We Pissed Off All The Right People (Ep. 2516)

15 May 2026 · 1 h 32 min · 31 chapters

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In short

Dan Bongino reacts to a viral segment that “pissed off all the right people,” argues there’s coordinated sabotage/leaking by “rage bot” and foreign bot farms, and frames the Trump administration as producing real results (crime drops, border/foreign diplomacy). He also attacks Democrats/left media for “dancing” (distraction) versus “results,” emphasizing race-based narratives as a tactic, and criticizes education as indoctrination.

Guest backgrounds

Graham Allen is announced as the episode’s guest (no background details provided in the transcript).

Key claims

  1. Leaked “fake story” about a raid during Trump’s overseas trip is an obvious operation/scam.
  2. China/authoritarian security practices cause press/motorcade confusion; the U.S. respects press freedom even when coverage is unwanted.
  3. FBI data for 2025 shows murders and robberies down over 18%, the largest single-year percentage decline since 1937; Trump policies are credited.
  4. Internal FBI “most wanted list” was “gamed” under prior leadership; Patel’s team cleared it faster, angering leakers.
  5. Democrats keep voters distracted/stupid via race rhetoric and education indoctrination.

Notable examples

  • Eric Church commencement speech about “family” (loved you when you were hard to love).
  • MSNBC clip: President George W. Bush security blocked in Chile; he pulls his lead agent in.
  • North Korea/Stephanie Grisham press-rescue example.
  • Politico quote: Democrats willing to sacrifice black voting power to beat GOP.
  • NAACP Charlotte Mecklenburg president Corinne Mack comments about replacing a black mayor with a white interim mayor.
  • Charlotte debate clip about “black-on-black violence” and reparations.
  • John Stossel socialism vs capitalism clip (pretzel analogy).

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Chapters

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Embracing Anger and Meltdowns

0:45 to 2:00

Dan discusses how anger from critics indicates success.

“away from the people trying to pull it untrue south, okay?”

Friday Blessings and Gratitude

2:00 to 4:00

Celebrating Friday and expressing gratitude for first responders.

“To our military heroes, our cops and firemen and first responders who work 24-7, 365, and don't get a day off, God bless you on Police Week.”

Eric Church's Commencement Speech

4:00 to 6:00

Dan shares insights from Eric Church's impactful commencement speech.

“You scratch the bumper, it's like$3 ,000.”

Trump's Diplomatic Challenges with China

6:00 to 9:00

Discussion on President Trump's visit to China and its implications.

“I know it bothers you that we constantly, we're only eight minutes of the show.”

Presidential Security Challenges

14:01 to 16:41

Learn about the challenges faced by presidential security during international events.

“President Bush goes to walk into this event in Chile and they try to keep the boss, the head security guy from the Secret Service, out.”

The Transformative MAGA Movement

16:41 to 18:55

Explore the impact of the MAGA movement on the Republican Party and its historical context.

“They could have done the greatest Secret Service advance in U.S.”

Recognizing the Political Opponent

18:55 to 21:01

Understand the current political landscape and the changes in Democratic strategies.

“You may say, I want to go back to the old ways of the Republican Party.”

The Importance of Results vs. Performance

21:01 to 22:56

Discuss the distinction between political results and performative politics.

“We talk about the idea of Supreme Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court.”

Crime Statistics and Political Accountability

26:51 to 28:00

Examine recent crime statistics and the importance of political accountability in governance.

“I like to make it easy for you because a lot of you work really intensely for a living, have kids to raise.”

Decline in Homicides: Who Gets the Credit?

28:00 to 28:59

An analysis of the significant decline in homicide rates and the political implications surrounding it.

“This is the largest single-year percentage decline since 1937.”
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Fusion Ken and Media Allegations

29:00 to 31:22

Discussion on media allegations against Cash Patel and the FBI's handling of the most wanted list.

“Because public enemy number one is always President Trump.”

Critique of Leftist Distractions

31:23 to 33:12

Exploration of how leftist narratives aim to distract voters from real issues and results.

“Ken Delaney is actually pissed off that because we cleared the list and we got in there so quickly, they had to add more people who then subsequently got caught too.”

The Republican Party and Black Voters

33:13 to 35:28

A defense of Republican values and outreach to Black voters amidst criticisms of the Democratic party.

“There are two components to the dancing.”

The Importance of Results Over Rhetoric

35:29 to 37:19

A call to prioritize actual results in governance rather than performative politics.

“Nobody cares how much melanin you have in your skin at all.”

Education System's Failings

37:20 to 41:36

An examination of the decline in educational standards and the indoctrination within the education system.

“Did you see this out of Charlotte, North Carolina?”

The Collapse of Education Scores

42:00 to 43:36

Discussion on the alarming decline in reading and math scores in American schools.

“Here's a Jean Twenge, sorry if I'm saying your name, a reading score is third graders to eighth graders, 2015 to 2025.”

Debate on Crime and Responsibility

43:36 to 46:00

Analysis of a debate on crime, race, and the misconceptions around reparations.

“I think the most important thing that's necessary right now for the black community would be the stopping of violence, especially black on black violence.”

Suicidal Empathy and Its Consequences

46:00 to 49:44

Exploration of the concept of 'suicidal empathy' and its impact on community safety.

“This is all from what's been empathy, like suicidal empathy.”

Education and the Role of Parents

49:44 to 51:46

Emphasis on parental responsibility in guiding children's education and avoiding indoctrination.

“every single opportunity you can take, take it.”

Capitalism vs Socialism in Education

51:46 to 54:20

Discussion on the benefits of capitalism over socialism in terms of education outcomes.

“Matter of fact, we left their dead bodies behind defending them.”

Maha Moment: Benefits of Hanging Exercises

54:44 to 56:00

Introduction to the health benefits of hanging exercises and proper body alignment.

“Look at Andy, producer Andy, taking it to the bank on that one.”

The Benefits of Hanging and Alcohol Consumption

56:00 to 58:06

Learn the health benefits of hanging exercises and a nuanced view on alcohol consumption.

“And it is so, so good for you structurally, orthopedically.”

Interview with Graham Allen: Stand, Fight, Win

1:02:06 to 1:09:08

Join the discussion with Graham Allen on political challenges and maintaining optimism.

“When there are supply constraints on commodities, prices surge.”

COVID Cover-Up and Intelligence Operations

1:10:03 to 1:11:58

Discussing the implications of the COVID cover-up and intelligence operations during Trump's presidency.

“shrinking dramatically to just shriekers at this point because the ops are getting just so obvious.”

The Victim Mentality in Politics

1:11:59 to 1:14:04

Analyzing the victim mentality in politics and its effects on American citizens.

“But again, it goes back to what we're talking about.”

Political Strategies and Voter Engagement

1:14:05 to 1:16:08

Exploring political strategies and the importance of voter registration and engagement.

“I do not buy into this, oh, no matter what we do, Israel or whoever it may be is over us.”

Conspiracy Theories and Political Reality

1:16:09 to 1:18:38

Examining the blurred lines between conspiracy theories and actual political events.

“even if you really can't stand, register Democrat, vote for the most conservative Democrat and then go vote Republican in the general.”

The Ongoing Political Struggle

1:18:39 to 1:20:28

Discussing the continuous political struggle and the need for active participation in elections.

“Andrew's wife has filed for divorce against Andrew Colvett.”

Empowering the Next Generation of Leaders

1:24:00 to 1:25:14

Discussion on the importance of grassroots leadership and activism.

“where they hand a little baton off to everybody else to keep the race going.”

Evaluating the Political Landscape

1:25:14 to 1:27:12

Analyzing the current political bench strength of both parties.

“I mean, between Vance and Rubio and isn't I mean, he's got an administration full of just studs, you know, Stephen Miller and others doing just an amazing job out there.”

The Importance of Voter Engagement

1:27:12 to 1:30:05

Highlighting the necessity for voter turnout in upcoming elections.

“But, I mean, Pete's profile has absolutely exploded.”
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Transcript

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0:02All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino Show. Yeah, so yesterday's show pissed off all the right people, and that's great. That is spectacular. There's nothing I enjoy more than rage bot meltdowns telling me, oh my gosh, we're so pissed off and angry. I need you to be pissed off. What are you laughing about? It's true. These guys, you ever read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? You know Nurse Ratched? If Nurse Ratched is proud of you and loves what you're doing, you're probably doing it wrong. I don't want Nurse Ratched to like me. My entire goal right now is to get our compass true north again, away from the people trying to pull it untrue south, okay?

0:49I want you to be pissed off. That's the goal. Of course you're going to be pissed off. Graham Allen texted me about coming on the show in a little bit. Graham Allen's going to be here as our guest, so don't miss that. We love Graham Allen. Thank you always for rating our show. I don't give a shit that you're pissed off. Actually, I do. I shouldn't say that. I want you to be mad. Someone leaking out a fake story about a raid while President Trump was overseas trying to fix the world's problems is such an obvious op and scam that there's no point in this show if I'm not going to call it out. And the fact that the rage bot farms and the foreign bot farms who were involved in this shit were all pissy about it shows you exactly who they are.

1:41They are no different than two-bit leftists. And by the way, these leftists out there are telling you who they are and you should listen to them. I'll show you a clip right at the beginning of the show, but I have some good news for you in the beginning of the show. You know why? It's Friday. It's Friday. And everybody loves Friday. You know why? Because the next day is Saturday, and most people don't have to work. To our military heroes, our cops and firemen and first responders who work 24-7, 365, and don't get a day off, God bless you on Police Week. You know I love you, man. You know, I heard once at a speech.

