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Saying about a ceasefire, and I think it's been very clear, a position of this administration throughout, is that not only is Hamas not seeking a ceasefire, but they are saying that their goal is to repeat the events of October 7th, the horrific attacks that took place again and again to the extent that they can until Israel is eliminated. Again, their rhetoric, obviously. We totally don't accept that, and neither could Israel or would any country that has been subject to that sort of threat. And so calling on one side to accept a ceasefire under that circumstance, especially when Hamas retains capabilities, Israel's military operations are not yet complete, is not something that we're going to support at the I have. I just told Kane on break.

I was like, I got an idea. Like, it would be my slogan for what should be said. In this whole situation, I don't know how you like it, though, because I keep hearing people say ceasefire. It's not. A ladylike thing to say.

I shouldn't say it. Should I should I shouldn't start our Monday off like that? At least wait till later in the show. You think? Yeah.

Okay, I'm going to let you guys wake up first. Thank you. Because I really like it. I'm just saying. I mean, it really speaks to me.

Welcome to the program. Dana Lash here with you. And as always, good to be with you. Start the week off. It's going to be a short week because we got turkey day, and we got to talk about the turkey stuff, and we got to have that whole discussion coming up.

So they're pardoning turkeys today, by the way. We're going to touch on it. Anyway, welcome, welcome to the show. I missed you over the weekend. I'm glad we're all back together.

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So, as you can imagine, the ongoing Uh insanity over with uh Uh Hamas. Continuing to, they found the big tunnels under the not they, well, we knew they were there. It's not that they found them, it's that they got tons of video of it. Oh, and then all of the hostages that were over there. And the reason I say this, I'm not happy about any of these things, but I am.

I am glad that there is a lot of video evidence showing all of these people who kept denying the existence of the Hamas HQ under the Al-Shifa hospital.

Well, it's kind of hard to lie about. All of the video, where you mean they have all of this stuff. This is wild. There was a terror cell. There was the Al-Kudz Hospital in Gaza City.

Like, they have tons of different, not just Al-Shifa, the Al-Quds Hospital. They have all of this footage. of all of these these terrorists The Hamas. that had been there. And was just had been using.

I mean, they found, what is it, munitions? They found, I mean, they even saw they had video hostages on video. They were moving hostages on video. I mean, this is, this is something that.

So many people on the left kept saying didn't exist. They kept saying that this wasn't real. And they had this video that shows. that they were keeping hostages there. I mean It is, and of course, this goes into the thing that I was telling you about last week, where I think it was Amnesty International, and even NPR, actually, it was NPR that had cited Amnesty International, where they were saying that there were people who would just like show up in the emergency room at the Al-Shifa hospital.

They had been tortured in the HQ there that was, I mean, in the bowels of the hospital, under, underground. And they said that The reason 'Cause they One of the narratives that came out from the press was that, well, maybe, you know, going to the hospital, maybe Hamas was taking them to get medical treatment. You know, maybe that's because after the irrefutable evidence came up on video, that's what you heard from people in the media and the Hamas stands.

Well, except. They other media noted, well, you know, they took all these different Ways through Gaza, and they passed five other hospitals before they reached the Al-Shifa hospital.

So, if this was about. getting them medical care, they would have gone to these other hospitals. They took them to Al Shifa because that's their headquarters. I can't believe that that actually had to be said, but apparently, I mean, that had to actually be explained to people. That's their headquarters.

And so I think one of the people that was, one of the entities that was hardest hit was the Guardian. They were super. It was tough for them. I mean, they had British doctors that talked about how they would work in the Shifa hospital and that they s they were told that there was a part of the hospital that you did not go to because if you went to it, you would get shot and killed. I mean, they had Italian journalists who said, yes.

I mean, everybody knew this. This is why I've said. It is it Everybody knew this. That's why everyone knew. You don't have to be an expert.

on on geopolicy in this area because it's so wild. The idea that a terror group would use a hospital. As a headquarters everybody knew it.

So now they have all of this irrefutable, irrefutable footage out. I just I I mean what are the what are these stands gonna do? What are all of these people going to do? Because Hamas has been saying through its mouthpieces and its surrogates in the press: well, oh, you're so ignorant. Look at Israel so mean attacking our hospital.

The whole shows and babies crowd. Oh, can you believe Israel's attack in this hospital?

Well, here we now have absolutely Proof. that they were staging attacks with us. The uh World Health Organization. Said that the operations at the hospital have to be restarted, and they said that they need a ceasefire. Going back to that, are we ready?

Are we far enough into the show yet, Kane? Where I can say. You're impatient. I just, you know, I just want to circle back to it real quick. I'm so tired of hearing people call for a ceasefire.

If I I just don't wanna I don't want to hear it. Do you want to, like, when everybody gets together over Thanksgiving, hopefully, people can have like a nice Thanksgiving meal and you don't have the ceasefire. caucus at your table. Right. See, this is why it's, you know, as soon as you can, host the thing.

So that way you can control all of that stuff.

So that way, if you've got the ceasefire caucus, you can put them at the kiddie table or just put them at the table out back somewhere. You know, very simple.

So, this video evidence is the latest that came out. In the meantime, you also have the Houthis that have seized. A Japanese-operated British cargo ship. This came, Ryan Savadera has the story of how Iranian-backed Houthi. Terrorist.

Now, the Houthis are another proxy group that Iran uses to go and attack different groups. They said that they were from. The Houthis that were based in Yemen seized a cargo ship in the Red Sea on Sunday. And what they, here's what's goofy. They targeted it because they thought it was an Israeli ship, but it's a Japanese ship.

They came out with this edict over the weekend saying that they were going to target any ship that was Israeli-owned or with Israelis on it. They were going to target any Israeli-owned ship. But they targeted this ship, and it actually was a Japanese ship. It's a Japanese company. It's a cargo ship that was leased to a Japanese company that is from a British company that is only partially owned by an Israeli businessman.

I know.

So they went after a ship where the company that leased. The shit it's like partially owned by an Israeli businessman. But that doesn't matter. The Houthis said that they're going to target, quote, all types of ships that carry the flag of the Zionist entity or are operated or owned by Israeli companies. And they said that they're demanding countries of the world withdraw their citizens and blah, blah, blah.

Uh the Houthis. It feels like this is Star Wars. This is where it feels like at this point.

So, the Houthis are making these threats. The U.S. Navy said they shot down just over the weekend, the last couple of weeks of this month alone, two dozen drones, three cruise missiles fired by the Houthis. And they said that the USS Kearney, a guided missile destroyer, shot these drones down. The drones were swarming the ship.

That's what they do. They get all of their, it's like the equivalent of: I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you. Isn't it? That's what it seems like. The Houthis.

I'm not touching you. Oh, and then they had their post too. Don't forget, they also said blank the Jews, victory for Islam, death to Israel, America Satan, all that good stuff, you know. hashtag all the things. It's like that person who uses too many hashtags.

in a post where they use too many emojis on something on Facebook or on Instagram.

So that's what the Houthis are like. They're just like: hashtag blank the Jews, hashtag death to America, hashtag the America is the devil, hashtag victory for Islam, hashtag hashtag. They're that they're they're that annoying group. Jiminy Christmas.

So lots of activities there over the weekend. Lots of things.

Now, in the meantime, pro-Hamas activists shut down a California Democratic convention. This is in Cali. They shouted down Adam Schiff. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. I just want to watch people eat their own.

I mean, that's just the way it is. The activists, they were calling for a ceasefire, and also hashtag death to Jews, hashtag death to me, blah, blah, blah. They marched on the California Democratic Convention that was held in Sacramento. This was on Saturday. They said hundreds of protesters approached the California Democratic Convention Center.

Inside, demonstrators held a sit-in via Red State chanted for a ceasefire as they shouted down the speeches of Adam Schiff and Katie Porter. Oh, and they were telling everyone to call for a thief fire now. Again, what happened at that ceasefire that was on October 6th? Mm-hmm. What happened to that ceasefire?

That was violated by Hamas. Oh, they didn't oh, I thought they dropped it or something. They didn't just like it harshly. Like they chose to do that. Yes, they absolutely do.

Yeah, okay. I just wanted to just reiterate that. They also were calling for the total destruction of Israel, chanting from the river to the sea, et cetera, et cetera. My favorite was watching this old white dude with his jacket tied around his waist, and he just looked like he looked like a bougie dude that goes into a bougie gym to work out, but doesn't really work out and just like goes there to be seen. He's like in his brand new sneaks, all this stuff.

So, that dude, that kind of guy was there. It tells you everything you need to know.

So, they sat in the lobby. I was told this was an insurrection, by the way. They sat in the lobby. They had security teams that they had to bring out. They said that they flooded through the doors, they broke in, they obstructed proceedings, they disrupted proceedings, all this stuff.

I mean, it's, and am I supposed to feel bad that the people that you teed up to go after all of your opponents are now mad at you? Because I don't. I mean, I don't feel bad at all, if that's what you're asking me. I don't, I mean, I feel I don't know if what I'm feeling, if I recognize it as a little bit of joy or what. I don't know.

But it's not a bad feeling, you know.

So Again, Kane. Yeah.

I'm tired of it. Can I say it yet? Is it time? Is it too early still? Permission.

Is it too early for the purer of heart folks out there? I'm your own woman. I'm not giving you. No, I know, but as a producer on this program, I'm just asking for your wisdom and your counsel. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah, I would wait a little.

Okay. We'll let everybody get another cup of coffee in. That's right. Right. We have a lot more on the way, including the house turkeys.

