The Dan Bongino Show
Sunday Special with Vince Coglianese, Tim Burchett, Byron Donalds, and Vivek Ramaswamy
Sun, 09 Mar 2025
First we talked with Vince Coglianese of the Vince Show on taking over for Dan. Next we talked to Tim Burchett for the latest news in congress. Then we talked with Byron Donalds and Vivek Ramaswamy on their respective runs for governor in Florida and Ohio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who is taking over Dan Bongino's podcast and radio show?
Dan, I am so pumped to be here. I've told you so many times personally already, but I'll just tell you in front of everybody else. I am so grateful to you for all the opportunities to get a bunch of at-bats on your show and to speak to this great audience.
Just the idea that I could even begin to do something like this on the podcast and on the radio show and now seeing it come to fruition, it is a blessing from heaven above. I can't be grateful enough to you for the great thing that we're about to start here together.
Thank you. But I'm going to share with my audience what I shared with you in the text this morning. You know, I surround myself with good people. And when you surround yourself with good people, Vince, good things happen to you too. I mean, I'm not anybody's life coach. I'm not trying to be Tony Robbins here. I really mean that. I appreciate your gratitude. I do. But you're a good person.
You have an amazing show on WMAL now. You don't need me to tell people. People listening to WMAL already know you. And I really couldn't think of anyone better. You have access to all of these people in that DC market. The interviews are going to be amazing. You know, you're going to be fantastic.
But let's get to what happened last night, because I know you're going to be covering this on your show today, too. And let's give the audience just a taste of what they can expect as you take over my podcast in just a couple of weeks at 10 a.m.
vince last night was a disaster for the democrats i'm trying to be objective here i understand that it's tough but you know the one of the worst things you can do in politics is create a contrast situation where this the pictures and the sound bites are so genuinely awful the state of the union is a moment where the president looks most powerful he's got the microphone he's got the stage to have al green vince
waving a stick I mean actually waving a stick at him with no microphone screaming where no one can even hear him which is interrupting a primetime speech where people just want to get to bed at some point I mean what a disaster
It was amazing in every possible sense. I was so overjoyed by everything I saw last night. Sad for the state of the Democrat Party, but happy that basically no one wants to deal with their nonsense anymore. So like there they are sitting in the crowd, sort of making these limp wristed gestures like like absolutely.
You ever see somebody who doesn't have a fight just like swinging their arms and not knowing what to do? Yes, many times. They're like the little kid who's being held back by the adult man going, OK, settle down, son. And the kid's swinging his arms like crazy and is in a big tantrum. That's what the Democrats look like right now.
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Chapter 2: What happened during the recent State of the Union address?
They look ridiculous, as you point out, because you understand media, too, really well. President Trump, first of all, has a skill for this. And he had all the tactical advantages. He had the microphone. He had the camera. He had an enthusiastic crowd of Republicans there backing him up.
He had great, decent American citizens with really heartwarming stories and tragic stories in some cases that the viewer instantly connected with. And Democrats were either sitting on their hands or protesting and, of course, looking absolutely ridiculous and callous in the process. And I will say this. One last thing on this, which is yesterday was Fat Tuesday, as you know.
And I thought that yesterday was an all you can eat buffet of absolutely wonderful moments for the American people. I I've never engorged myself as much as I did last night on that speech. I loved I didn't even realize two hours had passed. People are saying this is the longest speech ever. Right. I didn't feel it over. It felt like it just started. It was that good from top to bottom.
Yeah, it was. It was. And I've been pretty, I think, objective when it comes to this. And, you know, you know, President Trump and his team, this this nonsense that they expect, you know, fealty and loyalty to everything they do. You know, they expect friendship and honesty. But, you know, there are some speeches that kind of fell flat. And that was not one of them.
I mean, last night was a good one. But what you just said reminded me of I had a friend when I was back in I was when I was a police officer and he would always tell me, you know, in the dating scene, You know, you have to be careful and strategic. Like you want to be in a situation where there's kind of an air around you and not around the other person or, you know, you're going to get rejected.
In other words, kind of read the room that the State of the Union or joint address last night, to be precise. It's one of those moments where you have to realize what you just said, that you are at a significant.
snapshots photos and messaging disadvantage you just are i mean nobody even wants to do the rebuttal anymore because it looks like the subordinate speech and the fact that the democrats who are usually smarter at this vince you know they're pretty good at messaging hopey changey stuff terrible at ideas but good at messaging that they didn't get this says they really still haven't gotten their sea legs after that route on election night
No, and they also don't know who they are. There's no defining quality for their party other than that they hate Trump.
So everything Trump says, I'm certain you've played this clip, but Scott Jennings made the point, excellent point recently on CNN, that it's all 80-20 stuff, and that basically Trump has this political superpower of always taking the 80, and then when he takes the 80, Democrats feel compelled to take the 20, and they hysterically screech the 20% position in public.
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Chapter 3: How did Vince Coglianese become a prominent media figure?
I want all of that to keep rolling because it's been productive here. I've done this radio show in the afternoon on WMAL for just over four years now. Prior to that, I was doing the morning show on WMAL. And we always, although we're a local one station in a local market, it is the nation's capital. And we've always booked all of our shows, all of my shows,
I like their national news shows because fundamentally they are. And so that's not going to stop. It's actually just going to kick into overdrive. And for any WMAL listener who might be tuning in right now, if you think my show has been good so far, wait until you see what we achieve from 12 to 3. It is going to blow your mind.
