As California battles devastating wildfires, hear firsthand accounts from affected residents and understand the broader implications for communities grappling with loss. This episode also questions narratives around climate change and arson, presenting a compelling discussion on accountability. Insightful and sometimes emotional, our podcast looks at the intersection of justice, natural disasters, and the human spirit.
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After careful analysis in obedience to governing mandates and pursuant to the rule of law, this court has determined that the only lawful sentence that permits entry of a judgment of conviction without encroaching upon the highest office in the land is an unconditional discharge. which the New York State Legislature has determined is a lawful and permissible sentence for the crime of falsifying business records in the first degree. Therefore, at this time, I impose that sentence to cover all 34 counts, Sir, I wish you Godspeed as you assume your second term in office. Thank you.
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We could talk about probably a dozen different reversible errors in this case, but the jury was not asked to find unanimously the crime that Trump was supposedly covering up when he allegedly falsified his business records. It’s a bedrock principle of the criminal law that if it’s a fact, that is going to drive the sentence and we’re talking now about the fact that turned this what’s ordinarily a misdemeanor in New York law into a felony if it’s that kind of a fact that’s that consequential for sentencing it has to be found unanimously by the jury and this jury didn’t and no one in his right mind thinks that you have to give voice to a jury verdict when there’s patent constitutional error in the case that’s our friend Andy McCarthy who’s talking about this
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This decision, this weird decision that came in from the judge today, this Judge Mertron, and this has to do with this New York case. Look, I know it’s important to get into some of the details of it. I hate it. And I have avoided it because I think it’s just a performative witch hunt. And I cannot stand giving it any kind of… The credibility of coverage. Does that make sense? Like, it’s so infuriating. It’s such an infuriating topic. And we have Lorraine that covers it for the newsletter. And she gets into all of the minutia. So if you subscribe over at Chapter and Verse, that’s what she does. She gets into all the minutia of it because some of the stuff is so petty. And it just is disheartening to see the state of our judicial system. And I mean, you can hear Andy McCarthy talking about how weird all of this is, but they just all of this is about them being able to say he’s a felon. They want to be able to say he’s a felon without he didn’t have to serve a single sentence, single day. They just want to be able to say he’s a felon. That’s why you have this this weird, unconditional discharge. And isn’t it true that they were just like telling the jury, just go find whatever. Just go find whatever. I mean, it’s really difficult to believe in justice. When this is the system and this is the stuff that you’re seeing happen, it’s really difficult to believe in the concept of justice after this. So welcome to the show, Dana Lash with you. And we’ve got a number of things to get into, including this. We also have the latest with the fires. And there’s a lot of arson. I mean, it’s really unbelievable, some of this stuff that we’ve been able to see. They had a press conference just a little bit ago. And, I mean, listen to this. This is Audio Sunbite 6. This is one resident. Not everybody who lives in Malibu has mansions, by the way. Listen to this resident, Audio Sunbite 6.
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So I kept spraying all the embers, and then the next thing I know, a 30-foot wall of fire was coming at 60 miles an hour, and I couldn’t see, and it was so smoky. And I said, well, it’s time to leave. We lost everything we owned, but it doesn’t even look like a house anymore.
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It just looks like something. And they said a lot of that is still smoldering. A lot of the fires that they have, they’re still smoldering. So that you have this, you know, this complete devastation. You have people who are absolutely heartbroken and they’re looking for, you know, they’re trying to go back to their property when the worst of the fires have passed. And they’re trying to go back, understandably, and go through, find anything that they can find that they can, you know, keep, that they can have, you know, something from anything. And they have to be careful because you have these, the smoldering that’s ongoing. And that’s really, obviously it’s super dangerous for folks because that, I mean, there’s still a fire there and they, and the fire department even said in one of their, uh, one of their pressers that, you know, there’s pockets that they haven’t checked all the way. There’s pockets that they haven’t checked all the way. And so they’re desperately trying to make sure that they find all this stuff, get it all out. And it’s just, you know, it’s terrifying. There are a number of people, we had two more friends Well, one more friend who lost their home, another friend that they had extensive fire damage, but the structure was still standing. And they’re not millionaires, by the way. They don’t have like big bougie houses. They’re just like regular average everyday people. And. that’s that’s you know they they ended up losing you know everything it’s it’s and not just that the schools too it’s the schools it’s i think what the high school in pacific palisades is gone is it the high school or junior high i think it was the high school that that people were saying that was um that yeah that had that serious damage serious damage and um I don’t know. I’m like looking at some of the pictures. I don’t know how the kids go back to school. This is the other thing I was thinking of. The damage to the schools. Wasn’t California the state that was locked down the longest with COVID? I think that was the one that was locked down the longest, that state. And the reason I bring this up is because What are they going to do now with their schools? What are they going to do with their schools? If the kids have no schools to go to, what the hell happens? Because now you have a number of schools that have been damaged. You have a number of businesses that have been damaged. People have lost their property. So what do you, what happens in the meantime? I feel so bad for these kids because think about it. A lot of these kids that are in high school now, they were like in junior high, right? When COVID hit. Now think of it. Same generation. They’re like, oh my gosh, now our schools are burned down. Because it’s not just Pacific Palisades. I think it’s… There’s a couple of other areas where I think it’s been junior highs or elementaries or high schools. I mean, think about that. Think about kids that are… Their schools burned down. Their… I’m thinking their field, the football field, whatever it is, burned down. And what if they were what if they were going on scholarship? What if they were trying to get scholarship? What if they were trying to get anything? It’s just it’s so heartbreaking. So we’re going to have the latest with this. And we have some other pretty interesting developments as it pertains to this. I know that the left is trying to say to not. politicize it, but holding people accountable, Kane, we talked about this yesterday while you were iced in, is not holding them, I mean, critical criticism and expecting accountability is not politicizing it.
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Yeah, I don’t get it. I think it’s spelled out in our Constitution that we have the right to actually redress our government. I don’t get why all of a sudden people in government feel as though that’s un-American or unpatriotic to do and why they would want to avoid it. It’s part of the job. Also, with these fires, we know the fire… the structure that they actually have that firemen operate from, that money, the school money, all of that comes from property taxes, property that is now burned down. Are they going to do to North Carolina or do to them what they did to North Carolina?
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Well, and that’s one of the things we’re going to talk about getting into this. So first off, I forgot to even say hello. Dana Lash here with you. We’re at the top of this first hour and I’ve just got a lot of stuff open before me on my four and a half foot wide gaming screen. And I have people who are like, why don’t you look into the camera all the time? Because I don’t have a teleprompter. All my prep is right here. I’ve told you this. I’ve told people this. And some people, I guess, just want me to gaze at them. That’s great. But what am I going to refer to when I’m reading and sharing news articles with people? So this… We followed, like I said, we followed some of this over at Substack. I wanted to play… Forgive me, because I’ve got a million different odds and ends that are open. It’s a weird news cycle. This… First off, they’ve been saying it’s climate change. There’s all kinds of video. I think, is it three separate videos or is it two firebugs and then just three videos of two firebugs? I want to make sure I’m being accurate because they arrested definitely two people for arson. One of them… was it the Kenneth fire? I think one of the fires was absolutely 100% arson and they arrested a guy and it’s on camera. New York Post has one story where citizens swept his, like used a MMA move, swept his legs up from underneath him and took him into custody because they saw him with a blowtorch, literally setting things on fire. There was another guy that we had yesterday He was out in the middle of the road and somebody caught him on camera setting a fire. And so they arrested him there. I believe a lot of this is serial arson. Because, and I mentioned this yesterday, it just is the way that some of the fires have spread. It’s just weird to me. I’m not a fire science expert, but I just think it’s a little weird if you have fires happening in the Pacific Palisades and then you hop miles and miles and miles away beyond the point of where the wind can take embers. And especially if it’s not even in the direction of where the wind is going and you have a whole other problem. wildfire that breaks out you know what i mean it’s a little weird i’m just saying especially not like the the one that they just the the arsonist that they arrested that was one of those areas where they actually i mean you can see from the video when they approach him when citizens approach him he’s like in the like somebody’s driveway and he’s there’s there’s no fire damage there’s no fire they’re not in a fire zone And they catch him. And I was looking on the map. This actually is an area that is not in the fire zone. So that’s what’s weird to me. And I just… Because a lot of people have been… Lifelong residents in that area have been saying, how is it that… In some instances when it’s not even downwind from the fires, you have a whole, you know, it’s just there’s a lot of questions. I think that there’s a lot of arsonists out for sure. I think that you had natural with wildfire and then I think it was further compounded by arsonists. And so I don’t know. They got this guy in custody. But the reason I bring this up is because everybody’s been calling it climate change. The media has been insisting that this is climate change. The left has been insisting that this is climate change. And the reason that they’re insisting that this arson is climate change is because, again, what I tell you yesterday, they’re trying to absolve their elected officials of any kind of culpability with us at all. Any culpability. They’re trying to absolve their elected officials of any of it. And I don’t know, I’m just saying. I don’t think that that’s gonna work. This is sort of like what happened with some of the Canadian wildfires. They figured out that a lot of that was arson as well. You guys remember all of that? Yeah, they figured out a lot of that was arson. So just, I’ve got a lot of questions here. As we move, the folks who helped bring you the program, it’s our friends over at All Family Pharmacy. This is such a great service. You need to memorize the website. They make it so easy. All Family Pharmacy helped my family out a lot over Thanksgiving because, you know, right on Thanksgiving when offices are closed and you end up getting sick, it’s just, it’s a mess and you got to get medicine. All Family Pharmacy made it super easy. And you can visit allfamilypharma.com slash Dana. Use code Dana and you’ll get 10% off of your entire order. So this is affordable access, easy and cost effective for medicine. You don’t have to break the bank to access these medicines. There’s no red tape. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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So how much ice did we get here in Texas? I don’t know. It’s still 35 degrees, and I’m just not feeling that. It’s icy. Kane and Juan made it in. How was it out there?
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The side roads are a little chunky, a little ruddy with ice and stuff. But the main roads are not that bad. You’ll see little parts of the main road that are not great. But it was doable. We were brave men this morning.
