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Simply put, I would just have to ask you to think, do you think this is fair to biological girls? Thank you, Chairman Adderhall. Our focus at the Department of Education is to provide equal access, free from discrimination. To students, as we know. Ah.

Title IX has helped over the last 50 years. provide opportunities. for girls and we're proud of the work that we're doing to make sure that, for example, the training facilities for girls has the same attention and funding as it does for boys.

So we are proud of the Title IX. proposal and The current proposal that you're speaking about is just that. It's a proposal, and we have a window open for comments that we're going to take very seriously. And Biden's not going to, he's going to veto it. I had this in your headlines.

If you get the prep. By the way, that came out in headlines and oh boy. Welcome to the program. Happy Tuesday to you, Dana Lash here.

So, the. That it's the protection of women and girls in sports Act. The Notice I noticed this whenever um I was looking at for prep last night. And I was looking at all of the different stories as it related to Biden is ex Biden to veto this. They wouldn't they didn't call a single not one time did they refer to it by its name.

They just called it the transgender, you know, sports. I can't remember the wordy way in which they all it was all different because nobody wants to actually call it that. They don't want to have that in a headline and people go, what do you mean Biden's going to, he's going to. Veto the protection of women and girls in sports acts. No, they have to make it like, oh, Biden's going to veto the hateful.

anti-trends bill, that's how they put it, or something to that effect. But it's about protecting women's sports, which, as I mentioned yesterday, it's incredibly ironic that Title IX is being used to do this.

So, as I said, welcome to the show. Your smart-ass curmudgeon, Dana Lash, here with you. This just oh, it is. Been sowing my oats. Whatever that means, I don't even know how oats are sown, but they're Is the phrase.

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So that's one of the big things that we're watching today: how Biden's going to, whether or not he's going to veto this. Yesterday, also, a video emerged of John Fetterman.

Someone explained this to me. He apparently showed up to the Senate. In Athletic shorts and a hoodie. ankle socks, the dude skips leg day. My calves are shapelier than his.

And his tennis shoes.

Now, I don't mind, you know, casual Fridays, but it was a Monday. And he's going into the Senate building. In workout shorts, a hoodie, And and sneaks. I don't even, like, my kids don't even go to church dressed like that. They don't go to you know, they they I make him dress I mean, he's wa He's like cosplaying as the everyman.

And he thinks that if he dresses, he thinks that everyday dudes dress like this. And so he wants, he thinks that that's how they dress, and so he's gonna keep up the shtick. You know, because apparently everyday dudes don't own trousers, slacks. You know, even some, you know, Walmart loafers, apparently they don't even own those. Is that what I'm supposed to believe?

I just find it ridiculous. That he showed up to work. Like, does he go? Because you, I know there's a dress code when you go onto the floor, but. Come on, like to go This is wild.

So he returned to the Senate, Again, it looks like it would look like a casual Monday, very casual Monday. There were a lot of comments about dress codes. uh as he walked in. He was two month absent. where they said he received treatment not for the multitude of strokes that he had, That I have to have that actually impaired his cognitive function, but With uh for clinical depression, they said.

But gets out. And he's dressed like that. I mean didn't even p doesn't even have pants on. Man don't even have no pants on. Shorts and a hoodie.

I don't care if he's a Democrat from Pennsylvania. He's still. Is a United States Senator who works for the people, and I think that we have a little bit of an expectation. As to how they're supposed to you know, you have a dress cut. I mean, they they bitch if Jim Jordan doesn't wear a jacket.

He had his jacket off at one point, and they threw a fit. John Fetterman shows up in athletic shorts and a hoodie. And y'all are like, Oh, no big deal, no big deal Sure, okay, uh huh.

Now A couple of other things. I got some Democrat headlines. Did you guys see the Tennessee representative who literally brought in a child's casket? To the Capitol. Did you see this?

This uh I I I mean I was kinda shocked to see this. It was it was a part of, I guess, his. Protest. He didn't even he didn't even go to these people's funerals, but he's all about he put it was an infant-sized casket. That he was one of the Tennessee Three.

And They all like were carrying these baby. I'm just like, why is it a baby casket that he's bringing in? I mean, you should bring if you're gonna be accurate It was Justin Jones and Justin Pearson. If they were going to be accurate, they would be carrying a full-sized grown adult. Yeah.

casket in and it would be due to drug and gang violence. But they brought in a baby casket. For, I mean, is this a Planned Parenthood demonstration? I'm curious. That was my first thought.

This is the kind of stunts that they this is what they do. And he brings it in, and he's like being told he's he was barred from carrying it onto the house floor. And They carry these baby caskets like babies are going out and shooting each other instead of 18 and 19 year old. gang bangers and and drug dealers that are fueling it. But they won't deal with that 'cause they want to scare you all into thinking that something's coming for your kids.

That's what that's the whole point of this. That was ghoulish. What an these people are absolute ghouls. Walking in with a child sized casket. when he's talking about 18 and 19 year old gang bangers and drug addicts, and he was barred from carrying it onto the floor.

I mean, I love the guy who's in the big old bishop robe and he's got a face mask on, and he's for the love. I think the obesity is probably like the bigger thing. But what a just what a ghoulish stunt. That is just disgusting. That kind of describes, I think, the ideology of this party at this point.

I'm just, I hate everything today.

Now, I want to talk about this case that everybody's been talking about. Uh I have you guys see this is out of my home state of Missouri. A teenager was shot and killed. 16 year olds is in Kansas City. sixteen year old teenager named Ralph Yarr, was shot and killed.

by a what is he like an 80 something year old guy Who's been by the way, he's been since that time he's been charged with two felonies. This eighty four year old uh homeowner and this was in the evening, it was in Clay County, Missouri. Andrew Leicester, eighty four. He's been hit with two felony charges. They put a warrant for his arrest.

And what ended up happening is that The uh this this teenager went to go and collect his two twin brothers, And apparently went to the wrong house. And the time between him being on the porch first announcing that he was there, and then the homeowner responding, That's what they're going to argue about in court. Because the homeowner Uh fired, took a second, got his gun, fired his gun. And apparently, I read one report where it said it went through the glass. Long story short, the 16-year-old was hit, shot in the head.

He made a miraculous recovery. and has been released from the hospital, thank heavens. But there was a story I was reading last night about a neighbor who heard the commotion. And he went outside to help the teenager. A lot of people have been speaking up for Ralph Jarl in this.

And I watched yesterday because I think it's important to get this. Here's the thing. I watched the Bloomberg groups go out and say, oh, this is the problem with the shoot-first law. Can I just educate people for a second? There is no such thing as a shoot-first law.

That is a moronic, disgusting, ghoulish. criminally ridiculous thing that every town The Michael Bloomberg Group? The Nepo baby? the Nepal Baby Group, that they have been pushing out there. There is no such thing as the shoot first law.

That's what they try to call stand your ground because they want to maliciously misrepresent what stand your ground is. Secondly, stand your ground is not even applicable in this case. Stand your ground is which is in pretty much every single state, including California, which the left loves, stand your ground means that you do not have a duty to retreat when you believe that your life is in jeopardy, that you are facing a serious life threatening situation. That is what that means. And that is not applicable in this case.

The homeowner originally some of these earlier reports Because Ralph Yarm mistakenly wrung the doorbell, and again, it was the wrong address. And this uh eighty four year old The the question is why he Did he actually believe that his life was in jeopardy? that his life was in danger? Because when I was reading some of the reporting on what happened, and I'm just going off everything that's been publicly shared by law enforcement. Because I read that he knocked on the door, then I read that, oh, he rang the doorbell, which isn't really relevant, but I don't know how that might be argued by prosecution or defense in a court of law.

But it was about 10 o'clock on Thursday night. And Apparently he had shot through. Lester had shot through the storm door. Glass was shattered. And he provided written consent to search his residence, etc.

There was blood only really on the porch. And then from from Jarl as he was leaving the porch. And so This From everything that I see, it is going to be very difficult for me. to I I don't know what argument defense is going to make. wherein they are going to successfully present the case that Lester believe that someone was was trying to break in his home and kill him.

Because the probable cause said that Lester picked up his gun before responding to the door. And Lester apparently told authorities that he believed someone was trying to break inside of his house. Lester said that he was scared to death because he said Jarl was large and he looked older. And The probable he that's so that was in the this was in some of the the law enforcement, the arrest affidavit, etc. I um Again, and it was two rounds.

I just don't. I just really feel like the defense is going to have a very difficult time in presenting the case that he actually credibly felt that his life was in danger. Because even though you can have stand-your-ground laws, The issue is that's you have to show that you believed, reasonably believed that your life was in danger.

