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So a couple people asked me to turn in my man card. A couple of listeners said, Dan, you've been talking way too much about this 50th birthday. What are you, some kind of prima donna? Well, today's the big day. I'm a little worried, though. A little bit windy. It was about a little bit of wind. You don't get too much of that down here in Florida. But it was a little bit windy last night.
But I think it'll be like mid-high 60s. So I think we're going to be okay. But it's a big day. So, you know, we talk about snapshots and soundbites. Snapshots, say it right, brother. snapshots and soundbites all the time. So I thought kind of what better way on a great day like today. To me, I'm really happy today.
I'm in such an amazing mood to do a snapshots and soundbite show where we recap the entire year. I think you're going to really like this. I hope you enjoy it. A lot of these were picked by our production staff, but based on the feedback we got from you guys, and it kind of sums up this whole past year in politics. Hey, you know, I can't sleep without my Beams Dream Powder.
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Let's see what we got here. Let's start breaking it down. Listen, I practice what I preach. Snapshots and sound bites. That's what politics is. It's a political show. It is pictures and sound bites if you think it's anything different. You have tuned into the wrong show.
You may want to watch a show like Rachel Maddow where they get everything wrong all the time because they think it's more than snapshots and soundbites. So let's see what we got for clip one, year in review. Check this out.
As it has been in the United States for Jamaica, one of the issues that has been presented as an issue that is economic in the way of its impact has been the pandemic. We will assist Jamaica in COVID recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in Jamaica that have been essential to, I believe, what is necessary to strengthen not only the issue of public health, but also the economy.
Okay, I'm... I'm just going to let you know in advance. I swear to you on my integrity. The guys did not, they don't like when I know the clips in advance because they think they're going to get an inauthentic response. And one of the things people say they love about the show is it's real. You're damn right it's real. I didn't know what they were going to play.
My response to that is, what the did she just say? You want to know why Kamala Harris lost the campaign? She had the absolute inability to give any clear and concise answer on any topic whatsoever. Because, you know, sometimes with the clips, I've heard them like five or six times, right, guys, before I sent them over. So I already know. I don't really have to hear it. I've heard it. I cut it.
I sent it over. I watched it. I watched it two or three times, sometimes more. I'm listening to this, and I still can't figure out what the hell she just said. If there was ever a clip that summed up the word salad problem and the lack of any kind of vision from Kamala Harris, that was it. I remember that one. All right, let's see what else you got.
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Okay, okay, okay, okay. Joe Pesci style. Okay, okay, okay. Leo Getz. Some of you get that. One of the biggest problems in politics I find with people, and it's politics and the media. I've kind of discussed this before, but I'll bring it up here again because it's critical, especially with this new year coming around and, you know, midterms only two years away. I call this the SAT problem.
It's where a politician who's not that bright, very little aptitude, maybe some achievement, but it's faux achievement. They hear a word they think makes them sound somewhat educated and eloquent on a matter. Gravitas, holistically, whatever it is, right?
They find this stupid word, and they fall in love with it, and they repeat it endlessly on loop, thinking they found something that makes them sound... What's the... Oh, man. Producer Jim, help me out. What's the Joe Biden word he says all the time whenever he wants to sound smart? Shit. One of you guys got to get this to me.
He says this word all the time when he's trying to sound like he's really smart. It's the SAT word problem. Don't do this. It draws unnecessary attention to you as you repeat something and the brain tends to remember patterns. She does this shit all the time. It's one of the reasons she lost. Don't do it. It's the gravitas problem with Dick Cheney. Gravitas, gravitas.
Once the word catches on, everybody repeats it because they think it sounds good. Kids do this. Kids do this. What's the word kids use all the time? It drives you crazy. You've heard it, right? You have teenagers? Literally. Everything's literally. That's why I hate that word. Everything's literally when they mean figuratively. Everything. If everything's literal, it's not literal. It's figurative.
Literally. Literally. What's this damn word with Joe Biden? Damn it. It's going to drive me crazy. I don't know. I may creep up in this thing. I don't know what you got. You may have inadvertently played.
