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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. Good night. Alright, so I have to tell I have to tell you about this one. First off, a Florida Man hit out in a Walgreens for a closed Walgreens for like five hours, hid in the bathroom for five hours, so he could sneak out and get snacks.
I'm not even joking with you. It's New Smyrna Beach, Florida. A man was arrested early Monday morning because he stole snacks and drinks from the Walgreens there. They were officers responded to the store because an alarm went off at 3am. And the alarm company said there's a dude inside.
The store's been closed since 10pm though. So security footage showed the guy identified as Christopher Morgan entering the bathroom at 9.40pm. He didn't leave it until 2.42am. He was in the bathroom for five hours and then he went around and had himself some Tostitos, some spinach dip, Reese's, some Ghirardelli chocolate, Dr. Pepper, and he got himself a pack of Newport cigarettes. And then when officers arrived, they could see him like literally getting the smokes and having some snacks and all that. And officers, the security alarms going off and they they went in and they go, they asked him if anyone else was inside the building and he acted confused like he like he couldn't be there. And he said he didn't know.
I just came here to use the bathroom. That's what he said. So they arrested him on petty theft, resisting an officer without violence, battery on law enforcement officer. He has more than two prior convictions of larceny.
So that's some dedication, though. I mean, and he just goes out get snacks, man. Just goes and get some snacks.
Let's see. So this Florida man faces two charges because he told his ex to buy him new clothes or he's going to put nudie photos of her online. Gally, he's from Miramar. Keon Ponton, 19, was arrested by Miami police for pressuring his ex girlfriend to buy him new clothes. And he said he was going to share her private photos on social media if she did not meet his demands. So now he's facing charges of second degree felony extortion and misdemeanor sexual cyber harassment.
Also, who in the hell is sending this 19 year old nudie photos? Like what is wrong with your judgment? I'm not saying you deserve it, but never do that kind of stuff.
Like what is the matter with you? So yeah, that's not so good for that guy. A barefoot Florida man wrestled a nuisance gator, which, sidebar, that sounds like, so nuisance gator sounds like a twangy banjo fueled rockabilly group that only plays on a pontoon in a swamp. I know, but you got to have the whole description. Otherwise, it's and they only played Lynyrd Skynyrd covers. It's like a Skynyrd cover band, but only with banjos on a pontoon in the swamp, nuisance gator. Anyway, so a barefoot Florida man totally wrangled this gator at a Jacksonville fire station. He's a gator trapper named Mike Dragich, which is exactly what a gator trappers name would sound like. And he I guess he lives his life barefoot. I don't know, but he came he a gator was causing trouble.
Literally, because when a guy came a power company came to check on the water meter, it was apparently in the water somehow. I don't know what was going on. But this guy, he grabbed the gator by the tail and he done wrestled, wrestled him down and taped his mouth shut. This is the second time this dude's been filmed. The last time he he answered the call of a neighborhood who they were being harassed by an eight foot nuisance gator in the middle of the road. And again, barefoot, he wrestled the thing in the middle of the street.
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Which is why I think that the leftist calls for unity are absolute garbage case in point. Can we talk about the tenacious D stuff real quick? So tenacious D we played this yesterday, Kyle gas and Jack Black form tenacious D they were on stage and I'll Australia on Sunday. And Kyle gas goes out there and he's like, yeah, you know, but what did he say? Like he was talking about the Trump assassination? And he's like, next time?
Yeah, don't miss next time. Well, then the pushback came like there was I'm gonna pull this up. There was a an Australian lawmaker who was like, you're deported. And they legit like are trying to like now propose. Like, let's just like they had issued a statement saying the guy was going to seek a way to have him deported. I mean, they ain't playing with us.
