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He knew that it looked beyond the pale, and it is beyond the pale, Sean, for the FBI to be going into any church in America and trying to spy on Americans. And now we know that's exactly what they were doing. They are infiltrating churches. They are trying to spy on us. They regard churches, apparently, as the enemy and church-going Americans as akin to terrorists.

Welcome to the program. Dana Lash here with you, top of this insane. Uh Wednesday, first hour. And that was Senator Josh Hawley. We got a whole bunch of things to hit today.

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So all kinds of stuff. Anyway.

So The Joe Biden, who is Well, he, I don't know why he went with Hunter Biden. He's landed in Belfast. He landed in Belfast last night With his son Hunter and his sister Valerie. And the Air Force One touchdown. They had a huge security operation.

They're marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. It seems I can i he's really trying to play up the whole Uh his whole Uh Irish. heritage, although some people even question that, but Uh anyway, he's over, he's traveling to Ireland. And I It's weird that he can go to all these other places, but domestically he can't really. He can't really do a whole heck of a lot.

This is, it's weird because the way this, and he went over there with one of the Kennedys. And it's being treated in a way like it's His, you know, his homecoming and also politics is kind of how it was uh how they looked at it. And he's, you know, we're going to, we'll watch all of the fun stuff, I'm sure, that's going to come out. I'm just wondering if. You know, why Hunter Biden?

It's just such a bad optic. It's such a bad optic, particularly with everything else that's been coming out. About all of this, with more with the family. Hunter's business partner had visited the White House, met with Joe when Joe was VP, even though Joe Biden had said repeatedly that he Had doesn't have any idea, he never had any idea at all whatsoever what his son did. With regards to work, And then of course The business, ten percent for the big guy, the green energy, all of it.

At some point, you know, hopefully, they will get in front of. At least Hun maybe Hunter will get in front of. Jim Jordan's committee, but doubtful.

So that's one of the things that we're watching today, as well as The ongoing with the leaked documents? We've been tracing the origin of this classified leak, this intelligence leak. The documents that have been addressed that were addressing a number of issues, and we talked about everything that they were hitting yesterday. The thing that gets me is there was a presser, Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin. He doesn't even know who's seen it all.

He has no clue who has seen any of the leaked documents. None. None at all whatsoever.

So We he can't even speak to that. They have no clue. They don't know who's seen any leaked documents. In fact, And this is this this is the stuff that appeared on the Literally a a server that for Minecraft fans. It's one of the craziest things ever.

These were the ones that were marked secret. They got into Ukraine's pretty much non-existent. Air defense systems, how they would be depleted at the start of May, at the current usage rate. It uh it would discussed spine Even on and also CIA and the Mossad, the Mossad in Israel, and how they were campaigning, apparently, or working to campaign against Stephen Netanyahu.

So it's considered an embarrassment for the United States that because these were documents that really only the United States could have at this point. It's The scandal that came out, particularly with Massad plotting to. kind of undermine Netanyahu. These are for so the the weird thing is is these are from the highest sources Some of the highest, according to the New York Times, you know, these are some of the highest sources within the United States government. Although they don't, we haven't been told who they are.

We don't exactly know who the sources are. Just that.

someone who is also very highly placed took them. And then stole stole them and then photographed them.

So That's the... I mean, it had to be someone high up. Who did it?

Now they were just like literally stuffed in a pocket. I mean, and they were taken out of a skiff. I uh this 100 some odd images of these crumpled up. That crumpled up documents. White House and Pentagon Obviously, the information is incredibly revealing, incredibly sensitive, and it discusses things that you're not supposed to discuss publicly, and we all pretend that we don't do.

With regard to spying. But they were saying that the American estimates in Ukrainian war dead were overstated, etc., etc. But it is a major intelligence breach, and we don't really have any other information on it. There was the briefing yesterday. And I mean, honestly, 4chan, Telegram, Discord, on Minecraft.

So there was the Filipino a a a message board on Discord for a Filipino YouTube celebrity. And they were just literally taken out of a skiff, out of the secure area, and then photographed.

So they're they're saying that it's They're still searching for who did it. It is a very interesting The timing is interesting. on this. Because of all of the briefing material that relates to the Indo-Pacific military theater and particularly parts of the Middle East, it is very interesting.

So that is But there's still, of course, we don't even know who leaked at the Supreme Court, so I doubt that we're ever going to hear anything about whoever leaked with this at all. We will never hear about it. Never.

Now in the meantime The Body Kim Footage was released. By Louisville Police. pulling this story up. Louisville Metro Police released the footage of the moments that the officers confronted the killer inside of the old national bank. and the twenty five year old had entered the bank And killed five.

It had been four fatalities. The fifth. ended up uh succumbing to their injuries. She succumbed to her injuries uh in the hospital. Sad indeed.

Tragic And of course, there was a police officer who had been hit, who had been shot in the head, and he was in surgery. He's been in surgery with us. And so the footage was released. and it shows two of the officers. One was grazed in the shoulder, Uh by uh return fire from the killer.

The other officer was shot in the head. They were approaching the bank in the cruiser. They parked outside. And that's when the killer just opened fire. They had to pull the car back.

So he was still outside.

So he exchanged fire with them, had to pull the had to pull the car the the the uh cruiser back. Just tough stuff. The footage, I mean, they reacted so fast and the exchange fire didn't last very long. Uh but The uh younger officer who was grazed was able to still I mean, he literally charged towards the building. And so Uh at that point and it shows them neutralizing the threat.

Now, in addition to this, the parents... of the killer have also Now spoken out. And We're gonna we're gonna have to have a a a bigger conversation about this mental health aspect of this. Uh the family was saying that Uh they they they called it a senseless act of violence. They said that he did have mental health problems.

but they insisted that there were never any warning signs. If you believe that. I don't know if I do. And they said that in their statement, they said no words can express their sorrow, their anguish, their horror at the unthinkable harm their son had inflicted on people, their families, and the entire community. They said that they mourn their loss and that of their son.

They said they were praying for everyone who was traumatized. And Apparently, more insight is coming out about his, I guess, what he was dealing with. They said he had mental health issues. What does that mean? That he had mental illness.

They said they were actively dealing with it. What does that mean? They said that they were actively dealing with it. Uh but How just how active? I mean, if they knew that he had these issues, there's a lot of questions that should be asked.

And what sort of mental health issues are we talking about? Because when the left talks about mental health issues, they do so in such a broad way that It is It's a universal statement, and it's really offensive because they treat all mental illnesses as though they are one and the same. That if somebody has a mental illness, then they are immediately considered to be a danger to themselves or other individuals. When most of the time, a lot of people that are dealing with particularly a type of mental illness that would uh make it easier for them to consider and commit an act of violence, they would usually do it towards themselves and not really anyone else. And then some people who deal with mental illnesses have no such inclinations and deal with no such issues of violence.

You know, evil is also real. And I've said this for forever, and I've discussed it in two separate books. Evil is real. And there is this, I think, this push with the left if they do want to just universally apply this label of mental illness. as a way to excuse everything.

Then they are also giving a pass to evil, because not every person who is mentally ill is evil, and not every person who is evil is mentally ill.

So we're going to talk a little bit more about this throughout the show because this We've already had the Republican governor now of Tennessee who said that he wants to call for red flag laws, which we're going to drill down here coming up. He's already called for red flag laws. He says that he hopes that it's something that he can sign if they get it to his desk. Red flag laws don't work. There's no evidence that they work.

It's literally only about confiscating the firearms and it does absolutely nothing for mental health at all whatsoever. That's indisputable. All it does is remove firearms from the troubled individual, but it leaves the black market accessible. It leaves knives accessible. It leaves explosives accessible.

All it does is remove the guns in an ex parte process, at which point if the individual wants to contest it, they have to pay thousands of dollars and go to court and fight to clear their name. name because they have been convicted before they even got their day in front of the judge. That's how this process works, and there's no exception for that across the United States. And there's also no, in most of these instances, particularly when people have been wrongly or falsely accused because the evidentiary standard for these cases in so many states is basically suspicion, not even the preponderance of evidence is, the evidentiary standard is so incredibly low compared to what you would expect with a normal trial that's observing Fifth Amendment protections. It's laughable.

