Monday September 2 - Labor Day Edition

They're asking me about this waltz from Minnesota. Here's the thing. As Florida governor, I learn a lot about other states because when people leave those states, they tell me why they left those states. And I remember during COVID, The Absolute frustration that people had moving from Minnesota because of how they were being treated. You know, this is a guy that's out there.

He's got this line in the stump speech saying, you know, our neighbors can do what they want, mind your own damn business. Fine, then why did you set up? A snitch hotline for neighbors to report on their neighbors for violating your draconian COVID restrictions. That's not minding your own damn business. That's government overreach.

He's right. I mean, we that's Governor Ron DeSantis. I mean it's the and that's what uh that's what Walls did. He set up a snitch line. An actual snitch line.

I don't think anything makes me angrier about that. Because I'm still mad over the whole lockdown thing. I'm still mad about it. I mean, Wants got the phone call. I mean, this was the actual phone call.

When you would call the like y the snitch line, you saw you saw somebody like, Oh, they weren't wearing their face panty Oh, no, I saw them out of their house and they wasn't wearing their face panty. I better call that snitch line. And then he would pick up your phone and you would call Governor Tim Wolz's snitch line. And you would dial the number to the snitch line. And it would take you to this.

Hello, you have reached the Department of Public Safety Stay at Home Hotline. The information you leave is considered public information. At the tone, please leave the following information. Your name? Your callback number.

How the stay-at-home order is being violated. and where the stay-at-home order was violated. Thank you. It was violated at your mom. Swear what?

I can't. You know, we make fun. We like look at what what's been happening in Britain, you know, where It's it's you see like a two-tier system of justice and people have been Like they've been in trouble. Like, for instance, there's a guy who was told after he beat up an emergency worker. Uh his name's Mustafa Al Mahdiba.

And he was ordered to pay two pounds a month for assaulting an emergency worker. He was let off with community service as he does not speak English. And then a guy named Stephen Mallon, he was jailed for twenty six months because he gesticulated at the police. He gesticulated. I got my feels hurt.

Because he made an X with his arms and thrust at me. I got my feels hurt. That's what's happening over there. And then you got Waltz over here making a snitch line. By the way, welcome back, everybody.

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So they so I saw this one pic real quick. This is killing me. Washington Post. I talked about this hat yesterday and how Realtree, I explained the licensing and how Realtree does not support Harris walls, Harry Walls. And Washington Post goes, Minnesota Governor Tim Walls just posted a photo of himself wearing the just released Harry Walls camo hat.

in quotations. They're like, ooh, camo, it's a novelty. The sold out back ordered campaign merch is a send up of A what? It's a send up. of Minnesota Governor's trademark Midwestern Dad fashion, giving MAGA a run for its money.

Whose grandma wrote this? Look, he's an old man wearing a hat. That must be some sinned up trademark Midwestern Dad fashion. Can you get any more word salad in there, you damn dreaded Zoomer? It's a send-up of the Minnesota governor's trademark Midwestern dad fashion.

What? He's cosplaying. I mean, it good grief, this is so stupid That's all they have. That's all they have is the hat.

So I don't know, man. They're like They're cosplaying as regular everyday people. This is what I think is so funny. Nobody can afford a damn thing, but they're selling $40 camo hats. Guys, show us that you're.

A Midwestern so it's your Midwestern dad fashion. By purchasing in a time of great inflation where butter is like $8 and a dozen eggs or seven. A $40 Midwestern dad hat. It's just a ball cap. You dumbasses Have they never seen a ball cat before?

This old man puts a ball cap on his head and they're like, Quick, how can we make this niche? It's Midwestern dad fashion. Have you ever been to the Midwest? The people writing about this, they've never been to the Midwest. Oh my gosh.

Can't deal with it.

Alright, so some of the other stuff. I got a lot. The thing, ugh. Get a lot here. Uh first up, let's um because you know Biden's still in office, right?

You guys know this right? He's still there. Yeah, guys, he's doing the big stuff. He's focusing on some very important problems right now. Important problems that are roiling the nation.

And that is Plastic. Cutlery. The Biden administration has announced a plan to target plastic cutlery. across federal departments. They're taking aim at the climate crisis.

It's an all hands on deck response.

So China Dumps like actual garbage and turds into the ocean. Nobody says anything to them. chemicals. They make their lakes pink and toxic. They do all the they don't care.

And the United States is: well, I guess we should get rid of our plastic cutlery. That's going to save the world. That's the Biden administration's approach to this. You have to you Have to drink out of a straw that literally dissolves in your mouth and in your drink.

So China condemned chemicals in the ocean. Hurry up and drink it. I know, by the way, Cyber, is that not the worst thing ever? When I get my cup. And if there is a paper straw in it, I want to throw the whole cup at it.

I want to throw it. It takes everything I have. I want to throw it. It makes me so, it's so, and there's dyes on that damn straw. Have you noticed?

And it's always those stripey, stripey straws. That's dye. That's dye that's going in your drink 'cause it's a stupid paper straw. I'm not cheap. Uh I can't even make words.

It makes me so angry. I have Uh I have uh What is it? Cornstarch straw. I would buy plastic, but they don't make them in these fun colors like this that I can get on Amazon.

So it says I didn't mean to be good to the earth. I just don't come on. I just. The cool thing about those is they eventually do dissolve. But I've left one in a drink just to see how long it would take for it to dissolve.

And after like two or three days, it still was a straw. Yeah, it's a straw.

So I don't know why people don't do that. It was so easy for me to do. And they go for those fashion striped straws. I hate those stupid things. 'Cause you know that's like toxic dye on those dumb things too.

And it's all you're drinking, you're consuming it. It's so dumb. Anyway, so yeah, that's what he's doing. He's going to reduce the sale of single use plastic products on public lands.

Well, what are you supposed to eat with? If you go. to like a museum or something, you go to their little sit-in cafeteria. At a park on public land, you think they're gonna be going out and buying something? No, it's gonna, you know what it's gonna be like?

What's that place? Medieval times. It's gonna be like medieval times. And you gotta go in there, it's just gonna give you turkey legs. You're gonna have to gnaw at everything with your hands.

That's what they're gonna do. Can I tell you a story? About that, by the way. I legit just heard thunder right now. What the hell is going on in Texas?

Are your windows down? They are. Look at us. We're like, Kane, do you need to go roll your windows up?

So You've been in medieval times, right? That's like the castle where, you know, if you're by medieval times and you've never gone, there wasn't any in Missouri.

So when we moved here to Texas, we went twice. You had to go. And I you know, I'm not I'm not going to pre. I always, my husband was like, that's kind of bougie, Dana, because I brought literally plastic cutlery with me. I've seen people do that.

Okay, my husband was like, why are you doing that? Because we evolved and invented this stuff. That's what. That's why I'm doing it. Look at this.

We don't eat with our feet and hands anymore because we evolved as a species. That's why I'm bringing it in. I'm improving my chopstick skills. I brought wet ones and everything. I'm like, I could sit here and just eat this stuff with my hands, scooping up some taters or whatever, but I ain't doing it, you know?

I'm not going to do it. Clean my hands off of my jeans. Yeah, they're like, yeah, well, they basically send someone to lick your hands off. With your napkins. They don't do that.

But yeah, it's just so bad.

So I was just like, nope, I'm going to take care of my business because I came prepared. My husband could not believe it. He looked at me and he was like, I'm watching you open like the equivalent of a quick mart here. At medieval times. It's like, no, no, no.

There's certain things that I don't do. And it's not because I'm being bougie or anything like that. Like, I love the outdoors and I love rocks. And I mean, it's like I gotta eat dirt or something to like convince people that I love nature. I love nature.

