Absurd Truth: Country Music Superstar John Rich

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So I'm immediately jumping into this. And so I've seen yoga pants used for a lot of things, but I've never seen people put a gator in them before. This comes from CBS Miami, a Florida woman who was pulled over during a traffic stop was sentenced to probation. She pled guilty to four charges. And she as she was pulled over, she said she told the deputy that she and her passenger were collecting frogs and snakes under an overpass.

They were searching the bags etc. They found 41 three striped turtles in a bucket and then she pulled a small alligator from her yoga pants. Yeah, so she's she got they got in trouble because you can't. I don't know if you know this, but you can't put a gator in your yoga pants in Florida. So it's a big bad no no can't it's not you know, Florida Fish and Wildlife don't look too kindly upon that. So just you know saying anyway, they said that the case is pending.

It was a one foot gator case you were curious about that as a I mean, I'm just gonna say it sounds unsafe. Just you know, a Florida man was pushing a stolen lawnmower lawnmower along the railroad tracks and he was arrested after a chase. No one ever gets away.

Why do people run? You never get away. This is in Pensacola Florida man was accused of stealing a lawnmower. He's facing felony charges after fleeing from deputies in the Panhandle Escambia County Sheriff's Office. Deputies were called to the home to investigate a burglary. The suspect stole a stolen lawnmower, air pods and other items valued at over $500. While deputies were on the scene taking the report neighbors said the stolen lawnmower was being pushed down the railroad tracks behind the house. Deputies went they spotted the suspect and they gave chase.

That's never and he did actually leave the lawnmower behind because originally I thought did he take it with him but no. So the they caught up with him obviously they put him into handcuffs. He's being he was charged with resisting an officer without violence, two counts of burglary, petty theft with two or more prior convictions. So that makes it a felony. So now he's got felony charge because of the number of charges. In Orlando, a Florida man tried to open a patrol car and threatened to kill the man in custody, Gainesville.

Deputies are seeking more information about a shooting at a Gainesville convenience store. So the convicted felon threatened to kill another man already in police custody. He opened the door and was threatening to kill him. And officers intervened. They tried to handcuff the 33 year old.

He resisted. They detained him shortly after placed him in a separate control car, patrol car that yeah, that's not that's also not a smart thing to do. Because especially right in front of the police because they're right. You know, they're right there. It's kind of kind of bad.

Just saying shouldn't be. Let's see this one. ABC New York. A Florida woman shot her husband in the genitals during a fight over an air conditioning unit.

Well, I mean, it is hot. The woman can really done a strange husband and the brother came to her Lake City, Florida home. They were going to pick up an air conditioning unit that he wanted to sell on Facebook. She sat on the unit to prevent them from taking it and allegedly attempted to fend them off with a stun gun before she shot him in the beans with a pink hand gun. She told police it was unintentional. She just tried to scare him. Yeah, she was arrested felony. She was she was totally booked. Content for court charges, felony, larceny, all of this.

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Our very good friend john rich who doesn't bend knees, he breaks them. And he joins us from his home in Nashville, Tennessee. Good to see you, my friend and congrats. We're going to talk about your song, your new song.

I'm so excited about this because you're gonna be the next person we're all talking about. But I kind of wanted to get your reaction to some of this because I feel like there are a lot of people who are in charge of information distribution who have never been to a small town except to go to a winery. And that's kind of what's fueling all of this. And I just wanted to get your take on that.

Well, I mean, first of all, as you look at that song, think about is the song true or not? Is it true? Like, can you think of a town a small town that Antifa has attacked? Can you name one small town that Antifa has showed up to burn down and tear down and spit in the cops face and flip the cars over and, you know, like the buildings on fire? There's not one small town in America that Antifa has targeted.

Now, why is that? Well, because they know what would happen to them. If they showed up in a small town where the people love their families, they back the police, they respect the flag. They're not going to have it in the small town. They only do it in the big towns, where the big towns are run by people who agree with the reason they're out in the street in the first place. So the song is actually true. Try that in a small town and see what happens.

You might have a different result. He's exactly right about that. And even Antifa as as losers, loserish as they are, are smart enough to know that you don't go to a small town and try that nonsense.

