The Bongino Weekend Report - 09/05/26

29:34As you see the proliferation of crazy nonsense on X, like space aliens killed this guy, Lindsay Clancy's a hero and all this other stuff. As you see it, you're swearing like I'm the only sane person left. Thankfully, and I mean this, you are not. There is an army of people out there that are not as crazy as you're seeing in this unrepresentative sample size on social media. I only brought up my history in the business, not to impress you. Who cares? Really? You talk for a living. Great. I've always told you, like, you guys have real jobs. I talk for a living. That's my thing. But, and Jim's been around this business for decades, a lot longer than me.

30:17He's been with many hosts, one who shall not be.

30:25Jim's been with many hosts. Jim can attest to this, that if you are not comfortable taking uncomfortable positions in this business, because you fear you may lose some people, don't get in the business. Folks, there is nothing listeners and viewers hate more than a guy who sits on the top of the fence with a pole up and we can't even talk about that. Apparently we're not able to talk about that saying stuff on FCC regulated airways. We learned that the hard way about five years ago in the first radio show. You got a poll right up, right up right there. It's right there. Nobody likes that. They're not tuning into your radio show in this case or podcast or cable news show or whatever, your live stream to hear you go on one hand, but on the other hand, what was it?

31:17Arthur Acuna said, give me a one-handed economist because they're always saying that on one hand. They want to hear what you have to say. That's why they're listening to your show. Now, sometimes you got to apply the Bongino rule, wait for the facts to come in before you formulate an opinion. But I only bring this up because if you're not comfortable taking uncomfortable positions and losing some listeners or viewers over the course of your career, don't get in the business. It happens every primary season. Jim, am I right? You come out and you say, hey, it happened to me when I came out and supported President Trump.

31:51There were people who supported Ron DeSantis, people who supported Ted Cruz. I was a convert from this, but told me I'm not listening to your show again. Okay. I'm not mad at you. You believe in your, I love Ron DeSantis. He's great. I love Ted Cruz. I think they're great. I just had a different pick for that cycle. You know, it doesn't make you a bad guy. But there are people who will legitimately tune out. But I'll tell you how to get everybody to tune out and to never maintain any sense of longevity in this business we've been in for over a decade. Is to never take a position on anything to placate everyone at the same time.

32:24I say that because this Lindsay Clancy trial is, folks, I'm getting increasingly furious about this case. I've not talked about it much because this is largely a conservative MAGA-based show and I get that. But this is an issue that I, it's like a beach ball underwater for me. I can't, I can't contain it anymore. it's a sign of a growing type of psychosis we have amongst a small portion of the populace small I can't emphasize this enough this is not the norm but a small portion of the populace that has and Jim and I debated we were doing pre-production this morning pre-pro if you want to pre-pro an industry guy right and we're like how do we sum this up and I had said to the guys, you ever heard that, you know, the kids, they have these, these terms like mogging and main character energy.

33:25And I don't try to talk like a kid. I'm not a kid. I'm 51. I'm a rotting meat carcass right now with osteoarthritis and everything. I'm not a kid, but I think some of their terms are funny. And one of the terms they have is this MCE thing, main character energy, how you have these people with such big personalities. They have like this main character energy, you know, here's the thing about a lot of leftists and lunatics and conspiracy nuts and doomers and crazies. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to bring this up again later. They live in a vacuum. Their lives are meaningless. I'm sorry they are.

33:55They don't have kids like you do. They're not going to volleyball games and baseball games and soccer games. They don't have a business to run. They don't. So they fall in love with like OnlyFans stars on X who are like, I'm a trained investigator. Space aliens killed Joey Bagadonis. You're like, yeah, what? Where did you get that? They need something in their lives. this will come up throughout the show today, but they need what's called, this is not an SAT vocabulary course, but the word here is important. They need the raison d 'etre. What is the raison d 'etre? It's a French phrase. This is from ChatGPT.

