The Dan Bongino Show - Independence Day Rough Cuts

Episode Date: July 4, 2018

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get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino all right happy independence day folks producer joseph armacost how are you today feeling very independent yeah yes you always got some hey um folks did you hear about the this is not a joke i am not starting the show jo. Joe, I actually hit Joe up with this before we came on the air. We'll do one of our rough cuts we haven't done in a while. But I'm in the gym yesterday. For those of you watch my NRA TV show yesterday, you probably heard this story. But I'm in the gym. And at the end of the gym, I always like to hit the sauna it's great for bad joints it's awesome and i get an email about this story like trump's gonna announce a uh new fair trade act uh push to exit the wto so i'm always looking for stories so i i read the bill and the bill by the way whoever named this bill you are either the greatest man or woman in human history, or man, did you screw up by not properly thinking the acronym out.

If you did it on purpose, hat tip to you, brother or sister. If you did it by accident, you may want to find a new line of work. The bill, Joe, is called the Fair and Reciprocal Trade Act. This is not a joke. The Fair and Reciprocal, otherwise known as the Fart Act. That is a real bill. Now, if you did that on purpose, you are awesome. I love you.

Bring a little humor to Capitol Hill and the executive office of the presidency. If you did it by accident, you missed that. Dude, dude, you need to find a new line of work. That's a real story. I couldn't even get through the end of the NRA TV show yesterday when I was doing it. Because I'm like, how do you mention this on TV? Today we're going to talk about the FARD Act.

The what? The FARD Act? Did you really call it? Now, listen, I get it. I know we're all old and supposedly mature. I'm 43. Joe's a little older than me. A lot, yeah.

Yeah, a lot older than me. But that's just funny. It's just always funny. I don't know why. I have no, there's nothing particularly funny about the mechanics of it. It's just funny. Nobody knows why. But calling it the Fart Act.

Great job. Really nice work, dude who did that. So the Fart Act, maybe we should all get behind it. Someone should put that on the campaign site. Oh, dude. Trump, 2020.

All fart all the time. Joe, come on. You're usually good with witty stuff. Wouldn't there be a great... The Fart Act, not all gas. Yeah, we got to get behind it. I agree, yeah. The fart act, don't let it be a squeaker.

This is real. I'm not messing with you, folks. We got to get behind that. It's a real thing. Look it up. I'm not messing with you folks it's we gotta get behind that it's a real thing look it up i'm not messing with you maybe i'll put it in the show notes today i could totally see this that's no way listen trump is such a marketing genius do you know the shirts the chum store we could put together with this do you understand how great trump 2020 low taxes low regulations control borders i actually put i gotta put i gotta get all right enough of the foreign that was perfect. Ma!

The meatloaf. Someone told me that they have good meatloaf. What was it? Oh, gosh. Now I just forgot the place. You see, I'm totally distracted with the Farnac. They haven't even got to the reeds today. All right.

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are anywhere, but I have really bad arthritis. I'm not trying to bombard you with my sob stories. Nobody cares, you know, me included, but it's, you know, I'm the host of the show and it's a big problem in my life. I didn't really take care of myself when I was younger and I didn't my daughter and any of the teenagers or people in their early 20s listening, really, do not unnecessarily abuse your body because it will pay you back. And I did not listen to my father when he told me that. Now I'm in my 40s, I'm paying the price. I have pretty severe osteoarthritis. So I was desperate. And one night I was contacted by a guy, a really good guy, Dr. Mark Berman. And he said, I think I can help you out. And I flew out to Beverly Hills and I had the stem cell thing done.

I get a lot of questions about it from people. And folks, listen to me. I am obviously not a doctor. Go seek your own medical advice. I'm not trying to give you medical advice. I'm just telling you my personal experience with it. I get a ton of questions. I've been saving it for a rough cuts.

You do with this information what you choose, but please don't mistake this for any kind of medical advice on my part, okay? Everybody has different circumstances. I'm just telling you I get a lot of questions, so I'll fill you in what happened with me. My left shoulder is, of all, I have a couple severely arthritic joints, but my left shoulder's the worst.