That's why it's undermining of due process protections. And if you don't think that that's a threat just because this has to do with firearms, then go ahead and try this with a million other issues. What if people wanted to say that just, you know, being gay or being trans was a mental illness and they wanted to immediately say, oh, because this is a mental illness all on its own and considering the militant trans terrorists that was in Nashville, we're going to go ahead and designate this a mental illness. And, you know, just because, you know, you decided to lower the bar for evidentiary standard and everything else, we're going to go ahead in an ex parte process and adjudicate you mentally. ineligible at which point you're going to have to spend thousands of dollars and go and fight this in a court of law but the penalty is going to be is going to be provided first does that sound like it's fair because it's not just guns it's about a million other things Breathe life into your own backyard this spring with fastgrowingtrees.com.

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So, Nevada health chiefs are warning of a deadly fungal infection. I would prefer smog or smog, smog, but you know, it's called CRS. It may be spreading in the community, and for the first time in US history, amid fears a super fungus could be the next global threat. And because we get most of our antibiotics from China and this administration has done absolutely nothing to help make us more self-sufficient in that regard. In fact, previously when he was vice president, Obamacare actually crippled R ⁇ D and funding for R ⁇ D, not to say nothing of medical excise taxes, that I don't know how far behind we're going to be in that.

In Nevada, the highest number of cases, they've had those, the highest number of cases in the US in the past year, 384 cases, followed by California. with 359 and Florida with 349. I don't know, this also could be fear-mongering by the CDC. I trust nothing and I trust no one and the sweet meteor of death could not come fast enough. Uh also a truck.

that was carrying, man, poor East Palestine, they just keep getting hit. 400,000 pounds. 400,000, I mean, this is crazy, 40,000 pounds, excuse me, of toxic soil from East Palestine, that train derailment. It overturned on the highway. I told you they've been taking it to different locations, and it overturned on the highway.

And so now they have to clean that up and deal with that on top of it. Cops pulling a Jeep from a Texas lake discovered that a woman was alive inside, and apparently locals said that she was trapped in the car overnight. after she went two missing two days prior. It was completely submerged, only the roof was visible. She seemed to have an accident.

Police said, at the time of the story, they hadn't identified her. But it was a local fisherman, Lake Elda Pines. He discovered it submerged almost entirely in the water. But she was, I mean, they were able to get her out. That's kind of wild.

She was taken to local hospital. She was listed as a missing person from Longview. She was reported missing just a few hours earlier.

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Yeah, uh I mean, you know, just content that will solicit uh a reaction, something that may include something that is slightly racist or slightly sexist, those kinds of those kinds of things.

So you think if something is slightly sexist, it should be banned? Is that what you're saying? I'm not saying anything. I'm saying.

Well, I'm just curious. I'm trying to say what you mean by hateful cont content. And I'm asking for specific examples. And if and you just said that if something is slightly sexist, That's hateful content. Does that mean that it should be banned?

Well, you've asked me whether my feed Whether it's got less or more. I'd say it's got slightly more. That's why I'm asking for examples. Can you name one example? I honestly don't need it.

Honestly, I don't. You can't name a single example. I'll tell you what. Golly, that was Elon Musk talking to a member of the BBC. Who they don't have free speech over there.

I don't think they fully understand the concept. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. That is the. Whole one of the big fights that the media has been having, and I am so happy about it.

NPR quit Twitter. And the BBC got mad because Twitter, they were labeled state-affiliated media.

So. the way that it it looks Was it's like when they have like Chinese, when they have the Chinese state-run media up there, it'll have like this little gray thing underneath it, and it says state-run or state-affiliated media. And NPR is livid because they were. Classified as this, and they even put it down under their under their bio. They put NPR is an independent news organization.

That is committed to informing the public about the world around us, and it has government-funded media. That's what it says: it has government-funded media under their thing. And when you click on the government funded media, it tells you that it's because they get government funding. NPR, in part, gets government funding. They sit here and go on and on about, no, most of our funding comes.

I don't give a rat's ass where most of your funding comes from. You steal some of my taxpayer dollars to put on your god-awful content. You are government-run media. If you don't want the label, then don't steal my hard-earned money. You're funded in part by the government.

If you don't want the label, don't take our dollars. This is not a transaction that any of us agreed to. If any of these people out there want to support NPR, By heavens, then you can go ahead and you can make that donation yourself. Why is it that all these rich leftists, they sit on their fat asses and they don't do a single thing to save the network they claim to love. In fact, they want to make it to where and mandate it to where everybody else has to pay for it.

Pay for it For what? The entity that literally said of the Hunter Biden laptop story, and I quote. We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don't want to waste listeners' and readers' time on stories that are just pure distractions. End quote. That's a real story.

That's a real quote. That's what they said. In fact, they actually had said it. and release their statement on Twitter. And they were absolutely snotty about it.

Absolutely snotty about it. They said that it was a story that doesn't matter. In fact, it was a story that mattered supremely. Particularly As all of these details have emerged. And by the way, I mean, there's already a federal investigation into Hunter Biden based on what is on this laptop.

They're looking at whether or not he was actually reporting Uh All of his income that he was receiving, questionably, from. It rhymes with Shmeina.

So they said that they're going to take their ball and go home. They're not going to use Twitter. Oh, waa I don't care. Don't use Twitter then. Look how unaffected we all are.

Oh wow, the sun has stopped shining, the world has stopped turning, we're all going to die, and we're going to be plunged into a polar dark abyss because the sun is going to explode in the sky after NPRs announced that nay, they shall not tweet any longer. I would love I mean, I guess they think that that People are as obsessed with them as they are obsessed with themselves. BBC was mad. Guess what? BBC is government funded.

Here's the thought. Then fund it yourselves. And instead of George Soros sitting here raising crime rates with his garbage DAs that he gets elected because he basically buys elections, then why don't have him put some of his money towards your precious NPR? Then you can listen to your crap public broadcasting. I said it.

One of my favorite things ever about talking about government-funded media was when I lived in St. Louis. And before I had my own studio in home, when I lived in St. Louis, I had to go to, guess what? It was the local PBS and I would sit there on their soundstage and literally in front of everyone.

They were always very nice and I got along with them. But I no holds bar. I would sit here and say why it needs to be defunded. Not my monkeys, not my circus.

So they are state-run media. And they are losing their minds over it.

Now think of all the ways that they have tried to help put the finger on the scales of justice or narratives or however you want to put it. How often have they have done that with their coverage? The New York Times, etcetera. I mean It's Really amazing. And so Why is that?

And they were taking issue with Elon Musk for that.

So I guess, what is it? The BBC, are they tweeting still? I can't remember what they said. NPR said that they're not going to use Twitter until that's removed.

Okay. I don't care if you use Twitter unless... You know, I don't care. Just stop taking our money. Why is that such a big deal with them?

Because they realize the conflict of interest. How are you going to be a media entity reporting on the government when you get money from the government? And the speculation as to how much NPR gets is actually s somewhat wild.

So they would they were I one of their officials was lying previously and they were saying, oh, it's only 1%. That's a lie because then I've read that it's like oh like 20% elsewhere. They're like, they tried to say, oh no, we get some grants and we get that. Yeah, government-funded grants. Do you think we're stupid?

We know all the ways that government likes to distribute the money that it steals from us in the form of unconstitutional taxes. We know. Yes, I'm salty about it. Why? Because it's April.

What's April? Mm-hmm. National Theft Day. happens in April. Yeah, they always say, no, no, no, we actually only get 1%.

Well, that's not true. Mm. They're like, oh, we're publicly funded by, and you get government money. Just be honest about it. Just be honest about it.

And again, if you don't want the affiliation, then don't take any money. I mean, maybe their audience should I don't know, support them more. Like like Brittany Griner's coming out with this memoir and how much you wanna bet if nobody reads it and it doesn't sell, it's gonna be because people are ignorant and they're anti-women and they're, you know, they're anti-gay 'cause she's gay or something. If you don't read their if you don't contribute to their cottage industry grift, Then you're somehow anti them. What like an emotional way to manipulate people into funding your lifestyle that isn't built on merit but just hokey grift.

Some politicians out there doing that right now in the Republican primary. Also, oh, I hate everything today. Yeah, let's go ahead. Let's go ahead and you wanna have the conversation like Nikki Haley's out there like slinging mud. Already, maybe you should slink some more accomplishments.

