1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:04,519 Speaker 1: Dana Lashes of surd Truth podcast sponsored by Keltech. 2 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:13,119 Speaker 2: It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time 3 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:14,039 for Florida Man. 4 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: This is the Craig Collins version of the Dana Show. 5 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:20,320 I am filling in today and we are definitely doing 6 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:22,839 Florida Man, as she does every single day in this program. 7 00:00:22,879 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 2: I love this. 8 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: This is a fifty five year old guy out of 9 00:00:26,039 --> 00:00:28,600 Florida who had a unique way to try to create 10 00:00:28,679 --> 00:00:31,160 a side hustle during all the challenging times that we're 11 00:00:31,199 --> 00:00:34,000 all living in. He put up flyers at all kinds 12 00:00:34,039 --> 00:00:37,479 of hotels pretending to be a real pizza place, a 13 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:38,759 Roman's Pizzeria. 14 00:00:39,079 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 2: But he's not. 15 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,039 Speaker 1: He's just some other dude who put up a flyer 16 00:00:42,079 --> 00:00:44,520 with his phone number. People would call him to order 17 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:47,560 from Romans. He would make a frozen pizza and deliver 18 00:00:47,679 --> 00:00:50,719 it and eventually got caught doing this. This is crazy. 19 00:00:51,039 --> 00:00:54,000 Here is the real owner of Romans Pizza. His name 20 00:00:54,039 --> 00:00:57,200 is Jesus Roman, talking about how somebody was stealing his 21 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:00,280 business name and giving it horrible, terrible press because of 22 00:01:00,359 --> 00:01:01,439 how bad the pizzas were. 23 00:01:02,039 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 2: Man on cook sometimes they said in a box of 24 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,280 a piece of road though and they just get to them, 25 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:09,640 and they just will by the time they realized that 26 00:01:09,719 --> 00:01:10,519 they've gone already. 27 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:11,719 Speaker 3: And when the manager went. 28 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,519 Speaker 2: To confront him in the parking lot, he tried to 29 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:15,879 get away. He almost hit him. 30 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:17,599 Speaker 1: Yeah, he tried to run away hit the guy. He 31 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:19,000 got arrested. He's in trouble. 32 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:20,359 Speaker 2: Now. You can't do that. 33 00:01:20,519 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: You can't just put the name of a real pizza, 34 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:24,599 place their logo and then your phone number on it. 35 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:26,599 But you know, it's kind of scary how easy this 36 00:01:26,799 --> 00:01:29,200 was to succeed for a bit, where people just call 37 00:01:29,239 --> 00:01:31,640 the number they see on the flyer, order the pizza 38 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,239 from the guy, not really check anything else to see 39 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:36,239 that it makes sense, and he'd show up with a 40 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:40,640 sometimes frozen, sometimes undercooked, but often just store bought frozen 41 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:43,519 pizza that he was trying to pass off as Romans pizza. 42 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,959 Rha this nuts and that's good old Florida as always, 43 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,480 we know it. Want other Florida story I saw out 44 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,200 there that I thought was kind of interesting. Florida man 45 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:55,200 was busted when he checked in with his probation officer 46 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:59,359 because he was carrying meth with him. He's like, ah, man, 47 00:01:59,719 --> 00:02:01,959 I got you know, a drug deal? To do or 48 00:02:01,959 --> 00:02:03,920 I have whatever's going on that I have this on me. 49 00:02:04,239 --> 00:02:06,000 You got to check in with the probation officer though, 50 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:08,599 that's a rule. So he just goes there and the 51 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:11,000 cop was like, I hate to ask, I don't know 52 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:12,759 that this is exactly how this went. I kind of hope, 53 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,319 but by any chance, are you currently high and is 54 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:16,879 there currently drugs on you? 55 00:02:17,439 --> 00:02:18,439 Speaker 2: And the answer was yes. 56 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 1: CBS twelve and Florida covered this story. The mugshot of 57 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,280 this guy looks exactly like what you think. It looks 58 00:02:25,319 --> 00:02:27,840 like he's got both a neck and an eye tattoo, 59 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,560 which is kind of amazing, and he looks fairly high. 60 00:02:31,599 --> 00:02:34,199 But again, he decided that he didn't have a lot 61 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:36,599 of time, so he couldn't go store the meth at 62 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:38,960 his house or somewhere else. He had to go ahead 63 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:40,360 and keep it on him when he checked in with. 64 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 2: The probation officer. 