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came out dead. I gave them the option. I was like, you guys don’t have to try to make it in today. But, I mean, you should have seen it. It was like a cave here yesterday. You guys didn’t see it because we didn’t have video. I’m going to share a picture with you though on social media. It was pitch dark. It was amazing. But, they said, because it’s still kind of What’s in out there? I don’t know what you would call it. There’s like some snow, some ice. It’s weird. Still kind of doing it out there. But yeah, we did get a couple of inches, I will say. How apparently we could all soon freeze our bodies and outlive an apocalyptic disaster. First off, who was building it? Secondly, why do I want to? I don’t want to do that. I mean, we’re having a hard enough time, not even in an apocalypse. I can’t imagine being on Earth with some of these insufferable people. And trying to survive in an apocalyptic situation with these insufferable people. Could you? It’s called time shift. They want to preserve and prolong your misery here on this rock. By offering the world’s first cryopreservation facility. Whatever. I don’t know. You can become a human meat sickle. If that’s your jam. It’s not my jam. I don’t want to be a meat sickle. I’m like when I’m done, I’m done. Like I’m going to tell my family. I look at my great grandkids. I’m done with you people. Bye. See you later. Yes, I do view everything that way. It’s very, very true. The U.S. warns of risk from the from most of the world’s online pharmacies. I think this is a lie, actually, because a lot of them are incredibly reputable. Like all family pharma dot com slash Dana where you can go and use Dana Dana 10 to get 10 percent off. They’re saying that some of these online pharmacies, yeah, if you’re like buying from an online pharmacy that’s like van on the side of the road dot com, that might not be great. But I think it’s a lot of it is just people looking for the government wants to regulate it. That’s what I look at it. We have a whole bunch more on the way. Stick with us. Imagine a young woman facing an unplanned pregnancy, feeling alone and unsure of what to do. And she’s searching for hope. And that’s where Preborn Ministries comes in. You can make a difference for just $28. Your generosity can be the key to a mother choosing life for her baby. And with your gift, you will receive the story of a mom who chose life as well as the ultrasound image of her precious baby. And like the story of Kelsey, who found pre-born and after hearing her baby’s heartbeat, she chose life. Consider making a larger, life-changing donation of $5, $10, or $15,000. Maximize your gift that can help women in unplanned pregnancies receive ultrasounds and even help place an ultrasound machine in a women’s center. Donate for the gift of life. Just dial pound 250 and say the keyword BABY. That’s pound or hashtag 250 baby, or visit preborn.com slash Dana to donate online. Every contribution counts. So again, that’s pound 250, say the word baby or donate securely at preborn.com slash Dana.
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You want to see somebody that responds to your house, your emergency, whether it’s a medical call or a fire call that looks like you. It gives that person a little bit more ease knowing that somebody might understand their situation better. Is she strong enough to do this? Or you couldn’t carry my husband out of a fire, which my response is he got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.
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I don’t believe that she could carry. That’s one of the Kristen’s. That’s one of the fire department Christians. Remember, so Kane missed this yesterday. Welcome back. Dana Lash here with you. Kane, I don’t know if you knew this, though, because Kane was iced in. He was literally in his own heat glue.
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Yeah, I like that.
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Yeah, you were all trying to stay warm in a heat glue, dude. I love it. He was all iced in. Juan was in a heat glue. They were all iced in yesterday. They couldn’t move. They did not, in fact, want to build a snowman. And I found… And a friend told me, you know, there are a lot of Kristen’s lesbian Kristen’s that work in the fire department. And I’m not I’m not talking about then like, oh, well, why are they lesbian? That’s not why are they all named Kristen is my big thing. Number one, I’m going to get to the meat and potatoes of this video. Kane, you missed that, though. They’re all named Kristen and they’re all old white lesbians, except for that Kristen. And she is an older black woman. They’re all literally named Kristen, like all of them.
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I don’t even know how to explain that.
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It reminded me of that episode of Shorzy. If you haven’t seen it, it’s hysterical. It’s a Canadian. It’s very blue humor. It’s a Canadian series.
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That’s what your mom said.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sanguinette! But it has this… It’s a guy who does Letterkenny too, right? So he does Shorzy. And it’s one of the funniest shows I’ve ever seen in my life. But you’ve got to like that humor. But it is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. And it’s this guy, you know, he’s going up… What is it? A AAA hockey league? Like somewhere up in Saskatoon or something like that? Anyway, they… Recruit these and one of them apparently is a real hockey other a lot of real hockey players in it but this guy is like apparently a brawler and there’s these three dudes and they’re all named Jim and I’d play part of the show, but they’ll cite us on YouTube So they’re they’re all named Jim And, you know, you got Shorzy, who’s the title, you know, the star of the show, who’s trying to figure out how they’re going to make that work on the hockey team. He’s like, so what, you know, if I call Jim, all three of you can’t get up. And they all want to be called Jim because it’s their first name. And it just gave me such a Shorzy feel. Like, why in the world are you, they’re all Kristen. So what happens? You’re at the fire department. Kristen. There’s like a million lesbians. And you can’t even go, lesbian Kristen. You can’t even do that because they’re all lesbians too. You can’t even go, old lesbian Kristen. Because they’re all old lesbians named Kristen. The only thing you can do is go, the black lesbian Kristen. But that might not work very well in Los Angeles, right? I don’t think you’re supposed to do things like that. But they’re all named Kristen. How else do you, literally all of them are Kristen. All of them. I mean, to make it even worse, you can’t even go the old blonde lesbian Kristen because they’re all old blonde lesbians named Kristen. All of them. I’m not making this up. Literally all of them. Kate, I know you said… What is… That’s very diverse. Is it diverse if they’re all old white lesbians?
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I think we should just go with middle initials.
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See, you have Kristen Crowley. She’s the fire chief and they’re like, she’s the… Gosh, it’s Friday. How many of you are really listening today? Everybody. She’s the first. Kane, she’s the first. Oh, my gosh. She’s the first that. She is an alphabet fire chief. I’m totally fine with that. But why are all of you named Kristen? She went to Harvard Business School. Her apparently mission in life is to the creation of systemic equity and inclusion. I don’t even know what the hell that means. Then you got Kristen Kempner. She’s the chief assistant chief of the fire department, Harvard Kennedy School for Managing Diverse Organizations, WTF that means. Her greatest achievement was she got accused of domestic violence because she whooped on her girlfriend. Then you have Kristen Larson. She’s the first lesbian equity bureau. So that’s the black lesbian. She’s also I don’t know. She got her job because everybody’s racist. That’s why she got her job. And then, oh, and then you got also a lesbian, but her name’s not Kristen. The lone exception, Jamie. Her big thing, her claim to fame is she’s not named Kristen. So you got Kristen, Kristen, Kristen and Jamie. The three Kristen’s and Jamie. Kristen cubed and Jamie.
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All unable to carry a human male out of a family.
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Not a damn one of these women could carry a dude. So back to the video. the hell does that mean like she’s shaming people for getting caught in fires like how are you drowning you should be drowning in the first place like what the hell kind of video is this how is it not victim blaming how is that not victim blaming should have got raped in the first place you’re somewhere you shouldn’t be if you’re getting raped shouldn’t have wore that yeah you’re somewhere you shouldn’t be if you’re drowning you’re somewhere you shouldn’t be if you got hit or by another automobile I mean, it’s like someone’s like, I think I’m going to go into that fire over there. That’s not what happened. What kind of video is this? I love how she thought she was being super clever. Not how she paused for a beat. This is so Hollywood. She’s doing a fire thing. A little fire PSA. But she’s like, if I’m there carrying your husband out of your house, he got himself in the wrong place. Yeah, he must be in purgatory if you’re carrying him out of the house because no way on God’s green earth in this real scape could you do that, Jamie. Or no, wait. She’s Kristen. That’s right. What are the odds, though? Right?
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Yeah, that is weird.
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Like, who’s handling HR over there?
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Kristen? Is there a book of lesbian names?
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That’s like when you’re playing Uno and you have all green and you really need the color to be green. So you’re encouraging everyone, make the color green. Is that why they’re all named Kristen? Because the fire chief is Kristen and she’s like, I need some Kristens. Need a whole crew of Kristens over here. The Kristen crew. Hope not. Jiminy. Well… I could go on about this forever. Not a single damn one of them apparently can do my… I think all the… Like, the people who are actually out there fighting fires are the ones, you know, doing everything. And the people who are making the calls are the problem. Kind of like a DOD, right? Same situation like a DOD. You know, these people are the problems. They’re the problems. It’s wild. I don’t know. I mean… For her to say that, well, he shouldn’t have got himself in the fire in the first place. Who says something like that? And then when she was going on in the video, you know, yeah, people that look like you rescuing you from a fire. You caught that part, right? You caught that part where she’s talking about being rescued and how it must be nice for people who are in fires to be rescued by people who look like them. As opposed to what? Like a dolphin coming up and rescuing you out of the fire? Yeah. As opposed to what? A two-headed Martian? As opposed to what? I don’t want anybody that looks like me coming to get me out of fire because they couldn’t lift my ass up. I’m a buck 20. I lie a little bit. I’m like, ah, I lie about my height and I try to make myself sound bigger than I am. I’m like, no, I’m really 5’8 and I weigh 145. Yeah, that sounds good. It’s not real. It’s fake news. I mean, I don’t want anybody that my friend Dave Burge says he doesn’t want anybody that looks like him because he’s an old fat drunk coming and rescuing him from the fire. He’s not fat and he’s not a drunk.
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He’s old. We’re missing the point that everybody, every firefighter would come into a fire completely in gear, helmet, face thing the whole night. No one’s looking like anybody.
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Dude, this is Los Angeles. Their uniforms might say, like, I’m an old white lesbian, or I’m a black lesbian, or I am just black, not a lesbian, so I am lower on the totem pole. They probably can’t even say totem pole out there. I’m lower on the ladder than the other people with more identity boxes checked. It’s a long tag, but it’s on the front.
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Mental illness aside… No one looks like you.
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Is it mental illness or do they just have too much damn free time on their hands?
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I think it’s too much free time that led to mental illness.
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People are sitting around making up problems.
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Mental illness.
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Like when you’re burning to death in a fire, do you care if it’s a white or black lesbian or a lesbian at all?
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People without mental illness don’t think so.
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I mean, oh man, it’s taken everything I have right now to not go full George Carlin. It’s crazy. Oh Lord, put a hand over my mouth. taking everything I have. No one’s looking like you when they’re coming into a fire. Like you’re, you’re dying to death in a fire, right? Do you care if it’s a, that shows up?