Whoopity-doo. It's great. I love being outdoors. But you know what? I also don't like pretending to be homeless.

Mm. And that's why I don't camp. Because we as humans invented the house. And as of as a result, we stay in them. Right?

Just like we as humans invented cutlery. And so I will use that. I am not going to throw away. Generations of achievements of our ancestors by saying no. I don't want your house or your cutlery.

Going to pretend to be without. I'm not doing that. I'm just not going to do it.

Sorry.

Well, we invented tents first. Yeah. But then we invented the house. Mm-hmm. It's like saying, let's go back to the Flintstone cars.

Let's pretend for a little bit. Nope, that's okay. I'm good. I'm all right. Anyway, branosaurus ribs though.

Yeah. Well, this Biden's, he's going to solve all the world's problems because he's going to go after the plastic forks. and we'll fork you. It's not going to do anything. not gonna do nothing.

I mean, basically, isn't it gonna just raise costs on people? It's going to be like military bases and government workplaces.

So instead of maybe, here's a thought. Instead of trying to reduce the use of plastic cutlery, Here's a Maybe reduce the size of The federal government. What? That sounds like a great idea. You know if you have fewer people in government, you have fewer people using the plastic cutlery.

What I know Amazing, is it not?

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Alright, so by the way, if you're watching the simulcast. On the stream, we just lost power. There's a major storm rolling through Texas.

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So, I just want to let y'all know that. All right, so first off, 12 F-22 fighters reportedly inbound in the land of the Middle East for force posturing against Iran. That's the CENTCOM. They confirmed that an unspecified number of F-22 Raptor stealth fighters have arrived in their area of responsibility.

So, that's going to be interesting to watch. Keep it, that's one of the things you got to keep an eye on. It's not the vax, guys. I mean, the injections. No drink is safe.

Studies show alcohols linked to a growing list of cancers. Everything causes cancers, but you know what definitely does. I'm just gonna say, it could be the shot, just saying. COVID fell to the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S. last year, down from fourth, because we should be learning about how viruses work, but we're not.

The Pegasus is a revolutionary hybrid flying car. I don't want a hybrid flying car, it can travel on the highway and fly for up to three hours. I do not, I want gas and oil, something that I can measure and something that I know is going to work. I'm just going to say, but it uses an electric charge for ground travel and gas for flying. Authorities in Australia have already approved it.

I am not excited about air travel like everybody in the air because I've seen everyone try to drive and it's just Kind of a nightmare. I just can't imagine how that's gonna work. AI is basically just a homework cheating machine now. I feel like AI is going to make our students dumber. OpenAI has a tool to detect if something was written by ChatGPT, but it hasn't released it yet.

And so now apparently, I mean, they've already been banning all kinds of stuff in classrooms, but they said that the most common use was creative writing and role play and all kinds of stuff.

So if you have like a writing assignment, a lot of students have been using it for that. The state of Louisiana becomes the first to impose surgical castration on child rapists. Good job, Louisiana. Although they should be murdered entirely. Actually, it's not murdered, it's called justice.

They should be killed entirely. It's the fourth place in the world with such punishment.

So, if you're not gonna kill them, castrate them. I think that's a genius job. Hat tip to Louisiana for becoming the first state. To impose surgical castration on child rapists. And they've done that.

It includes rape, incest, and molestation. Obviously, it's an irreversible medical progress. The only other places you can do it, Czech Republic, Madagascar, and Nigeria. It's not like chemical castration, it's much more invasive. They literally, it's surgical, they take it all off.

That's it. And if you commit a sexual offense against a child under 13 in Louisiana, you're a prime candidate for it. All right, we're gonna try to get Brad Thor up. We had a little bit of a power outage, so just FYI. We're dealing with that.

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Doesn't make any sense. And by the way, if you are single and you meet someone and you want to start a family, J.D. Vance doesn't support you using IVF to start that family. And say, unfortunately, you start a family and your... your spouse becomes violent.

He has said that he thinks that you should be forced to stay in a violent marriage.

So I don't think Kamala Harris is going to pick anyone as weird and creepy as JD Vance. I think it's weird for a guy who banged a Chinese spy to call anybody else weird and creepy. Eric Swawell. I mean, this was the guy who one time asked to speak to my boss. Because he assumed that I as a female Had to have a meal superior, at which point I had to drop him.

and tell him that I am the boss.

So come speak to me, son. I can't stand this guy because he's all like high on his own supply. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. You can listen coast to coast.

You can stream the radio program, channel 347, direct TV. Find us on Rumble and X. I'm not an Eric Swabble fan. He's just like a guy I would never get along with. You know, you meet some people and you're like, I would never get along with you.

I don't know if I would ever get along with JD Vance, but I think this these comments about him are so weird. That's what's weird. I mean, you guys, the Democrats hired a you guys remember the suitcase stealing nuclear tweak that they had, right? The Sam Brinkman guy. The guy who Didn't he have like a security clearance?

Well, he had to have some level of security clearance. He had a security clearance and. He's he was the guy who went around stealing all of these ladies' luggage. And remember he stole this. One woman's luggage, and because I know that identity politics are very important to the left, she was a black woman, a black female designer, clothing designer, and jewelry designer.

And he stole her original works and was wearing them wrongly all around town, like to different events and stuff like that. And she was like, that's my stuff. And he was able to kind of skirt consequences. He stole so many suitcases over the years. If you and he had a security pass and he was working in, you know, with our nuclear stash, that's what's weird.

I mean, if you've seen like the deputy director of health and human services, it's a dude. that wants to be a woman. and wants to lecture everyone else about their health. You guys don't get to sit. Why is J.D.

Vance weird? Because he drinks Diet Dew. He didn't even say he drank Diet Mountain Dew. He was at an event and he pointed out that there was Diet Mountain Dew on the table. And the insufferable, ridiculous left was like, oh my gosh, he drinks Diet Mountain Dew, and they lost their minds.

And by the way, his remarks on IVF. He actually never said anything about IVF. And it doesn't matter because Trump has already have has a position on IVF.

So what does it matter if Trump is for IVF? I mean, that's they just want to bring this back to abortion so bad, so badly. That's all they want to do. And it's just, it's just so stupid. Stop this.

But they're mad at him and they're trying to create this use this as An apparatus by which they can further chip away at the white suburban women's vote, which, oh my gosh, white leftist women. Annoy the hell out of me sometimes. They really do. Not all of them, but there are some of them that do. And I just don't get it.

I was, I, They've been, they got together and it was like a Kamala Harris event. Where's this at? Oh my gosh. I can't. I got to play this.

And then we're going to get to the cat lady.

So. Yeah, audio 7 by 24.

Okay, so let me set this up. This was a bunch of white progressive women. who got together over a Zoom call. to talk about Kamala Harris. And discussing white privilege.

These are the this is the subset of ladies that are very upset. I guess over JD Vance, and they're trying to, and this is the subset of women that Democrats are trying to rile all up. Go ahead and play this because this is hysterical. It's just not a parody. I feel like I'm watching like.

A skit a la the Californians on SNL. Go ahead. As white women, we need to use our privilege to make positive changes. If you find yourself talking over or speaking for BIPOC individuals, or God forbid, correcting them, just take a beat. And instead, we can put our listening ears on.

What the hell am I watching? Do learn from and amplify the voices of those who have been historically marginalized and use the privilege you have in order to push for systemic change. As white people, we have a lot to learn and unlearn.

So, do check your blind spots. You are responsible for your algorithm, believe it or not. What is that what If you ever wanted to see what Chardonnay looked like, Yeah. in bipedal forum, it's that. Sponsored by Lululemon, Chardonnay, and HomeGoods.

