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I like going I mean the whole every part of it no matter what part of it is how beautiful your all's water is um I mean it's terrifying because the stuff that's in it and your sewers municipal employees were doing a routine inspection routine inspection oh we gotta go look at this pipe it's underneath this Florida Road let's send a little camera down there just to see oh my gosh there's a gator sitting in the pipe like a people he's sitting there like a people look at him what one's got I think one's got it it's a they were looking it's this concrete pipe and they were looking to see like what you know the structure etc etc you know as one as as as skilled workers would do and they lowered this camera down there and they saw a gator it look at legit looks like he's sitting up it's I can't even say the city's name but they should they posted a photo to Facebook showing the image of the gator and they use this remote-controlled camera to check the pipe you know they were looking for cracks and leaks and things like that oh but then there's more they also had video of him later walking around the pipes were fine but he's just walking around seeing he's why you look at him with these just sitting like a people just sitting there chilling in the pipe can you imagine now that's a sewage pipe I don't know like is he gonna come up in somebody's toilet I don't know I'm just saying they also kind of want to chill with you at your house too not this particular gator but one of his friends an alligator another alligator not the one that we had last week that knocked on someone's door this is a new gator knocking on someone's door coming knock on my door he got stuck in a folding chair he needed some helps Lee County Sheriff's Office posted a video to social media a gator was visiting front porches in Tortuga and their deputies had to come because he got his head stuck in a folding chair and as he approached the front door he had the chair on his head and it was hitting the 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gonna do that is he claiming that he actually arranged it or is he did are you kidding me no one he's not walking on the beach and then like walking across this thing he did it come on so I agree with you he responded later he goes quote I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk which I assumed were a political message I didn't realize some folks associate those numbers now I'm going to come back to that sentence with violence it never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down okay so again I worked as a server I worked in a hula hands throughout college and that's it means to kill a menu item like to kill it like I remember one time we potato soup is a big thing and we ran out of potato soup and we had 86 the potato soup kill it off the menu you take it out you take it out of consideration you cease its being so to speak that's you know that's what it means in fact the lore is that what is it eight by six that's the the dimensions of a grave and that's why it's called 86 that's one of the lower some of the lower hurt but we all knew that I meant to kill it right oh you 86 it you got to kill it it's not just an and it's also used in you know it's you can use it in discussion of felonious criminal scheming when you're talking about killing somebody right you are seriously I don't believe it for a second but it's asinine to think that the top cop in the land he ran the FBI didn't know what that meant shut up yes he did yes he did that's so stupid he thought he was being cutesy right and then he's like I didn't realize those numbers associate those numbers like it's 47 is not the problem it's the number in front of it and what that is instructing let me remind everybody twice now people have tried to assassinate a sitting president in the past eight years in this country past six years in the country four years in this country three two I just really in the past like year they tried one year they tried assassinating two times sitting president of the United States one guy came damn near close to it and the left brushed it off in 2022 a leftist tried assassinating justice Cavanaugh days after Chuck Schumer stood on the steps of the Supreme Court building and and threatened his words were quote you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price you won't know what hit you and he said him by name quote justice Cavanaugh he was in a fury over Roe v. Wade's defeat and just a few years before that a Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer tried assassinating a ball field full of congressional members and the only reason that we didn't have a bunch of dead Congress members is because Steve Scalise is in house leadership and he had armed security with him now a lot of the guys their own guns and they shoot regularly and they hop but they weren't allowed to carry they were disarmed if Steve Scalise had not been there there would have been dead lawmakers absolutely Steve Scalise was almost killed so when is the left going to stop resorting to violence and excusing violence as a substitute for reasoned debate cash Patel said they were aware of it and they're in communication with the Secret Service primary jurisdiction he says is with the Secret Service on these matters we're going to provide necessary support I had other people say well Dana do you know that there's 86 46 t-shirts on Amazon Oh did cash Patel do it I apologize for people who had notifications on last night I was really I was a smart ass last night I really was I was editing a couple of things I was already tired of my eyes really dry and I'm looking at my monitor and I just was being mean I really was I wasn't mad I was just being mean to people and I had people say oh well look look on Amazon these t-shirts on Amazon it says 86 47 Oh do cash Patel write those and sell them I didn't know cash Patel had storefronts so wait you're trying to equivocate randos selling stupid shirts on Amazon that literally nobody knew existed until somebody tried to go and cherry pick something to justify a former FBI director actually intimating assassinating the President of the United States really seriously come on I don't I don't buy some people were saying oh look at some of these other conservatives who did this or people not conservatives but you know Republican moderate Republicans who had said this before again I don't and I don't like anybody saying it but how is that the same as the director of the FBI if you show me that cash Patel had ever done 86 46 or anything like that fine oh my gosh you got us but he didn't he didn't all but cash Patel reposted a video where he was chopping off political opponents heads it was someone else made the video and it was the dumbest AI I've ever seen actually it was like his one of those videos where it's like his somebody's face superimposed on something and they're cutting a log and the end of the log that's coming off or like like heads of like different leftist commentators and lawmakers I don't like that either and I say that as somebody that the anti-gun lobby made fetish assassination videos of I literally had like gun control groups reposting videos AI videos of me being murdered so yeah nobody likes that but was it the FBI director that made it you morons no it wasn't so stop with this nonsense equivocation I get it you guys have a bloodlust you love dead Republicans you love killing people as a substitute for reason discourse I get it but that doesn't mean your arguments have to be as stupid too I'm just tired of this stuff I mean left to start the you people are turning into Bart while you have it's an insult to barbarians it's moronic these are the same people that lost their minds on me when I said I was fisking the New York Times oh my gosh the New York Times put out a editorial condemning my violent language I had everybody from like Daily Beast to Rolling Stone New York Times oh my gosh so violent no these are your rules guys this was the FBI director who posted this this wasn't some rando with a storefront on Amazon it wasn't a meme account on social media it was the literal top cop in the land and I think it's the height of bizarre that this doesn't it scare you that someone who is that petty who does this kind of stuff was ever had that much power it's the folks over at Caltech the generation three sub 2k it's a fold in half rifle and now available in 10 millimeter 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Dana's quick five. So apparently police in New Hampshire are investigating the theft of a trail camera that reviewed they saw footage that identified a bear that stole it a bear apparently stole the camera clawed it off a tree and another bear watched from a short distance away they got the report of a camera theft police did and they said that it was very suspicious they were kind of joking about it but I've never seen where a bear could just steal a trail cam but okay.

