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Bruce Perle, coach of the Auburn Tiger's basketball team, but he wasn't on to talk about basketball. We addressed that in the beginning and some of the stuff going on with NIL, but we also addressed some really serious issues.

This was a really powerful interview about some world affairs, and Bruce isn't afraid to speak out.

You know I love this guy. It's always great to have him on the show because he loves the country. He's not shy about it. He's used this platform to speak out about issues that matter to America and the matter of America overseas. Welcome back to the show. Coach of the Auburn Tiger's basketball coach, Bruce Perle. Bruce, welcome back to the show. He's good to have you.

It's great to be with you again, Dan. Thank you.

You got it. So before we get to the really critical, important stuff, it is March Madness right around the corner. Bruce, you've had an amazing season yet again. You have really turned the Auburn Tiger's into an incredible basketball powerhouse. I believe you guys are at 12 now. I think you should be higher, personally. But how are you feeling about the tournament this year? I get this sense, I love college basketball like you do, that this is one of the few times we've had in modern times where this thing's wide open. I mean, anybody could win this thing, including you guys.

Well, Dan, it's March, and we're getting ready for one shining moment. But there There are a lot of teams that are in this thing and feel like they could cut down nets. The top seeds are probably going to be, Yukon and Houston. And North Carolina has got a shot at one Purdue, and then maybe Tennessee. I think those are the five teams that have shot for the top four seeds. And those teams are going to be hard to keep out of the final four just because they've all had great, great years with dominating rosters, big, strong, physical They almost check every box. But Sindarellas are out there, and that is what is so special about the NCAA tournament. 40 minutes, anything can happen. The upsets are obviously what people live for to pick that 5-12 match up that somebody's going to go win a couple of times that you wouldn't have expected. And by the way, Dan, the game has never been better. Right now, the product on the floor is really good. Kids are playing hard. If you hit the referee the game the right way. We're in for a real treat starting this week because this week right now is Championship Week as all the conferences I've done with the regular season now, and they're beginning their conference tournament.

Championships will be in Nashville this weekend as the having finished at Tide for Second. We're three wins away from winning it, but it's going to be challenging. Then next weekend is the beginning of March Madness in the NCAA tournament.

Yeah, I'm stoked. You guys played outside of In a long season, of course, you're going to have a couple of turkeys, but your season has been solid. I mean, you have blown out some quality teams, and even the loss to Tennessee, you played them tough. I watched that game start to finish. That is a tough, tough team. Your team is great this year. But Bruce, I had you on because, again, you're one of these guys that I really admire because you're not afraid to express your love for America, and you're very vocal about things that matter. And one of the things I know matters to you that matters to me is this ongoing crisis in the Middle East, Israel under attack in the horrific October seventh terror attack. I'm finding that the PR war that the terrorist rapists at Hamas are conducting, Bruce, sadly, has become quite effective as people in this administration, and some liberals, are now vocally arguing for a ceasefire, just, I guess, suggesting that they should just let Israel be attacked again. I mean, they do PR in terrorism better than anyone in Hamas.

They do, and they've really done it for a long, long time. And of course, Dan, you just go all the way back to the beginning of time, and you go back throughout your Bible. The area, God's area in Israel and Jerusalem has been fought over, and it has been a mess for a very long time. So why should we think Right now, we have the potential to get it all right. But when policy and politics get in the way of each other, that's a real problem. And that's where we find ourselves as far as living in a way more dangerous world right now than we did three or four years ago. When President Biden and his staff came in and they began to refund Iran and allow them to do business, they just put money in the pockets of all these terrorists and all their proxies throughout the Middle East. And the other thing he did was they gave the terrorists and some of the opposition hope for the impossible. And those two things, I think, are what has led to the emboldomen of Israel's enemies, and therefore, the enemies of the United States. Right now, if we could just turn the tide back, the clock back to October eighth, when I thought President Biden did the right things by sending the fleet to the Middle East, by standing with Israel against the worst genocide since the Holocaust.

He said the right things, he did the right things. But we all worried and prayed, how long would it last When his base would be calling for a ceasefire, nobody wants to continue this war right now because it's anybody's desire to kill more people. Israel doesn't want to continue this war to put more death and destruction to the Palestinian people. The only reason why they have to continue this war is to destroy the enemy, their sworn enemy, that has been trying to eliminate them from their existence for 80 years. If this country, if the President doesn't allow Israel to finish the job and remove Hamas and therefore free the Palestinian people and the Gazans from their own worst enemy, their leadership, and the Israeli citizens from the ability to live in some peace and prosperity, we will have missed a terrible, terrible opportunity. Israel must finish his job. The world had to finish the job in World War II. The German people paid a tremendous price, but they came out on the other end way better off than under Nazi rule. That's what Hamam has been.