Yeah, exactly. Because a small town I mean, my family's from a small town in southern Missouri. There are approximately 301 people in it. And it has one stop sign.

And it has one quick mark. And it has a restaurant that's literally called the restaurant. And my mom waitress there in high school, and everybody knows everybody like everybody knows, oh, you're so and so's kid, you're so and so's kid, you know, this, you know, growing up in a small town, you're so and so's kid until you're like 70.

And then you're so and so's grandma, it mean that there's just no in between. But it's like, it's like really what a survey. It's like a country surveillance state, a small town, because everybody knows everybody's business. Everybody talks, everybody knows.

And people care, you know, and that's the other thing. It's not even if it's like a left leftist riots or anything. If somebody commits a crime, if somebody, like I was thinking of the story of this grandpa in Oakland, who got robbed by at gunpoint three times in one week, he pushes this ice cream cart, broad daylight, he's getting robbed. If that happened in a small town, you would have you'd have the church ladies, people's grandkids, everybody run into his aid to beat up the perps. I mean, nobody would get away with treating anybody like that in a small town. No, it would be a citizen's arrest. That's still a thing, by the way. You know, if a citizen sees a crime being committed, they have the right to make a citizen's arrest.

If the police aren't there, and that's exactly what would happen. You know, there's a loyalty factor. There's a family and friend factor in these small towns, because they're small, that you you know, everybody, you don't necessarily agree with everybody in your town.

That that's a fact. I mean, there's left and right in every small town in America. So it's not about politics. It's about not just politics. It's politics. It's politics.

It's politics. So this is our town. We love our town. We back our police.

We want our kids to be safe. And again, you've never seen Antifa target a small town. They only do it in the big blue town. That's the only place it happens because they know they can get away with it.

minority Americans understand community the way that they do because it seems like it was it's a not just an attack on a small town, but it's an attack on finding community no matter where you are and communities community. I mean, you're you know, the people that you know, you work with and that you see every day and you know, just, you know, live in your life that you interact with. I mean, those are the people that have your six.

And it seems like they I don't know what it is. They just have a distance from that. I think really, I've never seen John the chasm between the right and the left so so big before. Well, and I think that's part of the reason why you're seeing Democrats as I call them rational, middle of the road Democrats. They're starting to flock to RFK Jr. right now they're starting to look for other things they they can't they can't cohabitate with some of the insanity that they're seeing on their side of the party out there's black I cannot I'm with you to a to a point but I can't go all the way down the road with you. And you're seeing that happen. They've overplayed their hand to such a degree.

They're able to do that. alienating a lot of people right now on the Democrats. Speaking of overplaying hands talking to our friend john rich you have your your not only do you have I mean, everybody knows who you are and have to introduce you everybody knows you redneck Riviera whisk in addition to country music, but also old glory bank. Now, as I was reading this morning, literally about old glory bank and everything that you've been doing I was also checking out the story of de banking because we thought at first it was just going to stay in the United Kingdom. And now it's actually happening in the United States where I was reading the story of this one doctor chase bank shut down his business bank account, along with other accounts of a CEO and CFO because it looks like it's the vaccine or injection. It's not a vaccine injection agreement.

They don't like his thoughts on, you know, the the the COVID injection. And I thought we're getting to the point where this is going to become more and more commonplace in the United States where you're going to be exiled out of economic activity if you have wrong think like China's credit score. So this is where old glory bank comes in.

Tell us about this because I mean, I think you're going to probably have an onslaught of customers because nobody you can't trust anything anymore. Yeah, so we started this old glory bank conversation, probably three years ago, and recall Justin Trudeau when the trucker strike was happening, and he couldn't get him to go home. And so his final play was to freeze the bank accounts of any trucker that was there, freeze the bank accounts of the trucking companies that they drove for. And if they had a tow truck company that refused to tow a truck, freeze their bank account too. So they started freezing everybody's money weaponize their own bank accounts against them that and that ultimately broke up the standoff that was happening with the truckers. So we know that this is this is approaching our country.

And like you just pointed out, it's already happening on a lot of levels. So old glory bank, we thought, you know what, there needs to be a banking platform where your freedom of speech, your all your constitutional rights are, are acknowledged and are offered and short of you breaking the law, your money is going to be totally safe and fine. So we started old glory bank. And we've now had 10s of 1000s of accounts that have been opened. It's an old glory bank.com real simple, we're starting small business loans. And it's really to that crowd.

