Fireworks On Capitol Hill (Ep. 2514)

26:38Kash Patel:You see how the contrast is so beautifully painted? Even using attack ads against them that become your attack ads? Here's what I mean too. Don't forget this as an activist. An activist, a candidate, whatever. It doesn't matter. I see this all the time. I'm telling you, having run and come up short, there's no second place. I learned a ton. We probably should have done more of this. Don't only talk about your stuff. You have to talk about what's weak in your opponent's portfolio of ideas that you are gonna in turn fix. You have to paint the contrast. This is what I mean. Here's an ad he just films on his cell phone.

27:18Kash Patel:All he is is walking down the street and he's like, hey man, we got some streetlights missing over here. But he tells you why and why the current people in charge don't have streetlights on a freaking bridge. I guarantee you a bunch of people probably didn't know that, thought they were just broken. This is just genius level stuff. Check this out. We're here at the 6th Street Bridge in downtown Los Angeles. It is beautiful. If only you could see it. But all the lights have been allowed to be stolen from our taxpayer money because Mayor Basura and Nithya Rahman and her DSA City Council let criminals run the streets.

27:53But don't worry, Mayor Basura is planning to take 200 more million dollars of our tax money to get solar power lights. Oh, because the criminals won't steal those. But don't worry, Nithya Rahman has suggested putting cages around the lights. That's right, cages. That'll stop them.

28:14Kash Patel:Folks, we don't have to live like this. My biggest problem with the whole political ecosystem as I see it now is I say this all the time, like we really don't have to live like this. Living like this with darkened streetlights because people steal them, because you don't want to go and arrest people like Director Patel, the FBI, state, local, territorial police officers are doing. This is a choice. This is a choice. We saw with Rudy Giuliani's New York, living in a hellhole, crime infested, economically poor and ravaged place is a choice. Basic capitalism, basic law enforcement. You don't need a PhD to figure this out.

28:52Kash Patel:Go arrest bad guys, create a low tax, light regulatory environment, let businesses flourish. This is not hard. The formula is out there. Living in poverty, living in a crime infested area is a political choice made for you by people elected into office on a liberal agenda. It's a choice. And if the media would just tell people the truth, I know, I know you're like, this just frustrates the shit out of me. If they would just tell people the truth. Folks, we would be living in a country with like an$80 trillion annual GDP right now. With crime rates so low, even blue cities, you'd be able to walk your kids to school without stepping on some freaking needle, some guy shitting in the street.

29:38Kash Patel:I'm serious, man. I blame most of this on the media. How many people during the COVID hysteria Thought the stupid surgical mask was going to save them from COVID It's the single worst prophylactic medical device in human history Every single person who wore one got COVID The media told you to wear a mask Why? Because they were lying to you, man How many people out there in the liberal progressive ecosystem Bunch of Karens out there Bunch of whiners Bunch of wealthy elites will tell you police are mowing down 10 ,000, 20 ,000 unarmed black men a year. The numbers, the reality of it, it's closer to 10.

30:21Kash Patel:They're just making this shit up. If they would just tell you the truth, we wouldn't have to live like this, man. This is a choice. If the media would tell you the truth about things like democratic socialism and Sweden and Norway and Finland, if they would just tell you the truth about what's happening over there, you would start to realize, I inserted that for a reason I'll get to in a minute, you would understand that some of these countries, specifically Sweden, are moving away from socialist-type Democrats, socialist governance models. I'm talking about the left-wing media. Right-wing media has been doing this forever.

31:06Kash Patel:We don't have to live like this There's a choice I saw this clip yesterday Dana White I love Dana White Runs the UFC You know Dana White Dana's asked a question about the media Now Dana's talking about mixed martial arts media How these people who've never run a mixed martial arts business Have all these opinions about how to run a mixed martial arts business Why would you give a shit? Folks I invest in projects and tech spaces I get involved in a whole bunch of different capital ventures. When I don't know about a business, I go out and ask people. The worst thing you can do is invest your money in a space you don't understand.

31:43Kash Patel:Only idiots do that. But the media does it every day. Here's Dana White just dropping a bomb on the head of these just ignoramuses in the media. This is a great clip. It's worth your time. Check this out. My biggest problem with the media, who the fuck are you and what the fuck have you ever done? Nothing. you're nobody and you've never done anything ever nobody's ever depended on you for a paycheck who are you to criticize anybody i was just saying at the press conference in winnipeg on saturday you have all these people on the internet talking about what we should be doing with our business I said, holy shit, you guys are fucking brilliant.

32:29PFL, Bellator, One FC, many, many other failing companies. Why don't they just fucking hire you guys? You guys have the answers for everything, right? It's just, I can't even read this shit because it's so dumb. And I realize these guys know nothing about this business, yet these are the people that are covering it. It's fascinating to me that anybody listens to any of these people.

32:58Kash Patel:Guys, listen to your buddy Dan. Forget the whole FBI job for a second. I'm just talking about like prior lives, especially when I was in the Secret Service and the early days of the president's detail. They stick the new guys on the press assignment, because it's where you can do the least damage. When you're new to the president's detail, you don't know a damn thing. You've been to training and you've heard about how working in the White House works, but you haven't done it. They don't just stick you around the president day one and be like, hey, you're the body guy. It doesn't work that way.

33:33Kash Patel:They stick you with the press so you can kind of observe and see how the shift works. You spend a lot of time with the press. Jasmine, you ever heard this story before? Some of the conversations, granted, it was a long time ago. However, from what I've heard from people, it's pretty much still the same. Folks, these people are not all of them. I don't want to stereotype a whole group of people. Some of them are pretty smart. Most of them are morons. Yet they'll comment on T-bill interest rates and all this other stuff and fiscal policy and national defense postures and decisions and all. And you think like they're read in on like the president's daily briefs.

34:09Kash Patel:I want you to tell me, these people could never excel in any other space. So they picked journalism so they could comment on a bunch of spaces they know absolutely nothing about. and then they hide from you basic facts. This is the perfect example of what I'm talking about. We don't have to live like this. Thank God for the Spencer Pratt campaign and others out there who are bypassing traditional media and showing you the truth of what a free market versus Democrat socialism or whatever euphemism you want for communism looks like. You've got to paint the contrast. I want to show you what I mean, but if they just told you the truth, these arguments would go away.

