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I might as well just do this. The woke Reich nonsense. Can I just talk about this for a moment? I can't believe I have some links here.

So, yesterday I noticed this. First off, let me tell you something. I don't suffer fools. I don't. I don't have the patience.

I don't have the tolerance. I am not miscongeniality. nor do I ever seek to be. I don't care. I do not care.

I don't know how much more frank I can be about that. And I get really aggravated sometimes. When I see, like, so much of this is a psyop, and I see people fall for it. You know, the people that, you know, go on and on that are falling for this red-green alliance are just another iteration of 15 days to slow the spread and triple vax and mask. They're just another iteration of those people.

They're just caught into a psyop. And I was thinking about this yesterday because I don't really get into the comments very much on Instagram or Facebook because, dear heavens, there aren't enough hours in the day. I've got laundry to do. I've got dinner to make. I have my job to do.

I don't have a team. I'm not Bill Gates. I don't have a team of people around me to do everything for me. I don't have an assistant. I don't have a research assistant.

I never have.

So it's me, it me that does this. I just don't have the time and I don't have the interest in it. But every now and then, I'll look and I just see some things and things that need correcting, I'll correct. And one of my kids actually was the one who tipped me off to some of the comments on the post that I put up about Erica Kirk yesterday.

So Again, just to reiterate, I am a daughter of thunder that is trying very hard to be Proverbs 31. And some of y'all aren't making it easy. And I'm looking at my comments. My son sent me some screenshots of some pretty crazy stuff, and I started going through some of these Instagram comments. A lot of them that are raging are bots, and I started blocking bots whenever I can.

I'm not interested in any kind of fabrication. I have never in my life. I've never even paid to promote my stuff on social media. Never have done it. I have never bought anything.

I have never paid to promote social media. I have never, everything is a thousand percent organic. And it has to be because after Parkland, the left pretty much murdered me on social media. They had me kicked off YouTube. I had my Facebook shut down.

I had so many algorithms on X, I haven't changed my follower number in seven years. I've got the screenshots daily for years to prove it.

So Yeah, it's been all organic.

So I'm looking at the comments. Because I'll notice I've made it on Instagram where you cannot comment on my stuff unless you follow me.

So when my follower numbers spike, I know something's up. And I looked, and some of it were real people, but three-quarters of it were bots. These were people who had never posted anything on Instagram. It's like a random account generated, and they all go and they've been attacking Erica Kirk because it's an op. You need to realize this.

Don't buy into the new iteration of getting triple vaxed and masked. The reality with TPUSA is a bunch of people got mad after Charlie Kirk was murdered and they thought they were going to bully a widow and take over the organization. And that's God's honest truth. And I'm not going to tell you the names involved because it's not my company. It's not my organization.

But that's what's happening. We all know it.

Some of the people don't want to get involved in it because they don't want the grief that comes, the digital diarrhea that comes from some of these woke-reich, Al Sharpton wannabe grifters out there. But I don't care. Never have. In fact, I thrive on confrontation. Again, daughter of thunder, trying really hard to be Proverbs 31.

So I noticed these comments. on this Erica Kirk thing. A lot of them, and my son was sending, they were just, you know, the ones that weren't bots. I'll be real frank.

Some of them are bored ass broads. that apparently have such empty, unfulfilled lives. That they have tried to supplement their daily diet of afternoon stories and true crime by persecuting a widow. And I've seen these Broads accounts. Their lives do seem pretty unfulfilled.

Maybe their husband isn't giving them enough attention. Maybe he probably would if you didn't spend your days trying to Alex Forrest a widow. It's insane. And then some people are like, well, why does it bother you? Let me tell you.

For the people that are running their mouths about this. Do you know how pathetic and cringe to death that looks? I actually know these people. Off air. offline.

I know them. I've known Charlie since he was seventeen years old. We were one of the early supporters of TPUSA. I've met Erica. I know her.

They're sweet people. Just because they don't do things like somebody else does doesn't mean they merit any less consideration during a time of serious grief. And I'm watching grown ass women. Turn into fatal attraction. trying to run down a widow because what?

Oh, because one of your favorite podcastistan, Gal Sharpton, woke Rakers, is talking smack because they're not intelligent enough to t comment about any other issue of the day. I don't even like addressing this on this show. I would much rather talk about Islamism or Epic City, which none of the podcastistan people have ever discussed, ever. Every day they wake up and figure out ways to deuce on Israel or Erika Kirk. It's all a psyop.

But I see some of these and the women really sh really surprise me. I don't care if you like someone or don't like someone. What I do care about are people who sit here and they They speak Christ with their mouths and betray him and nail him. with their behavior. And I see them running down a grieving widow daily.

I see some of these people in my comments every single time it goes up. Daily. Who are you? With your sad little life, that you have to sit here and run down a widow. Again, you don't know these people.

Why doesn't she just go home with her kids? Why don't you go home with your kids and quit hanging out in comments sections obsessing over a widow like some lesbian stalker? Why not?

Well, why doesn't she? She's so upset about it. Who are you again? Are you involved in their everyday lives, Karen? Are you involved?

You know what's happening with their kids, Karen? Oh, you don't. No, it bothers the people who actually do know them and know how much they're grieving. to see some of these people take part in this like witch hunt. And play into this petty gossip and this nonsense.

So I get pretty vicious about it. Because none of these broads would ever say this in person, and you know it. I get pretty vicious about it because you see someone hurting, and I don't like to see people who know better. Especially when they're older. What is the matter with you?