2:14I was giving a speech in Alamogordo, New Mexico, and a lady who was a spouse of a former state trooper gets up and you know what she said? She said, the greatest sound in the world is the sound of Velcro at night. You guys get that? Tell me in the chat. I know you law enforcement spouses know what that means. Like Velcro at night. It's the sound of the body armor. Your husband or wife comes home safely and the body armor is so loud. The Velcro is super thick and it wakes him up. they don't mind that wake up. They know you're home. Greatest sound in the world. Thank you to all those who serve, who don't get Saturday off.

2:55But most of us do have tomorrow off. So I've got just a small snippet of one of the best commencement speeches I think I've heard in a long time. You may have seen it yesterday. It's worth your time, the whole thing. I can't play the whole thing, but it's a country singer, Eric Church, who just, man, gave a freaking banger of a speech. But he said something really critical. I want to get to that. And then also something that happened overseas yesterday. I haven't seen covered much, light coverage. And it happens all the time. It was on President Trump's trip. It got a little bit of coverage, but this happens all the time.

3:28I'll give you kind of some behind the scenes on that. I don't want you to sweat too much what's going on there. Car Shield. Hey, I use my car for just about everything. I'm in it all the time. It's like my traveling office. So when it breaks down, it not only costs me money, but it costs me time. And it's a real pain in the butt. And I don't want to think about it. I don't want to worry about that stuff. when your car goes down it's not just inconvenient it throws everything off your entire schedule i've had that moment you know you get that strange sound that that bell that goes off in the car and it turns into a warning light which turns into a huge bill suddenly you're bracing for this bill you didn't plan for that's why i'm a fan of car shield it's fantastic i love it you got to be prepared for this stuff having that extra protection takes a lot of stress out of owning a car cars are very expensive right now they used to have a bumper cost you like 30 bucks to repair the bumper when I was a kid, the metal bumper.

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4:47It's pretty impressive. Drive with zero worries. Thanks to CarShield. CarShield. Right now, CarShield is offering our listeners 20 % off with the code Bongino at carshield.com slash Bongino. Don't let an unexpected breakdown ruin your day. Get covered with CarShield. Drive with confidence. Go to carshield.com slash Bongino. Use code Bongino for 20 % off. Thank you, CarShield fellas. Let's go. You may say, Dan, why are you all dressed up? Now, people who are new to the show will be like, that's dressed up. Dan Schurter is going to get a 10 on the scale today. Biggie Fresh 65 in the chat. Do we have it?

5:24We haven't done that in a while. Nicole has not made a... She is really excited. Got the lovey-dovey eyes going on there. Nicole, sorry, not available. I know. I get it. I got a special event. This is dressed up for me outside of like weddings or funerals this is like the best you're gonna get i got a special event going to later so a lot going on so as i said um and i don't want to just i don't want to hammer this too much but all the right people were pissed off yesterday okay folks i'm just not going to let it happen anymore there is a lot of sabotage going on and we've been successful in exposing it and the people behind it are freaking out because this is one of the biggest audiences in the magosphere and there's nothing they can do to combat it that segment where i just lost it on them yesterday went viral yesterday and i saw the panic i so you could see it on x the rage bot meltdown all the internal saboteurs doing their best to make it go away you can't make it go away we won w for the dan bongino show and the bongino army we won i'm sorry you had a drop in l and you got smoked i know you guys can't live without me but we can live without you.

6:31I know that hurts. I know it bothers you that we constantly, we're only eight minutes of the show. We got 34 ,000 people here. I know that bothers you that a stadium full of people are listening to us expose your shit while you're hollowing into the, hollering into the abyss. I get it. W's in the chat. We won. We exposed you guys. You look like a bunch of buffoons. Now everybody knows it. And there's no backing down. There's doubling down. That's it. Dubs, dubs everywhere. We just keep racking up the dubs. The administration keeps racking up the dubs, and you keep dropping big-time L's. And we're enjoying every minute of it.

7:14I know it drives you crazy. Now to the good news. So I saw this. That is good news, actually. I saw this yesterday. Eric Church, country singer. I got a newfound respect for you. I always liked his music. Is it? Can you do me a favor? Josh, look. Is that Guy? No, it's Guy. Josh, look this up. What's that new song, that compilation song, Morgan Wallen and Hardy about the guy? Folks in the chat, help me out. Is it MacArthur or something? They got this new... MacArthur, right? Is Eric Church in that too? I think he is. He is, okay. And Tim McGraw too. It's a great song, MacArthur. Can't recommend it highly enough.

7:51I got a newfound respect for Eric Church. He gives a commencement speech. Here's one of the parts I thought was best because it's true, folks. I've had a lot of drama in my extended family over the years, and you always got to remember, like, when the chips are down, a lot of those people loved you when you probably didn't deserve it. Check this out. String two.

8:18String two is family, okay? Look out at these bleachers. Look around. Somewhere in that crowd is someone who has loved you longer than you've been easy to love.

8:32It's true. Someone who saw you at your actual worst, not your public-facing worst, and didn't leave you. Someone who worked a job they didn't love to put a book in your hands you sometimes didn't open. Someone who sat alone in a quiet house and cried the weekend you moved into dorms and wondered, have I done enough? That is family. And the A string is where the music starts to get warm.

9:05Folks, this speech is absolutely worth your time. If you haven't seen it, you should. It has gone nuclear on X and snippets on TikTok and elsewhere. It's worth your time. And I love Eric Church's music, but respect, brother. Absolutely amazing speech. And the way he did it with the guitar and the six strings, just incredible stuff. Look at that. American flags in the chat. Love you guys, man. I knew you'd like that on a Friday. You know, you get up on a Friday morning, you want some good news. So I want to get into some hard news, though, because Trump, President Trump is headed back from China after what appears to be a successful visit.

9:46Folks, listen, we got to be realistic. We're dealing with our most significant global adversary. President Trump had a couple of goals there. Keep us out of nuclear World War Three. Understand that China is a part of global commerce. We admitted them into the WTO, not in the Trump administration, but we have to deal with them. There's just no way around it. There's obviously the ever-present threat of them invading Taiwan. It's not going to go away because we said so. And the thing about having President Trump, who's a transactional realist, is he gets that. We're not going to get a lot out of China.

10:19They're not going to get a lot out of us. Sometimes maintaining a status quo while sanding down the edges is your foreign diplomacy. That's just the facts. The fact that he's got the moose nuts to go over there and do it, knowing he's not going to be able to come out of there with big, huge, bold proclamations is a big deal. I mean, folks, you have to remember when Reagan was dealing with Gorbachev early on, you know, some of the initial meetings were not a success at all. And he kept going and kept going and kept going at his own political expense. And in the end, finally got what he needed. This is how diplomacy works.

10:55It's not me, you know, putting lipstick on anything. It's just the real world. But this happened, yeah, I saw it get a little bit of coverage. So I just thought it was an interesting opportunity to provide some behind-the-scenes color on this. I did four foreign lead advances as an agent with the Secret Service. And I was on a ton of foreign trips as, you know, post-stander or shift agent elsewhere. There's always, always conflict with the host country. Let me just tell you what. So something happened in China. Let me just play the clip, actually. This is the press in China and the Chinese security services there will not let the press leave.

11:35They got to get into motorcade because that's how a lot of these authoritarian countries work. So it got a little bit of media hype. I'm telling you, this stuff happens all the time. Watch this. This is interesting. Do you understand that we are in the motorcade with the president? We didn't know. No, no, no. My concern now is that the security of our side do not allow you to leave this building. They are literally waiting on that. We got to move. I can guarantee you that the Secret Service advance agent who did this, advance, had already worked this out with the Chinese security services. I guarantee you.

12:16You say, well, why the confusion here? Because, folks, when you deal with these foreign security services, here's what I noticed. Here, write this down, cash this check, take it to the bank, okay? Or take it to the bank, then cash it. We live in the United States of America. Okay, hello, we get that. We are used to leadership being diffused down. The director of the Secret Service, Sean Curran, is not there making that decision. So what happens is we diffuse it down. When you're a lead advance agent in the Secret Service and you run the trip, you're not even a supervisor. You're not. You're just you're a GS-13.

12:54You're not a supervisor. But you're allowed, authorized and encouraged to take the leadership role, just like military folks are, and to do the right thing. Just like a first lieutenant in the field. You don't have to call Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war, to make every decision. A lot of these authoritarian countries are not like that. They are so used to just the, have to just genuflect on a knee in front of the leaders of the Communist Party that they cannot make a decision ever. And unless someone directly told them in advance, that specific person at that time, you have to do this. They won't do it.

13:31This happens all the time. So I just didn't want it to be a distraction from President Trump's trip. We've got a little bit of media coverage, but I wanted to show you, I can prove it to you. Receipts matter, right? We always bring receipts on the show. Telling you about my stuff is, who cares? Let me show you actual stuff. This happened when I was an agent. I remember it was, I wasn't on this trip, but this was a huge deal. This was in Chile and President Bush is down there and his SAC in charge, special agent in charge of the president's details right over his shoulder. It's a guy by the name of Nick, right?