That's what that whole Zoom call was about.

So that chick apparently was like the the Kamala Karen leader. And I love the whole Arab. It's like there was choreography and stuff with it. I, what in the world? I thank heavens that white progressive women exist or black women would never get ahead in life because they're apparently too dumb without their white f white lady saviors.

That's what they do you realize how unbelievably racist that is? A bunch of these I they I Western society has achieved so much. That these broads apparently think that there's nothing else left to accomplish or in life, or to that all the other problems are solved.

So they have to create. problems that they can also pretend to solve. And so they are so high on themselves. They actually think that their greatness, their self-perceived greatness, victimizes other people. That's really ultimately when you distill all of this down.

That's what they're saying. That they're so great and like so awesome. They have to chuck your privilege. Like, what privilege are you talking about, princesses? What privilege?

I mean, if I examine my own life, I don't know, the privilege of being a statistic of coming from a single-parent household. You know, that kind of privilege, the privilege of growing up broker than Barack Obama ever could dream of. that than Kamala Harris could ever dream of? I'm just curious, like what privilege? You know, the privilege of of being told that I'm a domestic terrorist by sitting members of my own government simply because I as a female want to make sure that I can protect myself because statistically women are great are more greatly victimized than men.

like that kind of that privilege. I mean, what the hell are you talking about, privilege? This is so stupid. These women are just creating problems that they hurt and rescue that then they're going to pretend to be the fixers of. And and how condescending is that?

To lecture other people and act as though women of color are so. Helpless and stupid that they can't figure out that black women can't figure out life unless they have white women to help them. Oh my gosh, you know how unbelievably racist that actually is? It's like the Dave Chappelle skit where he's like a Klansman, but he's black and he's blind and he doesn't realize it, and nobody has the heart to tell him.

So they're they're really upset over J.D. Vance. Then you had Chelsea Handler, who I feel like is the blonde version of Kathy Griffin, who is the female version of Carrotop. But Carrotop's funny and sometimes. No norm McDonald jokes here.

Audio sound by 25. They're still going back to the JD Vance cat lady.

Well, his interview that he gave like some years ago. Listen to this. This is stupid. Hey, as you might have heard, Donald Trump's running mate and future star of his own dateline episode, J.D. Vance, is ruffling quite a few feathers this week.

We're effectively run in this country by a bunch of childless cat ladies who look at Kamala Harris. The entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. Listen up, you wing nut elegy. This country is still controlled by men in systems that were set up by men that are carefully crafted to continue to benefit men.

So, to put it in women-hating terms, you'll understand you're being hysterical. But let's be clear: there's no correlation between childless people and the presidency. For example, our very first United States president, Mr. George Washington, didn't have children. In fact, he had two stepchildren.

That's right, just like someone else I know. And to your point about Kamala not being fit because she's not a mother, I'd like to remind you that no president in the history of the United States has ever been a mother. But maybe if she had five kids with three different men and a scandalous affair with a porn star and was convicted felon, that would be. More palatable to Republican men. I mean, my God, are we tired?

You sad diet, mountain dew, drinking, couch humping, dolphin porn, aficionado. All of us childless cat and dog ladies are going to go from childless and crushing it to childless and crushing you in November. are so damn obsessed with telling you how happy that miserably happy they are not having kids, right? Who was that dude? Uh Chelsea Handler.

Oh, got it. I mean, it's not even funny. I mean, it's funny, like, in a r ridicule type of way. But it's not even funny. In some ways, I feel sad for, I mean, I d I know people that don't have kids.

And they're not obsessed at telling everyone else how happy they are without kids. But these broads apparently are obsessed with telemaking sure that everybody knows they're happy. We don't have kids. I am so happy! I No one asked you.

They hear one comment that isn't even really directed at them, but oh my gosh, they're going to break their damn legs trying to get out the door to insist that it is about them. Because they need that kind of affirmation. I need everyone to know that I'm very happy that I don't have kids. I'm so happy. How dare you?

So that's what it's like. That's what they do. I just he made it he made an off you know I don't You can say whatever you want about J.D. Vance. I need y'all to explain to me how your super-empowered female president was able to subsist on a ticket for four years with a guy that she called a pedo-racist.

I'm just curious. I mean, everybody remembers the stuff that Kamala Harris said about Joe Biden.

So, unless you guys can sit here and reconcile that, I really don't care what you think about J.D. Vance's offhand remark on something a couple of years ago. I don't know the guy. I've never met the guy, but I have seen enough of these broads to know who annoys me more. And I typically don't like to agree or find any kind of allyship with the people who annoy me more, right?

I want to be annoyed less by my government and people in my government. And so, having these hysterical bitches scream and moan and whine and thrash and writhe about how hat. Stop. Chill. Calm down.

Just take it down a notch. You know what I mean? Just take it down a little bit. Save some drama for the rest of us, okay? Golly.

It's just, I'm. I don't understand why immediately everyone thinks that it's about them. I don't know. I mean, Kane, there was nothing, his remark was, and, I mean, so. I don't get it.

Yeah, I don't get it either. I don't understand. There is a point to be made about. The priorities of people looking at policy that maybe have kids and those who don't have kids. And I think that's completely legitimate to bring up.

And if you don't think it is, then we don't come from the same place. And we're never going to see eye to eye, so save your breath, because you're not going to persuade me. Uh but That's a completely legitimate conversation to have. But to say that, and then tried to take it back to IVF, which he actually hasn't really said anything on, and Trump supports IVF, so I don't know why people are mad. Uh And then they bring up those.

I don't even know what their other stuff that they're talking about. It's just goofy. It's creepy. That's what's creepy. I don't know.

Isn't Lorraine says that Chelsea Handler's been very open about her abortions, too? Sh she filmed some guild? I don't know. Like I don't know. Her package is it that's not my circus, not my monkeys, man.

What? kind of It's my whole thing. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's not. It's not my dancing bears, not any of it.

Not any of it.

So I don't I don't know. I um People are, I think they're trying to weirdify J.D. Vance and make him.

somehow unsuitable for the ticket. I don't think that's going to work. And the reason I say that that's not going to work, Kane, again. Have we seen some of the, didn't they have a guy who was in a dress? like go and do like all these videos for Kamala Harris.

They literally had a pride parade celeb Easter celebration or something on one of the lawns of the White House where this trans, this dude who had breast implants went topless.

So good luck trying to convince anyone else that anybody else other than you is the weird one here. That was right around the first Cocaine discovery. Yeah. I mean, you've got yeah, you got Hunter Biden leaving all his you know, snort when he's not snorting blow off Hooker's backsides, he's leaving it in the White House cubby. I mean, you have Democrats that literally made a sex tape in the Senate chamber.

And yet J.D. Vance is weird because he pointed to a table that had some Diet Mountain Dew sitting on it. Do you see how stupid this is? The hell's wrong with you people? You need to be recalibrated.

But he said cat lady, though. Yeah, he said cat lady. I don't like cats. I'm actually super allergic to cats. I've never been able to be around cats.

I'm legitimately, you know, like allergen blood tested. Actually, I didn't even have to get a blood test because my skin wilted up so bad when I did a skin test. I'm so allergic to cats. And they're just weird. I've never held them.

I have never been able to be around them.

So I have like no experience with them. at all. Totally fine with dogs. You know, I told you about our rescue pup that we just got uh last week. But I don't know why people take that to be so.

You know, usually when I come across Opinions that I don't like, about 90% of the time, believe it or not, I go on with my life. Every now and then I say something because there's a lot of stupid people out there. And I don't know why it is that these like leftist broads can't do the same thing.

Somebody said something that you don't agree with, kill her, go on with your life.

