The Bongino Weekend Report - 09/05/26

[music] All America, all the time, on the side of freedom and liberty. Your voice of hope and truth is here, the Bonsino Report PM. With Dan Bonsino. You know, some people hate Mondays. They do. I mean, it's pretty common. I think it's a remnant. Maybe not a remnant, because maybe if you have a job, you're not really digging Mondays, probably not the best either. But it's probably a remnant for school, where everybody hated going back to school on Mondays. Well, it was always at one nerd. What do you think we are? Remember Rocky IV? Yes, you are nerds. Like, there was always at one nerd. Remember in the class, there was like 30 kids in your class. I want the same pancreas in Glendale. Who wants homework? I do. I miss Crabtree. No, no, we don't. Like, shut up, Johnny. But I was in law enforcement my entire life, where there's no. Well, there's a Monday. Monday exists, obviously. But you'd work weekends, especially if you were the new guy all the time. So your Monday could have been a Wednesday. Or your Monday could have been a Friday. So I never really got into that. But in radio, radio and podcasting are not obviously physically demanding spaces. Jim, we can agree, right? Like, no one's asking us to dig ditches. So this is definitely not a boo-hoo moment. But, you know, going on the air, you better be damn sure you're mentally in the game. No listener wants to hear your stories. I gotta call my fingernail hurts. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Shut your pie hole and do the show. Think about Monday, I always love with radio, is if you've had a really good weekend, you come back fully energized. You like a gin stores are ready to go. You're not like sore from a Friday workout. You may be a little sore from a Friday workout with if you had some adult sodas. But you're doing pretty good on Monday. So I feel pretty good. Jim did not have a great weekend. Everyone sent Jim. He's, what, at JJ Verde. His back is hurting. His backs are the worst. He's having a back issue at the worst. You can hurt like your wrist, your shoulder. You'll get through it. Your neck's not that great. But once you hurt your back, I want to do it. Jim is struggling. But Jim is a trooper. And he's in the studio. I noticed he hasn't shaved today either. He has just given up. Mike's like, that's the downside to the zoom thing. And Jim, Mike is totally ready to throw you to the curb. He just, I mean, they stand by. He's totally ready. He's gonna throw you right in the river right now. He's just waiting for a moment of weakness. All right. All right. Get this. I know, but it's Monday. I don't have a big weekend update. I really didn't do any exciting this weekend. So I used to do a damn budget, you know, show weekend update. I have nothing to report. I didn't even go out this weekend. I watched a couple terrible movies. And I finished the Charlie Manson special. The three-part documentary, which is always amazing. Because it reminded me of a bunch of crazy liberals. The whole Manson family. How they got gasoline into believing crazy things. And in a minute, they were exposed to reality again. They were like, oh, my gosh. That was all crazy. Yeah, it was all crazy. It sounded crazy when they first said it. Let's start. I thought you did start. No, no, let's start the content portion. I actually have this all lined out. This is like miscellaneous stuff I throw in. Because I can't shut up. But I guess that's good being a talk show guy. Folks, you know what horseshoe theory is? You can look it up while we're doing the show together here. But I'll explain it to you. I'll make it really simple. But you can fact check me if you want. Horsehoe theory is this. It's not a theory, by the way. It's not a fact as it's happening in live time or witnessing it. It's this theory that fringe movements on both sides of the ideological aisle, though what you'd call the right and the left, that fringe movements on both sides will eventually join together in a horseshoe type motion back towards it. And they'll both start repeating the same thing. I say it's not horseshoe theory, but it's horseshoe fact now. Because we're seeing this in live time as they both have the same goal. The radical left and what I call folx mega, these fake mega people on the right that are just repeating and getting owned by the day now, as this just totally implodes. I'll podcast the stand everywhere else. They're both saying that generally the same thing. And why are they saying the same thing? This is the important part about horseshoe theory now horseshoe fact. They're saying the same thing because they have the same goal. Their goal is to make sure that this mega movement, conservative movement, Republican party that's now starting to really gain ground and minority communities and elsewhere amongst union families, places we haven't done well in the past, is completely destroyed. Podcast the stand wants to do it because they don't like the movement as it is now. There were a lot of these people who were former Democrats who pretended to be Republicans who now secreted their way into the, you know, mega tent, put their camel nose underneath first and then got all the way in later. Legs, arms, everything else. Toes. Some of you can. Well, let's get all the way in there. And then they're trying to just sabotage and throw like, let's call it a crap grenade in the tent. Their goal is to get you to not show up for the midterms because they want President Trump to lose. Horseshoe theory is now horseshoe fact. You're seeing it. I'm going to get to this later in the show. But the left wing media that obviously hates President Trump, us freedom and liberty and all that stuff. Some of the stuff they write is so insane. I saw a story this weekend. I'm at least stay tuned. I'm not trying to unnecessarily tease things. But in raw story, which is like a level below, like the worst tabloid you've ever seen at the supermarket check outline, it's like Elvis had babies with space in it and there's like raw story below that. Wrote this article about becoming an FBI employee and beast theality. Yes, this is an actual or Jim, don't shake your head. You may have heard some on the podcast earlier. If you ever want to listen to podcast, by the way, we're live at 10 a.m. Eastern every day. However, I'll explain that. It's just a total nonsense story. But it's meant for stupid people. Like the headline is, was drafted up so stupid people will click on and be like, yeah, man, that sounds great. That would go to me. They want a blue wave. And you've probably been told by a lot of folks in podcasts to stand and elsewhere, and in the liberal media, that a blue wave, in other words, a midterm route for the Republican Party is inevitable. Now, I just want to preface this up front by saying, it is certainly a possibility. And I don't like gaslighting people the other way, either with faux bravado. Chess puffing, oh, we're going to win back. We're going to gain 22 seats in the Senate. That's not going to happen, okay? Let's just be real. That's just mathematically not going to happen, okay? There's no math or even decent polling that remotely says that. However, ladies and gentlemen, we do stand a pretty good chance if we show up. We do stand a pretty good chance of holding the Senate. Maybe even adding a seat in Michigan. Maybe adding a seat in New Hampshire, which is looking good now. We may add a couple seats. It's possible. The House is a little bit of a struggle. But the same exact thing that the doom and gloom people are telling you now that it's a fate of complete. President Trump's going to get destroyed. The Republican Party's finished. We're going to lose 200 seats in the House. Do you realize the very same people? The very same people? On our side made that same mistake in the Biden midterms. I'm just listening. You've got to call balls and strikes and be a legit umpire. The game doesn't matter, okay? This was a really big thing. Jim was with me. So was Mike. So was my podcast team. You remember the Biden midterms? We told people every single day, you could probably pull Jim a supercut for me if you needed to. We weren't one out of every day, but at least a few times a week. Stop with this red wave talk. There was all of this stuff out there on X and elsewhere. Biden sucked so bad. This is like of all the sucky presidency. This is like a level 10 level of suck. The