Absurd Truth: Town vs. Elitist City

Dana Lashes of Sir Truth Podcast, sponsored by Kel-Tec. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.

People can't just disagree, like anymore, like, you know, just disagree and leave it at that. In Hillsborough County, Florida, a man is in the hospital after a Florida man is accused of stabbing and lighting him on fire. And then yeah, this was apparently just it was this week, deputies and a fire crew found a man with upper body trauma and severe burns. He was taken to Tampa General in critical condition. The victim was stabbed and beaten and then set on fire.

He was identified as 53-year-old Donnie Adams. And he left or he said Adams, they said Adams left before officials arrived. He told officials he was planning on committing suicide. And then he got onto the Skyway Bridge, deputies tried to get him to come out. He, this was just wild. He ended up arguing with them, wasn't gonna listen to them.

This is a whole big thing. But they said that with this, hang on, with the story. I mean, his burns were so severe, they had to actually dunk him in the water. Like he was yeah, he was like arguing with people.

He had that when they got there. This is just a crazy story. And it's a poorly written one as well. An arrest warrant was issued for the guy who he was arguing with him ended up attacking him for first degree murder and arson.

Yeah, they never said anything about the perp. Really, that was it. Also, let's see here. This guy, Jiminy Christmas. A Florida man sues Disney because he said he they he for 50,000 he said he took a fall, scary fall off a ride. This was at the Walt Disney World Resort according to the lawsuit, Billy Williams. Your name is William Williams?

Billy Williams, okay, from Orange County. He said he was trying to board the Haunted Mansion ride. Now, the Haunted Mansion ride, which is Wait a minute. What kind of ride is that?

I don't know. I don't know anything about the rides that they have there. I haven't been there. And isn't it like a little kiddie ride? Don't they have like little buggies? Yeah, I mean, how do you fall out and take how do you take a big fall out of it? It's like little buggies. And it's like a little track. And I don't think you go up. You just go through like a haunted house. Isn't that what it is?

That's all it is. How do you fall out of that hurts yourself? How do you fall?

I mean, it's a little buggy. Anyway, that's what happens to this guy. He fell off the ride and hit the ground. He said he suffered severe and permanent injuries. He's suing for $50,000.

Disney has not yet commented. Now, I kind of think it might be legit if it's only $50,000 that he's suing for, you know, but depending on what his injuries are, but still it's like how do you fall out of that ride? It's like a baby ride. It's like a fam- it's the fam- a family ride apparently. So it just goes real slow through there.

There's no like, I don't know. This from NBC Miami. It's on video. A video shows a meat thief pulling a knife on a West Miami supermarket manager. It happened at the Tropical supermarket in Miami. And they said they're apparently searching for him. He was caught on camera. And it happened around 9pm. The store manager approached this guy because he saw the suspect just loading like meat into a backpack.

And so gross. And when the manager approached him, they exchanged words. And when the manager tried to stop him, that's when the perp pulled out a pocket knife and lunged at him. And he made a- he said he made a statement in the sense of go ahead and call the police, as something to that effect, the manager said. And so the guy kept, you know, continued putting meat in his backpack, left at the store, hopped on a bicycle and fled. It was all captured on surveillance footage.

And so they said he think he- they think he lives close by because he came and left on a bike. So, you know, I don't know. Just find out who's having a barbecue. And just- just saying. Just gonna shove it in your- shove the meat in your backpack. A Florida woman stole a fire truck after impersonating a firefighter. See, this is what happens when you demand other people affirm your false self-perception. Stuff like this. So this woman, who's to tell her that she's not a firefighter?

Shut up. It's ma'am. A Florida woman's accused of stealing a fire truck and impersonating a firefighter. The county sheriff's office for a county I can't pronounce said this 44-year-old woman took off with a fire truck.

She spent the night in the well-born volunteer fire department station. When the fire chief literally went out to respond to a call, the truck was gone. And that's when they got a call from the woman saying that she stole it. And then she ran out of gas 10 miles away. She needed help. And they tracked her down and she said, oh no, I'm a volunteer firefighter.