I'm stoked about it. Vince, I wish I hadn't. See, Vince is a radio guy, so he's looking at the clock going, Dan's playing with fire right now. You know what the hard out Vince is? You're going to figure this out in a couple of weeks. It's about, Jim, what about 21 and you're giving me the ax? And sometimes I mess with Jim Vince, so you need to do this. And I've had a couple more requests.
producer Jim obviously loves his job and once in a while the audience wants you to kind of throw a curveball at Jim and just like throw some sarcastic quip his way and I have one request for you Vince although I will not be involved in the business my wife Paula who's run it just one last request before I let you go because I'm trying to take it to the end just to mess with Jim here
Because I only got a couple of days left to get this right by show timing. You have got to make sure, please, I need your solemn word that you will not allow producer Jim to watch any Auburn Tigers basketball games. It's an inside joke, brother. But if they don't win this national championships year, I'm blaming you and Jim for letting him watch the games. Just give me a word.
You will do everything in your power to stop him from viewing these games.
If I even hear words that sound like Ward Eagle, I'm going after Jim.
It's not happening. Look at him. Jim, I got on the air. Record that. That is with the last final moments I wanted to show. You're playing out of the last show, too. Vince Colonese, congratulations, brother. You don't owe me any thank you. You're fantastic. I surround myself with the best people. And you're it, brother. I'm handing you off the football. So we'll talk before next week.
Thanks for coming on, buddy.
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Chapter 4: What are Tim Burchett's views on the Zelensky-Trump meeting?
And moved out of the area. Congressman, I wanted to, that sounds insane. I want to talk to you about this just disastrous meeting on Friday between President Zelensky and President Trump. And I mean disastrous for him. President Trump went into the meeting with, it was supposed to be relatively ceremonial.
We were going to sign this rare earths minerals deal, which was a, you know, a cliche, but win-win. It was a win-win for everyone. And it just blew up. And I want to focus on this one thing for, just for this question. He made a comment, President Zelensky,
about you all have a nice ocean quote nice ocean between you uh to the united states of america congressman and i had a listener during the break who said hey dan one of the battles my dad fought in in world war ii was the battle of the bulge too like my grandfather he had nightmares too he not only crossed the quote knight nice ocean but also crossed the nice channel too
I mean, what an insulting statement to this amazing country of heroes and patriots who've crossed that ocean many times.
Many times. My mom's brother's buried over in Europe. He died just a few days after D-Day. Not a day went by she didn't talk about her brother Roy. Every dadgum time they played the national anthem, my mama would tear up to the day she died. My dad fought in the Pacific.
He didn't have any scars externally, but you never, ever woke my dad up other than his big toe because he might have thought he was on Peleliu or Okinawa or one of those other islands that he was on. and he'd pin your ass up against the wall. Just to come into somebody's own home and do that.
I was talking to somebody at the airport, and I said, you know, it's kind of like my parents used to give a lot of money to legitimate Christian organizations like Billy Graham and others. It had been like Billy Graham coming into our living room after my parents had written one of their hard-earned checks to his ministry and him start making demands of us.
You know, it's just it's beyond belief, the arrogance of this guy. And it is exactly what America voted for in Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. I couldn't have been more proud of him. I thought they actually had pretty good restraint from what I've been around Trump. I thought he might have just grabbed him up by the.
by the shirt collar and just thrown his ass out right then out on Pennsylvania Avenue. And I mean, it was just unbelievable. We've given $250 billion with a B. The people in North Carolina until Donald Trump came in office, you know this, in Western North Carolina and Upper East Tennessee, After hurricanes and Elaine came, they were still living in tents and didn't have electricity or water.
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Chapter 5: Why is NATO funding a controversial issue?
Sorry to interrupt, but Congressman Donald's now candidate for governor, Byron Donald, you know, as well as I do, the snowbirds phenomenon. Yeah, it still exists, but it's nothing like it was when I moved down here 10 years ago. You know, you walked out there in snowbird season. You walk in any restaurant. There was no one there. That's gone now. Florida is now people's year round home.
You still get people who travel back, obviously, but not nearly to the extent. So that leads to my second question. If you are the next governor of Florida, you know, being a member of Congress now, you deal with national issues. This is a competition, Congressman. We got Iowa cutting taxes.
You've got, you know, places like Ohio and even some, you know, Democrat swing states looking at making more tax efficient tax codes. And then you've got places going in the other direction, like Delaware, where most companies would incorporate a lot of them, which is now going in the other direction and now trying to get back business.
We can't in Florida ever take for granted that our weather and amusement parks and job environment is just going to keep us on top forever. I know you understand that better than anyone.
No, 100%. I mean, I'm glad you brought up Delaware. For a long time in our country, Delaware was the state people went to to incorporate their business. So what I want to do is make it the easiest to incorporate. I want Florida to become the easiest to incorporate. I want to set up business courts in Florida.
So it's easier to adjudicate those issues that do go through your judicial system anytime you're dealing with a lot of corporations in your state. But to the competition, Vivek Ramaswamy, good friend, running for governor of Ohio, you know, Vivek and I talked offline and I heard his speech talking about how he wants to make money. Ohio, the best state in the country.
And my joke for him was, well, look, congratulations on that vision, but you're still going to be number two because Florida is number one today and we're going to be number one into the future. So it's about taking public safety seriously. We're going to continue the work that Governor DeSantis has done on that, the work in education, continuing that great work.
But then it's about becoming much more open in terms of economics. Again, being able to be a hub for finance and be the center of not just the country but of the world when it comes to finance. And then, of course, you've got to fix insurance. Insurance is going to be key. And one big thing, Dan, and I think this is important, we've led the country when it's come to school choice.
I was in the legislature. When we passed universal school choice, my sophomore year in the legislature, I passed at that time the biggest expansion of school choice in the country, which was the Hope Scholarship at that time.
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