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And that's what the extreme mega-Republicans should be doing. Right now. And as we've indicated, We will have a conversation with House Republicans about the budget. about future spending priorities, about which type of investment should be made. To continue to have a strong and robust American economy into the future.

We are willing to have that conversation. President Biden has produced a budget House Republicans produced a ransom note. Who the hell was this again talking? Oh, for the love. Golly, I'm telling you what.

I'm so oh yeah, I'm so happy that it's that it's Friday. Because Uh I mean, this is just, I'm done with these people already. I'm done with them. And we got the leaf blower chasing us outside. I mean, oh my gosh, it's cats and dogs.

It's gonna hail. It's going to hail like crazy. Dogs in Texas. Living together. Mass hysteria.

Mass hysteria. Right there. Yeah, you can hear it.

Well, first off, welcome to the show. I don't know what's going on. It's Friday. I've been up since like 4.45 this morning. I don't even know what's happening.

Um welcome to the show. Don't know what's going on with my hair either. See, that's the fun of radio. Then you can watch the simulcast and be like, why is she not like... Cable newsified.

Because it's a radio program, and I just threw a half bun up. All right, so we got a lot of stuff to hit because there were some actions taken by Republicans in Washington. And I'm kind of I'm pleased with some of this. Whether they'll be successful. I mean, yeah, that's the million-dollar question.

So again, greetings, salutations, top of the first hour to you, Friday. Got Irish all of a sudden. Don't know why. And I am so supremely caffeinated. It is terrifying.

I'm going to warn you right now. I don't even know how many quad shots of the Black Rifle Coffee, all the blends, all of them. It's, I mean, it's actually terrifying right now.

So I'm just warning you: we're going to be everywhere. It's going to be like a screeching roller coaster of fun on Friday. All right.

So you can watch, obviously, you can listen across the country. You can listen, you can stream it on YouTube and Facebook, and you can watch the simulcast on channel 347 Direct TV. I remembered it without having to look at Juan.

Alright, so first and foremost, couple things to hit. The uh Okay, two things actually. What do I want to? Let me start with the credit thing. Because Yeah, every now and then I'll have a topic.

that really hits with you guys, hits with you all. This was one I mean, I was. What were you all? Can I just ask? Hang on, let me pull this up.

I really want to know what Teresa was doing at 3:30 in the morning. earlier this week when she sent me an email To the info at Dana Radio going off about the credit. I can't believe Biden's doing it because I was telling you the new decree from the Biden administration is that people that have good credit are going to be subsidizing the people with bad credit, right? We're all mad about it. Teresa was She's fit to be tied.

It was literally like 3:20 something in the morning because I looked. It was like one of the first. I'm like, oh my gosh. Legit straight-ups going off. I got so much, like whether it was comments online, uh, emails, whatever.

Oh my gosh, you guys are fired up about.

Well, understandably. Because you don't have to be wealthy to get hit by this. You just have to have good credit. If you're responsible... And you've done everything you're supposed to do.

Then the government's going, well, you know what? You get to pay more. You've proven that you get the reward of paying more. Yay! Tell them what prizes they win.

They get to pay several thousand dollars more in fees. Yeah, no, that's not good. That's the meanwhile, we're all looking around at each other like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That's not good. We like we all work real hard to get where we are.

I mean, this is a generational wealth. Media Matters got so mad at me because I said there's no such thing as that. Guess what? There's not.

Okay. It's a Marxist, it's a bunch of things that that you fruitcakes made up. And half of you don't even I mean, good grief. I just, a lot of it sounds like it's envy, really, is what it is, but it's true. This idea of old money is like a ridiculous concept, particularly in the United States.

If you disagree with me, then please, I just, I encourage you to take the opportunity to read up on Tocqueville and the differences between Americans and the French post-revolution and the mindset about generational wealth. And also, you can go and read some of the latest Forbes articles from as recently as like 2019, where they had a survey and they were looking at all of the wealthy people all across the country. And guess what? It's like a tight, I mean, the idea of generational wealth is a ridiculous concept because the vast majority, like Are like 90-something percent are brand new, and a lot of it's tech. But to my point, on credit, So We had this decree that was that was proposed, that's put into effect by the Biden administration.

But no, no, no, no. House Republicans are the power of the purse. And so they're intervening. The House Republicans are rolling out legislation to stop The new Biden administration regulation that, if implemented, that will force lower-risk mortgage borrowers. to subsidize Lower rates for high-risk borrowers.

The vice chair of the Republican Main Street Caucus, Stephanie Beiss of Oklahoma, said Wednesday that the president was enabling a culture of dependency, blasted the White House for levying these new regulations and skirting Congress to do it, which is true, because the House of Representatives controls the power of the purse. They control the budgeting. They control the tax. They control anything that has to do with money.

Now her bill is the Free Market Mortgage Act of 2023. It's going to repeal this policy that the FHFA intends to enact next month.

So, under that rule, people with credit scores in the neighborhood of like. And here's the other thing: we say the neighborhood because even this is arbitrary.

So sidebar to this, I don't know if you guys, there's like no hit, there's no fixed number. in the in the role. It's like, well, it could be this, could be I mean, it's entirely arbitrary.

So if you pay depending on what your credit score is, you're going to pay a lot more per month to subsidize someone who's higher risk. And here you have the insanity on top of it of Spending? Government spending. Massive inflation. We're in a recession, so these are all things that we have.

And so This the idea that they're going to push this at this time is just mind-boggling.

Now, her bill is co-sponsored by at least six other Republican lawmakers, and I think as it goes, more and more are going to sign on to it.

Now, most of the I think all of the GOP in the House opposes this. The Senate does. There's no way in hell this is going to, this is going to, they're going to nix this. I really do think that this is something they might actually be able to convince some of the weaker senators and uh to to agree with them on and have it go past that. But then th then it would be uh you know, if Biden tries to veto, et cetera.

But this is I mean, this is Uh after The put the letter from House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry. He and the Housing and Insurance Subcommittee Chair Warren Davidson all were threatening action if the policy wasn't repealed. They said lenders are going to pass all this stuff on to borrowers. You're going to have higher mortgage rates, reduced access to credit. It also fails the basic test of fairness, they said, because you're punishing people who are responsible.

And you're incentivizing people to reduce their payments and carry additional debt. This is moronic. It's like a policy that was dreamed up by no one who ever had to do their budget. I have two things that I mean, tick me off, send me from zero to infinity in like less than 0.08 seconds. And the first are people who don't pick up their slack.

Laziness, people who don't do what they got to do. The second thing is people doing stuff that they know nothing about, whether it's writing rules or regulations or proposing law or running their mouth on social. I cannot stand zealotry that masquerades as education. I cannot stand zealousness taking the place of actual knowledge. I cannot bear it.

There are two things that I hate. And the third thing is glitter.

So, which is totally irrelevant to the first two, but it's just hard to get off. It's everywhere. when you get it near anyway.

So my whole point in this is that they have this Uh and and sidebar also, uh any kind of flavor of Coca-Cola or Pepsi. Cannot stand like the chair. It all tastes like Tussin. It all tastes like Tussin. It's horrible.

Awful stuff. It's awful, horrible things.

So anyway, back to my point, they're fighting this. And there, I'm pleased to see it. I'm incredibly pleased to see it.

Okay, so here's the other thing that. Kane, can I just have a quick check? What year is it? 2023?

Okay, you're sure it is 2023. We do have a check on that. Yeah. I mean, I'm looking at my. Let me just check the data on my watch.

Okay, yeah, you're right. Yes, 2023.

Okay, I'm just double-checking. The reason I ask this is because why in the hell is the Equality Act, why was that trending? on social media. They were fighting over this since we were all Like You know, not even Here on earth, most of us, Democrats have been trying to push this.

So, this is a piece from the Hill. Senate GOP blocks the Equal Rights Amendment. Again, they're trying to do this thing. They were talking about bringing this back up. When was this?

