When Did You Change Your Mind (Ep. 2574)

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28:28Governor DeSantis and President Trump, all of them are correct. You're not running away from it. We're going to call you what you are. I don't care if the Wall Street Journal objects to it. President Trump, how dare you call these people a commies? Because they are. They are. Sometimes you've got to really wake people up like clockwork Arnstile and be like, hey, look at what we're talking about. You know, even Reagan, who they love in the Wall Street Journal. was like no pastels, big, bold, bright color differences. We're not doing pastels. Do you remember that? I do. He called out big government.

29:00Worst words in the government and in language. I'm from the government. I'm here to help. That was Reagan. What do you think? He was dancing around. Reagan didn't call out communism. Do you guys happen to remember? You may have been non-existent, but you know, you see, you know, Mr. Gorbachev teared down that wall. He didn't say, Mr. Gorbachev, can I ask you a question? Can you please like slowly remove the mortar from a lot? No, that's not what he said. when people say stupid stuff i gotta get to cursing under control something we have some awesome news coming and i i promise that it involves sean and everything else i just don't want to tell you yet it's not his show monday on rumble it's different stuff the empire's expanding doomers and grifters you're i know you're gonna crap your diapers again going forward as no i get so much joy out of it i can't even tell you you're just gonna crap your diapers again as we continue to expand this little empire we're running here.

29:50But I want you to watch this CNN guest. She says like the craziest thing. She's talking about Momdami in New York. Again, proto-Kami, tip of the spear-Kami. Talking about how he ran on affordability and rents. New York rent is out of control. And yet I just showed you yesterday that New York rents are at an all-time high. So if you had any functioning neurons whatsoever, you'd be like, he ran on this. I'm going to control your rent. your rents are now even worse, sane people would be like, man, he really sucks. We're not dealing with sane people and we're not letting them get away from their message.

30:27Watch the CNN guest, perpetually confused. Check this out. Very skilled marketer, which is why he got into the mayoral office in the first place. And he's continuing to do that. He's very good at the photo ops. But if you look at the numbers, those are telling a completely different story. Rents are at a new all-time high. So I think eventually the data and the reality of the policies he's implementing are going to catch up with him. I do think, though, that there are New Yorkers who are happy with him, not because he's a member of the Democratic Socialist Party. They're happy with him because he was talking about affordability and addressing their top priorities.

30:59They're happy with him because he's following through on campaign promises. You look at filling potholes or fixing drinking fountains. These are things that New Yorkers care about. One drinking fountain, and it's because somebody tagged him on Instagram to do that. A functioning government doesn't need somebody to be tagged on Instagram to fix something. Thank you, Lydia Moynihan, by the way, who's the reasonable sound guest on the CNN panel. She does a great job with Scott Jennings there all the time. Wait, we're proud of Momdani now because some rando on Instagram said, hey, my water fountain's broken.

31:32And Momdani, in what was clearly a photo op, who could be dealing with big issues in the city, crime, the budget, union contracts that are falling apart. Mom Donnie says, hey, bring a photographer so I can go waste my time and pretend to fix a water fountain. And you're celebrating this while rents explode, while he's still attacking the police at any opportunity. I mean, are we for real? And Republicans, oh, we don't have a message. Borders closed, crime crushed, we're building stuff. There's your message, bro. What's their message? we're fixing a water fountain wasting thousands and thousands of taxpayer dollars on an NYPD security detail so the mayor who makes I don't know 200, 300 who the hell knows what he makes can go out there and pretend to fix a water fountain the guy's never had a job in his life wasn't he like a rapper what the F does he know about water fountains the answer is nothing he knows nothing zero gosh I'm tired of this stupid All right, this is an important segment.

32:44Again, lift and shift, chapter three of the show. But this is important. We got to have a hard conversation here. This show does not duck hard conversations. I didn't duck hard conversations either during my time at the FBI. Not everybody liked the answers, but I was always going to tell you the truth. Always. I promise you. You know, I had this argument the other day with someone I was chatting with who's on the other side who called me about something totally different. it's easy to tell people the easy thing it's not always easy to tell people the right thing and that's why this show for 10 years has always had an audience hey jasmine do you see the numbers you proud or what i thought there she is i did i told you all this show succeeded for 10 years my team here today we are dealing with the most headwinds today we have ever dealt with on our show and i said if we hit certain numbers today on the thing i said i'll be really proud of the whole team we're already past the show's not even like close to over so thank you Bongino Army for always being there and the reason you hear is you know I tell you the truth even when it's not what you want to hear I want to play this cut and you'll see what I mean I'm not doing bumper stickers I'm going to give we're going to have some tough talk here this is um Bud Cummins on uh the uh was it Real America Voice Network?

34:05He's a former U.S. attorney. And this is a really interesting 30, 40 seconds. He's talking about the FBI. And the gist of what he's saying, the core of it is, hey, man, these recent transparency efforts by Cash and others in the administration and John Solomon, too, he's done an amazing job, to get out all of the scandals, to show you everything, all the warts that happened. And if this is going to happen, maybe we should just abolish the place. OK, well, let's talk about it. You may think you know what I'm going to say. You don't. I want you to listen to this cut first. It's really important.

34:44Check this out. They were unintelligent. They were untrained. They were unqualified. Or they were unethical and they were unlawful. There's no really other option here. And so how in the world these were some of the included some of the top leaders at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. How can that happen? How can that possibly happen? And this is not hyperbolic. I would rather not have the Federal Bureau of Investigation if we can't figure out a way to stop that from happening because we give them way too much power to ruin the lives of American citizens to allow them to be led in such an incredibly unethical way.

35:31That was a powerful word. They are powerful. And you know what I'm going to tell you? I really, I'll bet to my people who don't know me, but the tractors, they don't like me because I don't engage in their nonsense and I don't do like psyops online. You know what I'm talking about. They probably think I'm going to say that's a crazy idea. I'm not. What? You worked there. What do you mean? it's not a crazy idea bud cummins makes a really good point what's the greater risk if this is just going to be what happens going forward that every time power changes hands there's going to be weaponized use of the fbi and the department of justice to just imprison people for political beliefs i'd rather not have one at all it's not crazy it's not crazy the damage that was done by James Comey, and I would add Christopher Wray, the prior leadership of the FBI, you know all the names, you've heard them all before, Stroke, Page, other than, is when I say incalculable, I mean it's not, you can't put it on a spreadsheet.

36:39That's why I'd say to people all the time, there was no trust me, bro. I love when people say, when we give you actual, no one's asking you to try, I just produced you numbers of what we did. I want to tell you what we did first to change that culture. But then I want to tell you why, again, this is going to be a painful, very difficult, but absolutely necessary conversation. Bud Cummins isn't crazy, and neither is John Solomon, saying those are powerful words. Just quickly, because again, I don't want to, but it's your FBI. Under the president's leadership, cash, and me on the ground, a couple of things, we reorganized the whole place.