You didn't get slapped enough when you were younger, clearly. That runs down a grieving widow. Like I said in the video that was posted, I don't want to be near any of you when God's judgment comes down because Katie barred the door.

Well, why doesn't she go home with her kids? What business is it of yours? You have no idea how their family's structured. Why don't you tend to your own business? Tend to your own family.

Maybe tend to your husband all the hours that some of y'all broads spend online, Alex Forresting, this widow. And maybe if you stopped doing that and you kind of paid a little more attention to your home life, your home life would improve and you wouldn't feel so empty and awful and feel the need to behave like this in an ungodly manner. Check yourselves, or God will check you.

Now I saw that Brian Harple, who is one of the Was the security guy for Charlie filed a defamation suit against Gal Sharpton? Who's, and I don't like addressing it, but it comes up. And content, and it becomes a big thing. And again, these are people, I know all these people. I've known all of them off air for many years.

And I've always kept my distance from Gail Sharpton because she's always been a grifter. She got started doxing conservative gamers. She was on the feminist side during Gamergate. And people forget that. I don't.

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

So Brian Harpole filed a defamation suit, and it's a doozy. His attorney dropped it, said, on behalf of Brian Harple, I filed this defamation suit against Gail Sharpton. We're not going to provide any other statements. You can follow for updates.

So These people Who were like involved with security, they're done with it. And I think Erica Kirk addressing it. Because if she doesn't address it, she's damned. If she does, damned if she doesn't. If she doesn't address it, she gets attacked.

If she addresses it, she gets attacked. If she smiles, she gets attacked for not grieving properly. If she cries, she gets attacked because they say it's performative. If she doesn't say anything, she gets attacked. If she wears black, she gets attacked.

If she doesn't wear black, she gets attacked. She's not going to do anything right for the people who want to hate her because they're empty, godless ghouls.

Some of these people, if they were real Christians. They'd be ashamed. But they're soulless demons, so of course they don't feel any of that. No, um I'll tell you, she has more grace than patience than any of these people deserve. Than any of them deserve.

Definitely more than I could ever muster. And instead of attacking her, maybe y'all should maybe try to model her behavior of grace a little bit more. Ever think about that, Creative King? Did you ever think about that? While you betray him with your behavior.

No, she was talking about why she was at the White House Correspondence Center. I get it. She wanted to be in the room with the people who were attacking her. To see if they had the beans to step up, which of course none of them did. Because that's a legacy press, much like common online trolls.

That's the legacy press. These people wouldn't have the courage to do the stuff that she does.

So you got that suit being filed. And in the meantime, there were some numbers that came out. Explain this to me.

So apparently, all of Tucker Carlson's numbers are just well, I knew, I mean, they're kind of garbage. They were trying to count everything from basic X views to like what? Every little scrap they could get. to make it look like um the numbers were larger than they were. It's like what gun control people do.

When they are trying to pad the numbers and make you think that there are more school shootings than there actually are.

So they include things that happen three blocks away from a school, and they try to include that as counting as a school shooting. That's the same kind of math. That was being done here.

So apparently, people were running the figures on it, and they were saying, wow, he even counted X views. Do you know we don't count X views? Whenever I send out information about what we do online, I never include that. Do you know why? Because it's garbage.

It's a garbage metric. Let me tell you, when you're on X, And you've seen like a million of these videos. They autoplay, right? First off, they autoplay. That's number one.

Secondly, All you gotta do is let it auto play for like a second and it counts it as a full view. Do you see how that shouldn't really count? That's what I'm talking about. A lot of it's botted. A lot of it's botted.

Um And it's not organic. None of it's organic.

So they were saying, oh no, he scored record ratings at Fox and he's got all of this, and none of that makes any sense. It sounds like his investors are panicking. is kind of what it sounds like to me anyway. Because it doesn't seem like they are happy with the numbers that they were getting. And yeah, rage watching is a real thing.

I get that. But You don't really You don't really count your stats like this. And that's one of the things that I was looking at with, you know, there, and it was trending last night because people were going, wait, wait, wait, you counted this view, you counted that. It's an overinflation. Like the gun control people.

So It just doesn't, like I said, we were talking about this, but the video, like the views on YouTube, Kane, that's something we never count. Because it doesn't make any sense. to do that. It's not an actual full view. No, we actually look at the numbers and and gauge based on our last numbers whether there's growth or no growth or whatever.

We just go from that point. We sort of use it as a metric for our own Performances. Like X has other actual metrics that people use. To measure engagement because if you're on X and you just see a video, even if you're scrolling past it, That counts as a view. And they included that.

and their view count. to really pad up their views. Is that not insane? If I did that, holy cow, I would have like per trillions of views if I did that. But we don't do that because it's fake and gay.

So we don't do that. Oh, it is, and you know it. Totally fake. Gahee. Yeah.

Okay.

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That sound seems to show everything happens for Reese's. This was a survey, may pull this survey up, it was f from the Manhattan Institute. Listen to this.

So this is right after the White House correspondence. Dinner. It says in our last Manhattan Institute survey, we found that 46%. of today's democratic coalition. Believes that the assassination attempt against Trump in July of 2024 was orchestrated.

by his supporters to increase sympathy for him. End quote. How much of that was led by Marjorie Trailer Green? Just wondering. curious.