We campaign with the plan. Uppercase T, uppercase P. The plan. And then the environment is such that we're expected to defend the plan.
Hello to all my divine nine brothers and sisters and my sorority. Let's just get through the next 64 days. And you all helped us win in 2020 and we're going to do it again in 2024.
We need an assault weapons ban. It's reasonable to say we need universal background checks. That we need red flag laws.
You better thank a union member for sick leave. You better thank a union member for paid leave. You better thank a union member for vacation time.
I just remembered the Joe Biden word. Solicitous. Joe Biden says solicitous all the time. Solicitous, that's his SAT word. Don't fall for the SAT word problem. Folks, this is another critical problem, inauthenticity and not being genuine. Those are the many faces of Kamala Harris. You have rarely seen a political chameleon in your life like Kamala Harris.
She seemed to want to be everything to everyone to the point where she felt like she needed to talk to groups differently. But here's the thing. It's not only patronizing and condescending, but it's just wrong because people, whoever that group is, wherever they're from, whatever their race, color, creed, religion, it doesn't matter.
They don't want to be spoken to as if they're different than anyone else and they require some different accent to be. It's patronizing to them. They get pissed off. They don't. It doesn't work. You think you're down. You're doing the Jenny from the block routine. You're not. You sound like a moron.
Donald Trump talks the same way every single time and actually increased his voting percentage amongst some of these sensitive groups of the Republican Party. We've been getting crushed demographically for a long time because he never spoke differently to anyone ever. This is another don't do.
This turns into snapshots and particularly soundbites that reflect particularly poorly upon your campaign. Everybody remembers Al Gore trying to fake it in front of the black church. Hillary Clinton with the, you know, I carry hot sauce. Hillary Clinton's never seen hot sauce in her life. She's totally full of shit. This is all pandering. People see through it. They are not stupid. Don't. Do it.
It's a big no-no. Campaign managers, if your client's doing this, shut that down. Let's see what you got. All right. We can't afford. Oh, the tampon, Tim. We can't afford four more years of tampons. No, this was my favorite. And I'm a knucklehead at times. Yes, you are. Definitely a knucklehead at times. This is his own shot.
Senator Vance, he became a media darling. He wrote a book about the place he grew up, but the premise was was trashing that place where he grew up rather than lifting it up.
I think we can affirm it.
He's a venture capitalist cosplaying like he's a cowboy or something. I don't even know what a venture capitalist does most of the time.
It was, can you explain the discrepancy?
All I said on this was, is I got there that summer and misspoke on this. So I will just, that's what I've said.
You guys can't get enough of this with the guy, can you?
So I was in Hong Kong and China during the democracy protest went in. And from that, I learned a lot of what needed to be in governance.
How many times you guys? It's supposed to be a video. And I'm a knucklehead at times. Oh, here we go. You guys can't get enough of this shit, can you? If you're listening on Apple and Spotify, please watch the rumble where they must have played the clip of Tim Walls not knowing how to loan his own shotgun at least five or six times.
Oh, I know, I know, it's him going on and on, not being able, but they can't get enough of that clip. Okay, can I give you some life advice here? This is an important show, okay? There is a king of the turban, the Mount Olympus of Greek gods, Tamponicus Timicus, using the lightning tampon as a weapon of mass destruction politically, unfortunately for his own campaign.
I'm going to give you a piece of life advice. You don't have to take it. You can say, what the hell you know about life? Your life's more screwed up than anyone. I got to say, you'd be right. What is two thumbs and screws up earth? This guy. However, I'm going to throw this at you because I know it's true. You may call me crazy.
I don't believe in self, you know, in self, destroying yourself like publicly and making yourself look silly. Some people like, oh, it's cute, you know, self-effacing humor and all that other stuff. No, no, no, I don't buy it. I'm sorry. Call me crazy. I've been married 20 years and all this other stuff. I'm not telling you that everything is like peaches and cream all the time.