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I almost had the button done. Did anyone hear that? No, I don’t think they did. I heard echoes. That was it. Did you?
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I’m just saying.
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Stop.
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Does it matter?
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Nobody cares.
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I’m going to be grabbing onto anybody.
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If I am burning. Martians. Yes, if I’m burning.
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Dead burnt lesbians. I don’t care. I’m going to hold on to you. Give me out.
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If I’m burning and an alligator walks by and offers the tail.
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I’m grabbing that alligator.
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I would take it. I would take it.
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If Bigfoot came in and was like, yes, give me out.
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Even Littlefoot.
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Yeah, or Littlefoot. I mean, give me another cryptid. Any cryptid. I don’t care. You know, I mean, if Joe Biden came by, I’d accept the help if I’m dying in a fire. You know what I mean?
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Like, nobody cares. I’d see him.
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Why is it such a big thing with the left?
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That I would die.
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Like someone would go, I was going to allow myself to be rescued out this fire. But then I saw that you don’t check enough identity politic boxes for me. So no thanks. I’m going to burn to death. Just snuggle on into the flames. You know, like I said.
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Hence my diagnosis of mental illness.
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Or they have way too much free time. No. Some of them I think are mentally ill. Some of them I think are bored. Right? They’re bored. Like what else would these women be doing right now? Landscaping? Like what else? They’re bored. I just, I don’t know, man. All of them. I have never been more fascinated with an aspect of a story than this. And I cannot tell you, by the way, and this is the funniest part of it. So there, you know, we got a lot of, a big coalition that listens to the show. And we have a lot of People who you might say are in the alphabet community. Unwillingly. They don’t like the labels. And they’re conservative. They just want to, you know, not be taxed to death. And they want to be left the hell alone. Don’t we all? It’s the new American dream. And I actually had conservative leaning lesbians write in. And go… First off, I had two different listeners who are of that persuasion who said, yeah, there are a lot of lesbians named Kristen. I have never heard this in my life. And I about died reading the email. I just I died. I did die. And I came back to life. It was hysterical. And then some were saying it’s what you were saying. That’s just the mental illness out in California. I doubt that they were even born with that name. It’s like half and half, the community. It’s one of the most fascinating things I’ve ever… I’m just dying laughing over it. I mean, I shouldn’t, but if there is any kind of… lightness to the story at all. Maybe it’s that. But also, it’s bad because this is apparently what they focused on. Look, the right doesn’t want to sit here. I mean, some of them do. But we all don’t want to sit here and dice up everybody’s little identity politic box. I don’t care. It’s the people in these groups that are trying to make you care. We don’t care. In fact, Kane and I were raised in a generation where you were raised to not GAF. And you were encouraged to not GAF. And in fact, you were told in multiple PSAs to stop giving a GAF. And so guess what? We don’t care. Leave us alone. When you stop leaving us alone, that’s the moment that you cross the line and you make us care. But otherwise, leave us alone. But this is like, it has to, that’s like listed on someone’s resume as though it’s an achievement. Well, I worked really hard and decided to like vagina. Like, you know, how does that, it’s not an, they list it on a resume like it’s an achievement. It’s like they want to other themselves so bad. And I am floored because that’s not at all how, you know, we, that’s not how society was when we were coming up.
SPEAKER 18 :
Also, not how society was, was our emergency people saying things like, oh, well, if I’m having to come and help you in an emergency, you just found yourself in the wrong place.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, you’re in the wrong place. Well, duh, bitch, I’m in a fire. It’s not a right place to be at. Just saying. I just, I am… Oh, my gosh. And then Lorraine adds more fuel to the fire. She goes, now, you know, the Kristen’s are also all paramedics as well.
SPEAKER 18 :
Wait, is Kristen going to be the new Karen?
SPEAKER 19 :
I don’t know.
SPEAKER 18 :
There’s a lot of Kristen’s and they certainly.
SPEAKER 19 :
I only know one Kristen in my life. I only know one Kristen.
SPEAKER 18 :
She’s not lesbian. But I don’t know.
SPEAKER 19 :
It’s just a fascinating thing to me. I don’t know. But I wouldn’t want that woman to carry me out. I don’t care. I don’t think she she don’t have the if someone said an actual firefighter told me when it comes to blazes like this, upper body strength matters. Upper body strength is the difference. And they said that’s why it’s really difficult for women. And that’s a great perspective. There’s an actual firefighter who works in California up northern California who emailed that. And I thought it was a great point. And that’s true. I mean, look, in my mind, I like to pretend that I’m like super hardcore. Maybe, I don’t know, maybe, but I’m a buck 20. I lie all the time and I’m like, no, I’m 5’7″, 5’8″. I’m 5’6″. But this doesn’t leave us. This is our private discussion, right? And I try to inflate how large I am. And see if, like, you guys don’t know, if I can just, if I just sit here and I shrug down and I wear a baggy sweater, I could be. You guys don’t know. But I know my limitations physically as well. I know what I can lift. I know what my limit is. And you can’t just bend those rules or suspend them altogether because you want to promote a false sense of inclusiveness. And it is a false sense of inclusiveness because it’s not about the mission. This is mission creep stuff. Our partners that are bringing the program, it’s Tax Network USA. They want to help you out because the government… The government claims that they want to help you out by generously taking some of your money to pay themselves. And it seems to increase every single year. And they are very, very aggressive in getting what they think they’re owed. And so Tax Network USA, this is where they come in. It’s the top tax relief expert. They have secured over a billion dollars in tax relief for clients. So if you’re overwhelmed with back taxes or unfiled returns… I know those pay up notices are going out. That’s something that you can immediately get help for help with by going to Tax Network USA. Reduce or eliminate your debt. And they have a track record, a proven track record of handling these matters. They can get it set up whether or not you owe anything at all or whether or not, you know, it’s 10,000 or 10 million if it’s business or personal. You can call them, schedule a complimentary consultation. They make it easy. The number is 1-800-958-1000. Schedule your free, your complimentary consultation. And you can also visit TNUSA.com slash Dana. Don’t let the IRS’s aggressive tactics control your life. Call Tax Network USA today. That’s TNUSA.com slash Dana, 1-800-958-1000.
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SPEAKER 16 :
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
SPEAKER 15 :
Hey, Senator, can we ask you what you hope to get out of your visit to Mar-a-Lago to talk to Donald Trump? What are we talking about here?
SPEAKER 12 :
Is there some news? There’s some news. We hear that you’re going to be heading down to Mar-a-Lago. Yeah, I’ve heard that. Yes, I’ve heard that. Yeah.
SPEAKER 20 :
What will you be discussing with the president?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, yeah, I demand that I need to be made Pope of Greenland. Do you have the resume to be Pope? I’m having a conversation. Like, he’s the president. He’s going to be… So, you know, I am not the senator for just Democrats in Pennsylvania. I’m everyone’s senator in Pennsylvania.
SPEAKER 19 :
The Pope of Greenland. I still… I understand that they’ve got lots of natural resources. I’m still like, no, can we just focus on what we voted on first, please? And then when we accomplish that, then we can talk about… I’m not talking about expanding government right now. But he is having… Is it lunch or dinner? He’s going to Mar-a-Lago to dine with Trump. And the left does not know what to do. Because remember, the left made it like, oh, he had a stroke, so you can’t criticize him on anything ever. Well, now that he’s bucking them, what are they going to do? Oh, my gosh, we can’t criticize him because he had a stroke. Why did we do that? Second hour on the way. The latest on the fires movement in D.C. So much more. Stick with us. But if I have to go to a gun-free zone, I don’t want to necessarily, but sometimes for my job, I have to. I have friends who live in D.C. and New York, and all of them got there very difficult to get licensed to carry. But half the places where they live and work, you know, you can’t carry in there. It’s crazy. I have a friend whose apartment in Manhattan, they live outside in Westchester, but they work in Manhattan, them and their wife. They can’t even bring guns into their apartment building. So they can’t even have their firearm in their apartment building in Manhattan. And then they can’t drive it because of their stupid laws all the way to where they live out in Westchester. This is a problem. These people don’t want to be made. They don’t want to be made into victims by these stupid laws. And so as a result, they have decided to diversify. They keep their guns. But when they got to go to certain places, they have the Berna gun. In fact, they went out and got the Berna SD. That’s the most popular model. Five round capacity, a lot more than your average one to two round stun gun. And it shoots out chemical irritant projectiles that can stop threats from up to 50 feet away. Now, they’ve got different models. They have different projectiles, different accessories. But I think it’s wise to have diverse options for self-defense in those instances where the state or property owner wants to disarm you. And there’s no waiting period, no background check, none of that. Berna SD does not care about stupid gun-free zone signs. And they’ll send it right to your door. The only place where you can get a 10% discount is where I’m about to tell you, Burna.com slash Dana. That’s the only place to get 10% off your whole purchase. B-Y-R-N-A, Burna.com slash Dana to get 10% off.
SPEAKER 24 :
What we know right now is that the incident occurred, started here, and about 20 minutes, 30 minutes later, a suspect was detained over in Woodland Hills area by citizens.
SPEAKER 23 :
So someone purposely set the Kenneth fire? At this time, that’s what we believe, yes. Do you know how or why they did that? That I don’t know. Is this a crime scene right now? It’s being investigated as a crime.
SPEAKER 19 :
Wow. Unbelievable. Yes, it’s being investigated. You know, there were a lot of questions about that. There were a lot of questions about whether or not there was arson that was involved in this. And… Everybody was the media on the left was so quick to climate change, climate change. Is that a new name? Maybe that’s all the arsonists. You know how like all the fire people in L.A. are gay lesbians named Kristen. Maybe all the arsonists are named climate change. Clive, for short, you know, could be. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We are at the top of this second hour. There’s ice and snow on the ground, and I’m forever wearing turtlenecks on this show. Someone asked me in an email, how many of those do you actually own? An ungodly number. I buy something in black, and I’ll buy the same thing three times. Because I don’t like to think about what I wear. I am very like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg about that stuff. If I could just wear the same thing every day, I would. It’s less energy that you have to exert over that. But it’s cold. It’s cold. And houses in Texas, building structures in Texas are designed to let the heat out, not keep it in. So it’s cold in Texas. So you’re lucky that I’m not wearing a scarf and a sock at two all at the same time with mittens. Guys are lucky. Anyway, so welcome, Dana Lash with you. Find us at YouTube and Facebook. Like and subscribe. And you can also find us over at Substack, chapter and verse, the newsletter. And this whole… I was listening to some of the stats for this and, you know, with the arsonists, because there’s now two arsonists that have been arrested. I think maybe potentially three. Listen to this extent of the damage. So this is just the Palisades fire. There’s several different fires. Audio soundbite 30. Listen to how bad this fire is.
