This Sounds Like A Big Deal (Ep. 2597)

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The low, yeah, logo, remember, there's like a director's cut that's even worse, folks, if you're looking for bad news, today's not that show. There is some bad news we cover, told you last week, there was Mr. Apocalypse, the AI is going to kill us all, we covered it, we covered it, we covered it, we did our job, right? That's our job to get you good news, bad news and kind of find out what is good, what's bad and where there's a happy middle ground. Yesterday was such an incredible litany of incredible W's for the Trump administration, objectively good W's. I'm not talking about like his hair look good or anything like that. I'm talking about numbers and facts that I can't repeat this enough. I don't understand why Republican voter enthusiasm is not through the roof right now. I don't understand. I'm going to start off and I'll show you today what, real numbers, not my opinion, they're not my, they're just facts. 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This is what came out yesterday. Now before you put this up, Justin, before you put this up, I'm going to ask a question because I practice what I preach. Sometimes you're throwing things at people as an assertion they block it out because they're liberals and they want bad news and they want to think the world's collapsing and we're all going to die. So I'm going to ask a question. If this were Barack Obama or if this were President Joe Biden and you saw this series of headlines, I'm just asking the question, would you be excited or not? Fair question. Correct. Let's go with headline number one. And this was just in the last couple days, Reuters, Justin, big pro Trump outlet, Reuters is not known for their pro Trump headlines. U.S. poverty rate dips to lowest on record, Census Bureau says, look at the date. It's kind of important, September 16th, 2026. So who's the president on September 16th, 2026, the Donald Trump, he is a Democrat, no Republican. So just this alone, wouldn't you like to be the president, I'm just asking, wouldn't you like to be the president when they quote U.S. poverty rate dips to the lowest on record, I thought everything was terrible. I thought the doomers and the pillars told you nothing is happening. We're all going to die, teach these Republicans a lesson in government. What lesson are you trying to teach them? We want the poverty rate higher, what would be my lesson, you try to teach them. Think of how amazing it would be. Wow, I'm getting a call right now. Yeah, this is like the rare time on the lives where I don't know what to do. Do I, I can't take it, yeah, can we cut the commercial, okay, sleep in a voicemail. Okay, I think you probably figured that out, yeah, I got to take a break a second, folks, I'm really sorry, I don't mean to screw up the show, but I have to take this. This is like 10 minutes later. I was given permission to tell you, it was the other president who I loved to death. And folks, if we ever stop the live show, Justin, you've been here in the longest, he's not here today. No, I don't think we have. If the president, no, not intentionally, right, right, maybe tech meltdowns. So the president gave me permission to the, and he also wanted me to pass a message. I am not fludging the numbers, how much he loves this audience, you guys. I would not dare speak for the president if he didn't personally ask me to tell you that. He did. So what was it, like a 10 minute break or something like that? We had a very long conversation about some great stuff. And we were talking about, it's crazy, like we were just talking about the message. So I just want to make sure you see this segment again. How Republicans running in the midterms and voters out there too. We have an amazing portfolio. This freaking Christmas time with stocking stuffers overflowing the stocking of good information to talk about. What message could you want in the midterms? This guy is the freaking goat. He loves you, man. He loves you guys and ladies out there. He has me to say that. So I'm passing on it. I wouldn't dare speak from other words. Here's what I'm talking about. This stuff sounds like a big deal. If this was Barack Obama, would there would be like a nighting? You know, would they drop the sword on the shoulder? Here we go. Here's number one. You could go back to Reuters because I, you know, we obviously had to take a little break there. If you missed, this is why you got to join the live show, not just for the comment of the day, but stuff like this happens and man, talk about a lift and shift. US poverty rate dips to lowest on record. Census Bureau says, okay, we already covered that in the first five minutes, but sounds like a BFD, a big deal. If I'm the president and the US poverty is quote the lowest on record, this is from freaking Reuters. They don't even like the bus. I'm out there. People with palm fronds are like this. We've got enough of them down here. You want some palm fronds? Come to Florida. That's not it. That's not it. There's more. It's like the shamwalk. Wait, there's more. Here was this for the other day. Not only is your economy on fire right now, motoring along, your streets are the safest they've ever been. I don't care if I had a role in it or not. It doesn't matter. It's the president's leadership. He picked up people. He enacted the plan. FBI reports record decrease in violent crime. Plumets across the country. Killings and other violent crimes dropped sharply in 2025. 2025 had biggest violent crime drop in 90 years. If you alone ran on this, if you alone ran on this, you're doing just peachy. No less the lowest poverty rate. And then this, I thought we were all worried about the border, the citizenry. The border was chaotic and open. It was a complete show rhymes with hit under Joe Biden. President Trump comes into office and now we have, look at this, September 16, 2026. That sounds like, what is today's day? Is that yesterday and then? That just sounds like it just happened. Trump's DHS hit 16 straight months with zero releases at the border. That sounds like a big freaking deal to me, man. What are Republicans running for office complaining about? You'd be kissing this guy's ass. I'm not kidding. I don't understand like what I don't understand what the problem is. I really don't. I'm not trying to be a tool about it. I don't understand what the issue is. Joe Biden during his disastrous presidency, the Afghanistan withdrawal, the open border, freaking 9% inflation. We had not seen since the Jimmy Carter Stagflation era. Joe Biden didn't do that bad in the midterms. Why? Because some Democrats were like full steam ahead, damn the freaking torpedoes. They showed up and