Friday December 15 - Full Show

I think it's really important that those conversations take place first in a spirit of partnership. We're not here to tell anybody, you must do X, you must do Y. We're here to say, this is our perspective as your partner, as your friend. This is what we believe is the best way to achieve both your tactical and strategic goals. Government's not my friend.

I don't know what he's talking about. That's Jake Sullivan. who uh was speaking NSA's Jake Sullivan. who was speaking about strategy on Israel, saying No, we're not here to tell them what they have to do and what they... What they shouldn't do.

But that's exactly what you were doing. Isn't that why Blinken went over there in the first place? Twice, actually, in first and second place. Welcome to the program. It is our last.

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So, because we got a full studio today, got a lot of people, there's a lot of shenanigans. Steve is actually in Texas today. Normally he's kind of like a V O G all the way out in D C, but now he's he's actually he's here. We got we got the whole the whole show crew's here. I can see like just the tops of your little heads, just over Sienna's elves, just right over there.

All right, so lots of stuff to hit today. Just to get you kind of set up, because everybody's kind of sliding into what. Especially in an election cycle, there's always this weird Christmas season malaise, thank heavens. I think we're due for some as it pertains to politics because we all know that coming up after the new year, Everybody hits the ground running, and it is crazy time because you have Iowa, then you have New Hampshire, you get into your early states, then you got Super Tuesday coming up. The campaign kicks off in earnest, and I have refrained.

From this point, of spending an inordinate amount of time. On the primary stuff with particular regards to these early states, just because I don't want to inundate you with all this stuff. There's just so much out there. And it's stupid up until four weeks until the votes are cast when it's not stupid.

So we're going to start covering that more and more, and we'll get into some of that. As it pertains to Israel, though, we talked about some of this yesterday. It looks like Hamas, there might be a split within their leadership. We'll see. We were given a little bit of the history of Hamas and Fatah and the Palestinian Authority and the whole West Bank and Gaza, etc., etc., because it seems like the solution that the United States government wants to pursue is to force a group who rose in popularity because they didn't think that their neighbor to the north had any right to exist at all whatsoever on this planet.

It seems to be that they want to get a group that doesn't want to accept a two-state solution, never wanted to accept a two-state solution, literally has it in their charter not accepting a two-state solution to accept a two-state solution.

Now I feel like If you've ever tried to get a toddler to eat vegetables. This is like that on steroids. It's never going to happen. It's never going to happen. You're never going to make this happen.

And but there seems to be one guy. Uh and we were talking about him, Hama, the one the one uh Hamas. He was living in the one Hamas leader. I think there are several. All of them though were living in Qatar.

And he left his big old fancy swanky palace in Qatar. And I think he was going. Did they ever say it was Lebanon, Algeria? I have no idea why. Maybe Mossad was hunting them down.

I don't know. and ended up leaving. And he was saying, okay, well, we could be prevailed upon. to recognize Israel. But the others aren't.

I mean, the other spokesperson literally went out. There in October, or no, no, it was November 1st. He went out there November 1st. It was like, we're going to continue to do this. You're going to have a million October 7th.

This is never going to end. We're going to keep, we're going to keep doing this. We're going to keep resisting. I don't resisting what? Like getting free land, getting free infrastructure.

I'm going to resist getting all these free things. It's like resisting Santa. The irony, though, it's like resisting Santa for Christmas. I mean, you literally got infrastructure, sewer systems, water systems, sewage treatment plants, water treatment plants, greenhouses, industry left for you. As I said yesterday, it's like walking into a turnkey house given to you for free with all the furnishings and all the fix-ins, fully stocked fridge and everything else.

It's like doing all of that, and you're still going to complain. You're still going to complain and moan about it. For what? What are you rebelling against? You got your land, you got all this stuff.

Like, what else is there? We just don't think they should exist. And as you know, that's why Hamas got more popularity than Fata. And to the point where they won elections in 06 after the unilateral withdrawal in 2005, it's why they ended up. Actually, encroaching on Palestinian authorities' authority in West Bank with Fatah because the leader of Fatah is the leader of Palestinian authority.

So they suspended elections. That's why they haven't had elections because they enjoyed. I just went over with you yesterday the survey showing that people still like Hamas. Insane. But that's the way it is.

Gazens felt. Overwhelming justification for the October 7th attacks. They felt as though there had been a resistance, a rebellion, and this was the next step. That's troubling.

Now you can see why Jordan doesn't want to accept any refugees. You can see why Lebanon doesn't want to accept any refugees. You can see why Egypt, the Rafah Crossing, you can see why that's shut down. They don't want to accept any refugees. There's a reason why.

And it has nothing to do with the identitarian battles that people want to wage. It has nothing to do with that. I mean, unless you want to say that all the Arab leaders in the Arab states that don't want to take any of these refugees are themselves racist. It has nothing to do with that. It has they don't want to they don't want to bring people who've been generationally waged to think that terror is a form of policy and diplomacy.

It makes sense.

Now, so that's one of the things that we are watching. The other thing that we're watching. I got a lot of uh we got some cultural stuff that we have to Uh to hit as well. The economic aspect of this, let me pull up. We're going to get to some of the economic aspects of this.

Remember that the video that we posted yesterday? I did not use that woman's screenshot enough. The Dorrance Dance Trainer. Troop Company From New York City? Remember them?

Kane really enjoyed them. He told me later it really got him into the Christmas season. What? I didn't lie. I you you said it was f it was festive.

Okay. All right, let's go with it. Let's do that. I might be slightly exaggerating. That's just missed speech, though, right?

There's no such thing as lies anymore. It's all missed speech. Oh, I misspee. That's what it was.

So, Dorrance Dan's, the New York City-based tap company.

Okay, can I stop for one second? I swear I'm gonna get through this segment. The Nutcracker should never be tapped. No, oh my gosh, Juan hates me. Hates me to death.

We're gonna get sighted by somebody from so and then the guy with the shoe with the flower on his head comes out. That's what is this? This is like I've never done acid, but I'm pretty sure this is what it's like Is this and then this chick who cannot keep her mouth closed to save her life? Ah! What is that?

Oh my gosh. It's if you saw this in your dreams, you'd wake up sweating. You absolutely would. You would wake up in a sweaty mess. If you saw this in your house, you'd call the police.

And you because I just don't think it's meant to be tapped. I'm a purist. Can I? I'm never going to stop complaining about it enough. Never.

So I do appreciate that it's kind of old school tap and it's not like the Savion Glover type. Although I like the Glover type poofing, I think it's great.

So anyway, so this dance troupe, kind of interesting, this group. It's a New York City-based top dance company. And they did the Nutcracker suite in the White House. I wonder who buffed the floors after that, by the way. Uh they also I don't know if you're aware of their little website.

Are you all aware of that?

So they have a whole bunch of DEI stuff on their website. And they also have a page dedicated to teaching white people to check their privilege. Have you checked your privilege, Kane, for the half-y that's white? Have you checked it today? I thought I'd check it every day, I think.

Like when they say check your privilege. What does that mean? I have a very beavis and butthead understanding of this. That's Honestly, I have no clue. Is it a card that you can swipe?

No.

So is it like if I'm just hold up? Is it like if I go to Costco and buy mass quantities? And then I go through the checkout. Do I get to oh, wait a minute, now move over, Amex. And then I take out my white privilege card and I swipe it and I get to leave, and then it just charges the ether.

Is that what it is? No.

I don't think that's how it goes. I'm just curious, because I always hear check your white privilege. Is it a parcel perhaps that one must check at the door? I don't think that's it either. Like the nuclear football that the president always carries around and he's got a dude to carry it for him?

I mean, it sounds like that could be. Right, but I don't think that's you have somebody to carry your white privilege for you, or is that a is that like a bougie thing to ask? That's a super white privilege, right? That seems like that would be super white privilege, almost as white privilege as demanding no one else can be armed, but you can afford the armed security. I'm just curious what checking white privilege means.

I mean, growing up poor and having to eat gravy, milk gravy, and biscuits every single day, being raised by a single mother who worked three jobs, I don't. Like is that white privilege? Is that white privilege? I'm not quite sure. Not being able to afford notebook paper when I went to elementary school.

Is that white privilege? Because if that's white privilege, my gosh, what's above that? Like, what's white exaltation? Is that, do I have to go to a level higher in order to be able to afford notebook paper? You know, because my white privilege has afforded me so much.

I'm just curious.

So, they have this whole page talking about checking white privilege. And then they state: be mindful of who/slash/what is financially supporting the candidates you vote for. And then they link to BLM and this other organization, S-U-R-J, which is dedicated to, quote, organizing white people. for racial justice.

Now, I know that this was unintentional. But they sound like the Klan. You're not wrong. Did they mean to? I just.

It's accidental. Accidental.

So that seems like a real nice group you hired there. That's all that you couldn't find anyone else? You're telling me that there is not a dance group? Does everybody, this is the nature of DEI, everybody's got to be involved in this hustle now. That's great.

We love that you can rearrange guts, Dr. Smith. But where do you stand on DEI? Where do you stand on CRT? Where do you stand on these items?

Well, because that's actually more important than your gut arranging skills, Dr. Smith. You laugh, but we're going for that. You know this, right? That's right where we're heading.

You're going to be going one day, heaven forbid, you're going to be going to a doctor and you're going to be trying to go to the most qualified cat out there. But they are going to determine who is qualified by if they can bend their knee to the point of like bending it into a noodle. Like if they can, you're gonna, they're gonna be judged on how to do it. How well they obey, as opposed to how talented they are as a medical practitioner. This is already happening, this is coming.

This is coming.

Well, I really hate white people. Does that make you hired? I mean, I'm just. It's pretty much like that now. That's kind of like it.

It's like, why does it even have to be a thing? Can you just tap dance for the love of all things holy? Can you just do the damn nutcracker? Can you just do that? It's so simple.

