Daniel Penny Gets Sued, Hegseth Drama, and Texas Takes on THC

You can look at that on a multi-faceted approach of everything that's wrong with the system that we're facing. One, look at the photo that they used to show the victims. It seemed like it was a young, innocent child who was brutally murdered, and it gave that impression. When you look at the photo that was being used, it wanted to set up in the minds of people that we were dealing with a young, innocent child that, you know, just a Michael Jackson intimidator that, you know, was just brutally assaulted. Then you look at the complete failure of our mental health system, a complete failure.

From the days of closing psychiatric wards and having those who needed help just turned over into the street without giving any safety net to accept them. Parents reach out to me all the time and say, I'm watching my child go down or my love. Or my family going down this serious decline. What do we do? A system where you brought people into hospitals, gave them medicine for one day, and sent them back.

The young man in this case was going within our system, throughout the revolving door of our system.

Now, we're on the You know what he's saying isn't wrong, but it's not what the media wants to promote. And what he's saying and this that's Eric Adams, by the way. The uh Mayor of New York City. Because, and this is about this Daniel Penny case, which I don't know if we're going to have a verdict today or not. And Yeah, we're supposed to, but it's day three now.

I'm like, what's the holdup? Like, who's the. Who's the juror that's like Oh, I don't know if he's innocent or not. I mean, the guy's innocent. I mean, the the stupid stuff that they had.

And the way that they portrayed Jordan Ely, and of course the parents are all in it now. I don't know if you we're going to talk about all that. I don't know if you've seen any of it. The parents are all involved in it. All of a sudden the parents Total dead beats.

I mean, they've been deadbeats. They're complete deadbeats. They uh now are saying that they want to sue. Because They are blaming Daniel Penny for Jordan Ely's death. And they're saying that they want to sue over it.

And the dad came out and the mom came out and The problem is that they are deadbeats. The dad was the I mean, the dad gave him up a birth. They're deadbeats. And then they come out because they smell a grift. They smell the opportunity for money.

They didn't care enough. They didn't value his his life enough when he was alive. But now that he's dead and they can make some sweet cash off it, Now they care. His parents are absolute pieces of excrement. I think Daniel, I think that Jordan Neely's parents, they raised a thug.

I think his parents are thugs. I think that they raised a thug. I think that they raised a guy who's trying to blame being crazy for just being a murderous jackass who punches women and tries to attack mothers with their newborn babies, tries to kidnap seven-year-olds, tries to shove people, you know, on the. On the tracks. And That's stuff that the media didn't want to tell you about, by the way.

We've talked about it on this program. The media didn't want to tell you about it. And This, I mean, it's it's sad because you know, he chose that he chose to live his life a certain way and he chose to go out a certain way. And I'm sorry, I only give so much, I only extend so much to people who are like, oh, I just didn't know I was murdering people. I was crazy.

No, you know. I hate this whole, well, let's just put it in the crazy bin because I think it i it it it excuses so much just willful bad behavior. And The Choice of of of doing evil. That's what I think it does. Welcome back.

Welcome to the program, actually. Dana Lash here with you were at the top of this first hour. Yes, I'm still under the weather. Everybody comments. I appreciate the nice things that you've said.

People are like, oh, I can tell you sound so, but you're sounding stronger. You're saying, thank you for the encouragement because this is, I don't get. Super sick that often, and man, this one was a doozy.

So, I sound tougher, don't I? Listen how tough I sound. Listen, I'm going to get back to the meat and potatoes of it, but wouldn't you rather me be like, all right, it's time for the radio program. But it doesn't work, though, because you can see me and. I don't sound.

Do you think people want that? I don't know. I would love it. I'd be like, this person sounds like a hard ass. I'm listening to this show.

That's me, right? I'm. Am I the only one who does that? I don't think that's how it works. But I think it does.

No?

Okay. Anyway, so if I all of a sudden get into a sneezing fit, just roll with it. Let's pretend it didn't happen, right? Let's just pretend like I'm your drunk relative at the Christmas, Thanksgiving table, whatever. Just roll with it.

All right, so that's so this Daniel Penny case is one that we're watching. For a number of reasons. Obviously, because it's a travesty, number one. But number two, the other reason that we're watching it is because of what this means For self-defense. Do you remember how I've told you so many times that a lot of these instances of self-defense have nothing to do with guns?

This is a case of self-defense that has nothing to do with guns. In fact, I think it further. Underscores the point that I've been trying to make, and that they're not coming after. Your firearms. That's just the doorway.

They're trying to get people. to agree with them on guns.

so that they can go after something ev something else. They want to go after your ability to defend yourself. They want to go after people. who dare defend the innocent. Because this is a system that they have, this system of lawlessness and disorder.

They get paid off of the system.

So The Really, the crux of the issue that's being determined here is whether or not you. Have the ability and the right to defend yourself. Or whether or not someone else has the ability or right, or whether they're allowed to defend you and your love, or themselves.

So It's a big, um It's a big deal. And that's one of the r that's the other part of this, which makes it just it just makes it sad. And How this case comes out, I don't know. I mean, you know, you've had like a ridiculous prosecutor. You've had uh I mean, the way that the media has written about this, you you had witnesses.

I told you guys this in the weeks after Penny's case. There was a woman who actually not one, there were three women. One was a younger woman. She was a Younger woman with a child. in a stroller.

uh and that she was on the platform. There was an older woman and then there was a another, like middle-aged woman who was kind of single. who were single and were going to work. And all three of those women told investigators, and the New York Post actually had the interview with the older woman. Uh they told investigators and they also told the press that they felt so much better that that Daniel Penny had stepped in.

because they were terrified for their lives. And the older woman even remarked that Jordan Neely at the time was moving aggressively. Towards the woman and her baby. I'm gonna tell you what, I'm on a subway platform and you're trying to threaten me and my baby, I will flay you. I will flay you like the damn Middle Ages on that platform.

I am so tired of this nonsense. Women with their babies should not have to cower in fear because of unchecked. You want to talk about toxic, quote-unquote, masculinity? Jordan Neely was toxic, quote unquote, masculine. I mean, it wasn't even masculine.

That wasn't even masculinity. He was toxic. That is toxicity. Not Daniel Penny. Daniel Penny.

is chivalry. That is gallantry. That is a man stepping up and he's protecting the people that he sees being put in danger. Is it the responsibility of the mom trying to protect her and shield her baby? From this violent, murderous thug?

Is it her responsibility to know his entire life story and to know that he 10 years ago he one time impersonated Michael Jackson? Whatever the hell that matters? I mean, is it her job to know all of this stuff before she can make a decision? as to whether or not her life and the life of her child are valuable enough for to be protected, for her to protect herself or for someone else to step in. Because that's what New York City is deciding right now.

That's exactly what they're deciding.

So Jordan Neely is the toxicity. And that's how it honestly that's I mean, that's that's how it should be. It's how it should be portrayed, but it's not. It's so sad. And I and these pe these these witnesses, they came out.

And They were You know, telling the press and investigators were so glad that he stepped up. We are so glad. We're so grateful. And thank heavens, you know, he did because who knows what would have happened.

Well, we kind of have an idea. And by that, I mean we kind of know what he would have done because he's already did it. He punched an elderly woman in the face. And actually, at the time of his death, there was a warrant out for his arrest on that. He shattered the nose of an elderly woman.

He punched her in the face. on the subway platform. He tried shoving another woman onto the tracks. of a subway platform. And that was just a few months earlier.

Uh, I think what, the year before? Is he was trying to, he was on video trying to take a seven-year-old. But you know guys He he used to, he, how cutie patootie. He impersonated Michael Jackson 10 years ago. Don't forget there was the Reddit thread.

where they were warning other subway riders in New York City to specifically watch out for that platform and watch out for him. That is That's I mean that's that's Unbelievable. And Daniel Penny's the problem? The guy the the the veteran With no record? Daniel Penny's the problem.

New York City is going to burn itself to the ground and they deserve it. I mean, that's You know.

So that's one of the uh that's one of the cases that we're watching. Uh, one of the stories that we're watching today, because and we'll see, maybe we'll have. a verdict. Maybe we will not. But that's what they're determining right now.

Also, Couple of other things. This uh let's see here. The the ongoing battle For I guess some of the sec deaf stuff. Pete Hugseth is still. Is still fighting.

Uh I think it's kind of sad that his mom was dragged into it. But Now, everybody's there. People are sharpening their knives against Joni Ernst because they're saying that she's waging an aggressive. uh battle to defeat his nomination. And everybody's going at Joni Ernst.

One of the things you got to realize, and this is why I love not being in D.C., every time I get an invite to go out to D.C., I'm like, no. Not I can't. Every one of these groups, including a lot of the conservative websites you read, if they don't have advertising on their website, You need to realize they're paid by somebody. If they're not selling ads and they're not selling subscriptions, they are paid by somebody. Conservative websites too.

