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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you, top of the third hour. If you missed anything the previous two, you can also just go and find the sub stack. Or no, so the podcast, download the podcast, and then we have some stuff up at SubSec as well. Always good to be with you.
So, the elections, we were covering some of the elections, but we're also looking at the latest with Iran. U.S. and Iran apparently are having a very good discussion, says POTUS. We're going to be talking here coming up with Amit Siegel, who is a reporter. He's really insightful on a lot of this stuff, following it very, very closely.
And he works for N12 News. He's the chief political analyst over there. And so, we're going to kind of pick his brain about some of this because they have elections coming up.
So, there's all these things to like consider. Like, we have midterms, they have their major elections in October, we have our midterms in November.
So, all of that. is affecting Everything right now, not just like with the dealings with Hezbollah and Hamas, but also with Iran and the Strait of Hormuz and the Saudi. Everything plays into this. There are so many moving pieces.
So I just kind of want to streamline that for you and just make it all like bite-sized so that you have a lay of the land because there's a lot and it can be kind of information overload in a way. But as it is with the elections, with the DSA. The Democratic Socialists of America, which there are memes that make fun of that name. Yeah. The Democrat Party, and I was having a conversation with one of my kids about this last night.
The Democrat Party. became socialist a very long time ago. They've been socialists for a very long time. And socialism and Marxism. Ultimately, it's all basically the same thing.
Everyone likes to say, oh, well, it's really different. That's just such nonsense. It's all the same pathway to Hades. But With the DSA. They've gone past saying so now they're like full on completely Marxist.
and policy. Not just speech, not just rhetoric, but in terms of policy, in terms of government structure, in terms of how they want to reshape the United States. Pretty much have taken over the US of A at this point.
So, if this Abdul al-Saeed, for instance, if he ends up winning, In Michigan, he's already saying that he wants to politically take down, I'm assuming politically, you never know, politically take down Chuck Schumer. They're looking to get rid of all of the old guard. This is the old guard's problem, though, of their own creation. This is a Frankenstein's monster sort of situation where they use these people. As like Get out the vote.
A get out the vote mechanism. If you go back all the way to the Tea Party days, Democrats were aghast. They could not believe what was happening. I mean, granted, there were establishment Republicans that were too, but they were just, Kane, you remember this? They were like, oh my gosh, look what's happening on the right.
Your grassroots? Are overtaking everything that's so gross, the dirty, unwashed masses. They did not like it, but they were fine. to use What they called their grassroots, it really wasn't. They were organized street Marxists.
as a way to agitate? and get out the vote. But then they ended up losing control. completely. And those people that they promoted, that were their agitators.
They did everything that they could to help get out the vote for Democrats.
Now they've taken over.
Now it's time for payback.
Now they want what's theirs. They feel like they have a stake in the party because they do. They were used by the establishment. To raise some hell out there, Hades, or go out there and create chaos and make it seem like there are problems, heard and rescued, there are problems that only the Democrat Party can actually solve. And now They're demanding their comeuppance.
Now they want what they view as theirs, the party that they actually did help to build. And that's what this all is. All of it. How is this going to play out in general elections? Everything is an online phenomenon until it's not.
And In many instances Around the nation, it is an online phenomenon, but in other places it's already. completely transposed itself into meat space. Michigan's one of them. I mean, Haley Stevens was a completely fine far left Fruitcake, right? She seemed kind of like a normal.
Whoosh. Democrat? I can't belie first off. Trying to describe this to people. This is insane.
Where She would be the bad guy in any other scenario. But she's so not, she's not a terrorist sympathizer, so that makes her better. Can you believe that that's like the last litmus test that we have?
Well, at least they don't like Hamas. That's it. the least horrible. Yes, she's the least horrible of all of them. It's kind of a terrifying thing.
If you think of it.
So you get You had horrible and less horrible, and you ended up now, you got horrible in Michigan. And that's little little Mogadishu up there.
So I don't know what the hell is gonna happen. There he probably may end up winning. I don't know. We're going to see. But I hope not.
But he's, you know, and he's gonna go up against Mike Rogers. I believe. No. Oh, he's former. I think he's.
He's being chat.
Well, Abdul Al Saeed wants to debate him very badly. He's like, you need to come and debate your sellout. I'm looking at the insults, licking Trump's boots. Said he supports genocide, um blah blah blah Oh, some of the stuff is bad. That he says.
