Dana Lashes of Sir Truth Podcast, sponsored by Kel-Tec. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. I immediately want to go to the guy who was trying to steal steak. So I'm not going in order. I'm sorry, but this immediately caught my eye, as you can imagine.
It would anybody's. So this Florida Man stole four ribeye steaks and hid him under his shirt. Out of Walmart, according to deputies. I mean, I just wanted some red meat.
That's all. Angel Rivera, 66, was charged with petty theft of $100 or more after he, on this Walmart ribeye theft. He hid them under his shirt and they got him on camera. He went and picked out four packs of ribeyes, placed them on the top part of his shopping cart, and then he went to a different aisle where I guess he thought cameras couldn't get him. And he hid them under his shirt, which he was covered by a jacket. And then he left without paying. Walmart Asset Protection Officer confronted him. He gave the steaks back. They waited until deputies arrived.
It was, they were recovered but damaged. $102. For four steaks. $102.
Man, that's a lot. So he gets in trouble. He gets in trouble.
So we also have this guy. He didn't want to share his, his passcode on his phone. He did not want to share his passcode, his password. His phone's like to unlock his phone with his girlfriend and he jumped into the ocean.
Hmm. This sounds, this dude doesn't sound trustworthy. Just got to say he would rather literally jump to where the sharks and gators live. Florida Man, he did not want his girlfriend or his cops to access his phone and he jumped into the ocean to avoid giving it up and try to avoid giving it up. And tried to flee arrest after he was being grilled by police while out on a boat. There's body cam footage.
It shows two female Florida Fish and Wildlife Commissioner, commissioned officers questioning the guy. He identified himself as AJ, him and his girlfriend on a boat in the Keys. And he was arguing with his office, the officers and his girlfriend over the phone. He got agitated and jumped into the ocean.
And he, because he goes, What if I just swim away? And then he led, I love this line, he led the cops on a seven minute pursuit back to shore. Where they promptly arrested him. He, I don't know what they didn't actually say like what they just said his boat was breaching code.
And they didn't have any like documentation with them. And that's pretty much all they because I really don't know why they were stopped or why but to me, like not even letting your girl just saying just to say it sounds a little sketchy, sounds a little sketchy. Oh, what else we got this? Oh, yeah, this one.
This is one I'm pumping Oh, beach woman. Man, this woman had a bad day. She flipped off the camera, plowed a car into a school. And then she also hit a bunch of wheelchairs in a cop car. Deputies say she caused more than $20,000 worth of damage. She drove through the closed gates of a South Florida school where 12 children with special needs were the bright horizon school. And she plowed through the glass door, she ran over a whole bunch of wheelchairs, and then she backed into a sheriff's patrol car, and then did donuts in the parking lot before speeding down the school hallway. Oh my gosh, they totally arrested our Tiffany medias.
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It's like goth country. I love it so much. I heard the first opening notes of this and I was like, it's so good. Everything that he does is so good. John Rich, you guys know John Rich, found a redneck Riviera whiskey.
Oh, Glory Bank. This is his new song, Revelation. And I got to tell you, I was watching the video and I'm like, well, I'll be dang, we had the devil on the show yesterday.
Nick Searcy plays the devil in this video. It's a brand new song by John Rich. And we're going to talk to him about this.
First off, John joins us via Skype right now. My good friend, good to see you. Congrats on the song. I love this song. I love the mix. I love everything about it. I love the vocals. I mean, I love the guitar tone.
It's so warm. I could sit here and go into old college music review mode right now, but this is a good song. All your stuff is good.
But this is some goth country right here. I loved it. Congrats. I appreciate it. Yeah, this is unlike any song I've ever written.
Yeah. Or I doubt I'll ever write anything like this again. Oh, you've got to know. It, well, if it hits me again, trust me, I'll write more.
This was a special situation, not only the way it sounds, but what it's talking about. You know, that video, if people haven't seen that video yet. It's powerful. Go watch that. Yeah.
