
In this episode, a new vehicle for government overreach is upon us and I'll explain why we can't do this again. Also, a viral example of the importance of personal safety.
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All America, all the time.
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Sit down, buckle up, and get ready
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for the Dan Bongino show. So what does the.
Paula
Or what.
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What do. I should say?
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The.
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The release just moments ago
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about the UFOs, UAPs, and the hantavirus thing have in common.
Josh
I'm here to tell you, no sense
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engaging in an unnecessarily long te.
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A half an hour.
Paula
We'll get to it. Don't panic, folks.
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There are people out there who want to see you shit the bed so bad. Shit the bad? That's kind of gross.
Josh
It's an expression.
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Sorry it's gross, but it's an expression we used in my time as an agent and a protection detail where we did not want anyone around who would, quote, shit the bed or panic.
Josh
They want you to panic. Why?
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Why? Folks in the chat, tell me why. What does the UFO story, UAP story, and the hantavirus story have in common?
Paula
Money.
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Money? Yes, money.
Josh
There is money in panic.
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There's clicks in panic. People love to institute panic because fear
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sells, so they want everybody to freak
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out all the time.
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UFOs,
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you know, the.
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Everybody home.
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Brother Dan is here for you today. Tell everybody to calm down. And by the way, I know you. I get it. There are already people. I tweeted about it this morning. I. I get people hate this aoc. Stupid story, but there's a lot there above and beyond this idiot in Congress.
Paula
Please.
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I have to get to that too, from a different angle. I actually have a challenge for this dunce in Congress talking about how nobody can earn a billion dollars. No, no, you can't aoc. You can't.
Josh
I'm sorry.
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You're not smart enough to generate an idea that'll generate billions of value.
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I get it. I get. I know you're not. I understand.
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I. I understand your envy there. I get it.
Paula
But I have a challenge for her. It's based in her state, actually. Let's see if she takes us up on it.
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She hates billion dollar ideas, apparently.
Paula
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I cut myself bad the other day. You can't see it because makeup artist Jackie does an amazing job. She's got, like, spray paint on my left cheek here. I cut myself so bad. Can you see it?
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The other side. Sorry.
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No, you can't.
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Look at that.
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Jackie, nice job. I was, like, bleeding. I think I lost A pint of blood.
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first to the doomers, the gloomers, the libs, the media, the haters, the progressive liberal, socialist, communist, Bernie Sanders, aoc, Graham Platner, Nazi tattoo types to the nothing is happening crowd. Another jobs number came out. Quick hit from cnbc.
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Just burst on the scene before I
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came on the air. And unsurprisingly to all you MAGA types who have faith in the process and know this President is in the FO portion of the fafo. Here we go. Job numbers. Blew it out of the box receipts incoming. Check this out.
Josh
Big job jobs report for April. 65,000 expected nay, nay, nay. We are much stronger. 115,115. And last month upward revision from 178 to 185. These are good numbers.
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There's another one from the nothing is happening but is happening file. While you keep telling us nothing is happening. The economy, ladies and gentlemen, is doing just fine. Can the economy be better? The economy can always be better. We live life on the margin. Life isn't black and white. Life is never black and white. Idiots think in black and white. That is the AOC class. Life's on the margin. You sit in your house with a thermostat in the winter. You don't say heat or no heat. You say how much heat.
Josh
That's the difference.
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That's what on the margin means.
Josh
Degrees of change.
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We're doing just fine right now. And by the way, because it's Friday and I want to put you in a good mood for the show before we get to the UFOs and what it has in common with this hantavirus
Paula
story, because there is a stream of
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coming I'M telling you in common here, it's the don't. Do not panic. Panic sells. Don't be the sucker. If you're playing at a table with a bunch of people and you don't know who the sucker is, the suckers, you. Here's President Trump this morning.
Josh
Have you been to D.C. lately?
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I was just there. First time back in a few months. I went back for an event and ladies and gentlemen, the place has never looked better or cleaner. That reflecting pool was a train wreck. Donald Trump and his administration cleaned it
Josh
up and the media is all pissed off.
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They prefer D.C. to be dirty. Watch Donald Trump just absolutely body this reporter this morning out at the reflecting pool.
Paula
Check this out.
Guest Speaker 1
Why focus on all these projects right now?
Guest Speaker 2
You know why?
Guest Speaker 3
Because I want to keep our country beautiful and safe. Beautiful also. This place was a disgusting place. It was Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial. And we had a terrible disgust. I don't. You probably don't see dirt, but I do. And you walk down this, this pond, if you would have walked down, they'll tell you better than anybody, they had to take 11 or 12 truckloads of garbage out of that lake, out of that water. And it sat there for years like that. And that's not what our country is about. Our country is about beauty, cleanliness, safety, great people. Not a filthy capital. That's such a stupid question you ask. We're fixing up the reflecting pond to the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument. And you say, why are you fixing the gap? Because you can understand dirt maybe better than I can, but I don't allow it. This is one of the worst reporters. She's with ABC Fake News and she's a horror show. She's saying, why would you bother fixing this up? Why would I bother taking 11 or 12 truckloads of filth out of the water in front of the Lincoln Monument? That's what made our country great. Beauty, made our country, people, made our country great. A question like that is a disgrace to our country.
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I can't.
Paula
I can't. I can't love this guy anymore. At least his style with the media.
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I can't. Folks, he's not, number one, he's not running for office again.
Josh
Number two, even if he was, he is not going to win anything out of Washington, D.C. it's like 85% Democrat. He's cleaning up D.C. a Democrat city
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that can't clean itself up. All right, it's federal property. We understand. However, there's a big federal government.
Josh
However, the government's been run by Democrats under Obama and Biden, they didn't do shit. The reflecting poll is black. It is. This is disgusting. Nasty geese shit all over the place. It's gross. Donald Trump's like, I want to clean this up. Why? Because we are the greatest country in the history of sentient human beings and this is the capital of the greatest country and it should look it.
Dan Bongino
I love the best line of that. We all agree, though. We were listening to it in the pre show rundown. What's the best part? Yeah, you probably don't recognize dirt you're too used to. I told you, the show is edutainment. Educational entertainment. Had to boogie down productions. However, there's nothing really educational. I just enjoyed that clip. And it's a Friday, so I want to put you in a good mood. This, however, is educational, folks.
Paula
Listen to me. You can't shit to bed, okay? We saw this during COVID I played some clips yesterday.
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Drudge loves doing this. Listen, there's no doubt Drudge Report is an extremely popular website. I don't begrudge other people's business models. I don't know if he sold it or whatever. It doesn't really matter. The Drudge Report changed its editorial tone years ago. You all know it. I started a website to compete with them, bonginoreport.com, which was an alternative to that because I figured people would want a place to go to not get left wing. Slanted, panic inducing nonsense. However, the business model sells. He's a businessman. It's not illegal what they're doing. But I want to show you the headline yesterday or the headlines from Drudge Report. This is actually a screenshot from my phone. It's not just Drudge.
Paula
I don't mean to pick out this
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particular website, but here we go.
Josh
Race to treat the race.
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It's a race, folks. To track the rat virus.
Paula
Passengers.
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Global effort to stop the spread. Covid flashbacks. Mask up.
Josh
Holy Moses. We're not doing this again. Everybody, please. Michael Jordan Giffey, Please stop it.
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Get some help.
Josh
It is
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Justin's right. Justin's like, I don't get triggered often, but if there were trigger words out there for a conservative, this is it.
Josh
We are not wearing a stupid mask again. It doesn't do shit. Please. I got banned from YouTube for I
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love these people that Covid. Where all these people go?
Josh
Where are all these people that are Covid? You go, oh, I want to curse.
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Get some help.
Josh
Get some help, please.
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That's better than the Giphy. That's the video.
Josh
Can you Play that again. Stop it, please. I don't want to hear your bullshit.
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Get some help.
