Charlie (Ep. 2550)

27:48You've got a country run by idiots. If you have to get your parents permission to go on a field trip and get an aspirin at school, but you don't have to get their permission to get an abortion, you got a country run by idiots. If you must show identification to board an airplane and cash a check and check out a library book, but you don't have to show identification to vote in our elections, you got a nation run by a bunch of idiots. If the government wants to prevent and they want to take our guns away and turn around and send F-16 fighter jets to our enemy countries, take our guns away and give ammunition to our enemy countries, you have a country run by idiots.

28:37In the nation's largest city, New York City, You can buy two 16-ounce coats, but you can't buy one 24-ounce coat because 24 ounces of a sugary coat will make you fat. But you can buy two 16-ounces. You got a country and a city run by some idiots. If your government believes the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars in debt is to spend more trillions of dollars in debt, you've got a country run by idiots. If only other preachers could be so bold. Hat tip, Jeremy Ballinger. I don't know him at all. It doesn't matter. Folks, today's show is about choosing the right path. And I mean this as candidly and succinctly as possible.

29:37Choosing the path of conspiratorial traitor idiocy, traitor to the country, the movement, the traitor to truth, the traitor to morality and ethics, or picking the path, the difficult path, of logic, reason, process, and compass true north. It's a choice. It's a fork in the road. We all have to make that choice. Ladies and gentlemen, logic, reason, and process is not the easy path. There's no instant gratification in it. There's none. Zero. There is instant gratification in the path of lies, in the black hole of lies, where you can just put it out there and get instantly gratified by all the wonderful retweets.

30:27None of it's based in any evidence-based fact, But people will love you until one day they don't. Because, folks, what we would call truth, what Thomas Paine would call common sense. Common sense, I promise, with not a plurality, but the overwhelming majority of thinking hardworking, reasonable Americans, I promise, always wins in the end. I swear to you again on my life, Jasmine was sitting in that chair earlier today and lamenting how this same thing, like how all these crazy lunatics have developed the following. I said, this isn't new, Jasmine. You've had demagogues and cult leaders who developed the following throughout human history.

31:13And what's always happened in the end? It always collapses outside of a small group of loyalists who go down with the burning house because eventually most people wake up and realize you said the world was going to end yesterday and it's today. You can't lie to them anymore. Folks, I bring this up because it's not just our fight against the traitors to truth, the traitors to our movement, the traitors to our country. But we have a fight going on that Charlie took on better than anyone against the radical left and socialist ideas. Charlie could have kept it, you know, very high level rather than granular.

31:58Charlie would engage any argument where he felt there was an infiltration on the inalienable big R God given rights to assemble, to petition. Charlie take on any and all comers about anything he thought was a an infiltration into the zero sum game of liberty and freedom. He took on these socialists. He took on these fascists, these progressives, these liberals. He took on weak need Republicans who weren't willing to fight. Folks, this is your time now. if there's anything that comes out of this just abominable tragedy of losing Charlie Kirk way too soon it's that if God fertilized a field of 10 ,000 more Charlies then maybe there was some purpose to this that one day you'll understand when you join the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit in the second creation

33:02newt gingrich was the speaker of the house when i was a young man and this initiative has fans and detractors so do i we all do but one thing about newt gingrich i remember with the contractor in america is he did understand the danger from the progressive left and he was very good at analyzing what was going on in the left folks i'm telling you we're in a spiritual fight as well as a political one. If you think otherwise, this is probably not the right show for you. I'm not your preacher. I'm a sinner like everyone else, but it's not an accident that I bring up my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

33:37It's not because I'm some moral compass you should guide your life by. Trust me, I'm not. I'm not.

33:47But I understand we're in a spiritual fight right now too. Here's Gingrich talking about the Democrat Party being completely hijacked, hijacked in this spiritual fight. And anyone downplaying this and saying it's going to go away. It reminds me when AOC entered on the scene and everybody told me, just ignore her, she'll go away. I said, no, she won't. I promise you she won't. Socialism requires a constant fight every day. Gingrich understands this. This was a great hit on Hannity's show the other day on Fox, about a minute of this. Check this out. You're watching the collapse of the oldest political party in the world.

34:25Democratic Party goes all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. And what you're seeing right now is that nobody who has common sense has the courage to stand up to people who are objectively crazy. I mean, it's not like they have the wrong ideas or the wrong ideology. They live on a planet that doesn't exist. you start talking about seeding the means of production, which was a great phrase if you're Vladimir Lenin or if you're Mao Zedong, but who in America is going to vote for that? They talk about they want totally open borders. You ran that experiment. It was called the Biden administration. It was totally repudiated.

35:10I think you could be drifting towards one of the most decisively defined elections. in American history. And we're working on a platform of the American people, issues where you're at 80, 85 % support versus people who are crazy. And I think that could be what the core of the campaign is. You notice what Gingrich said in the beginning? Common sense. There's a reason I put that in there. Folks, common sense, I hate to use cliches, but they serve a purpose at times. Common sense is not as common as people would think. There's someone who just in the chat, I'm not going to say who, because I don't want to draw attention to it, but basically brought up a piece of evidence and said, there's no way I'll ever be convinced.

