Monday April 8 - Full Show

From day one, my administration has been committed to fixing the broken student loan system. And making sure higher education is a ticket to the middle class, not a barrier. My administration has approved debt cancellation for 4 million Americans through various actions. And today, I'm announcing new plans that would cancel student debt for millions more. In total, These planned and canceled sum are all student debt for 30 million Americans when combined with everything we've done so far.

to find out how these plans may impact you. Visit studentaid.gov. No. I need more. coffee in my coffee.

I need more bitterness in my coffee this morning. I really do. I it's Monday and I already got President Daddy Shaw was down here. sitting here promising all my money away. Promising all my money away.

Two. Grad school brats. I said it!

So you don't have to. It's uh Eclipse Mania Monday, by the way. And Cedar season. I'm just doing it. You know what?

Because people are like, why do you sound like, you know why? Because I, on a scale, first off, I'm going to get to everything, tell you who I am, blah, blah, blah. You know. On a scale of 1 to 10, I am apparently level 20 allergic to cedar. I have to get like a whole new formulation of allergy shots and everything.

That's why I sound like this. I'm not leaving Texas though. It's not going to happen. We have our own gold and our own grid. Thank you.

All right, so anyway, welcome to the program. Daniel Ash with you. Starting a new week off. Hatefully. And uh well, would you you wouldn't you be like this on a Monday?

You have Biden telling everybody, well, we've got another round. What round is this? I'm on like five or six, right? We're on five or six rounds of student loan forgiveness. Wait, I didn't forgive it.

Did you forgive anything? Wand didn't forgive nothing. I don't think Steve forgave anything. We didn't forgive none of them, but yeah, guess who gets sacked with all of it? Yeah, we all do.

They'll get you some way or another. They will get you some way or another.

So, this is one of the big things that they're doing today, that they're announcing. They're pushing out. This latest student loan, whatever. Another one because Biden's got a buy vote. Like, don't you find it fascinating that it's just now an issue for him?

Just now. It's just now an issue for him. But it wasn't It wasn't an issue for Democrats until they needed to buy the vote. I don't know what they're going to do. Going into the election year, I don't know what they're going to do.

They can't buy everybody's vote because that'll make some people mad. I don't know what they're going to do. So that's that's There's kind of three big things sort of we're watching because the House is coming back into session. They've got to fight over the Ukraine stuff. Good luck with that.

They have to fight over all the Ukraine stuff. Then you also have The GOP and abortion, which we're going to talk about coming up. Oh, I know, we're going to talk about it. I I might surprise you. with uh my analysis of the nominee, the RNC nominee.

And his statement on this, because he came out, he posted like a what is like a couple minute video. to his platform. And he was discussing how he thinks it's something After uh the women's health, Jackson women's health case. And then the taking of Roe v. Wade, it was Dobbs v.

Jackson Women's Health, which then took Roe v. Wade and the jurisdiction of abortion essentially and kicked it down to the states, which is constitutionally correct. And we're gonna talk about this in a very logical way because, as someone who defines themselves as pro-life, I want to win on the issue. And I want to win, I mean, like, win on the issue. You got to do it smart to win on the issue.

And we're going to talk about this coming up. We're also going to discuss the effect that it may have. On the November election, because if Democrats get their way, it will be the entirety of the election, which is asinine when you consider literally everything else that's happening around the world right now. To say nothing of energy, the economy, inflation. We had Carol Roth on on was it Thursday?

Friday. Thursday. We are on Thursday. Where's the Was it Wednesday? I don't know.

I was so depressed after. She always comes on with like on the most depressing topics. She's so fun. And like at some point we're gonna have her on and we're gonna have like a party or something. But she's always on basically like, yes, we're all going to die broke and we're gonna be eating, you know, bugs in the desert.

That's what's gonna happen. And oh, nothing. And we'll be told to be happy by the government.

So the economic situation, horrific. Then you have, I don't know, are we going to be in World War III? If Biden keeps going this way, yeah, then we've got this issue. And then Now you've got The oh, and the eclipse mania today. But then you also now you have, you know, Democrats are just focusing on.

No, it's about abortion, ladies. I know we have all these issues, but we've got to worry about abortion. Got to worry about abortion. They're not going to sit here and tell you about crime. You know what?

Crime concerns women. Women are disproportionately affected. They're not going to sit here and talk about crime to women.

So they're going to try to scare you with abortion. It's the most sexist thing I can think of because this isn't most, this is, it aggravates me because it is an issue that older women use. Abortion is what older women use as a form of birth control. Don't get mad at me for sharing with you the publicly available on this tool called the internet, the statistics that are compiled by Planned Parenthood themselves and are made available to the public. Half of the public doesn't care.

They just want to run with their narrative and they don't want to see any evidence to the contrary. They want to believe what they want to believe, and their belief is that you got people out there raping everybody and coat hangers galore in back alleys. That's what it is. That's what they want you to believe. And that's not the truth, actually.

The truth is a lot more shocking because it's older women who use it as a form of birth control. That is God's honest truth.

Now most Americans support And by most, I mean the overwhelming majority, Democrats and Republicans and Independents and everybody else, they come down on a 15-week ban.

So The strategy of people Who Are define themselves as pro-life because I'm not gonna, I'm not paying homage to this whole exception of the life of the mother because it's included already. That's already codified in every single. every single state statute is already in existence.

So it feels silly to talk about whether or not something that exists exists because it exists. But having this go to the States I would think Gibbs. Pro-life people more of an advantage because the Democrats are desperate to make this a national issue for one reason and one reason only.

So, like I said, we're going to talk about this here. Audio Soundbite 15, though, can you just hit me in the head with this, please? says uh Secretary Mayor Poot Boudigis. Go ahead. Monday.

So we need to talk about the reality here. And again, there is a lot of funding and a lot of energy going into telling a different story, especially on ideological news outlets and online. But the the simple facts and the simple reality are right here staring us in the face, including the fact that I can safely walk my dog to the Capitol today in a way that you couldn't do when we all got here. And also I'm sorry, what? What?

What's he talking about? That's puke beety juice. And he's I mean I just was reading a story about a man who was literally beaten to death in a DC alley. Did you hear about that one? Yeah, that happened.

I mean, don't look at the crime data. Where does he live? I can walk my dog safely to With the security? Yeah, with yeah, with the security and but Does he really walk his dog? Do you guys remember?

This video that um gosh when I think this was right after he s this was like his second first or second week, I think. After uh Secretary Mayor Uh previously Vice Admiral of the Canoe Fleet at Camp Wimbetonka, Poo Booty Juice was. Uh It was like his first year or whatever as trans post secretary, right? And He was Hmm. Here's uh Called by the press writing called by the press.

It was set up. It was a pap shot. He was riding his bike with his dorky little helmet on, riding his little bicycle. But he like stopped, didn't he stop? And he didn't like actually bike all the way to DC.

Wasn't he in like a vehicle? And then they pulled the vehicle fleet over. And they took his bike out and then they put his little dorky helmet on, and then he rode his bike for like two blocks. Yeah.

So do you honestly okay, he was trying to fake you out? about that. Do you really honestly think that this dude walks his dog? I walk my dog every day. I don't believe he does.

I walk my dog to the Capitol compared to four years ago. It was different four years ago. This is Poop Booty Giswan showing you in the simulcast. This is literally, they drove him two blocks away from the Capitol. Then hands to sky.

They took his bike out. He gets on his bike. He's got his dorky little helmet on. You can see it still when everyone believed that the cloth, the face panty, they thought that was scientific.

So you can still see it's in that era. And then he biked to he thought he was hidden by the trees, y'all. It's like watching a toddler play hide and seek. He thought he was hidden. He's not hidden.

You can see him clear as day. He gets on that little bike. He probably doesn't even know how to work it. I bet that's what he's trying to figure out. Like, where are the brakes on this?

What is this? Vice Admiral here of uh Camp Whipy Tonka's Canoe Fleet. getting on his bike bikes for two blocks to the Capitol. You know, with all of his security. Look at all of his people setting up a bike for him.

There he goes. He's going to bike, guys. He's biking. He's a serious bicyclist. What?

Look, he loves, he cares about the environment. Note his security with him. His security's got the bike with the beefy tires, right? He's he's but and he's got like a whole S U V fleet following him. You believe this man walks his dog.

So green. Hell to the no. Yeah, so green. Look at it. For every bicycle ride that Pete Booty Juice takes, you've got like a fleet of SUVs and a dude on a gas-powered, beefy-tired bike.

Yeah, whatever. I don't even care, dude. Stop. Yeah, he drove his dog to the park and then got out and walked it at the park. No, he didn't drive.

His people drove him. Right. And then they got the dog out for him and harnessed the dog up. He didn't even touch that dog. He just walked next to the dog.

He literally had someone squat down and catch the dew. In their hand. Just had, yeah, that's what he did. I don't doubt it. Catch the Dew.

Catch the Dew. All right. It's my new dog product. I'm calling it booty bags for your dog. It's named after our secretary, Poot Booty Juice.

We're trademarking it right now, it's a booty bag. You just sit down and catch the do. That's literally the tagline. Steal it, I will sue you for everything you have. It's the American way.

I'm just saying. Uh let's see.

So it's Eclipse Mania.

Okay. Is it Don't look at me badly. I really don't care. Is that mean to say? I just Okay.

The moon goes in front of the sun. Woo! I just. I ran out of mouthwash today. I mean, I don't know.

