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It's time for Florida Man. You know, I'm not a big fan of men wearing flip-flops if they're not at a pool or the beach, which is kind of my rule. I don't want to see a lot of man toes, but this guy takes it to a whole new level. Charles Gallagher, a bank robbery in flip-flops.
That's right. But he hid his cash in a Maserati. So, Charles Gallagher, a 66-year-old destined resident, was arrested for allegedly robbing a truest bank using a note to demand cash. He should have just put his man toes up on the teller's counter. They would have given him anything he wanted. Authorities found Gallagher's black 2017 Maserati with concealed identifiers along with cash, a surgical mask, and glasses. He's probably one of those people that believe in mask mandates. He faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of the robbery charges. I don't know if they let you wear flip-flops in prison. I just don't know.
They should, certainly for the showers, because it's probably disgusting, the floors. Where's the beef? Florida Man was accused of stealing nearly $600 of meat from Publix in Fort Myers, Florida.
Crime Stoppers of Southwest Florida is asking for help locating a man accused of stealing $600 of meat products from the supermarket. That's a lot of beef. That's a lot of meat.
But then again, in this economy, it's really not. It's like four hamburgers, a pack of hot dogs, and maybe a rack of lamb. That's probably all he really took, if you think about it. And then there's this guy. This Florida Man is accused of pouring Pepsi and cleaning spray on women. He's found himself behind bars after he allegedly poured Pepsi and the cleaning spray on a woman. I wonder which one has more chemicals in it.
Just curious. Antonio Acosta, 47 years old, was arrested and charged with felony battery after the incident that happened in Lake Panofsaki, I'm probably not saying that right, on July 5th, according to an arrest affidavit from the Sumter County Sheriff's Office. Just after 7 p.m., deputies responded to a home and met the female victim who said Acosta had poured Pepsi and a cleaning agent on her.
This guy's still not as bad as CNN's Jim Acosta, for the record, just saying. The woman added that they got into a verbal altercation and as a result, made a bed on the floor with pillows and blankets. He smashed a small table, then poured the liquids on her. Deputies said they found an empty Pepsi bottle and empty generic spray bottle with no label with a very small amount of pink liquid in the bottle. I don't know exactly what the substance was. It might just have been some sort of cleaning agent or something, but nevertheless, he was released, and this will shock you, arrested two days later for violating a no contact order. So he's currently being held without bond, according to online jail records.
So, excellent. And then a Florida woman was arrested after throwing a single piece of paper at a parent. A single piece of paper. I don't know why, but just, I don't know really what one single piece of paper is going to do. It was a road rage incident. Maybe she thought she was going to give somebody a paper cut.
I'm not, I'm not quite sure, but she was charged with burglary and assault and battery, and it was in a parking lot and she came up behind her and she threw a piece of paper, a single piece of paper. Oh, and an empty backpack. All right. So there you go.
Got that too. I agree with Annie Oakley who said, quote, I would like to see every woman know how to handle guns as naturally as they know how to handle babies. Now I myself regularly concealed carry a nine millimeter. Now that said, not every woman is like me, has had the hours of training that I've had, or feels comfortable around firearms due to years of use, or maybe they're by a gun-free zone. I'd like to change that what I can while encouraging self-defense at the same time.
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President Zelensky. I'm so focused on beating Putin. We got to worry about it anyway. Anyway. Anyway. I mean, if there's nothing reassures the American people like you coming out and calling Zelensky Putin.
Am I right? I mean, nothing says, oh, I feel better than that when you come out and you say, hey, it's President Putin. I mean, I mean, I mean, Zelensky, what am I? Who am I? What am I? Where am I?
Where am I? So it's that, you know, it's that whole situation. Fox News is reporting right now that donors are freezing 90 million dollars in pledges to Biden. Ninety million dollars. Ouch. That's a lot of cash.
All right. It's a lot of cash. That's the other problem, too, is that Biden has is going to have a real problem raising money and they need they need that money. They've got to transfer that money over to whoever the Democrat nominee is. Biden last night falsely claimed that at least five presidents had lower numbers than he does. That's not true.
It's another Bidenism, as they say. This is this is July and Biden's got these low numbers. And what's going to change by November?
Nothing. He's not going to get better by November. And also the economy is not going to get better by November, even if the Fed comes in and does a rate cut, which they're expected to do. After this week, you're going to see a rate cut.