Josh
All of you. Stop with the panic. This virus been around forever. The mask is the sign of the moron. It's not the mark of the beast. It's the Hester Prynne Scarlet letter for I. Idiots. SO A. It's I for idiot and imbecile. Please stop. I got banned from YouTube for telling you this. They put us back in. We only put our audio over there now. However, they banned me for telling you not to fall for this bullshit. I can please for a moment with this mask thing again. We're back to again. Can we first get an apology from all the people who told us mask up. Keep your kids out of school. Ruin their social lives. Kids, Children. Suicide. Mental problems. We can't get back our education. Every single person who fell for this screwed us over and our kids are going to pay for it. For a freaking generation. You know what it was like sitting in your house?
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Yes.
Josh
Because we all had to live it. Sit in your house.
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Yeah.
Josh
Thank you, Ms. Lisa. She says, go fuck yourself. I said it for you. Thank you.
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I'm sorry, folks.
Josh
Ms. Lisa did it for us in the chat.
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I didn't say it. I didn't say it. I'm just repeating it. It was on my idea. Thank you, Ms. Lisa. In the chat.
Josh
Can I give you an analogy?
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I used to do this on radio, but some of you are new here.
Josh
This is how freaking stupid you are thinking this mask, this. This stupid surgical mask is going to stop anything.
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Imagine another medical product that's supposed to be some prophylactic against disease. Here, let's hammer it home. Pun intended. Let's talk about condoms.
Josh
Condoms? Yes. Trojans, Whatever you want. Maybe that'll get your attention.
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Liberal dipshits and mask wearers. Why do you want to talk about condoms? Andy's like, popping out like, I took condoms. He said, what the hell?
Josh
Where's this going? No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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That's. You got to get a 10 for that. That's only a. This is a 10 shirt. No, five. And then they got the love Nicole Wallace music. Thank you.
Josh
A ten.
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Okay, let's just say you have this medical device, not this shirt. You have one of these, like, condoms. And it's supposed to do what?
Josh
It's supposed to stop the spread of
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a sexually transmitted disease and to stop a pregnancy. Right?
Josh
Imagine wearing one of these and every single person who wears one gets someone pregnant or catches an std. That's what happened with the mask. Every single person who put one of
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these on caught Covid.
Josh
It was 100% successful at failing every time. And these dipshits.
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I know I haven't been here in a long.
Josh
I can't do it with the mask shit again. This is nothing but pure, unadulterated, click
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bait, panic inducing nonsense meant for the lowest common denominator. Oh, dude.
Josh
The only good thing about the mask is know that if you're wearing one.
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Am I right, Josh?
Josh
No. Just know this. At least in Martin county, where we all live, everybody's looking at you and laughing and they appreciate you wearing the mask because they know never to get around you. And the golden rule of this show is what? Hanging around in a room of people.
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You always want to be the dumbest person. What the hell?
Josh
Yes. Yes.
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Chat. Blow it up. Laser beam eyes, Dan.
Guest Speaker 3
Okay.
Josh
You always want to be the dumbest
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person in the room. That sounds offensive, Dan.
Josh
No, it isn't. Because if you're the smartest person in the room and everyone around you is
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dumber, you're going to get dumber.
Josh
You. You want to walk in a room
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with people smarter than you? I say it the other way, it's
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kind of a joke, but I'm dead serious.
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Always hang around with people smarter than you, and you'll be smarter. There won't be a regression to the mean.
Josh
You'll.
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You'll level up.
Josh
The best part about a mask is if you're hanging around a group of people who are wearing masks. Get the fuck out of the room. Sorry, I didn't say it.
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Ms. Lisa said it.
Josh
She did.
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She just sits in the. Somewhere there.
Josh
She said it for us.
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She said it for us. Sorry, language learned. Ms. Lisa, she did that, not me.
Josh
Get out of the room. They all got masks on. They're dumber than you. You don't want to get dumber and you don't want to get dead. So get out of the room. Folks. We're not doing it.
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I bring up the apology thing because I saw this yesterday. It's a good guy.
Paula
Alec Lace.
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He has a show.
Paula
Alec Lace Show.
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Always brand yourself. By the way, in this business, people ask me for podcast advice. Do not name your show. That's why we changed it. Renegade Republican. Brand your own name or else no one's going to find you. Don't call yourself whatever, you know, the badass Republicano. Don't do it. So the Alec Lace show had a guest on Del Bigtree and says exactly this. This is a fantastic point.
Josh
When you guys in Government and everyone
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else out there who did this are willing to apologize for what you did, then maybe we'll listen to you again. But we ain't putting these stupid masks on again. And we're not doing panic mode. And we're not doing panic mode by UFOs either.
Paula
Check this out.
Guest Speaker 2
Hear an apology from mainstream science and medicine. If your doctor told you this thing would stop transmission and that it was safe and you took it, and now you know that's not true. Ask yourself, have they apologized for getting it wrong? Has Rachel Maddow and all the, you know, Wolf Blitzer and all of these people that we watch on television, have they ever apologized for telling me to lock. Be locked in my home only to find out that did more harm than good? We destroyed our children. If you, those of us that had children in very formative years, like they were just about to go into high school or making a transition or their sports, suddenly were shut down, those kids that lost two or three years on their education, it wasn't fair. It wasn't right. It is time that every news agency. If I'm ever going to listen to you again, I want an apology. And then, then we will begin the process of atonement that will come to some space of forgiveness, forgiving, but never forgetting that you got this wrong. But we can't even start that process until the major institutions of this country in the world and the WHO and the CDC and the FDA and HHS and NHS in England and every news agency says, we are sorry, we got it wrong.
Josh
I don't need to add anything.
Dan Bongino
I don't need to add anything. See, the best part about being a content creator in a content space full of good people, Alec and others, sometimes
Josh
people say it better. You don't need to add anything.
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Yes. When you apologize all you dipshits for telling us to destroy our kids lives and put a stupid face diaper on our faces, then maybe, maybe we'll consider. I doubt it. Maybe we'll consider trying to listen to you again. By the way, breaking news right now and what's shaping up to be an amazing Friday. These guys don't even know. You didn't see it. Did you guys see it? What just happened? No, you did not. He's like, of course you didn't see it. We're getting ready for your show.
Paula
It's live
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first. We got amazing job numbers. The Virginia Supreme Court appears to have just shut down the Virginia gerrymandered map. In what looks to be breaking news, Virginia Democrat gerrymandered map officially dead. State supreme court flips them the double barrel. This may be the greatest political backfire in history as Tennessee redistricts its state and the grotesque Virginia Gerrymander goes 6ft
Paula
deep, goes down in flames.
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Ladies and gentlemen, is this the most amazing Friday ever? Jobs numbers through the roof, everything.
Paula
Oh, I just love it. Isn't that great?
Josh
These are good numbers. You're damn right.
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Rick Santelli. They're good numbers.
Paula
Cuz we are all America all the time.
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Someone asked me about ladies shirts. I don't know.
Paula
I got to ask Paula. I'm not really like a big.
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I don't.
Paula
As you know, I don't promote merch a lot, but people ask for them, so we do it.
Josh
Here's why we're not getting back to the topic. Here's why we're not doing this again. Folks, this is already out there.
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You think I'm just making this up? Oh, you're exaggerating all this, you know, the hantavirus panic inducing nonsense.
Josh
I am not. It's already starting on the fringe left.
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Here's a video I saw yesterday. Here's Notice the shirt. By the way, if you're listening on audio, you're missing out here. Notice the shirt on this person. Get your masks back on. Wear your face condoms. It'll definitely prevent pregnancy. Check it out.
Josh
Here they go. They're starting again. I'm not making this up.
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They want you back in a mask again. It's a sign of subservience. It's a visual sign of government control that they own you.
Paula
Check this out.
Guest Speaker 1
Hey, if you're worried about the hantavirus situation, wear a mask. Wear a respirator, even outside. This is a head strap one. This is an N95. There are also KN95s, which are just the ear loop ones. The tighter it is to your face, the better. Which is why the head straps are a little bit more protective. It basically just creates like a seal to prevent air from coming in or escaping. You can also get these really cool little sip valves so you can drink without taking your mask off. Also just reducing risk. I am begging you all, please, for the love of God. I'm seeing so many videos and comments of you being like, I don't have the time, I don't deal. I don't feel like it. Guess what y' all like. Did we not learn from 2020? I mean, I'm used to wearing a mask because I've been wearing one since 2020. Still not my most favorite thing in the World. Obviously I have a beautiful smile. I would love to show it off. I'm a very expressive person. However, that's much less important to me than my long term health and the health of other people. So, yeah, I am begging you all, please just wear a respirator. Reach out to me. Reach out to other people in the COVID cautious community. Reach out to your local mask block. If those are still a thing, I really hope they are. Go on the subreddit masks for all and people would. We are like dying for more people to wear them to keep everyone safe.