I don't look when you say you're running for office, any kind of civil, I don't have to be your friend. I don't have to be your friend. I'm not obligated to be your friend. I am here on the behalf of the people who listen to the program and who watch the program. I know what they say.

I talk to them regularly. I don't have to sit here, and y'all know I don't have to sit here and be friends with any of these politicians. I don't want to go and hang out at their events. I'm definitely not going to allow them to facilitate. my attending any kind of event.

So this um Yeah, we should probably talk about that because Tim Scott said he's going to form an exploratory committee. Why? Why? I like Tim Scott as a person. on some things he's been squishy on, especially police reform.

I've kind of had a little because he went along with some of the narratives with that and I just take objection. I just have objection to that. Oh we did. It's okay. We can talk about it now or later.

I mean you know. Going to happen. The conversation is going to happen. I just, all they're all doing this stuff, and I'm like, hi, China's going to kick our ass. Maybe we won't have an election.

Who knows? Have you seen everything that's happening over in China right now? They just brought Emmanuel Macron to his knees. Faster than his elderly elementary teacher wife. I'm just saying.

Where was the lie? Yeah. Should have told you all you're on the mind train today, so buckle up. But it's true. Have you seen?

I mean, they had their, we're getting ready to do defense drills. I had this as a headline yesterday with Philippines, and China is going to be losing their mind. What are they? They're going to sound their air raid sirens again. And it's fun to make fun of Xi Jinping.

You know, there was, I think, what, some Taiwanese officials were sharing images of Winnie the Pooh, who is Xi Jinping getting punched in the face, building on the Hong Konger meme. Because when China was taking over Hong Kong, they found out that Xi Jinping was very, very sensitive to being portrayed as Winnie the Pooh, even though they had an image of Xi Jinping. Who was he walking with? Was it Barack Obama and they did Winnie the Pooh? Or was it one of the British leaders?

I can't remember who he was walking with, or maybe it was somebody else. And they had. The way that Winnie the Pooh was walking and the way Xi Jinping were walking were literally the exact same and they had like the exact same expression.

So Hong Kongers made a meme about it and then China tried to say it was racist and Hong Kong was like, we literally created it, what? And it went from there.

So I mean, I don't know. It's just really hard to think that. I mean, guys, can we live in this generation knowing that the leader of a communist nation? Who is so offended by a cartoon bear that he banned it? I mean, do you really want some entity like that?

actually being a contender to the United States in States in the Pacific theater. A guy who's Literally offended. He's actually offended over a cartoon bear. Really? Like that's what the United States has become.

Thanks, Joe Biden.

Meanwhile, I'm sure Hunter Biden's going to snort some Coke off the Blarney stone. I'm just waiting for that. Sidebar, it took a really long time to get the newsletter together, in part because. The Twitter API is still broken on Substack, so you can't embed things. Fix it, Elon.

And Uh also because I was trying to figure out the most perfect image. To put up as the leader image for the prep email, right?

So I accidentally fell down this rabbit hole of um AI art. And it's amazing because you can go to certain websites, right? You know where I'm going. And You can type something in. You give it a prompt.

And then it will create something for you that's really weird. But it's AI generated.

So I had typed in Hunter Biden snorting crack off the Blarney Stone. Because I was like, you know, that's going to be one of the lead stories that would be great, you know, to have as a. um, an image going into it.

So that's what I had. That was my that's what I was gonna use.

Well then I thought you know what why the Blarney stone? Let's go let's do it off a leprechaun. them in the in the middle of the So I type that in. And it was terrifying. I saved some screenshots.

I actually can't show it. I don't think it. It's terrifying. I mean. It's like a horror film by itself, right?

then I got a really good idea for a horror film. I don't know. Maybe if we're lucky and I'm still in the mood when we put this the newsletter together tomorrow, I make that the lead photo. But it was very, it's very, very interesting. But he is taking Hunter.

KJP confirmed it. We'll talk about that coming up. We are barreling towards the end of this first hour. And we still have a number of things to hit, probably physically and literally, too. Uh and that includes energy policy.

The Biden administration is pushing automakers to sell EVs. You know how I feel about E V's. It makes me want to go out and get the biggest, most gas-guzzling vehicle. I think I did it. But, you know, I'm like, is there one bigger?

Can I have more resources? We're going to talk about this. We also have some wokery because that dude is now selling, he's a hawking oil of Olay. Yeah, he's hawking that oil of O Lay now.

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So that was the president. who got into a slap fight with the uh teleprompter. And he's in Ireland. Uh On a little tour. He has Hunter over there with him, his sister Valerie.

Welcome back. Daniel Lash here with you.

So they Biden says that his priorities for the trip are to make sure the Irish Accords and Windsor Agreements stay in place. Keep the peace, and that's the main thing. That's from The Guardian. And so, and he's there with his, like I said, his son and sister. It's weird because he's like really.

He's emphasizing, I guess, trying to emphasize his family roots. I don't think everybody there is buying it, though. And He was uh landed in Belfast. Was greeted, uh deli was deli delivered a keynote address. That was from Ulster University, because that was the that was early.

They were marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. And um, then he's heading to the Republic of Ireland. And he is apparently going to pay his respects to his ancestors. and meet relatives in County Mayo. after he goes to Dublin.

So it seems like is this like him like trying to like do a on the taxpayer dime a heritage tour and then we're just gonna throw some Irish business in it and act like it's a I don't know. I'm just you know, you can never be so sure. We have a second hour on the way. We got to talk about oil of Olay. And why do I say it like that?

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So that's Joe Biden in Ireland trying to sit here and say, oh, well, you know. You saw what happened there, you know, January 6th. Is he trying to say that that's in any way like the troubles? Oh, please not. Because it kind of seems like that that's what he was intimating.

Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you, top of our second hour. I really wanna is that is that honestly what he's is it is that what you get?

Sounded like Sounded like it. I mean, I don't wanna speak for him, but man. Sure s sure sounded like it. Because that would be I mean, that's. He wasn't that would be one of the dumbest things I think that he's ever said.

First off, nobody was armed. Secondly, it lasted, you know, what? An afternoon. Third, it was a small group of people. Yeah, it didn't last 30 years.

Sorry, didn't last that. You didn't have like people, you know, the only. The only people who were killed were killed by the the state.

So, I mean, I just, you know, just gonna put that out there. It's true. Get mad. It's true. He's a how embarrassing.

I can't get away from this. Guys. How embarrassing. You have the President of the United States who takes his cokehead Hookers in blow sun. to meet world leaders in Ireland.

meeting Ireland's leader, meeting all these other officials. And I And I just saw this video of Hunter Biden shaking hands with officials as they de-planed. And he's got his stubble. I don't know what he's trying to look like, it just looks bad. Why is he the whole world has seen this, right?

The whole world has seen. How he has so, I mean, all the photos, all the video that. Was very recent, by the way. I'm just Lord. First off, that would you go?

Let me just ask you, Kane. I'm gonna ask you this. If you had all this, you know, you're president's son, you have laptops that come out because you just left them. Wow.

And um You know, as all hookers and blows stuff. Would you feel like, you know, confident in showing your face on a world stage meeting, world leaders, knowing that they've literally seen you naked in a deprivation tank? You know, smoking crack. Knowing that all of my nefarious videos have been seen by virtually everyone in the world that has a connection to the Internet, yeah, I wouldn't want to show my face in public as much as possible. Like, I would want to be a hermit as much as possible.

Yeah. I yeah, I would think that that's if you know people who aren't self-obsessed would say that, that would be the correct answer to say. But we're talking about Hunter Biden, so. You know, the president's baby son, his baby infant AARP age son. Infant baby hunter.

Little baby this little baby hunter face, double and all. He has as much stubble as uh Dylan Mulvaney. I saw this story. I just saw this story. It's from Washington Times.

Uh It's the headline. Kane, this is St. Louis story. Related to St. Louis.

It's about the Clydesdales. Budweiser. Is saying that they're canceling the events with the Clydesdales over security concerns amid the Dylan Mulvaney backlash. You see, it's Budweiser who is the victim, everyone. Budweiser, whoa is they?

They, them, whoa is they. They're the they're the victims here. The Clydesdales are like So I lived in downtown St. Louis, literally across the highway from the brewery. Every time I drove home, if I was going north from coming south, if I had to go to the supermarket or anything.

