some of it isn't all physical. He said this. He wrote to me, a lot of people don't understand what it's like coming home from combat after doing things for your country. We have to live with what we've done. I feel I've forfeited any chance to see my daughters in the afterlife.

17:35When your ROEs were to smoke check anyone with a shovel and an orange bucket, including kids, it was like the Wild West. And your enemy changes you. You grow a hate inside you that you can't come to terms with. You watch your Marines die. You watch them get maimed. Losing legs, arms, private parts, all the while, knowing the locals knew where the IEDs and ambushes were. but they didn't tell you during one of the minishuras you sat in on. Usually they were 15, 20 pounders which would take out a leg or both. Sometimes a hand and part of the arm if you were carrying your weapon at a low ready. The worst was a 50 to 75 pounder.

18:22That turned you into what we called pink mist. We backed the truck up and put the pieces in the back using a poncho and the kid next to him who was in shock while dropping every ordinance we had from fixed rotary wing artillery and mortars. My friend went on to write, you hate yourself because you lived. You hate yourself because your Marine killed himself when we got home and you couldn't prevent it. You hate yourself because you get drunk texts from your Marines telling you they love you and thanking you for what you did for them. over there. But they're hurting because you had to give them orders to kill kids.

19:09You have to carry that hate for the rest of your life. It doesn't go away. It's actually gotten worse. You have nightmares almost every night. You hardly sleep. Your daughters die in really bad ways in your dreams and you fear it's punishment for what you did and they may come true. But America doesn't care now. You're a statistic at best. You're hated at worst. And that go on gets me every time.

19:47You see why I get so riled up and passionate, and upset at the doom and gloom class out there that wants to turn our country over to people like the socialists who want to attack these heroes and defund them. Do you understand the damage these people come back? With that email, forget awakening and phishing, that email just, I was not in the military, So I can't relate. That email opened the aperture on my eyeballs like I'd never, ever seen before. It was like being colorblind and seeing color for the first time. Like you're just stunned by how much you feel you missed about the mental damages people bring home.

20:45These heroes. us. I had a hard time reading that on the show. I'm going to tell you when we did that, I was having a really hard time getting through it. Folks, we've got real fights coming up. And I'm going to tell you something. Our fight, just asking people to show up and vote to save our country from the destruction an entire class of politicians and people would bring upon us, Our fight pales in comparison to what these heroes bring back. Can you imagine the psychological trauma they have to deal with every day? Thank the Lord, you and I will never understand.

21:33We got the 25th anniversary of 9-11 coming up. the sad anniversary of our all of our friend Charlie being you know murdered on for all of us to see on x seemingly in almost live time and we're getting lost in like conspiracy crap directed at us all this is cannibalism theory on the left turned over to the right the left does this what happens is the left gains power and because they still have to keep their grift going what they do is they wind up turning on themselves and eating themselves alive i never thought this would happen on i really didn't not to the degree it has where dishonest merchants of lies are out there just talking a bunch of crap it doesn't even matter they get sued they get all this they've never produced an ounce of evidence and yet they double and triple down because they know at that point they're too far in the abyss there's no coming back up the submersible's been cut off it's a damn shame to watch it's a damn shame to watch folks we have elections to win and as i said our fight pales in comparison to what that fine fine damn fine individual went through i'll tell you his version his name is jason because i I think he gave me, I'm not going to tell you his last name, obviously.

23:04But his name is Jason. And I promise you, he is a very real person living with very real pain.

23:14We have elections to win, folks. And there's a lot of signal to pay attention to. And although I told you I had some kind of mini awakening this weekend, really seeing like the noise filter down for the first time, it tends to like pollute your brain sometimes.

23:31We can't have a mini awakening. We need to have a countrywide awakening coming up in this election because we got a real fight ahead. And I'm going to give you some real signal, some real things that happen in contrast to the Doomer crowd and their lawsuits and their lies and all of that. These are real things this administration can and has produced. I want to take a quick break. I need to, like many of you, I appreciate all the American flags in the chat that really, I think, I know Jason watches the show sometime and he'll probably text me later about it. But I know he'd appreciate knowing that a lot of you are out there with those American flags in the chat who still see that signal and know how much this republic matters.