sucking sound was unprecedented in presidential history. And they were correct. The Biden presidency was an intergalactic embarrassment. Folks, he did his party did not do that badly in the midterms. Just like we have the potential in a non-sucky, matter of fact, very good couple of years under President Trump. Border, crime, manufacturing returning. Some trade deals. We were, you know, not everything's been great. It's been a ton of really good news to run on. Borders are closed. Streets are safer. Manufacturing's coming back. We're building big things again in the United States. We have enough to run on. There is no reason comparing us to the Biden midterms, where he didn't do that historically. He didn't do that bad. His party that is. There's no reason we can't hold the house and hold the cent none. It's just a matter of showing up. Folks, the reason Biden's team did not do that bad, despite I think what we can all agree if we're not insane, was a just, it's almost unprecedented level of suck in a presidency in the first two between Afghanistan, 9% inflation in one quarter. I mean, we hadn't seen that number since Jimmy Carter. It's because of Jerry Mandering. The computer programs that carve congressional districts up now. have managed to carve these districts into so many safe seats, where even if there was a blue wave or a red wave, there's such a buffer in many of these seats that these safe seats aren't going anywhere. I mean, it would have to be, even beyond the Biden level of suck, for really, for people to vote against their party in some of these safe seats, it's just like a 20 point buffer. Jerry Mandering has carved the country up, so there's really only, I don't know, maybe 20 or so seats or so that are really in play every cycle. Now, that's a problem for the Republicans in this cycle, 'cause we've only got, depending on who's out, who's in a one, two, three vote buffer on the Republican side. But having said that, a lot of these districts, because here's, let me explain this, and Jim, if I get this wrong, say, shut up and explain it better, because they have made so many safe seats, right? They have had to make semi-safe seats, where, say, the Democrat voting advantage was 55 to 45. There's 55% Democrat, I'm just trying to do, easy math, 45. So, in order to make some of these seats safe, they've got to pull the Democrats from somewhere. Yeah, I get it cheating, and either, but they have to pull them from somewhere. So, say they make a 55% Democrat district, 51. They pull out 4% to make that 4% to make another seat safe. They still have an advantage, but it's not a great one. Meaning, if you just show up, you could perform not that great, and still win that seat. This is what's going on. So, this is why I'm trying to tell people, like, there's so much good stuff to run on, that there's no reason to just throw in the towel. Oh my gosh, the doomers and the gloomers told me it's over. Oh my gosh, if I could count the time. We got them now, Jim. I know what you're going to say. What are you going to say? The walls are closing in again. I get it. We've heard it a quadrillion times. Obviously, probably. We've already heard it. If you just show up and vote and bring 10 people, there is a damn good chance. We will do extremely well in this election. And the horseshoe theory folks, the Follack's MAGA podcast to stand lunatics, telling you everything sucks all the time. Again, I'm not telling you not to have an opinion. I'm just telling you to look at this stuff with an open mind. Do you like that the borders are closed? Do you like that there've been historic declines and violent crime and murder in the United States? Do you like the fact that deportations are at a record high? Do you like the idea again that an international relations were back to a position of strength with the president that supports our military? Do you like the fact that manufacturing's returning? If you like that stuff, then you do have something to vote on. If you listen to the dooms and the grifters, however it's all over. (audience groaning) Everyone, you've seen a braver. Before you forfeit the election and don't show up, just hold, hold, hold, hold. Everyone, just hold, take in the info, any inputs, and process your move on. Man, you're getting them all in today. You still have that list? (laughing) Those P1s, you know what we're going on to. Jim, cue up for me to have Fox segment. I want to show you another, just one moment before we take a break here. Really important. President Trump this week cuts a huge deal with his Department of State, the DOW Department of War for access to enormous Venezuelan oil fields. And immediately, old school establishment people are whining about it. And oh my gosh, I can't believe that deal is not even bad. What do you want? We just got access to a huge percentage of Venezuelan oil. You just said you wanted America first in cheap oil. He just delivered it to you and you're already whining. Again, if you listen to the horseshoe theory, liberal media lunatics in the doom and gloom crowd all the time, you'd never know that even happened. They're whining about the deal. I can't believe it. The Venezuelans may be a little upset about it. I thought you were America first. Who cares? I don't care. Jim, do you care? I don't care. No, I, that me either. I don't America for, I don't we do in America first. That's what I'm doing. I got more of this coming up next. We'll be right back. But you know, ladies and gentlemen, I got some good news for you today. What? The doomers and grifters that everybody told us we should all be miserable. The polls show that Americans who believe in the future of a great America are down to like 20 or something. They're like, what is going on here? What is going on here? Folks, one, I don't believe any of that. I think those are crap garbage polls. You can roll them up in a ball. Jim's like, oh no, here we go again. I'm not only allowed to say certain things about where the ball can go. And you can insert the ball and dad, I don't buy any of that. I don't buy any, what? You can say that. Stop giving me the look. That's okay. That's okay. We are winning. When I say we, I mean the Republican Party, we are winning the messaging or the tides have totally shifted. Oh, come on. No, I'm dead serious, folks. I always bring receipts to back this stuff up. I don't like faux optimism. I don't like faux depression either. Faux optimism. And remember in the Biden midterm, it's going to be a red wave. I told people, please stop. I'm not seeing indications of that. And it wasn't a red wave. It was a decent election. But what? I don't want to hear the faux depression either. It's going to be a blue wave. We're going to lose 700 seats. It's not even 700 seats to lose. What are you talking about? Folks, when you're involved in politics, there are timeless kind of little nuggets of knowledge that I don't care if you're an activist, a candidate, or really just a concerned voter. You really should take them in and colonize them, and as I like to say, make them a brain tattoo. And I'm going to say, they're not mine. I'm not pretending here to be the Stygian witches from, you know, classical tech. Give me the eye. Look, I'm not pretending there at all to do any of that. These are things that have been passed on to me that I'm just passing to you as just a medium here. I don't mean like a psychic, you know. I'm just passing on, I'm a middleman messenger of timeless ideas to pass on to you. Republicans have gotten their collective rumps kicked in for decades in the messaging war. Folks, it's just true. There were a number of reasons for that. One of them that was told to me again by a very smart man involved in Republican party activism for a long time. Grab me at an event one time, he said, no, I'm sorry, this is, this is, this I read in a piece. I want to be precise. The other way, the assertions versus questions I get to in a second, I read this in a piece one time and this is so incredibly spot on. The premise of the piece, forgive me, I don't remember the author was that Republican messaging about their issues, even though we went on the issues all the time. We went on the tax issue, nobody wants to pay higher taxes. How do we know? Democrats spend all their money on accounts to avoid paying higher taxes. Don't they love higher taxes? Democrats hate school choice. BS, they send their kids to sit well