Hmm. They're gonna get pardoned. I wonder if Hunter's gonna be standing out there waiting for him, waiting with him. Like, is he a turkey to also be pardoned? I mean, I wonder if he'll think the same thing, or is Joe gonna get very confused?

and be like, man, can I also pardon my turkey son? I love my turkey son. Can I also pardon him too? I'm just wondering.

So, we're going to get into that. The youth hatred of Israel is so bad, it's actually actually, that's the thing that's tanking Biden in the polls. Wait until you hear some of the numbers from this. We've got that the most American optic ever. Wait until you hear the story that I got for you.

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So, former first lady Rosalind Carter passed away. I think it was what, just two weeks after she went into hospice. And I think her husband is also in hospice. They were married. She and Jimmy Carter were married for 77 years.

She, he's 99. She's 96, and she was in Plains, Georgia, where she passed at her home. Gosh, do I even really want to bring this part up? Kanye West dropped a new song called Vultures, his first track since he committed seppuku professionally. The new song debuted during his Some Guy's Friday Night Show on a Chicago station.

And I don't know, man. I don't, I'm. I don't know. Like, I don't know what's going on with him. He was walking around in stock feet in Florence.

Like, I just, I don't know how to take people who do that. That's nasty, man. And then, like, it's all uneven, you know, with the cobblestone. Like, why? Let's see.

Taylor Swift's fans begged for water during the Brazil concert, where there were extreme temperatures that caused one fan to go into cardiac arrest. That fan did not make it. It was like over 100 degrees there. There were also videos emerging, apparently, of her struggling to breathe in the heat, even. But they said that it was her first night in Rio de Janeiro.

And after because people are not allowed to bring in water into the stadium, and so they said people stood outside for a long time to get in general admissions. And they said that one fan fainted and had to be resuscitated. This was even before the show started. I mean, she's sweating to death on stage. Like, you can see her hair is wet.

And it's from sweat, because it's so hot.

So, woof. The National Transportation Safety Board thinks that American automobiles should be limited to 100 miles per hour. I question why we now need a National Transportation Safety Board. I mean, you know why the cars were made to go faster than 100 miles per hour? Because 100 miles per hour beyond that exists.

That's why.

So they said, no, they should be limited to 100 miles per hour. And it started with an accident in Vegas, which a Dodge Challenger threw an intersection at 13 miles per hour.

So because some person drove irresponsibly, everyone else has to lose miles per hour. That's like saying somebody was irresponsible with one of their television channels, so you all get one. I mean it's kind of the same thing. There's no such thing as standard capacity of miles per hour.

Okay. There's no such thing.

So they said now everyone's there. This is a conference. It better not. We better not. Because you know what?

I will totally learn how to work on automobiles. I swear to you. And I will learn how to make it go faster. I will pick my own car apart in my garage and I will make it go faster. I promise you that will happen.

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Looking for the drive-through version of The Dana Show? Check out the best highlights from every show in Dana's Absurd Truth podcast, posted daily from The Dana Show. My reaction to Elon Post's Elon Musk post was absolute abhorrence. His saying that this blatantly anti-Semitic comment was, quote, the actual truth. is sickening and chilling.

And Elon Musk has turned Acts, formerly known as Swear, into a cesspool of hate speech and extremist incitement. That's uh Richard Blumenthal, the guy who lied about being in combat in Vietnam. And then, like, had to be like, whoops, I forgot I wasn't. Welcome back to the show. Daniel Lash here with you.

Bottom of this first hour. Musk responded to that as well because he was, he, there was like some, I don't even remember what the original tweet was, but now everyone's saying they all haven't they always been saying, though? that he's anti-Semitic or he's a racist or you know something you know all this stuff that everybody's desperately trying to the left is desperately trying to go at Twitter and trying to go at Musk for owning it and so and this kind of is like a two-bird one stone thing because Democrats have been tanking over their actions regarding Israel and that's really really been hurting them in the polls And just, you know, with humanity in general. And this is, they're looking at this as like a weak read to try to. To try to get out.

Now, I don't agree with everything Musk does. And I think some of the stuff he, like, some of the people he talks to, or some of the stuff, I'm just like, the hell. But. To Ev not the left calls everything either racist or anti-Semitic. And so it kind of in I mean, when you use that word to describe basic disagreement, like how you would use the term racism to describe basic disagreement.

I think it it's incredibly dangerous, especially now because There are, I just, I kind of wonder if some of these, you know, like some of the younger Gen Z. When they're saying some of the stuff that they're saying, do they honestly not think it's anti-Semitic because they're too stupid to know what that is? I mean, you kind of I don't want to excuse people from being immoral, but at the same time, like, how in the world do you say some of the stuff you say and not realize that it's anti-Semitic? Is it because it has been used in tantamount, like in the same with racism, to sort of shut down any kind of disagreement, even when it has nothing to do with race or faith or ethnicity or anything else? I just kinda I mean it makes you wonder.

And so Like Forbes had all backlash. All these companies are now pulling, they're now pulling money from, who was it? Apple? I'm pulling up my notes on this. It was Apple.

It was like a whole bunch of stuff. Uh all these different advertisers are saying that they're now not going to be advertising on X. And he had tweeted over the weekend: quote, this past week there were hundreds of books, media stories claiming that I am anti-Semitic. Nothing could be further from the truth. He says, I wish only the best for humanity and a prosperous, excited future for all, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

And this, the tweet last week that. Um uh that kind of set all of this off. was people were discussing Uh they were discussing everything with uh Israel and Hamas and and all of this other stuff and someone was talking about how dissent and and and you can't label all dissent as being anti-Semitic or something to that effect and and People got mad over Keith Oberman because Keith Oberman went on this rant where he was saying everything, everybody was Nazis. And That's where the discussion kind of started all of the discussion because people were saying, You can't label everything you disagree with as being a Nazi. And by the way, Olberman has done that for 20 years.

I just want to put that out there. Keith Oberman has called everybody a racist Nazi for like 20 years. And so. That's That's where this all stemmed from. And so people were saying you can't just.

You can't just brush off any disagreement about everything as being racist or anti-Semitic. And that is what was at the core of what was being discussed. And so he mentioned the ADL and he was saying that, you know, the ADL is. Is attacking people, et cetera, and all this.

So everyone was basically, they were calling them all anti-Semitic. I mean, it's just the whole thing is ridiculous. Uh I mean The same people who would say that Musk is anti-Semitic have nothing to say on from the river to the sea. They have nothing to say on that.

So, I just kind of questioned the measure of all of this. And I'm also, I was also. Shocked to see how quickly the White House reacted. Like the White House immediately came out and was getting all down on Musk and saying that it was irreprehensible, and oh, you shouldn't be able to say this stuff, et cetera, et cetera. They're trying to lift lift themselves up.

regarding polling with Israel and at the same time go after Musk because they would love nothing more than to degrade his authority or his ownership or the influence of X. That's, I mean, they would love nothing more. And that's kind of what all of this is sort of centering around. But for Blumenthal to get out there, I mean, this dude lied about being in Vietnam. I mean, for him to get out there and say this stuff.

Uh, is wild now. One of the things, one of the websites that was pushing this the most, and this is why anytime I see them push anything, I immediately. discount it. Because they're not even broken clock, doesn't even apply to media matters. The broken clock analogy does not apply to media matters.

I have fought with media matters for 15 years. Media matters, let me just give you an example. They are, they were founded by through the Tides Foundation, which is the organization that was created by George Soros. And then he invited a bunch of his rich billionaire friends to take part. And they all throw their money in the pot.

And what they do is they fund super far left activist stuff.

So Media Matters came as a result of that. And then the guy that they had headed, a guy named David Brock, was this dude who wrote a book. He went after the Clintons in the 90s. He is this freaky dude. He went after the Clintons in the 90s.

And then nobody bought his book.

So he got really, really mad at the right because I guess he thought they betrayed him because they didn't support his commercial efforts. And so he became part of the left and he really traded on that. That credit of, oh, I was on the right, now I switched to the left.

So he headed up Media Matters. Media Matters ran hit pieces on everyone. They would have, and I met one of them, his name was Joe Strupp. He was very nice. I got along with him very well.

It was hysterical. But every single person in talk radio, people who are on television, people who are conservative writers, every single person. Person at Media Matters had a beat. And that was what Joe told me because he was online. I noticed that every event that I went to, I would have that guy from Media Matters sitting front row.

He would follow me all around CPAC. He would follow me at all these different events. And then one time he jokingly told me, Yeah, you know, you're my beat. I was like, oh, that, and then I joked with him about how Media Matters wouldn't allow them to unionize. And I thought they were on the left.

And why doesn't he just start that whole movement? But I digress. But that's how they do. They would have, they have people that sit, they listen to every bit of programming. They created cancel culture.

All of cancel culture came from Media Matters.

Now, you have CRT and all of that other stuff, which is a different animal, but cancel culture originated with Media Matters. When I first went to CNN and I was like the one of two conservatives that were at CNN, and this was back in like 2011. 2010, 2011. They worked so hard to try to get me fired. I mean, they watched every single time I was on television.

They listened to every single hour of my radio program. They watched all of my posts online. They combed all of them over all of my articles and they tried to foment some kind of outrage for everything. Case in point. I had been tweeting about the.

State of the Union address. And I think this was 2011. It was the 2011 State of the Union address. And the President at the time, Barack Obama, went out there and had said, That they were going to have the Department of Defense get involved in green energy and talking about all this stuff. And then he said, NASA is going to really do a lot with Muslim outreach.

And I made the observation that it's weird that under this administration, we have all of these different entities that are doing things opposite to what their name indicates. Mike said, We had Department of Defense involved in green energy and we got NASA involved in Muslim outreach. I'm like, are we going to have a Department of Muslim outreach and have that be about space? And that was the tweet. Media Matters legit wrote this headline and I saved it.