Anyway. Uh Rogers already kind of unloaded on him. and uh said that I know he's far l I like, you know, was reading the hits.
so to speak. Of Abdul Al-Saeed, the positions that he's had, the things that he said, his rhetoric, etc. And he put out a statement. I'm pulling up his statement. He put out a statement on Abdul al-Saeed.
Where he said, for more than 25 years, one party has controlled Michigan's two Senate seats, and they've run our state into the ground. And this is true. They've driven, he said, 200,000 manufacturing jobs out of Michigan. They've dropped our schools to 45th in the nation. They settled families with the highest utility rates, et cetera.
And then he goes, now the same failed politicians are asking us to send Abdul. El Saido, Washington. And he goes, he's not just another liberal, he's an extremist. I don't even think you could call him a liberal, he's a progressive. Liberal is based on like classical Tocqueville liberalism.
Progressive is just a nutjob difference. And he talks about emptying the prisons, all of this stuff.
So the fight is on. Corey Bush. completely taken out now. And I, is she going to get her warlock? Friend?
Missouri voters I can't believe that they did this. They decided that they were not going to eliminate their state income tax last night. Mm-hmm. Thanks, nice. Hey, wait, if you have the choice.
Of eliminating your income tax or not eliminating your income tax, you chose. Not to do that. They overwhelmingly, it was, it failed. They called it like a little bit after eight o'clock.
Okay. I How do you not sell that idea? How does that idea not get sold? I Do you would you like to know the percentage? I would.
You're not going to like this. What? You're not gonna like this.
Okay, let me. Let me share with you the graph. No. Yeah, because you're going to need to. Yeah, I'm really sorry about what I'm about to show you, Kane.
So, if you want to know the percentage by which they voted against it, it was 83 to 16. Yeah. What in the Percent. Was there something else on the ballot to make people vote no? I think some people just like giving themselves a pay cut.
with taxes. I I don't know, my dude. Look, there's so much evidence out there, the other states that have done this, how prosperous it is for these states. Why would. How did the messaging get so Cluttered or cloudy on this.
The governor said, Well, Amendment 5 did not earn the support it needed. I believe our work is far from over. Yeah. I mean it went down in flames. Uh And it means 84%.
Here's how it read on the ballot. Quote. Eliminated income tax. Amendment 5. This is the language.
Quote: This amendment would eliminate state income taxes, which would make Missouri the 10th state in the country without them. In the fiscal year 2025, money from individual income taxes made up more than 60 percent of the state's general revenue. I bet you that scared some people, probably. Yeah, that scared people, yes. That's the wrong wording.
because they could have at least put some data from the other states there. I mean, you can easily make up revenue by not spending like a drunken, you know, sorority girl going shopping after brunch mimosas. And also with sales tax, all kinds of other stuff. I mean, there's all sorts of things. But yeah, it absolutely.
And so, here, if you want to know, I'm amazed at this. I've been waiting to talk about this, so if you want to know.
So obviously in St. Louis and St. Louis County. In all of the urban areas, in and around Cape Girardeau, in and around like Kansas City. Colombia, those More centralized areas were the areas where They voted no.
All the rural areas were like, yes, we don't want an income tax, but yeah, it was definitely, so it was definitely a party line and urban line thing for sure. Yeah. So you had a chance. I would have worded it differently on the ballot. I don't know.
I'm sure that there was a fight over it, because it's always a fight over ballot language, especially for amendments like this. Vote yes for your raise. Yeah. I mean, they could have said, but you know what, we'll also be able to. Like, and this was not even ending it outright.
It was a phase out. of this state income tax.
So it wasn't even like the next day the switches flipped. It was literally a phase out.
So it was not going to happen overnight. It was going I mean it was a responsible phase-out. I mean, I would have preferred it ended immediately, but you know This is insane. And they said, well, the tax generates about $9 billion annually to fund. Oh, what is it?
Entitlement. Healthcare programs, transportation, social services and education, that's what it is. It's entitlements used as welfare. They were only, and the measure was only going to modify it in a way that it transitioned. They were going to maintain local funding for schools and that rely on tax dollars.
You still have property tax over there and you have to pay property tax on your other property.
So like you have to pay a whole other property tax on your car in Missouri. In Texas, we don't have to do that. Every year. Every year you have to pay you buy your car, you pay tax on it when you purchase it. And then you have to keep paying a property tax on your vehicle every year.