So, if the door was locked, et cetera, if someone knocked on the door or rang the doorbell, typically home invaders don't do that. Um You know, and there's just a lot there. There's a lot there.

Now, here's the issue with this case, and we're going to get moving to headlines. Everyone is making this a racial issue. I don't know anything at this point to believe that it is a racial issue. I also don't see where it's a self-defense issue. But there was a similar case involving a young woman, and I included this as well in prep.

That It was a, and also a 12-year-old. There are two other cases where people were shot and killed. One woman was shot and killed in her vehicle. By someone who was trying to make the same self-defense case. And this was in New York.

There was a 12-year-old who was killed. And then there was a woman who was attacked in Chicago. Everyone is trying to seize in on the racial components of this case and ignore these other cases, which I think the outrage. Outrage is outrage, but sometimes it can be situationally used for a particular narrative. And in this case, this, everything else is being, all these other cases are being discounted in favor of one where a racial agenda can be pushed.

And I don't, I haven't seen enough public reports to. to substantiate that. And I've seen a lot of people seize upon it to use it as a way to attack steamer grunt when it's inapplicable in this case. 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.

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So, Southwest Airlines briefly paused departures because they were reporting technical problems. That happened this morning. They had over 1,500 flights. About 36% of their schedule were delayed, according to FlightAware, which tracks all airlines. They said Southwest had a meltdown, obviously, over year and holidays.

I don't know if anything changed after that, but they had a brief grounding. They grounded all their flights this morning, and apparently things are up and running. No thanks to Mayor Secretary Roads or Racist Poot. Also, a couple of other things. Diane Feinstein's plan to swap herself out with another Democrat on the Judiciary Committee is not going well.

Republicans are saying they're going to block it. Democrats are very upset over this. Of course, they are. Taiwan is going to buy 400 U.S. anti-ship missiles intended to repel any kind of Chinese invasion.

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Download the podcast every day to catch up. The Dana Show. Irid Twitter. One of the great business stories of the year. I think we're about 20% of the original size.

So 80% left. Yes.

So I mean a lot of people voluntarily do it. Sure, sure. But it's 80% are gone from the day you joined.

So how do you run the company with only 20% of the staff? Uh it turns out uh you don't need uh that all that many people to run Twitter. But 80%? That's a lot. Um yes.

Mm-hmm. of it I mean if you if you're not trying to run some sort of uh glorified activist organization uh with with uh you're not care that much about censorship, then you can really let go of a lot of people's tons out. I love that. I love that so much. He's like, yeah, if you're when you're not being an activist.

uh then you can you know, an activist organization, then you can fire. A whole bunch of people. That's true. That was part of the, apparently, part two. My friend Tucker was talking to Elon Musk, and I guess that's they're going to have the second part of that tonight.

But That was from the discussion. I did think that was funny. They had so many people that worked there. Honestly, how do you need that? And they all, oh my gosh, the weeping and gnashing of teeth when they were getting fired.

Because it was, he's right. I mean, it really, they were treating it like an activist organization. Also, I think that your overhead gets a little out of control. That's one of the things that a lot of these digital startups and conservative new media sites too particularly, they get so far ahead of themselves and they have all this infrastructure, but yet they don't have the stuff to fill it yet. And then they end up getting, you know, a little turned around.

And Twitter got to that point because they had all of these people working there, and they just had them in activist positions.

So he's like, that's amazing. You know, you don't really need You don't really need all of that. It's pretty. They were all weeping and moaning about it. We were.

So, okay, first off, welcome back to the program. Dana Leish here. We were having this discussion. We're a weird show because. Our staff, like Kane is.

You're sort of like in the middle of Gen X. I'm like barely Gen X. I'm baby, little infant baby, newborn Gen X. Which I will be in Gen X. I'll cl I mean, I I'll lie.

I literally will lie about my age and make myself older if I have to. I swear, Haines to Sky, I will. And then We had this conversation because we were talking about certain attributes of millennials that even like Steve's a millennial and he even hates millennials. And we're like, Steve, you're the only millennial we like. And he's a baby millennial, and Juan is Gen Z.

Juan is. How what like where does he fall in Gen Z?

So he's he's like he's Right in the beginning. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So he's like an older Gen Z dude. He's older Gen Z. I think it's so arbitrary, by the way, how they cut these things off. It's really weird. I just think it's very arbitrary.

And then, wasn't there supposed to be, I was reading someone, or reading this piece from some.

Sociologist who was saying that there actually is a micro. Jen Between Z or between millennials and X, because of the internet, the creation of the internet. And it was determined, which I think is stupid. But I mean, I guess I can understand the argument. And it was determined by whether or not you had the Internet when you were in school.

Which doesn't really make that much of a difference. Dude, I remember I had so, I so had like high school AOL chat. Remember that? I was a troll, man. I was such a troll.

Everything was black. My font was black. Everything was black. And I would, I would come in with like. Slayer or something, I could like code it in and drop it.

It was all like so stupid. The best we had in my school was the do you remember the K-pros? Those K-Pro machines, they look like when the keyboard was attached to the top of it, it had a handle on it and you can carry it around like a freaking suitcase. And you took the keyboard off the top of it, and it had its little screen, and you put your floppy disks in there. I totally don't remember that.

Oh my gosh, that's what I was introduced to. When I was young. I remember yeah. I do people have typing class anymore? I had that when I was in high school.

Because they were phasing that out when I was in high school. Like, I was a senior in high school before they started to not have such much of an emphasis on it. And now I don't even think they offer it. Along with Homec, or I don't think they offer shop. Do high schools have shop classes anymore?

They did when I was in high school. I don't know about now. I don't think so. Did you really have a high school experience if you didn't walk past a shop class full of burnouts? Like at least once an afternoon.

I mean, was it really a high school experience? I don't know. Or the nerds in the typing lab. Was it really a hard time? We did serious stuff in shop.

We rebuilt starter motors, we rebuilt laundry. You guys did cool stuff in there. Yeah, we did. I sewed a pig pillow in Home Eck. But I will say I also learned how to balance a checkbook and do other adulting things in Home Eck.

Yeah. Where kids don't do that now. My oldest son was complaining about it. He was like, they didn't teach us this stuff in school. I'm like, really?

I was like, they didn't tease like, no. I mean, we had to take. We had to take home back. I think it was actually mandatory. I was in seventh grade and I had to take home ech.

But when you were in junior high, you had to take one. Year of Home Ech two semesters. And then one of my projects was I had to, along with a team of other similarly addled people. Domestically adult people, because we're kids, uh, we had to make like a whole, like, what was it, three-course meal. and had the budgeting and everything.

And then I had to create a pillow and you could pick from a pattern. And I think it's funny now that one of my hobbies is now one of my final projects for. It's funny. But Yeah, they don't teach us stuff anymore. They don't teach and then I just I just wonder if that's because have you heard kids complain about this now?

It's you it's Gen Z that I hear this the most from. They're like, oh my gosh, we didn't learn about any of this stuff. Balance a checkbook. What? I don't even use checks.

I'm like, well, you still need to go and look at your bank account and make sure that nobody's stealing from you. I mean, be obsessive about that stuff. I think a high school should have those type of classes in addition to how to fill out your taxes. Yeah, they don't teach any of that. How to start an LLC, how to address an envelope.

Yeah, just those simple things. We've totally abandoned all that stuff. I had one of my friends, because we're sending out graduation, you send out graduation invites and all that stuff. And one of my friends was, she texted me. She was like, oh my gosh.

She said, Did you? Deal with this with your child. She's like, Because I sat down with my son and we were filling out. Graduation announcements and invites. And she said he literally did not know how to fill out the envelope.

And I go, what? She's like, he literally did not know where to put what on the envelope.

Well, okay, think about it though in his defense really quick. often do Gen Z people get Gen Z people? Do they get mail, right? How often? Who sends you mail?

It's either spam, spam military. Right. What else? Uh circulars. Yeah.

Credit card application. credit card applications. And that's kinda really it. Everything else is like Evite. It's all like something else, right?

So yeah, I just I f I'm just a little Fascinated by all of that. Yeah, they don't teach any of that stuff. I was I'm actually thinking, like, I don't No or college stuff. You get college stuff. And that's kinda it.

They don't get me. Everything is Evite. Ev I mean, even like your bank stuff is is ev well, I mean, you might get, like, your summary, you know, your monthly statement, but That's it. They don't really get.

So I was thinking about it, and then I check with my kid, and I'm like, hey, do you know how to fill out an envelope?