34:46Kash Patel:How many times have you heard from your Democrat socialist slash communist friends about the wonders of Sweden and democratic socialism. Well, first I'm gonna play for you Bernie Sanders on Sweden. And then I'm gonna show you an article of Swedes on Sweden. Who do you think's opinion, Justin, is more valuable? Swedes on Sweden or Bernie Sanders on Sweden? Hey, he's gonna go with Swedes. Guy, Guy's giving me a thumbs. Jasmine, what do you think, Swedes on Sweden? Definitely, definitely. Here's Bernie Sanders' rest. The media is not going to tell you. This is, by the way, where AI is going to be the ultimate force multiplier.

35:21Kash Patel:If artificial intelligence does what it's supposed to do using logic and reason and tells you the truth, the media is going to be done for. They're not going to be able to lie to you about Sweden being their Democrat socialist utopia anymore. Check out Bernie first. When we talk about democratic socialism, Margaret, I'm talking about Finland. I'm talking about Denmark. I'm talking about Sweden.

35:48Kash Patel:I'm sorry guys this may be my favorite segment of the show This is the educational portion Of the edutainment portion of the show At the Boogie Down production Some of you know what that means So that was Bernie on Sweden Here's an article from the Wall Street Journal Yesterday Here's the Swedes on Sweden Fascinating headline The world's most surprising capitalist makeover is underway in Sweden. Sweden? I can't pee, guys. I thought this was the socialist paradise. Let me read the headline again. Articles by Tom Fairless. You can look this up by yourself. Tom Fairless. The world's most surprising capitalist makeover is underway in Sweden.

36:32Kash Patel:They know for decades Sweden was shorthand for a brand of high-tax, high-spend government that managed people's lives from cradle to grave through state-run hospitals, schools, and care homes. Bernie tells us that's amazing. But they know, no longer, with little fanfare, the Nordic country of 11 million has embraced capitalism. Capitalism? What the is going on? I'm talking about Sweden. We know Bernie. Bernie on Sweden. Swedes on Sweden. It gets better. This article is a classic. Maybe you should show this to your college roommate who's like, Swedish. They know today nearly half of primary health care clinics in Sweden are privately owned.

37:19Kash Patel:Many of them are owned by private equity. Oh, my private equity. That's horrendous. Vultures. One in three public high schools is privately run, up from 20 % in 2011. School operators are even listed on the stock exchange. I'm talking about Sweden. We know, Bertie. We get it. We know exactly what you're talking about However, I'll take the word of Swedes on Sweden Who figured out that when you create a financial incentive For people to succeed in schools and hospitals Crazy, they actually succeed Unlike government, whose incentive is just to flush your money down the toilet bowl Because there's power in it

37:57Kash Patel:If the media would just tell you I'm serious, man If the media would just tell you the truth Folks, we don't have to live this way the answers are not hard i opened up with director patel because i lived through the experience i'm here to tell you i'm not even trying to be like self-deprecating there is enforcing the law is dangerous but it's not hard i don't mean at the individual officer level yeah it's hard to kick down a door and be staring down the barrel of a gun i'm not to thank you to the heroes out there on Police Week. I love you all. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying from a strategic management perspective of an economy or public safety, ladies and gentlemen, nothing done was groundbreaking.

38:46Kash Patel:Go get the bad guys, the small pool of them doing violent things and they won't do violent things. The economy is no different. Donald Trump, free up regulations, get rid of a lot of unnecessary government workers that are basically draining the fisk. Let, you know, AI and let our business atmosphere just explode and grow without the oppressive Buddha government on their neck. And people get rich. It's not freaking hard. Create an incentive for people to create wealth and value, and they will create wealth and value. I promise you it's not hard. I'm not sitting here telling you that these were unbelievably genius strategic moves.

39:29Kash Patel:They were just common sense. that were not common in government because there's no incentive for common sense in government. So what do the Democrats do with their media allies to keep you distracted from either Director Patel's results, Spencer Pratt exposing the lights that don't work and the garbage that doesn't get picked up? Ladies and gentlemen, they go to the same thing every time because it's a lightning rod. you're a race every single time the racist play is so old and tired i'm just telling you guys on the left i know you've been indoctrinated and you've tattooed your brains into believing this works nobody's buying this bullshit who uses logic and reason anymore that's how they blind you the media folks to the results and to not telling you the truth about even basic things like Sweden.

40:29Kash Patel:Here's Bakari Sellers on CNN. You may have seen this clip the other day. Just race hustling. Just two bit bullshit race hustling. This is the dance. This is the act. This is what they put on. It's all bullshit. It's all performance. It's never based in metrics, spreadsheets, reality results. None of it. It's all blinding bullshit to keep you distracted from blue city Democrat progressive mayors and county executives and city council members absolutely ruining your life. Check this out. If somebody fell asleep in 1896 and woke up today in 2026, they would simply say the only difference is now Negroes have a TV show and we wear nice suits.

41:08They swapped out Klan hoods for Brooks Brothers suits. And that is the problem. I mean, Plessy v. Ferguson was 7-1, and it gave birth to 50 years of Jim Crow.

41:21Kash Patel:What we have with this court right now, what we're seeing is watching people who have fought and died and bled so that we would have access to the ballot box, so that we would have access to our voices being heard in Congress, being ripped away. And I think that there is a casual laughter from people we believe to be our friends on the right who are showing us true colors today because the most sacred or one of the most sacred acts you have in the United States of America is the ability to cast a ballot and elect someone and send them to Congress, the statehouse or mayoral seat that represents your interest.

41:56Kash Patel:And now black folks throughout the South are being silenced. where is that did that say state representative from where did it say because here's the thing to black voters out there he's trying to distract you again he's trying to distract you from the bullshit this this this every day we're hustling bullshit race hustling people the days of this are over nobody's buying it people are calling it out every day. People are laughing at you. People are laughing at you. But they're laughing at you because you're a clown. Oh, former South Carolina state representative. Can you guys pull up who the senators are from South Carolina?

42:38Kash Patel:You have a photo by any chance? I just want to check that out. Because he's claiming like, I mean, South Carolina state representative. He must be all racist in South Carolina. Those horrible people. This is how they distract you. Someone said in the chat, Dan, I'm sorry. Yeah, I said, pisses me off on fire day. You're damn right. No way. There's a black guy and he's a Republican. What the f - f - f - f - f - f - f - f - f - f - How is what the what the who He's black Jasmine he's black Jasmine's like I can see that And he's a He's definitely black And he's a Republican What the So just to be clear If South Carolina elects a black man Tim Scott of course obviously we're being sarcastic, you know, Tim Scott.

