A Humiliating About Face By The Hack Media (Ep 1901)
In this episode, I address the shocking turn of events forcing the media hacks to do an about-face.
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Again.
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I'm not suggesting you don't report on a story with the Bongino rule.
The Bongino rule, of course, is wait 24 to 72 hours before accepting the first version of events.
You got to report on news.
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Welcome to this pre-Thanksgiving show.
It's always good to be here with the crew.
We will have some good material for you tomorrow and Friday.
Package for you on the podcast channel, but this will be my last day here with you live to tape, so to say.
But it is Wednesday morning.
This is one of my favorite shows of the year.
Joe and I've done something different on this show pretty much every year for the last seven years.
So let's get to it.
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All right, Joseph, this pre-Thanksgiving show.
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We've done a different show for like the last, I don't know, seven years or so, Joe and I. So at the end of today's show, I'm going to do something.
I'm not sure how it plays with the audience, but for the last seven years, they seem to enjoy it.
I'm going to do some of my diet, nutrition, and workout tips.
Because this is that time of the year where we all eat ourselves into oblivion.
The sun goes down earlier, so we don't get as much sun or activity.
And some of us can get a few albizels, a few LBs.
So I always get good feedback on it and I enjoy it.
And although everybody tells me not to do it, they tell me wait till after Thanksgiving.
People don't want to be told, die in fear.
I don't care.
We break the rules anyway.
So first, the serious stuff.
The Bongino rule strikes again.
Listen, I cannot emphasize enough to you how important it is.
To not jump on the left-wing activist media bandwagon the first time they find a story and bloodshed or whatever it may be that they can use to attack conservatives.
It's disgusting.
It's grotesque.
It is one of the worst One of the worst characteristics of modern society is our grotesque left-wing media using dead bodies and everything else to try to censor and attack others.
You see it everywhere.
In the Trump era, they doubled and tripled down on all of it.
What am I talking about?
It was just a horrible tragedy in Colorado Springs.
An attacker walks into a bar, starts shooting people.
The bar had some gay patrons there.
So the media, of course, without having almost any of the facts at all, what do you think happened?
Of course, what happens every time?
Tucker Carlson did it!
And you're like, he did.
Tucker Carlson, does he have that on video?
I didn't see Tucker.
I mean, you would think the hair would stand out.
It's weird.
I didn't see that.
Bodies hadn't even been buried.
And the disgusting media, of course, couldn't wait to tell you a story, a story, not the story about Colorado Springs.
So, a story they wanted to tell you was that those right-wingers, because they've exposed Drag Queen Story Hour and the sexualization of kids, this guy who shot up the gay bar did it because of them.
They may have paid him.
They incentivized him.
They told him to do it.
Subliminal messages.
Really?
It's interesting because the story's kind of changed a little bit now.
Now, the alleged attacker in the case, Says that they want to be identified by they-them pronouns and is non-binary.
So this person wants to identify by they, them pronouns.
So all of a sudden the media seems quite confused.
Joseph, what to do?
Wow.
Gosh, doesn't sound like Tucker Carlson would tell this person to identify by they, them pronouns.
I don't think so.
Here's CNN.
You cut this this morning, so you saw it.
Yeah.
They're really confused, Alison Camerata.
She doesn't know what to do because a story they wanted to tell you doesn't correspond to the story that's apparently materializing now.
Here's Alison Camerata from CNN.
She don't know what to say.
Matter of fact, she even says, I don't know what to say.
Check this out.
Attorneys for the accused shooter, Anderson Lee Aldrich, say in new court filings tonight that the suspect now identifies as non-binary.
In a footnote to a motion asserting legal privileges, the public defenders say, quote, Anderson Aldrich is non-binary.
They use they-them pronouns and for the purposes of all formal filings will be addressed as Mix Aldrich.
So, in other words, not Mr. or Ms.
Joining me now, CNN political commentator Errol Lewis.
Also back with me, Al Franken and Joe Walsh.
I don't know what to say about that.
I mean, that's not anything that we had heard from his background.
You know, people have been looking into his background.
And I don't know if anybody here... Are you guys lawyers?
I mean, you know, I don't know if... I don't know what to say about that.
I mean, that's what he's now saying.
It sounds like they're trying to prepare a defense against a hate crimes charge.
That's the least of his problems, legally speaking, but it looks like they're trying to build some kind of sympathy or at least confusion on the question of whether or not this was purely motivated by hate.
I mean, that is what it sounds like.
We'll wait to see.
Oh, now they'll wait.
Did you hear that at the end, Joe?
Now they'll wait and see.
Oh, now!
Now you'll wait and see.
Of course, it's only, what, 48 hours?
Now you decide to kind of wait and see.
Maybe do what we do, which is just report the story.
