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This morning, I issued a correction first thing in the morning on X for a mistake that I made in last night's show, but I also wanted to do so on air as well. I incorrectly said that the bombs that were thrown by ISIS-inspired suspects in New York over the weekend were directed at Mayor Mamdani. They were not. I failed to catch and correct that mistake in real time, and I take full responsibility for that. And while we do make mistakes, it is important to acknowledge and correct those errors when they happen.
So that's Abby Phillips, and I'm not going to give her a full credit. For a reason, and I'll explain. First, welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you, Top of the Second Hour. That's Abby Phillips on CNN. And she's talking about that story where she had said, oh, yeah, they were targeting Mandani, the Mandan, when in fact it was ISIS sympathizers, and they were given the ISIS salute with their hands.
Uh and they were the ones who were uh they were targeting the Uh people that were protesting the Iranian regime out there. That's what it was. And she Red copy. that said that they were targeting Mandani. And she said, Well, I should have caught it.
Now, I only give her partial credit for actually doing what. I haven't seen other people on CNN do. which is to correct it the way she did. But She would not have corrected it had there not been pushback. Because I look I'm not an idiot.
She thinks that you all are stupid and that you don't know what it's like on a news set. I do.
So let me tell you. When you're sitting there on a set, and I've been on numerous CNN sets, remember, I was a token conservative there. ten years ago when there were no conservatives there. And there still really aren't. Scott Jennings's, you know, like the second iteration.
And it's, I mean, he looks like he's having a lot of fun, but it'll just, you know, there's teeth bared behind the scenes. It's hard. And I've been on that set. These people don't write their they don't write their own copy. They can review it.
But when it's in the prompter You have the choice whether or not to repeat the stuff that you see in the prompter or not. I read prompters for some of our commercials that we tape. I have read prompters for scripts and other things that I produced. On radio, obviously, with our simulcasts, we don't use them. It's just me talking with you.
But I've read from prompters for years. For ad copy or for live to taping for certain events that we have elements to do, you know, when we're on sets and stuff. You have the choice because you see it in the prompter and you have the ability. to practice comprehension. And you know whether or not You should just stop it or not.
But that's a lot of these newsreaders, they're not comfortable with independent thinking, and they feel completely. It's like taking the training wheels off a bicycle if they have to think live on air without the crutch of words in the prompter. But she still had the choice as to whether or not she wanted to say it. And Kane said that CNN Legal probably advised is probably their standards and practices. They probably got so much pushback.
But not from their leftist base. The VP of Standards and Practices at CNN for Fact. would would wake up in the morning, read media matters and take a deuce. Deuce, read media matters and shave. That's what he would do.
No show. Every time they wrote something, I would have to answer to it every single time. It's still kind of like that over there.
So it wasn't, they weren't getting pushback from their base. They were probably getting pushed back from some of the moderate people who were like, wait, wait, wait, hold up. What? who were really taking issue with the characterization.
So only partial credit is given here. only partial.
Now Last Hour. And I want to wrap this part up. I was telling you about the tactic. that is being used. It's a psyop being perpetrated on you.
On the right, to not only tank Midterms. To not only get a replacement for Trump in position.
now that he's winding down. And his charm. But also. To diminish. the dominant power of the United States of America.
It's our ongoing series, The War. For the soul of the right. And we were talking about Alexander Dugan. And I know this is, you know, you're like, Dana, this is unusual for you to, it's important, is why. And it is very real.
This is not conspiracy theorist stuff. There are tweets. There are emails, there's a lot of stuff out there, and I have a lot of it up at my sub stack. The guy who is the considered Putin's right hand ideological adviser. Alexander Dugan, he's an occultist.
He's Not a Christian. He tries to wrap himself up in, you know, bishops' robes, but he's not. I mean, this is a guy who Joined this satanic, esoteric, Nazi occult circle in 1980, the Yuzinski circle. They did seances, they had hypnotism, they did they used Ouija boards, trances, they had pentagrams, all of this. He adopted this alter ego named Hans Sevir as a reference to the Nazi researcher of the paranormal.
That's the stuff. I mean, his influences, Aleister Crowley is like one of his biggest influences. And I told you how even Steve Bannon had met with him in Rome. We talked about that with James Lindsay last week. And Bannon routinely promoted Dugan's commentary, especially to Epstein.
I have the email on Substack. Carlson does as well. Multipolarity. Just look at multi. You know unipolarity is one, multi is many.