It's from boxing. Your left shoulder, when you're righty, your left arm is your jab. That's your jab hand. And a good jab comes from the shoulder, doesn't come from the hand. The hand is the impact point, but a good jab, as any good boxer will tell you, comes from the shoulder. So years and years and years, and you wind up jabbing what sometimes 10 times more than you wind up using your power hand i just ate my left shoulder up there was almost no cartilage left based on some x-rays i had done and some mris where the orthopedist said hey brother you're in a lot of trouble matter of fact it was one of the few times i went to the doctor where i left i left

pretty devastated um the last time I went in, I called my wife and it's, you know, usually when you go into the doctor, Joe, especially in orthopedics, you have a torn meniscus, a torn ACL, you know, you're never going to be the same, but you know, you, you expect to be able to, you know, walk and live normally again. Right. Yeah. The doctor, when I walked out, the doctor's like, Hey, I don't have anything to tell you. Like you have nothing left in your shoulder. You're going to live in pain or you can replace your shoulder. And I said, Oh, let me look into this shoulder replacement thing. And he's telling me the stuff and the shoulder replacements are not very good. I mean, the hemicaps okay, but, um, they're not,

they're not great. They don't really lend themselves to an active lifestyle. So I was desperate, but I was in agonizing pain. So I was contacted by Mark Berman out in Beverly Hills, who wrote the book on stem cells. He wrote a book called The Stem Cell Revolution. And I flew out there and it's been a year and six months now since my first treatment. And what they do is they do a liposuction on you. And Joe's intently listening because Joe's in a lot of pain too sometimes. Joe's led a pretty active life. They do a liposuction on your back. It's small.

It was not painful at all. They basically put like a cannula, like a big needle in there almost, and they just pull out some fat. It's not even that much, but you feel a little pressure, but it was almost painless. I mean, I was talking to the doctor while they were doing it. They get the stem cells, I believe they're mesenchymal stem cells, out of the fat tissue. So, you know, a little, I told the doc, yeah, you want a little extra of that fat, you know, feel free. You could take some, you know, if you need a little souvenir. Of course,

he did not do that because he's a doctor, but that's the double bang for it. You get a little fat taken out of your back too, right? He takes the stem cells out and it takes about an hour i think they put it through a some kind of a centrifuge and micrometer whatever it may be and they get the stem cells it comes out looks like like a i don't know like a chicken broth or something and they inject it into the joint now i was not particularly optimistic that this was going to help me at all. But it's been a year and a half. And I'll give you an update. I don't have any pain in my left shoulder. I know that's, again, I'm not recommending it.

You guys do your own homework. I'm telling you, I was in, you know when the Dr. Joe says to you, one to 10, what's your pain? Like 10 is like you're in absolute agony. I'm telling you after workouts, I was like a solid seven. No problem at all. I mean, I'm trying not to exaggerate.

It's probably an eight, but I don't want to sound like I'm snowflakey. I was done. I couldn't, I would be on my bed almost in tears because my shoulder was so inflamed because the bone would grind on the bone. I'm pain free. Now I don't have any i mean some days it gets cranky so the pain part i'm a zero to a one now which is amazing in and of itself

by the way folks again do your own thing i don't get any financial benefit from this no one asked me to say this okay um i just get a lot of emails still to this day about the stem cell stuff. Now, yeah. Yeah, was the injection itself painful? No, no. The good question, you know, see, this is why I love having Joe on the show. They anesthetize the area locally. So, again, you just feel pressure.

He gets deep with that needle. I mean, it gets in there with the joint. You know, it has to. And I don't know, folks, it gets in there with the joint. It has to. And I don't know, folks, I don't know what it does. Does it grow back cartilage? I have no idea. I'm in no position to medically evaluate those claims at all. All I can tell you is my story. I was a seven, maybe an eight. I'm now a zero or one. Here's the downside though. That's not really a downside. It's kind of a stability of the downside. It's not really a downside it's kind of a stability of the downside it's not like anything bad happened from it i don't have range of motion back my shoulder was never the same um matter of fact i mean sometimes when i'm in the gym and um excuse me i'll do overhead presses

but i have to do them on the smith machine now uh do you know what a smith machine is folks it's like the i know you know what it is joe but it's uh it's a barbell on a glided predetermined path it's in like a rack it it it doesn't doesn't go backwards and forwards just goes up and down so there's really no way to kind of screw it up you don't have to stabilize it um it's kind of the bane of every serious uh muscle has existence the smith machine but for me when when I overhead press, you know, taking a barbell and basically pushing it over your head, a military presses, so they call it shoulder press, got a thousand different names. I can't do that with a regular barbell anymore because my range of motion never, ever came back. So my shoulder only pushes out

kind of, you see me on the video, which is unfortunate. The rest of the audience doesn't show, but my shoulders only push out this way and forward. Like I'm, like, like I'm pushing out from my chest and not like I'm pushing over my head. So if I were to do that with a barbell outside of a glided path, like outside of a machine, I would fall over because the barbell would carry me forward. So sometimes in the gym, I'll be doing that. And I have to step back from the Smith machine at an angle and people will come up to me and be like, dude, the heck is wrong with your shoulder? Because it looks weird. It just looks weird what I'm doing. Like, what are you doing? What is she doing? That's the same scene. Ron P, there you go. We need that. What is she doing back there? What is she doing back there?

