Another BS Hit Piece (Ep. 2498)

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dan Bongino Show – "Another BS Hit Piece" (Ep. 2498)

Date: April 20, 2026
Host: Dan Bongino
Co-hosts/Contributors: Justin
Main Theme:
Bongino delivers no-nonsense commentary on a new media “hit piece” against FBI Director Kash Patel, critiques mainstream liberal narratives, breaks down upcoming midterm stakes, argues for conservative principles in governance and economics, and highlights the dangers of government overreach – all while encouraging listener activism ahead of November’s elections.

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Episode Overview

Dan Bongino opens the show with a discussion of a recent poll recognizing alternative media’s dominance, including his own show. The bulk of the episode centers on a scathing refutation of a hit piece targeting FBI Director Kash Patel published by The Atlantic. Bongino then pivots to the broader fragmentation of the news landscape, critiques on liberal policy, arguments over federal spending, the consequences of a possible “national divorce,” economic policy debates, and the stakes in the approaching elections. The show is punctuated with calls to action, personal anecdotes, and signature blunt, comedic invective.

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1. Alternative Media’s Rise and the Bongino Show’s Success

Timestamps: 00:02–06:40

• Bongino crows about a recent poll where his show performed well among 2024 voters’ news sources.

• He stresses the importance of never taking one’s audience for granted in the new fragmented, choice-heavy media landscape.

  "There are no intellectual days off... Do not ever take you, the audience, for granted." – Dan Bongino (05:45)

• Brief mention of the Hollywood Reporter article on the end of shared media moments and audience loyalty.

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2. The Atlantic’s “Hit Piece” on Kash Patel: Bongino’s Deep-Dive

Timestamps: 06:40–15:00; 48:49–49:00

A. Bongino’s Rebuke of the Atlantic Story

• The Atlantic, written by Sarah Fitzpatrick, claims FBI Director Kash Patel is absent, drinking excessively, and causing concern among colleagues.

• Bongino, who worked daily with Patel, calls these claims "BS," noting Patel’s documented presence and busy official travel schedule.

  "Most of Kash’s schedule is official... You can just look at it and see where he is." – Dan Bongino (08:50)

• Asserts the accusations are politically motivated, targeting effective Trump officials as with Pete and Bobby Kennedy.

• Points to public data—crime reductions, major arrests, and opioid death drops—to demonstrate the FBI’s recent effectiveness under Trump and Patel.

  "They have to take away a chit from Donald Trump who put these people in charge and got results no other president could get." (12:17)

B. Notable Moments/Quotes

• Describes Patel’s daily schedule, visible both internally and on social media.

  "He gets in at about 6 to 6:30, goes to the gym... stays till about 7 o'clock... The story is bullshit." (10:07–11:11)

• Cash Patel’s response (Clip from Maria Bartiromo appearance):

  "This FBI has the most prolific year in crime reduction in U.S. history... 20% homicide reduction, 20% drop in opioid deaths..." – Kash Patel (13:45–14:42)

• Bongino reports Patel will sue The Atlantic for $250 million over defamation.

  "Kash Patel filed that lawsuit for 250 million over its story on his... alleged drinking." (64:49)

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3. Critique of Liberal Narratives and Policy

Timestamps: 17:20–47:59

A. Upcoming Midterms: The Stakes

• James Carville’s revealed strategy if Democrats regain Congressional control:
  • Pack Supreme Court (add justices)
  • Grant D.C. and Puerto Rico statehood (add Senate seats)
  • Open US-Mexico border, mass amnesty
  • "You want to get kicked square in the nuts in November ... then either sit it out or vote for Democrats." (17:48–18:00)

B. National Divorce: Debating Red Vs. Blue States

• Plays and discusses a clip by progressive commentator Kyle Kulinski advocating a “national divorce,” claiming blue states would thrive.

• Bongino rebuts with population and migration data: People are fleeing blue states for red ones.

  "As if there isn't a real world experiment going on right now where people are leaving." (23:17) "Liberals, please leave. Go to New York and California. We don't want you." (24:13)

• Debunks claim that red states are net tax receivers by referencing Matt Palumbo’s analysis showing blue states get more federal money per capita.

C. Crime and Social Metrics

• Many red states’ higher crime rates are confined to deep blue cities within those states.

  "Crime is a local issue... It's the deep blue cities in the red states." (26:28–27:12)

• Notes federal funds to red states are impacted by factors like military bases and large retiree populations.

D. Wealth Tax and Economic Principles

• Rips into leftist economic ideas, especially the idea of a “wealth tax.”

• Quotes iconic thinkers for support—Margaret Thatcher and Thomas Sowell.

  "There are no solutions, only trade offs... Three questions: Compared to what? At what cost? What hard evidence do you have?" – Thomas Sowell (34:21–35:16) "You want to see wealthy people flee, take their money, their ideas, and their businesses with them? Institute a wealth tax..." – Margaret Thatcher (40:52–41:47)

• Stresses the high income tax burden already carried by the richest Americans.

  "1% of taxpayers pay between 30 and 40% of the entire income tax load... They pay double what they earn." (38:58–39:15)

E. Dangers of Innovation Exodus

• Warns about the negative impact of overregulation and confiscatory taxes on entrepreneurship and national security (using Elon Musk and Starlink, industrial robotics, space warfare as examples).

  "If we can't win this unmanned systems battle... The United States could find itself under attack with no good solution." (44:50–45:03)

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4. Geopolitics: Iran, National Security & NATO

Timestamps: 49:04–57:11

• Raises alarm over Iran’s near-nuclear status as highlighted by a recent "60 Minutes" segment.

  "UN inspectors believe Iran has close to 1,000 lbs of uranium enriched to 60%... enough for 10–11 nuclear bombs." (51:46–52:02–52:07)

• Critiques Western/European hesitance in dealing with security threats, particularly in NATO, highlighting America’s outsized contribution.

  "80%... of the work is done by us. They contribute, but not nearly as much as we do... NATO's the guy who shows up after you’re done moving—always there for the beer and pizza afterwards." (55:43–57:23)

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5. Supreme Court Speculation: Possible Pre-Election Retirements

Timestamps: 57:37–62:21

• Reports D.C. rumors about a potential Supreme Court retirement (Samuel Alito or Clarence Thomas) before the election.

• Outlines the high stakes if this occurs for GOP turnout and the balance of the Supreme Court.

  "You lose our two best guys... You're hoping you get them pushed through quick... We've been disappointed with Supreme Court appointments over and over again." (59:15–59:53)

• Urges listeners to activate their networks (“10-10-10”) to mobilize voters.

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6. Health Hack Segment: Easy Longevity Habits

Timestamps: 62:28–64:39

• Bongino discusses the benefits of high-intensity, short-duration exercise—specifically, doing 100 air squats per day—citing a Washington Post story.

  "Two minutes a day – the easiest life hack ever... You change your whole life. You can live longer. It’s easy. It’s free." (64:09–64:13)

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7. Closing Remarks and Calls to Action

Timestamps: 64:48–66:47

• Reiterates Kash Patel’s lawsuit against The Atlantic, the importance of continued FBI reform, and the necessity of not taking the audience for granted.
• Urges listeners to consume and share the show on Rumble (the exclusive home for their video).
• Ends with gratitude for the audience and a preview of more non-standard guests and health content.