37:19We wiped out basically entire divisions that we thought were acting inappropriately and reorganized the entire. Matter of fact, we reorganized it so much that they had phone trees. We had to deactivate whole phone trees because their positions didn't even exist anymore. I'm not making that up. These are all gone. We got to start over on the whole phone tree thing, whatever. We reorganized the entire place. These are facts. These are not opinions. The leadership changes. I'm not sure what the numbers, but probably less than 10 % of the special agents in charge of the offices, the offices around the globe, I would argue probably less than 10 % are still there.

38:02Some people just didn't like the new direction of the FBI and left. Some were let go. A lot of them were let go. The leadership's just not there anymore. 10 % of the workforce turned over I think it was a year after we got there Many were fired Many left Some were suspended But again, these are just facts Because they did not like the new direction of the FBI Which was crazy Let's get back to doing crime and counter-terror And not weaponization Entire squads were dismantled It was a Washington field office squad It was a total mess It was clearly being used for weaponization efforts. The squad's gone.

38:43It doesn't exist anymore. Many of those people were let go. Some people left. The case management for sensitive cases. Everything was done with cash. I don't want to think too. But as the deputy, I had to sign off on sensitive cases. Anything that involved media, politicians. There are now new guardrails. If you are going to investigate one of these people, there are extra steps you have to do now because I just didn't want them, you know, willy-nilly, I hate that, but opening up cases against politicians. There were new guardrails. FISA reforms. It's probably something you haven't heard about.

39:21I am a huge civil libertarian. So is cash. We had a lot of objections within the FBI. We added internal guardrails to use FISA to spy on people. We did. It wasn't popular at all. I'm telling you, the FBI hated it. We didn't care. We did it anyway. We didn't have to do it. We did it anyway because it mattered. Just a couple more. We added millions of dollars to FOIA. The FOIA department, where you can go FOIA, Freedom of Information Act. It was terrible. The administrative processes were terrible. The feedback loops were terrible. We added tons of money. It's going to take a little time to clean that whole process up, but we're almost there to make sure you get the information you need.

40:01Again, these are all facts. There are unprecedented disclosures, things that have been hidden for years. Crossfire, Round River, all of it. We knew it was going to look bad. It didn't matter. It wasn't our job to make anything look good. It was our job for you to see what happened. The transparency engaged in by cash to get you this information, working with John and the administration, is unprecedented. There's never been anything like it. By any measure, pages released. And finally, case management. There used to be a way to hide files. It's a long story. That's gone now. There's a whole new system.

40:36You can still hide files from, you know, if you have like a source or something, but you can't do it the way you used to, to make things go away. So that's, yes, that's not trust me, bro. That's what happened. Having said that, then why are you still concerned? Because let's ask a few questions. Folks, all this stuff we did is for naught. If, I'm sorry, I wrote this. I don't want to, this is such an important conversation. Will any of these guardrails work if new leaders come in and just change everything? If Kamala Harris or AOC is elected president, God forbid, in two and a half years, what's to stop them from coming in and reversing every single thing?

41:20The answer, folks, I wrote it down here. We're about to find out. That's why I don't dismiss Bud Cummins. Ah, that's crazy. No, it's not crazy. We're about to find out. Now, once these changes and all this stuff is dismantled, FOIA, case management, SIM cases, public corruption cases, when those guardrails are pulled down, it'll leak to the media. It'll be politically painful, but I don't think they care. So, yeah, these are serious questions. Question two. If these guardrails don't work and are pulled down, is there another option for oversight? I think there is. I've told many members of Congress it is imperative upon them in a separate branch of government.

42:05The FBI obviously falls under the executive branch, the presidency. The legislative branch has to be more vigorous in their oversight, the FBI. They have to. There's nothing we like more than getting letters about, hey, we want to see this. Good, that's your job. I wish some of it wouldn't leak out because some of it's ongoing. However, it has to be done. You cannot rely on the executive branch to police itself because it could be led by someone like AOC. Just a couple more points, and I got some other things I want to get to that are really important, including Sean Farish. Folks, we can't just casually dismiss the other side either.

42:42We can't just say, yeah, just abolish it. Well, you can. However, there are things that us as rational thinkers who don't think in bumper sticker politics, and I don't dismiss the idea. What are we going to do with the counterterrorism and the counterintelligence mission? You say, well, we can put it elsewhere. Well, doesn't that just create the problem elsewhere? Because it was the counterintelligence mission that was weaponized to go after President Trump. You think like they put it elsewhere, like different people under a Democrat administration are going to just go, oh no, it's a different, it's not the FBI, it's the ABC.

43:22What do we do with the mission? What do you do with the expertise? There are people who've been working legitimate. The FBI does a pretty damn good job on CT. The CI mission was a train wreck. We've got it cleaned up for now. The counterintelligence, you know, catching spy catching basically. Couldn't go right back to crazy though. But what do you do with the operators who've been working a source in Yemen, whatever, for 10 years, has been giving them valuable intel that may have stopped 10 or 20 terror attacks? This is real. Like, I'm not giving up any. I just threw Yemen out there. But there are things like this.

43:54Do you just cancel them and fire them? What if there's a terror attack and babies and grandmas die? Like, don't we have to think about this stuff. We're not the left. We're not Javier Baccaria. Power hour, bumper sticker, dumbass shit. Kurt Russell surfing on the wave in L.A. That's not us. I don't have an easy solution for that. I know I'm here to like, oh, God, I don't have an easy solution for that. If we just transfer it somewhere else, somewhere else could become corrupted too. Finally, one last thing, I already mentioned this, I'll make it quick. The best we can do is the guardrails and the changes we made, I just laid out for you, is to create real headline risk for the next administration.

44:36Create some stronger congressional oversight, strong, like ironclad congressional oversight, and make it so if they change it and say, we're not doing FOIA anymore, we're going to return counterintelligence to weaponize, we're bringing back all these squads that went after President Trump. All right, then we're going to at least write about it and expose it. Not the easiest answer, certainly not the best answer, maybe not even a good answer. But it's a serious conversation we got to have. Folks, that's the thing I really enjoy about being in the conservative movement. You have to give people a lot of difficult, not easy, but right answers.

45:10The right answer here is it's not, there isn't, the right answer here is shocking. There is no right answer. This is something we're going to have to, as a group of people, I'm not in charge. Yeah, you were. No, even when I was the deputy, I'm not in charge by myself. I worked for the president who appointed an attorney general, who there's the DAG, the deputy attorney general that supervises the FBI. I was underneath cash. It's not just me. We all have to decide collectively how we want to move forward. is it worth the risk we're all going to find out i say that because one of the things i bring up on the show all the time and folks this is a conversation i get my balls kicked in every single time i bring it up but if lawmakers would have listened to me 10 years ago audience archivist judy can you find out for me there's no bigger p1 she knows everything the earliest show i've ever done where I mentioned the social security problem, I'm sure it's got to be 10 years old.

