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25:35Well, here are Anna Navarro, Tim Walls and Elizabeth Warren telling you how great Preeti was before that video leaked. This is like the perfect guy. Alex Preeti is the guy you would want to date your daughter. Action agents 11 days before Border Patrol shot and killed him. What they did was, and with Renee Good, what they did was is they hit at the best of us, doing activities that are at the core of what it means to be American. Caring for people was at the core of who he was. He was incapable of causing harm. Alex carried patience, compassion, and calm. Hey, I'm Dan Harris, host of the 10 % Happier podcast.

26:24With summer winding down, now is the perfect time to hit the reset button. So many of us get stuck in ruts at work, in our relationships, in our nervous system. We've got a special series where I'm gonna be talking to psychologists, meditation teachers, even some comedians about how to get out of that rut, how to reset your life in lots of different super practical ways. 10 % Happier with Dan Harris. Join the party wherever you get your podcasts. I mean, these people, these people are, they should be so, again, don't spray apple cider vinegar on them, but they should be mocked into oblivion. Like Anna Navarro, someone at CNN right now, CNN or over at The View, like she should be fired.

27:08And I don't mean that in like the cancel culture sense of she should be mobbed and everything else, but she has the temerity, the gall to get on that program on CNN and she knows nothing about this guy. All she knows is about the fight that left him dead when he brought a loaded gun to an ice rally. She knows nothing about him. He's the perfect man who should date your daughter. She's literally making up a completely fabricated fairy tale about this guy that is then debunked hours later. Like she should be fired. If that's not a fireable offense at a news organization, I guess that the view maybe isn't news, it's just a clown show, but like that you let her sit at that table, that is far more of a condemnation of you morons over at CNN than it is of Anna Navarro, who doesn't deserve anyone's respect.

27:59Tim Walz, he's the best of us. Yeah, the best of us is a guy who runs around spitting on random people and attacking federal property. And yeah, he's the best of us. And Elizabeth Warren, what was it? He's incapable. He's incapable of doing anything mean. You people have no, it's not that you have no idea what you're talking You don't even care what reality is because you are propagandists who put your ideology over truth. Perfect segue to Stephen Colbert doing quote unquote comedy. Bavino went on complaining. Look, Dana, they're trying to portray border patrol agents and ICE agents as Gestapo, Nazi, and many other words.

28:41Yes, do not compare ICE or border patrol agents to the Nazis. That's an unfair comparison. the Nazis were willing to show their faces.

28:51You know, I've mentioned this several times before, but I grew up with Holocaust survivors on both sides of my family. Let me tell you very quickly about, I called him my Uncle Joe. He was my Uncle Jerry, who married into the family. It was his father. And Uncle Joe was in Germany, and I knew him, obviously, much later in his life. He survived. Most of his family did not. and he had a tattoo on his arm and he had to, I mean, the story is absolutely insane. I write about it in Don't Burn This Book. He had to literally give up his three-year-old daughter at a Christian monastery and change her name.

29:28He had to confuse her, a three-years-old, change her name into thinking it was Mary. I can't even remember what her original name was, but it sounded more traditionally Jewish so that the Nazis would not kill her when he went into hiding and he tried to reunite with her after the war. It's an absolutely insane story. I don't have full time for it right now, but I grew up around people that survived Nazis and a lot of their family did not survive Nazis. So Colbert, you're just, you got it. A guy who isn't all the things that I'm thinking about, Stephen Colbert right now is Tom Homan. And Tom Homan not only is doing a bang up job for the last year for Donald Trump, closing the border and everything else, he's now taking over operations in Minnesota.

30:05And here he is explaining the crazy situation that the Democrats and all of the liars and propagandists who we've shown on the show today have put ICE officers in. I was an ICE agent. I was the first ICE director that came up to the ranks. I spent over 40 years doing this. These men and women that carry that badge and gun are American patriots. They put their selves on the line for this nation every day. I want you to remember they don't hang their badge, they don't hang their heart on a hook every day they come to work. They're mothers and fathers too. They're sons and daughters too. If they've seen a fraction of the tragedies I've seen in my career, they take a lot of damage home to it every day.

