The Dan Bongino Show - SPECIAL: Libs Think Christmas is Gay & Racist - Nightly Scroll with Hayley Caronia

Episode Date: December 13, 2025

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Hey, everybody, Vince here. And today, boy, I've got a great show for you from Haley Karanilla, another great host here in the Silverlock family. If you enjoy it, and I'm certain you will, check out Nightly Scroll with Haley at rumble.com slash haily. That's rumble.com slash H-A-Y-L-E-Y, or wherever you get a podcast, you can find Nightly Scroll. As always, I'll be back live right here on Monday.

Have a great weekend. Hello and welcome to Nightly Scroll. I'm Haley Karenia. If you're watching on X or on Facebook right now, come on over to Rumble. Rumble.com slash Haley is where you can watch Nightly Scroll in full, and you don't want to miss a second of what we have going on. Also, quick programming note, I am recording this earlier in the day today because tonight is our company Christmas party. So if there is some crazy breaking news story that happens at some point today and I don't cover it, I will get to, I'll get to that tomorrow. But anyway, company Christmas party tonight, very excited for that. And speaking of Christmas, the war on Christmas has begun. And Democrats

are putting their woke spin on things this year. We're going to get into that. Also, Gavin Newsom is just digging a hole now, claiming that he's the most pro trans governor ever. That's nothing to be proud of. But after receiving backlash for saying just that, his press office is doubling down. We're going to get into that as well. Also, AOC's campaign has racked up thousands of dollars in pricey hotel charges in Puerto Rico. I guess she's taking a page out of Jasmine Crockett's book. Put your phones on Do Not Disturb. Nightly Scroll starts now. Instagram. And this video claims that the song Jingle Bells that we all know and love has a racist history. So here's a guy who's going to tell us all about how Jingle Bells is racist. So he's

talking about how a Confederate soldier wrote this song to make fun of black people. So here is what the video says. This plaque in Medford, Massachusetts, honors where James Lord Piermont wrote Jingle Bells, but ignores its origins in blackface. What is that minstrel see? Minstrel see? I've never even heard of that word. I know minstrel, but minstrelsy? I've never heard it like that.

Okay. In the mid-1800s, Pyramont was broke and needed quick cash, so he turned to the hugely profitable world of minstrel shows. Okay? Then it says the song first called The One Horse Open Slay

debuted in Blackface at Ordway Hall in Boston in September of 1857, okay, while actors in burnt cork used the song to mock and caricature of black people trying to participate in winter activities. Okay, the original lyrics theme of laughing all the way likely references a racist comedic routine known as the laughing darky. Piermont's other minstrel works like Kitty Crow and the colored coquette repeat I'm reading this and it's very far away.

So this is why I'm like squinting. I told them earlier. I was like, oh, yeah, I can read this. It's totally fine. Refer to black people as the N-word and darkies. And then it says then came the Civil War. Pyrmont abandoned his family who were northern abolitionists and enlisted in the Confederate army.

And then he wrote this racist song, I guess. And it's now over the time. It's been whitewashed. and now there's happy myths about its creation and how it became popular. Okay. I mean, the lyrics literally are jingle bells, jingle bell, jingle all the way. Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh. Jingle bells, jingle bell, jingle all the way.

Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh? Dashing through the sew in a one horse open sleigh. They should have kept that name. One horse open sleigh, the whole song. Over the hills we go laughing all the way. Bells on Bob Tells Ring, making spirits bright. Oh, what fun it is to ride. and sing a slaying song tonight.

This was supposed to make fun of black people participating in winter activities. I just don't really buy that. It's not that I don't believe that, you know, these kinds of shows went on. I mean, they obviously did, but I don't know. Like, every once in a while, a song goes viral, a Christmas song goes viral. It was, you know, written in the 30s or whatever, you know, what's the song that everyone get?

baby it's cold outside. Everyone gets all worked up over that and they want to cancel Christmas songs. Like I'm over cancel culture. You all know how I feel about it. But I don't know. I don't think Jingle Bells is racist. I'm not canceling it this year. I'm still going to listen to it. It's a great Christmas song. And I don't think it has anything to do with the race. I mean, it's a one horse open sleigh riding through the snow. That's about it. So I'm not really, yeah, I'm not really buying it. Also, now, apparently, you know, Jingle Bells is racist and apparently Santa is gay and in a interracial relationship. This is according to, Justin's laughing. This is according to a book that is apparently

in North Carolina schools and kids are, this is offered to kids and kids are reading it. So yesterday, officials with Chapel Hill and Carborough City schools, they appeared before the North Carolina House Select Committee on Oversight and Reform to testify about whether or not these schools are complying with their parental rights bill that was passed in 2023. Senate Bill 49. It's very similar to the parental rights bill in Florida that liberals love to call the don't say gay bill, which essentially bars teachers from covering sensitive sexual topics with children before the fifth grade, which is beyond reasonable in my book.

This means no talk about gender identity, pride month, pronoun, pronouns, like, none of that. So in this hearing, Republican State Representative Brendan Jones of North Carolina got heated, rightfully so, while exposing just what has been offered to children in North Carolina schools. Like I said, gay Santa, among other sexual things. Watch this. First, Santa's husband. This book tells the story of Santa, his husband, and their life at the North Pole. And I want to assure everyone this is the true story of Mr. and Mr. Clause.

Is this approved? Is this what you're telling the children to read? Is this okay in your guidance? I'm not aware that that book is. You're the superintendent. You're not aware of what's going on in your school system? You don't know what's printed? It's trash.

