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So a uh Mm. No. I don't really want to do this one. Oh, I don't want to do this one at all. A nurse found drugs in a Florida man's back door.
during surgery for a stab wound. Just going to leave it like that. A Florida man involved in what police believe was a drug dispute. Ended up behind bars because during surgery, because he went in to seek medical attention, because he was stabbed. It was at St.
Petersburg's Bayfront Hospital last month. The injuries required surgery. 43-year-old Michael O'Neill was had, a nurse was.
Well, she found that he had been using His prison wallet, for the lack of a better phrase, to store drugs and drug paraphernalia. It was smoking gun piece, and they said while in surgery. She located it. and it was round tinfoil with cocaine, along with a glass crack pipe and a lighter. And he posted $5,500 bond was released from custody.
Pled not guilty to the charges. I don't know how you can. Plead not guilty to these charges. This was not his. First arrest.
Either.
So next story, moving on. Let's see here. We've got. A Florida man's cross necklace blocks the bullet from piercing his heart. This is coming from WFLA.
He was shot in the chest. He credits a cross necklace for saving his life. 20-year-old Aiden Perry told his friend that he was showing off a firearm. He accidentally fired it because he's a moron. It ricocheted off his gold necklace and became lodged in the fatty tissue of his chest.
The doctors say that his necklace. saved his life.
So I think there's probably something to be said for wearing big gold chains maybe. But it ricocheted it had to adjust it perfectly. They said if he hadn't uh been wearing it, it would have pierced his lungs or his heart.
So maybe, maybe he got it as a Christmas gift last year from his dad.
So. Just saying, maybe that maybe that's a giant sign to this dude. Just FYI. Also, let's see here.
Okay, drug trafficking, drug trafficking. We also have a guy in Zephyrillis, Florida. An argument that began: a man opened fire on a garbage truck while chasing it through Zephyrillis. And this was early Friday morning that led to the guy chasing it while firing shots in a collision that sent two men to the hospital, another to jail, according to Zephyris PD. They went to Advent Health Zephyris.
The man showed up. He had a gunshot wound to his right forearm. He was shot by, I don't really care about the backstory of this, but a guy just was running after a garbage truck and just firing all crazy. You had to know. His name is Quinson Croeson.
You have too many sounds in your name, sir. You got to give one of them up. Nobody's allowed to have that many consonants. I know it's America, but come on. Amanda Whitey Tidies is pepper spraying a sleepy neighbor over noise complaints.
Another one, it is shockingly not a villages story, it's Lauderhill. Uh they said that uh this man was arrested, he broke into his neighbor's upstairs apartment, pepper sprayed him in the face while he slept. Because apparently he was snoring so loud and being loud that the guy had lived like right below him, he could hear him.
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Just like Bigfoot, we have all these cameras, we have phone cameras, everybody's got a device strapped to their head, basically. And we don't get A single, we don't get any anything, no images, nothing. And I know nothing about aliens. We hear all these stories of flying saucers. We don't get really good pictures.
I mean, I don't see any green, little green dudes waving out of windows. And do you know why that is? Because when they get in our solar system, and they get near Earth and they check out what we send out on our satellites. They look at each other and they go Oh peep. Which translates to what the hell?
What is wrong with these people? Case in point, this New York Post piece. Stressed adults rely on pacifiers to soothe themselves. I feel a sense of the fear. of safety from childhood.
This is the story. Ready?
Now It started in China, which totally makes sense.
Now I think it's a commie psyop. But they said that People are using adult sized binkies. Once a niche quirk, the silicone soothers are now supposedly big business on Chinese e commerce giants. They're priced uh budget friendly. They're sold they're sold as sleep aids, stress relievers, even smoking cessation tools, and shoppers are gobbling them up.
They said some online sellers are moving thousands each month. One Chinese buyer said, quote, When I'm under pressure at work, I feel a sense of safety from my childhood.