30:49The organization and the funding of the attacks on ICE, I'm not going to answer a lot about that because I'm not going to show our hand, but they'll be held accountable. Justice is coming. Okay, so first off, we covered it yesterday, so I don't have to belabor the point, but they are working on a massive case as it relates to who is funding this stuff. These are paid protesters. I keep the paid placards. Like there's, we found out all sorts of coordination, including with people who worked for Tim Walz in that signal chat. So there's a lot more coming on that. But the human part of what he just said there is right.

31:22Again, these people that work for ICE, they are highly skilled. They could be working in private security for billionaires making a lot more money. They are trying to defend the country and the communities. And then they have half of the political establishment, the Democrats, who now are wildly anti-American party trying to destroy this country. And I don't think that's even hyperbolic to say. I think it's obvious. It's obvious. They are put in a position where they don't know if some nutbag, pretty, whatever the hell his name is, is going to just shoot them while they are out there trying to get a child trafficker who is illegal out of the country.

32:02That is the position the Democrats have been put in. And the ICE agents should have all of our sympathy and all of our support. And unfortunately, the Democrats are simply not gonna stop with this. Let's talk about Mars Men for a second. And then we're gonna shift altogether because these Trump accounts are coming out and maybe Trump's gonna do a bunch related to the economy so that November goes our way. We shall see. There's a moment a lot of men experience where something feels off. They're still functioning, still working, still getting through the day, but the drive isn't the same. Energy dips, motivation fades, focus slips.

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33:11That's Ruben at mengotomars.com. All right, so let's shift topics altogether, talk about the economy a little bit. You may remember when I went to DC just a little bit before Christmas and I did about eight or 10 interviews, obviously mostly with Republicans, and everyone kept saying the same exact thing, which is that once the big, beautiful bill kicks in, which it kicked in basically on January 1st, 2026, that we were going to see a lot more movement in the economy, that things were going to loosen up, that hopefully interest rates would go down, that we would start seeing things that might change the narrative.

33:42Because if you remember at the end of the year, a lot of the narrative was the economy is kind of stuck and that's gonna hurt Trump and midterms, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, Trump is doing a whole bunch of things on the economy side of things, including this new Trump account that the government is setting up and now gonna work with all sorts of financial institutions and give you an opportunity to invest in a young, in basically your kid's life, in a young person's life and give them a huge, huge head start if you're willing to do it. Here's Kevin O 'Leary on what's going on here. Today there's 110 million Americans who basically have no plan for their future.

34:22They never did have a plan. And they don't know what they're going to do at retirement. This idea, the Trump account, solves that problem, or a good part of it, because you're basically making an investment not just in an individual that's born, in their family. the burden of a family to educate or help a child launch can be really difficult, particularly if you have a large one. What I love about this is it's better than Social Security. It really is. This is a way for the country to heal itself and make sure every one of its citizens has a foundation to stand on. Okay, so there's a couple things here.

35:06You know, first off, he mentions 110 million people have no financial plans. Like that's a huge problem in and of itself. And that's a much broader topic related to how horrible our education system is and we haven't taught financial literacy and a whole bunch more. But in essence, what the Trump account is, they're gonna give you, the federal government will give, and I get it's our money in the beginning, but they will give you a thousand bucks to put into this special account. And if you keep matching it each year, and this is when a child is born, Well, the numbers are pretty damn impressive.

35:38Listen to this from Caroline Levitt. Two stats I want to point out, if I could. I like to bring the receipts when I know the press will be in the room. 38 % of Americans don't own stock, but with these Trump accounts now, every single newborn child within the years of eligibility will be invested in the stock market. Then secondly, this statistic blew me away so much, I had the fact checkers fact check it again. but it's true. As parents, if we make maximum contributions to our child's Trump account, the projected value will be nearly$1.1 million by the time they are 28 years old. That is incredible.