34:38That literally means, ChatGPT must not know, I hate the word literally. Raisin d 'etre is a French phrase that literally means reason for being. It is used to describe the fundamental purpose, existence, or justification of a person, organization, object, or idea. Yes. Folks, the problem with a lot of liberals and folex MAGA, fake MAGA people who are trying to destroy our movement with all their nonsense and attacking everyone and every piece of evidence and going after people. The problem with both of those movements is they have no raison d 'etre. I mean it. I'm not trying to sound like a pseudo-sophisticant here, okay?

35:16they don't have anything. So they'll latch on to anything. I saw it in my time in law enforcement with people who get into the space and they were in finance or whatever before and they've never been involved in a critical, like high stress life or death situation. And they like, the first time they're in mind, they think they're in like a Netflix movie. That'll come up later. They think they're in a Netflix movie and they just panic and crap to bed. although we use the word that rhymes with hit instead. They crap the bed. And they take the rent of Netflix and move, we're all going to die, we're not going to die.

35:53Shut up and calm down. Just calm down. When I was at the FBI, people knock on my door all the time. They come in screaming with their hair on fire. Not all of them, but there was one dude in particular. And I would ask the same questions every time. Brother, is anybody dead? No. Is anybody going to die in the next 10 seconds? So calm down.

36:21Take a Xanax. Call a psychiatrist. You need to calm down. Go back. Go back. Take 10 seconds. Nasal breathing. Get the nitric oxide up and then come back and represent your case. Because I'm not getting into this crazy stuff. This is not some comic book we're living in. It's the real world. liberals do this all the time they are totally detached from reality they write themselves into comic books they're writing where they're the main character because they want to be heroes they see themselves in the model of actual heroes people who march for civil rights and others and because you know they feel like they should be an integral part of history too and that they have to be written into the longitudinal course of history as some heroic figure etched on the Capitol wall.

37:12They have to fabricate their stories. I'm fighting this heroic cause of men in the women's room. Dude, nobody wants a guy's unit in a girl's restroom. Like nobody wants, you're not a hero. You don't have Spidey sense. You know, you're not Batman. You're not like the Dark Knight version of Batman. You're not even like Aquaman. Everybody thought Aquaman was stupid. Even the movie was bad. That's not what you are. So they have to invent things. They have to make themselves a hero and the main character with fake main character energy in a story they're writing that never survives first contact with the real world.

37:49I saw it again yesterday. Jim and I have been laughing at ridiculous leftists who fabricate racist conspiracy theories for the last, what, five, six years we've known each other. And one of the things, this is an example right here the leftists write themselves into a comic where they're fighting against a group of horrible racist ku klux klan republicans everywhere and around every corner there's a white supremacist around every corner for them so they've made up this ghost they need to fight called replacement theory now you p1s though i'm going with this but this is is this ariana aiana aiana presley sorry i was thinking ariana aiana presley this is aiana presley ariana ariana what's the difference this is aiana presley far left lunatic race hustler in congress here she is talking about how birth tourism where chinese communist party infiltrators will come here to give birth to their kids so they have American citizenship so they can use said American citizenship to infiltrate and attempt to destroy the country that birthright citizenship is somehow evidence of this evil ghost they've been fighting replacement theory that catches this this is a fake comic book they wrote because replacement theory.

39:19She's calling it the show again. It's crazy. Replacement theory. The problem is this actually is real, but it's the Democrats thing. They talk about it all the time. So listen to this lady paint herself as a hero about replacement theory that liberals discuss openly all the time. This is an instant classic. Check this out. Dr. Camerata. Yes or no. Are you familiar with the great replacement theory. I read an article or two about it, so I don't know exactly. Well, let me elucidate you and the public watching at home because it's foundational to what's happening here. The great replacement theory is a conspiracy that falsely claims that white people are being deliberately replaced by immigrants and people of color.