That is wild. There were a lot of people, especially Now that are in wonder or questioning Butler, like Marjorie Trailer Green is questioning Butler. Which is insane, but okay. A number of people. This was a crazy...

So you have woke Reich and the left that all believe the same thing. They think that, oh, well, Trump is just because it's probably something they would do. Hell, they did do it.

Southern Poverty Law Center was paying people. Here's the job. Can you imagine showing up at Southern Poverty Law Center? I'm here to work.

Okay, here's the job. Yeah.

We want you to go on social media. And use the hard R.

Okay.

The person's like, what? Here's your money. Yeah, here's your money. We'll give you $2,000 to use the hard R on social media. And there were people who were like, yeah, all right.

They just took it. Thought about it for half a second. They thought about it. Mm. Yeah, okay.

And then that's like over a period of time. They literally oversaw. And that's just one aspect of what they did. They literally oversaw. people they were paying To fight racism, type racist things on social media and hit SIN tweet.

That's That's pretty amazing. But and now you have that.

Well, that's why the left believes that. They believe that because they literally do it.

Well, we did this, so of course Trump did. He made this up. Because we do it. Because you do it. Isn't enough.

of A Subs substantive. valid bit of evidence to support your straw man. It's just not. But 46%. And again, because they all do it.

They all do it. I mean, Southern Poverty Law Center, the meme with the Spider-Man pointing at the Spider-Man, that's them. Guys, there's not enough racism. What's that boardroom meeting sound like? There's not enough racism, Bob.

I know, Tyrone. There is not enough. We're gonna have to create some racism. What do you mean, create some racism? Let's go and find some of the stupidest people on the internet.

To do the racisms for us. Oh, Bob, that sounds great. Let's do it. That's what they did. I I mean, think about it.

They got a good ROI. You know, they spent what a couple mil and they got lots of more mils back. I mean, that's a great business model. That's like saying my. I need to create a a burglary awareness organization that I can collect money on and then you literally pay people to burgle homes.

It just doesn't make any I mean, it makes it's a grift is what it is. It makes sense when you look at it. in the context of it's a grift. But it's crazy. I was looking at the the survey that they had.

Like they I mean, when I look at what the left lays, how they come in. It is literally no different than the Woke Reich. I mean no different. No different. It is insane to look at this stuff.

And so They start they actually start evening out when you start asking them about some of these crazy issues. But these are people that think, well, that Trump made it up. Trump just made it They think that Trump made up Butler? People realized what happened there, right? It was like the Lord above stuck a giant invisible hand down from the heavens.

Or from an alternate dimension if you maybe kind of wonder like I do. and turn Trump's head ever so slightly. Because if Trump had not turned his head. What, an inch? Two inches?

His brains would have been all over the stage. That's a fact. I mean, by the I that was a miracle. And if you were watching it live, you watched a miracle happen live on TV. There's no.

earthly way to explain that. There is none. And I don't know how people can watch that. And think, oh, yeah, it was only supposed to be a graze. It's like that Sebastian Manascalca skit.

where he's talking about his wife. She's like, I just it's the craziest thing just back the car out of the parking spot. and I hit one of those pylons, it's just a grace. I want to go and see what you think a graze is. They think that the graze was planned.

That it was meant to be a graze from that distance. Are these also the people that use words like you know, assault weapon with a clip and a b Bayonet knife. Are they do they use those terms? Because they sound like the same type of people. The people typing that on social media, do they have their masks on their face?

I'm very curious. I mean, it's just nuts. They're all the same people. But they think that that You saw that, and you know that that's, you know, and as Steve notes, these are the same people that think Erica Kirk killed her own husband. I need to get Some like daytime story music.

So we, I want to, I think, I feel like I want to make fun of this on the reg. Because if people, the people that I see participating in the gossip of that stuff, I mentioned it earlier, it's just unbelievable to me. But This I mean, it's just crazy. It's crazy. Did you guys see that Russell brand?

I can't believe I'm speaking a nice thing about Piers Morgan, but here it is. Did you Did you guys see Russell Brand on Piers Morgan the other day? I marked this to talk about it with you on the program. Because you know he's coming out. I wrote about his little book that he's coming out with.

And it's on Tucker Carlson's because Tucker Carlson looked at the Bible once, like the cover. And was like, I am now. A pastor? I don't know. But He was on Peters Morgan's show because he's got this, he's trying to sell a Christian book.

About how to be a Christian. I have no idea why someone who, I mean, Paul wrote. Repeatedly in the New Testament, and cautioned people about you don't put brand new converts in positions of influence or leadership for a reason. And he spelled it out very clearly in scripture.

So I had that same vibe when I saw the book cover, especially when I saw the book cover, because the book cover was literally a cross. W that made of insects, and then it had a nice little curse word underneath it. I don't know. But he's like now, he sells crystals, by the way, and he's also a Christian influencer. I don't know.

He's selling $240. Oh, it's a $240 magical amulet.

Sorry, but that's not Christian. If you're selling a magical amulet. What?

So anyway, he was on Piers Morgan with this shtick. This is one of the most awkward things I've ever watched in my entire life. All Morgan did was ask him, What's your favorite scripture? That's it. Watch.

Can I go back to asking you a question about your Bible? Yes, if you want to. Thank you. Was that the one you took into court? You're the very one.

Okay.

What was your thinking of taking it into court? And what you were seeing looking at some passages? What were the relevant passages for you? All right. Thank you for asking me.