65 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:43,439 Speaker 1: Not a good call, although kind of him to make 66 00:02:43,479 --> 00:02:44,680 it so easy to arrest him again. 67 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:48,759 Speaker 4: Hillsdale College Hillsdale is a great institution. It's like one 68 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:53,680 of the remaining, I guess, educational institutions that's out there, 69 00:02:53,719 --> 00:02:55,719 and a lot of people, you know, it's going back 70 00:02:55,719 --> 00:02:57,400 to school. A lot of people are going back I 71 00:02:57,439 --> 00:02:59,120 think this week. You know, I'm my oldest that goes 72 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:03,199 back to school this week. And it's really awesome that 73 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:07,639 they make so many resources available for you. 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Choose your new favorite educational podcast 94 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:15,560 today on the Hillsdale College Podcast Network at Dana four 95 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:25,040 Hillsdale dot com. That's fo R Dana four Hillsdale dot com. 96 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 1: No matter how inspiring they are, if you listen to 97 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,959 them and hear them, and you know politics aside, both 98 00:04:30,959 --> 00:04:34,439 of the Obamas are are good public speakers. But nonetheless, 99 00:04:34,439 --> 00:04:37,680 when you realize the the thing going on behind the scenes, 100 00:04:37,959 --> 00:04:41,600 when you realize all the crap that they're leaving out 101 00:04:41,639 --> 00:04:44,639 when they say this stuff, you should immediately realize just 102 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,000 how ridiculous it is to stand up and cheer for 103 00:04:47,079 --> 00:04:49,639 someone that has a net worth of one hundred and 104 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:54,000 sixty million dollars, multiple homes, all kinds of you know, 105 00:04:55,079 --> 00:04:59,360 high end elite lifestyle things, telling us that they're her 106 00:04:59,439 --> 00:05:01,560 family was taught at a young age not to take 107 00:05:01,639 --> 00:05:02,560 more than they need. 108 00:05:06,079 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 3: You See, my mom, in her steady, quiet way, lived 109 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:17,240 out that striving sense of hope every single day of 110 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:22,680 her life. She believed that all children, all people, have 111 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:29,680 value that anyone can succeed have given the opportunity. She 112 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,759 and my father didn't aspire to be wealthy. In fact, 113 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:37,959 they were suspicious of folks who took more than they needed. 114 00:05:38,439 --> 00:05:43,040 Like you, they understood that it wasn't enough for their 115 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:47,720 kids to thrive if everyone else around us was drowning. 116 00:05:48,519 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 1: Okay, that's an interesting premise. Again, I'm not going to 117 00:05:51,199 --> 00:05:54,319 attack being wealthy in general. That's a thing that's silly 118 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:57,279 to attack. If people are successful in the private sector, 119 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,000 in the private world, that's exactly how our system is 120 00:06:00,079 --> 00:06:02,319 designed to go. If you have a good idea, you 121 00:06:02,399 --> 00:06:03,920 might make a whole bunch of money off of it. 122 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,720 But if you wind up working again in politics, serving 123 00:06:07,759 --> 00:06:10,199 the people, all of that stuff for as long as 124 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:12,560 you do, and you're worth one hundred and sixty million 125 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,000 dollars at some point, it makes no sense to me. 126 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 2: So play that game. 127 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:19,319 Speaker 1: If you're someone who passionately defends the other side of 128 00:06:19,319 --> 00:06:21,680 the aisle is the good guys, and thinks of people 129 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,879 like Donald Trump as the horrible, terrible, evil people of 130 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,360 the world out there. Just look up the net worth 131 00:06:27,519 --> 00:06:28,639 of your favorite Democrat. 132 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 3: You know. 133 00:06:28,879 --> 00:06:31,199 Speaker 1: I might even make like a card game of this 134 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:33,160 where you flip it over and you find out the 135 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,399 net worth of each democratic individual, and then also how 136 00:06:36,439 --> 00:06:38,959 little work they've ever done in the private sector, or 137 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,639 how maybe there's been some you know, i'll scratch your back, 138 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:43,879 you scratch mine after they get out of the world 139 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,600 of politics. But all of this should matter when you're 140 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:51,720 hearing these words from these politicians. Barack Obama said something 141 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:58,759 that was incredible, incredible because the founding fathers would hate 142 00:06:58,759 --> 00:07:02,560 the premise of this state, the statement being that the 143 00:07:02,879 --> 00:07:06,199 right is making the government into the boogeyman. And of 144 00:07:06,319 --> 00:07:09,000 course we should trust the government. Of course we should 145 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,560 believe in the government. Of Course, everything the government does 146 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:16,199 has to be in our best interest. Governments are inherently corrupt. 