That's how Missouri does.
So They tax you on everything. When we lived in downtown St. Louis, Now, I had a special additional tax because I worked in St. Louis.
So if you live in St. Louis City, you're text if you work in St. Louis City, your tax extra if you live in St. Louis City. And even if you don't live in St.
Louis City and you live out in the county or you live out in the boonies, it doesn't matter. You still are taxed if you work downtown. You have a special employment tax that you get for working in the city. They tax everything there. They could not even phase this out.
That's just insane to me. And as bad as Missouri taxes are, Illinois is even worse. But how do you not, when knowing you're voting yourself a raise, Eliminating your income tax. You're literally voting yourself a raise, and you can't even. Check the yes box, what the hell?
Yep. And the left was like, well, you'll pay higher sales taxes, but That's not going to even run anywhere near how much you would pay for. The state income tax. And furthermore, that argument only tracks if you are refusing to include in all of the other modifications that would be required to eliminate the state income tax, which and if you refuse to eliminate responsible spending, and if you refuse to eliminate, you know, any, which also includes, you know, all of these other welfare entitlement programs. I mean, it's crazy.
So they voted to keep it all in place. I'm just shocked.
So That bucked a trend because so many other red states have been trending towards no state income tax. But Missouri nah. Show me state decided to be like, no, don't show me. We have more to come as we roll into headlines. It's sad, it's my home state.
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So apparently a big giant earthquake is on its way. A study says that one in California, they say the big one's coming, but when? They've been saying this for like 20 years. The next big one's coming. It's a big earthquake.
That's their. They just. But it hasn't happened yet. They keep talking about the big one. They said, oh, it's the San Andres Fault.
I don't know if I know more about the San Andreas Fault from the earthquake. people or the um Grand Theft Auto people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, isn't there the new Madrid fault? There's like a couple faults that are sassy and that are like gonna get sassy pants here anytime soon.
But they're like, well, we did a simulation, billions of deaths, billions. I'm sorry, they said hundreds of deaths, billions of dollars in damage. You know, that probably helps to clarify that. I really don't think that they know what's going on, nor do we. Let's see, another Gen Z invention that they think they invented.
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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you at the bottom of this third hour. And if you're not listening terrestrially coast to coast, then you're probably watching digitally on X, on Facebook, on YouTube, wherever.
So welcome back. One of the things that we've been discussing in addition with the elections that took place yesterday and the ongoing back and forth with Iran is this disarmament. I abuse air quotes with this disarmament announcement that came in towards the end of last week. And I wrote about this over at Substack, chapter and verse. The Board of Peace, as announced by the White House, said that they released this, they reached this historic agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas.
Now, as I've said, I'm incredibly skeptical of this because of some of the details that are in this plan. And just the history of Hamas at large. Joining us to discuss this, he's a great broadcast journalist, and he also has his own newsletter, chief political analyst over at N12 News, Amit Siegel, who's also the author of It's Noon in Israel. And he joins us now, despite the massive time difference. Amit, thank you so much for your time.
It's a pleasure to have you. I feel like I'm very... Oh, sorry, go ahead. I thought you were... It's that late in Israel.
9:30. 9.30 p.m. I'm still that young. There you go. You're still young.
I wanted to ask you about this disarmament deal. You've written a lot about this. I mean, there's a lot of details that stick out to me, including first and foremost, this is not really a disarmament deal, the way that I'm reading it, especially when they're allowed, according to what's been publicly published, they're allowed to keep a number of their heavy weaponry, their ordinances. And they were talking about putting it in kind of like a terror escrow, for the lack of a better way to put it, with some sort of like technocratic oversight. Um Is this caution right?
Yes, I would stick to cautious pessimism when it comes to Gaza and Hamas specifically.
However, I must say that the best argument. um articulated by the white house is But a year ago, you didn't believe that we were going to release all the hostages.
So please, trust us, we are not the innocents abroad, the naive Americans who come here and believe that they will actually create terms for peace and make Hamas a youth organization. I think the situation is as follows. The U.S. has dramatically succeeded in pressing. Uh mas.
uh by differentiating it from the mediators Qatar and Turkey. For their selfish reasons. And that's why Hamas is willing to actually give some concessions. Yes, it's not the entire storage of weapons or tunnels, et cetera. But Americans keep telling Israelis, okay.