It was a tragedy at a Club Q bar in Colorado Springs.
Here's what happened.
And maybe tell the story and wait on a story until you actually have a story that corresponds with this story.
Just an idea.
Just an idea.
Now, I played that and I gave you the end part of that for a reason.
It's possible that the guy's attorney told him, listen, you're going to get charged with a hate crime.
Um, you may get the death pen.
I'm not sure what, uh, how that'll work, uh, what the charging process is going to work and look like out there in Colorado Springs.
So you should say that you're, you know, a non-binary and therefore you'll be able to, you know, try to refute this hate crime.
So it's possible.
I put that in there for a reason.
Uh, the reason I put that in there is because I'm interested in the story, not us story.
Why do you listen to these people?
Not you, my conservative audience, but to the liberals who listen.
I know you're there.
I get your hate mail.
Why do you listen to these people?
They lie to you all the time.
Do you want to be lied to?
I don't understand.
Are you so eager to have Tucker Carlson and right-wing conservatives like Matt Walsh and others censored that you're willing to tell yourself a fairy tale while there's blood on the ground?
I mean, actual blood on the ground and people still being buried.
Do you know how disgusting you are?
Do you have any idea what kind of a degenerate loser you have to be to do that?
Wasn't the only one.
There is no amount of bloodshed, by the way, that will trouble these media lunatics enough to try to do their jobs and tell the truth first.
None!
There is none!
They are so committed to censoring and attacking you, there is nothing, there is no basement level to their depravity.
Challenge them.
Make them tell the truth.
Pay very close attention to the Bongino Rule.
I get this question sometimes on the show.
People post it on my Facebook messages and stuff.
They'll say, you know, Dan, this tragedy happened.
Why didn't you report on it today?
I mean, sometimes we do, but sometimes we wait.
Sometimes we wait because we think the facts matter.
Now, this wasn't it, folks.
There's more?
Oh yeah, there's more.
My guy Cernovich here, good guy on Twitter, posted this one.
So there was another attack caught on tape in New York City.
Did you hear about this one?
A guy walks up to a bar on video, it's a gay bar, throws a brick at the window.
Oh, Joe, there you go.
That's ripe for a story, isn't it?
There it is.
It's Tucker Carlson attacking the gay bar with a brick.
He was?
And it's all over the place.
Twitter people calling for everyone to be banned again.
Banned Matt Walsh, banned Tucker Carlson, banned libs of TikTok.
Violent Fox News watching attacker throws a brick at a gay bar.
And that one fell apart too.
As Cernovich notes, this guy's being charged with only three or four recent attacks at the bar because cops don't have video surveillance of one of the incidents.
The alleged attacker says, I'm gay myself.
Apparently, according to the report here in the New York Post, was angry at someone in the bar.
Don't let that get in the way of your story, however.
It never ends, folks.
It never, ever ends.
Do not trust these people ever.
Remember the Golden Rule.
They are telling you a story.
Not the story.
Poor Tucker Boate.
He's getting his ass kicked here lately, isn't he?
Oh my gosh.
All week over this and it is nothing.
It's just, I'm so glad he fights back on his show and he goes out and says, okay, you're going to tell me not to talk about the sexualization and mutilation of children.
Uh, now we're going to talk about it all week.
So we do the same thing.
The rule here is you tell us not to talk about something.
We talk about it twice.
Folks, they'll never stop.
They'll never stop.
But you have to understand, this is why the parallel economy is flourishing, why people are getting away from traditional censorship-laden platforms and things like that, and the parallel economy is flourishing.
It's also why a topic I wanted to bring up is No element for it in the show but something I have personal experience with.
The left is now doubling down on Twitter because they can no longer control the narrative on Twitter now that Elon Musk has bought it and taken the company private.
They can't control the narrative anymore, right?
They want to tell you a story and traditionally Twitter given the The large number of reporters on there.
Twitter was a vehicle for them to spread false narratives like Tucker Carlson did it and to keep it going and keep it alive.
They now are upset that Twitter has allowed other people back on Project Veritas and others that can shut that stuff down right away.
I bring it up because I read an article yesterday that now the lefties and these organized George Soros funded groups and others That they're out there trying to push Apple and Google to bump Twitter's app off the App Store.
Something, sadly, I have experience with.
It's what they did to Parler.
Folks, we can't allow this to happen.
This is clear monopolistic behavior and anti-competitive behavior.
It will cause an unbelievable ruckus if they do this.
I'm a little worried about it.
I'm not gonna smoke you up here.
Apple and Google have no allegiance to free speech whatsoever.
They'll let foreign governments do whatever they want, but they will not allow Twitter to move towards a free speech direction.
Just keep that in mind, because they're going to continue to use stories like this and lie about them to get people shut down and apps locked out of the App Store and Twitter, I promise you.