Like, I don't know. Like, some years ago, they were talking about pushing this thing again. The ERA, that's the thing of Phyllis Schlafly, before the era of the internet went around and actually, like. uh uh stopped in its tracks.

So the senators voted 51 to 47 and vote closure on a motion to proceed. They didn't even have the 60 votes needed. This is the Senate. They don't even have the votes needed to go forward. This is the Senate.

Not even the House, this is the Senate.

So They the Republicans to vote with the Democrats Shocker, shocker, Alaska's Lisa Markowski and Main's Susan Collins. I know you guys are so shocked with us. You guys are totally shocked. Yeah, and I even had to check the date of the article. It's literally dated ye this was it posted yesterday, late afternoon.

For real. Why are they d and it was trending even this morning on social media.

So this thing was first the ERA first passed 72. Uh, proposed in you know 2030, they've been going forever. on this. It has to be ratified. Three-quarters of all state legislation, blah, blah, blah.

38 states, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

So Schumer's been saying, oh, you know, after Roe v. Wade, we got to bring it back. Oh, we got to have it back. It's so dumb. The Equal Rights Amendment is a dumb piece of legislation.

It's just, I don't have anything nice to say about it. It is it's It's nothing more than it's a redundancy and And then also power grab and also ridiculous social experimentation. It's just insane. Democrats have been trying to push this over and over again, and now they're trying to use Roe v. Wade.

uh which didn't really change much. Uh except now you have states that make can make determinations. But that's ultimately, here's the other thing, here's my other big question. What was the purpose of the ERA? Like the simple stated purpose of the ERA?

It was to establish equality between the sexes, correct?

Okay, so that's all a myth now. That's what we were told. There's no such thing as binary.

So this is irrelevant, is it not? You're talking about a party pushing the Equal Rights Amendment, a party that can't even define what a woman is. How are we, why are we even having this conversation? They killed, Democrats killed this thing. They killed this bill.

We're going to talk more about this. We have a lot, actually, to hit. Law and order. I don't even know how I'm going to read this headline. I put it on here before I thought about that.

You know what y'all? Yeah, uh-huh. Yeah, it's gonna be a tough one. We're gonna have to find some fun things to say instead of that actual headline because we'll have some people howl over it. Also, we have.

some some headlines r related to the environmental justice. Executive orders from the Biden administration. All these people, Corey DeAngelis, and others, are bringing receipts. Randy Weingarten. This woman has no self-awareness.

Lie after lie. Still going this morning. It's like she doesn't remember all. Like, we know the things she said because there's a video of it. I mean, for the love, they have like tweets where she's contradicting herself.

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All right, so uh, US adult cigarette smoking rate has hit an all-time low, a new all-time low. But here's the thing: what about vaping? Because I've been reading all of these surveys with it, shows or these studies showing vaping is like It's as dangerous, but more so because of the expediency by which you can have serious health issues, like almost immediately with some of these teens that are doing it. But the Associated Press says that US cigarette smoking dropped to another all-time low last year. One in nine say they were current smokers.

According to- I'm actually surprised when I see people smoke. Are you surprised if you see p- I'm it actually kind of surprises me. Just because, I mean, I don't know, just always, I don't know. But anyway, so that's a new, that's a new headline. Vince Vaughn, if I have been waiting for this since 2004.

There's going to be a dodgeball sequel. Yes. Vince Vaughan is going to appear in the sequel to To his hit comedy, Dodgeball, the true underdog story, and apparently 20th Century Fox is making it.

Now, apparently the script is still in process. I guess there's like revising, editing, whatever. And Vince Vaughan, who is only 53 years old, I don't think he ages. He's going to reprise his role. as Peter LaFleur.

And I don't know if Christine Taylor and Justin Long and Ben Stiller are gonna be back. Riptorn, obviously, if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball. He's passed away.

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We kind of shocked the radio staff when I requested this Billy Squire track for a very specific reason. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with us. I have to tell ya, you know, we were having this um You know, we were we mentioned yesterday, how many videos is that Tucker Carlson? Thing got How many has that got now?

Well, got millions, you mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like he uh ha something like that.

Something to that effect. Yeah, he had like 70 million, I think, views on his video. 74, sorry, 74.1 million. And I was reading this piece. About concerns with some of the emails or texts or whatever that he may or may not have sent.

And It's so bad. He's just, oh my gosh. He, like, one of the accusations is that he described a woman as yummy. I'm sorry, what? He called.

He's a Dude. Straight dude. Called a woman Yummy. Allegedly. P.N.

Bieber.

So the reason You might be wondering What this has to do with my selection of the Billy Squire track to which we entered this radio segment. was You know, 'cause some of the people who were talking about it happen to be over at a network that rhymes with CNN. Oh, wait, that is the network. Never mind. It's Friday.

I mean, they had a guy. Who I don't know how. How to describe this for those of you with very pure constitutions? I mean, they had a guy's base who. I mean, okay, the.

He became a verb. Jeffrey Toobin, he pulled his pork on a Zoom call. I don't know how else to say it. He had self-time, self-care time. on a Zoom call and he was like caught Self-care.

I mean, I don't, he forgot he was on the zone. I don't believe he forgot he was on a Zoom call. On a Zoom call, that happened. CNN. I had a friend who was a contributor at CNN who was benched because she talked about it on Twitter.

She made mention of it. She condemned it. She got benched. Wow. That was, that's okay.

And that's redeemable. Tucker Carlson, maybe or maybe not called someone yummy. Ho ho ho! Oh, yummy? For the love, that's not offensive.

How is that offensive? I mean, that's. How in the world is that offensive? Guys Tucker Carlson. Referred?

to a woman as yummy. I mean, that's the most vanilla wafer thing I could ever think of. I don't know. Would most would women be That that's not offensive. I mean, when I think of things that are yummy, you know what I think of?

I think of Oreo cookies, I think of Sour Patch Kids. Those are actually yummy delicious. I'm just saying. I don't know. I'm just as...

That's not offensive. That's not offensive. Tubing it on a Zoom call and then having CNN bring you back out like nothing happened. That's offensive, right? Getting benched because you made note that another talent at CNN was tubing it on a Zoom call?

That's kind of It's kind of offensive, you know what I'm saying? Snorting crack off hookers and then showing up at the White House Easter egg roll? Like nothing happened. Praise Jesus, nothing happened. I mean, that's offensive.

You know what I'm saying? There's never been any Like redemptive moment. For American voters. That's offensive. You know what I'm saying?

That's offensive. So I love the little Neopuritan. Behaviors that the left suddenly adopts when they feel like they found a scrap of moral high ground. It's It's really funny. It's like watching toddlers discover skills, right?

Yummy. Good grief. Yummy. He described a woman as yummy.

Now, here's Jeffrey Toobin. Jeff got your pants on. Yeah. The erection. Yeah.

Oh my gosh, like what in the world? I mean Yummy. Close Bonneau cigar Bill Clinton. You know, I mean, for the love. Never, that's.

I'm your man. Never gonna tire saying it. Yeah. It's my favorite ever. My favorite video ever.

So I just had a I had to mention that because I saw some of these people. You know, they they're all aborting babies out in the streets and everything else, and then they come they go back on television and they act like they're just so proper. Oh my gosh, can you believe? He had described a woman as yummy. Oh my gosh.

By the way, What a week for the word yum. Right? 'Cause we got representative Troy Nells, who is yum yum, which is one of my also favorite sound bites ever. And he just like kept going. You know, when he was out there with Yum Yum and then Eric Swawl gets mad, and then he says it again.

He's like, like I said, he was out there with Yum Yum. Oh my gosh. Do we run it back? Can we please run it back? Mr.

Reese, I apologize that you had to. You're here for a hearing on the border. They don't want to talk about a border. Mr. Swawell is down there.

Obviously, everybody knows he's made some comments. He's got a checkered past. He's alleged relationships. It's my time. Mr.

Alleged affairs relationships with Yom Yum. You don't get to say that he had alleged relationships with Yam Yum. I asked the gentleman his words to take him down. Ha ha ha ha! Oh my gosh.