Now, remember, I homeschooled. for a number of years. And thankfully he reminded me that that's one of the things that we covered. because we did a Flat Stanley thing. I don't know if you guys remember Flat Stanley.

As a little boy who was flat and his parents sent him around to travel the world in an envelope, which was incredibly irresponsible. But I mean, we wouldn't have had the book without it.

So anyway. Would you say it's like quizzing Gen Z on rotary phones? Yeah, my rotary phones. That is one of my favorite things to watch. Young Gen Z figuring out how to use a rotary phone is one of my favorite.

Those videos. Are so like wholesome and genuine. These kids are like, How do you use this? And they pick it up and they're like, It's already on. How do you use this?

It is so funny. Oh, cracks me up. And they think that they're fancy. What is it? It is oh, between themselves trying to figure out.

So if I put my finger in the three hole. And then if they mess up, they're like, gosh dang it, I gotta start all over. How do you text with us?

So funny. I think my grandma had a rotary phone up until I was in legit like in college, I think. I think that woman had a rotary phone. It was this old, like, burgundy rotary phone. It did look fancy now that I think about it.

I used to always want one of those fancy Victorian rotary phones when I was a kid. Goth aesthetic.

Now I'm like, golly, all right, we gotta, I gotta, I have so many other things to hit.

Okay, so can we talk about the wokery here? Really? Gotta have some of this wokery stuff that we have to discuss.

So I have a million things actually we have to head. I don't know if I'm getting everything. And we're going to return to that Ralph Yarl case as well and discuss that. This is from the I read it of Washington Free Beacon and a couple of other places too. This is a Senate bill in the state of Washington.

fifty five ninety nine. That would actually, when you read the text, would really actually allow children to be legally removed from their parents if their parents do not consent to gender transition procedures on their child. They said according to the bills, shelters could contact the Department of Children, Youth, and Families. Instead of parents, for minors seeking reproductive health services or gender-affirming care. By the way, sidebar, once again, gender-affirming care is totally a weird phrase to me because when I hear that phrase, I think of going to a doctor and the doctor's like, Yep, that's a vagina.

I mean, that sounds like gender affirmation, right? They're affirming that you have that. Not the experimental mutilation and the experimenting with hormones, which it is because there's absolutely no long-term studies that show the long-term impact of this. It's very dangerous.

So the Senate bill, 5599, said the proposal would pave the way for a more compelling reason to conceal a child who seeks sex change operations, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. A Democrat state rep praised the bill's passing, blah, blah, blah. She says she supports kids who believe they belong in a different body than they were born. What if I identify as a billionaire? If unless you affirm me, you're a bigot.

You better, you absolutely have to validate my self-perception. Or you're a bigot. The Republicans obviously pressed against it, but it went through the Senate, so we'll see where it goes. But that's. Further, and that's incredibly troubling because I, when I was on Jesse Waters' program last night, The um Uh what was it?

It was a a a a a nurse practitioner. And it was a presentation to members of the Navy, and it was talking about. To Navy parents about their children. And I don't know if that was, I don't think it was revealed as to whether it was a top-down DOD directive or whether this was a nurse practitioner. It was a really long and boring video, but the stuff that she was saying was like.

Kind of eyebrow raising, what kind of it was. And she was saying that they starting from the age of 12, similar to what this bill is. That you know, the government can intervene, and you can your 12-year-old could tell, you know, this healthcare provider, et cetera, that they were wanting to transition or something, and that the government, according to that nurse practitioner, believed that. they the parents didn't have a right to intervene or really to even know. And it was also troubling because it sounds very similar to this Washington bill in that your 12-year-olds, your 12-year-old could talk to these people about their mental health and you not know.

So imagine, you know, if your child is dealing with mental health issues and you're the parent, you don't know that they're feeling suicidal, you don't know any of this stuff, and no one's telling you. This is the government trying to take your kids. That's what this is. This is just bizarre that this is that without children's consent. Oh my gosh, can you imagine now, kids?

What we're going to do is we're going to take you to a gun range and we're going to let you touch all these guns and shoot all these guns and take pictures with all these guns. Don't tell your parents. Don't tell them. Yeah, don't say a single thing about it, you know, because you're, don't you say anything, ma'am, because your child, if they want to experiment with different types of firearms to see what they prefer, then they can and you don't have to know. Imagine it's a variable, switch it out.

This is about undermining parental authority. Also, sidebar, can you imagine the response to that? Whew boy. Or imagine it's in our hedonistic secular society.

Okay, we're gonna take you to church and you're gonna get baptized and you're gonna go through all this stuff, and you don't have to tell your parents, don't tell your parents. Secret. Can you imagine? Oh my gosh Now in uh the city of Portland R E I, which is a lefty store. Isn't it a lefty store?

What is R E I s o recreational equipment? I live in Texas. We got an REI where I live. I've n I've never been in it. I've literally, you know, not that I dislike the outdoors, but I feel like that's the bougie outdoor place, isn't it?

Am I right in thinking that? Yes.

It's like the bougie stuff. It's like the stuff if you could go to Walmart or you could go to Costco. Or you could, you know, go, I don't know, you know, a number of dicks, maybe. And you could get it for So much cheaper than REI. Am I correct in thinking that?

Because it just looks bougie. The REIs are always buying like the Whole Foods and stuff like that.

So anyway, they said that they're closing their only remaining Portland store. Oh, why is that? They said it's the safety of their employee, 'cause the crime. The crime is so bad. No one's going to be able to go in and get their mountain gear and their South Butt merchandise.

I mean, North Face merchandise. They're not going to be able to go and purchase it. In Texas they go in there and come out with hiking stuff. I'm like, What are y you're in Texas? Where are you going?

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So. If you go 15 seconds, I'll just interrupt you.

So I'll go shorter than that because I honestly do think that's a if Congress wishes to take that up, I think Congress would have to do the work. But we would be there to provide technical assistance. I, unlike you, I'm not a firearms. Expert to the same extent as you may be, but we have people at ATF who can talk about the velocity of firearms, what damage different kinds of firearms cause.

So that whatever determination is more on alert. That's Steve Dettelsbach. He's like, well, I don't know jack crap about guns, but you know, I mean, I can sit here, I can make rules that are treated like pieces of legislation about guns, even though I don't know anything about them. I don't know anything about any of that. Steve is He's got too many T's in his name.

Give one up. You don't need. I mean, you know, you don't need that many T's. Just common sense consonant control. Just saying.

It was like all. You don't need that many. I'm just you know, I'm just your your ETF director. I don't know I don't know nothing about nothing. I don't know about I mean, I don't uh know about the velocity of the firearms and the, you know, the things that they do, but I'm gonna regulate it.

'Cause I'm the ATF director. Shoot your dog too. Anyway, so. I laugh, but it's not actually wrong.

So. Mm-hmm. I mean, yeah, I mean, it's just like having a third orifice. You don't need it, right? Just you really for dudes.

So, all right, we got we have another hour. I don't know what happened. We have another hour on the way. We got to get into some law and order. Can we talk about this Major League Baseball picture who was mad because his wife had to clean up popcorn on the plane?

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So you just brought up Anheuser Busch. Bud Light's getting hit, hit as hard as I've ever seen it. Why do you want to drink Bud Light? I mean, like, honestly, that's like them rubbing our faces in it. And it's like these companies that do this, if they never have any response, they're just going to keep doing it.

So if you, as a consumer, are like, yeah, they're basically, and I mean, it's such a fraud with what they're doing with that. Like, yeah, they're doing that, but I'm just going to keep drinking it anyways.

Well, then they're just going to keep doing it.

So I think we have. Yeah, so that's uh Governor Ron DeSantis. He's like, why would you Keep drinking it if they're and he's right. I mean, this is, we talked about a little bit about this yesterday. I had a big piece that came out about this last night.

Welcome back to the program, top of our second hour. Dana Lash with you, your lovable cremudgeon. And they will keep doing it if there's no pushback. I gotta say, and I'm not gonna get all into it again. But I talked about this yesterday in the program, and for those of you who subscribe to.

The Uh newsletter. had that as well. I had it in there as well. And I I'm just It's kind of it amazes me. The I think there were a lot of people who were kind of wanting, I guess, to sort of, you know, for some reason run away.

From Uh I don't know, like they're trying to walk back from Budweiser. And there was this thing, I mean, even my friend, who's I've known him for a number of years. Donald Trump Junior had said this. And was saying that, you know, we they give money to Republicans, so I'm not gonna, he's like, you know, I'm leaving alone. I think you should do the same.

