The Dan Bongino Show

How To Recognize An Op (Ep. 2523)

72 min
May 27, 2026about 2 months ago
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Summary

Dan Bongino explains how to recognize political and media operations designed to manipulate public opinion, identifying telltale signs like horseshoe theory convergence, diffuse fear messaging, and overwhelming information with underwhelming evidence. He contrasts Trump's documented political success with failed opposition figures and highlights the Trump administration's measurable results on crime, border security, and government efficiency.

Insights
  • Operational manipulation relies on creating diffuse, collective fear about unnamed groups rather than specific, prosecutable claims—a technique used across political extremes
  • Data manipulation and selective statistics are weaponized to support predetermined narratives; actual crime data and fraud recovery numbers tell a different story than media claims
  • Political success is measurable through concrete outcomes (endorsement records, crime rates, fraud recovery) rather than rhetoric; contrast between results-oriented and narrative-driven approaches
  • Infiltration tactics use horseshoe theory convergence where far-left and fake-right actors promote identical divisive messaging to expose their shared anti-American agenda
  • AI-generated content and synthetic media will exponentially increase operational sophistication in 2028; citizens need refined discrimination tools to identify manipulation
Trends
Weaponization of statistical manipulation and data corruption in federal databases to support predetermined political narrativesCoordinated infiltration of political movements by bad-faith actors using identical talking points across ideological dividesShift toward measurable governance metrics (fraud recovery, crime statistics, manufacturing output) as primary political messagingIncreasing sophistication of AI-generated disinformation and synthetic media as tools for mass psychological manipulationManufacturing renaissance driven by national security concerns rather than pure economic efficiencyExpansion of federal workforce reduction and fraud detection as core governance strategyConvergence of far-left and infiltrator messaging on anti-American themes (anti-Israel, anti-police, anti-border security)Polling data showing significant Republican advantage on public safety and law enforcement trustDecline of traditional media credibility with rise of alternative platforms for political messagingEmphasis on soundbite mastery and clear contrast messaging as differentiator between effective and ineffective political communication
Topics
Recognizing political operations and gaslighting tacticsHorseshoe theory and ideological convergenceData manipulation in crime statistics and federal databasesTrump administration endorsement record and political influenceBorder security and immigration enforcement resultsFederal workforce reduction and DOGE efficiency initiativesManufacturing on-shoring for national securityAI-generated disinformation and synthetic media threatsCrime statistics and public safety pollingFraud detection and recovery in federal programsPolitical messaging and contrast strategyRed light therapy and cellular energy optimizationHVAC regulations and green energy policy impacts2028 election landscape and Democratic candidate positioningInfiltration of political movements by bad-faith actors
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People
Dan Bongino
Primary host and commentator analyzing political operations and Trump administration results
Donald Trump
Central figure discussed for endorsement record (37-0 or similar), political influence, and administration policies
Tom Massey
Kentucky primary candidate who lost despite claiming term limits; example of failed infiltrator
Hasan Piker
Far-left streamer cited as example of horseshoe theory convergence with fake-right actors
JD Vance
Leading DOGE task force; credited with $25 billion in fraud recovery and government efficiency
Elizabeth Warren
Identified as Democratic kingmaker for 2028; example of failed political figure with outsized influence
Kevin Hassett
Discussed manufacturing boom and on-shoring strategy for national security and economic growth
John Stossel
Featured in clip discussing failed environmental predictions and pattern of moving to next panic
Noah Rothman
New book addressing statistical manipulation of domestic terror threat data and left-wing violence
Bjorn Lomborg
Cited for data showing climate-related deaths down 97% and polar bear populations doubled
James Talarico
Example of ineffective Democratic messaging; confused on symbols and gender ideology
Spencer Pratt
Praised for exceptional soundbite mastery and political communication skills in LA mayoral race
Gary Brecka
Guest discussing red light therapy, ATP production, and cellular energy optimization
Yuri Bezmenov
Referenced for insights on foreign psychological operations designed to divide America internally
Sean Hannity
Referenced for recent appearance where Bongino discussed political operations and messaging
Quotes
"The difference between truth tellers and bullshit artists, well, obviously is the truth, but recognizing an op when someone's conducting an op on you, trying to gaslight you or psychologically manipulate you, it's not always easy."
Dan BonginoOpening segment
"If it stinks like an op, it gallops like an op, and it looks like an op, it's an op. It's not real. There's no astroturf. There's nothing genuine there. It's all fake grass."
Dan BonginoHorseshoe theory explanation
"They overwhelm you with information and underwhelm you with evidence. They're always getting close but they never actually get there."
Dan BonginoHallmark number two of ops
"Spreadsheets matter. Spreadsheets matter. Check these numbers out. I've never seen anything like it, and you haven't either, because there's never been anything like it."
Dan BonginoTrump endorsement record discussion
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Gary BreckaHealth hacks segment
Full Transcript
All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino Show. Folks, the difference between truth tellers and bullshit artists, well, obviously is the truth, but recognizing an op when someone's conducting an op on you, trying to gaslight you or psychologically manipulate you, it's not always easy. It's not always easy. If it was, a lot of people wouldn't fall for ops and ops can be very sophisticated. In this era of AI generation and narrative generation, mass media power, academia, Hollywood, you know, pseudo intellectuals and elitists all being in the same place, pumping the same bullshit into the American bloodstream every day, it's not easy to recognize an op. I'm gonna help you today because there's ops everywhere. I'm gonna show you the telltale symbol to point you to compass true north every single time. I got that. And speaking of truth tellers, you know, listen, you can be as old as you want. You know, if you hate Donald Trump, if you're a fake New Jack trying to work his way into the MAGA 10 shit all over our movement, you know, Donald Trump said the movement's not real, it's all gonna fall apart. You guys are all frauds. It's amazing, you guys can't actually win anything saying that while Donald Trump continues to show a level of intra-party, intra-Republican party power, factually based we've never seen before. He just keeps racking up W's. You saw it in the Paxton win last night. You could deny it all you want, it happened. It happened, like it actually happened. It's not in the future. It's the now and the last night. So you can already document it as a portion of history. It already happened. May I show you a clip on that, his endorsement record. I've never seen anything like it. Just a couple of quick shout outs. We get these once in a while at the PO box. Hat tip class of 2026. We cut their addresses off of course, but Addison, Gene, Troyer, congratulations. Let's celebrate the, Jackson, Sweeney, congratulations. We get these, I can't read them all obviously, but congrats class of 2026. We love you guys. I'm gonna show you how to recognize the OP so you never fall for one again. I promise. Okay, stand by. Hey, you need a faster, simpler way to get your medications. Go to allfamilyfarmacy.com slash Bongino. I use them, license doctors review your request and ship your medications directly to your door. I'll use anyone else. Allfamilyfarmacy.com slash Bongino, use code Bongino10, prescription provided if appropriate. I use them, check them out. Also today's show, I'll brought to you by SuperShore Insurance. Listen, how many brokers does it take to ensure your business? Believe me, I've been through this. The answer is, do you want the answer? Too many. If you're like most business owners, the answer is too many. Multiple policy, you know what's funny? I didn't even know I was in the read. I just said that. I'm legit, I had no idea. 