SPEAKER 01 :
Palisades fires. This fire was currently tracked at 20,438 acres with 3,073 personnel assigned. Crews worked very, very hard overnight strengthening our containment lines and addressing multiple spot fires in and around the Topanga Canyon area. Resources responded to the area included our air assets to aid in the containment efforts. Due to the favorable overnight weather conditions and the diligent, and I’ll focus on the diligent work and effort and commitment of our first responders, we can report that the Palisades fire is now 8% contained. Wind gusts are expected to increase in daylight hours that will test our containment lines. Our firefighters will continue to respond.
SPEAKER 19 :
So they’re saying that it’s scorched over 20,000 acres. So it’s like basically larger than Manhattan. The Manhattan is 14,600 acres. This is over 20. But they said in this, play this audio soundbite. I know this is brand new. This is from LAPD. This is about one of the arsonists that they caught specifically that had the blowtorch. We had some of that video for you. Listen to what LAPD says here.
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They responded, they interviewed this suspect. After the interview and additional investigative steps, looking at some additional evidence that was present, they made the determination that there was not enough probable cause to arrest this person on arson or suspicion of arson. And therefore, this person was arrested on a felony probation violation.
SPEAKER 19 :
If you caught him in the act, though, and the video shows that he’s literally there with a blowtorch trying to set stuff on fire. It was like one of those ring camera things. How is that not probable cause, right, enough by itself there, Cain? Yes, it is. How is that not?
SPEAKER 18 :
It’s plenty. But what they’re going to do is they’re going to say, well, we’ve got to do this investigation. Then they’ll gather that video evidence, and then they’ll go over it, and then they’ll change their story later. But this is what they do PR-wise every single time.
SPEAKER 19 :
This is all so goofy. You don’t have enough. There’s not enough. We don’t have enough probable cause to charge him. I mean, yeah, we got him with a… Literally on camera. Trying to set stuff on fire with a blowtorch. Like literally he had a blowtorch and was setting stuff on fire. And he got caught by a ton of passerby. I wonder how long it’s going to be before. They had five people that watched him set things on fire. Five people who don’t even know each other. Who saw him independently try to set something on fire. And that’s why they all intervened and took him down. But they don’t have enough probable cause for that charge. So they just got him on felony probation. And his name isn’t out there? Really? Oh, I want to know these people’s names. Oh, yeah. I want to know their names. If I knew if somebody was a firebug, I would just put their name out there as law enforcement because, man, oh, man, you would watch a community come together to hunt somebody down real quick. I mean, no, it’s not illegal to carry a blowtorch at all. It is illegal to take the blowtorch you’re carrying and try to set stuff on fire and alleyways. That’s illegal. And that’s what five people saw him do. And they told this to police. So I don’t know what that, you know, can you make a good point? Bring up the point you just put.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. I just wonder how long it’ll take before they start demonizing the people that actually caught him doing that.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah. I wonder if he did it alone.
SPEAKER 18 :
I think he was by himself at the time it happened, but whether or not he did everything alone is a good question.
SPEAKER 19 :
I’m just, that was weird to me that that was treated that way. It’s just weird, right? I mean, yeah, that’s because people were saying we watched him literally set with his blowtorch. On fire. And I’m all about due diligence and due process. I’m all about those things. But when you see someone use their blowtorch to set it on fire, you’re not just in possession of a blowtorch. You’re literally using it to set fires. It’s arson. So I don’t know. This is all… I mean, it’s just… I don’t know. The way in which they’re still running things out there. I worry for the people who are going to have to rebuild how long that’s going to take. To get that done. How long it’s going to take for that to happen. Because you have to think of the insurance nightmare. That’s out there too. That’s a huge nightmare. You know what I’m going to tell you. DeSantis. He was at Mar-a-Lago with a bunch of Republican governors. This was Sunday evening. And then the video of this is just coming out. And the reporters. It wasn’t all just friendlies. Because Trump just lets reporters come in. He’s not like Biden. He doesn’t terrorize the media. And audio soundbite 13, DeSantis just busted their ass in this. This was epic. Listen to this.
SPEAKER 03 :
for the president-elect or a president to be criticizing.
SPEAKER 15 :
Is it appropriate for people in your industry to try to create division and to try to create narratives any time these things happen? Now, you’re not as interested in doing that because Newsom is a D. If Newsom was a Republican, you guys would go try that. You would have it nailed to the wall for what they’re doing over there. And I know we’ve dealt with it. We just assume in Florida, anytime something happens, it’s going to be politicized by the media. So you guys sitting in judgment of Donald Trump, I mean, excuse me, I think your track record of politicizing these things is very, very bad. OK, last question.
SPEAKER 19 :
You would nail him to a wall. That is such a great response. You could tell he got ticked off. Because they kept asking… The questions that they were asking and the excuses that they seemed to be intimating for Newsom, it made him mad. I watched a long clip of it. That’s the important part that we got. But you could see he’s just getting madder and madder, standing over there like, uh-uh, I ain’t even… He’s best when he’s allowed to be himself. Because he’s really good at handling the media. Here’s another example. This was… This is Audio Sunbite 14. It’s a little longer. This is a master class and answering a question while neutralizing a fishing expedition for sensational headlines. This reporter wanted a narrative. You got DeSantis there. You had Matt Gaetz who left his Congress. I’m not a Gaetz fan, and I’ve made that very clear and nothing personal. This is just I just I think that he has no idea about tactics or strategy, and I’ve never seen anyone so politically toned up in my life. That being said, he left his elected seat and then he’s saying that he’s thinking about running for governor. DeSantis turns out in 27. He’s he would be up against Byron Donald’s and a whole bunch of other people, which, you know, and the press immediately wants to use it. They were trying to find some kind of division. Right. The press. What did I what did I say on Jesse Waters earlier this week? And what did I say the other day? that the media wants to find any kind of crack, any kind of division. If they have to play to people’s egos or play to tribalism, they will do that. So they were trying to see if they could get DeSantis to, I guess, like stand against Trump over Gates or something. I don’t know what they were looking for, but this was a masterclass in how to handle the media. Audio Sunbite 14.
SPEAKER 22 :
Just a reaction to Matt Gates mowing a gubernatorial bit.
SPEAKER 15 :
I don’t really have a reaction to it. I mean, it’s so far away for that race to happen. You know, I think my thing is I had to do a special election to fill that seat because he resigned from the seat. I wish we had full strength in the House to help the president get his agenda done. That’s where the fight is right now. Florida, you know, the fight was in 18 here when we were at a crossroads. If you look now at the results across the state, the left is lying in ruins. The Democratic Party is on the mat. So we’ve got it handled here. I think the people need to be up there fighting for President Trump and to deliver on his mandate. And so any congressman should be wanting to go up there and do that. And we expect all our Florida congressmen to actually deliver on these promises.
SPEAKER 03 :
Governor DeSantis, have you and President Trump spoken about the possibility of you serving as Secretary of Defense?
SPEAKER 15 :
We speak frequently. We haven’t really gotten into any particulars on anything. I think we’re looking forward to being able to be helpful in any way we can. Clearly, as governor, I think we’ll have a better future these next couple years than we’ve had the last four. Our success in Florida has been in spite of the Biden administration, not because of it. Now I think we’re in just a good runway. These are just great answers.
SPEAKER 19 :
Absolutely great answers. He just just neutralized because they were on a fishing expedition. They wanted a sensational headline. They wanted to be able to say, oh, DeSantis goes against whatever Trump favorite Gates or something like that. I don’t know if Gates has a shot in hell at, by the way, winning even the nomination for governor’s office in Florida. I mean, he’s he he got his seat because his dad’s been in office for a long time. It’s a family that’s been in elective office. It’s kind of dynastic down there. And I’m immediately I’m just allergic to that kind of stuff. I just just I have visceral reactions to any kind of dynastic anything. I’m so such an American. I can’t help it. And but he gave the great answers like I wish we had full strength. And he’s right. He’s right. He made a really great point on a number of different levels and just, you know, smack their ass and then neutralize their argument. It’s great. That’s that’s how you handle the press. We have more on the way, including this unconditional discharge. This goofy case. They just want to be able to say felon. And a couple of things. Colorado, they’re trying to push a gun ban, another gun ban. We’ve got that. We’ve got a whole bunch of stuff. As we move, our partners. who helped bring you the program. It’s our friends at ReadyWise. ReadyWise is always ready, even if you aren’t. And I’m telling you, out of a lot of the companies out there that make claims, ReadyWise really is it. I mean, they are really good, good survival food. Survival food doesn’t have to taste horrible. It doesn’t have to be low quality either. And ready wise is neither of those things. It’s high quality premium survival food. That’s not only sustenance when something goes sideways for you and your family, but it’s also comfort in a crisis and beyond because it’s made so well. These are U.S. ingredients. packed in a U.S. plant, sent to you from that plant by U.S. workers. So you know the chain of command for your food. I don’t know of any other company that can say that. You know the chain of command for your food from start to finish. And what’s more, they have an in-house team of culinary experts that make sure everything that you buy is meeting your nutritional needs, your caloric needs, the healthy carbs, protein, all of that. And they have an array of product choices to meet every budget, like the emergency one-month bucket supply, the two-bucket bundle, the three-month bucket bundle. Great taste. And like I said, comfort in a crisis and beyond 25-year shelf life. Visit ReadyWise.com. Use promo code Dana20 at checkout for 20% off of your entire purchase. ReadyWise.com. Promo code Dana20 for 20% off.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
SPEAKER 19 :
Is When the Levee Breaks by Zeppelin, is that just not one of the best songs ever? I’m just telling you. The TikTok band going to SCOTUS. And they’re battling for survival, TikTok, in the United States as the decision over its fate is now underway. I don’t know. I just, I don’t know why people are defending it so much. It doesn’t help when you have politicians who are like, yeah, we got to get rid of TikTok. And then they’re like, TikTok’s great. I’m not on it. I just don’t have time, and also I can only watch so many videos of people looking at the camera. It’s an insufferable epidemic.