24:14Light that thing up because he deserves it. And so do all, all of the heroic men and women out there putting their butts on the line for not a lot of money at all so we can sit here and watch our Yellowstone episodes on our phone or our iPad. Yeah, tear it up in the chat. That's the way it goes down. All right, signal coming up because we always bring receipts unlike the Folex MAGA crew. Quick break. Folks, we're still a couple months out, but the midterms are fast approaching and make no mistake, if the house flips, it's a big deal for our economy. That uncertainty is one of the reasons I'm diversified with gold from Birch Gold Group, and I'm not the only one.

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27:37Oh, it's in November. It's now. We have real fights. You've got to get out and vote. You've got to bring 10 people with you. You've got to email 10 people. You've got to make 10 social media posts. You've got to call 10 people. If you can drive 10 people, rent a van, get them to vote because the numbers are not nearly as bad as the doomers in the media want you to believe. Republican polling, it's not terrific. I'm not going to lie to you. But it's not apocalyptic if we actually show up. If we don't, yes, we're going to lose. I don't understand, too, all of these, you know, folex MAGA people and fake Republicans out there whining all the time.

28:10The left-wing out's like, you know, there's nothing to talk about. Nothing happened. Nothing happened. What do you, again, the borders de facto closed and de jure closed. The crime rates have dropped to the lowest in U.S. history. The proudest thing I've ever done in my life, by far. to have been part of that with President Trump's leadership. This is real. We're building things again in America. Before I get, put up the New York Post article about if you were a skilled tradesman. Folks, I grew up in a family of skilled tradesmen. My father was a union plumber. My brother's a union electrician.

28:44You know, I worked manual labor jobs my whole life. I was a grave digger in a cemetery. U.S. job market is booming in a historic way. For workers with no college degrees, New York Post, September 7, 2026. This is real. The New York Post is writing a headline about a fact. This is real signal. I don't understand like all these people. We got nothing to run on. We got no, that's it? No, that's not it. I wasn't even going to put this one last, but it fit perfectly what I was saying right there. Here's the rapid response 47X account that puts out the good news from the White House. You can look at the numbers yourself.

29:19How many Republican presidents, Republican congressmen, Republican senators, Hell, Republican governors and Republican dog catchers through the years have spouted off endless cliches about we need to cut down the side as a government. It's bloated. We're paying too much money for too many bureaucrats. Well, it's really like never happened up until now. Rapid response 47, the lightest federal workforce in American history. There it is right there. the trump administration finally did what republicans have promised forever many republics even some democrats you know bill clindy you're a big government and they barely did any of it so the u.s workforce for skilled tradesmen working class americans who built this place this building we're living in now the studio wasn't built by me folks it wasn't built by me i just told you beginning to show i'm not really the outdoorsy time i wish i could build a building like this.

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30:19I didn't. Ronnie built it and his team getting dirt under their fingernails. The economy's never been better for working class Americans. Is it perfect? It's never perfect. Federal workforce that you're paying for is going down and down and down as we cut unnecessary spending. We cut something like$400 million from the FBI budget alone, wasted real estate, parking garages we didn't need, offices we weren't using, subscriptions to online magazines no one had opened in years this happened throughout the federal government here's another one this is a fox business hit from last week this is stuff i mean really does this stuff matter if it doesn't this is the wrong show for you if you're interested in the noise go on x follow the doom and gloom crowd and hear them endlessly support their own defamation suits and lies over and over again never answering with any facts and i i don't know i I guess you'll be happy.

31:16I'm not like that. When you talk about this country and liberty, talk about it with a smile, as I've said many times. Here's the jobs report that came out last week for everyone, not just working class Americans, but people in all kinds of different spaces and arenas. It was an insanely good jobs report. We're just going to ignore this pre-election. I'm not. Check this out. Huge August jobs report. Look at that. 162 ,000 non-farm payrolls added last month. That was triple the estimate. June and July revised higher by a total of 55 ,000. So the summer wasn't so bad after all. The economy saw solid hiring and leisure and hospitality of 62 ,000 in August.