What is she doing? People come up to me, I'll be like, what's wrong with your shoulder? That's typically how I get into these stem cell conversations. So the downside is my range of motion never came back. Now I have some friends who've had it done and have had range of motion come back. Mine hasn't. But for me, it was really just not living with that that pain that mattered yeah i want to ask you about the range of motion too when you say it hadn't come back you mean

it physically there's a stopping point or the pain the pain makes like look at this i'm going to show you something like it's folks you know the hands up thing yeah like hands up like people are when they have their you know palms facing out like i'm doing that now so here's my right shoulder joe i'm doing it with my right arm, like kind of a hands up. You see how it moves normal? Yeah. And the rotator cuff, I'm moving it along. Now look at my left arm.

This is it. That's all it goes. And it goes down to there. Now it doesn't hurt to do that. Okay. But I don't know if the nerves just don't, it will not move. And I have no idea why that is. There's some cartilage rebuild itself, but it's not the same kind of cartilage. Maybe it's some kind of scar tissue. I have no idea.

All I know is I was living in pain and I can't recommend to you anything. I'm not a doctor, but I'm telling you, it almost wiped out my pain completely. And I get a ton of emails on it. Now, having said that, I've wanted to address this for a little while. I'm really a little ticked off to be candid you, about what's going on with the stem cell industry. For some bizarre reason, the FDA, yeah, even under this president, which is shocking. I mean, I'm sure he's not being briefed on every single decision over there. He's got a million things going on. But the FDA, for some reason, has gone after the stem cell industry.

And I cannot figure out what the heck they're doing i i can't i'm not kidding folks they're saying oh it's a manipulation of the cell it's your own stem cells what are you kidding they take out your stem cells they don't take joe's out and give them to me right like well it's a manipulation it's not a manipulation your own stem cells the f FDA is all over these people. Look up the story. Folks, I don't know what I'd do without it. And I'm just kind of surprised that, you know, I've been honored enough to have this big audience.

That someone who's been through it twice now. I did it twice. I did my elbows, too, and my knee. That someone who did it twice and has had really good experiences with it. Can't we just figure it out on our own? I mean, really, the FDA, I'm stunned. They are shredding this industry. I cannot figure out.

I'm sure there's some politics behind the scenes. There's some lobby money. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's some drug industry paying people. I don't know what it is. All I can tell you is as a citizen that you should be able to make your own. It's your cells, your own decisions about your body. And the fact that the industry is under assault really kind of ticks me off.

Look it up. You think I'm making any of this up, by the way? The FDA has gone full bore after these people. And, you know, I am absolutely willing to testify to anyone if it'll help as to my experiences with it, because we should be free to make our own decisions on that. All right. I got a couple more things I want to talk about today. Let's see. Where's the other one? Oh, here we go. Sorry. We have so many new sponsors. Thank you to making our show. Depending on the day, the second or third biggest conservative show in the country. We really appreciate that. Thank you very much.

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Yeah. And I appreciate the feedback you all give me. Our rough cut shows always do very well, which surprised me because the first one we did on a holiday three years ago, I was just, you know, for me, it wasn't a throwaway show. I do show prep and I don't want to waste your time. But I didn't think it would get the feedback

it did. We did very well. So sometimes I like doing these. One of the things I've been doing as well to help, and I know some of you listening who have joint problems may take this to heart. Some of you may not have joint problems, but just this kind of a prophylactic measure for you younger kids out there. One of the things I've been doing that's really been helping me get through these arthritis episodes as well is inversion. Now, although they're not a sponsor

of today's show, Teeter, who's a sponsor later, sent me an inversion table, which was really nice. So Teeter, who's a sponsor later, sent me an inversion table, which was really nice. And I have been all over inversion for a while now. And they had one at the Secret Service gym when I was there. And one of the tricks I've been doing, and again, go check with your doctor and stuff. I'm not giving you any advice. I'm just telling you what works for me. If you have really severe joint pain, the combination of a super hot sauna and the inversion afterwards for me has been gold. Now, having said that, you got to be in okay shape to try this because there's a danger,