147 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:20,399 They actually are, and so if you say that they're not, 148 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:24,079 you seem to be screaming out loud. Stop looking at us, 149 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:27,160 Stop looking into the things that demonstrate all of the 150 00:07:27,199 --> 00:07:31,519 crap going on. My favorite is probably, and I hate 151 00:07:31,519 --> 00:07:32,959 to say it this way, but it's probably the only 152 00:07:32,959 --> 00:07:34,959 way to say it. All of the Hunter Biden and 153 00:07:35,079 --> 00:07:37,439 Joe Biden stuff that's been coming out now that he's 154 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:41,240 no longer running for the office of president again, I 155 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,680 think just the other day they reported that Hunter Biden 156 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,680 twenty seven million dollars in money that he made off 157 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:52,480 of his father's name as a politician. The left is 158 00:07:52,519 --> 00:07:56,040 not arguing that point. Mainstream media is not arguing that point. 159 00:07:56,079 --> 00:07:59,680 Mainstream media is trying to have a stupid win by 160 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:02,240 telling us that the only thing that the that the 161 00:08:02,639 --> 00:08:06,120 Biden's didn't do was give any of this money to 162 00:08:06,639 --> 00:08:10,240 Joe Biden, which sounds ridiculous, But they think that that 163 00:08:10,319 --> 00:08:13,920 makes him innocent, when it should be irrelevant how much 164 00:08:13,959 --> 00:08:17,240 money Joe himself put into his own bank account. The 165 00:08:17,279 --> 00:08:20,560 stupidity of that couldn't be under overstated. By the way, 166 00:08:20,759 --> 00:08:22,639 if you chose to do that, I think you would 167 00:08:22,879 --> 00:08:27,120 easily understand how easy it would be to get caught. 168 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:30,040 But nonetheless, I digress from that. I'll move on and 169 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:34,080 say that if you can make twenty seven million dollars 170 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:36,960 for you and your family off of the name of 171 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,240 a politician within your family, then Washington is broken. We 172 00:08:41,519 --> 00:08:43,519 don't want that to be a way for people to 173 00:08:43,519 --> 00:08:46,320 buy influence, or even think they're buying influence, even if 174 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:48,840 they didn't actually buy any influence. None of that makes 175 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,840 any sense to me. It shouldn't be something that we allow. 176 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,679 We also shouldn't allow these politicians to play the stock 177 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,799 market when they have insider information that of course they have, 178 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:00,879 and when Nancy Pelosi is worth millillions and millions of 179 00:09:00,919 --> 00:09:03,480 dollars and says, we get to play the stock market too. 180 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:03,919 Speaker 2: Darn it. 181 00:09:04,039 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 1: There's nothing that makes us different than anyone else, and 182 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,759 obviously there is. But here's Barack Obama telling you that 183 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:13,200 the right is the side that's convincing you that the 184 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,159 government needs to be put in check, needs to be 185 00:09:16,159 --> 00:09:19,840 paid attention to. There's no reason, I guess in his 186 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:22,799 mind that we have a checks and balances system where 187 00:09:22,799 --> 00:09:27,080 the judicial system and the legislative system have to check 188 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:30,240 the executive branch from time to time, even if they 189 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:31,799 don't do that as well now as they used to. 190 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,559 The judicial is better at it these days than the 191 00:09:34,639 --> 00:09:37,919 legislative is. But nonetheless, I love that this is the 192 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:40,440 premise of a statement to not only tell you that 193 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:43,200 I'm a good person, my wife's a good person, a 194 00:09:43,279 --> 00:09:45,600 Kama is a good person, whatever they say, we're the 195 00:09:45,639 --> 00:09:49,440 good guys, but also the government itself is just a 196 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:52,799 really nice good guy that you should stop paying attention 197 00:09:52,879 --> 00:09:56,559 to and just trust that's essentially the statement, and it's 198 00:09:56,799 --> 00:09:59,240 terrifying that people actually believe it. 199 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:04,399 Speaker 5: Now, it won't be easy. 200 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 2: The other side knows it's easier to play on people's 201 00:10:09,799 --> 00:10:10,559 fears and sentences. 