36:17By the time your child is 28 years old, the Trump account could earn them up to$1.1 million. I'm 28 years old right now. I wish I had a Trump account back in 1997. So, So this is amazing. All right, so this is important stuff, right? So you're gonna get$1 ,000 from the government to start this account. Before I analyze further, Caroline Levitt put this up. Bank of America will now also match $1 ,000 government deposits for Trump accounts. I assume that means if you're a Bank of America customer. So now there's some capitalism going on here too. So now you started with two, that's pretty good. Now then it's on you as the parent to do the max donation into the account per year.

36:59But if you do that, if you take your child's life seriously, when they're 28 years old, they might have 1.1 million in there. And you know what? In the changing world that we're going through right now, where you probably don't need to send your kid to a four-year school to learn how to become a Hamas supporter, if you don't do that, well, then they're not gonna be in a lot of debt. Now imagine, you're 28 years old and you've hopefully, you know, you've had parents who took care of your right and they took care of the financial planning. Maybe you didn't get into all of that debt. You got a decent job, an apprenticeship, an internship.

37:31You started doing some work. And then next thing you know, you're 28 years old. You're in a relationship. You're ready to buy a house. And there's$1.1 million. Now, inflation could be different. And maybe$1.1 million then, for a series of reasons, will be worth, let's say,$700 ,000 of today's dollars. Who the hell knows what will happen? But the point is you will have a chunk of change to do something with your life. So this is the beauty of capitalism. It's the beauty of a government that actually is trying to think outside the box and do something for the people. And also getting everyone kind of interested in the stock market.

38:04Like if you're 12 years old and you're like looking at that account going, I got a little cash in there. You might actually wanna learn a little bit more about that. And that would be pretty good. Now, of course, that is in stark contrast to what's happening in New York City, which is having a complete and utter takeover of the entire system by the government, mostly Moran Zamboni and his socialist jihadi friends. Here he is talking about the financial crisis that New York City is about to face. And of course he wants to raise taxes to solve it. We are speaking about a fiscal crisis at the scale greater than the Great Recession.

38:38And so there will not be one single thing that can answer that crisis. It will require us to pursue every single avenue. That means looking inward into savings and efficiencies That also means raising taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers, the most profitable corporations. And it means recalibrating the relationship with the state. Hey, I'm Dan Harris, host of the 10 % Happier podcast. With summer winding down, now is the perfect time to hit the reset button. So many of us get stuck in ruts at work, in our relationships, in our nervous system. We've got a special series where I'm going to be talking to psychologists, meditation teachers, even some comedians about how to get out of that rut, how to reset your life in lots of different super practical ways.

39:2510 % Happier with Dan Harris. Join the party wherever you get your podcasts. What? What was that last part there? Recalibrating the relationship with the state. That was an interesting kind of pause there, a look down and a pause. Like basically he was like, we're gonna have to be a little more efficient. Okay, I can get on board that. A little more efficient, we can do a little bit. I don't think you can do it actually. That's not what you people do. You don't know how to run anything. You've never been anyone that ran anything in your life, but okay, I can get on board your like crazy train on that, a little more efficient.

39:55And then the, we're gonna raise tax on the rich. Okay, that's communism 101 and already these people are fleeing, but okay, I get why that might be something. But then, sorry, what was it one more time? Re-calibrating the relationship to the state. recalibrating the relationship to the state. I'm pretty sure that means that if you're rich, they're going to blindfold you, put you up against a wall, shoot you and take your cash. We can do a fact check on that one. So anyway, while that's happening over there, Nicki Minaj, you know this chick? She's something else. Give me a couple of her songs real quick.

40:28Nicki Minaj over there. She loves Donald Trump. I am probably the president's number one fan.