43:56Kash Patel:If they elect a black man and he's a Republican, none of that matters. There's no representation for people who are black. But if you elect a black man who's a Democrat, or even a white man who's a Democrat with black voters, then we've done our job. Proving to you this is not about race at all. It's about bullshit. It's a distraction. I was today years old when And I found out that South Carolina is a black man who's a Republican. I didn't even know that. Tim Scott or something? Never even heard of him. He's like, remember him? Ran for president. I'm like, no, no, I don't know who he is. I don't know who he is.

44:33Kash Patel:Never heard that before.

44:39Kash Patel:Liberal jerkwads at Media Matters. We're obviously kidding. I know you're too stupid to figure that out. I've met Tim Scott many times. Good man. But he's black. which is like really disturbing to leftists. Of course, Republicans don't give a shit when you're skin color. It's just the Democrats. Remember, it's not good enough that you're black. You got to be a black Democrat. That's the only way black people can be adequately represented and distracted in Congress, according to the left-wing media and the Senate. What? There's more? No. What the fuck? there was a black president dude where have i been if i've been like in the cryo chamber what's that movie out now where the guy goes and saves the world with the rock alien guy i saw it or whatever like harry said whatever the hell project hail mary i saw that movie it was actually pretty good there's no woke bullshit in there i may have been in the cryo chamber we had a black president twice that's not possible guys bakari sellers said we're all wearing clan hoods we're all sitting there in clanners everybody's got them in the closet here the backup uniform or so what the fuck i can't i'm sorry man i'm in a mood today which is good because we got sean ferris coming up look at me my eyes are like i'm like tearing should be making yourself a speaking of justin may have done that on purpose because ironically totally unintended that was his thing BSJL in the chat says Tim Scott is black?

46:14Kash Patel:I couldn't believe it either BSJL I had no idea and like I said I didn't even realize we had a two term black president of America either I missed that whole thing here he is Justin's like I think we got a clip of him you want to talk about being blinded by the BSI ops too all over the place the Democrats are now telling us you guys better not consider on the Republican side dropping the filibuster don't you dare do that. I mean, we're institutionalists. We believe the Senate filibuster is a protection mechanism against government over. Is this the Democrats saying that now? Really? Hat tip the great Mays Moore.

46:50Kash Patel:By the way, we have to do like a hat tip pictogram kind of thing. Western Lensman, Mays Moore, Graebian, Overton News. We got to get so people can go and follow. It's all about helping out other creators. Mays Moore is one of my favorites. Here's the great Mays Moore. pulled this clip of Obama in 2020. I thought the Democrats said dumping the filibuster was a terrible thing, because this sounds like a black president I just found out about. Barack Obama, I did not know this. This sounds like him in 2020 suggesting that the filibuster could be racist, and here's what they'll do when they dump the filibuster.

47:22Kash Patel:This is so weird how this was like six years ago. Check this out. By guaranteeing that every American citizen has equal representation in our government, including the American citizens who live in Washington, D.C., and in Puerto Rico. They're Americans.

47:44Kash Patel:By ending some of the partisan gerrymandering so that all voters have the power to choose their politicians, not the other way around. And if all this takes eliminating the filibuster, another Jim Crow relic, in order to secure the God-given rights of every American, then that's what we should do.

48:11Kash Patel:Did he just say that? Andy, did I miss it? He just said the filibuster's racist. In that case, because the Republican Party have been generational warriors for full equality, regardless of your skin color, correct? That's our fight, mother... That's our fight. God-given rights of every American? then that's what we should do. Thank you. It's like a rallying cry. The mysterious black president I didn't know we had because Bakari Sellers says we're all walking around in Klan hoods. It's unbelievable that this guy got elected twice. It's incredible. And then he said, he said it. He said, he said the filibuster's racist.

48:49Kash Patel:He said it. You just heard it. Filibuster, Jim Crow. Segregation. He said it. Republicans, you should be plastering that on campaign ads. If it's racist, it's our obligation as warriors for equality. That is the Republican Party. Young kids out there, I love having you on the show. Do me a favor. If your professor is telling you, oh, those conservatives, all of that Jim Crow slavery was all the Republican Party. Really? Do me a favor. Go crack a freaking book not written by a leftist lunatic and you're going to realize the harsh reality. Ask your AI. The racist de facto and de jure South through Jim Crow and slavery was a Democrat-run organizational problem in their party that Republicans had to go and clean up.

49:38Kash Patel:That's just the freaking facts, Jack. Remember Robocop? I'll buy that for a dollar. It's free. You don't have to pay anything. We are the warriors for equality. The Republican Party. Fact. and now it's our job to follow the words of Barack Obama, as I just learned today, got elected twice as a black man as president, who said the filibuster's racist. It's now our job again to take up the mantle and scrap it because it's part of the five-point plan. You don't get rid of the filibuster, ladies and gentlemen. I'm sorry. We're never going to be able to create a contrast between Democrats and Republicans because it's almost impossible to reach that 60-plus threshold with the national map the way it is.

50:27Kash Patel:So what happens? Stuff gets clogged up in the Senate all the time because a limited number of Democrats, a small pocket of them, can stop any Republican legislation, even when we have the majority. So you never fully get the contrast. It's time. It's not working what's happening now. It is time to scrap the filibuster because they are going to do it anyway. They're going to try to add D.C. and Puerto Rico as a state. They're going to try to pack the Supreme Court. How many times do you have to hear it from them? This is not, remember SWOT analysis? Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats.

50:58Kash Patel:You have a threat. The Democrats dump in the filibuster, correct? You've been to business school. How do you handle the threat? You elevate a strength and mitigate a weakness. We have a strength right now to elevate. What's the strength we have to mitigate the threat? We have enough members of the Senate to change the rules and dump the filibuster. That's it. How do we mitigate a weakness of them dumping the filibuster later after they, hopefully they don't win the Senate, but if they do. We change it now and do what we have to do now. That's how it works. This is basic business school 101. Folks, the five-point plan, man, it's everything right now.