Thank you. I didn't know how to do that. But a little bit. I feel like this is a skit. Um it was this from Isaiah.

You're right, Bear did say, you know, be chilled. Desire. It's like Benedict Cummerbank. Trying to say pimroff. Pingling.

Hmm. They don't like that, do they, in the old gallery, but Remember you just said it's a hired spot. Bottom pages. This is from Isaiah. Isaiah now, okay.

My favorite one. Cake or in things.

Well boy 11. Excuse me. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, he's still flipping through.

Okay, there. Piers Morgan is purposefully withholding any sound. This is the longest time I've been talking. Look at him, he's just letting him tie the noose. I don't like Piers Morgan, but...

Oh my gosh. It is this is a skit. What in the world? I would have had it bookmarked. Oh my gosh.

Uh-huh. The verse that I was looking at that day. was Yeah. I can't actually find the verse that I that I had that day. But this is good enough.

This is from Isaiah 12. My gosh.

Now, why are we talking about this in this manner? Because he's now reinvented himself as a Christian influencer. He's got the the sexual stuff happening over in England that's going to trial. But, um Yeah, he's I He's now a Christian influencer. It's a new income stream.

There it is. It's a new income stream. That's um That was harsh, man. I felt, is he like doing a Sasha Baron Cohen bit? It's like a boret.

That's what it feels like. Like a He's trying to be like a Christian borat. And I really legitimately wonder if it's not. Performance art. And he's just pretending to be this, and going on these podcasts, and going on these shows.

And doing this because he's Trying to, I mean, that's how it seems. That is why. Paul says you don't put newbies In positions of influence or leadership, there is a reason, y'all. I mean, he didn't use y'all in the New Testament, you know. Hebert didn't translate that way.

There really isn't a y'all in that, you know. Yeah.

But That was painful.

So That is Like we're seeing, this is like what we're seeing over and over again. And it was very, it seemed very performative. Like a lot of, I got to tell you, I love people coming to faith. And we're not like, nobody's being a gatekeeper. But don't be like, I just decided.

I'm gonna be Catholic, and now I'm a Catholic expert. And all you people who are like born into families that were Catholic and have been Catholic your whole lives, you're no longer Catholic. I'm more Catholic than you. I'm Catholicier. You know what I mean?

But there's a lot of that. And I'm seeing this, and I just look, that seemed performative, Kane. What do you think of my theory? Do you think he's boradina? Absolutely right.

And I think it's also an effort as we see the right being divided with all of the Israel talk and all of this. I'm seeing these people like the Kerry Pragines who we just saw on TV. That I think this is all performative and it's all intentional. It's all to say, look, you know, of course they're going to take advantage of the big tent philosophy that the right has. And so they're just doing it in this way to sort of cloak their way in Trojan horse style, in my opinion.

The church is under attack. It is seriously, I mean, it was under attack under the Biden-Obama administration. And it's under attack now from a lot of the same leftist forces. And it's been able to swing in a bunch of people who weren't on the, they were never on the right, but they joined the coalition. But they're really still at heart, they've got a lot of leftist tendencies.

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Perhaps it's true. Everything happens for Orees. I have a A handful of stories here, and we're going to get into Stephen Yates is going to be joining us at the bottom of the hour because I have been. Very Interested in this whole data center thing. And I know a lot of you have emailed me about it.

Whenever I am. I don't want to say late in talking about something. I don't like to rush to talk about something just to be first. I want to take my time and make sure that I'm thoroughly understanding everything that's involved. It usually involves a lot of like off-air conversations with experts and maybe some people who don't even really want to come on air, but they want to give you insight.

To really fully understand the situation. And the data center thing, like people in my hometown of Fustus, Missouri, they just defeated the creation of a data center that was going to be put in the area. And My first instinct is to be like, yeah, because we don't want it to take all the water and all that stuff. But then I'm like, wait a minute.

Something feels off. There's something that just feels off about the whole thing. Should we be that excited to Not have data centers. Because if we don't have them, who's going to have them? It rhymes with Schmeiner.

So then I started kind of looking around and I noticed that there was a lot, or not was, there are a lot of Chinese influencers. that Very much would love it for us to not have the creation of data set. They want us to fall behind, like we did with rare earth metals, fall behind China with that.

So the question then becomes, well, is there a way to do it responsibly? And not allow China to take first place in this. Because if they control that, then it becomes a NATSC issue.

So we're going to talk to Stephen Yates about all of this coming up. In the meantime though, ooh boy, do I have some things for you. I saw me pull this piece up. I saw this, it's from, originally was from the BBC. And It's I I don't quite know exactly how to present it.

It has to do, so here's the headline, BBC. Selling children to survive, Afghan fathers forced to make impossible choices. Yeah.

Um I am so confused about this. The BBC launches into this story. about These uh families in Afghanistan. who are selling their daughters. for marriage.

Right. That's what they're doing. They're selling their kids for Marriage. And these are really young kids too, right? They have this one guy, 45 years old, Ju Makan.

He found three days of work in the past six weeks. And he says that he thinks his kids are going to die of hunger and all of this stuff. And he goes, I'm willing to sell my daughters.

Now, this guy is like 40. He's like, what? What did I say? How old did I say it was? Stated his age up here.

Okay, he's 45 years old. He is healthy and he can do some kind of, he can sell his labor. Um But now, he's selling his daughters for marriage, and they're usually being sold, usually. The customers that are sold to old dudes that have money, and that those are the people who buy them. I don't know.

