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Bell always gets me in the mood. I've got Sean Farish coming up later on the show. I know folks in the Bongino army love Sean. I love Sean. Started his careers doing Donald Trump impersonations that are uncannotably good, and now has turned into just an incredible commentator himself. He's coming up later, so please don't miss that. Can you guys throw up that tweet from Seth Dylan? You know Seth Dylan from the Babylon Bee? He's a really good guy. I like Seth a lot. I've known Seth for a while. Run into him in restaurants around the area. I just ran into him at an event. In case you're listening on Apple or Spotify and you're not watching on Rumb Well, Seth put out a tweet. It is about a, I don't know what to call it, some production Candice Owens is putting together called Bride of Charlie, an investigative series. Seth says, What would Charlie have to say about this? And what would he think of his so-called friends who can't summon the courage to say it for him? I've only been back four weeks. I'm just a guy, folks, okay? I'm not a superhero. I can't snap my finger and change everything just like I couldn't snap my finger and just jump back right into this.
It takes weeks for me to transition from this, to go over to the government job, and then to come back. I'm just a guy. In four weeks, I'm trying to triage myself, what I should talk about, how not to Streisand effect things. I can't have conflicts with my prior job. I think you all understand what I mean. But this just can't be what this movement is. If it is, I just don't want any part of it. I just don't. I know we We live in this artificial environment now for many people. I'm not criticizing you and my Chad and the army folks out. They've always been there for me. But we live in this artificial world of influence your culture and how morals and ethics have evaporated and everything is about how many views. I've been in the business a long time. I can promise you, We've never done sugar high view bullshit, but I'd rather have no audience. I would rather livestream to Gee, Josh, Andrew, Justin, and Jasmine for a total of six livestreamers than to be part of any movement that's part of. I would tell I'll tell you the truth and say Charlie was my good friend, but it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter. No, it doesn't. Whether Charlie... Charlie was a lot of people's friends. I didn't own Charlie. Everyone had a piece of Charlie. Charlie was like that. You out there, my listening audience who know Charlie, you know what I'm talking about. Charlie made everybody feel special. The man had the Genesequoia. If I knew what the Genesequoia is, it wouldn't be called the Genesequoia. But it doesn't matter that I was his friend. It makes no difference. No human being deserves this. I want to be clear with what I'm not saying, and I will never say, if you're not breaking the law, you have every right to speak out and make a fool out of yourself. That is what a Republic is about. I've invested my entire business career in platforms that allow people to speak. I fully support that. I do not support any censorship efforts at all. That's a full stop. I just want that out of the way right now. I'm not suggesting anyone else is saying that either. But folks, this isn't part of any movement I'm familiar with. Hey, man, I don't know. Maybe this movement has evolved into something different, and it's outgrown me and my friends of mine who always wanted to conserve generational truths.
So be it. But I can't any longer look at this like this is some form of infight This is not infighting because, again, this stuff is not in any movement I am a part of or want to be a part of. Not now, not ever. Just like I don't want to be a part of any movement that practices Jew hatred, racism, anti-Black, anti-Hispanic, anti-Muslim, anything else. I don't want to be part of that movement either. I wasn't born into a movement. I was born to a mother and a father as a child of God, just like you. You choose to be part of a movement. It can be a tree house on a piece of property. You can walk the property and not get in the tree house. You choose to walk into the tree house. But I have a choice, too, and I don't want to be part of that. I don't want to be part of that. Folks, this last year, man, has been It's been one of those years of your life you'll never forget. No, no. There are years of your life that are very forgettable. Everyone's. In some years, not a lot of stuff happens.
Go You're at work, you're 9: 00 to 5: 00, you come home, and then you have years where everything happens. It's like the world changes. What's that line that's been repeated so often? Decades go by and nothing happens, and then days go by and decades happen. I didn't make that line up. It's, forgive me for the quote, but that was last year for me. About 30 years of my life happened in one year. But I can tell you a couple of hours That felt like decades. It was sitting there on the campus where Charlie was shot in the neck and looking at that table. It's one of those moments where just timed It doesn't seem real. Time is a consistent metric, right? A second is a second. Whether it happens now or happens an hour from now, it's still a standard measure of the chronological passage A measure of time. No, it's not. Those weren't seconds. Those were hours. It was weird because I didn't... I didn't really know how to process I was nervous what was going on because everyone was staring at me and I didn't know. I just wanted a moment. All I could think about All I could think about was Charlie's...
All I could think about was the children there, the daughter. Where's Daddy? That's all I could think about. I kept thinking about how when young children, sons and daughters, lose their parents, all I kept thinking about in the seconds that seemed like hours, all I kept thinking about is, at what point did they wake up and accept the fact that dad isn't coming home? Now, We live in this view-centric streamer-eyeball culture that has a lot of positive benefit. But one of the downsides of it is information that's created is never destroyed. So once you create something like this, bride of Charlie or whatever it is, and I have no doubt millions of people watch it. She has an incredibly large audience. That's just the fact. You ever think a bunch of young kids and grandkids one day are going to see this? I'm telling you, man, that experience. There was never a time in the past year when I was there, and I had told them I'd work through January, but there was never a time there more that I felt like I needed to say something and couldn't, was sitting there on that campus at that scene.
Yesterday, I was covering on the show this show. I called it Show Your Ass Theory on the left. I said it jokingly, something I brought up often. And how the left has to prove their bona fides to their fellow anti-Trump crazies, how they have to constantly one up themselves. Someone calls Trump a racist. Someone says, he's not a racist. He's a racist and a fascist. And then someone has to say, well, you know what? I'm the real true anti-Trumper. He's not only a racist and a fascist. He's a bigot. He hates Jews. And he was a founding member of the KKK or something. And it just gets the elevation of crazy becomes a mechanism to show your ideological purity, whether for or against anything. We're seeing this in people who are claiming the mantle of our side, too. To, where it's not enough to suggest you had questions about what happened that day, and how you have this, and then it's, well, she did it. Folks, we have to excise this cancer, or we'll kill the host. Listen to what I'm telling you. Whether you, again, love my show, hate my show, love me or hate me, and I got a lot of people who really hate me.
You can't deny the fact that I've been around this movement for a long time. Been on the candidate side, the security side, the political appointee side, the radio side, the TV side, the podcast side. I'm a nomad. I like to do a lot of things, and I like to do them quickly. Written a few books here or there. Who gives a shit? I'm telling you, having been here over a decade now in this, no movement can survive this. It can't. It can't. I want to bring up another point. I'm being very careful about how I discussed the family intentionally. You may have sensed that. I mentioned yesterday that I don't talk about it much because of, again, the Streisand effect, the Francesca effect, too, if you want to look that up. But we've had, and the reason I don't, by the way, is not because it's not interesting for all the wrong reasons. It's just I don't want to draw any more attention. We have had some rather significant security issues here as well. But folks, I'm 6'2, 210 pounds, okay? I'm generally okay. I think so. We'll see. Even in An old 51 years old, I don't walk around all day terrified about my security situation.
Maybe I should, but I don't. I'm nobody's victim. I chose a public life, and sadly, this is a part of it. Erica didn't choose this, man. She didn't choose this. Imagine sitting there In your house and you find out from Twitter, or I don't know, a text, or a phone call, that your husband was just shot in the neck for the entire world to see on social media at a public event. I can't imagine that. I know you can't either. Then you got to go through this. Then you got a bunch of absolute fucking lunatics sending her emails. You did it. Comments, tweets. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Go fuck yourself, you demonic fucking scum. For as much as I hate What just happened, I wish ill on no one, and everyone should restrain their emotions from the other side because they are not on our side. Everyone. Once you go down the road of violence, there's no turning back. There's always someone stronger than you, man. Always. There's a whole lot of people stronger than me. But I'm sorry If the language distracts from you, but I can think of no other New York way to say it, then fuck you, motherfuckers.
You deserve to feel the little licks of the flames of hell on every inch of your body. Fuck you. If there's an afterlife, and I believe there is, I believe in the second creation. I don't pretend to be the judge and jury, but I know you're not in it. I got to tell you, I've been doing this for a really long time now. As I said in the beginning of the show, I walked into this into the dark forest. I didn't know where it was going to go. I did not have this all mapped out. Because I don't know what to say. People have tried being nice. People have tried screaming and yelling. People have tried a middle-of-the-road approach. Nothing works. Ignore it, it metastasizes. Address it, it metastasizes. I wish I had the answer. I can only make decisions for me. I can't make decisions for you as to what you want to watch or what you don't. This isn't about views or who's popular or Who's this? I don't care. I'm just telling you I'm making a decision for me now. I don't want to be any part of that. If you're a part of that, please leave.
