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Yeah. It's time for Florida Man. All right, so first up, let me do this story about this guy. How Was accused of chasing somebody with a knife at a Cocoa Beach 7-Eleven. Titusville man, Florida man, he held up a knife during an argument, chased a guy at a gas station.
The 48-year-old named Joshua Hunt's accused of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. They said it's in violation of his probation. I am most upset that it was just a regular knife and it wasn't a machete because every single this is the first story ever where it's just been a knife. Every other story we have, somebody brandished a machete, someone chased somebody else with a machete, someone dual-wielded a machete. I don't know.
The guy had an active Brevard County warrant for violation of probation. But apparently, he was at this gas station where a guy that he was had a restraining order that had a restraining order against him worked at this gas station.
So Hunt showed up there and held up a knife that he had hung around his neck and pointed it at the guy and then chased him throughout the store.
So maybe he owed him money. I don't know. Like, just it's crazy. New York Attorney General Letitia James is charging a Florida man with 71 gun crimes. The resident.
Lawrence DiStefano. Days of our lives. My grandmother watched that. Stephano Demira. 65 years old, he has no criminal record.
And he's just a Second Amendment aficionado, right? He has a website called Indie Guns that's still active, but he can't fill any orders right now. And um he's been held Without bond in the Orange County Jail for 90 days, they're going to send him to Rikers. And he built, they had 10 self-bet, they are like one of these 10 self-built arms dealers that are being targeted by Letitia James because she says that he shipped gun kits to New York.
Now, here's what's weird: we're going to have to have the Supreme Court weigh in on this at some point because. Or at least have it go up through the circuit because the federal law Allows for you to be able to hobby build your own firearm using kits at home. That's completely allowed. In fact, it's protected, and that's we had that, we could do that before we even had the affirmation of the Second Amendment in the Constitution. And it's still federally allowed.
But in New York, they're trying to say that it's not allowed.
So, how can one state abridge your natural rights? And get away with it because that's why Dex Taylor is still sitting in prison, because he just built them for himself. People don't build these to sell them because that's already falls under a federal statute. It's illegal to sell things that you make yourself at home without having them serialized, number one. And then, if you do so many and so much in sales per year, you have to register as a federal firearms licensee because you're officially a dealer now.
All of that's already federally regulated.
So, she's trying to go after people for their Second Amendment rights. For no other purpose than just because. And I'm wondering if the AG, I'm curious to find that out, whether or not the AG is going to weigh in on something like this, because it is very interesting. How is it that it's a Florida resident and New York is now trying to apply New York's laws, which are unapplicable really in Florida, to a Florida resident? And why is he being held in an Orange County jail without bond?
So I'm going to find that out and get more answers on that. On break, no joke. Also, I got one more other. I think I have one more other. Let's see.
Oh, the guy who's carrying Nancy, who was seeing Kari Nancy Pelosi's lectern on January 6th. Remember, that guy's going through statuary hall. He's respecting the red velvet robes. He was carrying the lectern. That guy, Adam Johnson, the known as the lectern guy, he's apparently running for office now.
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Dana Lash with you. We're at the top, actually, bottom of those first hours. Like I told you, I didn't really watch The Golden Globes because I just don't care. I don't know what it is. It's just not the same as it used to be.
And it used to be that movies that were made for the general audience, those were the ones that ended up. You know, they ended up getting recognized.
Now it's just. I don't know. Like, some of them I've seen, some of them I hadn't, and I don't know. I've just questioned some of the decisions. And it's all just a big, big popularity contest.
Let's be real. And of course, I just get tired of the. self indulged politicking from these celebrities that get on the red carpet and they look at Every You know, opportunity, they look for every opportunity. They don't do this because they believe in these things, they do this because they think it makes them look good. In front of the people who make decisions about stupid Golden Glow movies, right?
That's really what it is.