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Where he was saying, you know what? I'm not going to be nice anymore.

So is it okay with you all if I'm not nice anymore? And I thought, wait. Were we nice before? Was he nice? And then everyone cheered, and I thought, oh my God, I have a seven-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl.

And I don't know what to tell them anymore about who we're supposed to be. If this is what we're trying, if this is what we're allowing. This base horrific Horrible name. That is within all of us to be glorified and celebrated and elected. I don't know what to do anymore.

Anymore. I mean, if you can I just be real. If you're allowing one politician to like make you have an existential crisis. Then I think people have bigger problems than cat ladies. I'm just saying.

I mean, you know, heaven forbid if you dislike a politician that you tell your child, you know, maybe don't do this or don't do this or this is why we don't like this, and just, you know, go on with your life. Instead of Just like freaking out. What the hell is wrong with women in this country? Just like, you know? Man up!

Who was that dude again?

Well, I mean, I it's pink, by the way. There was pink talking. I like her husband, Corey Hart. I mean, he's, you know, he does fun stuff. And I don't dislike her.

I don't know her. I don't know any of these people. I don't pretend to have an association with some of these people enough to have a personal dislike of them. But I do wonder why people are so damn dramatic. Like, I just don't know how to go on living if I could just take a pill, man, a chill pill.

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Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you, top of the second hour. That's J.D. Vance, who earlier today was speaking. I think that was in Detroit where he was speaking.

And he took issue. I noticed that last night at the event, Tim Waltz mentioned his service, but didn't mention that controversy. By the way, you can get, I wrote a big write-up. It's all that you need to know about Tim Waltz over at Substack, chapter and verse. You can go and subscribe and you can get all of that delivered right to your inbox.

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So he is. I mean, Vance is right. Waltz is getting slammed for this. And he mentioned it. He's the one who brings up his military service time and time again.

He negotiated an early retirement and he got reduced in rank. Because he did not want to go with the men that he was being helped to that he was they were helping him train. He didn't want to go with his men into combat. The moment he got the notice of warning that they were going to be deploying to Iraq, Uh he was like, I can't do that and he dropped out. He left.

And then he lied about it. And that's what's crazy. I mean, he absolutely lied about it. And Um he I I I He also kept going on and saying that he keeps saying, like, for instance.

Some of the stuff that he's talked about with regards to Second Amendment stuff. He's like, oh, yeah, you know, I've had, you know, he talks about weapons of war. And he says, Oh yes, you know, I've I've weapons of war. And he tries to trade on his military service and act as though he knows all about this and you can't carry this because people who have these weapons in war shouldn't be able, if you can carry it on a battlefield, you can't carry it in the street. First off, you didn't carry anything in the battlefield because you dropped out and you never went.

This was one of the tweets that Kamala Harris actually had. I mean, he had said, oh, I carried weapons of war in war. No, Tim Wallace did not carry any weapons of war in war because he never went to war. He's lying about his military service repeatedly. And then.

JD Vance finally has enough. It calls him out on it. I mean, I, you know. It's Wild. But he's, and he's not the only person who's calling him out on it.

There are a number of veterans that he served with. And he was, I mean, his actual former peers. have been slamming him. people he served with. have been criticizing him.

I mean, we talked about this yesterday. I mean, he abandoned his troops when they went to Iraq. He did not want to go with them. He had re-enlisted in 2001. And he w he went to Sergeant's Major Academy in 2003.

And then when they, um And when you accept the invitation to school, you also accept some of the other requirements that go along with it. And Then he, um did not He got a rank, a reduction in rank to Master Sergeant because he was not going to go and. Uh fight for his country. And by the way, It's interesting to note as well that the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy, these are college-level courses funded by taxpayer dollars.

So the stipulations that are attached to this are to make sure that the uh government, that the taxpayer gets the money that there our money isn't wasted.

So He was in summer of 03. He was going with his battalion in support of Operation Andrew Freedom to Italy. We talked about this yesterday. And they were going to augment. Security forces in U.S., Air Force Europe, and take over any responsibility for air base security.

And then they, and they, the, the battalion was not placing, replacing anybody so they could deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan.

So then he comes home to Minnesota. In 2004, he's appointed to serve as Command Sergeant Major, but then he wasn't promoted to that rank. And they were filling in gaps, doing this stuff. On September 17th, 2004, he was conditionally promoted. Uh to Command Sergeant Major.

And he signed an initial the statement of agreement and certification, which meant if he failed to comply with the conditions, his promotion would be null and void. Then when they got their warning orders that he, along with his battalion, were going to be going mobilizing for deployment to Iraq in early 05, Uh he quit. He quit, according to those he served with. His excuse to leaders was that he needed to retire in order to run for Congress. which was not true.

According to the Department of Defense directive, because he could have run and requested permission from the Secretary of Defense before entering active duty, as many reservists have. Had he retired normally and respectfully, he could have ended his retirement. Ensured his retirement documents were correctly filled out and signed. And that's the other thing. His official retirement document states soldier not available for signature.

He waited for the paperwork to catch up to him.

So he had a reduced rank. And he was demoted, reduced in rank, and then he abandoned and walked away from his soldiers and his. his promise to lead and care for them. And then he, according to the men he served with, he hid that information from the public to try to fool voters. And so that's why they started speaking out.

And the well-known Twitter account Stolen Valor. published his discharge document. and said that uh Yes, all of these criticisms are true. This is exactly you know what happened.

So Vance is right to point this out. And this is a guy who. You know, he's bragging, sitting here, well, we bragging about taking people's firearms and saying, well, you can't have what I know what a weapon of war is. No, you don't. In fact, he was talking about 71 Americans.

What is he saying? He was bragging. This is a gun owners of America thing. He was bragging about taking people's firearms without due process. And he always trades on his military service and says he knows weapons of war.

Listen to this. We have this. Oh, I doubt it. Whether it be red flag extreme risk protection orders, and I think Superintendent Evans can speak to the specifics of that. I think in my latest briefing we've issued 71 of those.

That's wow. Seventy-one. 71. And then he's like, I know what weapons of war are. And weapons of war don't you never and he he's told people I've carried a weapon of war in war.

You can't You n he's never been to war. But this g he's a fraud. And he lies about his service. It makes you wonder what else he's going to lie about. But he thinks, you know, the media is not going to ask these questions.

The media the media is not going to ask any of these questions.

Now Who else isn't? Answering questions from the media, Kamala Harris. How many days has it been? 13 days, 12 days? Yeah, I think so.

press conference. She hasn't answered any questions from The press. Nothing. And I she doesn't even have her policy positions on her website. But you know what they have been doing?

Red State has the story about how their campaign is using streamers to AstroTurf support. Except, it's not working so well. Yesterday, we played the video of these bras on TikTok dancing.

So n apparently She's been trying to reach out to online, you know, well-known online people to promote her campaign. And apparently, people have turned her down. There's one, it's a Twitch streamer, Kai Sinat. who has thirteen million followers. He was saying that he was getting calls from the Secret Service.

and the Harris campaign. And requesting that they do a collaboration. And he said that he wasn't interested. People have been publishing the emails and the messages that they've been receiving from her campaign. And uh Yeah.

So it's not nobody's, nobody's biting, nobody's, nobody's signing on to this because it's cringe. It is entirely Cringe.

So I I mean, it's bad. And they just, I'm looking at some of the actual messages. Like for instance, they say And they've been published on X. And they're like, oh, so they talk about how social media people are being paid to promote their content. on social media.

And they reach out and they're like, We, you know, over a series of three posts, we're inviting you to share what you admire about the Biden-Harris administration. You know, which initiatives you support or why you believe Kamala Harris, with Biden's endorsement, is the best candidate for the job. And then they said that we can discuss details and compensation for your involvement. That's like the type of stuff that they're sending out to people. They don't have anybody grassroots doing this.

