Charlie sits down with Dan Bongino at Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit for a highly personal conversation about life, exercise, weightlifting, diet, fitness and yes, politics. Asking questions Dan hasn't been asked in quite some time, Charlie and Dan explore what it means to be a man; what kids are confronted with today compared with a few decades ago; where does the war on men come from and how to solve it; and much more. This is Dan Bongino as he would be in your living room or gathered around your kitchen table, and you won't want to miss it. Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Dan, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
Man, talking about your arms that have their own zip codes.
Yeah, that's fine.
Charlie, tell us your workout regimen.
Well, listen, here's the thing.
There's this common misconception with lifting, like you got to do it for a really long time.
That's for wusp banks.
Don't do that.
That's like a mess.
Don't you have to lift really hard, super intense and short.
If you're doing it more than 30 minutes, here's the thing.
You're not doing it hard enough.
Because if you're doing it the right way, like high-intensity stuff, you shouldn't be able to do it more than 30 minutes.
And no chump stuff.
Okay.
If you're going to lift, no, no, not you.
You give me like the weirdo.
You see that?
You get me like that.
You have to do the heavy stuff, especially you young guys like you.
You got to deadlift.
You got to squat, weighted pull-ups, bench press, overhead press.
Yeah, no, no, you have to do legs.
You can't do like the New York Queens workout I grew up with.
You know the New York Queens workout?
What do you do?
Is that from the waist up?
Yeah, what do you do for legs?
I bench.
You know, what do you do for calves?
I bench.
It's not a real workout.
You have to deadlift.
Matter of fact, man, we really, this is like a Saturday Night Live Cold Open, isn't it?
No, of course.
It's crazy.
We just blew right into it.
Me and this guy, we could be real trouble on the other day.
Could you imagine?
Yeah, I know.
It could be real trouble.
You could set the whole universe on fire.
You have to deadlift.
I would argue to you that if you just deadlifted twice a week, you would be better off than if you just did like your upper body would look better than if you just did upper body.
Have you heard about the scandal of people doing those Instagram videos of fake weights on?
No, no, is that true?
Oh, yeah.
They're starting to get exposed.
That's heresy.
Is that right?
It should be a death penalty for that.
Don't you think?
I think that's the real injustice.
I got real videos of me lifting like real weight.
But I promise you, you know what is Jim?
Do you remember Attila's?
Hold on.
Oh, is this the guy in New Jersey?
The guy in New Jersey.
Can you get a tattoo there or something?
I don't.
We're not allowed to curse on your show, right?
Well, okay.
It depends.
Because I was like, HBO Max Edition.
All right.
Well, I was just going to say, people talk and stuff.
So people are like, oh, I'm going to go help this guy and Attila's out.
So I took a private plane and went up there.
You got a tattoo or something.
And lift.
I got to tell.
Well, there's the tattoo.
Look, that's my back.
That's the tattoo I got.
Jeez, pretty awesome.
You want to see?
That's my back.
Yeah.
Have you had Roger Stone's tattoo?
My wife there.
Patrickstone has the picture of Richard Nixon right here.
No, is this a Geraldo moment?
This is my back.
But my wife took this picture, but this is here.
Check this out.
So this is me up in Attila's right here.
So the guy's like, how many times do you think you can do 315 in the dead?
And I'm like, I don't know.
And then this woman's like taking my picture behind me.
But check that out.
That's real.
Like, there's 315 jeans.
Jeans.
Look at that.
Jeans and boots.
By the way, no warm-up.
I'm destroying my back, though.
Check it out, man.
Killing it.
Slaying it.
See, I have a really bad back.
Yeah, I had a bad back to it.
How did you fix it?
I had a percutaneous dyscectomy, and I started doing kettlebells.
It's when they go in with a cannula and they take like jelly out of the donut and they shrink the disc so it scars up.
I've never had a problem since.
But you know what fixed my back?
Kettlebells, which sounds crazy.
What do you mean, kettlebells?
Kettlebells.
They're like cannonballs with handles.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
And you do the swings with them.
And if you do them right, it built my back.
And it almost creates a splint for your spine.