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Go to supershore.com slash Bongino, that's supershore.com slash Bongino. Consult with a licensed insurance producer to discuss coverage options for your specific business needs paid for by SuperShore Insurance Agency, LLC and License Insurance Agency. Check them out, supershore.com slash Bongino. All right fellas, let's go. First, before I get to the op and just how the horseshoe theory, if you don't know what horseshoe theory is, stay tuned, I'm gonna explain this to you today. It's all coming together. They've showed their ass, they lost, the new jack's trying to sneak into tent, still crashing out last night. Massey sitting there bitching and moaning and griping, oh my gosh, I love, I'm sorry, bro, I can't help you, okay? The people who know you best thought you sucked, okay? You sucked, they thought you sucked. You dropped an L, okay? An L in your own district with your own people who think you suck and you're a fraud. If they didn't think you were a fraud, you would've won. You did not win. This is your primary in a deep red area where you've been in office despite claiming you were a term limits guy for like 542 years. You got wrecked, wrecked, R-E-K-T, you got wrecked. And they're still melting down, attacking Donald Trump, screaming about the Epstein class, this is all they got. You ran on that and you lost, that was your thing, it was your only thing, you were bullshit all the whole time. Now, contrast that with Donald Trump, who endorses candidates and states he's not even from, he's not even from Texas, he's a New York guy, he's a Queens guy just like me, I'm from Queens. Little different part of Queens, hello, we're both from Queens. I want you to listen to this Bill Hemmer segment on Fox. It's not very long. Folks, the record of Donald Trump endorsements winning is there's nothing even close. You can bullshit and argue all you want. The bottom line is spreadsheets matter. Spreadsheets matter. Check these numbers out. I've never seen anything like it, and you haven't either, because there's never been anything like it. It's without precedent, check this out. This is his scorecard, okay? He has endorsed eight governors. Now some of these races weren't real close and have a lot of competition, but some of them did. I mean, we saw what happened in Louisiana, the primary Bill Cassidy, we saw what happened a week ago tonight with Tom Massey in Kentucky. And now we're seeing it again tonight, okay, in Texas. Governor level, Trump endorsed eight, he won eight times. US House, 101 endorsed, he won, yeah, sorry, 101 endorsed in the House, and he won 101. Let me put on the pencil right here and show you this. US Senate, Sean, he has endorsed eight candidates. And prior to tonight, he'd won eight times. And now you can take the endorsement from eight to nine endorsed and from eight to nine winner. Hey, someone just said in the chat, who's that? Oh, Eisenheim in the Lucky Trump. There was never a time for Lucky Trump. I know I hate to wear out Lucky Trump. The guy's just lucky, folks. The guy's just like, plays blackjack, wins 72 hands in a row. It's just Lucky. There. Lucky Trump. It's amazing how we've been told by all the Ragebot army, too, how Massey is, oh, he loves us here. Why'd he lose? He's not lucky, too. Just luck, right? All right, just so full of shit. Recognize and op, recognize and op. I'm gonna get into this in detail in the show. I'm gonna show you examples of what this looks like. Here are some telltale signs of when a narrative is working very hard to tattoo itself on your brain. A narrative typically financed by a lot of foreign money that wants to divide the country from within because as Yuri Besmanov, former KGB defector, reminded us, then-Soviet's now communist, now anti-American alliance across the street, excuse me, overseas in foreign countries and elsewhere. They want nothing more than to bury the United States from the inside. That is their thing. How do we get people to fight amongst themselves when we can't defeat them from the outside? But some piker even admitted to this. You know what, Son Piker? The Turkish guy, by the way, I think he's like a millionaire, man, but he's always talking about socialism, redistricting. Hey, Son Piker, give your money away, bro, you can do it. Give your money away. Remember that song was at Ice Cube? You can do it, put your acid to it. You can do it, bro. Give your money away. Show us how it's done, you fake phony fraud. Put the Fox News, that was a hint. Yeah, Fox News politics, saying the quiet part out loud. Far left streamer, Hasan Piker, names Neville Roy Singham as the funding vehicle behind political operations that operate under nonprofit labels. Ladies and gentlemen, I told you it wasn't up and now they're admitting to it. If you think all of these people out there screaming endlessly about Epstein and the Jews and everything, the Massey types, have any kind of grassroots effort behind them, why do they need money from overseas, from these guys? The answer is because no one actually believes a lot of this crap they're spouting, that there's a bunch of Donald Trump administration pedophiles in the White House. No one believes you. How come Trump keeps winning and you keep just answering the fucking question? If you're so powerful, how come you can't actually get people to show up and do a simple thing like pulling the lever? And how come horseshoe theory, where far left radicals like this fraud, Hasan Piker, I wanna see who he's given, what kind of assets he's given away in donating? When far left radicals horseshoe around and are saying the exact same thing that people pretending to be part of our movement are saying too, that's how you know that's the telltale sign it's an op. You're like, wait, this guy's pretending to be some like Republican or Maga guy? Weird, he sounds exactly like Hasan Piker in the crazy leftist. That's because they are the same. They both hate America and wanna divide it. There's other signs of the op. So sign number one, if your favorite Twitter celebrity who all of a sudden started changing their messaging and is pretending to be a Maga guy or Republican and sounds a lot like Code Pink, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Hasan Piker, this fake phony fraud, it's probably an op. If it stinks like an op, it gallops like an op, and it looks like an op, it's an op. It's not real. There's no astroturf. There's nothing genuine there. It's all fake grass. Sign number one, horseshoe theory. Sign number two, overwhelming people with information and underwhelming them with evidence. Constantly telling people you're getting close. You're getting close. You've got some secret information. You're getting there. You're getting there. People telling you, well, we know who killed Charlie. Go really, there's a trial going on right now. That's how the due process. I thought you folks were libertarians. You don't believe in due process and a trial? There's a trial going on right now. I have secret information about the Epstein case. I'll put out eventually one, put it out! Stop talking shit! Did you miss that whole thing? I put out a tweet last night. We're even media outlets that don't even like us. We're like, yeah, you know, Dan and Cash wanted this out there and we're fighting for a transparency. What did you miss that whole thing? Over the summer, you that stupid? But you have secret information? Where is it? Put it out! Justin, they're getting close. They're getting close. Charlie's killed. They're getting close. The Epstein, they're getting close. You ever wonder how they're always getting close? Justin, you know how they get close? They build up data points. What's the data point? It's a data point. It's a data point. Well, what is it? It's the data point. I get it. We understand. What's the data that leads to the point? They overwhelm you with information and overwhelm you with evidence. Hallmark number two, overwhelm with info, underwhelm with evidence. Hallmark number two, they're always getting close but they never actually get there. They never actually get there. They're just getting close. It's all bullshit. Let me give you an example because I got to do this every few weeks to remind people, this is how you know you're being gaslit. There's a bank down the block and someone tells you Jasmine robbed it. Jasmine robbed the bank? Yeah, she was