Absurd Truth: Influencers In The Wild

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 have to really quickly share with you this one story Florida woman Amber sent in about the worst parking job ever. In Clearwater, Florida, police charged a driver with a DUI because he parked his car.

I had to make sure that it wasn't a woman pretending to be a man. He parked his car all, like, it was hanging off a pier. Like literally the front tires were over the wall and it was hanging off. The driver, 38 year old Matthew Adams, faces a DUI. What was he following?

Google Maps? Like what was the problem? He literally parked.

That's what he said. He parked behind Pure House 60 on Coronado Drive. It was a Lexus RX.

Lexus RX. I mean, I can't believe it didn't fall in. Because the front tires are both over the wall. And that was Box, the driver of the Kia Optima, and then Box threw objects at the other driver's vehicle while screaming. And then later on in the highway, he began to charge the other driver. I'm trying to figure out how this happens while you're driving. He pulled his shorts down and exposed his frankenbeins. According to the police affidavit, this is my favorite part of the story. The victims advised, two victims advised they screamed and looked away in fear when the defendant exposed himself.

So how are you driving on the road and you're doing this? The article is unclear. How does that happen? So there was arrested leader that afternoon by deputies. He denied being involved because they must be confused. He posted $1,000 bond and he's out. I don't know, man.

We know it's a Kia, but we don't know exactly how. Can I be honest? He looks like he would do that. He's got a neck tat and he's got crazy eyes. And when a man, normally if a man has crazy eyes, he's just crazy. But the neck tat, that's like having a tramp stamp and crazy eyes. You see what I mean?

Like it's a variable that escalates the danger up by a level, right? So he's like powered up one. So he's got plus neck tat.

You know, neck tat power. All right. Oh, I got more.

I got more. A Florida man went to the beach searching for sea turtle nest. Found, found, oh, he found almost $5 million in cocaine instead. It's a good thing he got it and not those sea turtles or Hunter Biden. He went, now Hunter Biden's going to be interested in sea turtles.

Watch. This guy discovered 70 pounds of cocaine, just like out on the beach. He went looking, isn't it? Aren't you not supposed to look for sea turtles nest? So was this guy admitting to like committing a crime?

Well, he can't take, but can you look, how do you find? He found cocaine bricks, 4.8 million. They think that it washed up on the beach and it was wrapped in plastic with a picture of an eagle on top.

And they said, well, it's rare here to have this much cocaine wash up on the beach to have any, I would think would be rare. Let me tell it, share with you this media story. This is crazy. This is, we talk about media malpractice. By the way, we're going to have Carol Roth on tomorrow about all that. We talk about media malpractice.

And this is one of the worst I think I've ever, I've seen in recent times. So PBS, you guys know, let me explain to you for really quickly before I get into the story. PBS, Public Broadcasting Station is owned by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting or is under not owned. It's under, it's regulated, it's managed by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which receives annually half a billion dollars in taxpayer money. And in fact, you might remember back several years ago when Trump wanted to cut money to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, CPB.

I always say it out loud so people don't get it confused with customs and border patrol. So he wanted to cut the funding like to zero for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. And the left lost their mind. And they said it was an attack on free speech. And even though it's a government funded thing, it's propaganda.

Now, here's why I give you that structure. Because again, remember, they get half a half a billion. It was something like $455 million that they got. That was the last appropriation.

I think that was from 2022. So Judy Woodruff, who is with PBS, which gets its money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which gets its money from entirely the government. They always say, oh, no generous donors.

No, no, a fraction of them give more than what they pay in taxes. So Judy Woodruff was speaking on to a live audience. And this was in Chicago, this was in Chicago on a PBS roundtable. And they were, they had an audience and they were talking about the ceasefire, any kind of potential negotiation for a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. And Woodruff was saying that she knew that there wasn't going to be one because this is what she said. She said, quote, the reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the Prime Minister of Israel urging him not to cut a deal right now, because it's believed that it would help the Harris campaign, end quote. That's what she said, verbatim. And then she adds, who knows whether that will come out or not, but I have to think that the Harris campaign would like for President Biden to do what presidents do, which is to work on that one.