I still have the screenshot today and it was my desktop wallpaper for like a couple of years. They said CNN's Dana Lash, quote, let's shoot Muslims into space. That was the headline they had. The next day, I get a call from the person who is with the VP of Standards and Practices at CNN because the executives there get up and they do three things in the morning. Two of them start with S's.

Yes, they expel, they shave, and they read media matters. They evacuate their bowels, they shave, and they read media matters. Which was weird because the producers in the newsroom thought Media Matters was a cringe. They thought they were a cringe joke, even if they agreed with them. But the executives who were these old boomers, no offense to you boomers out there, I'm talking about the not cool ones, but you know, they were the ones who, you know, bought it, Hookline, and Sinker.

And so they were like, you're going to have to apologize for this. And I'm like, you're going to have to fire me because I ain't apologizing for not a damn thing. And I actually, they like had me, they were going to suspend me off air for like a couple of months unless I apologized. And I said, well, I guess you're going to have to suspend me because I didn't write this. I had to sit here and explain to like a 50-something year old executive at CNN how the hell Twitter worked.

Not kidding you.

So, yeah, I don't really like media matters. And then at CPAC, I got into a fight with one of them. And then what else? I mean, this is what they do all the time. And then when I was doing firearm advocacy, which I've always done, but when I helped an organization out for a year, they really came at me.

Like anything that they quote will be taken out of context. They will always try to take you out of context. They'll always try to do something. Like, for instance, another example. Remember when you had the Marines that got in trouble because they had urinated on, well, they said that they had urinated on a terrorist that they had just killed in a firefight?

So case in point, this was also back in, I think, 2011. There were a group of Marines. They had been involved in like a several hours-long firefight, and they had with terrorists. And this was, what, in Afghanistan? And uh they had uh two Of their fellow Marines killed in this firefight.

So if they had really gone through it, I mean, they were legit in combat. They had people that they were serving with, that they had trained with, killed. with them. Like they watched them die. They were in a firefight with terrorists.

And so the thing that came out was there was some video that was purported to be like one or two of these Marines relieving themselves on the body of one of the terrorists that they had killed that had killed American servicemen. Yeah.

And the point that I had made was: Am I supposed to suddenly start feeling bad for terrorists? Like these, nobody can judge. I mean, they were going to get in trouble, and they did. You know, they their higher-ups were going to deal with that. Let the military deal with it, let the Marines deal with their own.

Like, but what I don't understand is why, because everybody was so outraged, and Media Matters was really driving it. And MSNBC and CNN, and they kept saying this is this is outrageous, etc. And so, when I had asked on air, am I supposed to feel bad for dead terrorists? Am I supposed to feel bad for terrorists that literally shot and killed our American service members? And I said, who knows what would have happened out there?

If you were out there and you had been involved in that firefight, nobody knows what it's like in combat. Maybe you would have done it. Maybe I would have done the same thing. They took eight seconds of my broadcast. They omitted everything I said before that.

They wrote a whole article. And then I got suspended because of that.

So, media matters can get sodomized with the business end of a broom. Because of all of the stuff that they have done to conservatives, I am just one of many they have gone after, and they have been going after Elon Musk nonstop.

So I hope he sues them for everything they have, including their birth certificates that they got them. I hope he turns their headquarters into an ash pile because they are anti-journalist, anti-American, far-left communists who hate America.

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Now, just to get here, Liberty and Bell had to beat some tough odds, the competition. They had to work hard to show patience and be willing to travel over a thousand miles. You could say even this harder than getting a a ticket to the Renaissance tour or or or Ripritney's tour. She's down in. It's kind of warm in Brazil right now.

Oh, no. It's not her. She's not there. That's another one. That's true.

How do fellow kids? The Renaissance story. He probably thought that actually was like the Italian Renaissance. I bet that's what he was thinking: what is this? Oh my gosh, welcome back to the program, Days in the Eastern United States.

That's POTUS there. Who uh pardoned the turkeys. Liberty and Bell. It's kind of a Really? Can we just be a little bit more creative?

Well, I don't know. I guess you don't want to like be, you don't like you wouldn't want to have a Betsy Ross turkey and then be pardoning a turkey named after Betsy Ross. I guess it's probably kind of rude, right? But Liberty and Bell, just saying. I don't know.

I'm What happens if they just send them back? Do they bring those turkeys out there, do all that, and then send them back? Did did they have a turkey out there, as Cain brought up, named Schmunter? Schmunter Biden.

Now, our friend Sergio, who's going to be in for me on Wednesday, I love him. He's not at our KURV affiliate. He goes, you can. What do you say? You can't partner up t a half-baked turkey.

Oh my gosh, it's true. Yeah, King. I mean, that is, yeah, he's like, no, that turkey's baked. You can't, you can't do it. Oh my gosh, that's brilliant.

Yeah, he goes, you can't barden a baked turkey. It's what he tweeted. It's so good. That's a thousand percent correct.

So What did they do with the turkeys after? You know what I had wanted Trump to do? when he was par when he pardoned turkeys. And I wanted him to do it 'cause I actually any president, he would have. He was like, I'm going to part.

Yeah, you know what? I'm not. And then just chopped its damn head off right there. That would have been hysterical. That's what you want to do.

Yeah, I do. Oh, my God. You know why? Because messages got to be sent. You got to set the tone.

You got to set the tone. But you do. It's like Shorzy. You got to set the tone. You do raise a great question, though.

Do they just allow these turkeys to die naturally? Are they just welfare turkeys after and they just live and keep eating feed? I suspect they get thrown back into the whole pile of. I mean, serve your purpose. You know, give me some turkey.

Pilgrimage. Gobble, gobble, gobble, right?

Something. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

I I I always wondered. I mean, I'm I'm almost curious enough to where I want to look it up, but just not.

So so you pardon those the two turkey wasn't it always one turkey? When did it turn into two turkeys that we pardon? I thought it was two turkeys. Has it always been two turkeys? I don't know if it's always been.

Or do they do, we gotta pardon a female?

Well Yeah. They are ugly birds. say that. They are the ugliest. You know they were almost our national bird.

Thankfully, someone had the bright idea to not make it the National Bird. Can you imagine? That somewhat flightless. I mean it can fly a little bit, but not like, you know Not like WKRP, Cincinnati. Scottish my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

Not like that. I mean, they can a little bit, you know, but man alive. All right, so coming up. In our second hour, got a number of things on deck for you. I've got some, uh, I got some culture.

I got some some yeah, I got some culture. We're also gonna get into the all the video from J6 has has been put up.

So finally, they did that. They were able to do that. We've got all the latest. Stephen Ace is going to be coming up too later on in our third hour. Stick with us.

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Ministry of Sotenbrook, a fuel.

So, this is the president of Argentina. That was a pretty socialist country. Who was there a previous, like Christina? I can't remember her last name. She was the one, she was a socialist leader.

I mean, he beat. The he I am made of commentary about his appearance. But I think it works.

So this this libertarian outsider, Javier Millai. He uh won Sunday. And he said he was because they're dealing with triple digit inflation. He's a very interesting dude. He's got the craziest hair, the 70s burns, dude.

He's got 70s sideburns. He has a full thick head of hair, and he's not afraid to shit dial it and show you that he's got a full thick head of hair. He's wild. He won with 55% of the vote. He beat Sergio Maza, who took 44%.

Now, I think this is interesting because. I mean, Argentina was long, long, long, long, long, long, a socialist nation. And I think it goes to show you that even socialists are tired of. triple-digit inflation. and they're tired of economic decline.

And he describes himself as an anarcho an anarcho-capitalist. And uh he took off the uh Pironist Coalition. He he ousted them. But he was in front of the board and he's going he's in front of this this board where they have all of these uh like magnetic labels on it. He's going through all the departments that he would that he would cut.

I would cut this department and this department and this department. I cut all these departments.

So we'll see. Maybe he will do it. Maybe he won't, but. The hair, though, dude. He's got, uh, he's pretty, he's pretty interesting.

He's got him, Boris Johnson, who would win in a hair off? I think he would win 'cause he's got the chops. Like, literally he's got the burns.

So, welcome back. Top of the second hour of this program. It's Thanksgiving week. We just watched uh two of the uh Turkeys get pardoned there. uh over at the White House.

So, and Hunter Biden was not, was not one that was there. By the way, speaking of it, had they said anything? Maybe I missed it. Maybe I didn't see it. Has the I don't think the White House has said anything about That dude.

Down in uh Argentina. Yeah, I don't think they've said 'cause n don't they issue like a congratulatory or whatever? Yeah.

I don't think they've done it. I know that Wapo was losing their minds. Over this guy. They were losing their minds. Washington Post.

They said anger won over fear. Or, well, you know what? I don't think so. Maybe it was angry about being broke and fear of going broke. Maybe that's what motivated people to vote the way they did.

Kane, what would you guess that their annual inflation rate is in Argentina? If you had a guess, I told you it was triple digits, but if you had a guess. Uh 150? More. 250?

Almost. 185. Wow. That's what it's that's the I know right And that's the rate at what you know things The rate at which they increase in price. That's crazy.

I've I mean, it's crazy.

Now, in October, this is how much it changed. Actually, so by December 1st, it's expected to hit 185. Consumer prices began skyrocketing in September. October, they hit 143% on an annualized basis.

So And this guy, he's um, he was involved in commentary. He was uh Malay made a he's involved in in television pungentry. And they said, Oh, he fights with everybody and he insults people. Because you know, as the same thing applies over there, as you know, it insults people if you don't go along with their version of events, right? They absolutely hate him.

They're like, far right when? Oh my gosh, it's terrifying. Far right when? Oh. I mean, he's quite entertaining.