at the whatever. Suncoast Bank on Friday. It was robbed on Friday. Wow. That sounds to me like, gosh, that's really hardcore, man, hardcore proof, isn't it? And then you find out that Jasmine was in the studio at 9 a.m. when the bank was robbed and she went later on after the scene had been cleaned up and just took out money out of the ATM. It's a fact that she was at the bank but it's not evidence. It's not because she was here on camera when the bank was robbed. So it can't be evidence because she didn't do it. That's what the data point, getting close, overwhelm you with bullshit, underwhelm you with evidence people do all the time. They never make the connection. They only make the correlation. Here's another way to recognize the op. Point number four. Anytime someone wants you to panic about something that's a diffuse sense of fear. It's not specific. This group of people for this cabal in the White House of pedos is coming for you. The oligarchies coming for you. In other words, it's a diffuse sense of fear. It's like this cloud of people. You can never point to anything kind of like acute and in the moment. It's just the Jews. It's not like one specific Jew. It's the Jews. Whenever you see something like that, anything that doesn't point to specific data but a collective group of people you're supposed to be afraid of. This is what happened with the De Jure and the facto racism. The blacks, whatever you point to a group of people for collective guilt, you usually are engaging almost every single time in an op. I say almost every single time because if it's an actual group of terrorists that subscribe to terrorists, death to America, our credo is like kill Americans and the Jews everywhere you see them and you're swearing allegiance. You can reasonably be sure that person's dangerous. This diffuse sense of fear, you see it all the time. I want you to see how this horseshoe theory works too. How you see how these people, now all of these folks coming out, infiltrating our tent, telling you like they're with the Palestinian cause and all this stuff. Really? Listen to this, wait till it comes for you. This was a recent rally in Australia and one of these guys gets up, starts screaming about the Palestinians and he said, ''Australia, talking about stolen land, all the left wing talking points being promoted by the ops.'' And then he says about Australia, well you guys are on stolen land too, really? Does that mean that they're gonna be the subject of some kind of terror attack too? Folks, it always comes around. They always expose themselves. You just have to listen, check this out. We share the same story. We share the same common earth. They gifted, they gifted that land. They stole that land and they get it to you soon. Yeah. Just like Israel, Australia does not have a right to exist. Australia does never right to exist either, huh? You don't think they feel the same way about the United States? By the way, this is the same group of people, these new jacks pretending to be part of our tent and the mag movement. They're spouting the same bullshit. You don't think they're coming for you next? You don't think they know this? Folks, I've never been prouder to have this audience with me be on the right side of this and to constantly stick it in the eye of these assholes who every single day, you're done bro, you're done. I'll end you bro. Amazing, you haven't ended me yet. It's only been, we've only been doing the show since 2015. I don't know, by simple math it's more than 10 years. I don't know, I gotta get Marigay in here to check that, Brian Williams. But I'm pretty sure you're not ending shit. The only one who got ended was your bullshit. I know that makes you sad. Let me tell you something. You ready? Language alert, lower the volume in your kid room. I don't give a fuck. If there are fucks to give, I don't give them. That clown, Massey, Tom, you wanna fuck around? Let's do it. I got all the time in the world. I can do this all day. The show's called the Dan Bongino Show. There's a reason it's eponymously named, because it's me. Nobody tells me what to say or tells me what to do. You wanna mess around? Let's do it bro. I'm totally down. Totally down. You can talk all the shit, you all, and you bro, it ain't ended shit. You couldn't even win your own district. Imagine being in an office for 422 years and then getting smoked by red-blooded Kentuckians who work for a living, and then going out and crashing out. Getting loser. The whole thing was an op, and now you got exposed. What are you, Costa Rica too? Is there some shit hanging out like Costa Rica? Though you're like fighting for the whatever, wait, fighting for what, a margarita on the beach? Fuck yourself. Pussy. Sorry. I know, I always lose some people there, but listen. I'm in the mood ever since I did that Hannity hit last night. I was in the mood last night on Sean's show, and just went off. I just get a kick out of all these clowns. Well, and you see, you know how many death threats I get every day? I'm not kidding, I'm not even messing around with you every single day. Someday I'll show you. We'll put them in like a tip jar or something like that. Folks, so Donald Trump, I'm gonna get back to the op in a second, but I wanna show you the difference between what an actual political kingmaker looks like and what a fake kingmaker looks like on the other side. You've got Trump racking up W's in primaries, racking up W's, changing the Republican party, attracting black and Hispanic voters for the first time. In numbers we haven't seen before on the Republican side, you have him transforming the Republican party, 37 and 0 or something like that in endorsements. And then you've got this clown crew, horseshoe theory of fake New Jacks and hardcore lefty I hate America types all joining together like the freaking Wonder Twins. And who is their kingmaker? Well, it ain't Massey, I can tell you that. They're new kingmakers Elizabeth Warren. Take a quick break and I'm gonna, I'm not kidding. They are now on the left actively courting like Bernie Sanders, AOC and Liz Warren as their kingmakers for 2028. I'll show you what I mean. Bring back to, oh my gosh, the dopey media talking head Olympics, STNGR Stinger in the chat. I assume it's Stinger short. That's a good idea, the dopey media talking head, maybe we should do it for politics too. But I just love how people like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, okay, sure man, here. As you can tell, we're all, we're all so anxious and terrified at the very thought of you ending. You know how many times you've been told this for the last 10 years? How this army of people who watched this show, you're gonna end up, oh yeah, okay. Sure, we're talking to a stadium full of people 20 minutes in. You're talking to your mom and her coffee club playing part cheesy at the freaking coffee table. How does that sound? 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Listen to this Fox report yesterday that the Democrats are all genuflecting in front of their pow wow chow God, small G God begging for her endorsement. Can you imagine? Here, check this out. Central White House hopefuls may see liberal Senator Elizabeth Warren as a key power broker. And actually, his headline puts it this way, Dems eyeing 2028 bids count Warren. An excerpt from that reads quote, Warren is being publicly and privately courted by Democrats eyeing presidential bids in 2028, a sign they're trying to build up their lefty credentials. She met privately with Kentucky governor, Andy Bashir for tea this month and has a texting relationship with California governor Gavin Newsom. Warren's also been working more closely with fellow progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She has been fueling 2028 speculation with a series of high profile rallies and endorsements. She recently sidestepped questions about a White House run, but did not exactly slam the door shut. They assume that my ambition is a title or a seat. And my ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Folks, I'm sorry, but like Liz Warren couldn't even win her own presidential nomination on her side, got smoked. Donald Trump's won three times, not just the nod, the Republican nod, but the election. And you're telling me in the midterms like, oh, it's over, I'm staying at home, nothing is happening, you fell for the doomer thing. If you did, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry that happened to you. I'm not giving up anything. This is Pocahontas, Ms. Powwow Chow. Shay Pocahontas who cooks up the Powwow Chow. This is where you're going for your endorsement. These guys put this together last night, so Justin, I need