I would drive by Anheuser-Busch and every, I mean, I saw the Clasdales all the time. 'Cause they would be out in that little courtyard. All the time. You get up there, and like right when you're going to Siouxard and Benton Park and all that, because it's where I lived.

Some all the time. They are like the unofficial pets of everyone in St. Louis. the St. Louis area.

I mean, I And Christmas, it's so nice because they would have it all lit up, the whole, because they have a compound. The Anheuser-Busch compound is one of the creepiest things ever, especially at night, because half the buildings are all bricked up and it's that amazing wire-cut brick that St. Louis was so famous for. I mean, held. We built so much stuff in Germany.

That's all brick. And That amazing wire-cut brick that's actually even more valuable, it's worth more than even some of the houses. No joke, it really is. It's like the best stuff ever. Anyway, their whole complex is brick.

multiple blocks, all brick, and half the buildings don't even have windows.

So they're just these giant brick structures. And it's it's very willy wonka-ish, right? It's very weird. You don't know what's going on in there. Anyway, so they had this courtyard where they would have the Clivesdales out for the public that would drive by, right?

And it would be all lit up, and you could literally walk on the sidewalk right up to the gate, and you could see the Clydesdales. Everyone loves the Clydesdales. If someone ever did anything to the Clydesdales, I mean, St. Louis would collectively beat them to death. And I don't say that facetiously.

You know, depending on what parts of the city you go in, that would happen anyway. But the knockout game was born there. But no one is going to do a damn thing to the Clydesdales. This is Budweiser trying to say, Oh, we're the victim though. We're scared for our Clydesdales because we had this man cell beer.

We're scared for it. Nobody's going to do anything to the Clydesdales, you drama queens. This is because they they it's because they had Dylan Mulvaney. I wanted to share this too because I had a friend of mine that made a very good observation. And let me pull this up.

My friend Carol Markowitz, I thought that this was a very good point. And she was talking about this Budweiser. Mulvaney thing. And now he's apparently hawking oil of Olay. We're going to talk.

I don't know why I have to say it like that. I can't, I don't know how else you can say it. It's the southern Missouri coming up. I can't deal with it. Anyway.

She was saying the Bud Light backlash is happening because it is a product aimed at men. Dylan Mulvaney advertising leggings and face cream and handbags didn't make a blip because women have been cowered into surrendering their spaces and men. haven't encountered the same, at least at that level. And she said that You know, you have Mulvaney pushing a product that is generally associated with men. And picture in your minds the most beautiful popular supermodel.

Could she be the face of so many different brands? Yeah. Buddha. Uh Ole Kate Spade, Ulta, Mac, Cerabay, I mean, all of these, you know, the Tampa's. She says it's sending a message to us, to women, accept this or you're out.

And I think she's exactly right. I mean, think about it. I mean, that's that is very true. And I like it how someone said, you know what, us guys will take care of this one. You ladies take care of the others.

I'm like, okay, I got it. Yeah, I'll do it. Because it's true, because guys saw that. I cannot, there's a parody video that we cannot show you. Did you see it, Kane?

Yes. Did you? Oh my gosh. It is one of the funniest. and so inappropriate.

I oh my gosh, I so want to play it for you so bad. And I want to put it on the simulcast, but we would pro direcTV would probably fly to Dallas and physically restrain me. It is so bad but funny. And it's a guy who's mocking it all, right? I Some of the lines that he had in there were so good.

But it's true though. I mean It is um Yeah. It's this wild it's just w it's wild. And this is like, I guess, really the first time that men have encountered something like this on that level. There was another point that a friend of mine made.

And she said, you know, she goes, the the thing that gets me. She's like is women who are really like Over 35. Have a hard enough time as it is. She's like, you're erased in Hollywood. She's like, you get to play, like, you know, when you're over 35, she's like, rolls dry up and all this stuff.

And I think Meryl Streep said something to this effect one time, too. Like when actresses start getting into that age demo, they're like, ooh, it starts getting real weird. She's like after 35 you're a race. She's like you don't see you know, women who are over the age of 35 doing a lot of like cosmetics advertising or doing a lot of this like brand advertising. She said, so in addition to women being invisible in that respect, She said now She goes, she said that now your identity as a woman is now called into is even called into question.

They can't even find a younger woman. They gotta get a dude, a dude who's cosplaying as a younger woman to do it. I thought that was a very good point. I mean, this is such a fraction of the population. Uh But yet, I think it's overrepresented.

I also think that alpha, I think that LGBT is overrepresented too. I think LGB actually is overrepresented. And and shows and everything else. I'm not saying that as a way to be mean or to say that as a reason to deny things to everyone, but there's always, it always affects my suspension of disbelief, right? Like I was watching this um I don't know.

I was watching this series On Cece, who was the Uh she was the arch uh Archduke or Archduchess of Austria and she Or she ended up she ended up marrying essentially the great uncle of Franz Ferdinand. And she was this, you know, this iconic figure. and they called her Cece and all this. And I'm watching and I know the story of Uh I know the history of the couple and she was the Empress of Austria.

So she was she came in as an archduchess and she was the empress of Austria. She had married uh Franz Joseph. And one of their, there's like a couple of different series, and one of them, they just, it's so dramatized to the point where there are things that are fabricated that I know did not happen. And I'm like, this is garbage. I can't watch it.

Even though the score is good and the cinematography is good, I just, now my suspension of disbelief is gone. And I think as the world has gotten dumber, have you noticed it's really hard to get into stuff? It's hard because everything is preachy, or there are demos that are so overrepresented. Like you don't I mean who sits down like casting sits down no offense But imagine the roles were reversed. Like, you know, casting sits down, and they're like, okay, we got to have this, this, this in here, and then we can tell the story.

Just tell the story. Just get good actors. Just tell the story. Have good storytelling. Have good writing.

I don't know. But anyway, long story short, now you have o oil of ole. Being hot by this guy. You shave your face, dude. He's got stubble, have you seen?

He's got to shave his face daily. And he's hawking oil of Olay. All. All. Sorry, it's all of Olay.

Yeah, you'll know how that's you. That's how you say it, right? It's all a volay. Sidebar, fun fact.

So in southern Missouri they say yins. Instead of y'all. In Texas, it's y'all. In southern Missouri to Yens.

So in Texas you'd say, are y'all coming over? And southern Missouri, it's are youngs coming over?

Now, someone was telling me, and I don't know, Steve, maybe it was you, somebody was telling me that in Philly, Or parts of is it Philly or Pittsburgh? They say yens. It's Pittsburgh. Was it you telling me that? Yeah, Pittsburgh.

Yeah, it's Pittsburgh. But those are the only two places in the country that that's apparently said. Yeah, they got a different yin. They got different yins though.

So it's in Philly it's you's and then Pittsburgh's Yins, depending on what part of the state you're in. This is like some deep dive ancient alien stuff. Like, how is it those two areas? They're uh they say yins and nobody else does that. Is it Y and Z?

Because I think it's Y and S. I don't know. Like, I never had like a vocabulary test on it. I don't know how it's I'm just like saying it's there's no hard Z on it. Yeah, people that people that live in Pittsburgh are called Yinsers.

Y A Y I N Z. Yeah, so everyone in my family said yens. Yens. And when I was little, I said yens, and they put me in speech class. Because I apparently had a twang and I said yins.

And they were like, That's that's not a word I'm like It ain't a word. Anyway, we Every now and then it'll come out. But I just thought of that. It fascinates me. But the so oil.

That's what, because Kane was making fun of me earlier. Oil of Oli. That's how my grandma would say, oil. All of Olay. He's hawking that.

Is that some? I mean, I don't know. Does it make a man's skin smoother after they shave their stubble because they're men? We have I don't know. I'm just wondering.

I just. I don't know. I just, this whole thing is weird. It's all weird.

Society sucks. Where's the sweet meteor of death? Let this happen now. I mean, we keep getting teased. Come on.

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Oh, I didn't see that all the way up there. As my father would say, please excuse my back, I apologize.

So the president who is in Ireland. He's in uh landed in Belfast. He's on this Irish tour. He brought his son Hunter, his baby infant. It's the 50-something-year-old son hunter.

Welcome back to the program. Taint a last year with you. Bottom of this second hour. Glad for your company because otherwise I'd probably be face down in a ditch somewhere. I'm kidding.

Would I, though?

So Yeah. It's, I mean, first off, okay, so Kane just shared this story in Slack. I don't even know how this happens. New York Post has the piece. The headline is that there are security fears now after the top secret Biden Belfast visit plan was found in the street.

