Absurd Truth: Drag vs Hooters

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. So imagine you're just on the beach taking a walk the white pristine sands of Vero Beach and you look down you're like well what is all this and it's 20 bricks of cocaine that washed up on the beach. I mean just you know for a second just imagine 20 bricks 57 pounds of cocaine. Now if you're wondering well wait a minute you know before we find out you know whether or not you know a good deed was done here.

How much is all that? It was actually estimated street value so $100,000 and you wouldn't be wrong to wonder. It was just like it was in a white garbage bag washed up and I mean good heavens. So they said that Border Patrol WFLA said Border Patrol said the bricks had a collective weight 57 pounds. They're trying to figure out how in the world that it got there.

I mean it washed up on the shores on the beach. So they're trying to figure out okay, well, how did this happen? So that's what they're investigating now. But they said a Good Samaritan notified them. And local authorities responded and they turned everything over to Border Patrol custody. Wink wink. That's just it's kind of that's I think that just that fascinates me that you could how do you just I just would imagine that if there aren't did it fall off a boat? Did someone just accidentally drop a 57 pound bag of cocaine?

This reminds me of every other episode of Miami Vice. Yeah. Let's see.

I really okay. I don't know I'm trying to figure out the best way to read this story. I was thinking about this this morning. So this was in Miami. The lead is really buried here.

So let me just read the whole headline and subhead. Famed FBI undercover drug informant white boy Rick arrested in Miami. Police say that Richard Wershe said another woman's name during romantical times before attacking his girlfriend at an Edgewater condo. So what ended up happening is he called his girlfriend by the wrong name during romantical times. They got into a big argument and now he's in for domestic assault.

I mean this guy he was an undercover FBI informant white boy Rick the movie with Matthew McConaughey he like inspired that movie. And so this Richard Wershe he was 53 was arrested he attacked his girlfriend of four months they were fighting because he called her by his other ladies his ex lady's name and she got mad at him. She had bruises. So that's why he was he was taken in because she did he did. Good heavens. And I mean I don't know. Anyway he was he's in the jails. I don't know how else to put it. I mean I'm trying to be very delicate here with this story.

And then a Florida woman police officer she stole a dead man's credit card and used it for purchasing food at Wendy's. I'll save that one. Stay with us. Third hour on the way. We'll be right back. The double stack magazine holds 15 plus one total capacity.

That's standard. All Kel-Tec firearms are made in the USA and come with a lifetime warranty as the original owner with proof of purchase. Sign up for the Kel-Tec insider and get a 15 percent coupon for your next order of gear and accessories. The P-15 is an excellent choice if you're looking for concealed carry. Learn more at Kel-Tec weapons dot com. That's K-E-L-T-E-C weapons dot com.

Secure your world with Kel-Tec. So Charlize Theron. She's an actress. She was at some event that it was a drag isn't dangerous telethon which no one said that it was.

Literally nobody said that it was. They just said hey can some of the men who dresses women and like the you know some of the other supporters. Can you just not have them go to like public libraries and shake their wings in front of the kids. That would be great. You know can you just not.

I mean just maybe skip that today. So she was at this event. And she was really talking tough.

Listen to this. We love you queen. We Love you queen! And we've got you and I will f*** anybody up. Who's like trying to f*** with anything with you guys.

It's really in all seriousness there's so many things that are hurting and really killing our kids. And we all know what I'm talking about right now. And it ain't no drag queen. I really feel like she couldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight I Mean if I had to guess I would just you know I mean it's one thing to like think that you know It's one thing to be an action movie and then it's one thing to actually believe that you can do the things that your character Is doing with the aid of special effects? So she was saying we're in your corner. She said we love you Queens were in your corner We got you and she said she would blank up anyone who is like trying to blank with anything with you guys Or whatever that means like oh my gosh, I'm like Remember, I don't know.

I just was so goofy. This is I Know so she that's the thing like it's no one has an issue with Adult shows that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about with kids There's like a let me do we not understand this difference. There's a major difference here. Oh I know it's totally free every subject They do it when you're against illegal immigration all of a sudden now they say you're against immigration And it's the same with this they they always conflate to a straw man argument.

