Revenge

**SPEAKER_1** (0:02)
All America, All the Time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for The Dan Bongino Show.

**Dan Bongino** (0:10)
You know, when I first started this show, I grew up in New York City, for those of you who don't know, I think it's fairly obvious, given my, the remnants of my still Queens, New York City accent. But, excuse me, when I grew up in New York City, there was a morning show, Z100, 100.3 on the dial, was the most popular station in New York. That's when people were still listening to radio, as like one of the only audio mediums. There were no podcasts or anything like that, you know, back in the 80s, and nobody even knew what a podcast was. But they had this, the Z Morning Zoo was a morning show. And the thing about the Z Morning Zoo, was that Elliot and the other guy in the morning, everybody listened to this. It felt like one big family listening to the radio at the same time. And even though you weren't around the kitchen table together, millions of people lived in Queens, you just kind of felt like it. So my goal for this show, was always to have that kind of family feel to it, where we all kind of don't really know each other, but we know each other. Like I look in the chat, I know Lisa R, I know the McGroin crew.
I know all of you, Holden, Anita, all of you. I feel like I have this personal relationship with Star Wars fan. Like I've seen you guys in there forever, and ladies, right?
So it's always refreshing to me, that through all the ups and downs, and the wars on me, and the show, and I've got this conglomerate of just total a-holes that hates my guts, the left-wing media, the do-mers, the grifters, that never Trumpers, and they just hate my guts. They always have. That despite that, we continue to plug along. When I see things like, I saw MLW960 in the chat this morning. Hardcore kind of P1 citation in the chat. He was talking about how an enemy isn't vanquished until he believes it to be so.
That was the famous Roman poet, Aeneas, before Christ, of course, who had written that down. That I always suggested that you need to apply that to you. I get it with like the do-mers and the grifters and everything sucks all the time, everything's horrible. It is really hard not to go along with the current thing. I understand, I get it. I see it on X, I'm there all day.
But folks, nobody votes for a depression agenda. They just don't. I'm not telling you to ignore the problems in this country that still need to be fixed. Obviously, we got to get a lid on some of the inflation, the government spending, Iran still going on. We got to get a lid on that. But just this constant, constant abating of you with negative information, with no context of the positive information, is a demoralization up that wants you to believe you're vanquished.
An enemy isn't vanquished until they believe themselves to be so.
I mean, it's been the history of warfare in this century, where even a superpower like us, you've seen it. You're seeing it now. You have to break them and they're trying to break you. They want you to believe you're vanquished. We've been through it all together, man. We've been through the Obama years. This show has been around a long time. It's not going anywhere until we decided so, okay?
For whatever reason that may be. The show is not going anywhere. And I can be pressured by lunatics to not do a show. You can kiss my ass, okay? But we've been through it before. We've been through the Obama years. Do you guys remember at all? Josh, do you remember when Obama won re-election? Folks, I was running in that campaign. The level of depression in the Republican Party was like nothing I've ever seen. Everybody was telling you it was over. It's over. It's over.
But a lot of people like you didn't believe they were vanquished. And what happened? I don't know, this guy, Donald Trump, you ever heard of him? Trump. Justin's like, once or twice, big guy kind of does that dance. He's like, stop with the doom and gloom.
It takes an act of faith to believe the countries in worse shape than when your grandparents were fighting in World War II. And I don't mean faith in a positive way. I'm going to show you what I mean today. Did you hear this story of this Cambridge professor? If you haven't heard this story, like why are we talking about this in the beginning of the show? If you want to see what it looks like to impart the language of religion on political ideology, which is what the left does, they have no examples of socialism success. All they ask you is have faith in it. Just believe the bumper sticker co-exists talents. Can you show me where any of this works? No, I can't. Just have faith. When you impart the language of religion on political ideology, the left is what happens. And this case of the Cambridge professor where everybody just believed because the story was too good to be true.