14:04Nick is over his shoulder. Nick's a good guy. So Nick's over his shoulder. President Bush goes to walk into this event in Chile and they try to keep the boss, the head security guy from the Secret Service, out. And President, you know what, just play the media report for it. The media report's the best one. This is MSNBC covering this. Happens all the time. Check this out. President Bush had to take matters into his own hands when his security staff was blocked from entering an APEC dinner. Chilean security would not let the president's bodyguards enter with him, so then a pushing and shoving match ensued.

14:36When the president heard all that commotion, he strode, as you can see there, back to the door. he reached through those Chileans and pulled his lead agent through to join his entourage. No word on what the president said immediately after as he returned to shake hands with other dignitaries. I'm telling you, this happens all the time. A lot of our folks here who are law enforcement officers in our military, FBI, Secret Service, DEA, you're used to being a case agent. You're used to being an officer in the field making decisions, right? This person a ticket, don't arrest this person, don't. You don't need to call back headquarters and the police chief for everything.

15:10These authoritarian countries are not like that. You can have a thousand conversations with their their lead advance on the China CCP side or the Chilean. It doesn't matter if it's not that exact guy. This happens all the time. Here's one more for you. This was North Korea during Trump 45. The North Koreans over there. And this is Stephanie Grisham, who was the press secretary for a short amount of time. They don't want to let the press even move. I guarantee you, again, this was worked out in advance. But because it's not that guy, here's what happened. Check this one out. U.S. Bulls. Yes, yes, yes.

15:52U.S. Bulls. U.S. Bulls. You see, they're trying to keep him out. This happens everywhere. So, bottom line, tie this up. just be very proud that you're part of a United States of America that respects freedom that even though we can't stand the press we respect the freedom of the press because the alternative is even worse and we just don't do shit like this we just don't there's Stephanie Grisham with him she goes out and rescues him and by the way she wound up rescuing a bunch of liberal reporters because that's the United States we would rather have bad press coverage than a communist country and no press coverage at all.

16:30That's the way we roll. And you should be proud of that, that we're open to criticism and accountability here, even by a bunch of lying buffoons. You had to go out and rescue them. So don't let it distract you. This happens all the time. It's not a big deal. They could have done the greatest Secret Service advance in U.S. history, and it doesn't matter. These countries do this shit all the time. So, folks, I said to you yesterday, and again, we pissed off all the right people, that this is a time for choosing. We have a movement going forward that has built something really special, and I'm honored to be a part of it.

17:01This MAGA movement is transformative. It's like the Reagan revolution. I mean, I'm only 51. I'm not that old. I don't pretend to be the senior statesman of this movement. The senior statesman of the movement is Donald Trump. It's not me. However, I'm proud to have been a part of this movement in 45, what should have been 46 and 47. This movement is like nothing you've seen before. If you go back and look at the pre-Ronald Reagan Republican Party of the, you know, Spiro Agnews and Nixon and, you know, the EPA and Gerald Ford and, you know, loose monetary policy and the whole idea of the Republican Party.

17:41A lot of members of the institutional Republican Party used to be for tax cuts. I mean, excuse me, for tax hikes. They were soaking the rich nonsense and all this other stuff. This detente bullshit, the detente stuff with the Soviet Union that Reagan threw out the window. You know, a lot of Republicans believed in that too. Oh, just let the Soviets build up the, don't get them angry. God forbid there's a nuclear war. Reagan was like, yeah, God forbid there's a nuclear war. We're the United States mother. We're going to, we're going to make that we're going to outbuild them and we're going to bankrupt them using a defense buildup.

18:14And it worked. Reagan changed the whole Republican party. I'm telling you, like you would not even recognize the Republican party pre Ronald Reagan. You wouldn't even reckoned them. They were totally different. Donald Trump has had that same effect on our Republican Party now. He has moved the needle so far from the old kind of weak-kneed establishment, managed decline Republican Party into this new aggressive kind of populist movement that's brought in minority voters, working class voters and elsewhere, that they're terrified of them. But it is a time for choosing. You have to ask yourself, do you want to be part of it or not?

18:50And that's fine. Like, we're a free country. You're not obligated to be part of the MAGA movement. You may say, I want to go back to the old ways of the Republican Party. It's your right to do that. Run for office. Raise money. I'm just telling you, I don't want any part of that. I don't. I'm not really interested in that at all. Because we're fighting a very organized, very pernicious, and very dangerous political opponent. Folks, when they tell you who they are, listen to them. You know, there was this brief moment after the electoral drubbing Trump 47's victory. There was a brief and I mean brief moment.

19:28It lasted about about three weeks to a month where Democrats started to come out and say, guys, some a limited number. But they did. Maybe this, you know, boys, you know, in the women's room crap. Maybe all of this open borders bullshit. Maybe this was a bad idea. And then it totally evaporated. I'm telling you, Brother Dan is telling you here, that is gone. They will never, ever run any time in the near future on a moderate agenda again. The leading candidate right now, almost comically for the 2028 nod, is Kamala Harris, which is almost, like I said, hilarious. It's like a joke. However, don't discount the fact that she could win.

20:13I don't like that stuff. I don't like talks of red wave because it just discourages people from, oh, she's so terrible. I don't need to vote. No, you do. She actually has a following. It's not huge. It's certainly not Obama's following, but it's enough to cause some trouble. She's the leading candidate on the side. She just lost running on far left stuff. Here's an appearance she just did. Now she's running on even more radical shit than she ran on last time Proving my point that if you think you're ever going to run Against a JFK or early Clinton Or second term Clinton Democrat You are absolutely wrong We've got to organize now and recognize the opponent Or we're going to get our asses kicked by really dangerous people Check this out No bad ideas No bad idea brainstorm is what I'd like to call it And in that no bad ideas brainstorm we talk about what we need to do and think about doing around the Electoral College.

21:06We talk about the idea of Supreme Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court. We invite a conversation about multi-members districts. Let's talk about statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C. These are the things I think that we've got to do. We've got to neutralize these red states from cheating, including blue states expanding their maps. And all of this, I think, is, look, we got to fight fire with fire. These folks are playing to win. We got to play to win. Folks, they're not kidding. When they tell you who they are, listen to them, please. I'm begging you as a friend. Listen to them.

21:49They're not kidding. Dumping the filibuster, D.C., Puerto Rico statehood, gerrymandering like you've never seen before, ballot harvesting everywhere. Folks, if we lose in the midterms and 2028, it could take two decades to get the country back. If it ever gets back, if we ever get back to normal or even close to normal or quasi-normal at all, I want you to understand they're all about the dance. They're not about actual results. Do you want the results or do you want the dance? Ladies and gentlemen, the Trump administration, if you are on the fence about who you're going to vote for, has produced a portfolio of amazing results you have on the plate you can look at before you eat, before the midterm elections.

22:31Please do it. If you don't like low crime, if you don't like a low homicide rate, if you don't like a closed border, if you don't like 115 ,000 jobs in the last part, if you don't like that, if you don't like the productivity revolution, if you don't like that, fine, vote Democrat. But at least acknowledge the results. They're all about the dance and the show. And it's a scary dance and a scary show. No bad idea brainstorm as well. Oh yeah, there's bad ideas. There's a lot of bad ideas. Packing the Supreme Court, just randomly adding states as long as they vote Democrat. I promise you these are bad ideas.

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26:45Use DAN, the code, to save today. Offer is valid for a limited time. Terms and conditions may apply. I planted one of their lemon trees at the house we moved out of. Like I said, I drive by every day. It's still there. dropping lemons still. Thank you, fast growing trees. We appreciate it. Folks, the truth is out there. And no, it's not an X-Files episode. It's really out there. You can do your homework. I like to make it easy for you because a lot of you work really intensely for a living, have kids to raise. You know, you don't have time to sit around reading, you know, through X all day, trying to, you know, aggregate data on crime stats and all that stuff.

27:19I totally understand it. You got lives to them. That's my job to put it out there on the show. I saw this yesterday, Michael Ruiz, put this out on X. You want this? You want results? You have an election coming up. So the FBI is a criminal justice information services division. They just released it because it takes a while to get the 2025 data. You may say, damn, we're a few months into 2026. I know. The problem is the FBI does not invent the data. They get it from local and state police departments. And sometimes there's a lag while it comes in. So we're just getting the complete data set for 2025.

27:53Folks, murders and robberies both dropped more than 18%. Now, it's not just a raw number. I want you to pay attention to this. This is the largest single-year percentage decline since 1937. It may be one of the lowest numbers we've ever seen. The only reason I say may is it was really hard to aggregate data in 1910, 1920. This may be the lowest homicide numbers we've ever seen. But the percent decline also. So anyone telling you like, oh, Biden did it. well, why didn't he have the largest percent decline in and his administration? There are people out there on the left who don't want to give President Trump credit.

28:30He was the one who did this. He's on the ballot. You have to view it that way. He is on the ballot in the midterms. His policies, his lieutenants, his people out there in the Congress who have been hard on crime. It's the largest percentage drop. I know liberals are having a hard time with this. You may say it was trending down. It's never trended down the degree of change by this much, ever. What the hell do you think is going on? You think this is just luck? These are actual results. And because these results are being produced, as I've said often, who's public enemy number two? Because public enemy number one is always President Trump.