Fancy snake reptile wranglers find a weird diamondback rattlesnake in Arizona they shared a photo of the snake that they came across in the backyard of a Scottsdale home this these trappers called rattlesnake solutions they posted photos to social media showing what appears to be a Western diamondback rattlesnake that is a leopard like color pattern they said that the only normal thing about it was that the snakes bright white tail base had black spots. And that was it so normally they have diamond shaped patterns on their bodies but this one said that it was a very weird is a very weird pattern apparently why are people even paying for a subscription for Netflix anyway Netflix is going to start showing generative AI ads midway through their streams beginning next year. And they said that they're they're testing the amount and types of ads that they're willing to try to see what subscribers are willing to endure and they said that it's for lower prices but I mean they're they're not lowering the prices they're keeping them the same. So they said that they've created interactive mid-roll ads and pause ads that incorporate it and that they can start seeing these ads in 2026 and I mid-roll so I guess it's what going to be in the middle of the the middle of the show I guess is what it is the president of advertising at Netflix said they're going to be mid-roll ads. I hated that one Amazon did that remember when prime did started doing that. They launched their ad subscription tier in November of 22 and they have 300 total million subscribers they got 94 million subscribers to the ad tier so it they said I don't know what they think that I what's the point of paying for it if you're still going to have that's just so stupid and shady I think it's so lame you know I don't know depends on how how many ads because if I start watching a ton of ads I guarantee you I'm not going to you know it's I if you're paying if people are paying for it. I don't think you should be you should be throwing ads in their face it's not like radio where the people the sponsors that you hear pay for everything that's what that is so Washington examiner says that clean energy is dead in the house they were trying to incentivize and use tax incentives essentially to help grow nuclear power but that's one of the things that apparently is on the cutting room floor for the sweeping fiscal overhaul. And I mean I don't know you can't there's there's still going to consider funding Planned Parenthood but this I don't know apparently see I don't know it's a deer that was in a drain okay a new pope got his own trading card and it already outsold one of the most popular basketball players of all time that actually is interesting the I didn't know that you could do a pope card but apparently you can it's tops they put together a trading card for Pope Leo ahead of his inauguration later this month.