a favor. You gotta put together like a quick highlight reel and by highlights, I mean low lights of Liz Warren. This is the new, you're gonna forfeit the endorsement to this, this is the tip of the spear of Democrat party politics. And you wonder why in the party's approval is in the can, check this out. Ah, you get that, I didn't even get that tip of the spear. Very funny, I totally missed that. Honestly, pun was not intended. Very good, Justin, good catch, check this out. It is a great honor to be able to partner with Indian country and that's what I've tried to do as a senator and that's what I promise I will do as president of the United States. You're quite sure that every general who serves should not go directly into the defense industry for 10 years, you're not willing to make that same pledge? I'm not a general, senator. You'll be the one. Hold on a sec, I'm gonna get me a beer. Hey, my husband Bruce is now in here. You want a beer? I'll have some beer for now. You sure? I'm gonna stay in the underpass. Yes. I'm gonna take a little bit of your time to think the faker. That's your kingmaker. I don't want to hear about forfeit in the midterms. It's gonna be a challenge, folks, to know that. I don't want to hear about it. I'm sorry, that's a loser mentality. Show up, bring 10 people with you and hopefully we'll be okay. And if we're not, we'll get up the next day and we'll figure out a way to fix what happened. I'm not giving up. I love this place. I love this country. I love everything about it. I love this flag. I'm not gonna let people destroy it from the inside or from the outside. Sorry, not my agenda. That's their agenda. Folks, the reason I bought up how to recognize an op in the beginning of the show is because with AI, the explosion of artificial intelligence, synthetic material, a lot of the young folks out there, they call it like AI slop. Some of it is slop. AI is gonna be, I think, can be really positive for productivity but there are downsides and we should not ignore that, okay? With AI and all the practice the Democrats have had with the media and academia, now the power of social media and rage bots and everything else, you have never seen anything like what's coming in 2028. There are going to be ops everywhere and the diffuse fear component is the tell. The world is ending. This group of people is coming for you. The oligarchs are coming for you. They never actually name anyone. They never actually describe the mechanism by any of this stuff as happening and when the date, like the world is gonna end and when the date passes, they just pretend it didn't happen. The fear is always the tell. You've got to get good at recognizing these ops so we can use our own army of people like we have out there to let people know that this is bullshit. It's gaslighting. Here's what I mean. John Stossel nailed it with this clip. This is exactly what I'm talking about. The climate folks have moved on now. They moved from climate to data centers to every single... Something's gonna kill you every single day with these people and then when that thing never happens, they pretend what they told you was gonna kill you last. Just didn't happen at all. Watch this clip from Stossel and you'll recognize an op every time you see it and they'll never recognize it at all. They just move on to the next thing. Check this out. Environmental catastrophe bearing down on us. I keep hearing that we're killing the earth. But wait, I've been a consumer reporter for years. I've covered so many scares. Plague, famine, and perpetual war will kill us. We're gonna run out of oil. Nuclear power will give us cancer. Killer bees swarm ever closer. Bird flu, flesh-eating bacteria. The list of terrible things that we're gonna get us is long. And yet we're living longer than ever. None of those scares turned out to be as frightening as the warnings. But I'm told global warming is different. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. The alarmists have evidence that supports their fears. Temperature is rising. The UN predicts that it'll rise another two to five degrees. What do we do in the land we live on is under attack. But does that justify the fear? Climate change is not a lie, so please don't let our planet die. Does it justify this claim? We have 12 years to act. We have 12 years. We have 12 years before the effects are irreversible. Really? 12 years? It's warmed up around one degree Celsius since 1900, and life expectancy doubled the industrialized democracies. And yet that temperature ticks up another half a degree, and the entire system crashes. That's the most absurd belief. There's none of the stuff they tell you is going to happen ever actually happens. Why am I playing this, that clip today? Because it's an older clip from Stasso. We've actually used it before. Here's the reason. I do show prep, not all of it, but I do my show prep for tomorrow's show after today's show. But then overnight I'll send what happened, and you're not that you really care about the logistics. However, I was just scrolling. I was eating some food yesterday, and I see this tweet pop up. It's a story from Sky News. And I don't think Sky News realizes that they've exposed the op in this one tweet about the climates going to kill you op. Sky News breaking all caps. May 25th, 2026. The old... Wait, before I read this, I'm not even going to tell you what the op is. I'm just going to read it, and I want you all to figure out what the op is. The all-time May record temperature of 32.8 degrees Celsius has been matched for the first time in 82 years. Timeout, TO, we'll take a moment of silence. It's a data point. Sky News is... I'll tell you what they're trying to tell you. The op is, oh my gosh, the global warming is back. It's unprecedented. However, folks in the chat helped me out. What's wrong with this tweet? Anybody know? Thank you, Justin. Tell me in the chat. Tell me in the chat. If this is unprecedented, yes, chop wood, or chip wood in the chat. It's the same as it was 82 or 83 years ago. If it's without precedent, how come it's happened before? Because you're full of shit. Temperature changes and has for well over 82 years. Temperature's so high it hasn't happened in 82 years. The Sky News even realized what they're doing. Beyond Lumborg put up a tweet about this too. He's a realist on this. Yeah, you know, with CO2 emissions, all these things are real. But the consequences of what this stuff is doing are not obvious to people here to put up that tweet. He does a lot of climate work. He says, hey, an inconvenient truth for climate alarmists that Al Gore's dramatic climate warning shaped the generation. But 20 years later, the data tells a different story. Climate-related deaths are down 97%. Polar bears have more than doubled since the 60s. I thought, guys, the polar bears were dying. I thought they were all dying. They show you that one picture of the same skinny polar bear all the time. They're dying. They double. That's weird. That's weird. Even though fossil fuels still provide 81% of the world's energy and emissions rising, 16 million spent on green policies, Gore's movie came out and hasn't changed its trajectory. A good reminder that panic is a terrible policy advisor. Yes. Yes. Folks, ops are everywhere. And it is going to get really, really bad before 2028. You need to have a PhD op discrimination tool lodged in your cerebral cortex. Or some of us are going to fall for this stuff too. I want to show you too how the manipulation of data can work. I'm only bringing this up, this piece. This is from the Charlie Kirk show hosted by Andrew Colvade. Obviously, since we lost our good friend Charlie, a martyr for the cause. He has Noah Rothman on. I'm going to see if he wants to come on the show. Noah Rothman has a new book out. I saw this during my early days in the FBI. They came up with this spreadsheet of how they were looking at terror threats through DT, domestic terror, and foreign terror orgs, FTOs. I was looking at the breakdown of domestic terror threats. Where are we getting all this right wing violence data? Because it doesn't seem to match up with real life. What are you talking about? Well, they were getting a lot of the data, which we stopped from the Southern Poverty Law Center in places like that. But the way they would categorize this explosion of right wing violence, when you broke it down, had nothing to do with right wing violence at all. So I don't have this book yet, but Rothman was on Charlie's show yesterday. And he's talking about exactly this. How when the left group stat foment left wing violence, they go out and exaggerate the problem on the other side of the aisle while pretending