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I am filling in today and we are definitely doing
Florida Man, as she does every single day in this program.
Speaker 2: I love this.
Speaker 1: This is a fifty five year old guy out of
Florida who had a unique way to try to create
a side hustle during all the challenging times that we're
all living in. He put up flyers at all kinds
of hotels pretending to be a real pizza place, a
Roman's Pizzeria.
Speaker 2: But he's not.
Speaker 1: He's just some other dude who put up a flyer
with his phone number. People would call him to order
from Romans. He would make a frozen pizza and deliver
it and eventually got caught doing this. This is crazy.
Here is the real owner of Romans Pizza. His name
is Jesus Roman, talking about how somebody was stealing his
business name and giving it horrible, terrible press because of
how bad the pizzas were.
Speaker 2: Man on cook sometimes they said in a box of
a piece of road though and they just get to them,
and they just will by the time they realized that
they've gone already.
Speaker 3: And when the manager went.
Speaker 2: To confront him in the parking lot, he tried to
get away. He almost hit him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he tried to run away hit the guy. He
got arrested. He's in trouble.
Speaker 2: Now. You can't do that.
Speaker 1: You can't just put the name of a real pizza,
place their logo and then your phone number on it.
But you know, it's kind of scary how easy this
was to succeed for a bit, where people just call
the number they see on the flyer, order the pizza
from the guy, not really check anything else to see
that it makes sense, and he'd show up with a
sometimes frozen, sometimes undercooked, but often just store bought frozen
pizza that he was trying to pass off as Romans pizza.
Rha this nuts and that's good old Florida as always,
we know it. Want other Florida story I saw out
there that I thought was kind of interesting. Florida man
was busted when he checked in with his probation officer
because he was carrying meth with him. He's like, ah, man,
I got you know, a drug deal? To do or
I have whatever's going on that I have this on me.
You got to check in with the probation officer though,
that's a rule. So he just goes there and the
cop was like, I hate to ask, I don't know
that this is exactly how this went. I kind of hope,
but by any chance, are you currently high and is
there currently drugs on you?
Speaker 2: And the answer was yes.
Speaker 1: CBS twelve and Florida covered this story. The mugshot of
this guy looks exactly like what you think. It looks
like he's got both a neck and an eye tattoo,
which is kind of amazing, and he looks fairly high.
But again, he decided that he didn't have a lot
of time, so he couldn't go store the meth at
his house or somewhere else. He had to go ahead
and keep it on him when he checked in with.
Speaker 2: The probation officer.
Speaker 1: Not a good call, although kind of him to make
it so easy to arrest him again.
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Speaker 1: No matter how inspiring they are, if you listen to
them and hear them, and you know politics aside, both
of the Obamas are are good public speakers. But nonetheless,
when you realize the the thing going on behind the scenes,
when you realize all the crap that they're leaving out
when they say this stuff, you should immediately realize just
how ridiculous it is to stand up and cheer for
someone that has a net worth of one hundred and
sixty million dollars, multiple homes, all kinds of you know,
high end elite lifestyle things, telling us that they're her
family was taught at a young age not to take
more than they need.
Speaker 3: You See, my mom, in her steady, quiet way, lived
out that striving sense of hope every single day of
her life. She believed that all children, all people, have
value that anyone can succeed have given the opportunity. She
and my father didn't aspire to be wealthy. In fact,
they were suspicious of folks who took more than they needed.
Like you, they understood that it wasn't enough for their
kids to thrive if everyone else around us was drowning.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's an interesting premise. Again, I'm not going to
attack being wealthy in general. That's a thing that's silly
to attack. If people are successful in the private sector,
in the private world, that's exactly how our system is
designed to go. If you have a good idea, you
might make a whole bunch of money off of it.
But if you wind up working again in politics, serving
the people, all of that stuff for as long as
you do, and you're worth one hundred and sixty million
dollars at some point, it makes no sense to me.
Speaker 2: So play that game.