It's still not going to impact prices that much. People are going to turn around and go, whoa, this is awesome. This is great. I feel so good right now. This is Biden cut number four.
Cut for Steve. And I might add there are at least five presidents running or incumbent presidents who had lower numbers than I have now. Later in the campaign. Wrong.
OK. And just because you say it doesn't make it true. Oh, Dana White's going to be speaking at the RNC. That's going to be fun. That'll be great. He always brings in the thunder. That's right. He does.
He brings the thunder. Biden freaked out a reporter for asking him about Zelensky as President Putin. He was not happy that somebody asked him that question. But of course, it is the most obvious question to ask him of all the questions to ask him, besides the fact that he called his own vice president Trump.
Cut number five. I wanted to ask you about your you mixed up the president's Zelensky and Putin earlier today. And you now have sort of your key allies, including the British prime minister, the president of France, the German chancellor, having to step in and make excuses for you on that. Officials here are saying off the record that your decline has become noticeable. Hasn't this now, frankly, become damaging for America's standing in the world? Thank you. Did you see any damage to our state in my leading this conference?
Have you seen a more successful conference? What do you think? And the move the Putin piece, I was talking about Putin and I said, and now at the very end, I sit here. I mean, Putin, I said, no, I'm sorry. Zelensky.
And then I had five other names. Look, guys. The idea anybody suggests that that. We haven't had an incredibly successful conference. How many times did you hear in that conference? I know it sounds too self-serving, but other leaders heads of state in thanking me, saying the reason we're together is because of Biden. Yeah, right. They chose those together because of Biden. You know what else I found fascinating about yesterday's press conference was the fact that Joe Biden was complaining about his schedule.
Right. He's complaining about his schedule and how he has to stop doing events after 8 p.m. because he's too tired at the press conference that's designed to tell everybody and show everybody that he can do the job. But he's complaining about his schedule.
Look, that's the thing is that everybody complains about their schedule sometimes. But you're the president of the United States of America. There are things that happen even when you're tired. There are things that happen in the middle of the night when people are asleep.
And you can't just turn around and go, don't bother me. I'm tired. I'm sleeping over here. I'm I'm resting. I'm napping. I'm watching my shows. I'm watching my shows.
Here's Biden laughing in a reporter's face. Cut number six. How can you say you'll be up for that next year in two years, in four years, given the limits you've acknowledged that you have today? The limits I've acknowledged I have? There's been reporting that you've acknowledged that you need to go to bed earlier and your evening around eight.
That's not true. Look, what I said was, instead of my every day starting at seven and going to bed at midnight, it'd be smarter for me to pace myself a little more. Pace myself. It'd be smarter me to pace myself. Well, that that's very reassuring to everybody.
You've got to pace yourself even more. You're the president. Sometimes things happen at midnight or, as Hillary Clinton reminded us in 2008 with that infamous ad, sometimes there's a phone call at 3 a.m. in the White House. There's a there's a phone ringing in the White House. It's 3 a.m. And then Biden randomly started screaming. So in the last segment, I played you the whisper, the creepy whisper. Then he starts screaming. Now, he does the whisper screaming combo a lot of times. He whispers and he screams. He screams and he whispers. It's kind of both. And I don't know which one's creepier.
I don't know which one's scarier. I really don't, because the creepy whisper sounds like a serial killer. And then the screaming just sounds like a freaking lunatic. But serial killers also scream.
So it kind of sounds like both. But here he is, cut 13. We're sitting around this for common was so good as well. We're sitting around.
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It's time for Dana's Quick Five. The Internal Revenue Service collects a milestone one billion dollars in back taxes from high wealth taxpayers. That's right. Story from AP News. The IRS announced Thursday they collected a billion dollars in back taxes from high wealth tax cheats. A milestone meant to showcase how the agency is making use of the money it received as part of the Biden administration's signature climate, health care and tax package shine into law in 2022.
Don't forget that Biden stood up there last night and said, all these rich people need to pay their taxes, right? Bill Belichick has added a second media job for his upcoming season. The CW network announced Thursday that Belichick will be one of the analysts on Inside the NFL. Lord Voldemort, the dark lord who was the coach of the Patriots, six Super Bowl titles during his 24 years at the helm, will also appear on the Manning cast during ESPN's Monday Night Football.