They sent out. One woman with the campaign, Alicia Howard, said, I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to follow up on the email I sent a couple of days ago regarding our paid partnership. They want to pay people on social media. to promote their stuff because it's not happening organically.

That's embarrassing. It's not. This is also one of the problems when you do a switcheroo like this and you're completely unprepared. And and I I don't know. I mean, they're this is this is bad.

It's bad.

Now, I wanted to touch on this idea that Wolves has. And this is one of these false narratives that the media has constructed. to push out there. They're trying to define him for American voters. They're trying to define him as the Midwestern grandpa who has a bowl of Werther's originals at the door, right?

That's how they're trying to define Tim Wallace. That, oh, Tim Walls does really good with flyover. Tim Walls does really good with rural moderates and conservative voters. He does well with rural voters. They're really trying to play out that identity for him, except that's not a true identity.

That's Literally, it's never. That's never happened.

So I went and I was looking. at what the votes actually were.

So he actually in 2022 He lost. Rural counties in Minnesota. And this is taken from Real Clear Politics as well as. uh the Minnesota Secretary of state website. And They had he lost rural counties by over 20 percent.

By over 20%. It was, it's. It was pretty significant. Not only that. But Of The 87 counties in Minnesota, he only won 13 of them.

He won 13 of them.

Now And of that, let me pull this up. Because it's He basically Won, so we won 13 of their 87 counties, 60%. of all of his votes. And Juan has the RCP map up there. 60% of all of his votes came from four counties.

Four counties. And those counties, particularly Hennepin and Ramsey counties. gave him a little bit of uh some breathing room with about 400,000 votes. And he ended up winning by like only like a hundred something thousand votes. None of And Juan's showing you that's from the Secretary of State's website.

None of The Claims that he's like this, and you can see the map. I mean, it's all of the urban counties that supported him. He did not get support. From rural counties, rural counties rejected him. Rural counties did not support Tim Walls.

They did not support him. I mean, he's He again, 60% of his votes, over 60% of his votes, came from urban counties.

So they're trying to create this identity for him. That's not his identity. He is an urban Minnesota guy. But they're trying to say, oh, Minnesota, and they're trading. on the average American's unfamiliarity.

With the lay of the land in Minnesota, the counties, the voter breakdown, they want you to think that everything in Minnesota is rural. They don't have cities in Minnesota. Remember, it's all just rocks and cows, like he said. That's what they want you to think, but that's not true. In an era where daily election headlines and political turmoil can create a sense of unrest, having a peaceful retreat is more important than ever.

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This actually kind of surprised me because I'm a whiskey and scotch fan. Japanese whiskey is declared better than scotch by experts at a landmark tasting event. It was at Glasgow's Pot Still Bar, and they said that they had blind tasted five examples, industry experts. Of whiskey from both countries, Japan got the most votes in three out of five rounds. And it's called the Judgment of Glasgow, and it took place at their Potstill Bar.

And they said that they based the drinks on five categories: single malt under 100, single malt over 100, a blended whiskey, wildcard round, and a whiskey high ball. And they said, and in a result that will horrify any Scott, Japan managed to steal a shock victory. Japanese whiskey is actually pretty good. They're very. regimented.

And disciplined, but I am a little shocked, I have to say. I mean, I got some Japanese with it's you know, it's tasty. But I don't know, it's just kinda, I don't know what to think. Americans spend more than two days online shopping every year. More than two full days online shopping.

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It has that dark country vibe. 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, founder of Redneck Riviera Whiskey. Oh, Glory Bank. This is his new song, Revelation. And I gotta tell you. I was looking at 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 on this video. It's a brand new song by John Rich, and we're going to talk to him about this. I love, 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. And it's, I mean, I could sit here and like go into old college music review mode right now, but it's such a good, 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 before. I doubt I'll ever write anything like this again. Oh, you've got to, though.

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, you've got the devil and Michael facing off. Yeah, it's spiritual warfare. You know, people talk about that. 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 you, 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 the book of 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'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 evil into our faces every single day, like there's nothing gonna ever happen to them. It's just not true.

So, I said about this home when I posted it just a few days ago: I said, I hope it brings. courage to the save. conviction to the laws 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 video, I have to ask you, where was this shot at? Where did 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 uh about a hundred and thirty 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. It is. 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 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. We need to hit them with everything we've got.

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's it looks like a movie, it's 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 at because this is 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, this 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. I mean, that we could be in an entirely different world today had he not turned his head, the president, and 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, you're 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 Um 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 gonna hear him speak tonight. He has a different look in his eye. And um I happen to think that that whole thing was orchestrated on purpose to be scary, but to let the man survive. And and the boss reminding him, I got big things I need you to do, Donald. Pay attention.

What's it called? 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 looks 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 the 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 can't, 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 he 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. A fabulous new song that really gets into the heart of this.

I wanted to switch gears and ask you real quick about two.

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 hard Scrabble 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 nations can recognize. Tell me a little bit about how you think that's gonna play out to a nation, because you got Scranton Joe, which I think is like a manufactured, hard-scrabbled 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. 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 JD 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 are meeting 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 an angel food cake versus chainsaw. Oh my gosh. She stared at it. It will be so horrific. It wouldn't shock me if they don't do it, if she pulls out.

I mean, there's no. She's the border czar. Yeah. Wait till JD starts drilling her on that.

So you're the border czar, huh? That's main. 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.

You think they're going to replace Joe Biden? Because 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 get out of the room.

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 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 in flames, we've got. Russia going through, 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 got to be laughing Kamala Harris, all right, come on in. I'm so excited. 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 sink. That's the way, exactly.

I think that's the perfect way to put it. Our good friend John Rich, you know. Where yeah Tough times, but we can take some refuge in the knowledge that the battle's 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, Rennant 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 it. Thank you.

I'll give you one quick update.

So, song right now on iTunes: today is the last day of the chart.

So, it's six days old today. Tomorrow a new chart comes out. Revelation is number one in the 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 too. 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.

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Mm-hmm That's a lot.

So he's he gets in trouble. He gets in trouble.

So. We also have this guy. He, um Didn't want to share his uh Uh Passcode? On his phone, he did not want to share his passcode, his password, his phones, like to unlock his phone with his girlfriend, and he jumped into the ocean. Hmm.

This sounds, this dude doesn't sound trustworthy, just gotta say. He would rather literally jump to where the sharks and gators live. A 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 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 Commission officers questioning the guy. He identified himself as AJ, him and his girlfriend on a boat in the keys. And uh 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. 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 go.

Just saying, just saying, it sounds a little sketchy.

Sounds a little sketchy. What else we got? This. Oh, yeah, this one. This is one I.

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You know, the left that is in disbelief that Trump has a bandage on his ear after being shot in the head is the same left that wanted to wear like plastic face covers and masks and all this other garbage on their heads because, you know, they wanted to protect themselves with magic, this talisman from this virus. The Dana Show. I know that there was not the same red meat sort of blood and soil nationalism that you might hear in, I don't know, other parallel universe Republican conventions, but I do think there were some sort of Easter eggs of white nationalism in the speech. One of the things that stuck out to me was when he started talking about what America is. He said, America is not just an idea.

It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. The thing about America is that it's not a group of people with shared history. In fact, That is the dumbest stuff. First off, that's not really what an Easter egg is. It's not like.

you know, some kind of Um Like referenced with a double meaning or something and like that's usually what you would see in like movies or games or something. That's not what that is. That's just so dumb. Kate was like, it's like these people are using the language of, you know, the current generation, like, oh, hey, fellow kids. Right.