202 00:10:10,639 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 1: I'm always has been. 203 00:10:12,759 --> 00:10:16,399 Speaker 5: They will tell you that government is inherently corrupt because 204 00:10:16,399 --> 00:10:16,639 it is. 205 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:20,519 Speaker 2: It's sacrifice and generosity are for suckers. That's not true. 206 00:10:20,919 --> 00:10:24,159 Speaker 5: And since the game is rigged, it's okay to take 207 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:25,919 what you want and just look. 208 00:10:25,759 --> 00:10:29,759 Speaker 2: After your own also not true. That's the easy path. 209 00:10:31,879 --> 00:10:32,919 We have a different task. 210 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 5: Our job is to convince people that democracy can actually deliver. 211 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:41,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, for you and your family and the one hundred 212 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:44,639 plus million dollars that you seem to be worth. All 213 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:48,279 of this is it's so ridiculous, it's so insane. And look, 214 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:50,399 I'll say this again, and it might not be helping 215 00:10:50,399 --> 00:10:52,000 me to say this. I guess I don't really care. 216 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:55,919 Dana's back tomorrow, And if you hate anything that I 217 00:10:55,919 --> 00:10:58,039 said of the show, I just love the fact that 218 00:10:58,399 --> 00:10:59,759 I'm only going to be here for the day. 219 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:01,919 Speaker 2: But the Obamas are both good at giving speeches. 220 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:04,840 Speaker 1: They are the speeches themselves, if you wrote them down, 221 00:11:04,879 --> 00:11:06,879 if you reviewed them. 222 00:11:06,759 --> 00:11:09,519 Speaker 2: And say speech one oh one. These people would both 223 00:11:09,519 --> 00:11:11,720 get a pluses on their report card. They both do 224 00:11:11,799 --> 00:11:12,440 a great job. 225 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: But when you actually dissect the information shared and the 226 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:19,200 narrative that is built, the narrative being that we're the 227 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:22,080 good guys who fight, fight, fight for the little people, 228 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:24,919 whoever they are, and the other side is the bad guys. 229 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,279 They love business, they love the elites. They're just you know, horrible, 230 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:32,639 terrible people. The funniest part about it, and this is 231 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:34,399 the part that's missed on many Americans. I don't mean 232 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:36,159 to repeat this as many times as I am, but 233 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:38,879 I'm going to keep repeating it today. The thing that's 234 00:11:38,879 --> 00:11:41,519 missed in most Americans is all of these individuals are 235 00:11:41,519 --> 00:11:45,519 the elites. It's like when Hollywood lectures us, when Hollywood 236 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:47,919 yells from the rooftops that we need to do better, 237 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:49,600 that we need to do more. When people got so 238 00:11:49,759 --> 00:11:53,519 mad at Oprah Winfrey and I think the Rock for 239 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:56,840 trying to ask you for money to help Hawaii or 240 00:11:56,879 --> 00:11:59,759 one of the devastating things that happened over the last 241 00:11:59,759 --> 00:12:02,559 few years during the pandemic, and people said, I don't 242 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,159 have any money. Maybe you guys, with the money you have, 243 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:07,519 should actually be the ones doing it. I think this 244 00:12:07,519 --> 00:12:09,840 would wake up a lot of younger voters, because older 245 00:12:09,919 --> 00:12:12,440 voters probably do know this what I'm saying, but younger 246 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,679 voters might not pay attention to the net worth of 247 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:19,320 all of the individuals that they listen to, that they 248 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:23,279 believe in that claim that they're essentially reincarnations of Mother Teresa, 249 00:12:23,639 --> 00:12:26,080 and when they're not, and when they made all their 250 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,840 money in the dirtiness of DC, you should start to 251 00:12:29,879 --> 00:12:33,840 realize how their narrative is built entirely to convince you 252 00:12:33,879 --> 00:12:36,159 to vote for them, and not at all built in fact. 253 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,279 Speaker 4: And our partners that will bring you free radio cltech. 254 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,360 The P fifteen lightest thinnest nine millimeter on the market 255 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:43,759 double stack mag ships. 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My name is Craig Collins. 275 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:45,639 Speaker 1: Filling in Dana Radio dot com is a great way 276 00:13:45,639 --> 00:13:48,120 to stay connected to her d Lash or Dana lash 277 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:51,240 Radio on x, on Twitter, the data show all over 278 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:51,559 the place. 279 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:53,080 Speaker 2: All right, let's do a quick five. 280 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 5: And now all of the news you would probably miss, 281 00:13:56,279 --> 00:13:58,000 it's time for Dana's quick five. 282 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,960 Speaker 2: That's right on the quick five. I thought this was interesting. 