Oh, there's no question about that. Any rational actor could tell you that. We're talking to Bruce Pearl. Bruce, one of the issues I get into debates about this often, it's really incredible how when you just, you mentioned Israel, the rules of debate go out the window and it becomes an emotional affair rather than a fact-based affair. People say to me all the time, Well, it's asymmetric, they say, Bruce. Israel has killed 30,000 civilians. I said, Well, where did you get that number? They said, Well, Hamas. I said, You mean the same people who raped and murdered a bunch of women and kids on October? So you believe them? Okay, so even assuming that's true, which I sincerely doubt, even assuming that's true, that number, which I think is absurd, I know you don't. I don't support the death of civilians. Nobody does. But this is war. War, Israel didn't start, correct? You can go back generations on the who did what. But there's no question October seventh was a Hamas attack on Israel. But I say, again, I ask them, okay, even assuming your number is true, 30,000 civilians, which is horrible, I understand. Why are civilians in a warzone when Israel warned them to get out?

Then they start stammering, Bruce, and I said, Maybe it's because Hamas wants them there and they won't let them escape. Did you miss that in the news reports? That's why the civilian death toll, even if you accept Hamas's number, is so high, and that's a fact.

Yeah, and the genocide is on the hands of the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and the leadership of Palestinians and Gazans, because they've hid behind them, they've dug tunnels under them. They've educated them and indoctrinated them and brainwash them to things that just simply aren't false. And you know, they've got the ability to do that because look, there has been death and destruction on both sides. There's reason for both sides to have a level of animosity that has been built up over a period of time. You know, the bottom line is, look, Americans want freedom for people. They want freedom for all people. And so if you would believe the narrative that these Palestinians were there before the Jews, or they were there before somebody else, or so on, so forth, and you want to feel like, well, they have a right to return. They absolutely have a right to return, as long as they live and want to live in peace with their neighbors. They don't have a right to return and be terrorists, and have antifada and blow up people left and right simply because they want a Palestinian state created for the first time.

Like, Dan, there's never been a Palestinian state, ever in history.

I wish more people understood that.

They don't understand it. In 2005, Israel removed for a chance for peace over 30,000 Israelis and took them out of Gaza, removed them from their homes and their schools and their synagogs, and said, Okay, you know what? You guys, we're going to do what you ask. Here it is, you got Gaza, let's live in peace. And two years later, we're at war right away. And so what are we supposed to do? Create another state on the other side of Gaza? This is what kills me, Dan. We're going to reward the terrorists, and we're going to reward their atrocities by calling our government right now, calling for the creation of a Palestinian state. That ship has sailed. That is no longer an option. Why in the world would this country call for the state of Texas to all of a sudden become some Mexican state, which it's becoming at the Southern border right now? We would not do that because we wouldn't put our citizens in harm's way. As I'm sitting here saying that, it's ironic that we're said it. I guess we're doing that anyways. It just flat out makes no sense. When policy and politics intermingle, I fear that our country is going to get in the way of Israel doing what must be done and leave situation in a worse place than they found it.

And oh, by the way, when our eyes are all focused on this, you and I both know that our eyes should be focused on Iran, because they're the ones that are behind all of this. They're the ones that are pulling the strings, and they're the ones that are, oh, two or three weeks away from being able to have a nuclear weapon, and nobody's talking about that. As bad as things have gotten in the last three years, it's going to get worse until President Biden is no longer in the White House.

It's incredible. We're talking to Bruce Pearl, basketball coach for the Auburn targets. Bruce, it's incredible. We've befriended Iran and are making enemies out of Israel. It's just bizarre. Bruce, can I ask you one last question? Senator Ted Cruz has a hearing going on about NIL, name, image, likeness, that college athletes can now profit from their athletic prowess. This isn't going away, NIL. I know there's supporters and detractors, and I believe in economic freedom personally, but This is college sports. We're going to have to live with it. This is the future, correct?

Yeah, it is. And because you do believe in freedom and capitalism and the market, that's why you're a believer. The NCAA was very, very late to recognizing that the student athletes were the last ones to be able to be compensated fairly. Everybody was making enormous money the last 40 years in Ecclesia athletics because the television context, so on, so the Supreme Court has spoken, and they have said that tuition room board books is no longer enough. These student athletes need to be able to participate in a fair market so they can benefit from their own name, image, and likeness. The issues right now is because the NCAA has not been able to provide any order, and that's the best way I could put it right now, there is just simply no order. You combine a transfer portal with the NIL, and you have yearly free agency. And so what we really need to do is the people that are way smarter than me need to get together with Congress and figure out a way to provide some of those protections for the NCAA, again, so that we can manage it. The student athletes deserve everything they're getting.

But right now, it's just a little out of control. Who should pay for it? Universities right now have the profits through what we're making in athletics. To be able to compensate the student athletes. I don't think it should simply come out of the pockets of donors and industry. I'm not for having them be employees because there's a lot of things that could be a problem for the student athletes if they became employees. But what we're doing right now is we're trying to figure it out. It is what it is right now. It's good for the student athlete, but there needs to be some order provided in it. I agree with you. I have very people that love it to support NIL.

I think your analysis there is accurate. I I'm a free market guy. These guys have demonstrated extreme prowess. Hours and hours of their lives, they should be fairly compensated. Bruce, I wish I had more time. Bruce Perl, coach of the Auburn Tiger. I think you guys got an amazing shot. You know I'll be watching. I'm thinking of heading to the SEC tournament. So if I go, I'll be in there in the stands cheering for you. And Bruce, please. I see you on the bench. You always look like you're five minutes away from... Yeah, I'm worried about you, buddy. You love your team so much, man. Watching you is as good as watching the game. God bless you, my brother. Good luck in a tournament.