So I don't even know. Like, Wanda Psyches, I don't even know what she does, I've never found her funny. She's like has a grating voice. Her voice is, I've never found her funny. Have you ever found her funny, Kane?
Yeah, I used to find her funny. Really? Yeah, there wasn't funny. Like in what way? Like in the early aughts, late 90s?
I've never found her to be funny. Yeah. I remember being entertained by her. I was never entertained by her. I don't know.
Anyway.
So, everybody, I was wondering, one thing I did see. When I was looking at social media last night to get ready for today, I was like, what are all these like be good pins? Out there people were wearing these pins that said be good. They just all happen to have these pins. All the same kinds of pins, Kane.
Here's Mark Ruffalo. Wearing a pin. Actually, I was going to play 30 instead, but let's play 31 right now since we're playing Mark Ruffalo. You guys know him. He's, I think he takes his Hulk.
Character about being grumpy all the time, way too seriously, and he just can't talk about politics without being purposefully just a D-bag. Listen to him, this is 31. This is for her. This is for the people in the United States who are terrorized and scared today. I know I'm one of them.
I love this country and what I'm seeing here happening is not America. It's not. Mark, why do you feel that this platform is still useful to spread a message like this? Listen, I want to pretend like this is, I want to be here to celebrate, and I am here to celebrate, and I'm proud to have a Golden Globe nomination. But also, this is not normal anymore.
And so I don't know how I could be quiet. And I'm feeling a little sick, so it's hard to BS right now. He's really upset. Mark Ruffalo. He is super upset.
Over the uh capture and deportation. Of, oh, I don't know. Uh people like uh Kulor. Who is an illegal alien convicted of rape, rape with a weapon, and sexual assault, and has had a deportation order since 1996. Mark Ruffalo apparently thinks it is horrible.
to deport a criminal illegal alien who keeps raping people over here while he's here illegally. I mean, how ignorant are people? I mean, those poor rapists are scared for crying out loud. Or what about Pao Chiang, who is an illegal alien convicted of rape and child molestation, who's had a deportation order since 2003? Mark Ruffalo is apparently very upset about the terrified child rapist.
I mean, why are we making child rapists so afraid like this? Wonders Mark Ruffalo out loud without any sense of self or irony. Or what about this other illegal alien, Chang Vu, who strong-arm rape of a 12-year-old girl. He kidnapped her so he could make her his sex slave. He had a deportation order since 2004.
Won't someone think of the rapist, pleads Mark Ruffalo on his D-bag Golden Globes red carpet? I mean, I'm just curious. Or what about this is Sridharn Pavin, who was convicted of rape of a young boy and strong-arm sodomy of a girl. He's had a deportation order since 2018. Won't someone think of the child sodomizers out there?
Pleads Mark Ruffalo. He's so upset that these people are terrified of getting apprehended and deported. I mean, it's a good thing Mark Ruffalo is out there standing strong for the child rapists, isn't it? It's a good thing Mark Ruffalo is out there standing strong for predators of women. It's a good thing that Mark Ruffalo is out there standing strong for child molesters and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve.
Just in the couple of days leading up to that shooting, 13 murderers, convicted murderers, repeat convicted murderers here in the country illegally.
So it's a good thing that someone like Mark Ruffalo is preening and posturing with his stupid be good pin, which apparently applies to everyone except the criminal, illegal aliens that are coming over here and raping everyone's wives and children. Good thing we got Mark Ruffalo out there. Oh, but there's more. With the purchase of 1D bag, you get a second one. This is Wanda Sykes, who's never been funny ever.
If Menopause had a voice, it would be Wanda Sykes. Listen. The pin, be good. Tell me about it. Be good.
Yes. Of course, this is for the mother who was murdered. by ICE agent and it's really sad and You know, I know people are out marching and all today, and we need to speak up. We need to be out there and shut this rogue. Government down because it's just awful what they're doing to people.