of course, of passing out. One, if you spend too much time in the sauna, if it's too hot, you definitely want to acclimate yourself to it. I don't think people respect the power of the sauna. You ever been in one of those? It's super hot. I love them. Oh man, me too. You sweat out all that garbage. You don't even know what's living inside you until you sweat it out in the sauna. But when you go in the sauna, the one in my gym, it gets up to like a buck 50, which is hot. It's not super hot, but it's hot. And you spend a good 20 minutes in there. I mean, you work up a killer sweat. Sometimes I'll move around the shoulder circles, some hip rotations, move my knees a little bit,

get those joints going. And then I'll go home and hop on the teeter and go and invert for like five minutes. You know, you gotta be careful because you don't want to pass out, especially if you're sweating a lot. But man, I'm telling you, I feel like gold. Sometimes, sometimes I'll do that right

before my NRE TV show. And that's why if you watch the show, you'll see sometimes I'm super hyped up on the air when I'm doing it. And that's the reason, because I just got out of the sauna. My body temperature is super elevated right now. I'm really loose. The body feels good. And I don't know what it is about the inversion. I don't know if it's, it's almost like a high you get from it. I don't know if it's from the blood rush to your head. I don't know. Again, I'm not here to give you the anatomy and physiology of it. I'm just here to tell you some of the tricks over the years through a worn down body. I've been using stem cells, inversion, sauna, and none of it's particularly expensive. Most good gyms have a sauna. I like the dry sauna.

I'm not a huge fan of the wet ones. They always smell. They always have that mold smell. And it drives me crazy. Stuff grows in there. Oh, big time, man. The dry ones, I like better. But that with inversions always been solid for me.

Here's another one of my favorite pointers, by the way, as we all start to age. I'm 43 now. I'm about 6'1". I weighed myself the other day at 231 pounds. I'm probably, I don't know, between 18% and 20% body fat, realistically. I mean, I still have cubes, the abs, but they're not what they were. I used to have a six pack. It's like a four and a half pack now, maybe. My wife likes it. I'm married, so it's all I really care about. I love my wife to death. She's awesome. But when you get older, I've noticed after about 37 or so, I can handle protein and fat, no problem at all. For those of you listening to one of my last Rough Cuts episodes we did a while ago, I was talking about how insulin management, as you get older, that is critical. I don't really believe it's about calories, folks. I don't. As long as you're eating sensibly, right? You're eating a lot of vegetables, a lot of meats,

and natural stuff. You're not eating Oreos and treat yourself to a treat once in a while, of course, but you're not eating that every day. I don't think it's about the calories. I really believe it's about the management of your insulin. As you get older, you have a really tough time processing the carbs. I know I do. I used to be able to eat an entire bowl, two, three bowls of white rice and go to bed and wake up in the morning like a monster. I mean, no problem at all. Now, I've got to be super careful. I never eat carbs at night two days in a row. Just my kind of golden rule. I won't eat them two days in a row. On the third night, I'll usually just stick with either a really super fatty fish or fatty steak and vegetables, no carbs at all.

But if I do, if I am going to have a really heavy carb meal, one of the best tricks out there is the apple cider vinegar. The greatest thing ever. This, I've noticed a real change in my body composition, even at 43, ever since I started doing this. Here's the trick. The stuff, I'm sorry, but it tastes awful. Some people have emailed me, oh, I got used to it. It tastes terrible. I never got used to it, but it's so good, I really don't care. Really, terrible. I never got used to it, but it's so good. I really don't care. It's really, it's, it's just get over it. The apple cider vinegar, get the one with the mother in it. The mother, it's the mother is like a fermentation thing. Uh, it's called, I'm not making that up. It's called the mother. It'll say on the bottle with the mother in it, you'll see it. It's really nasty looking. It looks like a cloudy mess of bacteria, whatever it is. You shake it up,

you get it right in there, get it with the mother. You take, you get it right in there. Get it with the mother. I just spill it in there. I don't know, two tablespoons, a tablespoon. I don't know, read online. I'll give you that, but I just spill it in. I kind of know. Before you're going to have that heavy carb meal, just wolf that thing down. I rinse my mouth out afterwards with water because it's so acidic, but you wolf that thing down a cup of that in water and i i've noticed a noticeable change in my body composition since there when i hit yeah yeah that's the one i get to say what is that the brag brag right yep yeah that's the same one i get joe has it right there it says on the bottle right with the mother in it yep yeah look i get

the exact funny joe i did not plan i didn't tell joe what i was going to talk about um we drink the same one yeah and it is it's bad right joe i mean it's rough yeah but it's so i had these um this was really disappointing because my whole life i was super lean and when i hit about 37 or so i started to notice the dreaded love handles yeah i'm like what is that what is that a What is that, a pouch? What am I, a camel? Is this like Spider-Man where I was bit by a radioactive camel and I'm getting super camel powers? Like a camel pouch on both sides?