40:41And that's not going to change. And the hate or what people have to say, it does not affect me at all. It actually motivates me to support him more. And it's going to motivate all of us to support him more. We're not going to let them get away with bullying him. And, you know, the smear campaigns, it's not going to work. Okay. He has a lot of force behind him and God is protecting him. All right. First off, I have that jacket and I don't know. I was told it was one of a kind, but, um, you know, she, uh, I'm going to, Ronaldo, you lied to me. Um, like it's all feels like a simulation. Like you've got Nicki Minaj up there with Trump and Mr.

41:31Wonderful. And it's like, okay. And I know, I don't really care about what celebrities or these people think, but it does show you some sort of cultural shift that someone like her would be able to support Donald Trump sort of openly and proudly right now. When I asked Joseph for a couple of her songs, he didn't even have to Google them. So you're obviously a fan. Anaconda, I guess is a big one, Beauty and the Beat. And I think you've given me some lyrics here. my anaconda don't want none unless you got buns hun well that's pretty good and uh this is from beauty and the beat buns out wiener gotta keep an eye out for selena who's selena selena goins oh oh selena buns out wiener gotta keep an eye out for selena i'm getting old i am getting old right because i don't know what it means oh it's a threat to justin bieber because he wanted selena's No, Nikki and Justin did a song together.

42:27Oh, Nikki and Justin did a song together and it was... And Selena and him were dating. I leave this to you guys, Grockett or something yourself. My friend Dan Bongino is back. Well, he will officially be back next week, which I'm very excited about, back on air, I mean. And I thought he kind of perfectly encapsulates why we must stick together right now, that what Trump has created, is the, it is literally the last thing that can save America. And that's why it's so great that Dan will be back to help us, particularly before the midterms. Here's the tactic. It's very simple. They use an incident like this to garner public outrage.

43:04They use their outlets to magnify public outrage. They get the doomers and the black pillars and the weak Republicans to then say, oh, look, I was a three-time Trump voter and I'm really, everything's gonna, this is nonsense. I didn't vote for this. Most of those people never voted for Trump ever. They're totally full of You either stop unlawful activity or unlawful activity metastasizes like a freaking cancer. That is it. It's either law and order or chaos. There is no on the margin there. You either enforce the law or it's total chaos. Every single little thing, if it was a hiccup, they would try to use it to discredit what was an incredible record we had and probably the best year the FBI under this administration, under any administration's ever had.

43:47All right. So you can see why. It'll be good to have him back. And he's right about like, there's no in between right now. That's why I keep saying, you know, we're between an unstoppable force and an immovable object or a rock and a hard place, whatever you want to say. Because it's chaos or law and order. Trump is willing to negotiate on this. We showed you the four bullet points yesterday. There is a negotiation here. But Bongino is right. They want you to think everything is doomed. They want you to think everyone hates Trump. They want you to think we're on the precipice of hell, which is where they want to bring us.

44:17And if more and more of us fight together, we're going to be just fine. We really, really are. So I'm very excited to have Dan back. And we're going to try to figure out how to do maybe a live event together or at least a live show in person just to celebrate his comeback. It'll be great to have him back. Let's talk about Bub's Naturals real quick. And then we'll get to a rubenreport.locals.com community Q &A. The holidays can hit the body hard. Travel, big meals, zero routine. And the older we get, the longer it takes to bounce back. That's why this year is about more than getting back on track.

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45:53Oh man, I mean, rural, rural, rural. I am never living in a city again. I'm never living in a big city. There's just, I have no desire. I would like to have property and land and chickens and maybe a lake to go fishing. and you will have some guns. And I'm telling you, when I disappear one day, it's gonna be pretty quick. I'll let you guys know, but it's gonna, I'm not doing like a Kobe Bryant. I gotta be celebrated 82 games in different cities and everything else. I'm gonna do much more of a Tim Duncan. It's gonna be like, what happened to that guy? Where'd he go? He's not returning my calls.

