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Chapter 1: How can gold protect my family's future?
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Let the experts at Birch Gold help you secure your future today with gold. Text DAN to 989898. Message and data rates apply. Dan Bongino. Welcome to the Bongino Brief. I'm Dan Bongino. I want to play this for you first because the Bongino Army out there and all of our supporters, you guys and ladies out there have been amazing.
And someone, one of you sent this to me and a friend of mine sent it to me as well. And I gave this speech at the Heritage Foundation 11 years ago. And it was about good people stepping up Not just me. It's not about me. It's about a bigger vision. I want you to listen. It's about a minute and a half of it. But it's worth your time. Check this out.
We can fix it, though, folks. And I think it's going to take some good, passionate people going forward. And I think it's going to take more people to speak out. I think right now there's a crisis of internal leadership. I think people during a recession are afraid to leave. But I speak to people all the time.
on my cell phone on the inside who are just as frustrated as I am, whether from the military or anywhere else. And I think it's going to take just a tidal wave of people speaking out to really create some effective change.
This is really hard for me, folks. I hope you understand. We spent a long time building this. We. Me, my wife. Guy, Michael, Justin, Jasmine, Evita. My wife and I started doing this show and it started in a basement. It was me, Joe, and Paula. That was it. We started doing the show, and Paula was putting together show clips for me.
We never expected it to become this massive live stream and podcast and radio show. We never expected it. I knew you guys were going to be there for us. So to walk away from it, Yeah, it's not easy. And I'm getting like money and all that other crap that doesn't gives a damn about any of that stuff. We'll figure that out later. But you know, I'm not gonna tell you as an audience,
what's been one of our just bedrock principles of this Bongino army out there and this people, this massive audience we've had, what's one of the bedrock principles, right? The do matters. We've talked about the do. You can talk all you want. I tell you all the time, I don't feel like I have a real job. I don't. I don't feel like you guys are the ones out there getting your hands dirty.
You know, the truckers, the cops, the pilots, you know, the architects, the men and women in our military. I appreciate everything, but if the do matters, I'm not going to sit here.
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Chapter 2: What is Dan Bongino's message to his supporters?
I did. I panicked. I thought she was dead. I couldn't believe it. I said, I just met this woman. Well, it turned out we'd just been on one date and she was actually in Nevada. Her mom lived in Centennial Hills in Nevada, actually Summerlin, I think back then. And she was out in Nevada. I couldn't believe she was alive.
But we met two weeks before the most devastating terror attack, one of them in American history. That was an event we all, scarred us forever. I was an agent watching that. We've been through a lot together. We've been through the secret service. We've been through the president's detail. We've been through cancer. We've been through some health crises with her.
We have two beautiful daughters, one in college and one younger one still in grammar school. We've been through three runs for political office. We've been through the launch of a podcast 11 years ago and everybody laughed at us. They're not laughing now. They did. They actually laughed at us. Oh, podcast? That's cute. What happened? Can't get a real show? We lived through all of that.
We spent our last $10,000 on a microphone and some mixers in the basement of our house in Maryland. Paul has always been willing to take a chance on me. Always. She said on her first date that she knew I was something special, which I didn't think I was anything special back then, but I guess she did. She's been busting her ass all weekend. Why? Because there's going to be a major transition.
It's not going to be the last show, but we've only got a few more left with you, so. Obviously, we're going to be working with a team of people to make this transition from me, political commentator Dan, to deputy director of the FBI Dan. Those are different roles, require different skills. Skills I haven't have used before and I plan to use again. It's going to hurt to leave you.
I'll discuss over the course of the coming days. I'll be with you for a little bit longer on radio and on my show. I will discuss exactly what's going to happen. It's not going to impact Evita or Haley's content at all. My wife has been running the business for a long time. I don't get involved with the business at all. I do the talking. But I want to ask you, who's next? Who's next?
This isn't just about me, folks. The do matters. Who's next? You know, I said last week and a couple of media critics commented, I said, we're all going to have to take it on the chin a little bit. Now, do you see what I meant? I never got in this for the money or notoriety.
Listen, I enjoy making money and that I can impact people's lives and that people come out and say nice things to me as much as the next guy.
But if you think that's why I got involved in this running as a Republican in deep blue Maryland, my life of activism and my time in the secret service, if you think I got into secret service to get rich and you don't know me and you haven't seen the government salary scale, but I am going in this clear eyed. Vision of president Trump attorney general Bondi and director Patel.
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