If half my audience disappears tomorrow, good riddance. Sayonara, motherfuckers. I don't want you. Nobody else wants you here. The people who watch this show I don't want you here. Sane people, and that is the majority of us, hate your guts. We don't want you. Nobody wants you. You are the spawn of Satan. I promise your parents, alive or dead, are looking at you now in horror that they spawn the demon. Your last name will live in infamy. Your kids will deny knowing you. I don't want anything to do with you. I I see you out there. I know exactly what you're doing. You can just go. It's not an airport. You don't have to announce your fucking departure. Just go. I'm the anti-clicks view guy. I don't want you, your views, your clicks, nothing. Don't buy anything. Don't do anything. Don't touch anything we do. Just go away. I know you can't because you have to spread your cancer everywhere. But we've got warriors in this audience, too, who don't want to listen to your fucking bullshit either. Are we clear with each other? You can just get the fuck out. I want to tell you something, too, for those of you who've lost hope, because there's an audience for this shit, and it's not small.
Do not dilute yourselves. This is not a small audience. It's not. But folks, I'm a business guy, too. I have other shows. Bongino Inc. Is not just me, it's other people. I live in this space all the time. There is an audience for this stuff. It's sad. I wish we didn't live in a world where there was, but it's very real. But I want you to hold out this little glimmer of hope. I've seen this before. People do not want to be lied to. Folks, I'm sorry, but even morons don't want to be lied to. Because what winds up happening is the morons then go to some cocktail party and spout their moronic bullshit. And then everyone at the party starts laughing at them, and the social isolation becomes too much. No. Yes. I'll give you an example. When I was a kid, I may age myself. Do you guys remember Morton Downey Jr? Morton Downey Jr had this shock jock type TV show, and it exploded. If you don't remember who he is, you're actually making my point, if you're my age. Even if you're not my age, you're still making my point. You know who Oprah Winfrey is, right?
Yeah, I know Oprah. Exactly. Morton Downey Jr. At At one point, he was doing ratings on this TV show. There'd be fights on the show. It was like pre-Jerry Springer stuff. He was doing this TV show, and the ratings at one point rivaled like Oprah Winfrey. I never even heard of this guy. Well, the reason is an incident happened in an airport at the end. Some people said it was a hoax. He said it wasn't. He said he was attacked by some neo-nazis. A lot of people called BS. He since died. That was the end of Morton Downey Jr. And his show because a lot of people felt like, I'm being bullshitted here. I'll bring it up with Sean Farish later, but you see the same thing with Rachel Maddow's show on MSNOW or NBC, Well, previously. Rachel Madau built a career off the Russia hoax. Russia. Everything was Russia. Screaming about Russia and all the fiction that was made about all the fables about Russia. Folks, That show for four years was killing it. I know. I was in the business. People couldn't believe the ratings that thing was doing. I know she's left her Nightly Show.
I don't know. She does a night a week now, whatever. She still has a relatively popular podcast, but she's nowhere near the present she was in the liberal content space, because eventually people get tired of being bullshitted. I want you to keep in mind that glimmer of Eventually, over time, I'm not going to say good content wins, but truthful content wins. That's good. Folks, I say this because I'm given my prior experience in both of the spaces. I am extremely concerned about the security situation developing with both the President, Erica, and others. It's unfathomable how we live in a world where lunatics try to kill Donald Trump on a pretty, sadly regular basis now. Then you've got other lunatics now out there, spurring other crazies who may be able or may be looking at doing the same thing to others. It's just unfathomable that you would do that. This is no form of truth-seeking, folks. Let's not play the euphemism's game. This is about one thing and one thing only. Making your ego the center of the entire universe. How many of these incidents do we need to see? A guy just showed up in Mar-a-Lago where the shotgun in a gas can was killed.
President Trump was shot in the head in Butler, Pennsylvania. Ryan Ralph was just convicted of an attempt to assassinate him on a golf course in Palm Beach. Folks, the secret Their service, through their protective intelligence, doesn't even expose to the public the litany of threats this President gets every single day. He's the most threatened man in the known Cosmos, and we're still doing this? Bride of Charlie? There's no movement I want to be a part of, man. I'd rather have 20 viewers out there. Laura Trump was on. Laura Trump was obviously her father-in-law, President Trump, married to Eric. Laura Trump was on Fox discussing exactly this point, how much can one man possibly take? Is there ever a point where some of these lunatics are going to say, Okay, now I've crossed the red line? I thought I knew the answer to that. I can't say that anymore. Listen to Laura Trump.
Yeah, well, first of all, I want to commend the United States Secret Service and the Palm Beach County Sheriff's office. They did an incredible job. Obviously, there were no innocent people who were harmed in this. But you're right, Ainsley. I would like to say I am surprised by this, but sadly, I'm not because this is the third time in two years someone has tried to murder my father-in-law, our President of the United States. You would think that something like this would encourage everyone, Republicans, independents, and yes, even Democrats, to stand up and say, You know what? We can't operate like this. This stuff isn't okay. It's been deafeningly silent from one side of the political aisle. I will say I've heard a lot of Republicans come and speak out against this in the past 24 hours. Not a lot of folks from the left, and that is noted by almost everyone in this country.
How much more of this are we going to accept? It's not infighting, man. It's they're not us. They are not part of us. They will never be part of us. He This people out there, whether it anything from what's going on right now with Candice and this bride of Charlie, to this unbelievably serious and tragic now decades long case with Epstein, where it's evolved from this unspeakable tragedy about what happened to Donald Trump Eats Babies. Folks, a compass doesn't work if we don't have a measure a true north. A movement that devolves into chaos that has no barometer for what true north is is always going to get lost in the forest, man. There's no way around it. You see what's happening? Do you see what's happening to this movement? People who realize they can't defeat it from the outside are practicing Yuri Besmanov's warnings about at the old Soviet Union. Well, if we can't beat it from the outside, we might as well get some subversives from the inside to kill the host in an internal cancer. Well, I want to be the CRISPR immune technology that attacks that cancer and wipes it out.
If it's at my expense, fine. But you've had people out there fighting this fight for a long time, folks: Seth Dylan, Ben Shapiro, Graham Allen. I will never forget that day, ever sitting there. I got to tell you, not in a thousand lifetimes did I ever think we'd be here having a conversation about a investigative series called Bride of Charlie. This is fucking revolting. I don't even know how to like it. Like I said, I walked into the show, into the dark forest here. I've usually got a better idea of and segues and all that. That's how you produce a show. But I don't know what else to say. I just don't. I do have a lot to get to, though. Obviously, It's a huge news day. There's just a ton of stuff going on. We got the State of the Union tonight on a more positive note. President Trump now has tens of millions of viewers and a captive audience to tell the country and the doomers and the liberal media and others about how the world is not collapsing. I use the analogy of a report card. A report card is only a good barometer of where you stand academically if it actually measures what you're doing.
If a report If a report card gave you all Fs and you got 100 on a test, you'd give up because there's no reason to study for a test, you're going to fail anyway. In the other direction, if a report card gave you all As and you got 60s on every test, it's a reason for you to keep being lazy because you know you're going to get an A even if you don't study. The only way a report card, which the State of the Union works as a tool, is if we're honest and we don't fall prey to doomerism, but we don't fall prey to Polyanaish nonsense either. I'm never going to do that. The State of the Union tonight is a good opportunity to reset a lot of the doomerism out there that has been crushing, crushing enthusiasm for the party in the great country you live in. All right, I'm going to take a break and get to some other things, too. Something that happened yesterday in the media. Folks, the overt efforts to attack masculinity and the overt efforts to push this DEI, overly feminized culture, you're seeing it everywhere. And there's been a revolt against Against that, too, the toxic masculinity argument.
You're seeing it, and it leaves me with a sense of pride that the America you and I both know, built on pure unadulterated Masculinity is back. I'll show you what I mean. It involves Pete Hegset and some others. See what I mean coming up in a second. Let me take a quick break and reset. I appreciate you all being here and hearing me out That was important. Hey, I've been asked this question many times. How can I help protect my family without taking a life? Let me tell you about a product I've used for a while, Berna, B-Y-Y-R-N-A. I have a Berna. I actually have a couple. The guys I have them, too. Let me tell you, I trust it. Berna's less than lethal launcher fires powerful kinetic and chemical rounds that can incapacitate an attacker for up to 30 minutes. This could give you enough time to get away or call for help. Berna's new compact launcher is about the size of a smartphone. It's easy to carry, easy to use, and there's no background check required. The Berna CL, B-Y-Y-R-N-A, Berna CL, fires at up to 400 feet per second with serious stopping power and was designed to help with de-escalation, not devastation.