So what happens if they just give one third of the lists of the tunnels or or one and a fifth of the number of clashikov rifles? It's still better than nothing. And Israel is worried, on the other hand, that it might be uh demanded to make Permanent concessions in order for temporary achievements. That's the gap between Israel and the U.S. And that makes a lot of sense, particularly when you look at what the pathway is, because they talk about ultimately after having this sort of interim period where they have this third party overseeing everything, they want to have established, I guess, a government that, I mean, the way that it reads, it's going to be the Palestinian Authority that would oversee everything, which that doesn't make sense to me from my understanding.
I mean, Hamas's popularity has surged since October 7th, and the Palestinian Authority can't even have elections for fear of Hamas taking control.
So, how does that work? Absolutely. And even if they're not connected to the Palestinian Authority, the main problem is the Palestinian population. We have to bear in mind the grim fact. That 68% of the Palestinian population, both in Gaza and Jude and Samaria.
Support the October 7th massacre fully, and another 19% support it partially. I don't know what. does partially supporting a monstrous massacre means, but perhaps they were in favor of killing only 600 innocent civilians.
However, it means that as long as the education system is not to be dramatically changed, or reformed. Um there is no hope because the population in Gaza supports Hamas. The most amazing fact about the Middle East. Is that Gaza is the only place, save Israel, of course, in which citizens. actually elected their leadership.
They elected Hamas in 2007. It's not a dictatorship. It's not like Biden believes or Biden believes, and maybe Trump believes too, I don't know, that somehow Hamas took over the Gaza Strip and all we have to do is just dismantle it from its weapons. And that's why I would stick again to the number one principle. There should be no Israeli withdrawal and not a single dime given to recovery of Gaza before Hamas is fully disarmed.
Otherwise, the Gaza Strip is doomed again. And from what I understand, there were municipal elections held there just in April, and there was a measure taken of Hamas's popularity, and it was still incredibly high considering and in Judea and Samaria as well.
So yeah, that creates a real big issue that seems unrealistic within the perspective of this agreement.
So I look at the agreement and I'm like, this is not workable.
So are they viewing this is just sort of a starting point or is this just another containment trap?
So I think that President Trump means good. He wants to actually change the situation and he believes that it is going to be incremental.
So perhaps Hamas might give up I don't know, a pout of his authority and hand over 20,000 Kalachikov rifles and give the lists of the tunnels. Is it going to succeed? I have to tell you. Surprisingly enough, I'm more optimistic than others. And I do think, yes, because I think Hamas is in its worst situation.
We have to bear in mind, unlike the reports in the mainstream media from both sides of the pond, of the ocean. Hamas is really in a bad situation. He it actually controls rubbles, it controls, you know. Miles and miles of rubbles and devastated population. And that's why I think the walls are closing in on them and they actually have to make some concessions.
And that's why I think that Israel should be the first just to remove the border a few hundred feet, temporarily. and promising that if Hamas Continues to try and organize its forces and train, et cetera.
So Israel returns to hunt down each and every one of its leadership and members. But I think that if we give it a go in two or three weeks, we're going to see where it goes. We're talking with Amit Siegel for those just joining us via video. You also were talking about, I was reading one of your tweets earlier, negotiators gathering in Rome for the seventh. I had to check because it has seven now rounds of these U.S.
brokered Israeli-Lebanese talks to discuss moving forward. For those who, for the Western audience that doesn't understand, It is difficult to get to even this point because of the size of Hezbollah and the amount of power that they wield in Lebanon. I mean, being bigger, their rebels and their militia being bigger than that of the Lebanese military. What do you expect from this? Are we going to see eight rounds and nine rounds?
I mean, has this been happening for a while?
So I think that as long as Hezbollah is not fully demilitarized and destroyed, Which won't happen before the Iranian regime collapses, we are not going to see something fruitful when it comes to the Israeli-Lebanese relationship. Not because the government of Lebanon doesn't want, but because it can't. They just can't. And that's because, for instance, I'll give you one example: the salary, the average salary, a Hezbollah terrorist. gets is paid a month is 10 times higher than the salary of the equivalent Lebanese military officer.
So as long as the pockets of Hezbollah are more full than the Lebanese government, it's quite hard to change the country. And as long as they have 10,000 rockets and I don't know how many kalashik of rifles, such as they actually control Lebanon or at least control the ability to destroy Lebanon and to threaten with a civil war. And that's why I believe that once Iran, the Iran regime is removed, Hezbollah is going to collapse and there is going to be a peace treaty between Lebanon and Israel.