Like, what? This, like. Right? Is that mean to say? I feel like I'm leaving a popular party by saying this.

You know how, like, you just leave, if you're at an event, you got to go, and it's an event you, you know, you feel like you should be at because everybody's there. I feel like everybody's super excited about this eclipse, and I just don't care. It's a celestial event. I don't care. Is that mean?

Do you care? Are you really excited about this thing? You mean, am I emotionally attached to it? Or even remotely in it? Yeah, I mean.

Your interest, your disinterest in it somehow makes me upset? No. Okay. It doesn't.

Okay. You're all right. I mean, I would never. The peop people booked hotel rooms. I feel bad for the people who booked hotel rooms in cloudy areas.

Like theirs. They're walking outside like, well, gosh dang it. Looking at the sky. It's the damn government controlling the weather. It's the chemtrails.

So you don't see the solar eclipse. I see what they're doing.

Somebody got two crystals out and banged them together and squirted some essential oil out and made everything cloudy. My gosh. Or worse. I just don't care about it. If I see it, woo!

If I don't.

Okay. Is that weird to say that? I'm just I don't get excited about stuff.

Now, if it was Sweet Meteor of Death, I would be out there ready. I'd be out there like that Timothy Chalamet from Dune with my. Two anchors ready to ride that thing. I just get ready to like how you you got to see the movie anyway. All right, we got to get moving 'cause we got headlines coming up and the eclipse is making us all dumb.

We're gonna start talking backwards or something. I bet that's what happens, right? If we don't get hit by a rock, And aliens don't come, we'll probably start talking backwards, and everything will be dark. We're going to have to sacrifice somebody to make the sun come back, and I don't know. We'll just see.

All right, we got that kind of a day. With this eclipse. Or any, you know, what if there's a natural disaster? You want to be prepared? I'm not saying one will happen, but you always want to be prepared no matter what.

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So, is the solar eclipse going to disrupt your cell surface? No, you're just going to talk backwards and sound like a devil. That's all. That's all it is. I will I don't even want to say it's a joke.

I'm just in the very sardonic mood. Uh I love how this this article starts. As darkness envelops millions of people during Monday's total solar eclipse. I know, right? Drama.

They just wanna know if their cell phones are gonna work. Everyone's, I can't wait for the flood of blurry photos to be on Instagram.

So is my cell service going to work?

So I can post it up on Instagram. You better be using Patriot Mobile, by the way. Otherwise, you're just supporting the devil. I don't know what else to tell you. Let's see here.

Parts of New York State. They're apparently not gonna see the total eclipse anymore. If you're in Hudson Valley, nature decided to do a takesies back seas for you, and you're not gonna get to see it anymore. Yeah, they updated all the times for that.

So, bummer. Let's see. If you forgot to get solar eclipse glasses, you can literally put a colander on your head. Apparently, that's what somebody suggested. I don't really think these glasses work.

I don't know. I just think it's all goofy. Here's the idea: when it looks dark out, sneak a peek, and then when the sun comes back out, don't look at it. That's real simple. Do you have to spend $5 on glasses?

I hear that the most dangerous part is that little bit leading up to the total eclipse, but the actual total eclipse, you can look for it. The corona around it, not the beer, the corona around it, you're not gonna fry your eyes out. But if you have the wrong glasses on and you're staring at it, you realize you're cooking your eye. You're making an eyeball souffle. Maybe don't do that.

So just, you know, when it looks dark. Sneak a peek. You don't have to stare at it forever. You know, just sneak a peek. I'm just saying, if you don't have the glasses.

Uh, let's see here. Forecast for cloudy skies cast a shadow over North American solar eclipse times. Apparently, All the, yeah, you apparently gotta either fly above the clouds or get a drone. I don't care. And Morgan Whalen was arrested.

That has nothing to do with the eclipse. You're like, why is Morgan Whalen in this? This is because how it is, how we structured it today. He apparently threw a chair at the Chiefs' Bar last night, and he's got three counts of reckless endangerment and one count of disorderly conduct. I thought this was America, officer.

They said that the chair landed, the police said the chair landed just three feet away from him.

So he bonded out at 15,000.

So he was under arrest. We have a lot more in store, including eclipse mania, culture, GOP, abortion. Stay with us. Elevate your commute, workouts, or downtime with the Dana Show Podcast. Unleash the power of knowledge at your fingertips by following Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

You know, people will say, oh, my power bill is constantly going up. You know, what do you say to people here in Georgia who may feel that frustration? You're seeing the impacts really of climate change on people's heating bills, not just in Georgia, but around the country. Um It's called Going into Summer. You clown poops, that's what it's called.

Going into summer, and you're in Georgia. And we live in a time of inflation. That's what it's called. But no, you got Democrats who are running all of this, making all of these decisions that are jacking up prices.

So they gotta think, oh, you're the boogeyman of climate change. Whoa, climate change is going to get you. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Welcome back to the show. Dana last year with you.

That was Jennifer Granholm, another diversity hire. They hired one guy 'cause he's gay. They hired her 'cause she's abroad. That's why. Let's just be honest about it.

So she's the energy secretary. She's saying, oh, well, the reason that prices are increasing. It's, you know, climate change. Couldn't be Biden's economic policies. It couldn't be the fact that you guys are restricting the energy sector.

It couldn't be any of those things. It has to be the ghost of weather. That's what it is. Can we throw up this audio from the view? Because I've even seen the left say, because you got, now hold up, you had.

The earthquakes, Taiwan earthquake, then you had the earthquake on the east coast. And now, because there was an earthquake on the east coast, everybody thinks that everything bad is going to happen now because people are so damn self-centered. Anything happens in New York, and everyone immediately assumes that it's the end of the world because how could it happen to me? It's, you know, New York. where the media is, so the media internalizes everything.

And that and then you got the cicadas. The two groups of the weird cicadas coming up, and now you've got the eclipse. And all these broads are saying that it's because of like climate change and end times. I'm waiting for one of them to bring out snakes to use in their worship practices. Watch.

Kind of crazy is with the earthquake on Friday and then the eclipse today, people are having all sorts of conspiracies about the end of the world. And then I read online that the earthquake epicenter was actually at Bedminster. It's a daily nebula baby. Fun fact, so it originated with trauma. I have to say, I know, right?

I mean, I have to say, Karen Dupesh, our wonderful makeup artists, when the earthquake was happening, she put her coat on and she was like, Jesus is coming. I'm out. I'm leaving. We've got a solar eclipse. We've got the earthquake.

She ran down the hallway. The rapture is here. The rapture's here. And then also, I learned that the cicadas are coming. Cicadas.

Cicadas? For the first time, there was supposed to be breaks. Full stop. How out of touch are you if you don't even know what that bug's called? Everybody knows what that bug's called.

Corrine. Cicada. It's not like a jazz quartet. It's a bug. Or a cheese.

Welcome. We're the cicadas. We're a Dave Brubeck cover band. Like, what is the matter with you? Stop.

It's a cicada. Cicada. What's cicada? What in Bougie Nordstrom hell is that? Cicada.

It's like Prada. What is that? I can't even get into the rest of this video. That one took me by surprise.

Well played.

Well played because they got into. You had the Nupple baby and the conspiracy theories, and then they were, so they ended up saying, well, you know, we've got also. The eclipse happening. Who could have predicted that? I don't know, the people who predicted it 70 years ago, and then the people who predicted it 70 years before that, and 70 years before that, and 70 years before that.

They can do those things. They can It's like a they can it's not they're not prophets, they just pay attention to the weather and You know, gravitational forces and all this kind of stuff. It's not hard. Cicada, good grief. Almost makes it sound like a delicacy.

That's nasty. But they c I c I I can't tell you how many things I've seen where People are suggesting that the eclipse is somehow Oh.

Okay. Like a a climate event. Wow, can you believe it? The weather is so hot that it just pulled the Right into the sun. Oh man.

Guys, these people vote. You believe that? They drive cars near you.

Well, some of em don't, but good night It's not that at all. No worries, guys. Don't let's not. Let's not say we did.

So, uh We got the Eclipse Mania. We'll talk more about. Apparently, there's three things you're not supposed to do. I think we kind of covered it, though. We were touching on the student loan proposal.

Trump has said he came out with this video. Where he mentioned, he was talking about abortion. Came out with this video. says that Abortion should be left to the state. He said there uh should be except well, there there are exceptions for rape incest.

He didn't specify a week limit. It was a four minute video that he posted to his social media platform. And this was, you know, this is an issue that Democrats are desperately trying to make. a big thing. But a national big thing.

Do we have some? We have some of his video here. He came out and he said. That uh It should be left up to the states. And he celebrated the Supreme Court overturning Roe v.

Wade. And he said that he was proud of that being done. We'll play some of this. This is audio soundbite. I got a flashback, but I don't want the flashback.

I want the big video. We should have it. Uh let's see if we can get that pulled up. But uh he had said previously that he would support a 15-week federal level ban, but This is him saying that he Likes for it to be state by state. Can we play this, please?

And Mon's pulling it up right now. They will always support the creation of strong, thriving, and healthy American families. We want to make it easier for mothers and families to have babies, not harder. That includes supporting the availability of fertility treatments like IVF in every state in America. Like the overwhelming majority of Americans, including the vast majority of Republicans, conservatives, Christians, and pro-life Americans, I strongly support the availability of IVF for couples who are trying to have a precious baby.