40:04It is a far-right white supremacist ideology that far too many Republicans believe is real. In fact, in 2017 in Charlottesville at the Unite the Right rally. When people were brandishing those tiki torches, that's what they were saying. You will not replace us. So it often relies on invasion rhetoric to advance that narrative by portraying black and brown families as an invading force rather than as human beings and people that are entitled to dignity. A parent crossing a border becomes the enemy. A pregnant woman becomes a threat. A child born in the United States becomes proof of a takeover.

40:41the consequences of this rhetoric have been deadly Jim she's fighting a deadly rhetoric there's a Ku Klux Klan guy around every corner and Ayanna Pressley is bravely fighting those Ku Klux Klan hoods you see how she writes herself into the story with the fake main character look at me what a hero what she's not telling you is the idea of replacing American citizens with a foreign born population what they call demographic destiny, changing the demographics of the United States, is their idea. Now, I'm going to do you a favor if you're a first-time listener. Jim, isn't this thing like 20 minutes long?

41:21Now, of course, we're not going to play a 20-minute cut. So we're going to do a little stunt Jim and I did last time we were on the 12 to 3 radio show. Can you just let this play, like, through the break and we'll come back through the break? I don't know, three, what is the break? Three, four minutes? I don't know. But we're going to start. This is the Democrats. This is a 20-minute supercut. 20 minutes of Democrats like Ayanna Presley writing herself into this main character role, heroically fighting against a replacement theory that her own party champions openly all the time. Check this out.

41:52Coming out into the open. In a few years, we're going to be a majority brown country. White people will not be the majority in the country anymore. This will be the first generation ever in American history in which whites will be a minority of the generation at some point. As of 2007, every year, babies being born in this country, whites now are the minority. In 2044, everyone is going to be a minority. As the demographics change, as white people become the minority in the country, which is coming. Demographics is destiny. Demographics is destiny. We're going to let this play do the break. Demographics is destiny, right?

42:25Do the break. No, no. That's how long this is. And we come back from the break. We will just pot it right back up so you can hear it. This is 20 minutes of Democrats talking about replacing you with demographics while simultaneously writing a comic book where they're fighting against the people talking about replacing you. Who is them? Who is them? Stay tuned. We'll be right back.

42:53They all share a very similar characteristic. which is they all want to take advantage of suckers to get you to believe something that's not only going to destroy your own life but the lives of those around you including your family and community and sometimes not with you in this listening audience but with others sometimes it works we're going to expose a lot of con men doomers grifters zeros black pillars and others today as well whether hollywood and elsewhere and unbelievably we're going to show you how a lot of these people believe this stuff these people say despite the fact that the people saying it never live up to the own that the things they're saying i see this on x all day before we get to all that a big thank you a bongino report pm i hope you're enjoying it with me and sean farish we are really honored to be on these stations thank you to the program directors and the staff at the stations around the country who air the show we really love doing it we will be launching an even larger footprint in the morning with Bongino Report AM if you missed the announcement from 5 AM to 6 AM for you early morning commuters on hundreds of stations across the country September 21st.

44:02So we really appreciate that. The footprint is expanding. We're going to get up a station finder at my website, Bongino.com soon. The only reason we haven't done it yet is we're adding so many new stations quickly that we just don't want to update it every day. We just want to get it out there where people can go and look. So thank you all for your support. So getting back to the show, I like themes for the show, you know, for the podcast that airs live at 10 a.m. every day, Eastern Time, Rumble.com slash Bongino, if you'd like to join us. For the podcast, I like a title. Some people just put an episode number.

44:34Episode whatever. 2046, whatever it may be. You know, Jim, I and the team and the production team, we like to throw a title on some so you know where you're going to go with stuff. So I did. I titled that the show and the podcast today. You know, con men, libs, media people, you know, what's the difference? And the answer is, it's a trick question. There isn't a difference. And what made me think of this? Well, I like themes for the show because it helps people in advance kind of tell them, you know, tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them what you tell them and then tell them what you told them.