29:06Kash Patel, every time. This story I found hilarious. Remember Deuce Canoe, Fusion Ken Delaney? This guy, do we have that Intercept article? where, remember that article with Ken Delaney? Like he's already been exposed, like a big deep state pawn. Ken Delaney does nothing. This guy, I swear, like you ever see that movie, Billy Madison with the people to kill list. Fusion Ken must have Cash Patel. And it was Steve Buscemi's like putting the lipstick on. That's Fusion Ken. Like he just has this hard on for Cash Patel because he knows the results that they got to get rid of. They got to get like a tomato can in there and they can't let President Trump run on low crime because they know that appeals to Democrats too.

29:49Here's Fusion Ken's latest one. FBI agent. Wait, keep this up on the screen, Jessica. By the way, when he says FBI agents, he doesn't mean, these aren't really, these are just cowardly wussbags. And I'm going to say to the agents who are leakers out there and calling this asshole who was part of the Crest for a Hurricane thing, I will say again, you absolutely disgust me. I am really glad that many of you are gone. Some of you are hiding embedded like ticks. You're just disgusting filth bags That you know it's against policy to do it And go leaking things to the media And you do it anyway Because you don't give a shit Well, listen I'm really glad that you don't like Cash Patel Because we don't want you to like us Because you guys and ladies doing this suck The good agents doing the work Thanks for everything To these losers You absolutely disgust me Really, there's like little slugs That walk around my head I think higher of them than I think of you they know fbi i'll just say fbi internal losers uh say the bureau under under cash patel has been gaming the most wanted list to make the stats look good so just to be clear the fbi has a 10 most wanted list i don't know if you know this or not almost there's been no movement on this list for a long time so when cash and i got in there ken does fusion ken doesn't wait this is a bunch of disgruntled assholes.

31:12When Cash and I get in there, we're like, why can't we find these people? There was one lady on the list. I'm like, we know where she is. Why haven't we done anything about it? Cash got on the phone, made a couple of phone calls, and that was it. Ken Delaney is actually pissed off that because we cleared the list and we got in there so quickly, they had to add more people who then subsequently got caught too. He's actually pissed off about this. Do you guys see Fusion Ken, Andy, is pissed off that we cleared the most wanted us. If Joe Biden and your Democrat allies and Crossfire Hurricane and others, Fusion Ken, were so good at this.

31:44Why didn't they clear the freaking list? Yes, I do. You found it. Thank you, fellas. Fusion Ken, quote, the CIA's mop-up ban. LA Times reporter cleared stories with the agency before publication. Who's this story about? It's about Fusion Ken. There it is. Fusion Ken. You understand what's happening? Scumbags inside the government still Who have buried themselves in there like ticks Hate the fact that the Trump administration is producing results And this harps back to yesterday's show So what do they do? They run to the fusion Ken Zeros of the world And they leak insane stupid stories That the dumbass left gobbles up like a Thanksgiving turkey Man, I can't believe Patel's cleaning that most wanted list out so fast It's amazing, what an asshole

32:40this is comical no recognition whatsoever that the crime and homicides guys is that not what the FBI does it's about crime like right kind of crime and stuff Justin's like a little bit a little bit Fusion Ken's not even remotely interested that these are the best results ever in American history all he's interested is that the most wanted list has been cleared too fast

33:03I swear to you I'm trying to not talk too much about stuff because I don't want to I just can't help it with this asshole this is really a story for him however if you want more dancing if you're into dancing and Kamala Harris and Justin Pearson if this is your thing and you don't want results like that clean streets a closed border President Trump negotiating to keep us out of World War II if you don't want that, that's okay. You vote whoever you want. That's okay. You can vote for dancing. Here's what dancing looks like. There are two components to the dancing. Okay. Okay. One of them, you got to keep people stupid.

33:43Okay. Leftists have to keep people stupid. It's why they use the education system, not to educate people, but as a jobs program. Okay. So I want to be clear on this. How do you keep Democrat voters distracted away from actual results I just told you and get them to believe low crime is not in their interest. Well, you blind them to it. You gaslight them. You have to keep them stupid, number one. Number two, you have to keep them distracted. And one of the ways leftist liberal party folks like Buttigieg and Kamala Harris and this guy, Representative Sean Kasten, another goofball up on the hill yesterday.

34:16One of the ways, one of the ways these idiots keep you distracted is by constantly injecting race arguments into everything. The good news is no one believes this shit anymore, but here they go again. Did you know, guys, that the United States Supreme Court, they have like KKK hoods sitting in their closet? I was like, wow, that's really gauched. That's terrible. That's a horrible, I was unaware of this. Here's Rep Sean Castano. Listen to this bullshit. Chief Justice Roberts has said that we now live in a colorblind society to which I would ask you all, does your answer to those questions depend on whether their robe is white or black?

34:53because make absolutely no mistake the agenda of this supreme court and the agenda of the clan are far too similar supreme court the clan clan hoods keep you distracted keep people stupid remember i told you that song teach your children well they're teach your children to be stupid now showing you listen uh black voters out there listening to the show welcome welcome we are conservatives. We love you here. Unlike the left that treats you and talks to you like pawns and only cares about the melanin component of your skin. Let me just speak for the Republican Party for a moment. We don't give a shit.

35:28We love you. You're welcome. Nobody cares how much melanin you have in your skin at all. We were the freedom fighters. We were the ones fighting against Jim Crow. That is a proud legacy of the Republican Party where everyone's welcome and we defend everyone's freedom and liberty. They are not your guys. They're using this Ku Klux Klan Supreme Court, KKK hoods bullshit to keep you, or try to keep you distracted and to try to keep you stupid because they don't care about you. Okay, show us some receipts. That's what I'm here for. What has two thumbs and brings receipts? Here's a Politico article with the, here is a Politico article of the institutional Democrats' party's feelings about black voters.

36:10Politico, by the way, otherwise known as Bullshitico. Not a right-leaning outlet. This is a quote, folks. I'm not making this up. It's not AI. Politico. A lot of Democrats are willing to sacrifice black voting power to beat the to beat the GOP. I thought that I thought they were about Klan hoods at the Supreme Court in a new political poll. Oh, there's a poll. A plurality of Democrats say the party should counter Republican gerrymandering, even if it means reducing the number of majority minority districts. Folks, I hope you're not falling for this. The black voters out there who have joined the MAGA movement.

36:44It is an honor to have you here. I'm just bringing the receipts right here. That other party, the demon rats, they don't give a shit about you. When you poll them, they tell people they don't give a shit about you. They don't care about majority minority districts. All they care about is beating Donald Trump, even at your expense. They don't care. The receipts are everywhere. These people have lost their mind, folks. There is no dancing on our side. We are the party of results. A lot of those crime numbers, border numbers, those were illegals in your community. Those were crimes happening in your community too.

37:16You want results or you want dancing. Here's what dancing looks like. This is again, keeping you distracted. Did you see this out of Charlotte, North Carolina? There we go. Little bit of dancing. The dancing's important, keeps people distracted. Remember, it's the reverse. Don't teach your children well. That's what the Democrats want. I saw this story. Again, I had to check, make sure it's not AI these days because some of this stuff sounds so crazy, even for Democrats. So there's a race to a point what is it, the Charlotte mayor or something like that. And the NAACP there is like, hey, man, we just don't want to take a look at any white candidate.

37:50You said that out loud on camera? I had to check to make sure this was real. Check this out. Why would we replace the black outgoing mayor with a white person? That simple. NAACP Charlotte Mecklenburg Chapter President Corinne Mack refusing to walk back her comments in this Facebook post from Monday. Mack wrote that it is, quote, seriously disturbing for white folks to be lobbying to be Charlotte's interim mayor. City council is currently searching for someone to serve out the remainder of Vi Liles' term, who is set to resign at the end of June. In an interview with Queen City News on Wednesday, Mack argued recent rulings on voting rights and redistricting efforts are evidence of black representation being undermined and stripped, and that voters in Charlotte have been intentional about having black representation.

38:36And my question to the white folks who are up in arms and outrage, are they outraged about the fact that black representation is an attack? Are they outraged about the gerrymandering that's happening all over this country? Martin Luther King is rolling over in his grave thinking about, you know, hearing something like what was said today in that post. There you go, folks. More dancing. Concerned about the melanin component of someone's skin rather than actual leadership in a community that could use it. That's what the dance looks like. from a group that pretends it's for the advancement of, quote, colored people.

39:11It is not. It is not. The NAACP lost its way a long time ago. A long time ago. And you should not be afraid to call this stuff out. You want to see what not dancing looks like? What getting people reoriented on a compass true north looks like? check out representative wesley hunt just absolutely going off at some of these hustlers this is just stop what you're doing and listen to this about 40 50 seconds long but it's worth your time check this out i'm seeing a lot of talk from my colleagues on the left too as we shift toward this reinvigorated talk about jim crow and the past of this country and as someone who is a direct descendant of a slave as someone whose great great grandfather was born on a plantation, I can assure you slavery is over.

40:07Jim Crow is dead. When I go anywhere, I don't see any white only signs. I don't. I promise you. I am a black man that represented a white majority district in Texas. The great, great grandson of a man born in a plantation stands before you today as a proud conservative Republican from Texas, as a believer and follower in Christ, and as a believer in what this country can be if we allow equality for not just Muslim Americans, not just Buddhist Americans, but also Christian Americans like yourself. If you missed that cartoon, that AI cartoon we played in yesterday's show about the farmer who drops the pig in the well and watches the rats jump in, please go watch it.