So, and she's, she used to be on News Hour, and then she just was slammed for it. So she presents this as an actual headline. I read you the quote.

I read you the quote. She says, you know, the reporting is that he's telling Netanyahu to not cut the steel because it would benefit the Harris campaign. So then she gets a lot of flack for this, right?

Because people are like, where are you getting this from? What do you mean, what reports? Well, reports. So she tries to come back on it. And she writes on X. She says, quote, I want to clarify my remarks on the PBS News special Monday night about the ongoing ceasefire talks in the Middle East. She says, as I said, like, this is some sort of excuse for her. Now, remember how I told you how she said the statement based on reporting? She goes, as I said, this is not based on my original reporting. I was talking about, she said, the reports in Axios and Reuters about Trump having spoken to the Israeli prime minister. And in the live TV moment, I repeated the story, you know, et cetera, et cetera. And she's like, you know, I made a mistake.

And for that, I apologize. So she just, she just repeats, like, conjecture. And by the way, people have been looking for, like, the reports that she's talking about. So she repeats this.

And this story went wild. Like everyone, oh, Trump is trying to tank the ceasefire discussion. He doesn't, he doesn't want this ceasefire discussion. He's trying to because of the Harris campaign, and they were trying to really make him look bad. And this is what, and then she has to come out and say, well, this is based on my original reporting.

Not that. This was, oh my gosh, do you not have a responsibility? Because she calls herself as, she calls herself a journalist, right? Does she not have a responsibility to, I don't know, maybe just be somewhat honest and accurate when you're repeating news?

Oh my gosh. I mean, she makes it up entirely. What she did, because people are like, where are these stories that are saying this?

She's making it up entirely. And she says, I'm just reporting this from, and I'm looking actually at, I'm looking at her tweet. I'm just reporting this, you know, from Axios and Reuters and that, except it's not there. Both sides, everybody was denying it.

They're like, wait a minute, there's, here's the problem. The original, and this is what I have, the original reporting that they had on it, they were reporting on the ceasefire, didn't have anything about Trump calling them. They actually wrote a second piece about this saying Netanyahu's office denies a call with Trump about the Gaza hostage ceasefire deal. They had a whole story denying that that ever happened. They never claimed that it happened.

They just said that this was like floating around and he denied it and it never happened. Literally no one, not Axios. And I didn't even find anything with Reuters. Like Axios had a piece where they were dispelling this. Reuters didn't even have one. No one, literally nobody had that. Nobody was running that as a story. There was no outlet at all whatsoever that was reporting that as a fact. Nobody was saying Donald Trump is calling Benjamin Netanyahu and telling him not to accept the ceasefire. Not a single one.

Not a single one. She literally made it up. She pulled it out of her ass and ran with it.

She made it up entirely. And she is still on air. Her salary is paid for by us. Judy Woodruff is a glorified welfare recipient on the taxpayer teat as part of PBS, which is under Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which receives half a billion taxpayer dollars every year.

Their appropriations make that happen. And that's the level of reporting that is on PBS. She made it up. She made it up out of the ether and ran with it. And then she tries to blame two other outlets, one of which didn't even write about it at all. And the other one only wrote about how, oh, there's a rumor going around.

This never happened. And she just made it up. Why are they getting public funding? Why is a government agency running with false or dare I say misinformation? Is this not the same government that wanted to create a disinformation czar? Is this not disinformation? I mean, this is like Dan Rather level of violations in terms of journalistic ethics. Judy Woodruff.

That's insane. And she's like, oh, I'm sorry. I read it there. She doubled down and that was her response. So she lied about a story on stage.

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I think my heart started beating again. Because I've never so related to a headline more in my entire life. You know, your girl's a cynic, right?

Okay. I wake up cynical. So this study, the headline is the average person knows if their day has been ruined by eight thirty six a.m. Like that's right.