voted no matter what. I don't understand the apathy on our side for a record that is like, he was Joe Biden on the evil scale. Here's Donald Trump on like the good side angel scale. And our people aren't excited, man, I don't know folks, there's like, I'm a little perplexed about the whole thing. You want this person in charge instead? Now we were told by the left wing media, do you guys remember this? Remember during the 2020 election when we righteously, righteously questioned a mass mail-in ballot, COVID, unprecedented electoral campaign where we've never seen mass ballots on this scale. And we all said, hey, man, that doesn't sound like it's going to be that secure. You had every right to ask those questions. What were we called? Anyone remember Andrew Popquiz? We were all called election deniers, remember that? Do you remember that? Now, of course now the left wing media, when Democrats say the exact same thing but have no actual evidence, we have evidence mail-in balloting is not that secure. Statistics show the rejection rates can be double what they are for in person voting. Where did we get that statistics from? Yes, the New York Times. You mean the New York Post? No, I mean the New York Times. We know that. So we had every right to question it. Kamala Harris can't question the election in the midterms. Why not, fellas and ladies? Because it hasn't happened yet. But she's already saying they're going to cheat. Oh, there it is. There's the article in the New York Times, error in fraud at issue is absentee voting rise. You can read it yourself in the New York Times. You can read it yourself. Kamala Harris is already claiming there's going to be cheating. The election hasn't even happened yet. So clearly the left wing media is going to call her an election tonight, right? No. You want these people in charge or lowest poverty rate, lowest crime rates, zero of admitances of illegals at the border? Well, who do you want, charge? I've never been to the border, but I've never been to Europe. You're not to Europe's are, you're the freaking borders are. Here's Kamala Harris already claiming there's going to be cheating. Left wing media, they'll say nothing, guaranteed. Check this out. Hey, everybody. Today is National Voter Registration Day, and I have two requests of you. Number one, please check your voter registration status. I know you're pretty sure that you are registered, but you know they've been cheating out there. They've been purging voter rolls. So please check your voter registration status. And then number two, text everyone on your group chat and let them know. I asked you to ask them to check their voter registration status. We got to win. There's so much at stake and we got to be too big to rake and I'm trying to eat. Let's be too big to rake. I thought you're not allowed to say that. Well, we not told, by the way, I know it's saying refreshes because if you refresh, you're seeing me live. But everyone in the chat, can you please do me a favor if you watch and live, put in all caps, refresh, we're live. So the others know to hit the refresh button. I know we had to take a break for the president, but president calls, I'm answering the phone. I think you all understand. You don't send the president to voicemail, okay, that's not the way this works. Thank you. Refresh we are in the chat. Is she not an election denier? I mean, folks, we're just asking questions, man. All right, take a quick break while everybody refreshes here. And I want to get back to it because I had to read this story twice because this is even more good news. I told you, your choices are Kamala Harris, that Democrat party or the Republican party led by President Trump, lowest poverty rate on record, crime getting crushed, murder rate getting crushed, bordered down to zero, manufacturing back. I've got a whole section here of not just good news, but amazing news. That's not even it to the beginning. I've got more. I've got more. 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I have the lab results to back it up. These statements and products have not been evaluated by the FDA and not tend to diagnose, treat, cure, prevent any disease or condition. Check out dose d o s e dose daily.co/bongino thank you, dose. Okay. I had to read this twice because again, the good news just keeps on coming. We live in the greatest country on earth, thankfully America, where even under in its worst moments, we still have a republic and we still have the ability to speak out. We've been under a lot of stress the four Biden years, the dreadful eight Obama years. We've had we've had weaponized members of the house, trying to put President Trump in jail. We've had weaponized attorney generals, weaponized local prosecutors. But folks, compared to the rest of the world, there is no place you want to be alive. And there is no other time you want to be alive than right now. Again, I had to read this twice and the theme at today's show is, hey, this sounds like a big deal. This sounds like a really big deal. I saw this post on X yesterday by Jennifer Wu that these Chinese companies, because their economy is not as advanced as ours is, that whatever it is, efforts from guardrails, consumer lawsuits that keep companies in check and other things, regulations, they don't have a lot of this stuff. China is nowhere close to contrary to what the rumors will tell is nowhere close to the advanced economy we are. So these Chinese companies tried to steal this AI model, quad's capabilities. They accidentally handed the United States their own state secrets instead. Anthropic disclosed that Chinese AI firms didn't just use quad to generate training data. In one case, a company secretly routed over 300,000 real user requests through quad over 10 days without the users ever knowing what came through with that traffic surveillance material from a user and theropic suspects is people's liberation army affiliated, log in credentials from engineers at major Chinese state owned enterprises, probably connected to the Communist Party, most likely data from police case management systems and internal details of Chinese AI projects, they loaded all this stuff, you know, it's kind of in closing. They were trying to copy an American model. Instead, they built a pipeline quietly exposed Chinese state and military data to a U.S. company. Folks, there has never been a better time to be an American in the golden age of politics right now. However, I told you I wouldn't give you the good news, bad news. The bad news. news that we need to fix is you've seen the China thread. I just discussed it. China apparently made a huge catastrophic tactical error here, disclosing all this information. Not good, but they're not us. I'm not telling you