friends in Washington DC and school choice. And we went on the, it is we lost on the messaging. We went on the message, lost on the messaging. One of the reasons was, as I read in this piece, is that a lot of the heavy donors to Republican party politics in the past, not so much anymore, but in the past, we're almost exclusively from commoditized industries like oil and petrochemicals, we're advertising really wasn't a thing. You know, Jim, when you're going between like a sit-go and a chevron and a BP or whatever, are you like really susceptible to whatever, buy BP gas and smells better? Like you just go, it's cheaper. Do you not? No, almost nobody out there goes and buys gas based on some marketing pitch. It's a pricey elasticity. They're worried about the price. That's it. So a lot of these folks in the past that were in candidate years donated money and let's just the way politics, I wish it weren't that way, but it is. It gives you access. People are likely to take a call from a guy who donated $100,000 to a pack. Hey, I think you should say this. They were just really bad at messaging. Meanwhile, who's in the lefty candidate's ear? You got Hollywood entertainers, artists, singers. I'm not telling you you got to like their politics. I certainly don't, but they're obviously very creative. That's why they're artists. They'd be like, you know what? I think you should run this campaign in and talk about like hope and hope he changed you know. Sound from it. Remember, hope he changed you? Jim's like sounds like Obama's like, yeah, well, he probably got that from a bunch of artists and Hollywood people who filtered their way into the consultant class. We were just really bad at messaging. Folks, it's totally flipped. It's totally completely flipped. Now I'm going to give you the receipts here upfront to show you what I mean. The Democrats are now in a complete panic because I have about five reasons because it's one thing to say something, something to back it up. Four or five reasons, depending on how much time I can get through here, on why the messaging wars totally flipped. The Democrats now have become nothing more than robots and NPCs, well, tax, boy, suck, patriarchy, they all say the same thing. They have no meanwhile you got republicans arguing about everything. The war in Iran. That's a good thing, it's healthy, we all got opinions. Crazy, how that's like, not only not a bad thing, but a very good thing. It keeps people frosty and snappy, man, get going, get your ideas going. No one says anything different on the Democrat side ever. They don't. I think there are four or five reasons we're winning, but I want to place for us, Jim put this together. First, I'm going to put together the, well, I'm going to play a super cut for you, about a minute or so. But here is a cut of Democrats in complete, total panic mode because they chose volunteer, they chose this to welcome a man into their tent, the Democrat tent, Hassan Piker, and no, I'm not stopping to him. No one tells me what to talk about. The Democrats won't invite a guy in their tent who talks about rapes, you know, not changing his mind. Like, he's not worried about rapes on October 7th, how he hates America, how we deserve 9/11. I'm not letting that go when you shouldn't either under no circumstances. It is a sticky note on their back. It's not going anywhere. You want to campaign with this guy? Good, own it, be it, own it, love it. Remember that pretty woman? They, be it on it. They asked you, you're going to be it and you're going to own it now, because I'm not letting it go no matter what. No one's talking me out of it. The Democrats used to be good at messaging this stuff away. Not anymore. Thanks for putting this together, Jim. Here's a little super cut of the Dems in total panic mode about their own message. Check this out. My campaign has never been about a streamer in California. He doesn't speak for me. I don't speak for him. Here's what I can tell you on the ground from Michigan. We are sick of talking about Hassan Piker. Hassan Piker is not running for anything that I know up. If I'm wrong, I hope that somebody corrects me. I do not think that a Twitch streamer is what the people of Michigan are concerning themselves on, I am done. So don't any reporter ask me again about Hassan Piker. It's not what November is about folks. You never, ever heard this from Democrats in the past. I shouldn't say never with few exceptions. Maybe the Bill Clinton famous sister soldier moment where the rapper sister soldier had these really offensive lyrics and Bill Clinton was asked about it. I was like, I basically renounce that stuff and it's called the sister soldier moment. You can look it up yourself. Soul J.A.H. Check it out. It was maybe the only time Democrats used to run the most aggressive, crazy, insane political ads ever and totally get away with it. I know Jim and I are old enough with the Democrats used to run ads against Republicans. Basically, you'll be lynched and dragged through the streets like Emmett Tillview. People were like, what the, that's the craziest freaking thing I've ever heard my and Democrats would be like, right on, man. That's awesome. Remember when Paul Ryan was throwing people off of the cliff? Paul Ryan is such a, yes. Produced a gym from the bullpen. They, the, remember the ad fake Paul Ryan. He's walking this lady in a wheelchair and actually throws her off the cliff. Well, it may sound a real lady, obviously. But who knew? Democrats, some of them were so dumb. They probably thought it wasn't right. Like, guys, you just killed that lady. By the way, was there even a disclaimer on, say, you know, when they say, this is a stunt, do not try this at home, like car ads with a race and two. I don't even think they said that. Someone probably threw their grandmother off the cliff. I thought it was okay. Paul Ryan said it's okay. Jim is right. The ads were so insane and they would win. Nancy Pelosi. That's another Democrat ad. It is. I don't remember that one. Paul, they're guys, two or three Reverend Kane. You're all gonna die. That was, that was effectively Democrats. Oh, damn, that stuff's stupid. Not, it's not stupid. They want, they used to win. Nancy Pelosi routed in the George W. Bush midterms, the Republican party. I don't know, they take back like 40 to 50 seats. It was a ridiculous folks. It's been totally turned on its head. They're in total panic mode. Here's a son, Piker. They're guy. He's their homie. They brought him into the state. We didn't bring him in. The Democrats wanted a campaign with a guy who thinks we deserve 9/11 and says he hates America. Is there a choice? I didn't know. I don't know this guy never met a son, Piker. They brought him in. Now they're freaking out. They used to laugh about this. They've had stupid Republicans. The media would cover for him. Here's the son, Piker. Yes, they're saying he's getting off X now. Listen, I'm not mad at him. You want to get off X? I got off X for a while. I'm gonna be a hypocrite about it. I got back on after Elon bought it. However, again, of X, I thought you were proud of this message. The Democrats used to celebrate this stuff. You're all gonna be lynched and dragged and murdered and killed. They used to save and crazy your things in this guy. Not now, because Republicans have gotten good at gluing this stuff to their backs. Check this out. There has been a, we'll talk about all this stuff. We'll talk about all this stuff. We'll get into all of this and more in a second. Personal news wise, there's not really much going on in my life, other than just like incessant slander hour, I deleted Twitter, I deleted Twitter off my phone. Finally, I'm going back to, I'm going back to the basics. I'm going back to being normal. I'm going back to mental sanity. You heard it yourself. There he is. Hassan Piker, who by the way, Jim, did you catch it? By the way, and you're super cut. They don't even mention him now. They just talk him as a streamer as some random guy, a streamer, a streamer. Like they're talking about like Pad McAfee talking about sports or something, the streamer. Which streamer? Which one? Cause they don't want you to look them up. Folks, we are winning. Now I told you, I thought there were five reasons. I'll try to get through them before the break, if not, I'll get to the rest of them after. But this is really important. The biggest reason of all, by far, is prison