Absurd Truth: WE'RE ALL BROKE

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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. You know, it's a cow that really sells it for me. So this is this is at the villages. A 77 year old villager.

I swear this is like Minecraft. Hard time for a stockpile of illegal ED drugs in retirement community. I didn't know what ED meant at first. I didn't. I was like, what is that? I'm like, so look, even though I have and all the people in my family were in the Navy, so I blame them. Even though I have a naval type vocabulary.

Sometimes I am still very pure of heart that I did not know what that meant until I was in the art because I just thought like, what is that? Like, what is ED? Now he's a 77 year old Florida man. He was in and I thought he looked familiar because I saw this documentary about the villages.

This dude was in it. He these are the erectile dysfunction drugs, the ED that it means. Oh my gosh, he had $1,800 of black market ED drugs. I didn't even know that that could be black market. I didn't know. Oh my gosh, his name is Reginald Kinser, Reggie Kinser. He bought all of these. I can't what he bought all of these products.

Snowvitra, villatra. I don't even know what this one is. And I'm not saying it. Don't. I don't even know that sounds nasty. That third one sounds nasty.

A jelly stop with the intent to sell them locally and outside of Florida. He and his wife were in some kind of heaven, which looked at the villages. I saw that.

And his wife in the trailer says, the villages have given Reggie an opportunity to grow and you know, different ways. And he's apparently also a devotee of kung fu. And so he was like in this documentary without a shirt on.

He was doing his stuff next to a pool, like very, very mackish from Always Sunny in Philadelphia. And so anyway, yeah, that's, that's it. He knows his market. Well, yeah, apparently. And he apparently also got arrested in the parking lot before of the villages Laurel Manor Recreation Center. And they when they approached his car, apparently, he had, they said he smelled like marijuana. And when they asked him if he had any on him, he reached into his satchel. I love they said satchel and pulled out a clear cylinder tube containing all these balls of a green leafy substance. And then he goes, Well, he says, I'm able to possess this under Indian law. Is that like bird law? Like what?

Oh, and then later, they found cocaine in a plastic bag in his wallet. Because he says that he is a member of a Native American church. And so that's what where he claims that he can have all this stuff because of Indian law religious exemption. I see. I guess so. Because it's not of a nation.

It's of a Native American church. So I don't know. And I'm just fascinated with this whole thing. Anyway, so that guy sounds fascinating.

Oh, man, I'm telling you this. Okay, this guy. He crawl, a Florida man climbed on a railroad crossing. And then stood there for 10 hours through meth and exposed his genitals. Well, okay.

I mean, some of us have bad days, you know. He climbed up on a railroad crossing the light poles and he stayed a while. A Polk County Sheriff's Office first sent out a traffic alert saying that the guy was suffering a mental health crisis, you think. It was like 430 in the morning. He climbed out there for the next like 10 hours. He stood up there, showed off his bits and pieces and threw meth at people.

It took four SWAT officers in a bucket to bring him down. And they finally got him on the ground at 2pm. And then they put him under arrest for disorderly conduct.

And he's 28 years old. So they said, I love how they said the police report. They said he exposed himself in a vulgar manner. I can only imagine. Wow. And they're this, you know what, if you put him in DC, he's still probably better behaved.

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Right? It was it was a it was supposed to be art. Jens Honning was given was given about $84,000 in Danish kroner and euro banknotes by the Günstern Museum of Modern Art in Alborg. And it was a whole exhibition on on labor conditions and money.

And it was called work it out. And they you know, obviously it has kind of a political air to it, right? So the museum commissioned him to recreate two of his earlier pieces that featured banknotes attached to a canvas representing the average annual wage in Denmark and Austria. So as well as lending him the actual notes, they also paid him 25,000 kroner, almost $4,000 for the work.

But here's where it gets interesting. When the officials went to collect and and these two pieces and put them up in the exhibition, they, well, they were blank, they were empty canvases, he submitted two empty canvases titled take the money and run. The exit the exhibit caused a stir.

