How To Recognize An Op (Ep. 2523)

27:02Hey, come over. My husband Bruce is now in here. You want a beer? I'll pass him a beer for now. You sure? Come over and say the one. Yes.

27:14This is the fake, the faker. That's your kingmaker. I don't want to hear about forfeit in the midterm. It's going to 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 going to let people destroy it from the inside or from the outside. Sorry. Not my agenda. That's their agenda.

27:48Folks, 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 going to 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.

28:23And 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 going to 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.

28:57This is exactly what I'm talking about. The climate folks have moved on. Now they moved from climate to data centers to every single day. Something's going to kill you every single day with these people. And then when that thing never happens, they pretend what they told you was going to 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.

29:33I'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 going to 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 2 to 5 degrees.

30:19What do we do in the land we live on is under attack! But does that justify the fear? Climate change is not alive 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 1 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. Folks, none of the stuff they tell you is going to happen ever actually happens.

30:58Why am I playing that clip today? Because it's an older clip from Stossel we've actually used 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 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, this story from Sky News. And I don't think Sky News realizes that they've exposed the op in this one tweet about the climate's going to kill you op. Sky News breaking, all caps. Ops, May 25th, 2026.

31:40The all - Wait, before I read this, I'm not even going to tell you what the - 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, T.O. We'll take a moment of silence. It's a data point. 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 help 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 chip wood or chop wood in the chat.

32:36It'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. Does Sky News even realize what they're doing? Beyond Lomborg put up a tweet about this too. He's a realist on this. Yeah, you know, with CO2 emissions, all these things. But the consequences of what this stuff is doing are not obvious to people. Here, 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.

33:22But 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. Yes.

34:02Folks, 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 Colved. 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.

34:53I was looking at the breakdown of domestic terror threats, And I'm like, where are we getting all this like right wing violence data? Because it doesn't seem to match up with real life. Like, what are you talking about? Well, they were getting a lot of the data, which we stopped from like the Southern Poverty Law Center and 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 didn't I don't have this book. I haven't read it yet. But Rothman was on Charlie's show yesterday and he's talking about exactly this, how when the left groups that 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 to Antifa, BLM and all that other stuff doesn't even exist.

35:44And this is how they do it. This is something we've discussed on the show many times. Apparently, his new book addresses it. Check this out. 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, intrafamily violence.

36:20Sometimes somebody who spray paints a side of a church, right wing violence, a homeless man who starts hurling racial slurs in a hotelier and attacks them, 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 remember that a cab all cops are bastards they'll go out there and attack police because they're they're mistakenly under the belief that police are mowing down unarmed black man in the street because the data point supports that.

37:19The 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? The polling, they'll tell you it's in the thousands. The number's 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.

37:56Well, who's studying it? Left-wing violent groups? Folks, I want, 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-roo Okay? 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 I work for?

38:35What is it called again? Bongino Inc 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 Plattner. 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 them?

39:20Just name the person. They don't do that. Bernie's been playing, Bernie Sanders and his people like Graham Plattner, Momdani 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 all he does is redistribute your money to other people because he doesn't have any value-added activities himself.

39:58This guy is going to pull it back? Check this out. I think it's abject 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 health care, like child care, 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 When he says pull the money back He means taking more of your money you worked for You understand that, right?

40:50When 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 health care so you can't make your own health care decisions. 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's 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.

41:26I 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 Plattner, 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 Piker's not 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 Who didn'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?

42:05What 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 her videos of the Iranian hostage crisis, where the Iranians took our people hostage in the embassy in Iran.

42:51They 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 atrocities that America has committed. Love it. Love it. You want to watch the video? So this was Iranians being held hostage by America. 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?

43:34Iran have the right to defend itself? Yeah. If America's killing Iranians for decades. What if I told you that every single video we showed you right now, this was actually attacks by the IRGC on Americans? Now, do you think America should 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... Wait, but I'm not smart enough to answer these questions like this, so... Wait, but you just answered the question really quickly. If Iran should have the right to defend itself against American bombings, you said yes.

