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Dana Lash's Absurd Truth Podcast, sponsored by Keltech. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. Yeah. It's time for Florida man. All right, and I will warn you, Steve, I do have a villager story here.
First up, though, something oh, this doesn't seem very high speed. Florida man leads police on a quote unquote high speed chase. Mm. And a giant, slow moving semi. Uh Fifty-one year old.
His last name is Lebowski. That's so perfect. Christopher Lebowski was apprehended after a high-speed pursuit. It was not high speed. And It's safe to say that he really struggled driving this thing.
They it wove dangerously in and out of traffic and Barely conducted a perilous U-turn on the highway, drove into incoming lanes. People barely escape being hit. And I'd finally concluded. And the police were able to take the guy into custody, but man alive, that's something else. Let's see.
We also, okay, now we got a villager story. We got a villager story. A villager is not going to be prosecuted in an umbrella attack on her. Um can I say that word? It's the B word for dudes, but it doesn't end with itch.
husband. She's very not happy. Her mug shot, Dolores Dennis. Why does she have three first names? She uh 76-year-old Dolores Dennis.
She is of a village of Virginia Trade. Charges were dropped against her. She Her husband went to Sumner County's sheriff's office. He said his wife had threatened him with the pointy end of an umbrella during an argument, and they had a four-day-long argument. Wow.
And she hit him on the head with her umbrella. And he said that she'd also been armed with a knife and threatened to cut his ankle so he couldn't walk. And he tried to record some of the chaos.
So charges were dropped bizarrely. How much do you want to bet? They're going to be in our Florida man again here soon. Welcome back to a Super packed program because it's been a crazy weekend of news. Dana Lash with you.
We're at the top of this third hour. The um I mean, we're going to get into the two American soldiers killed in a terror attack in Syria, but also the story with Rob Reiner. Uh Was news that just came out of nowhere yesterday. His son stabbed him and his wife to death. When I first saw.
Or, I think when I first heard about the story, it said that there were two fatalities at Rob Reiner's home. I just immediately didn't think of him being one of the fatalities, right? I was thinking, oh, there was an accident. Or Then I thought, well, maybe it's like one of those carbon monoxide kind of issues. You know, I was just thinking, I didn't think of what happened, that he was stabbed to death by his son.
Uh Which is horrific. And apparently his son was really, really, really troubled. And uh they're I mean even So much with his siblings. Apparently, hours before the stabbing, He, Rob Reiner, and his wife were at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party with their son Nick. who now has been arrested and charged with the killing of his mother and father.
And Apparently They've always kind of had a strained relationship. I know that they did a film together that kind of foc it was kind of focused on Nick's. struggles with drug addiction and things like that. And um They said that he was an intense kid who screamed like the world was on fire. According to Uh a family friend and someone who wrote about uh apparently child behavioral problems.
Just I I mean awful. They had uh I mean I I can't imagine your last moments on earth, you're looking into the face of your child. The person that you love more than you know, you love so much and you would give your life for, and you Uh, brought into this world and raised them up, and just to. Have your final moments be their furious face as they end your life? I can't imagine anything more horrific.
I I I mean, that's just horrifying. And for his siblings, because he has a brother and a sister, too. Golly, I don't, how do they. How do they even deal with that? That's just horrible.
Absolutely horrible. Apparently, his Ms. Seuss found him. And uh Yeah, they were at the Conan O'Brien holiday party, it says, per TMZ. They got into a very loud argument that other guests could hear.
And then Rob Reiner and his wife left the party. And then Sunday everybody had their throat slit. I mean, that 'cause that's how he killed him. He slit their throat and then stabbed them. Um Awful.
And I that no one said what the argument was about they other than that they had just he just had an argument and it was very, very loud.
Some apparently he was in rehab a lot. He was like in rehab, what, 14, 15 times? His son was in rehab for a A long time and apparently also dealt with mental illness.
So he was on drugs, he was mentally ill, had apparently a history of mental illness. Which makes me think also maybe there was a history of violence there, but Uh man, I just can't. It's awful.
Now I know that when um and I've seen some of this stuff out there people Normally, if it's if I really don't like the individual and it's bad news, I just don't say anything. This was just such a horrifying way. to go out. No matter how much I would disagree with anybody about politics, I would never hope that they go out this way. That's just awful.
And I just can't even imagine. Your own child. Can't even imagine. I wanted to play for you. This reaction that Rob Reiner had.
When he was asked about the assassin assassination of Charlie Kirk. And the reason I'm playing this. Because there's a lot of meanness and nastiness out there. I really You know, I know we all love POTUS and we all love him, you know, taking down people on the left. I don't think that his tweet about this was the best.