The argument is that As we know it, the United States emerged as the dominant force after World War two. And is the superpower? That's unipolarity, una one. They're trying to argue that no, no, no, the West the America is now diminished. There's multi-polarity, meaning other players that are just as dominant as the United States.
And they're suggesting that China and Russia are just as dominant. These are lies. Absolute lie. And they thought Trump was going to go along with it. He was expected to be an isolationist.
He was expected to cede influence on the world stage, to China, most particularly, but he didn't. Because he realized if he were to do so, the move would fuel America's geopolitical foes. There is a big difference. Between Neocon And just simply not giving up influence. And the multipolarity advocates argue that the United States has to withdraw from the world stage, and they characterize any and all opposition as quote-unquote neocon.
Neoconservatism for the people who misuse it. It includes a foreign interventionist nation building policy. which many people on the right, myself included, have consistently opposed. In my early days in radio. I oppose this.
I have a very unique Past in which you literally can see my consistency over a decade.
Now, this is an approach to foreign policy that drove away many Republicans. in the early knots, 2000, 2001, 2000, all that whole era. Communists, as I saw as I said, made note of this, and they devised of a way to convince Americans to withdraw from the world stage entirely, so that America's enemies could grow and fill that power vacuum. And Trump wouldn't go along with it because he realized that actually is putting America last if we cede the ground and allow someone else to overtake us. and dominance.
And Dugan and these other fomenters out there were very unfamiliar apparently with Trump's consistency. We played audio of him in 1980, months after the Iran hostage crisis in 1979, when he called for a military response to Iran after they had tons of Americans hostage. Dugan was so mad, he said that these hopes in Trump were totally destroyed.
So let's look at this. You know, and even when Tucker Carlson had on Duke and he interviewed him, he retconned his history and only introduced him as a mere philosopher. True. The world is still unipolar. And the United States is the dominant force still.
There is no comparison. There was a really great piece. Uh that was written. I'm gonna pull this up so I can properly credit it. I have it all linked.
Foreign Affairs had a really great piece. They said, in going to war with Ukraine, Russia showed a willingness to test this revisionist potential, discussing the revisionism of reality between. Who's dominant? But, they write, the very fact that Putin felt the need to invade is itself a sign of weakness. In the nineties, if he had told his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, that in twenty three Russia would be fighting a war to sustain its sphere of influence over Ukraine, which Russian officials back then would assume would end up as a reliable ally, he would have scarcely believed that Moscow could sink so low.
It's ironic now when Unipolarity's in to so frequently declare that Russia is struggling to get something it thought it already had when U.S. primacy was at its peak. And he said that the misadventure in Ukraine has greatly undermined Russia's long-term economic prospects because of the wave of sanctions. that the West unleashed. And Additionally, Russia is always portrayed as this Cornerstone.
Of multipolarity, but yet they even have fewer attributes required to even shape the international system.
Okay, they got nukes. Yes, they have some conventional military power. The economy is narrowly dependent on natural resources. They've fallen far behind in developing emergency technology like AI, robotics, like China. It faces also faces a declining population.
The EU is not even comparable as a potential poll. They're politically divided. They just voted majorly conservatives on immigration, which we'll talk about. And they're dependent entirely on the United States for their security.
Now Europe is trying to make amends by increasing their defense spending, but even the best case scenario, guess who has to come calling? If they need help, they have to call for the United States. As it relates to China, This is a really insightful piece. This is over at Foreign Affairs. It's not even partially unipolar.
Still American dominance. Unless the U.S. Navy withdraws from Asia, their revisionist ambitions over at Foreign Affairs, they write, can currently extend no farther than the first island chain, the string of Pacific archipelagos that includes Japan, Philippines, and Taiwan. And that's not going to change anytime soon because it's going to take decades, if not years, decades, not years, actually, for China to develop the full range of capabilities needed to contest our command of the commons. And China may not even bother to seek that.
Because right now it's costly. And we're projecting a lot of power right now. The only place they could scratch their revisionist itch was in Taiwan. Their interest obviously is glowing is growing with that. But Beijing's yearnings for Taiwan are a far cry from the revisionist challenges of the past.
Such as those mounted by Japan and Germany in the first half of the 20th century, the Soviet Union in the second. Each of those countries conquered and occupied vast territories across great distances, and if China did manage to put Taiwan in its column, even the strongest proponents of the island's strategic significance do not see it so valuable that changing its alignment would generate a dramatic swing in the distribution of the power of the kind that made multipolarity so dangerous. And that's the thing. This China remains at some distance from being a true power. In the international order, its growth rate is slowing, it's going to slow further because of demographic decline.