46:25If I really, if it got, I mean, first off, if Florida, if I had to leave Florida, America was over, but I'll do the thought game for a second. I mean, it would probably be Montana, Idaho, and maybe Utah would probably be the big three. That's not a knock on Tennessee or Texas at all, but I think something about Montana kind of seems right. I mean, there are places where there's still huge amounts of land where you can really, you know, you can live off. I mean, literally live off the land and have some livestock and everything else. But yeah, and it would be a, when I'm gone, I'm gone one day.

46:59That's how it's gonna be. Janine says, how stupid are we? Not to know how easy it must be to set up a fake business. and bilked the federal government for millions of dollars. I know, why is it that I'm always setting up real businesses and I have accountants checking numbers and I'm paying people? It's like, why? I was like, get me some beans, get me some rice and let's roll, man. Yeah, I know. It's like, but that's always why you gotta, you gotta give these guys some cred, not for the evil, but like the fact that they can pull it, not for the fraud that they create, but that they have the gall to do it.

47:29They have some sort of skill, like they see some loophole in something, but obviously that is coming to an end. But again, if you have not seen it, I think we put the link below. Watch my episode from Saturday with Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She talks about how it is taking advantage of a system is actually built into Somali culture. So there is something different here versus if you brought a bunch of Irish people or if you brought literally anybody from anywhere else, that there's something unique actually to the Somali community that's uncomfortable to talk about. But listen to her words, not mine. Crafty Cat says, what are some essential wardrobe items that every boy or man should own?

48:09I mean, you gotta own a couple good blazers. I was just thinking, you know, I've been on this workout kick. My blazers are looking a little like too big or something. I gotta get my tailor on them. You gotta have a couple good blazers. I think a couple good, like just comfortable t-shirts. You know, it's been cool in Florida the last couple of days, which has been really nice. Have some nice comfy sweatpants. You know, I'm doing a lot of athleisure stuff lately just because if I'm not in here where I have to be dressed a certain way, just like I'm into like, just like light clothes, like light sweatpants, tank tops, things like that.

48:39But you know, a couple of good blazers, you just need, and a nice pair of slacks. Like that's pretty much it. Like you need to be able to, in a pinch, somebody says, Oh, you know, somebody you want to impress is in town, or you've got a business meeting or friend you haven't seen in a long time. Like look the part, look the part. So a nice blazer, that's it. Simple, man. And you can, you go to, go to Nordstrom little pricier than, you know, maybe if you were going to banana or something, but go into Nordstrom. They got all kinds of brands there. And yeah, 250 bucks, you will walk out with something nice.

49:08Olaf says, I like to eat foreign foods. Does David have a favorite recipe for bananas and rice? I'm pretty sure it's just bananas and rice, but I am glad you asked that because many of you know that David's been working on a cookbook for quite some time and we're trying to figure out, will it be part of what I do here on the show or not? And sometimes it's great to leverage my audience. On the other hand, we're separate human beings that have different goals and things in life, but his website, which was David's cookbook for a long time, is now theonlyfood.com. He puts up recipes every week. These are all real pictures of things that he's making in our kitchen right here.

49:43That cast iron chicken parm, I am telling you, I know a lot of people say, don't put cheese in a cast iron. It will blow you away. I mean, he's got lamb recipes on there. His Caesar dressing is the best Caesar dressing you've ever had. His non-fried wings, you can see them there. Whole chicken. He's got chili recipes and we are working on an actual physical cookbook. But if you want to jump over there and eat some of the things that we're eating and, you know, he's, and obviously just because we try to eat a certain way here and make things that are friendly and healthy for the kids, like it's mostly healthy stuff and you'll really, you'll dig it.

