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All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up and get ready for the Dan Bongino show. You know, I know I thank you guys a lot and I hope it doesn't get annoying, but you've given me so much. My life is a gift from, from the Lord first, but from you guys second. I, I love doing the show. It's a passion of mine. But it's just been such an incredible week. Obviously, last night, if you were watching Fox, I signed again, Fox as a contributor over there. So I'm really happy to be back. I've been doing hits there since 2013, so it's been quite a long time. Well over a decade. So feels like going back home again. I did Hannity last night was talking about the Guthrie case. I haven't been discussing it a lot on the show. I just wanted to kind of hit on one quick thing, but I got a ton to address. And again, on the Spotify trending number one again for I think it's like eight straight days now. Live stream numbers have been amazing. I can't thank you guys enough. Thank you to everyone who raided the stream yesterday. I saw Benny Johnson, did Graham Allen, who's always a rock star. I actually have a clip, reiki of the great Graham Allen today in the show talking about the culture change that's going on right now. We are folks, we haven't won anything, period. But there is no question that we are winning in the process, in the present. We are winning. The shift is happening and I've got more evidence all around you. If, if your eyes aren't open to it Clockwork Orange style, they should be soon. We are winning. You see the shift happening right now and people do not want to be with the losing team. They just don't. I've got a ton to get to, including some breaking news yesterday as the Epstein revelations start to backfire on all the grandstanders out there. It turns out that, yeah, President Trump was telling the Palm beach police to get shut this guy down. Shocker. Well, no, not really. Amazing. 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Birch Gold will send you a free info kit on how to convert an eligible IRA or 401k into an IRA in physical gold. Gold's one of the best investments I ever made. That's right. Own gold in a tax sheltered account. Again, text my name, Dan, to number 989898 and see if gold is right for you. Tumultuous times. You've seen what happens. Gold is a great hedge. I'm an investor. Check it out. Message and data rates apply. Thank you, Birchgold. We really appreciate it. All right, guy, let's go. So, folks, the tide has already turned in the culture war. You're seeing it now. I'm going to get to that in a second. But just briefly. I know you're getting wall to wall coverage on cable news. I try my best to give you a large portfolio of information in the hour and a half to two hours we do the show. Secretary Kristi Noem coming up today at 11:30. In an hour and a half, we're going to do a wide ranging interview with her. I try to give you everything. A smorgasbord of information. However, you have seen that this Guthrie tragedy, this case has dominated the news. I did a hit on it last night and just quickly, I was discussing three possibilities. He had some, you know, loudmouth afterwards. Come on and say, it's hard for me to talk about stuff in this new role because there's things I can't say. Do you get what I'm saying? Does that make sense in the chat? I don't wanna give away tactics. There are things we can do. We meaning the federal, not just the FBI, but others, dea, marshals and others. There are new tools that when I left the Secret service back in 2011, we didn't have those tools. So it was easier for me to be a commentator at times because I stayed away from things I didn't know and spoke about things I did. However, now that I've got all this stuff in my head. I've gotta be delicate how I handle things. So I talk about things in terms of possibilities. I think everybody has to keep in their head the possibility that Occam's Razor may apply here. Given all explanations for what happened to Savannah Guthrie's mom, maybe it's time to accept the one that's the most parsimonious and requires you to assume the least. We'll see. Was it a kidnapping? Was it not a kidnapping? Is there a third explanation? If you want to watch the clip, you can check it out. It's on my social media feed and you'll see what I'm talking about. It is just bizarre that a group of, if they were professional kidnappers would miss an obvious thing like trying, you know, taking the medication and other things like that. We'll see. We'll see what happens. Okay, moving on. I got a lot to talk about today. You can get all wall to wall coverage on cable news about that and people obviously interested in the story. I've, you know, that the viewership is through the roof. I mean, it's a terrifying story. Folks, the tide has already turned in the culture war. It's already turned. I think the tide is turned. It's already turned. We haven't won anything, but it's already turned. It's in the other direction right now. If you are on the right side of history with us, congratulations, welcome to the party. If you just converted to the right side of history, that is, you're someone like one of these celebrities or so who, like, you know what? I like Donald Trump now. Welcome to the party, too. I don't