we're not going to make mistakes too. However, we need patriots inside these companies. Folks, I mean it. We need people that love America. I'm not telling you every Democrat out there doesn't love America. That's not what I'm saying. Just, you know, coal miners in West Virginia vote Democratic. Love America like you. There's a different idea. However, the commies and progressives and the blue-haired liberals do not. I say that because going forward in order for us to not make catastrophic mistakes like this with AI in our economy, we're going to need people who love America first inside these companies. I bring it up because of this Wall Street Journal story. How even this is starting to turn around right now. I mean in a good way. You said it was going to be news. This sounds like a big deal too. There's an article in the Wall Street Journal what the Russell need. I read often higher ed will soon get patriotic. He notes how keep this up a second guys. He notes how first, how parents, especially in really patriotic areas of the country, the South, you know, Midwest, the Rust Belt, that a lot of these areas, I'm not telling you about Patriots everywhere, but you get the point that they just don't want to send their kids to world colleges anymore. They don't really care if it's Harvard or whatever. They don't care. They want their kids to go to college in love America. Secondly, he notes change will likely come from three directions. University-based scientific research has to take national security concerns more seriously. From student recruitment to international collaborations with sensitive technologies, American universities are going to have to think more patriotically or risk massive reputational damage and less federal funding. Folks, I'm telling you, man, things are starting to change and change fast and change dramatically. I attribute a large portion of this to President Trump's leadership and his make America first message. It's changing. The world is changing around you. There's no peak woke is now over. You don't want these people in charge. Folks, these leftists, Kamala Harris already questioning an election that hasn't even happened. Hassan Piker, Mamdani, AOC, these people just don't like America. I know you've probably seen this, but I don't need to inject my opinion into the evidence, although I will. I'll just play their own words. Here's Hassan Piker again, despite the United States, freeing Europe. Both portions of Western and Eastern Europe multiple times from the tyranny of fascism, dictatorship, and Nazism. Despite the United States fighting communism all over the world, despite the United States leaving their dead all over the world and yet never stealing people's property or landovers that we could have. We don't own France or Europe. We could have after World War II and we don't. Hassan Piker, unbelievably, thinks we're the big terror group in the world and we're the problem. These are the kind of people they align with. You have a choice in the midterms, lowest poverty rate, crime, crushed, border closed, or someone like this guy who thinks America is the biggest terror state in the world. Check this out. That America is the top dog in terrorism. Yes. Do you think America then is worse than Al Qaeda? Pound for pound as far as the number of deaths. Yes, we've caused tremendous terror all around the world. I think that that is not only terror that we are waging on regular civilians and nations in the periphery, but it's also having consequences on ourselves. It's having dramatic consequences on the home front. Again, if you're thinking about not showing up to vote, you're an independent, moderate Republican, MAGA Republican, Libertarian. I don't really care. Even if you're a blue dog Democrat, there were a lot of them left. This is the Democrat party. They openly campaigned with this guy, just put Piker, L. Cyanne, put campaign appearances. Hassan Piker, they love this guy. We do everything we can to avoid civilian casualties. Why the Islamophonatic nuts he appears to worship, fly willingly planes into buildings to murder people who burn alive and have to jump 110 stories and kill themselves to get away from the flames. And you're comparing us to them. Are you freaking crazy? We don't have a message in the midterms. I just told you the message. Here's an even easier message. We probably shouldn't align with people who support terror groups like these freaking lunatics. How bad does it have to be, by the way, even the Detroit news, not known to be some big hardcore conservative outlet. The Detroit news is endorsing Republican Mike Rogers for Senate and Michigan, over L. Cyanne who campaigned with Piker. Do you know how bad this has to be? And yet you got Republican message. Even the Detroit news got the message. Folks, this is a serious time. We need serious people in charge who understand AI, the China threat, the Islamophonatic threat, the Muslim brotherhood, the people who understand all this nonsense. And I told you, President Trump is the consensus seeker and the leader we need right now. And he's got a body of freaking results, like I've never seen. You're just ignoring them. If you're out there running and going, oh, we got nothing to run on. We have a serious threat ahead too. Here's a quick Fox video yesterday. I need you to see because I was briefed in on a lot of this as well. The China threat is very real. You want Kamala Harris in charge to wheels on the bus, go round and run. AI, two letters. You want that? You want that? I don't want that. The China threat is real, especially in this new AI, these new AI horizons that are breaking by the day. Check out this Fox report. This is important. Pay close attention. The FBI says China is responsible for up to 80% of the intellectual property theft here in the United States. And that includes AI and yesterday in the Rose Garden President Trump's attorney general says the Justice Department will continue to investigate it. The Department of Justice and other agencies in the executive, of course, we're doing everything we can to combat that and to go after that in the right way. But I don't think it's fair to just label China as a country. There's bad actors in China that are doing it, which we're definitely going to go after. Folks, the China threat is very real. I'm glad a lot of you refreshed. Thank you again. Sorry for that break in the show. But folks, the China threat is very real. President Trump has already given you a portfolio of items to run on a Christmas stocking overflowing with goodies. Man, goodies. That's like an old bird. Good. He said my grandmother said, I mean, that's some goodies for you. Dad, it was always like some end to men's doughnut. Remember the, I double chocolate, they went a little like crumbs on top. Yeah. You still confused about a message for the midterms? I've got some other bangers for you. Again, there are just numbers, folks. If you are a Republican running for, and to the Republicans running for office who have taken this information and run on it, I applaud you. This is not directed at you to the others who think this election is over and a fate of complete because I don't have a message. Change your diapers and pay attention and start taking notes. You got more. Oh, I got more. Here's the Atlanta Fed. Look at that. Very nice. Posting on Twitter. On September 16th, the GDP now model has forecast real GDP growth in quarter three coming up in 2026. As 5.1 percent, what does that mean? Ladies and gentlemen, a damn good number is 3%. A great number is 4%. 