I'm a what to watch for a guy. I think, really, because my face is always red and I always look angry, they're ready for me to drop. Is Bruce Pearl going to drop in this game? Is this the game that passes out? No way. I'm going to be fine.

You're resilient, brother. God bless you, my friend. Good luck to the team. Extend my best.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Bruce Pearl. War Eagle, brother.

You know it. I'm not kidding. They got as good a shot as anyone. Man, that was an interview, Jim. Ncaa tournament, NIAL. All Middle East policy. Hey, financial experts thought we were in the clear. They were anticipating around six rate cuts by the Fed this year, and then the inflation data came out higher than expected. Listen, inflation is not going away. It can't. The US is $34 trillion in the hole, and we keep printing money. It's pushing the prices up every single day. You can either bury your head in the sand or do something about it. Diversify a portion of your savings into gold with Birch Gold Group. Gold is your hedge against inflation, and Birch Gold makes it super easy to I've been a customer of theirs for a while. They help you convert an existing IRA, a 401k, into a tax-sheltered IRA in gold, and you don't pay a penny out of pocket. Gold is a part of my savings strategy. I buy from Birch Gold. You can, too. Text Dan to 989898. Get your free information kit on Gold. Then talk to a precious metal specialist on how to protect your savings from persistent inflation with gold.

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It's a center Right, if not sometimes center-left newspaper. But the articles and the opinion writers are pretty decent. So I like to read it every night. I haven't missed the column in a long time, and I had forgotten last night. So I'm walking upstairs between the break, and I I realized, darn, I missed last night's opinion section first time in a long time because I was doing the live show. I'm reading through it, and there's an article in there about... There's two articles back to back. One is about the Biden administration's new war on corporate greed, and then the second one is about LaTisha James. They're suing Big Meat again or something like that. Big Meat. You're like, What is that? A porn? No, no, Big Meat. Remember Jim did his thing? Remember Big Meat, Big turkey? If this is all laughable and stupid, don't laugh because this is what's really happening right now. As I'm coming up, I'm just getting more ticked off as I'm walking back up the stairs into the studio. Because, again, it goes back to my point about how dumb you have to be to be a Democrat. I mean, it's stunning.

It's stunning the degree of stupidity you have to embrace to believe this. So here's what's going on. The Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act spent hundreds of billions of dollars we don't have, which further fueled the COVID blowout, which was bipartisan, by the way, which printed a lot of money, which caused inflation. It is a government problem, Republican and Democrat, that Biden has made geometrically It's technically worse. Because the government hates your guts, they hate you, they treat you like an idiot, a bunch of focus group-tested Democrats sat around in a circle and said, Our voters are stupid. We know that. So how do we tell these dopey, stupid, moron sheep that will believe anything we tell them, these sheep out there? How do we tell these idiots and blame this on anything other than the government that did it, this inflation crisis? Someone said, How about we start a task force on corporate greed? They were like, Yes, that's a great idea. Maybe, let's assume for a second there was one non-moron in the room, which with Democrats, that's very hard to do. But say there was. And a guy comes up and, Well, that's dishonest.

That doesn't have anything to do with it.

If businesses were raising prices because of corporate greed, then other businesses would come in and take advantage of the greedy and undercut them on prices and steal all the business, right? I mean, that's how business works. We know that's how business works, smart ass. We're not here to solve problems. We're the government. We're here to things up. It rimes with schmuck, okay? We're not here to fix things, dumbass. Kind of moron are you. It's the government. The government, we're here to mess up. Well, corporate greed, even if that argument was true, aren't we making a political case against Joe Biden? That for some reason, corporations were not greedy under Donald Trump, but are now greedy under Joe Biden. Either way, it looks bad for us. Stop with the sanity. We're Democrats. I mean, we're the party of Fannie Willis and LaTisha James, Liz Warren, and Bernie Sanders. The millionaires and the billionaire is screwing up everything. We don't need these millionaires. We need more people like me, bums who don't work for a living. More bums. This is going to be Bernie Sanders if he runs your president. That's going to be his bumper. More bums, less work.

This is their thing. Do you know how dumb you are? Why are you so stupid? Again, I asked the Democrats, Some people get that don't really like the tone of the show. I don't care because it's true. You hate Black people. That's obvious. I mean, we covered that in the first 20 minutes of the show. That's just a given. The Democrats are just the most racist people on planet Earth. Democrats can't get ID. Why? Why would you like to explain that? White people can? Yes, they definitely can. They're so much smarter. They are than Black people? That sounds awfully racist. Oh, no, I didn't mean it like that. How did you mean it? Like something else. Explain. We know you hate Black people. We know you're racist. We know you're the party of the clan. We know all that. That's all true. But why do you have to be the party of the imbecile class, too? Corporate greed. That's what's leading to the inflation crisis. And magically... I'm a business guy, so I can actually speak from experience. Now, you can look it I mean, I own stock in publicly traded companies. You can go look at all kinds of things.

You can see it.

It's out there.