SPEAKER 18 :
The Supreme Court just came out and said that they’re looking to uphold that ban. That’s what the SCOTUS just said. I got this one minute ago.
SPEAKER 19 :
They’re looking to uphold the ban a minute ago. So they’re good. So it’s good. And unless they’re able to get like a net. Well, you can’t. You can’t appeal it.
SPEAKER 18 :
All right.
SPEAKER 19 :
So I don’t know if you guys saw this. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was reportedly kidnapped by Maduro in Venezuela, you know, because they have free elections and all that good stuff there. Right. In Venezuela. Isn’t that how it works? There’s a couple of different reports of how it happened, but she was apparently reportedly freed after she was violently intercepted, is how it was described. And she left her hideout to protest Maduro. So that’s… You know, if you want to know where free and fair elections don’t happen, it’s there. Novak Djokovic said he was poisoned by lead in his food after he was detained over COVID during the Australian Open. He had refused to get the experimental injection. And he said he was poisoned by food that he ate while he was detained during that 2022 whole thing. He was in a Melbourne hotel and they said, he goes, I was fed some food that poisoned me. And he monitors his diet pretty strictly. It’s like a thing that he’s actually pretty famous for. GQ did a whole piece on it once. So he said that he had flu-like symptoms and he had an emergency medical team treat him when he got back to Europe. But he said it was lead. Somebody poisoned him? That’s good night. Bank of America is bracing for massive bond losses as yields soar. New headline. The sharp rise in rates since the end of their third quarter has widened losses on bank securities portfolio on their portfolio. And it could become an investor issue again when banks start reporting their fourth quarter results. That’s like next week. Excuse me. Beginning of next week. And let’s see here. We got a couple of other things as well, which we’re going to talk about. The president saying 100 percent help for. people affected by the fires out in California. We’re going to have to revisit Hurricane Helene here. And this also happened this morning. Four injured after a Delta flight aborted a takeoff at a snow-covered Atlanta airport because it’s been snowing in Atlanta. They said it was about 9 a.m. local time. They told passengers to duck down and evacuate after the plane accelerated to take off. They said they had ongoing severe weather. There were people who were treated on the scene. Everybody’s okay now, apparently, but they said it was due to an engine issue. Stick with us. We got more in store next. Pain can really affect your life, so you should consider a New Year’s resolution. And it’s not about taking it easy or slowing down. It’s about making 2025 the year of feeling good again, the year of doing more and living more and waking up excited every day. And you can do it by trying Relief Factor. Relief Factor is a 100% drug-free daily supplement that helps your body fight pain naturally. Developed by doctors, it works by supporting your body’s response to inflammation. And Relief Factor doesn’t just mask pain for a short time, it helps to eliminate it. It’s like turning back the clock on pain so you can feel like you did years ago. Whether it’s neck, back, joint, or muscle pain, Relief Factor can help you feel better. Become one of the over 1 million people that have turned to Relief Factor. Trying Relief Factor is easy. Get their three-week quick start for just $19.95. That’s less than a dollar a day. Call 1-800-4-RELIEF. Whether it’s neck, back, joint, or muscle pain, Relief Factor can help you feel better. That’s 1-800-4-RELIEF or visit relieffactor.com.
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SPEAKER 19 :
Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you at the bottom of this second hour. And we’re following everything with the fires and everything else. And it’s I mean, it’s the arson now as well, because that’s the other thing. Now they’re saying that they’ve arrested a couple of people for arson so far, which you knew that some of this was going to be arson. You just knew it was going to be. One of the guys was even I’m looking at this. finding this video, one of the guys was even caught on video. And you have a blowtorch and you’re using it to light stuff on fire. It’s kind of a big deal. In the meantime, in New York, the president faced sentencing in this stupid… I hate this stupid story because it’s such a fraud. The whole thing is so dumb. It’s that Stormy Daniels hush money case. Lorraine’s written about it quite a bit over at Substack. And the… decision it’s a weird one so the judge had imposed a jail sentence and under new york state law because they were the lowest level of felony jail sentences are not mandatory they wanted to just be able to say he was a felon so remember this is the case where uh he paid money to stormy daniels and i don’t care how look there’s two things that are happening here yes i understand the people who are arguing about the morality of it okay that’s a separate thing set that on one side and then this then i’m going to talk about you can set on the other side regardless of how you want to look at it on paper it’s a business arrangement that’s just the way it is you there’s certain things with regards to morality that are not actionable in the way that Alvin Bragg wants to make them actionable. And so Trump had already said that he had given Stormy Daniels money. He came out about that and had said that, uh, The way that they had logged it in their financial record keeping, that’s what New York State wanted to go after. They were saying that it was a bookkeeping error. Regardless, it’s your money. You should be able to do whatever the hell you want. So at its core, I reject this whole story. I don’t even like talking about it because I think it’s stupid. You are making a huge issue out of a non-issue. So they were saying, well, it’s a bookkeeping error and you should have stipulated such X, Y, Z at all. the most, at the most, you could maybe, I really don’t think you could, but you could make the argument that it was a misdemeanor in the manner by not following precise New York law with regards to keeping records pertaining to this whole thing. You could maybe make that argument. But that’s not what Alvin Bragg did. He went beyond that. He was trying to say that there was an additional crime that they would not articulate in any of the charging documents, an additional crime that they weren’t actually going to bring a charge for, that they weren’t even going to instruct the jury to fully consider, an additional crime that makes this, for the sake of argument… expired misdemeanor, it elevates it to where they can charge it as a felony. And they barely made it an E-level felony charge, which was the lowest level. So he was never going to be up for jail time because the jail sentence by New York law with an E-level felony is not a The judge had to consider the fines and the charges for that. So what Judge Merchan did was give Trump what they call a no penalty sentence. And they call it an unconditional discharge. So there’s no jail time. There’s no probation. There are no fines. But it goes on his record. They just wanted to be able to say that he was a felon. They, I mean, pun intended, trumped up a charge to say that he’s a felon. Let me put this in a different context because they were trying to make this out to be an NDA. I’ve signed NDAs. NDAs are commonplace. The people who are talking about how sketchy it is to have NDAs have never been in an important enough position to have to sign one. Yes, that is to be mean because I see these people all over social media throwing their weight around going, oh, well, NDAs. No, literally, if you’ve never had to sign an NDA, you’ve never had to work at a place that was considered like high risk or anything like that for whatever reason. In fact, low risk, regular everyday businesses have people sign NDAs. It’s par for the course. It is not an unusual, exceptional circumstance. Literally, everybody signs NDAs. I sign DAs to work with people I work with. The people who work with me sign NDAs. It’s literally boilerplate. So that argument that, oh, Trump had her sign an NDA and all this stuff, that’s like sketch. That’s actual commonplace. So does that mean you took hush money because you signed an NDA and you get paid for signing an NDA? I have literally entered contract negotiations that have an NDA that goes along with just the negotiation. And I have literally told people that my silence costs. So if you want me to sign an NDA, you got to pay. I have literally told people that at the negotiating table because it’s a non-starter for me. And that’s not taking hush money. That’s a business arrangement. So that’s why this is so stupid. So it would be like you say you get a job at some company. I don’t know. Pick a pick a vocation and you go through, you know, you sign your paperwork to work for the company, the company, you sign your contract and you sign your NDA and you get, you know, like a signing bonus. Is that hush money? I mean, that’s if you were Trump in New York, they were they would say that it’s hush money and that because you didn’t write hush money in the ledger, that that’s somehow a misdemeanor, although it’s passed. It’s beyond the statute of limitations. So it’s kind of moot. But what they’ll argue is that, well, you probably didn’t report it correctly because you were hiding something else. Now, we’re not going to tell you what that something else is. We’re not even going to bother mentioning it in the charging docs. And when we instruct the jury to make it during deliberation, we’re going to tell them to just bypass whatever they think it is. It exists. And we’re just you have to have it exist so we can elevate this to a felony. That’s what happened here. Imagine you having to go through that. That’s why this is so stupid. I don’t even like talking about this dumb story because it is literally a straw man argument that they just they trumped up so that they could call him a felon. That’s the only reason. It’s the dumbest. Now, there are other cases where you look, you can sit here and be like, well, you shouldn’t have done anything with Stormy. You can have that argument all day long. I’m not telling you you’re wrong or telling you not to have it. But what’s stupid is them weaponizing the justice system to go after him for that. That’s how dumb this is. This is lawfare. This isn’t justice. This is lawfare. Masquerading as justice and justice for what? Who’s heard in this? That’s the other thing. It’s so stupid. I don’t even like talking about it. I get so mad talking about it because it pisses me off because it’s a non-story. It is a stupid, fabricated, lawfare situation that you’re expected to take seriously by the legacy press. I don’t take it seriously. I think it’s a joke. It makes a mockery of our justice system. I feel stupid for even talking about it on air because it’s such a dumb witch hunt story. Of all the things to get mad at Trump about, this is not one of them. it’s not it legitimately isn’t and i will i have no qualms in pissing off everybody criticizing someone’s precious lawmaker over x y or z i have zero issue this is one of the dumbest things i’ve ever had to talk about in my entire professional career it’s a stupid story it’s hard to even explain because there’s no legal basis that’s why it’s so weird Never before has anything like this been done in New York. Never before has anything been cobbled together like this in the justice system. They fabricated it so they could get a conviction and say felon. That’s why it’s so weird to talk about. Because I’ve had listeners go, well, what was the other thing that elevated it? I would love to know. I’m sure the jury would too. So it’s so dumb about all of it. Kane knows. I get ticked off any time this story comes up because it’s stupid.
SPEAKER 18 :
I heard Andy McCarthy saying that they were trying to make the underlying crime the 2016 election that they’re claiming Trump stole that.