Why does everything have to be made annoying? Golly, there's enough drama in the world. Ha ha!

Alright, so some of the other stuff we're hitting today.

Somebody beheaded the devil shrine in Iowa. And the devil people are like, that's so hateful. That's evil. Can you believe they did that? It's so mean to the devil.

Like, I don't. We're going to talk about that coming up. Also,. Dude. Literally, there's a 50-something-year-old dude who competed against like high school chicks.

And as a, he identified as it's a long story, that happened. Can I identify as whatever I want? Because Kane, you got to fly Southwest. You're going to identify as a high-calorie person, high-calorie human. To get that extra seat.

Yeah, you're going to identify so that you can get three seats. That's right. It's buy one, get one free. Can I identify as a billionaire and go into the bank and just be like, where's my check? If it's not in my account, you are mean to me.

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Was that a Steve's selection? Is that why you were jamming over there? Is that your Christmas jam? That's your Christmas tree. Yeah.

Steve is used to, he's rocking over there during break.

So Coca-Cola has recalled 2,000 cases of drinks due to potential contamination. That's a lot. It's not just Coke either. It's cheese. Diacoke too?

Fanta? 2,000 cases of sprite, Diacoke, Fanta in the deep south because of potential foreign materials in the can. Is that like more or less dangerous than like the actual soda? The foreign materials in the can. I'm curious.

They said that the specific places that they're looking at are Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. They said that the cans may contain a foreign material and they don't tell you exactly what it is. Like, are we talking about like fingers and toes? Like, when you say foreign material, what, like, what are we talking about here? Like, that can mean like a whole bunch of stuff.

Like, what does that mean? A naked dude was found atop. Oh, this is a horrible story. I don't even want to read this. Why is this in headlines?

It's Friday. Yeah, it's right before Christmas. I'm gonna have to say a prayer.

So, this dude decapitated his mom and then I guess tried to hide her body by laying on her naked. This is in Jersey Shore. Oh, I don't even want to talk about this story anymore. It's so gross. Everybody in Jerseys probably knows about it now, but I don't want to talk about it anymore.

Uh So let's. I don't like some of these headlines today. I am dissatisfied. If. News media outlets are slashing jobs.

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The outplacement, they said that it was the firm Challenger Gray and Christmas.

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A lot of big cities are having the problems of San Francisco, but it does feel like, you know, Republicans, conservatives, they try to make that the avatar for what's wrong with Democratic policies. What is it about San Francisco? And also, those are very real problems that San Francisco has. How do you even start to address them?

Well, I mean, first you own the issues and then you start to address the issues. But look, they've been on a doom loop about San Francisco ever since Nancy Pelosi became speaker. I mean, this remember, California is Nancy Pelosi's the speaker of San Francisco. You got Kamala Harris, who was a former senator from California. California's outperformed the Americans.

Doom loop sounds like a thrash metal band name for a bunch of cantankerist grammarists. That's what it sounds like. We got a little Donnie Hathaway playing there, wink, wink, smile. Little Donnie Hathaway, shake a hand, shake a hand, ladies and gentlemen. It is the Christmas jam.

So, welcome back to the program, Bottom of the Sour. That's Gavin Newsom. That's your favorite Democrat mayor. He was on with uh what's that dude's name? Seth fire.

Seth Myers. Can I just ask a question that's completely irrelevant to what we're about to discuss? Is he wearing velvet? Uh good question. Was he in a turtleneck or was that a velvet jacket?

You shouldn't be wearing a velvet jacket unless you're at dinner or you're in a cigar bar. And does he have the sleeves pushed up? Like, what's up? Like what is up with that? I'm just curious.

Yeah, so I'm I'm I'm No, not Gavin Newsome. Yes, Seth Meyer yeah, Seth Meyers. Is that I guess it's a jacket. I guess it's a that stuck out to me. I think he's in a turtleneck.

Is that a turtleneck? I don't like dudes in turtlenecks unless they're by the fire. Bothers me. Just a little thing.

So, Gavin Newsom, somebody gave him a Gen Z dictionary because he used the phrase doom loop.

Somebody told him that. And I love the discussion that they're having. It's like, how dare you point out our crappy city? Like, literally, it's crappy. Everywhere.

I mean, they had a poop map for crying out loud. Try to say that without, you know, elevating the vowels in that word. You can't, it's impossible. But when he says doom loop, or that it's not an, you know, they tried to use it as an avatar because it is. I mean, Gavin Newsom was mayor of San Francisco.

The reason it is an avatar of Democrat policies. I mean, San Francisco was like the city, wasn't it at some point, Kane? Like in the day, whenever that was. When was it? Back in the day.

Ah, yes. B-I-T-D, back in the day. That's right. So It is the avatar. Of all of their policies.

I mean, everything that they wanted, all the gun control, all of the kittens and sunshine, let's have the open-air drug markets or whatever, all the stuff they had needle exchanges, let's do the high taxation, let's do the high property taxes, the sales taxes, the business taxes, the tourist taxes, all the taxes, let's do all of it. It is the avatar, and it's failed miserably.

Now they're mad that you're pointing it out.

Well, how dare you point out our failures? You can't do that! You can't use the example of one of the biggest and generationally run Democrat cities and use that as a comparison against a city that's actually responsibly run and has good fiscal policy. How dare thou?

Well, that that that's called comparisons. That's what you do. They know it looks bad for them and that it compromises them, which is why they don't want that comparison. But you don't even have to.

Okay, fine, you don't want San Francisco? Let's use Chicago. Let's use LA. Let's use New York. Let's use Philly.

Let's use St. Louis. Let's use Houston. Dallas. Can't give me a city.

Any city. What's named them all? Portland. Ooh, we could totally sub Portland in there. I mean, if San Francisco, if you're mad that it's the Avatar, then I will pick another Democrat-run city and they're all Democrat-run.

I will pick another city for you. And we'll see how well that goes. It just Pretty fascinating. Yeah, he learned the phrase doom loop. What does that phrase actually mean?

Doom loop. You looked it up, it came into The modern parlance of our time. What, last year? A year ago? Yeah.

So, according to Investopedia, this is back in October of 2022, that a doom loop describes a situation in which one negative action or factor triggers another, which in turn triggers another negative action or causes the first negative factor to worsen. I mean, I've heard of doom scrolling. And the light in the. Cycle continues. I hate the language.

We're just dumbing everything down so badly. Doom scrolling. I've heard of that Doom loop.

So a bunch of negative things, you're not allowed to point those out? We're not in the doom loop. They are literally in a doom loop. Exactly. I mean, you have the first doom of the feces everywhere.

And then that loops into the needles everywhere. And then that loops into the crime everywhere. And then that loops into the high taxes everywhere. And that loops into yeah, nobody can buy any property anywhere. And that loops into people are fleeing the state.

It's bad. Steve is dying because of what he put in Slack. Go ahead. Do it. There you go.

I could see him over there fidgeting. I was like, uh-oh. I look over in Slack, and there it is, right there. But not unlike not unlike San Francisco. Then he also said this.

This is the second part of Gavin Newsom's. I guess he thought he was cool by going on a late-night show that only grandparents watch, but okay. Audio Soundbite 5 sealed play. I think we need to assert ourselves. We got to be more assertive.

And frankly, Republicans, man, they've been defining the terms: CRT, DEI, ESG. No one even understands what these things mean. And we're on the defense. You made them all. You think the most important issue for our kids is drag shows and trans issues, not gun violence in this country?

I mean, on all of these issues, we're on the right side. We just need to get on the other side of our anxiety and doubts and go on the offensive.

Okay, so you know what those letters mean because you literally made them up. Your side made them up. Let's start with CRT: critical race theory, Frankfurt School of Marxism. This goes all the way back to Derek Bell in the 60s. And that's why, in 2012, when I first wrote the story about Derek Bell and Barack Obama and how Barack Obama, under Bell, I mean, it was basically a mentore of Derek Bell.

That's why it was so big because he was mainstreaming critical race theory, which was supplanting identity politics, identity politics for the fiscal warfare, the economic, socioeconomic statuses that you would always see divide everyone. They were supplanting the identity politics for that. It's still the same formula. It's just a different variable. And they were mainstreaming that throughout college campuses beginning in the 60s.

So that's something that y'all came up with. Like, y'all literally wrote books. Mm-hmm. And called it crit tech Colray's theory. We didn't come up with that.

You all did. We didn't, we're busy people. Like, we're trying to like pay taxes that you keep inventing and you know, working and raising kids. We don't have time to keep track of all your alphabet creations. And then there's DEI.

And you guys came up with DEI. We didn't do that. That's not something that conservatives sit around and think about. Kane, how can we do diversity? What does it even mean anymore?

Diversity, exclusion, and idiocy. How can we do that? How can we create that and implement that in all of our workplaces? You know what, Kane? You know what we need to have for the show?

We should have a... Diversity officer. To make sure that we have diverse ammo. And, you know, coffee. Coffee blocks.

So 223556. Make sure we have 9 mil. Yeah. Like a variety. Yeah, like a variety.

I feel like that that's like truly representative of America today, you know. But his last little quip there, when he says, you know, they're they're focusing on drag shows. And the big thing i and not gun violence?

Well First off, let's just the presupposition is that Gun violence is the number one killer of kids across the country, and as we've talked about, it actually isn't. The only way that the CDC can get that figure. is that they inflate it all the way up to like Well, they reduced it to 19. It used to go up to 20, you know, 20-year-old babies, but it goes up to 19. They include 18 and 19-year-olds.

When you break down all the FBI uniformed crime reports going all the way back to 99 up until current time, what you find out is that the majority of those crimes, particularly with illegally possessed handguns, it's all 18 and 19-year-olds, and it's all drug and gang violence.