So I own a lot of stock in Rumbles. You realize Rumbles' business model in the beginning Rumbles business model in the beginning, and Rumbles business model now, was to be priced competitive by offering creators, many of them, 100% of the revenue so we could undercut YouTube. Undercut? That sounds awful. No, that's how business works. That's products get cheaper. Liberals are like, What? I didn't learn that in my communist college. Of course you didn't, because you're stupid. And you sat in a quad smoking a bowl with Samuel, learning about the legendary Karl Marx. Oh, you love him. He's a legend. You're Shay Guvarat. You probably got a T-shirt. You probably got a hat. I love Shea. We came in with Rumbel and we were like, Wait. So if you put a video on YouTube, you get what? 50% of the ad revenue that runs on YouTube? Chris, the CEO, was like, What do you think if we give someone 100%?

You think creators would come over? I said, I think they would.

Now, it's interesting. Is that corporate greed? We're taking no money. We're giving you...

How does that.?

But you see how the corporate greed air quotes works for us. We get more creators in the door, and Then you get more money. You understand how you have to explain basics? This is what bothers me about Democrats, and I promise I'll get back to Victoria Newland. I'm just in a mood right now. It is a win-win. Capitalism has always been a win-win from time immemorial. You see what it's like talking to liberal? You have to explain basic... I'm not talking about economic 707 courses. I'm talking about second-grade-level thinking.

Why do prices go down over time for flat-screen TVs? Well, because companies find out to find productivity measures to make them cheaper.

Why would they do that? Because if they make their product cheaper than the other guys, more people will buy their product. Why? Because it's cheaper, you freaking moron. Are you You're stupid, Johnny? Then when it's cheaper, other companies find a way to undercut the price there and make it even cheaper. When they make it cheaper, the consumer benefits by buying a cheaper product. Then the This weird thing happens. Cheaper products get even better. The $4,000 flat screen from 20 years ago doesn't even have a 10th of the quality of the picture right now that the $500 or flat screen does that weighs probably one 100th as much. It's called capitalism. But now you've got LaTisha James up in New York, wants to...

What? She's prosecuting here, Wall Street Journal.

The New York attorney general, sues a meat company because it sells too much meat. That's the actual headline. Gosh, I can't fake it anymore because I'm too old, and I don't know how long I am for this Earth. I'm not dying. I don't have cancer again or anything, but like anyone else. I really don't know. I've reached, hopefully, the halfway point of my life, and I can't fake it anymore. Folks, I really hate liberals. I can't stand them. I can't. I can't stand the stupid. I hate it that they hate Black people and Hispanic people and immigrants. They hate immigrants? Yes, they hate immigrants. If you are a legal immigrant that comes here, They hate you. They do nothing for you. They take care of other people at your expense who broke the law coming here. How do I know that? Well, because it happened to my wife, who happens to be a legal immigrant to the country. Oh, you didn't know that? They can't stand Black people. They hate Hispanic voters. They hate anyone with half a brain, and they talk to you like you're an idiot.

Joe Biden wants to start a corporate greed task force.

That is hilarious.

Hilarious.

Hilarious because he knows he will prey on the moron class.

I'm sorry, man. I totally blew up my whole show. Hold on. You need a water break. Jim says, No, it wasn't because I can't let my... Really, man, I have a hard time.

If I would have read this last night, the journal, it would have all settled by the morning. But why? Why are you so stupid, Democrats? Why? You choose to be stupid? Is anything I just said hard to understand? If there's corporate greed going on under the Biden administration, have you asked yourself ever why it took a Democrat President in the Senate for corporate greed to set in? Does it ever register to you? And if corporate greed really exists to the moron Democrats out there in the audience, and there are a lot of them, why aren't you just going and taking advantage of it? Why?

Big meat.

Why don't you start a farm somewhere and undercut their meat prices and make a fortune? Because I can't. I can't learn to do things as efficiently as that. Oh, so they're charging a market clearing price based on their knowledge of the meat market. Okay. You guys are just dumb. I get here.

I'm going to Facebook. I'll pull this up now.

I guarantee you there's a thousand messages here from liberals. They hate it when you call them stupid because they know it's true. They're racist, they're morons, and they're just killing the country. Come on, tell me in the audience out there. Tell me you don't agree with me. Why do we got to live with these people? Why can't they just to liberal states and all just coagulate there and do their liberal stuff? I mean, the place would descend into a hell hole in 10 minutes. We got to live next door to morons all the time. They really are. They're the dumbest people I've ever seen. They will fall for anything. I'm sorry, man, but we're just not the same. You come to me and tell me about a new fair tax versus flat tax. I want to hear the specifics. Well, how does the fair tax work? How are we going to make this? Or how are we going to sunset these income tax provisions? I ask questions. Oh, you're going to do a flat tax? Okay, well, how does that work? How exactly are we going to do it? Are we going to flatten out corporate?

What about cap gains? Republicans ask questions. Democrats are so dumb. You could tell them anything. Hey, Black people don't know how to get driver's license. The Democrats are like, Yeah, I know. They're really dumb. You're like, Wow, that sounds racist. No, it's not racist. I didn't mean it that way. No, it's racist. You tell them, Yeah, inflation? That's Corporate greed. Corporate. They're like, Yeah, I know. I know. Corporate greed. But that didn't happen under Trump. Weird. Why is Biden the king of corporate greed? It's so weird, so strange that that happened under Biden. Man, I didn't think of that. Yeah, we know. We know you didn't. God forbid, you actually thought at all.