That's what good that is. here's a great one here these are my eyes this is my nose this is my vulva these are my toes i'm going to read a passage for you out of it this is in for your school some boys have a penis but not all boys do to always use your manners may i ask what i can call you this is damn trash pure trash you're putting to these children it is and i love the fact that he's calling it trash and he's throwing it out to their faces. I absolutely love it. But Santa's husband, I mean, who writes these books? Like, you have to be so demonic. And also, you're snubbing Mrs. Claus in a way that's really disrespectful. I don't like that. Justice for Mrs. Claus. Santa is not

gay. He's never been gay. They're at a very happy marriage, Santa and Mrs. Claus. I don't think there's any trouble in paradise in the North Pole. I think they're just fine. You know, when I grew up, Santa and, you know, Mrs. Claus, they got along. They worked well together. They got all the toys together. They looked over all the elves. This is what I grew up learning. Apparently now gay Santa, Santa, Santa ditched Mrs. Claus, and now he's also in a romantic relationship with Black Santa, because obviously. And so here's what this says on Amazon. Santa's husband, an illustrated Christmas gift, great. A witty tale about Mr. and Mrs.

Mr. and Mr. Claus. Can you go back? I'm reading that. Thank you. At the North Pole, offering a fresh twist on Chris Kringle. A clever yet heartfelt book tells a story of a black Santa, his white husband, and their life in the North Pole. How many Santas are there?

I'm just wondering. I thought there was one. I thought there was one. I mean, obviously, no, there's just one Santa. There's other people who dress up as Santa, but they're going to only be one. It's like Jesus, there's Jesus and there's Black Jesus, too. And then if you-

Santa and Black Santa. Right, but if you go back to that description, they were saying that this story is about Black Santa. Like, Black Santa is the Santa, and then he has a white husband. Just ignoring all of history, like snubbing white Santa, Santa's been white in pop culture. Yes, St. Nicholas from South Sudan. Correct.

Right, right, exactly. From Africa. He's Somalian. He's a Somalian immigrant. This is going to be the reboot. It seems like a Netflix reboot or something. The Netflix reboot is going to be Santa and his elves are super corrupt and they're sending all of the toys back to Somalia. Yeah. I'll look forward to that one. That'll be really good for the kids. And it turns out that

McDonald's also hates Christmas. This is McDonald's in the Netherlands. And apparently they put together this AI advertisement, which is very bah humbug, if you ask me. Watch. Even Santa, no space, and the tree he decorated your place. It's the most terrible time of the year. The roast turned at your home. And the cookies burn too. Fricking chaos, it feels like a zoo. It's the most terror time of the year.

See a plea from the madness, the lights, and the cheer. So it's the worst time of the year. So it's the worst time of the year, Christmas time. And this ad depicts people struggling to get their Christmas tree home, their Christmas tree not fitting in their home, them getting, you know, I don't know, like hung up in their Christmas lights, getting all tangled, getting their jackets stuck in a bus while carrying Christmas packages,

dropping the Christmas packages. Someone's making desserts, having, you know, batter splash in their faces. I would say for most families, getting your Christmas tree is a very joyous moment. It always was for me as a kid, picking it out, going to get it very fun, decorating it even better, making Christmas cookies. These are the memories that I love about Christmas time and my childhood. What kind of sad, sorry, liberal audience are they pandering to? I don't know.

but spending time with family is a blessing. And I know like not everyone, you know, has a family. A lot of people, you know, I get it. Sometimes the holiday season brings, you know, people are. Yes, we're not saying there's no exceptions. But for them to spend that much money on a think tank to make a commercial and think that it was worth the money to make Christmas into a sad, sorry time is kind of telling. The scariest part of this whole advertisement is Christmas time is so bad.

The way to fix it is eat McDonald. That's what they're selling. Christmas is so bad. Your family sucks so bad. Your food sucks so bad. Come to McDonald's. We'll make it better. That's the whole point.

Like, if your food is that bad that you need to escape your family and eat McDonald's instead, that's really bleak. If you really need an escape from Christmas, that's why Chinese restaurants are open on Christmas. Correct. Correct.

But you shouldn't need an estate. escape. It's one day a year. And I love the Christmas season. I absolutely love it. And this was McDonald's in the Netherlands. They hired an agency like Justin was talking about to create this video and it's AI generated. Like these actors, these are not actors. This is totally AI generated. So McDonald's needed to hire an agency to make AI slop videos. Like how long do you think it took them to make this AI video. I mean, how long does it take to put this together? Did they have to like put in an AI request for each scene? Maybe. But this 45 second video probably took them, I don't know, someone's lunch break to put together. And I have not been impressed with a marketing

campaign in a long time. And I will throw this out to the chat. I will throw this out to you guys. When was the last time you saw a funny commercial that you remember? One that was iconic. Because I really can't think of one in recent years. I can think of Geico commercials from when I was growing up that are iconic that I can think about like the caveman, the squirrels, the lizard, the gecko, whatever, Geico, Gecko, not a lizard. I can think of those like progressive, the Thoreau Woman. The Dorito Super Bowl ad from a couple, a couple of years ago is the first one that comes

to mind. I don't remember that. You remember that one? With the cardboard box and the time travel? Don't remember that. We'll play it. It went super viral. Okay. So again, these are few and far between. And I would say that Super Bowl commercials with all the money that are behind them are just okay now. Like that was from a few years ago. I can think of two Super Bowl commercials that I remember from last year. One was the Alex Earl one because the Carl's Jr. brought back Hot Girls, which is great. And I remember it because I covered it because it was like, you know, the war on woke is over. And Carl's Jr.,

was bringing back, like, girls with their boobs out, and that's, you know, we welcome these kinds of things now. And in Trump's America, make America hot again. And I remember that one, and I remember the Dunkin' Donuts one only because it had, like, Ben Affleck and someone else in it, but I don't remember the commercial. And none of these commercials would, like, make me go buy these products or eat these foods or anything like that either. Like, I've never had Carl's Jr. in my life. I don't like Duncan. Jasmine said the Sydney Sweeney ad.