44:08So I can't... It's too much for me. I'm not just a kindergarten teacher. I'm not... Okay, should we break it down very simple? Iran attacks America. Should America be able to defend itself against Iran?

44:27This 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 Geese video of the day Good. I'm glad you 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. I had went to DEA school to do undercover stuff.

45:09It 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 Donnie Brasco movie, if you're an undercover, you know, or actually like that, you want to actually get arrested with the bad guy. you're not going to be the one I should have said not like the Lethal Weapon movie remember Mel Gibson in 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 that's actually how liberals are when your entire world view 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 Donnie 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.

46:26They 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 in applause like, yes, two detainees released.

47:07Except. Oh, what is that? What is it? What did they say? They work in the facility, you liberal dipshits. What is that? Hat tip freedom news. That 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. You want to lose to these idiots? Actually, I'm staying home. Nothing's happening. Really? Nothing's happening? I'm going to 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're like that the mutley's i don't win dude wait who's that one guy that is way all right i get the five mutley rule went out the window but that is way too many mutley It just disrespects the monthly.

48:14It waters down the monthly after like 10. But whatevs, 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's doing nothing, despite the fact that this has 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, excuse me, right before the election, on public safety and law enforcement. CNN's reporting, it's not some right-wing outlet.

48:52This 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. It's such a potent issue because who voters trust more in 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 in crime? In October of 2024, Trump was trusted more in crime than Kamala Harris by four points. Look at the Republican lead right now, though, in the average polling. Look at this.

49:19Republicans 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. Nobody believes you, losers. Nobody believes you. That's why you lose. That's why you lose. Lucky Trump again. Strikes again. Incredible. Luckiest man on planet Earth. Never loses an entire shoe of blackjack. Incredible. Even a dealer's like, what's going on? He's the opposite of, you ever see Molly's game?

50:04Bad Brad in Molly's game who loses every hand and beats that one guy one time. He's the opposite. He's good Trump versus bad bread. Folks, it's happening everywhere. Here was Andrew Bailey, good man, working over the FBI, his co-deputy over there. He was out in St. Louis here. They cracked down in St. Louis too. No one in the Trump administration, by the way, is waiting for anybody. I'm not telling you the locals didn't cooperate over it. They did. I'm just saying they're just doing it. Federal officials tout the success of another FBI agent surge in the St. Louis region. I don't think it's happening.

50:42What 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, to the bullshit the left and the doomers tell you.

51:19That'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 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'd 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.

52:02So what are the results? Nothing is happening. I'll tell you nothing. Here was Kevin Hassett, 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 onshoring drug production right now like crazy.

52:44Automobile construction is coming back to the U.S. As are a bunch of things that seem 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. OK, folks, there was a lot in what Kevin Hassett just said. Let's parse through it slowly. Notice what he mentions. And it's not an accident. Listen to your buddy, Dan.

53:22When 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 II and World War I, 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?

54:07AI, you're going to let China build a bunch of data centers To use advanced AI products To hack every single US 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 doesn't mean we have to manufacture everything here if 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 Got a great guest, by the way, coming up later in the week.

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56:25Thank you, Brickhouse Nutrition. Folks, also, what about an American 250 Bongino 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 know what I'm going to say, because then it sounds like a one thing I learned the only regret I ever had was doing an interview on Fox and Friends when early on where someone had asked me about what it was like being away from your family and I told her I shouldn't have said I should have you know what I 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 What about the Doge stuff?

57:33What 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 J.D. Vance, the vice president Has done an amazing job on this, folks Contrast J.D. Vance with border czar 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.

58:14You don't believe me? Here was yesterday's briefing. Short clip from that. Check this out. In just two months, 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, but were just focused on fraud.

58:49So 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 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.

59:22But instead, we're going to fraudsters. Folks, contrasts. I always tell you in politics, listen to me. Again, listen to your brother Dan here. If you are 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.