What could be more beautiful or better than that? Today, I'm pleased that the Alabama legislature has acted very quickly and passed legislation. I will say. I do and I get some of what people are saying. Because there are some people who are criticizing him, saying you literally were going after people like Ron DeSantis and Brian Kemp and others for passing.

their own state legislation regarding that. Yes, he was. He did. This is where he kind of gets in his own way. I actually I don't like that he used the phrase abortion rights because I don't believe that that's a thing.

Just like I don't think that's an existence, that doesn't. You got to be careful about the language that you use and to not validate your opposition by using their language.

So I think that. And This is why you have to be careful in a primary. You can't just throw punches and not have any regard for the future. Because now there are going to be some people, and I'm seeing them right now, they're questioning his sincerity and whether or not he would actually stick to that, because he was so. Combative with governors that were doing this in their own states.

And I think that that's a perfectly justifiable thing to point out. I mean, you're literally just pointing to the stuff that he actually wrote and posted on his own platform and in things that he said in interviews. If this is his. Position Then aside from the fact that he said abortion rights. I don't think that it's a bad political position.

And we're going to talk more about that because we've got to look at. We've got to look at how some of these issues have been performing in elections and how to do it better. Uh one thing too, this is what I get really aggravated about. Whenever anyone, people I know, good people who are pro-life. Whenever I see them try to have a conversation about this issue.

and they are trying to discuss strategy. in which That you would use to protect life going state by state, and then they're accused. Which is the formula of calling someone a racist that the left uses. They're accused of not being pro-life or as pro-life? By people who are like the Susan B.

Anthony organization, or and I don't dislike them. But I see some people Really trying to impugn the characters of others by suggesting that somehow they are less devoted to life because they have a different strategy. I find that specious. I find it malicious. I find it leftist.

And I find it undermining the very cause that you're stating that you want to go out and support, that the cause that you want to champion. And there's a reason why I say this. If you look at some of the past six elections where you've looked at it state by state. Pro-lifers haven't done too well.

Some of its messaging, actually I think all of its messaging. It's not because that doesn't sell. It's because you've got to get better at the messaging. And you can't be having these little fights about strategy like this way out in the open. And be accusing people of being less.

Having less of a regard for life because they want to approach it state by state, incrementally, so it's not an all-or-nothing gamble for them. And you can't have this be all or nothing, or you will lose. It is an incremental fight. And it's also... A stronger by doing it incrementally, it's legally stronger, which we're going to talk about coming up.

But his remark, I didn't like that he used, he posted on his platform, he said abortion rights. And you can't use that phrase. Is he Two things. Is he the best messenger? No!

Is he conservative on this issue? No. But Is this a Strategic Pathway. That actually would cement and place safeguards and gain pro-life more than they've gained thus far. Electorally, state by state, and taking the fight like this.

Yes, I actually think this is a smarter move. There's a reason why Democrats are trying to make this a federal issue. There's a reason why. They are fighting this going state by state. And it's not because they don't think they can win.

If they wanted to marshal their forces, they could. It's easier for them to try to make this a federal issue, and they need it as they get out the vote mechanism. Do not grant them this.

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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.

Okay, if you don't feel safe, get off the airplane. This is your captain speaking, but never like this. I'll stop, and we'll fly the airplane. Don't worry, I'm gonna let my co-pilot fly it. He's a man.

Okay, it's a total meltdown. The pilot boarded in her street clothes and addressed the passengers over the intercom. Passenger Pam O'Neill couldn't believe what was happening. She said, Let's take a vote. How many of you would like to take off now with me dressed as I am, or would you prefer that I take 10 minutes to get changed into my cute little uniform?

Then she started talking about her divorce and political candidates. And the minute she mentioned that, a gentleman stood up and just yelled, Whoa, enough. You're scaring me. Another passenger, Randy Reese, got up to leave and gave a running commentary on social media. Pilot also insulted a couple on board.

Did I offend you?

Okay, so did I purposely offend you? I did. Oh, my God. The answer is yes. Flight attendants, please disarm doors.

After 20 passengers insisted on getting off the United Airlines flight, the pilot quietly left the aircraft.

Okay, if you don't feel safe, get off the airplane, but otherwise. Yeah, I hope she's fired and she has her license revoked permanently. I don't ever think that she should ever fly a plane again. That's excited. That is insane.

I would have gotten off the plane. Yeah.

I would have withheld the urge to punch her in the face, but I would have gotten off the floor. There's no way in hell I'd have let that woman fly me. That's insane. You never seen a man pilot do that. Just saying.

Be like, woman, you need a whole bottle of midol. Chill. I haven't even seen other female pilots do that. True. I never said, I can't, that's insane.

That is insane. What is wrong with people? Like the sense of entitlement, your cute little uniform. They're standards for a reason, sweetheart. Get off the plane.

Oh, I would have been, the moment she would have opened her mouth, I would have been up and out. No way, no way. I wouldn't have flown with her on the plane either. She would have had to literally be off the aircraft. No way.

No way. That's crazy.

Some of us have issues enough with being in a little metal tube in the sky with people. You know, I without that on top of it. But she felt like she was inoculated. from any kind of criticism or accountability because she's a chick. A lot of women on the left feel like that.

They think that they're inoculated. from any kind of Criticism Or accountability for their actions because they're not just a woman, but they're a woman on the left. Because if you're a woman and you are independent or rightward-leaning or on the right. That negates your vagina. I don't know if you realize that, but it cancels that out.

You are genderless after that. That's a thing that the left does: bibbity-boppity-boo. But The idea, I mean, that she got up there and just thought that that was perfectly acceptable. That's insane. And I don't like her hat.

I didn't like her hat either. I just didn't like anything about her at all. Immediately, she didn't have to say nothing, and I'm like, mm-hmm, Karen.

Okay, Cynthia. Mm-hmm, sit. Would you have flown on? You'd have gotten up too, wouldn't you? I would have said something snarky.

Well, yeah, but you but if but I would have definitely got out after saying the snarky thing, or I would have said the snarky thing while walking out, one of the two. I probably would have stood up and said something snarky. Yeah.

Yeah.

And then Like, wow, did all the sandwiches get made already? Yeah, did this, yeah, what happened? Sandwiches get made? Yeah.

What in the world? Like this. She's just, what's wrong with her?

So horrible. I have my co-pilot, a man. She sounded bitter and resentful. She sounded resentful, bitter, and hateful. She was mad.

Like, was she mad 'cause she had a co pilot with a dude? Notice the dude pilot didn't say nothing. He wouldn't even out there. He was like probably busy doing, you know, all of the Pre-flight stuff that they got to do. Don't they have like a whole checklist of stuff they got to do?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Things to do to keep people alive. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. Like, how to keep people alive when we're in the air. I mean, he's running through that whole checklist. And meanwhile, Cynthia's out there. Robble, rubble, rubble.

Like, giving, and then she's talking about our divorce and everything else. Is that what the passenger said? And when she got into political candidates, too, no. Look, there's certain professions where you take a back seat. Be humble enough.

Be humble enough and have a servant's heart. And take a back seat. The world isn't owed your political opinions. They're not owed your hot takes. If you're a doctor and you're in somebody's guts, you know, wrist deep, shut up about your politics.

Nobody cares. Be a doctor. We need those people more than we need people running their mouths off about politics. I'm just saying, we got enough of us, all right? Stick with us.

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I'm not going to get ahead of the president or decisions he might or might not make going forward. He was very clear in his call with the prime minister that if we don't see some changes in their policies in Gaza and the way they're prosecuting operations, we're going to have to make some changes of our own. You do think these are Israeli policies then to block eight. They get to decide how they prosecute this war. It's their operation.

We just talked about them pulling troops out, what that means. They get to decide how they prosecute operations. We get to decide how we're going to react to that and how we're going to administer our own policy with respect to Gaza. We make those decisions. And the President was clear with the Prime Minister.

If there's not changes, if things don't get better, then we're going to have to make changes of our own.

So what do you mean, like, if if things don't get better? Like, what things are you talking about? What do you mean, what if what gets better? John Kirby, I'm curious. Welcome back to the program.

Dana Lash here with you. Top of the second hour. Oh, I know. We're in the midst of eclipse mania. We'll talk about it.

Apparently, a partial eclipse is now visible in Mexico. Right, right, right, right, right, right, right. Uh anyway. Hi. Kane's laughing at me.

Dana Lash with you, you can listen coast to coast. Find us on channel 347 Direct TV. We're all over the WeberNets on X as well. The The requirements? What are the requirements?

I don't quite understand. Apparently there was some movement towards Rafa, but that was kind of like the latest. But I'm trying to. What were the... What are their requirements?

I saw the survey that almost half of British Muslims support. Hamas? Do you guys see this? I told you they were very, very popular. Hamas is super popular.

They're uh was a survey that was done in Britain and forty six per cent, according to the Telegraph, Of British Muslims said they sympathize with Hamas, not even support Hamas. That this goes like above and beyond. are sympathetic to them. It's the largest of its kind. Carried out since the conflict began.

There was a very, there was a smaller one that was done just in Gaza. Buy a Gaza. aka Hamas energy. There was another one done in December of last year, still after October 7th. That was done by an independent, it was an independent firm, a survey.

They were actually surveying people in Gaza. I don't know how you survey people in a war zone, but okay. And now this one. They said a third of British Muslims, 32% want to see Sharia law, Islamic jurisprudence, implemented in the UK. This is all post October seventh.

That's crazy.

And only one in four British Muslims believe that Hamas committed. Rape and murder in Israel. The majority actually think that it's just made up. And that Israel deserved it. This is wild to read this.