Josh
No, no, nobody's dying for this. People are just dying to get away from you. But in your case, we don't need the mask. We already see the rainbow shirt and all that other stuff and we already know where you're coming from. We're good. We're good. Oh, it's a shame because everybody should really see my smile. Nobody gives a shit about your smile. Nobody cares.
Dan Bongino
We're not doing it again. Forget it. That's it.
Josh
We're not doing it.
Dan Bongino
We are not doing it. No. Stop it. Get some health. Guys. I'm sorry that bouncing around. I am very focused today.
Paula
It's not like my minor ADHD kicking in.
Dan Bongino
But there's breaking news right now. This redistricting ruling in Virginia that just went down is so hilarious. You missed it.
Paula
I was just on Fox a second ago.
Dan Bongino
The reason this is extra bad for the Democrats is not just that the Republicans have more sane maps. The Democrats tried to do an insane map in Virginia and got smoked. It's that they poured millions and millions of dollars into this effort. They barely won by a sliver at the polls. Abigail Spanberger, the communist governor who ran as a fake moderate, put all her political capital into it and then just got smoked by their own Supreme Court. This is a glorious day. I know shouting fraud is bad.
Josh
I get it.
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However, put that aside today and just laugh a little bit because you're running against buffoons. This is the AOC class of politicians. This is what happens when you run against idiots. It's also why you don't hang around people who wear masks because they're idiots.
Josh
And you never want to be the
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smartest person in a room. You want people smarter than you, so you become smarter. And if you're in a room of Democrats, let me tell you something, you're in a world of trouble because you're always going to be in a room, especially if they have masks on. Should say liberals, who are going to
Paula
be a lot dumber Than you are.
Dan Bongino
All right, I'm going to get to this UFO thing in a minute because.
Paula
And I'm not trying to be like an insider guy. All right, whatever. I'm just telling you, like, please, like, don't get into the panic here.
Dan Bongino
There are people, a lot of people
Paula
out there, and a lot of like
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former government insiders too, who are. I'm getting a little exhausted about it. I'm not telling you there's nothing anomalies out there.
Paula
I'm not telling you there's things that need explanation further.
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Just telling you, like, not all of
Paula
this is on the level and I'm not doing it. I'm not getting into the panic stuff either. But I'm going to take a break. But can you just put up that first post article? If I just wanted to.
Dan Bongino
Here's what I mean.
Paula
And I'll get to this. I'm going to take a quick break, but I want you to see what I mean. So I hate teasing stuff. Here's this first post article.
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Trump's alien files could shatter Christian beliefs. Churches should prepare for it. Claim pastors. Oh, you know, whatever, man. No, ladies and gentlemen, there's nothing I've seen out there that is going to shatter your beliefs in Jesus or God or whatever religion you practice, okay? This is just panic inducing clickbait and it's exhausting.
Paula
Stop. Get some help. Quick break and I'll show you what just came out, some of the videos, and you'll get what I'm talking about.
Dan Bongino
Hey.
Paula
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Omar Geo in the chat.
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Yes.
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You're just in time for the midterm. It's every single time with the panic. Everybody loves to panic because it sells. Okay, so again, you saw this first post article. You know, everybody's life is going to,
Josh
it's going to be disclosure day and no one's going to believe in Jesus
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or, or the or anymore.
Josh
It's going to be.
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No, no, no, stop.
Josh
Okay, everyone, just.
Dan Bongino
Here's the Department of War release that came out just before we came on the air today. You can look at it.
Paula
I got some video for you. Coming up in a second, Department of War releases Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon files in historic transparency effort.
Dan Bongino
Good for the Department of War. I have seen a lot of this stuff before. I'm going to show you a Fox piece that just came out this morning. Fox got a hold of it as well. There's some videos in there.
Paula
I'm pretty sure I've seen these before.
Dan Bongino
However, I'm just going to be upfront with you. I am not pretending to have the answers.
Paula
President Trump has access to things nobody in the government has. He's the president.
Dan Bongino
However, we did see a lot, a lot of the stuff that not these
Paula
particular videos, but some of them are easily explainable.
Dan Bongino
It's look up Parallax.
Paula
What?
Dan Bongino
Parallax is a lot of the cameras that are used to film this stuff were not designed to capture that type of thing. I don't want to get into it
Paula
why and what you know, you can figure it out yourself.
Dan Bongino
However, you don't find it odd that, you know, we have better videos of like the famous Bigfoot video than we do.
Paula
Where's one of these things? I mean, why haven't we seen it
Dan Bongino
in crisp, like 7D video?
Paula
I mean, I'm Joking, but you get the point. Here's Peter Doocy this morning on the release. Check this out.
Peter Doocy
This is the first big batch of UFO disclosure ordered by President Trump over the skies of the United Arab Emirates in June 2024. An inverted teardrop with a vertically linear trailing mass as described by the War Department, suspended below. The War Department cannot say for sure what this is. It is officially listed as an unresolved UAP report. The next video over the skies of Iraq, December 2022. Moving bottom left to top right of the field of view all CENTCOM gets from this is an area of contrast. That's what they describe it as. It is officially still listed as an unresolved UAP report. Next video over the skies of Greece, October 2023. What is described as a small and circular UAP flying near the surface of the ocean towards land. CENTCOM can't tell us what it is. It is officially listed as an unresolved UAP report. Within the last two minutes, all of these videos have gone live on war.gov UFO and a White House official tells Fox first, while past administrations sought to discredit or dissuade the American people, President Trump is focused on providing maximum transparency to the public who can ultimately make up their own minds about the information contained in these files.
Dan Bongino
1. I applaud President Trump because he is. Listen to me. You can love him or hate him. You know why? I'm obviously a big supporter. President Trump is the sole United States
Paula
government official who can declassify what ever, whatever he wants.
Dan Bongino
He's it. He is the ultimate declassifier. You would not have this stuff without him.
Josh
You can bullshit all you want, liberals.
Dan Bongino
We don't like Donald Trump. This guy, this president is the. You want to talk about a king? He is not a king, but he is the king of transparency. He is the king of transparency.
Josh
No one else has released this stuff. That's a fact. Libs, shove that in a ball up.
Dan Bongino
Ms. Lisa, where should we shove that? Just
Josh
no one else released it.
Dan Bongino
Folks, if you're missing a live chat today, I'm really sorry.
Josh
Ms. Lisa's been tearing it up
Paula
a couple things. All right. It's serious time. You know, the show is like always an emotional roller coaster for me too.
Dan Bongino
I leave, I feel like getting an IV and going to sleep after the show.
Paula
Sometimes times I love Jesus. I'm an im, a very imperfect servant. Believe me, I'm not your moral compass. I wish I was, but I'm not.
Dan Bongino
If you're watching this show for some moral Guidance.
Paula
I'm not your guide. I make a lot of mistakes, okay? But I do believe strongly in Jesus Christ and I profess that loudly
Dan Bongino
and
Paula
I'm proud of that. For all my mistakes, he still loves me. I wake up every morning, say a couple things, you know, affirmations every morning. I'm Dan Bongino. I love Jesus and Jesus loves me. You know what just grounds me every morning? Don't get up and get on your phone right away. Get up and say that. Give it 20 minutes before you drink coffee and get on your phone. You're overloading your brain with too much bs. I believe in Jesus and none of this stuff is out of his control.
Dan Bongino
If those are spirits or those are
Paula
aliens, they're there because he wanted them there. It's not a mistake.
Dan Bongino
I don't not telling you that's the case. I'm just telling you that Occam's Razor
Paula
says that there's probably an explanation for this. We just don't know it yet.