It's always it's their tactic. Yeah, I It's so frustrating I Mean it's so you know it's we support you it's like that's the thing it's never been nobody's ever said this is about age appropriateness So I guess she's fine with taking her kids to a gun range. You know oh Wait a minute you big it you big a why do you hey? Same thing oh wait You know you don't you suddenly you want to Interject and you want to be able to determine what's appropriate or inappropriate or what you want to do for your kids or what?

You don't want to do for your kids. Hey Kane. I got an idea. Let's take all them kids and get them baptized I don't care about their parents faith or anything about their families.

Let's go. I mean do you see what I'm saying? I don't want to compare that to drag queens But I'm using I'm talking about different variables that you think that parents might want to be involved in right Now for the people who struggle to understand meaning This just I don't know and this is kind of a big deal though This isn't something as innocuous or something as you know wholesome as what you know the examples I'm giving you these are actual adult dudes taking part in a sexually charged performance I mean Have you seen some of these videos out here with the family-friendly brunch? I've never I've never I I have a lot of I have friends and family that have gone to drag shows And I just never wanted to go.

I don't know I've never I don't never wanted to not that I had anything I just never wanted to go like I'm not gonna. I'm gonna have brunch. I don't want to see man-ass you know Right I Mean forgive the Portuguese, but or don't I mean I'm being honest No one wants to see that. I mean I'm eating my brunch Right like I'm having my mimosa.

I'm having my brunch. I don't need to see that put it away I don't want to see that I Mean I just I also grew up With some family that you know if they saw you wearing spaghetti straps into church spaghetti strap top You put that away you put them shelters away. You know so I get you know This is a lot worse. Just have you seen some of it you see some of the video How are you gonna be having brunch, and you know eating your your eggs and your sausage, and you're looking over there And their sausages I mean I just It's a fair question right It's a fair question, but there's there's certain types of meal scenarios that make sense Like if you're eating see like this one restaurant.

We were in the Bahamas somewhere I think a hurricane took this place out But you sit on this deck and you overlook the ocean and as you're eating seafood They ring a bell and feed the sharks So there's something very powerful about eating the seafood and watching look at them sharks are doing you know I'm watching the sharks eat. It's just you know This is way different. I Just have never understood kind of the I mean if that's your bag, and it's an adult thing That's fine, but to bring a kid there and treat a sexually charged performer like it's a Disney character well same thing Treat a sexually charged performer like it's a children's programming character Like a cut that's what's weird to me. That's kind of how these people I think a lot of these people that are pushing this so hard and insisting on this is the hell I'm gonna fight on making sure that men with lipstick on can shake their junk in front of my kid And if you don't like it if you don't want to see wings wagging at your kid, then you're a bigot But what if you're an adult who's gone to drag shows you just don't think that it's appropriate for kids You're a bigot.

I mean that's Okay, so strip clubs. Are you a bigot then if you don't want to drag your three-year-old and watch a pole dancer I'm just wondering You don't let your I mean Kylie Yeah, you're a bigot then you see how stupid this is and how they try to conflate this Like in Florida they come up with a simple bill. It's a very simple bill, and it's just that the parents are going is hey We just want to have some Insight and give our consent on some of the stuff you're putting on the library shelves And this was after you know they find these books and these elementary kids shelves not exaggerating I mean it's the receipts are out there showing some stuff that I can't even talk about with cartoon characters and Everyone's like oh my gosh They just told us not to say gay and all the other adults in Florida are going wait We literally didn't oh my gosh. You just said we can't say gay. Oh no one said that you couldn't say gay We just wanted to have some input in the classroom. That's all it's about age appropriateness How high are you to make this the hill you're gonna fight on?

Seriously is hunters sharing his crack rock what the hell's wrong with some of you people? Like what if you want to do the drag thing then do it, but why do you got to make kids a part of it? No, like shoving kids into the mix has now become the new standard of measures whether you're not you're truly open-minded if You do not treat this drag queen like an Elmo character Then you're a bigot honey go up there and shove some money in that drag queens britches go up there Shove some dollars in that drag queens britches mind the bulge See what I'm saying It's true It's true.