Oh, the jeans one. American Eagle. Yeah. Totally. But it's not that the ad was so crazy. It was the backlash that got everyone talking. Either way, it was wildly successful. Totally worth American Eagle's money.

I can't even believe I didn't think of that. Yeah. But they're few and far between. My point is, when you see a commercial that like really hits, That's rare these days. And I'm just thinking this McDonald's ad where they're like, you know, let's make the Christmas season out to be so bleak that people's only hope in life is to, you know, turn their frown upside down with McDonald's. And there are a bunch of executives in a room and, you know, everyone is trying to come up with ideas and they come up with this like AI video. It's just so crazy to me that they're these companies, these big marketing agents,

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and it's the campaign's credit card. So we're going to get into this. This was reported by Fox. I saw this earlier and apparently AOC's campaign spent nearly 50, thousand dollars on a Puerto Rico trip or multiple trips because this was between June and September. And this is luxury hotels, pricey meals, and a bad bunny venue rental. Speaking of Super Bowl, he's going to be our Super Bowl performer this year. Again, people were all up in arms because most of his songs, if not all of his songs, are not in English. And AOC, of course, goes to a concert. she had box seats. Apparently they spent $23,000 on that venue rental. And again, this is a campaign price. Like this is a campaign purchase. This isn't her personally. What would you need that

for? Anyway, this is all because of a campaign finance report from the third quarter. Just in the third quarter campaign Congress spending for members of Congress on their campaigns July 1st to September 3rd. She spent, AOC's campaigns, spent $15,000 at two different luxury hotels in San Juan. Then they spent $10,500 on meals and catering services. How many staffers were at the Bad Bunny concert? You already spent, you know, 15,000 on lodging. That's a lot. I don't know how long they were there.

or how many people on the campaign were at this bad bunny concert. But that's a lot of money. And then 10th and then what kind of hotel rooms are you staying in? Anytime like I've, you know, I've worked at multiple companies. I'm not put up in like, you know, the best of the best of the best. I just, I don't know. Like, why do you, if you're supposedly a public servant and you're working for a public servant, Like, why are you, why are you staying at these ritzy places?

I don't know. Just odd. And then almost $11,000 on meals? This is crazy. So then it says, in total, AOC's Q3 filings shows she spent $15,489 and 77 cents on lodging alone in Puerto Rico. She serves Queens, New York in New York City. What are you doing or what is your campaign doing spending $50,000 in total in Puerto Rico so that she can get box seats at a bad bunny concert? Is that going to get people in New York to keep voting for her?

How is that helping her campaign? And again, you're allowed to go on vacation, right? I mean, everyone I think, even public servants are allowed to go on vacation, go on vacation to their family or whatever. But this isn't a vacation. these are business expenses. And I think in a perfect world, we would have term limits. Four years, eight years, max, and lawmakers should stay put for that time. I'm not saying you can't go on vacation with your family, but stay in D.C., go to your district.

Like, go on a vacation, but using campaign funds to go gallivant all over the country is odd to me. And Jasmine Crockett has been doing the same thing. she was like she was spending money on like Vegas hotel rooms and stuff like that it's just crazy to me go to work is it okay if you put your campaign funds on black what does that mean you roll up to the roulette table and you put some money on black try and try and double it is that allowed in Vegas um no I would say no no I'm not about it nope nope I would not want that jasmine crocky can't walk up to the roulette table and no

throw her donations on black her campaign donations it's crazy it's so crazy bad bunny I don't know what's worse gambling or a bad bunny concert

gambling is worse way worse anyway also this is these are just bad decisions by Democrats this is the theme here but Gavin Newsom he is proud

of being the most pro trans he claims governor listen to this so we didn't get into trans sports that's an issue no one wants to hear about because 80% of people listening disagree with my position on this but i but it comes from my heart not just my head it wasn't a political evolution it was a position being that i i don't think it's i i want to see trans kids i have a trans godson i've no there's no governor this i'm more pro trans legislation than i have and no one has been a stronger advocate i didn't know that Gavin Newsom has a trans godson.

Can we look into that? Who is that? Who in his family has a trans kid? That just seems like something you pull out of your butt if you're a Democrat lawmaker because no one can really prove it. You can just like say that you're trans or say that you're queer or something. Didn't he on Charlie Kirk, when Charlie Kirk came, say the complete opposite? Well, no.

Charlie Kirk got him to say that it's unfair that trans women. compete against women in sports. Then here he is. Again, Andy and I talked about this on the show last night. Gavin Newsom, he needs to pander to the far left if he runs for president. He also needs to pander to the right and independence. He's screwed, especially on an issue like this.