particularly care what celebrities have to say, but I'd rather you vote for us than not. The culture wars are changing. People are being tired of being told that it's okay to have a men's penis in a woman's room. Nobody ever believed that. Only the nuts believe that. Pun intended. The tide's already turned. Trump changed everything. What he did is he moved the needle on what conversations were safe to be had. I'm going to address this with, with Secretary Noem later and I'm going to play a clip of Secretary Kennedy, rfk, talking about how this president just kind of lets you do your thing and doesn't really care so much what the public perception in the media is. You'll see the clip later. But he has moved the needle about what's okay, air quotes to talk about. And he has allowed his cabinet and his leaders, whether it's The Secretary of War or elsewhere, Secretary of Homeland Security, to do the job and not have to worry about every media headline about, my gosh, that wasn't politically correct. And this. He wasn't politically correct. He doesn't care. He changed everything. He made the gop, which was the stodgy old bow tie wearing party, the Mitt Romney crowd. He made the GOP and the Republican Party the edgy party again. He just did. No one understands marketing of a brand better than Donald J. Trump. No one zero people understand it better than him. Here's what I'm talking about. He's got like the culture war avengers in his cabinet. People are like, we're not doing these culture wars. We're doing make America safe again. Make America wealthy again, Make America great again. That's what we're doing. If you have an alternate agenda, get the hell out of the cabinet. Like stat. Here's Secretary Hegseth from the Department of War yesterday. And again, another banger of a speech. Guys do an incredible job and this is the kind of thing I promise you under no prior president could ever be said, Republican or Democrat. They'd be like, my gosh, the media is going to take this all the wrong way. What are you doing? You're creating headlines. All stuff. No, no, not this president. Here he is. This is why I titled the show, despite some consternation from guy who wanted. I just want it on the record, you know, Guy tells it like it is, even when he's wrong. He wanted a different title. This is why we titled today's show no dudes in Dresses. Check this out. I've heard a lot of generals say a lot of things. The dumbest thing I've heard generals say is that our diversity is our strength. It's the single dumbest phrase in military history. Let me tell you why. Because I look out at this group and I see a lot of different faces, a lot of different backgrounds coming from a lot of different places. That's a beautiful thing. But that's not what makes it special. What makes what you do special. What makes what these men and women is their unity of purpose. See, it's our unity. That's our strength. It's our shared vision. That's our strength. It's what we fight for together. That is our strength. And so we're getting rid of all the distractions, the dei, the climate change. No more dudes in dresses. And notice the applause from the crowd. These were things in the past time out here. I need you to listen. These were things in the past, prior to Donald Trump, that I promise you, upwards of 80 to 90% of people were thinking but were afraid to say. That's what the term political correctness is about. Notice they don't say moral correctness. They say political correctness. In other words, you know, you're on the right moral arc of history side. However, politically, the winds are blowing in a different direction due to pressure agendas and other things. So you stop saying what you want to say. This president, he doesn't buy any of that bullshit, and he gives you latitude to work. Now, you may be saying, some of you all that's just talking points and trying to get a reaction from the crowd. No, it's not. This stuff has a real tangible effect on how government operates for you every day. If you've got a military more concerned with, you know, racial and gender quotas and lgbtqia, two plus one spirit. I don't even. I can't even remember all the categories anymore, then they're not concerned about actually killing the enemy. And that's their job. Folks, this is not a small thing. These are not just talking points. They create freedom to operate in a hierarchy. President Trump creates this space where you can do the right thing for the organization, make them more lethal. In the case of the Secretary of War, he then goes out and he gives these speeches making this stuff public, which then filters down to the leaders who realize, man, this guy's not kidding. He really wants soldiers who are lethal, and. And he's not worried about all this quota crap anymore. I'll give you just a quick example from my time. There was a lot of this fluffy, like, bullshit stuff on the home screen. I'd come into my office every morning, and as a computer, you know, on a desk, like, everyone has no big deal. I had two monitors there, one for one side of the Internet, one for the other side. You had some classifieds. You get the point, right? But there were these, like, weird messages on the home screen. I don't know, like, National Puppy Day or whatever. I'm like, no, we're not doing that shit. It's