I can't even imagine something like that. And then the way that they put it though. It makes it sound like the fathers oh these they're very sympathetic figures. Right. These fathers are very sympathetic figures.

Can you, isn't it so sad that they're having to do this? Mm-mm-mm-mm. Wait a minute though. It talks about this one family, they're selling. I'm looking at the story right now.

So one family is selling. Their daughter One of the brothers. to buy. What?

A relative that's going to buy his six-year-old girl as a child bride. And all of the people, like, so social media has been saying, well, that's the custom. If you look at the notes on the BBC article, the people are defending it. They're saying, well, all of these profiled cases, this is selling daughters for marriage, is a long-standing cultural practice in parts of Afghanistan, etc. That's I don't care.

That's barbaric. And the other part of this makes me think First off. Why are they putting it in this sympathetic light? Like the dad's the victim? Hardly anything is said about the little girl.

The dad is so sad that he's got to do this. They're making impossible choices.

So Mm-hmm. The uncle is buying his niece as a child bride. And a lot of these girls end up pregnant before they're 12. It's pedophilia. But the uncle isn't decent enough to just help them out without having to sexually violate their six-year-old daughter?

Kill all of them. This is ridiculous. Seriously? He won't help financially to not have his relatives starve, but he'll buy the six-year-old. That's not a man, that's an animal.

And why? Here's the bigger thing.

So I read this piece. Why is that never discussed in the article? Kane, that's not ever brought up in the article. Nope. I I mean, I've I I'm I'm Read this piece, I have it open again.

At no point Do they get into how Maybe the rich family members, and a lot of the times it's like a cousin, it's like a rich uncle, something like that, that ends up buying the daughter. Why do they not have the decency? Does their religion not allow for charitable acts? Oh my gosh, but you know what the angle of the story was? They were trying to shame foreign governments for not giving them enough aid money.

That really was ultimately the soul of the piece.

Okay.

They didn't really care about any of that other stuff. In fact, they quote: We've had help from no one, not anybody in the government, no NGOs. The Taliban blames the previous Afghan administration. I just, I'm shocked at this. There is not at any point.

Does the journalist go? Hey, if the uncle and all of these other rich men are wealthy enough to literally buy your child, to save your family, then why do they not just give you money? and as a charitable act in your faith. That is never asked. Ever.

It's just, well, that's how it works here. I am And it's a British reporter. A British female reporter. And I'm just shocked that that wasn't a question that was brought up. That is the that's the culture.

That's considered acceptable. And the BBC had no had no issue with it at all whatsoever. If you sell your child for sexual slavery, you're not a parent, you're an animal. You're an animal. By the way, the BBC is government-funded.

So basically, you have British taxpayers that paid to have this article written to defend a human trafficker that sells their own kid into sexual slavery. If you want to look at it through that lens. Like they're actually trying to justify it. The biggest thing in this article in the BBC isn't the fact that the guy was selling his daughter. It's not the fact that a cr and the you know the uncle's like fi the uncle's like 52.

Oh. Oh, Kane and I are both gonna wretch. Six-year-old. But then they always I read another article that was similar to this where it was a nine-year-old that was being purchased. And then the guy buying her, who was in his late 40s, was like, Yes, but we're not going to consummate it for another couple of years.

Oh, you're going to wait till she's 11? And that's supposed to be the. I know Kane's eyes are. This is totally like pitch black corner over here. Kane's eyes are so big, they're like two moons.

Over in the corner. You look like literally, it's like a Warner Brothers sketch over here. It's like, what do they call it? It's sickening. What is it?

The Mohammed Protocol? Is that what they're doing? They're delaying a couple years. Nine-year-old. The whole article was about shaming foreign governments for not giving them enough money.

Like, well, the reason these men are sick perverts is because you don't give them money. Wait, how does that work?

So they stop being sick perverts when the appearance of a dollar manifests, when a dollar manifests in front of them?

Well, I was going to rape this six-year-old, but here's some money from a foreign government. I guess I won't now. The fathers look like the victims, and then all the foreign Western nations are supposed to look bad. Because They didn't give money to this. You cannot make this up.

I don't know. Uh here's something else for you. I've got two quick things. One of them I don't think I'm going to be able to get Through quick enough. Should I do that?

Let me do the Betty Boop one.

So Betty Boop, they're making a Betty Boop movie. Betty Boop she she's a flapper, right? Isn't Betty Boop a flapper? The hell's a flapper? I'm sorry, what?

What the hell's a flapper? What do you mean when you say she's a flapper?

Okay, you know what a flapper is? Like in their twenties. That was like they were so flappers, they were rebelling against the more traditional dress of the time.

So the women cut their hair and they had the fringe. And so my husband's grandmother. I think was a flapper. That was described. And they would wear the headbands with the feathers and all that.

That's like the flapper style. Anyway, I like it. Isn't Betty Boop a flapper? Is what I thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, so. The um Ugh. Let's see. She's this, she's a cartoon character. She, everybody knows Betty Boop, right?

She's, I think, was created like in the 30s.

So they are casting Quinita Brunson. She's starring and developing. the Betty Boop movie. And There are a lot of people that are upset about it. Because Quinita Brunson is black and Betty Boop.

Is white, apparently.