How better to do that than you should just say all of the things and hoping that's what he's doing. That's what he's doing. He's hoping that the progressives hear him on the New York Times saying that he's the most pro governor ever. And then he's hoping that, you know, those people will never listen to the Charlie Kirk's podcast and they'll never know that he said that. And then he goes over and, you know, right wingers are hearing him say this. It's like, it's just a total mess. They're just losers. But anyway, he's getting a lot of

flack for this, obviously, because being the most pro trans governor ever is not a flex. This is embarrassing, like really, really embarrassing. And it hurts kids is what it's doing. There's, Again, there's no such thing as trans kids. There are just mentally ill adults that push this ideology on children, and it's sick. It's a form of abuse. But anyway, he's getting hate for this, and Gavin Newsom's press office on X doubled down on this. Look at this. So the GOP, that account, posted a photo of Gavin Newsom's face, and it's pretty ominous.

It's the black and the white, and it just has the quote, I want to see trans kids. And they attribute that to Gavin Newsom in the clip that we just played. And his press office just quote tweeted it and said RT, retweet. So they are totally shamelessly pro trans kids. Pro trans kids is a really gross stance to take. It's really gross and it's abusive. there is no such thing as a trans kid kids do not wake up and say I think that I feel like a boy

when I'm really a girl or I don't want to be a boy anymore. I want to be a girl. I mean, you don't have those feelings as a child. And if you do, it's something that you get help for or you don't affirm it. You say, well, why do you feel that way? I've played videos on this show of a mom saying, you know, her kid comes to her and says, I wanted to be a boy. And the woman asks her kid, you know, why? Why do you feel that way? And she said, oh, well, someone at school told me.

Okay, well, now the truth comes out. These kids are not actually trans. Like, someone is telling them these things, obviously. Like, we know this. But people on the left, they just eat this stuff up. It's really gross. Then also on the topic of Gavin Newsom, just to fill you guys in. And I've played this video on the show earlier this week.

but the White House put out a video of the song cuffing season by Siza, which was all part of an S&L skit. It's not even like a real song. It's like a joke song. But that song has gone viral on social media. And the White House used that song and put it to a video of them handcuffing illegal immigrants, which is very funny and it went viral. And then Gavin Newsom put his own spin on that video.

and they said it's cuffing season, but they have a different idea of who they want to arrest. Watch this. So here's Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and Steve Miller, AI, in the back of a cop car and they're handcuffed. And here they are handcuffed, hands behind their backs, walking away at a courthouse. So this is Gavin Newsom's idea of,

Puffing season where he wants Donald J. Trump, the president of the United States, to go to jail. Pete Hegseth, our Secretary of War, go to jail. Stephen Miller, who's the architect of all of this immigration policy. Gavin Newsom wants to see them in jail. And for what crimes? For what crimes? I mean, and this just goes to show what the Democrats, they want to. put their political enemies in jail. They do. We already saw this during Trump's first term. They impeached him twice. They wanted to send him to jail. They got the mugshot. You know, all the felony convictions and all this. They tried to get him so bad. This is like the Democrats' wet dream to see President Trump in the back of a cop car. And it'll never happen. So they have to post AI slop on Twitter to get their fix. That's really what this is. But Marco Rubio, he is kicking woke to the curb, and he's making some changes at the State Department in the Font Department.

So basically Times New Roman has been the default font of the State Department for decades now. And then in 2023, under the Biden administration, when they were just, the only thing that they were concerned with was DEI. Then Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, ordered the State Department to switch from Times New Roman to Calibri, a different font. So we're moving from a serif font to a sans serif font. And now with the Trump administration, we are going back, back to a reality. And the New York Times reported on this. They were the first ones. to get this, and it said this, the change was meant to improve accessibility for readers with disabilities such as low vision and dyslexia and people who use assistive technologies such as

screen readers. I mean, you've got to be kidding me. The State Department using Calibri font was supposed to help people with low vision. Like what? None of this makes sense to me. And if you have dyslexia, you have a hard time reading regardless. So, like, I don't know. Does changing the font really help? Probably not. And who is this for?

Is this so that the American people can read stuff that the State Department puts out? Or is this for people at the State Department? I don't know. I think it's for some useless employee who wants to do something and justify their position. I guess. Times New Roman is. not hard to read. It's like one of the most standard fonts there is. And I posted this on X yesterday, but I think that if the Trump administration really wants to make some changes in the

font department, they should make using Comic Sans MS punishable by death. Because that is the worst font I've ever seen in my life. It's horrible. I, there was a restaurant in my college town and the menu is in Comic Sans. And it's a great restaurant, like great. Italian restaurant, and for whatever reason, I could not get behind the fact that their menu had comic sands. It was just like, your restaurant looks like a joke now. It's like a kiddie font. I hate it. I hate it. Ban it. Ban it. Abolish it. Get rid of it. I hate comic sands and I hate papyrus. Those are the fonts that I hate, and I say- Opinions on Curles-M-T. Oh, I don't like curls

MT I don't like curls empty and I don't like wingdings No, don't donate on wingdings I love some wingdings The State Department should make wingdings Their new font Yes, now that's inclusive It's retard friendly

It's retard friendly It's retard friendly Now nobody can read How about that Oh my gosh, I'm so hungover. Like, this isn't even funny, and I'm laughing. I'm struggling today, guys. Anyway, I'm going to move now to a more serious topic.