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It's just the left doesn't even know what it is. So it's hard for the right. It's almost like what's that old line about what is it about, about porn? You know it when you see it. It's hard to describe. That's cancel culture. It's like porn for the left. You know it when you see it, too. But the one way I heard it described, and forgive me, I always had to, but I'm 51. I don't remember everything I've read attribution-wise over the course of the last 40 plus years. The best way I've ever heard it described is that these people on the left view this faux war, because they really don't mean it, toxic masculinity. They don't believe any of that crap. It's just nonsense. It's a proxy war for them because they believe that the white male patriarchy is the source of power. That's where the power resides. And that all knowledge derived from that is simply a construct of power. Now, that's not exactly how I read it, but that's how I've tattooed it on my brain over the years. And that's how you get these stupid ideas amongst the DEI, progressive, commi left, neo commi left, where they say things like, well, math is racist.
No, math is math, folks. Five plus five equals 10. It doesn't matter what your race is. Now, if you're listening there, you go, Dan, again, hello, Captain Obvious. No, it's not Captain Obvious to the left. The left I suppose five plus five is 10. But again, if it's taught to you by a member of the white male patriarchy that is the nucleus of what they consider power, then every single bit of knowledge extracting Directed from that power should be questioned. Does it make sense now? That's why they pump this bullshit down your throat about toxic masculinity. It's to get you to question what they consider is the nucleus of all power, the white male patriarchy. Folks, it's all bullshit. I'm not going to try to explain what the white male patriarchy is because there's no such thing. I happen to be white. I happen to be male. I'm not part of any tree house club while we're talking about infighting versus outfighting that says, Sign up here for your patriarchy card. Nobody knows what they're talking about. Trying to get the language under control after opening up with that tirade. Nobody knows what they're talking about.
That's why it's hard to describe it. People get crossed up all the time. Tell me about DEI, critical race theory. There's a thousand definitions because the left doesn't even know what it means. The white male... What is lefty? Dear lefty, what's the white male patriarchy? Who's a member? Who's not? Oh, you are. You have all the power in the world. Power in the world. I was born to a mother who worked in finest supermarket at 64th place in Myrtle Avenue at the checkout counter for $3 an hour. What the hell source of power was at? Oh, you have power now. A microphone. No one gave me this shit. We started a podcast in my basement, me and producer Joe, God rest his soul. We got 100 listens, and We thought it was the greatest thing ever. That's why you see these constant attacks on America getting back to respecting and adoring what got us here, masculinity. That doesn't diminish the role of great women in society. But it fairly acknowledges the role that great men have had. I bring it up because you saw, of It was the fake, and it was fake, the fake outrage.
I was on Fox last night talking about it over a cash drinking a beer in the locker room. They invited him in. He was like, Folks, as I said last night on Fox, I don't give a damn. He loves the USA, he loves hockey. And as I said last night, I guess he loves beer. I thought he was a bourbon guy. They invite him in the locker room. We have a huge footprint in Olympic security. There's a lot of things that were going on that he can't even talk about. And that's why I have to be careful, too, what I say. But there's a reason he was there. Whether you believe it or not, you were love. Again, I thought, I don't give a shit. Get the fuck out. I don't care. You don't have to believe it. You weren't there. I'm not really interested. The point is the outrage... And by the way, you have the right to an opinion on it. I don't like it. You shouldn't have done it. Fine. That's your opinion. Great. I don't care. The outrage is fake. I'll prove it to you because it's not about him. It's about attacking every single member of the Trump team that engages any of this type behavior that celebrates manhood, testosterone, bravery, courage, strength, any of these attributes you would associate with traditional masculinity.
They've got to bash all the time. Sometimes a guy just likes sports, wants to drink a beer. Here's what I'm talking about. I saw this tweet pop up on my timeline yesterday. I wanted to vomit. This is Amora C. Sullivan. As a Marine, I learned to put Mission First and focused on winning our nation's wars. Well, thank you for your service. I mean it. It doesn't mean your opinion is valid. If the Secretary of War, Pete Hegsa, wants to be a third-rate fitness influencer, he should go do that. And let a qualified adult run the Pentagon. What's the big brouhaha about this time? First, it was cash drink and a beer. So Pete, who's, by the way, 45 years old, Did a motivational video working out with the guys, where he bench press, obviously, 315 pounds, which if you know Pete, I don't know what Pete weighs. He's pretty tall. He's taller than me. Maybe he's about 210. That's pretty Pretty darn impressive. Folks, listen to me. I've been lifting a long time. I benched 315 when I was like 21. I don't even think I could bench 225 anymore. And we're about the same weight.
I'm just a few years older. That's pretty freaking impressive. It doesn't matter if it was impressive. Who's back? The Daily Yeast author. Remember from the other day, Anna Bella-Rosciglioni, who I'm pretty sure can't bench 3. 1 pounds. Pentagon Pete, Can't stop posting cringe workout videos. Why does it bother you that the Secretary of War, to instill a culture of pride in physical conditioning and to lead from the front, is posting videos meant to motivate the others out there who maybe don't want to work out or in a fighting for us. Oh, I don't do. Now he's saying, look, if I'm doing it, you have to do it, too. If I'm going to run the place, then you're going to do it, too. The point is, it's all bullshit. I promise you, if that was Joe Biden, forget Joe. If that was Joe Biden benching 100 pounds, they would have been like, oh, my gosh, look at this guy. Look at the vitality. He looks like a young Lou Farigno. Remember, Joe Biden, when he fell off the bike, they were sitting there, they were like, oh, my God, look at the athleticism as he couldn't get his...
If he would have been able to get his feet out of the clips, he would have jumped up and done a complete backflip. So Folks, they hate every single thing America stands for. And America has been built on this bedrock of hell to the... Yeah, we are going to be aggressive, we are going to be entrepreneurial, we are going to take risks. Those are all attributes that have been associated with traditional versions of manhood. And when you're a leftist and you believe the white male patriarchy is the source of all power, is the the nucleus of all power, and that knowledge comes from that, every bit of knowledge that comes from the patriarchy needs to be questioned, whether it's math or not. This is the stuff you engage in. Annabella Riscoglioni, who didn't know a damn thing about the President's Daily Brief and humiliated herself in yet another stupid article. This is what the US is really about. Did you see the US men's hockey team? No, I know the victory. You saw that. So the US men's hockey team, which just won the gold against Canada in an unbelievable performance. And is it a comparison to Miracle on Ice?
Probably not. Miracle on Ice was a miracle. There's no way a group of college kids should have beat the Soviet team. No way. It's been like you hitting a home run off Roger Clemens. And I mean you, like the person in the chat right now who's never played baseball in your life. That's the equivalent of what happened with the Miracle on Ice. But there's no taking away that this was an amazing moment for a great country, and the players could not have handled it in any more of a patriotic or dignified manner. God bless him. But showing you this is a hell-year moment. Sometimes it's okay to crack a beer or do whatever you celebrate a little bit. We don't have to be a bunch of stiffs all the time. The US team, because of the snowstorm in the Northeast, they were supposed to fly back to JFK. That got diverted to an airport I know all too well, Miami. Well, one thing about Miami, which you Some fellows might know, maybe not. Miami is quite a party town. I spend a lot of time in Miami. Paul and I, I love Miami. It is my second favorite place on Earth, next to my home.
If you haven't visited and you're a conservative, please come down. If you're a liberal, place is closed. No more new admittance, sorry. They decided to pop into a club, the USA Hockey. And good for you guys. I know the stiffs out there. Oh, my gosh, I Are you in a club? Yes. This is what happened when they popped in the club. Check this. Now that's me some America. And that's what Anabela Risciglioni, The Daily Yeast, And all these leftist lunatics are so, so eager to destroy. Folks, it's an imperfect country. That's fairly obvious. Look at that chat blowing up. You guys are going to melt the chat down. Look at that chat. American flags everywhere. God bless you all. I love being part of this. Amen, brother. I can't even stop it now. I was trying to stop. Hold on. Let me hear that. Chris Broil. I said, K-R-I-I-L. B-r-o-y-l-e-s. Look at that chat. Man, you're going to cause a technical meltdown at Rumbel. Oh, you guys are the best. That's why I love being here. That's why I never worry about all this stuff, man. I don't. I don't worry about it. I am just always honored to live in this amazing country at this amazing time, to haven't served multiple times, and to just be surrounded by amazing people like you and just have you just let that thing roll, man.