It's almost Friday cane. I'm gonna stretch it right up to it right up to it You okay, not like you know drag show, but right up to it You okay You're gonna make it all right well We got we got some we got some more we got some more here too that we got it We got a hit on as well. Yeah, cuz you can't you can't a doctor you can it's easy to indoctrinate Kids, what did you say Hooters? But but Hooters Dana Hooters, I've seen a kid drink a soda at Hooters. Yeah, I've seen kids go to Hooters, too So I just wonder if the people who ever been to a Hooters have they been to a drag show Cuz it's totally not actually the same Drag shows like false advertisement Hooters is like just true. They're just good-looking chicks it still it's um It's literally girls in tight shirts with have they dropped the shiny sorry cyber have they dropped the shiny tights Honestly, I haven't been I had a friend in college He was a Hooters waitress, and she had to wear these shiny like Jane Fonda era tights yeah, and they were hideous Yeah, and it just looked ridiculous Uh anyway, but sure I mean are they are they dancing and waving their butts in front of your kids face I mean, I'm just wondering there's a difference between I I understand what they're trying to do But I'm just like have you been to a drag show and no one ever put money in the shorts of a Hooters waitress Yeah, nope that's not the same thing. Yeah, nobody that didn't get arrested, and I've never taken my kids to Hooters but I've also never seen my kids to track show either, but they're not the same I Mean I just these people making this comparison I'm like you've never been a drag show have you or you've never even seen one have you? Cuz they're they're not the same Not at all, but if you don't want, but here's the other thing.

It's I mean if you then With the restaurant. I mean there's there. They're also covered. They're not making jokes or singing songs about genitalia or intercourse Sue Hmm, and now all of the news you would probably miss it's time for Dana's quick five The story cracks me up a missing Australia woman survived five days on wine and lollipops say authorities They rescued her in the wilderness. She survived for five days this woman in the Australian wilderness Thanks to a bottle of wine and some lollipops the 48 year old who is only referred to as Lillian Went on vacation to bright Australia last month her family Though was alarmed soon after she didn't make her daily call to check in with her loved ones on April 30th according to Victoria Police Police say their air wing spotted her car at the end of a dirt road and and they said there was about 60 kilometers from the nearest town a police van was directed to her location and she was safely rescued and they actually saw her there and They could see her waving up, and she's just like in the middle of this clearing.

She's you know. It's I mean it's hysterical But at the same time she was trying to get to the Dartmouth dam when she realized she had taken a wrong turn Then her car got bogged down in mud. She didn't have a cell signal. No way to call for help She couldn't move her car. She could use the heater for warmth, and so it was only supposed to be a day trip so she just brought some snacks and lollipops, and she didn't have any water and She doesn't drink, but she had to turn to a bottle of wine.

She brought for her mom, which is kind of funny They said that she stayed with her car She didn't wander off which was smart and that helped police find her quickly so they rescued her and she was able to And she was very grateful. They said to see Man alive goodness the president says that power plants have to reduce pollution by 90% or shut down The EPA announced the strict guidelines for their green agenda imagine that that's Yeah, I know. I mean just go ahead and just give China a leg up on this will ya and by the way They've already done so much to reduce it anyway. I mean more so than any other nation, so Let's see this 10 million gallons of partially treated waste water so some of it's still fresh really Was released into Mount Hope Bay in Fall River, Massachusetts 10 million gallons of partially treated wastewater a circuit breaker failed at the regional wastewater treatment facility the water bypassed all the pumps and They said it's Yeah, it's bad They said it was really bad Sunday night officials said that they did finally reset the breaker, and it was working correctly, but between the spill and heavy rain They said that they had to close the section to Mount Hope Bay for the next week or so Do you have to like go in and scrub all the pumps and everything I'm wondering like how does that work? Yeah, I mean, I I don't know how that works. I just know Also, there were 160,000 rounds of ammo that were stolen from Ohio Police recently the Ohio Police Division Columbus police said that it was stolen from a warehouse on the west side And that when the division noticed the delivery was short it contacted the shipping company They said everything had shipped and the ammunition was stolen before making it to CPD's facility.

It was a rifle ammunition So they said that there were two others involved in a warehouse theft last month linked to the incident according to Columbus police. Hmm Do you remember back This was in 2014 I think and This and I'm looking at this thing there was the Sandenburg University study that just came out Recently came out talking about math instruction in San Francisco So do you remember back in something like 2013 2014 San Francisco? They wanted to approach math equitably Do you remember this before you started really hearing the word equitable everywhere? The city of San Francisco wanted to approach math in an equitable manner.