Speaker 1: If you're someone who passionately defends the other side of
the aisle is the good guys, and thinks of people
like Donald Trump as the horrible, terrible, evil people of
the world out there. Just look up the net worth
of your favorite Democrat.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: I might even make like a card game of this
where you flip it over and you find out the
net worth of each democratic individual, and then also how
little work they've ever done in the private sector, or
how maybe there's been some you know, i'll scratch your back,
you scratch mine after they get out of the world
of politics. But all of this should matter when you're
hearing these words from these politicians. Barack Obama said something
that was incredible, incredible because the founding fathers would hate
the premise of this state, the statement being that the
right is making the government into the boogeyman. And of
course we should trust the government. Of course we should
believe in the government. Of Course, everything the government does
has to be in our best interest. Governments are inherently corrupt.
They actually are, and so if you say that they're not,
you seem to be screaming out loud. Stop looking at us,
Stop looking into the things that demonstrate all of the
crap going on. My favorite is probably, and I hate
to say it this way, but it's probably the only
way to say it. All of the Hunter Biden and
Joe Biden stuff that's been coming out now that he's
no longer running for the office of president again, I
think just the other day they reported that Hunter Biden
twenty seven million dollars in money that he made off
of his father's name as a politician. The left is
not arguing that point. Mainstream media is not arguing that point.
Mainstream media is trying to have a stupid win by
telling us that the only thing that the that the
Biden's didn't do was give any of this money to
Joe Biden, which sounds ridiculous, But they think that that
makes him innocent, when it should be irrelevant how much
money Joe himself put into his own bank account. The
stupidity of that couldn't be under overstated. By the way,
if you chose to do that, I think you would
easily understand how easy it would be to get caught.
But nonetheless, I digress from that. I'll move on and
say that if you can make twenty seven million dollars
for you and your family off of the name of
a politician within your family, then Washington is broken. We
don't want that to be a way for people to
buy influence, or even think they're buying influence, even if
they didn't actually buy any influence. None of that makes
any sense to me. It shouldn't be something that we allow.
We also shouldn't allow these politicians to play the stock
market when they have insider information that of course they have,
and when Nancy Pelosi is worth millillions and millions of
dollars and says, we get to play the stock market too.
Speaker 2: Darn it.
Speaker 1: There's nothing that makes us different than anyone else, and
obviously there is. But here's Barack Obama telling you that
the right is the side that's convincing you that the
government needs to be put in check, needs to be
paid attention to. There's no reason, I guess in his
mind that we have a checks and balances system where
the judicial system and the legislative system have to check
the executive branch from time to time, even if they
don't do that as well now as they used to.
The judicial is better at it these days than the
legislative is. But nonetheless, I love that this is the
premise of a statement to not only tell you that
I'm a good person, my wife's a good person, a
Kama is a good person, whatever they say, we're the
good guys, but also the government itself is just a
really nice good guy that you should stop paying attention
to and just trust that's essentially the statement, and it's
terrifying that people actually believe it.
Speaker 5: Now, it won't be easy.
Speaker 2: The other side knows it's easier to play on people's
fears and sentences.
Speaker 1: I'm always has been.
Speaker 5: They will tell you that government is inherently corrupt because
it is.
Speaker 2: It's sacrifice and generosity are for suckers. That's not true.
Speaker 5: And since the game is rigged, it's okay to take
what you want and just look.
Speaker 2: After your own also not true. That's the easy path.
We have a different task.
Speaker 5: Our job is to convince people that democracy can actually deliver.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for you and your family and the one hundred
plus million dollars that you seem to be worth. All
of this is it's so ridiculous, it's so insane. And look,
I'll say this again, and it might not be helping
me to say this. I guess I don't really care.
Dana's back tomorrow, And if you hate anything that I
said of the show, I just love the fact that
I'm only going to be here for the day.
Speaker 2: But the Obamas are both good at giving speeches.
Speaker 1: They are the speeches themselves, if you wrote them down,
if you reviewed them.