Understandably. So he said, hysterically on a radio show, a Danish radio show, he said, quote, the artwork is that I have taken the money. So he said, he goes, I encourage others who have just as miserable working conditions as I do to do the same. And the museum said, No, wait, you broke our agreement on how to use the money.

You the exhibition ends in January. So he says he's like, I didn't commit a crime. He goes, I did not commit a crime. He says he did produce a work of art.

He said he was he didn't he gave them what they wanted. So there was a ruling just a few days ago, the District Court of Copenhagen decided that Honning can be he can keep the like 5000 kroner from the original amount given to him by the museum that should constitute as an artist fee. Because the exhibition went ahead with the empty frames. They said the contract between the museum and Honning had stated that the cash the banknotes that they gave to him would be available during the temporary display of work and that it was to be returned afterwards. So when he refused to return the cash, the museum took legal action.

So they're saying that he can keep the artist fee, it sounds like. I think this is hysterical. And it also that serves them right. Because modern art sucks. It does. I don't care. You get mad at me all you want to. I don't care.

It's I am. Am I wrong, Kane? I'm not wrong.

I would I would still argue though, the blank canvas is better than anything hunters put out. You know, why? Yeah, like, why don't I just like do something like that?

Like, just do? I mean, I get it. If you like textural pieces and things like that, you know, I get it. But the I, to me, I just I the making a statement of it isn't that that's like a stunt. More so to me, then that's that's not art.

That's a stunt. Wasn't it was it Banksy? I remember I remember we reported on this where you like shredded the art. Yeah, after somebody purchased this piece, it shredded. Yeah, just like it was Yeah, it was designed to do that, which I also think is hysterical. I don't know. I but I thought this was just so apropos of the time.

Now he submitted. They showed a picture of the empty canvas. I actually think it's great. It's called Take the Money and Run. It's literally an empty canvas. And I think it's great.

It's called Take the Money and Run. It's literally an empty canvas. And I love it how people stand in front of it. Like they're, you know, contemplative. Like, what does this mean? Shut up.

It's a blank canvas. You got you absolutely got robbed. It's hysterical.

Here's Steve Miller. Yeah, yeah, take the money and run. They'll probably like cite me just for humming it on on YouTube. Wait, that sounds like our tune.

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Let's see. This blah blah blah workers in Atlanta, Georgia deliver a series of demands. They want 24 seven security.

I don't know if you've seen Have you seen Waffle House employees fight though because I just don't know if the security is needed. They also want an end to mandatory meal deductions and a 25 hour minimum wage for all workers. 25 hour minimum wage, then you better be operating on people and in addition to flipping damn waffles.

How about that 25 you want to get paid more than EMT workers, then you better be operating on people saving people's lives in addition to flipping damn waffles. Let's see here. Amazon used a secret project Nessie algorithm to raise prices. We all know this blah blah blah strategy described in redacted parts of an FTC lawsuit.

I really don't care about this. You know, there's going to be a test coming up by the way to the emergency broadcast system test. Kind of interesting that this is happening right after Russia did 178 hours ago and India did one we're going to talk to running car coming up on that also the latest now what GOP now what everybody's broke. Check this out CBS homes are unaffordable in 99% of the nation for the average American. The typical average American cannot afford to buy a home and a growing number of communities across the country according to common lending standards.

It's the main takeaway. It's a new report from a real estate data provider. They were looking at the medium home prices for about 575 US counties and they found that home prices and 99% of those areas are beyond the reach of the average income earner.

And they said that's insane. And they said that there's a couple of trends, the mortgage rates topping 7%. So you're looking at, you know, hundreds of dollars a month added to that plus, like, don't forget, what did we?

I'm too lazy to look at my notes. I think it's what almost 7000 annually, that we're looking at the average cost that's been added to a family because of inflation is closer to 9000. Actually, it's 700 something a month has been real fun talking to our accountant about all this stuff. Like, oh, my gosh, it's like 8500.