They're serious. So then, so then they had the tenacious D apology. And you had Kyle gas on Instagram come out and say quote, the line I improvised on stage Sunday night in Sydney was highly inappropriate, dangerous and a terrible mistake. I don't condone violence of any kind in any form against anyone. And what happened was a tragedy and I'm incredibly sorry for my severe lack of judgment. I profoundly apologize to those I've let down and truly regret any pain I've caused in quote, any pain he's caused. Like a father's dead because of that kind of hatred. Another father was almost dead because of that kind of hatred. If this was a real apology, I feel like Kyle gas would have admitted it and then maybe would have donated to the victims families.
Don't you think so? I mean, maybe he would have at the very least mentioned it in his apology. So then Jack Black comes out. And he he issues a statement saying quote, again on Instagram, I was blindsided by what was said at the show on Sunday, I would never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form.
After much reflection, I no longer feel it is appropriate to continue the tenacious detour and all future creative plans are on hold. I am grateful to the fans for their support and understanding in quote, so I don't think that Jack Black had a problem. When just a couple of weeks ago, he was at a fundraiser for a guy who has repeatedly called the Republican nominee, an existential threat, intimated that people who support that existential threat, as a choice for president, are somehow culpable in fascism, or they are Nazis or they're something else. They have weaponized agencies to go after people. I mean, the the rhetoric is backed up by actions that are carried out by these corrupt bureaucrats.
He had no problem when he was at a fundraiser for this guy who is saying the same type of rhetoric just a couple of weeks ago. So forgive me if I don't take any of this seriously. I forgive me if I just don't think that they're serious with their apologies, because I don't I don't think it is. I mean, I those are the rules, by the way.
Is it not? Are those not the rules of the left? The rules of the left are nope, you got to be totally destroyed now. No apologies at all whatsoever.
I mean, isn't Cain, what do we say with that? Dems de rules. Dems are the rules.
Dems de rules every time. They had, I was looking at this, this is Senator Ralph Babette, the United Australia Party senator for Victoria, who came out with the deportation proposal. I mean, the audience roared in acceptance of this. I mean, they thought it was a great thing.
If Jack Black thought it was so bad, again, this rhetoric has been ongoing. Like, why now all of a sudden? Oh, because it was on stage?
Is that make it different? I mean, why now all of a sudden? Is it bad to say the stuff that apparently has been fine to say up until this point? Why now? I mean, Kyle Gass, I get why he's rushing to apologize. What the hell does that guy do if he's not in Tenacious D? What does Kyle Gass do if he's not in Tenacious D?
Jack Black at least has a career outside of Tenacious D, but is he going to get more movies made with this stuff? If you I will say this in my career, I've been very careful not to classify politicians or people who are on the opposing ideological side of me as Nazis or terrorists or quote unquote, existential threats. I save those descriptions for actual Hitler butt kissing Nazis, and actual, you know, terrorists and actual existential threats, like the sweet meteor of death. I reserve that language for those things. I don't diminish the atrocity of those moral failings by assigning their their words to describe them to people who merely think differently than I do on policy.
And I guess that's what makes me different from people like Kyle Gass. I just I think that's just so lame to say something like that. Oh, better not.
Too bad you missed or don't miss next time. What the hell does that mean? You absolute fat ass. What does that mean?
You're on stage. People of both sides of the aisle were entertained by you and you decide to turn on like half your audience. Not only that, but you decide to contribute to the very problem that we're dealing with. Let me remind everybody, the bullets have only been flying one way for all the talk about both sides. I mean, how many times do we have to see Democrats try to kill Republicans? A number of them on a ball field, burning down their damn cities, burning down their businesses, beating people in the street.
How many times do we got to see this? This has only been coming one way guys. And it's only been coming one way because people on the right have restraint. And they have a little bit more sense. And I guess we care a little bit more about our fellow man, even if you're a dumb fat ass like Kyle Gass, and you decide to go out and show your whole albatross to the whole audience like that. I'm so tired of this.
And then they go, oh, will we apologize? Dust off hands. Oh, I guess that's that. No, it's not.
That's not it. I'm so tired of it. I'm so tired of that rinse and repeat formula from the left. Says something stupid. Offers a disingenuous policy.
Dust off hands. OK, back to business. No, I'm done with it.