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Notable Quotes

• On media hit pieces:

  "The story is bullshit. They only want him out because he’s effective." – Dan Bongino (10:55, 64:49)

• On upcoming elections:

  "You have a choice. This is a binary. You have a choice. It’s not a perfect choice. Nothing is, but it’s a choice." (20:03)

• On taxes:

  "If you think taxes are such a great benevolent force... why don’t you... just donate all your money?... The government can surely spend it better than you, right?" (42:21–42:31)

• Audience appreciation:

  "The life you all have given me, it’s a gift. I will never take you guys for granted." (15:09)

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Summary Table of Key Segments

| Timestamp | Segment | Main Points | |-----------|-----------------------------------|-------------| | 00:02–06:40 | Rise of Alternative Media | Polling success, importance of audience loyalty | | 06:40–15:00 | Atlantic Hit Piece on Patel | Direct refutation, defense of Patel's record, lawsuit | | 17:20–23:15 | Midterms & Dem Strategy | Carville’s plan: DC/PR statehood, court-packing | | 20:46–26:04 | National Divorce Debate | Kulinski clip, Bongino’s rebuttal | | 26:28–30:15 | Crime & Taxation in Red/Blue States | Local crime dynamics, tax myth debunked | | 34:21–41:47 | Economic Philosophy (Sowell/Thatcher) | Principles of trade-offs, wealth tax dangers | | 44:50–46:49 | Tech/Entrepreneurship & National Security | Drones, tech exodus concerns | | 49:04–57:23 | Iran & NATO | Iran’s nuclear capabilities, NATO’s reliance on US | | 57:37–62:21 | Supreme Court Speculation | Pre-election retirements, impact on turnout | | 62:28–64:39 | Health Hack | Air squats, simple life-improving habits |

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For Listeners Who Haven’t Tuned In

This episode epitomizes Bongino’s blend of hard-hitting rebuttals to adversarial media, culture war analysis, policy deep-dives, humor peppered with invective, and urgent appeals for civic engagement. If you want explicit anti-mainstream takes, defense of the Trump-era FBI, and a rallying cry for the conservative base, this is a representative entry. The episode also showcases the importance of independent media narratives, and includes practical health tips and a focus on regular, actionable ways to participate politically as the 2026 elections approach.

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Transcript

[Dan Bongino]

All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up and get ready for the Dan Bongino show. First, a big thank you to everyone, folks. We just crushed it in one of these recent surveys. I say we because it's all of us. It was a survey of folks out there. I'm going to get to it in a minute. About your favorite news sources, where you get your news from. It was a survey of 2024 voters. It was taken in March for all the Bongino haters who were too stupid to read the poll. I'm sorry, you're a moron. I can't really help you. It's a function of really bad genetics and a poor upbringing. Maybe try some vitamin B, vitamin C, fix your nutritional problems. I'm really sorry. The genetics I can't help you with.

[Justin]

However, I'll show you that.

[Dan Bongino]

Also very important. Another disgusting, filthy, far left driven media hit job on Cash. For what is this version? Gee's finally back. He was gone for like four months. So Gee's back. It's like he did one of these tournaments he does for his. Is this game he plays quite well. Yeah. Finished number two, which is quite impressive actually. So he's pretty talented. But what is this like hit piece number 2025 on cash? They're, they're over 25, which is amazing.

[Justin]

Remember didn't they tell us he's getting

[Dan Bongino]

supposed to be fired? This is day like 14 or dirty that he was supposed to have been fired. It's just funny how that continues to not work out for all the people who keep telling. It is weird.

[Justin]

But they told you they have sources,

[Dan Bongino]

guys, they have sources.

[Justin]

They're always anonymous, of course, because they

[Dan Bongino]

don't have the moose nuts to actually go on the record. So I will tell you why they're doing it and I will immediately debunk it myself with just common sense. Wait till I tell you this. You're going to say, well, yeah, that kind of makes sense. I mean, Justin, right, You've been in an organization here that's hierarchical, right? So if you couldn't get a hold of say something was happening with the, with the company and you couldn't get a hold of me, who would you contact next?

[Justin]

Okay.

[Dan Bongino]

Paula or Jeff?

[Justin]

Look at, he's amazing. He's like, it's not even a trick question because that's how it works. So wouldn't you say, like if they

[Dan Bongino]

magically could never find cash because of these fantastic stories, who, who do you

[Justin]

think they would call? The deputy director. And who was that? It Was. Yeah. Weird. I never got that call. Strange.

[Dan Bongino]

The whole first year of the Trump administration.

[Justin]

So weird.

[Dan Bongino]

You could never find it.

[Justin]

So, so weird. Oh, folks, I missed you over the weekend.

[Dan Bongino]

So let's get right to it.

[Justin]

Hey.

[Dan Bongino]

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[Justin]

people just aren't getting their news and they're just not all tuned into the same thing anymore.

[Dan Bongino]

It's a Rick Porter piece. The last time everyone watched the same thing goes back to 2014 and how the whole market's fragmented now. You got Netflix, Amazon Prime, Peacock, Paramount. You got Samsung plus tv. It's thing comes up on my TV every time You've got Dan Bongino, Ben Shapiro, Steven Crowder, Tim Pool. You've got hundreds and hundreds of options and people's podcast shelf. The amount of material they consume in a day on that shelf, that, that figurative bookshelf is limited. So I just want you to know that I deeply appreciate it. You matter to me. I will never, ever dial in a show. We put in a ton of work. We. I sent the guys stuff over the weekend. Justin's like, why are you sending me stuff on a Sunday night? The answer is because you guys matter. Getting back to what I opened up the show with, and the most important story of the day, I think for the, for the purposes of me getting this out to you, is this hit piece on Cash Patel yet again, folks, this is. This is really getting sick at this point. I'm going to tell you why. Put up the piece, if you would, at the Atlantic. This is just a disgusting piece. I think Cash is filing a lawsuit today and I applaud, applaud him for doing it. The absolutely hapless Atlantic and the disgusting Sarah Fitzpatrick, who I can't believe is even, you know, is even attempting to stand by this piece. The FBI director is mia. He has alarmed colleagues. That's interesting. No one's reached out to me, guys. Colleagues. Not a single person with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

[Justin]

And we can't find them, Guy. We can't find them. Cash. But that's insane. No one knows where he is.

[Dan Bongino]

He's hiding somewhere, folks.

[Justin]

Now that's. That's pretty. It's pretty easy to debunk because most

[Dan Bongino]

of Cash's schedule is an official schedule and you can just look at it and see where he is most of the time and what he's doing when he's out traveling. He was on a West coast swing last week. He's on Twitter posting, or his team is saying, hey, here we are in San Diego and other places doing this and that.

[Justin]

He does a lot of travel because I don't know if this is news

[Dan Bongino]

to many of the dumb shit liberal media morons out there.

[Justin]

However, the FBI is a global organization. So just because it's headquartered in Washington,

[Dan Bongino]

D.C. not everything happens in D.C. matter of fact, a small portion of the FBI's work happens in D.C. so he

[Justin]

travels a lot now. It's really strange. I was there for the first year

[Dan Bongino]

of the Trump administration and I didn't

[Justin]

get one single phone call.

[Dan Bongino]

You may. Oh, you're just covering. Forget. No, no, I'm not I love Cash, he's a friend.

[Justin]

But I'm not stupid.

[Dan Bongino]

I want an FBI where the director works.

[Justin]

If the director was terrible, I would tell you he's actually incredible. And is it has racked up a series of W's we've never seen. And that's why you see these liberal media hit pieces that are total fabrications.

[Dan Bongino]

I was there practically every day with him in the office. He gets in at about 6 to 6:30. He goes down to the gym. There's a gym in that decrepit old Hoover building in the basement. Gym's actually not bad.

[Justin]

He works out in the gym. You want to know where to find him? You walk downstairs, hey, Cash. It's not hard. Just ask people who work out in the morning, have you seen Cash? They can say, yeah, yeah, he's down in the gym. He's unexplained. He's downstairs. You just go in the elevator. You go to the basement level. There's a little basketball court and there's a nice gym right behind it. The cardio room is upstairs and there's a little studio thing too. You can just go down there and find them, Sarah. Every day. And then it's even weirder. Like the workday ends at 5 o', clock, but not for him because he stays late in the office.

[Dan Bongino]

He stays till about 7,

[Justin]

so cash stays till about 7 o'.

[Dan Bongino]

Clock.

[Justin]

So when you want to find them, there's a really, there's a crazier place to go. And it's the seventh floor office of the director that says Director Cash Patel. You'll find them right there behind the door. It's so freaking weird, man. Folks, the story is bullshit.

[Dan Bongino]

Now why are they going after Cash Patel if for the same reason they went after Pete, for the same reason they're now going after Bobby Kennedy. They are extremely effective in their jobs. Extremely effective in their jobs. Cash has been able to highlight what an FBI will do when you refocus it and you reform it. It's created a foil effect for the media. They had Joe Biden and Barack Obama's FBI, which did nothing but target political opponents. They had diminished their role in violent crime.