That's not what I'm saying at all. But I don't do embarrassing stuff, and I don't make myself look stupid in front of my wife or my kids. I just don't. It's my thing. I'm sorry. Someone asked me for Halloween once, can you dress up like this thing? And I thought it looked stupid. I said, no. Oh, have some fun with it. No, no, I don't want to have fun. You don't have to agree with me. That's cool.
It's my life. That's how I run it. Don't do anything that makes you look stupid. Don't ever say in public you're a knucklehead. Don't ever claim you're a moron in public because people will believe you, okay? You're either a liar or you're telling the truth. If you're a liar, you're a liar. If you're telling the truth, then you're a knucklehead. Nobody wants a knucklehead, right?
Don't do things that make you look dumb. Don't go out in a bubble boy suit. Don't throw a tank helmet on, pretending to be a tank commander like Michael Dukakis. And don't go out pretending to go out on a hunt when you can't even load your own freaking rifle. You look like an idiot. Don't do it. This is not just a lesson for politics. It's one of Dan Bongino's lessons for life.
You don't have to take it. It's fine. I'm just telling you, I don't do things that make me look stupid. Now, I'm not saying once in a while you're not going to be thrown into a situation where you look really stupid. Just don't do it on purpose. Just throwing that out there. You do what you want with it. Hey, you having trouble sleeping or staying asleep? Listen, I've been there.
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All right, now, you're giving away the art of sealing the deal, the critical moments. I didn't know you guys were putting little chyrons. These guys are all fancy now. What is going on? Hold on, a little blackout. This is actually blackout because you think I'm making it up. You see that? Can you see in there? You can see that.
It's not like disgusting brown water from, you know, this is like actual blackout here. It's the cinnamon French toast. It's black too. Like there's no, which I'm still talking about.
Okay.
This is, I mean, this is the, this is not the corporate. Do we have it? Like, is it still a grading system? I mean, this has got to be the corporate view. I mean, at least politically it's
You know, I didn't expect that clip to hit me that way. I've seen it like you probably, what, a thousand times? Folks, that was a special moment for all the wrong reasons. But I had known Donald Trump for a while. Again, I don't want to exaggerate my friendship with him, please. You sound like an asshole when you say that, trying to pretend you know people when you don't.
But I have a relationship with him. We don't drink coffee together, but I've known him for a while, and I've seen him outside of the public eye, and he's a really special person. He's really obsessed with making you feel important. That's a unique skill very few people have. He's a good, decent guy. He's not a guy without flaws. None of us are. Some of them may be significant.
But he's a really good and decent guy. I got to tell you something. The Donald Trump I've known and a lot of people know. A lot of you have met him. I'm not the only one. A lot of you may know him like I have. You may have had a couple conversations with him. That clip that day changed everything.
I think a lot of people, even like the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world, the pretty devout leftist in charge of Facebook, was like, that was pretty badass. Yeah, it was. Folks, I'm going to tell you something. I haven't been on the other side of that, doing the protection side. You hear a gunshot ring out, like I did, at least when I was a cop, not as an agent.
But you go into, like, fog of war mode instantly. And it takes a few seconds to clear your brain. This guy's first impulse was to get up and to scream, fight, fight, fight. I mean, that takes a set of freaking coconuts like I've never seen. If there was a game-changing moment in modern political history, forget about this election, then that was probably it. That was a good one.
I'm glad you guys put that in there, even though we've seen it, folks. Don't you agree? You can't see that one enough. All right, let's see what we got next.
We got to hit that timer, bring that one up. I'm going to take care of this.
Now, on the political tactics front. This, again, genius. Look at this guy. You believe this guy flipping the fries?
Right there, right there.
In a suit. In a suit. This is Trump, of course, if you listen on Spotify or Apple. And the Mickey D's. He's like, this is the best fry flipping I've ever seen.
You want to do this all over here? Yeah.
I only laugh because... I'm going to tell you something. There are a few politicians who, this actually, I promise I did not know the clips. Again, I'm not making this up. This segues so beautifully from the Tim Walls segment where don't make yourself look stupid in public. Being able to avoid looking stupid in public and having the je ne sais quoi, right? Charisma.
