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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
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You know, let me tell you kind of a funny story. So I'll do a weekend update, but this is just kind of out of left field. I get a call from a media reporter last week, and he wants to talk about how stories bubble up in the whole MAGA ecosystem, of which, obviously, we're the biggest portion of it. We are. We're just the biggest show, so that's just a fact. So he calls me.
It was an Axios guy, and we'll see what they write. It's probably going to be the same piece, but whatever. We'll see. But I've started to talk to some of these people more, and the logic behind it is this. Excuse me. My voice is still struggling from the inaugural crud that went around last week that everybody got.
But the gist of every piece, of course, is going to be these right wing crazy conspiracy theorists, whatever. They write the same piece every time. But I figure I might as well get my shots in, too, you know. So we'll see what they write. But he wanted to see how these stories percolate up from the MAGA ecosystem up into bureaucrats, politicians, maybe even Donald Trump. Right.
So it's fascinating to watch our. Hold on. I should have. You know our Rock'em Sock'em Robots theory of Donald Trump? It is fascinating. We found the red guy, by the way, and he's not broken. The blue guy, he's just been getting decimated lately, of course. The red guy keeps winning. Red rocker, he may put Donald Trump on the back of that. Yeah, we know.
I mean, you put a Donald Trump face on that. Somebody get on that. People in the mainstream media are now picking up our Rock'em Sock'em Robots narrative. I'm going to show you that in the beginning. Got a weekend update. It's good to be back with you. I was struggling a little bit on Friday, but I felt good enough to do the show. That crud at the inauguration was vicious.
Mike Benz is sick now, too. I don't know what was going around the day. Like did the Biden team on the way out, like spray the sky with some deadly pathogen or something. But, uh, I feel great Saturday morning. I woke up, felt better. And it's just, you know, the recovery things always takes a little bit to get your voice fully back. Hey, the ultimate sleep refresh for the new year's beams.
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Chapter 2: What happened during the inauguration?
Right now, go to PatriotMobile.com slash Dan or call 972-PATRIOT and get a free month of service with your promo code Dan. Switch to Patriot Mobile today. Defend freedom with every call and text you make. Go to PatriotMobile.com slash Dan or call 972-PATRIOT. Hook them up, Patriot Mobile. All right, fellas. Monday's show. Let's go. First bell of the week. So it is good to be back with you all.
Had a really busy weekend. Quick weekend update. I don't do it often. Only on Mondays. Don't want to bore you with my stories. But sometimes they're interesting. So took my brother Joe and my daughter Amelia and my wife, obviously, Paula. We went down to the Auburn, Tennessee basketball game. I love you all in Tennessee. It was so nice to see you all. Keep that picture up for a minute.
It was nice to see you all. You see the lovely Paula. You see my daughter, Amelia, who looks exactly like Paula. You see my brother, Joe, who, yes, is a cloning experiment gone awry. He's not my twin. He's actually five years younger than me. The fact that we look alike, I think is a compliment to me. You better ever talk with Joe about that because he's actually younger than me.
That is obviously me to the left. And in the middle is the great Auburn coach, Bruce Pearl. He let us watch the shoot around at the beginning of the game. I ran into so many awesome Tennessee folks. because the volunteers were playing in Auburn. In Hamilton's restaurant, I went to Hamilton's and Lucy's, two of my favorite restaurants. Lucy's always great.
Hamilton's, I met the owner there, one of the owners and managers over there. What a great guy, super nice. And while in Hamilton's, I met some Tennessee fans, and they were super nice to me, so I love you guys. Big, huge win by Auburn. It wasn't the prettiest game, defensive game. Miles Kelly hit a three-pointer to win the game with about 27 seconds left.
It was one of the most amazing sports games I've been to in a long time. And to watch my brother and my daughter Amelia and my wife so happy with daughter Amelia jumping on me, it's why I love sports. You get to enjoy something with a bunch of people and forget about the world for a minute. It was a lot of fun. So there's my weekend update. Folks, a lot happened this weekend.
When the Bongino Army marshals, like we did for Pete Hegseth, I can't tell you how proud I am when we do it. And getting Pete Hegseth through and the Bongino Army being a big part of that, I got to tell you all out there, sincerely, candidly, from the bottom of, as I always say, my sometimes broken heart, look at me. I love you guys. And I deeply appreciate what you did.
And I'm going to tell you something. I know Pete Hegseth, Secretary Hegseth, Gosh, that sounds good. Secretary Hegseth feels the exact same way. And I know his lovely wife, Jen, feels the same way too. Thank you. But ladies and gentlemen, our mission isn't done. Thank you, Bongino Army, for Pete. But now we have to move on to cash. Pete's got his own mission now.
Secretary Hegseth is going to clean up our broken military leadership and make it the most lethal killing machine in the world from now till perpetuity. But now it's time to move on to Kash Patel. We can't just sit here and celebrate and crack the bubbly.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of the Rock'em Sock'em analogy?
Man, can that kid play. I saw there was a thing, a banner up there that said Union and the Cot Tigers. So, Young Patriot, I don't know your name. Does anyone in the chat know his name? We usually get someone. Anyone? Because we got 145,000 people here, so surely somebody knows his name. Wait, wait, wait. Stevie, is that his name? Is that right? I don't know.
If you guys know this guy, just send him our love. That is just an amazing piece of Americana, right? It goes on. You should see it. I think I retweeted it on my X feed. So America's back. Want to get you in the mood on Monday. We got a lot more to talk about. Not just Pete. Not just what happened in Columbia. Not just the Rock'em Sock'em Robots, Peggy Noonan article.
But there were some big interviews this weekend. Vice President J.D. Vance did his first vice presidential interview. Listen. I saw a couple of people commenting on Twitter that friends of mine too, that he should have done a conservative outlet first. You know, this is one of those things where it pains me to say it, but I actually disagree. Why does it pain me to say it pain me to say this?
Because number one, the people who are saying it, I really love, but second, I feel like we should have gotten the first interview because we really went hard for JD Vance, but I've got to be straight with you folks. I can't get emotional about this stuff. I'm an outcomes based guy, but, J.D. Vance doesn't need to convince our audience he's the guy.
He needs to convince a squishy 5%, 6% of the population to get behind this legislative agenda. And truth be told, he's so good at just politically destroying left-wing media narratives that he's far better off on these shows. He just is.
It pains me to say I would have loved to get the first interview, but that's not the way that, you know, as Miss Gilfrether used to say, my fifth grade teacher, the cookie crumbles. Here he is in his interview on CBS with Margaret Brennan.
And again, just absolutely destroying this ridiculous narrative that because immigrants partook in the creation of the United States and its wealth, which happens in every country on earth, that we have to, that we're then obligated to continue a destructive and dangerous immigration policy. These two things are non sequiturs. Margaret Brennan thinks she gets him on this one. Watch J.D.
just blow this thing out. Check this out.
This is a very unique country, and it was founded by some immigrants and some settlers. But just because we were founded by immigrants doesn't mean that 240 years later that we have to have the dumbest immigration policy in the world.
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