51:36Kash Patel:It's everything. It's the future of the country. Thump the filibuster, pass the Save America Act, census reform, redistricting, border control. We do this, we've set ourselves up for generational success, short-term, medium-term, long-term. this is really important you listen to this this next clip is from laurie reese at the heritage foundation she's talking about please tactics wise this is super important you hear this part out it's not a long clip it's only about a minute she's talking about the importance of the census why is that part of my five-point plan census we're just counting people in the united states yes that's not the point the point is the people who are counted if they are illegals and they are not citizens and you have 20 million people in the country illegally who are counted in the census, these illegals largely go to blue states who then get extra members of Congress in the House of Representatives.

52:32Kash Patel:There's about 770 ,000 people in a congressional district. They've let in about 20 million. You do the math. You know how many congressional seats blue cities have right now that they shouldn't because we're counting illegals? We would never lose control of the House of Representatives again with some basic census reform. This is a great clip by Lori Reese. Please listen to this. Critical. That's why it's part of the five-point plan. Check this out. Trump first term, he sought to have the citizenship question re-added to the census. Of course, the left sued. It went up to the Supreme Court, and the court tossed it more on procedural grounds rather than substantive grounds.

53:10So we did not have the citizenship question on the census in 2020. and the Census Bureau admitted that they had errors in 2020, and oops, most of them benefited blue states. So President Trump, I think, is trying to push on multiple fronts. He's trying to get, you know, citizenship put back into it. There's talk of doing a new census instead of waiting for 2030. There are efforts that states could do in terms of doing their own census to at least give a more accurate picture of headcount and breakdown of citizens versus non-citizens and the goodness that comes from that in terms of election integrity.

53:57The Save America Act is an important part of it because it's two parts. One is when you register to vote, you have to prove you're a US citizen. And then on top of that, when you go to vote, then you have to show your ID. We need that first part because so many states will issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens and other non-citizens.

54:17Kash Patel:Forgive me, Laura Reese. Laura, thank you. That is brilliant. Brilliant. Ladies and gentlemen, listen to me beam in laser eyes. I'm telling you, the Democrats will never win back the House of Representatives. They really did beam in. They will never win back the house again ever with the implementation of ai telling people the truth the growth of right wing media a good bench rubio vance others we've got out you get spencer pratt and others highlighting contrast with the media reducing themselves on the national stage to win a relevancy in the explosive growth of ai and social media and truth tellers and independent journalists the Nick Shirley's and others it is going to be impossible yeah man you got it it is going to be impossible to hide the truth going forward I promise you, you implement that five point plan, you cut illegals out of the mix and all of a sudden with the SAVE Act, with redistricting you have a plan for generational political dominance

55:20Folks, results, results, despite the noise, are why, I mean, despite the massive amount of noise coming from the media.

55:30Kash Patel:Iran is lost. Trump sucks. The doomers and the gloomers, nothing is happening. Really, nothing's happening. Borders closed, violent crime rates down, the job numbers were spectacular. Got some hiccups on inflation, but Iran is going extremely well. I don't care what anybody tells you, okay? I don't care what anybody tells you. We were dealing with a generational nuclear threat. Anyone telling you otherwise is full of shit. Been there a couple months. Donald Trump's already, President Trump's already wrapping it up. He's over in China right now trying to figure out a way to deal with this global adversary in a way no one has in the past.

56:08Kash Patel:Things are happening, and there are a lot of good things. The results produced by this administration, despite the noise, and the constant media ankle-biting bullshit are the reason you see polls like this. This is CNN. I put the CNN poll up so I can't be accused by media people of left-wing bias or any other bullshit. Here's CNN pollster Harry Enten on the congressional midterm polling. You're probably going to be pretty surprised if you bought into the Doomer bullshit. We're getting crushed. We're getting killed. Really? That's not what the numbers say. Check this out. I think this poll serves as a big time reality check for Democrats.

56:48And that is, it ain't over yet, especially with the redistricting. When we look ahead to the 2026 race for Congress, you would have thought that the Democrats Lee would expand on the generic congressional ballot. It didn't happen. Look, in March, Democrats were up by six points. Look at this now. Democrats are up by three points. And I want you to note the yellow lettering. No clear leader. It is within the margin of error. So despite all of the talk about Donald Trump's unpopularity, the fact is Republicans very much remain in the game when it comes to the congressional midterms.

57:22Kash Patel:I'm just giving you the numbers, folks. Cutting through the media fog and the noise. I'm just trying to help. I'm serious. I'm just trying to help. And in the spirit of trying to help. You know, I like some lighthearted moments. But you know who loves these things? Jasmine. She loves them. She likes when we inject in the show our little Maha moments and our little PSAs, Dan Bongino public service announcements. I'm from New York originally, like Sean Farris, who's coming up next. We're both from New York. I have lost. Do you guys think in the chat? Guy, can you put the chat up on the screen? Do you guys think I still have a New York accent?

58:02Kash Patel:Seriously, I'm not messing around because I don't hear it anymore. I go back to New York and people tell me I talk funny, so I'm not really sure. I've been out of New York for so long. I think I've lost most of my accent. However, I'm scrolling through yesterday. I'm always looking for public service announcements. Way to help. So I saw this contractor, and he's bringing up a really good point. I do a lot of business with contractors. And he's like, hey, man, you better get 50%. No, no, good. Rarely, thank you. Queensboro. I am from Queens. No, yes. Yeah, it's pretty down the middle. Bacino could probably tell us where we were.

58:33Kash Patel:Probably like 50-50. This guy definitely has a New York accent. It sounds to me like Long Island or Queens. But I saw this and it's good advice for you contractors out there doing business right now Make sure you get some upfront money first and wait till he explains why this is pretty good for you check this out Whenever you do a job ask for 50 % up front right off the bat I don't care what the job is ask for 50 % Look at this I did this landscaping job for this lady and she doesn't want to pay me again I don't have to pay you I am your wife Ma 'am ma 'am we did this last year cameraman come over here We did this last year over here, and, uh...

59:11I don't care what you did, and it's a little too gaudy. I told you that last time.

59:15Kash Patel:It kind of grew on her a little bit. She hasn't been collecting food anymore. Grow on your wrath. She wants me to take out the fake flowers, but I really don't suggest that. It looks good. I said, let it stay here for a while. It's too gaudy. And furthermore, take out some of this stuff. It's too gaudy. And clean the gutters. They're over... You're only wasting your money if you clean the gut is now. You're wasting your money. I work in the area. I do all the... You're in the area? You live in the fucking house. What do you mean to work in the area? I do all the customers all down, up and down my road.