a down. It's a huge victory lap. I'm just saying, like, those little things set the conditions for a morale problem, where you've got people, like, celebrating National Puppy Day. These are door kickers. These are people arresting terrorists. I said, get that shit off there. I want our priorities up there. Protect the homeland, crush violent crime. Fierce organizational accountability. Restore public trust. Cash was like, do it. Don was done right away. That's how it Filters down from the President and you start to win back the culture of the United States government to be more accountable to the people and more mission focused rather than bullshit focused. You see it in other departments as well, things that were totally unsafe to say years ago. People just didn't want it cuz they were afraid. You're seeing another cabinet members as well. The culture war is changing. Here's rfk. He's been doing a great job over there. He was giving a talk the other day and he was talking about the government's now new approach to, you know, nutrition and things like that. Now why does this matter? Why would I put it after the Secretary of War? Number one, we're talking about the hierarchy, the ability to speak out and speak truth. The President not giving a damn about political correctness. And in the past, the government, you know, Republicans and Democrats were hesitant to talk about people's dietary choices. Why? Oh my gosh. You don't want people who are, you know, overweight to feel bad. Well, listen, I don't want anybody to feel bad, but I don't want you to die either. Like, it's clear now that this is linked to shortened lifespan and a multitude of other health problems. It's clear as day. You can say that. And it's also safe to say, hey man, we're gonna put out some stuff saying that these choices aren't healthy. I'm telling you, you can never do this stuff. In the past. No, of course. No you couldn't. Here's what I mean. Check this out. We're trying to make it easier for parents to make good choices. We're not telling people what to do. We're not starting a nanny state. If you live in this country, you ought to buy a beer, buy a Coca Cola if you want one or eat a Krispy Kreme donut. But we're going to tell you it's not good for you and allow you to make your own choices. And that's really how democracy is supposed to function. That is how democracy is supposed to function. Everybody's free to drink a gallon of Coca Cola if you want. But if we're going to pay all this money for public health and I think it should be left to the states, whatever. But if you're going to do it because the Democrats won't stop funding this large ass and this massive government dogpile of money, then we might as well get out a message that makes sense. Yeah, whatever. Eat a donut and a gallon of coffee. Excuse me, a galley. A gallon of Coca Cola in the morning. But no one's gonna tell you this is healthy. Oh, you can't say that. You may offend people, then be offended. I'm sorry, folks, there's nothing wrong with being offended. Offended. You have any idea the shit I listen to every day from liberal lunatics? Just plug my name in. These morons are so terrified of everything we say on the show because they know it's got a massive aud. Here's what I was talking about, too, about not being micromanaged and how different it is to work in this environment. Here's rfk. It's a short one. Talking about how he does not care, the president, about, you know, licking the finger and seeing where the political winds are going and the media, and he doesn't give a shit about any of that stuff. I'm telling you, prior Republican presidents, certainly Democrat presidents, worshiped the media. The old adage was, you know, you don't mess with people who buy ink by the gallon. You know, he just takes the ink and pours it over your head. Check this out. Tolerate, overreach. And he doesn't care about vested interest and he doesn't care about, you know, about offending powerful people. So it's a joy to work for him because he lets me do stuff that I don't think anybody else would ever let me do. There you go. I'll bring this up with Secretary Noem later as well, get her perspective on it. He's not talking about, like, extra post constitutional, illegal, you know, not something he's talking about. He's talking about exactly the theme I opened up the show with. He gives you freedom to operate without fear of being stopped because you didn't say the politically correct thing that day. The best way to ensure your job security in Trump administration? Have some liberal media jerk wads write some really negative story about you. Then you're never getting fired, ever, for any reason. It's the greatest job security program ever. It's like a deposit in your government furs, your 401k for the government system. Every time the liberal media writes some hit piece on you folks, the evidence is everywhere that this culture war has shifted, that we are winning. We haven't won, but we are winning. Now is time to crush the pedal down and go 9,000 RPMs in sixth gear. This is the time. Because after the midterms, I don't know how it's going to go. You know me. I don't get into red wave stuff. I don't get into, like, doomer stuff either. We're going to lose 6,000 seats. There aren't even 6,000 seats to lose, bro. What are you talking about? I try to play it straight, but I can tell you if you don't crush the gas pedal and we don't do the 10, 10 and 10 call 10 people, you know, ring 10 doorbells, make 10 social media posts. If we don't do that, send 10 emails. 