and Trump. It's pre-Donald Trump Republican Party politics. Many of you out there lived through it with me. The Republican Party ran some of the worst ads you have ever seen in your entire life. Outside of Reagan's morning in America, almost no Republican candidate. I'm not knocking at, I don't want to, from Santorum to Mitt Romney to other major party candidates who ran, ran any kind of memorable ads at all because I told you, they just weren't, they had people in their ear just weren't very good at this. And there were things prior to Donald Trump that were just unacceptable to say. They just were. I'll never forget being in an activist group after Mitt Romney lost to Obama and people were never talking about immigration again. It was like, verboten, you were not allowed to talk about it at all. Of course, I was like, I'll talk about whatever I want. So we're others in the group. They're like, you're not telling us what to talk about. Donald Trump comes out and goes, not only am I going to talk about immigration, I'm going to tell them that they're sending their worst people here. And I'm going to make it the staple of my campaign and he wins multiple times. He changed the whole dynamic of what is air quotes and acceptable conversation to have. And Republican party activist donors, consultants and all took note like, hey, maybe we were wrong the whole time. And this guy was right. We, some of them may not alike them, but there's no doubt. He won multiple times and you took the L. Donald Trump is by far. The biggest reason for the messaging shift, not just in the message, IE Donald Trump. I'm going to talk about immigration, swampy Republicans, don't talk about immigration. We could alienate Hispanic voters, turned out to be completely wrong. But it's not just the message, it's the tone. Donald Trump changed the tone too. Republicans in the past were like, yeah, we got to be on like the moral and ethical right course of hit. You know what? And if history is to fight socialists and commies and people wanted to destroy the country, Donald Trump came out and was just like, not only are we going to call out a legal immigration, some of these people are sending here are criminals and we don't want them. And a Republican establishment was like, oh my gosh, you can't say that. He's like, now I'm going to say it again. He is the biggest reason because I hate teases because they're the worst thing ever. I'm going to give you the other couple and I'm going to explain more on the other side of break. Here are the others. In case you missed the next segment, which I don't want you to do. Elon Musk, you see where I'm going with that, the media monopoly getting broken up and the parallel economy. Those are the reasons that the Republicans are now the kings of messaging and they got Democrats on the run. We'll be right back. But you know, I want to bring up something to you. If you're an activist out there, if you're watching this online X and TikTok Snapchat ecosystem and you're swearing to yourself, like the world has gone completely mad, I want you to just braveheart hole, hole, hole, just hole, I'm telling you it hasn't. I get out there in the real world like you do. I was out last night at volleyball game for my daughter. So many nice people came up to me and said the most amazing things. Like the world is a sane place. X is not the real world. There are components of the real world and it don't ignore it. I enjoy it. I like being on the platform. It is not the real world. As you see the proliferation of crazy nonsense on X like space aliens killed this guy, Lindsey Clancy's a hero and all this other stuff. As you see it, you're swearing like I'm the only sane person left. Thankfully, and I mean this you are not. There is an army of people out there that are not as crazy as you're seeing in this unrepresentative sample size on social media. I only brought up my history in the business not to impress you. Who cares? Really? You talk for a living. Great. I've always told you like you guys have real jobs. I talk for a living. That's my thing. But and Jim's been around this business for decades a lot longer than me. He's been with many hosts. One who shall not be named. Jim can attest to this that if you are not comfortable taking uncomfortable positions in this business because you fear you may lose some people, don't get in the business. Folks, there is nothing. Listeners and viewers hate more than a guy who sits on the top of the fence with a pole up. We can't even talk about them. Apparently we're not about to talk about that. There's a lot of stuff on FCC regulated anyways. You learn that the hard way about five years ago in the first radio show. You got a pole right up there right up right there, isn't right there. Nobody likes that. They're not tuning into your radio show in this case or podcast or cable news show or whatever your live stream to hear you go on one hand, but on the other hand, was it Arthur Raccoon who said, give me a one hand that economist because are we saying that on one hand they want to hear what you have to say that's why they're listening to your show. Now sometimes you got to apply the Bungie normal way for the facts to come in before you formulate an opinion, but I only bring you sub because if you're not comfortable taking uncomfortable positions and losing some listeners or viewers over the course of your career, don't get in the business. It happens every primary season, Jim, am I right? You come out and you say, hey, it happened to me when I came out and supported President Trump. There were people who supported Ron DeSantis, people who supported Ted Cruz. I was a convert from this, but told me, I'm not listening to your show again. Okay, that's, I'm not mad at you. You believe in your, I love Ron DeSantis. I think he's great. I love Ted Cruz. I think they're great. I just had a different pick for that cycle that you know, then make you a bad guy. But there are people who will legitimately tune out, but I'll tell you how to get everybody to tune out and to never maintain any sense of longevity in this business we've been in for over a decade. It's to never take a position on anything to placate everyone at the same time. I say that because this Lindsey Clancy trial is, is folks, I'm getting increasingly furious about this case. I've not talked about it much because this is largely a conservative, mega-based show and I get that. But this is an issue that I, it's like a beach ball underwater for me. I can't, I can't contain it anymore. It's a sign of a growing type of psychosis we have amongst a small portion of the popular, a small, I can't emphasize this enough. This is not the norm, but a small portion of the populace that has them. And Jim and I debated, we were doing pre-production this morning, pre-pro, if you want to sell a pre-pro, an industry guy, right? And we're like, how do we sum this up? And I had said to the guys, you ever heard, you know, the kids, they have these, these terms like magging and main character energy and I don't try to talk like a kid, I'm not a kid, I'm 51. I'm a rotting meat carcass right now with osteoarthritis and everything. I'm not a kid. But I think some of their terms are funny and one of the terms they have is this MCE thing, main character energy. How do you have these people with such big personalities? They have like this main character energy, you know? Here's the thing about a lot of leftists and lunatics and conspiracy nuts and dooms and crazies. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to bring this up again later, they live in a vacuum, their lives are meaningless. I'm sorry they are. They don't have kids like you do, they're not going to follyball games and baseball games and soccer games. They don't have a business to run. They don't. So they fall in love with like only fan stars on X who are like, I'm a trained investigator, space aliens, kill Joey bag of donuts, you're like, yeah, what, what, what, what, how do that, where did you get that? They need something in their lives. This will come up throughout the show today, but they need what's called. This is not an SAT vocabulary course, but the word here is important. They need to raise on that. What is the raise on that. It's a French phrase. This is from Chatchy BT. That literally means Chatchy BT must not know, I hate the word literally. Raise on that. There is a French phrase that literally means reason for being. It is used to describe the fundamental purpose, existence or justification of a person, organization, object or idea. Yes. Folks, the problem with a lot of liberals and Foulex Maga, fake Maga people who are trying to destroy our movement with all their nonsense and attacking everyone and every piece of evidence and going after people, and I was like, the problem with both of those movements is they have no raise on that. I mean it. I'm not trying to sound like a pseudo-sophistic into here, okay? They don't have anything. So they'll latch on to anything. I saw it my time in law enforcement with people who get into the space and they were in finance or whatever before and they've never been involved in a critical, like, high-stress life or death situation. And they, like, the first time they're in the room and they think they're in like a Netflix movie. That'll come up later. They think they're in a Netflix movie and they just panic and crap the bed, although we use the word that rhymes with "hit" instead. They crap the bed and they think they're in a Netflix movie, "Well, we're all gonna die. We're not gonna die. Shut up and calm down." Just calm down. And as if the FBI people knock on my door all the time. They come in screaming with their hair on fire. Not all of them, I mean, but there was one dude in particular. And I would ask the same questions every time. Brother is anybody dead? No. Is anybody gonna die in the next 10 seconds or so calm down? Take a sannox, call a psychiatrist. You need to calm down. Go back. Go back. Take 10 seconds. Get the nitric oxide up. And then come back and represent your case because I'm not getting into this crazy stuff. This is not some comic book we're living in. It's the real world. Liberals do this all the time. They are totally detached from reality. They write themselves into comic books. They're writing where they're the main character because they want to be heroes. They see themselves in the model of actual heroes, people who march for civil rights and others. And because, you know, they feel like they should be an integral part of history too and that they have to be written into the longitudinal course of history as some heroic figure etched on the Capitol wall. They have to fabricate their stories. I'm fighting this heroic cause of men and the women's room. Dude, nobody wants a guy's unit in a girl's restaurant. Like nobody want, you're not a hero. You don't have spidey sense. You know, you're not bad man. You're not like the dark knight version of bad man. You're not even like Aquaman. Everybody thought Aquaman was stupid, even the movie was bad. That's not what you are. So they have to invent things. They have to make themselves a hero and the main character with fake main character energy in a story they're writing that never survives first contact with the real world. I saw it again yesterday. Jim and I have been laughing at ridiculous leftists who fabricate racist conspiracy theories for the last what five, six years we've known each other. And one of the, this is an example right here, the leftists write themselves into a comic where they're fighting against a group of horrible racist Ku Klux Klan Republicans everywhere and around every corner. There's a white supremacist around every corner for them. So they've made up this ghost they need to fight called replacement theory. Now you P1s don't know where I'm going with this. But this is, is this Ariana? Iana. Iana Presley, sorry. I was thinking Ariana, I'm gonna, Iana Presley. This is Iana Presley, she's, Ariana, Ariana, what's the difference? This is Iana Presley, far left lunatic, racist, Laurence Congress. Here she is talking about how birth tourism where Chinese Communist Party infiltrators will come here to give birth to their kids. So they have American citizenship so they can use that American citizenship to infiltrate and attempt to destroy the country. That birthright citizenship is somehow evidence of this evil ghost they've been fighting replacement theory that catches this. This is a fake comic book they wrote. Because replacement theory is not real, she's calling it in the show again, it's crazy. Replacement theory, the problem is this actually is real, but it's the Democrats thing. They talk about it all the time. So listen to this lady paint herself as a hero about replacement theory that liberals discuss openly all the time. This is an instant classic. Check this out. Dr. Kamarata, yes or no, are you familiar with the great replacement theory? I've read an article or two about it, so I don't know exactly. Well let me elucidate you and the public watching at home because it's foundational to what's happening here. The great replacement theory is a conspiracy. [BLANK_AUDIO] falsely claims that white people are being deliberately replaced by immigrants and people of color. It is a far right white supremacist ideology that far too many Republicans believe is real. In fact, in 2017, in Charlottesville, at the Unite the Right Rally, when people were brandishing those tiki-tour torches, that's what they were saying. You will not replace us. So it often relies on invasion rhetoric to advance that narrative by portraying black and brown families as an invading force, rather than as human beings and people that are entitled to dignity. A parent crossing a border becomes the enemy. A pregnant woman becomes a threat. A child born in the United States becomes proof of a takeover. The consequences of this rhetoric have been deadly. Jim, she's fighting a deadly rhetoric. There's a Ku Klux Klan guy around every corner. And Ayanna Presley is bravely fighting those Ku Klux Klan hoods. You see how she writes herself into the story with the fake main character and she's, look at me, what a hero. What she's not telling you is the idea of replacing American citizens with a foreign-born population. What they call demographic destiny, changing the demographics of the United States, is their idea. Now, I'm going to do you a favor for your first time listener. Jim, isn't this thing like 20 minutes long? Now of course, we're not going to play a 20 minute cut. So we're going to do a little stunt Jim and I did last time. We were on the 12 to 3 radio show. Can you just let this play like through the break and we'll come back to the break? I don't know, three, what is the break? Three, four minutes? I don't know. But we're going to start. This is the Democrats. This is a 20 minute supercut, 20 minutes of Democrats like Ayanna Presley writing herself into this main character role, heroically fighting against a replacement theory that her own party champion is openly all the time. Check this out. Coming out into the open in a few years, we're going to be a majority brown country. White people will not be the majority in the country anymore. This will be the first generation ever in American history in which whites will be a minority of the generation at some point as of 2007. Every year, babies being born in this country, whites now are the minority in 2044, everyone is going to be a minority. This is the demographic change as white people become the minority in the country, which is coming. Demographics is destiny. Demographics is destiny, right? No, no, no, no. That's how long this is. And we come back from the break. We will just pot it right back up so you can hear it. This is 20 minutes of Democrats talking about replacing you with demographics while simultaneously writing a comic book where they're fighting against the people talking about replacing you. What is that? Let's see, too. We'll be right back. But you know, they all share a very similar characteristic, which is they all want to take advantage of suckers to get you to believe something that's not only going to destroy your own life, but the lives of those around you, including your family and community. And sometimes, not with you in this listening audience, but with others, sometimes it works. We're going to expose a lot of con men, tumors, grifters, zeros, black pillars, and others today as well, whether Hollywood and elsewhere. And unbelievably, we're going to show you how a lot of these people believe this stuff. These people say, despite the fact that the people saying it never live up to the things they're saying, I see this on X all day. Before we get to all that, a big thank you, a Bungino report, PM. I hope you're enjoying it with