Communications Minister Anika Wells in Australia announced that they are going through with a social media ban for children. Listen to this. In one week, Australia will become the first country in the world to ban under 16s from having social media accounts. With one law, we can protect Generation Alpha from being sucked into purgatory by predatory by predatory algorithms described by the man who created the feature as behavioural cocaine. Teenage addiction was not a bug, it was a design feature. And on 10 December, there are going to be withdrawal symptoms.

will be upset, some will fight to get back on, some will manage to find their way around the tech and keep their accounts. But I truly believe the short-term discomfort will be worth the long-term benefits. Every single parent who has talked to me about this since I've been the Minister of Communications has said, thank you, do not back down, and thank you for being the bad guy. Thank you for allowing me not to be the bad guy. Thank you for allowing me to say this is against the law. The government has made this law. So I asked them to draw strength. They ask them to ask their child to write to me, if that would be of any assistance. I do video messages to transmit this message, whatever it takes, but I do not, for a second,

think that this isn't worth doing. I love how she's like, the government is the bad guy. Yes, yes they are. And parents are thanking the government for being the bad guy. It's just funny. But part of this social media ban is impacting 10 major social media platforms. TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, Facebook, they have all complied saying that anyone in Australia who uses these platforms has to be 16 or older. And if you are 16 and under, you can't set up new accounts. This law, the government, would require all of these social media platforms to remove accounts that were held previously by kids under 16. And it would prevent. people from signing up. And if these platforms are caught with younger kids on them,

they will face fines to up to $49.5 million if they do not comply. That's a lot of mullah for these companies to have to cough up for every kid under 16 that is caught on these platforms. Now, it's supposed to encourage kids to actually get to talk to each other, get outside, be social, not digitally social, but literally social in the regular sense of the word that we all grew up with. And I can get behind that. That is a nice sentiment. But unfortunately, the cat is already out of the bag. I mean, if I grew up on social media, kids now are certainly growing up on social media and they're not stopping. These kids are way more digitally minded and social media savvy than the people in the government trying to shut this down. And

you know, Anika Wells projected that kids are going to bypass this ban and they've already started to do that. If there's a will, there is a way. And like I said, these kids are smarter than these platforms anyway. So kids are using dog photos, VPNs and fake IDs, how Australian teens are beating the social media ban. And this is literally the day that the ban went into effect. So they are already, they knew that the ban was coming. They've already figured out, to get around it. So they're doing that by using their parents' accounts. So their parents already had social media accounts. Kids are just going to log on and use their parents' accounts, or they have their parents start new accounts for them. So the parent can just start a second

account, say that it's their second account, and then the kids can use them. Okay? So that's one easy way to bypass this. Then other kids are using their parents or older siblings faces for facial recognition. So if they are setting up an account and then they say, hey, Big Sister, who's 18, let me use your face to be able to log in for this. That's one way to get around it. Then a lot of these kids are starting new accounts with fake birthdays because I guess there's, when you sign up for a social media platform, it just asks you what your birthday is. It doesn't ask for proof. So kids are just doing that. They are using VPNs to bypass the ban saying that they're in another country. I got a VPN, ExpressVPN, to be exact, promo code scroll. And I did that because I thought

when the TikTok ban was going to go into effect, I would just say that I was in Canada or wherever wasn't going to ban TikTok. Didn't end up having to do that. But again, this is what kids in Australia are doing. Some girls are just using filters to age their faces or they're putting makeup on to look older for those facial recognition. They're buying adult-looking mesh face masks on email. So they're going on, you know, these budget sites and they're getting masks that look older and they're getting into these social media sites. In some cases, kids are even using pictures of their dog to verify their identity because some of the technology on these social media platforms isn't built to recognize dog's faces. So that's another way that they're getting

around it. It's just totally ridiculous. And it is undeniable that social media has negative impacts on people. Undeniable. I'm addicted to my phone. It's bad. It also has positive impacts on people. And I don't think that kids should be on social media at all. But is it the government's place to put a rule like this in place? We say this all the time in our country that We don't want the government parenting our kids. That is the job of parents alone, not woke teachers, not the government. And clearly, parents and kids are fooling the government anyway, and they're still making the decisions for their family.

So this is useless. It's just useless. This next one, though, with the rise of AI, it's just a little scary. I don't like the AI videos. I don't like the, I mean, sometimes they're funny, but. you know, Gavin Newsom putting the AI video of Trump in handcuffs. It's like, all right, now we have, you know, it's just, it's getting to a point, right? And then they're getting so good now.

Like, AI videos are getting so good. I saw this, I was going to play it on the show and then I forgot. But there was this video of Will Smith eating spaghetti that was, um, it was put together by it was AI. And they did it in 2023. And it was really bad. Like he looked crazy. there was all these issues with the video.

Like, you could tell that it was fake. And then they used AI in 2025 to recreate that video of Will Smith eating spaghetti, and it looked very real. So it's getting a little scary. And I think in the world of news and media and new media, yeah, this is it. So here's the original Will Smith video, 2023. This is what an AI video was. You would just say, I want to see Will Smith eating.

spaghetti and it looks like claymation or something. And now in 2025, it's much more detailed. I mean, it's not perfect. You could still tell that like something is wrong with it, but it's way better than this. He looks like Sid the Sloth from Ice Age in this video. So I don't know. But the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, he went on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and he said that he He uses chat GBT, he uses AI, and he uses it to raise his kids. Watch. And do you use chat GBT when raising your baby? I do.