Speaking of misinformation and misinformation campaigns, because the media are champions of misinformation, so is the censorship brigade on the left.
Fauci's retiring!
You guys hear Fauci?
Fauci's retiring?
Now, here's my opinion on this.
Here's my guess on what happened.
Fauci has been wrong about so much, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
He has been wrong about so much on COVID.
Vaccines.
Vaccines stopping the spread, specifically.
Masking.
Social distancing.
The origins of COVID.
Fauci's been wrong about so much that he's become a lightning rod.
That even the hapless, pathetic Biden administration realizes, Houston, we got a problem.
I wouldn't be surprised if he was kind of gently nudged out the door.
Now, you may say, well, the man's in his 80s, it was time for him to leave.
Fine, fair enough, that's a possibility too.
My opinion, I think someone behind the scenes may have gently kind of nudged Fauci out the door and said, it's time to go.
Shockingly, on the way out the door, the guy is still giving bad advice.
And he's giving bad advice because these people on the left are obsessed with control.
Remember, there's only two approved narratives on the left with COVID.
Only two things you're allowed to talk about without being attacked on social media.
You're only allowed to talk about masks and how much you love them, and vaccines and how wonderful they are, how they're the solution to all of our problems.
Both of those involve mandates.
They involve the government telling you what to do.
That's why the left loves them.
It has nothing to do with science.
Here is one of the worst fake news specialists in Washington, D.C., a pretend reporter by the name of April Ryan.
She gets a shot at the last question for Fauci here.
Before he leaves, he's retiring.
He does a presser yesterday in the Brady Press Room.
And listen to the mask cult again.
No matter how many times masks fail you and fail to produce any significant science, that they're even remotely effective in stopping COVID, right?
Here's April Ryan, gets a shot at a question, and she pledges her allegiance to masks right in front of Fauci.
Watch this, check this out.
We're not talking about mask wearing in this moment.
Masks, and the word masks, have become a pejorative in some parts of this nation.
Can you talk about the importance of mask wearing as you're worried about the holidays and people gathering together?
This is unbelievable.
They can't stop with the damn masks.
They cannot stop.
They are obsessed with putting this face diaper on their face, despite mounds and mounds of scientific evidence showing that outside of a properly fitted KN95 mask, that the effect of this is limited if it exists at all.
It doesn't matter.
They are obsessed with this because they're obsessed with the mandate portion of it.
I always ask you to go back to the Moneyball theory of masks.
If masks work, why aren't masks working?
Remember Moneyball?
He's a good hitter.
Why didn't he hit good?
If masks work, why aren't they working?
Why have masks never worked at even stemming the tide of coronavirus infections?
Why am I missing something?
They are still pushing these things.
And Fauci, who could redeem a portion of his reputation if he would just be honest with people and say, folks, listen.
You're free to wear a mask or free not to wear a mask if it makes you comfortable.
But as a physician and someone in a public health authority, you're paid by the tax dollars.
I have to be candid with you that the efficacy of these things is very small and it's probably not going to protect you against COVID and act responsibly.
Telling people this thing is going to save them is causing moral hazard.
It's causing them to do things they wouldn't do otherwise because they believe they're going to be saved by this mask.
And people like fake news specialist April Ryan keep saying this stuff and pushing this thing because they just are obsessed with the idea of the government telling you what to do.
Look at this story, too.
It's in my newsletter today.
New York Post.
Health and Human Services has a report recommending masks and social distancing for long COVID.
Again, this is November of 2022.
They're still recommending this stuff.
There is no amount of science or data that will stop these people from jamming down your throat, top down totalitarian mandates, because they can't have you stepping out of line, if you know what I mean.
We're living in this shake-your-head, scratch-your-hair era, where you wonder, like, how did these people who are so dumb get in charge?
I want to play this cut coming up next of Tucker's show last night.
Tucker's done with Fauci.
He had a segment on Anthony Fauci last night, where Fauci, again, out the door, is still pushing nonsense and garbage and junk and won't answer any questions about COVID origins.
Why won't they do that?
Why is the White House so afraid?
Watch this clip coming up next.
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Here's a video I was talking about from Tucker's show last night, who's just done with Fauci and has been for a long time.
I have no problem with the guy making mistakes.
My problem with Fauci is he makes mistakes and then he doubles and triples down on them because he's too proud to tell you he made a mistake.
That's what he does.
And he's causing a lot of public health distress by doing so.
Listen to him here talking about COVID origins, or not, because nobody will let him talk about the origins of the COVID virus.
Check this out.
A reporter for the Daily Caller decided to ask Fauci about that, because how could you not ask?
Were you involved in creating this virus, or where did it come from?
Shouldn't we know?