It's a business model. In fact, BuzzFeed was one of the ones to actually do that native advertising as it pertained to a media entity. They had their whole business model set up. When they first launched to operate that way. And there are a lot of others that have followed and done the same.

So, any website, conservative or to the left, but people on the right tend to think that if you're on the right, then you can't, you don't do the same stuff. And they do. The reason I say this is because I noticed that there are a lot of the websites. Who I know are in fact, and because I'm friends with a lot of the publishers, and it's a distraction to have a fight about it. I know for a fact that they're paid by entities.

I know God's honest truth. May lightning strike. They're paid by entities. They get money and then they use that as a way to push certain issues. And it you know would in in the beginning it would be like oh well it's oil and gas.

Which, you know, I love Ontland Gas, so I don't care. It things like that. But now there's like different inter-party issues. Where you have someone's group who wants to push someone for something, and they're going to, like a lot of the influencers that you saw around the primary, absolutely were. A lot of the stuff that you saw with the amendments in Florida, absolutely were.

I'm seeing this, these same sites do this with Joni Ernst. And I'm not a big Joni Earns fan. I don't have anything personally against her. I think she's kind of a moderate. But I just think it is very curious that these websites are now all coming together with the exact same headlines and the exact same stories.

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So the Vatican has unveiled the new Pope Mobile. I'm really disappointed in this.

Okay. This is a poke for crying out loud. I mean, if I got to walk around in all the robes and everything, you best believe I'm going to be walking out in some like Warhammer 40K looking stuff. You know, he's got an all-white electric Mercedes. All electric white Mercedes.

This is... I've is it am I being too picky? I might even- I mean you're the Pope for crying out loud. 40k it up. Walk out and have like those things with the smelly, the potpourri in it, waving in the front.

Like, walk out with all of it. Good night. Pope Curry. It should look like a mobile processional. Not this, this looks like a mom's grocery getter.

It's electric. Stop, come on. You know, I mean, if there's anything that the Pope would be good at, it's pageantry. I am let down. Let down.

Let's see. Bill Maher said, I don't care. He says he might quit his HBO show after Trump. I don't care. He's a pansy.

You know why I'm still mad at Bill Maher? Because Bill Maher, this like D-list pervert who like once propositioned me an email and I was like gross. I have an agent at UTA. Go talk to them. Came out after Parkland and like accused me of trying to get a reality show with this guy that I've never met.

And Bill Maher repeated the Stooges accusations. Maybe they were a part of the Epstein Party Club together. I don't know. Perverts stick together. And he repeated this guy's accusations on his show.

So Bill Maher can go pound sand and all the people who try to kiss his ass for relevancy can too. Oh, and the body roundness index is replacing the BMI.

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So the. Hexeth fight is still happening over the cabinet pick. Missing Is Trump coming out going, I really want him to be confirmed? I'm just pointing this out. Because everybody's like talking a lot for Trump.

Except for Trump. Here. Am I wrong?

Well, he did say yesterday to keep fighting. I don't know what so that's way different than that. You mean the actual words that I want him confirmed? Yeah. Why can't you just go out and be like I want him confirmed.

Confirm him now. Or stop picking at him. Or senators, shut up. I mean, it's Trump for crying out loud. Don't be careful.

Do you think that he's ever, when has he ever been like, oh, I don't know if I should say that? When has he ever been like that? No, but I mean I know that I don't want to speak for anybody else, but I always look at when someone gets nominated, that's him wanting them confirmed. Yeah, but he needs to, like, I think. It's weird to me that he has not.

Gone out. And vocally backed up. His Pickmore? I think. I mean saying that You know, yeah, keep fighting.

That's okay. He said that to like a million other people. That's like a generic run of the mill. This doesn't cost me anything to say. It cost him more to say, I am standing behind my nominee.

That's a big difference. I'm just wondering what's happening here. I want to, don't you want to know what's going on behind closed doors? I kind of want to know what's happening. I've been hearing a lot of stuff.

So I'll tell you what I heard. From very well placed people. And I and again I mean, I don't dislike Hegseth. I don't I think it this is a a bunch of Me Too stuff, whatever. I don't dislike him.

And I don't think that we are short of good choices on the right. It's not like there's a scarcity of opportunity at the table. And I think that we need to get rid of that bimbo mindset. But I do think it's weird that he hasn't come out and said You know, I'm standing behind my nominee 'cause there's more fighting over this one than there. I mean, you go back and look at Gates.

He didn't say anything about Gates either. And then there was like a post on True Social or something or or a tweet. Where He had basically put the nail in the political coffin, so to speak.

So it's that's you know, that's what I'm looking at. I it's it's it's it's odd to me.

So I Like I said, I've been I I hear stuff and I don't know what to make of it. Because there's always, you know, there's a lot of stuff that's happening. behind the scenes, I guess, as they try to wrangle. Everybody wants their own pick. Everybody wants their own their own pick.

But one of the things that I heard And again from a very well placed source. is that Uh POTUS Elect is tiring. of seeing all these headlines. with about Heg Seth and the back and forth fighting over it. He wants a win.

He wants a home run pick. He doesn't want to have to fight and claw and tooth and nail. and have the whole process gummed up. Because remember, What did I tell you from the get-go? He's got to come out blazing in January.

He has got to do more in two years than anybody else in history. He really does. He's got to do a lot. And When you are in the You know, the confirmation hell process, so to speak, like Hegseth would be. And I'm not saying don't pick them, I'm just saying this is what some of the stuff that I've heard.

That's going to take time and it's going to gum up the machine. And it's going to take you a lot longer to get the stuff done that you need done. Because remember, right as we get into this, we've got about. a little bit over a year before we get into the midterm process. It is what it is.

So what I've heard is that that's the thing that Trump is concerned about. He wants he understands and has listened. and knows that he's got to be all gas, no breaks, when he comes out. And they've got to act faster. then the bureaucracy can respond.

And from what I am told by literally people in his inner circle, that he is very well aware of this and it is a priority.

So that's very good news. But also I'm hearing that He is dissatisfied with seeing these headlines. About Heg Seth in the press, and it's it's he does not want any concerns or questions. About someone who ultimately is going to be heading up the most powerful department. in all of federal government.

I mean, yes, you have your Secretary of State and you've got your chain of command. But D O D? A your sekdaf is no mess. And That's That that's a concern that he has. I'm also told that it's two different camps who want two different people.

and that one camp is very much uh still backing Hegseth. and that the other camp, from what I heard, is the one that suggested the Florida governor's name.

So that's where it is.

Now I don't know how that works. I don't even know if the governor or De or if DeSantis would even accept it. It's I did not see that one coming, admittedly, because that's kind of out of. Way out of right field, isn't it? That's kind of your and and it makes you think you're like wait a minute One of the things I don't want people to be baited into And I see this as a tactic.

To support Hag Seth. And I think that you can support Hag Seth without tearing our other people down. I hate when I see those progressive tactics. It's usually done by people who have not been in the field long. And I hate it because it's cheap and it's unintelligent and it's illiberal.

But I see people like, oh my, they're trying to run up that divide again. Between uh I guess what, like Trump folks and DeSantis folks. I don't even know why there is a divide. Like, what else do you? I mean, good grief.

The man went out and endorsed him in the prime. I mean, he ran his primary like a man. He didn't win the primary. He didn't take it like a pansy. He was a dude about it.

I mean, the hell else do you people want? You know, I'm like, geez. That's the way you want it to be done, am I right? I just see peop. I see the people bitching and moaning about it.

Those are the betas that are bitching and moaning about it. Get over it. And the reason I say that is because you can't have this. We don't have time for this stuff. Like, we got to get out there and we got to all gas, no brakes, like I said.

And I see some people who are defending Heg Seth. use attacking DeSantis as the way to defend Hegseth. And that is not the way. How in the hell are you going to attack literally the most conservative and most successful governor in the United States? One of the most successful Republican governors in our country's history.

How are you attacking that guy? as like your lame attempt to try to boost up. I I like Heg Seth too. But you don't have to tear down your own side. It's like the left is structuring these arguments.

Here, here's how we can get them to defend this guy while tearing themselves apart. Stop it. Jimity, Christmas, who the hell's driving this crazy bus?

So To me, I just don't, I don't know, I don't know, I'm still kind of processing it. But Like I said. And these are two different dudes, too. Two different dudes, two different approaches. And I think you got to look at: well, what does DOD need more?

And I think this is probably maybe what Trump is weighing.

Now think about it, you're Trump and you're looking at DOD. Guys, we know it's a mess, right? Hi, we all watched people legit falling off planes in Afghanistan. I mean, you remember? In the lead up.