I mean, he's got, You got the devil and Michael facing off. Yeah. It's spiritual warfare. You know, people talk about that kind of like it's science fiction or something like, yeah, that's, it's good versus evil. Yeah.
But it actually is. I have to tell, I have to interrupt you because I had this, I don't know if you can see it, Ephesians 6, 12 through 13 tattooed on my arm as a reminder, like over a decade ago, because that's really the reality in which we live in. And so when I was hearing the song, I could, I could hear, you know, not just, you know, the book Revelation, but also the other parts of the Bible that were inspiring you or leading you to write the lyrics you wrote.
Yeah. You know, people have said, how'd you come up with those lyrics? I say, I didn't. The apostle John came up with those lyrics with those words. I just made them rhyme.
That's really all I did. That second verse. It says brimstone upon their heads and millstones around their necks.
They'll feel the shaking when the trumpet sounds, you know, this song is talking about a lot. It it's all been written how this thing ends at the final, when the boss comes back and when he comes back, they're done. I mean, it is unequivocal. They are finished. And so as we see them out here, you know, thrusting this, this evil into our faces every single day, like there's nothing that can ever happen to them.
It's just not true. So I said about the song when I posted it just a few days ago, I said, I hope it brings courage to the save, conviction to the loss and absolute terror to the truly wicked out there in this world. And I think that's exactly what it's done.
Amen to that. Talking with our good friend, John Rich, who this, this video, I have to ask you, where was the shot at? Where'd you film this video at the churches? I mean, that looks like the Baptist church that's in my family's hometown in the Ozarks.
Yeah, it's a about 130 year old little church out in the woods in Tennessee. I thought that was the perfect place to do it. Because when you see the devil blast through his fiery portal, and then you see Michael come blasting down in the woods, and they start coming at each other, and Michael pulls that sword, and I'm standing in between them. I mean, what a scene. I wanted to take this thing all the way over the top, Dana, because the bad side of things in the entertainment business, they have unlimited budgets, they can make these grandiose productions out of it. And even though you don't want to look at it, it's so it's done so well that you find yourself watching it. I thought if we're going to combat that, we need to come with content that comes to that level. I am so glad. I am so glad you said that because this has been my one. I always complain. I'm like, why is like Christian music or God Rock treated as a second class industry to the secular sound or any of that messaging?
Why does that not get the first fruits? And so this is, I love the way you did. I mean, it's like epic. I mean, it looks like a movie. It's, I mean, really well done.
Yeah, thank you. Maybe it'll be a movie someday. Can you imagine a movie about the book of Revelation? As long as you do the whole score.
Do the entire score. Not letting you off the hook on that one. No, not because this is such a, it's a such a good track.
I want to come back to it, but I got to ask you too. I mean, obviously the timing of this, you know, the song, it's been out just barely, the video's been out barely a week. And then of course, we had what happened on Saturday happen. I want to get your initial thoughts. When you first saw, when you first heard about this attempted assassination attempt, and then, you know, a little bit later, we all see, you know, just a slight turn of the head is what saved the day. I mean, that we could be in an entirely different world today. Had he not turned his head, the president looked at the jumbotron for some like immigration graph, I think that they put up there. That, you know, just moving his head like an inch saved his life. How did that hit you? Well, it hit me that the whole world just got to see an act of God on live television.
I mean, people that, I don't believe in God, your sky daddy, all the stuff that they say about it. Yeah, but they all just saw that and they know in their spirit what that was. I would also say this, the same God, the Lord, that turned his head at just that exact moment is also the one that allowed that whole situation to happen in the first place. You got to remember, he controls all of it. And so it's interesting that a near-death experience on Donald Trump, the impact that must have had on him personally, he doesn't look the same. I know we've all seen that when he walked out at the RNC with the patch on his ear and all that, we're going to hear him speak tonight.