36:02I know. I understand that. You just outed yourself. You have no common sense. There is no amount of objective evidence that will convince you from living the life of a moron. I understand that. You saying that is the very marker of an imbecile. You have no common sense. There is nothing that can convince me of this fact being evidence. Yes, you're correct because you're an imbecile. That's you outing yourself. Think about what you just said. nothing will convince me of the truth we know just call yourself a socialist no matter how many times we show you the implementation of a socialist ideology in a governing system will kill starve torture murder and imprison hundreds of millions of people there is no amount of evidence that will convince you that it's not going to work the next time that's who you are.

37:08Mutt leads into chat. You deserve to be laughed at. You can go back and look at this moron yourself. That's you. You basically just said I'm an imbecile. Do the Hester Prynne. Put the scarlet eye on my forehead for imbecile. We know there's nothing that can convince you. You're nothing more than a modern day fascist or socialist. Mutt leads into chat. you deserve to be mocked because you have no common sense you just don't

37:45the Democrats are going down you know what, Guy, I know you love this one but Justin, cue this one up this is who you are, that person nothing can convince this idiot, you know the Gays for Gaza video, cue that one up I think this is Rebel News Rebel News is interviewing this lady in like the full terror garb right and she's talking about how like wonderful it is to be like gay or stuff and he's like hey how many pride parades have you seen in like gaza again just a question that's fact-based have you ever seen one the answer is no you have not there's an answer to that based in fact but there's no convincing this lady because she's just as dumb as this dipshit in the chat admitting there is no amount of evidence that'll stop me from living in a world of life?

38:34None. Because he's basically saying, I'm a moron. We know. Just like gays for Gaza lady, who no matter what this guy says to her, she's convinced she would live 10 minutes in Gaza. Good luck. Don't do it. I'm trying to help you. Don't get dead. Even you. Check this out. Gazans have solidarity with trans people? Yeah, usually. Have you ever seen what they do to trans people in Gaza? I think that that's what the IDF does to trans people. How many gay pride parades have there been in Gaza? Well, I mean, how many people have been killed in Gaza? They can't do pride parades at the moment because the whole place is decimated.

39:12Before 2023, how many gay pride parades have there been? How many trans people have lived to tell their story in Gaza before 2023? We can't say that because the IDF for now 100 years have been completely decimating it. 100 years? What year did that start? That started when they started settlement as Israel into Palestine. So you think the unacceptance of gay and trans people in Gaza is because of the Israelis? I think it's, yeah, I think it's because of fear and I think it's because of that. Has nothing to do with their radical religion? I think, no. If you went to Tel Aviv and walked down the main street there as a proud trans person and you did the same in any Palestinian territory, which one do you think you would survive?

39:58I don't think I'd survive any of them. Really? I think Tel Aviv is... They like to act like they are for queer people. However, if you look at their laws, it's still legal to be gay. It's still legal to be transgender in those countries. It's illegal. In Israel. It's not allowed in those countries. In Israel. Yes, it's not allowed. I think you need to unwrap that kefir. My brother's gay in Tel Aviv. No, but I'm being serious. It is not illegal. I'm being serious. But they still get persecuted and such. I would take you to Tel Aviv. You can walk down any street in Tel Aviv and nobody will attack you for whatever you identify as.

40:35You do that in Gaza. You do that in the West Bank. They will literally tie a rope around you and drag you behind a motorcycle. Bullshit. F*** off, mate. F*** off. You're a f***ing... There it is. There it is. Why did we let that play to the end? We were going to cut it off and I go, no, no, no, no. We got to let this play to the end because what did I tell you? when you live in a world divorced from Compass True North also known as Common Sense Compass True North and you're faced with facts and reality just like the dipshit in the chat there's nothing people can say to you to get you to accept that what's real is real you don't live in the real world so what do you do the only way out of that is rage bullshit F off.

41:26Bullshit. F off. That's all she's got. She has no answer to anything. Compass True North Common Sense, folks. We've got to get back to this. Please divorce yourselves and your lives from people feeding you endless dog bowls of Alpo bullshit, right? Remember, Alpo to dog food. I promise you'll be a better person for it. We do not need our party to collapse into this deep well of lies like this is Sparta kicking the guy down. We don't need that. We don't need that. A movement built on falsities, lies and bullshit will inevitably implode, implode on itself like a submersible at, you know, miles deep beneath water that loses pressure.

42:21folks it's happening now on the left don't emulate this strategy as newt just told you that party has been hijacked by crazies who have no compass true north of common sense you hit them with any fact what are the wealthiest one percent paying taxes zero actually it's 38 percent bullshit f you hey you guys love public schools you hate school choice why is it that 50 percent of new york city schools a majority of students can't read around oh bullshit i thought you cared about the kids bullshit that's all they have is rage that's all they have is rage they look at themselves in the mirror and they know they're idiots and they don't want to accept it it's really hard to be self reflective it's hard man here's cnn so don't accuse me of any bias here's a cnn poll in case you think like the Democrats are salvageable at this point.