Nobody knows what it is, but you know what I'm saying? Do you know when you, if I'm going out the next time you, You ever see like a guy or woman walks in the room? You've never met this person at all. It's a crowded room and everybody turns their attention. And I'm not talking about the beauty alone. I'm just talking about the shoulders are back. The chest is out.
Everybody seems to be staring at this person. You get an air of power from this person. That's Trump. So whereas Tim Walz can't even shoot his own gun, Donald Trump can walk into a McDonald's in a suit, put an apron on, flip in fries, and look more manly than Tim Walz in his hunting garb out there trying to fake hunt with a gun he doesn't know how to use. He claims it's his own.
You see the difference? If you flip that around, Tim Walz looks like an idiot at McDonald's, and you put Donald Trump out there hunting, Donald Trump doesn't know how to work the gun. He'll be like, what kind of bullshit gun is this? You get what I'm saying? Okay, okay, I know you guys get some other good stuff. Does that make sense? That's the je ne sais quoi.
It's called the je ne sais quoi because nobody knows why they have it. The people who have it just have it. I wish I could bottle it. I'd be stupid rich.
How do you like my garbage truck? This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden.
And I have to begin by saying 250 million Americans are not garbage.
Perfect. This is Trump in a garbage truck after Joe Biden called MAGA supporters, of course, garbage. Many of you remember that. This is how Trump decides to go out there. And we recommend it. I'm not saying they heard it from us. A thousand people were saying, but what did we say?
Like, if Donald Trump doesn't get out there in a sanitation truck tomorrow, I didn't even think of the vest, by the way, and go out there in a truck, is this a missed political opportunity like you've never seen? The sanitation vest is the perfect example. What does he say coming out? Do you remember that part? Again, we didn't plan this.
He's like, hey, before I was coming out, they told me to put on the sanitation vest, and I didn't really think it was a good idea. I thought I'd look silly, but you know what? And here's what he's saying in his head. Language alert. He's saying... Fuck that, motherfucker. I'm Donald Trump. I'll put on whatever the hell I want. I'll make it happen. That's how he is. That's how he is.
He just has freaking basketballs down there. He just does. And that's why he can make that work. Whereas if Kamala Harris or someone else came out in a sanitation vest, they would look like idiots every single time. Perfect segue there. Totally, completely unintentional. A Biden blunder bonanza. Hard to pick a few, but these were our favorites. All right, let's see what your favorites were.
Making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care system. Making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the COVID. Excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with COVID.
is this i don't know what he just said if we finally beat medicare this is it president trump was right he did beat medicare he beat it to death and he's destroying medicare
I remember guys, we were doing that live and that was one of the moments we all looked at each other on the debates when we were doing the live debate coverage because we were trying to shut up and not say too much. We were just trying to let the debate play out so we'd interrupt. But that was one of the moments we all looked at each other and we were like, this guy's campaign is over.
We had we called it. Go back and listen to the sense, you know, proven bona fides. You can listen to yourself. We called it. We told you this guy was not going to be the nominee. I think it was that moment. And when Trump said to him, when he said, listen, man, I don't even know what this guy just said. That was it.
That was the official end of Joe Biden's campaign, because probably 30 plus million people were watching that, probably another 50 million on clips who realized that. Everything we had said about this guy's cognitive function and brain not working was absolutely correct. He just couldn't put together a string together a series of sentences. You saw it yourself. Yeah, that was a good one.
I actually forgot about that moment in the debate. Let's see what else you got. Confused on stage. Confused one direction, the other direction, looks back. So again, if you listen on Spotify or Apple, Biden's on stage. He goes one way, goes the other way, salutes someone who's there or may not be there. We don't even know what he's, maybe he sees phantasms.
Maybe it's like the Amityville horror thing. Nobody knows. He walks off. Now, why is this clip important? This is something I don't have a lot of experience in a lot of things, but I definitely know how logistics of a presidential visit work. I've told you guys well over 500 times that in events like this, the president is given a tick tock and basically footsteps.
In other words, here is exactly what you're going to do. When I say exactly, I mean exactly. You, it'll say POTUS, walks on stage from stage right, stage left, doesn't matter. You follow footsteps on stage. You exit stage left, work rope line. You, and not only that, there's someone guiding him.