I mean, I can't wait to see him take away all those departments. I hope he does it. That would be great. I would love to see that.

So, hmm, interesting. A few other things to hit on. Can I just touch on the coronavirus thing? Because I saw this tweet. Let me pull this out.

Who's still buying this? I saw this over. This is at Time Magic. They wrote this today. This is today years old.

This story. Quote. More free COVID-19 tests are available for the holiday season. You can order more free COVID tests for online home delivery. The government is offering to send another round of four at-home virus tests.

You can order free, free meaning we paid for it. Test. Who the hell is still doing this? Who is still doing this? I have not tested myself or done anything with it.

Uh since the last time during lockdown I had it. And remember, they said it was not like going out in public that was driving it. They said it was just like in-home stuff that people had been that was driving it. They said that the government's mailing these out. They're trying to ride off flu season and the spike in RSV, which you knew was coming.

You knew they were going to do that. But they're saying that they immunity from previous Vaccinations has kept case costs lower. No, it hasn't. I mean, unless you talk about killing people, maybe. I digress.

Censor me, YouTube, you bunch of rat bastard fascist thugs. Censor me. Pound sand. Yeah, they'll totally. If I talk about it, if I say the word that rhymes with shmeivermectin, they'll demonetize me.

That's too close. Can't is it? Is it too close?

So uh who's ordering these still? Is anybody still doing this? I don't know if I've ever had it again because I have never cared. I didn't care. I it was like a bad uh it was a bad cold the first time.

I never cared. No need to worry about it. If you were naturally infected and you naturally recovered, you have natural immunity to all of the uh future variants Of it as well. Unfortunately, the vaccine doesn't do anything but damage. Yeah.

Yeah, apparently it doesn't. I'm just curious about this. Why are we still doing this? The schmeck Veen? Schmack Veen?

Yeah, I can't say vaccine. Because she just did it. Gosh, we're so gonna get demonetized. They're gonna pull us and censor us and all the fingers in the air.

So I'm just, you know, why are they still pushing this?

Now, one of the things that's interesting to note in Texas, in the Republic of Texas. They only just now, well, actually, it was in June. I take that back.

So not just now. But there was this COVID disaster declaration, right? and the they kept renewing it. The governor kept renewing it every year, every month. And I always wondered why they were renewing it.

It doesn't make sense because. It grants the governor's sweeping powers That apparently they never used, especially to go after some of these county judges. And some of these other local officials that, like in my area, before we had an election. uh that mandated the mask wearing. I mean I remember The Uh Glenn Whitley was the judge, and he's been replaced, thank heavens.

By Tim O'Hare, who's a fabulous judge, who's great in this role. But, like this Glenn Whitley guy, I remember when we were still locked down, my kids couldn't go to school. Uh I had a friend that had to bury her mother. And she has a twin sister, had to bury her mother. Only one of the twins could go, only her sister went.

And everyone else, they couldn't, she couldn't even bury her mother. And I'm watching these county judges. Like, I saw this Glenn Whitley guy have like a party for one of his kids, no mask. I saw the other Clay Jenkins, the Dallas County judge, that was threatening people with fines if they didn't wear their masks in Dallas. He literally held a big backyard wedding for his daughter, no mask.

There are pictures of it all over. I mean, these people are absolute rat bastards who disrupted life.

Furthermore, I remember in the state of Texas, do you guys remember the raid? They did raids on like there were people who uh would pick up food at this bar or would get drinks at this bar and then they staged a protest and they raided them. They had a SWAT team show up and they arrested these people. Do you guys remember out in West Texas the nail tech? and the eyelash extension lady that got arrested, they literally set up a sting and they arrested them for violating the quote unquote stay at home orders.

Who could forget Shelley Luther? The hairstylist who needed to keep doing what she was doing because she was going broke and couldn't pay her mortgage. See, that was the other fun fact too. The government was talking about paying everybody's leases and you're going to have a rent moratorium, but they didn't talk about the property owners. They still had to pay everything and taxes on top of it.

But yet they were told through economic eminent domain that they couldn't go out and earn a living. They were forcing people into poverty. Our government was. It's the most communist damn thing I've ever seen in the United States. And Texas' government and the governor was complicit in it.

And you can try to dress that turd up six ways to Sunday, but it's still a POS at the end of the day. That action happened. That action is garbage. And we had our Texas leadership that went along with it.

So forgive me if I don't take You know, And I know we're playing the endorsement game. I think that some endorsements of some governors are worth more than others. And I've always had a good relationship with my governor, but I'm not going to pretend that I care about any kind of endorsement, especially when you had, like, our leaders had the ability to weigh in and stop some of this stuff a hell of a lot sooner than they did, but they didn't do it because they were worried about optics. Like when you only that declaration, by the way, that COVID declaration that kept going, that kept open the sweeping powers. for the uh executive uh office here in Texas that literally was just allowed to expire of June.

in June, this year, June, just this past June, this past summer. There was nothing done to stop these county judges from doing this. Nothing.

So you can't say, well, was it state or local judges? Yes, empowered by the head of the state. Because they had the power to do something and they didn't do it. And they allowed these people, and then they're going to, and then to try to campaign or trade influence on the back of having done something only in the 11th hour after all the facts came out and everybody has suffered and been rendered bankrupt. That doesn't do it for me.

That's like throwing somebody a life raft after they've already drowned. Politics is a dirty game, and there are too many cowards in this game, and a lot of them are Republicans in Texas. There is no sacred cow to me. I don't give a rat's ass about being your friend. I get enough campaign donation solicitations and everybody else to paper my damn office.

I don't care. But let's be honest about stuff, especially when you're trying to trade on influence with things. and you're trying to influence people in a in an election. You know, you kind of want to make sure that maybe, maybe, maybe. Maybe you should worry about your own influence in your own state.

After people were arrested, after there were legit sting operations to bust eyelash extension people. Oh, they violated the sacred stay at home order. I remember people had to actually like be very, very public in getting Abbott to get involved in Shelly Luther's case. And it was Dean Patrick that paid her fines, by the way. It wasn't Paxton and it wasn't Abbott for all the people who went to bat for Paxton.

Oh, it's Dan Patrick. And I've gone round and round with him over gun stuff. It was him. He was the one who paid for her fine. Not everyone's perfect.

I don't expect people to be. But by God, when you've got the evidence out there and it's twenty three, twenty twenty three in June and you're still like going with these these declaration orders for COVID, are you serious with me right now? Come on. Come on. That dog don't hunt.

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But hey, we're told that that Biden economy has been working wonders, so just suck it up and love it. Nothing's wrong. Everything's great, right? Everything's wonderful. Hunter can still go and buy his expensive sports cars, and he can still have his pad in Malibu, and Biden can still have two, three different houses.

It doesn't matter. They're good.

So shouldn't you be? Dogs are coming down with an unusual respiratory illness in several U.S. states. This story coming from the AP says that vets are, in several states, are saying that take precautions to keep your pets healthy. Oregon, Colorado, and New Hampshire, they've seen cases of this respiratory illness and pneumonia that doesn't respond to antibiotics.

And they said that dogs will cough and they sneeze and they have names. Nasal and eye discharge and are lethargic. And they said some dogs are really, really sick within 24 to 36 hours. They said in Oregon alone, there's been more than 200 cases of this since mid-August.

So people are told to contact their vets. Just, you know, be smart about it. They said, you know, just be smart about your dogs and be proactive because they can get sick too, just as people do. If you buy cantaloupe, apparently there's a recall. Daily Caller says there's a recall of salmonella outbreak across 15 states because of cantaloupes, pre-cut cantaloupes.

Can I ask why in the world people buy pre-cut fruit? Why? Do you just love burning money? Do you just like setting your money on fire? I see like pre-cut fruit, like pineapple slices.

And I see, did you, I mean, there's like pre-cut apple slices. Pre-cut apple. What in the world? You know what? This is how Rome fell.

It felt just like this, just like this. Centers for Disease, blah, blah, blah, CDC, they said that salmonella outbreak across 15 states, there have been 17 hospitalizations and 43 illnesses related to just this since Friday. Arizona, Minnesota, Missouri, Texas, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, Georgia, Oklahoma, Washington, Maryland, and California are all the states that have reported this. The tainted cantaloupes have been sold at various retailers, two main brands. They said that the 40/50s.

According to the report, the Malakita, the whole cantaloupes, and many, they said that some of these, the pre-cut version, vineyard brand, they're cantaloupe cubes, melon medleys, and fruit medleys in Oklahoma stores. And Aldi apparently has sold some.

So just, you know, look at your fruit and don't buy pre-sliced fruit. because that kind of that stuff happens. Apparently, Snoop Dogg is not smoking pot anymore and weed stocks are hit. Are you serious? Good grief.

A teenage grocery bagger started working at Kroger and is processing a lot of returns in two weeks, discovered. Nearly a million dollars was missing. This is a teenage grocery bagger. And this was started working at Kroger, processing all these returns, took a million dollars in two weeks. He spent in two weeks, he took a million dollars.

How do you not notice that in two weeks? How do you not notice a million dollars going out like all these returns? Oh my gosh, somebody is not paying attention. Trey Brown, 19. And so he bought guns, cars, and clothes.

That's what he bought. Not no I mean, that's It's hysterical. All right, we got a lot more on the way. Don't miss it. And then later on in our third hour, our friend Stephen Yates joins us.

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When will more hostages get out? Um I have a motion. Yeah.

He's like, he says, oh, I'm not in a position to tell you when more hostages get out. I mean, you're. Can I just say that I would just think that he is in the position to tell when hostages. I mean, you're the President of the United States. I just think that maybe that's like the what other position do you need to be in?