The outsized role of state-owned enterprises in its economy. The currency lacks global reach. Few international transactions are conducted because of strict capital controls and a lack of financial transparency. Their military has only strengthened their position in East Asia singularly, but they lack the logistic networks, accesses to bases, alliances required to project power worldwide. And Trump's economic moves and the tariff war disrupted further.
The Dugan playbook. The EU capitulated without argument. Japan and Korea invested. India stopped resisting after they were hit with reciprocal tariffs. Only China.
Retaliated and they decided to restrict exports of rare earth elements.
Now, this is why I said the Strato Hormuz and Trump's movement there was super important. I wrote this last week. that now with the U. S. Navy escorting ships through the strait and insuring vessels, we become the gatekeeper of the strait.
That gives us leverage. You screw with us on supply chains, including rare earths, and we will screw you right back with passage at Hormuz. Boom. And the Russia-China alliance? Sure it matters.
but it's not a systemic power shift. If the aim of foreign affairs rights is to balance against a superpower whose leadership and extensive alliances are deeply embedded in the status quo, the counteralliance has to be similarly significant. They fail the test. They don't even call it a formal alliance. China only purchases some oil.
They didn't do a damn thing to really help Russia with Ukraine the first year. They didn't have sustained cooperation across a variety of areas. It's a shallow cooperation born of convenience. And even if they upgraded their relations, they're still only a regional military power. They lack the capability.
to project any further power. That's the play. We our enemies concocted a multi-prawn attack to force us off the world stage and into diminishment. And because Christianity is the biggest threat to tyranny, they want to create discord there as well. That's something that's forthcoming.
and allow Islamism to rise by keeping everyone distracted fighting over Israel, using Israel as a cudgel against Protestants and Catholics, while simultaneously attempting to fracture the U. S. Israeli alliance, our only official ally in the Middle East. The war between Catholics and Protestants. I'm going to be writing about this coming up as well.
But this is all a psyop. that you need to know about. and they're executing it now as Trump's term wanes. This is all timing precise. As we move, We have to hat tip the people who make the program possible for you, and that's American Financing.
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Now, you might be like, oh yeah, that's great.
Well, you're looking at it in an American context. Look at what's happening in Britain right now. What does that mean, hereditary noble? Those are the people like the dukes and the barons and the viscounts and all of that and the marquess. They have these titles that go to the eldest male of their family, the next in line, every year.
So, like for hundreds and hundreds of years, you know, they have these families that control the seats.
Now, consider the issue of rampant. illegal immigration in Britain. They are completely defeating themselves with it. What is now? Who's going to take over those seats?
Now you see. See, you can't look at it through the American perspective. You have to look at it Through what Britain is going through right now.
So they're ousting all of these people in parliament. And they said it's archaic and undemocratic, and the labor government's really, really into it.
Well, who's going to take over those seats? Britain is gone. They're gone. Uh also I know, how crazy is that? I never thought I would actually be like, oh no, maybe right now hereditary titles are what you need over there.
Let's see. Texas's ban on selling smokable cannabis takes effect March 31st. I thought it was already banned. The vape stuff was banned, right?
So the liquid stuff. This is the smokable cannabis, the actual flower, the bud.
So like a joint. I thought that was all right. Nope. Really? Not that I'm gonna go smoke joints.
I think they just did it in this succession so that they got the success with banning it from the actual liquid, and then now they're banning the flour. Mounting claims of identity theft by Uber drivers are raising passenger safety concerns. People are showing, well, actually, several people across the country are reporting having received tax forms. showing income from Uber, despite never signing up to drive for them. Oof.
That's Yeah. Eight Disneyland workers taken to the hospital after a hazmat situation backstage. A mysterious sodor. Causing Disney dizziness and short of breath. It sounded like uh Moira Rose.
At least eight Disneyland employees were taken to the hospital on Tuesday. It was a hazardous material.
Sounded like someone duced their britches, but no, no, no. They they said it was uh actually, do they never say they never really said what it was? Huh? Oh boy.
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And again, the details are still. kind of coming in, but somebody drove a car into a synagogue And then opened fire In the synagogue And now, some of these early reports from press there on the ground are that the. Shooter is Dead. And we don't know anything about any other injuries or anything else at this point. Um other than It looked like he ran the car in.
There were no students in the building. Apparently, classes were not in session. But ROTC, ROTC teacher was apparently one. Who was uh shot or wounded. and two people injured apparently and a I uh the Reports are the shooter who is who is dead.