Millions have died and we wrecked our economy?
But you're not allowed to ask that question, because then Joe Biden's glass ceiling shattering publicist rushed in and shut the whole thing down.
Watch this.
Hold on one second.
We have a process here.
I'm not calling out on people who yell and you're being disrespectful to your colleagues and you're being disrespectful to our guests.
I will not call on you if you yell and also you're taking time off the clock because Dr. Fauci has to leave in a couple of minutes.
I'm done.
I'm not getting into a back and forth with you.
She has a valid question.
She's asking about the origin of COVID-19.
I hear the question.
And Dr. Fauci is the best person to answer that question.
I hear your question, but we're not doing this the way you want it.
This is a disrespect.
It is.
I'm done.
Simon, I'm done.
I'm done with you right now.
It's unbelievable.
And the rest of the supine press corps sit there with their weird little masks on and say nothing.
And it's left to some guy from Africa to point out the obvious, which is what is the most legitimate question there is?
Where did COVID come from?
And what are you doing to find out?
Shut up!
Folks, what does that tell you?
What does that tell you?
One, people yell out questions in the White House press room all the time.
Did you miss the four years of Donald Trump?
All the time.
Oh my gosh, Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kayleigh McEnany.
Yeah, screaming and yelling.
But Jim, you remember Jim Acosta?
Screaming at Trump as if he wasn't the President of the United States.
Like it was some, you know, it was like the bagel guy on the corner who gave you an everything bagel when you wanted a sesame.
That all of a sudden, like, we have these... Oh, no, no, there's a process here.
Why... Have you not asked yourself this a thousand times?
Why are they so eager to shut down conversations about where COVID originated?
Ladies and gentlemen, I think you know the answer.
Because it likely originated in a Wuhan lab in China that your tax money, through a process, probably assisted in funding.
I don't care what administration it happened under.
I care that it happened and it doesn't happen again.
And the reason the left wants this shut down and conservatives are the one pushing for it, and there better be hearings when McCarthy maybe takes over as Speaker, and the Republicans are definitely going to take over.
It looks like they're going to have like a 222 majority now, 222 seats, which is good.
I want to know what happened there.
I want to know because I don't want it to happen again.
The reason liberals don't want you to know is because it'll shake your faith in their ethos of big government being some benevolent force in your life.
It's not!
It's a cancerous rot in your life.
They can't do a freaking thing right!
You're trying to research bat viruses and you wind up unleashing a deadly one that kills millions of people?
Do you guys get anything right?
The answer is no.
You're government.
You're incapable of getting everything right.
It reminds me of that line by Father Bob Sirico from the Acton Institute.
I was listening to his speech, I don't know, 10 years ago, whatever.
And he was saying it's not that government's too big, it's that government's too stupid.
There's no incentive to get anything right.
It's not their money.
They don't work for it.
That's why liberals can't have you disobeying the mandates.
They want a compliant group of NPCs.
And it's also why liberals can't have you believe that the government you believe is some philanthropic benevolent force in your life unleashed one of the world's worst pandemics.
That's why she shut that down.
So aggressively.
We have a process here.
We do?
Since when?
When did that start?
We need hearings about Fauci.
We need hearings about the origins of COVID.
We need hearings about Hunter Biden.
We need hearings about the border.
I had a caller call in the show yesterday at the end of the radio show.
Fair enough.
He had a good question.
He said, you know, Dan, large swaths of independents aren't really interested in this Hunter Biden stuff and this other stuff.
They want to hear about inflation.
I'm not going to give you the stupid walk and chew gum at the same timeline because it's just dumb.
But I'll say this.
Yeah, the caller's not wrong.
And we are going to have to find a balance here where we don't skip out on issue-oriented stuff.
However, we're not letting this go, and you shouldn't let it go either.
COVID origins, Fauci's rolling it, Hunter Biden, the border, we shouldn't let any of this go.
Now, I'm somewhat, somewhat, and I mean small, like somewhat optimistic, That the new GOP majority, at least on the border, I'm not so sure about the other stuff, but at least on the border, only because it polls well, and believe me when I tell you I haven't seen the inside polls to them or everything, if something polls well, they'll do it.
If they said, you know, eating syrup of Ipecac every night before dinner polls well, they'd recommend it.
I'm sorry, that's how it works.
Republicans, Democrats, everyone.
But let's hope McCarthy and this new Republican majority, if McCarthy, there's no guarantee McCarthy's gonna win.
I'll get to that in a second, the speakership roll.
But let's hope McCarthy sticks to his word on the border.
He gave this presser yesterday about hearings and potentially impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas, the dreadful DHS secretary under Biden, for our open border policies now.
You know, he put it on camera, so I'm not, you know, a huge fan.
I'd prefer someone else.