10, 10, 10 and 10, 10, 10. Make 10 more things, whatever you can do. 10 Facebook posts, 10 Instagram posts. Yes, then we are gonna get crushed. Bottom line is elections are decided by ballots and votes and sometimes those aren't the same thing. Sometimes you get ballots turned in by people who didn't intend to vote. Been covering that all week. But the culture is changing and it's one of the. The entire Republican Party has been moved. And I got a little montage coming up later in the show for you how the media wants you to believe that Donald Trump has been a drag, like an anchor on the Republican Party. I'm gonna show you a ton of stories producer Jim and the team here put together where they just keep parroting this narrative. Oh my gosh, the GOP's fuming at President Trump. They hate. Oh my God, what a drag on the party. The whole party's changed. He has changed the culture too. And it's one of the few, it's one of the unspoken things that doesn't come up a lot. The whole culture has changed, not just the Republican Party. Here's our good friend Graham Allen who raids the show every day. He's got amazing show on Rumble too. He's always been a good friend to me and a real truth teller. Here's Graham Allen on the Turning Point show. Not going to spend a ton of time on this. Did yesterday. Andrew Kovet sent a nice tweet out about our coverage of it. Yesterday we brought up the two button problem. If you want to watch yesterday's show, how Turning Point's the first one to beat the NFL and solve the two button problems. They just are on a mass scale. That is you all figured out Rumble a long time ago. We're top live streamer in the world thanks to you. But a lot of people have a tough time downloading the TV apps, even my tv. I'm like, how do you get that on there? Chris told me from Rumble that they've had like a record day of people downloading the Rumble app on their tv. I don't know if you know that you can watch this show on Your television. All you got to do is download the rumble app on your tv. Little bit of a pain in the butt, but they're going to put some tutorials out. Here's Graham Allen on not just what happened with the massive viewership numbers, but the secondary and tertiary effects of turning point. Running counter programming to the NFL that was clearly directed at a culture of Americans who love and want to celebrate the country and didn't want to watch this sad bunny thing. Watch what happened afterwards to the artists who perform. You're not going to get a bunch of people artists because you're going to do this again. Turning point that are going to be dying to get on this halftime show. Check this out. Check this out. This morning on the top charts of the top ten albums in America right now. Brantley Gilbert holds 1, 2, 3, 4 of the top ten albums on the chart. Gabby Barrett holds the number one country music chart. Lee Bryce holds number three. Cody Johnson from Kid Rock singing his song. Number five, Gabby Barrett, number seven. Lee Bryce, number eight. The Lord worked. Brantley Lee and Gabby, listen to me right here. The lord rewards standing strong in your faith and your convictions. I love me some Graham. I didn't realize Graham opened the clip saying, check this out. After I said check this out. Justin got a kick out of it. Like the comedy break for the show. Check this out. Grabs like, check this out. I looked in the chat. Eda Ray says, love watching you on the big screen. Yeah, folks, it's an option. Download the rumble app on your tv. You can. I have it on my tv. It's really. It's not that hard. But you know, I'm. Some of us are not that tech savvy. Paula did it. But it's really quick. You can watch the show on the. On the big screen. So thanks and array. I appreciate it. Here's what I mean, too. The culture has shifted so dramatically. It's now safe to do this. Here's this. This gentleman. He owns a. But did you see this clip yesterday? If you didn't, it went absolutely nuclear, which is like beyond viral on social media and elsewhere. I think it's on TikTok X. It was everywhere. There is an owner of this bar or club called the zoo bar or club somewhere in Florida and some guy thinks he's being a real smart ass coming up with his phone and he videos the guy. He's like, you know, like, how dare you swap out the halftime show for this turning point show. I came here to see the whole experience and the guy who owns the Bars like good to. Just beat it, bro. Beat it. See you. I guarantee you, guarantee you that the guy who owns his bar, his bar is going to be packed this weekend. Or Zoo club. Or Zoo Bar. It's on, I think the west coast of Florida somewhere. I can guarantee you this guy's bar is gonna be packed. Why? Because patriotic people who put their hands over their heart when the national anthem comes on, they stand up and they sing those words proudly. I promise you're gonna flood this guy's bar. And we far outnumber the lunatics. Check this out. For the halftime show, the whole experience. Why aren't you paying Bad bunny at the halftime show show? Because I put this halftime show.