[Justin]

What they, it just, it was a leadership problem. There is no doubt about it now. You get new leaders in charge.

[Dan Bongino]

You have the safest United States in U.S. history. You had that, that massive arrest of that Iranian trying to get on a plane allegedly involved in weapons trafficking. You had first antifa prosecutions in the United States. You have all these public corruption cases between Bolton to Comey to James and all these other cases you have that corrupt squad in Washington D.C. we had disbanded. You had a bunch of people get let loose who just had no business being in the FBI.

[Justin]

They don't want that. They can't have this foil. So they have to take away a chit from Donald Trump who put these people in charge and got results no

[Dan Bongino]

other president could get.

[Justin]

That's it. It's the same reason they're going after Pete and everyone else. They have to slowly pick apart chip the mortar out of the brick until the whole house collapses and they're waiting for useful idiots to play along with them. The beautiful thing is this Sarah Fitzpatrick 0 was roundly mocked on Twitter this weekend because other news organizations passed on this story because it was so stupid.

[Dan Bongino]

We can't find them.

[Justin]

As Justin said before, it's so weird.

[Dan Bongino]

I never got the call, man. We can't find the boss man.

[Justin]

I got news for you.

[Dan Bongino]

I had no problem finding him ever, ever. Like, at no point did I call him where he didn't answer or call back within five minutes.

[Justin]

That never happened.

[Dan Bongino]

Here's why they hate him and they absolutely cannot let this go. Here's Cash Patel on with Maria Bartiromo this weekend talking about documented.

[Justin]

Put them on a freaking spreadsheet. W's on the board.

[Dan Bongino]

Thanks to the president's leadership and letting

[Justin]

us do our jobs. These are documented W's that no one's been able to produce that they're just pissed off about.

[Dan Bongino]

So they got to make sure this guy goes away. Check this out.

[Cash Patel]

This FBI has the most prolific year in crime reduction in the United states history. A 20 point percent reduction in the homicide rate. A 20 point drop in opioid overdose deaths. We have found and identified 6,300 child victims. 6,300 kids get to go home to their kids. That's a 30% increase. Seizing enough fentanyl to kill 180 million Americans, that's a 31% increase. Our deal with China, where we stopped the flow of fentanyl precursors or historic engagement. Thanks to President Trump and Busan, and our work continues. We've captured eight of the top ten most wanted fugitives in the world to include rapists, murderers, terrorists and narco traffickers. That's twice as many as Joe Biden did in four years. President Trump and this FBI got done in 14 months. So if I'm not doing my job, if I'm not working, then how is it that the FBI delivered the safest America under President Trump's Leadership in the history of our country. And so that you know what, they can beat their drums and stand next to toxic waste all they want, but that doesn't make it toxic waste.

[Dan Bongino]

Folks, I'm going to tell you something, man. I'm honored you're here. You know, we're only a few minutes into the show. It's 50,000 people here. We got a whole stadium full of people. I love you guys so much. I mean, you've given. You've been such a gift to me. I can't say this enough.

[Justin]

If you're tired of it. Oh, Dan, I know, fine.

[Dan Bongino]

You're not tired. I don't care. I'm going to keep telling you.

[Justin]

But the life you all have offered

[Dan Bongino]

me and forget about the financial stuff. I get my own investments and things like that. I appreciate it. Don't get me wrong. It's not that. The life you all have given me, it. It's a gift. It is. It is. It is. It is a gift. And I will never take you guys for granted. But I promise you, me bullshitting you, if I were to tell you, like, hey, those stories are all BS and guys, tomorrow come out like on the record, you'd be like, wow, you'd like to. I'm not. I'm telling you, I'm telling you the truth. This guy is one of the best leaders I've ever worked with. He is. He doesn't accept bullshit. Listen, like me sometimes he gets a little hot tempered when he gets a stupid answer.

[Justin]

But thankfully we've got such a great

[Dan Bongino]

team in place right now at the top, that there's not a lot of stupid answers anymore. There were early on. I'm sorry. I mean, I asked the guy one time why we weren't back in the violent crime business, the FBI, like, why are we minimizing our footprint in violent crime? And one guy told me, get ready for this. I'm telling you guys this. One of the answers one of these guys gave me was, well, it's really risky.

[Justin]

I said, what the. Did you just say that in public?

[Dan Bongino]

Like out loud, it's risky. Now, that was not the feeling of the rank and file agents who wanted to go out and kick indoors and arrest bad guys. But someone actually said that. I said, don't ever say that again. It's.

[Justin]

You know what's risky?

[Dan Bongino]

Violent criminals in people's neighborhoods. Killing, burglarizing and raping their kids. And that's, that's, that's risky. I'm getting tired of this, man. And you should be too. That's a bullshit piece. That woman should be embarrassed. And let me tell you something, man. Bring your sources. Let's hear them, because you're not going to find them.

[Justin]

There was one story in there. I hesitate to even repeat it to you because it was so dumb.

[Dan Bongino]

They needed, like, breaching tools because they

[Justin]

couldn't get him up because he was sleeping. You don't think I'd get a call about that? They busted his door down with a Halligan tool.

[Dan Bongino]

Whatever.

[Justin]

And you believe that?

[Dan Bongino]

Sure. Okay. All right. Moving on. They just don't want it. They don't want us to reform the place. They don't want it. That's why they got to get these people out of there. And it's not going to happen. Sorry. So I saw this video this week,

[Justin]

and you know we have a choice

[Dan Bongino]

coming up in the midterms. Put up that Carville tweet. I told you to put up that Morse thing. I just put up there. Folks, you have a choice coming up in the midterms.

[Justin]

Pay very close attention to this tweet because if this doesn't open your eyeballs

[Dan Bongino]

like Clockwork Orange style, nothing's going to. If you're thinking about checking out, tapping out, I'm not voting. I don't know. Nothing's happening. I'm done.

[Justin]

And everything you think isn't happening is going to start happening even more. And then you're going to have to move on to something else that you

[Dan Bongino]

say is the nothing that's happening when it starts happening.

[Justin]

I'm telling you, you got a choice coming up. If you want to get kicked square

[Dan Bongino]

in the nuts in November and see

[Justin]

your country fall apart and fall apart

[Dan Bongino]

quick, quickly, then either sit it out or vote for Democrats in November because they are going to destroy this place fast.

[Justin]

This.

[Dan Bongino]

I put this on the show just before I came on the air. Morse report. You know Jim Carville, James Carville, the Democrat strategist. He's very well connected.

[Justin]

He is already laying out the Democrat agenda.

[Dan Bongino]

If they take back the House and Senate. Get a load of this. Grant statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico so the Democrats can lock in four extra seats in the Senate. That's it. We're done. You'll never get a vote passed again, ever.

[Justin]

Zero chance. Your chances are zero.

[Dan Bongino]

Okay, Pack the Supreme Court from nine justices to 13, adding four left wing justices to the court.

[Justin]

So when you take it to court and sue to make sure that this is compliant with the Constitution, left wing lawyers who hate the Constitution are going to make sure they rule against you so you have no avenue there. So we lose the legislative branch because of the Senate, the. And we lose the judicial branch too,

[Dan Bongino]

because they packed the Supreme Court and

[Justin]

they appoint a bunch of new left wing judges too. They want to reopen the US Mexico border and grasp grant mass amnesty to every alien currency currently inside of the United States. That's worked out great for Biden and others.

[Dan Bongino]

That's exactly what we need. Crime rate drops to the lowest in US History. Illegal migrants admitted to the country are back to zero thanks to Donald Trump's

[Justin]

amazing leadership and the balls to do something. They want it reversed, the entire thing. By the way, Carville's not some fringe guy. This guy is well connected in the Democrat party. And the irony is at one point he was considered a moderate Democrat. It ends with his advice to Democrat politicians.

[Dan Bongino]

Don't run on it, don't talk about

[Justin]

it, just do it.

[Dan Bongino]

Folks, I'm warning you. What is it? April. What's the date? April 20th or something.

[Justin]

I don't know.

[Dan Bongino]

My phone. What is it? Yeah, okay, April 20th. It's April 20th. A lot can happen between now and November. I'm telling you right now, we lose. We are effed, and I'm trying to say the word less effed, capital F.