Deputies determined they'd never seen this broad before. And she was not on the official- she was not on the rochel- roster and therefore not authorized to use the truck. So she was booked on charges of grand theft and fraud impersonating a firefighter. Now wait a minute, how can- you know, she wanted to impersonate a dude? She could. Can't impersonate a firefighter though. It's ma'am. It is ma'am. But did they stop there?

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So don't tell me that not only was he aware of what he was doing by using that imagery, he embraces that imagery. Oh, for the love. That is so stupid. I'm so tired of this being the go to, the default for progressives. Welcome back to the program, Dana Loesch here, top of the second hour on this Friday.

That was What's Her Face, Sunny Hostin or whatever from The Shmew. So they're accusing, they keep going, they're still going after Jason Aldean for this song. And I'm just, I mean, I cannot believe that this is what they're so obsessed with. And they're like, oh, this is a, it's a, they're saying that, actually, they're demonstrating their bigotry, because they're saying, well, because he's into country, he's country artist, and he's probably in the south.

Yeah, he's talking about sundown towns. No, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. I just did. But that's what appears what really, really gets me about this. And I've, I've written about it. I've talked about it a little bit before, because I said there's nothing controversial about it. And I maintain that there's nothing controversial about the song because it is so dumb that people are freaking it has nothing to do.

I mean, nothing in the video has anything to do with race or in the lyrics. But like I said, progressives have been so damn desperate to make it about race because they want to deflect from the reality that most of the areas that their riots burned down or, or, or affected the worst were black communities. They want to ignore the fact that the cities that are affected by the fact that the most by violent crime are generally generationally controlled black cities, or Democrat cities, and black citizens suffer, like Chicago, my hometown of St. Louis. The stuff that he's condemning are like, you know, the stories like I told you, the guy selling ice cream in Oakland, 80 year old man pushing his little ice cream cart, and broad daylight, he gets he gets robbed three times one time on camera, broad daylight, or stories about people getting carjacked.

And then yeah, some of the riots. Why is it that whenever you show Democrats the violence in which they they incite and participate in your support in your condemning it, they say that you're encouraging it. They tried this with me when I did commentary and I was literally condemning violence while I had little actual video of the violent riots that they led in cities across the country in the wake of George Floyd, and they were like, Oh, she's encouraging violence by condemning it. That's how they try to get by it. They try to excuse it by rewiring what you think of it with this performative outrage. But what's what even gets me more about this is this is not even about Jason Aldean. This is about progressives thinking that minority Americans can't have community.

Think about it. That's what he's talking about in the song is community. And you don't necessarily have to be in a small town to have community. It's kind of an interchangeable sentiment. I mean, try that in a small town, try that with anybody's community.

Try that with a community of people that have each other's backs. And I think it also speaks that progressives don't believe, apparently, that black Americans or Hispanic Americans or any other minority can live in a small town. I think the people that are pushing this have never been to a small town except to go to a wine country. That's it. That's the only time they go.

They go to drink wine. And they ignore small towns any other time. But that's what is really that's really what they're denying here. Their outrage over this song is their denial of community within minority Americans or a denial of minority Americans being able to participate in any or be part of any community. I mean, ask yourselves, everybody, if that happened in your circle, if people were, you know, if that was your grandpa, 80 years old, pushing an ice cream cart, or if that was a grandpa in your area, you all know you'd stick up for him.

You know you would. And I think that people like Sunny Hostin, they perpetuate the very bigotry that they pretend to condemn. You can't condemn bigotry while pushing it. You can't sit here and say that something's bad while you're actually trying to sell it. That's what they're doing.

That's what she's doing. That's not to say that every community is perfect. It's not. No community is. Every area has its faults. Small towns are no exception. But there's a reason why, particularly when lockdown hit, where are all the people in the cities moving to?

Think about it. All the headlines you've heard over the past couple of years, where are all the city dwellers moving? Everybody is moving to the country.

It's like canned heat. It's going all country. Everybody's moving.