I don't know if he was killed by. The security there, because he apparently was engaging security there when he got out of the vehicle. but that he was Muslim.
So that's all we know at this point And Some of the students are speculating that They think it may be related to Iran. That's what some of the students are saying. when we get confirmed information. I'll share that with you, excuse me, as we get it. But It is the synagogue in West Bloomfield.
in Michigan. It's twenty nine minutes from Dearborn. Ha. 29 minutes away from Dearborn. And so this is This is the the latest that we are seeing.
And of course, you had the instance at Old Dominion today, which is a gun-free zone, where you had two people injured. And then there's news coming out. About And by the way, that synagogue, Temple Israel synagogue, it was a vehicle ramming, and then apparently the guy opened fire.
So it may be just the same. singular individual. But then there's word too that the Son? The hominy. How many how many how many is junior?
That The one who was selected to take over from his father. And then, when they did the, what do they call it? Like the. Confirmation or when they announced him that he would be the new supreme leader, they just had his picture. And He wasn't actually there, and everyone was questioning whether he was alive.
Now, they were saying that, oh, no, he has a hurt foot. and a bruise on his eye. He's okay.
Well, then why haven't we seen him?
Well, now Intelligence has come out. saying that he's apparently gravely injured. and he's in a coma and he has lost a leg. And apparently this was all during the first wave of strikes in Iran. He's ba so basically w what they're saying is that you have a bunch of what, generals in that, I guess, that are running the show there?
The IRGC, some of those dudes are kind of running the show because it's not that guy. Because how many juniors apparently No, I mean it looks like he's Down for the count. If he's in a coma. And He has his leg amputated. That's interesting.
So one of the things that Jordan Shatchell had reported. is that the fifty six year old Because they can't produce, you know, they can't bring him out. They apparently Uh he was in uh Was injured in the first wave of strikes, and he's in intensive care in the ICU unit of the Sina University Hospital in Tehran's historic quarter. They apparently have an entire section of the building sealed off and under heavy security. This is what intelligence is saying.
And that he's understood to have lost at least one leg. and has severe internal injuries, possibly to his stomach or liver. And they said, essentially, Iran is being run by regional commanders of the IRGC. and there are apparently under orders to fight on indefinitely, even without structure of leadership.
So it basically to ghost Ayatollah. That's Very interesting indeed. Very interesting.
Now, a couple of other things to touch on as we're following. all of these. all of these things in the EU. This is significant. You know the EU, which really has ruined Europe.
They had a breakthrough in their parliament. The European Union, there is a fight for Conservatives to take over. And they've been really ultimately they want to take over and get out of the EU, but they've got to take over. And there's been and that means they have to elect conservatives within their own countries first.
So it's a two part process. You have to EU members, they have to get more conservative in their own elections in their own countries, and then from there, from those elected conservative officials, they will send those people to the EU. to their the EU members of parliament. And then they can take over and make it more conservative that way.
So it takes really a revolution in Europe. Spain The Socialists have had some setbacks and they're losing numbers, but right now you have Pedro Sanchez running it. Italy's doing very well. Italy's the most conservative entity there. And France, the Conservatives have been fighting back and rising.
uh as well as in Austria and uh Belgium and elsewhere. Flanders.
So it's been going they've been fighting quite hard. But they had this Uh vote on Immigration. It was a huge thing. They're right-wing majority. passed a deportation regulation.
They had all three conservative factions that voted together. The new measures include trade sanctions for states that refuse to take back. The people who came into their country illegally, illegal immigrants. Lifetime entry bans for security threats. DNA age assessments for illegal aliens.
Mm-hmm. Lifelong injury bans and a device that they're and and a dev and a way to check their phones to determine origin. Wow. Because remember, they were blocking reimmigration. They would not allow remittances, or not remittances, repatriation.
They were blocking that. This is huge forty one to thirty two. Huge. I mean, I can't even tell you how significant this is. And all of the members of these factions voted yes, along with.
Uh One member of the Slovakian Social Democrat Party. and they kicked him out of the party. Wow. That is impressive. That is, oh my gosh, you guys don't even understand how huge that is.
So that means If Germany refuses to, and Germany was one of the worst defenders of this. In fact, one of the reasons why it was so bad, not just the EU. But Angela Merkel, Over Germany, because they allowed everybody in. And because Germany allowed everybody in. And then they had basically uh with the EU, they wanted uh boundaryless Entry into all of the other EU nations because they welcomed all these people in.