It's just not. The same. That's so goofy. That's MSNBC. And first off, welcome back to the program.

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J.D. Vance once made a joke. During his address when he was accepting the vice president nomination, he made this joke where he was saying That You know, he had a family plot or something like that. And people act like it's like a white, that's a white nationalist thing if you have a family plot. Are you kidding me?

Is that a white that's how is that a white nationalist thing? They hate normalcy, I think, and so they're trying to demonize everything that's normal. They've gone after his Venmo friends. I'm surprised they haven't gone after his Spotify. His oh, wait, nope, that's actually they did.

Oh my gosh, I literally was making a joke. as this story came up. Ugh. I'm turning into The Simpsons. J.D.

Vance's personal Spotify playlist littered with anti-Trump artists. Yeah. That's an actual Story. Hold up. Let me look at that.

I can't believe that's a story. Hang on. Uh Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, I gotta go look at it. I can't Oh my gosh. It's real.

It is so real. I can't. It's a daily dot piece. I was joking. This proves they have nothing.

They literally have nothing. I'm dying to know what's on this playlist right now. Right. So A Spotify profile with his name. And a twenty twenty one photo of himself with his dad at a Trump rally shows the current Ohio Senator following three accounts Imagine Dragons.

Rage against the machine. and a lawyer who graduated from Yale the same year he did. And they said that He has seven public playlists. five of which he curated. And those include playlists named Making Dinner.

Running number one, Soul Plus. and two other playlists titled after songs, Morning Is Broken by Cat Stevens and Gold on the Ceiling by Black Ease. The two playlists he did not create are acoustic covers and then apparently a lullaby because he's got three kids, like a little playlist of like kitty lullabies. That's so funny. What are we supposed to get from that?

He's like Hitler. If Hitler would have had a playlist, you know. And so here they go. Oh, okay, now to Steve, because Steve is like. waiting on the edge of his seat for this.

He's got a 40-minute making dinner playlist that he created in 2012. And it includes Justin Bieber's one time. Oh hell yeah. He's uh gold on uh the gold on the ceiling has Cheryl Crowe, Ryan Adams, oh, Lisa Loeb? That's some Death camp for cutie.

Uh Tracy Chapman, Billy Bragg. Uh Uh who else? I don't see many people. Oh, and then they wait, this is an actual graph. Notably absent from Vance's public playlists are prominent Trump-supporting musicians like Ted Nugent, Kid Rock, and Trace Adkins.

What? Maybe he's not into that music. Steve, what were you going to say? You were going to comment on some of it.

Well, not a bad playlist, some of it. But also, we play a lot of songs, especially on the show, with artists that literally hate Republicans, but we still like the music, you know? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. That's a great point.

These, that's how the left is. I can't enjoy anything unless it agrees with me 100%. That's why their art started to suck really bad, too, by the way. I mean, nobody I don't Care if someone, oh, and I mean, and it went over all like all this. God.

That's just so bad. This is so this is so stupid. Th this is a hit piece? Oh my gosh, he's got Cheryl Crowe on a playlist. His Nazify playlist.

Oh my gosh, this is so stupid. And it's it's hang on, he's got uh Oh, he's got some U2. Um What else?

Okay, go. The killers. Matt and Kim. Um Bonnie Raits on his Morning is Broken playlist. Casey Musgrave's, let's see.

This is a milquetoast list. This is the press desperately trying to find something about him. Because, see, he wrote the book about himself.

So, there's nothing else they can do on him. He came out with it. He's like, yeah, I got a mom who's a junkie and all this. I mean, he came out, there's nothing they can do. Not only did he come out with it, but he made a movie about it with Ron Howard for Crying Out Loud.

What else are they gonna and Glenn close? What else are they gonna do? They're like, Damn, we can't go after him for having a junky mom. Gosh dang it And then he had her at the RNC. And you know they're extra salty because Netflix reported that hill biliology is actually.

you know, performing well. Doing well on these platforms. Yeah. There's they they have no I mean, I can you imagine if they uh So, I don't know. Let me pull this up.

I have a whole list on, I have a whole playlist on Spotify. Hold on, let me pull this up. Uh Called Songs About People You Don't Like. Literally. Oh sorry, dislike.

Songs about people you dislike. Uh Bee Went Nuts by Benfold. The jam scrape away. They might be giants. When will you die?

I Hate People by Anti-Nowear League. He was a big freak by Betty Davis. Get in the ring, guns and roses. Part-time punks, television personalities, Rip Her to Shreds by Blondie, Vicious by Lou Reed. Waitress in the sky by the replacements.

No feelings by the sex pistols. Stupid girl by garbage. I mean, it goes on. I mean, can you imagine that she actually has a list about songs about people you dislike? That's literally what I call it.

I curated the list. It wasn't one from Spotify. He just has literally dinner time. And then the name of a gold black key song that he just didn't feel like titling the playlist. Isn't that a lullaby song?

Oh my gosh. They are freaking out that there's nothing to freak out over. That's what it is. They're freaking out. And so they get mad because he talks about having a family plot.

Can I just talk for a minute?

So I don't know if it's like a thing. in like southern parts of the country. As opposed I think they have family plots in like the northern Yankee parts of the country, for the lack of a better way to put it, right? That's why you have all those creepy old family cemeteries in like New York and things like that, right? It's not unusual.

My family, on one side of my family, they have a family plot out in the Ozarks on top of a hill. They get a little over the top with some of the graveyard accoutrements. You know, like, I just think it's weird if you're putting wind chimes up in a cemetery. I'm like, who's listening to that? You know, they, my family used to do this thing that I would make fun of called the Southern Graveyard Vigil.

Where they would go and constantly put like knickknacks and stuff on like all the tombstones. And I would have an uncle that would get real mad and go up with a garbage bag and sweep it all up because he was tired of all the kin putting stuff up there on like fiber optic angels and all types of stuff. I'm not even kidding. Like it was over the top, right? Like the pinwheels and everything.

I like that's creepy. Stop. But um it's just the thing. I don't I don't know. And it's not like it's a fancy thing.

It's just plots in the earth. That's all it is. Wh so why are they acting like if I mean, if you look at s like the left, they have like mausoleums and stuff like that. Stop it. It's not unusual, right?

How is that white nationalism? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Like I said before, they're just trying to take normal and make it look weird. I I can't even. I don't know.

This is, it's, these people are ridiculous. This is so ridiculous.

Well, you know, it's like um It's what? Nationalism. It's an Easter. No, it's just literally a cemetery. You dumb B.

It's a cemetery. It's not And I hate the media's phrases like Easter egg and, you know, dog whistle. That was another one, dog whistle, where no one said anything bad. It's just that the stuff they said could sound like.

Sound thing. This is so stupid, the media, and the left.

So is everybody a racist if they have a family plot? White nationalist, yeah. Oh, sorry, white nationalist, which is apparently not a racist, I guess. I don't even know what that is.

So if you have, if you have. A Family plot, that's white nationalism. Yes. Which is that worse than racist? I don't know.

Isn't it the same thing? Is there just base racism and then sounds like more official? Like you get like a patch or something. Like if you level up from racism, you go to white nationalism. Yeah, I don't is that how it works?

I don't know. Like when I like as opposed to that, compare I don't know what the left is really good about groups and lists and stuff. You know, and patches and armbands and things like that. That's like their thing.

So I don't know. I'd have to. I'd have to like uh um Brown shirts and stuff. Yeah, I guess. Yeah, I'd have to default to them on that because that's what they're really experts on.

Yeah, like everybody gets a brown shirt, everybody gets an armband, right? That's like their whole thing. It's what they it's what they do. I'm just, you know, I don't know. That just but they yeah, they went after his Venmo.