31:57Government added 35 ,000. Education and health services added 29 ,000. But pay attention. Look at construction and manufacturing. Look at that boom. AI data centers. Unemployment rate remained unchanged 4.1 percent, despite an increase in the labor force participation rate. More folks are looking for work. I think that's a good sign. Folks, signal, signal, signal. I can't say this enough. We have an election happening right now, not tomorrow, not the next day. Early voting starts in freaking like February now. We don't have a choice but to take this fight on. This fight pales in comparison to what our patriots, Many of you in this chat have had a take on overseas and a fight for freedom around the world.

32:40OK, all we're asking people to do, and I know you'll do it because you're patriots, too. This fight pales in comparison is grab 10 people, tell them how to vote, take them to the polls, register them, get them registered. Just help 10 people vote as well. And if we do that, if we show up, we have a good chance to take this signal even further over the next two years and not have to deal with two years of Democrat impeachments, weaponization of government again, endless garbage crap hearings about everything else other than what matters to you. So we've got the workforce booming, manufacturing returning, the border closed, the streets are being cleaned up dramatically, crime rates dropping.

33:24You got some more? Hell yeah, I got some more. What about the illegal population of the United States that was being used by the Democrats to create a massive welfare state? They talk about it all the time, how they use demographic destiny to change the demographics of the country. The Democrats talk about this all the time. We have a 20-minute supercut of it to change the country. Rapid response 47, again, according to CIS.org there, or CIS underscore org on X. the net change in the overall size of the illegal population in the United States is a quote extraordinary decline of 2.3 million since January of 2025 is that every illegal gun no is there more work to do yes that's a pretty dramatic decline I want you to do some simple math in your head I'm going to help you here the Democrats talk about this thing called replacement theory all the time don't let them, oh you racist Republicans in replacement theory, it's their thing, I've played this thing I'm not going to play it again today, there's a 20 minute super cut producer Jim put together of Democrats talking about how they're going to replace you, how they're going to bring in illegals because they're losing American citizen voters in blue states they need illegals, there it is there's an actual article in the New York Times, thank you, you guys are great with this we can replace them, Michelle Goldberg, New York Times.

34:52It's right. That's a real headline. Look it up. They've written about this. Folks, there's about 700 ,000 roughly people in a congressional district. If you get rid of 2.3 million illegals who do not belong here and broke the law to get here, the Democrats' demographic destiny argument that they talk about all the time, look it up. You start to massively lose electoral college and congressional representation you garnered by illicit and illegal means this is the only reason they want illegals in the country with political power they don't care about illegals at all they don't no they do no they don't they care about political power using illegal aliens are just a tool for them i promise you you want me to prove it to you well it'd be hard to but if illegal aliens were somehow like mind wiped into all voting for republicans tomorrow the democrats would be like shut the wall build the wall shut it down ship everybody out they would be like we need to give icbp two trillion in funding they don't care about illegals they care about using them for political power they've talked about it over and over.

36:09Donald Trump and the Trump administration and his law enforcement and DOJ folks have engaged in an unprecedented deportation effort to send a message that you can come here, but you have to come here legally. And if you don't, you've got to go. And the Democrats are losing their minds. here's one more i'm not even done you've got the iran uh doomers yes i i believe me i am very i can't say this enough i'm glad that republicans engage in intra-party back and forth it was happening this weekend over a proposal um to give some government taxpayer money to uh families that have a stay-at-home parent i'll get to that in a second there's a big back and forth if you're on next, you've seen it all weekend.

36:59There's a lot of back and forth on Iran. That's a good thing. But I'm saying like, in addition to some bad news, I guess it didn't go acts exactly as planned. Points stipulate, I don't think anyone's going to argue that. When we get some good news, are we going to cover that too? We're just going to play the doom and gloom side. Iran's oil dollars are drying up and plunging it deeper into a crisis. Our brave heroes in the United States military, there was some story this weekend I found fascinating about how Navy SEAL teams had to go, and obviously great risk to themselves take care of the mine crisis in the street.