But it kind of answers your question as to how do you have this. Viewpoint internationally. Of Hamas and how is it I mean, this is this is how is it How are people thinking like this?

Well, that's you know. They've been sold. It's all been propaganda. We talked about this.

So we have Kirby saying, giving a very vague statement: well, you know, unless some things change, but they, you know, they don't exactly say what needs to change, they don't exactly get into that. And then you have this. Jamal Bowman, he's the guy who pulled the fire alarm, remember, and tried to disrupt. House Proceedings, Audio Soundbite 6. He's talking about Remember, we had the problem with Democrats in Michigan with Gaza.

Now he's talking about the problem that Gaza is creating for Muslim voters in Wisconsin. Listen. Yes, because we've always had a problem engaging voters of color, young people in certain demographics. It's going to be harder now because of how we respond, have pretty much not responded very well to what's happening in Gaza. Because they're sold lies.

It's just wild. Just wild to see this. I encounter it on social media with stuff that I post. I actually had to delete a couple. I never delete comments on Instagram.

I actually had to delete a couple of comments on Instagram because they were pretty Hamasi. Where people were saying, well, yeah, you know, this was in response to what the, you know, what Israel's done. October 7th. Really, putting grenades in women's copulatory organs? That's a that's you think that that's a justifiable response to what?

Hamasa, the colonizers. Realize that Israel gave that strip over to colonizers. It's being colonized. That's the actual occupation. Hamas occupies it.

That's the truth of it. But this um Is Is wild to see everyone fold like this. And even Nancy Pelosi, I'm pulling this up.

So you have Pelosi who's sending a letter. As well, along with a number of other House members. Demanding that Biden stop selling weapons to Israel. They want to. halt all arms transfers to Israel.

Now you tell me why is it? That The world believes that Israel targeted seven aid workers. in Gaza on purpose. But that Hamas didn't on purpose target over 1,600 innocent people on October 7th. That's the question.

So now Nancy Pelosi is demanding that Biden halt arm transfers. They don't want a new arms package for Israel. They think that anything remotely similar to it should be withheld. They said that Israel should mitigate harm to innocent civilians in Gaza, including aid workers. Yeah, I I haven't Kane, you're right over there.

So we're cutting off weapons to an ally in a time of. Certainly this is war. This is siding with Hamas. Yeah, there's no doubt. There's no other way to put it.

This is siding with Hamas. The terror entity. that somehow Democrats, a significant number of Democrats here in the United States, are sympathizing with. And they keep saying that Israel has done this great wrong. What great wrong did they do?

No one's ever actually been able to articulate that. I asked people that were the Hamasi people in my Instagram comments. I will literally bounce you. Like, you, you are not, these types of people need to realize that they do not deserve my attention, nor are they owed it. And these people are irrelevant to me.

I will bounce your ass right out. These They the way that I and actually they were going after some of you all, some of my other commenters on Instagram in a pretty nasty way, and I had to delete some of them. And if they keep doing it, I'm gonna have to actually put a filter on some of the words used. But they've never been able to actually articulate what the big bad that Israel's done. Literally, the only thing that they've ever been able to say is that Israel's Jewish and that's it.

Like, I. It's the wildest thing. They've never been able to say, well, what is it that they did that you think necessitated that response? Because they're like defending it. It gets worse.

Wait a minute. Wait a while. Listen to this. This is. Audio Soundbite 4.

This is in Where do you think the cis came? This would have to be like in Iran or something. Yeah, let's go ahead and play it. Let's go ahead and play it first. chance of death to America.

have are erupt in the streets of this town. Watch. We've been asked in the past Why are our protests on the International Day of Qutz, why are they so anti-America? Why don't we just focus more on Israel and not talk so much about America? Ghaza has shown the entire world why these protests are so anti-America.

Because it's the United States government that provides the funds for all of the atrocities that we just heard about. And this is why Imam Khomeini, who declared the International Day of Qurz, this is why he would say to pour all of your child all of your chants and all of your shouts upon the head of America. Wow. Chance of Death to America. That was in Dearborn, Michigan.

Michigan? USA, Michigan. See, Biden is willing. To sacrifice the only ally that we have in the Middle East to make those people happy so he can get their votes. The people that were screaming death to America, Biden wants their votes very badly.

And so he's going to sacrifice Israel so he can make those people happy. The people screaming death to America. This is why I can never be in elected office. Because I respect the Constitution too much to serve in elected office because my reaction would have been to round them up on the streets like the country that they so admire. and show them what tyranny really, really means behind closed doors.

In a brutal fashion. That's what I would do. That's me. That's why I can't be in elected office because I freely admit I'll be like Gladrielle with the one ring. The Streets of Dearborn, Michigan.

filled with the chance of death to America. Mm-hmm. Democrats, you know, Pelosi out there wanting, you know, the stop the arms to Israel. What will this do when, let's say, China and Taiwan get all squirrely? Does this now prove?

Oh, they've already bent the knee. They've already said, oh, Taiwan doesn't deserve to be recognized as its own sovereign entity. Yeah, so they won't stand with Taiwan there either. They've already made that clear. What are.

On the international stage, who are we standing? With exactly? Um That's a question, maybe, for Yates. Yeah.

Because I actually don't have an answer for you. I actually don't know. I really don't know. I don't know um Yeah, I don't know who. Who it but who it is?

That's kind of wild. But That's That's That's the reality of it. And that's what Democrats are pushing for. They're wanting to make they want to make those voters happy. Those are the voters that that they're looking to make happy.

Now speaking of voters and going into 2024. As I said earlier, we played some of this. The uh Former president, the RNC nominee now, Trump came out and said that he. Supports the, he was happy that Roe v. Wade was undone.

He supports states' rights. He came out in favor of IVF. and uh said that This abortion is an issue that should be left up to the states.

Now two issues. I think that his position strategically is the correct one. And I'm going to explain that.

However, I don't like the fact that he said abortion rights in his statement. Don't use the language of the left to denounce the left. Number one. Number two, I do think that primary Trump is at odds with General Trump. Because you can't go hard in the primary and go after all these governors for doing within their state, what you're now saying that you support.

So that creates a problem because it it gave the impression and I don't think that he ever actually changed his position on this, but his hardcore opposition to Florida's pro-life law that passed through their legislature. Uh that His hardcore opposition and criticism of that, and his criticism of what Georgia did definitely sold the optic that he was against states' rights on this. Absolutely. And He was a lot quieter about where he stood with it being in support of states' rights than he was the federal right.

So that's created a problem for him. Or, at least, for the people who are trying to figure out where he stands most sincerely on the issue. I think what his statement though, what he is projecting strategically is correct. And the reason I say that is because pro-life issues have been taking a beating. At the ballot box, and pro-life groups.

As united as they are, sometimes they seem so fractured. Because you have the Susan B. Anthony group, which they do great work, but they go out there and they say it's all or nothing.

Well, that's you're guaranteed to lose if you don't look at it, I think, as an incremental fight. And I don't think that it's fair to impugn someone else's character or question their commitment to pro-life causes because they're looking at an incremental strategy as opposed to an all-or-nothing strategy. I find that incredibly disingenuous, and I feel like, particularly for people of faith, it betrays the faith that you claim and the God that you claim to serve.

So, don't cast aspersions on the characters of others simply because they favor an incremental over an all-or-nothing approach because they want to have lasting wins. That being said, And we're going to talk more about this. We got Yates coming up as well. But This going state by state, I think, makes it harder for Democrats. Democrats want this to be abortion to be a national issue.

That's why they had Kamala Harris going into the abortion clinic and all this stuff. They want it to be a national issue so bad, and I think Trump robbed that from them. Regardless of where you stand on him as a candidate, I think this was the strategically correct move to make. And it's a legally safe one because it's a lot harder to go at abortion state by state than it is federally. We're going to talk more about that aspect.

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

So I didn't know this was a thing, but apparently insurers are spying on your home from the sky. Companies have started using drones to check out your roof or to spot yard debris or even an undeclared trampoline. And the Wall Street Journal has stories, yeah, of these people who have been dropped by their home insurance and they were told, oh, it had to do with some aerial photos of your roof, like this one couple, and their insurer refused to let them see. I just feel like if there's a drone over my house, I shoot you down, right? Like you're in my airspace and I'm territorial.

Like I am North Korea. I will shoot it down if I see it in my airspace. I want an eagle train to take them down. Have you seen those? I don't think you can own an eagle or a falcon.

You don't get to get like a Falconer license. Still what I want, though. I just sidebar would love to add that on to my business card. I have like business cards that say my name and then that's it. And I really don't give them out, but I would like to put, like, you know, Radiohost and also Falconer.

Right? Just, right? Just sounds like a very noble position to have, just saying. Let's see. Gas prices have gone ballistic in California.

Oh my gosh, this is so true.

So, guess what? They're at $5.27 per gallon. That's what they were on Friday. That's the average, five, about six bucks a gallon. That's crazy.

That's like twice what we're paying for. That's insane. Oh my heavens. Apparently, our sense of smell can help wipe out depression and dementia. They're using sense to treat, you know, for mental health issues.

I feel like that's subjective per person though. I think. Uh apparently, let's see, it's National Beer Day. Really what kind of beer? Like good beer?

We don't know. Stephen Yates joins us next. We got lots of questions for him. Stay with us. It's the only Christian conservative cell phone service in the country for 10 years.

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The families of the hostages gathered together over the weekend to commemorate this six-month hell they've been going through. Not a single member of Netanyahu's government attended that. And the reason why is because all along the families have been shunned, ignored, sidelined, disrespected. Netanyahu hasn't wanted a hostage deal. There's been many occasions where he could have had a deal, but he hasn't wanted one because that would bring...

So this is some guy named Ed Luce, who's some dilly bar head who writes for Financial Times, somebody. We just were using him for a soundbite jumping off purpose. Welcome back to the program. Daniel Lash with you, bottom of the second hour. He's saying that Netanyahu never wanted a hostage deal because he's rejected previous offers.

You mean the ones where they were saying we demand that you release 400 terrorists that are imprisoned in exchange for maybe some of the hostages, none of which include the babies that we kidnapped? That doesn't seem like a genuine offer to me. And so I get the rejection. I also understand, though, the criticism that his administration has slow walked the response, particularly to clearing out some of the battalions of terrorists in Rafah. I get it.

But at the same time, why are they listening to anybody else, especially a country, us, the United States, that took 20 years to reinstall the Taliban? And then we also got a bunch of people killed and then droned 10 people to death. We're going to turn around and lecture them because they're taking a few months to rout out a terrorist group? Come on, try. Joining us now on this, and then we're going to be pivoting to China, our good friend Stephen Yates.

And you can find him at YatesComsonX, Senior Fellow at the America First Policy Institute and chair of the China Policy Initiative.

So, Stephen, always good to see you this Eclipse Mania Monday. This, I, I've. I really reject that that framing, that the left keeps putting up that It's Israel that's rejected any kind of offer of hostage release or any kind of agreement because that's not a serious offer coming from Hamas. Release all these terrorists and maybe we'll give you some of the hostages back. Yeah, well, you know, there is an internationalized form of Trump derangement syndrome, and it basically is if your dominant frame is you really hate a particular political leader, and no matter what, anything he says or does is not enough, it's not good, it's inherently evil.

A lot of these people that are covering this think that about Benjamin Netanyahu, and they might have chapter and verse that explains why they've arrived at this august conclusion. But I don't know how any reasonable person can look at Hamas, an internationally recognized terrorist organization, murdering, killing, raping, all the things we know they did. It's on video, and people need to refresh their memories. of what this actually was. has kept hostages to this date.

And whether Netanyahu would or wouldn't make a deal. Our President of the United States doesn't even mention the names of the remaining American hostages. I mean, back in the late 1970s, into the 1980 election cycle, we had a news media that put some fire on the Carter administration by giving a calendar of days of how many days our hostages had been held by the Iranians. Why isn't there a similar daily reminder that these poor souls remain unaccounted for by our president? And until that's taken care of, what is this deal making we're talking of?

Uh and if they're innocent Civilians that are getting hurt, I feel badly for them, but I did not allow terrorists to take root in my neighborhood, to dig tunnels under my hospitals, schools, and other important infrastructure. And so I think Americans are pretty frustrated by all of this manipulation and misinformation. And really, we got hit. Israel wasn't the only one getting hit. And shouldn't we want to eliminate the terrorist organization that did it within every reasonable means available to us?

I think that's a great point. I mean, and with this, also Nancy Pelosi now, with a number of other Democrats, sending a letter saying, no, we don't agree to the arms package, no more arms packages for Israel, essentially cutting them off from being able to obtain new weapons. That's a pretty big deal to the only ally that we have in that area. And that's like one of this is one of three insane things that the administration has done just within the past week. Your quick thought on that?

Well, number one, I don't know how we're going to have any allies in the world if we continue to treat allies like this. I was lectured to incessantly about the value of alliances and the need to unequivocally and without any limits support Ukraine, actually, not a treaty ally of the United States against Russia, because it would send a signal to Taiwan and China that the U.S. will stand by its allies.

Well, here's an example of a treaty ally being attacked by a terrorist organization, and now the United States is threatening not to provide material support to that ally in a time of war and crisis. How would that reassure Japan, Taiwan, or anyone in the South China Z that the United States big galaxy brains from the Ivy Leagues aren't going to come up with some condition for them to have a preemptive retreat in the face of PRC aggression? This is actually kind of nonsensical and toxic. They've left their minds behind, and it's only driven by politics, either the Electoral College politics or the ideologies. Of they just hate Netanyahu so much almost as much as they hate Trump.

And so this has to be bad. That's a good point. Talking with our friend Stephen Yates, you can find him on X at YatesComms. The signal sending to allies, you mentioned Taiwan.

Well, then, of course, this was one of the three in the hat-trick that the administration pulled last week. You had John Kirby go out and say that the United States doesn't recognize. Taiwan's independence doesn't recognize it. Is it, that seems, is that a significant About face on that, the whole approach that we had, the vague policy that we had towards Taiwan previously?

Well, sadly, it isn't really a change of policy. We've had a lot of doe-brained leaders spout this kind of policy for a very long time. It's one way to make a communist very, very happy to see you willfully say something you know is not true because you're afraid they're going to do something bad. That basically is an admission of dominance over you. And that's what that policy is.

The People's Republic of China has never controlled Taiwan, period, since the founding of the Communist Party of China through the civil war and to this day, they have never controlled Taiwan. And so when people talk about the status quo, the status quo is a Taiwan that lives independent of the People's Republic of China. And so I don't know why Kirby or anyone else has to dance around this. The status quo is independence. China wants to make Taiwan completely dependent on the People's Republic.

That's what all of this is about. And since when do you sell arms to someone? That is not independent of the threat that they're trying to fight. I mean, it just doesn't add up. At a basic level, I'm just of the view that we're not pushing this.

It's the CCP that's pushing all this stuff. And if we aim to resist it, we should strengthen the resistors without our having to commit what we would do one way or the other. That seems to be too complex for a lot of these galaxy brains, but it's where we got to go. Yeah, that's the because I've never heard an administration actually say that before. And I know we've talked about this really under Democrat and Republican administrations, they've always had that strategic ambiguity where they've never said it.

I know, I think, I think it was Trump that got in trouble. Didn't he call their leader after they had an election and then there was some drama? Their leader called to congratulate him on getting elected. What a profound and destabilizing behavior. Oh, exactly.

Just so shocking. But he never actually said, he never went out and said, oh, we recognize their independence. Dude, he did call and congratulate the leader on winning the latest election. This Kirby saying we don't recognize their independence, my first thought. And this is as conspiracy theorist as I get.

My first thought was: okay, what spooked them? Why this? Why the need for that?

Well, there are a lot of things that spook them that don't necessarily spook the normals of our society. Number one, they actually believe the climate crisis is an existential threat and that we're all doomed unless we get cooperation from China and unless we get a whole bunch of stuff imported from China. And somehow working with the world's largest, most prolific polluter is going to save the planet. I can't square that. But for them, that's a massive, massive priority.

And so they don't want to unnerve that channel of dialogue. They also just had Secretary Yellen go, and she's going to talk about how to manage the economic relationship. I'm of the view, I don't know, that you can have a normal economic relationship with a country that poisons you with COVID and fentanyl, steals everything from semiconductors to a car gigapress. And is involved in undermining the war you said was righteous in helping defend Ukraine. They're deeply embedded in helping Russia against Ukraine.

So I don't see where they go with this, but that's what they're doing. They're repeating the mantras of the past to try to keep. the program of the past going uninterrupted, but Xi Jinping is interrupting that. Yeah.

And you mentioned Jeannie Ellen. I wonder if, can we play Audio Sunbite 2 really quickly? This was her talking about this. Everyone's using Gwyneth Paldrow's words: decoupling from China. Listen to this.

During conversations this week, I underscored again that the United States does not seek to decouple from China. Our two economies are deeply integrated. And a wholesale separation would be disastrous for both of them. To cut into her, it seems like, Stephen, that there's so much effort being made these past several days. to make assurances to China for some reason.

And I just like, what am I missing? Like, what happened? Like, why all of a sudden this huge need to pat them on the back and do the handholding and act like, no, no, no, we still support all the stuff that you're doing. I mean, we sit here and we lecture about human rights as it relates to seven AIDS workers over the 1,600 that were killed by Hamas, but we say nothing about the imprisonment going on in northwestern China. What in the world?

Or the political prisoners in Hong Kong, the threats of Taiwan, all this other stuff. And by the way, she said nothing really about the American platforms that are denied access to China. China's the one that's been into the decoupling thing. I don't ever remember signing on to a marriage, much less going steady with the Communist Party of China.

So to me, I mean, decoupling might not match because I never thought we were a couple. But I think that we should be becoming less dependent. She tried to say as much that we don't want to be too dependent on them and they're trying to take over the market. I think that's probably the most truth she spoke in the entire exchange. But nothing she's saying or doing is making us less dependent or helping us take more control over the markets that we should be doing, not by manipulation, but by competing.

We need to unleash American energy. We need to deregulate our economy. We need to do a better job of presenting better options to Americans and our allies. And if we do those things, we can contain the malign influences of the CCP and we can have sort of a dough idea go to China and say, oh, we just want to get along. But until we do those things, this is kind of double danger.

She's giving them the problem of the past and not really changing any policy to make us less dependent and less at risk.

So, decoupling is the word they want to hit. Maybe it's not the right word, but they're definitely not minimizing or lessening our risk. And that supposedly was their genius alternative, de-risking. Last quick question, talking with our friend Stephen Yates, since everything happened after you were on last week, all of this flood of foreign policy. Uh Ukraine and NATO.

You you had Blinken go out and say, well, yeah, Ukraine will be a member of NATO. They didn't give a timeline for it. Why? Why in the world? Yeah.

Well. I mean, I don't know. I was kind of surprised by that. I might be the only one that was surprised, but I was kind of surprised by that. I also thought since the grown-ups were back, we would consult with our allies.

I don't think every NATO member had been consulted about this declaration by the United States. That was what I thought used to be called unilateralism. Yeah.

And by the way, it has been an openly discussed red line for Russia from the beginning of this escalation. And I don't believe in kind of giving in to an adversary's red lines, but you do need to be deliberate about if we're going to cross it, am I really prepared to belly up for the risk and the response? And I don't think that the American people feel like that. And frankly, I'd be surprised if the rest of Europe had already bought into that idea.

So I thought it was an outlier. It was surprising and basically pretty hypocritical given the general foreign policy lectures we've been served for the last three years. Yeah, completely agree. Stephen Yates at YatesCom's always a pleasure. Friend, happy uh Eclipse Mania Monday.

I'm not really excited about it, it's like a celestial event. I feel like you know, I'm the odd man out because I'm like, it's yeah, it's okay, it's you know, the moon going in front of the sun. Woo! I don't know, yeah, I'm for the light. See, there you go, there you go, we're kill toys together.

Stephen Yates at Yates Comms, always a pleasure, my friend. Thank you. Good to see you. Have a great week. Thank you, Dana.

Take care. We have more to come, folks, as we roll towards the conclusion of the second hour. And of course, you know, the eclipse apparently is coming, guys. It's coming.

So they're Saying anyway. It's I'm watching. Apparently, there's like live streams galore as we move our partners over a black rifle coffee. I'm actually having some right now. I'm having a rare second cup today.

I think it's because of the eclipse. I don't know. Hi, I'm Margaret, a rhetoric and media major at Hillsdale College. Here's Hillsdale President Dr. Larry Arne with a Constitution Minute.

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So I got a million questions about This headline. 'Cause this is a very convoluted headline. It says, Florida man exposes himself while woman was exercising in wildlife preserve. There's a lot of stuff happening here. She got a lady in a wildlife preserve, and a dude.

Who goes all out? Let's just put it like that. The incident took place at a preserve park near Fort Pierce. The sheriff said the witness detained the suspect until deputies arrived. And he was captured on video exposing himself in front of a woman Doing yoga?

And that's The suspect was taken into custody. He's since been released. Why do they have to just say it was in a wildlife preserve? And and you're doing yoga in a wildlife, do you specifically go to the wildlife preserve to do the yoga? Like, that's like very specific and bougie sounding.

Just saying. I didn't expect a sight of bougie with my Florida man headline today, but okay.

So, yeah, there you go. This, um. A couple of others. A Florida man, this one okay, can yep. This uh oh gosh, gosh, gosh gosh gosh no.

A Florida woman tries to sell a toddler This is horrible. Putnam County woman was arrested two days later. She tried to sell her 18-month-old. And when she was trying to sell it to this, employee of this business. And when the employee said, No, you're nuts, 33-year-old Jessica Woods just walked away and left the kid.

She was charged with six felonies, child neglect, child abuse, aggravated child abuse, selling a minor for money, and abandoning a child also. It was at an HR block. She was trying to sell the kid at an HR block. That's that's horrific. And I feel like maybe she shouldn't have that baby now.

That's terrifying. uh and uh a woman literally named Karen. Decided to have a huge tantrum in the middle of the road in Coconut Creek. I'll save this one for you tomorrow because it is a doozy. Eclipse Mania is coming up.

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to Jessie Carve is born a female and I was born in Brazil so I do have a Brazilian passport but also I have a British passport and my both passports also are stated Jessica Carve is female and I am a woman. in my mind, in my soul, in my appearance, in my body, in the touch of my skin. When I wake up in the morning and I look myself in the mirror to brush my teeth like everybody, I see the image of a woman. And I never felt like a man, therefore I am a woman. The emotions, the feelings inside.

So it's very sad. To Read the red lines, the headlines lately about Jay King Rowland, someone that I have read her books growing up, someone that I have always looked up to as a book writer, making remarks about transgender people that are so wrong. She doesn't understand anything about what she's talking about. What? She's not a doctor.

She's not a trained person. Or a robot. I mean, that whole face is plastic. What is that dude doing? Oh my gosh, welcome back to the show.

Dana Lash with you. Yeah, that was a straight-up person. It is a I hate these titles. It's a social media influencer. Who says that J.K.

Rowling shouldn't be allowed to critique Transgender people because she is a book author and not a doctor.

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And we're at the top of this third hour. Yeah, there's Eclipse Mania. I got the glass.

Well, I didn't get these, my husband got these. And I thought. Oh my gosh, these cheapy little Goofy glasses.

Well, they actually do kind of work. I went out there and I I took a uh A photo through the Lens of it because you can't see through it. You can't see through these otherwise. They're pitch black. And then if you look at the sun, then you can kind of see it.

And that's why Kane's like, Why are you shaking your head? I actually think the glasses are cooler and Yeah, no, that's Okay. I was actually gonna my son had got a bunch of them. He wanted me to bring them in to you today, and I left him at home like an idiot. But I'm glad that you have them here.

Yeah, I was. You can't see it through at all. I'm not for eye damage or anything. I did look at it for a second without the glasses. Yeah, we went blind.

It was I still see a little dot. Yeah.

They said don't use like regular glasses. Mm. Too. Yeah, that'll magnify it, won't it? Wouldn't it?

Yeah, you'll have an eye souffle. You'll bake your flipping eyeball in your skull. Why would you do that? Don't do that. They, I read this thing.

We're going to talk more about the transgender stuff, but we got to get the eclipse mania out of the way. All these people are coming out with things to not do. Hang on, where's this at? Yeah, so three things to not do with the solar eclipse. Like, don't stare directly at the sun like a moron.

Although, I mean, when it's dark out, can't you just look up? You know, it's darker out. You'll see the corona. You're not going to fry your eye when it gets brighter out. Maybe don't look at it.

We kind of have partial cloud cover right now. in Texas.

So it's it's starting And you can kind of see it. Through the clouds, but if another big old cloud rolls through, you won't be able to see it.

So, yeah, they're like, don't look directly at the sun. It's supposed to start at twenty seven after is when we have totality.

So right when we're on break, apparently. will have totality. And um They Said that, oh, you have to use the speed you have to use a special filter for your camera, whatever. Uh they said uh apparently also don't drive if it's going to be a big s if it's going to be a significant distraction. To you.

They said during the 2017 solar eclipse, fatal road crashes jumped by around 30% in the U.S. Good grief. It's kinda scary. 'Cause people every everybody's looking up at the sky. They don't look out and look out and around.

I'm just waiting for the aliens. I'm just waiting for the aliens. Or I'm waiting for like the dark. circle to get bigger 'cause then that means it's smod. Right.

Mm-hmm. Just, you know, just saying.

So that's happening, and apparently, so they already had the totality or whatever, the total cost. covering in Mexico, I guess.

So if you're seeing like some of the live Shots of it. They apparently in Mexico it's fully covered. It's only a third. Covered in Texas so far, but it's probably half now, and then it'll be fully open. over.

at uh twenty seven after in here in Texas.

So Yeah, we'll see. We'll uh We'll see how it goes. Juan does not care. Juan is in the same boat. I just think the glasses are cool.

I was totally uninterested until Chris gave me these, and I'm like, okay, this is stupid. And then. And then it's totally pitch black, and then when you look through it at the sun, you can see it. And I thought that was kind of neat. That's some magical trickery.

And we're about 30 minutes away from seeing it in its total. 27. 27. Well, actually, less than. Where we are, I think it's closer to what I said before.

Full of lies. But either way, are you. Are you going to go outside at that time? Like maybe. I'm gonna go peek at break.

And see, and see if it's worth my time to go out there. I mean, if it's not like fully, if I can't fully see it, I'm not going to stand out there and look at the clouds. It's dumb. I just am not into it as much as everybody else is. Right?

I'm just I don't know. I'm just not Is that is that bad that I am I don't know. Am I not a team player? There's a lot of people in your camp as well. Like, I'm in the camp.

Bread and circuses. I'm in the camp of sitting on the sidelines, kind of see what's happening. Seeing all the theories online and all the potential, uh, Predictions? From this eclipse, I'm taking it all in. I'm just taking it all in.

I'm just waiting for aliens or like animals to talk or something to happen. That's You know. I I I I don't know what what to expect out of it, but um yeah, that's just kinda how NASA's got their one has the look the the NASA live stream is weird to me because they see little triangles on the side of it. I'm not gonna lie, that's weird. Isn't that weird?

That's a weird thing. I don't know. I'm just. Are you guys? Are you guys all interested in this?

Are you guys all interested in the? Is that like how many people are going to go out? Like the people who have the glasses and are like, yes. Maybe not to the level of you booked a flight to be up in the air or you have an Airbnb, but I mean, solar eclipses don't happen every day. Obviously.

So, yeah, there are going to be some people that are going to pay attention to something that happens every few years. Can you imagine being like way back in. Like before we had technology and We were building pyramids and all that still. And something like this happens. It's dark during the day.

You'd freak out, wouldn't you? I think that the. The fact that so many people get this excited about it, to me, shows that we all still. Humanity still has the little caveman in 'em. I just I does that sound mean to say?

I Or maybe, maybe I'm so cynical. That the wonders of the world sadly cease to just amaze me anymore. Or maybe it's that. It could be one of two things. See?

I I feel like Jules from Pulp Fiction right now. Talking to Ringo. Or maybe. Yeah.

I am the tyranny of evil men. Just say. Trying real hard, Ringo. I'm trying real hard to be the shepherd. I don't know.

I just don't, um. I don't know. Is the uh They I don't know.

So, yeah, what is it? Mastillan, Mexico. the first sighting of it, I guess. And now They said that it only disappeared Behind the moon, though, for seconds. I thought it lasts four minutes.

It doesn't last four minutes? It's seconds? Four minutes and forty seconds. I read that the moon has made the sun disappear for a matter of seconds. I thought it was supposed to be four minutes.

I don't know. It just But there should be aliens or something. Just saying. All right, so we'll keep you updated. I mean, if you want to go out and look at it, you know, you guys, I'm not the boss of you.

You guys make your own decisions. But yeah, the cloud cover isn't as bad as I thought it would be here in Texas. All right, so as this all is going down. As this all has been happening. We've been discussing a number of things.

Can we also talk about? We started coming in with a Transgender stuff. I have to share this piece. from the telegraph. Because it is probably one of the dumbest things I've ever seen, and I don't know.

How to handle it. Theater goers are given trigger warnings over the sound of people eating oranges.

Now, Sound of people. eating oranges. Just the sound of it. Customers were told that performance may not be suitable if you have citrus allergies. This is in London.

It is This stage production is a musical. Which I immediately would not go to 'cause it's a musical. But they said that They gave a trigger warning. to people who purchase tickets and are going to see these performances That people, there's the sound of people eating on stage. I guess that they're eating food on stage.

And they said that Uh that could be a trigger warning. Can someone explain this to me? Mm-hmm. Anybody. You're seeing this.

I shared this link with you, Kane. You're seeing it. What am I missing? Um I don't know what the trigger would be though. Like, is there Okay, how different is it, let's say, It sounds like eating an orange as it does to eat like a banana.

They said that People that have, and I'm not going to pronounce this correctly. Misophonia? Miso? Misophonia? Okay, that makes sense.

Oh, man. I've just taken everything I have not to make a joke. You know what I was thinking of, don't you? Yes, I do. The Their health Ministry, the NHS over there, described mesophonia as, quote, An extreme emotional reaction.

To certain everyday sounds that most people would find relatively easy to ignore.

Okay. Hmm. S so if The characters are in a scene where they're like at a meal and they are mimicking eating. for the performance and they're making sounds that would a company the act of eating. for this performance that would trigger people Is everything a trigger now?

But It does go farther and I don't know if you saw that or not. Um The customers were also told that the performance may not be suitable for those with citrus allergies.

So, not just because apparently there's like an orange in there somewhere.

So, if you heard somebody eat an orange. On a microphone. You could Have an allergic reaction. I don't understand. I tried looking up what the performance was about, and it was such a word salad of woke BS that I couldn't even understand what it was.

Like literally, this is literally how they're describing it. Are you ready? Quote. Defiantly challenging homophobia and transphobia across our communities, act is a duet. A conversation between two bodies bravely carves out a new kind of space, reclaiming dancehall and celebrating queerness amongst the bittersweet scent of oranges.

I am not making it up. That's literally how it is described. Oh, help me. W hm? I think if you're gay, you don't even know what's going on in this.

That's like, that doesn't tell you anything.

So, all I know is that it has to do with dance hall, queer, and oranges. Right? Reclaiming dance hall and celebrating queerness amongst the bittersweet scent of oranges. That's literally what this is. That's what they say here, verbatim.

I don't know what this thing is about. Like I don't know what rent was about. Except it was, and I've said this for 15 years, like it was about AIDS and jazz hands. I don't know what this is about. Oranges and Dance hall?

And it doesn't What? We have more on the way. Believe it or not, it's Eclipse Mania. Trigger warning. And now, all of the news you would probably miss.

It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

Well, here's a very happy uplifting headline. Our solar system could eventually die by being ground into dust as it's pulled into the sun.

Well, that's what they've been saying for years now. When our host star, the sun, runs out of fuel, it'll become a white dwarf, exerting a huge gravitational pull that'll suck our system into where it'll be crushed. Say astrophysicist. Yes! Is it immediate?

Probably. We'll be swallowed up by a white dwarf. When's that movie coming out like the horror movie White Dwarf like a space movie? Why isn't we done it yet? I'm just gonna.

Also, this customer shot a Chipotle worker over a guacamole dispute. In Oh, goodness. This was in Michigan. I mean, I love guacamole a lot, but like that, that seems a. Beach.

I mean Yeah.

So they said that the took place about 6:50 p.m. 21-year-old man's a victim. Apparently, yeah, the guy, the 31-year-old Detroit man, was mad over guacamole. They were arguing, and then he just shot the worker in the back, which is horrific. Clearly, he was arrested.

But yeah, guacamole dispute over all the things. See, this is just one of the reasons. It's just the effect of the eclipse mania, guys. I'm just saying, New York. NYPD rolled out a barnacle windshield boot.

That forces violators to pay, another reason why you don't want big government.

So, they're using what they call windshield boots, as a 17-pound device that attaches to your windshield like a barnacle, and it remains there until you pay your ticket. And it's called the Barnacle device. It's a commercial-grade suction cup that attaches to glass with a thousand pounds of force, so it's impossible to move. And they put it over the driver's side of the car, which is why you should always start driving like British-made cars and just drive on the right side of the road, but on the left side of the car. I'm kidding, not really.

But that's, yeah, they said the barnacle device is a part of their pilot program. How much do they pay for these devices? They're like $250 a month to operate. and they have to lease each of them. Usually it's for like illegally parked trucks.

So All right, coming up. It's eclipse mania. Apparently, we're in full totality right now. We'll have more coming up. Stick with us.

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Fascinating, it's amazing. Oh my god, the moon has gotten in front of the sun.

Okay, well, I. I don't know. It's interesting looking. The sun looks a little like the moon up there in my wall. If you mention it, you gotta sing it.

Where the deer and the ants. Wow, would you look at that? It's a total eclipse of the sun. And you look up at the sun. They know this is all it's going to be, right?

Just a moon. Shepherd's message me right now. The sun's coming back, man. Oh, my goodness. That didn't last long.

I'm staying out here. I'm standing out here and I'm looking at, so it's real dark. It's Dana Lash here. Welcome back to the program, everybody. We're at the bottom of the third hour.

So I'm standing out here. Dark, the birds are kind of going nutty. I mean, my first question to Cain was, when can I go back in? Because it just seems like. I don't know.

Like it's just. I mean, I'm out here looking at it. You have your protective eyewear, correct? Yeah, I mean, because I, you know, I'm wearing it just because I can't see it otherwise. The people watching the cloud cover makes it the people watching on direct TV through the first, on the left side, they're seeing your phone.

looking directly at the sun. Right. At the eclipse. I can try to put my what I'm gonna I can try to put my camera my actual like my little goofy glasses in front of it. And see how that works.

It does. Kind of does. It doesn't do anything. It kind of just stumbles off. It kind of does.

It kind of does. Yeah, keep it that way. That's fine. That works. I mean, it's, you can kind of see like a sliver.

We don't have a full corona event, guys. Yeah, but go ahead and put the yeah there's the filter.

So, yeah, we're putting the glasses to the glass. You can tell there's like 90% coverage right now.

So, we're literally almost there to. Total eclipse.

So, you're wanting me to stay out here until we get full totality. Is that the deal? Right. I don't want you looking directly. Is that how we're doing it for the people?

I don't want you to do that. I'm doing this for the people. You are. You sacrifice a lot of people. Yes, I'm doing this for all of our.

Yeah, I'm like, I'm going out here and I'm sacrificing all of this for people. Yes. Do not look directly at it. But I just wanted to see, like, they were showing on television. It went over, was it Eagle Pass, Texas one, where it was like nighttime, literal nighttime.

So what you're showing, there's still some light there. It looks like partial daytime, like dusk maybe to you right now. It looks like the weird dusk, but what's creepy is the birds won't shut up. They're like, they're going nuts. The birds are like, I don't know if it has to do with this or what, but they're freaking out.

Imagine if we catch it. Apparently, NASA is launching some sounding rockets into the moon's shadow during this eclipse right now. I wonder if we can work out well. Yeah, that seems like exactly what you would do, like to kick off the apocalypse. I was just saying, yeah.

Discern Collider also is online today as well. Wanting to call it. Yeah? I'm more interested in the animal's activity, but the light is weird. The light's like a.

Imagine you walk outside and there's a weird Instagram filter on everything outside. I'm living in an Instagram filter right now. That is a good way to describe it. And it's weird and I don't like it. It's yeah, the birds are all flying in in circles.

And we're in an Instagram field. And I think they're starlings. I think those are starlings. Like, they come out at dusk, and I think that they're like, what?

So apparently, right now, this is it's going on 1:39 Central, right? 1.39 Central Time at 1:40. At 140 is when Texas, or at least this part of where we are, Texas, is supposed to experience. The total eclipse, in other words, total darkness. That's the part I wanted you to stay for: is just to be there just so it gets completely dark.

And then once it gets to the point.

So it's going to be completely dark in one minute? Yeah, it's supposed to be.

Okay. So we almost have a little sliver. of the sun left. I will say the temperature, it's gotten a lot cooler out here. Like this is kind of a warmer spring day in Texas.

It's, you know, it's like what, 80, maybe 81 degrees? It's dropped by two degrees already. It's dropped two degrees in just like the span of. you know, less than probably 10 minutes.

So we're, and the cloud cover, the clouds are kind of clear.

So we actually do all the people who got the Air and Bs. They're getting their money's worth. Right. So we're probably, what, 30, maybe a minute out, maybe of full totality. I'm questioning your time on this.

I know. I see really close.

Now they're saying it in the Fort Worth, Dallas-Fort Worth area. I gotta be real with you. You don't. I really want to adjust the contrast settings on reality right now. It's messed up.

I don't like this. I want to adjust the settings. This is my first thought was how can I make this brighter? Yeah, I feel like I'm like a weird thing. There's ripples on the ground everywhere.

Ripple. I don't know. This is the weirdest thing ever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's real weird.

Ah. I'm gonna try taking video like with a separate phone, another person's phone. I'm gonna try taking, you can see like rip, like shadow ripples on the concrete. Oh, we're just gonna eclipse the light of the eclipse coming through. Maybe.

Oh, we almost have full totality now. Is it happening? I don't like this. Juan was right to be suspicious. Juan, can I come in with you?

'Cause I this is creepy. I don't like it no more. I don't like this. The birds are yelling again. This is weird and I don't like it.

I'm just not even gonna lie. We need to see that total. That like Maybe 10% left almost. It's actually dark out here. It's getting dark.

Yeah.

We've got 1%. It's getting dark. And now I don't even need my glasses. And I saw, I just saw, I see stars. Yeah.

I'm looking up the one. Here it goes. This is now it's in. Total. This is weird.

I'm not using my safety glasses, government. I'm not using them anymore.

So we're looking at the total full eclipse now. There it is. And we have full totality. Full totality. And I see a star, I think, or a satellite, or aliens.

I don't know, one of them. It's dark out. It's like. Really weird. This is so creepy and I don't like it.

Now how long is this going to last? I see a plane.

Okay, there's a plane for, of course, those people who booked that flight. They're voting. Do you see any NASA rockets? I don't know how long it'll last. Do you see any falling?

Because when I use. You know my glasses that are black out until I look at the sun? They don't, I can't even use my glasses right now. They don't even see it. The glasses don't even see it right now.

Wow. So, when you're in full totality and you have some flying around up there, there's some blinky things flying around up there. What is that? I think one of them is like maybe a, I don't know if one's like a drone or there's a jet up there as well. I don't know.

It's so weird. I see like a little smoke trail going upwards towards the eclipse. Like, I don't know, it seems weird. Yeah, it's that's a jet. Yeah, that's a jet.

Oh, that's a jet? And then I feel like there's, I think that. I think one of those is a drone, and then I think the other actually legit may be a star. I'm not actually sure. It is so crazy.

It could be a planet. I hear that there are some planets visible, more visible now during the eclipse than obviously. Normally would be.

So it looks like outside right now, it looks like what you would see right after the sound. Oh my gosh, we're we just peeked out out the studio door. Holy smokes, it's super dark out there.

Now, I got a question. You guys staying in the safety and security of the studio and sending me the host outside to get alien done. into the sky.

So we're in full total. I can see how maybe, you know, if you're. You know, this is like in the days of building the pyramids and the ziggurat and everything else. Yeah, like you'd probably go nuts if this happened in the middle of the day. You'd probably be like, we got to start sacrificing some people because.

This is creepy and crazy. Like legit, you would need your headlights out here right now. Yeah, and the winds totally stopped. All the birds got real quiet. They were going nuts, and then they got real quiet.

Yeah, the birds like, what?

So. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they yeah, they That's just wild.

So now that we're in total.

Now now we're moving out of to Yeah, so now we just went through totality.

So now. You're gonna have to do it. The light, it's like someone's gradually turning up the screen right now. Yeah, it's a dimmer. This is so crazy.

Look at the shadows it's creating. Look at the shadows it's creating. Yeah, it is so crazy how This, I mean, we were, I mean, you guys can see this on my phone. You guys can see this. It was dark, and now it's, I still creeped out.

The feed so that we can see the NASA feed. Oh, our feed's way much more scientific. Our feed's way more scientific, I gotta think. Oh, no doubt.

Okay. I think that's a good question.

So we just went through totality. It's right again. I think. I think I'm good now. Walk back in now.

Can I come back into where the safety is? Yes, come back into the safety. of indoors As we watch the live feed here from NASA, the total solar eclipse has just moved over. Texas. I'm going to make my way inside.

Yeah, you do that. Matter of fact, you want to disconnect from Skype? It's creepy. Yeah, I'm gonna disconnect and I'm gonna come back in.

Okay. But yeah, here it is. The live feed from NASA um is showing totality.

Now This was that Kerrville, Texas, that NASA was showing?

Now it's Dallas, Texas that they're showing. And you see on the screen the totality. of the eclipse they're I cannot believe how dark it was outside.

So, Dana's walking in right now. It was literally nighttime. It looked like nighttime. And you'll have to unmute your mic too, by the way, when you come to the middle. Oh, I'm in.

This is creepy. It was creepy. I still, like, was it worth everybody freaking out over? I don't know. I mean, is that.

I just. I don't know if anybody, I mean, there's definitely some people that freaked out about it. I think there's a lot of people. Get an Airbnb for this. I don't know.

I don't know. Okay, so is it also like the height of self-indulgent humanity for me to be like, hmm, eight, ten would kind of recommend? I don't know. Is it? I mean, the thing that was weird the weirdest to me was how quickly it happened.

Because it got real dark and the birds, the birds watching those, because I'm positive those are starlings. Aren't they like really active at like dusk?

So they were going nuts. And that was, that's the only. I don't know. It was.

So you had asked me earlier, and Larry brings this up. Do What happens now? Because you know like with that that rat that comes out of the ground if he sees his shadow right So we didn't see our shadows.

So, does that mean apocalypse? Like, what does that mean? Six more weeks of spring? I don't know. What does that mean?

I don't know. Six more weeks of government tyranny. But it was, I can see how, like I said, people back in the way olden days, you know, BC, I can see how probably they'd freak out if that happened in the middle of the day. Yeah, if I'd eaten the rabbit I'd just killed. Yeah, and then all of a sudden it gets super dark.

I'd be like, what did I do wrong? I get it. God doesn't want me eating this rabbit. I'm not to eat this rabbit. All right, Lord, not eating the rabbit.

I get it. But yesterday it was so good. Get it. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's it's just uh yeah, it is. It is uh That was weird.

Alright, so Eclipse Mania. We just had full totality in Texas. And yeah, you know, got dark, and now it's not dark anymore.

Now it's bright as the day is long again. Our friends in Missouri. Are you going to be seeing it sooner? I can also see why car accidents would go up. at that point because It does, like the contrast, it does get like fuzzy and hazy.

And because it's like a weird diffused light, it's not like the light goes away, it's a diffused light. which is weird. And I guess if you have like vision issues already, I don't know.

So everybody be safe out there. Anyway. But yeah, I can't believe people book flights for that. Hundreds of dollars? Probably more than that.

I bet they jacked up the prices. I bet the airlines I bet they cost like double. Because they th the airlines thought, Oh my gosh, people are gonna book it during During the eclipse, we overcharge them.

Social media for right now are those videos from airplanes. You all better have excellent footage. Otherwise, we're so judging you.

So, total, so total totality there. We got, all right, on the way, coming up on the way, we still have today in stupidity. Follow Dana on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, because knowledge is your ultimate superpower. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you and This uh we had uh I put up a photo on Instagram.

I added all the other blurry photos. I was trying to take a photo out there looking at all of that. It was very interesting.

So, what does it mean? It means we have. 200 and something 90 more days of this administration until the election. That's what it means. That's what the eclipse means.

Okay. I'm just I can't even So, uh, welcome back. The uh. President's position. And we're going to unpack some of the reaction.

Not on the left necessarily, but on the right tomorrow. Because he came out uh talking about uh his video that he posted this morning. discussing abortion and the Republican position, et cetera.

Some interesting division happening on the right over this. We'll talk about some of it. Because The states' rights versus federal, there is a legal issue there. But I just want to make sure that all the people that are disagreeing are doing so, realizing that everybody has the same end, everybody wants to protect life. Even if some people have different means to do so.

And I'm not speaking for the president, I'm speaking for the people who are. Looking at states' rights and incrementalism as opposed to like an all-or-nothing approach. And we'll get into some of that tomorrow because we had to. I'm dying. Patch ops literally make.

Did you see the meme that patch ops just put out? Totally pulled me out. Leave tip 15, 20%, 25%. And it's superimposed over. The eclipse.

Uh Oh my gosh, it's hysterical. I love it. I love the patch ops, folks.

So yeah, there you go. All right. Today in Stupidity Case. Oh, it's our energy secretary who I didn't vote for, which is really where I didn't really vote. I did not vote for Jennifer Granholm.

But these are the things she's talking about. And Juan, this is Cut 17. This is why you're seeing the impacts of climate change. These are the things. You know, people will say, oh, my power bill is constantly going up.

You know, what do you say to people here in Georgia who may feel that frustration? You're seeing the impacts really of climate change on people's heating bills, not just in Georgia. It has nothing to do with the fact that you've attacked the energy sector the day you got into office. I mean, the restriction of energy, the result of those policies contributing to the increase in... And energy cost to say nothing of just like basic inflation separate from that from the economic side of things.

And Oh, wow. Headshot. Energy Secretary. You know, DEI hire. Folks, that does it for us today.

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