Wow.
But yeah, I could talk working out all day.
It's my favorite.
I used to do shows during the holidays.
Do you remember what we called rough cuts?
See, that's Roger's tattoo.
Is that what yours looks like?
No, no, definitely not Richard Nixon, but that's a cool tattoo.
Oh, that stone's tattoo.
Yeah, you have a better defined tattoo.
No, I had the Jesus fish put on.
I had the Jesus fish put on the back.
Because the story was I wanted to go up to work out in Attila's just to kind of stick it to the man and support them.
And then on the way back, there was a tattoo shop that got shut down too.
And I said to Paula, meanwhile, keep in mind, I'm 46.
Like, who gets a tattoo at 46?
And I was like, let's stop in North Carolina, too.
What was his name, that guy?
Jazz or some shit like that?
What was his name?
His name was Jax.
I forgot.
Yeah, Jax, Jax.
And I said, let's stop in Jackson, get a tattoo, and like rep the cause.
And it was like a huge posse of people.
Was the Attila with the guy with that killer beard?
Yeah, he still has that Ian, Ian Smith.
Didn't he almost go to jail?
Yeah, yeah.
And they bankrupted him, too.
Well, they took, yeah, there was a GoFundMe.
They raised like a quarter million bucks, and then the state came in and like fleeced all the dough.
Unbelievable, right?
It's like a freaking communist country we live in now.
It's unreal.
And he's right across the river from Philadelphia, like literally.
Yeah, I think we flew into Philly.
Sorry, I keep looking at Paula because she knows that.
Okay, but he's right.
Paula is like my surrogate brain.
I store very little information.
Is that right?
She stores all of it.
She has to feed me stuff during the show.
And we had Ian on our podcast.
So, Dan, you're doing three hours of radio day and podcasting.
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Thank you.
You're speaking here at Turning Point USA Student Action Summit.
You have biceps that, again, it's kind of needed to be categorized in its own stratosphere.
How do you balance it all?
I don't.
I'm losing my mind.
I'm trying now to kind of triage my needs and find out what we're going to stick with and what we're not.
But, you know, it's tough.
I mean, you know, the cancer thing really kicked my ass.
I mean, bad.
Were you doing okay?
Yeah, I'm doing okay.
And if I had to review, you know, cancer on Amazon, I always say two thumbs down.
It definitely comes not recommended.
Like, you know, don't do it.
It sucks.
But that kind of, that really sucked the energy out of me.
And the problem is, you know, when you have, you get the chemo, you get this like chemo brain.
And I got to tell you, like, I never really recovered from that.
Like, you know, when you're on chemo, it's hard to focus.
I don't know why.
They call it chemo brain, and it's real.
And it took me months to get rid of that.
And I wasn't sleeping well.
And luckily now, like, I feel good.
It's not a sob story.
Like, everyone, I'm doing okay.
You know, there are people with far worse cancers than I had stage one Hodgkins.
That's like the common cold of cancers.
So we got rid of it quick.
But I was sleeping terrible.
And lately, though, I got this aura ring.
They are not like a sponsor or anything.
I'm not like trying to shield the aura ring.
But this monitors your sleep.
And I figured out things that were getting rid, getting in the way of my good sleep.
Like I was eating late.
Like me and Paula eat at like 10 o'clock at night or sometimes.
And I was like, Paula, why am I sleeping so terribly?
And I figured out, because I eat a lot.
But then you get acid reflux throughout the night without realizing it.
Yeah, I don't get much of that because my body's used to consuming mass quantities like the coneheads from the L Saturday Night Live.
But I'll eat like 20 pieces of sushi and go to bed.
You know, if you're going to put on a lot, you got to eat big.
I mean, as my bodybuilder friend said to me once, he said, the real battle's with the knife and fork.
No, but that's exactly.
So when you're lifting, you have to keep up the eating.
You got to eat like a savage, but you can't sleep at night.
So I figured out if I eat by 5.30, now my sleep is good.
And I'm feeling good now.
So you got to, would you rather have massive biceps or sleep well at night?
Sleep well, man.