He has a different look in his eye. And I happen to think that that whole thing was orchestrated on purpose to be scary, but to let the man survive and the boss reminding him, I got big things I need you to do, Donald, pay attention. I view it from both sides that it wasn't just turning his head.
It was the whole situation. I think that's a smart way to look at it, talking with our friend John Rich. And I agree with you on the way he looked because I've known him for over 10 years. He used to come on the radio show all the time.
I introduced him at CPAC some years ago. I have never seen him get emotional. I've never seen him get like, like watery eyes, you know, anything like that.
He's always been very, very straight. And when he walked out on that was weird. It was weird in a very not in a bad way.
I don't know how to describe it. But you could tell, like you just said, you could tell. But when you have a near-death experience like that in the way that he did, how do you how does that not change you? So it makes sense. I mean, it makes and his kids too.
I mean, I think Junior was crying when he came out. Yeah, well, near-death experiences in the Bible, there's been many of them. Saul, who later became Paul, Saul's whole job was to go out and murder Christians for the Roman Empire. He was going town to town, cutting their heads off, lighting them on fire. That's where Roman Candle comes from.
They'd light them on fire. And then on the road to Damascus, he has a near-death experience. And for three days, he's blinded. He's like, what just happened? And he realized that was God giving him one last shot. And when he came out of that, he changed his name to Paul and wrote half the New Testament. So God has a history of doing this with people that he's got very big jobs for.
That's a great point. Talking with our friend John Rich, his new song Revelation, which has been out now just for about a week. Fabulous new song that really gets into the heart of this. I want to switch gears and ask you real quick about too. So J.D. Vance announced he accepted the vice presidential nomination.
He's part of the ticket now. And I was thinking about this, you know, because you come, you know, you come from like Appalachia territory. I come from Ozark territory. You know, you come from the woods in Tennessee and all that.
And I'm, you know, we're down by the, you know, down southern Missouri. And there, whenever people try to resonate, I think, a hardscrabble upbringing message with people who really lived it and they're not genuine. It shows like the Scranton Joe stuff.
I never took that seriously because I never believed the man. But when I see people like J.D. Vance and people like him or don't like him, I don't think that you can dispute that he came up in a way that a lot of flyover nation can recognize. Tell me a little bit about how you think that's going to play out to a nation because you got Scranton Joe, which I think is like a manufactured hardscrabble upbringing compared to J.D.
Vance, who lived it and was very transparent about it. Well, you know, when you grow up and your mother's a raging drug addict and your dad abandons you and everybody in your neighborhood is messed up on something and you have to claw your way out of that, I'm hoping that J.D. Vance has extreme empathy for people who are dealing with those situations in our country.
And I hope he advises Trump very well on how to help those people, how to turn some of the things around in our country where those people can get a leg up finally. And, you know, I'll say this about J.D. Vance. The jury's out.
Show us what you got, man. You know, I thought Pence was great until I watched him operate. And then I went, nope. And Pence is nowhere to be found now. He didn't even go to the convention because he would have been booed the second he walked in the door. So I hope J.D. follows up with what we all hope he's going to do. I mean, he's a Marine, former Marine.
I like him. So I'm like, all right, thumbs up on that. Let's see what you got, buddy.
Let's see what you can do. Yeah, I think that's a good point. A lot of people, you know, unless, and I don't say this as like a mean way to say it, but unless you're kind of a political nerd, you know, you really don't know a lot about his background. A lot of people around the country meet him for the first time. They met him for the first time last night. They got the debate scheduled for August 12th. How do you think that J.D.
Vance versus Kamala Harris? What do you think of that one, John? I think that's like a piece of birthday cake debating a steak knife is what I think. I mean, good luck. Maybe a chainsaw.
That might be angel food cake versus chainsaw. Oh my gosh. It will be so horrific. It wouldn't shock me if they don't do it, if she pulls out. I mean, there's, she's the borders are.