These are not like, you know, billion dollar loans or anything. This is the regular old hardworking, blue collar American men and women who are going, you know what, they could shut my bank account off to if I say the wrong thing, make the wrong post, go to the wrong protest, do something that the government doesn't like, you know, the enemy Dana owns all the hills, a lot of times we're going man, I just want to run for the hill. Well, what hill are you going to run through? Because they have bought all the hills, they own all the real estate. We have to be in the business as freedom loving Americans to build new hills for people to run to. That's what old glory bank is all about.

I love how you just put that. I mean, that's a scary thing to think about. What hill are you going to run to? They own all the hills.

If it's not Vanguard or BlackRock, my gosh, where are you going to where are you going to go? Yeah, which brings us to Well, there's another point, if I can make another point about that. So a lot of a lot of people have asked me, when I'm on true social Twitter, they'll ask me about old glory bank and they'll say, well, what's, what's to keep the government from shutting my bank account down at old glory bank? That's a great question. Because a lot of people think that the federal government dictates to the banks, what they have to do. And that's just the end of the story.

It's not true. If somebody came and said, if let's say Dana had, let's say you had an account at old glory bank, and you made a statement that the government didn't live, and they came to old glory bank and said, freeze Dana's account. You know what we can do? We can do one or two things. We can go, yes, sir, we'll freeze your account right now.

Please, you know, we'll do what you said. Or you can say, take two of these and call me in court. I'll see you in court. And I'm opening an account today. That's happening. Well, we would say that we would say that we would say we'll see you in court. And you can prove to us why it's constitutional, and why you have a right to freeze this American citizen's account, who's not a criminal and not not committing a crime.

But that's the difference is the attitude of the people behind the bank is different. That's amazing. I love that so much.

People need to know that they have, as you said, a hill where they can run to where they can, you know, they're not going to be exiled out of out of society or out of the economy. Your song, you got a new song coming out. When is it coming? It's called I'm offended.

This is I'm sure the left is going to love this song. Oh, I already love it already. I just like the title. Tell me about this.

It's coming out soon. And this seems to be the title of everything that is plaguing. I mean, everything in American culture, right? Yeah, so it's so absurd to me that the skin of Americans has gotten so paper thin, that we have to get offended about everything all the time.

No matter what it is, everything's offenses. It's an outrage. I mean, how many times do you hear that overused word? It's an outrage. It's vitriol.

It's all this, all these words. And I go, man, everybody's offended about everything all the time. So what we ought to do is I'll just get together and just scream and yell at each other, have a beer and get a footprint. And so the song is called, it says, I'm offended. That you're offended. Let's all get offended tonight.

We can sit down right here and scream and yell and cuss and fuss and fight. Yeehaw. It's hilarious. Listen, Dan, there's not many things going on in the world that are funny right now.

Maybe nothing. And so I thought, well, what's something I could inject out there into the atmosphere, give people a grin and laugh for a minute. That's the song. It comes out August the 18th. And it's actually part of an entire record that I'm putting out 10 songs called the country truth. By John Rich. Oh, I love it. I can't wait to get that album. The country truth by John Rich.

And this song will be out August 18th. I'm offended. I'm offended. You're offended. So let's all get offended.

This is so great. I love that you make it that you you I mean, if you can't laugh at it, even if you're on the left, and you have no sense of humor, and you and your all hope is lost in you because you have to be able as crazy as things are to laugh at some of this stuff because it's I mean, I joke I'm like, this is why if there's aliens out there, John, this is why they're not going to come talk to us. They think we're all bananas. We get upset over stuff on a butter box.

I wouldn't want to come visit us either. I think they should take us just take us crazy people here. So this is great. I love it. Yeah, it's it's like I said, it's an injection to kind of lighten the mood a little bit. There's a verse in Psalms, it says, a merry heart do with good like a medicine. Yes, that it's good to laugh, you know, as brutal as things are right now. You got to remember to have a good time, put a smile on your face, even though it's nasty out there. You still got a lot of great things in your life, your friends, your family, if you're healthy, be grateful for that.