Yeah. In the street. A security scare shadowed his trip to Northern Ireland today after a top secret document containing his itinerary for his visit. To Belfast, and information about his detail found right out there in the strait. It was a security breach that was confirmed.

by the Police Service of Northern Ireland in a statement to the Irish Examiner. They said that we have notified senior information risk officers. They said that we take the safety of dignitaries very seriously, et cetera, et cetera. It seems look I don't like Biden. But I don't want Kamala.

Right.

So we can't have nothing like this happening. Who did that? Who d who how do you lose that? How do you li first off? I mean, I guess that you really printed on paper.

How do you lose that? Hmm.

So that and it was already a massive security operation. They had 300 officers there. He was commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement and met the British Prime Minister there. And although, and the British Prime Minister is kind of conservative, and he kind of brushed, there was a video where he sort of brushed past him to. Greet other officials, which I thought was kind of interesting.

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, or maybe it's Maybelline. I don't know. But I just, you know, thought it was. That was interesting. Just very, just very interesting.

So with this. He's going on a little tour of Ireland. And in the meantime, Everything's going to hell in the United States. You've got China that's. trying to saber rattle.

You have cities dying. The Democrats, though, they did announce that their DNC is going to be, the convention is going to be in Chicago. Yeah, right? How exciting for them. What a great choice.

I mean, I cannot think of a better city, guys, for them to have. Their convention. Conventions are always they're always nut. It's gonna even be more so because it's this party and also because I mean it's Chicago. They're they went from the frying pan to the fire.

with their new choice of mayor. It's bad. I mean the Chicago is on a downward slide. It's like a war zone. It's not just Chicago, it's Portland, it's Seattle, it's San Francisco.

Crime is so rampant in Portland that Walmart's out. And isn't Salesforce, aren't they now leaving? You have Walmart leaving Chicago and Salesforce leaving Chicago. That was just announced this week. They're dumping their remit the last of their, well, they're sorry, Salesforce is leaving San Francisco.

You had Walmart close. In Chicago.

So many businesses are leaving so many far-left cities, it's almost difficult to keep it straight. Salesforce is leaving San Francisco. They're actually pulling out of the tower that shares its name. That they have its name on the tower. And they're one of San Francisco's largest private employers.

The crime rate in Chicago is out of control, obviously. I mean, just last weekend alone, there were 19 who were shot, and this is drug and gang violence, three fatally. Those are the numbers, by the way. That's the activity that drives gun homicide. But they try to add, when they sit here and try to scare moms and dads and grandparents and everybody else about mass shootings in schools and all of this, they conflate, they add the 18 and 19-year-old drug and gang violence numbers to the definition of children so that they can increase.

And that's exactly what they did. You can look at CDC and then you can look at the 18 and 19-year-old data, then you can cross-reference that with the FBI Uniform Crime Report by year and by city, and you can see exactly that that is what they're using as a way to fear-monger and gaslight you into thinking that there's this like mass casualty threat, you know, lurking around your school all the time. And that's simply not true. This is what's driving it. Overwhelmingly.

And so They're gonna have their They're going to have their convention there. I'm curious, they wanted to defund police, so how's that going to work? The par oh, do they not want to do that anymore? Is that something that they've changed their mind on? No, it is.

It's the best. Free Beacon has a piece: The Nine Reasons Why Chicago is the Perfect Site for the 2024 Democratic Convention. Mm-hmm. The rampant crime I mean, you have leaders who just don't want to do anything about it. Do you realize in Chicago, cities like Chicago, New York, San Francisco?

And I had been talking about this for six, seven years now. One of the big problems that they have is they reduce penalties for felony gun charges.

Now I'm talking about repeat offenders in illegal possession of a firearm while uh in commission of felonious criminal activity. They reduce those charges all the time. St. Louis, Chicago, San Francisco, New York. Silly.

They reduce Austin, they reduce these charges all the time while prattling on and on about gun control.

Now, try to reconcile those two things. Chicago's murder rate has jumped 40% since 2019. 40%. Car theft has doubled. And they have a huge history.

Free Beacon has a piece where they go into the history of violent offenders and how convictions have dropped. 30% on Kim Fox's watch. Because it's about Restorative justice. That is the progressive George Soros DA judicial rot. That's what it is.

It's restorative justice. And so They get into like Cook County. By the way, when you also break down all the crime, and I'm using Illinois as an example because the DNC is there, going to be there. Um it's all in Cook County. It's all Chicago.

I mean, they $2 million, Source gave $2 million to Fox's 2020 campaign. He backed the Philly prosecutor Larry Krasner as well. Millions here, millions there. I mean, his his philanthropy network, it's the Uh they found and this is according to open records Public records, you know, it was 990. They had to spend they spent like forty million.

to help elect 75 progressive prosecutors. in half of America's largest jurisdictions. And every single one of those prosecutors have seen a dip in convictions and an increase in dismissed cases, and that's tracked by the Legal Defense Fund. Mm-hmm. So yeah, perfect that they're gonna have it in Chicago.

Woo! Yeah, they can sit here and showcase all the crime that their policies have created and encouraged. And then, of course, don't forget the cribbling taxes. I mean, 12% of their income just to live in Chicago. Woo!

One of the highest tax burdens on its residents. Kane, we complained about the St. Louis City tax. if you lived and worked in the city. This is twelve percent.

12% on top. On top of your federal tax rate, twelve percent. You gotta pay to be a a victim to the drug and gang violence. that they encourage. That's a privilege.

So, I mean, perfect, perfect. I mean, they can showcase their high taxation. The corruption, it is routinely readed, and this is from WTTW. as the number one city in terms of corruption. Which shocks me because I always thought it would be New York.

But it's not. It's an annual report from the University of Illinois of Chicago. And they base it on corruption statistics publicly published by the U.S. Department of Justice. And they said for three years in a row, Chicago has been America's most corrupt city, and Illinois is the third most corrupt state.

Wow.

That's that's pretty Unbelievable. No, it's not. It's totally believable. They haven't had a Republican mayor since, what, 1931? It was a while ago.

Something like that? I mean, crazy. And no one lives there. People are fleeing Chicago at rapid pace. Axios, more people are moving out of Chicago.

More and more people are leaving. A huge rate. They're going to Tennessee and Texas and Florida. They have a inbound moving rate to major US metros. It's off Florida and uh It's Florida and Texas.

Houston and Miami specifically. And this where more moved out It's Philly, Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit, New York, and Seattle. Philly ranks 49.8. I mean, that's the increase in the number of people who moved. They left.

They just can't deal with it. I get it. I mean, there's the restrictions, the taxation, the crime. And don't forget, they Democrats, you know, hopefully they don't repeat the 1968 convention. Remember that when there were hippies and communists that were protesting outside?

You guys remember? Whew. It was uh a riot. And on Michigan Avenue in front of their convention headquarters. And uh they were anti-war protesters and that's where the whole the whole world is watching came from.

Hmm.

So Now they're going back to Chicago. I mean They had to actually what they they had um And their convention in 1968 was right after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, and he had the Vietnam War, et cetera, et cetera.

So they had a they had had a whole commission. That they kicked off investigating the violence, and they characterized it as a police riot. And apparently Dan Ryther even got hit on the floor, on the convention floor. I don't like him, so I don't You know, what am I supposed to say to that? I don't know.

I mean, no, I don't believe in violence. That's been blah blah blah. Unless it's violence is not an acceptable form of protest unless you're a militant trans activist. I mean, we've all learned that from the media. Mm.

True, true story.

So yeah, Chicago's the perfect city for them to have this convention. I and I can't wait for all of the uh like the the people in the beltway when they go and I'm sure they're just gonna be so happy there and be so safe, right? I mean, it's just the perfect way to highlight all their failed policies.

So this is I just keep seeing Democrats take L's. over and over again. Like for instance, you have Gavin Newsome Who is was on MSNBC Blasting Florida. which is booming. Everyone's lea everyone's leaving these states and going to Florida and Texas.

You have Gavin Newsome going on cable news to give To highlight how well Florida is doing, while Salesforce is like, we're leaving, yet another company leaving. They're leaving San Francisco in their big OHIRIS. And they had apparently 1 million square feet of office space, by the way. I don't know if I said that when I was telling you about that earlier. 1 million square feet of office space Salesforce had in downtown San Francisco.