59:48Kash Patel:I live in the... I hate to lose you as a customer. Oh, come on. Get the hell out of here, Gary. Will you please? This is a stupid shit. What is your problem?

1:00:00Kash Patel:You know, we do our clips of the year every year at the end of the year. Who won the other year? Was it Pierre Pauvier with the Apple doing the interview? Dude, market. Josh, keep the list. Gary, I don't know you, Gary. It sounds like you're from Queens, maybe Brooklyn, possibly Nassau, Suffolk County. I'm trying to pin it. That is freaking hilarious. And your wife, I don't know if she's part of that. That was like real. I don't even know. She's like, get the hell out of here, Gary, with that stupid shit. Muttley's going crazy in the chat. That is definitely got to go in our top 10. And we do our video of the year at the end of the year around the holidays.

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1:03:58Kash Patel:Welcoming back to the show. One of my favorite, if not my favorite, conservative commentator out there, the great Sean Farris. Sean, thanks for your time today. We appreciate it. Hey, thanks for having me back. It's always fun to join you on my favorite show, you know, my favorite show in the entire space. And it has been for, for years. So it's always fun to join you. They're very generous. So, you know, you and I have known each other for a while. We've been very critical of the old kind of institutional establishment, GOP. You know, the routine, you know, the Democrats kick them in the nuts with something, Obamacare, higher taxes.

1:04:31Kash Patel:They go out, they give a fierce speech on the floor. Someone starts crying like, well, and nothing ever happens. But listen, tip of the hat, this redistricting fight with these gerrymandered congressional districts. The Democrats started this years ago with Eric Holder and Obama bragging about it. We're going to take back all these districts. Missouri now, Tennessee, where you live, Florida, Virginia backfire. I mean, this is the first time in a long time where the GOP has not only fought back, fought back ferociously, but it appears if people turn up and vote that, you know, we could come out the winner in this fight.

1:05:09but that's the thing that i'm looking most forward to right is that you know you see all this nonsense and it's nonsense on social media you play the yuri besman off clip all the time about demoralization that's what the doomer thing is all about it is about making it's about convincing you like jedi mind trick like you are unhappy with the administration even though there's so much to be happy about right like there's there's a lot that we can celebrate the border being number one jobs. These jobs reports have been amazing. So you look at the Republican Party, you look at the redistricting fight, you look at the fact that, and again, the data, people can say, oh, polling, polling is terrible.

1:05:47You can't rely on it. Okay, so then show me something different that disproves the polling. If you don't have it, then all you have is an opinion. And that's fine. You can have one of those. I have that too. Everyone has that. But the polling is showing the Democrats with about a three point lead in the generic ballot. And that hasn't moved. And so like compare that to, let's say, presidential elections when you're looking at the Electoral College, right, where a presidential candidate can win the the the Electoral College, but lose the popular vote by as many as three points. And you know that this is within striking distance.

1:06:19Then when you look at the fact that the redistricting fight has unfolded the way it has unfolded with states like Tennessee, which I am so happy to live in. What a contrast from New York with states like Texas, states like Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and other states that are redrawing their maps as they're using the old, you know, Herman Edwards mantra, you play to win the game. Unfortunately, when he was the head coach of my favorite football team, the New York Jets, he didn't really live by that too well. But then again, nobody does when you're, you know, when you're the Jets head coach, you usually play to lose.

1:06:51But anyway, the Republican Party is showing you that they're here to fight, that they're trying to win. So it's this simple, right? We did too big to rig in 2024. We have to do that again in 2026. All elections, my opinion, all elections are won on the ground in the trenches. You talk about 10, 10 and 10. We actively practice that here in Rutherford County just, you know, just a couple of days ago and really over the last couple of months with our primaries, with great results for the candidates who he got behind. But think about it. We can win these midterms. We can make history. This would be the first time I think that the party in power will have retained, let's say it does happen, retained the House since post 9-11 George W.

1:07:37Bush in his first time. I think that's the last time that it happened and there was the war on terror and that galvanized everybody to kind of get behind the president, President Bush at the time. Here's the thing. If we show up, we can win. If we stay home and we give in to the Doomer demoralization campaign online, it may not it might not break out that well. We have a chance to expand our majority in the Senate. Look at the people. The Democrats are running this Al-Syed in Michigan. What is going on? Graham Plattner in Maine. You got to beat these lunatics.

1:08:08Kash Patel:You've got the Nazi tattoo guy and then the you know, I'm campaigning with Hassan Paykel, social murder guy in Michigan. again, you couldn't be more accurate. I mean, this portfolio of candidates on the Senate side is, I'm not kidding, I say this as objectively as possible, one of the worst slates of Democrat candidates I've ever seen. Yeah, it's like they're just defaulting to lunatics. And so like you look at the mom Donnie's of the world, I believe her name is Wilson out there in what was it, Seattle, she's never had a real job, 43 years old, finally moved out of the basement. Now she's the mayor of one of the country's largest cities.

1:08:45And she's waving goodbye to the businesses like Starbucks. Starbucks. I don't like Starbucks. I don't drink Starbucks. I'm not a Starbucks fan. It is what it is. But they have a coffee called, I think it's Pike Place, right? Is the name of their blend? Because that's where they started. In Seattle.

1:09:03Kash Patel:They're no longer a Seattle-based company. If you go down there and visit on Pikes, I was down there. I was in Seattle about three years ago. the fentanyl flop is everywhere. You'll see these guys and women hunched over as you make your way down to the original Starbucks. You'll see them everywhere. I mean, that's really like, there you go. Like you've got to, you know, I'm not a huge fan of the coffee either, to be honest with you. But in business like anything else, I respect business. Guy started a company. Great, good for him. Created a ton of value, a lot of jobs. Fantastic. To see the seed of this, the original location in the heart of like socialist Seattle with the fentanyl floppers everywhere It's just like that's the state of the modern Democrat Party But you brought up something else though too You know for the doomers out there Trying to demoralize us with the you know Jedi mind trick Do not vote in the election Nothing's happening Like this is one of them That was a hat tip to Guy and Justin They're big guys You know big Star Wars fans We have an actual folder file For the first time in a long time With this MAGA Republican movement Of incredible results The redistricting fight Like you brought up before, zero illegal migrants admitted into the country, almost complete shutdown at the border.