40:52Folks, the way the left pushes you and incentivizes you to jump in the well, into the trap that you can't get out of is by keeping you distracted and keeping you stupid. Because you cannot stand up the scrutiny when you just say basic things like, really? Don't you find it a little bit fascinating as the South became more Republican, there was less and less de jure and de facto discrimination? You don't find that even... Folks, hustling and dancing is the distraction. It's meant to distract you from this. This education system they're using as a jobs program is screwing over your kids. It's turned into an indoctrination factory.

41:34That's all it is. Donald Trump, Linda McMahon and others are doing their best to clean it up. But it's going to take a generation to just rip out root and branch the indoctrination that's been going on. Make no mistake, our education system is not about education. We'll bring the receipts right now. Here, show us the reading scores. The numbers are right there. Deny them all you want, leftists. The education system is not educating, it's indoctrinating. Here's a Jean Twenge, sorry if I'm saying your name, a reading score is third graders to eighth graders, 2015 to 2025. Look how far they've collapsed.

42:10She writes, this is a national tragedy. We can't read. We're the richest country in the history of planet Earth. We can't read. Look at this, this disgrace. This is the civil rights issue of our time. Look at this debacle. Damn, what about math scores? Surely we're doing better there. No, we're not. We're not doing better there. Here's a tweet by Katie Miller. We love Katie. Most American school districts are performing worse in math today than they were 10 years ago. This is a national tragedy. Yes, ma 'am, it is. And we're spending more money,$41 ,000 per student in New York. For what? We're flushing our money down the toilet.

42:49We're indoctrinating kids into dancing and distraction and being good little leftists. and they can't freaking read or do math. Hat tip end wokeness on Twitter. Baltimore is spending$25 ,000 per year per student,$2 billion, up from$16 ,000 in 2017. The outcome is nothing. The outcome is worse. Zero results. Negative results. Student attendance down. SAT scores down. Dropout rate up. Chronic absenteeism up. graduation rate slightly ticked up probably because they've lowered standards that's it everything else is getting crushed for dramatically more money this is an indoctrination factory now i want you to watch this video uh hat tip jubilee on this where they sit two people down a table they debate if you're listening on apple and spotify it's a black woman and a black man debating about the issues du jour i only bring up skin color because the left that's their thing They cannot have traditionally voting Democrat constituencies Not be distracted by bullshit And start to focus on the results I want you to watch the woman in the debate Who's the liberal Matt Nuclear is his name?

44:03He does a great job here When he confronts her with facts on black-on-black crime Which is another national tragedy Watch how mad she gets Confronted with the receipts This is what happens when you spend your whole life dancing and all of a sudden the applause stops and you actually have to say something in front of the audience. This is what it looks like. Check this out. I agree that reparations are necessary. I think the most important thing that's necessary right now for the black community would be the stopping of violence, especially black on black violence. I don't see how reparations are going to solve anything.

44:35You can give everyone here like a$50 ,000, especially people that are in the streets who are committing violent crimes consistently, a$50 ,000 check. It's not going to fix anything. It's not going to increase the median household income in the next 10 years by 10 % or 20%. I'm not sure where your education came from, but they lied to you. Stats don't lie, though. Are you acting right now? Do you really believe this? I'm telling the truth. There's no systemic racism that I've experienced here in America. What system is racist? I think the only racism we've actually seen recently, systemic racism we've seen, is the application of systemic racism against white people.

45:05The University of Western Washington, for example, has been trying to segregate dormitories, using black-only dormitories because black people feel safer amongst each other. But they're more likely to kill each other than white people are ever to kill them. That's just the truth. You have King Von rapping about killing other black men. Why should I think that the white man is the oppressor when black men are more likely to kill me? Oh, my God. This is scary. You need to think about me as your mama. Do not talk to me in that fashion. So let's check that now. Notice it's all about the dance and the act, but no actual comeback to that young man spitting facts there.

45:42Nothing. Where'd you get your education from? Gee, I don't know. Books like reality. You see the frown lines on her face as she's so upset about what he's telling her because it's true. Folks, we're here from you. Don't engage in this suicidal empathy bullshit. God said it as a book ad about suicidal empathy. I saw him on Fox this morning. Ladies and gentlemen, the thing about suicidal empathy, you know, treating people who've been just the boot of the government neck, destroying urban communities, the black community elsewhere, through just absurd, you know, government overregulation, the lack of policing in their communities.

46:17This is all from what's been empathy, like suicidal empathy. The thing about suicidal empathy, and I saw this Daily Mail report about this the other day. The thing about suicidal empathy is that if you're a victim of a crime, This New York City woman declined to press charges against a subway shover, shoved them on a track because, quote, she didn't want to put another black man in jail. Weeks later, he allegedly killed a retired teacher at its station. Folks, it's not about you. You have to make hard decisions and empathy as a disguise here. It's about putting others in jeopardy doing it. This is why you have to focus on results and put the emotions aside and cut the dance and bullshit.

46:58Education, pulling your kids. You have to just pull your kids out of this. If this system is indoctrinating them, you have to homeschool them, find a different school, get them out. It's going to be hard to rescue them. My kids have been good. My two daughters. I've stayed on top of it for a long time. But make sure you know what they're doing in their schools. Make them watch this video. This is a short clip from John Stossel. Stossel does great work on this stuff. This is a short clip on socialism, which despite its 100 % success rate of failing, just continues to infect our school system versus capitalism.

47:33Notice how the emotional arguments always work for socialism. You know, we got to take care of people who are poor. Yeah, yeah, great. We do. The problem is socialism doesn't do that. It makes people poorer. And while capitalism will make certain people richer, the poor folks in a capitalist system will always be richer than poor people who are being tortured in a socialist system. Check this out. Capitalism, unlike socialism, is voluntary. Transactions happen only if both buyer and seller think they gained something. Like a pretzel. We see this in every transaction. After I paid for this pretzel, we both said, Thank you.

48:10Thank you. Two thank yous, because we both got what we wanted. The socialists attack billionaires, saying the rich take from workers because... We have a finite amount of money. You know, Jeff Bezos has, what,$100 billion? Yeah, his wealth is making a lot of people poor. But his wealth isn't making other people poor. That finite amount of money myth is the essential fallacy in the attack on capitalism. There isn't a finite amount of money because capitalism creates wealth. For thousands of years, everyone but nobility was poor. Then, some countries tried capitalism and wealth skyrocketed. When governments allow private property, and people are allowed to buy and sell things freely, everyone is better off.

48:56The socialists don't understand these gains, they say. No one ever makes a billion dollars. Hmm. You take a billion dollars. Hmm. Her ignorant audience applauds, but billionaires don't take a billion dollars from other people. When markets are free, they can only get rich by offering us something we think is better than what we had before. Folks, I'm begging you as a friend, please educate your kids. They are being fed this syrup of Ipecac in the education system that has no desire to educate but to indoctrinate your kids, and it's up to you to stop it. Every single time you have an opportunity to teach your kids about the dangers of big government, collectivized, centralized power, do it.

49:44Do it. every single opportunity you can take, take it. Or else you're going to wind up with something like this. Do you guys remember this old MSNBC ad? This is the doctrine of the left. Your kids are their kids. No. No, they actually said it. This was an ad that ran for MSNBC. It was a while ago, I don't know, five, six years ago. I don't know. Time's all blending in these days in my 50s. However, listen to the words of this where they actually say it. This is who they are. No, no. your kids are your kids. That is as period full stop as you're ever going to get. Check this out. We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had kind of a private notion of children.

50:26Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. Once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the households, then we start making better investments. No, kids are not, belong to the community. Your kids belong to you. That is a way of diffusing responsibility to others. I love how she says, axiomatically true, tautological things too. Like, well, we all have a responsibility.

51:02Yeah, of course, they don't belong to you. This isn't, remember that Hillary Clinton book? It takes a village. No, it takes you. It takes you.

51:14Show them clips like this one from Elon, back from Lex Friedman's show from a couple years ago. Here's Elon talking about how wonderful and great a country this is. This is the kind of stuff we have to impart upon our kids all the time. Leave them in this education system where they can't read, they can't do math, the expenditures on them, they take your money, they spend endless amounts of money teaching kids how awful the United States is. Really? If the United States is so awful, why don't we have like the 51st, 52nd and 53rd state in like France, Spain and Europe, despite the fact that after World War Two, we could have taken everything, everything.

51:52But we didn't. Matter of fact, we left their dead bodies behind defending them. Why didn't we do that? The answer is because there's never been a country as powerful ever and as benevolent as ours. Check this out. A guy who understands the value of economic freedom and liberty. Here's Elon Musk on the next freedom show. It's a couple years old, but it's worth your time. Check this out. The good news, the history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive, meaning they're not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries. They do feel very strongly, you know, so that's good. I mean, because a lot of very powerful countries have been acquisitive.