If you're the president of the United States and you don't know where to go after your speech is over and you were told this 15 minutes prior with notes in front of you, then, folks, this guy's cognitive disorder is probably so farther along advanced than we can possibly imagine. This guy's in real trouble. I've been there. You never see stuff like this.
I challenge you, go look at Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, make it a bipartisan thing. Go back and sit there and scroll on a video platform all day and see how many times they were confused getting off stage. I guarantee you, you're barely going to find one. Barely. Because it's impossible. You have to be mentally not there. I love those clips.
I mean, I don't love them, but I love them because I haven't been there. I know how bad that really is. The staff and the Secret Service are probably like, shit, we just told them five minutes ago. Like, what the hell is it like this? They got like the airplane things in there this way.
they do that's a great yeah that's funny he's never funny that's funny they do they have like a a behavioral learning negative like ptsd response whenever hail to the chief comes on because they know they're gonna have to this way bro this way every dead stress level goes up automatically now whenever they hear the music they're gonna be sitting at home after the detail and the wife will have fox news on it's after say a midnight they're sleeping at one o'clock in the evening
And the guy's going to jump up and, oh, my God, where's Biden? Biden, Biden's been out of office four years. Let's see what else.
Oh, this is great.
This is great. Yes, he is going that far. You know, I got to tell you, I'm a. I'm a little torn on this one. Can I let you guys in on a little secret? I shouldn't say this, but I'm going to. No, I shouldn't, but I will. When this happened, Biden's so out of it, folks, I really don't think there was any agenda here at all. I don't. He's so out of it. I'm not even sure he knew what he was doing.
Maybe he knew it was a Trump hat. Maybe he didn't. I don't know. But Biden's... I'll tell you why I'm torn on this. I'm going to get into it. I'm going to get in a rabbit hole. I dislike this guy so much because he's so corrupt in what he did with his family and all this other stuff makes me so sick to my stomach and all the endless lying and comparing us to Nazis.
I mean, I have a visceral emotional reaction to Joe Biden. But again, I can't be a hypocrite and say, don't get emotional about politics, stay transactional and then get emotional about it, even if it's Joe Biden. I didn't want to say anything at the time because I really can't stand this guy. But I didn't find that clip to be...
I really think he just didn't know what he was doing, and he was trying to be like a funny, friendly guy. And I don't know. I shouldn't have said it. I don't want you to think I'm ever being fake with you. I'm not. I dislike this guy so much. I may have attributed to him is what I'm getting at. Really malicious motives because he's a genuinely awful guy that in that moment may not have existed.
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Young black kids growing up in the Bronx who don't even know what the word computer is. They don't know. They don't know these things. And I want the world open up to all of them.
Okay, I have a deal for you. If we get a seat in the new Trump White House press room, you know, they're talking about breaking up the press room and giving seats to media channels that actually people listen to, like us and Charlie Kirk and others.
If we get that and I hire a correspondent, one of my first requests when they're not in the press room, say maybe for a weekend gig one day, is going to be to go to the Bronx and ask young kids who are black what a computer is. I can guarantee you, Governor of New York Kathy Hochul, Guys, what do you say in the percentage? Let me throw this out there. I'm going to say a sample size.
Maybe we ask 50 young black men. Let's say 13 or under. Let's say 10 or under, just to be fair to Kathy Hochul, who thinks young black kids are idiots. Let's say 10 or under. I'm going to say 100%. For the liberals who are bad at math, that's 50 out of 50. I'm going to say 50 out of 50 not only know what a computer is, but can operate a computer and can describe a computer.
Guys, are you going with 100% or maybe a little less? Justin wants to go to Cal State or one of those betting sites, and he wants to put $100,000 he doesn't have on 100% of black kids, 10 and younger, know exactly what a computer is, and honestly are probably better at using it than Kathy Hochul. But of course, Kathy Hochul's a liberal, so will anybody call her a racist?