the left wing violence real problem through Antifa, BLM, and all that other stuff doesn't even exist. And this is how they do it. This is something we've discussed on the show many times. Apparently, this new book addresses it. And there is an episode of left wing violence in this country, obviously, conclusively demonstrated by investigators and law enforcement. And it's supported by some dubious statistical games that I think are being played with some of these databases that are used to justify this claim. The ADL, the Anti-Defamation League has one, the University of Cincinnati has another. And they're cited repeatedly. And if you explore them, the statistical breakdowns of right wing violence include prison violence, gang violence, intra-family violence, sometimes somebody who spray paints aside of a church, right wing violence, a homeless man who starts hurling racial slurs in a hotel, yeah, an attack some right wing violence. The data begins to look kind of corrupted the more you look into it. And then there's this report authored for the Department of Homeland Security in 2021 that alleges that left wing violence is not well studied because there are intimidation campaigns marshaled against people who study it, reputational damage, the threat of physical harm for doing that kind of work. And as well, the fact that people who are participants in these often violent left wing movements are themselves the authors of studies exploring the phenomenon. So it is a fatally subjective enterprise. Folks, this stuff has real consequences. The left falls for this. You'll see them attack cops, some of that ACAB, all cops or bastards. They'll go out there and attack police because they're mistakenly under the belief that police are mowing down unarmed black men in the street because the data point supports that. The data point supports no such thing. You made that number up. When you ask people in the liberal progressive movement how many unarmed black men are shot by police officers every year, they'll tell you it's in the thousands. The number is like less than 10 and most of them have a legal explanation. People fall for this stuff all the time, right wing violence is out of control. Where are you getting those numbers? Oh, prison attacks? Oh, so it's not actual right wing political groups you're talking about. Domestic violence incidents? How the hell is that right wing violence? And then you find out like, oh, left wing violence isn't a problem. Well, who's studying it? Left wing violent groups? Folks, we are going to dedicate this show through the midterms to exposing these ops everywhere and I don't care where they surface or where they appear. I don't care. No one's going to intimidate us. No one's going to intimidate the show. Not happening. We don't care if there's F's to give, we give none of them. We don't care. We will expose you every single time. Period, full stop, a room. There's nothing you can do about it. Zero. Zero, what are you going to do? Intimidate my parent company? What's the name of the parent company? Yeah, I worked for. What is it called again? Bajito, hey, holy shit, it's got the same last name. Crazy. It's weird how that happens. Here's another op. And by the way, he sounds just like the new jacks pretending to be part of the MAGA movement going forward. They're not. These people trying to infiltrate this Nazi tattoo bearing Senate candidate in Maine, Graham Platner. Here, this is a perfect example again of an op. He's talking about the oligarchy. This is no different than talking about like the Jews and it's just this group of people. You can't pin anything down. Well, okay, the oligarchy, who? Who's the oligarch that cheated you and broke the law so we can go out and prosecute him? Just name the person. They don't do that. Bernie's been playing Bernie Sanders and his people like Graham Platner, Mom Donnie and these AOC socialist frauds have been blaming the oligarchy for their own weaknesses and failures in life forever. But they never point out who it is. Here he is yesterday saying how we got to pull all the money back from the oligarchy and will be the ones to distribute it. Really? Really. So this guy who's never had a serious job in his life and Bernie Sanders who spent his entire life stealing your tax dollars, right? So what he does is redistribute your money to other people because he doesn't have any value added activities himself. This guy is going to pull it back. Check this out. I think it's abjude nonsense. I think that's what somebody says when they don't want to see their taxes go up. There's absolutely no question that if we target the wealth where it has been hoarded, frankly, for decades at this point, and we pull it back into our system and put it into social programs like healthcare, like childcare, like paying teachers what they are worth, we will absolutely improve the lives of working Americans and quite frankly improve our society as a whole. I think what he is pitching is propaganda. It's meant to protect himself and protect his crony friends and we're going to come after them for it. You notice that the fear campaign, the oligarchs are coming for you, we're going to pull them. When he says pull the money back, he means taking more of your money you work for. You understand that, right? When he says pull it back, he means deciding for you where your kid goes to school instead of you deciding. When he says pull it back, he means taking your money so that they control your healthcare so you can't make your own healthcare decision. You understand that's what he's saying, right? What do you think pull it back means? Folks, the only people coming for you are big government zeros. The only people coming for you are people in government. And thank God Donald Trump is the first president in modern U.S. history to dramatically shrink the federal workforce. Less federal workers, less bureaucrats, less people to tell you what to do. I want to tell myself what to do. I don't want the government breathing down my neck with their boot on my neck every freaking day. That's what they're talking about. Liz Warren, Graham Platner, Nazi tattoo guy, Bernie Sanders. I don't know what part about this is difficult to explain to the pseudo-socialists out there because they're fake. They're not going to give back any of their private property. Hasan Pikers aren't going to give any of his money. He's a bullshit artist. What part of they are trying to steal your freedom and liberty away is not registering with you? Why are you willing to let Nazi tattoo guy wouldn't even have a real job? Determine where you go to the doctor, where your kid goes to school, and what happens to your money? Why? What do you think he knows about you that you don't know about yourself? Just answer the question. Just answer the question. Why are you so eager to be an indentured servant to a guy with a Nazi tattoo on his chest? It is peak idiocy to subscribe to this pernicious, deadly ideology. It is peak stupid. And the people who subscribe to it are stupid. You want to just nail it with a video here? These guys go on a college campus and they grab this lady. And just so you know in advance, they show our videos of the Iranian hostage crisis, where the Iranians took our people hostage in the embassy in Iran. They show the lady this, but they tell her it's us taking Iranians hostage. I want you to see how when her entire worldview collapses in 30 seconds, she doesn't know what to do and has to admit she's really not ready for this. No one's ready to hear it. When liberals get that clockwork orange eye-opening moment, check this out. We're trying to show the atrocity that America has committed. Love it. Love it. You want to watch the video? So this was Iranians being held hostage by America. No, I'm not surprised. Do you think Iran has the right to prevent America from continuing to kill its people? Does Iran have the right to defend itself? Iran, have the right to defend itself. Yeah. I guess if America's killing Iranians for decades. What if I told you that every single video we showed you right now, this was actually attacked by the IRGC on Americans. Now, do you think America shall have the right to defend itself and prevent future Americans? You answer. Wait, you answer. Why don't you answer? No, because you, wait, but you said Iran has the right to, you know. Wait, but I'm not, I'm not smart enough to answer these questions like this. Wait, but you just answered the question really quickly. Iran should have the right to defend itself against American bombings. You said yes. So I can't, it's too much for me. I'm not just the kindergarten teacher. I'm not. Okay. Should we break