Absurd Truth: The Pardon We Expected.

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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. That's right. This is The Dana Show and it's time for Florida Man. My name is Craig Collins, filling in.

I got two of them. The first story, 54 year old guy named Richard. That is important to the story. His last name is Hallmark.

I don't know why I'd care about that part. I was pulled over by the cops. When he was asked who he was, he said his name was Robert, which is actually his brother. The cops then looked into his vehicle.

They found a backpack that contained a bunch of pot methamphetamines, all kinds of illegal stuff in Florida. So they said, hey, whose backpack is this? He goes, oh, that's my brother's. His name is Robert, which is the name he gave them, pretending that I guess he was actually his brother. And then he realized his mistake. And I know even though people like George Foreman name a whole lot of their kids the exact same thing. Same name, believing that there were two Robert Hallmarks was too much for the cops to believe.

So the guy broke immediately. He goes, and I'm actually Richard. I'm not Robert. I just told you guys that because, well, I have a warrant out for my arrest and I don't know what's going on with my brother. But that's totally his backpack. Whichever Richard or Robert, you want to believe that he is.

I love that that mistake happened so quickly. Police were able to crack the case. And Richard Hallmark is now in jail and he's probably going to be in there for a little bit as we figure out. Whose backpack it is. His brother, Robert, probably not thrilled to be a part of the story unless, in fact, he's guilty, too.

I don't know. But that's a nice moment. We're like, no, no, that's not who I am.

But then that's also not my backpack. And I've backed myself into a corner. That's one Florida man that's out of central Florida.

The other one is just outside of Tampa. A guy went into a Publix and loaded up a cart of stuff and then just wheeled it out, which is actually a felony based on the amount of money that he was stealing. People called authorities. Well, the dude was putting the groceries he didn't pay for inside his vehicle. And this is the craziest part of this story. The guy went back into the Publix to do it again. He was like, hey, this worked the first time. His name is Andrew.

He's 42 years old. As he was going through his second attempt to steal more stuff and rolling a second cart full of groceries and things he did not pay for out to his vehicle, the cops arrived. They arrested him. He was stealing from the Publix. But I like that he stayed to commit the crime a second time, just in fact, so they could catch him in the act is nicer than just having the video and everything else prove that what you did is a thing you shouldn't be doing. My favorite part of this story, though, is the statement from a local police in the area, the Polk County sheriff, Grady Judd, who said Sylvester tried to steal not one, but two cartfuls of groceries from Publix. And then he paused for a second and said, we're shopping is a pleasure. So it's nice that the sheriff is on board with the team at Publix. He then said that stunt landed him in a county jail where arresting criminals is our pleasure, which I love even more.

Create your own tagline about how idiots get in trouble if they're doing certain things in Florida, where in other places like New York, they're probably just released again as horrible as it is. And I wound up back doing terrible things, things much worse than just stealing a bunch of groceries from a grocery store. I don't know how you have the I don't even know what I want to call it because it's not a good thing. I wouldn't call it courage. I'd call it the arrogance to go into a store, load up with groceries and just roll out and think you're not going to get in trouble for that. I don't know how many people do that or attempt to do it in our world.

It feels like it's too many. And this dude just looks like the kind of guy that doesn't give a crap about anything. I don't know how to say it any differently. Certainly doesn't give a crap about the beard that he's letting just grow insanely.

But that makes sense to me. But again, I don't know where you get the the chutzpah or whatever I should call it that's negative, even attempt this and to go back for round two. I wonder what's in his brain. I would genuinely like to talk to him and discuss it, although he's not going to be available for a while for an interview because he's busy doing other stuff.

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Lots and lots of things out there. But the absolute biggest discussion, biggest conversation is easily the fact that Joe Biden decided after claiming he wouldn't do it for quite some time to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, of any and all charges, any and all crimes going all the way back to 2014, which is an interesting time to choose, because that's when the Burisma stuff first started to happen between Hunter and between even the current vice president at the time, which would be Joe Biden, and leaves us in this very odd state where we have a lot of questions and by design, absolutely no answers. Although that might change, Hunter Biden can now no longer plead the fifth if he's brought in to testify in front of Congress for something because, well, he can't be tried for anything. So there is no jeopardy there. But let's play some of the brilliant supercut that was put out by Tom Elliott, of Grabian, of all the times they lied to us and told us this would not happen. Joe himself said he wouldn't do it, that they believed that no one was above the law unless that person is named Biden. Probably going to wind up pardoning a whole lot of other Biden family members as they would be next on the list as far as people you go after because Hunter didn't act alone feels like a statement that I could say time and again. But here again is the brilliant Tom Elliott, of Grabian, of putting together nine minutes, I can't play all of it, of media praising Biden for something he absolutely did that they said he wasn't going to do. So there is an opportunity here for Biden to say, you know, the jury found him guilty.

