Absurd Truth: Rise of the DINK

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. He's on Surfside Beach in Miami. It's near his house. It was posted everywhere.

But anyway, this woman who is on social media found the spot where he made his retirement video. And she's seen scooping the sand into a bag. And it's the same bag that she's trying to sell on eBay.

And the high bid as of like the what I guess Saturday morning was $99,900. I'm not even kidding with I'm not even joking. What do you it's a magazine. What do you do with it? It's a bag of sand that somebody sat on. Are you kidding me? What do you think you're going to what do you think she thinks she's going to get off of that?

I can't it's it's Tom Brady's butt sand is what it is. That's literally I think what it's that's so that's so bad. I don't know there's Miami landlord doubles rent and a tenant threatens to burn the house down so that nobody gets anything. That's real estate investor in Miami. He informed this guy posted informed a tenant he posted this video he informed a tenant that our rents going up. And I mean, she was paying like hardly nothing.

Apparently, Florida rents have been skyrocketing. And she apparently did not want to pay it. They were fighting over it. And he ended up saying, Well, then I'll just burn the house down and nobody will get anything. How about that? You happy with that? It's true. See, here's the thing with the CDC moratorium that people had passed that or that did not pass but that the that the president was trying to make law without actually making law. What about the people who own the property still property taxes, they still have insurance, they have all kinds of stuff that they their mortgage, they have all kinds of stuff that they have to pay. So that that's all just that's so ridiculous.

You're not you're you're it's like a free ride on someone else's hard work. A seminal man Florida man stole 45 liquor bottles worth $1,200 from Winn Dixie, say, Pinellas County police. They arrested 51 year old John by lock for an alleged theft that occurred on October 15. He purchased two cases of beer and then he also got a cart carrying dozens upon dozens of liquor bottles. And then he apparently purchased the two cases of beer but then came back to grab the cart holding he just like he put it in the cart neck like he bought all of it. So he had 12 Crown Royal, actually, no, I'm sorry. 24 Crown Royal. Then he had a six Crown Royal Apple, Dark Horse Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio and Ricoloff Deluxe vodka, six of those. That's crazy.

Total was $1,282. So he's he's bonded out. But why would you like me? You're gonna get caught. It's a cart full of liquor.

It's a cart full of liquor. I think we're almost out of time. Are we because I want to make sure we're getting our cues here. Okay, so also a couple of other things here. And some of these I can't I can't at all mention.

They're just bad. A couple of other things here. This woman, Florida woman said she was going to cook and eat her neighbor. She stabbed him with an ice pick and then dismembered him. And this is Deltona, Florida. They handle a lot of missing persons cases. But there was a search for a 36 year old named James Shaffer. And it apparently is now made this Flora Bama murder series. But they questioned this Florida woman who had met him and didn't like him.

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Visit angel.com slash freedom. Can we talk about the dinkies? The dinks? How did I put this in my rundown? Because I saw this headline and I was just making fun of it last night.

I had a paragraph that I removed because I thought I was being unnecessarily mean but now I wonder if I should keep it in. So the dinks, that's what they call them. The dinky dinks. Meet the next generation of people to be abandoned in nursing homes. That's who they are.

Dual income, no kids. Now I learned this from Bar Rescue because John Taffer was like yelling at this dude who owned this bar in this bougie neighborhood and he's like you have, John Taffer as always, he's been on the show before John. And he was like this is the demo you got, this is the age, you got a bunch of dinks here. And I'm like what is a dink?

And then he stopped and explained it because he just realized nobody else knew. So they're younger couples who don't have babies and they go on luxury vacations and expensive date nights. And I don't know why this headline says splurges at Costco. Do you splurge at Costco? I mean, does anyone go to Costco to get a splurge? I mean, you're usually getting mass quantities of something that you need, right? Just saying, okay. But they call them dinks.

Dual income, no kids. D-I-N-K. And they're all over TikTok, which I don't get on because it makes me want to pray for an asteroid to hit the earth faster than it's on schedule to do. So they have it's like dink talk.

I don't even know. And these people brag about their lives. Like they're like what we did today is dinks.

Dual income, no cats. And then they talk about how they went and spent their money on shrimp and coconut at Costco. Okay, I mean, if that's, you know, what, what powers your brain. Your boat. Do it to it.