Look at that chat. We haven't had that chat fly like that in a long time, man. Chris is going to call me from Rumbble, be like, They melted the chat again. People love this country. I love this country. And there's so many good things happening. All we need is a report card. Not everybody needs an A, but not everything's an F either. We got the State of the Union coming up tonight. It's the opportunity for you all to stand up and clap and go, My gosh, we've got China building a nuclear arsenal, the Russians in a war in Ukraine. We got all this stuff going on. Congo, Rwanda. You've got UAE versus Saudi and all these places. You've got drug wars. And you know what? The United States is still kicking ass and taking names. It's incredible. You have been blessed to be born in the... Think about this. In the most incredible country at the most incredible time. Folks, there has not That has ever been a person born before you that has ever been born into a world so wealthy, thanks to the production power and military might of this amazing country we call the United States of America.
And you damn well better be proud of it. I'm proud, Pegsets, Benchan, 315. I'm actually quite jealous in the most manpanian way. I'm damn happy that Cash down to Brusky. Good. I'm damn proud that President Trump continues to rack up Ws despite two fake impeachments, 62,000 fake criminal investigations, massive weaponization against him, and just about every single piece of the media telling you he's a fascist, racist, Nazi every day. I'm proud of him, given the double-barrel middle finger to all of these dips shit and still racking up a win-loss record we've never seen. Folks, elections are about choices, man. Elections are about choices. That's a stupid cliché. Yeah, because it's true. An election is a choice, sometimes binary, sometimes more than that. But in a Republic, elections are about choices. Why am I saying the fairly obvious? Because those choices have to be made on on results, not on talk. They have to be made on results. He is going to have the opportunity tonight to lay out some of those results, so hopefully you can make a choice in November about what direction you want the party to go in. Those are going to be imperfect choices.
Some of you out there, and you know who you are, have really shitty congressmen who are on the ballot. I'm not talking about Democrats. I don't vote for Democrats ever, period, end the story. Some of you are bad congressmen. You just do. They're rhinos, they're fake Republicans. I'm telling you the alternative in this level 10 choice you have, where you have a shitty choice and a shittier one, is a Democrat who's going to impeach your President and screw the whole country up for the next two years. I can't have anyone fall prey to a report card that's all Fs and doomerism. And here's what I mean. The Democrats are more than happy to do this through their media outlets at the New York Times and elsewhere. I saw this piece. I mentioned it yesterday, but there was so much in this disgusting, horrifying piece out of the New York Times. So much gas S-Lighting. You'll leave that on the screen for a minute. That I wanted to just do a segment on this just briefly before we get to Sean Farish. The piece I rarely would send you, the New York Times, but I encourage you to actually read this just to see the insanity we're dealing with.
The piece is titled, Trump claims a Historic Turnaround for the US. Here are the facts. Folks, this piece is nuts. Every single Trump W, and I'm not going to go through every single one they address. I'm going to go through about four of them. Every single huge enormous Trump W, they have an explanation for that's absolute horseshit. If this was so easy to do to get inflation down from Biden's 9% peak, then why didn't Biden do it? If it was so easy to get the crime rates and murder rates, not not the same thing, murder is a crime, but not all crimes are murder, to historic low levels we've never seen in American history, then why didn't team Biden do it? Let's go through this piece one by one, because I want you to be able to dissect this bullshit piece by piece. Here's their explanation on inflation. This is freaking hilarious. They're talking about how Donald Trump inherited the worst inflation in the history of the country. Now we have almost no inflation. They said, That's false. Inflation has slowed under President Trump, and they call him Mr. Trump, President Trump, but not by drastic margins he's claiming.
And the prices are still increasing above the 2 % set by the Federal Reserve. So if you're a lunatic or a doomer and you read that, you're like, oh, wow, President Trump really didn't do anything about inflation. But I remember inflation hitting nine % under Joe Biden, and it's leveled off at about 2. 4 % now. So listen, I'm not a math major, but I'm reasonably confident 2. 4 is less than nine. Anyone in the chat disagree? I'm There's some charts up on this, too. And you'll notice a pattern if you can actually do data analysis or if your eyeballs even work. Wow, you'll notice that in June of 2022. Do you guys know who the President was, Justin, in 2022? I don't remember. In June of 2022, during the Biden presidency, Justin's confused. He's like, I wasn't ready for that question. It He forgot him. He's got his hoodie on in there. It looks like he just got off a weekend bender. In June of 2022, this is the New York Times' own chart to debunk that Trump has not been like a warrior against inflation. You see 9. 1%. It's their own chart, bro.
Just look at it. And then you see the Trump year, January 2026. Who's President then? 2. 4. 9. 1? 2. 4. 9. 1? 2. 4. This is their own chart. How do you explain? I don't understand how you explain it. How are you looking at this chart if you're a liberal lunatic and not thinking, wow, Trump's got a point. Is inflation zero? No, it's not zero. And the New York Times, see, because I'll give you the truth, I'm not going to bullshit you like the New York Times. The Fed does set a target of 2 % inflation. I think it should be zero %. That's not my call. The Fed sets it to two. So it is above at 2. 4. At Biden, it was nine. Can you not do math? Believe it or not, this article gets even worse. This article, the President If I were the President, I would whip this article out of my pocket at the State of the Union today and point to the New York Times own charts. Here was a Biden peak. Here's inflation now. Here's the job numbers. They're like, President President Trump really ended up being that great on jobs.
And then in the actual graph, I am not bullshitting you. These are the graphs in the New York Times piece. That's why I'm encouraging you to read it. In the actual piece, it says more people are in the workforce, but the % employed is flat under Trump. So in other words, despite massive deportations of illegals who should not have been here, tens of millions of people, and President Trump, leave this chart up a second, shrinking the federal government workforce, which was a necessary downsizing, by 10 %, quote, more people are still in the workforce. It's right there in their own chart. Oh, you're right. He's been terrible about jobs. Shrinking the government workforce, deportations of illegals, And yet more people are in the workforce now. It's their own chart, bro. I swear to you, if I was the President, I would whip this thing out. I'd be like, Look, fellows, this is your This is your own chart. This is your own chart. It gets better. Something I was involved in with many other partners under the President's leadership, it's not about you. The murder rate and the crime rate, why would that be important?
Well, the number one rule of the Dan Bonchino show is don't get freaking dead, because if you're dead, you're dead. When you're dead, there's no coming back. You know why there's no coming back? Because you're dead. They give this quote about Donald Trump in an NBC interview about crime being a mess in the past. It's the lowest crime we've had in 100 years since 1900. This is exaggerated. President Trump has a point. Andrew, you laughing at this? They note, so President Trump is taking a victory lap on crime. Then this is their words, not mine. President Trump has a point that homicides are projected to reach a 125-year low in 2025, and broader categories of crime, too, are projected to decline. They know, here's the caveat, but that did not represent a stark reversal from 2024. Wait, it gets better. Put up the next one about the property crime, the charge of it. It's the New York Times own piece? Here's the headline in the graph, in the piece. Here's the headline, In the RAPH into peace. I'm sorry, man. This is freaking hilarious. Homicides expected to hit a historic low, but were declining before Trump took office.
Look at the numbers. You see this dramatic dip at the end. That's the Trump presidency for the liberal dipss that can't read a chart. That at the end, all the way over there at the end of the screen. Those are the Trump years, 25 into 26. And not only do you see a drop, but you see a percentage drop that's never been seen in American history. So in other words, Trump comes into office and historical crime trends due to police technology were going down, no doubt. You see it in the chart yourself. However, he comes When you go in to office, I want you to think about something. Did you ever hear about the law of diminishing returns? I don't want to try to sound like Captain Smarty Pants, but you know what I mean. When you go into a neighborhood I'll give you an example. I'm not going to say what place, but when we were doing an FBI op, I don't know, I'll call it Operation Bluetooth. That wasn't the name of it. But we went in early and we basically cleaned this place out. We did a felony warrants operation with the locals and probably locked up a couple of hundred people in a relatively small place.