I don't like you.

I don't like you at all. Don't listen to my show. Turn the radio off, if you're a liberal. No, I'm serious. Turn it off. You're too stupid to listen to this show. You're too dumb. And here's my fear. If a survey comes out of voters and they ask you for an IQ score, you're like a 75, and it's going to make my audience look dumber than it is. So stop listening, turn off the radio, and go away. I don't want you. I hate your guts. You guys suck. You're ruining this country. You suck immeasurably in In ways, suck has never been measured in American history. You are too stupid to listen to this show. Nothing will make sense. You are morons. The degree of dislike I have for you is hard for me to express on this show because you are too dumb. Just shut it off. Shut it off. I don't want you buying anything. You're just too stupid. What are you laughing at? I don't want them. I'm, go away. Go, just leave. I don't like intentionally stupid people. And there's two ways I know. You're a registered Democrat or you I have a mask on.

That's it. I don't need anything else. You've said everything you need to say.

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Folks, I know it's passe with liberals to actually ask questions. Everything's just labeled It's called automatically a conspiracy theory, but I'm not going to give up on the old art of investigative reporting, where you see a story and you don't naturally accept it at face value, especially when it involves Washington, DC. So congressman Ken Buck resigned. We knew he wasn't going to run again, but resigned unexpectedly. He said he's leaving next week. He's a Republican from Colorado in a safe district. And I thought to myself, why would he do that? So I had some suspicions because a really, really terrific Congresswoman who's going to run in that district district, Lauren Boebert, is going to run in that district, and I thought something may be afoot. We decided to have the Congresswoman on to get her side of the story, which I believe is the right one. Congresswoman Lauren Bobert, thanks a lot for joining us.

We really appreciate it.

Stan, it is wonderful to be on with you and try to bring some understanding to the confusion that Ken Bucks' resignation has brought to not just Colorado, but to the country.

Yeah, it's really crazy because last night, there was a segment of my show that made its way around social media, and I noticed you picked up on it, where I said, This is strange. You've got this pro-america, relatively non-establishment, MAGA Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who's going to run in Ken Bucks district in November, election day like every other member of the House. You probably have good duty or name ID, and you got a pretty good name in Colorado. You probably a good chance of winning that seat. So he leaves early, which creates a special election, which means there's going to be a primary for the November election and a special election on the same day. Now, Congresswoman, call me crazy, but you can't run in both of those, can you?

That's correct, because if I were to run in both of them, I would need to resign from my current seat, and that would take away our majority in the House of Representatives. But I think more than that personally- Whoa, time out.

So it would take... So the... Wait, my audience is shocked. I mean, I don't mean to interrupt you. You know I don't do that. But so some DC swampies opened up a seat early in a safe Republican district that you're running in, knowing that if you wanted to get a leg up in that seat, other than do it the right way, you would have to leave another seat, which may give Hakeem Jeffrey the gavel. I I know this sounds crazy, but is that what you're telling me?

That's what I'm telling you. I would leave my current constituents without representation for three months, like Ken Buck is doing here in Colorado's fourth district. They won't have a representative for three months, and we would lose a second vote in the House of Representatives. And that is absolutely not something I'm doing. I'm not leaving my constituents abandoned and without representation, and I am not hindering our majority in Washington, DC. So that is what eliminates my ability to run in the special election. Besides that, I don't want to play their swampy games. I made a statement yesterday, and I said, I get it. You have a candidate that you like that is Ukraine first. Ken Buck knows that his endorsement of him only hurts that candidate. And so they did this backroom deal to have Ken Buck resign. And Ken Buck knew a week before he resigned that he was doing it because his staff all got big bonuses and raises and promotions. So then he announced, and now here we are. So this gives their choice, the establishment's choice, a leg up in this race because now he can raise double the money, one into a special election fund and another into his regular campaign.

And he could raise double the money, get the name recognition, say, I am the nominee that the Republican Party has chosen, vote for me, and his name will appear two times on the same day. And we are waiting to hear from the Secretary of State if that's going to be one ballot or two ballots. I believe it will be two. The way I understand it, it has to be two. But that's also going to cost the taxpayers money to have two ballots sent on the same day. All of this is a mess. It's selfish. It is why we hate Washington, DC. It's why we hate politicians. And this This has caused such chaos and confusion in Colorado and throughout the nation. And it's going to take a lot of resources, certainly on my part, to explain the voters exactly what is going on, because I am running this race. Now, I talked for a long I went there, but I just want to make one more point clear. No, please. The one thing that could help alleviate some of this confusion is if the vacancy committee who nominates this person for the special election chooses someone who's not currently running for the seat.

So I have 10 opponents right now who I'm running against in this primary for June 25th. And if they were to go outside of us candidates who are running for the fourth district, that would help alleviate a lot of confusion. This is a different name. This person is a placeholder, will be there just a few months, and then we can continue on with our race and move forward. So right now, it's our job to put pressure on the vacancy committee to do something like that.