37:34And they cleaned it up because that's what they do. Hey, you want to go near this mine and place a charge? You could die. I think that's fairly obvious. Not everybody goes to work every day with a 20 % chance of dying. Thank God I'm not using his name in vain. Not our SEALs and our military. We control the street now. And Iran is starving right now. They're starving them out Of economic funds Again, bad news We should cover that too And we will We still got a debt crisis I'm not happy with what's going on with the debt I think growth will be a big contributor But we have to cut spending And not every idea Republicans put out there Obviously is a great one And that's the great part about being a conservative Is when you divorce out The Folex MAGA people who never say anything of substance at all.

38:26It's all BS. You have a lot of really substantive conservatives who just disagree and that's okay. It's a healthy part about being a party or else you can vote for this kind of crap. I saw this this weekend and I thought to myself, I had forgotten about this. Now, this is what your alternative is. Hollywood, academia, you got jelly roll now. What the hell was that about? You've got this Macklemore guy. You've got a bunch of like goofballs, Hollywood, academia, even some sports figures, musicians. They don't know anything. All the others out there spouting a bunch of crap and garbage. This is the Democrat base.

39:06I'm going to show you how ignorant the Democrat base is with actual numbers and receipts in a minute. But this was rolling around X this weekend. Now, the guys didn't, they remembered it, but they weren't working here when this went down. Paula was producing the show. and the 2016 election when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are running against each other. This is the alternative if you succumb to the doom and gloom and don't show up and vote. Do you remember this video these musicians and singers put together for Hillary Clinton? This is real. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. Dumb, dumb. Yes, it is dumb.

39:40This is real, it's not AI. Like a small road on the ocean Sending big waves Into motion I love the thing, waves Like I was single Can make a heart open I might only have one match But I can make an explosion Who is that, Mindy Moore or something like that? Who are these people? I know that one. That's Kirsten or Kristen Chinnowy or something. That's Eva. I don't know who these other people are. This was, Justin was like, wait, you got to listen to the end. I go, I really can't. He's like, there's like a rap that happens at the end or something. Folks, this is what, do you understand like our side, the signal?

40:28This is the noise coming from the left. Whenever you bring up anything of substance outside the Democrats, singing and screaming and yelling and giving like, what appears to be drunken speeches out there, everything of substance they say, of actual substance. Here we go. It gets better. This actually happened. This actually happened. This actually happened too this weekend. Wait, cue up the Amy Acton. Amy Acton's running for governor in Ohio against Vivek Ramaswamy. She shows up at an event this weekend. Folks, I don't know what happened before this. There's a lot of allegations going around on Twitter that she may have been drunk.

41:07I don't know. I don't know what she was drinking. Motley's in the chat. I'm going to need more Motley's after this one. She goes up. This is the other side. Like we have real fights. You got to drown out the noise. Focus on the signal. Immigration, illegal immigration is down. Crime is being now finally attacked and contained. We've got finally some progress going on in Iran. We've got a manufacturing renaissance. Blue collar workers now making money, building things again in the United States. We got the signal to focus on drown out the noise. Here's the candidate for governor in the swing state of Ohio.

41:39This one, you tell me, was there a couple of bud lights involved before because i i don't really know what happened here but this was going around x2 this weekend talk about noise check this out

41:56oh good to see everyone it is so good to see you all here today it's a little warm thinking it's a little hot but we are absolutely sitting in that inflection point i'm honored to be here and honored to be with all of you in this moment look i'm a doctor i am not a politician i'm becoming one right in front of your eyes my last election was in high school okay i did win And so we're one for one in elected office. We're on a winning streak. I don't know what's going on there. I'm not really sure. Were there some skinny girl margaritas going around? I don't know. I don't really care to speculate.

42:47I'm just saying, like, do you really want this woman for governor in the state of Ohio, a critical swing state that's finally back to some good quality candidates and leadership going on here? Do you really want that? Folks, every single time you ask the Democrats and the doom and gloom crowd to produce actual signal, not noise, not garbage, not crap, not theories you can't back up, not a bunch of data points, unrelated to them. There's a bank robbed in Nebraska. Okay, that's really horrible. I think you did it. You flew over Nebraska. When? What are you even talking about? I flew over Nebraska's data point.