Now, when it concerns minors, it's still drug and gang violence. And then, when you remove all of those variables out of the when you remove all of those numbers, all of those cases specifically out of the minor age group, then it drops down to like fifth or sixth place. And drownings, and automobile accidents, and accidental poisoning, and really opioid crisis, all of that stuff takes precedent. But they include the drug and gang violence of 18 and 19-year-olds to overwhelmingly drive that statistic so they can use that as the basis for more gun control policy.

So, you have that on one hand, but then the other hand, too, is something that you just brought up. I mean, if you're really concerned. About the lives of kids. Why in the ever-loving world are you letting all these repeat offenders out, reoffending over and over and over again? I mean, the superintendent of the Chicago PD said just a few years ago, it's the same 1,400 people that are driving 89% of the violent crime in Chicago.

And the police were disheartened because they keep arresting the same people over and over again. I mean, they're literally on a first-name basis with these people. They know the criminals. They're on a first-name basis with the criminals. They know the criminals' family.

I mean, it's like a cartoon. They know these people so well, and they just keep catching them because they keep reoffending. And then they get out, they get a wrist slap, and then they're out on probation. This happens all the time. And here's something else: if they really cared about the lives of kids, then why would you not include?

Why would you not make sure that you have a mandatory maximum for a lot of these young violent offenders? Like that Vonduritt Myers case in St. Louis. You all remember this? This was the case of a kid.

This dude was 14 years old. He already had a GV record that was multiple pages long, violent record. And he was supposed to be, it was like a quasi-house arrest. He was supposed to be in his house when the sun went down. He wasn't supposed to be out and about.

He had an ankle monitor on, and there was an off-duty plain clothes police officer who, and this was, what was this, in Tower Grove Park? Off-duty plain clothes police officer who happened to be walking by a known drug house and he saw Fondor at Myers and saw his ankle. And uh Try to follow up on it. Vonda Ramyers turned around and shot at the cop. The cop returned fire and killed him.

Voderet Myers was able, they let him out without nothing. What was it, like 10% of 1%? Of his bond to get out for a felonious activity, when in reality, he should have actually. I wrote a whole bunch about it at the time. He should have actually been in jail.

He should have been detained at that point. And the fact that they didn't, because they thought it was more merciful to let him out in the street to get killed than it was to keep him detained in jail where he'd still be alive today. That's what your restorative justice gets you. Restorative justice kills more kids than anything else. And that's what Gavin Newsom supports.

That's the epidemic that's plaguing youth today. And his party is the number one driver of it.

So I would love for someone to challenge him that on a debate stage, but you know, you got to kind of know this stuff a little bit beyond getting the Gen Z dictionary of Doom Loop.

So dumb. These people are walking doom loops.

So that's uh We're already like, we're already winding down to the bottom of this first hour. I got to do something first before.

So, you guys remember. When I did uh The amazing Renaissance drawing of Kane.

So, hold up. The belief is that if Hunter Biden can spit. Through a straw.

Well, at least he's not snorting. Spit through a straw and create $500,000 art pieces. Yeah, yeah, yeah. and sell those, then the thought was, well Prove to me that this is not Nepo baby stuff. And I will draw.

My stuff is better.

So I drew one, it's a Renaissance portrait of Cain. I mean, this could go for millions of dollars. This is, I mean, look, I even included the crosshatch that I learned in junior high art school. I put my skills to use. Look at your background, dude.

It's great. Look at the background. It's like diamond plate. Note, right, isn't it? Note the detail on the name.

I mean, there's so much care in this. Look how much I shaded his lip. You know, the biggest sales pitch for me is the fact that there's no spit on it. No spit. There's no spit on this at all.

Right. It's a sharpie. No spit. It makes it worth more when there's no spit on it. Yeah.

That's just me. And then I added the little fun brought to you by probiotics because he never shuts up about it.

So I put that at the bottom. I mean, this, if you compare this. to what Hunter Biden does. You don't even know what does that look like. It looks like a Petri dish.

It looks like he dropped his crack pipe in a Petri dish, and then that's what came up of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This, there's a face on it. He's got his cans? Those are his, those are his eyebrows.

You can't see if you're listening, but the simulcast. Cans are just playing for headphones. Headphones, yeah. Yeah, I probably should have like... Clearly articulated that, didn't I?

Just now realized. No, so I mean, this is the million-dollar piece.

So, I was thinking about like, what's the best way to do it?

So I was Lorenzo and I said, hey, get me a list of people. and the YouTube chat. And I'm just gonna, like, I'll print their names out and I'll just like put it up or number them, and then we'll just like randomly pick a number.

So I did that. I don't know if the YouTube chat was aware of it.

So she got me the names and numbered them. And then just I randomly picked, it was number sixteen, I randomly picked. Uh the individual that I picked, they go by the name of Kraken. And yeah, so they're gonna get the user they because you know people can't use their real names anymore because the FBI is gonna that now they've been expanded, they're gonna come get you.

So the user Kraken in the YouTube chat. is going to get this million dollar Renaissance painting. or drawing. with the sharpie.

So that is the individual. Their name is Kraken. They are a regular participant. in the chat And I'm going to send this to them. Let me be the first to say.

K-R-E-C-K-E-N. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is such a dad joke, but I'll let it slide because you say that so nicely for my Renaissance. Portrait that I did.

So, I mean, this is like going to be in a museum, Kane, later. You're going to be like the Mona Lisa. They're gonna be like, what is he thinking? I don't know. You may be exaggerating a little bit.

Are you saying that I am not as good as Hunter Biden? I'm just saying that piece may not end up in a museum. You don't think you have art tastes, sir. I went to the Effitsi one time, so now I'm an extra. Your talent is superb, though.

Yeah. So, congratulations to Kraken. You're going to get this beautiful, beautiful. Show it one more time: Renaissance portraiture. We have a lot more on the way we got today in these United States coming up.

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Thank you very, very much. He stands like a toy soldier from a Nutcracker. like this and then he squints Squints. And he just stays in that perpetual position and then he's hunched over like a shrimp on a martini glass with some cocktail sauce in it. He's just like Hunched over like this and you s Makes me want a shrimp cocktail, actually.

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Have you seen that Civil War, the Civil War movie, the New Modern Civil War? It's made by people who literally have never. been in the wilderness, have never left. Like an urban area, they have no clue. It's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.

We got to make fun of it egregiously because that's what we're good at. And then Stephen Moore is going to join us later on in the program as well. Back in just a moment. If you go somewhere, communism wins. Our friends over at Hillsdale College want to wish you a Merry Christmas and thank you for all of your support for their amazing institution this past year.

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His son was on hard times and he bought his son a truck and his son paid him back. He loaned his brother money and his brother paid him back. Joe Biden is just a decent American who fought MAGAism and is seeing them use this against him, as I said, in this sick and perverse way.

Okay, I've got so many major issues with this. First off, welcome to the program. You okay, Kane? Yeah. We're not even in the second hour yet.

You all right over there, little buddy? You okay? Yeah, so welcome back to the program. Daniel Lash here with you. That's Eric Fartzwell.

Who, uh I got to turn this fan off. Eric Fartswell, who was. Trying to make it like Joe Biden is just, you know, he just loves his son, guys. He loves his family. He's just a family guys.

Just, you guys are so mean to him. He's such a great dude. And Hunter was, you know, he just needed some money. He was short on money. You know, that happens.

It is a fact that one tends to run out of money if one spends all their money on hookers and blow. You know that spending $5 million on hookers is bad? That's a lot of money on hookers and blow. I mean, at some point, are you like, don't you just stop and go, okay, I've had enough hookers and blow? I mean, how much more?

What else can you do? You know what I'm saying? Like, what? Right? Right?

I mean, come on. At some point, I like when is ma that too much? I mean, that's how much he paid, five million dollars. Was it over five million? I think it was.

$5 million on Hookers and Blow. At some point, You're just like, okay, that's enough. That's enough money. Can you find a different hobby now? Like pickleballs really taken off.

It's like a big thing right now. Pickleball, right? Then all of a sudden he's like a pickleball champ with a sweatband around his head and everything.

So that's why he went broke. He went broke because he spent all of his money on drugs and You know, the escorts, the ladies of the night. No, not vampires. I it th th that's why he went broke. But I love the spin that they're putting on this, and by love I mean I find it amusing, the spin that they're putting on this.

So that is the uh that's Eric Fartswell, who Uh, was trying to make that defense there. I Why haven't they moved? By the way, why haven't Any any Republicans in the House. Because you had Hunter Biden ignore a subpoena. And yet I have not seen anything.

Did anyone start contempt proceedings yet? I mean, they that's what they have to do. They have to Choose to do that in committee and then they kick it over to DOJ or whatever, and then it goes from there. I haven't seen them start any contempt proceedings yet. Why?

It's Friday. Why? Why has this not been done? I mean this is so stupid. Why has this not been done yet?

I just get so tired of this, the inaction. Like with the NDAA stuff. Yes, I get that it's a temporary thing. Oh my gosh, I've had some fun conversations with some of my friends.

Some of my friends who. We're like 80, 20, maybe 90, 10 on a lot of things. And one of my friends was saying, Well, you got to remember, Dana, we just have a one-seat majority in the house. We just had another guy who's going to retire, too, by the way. We're on track to lose the house in 2024.

And he said, you know, we only got a one-seat majority in the House. We don't have any, you know, I mean, this is all of this is. You know, all these things, all of this is a result of those election choices. And there are a lot of people mad about NDAA. But Maybe that'll change.

Was that going to be enough to get it?

Well, here's the other thing: I'm going to say something unpopular. And that's what I'm supposed to do. The one presidential candidate. Who could hit this harder than anybody else? Who Knows what it's like to be surveilled or ridiculously, unlawfully targeted.

By the FBI. whether it is setting up Uh traps about Russian collusion. Whether it's about leaking stuff. To the D O J? working with a FARA violating OPPO research firm that advocates on behalf of Russian oligarchs, Fusion GPS.

Lying to a FISA court? Illegally obtaining wiretaps. on private citizens just because of their choice of where to spend their time as a campaign volunteer. Instead of selling NFTs. Trump should be beating the drum on this.