Now it's starting in China, but it's moving outside of Ch it makes me think this is the next thing after Wu Flu Cain.
Well, your face right now. Are you frozen? You just got your matrix froze. But what is the. Wha why are they doing it?
I want to see what their dental bills are like. That's what I'm saying. Like the shape of your mouth alone, you're. You gonna have braces? You're gonna have Invisalign?
they're gonna have buck teeth sticking out. You can just like like a ski slope. It's going to be like a like a giant, you can toboggan down the. Shh. The angle of them teeth.
Using them adult binkies. If I think that I don't know w I think I would accidentally punch somebody in the face if I saw them. With a binky in their mouth. My body would go and wouldn't know what to do. And my first response would just, you know, it's like that's one of those things where you just don't know how to react.
And your body tries to, it's trying so hard to process it. And it's just are they flavored or is it like do they make those? I don't know. I mean, remember Ring Pops? Yeah, but that was a treat for children.
Yeah, I know. You could choke on them. Binkies are for babies. Yeah, but they're like silly. You're not supposed to be able to.
We're talking about adults here. I can't even believe this. I mean. This is the most Freudian thing also I think I've ever seen, but um Why is this a thing? I don't.
Well, I mean, if you're in China, maybe you're sad with the CCP, but this is one of the goofiest things ever. It's Chinese uh it's what here's what it is. It's the Chinese government trying to shut their people up. Probably literally.
Now, also with this Gen Z, they're signing up for adulting 101 classes because they can't handle basic life skills. Yeah. They said a lot of stuff involves money. What? One said, I don't know how to change a tire.
I don't have a car at all. I think, you know what? I do think parents need to be more involved. I think if you're a parent, you're not teaching your kid how to change attire. Like, do your damn job, mom and dad.
Teach them how to change attire. I mean, that's where it starts. It starts in the home. You know what I mean? It's not like these kids grew up in a vacuum.
If they don't know how to boil water or like make mac and cheese, the hell's wrong? What'd you do in your home? Did you not raise kids to understand how to do this stuff? This doesn't happen like all on its own. unrelated to anything else.
They said that they wanted to learn like some of them they don't know how to do laundry properly It's a New York Post piece.
Someone had to Google, someone told New York Post they had to Google what a turnip was because they were making a. Recipe I don't know. It's like budgeting, navigating grocery stores. Jeez. They're offering, there's like, Colleges that are offering adulting 101 classes because parents, you know what I think some of the problem is?
Is that we had progressives move us away. from a family unit that only required one income. And now as a result, And because everybody is so busy and so stressed and so detached, I think a lot of these life skills, people aren't just sharing them. And some of it's just lazy parents, but they're just not sharing them. I mean, they they need to be proactive.
Your kids aren't just gonna suddenly wake up one day and go, How do I change attire? They're not gonna you're you're as a parent, you're gonna introduce that concept to them. But they said that kids are growing up less dependent. And I think again, it's because we have literally shifted. the paradigm over to this weird area where no one can hardly afford anything and everyone They all live to work and s and and R and really instead of, you know, kind of working to live and Just kind of keeping things separate, you know, keeping things partitioned, compartmentalizing.
There's no break for people. And I think that we're also. besieged every second of that we are awake. with noise. advertising, television.
Uh social media. everything. I don't know. I think there's something to all of it that contributes to it. It's easy to make fun of them.
You know, it's really easy to be like, what do you mean you don't know how to do this stuff? What do you mean you don't know how to do it? But there are some Gen Xers that didn't know how to do that. And Gen Xers didn't know how to do it because their parents never showed them. I grew up with people like that.
Whose parents never, they were running around and had both parents were working and they were stressed out, et cetera. This was the type of modern life that you were promised was going to make it easier for humanity. And instead, now people can't even do basic things. They have to outsource every single service. Every single service has to be outsourced.