They went from Germany to everywhere else. Germany's really always the damn problem. Why? Stop it. Good night.
But that's real colonization. They're pushing back on colonization. Islam is the real colon they're the real colonizers. Don't even talk about the English. They are the real.
Colonizers. They're colonizing France. They're colonizing Austria. They're colonizing Bosnia. They're colonizing Albania, trying to colonize Albania.
They're colonizing Kazakhstan. They're fighting the Coptics in Ethiopia. In Chad. I mean, this is crazy. They've been colonizing Southeast Asia.
India It's getting pretty crazy. Trying to do that in the United States. Also. And it doesn't help. I want to read you.
My Charlie Cook is a friend of mine. I want to read you what I think is the best column that has been written this year. I really and you're going to want to hear it. It's not super long. But I don't know if you were aware of this.
Who do you know who are who's on the bank notes? of the uh currency over there. Churchette? Yeah, Churchill. Churchill, not a controversial figure, right?
This guy is England. The Bank of England confirmed that they're taking him off of their bank notes. and replacing him with images of wildlife. They're asking the public which animals they want to appear on the next 5 pound, 10 pound, 20 pound, 50 pound note. But they confirmed that Churchill's not going to be on it.
Now, they said that it was significant and overdue by celebrity bird watcher Nadeem Perea, who sits on the bank's panel of wildlife experts. They're going to choose the English species on this set the next set of banknotes. My friend Charlie Cook wrote, Significant? Undoubtedly so but overdue? What, pray, can that mean?
Winston Churchill was instrumental in saving Great Britain, and, for that matter, the wider world. Is there some statute of limitations on the celebration of such figures of which I was previously unaware? He adds great nations have heroes, and one could perhaps understand if the Bank of England had chosen to rotate those heroes on a schedule, but to remove all of them and replace them with animals is something else entirely. By the time that this process is complete, no Great Britain from any field of endeavor will be featured. Currently, British bank notes depict Winston Churchill, Jane Austen, JWM Turner, and Alan Turing.
Previously, British banknotes depicted James Watt, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Frye, Edward Elgar, Isaac Newton, Charles Dickens, Adam Smith, Michael Faraday, George Stevenson, Christopher Wren, Florence Nightingale, William Shakespeare, henceforth. British banknotes will depict badgers, foxes, and robins. Why is that overdue?
Now Me, they were saying over at uh one of the Politico, they were saying that the uh The key drivers, they, yes, counterfeit resilience, but they want to celebrate different aspects of the UK because they have a rich and varied wildlife. Charles Cook says, well, certainly creating new bank notes can help increase counterfeit resilience, but there's nothing about the inclusion of animals rather than of people that makes those new notes more resilient. As for the different aspects of the UK line, he says, Give me a bloody break. Having grown up there, I have nothing particular against Britain's wildlife. And while it may be indeed rich and varied, it's not what the country is famous for.
Ask a foreigner to tell you what's unique about Britain. Fewer than one in ten thousand will say, Oh, yeah, Britain, isn't that the place with the rich and varied wildlife? No, they'll mention Churchill and Shakespeare and the Beatles and Isaac Newton and Florence Nightingale. Every country has animals. Not every country has Churchill or Shakespeare or the Beatles or Isaac Newton or Florence Nightingale.
And by choosing to depict animals instead of those people, the Bank of England has decided to be less British, not more. And he says, which of course is the point. Animals aren't controversial. People are. And he gets into, you know, the word patriots is jingoistic, giants is disparaging to smaller people, you know, et cetera, et cetera.
He says animals are abstractions, people are not. People are real, discrete, identifiable people. With names and achievements and sins, are invariably imperfect. People have attributes that are unpleasant or embarrassing or awkwardly rooted in their eras. People require defending from cultural vandals who like to elevate their flaws over their virtues, and that defense takes patience, grace, and courage.
And he adds this. He ends it with a quote from Tennyson. Evidently the Bank of England no longer has that courage. Perhaps England in general no longer has that courage. If so, this story is not really about what goes on the money, but about how Britain sees itself and how Britain wants to be seen around the world increasingly.
It seems that Britain does not want to be seen at all. its political rulers do not like its flag, its spiritual leaders do not like its church, its historians do not like its history, all of those centuries of achievement and innovation and inquiry, and the only symbol that is now acceptable to the custodians is a hedgehog. Half a league, half a league, half a league onward, all in the valley of nothing. Folks who upbraid the program, Patriot Mobile, is the only Christian conservative cell phone service. Christian Conservative.