To the evacuation of Kabul. Remember, they went from Bagram, or they went from Bagram Air Force Base. Then they moved everything. They were moving equipment, moving stuff, moving folks all into the Harmid Karzai airport, which was in the middle of Kabul, which was weird. They had a base not, you know, that was a little out on the outskirts of the city that was more fortified and better protected.

They moved everything into the city, into the airport, into the city. where you have A lot more entrances and exits that you have to that you have to man and fortify, excuse me. And then they knew that the Taliban were rolling through Afghanistan. How do they know? Remember the WhatsApp?

Yeah. I I read a BBC piece where a village had surrendered before the Taliban rolled up. And then they just bypass the village for uh time. And they just sent a representative in, I guess, to negotiate terms. How did they do that?

They were all on WhatsApp. Taliban was telling everybody, oh, we're coming into your town. We're going to be taking over unless you go ahead and surrender. That's how they were rolling through Afghanistan. They didn't even have to show up in battle half the time, right?

So they knew they were coming. They knew it was going to be a thing. They knew they were going to go. They had already their moles in the city. They knew they were going to be there.

And so They didn't do anything. DOD didn't do anything. When Millie was asked about it while testifying before Congress, he sort of brushed past it. Because he was asked about changing. Chatter beforehand.

This wouldn't chatter. This was on WhatsApp. Like Easily. I mean they they could have seen this easily. And so That's one of the problems.

The DEI stuff is a problem. You know, I was talking to uh Someone who is. And the We'll say Army leadership about this. And there are a lot of good people in the military that are wanting this stuff to change. And one of the things that people have to realize too, and I don't envy anybody who has to take over Secretary of Defense because they are going to have to go in and reorganize the house, and it's going to be hell.

And I was talking to someone pretty high up in the military very recently. I had a meeting. And they were talking about recruitment. And I said, respectfully, I don't know how you can sit here and talk to me about recruitment when you've got guys in makeup and skirts. who are sitting here talking about, you know, m the military, when there were thirteen service members who were killed due to dereliction of duty by the upper levels of of military leadership.

When we all knew, CIA, all our intel departments, military knew that the Taliban was rolling through Afghanistan using WhatsApp. You know, Mike, when we allow the stuff that we are allowing to happen, because you have people like General Milley and all these other guys that are more interested in DEI than actually apparently appreciating the tactics necessary to secure victories that we've achieved over the past 20 years, Mike, you're sitting here talking about recruitment. This is what the next generation of people who enlist are seeing. Why the hell would they want to enlist in any kind of outfit that they don't feel not only doesn't have their back, but but doesn't even understand the the objective? Gives into mission creep.

doesn't even prioritize the objective. That's the issue. And I know that a lot of this stuff, as far as the DEI stuff, might be few and far between in the military. But you got to realize, too, the military has not been great about messaging things. I'm not talking about the publications that say that they're stars and stripes or whatever, but they're actually owned by a foreign entity.

I'm talking about, we live in a new era.

Now, that's not to say I don't believe that military members need to debase themselves and endure the indignity of having to post stupid things on Instagram all the damn time. But I think explaining things like, you know, how it is that one of the deputies, one of the generals that's in the Army, was able to cut $22 billion out of the budget for jets that were going to have old tech and not even be delivered for another decade. I mean, that's pretty significant, right? You don't hear about stuff like that. Why don't we hear stuff like that?

Why is nobody talking about it? That's the kind of stuff. There are so many things wrong with DOD.

So. Back to my point when Trump is looking at all of this. He's got to figure out what kind of leadership. Hmm. Do I need?

to solve this. What What do I need to solve this problem? And these are two very different type of people. Very different types of people. And to say that one may have a skill set that the other doesn't have is not an insult to either one.

Let's not fall into that stupid trap. That's like saying, well, because you're congratulating men on this, you're saying women are less than. It's not, stop it. Different skill sets. We got to be very practical about this stuff, folks.

Very, very practical. We're going to have more on this. We've got a lot more on the way as we move and head towards. Days of these United States Our friends at Patriot Mobile. This is the best cell phone service that is out there.

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So, people who feel like they're at the opposite gender when they're 15, 16, they're still adolescents, they should be treated with the same medical urgency as someone who needs purity blockers for a different reason, like a true medical condition. Correct. It's a medical condition. What about things like mastectomies in general? Mastectomies are not done online.

In general, mastectomies for people who believe that they're a different gender. Should that be treated with the same medical urgency as mastectomy is for people who have breast cancer? Yes. Oh. What?

Wow. We are not the same. We are not the same, y'all. No, no, no, no. Wow.

That's The mindset of people. One thing is elective and it's entirely in your head, and then the other thing is a very real. thing. I can't even I mean this is wild that Kane are you okay over there? You're like um I don't know what it's said.

Your jaw fell off. Yeah, I don't know. What to say? You know, 'cause it's like an aspirin.

Okay. the risks associated. It's like taking an aspirin, you know. But yeah, the one's a mental so he's right, it is a medical condition, it's a mental. Condition.

One is a medical one that can be treated with actually medicine. The other one requires. you know, therapy. Yeah. and some work.

Yeah, not the same. Not the same.

Now you can see the issue before SCOTUS right now. The Discussions, which we're gonna d get into because they were hearing the arguments on that. Tennessee case about the experimental surgeries and the hormone blockers and all that stuff.

So I'm just, you know, I'm just saying. I ain't even just sayin'. It's uh very interesting. Indeed. We're going to come back to that.

We have a number of things to touch with, to touch on, actually. Let me pull this up because I've got a lot of stuff here. We've got obviously the ongoing Daniel Penny case. Uh Another interesting story, Jeff Bezos. has come out and said he is very optimistic.

about the incoming administration. and is now offering to help streamline regulations. and he dismissed concerns about Elon Musk. leveraging government power against competitors.

Now You've seen A lot of people like uh Even, you know. Zuckerberg, go to meet with Trump and you know all of this I'm wondering. You know, is it Are they all wanting to get involved because they don't want Musk to have that advantage of being that close to the administration? Or are they really supportive? I don't know.

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You're a lovable retired curmudgeon. I'm in a Christmas plaid shirt, so if you're not watching, The simulcast of the radio program. which you can see on Rumble or channel 347 Drive TV. You're missing out because I don't wear a lot of color. This is, it's a Christmas plaid, right?

A plaid. Isn't it? Yeah, I feel like I wanna go chop some trees and Like pet some reindeer and whatever the hell else, like the Paul Bunyan types do. I'm just saying.

So anyway, welcome. Welcome to the show. Um I saw the story of this. I don't know who this chick is. I don't want to give her attention.

She's like a wannabe media matters thing. And she's um Very upset because apparently at one point The, you know, how when people do like podcasts or excuse me, when they're doing digital specials, They some sometimes they have drinks. have like They'll sip some whiskey or something like that, especially if it's like a veteran show. It's not unusual. I mean, there's different regulations for public, actual broadcast airwaves and then digital.

So, like, you can't, you know, if you're running stuff, you can't be drinking when, like, I we being on terrestrial terrestrial stations have different rules that we have to go by. than if you're just doing like a podcast or just digital. And so Hegseth apparently dead. They uh e ep an episode for a Fox digital thing. Were they He was sitting with a group of veterans and they were talking about.

war and military issues and things like that. And they were all sipping whiskey. They weren't doing shots. They were sipping whiskey as one should. You know, that's how you have, that's how you partake.

And this broad is super upset. She's like, oh my gosh, look, people were saying that. That Pete Hegseth actually drank on the set for one of his shows. And I'm looking at this. I'm like, first off, it's a digital.

Don't act like it's like a Fox and Friends episode because it's not. It's a digital thing and that's a commonplace thing for a lot of these. Shows. They sit around, they have very casual conversations, and it's a longer viewing period. And so it's way more casual.

So stop it. But number two Let me let me make sure I understand this. properly, right? You have The broads. of the ideology.

Where they think, hey, it's okay, just make my mattress like McDonald's, a thousand served under these arches. You're in a million billions served under these arches. Yeah. have a rotating Kiosk. Intimate partners believe in abortion on demand, supported by the taxpayer up until the moment of birth.

But he sips some whiskey. On a digital thing that he did for Fox, and that's what you're going to clutch your pearls over? For real? Like just let's compare the ideologies here. Again.

Because this chick is on the far left.

So, yes, abortion on demand. facilitated by the taxpayer up till the moment of birth. No personal responsibility, nothing like that. If you make an error regarding recre uh recreational intercourse, then well, you could just undo your error by killing the baby. You know, that's that's okay.

But sipping some whiskey You see what I mean? Like, there are these new books, I've been saying this for years.

Someone wrote a book about it. after I've been saying it for years. These neo-Puritans on the left that want the enforcement but not The principal. It's weird. We're showing you some of exact that episode right now.

Now, you're seeing this that Juan's showing you on the simulcast. It does not look like they're doing shots, Kane. No. They're sipping. It's a sipper.