Oh my gosh. Oh, that is saved in my Friday soul. I'm telling you what. I wish that we had awards to give out because I want to give him an award for that. Like like a little cup, little champions cup or something.

Like we gotta we gotta figure that out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They they saw the bit, I guess that we were talking about it because it was just that is one of my favorite sound bites of the year. Because he just says, you know, with yum, yum, say louder. And Swabble's losing his mind.

Oh, all right. I've got, uh, I've got to cope because I told you I was going to make it a little lighter today, but we still got to get to some other stuff, which we will. Can we talk for a moment about why that dude is still talking? The Dylan, so. Uh Dylan Mulvaney.

Says that he feels like it should, he feels like it should be illegal. to refer to him Using The he-her pronouns. This is one of your soundbite seventeen. Like the articles written about me using he pronouns and calling me a man over and over again. And I feel like that should be illegal.

I don't know. That's just bad journalism. I also feel like you wear that Tiffany necklace too much, but you feel like it should be illegal. Yeah, I mean what you people can't say things that you dislike.

So wait, should I feel like it should be illegal if you disagree with me? I mean, just, you know, I feel like that. You know what else? I feel like I feel like if you think Green Day is punk, I should be able to arrest you. Right?

Or, if I feel like if you think that St. Louis doesn't have the best barbecue, I feel like that should be illegal too. That'll usher in a whole feelings enforcement. You know, one more thing. I feel like.

If you don't like David Lee Roth over Sammy Hagar? I'm ducking. I've like that. That should be a misdemeanor. I know we're out in St.

Louis. I know. Shh, don't tell the people in our hometown. Never got in more hate mail than that. Like, was it seven years ago?

I mean the calls They, oh my gosh, they acted like I took Fred Bird and beat him in the street. I mean, it was horrible. Oh my god! Gosh, it's so funny. Anyway, but you guys see my point.

He just feels like it should be illegal. I'm so glad that we don't make laws based upon Dylan Mulvaney's feelings or mine. I'm actually really glad that we don't make laws based on my feelings because God I wouldn't want to live under my laws. I wouldn't want to. My gosh.

Yeah. I mean, it just, there's no way.

Now, we have Wogury, and then we have some anti-Wogury.

So we have North Dakota moving to limit. I can't even believe I'm happy, but at the same time, I can't believe I'm saying these words with my mouth. North Dakota limits bathroom use for transgender people. First off, no one's limiting your. Can we just stop for a moment and break down this headline?

This is from CBS.

Now, if you were to accept this headline from CBS on face value, what does it sound like to you? CBS is saying that North Dakota is physically blocking transgender people from relieving themselves. Can you believe it? But There aren't limits. They have no lim.

They can go to the bathroom as often and as much as they want to. In the bathroom that corresponds with their biological sex. I don't have any problem with that. I don't because I think that women's spaces particularly. That should be respected, and women's spaces should be.

There's a, you know, you have, and someone had explained this. There's a Spritish woman. And, you know, I don't know what I think about protected classes, even as, you know, women. I go back and forth on certain things, but. Uh Obviously, dudes are stronger than females are.

We have a history of Statistics. you know about i mean if you're looking at And I love my dues. I love y'all. But I mean, you know, it's the it's there's some criminals, you know, and that that have preyed upon women, and there's a statistical background to that. You know, not everybody can be like you all are.

And there's a reason why we have certain things in place. And whenever women feel uncomfortable, they're told they're bigots. If men who want to cosplay as women feel uncomfortable, they're accommodated. There's an unfair practice there. It's an unfair accommodation and an unfair promotion of one group over another before the law, which is itself unconstitutional.

That's antithetical to everything in this republic.

So the story is that North Dakota is saying: look, trans kids who want to switch sexes, adults who want to switch sexes, you have to use your bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers that match. you know, that's you you you have to match uh your your your biological your sex. It was signed into uh office. The measure passed both the House and Senate veto-proof majorities.

So that you have to They have to match the gender that you can't have guys because this has happened before. There have been stories where guys will go and work out, and there are guys who are. Who identify as women, but they don't want to dress up as women and go to the gym or something. And so they'll go into the women's locker room as a dude, you know, five o'clock shadow and beans and frank, the whole nine yards, and uh, or three, and they go into the locker room, and women are understandably freaked out. I mean, if that were to happen in any other kind of context.

It would not be allowed, but it's somehow allowable there. There's no reason why women shouldn't feel. safe in these spaces.

So they said that restrooms and shower rooms are going to be designated for use exclusively by males or exclusively by females. Transgender or gender nonconforming people will need to get approval from a staff member. You know, whatever to use. And a lot of this isn't even about making sure that you feel comfortable in the bathroom. There are so many stories of schools.

Like there was like a few years ago a huge lawsuit. A student who was offered the use of faculty bathrooms. Special for them bathrooms, all the faculty bathrooms out there. They wanted to use, it was a boy who identified as a girl, wanted to use the female restrooms. Having the faculty bathroom wasn't enough, he had to whip it out and urinate there with the girls.

And they took that, that was a major lawsuit for the school that they had to deal with because of that. And other parents and the girls did not feel comfortable with that, but they were told: shut up, bigot. We have to accommodate this boy. On this vote, the yays are 51, the nays are 47. And that's what.

Something that was Where's that guy coming from? All right, we have more on the way, including coming up. Mass murderers demand action. The parents of the Louisville Bank. Uh murderer.

Right. basically blaming the Second Amendment. Not basically, they are. I mean, that was it was performative gun control theater. the manifesto that this killer had said that they did it literally to show how easy it was for them to get a gun and how, you know, et cetera, et cetera.

So now you have gun controllers mass executing people in for the name of gun control. We're going to discuss this because the parents gave an interview. Folks, your financial freedom is at stake when the government thrives on creating unrelenting inflation and astronomical debt, crippling interest rates, and market turmoil that we haven't seen in decades. And now you have an administration that wants to tax everything that you have to fund runaway entitlement spending. You should empower yourself with opportunity and the freedom to pursue success and to keep the fruits of your hard work.

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Thank you all for letting me speak. I believe we are all here for the same reason, which is to make schools a safe place for students and for faculty to thrive.

So I'm excited to share this space with you. But Like I said, I am Maxwell. I am trans. I am big gay baby. My pronouns are they them.

What are yours? I'm here to ask you to vote no on HB466. Speaking before you today is a 27-year-old drag artist that lives every day to secure kindness, validation, Love and acceptance for the wounded child that still feels closeted inside me. Like Literally? I don't like, oh, I don't know.

So awkward. Sidebar, though, Big Gay Baby is a punk band name. That's a punk band name right there. Like, I'm already trying to figure out the album name and, you know, all of that. Ladies and gentlemen, big gay baby.

Oh my gosh, what in the.

Well, is he like a big gay baby juggalo? Like, I don't understand. Because he had like the ICP kind of. make up, but then he had the Blue Man group face. For the video.

So, this was a committee, Louisiana House Education Committee. They moved a bill out of committee to make it. Uh illegal for teachers to hide a child's gender transition. From parents? And Big Gay Baby came.

I mean, literally, that is not parody. That was not someone who was trolling them, that was an actual person. Who is like, I identify as a big gay baby.

So he doesn't just identify as a woman, he identifies as like a. Wait, I'm confused. A big gay baby woman? Big gay baby girl. What is this going?

Stop true. Stop. Trying.

Okay. Please make this make sense. Um but Look like he's gay, but Or he identifies as a woman and then the woman is gay. Uh what? All I got was big.

Out of all that. That's the only consistent thread through the whole thing. It's like the worst wig ever. And it's so poorly put on. Um.

I don't know. I don't know. That's I have no idea. But this is why. You know, we have these We've literally had, for the second time in 50 years, UFO hearings.

The government came out and said, Looked at all the news and said, This is the good time to say that UFOs are real. No one's going to pay attention. Because you have people like Big Gay Baby out there doing Big Gay Baby stuff, whatever that is. I don't even know. What is that?