However, in this very specific case, I think words count, words matter. And the fact that the Lebanese government actually shook hands, Lebanese ministers and the Lebanese ambassador to Washington shook hands with its counterpart from Israel for the first time in the history of the two countries signals something very positive. And I hope that in the next few years we're going to see the fruits of this process. I mean, this is. It sounds like there's a lot of ground being covered in a positive way.
I mean, it looks like they're getting towards a point where maybe 20 years ago we never thought they could. Before I let you go, Amit, I wanted to ask you as well, the U.S. and Iran, what is the position from your perspective over in Israel? Because in the United States, we're watching. It's hurry up and wait.
That's what it seems to be. Hurry up and wait. And then the president threatens decapitation. That's a serious thing. I mean, his words are not light.
And then we all hold our breath and wait, and then nothing happens. How do you see it over there? I think there is a point for optimism, and I'll explain why. And uh in contrast for ninety-nine percent of the journalists. I think that there is a fragile equilibrium here between Trump's attempt to keep the strait of obos open.
Trump's attempt to to keep the economic situation in Iran. in a very bad shape, and Trump's attempt to keep energy prices in a reasonable level.
So and all of this before the midterms in November. That's the reason why he keeps maneuvering Or zigzagging between those two principles: one to threat to cut the throat of the Iranians and the other to announce that peace in our time. I think As long and I I know it's extremely unpopular. As long as is the blockade on Iran. Continues is continuing, the chances for a regime change in Iran are improving every single day.
As long as they do not get or receive funding and their assets are still frozen abroad in bank accounts in the Gulf. Et cetera, I think it's a matter of months, maybe a year before the regime collapses. And that's why we should give it a chance. And we should give the talks a chance because for the first time in the Middle East, time works. for the West and not for the fundamentalist Muslims.
As long as the US and Israel stick to the point. no money before uh uh giving up the uh nuclear program. That actually makes a lot of sense. That's a very good point. Amit Siegel, really appreciate your work.
And, folks, you can find him on X as well. And make sure to go and get his newsletter too that goes out regularly. It's noon in Israel. Amit, thank you so much. It was a pleasure to meet you and a pleasure to talk with you.
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I think that's a gong. It does kind of sound like a gong. I'm looking at the video where they just did it at their family reunion. They put down their natty lights and they just started playing a song. I'm just saying, you know, ain't that how it starts?
Ain't that everybody else's family reunion? Is that just mine? All right.
Okay, I oh, I've got to get this. There's a million.
Okay, there's a million stories I gotta do here. I'm going to get the stocking one with the teddy bear, but can I start with this?
Okay, so this man apparently had a bad breakup with his first wife. All right, so. Florida detective, now this is the headline. I'm going to explain it. Florida detective arrested her for using police cameras 47 times to track her husband's ex-wife.
Okay, so. Sumner County. It's the new wife that was and she's a detective. That was tracking. The ex-wife, and apparently, there was like a custody dispute that's been ongoing.
She was using the automated license plate recognition system to monitor. The ex wife. The woman who was at Sumter County Sheriff's Office made searches in the flock camera system. I'm not. There's a lot of helpful videos, by the way, that tell you what not to do to flock cameras, like shine green lights in them to damage them and like plastic reflective coating on things.
Don't do it. Yeah, don't do it.
So, according to investigators, she was using the flock camera system. For months, and all targeting one license plate number. They did an audit that revealed she accessed two other restricted databases as well: the driver and vehicle information database, it's called David, and the court records database. And she put fake case numbers in to make the searches look like they were related to legitimate investigations. And then she got caught and was like, Yes, it was personal.
And I was trying to help my husband find out his ex-wife routine so he could serve. At first, she said civil papers, but really, It seemed to be a little bit more than that. This is why the surveillance stuff to bring the tugboat to shore is absolute pig trash. You cannot be, it's rat trash, bad animal trash. I'm not like slurring police.
I don't like flock cameras. I don't like surveillance. I saw a drone that was flying low-level over my house yesterday, and I literally grabbed a rifle.
Now, you're not supposed to shoot them down, but I'm just saying if you're in my airspace, maybe I'll hit it down with my gun. I will get it out of the sky somehow. Maybe not shooting it. Maybe I'll pistol whip it out of the sky. I don't know.