See, you're a young guy, man.
You know, you're a young, when you get older.
Anyone over 40 in here?
Anyone?
Ladies, you don't have to say anything.
I'm talking to the guy specifically.
You never ask a woman her age.
You don't look, by the way, anywhere near for the record.
You look like you're in your 20s.
I'm just saying, when you hit 40, you will never sleep well.
It's like a 40-year-old thing, and it really sucks because it's like your whole life, right, Paula?
How many hours of sleep do you sleep?
Well, what the order ring said last night, because it manages your sleep.
Have you ever tried magnesium?
I'm not sure.
Yeah, I do.
ZMA.
It works really well, doesn't it?
I slept seven hours and 41 minutes last night.
That's a lot.
Okay.
Yeah, but my REM sleep wasn't very good.
It was only an hour and a half.
How many REMs do you get in?
Two or three?
It depends.
You got to look at the cycle.
It looks like I got two in.
You see the blue dots.
A true REM's like 90 minutes, right?
Yeah, that's the whole cycle.
My REM was an hour and 12 minutes total.
But deep sleep was strong, an hour and nine minutes.
That's manageable.
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This is really important, Dan.
I know.
Talking about life.
You asked me about the workout stuff, too.
It really sets you off.
Are you a believer in CrossFit or is it all a scam?
No, CrossFit's great.
But the problem with CrossFit for me, the WADs are a killer.
I steal them sometimes.
Like, I just go out and I'll look at the couple and do them.
But the problem with CrossFit for me is I have really severe arthritis.
Like, if you're young and can slam it hard, I love CrossFit.
Which routine in particular?
Well, I used to do like the Bear Complex, which is really, you know, the push overhead, front squat, down, overhead, back squat, then a deadlift.
And my shoulders can't handle it.
Matter of fact, the last time I did the bear complex, I did the true story.
My hands were bleeding so bad from the blisters on the barks.
I didn't have any like tape or anything.
And I go to do an interview with Glenn Beck at his station in New York.
And Glenn's a great guy, but he doesn't like, you know, other people's blood on him like most human beings wouldn't, which doesn't make him unusual.
Does Glenn lift?
I don't think so.
I haven't asked him, but I'm pretty sure.
I'm just wondering.
I shake his hand and I like bleed all over his hand.
And I could see him like he was like freaked out.
And he was like, someone get me some alcohol.
The biggest problem with CrossFit are the people that do CrossFit.
They can't stop talking about it.
I know.
It's kind of like I'm a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu guy, so I do that.
Is that right?
Yeah, I like to talk about that too.
Tell me about it.
Yeah, it's great.
Like it's, you know, your first month in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, you know, you learn how to, you know, beat like 999 guys out of a thousand in a street fight.
In the next 20 years, just learning how to fight that one badass mofo.
You went out to in the street, he was like Kimbo Slice, you know?
So it's the greatest thing ever.
But you realize, like, what you realize really interesting things about people.
You know, it's, it's, it's funny.
Like, what a great segue into the speech because I'm going to start off the speech with a Teddy Atlas quote.
I even said on a Foxing Friends this morning.
Famous boxing trainer, Teddy Atlas.
He once said, like, truth comes to people in a lot of ways, but it comes really fast to you in the ring.
Oh, I love it.
And that's the thing about Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Like, you learn a lot about yourself quickly.
When you hear people say things, for instance, like, you know, people know you should never quit, you know, never go.
Listen, bro, here's the hard reality: like, when you're getting your ass kicked by a guy who outweighs you by 100 pounds and you can't breathe and you're ready to die, like everybody eventually quits, even the toughest fighters in the world.
That's not what makes you a man.
Like, people quit all the time.
Quitting has a negative connotation.
But when you're in real fights, like in real time and you can't breathe, and a guy's punching you in the face and yanking your arm out of its socket, you're like, okay, like, I got to live to fight another day.
And you start to realize that it's not who quits.
Everybody has a breaking point.
The bravest soldier in the world, if you torture him enough, is going to quit.
It doesn't make him not brave.
It's just the breaking point people have.
Like the weak people are here.