43:15Oh, we just vote for a few socialists and the rest of the party will be OK. Ladies and gentlemen, the party, there are record numbers of establishment Democrats, you know, who are not the socialists, but are still, you know, not great either. We get the point. Record numbers that are losing. This is not an anomaly. Here's CNN themselves acknowledging this. Check this out. The prediction markets think it might get even worse. It could get even worse. In fact, it's likely to get even worse. So if you look at the cow sheep prediction market and the chance that six House Democrats go down to defeat, lose their primary in 2026, this number has consistently over the last week or so been hovering 80, 90 percent.

43:53And when we talk about history books, the history books, right, if in fact six House Democrats went down to defeat in 2026, it would be by far, it would be the largest number, be the largest number in a post redistricting cycle for Democrats and get this over 50 years. That's why I got this picture of the Tea Party on your screen right now, because you know what? It's 250, but also it's a new Tea Party for Democrats. The difference between our Tea Party that engaged in a course correction under our own Republican Party tent was our Tea Party movement, which I ran for office in and was proud to be a part of A small part, but a part nonetheless.

44:38The Tea Party movement was an effort to drag kicking and screaming our own party that was broken and off track back to a path of objective common sense and compass true north. constitutional principles that are inalienable we were getting away from that their air quotes tea party or what they're calling it harry antin and cnn their party revolution is a way to divorce their party from any objective truth and give it to people who will impart upon you subjective not true subjective falsities that's the difference be proud you were part of the former rather than the latter folks that party's in a world of trouble and again if Charlie taught us anything it's that you have to take the fight to them where they are college campuses blue states blue cities we don't have a choice this cancer this virus festers it rots like gangrene in a infected piece of muscle tissue it's not going to go away on its own it's overwhelm the immune system at times.

45:50You can't let it get to that point. You got to get the medication out early. And the medication is common sense, compass true north, objective truth, big R, God-given rights granted by God. It works every time here, here. In the end, the truth wins out or we wouldn't be here 250 years later. Despite the civil war, the revolution, 1812, the hippies, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, internal strife, Jay's treaty early on. People didn't even think that was a good idea. But we're still here. We're still here. I want to show you what it looks like, again, when your principles get thrown out the window. You divorce Compass True North common sense.

46:36You become part of this leftist movement. I want to play the hat tip Mays Moore, Great Account on X. this guy Scott Galloway the reason I use this guy's clips and have over the last couple days is if you watch his commentary on TikTok or Instagram reels or whatever his commentary on finance and economics are very it's very good you're like well how is a guy who's this very smart this guy's not stupid how does a guy this smart get suckered in to a lack of common sense And what happened to, sadly, a lot of people who were once part of our movement who got suckered into the conspiracy theorist traders.

47:16Folks, even smart people can get suckered. Even smart people can get suckered. It's hard for me to get out. This guy is brilliant. And I want you to listen in this Mays Moore video how he's totally thrown any set of objective Compass True North principles out the window when it comes to things like fascism and Nazism. A plague on humankind, an abomination, a stain in our history. notice first he's talking about Elon Musk and remember the stupid commentary about Elon was waving and they're like this guy's a Nazi was a Nazi salute listen to him on that that's first so his principle there is any wave any wave he doesn't like no matter how ridiculous he'll conflate with someone being a Nazi however on part two when someone has an actual Nazi tattoo that's nothing at all it should be ignored that says to you there's no compass true north the magnet's broken there's no principle here at all other than power and that's dangerous that's what the founders and thomas pain were trying to get away from not embrace check this out musk in my view purposely gave nazi salutes and i'm trying to wrap my head around what are the objectives there Is it just to show a certain level of macho and thumbing your finger in the face of convention?

48:39Is it an attempt to rally a group of people around a fascist ideology? We're going to talk about fucking tattoos and sexting. I'm a Jew. I don't love a Tottenkamp tattoo. He gets drunk one night and gets a stupid fucking tattoo. He gets a hall pass. Sure does. From you. Not from us. And don't give me the both sides bullshit. shit you can shove that right up your did you miss what happened during this primary season where patriotic right side of moral the moral arc of history compass true north common sense republicans conservatives fought what sweat equity poured their sweat and blood at great expense to themselves to clear the debris and infection that was trying to get into our movement did you miss all that not only did we not embrace it did you miss this and by the way this show is just a small portion of it a significant one but not compared to there were tons of people doing this at great expense to themselves to save our movement from this crazy and what did you assholes do you embraced did.

49:51This guy with the Nazi tattoo won a primary in your party, not ours. There's no both sides, bro. Stick to the finance videos. You're a lunatic. And just be honest, your only principal's power. Elon's a Nazi for waving to people, but the Nazi tattoo guy's not a Nazi with the Nazi tattoo. Maybe if he waved, they would have condemned him. Right, guys? Maybe if he would have... But if he just would have waved, maybe then he would have condemned them. Principals, right? Principals, my ass. Folks, you want to turn into this? Do you know this guy, Hassan, what's his last name? Piker? Again, total chump, coward.