I mean, I feel kind of bad about it because we have this genius level at everything, intelligence, sitting there, like waiting to unravel the mysteries of humanity. And I'm like, why does my kid stop dropping his piece on the floor and laughing? Yeah. You know? So I feel like I'm not asking a good enough question, but it is. I don't, I cannot imagine having gone through, like figuring out how to raise a newborn without chat with you. Clearly people did it for a long time, no problem. Yes. But. Yeah, so I know it like

it's. Yep, people did do that because we have natural instincts. And you can also ask your parents. But this is like, it kind of reminds me of Google and how, you know, people used to get from point A to point B before getting the address online or they were using maps, they weren't using their phones, right? And I did a study in college, or I did a paper on a study in college called the Google effect. And it is really scary how used to technology our brain gets. And basically the Google effect says that because we know that Google is there, our brains don't remember anything anymore. Your brains will remember some things, but your brain will remember them more if you Google them multiple times. And you almost know your brain knows not to memorize these

things because it doesn't have to. It's like wasted brain capacity and wasted brain space because you know that you could always just go to Google and Google will always be there and then the answer is there. So you don't need to like waste brain space memorizing these. things which is scary to think about because that was Google that's been around for decades to think of how reliant we've gotten on Google because I'm thinking well if I don't know the answer to something I'll just Google it how is that any different from people using AI instead of Google they're using chat GPT instead of Google it's like a an alternative right so a newer even smarter probably alternative so you know when he was using that example my I yeah

raising my kid and I couldn't imagine raising him without Chachy-B-T, it's kind of like saying I couldn't imagine raising my kid without Googling stuff whenever I have a question. And that's kind of normal. Like if you put it into that perspective, like it's really not that crazy. Although he said in that video that he was questioning why his kid dropped his pizza. Unnecessary question. I mean, it does. It sounds infinitely more dangerous for the parents than it does the kids. The kids are still getting an answer, in the short term, at least, right? But the parents are now losing. Losing this natural, instinctive weight of parent.

The kids are never going to live in a world that doesn't have AI. No, for sure. And the long term is definitely more detrimental to kids. But in the short term, in these early years, like, learning how to parent is a very valuable skill as well. Right. And it's completely gone. Right.

And people used to use books, right? What to expect when you're expecting and all these. other books that people read when they're, you know, having a baby. Okay. Now people are just Googling questions that they have. Well, there's no, you can't find in the parenting book, why did my kid throw a pizza at the wall? Right. You're not going to get a, a dissertation on why your kid dropped a pizza like you would from AI. Yeah, but why do you even need to know that? Your kid just dropped something? Like, it's no big deal. Correct. But I mean, it's the fact there's even asking the question is pretty concerned. But so I'm going to get a little conspiratorial here

because I'm thinking of how reliant people are on AI and it is very scary. And because I just talked about the Google effect where like our brains have actually changed and adapted to having access to the internet, how are our brains and bodies going to adjust to having AI? And AI, we just saw in that video from 2023 to 2025, has gotten so much more advanced When you talk to chat GPT instead of Google, like Google doesn't know you really. I mean, it could take your data and know some certain things about you, but people aren't talking to Google like a friend.

People are creating relationships and rapport with their AI chatbot where your AI knows when you're joking. Your AI knows when that guy is being sarcastic and he does videos. is AI stupid questions. Like they, it's way more intuitive. And I wonder, are we going to get to a point where our brains are going to regress so much that we will need AI to operate on our behalf?

Because I'm thinking about kids in college. Like, they're not even writing papers anymore. So then it's like over time, like this isn't gonna happen overnight, but over time people aren't gonna be able to write, sit down and write 10 page papers. Is that like a totally necessary skill? I'm not sure, but it's interesting to think of, like, how our brains and our bodies are going to adapt, not for the better. We're going to be useless without technology. We're going to be

completely useless without AI. And basically, we're going to, like, need robots like Neo to do stuff for us. Like, people are going to stop doing things because they have AI or robots or something to rely on. And it's just very scary. Anyway, it's Wally. Wally is. It is. Yeah. Yeah. We're all going to be fat and in floating chairs and telling little robots to do our bidding.

Who knew it was a documentary? It was a documentary. Yeah. It's scary. Quick little update here in Florida. There is a stretch of road in Palm Beach that is going to be named after President Trump, which I think is pretty cool. West Palm Beach city leaders, they came together and they are going forward with plans to rename

It is a four-mile stretch of Southern Boulevard, and it is going to be called President Donald J. Trump Boulevard, and it's very fitting because this is from Palm Beach International Airport all the way to Marlago, the Winter White House. So all the way to his residence, President Donald J. Trump Boulevard. I love it. Very fitting. I love it. All right, let's get into some scrolling time. All right. Well, this guy, he's living in Hawaii, and I thought that Hawaii was super woke, but apparently not. This guy walks around his neighborhood with a Trump shirt on, and this is the response that he's been getting. Watch. Morning. Good morning. Morning. Morning.

Seems to be pretty cordial. Morning. Good morning. Man, good morning. No, no golf today. Just a driving range. No response from that guy. Oh, how many miles you're doing this morning?

Yeah, good for you, man. That's awesome. Hey, what's up, brother? Good to see you, man. Morning. Hey, thank you. Dang. I thought that all Trump supporters were evil Nazi bigots,

but apparently this guy can wear his Trump hat and his Trump shirt and walk all around town. And he's just, he's the mayor. He's the mayor. So I love to see it. There are some other videos of people who walk around in Trump hats and maybe they're in, I don't know, less conservative areas and they're not treated with such respect. But I thought that that was pretty cool. This next one is a video of someone in a self-driving car.