But if this is what we're going to wind up with, at least he seems serious about the border part.
You can listen yourself.
Today, I am calling on the Secretary to resign.
He cannot and must not remain in that position.
If Secretary Mayorkas does not resign, House Republicans will investigate every order, every action, and every failure will determine whether we can begin impeachment inquiry.
If Secretary Mayorkas was in charge of any company, he would have been fired by now for the failures of what he has caused.
No, I had a good congressman, solid conservative on my radio show yesterday, he comes on a lot, Chip Roy.
Chip Roy said that Kevin McCarthy does not have the votes locked up at this point to be the next speaker.
Either does Steve Scalise, and I'm not sure Scalise is, I don't think he's running, I think he said he's not.
I'm just saying, I mean, he's the most likely person, McCarthy.
We'll see.
Concessions are going to have to be made.
The Freedom Caucus and the conservative members of Congress, given these slim majorities, it looks like it's going to be around 222, meaning they have about four votes to play with, depending on if someone's sick, probably less.
They're going to need the Freedom Caucus, so concessions will be made.
We have to insist on Fauci, COVID origins, Hunter, the border, and whatever else.
We can do that other stuff, too, and it's going to have to be a balance, I agree.
But Chip Roy was very clear.
I want to get to something else Chip Roy discussed yesterday on my radio show.
Because the word existential is overused.
Like literally and unique are the two words that are ironically abused in the English language.
You know I hate them.
It's funny, I'm writing my book and I wrote that in the book and then I put a parenthesis in the book and said, and I hate this word.
That's how you know I mean it.
Chip Roy was on yesterday talking about something that is an existential crisis to the United States.
That's defending the sanity of our military.
Our military and some military leaders of ours have gone completely insane and forgotten that they're there to fight wars and to kill the enemy.
I'll get to that in a second.
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So just quickly on this topic, Chip Roy has been leading the way with Senator Marco Rubio.
On getting our military back to doing Joe military stuff.
You know, like killing the bad guy?
Yeah.
Because that's kind of what they're there to do.
These brave men and women who raise their right hand and sign up.
They're not signing up for woke indoctrination, folks.
They're signing up to go fight for the country and kill the bad guy.
This isn't hard.
Chip Roy and Marco Rubio did a little digging into Woke military indoctrination.
What they found isn't pretty.
If you want to read an interesting, fascinating story, check this story out in the New York Post.
Woke warfighters.
GOP report claims the Biden administration and Pentagon policies are weakening our military.
You're darn right, they are woking our military to death.
We are wasting time, military standout, actual standouts, out there studying CRT, race-based essentialism.
You know, transgender ideology.
Folks, the whole idea of boot camp in our military is to break people down first of their allegiances to anything and anything that would conflict with the mission and to build them back up as a cohesive unit regardless of skin color, sex, origin, religion, none of it.
Why are we reintroducing divisions back into the military we break down in boot camp?
The Chinese Communist Party has to be laughing at us for all this wokeness crap.
You're going to get people killed or military.
This is it.
This is the bulwark.
This is the, what do you think the Chinese Communist Party?
You think they're into all like sympathy, lovey dovey cutesy time?
Wait till they invade Taiwan.
You want a military obsessed with CRT or a military that's capable of killing the enemy?
I know what I want.
I bring that up because there's an interest, really interesting article.
In real clear.
Real clear defense.
And it's about this sneaky way China could win a war against America.
Read the piece.
It's in there.
The gist of it is this.
Folks, they don't have to beat us on the ground in Taiwan if Taiwan makes it across the straits.
It could attack our supply line.
We're not there.
If, and I'm not suggesting, I'm not recommending, I'm not talking about whether we should or shouldn't do it right now.
That's a topic for another day.
You know my position on most of this I've spoken about in the past.
I'm simply saying if the United States did decide to defend Taiwan, listen when I tell you, there ain't gonna be no cakewalk.
That logistics supply line is a long way from home.
That's what he's talking about in this piece.
Guy, that article you just put up, did I not put that in a rundown?
Because that's a great piece.
I forgot.
Okay.
Thank you for doing that.
Oh, one more thing.
One more.
I wanted to get to this article too.
It's, um, and I'll get to the daily caller piece.
So I run downs.
We do every morning.
Sometimes I'll throw a piece in there.
I'm interested and I'll forget.
I told him folks on a different note, but there's this article in my newsletter today.
I need you to read too, but the Biden family has 150 plus SARS, but treasury's obstructing the release as the house GOP.
What does this mean?
I want to translate this for you.
Uh, Because having been a financial fraud investigator when I was a federal agent, SARs are Suspicious Activity Reports.
Suspicious Activity Reports are filed by a bank when they suspect something's up.