5% is like Reagan era 80s numbers. That's the Atlanta Fed. They're not a partisan outlet. The Fed branch, they're not running for office. Do you understand what 5% growth looks like? 5% growth, your wages, real wages, real wages, not inflation, real adjusted wages, would double in about, I don't know, 14, 15 years would double if we could hit that. Double, meaning you're making 70,000, you've been making 140,000 before you even retire. And that's not even factoring into raises from your job. That's just the GDP growth. Well, obviously factoring in the raises. Here's another amazing piece of good news. This is just this week. Man, it's only Thursday. Then you're too optimistic. Good. I don't care. You want the depressing show. There's a thousand other full-lex mega people who are going to tell you how the world sucks. Everybody sucks. This guy sucks. That guy sucks. I'm not doing that. It's okay if this isn't the show for you. This is the show where we next man up. Some bad news happens. Someone grabs the flag and charges ahead. We don't sit there in gripe and moan about every piece of freaking bad news. And when the good news happens, we charge the damn battlefield. So this happened yesterday too. To the nothing is happening crowd. The abbey gate bomber due to Joe Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Something happened within yesterday too. Because again, I thought nothing is happening. Thanks to President Trump's leadership. We got some scalps on this one. Check this out. One of them convicted in connection with the deadly abbey gate bombing. It was just sentenced to 20 years of age. federal prison. That suspect was convicted of conspiring to give material support to the Islamic State terrorists, ISIS, in connection with that suicide bombing. During former president Joe Biden's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan in August of 2021, that attack killed 13 U.S. service members and wounded nearly 200 others and killed about 200 others. Twenty years, man, 20 years. If this stuff doesn't matter to you, it matters to me. I saw MS Dawkins in the chat. I'm a happy warrior. I'm a happy warrior too, Miss Dawkins. Me too. I don't ignore the bad news, but we cover it responsibly. Don't tell me you don't have a message. Here's another one, New York Post. Again, I thought everybody in the Trump administration and the law enforcement counterintellent counterterror side took the rise off the ball. No, the Biden FBI took the rise off the ball and the Obama FBI, when they were locking up people for the crime of being mega folks and Republicans. Here's what your FBI looks like. FBI stops Russian plot to murder prominent dissident in Washington, DC. Hmm. I thought we took our eye off the ball. I want to extend a very sincere note of gratitude to Jesse Waters yesterday on the five. I thought this way. I watched this in Justin knows. I couldn't find a clip after it happened because it just happened. And I sent an email right away, hey, Justin, find me this clip from the five. This is amazing. Here's Jesse Waters on again. Like we need good news. Like here's an amazing amount of good news that happened with this FBI, the entire federal law enforcement function under President Trump. Like how are we ignoring this? How are we ignoring this? Obviously, Jesse's not a Democrat. All Jesse's a Republican. However, you could all the dooms and full-lex mago who won't tell you this stuff. This was a great clip. And I really appreciate him bringing this up. Check this out. And if you create a smoke screen where people don't talk about all this drop in violent crime, then you're not going to realize that when you do focus on the criminal, instead of putting Trump in prison and worrying about pronouns, you can actually keep the country safer. They don't want the audience to hear that. It's not only the top 10 most wanted. It's the top six fraudsters in the world. They found more missing and traffic children than have ever been found in the history of the United States just in 18 months. I had to close down my factory. We had a world cup with like millions of foreigners born to the country, zero incidents. We had a safe Olympics. We had two safe Super Bowls. And they've been so transparent. We're getting all the goodies on Epstein, on Butler, on UFOs, on JFK. We're getting so much good stuff. Crime is down in such a prolific run. Well, I don't, what's, you see what the dooms and their agenda, they just want you pissed off all the time. All that stuff he said is true. Folks, the news gets even better. There's more good economic news. Unemployment rate down. I'll get to that in a second. Retail sales up coming up right now. Poverty rate, the lowest in recorded US history. Here's CNBC yesterday. Again, not some big pro Trump outlet. It's CNBC. Here's CNBC talking about retail sales. In other words, when retail sales are up, it means people are buying stuff. This is a good thing. People don't buy stuff. There's nothing to sell to because you have no customers. Didn't hear about this anywhere in the left wing media. CNBC's got to cover it because they do business. Check this out. We're going to look for retail sales for August Longwood, import, export prices, hitting the wires as I speak. We're expecting up a little shy of 1% for retail sales. The advance look comes in stronger up 1.2%. Up 1.2 would be the best level since the highest level of the year was 1.7. And that was in March. This series has been doing pretty well. And once you strip out autos, drum roll, please, this is a super strong number. Expecting up 6 10 sex autos more than double 1.4%. That's going to be a way back machine. 