There's a president almost got killed. I'm tired of people thinking that, you know, we're all Nazis just because we disagree with you on taxes. The hell's wrong with you people? Grow up.
So stupid. We live in an idiocracy and it's infected every single aspect of life. And this is why I get why some people are worried about where the Republican Party's going with us. Look, I'm going to tell you, with all the talk about the Amber Rose stuff, and I was actually more nervous about the Teamster guy speaking than anything else. I mean, I don't know if you heard some of the stuff he was saying.
It seemed a little big government to me that Sean O'Brien guy. But the I think, again, the RNC has a responsibility to be very clear to people if it is doing something that is about building coalitions or if it's something about the party base, because conservatives and Republicans aren't the same thing. Coalitions and parties aren't the same thing.
And if the right wants to be able to compete, the right has to build coalitions. And that sometimes means that you're going to be sharing your tent with a bald woman who's got her kids names tattooed on her face. And by the way, I find Amber Rose's face tattoos less douchebaggy than the goofy armband tats of some of these like, you know, moral preening like red pill bras on the right.
I got to be I got to be honest with you about it. I but do I think that she's representative of the Republican Party? No, I don't. And I don't think that it's wrong to gatekeep for the principles of the Republican Party because it's the Republican Party. But to build a coalition, that means the Republican Party is going to have to find alliances with people who maybe don't agree with it on every single issue.
Again, the Reagan rule, my 80 percent friend is not my 20 percent enemy. And if you want to win, if you want to beat the Democrat machine, you have to do that. Now, again, I think it's on fault of the RNC for not saying we need to focus on coalition building.
And to that extent, here is Amber Rose. I think that would have been appropriate to do before she came out on stage. That wasn't done. Because then people are thinking, well, this means that she's representative of the Republican Party. And I completely think that that is a justifiable concern that some people have given that that clarification was not made by the RNC. But at the same time, again, you're going to have to coalition build, guys. You are going to have to coalition build.
It is a requirement. And you're also going to have to realize for the people who are upset with J.D. Vance, you're never going to have complete perfection. You're not going to have perfection on political candidates. You're not going to ever get a complete 100 percent a candidate that agrees with you.
I don't even agree with my husband on 100 percent of the things, much less wholly agree with a politician on the issue. But look, winners win because they can adapt and they can reconfigure their strategy. That's what you've got to realize. And some people insist that accepting anything less than perfection is selling out.
I've got to be honest with you. That kind of ticks me off because that argument itself is a sellout. That argument, what's worse, actually, about that argument is it's a progressive style, emotional black male straw man. And you're it's an argument that presupposes that adapting your strategy is the same thing as abandoning principle. When the strategy is all about making the principle more attainable. And different means isn't a sacrifice of the end, and it's not an adoption of those means, it's not a change of principle, it's not anything. I mean, you're not going to score a touchdown unless you can move the ball, however incrementally, down the field. And refusing to play until the field is clear, well, that's a surrender.
The right's got to learn how to build coalitions. Nobody gets the fairy tale ending that they want, guys, because this is real life. It is real life. It is not a fantasy land. The perfect candidate does not exist. Does not exist. The perfectly run campaign doesn't exist.
I don't know if maybe, you know, these perfectly curated social media, photo kiosks on Instagram and Facebook make everything think that everything else has got to be just as airbrushed and perfect looking as that, including our politics. And if you don't understand that it can't be, you are going to forever be disappointed. I mean, what is your alternative? What is the alternative? I mean, the people who just want to bitch and moan without offering a single practical solution are, quite bluntly, obstacles into the path of victory.
Might be harsh to say, but it's true. The objective is winning, guys, because the alternative? What is the alternative? Allowing Democrats to continue driving this country into hell?
That's the alternative. Do you want sky high taxes? You want seven dollar tubs of butter? You want runaway inflation? Do you want endless wars?
Lawlessness and disorder? I mean, look around. It's not an exaggeration. The choice is yours. I'm not going to tell you what to do.