And go out and laugh at the situation for a minute. Amen to that. John Rich at John Rich on Twitter.

And of course, obviously, he's half a one half a big and rich and you can find it redneck Riviera whiskey, Old Glory Bank, and redneck Riviera calm. And as always, thank you, my friend for using your gifts in so many ways to help so many people and to also bring a little humor to it. We so appreciate what you do. Can't wait to get your song and I can't wait to open my bank account because I know I'm gonna be able to I know I'm gonna be protected. So thank you, sir. Appreciate you. That's it.

And now all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's quick five. Rice assault. A man is behind bars after a late night rice assault.

Like actually, it's in South Carolina. This man is behind bars. He was arrested for striking a woman with thrown cooked rice on a Myrtle Beach Street. The man 31 years old was collar Monday evening following following the late night incident. He was charged with misdemeanor assault and battery. He threw rice into the vehicle of a 43 year old male witness. No one knows but it accidentally struck him in the head. It's rice.

A 39 year old woman. Oh my gosh. Okay. Yeah. I want to talk about the where's this aggressive seagulls. I mean, they can be jerks.

They actually they I mean, they really are they're like that. They're the jerks of the bird world. Aggressive seagulls have forced a popular South Boston restaurant to actually shut down their whole entire outdoor dining section. There's all these videos and photos of these seagulls stealing people's food and running away. But they said that the birds have been They're like that they're the jerks of the bird world. Aggressive seagulls have forced a popular South Boston restaurant to actually shut down their whole entire outdoor dining section. There's all these videos and photos of these seagulls stealing people's food and running away. But they said that the birds have become angrier.

It's called Sullivan's it's on Castle Island in South Boston. They people can't even eat outside. And the assistant general manager, I love how they talk about them. They go they sit out there and they plan their little bombardment and they stay there. So they steal food right off the outdoor tables, they take it out of customers' hands. They had to put signs out that said beware of seagulls.

They said one, sometimes they'll come down swiping two or three hot dogs at once. They said that it's dangerous because when we have kids and elderly folk that sit outside, they're bombarded. And he says that the seagulls, they think, miss the tables from the coronavirus. And so for the past couple seasons, they've just been super aggressive. I mean, look, it's just nature. Nature's back.

Look, nature's back. Let's see, Japan's populations drop annually 100,000 with falls in every prefecture for the first time. You know, that's been an ongoing problem, though, for quite some time in Japan. The changing demographics are affecting every part of society. And so far, efforts to turn around the decline have not really had any impact.

Every single one of their 47 prefectures posted a population drop. And that's kind of wild. Every sound of freedom, Newsweek, because they're still making lots of money.

This is what gets me. So the headline says it reveals the rising power of Jesus in Hollywood. But it's not the rising power of Jesus. I mean, look at the Passion of the Christ. Look at all of the films where that there's been that, you know, Jesus or the Christian theme.

They've always done incredibly well. So I think it's there. I just think Hollywood doesn't make enough movies for that, right? And I don't know. This woman was arrested for stealing an ice cream from a delivery truck. And her excuse was, well, it was hot.

Yeah, okay, well, they it's Yeah, so this is see for ice cream truck. This is 21 year old clerk. By the way, the woman bit was violent. She bit the clerk's hand, the clerk suffered lacerations on the fingers of his left hand was unharmed. He restrained the woman on the spot she was handed over to police who arrested her for attempted a theft and assault 56 years old. She said it was hot.

I wanted to eat ice cream. Yeah, that's not how that works. Brad Thor next, the Biden law that's going to set up a production and demand clash for electric vehicles. Washington Examiner has the story. The EV sales and manufacturing demands are on the rise after Biden pushed for the largest electrification transition at the federal level. And that's in the not inflation reduction act.

It's the Advanced Manufacturing Production Act. And it's okay. So can I just tell you, this is stupid. And I drove an EV. I've never I'm so I'm not opposed to EVs.

I'm opposed to communist China and, and the materials that they have the monopoly on. So can did I tell I drove the space egg yesterday? Yeah, I did. I had to because I literally had to I had to go get my haircut. I had to go you know, I had to do some lady stuff, man. I had to go do my lady things. And I drove this thing didn't like it.