The okay people are here.
Like the good people are here.
The great people are here.
The legends are here.
And then the icons are here.
Like they don't quit until like the seventh day.
Is that the differentiator between the okay fighters and the best fighters?
Yeah.
I mean, it was a guy, this guy, Yurka, that I rolled with.
He's a savage.
He's like, he's like not even of planet Earth.
He comes from like some alternate stream theory dimension.
He just doesn't feel pain like normal people.
So I've got huge legs.
I outweigh this dude by 20 pounds.
I have really big legs from squatting.
I get this dude in a triangle choke.
And brother, I'm telling you, this guy's face, it's not purple.
It's like black.
Like he has no blood in his face.
You did this for fun.
I'm just making it.
Yeah, I did.
I can't because of my chemo.
My chemo port's still in.
You see that?
So I can't roll.
You see that little golf ball in my chest?
So I can't roll until I get it out.
And she won't let me anyway.
And because I swear, like that contributed to some of my illness because I was always had inflammation problems.
But I'm like, yanking this guy's head.
I got him in this triangle choke.
I'm telling you, the dude's face is turning black.
He would not quit.
And eventually, my legs got tired choking this guy.
And I'm like, you believe this shit?
This guy, my legs are getting tired choking this dude out.
So eventually I have to let go and he proceeds to beat the hell out of me because I have no more gas left.
And I'm thinking like, he's lost fights, Yurka.
He has, but he's the single toughest dude I've ever met in my life.
Like he, he just was like, all right, if I pass out, I pass out.
And he just sat there in this triangle choke.
His face went from, you know, white to blue to purple to black.
And he just said, just choke me.
That's it.
I'm just not care.
And that's, that's like, that dude's like at great status, you know?
And then you get like icons, people, you know, like, you know, in the UFC, like old, remember Jens Pulver and people like that.
They were just, these guys would fight until they're like Jorge Masvedal.
Freaking guy's been knocked out one time.
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He's on my show on Unfiltered.
I mean, the guy is a savage.
There's a street fight, a him with this Kimbo Slice's protege, Ray.
You got to watch on YouTube.
He was Kimbo Slice.
He passed away, didn't he?
He did, Kimbo.
He was badass.
But he had a protege.
He was a lefty, I think, too.
He was a savage.
Was he?
Was he a South?
I think you're right.
No, no, you're right.
Because he would come in like this.
Yeah, you're right.
He's a lefty.
Knows his stuff.
But he had a protege, this guy Ray.
And Masvedal used to fight him.
And this guy, Ray, was tough.
He rarely, if ever, lost a fight.
Masvedal whooped his ass twice.
In the street.
In the street, bare knuckle, bro.
No, nothing.
No mouth guards.
No, Masvedal is badass, like legit.
Not like UFC badass.
I mean like legit badass.
So I respect that.
I respect guys, you know, who can who can throw down.
There's a lot of different things I want to get to.
In addition to all of this very important stuff, how do we solve the war on men in our country?
Speaking of hyper-masculine things, like.
Yeah.
You know, because last time I was in a Brazilian chokehold with somebody, it actually worked well.
Well, you know, no one's asked me that question before.
And I think it starts with the indoctrination process early.
Obviously, we failed.
Let's stop pretending.
See, you know, Andrew Breitbart said, you know, politics is downstream of culture.
And Breitbart was a very smart guy.
I know you probably knew him.
Actually, I didn't.
He passed away right before I got involved.
I wrote my first article for Breitbart.com.
I met him one time at an early CPAC when it was still at the Marriott Wardman.
He was with Ted Cruz.
Remember that?
The old days?
And he used to say that politics was downstream of culture.
The political war is useless if we don't fight the culture.
It's obvious.
Let's just get through that.
We've failed in the culture.
We have.
The war on men is probably the single most destructive thing out there, along with the entire idea that kids don't need fathers.
I mean, I grew up in a divorced family.
It's not a sob story, whatever.
My wife and I were talking about it last week because something happened with my mom.
But dads are different.
They roughhouse their kids.
Kids learn that they can be physical without being violent.
There are things fathers do.