Dan Bongino
You know the old adage, technology is
Paula
indistinguishable from magic at certain levels of civilization.
Dan Bongino
You don't think when, you know, the world's great explorers from Cortez to Magellan to Columbus to others, showed up in these big ships that, you know, native cultures didn't look at them and go, oh my gosh, it's a floating castle. It's like magic. There is nothing out of the control of God. I know it is really hard for some people who maybe don't have faith to believe that an omnipotent God could create this entire unimaginably massive universe for
Josh
this little beautiful rock we call home just for us. They can't believe it.
Dan Bongino
There has to be other stuff out there.
Josh
No, there doesn't. There may be, but no, there doesn't. There doesn't have to be a thousand
Dan Bongino
other civilizations out there.
Josh
Maybe he created this little pocket of this massive space just to show us how special we are. He gave us this 25,000 square foot mansion for just one of us to live in. Because he loves you that much, he gave you all this house to go out and play it. Maybe that's just the case.
Dan Bongino
Man, I'm telling you, I saw a lot. A lot. I saw nothing I thought was convincing. That doesn't explain the existence of a God. And that there's some alien, you know, creatures coming here to take us all. I saw none of that. I'm just telling you, I'm not lying. I have no reason to lie to you. Maybe God Just gave us all of this.
Paula
Maybe because he just really loves us.
Dan Bongino
Jasmine, I not tell you this before.
Paula
The show is more. Jasmine's got a heavy heart for faith too. God gave you all this, man. There doesn't need to be some crazy explanation all the time.
Dan Bongino
Watch the videos.
Paula
And like President Trump said, he is the king of transparency.
Dan Bongino
I am going to give you what
Paula
no one's ever given you before.
Dan Bongino
I'm giving you all this information. JFK, UFOs.
Josh
You're the American people.
Paula
You deserve it.
Dan Bongino
You form your own opinion.
Josh
You think you see a ufo, that's okay. I'm not mad at you. You think you see a spirit or an angel or a demon, that's okay. What I see in a lot of these are drones, Mylar balloons, weather balloons. Parallax effect, poor. Cameras, planes moving, not the object on the ground. Looks like the objects moving. But I'm not mad at you at all.
Paula
It's a great part about living in a free country. You do with what you want, okay? But President Trump, that was his gift to the American people because no one else did that.
Dan Bongino
No one.
Paula
Sorry. I just. Very passionate about this topic. And masks.
Dan Bongino
These are two things that should never
Paula
come up, really, like Jesus and masks. Because I'll just.
Dan Bongino
I'm telling you, like, I'll go on all day and you'll be like, I.
Paula
I'm out of here.
Dan Bongino
It's a Friday. I can't do it. I've been talking a lot about political body cams. I can't stop with this analogy because it's so true. How the body cam in law enforcement changed everything. Every single incident we had, that was a use of force. White police officer, black or Hispanic subject. What'd you hear?
Josh
I was definitely raised.
Dan Bongino
They're hunting unarmed black men.
Josh
And then you see the body cam
Dan Bongino
for not all of them, but a good like 99%. And you're like, well, that's not what happened at all.
Josh
I would have used force too, in that situation. The body cam for police officers was the greatest equalizer in the world.
Dan Bongino
What did you do about it when
Josh
you were at the FBI?
Dan Bongino
A lot. I told the FBI guys, I want body cams on all these raids. Move as fast as you can get them.
Josh
Make sure they work. Run through the DOJ process, Get body cams on everyone. The public deserves to know. And if you did the right thing, you should be protected. And if you did the wrong thing,
Dan Bongino
I want video evidence to put you in jail too. Cops are not above the law either. A federal agents what does that have
Paula
to do with this segment, ladies and gentlemen, with cameras everywhere.
Josh
Boom, boom, boom.
Dan Bongino
Cameras everywhere.
Josh
Boom.
Paula
Oh, yeah. Thank you, Senator. Senator Michael.
Dan Bongino
He had a great tweet.
Josh
Senator, if you're watching the show, your
Dan Bongino
tweets coming up next.
Josh
Boom everywhere.
Paula
I'm in a mood today, brothers and sisters. Thank you, Hulk Hogan.
Dan Bongino
Eat your vitamins, brothers and sisters. Let me tell you something, brother.
Paula
The great Hulk Hogan. Terry Boleo. The political body cam is everywhere, too. I just showed it to you. You just showed us your cell phone. No, I showed you a camera that's
Dan Bongino
on your cell phone, too.
Paula
It's all over the place.
Dan Bongino
So, ladies and gentlemen, the political body cam is the colonoscopy for politics of our time.
Josh
Because all of the bullshit you've been
Dan Bongino
told by liberals about how great liberalism
Josh
is falling apart in lifetime. You can just go walk around Seattle
Dan Bongino
and New York City and like, this is a utopian liberal paradise. We have communist equality from each according to their abilities to each according to their needs.
Josh
This place, look at it. It's so great. And then people go and walk down the streets and go, man, this place sucks. You got the fentanyl flop. You got people shitting in the streets like, this don't sound good to me. You didn't have that 30 years ago.
Dan Bongino
People weren't walking around with those big jasmine.
Paula
Remember that?
Dan Bongino
You had to carry the camera. My father used to tape my brother's hockey games. The camera was like this big. Looked like 10 shoeboxes. My poor father's probably why he has back problems now.
Josh
You just. Boom.
Dan Bongino
Why am I bringing this up?
Josh
Because we were told, you know, of
Dan Bongino
course, January 6th, folks, it was insurrection. The government almost fell.
Josh
Worse than the Civil War. Worst thing, Pearl Harbor, Civil war. There was nothing worse.
Dan Bongino
People running into the Capitol and making a ruckus.
Josh
Are you kidding?
Dan Bongino
Put them all in jail, make them rot in solitary.
Josh
Was an insurrection.
Dan Bongino
Here is some video.
Paula
Let's see if these guys catch on.
Dan Bongino
Here is some. If they don't catch on, me really mad.
Paula
Here is some video of the January 6th insurrection. So this is just. This is horrifying, folks. I can't believe this happened.
Dan Bongino
Wait, just.
Josh
You didn't catch on?
Dan Bongino
That's not it.
Josh
That's Tennessee actually did catch on. That's the joke that just happened. They're burning flags and stuff. What is going on? I thought that was. I told these guys to show us the horrors of the insurrect. That was just Tennessee. A bunch of Democrats losing their minds, invading the capitals, screaming like lunatics. What was happening in Tennessee?
Dan Bongino
They are redistricting the state to give better and more fair lines for a state that should, by the way, just by the Massachusetts standard, should have no Democrat members of Congress. Remember, Massachusetts has more Republicans than Tennessee has Democrats. And Massachusetts is really at a loss for Republican congressmen. So Tennessee is redistricting their state. And of course the insurrection started burning flags, screaming and yelling, gotta put the fist in the air. Look like you're a real freedom fighter. We had this one lunatic, this guy screaming in the cops face, get out of my face, mother effer. Trying to avoid it.
Josh
Wasn't me.
Dan Bongino
Here we go. Rep. Justice Justin Pearson.
Josh
So I'm sitting here before the show.
Dan Bongino
Here's this, this. Look at this guy. Total lunatic screaming in the police officer's face. The state troop. Real tough guy. Yeah, there's.
Paula
There you go.
Dan Bongino
Probably spitting his face there. Real tough guy.
Paula
Justin Peterson.
Dan Bongino
Let me show you something about Justin Peterson.
Josh
Hat tip producer Andy for this.
Dan Bongino
This was not DB's idea. Most of the show is my idea. Not this one.
Josh
He says to me, hey man, isn't this guy Justin Peterson, the guy just
Dan Bongino
saw in the video, like practically spitting in the state troopers face there? You know, fake tough guy.
Josh
Isn't that dude from Memphis?
Dan Bongino
And I was like, I think he is. I said, producer Andy, can you look that up? And sure enough, we came up with this. It's really simple. So Justin Peterson, I promise you, man, this is going somewhere real quick. Representative Justin Pearson. There he is. District 86, part of Shelby County Democrat.
Josh
Does that say Memphis?
Dan Bongino
That says Memphis.