Instead of selling NFTs at $100 a pop, And a Biden Inflation period right before the holidays, and NFTs are, I hate all of NFTs because it's all garbage. Instead of doing that, he should have been beating the drum about 702. This is a temporary thing. They're going to have to deal with this again coming up after the first of the year. I don't want to hear about selling pieces of a suit.

I don't want to hear about damn NFTs. I don't want to hear about I'm mad because so-and-so didn't endorse me. I don't care. There is one candidate that has the ability Because of what they specifically went through, to make a very compelling argument. to people in the house to stop the ex the permanent expansion.

FISA abuse, and he's not doing it. Don't talk about fighting being a fighter for the people if you're not fighting for the people. And if you think that this FISA stuff doesn't concern you, you go tell that to the moms and dads who were getting surveilled by the FBI because they spoke out at school board meetings. Go and tell the people who got detained for unlawful parading, or the people who didn't even go to the Capitol on January 6th, who were visited by the FBI.

Some even arrested. Go and talk to some of them. Hell, you got people sitting in jail jail cells now. Is any FT any NFT money being raised going towards them? Their legal cause is no.

Oh, you're not supposed to say anything about this. Why? Because the Pimpleton influencers, they get butthurt if you do. And You ain't movin' the needle. If you were moving the needle, you'd be winning elections, and you're not winning elections.

There's a reason why we say AOC's influence only extends to the reaches of her Twitter account. I gotta tell you, some people on the right are the same damn way.

So there's the truth of the matter. And I get aggravated about this because it's like everybody ignored it until. I mean, you knew it was coming. It is a temporary thing, though, but you know they're going to vote to make this permanent. They're going to vote to make it permanent.

And it's bad. The Pfizer abuse in this, to say nothing of. The taxpayer-funded abortion on demand and military and all this other stuff. It's bad. Um This uh Have you guys heard of the Chicago Mayor, Brandon Johnson?

You guys heard of him? Check out what they did in Chicago. Brandon Johnson announced plans to eliminate the city's high achieving selective enrollment high schools. to boost quote unquote equity. despite promising not to do that during the campaign.

The Board of Education has proposed shifting back towards neighborhood schools.

So they're going to get rid. of the high achieving selective enrollment high school. Because it's not fair to the other kids. They don't get picked.

So instead of Helping students Achieve. Or even opening more schools. Instead of doing that. They're lowering the bar to make it easier. on themselves.

That's not excellence and equity are not the same thing. Equity is a rejection of excellence. I mean equity is I mean, I don't know what they think they're doing here, but you're not going to get excellence by, you're not going to get excellence by making everyone equal in mediocrity. And that's what equity is. Making everyone equal in mediocrity.

So that no one is that's equity, actually, you have to incorporate actual discrimination into it. Good grief. No wonder. You know what? I think of like with stuff like this, no wonder there's that.

Did you guys see this? Let me pull this up. Who's all in this movie? It's that Civil War movie? It's the new civil war.

It's like this movie about the new civil war or something like that. I don't know. K uh Kirsten Dunst is in it. And who else is in this movie? Kirsten Dunst.

Uh her husband Jesse Plemens. I was trying to think of what else he was in. He's in this movie. And It's uh supposed to be about like the the factions something the factions in the uh United States are all the the states are fighting and it's an ideological battle, et cetera, et cetera. It's so ridiculously dumb.

I don't know if you've If you've seen I we I don't want to play Uh uh I can't play the audio of it because they'll totally sight us, but It is so goofy. This thing is so goofy. I'm trying to find the my notes on this movie, so bear with me for a moment. Because I don't think it's out yet in theaters. Is it out in theaters?

No, it would be Netflix. Oh, it's Netflix, that's right. It's a Netflix movie.

So This uh they have like a little video that they've been that they put out. And Apparently in this film some of the the states Like uh It looks like a a g I I I they think that Texas and California are going to somehow B Aligned? Or something like that. It looks like uh I the the Northeast is beset by conservatives and progressives and the map I don't understand I don't understand it. It's uh Alex Garland's Civil War.

Jesse Plymouth, Kirsten Dunst, and some other chick I don't know. Oh, it is in theaters on April 26th. Yeah, it's in theaters April twenty sixth. And I was watching the trailer. I couldn't even get to the trailer.

They're like, yeah, there's a huge civil war that's going on, and it's all across the country. And they. make the journalists the heroes of the story because they just want to talk about what's happening. The Western forces of Texas and California, uh they and they show like these people all fighting and they act like I I mean, this is so unbelievably Goofy. And I don't understand.

There's not going to be any arbitrary and state line. I had a friend who said, you know what? It's going to be all regional and cultural balkanization. That's what's going to happen. And it's going to be rural versus urban.

That's what's going to happen. There's not going to be blue and red states. That's so stupid because you don't really because that goes away because you have states like Illinois that it's all red, but then a blue city in Cook County and Chicago that runs everything.

So that's and that's true in a lot of different states, honestly. This is so goofy, this movie. Why are they making something like this? And then, of course, the reporters are the heroes. They don't have a play.

One of my friends goes, Look at Nevada. Have these people ever been to Nevada? Nevada is not a lib state. Nevada is a zillion miles of desert and bitter cowboys with one liberal city that exists to take Californians' money. This is a city which literally should not exist according to the basic laws of nature.

And once the water infrastructure is threatened, it's nothing but a source of refugees. Oh my gosh, this movie's going to flop. We got a lot more than the way. We got headlines coming up. You don't want to miss as we get moving.

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Just trying to repost a meme.

Alright, so. The lockdown effect. Americans Physical and mental health has deteriorated by every metric since the pandemic. And they say that it's, you know, it's all the lockdowns and all of that stuff. That's what's to blame.

They say that half of the world's gonna have a mental condition by age of 75. I'm so tired of this. I am so tired of this. I am so tired of it. I'm tired of hearing that everybody, big pharma, is trying to make you believe that you need all this stuff wrong with you so that you can take their pills forever.

That's what they want. They released this, they surveyed 5,000 adults. and they track their changes in mental and physical conditions. Have you ever thought that maybe things are stressful because stupid people are also making things stressful? Weak men create hard times.

We're in that position right now. I don't know if people realize that, but that's where we are.

So, this is an NBC story. They're saying that race played a role in the sentencing of this 10-year-old boy for urinating in public.

So, this kid, he's a 10-year-old kid who urinated in public in August. He was sentenced to three months' probation. And they said it's because he's black. He's in third grade. He was arrested on August 10th after a police officer saw him relieving himself next to his mom's car when she was inside an attorney's office.

And they said that anybody would have done the same thing given the or any child would have done the same thing given the circumstances. There was no public restroom at the attorney's office. He had to go. There was no bathroom available to him. And I just like.

Really, you gotta get the courts involved for this?

Now, is it a question of race, or is it like there are some people in position? According to the story, he had to write a story about Kobe Bryant. That's stupid. What is that about? That is stupid.

That is so stupid. They said that he's not gonna, they said it's probation, he's not gonna have a criminal record. It's a two-page report. And he has to check in with a probation officer for once a month for three months. That is so stupid.

That is so unbelievably dumb. I just want to rage at this. This is ridiculous. They said that. I mean, he's 10 years old.

He's 10 years old. His mom was inside. She ran inside. Oh my gosh, she's 10, guys. Come on.

And it's a Cenotobia and. Uh Mississippi. I don't know like what their party makeup is there. But I'd be shocked if the people running that town are Republican. Just saying, just saying.

Alright, so uh apparently Park Hill, there's in Denver, there's a neighborhood in Denver where somebody's been. Uh raiding houses and stealing Stealing ladies' panties. They said that some neighbors in this Denver community are on high alert. A man's been breaking into their homes and stealing women's underwear. He's called the Park Hill Panty Thief.

Way to give him a nickname that he's probably going to enjoy, guys. I mean, they said that he passed over PlayStations, computers, jewelry. Just took women's underwear. Yeah, just took women's underwear. What's the matter with you?

Like, why are you not stealing any of the good stuff? Don't take that. I'm not saying that as advice. An auto industry, I subscription fees. This is so dumb.

So you can pay monthly for heated seats and cruise control? Are you serious with me right now? That is so dumb. That's so dumb. We got a lot more on the way.

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Download the Dana Show Podcast and join the ranks of those who refuse to settle for the same old boring content on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Look, as it relates to bionomics, the president I just announced at the top of the briefing, he's going to go to Milwaukee. He's going to talk about bionomics, investing in America, what bionomics has done for the American people coming out of the pandemic. We can't forget what happened when the president walked in. We saw literally the economy at a tailspin.

And so the president has been working a middle class from the bottom up, middle out, and that's what you've seen him do. And the data shows, as you just mentioned in your question, inflation is moderating. You see jobs created at more than 14 million jobs. Unemployment is at under 4%. All of those things are part of bionomics, and you will certainly hear the president talk more about that over the next couple months as we finish out certainly the year.

Nobody believes that. Nobody's believing anything that they're saying about wage growth. No one's believing that when they look at the prices and how much more expensive everything is, particularly this holiday season. Welcome back to the program, Bottom of the Second Hour. Dana Lash here with you.

You can listen around the country to Terrestrially. You can also stream the radio program. You can check out the Simulcash Channel 347, Direct TV, YouTube, Facebook, everywhere you can find video. Joining us right now, I really enjoyed his article that he just wrote about the Magnificent Seven, and not just because it's one of my favorite films, the original. I also enjoyed Fuqua's remake, but I love the original.

Magnificent Seven talking about American business. Stephen Moore, who is the senior economist at Freedom Works, he also is a former Trump economic advisor. He joins us on Skype now. And I wanted, Stephen, first off, I thought this was brilliant. I thought that the way that you, the way that you frame this piece was brilliant.