it down very simple? Yeah. Iran attacks America. Should America be able to defend itself against Iran? Oh, well, we have some tasks. This is why you see so few conservatives ever become liberals. It happens, but it's rare ever. But you see a ton of liberal and progressives who eventually at some point in their life when reality kicks them in the balls, you'll see them become conservative because the entire, the entire GEE's video of the day, go ahead. I'm glad you, I like that one too. Everything they believe in is total bullshit. And when you're confronted by facts and video and actual data points, they don't know what to do. You know, it's like when I was a young agent, I was teaching this undercover class to, I had went to DEA school, do undercover stuff. It doesn't matter, but I was teaching the undercover class in the Secret Service Academy. And there's a rule out there that you generally try, unlike the Donny Brasco movie, if you're an undercover, you know, or actually like, you want to actually get arrested with the, you know, with the bad guy. You're not going to be the one, I should have said, like not like the lethal weapon movie, right? Remember Mel Gibson and lethal weapon, I think it's the opening scene. He's doing that drug deal by the Christmas trees and he puts his badge on the table like, I'm a cop and they can't believe he's a cop. So they get in a shootout. That's actually a very instructive scene. And it, that's actually how liberals are. When your entire worldview has been dealing with this Mel Gibson character as a drug dealer for weeks and months, you are not going to believe he's a cop. Even if he shows you his police academy picture and it's going to end in violence. So you just, you get arrested, you let the other officers come in and arrest you with them like they did in Donny Brasco and everything will be fine. It's the same thing with liberals. When their entire worldview that America is the great Satan collapses and they show you video of an actual great Satan, the Iranians and what they did, they don't know what to do. I wasn't ready for this. I know when actual data kicks the data point people in the ass, they don't know what to do. You want to see a funnier one? This happened yesterday. So what's not funny is these protests happening at the ICE facility in New Jersey. However, there was a moment where we love to laugh at liberals and progressives when their stupidity shows. There are these two guys walking out of the ICE facility. It looked like Hispanic males. I don't know, it could be Italian, but they look Hispanic to me. It doesn't really matter. They have darker skin. So of course, because liberals, you know, love that they stereotype everyone with brown skin as an illegal immigrant. These two men are walking out of the facility and they start breaking out and applause like, yes, two detainees released except. Oh, what is that? What is it? What did they say? They work in the facility, you liberal dipshit. What is that? Hat tip, freedom news.tv. Even the ICE workers are laughing at them. Hey, look, two detainees released. No, dude, they work there. Not all brown people are detainees. But you want to lose to these idiots? Actually, I'm staying home. Nothing's happening. Really? Nothing's happening? Let's skip ahead, but play the CNN clip. This is what I'm most proud of. President Trump's been the public safety president. And we kicked ass last year and locked up every bad guy we get our mitts on and some we couldn't. We tracked down. And you know, for all the bullshit coming from the nothing is happening horseshoe doomers out there telling you, yeah, you know, nothing happened. The public just doesn't believe you. Matter of fact, you like that, the muddlies. I don't win. Dude, who is that one guy? That is way. All right, I get the five monthly rule went out the window, but that is way too many monthly. It just disrespects the monthly. It waters down the monthly after like 10. But what else? You're in charge. It's your chat. You guys. I want you to watch this clip. If you guys are right in the horseshoe doomer class aligning with the left Donald Trump, the administration is doing nothing, despite the fact that it's never been a safer country at the border crime everywhere all over big cities cracking down on crime. People are alive right now. Then how come the polling data has Donald Trump leaping ahead of where he was even last year? Oh, excuse me, right before the election on public safety and law enforcement. CNN's reported it's not some right wing outlet. This is CNN having to acknowledge that it was a huge success and that a lot happened and the data shows it. I'm sorry. A lot of you doomers are on the wrong side of it. Check this out. This is a very important issue because who voters trust more crime? You know, oftentimes we put up these graphics, you know, Democrats are leading or Trump was leading and then Democrats came ahead. But look at this. Who voters trust more crime? On October of 2024, Trump was trusted more crime than Kamala Harris by four points. Look at the Republican lead right now, though, in the average of polling. Look at this. Republicans nationally are more trusted on crime than Democrats by a 13 point margin. It's one of the few issues in which the Republican advantage, Johnny B, has actually expanded out from what Trump was looking at a little bit under two years ago. Doomers, I'm sorry you dropped another L. I'm sorry. Like you tweet all day. Well, I get a half of it. Nobody believes you losers. Nobody believes you. That's why you lose. That's why you lose. Lucky Trump again strikes again. Incredible. Lucky is man on planet Earth never loses an entire shoe of blackjack. Incredible. Even a dealer is like, what's going on? He's the opposite of, uh, you ever see Molly's game? Bad Brad and Molly's game who loses every hand and beats that one guy one time. He's the opposite. He's good Trump versus bad Brad. Folks, it's happening everywhere. It was Andrew Bailey, good man working over the FBI. His co deputy over there. He was out in St. Louis here. They're cracked down in St. Louis too. Nobody's, no one in the Trump administration, by the way, is waiting for any, but I'm not telling you the locals didn't cooperate over the years. I'm just saying, they're just doing it. Federal officials tout the success of another FBI agent, surgeon in the St. Louis region. I don't think it's happening. I don't think it's happening. What about on the manufacturing front? All the doomers complaining again. They move from climate change to AI. Everything's a panic. Everything's going to kill you every five minutes all the time. Donald Trump made a promise. He wanted to rebuild not just for economic, but for national security reasons, a manufacturing base in the United States. Folks, I'm an economic purist on a lot of these issues. However, and I've disagreed with the administration on some economic policies. He doesn't require blind loyalty. Contrary, I said that on Hannity last night through the bullshit the left and the doomers tell you. That's just not true. I wasn't hired for that anyway. I was hired for the law enforcement side. However, Donald Trump is correct. A country that cannot manufacture things that would be needed in a time of war at at least at a maintenance level. Things like steel, antibiotics, medicine, high tech chips, folks, global sea lanes get shut down due to some global war or hostilities. We be in deep shit. We have to start manufacturing some of these things here. Even if comparative advantage wise, you can look that up in economics, it would be more economically efficient to do it somewhere else. There's a national security component. So what are the results? Nothing is happening. I tell you nothing. He was Kevin Hassid, one of Donald Trump's economic advisors on Fox yesterday, talking about a boom in manufacturing. That's yes, happening. This is important stuff. Check this out. This manufacturing boom, the president has encouraged companies to bring the supply chain back to America. And you say we've got this productivity boom. Where are you seeing the most manufacturing build out right now in what sectors? Oh, yeah. Well, obviously the data center thing is a big part of it, but it's drugs. People are on showing drug production right now, like crazy automobile construction is cut it back to the US. As are a bunch of things that seem the small but like electricity infrastructure companies, the guys who make transformers and things, they're building big new factories here. And even Caterpillar is doing everything they can to make power generation equipment as fast as they can and doing a lot of investment in that. And so