Paula
I'm not crazy, right?
Dan Bongino
Right there.
Josh
They even like put up a little
Dan Bongino
map just in case the liberals were confused. So Justin Peterson, he's like a big freedom fighter, right? Walking in, cursing at the cops and all that.
Josh
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Dan Bongino
Justin Peters. Real hero in the insurrection, by the way.
Josh
There we go. Look at it. Tennessee's 86th House of Representatives district.
Dan Bongino
Look at that.
Paula
Memphis. There you go. Wow. Amazing.
Dan Bongino
Regardless of where he's from, Tennessee is largely a pretty safe state, but it has some pockets of crime. One of them in Memphis. I know that because the first day I swore into office cash sits me down and says, hey man, buckle up. Go into a meeting right now. We're going to Memphis. I'm like, we're going to Memphis. Where you going?
Josh
To Memphis.
Dan Bongino
Country music or something. He's like, no, no, Memphis. We are going to clean up Memphis. I said, I'm in, brother. This was the precursor to summer heat and the violent crime Push. I'm not making that story up. It was day one. He said, daddy O. We're going to Memphis.
Josh
Why are we going to Memphis? Because losers like Justin whatever his name is screaming in the cops face have done jack shit for the city of Memphis, who live in a shooting gallery right now. So what had to happen, we had
Dan Bongino
to clean it up. Here is a tweet by Director Patel.
Josh
President Trump led the way.
Dan Bongino
And let good cops be cops in Memphis, Tennessee. And within months, the results are historic.
Josh
These are cold results, Justin. While you're screaming at a look like spitting in his face or something.
Dan Bongino
What's that? What's his? Pearson.
Josh
Yeah. Crime.
Dan Bongino
I know Justin thinks it's him.
Paula
Justin, he's getting fired.
Josh
Crime down 43% in Memphis.
Dan Bongino
Homicides down 35%.
Josh
Aggravated assault down 31%.
Dan Bongino
Sexual assault down 38%.
Josh
Who did that? Not Justin Pearson.
Dan Bongino
Not Producer Justin.
Josh
You. You know what?
Dan Bongino
You did it because your money paid for the Trump administration's Department of Justice. That paid for the FBI, and the
Josh
FBI went in there and started kicking
Dan Bongino
ass and taking names. We put a mobile command post down there with a rogues gallery of dirt bags we were pulling off the street, clearing local warrants.
Josh
And when dirt bags are off the street, they're not doing dirt bag like killing people in Justin Pearson's district while he's screaming with his fist in the
Dan Bongino
air, pretended to be some freedom fighter. You're full of shit, Pearson. How many times, Josh? Pop quiz for you. How many times you think when I was the D2 with the Bureau, how
Josh
many times you think Justin Pearson called
Dan Bongino
me about coordinating, helping out in the Memphis crime op? How many times? Josh is like, I'm going to say zero.
Josh
You'd be freaking correct. Give that man a raise.
Dan Bongino
Just kidding. Not yet.
Paula
He's only been here a little bit.
Josh
How many times I hear from Justin Pearson or that other dude burning the flag. How many times? The answer is never. Never. We cleaned up your mess. You didn't do shit, brother. You didn't do shit. You sit around there on your little throne, lording over a neighborhood where kids are being killed, slingers are slinging drugs everywhere, gang bangers are threatening commuters. You know what you did? Shit. You screaming at the cops, engaging in an insurrection while screaming about an insurrection on January 6th. You didn't do jack shit, and Jack left town. Justin Pearson, not producer Justin.
Dan Bongino
Justin did more for Memphis.
Josh
Justin's like I was in Florida. Exactly. Justin Producer just did more for Memphis than this guy. You know why? He kept my Business afloat while we were cleaning up Memphis. That's more than Justin Pearson, who represents fucking Memphis. Justin, I'm going to start a campaign. Elect Justin. Elect producer Justin. He's like, what we didn't do, it doesn't matter. He could still do more for them. This guy didn't do shit.
Dan Bongino
Here's a tweet from the great senator Mike Lee. He just texted me. I told him this is an amazing tweet.
Josh
This is great. It's only an insurrection when they think
Dan Bongino
the MAGA crowd's involved. He's talking about Tennessee yesterday, invade the state house, lighting stuff on fire, screaming and yelling, calling cops, motherfuckers. That's not an insurrection. You can put up the Mike Lee tweet.
Paula
That's usually a sign. Guys gotta get a little quicker on the take here.
Josh
It's an insurrection.
Dan Bongino
Only when Republicans do it. It's partisan gerrymandering. Only when Republicans do it. It's quote, norm shattering. Only when Republicans do it. Please like and share. If you're tired of the double standard. Thank you. Based Mike Lee.
Paula
Folks, stop falling for this bullshit, man. This is exhausting. The political body camera of our time is your cell phone.
Dan Bongino
All you got to do is whip out a cell phone yesterday and record the insurrection in Tennessee. All you got to do is walk down the streets of Seattle.
Paula
Anyway, you know what, let's get to that one next.
Dan Bongino
You know, I'm going to take a quick break. I'm going to show you what I mean.
Josh
Thank you.
Dan Bongino
Independent journalists. Independent journalists. Nick Shirley, Savannah Hernandez. Jonathan Cho's another one who's been around a while. Brandy Cruz out there.
Josh
These independent journalists have done more to
Dan Bongino
engage in the great American political colonoscopy. I'm telling you, that's what's going on right now.
Josh
I use that analogy for a reason. Because everything that Democrats produce is shit, just like a colon. And now we got a camera to see it. And the AOCs and all these geniuses telling you how great liberalism. They can't deny what we see on camera. I'll show you what I mean.
Paula
Come up in a second. I want.
Dan Bongino
I got this challenge for AOC too.
Paula
And I'm not kidding.
Dan Bongino
I know aoc, whatever. We cannot let this stuff go, folks. A society built on envy will result in nothing more than total collapse through a cold and potentially warm and end hot civil war. You can't build a society on that. And that's all they are. That's all the liberals are. They spend their entire day jealous of other people's accomplishments because they suck like aoc. They just suck and can't do anything.
Paula
CJ Juggernaut, give producer Justin a raised dad.
Dan Bongino
You want to chip in? I don't think about it. I'm kidding. I've got.
Paula
I got you, CJ Juggernaut. I got you.
Josh
Hey, most people wake up.
Paula
And most people don't wake up and choose to feel exhausted or foggy again. You know, I'm into life hacks, folks. If, you know, if there's something going on in your body, you're not sleeping well, you got to stay vigilant, stay ahead of this stuff. You know, it builds up over time. You're doing everything right sometimes and yet you feel that energy crash by midday. You just don't feel yourself. Your focus is off.
Dan Bongino
You know the feeling your body's not
Paula
responding the way it used to sometimes. It's not just getting older. Okay?
Dan Bongino
For many, these aren't discipline issues.
Paula
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Dan Bongino
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Paula
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Dan Bongino
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Paula
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Dan Bongino
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Paula
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Dan Bongino
Jonathan Cho has been doing work in
Paula
Seattle for a really long time. You've got great, great, great reporters in this just western liberal bastion of insanity. Remember the chop zone and all that other crazy shit.
Dan Bongino
You got that like 22 year old
Paula
mayor Katie Wilson who can't even give an interview before her staff pulls her away. I'll show you that in a minute.
Dan Bongino
Here's Jonathan Cho.
Paula
Jason Rantz, another great one out there. He has a great radio show too.
Dan Bongino
Here's Jonathan Cho walking down the street in front of a center designed like
Paula
kind of like a halfway house to get people off the street.
Josh
There's people in front of the street in the place. This is what's happening in Seattle even as they're trying to clean up.
Dan Bongino
What, they have a World cup event or something coming up.
Paula
Check this out.
Show Announcer
This is one of the most egregious situations, Brandy, because right here at the corner of 3rd Avenue, Blanchard and I've covered this area now for years. This is the headquarters, the HQ for reach, a taxpayer funded homeless outreach group. They're responsible to get these men and women off the streets, yet they can't even handle the street crisis in front of them. Do you see the irony in that? I mean, look at this, brand new tents. So somebody's giving out these tents for free. By the way, these are brand new. And this is Reach. Hey, how you doing girl? And actually it's Friday. Reach is open right now,
Paula
folks.