Well, I looked up exactly how much they gave. And it was, I mean, in fact, in 2020, they gave more to Joe Biden than they did to Donald Trump. A lot more. Just saying a lot more. The organization and individuals.

Kind of a big deal.

So they gave more to the De the organization gave more to the Democrat Party. They, and then going back to the midterms, going back to, I mean, so just because they donated some to Republicans? That I mean, don't you think that that women are worth more than those political donations? I mean, here's the thing, and I wrote about this: this has never been about beer. This was never about beer.

None of this ever was. This this it was about phrases like menstruating people and pregnant people and birthing people. It was about teenage girls who are raped in bathrooms in the high school by legal age males who cosplay as female. It's about how women have Been told all of our lives to listen to our gut instinct. And now we're being brainwashed by society.

Into believing that this isn't a fear, this isn't a biological response to a history of well-documented criminal statistics involving women, it's your bigotry. This is about women who work their entire lives training and competing and perfecting their skill just to be shoved off the. the podium by a male whose only advantage is biological size. It's about a multi-generational cottage industry of feminism. That used women for votes and then returned the favor.

By serving up women on this silver platter to the Antichrist of Wokery. That's what it's about. And what makes me mad? About this is that I don't, when men, when Republican men, Say that they're going to, oh, well, you know, I'm going to leave them alone. You should too.

Do not make your conservative sisters who have been out there getting your six against all this third-wave feminism, do not make us feel like flipping feminists because you're leaving us to defend ourselves alone and compete against political donations. Women are worth more than that. And As I said in the piece, this is a mistake that can't be merely dismissed with a soulless non-apology from executives. And I get that the CEO wants to invoke his prior service and they want to rush out ads heavy on nostalgia as a way to lessen blowback. But the thing is, too, if they wanted to really mend fences, why not make an ad with the same heart as their most recent one, but feature female athletes?

Or just, I don't know, man up. An issue is straightforward apology. I'm sure the courage that guided its CEO in other areas of his life would serve him well in this one. Or would that hurt their ESG score? That's the thing with us.

It was never about beer. Budweiser doesn't get a pass. They don't get a pass on any of this.

Now, speaking of DeSantis, the left was livid, the left, and what I'm calling the flaccid right.

So he made a joke. He was talking about Disney. And there's video and I had I think I included it in one of my sub stack notes. He was making a joke about Disney. And he was saying that Well, you know, maybe we'll build, you know, this next to it.

Maybe we'll build, and he was joking, he said, maybe we'll build a prison next to it. And The left and the flaccid right lost their mind. And I say the flaccid right because there are some people on the right. who think that it's actually big government. To stop.

Political cronyism. They think it's big government to demand that corporations play on the same playing field. I thought it was hysterical. They were going crazy over it. the left and the flaccid right.

He made a joke. And everyone reported it. And what gets me is that some on the flashed right, these are the same people who are like, oh, you can't trust the legacy press. And now these same people, we're going to trust the legacy press a thousand percent on this and take it as a joke, totally out of actual context. Same people.

Now here's the thing with all of this. I guess some people forget Because Disney is just I mean, they they've game set match, it's done. Disney was escalating this because. They didn't want to reach a settlement with Florida. The reason they didn't want to reach a settlement with Florida is because they did not want that to be an example.

and encourage other states to do the same with all of these other corporations that are receiving the special anti-capitalist treatment. And that's ultimately what it is. Never forget how all of this started. I mean this is Disney's the left is mad because Disney lost. I mean, this is one of the most influential companies in the world.

I can't even count all the stuff that they own, they own so many things. You had the parental rights and education bill last year that the legislature took up, and that was all about giving parents more power in the classroom. And for kids who are in third grade, or lower. They it barred teachers from talking about their sex lives. in the classroom.

and pushing gender identity on kids. And that's what the left got really mad about because they think it's completely appropriate. For adults to talk to other people's kids about how they have sex. And that's in plain terms, that's exactly what it is. Florida legislators, what they did is they empowered the parents.

And they gave the parents you know, for a actual authority and power made and affirmed it in the classroom. And here's the crazy thing. There are a number of stories that even show how even a majority of Democrats in Florida. Supported the bill. There was an NPR study that showed 60% of voters there actually supported this.

And so the left then went after Disney because they weren't doing enough to stop it. Because they realized, oh, well, we're not going to be able to. Compete with the voters, so let's go and let's go after Disney, make Disney, make Disney do this. And so that's when they went over the Dunstan game and all this other garbage and everything else that was in there and all of that. And so This is a huge company.

They waded into, Disney made the mistake because they decided to allow the left to use them as a political force. They weren't unable, the left was unable to convince 60% of voters in Florida, and it included a significant number of Democrats. They were unable to persuade them. And so they decided to to bully Disney into getting in this political fight. And so Disney was dumb and they did it.

And so When Lawmakers realized, oh my gosh, now you have this corporation. That is using the influence that it gained from all of the special perks and exemptions and everything else that Florida gave it, that Florida didn't give everybody else. No other corporation got, you know, to run their, literally run their fiefdom like it was without even any kind of input from other lawmakers or taxpayers. Nobody else got to do that. They literally r I mean it was actually a corporate kingdom.

They had their own sovereign entity within the state of Florida. What other corporation gets that? Can you imagine Walmart doing that in California? How do you think Democrats would receive that? Disney thought they could fight Florida voters.

by using all of the exceptions that Florida voters had given them. And all of these flaccid right people A lot of them were the never Trump people. We're using this as a way to argue that somehow this was using the government to when it wasn't. It's using the government to prop Disney up. You're actually reducing the government in this by disallowing all of these special exemptions.

And so Fl Disney tried to uh rebel against all of this. They wanted to cut this this secret deal. To protect their Reedy Creek interest. And now that's going to be, that's not going to happen. That's over.

And it's done. They were outmaneuvered. The left was like cackling because they thought that they had outmaneuvered Florida lawmakers, and it turns out they didn't. It's done.

So they've they lost this fight. And so now you have people like I mean, some flash of right people that are going out there saying things like, oh, well, maybe Disney. I will have to say this. Can I say this? I was really disappointed to see Trump tweet this.

He put it out on his thing. He said he he put it out Um This was this morning. Quote, De Sanctus is being destroyed by Disney. He's going back to save face. Disney's next move will be the announcement that no more money will be invested in Florida because the governor could announce a slow withdrawal or sale of certain properties or the whole thing.

Watch, that would be a killer. In the meantime, this is also unnecessary. It's a political stunt. He called it a political stunt, and it's a lot more than that. This isn't a stunt.

This is they I mean, it's removing these exemptions that made Disney so powerful they thought he could stamp over 60% of voter will in Florida. I don't know. I get that we're getting into a primary, but I want to caution Republicans to not do the work of the left by joining up with them because you think it's going to be a good investment temporarily to take out allies that are challenging. I mean, this is, we don't live in a monarchy. We don't own our loyalty to anyone.

No one has a right to a seat. I don't care where the hell it is. A lot of people are forgetting the role of politicians and voters in all of this. And I think that voters need to think a little bit more of themselves than they are. Your vote and your fealty isn't owned by anyone, and you should demand.

as a responsible citizen and patriot, that lawmakers They earn your vote and they earn your support. It's an audition every election, folks. And I don't like to see people join up with the left and make bad faith arguments on moves that actually reduce government involvement. Take away special exemptions, make them actually. I mean, you wouldn't have.

I thought the left loved when corporations paid their fair share. Disney didn't. I mean, I'm more than happy to go into the nitty-gritty. If someone wants to contest my position on this, I'll spend the next three hours going over every single damn thing from the inception of Reedy Creek because I actually looked into all of this. I wanted to know what I was talking about when I joined you on air.

Unfortunately, I can't say the same about some of these flaccid right wannabes with their crappy podcasts. I mean, this was absolutely accommodating. A corporation And That allowed them, empowered them, and then they thought they were going to steamroll, use all of this that they were given by taxpayers and steamroll over taxpayers. The left wanted to use them as a get out the vote mechanism. And that's it.

They have to abide by all the other rules that everybody else has to abide by. And so the deal that Disney tried to cut to get around lawmakers in Florida, that's going to get blown up. It's already happening. Game set match, it's done. and the left is apoplectic.

And there are some on the right that are joining in with it because they are trying to strategize for a primary. Read the room and look at the bigger picture, folks. Good heavens. That's why you got people like Chris Christie out there. He's like, well, this isn't a conservative move.

When the hell did anyone ask Chris Christie a damn thing? I mean, not I. And now, all of the news you would probably miss, it's time for Dana's Quick Five.