it's pretty much all of the above right now in investment. Okay, folks, there was a lot in what Kevin Hassid just said. Let's parse through it slowly. Notice what he mentions, and it's not an accident. Listen to your buddy Dan. When he mentions on shoring, manufacturing, what does he talk about? Cars, very important because cars are heavy manufactured products, where if God forbid there were global hostilities, just like what happened in World War Two and World War One, we can convert those factories to make weapons of war we may need to defend ourselves. God forbid there's an existential crisis. You can't just let the car business go, even despite some economic inefficiencies. Notice he mentions medicines and pharmaceuticals. Kind of important to have antibiotics and medicines in case there's a global crisis. Notice the products he mentions. Data centers. I know they're not popular. I know they're not popular. I get it. However, what are you going to do? AI, you're going to let China build a bunch of data centers to use advanced AI products to hack every single U.S. bank contract system, water plant. We don't have a choice. We don't have a choice. There's a reason he mentions this stuff because it's not just an economic angle they're taking here. It's a national security angle. It doesn't mean we have to manufacture everything here. It's more cost effective. We don't need to make rubber dog toys here. China wants to be the rubber dog toy capital of the world. Let them do it. But that's not going to be for us. I want to take a quick break and I want to show you this clip. And I got a maha moment for you. Very important. You know, I'm into health hacks. I got a great guest, by the way, coming up later in the week. Is that tomorrow? We're going to be airing that. Dr. Mike, huge health hacks interview coming. This guy's very popular in TikTok. Talk all about health hacks, lifting all that stuff. So we got a lot of speaking of health hacks. Hey, you know, those weight loss injections are everywhere, but here's the catch. About 15% of users quit because of the cost and another 15% stop because of side effects. A while back, I want to drop some weight. I'd come off cancer. I'd gained some weight. I really wasn't eating that great. 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Go to BrickhouseNutrition.com. Dan use promo code Dan for 20% off. That's BrickhouseNutrition.com. Dan use promo code Dan for 20% off. Check it out today. The product works. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. The product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, prevent any disease. Not a sub-suitable alternative for care from a healthcare provider. Thank you, Brickhouse Nutrition. Folks, also, what about an American 2.5? American 250 Bungino Roadshow Evergreen Iceman in the chat. That's actually not a bad idea, Evergreen Iceman. I would consider something like that, but I don't know. We get a lot of, we've been getting a, I don't really must say it because then it sounds like a, one thing I learned, the only regret I ever had was to give a, do an interview on Fox and Friends when early on or someone had asked me about what it was like being away from your family. And I told them, I shouldn't have said, I should have, you know what he should have said. Don't worry about it. We'll talk about it another time. So I don't like to complain, but it's hard for me to get out on the road because I got to bring a lot of assets with me. You know what I mean? I wish it weren't the case, but it is not an excuse, just an explanation. Folks, this is the results administration. I've told you over and over. It's not just that they're paring down the federal workforce, that they're on-shoring manufacturing, that the borders shut, that crime rates are dropping, that the economy's growing, that high tech industries are coming back to the United States. It's that this is the first administration. Everybody, oh, what about the doge stuff? What do you mean? What about the doge stuff? The federal workforce is down 10%. We cut something like $300 million from the FBI budget alone. The whole doge mentality from Elon's efforts early on have just taken over the entire government now and they're going after fraud everywhere. JD Vance, the vice president, has done an amazing job on this, folks. Contrast JD Vance with Borders R. Kamala Harris, who was given the responsibility for the border and never even went there. Vice President Vance has been in charge of this task force for what, a month? Two months? We're on like our third or fourth briefing yesterday. We're up to like $25 billion in money saved. You don't believe me? It was yesterday's briefing. Short clip from that. Check this out. In the last month, we've exposed billions of dollars in benefits that have been stolen from the American people. We've referred over $22 billion in fraudulent small business loans back to the Treasury for collection. We've deferred more than $1.3 billion in fraudulent Medicaid reimbursements that were coming from various states, particularly California. We put a six-month hold on enrollments for new hospice and home health care providers because so many of the newer hospice providers were not actually providing hospice services, we're just focused on fraud. So we're going to cut that out for a little bit and try to get to a place where we can actually certify that the people providing hospice services are actually providing those very necessary and important services. We've recovered taxpayer funds from the $135 billion stolen after the floodgates were open in the immediate aftermath of COVID. We have found $6.3 billion in suspected fraudulent government contracts, which were mostly awarded during the last administration, and that has stopped. And finally, we've blocked $60 million in student aid fraud that should have gone to young people trying to get an education, but instead we're going to fraudsters. Folks, contrast. I always tell you in politics, listen to me, again, listen to your brother Dan here. If you were running for office, you're an activist, you have a cause, you have a group. If you're not painting a contrast of why your cause or your candidate is good, but while the alternative is not good, you're making a mistake. I know, oh yeah, hello, Captain Obvious. I get it. You have no idea how many people don't do this. They'll talk endlessly about all the highlights of what they did, and they won't contrast with what prior administrations or the alternative did, which is typically a bad thing. I showed you how that Candleanium was talking about crime numbers under Biden that were fudged and making it out like it was like the greatest thing ever. And then when we put out real crime numbers, he changed the story completely. It was hilarious to watch. Had to be more than that one. But I want to show you a contrast that uses the nothing is happening files, music, Stinger. Stinger, Stinger again. There you go. By request. Stinger, that's all you buddy. That's all you brother or sister don't really know. Stinger, man or woman, you can just say M or W. I just got to know. Contrast. Now, these two aren't running against each other, but they do represent the difference between a businessman like JD Vance and Donald Trump. JD is a business guy. Yes, he's got a decorated service history with the United States Marine Corps, but JD was a very successful businessman just like Donald Trump. They go in it with a different mentality. JD and Donald Trump want to see spreadsheets. They don't care. I worked for them. They don't care about any bullshit. They want to see numbers. The crime rate down. The homicide rate down. Counterterror arrest. What are you guys doing? They do this everywhere. Contrast that with the grand platiners of the world who speaks only in diffuse clouds. The oligarchies coming for you. Who in the oligarchy? Gee, I don't know. Someone who's an oligarch. You just said that. That's circular reasoning. That was like that. Ibram Kendi guy would ask to define what racism is. He was like, it's racist. The racist stuff. If the words in the definition are the word you're trying to define, it's not a definition. Sound bites and snapshots. I want to show you James Talafrico. Talafrico is running for the Senate race against Ken Paxton. Congratulations on a resounding primary victory last night. John Cornyn, by the way, has always been a gentleman to me. I was more in the Paxton camp, but I'm not here to bullshit you. He's always been kind. However, I'm not in the friend's business. You get the point. Talafrico is running as the Democrat candidate in the Senate race in Texas. Folks, I've been to Texas a lot, like a lot, a lot. I think outside of Florida and New York and Maryland where I've lived, there's no state I've been to more. We had the biggest radio show in Texas when I was on the air at the great WBAP. We crushed it over there in that noon spot, eastern time noon spot. We love Texas. And let me tell you something about Texas. I'm not a Texan, but one thing about Texas is they love being from Texas. You ask people, I love Florida. It's a great state. You love people from Florida. You say, right, Justin, right? Where are you from? They go, ah, Martin County. We're from West Palm. You ask people where they're from in Texas. You know what they say? Folks in the chat, P1s, you know the answer. Texas. I know I'm not saying it right. Maybe I need a little, you know, a little more a buoy knife in me. I don't know. However, they say Texas. Texas. Texas. They love them some Texas. Every story in the Alamo, you got to check that story. I know you remember the Alamo, but you ever really check out the story? San Ana, no way. Let me tell you something. Those guys had Cajones. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Texas. Who knows confused? You think this message, along with him claiming there's like seven genders and that God is like a man and a woman and all things in between. You think this is going to go in Texas? Has Tala Frico ever played this clip? Because I don't want to watch your, I love Texas. Here's Tala Frico. I think of reclaiming symbols. I think about the American flag. I think the Confederate flag is a symbol of treason and terrorism. But the American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us in many ways like Jesus, like the cross. It's been co-opted and in some ways that's true meaning has been betrayed. I missed that. I missed the second part of that too. I cut the clip. And he's also confused about what Jesus said across the street. I'm not confused. I'm not confused. Why are you confused? I don't understand why you're confused. You really think Tala Frico is the guy in Texas? Like Platinum and Maine with the Nazi tattoos? You ready to sit out the mid- I don't know. That's slated candidates that Democrats have. Just amazing. Nazi tattoo guy, Tala Frico, 72 genders. Now, again, contrast that with clear, concise messaging from, and I don't know him. I guess I don't fall in love with candidates, but I fall in love with results. Spencer Pratt, who just has a remarkable set of political skills. This guy has got to be the best master of the soundbite since Trump. If he becomes the next mayor of Los Angeles, I don't know. But there's zero denying that maybe it's because he's been in front of the cameras whole life. I don't know. This guy has an answer for everything. And remember, snapshots and soundbites. It's all campaigns are. He knows how to make a point quick, fast, and snappy and to make it stick. Here he's asked about some prior comments he's made in the past. He's just really good at this. I'm like, Tala Frico, check this out. I'm going to connect you with your friendship with Alex Jones. You can do whatever she wants. She can do whatever she wants. She can say whatever she wants. All these people don't want you to talk about their failures. So we could we could go back 15 years. I've said a lot of dumb things. I've done a lot of stupid things in my life. But after they let my house burn down and my parents house burn down, I'm a different person. They're not running against a person from the past. They're running against a person whose neighbors burned alive. So any of these things they bring up are for the past. That's not the reality of what I am. I'm running against a person who watches neighbors and house burn down his house burn down his neighbors burned alive. He's just got a natural set of political skills like we really, really haven't seen in a long time. You don't see a lot of politicians like that. But these people in the Republic intent and you know, I'm leaving him out of it for a second. Trump, Rubio Vance, they're just very good at this. People like Tala Frico aren't. Folks, you know, I love these maha moments. I am obsessed with life hacks. Why? Because I'm old and I'm falling apart. I just am. I get up at a bed in the morning. It's like a 10 minute routine. Now Paul is like, you need help. I'm like, it's like a nonstop wine fest getting up in the morning. So as I get older, I got to do all of these life hacks. Now, full disclosure. One of my sponsors, Bon Charge, has given me a lot of red lights. I love red light therapy. I'm obsessed with it. This is not a sponsored segment, however, but I just feel like it's fair to disclose that. I love it. This is my friend Gary Brecca, his good man. I just ran into him at the UFC. He's been a guest on the show. He's talking about, I tell you about red light therapy all the time. So this is our maha moment of the day. Stuff is no joke, man. Here he describes just quickly how it works. It's not some like crazy pseudo science stuff. Check this out. Human beings are not powered by the food we eat there. We breathe the water we drink. We're powered by one energy source. We're powered by an energy source called ATP. And it's made in a little battery in the cell called the mitochondria. And what this mitochondria does is it produces this form of energy, denicine triphosphate. And if you if you imagine a cell and you went inside the cell and you found this little battery, this mitochondria and you went into the mitochondria and you said, how is this thing working? Well, there's a there's a motor in there and it's spinning around and it's called the Krebs cycle. And every time this motor makes one revolution, it has two choices. It can create two units of energy. So it makes one revolution. It can create two units of energy, two ATP, or it can make one revolution and create 36 units of energy. So what's the difference between whether or not this motor makes 16 times more energy or 16 times less energy? The presence of oxygen. If oxygen enters the cycle, aerobic respiration, you create 36 units of energy. If carbon dioxide enters the cycle, anaerobic respiration, you create two units of energy. And the reason why I say that is because what red light therapy does is certain wavelengths of light, they actually pass through the cell wall, they pass through the wall of the mitochondria and they kick out a gas in the mitochondria called mitochondrial nitric oxide, nitric oxide and force oxygen to dock. So this happens at one of the stages of the Krebs cycle called cytochrome C oxidase. But the outcome of this is red light therapy kicks out one gas, nitric oxide, and forces oxygen into the mitochondria. So what happens then? 16 fold step up in cellular energy. It's literally like a battery charger for yourselves. I'm a huge, huge fan of red light therapy. Folks, I swear by this stuff. I I'm a personal evangelist for it because I have really severe arthritis in my knee. And the only thing that gets swelling out because it hypes up that mitochondrial activity clears all this stuff up is red light. There was the only thing. You know, whatever you want, you want to use it for wrinkles in your face. You want the cells to produce more collagen. Well, there's your life hack. I love it. I am a huge, huge advocate for red light therapy. Thank you for all the feedback I got, by the way, in the segment we did on HVACs on air conditioning and these new green rules. My friend Kyle owns a bunch of restaurants. Reached out to me yesterday on text. I just had a couple of guys email us about this too. They're like, yes, I'm in an HVAC, you know, heating, ventilation, air conditioning. God, these green regulations, everything breaks now. Everything. It's probably great for business. That's a crazy thing. These HVAC guys, even though it's good for their business, are still annoyed because I like we sell these products and the green regulations are like, crap, you're better off with an air conditioner from the 80s. So thank you for all the feedback. I didn't have all the segments we've done. I didn't expect that one to get as much attention, but our email box overflowed with comments on that yesterday. Folks, thanks again for tuning in. Got a life hacks guest coming up tomorrow. You're going to love. Don't miss that. Also, you got Haley coming up at noon rumble.com slash Haley. Don't miss that. Also Vince, everyday Vince, colonize at 8 a.m. 0800 Eastern time rumble.com slash Vince. Please download the rumble app. It is free. Give us a follow on Apple and Spotify. We want to watch it on the web rumble.com slash Bongino. You can also watch in your smart TV. Just click that follow button. We really appreciate it. I will see you back here tomorrow.