[Justin]

There is no sitting on the sidelines. There's no giving up, there's no quitting. This is a binary. You have a choice. It's not a perfect choice.

[Dan Bongino]

Nothing is, but it's a choice. So I saw this video on Friday. I sent it over, I said, guys, we got to talk about this. I've heard of this guy. I don't know him well, but I don't like to pretend that on, you know, people say, I don't know that guy. And they know him just kind of like a stupid flex. I've seen this guy around on some debates. I think he was on peers. He's obviously a left wing commentator. I have no personal animus towards this cat at all.

[Justin]

But it's, it's got an interesting premise here.

[Dan Bongino]

His name is Kyle Kalinsky and Kyle Kalinsky's on a video broadcast here and he's talking about.

[Justin]

And I, you know, this is one of the few times I may actually

[Dan Bongino]

agree with a left wing commentator.

[Justin]

He's like, you know, I think it's

[Dan Bongino]

time for like a test, right?

[Justin]

We should do like some national divorce

[Dan Bongino]

where left wing states do their left wing thing and right wing states do their right wing thing and everybody like moves to one of those states. Of course, we can't force anyone to what I want to, but it would

[Justin]

be a great test.

[Dan Bongino]

I encourage the liberals to go and

[Justin]

move to New York.

[Dan Bongino]

Move out of Florida, move out of Texas.

[Justin]

You good with that, Justin?

[Dan Bongino]

You live in Florida. Justin's like, yeah, move out.

[Justin]

Everyone move out. I agree with, I'm not messing with you.

[Dan Bongino]

I know. I'm not interested in force. I'm not. That's a left wing thing.

[Justin]

I'm just telling you. I think you should pick up and leave this dystopian Florida.

[Dan Bongino]

It's so horrible, right? Just the terrible sun, low taxes, so terrible. Everybody's moving here.

[Justin]

I think you should leave Texas to

[Dan Bongino]

even leave purple states. Like, you know, Colorado, that's trending blue, but.

[Justin]

And you should all move to New York and California. I agree with him. So I'm going to play this clip and I'm going to debunk something he says at the end because it's amazing.

[Dan Bongino]

Like there already is a real world test going on.

[Justin]

I put it on the show last

[Dan Bongino]

week, that Wall Street Journal article.

[Justin]

But how everyone's moving to Florida and job growth in Florida and Texas and

[Dan Bongino]

everybody's leaving blue states.

[Justin]

So there's already a test going on. You think this guy would know that? But Kyle, I'm going to tell you something. I actually agree with you.

[Dan Bongino]

It is time for a national divorce. Check this out.

[Haley Vince]

Probably have a national divorce, right? We should probably have a national divorce. There should be the red States of America and the blue States of America and we can run that experiment. We'll come check back in, in a hundred years and see what's going on. And what everybody will find is what we already know, which is the blue states would have universal healthcare and free college and a living wage. They'd have much higher standard of living. Their GDP would be much higher. Their social freedom index would be through the roof. They'd be much more democratic. They'd be much more peaceful and stable of a system. And then the red states will be a fucking catastrophe. Okay? This is why, you know, every anytime do, do a little exercise, come up with some sort of social metric, right? And then see who does better on that. Red states or blue states. And it's a fun game because you ain't going to find the red states leading in shit, okay? I mean like quite literally anything you can come up with, they're, they're failing. I mean even like the blue states are massive net taxpayers to the federal government. The red states are net tax receivers. And these are the people who whine and cry. And bitch and moan and say, I don't want no parasites, no moochers taking my fucking tax money, man. And it's like, well, the blue states are subsidizing all your bitch asses.

[Justin]

Ok, so so much he said there

[Dan Bongino]

is actually absurd and ridiculous.

[Justin]

I love the part where he goes, I think we should conduct a real world experiment. We're already conducting one. It's called the real world. People are leaving your states. I don't understand. If anything you said had any kind of barometer, in truth there wouldn't be. Look at this. This is an Eric Daughtry treat. Democrats are staring down an electoral college problem because they're going to lose seats in the census. What is the census measure? People. Why would red states be getting Florida, Texas, Idaho and Utah more congressional seats while California, New York, Illinois and Rhode island blue states are losing them because it's based on the census which counts people and people are leaving. So I love what he goes, we should conduct a real world experiment. As if there isn't a real world experiment going on right now where people are leaving. If anything he said was true and every this measure of social happiness he talks about, what the hell is that was so accurate. Kyle, why are people. By the way, I don't disagree with you. It's not personal. I want folks in the chat. If you live in Florida and Texas, do you agree with Kyle? Liberals, please leave. Go to New York and California. We don't want you folks in the chat. Yes, they should leave. No, they should stay. Leave. We're with you. You've got a communist mayor in New York City. You've got a terrible mayor in L. A. That's another pseudo commie.

[Dan Bongino]

Because they're not real commies. They live the lives of capitalists themselves.

[Justin]

You've got a mayor in. You know, you know, you got Brandon Johnson, the video here you get. This is perfect timing. You got the mayor of Chicago who is. He's like the communist of communists. This guy is like the Joseph Stalin of Vladimir Lenin. You got the mayor of Chicago. You can go move there. But nobody's moving there. Yes, bye bye. Yes, leave, leave. Look at the chat go. Goodbye now. See you later. Gtfo.

[Dan Bongino]

I don't know what that stands for. Get the go, Kyle.

[Justin]

Just recommend. Seriously, I don't dislike you, man. I don't know you. It's not personal. I. I'm as serious as a heart attack. I agree. Let's do your national divorce. If you're confident about what you're saying, encourage your supporters. Get a GoFundMe going pay for their U haul and go to New York and California instead of leaving. We are cool with that. Go live with this guy. Here's Brandon Johnson. His city's collapsing. Crime is through the roof. Despite our best efforts, we've done a lot of the federal government, pushed them

[Dan Bongino]

to clean up crime.

[Justin]

He's got a near. He's facing near bankruptcy in the city. And what is he worried about? The. He wants reparations. And he says that the restaurant business has like a legacy of slavery. The restaurant. If you're a restaurant, you know that you're involved, man. You too. This is the mayor of Chicago.

[Dan Bongino]

Check this out. You just watched an entire city council in transparency try to take wages away from the very people who are part of an industry that has its ties to slavery. Nobody's hiding from that. I am boldly declaring that we need reparations in this city and that's why I'm funding it.

[Justin]

Go move there, bro. Now it's so easy to debunk a

[Dan Bongino]

lot of their nonsense, too.

[Justin]

Now, a couple of things he said in there. He doesn't throw any data out there, but I'll actually help you. There are some red states, very red

[Dan Bongino]

states, some of them in the south that have a homicide rate that's not. That's above the mean.

[Justin]

But when you look at where it's coming from, it's the deep blue cities in the red states. You can just look that up. You know, crime is a local issue. You have local police departments and state police. The state police typically do not get involved when there's a local police department.

[Dan Bongino]

They'll patrol the highways.

[Justin]

They can get involved.

[Dan Bongino]

And if some say equipment's needed or some special service.

[Justin]

Does he not know that? I love the talking point too, where

[Dan Bongino]

these red states are. Moochers are taking all these federal tax dollars.

[Justin]

So our good friend Matt Palumbo saved this piece.

[Dan Bongino]

By the way, Matt Palumbo wrote [e-mail] a while ago. Liberals resurrect the myth that blue states subsidized red states.

[Justin]

You'll hear this from dopey liberals all

[Dan Bongino]

the time, you red state butchers.

[Justin]

So I'll give you the actual data. And notice how the lefties torture this

[Dan Bongino]

data to make this true when it's not.

[Justin]

They note, Matt notes in his piece

[Dan Bongino]

against the national average of 32.6% of the state's budget being federally subsidized, the blue states receive about 30.8%. Purple states at about 32.9 and red states about 35.7% of their budgets from federal money.

[Justin]

So you may be saying, leave that right. I cut it off there for a reason. Because now you're saying, well, Dan, it

[Dan Bongino]

looks like Kyle's right. Like a greater percentage of a state budget comes from the federal government in red states. And then you realize that they're just

[Justin]

torturing the statistics because red state budgets are typically smaller. So when you do it the right

[Dan Bongino]

way, per person,

[Justin]

again, you could just tell people the truth. I'm giving you both sides. Matt notes that red state budgets tend to be smaller. So it makes more sense to look

[Dan Bongino]

at these intergovernmental grants.