Dan Bongino
This is the great political body cam of our time.
Josh
It's right in your phone. It's right there. Independent journalists are just going down the street and recording in live time. And the whole AOC bullshit, liberal mirage, this utopian vista falls apart right away. It's total bullshit. Here's the little mini AOC out in Seattle. This woman is so cringe.
Dan Bongino
Katie Wilson, I don't know how old. She's in her early 40, which is fine.
Josh
She knows nothing about nothing. She's the one who Was like, hey,
Dan Bongino
a billionaires are going to lead Seattle.
Josh
Okay, bye. Okay, bye is right. They left and took their money.
Dan Bongino
You moron.
Josh
Who do you think is going to pay for all your bullshit? Not you. You never invented anything. I want you to see.
Dan Bongino
This is the Seattle media market, by the way. Not known for like far right conservatism. Correct.
Josh
Here's the Seattle local media market. They're trying to get an interview with
Dan Bongino
the mayor to ask these basic questions.
Josh
Watch the staffer pull her away as they realize little mini AOC isn't even intelligent enough to answer one single extemporaneous
Dan Bongino
off the cuff question.
Paula
Check this out.
Reporter
Mayor was at an event last week that was interrupted by gunfire and Katie W. Was rushed to safety. We did attempt to ask her a rather straightforward question about public policy when it comes to surveillance cameras, but we were interrupted by her staff. It was the third in a series of events that leads some to wonder whether these verbal missteps will have other impacts for the city. Does that change it? Does that, does that change your perspective? Let's keep it on.
Guest Speaker 1
Yeah, let's keep it on the topic
Reporter
that straightforward public policy question of Seattle's mayor, Katie Wilson.
Peter Doocy
I'm sorry, I specifically said to keep it on topic.
Reporter
Is interrupted by a junior city staffer. Want to have answer.
Josh
Maybe we can set up a different time for that.
Paula
I'm going to do this, guys. I'm going to do this like when
Dan Bongino
I went on as the D2 there. I mean, I just don't want to talk. I'm going to talk about whatever.
Josh
That's not the way this works, man. You're a public.
Dan Bongino
I'm a private official now. Private. Not, I should say. I work for my own company. I can answer what I want, do interviews I want.
Josh
That's fine. She's. She works. She's the mayor. She works for the people. And to do that on camera like she can't even ask a question or answer a basic question.
Dan Bongino
Folks, the iPhone, the Android, the smartphone
Paula
camera is the political colonoscopy of our time.
Dan Bongino
It is why I am so optimistic about the future of the MAGA movement and conservatism. Because we can stand up for scrutiny. The jobs numbers, you saw everything. The crime numbers, the border numbers. We can produce actual numbers. The Memphis numbers when Justin Peterson was sitting on his ass, never contacting us at all. We have numbers.
Josh
You have shit. You have nothing.
Dan Bongino
You have bumper stickers, slogans, eat the
Josh
rich, tax the rich, co exist, tolerance. You don't believe any of that shit.
Dan Bongino
I know you've seen this stupid clip with aoc. However, it's really important that we fight this stuff. Do not gaffe this off, folks. I'm telling you. Listen to brother Dan here. Been in this business a long time. You ignore this stuff, it festers. You can't ignore away Joseph Stalin. You can't. Eventually this perverse, disgusting, maggot infested ideology reaches critical mass.
Josh
You've got to fight it everywhere. And this woman, however dumb she is, has a following.
Dan Bongino
Here was her podcast clip that went viral for all the wrong reasons, suggesting that no one can earn a billion dollars. No, you can't. You can.
Josh
You're not capable.
Dan Bongino
We get that, that.
Paula
Check this out.
Hayley Caranilla
There's a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned, right? You can't earn a billion dollars.
Dan Bongino
That's right.
Hayley Caranilla
You just can't earn that.
Dan Bongino
That's exactly correct.
Hayley Caranilla
You can. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can do all sorts of things. You can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they're worth, but you can't earn that. Right. And so you have to create a
Guest Speaker 1
myth
Hayley Caranilla
that since you didn't earn that, you have to create a myth of earning it.
Dan Bongino
Listen, I know you're not. You guys don't need advice, you know,
Paula
running for office, you know, for me. I understand.
Dan Bongino
I'm just suggesting to the Republican party in mass, we go back to the Reagan approach, which is just start calling this bullshit out. Reagan with the welfare queen, the government. You know what are the worst words in the government? From the government. I'm here to help.
Josh
We just need to start calling this shit out. Reagan won 49 states.
Dan Bongino
Not pussy footing around.
Josh
Here's the bottom line. Here's your message. There are two types of people in this world. There's creators and there are takers. AOC is a taker. AOC lives her entire life taking from other people. She can't produce or create anything. Therefore she doesn't understand how creators, the Elon Musk's of the world, how people
Dan Bongino
like Einstein and how others who've created just amazing technology, Steve Jobs, others, you may not like any of their politics, but that's fine.
Josh
She cannot possibly understand because she doesn't have the mental capacity to do it
Dan Bongino
or the intelligence quotient to do it.
Josh
She has a good social iq, but
Dan Bongino
not an intelligence quotient iq.
Josh
She doesn't have it. So she spends her whole life envious of creators she needs to take from.
Dan Bongino
So I have a challenge for aoc. She says that there's people out there who couldn't earn a billion dollars or create a billion dollars in value for society.
Josh
Really, aoc can you invent, you know,
Dan Bongino
a technology that can catch rockets that go up into space and then come back and catch them and land them on a platform in the ocean?
Josh
Show us, aoc, your engineering brilliance. I'm sure you know better than Elon. Make the money. Get out of Congress. Create the billion dollars you didn't earn, give it away to people. Start your little mini communists of America and do it. You won't because you're too stupid. What about the assembly line? Henry Ford? That was probably a trillion multitrillion dollar technology. Why didn't you invent that aoc? Because you're too stupid.
Dan Bongino
So you can't understand how some genius can catch a rocket mid flight back
Josh
to earth or can invent the assembly
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line and engage in something like specialization
Josh
of labor using economies of scale and scope and density? You're too stupid. What about satellite Internet?
Dan Bongino
Why didn't you invent that?
Josh
Why do you understand? Why didn't you? Why didn't you? Why aren't you working on a cold fusion quantum mechanics project? Because you're too stupid. You are nothing more than a taker. And don't feed me your bullshit. My family grew up in the portion of your district in New York that's the portion of poorer portion. While you grew up in the rich portion, faking it until you made it.
Dan Bongino
Trying to be down with your bullshit, changing the way you talk every five minutes.
Josh
I don't change the way I talk.
Dan Bongino
I got a challenge for you. I'll give you one that's local. You don't believe people can invent billion dollars in value. You know who Willis Carrier is.
Josh
Of course you don't, because you're probably
Dan Bongino
looking it up right now. Aoc, One of the inventors of air conditioning. Thought to be the inventor, but I'm always hesitant to call any one person the inventor because however, a pioneer in air conditioning. Air conditioning's saved millions of lives. People would have died of heat stroke. Older folks, you can work in your Congressional building right now in the D.C. swamp summers. Just like we work down here in Florida where the air conditioning is probably at negative 42 cuz it gets hot in here. However, you can work in D.C. and screw the taxpayers overs and steal their money through your Bernie Sanders, Joseph Stalin, socialism because of the air conditioning in your office. Willis Carrier invented that.
Paula
Billions of dollars in value after that. You didn't invent it because you're too stupid.
Dan Bongino
So if you're really mad at Willis
Paula
Carrier, there's a company right now called Carrier. You may have heard of it, named after him. Just turn your AC off.
Dan Bongino
You reject that, right? They didn't earn it. So you're taking advantage of Willis Carrier's
Paula
invention that he didn't earn because he
Dan Bongino
didn't earn the hundreds of billions, if not trillions of value created from air conditioning.
Josh
Turn it off. Show some balls. Turn it off.