You know it. Which time zone? Oh, that's a great question. I think just their time zone. It says one bad morning can derail everything. They did the survey and it shows that Americans know if they're in for a bad day by eight thirty six a.m. And they surveyed two thousand Americans and they found the average person endures four bad days a month. So that's forty eight days or a month and a half of bad days annually. And then over twenty six percent of respondents said that when something goes awry in the morning, the day seems totally lost.

Like if they wake up feeling sick or they didn't sleep well, if they lost their keys or if they wake up with a headache or for women, if they messed up their makeup or their hair's bad. I mean, they just know it. You know, it's not going to be their day.

I thought that was hysterical. Parents are baffled by high school principal Robert Nunez giving a mascot lap dance as the oh boy, this is over in the sun. Parents are this isn't Atwater California, Buhak Colony High School in Central Valley. They held a back to school pep rally. And apparently parents are furious because their principal gave and received a lap dance from the school mascot. And there were actual students there going, am I a square that's getting old or is this weird? Like students were they were actually like putting that out on TikTok. And so the parents are very upset. They're like, why is this happening? Like apparently, like the mask got was twerking on him and all this stuff that like you're in a high school. You know what I mean?

If you can't differentiate, you know, the club from the high school, then maybe you shouldn't be in education. So coming up, I have to tell you last night, we were at dinner. Went to go just went to like a sushi place. And they cut up like a big tuna. I can't remember how many pounds it was. They cut up this big tuna there and you can you can purchase some meat off it.

I didn't eat off that but you can buy some meat off it. And I've never I've seen influencers before but I've never seen like a whole influencer op in the wild like I did. And I watched this like this table of chicks and I thought they were really I mean, they were dressed very nice overdressed maybe for the restaurant, probably. But they were going up to the fish and taking pictures with it, you know, trout pout, ironically, and you know, peace sign and taking pictures with it and all that stuff. And I thought it was interesting that there was another girl that was with him that held up a giant light. One of them had like a Nikon camera with a giant light on it. And they all had like ring lights and all this other stuff.

They were sitting at their table. The reason why I noticed it is because I saw it at the corner of my eye just like the a ball of sun. And I look over and there was there's an entire table. I took a quick picture of it.

I was I put it up on my Instagram stories. There was an entire table of info. They all had their own lights. And I don't know how long their food sat there. Like I'm just like, if you're getting, you know, fresh fish, you're getting sushi, you kind of want to eat it kind of quick.

You don't want it to sit there. You know what I'm saying? And it was like 15 minutes that they took were taking pictures of stuff. They could not have been over 25. And I'm looking at them doing this. They all had their and it got to the point they had a tripod. It got to the point that it was like, if you were sitting by them, that would have been distracting. You know, it's, you know, in the late in the evening, you got certain lighting in the restaurant, you know, if you're trying to take advantage of that, you don't want to be sitting next to a table where they have every godforsaken light on their food. And they're all like, you know, doing that. I'm just like, okay, I'm going to sit there and I'm like, can you just take just a regular phone picture of your food like a normal person? And, you know, I'm like, I don't even think that, you know, I think that's over lit.

And you guys are not lighting experts. And this is just overkill. It was crazy. And there was a table, people next to them that I could tell they were annoyed, because they kept getting up and do it. And like, they were taking turns getting into the photo. And that means they kept having to get up and kept having to bump the chair of the next person by them. And they had all the lights there. And I knew that that other table was getting aggravated.

I've never seen a whole op like that in the wild before though. It was a big thing. And I just I'm looking I'm like, we I'm like, together, they probably have 13,000 followers. And they're doing all of this stuff. And the other table, they I could totally tell it looked like a double date. I could totally tell they were getting aggravated.

I could tell so because the one woman she had her purse on part of her chair and it dropped when she got bumped and she was Oh my gosh, it was a big ordeal anyway. But I was reading this. I was reading this piece about the social media consumption and about influencers. And there's this belief that it's dying as it relates to dictating retail and and a lot of consumer practices. Because people are getting turned off by the influencer stuff. They're getting turned off on it, partly. And what's funny is, is because of the horrible economy that all these leftist governments have created.