Wait till J.D. starts drilling her on that. So you're the borders are, huh? I mean, there's nowhere to run. You know, the Frankenstein monster that the Democrats and the left have built has now turned around and is eating them. They are being attacked by the monster they created and deservedly so.
Do you think they're going to replace Joe Biden? Cause he's, he's at his Delaware beach house. They called a lid on today. So he's not talking to the press anymore today. He's going to be there for four days. Apparently they're all pressuring him to, to get out of the, I mean, what do you, I mean, what do you, you're, it sounds to me like, I don't know, he may not be here Monday. Well, if you, if he gets out of the race, he should also get out of the white house.
I mean, if you're not cognitively able to run for office, you're definitely not cognitively able to be in the office. I mean, come on. We've got China circling Taiwan. We've got the middle East and flames. We've got Russia going.
We got warships off the coast of Cuba. I mean, listen, man, if you're not going to run and you're too sick and weak to do it, then get the hell out of there. And if it's gotta be laughing, Kamala Harris, all right, come on in. To me, it's like Dana, to me, I would use this analogy. It would be like changing the captain out of the Titanic after it hit the iceberg and thinking now it's not going to sing. That's the way, exactly.
I think that's the perfect way to put it. Our good friend John Rich, you know, we're tough times, but we can take some refuge in the knowledge that the battle has already been won. But this video, Revelation, you can find it. It's out on YouTube.
It's out everywhere. And make sure you go get some of that heavenly whiskey, Redneck Riviera. Oh my goodness, the best whiskey out there.
John Rich and find Old Glory Bank, all of that. You do so much. You do so much and we appreciate it. Congrats on the song.
Appreciate you talking to me. I'll give you one quick update. So the song right now on iTunes, today's the last day of the chart. So it's six days old today. Tomorrow a new chart comes out. Revelation is number one in country of all downloads and it's number two in the world of all genres. So this is kind of the last day. If you don't have it, go download it.
It's like a buck 29. You know, it's not a big deal. Go get it and see if we can flip it to number one.
It'd be pretty cool. Regardless, it has had the impact. My interview with Tucker Carlson that dropped a couple of days ago now has four and a half million views across the platforms. And the whole conversation was about Revelation, spiritual warfare and all of that. So go check that out. Exactly.
Yeah. And it's the best buck 29 that's ever been spent. So I, and it's a great song and a great, great, I mean, truth, a great story as well.
I mean, it's the truth. John Rich, always a pleasure, my friend. Thank you so much. God bless you. Thanks, Dana.
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It's time for Dana's quick five. So john Hinckley, the guy who shot former President Reagan denounced violence in the wake of the attempted assassination on Trump. He literally wrote violence is not the way to go give peace a chance.
Of course, he quotes john Lennon. Oh, my gosh. That's, I don't know. Yeah, I don't. You know what, I was reading an article about him like a couple of years ago. And one of the like pro like a profiler who works with these kind of like these kind of criminals were saying that he still has a lot of the behaviors and attributes of someone who is not reformed of someone who has not gotten over he has these obsessive qualities.
And that's what fuels. So it's a very I'm gonna see if I can find this piece. I got it buried somewhere. Alright, so Trump sneakers with photo from the assassination attempt on sale for 299 on the Trump site. If they're not making available t shirts of that, where he had his fist in the air and making it like gangsta style.
I don't want to talk. I need the teach you got to do the t shirt. The I mean, I've seen like different iterations that are printed badly on Etsy. I'm just saying you need like that kind of merge. The trust it when those terms I'm going to pick I'm real particular about my shoes. Like I'm real weird about my shoes. But you know, people are gonna eat that up.
It's $299 on the site. Trump says he would let I don't know about this one. He says he would let federal chair Powell Jerome Powell finish his term if he Trump wins in November. Kane does not like that.
You're not a fan of that one. I'm not a fan of the Fed chair. But I think it's a smart move by Trump to say this. Why right now? Because this is what I don't get.