Nah, they'll celebrate it and make apologies for her because that's what they do, because liberalism and racism, they go hand in glove. That was a good one. I've forgotten about that one, too. That was one of the gems of the year. You guys put this together yourself very good. Let me see what else you got.
Well, first, I think we have to acknowledge that Donald Trump knows our country better than we do.
And then she goes to shit on the country again, right?
I think he figured out that anger and... frankly, fear, were way more powerful than appealing to people's better angels. That anger and fear were going to work in this election, whether you're afraid of immigrants or afraid of people who are trans, he figured that out.
I think we're going to have to understand what type of leadership do they want. We were pledging to be inclusive. We were pledging to bring people in. Donald Trump has said that that isn't what he wants.
And so if that's what America's leaning towards, I guess for me, it's to understand and learn more about America, because I thought that they were going to probably move towards a more positive message.
I see what you guys did here. Tell me if I'm right. Tell me if I'm right. Well, you guys, the theme of what you're doing here is liberals pretending to acknowledge that they were wrong about who America really is and then turning around and shitting on America and admitting they have no idea who America is. Am I right? I have no idea who America really is. Am I correct or am I correct?
Tim Walls and Claire McCaskill, Air Claire, former senator from Missouri before she got defeated soundly by Josh Hawley, claiming, oh, my gosh, you know, maybe we have to reevaluate. We have to look in the mirror. Maybe all the stuff we've been doing is crazy. We got to stop. We got to stop.
Oh, and by the way, you racist, bigoted, fascist Nazis who don't want to be inclusive, you can plant a big wet one on my ass. Keep it up. Keep it up, kids. We got midterms coming up. I cannot wait to see what you've got in your pockets next if that's going to be your attitude. I absolutely love it. That was good. I like how you put them back to back.
I didn't know this was going to be like mashups within a mashup show. Very nicely done. Let's see what you got next.
Everything we do is under fire. Elon Musk sits on Twitter every day or X today. Oh, Van Der Heide. Saying like, we are the media. You are the media. My message to Elon Musk is bulls**t. You're not the media.
Yes, thank you.
You having... You having a blue checkmark, a Twitter handle, and 300 words of cleverness doesn't make you a reporter. You don't do that by popping off on Twitter. You don't do that by having an opinion. You do it by doing the hard work.
Oh my gosh, that was a personal request. Thank you guys, seriously, for including it. Folks, that may not be the funniest or the silliest or the most sarcastic or the one worthy of me throwing a rotten eggs at. But it is telling. That's Jim Vander Hei, who's one of the bosses over at Axios, which is a left-wing news outlet.
I want you to keep in mind there, this is just an extinction burst by him. An extinction burst in psychology is when you engage in a behavior you're used to a response from. You put a dollar, you get a Coke, and then you put a dollar in the machine, the Coke doesn't come out, so you beat up the machine. That's what Vander Hei's doing. He's engaging in an extinction burst.
He's beating up the machine, okay? He's kicking the machine because he doesn't understand or he's incapable of understanding how the propaganda they've been using for 50 years is no longer working. And he's upset that people like us beat them at their own game. That's all this is. This is an emotional outburst that really became... A rallying cry to the left.
They thought this was great, make no mistake. Them celebrating them being wrong in just about every media story of the decade and yelling about it. But on the right, it was a laughingstock. And all of us know exactly what's going on. And I know who's right because we have an audience and they don't, at least relatively speaking. Let's see what else you got. Everyone's favorite patio host?
Oh, oh, is that a thing? Did you like make a word up? Is that in the dictionary? I think you should. I think everyone should go put an urban dictionary. Can we make submissions? Because I actually like that patio. If you're a radio and a radio podcast host, a patio, some of memorable moments from Mr. That's me. OK, well, let's see what you got.
Fanatics on the right.
Oh, no. But the Democrats were very tactical folks. They're not stupid. They understand that it doesn't matter if these illegals vote or not. It does. I mean, it's terrible. Obviously, if they do, they broke the law.
All right. All Democrats do not want illegal aliens to vote. Now, the far left does, but he didn't define it that way. He said the Democrats, you know. No.