46:10I have been warning people for years. Let me just stipulate some points so you don't yell at me because I always get nasty emails. Seniors out there, you did pay in. You did earn that money. 100 % correct. No one's disputing it. All I'm telling you with this segment is for the last 50 years, the government stole your money that you did earn for benefits they promised you after you earned the money. They stole the money and spent it. That's all I'm telling you. There is nothing in the lockbox. It's not a cash fund. It is just IOUs they've already spent. Okay? Always protect your Jimmy. Still sit or kneel.

46:46I'm trying. But Lynn and Jeff, always there. Glad you're staying healthy, Dan. Thank you. Thank you. Dan just drank the Fresca. That's not the Fresca. It's the modern life DDW. But the Fresca, that's another one. We still got the Fresca. I'm just the messenger giving you non bumper sticker power hour politics if we don't fix social security now there is no money by 2032 that doesn't sound far away dan sounds like less than a decade yes now if you would have listened to me 10 years ago lawmakers we wouldn't be in this hole here's the craziest thing i'm sitting home yesterday i i really mean it i read this article in the wall street journal i almost fell over i was outside with lucy who ate another freaking lizard by the vets out there.

47:31Is that bad? She's now like not just attacking. She's now eating them. She didn't throw up or anything. So I thought she was like, any vets in the chat? She's in Florida. A couple lizards in Florida, Justin? Just a couple. I have like thousands of lizards in my house. They crap all over the freaking place. There's lizards in here all the time too. If you're not comfortable with lizards, don't move to Florida. I'm outside with Lucy. I almost fell over when I read this. This is a real headline at the Wall Street Journal. I love Sternberg's pieces. Is Congress about to reform Social Security? What?

47:59I thought that was the third rail. Don't touch it. Just let it fail. Finally, after me screaming for 10 years and others that things go in bankrupt, finally Congress is like, hey, Houston, we got a problem. They note this. This is Sternberg's piece. Under current law, the programs have exhausted their current trust funds. Thank you. I've been saying this for 10 years. Benefits would fall to match current revenue from the payroll tax when that happens. That would require, by law, an estimated 22 % cut in benefits overnight for retirees. I'm just telling you the problem. Overnight, 20 % of your benefits, gone.

48:37Sternberg notes, should it happen, it would constitute what's known in technical political science jargon as a, quote, disaster for anyone unfortunate enough to be serving in Congress at the time. folks we're less than 10 years away from a by law mandated cut and social security benefits because the trust fund is done i'm just giving you the facts there are a thousand ways to fix this thing means testing the next generation of benefits justin told me something interesting obviously we were born in different cohorts i'm 51 justin's 18 he's not i'm kidding it's a joke He's young, though. Justin said, hey, Dan, no one in my generation is even expecting Social Security anymore.

49:26Well, I don't know if that's true or not. I certainly don't speak for everyone. He doesn't either. But if that's the case, then why not reform it now? We can't touch what happened where you can't. It's politically untenable. And by the way, seniors working now, they did earn it. It was their money. Promises were made to them. It's not their fault. What? You said that, Guy? Oh, Guy said it. Sorry. He's like, this is like, this is show stolen valor. Like, how dare you? Sorry, I credit the game. But Justin was thinking it too. I'm just telling you, man, we either fix it now or we're screwed. Why?

49:59Because folks, there are a lot of ops going on always. You know about the psyops. You know, the Jews suck. The evangelicals suck. The Protestants suck. The data center is going to kill you. It's draining Niagara Falls. Folks, the gloves, the death gloves with the shock gloves, they were whipping people. These are all viable things to talk about. I don't want to hear the op, okay? I just want to hear reasonable people debate issues. I don't do power hour, boccaria, bumper sticker shit. We can fix this. The way we can fix it is growth. Shocker. It's the only way out. You are living right now in the golden age of American politics.

50:40Borders closed, crime crushed, manufacturing exploding. You have the ability with artificial intelligence right now going forward to live in basically the electrification of the economy during the industrial era, industrial revolution. Growth could grow to 10 % a year if we would just let people out there in the space use technology to enhance productivity from everyone, from the poorest to the richest American. They don't want it. It's the only way out. I'll give you an example. How are you going to fix Social Security? Well, first, I want you to just see the problem first. EJ and Tony, you know we love him.

51:20Follow him on X. Put up this post on X. Do you understand how bad the government debt problem is at$40 trillion in debt? Let me put it in perspective for you. Put up that tweet. 56, what is it? 56 cents of every dollar is now being spent. Oh, even worse. 56 cents of every dollar the government spent last month. was borrowed. 56 cents. Is that more than half? I'm not a math major. It is, right? I think so. 56 of every dollar was borrowed. We have to pay interest on that, folks. When you're paying interest on 40 trillion, here's the chart for you if you think we're making it up. That's a lot of money.

52:00The interest your tax dollars are paying now on debt your government is taking out to spend money it does not have is one of the top three or four budget items in the budget. Wait, what? Yes. You wonder where your Social Security payments are going? Interest on the debt. Why your military isn't funded sometimes? Interest on the debt. Why Medicare, Medicaid are going bankrupt? Interest on the debt. Now we can grow out of this 10-20 % growth You know, if you had a household That was$100 ,000 in debt Making$100 ,000 a year I'd call that trouble, right Justin? However, if you're making$10 million a year All of a sudden it doesn't look so bad Folks, we can grow out of this The way out of it The only way out of it Is using this flourishing technology To make everyone from the HVAC guy To the finance bros everybody seems to hate wealthier so they can pay more taxes into the system as a percentage of their income and finally get these people made whole in social security and elsewhere it's the only way and i know what you're thinking the democrats are like and and you know socialists you want to run away from their socialist woke one no like but what about socialism is an option we've tried that we're spending ourselves into an abyss i saw this this morning now i am not a fan of sovereign wealth funds.

53:18Government, let me just be clear. I'm not, because they subject themselves to political influence. But if you're going to have a sovereign wealth fund, what do we hear from the Democrats all the time? You got to be more like Norway and Sweden. Meanwhile, Sweden's privatizing their economy because socialism sucks. I saw this story this morning that one of the biggest sovereign wealth funds in the world is Norway. The numbers are staggering. So I put this in chat GPT. Tell me about Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund Weird how they rely on capitalism For their Sovereign Wealth Fund Crazy Justin They got all this money from oil Oh my gosh Javier Bakaria told us about Power Hour and solar At the end of 2025 This is from Chad GVT The Sovereign Wealth Fund Was worth Was worth 2 trillion US dollars Depending on exchange rates It's one of the largest investment funds in the world Norway's fund owns nearly 1.5 % of all publicly listed equities in the world Again, I'm not suggesting government infiltration I'm just telling you, the extent to which your heroes in these democrat social, rely on capitalism is just ridiculous Put up the other one, they got the money from oil They discovered enormous North Sea oil reserves in the 60s and they put it into a fund investing in the free market not government, free market The philosophy was oil, sell the oil, convert it to financial assets Oh my gosh, preserve those assets for future Norwegians Folks, the returns on this thing have been stunning Again, I'm not telling you it's the best idea I'm just telling you, giving you a balanced approach That even your heroes in Sweden and Norway Are almost fully reliant on free markets to save them Not the socialism you claim is saving them You can look this stuff up, you know

55:09Maybe Baccaria can say Yes, you're correct He can do the California investment And take all the tax dollars And invest it in like the free market Which has been exploding He's too stupid

55:24You want a message to run on, man? I'm going to give you a message to run on There's always a message to run on Unlike all this other bullshit Socialism, Democrats, Socialism, bumper stickers Tolerance, Coexist, I don't know what a woman is I'm sorry you're too stupid to figure it out. From the famous now nothing is happening file, I love to hear this stuff. Here are some more results to run on. You may hear more from President Trump and the FBI director today, Friday, 3 o 'clock. President Trump's up in New York running with Bruce Blakeman, running for governor of New York. Great candidate. Know him very well.