J D Vance left his Venmo public. Here's what it shows. Nothing. Yeah. Wired ran a whole story on this.

More than 200 people appear on Vance's Venmo list. I mean they And there's nothing really there. There's nothing there either. They're so mad. They're desperately trying to find something.

And they can't. They cannot find anything. Fancy's friends. I'm not, I'm reading from this article. Fancy's friends have an average of 277 friends each.

Oh! And yeah. Uh I don't even No, this is so stupid. This is so stupid. This appears to be his actual contacts, said a guy at some leftist organization.

Few of Vance's transactions are public, and those that are seem mundane. Like a payment to a staff member for donuts in January. I am literally not making this up. Wow. They literally have nothing.

Yeah. Uh they I can't and then they went and they found One of Vance's former Senate campaign managers, Jordan Wiggins, who apparently would label. transactions with joke things. like back waxing or happy ending and adult and then like a movie thing. And Wired goes, Well, these descriptions are likely jokes.

Wiggins didn't respond to a request for comment. Because you're a tool is why. I can Cannot even believe this. Guys, they wrote. Let me count the paragraphs for this story.

But that 2012 Spotify playlist, though. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. Oh my gosh, 20 paragraphs. This is over 2,000 words. Good lord.

on mundane transactions from Venmo. Not a single human has made it through that full article. Oh my gosh. I can't wait for them to look at his open table reservations. Or his Instacart.

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They dumped illegally, one might say. No one wants your stupid pop-up ad, and I'm never gonna go to Vail now as a result of it. Let's see. The second jet ski was dumped illegally near in the city's northern section. And they said that both jet skis, because the other one was abandoned in a different Like further south on the same street.

Both jud skis had the name Kirby scribbled across the side. What? Kirby. And it was in a towaway zone. As the second jet ski was there until like last night, apparently, and they finally removed it.

But yeah, it has Kirby on the site. What do you think it is? You were saying that this looks like a marketing thing. Yeah, one of those viral marketing things where who knows? Maybe is there something coming out with Kirby, the actual video game, Kirby?

Or something? A poof thing? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know.

That pink poof. It just seems like it would be a marketing thing where they're getting stories and it's all mysterious, and then boom, they're gonna drop something. I don't know. A Sam's Club worker was left bruised after an Angry Family attacked her because she would not prepare two whole pizzas minutes before closing. Because that was a de-bag thing to ask minutes before closing.

It was in an Atlanta suburb, Henry County, and the employee was attacked. She and her coworkers were closing down. A family walked in two minutes before closing and asked for two pizzas, two whole pizzas. And they said that when she told them it was too late to place an order, they started calling her names. The mother walked behind the counter to the kitchen and punched her in the face.

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So Amazon delivery partner fired gunshots in South Philly during an altercation. What is Philly with the jet skis in this now? What the hell? During an altercation with a bus aide, a school bus was full of children. They And a delivery partner for Amazon fired gunshots during an altercation with the school bus aid.

So when they're not running into people and trying to deny accountability, they're firing shots. Yeah, who knew that? The bus driver wasn't able to make a turn because of a parked Amazon van, and the bus aide got out and asked one of the drivers if they could move. And then apparently, the altercation got underway, and the guy got a gun from his Amazon truck and opened fire on the bus driver. I mean Eno, come on guys.

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And she was doing a Sikh prayer, S-I-K-H. And I don't know if you know a lot about the Sikhs. I think they're pretty hardcore. I mean, just go look at the history with the, you know. Fighting Islamo-fascism and all this other stuff.

And it's, I mean, there, you know, you have like natural allies. But she was leading this prayer at the RNC. And I've been to conventions before. I used to have to go for work, but I don't have to if I don't want to now because I'm older and put more time in. Um I've seen Gosh, Baptist, Baptists come out: Catholics, non-denominational, Protestants, Jewish leaders, I mean, like everybody.

Because they always have like a couple of people come out and they lead a prayer like every single day at like different times of the day.

So it's not unusual. But there's been this like really big argument that has really erupted. On the right, about the place of Christian faith in the RNC. And there's a lot of concern about the removal of like pro-life language from the platform and the removal of defining traditional marriage as being between a man and a woman. And I love what Joel Berry said, he's the managing editor of the Babylon Bee.

And I wanted to read this to you because I think it should. It's kind of long for a t-shirt, but it's t-shirt worthy. He writes, quote, In his, he wrote this on X. He said, Sorry, pro-life evangelical leaders. When you nominate weaklings like Romney, McCain, and Mike Pence, you lose elections.

When you act like politics is too dirty for Christians to be involved in, you lose the party. When you think evangelizing entails inviting your neighbor to megachurch movie night, you lose the culture. The Republican Party is no longer yours, but you weren't pushed out, he writes. You gave it up. You stopped fighting for it.

You were too busy building your stupid megachurch kingdom with its 28 satellite locations and inane self-help sermons while the culture and the country fell into disrepair. There's still time to turn it around, but you have a ton of work to do. And he adds, too, that you lost the Republican Party long before Trump. They paid lip service to your cause, but they never really cared about it. And you were satisfied to remain uninvolved and punch the ticket for whichever polite, milquetoast, family man with good hair told you the right things while giving up on every single issue.

And he ends with, Trump and Trump supporters didn't start this. They just exposed it. Oh my gosh, that's a sermon. And joining us right now is Joel Berry with the Babylon B. God love you for writing that because I am so glad that you said this.

And I say this as someone who lives in a town where we just had a mega church scandal at the Gateway Church with one of the pastors over there, and it became this huge thing. And I'm like, and I always hear all the time from so many leaders: don't, you know, politics is dirty, don't get involved in it. You know, it's not, it's like you're not really, it's like bad for Christians to get involved. I'm so glad that you said this. Tell me what your thoughts are of all of this, because I think what you said is what a lot of people are really feeling.

Yeah, I think evangelicals, for the most part, have themselves to blame for this. For the last two decades, we've been told. Uh, you know, if you get involved in politics, if you're an outspoken conservative, you're worshiping power, you're practicing idolatry, you're living for the kingdom of man rather than the kingdom of God, you know, you hear all this stuff. And our leaders have been examples of complete impotence in spite of our high ideals, the things that we believe. They haven't done much good for the Republican Party.

They haven't done much good when it comes to. Preserving our culture and stopping the march of the left. And so we shouldn't be surprised. I mean, while we were being lectured from the pulpit about not being too political, uh from our evangelical leaders people like harm eat dylan were kicking down doors Fighting for liberty for our children and our grandchildren. And so, of course, the Republican Party, they're going to go with the people who are actually fighting, who are actually doing something.

As opposed to the people who are kind of sitting off to the side just waiting to be catered to, like evangelicals have for so long. Yeah. And you mentioned, you know, while these people were doing this, people like Dylan were going out and fighting the good fight. And even during the COVID lockdown, I mean, our church was one that locked down. And I, I mean, we had like, you know, people within our church.

Talk about how it's, you know, it's nice to wear your face mask because it makes other people feel comfortable and, you know, keep six feet away. And yes, you know, and try to justify, you know, at a time when the church should have been open and they weren't. And that's when really a lot of people were really motivated to get out. And that's why we see so many people and there's so much passion right now. But you make such a good point because I do feel like the church kind of accommodated that.

Not all, but some. They COVID was a great shame for the church. I mean, the fact that the churches shut down for months and months and months when people, the sheep, Christians needed to be fed, needed fellowship. It was such a colossal failure. And in a time when the left is aggressive, the left is getting their policies.