And folks, the crime rate collapsed dramatically, almost overnight, because not a lot of people commit crime. It's not a big mystery. The point is, we went back in later, and I'll never forget, was it the police chief or the mayor who called? We did a lot of these ops. And he's like, Hey, guys, we appreciate the help, and we welcome it, but we're running out of bad guys to catch. That's the whole point. Donald Trump came into office with crime trending down over decades and still managed not only to make it the lowest it's ever been, but the percentage drop is also the biggest percentage drop we've ever seen, and they still can't give them credit for it. You may say, what about property crime and all that other stuff? Okay, I'll go to the New York Times on Peace. I'm telling you, the President should keep this in his pocket, whip this sucker out tonight and use this piece. Put up that piece there about property crime. It says not only are homicides gone down, but these are general crimes, too, that have gone down. There's another piece on that. Property crimes. It says, While the Council on Criminal Justice did not release estimates for violent or property crimes for 2025, this guy that they're signing here believes preliminary data shows declines in those broader categories, too.
This is the times. Trump sucks. Here's all the things he did really well, though, that we're telling you he sucks about. One last one, and I'll move on. Here he is on the border. They're trying to attack him on his border success. This is saying, This is as big a deal as you think. That, ladies and gentlemen, is called the chart, a bar graph. Look at the chart if you listen on Apple and Spotify. I'll give you the headline of the chart. You don't even need to look at it. This is in the New York Times' own piece, Trump sucks on the border. Headline, Illegal border crossings are sharply down under Trump. This is their own piece, man. It's their own piece. If I were a conservative, a MAGA movement person, a libertarian, I would print this New York Times piece or bookmark it and keep a copy with me and hand it out to your liberal friends and say, Can you guys explain all this to me? If Trump's report card is all Fs, how come the New York Times is giving them all As and telling you they're all Fs? How come that's happening?
How come that's happening? You see why I get so pissed off at the doomers out there? I'm all about accountability and transparency. There are a lot of things that still have to happen. We got three more years. But you're never going to gage your academic or professional workforce success by giving everybody Fs all the time because someone pissed in your freaking cheerios, and you didn't get a job or whatever. It's freaking frustrating, man. And what's the alternative? What are you going to vote for in November? Are you going to vote for the Democrats? What are the Democrats offering you? You want to see how bad it is for the Democrats right now? In case you think there's some blue dog viable alternative that better represents my world of you, unless you believe in weaponized government, high taxes, government-run health care, and sitting in an emergency room all day because you can't find a freaking doctor dying of an infection, that party ain't for you, man. Do you guys know this clip? It's a little over a minute, but it's worth your time. Sorry for the sniffles there. I'm not sick, but it's very cold in here.
It's like 45 degrees, intentionally. You guys know Farid Zaharia from CNN? This guy is a CNN guy. He's obviously a lefty. I saw this segment yesterday. I debated putting... This is Farid Zaharia talking about the Democrat big city policies and how all the promises they've made are just falling apart. This was on CNN. This is your alternative. They're turning on their own people. They're like, Hey, man, this mom, Dommy has been in office just a little bit. You're asking for all this money for all these people, and you're producing shit and garbage. This is not the Dan Bongetto show. Well, it is. This is Farid Zaharia. Check this out. Zoran Mamdani ran on a promise to make New York affordable.
A mandate for a city we can afford.
Last week, he unveiled a budget that is, in a word, unaffordable. New York City's budget has balloon in recent years, and much of it has happened as the city has been losing the one thing that makes big government easier to finance: people. New York City's population fell sharply amid the pandemic, with a 5% decline from April 2020 to July 2022. The arithmetic is brutal. A larger bill is divided among fewer payers. New York already sits at the extreme end of the American tax spectrum. For high earners, the combined state plus city income tax reaches 14. 776%, and federal taxes and the combined marginal rate can exceed 50%, reaching roughly 55% on certain investment income. Zoran Mamdani's basic instinct is correct. Focus on affordability, especially housing, but not by providing government subsidies. These only seem to have driven up the cost of rent as subsidies naturally do. The city's rental assistance spending rose from 263 million in fiscal year 2020 to 1. 34 billion in the most recently reported fiscal year. That is a five times increase in a handful of years, and housing costs only got get worse. Matt Iglesias persuasively argues that the city should make it easy and routine to just build abundant market rate housing.
That will bring in more people, expand the tax base, fill the schools, and increase local GDP. Why am I playing this now? I'm playing this now because I always like to have tendons and ligaments tie the show together, because people think in narratives. They do. They think in stories, and the The story should make sense. It should have chapters, but it should make sense. I talked about in the beginning of the show how what's perceived to be infighting on the right has to be outfighting. These people cannot be a part of this movement. If they are, I have to become my own movement. I don't care. I just don't want to be a part of that. But I don't want you to think that any of this is anyhow... There's nothing new under the sun, folks. Political fighting, intraparty, extraparty, is as old as time as itself. You're allowed to have different ideas. I don't believe in any way in censorship. But I played this clip because I don't want you to think like this is an exclusive problem on the right. I say that with air quotes because Some of these people, like I said, aren't on the right.
They're just pretending to be. The left is having this very same problem. Friedmann told Walter Williams, When you talk about liberty, talk about it with a smile. You live in the greatest country on Earth. There are problems to fix. There's no need to live with this black cloud like, Oh, this is the worst thing ever. Everything's fallen apart. Nothing's fallen apart. We're going to be fine in the end. People always seek truth in the end. But the left is having this same issue. They keep promising people things are going to get better as things get worse. And just like Morton Downey Jr. Or Rachel Maddow's ratings, eventually over time, people get tired of being lied to. No, they don't. Yes, they do. It takes time, a long time. But it happens. New York City is not there yet. They're not. Dan, they won't get there. They will. It may not be in the next 10 years, but I promise, when things get bad enough, they will. Remember that shirt we used to have? Are things bad enough yet? They're not bad enough for people in New York yet. Don't tell me it's not going to happen.
I lived it. I lived in New York. I worked there as a police officer in the Giuliani years. Giuliani ran for mayor in New York. Yeah, he won. No, he didn't. He lost. He did? Yes. Go look it up. He ran against Stinkins, David Dinkins. They called them Stinkins, Worst Mayor ever. He lost the first time. People were like, How did he just lose? The city, folks, was 10 times It's worse than it is now. And then after he lost, things got bad enough. He comes back, he wins, and then he wins re-election against Ruth Messenger, I think by 18 points in New York, a city that was 10 to 1, Democrat to Republican. Everything I told you, whether it's podcasts, political life, goes in that scalp pattern. You have your ups, you have your downs. But conservatism is the idea that you You have this regression line that constantly goes up as you conserve the benefits and the power of good ideas resistant to time. You stick with that. Good ideas is resistant to time, and keep it as your true north and your compass, you're going to be fine. You're going to deal with a lot of bullshit.
You're going to deal with a lot of haters, a lot of Twitter heroes, a lot of scumbags. But in the end, your compass works and theirs doesn't. Things will change. They always do. Just not now. New York City wasn't ready, but they will be. It may take two terms in Mamdani for them to realize it. But you're going to get it. Exactly what you vote for, and you're going to get it good and hard. I want to play this one last piece of video, because speaking about getting the message out there, one of the things the Republican Party has not been particularly good about over the decades I've been involved, is we've not been particularly good at messaging. I know that it's overused, that term messaging, but it's overused because it's a constant problem. The Republican Party has had this problem over the years of walking into a methadone clinic and talking about the Laffer Curve. I said this often. A friend of mine gave me this example once. It's not mine. The Laffer Curve is true about marginal tax rates. Laffer, not like laughing, like Laffer, after art Laffer, L-A-F-F-E-R. You can look it up.
But people in a methadone clinic in a drug crisis don't want to hear about the freaking Laffer Curve. We've been really terrible at this. We don't make issues bleed. People have to feel them. It has to have almost a tactile touch to it. The Democrats are just really good at this, playing on people's intentions and their lack of results. That's why they win a lot. They never win on results. They don't have any. Every place they're in charge basically sucks. The master of this, however, is Donald Trump. Nobody knows how to use messaging to get a point across. When messaging is a real thing, folks. People have to feel an issue to be motivated to vote on it. I applaud him for making this illegal immigration issue that has plagued our country for decades very real, and him finally fixing it. It was a very emotional event yesterday. It was on the same time as our show. I know a lot of people are watching it and watched later on demand. But he had a bill signing at the White House involving illegal immigration, and he had a Palm Beach County police officer up on the state floor of the White House who gave just an unbelievable just quick brief speech.
This is just a snippet of it, but you should listen to this. Check out.