Because there are people that the Fed are tied to at least I believe this that have these large hedge funds, hedge funds, these huge amounts of money, BlackRock and others that are involved. I think he's smart to not try and raise the red flag in that regard just yet. Maybe, maybe. Okay. Oh, I will. I will take that right now.
I will take that. All right, moving on. We have the Oh, Fandango. That's the thing. So wait, it is Yeah, you people. I just don't go to the theater as much anymore.
Because I'm real weird about that. The founder apparently jumped to his death from his luxury New York City hotel. He was identified last night by NYPD.
Kane's like, immediately when Kane hears somebody jumped to their death. He doesn't believe it. It's a luxury apartment.
Who wants to jump from that? Well, money can't buy you happiness. I mean, it can help.
But you know, it doesn't pay you happiness totally. Well, yeah, yeah. So I don't know if they did they identify him.
He I don't know what building I mean, it's one of those real nice swanky ones, you know, where you got like the penthouses and all that. I mean, they like literally were rolling him right out the front door there. And those with the in the body bag. And Elon Musk is pulling his companies from California because Gavin Newsom signed a new law where they can keep if your minor children want to change their gender, then you can then it they hide it from the parents. By the way, he just tweeted that contrary to reports, he's not speaking at the RNC. And so it's all about it's all about treating people with dignity.
And it's about making sure that we're coming for example, look at the heat I'm getting. Because I named a the secretary defense to a black man. I named Katanji Brown.
I mean, because of the people I've named. You mean Lloyd Austin? Katanji Brown Jackson is a Supreme Court justice.
You desiccated old turd. Yeah, that one has a vagina. One doesn't.
They're totally different. He's just like what other black people doing? Oh, going through the Rolodex in his head, which is struggling. He's got it's got one card and it's torn up. Welcome back to the program.
Dana last year with you the bottom of this first hour. He's just sitting there. What's he trying to say that people were mad because Lloyd Austin's black?
Because that's brand new to me. I mean, not that he's black, but that anybody's mad about it. No, he's completely incompetent.
It has nothing to do. Is that the goal? Like Democrats just let's, let's put in the most completely incompetent, irresponsible person we can into this position and make sure they're a minority.
So that way, if we get any criticism, we can be like, you know, races. Is that the goal? Is that the strategy here? You make it so simple and dumb, but that's exactly what they're doing. Totally what they're doing.
That's exactly it. I'm just saying, you know, just seems a little, it seems a little transparent. You know, the black guy, jeez. It's like watching a bad Dave Chappelle skit because it's real life though. Good night. Can you imagine me, the defense secretary and watching the president not know your name in real time?
Yeah. He doesn't know who's running the military. He has no idea who's making these decisions. He doesn't know anything. And this was, this was supposed to be the, one of the interviews that was supposed to redeem his FUBAR at the debate.
It was supposed to, that's, that's, it was supposed to be the thing that helped him, like kind of recovered it. And then he did this. This is, yeah, play five. Let's get five queued up.
Oh, you thought that one was bad. Go ahead. Go ahead and play this. Make sure there's access to affordable internet, just like in, in Roosevelt's time. Oh, Roosevelt's time with the internet.
Yes. You know, the internet in Roosevelt's time, you know, they, because they had, you remember the internet during World War II? I don't know about you, but I, I remember my grandpa telling me about how he learned on Twitter before Elon Musk bought it back in World War II when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. And he was like, well, you know, I saw that tweeted and then I like, you know, snapped one of my friends and was like, I'm so enrolling, yo.
Going in the military, YOLO. And then he was out, right? You don't remember that? Your grandparents, you know, with their Snapchat accounts and the internet and Twitter and all that, right? Rotary phone dial-up internet was really slow back then, but it still worked. Yeah.
Grandpa told me it took like forever to text someone with a rotary phone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
And that Insta stories were still real clunky back then, the internet. Make sure the internet, is he an alien? Because at this point, if he hasn't, if he doesn't have Parkinson's and a stroke and I don't know everything else, then he's an alien.