I'm serious. I put jeans on. I have to wear my belt kind of tight because I carry a gun. And the gun will droop your pants down. So you have to cinch it up. And you cinch it up and everybody's like, wait, that thing hanging over is that what is that a camel pouch I was horrified I told my wife I'm like what's going on I was working out doing my tabata sprints I was doing crossfit lifting heavy I was eating right and I don't know what it is I think at 37 you just 37 38 for me slow, you just, your body just does not process things like it used to.

I don't know. I don't know if it's an insulin sensitivity thing or what it may be. But I tried that. And, you know, I don't take these, whatever, shirtless selfies or anything. It's kind of goofy on Instagram. Yeah. I mean, maybe if I'm at the beach, but not like, hey, look at me. But I'm telling you, if I did, the love handles are almost gone. They're almost gone. And it's

taken a little while, but that's the trick is that apple cider vinegar in the water before, and use a lot of water because again, the stuff tastes awful. But it's supposed to really hype up your insulin sensitivity. And I believe it makes the carbohydrates a little – it slows the digestion process a little bit, which is good because you don't get those spikes in blood sugar, which is really terrific. Okay. You know, another one of my – if you'll allow me, you know, workout tips here for the 4th of July, the things that's

really worked for me. And I've been at it a long, long time. I mean, Joe, I've been hitting it since I'm 13, I'm 43. I've tried everything. I told you in the last Rough Cuts about one of my favorite workouts. You can go look it up. I'm not going to go through it on the show, but this one is a monster. It's called, this is real. Again, I'm not messing with you. It's called dog crap training. Right. D-O-G-G.

I think the guy's name is Dante Trudell that did it. It's on, if you Google it, it comes right up. I'm not messing with you. Look at, why he called it that, I don't know. I think he's messing with people. But the workout's legit. And the workout is, the reason I'm only bringing it up now and bringing it up again, because I've already spoken about this in a prior Rough Cuts, is I've noticed this a lot.

I've been working out in my gym and I'm a student of what other people do. And after 30 plus years of doing it, I've noticed people waste an enormous amount of time in the gym. If you are not at your peak physical condition and haven't been working out 10, 15, 20 years, why you're wasting your time doing concentration curls and forearm work in a gym is beyond me. I'm sorry. I don't know what you're doing.

I'm not a personal trainer't know what you're doing. I'm not a personal trainer, but I've lived this lifestyle a very long time. And one of the best revelations someone ever gave to me is scrap all of that stuff, stick with the big movements, and get out of the gym fast. And this dog crap workout does that. Everything is basically like cluster sets

where, you know how, Joe, everybody's like, oh, go in and you do five sets of eight or four sets of 12. Throw that out the window. This workout's great because it's one long set. You go in, whatever you're doing. Let's say you're doing bench press, right? You have eight reps. Take 10 breaths.

Go to 10. Pick it up again. You do three more. 10 more breaths. Pick it up again Go to 10. Pick it up again. You do three more. 10 more breaths. Pick it up again. Three more. Pick it up again. You do that five times.

You say, oh, that's easy. You'll be done super quick. Really? Give it a try sometimes. Watch what happens after the fifth set. You can barely move your arms. You're like, oh, what just happened? You can't even shave the next day because you can't lift your arms up.

No, it's rough. But the nice part about the workout is not only is it quick because you have to get in and out of there fast stop wasting your time these people spend so much time in the gym like dude what are you doing forearms for forearm do you deadlift that deadlift your forearms you'll look like popeye forearms like what a waste of time concentration curls people i i shouldn't say but i saw someone doing them in the gym today. That's why this came to mind. I'm like, oh, and it was a woman. She was jacked, too.

I'm like, what are you doing? Concentration curls? People still do those? The other good part about this workout, this dog crap training workout, is it focuses on the big movements. And if I had to give you one piece of workout advice, never forget it's that. Stop wasting your time with the small stuff. If it feels good, you probably shouldn't be doing it.