[Justin]

In other words, payment from the federal

[Dan Bongino]

government to the states on a per

[Justin]

capita basis, not a percentage of state budgets. You could just be honest and tell people that. And any notes against the national average

[Dan Bongino]

of $1,900 in intergovernmental spending per American,

[Justin]

red states received just 1879. Blue states get considerably more at $2,124 per person.

[Dan Bongino]

Purple states see the least at 1770.

[Justin]

You could just tell people the truth. It's a bullshit talking point.

[Dan Bongino]

They just make it up. Measures of. Measures of social happiness.

[Justin]

And another thing, by the way, state

[Dan Bongino]

governments are made of people, but are

[Justin]

not all of the people of the state. So when you say red states, there are a lot of Democrats in red

[Dan Bongino]

states in Democrat cities.

[Justin]

Also, the fact that a lot of retirees live in southern states and leave

[Dan Bongino]

shitty blue states that are collapsing and go to Florida, South Carolina, purple states

[Justin]

like North Carolina, they carry with them this federal government retiring plan that's going bankrupt called what?

[Dan Bongino]

I'm like, what is it?

[Justin]

Oh, Social Security, which skews the numbers too. Also, red states happen to have a lot of military bases where federal government funding goes to red states to fund their military. What do you want to do? Make the military volunteer work in red states.

[Dan Bongino]

Oh, man. Folks, listen, I promise you to always give you the truth on this show. Yes, as a percentage of state budgets, that is accurate. As a per person measure, which is

[Justin]

more accurate because red states have lower state budgets. He's just making that up.

[Dan Bongino]

Folks, I got more. I'm going to take a quick break

[Justin]

on this, but you have a choice.

[Dan Bongino]

Coming up in November. I can't emphasize this enough.

[Justin]

You have a choice and it's a serious one.

[Dan Bongino]

Carville is not messing around.

[Justin]

You want the whole judicial and legislative

[Dan Bongino]

branch to get flushed down the toilet by packing the Supreme Court, packing The Senate with four more Senate seats that

[Justin]

don't belong Puerto Rico and D.C. are not states. They're not states. Stop trying to make fetch happen. If, by the way, if they were, if that was, if they were Republican, hard Republican areas, they wouldn't even consider it, folks.

[Dan Bongino]

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[Justin]

A lot of you say to me

[Dan Bongino]

in the chat and elsewhere, I still get Some of your emails, and I read some of your messages on Twitter. When I can, people say, you know what, Dan? Arguing my. My liberal neighbors, it's useless. They're not listening. I can't get through. No, you can get through.

[Justin]

You have to get through.

[Dan Bongino]

We have a country to save. And as I've told you many times, even if you can't break through to your liberal neighbor, there's someone else at that barbecue you're at that's listening. What do you mean? I don't want to talk about politics at a barbecue? I mean, what the hell? I don't want to lose friends. Well, you want to lose your country. I'm sorry, I just, I do. I just don't.

[Justin]

And if they leave, they leave.

[Dan Bongino]

I just don't care.

[Justin]

People come up to me and want

[Dan Bongino]

to, you know, talk shit all the time about politics. I'm like, you want to go, let's go.

[Justin]

I get into it with even good

[Dan Bongino]

friends of mine all the time about stuff happened this past weekend. I'm not afraid of it.

[Justin]

And you shouldn't be either. You have a choice.

[Dan Bongino]

Here is the great Thomas Sowell. You know we love Thomas Sowell. This is about a minute, not a long clip, but here's Thomas Sowell about the three questions you should ask every single one of your liberal friends when they propose some other utopian fairy tale. Like Kyle Kalinsky said, free health care.

[Justin]

Free. No one's paying for it.

[Dan Bongino]

All the doctors, nurses and janitors in the hospital volunteering, so it's not free.

[Justin]

So someone's paying. Who's paying you?

[Dan Bongino]

The taxpayer?

[Justin]

So you are paying. So there's no such thing as free anything. Correct.

[Dan Bongino]

Ask these three questions of your liberal friends before the election. Stir the pot a little bit and watch them stew because they have no answer for any of this. Check this out.

[Thomas Sowell]

Liberal premise, I guess the Rousseau notion, you know, that man is born free but is everywhere unchanged. That the real problem with the the world is that the institutions are wrong. If the institutions were right, then man, there was nothing in human nature that would cause us to be unhappy. It's the fact that we have the wrong institution.

[Dan Bongino]

What is the conservative premise?

[Thomas Sowell]

That man is flawed from day one and that there are no solutions, there are only trade offs. And whatever you do to deal with one of man's flaws, it creates another problem. But that you try to get the best trade off you can get and that's all you can hope for. I've often said there are three questions that I think would destroy most of the arguments on the left. And the first is compared to what? The second is at what cost? And the third is what hard evidence do you have? Now there are very few ideas on the left that can pass all three of those kinds of things.

[Dan Bongino]

Can conservative ideas pass those?

[Thomas Sowell]

Yes, I think so. Because they don't assume that there is a solution solution out there. You know, Adam Smith didn't believe that either the government or the market could solve all problems. That you have to be able to simply tolerate certain things compared to what?

[Justin]

So when you hear mom, Dame and

[Dan Bongino]

Brandon Johnson and Karen Bass and other liberal communist mayors out there saying hey, I'm for taxpayer funded health care, don't let them call it free healthcare cuz nothing's free. That's just a moron's perspective. I, I don't even allow that. I want taxpayer funded health care.

[Justin]

Compared to what? Compared to me buying my own health care. So you're asking me to buy health care through the government so they can

[Dan Bongino]

then take a cut for themselves? The leaky bucket Arthur Raccoon used to

[Justin]

call because they take a cut for

[Dan Bongino]

themselves to finance themselves. The insurance company is going to take a cut then too to finance their own business and then everyone else.

[Justin]

So you're adding another cut in there. So you want to trade free market health care when you can actually pick and pay your own doctor? You, you want to trade that to give your money to the government. So you want to swap out your choice with your doctor for the government's choice of your doctor and then give the government a cut of your money that could be going to your own health care? How does that even make sense? If you're not a moron and wait

[Dan Bongino]

seven times, you're lucky.

[Justin]

Wait 20 times as long on a rationed waiting list like they have in the UK where upwards of, what is

[Dan Bongino]

it, 5 to 10% of doctors admit

[Justin]

knowing someone who died on a waiting list? Compared to what? Folks, you have a choice. Don't believe in stupid. You want to pick your own health care, you want the government to pick it for you. Those are your choices, man. As Thomas Sowell brilliantly stated, it's a trade off. Neither one is perfect. You may have a health insurance company you deal with. It sucks. Gosh, I've had problems with some of them over the years too. You know what I did? I'm not going to say the company, I, I needed a back surgery.

[Dan Bongino]

I hurt my back when I was an agent in Turkey. In the country. Turkey. Not eating turkey. I stepped off a helicopter with a Carrying a fat kid. A fat kid. Not a fat kid. Fat first aid treatment kid. It was heavy oxygen. I stepped and I had had back problems and I ruptured a disc. I made it through the whole trip unbelievably.

[Justin]

And.

[Dan Bongino]

And the insurance company at the time, we had. We had Paula's insurance under her job, and I think ours was supplemental.

[Justin]

The insurance company said, we're not paying for that. They wanted me to do a spinal fusion. I said, f. No, I ain't doing no spinal fusion. I'm doing a percutaneous discectomy. It's less intrusive. I said, we're not paying. You know what I did? I went with a different insurance company that paid for it. Good luck with the government. When the government says double barrel, middle finger, we're not paying for your Alzheimer's treatment or we're not paying for your percutaneous discectomy, you're screwed. And next thing you know, they make it illegal to even pay out of pocket. You hear this?

[Dan Bongino]

Talk to you now about a wealth

[Justin]

tax, which sounds good to stupid people. I'm sorry, but I bet this Kyle Kalinsky audience will say the same thing. I can guarantee you they're like, in addition to fake free health care because

[Dan Bongino]

it's more expensive over time. And you're going to sit on a waiting list. Free college, which isn't free either.