Don't answer that question. Welcome back. Dana Lash here with you. Stop it. It's Hunter.

He's related to Hunter. You've got to be careful with this stuff. Oh my gosh. Uh.

So it's uh it's good to be with you. Like I said. Huh. Bottom of the second hour.

So, Lorraine was telling me really quickly, talking about the turkeys. Lorraine was telling me that. They Only actually It used to be only one turkey pardoned. And then now it's like two turkeys pardoned. Why do we got to pardon two turkeys?

Why did it gotta be two? I think it started with Obama, but I don't know. That's a good question. They started pardoning the backup bird. She said W started pardoning the backup bird.

Of course, he did. compassionate conservatism, pardoning the backup bird. Like I said. I really, under the previous president, and I wanted this because out of all of the presidents, he is the only one who would have done it. I wanted him to, you know, get up there, Trump to get up there and be like, We're going to pardon this turkey and then like pull out a cleaver and be like, No, we're not, and chop its head off.

And then have like a big old timey feast because, you know, enough is enough. Come on. Like, what is the point of this? It's a waste of time. Pardon the stupid bird.

I want to eat it. I look at it, you know what? When I look at that, and I don't like turkey, but I love it right around Thanksgiving. My aversion to it just is gone. Right when Thanksgiving comes around.

When I see turkeys, I just basically see the bird, like it's like Warner Brothers. How, when the predator would look at like Tweety Bird or something like that, and they'd see. Like he's like a little turkey, like a little, you know, like a little Thanksgiving dish walking. That's what I see. And they got the little chef's hat on the.

The wings right you know what I'm talking about those little chef's hat feet on the wings. Nobody ever does them chef hat feeds on the wings no more. Anyway. That's what I see when I look at them turkeys. I'm like, mmm, that's good eating.

And I envisioned mashed potatoes going along with it and like a river of gravy, the land of plenty. That's what I, you know. I just made myself hungry. By the way. We also solved the.

Well, we didn't really. I just made an executive decision. The starch dilemma. Because we're not doing all grotten and mashed taties and sweet potatoes and sweet potato casserole and then the candied yams, which are basically sweet potatoes, but let's pretend they're not.

Well, c can I also ask why we do that? Why is it sweet potatoes and then yams? Yeah.

They act like it's two different things. Stop being confusing to people. It's all sweet. It's a tuber. It's a it's a it's a sweet potato.

Call it a candied tuber, whatever. Because I would have family members go, well, we got to have the candied yams, too. That's a sweet potato. You're taking the sweet potato casserole and you're putting it in chunk form. That's...

It's still a sweet potato. Stop it, it's not a different type of food. It's this Same thing, it just hadn't been mashed up. Anyway, we're only doing sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes. I'm not doing all this.

I'm not doing 50,000 different types. I'm not doing a baked potato. I'm not doing all grotten. I'm not doing a potato casserole and a sweet potato casserole and the sweet potato baked and the candied yam. We're not doing all of that.

That's ridiculous. I mean, good heavens That's insane We're not doing all that stuff.

So, anyway. Executive decision. And uh Kane, do you what are you doing with your turkey? How do you do your turkey? This here I'm going to smoke it.

Hunter would be pleased. Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm not I'm not applying a flame to it. I'm inhaling that smoke. I'm actually smoking it using decent hickory. Ooh, nice. Chris wants to do a bacon thatch work.

Ooh.

So in our family the man does the turkey. Right. See, that's why I'm like, I get to execute executive order. and choose the side dishes. Y'all get two tatties.

Shut up. And then the desserts, right? But he does, because I think because you guys like operating the smokers and you like frying stuff and seeing all the smoke. I mean, you guys enjoy that. Let's be real.

It's a gadget. You guys enjoy it. And there's something, you know, you're putting a whole bird in the smoker or in the fryer. I mean, it's just good, anyway.

So I think he's gonna do like a he's gonna bacon crochet a bird. That's basically what it is. Like, mm he's done it before, it's real good.

So we're having two types of taties at my house. And uh that's the way it is and and there's no we we allow no political bickering. Although we really don't, unless it would be with. Yeah.

Uh other side of the family. We really don't. There isn't really any political bickering. I've noticed, and I will say, have you seen an absence of. They do them every year, but I actually haven't seen any this year.

How to talk to your. Uncle, grandmother, slash cousin, whatever, who might be a Republican or something to that effect, right? Have you have you guys seen any of those new articles? I haven't seen any this year. This is the first time that I can ever remember where I haven't seen any of those.

Is it because they've all been written? Have they all been written? Is that is it just done? I'm wondering. Yeah, or maybe people are just like, Get over it, enough is enough.

Enough is enough.

So, we're not going to have any TSA delays because they passed the bill's going to go through the Senate.

So, we're kicking the can down the road for a little bit longer.

So, yay. All right, a couple of other things. I want to make sure that we're touching on. Because we've got we've been talking about Everything with media matters. I tweeted out.

a fun flashback of when Andrew Breitbart, Mike Flynn, and myself Who Mike Flynn ran big government? I ran big journalism. Uh we dropped in for Media Matters 990 and we scared David Brock half to death. when we showed up and he ran for the elevators and Andrew blocked him. It was one of the funniest things.

Ever. And we took Mike Flynn because Mike Flynn, if you never knew Mike Flynn, who edited Big Government, he was the. Most American Irishman I've ever met. And he He hated everything about DC. He hated it.

He was like this old gumshy reporter. He was very old school. I mean, he wasn't old, but he was very old school. And he and Andrew both passed. uh since and Mike had a gravelly voice.

I've never seen him without actually this video, I think, is the only time I've ever seen him without a cigarette. He's just like an old school reporter. He worked in DC, hated DC, knew everything about DC, knew everybody's dirty secrets. He knew everything about everybody. He could tell you something about the most obscure person in DC that you think nobody knows.

And he knew everything to ask about tax structures and everything else.

So the 990, what that is, is a form that certain quote-unquote nonprofits have to have on hand by demand that anybody can walk in and ask for. And it was just really, I mean, it was just a nuisance. We were just there to, we were trolling them, we were just there to annoy. And we were actually driving in a vehicle. I can't remember what road it was on, but it was right outside Media Matters, Washington, D.C.

headquarters. And we were in a vehicle. And when I tell people, like, whenever I criticize, by the way, Steve Bannon, and people are like, oh, that's so mean. I've known him for over a decade, so I can say that. But he was driving the vehicle, actually.

So we were in the vehicle with him, and it was us three. Andrew asked if we wanted to take a field trip to Media Matters, and we had no idea what that was going to entail. But in the car, he came up with the idea, or Mike did, of asking about the 990.

So in the middle of a road, we were driving down, and Andrew saw David Brock walking with his, I guess, bodyguards, because David Brock's like three foot four. And saw David Brock, silver hair, always looks like he's, you know, tweaking, probably because of the cocaine, allegedly, and per daily caller, and saw him walking down the street and screamed, Steve, stop the car, stop the car. Car stops. We all pile out of the back in the middle of a damn road, like in the middle of a road in D.C. in the middle of a weekday at noon.

And he's yelling, Dan, are you recording? Are you recording? I'm trying to record. You know how difficult it is to record while running? And then also following Andrew, and I've never seen him run that fast in his ever-loving life.

And it was. The funniest thing I've ever seen. As we were running up to David Brock, you could put it in slow-mo. David Brock sees us coming. And Andrew was not small, he was a tall dude.

And he was, you know, he wasn't exactly like athletically shaped. And. He sees Andrew and Mike and I trailing. Mike with a cigarette. I still.

And trailing him, and I'm trying to record and keep it steady as Andrew's turning back, yelling at me, making sure I'm recording. And you can see David Brock's face. He sees Andrew, and at first it's like, who is this strange confusion? Like, who is this running towards me? And then it just goes blank, and then the terror creeps in, and he realizes that it's Andrew Breupart barreling towards him as fast as his California legs could take him.

And then at that point, David and all the dudes that were with him We all run towards the media matter door, at the front door, at the exact same time. And David Brock is trying to race back to the elevator to go up to their Media Matters floor. And it's one of those elevators where you have to have the fob to get through and all that. And Andrew was not going to allow that to happen.

So we all race back. David Brock runs into the elevator. He's in a corner. His lackeys are in front of him. And Andrew just casually stops.

He is so out of breath. And he's leaning up in the open door of the elevator.

So the elevator door can't close. And at some point, the little brr, brr, brrb alarm sounds. And he's out of breath and he's like, so Hi, David. BAAA And he takes a minute. And then Mike finally catches up.

I think they made him stay outside and he threw away a cigarette. I'm not kidding. And then he catches up and he's like, Yeah, we're here for the 990. And it was just hysterical.

So we waited, it was so anti-climatic, but it was funny in that. I mean, who does that? That was your job. Like, you just drop in on Media Matters and you troll them and you demand their 990 because they're rat bastards. And you all act like, you know, you're all supposed to be civil in the public square.

They've tried to ruin people's lives at Media Matters.

So, and it's funny, they brought it out. Andrew and I, I'm going to be real because I was in my 20s. I was in my late 20s, I think, or maybe I was 30 when this happened. Uh We, Andrew and I, legit had no idea what the hell we were looking for. I mean, I'm super young.

I was the youngest person at the company. It was me and Ben Shapiro. We were the youngest people at the company. I had no idea what to look for. Andrew honestly had no idea what to look for.

Mike did. He was the one. And it was hysterical because they bring in the 990 and he's holding it and he's flipping through it like, yes, yes. He's looking at it. I mean, it was a really short thing.

It was like two pages. He was looking at it like, and Andrew's like, oh, yes, this looks on the up and up. I had no idea. It was hysterical, but Mike knew exactly what he was looking for. But it was funny.