This is how it's supposed to work. Period. Paragraph. End of story. Have you ruled out a pardon for your son?

Yes. As I said last week, I will accept the outcome of this case and will continue to respect the judicial process as Hunter considers an appeal. You know, the president said he won't touch it. He's not he said he's not going to pardon his son.

And it seems that Mayor Garland let it go through. How can the Justice Department be weaponized against Trump when all of that is happening? The Democrats stand for the rule of law. Remember, law and order, you know, and we've been saying that Trump's not above the law. Hunter Biden's not above the law.

No one is above the law. And it is amazing to see the stark contrast between how Democrats handled today and how Republicans handled this whole thing over the last couple of weeks. The egg on everybody's face, if that's actually all I thought it was and not, you know, like honest or actual intentional lying. I shouldn't call anything honest, but purposeful, giving us just crap information after crap information. It's incredible. And as I said, Tom Elliott put together nine minutes of this. You can find it on X.

We can play a little more. The outcome of the case. I know no other word for that, but presidential. He even went so far as to say he wouldn't pardon his son. That's how much respect he has for the system.

President has said that he will not pardon his son. What did you think of that? I thought it was extraordinary. I mean, it was a moment of just moral clarity on the part of Joe Biden and couldn't have been in starker contrast to the way Donald Trump has handled his own conviction. You know what's so interesting about all this, too?

I'll stop it there. The left loves when they can point to something and say, look at how different this would be if Trump were involved. They love vilifying the former president and yet and the soon to be current president. And yet so often we see them do exactly the thing they say that Trump will do, even if he's never done it before. The threat to do it is out there. I mean, look at the the world we live in right now and the amount of danger that is essentially on a world stage because of conflicts that didn't happen when Trump was in office.

That sound like they might be resolved when Trump gets back into office. That did happen during this administration. There's just so many lies and it's so crazy. And beyond it all is the statement by many that if you actually dive deep enough, you'll understand why it happened. Or you'll you'll see how, you know, political this entire thing was, which is amazing because it's exactly the same stuff that Trump has been saying, for one, not that I'm saying you should believe it in this case.

But Trump has been saying it for a while and media has been attacking him for even putting that idea out there. One last thing on this. Corrine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, was asked this standing outside of Air Force One with a gaggle of reporters.

Her and John Kirby were given initial questions. And this was the back and forth, which, again, I thought was it's just they've been priming you for this for a while in saying that Hunter is a child and that Joe is just a really great father. And anyone could have sympathy for all of the challenges that he's faced, whatever it might be. So we've been we've been hearing a version of the inevitable excuse for quite some time. But here it is. You have said repeatedly yourself since the election, the president has said for months no pardon was coming. I just I wanted to ask you, could those statements now be seen as lies from the American people? Yes, really. A credibility issue here, given now this announcement.

Yes. First of all, one of the things that the president always believes is to be truthful to the American people. That is something that he always truly believes. And if you see the end of his eye, I assume that you've read his his statement and you look at the end of that statement. And he actually says that in the first line in the last paragraph and and respects the thinking and how the American people will actually see this. Now, the American people don't see it the way you want them to see it and didn't see a whole lot of other things that you told us were one way the way that you saw them. We saw a lot of lies and a lot of crap and we're seeing it again. And the heartstrings approach of saying he's just a father that's taking care of his son and any other father would do that in that situation. Actually, you're enabling your son to continue doing horrible stuff, not saying that Hunter Biden is necessarily falling back into all those worlds he was in before.

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That's all family pharma dot com slash Dana code Dana 10. And now all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's quick five. So a bunch of quick five stories in the world of football that I thought were interesting. Buffalo Bills, the team asked their fans to help clear snow before the game they had the other night.

I thought that was interesting. A whole bunch of fans showed up volunteering to clear two to three feet of snow over the weekend in order to play and have people actually be able to show up at the stadium. A lot of the snow was left in the seats, though, according to the videos, which is weird.

And people did have to still sit on piles of it. I don't think they got anything for volunteering to help clean snow either, which is wrong. Give them something. You got to get some sort of maybe you can't go to the game if the tickets are sold out.

But I got to get some some sort of win here and I don't see what the prize was, but it wasn't much. Michigan and Ohio State got into a brawl. Pepper spray was used by police after Michigan defeated Ohio State. Yet again, the number two Buckeyes fell to an unranked team as a big deal and also probably a conversation because of the pepper spray and whatnot over the holiday. And then finally, the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech had one of the most incredible games in NCAA football history. Going eight overtimes, but also demonstrating that the college football playoff rules are stupid. Just play regular football into overtimes.