1:10:15Kash Patel:That was like a dream years ago. You've got solid jobs numbers. There's work to do on inflation. Nobody's ignoring that fact. A lot of it has to do with the excellent work being done in Iran to get rid of that threat. You've got Maduro out of power. You have the violent crime rate. You saw Patel, Director Patel up on the hill yesterday. The violent crime and homicide rates at the lowest in American history. I mean, the drops, 20 percent drops, triple digit increases in violent crime arrests. I mean, Sean, this is real stuff here. We have to run. That's why the doomers, I think, piss me and you off so much.

1:10:51Kash Patel:Me and Sean are at it all day with these doomers on X. Yeah, well, it's funny because I listen to the show. You get the nothing is happening file. I love it. And I know that when you play that and when they, you know, they integrate that element into the they start to scratch and claw. and they, you know, they're like, no, not this again. I can't. It's like when the movie Bird Box, when you're like exposed to the light and then it's like, ah, no good. It's like, you see the truth that slaps you in the face and it really hurts. And that's the thing. Like, is everything perfect? No. Is there work to do?

1:11:20Yes. There's, by the way, there's always going to be work to do. We're never going to pitch a perfect game. It's impossible, but we can get as close as we can. And I don't understand the logic, right? Of the Doomer class. We're like, oh no, we're real conservatives. And it's like, OK, hold on. So then why are you telling people to let the Democrats get back in power? You want to do the whole trans thing again? DEI, bring that back. Wide open border. Americans getting killed. They go, oh, there's no mass deportations. You know, we have almost four million illegals that have been sent home. They've left the country between when Trump was sworn in and now nearly four million.

1:11:55That's a lot of people. Now, I'm sorry if you thought that all 40 million illegals were going to get deported like this. Snap of a finger. Impossible. Right. But there is so much that's going on that we could be happy about. And it's a great foundation. And I actually said this after Donald Trump won in 2024, as I told everyone, get addicted to winning. Right. Do we love that feeling? We were out there pounding our chest, so excited that we won the 2024 election. It's like, don't you love that feeling? Let's get engaged. Let's get immersed in the process. Show up during your primary. Show up during special elections.

1:12:25Show up in your county. Form those healthy voting habits. You talk about it all the time with your life hack segments, right? Like healthy habits, those small things that you can do that can greatly improve your lifestyle. Well, introduce those little exercise snacks to your political life. First of every month, something we do on my show on LFA TV is we say, all right, everybody, today's the first show of the month. Let's sit down, go on your search engine, your favorite search engine, and say, is there an election that I can vote in in my zip code this month. Never miss elections. Always do your research about the candidates that are running.

1:12:57Form those healthy habits and show up. Because if we show up, we can't lose. We have a lot to be proud of. We also have a lot that we still need to accomplish. And we can only do that with favorable numbers on Capitol Hill. You think we're going to get any of the agenda passed? Everyone's, oh, I want this to be done. But the Republicans aren't doing it. So I'm just going to stay home or I'm going to vote Democrat. How does that help you get the agenda passed? It doesn't. So instead of checking out, J.D. Vance said this recently too, engage more, participate more, voice your opinions more, call your representatives more, run for office more, knock on more doors, make more phone calls, send more texts, get that agenda passed instead of checking out and saying, well, what's the point?

1:13:39I'm not going to do this. It's like a baseball player who's not unhappy with the umpire, just doesn't show up in the batter's box. So you're never going to wind up on base at that point.

1:13:46Kash Patel:That's a great analogy. I'm a big Auburn basketball fan, and I've always felt like the refs have a bias against Auburn. But ultimately, don't leave the game up to a two-point margin where you've got to rely on the ref to give you a foul call and hit two free throws. If you win by six, you've still got to play the damn game. Eventually, you've got to just take what you can control under your wing and run with it. That's a great idea, by the way. I like that. It's once a month, like election life hacks. like you do a segment about little things you can change every day. I like that, like election snacks.

1:14:17Kash Patel:That's a great idea, man. That's fantastic. I want to ask you about something else. You know, you and I have been in the space for a while. We've seen a lot of candidates come and go. Listen, we're in the social media era. I know a lot of people don't like it. They're like, oh, you know, viral ads. Let's just tell us about the white papers and the issues. That's great. I love that stuff, too. We just produced a bunch of results that are fantastic. But we are in an era where, you know, eyeballs and earlobes are at a premium. And to get people's attention in the TikTok era amongst the millions of dance videos and all this other get ready with me stuff, you've got to find a way to stand out.

1:14:52Kash Patel:I've never seen anything really like the Spencer Pratt marketing campaign. I don't know Spencer. I've said it over and over. I hope he wins. He's a far better alternative than these other two knuckleheads running. The incumbent, Karen Basura, as he calls her. and the city councilwoman. They're terrible. But the ads are just, whoever's running his social media team should be on like the Mount Rushmore of political marketing. The contrast he paints and the way he highlights his strengths, highlights her weaknesses, mitigates his weaknesses, you know, elevates his strengths all at the same time like a standard SWAT analysis.

1:15:30Kash Patel:It's like nothing I've ever seen. Yeah, and I've seen some campaigns. I remember Kim Klasik when she ran for office in Baltimore. more. She had the ad of her walking down the street. That was one really great ad and she ran a great campaign and she's awesome. I love her. There was another congressional candidate. His name was Jerome Davis and he ran an ad, a pro gun ad where he's a black man and he, his ad was basically defending himself against Democrats who were dressed in like Klan. It was really powerful, but that was one ad. The Spencer Pratt situation here has been multiple ads in a row and a great showing on the debate stage.

1:16:05Now, look, I'm not going to lie and sell hopium and say he's going to win. But I'm going to tell you what, he's got as good a chance as anybody is running as a Republican in that Los Angeles mayor's race, I think that we've seen in decades. That's number one. And if if his greatest utility utility is just painting that contrast between insane Democrats and sane Republicans. I don't know Spencer Pratt either. I, to be completely honest with you, I don't pay attention to reality TV. I didn't know who he was until these ads, to be completely honest. And my wife was like, oh, Laguna Beach. I said, I never, I never watched Laguna Beach.

1:16:44I watch hockey. It's like, that's what it is. But like, I'm happy to see him in the race because it takes people who have that type of name recognition, especially, you know, in the reality TV industry, especially in California, where that's a big industry. It takes people like that who have the ability to paint that contrast, right, to put that diamond on the black background, as you like to say. And if that's the the only thing that comes out of this race where he is showing you, you know, he's out there saying if if so and so comes walking down the street, you know, Skid Row, she's going to get stabbed in the neck.