And I just want to share that with the audience because he talks about how nothing exemplifies America's tech industry dominance more than the Magnificent Seven stocks: Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Tesla. And they single-handedly account for nearly all of the gains in the stock market this year. And he adds that, which is to say, we as American shareholders who own them have a net worth of nearly $10 trillion. They're not Japanese or German or Chinese. They're American.

And yet, I love how you say that the GM, the Standard Oil, the JP Morgan, all of that of our time. And they're not getting their Washington. It's like they don't, as you say, like Rodney Dangerfield said, they don't get any respect. And it's true. They really are denigrated.

Talk to me about this. Hi, Dana. Good to be with you. Thanks so much for having me. Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas. So, you know, my. Wife does our investing, and so she put a lot of money into NVIDIA at the beginning of the year, and she's just dancing a little bit right now because that. That company is just surging. And all of these companies, though, you know, you mentioned NVIDIA, you have mentioned Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others.

And they have been so amazing, they're the high flyers. This year in the stock market, Well, more than half of the gains and almost three quarters of the gains have been attributable to those magnificent seven.

So it's really for anyone with the 401k plan or anyone with a retirement plan, or if you just invest individually, these stocks are curing the market. And you're talking about trillion dollar companies. And um It's great. As you said, these are American companies. Isn't it wonderful, Dana, that the companies that are leading the way on the new technologies, and we hope that happens also in the artificial intelligence and robotics regime, Are American companies?

They're not Chinese, they're not German, they're not Japanese, they're made here in America. And look, I don't like the politics. I don't think you probably do either of some of these companies. You know, I don't like the fact that they discriminate. Discriminate against conservative voices like yours and mine.

But if you just look at what they're doing for the economy, it's amazing. It is. And I think that there's like an I think some of the offset is that we'll get more people who are like-minded into those companies as well. I like the idea of kicking down the castle door and taking it over from the inside, talking to our friend Stephen Moore. You mentioned too that that's happening a little bit.

We as conservative have really been putting pressure on these companies because they have been discriminating and trying to close down conservative voices. And now we're starting to really see more fair treatment. I mean, look what happened, obviously, with Elon Musk buying Twitter. And so we do have options now that didn't really exist before. We need to build great social media companies on the right as well.

And that's a big challenge. That's why shows like yours are so important with the voice that you give. You also get into, which I think is a very important point, because there's some of the monopolistic behavior that these companies engage in. I mean, I think there's a difference in adopting some of the behaviors and then engaging in full-on pushing a monopoly in a particular market. Talk to us a little about that as well, because there is certain things that happen in business.

It just happens as the nature of business.

So, first of all, one of the great myths of American history is that remember in the textbooks, you read about the quote, robber baron? Yes. You know, the Henry Fords and the J.P. Morris and the people who really standard oil and those people.

Well, you know, guess what? It turns out they weren't robber barons. They built America. How is it that we let some of our greatest entrepreneurs who created literally hundreds of thousands, if not millions of jobs and created the rail industry, the oil and gas industry, the banking industry, all of these, somehow they were portrayed as evil people.

Now, I'm not saying they were sane. But they really created American industry back 100 years ago. And so now we have this new wave of great entrepreneurs, people like Bill Gates, and people like Steve Jobs, and people like Elon Musk. And they're being treated like they're monopolists when, in fact, The most amazing thing, both, but this is similar 100 years ago to today. They kept saying, oh, gee, Henry Ford, he's a monopolist, J.P.

Morgan, he's a monopolist. You know, the steel industry people are monopolists. Guess what? The prices of all those things fell. And what those entrepreneurs did was make those.

Goods and services like cars available to middle-class Americans.

Well, that's exactly what's happened with these technology companies. They're not driving up prices, they're driving down prices. I mean, my God, Google, you could search on Google for free. Mm. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, I think we just lost the video there for Stephen. We've been talking to Stephen more. Oh, there he is. We got his audio.

His great piece, The Magnificent Seven, talking about these, you know, these big Titans of American business. I always thought that that was such a sneaky Marxist trick to get everyone to sort of turn on American business successes. It really was. Exactly. That's exactly what it is.

You know, when we this is American That became the richest country in the world because we have free market capitalism and we have great innovators and great entrepreneurs. You know, that just think of someone like Steve Jobs. I mean, he had this vision. Um I wouldn't be doing this interview with you right now for Steve Jobs, right? I mean, he created, he had this vision that every American would have this little device in their hand.

And you could do video, you could do music, you could do phone calls, all these things. Years ago, who would have even imagined that? And so, you know, these are people who are. And this is like, isn't it amazing that so many of the great inventions of the last hundred years came from American know-how and ingenuity? And I love that about America.

And I want to see us lead the world in the next hundred years, not China. I think that's a great point, talking with Stephen Moore. I also think that, particularly, our allies, people who are like-minded with us, I mean, and we completely share the same opinion, particularly on suppression of conservative speech. But I don't want to get too ahead, too over my skis either, and get to the point of denigrating. an American business because some of these companies like Facebook, you know, like Meta, you know, they didn't conform to China's request to participate in their market.

And as a result, they're banned. I mean, China has their own Facebook meta equivalent over there. And I think that's, you know, for all the problems, and I definitely have problems with them. I know you do as well. To me, that's, you know, okay, I get that.

You know, maybe I don't totally hate you, Meta, but because that's a good thing. I feel like we don't want to get to the point where we're denigrating American capability. too much because I feel like that's bait. It feels like we're being baited in a way. Yeah, so it's a really good point you're making.

So, you know, when you and I first got started in this industry, Remember, it was Walter Concrete and CBS and ABC, NBC. There were only a few media outlets, right? There weren't shows like this that we're doing right now. And so, what's happened is this proliferation of social media. And then, the irony is: yes, some of these companies try to quiet our voices.

But, for example, is there any way that Donald Trump could have been elected without social media? He was probably one of the greatest users of social media. It's so amazing that most of the hottest websites out there and so on, and social media channels are on the conservative side, not on the liberal side. We use it now. There are some pretty bad sites out there on the left, but we have ways of getting our voices heard now that we never did before.

Yeah, yeah, I completely agree with you on this.

So, this is a fabulous piece, and I wanted to have you on to talk about it. You do note that there is a little bit of irony in Magnificent Seven because I remember the ending of it, five of them didn't meet the best end.

So, I hope that that's only two of the seven survived.

So, I hope that's where apart. By the way, I did not invent the term Magnificent Seven. That's been out there for months, but they are magnificent, and we want to see them continue to prosper. By the way, when you and I This show five years from now, it'll probably be seven different companies, you know. I would imagine so.

I would imagine so. Stephen Moore, thank you so much for joining us. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year. And thanks for this great piece. Good to talk with you.

We have more to come, folks, as we wrap up this Second hour already of the program. Yeah, Magnificent 7 is one of my absolute favorites. Love the original. If you have not seen Antoine Fouqua's remake, And he's just a great director. And Denzel Washington, Denzel's one of my favorite actors ever.

He can it has forget all everything that you've been fed by the left about identity politics, et cetera, et cetera. None of that has to do with it. He's just, I think, the best, one of the best living actors we have. He is so amazing. In this remake, and the score is brilliant.

If you've not watched it, I was watching, for whatever reason, I have a habit of watching Magnificent 7 every Christmas season. Every Christmas, I watch Magnificent 7. Totally not a Christmas movie. I don't know why. I watch both of them.

I watch the original with Yul Brenner and Steve McQueen, and then I watch the Fuqua remake.

So good. All right, as we get moving, because we got. Today, oh, Florida man. We got Florida Man coming up. It's his life mission to make bad decisions.

Yeah. It's time for Florida Man. All right, so first up, let's see here. This is Flori I'm like being distracted. Uh we have an elderly Florida man who was assaulted by his neighbors while do we had this one yesterday, so this is old.

Uh I'm not doing this one. A Florida man's in custody. He barricaded himself in a sewer pipe following a police pursuit in Kindle. This guy's also totally naked. Again, video from the scene shows the moment the South Florida water management set a robotic camera inside of the pipe to check the status of the dude.

The pol the guy started around 2 a.m. on Thursday. The man fled from Miami-Dade police. Police lost sight of him and he disappeared into a sewer pipe. And then they sent a robotic camera into the pipe to check the status of the guy.

And then they managed to take him into custody. He's being treated by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue at the scene. And they said they haven't released his identity or anything like that.

So, you know, I mean, a Florida woman, a Porch pirate, stole packages and then planned to re-gift them for Christmas. Mm-hmm. Uh yeah. Yeah. So This, according to Polk County Sheriff's Office, this woman, Kensley Mott.

Was seen at the victim's home surveillance camera walking up to the porch, taking numerous Amazon boxes, driving off in a red truck. She had her eye on the prize. She followed the truck. She followed this Amazon delivery truck all over the subdivision of Winter Haven, Florida. And she's just started take after they would deliver them, she would go up and start taking packages right off the porches on neighborhoods between like starting at noon, broad daylight.

Uh, they reviewed the surveillance videos. I I guess, you know, people have like the the doorbell cameras and all this stuff.

So they started reviewing these surveillance videos and uh they evi eventually found her at her place of employment, Hungry Howie's Pizza. And when they asked her about this, she said, No, no, no, I'm re-gifting them. She's regifting the stolen items. And then she literally told police when they showed her the video footage. She goes, quote, what if it was just someone else who had my face?

See, now wait a minute, sidebar. This is why I want a fake finger as a ring. That's right. The fake silicone finger. I want to wear it on my hand.

So that way, if something happens that I don't like or something like that. Uh then I can just be like, mmm, see, there's an extra finger here. This is clearly AI. I've really thought about this. You know, I've done a lot of research on the silicone finger rings.

You can't really get them on Amazon. I found like one really good one, but apparently they're not for sale anymore.