We're talking to Congresswoman Lauren Boebert. Congresswoman, the mercenary thing to do, if you were that type of person, would be to leave your current constituents behind and say, You know what? I've got a safe seat over there. I'm leaving now. I'm out. But you're not doing that. I appreciate that because that would be doing significant damage to this already fragile majority. But I think what What you just said is important. That seems like if Ken Buck is going to screw over America, and you don't know, I'm just going to... I don't like this guy. I've never liked this guy. You don't got to say, I can't stand this guy. I met him a couple of times up on the hill when I was given testimony. I don't like Not the same as the politicians at all, present company excluded. But that guy, I genuinely don't like. He did this to give the double-b barrel middle finger to America. It's the only reason. It's not a health thing. Thank God, I don't wish bad health on anyone. He's not coming down going, I've got a fatal disease, someone died. No, he's basically saying, I'm just leaving to throw the Republican Party in the chaos and screw over Boebert.

That's the only reason he's doing it. So this election committee that's listening, that's fair. It's a horrible situation he created, but that's perfectly fair. Put a placeholder in there who says, I'm not going to run. It's not going to be one of these candidates. Congresswoman, you and the rest of the other candidates can duke it out like you have been, and the voters will pick. Nothing wrong with that, right?

Exactly. That's exactly how it should be. We should run the race that we are in, and I don't believe that anyone should be stepping up and saying, I will sacrifice myself to be in this special election. I have three opponents who have currently thrown their name in before the vacancy committee, but I'm making phone calls. A lot of Colorado are making phone calls. We're reaching out to the vacancy committee, and first of all, informing them, because this is pretty unprecedented here, and we're informing them the process, but then also encouraging them to choose someone who's not currently a candidate.

Congresswoman, I interact with my audience a lot.

I don't detach myself from. I follow them.

We have a live Humble show, and they message me on Facebook, and I read all their messages during the show. There's not a single Colorado voter who doesn't see through this. Now, granted, this is not an accurate sample size. My My audience is unusually politically active, so I don't want to act like this is some independent poll. However, even with issues like this, there's usually a few people who have something to say on the contrary. Every single person, and there's quite a few here, understands this was a nakedly political move to keep you out of that seat. Now, here's what worries me. Ken Buck, this is not a conspiracy theory. These are Ken Buck's own words, not mine, gave an interview, apparently, and told one of these outlets that he knows it, or he says there are three more resignations coming up that are going to surprise, I guess, Speaker Johnson in the House even more. If that's the case, Congresswoman, this isn't just an attack on you. This is an attack on, hopefully soon to be President again, Trump, because they want Hakeem Jeffrey to have the gavel during this President-elect period from November to January.

Yes. Well, and if that's the case, if we get those three resignations, then Congress may not gavel in. We may not provide a quorum, because if we did, that would be the day that Hakeem Jeffrey got the gavel. So that means we are essentially more in effective than we already are in Washington, DC, and we'll get anything done, because as soon as we gavel in, then they would vacate Mike Johnson and give the gavel to Hakeem Jeffrey. So to those members who are considering resigning, that's a pretty devastating blow to our country, to America. Dan Bongeano, can you imagine the post offices that won't get named for the rest of the year?

Oh, I know. Listen, I don't know about My life would definitely change for the way. I mean, if Congress isn't in session, Congresswoman, I don't even get up in the morning because I can't. I mean, I'm totally incapable of feeding myself or anything like that. I totally expect some ranking member or congressman to come feed me every morning. No, I'm glad you feel that way. The fact that you can poke fun at this... I say to my listeners all the time, I know you've occasionally heard clips from the podcast and this, but I say, Listen, these people hate you. I'm sorry, but they do. They use you for power, and you should use them for the same thing. You should view Congress as political tools. Are they plus ones or minus ones? I don't mean it in a bad way. Do you have a Congresswoman, say, like Lauren Boebert, who's going to vote with us plus one or not? I don't care. I mean, listen, I personally like you. I've liked you for a long time. But that's not what influences who I have on the show. You vote for stuff I care about the majority of time.

That's it. If you don't, you could be the nicest person on planet Earth. I'm not going to disrespect you, but you're a useless tool to me. The thing is that they're trying to keep you. This is definitely directed at you. Out of this seat should really infuriate the voters of that district because make no mistake, this is targeted at you directly, and everybody knows it.

You know what, Dan? Even Democrats know that this is an attack against me directly. When I was on the House floor, I had several Democrats. You would cringe if I said their names, but they came up to me with sincere compassion and said, We see right through this. We know this is an attack on you. They were asking how this affects me. These people don't want me in Congress anymore than Ken Buck does, and they see how dirty this is.

I wonder sometimes, we're talking to Congress Lauren Bobert. Folks, you have to go by the... You have to do the Dipsy Do, flip a roue, Dan Bongino theory. If they like you in Congress, I'm sorry, I think you probably agree, Congresswoman, if the media likes you, you're probably not an asset to us, the conservative movement. If the media hates you, you should be asking why. They really just don't like you, and you should consider that a personal badge of honor. They really hate your guts, just like they hate me. I've never seen a positive media piece about me or you or Jim Jordan or anyone else, and that's for a reason. They really dislike you.