Wanda Sykes thinks it's awful to detain. Child rapists, isn't that so mean? Does that mean she likes child rape? I feel like that's a fair question because they've been, for the people who don't know, ICE has been very public about who they're apprehending. They haven't hidden any of this.
You know, they publish all these names. That's why I have so many of them. You know, they publish all of the names, they publish all of their crimes, they publish how long they've had a deportation order. Everyone knows this, right? This shouldn't be new news because they publicize it.
But what's interesting is how the legacy press doesn't actually publicize that. Huh. What the legacy press does is they insinuate that they're going out and getting legal citizens who are just here making tortillas. I don't know what the hell they think. Which I think is actually kind of racist, but that's what that's what the legacy press does.
Right. I'm I'm What is the issue? Why? I mean, it's one of the most transparent operations I can think of. Hell, this has been more transparent than pretty much anything else that the Federal Government has done.
I they publicize all of it with mug shots and everything.
So, this idea that, oh my gosh, they're going after, they're just making, you know, who, they're making predators afraid. I'm actually in favor of that. But see, I really question whose side, you know, Wanda Sykes and Mark Ruffalo, people like that, are on.
So, this is one of the reasons why, you know, when I see stuff like this, and I see these people out here running their mouths this way, part of your job as an actor is you have to. Maintain a consistent ability for your viewers to suspend their disbelief when they watch you in a film. And when you are so poisonous because you are such a political zealot, That you can't do that, that's transferred and transposed onto every single character you play. And it's very difficult for people to maintain that suspension of disbelief and buy you in that role because you're such a loudmouth d-bag elsewhere. That's part of the job.
That's part of being able to do your craft.
Now you're free to run your mouth, but people are also free to think that it has forever inhibited your ability to successfully transform into a role for a film on screen or on stage. And that's a completely acceptable viewpoint to have, and it's totally justifiable for the audience to think that way. That's the problem. You know, it's you can't you can't have it both ways. It's just the way the world works.
So, I did, like I said, I didn't watch a lot of it because of stuff like that. Like, that's the moment I start seeing this. This is Rob Gronkowski from Dudes on Dudes with Gronk and Jules. Sunday mornings are sacred. I've got my game day routine.
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So Jerome Powell. POTUS really amped up his focus of Jerome Powell.
Now, federal prosecutors are opening an investigation, which is said to center on the renovations of the Fed's headquarters, the Federal Reserve's headquarters in Washington, which some are saying is an escalation of POTUS's long-running pressure campaign on Jerome Powell. I'm really curious as to why they need any kind of renovation. That's like the last thing that should happen. It should smell like an old elementary school that's like was built in the 30s. That's what it's honestly what they when I walk into a federal building.
I want to be entirely unimpressed with the outdated everything, right? I just, I don't know. Why does they, why do they even need it? Apparently, the renovation, if you had to guess how much that renovation was, what would you guess? I don't even want to say it.
I don't even want to say it. Billy. Billy. With a B. With a B.
As like in Billy Bob. Yes. That's that's for what? For what? I couldn't even spend two and a half billion and I could probably spend cash.
I couldn't even spend that. Like, on, like, what are you doing? Like, gold toilets? What's happening? I don't know.
What is that even? Let's see. Also. Uh this, I thought this was kind of funny. It was from the Daily Mail.
There's an island where they're joking around and saying they could name it after Donald Trump if he blocks Britain's Labor Party, their $30 billion giveaway. To Martias, I think is how you say it. It's this island, Chagos. The islanders have made an appeal to Trump. They want to veto, they don't want to hand this archipelago over to this other nation.
So they were joking around saying they could name the island after Trump. There was a joke about all these people in Venezuela naming their kids after Donald Trump. I think you played it. Didn't you? Like, this is Donald, this is also Donald, this is Donald Tella.
That's pretty funny. Let's see. Founding member of The Grateful Dead passed away at 78. Bob Weir. I only know one song by The Grateful Dead.