And so they they're all I mean, it's I don't know. I think there's like what the hashtag dink has like 205 million views. Do you see what dinkwad stands for? Yeah, I love it.

Dinkwad is dual income, no kids with a dog. I love it. I do think that they're going to grow up lonely and die alone. But it's still funny to make fun of right now. I say that because you're there. Not look, not everybody wants to be a parent.

That's fine. But I can't imagine being the age that I am now and not having a family. Or, you know, kids either through birth or adoption. I just can't. I just can't imagine it. It's just weird to me. Like right now we're going through a crazy tumultuous phase where we have graduations literally six days apart and people moving out people moving in and people doing and it's nuts.

And as crazy as it is, and as stressful as it is, I would not trade it so I could go and quote unquote splurge at Costco and be a dinkwad. I just they I mean, they are they're going to die alone. They're going to be like the people in the nursing home. It'll be like fried green tomatoes. And it'll it'll be like, you know, Kathy Bates visiting Jessica Tandy.

And Jessica Tandy is going to be the dink except in that movie. She did have a kid, but I digress. You get my point. It's just sad. I honestly wonder because birth rates have been have picked up ever so slightly. And I don't. Everyone was wondering if the birth rate would explode during the lockdown and I don't and it didn't.

But or due to the lockdown, but they said they have picked up slightly point nine percent 21 the same amount again in 2022. And it makes me kind of think that there is somewhat of a turnaround. Although I sort of I also wonder if it's not too soon, you know, to say such a thing. Because have you seen like trad wife and all of this stuff starting to trend on social media? Like women are of younger, you know, younger generations are rediscovering things that have been made taboo by second wave feminists, right? Like second wave feminists looked at it as weak if you guard them. Or if you had home cooked meals, or if you wanted to stay home. I mean, I got in a huge fight with Linda Hirschman, who was this old, cantankerous, crusty feminist, who was saying that if you have a college degree, oh, she has. If you have a college degree and you choose to stay home, you're betraying your sex. And I it was a very public having it out.

We had it out. And there have been other like, there have been a couple of Republican women that I've had it out with that have said things like, Oh, well, you know, Republican women staying home, it's like, or if you're staying a home mother, it's like a form of welfare. And of course, it's always made by these women who don't have kids, or dinks, right?

Dink wads. But I do I think there's, I'm starting to think that there might be a rejection of this. I do think that there might be some kind of there might be a rejection of this.

Because people are tired. There's it's a very it's a false freedom, and it's empty. And I think that that's I don't know, I think that that there's a reaction to that. But yeah, I can't stand the name the dink wads. It's true. It's it's the craziest thing. But I love it. I learned it off Bar Rescue. You've heard me talk about my friends at Kel-Tec for years.

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Secure your world with Kel-Tec. And now all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's quick five. This is not a headline I ever thought I would share. Sweden blames their inflation on Beyonce. Economists say the singer's visit to Stockholm accounted for a 0.3% rise in prices. The experts say that she could have tipped the scales of inflation in Sweden and they suggest that her tour probably accounted for 0.2 of the 0.3 percentage points.

What? They said prices rose by 9.7% May year on year down from 10. But the first time they said that they had decreased and blah blah blah prices.

But then they said that there was an unexpected rise and they think it was because she came to Stockholm. That's nuts. Seriously? That's crazy. Okay, I just I, you know, okay, I've seen everything now.

That's all right. New York City office space occupancy. Remember how everyone was leaving Manhattan. So now they're like actual brick and mortar occupancies hit 50% for the first time since the COVID crash.

That was just last week, crossed 50% last week. Because that I mean, it collapsed our economy and everybody left. So they said that depressed business districts are still in trouble, though.

But they said that they the milestone came during the wildfires. But reverting they said to pre COVID times is just absolutely it's impossible. They said it's been a real struggle for employers and everybody's having to like reinterpret how they're doing business now.

It's pretty amazing. A new report says that AI could destroy or degrade 300 million jobs. Goldman Sachs says that 300 million jobs could be lost or diminished by the technology as automated automation renders human workers unnecessary.

No one saw this coming. You know who's gonna be really hit is minimum wage. That's gonna be they're gonna be really hit. Kenya tea pickers are destroying the machines replacing them. Karicha Kenya, Kenyan tea pickers are destroying the machines have been bought in to replace them during violent protests that highlight the challenge faced by lower skilled workers as more agribusiness companies rely on automation. T 10 tea plucking machines have been torched in multiple flashpoints in the past year.