I don't care if it goes a long time. I didn't love the argument back when it was first made. I think in the, you know, mid to early 2000s, they had to change the rules because they're college athletes and for the players health. If two teams are going to play real football and not gimmick versions of you got to go for two and weird things. Football for eight or nine overtimes. Let it happen, man. I want to be back in that world. I don't want to be in this crap world, especially when a two point conversion wins a game. It didn't deserve to win. All right.

Non football related stuff. Also in the quick five, a man jumped out of a roller coaster in Arizona or more like climbed out, although jumped is the word a lot of people are using when he realized he wasn't locked into it right as it was approaching its first big drop. It's a roller coaster that actually goes upside down a couple of times. So terrifying situation. And the dad said he was lucky it was him and not his kids.

I have a couple of pieces of audio of this, but this is this is insane. His lap bar released right before they started the part of the roller coaster that probably doesn't end up well for him. It was just adrenaline and I didn't want to die that day. I heard a click noise that was different from the chain taking us up the hill.

And I checked my lap bar and it released. It could have been one of the 11 year olds could have been somebody older, not as agile. Right. It could have been a lot of things that happened there. And it's terrifying. He actually went on to also say that he was surprised no one saw him climbing out of the roller coaster and stopping the ride.

As mentioned in, I think that news coverage and other places. Arizona is one of a few states that doesn't have any sort of oversight over some of their roller coasters. Probably something you want after this. And honestly, just real quick, as a kid, I was convinced, although I didn't get off the ride, I stayed on it, that I had a lap bar that released a little bit, not all the way on a ride that just would swing you upside down constantly. And I survived because I believe I held myself into the ride. And as a kid, I remember all of the people, my family I was with being like, that can't happen.

You're being crazy. Now I feel like maybe it was true. I can't prove it.

I don't know. I was young and I didn't actually fall out of said coaster. But part of me thought it happened then and believes maybe it happened now, although I wasn't in Arizona. So maybe that's a part that's missing in my story. A taxpayer has also spent 18 million on Jack Smith and his cases going after Donald Trump.

That's a whole lot of just wasted money. Twenty one, twenty two, twenty three million dollars, depending on what assessment you look at, just flushed down the toilet to do a whole lot of things that either seemed absolutely politically motivated or that are now being claimed to be politically motivated by the current president. That's my favorite other part. If I have one to the way in which Joe Biden, our president, put out a statement saying that he was pardoning his son is he makes several references to a deep political, corrupt process that went after Hunter because his name is Biden. It sounds an awful lot like all the things Trump says about all the unfair investigations into him. And actually, there's one other thing. I can't get over this now.

I'll play some audio in just a second that I find interesting, too. But I think NBC News put out a a opinion piece. They're the ones that published it talking about how many journalists have left X about twenty two thousand. I'm not sure if we'd all call them journalists, but that's what their byline says they are. And the twenty eight thousand five hundred or so that have joined Blue Sky, which is trying to be the old version of Twitter all over again, that censors just one side of a discussion. This is a genuine question.

And I actually want to ask it in a genuine way, even if it's going to seem a little snooty or snarky or whatever you want to call it. If you're really a journalist, if your desire is to tell the truth to the world, why would you run away from a platform that allows you to say whatever you want, that allows you to engage people who don't think you're telling the truth, that allows you essentially to fight whatever disinformation and misinformation you see is out there directly and go to a platform that's just going to hide that stuff? If if you were actually after the truth, which, you know, journalists of old were after, I think they'd love to be on a Twitter, at least what they claim Twitter to be. And I don't agree with them on what they say it is. But if it's a platform where a whole lot of people that disagree with you are willing to pay attention or go after you or whatever you think they're doing, and you can just refute them with facts, those can live on that platform and be there for anyone else to see and be influenced by.

But that's not actually the point. The point of a lot of these journalists isn't to go after a topic or issue and give you more data and more truthful information to sway your opinion. It's to remain in their echo chamber. And so a whole lot of journalists are demonstrating to you how much how much of an issue they have with a fair platform and how much desire they have for an unfair one so that you just accept everything they say is true without the counterargument.

It's it's incredibly disappointing or lazy or whatever other words you want to choose to use to see this published by an NBC or anyone else as like a good thing. Like now we know that Blue Sky is a more valuable platform because the journalists who are afraid of conversations are running to it and running away from the other one. That's essentially like begging to be a lawyer that only takes cases that you know you'll win, that you think every part of you is like, OK, I know what's set up here. I know who the jury is.

I know I'll win regardless of the facts. That's not actually trying to fight the good fight, man. And the journalists always want us to believe that it's horrible to say out loud that they're, you know, biased or corrupt, too. It's terrible. How dare anyone think those things?

Apparently, they just want to be in their place where, you know, they have the easiest ability to hide from any of that scrutiny. To me, hilarious and also awful. 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.