1:17:20I mean, that is a statement that the Democrats can't say, no, he's lying. Cause that's what's happening. That's what's actually going on. Oh, okay. You don't think you're going to get stabbed in the neck. Come, come for a walk with me. Come see what your policies have led to. I love it. I love what he's doing. Yeah. And they'll never do it.

1:17:35Kash Patel:How old are you, by the way? 35. Okay. That's why you don't know Spencer. I'm 51. So I'm, if you're in fifties or 45 or late, you definitely know. It was started with the Hills. It was when MTV was still doing reality. before it went super woke with the reality TV. But I knew who he was. I mean, I grew up with Rachel Campos, now Rachel Campos Duffy on The Real World. And Spencer was like in my living room. I mean, you had Spencer. I mean, everybody watched these shows on MTV. But I think you kind of hit on the real value of the Pratt campaign. You're correct. Like, hopium is just useless and stupid.

1:18:14Kash Patel:Like, let's just go out and vote and get it done. Like, let's not hope to vote. Just go out and vote and bring 10 people with you. He's got a decent shot. It's not a great shot, but a decent shot. I think the real value, though, is this, though. You and I know New York politics well, and I know you know about the Giuliani transformation. The benefit to Rudy Giuliani as the mayor of deep, deep blue New York City was not just two terms of excellence. That wasn't it. That was a big part. The big part was a bunch of Democrats, by pure math, independents, for the first time, not only considered a Republican, like many are now for Pratt.

1:18:48Kash Patel:if you look at the poll numbers, but actually voted for Giuliani. And then I know because me and you are examples of this, many of them left. So you're saying, well, how's that benefit New York? It may not benefit New York, but it certainly benefited the country because you're voting red in Tennessee. I'm voting red in Florida. And I can tell you right now, the transplants in Florida in my county, Sean, I'll bet the transplants in Tennessee, probably 70 to 80 % of them are not liberals from New York. They're conservatives, firefighters, military members who are just tired of the blue bullshit.

1:19:21Kash Patel:So Rudy Giuliani probably changed the entire country from New Yorkers who voted for him for the first time, who then spread out and spread the spread the Republican liberty message around the country. It's exactly what happened. So, I mean, I was in New York for 9-11. I was in fifth grade at the time. And, you know, I didn't understand Republican, Democrat and that the whole landscape has changed since then. But again, it's the contrast. What was the city before Giuliani and what was the city after Giuliani? If you remember, by the way, so Giuliani wins his two consecutive terms and then Bloomberg runs for mayor in New York City as a Republican with Giuliani's endorsement.

1:20:02So a Republican wins again. That's three terms in a row. Now, you could say Bloomberg, is he really a Republican? I don't know, but he ran his one-in-one. That's three in a row in New York City. And you look at what the city was before Giuliani. You look at what it was during Giuliani, during Bloomberg. It was a nice place to go. And then you go back, then you go to de Blasio, and it went right back off the cliff again as soon as a Republican was out of office or as soon as Bloomberg at that point was an independent. But the point of the matter is, again, the contrast. Here's what it looked like during the Democrats.

1:20:34Here's what it looked like during the Republicans. And you're right. When I speak in front of these, you know, I go to these dinners and whatnot. We speak. And I always ask, is there anybody from New York in the room? And, you know, a few hands go up. And I say, how happy are you to be here in Tennessee? And people are like, I'm so happy. And I say, how many of you were in New York during 2020, you know, during COVID, when the virus came out at 11 o 'clock, but not 1059 p.m.? Thank you, Andrew Cuomo, right? When you had these ridiculous lockdowns. when, you know, in order to order alcohol at a bar, you had to have food.

1:21:03But Andrew Cuomo arbitrarily decided that buffalo wings didn't count. This is all real stuff that I lived through in 2020 under Andrew Cuomo during COVID. And people say, yeah, this is real. Folks in Tennessee who didn't experience that can't believe it's real until you see a bunch of people in the room nodding along going, yeah, we lived through that. That's Democrat leadership. Do you really want to live through that on a nationwide basis? Do you really want to live under the rule of a group of people who are threatening, it's not going to pass, but to wipe out an entire Supreme Court in Virginia by lowering the maximum retirement age because they don't like the way they ruled?

1:21:42I mean, what happened to no kings, Dan, right? I thought we were against this type of stuff. Now, all of a sudden, no, we don't like the Supreme Court. Let's wipe them out. Let's lower the forced retirement age. Get rid of everybody. You know what's ironic about that situation in Virginia is that there was actually a Democrat who spoke out against that. We can't do that because they would be getting rid of the first black chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court. So they'd be like unwoking themselves. And there's like a, now there's like a conflict of interest there. It's hysterical, but the contrast between Republican leadership and Democrat leadership, whether it's at the presidential level or at the county level, the mayoral level in places like New York city, it could never be more clear.

1:22:20And that's why people are leaving New York for places like Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, etc. Because they don't want to live under the boot of tyranny anymore. That's why you got Kathy Hochul begging them to come back. Lady, nobody's coming back to pay your taxes. No one's interested in that. That's why we're in Tennessee. There is no state income tax here. It's a business-friendly state. That is why Starbucks moved to Tennessee. That's why Elon moved some of his operations to Tennessee. That's why the Daily Wire is in Tennessee. That's why In-N-Out Burger is moving to Tennessee because it's a business-friendly state.

1:22:55Nobody's moving into New York. Why? So they can pay from Omdani's pet projects? No. The contrast has never been clearer between Republican leadership and Democrat leadership. People are thriving in red states and struggling in blue states, and that's not up for debate. That's why folks are fleeing those states in droves.

1:23:15Kash Patel:I think, you know, us and our experience in New York applies nationwide here, too, because you just brought up a problem post Rudy Giuliani, post George Pataki. And George Pataki was a Republican governor of New York, for those of you who don't know. I believe he did three terms. He was not the biggest conservative in the world. He ran for president and didn't didn't didn't rate particularly well. However, he won three terms as a Republican in New York, which is an enormous political accomplishment. so New York at one point had a Republican mayor and New York state had a Republican governor which is probably insane to a lot of you listening who are younger right now like that happened yeah I promise it happened look it up but you brought up an important point I saw you campaigning for your local sheriff out there and you know some people might say like why would a national guy like you and you are like you have quite a profile you do a lot of you know cable news and people know who you are, be involved in local politics for the same reason I am.