43:26I was nowhere near the bank. I landed in California. What are you even talking about? They do this all the time. Look what happens when you actually tell people who plan on voting Democrat with their new socialist communist lien. When you actually tell them, say, hey, this is what they support. Do you support that? This is how dumb a lot of these people are. I'm sorry. This is just pure, unadulterated ignorance. unlike that professor in the beginning of the show who was upset for me demanding answers on the COVID day. That was it. Maybe you should demand answers. This is a great piece. By the way, Mark Penn, I'm pretty sure, is a Democrat pollster.

44:05So no one's going to tell me the piece is biased. It's called Socialism and the Dumbest Generation in the Wall Street Journal. They note the Democrat Socialists of America have called for, quote, an adequate income for all and a guaranteed federal job paying a living wage to anyone who wants one. Hold that up there a second. Oh, that sounds all cute. Oh, nice. Adequate income for all. Who's going to argue with that, right? A government job, though. So you're going to go work for the government? They know, but the poll finds that 77 % of registered voters under 25, Young people, a lot of them claim to believe in socialism Believe their paycheck Should be based on quote The merit and value of their work That belief is even more prevalent Amongst older voters So they love the idea Of a government job for all Until you actually ask them Do you want to work for the government or the private sector And overwhelming majorities of them Even younger voters go No, no, I don't want to work for the That's what they want That's their signal Here's another one.

45:1668 % of young voters say they want to own their own home. Meanwhile, Shea Weaver, Momdani's director of the New York City office to protect tenants, has declared that private property and especially home ownership is a weapon of white supremacy and that housing should be regarded as a collective good. Again, all these kids get confused by the noise. And when they see the signal, they realize it's noise. They don't actually support this stuff, man. They don't support any of this stuff. It's all a scam. And just getting back to the beginning of the show. I'm desperately trying to avoid the MAGA movement in the Republican Party from getting pulled into this cannibalistic vortex by people who are not there for the right, just like what happened with the Democrats, where they eventually eat themselves alive.

46:09Folks, we got to stay focused. we can't one up the democrats on democrat policies this party is never going to be the party of huge expansive government government has a basically a principal agent problem and a third party payer problem when you hand your money to a third party who spends it quote for you it's not his money and he's not buying anything for himself this man or woman in congress so they don't care as milton Friedman said about the cost of what they're buying or the quality. It's why government can, outside of our military and law enforcement, where we, again, we can't have a mercenary army after the incentives are all wrong, right?

46:52Outside of our military and law enforcement, there's almost nothing the government will ever do right. Therefore, I'm always suspicious of any government program and it's fine. It's healthy to go out there and debate this stuff. I'm going to take my last break and I'm going to show you how, in case you think like, oh, you know, we never talk about other stuff that maybe may sidetrack the Republican movement. You know, we don't. This is not the Pollyanna show either. I've addressed the debt crisis, the Social Security crisis, the Medicare, Medicaid crisis over and over and over again. I just want to give you a realistic take.

47:28And I think on net, if you were to put all these policies in a spreadsheet, the net present value is positive. And I make the investment in America and not the Democrat Socialists of America. quick break and i'm going to show you what i think is not is actually an extremely bad idea and i'm seeing more and more of this bubble up in the republican party it is a absolutely terrible idea and i'm sorry but there's no one's ever going to convince me into this this is a good idea last break hey one of the best parts of my morning routine is that first cup of coffee you know taste of that first bold tasting but never bitter cup of coffee from black house change your whole day before the craziness of the day kicks in a strong cup of blackout coffee is fantastic take a few minutes to yourself you can drown out the noise in the morning for me it's blackout coffee we love it this is one of their best brews out there check this out brutal awakening you get it b-r-e-w bro see what you did there brutal awakening i love brutal awakening it's bold it's smooth it's fresh roasted it's one of the little things that makes the morning a little better weekend coffee tastes great but so does weekday coffee when everything's quiet and i'm not standing in line every morning to pay seven bucks for what's basically a milkshake with a little coffee in it blackout coffee is a small american company takes their coffee seriously and shares our values here's what i want you to do check it out don't just buy a bag join the coffee club pick your favorite coffee tell them how often you often you want it blackout takes care of the rest you get member pricing free shipping double reward points and the longer you're in the club the more perks and surprises they send your way it's great coffee at home on your schedule no lines no seven dollar coffee no nonsense go to blackoutcoffee.com slash bongino use code bongino for 20 off your first order that's blackoutcoffee.com slash bongino join the coffee club upgrade your morning you'll thank me later blackoutcoffee.com slash bongino check it out so folks again like there are not this is never going to be the pollyanna everything's utopia show either.