I'm going to tell you to think before you do it, though. I mean, it would be a real shame. A real shame if we missed the last off ramp on the road to Marxism.
Because people were holding out for nonexistent perfection. No one is ever going to be good enough, guys. No candidate is ever going to be good enough. No campaign is ever going to be good enough. But maybe, just maybe, they might be useful enough in saving the country from certain destruction. Adapt strategies.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. So in Las Vegas, people are cooking eggs on the sidewalk. That's not unusual for Vegas though, really. I mean, every now and then they don't, they get like these heat sizzles.
I don't know what you would call them. Record hot temperatures. They said that the Vegas Valley, the Vegas Strip is, nobody's out on the Vegas Strip because they said it was like 150 degrees one day. Well, it is the desert. So that's not unusual.
Do you think it's unusual, Cain? I think it's pretty hot. Well, yeah, but it's the desert. I think that's a record breaking though, 120.
120, anything north of 120 certainly would be breaking records. Yeah, well, obviously. I mean, I think so. But it is the desert, you know. I mean, every now and then you get hot periods, you get cool summers. And Philly International Airport in the middle of July, they had snow reported by Channel 29 Fox. They said that, because you always hear the joke about Christmas in July.
Okay, well, don't take it seriously. 94 degrees elsewhere, they said a record daily snowfall was reported at their airport. And it was small hail, which apparently counts as a trace of snow, the National Weather Service says. So it's not like snow. It's just, you know, it's small hail.
And they said it's rare, but not unusual. To me, I feel like that's a stretch to say that that's snow. You guys did that for clicks. Stop it. Stop it. Biden is going to be proposing rent control. We'll discuss this coming up. He's proposing eliminating tax breaks for landlords who raise the rent more than 5%.
But is Joe Marx here? Is he going to, like, I don't know, maybe reduce taxes on the property owners? Or how about this?
And just a thought, maybe you could just reduce taxes overall for struggling families and maybe get a better monetary and economic policy overall, right? Apple's releasing a new operating system for iPhones. Again, it's the iOS, it's 18, iOS 18. It's a beta version of the software that's going to launch along the new iPhones this fall. And it's going to, they're testing features and that before they officially launch. It's not totally open to the public.
It's still beta. But they said that people will be able to try it out later this summer ahead of the new phone releases and all of that stuff. Don't look for any rate cuts from the feds until inflation hits 2%. That's what Jerome Powell has said.
He said that Central Bank is looking for greater confidence that inflation is going to return to the 2% level. We have more to come. Stick with us. You know, at least strippers go out and work for their money. Good grief, you know. Speaking of strippers. Can we talk about that?
I'm so tired. I've just been watching everybody argue about this. So Amber Rose spoke at the RNC last night, right? Amber Rose, who is like, she says she's an atheist. She's, she's not, I don't think she's, she hasn't been a porn star, but she's been a stripper.
She was with Kanye I think for a while. I don't know. I don't really, you know, I'm not really big on her career.
Let's just put it that way, right? I don't know if she's, I don't know what the hell she does anymore. I don't know.
But she spoke at the RNC last night. And a lot of, I've seen a lot of people up in arms about all of this. Lots of people and everyone's fighting over it. Some people are saying that it's a great representation to get people who are not traditional Republicans make it feel as though there's someone who might kind of, you know, give voice to some of the stuff that they're thinking there. You know, I've seen all kinds of people talking about, you got to have a big 10 etc, etc, etc. And I get it.
I, you know, I've seen what I've seen what everybody's been saying about it. And I also understand the concern that people have about the platform of the RNC, which I didn't see anything about guns in there. And that was my big thing. I was like, where are the guns at RNC?
Where's that at? Like, I didn't see that in your damn little booklet platform. But you guys have to realize that I hate everyone. And when I say that I hate everyone, that includes all like, I hate parties. I hate bureaucrats. I hate party bureaucrats, bureaucrat parties. I don't, you know, whatever.