And this war on men and teaching kids that roughhousing is bad.
Like, remember, when we were kids, they call it, what they call horseplay or something.
Oh, you know, don't do that anymore.
You know, that's like whatever, male, white supremacy, male dominance, you know, the white male patriarchy, knowledge is a construct of power, critical race theory, BS.
It's going to take a long time to from, I mean, rip it out from the roots and start from scratch.
And, you know, where does it start?
Because you need action plans.
You can't just talk a bunch of smack.
It starts in the schools of education.
Who's donating to their college?
You donate into your college.
I always ask people, why?
Why are you donating to your college?
I went to Penn State.
I don't give them a dime.
I love Penn State.
I went to the business school.
When Penn State hires a bunch of conservatives, I'll donate.
And once we start retraining the entire culture from the start to re-embrace this country, patriotism, manliness, and the good things about manliness, and we re-embrace the sheepdog mentality, like Dave Grossman writes about.
So Dave Grossman wrote this book.
He was an army officer called On Killing.
The book is literally about killing and what actual killing and war is like.
It's an amazing book.
It was a bestseller.
It's an eye-opening book.
You read it, you'll never look at it.
It should be mandatory reading for law enforcement everywhere.
And in the book, he talks about there are wolves in society, genuinely evil people, right?
And then there are sheep, people who are just going to be preyed on.
They're just weak.
It happens, unfortunately.
You know, I wish it didn't, but it did.
But he said, in between the sheeps and the wolves are the sheepdogs.
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And the sheepdogs are the men.
Think of this war on men.
They're the men and even the women out there who are willing to put their butts on the line, you know, put a shield on their chest, or they don't have to be a cop or in the military.
You're the guy in the gas station when some woman's getting beaten up and robbed.
You could walk away and you're like, not today.
And I'm going to go knowing you could get stabbed.
And those are the sheepdogs.
And we need more sheepdogs.
But you're not going to get sheepdogs teaching kids in third grade that, you know, roughhouse and horseplay and playing guns is, you know, is somehow going to turn them into serial murders.
I played guns growing up.
I promise you, I haven't killed anyone, nor do I have the desire to, just for the record.
I mean, I played guns.
I had the Jaguar Matic.
I remember it was a cap gun.
And, you know, bang, bang, we got, that's what we did growing up.
I mean, we acted like boys.
We put mattresses on skateboards and used to roll them down hills into traffic.
And my mom was like, everyone okay?
Like, it's all good.
I mean, we used to take a spongeball, a bat, and a glove, leave at nine o'clock in the morning, come back at like 10 at night.
We'd eat Mr. Softy for lunch.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And sometimes we didn't even do that.
And my mom was like, whatevs, if you're all right, you're all right.
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So, but the other side, Dan, will say that was awful.
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It was unsafe and it was dangerous.
Now we mask our six-year-olds.
Why is that America desirable again?
A risk-taking, a daring America that kind of just allows kids to develop in kind of a natural habitat.
You're a good interviewer.
See, I'm a really terrible interview.
I just had this conversation with Fox the other day.
I'm like, I got to work on my, you're really, those are good questions.
It's not, because when you ask people in polls about things like political correctness, which let's be honest, encompasses this idea that, you know, manliness is inherently dangerous, it never polls well.
But we all do it as a form of public virtue signaling.
You know, I think it's to avoid punishment.
I think we tell our friends that and we, you know, we attack manhood and things like that because we want to be popular at the foie gras cocktail party.
You know, they're not, these people aren't doing Jaeger bombs.
They're drinking like champagne and stuff.
And they're like, well, you know, Joey Beg of Donuts here, if I say that, he'll think I'm some kind of conservative, you know, MAGA supporter.
So we just agree.
But quietly behind the scenes, when you take these polls, people realize like things like CRT, political correctness, and all this other BS, you know, the, what do we call them?
Like the angel parent, no, the helicopter parents.
We all know it's bad.
I mean, we all knew we grew up in a different generation where you learned to grow up fast.
I mean, listen, and Paula's story's crazy.
They came here with nothing from Columbia.