Because people are broken. The last thing that they want to see are influencers taking pictures of all their bougie stuff, and then trying to get you to buy it online. You know, that's like, that's part of the problem, which I this is one of the reasons why I think it's so hysterical, that Harry Walls, they are trying to hire influencers to sell their policies. And their policies are bougie things that people can't afford. You know, I mean, you're sitting here talking about increasing the cost of food and having an introducing scarcity through Venezuelan price controls.

That's crazy. Having a belief set like that is a luxury that people cannot afford. And the left thinks that it makes you look edgy. And the left loves doing things that try to make them look edgy with when they have personality deficits, they try to offset it in other stupid ways.

Like, I'm a Marxist, right? It's like how the fat, ugly goth chicks, not all of them are, are fat and ugly. But they decide to be like edgy, because they can't be like the Barbie types. You know what I'm saying?

It's like, I think why you get, you know, some of the people and yeah, I'm just gonna say, it's, it's a personality deficit that leads you to adopt stupid mannerisms and attributes as a way to set yourself apart from everyone else. That's really what it is. And I was thinking about this.

All of this stuff was just like floating around in my head as I'm watching someone light a piece of fish at their table. Right? And I'm thinking, because in Italy, it kicked off, they had this big influencer in Italy, who got in trouble over a Pandora over a cake, a Christmas cake, that was supposed to raise money for some sick kids hospital in Milan. Turns out they donated a couple thousand and they weren't actually going to donate anything else beyond that. And they got in big trouble because Italy doesn't like that stuff.

And so, you know, yeah, they got more laws that I'm comfortable with, but they didn't like it. And they, they, and it was like the number one influencer over there. I can't even say her name, but she's like the number one influencer doing, does all these products. Well, now she's taking a major hit.

She already is going through her Blake Lively era right now. And she's taking a major hit. And all of these companies are canceled. Like Pepsi had a, had a whole deal that they were doing with her.

They canceled. There was another company all, and now all of these corporations are going, do we really want to tie the success of our product or a launch or something like this to an infallible or to a totally fallible social media personality? They're all questioning this. And this is having a ripple effect. It's all going down. And now all these influencers are starting to get a little, little nervous. That coupled with the fact that everybody's broke.

People are broke. They cannot sit here and look at what's on your social media profile that you're trying to influence them to buy and go out and buy it. This is, it's, I used to be way much more active on social media, but all the influencing killed my interest in it. I know, coincidentally, it just totally, I just can't, you can't even, you can't log on. Kane, can you, I don't know what you follow on Instagram.

You can't go on. Although most of my stuff is puppies. I posted what was kind of related to your story. Yeah. Is that, I mean, I think people are starting to see it like that more now. Yeah. The way you're describing it before it was like, oh yeah, interesting.

That's a great idea. Look at that. It didn't viral. They were putting something up as a, as like a side as like a, I don't want to say consequence as a result of living. Right. And then the people that are unsuspecting, they're going to be like, well, I want to do that too.

I think that's great. Yeah. This one food influencer that Kane shared with me was slammed online. He posted an unhinged video of himself at a Las Vegas, all you can eat lobster buffet.

He's got 1.6 followers on social, 1.6 million followers on social media. And people were mad. They said the gluttony, the narcissism and privilege unfold.

I think you do need to be sensitive just because you want to be a good person when other people are suffering. Because there's a point where people like to live there. Some people will live their lives vicariously through other individuals. But at some point it becomes like, it's like you're taunting with all the stuff. You know what I mean?

It really is. It seems like that. But social media used to be, you were posting stuff that you did as a result of living life. And I was thinking about it, you know, like these people that are filming these experiences and doing all this stuff. Are you actually experiencing it?

Or are you actually shortchanging your audience? Because you're too busy trying to capture the moment and live the moment. So you're giving them an anemic view of what the experience is, because you're not actually fully experiencing it yourself. That's why social media influencing needs to die a horrible death. It needs to just totally die and go away. And we need to go back to like, actually, you know, people living their lives and know, oh, here's what I'm doing this or I had that, you know, that's fine. But all this like contrived stuff. I hope it spreads. I hope that Italy stuff spreads. 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.