In a very casual setting. They're actually in somebody's basement, I think.

Somebody's walk out basement. I don't know where the hell they are. Or a bunker. And I mean, he didn't even shave.

So they're there. I mean, this is like man cave stuff. Yeah. It's dude stuff. Nobody's doing shots.

They're not drinking irresponsibly.

So this is actually some of the evidence that they're trying to say disqualifies him? Yeah. For real? Man alive. I don't know.

I I just think that I can't really take uh criticisms about standards from the Let's Let's do get rid of babies as a form of birth control party. Can't I mean, if that's your ideology, I l you legit have no room to criticize anybody doing anything else. Not at all.

So that's some of the latest that they keep trying to shove out. Because I keep seeing that. over and over again. I keep seeing it, uh, brought up. I'm like, I just don't think that that's that's not what drink that's they make it sound like he's doing like doing a cabinet kegger.

Oh, he's drinking on the job. That's so goofy. That's just that's stop. Stop, stop, stop.

Now some of the other stuff. That I wanted to hit on. We got some audio too. I don't I want to play this video Kane, it's in Slack, but it's very juvenile. Oh, yeah.

So you guys remember Eric Fartz? I mean, Swallow. Verbal typo. Yeah, it's a verbal typo. It was completely an innocent.

That's how error. I need to. I need to discuss this video just because it's funny and I need a palette cleanser. And also, wow. It's almost Friday.

I mean, you know it is. It's, you know, like I said, next week everybody's going to be drunk on eggnog. Half of you are going to be paying attention.

So let me get your attention. This is Zoe Lofgren. She's a Democrat, of course. What is up with people from California and their personal gas issues? I don't get it.

She just let her rip tater chip right there on CNN. Go ahead, roll tape. Watch her eyes. That power of the purse is with the legislative branch, not the president. And I do want to ask you because of your work on the January 6th committee.

Okay. That's gonna leave a mark. Dana, you're juvenile. I am. Hi.

Did you just we meet just now? Did we? That's the smartest thing that was said on CNN all week, believe it or not. Smartest thing. Crazy, right?

Mm-hmm. That fart is gonna get its own contributorship. It's gonna happen. Zoe Lofgren's fart. CNN contributor.

Ha ha. It would be tubing in Tutan. I can see it now. It'd be like You know, those the the big shit. It can host a show with uh, yeah, uh Jeffrey Toobin.

Right. It can ho Toobin can host it with uh hosted by Jeffrey Toobin and Zoe Lofgren Smart. See that? Yeah, there you go right there. I mean, it is.

It's, I know, I totally know that it's juvenile, and I love it all the same. Love it all the same. And notice Jim Acosta's face. He wasn't even, Jim Acosta has this thing where he looks at his monitor.

So if you're watching the simulcast, like I'm looking right at the camera, I don't have a teleprompter, I have a giant screen in front of me. that I refer to for notes or if I'm like reading, quoting something for you. And then I have a monitor that shows me the program right below it.

So you can't really see unless You kind of can. If I'm looking right at the camera, if I'm looking at the monitor, for some reason, it's like CNN's monitors are five feet under the camera. I don't get it because he's not looking at the camera, he's looking all the way down at the monitor.

So when you're the viewer and you're watching, even when he's, Only when he's unless he's reading the prompter. Does he look at the camera? He doesn't look at it. Unless he's reading the prompter. He's always like this.

Always. If you go find clips of Jim Acosta, this dumbass cannot look at the camera to save his life. He's constantly looking down at the monitor. And I'm like, dude, bro, look at the camera. But then it makes me wonder: well, how low are those monitors?

Like, look at where his eyes are. His eyes are like all the way, I mean, his whole head's turned down. How far away from the camera? The monitor should be right underneath it to where there's not really, and the monitor's just, you know, so you can kind of see, you know, take a glimpse. For like show elements, like sometimes I'll look at it if we're doing like a side by side or something to make sure, because I move so much, that I'm not aggravating Juan and I'm like in the middle of the shot because Juan is obsessed with symmetry.

Because he's good at his job. That's what he does. He's like, everything's got to be symmetrical. Everything's got to be in its place.

So I try to help out by not. Mm-hmm. Going everywhere.

So I'll refer to the monitor. He always stares at it. And then I noticed When he's questioning people, Remember when he was in the White House press corps? I 'cause I was looking at some of these videos on break. He doesn't look at people in the face when he's asking them a question.

That's true. Even when, and one of the videos that came up was that time that he grabbed that woman's arm. When he was questioning Trump, remember? And they were having a very It was like he was having a very heated, you know, Q and A. It was a White House press avail.

And even then he was not, he would not look at anybody in the fa it's weird. He's a weird cat. He's a weird dude. I don't know. I mean, maybe Zoe Laughren's fart's going to take over his show because, I mean, at least that looks you right in the face.

Just saying. Can you hear me again, please? Steve is obsessed with us. Steve was the one who was like, watch her eyes. I heard it once.

Okay, go ahead. Go ahead. That power of the purse is with the legislative branch, not the president. And I do want to ask you, because of your work on the January 6th committee, that almost sounded like a video game effect. Right.

Okay. Trying to think what that reminded me of. What video game sound does that remind me of something? Check that. Yeah, I I don't know.

But uh So I thought that was that was the smartest thing that was being said. On Yeah, smartest thing that's been said. I'm seeing in. Interesting headline. In England.

Mohammed becomes the most popular baby name. And as of 2023, Mohammed was also the fourth most popular baby boy name in Europe. There's a lot of Mohammeds. That's I I You're not ever going to be able to pinpoint when someone was born by their name. If if you're all named the same.

You know? 'Cause you can do that with names. Like Jennifer's do you know anybody who's named Jennifer now? Who's like under thirty? Is under thirty?

Yeah. No. You don't know a single Jennifer under the age of thirty. Yeah. What about a like a Kelly?

Uh Kelly under thirty? Uh-huh. Nope. You don't think about it. Stacy?

You don't know anybody named Stacy anymore. Under thirty. Nobody. Right? Yeah.

Everyone's like. Madison. Hana and No, like Thalon, all that kind of stuff. That's everybody's name. Everybody's named after like a Barbie.

It sounds like... Skipper. Sweater. But it's true. You know it's true.

But so Muhammad is now, it's the most popular baby boy name in England. And in 2023, like I said, it was the fourth most popular. boy name in Europe. It overtook it overtook Noah. And And that's even in England and Wales.

Oh wow. Hmm. So And it's been in the top ten since 2016. In 2023, 4,661 boys were given the name Muhammad. beating out the four thousand three hundred eighty two boys named Noah.

Third was Oliver, followed by George Leo and Arthur. Oliver's a very popular name, apparently.

So I don't know, just interesting. And it it's clearly due to the religious significance in the increasing Muslim population in the two countries, which has doubled since 2001. fast growing.

So that's the reason for the name's dominance. And I love how the spokesperson There was a spokesperson for this Middle Eastern news outlet who said, Well, yes. it coincides with the increasing diversity in names for boys generally. Not if it's all Muhammad. What are you talking about?

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Cuba's electric grid has collapsed after a power plant failure. They're early Wednesday morning. After the failure, Energy and Minds Ministry said, plunging millions of people into darkness, this is. This has been happening for the past like two months. Their power and generation systems have fallen into disarray amid fuel shortages, natural disasters, and economic crisis.

The mines ministry said that they're working to reconnect the electrical system. Good heavens, that's just... Amazon is sued by a DC attorney. For the DC AG. Excuse me, for allegedly Excluding neighborhoods from prime delivery.

This according to CNBC. They said that the lawsuit was first filed in 2022, but they said that Amazon stopped using its own delivery trucks in two Different zip codes due to safety concerns, and they said that that caused more than 48,000 prime members. to see slower delivery speeds. Than the rest of the district, despite the fact that they paid for the same subscription. and they had the same subscription fees.

Well, if it's unsafe. I mean if it's unsafe then You know, that's what it is. Uh unfortunately. Uh also Excuse me. The FBI is warning iPhone and Android users to stop sending texts.

Now they're saying to stop sending unencrypted texts because of everything from. Chinese cyber attacks to all kinds of stuff. But they're the U.S. Cyber Defense Agency. FBI and CISA are warning people, and this is at Forbes, to use responsibly encrypted messaging and phone calls when they can.

And they said that's because of the Chinese hacking of US networks is likely larger in scale than previously understood, is what they're saying. Hmm. And Aw, the world's oldest known wild bird lays an egg at seventy four years of age. This old, old bird. It's an albatross.

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True in every respect, but on page 195 of the CAS report it says, there is no evidence that gender affirmative treatments reduce suicide. What I think that is referring to is there is no evidence in the studies that. this treatment reduces completed suicide. And the reason for that is completed suicide, thankfully and admittedly, is rare and we're talking about a very small population of individuals with studies that don't necessarily have completed suicides within them.