Well, not apparently, but people are apparently upset by it. Um I don't know that I care about this one. Because Even though it was 1920s, there were black women in New York and et cetera, and performers that were flappers. Josephine Baker, hello, was a flapper. I this one I'm not as long as she keeps her hair short and actually tries to match Betty Boop's hair, which was the thing, I'm not really upset about it.

The nostalgia is the period of time.

So if she aligns with that period of time and all things and suspends that disbelief. I'm going to need her to dress like it. I'm going to need her to have the vocal affectation because that's how Betty Boo Pad. But because I mean, so Josephine Baker, I am a, so I love Josephine Baker. I love her story.

I love her, you know, she spied on behalf of the Allies, right? That woman was sneaky and heroic. She was amazing. And she was in that era. Um So that there it doesn't seem ahistorical.

And the reason that I think that some people zero in on that stuff is because This world is so hellacious that you really have to get over a lot to get involved in it. Do you feel that way? You really have to get over a lot of reality baggage. To suspend your disbelief and get really invested in a story anymore. And so, as long as there is some historical association, I don't mind it.

Now, the Helen of Troy. That was the one that people objected to because that is ahistorical. And that's, it did make it, it's anachronistic and ahistorical. And the Odyssey and the Iliad, I mean, the descriptions exist there, and the descriptions of that person was to be an example of Zeus's deity, not man's. specific Preference for beauty.

It was an example of Zeus's power.

So that's why I think people objected to that casting. This one I don't really have an issue with. And you guys know Super Beats. This is a Texas-based company where everything that they do is in Texas. And it's very science-forward.

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They say everything happens for a reason, but I suspect everything happens for Orees. Like this commercial break. Did you need 15 seconds away from music? Or 15 seconds to eat Orees? Perhaps it's true.

Everything happens for Orees. Mm-hmm. We got POTUS is going to be heading to China. Uh we got all this other stuff as it relates to The H-1B stuff, there's a lot of Texas-centric stuff as well. Like, there's, we're going to get into it, like the H-1B, home financing, all of that.

We're going to also get into some 28 intrigue. But, can we just talk for a moment? I really need to get those out of my system. Can we just have a little talky talk about? How DEI apparently is still making things horrible.

Yeah.

When's the last time? Let me, first off, let's start here. I want you to be honest. What's the last movie that you guys went? to the theaters to see.

What's the last, like the actual, the last movie? that you went to the theaters to see. I can, I mean, I can actually count. On one hand, In the past. Five years, the times that I went to the theater to see a movie.

Oh, wow. Because they're just they're horrible They're horrible. I don't like a lot of it. They're just not creative. The first.

I know, like, right when COVID ended, everybody I think went to go see Top Gun. And then after Top Gun, I think I've only seen like two others. Yeah, that's that's kind of it. That's really it. One of them was Dracula because Tim Burton did the soundtrack.

And uh yeah, that was pretty much it. What about you, King? What's the last movie that you went to see? That you were happy, that you even felt like this is a worthy investment of my time. Believe it or not, it was an anime movie.

It was the Chainsaw Man movie. Oh, yeah, that's good, though. But that's not even an American production. I know. That's probably why how starving we are for original content.

Yeah, I know.

So Uh Chris Nolan, who did, I'm pulling this up.

So he did. He's done a ton of different films. Christopher Nolan, right? He also, he, I think maybe the one that you guys might mostly know is he did The Dark Knight, right?

So he did the Dark Knight Rises. He did Interstellar. He did Oppenheimer. He did Inception. He did Tenant.

He does all of those sort of like psychological kind of mind job movies. I mean, I would say Inception definitely was that. Interstellar, that was a good movie, right? I mean, it it was a good movie.

So This um Latest venture. And they're really doing the full push on it because I kept seeing these made-up quotes, which I thought were made-up. But I kept seeing this all weekend. And that's right, one well no wait, he didn't do Chris Nolan didn't do Avatar. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, you went to see Avatar. That's right. Yeah.

Did you wait let me ask did you like it? Yeah.

He doesn't have. James Cameron does three gun.

So I give him some grace 'cause he's he shoots, you know. He does. That's Taryn Tactical told me that. Taryn Butler.

So. Back to my point. Christopher Nolan film, I kept seeing these reports of, oh, well, here's the casting for the movie and all this stuff, and I thought. Hmm. Cat I don't believe this.

There's no way because he's making the Odyssey. In the Odyssey Is they've got some very interesting casting stuff happening with this.

Now, they haven't come out with everything. But like, for instance, like Helen of Troy, what do you know about Helen of Troy? I mean, everybody knows. That she is a figure in Greek mythology, and she was considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world. Golden curls.

She was a half-god. She was the daughter of Zeus. And so her beauty. Was the significance of her beauty that it was Zeus's power. defined in the form of her beauty, right?

His power echoed in the beauty of his daughter Helen of Troy. And so She was married to Menelaus of Sparta. Before they took her to Troy, right?

Now, you remember. the famous saying that describes the beauty of Helen of Troy. Hers was the face to launch a thousand ships. Because she was taken by Paris, who was a prince of Troy. And that made Menelaus gathered a Greek force and he was going to bring her back, and that launched the Trojan War, right?

And She was eventually reunited with her original intended in Sparta. And I don't know, some people look at it like she's, you know, was, you know, whether or not you believe that she was a willing participant or what is irrelevant. The point is, is that. She was So beautiful that that served a point. That is the time when beauty actually was almost its own character in the story.