My name is Ethan Carri. I'm a police officer in Palm Beach County, Florida, and a former New York City police officer. While serving the New York City Police Department, I personally arrested Jose Ibarra for endangering the welfare of a child. A few months later, I saw was faced again in the news after he viciously murdered Lake Emreili. I did my job. I put him in custody.
The system failed.
No detainer, no accountability, no deportation, and an innocent American life was taken. If you enter our country illegally, there will be consequences under this administration.
The American citizens must always come first.
To Lake and Reilly's family, your loss should have never happened. We owe it to you and every American family to enforce our laws, secure our border, and protect innocent lives.
God bless you, sir. You're darn right. Thank you for your service. Thank you, President Trump, for allowing us to hear from this fine gentleman. It's how it's done. We're human beings, folks. We're not Tesla robots, okay? God bless you with a set of emotions and feels or whatever you want to call them. It's a gift. Only you're like that. You have all the AI you want. It It feels nothing, and it never will. It can fake it, it can simulate it. But I promise you, what you felt when you listened to that was very real. There's no faking anything. I hope to hear more of that at the State of the Union tonight, which we'll obviously cover in detail tomorrow. I have coming up next for you a guy I know a lot of you in the chat really love, Sean Farish. I want you to look him up on X and Rumbly. He has his own show on Rumbly called ungoverned. It's Sean with a W-N-S-H-A-W-N, Farish, F-A-R-A-S-H. I promise you're going to love this guy. You may have seen him in some of the Trump impersonation, but he's far deeper than Trump impersonations.
That's just a small fraction of what he does. So I've got him coming up, standing by. So stay tuned. Get ready for one of the best interviews you're going to see in a long time. The guy's fantastic. Folks, I've been on the inside seeing how a lot of these government programs work. It's a lot more broken than you can you can imagine. One of the most broken systems I've addressed often on the show is Medicare. Most people think they're getting accurate information. Some Medicare agents might push Medicare Advantage Plans because that's where the commissions are, not because they're actually best for you. That's why I'm telling you about Chapter. Chapter, C-H-A-P-T-E-R. Chapter doesn't work for big insurance, and they don't take marching orders from Washington. They're independent. They can help walk you through every option. Original Medicare, supplement, advantage, part D. They tell you exactly what you gain, what you give up, and what it really costs. One woman, Jill, said her Chapter advisor showed her options she didn't even see on Medicare's own website. Does that sound like a system that's working to you? It's It's gone. It's broken. If you want more clarity, here's what to do.
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Thank you, Dan. So excited and I really appreciate you having me today. I'm excited.
Well, I hope to make this a more regular segment because when I first met you, and I want you to talk about this a little bit, just how you jumped into the podcast and content creation space. Everybody said, Oh, it came out of nowhere. I used to tell people, Yeah, I'm an overnight success. It took 12 years or whatever it is. It's not the way any of this It works. You plugged away, you do a very, very, I mean, a scary good Trump impression to the point where every time Donald Trump would actually call my radio show and ask producer Jim, Is that real or is that Sean Farish? I swear you're laughing, but you know it's true. I can't even tell the difference. But you have a show at Rumbl, rumble. Com/lfatv. Look up Sean Farris, Sean with a W-N, and you can find his amazing podcast. And you've been branching out into Content Creation, and you do an amazing show. You fill in for events. How did it all start? How did you get into the space? Tell us.
Well, I'll tell you what. I've told this story before, and everyone loves it. The Dan Bungino origin story for me was I was stuck in traffic on the Tappansey Bridge in New York, and I was so mad. I needed something to listen to, and that was the first time I listened to your show, and you were flipping out going nuts. Spy. He's a spy. Spy. I'm sitting there going, This guy's great. And then I'm also sitting there saying, But this is It still sounds a little unbelievable. But you know what you do, you bring the receipts, right? So I'm sitting there going, Well, he's got the receipts. I'm going to listen to everything that Dan Bungino says. I'm a new listener to the show. And so that's where it started for me in terms of how I was introduced to your content. And why I bring that up is because when COVID hit New York, you had the phrase talk is cheap, the do matters. And everybody in New York was very upset with how Andrew Cuomo was treating us. Boot was on the We had curfews, essential versus non-essential workers. He's doing these long, drawn-out press conferences.
I was sitting at work. I worked in a paint store at the time. I took my Bluetooth speaker and broke it. I threw it across the store when I heard him use the term new normal. I said, I want absolutely no part of that. It scared the crap out of me thinking, Oh, what the new normal is going to be? We can't go out. We can't be with our friends, 10 people or less. What are we doing? And so I decided to start posting on Facebook, Hey, everybody meet me at this parking lot. Let's just put flags on our cars, and we'll do these birthday parades, right? Because you couldn't have birthday parties. And instead, we did these Trump caravans. They were doing them with the boats on Long Island. I said, Let's just do them with cars. I'd seen some of these boat ones, and I said, Oh, why don't we just go for a drive? And we did it. I thought 15, 20 people were going to show up. It was going to be a cool little thing. 300 vehicles showed up, and it turned into this massive movement. Two weeks after that, our second one, we had 5,000 vehicles showed up.
We did one down Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower. We put 10,000 on the road going from Long Island Valley Stream, or basically not Valley Stream, it was about Seaford Train Station, all the way down to Montauk. We had a plane flying around the Lighthouse. It was so cool. It was because of that movement that we started, that pushback against Cuomo and support Trump in 2020, that I got really involved in hands-on grassroots activism. We were knocking on doors to get a New York City Councilwoman. She's a Councilwoman now, Vicky Paladino, on the ballot in March. I know Vicky. She's a rock star. She's amazing. We were knocking on doors to get signatures to get her on the ballot it. And a friend of mine said, Sean, you got to go on TikTok and do that Trump thing you do. I said to him, I said, Jimmy, that's China. We don't do... I don't get along well with China, but I don't want to deal with China. He goes, No, you got to deal with China. Go on there now. I started making these videos, and it was all because of that, right? So for me, it started because I decided, like you said, talk is cheap, the do matters, so get in and start doing.
And it created this great thing. And by the way, that movement we called it the loud majority because why be silent if there's more of us than there are of them? We flipped school board seats, county executive seats. There was a lot of stuff that went on there. It's still rolling today on Long Island. A friend of mine, Kevin Smith, is running it. He was a a co founder of mine, and it's a great story there, too. But that's really how it all got started. We decided, because we were getting banned all over the place, YouTube, Facebook, that we would do three days a week, Kevin and I, and keep our group, the folks who are following us, informed. I modeled it essentially after what you were doing. We did show notes, email, and we did it on Rumbel. I made sure nobody was there. So there's a lot of watching what you did and how you built this extremely successful operation and saying, look, let's just copy and paste it. Let's make it work. And I'll tell you what, it worked. And six years later now, it's amazing to see how far your show has gotten.
I mean, number one livestream in the world. It's awesome. And the opportunities that are coming my way, I'm just so grateful, so blessed to be given every opportunity. It's awesome.
Well, Sean, the best way for you to pay that back is not to pay it back to me because I don't deserve it, because someone gave it to me, too. It's to find another great, strong, conservative personality and lift them up. I always appreciate it when people say, Hey, thanks for the advice. Thanks for taking my call on this. Take the whole model. Run with it. You deserve it. I'm not entitled to this entire audience. I'm just grateful they're here. But you're going to find someone yourself one day who's really talented, who maybe has a couple of hundred viewers, and you think this person deserves 10,000 or 100,000, and lift them up, too. It Really, that's the way to build a movement and not just make it about yourself. If it weren't for Levin and Hannity and others who gave me a shot early on when I was a big nobody, I wouldn't be in the position to help you. So the greatest thanks in the world is to lift up others. As you know, it's not about us. I want to get into some serious stuff because you have some... Like I said, you're an activist.
I know a lot of people may know you from your Twitter @shawn, again, with a W-N, @shawn_farish, F-A-R-A-S-H. How did the Trump impersonation thing even start? I mean, did you just do impersonations or did you just one day do it at a party and someone was like, Dude, that's creepy good? Because it is. It's really, really... I can't Tell the difference side by side.
It's funny you mentioned doing it at a party, right? I was actually selling Direct TV, the satellite, way back in the 2016 election cycle. And face to face, contrary to what many people may think, I was definitely a class clown in college and high school. I went to school for radio. I did a lot of people's voices and their projects and all that. But I'm selling direct TV, and I would get customers. I'm on Long Island, and they'd be talking to me and saying, If I switch, am I going to be able to keep Fox News? And I knew at that point, this is probably a conservative. So I would just look them dead in the eye, face to face, what? What's the worst they're going to do? They're going to tell me no? Okay, they're probably going to tell me no anyway. You got to go through a bunch of rejection to get sale. I looked them in the eye and I would just go, Do I look like somebody who would make you watch the fake news? We're going to make sure you have Fox News. It's going to be great. You're going to love it.