So I'm just saying, like, if you're into that business, that might be, you know. I'm just saying that's going to be the way to get out of stuff right now. Like just get you a fake silicone digit, where it is a ring. And that way, you know, if you're out in public and all that and something I'm just saying, you can be like, no, no, no. See, I don't have that many fingers.

That clearly is AI. Can they prove that you were wearing a fake silicone finger in the photo? No, they can't. They can't. I'm just saying.

I'm just saying, I'm not like trying to encourage you to break the law or anything. I'm just saying. It might be nice to have that, you know. I'm just. That's a little extra.

Anyway, they did get her and arrested her. And of course, she was crying when they arrested her. Of course, she wasn't. I mean, that is so like you're following around a delivery truck. At if you're the delivery driver too, do you know at one point that you're being followed around by the delivery truck?

Uh, maybe. I'm just wondering. Yeah. Uh I don't even know how to read this. This headline A Florida man pours eye drops on his nephew's sandwich to make him quote puke his brains out.

A Pinella Spark man is accused of putting eye drops in his nephew's sandwich in an attempt to make him sick. A golly. They said that The witness, according to an arrest report, a witness reported a customer asking for a bottle of Izine eye drops while purchasing food at an unnamed business on Wednesday. The witness told police that the customer identified as James Leach, said he was having issues with his nephew, hated him. And then, after handing him the eye drops, the witness said he opened the bottle and poured it all over the meatball sandwich.

The witness stated that that could hurt someone, and the defendant responded by saying it would only cause him to, quote, blank himself and puke his brains out. And then he, I mean, and apparently there's video footage inside the business where you can see him doing all this stuff. And the nephew said that he ate a small part of the sandwich and didn't know it may have been tampered with. He didn't accept medical treatment. And the.

I mean, what in the world? Like, what is wrong with you? I don't know how old the nephew is, but the guy is 45 years old. The guy, they arrested him, but the guy's like 45 years old and I mean, I don't. Di does it really do that?

Yes. I don't know, man. Uh let's see here. This Florida woman Florida woman was arrested for Walmart theft, drunken hit and run crash in the same day. Flager County, Florida.

46-year-old. Letterie and Emily. She Gets in trouble for petty theft, and then she immediately right after DUI. And Palm Coast, according to Flager County Police. Yeah, it's not a way to celebrate this season.

Stick with us, third hour on the way. It's a simple principle. You shouldn't pay the highest price in the world. for drugs that your tax dollars have already helped create. We're already begun to secure fair pricing clauses and contracts for new COVID vaccines, three new COVID vaccines.

And we recently proposed that when a drug company prices drugs so high, And Americas can't afford them. When those drugs were created by the American tax collection, the federal government can step in and allow other companies to make and sell that same drug for less, because they did it here. This is all part of my administration's work to promote competition. across our economy. to lower costs, to raise wages and improve care.

Last week we announced new steps to crack down on anti-competitive practices in healthcare. And we're going after what we call junk fees, like junk health insurance plans. junk fees and junk health insurance plans. And oh my gosh, don't get me started about insurance. Don't get me started.

That's Joe Biden, who's barely getting through those remarks. Welcome back to the program, Top of the Third Hour. It is our last broadcast of this year. I'm back behind the mic on january third, rested and Boy, oh boy, then we're dropped right into Iowa. I'll be dang.

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So, okay, he says they're investing in three new coronavirus vaccines. Are these actually going to be vaccines? That it's a million dollar question. King, what's a vaccine? What's a vaccine?

Yeah, just like for, you know, Giggles. What's a vaccine? A vaccine, well, traditionally, it's always been a part of the virus that's dead. That is introduced to your immune system so that your immune system can kind of learn how to fight it. For the purpose of.

For the purpose of immunizing and. You know?

So that you don't get sick.

Okay. And it and it. Makes it to where you can't. Get the Yeah, get the virus.

Well, that's what they claimed, yes.

Well, okay, but with regular vaccines, though. Like with vaccines you know that they have previously 'cause it's not virus is like kinda You gotta adapt. You can't really vaccine. Yeah, your body, but there's really no vacc. I mean, this is the thing: that the mRNA vaccine actually tells your body to create the spike protein that then your body has to fight, which is why this is such a dumb thing.

Everyone knows that when you get the shot. or the booster or a combination of them, your body doesn't have an off switch for that. Like it they're saying it dissipates over time. No one's given any sort of time frame about it. But your body you could be going through long COVID because you have shots and boosters, because your body continues to make the spike protein that your body is trying to fight.

So You basically put yourself through it longer by getting the Theoretically, you could. While the narrative continues to be: well, if I didn't get my 12th booster, boy, would my COVID really have been bad? No, stop it. Yeah, that's not.

So uh when they say they're investing in three new ones. No, thanks. Psychology.

So Technically what you're describing to me is a therapeutic. Yeah. So that's technically By the scientific definition, I just want to make sure we're all on the same page. It's definitely not. A vaccine.

No.

It's not a vaccine. You would say it's a therapeutic, honestly. I mean, that's the closest thing we can call it, but I don't even think it's a therapeutic reason. Does it really? Yeah, does it really?

I don't know what the benefits are. Like ivermectin was a therapeutic. Oh, we can't say that on YouTube because the YouTube fascists get all butt hurt. And the button-pushing baristas who work at YouTube are like, I guess we're going to try to demonetize you, Dana. You know what I really want to tell you to do?

I want to tell you to do something unflattering to yourself. That's what I want to say. No one can hear me. Uh Just in case they can though. That's Mm-hmm.

Uh That's what they can do to themselves.

So it's three new things that are not gonna work.

Okay. Okay. And how do they even know the variant? How do they even know the variant? That we're supposed to be experiencing in this particular season and then the next one.

Because that's really what the vaccine's supposed to prevent. That's what I was just thinking of how I was going to ask you that. Like, so do they know what's coming? Because okay, so that's what they get wrong with the flu shot. Yeah, that's it.

Like every s I don't get flu shots. I've gotten a flu shot Like when I was younger, in my entire life, I've gotten three flu shots. And every time I got the flu shot, I got the flu. Yeah. All the times that I didn't get a flu shot, I never got the flu.

That's just my lived experience. I got the shot once for the flu, and this was back in 2010. Got the flu. Haven't had the flu. I got the flu so bad one year when I got the flu.

It was our first year moving here, and I was like, maybe I guess I'll get it. I don't know. And I had the flu so bad. Like Glenn Beck, who I worked with at the time, was so concerned. He was calling, do you need to go to the hospital?

Like I, I can, I'm going to curry her over. What did he say? Like some stuff. It was like a Z, was it Z Pack? I'm going to curry this over.

I'm going to have a courier bring it over. You know, I need to keep me updated because I had like a super high fever. I had like 103 degree fever. It was so bad. And it spiked up even higher than that.

Like it got really bad. Like I was in an ice bath. It was so bad. And yeah, it was, that was like the worst I have ever. I've never been as sick as when I had the flu that time when we moved down here.

I had never been so sick in my life. And it took me like weeks. to fully recover. I was out of I was off air for like a week and a half. And then when I went back on air, I was so weak.

It was so bad. Um And I had a stupid, you know, that's supposed to, but you know, why it doesn't work, and what they say, why it doesn't work, is because Well, yeah, that. But because, you know, they just got to gamble the strain. They got to gamble on what strain it's going to be. Right.

They just don't know which brings me back I'm bringing the tugboat back to shore in a long way, but How do they know What Stream, it's supposed to be. Unless they're the ones that are. It's just a it's just a cold. It's just a bad cold. Why are we acting like, oh my gosh, it's a novell virus that's so bad.

It's something brand new to get freaked out about. Oh my gosh. I just I'm so tired of getting freaked out about stuff.

Well, if they're the ones delivering the viruses to us, then they absolutely would know what's coming. There's not enough rum in the world to have me deal with this in a friendly fashion. I'm so done with it. We're going to have your potions, master friend, on later. Can you like tap two sticks together and set some stuff on fire?

And does it make all the bad germies go away? All the baddies go away? That's a good. I was going to say a great question, but that's a question. And I'll ask you.

It's a brilliant question. Was it brilliant? I don't want to sound disrespectful. Slapping two sticks together was brilliant. I don't know.

What do people do? What the hell do you have over here? If I rub that bottle that you have, does a genie come out of it? No, it's not a bottle, it's an incense warmer. It's an incense bomber.

And it warms. The wood. You've got to set it on fire. No, no fires. But you this is an electric warmer, so it gets it raises the That the oils and the resins in the woods are so far.

I feel like that's shenanigans.

So they become fragrant as opposed to, say, a pollutant. You don't set it on fire.

So if it's on fire, it's polluting? But that's what you want, right? No, you don't want the smoke. That's what it is. You want the fragrance.

But you get it from the fire. No, you don't get it from the fire. You get it from the actual resins and the oils in the wood. I do think it's annoying when.

Now, okay, long story. It's Friday. You guys don't care. I went to the sum. Oh gosh, I get Don't sit here and be like, I'm going to make a bougie spake easy, and then I'm only going to serve drinks that have a cup of sugar per drink.

I can't stand that. I just, I'm not a sugary type person. Like, I don't have, I have like hardly any sugar in my you get you, if I smell a Snickers bar, I'm gonna freak out and like be like Beavis and just, you know, short circuit. I'm not gonna be able to deal with it. And I get it's a cool concept, but if you're going to do a cool concept, don't spend all your money just on the concept and the interior.

Make sure you hire like decent bartenders. Don't sit here and be like, it's my mixologist. Shut up. It's a bartender. And bar, it's a skill.

It is a skill. I mean, kudos to our bartenders out there, because I see you, like, I know what y'all deal with, particularly this time of the year. I had, you know, uh uh my family ran a Not a bar. It was in the Ozarks. It was a tavern.

A tavern. That's the best way to say. No, for real. That's the best way to say it. I mean, I don't know about you, but I had a motorcycle gang that taught me how to play pool.