I think it was a it was a misstep. Um he had tweeted about Rob Reiner and got real political about it and um I j I just I don't think it's helpful. I don't think it's helpful. We're like right before Christmas, especially. Yeah.
You know, Rob Reiner was very graceful about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. And I wanted to play this audio for you because. This was at a time when nobody else in Hollywood, and I'm just putting it out there. This was a time when no one else in Hollywood. Was speaking about it in this way.
And I think he was one of the first. Listen to this. And I unfortunately saw the video of it, and it's It's beyond belief what happened to him. And that should never happen to anybody. I don't care what your political beliefs are.
That's not acceptable. That's not a solution to solving problems. And I felt like what his wife said at the service at the memorial they had was exactly right. And totally, I believe, you know, I'm Jewish, but I. I believe in the teachings of Jesus, and I believe in doing to others, and I believe in forgiveness.
And what she said to me was, Beautiful and absolutely, you know, she forgave. His assassin. And I think that that is admirable. Yeah. Uh just uh That was a very and remember that When he said that, that was at a time when you had celebrities going, Yeah, well, their politics were horrible, or he had it coming.
He was like one of the first people who said, And he was pretty early out of the gate, like, no, no, no, this is just awful. And I just thought that was very classy. Um POTUS had tweeted about it. And he said, a very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, he says, a tortured and struggling but once very talented movie director and comedy star has passed away together with his wife.
Reportedly, due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind-crippling disease known as Trump derangement syndrome.
sometimes referred to as TDS. Uh, and he was talking about it, and he said, May Rob him, Michelle, rest in peace. Oh my gosh, come on, guy! Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. And it's real.
This was not an AI thing for the people. It was a real post. I just, there's a. This, the way that he went out. was horrific and that's it.
No one no one nobody. There's no amount of political disagreement that would make me want your last moments to be looking in the eyes of your child as they cut your throat. It's awful.
We got to get to a moment where We recover a little bit of our humanity. I was thinking about this jokingly. I was looking at POTUS's tweet. I'm like, POTUS. Come on, POTUS And I wanted to.
My first thought was: dude, that seems like TDS. You can't have TDS because. You're Or DTS because you're a DT. You can't have DTS. 'Cause you're a DT.
So my first thought. I just oh, just awful. Can I and this is do you ever have weird thoughts like this? The other thing I that popped into my head was I actually never thought, not that I ever thought about Rob Reiner passing away or anything like that, but. It was just so, it's so shocking that you think of all the ways that you thought somebody might go, even if you never actually thought about it, that's not the way that you thought they would go, right?
Like maybe peacefully in their sleep after a nice meal, or maybe, you know, I don't know. Not like that. Just horrific. But it's okay. To Try to find humanity in other people.
And can I encourage you in this? Which is weird for me to say, because I'm one of the meanest people that's in this industry. Admittedly. You don't have to wait for the other person. to demonstrate humanity before you do.
It's not a weakness. It's not a weakness. I mean, in scripture, you're told, well, how? I mean, Jesus explicitly, it's in the red letters in the Bible, and y'all know what that means. Where he says, How easy is it for you to like people who like you?
How easy is it for you to do good unto people who do good unto you? but doing good to others without the expectation of reciprocity. being kind to others without the expectation of reciprocity. That That is true strength and true discipline.
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This is Matt Rogers from Los Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. This is Bowen Yang from Los Culturalistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. Hey, Bowen, it's gift season. Ugh, stressing me out. Why are all the people I love so hard to shop for?
Like me? Exactly. Honey, I'm easy. But you're right. Holiday gifting is stressful.
And all the gift guides out there are boring and uninspired. Wait, what about the guide we made? A partnership with Marshalls, where premium gifts mean incredible value? It's giving gifts! A series of guides filled with premium gifts at great value for everyone on your list.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss, it's time for Dana's Quick Five.
Alright, so let's get started here.
So the Louvre. Louvre. Cain. They're closing the doors to visitors because of a staff strike. I thought it was because all their artwork got ruined and were stolen, but I might have been.
Yeah. It's a walkout. And they visited the most, it's the most visited museum in the French capital. They had 400 staff, trade unions announced, it's all back. They said that they.
Understaffed museum workers, they weren't being given what they needed in order to cope. with the increasing flows of people. And you know, they had the theft of these French crown jewels. Then they had a water leak that damaged all like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of books that they had.
So they're having serious problems. And then don't forget, wasn't there like another joke that somebody did? They pulled like some kind of joke? And they have like another, yeah, yeah, yeah. They brought something in like right by where the Mona Lisa was, so they're having.