They're like, Whoa, what was that? I said, I don't know.
I'm funny.
What is sales? You want it or not? I'm saving you money. It's a great deal. I did it in there. I got out of selling cable because that went by the wayside with streaming and all of those things, and started doing that with paint. I was working for a paint company and selling paint. I said, It puts itself on the wall. It's the greatest. You look at it, it puts itself. You're not even going to have to try. It's beautiful. You look like Michelangela. I got along well with Michelangela.
I don't even need paint. I buy paint from me. I just painted my house. I paint it again.
My contractors are all blue collar guys. They were like, This is great. Trump's great. I would bump into some of these guys at rallies and stuff. It was just awesome. So that's how it became a thing. And then, as I said, we were door knocking, get a candidate on the ballot, Vicky, who's amazing, who has been just an absolute like fire cracker every single day. And a friend of mine told me, go on TikTok and do it. And I did it. And that's where it exploded. And then people came to my Twitter, and it's been like that for six years. But that's how it all got started. I was doing it selling. I did it at a work event. We were bowling. Somebody threw a strike. I told them, you knocked the pins down like Rosie O'Donnell at an all-you-could-eat buffet. By the end of the night, they were like, all right, that's enough, because some of them weren't Trump fans. But that's how we did it. It was just that fluky thing, and now it's a thing. So That's awesome.
You made it work for you as an entree, excuse me, as an entrance into the space. And that's what happened with me early on. People would call me from Fox or whatever and ask for commentary on Secret Service stories. And eventually I said, it's great. I'm happy to do that. But like you, I have other interests. And if you guys want me to comment on it, fine. And then that's how the whole thing just exploded. And you had Mark and Sean and others give me a shot, and it just blew up from there. Let me get to a serious topic I really wish we didn't have to get to. But I've seen you taking multiple very brave stands against what's going on with this. I'm using air quotes here if you're listening on Apple or Spotify against what's called infighting. Sean, a lot of what's happening right now, and I addressed it earlier in the show, whether it's just the ruthless attacks against Erica Kirk. I don't even know if ruthless is an adequate term for the almost Satanic nature of what's going on right now, the demonic nature. But, Sean, this isn't infighting, okay?
We have to think of a party, okay? You're free to have any idea you'd like, as long as you don't break the law in a Republic. But we have to think of our party like a clubhouse, almost. And the clubhouse has rules. You don't want the rules too strict or no one's going to join, and you don't want them to lose because then you're going to get people who are joining where cancer to the clubhouse. Don't pay the dues, don't want to do any of the work, don't want to the clubhouse or whatever it is. You have to find that balance. The balance is clearly tipped in the other direction with a lot of people who at this point, it's clear, are only here to kill the host. This is not infighting. These people should be treated no different than the New York Times, the Washington Post, or anyone else. They are not allies. These are enemies.
A hundred %. A lot of these folks are, whether it was in June and making these declarations that we were going to war with Iran. Some folks even told members of military to take a dishonorable discharge because she didn't like the way certain people were talking about Israel and Iran. I could not believe... That's like a felony. If you're in the military and you get dishonerably discharged, that basically is like a felony. It affects your rights to own weapons. Why? Because some podcaster told you to do it and you thought it was this righteous battle to undertake? It's not. You're going to throw your life away doing that. And a lot of people have been served this, I call them, outrage addicts, because they are literally addicted addicted to being upset about something. They couldn't even go 24 hours after our hockey team won without complaining that Cash Patel drank a beer. They don't know that Cash Patel is a hockey player, that he grew up on Long Island, that, yes, he is a New York Islanders fan, which makes me very happy because I'm a New York Islanders fan It, too, hence why I'm wearing the hat.
But I'm looking at this and I'm watching these people. And you mentioned the locker room, and I love sports, big sports guy. Sometimes you get what's called a locker room cancer. It's some guy who is not in it because of the team. He's in it because he wants He wants to take every shot. He wants every at that. He wants the story to be about him, him, him, him, him. And you have to get rid of somebody like that because they're not helping the team win. And unfortunately, the term cancer is a very serious disease. But you know this better than anybody. When you're fighting cancer, sometimes some healthy tissue has to be impacted negatively when you're fighting it, because if you don't, it's going to kill you. There is some push and pull. There is some give and take. I'm not saying that everybody who has an opinion different of mine is a cancer. We know exactly who we're talking about here. It's folks that no matter what happens, they stub their toe in the morning, it's Israel's fault. You disagree with them, you're paid by APAC. How many times have I been told?
I'm at the point where like, Hey, I wish it was true. I mean, folks, let me tell you, if I was taking money from some foreign country, there would be signs, okay? There would be a lot of signs. But I'm talking about it in this way where there are folks who are just, like you mentioned, living off the host. So they put themselves out there as some truth seeker, and then they cherry-picked details. They construct a narrative. They're proven wrong. We did not go to war with Iran. We did not go to war with Venezuela. And yet there were people, World War III, World War IV. We're up to World War VIII at this point where they're hyperventilating over all these things. When you say treat them no differently than the New York Times, the New York Times, we laugh at them, we mock them, we shame them, we criticize them because they have no credibility. They said Trump was colluding with Russia. That wasn't the case when all the facts came out, right? Why are we not treating these people the same way who are telling you that X, Y, and Z is going to happen, and then X, Y, and Z doesn't happen?
Then when you ask them, Hey, why didn't you address the fact that you were wrong that X, Y, and Z didn't happen. They're like, Oh, you're clearly paid by insert country here. It's ridiculous. Unfortunately, it is radicalizing a bunch of people. I mean, the story now, the details now about this guy outside of Mar-a-Lago is he was very upset about the Epstein files, which is a very serious case. I'm upset about some of the details in there, too. But there are folks that are literally commenting in my feed saying that Donald Trump ate children. I'm like, How did we get here? It's not even zero to 60. It's like zero to 120 like this. I said, Show me the proof. I get memes and I get yelled at. I'm like, Okay, so you don't have it. So don't say it because you're killing what we tried to build for 10 years. I mean, a lot of these people weren't out there on the streets, knocking on doors, doing the stuff that you did, doing the stuff that I did. A lot of us, though, that are sitting here trying to defend it and keep these people from sinking it and running it in the ground have put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears.
We got the death threats. I got swatted last year here in Tennessee. My wife is still shaken up from something like that over a year ago, something that should never happen to anybody. We've been through it. We've been put through the Ringer, and we're certainly not going to sit there and watch these people who have never done a thing like that in their lives construct these nonsense narratives off of maybe a nugget of truth here or there. But they twist these facts and they twist these talking points. As you said, no different than the fake news in the New York Times. So people say, oh, stop the infighting. It's not infighting because who I'm confronting is not on my side. And I shouldn't have to say that over and over again. Just look at the way these people are behaving. They're behaving no differently than the New York Times, they're even taking some of these left wing fake news narratives and acting as if they're the truth. It's insane. You see the New York Times flipping out that you and Cash had all these personnel changes at the FBI, and then they come back and they're saying, Well, nothing's happening.
Well, the New York Times is upset about it. Something clearly is happening. So these people that have hijacked or attempted to hijack, and they're getting shut down now, are a cancer. And in order to treat the cancer, you have to remove the cancer from the healthy body. And we'll regrow that healthy tissue. And if we lose some good people in this fight, I hope they come back. But we are not going to sit here and handle it with kid gloves and do nothing and let this thing just grow into some movement and around ideas that I don't recognize. To these folks who are like, Oh, stop talking about this person or that person or this one. No, I'm going to keep talking about it until people realize that they're full of crap and stop trusting them because they have no credibility for the sake of pushing this movement into 2028 and beyond. That's my mission, and I know that's the mission of a lot of other people.
Yeah, that's really well said, Sean, and they will come back. As I said, when I finished up my year there at the Bureau and came back into the content creation space here, back to the business world. It was tough to sit back and watch all this and stay quiet, but you have to. When you agree free to take a position in an administration, Democrat, Republican, or anything else, it's not about you. You put that all aside. But I'm a pretty vocal New York, Italian guy, and I was not a monarch. I have the power to change the world by myself. But I'm damn proud of the work we produced inside there. But to sit back and watch this just amazing movement that I got involved with just before the Tea Party and through that whole thing. I've been through a lot of these fights before. What I have found over time is there's always going to be, and Gee, we've had this conversation. Gee has been with me a long time. Gee and Justin, the longest. You're always going to get this scaloped pattern with your show and your content. And I tell content creators, even yourself, I think we may have had this conversation all the time.