52:31The US is also one of the rare cases that has not been acquisitive. after World War II the US could have basically taken over the world and any country like we got nukes nobody else got nukes we don't even have to lose soldiers which country do you want and the United States could have taken over everything and it didn't and the United States actually helped rebuild countries helped rebuild Europe helped rebuild Japan this is very unusual behavior almost unprecedented

53:06You know, the US did conspicuous acts of kindness, like the Berlin airlift, you know. And I think, you know, it's always like, well, America's done bad things. Well, of course America's done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record. Folks, then you get buffoons like that Robert Reich guy, this liberal communist, talking about how billionaires, they must have taken it from everybody else. He puts his tweet out, gets community noted into the ecosystem. Angel Christine Patriot in the chat. F you lady, my kids are my kids. You're damn right. You're damn right. Put up that tweet by Robert Rice.

53:46Just go ahead and got community noted into the phantom zone. They just make this stuff up, folks. They just make it up. There are five ways to accumulate a billion dollars. Profiting from a monopoly, insider trading, political payoffs, fraud and inheritance. Don't believe the self-made myth. Well, community notes came in for the win here. Research shows most billionaires accumulated wealth by founding and building successful companies. A University of Chicago study found nearly 70 % of the 2011 Forbes 400 started their own business. There you go, from the top ropes to people's elbow. Educate your kids, man.

54:24they are obviously axiomatically the future we're not going to have a maha or maga movement going forward if we don't rescue our kids from some of these hellhole indoctrination factories speaking of a maha moment you know i'm a big health hacker i love it i have to be i'm always worried about my health i love this stuff i think it's a huge portion of the republican party going forward the democrats by the way did you guys notice how that whole democrat liberal like body positive movement you know people were like obese which is not healthy folks it's not i'm sorry i don't care if they're whoever's telling you that is just lying to you it's just not true they were all body positive and then glps came out and now all of a sudden you get all these people talking about body positivity losing all this way they go yeah let's just throw that out the window now just take the shot and everybody gets what happened what happened to that i love our maha moments this was a really good oh wow look at that we got you guys got a graphic for this?

55:17These guys are surprised. Check this out. The Maha Moment. David got like a, who did that? Was that an Andy special? Look at Andy, producer Andy, taking it to the bank on that one. Good job, buddy. You earned your paycheck this week. Very well done. This is your Maha Moment. You know, I'm a big fan of Dr. Rhonda. She had a guest on the show. They were talking about, again, check with your doctor. You may have some orthopedic problems. Seriously, like this is, these are not for rookies or anything. One of the best things you can do for your body in our Maha moment of the day is just to hang from a bar.

55:49Hang from a bar? Really? No, I'm not kidding. I have terrible shoulders. It has been the greatest thing for me. Get that spine lengthened out. Work yourself up from 10 seconds to 30 seconds to a minute to two minutes to three minutes. It is the easiest thing you can do. And it is so, so good for you structurally, orthopedically. Check out Dr. Rondo on this in our maha moment. Check this out. People hang from a bar. If you can hang three minutes a day, work on that, that's such a great thing to do. Why? Good for your neck, good for your back, good for your shoulders, right? We tend to find that people who can hang have less shoulder pain, less neck pain.

56:29Okay. It's a fundamental position and what we're really doing when we're hanging... Three minutes. Three minutes in total. What we're really doing when we're hanging is an isometric and we're just telling our brain these are really important positions to be in and that hanging really popularized by Ido Portal was the first person to be like, let's aggregate hanging. We start to see that shoulders hurt less, back works better, neck functions more effectively because we're just spending time in these end ranges. You don't like to hang? Let me introduce you to downward dog. Downward dog is another version of spending a lot of time with your arms over your head.

57:02And if you've ever gone to yoga class, you spend like two and a half years in downward dog for a reason because it's a really important position. Hard time 75 in the chat says, is this hanging out at the bar count? At the bar. I don't think so, but I bring that up, hard times 75, because unintentionally you segued us nicely into my next Maha moment piece here. Who? Which guy? Coho Run, stay healthy, only drink all-grain beer. It's your fiber and vitamin. Hard times 75, no, hanging out in the bar doesn't count. But this may be a little controversial, okay, what I'm about to say for the Maha moment.

57:43You may say, Dan, the Maha moment, where are you going with this? Put up the tweet about alcohol consumption with kids. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, I, all right. This, I haven't owned a bar, my family growing up, Gibby's Bar, 64th Place in Myrtle Avenue, Queens, New York, right near Liberty Park. Grant Bailey on X, huge collapse in drinking amongst high schoolers. Okay, well, that's good. If you're underage, don't be drinking. It's illegal and it's not good for you. I just want to be clear on this, okay? because people ask me, Dan, you know, you say on Friday night, you'll have a couple glass of wine with Paula or whatever.

58:17I do. Why do you do that? You're a health guy because folks. Mental health, you got to earn your weekends. That's the way I look at life. Earn your weekends. Bust your ass Monday through Friday and enjoy yourself Friday night or Saturday. I try not to do two days, one day only, but I'm living my life to build memories and enjoy myself. And the only thing that concerns me, not about high school, is like, that's good. They're not drinking. Alcohol is a poison, make no mistake. The dose matters, obviously. It is a poison. Anyone telling you otherwise, oh, it's got some health benefits, is on that line to you.

58:49It's not true, okay? but ladies and gentlemen, it is a social lubricant. And as long as you're responsible with it, you're not stupid around it, you don't get out of control. The idea that having a couple of drinks with some friends, get yourself an Uber, a Lyft, a driver, get a driver for the night, have someone pick you up. The idea that we all need to live our lives like terrified of the toxin around every corner, that's not, I don't believe, a Maha moment either. making America healthy again is like, hey, live your life, live responsibly. You know, you want a burger once in a while, enjoy one, you know, just the rest of the week, make sure you kind of stick to a plan or discipline.

59:34But the alcohol consumption stuff, I just say on that, like, a lot of these kids who, you know, turn 21 and 22 and had just like a cool night out with the bar, at the bar under control, hanging out with their friends, you know, as we say, the social lubricant, right? Maybe they weren't so comfortable and eased up a little bit. They're not doing that anymore. They're sitting home. They're playing video games, not knocking video games, but they're on their phones all day. And what do you have? You have unbelievable levels of teenage and young adult depression, people who don't know how to talk to people anymore.

1:00:09I got to tell you, I'm not sure that that is an all net positive thing. I know it's a controversial take. It is a poison. But people ask me, I'm not going to be a fraud. Yeah, I'll have a couple of glasses of wine. You know why? I have fun with my friends and just be cool about it. There's my PSA for the day. I'll take a quick break and then we're going to get to Graham Allen. Please don't miss it. He's got a book coming out. Stand, fight, win, support Graham. He's a great guy. He's an amazing show on Rumble. Today's show brought to you by Helix Sleep. Why is Helix Sleep important? Because talking about life hacks, the best life hack of all.

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1:03:14welcoming back to the show one of our favorite guests a recurring regular here our good friend a good friend Graham Allen has a very popular show on Rumble look him up Graham like the Graham Cracker Allen A-L-L-E-N you'll find him there he is uh rocking that slot he's always kind enough to raid our show on Rumble we appreciate it Graham welcome back to the show thanks for having me Dan And the honor is mine to be here on the Podfathers show. It is always a pleasure. That's very nice of you. Hey, bud, just before we get to the interview, Skillet, I don't remember that. For those listening on Apple and Spotify, if you're missing the video of the show, it was exclusive to Rumble.

1:03:53Graham has over his right shoulder a Skillet. I haven't seen a Skillet thing that nice in a long time. Where did you get that from? That wasn't there last time. yeah so so so skillets good friend of mine uh john cooper and all of them and so they actually gave me this is a platinum plaque this is what a platinum plaque looks like and they were kind enough to put my name on here presented to graham allen and you know i always thought i was gonna be a rock star when i was a kid uh and obviously that didn't happen and i got into the podcasting space so you know yeah i finally have a platinum plaque and so it's pretty cool so i added it to the set here.

1:04:31You're like me, man. I just don't have the looks or the musical talent to be like a rock star. I used to, when I ran for office, you know, and I'd sit at train stations and wave to people, they'd say, who are you? I say, Dan Bongino. I said, it's like Bon Jovi without the looks, the money or the musical talent at all. And I'm telling you like the race we almost won, almost doesn't really count. You have no idea on election day, I would be at a polling location. they'd be like yeah man i remember you from uh the metro stop i remember you you were the bon jovi without the looks and he goes and i was like damn that actually worked so i love music i think it's kind of like your uh your your your your key to the spirit realm i mean i go to concerts all the time and with my wife that we've had some very like deep spiritual moments there man there may have been a little bit alcohol involved in some of them but when there's a live music going on right right you you've been there you know and they're rocking it like it's just a weird feeling it's like an out-of-body experience i i love music man so i noticed that in background so big hat tip to skillet so you have a book coming out available for pre-order now we'll be chatting about uh september 1st comes out but please pick it up on pre-order now graham's a a good friend to the show and a patriot it's about standing fighting and win the book is called stand fight win.

1:05:50But one of the things I know you address and that we've been addressing over the last few days is there, and you've been all over this on your podcast too, which I'm very proud of you for doing, because it's really easy to fall into like the current thing, NPC mode, and you don't do that, is the doomers in our tent. This is a very, very real problem. I know it's exhausting to talk about, but you've got a bunch of these people. You all know who they are. They're pretending to be part Some of them are now admitting they're Democrats, by the way. So like, you know, hello, Captain Obvious. But they're not part of our movement, Graham.