That's exactly right, because we are there for the right reasons. You have your podcast for the right reasons. You are engaging with the American people to inform them, to say, This isn't over, and you are the ones who hold the power. And they don't want the general public to be educated on what is actually going on and how much influence people at home actually have. They want them to feel helpless and hopeless. And Washington, DC, is the only end all, be all, and whatever happens there happens. Those of us who are exposing the dirty deeds in DC, the corruption in DC, we are the ones who get attacked. I'm fine with that. I didn't go to DC to make friends. I had plenty of friends in Colorado. I didn't go there for a lifelong career. I went there to save our country. I was tired of sitting at home and complaining about what was going on. I wanted to be part of the solution. And with that comes a lot of attacks on a daily basis. But I've learned crisis comms, and I have learned how to manage through that. And I do it with joy.

And that is the key, because that is where we get our strength. We get our strength from joy. And joy is not just a suggestion. It is a battle plan. And if we're going to live by faith, 1 Timothy 6 says, fight the good fight of faith. So if you're going to live by faith, you know that there is a battle ahead, so you better be ready to fight. Dan, I think you and I are the types that are in this for the battle. We are ever ready to fight, and we are not going to give up on the American people.

Yeah, man, you're 100% correct. There's nowhere else to go. We only got one country to save Congresswoman.

I got to run. I wish I could say, what's your website if people want to help you out?

Laurenforfreedom. Com. Dan, I don't come on your show pedaling for money often, but this is going to take a lot of resources to educate Colorado on what is going on.

That's all right. I'll do it for you because I'm brutally honest with my audience.

Laurenforfreedom. Com.

Lauren, for freedom. I am. Listen, money, I wish it weren't a part of running for office, folks.

It sucks. I did it. You want me to lie to you?

No, don't donate. We don't need it. No, they need it.

I'm sorry.

Laurenforfreedom. Com.

Lauren Boebert, thanks a lot for your time. Really appreciate it.

Thanks, Dan.

You got it. Folks, you heard it from her.

Everything we said yesterday was going to happen.

Happened.

Total scam.

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The thing about live radio is not only do you get the intimacy of the spoken voice, but it's live. Life is live.

As I say all the time, we have this perception of time. There's a past and a in the future and we're walking down this road. That's not how time and space are. You're just living a series of nows. There's just a series of todays. Time's washing over you. You're not walking through it. You're only alive in the now, and I bring all this up because I got a job here to do, and life happens. Life happens, all of us, me included. Something really strange happened to me last night, and I've been working through it this morning. I wrapped up my other show a little bit earlier, and I'm here with you all, and I'm going to be here for you. I'm with you, I should say, and you'll probably be here more for me in the next three hours or so.

But I had a bad night last night, and I chose to be here.

I just want to be clear. Before I tell you what happened, this was in no way the decision of this company at all, Westwood One and Cumulus. They could not be more supportive in this situation. They actually said, Please don't come in to work today. But I thought it was important that I do it because there's a lot going on, and I may need to take a day or two. I thought, Because I can work today, I will. I put this thing together, this show, and we're darn well going to do it.

But I do have some news to share with you because I don't...

If you sense a change in my tone today in the show, I don't want you to I don't want to speculate on anything, and I think it would be unfair to not tell you what's going on. Because we live together for three hours a day in each other's eardrums. I hear you with the phone calls, and I read what you're saying, and then you hear me on the radio. I lost my mom last night. I don't know any easy way to say that because it was not expected. My mom had me when she was very young. She was only 21, and my mom was not very old. She wasn't the greatest of health, but she most certainly wasn't anywhere near death. When I say unexpected, I mean unexpected. She took a bad fall last night down a flight of stairs. Unfortunately, it was not immediate. It like I had hoped. You always hope you're going to go, that you go in the most, not pain-free, but painless way possible. That wasn't the case. But rather than reflect on the sorrows and the sufferings and all that we all go through, I'm not the only one who's lost anyone by any stretch.

We've all experienced loss. It's a natural part of the creative destruction of life. Leave it to me to use an economics analogy talking about death. But that's true. That's what life is, too. This obviously hit me hard I wanted to tell you something because I feel like the Lord gave me an opportunity here, an opportunity to use this for something good. Folks, I don't know where you stand on faith and spirituality and the idea of a heaven or an afterlife. I have no idea. It's on my business. It's yours. But I'm going to tell you something that happened to me last night, and you can take it or leave it because I'm telling you it happened, and I am not crazy. I don't have any diagnosed psychiatric disorders. I'm not on psychoactive drugs. Nothing. This is how I found out. I was by myself last night, in my house, which never happens. Paul and I are rarely apart. On the road, sometimes I'll be in a hotel room by myself. If I'm traveling for, say, a show or something like that, but I'm never home alone. Why would I be? But Paula had gone down to Miami with my youngest daughter to look at some...

It was a business thing, and she took my youngest daughter because they were on I'm on break this week. They were down, and I was home by myself for the first time in, gosh, forever. Something strange happened to me last night. Again, I get to all my people who hate me in the audience. You can laugh all you want. I'm going to tell the damn story anyway because I'm telling you it happened. At about three o'clock in the morning, I have a tough time sleeping because I go to bed too early. I go to sleep at eight o'clock. I just get tired. It doesn't matter. It's a long story. But I go to sleep at about 8:00, and I typically get up at around 3:00, and it takes me about a half an hour, an hour to fall back asleep sometimes. I'm not the greatest sleeper in the world. I wish I was. I got up at 3:00, and I was just really dehydrated. I had a long day, and I really didn't drink enough water. It was a little hot yesterday in Florida, if you're down here in South Florida. I was really dehydrated.