59:59I showed you how that kandelanium 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 his story completely. It was hilarious to watch. Hat tip be more on that one. But I want to show you a contrast to use the nothing is happening Files music. Stinger. Stinger. There you go. By request. Stinger, that's all you, buddy. That's all you, brother or sister. Don't really know. But that's Stinger, man or woman. You can just say M or W. You just got to know. Contrast. Now, these two aren't running against each other, but they do represent the difference between a businessman like J.D.

1:00:39Vance and Donald Trump. J.D.'s a business guy. Yes, he's got a decorated service history with the United States Marine Corps, but J.D. was a very successful businessman just like Donald Trump. They go in it with a different mentality. J.D. 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. Counter-terror arrest. What do you guys do? They do this everywhere. Contrast that with the Graham Plattners of the world, who speaks only in diffuse clouds. The oligarchy's coming for a minute.

1:01:13Who in the oligarchy? Gee, I don't know. Someone who's an oligarchy. You just said that. That's circular reasoning. That was like that Ibram Kendi guy when asked to define what racism is. He was like, it's racist-y racist stuff. If the words in the definition are the word you're trying to define, it's not a definition. soundbites 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 corner by the way has always been a gentleman to me i've uh it's more in the paxton camp but i'm not here to bullshit you he's always been kind however i'm not in the friends business You know, you get the point.

1:01:58Tala Frico 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 Rochester, where are you from?

1:02:41They go, ah, Martin County Where are you 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 Bowie knife in me I don't know however they say Texas Texas they love them some Texas do you have a story of the Alamo you gotta go check that story I know you remember the Alamo but did you ever really check out the story San Ana let me tell you something those guys had cojones Texas You think Talafrico, who's confused what the American flag stands for, the one right behind me?

1:03:28Talafrico's confused. It's complicated. No, Talafrico, it's not complicated. Freedom, liberty, honor, respect, sacrifice. That's just a few off the top of my head. That's what it represents. I'm not confused. Anyone in the chat confused what the American flag represents? Anyone? Anybody in the chat? We're not confused. We're not confused. Talafrico is 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 Talafrico ever, play this clip because I don't, I want you to, I love Texas.

1:04:04Here's Talafrico. I think when 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. and in many ways, like Jesus, like the cross, it's been co-opted and in some ways, its true meaning has been betrayed. I miss that. I miss the second part of that too. Man, I cut the clip. And he's also confused about what Jesus and the cross. I'm not confused. I'm not confused. Why are you confused? Why are you, I don't understand. Why are you, what are you confused about? You really think Talafrico is the guy in Texas?

1:04:41Like Plattner in Maine with the Nazi tattoos? and you're ready to sit out the mid, I don't know, that slate of candidates the Democrats have, just amazing. Nazi tattoo guy, Talafrico, 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 camera his whole life.

1:05:22I don't know. This guy has an answer for everything. And remember, snapshots and soundbites. That'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 Freako. Check this out. trying to connect you with your friendship to Alex Jones. She can do whatever she wants. Do you have a friendship with Alex Jones? 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 go back 15 years.

1:05:55I'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 the house burned down, his house burned 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.

1:06:29You don't see a lot of politicians like that, but these people in the Republican tent, 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 out of bed in the morning. It's like a 10-minute routine now. Paula's 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, Bond Charge, has given me a lot of red lights.

1:07:11I 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. He's a 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 pseudoscience stuff. Check this out.

1:07:42Human beings are not powered by the food we eat, the air 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, denosine triphosphate. And 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 motor in there and it's spinning around and it's called the Krebs cycle.

1:08:15And 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 and force oxygen to dock.

1:09:13So 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 your cells. I'm a huge, huge fan of red light therapy. So cool. Folks, I swear by this stuff. 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, it clears all this stuff up, is red light therapy.

1:09:52It's 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 guys email us about this too. They're like, yes, I'm an HVAC, you know, heating, ventilation, air conditioning guy. These green regulations, everything breaks now.

1:10:29Everything, 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 they're 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. Of 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.

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