55:56Wish him the best. He's got a real shot up in New York. They were getting really pissed off at all this craziness. But Cash put out a post yesterday. I thought nothing was happening. This is what they tell us. We're going to have to add a third bookshelf to the nothing is happening files. Things keep piling up. So the FBI is involved in summer heat too now. By the way, can I just tell you on a personal note to the Bongino Army? My entire 51 years on this planet, it's my proudest professional accomplishment in conjunction with cash and obviously President Trump's leadership. With summer heat one.

56:29I managed that thing. And let me tell you, I'd never been prouder. The fact that we got all these dirtbags and shitheads off the street. They're in summer heat too now. They had a load of this just in two months. 4 ,000 arrests, 1 ,500 indictments, 2 ,500 recovered weapons, 3 ,300 kilos of coke seized. Three Mexican mafia members convicted for murder. The arrest of the rich kings, a neighborhood-based street gang in Houston. With each arrest, we aim to make our streets a safer place. I hear these people, oh, we don't really care. No, no, people care. about it. You don't care about it because you're just a doomer.

57:03What about this one? You guys aren't going after left-wing operatives and all that stuff. It's not about left-wing. It's about corruption. Did you see this story from the Nothing Is Happening file about the SPLC? Again, nothing is happening. Nothing to do with anyone's politics. Everything to do with corruption. This is from CNN, by the way. Exclusive. A former employee of the SPLC has been arrested in California on charges she oversaw secret payments to informants inside of white supremacist groups. Everyone's innocent until proven guilty, folks. but stop telling me nothing is happening. The BLM arrests and investigations, the first Antifa prosecutions in US history, you're just making it up because you're a doomer and you don't want the president to have a message or the Republicans to have a message going forward.

57:46I got a couple of things to get to before I get to, but I want to end on kind of a, before I get to Sean, don't miss my interview with Sean Farris show coming up on Monday, launching really important. Ladies and gentlemen, this is probably the funniest story I think I've seen in a long time. I am not exaggerating. This popped on my Wall Street Journal feed yesterday. Do you know Peggy Flanagan? She's a communist. She is running for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota, which is unbelievable. Lieutenant governor under walls, who's the worst governor in the country by far with all the fraud and all that crap.

58:17Okay. Peggy Flanagan is running as the first Native American on her campaign literature and emails. The first Native American woman to enter the U.S. Senate. Folks in the chat, are we sensing a disconnect? Josh, you see where this is going? Well, that's a problem, right? Because we already have a Native American female U.S. senator under Democrats. Do we not? She actually invented Pow Wow Chow. Elizabeth Warren. She's already told us she's Native American. High cheekbones, my paw You guys remember that? Hey, what up here? Eh, I'm good, honey. How is, so Peggy Flanagan, are you guys going to get in like a UFC cage match for who was the first Native American?

59:04Thank you to James Freeman and the Wall Street Journal for pointing this out, which I missed. I'm not in Minnesota. I don't know, folks, but maybe we should set up like a Parcheesi game, whatever. Whoever wins gets to claim the mantle. I'm not sure. I thought Miss Pow Wow Chow was the first. Marley! Marley! And the church!

59:28Speaking of a little humor, you know on Fridays, Producer Jim, who we love, Producer Jim puts together a moment of calm for you, always from the left-wing side. Let me give a language alert in advance. I haven't seen the clip. I don't. But every time they tell me there's no language in it, there's always language in it. This is your Democrat Zen, thanks to Producer Jim, calming moment of the week on Friday, so you can coast into the weekend with your cortisol levels really low. Democrat Zen moment of the day. Check it out. Our Democrat Zen moment of the day. A peaceful moment to center your mind.

1:00:00I just want people to like me. They don't because I'm trans. I didn't wish I was born in the city. I can't because I was born. This has been Democrat Zen. Again, by the way, guys, I want to note folks in the chat. Remember last week? By the way, Guy did last week's Democrats then Larry the Liberal That is a It's not fake, it's very funny It's a joke, I knew I was right I've been doing this, I think this one's a joke too Yes I need a thorough analysis from the audience That last week If you go look at Friday's show, I was right And where, thank God Andy too Remember Andy too was here, I can't tell you Andy too saved us Last week, Jasmine in.

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1:02:47I can talk about some, but extensive commentary is probably not the best idea. The fact that I said to my team this morning, it's a Friday, in the end of summer, people are still on vacation. The news cycle's slow. The Mangione thing is going on. The Murtaugh thing is going on on live TV. I swear to you guys, I said to my team, we'll do a lot of VOD, video on demand later. I said, if we hit 40 live, I'll be stunned. We'd far surpass that. So we filled the stadium on a day with so much competition. If we would have hit 20, I would have been happy. So that's how much I love you guys. I really appreciate it.

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1:05:36welcoming to the show the latest addition to the Bongino report uh media empire we're building here a an absolutely phenomenal talent uh his show starts on monday at uh rumble.com slash sean if you want to check him out please go sign up today 1 p.m eastern time monday for the live show welcoming to the family, the great, the legend in live time, Sean Ferris. Sean, good to see you. Dan, thank you so much. I'm so excited to start on Monday. It's a full circle moment for me, right? Sitting on the Tappan Zee Bridge many, many years ago, listening to you flipping out over Stefan Alper. And now we're going to be streaming on the Bongino Report and having so much fun blowing it up.

1:06:19We're going to do what we got to do here to advance the cause. And I'm super excited and honored to be given the opportunity. Can't wait to get started. Sean, you really deserve it. And I don't I'm very careful with who we bring in to the family here. You know, listen, I'm a free market guy. It's a it's it's it's a business, but it's a passion for me. Obviously, I love activism just like you. You know, you and I have been at actual events for candidates, you know, helping them. We weren't, you know, paid to do it or anything like that up in New York in states I don't even live in. And you don't either anymore.