And Pat McAfee's show as well. So he's going to be coming around and around. And if you hate the Patriots like I do, well, then you're going to have to see his face a lot. Nothing more I can tell you about that.
I'm an Eagles fan. What can I say? Grid operator tells Californians to prepare for power conservation.
She'll love this, too. And they have the ability to go in remotely and shut down your air conditioning, as they say to you. You're doing too much. You're straining the grid. So if the grid is so strained, why do we want to keep hooking up all these electric vehicles to it?
I'm asking for a friend. It just seems to me like that's a bad move. If the grid is so overstrained right now and we keep plugging in cars to it, sounds to me like a bad combination, no?
Maybe it's just me. Who knows? Elon Musk, speaking of electric vehicles, his Norlink prepares for the second human trial, and it aims for superpower capabilities.
Sign me up. It's an implant, second human patient in the week. And according to the company's founder, Elon Musk, Musk shared that the company aims to have high single digits of patients with the device by the end of the year.
He had several Norlink executives discuss the brain ship's capabilities and future potential, such as treating paralysis and memory loss. Why don't they give it to Biden, is my question. Seems to me like that's the easiest answer right there. Give it to him. See if it works for him. Maybe he'll. And they say now this could give you as a human, possibly now digital intelligence. Wow.
The goal is to give people superpowers. I would go for it. Why not?
What could possibly go wrong? Which leads to my next article. Half of U.S. cancer deaths are avoidable, says an alarming U.S. study.
That's right. You can avoid cancer. I don't know if I'd want to go with a brain ship considering this study, but four in 10 cancer cases and half of all adult cancer deaths in the United States could be avoided, according to new research. Researchers say their findings demonstrate an urgent need for more effective interventions and access to preventative health care.
Roughly 1.8 million new cancer cases are diagnosed in the U.S. every year with roughly 600,000 deaths. But a lot of this stuff can be reduced. I got to wonder, too, when I think about things like how much food we eat, the kind of foods we eat, the correlation between big food, big pharma, all these other people.
I don't know. Just seems to me as if a lot of the crap we put in our bodies is not good. But then again, they want to treat it all with a pill or shot. And then, you know, you get stories like this. We shall see the story that kind of broke last couple of days and it hit a fever pitch and the radio station apologized. So here's what they edited out of their interview.
We have some audio of it as well. But over at townhall.com, we've known it for years, but since Joe Biden imploded during his June 27th debate with Donald Trump, the guardrails keeping him safe from the media were also destroyed. The establishment press could have reported on the president's health for years.
Matt Vesper writing this. They just opted not to due to political bias. This year, it's now because they feared being seen as helping Trump or losing access.
All inexcusable reasons not to cover the president's marked mental decline. Even radio interviews, which are triple A ball regarding the difficulty of this job, are heavily monitored and edited at the behest of the president's team. A Wisconsin radio station admitted to editing a transcript of their July 3rd hit with Biden, which came at the request of his reelection campaign. According to Politico, the American people already watched the debate.
They're not going to be fooled. And what they reported was Milwaukee radio station says it agreed to cut out parts of their interview that Joe Biden made, in which he looked bad after the Biden campaign called and demanded it. They demanded that they edit this out. So Wisconsin based talk radio station edited the interview with President Biden at the request of the campaign before it aired last week. Broadcaster Civic Media said in a statement yesterday, immediately after the interview conducted on July 3rd, the Biden campaign called, asked for two edits to the recording, and the production team cut two segments after determining them to be non-substantive. Civic Media engagement became aware of the edits Monday and shared the audio of the full unedited interview in its Thursday statement, citing the gravity of the current political moment, the stakes in this election, and the importance of public scrutiny of public officials in the highest office. In other words, they also now want Joe Biden gone, which is why they're turning all this over. With a high profile interview comes a listener expectation that journalistic interview standards will be applied even for non-news programming.
We failed to, we did not meet those expectations. Civic Media disagrees with the team's judgments in the moment. W-A-U-K removed a portion from the interview in which Biden said, quote, and in addition to that, I have more blacks in my administration than any other president, all other presidents combined, and in major positions, cabinet positions. Host Earl Ingram had asked Biden about what's at stake for black voters in the election. The station also cut a second sentence from Biden when he was referring to former President Donald Trump's 1989 call for the death penalty for the since exonerated Central Park Five.