However, there are multiple studies, long-term longitudinal studies that do show that there is a reduction in suicidality, which I think is a positive outcome to this treatment.

So This is the ACLU's attorney, the trans attorney. who was trying to present as an argument for her case. That Gender, I hate this phrase. I'm not saying gender affirmative. The experimental surgeries and the chemical castrations and the puberty blockers and the hormones and all of this stuff, the elective masectomies, all of it.

That It reduces Suicide? That was what they were trying to argue in the beginning. And now when they have to actually provide any something substantial to support their Their argument, they are unable to, and they have to. I mean, they have to relent and acknowledge that There's no Evidence in these studies that It reduces. Kane keeps going back to suicidality.

Yeah. Yeah, you like that word. It's everything. It's like, so, but people think about it, though, is the thing. People think about suicide.

So that's why we need these surgeries because people think about suicide. I mean, being suicidal and then have that's a very different what they're trying to. I mean, that's that's a Ma Bailey. That doesn't make any sense. Exactly.

That's so stupid. I mean, you're either, I mean, there's a medical evaluation for that. And literally, there's criteria already established to determine. Whether or not someone is suicidal, clearly. This is just them trying to shore up this this losing argument.

They're not gonna they're not it l doesn't look like the court is gonna lean their way. But we'll see. It just, um Other countries have done the studies, and they realize that there's no future in this path. That's good for that. Exactly right.

And they know that this is the end game here, but they're trying to play the drama up on, you know, the media is trying to do that now. with the SCOTA s uh situation.

So Now, Lorraine made note of this. I didn't, someone else did. Because I had this thought, but I wasn't going to say anything because I thought I was the only one. No Lorraine just came out with it in Slack. She's I'd say it.

Lorraine's gonna learn real quick. She goes, the lawyer's name is Chase Strangio. LOL, aka chasing strange. I'm dead. I'm dead.

It sounds like a very fancy way of saying the I mean, you could say chasing strange. That's just this, you know, or chasing strange strangio. Oh you Italian? Strangio. Chasing the strangio.

I don't know. Gosh, so you guys know what that means. I'm not, I'm not gonna explain it. Don't Google it. Do not I feel like they're doing it.

When I say to not came beer, is that the real name? Yeah, that's what her name is. That can't be real. Chase Strangio. That cannot be real.

So there's nothing real about this person. That's like someone's name. No, don't do it. You're going to do it, aren't you? Don't do it.

Don't do it. Well, you know, like if their first name was Michael.

Okay. No, I g I know what you mean. And I get it. And his parents are the Hunt family. What?

Just saying, it's l like a joke almost like jokey like that, right? It is. Chase Strangeo. What a name. Like of all the names you get.

For real, like if you're gonna change all that about yourself. Maybe don't make your name chasing strange. It's like chasing Amy but not. Right? You you're right over there?

Yeah. Hmm. I don't know, man. I blame Lorraine for that one. It's all her, man.

Believing a real lawyer? Is she a real lawyer? She has. She's a lawyer. She's with the ACLU, whatever that means.

But is the she part. The lawyer, or is the he part the lawyer? No, she's a lawyer. Did she get the did she take the bar or did he take the bar? I mean, does it matter?

I thought it did. I don't know. I but still, that's the argument that they're having. Uh that's the Supreme Court. I like I said, I still feel like th like SCOTUS, especially with some of the questioning, It feels like they're leaning towards Yeah.

I mean, in favor of Tennessee. That's what it sounds like. Um but you know, I I'm still we'll see. It's uh All right, we've got. I'm looking at some.

There's like a bunch of odds and ends stuff. Like, I've got Doge stuff. We've been talking about the. Cabinet nominees and this thing with SecDef, which I think we're not going to know until Trump actually just comes out and says, Hey guys. I'm either going to stand behind my nominee or I feel like maybe You know, maybe it's maybe we need to have somebody else, or because there's been a lot of rumors about DeSantis and all this.

So we'll, you know, we'll see. But I will say that one of the other moves, and I'm going to go to Doge just because I like saying it. One of the other things that we've seen Is This depart I I was actually shocked at this.

So Luke Roziak, who does really good work, and he's done stuff with Daily Caller, etcetera. He had said in his examination of the federal workforce: I did not know it was this much. He had said that Ninety-four per cent. Of The Feds of the Federal Government still works from home. The EPA had poisonous water in its own headquarters.

because it was sitting in the pipes stagnant from disuse. Mm. USDA inspectors. claim that they inspect food facilities for safety issues from home. It's 2024.

94% of them still work from home. What in the world? He noted that the Social Security Administration Just spent $120 million renovating its massive headquarters. But the building. is ninety one per cent unused.

And Biden just signed an agreement giving them all the way through the Trump administration. I mean, to be able to continue using this building. Even though Biden used his 2022 speech to say workers have to come back to the office and be productive. At the VA, Their website states that you can break away from the traditional 9 to 5, 40 hour work week. One-third of calls to one mental health hotline for veterans went unanswered.

This is unreal. Unreal.

So apparently now It looks like um This might be one of the first things Doge cuts. It might be one of the very first things that they cut. When you look at how Before the pandemic, apparently it was only 3%. of the federal workforce that uh work from home or teleworked or whatever. before the pandemic, 3%, like barely 3%.

Now they said 6%. report in person. on a full-time basis. One third of uh entirely are remote. The government spends $16 billion a year.

to operate. all of its bis all of its buildings, the properties that it puts all this stuff in, right? And so Even knowing that, Even knowing that, They only have an occupancy rate of 12%. Twelve per cent. Even GSA, and that's the General Services Administration, that's the entity that manages.

federal real estate. They work from home. They're based in Missouri game. Unbelievable. Like the EPA.

That's mu how Luke Roziak noted that. They had dangerous bacteria in their water according to an audit because the water was left in the pipes stagnant from disuse. But yet they have the unions, which I don't think public sector unions absolutely have no place in American society. Private unions are one thing. And I have an issue with private unions.

Public unions? Where the government gets to sit at the table with big fat cat public. funded by the taxpayer bosses. and taxpayers are told that we don't get to have a say in it. Oh, hell no.

And a lot of them taxpayers are private unions too. Private working private sector unions. Does that sound like it's fair? Hell no, it doesn't. But you have the public unions that are demanding full individual workstations for each employee.

maintained. in the event that they're used. Those rare occasions.

So now It looks like, because one of the things Musk has said is that if people don't want to come into work, then they can go find another job. I agree. But you know what what's more? If It's shown that we don't need all this, then why do we have it? If we don't need all these employees, why do we have them?

I think we need to eliminate a lot of these offices entirely.

Social Security Administration. Give everybody money back. Stop government spending. Take it all down to Article one, Section eight. Return money to the people.

Eliminate it. Eliminate Department of Education. Eliminate Social Security Administration. Eliminate DHS. I mean, I could go on.

On and on and on. But it requires an austerity that most people, including Republicans, don't have the spine to endure. Audio Summit 15, this congressman says it's absurd to get rid of the Department of Education. Listen. I've got many examples where CBO has absolutely failed to adequately assess the cost.

I think with the issue of getting rid of the Department of Education, for example, they claim it would cost millions and millions and millions of dollars to get rid of an agency. That makes no sense at all. You're getting rid of an agency that costs us $80 billion a year, and yet it's supposed to cost us more money if we get rid of it. That just is absurd. It's not going to cost you more money if you get rid of it.

Do you realize the amount of spending that we do per student in some of these states where you have the worst academic performances? What w what the state spend per student actually exceeds about 90% of private school tuition per student. When I was in Ohio, For an event, I think it was they were telling us that they spent over $13,000. Was that I think it was over 30. Let me check my notes.

The spending student per student. Uh in Ohio. Oh, sorry. I was under. It's over $15,000.

Per student. In fact, The approximate average is $15,427 per pupil. And that's in Ohio. That it that's in some states it's higher. Illinois it's higher.

Cal uh California it's higher, New York it's higher. I uh was at an event and I was talking with um Uh a family. And they have three kids, and their kids are in private Christian school. And their private tuition per student was cheaper than what they spend public school per pupil.

Now I home schooled my kids and then they went to a Christian school. And we spent less. per pupil. than what the State of Texas. Spend per pupil.

We spent less on their per-student tuition than what the state that's unreal. My point in telling you this is that when you talk about school choice, what you're talking about is allowing all that money that you're paying into these schools that are not performing. A Department of Education that has been failing your kids ultimately since its inception. And allowing you to To choose a better education for your kids. People who argue against school choice, they don't want your kids better educated.

They want you to be as uneducated as they can make you. They don't want your children To They don't want them they don't believe in upward economic mobility. And they use this as a weapon against it. That is what this is. They don't want you choosing a better school for your child.