1.4. Well, not so far. 2% in March. This will be the second best of the year. But these by historic standards are very lofty. That 2% that we had in March was the strongest going back over three years. Is anybody tired of winning yet? Someone in the chat. So I'm not tired. I'm not tired of winning either. This is a campaign slogan itself. Here's another one. The poverty rate. We don't want people to be poor, correct? Anyone disagree, vote in the studio. Jasmine, do you want people to be poor? No, no ham just did. No, Andrew, you got here. Andrew drank too much water needed a bathroom break. What's going on? Like the president calls the show. Everybody's like going to the bathroom in the middle. Do you guys like drink too much coffee or something like that? The whole, like, it's like one person. They're all like a, Andrew, I'll answer for you. No, we don't want people to be poor. So a low poverty rate, i.e. a small around a poor people. Can we just agree in the chat? Yes, that's a good thing. How about if it's an a's Andrew? You back you okay? Feel better now. Okay, you agree? You don't, you don't want a lot of poor people, correct? He doesn't. There you go. I answered for him. I was correct. Here's Scott Besson, up on the hill yesterday. The amount of poor people as a function of the rate is the lowest it's been in like recorded history. Sounds like a big deal to me. Check this out. Since it's Bureau covering 2025, they are just published. The poverty rate declined 50 basis points to 10.2%. Real median household income increased by $2,250, 2.6% to $87,460. The highest on record. Pretext income for black Americans is up 4.8% white Americans 2.9%. So we want to shrink the pool of people who are classified as poor, right? All good. I don't see any nose in the chat. I don't see any, I don't see anybody. Here's another simple question. Ask a question. Don't make an assertion. If you're a Democrat listening who hates my guts, welcome. I'm a free speech guy. Do your thing. Okay. But if this were Barack Obama with the lowest poverty rate of all time, wouldn't you be excited? The answer is yes. Stop the crap. Okay. You know I'm, you know I'm telling you straight. What about jobless claims? Jasmine, do you want people to be jobless? No, just drinking or tea or whatever. Justin, no, no, good. Andrew, no, no, no, no job. We want jobless claims to be low because we want people to have jobs. You got to be a J.O. Have a J.O. B. If you want to be with me, some of you will get that fire away in the chat. Zero hedge on X. Enjoy their site. Read it often. They had a post about jobless claims. Jobball. Look at them. Oh, look at them. And the date is September 17th. I think that's today. I always track at time. Jobless claims tumbled a 57 year loss. Duma Republican. Oh, you got nothing run on, bro. Nothing run on. Really 57 year. I'm not even 57. I'm only 51. We haven't seen a jobless claim this low in the United States. There's just six years before I was born since the 60s. Sounds like kind of a big deal to me. You're right. We know there's totally, completely nothing to run on. If you sense my, the dripping sarcasm, I just, I can't take it. I ran in some really tough election cycles when I ran for office myself. Didn't work out. I'm proud. I was glad I did that. I just experienced my life outside of the FBI, right? That was it. That was it. That's my dream job, right? I loved it. If I could only run with these types of numbers, I'm going to throw one more at you because I've got some critical interview, coverage of it, not me, but Will Chamberlain did an interview with Curtis Jarvan that people are doing this thing with AI. That's a really, really bad idea. You know, I love technology, but don't do this. I'll talk about that in a second, but I just want to throw one more at you. And if there's more, we'll cover over the coming days. I'm really like, I don't want to hit you with so much good news in one day. I'm not even kidding because I don't want you to forget it. Here's one more Wall Street Journal, median household income, median's a measure of central tendency. You got mean, median and mode and it's kind of like a way to form some kind of average or an idea of what the average American household is doing. These are household numbers. So again, asking the question, we all want household income to be high, right? I'm sorry, folks, but there are liberals watching who get confused. If Barack Obama was the president, you want household income to be high, a lot of income, correct? The median industry continues to manufacture forecasts of doom, the Wall Street Journal notes. But harder data says that this is a great time to be an American arguably the greatest in all of our spectacular history. This is the Wall Street Journal. Some of them don't even like Trump. Look at his number. That's their words, not mine, although I agree with it. On Tuesday, the government reported that after adjusting for inflation, the tip of U.S. Household is making more money than ever. They announced that real median household income was $87,460 in 2025. The highest on record dating back to 1967. The official poverty rate fell 0.5 points to 10.2% in 2025, the lowest there. I don't know what to do, you know, I don't have a message. No, you don't have a cerebral cortex. Don't do a cranial rectitotomy, remove your head from your caboose, and just read the freaking news. I can't help you if you can't read the news. Your job is to read the news. You're a representative of the people, correct? That's your freaking job. It's like being the milkman in the 60s, delivering milk and going, "I forgot the milk." You're the milk delivery guy. What's the purpose to the raison d'etre of your existence is to leave the milk at the door. Ooh, we're on a roll today, sorry, the president got me in such a good mood because he's optimistic too. I'm chatting with him on the phone. He's as confused as everyone else about what some of these Republicans are complaining about. This guy handed you a Christmas stocking full of the greatest toys and gizmos ever and you're complaining. Oh, man, you know, I wanted coal instead. What is going on with you people out there? Not you, the audience. I love my audience. I have your opinion matter. I'm talking about these electives. What is their problem, man? All right. I wanted it. Folks, do not do this, not until we get a good idea of what AI is doing. This is a really bad idea. You know, I'm going to give you a balanced perspective. I think the potential for AI. I think that 5% GDP number I talked about could be 10 or 15. If AI does what we, and we minimize the risks, cancer, material, sciences, curing diseases, the potential is endless. There are things we probably don't even know. We don't know that AI will figure out. However, it's not fully advanced and mature yet where we understand all the risks and we have to take that into account. We have to take it into account. I like Will Chamberlain O'Lady as a podcast. He had Curtis Jarvanon and they discussed this thing people are doing