She's joking. This is a Tesla. She's joking that she had a tough, long shift, and thankfully, she has the self-driving option to drive herself home. Watch. Thank God for my self-driving Tesla, because how the F was I going to drive home after that night shift? And you could see her in the front seat,

and she's seemingly passed out. I don't have a Tesla. Do you guys, you don't have Teslas anymore? I don't have a Tesla, but my car has lane assist and adaptive cruise. Okay. And my eyes have definitely shut for longer than they should have on the highway. Wow. Don't admit that.

I didn't admit that. No, I'm just kidding. People, I mean, this happens to people, obviously. I'm not saying minutes. Like, this is like three seconds and I wake up and come to. Right. Yeah, I have lane assist, which I like. I don't have, I don't think I have that other thing.

What did you say? The adaptive cruise, where just the cruise control doesn't run into the car in front of you? Sure, you do. I don't think so. If you have lannessness, you have adaptive cruise. Really? For sure. I don't know.

There's a lot of buttons in my car that I don't know what they do. Yeah, like the, like the wiper fluid. Yeah, wiper fluid. I needed my oil change. I was like, this is too much. But someone in the comment section of this TikTok video said that people who do not own Tesla's, here's a fact for you. After four strikes, your eyes not being on the road, phone in your hand, sleeping, something like that, an automatic emergency light and stop will happen

and you are no longer able to use this self-driving feature for the rest of the day. So four strikes you're out. So basically, if you close your eyes, I wonder for how long. But also, if you're in a self-driving mode in your car, you should be able to like close your eyes or look off the road or text or something then what's the if you have to be like attentive then you might as well just drive like what is the purpose of self-driving if you have to be paying attention and alert on the road yeah I mean I don't know what the the prices there's a subscription for that full self-driving but whatever it is it's not worth it if I still have to drive right then what's just drive like what like your foot's tired I don't get it like what I don't know like how

does it really help you if you still have to be you know you can't be texting you can't be sleeping and your eyes have to be on the road you just like sit you don't have to put your hands up like i don't know i don't get it it's just dumb again i i'm not for self-driving i think that that's crazy i would never get into a waymo or any self-driving car not doing it ask me in 30 years and I'll probably have a self-driving car or something, but as of right now, I'm not, I'm not for it. All right. Art Basel took place in Miami, big art festival.

And this artist created Jesus Christ out of wine corks and also wine openers. Very cool. Look at this. I've been damning corks for like the last 10 years. So I have like giant bags of corks. And so the crown on Jesus's head. didn't know I was made out of the corks grill like I love what you did it's very very cool and I love that

you put the openers too as like the thorns and the corks are just different colors maybe she burned some of the corks some burn or paint yeah burn or paint and uh and made jesus's face out of that so that's very cool um I saw some other ones some really interesting because I don't know I associate art basil with the banana that was taped on the wall like just stupid art installations that are not thoughtful and not don't require any talent but then I saw some very cool ones like this one and I just thought I would share all right let's get into blind reactions gee I got here and I had these on my table my desk here three two one and I said what is this and he said well they're for blind reactions and I said do I have to read them now or do I read them on the show and he said

read them on the show. Oh, so do I do one, two, or three first? One, that, duh. I didn't know if it were like three, two, one blast off or what? We'll start with one. Dinsel Siggers, Seigers, is a 27-year-old former Navy medic from Atlanta. He says he went from 5-5 to 6-1 in a painful height augmentation surgery performed in Turkey for over $81,000. So he added. what six inches to his height okay here's the TMZ interview with this this fellow half long procedure and recovery and all so why did you do it it's just something I've always wanted since I was a kid you know all of men in my family were taller so I decided to do it for myself as well you decided to do it for yourself you obviously looked into this procedure

am I correct with the way I'd always heard it not that I was looking into it but The way I'd always heard it was that it was three inches that they could add. You have found a way to add seven. He's seven inches. No, eight. Eight? He was five, five. Yeah, you're right.

Eight inches. How did you do that? The three inches come from the upper legs over in Turkey, which is why I did it in Turkey. They do upper and lower because lower is highly recommended against. They break the bone and they put a rod in between the bone. and you stretch the, you stretch the rod, which stretches the bone out over a period of time, which takes about three months per surgery.

So the first one I did was three months. The second one I did was three months. Everything stretches together, which accounts for the loss of mobility and all these different things because your muscles are stretched past their normal limits. So you just regain muscle. You're 6'1 now.

Are there any limitations side effects to any of this that are still kind of dogging you? No, I haven't had any issues. I'm fully recovered. Whoa, this is a crazy thing to do. Listen, girls have boob jobs and whatever else. People go to Turkey for her hair transplants.

I am totally cool with people getting something if they really hate something about themselves. Like if they're really, really, you know, they hate something. something they hate their nose like okay go fix it you know but adding eight inches to your height and his bones have to grow now around this rod and he's he's got to grow like well this is here's the fun part this it wasn't eight inches but i did this no you didn't yeah i did but it wasn't cosmetic i had i broke my leg when i was a kid there's the short story and the leg grew too long

so I had uneven legs, and so I lengthened the other one. Interesting. And did it really hurt? I mean, in and out, it's obviously a surgery. It's not a non-invasive surgery, so, I mean, but it's the same process. They stick a rod down the middle of the leg, attached to the top and bottom, break the bone in the middle, and then three times a day you stick a big magnet that turns a screw in the rod and pushes the two halves of the bone apart, and they slowly grow together.