But stop the surveillance. Stop it. We got a whole bunch more coming. Stick with us. I've always told you that I carry.
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Yeah. Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. Oh yeah, and before I go, let me just give y'all a public service announcement. I hope the Mexicans and everybody else don't think that you're safe, baby, because you're not. Because they don't like Catholics, they don't like Jews, they don't like They don't like a motherfuck thing that's outside of what the f they pushing.
If you think I'm lying, look at the fake ass, phony ass, motherfing smiles Doran Mondami always motherf has on his fake ass, phony ass, diabolical ass motherfuckers. I don't think she likes him. You n ⁇ s are dumb. Like I said, I've been saying this shit for years upon years upon years, but you never want to listen to a real shit. But you will sit here and think that this fraudulent ass bitch who prays Fidel Castro, a real mother dictator, mother f like Maduro, I've been telling you The Democrats have sold your bitch ass out.
This is not the Democratic Party that our grandparents once voted for. Baby, this is not them. Since when do you constantly focus on the mother past? That's the devil. He always dangles your motherf past over your head.
Slavery. Since when do you divide and mother fing conquer? That's the devil. He's the author of the confusion and father of lies, mother f ⁇ . And they sit right in your damn face and lie to the masses, lie to your mother fing kids, until he kills stealing motherfucking.
I don't think she likes Democrats, y'all. I don't think my new best friend likes Democrats. She's sugarcoating it, isn't she? I mean, you know, she's, you know, hold str you know, I get it. I don't think she likes Mandani.
No. I would love to have her over for dinner. I'm gonna, if you have to sit on a four-hour plane ride, you know, those graphics that you see, and you gotta pick like what aisle you wanna sit in and who you wanna sit next to, I wanna sit next to her. I'll even let her have the aisle seat. 'Cause she gets it.
It's my new best friend. She gets it. Like I'm so sorry, so sorry Steve because all the censoring, but man. I mean, you didn't know what she was going to say at first. You were like, where's the train going?
And then she brought it on home. She brought it on back to the depot. In the next Rare Well Done, the Thrive Team helps two people with CIDP tackle the tricky issue of friendship. They say the quiet part out loud. In the event my CIDP worsens, my friends might decide it's too much.
Get nudged outside their comfort zone. I don't know if I want to. To forge stronger connections. It's the best thing that's ever happened to me, our friendship. To Rory.
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And listeners of this show will get a $75 sponsored job credit to help your job get the premium status it deserves at indeed.com slash podcast. Just go to indeed.com slash podcast right now. Indeed.com/slash podcast. Terms and conditions apply. Need to hire?
This is a job for Indeed sponsored jobs. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
Hello. Let's see this. A dad posed as an 11. His 11-year-old daughter on TikTok and lured her alleged rapist to his home to shoot him. And let me pull this story out because we're operating a front television right now.
And I got to tell you, I approve. The one thing that I hate about this story is that the guy that has all those horrible photos and did the raping and everything gets a $70,000 bond. The dad, who was literally protecting his daughter, gets a $100,000 bond. And also, the sad part of the story is that the raper guy didn't die when he got shot. That's so sad that he didn't, because that could have been.
That I mean, you know, I'm just like, it's like a self-cleaning oven with some of this stuff. You know what I mean? You just wanted to, but that's, you know, that dad is daddy. That's pretty awesome. Exactly.
Let's see with self-checkout, the first of its kind kiosk approved under what they call a bombshell seamless update. This comes from the sun and everything has to load up.
So really, shoppers are gearing up to use self-checkout in unprecedented ways because they have new regulations. This is in California under the milestone retail evolution.
So at the end of July, Perfect Union Northside Dispensier.
So, oh, wait, they can purchase pot? Right there, self-checkout pot. Yep. Well, okay, now it's up. I got this.
Thank heavens. Thank heavens. I can see. Let's see. Also, Jerry Jones is open to selling the $13 billion Cowboys in stunning announcement after years of Super Bowl heartbreak.
I don't know how I feel about that. I mean, Jerry Jones is an institution. He's also a really good actor, too. If you ever saw, what was it, Landman, when he was in the first season of that, like for an episode that was really good. This is Danielle Fischel, Ryder Strong, and Will Fordell from Pod Meets World.
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