45:04That's like the rules of teaching, train the trainer. Tell people what you're going to tell them, tell them and tell them what you told them. I was on X yesterday and I'll get to this in a little more detail later. And I was doing some show prep and I'm scrolling. I spend so much time, almost as much as Haley, who's another one of her. I spend a lot of time online. I have to for good show prep. And I saw a post about that movie, Catch Me If You Can, about the con man Frank Abagnale. And I'll get into it a little more later, but it just made me laugh that there are some problems with the story about him being a con man.

45:34Like, who would have dunked it, Jim? Like, a con man wrote an autobiography, and people are like, wait, the autobiography sounds like it's partially a con, too. Who would have dunked it? I'll get into that more in a little bit. But there's a lesson there. which is pick the right heroes. Pick the right heroes and know where you're getting your information from and what said people have told you in the past. Is anything they've told you in the past, in fact, accurate? Folks, there are a number of con men out there on X. You'll see them say things, and I can't believe people fall for it. They'll say something ridiculous.

46:15Here's just a quick example. Again, I'll bring up in different iterations throughout the show today. to show you how, like, be careful who's here, you know, what heroes you pick online. Your hero's your grandfather or your dad or a great baseball coach you had or a mentor or a teacher. It's not people online. It's not. They'll say something stupid, ridiculous, and counterproductive. They'll get sued for it. They'll go out and puff their chest. Oh, look at me. You've seen this, right, Jim? I can't wait for discovery. And then you find out later that like they were served with a subpoena and they ducked it or their first motion in corpus have the case thrown out.

46:52I thought you said you couldn't wait. I thought that's what you said. That's what you said. You said that, right?

47:00Pick the right heroes, man. They ain't people in the conservative content space. And yes, ain't a word in this case. Speaking of con men. Jim's in Texas and I'm not doing this as a courtesy to Jim or Texas voters but I'm telling you like this guy Talafrico who has now been renamed Talacripo President Trump says his nickname is now Talacripo from Talafrico his name is of course Talarico he is the Democrat nominee for the United States Senate in Texas running as like a vegan who believes in six genders which I don't understand like what political consultant told him that's a good idea president trump has this guy's number you want to talk about a con man this guy has got to be the biggest con man running in this cycle democrats run a lot of con men like i think that abdul al-sayed is just a stupid smart person he is he's a apparently a medical doctor who's never i don't think he's actually practiced but he's not dumb but he's one of the stupid smart people he's the neurosurgeon who goes you know what i'm a neurosurgeon i'm going to change oil have you ever changed oil before nah and your engine seizes up well i'm a neurosurgeon how did I screw that up?

48:08You're not a mechanic. That's Abdul. I'll say it. This Tala creepo, Tala freako, Tala rico, whatever you'd like to call him is really creepy and weird folks. The guy strikes me as a complete total con man indicative of the entire Democrat party in this election cycle. They say things that they never back up in their own lives. Bernie Sanders. I hate millionaires. Bernie, aren't you a millionaire? I didn't mean me Democrats I want government run healthcare for all When they passed Obamacare Didn't you guys lobby for Obamacare And apply to you I didn't mean me Don't fall For con men Now I learned a valuable lesson with The beast P1s only P1s only I was a TS transportation agent in the secret service and the limo.

49:05You'd hear it called the beast. When we were in the secret service, we did not call it the beast. We used to laugh at media people. President Trump, however, has decided it's going to be called the beast. I have forfeited. I lost. Jim, sometimes you lose. Sometimes it's okay. He wants to be called the beast. It's the beast because he has a bigger microphone than me. He has now decided we're changing Talafrico's name to Talacripo. Man, does he have this guy's number. He is warning you the dude is a con man. Here's President Trump. I'm warning you about con men and doomers. Everything sucks. We're all going to die.