But Gavin Newsom's focusing on slap fighting with Ron DeSantis. He's not even in California. He's on his media tour. He's clapping with people. In Florida, you play that video we played that video yesterday.

Yeah, Tyson Foods, Boeing, Caterpillar, Citadel. Everyone's leaving Chicago. Everybody's leaving. No one wants to be there. It's his life mission to make bad decisions.

It's time for Florida Man. All right, so I got this story coming out of Wildwood, Florida. A Florida man was arrested after his wife. Hit him uh with flying chicken wings. She was dead.

Oh, sorry, he after a wife hit with flying chicken wings. Excuse me. I'm just like focused on the wings because why would you do your wings like that? A Florida. Here's my question.

Don't hate. Drummies are flats. No, I mean like I would have used. Uh police said that they responded to a disturbance call at a home in Wildwood on Sunday night. When officers arrived, they said the victim was holding a baby, asked to be taken somewhere safe.

They had been arguing over the defendant having a lover and the defendant threw wings at her and some of them hit her on the shoulder and under her chin. Officers at the scene said they saw chicken wing sauce on the victim's chin, neck, and shoulder. And apparently, there was an audio recording of the incident.

So that was interesting. He was charged with assault, booked into Sumter County Detention Center. He bonded out on Monday. Hmm.

Trummies or flats though, that's what I wanna know. It's what we're all wondering.

Okay, so imagine being this guy. You know, you're being detained by police. You're nervous and scared, so you call 911 to tell people that you were being detained. That's what happened to this North Fort Myers man. He called 911 while being detained by deputies.

Michael Gleason, he was a regular at the North Fort Myers Walmart Super Center.

So much so, notes in BC2, that there was a no trespassing order issued on his behalf. He was dressed in all black, and he walked in the store, cracked open a Mike's Hard Lemonade, and assumed his usual spot. I guess he just harassed people. And so they contacted authorities, and authorities showed up. And so he contacted authorities.

He dialed 911, and he said that he was being detained. That's what he told the operator, but the responding deputy made him hang up before he could talk further.

So he was in Lee County jail on trespassing, resisting officer, all kinds of stuff. A man was caught pooping in bushes outside of a Naples cleaning company.

Well, at least it was outside of a cleaning company. Apparently, he needed to use the restroom so badly that he decided to defecate in the bushes outside of this cleaning company, Naples Glass Cleaning, on Good Friday. He ducked behind the dumpster right where it said no public dumping and did just that.

So Naples Glass Cleaning, they had called uh authorities and uh yeah, they sh one of the workers, they actually tried to confront the man. Stay with us, third hour on the way.

Well, they were somewhere in the in the web and where exactly and who had access at that point We don't know we simply don't know at this point so our defense secretary the leaked documents were in the web, you know Kane they were in the web the interweb The Weber nets, sir. Thank you.

The actually I think the full Latin is interwebernets. Uh-huh. They were in there. The web in it. Like the spider's web, but with technology.

Somewhere in the web.

Now, I'm not saying that people got to be perfect, but you know, like know this stuff. 'Cause it makes me get a little nervous. when you don't know this stuff. Like I want our defense secretary to basically be a character from BroForce. If you've ever played that, you know what I mean.

Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you, Top of Our Third Hour. People are like, What's BroForce? It's like an 8-bit game, but you get to play as like Rambo or Chuck Norris or The Bride from Pulp Fiction or from the Pulp Twofer that Quentin Tarantino did with Death Proof, and then what is it? Planet.

Evil, I can't remember Rose McGowan with her machine gun leg. And you basically fight terrorists and then if you win and aliens and then if you win the game on hard level, as my son and his friend did last night, you get to meet Jesus and then you go live in Texas. I got screenshots, I swear. Do you know that? No.

Oh, man. Yeah. Jesus is like, thank you. You know, this is awesome. High fives.

And then you go to Texas where you live forever.

So, huh? Texas is. Yeah, you know, I mean And it's it's such a funny game. Anyway, long story short, I want I want You know, defense secretary. I don't want the whole like Mark Milley reading woke stuff.

I want legit a bro force character 'cause that's your job, right? Your job is I mean, to be a hardass. And know when to, you know, know when I think, you know what? I think Dalton from Roadhouse would have been a great defense secretary. I may not be joking.

I may be real, right? 'Cause he like knew when to act and when not to act. And if you didn't know, by the way, I think that's one of the greatest films ever committed to celluloid. It's a cinematic masterpiece, Rhoda House. And of course, you know, you have the scene.

That, you know, be nice until it's time to not be nice. See, there you go. There's the mantra right there. That's the foreign policy mantra.

So they've been scrambling to trace the source of this highly classified intelligence leak. They have no, it had to be somebody high up because they were top secret classified as top secret, and apparently they were in the skiff. That's the protective area. And uh They you're not supposed to take you know, documents. Out of You know, the skiff.

And they not only took documents out of the skiff, they had like a hundred of them, they crumpled them up. And They brought them, I don't know where they put it, but there was apparently gorilla glue in the background of one photo. that I guess is providing a clue. And so I don't know. But wh who was it?

Um Sandy Burger. He was a former National Security Adviser. He was the guy who took a bunch of stuff from the skiff and he was shoving it into his socks. My favorite thing about this story was the phrase: sock docks. Docs in the socks.

Because he stole stuff out of the skiff, and that's how we try to get him out of there. Yeah. Sock dock. I'm so glad that it wasn't watered like Sock Dot Gate. It just sock dot.

It was the Sock Doc controversy. And he pled guilty.

So we took it out of National Archives. There's stuff you gotta keep in the skip. The protected area.

So someone high up did it.

Now, I think trying to figure out the purpose of why It di was pretty embarrassing to the Russians. I am worried about our spies in Russia. Because Clearly what it demonstrated is there's somebody in the defence ministry. Maybe we shouldn't say that, because this is what I pay my tax dollars for. I pay my tax dollars actually.

That's why my money is stolen from me forcibly under threat of penalty by the government. At least use it wisely, right? Make sure that, you know, people who are going over there to watch on commies That they're protected, and you don't do anything to compromise that. These people are not Valerie playing pencil pushers, right? But there's somebody high up.

And the minis the defense ministry there in Russia. And it really shows how weak they are. Other than that, I mean, it's embarrassing and it's weird that someone is at that level leaking documents. But was there really anything game-changing in it? Kane, I don't.

I don't think so. It's just the Snowden one was more. If we're talking about just travel plans, yeah, I don't think so. I think that one was more a little bit more I mean not that it wasn't bad, like don't. Don't get me wrong here, but still.

All right, so energy, the Biden administration is trying to desperately push EVs. Although, it threatens to strain power grids. and threaten reliability. No pig. I mean, California is rolling blackouts and all that good stuff, you know?

So. But hey, let's go ahead and charge your cars except during the day when you need to go places. Don't charge them then. And then only charge them, you know, X amount of hours between X and X at night. Just, you know, be real careful.

That's what this is going. We don't have the infrastructure to support everybody going green, number one. Number two, there aren't enough materials. To make green, green things for everyone to go green. There isn't, they don't replenish, okay?

That's not how that works. I have audio here of Biden's EPA administrator, Michael Reagan, who was asked about most EV batteries right now that are produced in China.

So, how do you square that with Biden's climate goals and the reducing the reliance on China? Here's that exchange. Listen to this. Most EV batteries right now are produced in China.

So how do you balance the administration's climate goals while also trying to achieve its goal of reducing reliance on China? That's a great question. And so we look at it in twofolds. We have to walk and chew gum at the same time. This proposal doesn't kick in until model year 2027.

So we've got some years to ramp up. We hope that we can take advantage of that runway. Four years is not even enough time to get a rare earth element mine out of the, up and running. It takes a decade on average, and that's if you get through all of the red tape, which has been made worse by this administration expanding bureaucracies. We don't have one that's functioning here.

There's one that I think is in the beginning stages of getting off the ground. I've talked to people about that before, and they are still years away. I mean, for 2020, that's four years away. We gotta walk and chew gum at the same time. I'm gonna say a phrase here because I don't know what the hell to say mentally.

That was that guy's inner dialogue. I don't know what to say here. Oh my gosh, say a phrase like what? Walk at you gum, like make it about... Multitasking.