50:38Another one of these fake tough guys. I hate these guys. I remember in the early days of the JIT schools, everybody come in, and it was all these bad shit doesn't work we'd get bouncers and stuff that would come in and you know in Matt Serra's place and they would sick like a blue belt on these guys you'd see these guys like crying as they got tapped out I I get tired I'm an old guy I'm 51 I'm broken I've said that a thousand times not new it's just I get so sick of these you know wealthy rich total life loser pampered zeros like this idiot Hassan Piker pretending like he's some rebel without just go donate the money from your show if you believe in socialism this guy's gonna find himself I don't have any inside information I want to be clear on this but this guy's gonna find himself enmeshed in a significant lawsuit if you see what he did yesterday about Pete Hegseth who's a patriot and a great friend and a good man, has been a great leader at the Department of War.

51:43Did you hear this? If this doesn't result in a lawsuit, I got to tell you, I will be astonished. This is some of the most disgusting stuff you're ever going to hear in your life from a commentary guy who's got a big following. He's taken a huge risk on this. Check this out. One of their rapist hosts is now the fucking Secretary of War. Pete Hegzeth also has a Nazi tattoo on his motherfucking chest. A Nazi tattoo that actually got dinged by the National Guard, which stopped him from participating at the inauguration as security detail. Something he wrote about in a motherfucking book. and he was such a prolific rapist that his own mother sent him an email begging him to stop raping that guy with a drinking problem also is now the secretary of war that guy used to be a host on this network for years and they're over here talking about wow i can't believe but the Democrats could, the Democrats did this.

52:52All right, folks, any lawyers in the chat? I am not a lawyer. Any lawyers in the chat, chime in. There is a, if you're a public figure, okay, there's a different standard for legal defamation, okay? It kind of sucks. I'm not sure there should be a different standard, but there is. If you're just, and correct me in the chat, by the way, if I'm wrong. I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, so, you know, the whole joke about being a law. I'm not a lawyer. However, there are different standards for public figures. You know, all you have to basically do is prove there was a defamatory lie if you're just a regular kind of citizen without a huge public footprint.

53:31If you were a public figure, you have to prove actual malice. Actual malice. You just called a guy falsely. You just defamed him. You called him a rapist, a patriot, a public servant. You just called him multiple times. holy Moses I hope this guy's got a checkbook ready to go if he does not issue a full-throated unconditional apology I wouldn't be shocked at all if this guy's writing a five million dollar check that one's gonna sting and this just goes to show how stupid he is again this is what it looks like remember what I told you when you have no logic or reason you have no common sense no compass true north and you're forced to look in the mirror like Hassan, whatever his name is, has to do every day and realize you're a moron, a dipshit, and a phony.

54:25When you have to do that every day, the only off-ramp is this self-hatred rage that you have to redirect because you're not comfortable with the guy in the mirror. So what does he do? He starts raging out against Pete at his own expense. There's almost no way he gets away with this.

54:47brother get that checkbook out man that is some of the most insane commentary i've ever heard from a moron but a moron who should have had some producer in his year going dude we're all gonna lose our jobs over this one what a dipshit folks we got captain riz coming up next who's Captain Riz. Chad, who's Captain Riz? And we've got a new member of the Riz Brigade. We've got the lieutenant, the Riz lieutenant. Who's the Riz lieutenant? We're going to nominate someone next for the Riz lieutenant. We're going to nominate him and select him and confirm at the same time. I want to show you two pieces of video.

55:27It's a Friday. And I've got some really cool pictures. I told you today's show is going to be a little personal. I got a couple of cool pictures coming up. Something happened about this place in America. and the Europeans were loving it. And I want to show you something. It gets a little personal. If you don't like personal stuff, it's okay. I don't mind. I get it. Folks, we wouldn't be celebrating America 250 if it wasn't for a strong foundation set by our framers. Hamilton built America's financial foundation on the principle of sound and stable money. It's important. A principle later embodied by the gold standard.

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57:12It's Dan with two N's. And you're like, what? You should have told me that. That's why I do it. Don't laugh. I'm telling you it happens all the time. They're like, my name is Kate. Kate. And oh, no, with a C, I'm like, you got to tell me that. Even the most basic names, when you've done a book signing over and over and like 500 people show up and you wind up signing 10 ,000, 20 ,000 books. The easiest name, Sam, it's S-A-A-M-M-E-M-M-E-L. And you're like, that's not, that's Samil. No, no, it happens all the time. That's why I do it. Because I got asked that one time in the chat. Why do you spell your, that's why, now you know.

57:51I told you today's show would be a little bit personal. If you come to a book signing, we get some big crowds. Folks, Captain Riz is back. we've been talking about why Donald Trump yesterday and today we've been discussing why I believe it's my opinion you don't have to share it it's okay you're allowed your own opinion it is a republic thankfully if we can keep it I think the best warrior against socialism is a guy who speaks in the terminology of common sense folks we've tried white papers against communism can we just be honest it's not working please read de Tocqueville, Montesquieu, Locke, Soule, Friedman, Schumpeter, William F.

58:39Buckley read it it's all worth your time it's genius it's an intellectual debate against communism the hard reality folks is the world is snapshots and soundbites sometimes we need a guy who's like well communism communism just sucks he's the guy this is the guy for the time right now in the tiktok generation to fight against communism we need captain riz and president trump is captain riz you got to watch yesterday's show you'll get the inside joke but check out this clip here he is this guy understands the threat and speaks in common sense terms needed right now check this out there's not much seizing in the firing because we well you should ask that of the Iranians.