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Randy Weingarten has been really working hard to rewrite history. The problem is that when you make parents mad, and you're about their children and you hurt their kids. THEY DON'T Forget that. Ever And they aren't letting her forget this. There are so many receipts out there.

I mean, there's a lot of people have kept. I mean, I have headlines that I've saved. I'm actually putting that in a separate post. I was going to put it in your email prep, but it actually made it so long, I was afraid that it wasn't actually going to send.

So I'm putting that in a separate thing to send out to you all, to subscribers to Chapter and Verse over at Substack, because I didn't realize actually that I had that much. And I had a lot, and other people have even more than I do with video and tweets that she, I think, tried to delete and all this.

So. For instance, this was... In You had uh When Randy Weingarten was She was telling Congress that she really wanted, she wouldn't, she was trying so hard to reopen schools, you guys. She was trying so hard, Lil Randy. Yeah, the community notes even fact-checked her on Twitter.

Uh they have been trying so hard. She said she was trying so hard to open except Um Like, for instance, a headline from The Gothamist: teachers union advised the city to shut down 80 public schools. Uh she and this is uh Twitchy has some too. She attacked and so in 2020, she went off. on schools in Georgia.

She said she blamed them for death, saying that Georgia has had a terrible opening and its highest, this is her direct quote: Georgia has had a terrible school opening and its highest death toll today. Will its governor ever learn that COVID is serious? And she went on criticizing the reopening of their schools. She went off on Florida. She had retweeted a story about Florida schools reopening, saying, quote, states of Georgia and Florida have the highest COVID deaths today, and yet still they are in denial.

She kept going on and on and on. When, um, and then pulling this up. When Andrew Cuomo was still governor. This was uh September 30th of 2020. She was praising him.

on social media. because he was vowing to shut down schools. particularly He was really looking at schools in Jewish communities. In Brooklyn, Orange, and Rockland counties. And he was saying, New Yorkers got to come together to see about the spread, et cetera, et cetera.

And remember the task force that he came up with where they were actually there's video of them actually peeking in windows of synagogues, making sure there's not anybody doing anything temple-y in there. And nothing in the synagogue happening in the Jewish community. He's got to make sure everybody's at home, locked down, and no one's learning, no one's worshiping, no one's doing anything, no one's having any kind of fellowship with their community. And She was she rest she restated the headline. that included him shutting down schools and shutting down and peeking in on synagogues.

And she goes, she retweets it and says, as well he should. This was again September 30th, 2020. She writes, quote, as well he should, hashtag Cuomo Read's Riot Act on Coronavirus as test rates soar over 5% in Brooklyn and upstate clusters. On and on and on. When he said that she retweeted another piece.

Again, in 2020, talking about Cuomo keeping schools shut, she says: quote: This is the way to aggressively stop hashtag COVID spread. When The Trump administration at the time said that they were talking with the CDC to. actually illustrate the Uh really compared to what the media was saying. And by comparison, insignificant amount of danger posed to children without comorbidities. Uh which was absolutely true.

Uh she uh uh as a way to talk about reopening schools. She immediately was out there. More than 624,000 American children have been affected with COVID-19, hashtag COVID-19. Yet the administration is pressuring CDC into misleading guidance. etcetera, etcetera.

When there was a survey that came out Not a survey, actually, it was a study where they were monitoring. It was one of the first to come out, and it was later on in 2020 showing that schools actually weren't hot spots, that actually it was grocery stores. Which was weird, that were more of a hotspot than anything else, and schools didn't even count as anything. And that in that if there were any infections in the school, it wasn't with kids, it was with adults who were who had just contracted it out, I guess, on their personal time. And she was slamming the study.

Uh false science, etc. etc. I mean, there's so much here. really trying to rewrite history. on exactly what She had done.

And one of the, and this is very interesting too. There was a doctor. That was Behind The study that teachers' unions had been citing as a way to argue that schools should remain closed for all of that. Uh Sam Janey has this piece. Uh and it's Dr.

Tracy Hoag, who's a P a medical doctor. Said that Weingarten mentioned our Wisconsin study in her congressional testimony. She tweeted this two days ago. She said, today in her congressional testimony, Weingarten mentioned our Wisconsin study. It multiple times as evidence that schools needed layered mitigation to reopen.

She also mentioned me in her written testimony. She said this statement and her interpretation of our study are incorrect. She blasted her. She says, I was the senior author. of this study.

And as we said in our paper, we had no control group. It was not possible to determine the specific roles that mask wearing and other disease mitigation strategies played in the low rate of disease spread.

So, not only did Randy Weingarten lie about the study, she. misquoted it on purpose. She is lying about it. And this doctor, who was again the senior author of this study. dragged her.

She says, in other words, she tweeted this: because we had no unmask control group, our study did not show that masks prevented transmission. It amazes me. This is so difficult for people to understand. The rate of transmission may have been the same or even lower without masks. Who knows?

She went into Sweden's experience, Norway's experience, which reopened after six weeks, didn't mask kids. In Sweden, she said no primary school closures, no masks for 12 years and up. She said spring, summer of 2020 was a good indication masks were not necessary. And she said that or sorry, under twelve years. She said that the CDC and AFT also could have asked us study authors about things like eating lunch indoors, distancing and ventilation in our Wisconsin study.

Remember the whole remember the pictures of the kids outside in New York freezing to death, eating their lunches with their mittens on? I I'm trying to think at least 12, 11 or 12 of my friends left New York after that alone. With their kids. All of them except for two. One came to Texas, one went to Nashville, and then everybody else went to Florida.

They left. They're like, our kids are eating out. It's 30, it's 30 degrees. Our kids are legit eating outside. My kids try and eat a pudding cup outside with mittens.

So this doctor dragged Weingarten because Weingarten was lying. And in fact, Weingarten invoked this doctor's name in her testimony. She's like, one might have thought that I was being consulted. But this was not the case. And she said, the first time that I met her, I voiced my disagreement about masking kids in schools all along.

They lied. They lie to you. Man. And she keeps all this morning, she's been. keeping trying to rewrite this.

Unbelievable. I mean, it is believable, but it's so sad. This is just sad and sick. But the receipts are there.

Now, a few other things to hit with Biden's and Democrats. Did you guys know that apparently how many members of the Biden family are living in the White House?

Well, you would think. Two looks. the president and the first lady, right?

Okay, uh apparently no. There's the more. Yeah, so apparently Hunter Biden it's apparent he's like rumored to be g l going back and forth between this billionaires. property and the White House.

So he's like Partially, apparently, reportedly living at the White House, so he doesn't get served with legal papers. Wow. Over the child that he fathered and refuses to care for and the Bidens refuse to acknowledge? And the president's granddaughter and her fiancé lived there. I think they've moved out though, but they, Vogue reported, they did a whole fashion spread.

Naomi and her then-fiancé, I paid her nail, they did this whole, they had this whole. Fashion spread. I don't mind. They got married at the White House. I don't mind if couples, if the White House family, The president's family, I don't think if they get married at the White House, that's actually worth Republicans and Democrats.

That is not unusual. But living air? Like grown people. You're married, living there for a little while? That's kinda weird, right?

Uh that's weird. She said that they lived at the White House. They lived there according to people familiar with their situation. Presidential historian. Tevi Troy told the Washington Free Beacon, who has the story, that Biden having adult children and other relatives living in the White House is not normal.

He said it's not entirely unheard of, but it's not normal. The reason being is that. He has like all of his family, like granddaughters and that. I think the Barack Obama's mother-in-law stayed there. And that's to me, I don't think that's a big deal because the grandma was helping with the kids when they moved in.

Their girls were really young. Their girls were still in elementary school.

So they were there so that because the first lady was doing duties, president does duties, the grandmother wanted to be there. Even though they had secret service, they still needed a family member to help the girls feel comfortable. I get that. But to have your granddaughter, the granddaughter's boyfriend, your coked out son, I mean, who else is going in and out there? Apparently, I mean, they said that his relatives are living there, you know, for convenience.