where they're connecting AI agents to their email system. Folks, I do not think this is a good idea. I just want to be on the record. Very bad idea. He's going to explain to you why. But it goes back to the two huge concerns I have about AI. I share with the author of that World Street Journal piece the other day. You should not be delegating tasks to AI that are, could it basically end your life or be used to destroy you. You don't do it until you're comfortable. Do not delegate those tasks yet until we're ready. Just like we wouldn't delegate AI to flying a plane with no human pilot there. We're not ready for that. Second, if the decision's not reversible, in other words, you can't stop the AI and bring it back, then don't do it. And AI having access to your email and potentially launching it all over the internet is not reversible. Do not do this. Check this out. Over time, what we're seeing is that these things are not becoming less controllable. They're becoming more controllable and more essentially trustworthy for performing sensitive tasks. So as the dooms are doomed, millions of people are connecting their Gmail to Gropbot and instinct and use and other new platforms, AI has created this new industry really of the personal server, which is only going to grow. And your Gropbot can instantly destroy your career. It could go out on the web and find CSAM and send it to your boss. Easily. Right. Basically, people trust these things in practice, not to do that. Does your test left SD, which is smarter than you as a driver in many ways? Does it pack into critical infrastructure and try to take over the world? No. Not only have we not seen that behavior, we have not seen anything within many, many orders of magnitude of that behavior. And actually, these systems, again, as they get smarter, are getting only more controlled and more predictable. Hit Gary in the chat. Don't get hacked. John DeSalvo. Trust but verify. Yeah. Yeah. Just a warning from me, I disclose that I'm an investor in the tech space, have been for a long time. Be smart about this. I would not be connecting these agents to private information that if it were to get out on the internet, excuse me, is not reversible. Once it's out, you can't pull it back. It's a really, really bad idea. Not to mention, you don't want one of these things if it's alignment isn't correct, trying to bribe you with your own email, not a good idea. Just don't do it. I am an observer, obviously, of the political ecosystem and environment out there. You know I like to pay attention to what's going on. Now I want to say I have been out of the federal government, as you well know, for about six months now and it was a track of time. I loved my time there. This is not based on any inside information. I want to be clear on that. This is based only on my political analytical background, how I can just, you know, you read enough stories you learn to kind of see signs. When the DOJ puts this out, the National Security Division Department of Justice, they're not putting it out by accident. I could just tell you based on experience that nothing there happens by accident. So if I've been warning you over and over again, you can read this. I'll read some of it coming up in a second. I've been warning you since I got back on the air, having seen things from the inside, that there are people doing things on social media to get you to believe bad things that they don't really believe in. Many of them, not all, many of them are being paid by foreign actors. The worst part is they're not even telling you. At least if they would disclose it, it would look like they had some semblance of integrity. They're not. So I saw this pop yesterday and I thought this doesn't look good for some of those folks. Even to justice, liability for unregistered foreign agents. DOJ would like to remind the public of federal laws that require individuals to register as foreign agents when they act in the United States at the direction or control of a foreign government or foreign principal. And they will face civil and criminal liability if they fail to do so. I don't think that's an accident. I don't think that's an accident, like at all, folks, you have, I want to explain this to you because it's important, you have a first amendment right to advocate for a position if a foreign government loves it or hates it, you can do that. However, if you are being compensated, paid to advocate on behalf of a foreign government, a foreign principal. If you are doing that, you have an obligation under Farrah to disclose that. You have an obligation. It's the law. It's to prevent massive foreign interference and electoral issues and things like that. You're allowed to take the position. I cannot be any clearer. But if you take money for said position, you're still allowed to do it. You just have to disclose it. Not allowed to double negative, you're allowed to do it. Take money. By the way, it's just the right thing to do. If I were to put an ad on my social media account, we don't do it often. I think we've done it a couple of times. You put hashtag ad so people understand it's in it. And that's not even a national security concern. That's just like Joey Bagadona's bagels. Hey, they're really delicious. Try the everything bagels. Hashtag ad. You do it because it's the right thing to do. Sticking with the theme of today's show, it sounds like kind of a big deal. Do they know something? I don't know. Again, I've been out six months. I can just tell you, I don't think it's an accident. This is going to be one of those Dan Bongino told us and was right again moments because I'm almost never wrong on this stuff. A lot of stuff you're being told by doom and gloom people who just want Donald Trump out of there. So China can win are being paid by foreign governments like China, like the Middle Eastern countries, Qatar, and others elsewhere. They're being paid to tell you things that sound crazy. We'll see what happens in the coming days and months about that. All right. I wanted to put this up again, running with today's theme about big deal things. Folks, we are looking at an incredibly prosperous future. You saw the GDP numbers. If we can get a hold on AI and get it to do all these amazing things, the building renaissance happening here in the United States, what was it? Check this out, Andrew. Was it hitachi? You just announced a millions of dollars of investment. You've got car companies bringing back building high tech materials and vehicles in the United States. There's never been a better time to be alive. There is a-- a building renaissance going on here in the United States. However, just like any renaissance in manufacturing, manufacturing unlike services requires raw