Matter of fact, I said to my wife, and she's never been in better shape. She was asking me all these workouts. I go, Paula, let me just make this simple for you. Because some people need these big, convoluted, complicated workouts. Let me make this super simple for you. Here's your workout forever. Weighted pull-ups or just pull-ups if you can't do them with weight. Bench press.

I recommend the dumbbells. Really, the barbell's a train wreck for your shoulders. But some people like the barbell. You know, it's an ego thing, whatever. Weighted pull-ups, bench press, Zercher squats, or squats if you're more comfortable putting a bar in the back of your shoulder. I have to put it in the crook of my elbow because I have shoulder problems, but I do think Zercher squats are better. Look them up. You just basically hold the bar in the crook of your elbow, but regular squats if you're more

comfortable with that. Deadlifts and military presses. That's it. That's it. Put three of them in one day, two of them in the next day, move them around. Now the workout, the dog crap workout does that. It's so funny saying that. They move them around for you and it actually has the whole program. You can just print it up or do what I did. I went to the way I screenshotted it. I took screenshots of the workouts and I just keep them on my phone and it says day one, day two, day three. It's not complicated. I just go day one, day two, I do them in order. It's a really good workout.

I put on, just to give you an example, real world example, in case you think I'm messing with you. I started that workout about six, maybe seven years ago. I was between 190 and 195, depending on my body fat level. I'm 231 now at roughly the same body fat. That is a lot of muscle. Now, if you're a woman listening, you're not interested, or even a guy, and you're not interested in particularly bulking up, that's fine. But if you do the workout right, and you don't eat like I do, you'll wind up getting super shredded as well because your

muscles, the tonage will be incredible. I mean, it's a great workout. I can't encourage you strongly enough. But those are the two takeaways from the workout without going through the whole thing. Make it fast. Stop getting obsessing over this five sets. Pack them all into one. One, take a breath. Take 10 breaths, go back, hit the second, third, fourth, fifth. You wind up beating the snot out of yourself in half the time. And then focus on the big stuff, the squats, the deadlifts. Learn how to do them right, especially the deadlift. You don't want to get hurt on the deadlift. I did that once. It was a big mistake. But don't waste your time with all this other stuff. Pick up a kettlebell once in a

while. Get your cardio in. But if you focus on those five, six lifts, you are going to transform yourself. my wife looks terrific she looks amazing she's in her 40s too she looks uh just phenomenal all right a couple more things i wanted to get to but we got one more and this i love these guys the pictures on the site are just amazing uh hey welcoming a puppy into your home is one of the most rewarding things you'll ever do but how can you be sure they came from a responsible breeder? That was important to me before I signed on with them. Online classifiers are definitely not the answer.

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one of the things I wanted to bring up here as well, there's been this, uh, it's reading an article. I put it in the show and I'll say, I thought it was interesting. It's fascination with these post-apocalyptic movies. there's a matter of fact,

there's one coming out. I saw the trailer for, and, uh, I try not to see too many Hollywood movies anymore because these Hollywood types are so against just about everything we do, but the trailer did look interesting and it was a link to it and it came up and it made me think of this article i saw about these post-apocalyptic end of the world type movies and the movie's called

um the domestics and it's something like i don't know government like to put some chemical attack and everybody's dead except for these few survivors and they wind up of course getting into gangs and the gangs are all going after people. It's kind of like the Walking Dead thing without the zombies. And it just got me thinking, you know, do you ever watch that series? What is it? After Humans? It was on, I think it was on the Discovery Channel or Nat Geo or whatever it would be, After Humans. And they talked about all this stuff.

And these movies always, they always let this stuff go that if we were to if we were somehow to all be wiped out you know most of you live within say a couple hundred miles of nuclear power plants everything all this stuff would detonate it'd be nuclear fallout everywhere you know that and i was watching this movie and they always just kind of casually look over that stuff like these things all have to be maintained by a watchful human eye if there's a certain amount of time but you know i'm not i bring that up because i think there's a natural human obsession with what would we do if chaos was to ensue and you know i i i always hesitate to talk about these things because people uh you know people of course over dramatize and liberals think know, they always think we're all crazy anyway, but preparedness makes sense,

folks. And, you know, what I do around my house, some simple stuff. See, I live in a hurricane zone where over the summer, there's an omnipresent threat of a really disastrous hurricane. It's not a joke down here. You know, you have to have emergency food. You have to. We have MyPatriotSupply as one of our sponsors, but emergency food is a must. But also, things like batteries and things like that. But I also recommend that people, of course, learn how to protect themselves with a firearm. It is the great equalizer when it comes to a force-on-force scenario. If someone was to attack you, God forbid, with one. when it comes to a force on force scenario. If someone was to attack you, God forbid with one. I'm always hesitant to kind of make recommendations here, but I bought a few recently that I thought are pretty good. One of them I really, really like that I think is pretty good if you can learn to handle it and get your arms around it.