283 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:03,840 Speaker 1: I feel like some of these studies come out just 284 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:05,759 to make you feel like you don't have to try 285 00:14:05,799 --> 00:14:09,120 harder in your life. But a study claims that arts 286 00:14:09,159 --> 00:14:11,720 and crafts will boost happiness more than a. 287 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 2: Good job will. 288 00:14:12,799 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: I don't believe this to actually be true, and maybe 289 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,960 there's some sort of weird solace in like, oh, I'm 290 00:14:18,039 --> 00:14:20,639 enjoying arts and crafts right now, but I think a 291 00:14:20,639 --> 00:14:23,480 good job probably helps more. But nonetheless, it's out there. 292 00:14:23,519 --> 00:14:25,799 It's a study. They're claiming to know these things, if 293 00:14:25,799 --> 00:14:27,919 you can believe it, if you want. I also saw 294 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:31,200 this in the Wall Street Journal. Teens don't want their 295 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:34,039 license as much as past generations did. 296 00:14:34,679 --> 00:14:36,279 Speaker 2: This makes absolutely no sense to me. 297 00:14:36,679 --> 00:14:39,799 Speaker 1: I literally remember the day I got my license and 298 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:42,600 how excited I was, how desperate I was to have it, 299 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:44,840 and all the places I started to go on my 300 00:14:44,879 --> 00:14:47,559 own with the beat up junk car that I was. 301 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:48,759 I think it was a hand me down that I 302 00:14:48,799 --> 00:14:51,360 was given, which to me was the best vehicle I'd 303 00:14:51,399 --> 00:14:53,879 ever owned in my entire life. A Mazda three to 304 00:14:53,879 --> 00:14:56,559 two three, I think, like in nineteen eighty six, Mazda 305 00:14:56,559 --> 00:14:58,720 three to two three with a crank sun roof and 306 00:14:58,799 --> 00:15:00,000 a lot of broken pieces. 307 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:02,639 Speaker 2: That's the first car that I drove, and it was awesome. 308 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: Again, it was just barely older than I was, or 309 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:07,120 a younger than I was at the time that I 310 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:07,519 got it. 311 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 2: Anyway, teens don't want to drive. 312 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: It's changing how they spend money, and I can't make 313 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,519 any sort of sense of that at all. Get your license, kids, 314 00:15:15,879 --> 00:15:18,000 you're gonna love it. You're gonna love the freedom of it. 315 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,279 I don't know why they don't want freedom. Another thing 316 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:25,000 out there that I saw Kentucky school change their bus route, 317 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,559 and so kids made up a hip hop song where 318 00:15:27,559 --> 00:15:30,200 they got upset that they didn't know where their bus was. 319 00:15:30,279 --> 00:15:31,399 I think I have a little bit of this. I 320 00:15:31,399 --> 00:15:41,039 think we can try to play it here. Yeah, she 321 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:42,960 just gonna keep going for a while. But these little 322 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:46,279 middle school kids objected to their bus route being changed 323 00:15:46,559 --> 00:15:49,039 by putting out a song where my bus at It 324 00:15:49,159 --> 00:15:51,399 might actually hit the top one hundred, which will be 325 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:52,120 very set. 326 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:54,679 Speaker 2: A lot of us, but very music for these kids. 327 00:15:54,759 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's gonna help the school decide 328 00:15:56,639 --> 00:15:58,720 to change their mind and fix the. 329 00:15:58,639 --> 00:16:00,759 Speaker 2: Bus route, put it back the way it was. But 330 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:01,480 I guess some. 331 00:16:01,519 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 1: Children don't know how to go to school now, and 332 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,039 I'm sure they're not all that upset about it. They're 333 00:16:05,039 --> 00:16:07,919 probably pretty happy that they can't get that route. The 334 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,639 average person also knows if their day has been ruined 335 00:16:10,919 --> 00:16:12,799 at eight thirty six am. 336 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:14,679 Speaker 2: That's one last stat out there that I love. 337 00:16:15,159 --> 00:16:17,519 Speaker 1: So the next time you're thinking about this and it's 338 00:16:17,639 --> 00:16:20,360 just a little after eight o'clock, you're right if you 339 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:22,000 think that it's a bad day or a good day. 340 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:26,799 CNN has its panel talk about stuff. Van Jones was 341 00:16:26,879 --> 00:16:30,320 overly praising the Obamas and how amazing they are and 342 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,399 how much he misses them, which is interesting because Kamala 343 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:35,320 Harris won't be able to get the same level of 344 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,720 support in at least the way in which he delivers 345 00:16:38,759 --> 00:16:41,440 a speech. But here's another moment from CNN that I 346 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:43,799 thought was pretty valuable to so many of us. 347 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:45,919 Speaker 2: Here we go in all these speeches, as. 348 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:49,279 Speaker 5: Good as they were, is that she's in the White 349 00:16:49,279 --> 00:16:53,279 House right now. Democrats have controlled the White House for 350 00:16:53,279 --> 00:16:55,679 twelve of the last sixteen years. Right For all of 351 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:58,600 the talk about division and the problems in the country 352 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:02,799 and people are hurting, Democrats have mostly controlled this country. 