The Bongino Weekend Report
The Dan Bongino Show
September 5, 2026
The biggest stories of the week. Dan Bongino’s take — uncut and in one place. The Bongino Weekend Report brings together Dan’s opening monologues from each day’s radio show into one weekly podcast.
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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, some people hate Mondays. They do. I mean, it's pretty common. I think it's a remnant.
Maybe not a remnant, because maybe if you have a job, you're not really digging. Monday's probably not the best either. But it's probably a remnant for school, where everybody hated going back to school on Mondays. Well, it was always that one nerd. What do you think we are, nerd? Remember Rocky IV? Yes, you are nerds. Like, there was always that one nerd. Remember in the class, there was like 30 kids in your class? I want the same pancreas in Glendale.
Who wants homework? I do. Miss Cramtree? No, no, we don't. Like, shut up, Johnny.
But I was in law enforcement my entire life, where there's no, well, there's a Monday. Monday exists, obviously. But you'd work weekends, especially if you were the new guy all the time. So your Monday could have been a Wednesday, or your Monday could have been a Friday. So I never really got into that. And in radio, radio and podcasting are not obviously physically demanding spaces. Jim, we can agree, right? Like no one's asking us to dig ditches. So this is definitely not a boohoo moment. But, you know, going on the air, you better be damn sure you're mentally in the game. No listener wants to hear your stories. I got a cold, my fingernail hurts. Nobody cares, nobody cares. Shut your pie hole and do the show. The thing about Monday I always love with radio is if you've had a really good weekend, you come back fully energized. Your glycogen stores are ready to go. You're not like sore from a Friday workout. You may be a little sore from a Friday workout with if you had some adult sodas, but you're doing pretty good on Monday. So I feel pretty good. Jim did not have a great weekend. Everyone sent Jim. He's at JJ Verde. His back has hurt him. Backs are the worst. He's having a back issue. The worst. You can hurt like your wrist, your shoulder, you'll get through it. Your neck's not that great. But once you hurt your back, Jim is struggling. Jim is a trooper and he's in the studio. I noticed he hasn't shaved today either. He has just given up.
SPEAKER_4 (2:35)
Mike's like, That's the downside to the Zoom thing.
Dan Bongino (2:39)
Jim, Mike is totally ready to throw you to the curb. He just sent me a standing by. He's totally ready. He's going to throw you right in the river right now. He's just waiting for a moment of weakness. All right, all right. I know, but it's Monday. I don't have a big weekend update. I really didn't do anything exciting this weekend. So I used to do a Dan Bongino Show weekend update. I have nothing to report. I didn't even go out this weekend. I watched a couple of terrible movies, and I finished the Charlie Manson special, the three-part documentary, which I thought was amazing because it reminded me of a bunch of crazy liberals, the whole Manson family, how they got gaslit into believing crazy things. And the minute they were exposed to reality again, they were like, Oh my gosh, that was all crazy. Yeah, it was all crazy. It sounded crazy when they first said it.
Let's start. I thought you did start. No, no. Let's start the content portion of the show. I actually have this all lined out. This is like miscellaneous stuff I throw in. It's like, I can't shut up, but I guess that's good being a talk show guy. Folks, you know what horseshoe theory is? You can look it up while we're doing the show together here, but I'll explain it to you. I'll make it really simple, but you can fact check me if you want. Horseshoe theory is this. It's not a theory, by the way. It's now a fact, as it's happening in live time, and we're witnessing it. It's this theory that fringe movements on both sides of the ideological aisle, what you'd call the right and the left, that fringe movements on both sides will eventually join together in a horseshoe type motion, back towards the, and they'll both start repeating the same thing. I say it's not horseshoe theory, but it's horseshoe fact now, because we're seeing this in live time as they both have the same goal.
The radical left and these what I call folex maga, these fake maga people on the right that are just repeating and getting owned by the day now, as this just totally implodes, all podcasts to stand everywhere else, they're both saying that generally the same thing. And why are they saying the same thing? This is the important part about horseshoe theory, now horseshoe fact.
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