A Kentucky man sued Netflix for a million dollars after they used a photo of him posing with a hatchet on Instagram in its true crime doc called the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker. That actually, yeah, that happened. And so he they sued this guy, Taylor Hazelwood, sued him. He said he posed with it and now his reputation has been tarnished because people think that he is this convicted killer.

So he took him to court. That's actually kind of, I don't know. This family, they welcomed a daughter.

Now, normally that wouldn't be like, you know, I mean, people welcome kids all the time, but apparently with this particular family, it was the first daughter born in the husband's family since 1885. They have only had sons since 1885. And so they are really celebrating. That's, I mean, those are some genes, man. A kid got stuck in a claw machine, a 13-year-old in North Carolina, and they had to get authorities to come and get him out.

I mean, you're 13 years old. Why are you climbing in there? He was hoping to score a prize. It was in the Cosmic XL bonus game. Stay with us, a lot more in store, just seconds, minutes away.

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. I won't assign racial bias to the police without further discussion and investigation. And I think that we did have officers, white officers for what it's worth, who did a lot of hard work to get this case filed to the prosecutor, having charges filed shortly thereafter.

That being said, to pretend that race is not a part of this whole situation would be to have your head in the sand. This boy was shot because he was existing while black, and he knocked on the door of someone who clearly, clearly fears black people, black boys, black children. And I think that that is clear as day. I would love to know where they get this from. I think it's.

And unless you know that for certain. It is so irresponsible to say something like that. First off, welcome back to the program. That was the mayor of Kansas City in this case of this. teenager who Went to, he's a 16-year-old teenager in Kansas City.

He went to the wrong address. to go pick up his twin brothers. And He was shot by this 84-year-old homeowner. Who said that, you know, apparently I guess the argument That seems to be intimated from the Uh, police report is that he was in fear. He was like scared for his life or something like that.

And there were And the way that it's some of the reporting has been a little bit all over. And I say this because two things. First off, I don't believe that this was a self-defense case, number one. From everything that's been reported publicly. Number two, I also don't think that this is anything to stand your ground is not applicable here.

But what I And we've talked about this on break, what we're kind of wondering. How this is going to be presented by prosecution or defense in court because I read that some said that it was. that he knocked on the door.

Some said that he rang the doorbell.

Some of the media reports. One headline said that he was in the doorway, and then the other said that I only read one report that said he was in the doorway. And then everyone else said that he was on the porch. And quite honestly, if the guy shot through the door, I don't see that he was inside. I mean, if he shot through the storm door, then the kid was outside on the porch.

And further, the you know, the blood and etc. on scene seems to support that as well. The forensic, the evidence that's there seems to support that.

So The Adding this racial aspect. And the Clay County prosecutor also pushed this. They said that there was a racial component. I don't know where they're getting this from. Do they?

I think that when you, especially this early, You can't make that claim unless you're ready to release evidence right with it to support that. Because Now what we're going to see is that It's it it purposefully fuels Hatred. And division. If They're going to say that, then what is the evidence to support it? The guy was charged with two felonies.

And I get that gun control. Activists are saying, oh, this is what happens with the shoot first. There's no such thing as the shoot first law. That is what Michael Bloomberg's irresponsible everytown people are saying. It's what they use that instead of saying stand your ground, but stand your ground isn't applicable here.

I mean, first off, he was in his home, and any every state protects defense in the home, and I don't think it was a defense case.

Now The one report, and Kay noted this, and I'd read this too, it said that he was pulling on the exterior door of his house. And so the guy. believe that it was a break-in attempt.

So, I don't know. That's where we're going to need more evidence on. We're going to need more information on that. But from what I've seen, it's really difficult for, I think it's going to be really hard for the defense to say that this was a self-defense case.

Now with all of this discussion on racial whatever with this story. Why is there no outrage over The story of this twenty year old woman. Kaylin Gillis from Saratoga County, New York. She was in her vehicle. She made the wrong turn into a driveway.

And As the She was in the vehicle.

Someone else was driving. As the driver was leaving, the owner of the home. pulled up and fired two shots. From his patio at the vehicle, Gillis was struck and the 65-year-old homeowner was arrested. They said that they were looking for a friend's house.

They pulled into the wrong driveway. That definitely wasn't. self-defense either. I don't know if there's a lot of outrage over that, but that wasn't self-defense. Or, what about if people are hell-bent on making race a part of this?

Making race part of this discussion? Then okay, let's let's have the conversation about The Woman who was beaten pretty much uh with I don't I mean, I don't know what injury she sustained. In Chicago. Did you all see the the the riots there that were taking place in Chicago? And there was a woman who was attacked on North Wabash uh Wabash Avenue.

And I mean she was beaten. She was, I think, what like a young woman? And She was there were a bunch of young males, and they she was going into the door of this building, and they grabbed her and stomped her. I mean I'm just wondering where's the racial aspect of this case? She's twenty years old.

She was with a young man. They were trying to passed through where the mob was, And she was trying to help her friend. And the other friend has injuries to his face and shoulder, etc. They had all their stuff stolen: their shoes, their watches, their phones. Another woman stepped in after this and helped them.

This was in Chicago. The Statistics That people are pushing in the cases where they try to assert race in this don't support. Um reality. And I would For this to go back to this Missouri case. This Clay County prosecutor.

This eighty four year old Andrew Lester Are they arguing that if he saw a white teenager show up at his door at night? Then that he wouldn't have? I just I I disreg I I don't believe it was self-defense, but I don't think it was racially motivated either. I really don't. Of course, as Lorraine notes, you know, I mean, he just did what Biden told everyone to do: shoot your shotgun through the door.

Yeah. Remember when Biden said that? He told Field and Stream That, yeah, you know, if there's ever a problem, you just walk out on the balcony and, you know, or you put up that double-barrel shotgun, you fire two blasts. That's what he was telling her: shoot through your door, shoot off your balcony. I mean, that's like both of those things are not legal, but you know, whatever.

The sad thing is that With this story, I mean, I think it's horrible what happened to the 16-year-old. I mean, all the reports, he wasn't doing nothing wrong. The gun control advocates are going to seize on it and try to make it. about a story to undermine standard ground. And then you have the race hustlers that are going to seize it and try to use it as further division.

on racial lines. And I don't see that it was either racially motivated or self-defense. I don't. I think it's despicable that Clay County prosecutor goes out and says something like this and doesn't, I mean, put forward any other kind of, you know, evidence or anything for that.

Now in the meantime You have all of these stories. Where Yeah, I mean absolute. Lawlessness. How many teens? Like, this is not just Chicago.

It's apparently like everywhere. All of these Kids that are running around and getting involved in this criminal activity. I mean, it's horrible. It's not just, I was also reading that was what in it's in Portland, it was in California, it's everywhere. The kids are not all right.

Speaking of California, they think that utility rates should be tied to how much you earn. I dunno.

So, this is what they're pushing. If enacted, costs are going to be passed along to consumers. Who may have consumed the least energy in a month, but they're going to be forced to pay the most.

So Californian utility companies, there's a plan that's presented in response to a new state law requiring them to come up with a fixed rate bill on customers' uh based on customers' annual income, not how much electricity or water they use. But it's based on their income. San Diego Gas and Electric, PG and E, and Southern California Edison filed a joint proposal alongside of the Public Utilities Commission that, if adopted, would fix the rate on income, not on usage.

So, if you make less than $28,000 a year, it's $15,000 a month. If you make over $180,000, it's $85,000 a month.

So The People who doesn't matter how much you use, you could use the least, but if you make the most, then you have to pay.

Now, also in Wokery, we may have to talk about this more next hour. There's a lot of a lot of fighting over casting in the Lilo and Stitch movie. The live action Lilo and Stitch. Oh my gosh, the left is livid at each other.

So, for instance, they cast an actual Hawaiian. Guy to play a Hawaiian guy and Lilo and Stitch and the left is mad because he's a light skinned Hawaiian guy and not a dark skinned Hawaiian guy. Oh. That sounds racist. The It's the one of the lo the love interests for the sister and Lilo instead.

And they're mad because He's lit legit Hawaiian, like he's born and raised in Hawaii. He is Polynesian, but they're mad because he's light-skinned Polynesian. This is the left that's freaking out about this. It's everywhere: screen rants, film updates, everything. They got a lot of um controversy over who was playing the sister.

Which is insane to me. Because it was another one of those situations. I mean, they've. They I mean it is wild how mad the left is over this. They had the uh Casting for the sister.

where they said that it was blatant colourism, And they said that The They said casting a lighter-skinned Hawaiian to play the sister is colorism, and that Lilo and Stitch is actually about. race, etcetera. Oh my gosh So that's what the left is doing with us. They're ruining this kid movie with their made-up. Outrage, and it's just Adam's wild.