[Justin]

You think the professors are donating their time. They're getting paid. You're just paying for someone else's education, period. Nothing's free. Now they go with the wealth tax, which is, I'm telling you, appeals to

[Dan Bongino]

the lowest common denominator. This is the moron class of people who believe in this, that when you

[Justin]

tax even more because they already pay.

[Dan Bongino]

I showed you that piece last week.

[Justin]

You believe in data. 1% of taxpayers pay between 30 and

[Dan Bongino]

40% of the entire income tax load.

[Justin]

That's not a fair share. They only earn about 20% of the income. They pay double what they earn. One taxpayer out of 100 pays 40

[Dan Bongino]

cents of every dollar of income taxes

[Justin]

and only earns 20. When you start to take away even more of the wealth generated for all of us by people who produce businesses

[Dan Bongino]

that help society, whether they're AI or

[Justin]

whether it was freaking penicillin, CRISPR gene technology or quantum computing. When you take that away, people stop producing that extra wealth for all of us. This isn't hard. We call it conservatism because we conserve timeless ideas here.

[Dan Bongino]

Geiger capital. Happy tax day.

[Justin]

It's good to remember that the top 1% of earners pay 46%.

[Dan Bongino]

I'm sorry, of all federal income taxes, I underestimated.

[Justin]

The bottom 50 pay, what is it, 3%? Look, there's the actual chart. It's called data.

[Dan Bongino]

It's a data point.

[Justin]

You can see it yourself.

[Dan Bongino]

Here's timeless wisdom here, and I know, I get it.

[Justin]

You see these people, you know, boomer, whatever.

[Dan Bongino]

Listen, man, I'm really sorry, I can't help you.

[Justin]

You know, I love people who are

[Dan Bongino]

really, like, out there and, you know, have that, like, bohemian kind of attitude, want to try new things.

[Justin]

But I'm really sorry.

[Dan Bongino]

Not everything new is better than. There are ideas that are timeless, like liberty and freedom and adherence to the Constitution.

[Justin]

Like that matters. That's what we're conserving.

[Dan Bongino]

We're not conserving shitty ideas like the

[Justin]

Democrats who continue to try to conserve communism despite millions of people being slaughtered, impoverished and starved.

[Dan Bongino]

Here's the great Margaret Thatcher talking about a wealth tax again, about a minute long, but definitely worth your time. With an election coming up, you want to see wealthy people flee, take their money, their ideas, and their businesses with them.

[Justin]

Institute a wealth tax because we've tried

[Dan Bongino]

it before in liberal states and it sucked and lost money. Check this out.

[Margaret Thatcher]

Compress the incentives from the top down and say, it doesn't matter how much you earn, I'm going to take the lion's share away from you. Then they say, all right, I'm no longer going to do the lion's part. And then they stop creating the extra wealth, which would be both benefit them and benefit society as a whole. Once they stop doing that, they don't benefit. Then there aren't any extra taxes to improve the schools or the social services. Now, do you see? There is some point in some societies in a degree of redistribution, but once it becomes a depression on incentive to get on by your own effort, then you're denied all people the means of increasing the wealth of our people, individually and as a whole.

[Sky News Commentator]

Sure.

[Margaret Thatcher]

And you, you just become as we.

[Dan Bongino]

Oh, look, I love the boomer slop.

[Justin]

Yeah, good. You know, you don't, like, you want to shit all over people who, like,

[Dan Bongino]

fought in World War II and died and suffered for you to have iPhones and iPads and AI be able to, you know, go and sit there and do a regression analysis of Pete Rose's career on AI in 30 seconds or less. Like things that didn't exist when we were kids.

[Justin]

You do that all you want. But if you think everything that's new

[Dan Bongino]

is good, Like a wealth tax. Then how about you volunteer?

[Justin]

You think taxes are such a great

[Dan Bongino]

benevolent force and so philanthropic.

[Justin]

You're going to make society better. Why don't you go to the treasury

[Dan Bongino]

website today, click on the voluntary tax

[Justin]

payments thing and just donate all your money.

[Dan Bongino]

The government can surely spend it better than you, right? I mean, that's what you think. Folks, the United States is a success because we don't do confiscatory taxation, because we don't take away and reduce the penalty for and we don't increase a penalty for success. This is going to matter going forward. I am very concerned. The last year of my life was a big eye opener, okay? I got to see things I was not entitled to see before. And I've told you over and over, you want to drive entrepreneurs out of this country, out of states elsewhere, you are going to have a real problem. This New York Times piece. The New York Times, but it's actually worth your time. Shockingly, this New York Times piece on the future of warfare. You know, you want to all be speaking Mandarin one day as the CCP takes over the United States, then drive out the technological industrial base of this country, tax the shit out of wealthy people who invent stuff like Elon and others and you're going to see a lot less stuff getting invented. And in this national security nightmare we're

[Justin]

living right now with the Chinese Communist

[Dan Bongino]

Party and others, that's not a country I want to live in. This article is by Maria Varina, cover 20th. The killer robots are coming. The battlefield will never look the same. Talks about Ukraine and drones. Folks, listen, I have to be circumspect in my conversations with you here, but I'm just going to tell you a couple of things that are largely open source and provide just a little color. It's not just drones like you would think. In the sky, a typical buzzing overhead drone. There are underwater drones as well. There are land base, you know, a drone type robots that you know, every use everything from wheels to humanoid type robots. Folks, if we can't win this unmanned aerial systems, these unmanned robotics, unmanned underwater systems battle. The United States could find itself under attack with no good solution. And we've never had to say that. Thankfully we kept par and kept pace and stood up in the nuclear war and the nuclear race and the nuclear arms race. And we had some of the best scientists in the world. We have scientists leaving. We are effed.

[Justin]

It's not just that.

[Dan Bongino]

I wrote down a couple more examples. Space warfare, not a joke, folks.

[Justin]

Okay? It may not be Star Wars. There's no freaking Han Solo. But you don't think the weaponization of space has begun? Just do an AI search anywhere.

[Dan Bongino]

Tell me about the progress of space warfare.

[Justin]

You can get all kinds of open source stuff that I promise you will scare the shit out of you if you really read it.

[Dan Bongino]

Industrial control systems, cyber warfare.

[Justin]

You want to wake up one day, take a sip from your faucet and drink a gallon of chlorine and boom, you're dead. Don't get dead. That's the golden rule.

[Dan Bongino]

How could that happen?

[Justin]

What if they hack into your water

[Dan Bongino]

system and change the chemical composition of the water? Oh, that's not going to happen.

[Justin]

You sure you willing to take that chance?

[Dan Bongino]

AI targeting folks facial ID in the future?

[Justin]

You want to lose this battle because we want to drive our technological advantage

[Dan Bongino]

into other countries because they don't want to do business in the United States anymore.

[Justin]

I, I don't.

[Dan Bongino]

Because I don't want to die.

[Justin]

I don't want to get dead. And you shouldn't want to get dead either because getting dead is pretty final. You know why? You're freaking dead.

[Dan Bongino]

Thank God we got people like Elon Musk and others.

[Justin]

I saw this video last week.

[Dan Bongino]

Throw this up there.

[Justin]

You know, it's people like this who

[Dan Bongino]

look at normal things like, I saw

[Justin]

this video, you may say, what does

[Dan Bongino]

it have to do with this segment? I saw this video by Elon and

[Justin]

it's just a thing like everyone else

[Dan Bongino]

has probably seen or dealt with. You know, you've driven at some point through mountains or hills and your brakes get taxed on the way down, your gas tank gets drained on the way up as the car struggles to get up the hill, especially if it's heavy. Imagine these truckers, right? This is Elon. Now, regenerative braking is not new. Like people have had it on hybrids in the freezer.

[Justin]

This is how Elon.

[Dan Bongino]

And who cares about the regenerative braking part of this? This is how a guy like Elon,

[Justin]

an entrepreneur, thinks they see everyday stuff and they just go and fix it. And they make bad stuff.

[Dan Bongino]

Batteries draining in electric cars and then brakes draining downstairs.

[Justin]

And they make it into good and better stuff, just like they're doing to

[Dan Bongino]

keep us alive with drone warfare. Now this is the mind of an entrepreneur at work. Check this out.