Naomi Biden, his Hunter Biden's oldest kid, told Vogue that she and her fiancé moved there because their lease ran out. And so they said that they lived on, they had their living quarters on the third floor of the White House. Uh So wait a minute, I'm I'm And then Hunter Biden. Living there what what?

So I guess he would be there with his wife and kids. 'Cause it can't just be him. He's married and he's got a baby. the one that he acknowledges.

So I'm really curious, like, because they have a chef, they have security, how much money extra are we paying to feed all these people? Right? I think that's a fair thing to ask because they have a chef. The president has their meals always prepared. I'm just wondering about these living arrangements.

Can you imagine if any I can just I know It feels almost redundant and ridiculous to say: can you imagine if a Republican XYZ? But can you though?

Now, we're not done here. We got more. We have headlines coming up too. But Also, the Environmental Justice Executive Orders. what this is going to mean.

And Nikki Haley's trying real hard to shift this narrative. And now, all of the news you would probably miss, it's time for Dana's Quick Five. I wanted to make sure I got this headline in as well. This from earlier today: three soldiers killed, one injured in mid-air Army helicopter collision. Two U.S.

Army helicopters collided and crashed Thursday in Alaska after returning from a training flight, killing three soldiers and injuring a fourth. Two of them passed at the scene of the crash near Healy, Alaska, a third on the way to the hospital in Fairbanks, according to the Army, in a statement. The fourth is being treated at the hospital for injuries. Names of those who were killed are being withheld, obviously, until relatives can be notified, according to the Army. Also, no one can say, this is an interesting story.

I'm Larry Syntheson from 8 News Now, no one can say what specific hazardous materials trains are carrying through Las Vegas.

So, about 1,200 miles of train tracks run through Nevada, but the railroad company and the FA, the Federal Railroad Administration, nor any agency could tell the local news there what specific hazardous materials the trains, some traveling right through Vegas, are carrying. And this comes after concerns about the crash or the direct. Enrailment following the Norfolk Southern Railway. And apparently, no one had any answers from local media there.

So that's now turning into a really big story.

Now, other cities are following in suit. The let's see, Florida House passes a bill cracking down on teachers' unions. That's being sent to Governor DeSantis. They approved a measure this week that reins in public sector unions in the state by changing how dues and fees are collected and limiting where public sector unions can promote their efforts. There were a lot of teachers who actually were supporting this as well because they didn't like the leadership, i.e., Weingarten.

We have a lot more on the way, including some law and order. We're also going to get into some of the latest in DC, Wokery, a lot more. Stick with us. To catch up on all the headlines in Crazy Wokery, download the Dana Show podcast and get Dana's perspective on the Dana Show. Anything that has been there for a long time about Holocaust, they tried to say that Florida wasn't going to allow book about Jackie Robinson or Hank Aaron.

And actually, our Department of Education made that the book of the week. And so don't believe. If someone's bringing those narratives, though, identify the stuff that the parents have actually objected to and ask them to justify while that should be in. I think the reason that you're seeing some of the fake narratives is because they know on the merits they will lose because no parent wants that stuff in the school.

So they got to act like that there's some type of an initiative to get educational things out, which is just ridiculous. And in fact, you know, we've beefed up Holocaust education standards. We have had teachers in Florida fired for denying the Holocaust. Hmm. Mm.

First off, welcome back to the program, Daniel. I'll share it with you. Bottom of the second hour. That's Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. He was laying to waste a lot of the.

uh false re a lot of the just the lies that have been out about The legislation. And I told you yesterday, and I did, I have put that in prep emails from this week. I told you yesterday how. uh you know, ultimately When you look at who voted how in Florida and what they were voting for. What the candidates were running on.

Candidates were running on stepping up for parents in these schools. And The focus The media wants you to think that the focus is on the material. The focus Only in part, it's age appropriateness is what the focus is on. I mean, there are certain books that I think are fine for high schoolers to read, but are inappropriate. for elementary school kids.

Just like, you know, there's a there's, I mean, you could apply that to a number of things. And there are some things that are just entirely inappropriate to present in a school setting. and the books that have been discussed Are those books that offer? The Ratio of academic value compared to just the shock and the I mean, uh for the lack of a better way to put it, just the smut. is I I mean it's it's not defensible.

It's not something that should be I mean, so so much so much of it is just absolutely inappropriate.

Now, it's weird to hear about this banning argument from people who thought that Dr. Seuss was too much. Oh, we got it. They but they the difference is that they actually banned books. They banned like removed entirely.

books that were had nothing to do with, you know, whether it was an issue of age appropriateness, they just didn't they just fell outside of their progressive value system. and whether it was Mark Twain, etc. I mean, there were a number of books that they actually wanted, it wasn't about securing parental consent, it was about removing it. They weren't even going to give parents the opportunity to consent or not. They're just taking them out of the equation altogether, which is entirely different from what this bill is doing.

It's asking, it had asked parents. If you're going to be introducing any kind of sexual material in the classroom, parents, A, have to be notified. They have to acknowledge it. They have to consent to this. I mean, I thought the left was all about informed consent, but I guess only when it's convenient for them.

There's so much that was just absolutely Just just so many lies about this.

So many lies about this. And I'm glad that the record is being set straight. But it's just to see people lie so willingly. And then, like, who was it? Who is that?

Was it Dwayne Wade who said, oh, I got to leave? Because he's raising. He's raising his son to identify as a girl, and then the ex wife is upset over it because she is against it. And Dwayne Wade is raising his son up to be a girl, identify as a woman. And he was saying, Oh, we have to leave Florida because we don't feel welcome here.

That's in your mind, then. That is you creating that narrative for yourself. I mean, have you ever been to Florida? Good grave. Have you ever been to Miami?

Ever been to South Beach? Good for the heaven. I mean, come on. That's just a silly thing to say. And it's you're you're mad because You can't force your view on sex.

onto other people's kids. in the classroom, under the excuse that it's academic. 'Cause that's the argument. That's what people are missing.

So, when celebrities like Dwayne Wade and others, Oh, we don't feel welcome here. We're gonna we're gonna leave. Based on what? Again, have they ever been to South Beach? Have they ever...

This is about parental consent. If you don't have kids in the classroom, I don't even see how this affects you. If you have no kids in the classroom, your kids aren't learning the subject material, you're not learning the, then I don't even see how this, I don't even see how the option, the parents of kids in classrooms wanting consent for the age appropriateness of materials introduced to those kids inside the classroom, how does that even affect you? They're not your kids, but you have all these adults, including Disney people, that wanted to weigh in and tell you how to parent your kids. No, that's not how this works.

That is not at all how this works. It's it's so Just wild that that's the hill that the left wants to politically die on. That You know, like with all the drag stuff, drag, adults go to drag. What was that? There was a Republican politician, or a couple of them.

That the left thought, oh, look, you went to drag shows. Oh, you've been to a drag show before. We're going to disqualify you from having the conversation on this. It wasn't, but they weren't taking kids and having. dudes shake their thing in front of kids.

Meanwha When you're this, you're talking about adults that are making determinations about what they think is appropriate for them to attend or go to or whatever, regardless if you agree with it. I mean they're indivi they're they're free-minded individual adults. Different from kids who got parents. There's a difference. Age appropriateness.

Now age appropriateness is taboo. And instead of having the discussion about what is or is not age appropriateness, because they would look incredibly petty and immature if people acknowledged what the discussion was really about. They have to make it like, oh, well, you're excluding a group of people. No one's being excluded. This is about age appropriateness.

Where in the hell do you get that this is about someone being excluded? Shut up. These people want to lie and they want to impugn your character and your moral fiber simply because you're speaking up over age appropriateness. And then it makes me question their morality and motivation. Huh.

If you don't want to be called a groomer, don't act like one. I don't know how else to put it to you. In Kansas, I had this. This was a headline that I sent out to you yesterday, or this morning. In Kansas, they actually passed a bill defining the word woman.