Quote, I don't know if they even call for their hanging or not, but he but they said he was convicted of murder. There isn't. He won't even acknowledge that. And we have the audio for you to listen to as well.
Cut 27. In addition to that, I have more blacks in my administration than any other president, all of the presidents combined and major positions. You see, when you have a situation where you've got the media and they're working very difficult, very overtime, working overtime to help the Democrat nominee for the presidency prevail by looking better and they're editing content that is not only doing a disservice to their listeners, but that is also a fundamental threat to the First Amendment, because it really implies something at the heart of the farce that is journalistic integrity in this country, which is that we have a First Amendment, so we have freedom of the press and the idea is that the press will then hold government accountable. That's the idea.
That's the basis for it. The founders were acutely aware of the need for having the press corps hold government accountable. They wanted that and they did not want Congress to be able to get in the way. So knowing that, then I guess the question for you then is, is this not a threat to the First Amendment? Because if these guardians of the Democratic Party are willing to do the bidding of the government, then we don't really have a free press. We have a press that's either in bed with government or is so intimidated by government that they want to do its bidding. Maybe they're afraid they're going to lose their FCC license. Maybe they're afraid they're going to lose whatever funding. I think this is a public station.
Maybe they get funding. It's the whole thing with NPR too. And then the other aspect of this becomes, since their audiences are so limited, like we in conservative talk radio, our audiences are strong and stronger than ever actually. Radio in general, it's not doing as great. You know, music stations now have to compete with podcasts and streaming stations and commercial free and everything else. Talk radio, we compete with podcasts.
We also make our own podcasts and we also podcast our shows. So people that come here, they come to talk radio because they want a different way of looking at the world versus what the corporate media gives them, which is exactly what the powers that be want them to put out. It's a threat to the First Amendment in the sense that what the hell do you even need a First Amendment for if the media is just going to do the bidding of government?
You don't. And this is why I was disappointed with the Supreme Court's ruling in that case. When they came out and they said, this is from Missouri v. Biden. They said that when the White House was pressuring big tech to edit content, to edit social media posts and everything else, they went along with it and the Supreme Court said, well, we don't really think they're standing here and kick it down to the lower court. Justice Alito's dissent in that was brilliant when he said, listen, you know, the very fact that the government believed it could do this is a problem.
And on behalf of the First Amendment, we need to say, no, absolutely not. You cannot intimidate social media companies. You can't intimidate the press. Now, I don't know if this radio station was worried that maybe their NPR funding could be lost or whatever else. NPR, think about it, they cater to a very small audience that wants to hear what they come there for. So they want to hear the opinion of the left and they're more than happy to give it to them. They're not there to do actual journalism.
But then just say that, you know, be honest about it and say, we're National Public Radio. We here, we serve the bidding of the left and then cut their funding. Don't give them public funding anymore. I think the entire concept of public funding of news and journalism is completely antithetical to the First Amendment.
It really is. You create state-controlled media. And now you've got states now like New York, for example, passing laws to give money to local, quote, unquote, journalist outlets. Local news to try to save news from the big, evil corporate media.
But they're all on the same team. I don't want government spending a dollar when it comes to radio, TV, newspapers or anything else in the form of supporting them. The government wants to buy ads. Let them buy ads. They want to run their pieces. They want to run their PSA's. They want to do all those things.
That's a whole other story. I'm talking about funding these places. And I wonder, I do, I wonder if this radio station was feeling the heat. I wonder if this radio station was feeling the sense or if they just philosophically just want to do what they could to help Biden.
I wonder. You know, and when you think about the weaponization of the Department of Justice, when you think about that and how this Department of Justice goes after people. And this is a progressive talk radio network, civic media.
So they are without a doubt in the tank for the left, no doubt. And had it not been for the fact that that debate showed Biden for who he is and the entire media which was covering for him in an absolute, absolute cover up, absolute scandal. Covering for Biden, you and I were being told they were cheap fakes. And where is the corporate media coming out and saying we're sorry? We're sorry.
We were in on it. We were not doing our job. We don't really exist to be a check on government. We exist to do the bidding of the left. We exist to do what the left wants us to do. And we're sorry. And we're going to do better. Please. Thanks for tuning into today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd Truth Podcast. If you haven't already, make sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