There is no other, literally no other option here. He either has all these ailments or he's an alien because it's like, he's a person in a meat suit that can't figure out how it works yet. He can't, it's like the, it's like a fleshy Mecca suit and he can't figure out how to do it right.
You may be closer than you think. Gosh, that would be scary if like, like his face fell off and it's just like C3PO under there. That explains the whole beep boop boop with the arms. Dude, his, these interviews were supposed to help him and the Democrats, Democrats are now trying to push him out. He was on, Biden was on the phone call.
Oh my gosh, this one was bad. He was on this phone call with all these folks and it did not go well. He, uh, I sent out prep email. I know he read a note. This was crazy. So he was, let me pull the story up.
You got this in your, if you get the, the newsletter, which you should, honestly, you get so many good things over at Chapter and Burst, my sub stack, you get so many good things over there. But, um, he, he was handed a note during he, because he, so we had a phone call with Democratic House lawmakers and apparently there were a couple of, um, uh, I guess members of the press. And the reason I say this is because they were tweeting about it at the time. And while he was on the phone, okay, while he's on this call with Democrat lawmakers and he was yelling at them, he yelled at one Democrat lawmaker about, uh, his son's Bronze Star. I don't know if you, he got nasty with a Bronze Star Democrat and it was really bad.
Daily Beast, New York Post, they said he was rambling. Jason Crow, who's a Democrat out of Colorado. He's a retired army ranger.
He was three tours in the Middle East and he was a Bronze Star recipient. And, and Biden yelled at him and he said, quote, first of all, I think you're dead wrong. And he goes, uh, he was saying that, uh, he was saying that he, like something like you've never done anything with your Bronze Star, like my son or something. And he was yelling. And then this call, he was, he, they were saying he couldn't complete an answer.
He was, so he was, he yelled at Crow and then another said, quote, he was rambling. He'd start an answer. He'd lose his train of thought. And then he would just say, whatever. He could not complete an answer. Another one said he was dismissive of concerns, unable and unprepared to present a campaign strategy.
And that person's a sitting member of Congress. And it was a very tense call. And what's worse is he's handed a note while he's on this call. A staffer hands him a note and it was a private note. And I'll be damned if he didn't read it in front of everybody.
Biden. The note said, you are sounding defensive, stay positive. And he read it. I am not making this up. It was the New York, New York Times reported it, New York Post, everybody, Associated Press, everybody's reporting this.
You are sounding defensive, stay positive. Biden said it and didn't even know that it was like a note, that a private note for him, not for him to share. Guys.
So I don't know. Chuck Schumer apparently privately told him he's got to go. The, I don't know, movement of Nancy Pelosi, if she comes out publicly and says something, I think he's got to. But they've already called a lid for the day.
He's at his beach house for the next four days. And now everybody's watching him because they said if it happens, it'll be this weekend. And that's why they were trying to do that virtual election of him or a nomination of him at the DNC. And Democrats apparently were really upset about it. They didn't like that.
They're, I don't know. This is a disaster. They were freaking out about it.
Democrat delegates were just freaking out about all of this. I mean, listen, listen, listen to this audio somebody three. This is what he's telling BET. This is Biden trying to do outreach to the black voting block.
Listen to this. I'd like you to take a moment and tell black America what you want them to know. Why should they turn out for you? Because they know where my heart is. They know where it is. And by the way, if you notice, whether it's young blacks or young whites or white Hispanics or non-Asian Americans, they've never focused until after Labor Day. I mean, the idea they're focused and tell me on election right now is it's not there. And by the way, if you take a look at the black people don't pay attention to after Labor Day, apparently, you know, I don't know. Good grief. That was supposed to like help him because he's hemorrhaging support amongst the black community.
You're okay. How is it not? How are we still doing this? It's like we're just playing along. What are we doing? I it's a million dollar question here. Million dollar question. I don't know. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lashes 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.