I can. And people are saying this is just you know, an example of the GOP drifting left and you know, she had praised Satanism before and we've got the audio of it. Let me play this first because I want to give this is what some of the people criticizing are citing when they say that they have a problem with her speaking at the RNC just so you can have like an idea I want to be fair and I'm going to play her soundbite.
This is audio soundbite four. Yeah, but you're not the I'm a fool. I'm an atheist for sure. Not a Satanist. I'm not a Satanist. And there's a distinction. Satanists are just they're atheists as well. But they're just more political.
Okay. They have like a political it's actually a very rational logical religion. They help a lot of people to a lot of women to get abortions. I don't agree with any of those. I mean, I think it's, I think Satanists want to put themselves apart from God.
And they all they act like it's, you know, worship in nature, blah, blah, whatever. Everybody wants to be so edgy. This is what she said last night, audio soundbite three, when she took the stage at the RNC. Listen, I'm up here telling you this.
I'm no politician, and I don't want to be. But I do care about the truth. And the truth is that the media has lied to us about Donald Trump.
I know this because for a long time, I believe those lies. So I'm here to set the record straight. So as you can imagine, there are people who are very upset. They're they're upset over the selection advances Trump's VP there.
They're upset that I was actually more upset about the team's the teamster thing. That guy they're talking about some big government popular like populism is not a platform and it's not a principle. Populism is a way of delivering a message. You don't have the conservatives and populists.
That's not a thing. Populism is a way to deliver a message. And conservatives and Republicans are not the same thing. They're talking about the Trump campaign. They're talking about the Trump campaign. They're talking about the Trump campaign. So there's all these different breakdowns of this.
I'm going to tell you something. There's also the difference between coalitions and parties. Now my question on this is it's the RNC. So they're the parties event. And there's this is the base.
This is your your most condensed down distill down base, right? And that's what you're talking about. And I think that some people are confusing coalitions and parties. The right does have to learn how to coalition build if it wants to continue to exist.
And it's a weird thing to say when you have a bench of talent multi-rows deep. But the Republican Party has been abysmal in figuring out how to maximize that and for its fullest advantage. But never more so than now, conservatives and Republicans are two different things.
And we have to learn how to marshal everybody together to be able to assemble a majority. And I think that's what some of this falls under. I think the RNC erred in that if it wanted to give an example of coalition building, they needed to make that clear with certain speakers. Because the people that I have seen who have been the most vocal in criticism about allowing someone who's been pro-abortion and, you know, literally held slut walks and all that stuff, is they think that that is supposed to be representative of the Republican Party base. And I think it's the RNC's attempt, and I'm not saying I agree with it, I'm just giving you my analysis of it. I think it's the RNC's attempt to coalition build, but they're not clear in their intention on that. And the lack of clarity and intention has not resulted in this finger-pointing, slap-fighting mess that is really bubbling up on social media.
I completely understand everybody's criticisms of it. I think it's kind of weird to have somebody, if the RNC was going to be like, yeah, no, we had her because we love slut walks now. That's kind of weird, right? Because like on the right, we've made fun of that, right? Or if the RNC is like, yeah, you know, we decided to have her because we're all pro-abortion now.
I think a lot of people in the base would justifiably have legitimate grievances about that. If it's about coalition building, that's different. And that's the RNC's problem in not messaging that clearly enough for everyone. You have to be clear with this. I tend to apply Reagan's 80-20 rule, my 80 percent friend is not my 20 percent enemy.
And I think never more than now, we've really got to apply that going forward. And we're going to talk more about this. Because I used to be one of these holdouts for, you know, political perfection and purism on everything. And I used to argue about this all the time with my late friend Andrew Breitbart.
Before he gave his CPAC 2012 address on Mitt Romney, he extorted me, he's like, you listen to my address here, because we had just gotten into a huge debate about it on a radio program. And he went out on stage and gave that speech. Perfection isn't strategy, it is a surrender that is staked on fantasy. And I'm going to talk more about that because principles do win. But you also have to be about you have to also have to be strategic in making and advancing towards those principles. Thanks for tuning in to 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.