That's a real story. For real. For real, R-I-L-L, for real. Um but long story short, so I know a little bit. And I I don't like th there there's like so much Performance that goes into it, and it's like less quality.

Does that make sense? But at one of these places that we went to, and this is how we got into this whole conversation in the first place last year. They brought out a little stick of wood and then they put a rosemary sprig on it. And they set it on fire in this little. Um stone trough.

And it smelled really good. And I was like, ooh. Ooh, festivals, you know, being a total chick, I'm like, ooh, that smells festive. Can I just burn things in my house, too? And they're like, no, you.

This is How did it say it again? Palo Santo? I don't know. It's like some potion stick. And I know rosemary 'cause I cook, uh, and it's rosemary.

And I was like, mm, I don't know what this wood is, but so I was looking online to order some of that that wo I did not know that was like a whole thing that people argue about. Are you a part of like a community where you argue about the quality of the wood? No, no. Oh my gosh. I am not.

There's so many things to worry about in life. I do not have time to go and read literally 42 pages on Reddit about this Palo Santos better than that one. No, it's not. Yes, it is. This is why.

And I can't. Oh my gosh. Well, it's a whole thing. I brought in frankincense, too. And frankincense is.

You brought in Jesus' presence. I did, I did. And frankincense is just the sap of the tree. Dried.

Okay, here's my question. Will your potions master a friend know this? I'm going to ask you this question. Who first was like, hmm, what's that goo coming out of the tree? Let's burn it.

Well, I mean, I'm sure forest fires were a thing. Even back then.

So they were like, what's that fragrance? The smell is coming from someone. The tree is crying, but it smells so great. Look at that leaky tree. Oh.

Ooh, leaky tree. That's the name of a bar. Should be. I can also name bars along with fans. This show has a point today.

We really do. But I'm like so close to, you know, oh, I'm hosting a Christmas party. We got our radio people in. Steve's in the studio. I can't really see them because it's kind of dark over there.

They just, I don't know what they do in the shadows. They just go over there and they hiss. I don't know. Like, they just all gang up over there, and all I hear is. It's just show each other beads.

Yeah, they show each other memes. That's it. Oh my gosh. All right, so I had oh, what was I gonna get uh, I was gonna get into something. We're gonna have his the we we always do a Potions Master check-in.

And then we have the top ten fictional band names of twenty twenty three coming up as well. Do you have a favorite? Yeah, I think I'd put it as number one. I think I have a favorite, but I can't remember what it is. Actually, a lot of them are favorites.

But I'm like, I know every time I'm like, that's my favorite. And then another one, nope, that's my favorite. I don't know how many I can have, but anyway. Of all the years we've been doing this, how many bands have actually adopted any of our names to name themselves? No, because I want all of them.

We need to be grateful. It'll we need that concert t-shirt. We do. All right, we have a a bunch of, I mean, I'm actually not hitting half of the stuff that I had on my rundown for you today. This is becoming problematic.

We got it. I wanted to get into at some point the guy, there was a dude who knocked the head off the devil statue. Did they put up in Iowa? Did you hear this guy? He was like this Christian dude who went up there and all the devil worshipers are like, that's so mean.

Yeah. What you did to the devil statue You knocked his head off It's so hateful To It's what? I'm fascinated. I'm going to try to hit that here in between talking about potions. All right, as we get moving, ladies and gents.

And now, all of the news you would probably miss, it's time for Dana's Quick Five.

So if you like junk food, apparently you're supposed to blame your Neanderthal ancestors? Or no, blame the Black Death. Scientists claim that the plague that killed 60% of Europeans changed mouth bacteria. Yeah, and it led to the love of junk food. It's the second plague pandemic of the mid-14th century known as the Black Death.

And it caused all kinds of nastiness. And they said that they studied calcified dental plaque from skeletons, and they revealed that the dominant bacteria found in mouse today is linked to low-fiber, high-carb diets, as well as dairy consumption. And they said that. That this was that the events such as the Black Death trigger the dominance of this bacteria. Changes to diet and hygiene throughout the plague are thought to have affected the oral microbiome.

This is too close to Christmas for me to be pretending to be in the world. You've got a healthy probiotic level. You know why I put that on your Renaissance drawing, right? Mm-hmm. So they said they looked at the teeth of all these people buried at archaeological sites and they found all these microbial species.

And they d they can't I'm not even pronouncing this one. They said that the other bacteria, methanobridobecter. That sounds right. That's right. Yeah.

That's now largely considered extinct in healthy people.

So they said that basically it changed everything the black plague did. That's very interesting. Let's see here. Oh, no. No, no.

I don't want to read any of these. Oh no.

So, this is a story about the worst brand slogan of 2023. It's a bicycle rental company called Tut Tut. And Their slogan was put the phone between your legs. That's the worst brand slogan they set of 2023 by the rental company, the bicycle rental company. I would also think that's probably maybe the worst company name.

Yeah. Uh so coming up. I don't know what. It's potions mastering and I don't know. It's Christmas.

Who knows what's going to happen? I mean, maybe I'm sitting here when we come back. Let's see. Don't let FOMO get the best of you. Stay in the loop and ahead of the curve by following Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

I don't know why this song cracks me up. Wonderful Christmas time. Paul McCartney, Wangs. It's just so, this song cracks me up. But it's like part of the whole Christmas feel.

Welcome back to the program. Dana Lashie with you. Bottom of this third hour. You can listen coast to coast. You can stream the radio program, watch the simulcast, channel 347 direct TV.

I'm staring at this. We're going to dive into this. Cain, it smells, I think it smells like soap. You're like, that's clean. He's trying to, I don't know what things smell like.

I'm like the worst scent, it's like a sommelier of scents. I don't know. I'm like, that smells clean. That smells nice.

So Cain brought in. Um You got it from your potions master friend. You brought in this, it looks like a genie is going to pop out of this thing. I put it up on Instagram, and you're burning one of Jesus's presents in here, heating, heating, one of heating one of Jesus's presents in here. That's right, the frankincense, which Steve says names after his uncle.

And he's got all these little baggies. Dude, this could legit. Little baggies. Yeah, it's like making it sound like this is like a smaller. He's got some dime bags of us, some wooden stuff up in here.

Illegal thing. And it's not. It's not at all. But it actually, that actually smells good. It's very good.

You did not have this thing last year. This is just to take it with. This is what Jesus was smelling in the manger. I mean, I'm I get, yeah. I mean, maybe not in that little cute thing.

That's a little cutie thing that you got it, that you got it in there.

Okay, let's get to business. We talked about this last year because I just want to warn you guys: 2024, we're going to start out with a kick in the neck.

Okay. Like when we all come back here on January 3rd, you guys are going to get punched in the face with all this stuff going on. I want you to be prepared.

So, over this Christmas season, we're like, I don't normally focus on wellness and stuff because I don't care. But I mean, that smells good. And I, you know, I'm just, let's talk about it. How do we clean up? All of That.

And just have it to where I just shook like a Muppet for people who are not watching. And have it, you know, where we're cleansed of all of the. Stupidity of the past year. And so John Lawnis is a literal potions master. I mean, he's got like all professional.

I could say he's like president of this core advertising group, and he's got very important titles. But he's I mean, I legit would be like Potions Master and only go as that. He is literally like he's a let me read this a certified master. Like you can get certified for this. In the ancient Japanese tradition of Kodo, the way of incense, For over a decade, and he holds the rank.

of cane of a Komodo. That is a literal Japanese master of incense ceremony. That's right. That's a literal thing. See, he's the actual potions master.

Yeah, well. Potions isn't exactly accurate. It's just a fun word. Right. Yeah.

Uh, and John joins us now via Skype. John, it's a pleasure to have you. Thank you for joining us again. This most show, first off, that you had to go through like a whole thing. to get certified in all of this.

King keeps flicking the scent to me. Yeah, so real quick, when I was nine years old, I started studying martial arts and world incense traditions. Then when I was 13, I trained under a certified master in the way of incense. It's called Kodo for a period of 10 years.

So I've been doing incense for over 40 years now. You could run bath and body works out of business, basically. Like you can totally do that. Yeah, but you're talking about getting rid of all these emotions and what have you. I mean, what you're really accessing, what you're talking about, is the limbic system.

which is that part of our body, a part of our brain that really controls the emotions. And so, you know, we could be working on the hypothalamus, on the amygdala, on the thalamus, on the hippocampus without getting into too big a words, right? But there's a little bit of, yeah, well, so you were just having that experience with the frankincense. You're like, it smells good. And you started to relax and you started to maybe have less kind of, you know, negative thoughts or thoughts that are moving around that.

Well, that's what I do for people internationally, celebrities, businesses, and individuals. But it's a way to center the mind and deal with all the chaos that we deal with every day. And especially in the world of politics, I don't know if you know anything about that.

So you're telling me that they need more of this on Twitter? I I think so. Oh, you know what? And by the way, when I was on your show last year, the amount of just hate that came at me when I was literally talking about gifts for baby Jesus. I mean, it was amazing to me.

They need more of Jesus' gifts. Because this, you smell the, what is that, the frankincense? And it's, you're like, I'm, you're chill. They need, I've, I hate that you had to do that. Like, you can't even tweet anymore because of these people.

You, you literally, you, didn't you leave Twitter? I did.

Well, I mean, I still have an account, but I mean, it's like, it was just amazing to me. Like, I'm on your show, we're having this wonderful conversation about the use of frankincense and myrrh. And it was, it was amazing. Like, just the amount of names I got called, names that have nothing to do with any. That's okay.

That's okay. Listen, listen, I'm a strong, big boy. I can handle it. And I've got scent on my side. You know what I mean?

I am. I love it! I got sent on my side. You just burned some of Jesus' gifts and you feel better. Why were those?

We're talking to John Lannis, who's literally like. a master of this stuff. There's a lot of I mean there's like a whole certification here. Why w Those specifically were ended up being so popular and sort of like now forever a part of human history. The frankincense, the myrrh.