We have fluoramine on the way, fluoridamine is going to bring us some sanity. Never that you know it's bad when you gotta have Florida man, like, you know. bring the sanity. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. Yeah.

Yeah. It's time for Florida Man. I want someone to explain to me how you can disrespectfully consume a key lime pie.

So here's why I say this because this is an actual headline. Uh from The is that ABC? No, NBC affiliate. Channel 2.

So this is in Fort Myers. This is one of the worst written stories because I'm for, I mean, you have to go like five paragraphs in to get to the whole point.

So I would fire the person who wrote this piece because they need to go back to J school. Number, so it starts here, like six paragraph. David Powellson. He got a key lime pie for his mom's birthday, put it in the refrigerator. And then he apparently...

Um Like another guy who was in the house. I get it doesn't the article because it's so poorly written and because Teddy Byrne, who is the author, should be fired because he can't write a story. Long story short, one of the other people who's living in the house ate the pie. And when Powelson got mad because he caught the guy eating his mom's key lime pie for her birthday pie, uh, the guy then started like smearing it on his mouth. And, uh, The reason disrespect came into it is because Powellson told police that he was disrespectfully eating it.

Like he was taunting him at that point afterwards. They had to get the police involved and everything. It was a pretty big, it was a pretty big deal. Worst story ever. Please get a better journalist.

Also, a Florida man was accused of grabbing his genitals and giving the finger to a man and his eight-year-old son in Marathon, Florida. It was a homeless marathon man. He was arrested for flashing and grabbing his genitals in a Home Depot parking lot. The man who reported the indecent exposure said he was pulling into the lot on August 30th. It's actually just now going to trial, by the way.

They believe that the guy, the homeless guy, 65-year-old, said that they knew him from previous interactions. They searched, they were looking for him, they didn't find him. They put a warrant out, he was booked in decent exposure, but apparently they were trying to get him on another charge because there was an eight-year-old involved, so it was like in decent exposure with a minor, et cetera. Uh a Florida man uh is apparently You know, and I actually saw this go viral. There was an email from an educator that was not based in Florida telling kids.

to don't s don't you can't skip classes 'cause you're going to Taylor Swift concert.

So this was in Tampa. Um I didn't think that that had to actually be done for the superintendent. Apparently, so he was warning stuff. One of their staffers was apparently caught at the. Didn't go into school the next day 'cause they were at a Taylor Swift concert.

This, uh no, no, no, no, no, and I can't use that one, and I can't use this one either. No.

Well, we can we can talk about this guy who crashed his golf cart crashed into a golf cart. This is this is wholesome enough. A Florida man was arrested on DOI charges. He crashed into a golf cart and injured two. In Bradford County, Florida, 56 DUI charges.

He looks like he's DUI in his mugshot. He injured two people. He crashed into a golf cart. How do you just drive into a golf cart?

So he hit the golf cart, then he drove off. But then. He later returned and said he had thought he hid an animal. The witnesses said that he was hauling A double snakes before he hit the golf cart.

So he told troopers he followed the guy to his home, confronted him about the crash. When police asked him how much he had to drink, he replied, a few. And a few was a full sixer.

So the two people in the golf cart were taken to the hospital. No information about their conditions. I thought I hit an animal. That was a pretty big animal that you probably thought that you. You had a lot of drinking.

Yeah, that you hit. Oh my gosh. All right, third hour on the way. We've got a lot to get into. The weird fringe infighting.

These are things you probably should know about, but we're not going to dwell on, but just to keep you updated, stick with us. One in every five metric tons of carbon dioxide our city emits comes from Food. But all food is not created equal. The vast majority of food that is contributing to our emission crisis. Lies in meat and dairy products.

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Okay. I may need some in you because it's national government theft slash abolish the IRS Day. And then this on top of it? Really? You know the problem?

Is that there are too many Redundant pieces of meat that run for office on this planet. That's really the meat we should be talking about. Oh, I said it. Welcome back to the program. your absolutely hateful curmudgeon here with you today, Dana Ash.

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So He's saying that He wants us to eat bugs and plants. Oh, I don't know if he said bug. Did he say bug? No, I don't know.

So that's what they all mean. Bugs and plants. Sure. I mean Do I look like a... Tofu eating.

you know, hiking, sandal wearing Volvo driving Tree hugger to you. I mean, I like to have muscle definition and energy. We were built to eat meat. If the good Lord above did not want us to eat animals, he would not have made them out of meat. End of story Discussion over.

You know, it's the meat. You know what it is? It's also all of these celebrities that sit here and lecture everybody about. Climate change, and then they take a butt-ton amount of private flights. That's an actual measurement.

Check it. they take all these private flights. That's, you know That's another big problem. Like, people like Leonardo DiCaprio, I read this story the other day where he. w took two private flights so he could celebrate New Year's twice.

Yeah, he was in like somewhere in Southeast Asia, and then he came like to LA or something so he could celebrate New Year's. I'm not joking. Or what is it? That, um slovenly ginger spare. who takes all the took like twenty two private flights.

Well, they're Shell Corporation. Whatever charity thing that doesn't do any charity, uh, where they um sit here and talk about climate change and everything else that everyone else should follow. Climate change is an indulgence of the rich socialist. That's what it is. It is it's a it's a hobby of the rich socialist, where they can pretend to do the least charitable work and they do the least amount, but they want the return of feeling good about themselves so that they can say that they care about something other than themselves.

But really it's still a like a self-glorifying action, right? I mean, you guys should, you know, you have to have a straw that dissolves in your stupid drink.

So Leonardo DiCaprio can take private flights to everywhere else. Or the spare ginger who probably lied to get a visa into the United States.

so he can take his private jet and fly everywhere. But your straw gets to dissolve in your drink, the paper straw. Geez. By the way, I rage against paper straws. They are, can I just say?

If I was an alien, I would want to bomb the planet just because of paper straws. I hate them that bad. Right? When someone gives you a paper straw at a restaurant, isn't it just a complete Disappointment. Like they let down all of humanity when they hand it to you, right?

Isn't it just horrible? Yeah, it's like bringing the most useless thing to the table. I will say I found, and don't, the only reason, I can't even believe I'm saying this, I haven't told you guys about this because I don't like to misrepresent myself as some nut eater, tree hugger in any way. Uh but Oh, yeah. You're like, Dana, you really?

Yeah, I did. You think I'm joking with this stuff? Like, that's why I was like, do the public SQ thing because I spend this much time. I don't, I mean, I don't know how much time of my life I've spent. I can't have any Chinese-made straws.

But it was, it's like um. I'd never wanted to tell you guys this because it sounds like I'm literally a tree hugger. And I don't want to give that impression because not that I hate trees because I'm not hugging them. But it's like a biodegradable corn straw. It's actually pretty good.

And I don't have to worry about it. I mean, I have one on my tumbler all the time. Yeah, so, and it actually doesn't dissolve, and it's biodiversity, it's made of corn. Isn't that wild? It looks like plastic, but if I really wanted to snap it in half, I could.

You know, but it doesn't dissolve. And anyway, it was USA made. That's the only reason that I even got them. Otherwise, I'm like, bring on the plastic. I have some friends who are big time like Republican climate people.

And they're always like, Dane, I can't believe. Like, if I put something on Instagram about a straw or something, they give me so much. I can't tell you what I send to them in response because I couldn't air it because I'd get fined. But I'm like, you know better. Come on.

Come on. All right, so. It's National Theft Day. I didn't really want to talk about this because it makes me mad. I can't even.

You would j oh man. It's national theft. of your income day. And this is I um I really don't want to tell you how much the government's wasting of your money. Do I want to?

Oh my gosh. It's just, it's really, I don't want to do you all like this. I mean the amount of waste. That Our government. Uh that we have is is It's It's embarrassing.

It's embarrassing. Darrell Issa was putting stuff out. He was saying we gave $7 million to social media influencers to post about seafood. I legit may walk off air and go riot right now. Good Lord, put a hand over my mouth.

and the other one on my shoulder to keep me in my seat. Yeah. Seven million dollars for and I bet they're on TikTok, right? I hate influ I hate the word influencer. What does that even mean?

Oh, gosh. Seven million dollars to social media and to post about seafood. I don't I don't even know what the Biden administration's paying the ones on TikTok to sit here and talk about his plans that they don't even understand. My favorite thing in the world is people who can who don't even pl pay taxes, probably 'cause they live at home with mom and dad and they're on TikTok sitting here lecturing everybody else about what they should do. With air money?