That's what we did. That's what we did. So, flashback to Media Matters, because. They have made so, Musk said that it's going to be a quote, thermonuclear lawsuit. My only sadness is that we can't donate to it.

That's my only sadness. You know, like to just be able to pitch in and deliver a kick. That would be so epic. But I had to share this because that was one of the funniest. I'm like, that was our job.

And then after that, we went to lunch. It was just hysterical. Like, we dove out in the middle of a busy, busy, busy road in downtown D.C. Traffic everywhere. It was like plain frogger.

People honked at us. I think Mike almost got hit, but he looked so mean and grizzled that nobody dared try. It was just funny. It was too funny. But I hope that thermonuclear lawsuit goes through.

It's his life mission to make bad decisions. Yeah.

It's time for Florida man.

Alright, so how to d Florida man's been busy. All right, first up. This, um Mm-hmm. I guess it's a I I'm trying to figure out It's Big Pine Key, Florida. It's like a semi-truck pontoon.

That's what I was thinking of. A pontoon boat. And so this guy Creates a half semi-truck, half pontoon. And this was from WINK News in Big Pine Key. He said it doesn't get more Florida than that.

Uh he was boating with a half semi-truck, half pontoon in Big Pine Key. I'm just amazed that it doesn't sink. And he said just something that they did for just did for the fun of it. Wands got some photos of it in the simulcast. Like that's probably one of the, yeah.

Florida Man claims that voices made him rob a dollar general twice. And actually it was more than that. And one time it was two times in one day, and then it was another day, three days, technically. During the investigation, police said an employee immediately recognized the suspect as a thirty one year old Matt Pringle. They said that he said that he heard voices and apparently the voices told him to go and rob the dollar store.

That's pretty specific. Like if you hear a voice And it and it goes pss go wrong. Up the dollar store. Go and rob it.

Sounds he took cash from the register and fled on foot. Were they gonna, what did he think they were gonna tell him? Oh, the voices told you that's okay. You're, you get to go. The voices told you to do it.

You get to do it. I'm going to tell them, like, when are the voices going to say, get an education and a job? Or, yeah, why don't the voices ever say, get a job? That's a great point. I don't know why, but that's a million-dollar question.

A Florida man shoots an intruder. who tried to break into his home. This was on Thursday. The incident occurred after midnight in Velucia County, according to law enforcement. They said via the Washington Examiner, they said that it was 12 in the morning, a little after midnight.

Port Orange police responded. They said the homeowner defended himself against the intruder, the home invader, who was trying to forcibly enter the residence. They said that it's believed the homeowner acted in self-defense. They were investigating anyway, but it sounds like stand your ground right there because you have the right to defend yourself against people who want to do you harm in your home. And so it looks like that's exactly what happened.

Uh, this, let's see, I'm gonna go all others. I'm not reading this one. Um, I'm not reading this one. This guy cannot, okay, so I got a villages story. This seems so mean to do, like to take people.

A former employee was arrested after allegedly reaching into a tip bucket, not once, but twice at a car wash. Daniel Previtt, 43, was arrested Friday after he was caught on surveillance reaching into the tip bucket at the Sweetwater Cash Wash. And they said that he was found to also be in possession of a controlled substance. He apparently previously worked at the car wash. He was fired because he took money from the tip bucket, and then they get about $200, $300 a day in tip money.

So he went back after the same car wash he was fired at. for taking money out of the tip pocket. And then he took more money out of the tip bucket. He was booked in a Sumphre County detention center on a $4,000 bond. Why?

Like why again, get a job. It's so easy, get a job. Oh my gosh. A uh woman buys a BMW with a bogus check. She added and adds a hundred dollar tip.

What? Marion County, Florida. Deputies in Marion County are searching for a Florida woman accusing accused of purchasing a BMW from an auto shop with a fake check. She's wanted for grand theft of a motor vehicle. She visited Baseline Auto Care.

And then she also added a $100 tip in the memo. What? Oh my gosh. That is not like a tip right there? That's a shouldn't that be a red flag that wait what?

They tried to deposit the check because they're dumb and they were told that it was fraudulent and they contacted her. She said she'd go back to the shop to pay for the car, but still hasn't.

So they found the BMW, they found the printers, the blank checks and an iPad in the trunk.

So there you go. They're still looking for the. Unbelievable. We got our third hour on the way. You don't want to miss.

Stick with us. John, I was just curious, you mentioned Hamas still determined to try to carry out any sort of terrorist attack abroad. This Thanksgiving week, is there any elevated risk of terror attacks here at home? And is the White House or NSC doing anything specific? Because of the holiday week, most people obviously kind of check out in D.C.

I'm just curious, are you stapping up in a difference because of the terror threat? We're not tracking any specific credible threat here at home over the holiday. That said, I think you can understand we're going to be as vigilant as we have been since this conflict began and certainly make sure that we, to the best we can, can identify any potential domestic threats and disrupt them before they can take place. We're watching this all very, very closely for spillover effects from the fight between Israel and Hamas. Mm.

But they have no updates on any kind of hostage. Nothing about any of the hostages. I mean, apparently, like, one of the American hostages is an infant. That's what I had read. I'd read that widely reported.

Good heavens.

So I. It would be great for them to have some clarity on this. They said that they've been what do you what is there to negotiate? Seriously, what is there to negotiate with when you're talking about Hamas? I mean, it's.

I'm really curious about this. What is there? ultimately to negotiate. Because They don't want a two-state solution. They don't want any kind of ceasefire.

So, what are you going to try to talk them into doing? No, no, that doesn't make sense. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you, top of this third hour. And uh we are right here ahead of Thanksgiving.

And then we had the uh turkeys pardoned. Which I'm always fascinated with. By the way, John, who listens to the show, said: one gets pardoned and spends the rest of its life in a petting zoo, the other is auctioned off and ends up on someone's table Thanksgiving Day, not as a guest. All right, well, that makes sense. At least one of it gets good eaten.

And hopefully, the money goes to a good cause.

So, there you go, right. Yeah, there you have it. Huh. There you have it.

So again, welcome back. Listen Coast to Coast of the Radio program. You can also stream the show, YouTube, Facebook, and Channel 347 DirecTV.

Now The Ongoing we talked about the Houthis. And how we started off the program discussing the footage, the video footage. that they were able to capture shows At the Al Shiva Hospital. Hamas's hostages. And a lot of munitions and a lot of other stuff that we were told that they didn't have at the hospital and that it was just conspiracy theory type stuff to even entertain that idea, which that's not true.

That nobody would nobody would take any evidence.

So now there's video evidence. There is, I mean Pretty amazing video evidence. I don't know if you've seen.

some of this that's out there. They have video footage of the I mean, hostages that have their hands tied up.

Some of them are blindfolded. and they're being marched. Into The hospital. It's on surveillance footage. They have surveillance footage that they took.

And now that they have the hospital, they saw all the surveillance footage of Hamas bringing all these terrorists into Al-Shifa hospital. There was a Nepali and Thai citizen. who were abducted from Israel on october seventh, And there are literally they're being marched into the hospital. It's pretty wild. Uh All kinds of video, I mean, all kinds of stuff.

It shows all their vehicles outside, it shows all the terrorists inside the hospital. And the excuse that was given by Hamas and the uh their terrorist supporters The excuse it is given is, oh, they took these hostages there for medical care. Except On the way to that particular hospital, they literally passed five others. that they could have taken their they could have taken these hostages to. They went, they literally drove past one of, like one, and then they were a block away from another hospital.

They drove past five hospitals. They took a very particular route to get to Al Shifa Hospital. And that's because their headquarters are there. That's because they took them down into the tunnels. You don't I mean where within where are these hostages?

They walked all these hostages in there. The video footage shows them all walking in. None of the video footage shows those same hostages leaving. It shows terrorists going in and out. But it shows the hostages going in once.

So please explain that to me. Explain how some of these stills show people who are Like actually they've got their their their stuff over their heads. They have stuff over their heads. How what is that? You're going to put something over his head and take him into a hospital?

That doesn't make any sense. I mean, they dragged another one on his feet. They dragged him. He was trying to resist, and they were dragging him on camera. That doesn't make any sense.

That they're oh well it's because they uh They were being treated. with bags over their heads or or sacks over their heads, and it does not.

So there's the proof. They got the proof. I mean, that's that's I what else do people need at that point? And again, one of the reasons everybody knew this is because. It was like it's one of the worst kept secrets ever.

Everybody knew 'cause it was crazy to think that you would have a terrorist entity use a hospital. As a uh headquarters.

So there you have it.

So they've got the proof. And they were using that hospital to stage their attacks because they also found rockets, munitions, everything. And you have the World Health Organization. We need to ceasefire so we can restart operations there. I mean, it honestly kind of shows too.

I think There were a lot of people I think people who were even there who were lying about what was going on at that hospital. I mean, it's clear that the doctors there, some of the doctors there had been lying.

Some of them actually spoke up. Most of them had lying. Maybe it was they were worried about retribution or whatever, but they were lying. And not being honest with what was happening. If this was about saving lives, I mean, they talk about patients have been dying there because there's a lack of power.

It's catastrophic. We're trying to maintain operations. And they were quoting the quote Gazan health officials. That's Hamas. That's literally Hamas.

Those are all the same, it's Hamas.

So the WHO is taking Hamas's excuses. and running it as gospel truth. Oh, and by the way, the New York Times does the same thing. They still, actually, they had a piece out yesterday where they still are citing quote-unquote Gazan health officials. And they've only once acknowledged that the entirety of the health officials that are in the health ministry are entirely controlled by Hamas.