And did it, did the process hurt? Like after the surgery? I agree? Yes. No. There's like some weakness and it's not not painful, but the actual lengthening part is not. I was expecting you to be like, I went to Turkey. No, no, no. There's actually experts in Palm Beach. There's a guy, the specialist in Palm Beach. Wow. He didn't even have to go to Turkey. This guy spent $81,000. That's ridiculous. And eight inches is unreal. That's unreal. I didn't inch. Yeah. Wow. Technology. That's something. That is something. All right, let's do number two. And this says, Chloe Kardashian got flirty in the comment section of California school teacher Jacob Meyer's social media post.

And now the educator is shooting his shot with a viral response. Okay, shoot your shot. So since my post kind of blew up and your comment went a little viral, my entire town knows about it. My students keep bugging me about it. And my family group chats just been nonstop. I figured, why not shoot my shot? This Saturday, I have a staff holiday party.

I would absolutely love if you came as my date. If you can't make that work, then maybe Chris can add me to your holiday party. But in all seriousness, I'm going to be in Southern California during winter break, and I would absolutely love to hear how the rest of your day went. Wow, shoot your shot. He's very handsome. I don't know how old he is. Chloe Kardashian is how old?

Chloe Kardashian. She is 41 years old. she's divorced she's been single for a while I love it I think she needs I like Chloe Kardashian out of all the Kardashians she's very funny and I always thought that she was kind of a breath of fresh air on the show

she's just she's got a good personality and um I want her to be happy and find love so maybe it's the school teacher she doesn't need money okay so this is on the left is Lamar Odom, her first husband. And then was she married to Tristan Thompson? I don't believe so. They had, I think they had a baby true. Chloe Kardashian, but he was cheating on her.

Lamar Odom was also cheating on her and doing drugs and stuff. So she hasn't really had the best luck. I think this school teacher would be. She seems to have a type, though. She does have a type, but this guy is handsome. And I think she, she obviously doesn't need money. So I think this would be a, good option for her. Break the, break the spell, you know? I think it would be good. I think it be good for her. Okay, last blind reaction here. During a jump in Queensland, Australia, a skydivers reserve parachute accidentally deployed and snagged on the wing flap of a Cessna caravan aircraft at approximately 15,000 feet. This sounds like a nightmare. What happens? I mean, he's just, it's, he's stuck on the, his parachute is stuck on the wing of the airplane, he's just hanging there.

I am so, what happened? I'm no skydiving expert, but I believe. every person has two shoots. Yeah, but if your shoot is stuck to the... You cut the cord. Oh. Or cut or the quick release handle or whatever it is. That is horrifying.

I would never, in a billion years, go skydiving. I have not one adrenaline junkie bone in my body. There is nothing. Like, I want my feet firmly planted on the ground. I don't even want... I've been snorkeling once. I would never go scuba diving. Like, there's a limit to this.

I'm not boring, but I want my feet. my feet firmly planted on the ground when I do fun things. I went parasailing once. It was fine. Indoor skydiving? Oh, and those weird tubes and you like fly around, that would be embarrassing. So no, I wouldn't want to do that.

No. All right. I had some questions in here that I'm going to answer quickly, and then we'll. we'll get going. So someone asked me on Instagram, my biggest pet peeve. They said, um, you know, they were asking me what my biggest pet peeve is. And I, I have a lot and I had a hard time actually coming up with them in the moment, but I feel like I should just have a good growing list on my phone and, and keep track of them. But I really, I hate when people say

Reese's PCs. I've already covered that on the show. I hate when people are slow, when they're slow walking, slow driving, don't like that. I've already talked about this on the show. I don't like when people are slow to deplane. I don't like when people are talking on their phone or listening to videos and they don't have AirPods in. And I hate when you go out to dinner with like a big group of people. And then people start, the check comes. And then people are like, oh, well, I only had one drink and you had two.

And then I had that bothers me. Like, especially if you're out with friends. It's like, we're friends. I'll get you next time. Don't worry about it. you get a drink here i'll get the next one i'm very just like chill about it so nickel and dimers bother me someone asked me are you italian um yes but only a little bit like my last name's italian um but i'm italian irish english german

scottish just like white basically a bunch of white yeah um someone asked what part of your golf game are you happy with my driver is great i can hit a great t-ball and then things start going south for me so you know i'm happy with the drive but i haven't played in a while and it gets very expensive in florida to play now because all the snowbirds come down and you know all the prices get hiked up so i probably won't play golf for a little bit but oh well maybe i'll just like go to the range and try to get better someone asked me what the worst job i've ever had was I've never had a bad job in my life. I've never had a job that I didn't like.

I taught tennis and was a camp counselor when I was, you know, in high school and college, I babysat. I loved that. I started interning in local news. I liked that. I worked at Fox. I liked that. It worked at Newsmax.

I like that hosting the show. I like that. I've never not liked a job. So never had a bad job. And then someone said, what is your favorite Christmas season? activity, and that would have to be driving around and looking at people's Christmas lights. And if it's nighttime and they have their lights on and I can see inside their house to see what their Christmas decorations are inside, I will also be looking at that.

So peeping Haley around Christmas season. All right, thanks for scrolling along with me. You can follow me on social media at Haley Karinea on X, TikTok, Instagram, whatever, truth social. And I'll see you right back here tomorrow. Bye. Thank you.