SPEAKER 19 :
They’re saying that he—the argument is that the reason that he paid Stormy Daniels, according to the prosecutor, is that he was—it was— Election interference. I feel you. He was trying to help his own campaign by keeping the Stormy Daniels stuff out of the news. And so that’s why. And they’re arguing that that’s election interference. Did they argue that with John Edwards? No. Because some of that money actually came from assets in New York when Bunny Mellon was giving him cash. Did they argue that with John Edwards? Did they argue that with Anthony Weiner? No. Did they argue it with Bill Clinton? No. I mean, do you want me to sit here and run down the list of all these Democrats who made their side pieces? Sign like NDAs or I mean, we can sit here and do it. The reason it wasn’t done with them is because, first off, there was no legal foundation for that to even that case to even be built. Number one. Number two, they didn’t do it because those people were Democrats. Look, I get it. There are things I criticize Trump about. You guys know I’m very forthright about it. This is not one of them. And so when I see people that I’ve always thought previously were smart, pretending that this is a big deal, I lose respect for them because this is a stupid story. There’s so many other things to talk about. And this is a headline today. This is a stupid headline. You have people burning to death in California and these jackasses in New York with this stupid fabricated witch hunt. This is what they’re pushing today. It’s so dumb just so they can say, oh, he’s a felon. He can’t own a gun. He’s a felon. He’s not even going to be able to really travel. He’s a felon. Well, he’s got diplomatic immunity as an elected official. So that’s a stupid, you know, but still there’s some considerations here for what? No penalty, no probation, no jail time. And they didn’t even actually articulate the underlying crime that elevated this to the lowest level classy felony in the state of New York. Now, of course, he’s going to appeal the sentencing. He’d be a moron to not appeal the sentencing. Think about it. There are some left-leaning prosecutors in New York, more left-leaning than Alvin Bragg, that did not want to touch this case. And it’s not because they’re weaker as communists. It’s because they’re smarter legal strategists. They know at some point, and it’s going to take time, but at some point, this is going to get overturned. You just, this is only, this only happens in New York. Outside of New York, this falls apart because you don’t have the partisan pettiness as the framework to keep it all together. It’s only in New York. So there, for the people who are asking, that’s why I don’t talk about it because I get mad and it’s stupid. It makes me hate the justice system more than I already do. It makes me hate government agencies more than I already do. And I’m trying to be, you know, we’re not even a first week in the new year. I’m trying to be lighthearted for everybody. I don’t want to talk about this stupid story. It’s so dumb. Imagine, and this is with… Somebody who has, you know, all of the name recognition and everything else. Imagine what they’re doing to average everyday people. Look at Dexter Taylor, an innocent black man who’s sitting in jail because he’s black. I’ve never said anything like that before. That’s true in this case. He is a gun owner and he’s a conservative and they went after him because he is a black man. gun owner and a black conservative. And that is dangerous to their narrative because the left does not want minorities to leave the party. They have to be Democrats. I’ve talked about this for years. Democrats think they have a patent on you. If you’re a woman, if you’re a gay man, if you’re a lesbian, if you’re Hispanic, if you’re black, if you’re Asian, they think that that is a tool of political exploitation. And you’re not allowed to leave the Democrat Party if you’re any one of those things. And if you do, then it’s a betrayal so badly. It’s a betrayal so bad that they’ll throw the full force of their lawfare at you like they did with Dexter Taylor. And with Trump. Imagine a young woman facing an unplanned pregnancy, feeling alone and unsure of what to do. And she’s searching for hope. And that’s where Preborn Ministries comes in. You can make a difference for just $28. Your generosity can be the key to a mother choosing life for her baby. And with your gift, you will receive the story of a mom who chose life as well as the ultrasound image of her precious baby. And like the story of Kelsey, who found Preborn and after hearing her baby’s heartbeat, she chose life. 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SPEAKER 18 :
It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
SPEAKER 19 :
So I have two. This is crazy. So in this shoplifting scheme, I had a listener that sent this to me, and they got my attention by going, uh-oh, D-Lash, clean up on Isle Brown. It’s from the Miami Herald. And there’s also a story from Fox 13. They got the… CCTV footage, deputies are searching for a couple that are accused of stealing $500 of items from a dollar store. The suspect, the woman intentionally defecated on the store’s floor as a way to distract while the man she was with began to steal everything. Polk County deputies are investigating. They said that Ms. Dookie is on the run after a messy burglary at the Mulberry Family Dollar Store. So they walked in. He walked around the store, gathered $500 worth of products like Gain Tide, Clorox. And while he was getting that, the woman distracted everybody by dousing on the floor. And an employee had to clean up the mess she made. It’s a poo and run. I, and they’re, they’re literally, how do you not find them? How do you, I mean, go into a dollar store. You, okay. Something is wrong with you. If you’re like, okay, here’s my idea on how to steal from family dollar. I’m going to go and poop on the floor and you can just grab everything, throw in a basket and let’s run.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 18 :
That whole last question, that whole last part would have worked fine without the first part. Well, that whole needing to poop on the floor isn’t a need, but how do you, okay.
SPEAKER 19 :
How much time do we have here? I don’t like public restrooms. I hate them. I’ll explode before I have to use them. It’s a thing. It might be TMI. But my question is, how does a woman… How do you just do that in public, like theatrically? You just do something on the floor like that. I know it’s part of your shoplifting scheme, but how do you get to the point where you’re like, okay, I’m saving it up. I’m going to go and dookie on the floor the family dollar.
SPEAKER 18 :
Seems like you have to plan your eating 12 plus hours in advance.
SPEAKER 19 :
That has to be… That’s like… That has to be timed out. I don’t know. Oh, gosh. A Florida man went on a smash and grab at a St. Pete Publix. Oh, well, at least he didn’t dookie in the floor. He went on a string of smash and grab burglaries. Corey Kendrick, 11 vehicles stealing the items inside. They think he’s responsible for other other thefts and that more charges could be coming. But apparently he did not care about any of the videos as he’s just on camera running through smashing everything like full view. Great CCTV footage of him. And a Florida man suffered severe injury while selling fireworks illegally. He was selling them literally off the side of the road in a U-Haul van, and he blew off two of his fingers. Stick with us. Caltech, longtime friend of the show. I’m a huge fan of what Caltech does. I’m a huge fan of their firearms. Everything’s built right here in the US of A in Florida. They have got a great story, great all-American story. And as we head into the later part of January, this is all about the same time every year that Caltech unveils the new things that they’ve been working on. This year is not going to be any kind of exception for that. George Kellgren, who’s the president, founder, designer, mad scientist. He’s actually one of the few major firearms designers still alive today leading the way in innovation. You know, they invented the micro compact pistol category. They came out last year with the lightest, thinnest double stack nine millimeter on the market. That’s the P-15. Everything they do is quality made right here in America. They got the fold-in half carbine, the sub 2Ks, that whole family, that whole line. They have the KSG shotguns, the RDB bullpup series, and they stand behind everything that they make. Now, they’re going to be dropping some new product later this month. I’ll be at SHOT Show. broadcasting live for that industry event. So there’s going to be some new product and we’ll talk all about it when it happens. You can visit Keltechweapons.com, sign up for their newsletter, check out their social media, and you can also get on the inside track so you can be made aware when they drop new stuff. Innovation Performance Keltech, K-E-L-T-E-C, Keltechweapons.com.
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It was wild. We just started seeing all these cars pull up. and groups of men running off our street, going up to the doors of these houses. And we weren’t sure what was going on. I’m thinking, are these people here to help my neighbors? I hope so. And I left and then my husband talked to the police and said, what are those guys doing? These guys don’t live here, get them out. My next door neighbor said, his quote, there were like 100 people that came up on scooters and were trying to get into any and all houses on the street.
SPEAKER 19 :
Looting. The looting has begun. And the DA down there now, he ended up beating the source back DA. Was saying, look, we’re going to prosecute everybody. We’re going to go after everybody. Nobody’s going to be… If you’re doing this stuff, we’re coming to get you. So good on them for laying that out. Because previously… I mean, when people would loot stores, they weren’t doing a single thing. This is just, it’s, man, it’s bad. Like, basically the size of Manhattan has burned. More than. Manhattan was what, 14,600 acres? Over 20,000 has burned. That’s just the Palisades fire. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We are at the top of this third hour this Friday. And you’ve got this. Audio Sunbite 4. Biden was remarking on this. This has to do with the debris and some of the cleanup recovery efforts. Listen to this.
SPEAKER 22 :
This morning, due to the magnitude of the disaster, I was talking with the governor. He requested if I could increase the federal funding that was authorized under this legislation from 75% to 90%. We’re increasing it to 100% of all costs to be covered by the federal government. for both the Fire Management Assistance Grants and the elements of what they call the Disaster Declaration. So today I’m announcing that the federal government will cover 100% of the cost for 180 days.
SPEAKER 19 :
So that’s, he’s covering 100% of recovery costs for six months. They gave all of the people in Appalachia who were dealing with the effects of Hurricane Helene, they, uh, They got to check out all their motels. Was it January? Oh, tomorrow. Tonight at midnight. They said FEMA said due to the incoming winter storm, we’re extending our transitional sheltering program for just 24 hours to households scheduled to check out if you still need assistance. So that’s like about 3,500 families in that area. They’re like, okay, go. They said that FEMA tried to evict these hurricane victims hours before the storm went through. they’ve there have been people on the ground there who have been taking videos of these people working at these shelters and They said it’s wild it’s wild like they’ve they they had these people have nowhere to go it’s over 3,000 families 3,500 and They were told okay. That’s it. That’s it. That’s all we’re gonna do for you. Now. You got to go and Told to get out That’s just so that’s amazing. How I I am without words, but that’s what they’re telling everybody. No, no, no, you’ve got to go. So Los Angeles, they get 100% covered. They were giving them money in North Carolina, but they had to pay it back, right? Isn’t that how it went? They would get money, but then they had to pay all of it back.
SPEAKER 18 :
And they had to pay their full property taxes.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, that’s right.
SPEAKER 18 :
On homes that washed away.
SPEAKER 19 :
Was that last week or week before?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, last week.
SPEAKER 19 :
Unbelievable. I know that was right before Christmas. They had to pay all their property tax like that Friday before we were off air. That was the deadline. They had to pay property taxes. They said that they had no catastrophic events that that fall into exclusion. And so they had to pay property taxes based on assessments that are now inapplicable.
SPEAKER 18 :
So officials in California clearly, through neglect and inept activity, have ruined what’s going on in California, costing the locals a lot of money. But now they’re asking the federal government for more money as well. And we’re just going to hand it over to them to the tune of 100% when this was mismanagement. The Helene thing in North Carolina had nothing to do with mismanagement. That was absolutely natural disaster.
SPEAKER 19 :
Although I will say the response was mismanaged because it’s Democrat run.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, without a doubt. Horrifically mismanaged.