59:21Don't ask me. We didn't fire. They fired on us. My point is, if you fired a U.S. Navy ship, what are we supposed to do? Say, oh, there's a ceasefire. We're not going to shoot down your drone. That's a stupid question. That's a stupid position to take. Of course, we fired back at them. They were shooting at us. That's what I would expect to do. Only stupid countries don't shoot back when you're shot at. And we're not a stupid country. All right. I don't know how they missed that because I clearly said it was Trump. But now you know who Lieutenant Riz is. Lieutenant Riz, because they played the clips backwards, words don't ask me how lieutenant riz is rubio why would we shoot at them because they shot at us you dumb shits compass true north someone shoots at me what's your well i want to protect myself and shoot back lieutenant riz now they burned the is marco rubio

1:00:11folks if this guy doesn't run for president at some point in the future it is going to be one of the greatest lost opportunities for a chief executive who did that who did we're going to be taking advantage of the wall behind this we don't need Dan Bongino show up there all the time you're watching the Dan Bongino show you know we're here check out the back if you're listening on Apple or Spotify or listen on YouTube you want to watch tune into the end at 1101 and 40 something seconds there is Lieutenant Riz Secretary of State Marco Rubio now Justin was sleeping in there Captain Riz here is President Trump you guys are lucky it's Friday I'm going to convert today, you are Captain Riz, President Trump the warrior we need for common sense against the depravities and atrocities of socialism check this out and they don't want God They don't want successful things to happen for our country.

1:01:14They don't want to have a successful country.

1:01:19No one explains it better than him. Folks, we don't need, I love them. Again, I'm not knocking intellectuals. I'm not, I'm not. I'm just telling you, we don't need another white paper on communism. We don't. They've been written. We've got think tanks that have been doing it for years. It hasn't made much of a dent. sometimes you just need captain riz behind us i love that thing we played yesterday trump be like yeah i'd be the greatest communist in the world everything's free free house okay oprah you get a car you get a car then you're like well who's paying for that oh we are how they're stealing your money to give it back to you well what are they doing with it when they steal well they take a cut and enrich themselves first well that doesn't sound like a deal because it's not But folks, even the Europeans are waking up to the opportunity costs of socialism and big government welfare states.

1:02:16There's an opportunity cost to this. Do you know what an opportunity cost is? I don't want to make this. I just told you about white papers. However, if you don't understand economics, they teach you this day one. An opportunity cost is the cost of a foregone opportunity. There's financial costs and opportunities. cost. Think of them as spreadsheet cost and opportunity cost. Paula's a great web developer. I use this example all the time. She could make$500 an hour doing websites back in the day. She was great at it. If Paula decides to go and cut grass for$10 an hour, great. Good for you all. Work is noble.

1:02:47But Paula's not making$10 an hour. Yes, she is. They're paying her to cut the grass. She's losing close to$5 or$490 an hour by not doing what she could do. It's the cost of a foregone opportunity. Europeans in the United States for the World Cup are now waking up to what decades of lost opportunities, if they would have been in the United States and the beauty of it would look like if they were just here with our better freedom and liberty constructs and our system of government. Not perfect, but better than theirs. You ever been to Yellowstone? Folks in the chat, who's been to Yellowstone? I'm not here to give you bucket list items.

1:03:24Everybody likes their own thing. I'm just telling you on this one, please give me a dispensation from, just like mentioning, I need it here. You need to go to Yellowstone. If you haven't seen it, Grand Tetons and Yellowstone, you are missing one of God's greatest gifts. It is magical. Yes, in the chat. Awesome. Awesome. Hell yeah. I've been. Me. Sorry, there was a funny one in there. everyone in the chat knows it flags in the chat yellowstone is amazing i want you to watch this this is a european in the country for the world cup he's in yellow he can't even believe it's real i'm going to show you a picture i took it's real of me and paul and yellowstone that i swear to you looks fake i promise you on my life it's real i'm going to show you how majestic this is because there's actual painting of this watch this guy first check this out isn't real this isn't a real place i have not just witnessed what i have witnessed today it has been the craziest most beautiful drive of my whole entire life this has been insane america you are ridiculous what's happened to the back of his hair

1:04:41real close does anyone know the rest of the words? no no I still can't believe what we witnessed today a grizzly bear, a coyote bison, chipmunks Elks, Elks, Deer. Is it normal to get that lucky in Yellowstone National Park? Let me know. What other states have that much variety of wildlife? Get in the comments and let me know. That was you, James Atkan Fitness. James, welcome to America, brother. Welcome with open arms, man. Welcome to America. By the way, it is a little bit difficult to see. How did you get the captain and lieutenant in the same shot? You guys are really busy back there. It is, if you do go to Yellowstone, it is 100 % a bucket list item.