1:06:24They are here to sabotage our movement. And to them, it's all about the dance and the performance. And they ignore all of the unbelievable results of the Trump administration. I'm glad to see a guy like you calling it out. Well, I mean, and you as well, Dan. You know, me and you have many conversations off camera about these things. I actually had a conversation with Jeremy Boring just this week about this very thing, that there is this group of people that infiltrated our movement, wolves in sheep's clothing, if you will, that I believe now were never not leftist in the first place. But what's happening is it's this culture of nothing's ever good enough.

1:07:08Dan, you see this all the time. The amazing things that you did in the FBI, Cash, Patel, everybody. nothing's ever good enough. Well, you deported this many people. Well, you should have deported that many people. Well, we got this done. Well, you should have got this done. Oh, well, we locked the border down. Oh, well, you should have, I don't know, destroyed the border completely so nobody could ever jump across it. I have no idea. Alligators in the water with laser beams, like it doesn't matter. No matter what we do, it's never going to be good enough. And I've been a really big proponent of this.

1:07:39I talk about it in the book that as commentators myself, we probably didn't do a good enough job of pushing the reality to the American people that good policies once enacted aren't instant. And it doesn't happen within seconds of things. There are things that President Trump has done, is doing, and will continue to do that future generations will feel the benefits from that they don't necessarily see right this minute. And these bad actors in our movement are using that. The fact that they know that these are good policies. They know that the president's killing it. They know that the reason that China just did a grand parade dance for president Trump is because he has their metaphorical nuts in a vice right now with the straight of Hormuz, 50 % of their oil goes through their president Trump.

1:08:34That is the most 8d chess move I've seen in a long time. No one's talking about it. Why? Because they're talking about, Well, right now the oil companies are making gas high. So, oh, this is why Trump betrayed you. This is why all these people betrayed you. Dan Bongino, Graham Allen, they're feds. They're paid shills to do this and that because they're trying to destroy what we fought so hard to get to. And we're right at the cusp, man. We're right at the cusp of this is the point. This is the inflection point. This is why the midterms are so important. If we lose these freaking midterms, every bit of the rock that we have pushed up the mountain is fixing to roll right back on top of us.

1:09:16And it makes me sick. It makes me genuinely angry at these people. And we have to keep pushing back against it. Graham, I'm seeing it. We're talking to Graham Allen. His new book, Pre-Order Now, is called Stand, Fight, Win. Please check it out. Support these patriots. Graham I'm starting to see and then this is not kind of like utopian Pollyanna-ish nonsense where you like try to manifest things into real I believe in that think good things and good things happen however that's not this I'm starting to see a really significant backlash against this as people start to thanks to guys like you and others and Jeremy and others who have been calling this out over and over that the group of people falling into the doomer black pill class is shrinking dramatically to just shriekers at this point because the ops are getting just so obvious.

1:10:09I'll give you a perfect example. I absolutely was like laser focused on the COVID cover-up case during my time in government. The results are starting to come out now. I told people this was an open case. You know, everybody knew it was an open case. Now you're starting to see some results. We'll let it play out in the justice system. Everybody's innocent until proven guilty. but this was like a results-oriented thing I get into it. President Trump goes overseas. The CIA directors in Cuba, they've got the future of the world in their hands. I mean, this is not me being dramatic. You know what's going on in the Department of War and elsewhere.

1:10:47China is an existential threat to the United States in the actual sense of the word. President Trump's over there, and you got this fake story about like a CIA raid at the DNI's office from a leaker. And I'm telling you, like, I was expecting, even though I don't give a shit, I was going to call it what it was. I was expecting, like, outside of the rage bot backlash. And it was not there. It was only the rage bots because all the comments, the serious ones were like, yeah, man, that does seem, like, kind of weird. Like, that didn't happen and the leak happened with President Trump. But that seems like sabotage because it was.

1:11:27Yeah, that was an unfortunate one. Obviously, we know all of the people that were involved in that whole thing. I think I always try to do to the best of my abilities what you have taught so many of us. It's to hold and it's to wait on the actual facts that come out. And it's a hard thing to do at times. But even that, to me, was one of those situations where I didn't believe it. I didn't think that we were at that thing yet where the CIA was raiding on American soil, another intelligence community, all of those things. But again, it goes back to what we're talking about. There is now this brain rot, rage bot psychosis to where, yes, our conspiracy theory is real.

1:12:12Yes, they are. But what we have going on right now is giving conspiracy theorists kind of a bad name at this point. We have mass brain psychosis that everything is a huge deal. Everything is a lie. Everything is a cover up. Everybody's out to get us. Are there bad shadowy figures inside of D.C. government? You know as well as I do that the answer to that is yes. They often look like career GS schedule federal employees that have been there through all kinds of different administrations that are there to sabotage. They're there to slow roll. They're there to not give you all the information that you're asking for when you ask for it.

1:12:55I saw it with the secretary time and time again. I can't speak for you, but I'm sure you saw it as well. That is actually what we're fighting against in the grand scheme of things. But then we have all of these people that live on the Internet that that's all they want to do. And what what pisses me off the most is people will say, oh, Graham, your numbers are going down or, oh, Dan, your numbers are going. Well, because we're actually, we actually took time off to go actually attempt to do something, to go put sweat equity in, blood, sweat, tears to go try instead of just whining and complaining and moaning all the time.

1:13:32and they're using that as an excuse now to, they're using it as an excuse to brainwash the American people even more, to make them feel like they are victims. And no matter what they do, it's never going to be good enough and we're never going to save this great country of ours or we're never going to keep it afloat. And that's a lie. It's not true. It is a battle every single day and you got to show up and clock in every single day. And I do not buy into this victim mentality. I do not buy into this, oh, no matter what we do, Israel or whoever it may be is over us. And no matter what happens, we're doomed.

1:14:13I'm over it. I can't stand it. And that's kind of what I talk about in the book is this isn't your normal rah-rah book. This is a very real book about what I saw on the inside. It's a very real book. Charlie was assassinated while I was writing this book. And it changed the book like that overnight because what I wrote about in the book, I said, this is where we're headed. The political assassination culture, all this, this is where we're headed. And then unfortunately, and I wish that I had been wrong, but it came true. This book is about the fact of, Dan, you know this, you talk about it all the time.

1:14:52You're so good about it for people like me and your viewers. We got to win 26. We got to win 28. We got to win 30. We got to win 32. You can't just win one time and think that it's over. The war is never over for our country. The battles are every single day. And I'm so thankful for people like you that actually speak that actual truth because so many people don't. They use emotion to manipulate the voters to get what they want and then they move on and they cast them aside. You know, Graham, every movement goes through this. And what I'm most proud of is this MAGA movement, not necessarily a Republican Party.

1:15:30I mean, I'm registered as a Republican because it just doesn't make any sense not to. You know, I tell people all the time, simple political tactics, right? Tactics, forget, pull your emotions out of it completely, not registering as a Republican. Even if you really dislike the institutional and establishment Republican Party, it makes no sense because then everyone else gets to vote twice in a primary, and a general and you don't. So you're not, it doesn't matter. You can register whatever you want. You can register as an alien and vote in the alien party. Like it doesn't make a difference. Like a resident of Mars, at least you get to vote twice.

1:16:04So I tell everyone, register Republican. Or, you know, man, even if you really can't stand, register Democrat, vote for the most conservative Democrat and then go vote Republican in the general. Like at least register for something. Like don't neuter yourself, right? But you've got this growing movement of people that just want everyone to withdraw from the system. And you had kind of hinted to it before. They do it, and it's very clever, actually. And it takes away from the actual conspiracy theories that were true. Most of the stuff that was portrayed as a conspiracy theory around the 2020 election, a lot of it turned out to be true.

1:16:42There was a lot of ballot harvesting. Pennsylvania did change the rules. That wasn't a conspiracy theory. That was a conspiracy fact. The COVID stuff, the whole mask bullshit, you know, the suppression of information about the origins of the virus. That wasn't a conspiracy theory. That was a conspiracy fact. Russia collusion, Arctic frost. You know, all of that stuff was exposed when President Trump got in office. And we brought that to Congress, 30 ,000 plus papers. But when we start getting into other stuff and this growing political violence like on the left, you know, we're really losing focus.

1:17:16And we got to be careful because these leftists are, I'll just kind of leave this here. I'm sorry. I know I'm going on a little bit, but Graham, the leftists used to, after say president Trump was shot and Butler or Steve Scalise, they'd usually wait like four or five days before they went crazy again. Did you notice they're not even doing that anymore? The white house correspondence dinner at the next day, they were like, it's a setup. It was all a big conspiracy. Nothing happened. They don't even carry me. Like we're in a really dangerous spot right now. Yeah. Well, yes. Yes, I just talked about it on the show this morning.

1:17:46You've got people like Candace Owens saying that, you know, that Erica Kirk was in on it, you know, faking the video and all of this. And she's like, I've got an email, but the email was deleted. So she literally says the words, I retyped the pertinent information, and that's what I put out there. And these cult or bots or whatever you want to call them, foreign interest campaigns, whatever it may be, they are taking that like it is gospel right now. Because to your point, no one cares. There's no more rules. There's no more nothing. I saw a horrible hit piece on Andrew Colvette. Some fat nobody mom lover in his basement under the thing of Project Constitution comes out and says, this is an unconfirmed rumor.