Yeah. So, and then the people who are locked into lower mortgage rates during the pandemic, they don't, I mean, obviously, they don't want to sell, because they're, you know, terrified because the property is so elevated at this point, they don't want to sell. So it's so there's like a, you know, the the amount of homes for sale, obviously, has been depleted. So they said that the only people who are selling right now are people who've got to divorce, marriage, moving for a new job. So the fact that you don't have that kind of inventory is keeping prices super high as well.

So they had I cannot I'm just this has doubled since I was in my early 20s. As of August, the national median existing home price was $407,000. That is insane to me.

$407,000. That's almost a 4% increase from a year ago. That's the National Association of Realtors. The average interest rate on a 30 year home loan was 7.19%. That's up from 6.48 at the beginning of the year.

That's Freddie Mac. As the mortgage rates rise, you're I mean, the mortgage rates are up. I mean, this is this unaffordability factor is going to mean is going to be maintained. This is crazy. So the inventory coupled with the the inflation, the econ, I mean, it is godly.

Yeah, that is I think that's a good way to put it. Yeah, it is the new real estate bubble. And this is and go ahead and say this, say this on my I mean, the Fed rate is what's caused the cost of money to skyrocket in the in the housing market. So no one in a decent interest rate will ever want to sell their home until the rates come back down. And with all this government spending, there's no chance that we're going to get inflation under control, which means there's no chance the Fed will be able to lower the rate, which they planned on doing by 2025. So, yeah, you're right.

It's a bubble that's going to have to burst. Now, as you said, because of government spending, Cain, give me an example of some crazy government spending mean like Ukraine? Ah, and tell me once again, what is being pushed as a part of the CR that Republicans are rejecting? Oh, yeah.

munei for Ukraine, massive amounts of munei, cash munei, massive amounts of it. So now you get it. Now you see why it's not just, you know, opposing this, this, this CR, it's not just, oh, well, we don't want we just only want this for the board. And there's a ton of stuff wrapped up into this, like this story. You see how this all affects how it's all related. And obviously, first time homebuyers, those are the ones that get hit the most with interest rates. They're that are most sensitive with these interest rates.

So many of them had to postpone. So you, they said that unaffordability is rated, apparently, by the percentage that somebody has to spend of their income towards paying for a home. And so if it's more than 28%, that's they classify that as being unaffordable. And then when you factor in the mortgage, the homeowner's insurance or property taxes, you know, I'm not even putting maintenance and just regular stuff into that. They said that the typical home price today is like over 35% of somebody's wages.

And yeah, if you're in an, if you if you got an adjustable rate mortgage, you're getting slammed. I mean, this is Oh, and the most unaffordable. Huh? Crazy.

These interesting, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Diego, all these big giant Democrat cities, just saying, just saying. And it's just, I it's gonna get worse. I this is just it's, it's, it's, it's enraging because for the majority of people, that is how they start building wealth. It's property.

You buy a home, you build your equity, you sell, you know, you get, you know, and a lot of people, that's how they that's how they start building their family's wealth. And by destroying that you are removing the foundational block for American families to be able to start that wealth creation, and start, you know, that foundation for their family. I that is it's unAmerican.

It's, it's to me, I think it's unAmerican that you have to have two incomes just to even pay for a family anymore. Everything has gotten so out of control. So I don't I don't want to hear it from the media. I don't want to hear it from the government from from these Democrats, who are like, Oh, we got to pass the CR get bent. No, I've got to do nothing. I hope the whole damn government shuts down.

And I hope it hurts. I hope people realize what's happening. This is what this is what Republicans need to be going out messaging over. Look at it. You got 99% of the country that can't buy a home. Because it's considered unaffordable. It's there. They can't afford it. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana lashes absurd truth podcast. If you haven't already made sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.