1:06:53So this is a passion project for us. But it is a business as well. And I'm very careful about who I bring on board because you don't want any like toxic personalities. I want everyone to know that Sean, behind the scenes, just like Haley and Vince, is the exact same person. There's nothing different about him. He is just a genuine guy. And he's really busted his ass. And he's been guest hosting on radio now. When I got my start and people did this for me, you know, I was guest hosting on Christmas morning. I mean that literally on Christmas morning, I was guest hosting on WCBM, WMA Allen elsewhere.

1:07:29You've definitely put in your time. We've got more announcements coming ahead about Sean. So stay tuned in the next week, but it's not easy doing that all the time, but you earned it, man. No, it's not easy, but it's fun. And it's, you know, I can equate it to like batting practice, you know, or just reps, reps in the gym, whatever your favorite activity is, the more you do it, the more comfortable you are when you do it. Like I remember my first time filling in on radio. I was, I was so, so nervous. I didn't even get up to go to the bathroom during the breaks. And for anyone who knows me, that's odd.

1:07:59Cause that's like four hours of me not, you know, it's just like the whole running joke is like, Hey, you don't stop doing that. So for four hours, I was just in the seat glued. Like, I don't want to miss coming out of a break. I'm so comfortable doing it now. And it's so much fun. You know, whether it's guest hosting radio or guest hosting for your podcast or Vince's podcast or anybody, it's just, it's a lot of fun for me. But number one goal always is to advance the cause, right? Can we move the football down the field? Even if it's just a yard or two at a time, like I'm a Jets fan. I'm not used to seeing the offense move the football.

1:08:29So on the political side, I'd like to move the football. And what you've been doing for the last 10 plus years, well, you've been moving the ball quite a bit. You know, you've been highly efficient at it. I love to, I love to, to, to be a part of that team. And I cannot wait. I cannot wait, not just to be able to stream, but the results. I want the results. I want to bring more people into the movement. I want to advance the cause. I want to see us putting up some wins electorally. That's always my goal. It's my goal when I was in New York. It's my goal now. So I want to make it happen. I'm super excited to be able to do it with you guys.

1:09:01It's awesome. We're excited too. And I really appreciate your at-bats analogy. You know, the more swings you get, the better your nervous system gets, the better the muscles get, the better the mind gets at being sharp on the air. And you mentioned the bathroom analogy. It's so funny you say that. because I used to freak out whenever I used to guest host for shows and I would use the Comrex box because the Comrex box, I would say to the host at a station, I'd be like, well, what if the internet goes down? And they'd be like, it's not going to go down. It hasn't gone down in like 100 days. I'm like, that doesn't sound like a good percentage to me.

1:09:35You freak out about it. Like you said, you don't even go to the bathroom. And then you do the show and not to sound like an ass or anything, you just get very relaxed on the air and it becomes a conversation, which both parties like. And then you're like showing up on a bathroom break with like a second to go while the liner's playing. Right. And producer Jim is like, dude, where are you, bro? Where are you? I'm like, I've never missed four years on live radio. I never missed. I'm like, brother, he would get nervous, John, every single time. I would come back sometimes while the actual intro music was playing.

1:10:07He'd freak out. Yeah, I've done that a few times. You know, sit in the seat. I hear the thing going like, oh, my headphones on. got to get ready and you put you come back and you play it nothing happened nobody knows you know hey welcome back in we're doing this but at the behind the scenes you're sweating bullets right there's a puddle under the seat you're sweating so bad but it's it's fun the stories are great and again like you said and i said you know many people have said it before it's the at-bats it's the reps it's the the more you do something the more comfortable you are doing it so i mean it's been a few years i've been doing it for a few years and uh again just excited about what we've got coming next and, and you know, what's happening on Monday, this launch of Sean Farish live, it's going to be, I think we're going to have a bunch of fun at one o 'clock in the afternoon.

1:10:51And I encourage everybody to, to, to, to give it a shot. You know, it's, it's probably for you. It might not be for everybody. I've heard you said the same thing about your show. Like, Hey, if you don't like this, it's not for you. I say it's not for everybody, but it is for anybody. Anybody can come in and, and listen and see if it's for you. Try it out. I think you'll like it. Yeah, I know you will. 1 p.m. rumble.com slash Sean, S-H-A-W-N on Monday. Don't miss it. You can only catch the first show live one time. You miss it, you miss. You can watch it VOD, but that's it. Let's get to some news of the day.

1:11:20The press secretary, probably I'd make a strong, I mean, it's a subjective opinion, but I could probably make a pretty strong case. One of the top five most powerful positions, not just in the executive branch, but in the world. I mean, you were effectively the forward-facing messaging mechanism for the president of the United States, unquestionably the most powerful man in the world by any objective measure. Caroline Levitt, I think it's obviously unanimous, did an absolutely amazing job. Well-prepared, quick on her feet, understood the back and forth with the press, had a behind-the-scenes relationship that was a little bit different when they were getting the facts wrong.

1:11:58I even saw it in Playbook this morning, Politico Playbook. They don't even like the administration. And they were like, hey, behind the scenes, she knew how to work a story. That's her job. Her job is to catch a story, catch false components of it. So that's great. But you had an idea that which I fully support that you which would impact my business. But I'm OK with it. You get a one day contract dispensation to go and be the press secretary for a day. I'm fully on board with this. But the caveat is, buyer beware. Sean has to do it in his Donald Trump voice. And preferably, I would add, with the Donald Trump wig on as well.

1:12:35I think that would be an amazing idea. I can go with the wig. You know, I can go with the wig. I may have to turn my cap around for a day. That'll be all right. As much as it hurts, you know, but it's okay. And I think, I think press secretary for a day is brilliant. Well, who would, nobody would do a better job, right? Think about it. I would love to call Caitlin Collins a stupid person, right? And we say stupid is a choice and she chooses to be stupid every single day. She wakes up and chooses stupid every single day. And she looks like Dylan Mulvaney, which you're not supposed to say. They say to me, sir, you're not supposed to say that.

1:13:07Second to me, though, I want to nominate Donald Trump's alter ego, who I like to refer to as Donna J. Trump. Right. This is this is trans Trump. Right. So he will run for a third term. We're nominating Donna Juliet Trump. She's a beautiful person. She's fabulous. We're going to make that fabulous again. If you can change your identity, correct. Right. And it would be a different person altogether. That's a great idea. I love that. Who is anybody else to say he can't do that? If Dylan Mulvaney can do it, if William Thomas can do it, if Sarah, quote unquote, Timothy McBride can do it, then Donald Trump should identify as Donna and run for president.

1:13:43His hair gets a little longer. Maybe he's got to put something in his shirt. I don't know. You know, kind of lean into the body type a little bit. But that's fine. Yeah. Donna can be the press secretary and she's going to do a fantastic job, too. You know, she's also the WNBA MVP. She's a lean, mean, rebounding machine. Think about it. I think an 80-year-old Donna Trump actually would do pretty well in the WB. I think so. Even though I don't think Donald Trump plays basketball per se. Yeah. But neither does Angel Reese. Yeah, that's true. Have you ever seen some of the highlight videos on like, what is it, Brick City on X?