That we actually have to do that now. And they had uh to overwrite a veto. And it was the sole Democrat, Representative Robinson, who voted in favor. of protecting women. Kudos to him for that.

Because you know he's going to be taking some heat. They're probably already looking how they can primary him. That's the way Democrats are. You one misstep. No grace for you.

They're going to primarily. But we had to it didn't even create anything. It it didn't even create a singular new law. It didn't even stop any law from being made. It just said woman is something that is there's some clarity with law across the board.

They actually had to define man and woman in statute. Everyone's like, they're excluding trans no one's t no one's excluded. You're not excluded. But you can't sit here and borrow. The Rights of, I mean, essentially, they treat women are treated like a protected class.

And you have a group of dudes who want to borrow the rights of a protected class, claim them for themselves, It's like progressivism almost eating itself in a way. But that's what they they they you have dudes who want to borrow the rights of a protected class and apply it to themselves while at the same time excluding the class of individuals from whom whose rights they are appropriating. That's actual appropriation, if you want to have that discussion. But I can't believe we live in an era where you have to pass a bill to define that.

Now, uh looking at Biden. And Democrats and the administration, because we've got some law and order to get into as well. Uh This piece Ex-White House Chief of Staff Ron Clain from This is in your newsletter, is blaming sexism and racism. Fort Kamala Harris's unpopularity.

Okay. Just to reiterate. She was supremely unpopular. with her own base. during the primary.

She was supremely unpopular with her own base while still being just in California as an AG and then a senator. She was incredibly unpopular. Democrats did not like her. She ranked at the bottom during the primaries. She re was at the bottom.

Despite the fact that she had the Obama team. behind her. pushing her, promoting her.

So, is it Democrats that are? Because those are the people who didn't make her presidency happen. Why is it? It's not. People are, I mean, sexism or racism have nothing to do with her inability to actually be able to, A, formulate policy, B, articulate policy.

And C Stop with the the division. I mean, it's just silly. Any excuse, though? Identity politics is such a useful tool. You can make up identities and appropriate rights and write yourself passes all day long.

All day long. The man alive.

Now with law and order. We are supposed to at some point the Nashville Killers Manifesto Apparently it's being reviewed for public release. If you have all heard about this? It hasn't been released yet and some are worried about I guess the implications of that, like what that's, you know, what it what I what it makes me wonder what's in there. If they're so worried about it, what's in there?

But they said that the The murderers Manifesto, they're preparing to release written material. It doesn't seem like they're going to release everything. It just seems like, according to WKRN, that they are only going to release.

Some material. from the killer. They said that even though the word manifesto was used in the days after the tragedy, Metro Police spokesperson said that. Channel 2 told Channel 2 that the writings were essentially dated journals. They said they're just really writings or journals.

It's not one singular manifesto. Not like what we saw in the Louisville. uh tragedy. Because that individual who was a gun control advocate. wrote a manifesto Stating that they were explicitly carrying out this horrific crime to, as an example, to show how easy it was for them to get a gun and kill people.

So you have someone who was. A gun control activist. carrying out mass murder As performative activism And that, I mean, that's what mass murderers demand action. That individual. Their parents gave an interview where they were talking about this.

And saying that they want to they want to ban they they think that uh they should these guns should be banned. The parents of the killer said in to NBC's Today show, that was this week. They said that they knew that their killer offspring was dealing with mental health issues. They said that They said that they don't they're afraid that whatever they come up with as the cause isn't still isn't going to make sense. They said that they're they had no idea that he could have done that he had the capability of doing something like this.

They said that they had no idea at all whatsoever. They talked about the mental health struggles. And I mean, they knew that he was having a hard time because there were texts. They had reached out. They told the Today Show that they reached out and were saying we're here to help you, et cetera.

And that, I mean, they used the word crisis to describe the stuff that he was going through. And now they're like, oh, well, he absolutely should not have been able to get his rifle. legally because he purchased it legally. And the parents are like, Yeah, he absolutely should not have been able to do that. They said that they think the overwhelming majority of Americans don't want people in an impaired state to have a weapon in their hand.

That was their direct quote.

Now, they said they don't have specific policy solutions in mind, but here's the thing: they said, well, we have to fix this.

Okay, if you're going to try to put the responsibility on law-abiding Americans to fix this, let me add this question because apparently that's not considered heartless to blame people who have nothing to do with it. But it is heartless, apparently, to ask why the people who were involved in the killer's absolute everyday circle of life who knew that this individual was going through their words of crisis. That's what they used. They used that word several times in this interview. Why didn't you have him adjudicated and eligible?

Because see, that is fixing it. That is doing something. He never would have been able to legally purchase his rifle had he been adjudicated ineligible. I mean, how do you sit here and go, well, there was no sign. And then, in one sentence, and then literally in the next sentence, go, well, we knew he was going through a crisis.

Those are their words. How in the world do you reconcile those two things? You don't. We have fluoridamine on the way. We're going to come back to this because there's more.

It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.

So first up. This is from Charlotte Observer. A motorist who was fleeing a deputy drove his pickup into a Florida river. and floated away. cops say.

He led police on a high-speed chase, drove a truck. Into a Florida River, and as pursuers watched from the shore. He drifted away, according to the Dixie County Sheriff's Office.

Now, it Proved that well, the maneuver ended the chase, but pickups don't float. The vehicle drifted downstream, got stuck on a branch, and then began to sink. And this was just on the twenty fifth. and the deputy was pursuing a man one in connection with a structure fire.

So they ended up they I mean the guy just wild they did the investigators didn't say how far the truck floated, but it vanished below the surface. Only the tailgate and corner of the roof was visible. The driver jumped out, made his way to shore, and he was promptly arrested. There you go.

So that didn't work for him. He's not. I can't believe that he actually thought that that was going to work, but okay. A Florida man. Uh he had his rental car impounded and then he decided to steal it back.

Florida Key's deputies arrested two men accused of breaking into an impound lot to steal back a car that they rented that was towed away from a Key West business. The two individuals, now these are Boston men trying to make shenanigans in Florida. They were released from Monroe County Jail. They had to post 40,000 bond for each of them. Neither could be reached for comment.

Stick with us. We got our third hour of this Friday on the way. Back after this in just minutes. But my God, this is a party that says we believe in parents rights. You're telling me that as a parent, I don't, I'm not smart enough to decide if my child and I need to have gender affirming.

Our doctors are not involved. What is going?

So I can't decide what my kid reads. I can't decide for my child what my child says is going on. You're telling me your beliefs, your And they keep saying it, and I keep saying, what five will you read it? Yeah. Don was really clear.

Yeah. This is our goal. I was just gonna say really quick. Uh it's just irrelevant. On what?

Like, what is she talking about? God says, hey, you know what? Yeah, if I. Yeah, I guess messed up. Should have been a chick.

Go ahead and chop off your willie. I mean, is that what she's talking about? Because that's. No. Welcome back.

Even the devil can cite scripture. Welcome back. Daniel Lash here, top of the third hour with you. That was Whoopi Goldberg from The View. The problem is that you can't decide for other people's kids.

And also, it's not informed consent. You're not deciding for your kids because this isn't informed consent. You're going along with Accepted propaganda. as a narrative. That's what that is.

You're not this isn't you're not going along with any kind you're not going along with science. You're not going along with anything. And there are limitations to what you can go along with anyway. I mean, you know, you can't take your kid to a strip club. Are you going to get upset over that?

You can't take your minor child into a strip club. Hell, you can't even have your minor go see an R-rated movie. You can't have your child go. I mean, back in the day when I was in college, I worked in a record store. C D's And there were kids who we had to ask for their ID.

If they were gonna buy something that had You know, the censorship awareness of explicit lyrics. Thanks, Tipper. Tipper Gore. Democrats? I mean they're What do you so what are you talking about?

There's there's all kinds of limitations. You can't go if you're and you're have your kid can't get their ears pierced unless they have parental approval. But I mean, that's what is she talking about? You can't make the decision for other people's kids. No one's saying that you can't.