materials. I mean, listen, legal, sir, yeah, obviously calories for your brain to work, but you get my point. When you're providing some illegal services, you're not building it with like steel and glass and semiconductors requires raw materials. Imagine the power of AI, a building renaissance in the United States would electricians make in 200,000 a year, right? Imagine quantum computing, cutting the speed of computing geometrically, making it almost instant 'cause they can do all things at a time instead of one by one. Combine that with unlimited resources. What do you mean unlimited resource? And that's impossible. Every resource is limited. Gold, silver, water, rare earth minerals. They're called rare earth minerals because they're rare. Where am I going with this? Here's NASA administrator, Jared Isaacsman, talking about a moon base that's in the very, very, very close future here. Now, we're not talking about like star wars here, like 2,000 years in the future, whatever the hell, they never actually dated it, but you get the point. It was a long, long time ago, thank you, Chad. Very, very, very, that's good. That's actually pretty good. It's a historical documentary. Justin says that actually happened. I didn't know that. Lightsabers and all. However, imagine all of this with resources that are not rare, that are basically unlimited because we can gather them from freaking space. You want to talk about abundance. You'd almost drive the cost of stuff that's really expensive today to nothing. Everybody could have everything. Check this out. We're going to be able to manufacture rocket propellant, oxygen for life, support, water. There is no shortage of it. Now, are we saying that you're going to have a Manhattan-sized city for the next 100 years? Probably not. Look, the best place in the neighborhood is Earth right now. But the moon is one of our outposts on the journey to get to Mars. It is the greatest adventure in human history. The moon is one stop along the way. We're going to be able to operate just fine on the surface of the moon. Again, call me an optimist. That's fine. I'll take it. Tattoo would on my forehead. Oh, the dawn. I'm trying to get rid of most of my tattoos. I've got so many tattoos. I'm trying to get rid of some of them. I mean, you really? You're freaking me out. I mean, and all these tattoos when I was younger. Then you get older. Listen, you have tats. Some of my like it. I wouldn't get rid of it. But when you make a decision when you're like 16 years old. But tattoo that. I am an optimist. I'll take it. Affake tattoo. You wash it off. You are looking at it. It is the greatest time to be alive. You know, the streets totally safe. They're the safest they've been. Does that mean as I crime know? The poverty rate. Does that mean they're not poor people? No, it's just the smallest amount of poor people we've seen in our lifetimes. Jobless claims. Are they zero? No. They're just the lowest amount we've seen in our lifetimes. The murder rate is, are there still murders? Yes. Are there a few, the fewest amount of murders you've ever seen in your lifetime? Yes. Are there still people crossing the border? Yes, how many people are admitted legally crossing the border? Just let it zero. Zero. You are alive at the greatest. I imagine unlimited resources. Imagine rare earth minerals not being rare. Mining the moon. We won't even be able to use that stuff. Scarcity goes away. Quick break. And I got a great post for you coming up. And why am I gonna, I'm putting this post up there. Listen, I'm not a motivational speaker, man. That's not my gig, okay? However, I did a lot in my life with very little. I loved my parents to death. My father busted his ass. He was a plumber to give me an opportunity and a building inspector in the town of Smithtown. My mom worked to check out counter in a supermarket. Whatever, who cares about my lifestyle? I'm just telling you, I wasn't born with some silver spoon. So sometimes people ask me for a little tidbits of advice. I'm always honored to even ask me. And I tell them this one thing. And I found it summarized nicely in a post on X. The best piece of life advice I can ever give you. Life is a game of math and probabilities. There's no such thing as luck. There isn't. There is no such thing as luck. You have to collect opportunities. And you'll see luck doesn't matter. It becomes a math equation. I'll show you what I mean coming up in a second. What's that? Oh, thank you. You found it. I was right. It was Hitachi. Hitachi deepens commitment to US manufacturing. With a $528 million Mississippi transformer factory. Sounds like a big deal, bro. Sounds like a big deal. I'm an optimist. Hey, quick question. You heard about it in the beginning of the show, All Family Pharmacy. I use them for everything, folks. I don't travel anywhere without my packs from all family pharmacy, my emergency medications, my life hack of stuff. I just love the place. Did your pharmacy do this? You're sick and the last thing you want to do is get dressed. Drive across town, stand in line and wait around for a prescription. 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Prescription required always consult a medical professional before taking any medication. Excuse me, this is not medical advice. Allfamilyfarmacy.com/banjino. Great company, check them out. Please support our sponsors. They can help keep the show free for everybody. We really appreciate it. So again, I'm asked occasionally by people and this is not the preachy show or anything like that. Gosh, I screwed up so much stuff. Again, I wrote a whole book. My favorite book is about things I've flopped on to show you all, like, we all screw stuff up. It's how you get up and dust off that matter. Cody Sanchez has a good follow on X. She had this post up. She said, the older you get, the more you realize, luck is just exposure. Yes, there's no luck, folks. If you sit in the same chair, follow the same routine and talk to the same people, nothing new happens. This is a great line. Cody, I'm going to steal this. I'll footnote it to you, though. You have to touch the world to win in it. Talk to strangers, try a new coffee spot. Post on social, start a side hustle. She says, when I was broke, I joined mastermind specifically to be in the room with people who were ahead of me. Now, I'm worth nine figures and still pay to be around people worth 10 plus. She basically goes on, say, if you want to scale your business and build, you have to go out and interact with people. Folks, you have to collect opportunities. If you are in a room over and over with people, I jokingly say it this way to get your attention. There's a nicer way to say it, but it gets people's attention when I say this. Even at parties