1:14:18Have you ever seen a worse basketball player at any professional level at all? I'm talking about Euro NBA, like NBA, WNBA, whatever, CBA, college, college are getting paid now at NIL. Have you ever seen a more incompetent player? I love the thing, the video with her dribbling, where she dribbles and passes it to her other hand without it hitting the floor. That's not dribbling. She is the worst basketball player I have ever seen in my life at that level. And that's what I'm saying. And Donna Trump, I think, would be the MVP because if she's considered good at that level, I mean, she gives me a run for my money.

1:14:56I'm awful at basketball. OK, I'm like so bad. I played one time. I got a rebound. I came down on someone's foot, rolled my ankle. It blew up the size of a tangerine. I said, never again. We're not doing this ever again. I'll stick to baseball. We'll do a little, you know, pick up football, maybe a little hockey, not on skates. I can't do the skates thing. But you look at Angel Reese and some of these clowns in the WNBA, which, by the way, now they're meeting for weeks to months to figure out what a woman is. I mean, you could ask a kindergartner and he'll tell you in five minutes he knows the difference, but they're meeting for weeks to months.

1:15:28But yeah, if Angel Reese is allowed in the WNBA to play what she's allegedly calling basketball, then there's no reason why an 80-year-old Donna Trump won't be the MVP. When she, we have to use the preferred pronouns, she joins the WNBA, she'll do a little bit in the WNBA, and then she'll be the next president. Who are they to say he can't do that? It's their rules. You and I laugh about a lot of, Obviously, Sean's very funny. It's what, you know, I prefer hosts who get the edutainment model down, educational entertain. You want to be entertained, too. And Sean's very funny. But it kind of brings me to a point.

1:15:59I, you know, I told you earlier as we were chatting, I can't leave this interview without bringing it up. A very serious point. There's no backseas here. Like, you can pretend you don't know what a woman is in the WNBA, or if you're a Supreme Court justice like Ketanji Brown Jackson, who pretended not to know what a woman is. They're obviously pretending. These people aren't stupid. They're running a business. However, you know, AOC led the way recently. They're trying to do, you know, what we call in politics, the pivot. Now that primary season is almost over, we still got Florida and others, but almost over.

1:16:32You're seeing the crazy Democrats defund the police, abolish ICE, defund the military. What is a woman? All the stupid, crazy. We could go abolish the Senate. You get the whole drift of it. Now you're seeing them pivot. Oh, we didn't really mean that stuff. AOC laughing about it. Woke One was crazy. No, no, there are no backsies. There were no tradebacks. Sean, this was serious stuff. People died. Businesses were looted during the Floyd riots. We were told rioting is no problem, but God forbid you go to church and COVID. This was the same cycle. You won't get infected if you riot. The virus doesn't infect rioters.

1:17:07I mean, this was the kind of stupid. The chop zone, the person was murdered in the chop zone in Seattle. There were no tradebacks. We, the Republican Party, the MAGA movement, the libertarians, whoever is inside this tandem wants to be, we better bumper sticker this on their forehead and never let it go. No tradebacks. No tradebacks. There's no such thing as woke one and woke two. First of all, if you're going to say woke one and woke two, can you tell me the difference? Because I would love to know how woke one is different. It is worse. This is the canceled Thanksgiving. This is the Abdul Al-Sayed.

1:17:41America deserved 9-11. You know, you had Francesca Hong saying, well, you know, Thanksgiving is a painful time for some people. I've never experienced anyone that has been in pain other than maybe you ate too much. You know, there's a little bit of pain there. But like, I don't I don't sit there on Thanksgiving and be like, oh, man, I need to I need to repent because of stolen land. Which, by the way, they'll never give a lactose intolerance, Sean. And one time my mom put some like half and half in the mashed potatoes. And I was like, that's the only time I was hurting on Thanksgiving. Other than that, it's been a joyous again.

1:18:11Like, you're absolutely right. I don't know whoever goes to a Thanksgiving dinner. I'm in so much pain. Let's make this. You know what they need? I just thought of this. Sorry, man. I hate to interrupt everything, especially when you're on a roll. But you made me think of something. You remember Festivus? You ever watch Seinfeld? Oh, yeah. The woke two needs like an alternate Thanksgiving holiday, like a Thanksgiving Festivus for the rest of us. Air your grievances. Get the Thanksgiving poll. They don't have feats of strength because they're all wusses anyway, like Larry O'Donnell, Larry from yesterday, if you missed that show.

1:18:43But don't you think that'd be a great idea? Like they need an alternate Thanksgiving, like grievance giving, where all they do is give each other grievances and they can hang around the grievance, Paul. That's an idea. That's what they should do. They should get around a table, be miserable with each other, talk about all the bad things. By the way, do nothing to fix it. Remember Billie Eilish? Oh, stolen land. The house is on stolen land. She still lives there, right? So it's like, you know, Ben and Jerry's too, a couple of years ago, we're not celebrating the 4th of July. Their headquarters in Vermont is on some tribal land.

1:19:13And they're like, no, we're not giving it back. They didn't ever live by their own rules. We talk about that all the time. The left never passes their own tests. We look at woke one or woke two or whatever. Down the road, woke three. You mentioned somebody died in the chop zone. Horace Lorenzo Anderson Jr., 19-year-old guy, shot. He was bleeding out. Emergency services couldn't get there in time because Antifa decided we don't want you here. So he died. By the way, he's black. We don't hear that from Black Lives Matter. We don't hear them saying his name. We're the only ones who are still saying this poor guy's name.

1:19:44It's an injustice what happened. Buildings burning down. Bizarre rules. I was in New York during COVID. You had Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, saying you could not order alcohol without ordering food at a bar. But Buffalo Wings didn't count as food. But soup did. So soup was food. Buffalo wings was not food. In the name of science, the same science that was apparently used to determine to put sick people in nursing homes. Like, this is woke one. There is no, ah, we're going to absolve you of all that. No, you put the country through hell with all this stuff. You made businesses have to comply with DEI requirements and the Human Rights Council and all this.

1:20:24You know, hire this person because of their skin color, not because of their qualifications. You put you put Dylan Mulvaney on the face of a beer can and tanked an entire brand. You had Cracker Barrel decide that something that has worked for years they had to they had to bend over and fix. You whitewashed the supermarket. Right. All the people of color were taken off of the brands in the name of what? Ending racism. Well, now there's only white people on the brands. You took the Indian off of the land, the lakes thing. You literally remove the Indian and kept the land. I thought you're not supposed to do that.

1:20:56So this is what woke one was. And they want to say, eh, give us a pass. No, nobody should forget or give them a pass for what they did. And by the way, woke two is worse when you're dealing with now people who are campaigning with folks saying we deserve 9-11. No, no, thank you. Not interested in woke one or woke two or woke three or any woke. Just get rid of all of it and leave us the hell alone. That's what I said. That's such a good point about the land of lakes. I'm going to tell you something I probably shouldn't say, but when you say that, you probably, but this one, it just makes me laugh.