They said it's already breaking records and it's now the best selling non sports tops card it outsold Lionel Messi LeBron James and John Cena and of course it's already being scalped people are paying 100 up $195 and up just for the alternative art that's crazy very yeah 200 like that's $200 for a pope card and it even beat out Lionel Messi and LeBron James that's insane. That's that's I've never heard of anything like that before but okay maybe you know can we need to get into the baseball card business clearly we are doing life wrong and discrimination against black people we are in a moment of anti blackness on steroids and we refuse to be silent we will not back down in our pursuit of racial justice the antidote to anti blackness is to be pro black and we will do it unapologetically the United States government owes us a debt and we need reparations. I didn't know it was a call and answer session welcome back Dana Lash with you at the bottom of this third hour that is Arianna Presley who's talking about reparations man Democrats are just they just keep putting out bangers right they just keep putting out bangers I'm all for them doing this do it try it FAFO I'm all about it. Democrats introduced a federal resolution and once again for reparations I've got a lot of questions about this so summer Lee out of Pennsylvania let it it was first introduced back in 23 by Cori Bush and I don't you criticize that woman because she's got a man who says he's a wizard right it was her bodyguard who says he's a wizard and he can literally bring a plague upon you I don't know that's like that came out she's paying him campaign money I don't know anyway they said that in this press conference.

They want personally says she wants restitution and justice and reparations and I don't even know what that exactly means I'm so tired of hearing off of the stolen labor stolen land etc etc. Can I just note that every nation on earth without exception has engaged in the practice of of slavery and it wasn't just black citizens that were enslaved either I mean by and large it's it's a horrible thing it goes without saying but it wasn't reserved also for just one group of people or another. So my question is how does this work so people who were never slaves want money from people who never owned them.

Okay that still doesn't make any sense to me how did and so like can let me let me use cane as an example sorry can I just want to use you as an example so. Your and we'll just put it bluntly so cain is half mexican so your family wasn't even here half of you they weren't even here when all that happened so do you only pay 50% reparations like how does that work that's a great question once what's families from Puerto Rico how does that work is there no like one one even here. Yeah pay reparations so we got to consider that plus is there a system considering your family's history like yeah so my family predominantly are Irish which explains so much and American Indian so when we look back through our family our family records we we were on the. Dawes role so we were my ancestors were forcibly removed on the trail of genocide by democrats to go to Oklahoma and elsewhere excuse me so. How does that work so when my answer and then my other ancestors when they came over a way long time ago. I mean the Irish were enslaved and they were treated horrifically so how does that work is there like a grading scale.

I think when you're also demanding that you and only you deserve recognition for past offenses you're also diminishing and trying to end attempting to disqualify. Everything else that everybody else is it's it's the human story the human story is you know because humans have the free will to choose evil and and good. And part of the human story is you know immoral activities such as this. Part of the human story is entire tribes in Africa that would conquer other tribes and they would literally sell them into slavery I don't know where people thought that you know they were going when they would. They were there in the Ivory Coast and they were putting you know sending people through that famous doorway and trucking across the Atlantic to the new world and selling people to plantations but I mean it wasn't just a bunch of Englishmen over there that were selling people and they were working in fact what was it that. What was the one movie that was made in it was on Netflix and I got a lot of pushback even from black historians because they were they were glamorizing.

One of the biggest tribes in Africa that was prolific in the slave trade they made a lot of cash trading the their enemies other enemy tribes they would war and they would capture and they would sell. So what I mean so if you descended from that tribe and do you are you then partly responsible for reparations for paying reparations to like how does that work that's how stupid this is. Let's remember where the word slave came from it didn't come from some African descent it came from the Slavic countries and they were actually white people who were slaves first which is why the word slave was even what it is. Well what it says too is that oh it's okay in every instance but this I don't think it's okay in any instance but this is you know the history that we have I mean one of the things with histories we look back at what you know the people who came before us did and if we don't like what they did we we say we're not going to repeat that.

That's the unfortunate aspect of it but to demand that someone who wasn't involved be responsible for paying you is it is a lazy way to redistribute wealth and the sad thing is is you're diminishing actual immoral activity by using it as a veneer for greed and that's the truth of it. If like Ariana Presley and others calling for reparations want to get really mad be pissed off at Democrats that perpetuated this it was Democrats who did the trail of genocide and it was Democrats who fought to keep people enslaved that is the truth of the matter they fought for this and their policies after continued to fight for it. The destruction of the black community through community to through urban planning the likes of which happened under you had under FDR and others I mean go back and look what happened like when they were building roads and highways this was Democrat central planning there's entire books on this I have two in my library. That was Democrat central planning and it was designed to divide and control. I've never understood how people can support the party that historically fought to diminish them at every turn.