Now, Joe, it's really, really hard to get a SAR, a Suspicious Activity Report, excuse me, Drawn up by a bank on what you're doing, right?
It's not easy to do.
You have to do some really shady stuff for the bank to fill out this... Gosh, suspicious.
Spit it out, Bongino!
Suspicious activity report.
You have to do a lot.
Now, when the bank fills them out, the SARs get sent over to the Secret Service.
I think the FBI may get them too.
And we get to look at them and check them out.
So most of the ones I, and I've read thousands of these, most of the ones I saw were for structuring.
So if you deposit more than $10,000 in a bank, they have to fill out a CTR, Currency Transaction Report, but anything less than $10,000, they don't have to.
So what'll happen with criminals is they'll do this thing called structuring, because they don't want a CTR filed on the money they're depositing.
If it's a lot, you're dealing drugs or whatever.
What do they do?
They deposit $8,999, $9,900 every single day.
It's called structuring.
You have to be up to no good to get a SAR filed on you.
The Biden family has 150 plus of these things.
Do you have any idea how hard that is to do?
Do you have any idea how knee-deep in Corruption and shady activity.
You have to be involved to get 150 of these things filed.
And it's just kind of strange that Treasury doesn't want you to see him.
So weird.
Treasury.
Meanwhile, we used to get him all the time.
Yeah, but we got Trump's tax.
That's right.
He makes a good point.
We got Trump's tax returns.
Yeah, right.
Trump said that was it.
Meanwhile, we found out that he gives to charity or something.
That was the thing.
All right, just back to the wokeness thing, kind of tying this all in.
China, Hunter Biden, our military, wokeness in the military.
You know, I'm sitting here yesterday and once in a while I'll sit out in the front of my house and let Lucy just kind of run around.
She likes to chase the lizards up the trees.
She's a dog.
But I like her to have fun.
She sits in the house sometimes a lot.
She gets tired, you know, and she's a golden doodle.
She's not the most active dog.
But she likes, and I like to sit outside to watch her.
I just, it's a small joys of life watching a dog chase lizards.
She doesn't eat them or anything like that, but they liked it.
I think they taunt her too.
They come down the tree just enough and she's climbing up the tree.
So I'm sitting out there yesterday, you know, one of the few sports I could still watch outside of UFC is the NHL, the National Hockey League.
And I gotta tell you, man, I could not be more disappointed.
They put out this tweet yesterday, the NHL's Daily Caller has a story on it, that non-binary identity is real, trans women are women.
I can't believe they're getting into this.
It's like, Are you guys ever going to learn your lesson?
Do you understand the generational destruction the NFL did to its brand?
Listen, it's not done.
The NFL is going to be fine in the long run.
They'll make a lot of money.
They still have a lot of viewers.
The point is they've done so much damage and people like me who used to be regular viewers in the NFL who don't watch it anymore.
I will not pass that on to my kids.
This is going to do serious damage over time to your brand.
It doesn't happen overnight like that.
To the NHL, do you really want to get involved in this?
Is this really your bag of donuts?
Stay out of the nonsense, man.
Just play freaking hockey.
By the way, they got ratioed into the Phantom Zone on that.
A few quick notes before I get to my diet hacks for the holidays.
10 fitness tests you should be able to do.
I'll get to a couple of them.
Just quick, there's a student loan pause again by the Biden administration to June 2023.
Government backed a bunch of student loans they gave to people.
They're now telling them they don't have to make interest payments.
They won't be compounded at that point either.
Meaning what?
The government borrowed money to give to those students that you're now paying interest on.
So Biden and his administration, which are sleazy slime balls, because the student loan forgiveness is going to go down in flames in court, they're just going to forgive it de facto by pausing student loan payments in perpetuity.
Never ends with these people, folks.
Don't ever forget, all debts are paid either by the debtor or the creditor.
I lend you money and you don't pay it?
I paid your debt.
I lend you money and you pay it?
You paid your debt.
And just one quick note, too.
Listen, man.
I don't know an easy way to say this.
I am not optimistic about the Georgia runoff.
I'm sorry.
I'm not a big believer in polls.
They're garbage.
But Some of them, which are relatively in the ballpark, are not looking good.
I'm not telling you this to scare you.
Goosebumps talking about it.
Actual.
I'm telling you this because if we lose that seat, we're going to be in trouble.
There's not going to be any lipstick on that one the next day.
You got to get out and vote, folks, and bring 10 people with you.
However uncomfortable it is to vote, if you got stuff going on that day, you got to do it.
Polls, I get it.
They're crap.
But pretty much none of them are going in our direction.
We gotta win that Hershel Walker seat.
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All right, so we do this every year.
Joe and I had all kinds of various aims for it over the years.
Sticky notes and stuff like that.
