Bongino Weekend Report - Week of 09/21/26

SPEAKER_1 (0:17)

All America, all the time. On the side of freedom and liberty, your voice of hope and truth is here. The Bongino Report, PM.

With Dan Bongino.

Dan Bongino (0:32)

It's a big day today. It's a huge day.

SPEAKER_3 (0:36)

Well, why?

Dan Bongino (0:37)

Tell us what's going on. Of course, of course. The whole point of a talk show. Jim, why is it a big day today? What happened this morning?

Jim (0:45)

We launched The Bongino Report, AM.

Dan Bongino (0:48)

Yes, we did. Yes, we did on hundreds of stations nationwide. Thank you to all the program directors who picked up the show. We're now on in the morning and the afternoon where you're listening to us now. So we are, you know, people say, oh, they're excited. No, no, we're stoked. Radio was always my home. I love my podcast, obviously, but I got my start in radio, and I really appreciate all the program directors taking a chance with us again. We're now, we've been in the 12 to 3 spot, the 3 to 6 spot, the morning spot. We're all over the place on radio, but I love it. I really do. I enjoy it. So thank you to everyone who listened this morning to our first show.

We're really proud. We're really proud and happy to be doing that. So I've got a good amount of stuff to talk to you about today. When I say good, I mean a lot. So I'm not sure what I may be able to get to, but obviously the big ticket items, the big ticket items are going to be Greenland and what happened with the media this weekend. Now Greenland, of course, I'm going to get into it from this specific angle.

You just got to read the book.

You just got, I'll talk about this a little bit when we get into it in a little bit more depth. But Jim and I have been on the air together for, I don't know, five, close to six years now. Donald Trump is a book. It's called The Art of the Deal. Just read it, just for now, for now. We've got a little bit till we get to it. So even folks, get an Amazon Speedy Drone delivery. Just pick up the book if you're a left-winger who's crying about this and just read the book and I promise the segment will make a world of sense.

I'm also going to get into the media again playing victim, loading up their diapers. It's not even like number one segment. It's great. Why am I such a victim? Donald Trump, who does about 4,000 press conferences a year, maybe more, like I can't believe we've been banned. You're not banned. You just didn't get a seat in the White House. Jim, do you have a seat in the White House press room?

Jim (2:46)

I do not.

Dan Bongino (2:47)

Why not? Are you banned?

Jim (2:48)

I don't believe so.

Dan Bongino (2:50)

Okay, so it's a privilege, correct?

Jim (2:52)

Correct.

Dan Bongino (2:53)

Do we have that privilege right now?

Jim (2:55)

No, we don't.

Dan Bongino (2:55)

We don't because it's limited seating. I don't want to hear your stories. You can take them, Jim says on the air, we're not allowed to talk about where to put things, but just roll it up and figure it out, okay?

Also I got a weekend update coming up for you later as well about, also I'll give you like the chucklehead story too, which is really funny. Did you hear the story on the podcast, Jim? I did. Poor guy almost died. I hope he's okay. There's always like one chucklehead everywhere we go. He must have been the only liberal in all of Auburn. I love my friends and family in the South. I was back at University of Auburn. A game didn't work out as planned. Hey, UF played great. I like the Gators too. Remember the warning we gave Jim about that certain player? Were we not right?

Jim (3:39)

Yes, yes, we were absolutely right.

Dan Bongino (3:44)

I was at Bruce Pearl's Tailgate, and someone came up to me who showered nameless and brought that up and said, you would have saved them 200 million. I said, I know, I know, we told you, you should have listened to us. All right, I want to get to this though first. You know what? When I was running for office back in the day in Maryland, Maryland is obviously a deep blue state, but I decided, what the hell, give it a shot. Do or do not, right? Like Yoda, don't try, you got to go do stuff. So I said, enough talking about this politics stuff. I'm going to go run for office. So I ran for US. Senate in Maryland, for those of you who are new to the show. This was a while back, a decade ago or so. I beat nine other guys in the primary, which surprised even me on primary night. I was like, look at that, we won. Everybody was kind of surprised. We lost in the general. We got pretty much smoked, but whatever. We had a good time doing it. But while I was running in that race, at the time, now Senator Chris Van Hollen, who was a diehard communist, right? Senator Chris Van Hollen was a congressman back then. So I run into one of his staffers at the Montgomery County Fair. And in case you haven't heard the story before, the staffer is telling me how great higher taxes are, and it's so awesome. And I said to him a really simple question. I said, oh, okay, whatever you name it, like liberal Karen guy, whatever your name is. I'm like, do you pay higher taxes voluntarily? And he looks at me and he goes, well, who's dumb enough to do that?