Love it. I don't know. I had to work like very early on.

Well, not super early on, but I was a teenager. I was involved in everything, and I worked all the time. throughout college. worked two jobs all throughout college. I immediately was like, this is ridiculous.

How much of my money the government's taking? Oh, and now they're going after everything from your Etsy to your Venmo to your. PayPal to What are all the other ones? All of those little Yeah, pay facil they're they're gonna make us all honestly live like damn villagers in Minecraft, where in order to keep the government out of all of our stuff, we're gonna have to do basic trades, gyms and parchment for just you know basic items. We're all gonna be like villagers in PCs in Minecraft trading stuff.

Chimney Christmas. We sent a bunch of stimulus checks to prisoners, including terrorists, about $783 million worth. Four million dollar bird sanctuary. Oh, that was fun. Mhm.

That was fun. Also That's where all of our all of our tax dollars go. There are so many That have been out, but it is national. It's national theft day. Our taxes are going to go up.

We're going to have 87,000 new Agents, my husband was saying you shouldn't complain about. Don't complain about the IRS or our accounts. They k 'cause we have an accounting firm. That we use, and he's like, you know, their whole business is based on the IRS. And I'm like, abolish it all!

Like, I don't care. Abolish it all. It's crazy. When are people going to learn? I mean, when is enough going to be enough?

Right? I'm almost at the point where any candidate that will not tell me, yes, I will abolish the IRS. Get out. I'm almost, I mean, I am pretty much there. Get out then.

I don't want to hear about, I don't want to hear about your, you know, strategy. Get out. Huh? Revenue. has been the highest it's ever been.

Ah, here we go. Yeah, I would love to see. I can't wait until those reports come out and we can see exactly how much the Biden campaign is spending. on uh those influencers to talk about all of his plans and everything else. National Government Theft Day.

And then people are going to get all excited when the government gives some of the money back that they stole from them. We got our return. Yeah. Okay, so The um A couple of things that I wanted to hit here that I want to make sure we get to because we've been, we've talked about, we've had some woke rake. Can we really quickly talk about this MLB thing that I see going around everywhere?

It's not like, no, I'm not getting into the sports aspect of it. Did you guys hear this? There was this big debate that I saw. that kicked off Because of this Major League Baseball player, Anthony Bass. They were on United Airlines and he like blew up United Airlines.

He was they were flying back after the Blue Jays opening. in Toronto. He was with his 22 week pregnant wife and they have a five and a two year old. and his younger daughter dropped some popcorn. And he was mad because instead of cleaning up the mess, he said the flight attendant made his wife get on her hands and knees to pick it up.

And he goes, the flight attendant at United just made my 22-week pregnant wife traveling with a five- and two-year-old to get on her hands and knees and pick up the popcorn mess by my youngest. Are you kidding me? And I I have a question. What was he doing? Was he there?

It sounds like he was flying with her. Yeah. Why? It sounds like that. I haven't found any confirmation that he was on the plane.

But I'm still looking. Oh, it says that he was flying with his family.

So he was on the plane with her? That's what it says. Yeah, it says he was. He says that it was an encounter they had with a flight attendant. I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but.

Um Why did she do it if he was there? Yes.

Right? Like why Why didn't you do it then? Second thing is, there was a lot of popcorn in the floor that the kid dropped. It was. Pick it up.

Right? It's not the end of the world. Yeah. I I just don't understand what the problem is. Like, pick it up then.

Or you can ask for help in picking it up. But like be proactive. And also, your kids are old enough not to drop food all over the floor like that. I've had toddlers, I've traveled with toddlers. I know exactly how it goes.

I mean, you can be a little proactive. I'm just saying. You know, you don't need to vilify people for either doing it or not doing it, but good night. Like, why does this have to be like this big national debate? Everything now, because of social media, gets turned into a giant national debate, an example of X, Y, and Z.

Everyone takes a small, insignificant problem in their lives and they blow it up to be this national controversy. And I am so tired of all of it. Just pick up your kids damn popcorn. Good heavens, it's not the end of the world. And if you're traveling with your spouse and you don't want them to get on your knees, get off your ass and help pick it up then yourself.

I don't know. What is the problem? I don't get it. What am I missing? I mean You're traveling on United Airlines.

It's not the St. Regis line. It's not the Four Seasons Airline. It's United.

Okay. It's like n they're not gonna I mean, w it you you it is what it is. But now to turn this into like a big thing? I don't know. I just, and there was a lot of popcorn on the floor.

I would have said, Hey kids, don't drop all that stuff on the floor. Actually, I would have made my kids pick it up. I wouldn't have gotten down there to do it. I'd have made my kids do it.

So I don't know. We got to get rolling. We have a whole bunch of other stuff to get into, including the debt ceiling fight. what McCarthy has had to say about this. And now, all of the news you would probably miss.

It's time for Dana's Quick Five. Amazon Prime Video, they've launched what they call Dialogue Boost. It's a feature for their original series and films.

So if you think that the like certain dialogue is too low, you can hit the dialogue boost feature and it brings it up almost like it's like remixed where the dialogue is very, I'm actually glad because sometimes some of these productions are not mixed well and you're like, why is the dialogue so, like the score should not be louder? Come on. So anyway, all right, so how do you say this? Haribo, Haribo? The gummy bear people?

Horribo. Haribo?

Okay. So they're supposed to be... Where each bear, the flavor is identified by color. And some people thought that the green bear was lime or watermelon, even, or green apple. It's actually strawberry.

Right? The green gummy bear is strawberry. How is the green gummy bear strawberry? That didn't even make any sense. That makes zero sense!

And a bombshell senate report, we're going to hit this, that there could have been at least two lab leaks in Wuhan that triggered the Rona. I mean, you mean biowarfare agents? I mean, what? Stay with us. 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 know, I think about innovation as being the pursuit of that, right? The pursuit of what makes us more efficient, more accurate, faster. More relevant to the needs of the people. We don't engage in innovation because we're bored with things the way they've been. It's the pursuit of doing things better than we have done.

Oh, God. And seeing what is possible, unburdened by what is possible. Oh, my gosh! Whoa! Oh.

Every time that Lime! Stay! Oh, my gosh. unburdened by what has been.

So we can see The future unburdened by what has been Every speech, Kane. Welcome back to the The radio program, you can watch the simulcast. It's National Government Theft Day. Hashtag abolish the IRS. Hashtags don't work in real life, Dana.

Shut up. And We're in a mood. I say collectively 'cause I bring everyone with me. We're in a mood today. Make sure you sign up for the newsletter, Substack.

I have no idea what's going to come out later today because we're in a mood, I'm telling you. Yeah, whatever it is, it'll be unburdened by you. Unburdened by you. What has been no one steps in. And it was like, psst.

Right. Stop it. No friends? Stop saying that. Or, you know what?

Or, people hate her and they want her to say it 'cause she looks stupid. Should I say that again? Should I say that? Yes, say it, Madam Vice President. It's an amazing phrase.

You should say it. multiple times in the same speech. It's so good.

Okay, it's good to know. I mean, that's the only honestly thing that I can think of at this point. I have no idea.

So I have 14 separate occasions since May of last year that she has said this. No.

That exact line. Fourteen times. And that's just from what I've seen on Twitter. That doesn't I may be missing some. Unburdened by what has been.

She is that's gonna be like her epitaph. unburdened by what has been.

I don't even know what that means. What does that even mean? It's words, Dana, organized in a certain way that make me sound like I'm saying something of substance. to not be burdened by history? I don't even know, man.

Everything is why is everything stupid? Because, Dana, it is. All right. Uh, I w Go ahead and play this audio. We just thought it was funny the way he said the alphabet thing.

This is Jame Gomez. And Democrat rep Jimmy Gomez I don't know. We just started making fun of this audio sound by Don't Break. That's it. Listen.

Republicans are attacking trans and other LGBTQ kids. And it shows exactly who they are: bigots and bullies. And I said that once, and I'll say it again: bigots. Bigots and bullies. Bullies.

Sounds like a club. Right? Ugh, like hoagies and grinders. Yeah. Pigots and bullies.

Like if I was doing it in what was that SNL skit? Where he'd like Stefan, he had all the club names. Welcome to Bigots and Bullies, where DJ Baby Bokchoy has knees like biscuits and spins the hits like that. Bigots and bullies. old payload.

Yeah, it's in an old payload shoe store. You have to get your tickets out of a broken gobbled machine.

Okay. Wait, did he say the AI thing after? He did not. What was that? You added something onto that.

Kids are attacking trans and other LGBTQ. LGBTQ.