1:21:29We had this kid in the neighborhood growing up in Glendale, Queens, and he was, this kid was like a lunatic. He was the only kid I ever know got left back twice. Like, how do you get left back twice? That's not even possible. I mean, the guy was like two grades behind, not one. I remember because a guy, a friend of mine sent me a picture just recently I grew up with and was like, how is this dude, call him Joey Bag of Donuts, in our pictures twice? Wasn't he like two years old at us? I'm like, you remember he got left back? He's like, no. I'm like, yes, that's a guy. But this kid once took the Lando Lakes sticker off the butter thing, whatever it was, of the Indian woman.

1:22:06And if you fold it in the right spot and fold the kneeling up, it's quite an interesting image. Don't try it at home. I'm just telling you, like, this kid would go, oh, look at this. That's what I just remember that from a minute. It's just like crazy childhood memories from Queens. This kid was such a lunatic, man. He was like a real weirdo. But we all had a friend like that in New York. You know, one of the things, by the way, another thing too, you mentioned the whole Chop Zone and all that before I get to my next topic. It's really hard to believe that we really went through that now. Like I think back that you couldn't go to church during COVID hysteria and lunacy.

1:22:46Like put the mask on. Like I said, it was the only thing, prophylactic device. It was like the condom that got everybody pregnant, like everyone who wore masks got sick and yet everybody still believed in it like the nuts. But you could go and riot and burn down a building. And like, I don't know what happened. Like there was a protective like Avengers, like, you know, you have to understand the virus can read. OK, so if your sign said Black Lives Matter, you were safe. But if you were out there protesting, like shutting down the country, you were not safe. And there was actually a letter that CNN, I think they published something.

1:23:21They were a bunch of quote unquote experts that were like, well, we don't consider coronavirus a reason to to stop protesting for social justice. But then it said this should not this should not be interpreted as permission for any other protest. What? But this is people fell in line with that and were like, oh, yeah, that makes sense. Like, think about this. I was in New York for this. 96 rolls of toilet paper you needed for 16 for 15 days to slow the spread. I was the only one saying, if you need that much toilet paper in two weeks, you have a much bigger problem than COVID. Like you have the cyclospora thing, the cyclospora-y, whatever.

1:23:56I was just thinking that. Maybe that was the cyclospora has been around longer than we know. You're right. 96 rolls, you got the parasite. You just didn't know it. I know it wasn't hip and cool to get the parasite back then, like the new media history. But listen, I love segues. I want to get to a couple things in our last five, ten minutes here. It's really important. You just kind of like segues are great, especially when they're unintentional. Siklospora, it's serious. Like we get it. You don't want to be walking around like squeezing your legs together. Like, oh, my God, that's embarrassing.

1:24:30It hurts. Yeah, take your electric. Yeah, Jerry, exactly. Maybe that was a Siklospora too. But I think we can all acknowledge the summer news season is not always the best. I mean, it's very cyclical. Everyone in news, everyone, you, me, I heard Megan Kelly mention it and others, Sean Ryan and others like that. And Ben, the summer news season is just not great. Cable news and else people are on vacation. And that's good. I want you to spend time with your family. It's fantastic. Like, it's not more important for me to the country to fall apart. Like, watch the show, screw your family kind of thing, whatever.

1:25:03That's not the way it works. But in the summer news season, you see stories like this. The cyclospore thing has been so over-dramatized. I looked it up in Florida. At one point, it was like 300 cases. Florida's got like 20 million plus people. I'm like, oh my gosh, like can everybody, I'm not eating salad ever again. Like everybody relax. The only reason I bring it up now is I'm seeing this again with the shock gloves controversy. So ICBP DHS is looking at this glove, which delivers a mild electric shock. We have a little bit playing on VO from Blue Lives Matter here below. It delivers an electric shock.

1:25:39It's, you know, in most circumstances, the overwhelming majority of circumstances, it's relatively safe. You know what's not safe, though? A violent subject resisting police officers, beating the crap out of them, and then getting away and potentially committing another violent crime in the neighborhood. And, oh my God, shock, gloves, everything else. We already have a mechanism to deliver electricity to people. It's called a freaking taser. You may have missed it. It's been around forever. Like, this is such an op. It's so pathetic. Whether you love my hair, I'm not making the case. I don't sell them.

1:26:15I'm not. I'm just telling you, I get so tired of these bullshit ops and these fancy news headlines. They drive me freaking bananas. Well, these people are addicted to outrage, especially the media. They have to find something to be mad about. So first it was, oh, my gosh, ICE is killing people. Now it's, oh, my gosh, ICE is shocking people. You know, what would you rather do? Well, obviously, their goal is to abolish ICE. They want to get rid of the whole organization, the whole institution, the agency. They want to get rid of the whole thing and just give amnesty to all the 25, 35, 40 million people who are in the country illegally.

1:26:48Which, by the way, when you add 25, 35, even if it's only, let's say, low side, 10 to 20 million people, when you add that many people to the demand side of a supply and demand equation, you're going to see costs go up. But please tell me more about how you're addressing affordability while doing that. but they want to find something to be upset about. So now they're going to say that the shock gloves are in some way inhumane or are overkill. Like they're less lethal. It's not, you're not shooting them. They're not going to die unless, you know, unfortunately maybe they have a heart problem, but there's no way to know.

1:27:21Here's an easy one. Don't come into the country illegally. And if you're apprehended by law enforcement, don't resist arrest because I've never been hit with a taser. I've never been, you know, a subject of brutal police contact. That's because when I get pulled over in a traffic stop, I don't go crazy. When we got swatted and I had people pointing guns at me, I didn't kick the front door down. I wouldn't do anything. I would have got pumped full of freedom seats. Double battle. That's an easy way to get killed. Easy way. Sean, you and I are pretty reasonable people. I'm not suggesting to you there aren't mistakes.

1:27:53There aren't just grotesque violations of the law. There have been use of force cases. I don't defend anyone. cop federal agent other if if they violate their oath and shoot someone ever like don't don't be don't be a dick about no one's saying that at all i'm just saying like there is an easy way in 99.99 repeating decimal percentages of police citizen interactions to not get tased or anything else the answer is just comply if there's a mistake which happens a lot which happens just you get there's civilian complaint review boards um there's a legal system you can file a complaint with your local police department.

1:28:30Like, just comply for your safety. If the officer did something wrong, we'll figure it out. I want to get to one last thing before we go. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly. I'm not, again, I'm not for or against these things. I'm just saying, like, the op part of it drives me so bananas. Shock, oh, my God, electricity. We already use it. What would you, what's your answer? Okay, let's shoot them or beat the shit out of them with a nightstick. Like, impact weapons, are you rather? That's definitely better. That's definitely better. So, so stupid. But I am getting a little tired. You know, you're an activist.