353 00:17:02,919 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 2: Ah Trump had it for four the. 354 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 5: Obamas and Biden had it for the rest of the time, 355 00:17:09,519 --> 00:17:13,160 And somehow it's still all Trump's fault, And somehow she 356 00:17:13,279 --> 00:17:15,720 hasn't been at the center of it. So to me, 357 00:17:16,759 --> 00:17:19,160 that's still the glaring hole in this campaign. Has it 358 00:17:19,279 --> 00:17:20,680 yet been solved at the convention. 359 00:17:21,039 --> 00:17:23,039 Speaker 1: No, it hasn't been solved at the convention because they're 360 00:17:23,039 --> 00:17:26,119 also crediting Harris every time they talk about the Biden 361 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:29,799 and Harris administration in a beneficial way. Anything they say 362 00:17:29,839 --> 00:17:33,039 they do, any bill that they got passed, any legislation. 363 00:17:33,079 --> 00:17:35,599 And again, this is something that Biden would hang his 364 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:37,759 hat on and say is the reason why you should 365 00:17:37,759 --> 00:17:40,519 think of him as a good president. He got things done, 366 00:17:40,599 --> 00:17:42,799 at least according to him, or not that many of 367 00:17:42,839 --> 00:17:45,000 the things he got done actually were done very well. 368 00:17:45,319 --> 00:17:47,160 There were a whole lot of mistakes there. But now 369 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,319 apparently they're Harris things too. But if it's anything bad, 370 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:54,799 anything negative, the economy itself, Harris the other day complaining 371 00:17:54,799 --> 00:17:57,599 about the prices of stuff, which is amazing to listen 372 00:17:57,599 --> 00:18:00,480 to her say, because you're in the White House now, 373 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:03,119 and if Biden has been shoved to the corner as 374 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:05,119 much as he has been, you think you have even 375 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:07,920 more power now than you had before. But nonetheless, it's 376 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,640 just sort of amazing to hear those things stated in 377 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:13,640 that kind of conversation, as if she's both in power 378 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,160 and not in power depending on what the discussion is. 379 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:18,640 And I think that's one of the other big reasons 380 00:18:18,839 --> 00:18:21,200 that she also skipped last night, is that the Biden 381 00:18:21,279 --> 00:18:23,200 the Obamas excused me. We're there to talk about all 382 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:25,519 the great job they did when they were in office 383 00:18:25,599 --> 00:18:29,599 and how much the Democratic Party loves them, even if 384 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:31,279 they didn't really do that great of a job well 385 00:18:31,279 --> 00:18:33,759 in office, as demonstrated by that point, just made there 386 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:36,200 that if things are bad, if division exists, you know 387 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:39,000 what I'll say this to. One of my other favorite 388 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:41,880 narratives that exists in politics, and is all over the 389 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:44,200 DNC for the first two nights and probably will be 390 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:47,079 again tonight and will be again tomorrow, is that there's 391 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:51,119 division in our country now. They say there isn't at times, 392 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:53,559 and Obama even said there wasn't, that we're all actually 393 00:18:53,599 --> 00:18:56,880 Americans were all connected. But they say there's division, and 394 00:18:56,960 --> 00:18:59,640 yet they take no responsibility. 395 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 2: For developing that division. 396 00:19:00,519 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 1: You have people like President Biden saying that MAGA Republicans 397 00:19:05,519 --> 00:19:07,240 are horrible, terrible people. 398 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,119 Speaker 2: Essentially, they are a threat to society itself. 399 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:13,359 Speaker 1: That January sixth, and all the supporters of Trump are 400 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:15,839 going to upend democracy as we know it. They're gonna 401 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:18,720 ruin everything, They're gonna riot, they they're gonna kill people. 402 00:19:18,759 --> 00:19:21,680 Whatever it is they say, whatever the boogeyman might be, 403 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:23,720 and then they go on a microphone and they're like, 404 00:19:23,759 --> 00:19:24,960 and by the way, there's a lot of division and 405 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:27,759 we don't understand it. I've told this story before. I'm 406 00:19:27,799 --> 00:19:29,759 gonna tell it again here. I don't know if I've 407 00:19:29,759 --> 00:19:31,759 ever told it of filling in on Dana's show, but 408 00:19:31,799 --> 00:19:34,240 it's one of the more amazing moments in my own 409 00:19:34,279 --> 00:19:38,039 personal career where I realized just how insane someone on 410 00:19:38,079 --> 00:19:40,440 the left can be. So I was working at a 411 00:19:40,519 --> 00:19:43,880 radio station that wasn't exactly politically on one side. They 412 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:45,599 said they were in the middle, but all the shows 413 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:47,119 were allowed to say whatever they wanted. 