Okay. LGBTIQ. Um so there's LGBTQ. Which stands for a queer question. All I know is every LGB I know does not want to be with the other letters.

That's actually true. Yeah. But then you you said there was more letters. Like, are any of them barbecue? No.

BBQ. No.

That would be helpful and probably garner more support. I would totally support BBQ. Oh, for sure. It's delicious. LGBTQ, like I said, queer and questioning is what the Q stands for.

Intersex is I. A is asexual. What? Yes.

Is that? Intersex. Is that a movie? It's opposite of outer sex? No, inner.

Oh, I'm thinking of inner space. Intersex. Or inception. What is. Hang on, I gotta oh, do I wanna Google this?

No, damn it. We haven't even got to the fun part of this. I actually have to do this to my job.

Okay. So wait a minute, this doesn't make sense either. It says that Intersex is a general term used for a variety of situations, what? In which a person is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn't fit the boxes of male or female. Like hermaphrodites?

I guess so.

Okay, got and the other letter? And then, of course, it's the asexual, that's where the A comes from. And then two spirit. If you ever see the two S. In in that acronym?

It stands for Two Spirit. That you are possessed? Um I don't think that's what they mean. I don't think that's what they mean by that. Cast you out, double.

Wait, I'm sorry. I don't know. I was like, you're of two spirits, which sounds like a binary spirit system.

So, like. Wait a minute, let me oh god. If I don't Google this really fast, the internet is going to go overboard in telling me gleefully. I know how you people are.

Okay, so. Apparently so you can only oh, what? I am so. I'm more confused now after I looked. Is this helpful?

No, it's not, Google. It's not helpful. Shhh.

So Two, so this is how it's defined. Two spirit Also to spirit. What? That's what it says. To spirit, also two spirit, or two s or occasionally two spirited.

is a modern Pan-Indian umbrella term used by some indigenous North Americans to describe what Native people in their communities who fulfill a traditional third gender what ser what ceremonial and social role in their cultures that is like even more confusing.

So, oh, okay.

So, you are a person who can have both a masculine and a feminine spirit. Oh my gosh. I just wrote 5,000 skits in my head. What? What?

Yes, this is nuts, pun intended. Yeah. What? That sounds like possessed. I can hear my grandma already from beyond the grave.

That's of the devil devil I think they're adding more and more to it every Every year, there's like more. Yeah, because Lorraine just dropped in. Oh my gosh. Mm-hmm. Oh my gosh.

So she put this, she moderates the chat, and she's a contributor at chapter and verse.

Okay, so Cain, let's see. There's a lot of letters in there. It's L-G-B-T-Q-Q-I-A-A-P-P-O-2-S. That sounds like a very bad passcode. It is.

That's gonna be my next password. It's legibiticos. Oh, wait, Faifolk? I don't even know what that is. We're not.

This is now like a true blood show. Faefolk? I don't know. I'm just trying to get over the two spirit thing.

So the two spirit. As if You have a male and a female in spirit?

Sounds binary. It sounds binary. Yeah. Oh, you just stumbled upon.

So, how does the two-spirit thing? How does non-binary and two-spirit square up with each other? That's weird. We are spirits in a material world. I just don't.

know right now how this gonna how does that work. This is why it gets the I don't know what. Wait, let me they have a flag?

So, if you're two-spirited, then your body houses a masculine spirit and a feminine spirit. Um Okay. What? I think we all have that ability.

So it sounds like they're you're possessed.

Well, I really want this, but you know, Stan, who is my male spirit. Once this. Damn it, Stan! I mean people I mean That I'd I don't know. I'm at actual loss of words here.

Um So there's that. Mm-hmm. Oh, they added K to it, too. I don't even want to know what that means. Is that night?

Like, they identify as a medieval person? I don't know. That'd be nice if it was, but it's not. It stands for kink. What?

Why does that have to look? You don't need a flag for everything in your life, okay? You don't need that. Like for instance. You know, going back to BBQ.

I like the St. Louis style. I like a dry rub. I don't like to put my meat in soup. That I call barbecue.

I'm so sorry, Carolinas. I love you to bits, but God love you. No, I can't. Oh man, I'm going to get, I'll get more hate mail over this than I will have gotten anything in my career. Almost, the first time I got more hate mail was when I said I didn't like Sami Hagar.

And I almost. Why do you say stuff like that in public? I can say, I'm not in St. Louis now, so I can say that, but I thought literally I was going to get beaten to death.

So I was afraid, I was afraid for my life.

So But I will say this. Uh You don't need a flag for everything.

So, if I like a dry rub barbecue, does that mean I get a special flag for that? Or is it only related to how you like to have the sex? I don't know. Like we, you really have to, I mean, we, of all the things to have flags for, that's what you go with? Right?

Wait, I like these types of genitals, so I need this flag. to represent that Can you just go on with your life and not, you know, go? I mean, it's literally like the Worldwide Privacy Tour, but with sex. Right? I feel like it's nobody cares.

Nobody cares. It's like that scene from Jurassic Park. See, nobody cares. It's like that. Nobody cares.

Stop. And don't add any more letters on. I don't even know what this stuff means. I feel like I'm reading like a true blood scene. Polyamory, omnisexual two-spirit fella over here.

I mean, what is that even? What? And doesn't two spirit negate everything else? Because it's a binary thing. That sounds like possession.

Okay. Six more Bidens. Golly, there's six more. They may have gained from the family business scheme, says James Comer. Oh, what?

We know this. Man, they've been making fat bank. Thousands of pages of financial records related to the Biden family, their companies, their associates, their business schemes, all made available to members of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. They are still investigating all of this. And there's still an unknown Biden.

who received four payments in 2017. $70,000. the brother got six figures even the daughter in law got She got thousands of dollars. All related to the CEFC China Energy Company, the CCP Energy Company. Remember that?

They wired millions? to a Biden family associate and then he divided it up amongst the family over about three months. How is that not a national security concern? Because you have the President of the United States, his family is, I mean, that is a direct cash path. That is those are receipts.

That's that's the paper trail. showing that they made money off the CCP. That's incredibly significant here. That is an absolute national security issue, particularly when he's pushing. these policies to make us more dependent upon China.

To catch up on all the headlines in crazy wokery, download the Dana Show podcast and get Dana's perspective on the Dana Show. How many people that work in homeown security have been accountable for breaking the law? And do you, first off, do you believe that Um The government looking at private messages on Twitter is a violation of the law? Um Senator, we don't uh censor a speech, so I I want to um uh nip uh that um misimpression. Uh in the bud.

You mean the Nina Jankowitz lady? Yeah. When he Like at the almost at this time last year, when he had to go before the Senate Appropriations Committee, and that was Alejandro Mayorkas. And testify as to whether or not he knew what the board was going to do and how they were going to actually try to silence what they determined to be disinformation. And like, remember when he was asked whether or not the Biden laptop was Russian disinformation?

And he couldn't answer the question, but he doesn't, he also wants to claim that they don't. They don't control speech. What? Does anybody believe that? I have a bridge to sell you.

Feedal. Welcome back to the program. I mean, that was like a year ago, almost a year ago. It was May 4th when he testified on that. He had to go and and uh clarify.

What the DHS Disinformation Board, when all of that broke. He had to go and clarify what that meant, and he couldn't. Really? No, no, no, I wouldn't nip that in the bud. We don't censor speech.

We we don't we don't do that. Um Um Mm. I kinda want to disagree. Right. Oh, like remember that time too when They are dehas when they were telling people to not talk about how the uh Border Patrol agents were using reins to steer their horses and not like whipping people.

There was also that. But that's not controlling people's speech, right? I mean I don't know how anyone can believe that. I mean, I don't believe it. Make sure that you sign up for the newsletter.

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Today in Stupidity Kane. It is our vice president, Kamala Harris.

Well, she had a lot of things that could have categorized we could have put right here in Today in Stupidity. But here's her talking about how entrepreneurs are small business. We'll talk about that when she's done. You know, I think that when we think about the SBA, it's about small businesses, but entrepreneurs are also small businesses. I started to use the two phrases together because we don't want to leave anyone out because they're the same kind of people.

They actually are the same people. What is she talking about? Entrepreneurs start small businesses. But small businesses themselves, if they want to be an extent of the individual, I guess you can, but. Why would you even try and make a comparison or even a differentiation of the two?

I mean, is there a speech that she has given where people are like, you know what, that was good? And she really kind of knocked it out of the park. I don't think so. Yeah. Folks that does it for us this afternoon, it went by fast, but see, that's what happens when we hang together and deal with it all.

We'll be back behind the mic with you tomorrow. God bless.