I bought the Kel-Tec KSG. Again, they're not a sponsor or anything like that. I'm just telling you this because I just bought one. I thought it was great. Check it out. It's a very, very well-designed shotgun. Now, one of the problems with shotguns I've seen in the past is they don't – the magazine tube in shotguns, they don't – it doesn't carry a lot of ammunition. You only usually get about – it depends, the 870.

I think you can fit six in there. But the Kel-Tec KSG, it's short, it's easily maneuverable, and it's got two barrels in it. So you get a decent around event, but it's good for, it's easy to handle. I just picked one up. It's really good for home defense. So you want that. You want to be able to defend yourself, get yourself a good safe. I just picked up a really good one. I threw a bunch of stuff in there. So the emergency food and save, obviously the batteries and things like that. but this is always good. It's always good to be prepared. And I know if you don't live down here, it's just kind of accepted. I mean, that's what everybody does. You don't want to be the guy in Walmart right before the hurricane who's trying to get batteries

and there are none left. Lights, lamps, I go buy those glow sticks. We used to use them in the secret service a lot. They're super cheap. You can get them on Amazon, Walmart, anywhere. You just snap them. The neon glow sticks, they last forever. You can hang them from a couple of pieces of scotch tape and a paper clip. They last forever in the house. The boxes of them are really cheap. And my daughter likes to play with them. I mean, when the lights go out down here, when it's hurricane time, that's the nice part. She can run around the house.

We get lights and she gets something to play with for the same amount of time. Pick up a couple boxes of those. The lanterns obviously matter with that. I'm going to throw that out there before the holidays. Hey, one more story. If you're going to go out there and iTarget was one of our sponsors too. I'm always talking about firearm proficiency if you're going to go out there and, you know, iTarget was one of our sponsors too. I'm always talking about firearm proficiency. And you're going to learn how to shoot.

One of the best things we did in the Secret Service that really helped us learn how to operate a firearm in a stressful situation that I can't recommend to you enough. God forbid you're involved in a self-defense scenario where you're going to be scared. You're going to be anxious. Is we did this thing called the stress course. You know, listen, going to the range matters. Obviously, you know, practicing your dry firing, as I always talk about in that read, we do that matters too. But learning how to operate that piece of machinery in a stressful situation is far different than operating when you're not breathing heavy. So we used to have this course in the Secret Service and open your eyes quick. Some of the best shooters we had, you'd see their scores drop precipitously. We did this.

Here's what they do. We had a gym and the gym was about 200 yards from the outdoor firing range down there in Prince George's County, not far from Joe. When I was an instructor out there, I wouldn't do this myself. And I watched other people go through it. And they would have you do some pull-ups first. Pull-ups are pretty stressful, especially if you know, pull-ups are, when you get to your 10th or 15th pull-up, they'd have you do some pull-ups and then you jump off the bar and then you would sprint down to the shoot house and you'd have people screaming in your ear and you'd go through, you'd cycle through the three firearms the remington 870 shotgun the heckler and coke mp5 and then you'd wind up in the end with your pistol the sig 229 and they'd be screaming in your ear now after

sprinting now keep in mind you're in your you know your bdus uh basically the cargo pants for the civilian population the bd, and you're in boots. And you're not running on a track. You're running at one point under the bridge and you're going down a hill. It's not flat ground. You're not running on a track. You get there and you're already exhausted. They're screaming in your ear, put this on, put that on.

And you're trying to shoot. And you realize quickly that this is done in a controlled environment. That if this was an uncontrolled environment and it was total chaos, in other words, there was no range instructor, there was no tapping out, there was no stopping, this would be geometrically worse. You wind up getting tunnel vision and all that. The tunnel vision where you only see what's right ahead of you, you don't see your peripheral vision almost shuts down. I say this, folks, because until you've experienced that for the first time, you're almost shocked. You can't believe it.