49:34Everyone's going to lose their job. The economy's terrible. The border's not closed. The doomers are just lying to you. So are the con men. Here's President Trump on Tala Cripo now. Check this out. He was maybe the best attorney, and everybody admits it. He was a great attorney general in Texas, and he's running against Tala Cripo. And this guy was, you know, he has that name for a reason. He's terrible. he's radical left now he says he loves meat you know what he does he eats meat and he goes outside and he throws up all over the place because in texas if you don't eat meat you're in deep trouble it's not a good thing not to be able to eat meat he was wearing a mask six months ago he had a mask on when somebody's wearing a mask six months ago you're in deep trouble right pete

50:24dan easy i know the word mask was mentioned but you don't have to go down that road now now you see you did it i was gonna let it go but now you did it again for regular listeners if you ever want to get me off track ever mention the mask phenomenon during covid i was banned from youtube for warning you about the stupidity of the face diaper it is the only prophylactic medical device mechanism where you had a hundred percent success rate of failing it was the condom that you used and got every single person pregnant every single person who wore a mask on the globe got covid it was it's the condom where you got an std and there was a pregnancy.

51:13Like it's the anti-condom, the face diaper. I, I, I can't, I can't with the man. I see a mask. I actually love when I see a mask because I know it across the street, because if that person has any kind of a stupid virus, like some, whatever, like, you know, these viruses out there, Epstein bar, whatever the monovirus, if there was a stupid virus, I don't want the infection. I see a mask. I run for the Hills. Tala Frico is, was wearing a mask. I got a video of him coming up and Trump, this guy's got a feel for politics, Jim, like no one else. Trump's stingers are just like, and he does them just extemporaneously because it comes natural for him to be like a pit fighter when it comes to politics.

51:57He doesn't have to like sit there thinking about, hold on, let me get the punchline. He just goes right for the jugular. And he's running as a vegan. He eats meat. He goes outside. He throws up. That visual now is in everybody's head like, what kind of freaking guy's going to go in and get brisket and throw up in Texas. You're running in Texas, bro, like the meat capital of the world.

52:20Don't go anywhere because I got another piece of audio video coming up later of a campaign thing that Tala Creepo campaign put out there. Jim, you've seen it, right? You watch the podcast? It's Tala Creepo. And this was his idea. They put this out there. walking in a Cracker Barrel like it's like a museum, like it's the first time he's ever seen a Cracker Barrel. In Texas, he's walking in there like Indiana freaking Jones on an archaeological expedition into a Cracker Barrel. Look at the people eating eggs and grits. Oh, my God. You got to see him pick up the menu like confused as to what it is.

53:04What is this? Is this a white paper speech on the marginal effects on taxation of socialism and wealth? it's a freaking menu talacripo you don't even need who needs a menu in cracker barrel what do you think you're going in there ordering foie gras you think you're going in there going do you have the beluga caviar is that even a thing do you do it's cracker barrel bro eggs crits biscuits it's cracker barrel it's freaking cracker barrel what are you looking for do you have the prime choice cat uh six year aged ribeye from the black angus cattle from the wagyu farms of japan this freaking cracker barrel bro just get some eggs and put the menu down act like you've been there before you know jim you got me started with the mask now i'm in a mood now the show's totally screwed up.

54:07It's going to run. Not for you, because you don't even know where I'm going with this now. While we're on the topic of Texas, I'm watching this documentary. I love documentaries. I love them. I can't get enough of them. I'm watching this documentary about Vince Young. Jim's like, oh, here we go. Jim loves his Texas. You know, hook them horns. I'm an Auburn fan, but whatever. No disrespect. It's a great thing about Vince Young. And, you know, they're talking about Texas. And Mac, was it Mac Brown, the old coach in the Rose Bowl when they beat USC? Mac Brown, when Vince Young scores the winning touchdown, he's at the University of Texas, for the Rose Bowl, like the national championship, he just, like, walks off the field like nothing happened.

54:44He's not going crazy. You can watch the video. He's not, like, going crazy or anything. And Mac Brown, he said Mac Brown, the coach, told the man, act like you've been there before in the end zone. So he did. He won the game. Tell the creepo, act like you've been in a cracker bar before. Don't walk into, like, Rudy's Barbecue or, like, whatever, Iron Fork, Iron Spoke, there's iron in everything with barbecues, a thousand different derivatives. Just act like you've been there before. I'll take the medium filet mignoni. No, dude. Do you want it extra moist or not? It's brisket. Extra moist or no.