1:05:43I just want to warn you, it is not easy to see a bear in Yellowstone. For those who've been there, there are people who take two, three-day tours and never see a bear. The reason I bring it up is I went to Yellowstone. I loved it. We had this guide. She was great. She was wonderful. But all she would talk about is the bear spray. She'd be like, listen, man, bears are dangerous. If we see a bear, I've got the spray, get back in the car right away. We go for this two-day Yellowstone tour. So it's an eight-hour day each day. So obviously we're at the 16th hour. Everybody's asleep in the van. It's early evening.

1:06:18We're leaving Yellowstone. Everyone's tired. We have not seen a bear. And over two days, my daughters and my neighbor's kids, we were all in a van together. They'd be like, bear! And it was a raccoon. They'd be like, bear! And it was a fox. But every single... So we were a little disappointed, even though the park was majestic, that we hadn't seen a bear. Put up my bear picture. So what happens? We're driving out of the park with our friends, the Vakonis, who we love, who I mentioned, the orthodontist. And this is a picture from my phone. So Arvin, my buddy, everyone's sleeping but me and him.

1:06:57And I'm actually dozing off. He's like, tells the tour lady, hey pull over on the side of the road there's a bunch of cars there the lady's like ah there's no bear there and he's like no no this is our last shot we are just about to leave the park i swear to you this is true it's not some bullshit podcast story we pull over the side of the road there's like a little ridge line that bear was like 30 feet away the reason i tell you about the tour guide is she rushes out of the car she and she doesn't have the bear spray all she's been talking about was the bear spray and she's like we got to get away from this bear it's got the come next to it and you know me i'm just so i'm groggy i probably shouldn't have taken the picture i probably should have got back in the car but i had to take the picture that was the bear in yellowstone that is a freaking true story and we still to this day if we have a we're sitting there and we're hanging out with him we still to this day remember the bear in yellowstone they're hard to see i'm just preparing you they don't just hang out like you'll see bison and everywhere.

1:07:56You'll see all kinds of animals out there. Bears, they're not that easy to see. They don't just sit there and like wave. And by the way, if you see them, be careful. This picture, however, is me and Paula. And that, I know it looks fake. That picture is real. I promise you that's not a painting. That's not AI. It is in no way enhanced. That's Yellowstone, me and Paula I show you this picture because it looks fake it looks so fake when you see it because it's so perfect it doesn't look real Thomas Moran actually painted this scene it's a very famous painting you might just want to throw it up it looks exactly like this there it is from a wide shot the painting looks exactly like the picture flip back and forth it's just a wider shot you have to see Yellowstone you ever want to just God gave us this place I believe that, you don't have to believe that now they're putting a freaking bear in the thing in the back there's a bear in the studio folks maybe it's on the brick wall but it's there God gave us this place, you don't have to believe it it's okay, I believe it God gave us this place if you want to see the tip of the spear of the gift he gave us, you need to go to Yellowstone folks i love this place too because something happened to me recently i don't want to get into details what because i don't want to bore you to death but it's important see everybody in the chat knows two of those you've been there i was on a trip not that long ago in a foreign country and i was i haven't been out of the country in a little bit and i've forgotten what it's like to be a first responder, police officer, federal agent, fireman, EMT, paramedic in the United States where, yeah, there's corruption, obviously.

1:09:47I mean, that's what we went there to go fix, however. But, you know, we try to get it right in the end and corruption is frowned upon in the United States. Like if you were to go into, say, I don't know, a passport office and even try to leave like a cash tip to the guy, they'll like jump back in horror. Like they won't even take that in the United States, because there's rules about that, understandably so. But I was in this foreign country and it's just like assumed you're going to like, I saw this guy, it wasn't us, it was someone else, but I saw the whole thing and I was like, it reminded me like how incredible this place is and how in the richest country in the world, we frown on this stuff.

1:10:28Like the public doesn't like it because we are logical, reasonable, compass, true north people. and you know I said to the guys we don't celebrate our first responders enough we don't and I'm sorry about that I talk about our truckers our carpenters our electricians all the you know folks busting their asses or you know we talk about the steam fitters the tin knockers up in New York our rail workers our grave diggers mention truckers all the time sometimes I think because of my career in law enforcement we don't mention our first responders enough what makes this country great people willing to serve and they're not there to get rich.

1:11:02I saw these two cool videos on X yesterday. It went a little bit viral. You know what ESU is? ESU is the New York City SWAT team. It's Emergency Services Union. They don't call themselves SWAT. They call themselves ESU. There was this person who was going to kill themselves by jumping off a bridge. Jumping off a bridge. Imagine walking up a bridge with just this little cable to rescue someone who wants to kill themselves knowing they could potentially take you with them. And I want you to listen to this ESU officer's plea and how heartfelt it is. Please, please don't do this. Please don't do this.

1:11:41And I want to say to our first responders out there, this show, me, I, and the rest of my team, and my wife, and Jasmine, and Justin, and Guy, and Andy, and Josh, Everyone here We love you guys and ladies out there We love you Check this out

1:12:05Don't do it Don't do it, please Please I got you I got you, you're okay You're okay, I promise I got you, I promise everything's gonna be okay you're not in trouble

1:12:29i've seen that three times and i don't know why that just got to me like that too please please don't do this you're gonna be okay i promise you're not in trouble to the cops out there you know some people don't like that term i was like i don't mind i it was a cop. To the cops, to our corrections officers out there, want to leave you guys out. To the agents out there doing their job, who made and swore an oath to the Constitution they stuck by, thank you. You will always have a home on this show. We love you guys. This one's a little bit more lighthearted, but I don't want to leave our firemen out either.