These people who want to deny you the right of what to do with the money you work for and the child that you are raising.

Now you can see why this is such A common denominator issue for so many. Republicans need to be louder and louder and louder about this. Life can take a toll on our bodies. There's no way around it. And whether it's just sitting for hours on end at your computer or if you're working a physical job, over time, your body pays the price.

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It's time for Florida Man. Geez, straws, axes.

So This Florida man, a saw-swinging Florida man, struck a guy during a wrong way driving argument. Moy, oh boy. Yeah. So this, um Fort Myers. Lee County Sheriff's Office An argument over a wrong way driving landed one man in jail and another left with life non-life-threatening injuries.

Uh Rolando Ruiz Alonzo. Too many names, Rolando. He was the primary aggressor in the altercation. And according to police, the old dude began swinging a. Was it a saw or not?

A saw like tool? Toward a victim. As the argument escalated and the victim was struck, and then he also used a piece of ceramic pottery as a weapon, he was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. Uh I guess he was driving the wrong way and got called out. I don't know.

But good heavens, like, there's. How many people have saws and machetes there? Like, it's like people just go to their trucks and get them. Here's my machete.

Okay, here's my saw. A Florida man who was accused of murder was captured after TikTok revealed his whereabouts. People overshare. He shot and killed his girlfriend in front of her two children while they were at a cemetery, of all places. St.

Petersburg, where the police were searching for him for three and a half years, no success. And then a video of a local news story was shared on TikTok. He was in Mexico. And it showed him in Mexico. And they were able to get him.

So now he's been charged with first-degree murder and two counts of child abuse. They just happened to get him.

So Wow, they just happened to see him in the background of this news story. He was in Mexico. Not really hiding out too well, I guess. We have our third hour on the way and the latest with every just all the latest. Stick with us.

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So all good things. A few I I I gotta tell you. And we've been we've been watching all of this stuff. As it pertains to the, we were talking about Doge a little bit ago and a lot of these cabinet picks, et cetera, et cetera. And um I saw this story last night.

And I'm trying to wrap my mind around it. And I got aggravated. I always get mad at people who like think that Politics began the day that they signed up for an X account because some of us have been out here busting our A double snakes for quite some time, pushing it back against rhinoism, right? And you always get these like drive-bys who are like, Oh, I can't believe you people think that Republicans are, you know, like the party of a small government or whatever. And I'm like, you know, Broad, first off, you know, drop the Drunk Bridesmaid Act.

I get that you, you know, when you created your X account, you think that all politics began that the day that you became self-aware. But some of us have been out here doing the heavy lifting.

Well, you could sit here and go and get your overfilled face done and your ratty ass extensions, and you could try to like talk platitudes about it on X. Stop. I get so aggravated over this stuff. Stop it. A lot of people out there have been doing the heavy lifting.

A lot of you out there have been doing the heavy lifting, pushing back, calling your lawmakers, holding everybody accountable. And we're not going to be judged by people who just opened a drive-by account and all of a sudden want to weigh in like, you know, they're the generals of the movement. Stop it. We're not doing it. And I specifically got aggravated.

Over this one post that I saw from Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick of Texas.

So he. He posted this. Did you see this, King? I think I'm gonna. He said it's a major legislative initiative to ban all THC.

Thousands of stores have opened to sell all types of dangerous products with unlimited THC, and these stores even target your children, is what he's saying. Let me write in a first off. Oh, don't roll your eyes. I don't care if you're I'm not Tommy Chong, okay? Yeah.

I'm no Tommy Chong, but I know government overreach when I see it. That's what this is about. Today, it's about whatever the hell THC. Tomorrow, it's guns. You don't know.

So He had this, he wants to ban all THC. Thousands of stores have opened to sell all types of dangerous products. What? Wait, there's more. He he's talking about This Representative Tracy King.

This bill, blah, blah, blah. Part of the bill allowed for the commercialization of hemp, which might include unremovable, non-tox non-intoxicating trace amounts of Delta9 THC. Quote: Dangerously, retailers exploited the agriculture law to sell life-threatening, unregulated forms of THC to the public and made them easily accessible. They sold them to adults and they targeted Texas children, exposed them to dangerous levels of THC. I mean, they keep saying the word dangerous and then they use the word life threatening levels.

in another sentence. I'm sorry, excuse me?

Okay. Again, I'm no Tommy Chong here. But I'm pretty sure That You would have to have all the THC on earth. In order for it to be considered dangerous. Am I correct?

I was talking to some of my more pot-minded. associates about this.

Some of these, so yes, maybe we know people in California. I don't partake in any of this. But they get so into the like um What am I thinking of? The artisanal marijuana? It is hysterical.

How it is not a reality show, I do not know. If you've ever tried to see hippies turn into bougie, Entrepreneurs, it's the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. God love it. But anyway, Um Cain. Yeah.

They only don't they include like a tiny amount? And I don't I mean, it's not like they're tripping acid. Yeah, no, it's not unlimited. It's definitely limited. There's only so much you can.

I mean, you can regulate it. From what I understand, it's already Texas law that it's regulated. It is regulated.

So that's a lie. Dave Patrick published a lie. He's talking about the THC that they've, in the lab, removed a molecule so that it isn't. the illegal THC 9 on the federal level.

So he's talking about the THCs that have had the molecules removed so that they're a different THC from the THC 9, and he's saying that those are dangerous. It's a little bit different because this is sort of a laboratory thing. that's created For these vapes and the consumption for people.

So. I don't know, he's he's technically not lying though. I don't want to sound like Joe Rogan talking about this stuff. That's not an insult, but I'm just not a pot person. I'm not.

I'm not, but I just am like, this is big government. This is big government. Oh, without a doubt it is. Oh, without a doubt. It absolutely is.

So the same government that was like, y'all better get these shots, now was like, no. Yeah. You can't have gummies, right? Exactly. Same people, right?

And we are to listen to them why? I can't sell you on that. No means no, Texas government. It's not what AOC says. I mean Okay, because you guys think it's funny that I know so little about football.

Wait until you hear me talk about marijuana. This is Kane's other favorites. 'Cause I told what did I tell you yesterday? I was, what, how did I say it yesterday? I was like, well, doesn't THE DOESN'T just make you like fat because of munchies and suspicious?

Yeah, and you're like, no, that's not really. That's what you said. Yeah, doesn't it just make you suspicious and fat? Fat? Yeah.

And I'm like, what? What do you mean? Paranoid? Yes. Get the munchies?

Yes. Because isn't that like the common. I'm like, it's like you're always paranoid. And so, there are a couple of people I know who actually work in this industry, like I was saying. And uh Both of them are veterans.

And one of them we just met, but we know somebody that does this. It's like a lot of veterans use it, especially to help manage PTSD because they don't want to be hooked on big pharma stuff. They don't want to have to take like these, you know, psychotropic drugs and all of this. And they just need, you know, and it helps them to relax at night or whatever. I don't have any problem with that.

I don't know why anybody, mind your business. I don't, I mean, for crying out loud, it's a gummy. And they put, from what I understand, like a tiny percentage of whatever in it. I d it's not like people are going out there, you know. Tripping beans and and acting like Bader or Rourke, breaking and entering and drunk driving.

Nobody's doing that. I know, and it's this kind of work by the government that that actually has us putting our names on lists when we want to get pseudo-fed for our nose running or something. Yeah. That's the that's what big government this is what will end up happening.

Someone was saying that it was similar to taking melatonin. Yeah. I was reading that in the comments. I take like 10 milligrams.

Sometimes I'll take 20. Of melaton. I'm actually trying to take less because I get so groggy. I'm so groggy in the morning. But I take 10 milligrams of melatonin a night.

I'm definitely not out there being dangerous. On 10 milligrams of melatonin. If what I have been told and what I've read. that it is similar in terms of like relaxing you, which is why a lot of veterans take it and they take it out. No, I don't.

Okay. I don't get suspicious and fat. No, that's because it doesn't have the pot in it. It's mel just melatonin, like the fast dissolved melatonin tablet. Right.

Right. I mean, I'm just saying, why is this an issue that they're focusing on in Texas? I don't know. No, I get that people can walk and chew gum at the same time. But Out of nowhere, let's go after the THC.

And from what I'm understanding, it's a tiny bit. I don't want the government involved in anything else. No, Texas should be shrinking government, not expanding it. This is just big government, and I don't care if you're a pot person or not. Doesn't matter, it's irrelevant.

I mean, this is a variable. What have I always told you? In all of these instances, guns are a variable. Pot is a variable. Look at all of this.

It's the same formula. They just switch out the variables. That's it. That's it. I wonder if on a federal level, the fact that they're talking about Um, you know, changing the schedule of it.

What is it? I think they're trying to nationalize all regulation of it to create an industry for themselves that they can monopolize. Right. That's what I, you know. I wonder if this is just Texas' response to that potential.