55:19Act like you've been there. It's Texas, you freaking con man. I like how they showed him playing that pin game, but they only showed like a second of it because he was absolutely going to fail. Because he doesn't know what he's doing. he doesn't know the pin game at the table of Cracker Barrel. It's only been there for 7 ,000 years since the Flintstones. Jump the Flintstones. You never... I can't. I gotta get... Because I gotta talk about the Doomers too.

55:50Stop laughing at your own jokes. I can't. Jim's gonna have to use the dump button for me here. Stay tuned. More coming up next.

56:04so this happened right before i got on the air on the podcast earlier this morning i'm watching the jobs report come out and for just to put some perspective on these numbers because they don't mean anything outside of context the expected job growth numbers for the release this morning were about 53 000 which would have been good but not great i think everybody would agree. Well, as I somewhat happened, now the doomers and the gloomers are going to be very upset about this because they only want to focus on the bad news. Now, we should cover bad news. There's no doubt. But context does matter, correct?

56:41We'd all agree we should cover probably the good news, too, so we can weigh the good news against the bad news to make a choice. Is the good news more important than the bad news? And I would say job numbers are really good news because if we're not working, we're not supporting our families and we're all starving. That's an easy way to get that, which would violate the number one rule of the Dan Bongino show, which is don't get that. This is Rick Santelli from CNBC about the numbers this morning. Keep in mind, they were expecting 53 ,000. That's not what happened. Check this out. And we're hitting hold onto your seats, folks.

57:11Non-farm payrolls for the month of August up

57:17162k 162 000 that's basically three times what expectations are that sounds kind of like a good thing i'm i'm just saying i again i someone brought up in the podcast chat this morning dan we're 40 trillion yeah i know i only cover that probably 10 of the time on my show if not more we bring it up uh uh once uh once a week if not more we bring up all the problems we're having with Medicaid, Medicare spending, fraud in the government. We bring up all kinds of things. The 2032 impending bankruptcy of Social Security. I get it. But there are people trying to fix these problems and there are people who are just complaining.

57:56And I'm really honored to be part of this radio show, a podcast and content I do on Fox and elsewhere where I give you both sides of a story and I say, listen, on net, we've got a midterm coming up. I think between the border being closed, we covered this yesterday on the radio show, The crime getting crushed, the streets becoming safer, the manufacturing renaissance, the tens of trillions of dollars being invested back in the United States, the jobs numbers today, inflation. It's still, you know, a thing to be tamed, but it's not the 9 % under the Biden era that there is a movement, the MAGA movement and a new Republican Party that's at least trying to fix this stuff.

58:34While the Democrats, and I'll get to this later, are focused on impeaching Pete Hegseth, impeaching Donald Trump, impeaching the president's cat. He doesn't have a cat. It doesn't matter. They're impeaching him anyway. Freaking Garfield. You doubt me? Stay tuned to the show. I always bring the receipts. I make a very concerted, concentrated, laser light beam focused effort on understanding the other side. The left doesn't do the same for us. They don't want to understand. They just want to call us like white supremacist Klan members and stuff. They're not interested in understanding us. I do my best to understand them.

59:06That's why we play so many clips from left-leaning outlets, audio clips on the show, and video clips on the podcast, where I say, hey, look, this is what they're saying. You think I'm making this up? That Bougiomani and others, stay tuned if you want to know what that is. That Bougiomani and others, segment totally off the rails. Do you think Bougiomani and others who are running against President Trump, you think they have an agenda? I mean an agenda for you. The answer is, I'll answer the question for you. They don't. Their agenda is, we are going to go there and impeach people. Well, what about gas prices, Iran, public school, education, you know, costs of college?