1:13:15Reason I bring that up, you know, let's go in reverse a little bit. Put up Amelia. Here's my daughter who was a fireman when she was, I think, before in this picture or so. I don't remember the date specifically, but she was an early fireman, Amelia. There's Amelia and me in a fire truck. I think this was in Maryland years ago where they had Amelia take a picture anywhere with her Crocs on there. but the reason firemen too have a special place in my heart is folks have you ever been i hope you haven't but have you ever been in a real fire so when i went through secret service training early on they did what is it called incipient fire training and basically they would put a smoke machine up and you it's the most dangerous the training was terrible because it's dangerous what's dangerous what's dangerous is it made you believe it with the smoke machine that that's what a fire look like and you had this false sense of confidence so there's a picture of me i don't know how old i was 25 26 i'm on the job with the secret service maybe a year or two i have no idea and someone had decided in new york office that we need real fire training so we went to the nassau county fire academy in new york that's what this is in the background so there's a picture of me smiling with like that scott pack on the vest i wasn't smiling much when we got inside that house behind you they burn number two fuel oil in there that's jet black you firemen out there know what i'm talking about and all of a sudden you realize what a fire looks like folks you can't see your hand in front of your face and i was the only one with the scott pack because they wanted me to be one of the safety guys there were people like freaking out and the door was right there we had to like cancel the exercise for a minute and then do it over again now that everybody understood what they were getting into.

1:15:02So to you firemen who run into burning, I mean, actual burning buildings where the floor could give out, you could fall 10 stories, you could fall on a stake, a spike, a piece of rebar, who can't see anything in front of their faces, where it's hundreds and hundreds of degrees and your equipment could melt to your face. We love you too. Here's a particularly cool fireman i saw this video he hates it because it's shaky i love it i like it because it's shaky it's clearly taken with someone who's excited cell phone so this fireman shows up to this football practice right a fire alarm goes off i guess they whatever they turn off the fire alarm everybody and the fireman's like hey you guys are lifting i'm gonna go out and i'm gonna rep out on the 225 like it's the freaking nfl combine you think he does one or two reps nah this guy reps out this guy could be a linebacker in the nfl we love you fireman check this out

1:16:04this is a little shaky but this guy's really excited one two

1:16:12six seven

1:16:19bro look at they're going nuts this guy's in full turnout gear By the way, what is that, St. John's County? He doesn't even warm up. This guy's in full turnout gear. Full turnout gear. He doesn't warm up at all, and he does effectively like 11 and three quarters reps with 225. Brother, I don't know your name, but job well done. My decaying old 51-year-old carcass, I can't do that no more. I usually turn to page when there's a video playing, but I forgot because I was so excited about that video. I'm not even sure I can do 225 once anymore and I'm 200 pounds my decaying carcass I'm like the reverse tough guy no I don't I promise I don't think I'm tough at all I'm telling you the opposite this carcass is decaying good for you Mr.

1:17:13St. John's County fireman guy okay I haven't done a Maha moment in a while and it's perfectly fitting for this segment because we just watched the firemen not warm up, rep out 11 and a half times or three quarters times with 225 in full turnout gear. And you're probably thinking like, if this fireman could do that while responding to a fire alarm, then why aren't I working out too? And I say to you, yes, why aren't you? This is the no excuses show. No excuses show. I'm sorry, I don't accept excuses. I got a job. All of us do. I got like 10 jobs. I promise you, we got a lot of jobs. I get up 5.50 every day well I take that back I got up at 6 today 10 minutes later today I was a little tired honesty matters I get up 5.50 every day jump my ass in that cold plunge 47 degrees I'm like ah it sucks major it's horrible then I do the little like vibration board thing you sit on it like shakes you and then I go on the elliptical and then I work out it sucks you can make it happen you gotta find the time because if you don't you'll be like a rotting carcass even worse Your body rots.

1:18:20It goes away over time if you don't make it unrot. And the only way to make it unrot is to lift weights like St. John's County fireman guy. Because then this will happen. This is your make America healthy again moment.

1:18:38Coach Dan Go on X. This is a picture. This is your muscle at 25 versus 55. I'm not even going to try to pronounce it. If you're not lifting heavy and you're carrying extra fat, it's already happening to you. Look at this picture. You don't want your muscles to look like the one on the other side. Look at that. It looks like a steak with too much marbling. The bone's not as dense. On the left, dense, healthy tissue. On the right, muscle marbled with fat like a ribeye steak. You don't want that. You got to lift. I don't want to lift. Check with your doctor. I got to give all the standard disclaimers because you may have some heart problem you don't know about.