Past. At a time when we need people who are bold, people who are willing to speak the truth in a hostile culture, people who are willing to fight and win. Evangelicals, especially, particularly our leaders, not necessarily the rank and file, haven't done anything. You know, a great example, you know, I live in Ohio. We had issue one, which was one of the most horrific pieces of legislation.

It legalized abortion up to the moment of birth for any reason, no questions asked in a largely conservative state like Ohio. I was part of the pro-life movement at the time, getting pastors. to say anything. The pulpit. To oppose issue one, getting churches to organize to help with voter drives or.

Or attend protests, anything like that. It was like holing teeth because pastors, well, you know, that's politics. You know, that we're not supposed to be involved in that. We might lose our tax exemption. There's this great fear.

Uh, in evangelical churches about doing any of that, not so with the left. You go to a Democrat church, you go to you know, you know, a black church, they are. Preaching politics every Sunday from the pulpit. They are getting souls to the polls. They are organizing.

And we're just not doing that. And so I think the Republican Party, they started to look for, okay, we need people who are willing to fight. And evangelicals just don't seem to have the fight in them anymore. I think that's a huge point. We're talking with our good friend Joel Berry, and I think you're making a point that a lot of people are really scared to make because nobody wants to look like they're being too harsh and criticizing the church or criticizing their faith or criticizing their elders or anything like that.

And I get that totally. But then at the same time, there are a lot of people asking, well, where's that representation in the RNC? You know, the language about traditional marriage and the language, you know, on abortion. And that's, I mean, it seems to be like, you know, and it is kind of a pretty moderate, you know, right down the middle position on all of that stuff for this platform. It's not anything like we've seen prior to Republican RNC platforms.

And it's, you said it's because, you know, evangelicals really removed themselves from that fight. I don't really see a lot of that activism as much on the right as I used to see when I was younger. Yeah, and well, I think the good news, though, is that I think the younger generation has mostly rejected that kind of weak need. evangelicalism of of you know the last 20 years I think the bold Christianity and outspoken Christianity is back. It is sad to kind of see it being taken out of the official Republican platform.

But I think that it's coming back in a big way, and I think our voices are going to be much louder. And I think we're In the next 10 years, you're going to see Christians being a lot more effective to get some of these political wins. Talk to me about this for a minute, about the idea of. That you're being a bad Christian if you're involved in political outreach. Because that, if it's not said, it's definitely intimated in a lot of churches.

And I have so many, so many of our friends in our church. It's like it's like the dirty thing. Like we, you know, people know that I work in politics, but it's like a dirty thing that we just don't talk about in church. It's just very odd. What are your thoughts on that?

How do we overcome that?

Well, I think part of it is a little bit of an embarrassment reflex. You know, we, you know, the 90s and the 80s, we had the moral majority and the Jerry Falwells. And there's this kind of like, well, we don't want to be those icky, you know, right-wing Christians. And so a lot of evangelical leaders have kind of. Taken upon this mantle as being like PR reps for Christianity.

We have to be cool, we have to be kind of. You know, pleasing and winsome, and we got to invite people in. We can't be like those hard-nosed Republicans. We can't be like the Rush Limbaugh types. And so they kind of just pushed all that aside.

And there has been, there's a lot of kind of like passive-aggressive shaming of any kind. Outspoken conservatives, outspoken Christians who are involved in politics. And as a result, you're seeing school boards in. In largely Christian areas are being populated completely by leftists, you know, city council. Local elections, I mean, we've completely given this up to the left.

You know, the evangelical voters are the most reliable pro-life, pro-family voting bloc. If churches were to mobilize, I We could make sure that a Republican never lost an election again. But I think there's just been this overwhelming fear from our leadership. Um you know To to look bad. They don't want to look uncool.

They don't want to look square. And it's like a business approach, too. I mean, I understand that you're out there trying to win souls over, but sometimes it it maybe and correct me if I'm wrong on this, sometimes for me it seems like you have some leaders out there that are more interested in adding more You know, seats to the corporatized megachurch than actually going out and winning the souls. Yeah, they're entrepreneurs now. They're trying to get more more butts and seats.

And they have one people to their buildings with slick programs and cool music and really kind of watered down sermons that don't really have a lot of depth to them. And they're at the point now where they have these 20,000 person churches A third of which are on the left politically, and they know that if they speak out, they're going to lose all these people. What do we do? And so I think a lot of it is absolutely money, money motivated. Because it's not like people are speaking out on, you know, like.

Tristan trying to think of, you know, like taxes or something like that. I mean, you're talking about life and you're talking about, you know, the building blocks of a functioning society, which is a family that parents, a man and a woman start and, you know, all of that stuff. I mean, these, they're not controversial things. I mean, it's very biblical, but they're very nervous to talk about any of this stuff, which is weird because the stereotype from the left is that they're not, but in reality, they are. Yeah, yeah.

Well, the thing I always tell people is that Christians are meant to be salt and light. You know, our presence in the world should make the world look different. We're not meant to just kind of sit in our churches and our ivory towers and we just kind of like listen to our sermons and that's it. We're supposed to go out, and it's supposed to make a radical difference in our communities, in our states, in our countries. And so I hope that the tide is turning in Christianity in America.

I hope that we're kind of turning back that fear that we've had for so long. Because we are. We're going to lose our republic. We're going to lose our freedoms if evangelicals don't start mobilizing. Yeah, that's a good point.

One last thing, you add. You want God back in the party. Me too. That requires you to emerge from your pristine ivory towers and take your Christian faith into the ugly, messy world of political action. You add, feel free to join us, but I won't hold my breath.

You don't sound very optimistic there, John. I'm naturally a pessimist. That way, I'm always surprised if something good happens. Right, right, right. I hope it does turn out well.

I hope it does. And and and what do you ex I mean, do you think that that's gonna what do you what would you like to see? I actually, this will be my last question to you. What would you like to see with regard to this issue in the RNC? Because I understand people's concern, and I completely agree with you 100% on this.

I understand the concern that individuals have, but like you, I'm like, well, where were you out here fighting for this? Or why were you so quiet on this issue? And it's always like the same groups forever that have always held the line on issues of like life or marriage or things like that. And some of the people that I see speaking out the loudest about this now, I've noticed were pretty silent during some of these battles before. Yeah, I think really the only thing that's going to turn this around in a substantive way is going to be it's going to take radical spiritual revival from the ground up.

I think all of us need to repent. Our leaders need repentance. We need repentance. We need to get back to the basics of what scripture says. Preaching the plain truth of scripture, speaking the plain truth of scripture to this post-truth culture, and living it out.

And I think w once we do that, I think You'll start to see this groundswell of change. It's going to look weird and mysterious, and we're not going to be able to necessarily put our finger on it, but I think it has to start in the churches with repentance and revival in our hearts. And getting back the basis. Yeah, I agree with you. I keep hearing people say, oh, we're navigating a post-Christian world.

I don't know if I'm ready to adopt that line of thinking yet. Post-Christian world. Yeah, I'm not ready to accept that. Joel Berry with the Babylon B. God bless you, my friend.

I appreciate you joining me today. Thank you. Hey everyone, so Donald Trump has picked his new running mate, J.D. Vance. Trump looked for someone he knew would be a rubber stamp for his extreme agenda, and make no mistake, J.D.

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So they've set three debates. Apparently, Harris accepted three dates. for a debate with Vance. And apparently, it's going to be hosted by CBS News.

So it's going to be one of these dates, right? Not all three, it's going to be one of them.

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And I think it would be funny if Vance just like beat her to the punch with all of her sayings. Are you unburdened by what has been? Yeah. Alright, today's stupidity came. What are we going to do?

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You know, I That I don't get. I see it this way. Fighting with words. Yeah. Yep.

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