They have the Kenya Tea Growers Association, they're saying it costs like 1.2 million in damages. I mean, they're interesting. There you go. And scientists think that the chicken came first, not the egg.

They think it was born live like mammals. They said, stick with us. One of the I've been really interested in watching the back and forth of this. So Netflix has decided to make a docudrama on Cleopatra. And they had a cast, they have 37 year old English actress Adele James as the title character. And then it all went to hell. Because some people got mad not for the reasons that you think though. So Egypt is mad. Like the entire country of Egypt is mad. And they have slammed Netflix for what they say is the falsification of Egyptian history. In fact, the phrase that was used, and it's a Jada Pinkett Smith docuseries.

So that tells you everything you need to know right there. Egypt, and some critics from Egypt have accused Netflix of, and I'm using the words blackwashing. And by casting a black British actress as the Macedonian Greek ruler. It is insane.

And I am just sitting back and watching this. Now Jada Pinkett Smith had said she wanted to tell the story. She said we don't often get to see or hear stories about black queens. They had the trailer that they released a couple of weeks ago, and Egypt is infuriated, like literally Egypt, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Iniquities.

shared images of the bust. And they argued that she wasn't black. They said she was she was Macedonian.

She had in fact, Hellenistic characteristics, and a light complexion is what they're arguing. That's the Ministry of Tourism and Iniquities in Egypt. And the Secretary General of Egypt Supreme Council of Archaeology, Dr. Mustafa Waziri said that the appearance of Cleopatra in the upcoming series was a quote falsification of Egyptian history and a blatant historical misconception. There was a direct quote.

I've never quite seen anything like this before. I mean, they've I know that there was wasn't there there was like at one point Gal Gadot was attached to a film. They've been talking about it for a while.

film. They've been trying to make a new Cleopatra film forever. And people got really woke scolds got mad because they were upset that it wasn't a black actress cast. And then there were arguments over Cleopatra's, I guess her heritage and her history, her family history.

And historians, including I think, the single most prolific biographer on Cleopatra was saying, Well, you know, it's Macedonian and Greek, and had very and was described as having European features, or what we would call European features today is what he had said, actually had this previously, and some email prep for you. But with everything going on, we were getting to it today. But they said that Dr. Waziri said the film is class classified as a documentary and not a drama. And that was like their big sticking point. They said this isn't sort of, you know, a historical fiction, you know, fiction based off something historical. They're saying that they were presenting it he was upset he was saying they're presenting this as a documentary. And he said the not a drama and the order that the owners of its industry have to investigate accuracy, and refer to historical and scientific facts in order to ensure he adds that the history of in civilizations of people is not falsified. He blasted Netflix along with other anthropologists and archaeologists and historians. They were they blasted Netflix for not even referring or consulting with them when making the series.

Oh my gosh. They also had an incredibly lengthy statement. And Egypt attached the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities attached all these images of artifacts, coins, the busts, the you know, all kinds of whatever depiction that they could. They said that they were showing off her green Greek features.

It's supposed to air on May 10. And they said they were showing off her Greek features, etc. They had a painting from a villa at Herculaneum in modern day Campania. And they were saying that they were arguing that it was a posthumous portrait of Cleopatra. They were showing like her imprint on coin, everything. So they, I mean, it is so long, it is I can't even get into everything. It is such a long and the letter and everything that they attached to it. And they really got into the history.

I actually learned a lot more about the her dynasty and her family from reading those. But it was it was pretty unbelievable. And they said that the show also featured content that violated Egypt's own media laws. And they wait, there's more there's a look because they had a suit filed against them too.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, they had a suit filed against them. They said the former antiquities minister from Cairo, slammed it as completely fake. They said Egyptians were reacting with horror to it. They also said that the anthropology studies and DNA studies conducted on mummy and bones can confirm that Egypt Egyptians do not bear the features of South Saharan Africans, they said. They said that Netflix is trying to provoke confusion by spreading false and deceptive facts. That the origin of the Egyptians about the origin of the Egyptian civilization. They said that one lawyer, Mahmoud Al Samari, filed a complaint with the public prosecutor demanding that they block access to Netflix over it.

