The Bongino Brief - 08/29/26

**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)
You know, Producer Jim, sometimes I wondered if I would ever hear that glorious sound again. And the glorious sound of your voice on the radio airwaves too.
Man, does it feel good to be back.
Folks, for those of you who missed the Dan Bongino Radio Show, now me and Sean Farrison, Bongino Report, PM. Radio was, oh, and still kind of now is still my first love. Not that I don't love the podcast or doing TV or Fox or elsewhere, but I got my start in radio early on. I would fill in on Christmas mornings and WCBM up in Baltimore. They were nice enough to have me. WMAL, one of the great stations in Washington, DC, would have me on this weekend show. And there's just something to radio. Jim, you've been around in the podcast space with me for a while, right? Like, radio is just different. A little bit. A little bit, that's a P1 thing. So to all you P1s out there, we are really ecstatic to be back in this new time slot. Thank you so much for all your support. We have a ton, I mean, a really a boatload of new announcements coming out to, as we expand using our podcast platform with Sean, we have Haley, we've got Vince, we're on radio with Vince now, 12 to 3, Sean 3 to 4, me 4 to 6 So you're going to get a lot of content and more announcements coming in the next coming weeks and months. So I'm really excited about it. A big congratulations too for those who listen to the podcast every day. To Producer Gee, had a baby this weekend, so Producer Gee is now a dad, which as Jim knows is the greatest experience in the world. There is nothing.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:20)
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

**Dan Bongino** (2:22)
We have a live audience of course in the studio and it's always nice to have them around. Jasmine's like, no you don't. Some of you will get that, it's a P1 thing. Of course, we like a bunch of sarcastic humor. But when you're going to sleep at night and you go and you knock on your daughter's door like I do, and you say, give dad a hug before you go to sleep. And she looks at you and says, I love you daddy. They'll get choked up. It's only the first segment. Folks, there's nothing like that. There is no experience. And if you don't believe in God after having those words said to you and that little spidey sense tingle you get in your brain, except it's not danger, it's love, I can't help you. But congratulations to producer Guy. So I'm really happy about that. All right, let's get to some of the show content. Again, I'm really ecstatic to be back with you on radio. I hope you enjoy it as we go forward and we expand The Bongino Report footprint out there. Folks, I spent the last year in the Trump administration working on a couple of very clear goals within the FBI. And one of the things when I came out, I was warning you about very early, which I've now been vindicated yet again about, is be very careful where you're getting your information from online. Again, I don't want to get into a lot of this faux-intra party squabble stuff because we have a midterm coming up. However, I say faux-intra party because a lot of these people on, quote, our side that are supposedly friends of ours, friends of our movement, aligned with our values, are in fact not aligned with our values. And I've been warning you about this money trail for a really, really long time, that there is nothing wrong. Matter of fact, I highly recommend and value the fact that we have a big tent Republican Party where people have differences of opinion on all kinds of issues. Some people believe in a fair tax. Some people believe in a flat tax. Some people want Social Security moved into your own personal accounts. Some people want the system preserved as is. Some people want to move the date you can get benefits later. Some people want to move Medicaid to, you know, HSA type option and other things. There are varieties of opinions on it. Randall, that is good. That is a good thing. But there is nothing more dangerous and destructive to a party than having a bunch of barking seals who just clap for anything, you know, their dear leader says. That's a huge mistake. It doesn't keep anybody frosty. It's a huge tactical error in activism, and it's the way your party is going to fall apart. You're seeing it now with the Democrats, who are all afraid to speak out against, like, Hassan Piker, who's not even a politician.