and stuff, when people ask me how we got here, I said, listen, my best advice to you is always be the dumbest person in the room. What? That's like an insult. No, it isn't. You could say it another way, like always hanging around with smart people. I say it that way because it gets people's attention. If you're always hanging around with people smarter than you, doctors, PhDs, successful business people, carpenters who are experts in their craft, you will get smarter by being around them. If you're always hanging around people, "Dumber than you," I promise you'll get "Dumber two, regression to the mean." It's just statistics and math. Hang around with people and collect opportunities. If you're around with people smarter than you, two, 300 times, one of those is going to result in some opportunity that the guy who never gets out of his house eating pop darts is just never going to have. If it's not luck, it's just math. It's just math. Collect opportunities. Don't chase trains. I got that from the black swan at book. If the trains coming at 10 o'clock, be there at 9.55. If you missed it, it's your fault. Do not chase trains. Best advice I can ever give you. Matter of fact, an even more important piece of advice I can give you is where all centers, folks, me included. But you can be saved. We can all be saved. If you don't have faith in your life and you don't believe in something bigger and more important and more powerful, omniscient, omnipotent than you, then your life can get directionless. Andrew Hugh remains a medical doctor. He's a, he got a very popular podcast that you may have heard of him. I've noticed this in my view. Any of you out there in the chat know an addict. When you're an addict, folks, the probabilities are not good. The math is not good that you're gonna recover. It's not zero, but it's not good. People relapse all the time. I have seen this over and over. I've always said on my show 'cause I've dealt with this in my family. If you are an addict, you're, you, not only welcome here, I want you here, because people love you. God loves you. You can fix yourself. I promise. It's really hard. I've seen this in my family. It's, it's the most horrifying thing. You die with these people. You know that. What are we going to do? So I bring this up in the context of faith because the only people I know that have saved themselves from the horrors of addiction, alcohol, drugs, prescription pills, the only people I know, at some point found God. Huberman's a scientist. He's not a preacher, but he's going to give you some numbers on this that are just staggering. You don't have some higher power in your life or some sense of faith. It's really hard to get through this life. It's really hard. I like this sound. There's this crazy thing that you see with people who have addictive behaviors that violates everything we understand about the brain, everything, which is, remember we were saying like top down control, like I'm not going to engage in this impulse, I'm not going to do it, I'm not going to do it. When people are not able to suppress action in particular in the case of addictive or compulsive behaviors, and they decide to give that process over to a quote, higher power, could be God, could be for them nature, everyone's highly individual. The success rates of people being able to suppress that behavior are astounding. Everything we know about neuroscience and top down inhibition of these impulsive circuits was tell us the exact opposite should happen. You're like, it's like saying, oh, I can't keep my car between the lane lines when I drive. It's pulling me this way. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to take my hands off the steering wheel. It magically stays in between the lane lines. Folks, Uberman's the scientist, he's a medical doctor, he's not a preacher. He's just given you the numbers. Folks in the chat, if you experience this in your life or the life of a loved one or a friend who can't rescue themselves from the damage of these chemicals and they find God and all of a sudden their whole life turns out, I've not only seen it once. I've seen it three, four, five times. I can make the case to you. It's probably the only way. You got to turn it over to God, man, you have to listen. I don't make the show about, it's not like the Dan Bonsino autobiography, okay? Because who the hell cares? I'm telling you that my time in the government working for you and in the honor of a lifetime working for this president, that was my dream job. But it presented a lot of challenges. You know, I only saw you like, my only regret was telling Lawrence Jones that on the air, like just do show it up and keep it to yourself. But I can tell you now because I'm out of it. It's a really hard thing to get through when you're managing a portfolio of really difficult decisions in any job, the FBI, IBM, whatever, Medtronic, whatever. If you don't have a higher power keeping you in between, as he said, the lines in the road there, it's really difficult. Because I promise, if you sincerely ask for help from a higher power, from, when I asked Jesus for help, even at my worst, and lately it's been like that, a lot of things going out of my life. It's almost like, it's almost like magic. The next day, you have to just ask and be sincere about it. Turn it over to God, man, turn it over to, he's not going to let you down, just ask. I can't, if that's the best piece of advice above collect opportunities, that's about material wealth, which is far subordinate to spiritual wealth. Again, I'm not your preacher, folks, I'm nobody's role model. I'm just telling it every time I've asked him, he's always been there for me. That was a lot of show today. In case you missed it and you're watching on demand, if it takes a second to upload, thank you for the reminder. I must forgot to comment in the day. We got a call from the president mid show. We will never, ever not stop a live show for the president, or if God forbid, there was a family emergency. It's the only reason. So I'm sorry. I know we lost some of you on the live stream who didn't refresh, but I think you would all agree. It's worth it. He again wanted me to pass on to you. He specifically asked me how much he loves and adores this audience and all of his supporters out there. That meant the world to me was a really great conversation. So we appreciate it. Try to get him back on the show to some time for you in the future. You know, every day we pick a comment of the day. And then once a week out of that comment of the day, pool, we pick a winner that gets $1,776. We love giving away money. If you want to see the official rules for the contest, go to bongino.com/1776. 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