And they said that the show that Netflix was, quote, trying to promote Afrocentric thinking, distorting and erasing Egyptian identity, end quote. Whoa. Whoa. So I don't, I've never seen a fight like this.

Have you? Yeah, everybody's mad in this country. Apparently, like Egyptians were horrified, according to some of the reporting. They were horrified. There's like, if you look at some of the European reports of it as well, they're like highly critical. What makes me mad is that it's a because they're, they don't come right out and say it. But it's almost like, especially if you look at like French reporting on it, they're, they're attributing this to Oh, this is American woogery nonsense at work.

I don't. I thought we imported that from them. Didn't we? Did they get over it? And then now they're acting like it's us. I'm so confused.

Because that's what they the left always. I mean, oh, man. I understand their argument, though. Right? Yeah, because isn't this the group that is upset at cultural appropriation? Yes.

So why? I mean, the Netflix crowd? Yes.

Yeah. So why would they not have the same outrage in this misrepresentation of that culture? I mean, it's really exactly. And it's really hard to argue with literally the amount of scholars. And I mean, all of the people, the anthropologists, the archaeologists, the historians, the scholars, antiquities minister, current and previous, other Oh, man, all these people that have come forward, who have blasted Netflix, and then they like submit all of this, you know, the bus, the coinage, the, I don't want to call it a fresco, but the the depictions even in you know, other like the Herculaneum one, etc. Wow, that's like really hard.

It's hard to argue with that. When you when they presented it that I'm just like, I've never seen anything like this in my life. So yeah, Jada Pinkett Smith is getting dragged for this. Getting absolute, some might say slap.

But I swear, that's not the only reason I like Brock, because I was just I've never seen anything. I mean, on Twitter, oh, my gosh. Like, listen to this. This is how it's being portrayed. Like some of the comments are identifying Queen Cleopatra as black for fulfilling modern African American fantasies is theft of Egyptian history and an attempt to rewrite history's greats. Another says for the nth time, the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra was not an Egyptian.

She was Greek, Macedonian descent, etc. So I mean, oh, wow, it is crazy. So I, I do think because apparently, it's it and I know, very, I don't know a lot about Cleopatra and the dynasty. But apparently, I mean, it's a very significant part of Egyptian history.

And having that distinction is a part of, you know, there is a part of their history. But you're right. I mean, what did you say? Like, say what you were talking about, like in some of your proposals, it's like somebody who's making a movie and they about somebody and they Yeah, let's just say we go back in history, we do a movie about MLK and we just have somebody like Woody Harrelson play MLK. Or what if you know what I mean?

What if we have a movie about BB King and we just get like Eric Clapton or Slash to play BB King? Like, is that acceptable? No, I mean, based on this, it seems like those moves would be acceptable.

Yeah. I mean, there's, there's, I think, in the instances where it plays almost itself, a significant portion of the story or of the history, I don't think you can ignore it. I mean, that's and it's not excluding anything. I mean, it's just the way that something happened. But yeah, you did, you did bring up an interesting point earlier, because with all of the weeping and gnashing of teeth over appropriation. I mean, this seems like according to what they're all saying that that's actually appropriation. Hmm.

I mean, never thought I'd see that. I've been I've been reading like the back and forth about this for a week and a half. I am absolutely fascinated with it because somebody somebody on social media, like an actress or an actor or producer will say something and then it's like there's like an alarm that goes off somewhere in the pyramids and Giza and like all of these anthropologists and archaeologists and everyone else come out and they drag this person. It is Yeah, and you would does Netflix like the attention? Do you think? Because it is because it kind of does make them look silly.

They didn't even consult with any historians. How are they going to call it a doc you drama? Well, people are going to tune in to see if they launch it on the day they're going to launch it.

Number one. Number two, I think Netflix is playing it smart as far as just allowing this to happen there. They haven't really made any statements about it or anything. They just sort of promoting this. And they're hoping that a lot of eyes and ears right now they're getting free press. Look at that.

They don't have to pay a dime. And how many outlets are writing about this? Right? Yeah. So yeah, everyone's watching and eating popcorn. I mean, to watch someone be so expertly scholarly schooled is pretty amazing. Thanks for tuning in to 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, or wherever you get your podcasts.