I don't even know if I'm saying that correctly. Myrrh. That's right here. Yeah, you are right. Yeah, you're saying it right.

So the research suggests that the wise men would have been Zoroastrian priests. Yeah. And they held a lot of the information around health. and wellness. And so frankincense, for example, the Mayo Clinic and other very large medical organizations are beginning to really use frankincense to help the body with a number of things, lung issues, arthritis, etc.

And so frankincense not only calms the mind, clears the mind, but it also helps as an antibacterial and antimicrobial. And so it's healthy.

So also with myrrh, same kind of thing, but you can actually, you can eat myrrh, you can eat frankincense. And so it's a way to really have the body be cleansed inside and out in a very short explanation. That's like. Brilliant. Can you burn too much of it?

Well, you're not. He's not. I should know. Kane's not burning it. He keeps telling me that over and over again.

He's like, I'm not burning it, Dana. That's it's more pollute. That's not gonna be a real word, pollutey. Is it well yeah polluti, I like that.

So in short, it's like this, is that most incense in America is synthetic. It's filled with a whole bunch of things that are not pure. Therefore, when you're burning that, you can get indoor air pollution. But if you're warming all natural fragrances, there is benefit in the aromatic medicine as it languaged it in one way. But by warming it, you're minimizing the amount of smoke and you're maximizing the fragrance and all the chemicals that come along with it that help, again, calm the mind, have us recenter within ourselves to, again, to be able to deal with the chaos of the world.

We're talking with John Lannis, who's like an expert in basically, he could run all the Scentsy, the Bath and Body Works, all those people out of business. This, and we're taught, I mean, because it's, I just find this fascinating.

So this, um you made a very good point. With the, I guess, some of the chemicals and stuff that they can put in some of the manufactured stuff.

So, you gotta be really picky about where you get your stuff from. Yeah, there's only three companies that I currently use in the entire world. Wow. Yeah. And so these are things that I have vetted over the 40 years of teaching and training and leading groups.

I mean, like we literally do this for corporations. We do this for individuals. We do this for people of note. And it's an incredible experience. It's called the incense journey.

And you're getting your own sense of it through Kane in the studio, but you'll notice that you don't have as much anxiety maybe as you normally do when you're in the presence of that.

So imagine every day being able to really have more control over your mind to be able to then put the attention where you need to put it when you need to put it there. Do you have to send like special people out to get this stuff? Because like some of this, I don't even know where you get, where does one get frankincense? Like where it's not like, yeah, it's not like it grows wild in. I don't even know it's a tree, right?

It's sap or it's sap. It is it. Yeah. So frankincense is a tree. If you imagine the continent.

Of Africa, and you drew a very thin line across the top of Africa. That is where frankincense grows, and other places as well, but close to there.

So, what happens is that three times a year, they actually cut into the tree, causing the sap to come out and then to dry. And then you're taking that off. And so, frankincense is an autoimmune reaction. To a danger with the tree or some kind of a damage. Same thing with the curse.

Yeah, well, so well so Yeah.

So let's look a little bit at the Egyptian tradition.

So the Egyptians talked about frankincense as being sweat of the gods.

So when you hold up frankincense, it looks like if you were to take sweat and then amalgamate it into a resin. But the point is, is that it has connotations with the sun. It has connotations with a number of things. But because it elevates our consciousness, it literally focuses us in a way different from everything else. That's why it's been praised.

and used for thousands of years.

So this was like a really nice gift that these Zoroastrian priests brought Jesus. This was like going to Nieman's and getting one of those big old fancy once-in-a-lifetime gifts. Like what they brought him was like pretty amazing. Yeah, well, at the time, frankincense would have been double in value of gold. Oh my gosh.

And they brought a lot. I mean, I don't remember exactly how much they brought, but they brought quite a bit. That's amazing. Double the value in gold, of gold. That's crazy.

Yeah, well, and just like we talked about last year, we also saw that frankincense, well, actually, Mirror specifically shows up at the crucifixion.

So we have incense at the birth and the death of Jesus, which is very symbolic. And so the whole idea is, is that if we just take the night before the crucifixion, when Mary anointed the feet of Jesus with spikenard, very costly. Spiknard is another incense. In this case, it was an oil, but it will literally relax you deeper than anything else you've ever had.

So what Mary was doing for Jesus and the disciples was to relax them and really to have them commune and be in the same space together the day before the crucifixion. Wow. That is amazing. I did not know that. That is absolutely amazing.

John Lawnis, who I, well, I'm afraid I give everybody your Twitter account now because. People out there are such jerks. They need to burn more incense and chill out, is what they need to do. I so appreciate you joining us on this. And I just think this is very cool.

Where can people find you and like find your recommendations and stuff? What's a good place to go? Yeah. So what I would do is I would go to Instagram. It's at Sheehan underscore wellness.

So Sheehan underscore wellness. You can connect with me there. You can also send an email to sheehanwellness at gmail.com and then we'll go from there.

Sounds great. Thank you so much for doing this. And I want to add too that John also works with veterans and he helps work with, helps to manage their PTSD and all of that stuff.

So you do a lot of great, great stuff for folks.

So thank you so much for doing that and for joining us today. We'd love to have you back. Thanks so much. Thanks, Dana. Thanks, Dana.

Have a good holiday. Merry Christmas. Bye-bye. Bye. It smells great.

It smells, it's very chill. It's not like I'm walking into like an old hippie's house. It's very clean. It's clean and it doesn't like overpower. Even yeah, it's it's very um it's light.

Because like you know those um like a lot of people get those those uh oil plug-ins that they put on their walls. One of my friends had to repaint. Her whole living room because those, it was one of those bath and body works oil things, and it even got on like the stone on her fireplace. It literally changed the, you know, how, like, if you're smoking, if you're somebody's a smoker and they get nicotine on their walls and all that stuff, it's like it's very much similar to what the oil that was putting off. She had to repaint everything because of that stuff.

And so now she just, she says she just burns a. What is it, the Palo Palo Santo? Palo Santo. Yeah, very interesting. All right, we're going to wrap up our last broadcast of the year because coming up.

We have our Top band names of the year. That's how we're going to be ending the show. Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, because knowledge is your ultimate superpower. Alright. All right.

Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. It's our last broadcast of this year, 2023, and we are back behind the mic on January 3rd.

Now, one of the things that we do all throughout the year, I don't know when we started this, 10 years ago, is we have. I'm really good at naming bands. and apparently also bars. We, you know, all of this came out of just the daily news cycle from the past year.

So it's like you'll hear a phrase and you're like, man, that sounds like a great band name.

So Kane adds it to the list. And so we've made, and by we, he's made a top ten list. the top ten. Fictitional, fictitious band names of 2023, Kane? Yes, ma'am.

And by the way, there were like 50 or 60. We average about one a week. On the show every year. And so out of that 50 to 60, I have to whittle it down to these fabulous 10. And then we have some honorable mentions as well.

So at number 10, drum roll, please. Number 10 is liquid meth. Yes, liquid meth. I love them. Liquid meth.

But your favorite? They're one of my favorites. Yes. Love liquid math. I don't even know if you can liquefy math, but it's great.

I mean with the name, not like the map. Can you liquefy by that?

Okay, I don't know how the math is done. Don't know either. Merry Christmas. All right, number nine. It's personal riot.

Yes, I do this daily. Personal riot. That's true, you do. Everybody should have their own personal riot. Absolutely.

Gonna have a personal riot right here in Walmart. Number eight needs a little bit of an explanation. This one is. Does it, though? Number eight is Big Gay Baby.

Yes, I love Big Gay Baby. BGB, what?

Now, what is this though? This is when we were doing the story on the trans people doing their literally will also appropriate an age. Like, not only will a 60-year-old dude say that he's a chick, but then he'll be like, oh, not just any chick, a 10-year-old chick. Exactly, or a six-year-old or something. BGB, big gay baby.

Oh, boy. All right, that was number eight. Number seven. Love that one. Lesbian dudes.

Yeah. Lesbian dudes. That sounds like. Uh what's that one? Uh lesbian duo.

Uh, where they sing that one song, Galileo? Oh man, what is it? No.

Indigo girls. Indigo Girls, thank you. That's like an Indigo Girls cover band.

So it's like two people who just do indigo girl songs. Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, it's lesbian dudes. All right, that was number seven. Number six.

Seizing the pounce. Which is appropriate after a lesbian dude. Seizing the pounce. Seizing the pounce. And because that happens often with the pounce.

Yeah, that's how the media treats us. I need to shut up and let you just hear yourself. Seizing the pounce. Number five, first lady deathmatch. Yes.

First lady deathmatch. I want that patch. That sounds like a fun time. This one's interesting. Yeah, number four, I think we know where this came from.

And this was your. This isn't actually, this was you.

Sounds like a sandwich. This was you. Just so you know, this is all you. Frankenginer.

Well, in my defense, that's what happens if you have like the mutilation surgery.

Okay, go ahead, sorry. Wow, that was number three. We got three more. Number three, fatal sound pollution. Fatal sound pollution.

Number two, illicit meat. Oh, I love it. We had that one just yesterday, I love it. And the number one. Number one, Phil.

Drum roll. The fanfare, drum roll, all of it, please. Playground Warlord. The best playground. Blade Brown Warlord.

And their first album is Hour Long Molly. Oh, my favorite. All right, I think I have time to mention these last few: Missing Biscuits, Flag Team Rejects, Bobcat Attack, Rat Czar. Those are the honorable mentions. There you go.

All right, folks, that's our last broadcast of the year. A big thank you to Phil for filling in. Steve, Juan, Kane, the Radio America folks, Lorraine, and the Yaldi people in YouTube. Thank you guys all so much for supporting us this past year. And we cannot wait to bring you so much more funness and new content coming up in 2024.

You guys are a blessing to me. I love you guys. I'll be back with you on January 3rd. Mm-hmm.