Stories we would do that didn't necessarily correspond to the news atmosphere of the day, but had to do with kind of lifestyle stuff.
We enjoyed it.
We should probably do it more.
So I thought with the holidays coming up that we should do a quick segment here on some food and diet hacks.
Some of them, matter of fact, most of them I use myself.
Now, Word of caution, I was told by many people, Guy's looking forward to this, by the way, told me at the beginning of the show, which he very rarely talks at the beginning of the show here.
I was told by a number of people in the news business that you should never, ever talk about this stuff before Thanksgiving, because people don't want to hear about it.
Of course, me, I always break all the rules, and I say, screw that, this is the best time to talk about it, because now you can go and eat and have a good time, and then afterwards, you got some diet hacks to clean yourself up afterwards, right?
Who's better than you?
This article will be in the newsletter today.
Bongino.com slash newsletter.
It's from one of my favorite websites, T Nation, and it's 23 Powerful Food Hacks and Supplement Tricks.
Now, I'm not going to go through all 23, but I'll go through some of them I like and use and can personally vouch for.
Again, if you want to read all of them, go to Bongino.com slash newsletter and check this out.
Here's one of them.
You use cacao?
You should.
You can buy it anywhere.
I'm going to recommend, I think I use Navitas or something, the cacao.
It's basically the cocoa bean.
Folks, it's fantastic.
They note that you can add it into Dutch cocoa.
You can, excuse me, or you can add it into coffee and it has cognition enhancing effects.
This is in the piece and it ameliorates some of the jitteriness of coffee.
Here's what I really like about it.
Can lead to the release of nitric oxide?
Which I'm gonna leave some of you.
It's got some non-family friendly stuff we can talk about with nitric oxide, but nitric oxide works really well for me before a workout.
Kind of gets me going a little bit.
Huge fan of this stuff.
Give it a try.
It's C-A-C-A-O.
Get a good brand.
Stick it in your coffee in the morning.
Stir it up.
Can be a little bitter, but I use it in everything.
I throw one in every single protein shake.
Here's another one.
Collagen!
You are not taking collagen, folks.
Collagen is the way to rock and roll.
Collagen is amazing.
I cannot tell you how effective it has been.
Look, I'm 48 in, gosh, just a few days, in about a week and a half.
I know I don't do any, I should, I get it, but I rarely use any sunblock.
I sit in the Florida sun all day.
I should be wrinkled up.
This collagen peptide is the most amazing thing for your hair, your skin, your nails.
Our buddies at Brickhouse Nutrition have a really good product.
They didn't pay for that one.
I'm just telling you because I use it.
Take it with some vitamin C. They note it in this piece.
It's one of their food hacks.
The stuff is gold.
It is gold.
Ask Paula.
Give it some time.
It doesn't happen overnight.
Three to six months, but you're going to see a big, big difference.
Huge fan of collagen.
Your joints, too.
Works amazing for your joints.
Here's a simple one.
If you're over 40 or so...
Like me, and you have a history of heart disease.
Have a glass of water before you get out of bed in the morning.
So, so true.
I do this every morning.
That glass of water, first thing I do, bounce out, big glass of water.
Why?
Because they know, T.C.
Luma wrote this piece, that dehydration plays a prominent role in blood clots, stroke, and heart attacks, and we're most vulnerable in the morning when our blood is thicky and sludgy like a McFlurry.
Big glass of water in the morning, especially if you're over 40.
Hugely important.
Do it every single day.
First thing I do.
Then I come back and do my whole thing.
Here's another quick tip in this piece.
23 powerful food hacks and supplement tricks.
When eating salads, Chew the hell out of it before you swallow.
Why?
Well, one, you want to chew to break down the food, but you got bacteria in the back of your mouth that converts nitrates in fruits and vegetables to nitrite, which are then absorbed by the salivary glands and converted to nitric oxide, there it is again, by the body.
They know it's not trivial.
Up to 25% of the nitrate in circulations is absorbed through the salivary glands.
You're gonna eat a salad, fruits and vegetables?
Chew the living daylights out of it.
That nitric oxide is so valuable.
Gives me a sense of alertness, helps other things too.
You can look that up online, there may be kids listening, but I'm telling you, chew the heck out of your salads and fruits.
Don't just swallow those suckers whole.
It's not healthy anyway, you could choke on it.
Ask any rabbit.
At which one?
Oh, yeah, I know.
I'm going to leave that one for you.
You got to go to rumble.com and read the piece to read that last line.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Ask any rabbit, right?
I know where Joe's going with that.
So does Joe.
Yeah.
So do rabbits.
Here's the last one.
Again, there's 23 of these.
I'm just giving you the five or six I like the most because I use them.
You a big rice eater?
I am.
I love rice.
I can't stop.
Here's a problem with rice.