I mean, she was taking trains in the Bronx when she was like 13 years old.
Like, no, she didn't have a bodyguard or anything like that.
And yet we coddle our kids.
But I mean, honestly, Charlie, I'm guilty of it too.
You know, I got two kids and, you know, I don't, you know, my kids, you want to protect them from everything.
You're afraid they're going to get kidnapped and stuff.
So what's the balance thing?
Because so many parents say, I remember how it used to be, but then they get extraordinarily paranoid.
They're like, well, they could get kidnapped.
They could run into traffic.
And then I would have to live with the guilt and the responsibility.
Why was your parents?
Why were your parents okay with you kind of just going down some hill?
And you grew up in New Jersey, right?
New York.
Yeah, New York, just kind of going down some hill and like, oh, hope it works out for you.
What changed?
I think it was the advent of video platforms, phone cameras, and social media.
I think you're right.
Where you get a kid that's, I mean, what was that thing we just saw, Paul, up in New York, right?
The kid was going to get kidnapped.
And we see it.
We're like, holy crap, this is real.
Like, these kids are getting kidnapped.
The hard reality is the chances of your kid getting kidnapped are like, thank God, not going to win like one in a million.
But we see it and we think it's real because it's in front of us.
We're visual creatures.
But you asked where the balance was.
And listen, I'm going to, I'll be candid with you and your people.
I haven't found it.
I'm terrified about my daughter.
Even in my, I live in a super safe neighborhood.
I mean, we have our own cops.
It's like, it's, it's like a Brinks truck, this neighborhood.
We haven't had a, I think there was a car break in there like seven years ago or something.
That's it.
And, you know, there's a street my daughter runs down.
And I tell her, you're not allowed to run that air alone, which is, I mean, candidly ridiculous, but I haven't found the balance.
I'd love to tell you, oh, Dan Bogito, I figured it out, but I haven't.
I'm a dad.
And I think having been a cop and a secret service agent kind of hurts because you see some really bad stuff, brother.
I mean, we had the child pornography unit was in the secret service through NICMIC, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
We ran that.
Man, you can't, you know, you can't look at that and not change.
Like you, you get paranoid real fast.
You can't.
You just, you know, it's kids, man.
It's kids.
Like, crimes on adults are bad enough.
But, you know, defenseless kids, it changes you, man.
That's why the guys in the unit cycle out after a few months.
You can't look at that stuff.
It just rewires your brain.
Last question.
Then I got to bring you up on stage because they're clamoring for Dan Bongino upstairs.
Was it harder to be a Secret Service agent or to do what you're doing now?
You know, this can sound crazy, but what we're doing now, you know, the Secret Service, you just, you go on autopilot, man.
I mean, you train, you train, you know, to do a job to handle the big six, the tactical, medical, chembio, IED, airborne fire emergencies.
You train to do it and you do it.
You know, I always used to argue with people about, you know, the heroism of policing and being a federal agent starts when you sign up.
You know, like that's it.
Like you don't think like, you don't go to work like, oh, look, I'm going to be a hero.
You just go to work.
Like when you decide that that was the real heroism, right?
So you don't think, but this job stresses me out more because I feel a responsibility, man.
I mean, between you and me, between Fox, your radio show, mine, and both of our podcasts and your turning point, Charlie, we're probably talking to seriously, like 10 million people.
I'm not showing that.
It's not hyperbolic.
That's like real.
Direct routine.
Direct.
Right.
Who got God only knows what Facebook and United States?
Yeah.
I mean, that's a big responsibility.
And you're fighting to fight for them.
And you damn well better do it right.
Thank you.
Dan, we got to get you back on.
All right, brother.
And we need to get the specific routine.
The workout routine.
Yeah, I'll give it to you, man.
I'll give you.
I'm serious.
I'll give you a good one.
It's called dog crap training.
Is that right?
Yeah, yeah.
D-O-G-G.
I'm dead serious.
Look it up.
So it's a funny name for me.
They need Dan to get on stage.
Tell him they could fight him.
Charlie Kirk here.
Thanks, Dan.
See you guys.
Great.
Thanks.
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