1:24:08Kash Patel:The Republican Party now, I think, understands whether it's the Giuliani New York example or elsewhere, you can't just rely on your headliners. Right now, it's Donald Trump. Donald Trump is the party right now. But what I like about the Trump movement is we're always talking even now in year one of the Trump presidency or one plus, we're always talking about the next thing, not because we're jumping ahead, but because the bench matters. You don't like let your triple A team in baseball lie fallow because your team just won the World Series. That's not the way politics works. You've got Rubio, you've got Vance, you've got Bessent, who I don't think has any interest in politics, but, you know, Miller and others who are developing, you know, profile who even if they don't run can go out and be activists and fundraisers later.

1:24:52Kash Patel:And then at the local level, you have the sheriff, you like you have all of these other folks like the Spencer Pratt's out there. The Republican bench is strong. We've got to think long-term, mid-term, and short-term at the same time. You can't let that go. Yeah. So short-term is long-term, in my opinion. You want to know why we got involved in this sheriff's race? Obviously, March of 2025, we were SWAT-ed. Okay? And there was nothing wrong with how the sheriff's office handled the situation. Matter of fact, they handled it amazing. Happy Police Week, by the way. We love our men and women of law enforcement.

1:25:23Kash Patel:Bad tip to you all out there. Good call. We do not let the left win when they behave like that. That's not what we do. OK, I grew up in New York during 9-11. It was like, oh, you're going to come attack us. American flag out on the porch. These colors don't run. OK, so the whole the whole point of sending that SWAT team to our house was to shut us up. And we said immediately, that's not what's going to happen. So guess what we did? We said, OK, I'm an activist from New York. They've done this before. We petitioned to get rock star New York City Councilwoman Vicky Palladino on the ballot. That's, you know, I told the story.

1:25:59That's where I was first convinced to go on TikTok to do the greatest. You know, nobody does a better job. We understand that. You know, it's not up for debate. We understand that. The greatest in the world. But this is why we did it, okay? You're going to send a SWAT team to our house? Fine. We're just going to elect a new sheriff. I'm going to rub it in your face, okay? Because we're not going to let these people win. We're not going to let them intimidate us into silence. And what we're going to do is we're going to turn that into a positive. You know what we've done? We've met so many people on this campaign, you know, who are out there campaigning, you know, Kenneth Barrett for sheriff.

1:26:32We have met so many amazing patriots in this county that now we have a network. It's the same thing that happened in New York. People came out to protest Cuomo to support Donald Trump. And there were networks of people that were built. Contractors who met their subcontractors at rallies that we were throwing, you know, to reopen New York and to support Donald Trump in 2020. And it's these networks that form that really make us strong. It's the political exercise snack again. Short term, hey, let's go win this primary for sheriff. But what does it do for us in the long term? It teaches us those healthy habits to make sure that our candidates do win in these elections, to make sure that we are participating in primaries.

1:27:10I know a lot of people are, oh, I'm so frustrated with the GOP. They do nothing. The time for taking out your frustration on the Republican Party, if they're not representing you adequately, in your opinion, it's not in the general election. It's in the primary. That's where candidate selection happens. That's where your iron sharpens the iron. So, you know, the reason why we get involved in that in local politics, again, is because a group of people who don't like what I say online don't want us to be involved. They want to take our voice out of the equation. They want to take our impact in our if you want to call it influence out of the equation.

1:27:43And we're not going to let them win. So you're going to send a SWAT team to our house. Fine. Now you've pushed us to get involved in local politics, and now we have a constitutional sheriff, a guy who is one of the best people I've met in this state. He's a great guy who is going to be the next sheriff of Rutherford County, not just because we jumped in, because a bunch of people realized, hey, it is time for us to go out there and make a difference and put the man who we want in office, the top law enforcement official of the county. And this, by the way, happens all across the country. Look at West Virginia.

1:28:17There's a gentleman there, a state senator by the name of Chris Rose. Do you know in 2024, Chris Rose ran for state Senate in Senate District 2. He was outspent$1.2 million to an$84 ,000. He raised$84 ,000. This guy knocked on tens of thousands of doors with two volunteers, won his primary by over 20 points. And last night in West Virginia was primary night again. he campaigned for his co-senator toby heaney he's now in there chris rose went from somebody who was working in the coal mines to somebody who now calls the shots in district two of west virginia state senate district two of west virginia because he put in the work and he did those healthy political exercise snacks that we're talking about it is possible to take control of your government and make sure they're representing you adequately if we really want to is it easy No.

1:29:12Are your legs going to hurt? Yes. Are you going to be wiped out? Sure. Are you going to burn through pairs of shoes? Absolutely. But is it worth it? Abso-freaking-lutely it's worth it because now you've got guys and gals who are representing you in local office, federal office, state office, et cetera, that are, we're with you on the campaign trail. We're with you in the trenches. And I just, I just, the message I want to get out to everybody is please take those baby steps to get involved locally. You'll form those healthy habits. And then we won't lose. We won't lose elections. We won't worry about, you know, oh, my gosh, this Graham Plattner so and so is running good.

1:29:46He's a lunatic. Point at him. Tell everybody he's a lunatic and do it on their doorstep. That's where we win in the trenches. And it's been proven time and time again.

1:29:54Kash Patel:And I just want to add in conclusion, you know, having run myself and knocked on a lot of doors, if you this is the importance, like you said, short term is long term. That's brilliant because it's true. It's not just a throwaway line. if you can get someone to vote in a local sheriff's race or a city council race like you know vicky paladino i can almost guarantee you that person's going to vote in the gubernatorial and the presidential but it doesn't always work the other way a lot of trump voters just don't show up for midterms and that's what we're going to have to change sean gotta run listen i really appreciate your time you can check out sean and lfa tv hosts ungoverned it's on rumble it's there for you you You can follow him as well on X.

1:30:38Kash Patel:He's got a great account, calls out all the bad actors. And this guy does not screw around, man. I'm telling you, Sean is like ready to go every time. Sharp and knuckles, the kind of politics I love. Sean, thanks a lot. Really appreciate it. We'll have you back really soon. Thanks for everything. Thank you, Dan. Appreciate it. You got it, folks. That's one of my favorite interviews. That's why we have him back all the time. He'll be seeing a lot of Sean in the future. Real rock star. And I feel like it's our obligation because so many people gave me a chance, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and others, that we should use the Bongino Army to elevate others.

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