No, not at all. No, my husband's like, he kept telling me that he again pointed out the purse cubby, which does not I'm not going to use the purse cubby because that's I find it inconvenient. But and I don't at first my first problem was the damn cup holder. Because I always carry women in Texas, they do something that's I don't think women elsewhere do.

And can you know this? You don't ever see a woman driving anywhere without a big tumbler full of iced tea, ice soda, diet soda, or ice water, mines usually unsweet tea, water or diet soda. Always have a tumbler. And if I don't have it, then I get I freak out because I feel like that's when Armageddon is going to happen. I'm not going to have anything to drink.

So that's my first concern. But you put it in the cup holder. You set it in the cup holder and it like, goes around it and then draws it in. Don't think about getting a drink while you're sitting at a light it's not going to happen for you. The car only takes it doesn't give.

If you're like, I'm just gonna have a quick sip. No, I couldn't. I couldn't do it. I was like, it was not going to happen.

And I don't like the fact that it was trying to be overly bougie. When I walked up to it, and it was a loner, I would never it and when you walk up to it, the door handles pop out, which I guess you can't use them and let you walk over the key door handles pop out and when you open the door, I swear to you, it goes Oh, I'm not kidding you. I don't need my car doing that. I just want to get in like go get groceries.

Right? What if I'm just like going to Kroger for toilet paper? I said toilet because that's how it said Southern Missouri is correct.

It's toilet. And so I don't need to be stepping out and like it alerting everyone in the parking lot. I mean, I don't it's like it's basically claps for you. Like, Oh, you got out of the car Oh, and it's just weird and it and I the biggest thing I don't like is I can't tell if it's off. There's no sound. This is what it sounds like when you start it. This is what it sounds like when you turn it off. Did you hear anything?

No, because it doesn't make a sound. It's crazy. And I had to double check it. I was like, Is this damn thing off?

I don't even understand. Is it off? And it doesn't accelerate. Like, I have a car that when I get in it, it is obnoxious. Like, I'm actually sad that I don't have kids to take to school. So if anyone wants to volunteer, wants me to run your kids to school, because I live to be in a car line with a car that goes boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, right?

I want everyone to think that it's either an old man or a 15 year old and or 16 year old be shocked when they see me. So I you know, it just it's so quiet and I'm at the light and when you take the foot off the gas pedal, I mean, the damn thing pretty much stops. So you know, when you just roll up to a light, you don't want to slam your brakes, you just take off and you de accelerate gradually.

This de accelerates too quickly. I don't like it because then I'm like, Well, crap, I've got to touch the gas pedal again and then do the whole. It just it's it's annoying. I don't like that.

But it doesn't make a sound. It is weird. It's weird. And I'm driving it and it's just I don't I don't like it, man. It was like driving Eve. What is it?

Eva from Wally. It was just weird. I didn't like it. And they said it was an SUV. It's not shaped like an SUV. But it doesn't have like you.

It doesn't make the sound when you accelerate. And I just kept thinking like where I don't care what for the first time ever. Like I don't care what people think. I've never cared.

But for the first time ever. I thought, Oh, my gosh, I hope people don't think I'm a damn hippie. I'm like driving around like I almost I didn't want to take my I'm like, Oh, my gosh, because I see people that I know in town from school and church all the time. I don't want people Oh, you have an EV? Oh, you're one of those people.

No, I'm not. So loner, loner. And it didn't really have like a mark on the car to signify to like detail to everybody was a loner. Oh, it's just there. I just didn't like it.

I didn't like it. It's weird. There's no noise. I just I missed the I have a button on my car I can push to make it go but louder takes the baffling off.

It's amazing. I want it loud. I don't even want to be able to hear my music. I just want to hear the car.

And I want it to be loud and aggressive. You know, I that's, that's what it you know, this was just quiet. And then it's saying when you got out and got in. That's annoying. I don't like that. Does that sound is that weird?

That's weird, right? Like, why do you need that feature? Why?

You don't. All these damn EV. Oh, that's it. Sorry, Mrs. Lash. All the loners are EVs. Sorry.

I had a part in my car that was recalled and I had to take it all the everything is everything is an EV. Sorry, Mrs. Lash. Thanks for tuning into today's edition of Dana lashes absurd truth podcast. If you haven't already made sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts.