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The main graduation is canceled, but the individual schools have graduations as well.

So there's a lot of ceremonies that will be taking place. But like you said, I share that also, the idea that they missed their graduation four years ago. But hopefully their individual schools will go forward peacefully. And the main graduation being canceled, do you support that?

Well, I believe that that was a decision that they had to make. They were expecting about 65,000 people on campus, and they just did not feel that it was going to be safe. Hmm.

Well, they didn't feel that it was going to be safe because of trash baby college protesters. I would, oh my gosh, I think I would lose my mind if my college graduation was canceled because a bunch of pro-Hamas, trash baby protesters. protesters, I would be so mad. Oh my gosh, can you imagine? Got a bunch of people out there.

We've had him there. Yes. All that nonsense. There's no way. I feel bad for the kids who first off Don't go to a a Trash Bag University.

I think these Ivy League universities, in fact, this is one of the things I have for you on deck today: is look, there's a serious. Serious. disparity between The degree and the cost of a degree from one of these four-year institutions. And what you actually make in your salary.

So, you have all these people that are going. into serious debt. to Now, have everything delayed. That's like the one good thing. That's the one thing you get.

You get your fancy schmancy commencement ceremony at your trash bag, baby university.

Now you can't even have that. Happy Monday, right? Dana Lash with you, top of this first hour, and we're going to roll through all this. It's kind of a slow news day, but we've got some stuff that has to deal with. This, you know, that because there's a lot of these college protesters that, um, Have uh Delayed because there's a lot of graduation ceremonies that are happening like in the next week or so for some of these universities, the last day.

Is this week. Like they have their last day of school this week.

So they had over at Columbia. Because I know that there are some people on the right that were very eager to make it look like they had some libertarian bona fides because they were desperate to be accepted by people that they think are edgy. They're out there telling everyone: oh, they're getting arrested for free speech. Look, Trump. Trespassing is not free speech.

So, if that's your argument, then you don't believe in property rights and you're a communist.

So, pick one because you don't get to have a foot in both lanes.

So, the Columbia president is telling people, you got to disperse because if you're not, you know, we're going to consider trespass. That's what all of these other universities have been saying. That's what they said in UT. The UT was a, you have to disperse because now you're going to be sided with trespassing. And you had all of these idiots going out there.

It's trespass. I mean, if you believe that, again, that that's a protected form of protest, I'm going to take my happy ass to your front yard and I'm going to do monstrous things on your front yard as a form of protest. And you can't do anything about it because you already admitted that you don't believe in property rights. And so you think that arresting me or citing me in any way is somehow a violation of my First Amendment rights, correct? That's where we're at.

That's where we're at. So they were saying it's because of trespass.

So they're, and also they're making everything nasty. That's what you get a glob of these protesters. And guess what? Everything smells like feet and ass with these people. That's what happens every single time.

Whether it was the Occupy stuff, whether it was the Antifa stuff, whatever it was, they have this. amazing ability to make everything positively rank. And you know what it is, Kane? It's the Toms of Maine. Ah what's your piece?

You know what it is? It's hope in a stick. But it's not hope. It's just hippie is. It's stinky.

Nasty. Nasty hippie stick. That's what it is.

So It's just the Toms of Mame.

So they had this Columbia president saying that everybody needs to disperse because they've had, of course, there are, I mean, I love the people who think that camping out in the college. Quad is going to make Other people not defend themselves when Hamas attacks them. It's amazing, right? How that works. Nobody said, Hamas, please release the hostages.

Note that that's never been a single sign from any of these people. That's literally all Hamas would have to do. But everyone is too afraid, apparently, to make that request. No one wants to say release the hostages. None of these protesters have signs that say release the hostages.

Do you know how easy it would be? This would just be so much easier if they just released the hostages. And guess what? Everything would be done. But they don't want to release the hostages.

So instead of asking Hamas to release the hostages, they're going to get mad at Israel. And then they're going to get mad at everyone else who also thinks that maybe some of the American hostages might ought to be. might ought to be released. I mean, it's just it's pretty fascinating.

So this Columbia president He's saying that, oh, we need to have. You guys need to voluntarily disperse or else. Johnson, Speaker Johnson says Biden should call in the National Guard to quell protests at colleges. I don't know if I want the National Guard to be called in because I kind of like it that they're all eating themselves. I mean, there's part of me that likes to watch this happen on the college campus because they're all trash.

It's just a it's just a facility of y they they They rob people blind, they give you a subpar education, and then everyone goes and works in retail after. Right.

So, all they got to do is release the hostages. One leader of Gaza appealed, was appealing over the weekend to the U.S. to stop the Rafah offensive, which is apparently everybody's been talking about the planning of the Rafah offensive forever. If Netanyahu would stop focus grouping with Western nations on it, then this would be easier also. Instead of that leader appealing to the U.S.

to stop Israel's planned offensive in Rafah, maybe that leader of Hamas, that Gazan leader, could tell Hamas to release the hostages. Why is that none of her part of the headline? Why is it that no one in the press goes, hey, did you ask about the hostages? Do you ask about releasing the hostages? That's never a question.

Surely I cannot be, you cannot be the only people that think of this, right? Have you guys I don't know, tried releasing the hostages. Have you tried that? It's not brought up. I don't think they have the hostages anymore, if I'm being honest.

I know that sounds mean to say. I'm not trying to be mean. I'm saying that I think that Hamas killed them. They don't have any other way to negotiate. That's why you don't see any proof of life, anything.

They had one guy who has one arm now. who that video was released apparently was made months ago And it was just released now, and that's what they considered their proof of life. That's not any really one hostage with all the ones that you took. Wild.

So, also what happened over the weekend? I think we are: are all your dogs safe? Is everybody's dog safe? I wrote about this if you're over at if you get my sub stack. And we're going to talk more about it.

So we're taking nothing from this part. We're going to talk more about it here coming up. But just to set the table, in case you led a happy life over the weekend and you didn't get on the trash pool, that is social media. You didn't see the big fight over whether or not you should brag about shooting and killing your dog while you're also leading a campaign to be the VP pick. And that's exactly what happened with South Dakota Governor Christy Noam.

Now, I don't really. I'm not, I don't really have any, I've met her one time, any kind of judgments on her character.

Well, I think that she has no political acumen, if I'm being honest. I don't think Christy Noam has any kind of political acumen. And I don't want anyone like that in your elected, higher elected office, if I'm being honest. She wrote this book, and it's her VP audition book, right? She has this book out, and she is really trying to sell herself as a VP.

She wants to be VP. I think it would be absolutely stupid and also reflective of having no political acumen to pick her as a VP. She comes from a red state that only has three electoral votes. End of. End of.

And so you think that I don't know. She doesn't understand the difference between being dumb and being a firebrand. And I say this because there were a lot of people trying to draw comparisons to Sarah Palin. See what you like about Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin at least knew how to not teak up a pistol while talking about how hard ass she was, and also didn't go shoot her dog and then brag about it in a book.

So The Guardian published an excerpt. From her new book, where she details shooting a puppy.

Now, it's not any puppy, it's a working breed. It's like some wired-haired terrier, et cetera, a wire-haired pointer. It's a working breed, meaning very smart, very intelligent, very active. You got to train these dogs, okay? And you have to consistently work with them.

And so she writes out about that. She has this dog. She wanted to train this dog to hunt pheasant. And Cricket just couldn't, she was a young dog. And she literally writes about how Cricket was a puppy, and she was super excited to chase birds.

And because she was out there literally in the field chasing birds, and then somehow she took her to her friend's house to talk to a local family. And the dog that was still being trained and had just run around in a field with birds was somehow allowed to run around the friend's family farm where they killed chickens. And then Christine Ohm had to shoot the dog. And then she is telling her naysayers that I guess you don't understand farm life. Hi, rural Ozarks over here.

And my husband grew up on a farm. There's a difference between a dangerous dog, a dangerous canine that has something wrong with it that cannot be checked, and a working breed puppy that hasn't been properly trained. And people who are not cosplaying at farm and ranch life understand this. There's a difference. This but the story with this and like I said, we're going to talk more about it.

has to do it's her people are trying to make it out to be a difference between farm and farmers and ranchers and city dwellers, and it's not. As I wrote in my piece, the difference is between the people who think that it's smart To write and try to flex shooting a puppy and a goat in a gravel pit. Uh a family pet. and bragging about it in a book while you're trying to win VP. and Mitt Romney and yourself.

And the people who don't think it's a smart thing to do that. Not everything is meant to be a story that's shared, okay? And the fact that she doesn't recognize this is hysterical. That's the worst political acumen from anybody that I've ever seen. I mean, like I said, Palin wouldn't do that.

For all the criticism about Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin wouldn't go out there and tell stories on herself like that. That's just dumb. Why would you do that? Why would you make an unforced error? And then she had tens of her fans out there that were getting mad at the people pointing this out.

Hi, these are politicians. I don't play the game that we treat them like monarchs and that we think that they're unaccountable and beyond criticism. My American, I'm too American for that. I do not subscribe to that anti-American communist thought process that tells me that certain politicians are beyond reproach. Nope.

I'm sorry. We've had, there's a history, an American history littered with dead bodies paid to not do that.

So we're going to talk more about this. We're also going to get into, as we roll towards headlines, GOP. Trump and DeSantis met yesterday, actually. And I think they met yesterday in Miami. I don't think it's about VP stuff.

I think it's about fundraising because DeSantis agreed to fundraise for Trump. And for the people who are like, DeSantis should be the VP, that's not going to happen, guys. I mean, I would be shocked. I'd eat my hat. I'd be shocked because you can't have Trump's, what is he, domiciled in Florida?

He's not based in New York anymore. You can't have two people from the same state run. It's not going to happen.

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So, maybe don't do it. Let's can we just like draw a line on what we can use AI for? Anybody who's using the AI death calculator, there's an urgent warning for those. I didn't know there was one.

Well great. They sound Now, I'm gonna have to go look at it and terrify myself. They said it's an AI death calculator that can predict when you die. And they said that it's a Danish researcher project called Life 2VAC. And they said that It'll also predict your wealth, how long you'll live.

And they said that, well, oh, the copycat apps will steal your info. Wow, wow, we knew that. I thought it was gonna be like, don't use this app because you'll die from anxiety. I thought it would be like something to that effect, but no. Would you want to do that?

Remember, we had the story last week about AI predicting cancer. Yeah, okay, that's different from you're going to die right on the body.

Well, they're predicting death, they're predicting cancer. It's prediction, it's just basic prediction.

Well, one's predicting if you have a disease, the other one's predicting if you're going to just die. It's AI predicting things. I don't like that. That's the new Nostradamus. Ooh, ooh, ooh.

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So watch your farm animals. They said it's a complicated process. They're trapping, trucking, and moving bears by helicopter from Montana and British Columbia. You're going to have a bunch of mad bears. I don't know.

I just, this sounds like because the government's doing it, it's going to be a disaster. We're going to have like cocaine bear. But that's what's gonna happen. You're gonna have the bear running like all these bears running wild. Snatching everybody up.

It's gonna happen. California fast food chains are now serving sticker shock. People are surprised that if you vote for high taxes and incessant government spending, that you're going to get higher costs and inflation. And they don't quite know how to reconcile that. Did I do that?

They just don't understand it. It's hard for me to feel bad. You know what I mean? It's like we told you, and then you said we were racist and bigots, and whatever. Give me something else.

All kinds of isses, sexists, whatever. The era of one-stop grocery shopping is over. This is sad. Consumers are making 8% more trips to different retailers because inflation is just making a mess of household budgets.

So they said that people are now. I didn't know this was the thing, they are buying their groceries from an average of 20.7 different retailers. This has gone up. Since like 2018, according to the Wall Street Journal.

So they're visiting more stores and they're making more purchases, like they're diversifying their grocery purchases. I don't know. I'm lazy. Like, I hate shopping. I don't, I would.

Go where the deals are. Yeah, but I'm not going to be like my stepdad and be like, I'll drive five miles to save $2.09 with this coupon. I'm not doing that. Nothing wrong with that. Because I'm like, my time's valuable and I get, I'm mean when I drive.

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It's also wonderful to be back in Washington. I love being in Washington. The last time I was in DC, I left my cocaine at the White House. Luckily, the President was able to put it to good use for his State of the Union. That actually is funny.

These these people better laugh. That's the one time I'll say it's funny. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. That was the White House correspondents' dinner, which is If you want to know what it is, it's when a bunch of people who couldn't make it in Hollywood, and so they ended up going for bylines in the political press, decide to get together and they.

There's a term for it that I can't use on air in polite company, but they get together in a circle and backpat each other. And that's what they do, Kane. That's exactly what the White House correspondents' dinner is. And it's you get to see these people who it's their first time to ever buy like couture dresses and they go and they buy it off the rack, so it's all like not tailored and it's poorly fitting. And they show up at this event and they sit there and they hug each other and high-five each other.

And that's the whole evening spent doing that. I don't understand the purpose of it. I just don't think that. I just don't feel like the press is supposed to have a buddy-buddy relationship with people in elected office. They're supposed to hate each other.

That's the history. They're supposed to hate each other. They should hiss when they pass by each other, like two cats who don't like each other. That's how they should be. Oh, don't be like, well, Dana, we want to have nice.

No, we don't want to have nicer relationships than that. That's the way that tension helps keep the republic healthy. In order to have a healthy republic, you have to have some tension. And that tension between the people and the government. Where the government's always a little fearful of the people.

That's how it's supposed to be. You're never supposed to be in fear of a bureaucratic agency or anybody in elected office. You're never supposed to live in fear of a member of the government. The government, which is supposed to be. A Really, not a very happy position.

People used to not want to serve in government. It's supposed to be like jury duty. You're not supposed to really want to do it. It was supposed to be kind of a burden. But then they realized that they're not really getting people that are going to voluntarily do it.

So they had to add a couple of perks in there to make it worth the people's time. And then it turned into this free-for-all.

Now you have what you have. Because the selfless act of serving one's country with civic participation. Is an underappreciated action, and it's one that most people. don't take seriously. And so this is the position that we're in.

You know, I was telling people earlier And I made this remark on social media because I get people so aggravated at me if I criticize. The Um One of their particular politicians that they like, it doesn't matter who it is. I mean, I will have at least criticized someone that you like as a politician. It just goes without saying. I've been on Air Forward.

too long. and for too often to not have a record of this. And I have told people: don't be afraid to criticize politicians. I don't care what their little fan clubs think. You know, I'm never not going to criticize a politician or with a due criticism or hold them accountable for something that they do, and the demand to do so.

is un-American.

So people need to stop worshiping politicians if they want a better republic. And so I go back to this thing with, like, for instance, some of her tens of fans are mad at me because I've been criticizing her over this, and it's worthy of criticism because it's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. Let's go back to the Mitt Romney real quick. This was like in 2012, 2011, 2012. Do you remember the story he told on himself?

where he took their family dog. And he put the dog in a carrier and tied it on top of the roof. and drove for 12 hours to Canada.

Well, the dog had diarrhoea. and lost it and it ran all over the back windshield. The back glass of the car, and that's when they noticed something was wrong with the dog.

So he takes the dog out, hoses it off, and then puts it back in the kennel, and straps it back up on the top of the car, and they go on their continue on their way.

Now, I think that's a little heartless. I don't expect everyone to Treat to be as a m as a m a huge fan of dogs as I am. But at the same time I don't believe in sacred cows, right? Uh but I just I do believe that people should ask. Uh in a in a I think they should at least be have some common sense.

I think they need to have common sense with stuff. That seems a little heartless. That seems a little mean to treat your dog like that. But secondly, It also demonstrated a lack of political acumen because you don't want to tell stories on yourself to put yourself in a position where you have to be on defense for something dumb. And that's what I get into this.

This was a no, the reason that we all know this is because she shared it, because she wanted it to be discussed. And also, it was an excerpt that The Guardian published. Let me explain to you how some of these excerpts work, having published four books. You work with your publisher and you both sign off on what excerpts you want released and which excerpts you do not want released. And so, you as the author, you are participating in that.

And so, for the Guardian to get that excerpt and be able to publish it means that Noam and her people and the publisher all had to sign off on it because they all thought it was okay.

So, not only did she like write about this in a book, but she also agreed to have it published as one of the excerpts in The Guardian, which is wild to me. And so the story. Uh and I'm looking directly at the excerpts. This it's this wire pointer wire hair pointer called Cricket and the dog was a puppy and uh Noam writes that she had it was a female had an aggressive personality and was she wanted to train it to use it to hunt pheasant. And so Noam says that she was trying to help calm the dog down and teach the dog how to behave.

And she said that uh she took cricket on this pheasant hunt with older dogs and that cricket ruined the hunt and she went out of her mind with excitement. This is verbatim chasing all those birds and having the time of her life. And she tried to use an electronic collar to attempt to bring her under control. She said that didn't work. She said that when on the way home after the hunt, Noam stopped to talk to a local family.

And I guess Cricket wasn't restrained properly in the truck because Cricket got out of the truck. I don't know how that happens, and attack the family's chickens. Noam writes, grabbing one at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, and dropping it to attack another. And so she said that Noam writes that cricket. uh whipped nipped at her.

And she said the chickens owner wept, Noam apologized, and she wrote the family a check for the price of the chickens, and she said that. She hated that dog, and that she said she was less than worthless as a hunting dog. And she said, At that moment, I realized I had to put her down.

So she dragged Cricket to a gravel pit and shot and killed her.

Now Again, hi from the rural Ozarks over here. My family are all farmers and ranchers. My husband grew up on a farm, and I've had working breed dogs. He's had working breed dogs. And I would love, for instance, to get a Belgian Malinois, but I don't have the time to train it.

And I would rather train the dog myself to develop that relationship than not.

So I realize that I do not have the time to properly train an animal, so I'm not going to get that type of animal. Bottom line is, we understand dogs, and you don't have to live in South Dakota to understand dogs either. There's a difference between a very dangerous animal that something's wrong with it, it's an actual danger to other people, and a puppy that has tons of energy is a working breed dog and has not been properly trained. There's a difference. But number two, that aside, why the hell would you write about this in a book and flex on it?

Like it's an example of how decisive and tough you are, because that's the whole purpose that she put this in the book. She was trying to show people that she's tough and that she's decisive. And look how decisive she is. She dragged her dog to a gravel pit and shot her before her kids got off the bus. She is tough.

That doesn't look tough, it looks t stupid, and it looks pick me. That has massive pick-me-girl energy. It's way try too hard. Are you serious? Come on.

And it's kind of hard to take that. If you've ever seen a picture of her holding a pistol, because she teacups the damn thing, like she's going to afternoon to high tea with the queen or king, I guess now. It's just weird. I don't know why you would put that in a book thinking that that is going to be a flex for you.

Now, her response to this, her people's response. We were to ignore all of the people who are also ranchers and farmers who are like, look, we've had to deal with bad animals and not bad animals and untrainable animals, and that's never how we really treated anything. And they were trying to make it like it was just the media that was uh Super upset. It's uh the media, it's gasping with pol it she's she was trying to say that it was a politically incorrect story that had the media gasping. This has nothing to do with political correctness.

The shock is because a very tryhard pick me moderate governor was desperate is desperate to land the coveted slot of VP. She grossly miscalculated and took her political chances to the gravel pit. That's what people are reacting to. I mean, it just made her look ridiculous, and it invites people to question her political acumen and reasoning. That's not a move that a smart politician makes.

That is not a good tactical move. And all of her critics are critics over this, not because they're all suburban or urbanite, which I think is a really stupid deflection. It's just why would you mitt Romney yourself? Why would you do this? Why would you do this?

It's just as simple as that. People know the difference between a dangerous nuisance animal and an untrained working breed puppy. And yeah, farm life isn't all. Butterflies and sunshine. I mean, I've been there when we right they've had when during calving season, I've been there and I've seen like what my family goes through when calves are born, uh, with goats, with pigs, uh, you know, watch pigs go off to slaughter.

I mean, I w duh. But this is such a dumb thing to flex on. And it and They want to characterize, like I said, this unforced error as some divide between flyover and city dwellers. But that dog don't hunt, so don't shoot it. It's a divide between the people who don't think it's smart to discredit yourself with a dumb story and the people who do.

Because this is a tight race going into November and you do not have The luxury, none of us do, to have as a VP, which she's never going to be VP. It's a red state with only three electoral votes, as I said. It's not going to happen.

But you cannot have as a VP contender or to install as the VP. A moderate, she had a very moderate record in the house, and she was soft on lockdown. I'm happy to share those receipts coming up. Bring something like that to the table, somebody who cannot avail themselves of silly, unforced errors. It just it's just bad.

It's bad. And even before then, I just didn't think. I'm like, you can't have a reliably read state with only three electoral votes. That's not how it's going to work. But it is true.

I mean, it is. There's the you have the soft on lockdown stuff. And she's a moderate. She don't forget the the the trans sports bill. In South Dakota, there were a lot of conservatives that were upset over that.

I had her on air over on it. I was, I've been very nice, I've had her on air. We've talked about it. Uh she also was uh She supported the lockdown and the mandates. In fact, the only reason that South Dakota didn't lock down was because the state legislature fought her.

She's not this like conservative fighter. She's trying to reinvent herself. Literally, she's trying to have like a physical glow up. Her hair is longer, she looks a little different. I mean, it's obvious.

But It was her state legislature that actually fought her, that forced her hand. It was House Bill 1297. John Schweppey had a big thing about this where he wrote that her reputation on lockdown was basically wholly manufactured. She only appeared to oppose the lockdown because she was being forced by the Republican-led legislature. And she absolutely did support lockdown measures.

In fact, he writes, quote, on March 30, 2020, at the request of Governor Noam, South Dakota Representative Lee Kuom introduced House Bill 1297 that would have declared a state of emergency in South Dakota and give the Secretary of Health unprecedented powers to impose mandates and lockdowns. It was a very straightforward one-page bill. And Noam pushed it. And the Dakota, South Dakota House of Representatives emphatically rejected her bill 50 to 17. She pushed lockdown.

The Republicans in the state legislature rejected it. I mean, this is not up for debate. You can rewrite your image and you can try to you can have your glow up and you can do all this stuff. But the fact remains, there is a record. She was a very moderate Republican in the House.

But she's reinventing herself now. But she doesn't have the political acumen. We have more on the way as we roll towards days of these United States. Caltech, you guys are very familiar with the Sub 2K, which is their 9mm carbine. It's been shipping for a while now.

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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. You're hurting me! Yeah. Just a lipstick. Out!

I love the cop that's picking up that protester because his hat didn't even move. I mean this, you're hurting me. Ah, ah, ah! It's the best. I want that as a ringtone.

Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. Where was that? Was that Columbia? Where was that?

Somebody was. I forget which one that was. It was one of those trash baby protesters. That's accurate. And they didn't move, so they got moved.

No one was hurting you. Good heavens. You know that cop in the gym is carrying around tires. Oh, you know, just for a day like that. He was a unit.

He picked this dude up and just carried him right out like a baby. Like a screaming baby. That's what he did. Oh my word. Was that what it sounded like when Noam took Cricket to the gravel pit?

Oh gosh. Yeah. Yeah. The memes are amazing. No, that, but that protester, that was, that was just, I think, uh, We are all that cop, and all the trash baby protesters, who are actually adults, they're all that dude that was screaming.

The kids that we saw in the grocery store used to fall on the floor and All that. Yeah, they've grown up now. This is what this is what they're doing. Oh yeah, that's what they Exactly, yeah. The ones that Their parents indulged the tantrum.

Yeah. And they gave in to them. They didn't believe in discipline.

Now you can see the result of it.

Now you see. Spare the baton, spoil the protester. I'm just saying, you know. Let's put that out there. Those protests are ongoing.

They've been suspending, I think, what? Like a. uh a number of These pro these graduation, these commencement ceremonies. I was looking at. They've well, 'cause they've yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Would you say USC? Yeah, USC canceled their main graduation. And then, on top of that, they went out and said it was a great idea. And they're glad they did it.

Oh. Oh, okay. Great idea. I'm sure all those graduates Feel that way. I think the other students are going to be just really mad about it.

Well, yeah, and you made this point last week that these protesters are being bussed in. None of these kids are actually that are protesting on these college campuses, actually, most of these protesters don't even go to these colleges.

So you canceling class isn't really affecting the protests. Not like these protesters are not going to show up anymore. Right.

Yeah. Well, what's going to happen? And what's going to happen when. classes are over and They have to go back home. I mean, they can't it's not like they can keep staying there at at college.

They're not gonna have a dorm to go back to. A lot of the people, a lot of the people who are off campus there, their leases are up, et cetera, et cetera. I don't know what they think they're going to do. It's not going to change anything. And like I said, not a single one of them.

Are you saying anything about the hostages? There's no release the hostages, there's no advocacy. for any of that. It's just really It's just so fake. There's so much about all of this stuff that's so fake.

It really, I'm just. Are you tired of the fakery in politics? I'm so tired of it. I'm so tired of the clickbait engagement. I'm tired of the fake, stupid protests.

This is also stupid. None of these people, half of them, don't even. If they had to point to Gaza on a map, they couldn't do it. You know that. If they had to actually identify where Gaza was on a map, they could not do it.

If you asked them to name the two territories in question, they couldn't do it. If you asked them to name the main ruling party and then its subsidiaries, they could not do it. They have no idea. They go along with it because they're seamsters. That's so lame.

They're seamsters.

Now, uh, we've got Coming up. Goodness, we got a lot still on the way, including some GOP stuff, some 2024 stuff as well. And some Culture. Another hour on the way. Stick with us.

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Now, of course, it's a great American value to protest, but I don't believe living in a pup tent for Hammas is really helpful. Unless it is hummus, because hummus can be delicious with some flatbread, you know. You still wouldn't live in a tent for hummus. Yeah, I wouldn't live in a pup tent for hummus or hummus either. That's John Fetterman, who I swear sounds like the sanest person in the Democrat Party.

We are Growing to Have a regard for him. I don't know how to properly put this into words because. They hyper partisan part of me. does not want me to say it. It's weird, right?

Like He's As he recovers, He's a Sounding very reasonable. Right? What do we do, King? What do we do here? I don't know what we do with that.

All we can do is acknowledge what's happening and. Give credit where credit is due. I have a weird feeling here. This is weird. It's a he's a Democrat, 'cause he's a Democrat.

I mean I think he's doing. Oh, I'm not going to say I can't. Oh, gosh. It's like when you taste a lemon. You know, it's good for you.

It has vitamin C.

Well, it's like when you have your first time you eat a sour patch cake. Yeah. And you're like This is good? Yeah. And you eat another one.

It's just weird. Welcome back to the show. Daniel Ashley the top of the second hour. We're all confusion. Every time we play John Futterman quotes.

We are supremely confused. Because you look down on your audio list and it says, oh, Fetterman, it has a quote. And you're immediately thinking, oh, it's a Democrat. I'm not going to like him. I'm not going to like what he says.

And then you play the sound bite. And you realize that actually Sounds like we are in agreement.

Now Democrats can't do anything to him. Because if they criticize him, they hate people who are recovering from strokes. That's their rules, right? They made the rules. Do you think they just are kicking themselves right now?

He's a Frankenstein's monster for the left. You can't criticize him because remember when the right tried to, and Kane, we did. We did. Especially during the election, Pennsylvania. You know.

That Oz dude did not have a shot in Hades. And he was a horrible candidate. One of the worst candidates I've ever seen to run, like, really bad. And you see, you had a Democrat who was trying to trick everybody into thinking that he was a Republican and an actual Democrat.

So people went for the actual Democrat. I mean, you know. And he actually is making more sense than the dude who was the fake Republican. It's really weird. Not quite sure what to make of that.

But he's making a lot of sense. And Democrats can't criticize him because all the criticism that he received previously It was discredited because he was a uh recovering from a stroke. You can't criticize him. You can't tell him to not wear a hoodie. You can't do it.

Now he sounds more sensible than all of the other Democrats and at least our program for whatever power we have. He has a hoodie pass. He can wear it as often as he likes. Just so very odd. Very, very odd.

But I don't see really a lot of people in the Democrat Party that are saying what he's saying. I mean, he's the only one that has said, okay, well, all they have to do is release the hostages, talking about Hamas. He's the only one who's actually said that. The other ones have not. I mean that alone I think is incredibly significant.

Now Few things. We've got some GOP stuff to get into. Trump and DeSantis met. It was reported. They met yesterday.

Apparently in Miami. And No, it's not because I have so many people that are saying this.

Well, DeSantis should be. The VP pick. It's never going to happen. And I think it would be a bad move because they're both from Florida. Trump is, he's relocated.

He's sealed in Florida. He's based in Florida, whatever you want. Florida is where he's at. And you can't have two dudes from the same state. And I think that there's not going to be an issue.

so long as nobody shoots themselves in the foot. Or their dog. I don't think there's going to be an issue of keeping Florida. For Republicans. It's not gonna be like it was in 2012 when, I mean, I think not even a third of the votes were in in Florida, and I could immediately see the math.

I'm like, Mitt Romney just lost Florida, because Florida was a swing state. People kind of forget that. It was um it was blue in 2012. It was a bit of a battleground after that, and now it's been made reliably red because of a good administration there. But I don't, you can't have DeSantis and Trump on the same ticket.

I think that if Trump really, it's never going to happen, but. I think if Trump really wanted to have a strong VP, he could do Brian Kemp out of Georgia. But Brian Kemp and Trump do not get along.

So that's not going to happen. This meeting with DeSantis, I think, was about fundraising, is what I'm hearing, because DeSantis has agreed to fundraise. Four. Trump. And that's what it that's what it seems like this is this is going to be for that.

But I don't think it's going to be like any kind of, you know, he's not going to be VP or anything like that. They're going to be fundraising.

So that's pretty much it. And stop so the V P the V P contest is still on. And like I said, I don't think it's going to be Uh, no, I'm up in, it's not gonna be her out of South Dakota. Dog stuff aside, you know, your unforced error and shooting yourself in the foot in the gravel pit along with your dog. Uh, that aside.

Three electoral votes, it's a red state. No, you got to be, there's strategy with the VP pick when it comes to electoral math as well.

Now, this is interesting. And the reason I'm bringing this headline up is because I have heard this from people.

So this is from Mediaite. And sometimes when you have There's certain websites out there like Politico, there's Mediaite. There are a couple of other ones where, like Axios, even. where you will have They're viewed as being kind of left-leaning. And you have leftists over there for sure, but you have some conservative writers that they just don't.

Project conservatism immediately because they don't wear their political identity first. They write the story, and there's very few of those people. But I know some of them. And so and they wind up usually like Axios Politico or Mediaite.

Some of the and Daily Beast even, I know.

Some of these bylines, depending on whose name it is, I can tell if it is someone who has connections within this particular candidate's circle or this politician's circle, or whether this is just they heard, got wind of some opo and wrote about it, or whether they were actually fed this. This story that I was reading about Carrie Lake and Mar-a-Lago I've been hearing this for weeks. From a lot of people. I've been hearing this from people who have had fundraisers at Mar-a-Lago, events at Mar-a-Lago. Um I mean, I've been invited to stuff that I've just never been.

I can't. A, I don't really like going to cocktail stuff. And B, um, I just am here on air with you guys three hours a day every day.

So it's makes it a little difficult to go and do some of this stuff. Uh, but. I have been hearing this from quite a few people.

So, this is the Mediaite headline: Trump getting sick of Cary Lake's regular visits to Mar-a-Lago. And then there was a side, it said it privately dismissed her election fraud claim that she didn't win the election. He apparently.

Now, he apparently doesn't believe her. I've heard whispers of that, but I have heard. That People are like, she never leaves Mar-a-Lago. I'm just telling you what I'm hearing. And some of them are hardcore Republican fundraisers that have raised a lot of money for Trump.

I'm just saying, I've actually heard this from the mouths of at least three people. In person. No, I'm not going to say anybody's name because then I won't hear any of this stuff again. You think I'm crazy? But, you know, I hear this stuff and I just sort of keep it in the back.

And it's good to reference when I hear headlines like this.

Now The Report is that she's kind of worn out her welcome because she is at every single event. Um some of his people Are concerned that she is spending too much time. at every event at Mar-a-Lago and not enough time. in Arizona in her district campaigning. And so I and it's a very important battleground state in Arizona.

And apparently, Trump had gently suggested to Lake. that she should leave the club and hit the campaign trail in Arizona. And this is what a Wapo reporter had stated. And Trump was asking others if she could really win Arizona. Or if she would hurt his turnout in Arizona.

Because she's been struggling with fundraising. Terry Lake has. That is a fact. She has struggled with fundraising and this is Arizona. where it's not difficult to get.

It's like the desert version of Florida. It's not difficult to hit a big old Republican funder there and get some money for your candidacy there. It's not. But she's been struggling with fundraising. And that is a major red flag.

This is very clinical analysis. I don't care what people think about the candidate or anything else. That is a red flag. And so There have been and I like I've said I have heard this from Major fundraisers who have hosted major events at Mar-a-Lago, they themselves. Have actually expressed this, that they were concerned and that they think that the president, the former president was concerned that she was spending too much time at Mar-a-Lago.

And not enough time raising money in Arizona. And look, that could be a thing. You might, some can't, some people, I think. Get misguided as to how the best way to raise money and attention is. And they think, well, if I can just go hang out with the rich people at Mar-a-Lago, I can fundraise off of that.

Yeah, but that really can't compare with being in your own district at numerous events. I mean, it's, I mean, you are grinding. It is very tiring. And she really needs to focus on that. And he his and his uh people's concern that her lack of campaigning in that district in Arizona might be reflected upon him.

I don't think that that's a misplaced concern because most I will say most of the drag affects down ticket. But this is one of those weird instances where In certain pockets of Arizona, she's really disliked. Because she, and I don't care if you like John McCain or not, that's not a question. It's the Game of Thrones. You gotta play the game.

If you wanna get elected, you gotta play the game. You can't go and be like blank the hometown sun. You can't do that stuff and expect to win. If it's about winning, you gotta play Game of Thrones. That means you gotta be nice to people that you may not like.

That's politics. And she didn't play the game right and that's why she ended up losing. I don't think that she was actually defrauded in the election. I think that she played her hand horribly and she miscalculated and she lost.

Now, I think she's running up against that now.

So that's the issue, and he's said to be privately concerned. That could affect turnout on for support for him. And I don't think that's misplaced. Normally, I would be like, well, usually you have to worry about that the other way around. I really don't think that that's misplaced here.

So that's something to keep an eye on because Arizona is a very tricky state. And you guys know how this is. I mean, you have, and every one of you all states, no matter where you're listening to me from right now. There is a politician or some sort of political icon from your state. Every state has them.

And it's just one of those things that. It becomes sort of like a state pride issue. You don't insult, regardless, it doesn't matter, you don't insult somebody. From that particular state or from that particular area, because there was that event where she had basically, well, she didn't basically say she said it, she told McCain's backers to go blank themselves. And she was in his backyard, basically.

And they were still raw over, I guess, having just buried him and all this. And it was just, again, this has nothing to do with what you think about McCain. It's an unforced error. Why would you do that? Oh my gosh.

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So they're apparently beefing up police patrols after a central, well, this is in New York, after a Central Park violent robbery spree. Apparently, people are on edge because there's been an uptick of just numerous muggings all across Central Park. They also had three violent robberies at least. Five of these happen within a 27-hour span. And so NYPD said that they're stepping up patrols.

People are still wary.

Some say that it's still fairly safe. To walk in the park, can you imagine not being able to just like walk in the especially when you live in a concrete, everything's concrete, and that's like one of your only green spaces? This is a this is one of the most terrifying headlines I've ever read. Again, this is why you also, I'm just not, you know, public restrooms are just sketch. A man ended up in the hospital because he was bitten by a rat in his toilet.

Yeah, the unnamed man from Montreal. He was 76 years old. They said he narrowly avoided death. It was a diseased rat in the toilet bowl.

Okay, how do you not look? in the toilet bowl. How does a rat doesn't just like Sander Water to lurk? Where? Oh my gosh.

They said that he tried to fish it out, and apparently, I guess it bit two of his fingers. He was given a tetanus shot and sent home, but then he had headaches, abdominal pain, and all this other stuff. And apparently, his kidney were damaged. And he had this apparently, he had like sepsis from all this because this, this apparently, this rat, I can't even pronounce this, leptospirosis. I just did.

They think that that's what was transmitted by the rat bite, but also like what Why would you fish it out of the lid with your hands? Number one. I don't know. I've got... Hmm.

This um I mean, everybody has their own. Goals, I guess. This man in Ghana hugged 1,123 trees in an hour for a world record. What? He just walked around hugged random trees.

It looks like he's got a large stick. And one of the photos. That's That's it. That's seriously it? He is studying forestry at Auburn, but he went and I'm sorry.

Like really? That's your record. We have more on the way. Stick with us. The cheese ball man coming up.

Well, I don't know why I came here tonight. I got the feeling that something right. I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair. And I'm wondering how I get down to stay. Nothing really affects comedy.

People always need it. They need it so badly. and they don't get it. It used to be you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, oh, Cheers is on, oh, MASH is on, oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on, all in the family's on. You just expected there'll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight.

Well, guess what? Where is it? This is the result of the extreme left and PC crap and people worrying so much about offending other people. It's weird because now it's like I think the folks on the periphery are now Involved in pushing back on this stuff, what some of us have been worrying about for a decade. Like this is going to kill comedy, all of this.

The woke scolds. This neo-Puritan, which is what I've been saying for also a decade, this neo-Puritan movement. It's it it We've been talking about this for so long. And it almost seems like it's too late. To see some of these other folks coming to the front.

I'm glad Jerry Seinfeld's talking about it. I think he's probably spoke up about it more than most. who've been in comedy. But It's it's weird because You would think That somebody like Jerry Seinfeld would have been able to push back on a lot of that stuff. Maybe, but at the same time would it have cost him his audience?

You know, there's no, there's however famous you think someone is, unless they're J.K. Rowling wealthy. or even Dave Chappelle wealthy. They don't have immunity. I mean, there's like there there's that you know, the audience will turn on them like that.

It's very interesting. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you at the bottom of this second hour. He was talking about lack of comedy. Steinfeld was shows the it's because of the extreme left and all of the political correctness, and it is true because.

Yeah. It's not a free-for-all, and it's affected so much. It's not just comedy, it's affected. Everything, thought, uh reasoning Academics. It's all that was the first symptom of the Marxist CRT DEI nonsense.

That was the first hint that you got as to what was coming. And when people on the right Because I've been writing about CRT, critical race theory, Marxist critical race theory, for literally over 12 years now. When people on the right first started talking about this, A lot of people, including moderates. on the left thought we were being ridiculous, that maybe we were being too sensitive. over the sensitivity of people who were calling political incorrectness out.

on just average everyday stuff. And it wasn't that really. I mean, there's good taste and bad taste, there's mean-spiritedness and not. But it was Because we saw what was coming. It was a hint of Now it is a deluge of You know, you can't, you, you, you have to even change how you say pronouns, and you have to welcome men on women's teams.

And it's gone. They're i if they're if people on the the left who are moderates thought there needed to be a slight course correction. It's gone way beyond that. to a destabilization. It's just, um, nothing is funny anymore.

We're thinking about that. What was the last? Think about the last new funny thing that you watched. Seriously, what was it? What was the last new?

I'm not talking about something old. New funny thing that you watched. I think I watched some of Chappelle's last stand-up, but that's. almost kind of like excluded from this. You know what I mean?

Like what was is there an is there a new Program or a new movie that's genuinely funny. That you've seen. I can't actually name one, can you, Kane? No. I can can people in chat, can they name one?

What's the last new, not like old blazing saddles or any reissue, none of that? like a new movie or a new program. that you've watched that was actually legitimately funny. I am really struggling. I actually don't know.

I'm thinking of everything that I've watched. Was Dairy Girls? Dairy Girls was funny. Yeah, I thought that was pretty funny. It wasn't super hyper-political, but that's like still.

I mean, the first season was like five years ago. Right.

And that's what I was thinking of too, is that long, I mean, that's as new as I can. Go. I think I saw a few episodes of Lauder Milk. I thought was funny. Always sunny in Philadelphia, but that, well, 22 was their last.

Yeah. They need to come out with the new season. I don't know. Right? I mean, all the movies anymore these days are just remakes of what's already happened.

Like I was watching some Welcome to Ruxome stuff and I thought it was kind of Amusing, and then it started getting a little okay. All right, we get it. I get your politics. Can you just stop shoving it in people's face? I just wasn't.

Are we outside of like South Park? Yeah, South Park. The Beavis and Butt Beavis and Butthead. The new stuff. Yeah, the new stuff.

But that's like it. And notice, like, those are carryovers. Right.

The yeah, Beavis and Butthead and then South Park are long time They're carryovers. Lorraine says in the chat that they're saying the office. And that's, I mean, again, that's old, though. Yeah. New isn't exactly how I describe the office.

No. This is weird. But yeah, it seems like this in the past two years. Any new television shows or movies that you've seen that have been funny? The only funny thing that I saw And I mean genuinely Laugh out loud.

was And everyone was saying, what happened to SNL? They had two skits. that were genuinely funny. And people could not they were And I watched them and they actually were. Genuinely funny.

It was the one with. Ryan Goslin and Chris Stapleton. And there was one we can't play any of it because of copyright, but There was one where it was like these three chicks, three of the cats. cast members. who were saying that they were doing a country song.

And you know how it is. Like, you know, I Keati's car, or I, you know, whatever, got back at him, like a little petty revenge.

Well the joke was that one of the girls was s just straight up psycho. And she's like, And I switched his shoes with a pair that's a half size bigger so he would think that he was shrinking, like mind job stuff. And it was hysterical because the other girls were like, Wait a minute, that's not what we had in mind. And um Then there was a skit where Ryan Gosling and another cast member And it was Keenan Thompson who really brought it all together. He was this AI expert.

And they were interviewing him and he just happened to notice two dudes in the audience that looked exactly like Beavis and Butthead. But the joke of it was that nobody else, apparently like the other cast members, did not know that they were going to look like that. And so the reactions were pretty hysterical. They had a hard time getting through the segment, and it was funny. That's it, though.

That's it. That's literally it. And they had no politics on. They had these, the thing that made it funny was there was a generalized understanding of a. The best way I can describe it is like a water cooler reference.

You used to have Back in, and I think Game of Thrones was maybe one of the last kinds of water cooler. Type TV programs that there was. They didn't release it all at once. It was released only on Sundays, and everybody talked about it on Monday. But those events, whether it was in music or television or a film.

That was pretty like straight down the middle and everybody could see it And it was applicable to everybody. And then everyone could reference it at the water cooler and talk about it the next day at work, you know, for as just like the. stereotypical way of, you know, saying that it was mainstreamed. It was a water cooler. touch point, right?

We don't have those anymore. And I kind of think that that's sort of required for something to be super ridiculously funny. Not that it's like so niche, not that it's so for to have like a wider audience to be really funny. And like the Beavis and Butthead and the Stapleton skit, that was hysterical because. Who wouldn't laugh at that, right?

Who would laugh at it? It was funny. But That's it. Everybody else is so wrapped up in their identity of politics. And it's like this.

I they can't they can't separate themselves from it and they wait they can't make anything and create anything separate from that and that's part of it. It's a really weird thing. That And and we indulge it. I will say those two skits were actually genuinely the country music thing was one of the cleverer things I've seen in some time. That was, that took me for a trip.

I did not expect that punchline. And I rarely laugh out loud. And I laughed out loud. I laughed my head off at that thing. That was hysterical.

And then I guess they went back to sucking. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, I've been sitting here thinking. I think Ted Lasso was the only other thing I could think of, the only other show that was actually, but it was like drama-y flick.

Yeah, I don't like drama, and I don't like my idea of a chick flick is death-proof, right? At least it was a semi-original idea, and at least, you know. Roy Kent was the only one, and I chuckled, but I didn't like it, ah, But he was funny. Roy Kent is funny. I mean, he's like the best person on that whole show.

But we had such a surplus of comedy in the 90s. I think we took it for granted. Apparently, the chat said Young Sheldon. I've never watched that. I've seen some episodes of Young Sheldon.

I think it's great. I don't know what that's I don't know what it's about. I don't know what it's about. You know the Big Bang Theory? Sheldon Cooper?

No, I've never watched it. Sheldon Cooper from the Big Bang Theory.

Well, it's the prequel, I guess, and it's him as a child. Oh, I mean, his love center. His childhood. I don't know, it's just very, yeah, that's no. I will say, real quick, and we got some other stuff to hit, we needed a palette cleanser.

One of the best shows that I'm watching right now is called Constellation. I think it's like on Apple T V Plus or whatever, I can't remember what it's on. It is so creepy and it's so good. And it's actually a super creepy examination of um. Uh quantum physics.

And yeah, it is m It's terrifying when you think what is scientifically Allowable, like, or what can exist scientifically, like, the different possibilities of you all coexisting in different. Playing, it's messed up. It is so good. It is such a good series. The first episode, though.

I'm not gonna lie, it was so creepy. I turned on my my patio light. 'Cause I was like Is dark out there. This is creepy. And I had to go turn on my patio light.

I legit was creeped out. All right, so I waited to talk about that because I'm always fascinated by that. I think that that's a the comedy is a good measure, I think, of how healthy a society is. Can a society laugh together and at itself? We're not really there.

in the United States, are we? I don't think so. Why are we not doing what this guy does?

So this guy, he's called Cheeseball Man. He's 22 years old. He's figured out life. He's um Apparently, he got he went to Manhattan's Union Square on Saturday. and he wore an orange mask, and he ate an entire jar of cheese balls.

apparently silently. And He said at one point he thought he was going to throw up, and then people were chanting, keep it down.

So I just kept it in. He said, he literally did an interview with ABC on this. And he had, there were posters that popped up all around the area. in the weeks leading up to the event. And they said, Watch me eat this entire jar of cheese balls.

And it was a man in a ski mask holding a giant jar of cheese balls. And he put this poster up all over Manhattan. And apparently, there was a ton of people that showed up. The crowd, you could hear the crowd from two blocks away. He had a flag of himself.

And then he said that afterwards he wanted to go home and throw up. And that's actually why he wrote about it. He had a QR code and all that. It said, watch me eat this entire jar of cheese balls. Union Square Park, April 27th, 3 p.m.

And people showed up. There were tons of people that showed up to this thing. Like tons of them. There was a massive crowd, and he ran in with a flag. And then he went and ate all of them.

And then he got, he was like, oh, I'm sick, of course. What are He had more people at his event than Biden did. I'm not lying. He totally did. Maybe that's what Biden needs to do.

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It's time for Florida Man.

So, this Florida man is in trouble because he was blasting turkey calls at his neighbors. And so he got. He got charged. He got charged with stalking. He's 50 years old.

He got a stalking charge over this. Apparently, he was tormenting his neighbors with antics that included broadcasting, turkey calls, over a loud speaker, according to investigators. It was a 10-month ordeal. The Wakula County Sheriff's Office said there were 14 complaints, several incidents, including one battery arrest at the suspect's home. And they said that.

Apparently, it all started because somebody's dog went on to the neighbor's property, killed the chickens. You're gonna take, don't tell Christy, no. And then the sheriff's office got involved. They caught one of the dogs on the property. And then the other one was playing turkey calls to aggravate the neighbors.

And Oh my gosh. And it just like escalated from there.

So they uh issued an arrest warrant. That was on April 12th, charging the suspect with the stalking of the neighbor. He was arrested 12 days later. They haven't named him, but. Man alive I can't What do you do with neighbors like that?

Yeah, I don't know. That's tough. Like you you gotta try to get along with people, but then Yeah. The turkey call thing. I'm looking for a turkey or two to wander onto my property.

Maybe have dinner later. Yeah, there you go. I don't know. The j I gotta I golly, this one's so bad. Oh, gosh.

I don't even Okay, I saw on this list, and then I saw.

Okay, here's this one. He's an 83-year-old. And, um He got in So this is Palm Beach. He apparently had some time, a private time, with a prostitute in his vehicle. And then the prostitute carjacked the guy.

and stole all his stuff and he had to call the police. 85-year-old victim. He says that this prostitute carjacked him. He's eighty five years old picking up prostitutes and using his car as a Motel Six.

Okay. His name Keith Richards. Yeah. Oh. The sheriff's office said deputies were allergic to the carjacking.

It happened behind a Publix grocery store.

So it was Yeah. And the deputy, then later they look for it, they found the stolen vehicle, and it was two miles away from the original crime scene. And they arrested the, I guess, the prostitute that's there, Nakaya Acklund. The Garja Ecker? Yeah.

And the 85-year-old victim said that he, yes, he did solicit her. And he said, right. When their time together came to an end, she took his car. And The victim was initially reluctant to press charges because he was ashamed that because he's outing himself. And um Wow.

So the prostitute was booked in the Palm Beach County Jail on accounts of carjacking, unlawful possession of a stolen debit card, unauthorized possession of a driver's license. Oh my. Tomorrow I'll tell you about the guy called Pee Wee who went around exposing himself at various Florida stores multiple times a month. To get the nickname. Yeah.

Oh my gosh, what is happening? That'll be for tomorrow. We have our third hour on the way. Stephen Yates will be joining us too. Stick with us.

It's another alternative. It certainly will help increase the volume of aid that's getting into Gaza, but nothing can replace, quite frankly, nothing can replace the ground routes and the trucks that are getting in. And I will say that they have been increasing the amount of trucks that have been getting into Gaza.

Now there's still challenges on the ground in getting it up into the north, but that's starting to happen. And the Israelis have started to meet the commitments that President Biden asked them to meet. This pier is now being constructed. It will take probably two to three weeks before we can really see it in operation. I mean, it's a fairly complicated procedure.

It's a floating pier that's already getting mortar. I'm really shocked at the Floaty pier that we put Outside of Cause is getting bombed already.

So surprising. Welcome back to the program. That was John Kirby talking about that peer. That We're spending, was it $230 million taxpayer dollars to build to give aid to The Hamas government in Gaza. Welcome back to the program.

Daniel Ash with you. Top of the third. You can listen coast to coast. You can stream the radio program, catch us on X, YouTube, Rumble, Channel 347, Direc T V were everywhere. But we talked about this last weekend because you have it's weird because you're not only giving aid to your one ally in the Middle East, but you're also giving aid to the elected I mean, they they were dutifully elected, the elected terrorist government of Gaza.

that is mortaring the pier that is Supposed to be used as the staging ground and delivery area for aid that is going to Gazans that Hamas keeps saying, I don't know. It's all weird. It's just so dumb. This the the strategy with this, this is I'm getting Hamid Karzai International Airport vibes all over again. Kabul, I'm getting those vibes all over again with us.

Because who's going to guarantee the safety and security of those U.S. troops on the ground that are there supposedly only just uh delivering and and Helping the aid delivery process. I mean, because they at first they said it was just going to be direct to Gaussens, and now they got the IDF to. Help protect and what? None of it makes sense.

You're gonna have the entity that was attacked protect the d troops delivering aid to the entity that was attacks enemy? And the enemy still has American hostages? Oh, don't give me the whole.

Well, it's Gaza, not Hamas. They elected Hamas. There are two surveys out, just to recap for everybody. There are two surveys out showing overwhelming approval for Hamas, including support for October 7th. And the first one was done in December of 23, and the second one was done at the end of February.

So, yes. Absolutely. One of them was done by an international press consortium, and the other one was done by a Gazan agency.

So, yes. There's 320 million.

Well, it got raised. After the attack now, there's an additional seventy plus million they had to add to it. Because For repairs? Assuming that's the excuse.

Well, there you have it. For the repair, we're just going to keep bombing and it'll get more and more expensive. The governor of Texas has warned everybody. Guys, there's gators in the Rio.

Okay, there's warning signs and some sectors. Cross only at your own risk because apparently there have been gators, numerous gators, large ones. On video. photograph video uh recorded in the Rio. They said that some of them might, they said that apparently 20 years ago, this sounds like a.

An old Folk tale. That's old legend. Twenty years ago there was a veterinarian who lived north of this city. And they had a non breeding pair that escaped from an enclosure during a flooding event of the Rio, and then apparently ever since then these gators have populated the Rio. From this one incident.

And they said that there have been no reported encounters, but They don't seem fearful of the airboats, and that's one thing that Border Patrol said. They're not afraid of the airboats. They don't care.

So they're a little different apparently than other gators, but there's actual video of them there.

Now The Whole border security mission. They said that they've been making accommodations for soldiers working along the border. Uh and Apparently, there's going to be Texas National Guard, soldiers, et cetera, that are going down there as part of Operation Lone Star.

Now, in the meantime, listen to this.

So, that's what Texas is doing with regard to the border. Listen to this.

So, in New York City, This is a crazy story. This story in New York City, this firefighter. Was fired from his department, 36 years old. Because they've been cutting a lot of services in New York to go to war to fund uh services for those who entered illegally. And his job, this guy's job was apparently one of those on the chopping block, 36 years old.

Well, he apparently was distraught and stressed, and he had a heart attack and died. Died of a heart attack, age 36. Just like. Just on April 15th. And the cities fired him and many other.

Firefighters as part of a due to a budget crunch, according to New York. or sorry, Daily Mail, New York Post to fund Services for illegal immigrants. He leaves behind his wife. Uh a six-year-old and a two-year-old. And he was one of a group of fire department employees on long-term duty.

So, yeah, they're having to cut essential services for people. to help fund this stuff. Because heaven forbid they say We actually think that the border should be secure. They don't want to go back on that because it'll cost, whoever says it, it'll cost them votes. They can't go back on that.

It's wild. It's truly wild.

Now, in addition to this, Hunter Biden is suing Fox News for defamation, which I guess he doesn't realize how this plays out because he. That means he's going to have to go through a discovery, I would imagine. I can't imagine this case proceeding in a knot.

So he apparently is, they said it's litigation against Fox News. And they're going after Sean Hannity, Jesse Waters, Maria Butteromo. And they're demanding that they take down their special, the trial of Hunter Biden, which is a six-part mock trial. and they are done with them using the salacious photographs. of mister Biden.

You know the salacious photographs, right? Like the one where he's smoking crack. Which I'm totally going to use, by the way, as uh the image i'm making a note for myself the image for the headlines For tomorrow's headline post. But he's all the stuff where he's like smoking crack and doing all this. They don't want those photos used.

And they said that. Uh They're salacious photographs depicting Mr. Biden. They said it's reprehensible, that they're Them and they say it's unlawful exploitation of his image and his name. And oh my gosh, I can't even deal.

So Yeah, and they still have motions. They're trying to get the felony gun charges in Delaware against him dismissed, still. He's still on trial. uh California trial on uh his uh tax fraud charges.

So yeah, this is all He's suing them for defamation for showing the pictures that he took of himself smoking crack. That legally he no longer has any right to. Yeah, he has no right to them. He signed that over.

So, for the people who aren't aware of that, when he took his laptop in. Uh to that. repair computer repair shop, he dropped it off there and he signed a form. And the form that he signed And handed back to that store proprietor was a form that said, if you do not come back and collect your property, and I think they gave it like six months. It was something a long time.

They said, if you don't come back and collect your property, like in three, I think it was like three to six months, then the property becomes the. the property of the repair shop. And he had to sign that in order to get his computer repaired. And he signed that form.

So, technically, this isn't even any of his stuff anymore. And it's fair use, and it's newsworthy because it's the son of the president of the United States who has been getting money from his dad, and he has been buying coke and hookers with it and making deals with Chinese businessmen and all kinds of stuff. He's been completely compromised.

So, I think it's, you know, complete. uh uh general interest.

So this is not forget. That they labeled this, and we had all this in our possession, all it was in the public, and they labeled this Russian disinformation for like a year. Oh, and by they, all of these previous Intel chiefs, including the ones who lied under oath about wiretapping and spying on American citizens, those two, the Brennans.

So it started as Russian disinformation, but now it's salacious. Exposure of someone's private information. Yeah, it can't be true. It can't be both of these things. That's weird.

It can't be both of them. It has to be one or the other.

So it can't be fake news. And a made-up story, and also real and salacious in exploitation. Fascinating. We've been talking about this story. Lorraine shared with me a headline.

Christy Noam story. Apparently, she was like doubling down on the whole dog shooting thing. She wrote a book, and in the book, she writes about taking her wire-haired pointer, a puppy that wasn't trained. She was trying, she said she wanted to train the dog to hunt pheasants, and she let the dog run around in the field and get birds and all that. And then she went to the neighbor's house and took the dog with her.

And the dog got out of the truck somehow. I mean, I don't know how a dog gets out of the truck unless you allow an open window for your sporting breed or your working breed dog to jump through. And uh chomp the necks of some chickens because that's what the dog had spent the day in the field doing. And Uh Christy know I'm Said that she took the dog. She hated the dog.

She said the dog's untrainable. And she took the puppy to a gravel pit and shot it. And. You guys know how I feel about dogs. But that aside, that ridiculousness aside, why do you write about it in a book and flex on it?

That just shows no political acumen. And I have to say, as somebody, again, hi, grew up in the Ozarks, whole family, ranching, farming. My husband grew up on a farm. There's a difference in dealing with nuisance animals that are adults and then puppies that just you can't, that need to be trained. There's a difference.

And why did you not secure your dog if you're going around chickens after they were running all around all day in a field going after birds? I don't get it. Anyway, why would you put it in a book? And rob me yourself. There's just no political acumen.

And I was telling people, because I've had some folks ask this, you know, she I mean, she is a moderate and she is, but apparently she was doubling down on this, what Lorraine had shared, and saying that Uh she Was it it didn't look It actually didn't look any better. She goes. She said that She was trying to figure out why people were still so upset about this story. She says it's a 20-year-old story.

Well, it's a story that you just put in a book and you put it in a book purposely for reaction. Because you and your publisher sat down and determined that this is an excerpt you both were okay with putting in a book and putting it out there so you would get people to talk about your book. She wants to be VP, it's not gonna happen. But the other thing too, even this aside, I would not want her as VP for her record alone and really quickly. There's a lot of really good stuff out here on this, and I'll put something together later on for the newsletter over at Substack.

But she had rejected legislation. Remember the Chamber of Commerce, that whole situation with the NCAA and protecting women's sports? She messed that up and then tried to turn around and say that she was really trying to do the right thing and there was a lot of nuance there, which it wasn't. She did not. She didn't protect women's sports in her state.

She shot down that sports bill that would have stopped. Men from competing in women's sports.

Now, a year later, because she was facing reelection, a similar bill came up to her for her signature, and then she signed that one because she was facing reelection. She was also very much pro-lockdown. And that's what a lot of people don't realize: that she's rewriting history to make herself seem more conservative. But it was the Republican legislature that actually stopped her from locking the state down. John Schweppy has some really great history on this, looking at her executive orders, where she was mandating adherence to CDC guidance, including social distancing, where she mandated a stay-at-home order, where she was mandating that businesses suspend or modify practices per CDC, where she was mandating that healthcare providers postpone non-essential elective surgeries, where she was mandating that business organizations provide essential services so long as they go along with CDC guidelines.

And then House Bill 1297 that was about lockdowns that she tried to push through, that the Republican state legislature actually. Stopped. They stopped her. That state would have locked down, and you would have had very strict New York-style restrictions had the Republican lawmakers in South Dakota not stopped Christy Noam. That is not hearsay, it is not conjecture, it is not opinion, it is fact with actual records of bills and what was proposed and what was voted on and who backed what and her quotes and her statements at the time.

That's history.

So she would be a nightmare candidate for him. I just don't think she needs to rewrite history. I mean, I think the shooting of the dog thing was stupid. I think it was a bad flex. I think it demonstrates she has no political acumen.

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It went missing while on a Georgia vacation with its owner.

Sorry, he's in Georgia, he's a Pennsylvania man. It was his emotional support alligator called WALL-E. And residents are asking where it is. It disappeared on April 21st. He said he last saw his pet in Brunswick, Georgia, on the East Coast, and he believes he was stolen.

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I'm focusing on turning the Senate Republicans into the majority here and focusing on advocating, as I think I successfully did this very week, for moving away from the isolationist movement that began with Tucker Carlson. Oh, it began with Tucker Carlson. It did. He had a huge audience among rank-and-file Republicans, and I think it was very destructive. I think it's disingenuous and mean-spirited to say that people were not plugged into what was happening, particularly as it pertains to where their tax dollars are going internationally until Tucker Carlson began to talk about it.

And if that's what Mitch McConnell truly believes, then he's more out of touch than anyone ever realized because this has been a sentiment that predates. Tucker even having his show. on Fox. I don't know where that's coming from. That was Mitch McConnell.

Welcome back to the program. We're at the bottom of this third hour joining us right now. I'm curious as to his thoughts on this. Stephen Yates is senior fellow at America First Policy Institute and chair of the China Policy Initiative. He joins us now via Skype.

Stephen, good to see you. I wouldn't I also don't think it's isolationism, but it didn't begin with Tucker Carlson. No, in fact, it didn't begin with Donald Trump either. But Donald Trump accurately read a movement in the country that was going to realign politics. And it was one of like three issues that he built a campaign around that no one believed was going to go anywhere.

It was just a cartoon. But he tapped into something and became the face of a movement that definitely pre-existed his candidacy and Tucker's show. And it isn't isolationist. It drives me bananas to hear people say these kinds of things because there was a guy I really loathed that had a case before the state Supreme Court where I lived. And one of the justices paused the case and momentarily said, Mr.

Smith, you must think we're stupid. And when people say things like this, this is isolationism because we don't want unaccounted for, unlimited money to just go somewhere overseas, that that's isolationist, you must think we're stupid. And I guess he's talking to one of those famous isolationists like Marco Rubio, who voted against this.

Now, Marco Rubio is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, not known for isolationism. And he was against this and also believed and made clear: you have got to deal with the invasion across our southern border before I'm going to sign on to more money going to these other things. And McConnell and others didn't believe him or didn't take him seriously. And so now he's out there throwing names out there. But it is not isolationist to say that Europe ought to be helping Europeans more than Americans are helping.

It doesn't mean we're zero, but they've got to step in in a more meaningful way. And it's not isolationist to say we'll sell military equipment to people, but we don't want to give. All of our munitions and armaments away to someone without them paying anything for them. Sell the stuff if you have to.

So that's not isolationism. It's just a different kind of engagement.

So it's very disingenuous of the minority leader, who I don't think will be majority leader because he's stepping out of that leadership race.

So I don't know why we're listening at this point. I agree with you. And for those who don't know, Stephen Yates was, he worked in the Bush administration. He was an advisor to former VP Dick Cheney and he worked in the Trump administration.

So you have the benefit of seeing two very different approaches with regard to foreign policy. And so I think more so than a lot of other people out there, you can definitively say, yeah, this is isolationism and this is not isolationism. No. I mean, really, Americans are generous. but we don't want to be mugged.

And so we, you know, we're going to help those who help themselves. And if we see a genuine need, we tend to be an extremely generous people, have for many, many decades. And it's not like we haven't given a lot to Ukraine so far.

So if we're isolationist, where's those billions coming back? And it doesn't help when you have their deputy prime minister going out there and saying that if the US and EU don't meet their promised obligations, then they're going to have difficulty paying their pensions and benefits. And my first thought is, well, you're in a time of war. Maybe the pensions and benefits can go to the side for right now. Yeah, life first, then retirement later.

You'd think you'd have sort of a sense of focus, but also it's not the job of the United States. To run their government and their benefits program. That is exactly what a lot of Americans are sick and tired of. Come in a time of emergency if you've been a good partner and ally, and we want to keep you from getting bullied because we don't want those threats coming to our shores. But Don't, you know, this idea that we somehow owe you something like this, you're starting to get into welfare territory when you start talking like that.

Exactly. That's exactly what it is as well. Talking with our good friend Stephen Yates, and you can find him on X at YatesComms. The Space Force General, I love that we have a Space Force. I know we're not out in space yet, but there's some groundwork that can be laid.

The Space Force General says that China's military developing, they're developing space assets at a quote breathtaking speed. And they said that they are, quote, seriously focused at U.S. Space Command on their pacing challenge. Do they. Do they have the capability to be competitive in that area?

Because I don't generally put a lot of faith in what they make. Right.

Well, they definitely have quality control problems. And their objective. probably is to try to be in control of what's out there in space, but really their nearest term objective is to have the capability to disrupt, to make it so that it's hard for us to sustain our economy and regular activity in a time of crisis. And maybe to be able to disrupt our assets in space that would support our military if it was trying to deter unwanted activity in there near abroad. And so it's easier and cheaper to be able to do that, technologically and otherwise.

And that is a problem. But the other flip side of it is: what are we doing to invest, innovate, and basically be good enough, strong enough, that it really doesn't matter so much what they're trying to do? I like the idea that our private sector is active in space. But you want to make sure that it's our government that is supposed to provide for the common defense. There are certain missions that are explicit in our Constitution, and they shouldn't be controlled by a private corporation.

And we haven't really had a good track record of investing and staying ahead in those capabilities. The Obama administration played lip service to it. We've been distracted with a few other things in recent years. And the Chinese have had the advantage of just pushing ahead because they don't have any accountability or transparency. I think that's a really good point that you just made, too, that we like the private sector being involved in stuff.

And it's not an issue of being against the private sector being involved in this. But the only objection comes when you're letting the government off of the hook for what it's constitutionally obligated to provide for. And then that frees them up to go and spend stuff on anything that's not Article 1, Section 8. That's a really good point. Yeah.

Well, it happens to have the added virtue of being true, and it's in black and white. I didn't make it up. Anthony Blinken, he had gone to this three-day diplomatic trip to Beijing. I don't know if it was successful because it seems like this is like the second or third such trip that he's made. I know part of him going over there was, you know, saber-rattling, warning China to not get too much involved with Ukraine and Russia.

But I don't think that that carried any weight. I think China's going to do what it's going to do there, particularly if it makes the Biden administration mad.

Well, I think he's like the most fragile Secretary of State we've had in our history. But it's gotten better for him. I mean, consider his first engagement with the Chinese where he had to go on U.S.

soil to get mugged rhetorically by a couple of wolf warriors that were throwing his and his boss's campaign rhetoric down her throat. And he just had to smile and try to say, but we'd like to cooperate and we need to tackle climate change and whatever else.

So aside, you know, it's gotten better for him that he didn't get dragged like a ragdoll during this visit. They just took the red carpet away from the airplane, didn't want to shake his hand, made him come and go, kind of with a few people, mostly lonely times. And he had to sit off to the side of the table, didn't get the smile and friendly embrace from the dear leader. He just got to be lectured too.

So it's a little better for him, but this visit was never going to work from the get-go. The Chinese made it clear. And I think that the Biden administration is just going through the motions. To say that they're trying. But, you know, for some of us, made very, very clear my view: my daughter was killed by fentanyl.

I have no grace for people who don't want to hold foreign leaders accountable for what we know they did that's killing hundreds of thousands of Americans. It's one thing to talk about Ukrainians, it's one thing to talk about my friends in Taiwan. I care about those people, but I care about Americans first. And if you aren't bellying up to that to make the threat of sanctions on that, then I don't really have a lot of time for you. And the House panel, the story came out, a House panel said that, I mean, it's very clear that China subsidizes the fentanyl production to fuel the crisis in the U.S.

Because that is, I think, a lot of people think that enemy tactics, for the lack of a better way to put it, are much more blatant and obvious and much more. Um symmetrical and they're not. And this seems like a a very obvious way if you are a geopolitical opponent and you want to destabilize someone, there's no better way to do it than with than to fuel this sort of crisis with these drugs. Absolutely. They do the sort of mind games by way of the algorithms and different apps and their political warfare on that that sort of messes with people.

They fan the flames of division and the radicalization so that we don't have people from middle America that want to be recruited into a military and have to serve with people who actually hate the country they're sworn to defend. And then you literally kill and immobilize a generation of recruiting aged Americans, it is weakening us from within before they have to fire a shot. Yeah, it's a good point. Talking with our good friend Stephen Yates, last topic, and this might, this is something that I've always been kind of on the fence about with regard to Elon Musk in China, because the production of EVs, I mean, everybody knows he's got a gigafactory there in China as well. And I understand he's a business person.

You know, he's doing business in China. I mean, for crying out loud, Trump even had hotels in China. He did business in China. Things are a little different than they were 10 years ago, even though. He visited China just very recently, Musk did, showing off new electric vehicles.

Do you think that it is, how much of a concern do you think it is that, you know, here we have, it is the owner of X, and we do think that he's done a lot for free speech and he's been very transparent. And I know a lot of our side likes him because he agrees with us. But at the same time, I feel like the right also kind of tiptoes around. Yes, he is a business person. Yes, he has business relations in China.

But do you think that he would ever sacrifice that for the principles that he wants to uphold here in the U.S.?

Well, I'd like to believe the answer is no, but I would welcome conversations with him and others about how do you make sure, if you're investing in manufacturing out of China, how about we not make the American market dependent on those things? If you want to supply China, And it's near abroad with what you're manufacturing in China. That's one thing. I'm not interested in that, but it's one thing. But if you're going to make your US supply chain dependent on any of that, then I think that there's real cause for concern.

Also, he's a very intelligent man, has read more than almost anyone I've ever met. And I've met a few people with photographic memories like Newt Gingrich. And I am sure he knows that there's a long list of companies that have gone in, developed big, had their moment, and then things literally get taken from them. By the Chinese, he has to have thought ahead of that. I mean, if the guy can get a rocket to take off and land on its own to be reused, he has to see.

That this is the cycle of dealing with the dragon. And so I hope on that front. Uh but the every once in a while I see the messages publicly and I'm like There's a lot I like about this guy, and there's a lot I like about the technology he's involved in. And then there's things that he says and other people say, and it's just not comfortable with me. Yeah, and I think that's a very good assessment.

Our good friend Stephen Yates, the expert in this area at Yates Comms on X. Always good to see you. Thank you, my friend. Thank you, Dana. Take care.

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So you were getting the Biden administration was buying ads from you? Yeah, I was doing full-on political propaganda. And they would just say, oh, really? With like what kind of, like, Biden created? 10 million jobs?

Yeah, honestly. And the funny thing is they're like, do not disclose this is an ad because, you know, they're like, technically, it's not a product. You don't have to disclose it's an ad. Because I think they just wanted like some edgy girl of color to just tell people, like, when, when they nominated, like, Katanji Brown Jackson, they're like, can you say, like, as a person of color, you know, that you feel reflected? Good lord.

That's like.

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