49:26There are some bad ideas out there. And I'm seeing a small crop of Republicans who think we can out-Democrat the Democrats on big government policy. I saw this in the Washington Post this morning, and I thought to myself, this is just a really horrendous idea that's only going to further exacerbate the problem. Washington Post's Steve Thompson, as Social Security funds run dry, some Republicans say it's time to raise taxes. Folks, this is not going to solve the problem. Social security is going broke by 2032. Don't take my word for it. There are actuaries who are one could claim they're trying not to be partisan.

50:04Their own actuaries, even under Democrat administrations, have had to admit there's no money there. The problem Social Security has is not the tax base. When you increase taxes even more than we're paying now, what's going to happen is people engage in tax avoidance. And tax avoidance will not give you extra money you need. And even if it did, it'll take money out of the free market economy and stop the economy from growing to a point we need to pay off this massive debt. Social Security has a middleman problem, okay? The problem it has is it lied to people and told people in the chat and elsewhere that we're going to take your money, which you did pay in.

50:39Absolutely. That you pay and promises were made to you. And it said, we're going to basically save it for you for later. They did not save it for later. They did no such thing. They took the money and spent it. I'm sorry you're going to be the bearer of bad news. I know people don't want to hear it, but I'm trying to solve the problem. We can take care of this generation of retirees if we acknowledge a problem and try to fix it. If that money would have been saved and would have been sitting in any kind of ETF or anything like that, the Social Security crisis would be minimum right now. It's not what they did.

51:08It would be small. They took it and they spent it. Raising taxes is not going to solve this. Everybody knows what the problem is. The trust fund was spent. The only way to enforce this now To reinforce social security Is to use our powerful free market And this explosion in stock market value In other assets in the US economy To help the next generation of seniors It's the only way There are substantive arguments to be having And there's just noise here You have a bunch of problems with government programs I tried to write them down I'm going to show you a video in a second Of the problems with Medicare and Medicaid too Number one With any government program You're going to have massive fraud Does fraud exist in the private sector?

51:49Yes. Why is fraud in the government almost always worse than it is in the private sector free market economy? Because the government doesn't have any incentive to control spending. It's not their money and it's not their product. Fraud is rampant. I'll show you that coming up in a second. The money was not saved. The government lied to you. They acted like they took your money and put it in a lockbox and that's not what they did. They just spent it. It's not there. They have a bunch of fake IOUs. Inflation ate away the value Of what would have been there Even if it was the IOUs Are even less than worthless now And there was no immediate transfer So the money they pretended was sitting there Which was really just sitting in fake IOUs After inflation ate it away Wasn't there any way to begin with We can fix this stuff You got Dr.

52:37Oz and Bobby Kennedy Trying to clean up massive fraud In their healthcare space Taking away Medicare money and Medicaid dollars From seniors and others They had a massive, massive hit on this. This is some more kind of good news that we can fix these problems if we drown out the noise and focus on the signal, which the administration's doing. But the doomers are telling you they're not. Check this out. We've got to deal with the fraud issues. And here's why. They're not just stealing your money. They're stealing your health. Because if they don't care about stealing from poor people, they'll take your health away.