Don't you think that's important to readers for context? That's like saying that you're you know you're you're quoting an entity that's run by the Nazis and you're not telling you know people in allied countries that this is you know it's coming from the Nazis. The Nazis say no, they they they say Gazan health officials. Mm-hmm. And so Troubling indeed.

So the IDF has surrounded some of these other Gaza City hospitals because they're getting getting these operatives out and trying to understand some of the tunnel infrastructure. They keep finding all these other entrances to tunnels that lead directly under Al Shifa. But hey, they weren't using it for anything. I'm sure that was just a secret entry, right? Just for the doctors or something.

I mean, so what else do people need at this point?

Meanwhile, you've got the Houthis in the Red Sea that are firing off. And g they went after a Japanese vessel. That had been leased by a British company that is only partially owned by an Israeli businessman. And the Houthi uh hijacked it. Because They They because of the the particip or the ownership of part ownership of one of these Israeli businessmen.

They said they're going after every ship that's owned by an Israeli. And they were trying to swarm another vessel with their drones. We had one of our ships out there that shot down a bunch of their drones.

So very, I mean, and this is, they've always been at this level. We're going to talk to Stephen Yates about this. They have obviously escalated. They've escalated recently. Let's get to a few other things as well.

to make sure that we have I got some law and order stuff Oh my gosh There's a couple of things.

So we Had and this is in California. They've been releasing violent rapists in California. And Yes, they have been. They also have this story in Michigan. Where a salon owner who had said that she would only serve men and women, Uh she's been charged with Or they've charged the salon owner with discrimination.

Because the salon owner said she's not going to serve. People who identify as anything other than a man or woman. When I was reading this headline, And I was looking at the headline of uh The story coming out of California. where they've been They're releasing, like they have this Board of Parole, this Parole Board has been leasing these convicted rapists after only a number of like a few years into their sentencing. What is the left's problem with women?

I mean, they obviously have a problem with Jewish people, but now I'm like, wait, you're going after this woman who's a salon owner, who won't serve, who will only cut women's hair and men's hair, not men pretending to be women, etc. And then this as well. Every single move that they've been making, whether it's in the justice system or whether it's in the cultural battle, has really been anti-woman. I mean, we All of these women for all these years have bitched about sexism.

Well, guess what? Here it is, right here, right in front of you. Where are you? It's actually becoming real right here. As bad as you kept saying that it was all these years, now it's actually finally getting that bad.

Where are you at? They're not saying anything. The Story in Michigan. This is the Elliott Larson Civil Rights Act. They said they're charging Christine Geiger and her salon, Studio 8 Hair Lab, with discrimination.

People filed complaints because her words hurt their feelings, apparently. They said that the Elliott Larson Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of certain characteristics, including religion.

Okay. She had posted on Facebook. Quote: If a human identifies as anything other than a man or woman, please seek services at a local peck room or you are not welcome at the salon, period. They got mad. And they told on her.

They went and told their local government. How dare she say something? And so now they want to find her. They want to go after her because of this. They've charged her.

How? You're charged with discrimination. She's violated this Elliott Larson Civil Rights Act.

Now, they could have fines. Apparently, they have to go in front of an administrative law judge to hear the case. They issue a recommendation for the Michigan Civil Rights Commission, then they issue an order. This is like a Rube Goldberg. apparatus for grifters is what it is.

Her salon is in Traverse City. Which that's kind of a lefty area from what I understand.

So that's you know, y you you couldn't be shocked that somebody there was going to snitch on her. And she told the AP that she stood by what she said. She's like, I just don't want the woke dollar. I'd rather not be as busy than have to do services that I don't agree with. She said that the people who complained about her post violated her rights to free speech, according to the Traverse City Record Eagle.

She says, We just want to enjoy the freedoms that other people do and not have to promote or indulge contrary beliefs. Where's yeah, that's not discrimination. That's her being, it's discrimination. to cosplay as a woman and demand same treatment as women. That to me is discrimination, and it gets into that area because it's appropriation.

That's absolutely appropriation. They're going after free speech, freedom of expression, and freedom of association. All of this, by the way, is up on deck in 2024, so choose some wisely. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

I I am not, I do not believe this headline. Is this, it's like, is this like the South Park Tom Brady? Dune episode. I don't even know how to A man Gave himself. I don't even know what this means.

Fecal transplants? Using his mother's Yes, to treat his Crohn's, and then he started experiencing her menopause symptoms. I do not Bullet Cane. This story is garbage. You sent me this.

I did. This was you.

So please explain yourself. What do you mean? What in the world? This is South Park. This is a South Park episode.

Same question to you, dude. How? First off, why? Why and how? And I don't know how.

I'm not sure we can even get into the speculation of how. Don't be doing this stuff. Do not do this stuff. They said that she donated her. Um waste to him.

Yeah, so he could do the waste transplant. For four years. He did this for four years. Then he said he got hermenopause symptoms. I don't even know what that means.

Oh my gosh. I just think that this is why aliens don't visit us and why asteroids should hit us hard and fast. Let's see here. Uh oh no. No no no.

There's the Crocs cowboy boot. Yeah.

It's things that we didn't need. I wanted flying cars. maybe a cure for diseases, and instead we got the Crocs cowboy boot. They said that they're kind of plasticky, it's a quasi-Western style, but it's the Kroc cowboy boot that has come out. And and how much are they?

$120. It's like a boot caricature. It's a crock, but then with the boot part on it. And none of it's like the, it's not the leather. Oh my gosh.

Formula One's Las Vegas Grand Prix is already being sued. They've had mishap, all kinds of problems. A bunch of different firms are bringing a class action law class action suit against the organizers. They said fans just saw eight minutes of a practice session cancel due to issues. Stick with us.

Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, because knowledge is your ultimate superpower. And President Xi did express the view that it's important for Taiwan and mainland China to unify. He certainly expressed the desire to have that occur by peaceful means. And what is his motivation? That's Secretary, Treasury Secretary Jeanette Yellen.

And she says that Xi Jinping, of course, when he was there for the APAC meeting last well, in San Francisco, where they removed everybody off the streets last week, saying that he wants to do it by peaceful means, which I don't really think anybody believes that. I mean, maybe she's just reiterating what He told her But I feel like that that's all they do is just repeat the stuff that he tells them and they believe it as though it's gospel truth and then there's just no counter to it. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you, bottom of this third hour. Joining us on this, our very good friend, Stephen Yates.

And you can find him on X. I keep wanting to say Twitter. Technically, it's X. You can find him on X at YatesComms as well. And we always appreciate him.

Senior Fellow at America First Policy Institute, of course, and chair of the China Policy Initiative.

Okay, Stephen, so we. Didn't have high hopes for this. But we did get some pandas out of it. Yeah.

I'm just not a super fan of the panda, you know? You hate pandas? He hates pandas. I mean, they're just pure chaos. They really are.

All the videos. Just not a fan. I mean, they're sort of in the same genre as raccoons. They probably carry a lot. You know, my son thinks they're the cutest things ever.

He calls them trash pandas. Uh, so they're probably the same family. One's a trash panda, the other's a commie panda. Commie panda. Seem to like them.

Uh, my daughter loved them when she was a little kid. You know, so I mean, I don't know, but just to me, it just doesn't work. But every time I hear Janet yell and speak, I just think of that commercial where people just look at each other brainlessly and say, Are you gelling? Are you yelling? Oh, yes.

I just think of her. Are you yelling? Are you yelling? And they had a China talk and they're just yelling and yelling. And she comes out of it like, oh, he wants peace.

Yeah, cool beans.

So he poisons us with COVID and fentanyl, but I bet he wants peace with the United States too. He wants peace with the Philippines, but butts a bunch of ships up against their territory. And, you know, he wants peace with the Australians. He'll like rattle them with some sonar.

So it's all peaceful violence. Come on. Yeah.

So really nothing was accomplished from this. I mean, what was the point? We spent taxpayer dollars to protect a communist leader. And I get that, you know, we, everybody, whenever there's a summit and foreign leaders attend, I get it. You put their flags out.

I understand that. But I think a lot of the objection that I saw is people objecting to a communist nation that is really a geopolitical foe that has done quite a lot to try to hurt America's interests and America itself. Yeah, there were no highlights in this. There was some stuff that came out of it that they claimed were breakthroughs. They claimed there was some kind of an agreement on fentanyl.

Really, all it did was say there's going to be some working groups. And anyone who's spent more than five seconds in government knows exactly where those go into some kind of a circular dialogue system that pumps out more meetings and more dialogue for the sake of talking. It's not going to save anybody. And oh, by the way, I mean, after murdering so many Americans, are we supposed to stand up and clap that they're going to have a dialogue about their murder? I don't think so.

So, I mean, I think people are in on the joke at this point. And I think that's why the Biden administration is sort of struggling to put lipstick on this pig. It's not a good relationship. Most Americans don't think the president and his team have handled it very well. They've been bullied from the get-go by the Chinese.

And this was just a par for the course. Only this time, Gavin Newsom jumped in too.

So that was super fun. I was just going to ask you about that. We're talking with our good friend Stephen Yates at Yates Comp. On X.

Now I understand him being the governor of California. He was going to be there to welcome. You know, the commie leader of China. I get it. Because, you know, they're very much, it's out of all the states in the union, you know, California is perhaps most like China in terms of its, you know, governmental ideology.

But then, but this was after he went over there. That was weird to me. I don't recall any kind of government for any leader from anywhere being that involved and that like at the forefront of meeting somebody like that. To me, that was he's auditioning to be VP so that when Joe falls down the stairs or something, he can take over. Oh, I think there was a good bit of that, but I'd like to have some fun with him and say, you know, what he did was basically what a staffer would do.