Dan Bongino
Show us what you're really made of.
Josh
You know, let me taste something. I don't like liberals, but I at least respect them when they live by a code.
Dan Bongino
You don't live by a code. You are the biggest fraud I have ever seen.
Josh
You grew up in a wealthy part
Dan Bongino
of your district pretending to be down.
Josh
My family grew up in the poor
Paula
part of your district.
Dan Bongino
Jackson Heights, right near the park. Visit my grandmother there every Sunday night,
Paula
God rest her soul.
Dan Bongino
You didn't grow up there. You know shit about that faking the around away girl routine. Cut the bullshit. When I was a cop in New York, in the police academy, you know that actor, Matthew Modine? He was in that wrestling movie.
Paula
Whatever. Guy been in tons of movies.
Dan Bongino
I don't know if he's a liberal. I, I hear he is. I don't know.
Paula
I don't follow it enough.
Josh
I'm just telling you a quick story.
Dan Bongino
It was like 95 degrees one day in New York. I see that guy like biking around New York.
Paula
I'm like, man, that's that actor.
Dan Bongino
He don't need a bike. All right, well at least he, at least that day lived his code. I may not agree with his politics.
Josh
That's not you.
Dan Bongino
You're a fraud.
Josh
You're a total fake.
Dan Bongino
You're a bullshit artist.
Josh
Turn your freakin air conditioner off. Save the environment. Stick it.
Dan Bongino
Give the double barrel, middle finger to Willis Carrier. Because he couldn't create a billion dollars of value. But you certainly could through redistributing, right?
Josh
Because you're a taker.
Dan Bongino
Tell that to the inventor of the microprocessor search engines that enabled information retrieval at lightning speed. I used to have to go to the library and search through microfilm to write a paper.
Josh
It took eight hours for what would have been five minutes of work.
Paula
Moron. So sick of this imbecile.
Josh
Turn your AC off, stick it to the man. Save the environment. Put up a big double barrel, middle finger, Willis carrier.
Paula
You won't, because you're a fake.
Dan Bongino
You're a bullshit artist. And this garbage needs to be called out vigorously. Stop pussy footing around. Seen a thousand people try to defend this. Well, let's get into the economics and marginal propensity to save.
Josh
Yeah, that's great. I love that.
Dan Bongino
I love economics.
Josh
People need it on a Wheaties box. Here's the Wheaties box. You want to create shit or you
Dan Bongino
want to take shit?
Josh
AOC wants to take it, call it out like Reagan did.
Dan Bongino
Stop getting caught in the messaging quagmire trying to explain away why economic freedom is a bad thing.
Josh
Capitalism isn't even an ism, folks. It's not like some religion. You know what capitalism is?
Dan Bongino
You get to own private property. The government doesn't get to take it from you.
Josh
You get to trade your labor for
Dan Bongino
a wage rather than government servitude. Working for the government like in communist societies.
Josh
And you're allowed to buy things for a price rather than getting rationed by the government. That's not an ism. That's just called freedom. People like aoc, she owns a ton of private property.
Dan Bongino
I love to see what her worth is.
Josh
So she's not a socialist, she's a fraud.
Dan Bongino
She's trading her labor for a wage.
Josh
And ironically, that wage is paid for by you, the taxpayer. You pay her to go out and steal more of your money.
Dan Bongino
She also believes in the price mechanism. She's not rationing anything.
Josh
Not for her. So you're telling me she's a capitalist?
Dan Bongino
She is.
Josh
She's just full of shit.
Dan Bongino
Folks, we got to do a better
Paula
job of fighting this stuff, man, we're
Dan Bongino
going to find ourselves in some Stalin like shithole. I want you to watch this quick clip.
Paula
This is Konstantin Kiss and explaining this really well too. It's a little deeper than I just
Dan Bongino
explained, but again, keep this stuff in a Wheaties box. Message.
Josh
There are creators and there are takers.
Dan Bongino
And you got to call out the takers everywhere. Do not incentivize people to be takers. Tell them to get off their ass and get something done.
Josh
I don't want to hear any bullshit lectures either. I didn't grow up with some silver spoon.
Dan Bongino
I am very proud of my father and my mother. God rest my mother's soul. She's not here anymore. She worked in finest supermarket at 64th Place and Myrtle Avenue. Go look it up on AI or something. My father was a plumber and a building inspector and he busted his ass. I didn't come from some rich family, okay? So you can shove that right up your ass.
Josh
And like I said, our family grew up in the portion of the AOC's
Dan Bongino
district she didn't grow up in and pretends to be.
Paula
Here's Kissing explaining the dangers of socialism. Check this out.
K
The reason ideas like communism and radical socialism don't work is that in that sort of system, because what you're doing is you're taking away from the productive people to give to the unproductive people. That necessarily requires a high level of tyranny, because productive people don't want to give away the things that they've generated to people who haven't. And so, first and foremost, it's a system that is dependent on authoritarianism. And so if you oppose authoritarianism, it doesn't really matter whether you oppose communism or not, because those are inseparable. You cannot have a radically, quote, unquote progressive society without a radical level of authoritarianism and tyranny. It's not possible because the idea is so contrary to human nature. You have to use a lot of force to put it in place.
Paula
Brilliant, folks. Friedrich Hayek explained this in the Road to Serfdom.
Dan Bongino
Again, I don't want to overcomplicate. He just said it very eloquently.
Paula
But I want to explain this to you.
Dan Bongino
Please stop what you're doing and listen.
Josh
It's really important.
Dan Bongino
You don't want to fall prey to the scourge of demonic socialism that has
Paula
wiped out hundreds of millions of lives and that AOC and Bernie Sanders promotes.
Dan Bongino
You better learn how to make the counter argument. Whenever government uses force to treat people, quote, equally, the only way it can
Paula
do it is by treating people unequally. That doesn't seem to make sense. Oh no, it makes perfect sense.
Dan Bongino
I'll give you an example.
Paula
And you should always keep this example in your head when arguing with your
Dan Bongino
phony, fake, fraud, private property owning, liberal communist friends who are all full of shit. They don't live that life. They don't live on a commune, nor would they. They'd be crying to mommy, shitting in their diapers if they had to live on a commune and share their stuff with other people. They just want it for you. Here's what I mean. Say you get the really rich guy
Paula
the liberals talk about all the time,
Dan Bongino
guys worth $100 million, right? And then you get a guy who
Paula
makes an average wage, say $60,000, working like my dad did as a plumber, right?
Dan Bongino
Now let's anchor the story in a
Paula
couple different set of facts.
Dan Bongino
Say the guy worth $100 million, right? Was born with nothing, invented some life changing technology, some crispr cancer medicine cures pancreatic cancer and saves millions of lives with untold productivity.
Paula
That comes along with that.
Dan Bongino
He goes from nothing to 100 million. Then you get the guy, say he's a plumber. Now, I only use that example because,
Paula
again, my father was.
Dan Bongino
But now you're like. You're already sympathetic because they work for a living. However, say he was worth 10, 20 million one day. Inherited it from his family, had some kind of a drug problem, pissed his whole life away, fixes himself up. Now he's, you know, a plumber working a good, decent living. Fine. He had his money and he lost it. So now you have to take excessive amounts of money from the guy who basically cured cancer and give it to the guy who had money but pissed it away and threw his whole life away.
Josh
Does that sound fair to you?
Dan Bongino
Or does it sound like that's the
Paula
government treating people unequally?
Dan Bongino
The only way, only way to make people equal through force and government force is to steal from one and take
Paula
and give it to one who creates.
Dan Bongino
That is it.
Paula
What are you suggesting? We don't pay taxes?
Dan Bongino
That's not what I'm suggesting at all. The constitution has a role for mass consensus. Our military post roads. You've seen it. That's not what they want.
Josh
AOC doesn't think you should be able
Dan Bongino
to earn money above what she declares is an amount she's not comfortable with and that it should all be taken
Paula
stuff disgusts me. Do not fall for this bullshit.