50:17And I don't know that he has a specific bean, banana and rice recipe, but I'll talk to him about it. Eurasian says, how come leftists always get away with repeating falsehoods that have already been debunked, while conservatives can't even get away with telling the truth. Well, this is why you have to win the culture wars, right? This is why I showed you the Nicki Minaj thing, however important she is or whatever. You know, when you control the culture, it doesn't, in some sense, it doesn't matter what's true or not. It's why it doesn't really make sense. If you think about it this way, it doesn't really make sense that if you watch all the corporate late night comics, so you watch Kimmel, you watch Colbert, you watch Seth, whatever his name is, you watch Fallon.

50:59They're all exactly the same, right? Like their hair is just a little bit different, but they're all exactly the same. The jokes are exactly the same. The political perspective is exactly the same. And then ironically, who's number one in late night? It's Greg Gutfeld with his two writers doing a seriously sloppy show, which I absolutely love. That's not a knock on Greg. It's a great, fun, alternative show, right? But it's because the left has controlled the culture the culture for so long that they can keep getting away with lies. It's why I said today that Anna should be fired. It's like in a sane world, there would be a network executive at CNN who would be like, all right, look, we've all got our political opinions here and obviously we're friendlier to the Democrats than the Republicans and we're anti-Trump and all that.

51:42But what Anna said was so profoundly over the top. It wasn't just getting the story wrong. Like she made up, as I said, it was a fairy tale about this guy. anybody would want their daughter to date him. Well, you know what they should do? Like, here you go, Abby Phillip. If you have a shred of dignity in your body, what you might wanna do next time Anna's on the show is play the clip of him kicking the ice car, spitting at those people, scream. I think he says, hit me or something. Play that for her and then ask her her opinion on it. And would she want her daughter dating that guy? But you won't do that because you're in on it too.

52:19But that's why we have to win the culture. and that's why having a free, to whatever extent the internet is still free, internet is important. I wanna show you something real quick, guys, before we wrap today. There's not gonna be a post-game show because I've gotta get out of here right after this. I'll explain more on Monday. And our show tomorrow is a pre-tape. It's with Brigitte Gabriel, who is spectacular. If you've never seen her on the show before, she is just an utter, utter joy. You're gonna love the interview. But I've been mentioning how great the comments are and our numbers have been phenomenal this week.

52:49yesterday show it about 300 ,000 views just on YouTube alone. The day before it was about 350. That's not even including Rumble or locals or anything else. Like the numbers have just been crushing it. And I've been going into the comments and you can see they're just, they're just phenomenal right now. Like people really are appreciating what we're doing and that we're doing it a little, a little lighter and more funny and moderate and all of those things. And I just wanted to tell you guys that I'm very appreciative of that. I don't have a ton of time to dive in every day, but Joseph does go in every day.

53:18And throughout the day, he's texting me the things that you're writing. And I really do appreciate it. So we thought I would just read one to end the show today. And this is from Mark who wrote, great show, Dave, love how you make things make sense without screaming at us. I'm awful at getting my points across clearly and speaking up, but watching how you do it makes me wanna work on it. You know what? That's like as good a comment as you could possibly send to me. It really is. Like, do it, do it. I'm just a guy, just a guy. I tell you what I think, it is what it is. Some people like me, some people don't, but that's what you are too.

53:47And if you can take some of the things that you get on this show and then calmly explain that to your friends. And by the way, you know, when you're in our, let's say, political circle and you're arguing with a lefty, in some sense, you default one because they're going to be more hysterical. They're going to be more emotional. They're going to be on the attack more. And if you just calmly lay out some of these things, oh, well, you're upset that that nurse got killed by ice in that fracas. Well, did you see that he had attacked an ice car just a few days before? Oh, you didn't see that? Can I show you that?

54:21Can I show you that right here? There are ways to get these people out of that mind virus. It's not easy, but it is worth doing because it quite literally will save the country and that is pretty good. All right, so as I said, no post-game show. I thank you for watching. Tomorrow's show with Brigitte Gabriel and then I'll let you know where I'm headed on Monday. Thanks for watching, guys. Ciao. Hello, guys. I'm with my favorite president, the best president of all time. And I'm with the Queen of Rap.

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