I got up and I walked into the kitchen. Then again, I'm by myself in the house, and I went to go get some water. I'm up. I'm up about 10 or 15 minutes had passed, and I was having such a tough time falling back asleep. I propped up a pillow behind me in the bed, so I had two pillows, and I was just breathing. Just taking some deep breaths. It helps me relax that box breathing thing. It helps me relax and go back to sleep. It was weird because I had these two pillows, so I turned to my side, but my head was still angled up because I had these two pillows underneath me. I turned on to my right shoulder, and I I was just sitting there breathing. I remember because I was trying to avoid the pillow from blocking my nostrils as I was breathing because I buried my head in a pillow, and I was just sucking in that oxygen.

It's three o'clock, I think it was 3:03, to be exact, because I looked at that we have one of those digital thermostats, and it said 3:03 as I passed by it.

I felt someone grab me. No, folks, I don't mean grab me. I mean, I felt someone physically grab me. I jumped. I felt someone actually grab me like an embrace.

The weirdest things went through my head.

I thought, did Paula come back home last night and not tell me? Is she playing a game with me? Paula doesn't... She doesn't do practical jokes. I felt someone grab me. I'm not crazy.

I'm not delusional.

I was not in some fugue state.

I was not I was not night dreaming.

I was not sleepwalking. I felt someone grab me. Now, keep in mind, in the case you're thinking, Oh, this is some thing because of the grief of your mom, I don't know my mom's dead.

My phone is on Do not disturb. I don't keep it in front of me. I keep it in the bathroom charging because I don't like the WiFi thing near my head. I'm walking around the house, I'm looking for my gun.

Someone grabbed me.

This has never happened to me before. I'm walking around my house and I'm thinking, maybe my daughter came back from college and didn't tell me, and she wanted to say something, but I was up. I didn't see any. I heard my door didn't open to the bedroom, and I have a slider door, a second door. The slider didn't open. I'm thinking, who's in my room? I'm looking under the bed. I'm I'm in a cold sweat because this has never happened to me before. Listen, I'm not the antsy type. I'm not trying to play Captain Bravery with you, but I don't really startle easy. But someone's in my house. I go to my phone because I'm looking to see if Paula is here. Maybe she sent me a text, I'm home, and I pick up my phone, and I had gotten a text.

It's now, I don't know, 3:05 in the morning or whatever. I had gotten a text from this lady who lives in the same building with my mom, where they found her at the bottom of the stairs struggling to save her own life. The text says, Dan, I'm sorry to bother you at this time of night, but I need you to call me as soon as you see this. I knew my mom was dead. No one ever texted me at that time of night. It was my mom, 2:49 AM. I'll never look at 2:49 AM again the same way. Luckily, I'm not up much at that time. But apparently, my mother was pronounced dead right around 3:00 in the morning. At the same time, I felt someone grabbed me. Folks, I'm not crazy. I'm telling you, I'm not crazy. I don't smoke dope. I don't do drugs. I'm not crazy. I was not drinking. I felt someone grab me at the right in that exact time, my mom died. It was the weirdest thing. I'm starting to put two and two together. I'm convinced God gave me this microphone for a reason. One of them is to use it, to use it for very specific things.

Something else happened with my mother. Listen, I'm not going to spin your wheels because we're a big family here, and I love you guys, and we spend a lot of time together. I did not have the greatest relationship with my mom. It's a story at this point, I'll keep the rest of myself. I think you all understand. But I've shared some of it in the past, but we tried, the both of us. My mom, which is the only one on this planet we'd call Earth, that called me Danny. No one calls me Danny, except my mom. No one calls me Danny now because you ain't here. But I called her last week on speaker in front of Paula, which I typically don't do. It was for an interesting reason, but I wanted to see something. Then if my mom was going to complain to me about something on the phone. It was a strange story, but it's neither here nor there. But she didn't. My mom never complained to me on the phone, no matter how bad things got for her. She had a lot of issues. She just didn't complain. She said, I'm all right, Danny.

But Paula used to hear me talk to her once in a while, and she'd hear me hang up. If you ever talk to me on the phone, you know I abruptly hang up all the time. Jim, do I not? Isn't it uncomfortably weird? I'm not good with goodbye. Paula would always say, When your mom says, I love you, Danny, why don't you say, I love you? I said, It's a long story. I'll tell you sometime. Not proud of that, but I'm being straight with you. But I spoke to her a week ago, and it was strange. Paula was right there and said, I love you, Danny. I said, I love you too, Mom. It's the strangest thing. It's like Jesus wanted me, wanted to close that book, and wanted those to be the last words. Paula looked at me. She said, Why did you say that? Not why did you say that? It was bad, but she gave me the... We talked about it this morning, and she said the same thing. She's like, Remember that conversation? I said, I do. She's like, There was some inspiration there. There's some spiritual world out there we don't understand.

Folks, there's something bigger than us. I'm so sure of it. I woke up this morning never so sure that there's something out there we don't understand. I wanted to get that out of the way because I'm going to try to just do a regular show because life goes on and we've all suffered loss. I may need to take a day or two, but the world's a tough place full of suffering. But life goes on for all of us.