1:29:00I saw you volunteering for the sheriff down there in Tennessee. I see he won his primary, right? He won his primary. He won his general. He's going to be sworn in in less than a month. Kenneth Barrett is so excited. So excited. I saw you. I follow him on X, Sean, and knocking on door. Again, he's an activist, too, which I love. It's one of the reasons I brought him on board. He's a doer, not a talker. But I'm getting a little tired. I'm seeing this in the political papers and the news. you know, Republican folks running for office, like, oh, my gosh, we don't have a message again. You don't have a message.

1:29:33Are you shitting me? Like, for real? Like, what about the borders? I put a little montage up in the beginning of the show. Borders effectively closed. Zero illegals admitted into the country for 13 straight months. Crime at rates we haven't seen since they started recording crime. Any one of these stories is a total game changer if it's a Democrat president. Third, manufacturing exploding in the United States, exploding. You got electricians building data centers, making a quarter million dollars a year, exploding. All of these, you don't close borders, safe streets. We're building stuff again.

1:30:08Do we have to hand this to you on a silver platter? Like that's your message, bro. Run with it. You have a message. You just highlighted that we have the Republican side has a message where we are struggling is how to deliver that message. And I think that's the biggest issue, is that can we put that message forward in a way that excites people? It's one thing to, you know, I get excited about the border, but I want to put it out there in such a way like you do with your show, like I plan to do with mine, edutainment, right? Make it fun. Nobody wants to get beat over the head with statistics all day long.

1:30:41They matter. Data matters. It all matters. But we got to put it out there in such a way that it excites people. because what we're running against is a bunch of folks right now who say everything's going to be free. Even though you played it earlier this week, Abdul El-Sayed said it's not actually going to be free because you're going to pay more in taxes. So explain to me, I need somebody on the left to explain to me how if I'm going to pay more for something that it's also free at the same time. Usually free means I pay nothing. So if I'm paying more than what I'm currently paying, it clearly isn't free.

1:31:08It's actually more expensive, right? So that's the way numbers work. But we have a message. There are accomplishments as you just listed. The border is obviously the number one accomplishment I think of the administration thus far. Shrinking of the federal workforce. We say, oh, I thought jobs were a good thing. Well, not federal jobs. You know, go back, go to the private industry, the private sector, all these you mentioned, the trades that are exploding. There's a demand now. Iowa is actually rolling out a workforce Pell program for people to learn useful skills, not gender studies. I always said I made a joke.

1:31:41I said, if I was a sales team manager and hiring someone to sell a given product, and someone said, I got my degree in gender studies, I'm going to look at them and say, all right, cool. But how does that help you sell this thing? Now what you can do, since you told me that there's six different genders, is you could sell me on the idea. And if I don't believe you by the end of your pitch, you're not hired. Okay? That's it. If I don't believe there's six genders from a gender study major, you're not hired. So we have a demand now for trades because of the manufacturing boom in this country. You see these folks who aren't going to college, but they're going to trade schools.

1:32:11They're not coming out in massive debt. That's going to help the affordability issue for those folks. You know, you have a shrinking of the federal workforce. You've got the border, which is just about perfect. You do have deportations. I don't know where this op nonsense came from. That's not happening. Hundreds of thousands of people, 900 ,000, I think, with the latest number, involuntarily deported. That's not counting the people who voluntarily left. And by the way, I don't care how you leave. Just leave. That's fine. Go. You don't remember the bars in New York. You don't have to go, but you can't stay here.

1:32:42Yeah, closing time, right? You don't have to go home. It's closing time. You don't have to go home. Exactly. I don't care where you go. You just can't stay here. It's about the delivery of the message, though. And it's where, because the Republican Party, the RNC, some of the super PACs, they have all this cash on hand. And I hear all about this cash on hand. And I want to see that invested properly. There are these huge, massive consulting firms. They go into these districts and they put the activists to shame. They put them, they shame them and say, what you care about isn't what's polling nationally.

1:33:10I dealt with these people on Long Island when I was in New York. They told us not to talk about education. I said, really? That's how Bruce Blakeman won in Nassau County. That's how so many people won in Suffolk County. It was education. We knew what matters. I say pay your activists. Reach out to these colleges. Hey, you want a door knock for$20 an hour for a couple hours a day? Those kids are going to get excited about things like that. Give them what they need. Give them a little bit of compensation. Bring them into the fold. Pay activists instead of these crazy consultants. Pay activists instead of these, you know, influencers that you think they're going to help you online.

1:33:44Put this money to work in the real world. You know, you can still do your mailers and your ads. But when we talk about the message, there are accomplishments. We just have to find a better delivery method. And I believe there's no better way. I mean, you could make a post on social media, get a million views, but you don't know who's real and who's not that saw that post. But I know for a fact, having done it, and I love doing it, when I knock on someone's door and I have that conversation with that voter, I know that's a real person. I know I'm making ground. I know I'm making headway with that person.

1:34:12And that's where I want to see the investments made. I want to see it made in genuine, organic outreach so we could actually spread this message that we're talking about now to people who are going to be voting in the midterms. I think that'll make a big difference and it'll change a few things ahead of the 2026 midterms, I think for sure. Yeah, I mean, I got to run, but door knocking, if you don't think it matters, you're absolutely out of your mind. I mean, we almost pulled off one of the biggest congressional upsets of all time with almost no money. just purely by knocking on doors. I knocked on 5 ,500 myself.

1:34:43My team knocked on 55 ,000 doors. We came within one point of a huge upset. It matters. And I'm telling you, it was a door knocking. It certainly wasn't the money. Sean, we're really excited about the launch on Monday. If you want to follow him on all platforms, I have an easy place to go, bongino.com slash Sean, S-H-A-W-N. You can follow him on Apple, on Spotify, on Rumble, where he's live, rumble.com slash Sean. 1 p.m. Eastern this Monday. We're really excited about the launch of his show. He deserves it. He earned it. He's been true MAGA from the start. Sean, thanks for spending some time with us today.

1:35:18We appreciate it. Thanks, Dan. Thanks for the opportunity. Looking forward to some big things starting Monday, August 17th. Hope to see everybody else there. Me too. Thanks, Sean. You know, folks, as I said about our friend Michael, who won his primary, Michael Alfonso, Republican primary for Congress. Folks, big people do big things, and that's you. You know what little people do? Little people talk about big people who do big things. Sean worked his ass off. He did a big thing. So did Michael. So congrats to both. I wanted to give a better thing for Michael, but we had the quantum computer thing incident.

1:35:51Stop talking about it. We'll call it the goofy glue incident. Guy knows what that means. Justin, Andy doesn't know you. Do you know Andy? Justin, explain to him the goofy glue incident. Maybe Jim can give him a... Kirk Cameron, remember when he came on the show to actually talk about the goofy glue incident? Yes, yes. You got to read the book too, but the goofy glue. Yes, correct. Folks, don't miss Haley coming up at noon. Rumble.com slash Haley. Another great member of the Bongino Report family. And Vince, every day, the king of morning podcasting at 8 a.m. Eastern time. Rumble.com slash Vince.

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