me and Sean Farish. We are really honored to be on these stations. Thank you to the program directors and the staff at the stations around the country who air the show. We really love doing it. We will be launching an even larger footprint in the morning with Bungino report, AM. If you missed the announcement from 5 AM to 6 AM for you early morning commuters on hundreds of stations across the country, September 21st. So we really appreciate that. The footprint is expanding. We're going to get up a station finder at my website, bungino.com soon. The only reason we haven't done it yet is we're adding so many new stations quickly that we just so want to update it every day. We just want to get it out there where people can go and look. So thank you all for your support. So getting back to the show, I like themes for the show, you know, for the podcast that airs live at 10 AM every day, Eastern time, rumble.com/bungino if you'd like to join us. For the podcast, I like a title. Some people just put an episode number. A episode, whatever, 2046, whatever it may be, you know, Jim, I and the team and the production team, we like to throw a title on some so you know where you're going to go with stuff. So I did. I titled that the show in the podcast and you know, con men, lips, media people, you know, what's the difference? And the answer is, it's a true question. There is a difference. And what made me think of this? Well, I like themes for the show because it helps people in advance kind of tell them, you know, tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them what you tell them and tell them what you told them. I was on X yesterday and I'll get to this in a little more detail later. And I was doing some show prep and I'm scrolling, I spent so much time almost as much as Haley who's another one of her. I spent a lot of time online, I have to for good show prep. And I saw a post about that movie, catch me if you can about the con man, Frank Abingnally and I'll get into it a little more later, but it's just made me laugh that there are some problems with the story about him being a comment, like, who would have done kid Jim? Like a con man wrote an autobiography and people are like, wait, the autobiography sounds like it's partially a contour, who would have done kid? I'll get into that more in a little bit. But there's a lesson there, which is pick the right heroes, pick the right heroes and know where you're getting your information from and what said people have told you in the past. Is anything they've told you in the past, in fact, accurate? Folks, there are a number of con men out there on X, you'll see them say things and I can't believe people fall for it. They'll say something ridiculous. Here's just a quick example, again, I'll bring up and in different iterations throughout the show today to show you how, like, be careful who's here, who's, you know, what hero's you pick online? Your hero's your grandfather or your dad or a great baseball coach you had or a mentor or a teacher. Not people online. It's not. They'll say something stupid, ridiculous and counterproductive. They'll get sued for it. They'll go out and puff their chest. Oh, look at me. You've seen this, right, Jim? I can't wait for discovery. I mean, and then you find out later that, like, they were served with a subpoena and they ducted it or their first motion in court was at the case thrown out. I thought, yeah, I thought you said you couldn't wait. I thought, that's what you said. Oh, there's what you said that, right? Pick the right heroes, man. They ain't people in the conservative content space and yes, ain't a word in this case. Speaking of con men, Jim's in Texas and I'm not doing this as a courtesy to Jim or Texas voters. But I'm telling you, like, this guy, Tala Freco, who has now been renamed Tala Crepo. President Trump says his nickname is now Tala Crepo from Tala Freco. His name is, of course, Tala Rico. He is the Democrat nominee for the United States Senate in Texas running as like a vegan who believes in six genders, which I don't understand like what political consultant told him that's a good idea. President Trump has this guy's number. You want to talk about a con man. This guy is got to be the biggest con man running in this cycle. Democrats run a lot of con men. Like I think that Abdul Al-Sahead's just a stupid smart person. He is. He's apparently a medical doctor who's never, I don't think he's actually practiced. But he's not dumb. But he's one of the stupid smart people. He's the neurosurgeon who goes, you know what? I'm a neurosurgeon. I'm going to change your oil. Have you ever changed your oil before? Nah. And your engine sees them. Well, I'm a neurosurgeon. How did I screw that up? You're not a mechanic. That's Abdul Al-Sahead. This Tala Crepo, Tala Freco, Tala Rico, whatever you'd like to call him is really creepy and weird, folks. The guy strikes me as a complete total con man, indicative of the entire Democrat party in this election cycle. They say things that they never back up in their own lives. Bernie Sanders. Hey, millionaire. Bernie, aren't you a millionaire? I didn't mean me. Democrats. I want government run healthcare for all. When they passed Obamacare, didn't you guys lobby for Obamacare and apply to you? I didn't mean me. Don't fall for con men. Now I learned a valuable lesson with the beast. This is for P1s only. P1s only. I was a T.S. transportation agent in the Secret Service and the limo, you'd hear it called the beast. When we were in the Secret Service, we did not call the beast, we still laugh at media people. President Trump, however, has decided it's going to be called the beast. I have forfeited. I lost Jim. Sometimes it's okay. He wants to be called the beast. It's the beast because he has a bigger microphone than me. He is now decided we're changing Tala Freco's name to Tala Crepo. Man does he have this guy's number. He is warning you. The dude is a con man. Here's President Trump. I'm warning you about con men and dooms. Everything sucks. We're all going to die. Everyone's going to lose their job. The economy's terrible. The border's not closing. The dooms are just lying to you. So are the con men. Here's President Trump on Tala Crepo. Now check this out. He was maybe the best attorney and everybody admits that he was a great attorney general in Texas and he's running against Tala Crepo and this guy was, you know, he has that name for a reason. He's terrible. Radical left now he says he loves meat. You know what he does? He eats meat and he goes outside and he throws up all over the place Because in Texas if you don't eat meat, you're in deep trouble It's not a good thing not to be able to eat meat He was wearing a mask six months ago. He had a mask on when somebody's wearing a mask six months ago. You're in deep trouble right Pete Dan easy. I know the word mask was mentioned, but you don't have to go down that route. Now you see you did it I was gonna let it go, but now you did it again for regular listeners If you ever want to get me off track ever mention the mask phenomenon during COVID I was banned from YouTube for warning you about the stupidity of the face diaper. It is the only Prophylactic medical device mechanism where you had a hundred percent success rate of failing It was the condom that you used and got every single person pregnant every single person who wore a mask on the globe God COVID it was it's the condom where you got an STD and there was a pregnancy like it's the anti-condom The face diaper. I can't I can't with the man. I see a mask. I actually love when I see a mask because I know to cross the street Because if that person has a kind of a stupid virus like some whatever like you know these viruses out there Epstein bar whatever the monovar if there was a stupid virus. I don't want the infection. I see a mask. I run for the hills Tala Freco is was wearing a mask. I got a video of him coming up and a Trump this guy's got a feel for politics Jim like no one else Trump's stingers are just like and he does them just Stemperaniously because it comes natural for him to be like a pit fighter when it comes to politics He doesn't have to like sit there Think about hold on let me get the punch line. He just goes right for the juggerer and he's running as a vegan He eats meat. He goes outside. He throws up that visual now is in everybody's head Like what kind of freaking guy's gonna