If you want to, you know, expose your children to inappropriate sexual propaganda or whatever, you know, you can do that on your own time, I guess. If you want to be a crap parent, go ahead and do that on your own time. But you don't get to make that decision for everyone else's kids in public schools. And that's what this all comes down to. I mean, that seems to be missing from her.

Amazing deduction skills there, as you just heard. and the audio sound bite that we played. Golly. Not a single golly, just all the same stuff with them. Oh, the Bible says, oh, sure, go ahead and find that.

Go on. I mean There's don't turn into a pillar of salt, but go ahead. Go on. Now, a couple of other things I want to make sure that we're because we had this discussion. a little earlier before uh we went to break.

and the last hour, as it relates to law and order. We were talking about the uh the Louisville. the bank, the national uh the bank killer. And how The parents of the killer did an interview with the Today Show. on NBC.

And they were saying they were, they said that they do not believe that their son should have been able to legally buy his rifle. And in the interview, that they gave. They said that There they simultaneously said two conflicting things. that there was absolutely no tell that was their direct quote. And then also simultaneously that he has gone through crises.

Mental health. He was going through a mental health crisis. She literally the the mother had literally said there was no clear tell. And then had also said that Well, he Uh w we were concerned Because he had been going through a difficult, you know, a difficult time. He had been going through, you know, previously gone through a crisis.

That that was the word that they had used, crisis.

So I'm not quite sure how you reconcile those two things.

Now the father had said that they want to s they want to stimulate conversation. Around how their son apparently was able to legally purchase his rifle. And added that he believed that the quote overwhelming majority of people don't want people in an impaired state to have a weapon in their hand. That was his direct quote. But you know the the first people who have to want that?

Are you? And the the the people in their immediate circle. I mean, how do you go from there wasn't a clear sign to, or how do you go from, oh my gosh, our adult son's in a crisis, to, well, there wasn't a clear tell. How do you go from one to the other? I mean, to me, that doesn't make sense.

What what level of engagement was there that you weren't able to tell? I I mean If you think that That people don't want someone who is going to be a danger to themselves or others to have a weapon in their hand, then why don't you do something about it? You do something about it. And there are so many options at your disposal. without having to have red flag laws.

I mean, good heavens. But that never comes up in this conversation. Like the mother had said, you know, it's happening to other people like us, and we're continuing to let it happen, and we have to fix that. And They added, well, well-meaning people say to us, you know, you did what any reasonable parents would have done. I was always told.

And there's conversation whenever something like this would happen. Like after parkland. I And after really after Sandy Hook, I was criticizing the family. of the killer in Sandy Hook. And that was just beyond, that was out of bounds to gun control activists who had no problem blaming.

People that they had never met, who've never committed a single crime in their lives. for tragedy. but heaven forbid you ask where the people are in that individual's immediate circle. Why didn't they act? You're not allowed to ask that.

You're not allowed to discuss it. You're not allowed to ask the question. But yet it's not a good thing. You know, at the same time, you're supposed to be responsible for every for when tragedies take place. But in all of this, you know, I no at no point Did Savannah Guthrie at NBC press back on these parents and go, well then why didn't you do something?

No. Okay, you just mentioned that your son had been in a crisis. How do you go from crisis to there was no tell? I mean, what a hor that's just crappy. interviewing.

That's just a bad interviewer. Are you just what are you daydreaming while you're having the QA? Like, what are you doing? You're not engaged? How do you not follow up with those questions?

That's just bad journalism. It's bad interviewing.

Some people are just bad at interviews. How do you not follow up with that? How do you not say, well, why didn't you did you move to try to explore adjudication of ineligibility? Did you have a protective order filed? I mean, there are a million things to a handful.

I mean, really, there's a lot of stuff they can do. Why didn't they do any of it? Why does everyone else have to pay because you didn't act? You know, I look at Washington State, they passed a ban on like pretty much almost every s kind of semi-automatic rifle. It was a weird ban, though, because.

The and the governor signed it. Inslee signed it in the law. It's weird because i Police are exempted in existing firearm owners are grandfathered in. And they're targeting the rifle. The latest.

publicly available crime report numbers are from 2019. And they show that once again, uh the sorts of rifles that people are talking about. banning are responsible for the fewest uh homicides, they're involved in the fewest crimes annually. And and knives actually are double that. Knives are are double what, the rifles that they want to ban.

In 2019, again, the last available, they're always a couple of years behind when they come out with this data. And in Washington, you know, you have a Seattle has a 15 Year record crime rate. It's a record crime rate. It hadn't been this high in 15 years. And most of it, especially when it relates to firearm homicide, is with handguns.

So That's it doesn't make that doesn't make sense in the state of Washington. And I don't really think that that's going to pass muster either because there are a number of organizations that are looking to contest that and have already filed. Suit against it because it doesn't you you're talking about commonly owned things which have been affirmed in Heller and Bruin, which was the New York Rifle and Pistol Association. You have that that that whole case. You have these instances of common ownership, you which are already Affirmed in previous Supreme Court cases, that's just not going to pass the test.

So it'll be interesting to watch what happens with that. But 26 states are permitless carrying. You always hear the argument that, well, you can't do that because it's going to be Wild West. It never has been Wild West. It's never been that.

Not in any state that has permitless carry does it turn into Wild West.

Now, in cities that are Democrat-run, where they try to Locally implement gun control. Yeah, you have those instances. Never forget that the Nashville. MURDER. Had targeted specifically, was looking at a number of different.

Schools and pick the Christian school that they picked because of the security. The security was more lax. But heaven forbid, don't have a conversation about hardening soft targets. Don't have that conversation. Can't do that.

We're supposed to get that manifesto.

some point. I'm not quite sure how well I mean we'll see but Yeah. Uh now in some wokery, uh speaking of Washington, a Washington school district has canceled music lessons to fight white supremacy. All the racism just went away. Mm-hmm.

The Olympia School District. They said provides diverse and challenging learning opportunities for the 10,000 students with the staff of administrators and teachers and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They have an equity team, equity policy development, All of this stuff. They said that The They have to, they said that it's apparently especially wind instrumental music. They said that the school board director, Scott Clifthorn, was explaining that apparently, like, blowing into a flute is a violent act.

So, they have to fight white supremacy and violence.

So, they have to cancel music instruction. He actually said, quote, There's nothing about strings or wind instrumental music that's intrinsically white supremacist.

However, The ways in which it is, and the ways in which all of our institutions, not just schools, local government, state government, blah, blah, blah. Blah blah blah, a bunch of garbage. And now, all of the news you would probably miss, it's time for Dana's Quick Five. All right, so this American Airlines, this is kind of crazy. A man, a passenger on American Airlines urinated.

On another one. I hate everything. People are ridiculous. Uh, he urinated on a flight from JFK to India, according to reports. An American airline passenger was taken into custody after a flight from JFK to New Delhi and wasn't apparently the only one.

That sounds like a of joy for that. For the crew to have to deal with. Local media said that apparently there was an argument between two passengers and it ended. One of them urinating on the other. Have you ever done that?

Have you ever done that where you thought you were losing an argument and you decided just to urinate on the other person? Yeah, like, and also, how does one get urinated on? Because don't. And no, no, no, because if you. You see that it's happening.

You see what's coming. Wouldn't you like flee so that doesn't happen to you? I mean, when you're on a plane, it's hard to flee. I mean, you can probably like go somewhere. I mean, I don't know.

I just, but it just seems, I don't know. Uh, I don't even understand this story. Peacock aren't peacocks mean?

Okay, so a guy in the Bronx, a roaming peacock bit his leg. He had they had to actually call the ambulance. Emergency medical services, they had to call him to a scene of a bite. In New York, in Manhattan, where an unnamed man suffered a minor injury. He didn't go to the hospital, he used the Citizen app.