Okay, so let me say again. Fuck you, Bill O'Reilly, you lying sack of shit. You're a chump, and you're obviously a pussy, too. I hate Bill O'Reilly. I always have. He's a douchebag. I used to do his show once in a while at Fox, and you would sit there at this little desk, and because he was such a dick and everybody hated him, no, everybody hated him. Well, just about.
Maybe there were a few people like... Did you notice when Bill O'Reilly got into that shit? I'm not going to even talk about it because it's pretty gross. Did you notice nobody defended him? You got something to say to me, you six-foot-tall-plus piece of shit? Say it to my face. Oh, my gosh. Fucking chump. Wow. Piece of shit. You're listening to this guy. You're being played. Wow. Man.
Okay, number one. Everything I said in there is accurate. He did. He started a fight. And what bothered me most about that clip, so you understand the background. You know, people talk smack about me all the time, whatever, right? The reason that got under my skin is this guy was always reaching out about coming on my show and selling his book. And I've tried to make my radio show.
I do people's books once in a while. Obviously, you know, friends come on. They have good material. But I'm trying not to make it a book show because then his show gets annoying. People want to hear about other things. So I always made room for this guy. And I'm telling you, he would reach out all the time at his books, and we always had him on. I was never.
Matter of fact, on Fox, when he asked me to come on, we never said no. We always did his show. And, man, for this guy to not even give me a heads up and say, hey, can you clarify what you meant by this, to just randomly try to invoke my name for a clickbait, oh, man, was I furious. And I'm going to tell you again. Everything I said in that clip is true. That guy was hated, hated.
Nobody liked that guy. Nobody. Maybe, well, I shouldn't say that. A few people were kind of milquetoast about him and I met, but not a good guy at all. And he deserved all of that. You know, sometimes people will be like, ah, you know, do you regret going after him like that? No, no. Folks, you're going to punch me, man. I'm sorry.
This is a double-leg takedown coming, and we're jumping on top full mount. Sorry. It just doesn't work that way. Don't poke the – forget about the bear. Don't poke the tiger. I forgot him, man. I really filleted that dude. Oh, my gosh. You ain't kidding. Let's see what else he got.
In Springfield, they're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. They're eating the pets of the people that live there. They're eating the dogs.
They're eating the cats. They're eating the pets of the people that live there.
People of Springfield please don't eat my cats. Why would you do that? Eat something else. People of Springfield, please don't eat my dog. Here's a catalog of other things to eat.
They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. They're eating the pets of the people that live there. They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. They're eating the pets of the people that live there.
I actually, I'm not a dancer. I can't dance. I'm not a dancer. I liked it. It doesn't mean I don't like it. I do things I can't do all the time. But I actually, that's a great song. What's that guy's name? Charles Downs or something? That guy, that's actually a really good song. And by the way, one quick thing, because this is a political show.
You know, funny, but whatever.
I remember when we were told that us highlighting the eating of the dogs and the cats was going to be the end of the campaign song. Oh, my gosh, Ohio, everybody's going to turn on you. You guys look horrible. Yeah, it worked out well for them. Don't ever listen to media bullshit. Whatever they say, spin it 180, spin it 180, and I can guarantee you the opposite is true, which it was.
We won Ohio in a mega landslide, so don't believe any of their bullshit. That was a good one. All right, what else you got? Random screenshots. Okay, I didn't see this coming. Oh, is that Fugazi? You notice how I have him in like a karate position there? You see like I've got like the unbendable arm going, my left arm in the karate position. And I think it's because I... No, no, no, no.
Yeah, yeah. Michael's like all into jujitsu. Now, wait, put the screenshot back up. So me and Michael talk jujitsu all the time. Guy and them are like, Mike and Justin are like, what the hell are you guys always talking about? The thing about the Fugazi thing is I'm so sensitive about the Fugazi because I only got one big Fugazi head. I got a lot of small Fugazi heads.
I don't want the Fugazi head to ever, like, get dented because this is really an integral part of the show. And I think that's why I had, like, they teach in Secret Service the unbendable arm. That's why I had the unbendable arm going because I'm very defensive about the Fugazi head. They only got me one Fugazi head. I have a lot of small ones, but not big.