414 00:19:47,559 --> 00:19:49,640 Speaker 2: I did my show my way, and some of the. 415 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:52,720 Speaker 1: Other shows I worked with did shows differently and didn't 416 00:19:52,839 --> 00:19:54,279 like some of the stuff I said on the radio. 417 00:19:54,319 --> 00:19:56,160 It was not exactly a fun time to be at 418 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:58,920 a radio station where there was that much weird division 419 00:19:59,039 --> 00:20:01,480 within the talent themselves. And this was a while ago 420 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:04,480 for anyone that has heard me in more recent places. 421 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:07,839 But nonetheless, I fill in on a show with a 422 00:20:07,839 --> 00:20:10,319 different host, a host I didn't work with before who's 423 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:13,400 also our newsperson at the time, she was the news 424 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,160 director and the co host of a morning show. And 425 00:20:16,279 --> 00:20:18,960 right before the show starts, and this is right at 426 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:20,839 the beginning of the pandemic, when a whole lot of people, 427 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:23,920 especially on the left, were terrified that if you got COVID, 428 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:26,839 you would definitely die. But this person tells me, like 429 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:29,119 the bump song is playing, we're getting ready to start 430 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,680 the first hour, the first segment of a morning show 431 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,720 that I wake up early for. And she says, oh, 432 00:20:34,759 --> 00:20:37,119 by the way, just so you know, if I were 433 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:39,960 to get COVID, I would find the closest trump rally 434 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:41,440 so I could give it to them and kill as 435 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,759 many of them as possible. And she said it in 436 00:20:43,839 --> 00:20:47,319 this weird I'm kind of joking, but I'm really not way, 437 00:20:47,559 --> 00:20:49,480 and sort of smiled at me as she said it. 438 00:20:49,759 --> 00:20:52,000 And then I had to start talking because the music ended, 439 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:54,440 and the whole first segment. The back of my brain 440 00:20:54,519 --> 00:20:57,559 is like, holy crap, that was insane. But I just 441 00:20:57,640 --> 00:20:59,680 but I shouldn't talk about it. I should I should 442 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,519 have outv to her, actually, but I tried to be nice. 443 00:21:02,559 --> 00:21:04,839 They were my coworkers. I didn't change my opinion by 444 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:08,559 the way, her attempt to silence me failed, even though 445 00:21:08,559 --> 00:21:10,319 she said she was going to kill people. But I 446 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:13,680 can't tell you the amount of liberal people that I've 447 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:16,799 either worked with or know who have a similar sentiment 448 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,079 that they think that the opposite side of the aisle, 449 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,559 the people who support Donald Trump or are willing to 450 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:24,480 vote for him, even if they don't love everything he's 451 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:26,839 ever said or done in his life, whatever it might be, 452 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:28,480 are are evil. 453 00:21:28,519 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 2: They're terrible. 454 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 1: They're racist, they're sexist, they're they're the worst of the 455 00:21:31,799 --> 00:21:35,319 worst in our society, and they deserve to be handled 456 00:21:35,319 --> 00:21:36,079 with vitriol. 457 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,119 Speaker 2: They deserve to be handled with screaming and yelling. 458 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 1: This is something that a lot of Democrats believe a 459 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,279 lot of that room of people when they hear division, 460 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:46,920 what they hear, in my opinion, is where all the rational, 461 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,079 sane people and that other side of the aisle, the 462 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:52,119 side that's voting for Trump. Those people are terrible and 463 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:54,200 if they could just be smart like us and vote 464 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,519 for our side, then we'd like them. But if they don't, 465 00:21:56,519 --> 00:22:00,079 then we're going to keep hating them. Division isn't fixed. Now, 466 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:01,440 this is a weird thing to get up on a 467 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,160 soapbox and say, but I'm going to say it, darn it. 468 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:07,279 Division isn't fixed by having a uniform opinion. That doesn't 469 00:22:07,519 --> 00:22:10,000 fix the world we live in. That's what they preach. 