And it was a ferocious peacock roaming the streets and it bit his leg. He said in the video, quote, I thought I was bugging. And he goes, it started running up the hill to go into traffic. We had to try to keep it safe. And then he said, as they were trying to save this stupid bird's life, he goes, That's when he goes, he grabbed my pants, and then the blinker.

flew in the blinker tree. And Then he said he got blanking bit. and it blanking hurt. And it was a ferocious peacock. Yeah, I read that they're very temperamental.

But at the same time, aren't they great? Like, aren't they like as good as they're as loud as a guard dog, aren't they? I hear a bubbly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I know what is the other bird that does that?

It sounds like a woman screaming. Oh my gosh! Guinea's, yeah, guinea hens. They. There was one that was in our old neighborhood once, sidebar.

I know I have headlines, but I didn't have any like corn because apparently it likes corn. The only clothes thing I had was like a Dorito.

So I was trying to lure it with some Doritos. Didn't like it. And every time I got near it, it went, BAO! Woo! And it would run.

It was ridiculous. I loved it. Let's see. The governor of West Virginia is going to challenge Joe Manchin. That's kind of to be expected.

I think everybody was expecting that was going to happen. Oh my gosh, this is nuts. No pun intended. Uh eh. NBC affiliate, a sperm donor who fathered at least 550 kids has been banned.

from donating any more DNA. They said he misled prospective parents about the amount of offspring he had helped to conceive. 550? They said you're only allowed to produce a maximum of 25. With, yeah, with 12 mothers.

How do you get to 550? That means somebody's going to be with somebody's cousin over there. That's messed up. Or half sibling or something. Go home.

Stick with us. We've got a lot more on the way. Between Twitter, Facebook, or any of your social media, there's a lot of information out there. That's why your lovable curmudgeon is here to help you make sense of it all, live or on demand. The Dana Show.

Make sure you sign up for the newsletter over at Substack Chapter and Verse. All kinds of good stuff. And We're here at the bottom of this third hour on this Friday. We made it to Friday. One of the I've been really interested in watching the back and forth of this.

So Netflix has decided to make a uh a docudrama. on Cleopatra. And they had it 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. uh is the falsification of Egyptian history. In fact, uh the phrase that was used And and it's a Jada Pinkett Smith docuseries, so that tells you everything you need to know right there. Uh Egyptian.

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. Phew. It is insane. And I am just sitting back and watching this.

Now, Jada Pegan-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 Macedonian. She had, in fact, uh Hellenist Hellenistic characteristics.

And a light complexion is what they're arguing. That's the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in Egypt. And The Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Archaeology, Dr. Mustafa Wuziri. 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 Galgado was attached. To a film. They've been trying to make a new Cleopatra film forever, and people got really.

Woke skulls got mad because they were upset that it wasn't a black actress cast, and then there were arguments over. Cleopatra's. Uh 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. I actually had this previously in some email prep for you. Um but with everything going on, we and we're getting to it today, but They said that Dr. Waziri said the film is classed 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, 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 and civilizations of people is not falsified. He blasted Netflix along with other Anthropologists and archaeologists and historians, whew. 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 Greek features. It's supposed to air on May tenth. 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. Uh, 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 the letter and everything that they attach to it. And they really got into the history. I actually learned a lot more about the. her dynasty and her family from reading this.

Uh, 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 lawyer 'cause they had a suit filed against them too. Oh, yeah, they had a suit filed against him.

They also said the former antiquities minister from Cairo slammed it as completely fake. Uh they said Egyptians were reacting with horror to it. They also said that the anthropology studies and DNA studies conducted on mummy and bones confirmed that 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 Sameri, 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. Whoa. Yeah.

Whoa. So I don't. I've never seen a fight like this. Have you? No.

We're a whole country? 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 Because they don't come right out and say it, but it's almost like, especially if you look at French reporting on it, they're attributing this to, oh, this is American wogury, nonsense at work. I don't I thought we imported that from them. Didn't we? I think they're already over it before us. 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 ministers, current and previous. Other old man All these people that have come forward. Who have blasted enough.

And then they like submit all of this. you know the busts, the coinage, the I don't want to call it a fresco, but the depictions, even in other like the Herculaneum one, etc. Wow, that's like really hard, it's hard to argue with that. When they presented it, 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 slapped but I swear, that's not the only reason I like Rod 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.

Um Like some of the comments are, identifying Queen Cleopatra as black for fulfilling modern African American fantasies is theft of Egyptian history in an attempt to rewrite history's greats. Another says, for the nth time, the Egyptian queen Cleopatra was not an Egyptian, she was Greek. of Macedonian descent. Uh etcetera, etc. Oh wow, it is crazy.

So I do think, because apparently it's, you know, 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.

If, like, somebody was making a movie 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 B.B. King and we just get like Eric Clapton or Slash?

To play B.B. King. Like, is that acceptable? No? I mean, based on this, it seems like those moves would be acceptable.

Yeah. I I 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 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. Yeah. I mean, never thought I'd see the day. 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 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 in 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 kind of does make them look silly if 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're just sort of promoting this, and they're hoping that a lot of eyes and ears right now are 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, that everyone's watching and eating popcorn. I mean, to watch someone be so expertly scholarly schooled is pretty amazing. One last quick thing: I saw this piece over at the Hill. And I've keep like I said, I keep seeing the media trying to bait Republicans into behaving a certain way. or reacting a certain way.

So the headline is, Ooh, the memo, Republicans Worry DeSantis has aired in Disney Feud.

So I read this piece. I wasn't even going to talk about it.

Someone asked me about it. It just cites like a Republican, doesn't actually put anyone's name on anything. Stop taking bait. Don't take bait like this. This is so dumb.

And they aired, the guy ran on this. And not only had a landslide victory, but every other Republican across the state. every statewide office. had a lean slight victory. Whenever you see headlines like this, Compare them to the the election results.

Yeah. Just do that, 'cause that ends it, 'cause he ran on that. Oof, my word. Oh my gosh. All right.

We have a lot of still to get into, including some of the late Hunter Biden's, the London Roberts, the woman who's. f who's the mother of the daughter he refuses to acknowledge. says that he's posing as a destitute artist. to try to get out of pain and new child support. I mean the guy j remember we talked about the house in Malibu that he lived in?

The big mansion with Secret Service next door? Yeah, there you go. We have uh still a lot to hit. Whether you just want to stay informed or just hear her vent about all the ridiculousness in the world, make sure to download the Dana Show Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. You're a lovable cremudgeon here.

Kane and I are on break, we're watching the weather. Because We turn into amateur Meteorologist.

So we're like, wait a minute, where's this town at? Oh, if it's like a tiny town that we haven't heard of. There's movement. There's a funnel. And so we are like, that's what we're going to be doing the rest of the night, dude.

You know that? That's what we're going to be doing. It's what I did in Missouri, though, too. Like it you know, it doesn't matter. I think like Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas.

You know, Texas. You know, there's we just we all become like expert weather watchers. And it's is it ju no, I think if you hear the sirens, you need to seek shelter. But do you ever do the thing like, hmm, does it sound like a train outside yet? Because when it does, then I'll go, do you know what I mean?

Like, oh man. I'm telling you what. And I I don't know, but we were watching the weather because it got the severe. We thought it was going to be hailing like crazy at this point. And we were worried.

We were like, oh, we got backups. We got, you know. worried about the show because Texas shuts down if it the rain gets too hard. Them raindrops get too big.

So, we hope everybody out there in our listening area in Texas stays safe and dry as well. All right.

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All right, today's stupidity came. Yeah, it happens every week that way. All right, so, second gentleman, Doug M. Hoff. He's sitting with Kamala Harris and just admits that this is why I'm here.

Listen. Mm-hmm. Which is the moment. Look, I'm only here because I'm married to her. Kamala Harris female vice president of the United States.

Oh, man. He sounds. I don't know. He just sounds kind of goofy. They look like two peas in a pod.

With the laughs and the both goofy people. They both do the awkward laugh. Like, can you imagine them at a dinner party? It just, I can't. I can't.

It's just a heartbeat away. You know, you have to be Kane, you have to be unburdened by what has been. That helps me going into the weekend. Thank you. Yeah, and from what was to.

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