go in and get brisket and throw up in Texas You're running in Texas bro like the meat capital of the world Don't go anywhere cuz I got another Piece of audio video coming up later of a campaign thing the Tala Crepo campaign put out there Jim you seen it right you watched the podcast It's it's Tala Crepo and this was his idea they put this out there Walking in a cracker barrel Like it's like a museum like it's the first time he's ever seen a cracker bow in Texas He's walking in there like Indiana freaking Jones on an archeological expedition into a cracker bow Look at the people eating eggs and grits as a oh my god You got to see him pick up the menu like confused as to what it is What is this is this a white paper speech on the marginal effects on taxation of socialism and wealth? It's a freaking menu Tala Crepo. You don't even need who needs a menu in cracker barrel What do you think you're going in their ordering? Fwagra you think you're going in there going do you have the Luga caviar is that even a thing do you it's cracker barrel bro Eggs grits biscuits. It's cracker barrel It's freaking cracker barrel. What are you looking for do you have the prime choice cut? Six-year age to ribeye from the black angus Cutter from the wagyu homes of Japan. This freaking cracker barrel, bro Just got some eggs and put the menu down act like you've been there before you know Jim Jim you got me stuck with a mess now I'm in a mood now the show is totally screwed up It's going to run out for you because you don't even know where I'm going with this now I mean while we're on the topic of Texas. I'm watching this doc. I love documentaries I love them. I can't get enough of them. I'm watching this documentary about Vince Young Jim's like oh here we go Jim loves his Texas, you know hook him horns. I'm an Auburn fan, but whatever no disrespect It's a great thing about Vince Young and you know they're talking about about Texas and Mac was a Mac Brown the old coach in a Rose Bowl when they beat USC Mac Brown when Vince Young scores the winning touchdown He's a university of Texas for the Rose Bowl like the national championship He just like walks off to feel like nothing happened. He's not going Creek. You can watch the videos not like going crazy Everything and Mac Brown. He said Mac Brown the coach told the man act like you've been there before in the end zone So he did we want to get Telecrepo act like you've been in a cracker, bro Don't walk into like Rudy's barbecue or like whatever iron fork iron spoke this iron and everything with barbecues a thousand different derivatives Just act like you've been there before I'll take the medium Filet, McNoney no dude if you want it extra moist or not it's a briskin Extra moist or no Act like you've been there. It's Texas you freaking con man I like how they showed him playing that pin game But they only showed like a second of it because he was absolutely He doesn't know what he's doing. He doesn't know the pin game at the table of cracker, bro It's only been there for 7,000 years since the Flintstones Jump definitely it's a you never I Can't I got to get because I gotta talk about the tumors too I can't jib's jib's gonna have to use the thumb button for me here Stay tuned more coming up next So this happened right before I got on the air in the podcast earlier this morning I'm watching the jobs report come out and for just to put some perspective on these numbers I don't mean anything outside of context the expected job growth numbers for the release this morning We're about 53,000 which would have been good, but not great. I think everybody would agree Well, as I saw what happened Now the tumors and the gloomers are going to be very upset about this because they only want to focus on the bad news Now we should cover bad news. There's no doubt But context does matter correct We'd all agree we should cover probably the good news too so we can weigh the good news against the bad news to make a choice It's the good news more important than the bad news and I would say job numbers are really good news because if we're not working We're not supporting our families and we're all starving That's an easy way to get that which would violate the number one rule that Dan Bangeino show which is don't get that This is Rick Santelli from CNBC about the numbers this morning. Keep in mind. They were expecting 53,000 That's not what happened. Check this out and we're hitting hold on to your seats folks Non-farm payrolls for the month of august up 162k 162,000 that's basically three times what expectations are That sounds kind of like a good thing. I'm I'm just saying I again. I Someone brought up in the podcast chat this morning, Dan. We're 40 trillion of it Yeah, I know I only cover that probably 10% of the time on my show if not more we bring it up Once a once a week if not more we bring up all the Problems we're having with Medicaid Medicare spending for other than the government we bring up all kinds of things the 20 32 and Pending bankruptcy of Social Security. I get it But there were people trying to fix these problems and there were people who were just complaining and I'm really honored to be part of this radio show A podcast and content I do on Fox and elsewhere Where I give you both sides of a story and I say listen on net. We've got a midterm coming up I think between the border being closed we cover this yesterday on the radio show for crime getting crushed the streets becoming safer The manufacturing Renaissance the tens of trillions of dollars being invested back in the United States the jobs and numbers today inflation it's still you know a thing to be tame But it's not the 9% under the Biden era that there is a movement the MAGA movement and a new Republican party That's least trying to fix this stuff while the Democrats and I'll get to this later our focused on Impeaching Pete Hegseth impeaching Donald Trump impeaching the president's cat. He doesn't have a cat It doesn't matter. They're impeaching him anyway freaking Garfield You doubt me stay tuned to the show I always bring the receipts I Make a very concerted concentrated laser light beam focused effort on understanding the other side the left Doesn't do the same for us. They don't want to understand I just want to call us like white supremacist clan members and stuff. They don't not understand understanding us I do my best to understand them. That's why we play so many clips from left-leaning outlets Audio clips on the show and video clips on the podcast where I say hey look. This is what they're saying you think I'm making this up That Bhujamani and others as they do and if you want to know that that Bhujamani and others segment totally off the rail. Do you think Bhujamani and others who are running against president Trump? You think they have an agenda? I mean an agenda for you the answer is I'll answer the question for you They don't their agenda is we are going to go there and impeach people. Well, what about gas prices? Iran public school education, you know cost the college what about affordability? What about a dead stuff is all Charlie Brown's teacher to them they hear one word impeachment impeachment impeachment It's like never ending tonight is so the word. That's all they hear in their ear How do we know that Jim because they say it Jim, let's see if you get this right. Why do the Democrats running for office in this life, you screwed this up, you were out, you and I are done forever. Why do the Democrats not want to put forward an agenda that involves jobs, healthcare, the things that matters to them? Why would they know? Why would they know? Why would they know how to do that, Jim? Because they don't want to. Correct. Because if they wanted to, they would do what they want to do, but they don't want to do it. So there's no due in the due. So do, there's due, do, but there's no due in the due if you know what I mean. So here's what I got. Let me lay out the show for you. I'm going to do this. I haven't done this, I think, ever, but we get a lot of letters in the studio from supporters and things like that. It's always nice to read them. I read one today that was really kind of touching. It was from a young lady, Kirsten from Florida. She asked me for some life advice, and it's not, let me just warn you in advance, I'll address it later, but it's not the life advice you've heard from everyone else. I promise you. If you're waiting for