Oct 17, 2026 · 55 min · 11 segments
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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Listen, this is a-- this is gonna be one of those shows where it's gonna go in one direction, but it's not the direction.
It's like I'm telling you in advance, this is gonna be one of those, like, this is gonna be one of those intentional misdirection things.
You know, when I left my prior job and the job before that, and I came back on, on the radio and, and TV and elsewhere, I said to you, you know, you learn quick over there in that position I was in at the FBI that when something gets to your desk, it's a level 10 decision.
A level 10 decision is very simply a decision that there's really no great answer.
I know it's not a w- I mean, but you get the point, and that's why it's at your desk.
You're like, "Well, how does that relate to this election?" Well, here's the flipping of the script.
You've got this, this political class of people dominated by Pocahontas, Bernie Sanders, Mamdami, AOC, running on ideas so antithetical to American values and principles that I'm stunned that any kind of blue-collar Democrat would even consider Team Blue in this election cycle.
And how is it, a point that'll come up today throughout the show, how is it that Team Blue, which is not Team America, they're just not, and you should not be afraid to say it.
These aren't even-- When I was growing up in New York, there was a sports writer, and he'd have the hero and the GOAT thing, and he was a cartoonist.
Listen, this is a-- this is gonna be one of those shows where it's gonna go in one direction, but it's not the direction.
It's like I'm telling you in advance, this is gonna be one of those, like, this is gonna be one of those intentional misdirection things.
You know, when I left my prior job and the job before that, and I came back on, on the radio and, and TV and elsewhere, I said to you, you know, you learn quick over there in that position I was in at the FBI that when something gets to your desk, it's a level 10 decision.
A level 10 decision is very simply a decision that there's really no great answer.
I know it's not a w- I mean, but you get the point, and that's why it's at your desk.
You're like, "Well, how does that relate to this election?" Well, here's the flipping of the script.
You've got this, this political class of people dominated by Pocahontas, Bernie Sanders, Mamdami, AOC, running on ideas so antithetical to American values and principles that I'm stunned that any kind of blue-collar Democrat would even consider Team Blue in this election cycle.
And how is it, a point that'll come up today throughout the show, how is it that Team Blue, which is not Team America, they're just not, and you should not be afraid to say it.
These aren't even-- When I was growing up in New York, there was a sports writer, and he'd have the hero and the GOAT thing, and he was a cartoonist.
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