The abolitionists were Republicans the people who wanted women to be able to not have to go to the poor house when their husbands passed away to be able to inherit the farms that they worked on alongside of their husbands and families those were Republicans that fought for women to be able to do that it was Republicans that fought for women to be able to cast a vote as an equal citizen of this nation. And it was Democrats that are posted at every step that ideology I hate breaking everything down to just Republican or Democrat but it is that ideology that is still so pervasive today. I mean think about the policies and it's even creeping over in conservatives fears says one of the reasons I get enraged when I hear about people trying to expand welfare programs like paying women to have babies they are a continuation of the same policy that chipped away at the nuclear family unit over the past several generations.

And they're trying to doll it up as a conservative proposal it's asinine who is the party of higher taxation that makes it to where a family has to send both parents out of the home to work. Exactly this is my point I mean if Democrats want reparations maybe they should ask themselves to pay themselves then for diminishing and dehumanizing themselves and furthermore I want my reparations my ancestors were forcibly removed apparently by Elizabeth Warren's ancestors back in the day. So what do I get out of that I would like to know my family was dirt poor and my family came from a tribe that actually was pretty independently wealthy in Georgia back in the day and they had everything confiscated and seized from them and they were sent on the trail of genocide were on the rollbooks. We're listed my ancestors are listed on the trail and they got their numbers so I'm just curious what do my ancestors get from that like where does that come what about what about the tribes that were relocated through that trail of genocide they can't even own their own land on Indian reservations do you know that Democrats have fought against that forever if you're on a rise you can't even own your own land.

The government owns it it's actually not I think about it it's actually not that much different from property taxes you never really own your own labs you really can't even have it in your name on a rez so that's you know why why did they do that why did the government do that and disallow them to own property. Big question so if they're going to talk about reparations they need to take it to their party and say you owe us this because this is what you fomented throughout history it is evil to demand that someone else carry the penalty for another person sin. God doesn't even do that. God doesn't pass on original sin. It's a myth that he does and it's scripturally incorrect to assert otherwise.

He doesn't do that you're not responsible for the sins of your father and again if people want to argue that you are tell me explain to me Jesus's lineage again. I just it's divisive and it's hateful and it's racist they're just racist is all it is. Lorraine notes that the Irish quarter and her German half of her family didn't get here until after it was over and they were dirt poor. So what about those and what about black slave owners? There were some Native American American Indian slave owners what about them?

Here's the other thing what about people like my husband's family who came over here in the 1800s from Germany. And there was a book written about his grandfather Gustavus Lash. He was taken as a prisoner of war and he was in Andersonville the worst POW camp in the country. And I can't remember how many of them walked out they had a ton of them in there and to feed them they would drive a live ox into the into the yard.

And the prisoners would have to tear at it with their bare hands and teeth if they wanted to eat. They most of them died most of them died and his my husband's grandfather was one of the very few that walked out alive totally emaciated looking like a concentration camp survivor but walked out alive. There's newspaper articles written about him and all kinds of stuff. He fought for the union.

He gave his health he sat he offered up his life. So are you telling me that that somebody his descendants have to pay for something they didn't do? What about the people who lost their lives fighting to free people? You telling me that by way of their skin color that they are just required to pay? It's racist.

Ariana Presley is a racist and these other people are as well and they use their skin color as a gimmick. And it's sickening and it's divisive and it's evil. It is a moral failing on their part to demand reparations. You know there are people that have suffered. I wrote I have a whole chapter about this in my book Grace Canceled because I write I write about all of this.

Human history is entirely imperfect and filled with error because humans are entirely imperfect and error prone. You're continuing this pattern by demanding something from people who are not responsible to pay you for something you never endured. And when I look at the backgrounds of some of these lawmakers you know like people like Jasmine Crockett and others.

And they never experienced the poverty that I grew up with ever. When I look at Ariana Presley's background I mean she had every I mean she had a lot of stuff handed to her. She grew up in Chicago. She did Planned Parenthood advertisements. She was able to build herself. And then she kind of like discounts that and acts like you know she didn't none of this was available to her. She wouldn't be where she was if these opportunities had not been available opportunities that she argues don't exist. It doesn't make any sense.

It is it's evil and it's a perpetuation of the sin that they accuse others of. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd Truth podcast. If you haven't already made sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple podcast Spotify or wherever you get your podcast.