For a reason. I mean, men were fighting over her. And She needs to be a very sympathetic figure, a very beautiful figure. Uh and now I don't know.

So The rumor was that Lapetia, and it's apparently true that she's Lapetia Nyongos playing Helen of Troy. No, I don't think Lupicia Nyango is an ugly woman. I mean, to the contrary, I think she's very beautiful. But there is a reason why Helen of Troy was described the way that she was. This is like saying that you're going to cast Sidney Sweeney as Dorothy Lang, who is in Hidden Figures, right?

Everyone knows the movie Hidden Figures, don't you? That was the black mathematician who ended up helping with Apollo, and they did this like whole Oscar-winning movie. And Viola Davis, I think it was Viola Davis, I can't remember who played her. She, I mean, she played it. That's like saying, well, okay, well, we're going to cast Paris Hilton as Mulan, and Sidney Sweeney is going to play Dorothy Vaughan in Hidden Figures.

Maybe Sidney Sweeney could, you know, also, I don't know, let's, she could play Tatiana and the Princess and the Frog. Who knows? I mean, it's insane. She's pretty and I'm I feel like there's very few actresses. I mean, that's a big thing: a face to launch a thousand ships.

But she was described in a certain that there's a reason why the physical description matters because the physical description is just almost its own character that can stand just as independently as Helen of Troy can.

So Chris Nolan. Oh, it gets better.

So apparently, Lupicia Nyongo is going to be playing. You have someone who's from sub-Saharan Africa who's going to be playing Helen of Troy. And like I said, it's not that I don't find her beautiful. But we're talking about the face to launch a thousand ships. This is when, yeah, the typecasting has to happen.

Okay.

So In addition to that, He was talking about the other Chris Nolan in this interview was talking about some of the other people that he was going to be casting, right? And He was discussing the story of um. oral poetry. And how he wanted to get rid of orchestration because of that. He didn't want to have orchestration, which I thought was a little weird.

you know because of Um Oral poetry. I got to reopen my thing because everything froze. It's one of those days. And who was the guy that he, Travis Scott?

So he was going to cast Travis Scott in the film. And when he was asked about Why did he choose to make that kind of decision on casting? He had said, Well, it was because this story kind of upholds. You know, it's been handed down as oral poetry, which is analogous to rap. And I thought, wait a minute.

Isn't most musical expression Considered oral poetry. And he's, Travis Scott was, and this is from the Time magazine article where he was giving these, you know, these interviews. And so he was saying that that's you know, he cast Travis Scott because He, you know, it's the the tradition of oral poetry that's, you know, being handed down. And so he just thought that this was made sense. I don't know.

Can isn't most music oral poetry? Yeah.

Yeah, I mean The songs with lyrics. Yeah, but I mean, I don't know. It wouldn't rat be more rhythmic? As opposed to I don't know. My whole thing, he was saying he put he put uh Travis Scott In the film is a bard.

And he said, quote, I cast him because I wanted to nod towards the idea that the story's been handed down as oral poetry, which is analogous to rap. Even the string instrument plays a surprising role, blah, blah, blah. And he said that he had this idea of a liar being a liar being the pluck of Odysseus' bow. But they're getting rid of orchestration because they said, well, orchestras didn't exist back then. Aren't they in a type of armor that didn't exist back then, also?

I'm just like I know if you're confused, welcome. We all are. We're trying to figure out what this even is, Kane. You know what else wasn't invented than cameras? Yeah, so how'd we capture all this?

Great question. Yeah.

He said, quote, Uh he was talking about Ludwig Gorinson. He instructed him not to use the orchestra for the Odyssey score. And Gordenson says, It's not like the orchestra existed back then. It was a challenge and it also an opening to make something unique. Every single thing that I'm hearing about this movie makes me not want to go see it.

And it's a great story. I mean, you were handed an amazing piece of work that you really don't have to do anything to. Just bring it to life on the screen. That's all I, and it which has been done before. Brad Pitt, wasn't Brad Pitt Achilles?

Oh, gosh.

Okay, so that's the one thing. Let me get to that. That one, I don't. Let me look at this because they keep refreshing it because they keep changing the IMDb page.

So so far, I don't think Everyone was saying that that Elliot Smith or Elliot Page Is Is going to be playing Achilles, and I don't necessarily know if that's been confirmed. But Elliot Page, she's listed. She's the actress, Ellen Page, who became Elliot. Who decided to have like a transition and become a dude? The rumor was that she was going to play Achilles.

And she's listed on the IMDb page.

So I don't know. Yeah, yeah. Kane, I don't know if that, if she's actually playing Achilles. But Lupicia Nyango apparently is going to be Helen of Troy. I mean, at least they're.

It isn't confirmed.

So there's a lot of, but she's listed on IMDb, so take that for whatever you will. And so is Lapucci Nyango. And it was weird because he hasn't announced all of the casting for it yet. Right? True.

But they've already started, they've been filming for a while already. But all just the stuff that I'm hearing from it at this point, it just sounds like a hot mess.

So, I don't know. I don't mind Travis Scott playing a bard, but this idea that, well, you know, this is like world poetry.

So I hired a rapper.

So, is it like, what kind of music are we going to expect with this? Is it going to be so stupidly anachronistic that it makes it impossible for the viewer to maintain a suspension of disbelief long enough to actually get into the story? I I I just don't. Yeah, Juan. Juan's like, I am not watching this if she's playing Achilles, dude.

All of us, all of us.