Do not get obsessed with the short or even the medium term. Keep a load star of truth, real truth. I don't mean truth in like Plato or Socrates. I mean, truth like, do not bullshit your audience for a short term sugar high, because I promise you over time, you're going to reach an asymptote, and then the audience is going to collapse when they accept I've been bullshitted to. I'll give you an example on the left about what I'm talking about. Maybe it'll make more sense because everybody can relate. You don't get a conservative quote infighting it. Rachel Maddow is a perfect example at MSNBC. Rachel Maddow, Keith Oberman, I think, gets her hired or whatever it is. She starts out with this small audience at MSNBC, explodes. At one point, she's rivaling Hannity's audience at nine o'clock. I remember being over Vietnam with Fox. I'm like, I can't believe this woman is doing all these ratings. And what was her core thing, Sean? Russia. It was all a hoax. And the audience ate it up. They ate it up, Sean, for four or five years until they didn't. And then her She's didn't totally collapse.
She's not nonexistent, but she's nowhere near the perch. I get it. She's not doing every night. I understand. I factor that in. I want to be realistic. But eventually, even dumb people get tired of being lied to. They want to go to a show to learn something, not to be bullshitted all the time.
That's right. She's waiving the tax returns. We got them. We got them. She reads them. Nothing. My simple analogy is we get mad, right? People get really like, they take it personally when the TV weatherman gets the forecast wrong, She says you're getting 15 inches of snow and you get 20, and you're like, This guy should be fired. Well, we should really treat the media the same way. If you're telling me it's raining outside, I better when I open up my window and I look outside, I better see rain falling or I'm not going to trust you. And that's what Matt did. She was like, It's pouring. It's pouring outside. Go look. And you look and it's a beautiful day. And you're like, Why am I listening to this person? She's waiving the tax return. She's talking about Russia, all these things. And that's why over time, you said long term, her ratings collapse. Again, She's not nobody. She'll always probably be somebody. She will have fans, whatever, fine. Good for her, by the way. I'm a capitalist, too. Hey, you create an audience, you demand attention, you've got a microphone, you've got a show, you've got people who want you.
By all means, capitalize I'm not going to tell you not to. I may not agree with you, but I'll always defend your right to do it, to speak, even if I think you're full of crap. But it's one of these things where it's like these folks, they promised me that it was raining. They promised me that something was happening. They promised me that we were going to war. They promised me that, oh, soon enough, you'll see the truth. Every time we get to one of their either deadlines or these points of inflections where they're like, Here it comes, here comes that pivotal moment, they're always wrong. Say what you want about how Erica Kirk is running turning point. Do you think you could run it better? Start your own turning point. But to attack her at the personal level and to attack her and to insinuate that she had something to do and to It's just, really? That's where you want to go. If anyone wants to talk about stopping the infighting, point it at people who are doing that. That's doing nobody any good. You want to be critical of how she's running the company?
Whatever. You could do But don't levy these nonsense personal attacks. She's been through something that I hope I never have to go through. I hope nobody has to go through what Erica Kirk has been through over the course of the last few months. All of this on top is just adding insult to injury, for lack of a better term. Whether it's that, whether it's constantly coming at Trump, everything, you can't be happy. No matter what, you wake up, you need your fix of outrage in the morning, you drop it in your coffee, and you make sure that make sure not a moment goes by that you're letting everyone know that you're mad about something. I couldn't imagine living like that. I'm a New York Jets fan, Dan. I have every reason to be mad every single day. Even I walk around smiling, okay?
Brother, I got one more question for you, but how do you do it? You know when I knew this team was actually... I don't believe in that, except for the Jets. I mean, they pick up Aaron Rodgers. What was it? Three years I'm watching this, was it Sunday Night Football? I'm not a Jets fan or anything. I just pop it on. I want to see Aaron Rodgers comes out with the flag. I'm like, This is so great. And what was it? The second play of the game blows us Achilles. I'm like, This team, this poor team.
Give him credit, Dan. Give him credit. It was four plays, okay?
I'm sorry. I mean, did you not think the same thing? And I'm thinking of, what is it? Fireman Vinnie, that guy, Jay. Fireman Ed. Is it Fireman Ed? My gosh. I'm from New York. Everybody He's Vinnie or Jimmy. I'm like, This poor team is jinked. I really do feel terrible. You know he's not jinked? Matter of fact, he's the opposite of jinked. He's un-jinked. This President. Last question. We got State of the Union coming up tonight. Sean, again, what bothers me about, again, the air quotes infighting is there's clearly subversive folks here who are not here for accountability. Let me be on the record for the umpteen thousand time. I love and adore accountability. You can't a Republic without it. Nobody gets a set of straight A's for everything all the time. However, you also have to have a report card that adequately measures progress, or else you're not going to know what to work on or not. If everybody gets an A, I don't need to work on anything. However, if everybody gets an F, and meanwhile, you scored 100 on a test, you give up because there's nothing. What else you want me to do?
We have this doomer crowd out there after the golden year, the border, violent crime down, murders, the safest America ever. Inflation, finally being tamed. Gas prices low, mortgage prices just dip below six, back down to 2022 levels. Gdp numbers. We had a little bit of a setback with the shutdown. Finally getting back on track, three and four, even 5% projections coming up. I mean, this has been government workforce down 10%. It goes on and on. I put it out in a tweet. You know the deal. But just to sit there and shit on this all the time, that's not an accurate assessment of where we are either.
No. And like I said, It's an addiction for some of these people because it feels good to be mad. It's insane. I look at this and I'm like, all you're doing is complaining. Criticism is not complaining. You want to criticize the way, let's, for example, some people didn't like the way Minneapolis was handled after all of the stuff with Bovino coming out and home and going in. You want to say you would have done it differently? Fine. But don't call this administration a failure because you disagree with one of their moves. The drug campaign, the actual war on drugs taking out these boats. We say, row, row, row, your boat. Right down to Davy Jones-Locker, by the way, got along well with Davy. He's a tremendous guy. But you look at that campaign. You look at Maduro. You look at Iran, you look at the border. It's a perfect border. It's literally perfect. People are coming, but they're not getting released in. It's more secure than Connor Hellebuck in goal for the United States in the Olympics. Nothing's getting through. 21 trillion of foreign investments in our country because of the to have these businesses and companies set up plants here to put Americans to work, a real living wage instead of these crumbs going to illegal aliens, which is weird.
The left is like 1860s left, Democrats. If we free the slaves, who's going to pick the food? And then it's like, 2026 left. If we deport the illegals, who's going to pick the food? Same people, by the way. Same people. But these folks that are just doing it. It's awful. These folks that are just every day, not a minute goes by without them having to broadcast to the world that they're not happy. It's like a habit now. It's like a bad habit. It's like any other bad habit you have. You drink too much, you smoke too much, you do this. These people are outraged too much, and it feels good They whip people up. I call it enragement farming. They whip people up on social media because it gets them views and likes and clicks. Oh, my gosh, you might be onto something. It's all about the money for these people. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. I hope a lot more people see it. Call it out. Don't be afraid of the backlash. You're You're going to be backlash, but you're fighting the good fight.
Yeah, man, I agree. I think I don't need rose-colored glasses. However, I don't need total blackouts either. I just want clear lenses so I can analyze what's going on, what we can fix, where we can stick some more mortar for the brick, where there's too much mortar. I mean, that's what we need to do. It's not a report card if everything's an F, but it's not a report card if everything's an A either. Sean, you're amazing. Such a great guy, folks. Please give him a follow. You can find him on Twitter @shawn, Sean with a W-N, Farrish, F-A-R-A-S-H. If you're listening on Apple and Spotify, if you're watching, you can see his name on the screen. Also, you can find his show on Rumbl. It's called Ungoverned. It is at rumble. Com/lfativ. Com. He is a good man. He's been a great friend. Sean, like I told you, I'd love for you to come and guest host the show sometime. I just want the audience to see you and just become familiar with you, Avaya, because you're such a great guy. You deserve a huge, huge megaphone. I appreciate you coming on today. This won't be the last time.
Thank you so much. Really appreciate it. That was a lot of fun.
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