Dan Bongino
And any of you out there saying, oh, ignore it. I'm sorry, man. I love that you're on my show and here I'm telling you as a friend, ignore it at your own peril. They tried to ignore it in Argentina before the economy collapsed. They ignored it in Chile, South America, Central America, the Soviet Union, the Bolshevik Revolution. They've ignored it over and over. They ignored it in North Vietnam, in South Vietnam. My uncle died there.
Josh
You can't ignore this stuff.
Dan Bongino
It's like ignoring the cold symptoms. It's going to spread if you start coughing on everyone. This woman is a cancer and she's a fraud, and she needs to be called out and all of her little acolytes, too, because they're full of shit.
Paula
All right, that was a lot. I got to go get a. One of those full body scans today. Yeah, let's get to that in a second. But, you know, I'm always. I had the. The whole, like, episode with the cancer thing, so I got to go for these body scans once in a While. So I get a little nervous on these scan days because I always find other stuff too, like, ah, your neck is super arthritic and all that stuff. So that's fine. Like, I can deal with that. But I always kind of freak out, especially when it takes long. And sometimes it's just a matter of like, they had a lot of people doing it, so it's not like they're looking at something. But I always freak out. Like every extra day, you know, you open that email and you're like, freaks me out. So I'm a little on. A little on edge today. I want to tell you that. Be the show. Justin thinks I need a Democrat Zen moment to calm down.
Dan Bongino
As you know producer Jim from my
Paula
radio show, which is now occupied by the fantastic Vince Colonnaise. Occupied. Like he was like a hostile invading army or something like that.
Dan Bongino
Producer Jim's still there. He doesn't like to leave you on
Paula
the weekend without a moment of calmness, meditation. What are those, like alpha waves in your brain? Like, get the vagus nerve. Calm down. He always puts together in front of these Democrat Zen moments.
Dan Bongino
I have not seen it.
Paula
I don't look at him first because I want to be just as surprised as you. So let's see what they have for us on this Friday's Democrat Zen. Check this out.
Dan Bongino
Your Democrat Zen moment of the day. A peaceful moment to center your mind. This has been Democrat Zen, guys. I've not seen this. That. That's not a real.
Paula
Come on. Did you.
Dan Bongino
Was my mic open?
Paula
Do.
Dan Bongino
I was just saying, like, is that a real.
Josh
Yes, it is.
Dan Bongino
Woman hangs naked upside down in bronze bell to raise awareness about rising.
Paula
I'm done.
Dan Bongino
I'm done.
Josh
I can't.
Dan Bongino
I didn't want to hear what they have to say.
Paula
I just put earpiece out of my.
Dan Bongino
This is why I can't hear anything.
Paula
I have an earpiece in my ear
Dan Bongino
my entire adult life.
Josh
That's real.
Paula
Gosh, these people are so stupid. You are really liberals. I'm serious, man.
Dan Bongino
Thank you. Thank you for that. There it is.
Josh
That's your option.
Dan Bongino
You want to paint a contrast for the midterms. Do you want a woman hanging upside down at a bell, banging her head off a big bronze bell? Or do you want 115,000 jobs this month? ADP. Numbers, jobs, numbers. Border control, crime down.
Josh
Your choice, man.
Dan Bongino
Your choice. But you want AOC and aoc.
Josh
Take me up on the challenge. Shot the AC off in your office. Stick it to Willis Carrier. Stick it to him.
Dan Bongino
Don't miss Haley Coming up at noon.
Paula
Rumble.comhaley and you can check out Vince every day. He's awesome. He's on radio stations across the country. My old slot. But he owns the 8am Podcast space. Got almost 20,000 people this morning.
Dan Bongino
Rumble.com Vince check them out.
Paula
And of course you gotta download the Rumble app.
Dan Bongino
It's free. Please do it. You can watch it on your tv.
Paula
Download it on your tv. It's simple. You just go to search apps.
Dan Bongino
Rumble. Download it absolutely free. You can watch the Dan Bongino show
Paula
live on demand anytime you want. Download the Rumble.
Dan Bongino
We gotta update that.
Paula
We have 3.64 million followers now. That says 3.63. Thanks to our great, terrific audience. Thanks a lot, folks. Hope you enjoyed the show today. I'm going to go get my scan.
Josh
Say a prayer for your buddy Dan.
Dan Bongino
He's a little anxious, but I still
Paula
feel good, you know, Listen, trust God has a plan. Don't worry about it. I'll see you back here on Monday.
Dan Bongino
Stop it. Get some help.
Hayley Caranilla
I'm Hayley Caranilla, host of Vince, host of Scrolling with Hayley.
Dan Bongino
You can always catch my show right here.
Hayley Caranilla
Right here on the Bongino Report live,
Dan Bongino
8am Eastern weekday mornings.
Hayley Caranilla
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Date: May 8, 2026
Host: Dan Bongino with Paula and Josh
Theme: Rejecting Manufactured Panic, Exposing Government & Media Agendas, and Critiquing Progressive Narratives
This episode of The Dan Bongino Show focuses on the recurring patterns of panic stoked by the media and politicians—whether about viruses, UFO/UAP disclosures, or economic trends. Bongino and his co-hosts urge listeners not to be manipulated by fear-mongering, especially revisiting COVID-era responses and the current push to relaunch similar panic with the emergence of the "hantavirus." The episode also dives into the value-creation debate inspired by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), recent job reports challenging progressive doom narratives, the state of urban America, and the importance of transparency in the context of newly released government UFO files. The crew also discusses crime statistics, hypocrisy in political discourse, and the need for vigilance against socialist ideas.
[00:12–07:17; 10:42–16:58]
"There are people out there who want to see you shit the bed so bad... It's an expression we used as an agent... They want you to panic." – Dan Bongino [00:36]
"Do not panic. Panic sells. Don't be the sucker." [07:17]
[10:42–17:44]
"We're not doing this again. Everybody, please... get some help." – Dan Bongino [11:52]
“If I’m ever going to listen to you again, I want an apology.” – Del Bigtree (Alec Lace Show) [17:45]
[05:39–07:34; 16:15–17:02; 43:16–47:17]
“Jobs report for April... 115,115. Last month upward revision from 178 to 185. These are good numbers.” – Josh [06:12]
"The economy, ladies and gentlemen, is doing just fine." [06:32]
[37:46–55:17]
“The political body cam is the colonoscopy for politics of our time.” – Dan Bongino [38:26]
[25:20–36:26]
“President Trump is the sole United States government official who can declassify whatever he wants. He is the ultimate declassifier... king of transparency.” – Dan Bongino [31:17]
“There’s nothing I’ve seen out there that is going to shatter your beliefs in Jesus or God... This is just panic inducing clickbait.” – Dan Bongino [25:36]
[01:41–02:08; 56:23–70:42]
"Can you invent... a technology that can catch rockets that go up into space and then come back and land them... like Elon Musk?” [58:45]
“A society built on envy will result in nothing more than total collapse... you can’t build a society on that. And that’s all they are. That’s all the liberals are. They spend their entire day jealous of other people’s accomplishments because they suck like AOC.” – Dan Bongino [48:15]
[39:20–47:17; 62:13–70:42]
“It's only an insurrection when they think the MAGA crowd's involved... It's partisan gerrymandering only when Republicans do it.” [46:21, paraphrased]
[32:09–36:30; 71:37–End]
“I'm Dan Bongino, I love Jesus and Jesus loves me... There's nothing out of the control of God.” – Dan Bongino [32:41, 33:13]
“You can’t ignore this stuff. …It’s like ignoring the cold symptoms. It’s going to spread if you start coughing on everyone. This woman [AOC] is a cancer and she’s a fraud.” [71:15]
Bongino’s central warning is clear: "We're not doing this again"—referring to the mass panic, government overreach, and surrendering freedoms witnessed during the COVID era and currently threatened by new media narratives. He urges vigilance, skepticism toward elites and their messaging, and a proud embrace of transparency, value creation, and constitutional freedoms. The episode is a potent mix of direct language, humor, strong opinions, and calls for civic activism and personal resilience.
For listeners: This episode is deeply charged, frequently uses brash language, and is unapologetic in tone—reflecting Bongino's hallmark style of fiercely defending conservative, pro-freedom viewpoints while dismantling progressive and mainstream narratives with blunt force.