I have no idea, though. I don't think so. That's not how I look at it. I mean, if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I mean, I like being correct on issues.

I'm not, you know. I'm not a petty partisan. But to me, from what I was reading this, like, why do you need to ban it? They're not trying to they're they w just want to ban everything. Why would why do you need to ban it?

And sorry, they're not targeting the kids. They're not. That's such, that's like a, that sounds like a gun grabber argument. Oh, you're marketing these guns to kids. No one is selling.

THC to kids. Have you seen these stores? No offense to anyone, but I'm going to be very honest.

Okay, you know what do they look like? Do you want it? You know what they look like? They look like Oh gosh, you're gonna. They look like white trash boomer places.

I'm sorry, but they do. It's like they're so uncool looking. They are so uncool. They're uncool. Kids don't want to go to an uncool place.

It's not like they're sticking Barney out front or whatever the hell furry. They're not sticking that stuff out front. You know, come on. Stop it! Stop it.

I'm not making nobody get mad because I'll print out your email and I will roll over it with my mini segue that I got six years ago on Amazon for Mother's Day and then I'll take it to the range and shoot Buckeye through it or bird shot through it.

So stop it. Uh But you know what I mean. They look like adult places. They don't not like it doesn't look cool. They don't look cool.

Kids are not going to go to a place that doesn't look cool. Take issue with the whole marketing to the kids thing. That's what big government always says with stuff that it wants to ban. Oh my gosh, it's going after the kids. Wait, the same government that's going after the kids trying to cut their genitals off and flip their genders?

Against the wishes of their parents. Suddenly this government's all worried about the kids. Oh what? The same government that lost hundreds of thousands of kids that it allowed to come across the border illegally. Suddenly, that same government, oh my goodness, we can't have these cannabis stores.

Targeting the kids. Just can't have it, Kane. Can't have these cannabis stores. I've seen it going after the kids. No.

I've seen the ingredients list on like Fruit Loops. They're allowing some pretty poisonous stuff. To our kids eat it right in front of the TV. They literally use a bird to advertise it to the kids. Yes, directly to the kids.

Come eat our cancer cereal, kids. Boys. Pull a cancer. Miss. Yeah, I I'm I'm not really going to pay attention to the government that's So out of all the, and you know what, Lieutenant Governor Patrick has come on the show before.

Can we have let's bring him on again to talk about the he's gonna be like oh my gosh We all we get along with him so well, even when he's so wrong. We're so nice because he's very genteel. But I'm just like the same girl. I just Is anybody else fed up with the government telling you what you can and can't do, especially after, I don't know, the whole woo flu drama? Yeah.

That's what it seems like. I'm just done with it. The same government. That was doing all this stuff. That was shilling out books about oral sex to your kids in elementary school.

The same government. Oh, we don't like these stores are targeting the kids. No, they're not. You are. Stop.

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Oh man. I just remembered it's time to watch Night Right Before Christmas. Deadly Nightshade. Movie actress dies at a Mexican spiritual retreat after consuming deadly monkey frog potion. What gave you the idea that this might be deadly?

Anything that's a monkey frog potion already sounds like it's gonna be deadly. Why do people do this?

So it's uh, I don't think you need to say movie actress, but they did. This strange potion they said dates back to the Inca period, and oh, it's meant to cause uncontrollable diarrhea and vomiting for consumers, which supposedly acts as a cleanse.

So Marcela Rodriguez, she uh apparently Decided that she was going to do this, and it didn't work out well for her. It's 40 times stronger than morphine. Oh my gosh, why? Who would, who's like, you know, well, you're going to basically leak out of everything to death? That's how it's gonna work for you.

Who wants to go, okay, let's do that? No. Uh, it was in Durango, northern Mexico. Uh, I mean, it literally took hours to kill her. Uh, they're doing an autopsy, but you pretty much have an idea of how that happened.

I'm just gonna say, that's horrible. An officer uses a ch An officer uses a child's bicycle. chasing down a felony suspect and there's body cam footage and it's actually hysterical. The uh he was not near a squad car. He used a little kid's bicycle to go after the felon.

He commandeered a kid's bike to continue the pursuit, said the department in its paperwork. And it was a bright lime green bike, too, which is funny. They got him. He got him. He caught the suspect, charged him with felony theft.

The guy also had three other outstanding warrants. And they said the suspect might have had a scooter, but Officer Tarr had determination and a kid's bike. Yeah, he thought he was going to get away on a motorized scooter, but it wasn't going to happen. Not with Officer Tar. He was on it.

I mean, and kudos to the kid who let him take the bike. Juan's showing you the footage right now. He grabs the kid's bike and he's like, here we go. Here we go, we're going after him. I mean, this actually makes me want to now ride a bicycle, right?

Remember how fun this was back in the day? This was fun. By the way, this is what Peloton should have had. Peloton should have had like revisiting your childhood by riding your instead of the stupid stuff that they had. Yeah, go through the neighborhood.

Let's see here. Oh, the worst time to shoplift. don't Here's an idea. If you're shopping with a cop, Don't Don't steal. while you're doing it.

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Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back, Dana Lash with you. I've been seeing these stories about now Journey Joni Ernst hitting. saying that she supports Transgender inclusion in the military and wants to require, let me pull this, story up, wants to require females to register for the draft. And this is like some She's talked about this before, like on PBS or whatever show that is.

She's discussed it before. Uh and she had said that that women are perfectly capable of contributing in combat. etcetera, etcetera.

So All this is, and she's expressed support for requiring women to register for the draft. Look, you don't have to tell me all this stuff about Joni Ernst. I mean, I know this. I I mean that's we've kind of criticized this before. But I think it's coming out now because they are This whole thing with Pete Hegsteth, and she's been very.

Um Critical, I guess, has not wanted to say that she supports Pete Hagseth for Sec Def. I don't agree with her about women in combat, and I don't think that I don't believe in a draft. I don't. I actually, my grandfather, God rest his soul. Who enlisted in World War II?

He didn't wait to be drafted. He was so honored. He's like, no, I'm going. Like, day after Pearl Harbor, he's like, I'm out. I'm going.

Um He understood. Or, well, at least he says that he understood the need for a draft and that you have to defend your country, etc. And I don't see I I just I am not in favor of a draft. And I don't think that women should be added to the draft. I don't think men should be.

This whole argument about how my body, my choice, women say that superficially, but men can actually say it. Because as long as we have a draft It's not their choice and it's not the man's body. It's Uncle Sam's body. And if Uncle Sam wants to tell that man to go to war, that man's gotta go to war. If Uncle Sam wants to draft him up, he's got he can draft him up.

Everybody knows this. Every young man knows this. Every parent of a young man knows this. They sign that card. when they turn eighteen, and they have to send it in under threat of penalty.

Women don't have anything to do that, so spare me the bitching about my manny, my two A's. That's so stupid. Broads, you you you think that you have no choice? Try being a man. Try being a man and not knowing what your future is going to be like.

Heaven forbid, if you get a draft happy. you know, warmongerer in the White House. Who and believe me, after 9-11, Democrats actually try to bring something up th like this in committee. I wrote about it at the time. They absolutely love them a draft.

Democrats had never met a draft they didn't like.

So imagine being a young man. Wondering, okay.

Well, if we get a warmonger or far-left draft lover. in the White House, what does that mean for my future? Because all Uncle Sam has to do. It's be like, oh, calling you up for war. Calling you up for war.

Calling you up, calling you up. Women. They don't have to worry about that kind of stuff. But the third and fourth wave feminism is so self-infatuated. It's so indulgent.

It's it's I mean, it's gotten to the point, it's just a bloated behemoth. of of bitchery, for the lack of a better way to put it. They can't see. outside of them o the of their own selves to recognize this truth. Men have no control of their bodies.

Uncle Sam does.

So when I hear Ernst talk about Registering women for the draft, you know. Yeah. I don't think men should be required, but I don't think women should, definitely don't think women should be. Call me old school. I don't care.

I don't think women have any business being in combat. I'm fine with women. as pilots. And being chopper pilots. I do think that's different.

I got a lot of f I I actually have a handful of female friends who flew. Who were pilots? And by the way, not a single damn one of them disagrees with what I just said. They're like, yeah, it's different. They are They are smart enough.

They know what their strengths are, which is why they're flying, but they also know what their limitations are. They know that they can't be on a team right there on the ground going in, kicking indoors, because if something were to happen. By science and by anatomy and physiology, just by basic reality. They are immediately are, and this is not a derogatory term, the weakest point in that unit. And when you get stuff like that, you get guys that are going to want to protect that.

And then you're asking them to protect Her and then also do their job. You can't do it. I'm being realistic about it. If people who want to, if they want to live in the kitten and sunshine world of let's give everyone a chance, then you can go ahead and run your country into a hellhole. That's fine, but you're not going to go start your own country.