[Elon Musk]

I certainly encourage people to look at our semi truck presentation because in fact, the. One of the things we emphasize with an electric semi truck is that it's much more energy efficient than a diesel truck. And I mean, you get things like regenerative braking. So like let's say you're going over a mountain range. Well, in diesel truck you actually don't capture that the energy of height or potential energy. You have to actually spend a lot of money on expensive brakes going down the other side so you don't run out of control. So whereas an electric semi truck is able to recapture the energy, the gravitational potential energy and actually when it goes down the other side does not overheat brakes and in fact puts the energy back in the pack. So things like that are incredibly helpful for energy efficiency.

[Justin]

Folks, this is the mind of an entrepreneur. I don't really care what your personal

[Dan Bongino]

feelings are about Elon or any other entrepreneur. I really don't.

[Justin]

Bezos or anyone else find some of

[Dan Bongino]

them aligned with our ideology, some of them don't.

[Justin]

But there's simply no disputing these people create stuff.

[Dan Bongino]

I read this story about Elon and forgive me, I don't know how true it is or not. I read in a pretty mainstream outlet that the way Starlink, the whole, you know, satellite based Internet system that Elon

[Justin]

started started was they were launching a

[Dan Bongino]

bunch of these test satellites with no payloads. And Elon was like, well, why don't we just throw like satellites on them for Internet?

[Justin]

That's how like the company started, because that's how these entrepreneurs think. Like, we've got this problem. We're sending rockets into space to test space X and we're going there empty. Like, can we do something with the space? That's the difference. You want to drive these people out of the country and send them where? Send them to our competitors over in Europe. Who are competitors? Folks? I got to tell you, a lot of these European countries we thought were

[Dan Bongino]

our friends are not.

[Justin]

And you're seeing it now with the strait.

[Dan Bongino]

Everything happening in Iran,

[Justin]

this dealing with this, this crew of death to America, absolute zeros has been a nightmare at this point. Like we have to just take it

[Dan Bongino]

to the next level.

[Justin]

Take it to the next level, hit

[Dan Bongino]

hard and get out. Ida Taran had an interesting tweet about this. I saw this on X or X post, whatever they call them now.

[Justin]

I love X despite a lot of

[Dan Bongino]

the bots and bullshit, which is a problem everywhere. It's not unique to X. I love X. I love being there because you

[Justin]

can get 20 different viewpoints on a

[Dan Bongino]

problem from very educated people who've thought it through.

[Justin]

You know, you can get that on tv, but you got to sit there and watch all day. You can go to X and just

[Dan Bongino]

put in like Iran and read all

[Justin]

day from all these folks. This Ida Tehran notes, hey, Trump simply wants to get the uranium out of

[Dan Bongino]

Iran by any means necessary before they do something stupid with it.

[Justin]

It's like having a dealing with a

[Dan Bongino]

suicide bomber as his finger on the detonator.

[Justin]

Get the bomb away from them first. This is what annoys me most about

[Dan Bongino]

the people who want to declare the war. The Iranians, the winner of the war.

[Justin]

It's like what freakin side are you on? I don't understand why the loud vocal cheering from the left for a country of you know, of theocratic mullahs who've openly declared they want to kill us with nuclear weapons and then their response

[Dan Bongino]

is well we can't really prove that they were going to go nuclear. They wanted to kill us.

[Justin]

You even see it from people on

[Dan Bongino]

our side eager to declare Iran the winner.

[Justin]

Really?

[Dan Bongino]

This is a 60 minutes special that

[Justin]

just aired 60 minutes, sir, you remember the sir network, sir, certainly no friend to the President of the United States. They interview this expert on the matter like hey man, yeah, they've got the capability to go nuclear like really quick. You could just pay attention to the data or ignore it and one day find a freaking mushroom cloud over Chicago.

[Dan Bongino]

I told you, go watch that movie House of Dynamite. Someone sent me an email this weekend said they they loved it. A little exaggerated but you think this

[Justin]

threat's a joke, Watch that movie on,

[Dan Bongino]

was it on Netflix or whatever? House of Dynamite, it's a Kathryn Bigelow movie. He's a bit of a lefty but

[Justin]

you want to like eyes open, how quick this will go down. You want to be living in a scenario like that? I don't think so.

[Dan Bongino]

Here, check this out. There's no doubt that the combination of the strikes in June of last year and the ongoing war have seriously set back Iran's capabilities. But the remaining capabilities are substantial. You can't bomb away their knowledge.

[Justin]

UN inspectors believe Iran has close to 1,000 pounds of uranium enriched to 60%

[Dan Bongino]

nearly ready to be used in a nuclear weapon.

[Justin]

970 pounds of 60% highly enriched uranium. What can you do with that?

[Dan Bongino]

So that is enough material for if you enrich it just a little bit more for 10 to 11 nuclear bombs. Listen, I'm just telling you ladies and gentlemen, this is a very real threat. Gaff it off at your own expense and your kids expense. If you think given the Iranians a nuclear bomb they're going to act like the Russians and the Chinese did on the old traditional mutually assured or destruction limitations on launching a nuke. You're crazy. There is no indication of that anywhere that they plan on abiding by the, quote, rules. I've got one more quick thing on this and I want to move on to a potential October surprise coming up in the election that I have just heard surfacing in the D.C. chattering class.

[Justin]

That could change a lot.

[Dan Bongino]

And I got to tell you in advance, I'm a little torn on the story. This October surprise could benefit the Republican Party. But I'm just telling you, Vance, I'm very torn on it. All right, enough teasing. I'm going to get to that in a second. It involves a potential retirement. That would really set the political world on fire, folks.

[Justin]

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[Dan Bongino]

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[Justin]

You know, we have been a stalwart

[Dan Bongino]

supporter of NATO for a really long time. But I'm really sorry. If Nick, NATO is going to be an alliance, then you better step up. And Donald Trump and his team are talking very seriously right now about at least limiting our support for NATO if they don't step up and handle this with this big geopolitical crisis, handle it and help us out a little bit.

[Justin]

They don't want to. Keir Starmer and others want to run in after we all do the dirty work and they want to claim credit for and go out and give like the two thumbs up. Here's a Sky News back and forth.

[Dan Bongino]

It's about a minute here talking about what would happen if we pulled out a NATO.

[Justin]

And, and it's exactly what I told you.

[Dan Bongino]

Given my last year's body of experience, folks. 80% of the work on the intel

[Justin]

front, law enforcement, the terror front and the military front, 80, maybe more percent of the work is done by us. They contribute, but not nearly as much as we do.

[Dan Bongino]

You thought I was making it up. I don't know why you would think that here. Listen to this commentator say exactly that. Check this out. Imagine a doomsday scenario. If the United States were to withdraw tomorrow, what would be the first thing that we would lose?

[Sky News Commentator]

I think the first thing we would, we would notice would be transport, probably the ability to move equipment and people around. And then the second thing you would notice and the thing that's most important would be intelligence. I mean specific battlefield intelligence as to what is going on. Again, there's a bit of it, but you, and you could do it in the old fashioned, fashioned way. So you'd be doing it with people on the ground, you'd be doing it with overflight, with drones and so on. But whereas the Americans have got all this stuff on a day by day basis from their satellites, if that was lost, then that would be a considerable problem.

[Justin]

Thank you. Thank you. Again. The US technology advantage, which is a

[Dan Bongino]

lot but not all of the intelligence gathering some is done by human beings known as human, human intelligence are the

[Justin]

United States portfolio of devices gathering this intel. They need us a lot more than we need them. You want to help or not?

[Dan Bongino]

I saw this tweet by this junior Pagu guy.

[Justin]

He's like, this is NATO this, it

[Dan Bongino]

perfectly describes the problem we're having now

[Justin]

with these European partners who only want to be partners after we win.

[Dan Bongino]

NATO's the guy who shows up after you're done moving. He doesn't want to do any heavy lifting, but he's always there for the beer and pizza afterwards.

[Justin]

Everybody knows that guy. Do you? Not everybody knows a guy like that. Like, stop doing that. We need your help.