You're like, oh my gosh, I can barely see the target. What do you mean? It's only 15 yards away. How can you not see the target? After the third or fourth time doing it, though, it's not comfortable. You're still breathing heavy. Your peripheral vision is still limited, but you wind up learning to operate with Lieutenant Dave Grossman. He has this book on killing, which is a book about what happens in actual combat situations.

He's a military officer. It's a really good book, by the way. He talks about learning to operate in a red zone. So I say that because at the show, it's rough cuts, it's the holidays, I want to beat you up with a lot of politics and things like that. But if you're going to commit to learning how to operate a firearm and you're physically fit enough, again, I can't say that enough, to do it, try it out. Do a few pushups. Do a few pushups before you get out there. Sprint in place for a good minute or two if you can. And get your heart rate going. Really get it going.

You don't have to do the whole stress test we did. That's a lot. And then you'll go pick up the firearm and try to operate it. And you'll see it's completely different. But you'll see after the third or fourth time, you eventually start to learn to operate in that red zone. I can't say that enough. In these stressful situations, it matters. The first time I was involved in a situations. It matters. I mean, the

first time I was involved in a foot pursuit, I think I told you the story with the NYPD, was Halloween, what was it, 1997. And guy shot in our direction. I'm not going to say he was shooting at us. I know the bullet wasn't that far from us. And we got in a foot pursuit. I'm chasing this guy. I'm chasing him down with Pennsylvania Avenue. What did he make a left on? Is it Linden or whatever? I'm not sure. But he makes a left. And before he makes the left, I keep thinking to myself, gosh, if I turn this corner, what if he's sitting in the corner getting ready to shoot me? So my training kicked in and I did that wide, you take a wide turn around the corner so you'll see him before he sees you. And I look and the guy's gone. He's in the wind. Well, it turned out this guy was

smart. He had jumped under a van on the corner and scooted away. He jumped under the van, waited for me to pass him. And then he walked in the other direction and took his jacket off. They caught him. But it's just your training kicks in right away and you do, but you do get into that tunnel vision scenario. And if I hadn't had that training at all, forget it. It would have been like a total disaster. So if you're going to learn how to operate a firearm, try that out. Try your own little mini stress test if you can handle it and you'll see the difference. It's important stuff. All right. Hey, one last thing here. Joe's got a gubernatorial candidate running. If I may just throw in one final political story.

Certainly. So Joe Ben jealous, as you know, just won the Democrat nomination for the governor's race in Maryland, Maryland in a blue state has a Republican governor, Larry Hogan. Now Ben jealous was on MSNBC the other day, and I'm constantly warning you about liberals and liberals encroaching on our civil liberties and how liberals, oh, we're not coming for your guns. We're not trying to confiscate your guns. We're not trying to take your money. No, they are. That's their thing. That's what liberalism is. The very essence of liberalism is the diminution of individual liberty in exchange for the power of the big state.

in exchange for the power of the big state. So he was on MSNBC the other day, and there was that horrible incident at the Capital Gazette with the shotgun, by the way, where the guy managed to acquire a shotgun and wound up killing, I believe it was five people. Yep. It was a horrible incident. And Joe, it's been the focus of national news and local news,

where Joe is pretty much nonstop over there. But Jealous, of course, now has to bring up the shotgun, of national news and local news where joe is uh pretty much non-stop over there but jealous of course now has to bring up the shotgun as if you see where this never ends folks it wasn't that long ago that joe biden joe biden had said to people you know go out get a shotgun shoot the two rounds off and now jealous says in the interview he kind of insinuates that, you know, we got to take this further now. We got to look at shotguns. Folks, you know, I've warned you forever. This is the new Democrat Party. Somehow your ability to defend yourself is the first thing under attack. They're not going to stop. I've warned you about this before with Eric Swalwell and his gun confiscation bill.

You know, that stuff will be next. Sad, but it's happening in real life. So thanks a lot for tuning in. You know, I hope you enjoyed the show. It's a little different, but I don't like to. I could take the day off. By the way, no one. I'm not contractually obligated to do this,, just so you understand, neither is Joe, but my audience matters to me and I believe hard work pays off. And I do it because I believe when other hosts take a break that you, if you choose

and want to spend a few minutes listening to something Joe and I have to say that we should have something there for you. You matter to me. This audience matters to me. I respect everything you do for me and you've, you mean the world to me. So hope you have a happy independence day. Thanks for tuning in and we will see you all tomorrow. You just heard the Dan Bongino show. Get more of Dan online anytime at conservativereview.com.

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