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Okay, I've just got Ah man, let me do this one first. A Florida man, if you're in Florida and you're missing some Amazon packages, there's a reason why. A Florida man stole an Amazon truck, just drove right off with the driver in the back. The driver was in the back of the truck, like, getting stuff to deliver. Brewer County said that the driver it was in Merritt Island, he stopped to deliver to deliver packages.
The suspect, Josephie Baldy, Jo I don't know, it's Joseph with a Y. I don't know how to pronounce that. Stopped and started to yell at the driver. And then he said he the driver said he'd move it in the second, but apparently Baldy didn't like it. That's his name.
I don't know. And he got in the truck and drove off with it. Literally started moving. It's on camera. It's on camera.
Got in the truck and started driving off. Uh they obviously they they pulled him over and arrested him, but good heavens. On earth. If somebody's blocking the roadway, you call the cops. You don't sit here and hijack their vehicle.
That's just stupid.
Okay, I am really confused on this. A Florida man was arrested after a scheme to steal over $600,000 worth of. Potatoes and onions. Yeah. That's a lot.
I was trying to do the math on that's a lot. 39-year-old Jason Canals. was accused of running multiple schemes to defraud wholesale produce companies. He was arrested two days ago. But yeah, he apparently was requesting shipments of produce without permission and used the company's email and signature and then I guess reselling it.
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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. I've had as many or more gay friends than straight friends or whatever. I don't even know how many letters there are now. They really got to stop with that. You know, we know what you mean, you know.
And I'm not telling anybody how to live their life. I never have. I just know what Jesus said. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Love God first.
The Shema, every Jew says it every morning. Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God is one. And then Jesus said, added on to that, and love your neighbor as you love yourself. I like Kathie Lee Gifford. Why are people giving her hate?
Lay off. You know, the only people giving her hate are the people that have empty lives. She's like one of the nicest people. She said that the alphabet stuff has got to stop because there's so many damn letters. You know what?
She's not wrong. Stop it. Stop being like, guys. Don't forget, I'm different. Oh my gosh!
Did I wake up this morning and no one affirmed that I'm different? Oh my gosh. That's what it is. They're trying so hard to like be like they're trying so hard to be included that they want to be excluded. Look, we're different.
Even the conservative gays are like, okay, this is enough. This is so stupid. Stop with the XYZ barbecue, all of the letters. I do love barbecue, though. I don't even understand what that means.
When you say, there's like more, I'm like possession. That's a possession, it's a movie. Right? Where is she she's not wrong on this? She's not wrong.
There's too much. Although Steve notes that XYZ BBQ is a sick band name. That actually is a really. Would it be like that's a Medal with banjos. Ooh, like metal, metal billy.
Oh, we just create I mean rockabilly button metal, right? And then with some like brisket.
So, so good. And I mean, like, a brisket with a little bit of seasoning, not meat drowning in a soup of sauce. I love you, Carolinas, but... I'm going to get a hate mail for that one. You know what?
You send it to me, and I'll read it while I'm eating proper barbecue. Oh my gosh, we're just making a mess here. Anyway. I love you. Don't send me hate malicry.
I won't. But don't So I don't know why she's getting so. I mean, she's so nice. She's one of those people that could totally disagree with you in the most strenuous of ways, but she's so nice about it. But she's not wrong.
And she's also saying, quit putting your identity in things that actually don't matter. None of that stuff matters ultimately. She's thinking in kingdom terms, y'all. She's not looking at earthly terms. None of this stuff matters in earthly terms.
She's talking about kingdom terms. That's what she's meaning.
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It's time for Dana's Quick Five. A couple of things: this breaking story: Michigan active shooting incident reported at a synagogue in West Bloomfield. That's all we have. That's all we really know about at this point. But as soon as we get more information, I'll share that with you.
In the meantime, also, the second warmest winter in U.S. history. Do we get to see the groundhog? The ground, that rat, that rat lied. The rat with all its friends and the top hats, it lied.
It's the second warmest winter. Lying rat. Just saying. Pambondi is being reported per New York Times to have moved into military housing because of threats, not just from people who don't like her, but also Iran. Interesting.
I don't know what I think about that. Also, air taxis are coming to a city near you. Pilot projects have been approved. That's the last thing that we need is air rage. Road rage and air rage.
You know it's going to happen. Taxis. Air taxis. Those are called airports and airplanes. That's really what it is.
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