1:18:35Well, why are you posting it in the first place? And then he plasters Andrew's wife all over the internet saying, Andrew's wife has filed for divorce against Andrew Colvett. Not true. None of it's true at all. But that's where we are. We're at a point now where families are no longer off limits. Who cares about truth? Who cares about actually getting your facts right? Who cares about confirming things? Doesn't matter. It's all about the views. It's all about the clicks. And it's all about the money. And it's disgusting. and what they're trying to do. I do believe there is a massive push by these people that we're talking about to mess us up in the midterms.

1:19:12The Supreme Court handed us a huge victory. We got rhinos in the southern states we got to deal with 100 % about this racial gerrymandering stuff. We got an opportunity to pick up seats. But if you disenfranchise voters to go vote, none of that matters. This is all part of the play. And then they will once Democrats, if Democrats are successful in the midterms, the same people that are saying vote Democrat or don't vote or this, that watch them come right back around again for 28, because that's where the money will be. And we can't allow that to happen. That's why every election matters. That's why every single time you have a chance to go to the ballot matters.

1:19:51The 10, 10, 10, just like you talk about all the time, Dan, like you got to go do what you got to do. You got to put the work in. And I'm just thankful for people like you, Dan, that are going out and speaking the truth every single day. And that's why I wrote the book to hopefully maybe give a spark to people that the war is not over. But the truth is, the war for our country is never going to be over. So we have to fight every single day in every single election. The book is called Stand, Fight, Win by Graham Allen, available for preorder now. It's a call to action before the midterms. You know, Graham, we've got midterms coming up.

1:20:28And, you know, I'm glad you just said that. And I know, forgive me, folks. I'm in no way trying to, you know, speak down to anyone at all. But there is kind of a sense out there sometimes. Like, you know, we won. And, like, this isn't a race where you cross a finish line and the race is over. It's almost like one of those death endurance races where you run until people. It's like that Stephen King movie, who I can't stand, but the long walk. Like, you just have to keep walking until everybody just naturally died. Like, that's what politics is. Like, there is no end to the walk until, like, we're all off this earth and God picks our time.

1:21:07So, like, winning is a process. It's not a result. Does that make sense? Absolutely. And I think once Trump won what I believe was the third time, there was a perception out there. It was the third time. It was. Right. Right. But I like a small group of people like this is over. But you and I know I haven't worked in government. Man, the Democrats and weak need Republicans, Graham, they've been ripping this government to pieces with their embeds. I mean, the Pentagon, the Justice Department, HHS, Medicare, CDC, even international or WHO. They've been doing this for decades, folks. It is going to take this midterm.

1:21:48It's going to take the next presidential, the next midterm. I think realistically, we're about a quarter of the way home to letting that cement dry. But it's a matter of time. Judges retire. Some of the stuff we just can't do anything about. Judges have lifetime appointments and you got to wait for them to retire. I think if we were to win the next presidential and stay solid in the midterms, you don't need overwhelming majorities, but enough to get stuff through. I think we could really put a footprint on society and change it for the better for a generation. Well, I agree because by that point, to your point, if we win in the midterms and we win in 28 in the presidential, by that point, all the things that have been laid out and put in place, enough of the American people will be benefiting from it and seeing it.

1:22:39And then at that point, it's a snowball effect. It's the momentum of it all. What the Dems and the evil are trying to do right now is they know that what President Trump is doing is working. They know what it leads to, just like what you and Cash did or Cash is doing at the FBI. They know what you're doing. Secretary Hague said all of them, they know what they're doing is leading to a better government, a better America, smaller government in a lot of places, which no one talks about, by the way. they know that it's working. Their goal is to try to convince the American people that we didn't actually win in 24.

1:23:20Oh, we thought we won, but Trump wasn't what we thought he was going to be. So now we got to burn all that down and we got to go over here in this way. That's what they want. That's what the enemy wants. The enemy wants us to divide. The enemy wants the American people to be disenfranchised, to show back up to the voting booths because they know that what's been done will work. and they know that if it goes long enough, the American people will see it and they won't want to go back. Well, the sane ones at least. And that's what we have to fight for. You're right, Dan. It's an endurance test and we have to keep going until we are too tired to do it anymore and then we hand the baton over to the next generation to keep it going.

1:23:58It's like that Olympic thing where they hand a little baton off to everybody else to keep the race going. We run and we run and we run until we can't do it anymore and then hopefully we've got the next generation that's young and healthy and they can keep going and they hand it off as well. Yeah, my good friend Ginny Thomas is just fantastic. She used to say all the time to us as activists in this group we were in, she would say, you know, you're the leaders we've been waiting for. And tell that to everyone else too. You are like everyone listening. Don't wait for someone else to be the next man up.

1:24:32It's you. There's no invitation necessary to this party. It's not a closed wedding. like this is your party too if you have voted donated knocked on a door run for office i don't care if you've thought about voting if you're a registered republican this is yours too it's not graham's it's not mine we're just a small piece of this thing i have a microphone that's great but i can only vote once you know i'm not a democrat so i only vote one time like this movement is yours you're the leaders we've been waiting for and i'm really starting to see that like I said, but this backlash against the doomerism and just the insanity that's taken over the left.

1:25:09I think, you know, a lot of people think this MAGA movement is going to die with President Trump. I don't. And hence my next question. I think our bench is just incredible. I mean, between Vance and Rubio and isn't I mean, he's got an administration full of just studs, you know, Stephen Miller and others doing just an amazing job out there. You know, Cash is cleaning up over there. You've got Ratcliffe over at CIA. You've got really great people over there. Our bench is great. Even in Congress, you've got Brandon Gill. We've got a whole bunch of just really good, high-quality senators over there, too.

1:25:44Graham, their bench is just shit. It just is. I'm not telling you because I don't want to, like, let's not get ahead of ourselves. Remember we said this before Obama got on the scene, too, oh, the bench is weak. And then Obama comes out of nowhere. But their bench right now is thin. Kamala Harris, Buttigieg, like Newsom. I'm not telling you they can't win. I'm just telling you these are really like fatally flawed candidates. Yeah, no, they are. My biggest concern through all the research and polling things that I've gone through is, you know, the younger generation is more involved in voting than any of us can ever remember.

1:26:22And, you know, you saw it with the Momdani stuff in New York. You see all this. I don't think that necessarily the Dems need this strong candidate. I think that they're going to try to use the information space and the optics war. We saw it with COVID. I mean, you've got all of this nonstop craziness about viruses and all of this breaking out again. I don't know. My spider sense starts to tingle a little bit when I start to see all of those things. But our bench, to your point, is loaded. I think our bullpen is the strongest bullpen. I'm a Braves fan. The Braves are killing it right now. I think our bullpen is great on our side.

1:27:00To your point, we've got J.D. Vance. We've got Marco Rubio. You've got your Pete Hegsatz. You've got all of these amazing people that are doing it. Shame on me. I mentioned Pete the other day. I mean, obviously, you and I have a personal relationship with him. But, I mean, Pete's profile has absolutely exploded. I mean, Pete could be – and remember, Graham, Pete's young. Pete's younger than me. I mean, not that I'm young. I'm 51. However, that's young enough, especially in the political space. Pete's younger than me. You know, Pete's profiles absolutely exploded. Pete could be a viable candidate himself.

1:27:33He could be a VP pick. He could run himself. Like, I mean, the bench is just loaded. And the thing is, like, unlike Gavin Newsom, a guy like Hegseth or Rubio or Vance is going to have a spreadsheet to run on. The border, military reform. actual successes like actual stuff that happened not just like bullshit yeah no no i agree and so yeah you know everybody's like who do you think is going to be the pick for you know 20 i don't know like to your point we've got such a star-studded thing right now yeah i know the president's alluded to you know a vance rubio ticket would be would be unstoppable and things like that but you know as well as i do two years in politics is a long time let's see what happens But to your point, we have a chance.

1:28:23With the roster that we have, with a Pete Hegseth, with a J.D. Vance, with a Marco Rubio, and the list goes on and on, we have an opportunity to win in 28. Well, we've got to win in 26 first, but presidential in 28, and then presidential again in 2032. We've got some all-stars that we can truly go on a generational run. But it all stops in November if we don't do our job and show up to the polls. And that is the biggest thing that I'm preaching, that me and you, we can see it. Like we can see the legendary dynasty, you know, like your Alabamas and stuff like that. Like we can see it. We can see it coming down the way, but we got to get through November and we got to show up in November.

1:29:08And everybody knows the midterm blowout, you know, or excuse me, the midterm fatigue. It is a known thing. In 2018, there was a 3 % differential of people that voted for Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump in 2018. We saw what happened with the midterms there with a 3 % drop off in turnout to the ballot box. We can't have that. We have to have people show up in 2026 now because we're trying to combat history here a little bit. Since 9-11, if someone takes over all three in a presidential thing, there's a radical swing the next direction. We're going against history here, and I believe we've got the policies on our side.

1:29:58I believe we've got the wins on our side. But we have to motivate the American people to continue to see that. Because to your point, when they log on, they're seeing the rage porn. They see the doomers. They see the woke right. And they see actual leftist disguised as conservatives that are telling them that it's all over. It's all done. We've been betrayed in this. And we have to push the actual truth to get Americans to show up in November. Darn right we do. Folks, that's Graham Allen. He's got a terrific show on Rumble. Make sure you check it out. He's always nice enough to rate us. Also, check out the book.

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