A real one over at the Louvre.
So now the staff is like, yeah, we're going to go on strike. We're done with this. Oh, I can't actually say what I have. This listed as on under our rundown. Stanford Medicine, a new Stanford Medicine study shows that the mRNA, why the mRNA vaccines can cause myocarditis.
We all knew this. All of us knew this. All of us knew this. And this was why so many of us were so, we were not interested in taking this experimental shot. And so for, you know, all of the, we were talking about this in 2021, 2020.
All of the people, by the way, and I know we all have that, this is my little Merry Christmas, you know, ho, ho, ho thing. For all of the people that ended friendships because their friends wouldn't get the shot, burning an AIDS fire. Follow a law. Go stuff yourself. There you go.
Because we all knew it. Oh no, I'm not over it. Not gonna be over it. Uh let's see. Peter Green, oh 60 years old.
He was found dead. Found dead in his apartment. Everybody remembers him. He was the mask. He always played like the scummiest villain, did he not?
I don't know what I would do if I saw him in a role where he played the good guy because he was so good at being bad. But he's passed away, aged 60. Apparently, he had illnesses and some other stuff. Secret government UFO program reveals paranormal events.
Well, I believe it. I believe it. I believe anything at this point. Except if my government- you know, though? I was thinking about this.
If my government's telling me that aliens exist, then I think that they don't. Because I don't trust my government. Hmm. I'm really torn, Kane. This needs a whole segment.
Anyway, they said that a secret program known as AWSAP. Literally, what it called, AAWSAP. Created in 2008 with Harry Reid when he was still alive. It became the largest ever UFO investigation ever undertaken. Remember when he like fell all over his bathroom with exercise bands and nobody believed him?
Maybe it wasn't the mafia. Because he was the gaming commissioner. Maybe it was aliens that just went in and whooped him up. I don't know. But they said that, yeah, apparently there's a program that has been following it for some time.
You think that this is all drip-drip stuff? Here we go. Part of a plan to desensitize people to it.
Well, maybe. It possibly could be. That three-eye atlas dramatically changes color as the Earth approaches days away. Isn't it interesting how it's coinciding around Christmas time? I think so as well.
We're going to come back to that. We've got all kinds of news to unpack. Stick with us. It's the folks over at Patriot Mobile, the only. Christian conservative cell phone service that's in existence, and Patriot Mobile wants to save you money.
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Hey, Bowen, it's gift season. Oh, stressing me out. Why are all the people I love so hard to shop for? Like me? Exactly.
Honey, I'm easy. But you're right. Holiday gifting is stressful. And all the gift guides out there are boring and uninspired. Wait, what about the guide we made?
In partnership with Marshalls, where premium gifts mean incredible value? It's giving gifts! A series of guides filled with premium gifts at great value for everyone on your list. Yeah, because if I see one more for the dad who likes golf list, I'm out. Right?
How about something for the people who actually surprise you? With categories like best gifts for the mom whose idea of a sensible walking shoe is a stiletto, ps, she wants a pair of stilettos. Or best gifts for me that were so thoughtful, I really shouldn't have. Dying to see what those are. And you won't believe their prices.
Just wait till you see what else is in there. It's basically a one-stop shop for everyone you know. I started bookmarking half the list for myself, honestly. This is the guide for the 2025 holiday gifting season. Check out the guide on marshalls.com.
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Visit forthepeople.com for an office near you. Hey, at four o'clock. In the morning, hit this hotel room in Coventry and took this man into custody. What we're told from law enforcement sources now is that they seized two firearms from this 24-year-old suspect. Uh one of those firearms we are told Was equipped with a laser sight device.
This has significance because, number one, that's a fairly sophisticated device for a handgun where When you aim it, a red dot goes where you want to target. And if you fire at that point, the bullet goes where the dot is. It's the kind of things used mostly by professionals, tactical people, military people. The other aspect of it, though, is it. Who is this turd that's talking?
Who is this absolute lunchbox that's talking? I mean it's a you know, it's a red dot, you just put the red dot on the gun, kid, and it's just the symmetricals it's a very sophisticated device. That allows. Um, you know, it's met by military people, seized by specialists. And uh military people who got it.
Where do they get these people? This is on CNN. They had this stooge up on CNN. If I was sitting there and set with them, I'd have smacked them in the face. That's the dumbest thing that I've ever heard and we're all stupider for having heard it.