They seem pretty chill. You know, like the proto fish, they seem pretty chill. Uh, so Bob, we are. Uh, Gen Z are arriving to college, apparently, unable to even properly read a sentence, and professors are warning it could lead to a generation of anxious and lonely grads. Oh, I know.
Uh, and Meta signs a nuclear energy deal to promote the Prometheus AI supercluster, which sounds like the beginning of a horror movie that our great, great, great, great-grandchildren will be watching in the future. Like, remember when this generation unleash the looks at notes Prometheus AI supercluster, just saying, Ryan Savadera was the one that I saw this from. The, I guess it was Tucker Carlson's newsletter that came out. I don't read it. I don't read that.
I just I've got a lot of other stuff that I read for my own program. But apparently he compared. The woman who was shot in, he was talking about Minnesota, Venezuela, and Gaza. Kind of sounded like he was sort of downplaying. What was happening in Iran?
And I just thought that was kind of why would you downplay it? That was the most that he's talked about, Iran. in the past two weeks though, was just the one little mention. In the newsletter, which I always think is incredibly significant when you're trying to figure out what people's priorities are. Uh You you you what they don't focus on.
But I noticed in this newsletter when he just kind of touched on Iran, talking about Venezuela, talking about Minneapolis. He compared Renee Goode to Charlie Kirk. In his newsletter. And I was reading this, He was saying that 37-year-old was an American citizen and the mother of a kindergarten age child, so why did she leave her child? Um I I was really shocked by this.
He said that it was a tragedy, regardless of political affiliations, a woman got shot in the face. He sounds like the left here. I'm reading this, and I'm like, I would, this is something that I would see in the Atlantic. This is something that I would see on M Ms Now, MSNBC, or whatever. I I'm just kind of shocked to see it here.
Furthermore, To make the comparison, and I've read the whole thing at this point, unfortunately. To make this comparison, And to try to act like in any way that these are the same. Or that It's indicative of some sort of overbearing police state. Where he says violence around the world is desensitizing Americans to violence at home. And why are so few conservatives viewing this story through a human lens?
Well, spare a thought for the border agent who almost got killed, will you? And then something similar, like the killing of Charlie Kirk, happens, et cetera, et cetera.
So he just, what about he just Melissa Hortmond? Rene Good with Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk wasn't trying to kill someone with a deadly weapon. Are you comparing? Stalking?
And harassing ice. all day abandoning your kids. To go stalk and harass ICE, then use your vehicle to box them in while they're conducting an operation to send back a lot of the people in the list that I mentioned, the child rapists. The murderers. I mean, we listed their crimes pretty specifically.
They are out there defending those individuals, and then they decide to use their vehicle as a deadly weapon and gun it towards an ICE agent, all captured on multiple cameras. Leaving zero question as to the intent of the driver. And you're comparing that? to Charlie Kirk. Who is simply debating in the public square.
I expect the left to do this. And I at least expect people who cosplay as being members of the quote-unquote right to pretend or at least go along with it. But this is something entirely. Unbelievable. Because they're trying to set it up like, oh, it's a police state.
In what way? That's really ultimately the intimation here. But to compare Renee Goode to Charlie Kirk and then try to Indict? Conservatives? for some lack of compassion because a woman chose to play chicken with her own life.
That that's somehow reflective upon the character of conservatives. That's asinine. What happened to Tucker?
Now I would talk to him about it, but he won't come on my show. He's told me that verbatim. He will not come on. Because I guess it's because I'm not an Islamist apologist and I won't ask.
Softball questions, and I won't laugh and chuckle and go along with everything. I mean, it's unfortunate. I, you know, I got to tell you, I get really tired of people who tell everybody else: well, if you have a problem, call me. If you have a problem, message me. And then when you do, they don't answer because they know that they're going to have to defend their position.
These people are cowards. Absolute cowardice. 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. The new year brings new health goals and wealth goals.
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