[Dan Bongino]

Help us out. This is obviously going to benefit the alliance if you guys were to contribute in a meaningful way instead of coming in later. So getting to what I was talking about before, about a potential surprise for the midterm elections, folks, this, I did not see this one coming. I mean, well, obviously in the bigger picture, the potential for a Supreme Court retirement is always there. However, there have been some rumblings in Washington, D.C. about a potential Alito or even Clarence Thomas retirement right before the election. That could shake up the election and most certainly would. It would shake up the election because a lot of Christian conservative voters who understand that the right to life and other issues are hanging by a thread based on the composition of the the Supreme Court and the federal court system will come out to vote to preserve that. However, I tell you, put up the Hill article. You can read this today if you'd like. I'm really torn on this and I'll tell you why. We don't know what's going to happen in the Senate. They say Senate Republicans hope the Supreme Court surprise could help save the majority. Alexander Bolton, April 18th of this year, folks, here's the issue. There is a very friendly map out there right now for Republicans on the Senate side. A lot of these seats that are up for grabs or in red states, they're not going to be easy. You got North Carolina, you have Ohio. These are not going to be, they're not going to be a walk in the park. They're going to be tough. But we don't know we're going to lose the Senate yet. So if Alito and say Thomas or both, either or, or both were to

[Justin]

leave, you leave, you lose our two best guys, you lose our two best guys. You hope you can get them pushed through quick under the anticipated, you know,

[Dan Bongino]

I guess there, there's a, you know, a dystopian future where we do lose. And then you've got a you appoint

[Justin]

younger jurists who you hope are as

[Dan Bongino]

good as Alito and Thomas. But we've already seen how that can go with Roberts and some others.

[Justin]

And then you can keep, you got to keep your fingers crossed and hope you're going to get good Folks, you don't know that's going to happen. Folks, we've been disappointed with Supreme Court

[Dan Bongino]

appointments over and over again.

[Justin]

I'm not really sure we're going to lose the Senate.

[Dan Bongino]

I mean, we could, but the map

[Justin]

is actually pretty good for Republicans and we could get a couple more years out of the goat. Clarence Thomas and Alito is not far behind.

[Dan Bongino]

They've been bedrocks for constitutionalism.

[Justin]

There is no doubt, though it would

[Dan Bongino]

probably drive up turnout. A lot of voters on the sidelines would be very concerned about losing the courts. Business folks as well. We finally have a, you know, pro capitalism, pro freedom majority on the Supreme Court. Most, not all of the time. You don't really want to lose that possibility, but I'm torn on it. I'd love to hear your comments on the chat. I mean, losing Clarence Thomas after that clip I played last week of that speech was just amazing. He is probably one of the greatest of all time. He is.

[Justin]

Of all the people.

[Dan Bongino]

You saw that poll I put up in the beginning of the show about news influencers and something I just see there's like a thing where they factor it in politicians too. And we were 14 in Apple. Clarence Thomas, my number one. Clarence Thomas and like Thomas sowell, I think is number two. And then I go back to Milton Friedman, who's not around anymore. But you read his stuff, you can never go wrong. I'm just asking you too, before the November election, folks, please, like zone in on me here. Laser focus 10, 10 and 10. We're not going to win this election by just talking about it. Talk is great. If it doesn't motivate action, we're going to get our asses kicked. That's just a fact. You have got to go out and grab 10 people who are on the fence about voting and show them how to do it. Show them the website, show them how to vote early if they need to vote early. Show them if they're, if they're overseas, how to vote in absentee. You got to show them how to do it. You got to find 10 people, make 10 social media posts, 10 emails, 10 phone calls. It's not an option. I do this as often as I can. I hope we motivated hundreds of thousands of people to vote. I'd like to think the Bongino army had a small role in a lot of this, but you've got to help me out there and you got to be like lieutenants in this and go out and grab more people. There's a network effect to this whole thing. We cannot lose this election. One of the things Carville left off, that they left off that post about Carville talking about these crazy things the left was going to do. One of the things that was left off there is impeachment. We will be dealing with another impeachment.

[Justin]

There is zero doubt. Do we want to go through that again?

[Dan Bongino]

So I'll end today with this one because we've been doing some content on other stuff as well. And I have some other guests coming up. By the way, some of the guest portfolio we have coming up. Not everyone's going to be traditional kind of political commentators or opinion makers, politicians. We have a lot of those. It's a political show. But folks, we're starting to just kind of branch out into other stuff because I, you know, I'm obsessed with like the health hack space because the number one rule of the Dan Bargino show is of course, don't get dead. So one of the things I've been telling you all is like quick and easy exercise, snack, life habits that you can get into that will change your life. And the one I'm obsessed with is this hundred air squats a day. You go out and walk 10,000 steps. And that's great too. If you want to do it, go ahead. I personally don't have, I don't have time for 10,000, 10,000 steps. A lot of steps take a good, you know, 45 minutes. Sometimes I just don't have the time. So what I do is every 45 minutes I get up and I bang out like 10 to 15 air squats. Listen, if you have bad knees, whatever, you got to see a doctor. I can't. You got to go check that out first. But if you're a relatively healthy person, this is one of the easiest and best life hacks.

[Justin]

You want to lean out, you want to lose weight, you want to live longer, you want to not get dead.

[Dan Bongino]

Even the Washington Post had this story up this morning.

[Justin]

Dr. Jordan Metzl. Just two minutes a day of this

[Dan Bongino]

type of exercise may help you live longer.

[Justin]

What are they talking about?

[Dan Bongino]

They're talking about pushing your body harder and activating systems that don't get challenged during low intensity movement like walking.

[Justin]

So if you do these 10 air

[Dan Bongino]

squats right, that's just what I do. Your heart rate climbs, your muscles recruit more fibers, your mitochondria proliferate, your metabolism shifts. These adaptations drive improvements in cardiovascular fitness, strength and resilience.

[Justin]

Two minutes, two minutes a day. It is the easiest life hack ever. Cut out a couple bags of Chips. Get rid of the soda for water and do a hundred air squats a day. You change your whole life. You can live longer. It's. It's easy. It's free. You'll look better, you'll feel better. The brain gets going, the body starts pumping more blood around you get oxygenation in the brain. What did I do before the show?

[Dan Bongino]

Sitting out here. Lucy was in the studio today. Lucy's running around chasing Lucy. So the heart rate was up right before. Boom, 10 squats. Get going, get the blood flowing. You'll feel so much better. Folks, thanks again for tuning in. It was a busy weekend. What?

[Justin]

Oh, he did.

[Dan Bongino]

Oh, awesome. So, Justin, just. That's. Thank you. So breaking FBI Director Keshe Patel filed that lawsuit for 250 million over its story on his. On the BS alleged drinking. I'm going to tell you again, just like I told you in the beginning, I was there with him for the first year of the Trump presidency during the entire transition. If any of that was true, I would have heard about it. Good for you, Cash. Now make them back it up under oath. There's probably a damn good reason a lot of people passed on this bullshit story. They only want him out because he's effective. That's why they leave other people alone. They want him out because they don't want the FBI reform. They want their own. They want their own kind of imperial guard for a weaponized Democrat system. And we're not having it. Folks, you can check out Haley at [e-mail] Haley Vince Every day at a good audience this [e-mail] Vince I always appreciate you coming here. We will never take the audience for granted. I just ask you one favor if you wouldn't mind. Go to rumble rumble.combongino or download the Rumble app. It's free. Give us a follow our video show. Just a heads up because I see again the army of ridiculous Bongino rage bot haters. Our video is not on any other platform. There's only shorts. The full video is only on Rumble. We are exclusive to Rumble. You can listen on Apple and Spotify. If you want to watch the show you have to watch on rumble. Rumble.com bongino Totally free. Download the Rumble app. Give us a follow. I'd really appreciate it. It means the world to us. Doesn't cost you a dime. I will see you back here tomorrow at 10am I'm Haley Cara host of

[Justin]

Vince host of Scrolling with Haley.

[Dan Bongino]

You can always catch my show right here.

[Haley Vince]

Right here on the Bongino Report live

[Dan Bongino]

8am Eastern weekday mornings, weekdays at noon.

[Justin]

If you miss it, no worries.

[Haley Vince]

The show will always be right here and anywhere you find podcast.

[Justin]

Thanks for watching.