470 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:13,400 That's what democrats want. They want everyone to believe the 471 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,039 same thing, to be comfortable in a room because they 472 00:22:16,039 --> 00:22:19,400 all say the same thing. Division is actually fixed by 473 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,839 accepting the differences in others, accepting that the opinion on 474 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:26,079 the other side does exist. It exists, probably more prominently 475 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:28,319 than you want it to, and the best way to 476 00:22:29,279 --> 00:22:32,000 discuss it is to actually talk about it and not 477 00:22:32,039 --> 00:22:34,759 try to silence it. But that's something they don't care about. 478 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:39,640 More than half the country votes a certain way in 479 00:22:39,759 --> 00:22:43,359 elections in which people decide who wins the White House 480 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,920 and who doesn't, and if the conservative wins. I know 481 00:22:47,039 --> 00:22:49,920 the electoral college makes my point a little less perfect, 482 00:22:50,079 --> 00:22:52,279 but nonetheless, the way in which it works is one 483 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:54,720 side wins, one side loses. And I don't know why 484 00:22:54,759 --> 00:22:58,759 Democrats ignore that. Because Trump won in twenty sixteen, many 485 00:22:58,799 --> 00:23:00,880 people believe he won in twenty two twenty He got 486 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,079 the most votes of any sitting president in the history 487 00:23:03,079 --> 00:23:04,960 of the country, even if I don't go the whole 488 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,839 did there you know, was their cheating or not? And 489 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,440 yet most Democrats will act like five out of one 490 00:23:10,519 --> 00:23:14,079 hundred people are actually Trump supporters or MAGA supporters. And 491 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,640 that's so inherently flawed. And the best way to fix 492 00:23:17,759 --> 00:23:20,720 division is to accept that someone doesn't think like you, 493 00:23:21,039 --> 00:23:23,119 and it doesn't make them an evil pile of crap. 494 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:25,400 And honestly, I've said this a bunch before, and sometimes 495 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:27,359 I get attacked on my social media for saying it, 496 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:28,279 but I don't care. 497 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:30,079 Speaker 2: Bring it all over again if you want to. 498 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,160 Speaker 1: I think that the narrative within the Republican Party, within 499 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:37,119 the Conservative Party is that Democrats are kind of dumb. 500 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:41,079 Democrats supporters are not as smart as Conservatives. It's not 501 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,319 nice to think that, but it's not evil. You think 502 00:23:44,319 --> 00:23:47,119 to yourself, well, you're naive. You want things that can't happen, 503 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:48,880 or you want things that would cost so much money 504 00:23:49,039 --> 00:23:51,400 that they'd cause more good, or they'd cause more bad 505 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,319 than good, whatever it might be. But this is the 506 00:23:53,319 --> 00:23:56,039 conversation I have a lot when you talk to a conservative, 507 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,839 a conservative about supporters of the other side is that 508 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,519 they think that there's something they're not seeing that they 509 00:24:01,519 --> 00:24:03,720 should see that would open their eyes and make them 510 00:24:03,799 --> 00:24:05,799 vote a different way. It's the old if you have 511 00:24:05,839 --> 00:24:08,400 a heart, you vote Democrat when you're younger, and if 512 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:12,720 you have a brain, you vote conservative when you get older. Now, Conservatives, 513 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:16,359 according to Democrats, are satan. I don't know how to 514 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,680 say that differently. They're they're evil incarnate, They're they're sexist, racist, 515 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,880 whatever they might be. There's something horrible, and that's a 516 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:23,640 through line. 517 00:24:23,759 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 2: That's the whole. 518 00:24:24,279 --> 00:24:26,440 Speaker 1: I don't understand how people can vote for Donald Trump 519 00:24:26,599 --> 00:24:28,680 because they must be as horrible as I think he is. 520 00:24:29,079 --> 00:24:33,359 And I think that's very interesting. The core statement, the 521 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,640 core thing that you preached your side of the aisle, 522 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,160 is going to influence how say divisive they are with 523 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,319 the other side. Democrats saying that the other side is 524 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,480 evil is more divisive than Republicans saying the other side 525 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,400 doesn't see all of the truth. Thanks for tuning into 526 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,599 today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd Truth podcast. If you 527 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:54,960 haven't already, made sure to hit that subscribe button on 528 00:24:55,000 --> 00:25:03,759 Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.