59:43What about affordability? What about that stuff is all Charlie Brown's teacher to them. They hear one word, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment. It's like never ending tinnitus of the word. That's all they hear in their ear. How do we know that, Jim? Because they say it. Jim, let's see if you get this right. Why do the Democrats running for office in this life? You screw this up. You were out. You and I are done forever. Why do the Democrats not want to put forward an agenda that involves jobs, health care, the things that matters to them? Why would they not want to do that, Jim? Because they don't want to.

1:00:21Because they don't want to. Correct. because if they wanted to, they would do what they want to do, but they don't want to do it, so there's no do in the do. So do. There's do, do, but there's no do in the do, if you know what I mean. So here's what I got. Let me lay out the show for you. I'm going to do this. I haven't done this, I think, ever, but we get a lot of letters in the studio from supporters and things like that. It's always nice to read them. I read one today that was really kind of touching. It was from a young lady, Kirsten from Florida. She asked me for some life advice and it's not, let me just warn you in advance.

1:00:58I'll address it later, but it's not the life advice you've heard from everyone else. I promise you. If you're waiting for like, follow your dreams and all that stuff, that's not it. I hate cliches and I hate stupid life advice. That is not good life advice. Follow your dreams. That's not, that doesn't help anyone. Someone read that on a Hallmark card. So I got that. I'm going to, I want you to hear this AI promo video that came out today. It's lighting the internet on fire. Open AI put out a new AI program. Ladies and gentlemen, you are living in, I mean, to call it a transformative time is kind of like almost reverse hyperbole.

1:01:35Like I'm not exaggerating enough. You are living in the craziest time to be alive right now. And I mean that in a good way, where if you're 40, 50, 60 or 70 years old, you're going to have seen pre-AI America, pre-internet America in many cases. I remember when there was no, you know, internet commercially. and you're now going to see what AI is capable of doing going forward. The world's going to be two different places. When you hear the video, the audio of this video I'm going to play, you're going to be blown away. I promise you, I was. And I'm an investor in the tech space. I see a lot of this stuff.

1:02:07I was totally blown away. But I want to get to this first because I do get letters, traditional letters people write to the office a lot. But I get a lot of emails, a lot of direct messages from both supporters and detractors, and that's okay. We don't do NPC stuff here. No one's forced to agree with me. We're not robots. But I did an appearance, call them hits in the media biz. I did a hit on Will Cain's show yesterday on Fox. I enjoy doing that show. Check it out, 4 p.m. Eastern on Fox. I did an appearance with Will yesterday, and the Lindsey Clancy failure to find a verdict was breaking news.

1:02:47um it juries deadlocked in the case it happened about yet right before i got on the air and they said hey dan you know lift and shift can you talk about the clancy case i said oh boy i got a lot to say about the clancy case so i do the appearance there and folks i'm going to tell you something commentary i've done outside of the political space crime sports culture wars everything like that. I have never in my 15 years of doing conservative talking head commentary ever got as much feedback, received as much feedback as I did yesterday after this appearance on Will Kane show. I don't like playing my own stuff, but it's important because this is about not just the appearance, but the commentary afterwards.

1:03:34And I'm going to tell you it was about 70 % roughly, we agree with you. And about 30%, we disagree. And of that 30%, about a quarter of that was people like really ticked off at me for this take on the Lindsey Clancy case. I'll explain. But first, I want you to hear it's a little over a minute. Check this out. The facts in this case are not in dispute. And I say to these people who took the time to grab a pen or a typewriter and write some kind of, you know, love note to this lady, I wish you could watch it. I really do. I wish there were video in this. You want to see what that's like? Strangling three kids to death?

1:04:16You want to see what they're probably begging for help, what that looked like? If you watch it, do you have to turn away? Why do you have to turn away? If it was a fiction, an act of fiction on a Netflix show, you would look away in horror and go, I can't watch this fake mom strangle these fake actor kids. But this is the facts in this case are not in dispute. There is no reasonable doubt about the facts. And, Will, you know, I'm glad you brought up the analogy of, you know, would a man get the same, you know, leeway from a jury that can't seem to figure this out? Do you know how many people come back from overseas, our patriots and heroes in our military who see awful, unimaginable things that thankfully, Will, you and I don't have to deal with every day?