Nobody knows how to fix a seam. or him pants even. I mean, everybody goes to a tailor.
Well, if they go to Taylors to do it, there's just like little things that You know, people just don't. do anymore. And and then when they need that skill, It's a big issue. I don't know. Didn't Ravers use pacifiers, Kane?
They did. Jeez. Uh pacifiers and glow sticks. They never choked on them, sadly. Our friends over at Keltech who make the program possible, the PR-57.
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I mean, that's pretty cool, isn't it? The former Superman actor Dean Kane also reveals that he's becoming an ICE agent to support the mass deportation agenda. I kind of like that. Mass deportation. MDA mass deportation agenda.
He's gonna be sworn in ASAP amid the federal agency's recruitment drive and unprecedented stupid Guardian article. I'm done. I'm not even reading this article. Like it's a legitimate thing. I would not even use this as a thing to wipe up waste.
The Guardian, I wouldn't.
So burr, X out of that. Uh, also, let's because you know why? Because whenever I have a reporter that is all into self-glorification and they're like, I am so important, I need to let you know that my viewpoint in the first article, then Dynan AIDS fire, because nobody cares, right? I just nobody cares about your stupid bias. You're literally a cancer in journalism.
These people are a cancer to journalism, they absolutely are. It's true.
Alright, so uh, ooh, I don't know, take this what you will. AP was trying, well, the AP story is not coming up anymore because, uh, for some reason, but they were trying to argue that somehow uh POTUS. His uh the tariffs The it's a record high. What were they saying? It's record high export, et cetera, et cetera.
We'll come back to that because I think that's in the light of the penalties that they just applied to India, which, by the way, they apply these penalties to India because India won't stop buying Russian gas and oil. I mean, you can buy perfectly wonderful American gas and oil, right? comes in red, white, and blue. Maybe not, but it could. China is touting killer robot wolves.
Anyone who thinks that these things are gonna work longer than five minutes clearly has never purchased anything made in China. Are regular wolves not killer enough? No, like apparently they're not. It's killer robot wolves. Wolves probably don't like communists.
I don't know. Yeah, I'm just saying it's so they're it's a they're military wolf robots They're designed to stealthily approach enemies, no one believes this, fire precise shots on targets, nobody believes that, and work in rough terrain, literally no one believes this, says the state media. Who? Oh, the Communist Party. The Communist broadcaster said that the robots, which were an upgrade from our earlier robotic dog iterations that no one ever saw, can replace human soldiers in dangerous conditions to reduce combat casualties.
You know what else can be used as a replacement for soldiers and reduce combat casualties of at least one side? A giant b b bomb. That can be used too.
So, China is really in an AI and a robotics race with us, but you know, they do have a disadvantage. The hole made in China. That's a thing. Anyway, so I would actually have a robot wolf as a pet. It's kind of what arbiters are in Darktide anyway.
You basically have a robot wolf. That's kinda what it is. Anyway, uh we'll come back to that if we want to. Uh we talked about this uh interstellar object uh twice already in the past two weeks, so I'm not gonna read this headline. Uh firefighters rescued a woman who was trapped in a small chimney in San Fernando Valley.
You can't pretend to be I mean that is a tiny chimney she got into 30-year-old woman, she was three feet deep in the chimney. Uh she apparently was acting erratically before she got in the chimney and stuck, got stuck and screamed help. Stick with us. I don't know if you heard about this. This was um did you ever see Slum Dog Millionaire Kame?
I heard of it. I've never watched it, though. I watched it like a I didn't watch it in theaters, but I watched it a long time ago. Not a long time ago. It came out in 2008.
Death Patel And Danny Boyle directed it.
Well, he, I was reading this piece in Variety where he said he would not direct Slum Dog Millionaire again today because of quote unquote cultural appropriation. And he would be looking for a young Indian filmmaker to shoot it. He said in a quote directly, We wouldn't be able to make that now. And that's how it should be. It's time to reflect on all that.
We have to look at the cultural baggage we carry and the mark that we've left on the world. And at the time, it felt radical. And we made the decision that only a handful of us would go to Mumbai. And we'd work with a big Indian crew and we'd try to make a film within the culture, but you're still an outsider and it's still a flawed method. And he said that kind of cultural appropriation might be sanctioned at certain times, at other times it cannot, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And he said he wouldn't do it. I really can't stand when people use cultural appropriation when they're talking about cultural appreciation. They are entirely different things. Cultural appropriation is a man pretending to be a woman. Cultural celebration is loving Bollywood films, which I do.
I like Bollywood films. I don't ask me why I like Bollywood films and I hate musicals. They're they hit different, man. That's all I'm saying. It hits different.
The best one is RRR. It's actually a recent one. There's several. Wait, there are several that are really good. RRR was amazing.
It actually took an Oscar, legitimately deserved, for best. uh score or besta song. Uh that they did and it it's really good. Anyway, I don't know. I can't stand other musicals though.
But that's To do a film like that in that vein. I mean, he was working with, I think his DP was Indian. I was trying to remember, like, his cinematographer was Indian. Like, how much more? I mean, at some point, you've got to stop debasing yourself.
Cultural appreciation is not the same thing as appropriation. And I'm so tired of people acting like, well, you can't appreciate this or you can't like that because you're not of that culture. Or, you know, like I love. Anime and I like Japanese food, and I like a lot of the aesthetic, but That's not appropriation, that's appreciation, right? Same with Bollywood.
Like, I love the colors that are used in the textiles. That reminds me of a story. On Etsy, which is like a hellscape of wokery. They and there's like some craft circles where there was a white woman who was like working with an Indian supplier and selling like Indian textiles on her Etsy shop and she like got bullied off of Etsy because of it. It's like there's appropriation and appreciation.
Stop it. I hate people trying to run you off of liking things because you're not of the culture that it comes from. That is so asinine. I had someone who sent me a hate mail one time telling me I shouldn't wear gold hoops, and I beat them down within an inch of their life in an email, which I really do. And I'm like, oh, it's so funny for you.
I know the history of gold hoops. Are you Sumerian? Because if you're not Sumerian, STFU. And let me just tell you, really quickly, in a one-word sentence, why you need to not be talking about this. I'm just, it gets so aggravating.
I feel like it's still happening. It should be happening less because it's like everything else has kind of dissipated in terms of wokery, but that. Have you noticed that, Kane? Like people are terrified of it. They're terrified.
But nobody has a problem with St. Patty's Day. Nope. Oh, hell. Everybody's out there at St.
Patty's Day pretending they're a leprechaun. I don't think so. Nobody cares. You know why? Because the Irish don't care.
'Cause they're not babies. They don't care. It's only like white progressives that care about this stuff. I didn't hear Indian people like slaming Danny Boyle for doing this film. I think they love the fact that they were like using so many talents from India and costume designers and cinematographers and director photography and lighting and gaffing and all of that stuff.
They were just liking that they could showcase that skill set. It's only white Marxists that get super upset over this stuff. They act like they got a white night for everybody. It's asinine.
So, I mean, if he thinks like that, then maybe I wouldn't want him to direct it. If you think about this, like, You couldn't have, you know how many Italians made Western films? I mean, spaghetti western is a phrase for a reason. That's like saying that you wouldn't have like some great films. Like, what is it?
My name is Nobody is one. That's a great Western film. You wouldn't be able to have stuff like that. Just stop it. Just stop it.
Just appreciate the art form for the art form and celebrate just good stories and good direction and good film and good acting. This is so stupid. I can't Do this. It's like saying something like, you know, somebody like Brian DePalma wouldn't be able to make. Scarface.
You know what I'm saying? Like, it's just stop it. It's just so dumb. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd Truth Podcast. If you haven't already, make sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts.
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