SPEAKER 19 :
But you’re right. Because in California, in fact… It’s their mismanagement that caused it in Los Angeles. Let me pull up. Forgive me. I have a million tabs open here. I don’t even know how my computer functions, quite honestly. You don’t see the tabs I have open. If you’re opposed to all the tabs, then you would be having a stroke right now. The… Karen Bass, because I think it came out just last week that she had asked for further cuts. They were already going through the 24-25 fiscal year with a $48.8 million budget reduction. And one week before these fires, she called for an additional $49 million in cuts. And that would have shut down 16 fire stations. Now, keep in mind, this is after Cal water, fire and water, all of that. The state agency said that this they said this back in fall. in I think in September and October, actually, according to my notes, they were warning people all the way back in August, because they had two years of record rain. So they had all of this that contributed to a lot of vegetation overgrowth. And then of course, you know, typically, It starts getting really dry going into December, January. That dries up. You know, everything turns brown again. And then the Santa Ana winds start. And then you just have the perfect recipe for a massive firestorm. Not only were they stopping efforts to clear out underbrush, but literally a week before the fires, after months of being warned that they were going to actually be in a prime wildfire season and that every element of of the perfect storm exists for a major wildfire. She was demanding an additional $49 million in cuts to the fire department. And that would have completely closed, completely closed 16 different fire stations. Oh my gosh. So I had, she gotten those. I mean, it’s already bad. They’re already they’ve already had firemen say that they don’t have enough firemen. They’ve already had them say that. I can’t even imagine. I’m just like, how else they wouldn’t have been able to survive. Now, in addition to that, this is the Los Angeles Times. Hold up. Let me pull this up. they came out and said they had this big story this morning. Pacific Palisades Reservoir was not only empty when the firestorm exploded, but it was also offline. It’s the Santa Ynez Reservoir. Now, you actually can see the reservoir when you fly into L.A. When you fly into L.A., depending on the flight path, and I’ve flown over it, you can see it. It’s up in the Santa Ynez Mountains. And it’s actually, sometimes the pilot will point it out for you. It’s totally empty. Completely, totally empty. They let all of the runoff that they had from the two years of record rain just go right back into the ocean. They didn’t do anything to catch, they did nothing. And then they emptied this reservoir. What was left of it. Here’s my question. How do these people sit here and go, yes, climate change, it’s such an existential threat. Also, we’re not going to do anything to we’re going to keep the reservoirs empty. We’re going to make sure that our hydrants don’t work. I mean, the bottom line is they don’t have the infrastructure. California doesn’t have the infrastructure to deal with it. And it’s not an uncommon occurrence for California. You have the winds that were really crazy and that contributed to it. But, you know, the other factor that contributed to it was the horrific land management. There are more stories. I would sit here the rest of the hour and I could just recount all of these different stories that span a three-year period where they are warning California officials, whether it’s LA Times, whether it’s San Francisco, whether it’s local media there or KTLA. They did all of these reports where they were saying that you know, you have officials and people who are into fire science and land management that are warning that these steps need to be taken in order to, you know, do as much as possible to quote unquote fireproof areas or to make it to where any kind of wildfire could at least be contained. And the other problem is, That they have in California is their developments. Everything is so dense. The developments are so dense. The houses are right on top of each other. But what’s more, the newer builds have to go along with new regulations, which require like concrete walls, like literal firewalls. There was an architect who was tweeting about his properties. None of his properties burnt. This architect and he builds like exclusively in Southern California. And he was saying that none of his properties burnt, but he also had pretty. What’s the word I’m thinking of the land? He had like no greenery in his landscaping. So the landscaping, this architect, and it was all like really modern looking houses. It was stones. It was materials that actually are kind of flame retardant, concrete, brick, stone, things like that. And then anything that had to be wood, because one of the problems with California is that wood is more absorbent when you have shifts in the earth. So it’s It’s a lot harder for structures that are stone, concrete, and brick to withstand major earthquakes. And so that’s why a lot of the frames, a lot of the stuff is wood out there. But what his firm did was they reinforced all of that with concrete, with certain paneling, a bunch of stuff. All I know is that they use materials that are not receptive to flame. And none of his properties were burnt. And he had a picture of one of his houses in the Pacific Palisades where everybody else on either side, front and back, were burnt down to the ground. but they didn’t have like the lush garden greenery that you have come to associate with that area. And they think that that saved them. And they also think that having that big concrete, you know, firewall literally between that property and the properties next to them saved it, which then brings up, I know it’s really expensive, especially in California for existing properties to, like if you’re retrofitting stuff, you know, if you’re going out and you’re trying to make things more flame retardant, Because newer construction has to go by newer regulation, but a lot of the existing structures there are old and it’s very expensive to, or pre the new regulations that I think went into effect in like, what, 21, 22? And so it’s really hard for, it’s expensive to do that. So what’s the solution? What do you do? I mean, if you’re not going to have the federal government that’s going to properly manage federal lands and you’re not going to have the state to properly manage state lands and you’re emptying reservoirs and you’re making it to where you don’t have enough water supply. What the hell else? You know what in the world? It almost doesn’t even matter what you do. They got lucky. That architect was like, the only reason it didn’t burn is because the two concrete firewalls on either side. That’s the only reason they’re like, that’s how crazy this fire is. And there’s only so much individual homeowners can do when the state and the federal government are not being a cooperative partner. What else do you have? I don’t even want to know what the insurance nightmare is going to be like for these people. Because think about it. If you’re an insurance company, can you cite, well, the federal government didn’t do this, so we don’t have to pay. Or the state didn’t clear it out. Look at all these warnings. Like I just told you, all of the stuff that’s in the media, that’s all evidence that insurance companies can use to say, well, the state didn’t do it, so… That’s like a class action lawsuit against the state. Wouldn’t there be a class action lawsuit against the federal government if they’re not properly managing federal lands and you know that it’s absolutely instrumental in creating these fires? I mean, I’m made of questions right now. As this gets going, we may have to have on like insurance experts that specifically deal with this type of stuff because I don’t know what recourse they’re going to have. It’s going to be a mess.
SPEAKER 18 :
And now all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
SPEAKER 19 :
All right. So David Muir, I don’t like him. I don’t like anybody. But did you guys see this? So he was wearing this. What was it? A fireman’s jacket that had the ABC logo on it?
SPEAKER 18 :
It’s like the raincoat that emergency people wear.
SPEAKER 19 :
And he had it pinned in the back. Now, did he have it pinned in the back because he was trying to look fit? Or did he have it pinned in the back so it wouldn’t blow around and make noise? I don’t know. You know what? I feel like we should give them as much benefit of the doubt as they give us. That’s my rule. By the way, sidebar. David Muir and George Stephanopoulos hate each other. Hate each other. You think that you have seen inter-workplace drama with chicks before? Apparently, what’s going on between Muir and Stephanopoulos is out of control. It is the worst workplace drama ever. Just some fun gossip for you. They both want each other fired. Uh… A pizza chain expansion was their plans to expand with was thwarted by the city council because the town’s kids are too fat. The city council is like, we got our all our kids are too fat. We got too many fat kids here. It’s in Manchester. The pizza chain wanted to expand and they said, no, it’s in Britain. They said, no, all children are too chonky. And they said that they are not allowed to explain it would and it would not do any justice. They said it adds nothing to the food and drink offering of the town. And so they were not going to they nixed it. Imagine that because parents don’t monitor what their kids eat. This business can’t expand. Luigi Mangione’s case was hit by delay as prosecutors reveal when he’s going to next. I don’t care about this guy. They’re trying to make him out to be some kind of folk hero. It’s disturbing. Oh, I was reading about this earlier today. So a lot of these muscle building protein powders apparently have lead in them. They’re in organic and chocolate-flavored products. They said that there’s lead and whatever the hell else this cadmium is. I don’t know. Yeah, whatever. I don’t know. Does it taste good? I don’t know. Yeah, but they said that there’s stuff in it. So what are the brands? I don’t know. They’re not going to actually tell you right outright. You’re going to have to sleuth it. But some of them, when they said organic and chocolate, I got some ideas. Stick with us. We’ve got more in store.
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SPEAKER 08 :
One important topic I want to talk about is that we did have a drone incursion yesterday at the Palisades fire. Unknown exactly what time this small drone hit the wing of our CL-415 Super Scooper aircraft that we currently have on contract from the province of Quebec. The pilots were unaware that they hit the drone. It wasn’t until they landed at Van Nuys Airport that the maintenance staff noticed that there was a fist-sized hole in the leading edge of the wing inboard of the landing light. That super scooper will be prioritized for repair 24-7. It should be flying Monday. We only have two of them.
SPEAKER 19 :
You know, I’m listening to everything that he’s saying and I am so distracted by the sign language guy. All the sign language interpreters, they got to be theater kids. I mean, he’s a good one. I mean, I don’t even, if you just like turned off what the guy was saying and I was watching him, I’m like something scooping sad, mad rain and what that is. Don’t know. He’s writing and flying and what? What is that?
SPEAKER 17 :
It’s like jazz hands and sign language together.
SPEAKER 19 :
I mean, I feel like I’m watching Rent Part 2. I don’t know. He’s so expressive. And he spit his tongue out like that at one point. And then the reindeer came down. He’s so expressive, his face. I love… I used to know, like, I know the alphabet and sign language, and I only know a couple of things in sign language, but it actually makes me want to learn sign language because that would be so fun to just really get in, you know, like, especially if you go to like concerts and you do the sign language at concerts. Okay. Anyway, let me get away. He was just really distracting this guy. He’s really good at his job. He’s like, this is his best moment right now. So what they’re telling you is that some jack wagon flew a drone up and it hit one of their water support. They only had two of them. What is it, two of them? Or three?
SPEAKER 18 :
That’s all they have is two.