Now. What does that mean? They were making the argument. This is in San Francisco. They were making the argument that Minority students Were struggling with math they were behind white and Asian students and They basically blamed it not basically they did they blamed it on them being minorities I'm not making this up. This is San Francisco so before 2014 And there have been a couple of places that touched on this reasons touched on this I think red state wrote about it before 2014 Kids had to you I mean you had to do, you know You have like advanced math or you have you know, just like regular everybody else math and if you were on the advanced track Like AP then you would take algebra in your eighth grade year and go from there And then a lot of kids and this is like this in a lot of schools across the country then they would start algebra their ninth Grade year right and it meant that by the time that some kids got to their senior year they were in calculus so and they and they do this with a number of subjects and that obviously because a lot of Colleges, especially if you're going into an engineering computer, so whatever you have to have a lot of students You have to have like pre-calc or calc, right? And they thought that because there were fewer minority students who were on the AP track To take algebra in eighth grade and then be able to get into Calc their senior year They thought that that was inequitable That was unfair So they redid their curriculum.

This is San Francisco school. They redid their curriculum Uh, I think and this is this is a reason piece. I think it's like in 2014 And They then required now get this That all students wait And take together algebra in their ninth grade year Now they were saying that Well if we we would have uh, you know, if all the kids were learning together then some of the lower You know the students who were making lower grades in the subject. It would help improve their grades in the subject And they actually even did more because students that were taking algebra one Prior to even going into high school privately Even if they could take a test even if they could test out of the class They still had to take the class regardless So say that during the summer between your eighth and ninth grade year that you wanted to fulfill that requirement so you could take calculus When you were a senior And you decided to do a summer course algebra one summer course Well, then by the time you got to you know school started in the fall ninth grade Didn't matter if you got an a in that private course over the summer Did matter Or summer school class. It didn't matter Uh, it didn't matter if you take the test and test out of it. You were required to take it regardless You know because equity They were punishing you for wanting to get ahead So stanford Did this survey? Because the reason that all these you know, these these san francisco schools were saying that it was going to close the achievement gap well They finally did a survey on it a study on it.

And guess what? It didn't It didn't at all They said that large ethno racial gaps in advanced math course taking remained They said that uh, they studied how there was a lot of participation in accelerated options And they were the schools were looking to reduce the disparity and what they found is that it all remained Anyway, it didn't do a damn thing except penalize the students who were advanced And here's what gets me The Whole point of this they said was to help the students who were underachievers Now why did san francisco not choose to approach this by just teaching better I think that there are some instances in which students fall behind Maybe because there is a learning hurdle or however you want to put it But in some instances it's because of just bad teaching I remember when I was in school The younger teachers who were just coming up and coming into schools were the ones everybody wanted to have as their teacher Because the older ones that had tenure who were like I had the I had an algebra teacher that really reinforced that Algebra teacher that really reinforced my hatred of math He was a jack wagon. I could not stand this guy. He was rude. He was condescending Uh, he had he did not like to explain anything to anyone And he would when he would challenge students to go up to the board.

He would literally ridicule you If I mean he was a horrible teacher, he had tenure though, and the other teachers hated him, but you couldn't get rid of him Nobody wanted to have this guy for math and I had a friend who actually delayed a course a math course And put herself back So she didn't have to take him our sophomore year high school It was I mean, it was wild uh There are some bad teachers out there and this sounds kind of like I mean if you're having students uh of different Um demographics that are struggling with math then why don't you figure out how you can improve that by teaching better? Instead of lowering the bar for everyone because what you're saying is that you don't believe that these students are capable of meeting the expectation of an advanced placement class Of an accelerated math course, they're just giving up. They're not even going to try with these kids That wasn't even their first option. They didn't even they didn't even Try with these kids. They didn't try to help these kids get into these accelerated math courses and succeed They didn't do anything to prepare then they just decided to take them away For everyone in eighth grade Tell me how that's not racism Because you're just oh, well, they're not going to meet this expectation. So let's lower the bar for everyone. How is that not racist? It is it's a rhetorical question Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of dana lashes absurd truth podcast if you haven't already Make sure to hit that subscribe button on apple podcast spotify or wherever you get your podcast