There's been measurements for moving trucks. People move into the country. Everyone move into small towns. They want to get away from the crime that they see in the city. They want to get away from the draconian lockdowns, like whether it's school, whether it's businesses, everything that happened, the high taxes. They want to get rid of all of it. They want to go to where it's free. It's like, oh, the places you'll go. It's opener there in the wide open air. That's where they're going.

What it would have been, I mean, I'm looking at a ton of different headlines here that I've just saved over the years. People are moving to the country. People are moving to small towns. It's more affordable to live there. They think that it's less stressful than living in the city. It's Gen X, Z and Millennials.

They are super happy. It's called the rural migration trend. And it has been at a hot pace. They said the increasing number of people are moving to small towns. You know, they're apparently so bad. If they're so bad, why is everybody moving to them? If they're so bad, why is everybody snapping up these old houses?

If they're so bad, why are people chasing up property values in these small towns? It doesn't matter if it's, you know, upper peninsula in Michigan. It doesn't matter if it's southern Missouri. It doesn't matter if it's out in Indiana. It doesn't matter if it's out in Ohio. It doesn't matter if it's in Alabama.

It does not matter. Everybody has been moving to a small town. And one of the other things is that remote work, lockdown proved that it could happen. That could work.

You don't need to necessarily, not every job requires you to go into the office. So people are taking advantage of that. University of Arizona, their urban planning studies department actually looked at this and measured this dynamic. And they said that when the pandemic hit, small town living exploded. And it didn't even matter necessarily whether there was the infrastructure existing or not. They just, they have high buying power and they'll make it happen.

So that's been, I mean, this has been ongoing. So if it's real bad, if small towns are real bad as all that, if they are as real bad as the way the left is making them, why are people moving there? Why do people want to be a part of it? Another headline, Americans continue to move to smaller cities. The migration to smaller towns continues. Small towns drew the most new pandemic residents. Denver 7, people are moving out of small towns or moving into small towns and out of cities. BBC, small cities and towns booming from remote work.

I mean, on and on and on. US News and World Report, small towns are becoming the most popular place to live in the United States. Young Americans are increasingly moving to small towns, Time Magazine.

Business Insider, small towns in Florida are the most popular. I wonder why. Everybody's moving to small towns, the type that Jason Aldean is singing about.

And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5. Today in the lab-grown artificial meat may actually be worse for the environment.

Who saw that coming? It's a, this is so gross. It's a company that grows cell-based meat. It's called Good Meat, which is so ironic. And they said that they announced in June the USDA's approval to sell its products, but it's cultured animal cells. It's actually not good for the environment.

They did a pre-print study, UCLA, sorry, UC Davis, and they found that the environmental impacts of lab-grown or cultivated meat are orders of magnitude higher than its actual natural counterpart. What? Scholars are mad. Student lists Apache attack helicopter as gender on engineering culture survey. Kudos to the student. The researchers wrote a paper that describes their experience while working on a survey about alphabet students in STEM. Nobody cares. It's in the bulletin of, oh, transgender studies? Oh, shut up.

Northwestern University. It's called Attack Helicopters and White Supremacy. And they said it was a malicious response.

I think it's a funny response to an absolutely stupid question. Other responses include a V-22 Osprey and an F-16. Yay! I love those students. You guys know that I hate cruises because it's, I get seasick and I just don't like to be in a confined space with a lot of people. And apparently, now they're doing a nude cruise. That sounds terrifying and nasty. It's a Norwegian Cruise Line.

I guess they got subcontracted out. Oh, man. Wait.

How do you make a cruise worse? Cook Political. They're changing their house ratings and they're moving two house races, including Lauren Boebert's, into a toss-up category. Lauren Boebert needs to kind of be in her district raising money and meeting and greeting because that's not good news.

And the guy that's coming up after her that's raising money, he's out raising her like three to one. And apparently the bar's lowered to make history. Some chick is now the newest alphabet lawmaker from South Carolina or something like that, I don't know.