Speaker 2: And say speech one oh one. These people would both
get a pluses on their report card. They both do
a great job.
Speaker 1: But when you actually dissect the information shared and the
narrative that is built, the narrative being that we're the
good guys who fight, fight, fight for the little people,
whoever they are, and the other side is the bad guys.
They love business, they love the elites. They're just you know, horrible,
terrible people. The funniest part about it, and this is
the part that's missed on many Americans. I don't mean
to repeat this as many times as I am, but
I'm going to keep repeating it today. The thing that's
missed in most Americans is all of these individuals are
the elites. It's like when Hollywood lectures us, when Hollywood
yells from the rooftops that we need to do better,
that we need to do more. When people got so
mad at Oprah Winfrey and I think the Rock for
trying to ask you for money to help Hawaii or
one of the devastating things that happened over the last
few years during the pandemic, and people said, I don't
have any money. Maybe you guys, with the money you have,
should actually be the ones doing it. I think this
would wake up a lot of younger voters, because older
voters probably do know this what I'm saying, but younger
voters might not pay attention to the net worth of
all of the individuals that they listen to, that they
believe in that claim that they're essentially reincarnations of Mother Teresa,
and when they're not, and when they made all their
money in the dirtiness of DC, you should start to
realize how their narrative is built entirely to convince you
to vote for them, and not at all built in fact.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's do a quick five.
Speaker 5: And now all of the news you would probably miss,
it's time for Dana's quick five.
Speaker 2: That's right on the quick five. I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 1: I feel like some of these studies come out just
to make you feel like you don't have to try
harder in your life. But a study claims that arts
and crafts will boost happiness more than a.
Speaker 2: Good job will.
Speaker 1: I don't believe this to actually be true, and maybe
there's some sort of weird solace in like, oh, I'm
enjoying arts and crafts right now, but I think a
good job probably helps more. But nonetheless, it's out there.
It's a study. They're claiming to know these things, if
you can believe it, if you want. I also saw
this in the Wall Street Journal. Teens don't want their
license as much as past generations did.
Speaker 2: This makes absolutely no sense to me.
Speaker 1: I literally remember the day I got my license and
how excited I was, how desperate I was to have it,
and all the places I started to go on my
own with the beat up junk car that I was.
I think it was a hand me down that I
was given, which to me was the best vehicle I'd
ever owned in my entire life. A Mazda three to
two three, I think, like in nineteen eighty six, Mazda
three to two three with a crank sun roof and
a lot of broken pieces.
Speaker 2: That's the first car that I drove, and it was awesome.
Speaker 1: Again, it was just barely older than I was, or
a younger than I was at the time that I
got it.
Speaker 2: Anyway, teens don't want to drive.
Speaker 1: It's changing how they spend money, and I can't make
any sort of sense of that at all. Get your license, kids,
you're gonna love it. You're gonna love the freedom of it.
I don't know why they don't want freedom. Another thing
out there that I saw Kentucky school change their bus route,
and so kids made up a hip hop song where
they got upset that they didn't know where their bus was.
I think I have a little bit of this. I
think we can try to play it here. Yeah, she
just gonna keep going for a while. But these little
middle school kids objected to their bus route being changed
by putting out a song where my bus at It
might actually hit the top one hundred, which will be
very set.
Speaker 2: A lot of us, but very music for these kids.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's gonna help the school decide
to change their mind and fix the.
Speaker 2: Bus route, put it back the way it was. But
I guess some.
Speaker 1: Children don't know how to go to school now, and
I'm sure they're not all that upset about it. They're
probably pretty happy that they can't get that route. The
average person also knows if their day has been ruined
at eight thirty six am.
Speaker 2: That's one last stat out there that I love.
Speaker 1: So the next time you're thinking about this and it's
just a little after eight o'clock, you're right if you
think that it's a bad day or a good day.