like, follow your dreams and also that's not it. I hate cliches and I hate stupid life advice. That is not good life advice. Follow your dreams. That's not, that doesn't help anyone. Someone read that in a hallmark card. So I got that. I'm going to, I want you to hear this AI promo video that came out today, sliding the internet on fire. Even AI put out a new AI program. Ladies and gentlemen, you are living in, I mean, to call it a transformative time is kind of like, almost reverse hyperbolic, I'm not exaggerating enough. You are living in the craziest time to be alive right now, and I mean in a good way, where if you're 40, 50, 60 or 70 years old, you're going to have seen pre-AI America, pre-internet American in many cases. I remember when there was no, you know, internet commercially. And you're now going to see what AI is capable of doing going forward. The world's going to be two different places. When you hear the video, the audio of this video I'm going to play, you're going to be blown away. I promise you, I was and I'm an investor in the tech space. I see a lot of this stuff. I was totally blown away. But I want to get to this first because I do get letters, traditional letters, people write to the office. But I get a lot of emails, a lot of direct messages from both supporters and detractors and that's okay. No one, we don't do NPC stuff here. No one's forced to agree with me. We're not robots. But I did an appearance, call them hits in the media biz. I did a hit on Will Kane show yesterday on Fox. I enjoyed doing the show, check it out for PM Eastern on Fox. I did an appearance at Will yesterday and the Lindsay Clancy failure to find a verdict was breaking news. It juries deadlocked in the case. It happened about yet right before I got on the air and they said, hey, Dan, you know, lift and shift, can you talk about the Clancy case? I said, oh boy, I got a lot to say about the Clancy case. So I do the appearance there and folks, I'm going to tell you something commentary I've done outside of the political space, crime, sports, culture wars, everything like that. I have never in my 15 years of doing conservative talking head commentary ever got as much feedback received as much feedback as I did yesterday after this appearance on Will Kane show. I don't like playing my own stuff, but it's important because this is about not just the appearance, but the commentary afterwards. And I'm going to tell you what was about 70% roughly. We agree with you and about 30% we disagree and of that 30% about a quarter of that was people like really ticked off at me for this take on the Lindsay Clancy case. I'll explain, but first I want you to hear it's a little over a minute. Check this out. The facts in this case are not in dispute and I say to these people who took the time to grab a pen or a typewriter and write some kind of, you know, love note to this lady. I wish you could watch it. I really do. I wish they were video in this. You want to see what that's like? Strangling, three kids to death. You want to see what they're probably begging for help, what that look like. If you watch it, do you have to turn away? Why do you have to turn? If it was a fiction, an act of fiction on a Netflix show, you would look away and horrible. I can't watch this fake mom strangle these fake actor kids. But this is the facts in this case are not in dispute. There is no reasonable doubt about the facts and will you know, I'm glad you brought up the analogy. You know, would a man get the same, you know, leeway from a jury that can't seem to figure this out? Do you know how many people come back from overseas? Our patriots and heroes in our military who see awful, unimaginable things that thankfully will you and I don't have to deal with every day. You know, they come back and they don't strangle their kids. I mean, listen, do you know how many people come back from over overseas? I mean, listen, mental illness is a horrible thing. But how much as a society are we willing to sacrifice to protect this woman's story? I mean, if this is dumbed down, the legal version of what it's like to murder three children, I got to tell you, man, I don't know how you come back from a verdict like this. I think this is why the national attention so focused on this case. Okay. You probably understand, given the passion surrounding this case, why that would generate a lot of feedback. Folks, I've spent 15 years as a candidate and activist and elsewhere, whatever who cares. Know what it is relevant and I care for this because I feel like having done and had maintained a decent audience through the years, despite all the ups and downs and primaries and all that stuff. I feel like we do a pretty good job in the show of understanding our detractors, people who disagree. Two, the roughly 30% of people who send us emails and Facebook messages and elsewhere saying, Dan, I totally disagree. You know, there was a reason and an excusable reason for this woman to kill her three kids. I'm going to tell you, I don't get it. I'm not trying to be a tool, a craftsman, a jerk, an idiot or anything else. I'm not trying to play stupid with you. I genuinely don't get it. I feel like I don't agree with but I understand why gun grabbers are how they are. They're afraid of, you know, they don't want to get shot so they think somehow stealing innocent people's guns. I don't agree. I think that's ridiculous. But I get where I see how you could possibly think that if you weren't well informed on the issue. Again, I'm not agreeing with any of this. I could see how, you know, wealth tax supporters, you know, they think, oh, well, there's this rich pool of money out there. If we just steal it, everyone will be better off. They don't take into account that then the wealthy people have no money to build jobs. So I get why you would think that you're just wrong. I'm candidly, sincerely telling you in the audience for the first time in a non-political commentary issue, I've gotten enormous feedback on it that I just don't understand. Folks, I don't get it. Three innocent children were killed by their mother. If collectively in this thing we call society, we can't enact a legal structure to appropriately punish and put up guardrails against killing kids, then I'm sorry, but all's for not. You know, I brought up the example in the appearance on Will's show. Folks, I've got friends and colleagues and family members who served in public safety positions in law enforcement, EMS, fire, who served in the military. I lost my uncle and Vietnam and before I was born, it ruined my family from my grandmother died depressed over it. It was killed in a south of Thuduck, got a bronze star with a Vida Vise on it. And then my grandmother was never the same. But folks, I bring this up because there were people, heroes, real heroes, not comic book heroes, but real heroes who go and serve our country overseas and see horrific things you and I. Thank the Lord. We'll never have to look at. They see people being stepping on minds and being killed and their buddies coming back with missing limbs shot in front of their eyes. They come back with mental scars that thank the Lord. You will never understand. I won't either. I was not in combat. These are not the kind of things you would ever, ever want to live with. They come back with the deepest of emotional scars that they would give anything, anything to get rid of. They would rather come back with physical wounds and come back with these mental wounds that will never, ever scar over. I covered a segment on my Fox show years ago where I read an email from a friend with his permission who had witnessed this stuff on the air talking about the pink mist. You don't know what the pink mist is? I didn't either. It's one one of his battle buddies would step on a mine and just explode right in front of him into a mist of pink from the blood. Folks, these people aren't coming back and killing their kids. They're dealing with a trauma in their own life and they're not taking out that trauma on others. That in the rare occurrence at that time. happen to people in the military, of course, like anyone else's crime, they are punished. Harsely, if we cannot enact legal guardrails to make sure that the most innocent among us are protected, then ladies and gentlemen, I'm really sorry, but we are in for a really dark future. And I don't believe that. I got more on this coming up next.