A lot of carbs, folks.
If you eat a lot of carbs, you get massive insulin bursts.
Insulin's a storage-type hormone.
You can get gooey fast eating a lot of rice.
So here's a trick for you to make rice.
If you're going to eat it, to lessen the effect of insulin on your body and keep the kind of calories or the processing of the calories maintainable.
You know, it's to change the molecular structure of rice and reduce the calories by around 50%.
Do the following.
Dude, it works.
I'm telling you this works.
Boil the water.
Add one teaspoon of coconut oil.
Again, this is all in the piece.
Add a cup of rice.
Cook the rice for approximately 20 minutes.
Then, here's the kicker.
Let the rice cool in the refrigerator for 12 hours.
When you reheat the rice and serve it, you can dump the calorie content by almost half.
Wow.
100% works.
Ask any bodybuilder.
It works.
If you're gonna eat it, eat a lot of it, and you do, then do this.
It's the greatest life hack ever when it comes to rice and carbs.
I promise you it works.
I think the coconut oil works best, but I'm not sure.
I'm not sure if it has to be or not.
But the coconut oil definitely helps.
Okay, here's one more for you.
10 fitness things you should be able to do by Dan John again at T Nation.
This article's from a while ago, but it still applies.
Here's all of them.
I'll go through a couple you should be able to.
You should be able to bench your body weight.
You should, folks.
I'm 47, although my elbows don't work very well.
I'm 205.
I can do 205 now.
I hate when people say, 600 times.
I probably do it, I don't know, six, seven times now.
My shoulders kind of give out a little bit.
But I'm not that strong in the upper body anymore.
I used to be.
It's my elbows just take a beating.
You should be able to bench your body at least once, though.
I'm 205, you should be able to hit a 205 PR.
Don't kill yourself, by the way, doing it.
Don't just run in the gym and test it.
You'll rip your peck right off the bone.
Make sure, you know, you have some experience first.
Second, you should be able to deadlift double your body weight if you're a lifter.
Again, this isn't the kind of thing you should run in the gym and try if you've never lifted.
You'll have a heart attack and die.
Don't do that.
But if you have some lifting experience, you should be able to deadlift double your body weight.
Honestly, I'm not sure I could do that right now.
My elbows can't handle me holding the weight.
I can trap deadlift it, but my elbow is in a regular deadlift.
I'm not sure I can do that.
Hold a two minute plank.
I know I can do that.
You know, a plank when you're sitting there on your elbows and your toes looking down at the ground, like you're in a pushup position on your elbow.
You should be able to hold that for two minutes.
Sleep with only one pillow.
That's a flexibility thing.
You can read it in a piece.
Sit on the floor without using hands, knees, or shins.
I can't, I can't do that.
I can't.
My lower body can't handle it.
Yeah, Guy's much younger than me.
He said he's folks his age who can't do it.
Here's another test you should be able to do.
Balance on one foot for 10 seconds.
It sounds easy.
Be near something so you don't fall, but I'm telling you, over the age of 40, you'd be surprised how many people can't do that.
Here's another one.
You should be able to hang for 30 seconds.
You know, pull-up style, a dead hang?
I'm up to a minute and 20 now doing that because it's good for your shoulders.
Again, you'd be surprised how many people their grip strength is so poor they can't even hang for 30 seconds.
Long jump your height.
I definitely can't do that.
Blow my knees out.
I wouldn't even try.
30-second bodyweight squat and hold.
And a farmer's walk with your bodyweight.
A farmer's walk is when you walk with dumbbells or weights in your hand.
So it'd be a 100-pound weight.
You should be able to walk a certain amount of distance with your bodyweight.
Again, don't try these things if you've never worked out before.
Seriously, you'll get yourself hurt.
I can only do three.
I can tell you that right now.
Joe, you are not the only one, brother.
I mean, you gotta remember, Dan John's a great writer.
He's writing this for, you know, people who should be in really, you know, pretty good shape at your age.
You know, a lot of us are beaten up.
He's not, you know, it's not for, like, orthopedic injuries and stuff like that.
But if you can do a few of them, it's pretty good, but it's worth a shot.
I hope you like that.
Joe and I have been doing it for seven years or so, right before the holidays.
We'll do some more of it around Christmastime, too, some lifestyle stuff.
Appreciate you listening to the show today.
I know you all have a lot going on, and I want to wish you a Extremely happy Thanksgiving, folks.
You still live in the greatest country on earth, protected by the greatest military ever seen, the greatest fighting force in the history of humankind.
You live in a land God has blessed with resources, with mountains, with oceans, with lakes.
We live in the most beautiful place on planet Earth.
Don't ever forget that.
Spend some time with your families.
Put the politics aside for a couple days.
We can get back in the fight on Monday.
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