CNN has its panel talk about stuff. Van Jones was
overly praising the Obamas and how amazing they are and
how much he misses them, which is interesting because Kamala
Harris won't be able to get the same level of
support in at least the way in which he delivers
a speech. But here's another moment from CNN that I
thought was pretty valuable to so many of us.
Speaker 2: Here we go in all these speeches, as.
Speaker 5: Good as they were, is that she's in the White
House right now. Democrats have controlled the White House for
twelve of the last sixteen years. Right For all of
the talk about division and the problems in the country
and people are hurting, Democrats have mostly controlled this country.
Speaker 2: Ah Trump had it for four the.
Speaker 5: Obamas and Biden had it for the rest of the time,
And somehow it's still all Trump's fault, And somehow she
hasn't been at the center of it. So to me,
that's still the glaring hole in this campaign. Has it
yet been solved at the convention.
Speaker 1: No, it hasn't been solved at the convention because they're
also crediting Harris every time they talk about the Biden
and Harris administration in a beneficial way. Anything they say
they do, any bill that they got passed, any legislation.
And again, this is something that Biden would hang his
hat on and say is the reason why you should
think of him as a good president. He got things done,
at least according to him, or not that many of
the things he got done actually were done very well.
There were a whole lot of mistakes there. But now
apparently they're Harris things too. But if it's anything bad,
anything negative, the economy itself, Harris the other day complaining
about the prices of stuff, which is amazing to listen
to her say, because you're in the White House now,
and if Biden has been shoved to the corner as
much as he has been, you think you have even
more power now than you had before. But nonetheless, it's
just sort of amazing to hear those things stated in
that kind of conversation, as if she's both in power
and not in power depending on what the discussion is.
And I think that's one of the other big reasons
that she also skipped last night, is that the Biden
the Obamas excused me. We're there to talk about all
the great job they did when they were in office
and how much the Democratic Party loves them, even if
they didn't really do that great of a job well
in office, as demonstrated by that point, just made there
that if things are bad, if division exists, you know
what I'll say this to. One of my other favorite
narratives that exists in politics, and is all over the
DNC for the first two nights and probably will be
again tonight and will be again tomorrow, is that there's
division in our country now. They say there isn't at times,
and Obama even said there wasn't, that we're all actually
Americans were all connected. But they say there's division, and
yet they take no responsibility.
Speaker 2: For developing that division.
Speaker 1: You have people like President Biden saying that MAGA Republicans
are horrible, terrible people.
Speaker 2: Essentially, they are a threat to society itself.
Speaker 1: That January sixth, and all the supporters of Trump are
going to upend democracy as we know it. They're gonna
ruin everything, They're gonna riot, they they're gonna kill people.
Whatever it is they say, whatever the boogeyman might be,
and then they go on a microphone and they're like,
and by the way, there's a lot of division and
we don't understand it. I've told this story before. I'm
gonna tell it again here. I don't know if I've
ever told it of filling in on Dana's show, but
it's one of the more amazing moments in my own
personal career where I realized just how insane someone on
the left can be. So I was working at a
radio station that wasn't exactly politically on one side. They
said they were in the middle, but all the shows
were allowed to say whatever they wanted.
Speaker 2: I did my show my way, and some of the.
Speaker 1: Other shows I worked with did shows differently and didn't
like some of the stuff I said on the radio.
It was not exactly a fun time to be at
a radio station where there was that much weird division
within the talent themselves. And this was a while ago
for anyone that has heard me in more recent places.
But nonetheless, I fill in on a show with a
different host, a host I didn't work with before who's
also our newsperson at the time, she was the news
director and the co host of a morning show. And
right before the show starts, and this is right at
the beginning of the pandemic, when a whole lot of people,
especially on the left, were terrified that if you got COVID,
you would definitely die. But this person tells me, like
the bump song is playing, we're getting ready to start
the first hour, the first segment of a morning show
that I wake up early for. And she says, oh,
by the way, just so you know, if I were
to get COVID, I would find the closest trump rally
so I could give it to them and kill as
many of them as possible. And she said it in
this weird I'm kind of joking, but I'm really not way,
and sort of smiled at me as she said it.