And I'm all out of gum. We have to walk and chew gum at the same time, and we're all out of gum. I'm stealing that. I'm stealing that. I'm tweeting it right now.

And we're all out of gum. Tweeted. Stolen. mercilessly, unapologetically thieved. Hahaha So Yeah, they are out of gum.

They're most most e most I think all of them.

So yeah, how do you do that? You're trying to reduce reliance on China? By what?

Well, you know, in four years, we're going to be able to get up and running. We don't even have the mine to get the goods, dude. And Hunter Biden helped China acquire the largest cobalt mine in the world. with his Seneca firm. Yeah, Mr.

Cokehead McHughersenblow. Mm-hmm. That's the Gaelic version of his name, you didn't know then? Yeah. So It's accurate.

Just saying. How does that work? How does that work? Americans are not sold on them, but Biden wants to force it on everybody anyway. You even had, where's this tweet at?

Hold up Where is this? Ah Michigan Democrat Debbie Dingell.

Now, I've disagreed with Debbie Dingell on a number of issues before, and we've debated on 2A. But she's not a nutty Democrat. I I I don't think that she's a nutty Democrat. I think she's like one of the rare civil ones. And she's saying, she said, quote.

Everybody cares about global warming, but I'm hearing from too many people in this country, I mean strong Democrats, that they can't afford an electric vehicle. I guess you just don't love America. That's essentially what Biden's telling people. But we can't afford it. We have to eat ramen for breakfast.

If you loved America, you would go broke purchasing a car that when you have to replace the battery we don't have the materials to make it ourselves, thereby forcing us to become more reliant on China, and also the battery is going to be more expensive than the damn car when you bought it. How dare you? Man. Can you imagine? What if you get into traffic?

You know the people who aren't sold on electric vehicles? People who have toddlers. What happens if you're in traffic? You got a toddler crying in the back seat. Baby screaming in the backseat.

And you're running low on electric. Can you imagine? I mean, I can't because I'm never going to get one. And I love gadgets. I just I I don't like to I don't like having I mean I can take gas with me.

You know what I'm saying? But this is what they want to only 19% of Americans in this survey. And this is a an A P. Poll. Only Literally 19% say that they're very likely to buy an EV.

As the administration pushes these rules to make them common. And they literally cost more on average. According to CBS, Car and Driver had a piece on this. They cost, like, on average, $10,000 more than their gas-powered counterparts. People are eating ramen for breakfast.

And the administration's pushing them towards this stuff. He's going for it. He wants to mandate an electric vehicle revolution. The EPA, they're expected to announce their rule that's going to impose strict emissions a strict emissions limit on vehicles sold. You know what gets me?

The emissions limit actually makes you use more gas? The emissions restrictions make you use more gas. Yeah. It's just like the way the engine works. You guys look it up.

It's the dumbest thing I've done. It's so dumb. See, over lockdown, there were certain things that I got interested in. Uh crochet Uh pastry. Making pastries.

and uh automobiles. And now it's a dangerous thing. Yeah, they actually, the emissions things are so dumb, they're so stupid.

So In order to comply, Automakers have to ensure that two-thirds of the vehicles they sell by 2032. are that they're green. Yeah. That's what the EPA is doing, which shouldn't exist. And the high sticker prices, so get this.

His twenty one bipartisan infrastructure law. It was almost $8 billion to build only 500,000 EVs. Or sorry, uh the uh charging stations. 500,000 charging stations. And it was like $8 billion.

We would have to even have an order. to accomplish what he would want, you would have to have two At least two million. Although some say that that's like a really low estimate. You'd have to have at least 2 million charging stations. At least.

I think you would have to have five at least. 5 million. I mean, think about it. Golly. We're not done talking about this because I hate E V's.

I hate them. the burning passion of a thousand sons. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

So I pulled this up and I totally just like lost where I was going. Let's see.

So, this target security guard, this is kind of like wild, a wild story, a target security guard. punched a customer in the face after she demanded reparations instead of paying her. For her groceries. She was in the checkout line. It was more than $1,000.

And she started yelling about her reparations. And as she charged the security guard, because it's all on video, he just punched her. I mean, you didn't, I mean, you know, it happened in Blue Ash, Ohio. The the video is just coming out now, but it was last October. And it began when Karen Ivory asked a cashier for their manager regarding her bill and reparations, according to the police report.

She was berating about, she was berating the cash register, saying that she lived a privileged life. Imagine saying that to a Target cashier, that you're like, you're berating, you live a privileged life as you spend $1,000 on stuff at Target.

So the loss prevention officer intervened. She began screaming at him, followed him to his office. When he tried to shut the door, she forced her way in, shoving the door, and charged him, and he threw a punch.

So she was sentenced to a day in jail and caught and charged $110 for disorderly conduct.

So, and he's, I mean, they, I mean, they, all the police said, yeah, she was the aggressor in this situation, clearly. People are nuts, man. Just stop with the politicization of absolutely everything. Uh, and let's see, everything kind of froze. Uh, life expectancy in New York City.

Declined. In fact, by quite a bit. The NYC life expectancy post-COVID. It's declined by four years. They said it's fueled by the pandemic, but I think it's probably a whole bunch of other stuff, not just that.

So coming up. Uh well, a Republican governor is talking about red flag laws, and we're going to dissect it. Stay with us. YouTube, Facebook, or DirecTV. If you're looking for the number one afternoon host in the country, you've found her.

Download the podcast every day to catch up. The Dana Show. Now that nobody talks about it. But every day Putin mentions it, and every day other people mention it, and now all of a sudden. If you look, other countries are talking about getting it.

This was something You don't mention, I caught the N-word. You have two n-words. You don't mention either one of them. The nuclear word you don't mention. Because the power is so destructive.

I met with professors at MIT. And I was preparing for a debate. I wouldn't say it was a long preparation, but I did want to talk about nuclear because I consider it to be the single greatest threat the world has. I just love that. It's far greater than global warming.

It's frozen. It's like not even a contest. That was a far-reaching interview. that my friend Tucker had with uh forty five. Last night, welcome back to the program.

Dana Lash here with you. Your lovable curmudgeon. Can I hear the egg thing? Four. Wait, he was talking about Al Roker?

He's not too old. You know, his age, I think they do the age thing because I'm four or five years behind. They say, this is a way of getting Trump. Let's go more. But there's something wrong.

I saw his answer today. on television about whether or not he was going to run to a very nice guy named Al Roker. I mean, you can't get a softer question than that. That was a long answer. Talking about the eggs and the this and that.

He actually didn't. And then he said, I'm thinking about or something. I don't know what he had said. Yeah, yeah. But, uh so that That was that was another really good one.

And then Uh he called Uh General Milley, who's stepping down, an idiot, an audio.

Sound bite. They said, sir, the tents are very hard to take out. I said, I want the tents. I want the tanks. I want the planes.

I want everything. And a couple of them fought me on it, like Millie. He said, sir, I think it's cheaper to leave the equipment behind. I said, let me ask you, we have a plane that costs $100 million. It's sitting there.

All it needs is a tank of gas. Right? Give me a little jet fuel. We'll fly it to Pakistan or any place else, or we'll fly it directly home. You say it's cheaper to leave a $100 million plan.

Sir, I think overall it's cheaper. These are idiots we're dealing with. Um He's not wrong. What? That was the wind.

It's real windy here today. He's not wrong.

So, yeah, and now look who has it.

Now we've outfitted the Taliban. Yeah. Look, and now women can't even go to school or anything over there anymore. Work so well! Hmm.

Mm-mm-mm.

So, meanwhile, you have Tim Scott, who's announcing that he's going to be. I guess Ex forming an exploratory committee? The exploration is going to lead you to the land of No. That was a short topic. All right, so let's look now.

At what's been happening. with regards to the Tennessee governor.

So Bill Lee is a Republican. And he signed an executive order where they said that he strengthened gun background checks. I don't even know what that means. He has called for lawmakers to pass a red flag law. He said, we have a clear need for action.

And that we he said we have an obligation. to remind people to set aside politics Etc., etc., accomplish something that people tend to see want to get accomplished, etc., etc. Uh and that's that's what he had stated. in his remarks.

Now the order that he signed Sets a 72-hour period for reporting new criminal activity. And uh it also This Requires that courts submit timely and accurate information to the Bureau of Investigation. The agency has to examine the current process for purchasing firearms. Mm-hmm. Um, I'm not quite sure why they have to figure why they would have to investigate that because.