No, no, sorry. In Texas, she's like supposed to be some first alphabet lawmaker from South to, I don't know. Nobody cares.

Stay with us. Have you seen like, speaking of that, what is up with all these Democrats posting Barbie stuff? This marketing for this movie is out of control.

There's a rumor that they're getting paid for it. This one guy who I've never heard before, Gutierrez somebody, he's a big old Democrat out of San Antonio. And he literally posted a photo of himself with, in like pink, with the Barbie logo over it. And he said, This Ken is running to beat Ted Cruz. He called himself a Ken. And he's got a, it is that a, it's apparently it's not a parody account. Oh, that's a really and then it was Gretchen Whitmer, Big Gretch.

She posted a Barbie thing, too. Do you honestly think that they're getting paid to promote that? Really, you do.

You do. Kane thinks they're getting paid. There's a ton of marketing money that goes into movies. But politicians? Yeah. And I would imagine Democrat politicians, especially, are having a hard time raising money. I don't doubt that they took deals like this to merge the two, the campaigning and earning a little money off promotion.

I wouldn't be surprised to see that that's true. Somebody asked me, a friend of mine asked me if I was going to see this movie. I just looked at her. And I didn't say anything for a good 60 seconds.

And it made everything really uncomfortable. That's the proper response. It is the proper response. I'm like, no, I'm not going to see. But apparently, it's, by all accounts, it's like a big old hate the patriarchy movie. Of course it would be. I mean, leave it to Hollywood to try to rehash some stupid narrative from the 60s and good heavens.

Good heavens. I mean, it could have been fun and, you know, cute, but whenever you start putting female empowerment in it, as a woman and as someone who has grown up with this whole shtick of female empowerment, which is a total lie of us all. Because it's not about empowerment. It's about subjugation. They call it, they call the subjugation empowerment.

If you like living under bigger government, if you like being dependent upon the government and not being independent, if you like getting everything from your birth control to whatever from the government, then you're empowered. I mean, I just don't believe that. That's that's the dumbest thing.

But that's what that's the line being sold. I've grown up with this. And it's like they still do the same thing.

They're still doing the same thing. It's so boring. It's boring. I don't like because I'm a fidget, right? I'm a little hyperactive. I cannot stand my torture for me is having to sit in a dark room and watch a bad movie. Be held captive in a dark room with only one screen and being captive to whatever's on that screen. I only will watch a movie if I want to watch it.

I think it's good. And I won't go to a theater unless I'm pretty damn sure it's going to be great. I've only seen two movies in the theater in the past three years, three and a half years. Top Gun, John Wick. That's it.

Because everything else is trash. Well, then there's the movie, the trafficking movie. I have a kind of a pack weekend, but I was I'm I'd make an exception for that. But for the most part, and I would I mean, actually buy a ticket, even if I don't go to see it, I'll buy a ticket just to support it. But it's just hard to sit in the theater. You know what it is? And like what and then I'm like looking for something to do. I got a fidget.

I got to do something I have to it has to be so good that I'm totally engrossing it. Barbie is not that movie. And it's annoying.

Greta Gerwig and all this like girl power crap. I'm so tired. It's cringe. It's cringe. Stop it. And apparently that's what the whole thing of the whole purpose I've the ones the people I know who've seen it said yeah, that Oh, gosh, no, huh? Huh?

Nope. What a letdown for chick flicks, right? Just it's just boring.

It's just boring. It's counterculture to embrace, like traditional roles that celebrate everything that women can do that men can't. But now it's like, oh, we got to celebrate women trying to do everything that men have been able to do. That's how we we ignore all of our unique traits and all of our you know, our own sex inherent superpowers.

And we got to do everything and measure it by what men do. I can't stand it. So no, I'm not going to go see the Barbie movie.

Oppenheimer looks good, though. I'm not going to see it in a theater. I may wait till it comes out. But I'm not going to go see it in a theater. No, and I'm not laying down with striking although I do think that they have the actors and writers. I do think that there's a good point that they're making about the AI stuff. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd Truth podcast. If you haven't already, make sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.