And then I had to start talking because the music ended,
and the whole first segment. The back of my brain
is like, holy crap, that was insane. But I just
but I shouldn't talk about it. I should I should
have outv to her, actually, but I tried to be nice.
They were my coworkers. I didn't change my opinion by
the way, her attempt to silence me failed, even though
she said she was going to kill people. But I
can't tell you the amount of liberal people that I've
either worked with or know who have a similar sentiment
that they think that the opposite side of the aisle,
the people who support Donald Trump or are willing to
vote for him, even if they don't love everything he's
ever said or done in his life, whatever it might be,
are are evil.
Speaker 2: They're terrible.
Speaker 1: They're racist, they're sexist, they're they're the worst of the
worst in our society, and they deserve to be handled
with vitriol.
Speaker 2: They deserve to be handled with screaming and yelling.
Speaker 1: This is something that a lot of Democrats believe a
lot of that room of people when they hear division,
what they hear, in my opinion, is where all the rational,
sane people and that other side of the aisle, the
side that's voting for Trump. Those people are terrible and
if they could just be smart like us and vote
for our side, then we'd like them. But if they don't,
then we're going to keep hating them. Division isn't fixed. Now,
this is a weird thing to get up on a
soapbox and say, but I'm going to say it, darn it.
Division isn't fixed by having a uniform opinion. That doesn't
fix the world we live in. That's what they preach.
That's what democrats want. They want everyone to believe the
same thing, to be comfortable in a room because they
all say the same thing. Division is actually fixed by
accepting the differences in others, accepting that the opinion on
the other side does exist. It exists, probably more prominently
than you want it to, and the best way to
discuss it is to actually talk about it and not
try to silence it. But that's something they don't care about.
More than half the country votes a certain way in
elections in which people decide who wins the White House
and who doesn't, and if the conservative wins. I know
the electoral college makes my point a little less perfect,
but nonetheless, the way in which it works is one
side wins, one side loses. And I don't know why
Democrats ignore that. Because Trump won in twenty sixteen, many
people believe he won in twenty two twenty He got
the most votes of any sitting president in the history
of the country, even if I don't go the whole
did there you know, was their cheating or not? And
yet most Democrats will act like five out of one
hundred people are actually Trump supporters or MAGA supporters. And
that's so inherently flawed. And the best way to fix
division is to accept that someone doesn't think like you,
and it doesn't make them an evil pile of crap.
And honestly, I've said this a bunch before, and sometimes
I get attacked on my social media for saying it,
but I don't care.
Speaker 2: Bring it all over again if you want to.
Speaker 1: I think that the narrative within the Republican Party, within
the Conservative Party is that Democrats are kind of dumb.
Democrats supporters are not as smart as Conservatives. It's not
nice to think that, but it's not evil. You think
to yourself, well, you're naive. You want things that can't happen,
or you want things that would cost so much money
that they'd cause more good, or they'd cause more bad
than good, whatever it might be. But this is the
conversation I have a lot when you talk to a conservative,
a conservative about supporters of the other side is that
they think that there's something they're not seeing that they
should see that would open their eyes and make them
vote a different way. It's the old if you have
a heart, you vote Democrat when you're younger, and if
you have a brain, you vote conservative when you get older. Now, Conservatives,
according to Democrats, are satan. I don't know how to
say that differently. They're they're evil incarnate, They're they're sexist, racist,
whatever they might be. There's something horrible, and that's a
through line.
Speaker 2: That's the whole.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how people can vote for Donald Trump
because they must be as horrible as I think he is.
And I think that's very interesting. The core statement, the
core thing that you preached your side of the aisle,
is going to influence how say divisive they are with
the other side. Democrats saying that the other side is
evil is more divisive than Republicans saying the other side
doesn't see all of the truth. Thanks for tuning into
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