First off, it's not like this magical, sophisticated device. I have red dots. I have I in fact one of my last pistols I got has a red dot on it. By the way, like laser sites, red dots, these are all very different things. This guy has no idea what he's talking about, number one.
Number two, you can buy it on damn Amazon. You can go into Walmart and get one. They're not expensive. Millions of people have these. It's and he's talking about the Brown University.
This is, it's not, um. Device that you can only get if you're like a pro or you're a military. I don't even know what that means, professionals in military. What does it even mean? This guy doesn't even know.
This is the kind of stuff that they can. I just please, for the love of all things holy, if you're going to talk about it on your show, CNN, have somebody that knows what the hell they're talking about to discuss it. You just point and shoot, you clown. It's not going to do anything. It's n not a magical instrument.
We're told one of those firearms we're told as such, such as I was equipped with a laser sight device. Sepharilous sophisticated device. I love how he tries to describe it. When you aim at a red dot goes to where you want to target. And if you fire at the point the bullet goes through the dotted.
I can't with these people. These are not serious people on this issue. It's like saying, Joe, it's a chainsaw bayonet. I mean,. Dude, this is just I I think By the way, there are way more, this is where this guy's wrong, there are way more, there are way more sights and red dots on civilians' firearms than there are military.
Yes. What is this guy even talking about? Who is this sentient turd? Who is it? Barely sentient.
Good night. It's not a uh Yeah, in the chat they're s talking about how the red dot makes the bullets go faster. See the bullets like it peeks out of the barrel and it goes, What's that out there? Is that a red dot? I'm gonna go get that red dot.
And it goes faster. That's not how this works. It doesn't work that way. But yes, pretty sure I would bet the house on the fact that more civilians have this. Than police for sure, or any kind of mil-spec thing.
Oh my gosh, stop. This guy is no, you can get one for like $15 on Amazon. Right now. I I there are people who put 'em on their salt guns for bugs. That's they're, I mean, people use them all the time.
They're super cheap to get. It's millions of millions have them, but this is them trying to fearmonger about this. Again, Brown University was a gun-free zone. Rhode Island's pretty much a gun-free state.
So, uh, you know, what what failed? What di what do they have that failed? Million dollar question, don't you think? What didn't work? They're not going to evaluate it because that would require brain cells.
What also gets me about this is the absolute mess of the press conference from the Brown post-Brown University. They're still looking for this guy. They can't find him. They got a guy in custody and then they had to let him go or they let him go. This was a cut 13.
So while they were literally having this, 10 o'clock or 11 o'clock, whatever press conference, the police chief of Providence, Rhode Island, somebody whispers in his ear that, well, you can't say being in custody. That's not the right thing to say. Watch this. This is 13.
Now, someone's in custody. Cut how you all are working together to garner that information. Custody is the wrong word.
Someone being detained, rather. And so, yeah, someone being detained, it led us to that point as far.
So if they're not in custody, what are they? Contained. Yeah, detained. They're just some they're just detained. They're not into custody, they're just detained.
Yeah, this is a cut 14. Premier Jayapal. She's apparently wants something that would make all of the laws that they already had more a lawyer. I don't know. Listen, this is 14.
Because it's come to this place where these events are happening in every community across the country. And the answer to the majority of Americans is clear. Make it less easy for guns to be in the hands of people who shouldn't have them. And that means passing gun safety reforms. But every single time something like this happens, We don't get the reforms.
Okay, what reforms do you want? Brown University bans any and all firearms at all whatsoever, any and all weaponry at all whatsoever on any aspect of its campus in total. You're not allowed to keep anything in your car. You're not allowed to have anything in your car. You're not allowed to have anything touch the abs the property of the university.
Rhode Island has a quote-unquote weapons ban. They have all kinds of stuff. They have ammo restrictions, additional licensing. They have everything that you want. Why didn't your laws work?
Why didn't they work? Do you know also, according to numerous independent studies, including if you look at Stanford University's data set of mass casualty incidents, do you realize that? Especially within the past ten years. Gun-free zones specifically are targeted. They are targeted.
Do you remember the theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado? The killer in that instance was going to was actually looking at a different theater originally and then ended up targeting that particular theater because it was explicitly a gun free zone. When you look at uh what was it, the uh uh Mass casualty incident that took place recently. This was the Highland Park, where you had, what is it, Highland Park, elsewhere, gun-free zones, gun-free zones, the store in New York, gun-free zone. I mean, I'm just like going through my list of gun-free zone, gun-free zone.
Nashville, the killer targeted, explicitly said in writing: gun-free zone. 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, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Matt Rogers from Los Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. This is Boen Yang from Los Culturistos with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang.
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