1:04:59You know, they come back and they don't strangle their kids. I mean, listen, do you know how many people come back from overseas, our patriots and heroes in our military who see awful, unimaginable things that thankfully, Will, you and I don't have to deal with every day? You know, they come back and they don't strangle their kids. I mean, listen, mental illness is a horrible thing. But how much as a society are we willing to sacrifice to protect this woman's story? I mean, if this is dumbed down the legal version of what it's like to murder three children, I got to tell you, man, I don't know how you come back from a verdict like this.

1:05:39I think this is why the national attention so focused on this case. OK. You probably understand, given the passion surrounding this case, why that would generate a lot of feedback. Folks, I've spent 15 years as a candidate, an activist and elsewhere, whatever. who cares no well it is relevant and i care for this because i feel like having done and had maintained a decent audience through the years despite all the ups and downs and primaries and all that stuff i feel like we do a pretty good job on the show of understanding understanding our detractors people who disagree to the roughly 30 percent of people who sent us emails and Facebook messages and elsewhere saying, Dan, I totally disagree.

1:06:27You know, there was a reason, an excusable reason for this woman to kill her three kids. I'm going to tell you, I don't get it. I'm not trying to be a tool, a craftsman, a jerk, an idiot or anything else. I'm not trying to play stupid with you. I genuinely don't get it. I feel like I don't agree with, but I understand why gun grabbers are how they are. They're afraid of, you know, they don't want to get shot. So they think somehow stealing innocent people's guns. I don't agree. I think that's ridiculous, but I get where I see how you could possibly think that if you weren't well informed on the issue.

1:07:03Again, I'm not agreeing with any of this. I could see how, you know, wealth tax supporters, you know, they, they think, oh, well, there's this rich pool of money out there. If we just steal it, everyone will be better off. They don't take into account that then the wealthy people have no money to build jobs. And they, so I get why you would think that you're just wrong. I'm candidly, sincerely telling you in the audience for the first time in a non-political commentary issue, I've gotten enormous feedback on it that I just don't understand. Folks, I don't, I don't get it. Three innocent children were killed by their mother.

1:07:41If collectively in this thing we call society, we can't enact a legal structure to appropriately punish and put up guardrails against killing kids then i i'm sorry but all's for naught you know i brought up the example in the appearance on will show folks i i've got friends and colleagues and family members who served in public safety positions in law enforcement, EMS, fire, who served in the military. I lost my uncle in Vietnam. And before I was born, it ruined my family. My grandmother died depressed over it. I was killed in the south of Thu Duc, got a bronze star with a V device on him. And my grandmother was never the same.

1:08:36But folks, I bring this up because there were people, heroes, real heroes, not comic book heroes, but real heroes who go and serve our country overseas and see horrific things you and I, thank the Lord, will never have to look at. They see people stepping on mines and being killed and their buddies coming back with missing limbs shot in front of their eyes. They come back with mental scars that, thank the Lord, you will never understand. I won't either. I was not in combat. These are not the kind of things you would ever, ever want to live with they come back with the deepest of emotional scars that they would give anything anything to get rid of they would rather come back with physical wounds and come back with these mental these mental wounds that will never ever scar over i covered a segment on my fox show years ago where i read an email from a friend with his permission who had witnessed this stuff on the air talking about the pink mist you don't know what the pink mist is yeah i didn't either it's when one of his battle buddies would step on a mine and just explode right in front of him into a mist of pink from the blood folks these people aren't coming back and killing their kids they're dealing with a trauma in their own life and they're not taking out that trauma on others and if that in the rare occurrence that that does happen people in the military of course like anyone else's crime, they are punished harshly.

1:10:06If we cannot enact legal guardrails to make sure that the most innocent among us are protected, then ladies and gentlemen, I'm really sorry, but we are in for a really dark future, and I don't believe that. I got more on this coming up next.