1:19:13You don't want to have a heart attack. Like, if you're healthy enough to do it, folks, you got to lift the steel. The steel is the most honest thing in your life. You want to talk about Compass True North and common sense? The steel never lies to you. It is the most objective amount of truth you ever get in your life. You put work into the steel. Imagine this is a barbell. You lift it. You do some, well, a dumbbell in this case. You do a dumbbell curl. You do a press, a military press, a bent over row. Whatever you do with that dumbbell, the steel never lie to you. whatever amount of work you put into the steel, the steel will give back to you.

1:19:45It's the most honest thing in your life.

1:19:49We have our Democrats' end moment, but I wanted to thank you guys too. We thank the firemen. We thank police officers. We thank the patriots out there. We opened up thanking Charlie. Thank you, Charlie. But I wanted to also thank you guys in the audience. Listen, I'm going to tell you something. This article came out yesterday. Ben Shapiro, Dan Bongino remained top 15 and podcast rankings, June PodTrack podcast rankings. I want to thank you for this because I'm going to tell you something a lot of hosts and people in this space won't acknowledge. I hope, by the way, a lot of this is making sense now.

1:20:24It will. It will. Why people engaged in this

1:20:33black hole of lies to try and make all this go away. I hope it's making sense. But I want to say to you, and again, a lot of hosts won't acknowledge this because, you know, it's bad for business sometimes to say like business is bad. But the podcast business right now for politics, I'm just telling you straight, is not great. It's not in a presidential election year. What happens, I've been in this game a long time, since 2015. And if you get it, you put like a Coors Light in any podcast host on the conservative side. They'll tell you the exact thing. They may not say it publicly, but I don't care.

1:21:14The truth matters. The fact that this show, despite leaving for a year, being off the air, like the channel just was lying fallow. I mean, we had nothing. We advanced, thankfully. But my show was gone. People unsubscribe. You're not there. They don't want to get notifications about a show that's not there. The fact that we've been gone, we've been through multiple presidential elections. We've been through all this. and you guys and ladies still continue to show up in just massive numbers, I can't thank you enough given the gravity of how the political podcast space on the conservative side is not great.

1:21:51It's not great. Go look at view counts for a bunch of different shows. You'll see they're down. Sometimes, this is what I was gonna say, I'm sorry, I interrupted myself. Sometimes for the business, not for the country, but for the business of podcasting in the conservative side, you actually you're better off when we lose because there's a unified voice against say Obama or Biden what happens when we win our party maybe not our candidate I mean George W wasn't a huge supporter but he was a Republican at least our party when they win people feel like it's like watching a sports show a week after your team won the Super Bowl like it's over it's not much to talk that we won like it right so the fact that we continue to plug away and remain on a number of different charts top 50 top 20 top 10 top 15 depends on how they measure i just want to let you know i really appreciate it it means the world to me should we do comment of the day before democrats then let's do comment today you guys who is the comment of the day you know about our contest, right?

1:22:57We're just giving away money,$1 ,776. Every week, we're giving it away to someone watching this show. You got to be in the live chat. Join us every day at 10 a.m. It's free. Win the comment of the day. You're in the weekly drawing. One of you will win a cash prize every week. See official rules at bongino.com slash 1776. The comment of the day, fellas, is God never leaves us alone in time of need. There are special people out there. You may not realize, You may not realize it, but you are also one. Wow, thanks, guys. They picked that, not me. It's very nice. Whoever said that, thank you very much.

1:23:33I really appreciate that. I don't feel special, and I promise. Don't think of me as special. I'm just a sinner like everyone else. I'm just really passionate about this stuff. That's it. I just got a microphone. There's no difference between you and me, but thank you. That means a lot. now because it's friday we like to leave you on the weekend with a calming meditative what's that thing called like those videos with the sounds the asmr stuff is that what that's called you know that asmr people like listen to these sounds like scratchy sound i don't know what it makes them to calm down or something this is like your this is your democrat asmr your zen moment because they're always so peaceful calm people and they never rage out something we talked about that earlier in the show.

1:24:16Hat tip, producer Jim. Here's your Democrat Zen moment of the week. Your Democrat Zen moment of the day. A peaceful moment to center your mind. Ready, set, go.

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1:24:39That's okay. Lower. Step back. This has been Democrat Zen.

1:24:51What the Chuck was that? I see what you did there. We got Bruce Lee over here with the nunchucks. Remember the nunchucks? Remember growing up in the 80s and 90s? Everybody's probably, did any of you out there have the nunchucks? Mud leaves in the chat. I had the nunchucks. I probably split my face open four or five times messing with the nunchucks. then you had to get the padded ones because he'm telling you if you didn't know what to do with the nunchucks finally i learned how to use them not very good by the way i couldn't even do because you got to like catch them behind you there were the libs with the nunchucks what the chuck was that

1:25:32there was a libs raging out that's why by the way the libs believe me when i tell you man And the socialist fight, like, you don't, you're not, you're not ready. Just let it go. Like Idina Menzel says in front, just let it go. Just let it go. All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in. I really appreciate it. Don't miss Haley at noonrumble.com slash Haley and the king of morning podcasting, Vince Colonese, 8 a.m. Eastern time every single day. He's at rumble.com slash Vince. We really appreciate you checking out some of our Bongino Report hosts. Download the Rumble app. We got a question in the chat.

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