53:05And they're stealing the nation's trust. Medicare and Medicaid were created in a high-trust environment. We assumed people would do the right things. We now are experiencing about$100 billion of theft a year, much of it because of the COVID pandemic's impact on teaching criminals to move into health care. And we believe if we could just take the fraud out of Medicare, we would double the life expectancy of the Medicare trust fund, which means not only would you have it for your retirement, but it could be there for your kids as well. So what has to happen? We already stopped$42 billion. Kim Brandt, who leads this program at Medicare, has already taken$42 billion just by not shipping the money out of the building.

53:39The number one issue is don't let the criminals get the money from you. Folks, this has been a problem with government pre-Trump 47 administration forever. Pay and catch later. They would pass out all this government money to a bunch of entities. They probably had a good idea it was fraudulent. And they would say, hey, FBI, OIG, DEA, others, go and get them later. I've tried to tell you, I'm very proud of the work we did there. But there's not a workforce large enough, nor would you want it. You don't want a 200 ,000 member FBI. You've got local police for a lot of you. You want someone to enforce federal crime.

54:17There is not enough federal law enforcement folks out there to go and chase all this fraudulent money. The Trump administration turned the whole thing on its head and said, I've got a better idea. Let's stop the money from going out the door first so we don't have a pay and catch, a pay and chase later. that we chase the money out to begin with in the beginning before it gets out. We chase it out of the fraud pipeline. This was a revolutionary approach. Listen, you can knock the Trump administration all you want. It's your right as a free American citizen. But the fact that they changed the entire criminal illegal enforcement mechanism using Title 8 and getting illegals out, not putting them in jails, waiting for them to plea, and then hoping some blue city mayor didn't let them out, that was a sea change.

55:05In federal law enforcement that paid massive dividends. This idea, too, of cutting off the payment pipeline in advance and not chasing the money later was unique to this administration to the degree they did it. I do want to cover something else, too. I mentioned it earlier because I feel like you should hear both sides. There is a proposal floating around out there to give taxpayer dollars to a stay at home family member who's taking care of the kids from an existing pot of child care money. Folks, on its face, if it's an existing pot of money that may go to others, I get how this would appeal to some people.

55:44My concern, my concern about this is that the Democrats are looking for an opening right now and looking to basically get Republicans to go along with what's called the UBI, a universal basic income. And my fear is that this could become a vehicle for that. The universal basic income is probably one of the most destructive ideas politically I've seen surface on the economic front, political economics in a long time. It's the idea that we should pay people a universal across the board basic income amount, whatever it may be, 30 ,000, 50 ,000. Folks, it's a bad idea. The economics of it are bad and the incentive structure is even worse.

56:27It's a terrible idea. The problem with a universal basic income is this. It creates massive cliffs where people say, no matter how you do it, if you were to give, say, someone$50 ,000 and they don't have to work and say it was inflation adjusted, it's not a ton of money. But there are a lot of people out there who don't want to get off their butts and go to work who are just going to take it. And the problem is if they're offered a job at$55 ,000, they only net$5 ,000 extra dollars from going to work 40 hours a week if they could sit at home, do nothing, and get$50 ,000. It's a really bad idea no matter how you structure it.

57:04Massive cliffs are created. Second, as I've said to you often with my hat tips to not just our military but working class Americans out there, truckers, plumbers, electricians, HVAC repairmen. You know, people out there busting their ass, grave diggers, busting their ass for a living. Folks, there is value in what you do. The ability to manipulate objects, steel, wood, all this create incredible carpentry and beautiful buildings. There's a value to that. You did that. I didn't build this studio. You did. There's value to that. When we pay people to sit at home, we steal away from them. We steal away from them through awful incentives The desire to go and change I used the term manipulate the world It has a negative connotation But to restructure the world for a more prosperous tomorrow You can be a part of that A UBI takes that all away It sucks the life out of people And that's my fear I know there's been a lot of back and forth on X It's fine, that's healthy And I'm open to kind of a Hearing how this would be done with existing Because we're having a real problem with the welfare state as is, if we're going to have it, if we're going to have it, and that's just kind of a fait accompli, I hope it is, and if we're going to have it, I'd rather at least be more efficient, but we do have to be concerned about that.