You're not going to do it in the United States of America. I don't have time for this stuff. This is stupid. I'm not going to sit here and engage in this back and forth. Women should be in comp.

No, they shouldn't. End of damn story. The end. If you have a problem with it, Go somewhere where they don't give a rat's ass about women, and maybe you can go serve in one of their militaries if that's if you're so if you if you're so hard up over that And as a mother of of sons. I don't want to have, I don't want one of my sons to ever have to worry about.

Having to not only watch out for his own six, but then having to protect a teammate who is physically weaker. in a b in the battlefield. There are, I'm not, I mean, we've talked about this over the 10 years that everybody's been debating it, the 10 plus years everyone's been debating it. This is not the time for women to prove their bona feeds. This is not the time for women to be like, I am as tough as a man.

You aren't. Not physically. There's certain things that you can do that men can't. There's certain things that men can do that women can't. I need feminism to stop brain rotting women into thinking that that is somehow a deficit.

That speaks more about how feminists hate women than how men hate women. Feminists hate the female sex. They hate women. They don't appreciate what women do. They don't appreciate women's physicality.

They don't appreciate our anatomy. They don't appreciate our emotional number. They don't appreciate our nurturing instinct. They think that in order to be considered valuable, you have to meet every standard that a man meets.

Now, you tell me that you are all about empowering women while stripping them of everything that makes them women and demanding that they perform exactly the same way that a man does. Piss off. Tired of it. The most ignorant women-hating people I've ever seen have been feminists. I told my sons, don't you ever bring me a damn feminist home.

Don't you dare walk one of them women through my door. I'll get our dad's power hose and I'll wash her off my stoop. I'm not even dealing with it. Not even. Not even.

Yeah. Unless she's converting. And then, all right then, you know. But I get I get so aggravated about this. And that they they try to make like look look women here's a place where you're not equal What?

What are you talking about? There's a lot of inequality out there. Men can't have babies. A man will never know what it is like. to physically actually push life out into this world.

We'll never know what that's like. I feel bad for men. for that. Oh, sure, it's grueling. Oh, don't tell me.

I didn't have any m all I had, I did not have an epidural with my first child because As my grandmother said, I was stupid. I was bringing a child into the world that had a head size and the 99th percentile. Our family has big babies. All right. We are tall people, a hardy people.

And my grandmother looked at me, her eyes gaped open, and she's like, Are you stupid? That's what she said to me. It's like, geez, Gran, thanks. Don't kill me, my slate. Thanks.

But they did give me Dumerol. I don't think they give you Demerol anymore. By the way, I think Kane, that's like the closest to being high that I've ever been, was Demerol. I remember sitting in the hospital bed. And I'm like.

I need to not speak because I have no idea what's going to come out of my mouth. But I didn't care about the pain anymore. The second one I did. Uh and And I had huge kids. And my, I mean, my men will never understand.

that journey. And it's a tough journey. And it is an edifying journey. And it is a journey that both humbles you. and also makes you aware of your own power as a woman.

And men don't get it. And even if you weren't able to have a child. or you chose to adopt. Women have a nurturing instinct that men do not have. That's not an insult to men.

That's just one of the strengths that women have. And see, you can say stuff like this, and men don't get offended. They're like, yeah, that's true. When they need to stop being offended over this stuff. Guys do that, there's their men and women each contribute incredibly important things.

during the the uh uh growth uh the birth or growth raising of a child obviously And I'm so tired of that being eliminated. For this false claim of equality. You're you're actually disqualifying. very qualified people, very qualified things by doing this.

So I'm seeing this back to this Joni Ernst thing about the draft. I'm disappointed whenever I see female Republican lawmakers get into this. And they bite into all this. You know, bring value, like she had said at one point, bring value to the unit. The talent needs to, you know, all this.

And this is all about the head. The people are dropping opo about her. I've known this about Ernst for a while. I mean, she's a nice lady, we don't agree on everything. But I'm tired of people talking like this.

I'm tired of the politics speak. All you gotta do is be like, No, I'm not getting in this argument. Either you want to kick ass and be a part of something greater than yourself. or you don't. We don't have time for everybody to fly their individual flags.

Nobody cares. Nobody cares what you ate for breakfast. Nobody cares what you're doing behind closed doors. Nobody cares. But when you're in this unit, you're part of the unit or you're out.

We don't care about any of this other stuff. Who you sleep with does not make you kick ass better. It does not make you more lethal. But it can deter from it if it's a distraction. No distractions.

And then there are people who get butthurt because you're like, are you calling my sexual preference a distraction? Yes, I am. Absolutely. No one cares. Only you love yourself that much.

We don't. Stop it. Some I get aggravated when I see lawmakers get into this type of stuff. But they're all mad over the Hegseth thing because what Hegseth said what he said. about Women in combat look.

I don't care what happens with DOD. Uh I mean, I do, obviously, but this is a choice that Trump is going to have to make. I think he better, he probably is going to want to say something sooner rather than later. Because here's what's going to happen. The longer this goes on, The more these lawmakers that aren't stepping up and backing him, you're going to have OPPO come out, we're going to go into a midterm election cycle, and all this OPO is going to, and then it's just all going to be a feast for the left that's desperately trying to find some way to reestablish themselves after they were beaten half to death.

politically speaking.

So You know, there's no reason to drag this out. There's no reason why it should take this long to make it. I'm very much like sit down. Who's the best person for the job? Who's going to go in there?

They're going to have to gut DOD. You're gonna have to throw your weight around. And you're going to have to be a patent level. Jackwagon, a Patton-level jackwagon. I love George Patton.

God rest his soul. One of the greatest men who's ever lived. I'm a huge World War II history buff. And I am obsessed not just with the Pacific theater, but also everything Patton did in World War II and how he got in trouble because he slapped a subordinate. I said he was being a coward, et cetera.

And then they gave the command to Omar Bradley. And then they told Patton that he was going to be able to get command of the third back if he helped do some stuff for the military, go around, do some rah-rah, good field-time stuff, and then take over the ghost army so that they can trick out the Nazis, which they did. They were able to get across the Rhine, and boom, there it goes. You know, he's got a great story. You need that kind of bravado.

You need leaders. You need people who are unafraid of others' opinions of themselves. And they are confident in what they know that needs to be done, and they can go in and get it done. Because DOD is going to be less about combat, and it's going to be more about combating the people who think they know combat. Does that make sense?

I've had a lot of conversations in the past couple of weeks with people in the military about some of this stuff. And you're dealing with an entrenched bureaucracy that takes a certain type of. Certain type of person and a certain type of technique to get rid of it. It'll be interesting to see. But I think he's going to have to make that call here sooner rather than later.

On the go and need a quick news fix with a fun twist? Follow Dana's Absurd Truth Podcast for bite-sized informative episodes, perfect for your busy schedule on Apple or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back to the program. I was having a conversation with one of our really good listeners, our longtime listeners. And they were saying that uh and and I thought they made a good point.

He was saying that uh Uh He doesn't partake. We talk about the THC thing with Texas. He doesn't partake, and he hates people who make getting high their personality, which I find insufferable also. But he was talking about working legalizing all drugs. They saw it as a bad idea, culture of indulgence.

They walked it back. I think that the THC thing, regulation of that, is way different than legalizing all drugs. But the way that I view it is that. I think you're always, excuse me, under the weather still. I think you're always going to have an issue in society with vices.

And I think that the severity of that is determined by cultural rot. Because when people themselves could not refrain from indulging to the point of excess, they farmed out the responsibility of restraint to the government. That's kinda how I view it. And we're always going to have an issue with that. But like I said, the severity.

Is determined by how bad off your society is. Remember, the founders always talked about virtue. They said that that was the most important thing in a free society: virtue and education. Virtue and education, virtue and education. You cannot have a virtuous person come to lead people who are not virtuous themselves.

You're not going to get virtuous policies from a non-virtuous people. But it requires a lot of personal responsibility. And the issue really isn't so much with people. Eschewing freedom. They're skewing personal responsibility.

without realizing that that goes hand in hand with freedom. Today's stupidity, King. What do we got? All right, it is a Texas rep, Jasmine Crockett. I don't even know what to say about this to set it up.

Oh boy. Oh gosh. Just hit everybody with this hitter. Listen, listen. Know that when it comes to minority populations, they tend to be undercounted.

So get this. We added 4 million people. They were people of color. Texas got two new seats.

So they took those black and brown and Asian bodies. What? And guess what? Do you think that we got a new black, brown, or Asian seat? Yeah, we did a second.

Somehow, the way that they do their Republican math in the state of Texas, that amounted to two new white seats. Oh, come on. Oh, I didn't realize that it's all about. Oh, gosh, she is. Not the sharpest tool in the drawer.

Folks, I'll be back with you tomorrow. God bless.