Now, again, rumor. But he hasn't said no. But I think they like that kind of Whisper campaign. It's like free PR, unearned media for them, right? Just look, it's the Odyssey.

You don't have to do anything crazy to it.

Now I made mention of this earlier. And I always love the people who are like, well. you know that this is, you know an actual fictional story. You know. And it's like, no, it's an actual piece of literature with real meaning.

And if people want to rewrite this story, then perhaps they could stretch their imaginations and create a new one of their own and not ruin the original. That's the thing. And then everyone's like, well, you're a racist. What if you don't buy into DEI casting? Again, that is literally like having Sidney Sweeney play Dorothy Lang.

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

Well, I just saw this. This is horrible that Kane sent in.

So Ray Hartman. Founder of the Riverfront Times. A big time Donnie Brook personality, just an institution in St. Louis. He was killed in a car crash caused when two trucks came off a semi and hit his car.

I knew him personally. I worked with him for a little while as a freelancer. And I will always say, I mean, obviously, he and I agreed on little, but he never used that as an excuse to not be kind. And never used it as an excuse to not include conservatives like myself. On Donny Brook or in print?

Because remember, when I first started out in politics, I was in my 20s. And he was very, he was encouraging, and he made, he like included me in stuff in St. Louis that. Um I don't think I ever would have been able to access had he not done that.

So that is really shocking.

So, our prayers are with the Hartman family, Ray Hartman. Wow, dead now at what is he, 73 years old. That's horrific. Let's see. I know we have more, but I just saw that on break happen.

Also, this headline. Let's see, we have Amnesty International and rights groups that are injured, that are issuing a World Cup travel advisory. There are all of these human rights groups saying that tournament visitors are facing rising authoritarianism and increasing violence in the United States. Spare me. Do you think they did that with uh Cotter, by the way?

Or any of these, any Arab nations? I don't think so. A smoking ban announced for people born after 2008 in the UK. The government intends to rein in smoking. I didn't realize how popular it still was over there, but.

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Everything happens for Orees. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash. With you, and we are at the conclusion of our third hour today. I don't um I saw I was watching. this video where People were celebrating, I guess, their new Islamist audience.

No. Which is a weird thing for people who used to be very much critical of Islamism. But I guess whatever it takes to get clicks. I'm trying real hard to be the shepherd here, but I'm not going to hold out much longer. I'm telling you.

It's it's taken a lot. Because it just keeps getting more and more ridiculous. Just more and more ridiculous. And I don't know. But I mean, I'm sorry, but when y when y Some of it sounds like an absolute sex cult.

Do we want to get into like, oh, wait, you get 100 virgins? When you you get a hundred virgins a day basically when you go into Islamist heaven. Oh. What about that as like in any way good m uh like uh morally upstanding? You get to screw a bunch of virgins, and they're just there for your sexual pleasure.

How is that in any way in good moral standing? It's a sex cult. That's what it sounds like. An afterlife designed only for men. That want to screw everything with a pulse.

But yeah, go ahead and celebrate. Yo, we got all these new listeners. Right? It's weird. I mean, I could really do a deep dive on that, but maybe I'll do that tomorrow.

I don't know. Or we'll see. But I'm not wrong on that game. I mean, it's very. I mean, think about it.

What is, we don't, you don't get, I mean, I don't know any religion that's like, yeah, you get to screw a bunch of virgins. if you make it to heaven or your afterlife. That But yet it's also promoted as being, oh, well, very modest, so modest, going and banging all those virgins, so modest, so upstairs, so morally upright. Wha right? What's in it for the women?

Oh, that's right, nothing. Hydrox cookies. You know, Cutter had a thing where they said they all got together. I tweeted about this actually, I called it a sausage party. The um Because it is.

Where's the lie? They got together and they said, We're celebrating our daughters, and it was like some academic thing. But it was literally all dudes. All dudes all of them dudes. I'm like, this is a sausage fest.

That's all this says. Where's the women at? I felt like, you know. It kind of felt like blazing saddles. Where do white women at?

That's what it felt like. I was looking at in disparity. Very interesting. But I'm just saying, so people can be super excited about, yeah, they said it was from Cutter, Cutter University, the students of Cutter University. Oh, they congratulate our daughters and sons on their graduation.

There's no daughters in it. It's all dudes. That's all it is. It's all a bunch of guys. But Again, we're supposed to celebrate that kind of stuff.

That's what podcast is saying and Tucker Carlson and the, you know, the clickbait barnacles, that's what they, which a great actual like band name almost. Almost. I didn't say put it on the list. I said almost. All right, I gotta let you have your today in stupidity, King.

All right, it is Zoran Mamdani speaking to the subject we were just speaking to. Um apparently he, everyone knows, at least my age and a little younger, that uh Mary Rudy Giuliani was instrumental during 9-11 for New York City. Mom Dani unfortunately can't acknowledge that, cut 29 here, one. Jenny you'd like to say about his contributions to the city, the fact that he got the city through 9-11.

Well Former Mayor Giuliani is someone that we as New Yorkers know well. And he's been a fixture in our city's politics and public life for so many years. And I know that many New Yorkers are concerned by the reports that he's in critical condition. And so we do keep him and his family in our prayers at this time.

So he just couldn't acknowledge it. Yeah, there you go. That does it for us today, folks. I will be back behind the mic with you tomorrow. Find us on Subset, Facebook, YouTube, like, and subscribe, hit the podcast.

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