And, you know, Fugazi's got a big head, so we don't want to mess up the big head Fugazi. You see that? Underhook. Michael's always thinking Jets. You got to get them underhooks all the time. What else you got? Oh, my gosh. Should I tell them the story behind this one, Paula? So, Guy. Oh, here we go. Here's Guy. Here's the story with this.
So because we're always talking about, you know, people having figuratively big balls, because, you know, I hate the word literal. I mean, you may, but that's a problem you may have to seek out if you have elephantitis issues like Johnny Dangerously. But I said, Guy, go out and get like some watermelons and some grapefruits and stuff like that. So Guy went out and got...
Some grapefruits, which just punched me right in the face with. And we put them on the show. And I love them. I think they're the greatest thing. But you see the little moray effect, by the way, here going on? You see that? This yellow, it must be doing something to the camera. This is not an electric watermelon, folks. I promise you, what you're seeing on camera is not real.
This is just a yellow stripe. It looks like it's glowing or something. Paula absolutely hated it. And usually I sometimes I overrule, which is most of the time. But in this case, she was like, I hate the grapefruits and the watermelon. So we're never going to do it again. But I'm glad you put the screenshot up because there's always a story. And you guys are entitled to know the deeds here.
Save those, though. Don't throw them out because we may need them in the new studio. I know it may cause a big I may be divorced after this. I know she did hide him. Paula wanted to pop them and throw them in the garbage. But I had I had a backup pair just in case. Yeah. He can take that a lot of different ways. All right, let's see what else you got. Oh, my gosh. Now, this was 8-8 day.
We got a repeat of Fugazi. This is me actually hugging Fugazi. The light in the studio is reflecting on the right cheek a little differently, though. He looks a little strange. He looks extra white on the right side of his face. But it was 8-8 day, which, of course, Fugazi thinks Donald Trump lowered the flags to half-mast when he meant half-staffed. to acknowledge Heil Hitler.
He actually said that, which was insane. So I guess kind of convenient that he's got an extra white face going on that day due to the lighting in the studio. But I am hugging Fugazi right there, showing our love for the great Frank Fugazi. I wonder if Kamala Harris would have won if he would have been like the FBI director or something. What do you think? The possibility.
All right, let's take one more. What else you got? Two more. Okay. Oh, my gosh. Rock'em Sock'em. Was my Rock'em Sock'em robots? Thank you to my accountant, Josh Goodman. He sent me, turns out, the Rock'em Sock'em robot set. Was I not right with the Rock'em Sock'em robot strategy that this is the way to overwhelm them? I told you they were going to take a scalp. They did. I wish they hadn't.
But now we're seeing, as Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard and RFK move along, now we're seeing Rock'em Sock'em Robots. There I was. I actually, on the record, beat Guy rather handily, despite not having played Rock'em Sock'em Robots in over 30 years. I still won the game because I've just got mad skills like that. So that was a good one. All right, let's see what you got for the last one here. Wow.
Do you remember what this was for? No. This was the sixth middle finger salute never before seen on the Dan Bongino show with the sneakers. Look at this. Man, you can't even, like, see the actual middle finger I was given with the toe. But that was the sixth middle finger salute that, gosh, does anybody remember? Anyone in the chat? Give us a – I'm going to look. I want to see what that was.
If you remember, that's got to be a P1 of P1 things. I don't remember, but that was the only time I think we ever did a sixth – July 10th. So someone go back and figure out what that was about. But I must have been really annoyed at that one. But either way, we were probably right because we predicted just about everything on this show this year. So we're pretty good.
The sextuple barrel middle finger. That was good, guys. That was a good show. Hey, man, I hope you enjoyed the show on this Friday. We're going to party a little bit tonight. I'll have a weekend update for you on Monday. I appreciate everything. And I promise after Monday, for those of you who wanted me to turn in my man card, I'm only 50 once. I'm just a dude.
It'll be the last time we ever address it. Maybe I can earn my man card back from you, but your opinion matters too. Thanks for tuning in, folks. See you back here on Monday.