You know, this individual, if you're legally allowed to purchase something. Um, then that I I mean, we have ways. to adjudicate people ineligible to purchase or carry. There are without diminishing due process. Here's the problem with what Bill Lee is talking about.

I'm not quite sure. Why he thinks that a red flag law is needed. It doesn't. I'm not quite sure why he believes this. Because first off, there's no evidence showing that they work.

There isn't. There's one survey that shows that they haven't worked. In fact, uh Most a number of the mass casualty incidents that have happened in the past. couple of years have taken place in states that already had red flag laws. And those red flag laws in Colorado and California and Illinois, they did not prevent those tragedies.

Secondly, red flag laws are only about seizing the guns and diminishing due process protections. If you have someone who is truly dangerous, so dangerous that they have to be stripped of an enumerated right, Why is that person out walking on the street? Why is that per why are you not charging or why is no one saying, you know what, we need to have like a temporary detention to evaluate this individual? Why is no one exploring the existing pathways to make that happen. Because, see, in one of these instances, and I think it was, I can't remember if it was the grocery store one that was in Boulder.

Or if it was I don't think it was the club queue. But one of the killers had his knives taken from him by police. who showed up because someone had said that they had a concern and the police had made the determination that the individual wasn't dangerous.

Well, here's the problem. Red flag laws do not employ mental health professionals. They do not bring mental health professionals in.

So, they may seize the guns or seize something for someone, and then they leave the dangerous person there with other weapons and the black market. Whereas with the established process Mental health professionals are involved every step of the way.

So The problem with the diminished due process protections, people think this isn't a big deal until it happens to you for a reason that has nothing to do with guns. Right? What if someone says, I think they're a danger to themselves? They have a, you know. A little bit of weed.

Oh my gosh, here come the pl I mean literally anything can be used as a variable. You're declared guilty and you're penalized in an ex parte process. Meaning, you, and this is true in every, I've read every bit of legislation that has been passed. There is not a single process where you're informed prior. Meaning, you could be at home sleeping.

You could be at work, you could be doing whatever, and have no idea that someone is petitioning the court, having you serving you with a showing up at your house. And many times, they're no knock. I mean, they just show up at someone's house. And some of the states don't have protections against that.

Some of them you have to knock. There was a guy in Maryland, Arendelle, Maryland, who was killed, a 60-something-year-old, because cops showed up in the middle of the night on his door to serve a red flag that had been erroneously called on the guy. And the guy thought someone was breaking in his house, and he shows up and he ends up getting shot and killed. That's a true story that happened.

So you don't even know that it's happening. You don't know that someone's in court trying to penalize you for something.

Now, here's the other thing about this. Uh which is very concerning.

So in a lot of instances, in a lot of instances, The evidentiary standard. In court, I mean you have to have evidence. Right? I mean you gotta have you have to have some evidence if you're Going to go to court and you're going to say that someone's in danger. And a lot of times the evidentiary standard is a lot lower than it would be normally in a red flag situation.

Now, it's not the same in every state, but it is the same in a number of states where people can just have a reasonable suspicion, which is basically like a guess. How are you going to say that that's an a legitimate Evidentiary standard in order to deprive someone of a right based on reasonable suspicion. And there are, like I said, a number of states that have that as their standard.

So, like, barely any certainty is required in order to implement this. And in many instances, they're falsely done and they have to be reversed. There are a number of cases in Florida. Rick Scott signed that into effect.

So, the mental health of the individual in question is never treated. You're declared guilty, and you're penalized in this process that you don't even know that's happening. And there's zero evidence that these things were deuced on homicide, and I've given you some examples. We have existing ways to treat people. not exercising those options.

is not the same thing as those options not existing. You know, in the days that follow these tragedies. We always hear from friends of the killer or family members of the killer. that there were some warning signs. The parents of the covenant school killer They were afraid of their daughter, 28 years old, who lived at home with them.

They were afraid of her owning firearms. They knew she was troubled. That signals that there was indeed the potential or fear of some sort of violent activity. You know, I mean, the Parkland killer made death threats online. He had to have an escort.

at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Yeah, you didn't know that, did you? He was so bad.

So, what's to stop a troubled person from hitting the black market when their firearms are seized?

So the problem is not guns. It's never been guns. I mean, guns are part of the American fabric. The problem is breakdown of society. People blame guns because it gives them a pass on culpability for the breakdown of society, the breakdown of respect for life, the breakdown of compassion for neighbor, and it all begins within the home.

Mass casualty Incidents are relatively new. I mean, guns have been part of our American fabric since the founding of the republic. Mass casualty incidents have not. It coincides with the breakdown of all of this.

So, if someone is so dangerous that they have to have a numerated right removed, then they're dangerous enough to go before have them brought before the court and make a legal determination of eligibility. And it can be done. Because I know people who've done it.

So don't tell me it can't be done because I know I know people very dear. people in my circle of knowledge who have done it. And I know exactly the steps that they took and the ways that they explored. But you have politicians that want to seize control. And this is more than just about guns.

It is literally about about obliterating your Fifth Amendment protections. Because if they can do this, then then Where else can it go? Pick another variable. Any Republican that supports this should drop the R after their name, including Bill Lee. Because you do not punish the law-abiding for the crimes.

Um criminals. You don't punish people who didn't know the individual because people who knew the individual didn't act on warning signs. You don't make other people. Statistics. I had um I don't know if you saw it, but Stephen King was going on and on.

About guns. Yesterday. I thought it was kind of interesting. He said, quote: The only use for AR-15s is to shred targets and people, they should be outlawed.

Okay. So I asked him a question because he was like very vociferous with his thoughts on AR-15s. I said so spe just like specifically the AR-15 but not like the Ruger Mini 14. Or the M1A. Are they MMP 10?

I mean, does he just mean 223 and not 308? I'm just curious. Like I asked for him to share his expertise. Crickets. Crickets If you're going to talk about this stuff and talk about removing things from people, then you need to understand what you discuss because words are important and definitions are important, and certain aspects of law and penalty are invoked when they are in play.

We have more to come, including One of my favorites, Nick Cave. He has an idea on what you need to do in order to be like really like socket to the man now. It's very insightful. 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. I came from Australia, which without those Same political, that same, I didn't have that political fury.

Uh but I was much more concerned with F ⁇ ing with people. Uh on a different kind of a level, a different kind of thing. And I was always sort of a uh at odds with my Peers, I would say.

So what's the equivalent today then? How do you f with people today? What could you say now that we? You're conservative. Is that the today's equivalent?

Go to church? You go to church and be a conservative. I love that sound bite. It's Nick Cave. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

Nick Cave is one of the greats. He's one of my favorites. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you, bottom of this third hour, actually, towards the end of this third hour. He's I mean he's always been He's always had this punk aesthetic and he's right with us too.

Because And I've said this for 10 years now. That Conservatism, wanting to conserve individual liberty, is counterculture. Conservatives, people who want limited government, and by limited government, I mean. Everything down back to what it was supposed to be in Article 1, Section 8. That is the new counterculture movement.

That's And the man is now big government. The left became. The New Puritans. Which is something I said years ago. They became the new Puritans.

They became. I mean, they used to. Like, I think that's why some of the old boomer hippies aren't actually left. They're just more like classical. Liberals.

And I don't really think that they like the left a whole bunch. But the left now is Literally everything that the left in the 60s protested against. Like they're the ones who are rigid. They are fanatics. They are devout with their fanaticism with big government.

So that was a great point. that Nick Cave had given. Tomorrow we'll talk about how Anheuser-Busch is now up to $5 billion in lost value. The hits keep coming for them after that. All right, today's stupidity came.

All right, it is our president. Biden is in Ireland, and he just keeps telling people not to jump. When people are somehow seated at an elevation higher than his eyeballs, why does that happen? He does it like hundreds of times I've heard him do it. Here he does it again.

Just don't jump over. Don't jump. No, not now. It's almost like he's useless there while he's at least that person, I mean, because at least that person had legs and he could stand because he's done that before to people who didn't have. I'm not kidding.

He sold told that to somebody in a wheelchair before. I don't know or please stand up, is what he said. Folks, that does it for us tonight. Sign up at Substack Chapter and Verse. Back with you tomorrow.