So he was the pre-advance for the president. And so he's basically auditioning not even to be a constitutional officer of the United States. He'd like to be the staff, the bag carrier, go out there and measure the rooms for the meetings, all that fun stuff. I did that in the past. It was actually kind of better than it sounds.

But for Gavin Newsom, basically, he put himself in the role of a functionary. And so, good for him. But then, that functionary got to say, I love my people so much that I'm going to leave you awas in garbage unless we have visitors. And so, unless California has some more visitors coming soon, I'm guessing the garbage is coming back. That's actually a great point.

They didn't get anything cleaned up until the commie came over.

So, now is he going to entertain like every leader now and have them all over there so they can justify using taxpayer dollars to do more taxpayer dollars to do what they should have done with the first round of it? I mean, that's a very good point. I wanted to add, you mentioned the sonar thing. This was weird to me. Associated Press, Austria accused the Chinese Navy on Saturday of likely causing minor injuries to Australian naval divers by operating its sonar while they were trying to clear fishing nets from their ships' propellers.

This sounds like super shady. The government expressed very serious concerns to the Chinese government. They said it was unsafe, unprofessional. Their defense minister put the statement on his website. China hasn't said anything.

Apparently, not just Australia, but Canada and the United States have all repeatedly complained about what they say are dangerous activity undertaken by the Chinese Navy and Air Force in the Western Pacific, Western Pacific. They say it could actually escalate, you know, and create an international incident. That's like they did it on purpose. They did that on purpose. 100%.

But there's two different things that the Chinese do all the time that are a no-no under the air quotes international law, because I don't believe there is any such thing as only international enforcement or lack of enforcement. And so on the high seas, oftentimes we have China sending a lot of civil fishing boats out to crowd waters. It's a way of informally claiming territory that isn't theirs. They do a lot of illegal fishing.

So, they're stealing livelihoods away from those they are sort of coercing.

So, when they're going up close to the Philippines, Taiwan, and elsewhere, they're taking their fishing business away from them too. And as they do that, all these nets are left everywhere. And so, this Australian vessel was having nets taken away from their propellers that probably got in the way of operating their vessel. And so, the handy-dandy People's Liberation Army Navy comes by and booms them with some sound. I am told anyone who's listening on radio would know how little pigment I have.

So, I'm not going out in the ocean and swimming around. But I'm told by divers, all of them, this is actually extremely dangerous. You can get some really irrecoverable damage done to your ears from this kind of sonar being active. Used when there are divers nearby. And so, this is something that is just basics about safety on the high seas.

And of course, the Chinese are violating on purpose. Wow. Wow. And that it's happening.

So it's just like these little things, death by a thousand paper cuts, escalation by a thousand little things like this. But we get the pandas, though. They also held a drill on an island that's potentially vulnerable to China. A drill on an island kept an 11-day series of exercises that has a very interesting name, meant to show the readiness of ground sea and air forces to defend Japan, defend Japan. Of course, China's watching this.

Japan's military holding this. It's right there, right there by China, right there. It's the, and I'm not going to say this correctly, Tokunoshima island, or maybe I did. And they, it's, it's, China's had their eye on it. And that could actually be, they said, you know, this could be the start of like the next Ukraine.

That's according to the prime minister that have. Mainland China, if they were emboldened by Russia's assault, that they could attack Taiwan. This island's gonna be right there in the middle of it to help facilitate that. Talk to me a little bit about this because we never, like, nobody in the press. Really ever pays attention to these little this exercise is being held or this is happening and here's another island that China has its eye on as a way to maybe bridge over to Taiwan.

All incredibly important and important and all again, that death by a thousand paper cuts. It is the death by a thousand paper cuts and other kinds of cuts too. And I think people would really have a hard time fathoming exactly how many islands, large and small, the country of Japan actually is and how far it goes from the north, all the way down, frankly, right next to Taiwan. And it's part of China's strategic objective to punch through that first island chain in order to have commercial and military and strategic influence over the broader Pacific. This is something they've talked about forever.

But if they happen to attack a Japanese sovereign island, then that invokes our bilateral defense treaty with Japan.

So this is not a small issue. This is something that if we had an active Congress holding active hearings, they ought to be talking about. Because it is a place that could legitimately ignite a conflict and one we are treaty bound to engage in. They talked a lot in recent years about Article 5 of NATO. This is written right into a bilateral treaty.

And so, I mean, Japan gave up a lot of its defense, even allowed us to write a constitution for them in exchange for ceding in World War II and keeping the peace since.

So, this is something that's of greater consequence than just a few little islands here or there. And China is stoking the flames of conflict on that. That's incredibly important because if something were to kick off, say, with Taiwan, even if there were arguments here in the United States that, you know, and I see, and there are some on the right that make this argument, and I guess they don't, I think that they like to compare and say that every interest, whether it's in the Pacific or whether it's over in the Middle East, they like to say that everything is the same. Everything's a nail, they're a hammer to it. I get it.

But at the same time, because of what you just mentioned, should Japan get involved, or if there was, you know, that increase in hostility. Against Japan as well. That's because of that treaty. It's a game changer. It is.

I mean, people talk about there possibly being an embargo around Taiwan if China wanted to coerce them. It's physically impossible to encircle Taiwan without encroaching upon Japanese airspace and territorial waterways. And so, at least in that northern and northeastern part above Taiwan, everyone's visualing in their mind as they safely drive down the road. This is absolutely logically impossible for China to encircle and pressure Taiwan without encroaching in those areas. And so this is very, very serious.

And it's a huge deal for the government of Japan to very openly talk about this. This almost never happened in the past. I would like it if it were a sign of strength and comfort. Unfortunately, it's out of fear and American weakness that they're having to speak for themselves. I was just going to ask you that, again, talking with our friend Steve Yates.

I was just, let's end on this. I was just going to ask you about that because it does seem unusual. And you mentioned the treaty as well. And they're always relying as a result of. Of ending World War II and having them sign the peace accord.

it that is it's not a sign of confidence. It's a it and rather, it is a fear of this our current administration and the way things are right now, it's so dangerous that they feel the need to step out that far on their own. They do. I mean, really, the coverage of the APEC meeting in San Francisco focused way too much on Joe Biden stumbling over and rubbing the shoulders of Xi Jinping, an evil, gross dictator. And apparently, that's the president's power move that's going to bring peace in our time.

But really, what our Japanese ally heard was a delusional administration talking about restoring communication, something that actually was never broken. You just didn't like the communication that was being given, and trying to return to normalcy. And Japan is screaming now in the most subtle form of Japanese diplomacy that there isn't normal time and it can't have normal policy. I just can't believe that we bring over a communist dictator who banned Winnie the Pooh and he brings up pandas and nobody trolls him over it. I mean, that's just a sign of weakness, if ever there was one.

I tell you what. I mean, you just move an opportunity. Yeah, you missed the golden opportunity. Our good friend Steve Yates, you can find him at YatesComs on X, aka Twitter, formerly known as Twitter. Always good to see you.

Happy Thanksgiving to you, my friend. Thank you so much for it. We're grateful for you. Thank you so much for blessing us week after week with your insight and really bringing people up to speed on an issue that they should know more about. Everything happening with China, because I think that's our greatest threat, even though the media may not think it, it really is.

So you really bless us with your insight. Thank you so much. Thank you, Dana. God bless and great. Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Thank you. Whether you're a policy wonk, a news junkie, or simply someone hungry for insightful discourse, the Dana Show Podcast has your back. Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. I think I know this is of great interest to all of you. I just want to let you know we're still working this hour by hour.

I do not have an update for you on the hostage deal that we're trying to negotiate. But as you heard the Deputy National Security Advisor say yesterday, we believe we're closer than we've ever been.

So we're hopeful. But there's still work to be done, and nothing is done until it's all done.

So we're going to keep working on this. Mm. What does that mean? They're going to keep working on this. That's John Kirby talking about.

Yeah, they're still working. It has to do with the ceasefire. Um. Does that mean that? They're going to, are they still wiring the bombs that they're going to be sending over to blow up Hamas?

Kane, is there enough time passed yet? Yeah.

Yeah, I guess. I mean, because if you were telling me That they were going to wire. cane, some sort of explosive device. That after it blew... up all the Hamas guys to bits.

And everything in the area was just in bloody ruin. You know how sometimes fireworks after the initial explosion there's like these cracklers that go off? It would be great if they could just somehow Create an explosive device that, after the initial blast, sent up some of those fireworks cracklers. That's spelled out against the smoke. Ceasefire D's nuts.

I'm just saying, that's all. I was trying to avoid the whole show.

Well, you know, you wanted me to give the people some time.

Sometimes I just am mentally a 15-year-old boy. With the humor. I can't help it. But that's the first thing that I can do. I hope you forget.

And here we are at the last. I intentionally did not remind you of that. Pepperid Farms never forgets, Kane. Ever. So you had to know that was coming.

I'm just saying, that's the only thing. Tomorrow, can we talk about how people get food poisoning on Thanksgiving? Kane got really aggressive with this, and I feel like it deserves its own segment because he immediately, because I was talking about leftovers, and he's like, it's because people undercook their damn turkey. And he was just all the feels. We've got to talk about this tomorrow.

So we're on bookmarking it. Looking forward to that. Kane's going to rage. All right, today's stupidity, sir.

Well, this is Corine Jean-Pierre. She's talking about the president's. Things like stamina and wisdom. Listen to this. Listen to what she says.

I would put the president's stamina. President's wisdom, ability to get this done on behalf of the American people against anyone. Wow. Anyone on any day of the week. Oh, thanks guys.

Wow. Uh Anyone against his stamina and wisdom against anyone is equally cheesebrained. Anybody that is. There you go. There you go.

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