58:24Paying people to not work steals away everything God gave them, this ability to go into the world and use your brain and muscle to change the world for the better. Speaking of Bobby Kennedy and make America healthy again, you know I try to throw in these little health hacks at the end of the show. a lot because I think it's, they put together a little, I love these things. I'm obsessed with health hacks. After this weekend, out there in the ocean, stepping on the beach, saying that you do a little grounding. I felt great. I came home. I felt amazing this morning getting up. It's going to be a busy week, but I'm ready to go.

59:01One of the reasons I'm always ready to go every day. And I learned this the hard way. I did not prioritize sleep in my life growing up. I didn't i was almost proud of the fact that i didn't sleep like hey i slept like four hours last night went to work folks not a badge of honor anymore they are finding out really devastating things about short sleeping every night it is the damage done to your body if you had to fix one thing one thing if you had nothing else fix diet exercise all this i would say if you only had time to fix one thing you're like i'm gonna eat crappy i'm still not gonna exercise fix your sleep i know we're all like we're all hard workers the problem is if you sleep less than i'll show you a place video in a minute say six hours or so if you sleep less than that consistently the problem is your ability to work the next day even though you may get in a few more hours is far less productive than it would be if you just slept seven or eight hours and probably worked even a little bit less it's really destructive fix your sleep first everything else is important but second to sleep check this out they took a group of healthy men and they subjected them to sleep deprivation for one week which was around six hours per night just in one week and what they found over just that seven day period was that they had a epigenetic change of three percent so they they changed their genome so we have around 20 000 genes in our human genome they changed three percent of this genome so they changed around i think it was 711 genes for the worse for the worse hold on a minute did you say they were deprived just for one week but the sleep deprived individuals were sleeping six hours a night yes right six hours a night i know that's the problem is actually what some people are happy if they're getting six hours a night that's that hey i had a great night i slept for six hours yeah and that was the sleep deprivation so that impacts the way your genes are expressed.

1:01:01One Sandman in the chat cracks me up and say, I sleep six plus hours every night. That's why I got my name, One Sandman in the chat. Well, you really nailed it. Little sand in the eyeballs when you wake up in the morning. Folks, I had to make this change. Listen, sometimes it's just not possible. It's just sometimes it's not possible. I mean, you go out on a weekend, you go to sleep late, you still get up early, whatever. Enjoy yourself. I'm not telling you to be neurotic about any of this stuff. That would be ridiculous. Sometimes you've got a busy day, you've got a kids event, you've got to work.

1:01:33I'm just saying if you had to prioritize one big change in your life, the majority of the time, it's sleep. It totally changed my life. I made it happen no matter what. I had a structured time. I went to sleep every night. I had to do it, and it really did completely, totally change my life. So you know we're running our contest, our 1776 contest, where we give away once a week$1 ,776 to a listener viewer of the show. You have to tune in live at 10 a.m. Eastern time every single day. Join the chat. We pick a comment a day. Once a week, we give it away. We give the money away. If you want to see the official rules, go to Bongino.com slash 1776.

1:02:11You want to do the winner first? We have a winner. Now, this is the winner of the$1 ,776 from last week. Fireworks. Those are getting a reel in the studio. Oh, winking, winking, Anna. Surprisingly, fire detection system isn't going off. Well, I may have said that joke last week. It was still bad. Joey Bag of Donuts. Everyone calm down. I'm here. Poor Joey Bag of Donuts, right? Every time there's a crime, we're always like, Joey Bag of Donuts robbed the bank. Joey Bag of Donuts. Joey Bag of Donuts stole the money. Calm down, everyone. He's here. Joey Bag of Donuts, we love you. Congratulations.

1:02:43And our comment of the day today is from Yana Hunter 406 Why are they always singing Yana I don't know I've asked this question over and over and over again The Democrats why are you always singing Here's a better question let me frame it another way Who do you think this appeals to I'm not sure do you think persuadable voters You're trying to get over your side Hey I think you guys who are undecided should vote for Democrats Maybe we should sing you a song Who the hell do you think you're convincing I'm not sure. Who are you convinced? This is not an effective tactic or strategy to get people over to your side.

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