SPEAKER 19 :
Two! And it was on loan from, I’m trying to think what province. A Canadian province. Was it British Columbia? It was on loan from a Canadian province. And they had some jack wagons like, well, I’m going to get my drone out. I’m going to go fly my drone, take some drone images of the fire. And he clipped the wing of this thing. I hope that drone was destroyed. They said they’re going to find out whose drone it was because now they had to take it out of the air. They had to take one of the two water support that we don’t even have. First off, how the hell do you not have that, California? How do you have to get it from Canada? What do you do with all your tax money? What do you do with it? It can’t all be for Gavin Newsom’s hair gel. Jiminy. So, I… I don’t know. I’m amazed at this. But they said that, you know, it’s… You know, sorry, we… You know, got to take it out of the air. Got to take it out of the air. And so, you know, tough. We’re not going to… We’re going to be short one… Super scooper is what they call them. Super scooper aircraft. And the drone… Don’t you have to register your, well, if it’s a certain size, don’t you have to register the flight path and all that stuff? Is that true? I know you’ve got to register the drone, no matter what size, like if it’s like a smallish size and up. And some of the drones, you have to have a pilot’s license to operate. I’m just curious. Why are they having to contract stuff out from Canada, though? Why do you not have that? Oh, my gosh. They spent billions upon billions of dollars over two decades for a high speed rail from L.A. to San Francisco that legit never got built. The company was a French company that was going to come over and do it. And they were going to have it done in like three years. And they said that there was so much corruption and so many pigs at the trough that they just said, screw it. They left, and they went over to a nation in Africa, and they did it in three years. Had their high-speed rail very similar to what they wanted in L.A. Done. In the meantime, all they got was 1,600 feet of an unusable rail overpass built. That’s it. That’s it. That’s one-fourth of a mile. That’s it. Over $12 billion to build it. 1,600 feet. That’s it. I ran that in track when I was in high school. 1,600 meters, not feet. So somebody thought they were going to take their drone out. They hurt the plane. I’m just so goofy. People stop it. Nobody cares about your stupid drone footage. There’s enough footage out there. No one needs your, I got to hurry up and provide footage to the tens of people that follow me on social media. Oh my gosh. Oh, if that was my neighbor, I’d be in jail. Can we talk about the sign language guy again real quick? Because he’s happy. He makes me happy. Like I’m hearing this stuff and I want to get real mad at the stuff that the fire chief is telling us. And then I see this sign, this like Bradley Cooper looking dude who’s like all very expressive. He’s so expressive. There’s so much joy in this guy’s face. He’s like, I’m giving you bad news with a whoop. And that is bad. And it’s so great.
SPEAKER 17 :
I’ve heard of bad lip reading, but bad sign language?
SPEAKER 19 :
Bad sign language, I could do that. I could totally do it. Look how, he’s so expressive. I would rather, much rather pay attention to what he’s telling me than what the fire chief there’s telling me. Because he’s boring. That guy, making faces, spitting his tongue out. It’s great. Like he’s disgusted by this story, clearly. So, I love it. That guy’s the real MVP right there. It is wild. And then you’ve got Gavin Newsom begging Joe Biden to dispel wildfire disinformation. Check this out. This is new. This is new coming in. And this was just earlier today. Gavin Newsom in a video call with the vice president and president for the next like week and week or so there. He wants to prioritize dispelling wildfire misinformation. Listen to this.
SPEAKER 07 :
I ask you, we’ve got to deal with this misinformation. There are hurricane force winds of mis and disinformation lies. People want to divide this country and we’re going to have to address that as well. And it breaks my heart as people are suffering and struggling that we’re up against those hurricane force. forces as well. And that’s just a point of personal privilege that I share that with you because it infects real people that are out there, people I meet every single day, people the mayor’s been meeting with. And they’re having conversations that are not the typical conversations you’d have at this time. And you wonder where this stuff comes from. And it’s very damaging as well. But we’re here to get the job done.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, I mean, why don’t you just fight the fires, you jack wagon?
SPEAKER 18 :
We’re concerned about the theories on how it started as opposed to fighting the actual fires.
SPEAKER 19 :
Fight the fires first. Good grief. Fight the fires first. You know what gets me? When they held their press conference, LAPD was saying there’s no probable cause for arson regarding the guy who was arrested. He was arrested in possession of a blowtorch, but what they’re not telling you is that there were five witnesses that were independent of each other, and they were the ones that apprehended him because they caught him using the blowtorch to literally try to set fire on things. And Now, all of a sudden, California is acting like it’s very concerned about due process. Well, you know, just because you have a just because you have a blowtorch in your possession doesn’t mean you’re setting fires. But when people catch you using the blowtorch to set fires. Yeah, you got probable cause. They’re so they’re pretending to care about due process. California, the state, the first state in the nation to enact red flag law. Remember how I warned you a lack of due process was dangerous. OK, OK. Now they’re going in full reverse. Oh, no, we got to be careful to process just because, you know, he has a blowtorch, except that’s not how they treat anything else. They have red flag law, which would just assume that you’re guilty because red flag law. Let’s let’s put it this way. Say the guy wasn’t caught trying to actually set fire to something. Red flag law applied in this situation. Again, remove the variable of a firearm, substitute a blowtorch. They could say, well, if my people said that he’s dangerous, we’re going to have to come take his property and basically render a penalty against him. He’ll have to go clear his name in a court of law after the penalty was rendered. Now you see. But they’re pretending to care about due process, which is amazing. Another quick note. So different topic. So John Cornyn’s office sent to us Was it yesterday afternoon came? They sent us an email saying that Cornyn is introducing a bill for concealed carry reciprocity nationally. We’re like, oh, this is interesting. Because he worked to pass Joe Biden’s gun control compromise. So, OK, what’s this about? So we asked him to come on air with us next week about it. And what they say, Kane, they’re just too busy.
SPEAKER 18 :
i’ll quote it here it said next week is slammed with nominee hearings in the senate and his schedule is jam-packed being on five committees so because of that we’ll have to uh connect dana and him a little later so or their idea was me just talk to him not even on air which i have no interest in doing right so he’s just too busy i’m just curious i’d like to talk about so i followed up and said i’d be very flexible in timing next week and i’ll be in touch
SPEAKER 19 :
What is if only there was a way that you could join even, you know, like video on your like your mobile device. It would be great if there was like a way to do that.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. Make that happen.
SPEAKER 19 :
You know, just a couple of minutes because everybody does interviews all day long up there in the rotunda. Or even just if you if there was a great mobile device that you could even if it’s just audio only.
SPEAKER 18 :
That’s yeah, they’ve had those for a while, I think.
SPEAKER 19 :
yeah have they yeah maybe they don’t maybe his office is unaware of them they were tied to cords till about the late 80s yeah early 90s and now they’re wireless i mean well maybe they just don’t have it in dc yet i mean i’m willing to extend the benefit of the doubt you know am i just saying so we’ll We’ll keep you up to date on that because I would like to talk to him about that, that proposal. That’s one of the things that Trump said that, you know, I’m just curious. I’d like to have a conversation about it. So let’s we’ll keep an eye on that and let you know if he still continues to be too busy. Usually that’s how I get. We have lawmakers that always reach out to us that they want to promote a book. if they want to promote whatever. And I’m really weird about lawmakers. If a lawmaker never wants to come on to talk about voter criticism of anything that they’ve supported, or if they never want to answer difficult questions, but then they want to come on to promote their books, I don’t let them on. I’m like, if you can’t come on when we need you to come on to answer to voters, don’t think that we’re going to have you on to sit here and sell something for you or promote something for you. Happy to give you the names of the lawmakers that do that on the regular because we got a list.
SPEAKER 18 :
We have a list of ones that actually their main focus is to communicate with the American people. We have some that are great. We’ve got the Jim Jordans and the Chip Roy’s and the Thomas Massey’s. They love coming on because they love communicating with their constituents.
SPEAKER 19 :
And sometimes when they have to reschedule, they can almost be TMI about it. Right. Like, oh, they’re sick. It’s coming out of both ends. It’s so bad. And you’re like, okay, I didn’t need to know all that. That’s great. You just say that they’re sick. I understand that you want to make sure that it looks like you’re not ditching us. We get it. Some of them are really, really great with communication. But other ones, like we’ve got some that are like, oh, we got a book out. Or we have an editorial that we want you to share. Or this or that. But we don’t want to come on to talk because heaven forbid you might actually ask us a tough question. They’re really weird. And so… We match that energy and we’re weird back. So there’s there’s. Yeah, it’s fascinating. So we’ll see. We’ll see if he because that would be, you know, is that something that could pass the Senate? The House, I think it could pass. So we’ll see, you know.
SPEAKER 05 :
not able to catch all three hours of the dana show subscribe to the full podcast and get news and laughs delivered in short easy to digest episodes ideal for your busy lifestyle on youtube apple or wherever you get your podcast welcome back to the program dana lash here with you and uh this is we’re rolling into friday rolling into the weekend i said conclusion of our first hour before break i thought in my head i said third hour but i didn’t uh
SPEAKER 19 :
I mean, some of the stuff that comes out, listen to this, Audio Summit 24. This is a Democratic representative trying to defend why the hydrants were basically empty. Listen.
SPEAKER 13 :
I had a briefing yesterday when I was with the FEMA administrator, and there is enough water, but what there was was a problem that occurred right at the height of the fire. which is that they had to turn down the electricity in order to make sure that the fire wasn’t aggravated because of the electricity. They need electricity in order to pump water. So they turned that down, and then at the same time, there were so many hydrants that were being used all at once.
SPEAKER 19 :
So you see, because all the hydrants are being used at once that you couldn’t get all the water to those hydrants all at the same time. So see, it’s an issue of people all using the hydrants to put out the fire with water, not an issue of water. So she’s trying to argue. That’s the dumbest thing ever. That’s dumb. Stop it. We’re not idiots. These people think you’re stupid. They think you’re absolutely a moron. And then they had another little brush fire that broke out. At some point, like I said, it’s arson. Well, we know at least a couple of them. Arson. Do I have time for one more thing? I don’t think so. Because we’re rolling towards days today in stupidity here. I can’t believe this first New Year week back. I mean, it’s not even the first full week yet. We’ve had fires and all kinds of nonsense. And it wasn’t even burn loot murder. What in the world? It was just Democrats. Okay, same thing. All right, today in stupidity, Cain.
SPEAKER 18 :
All right, this is out in L.A., the Los Angeles Police Department, believe it or not, caught these five citizens, caught an arsonist in the act, and yet this is what they had to say. Juan, go ahead and play this for us, will you?
SPEAKER 06 :
An additional investigative step. They responded, they interviewed this suspect.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
After the interview and additional investigative steps, looking at some additional evidence that was present, they made the determination that there was not enough probable cause to arrest this person on arson or suspicion of arson.
SPEAKER 19 :
Not even on suspicion of arson? They only pretend to care about due process except for red flag laws. That’s as dumb as this guy who showed up, a hot dog vendor, to provide hot dogs and snacks for free. to firefighters who were fighting the fires. He showed up, just started distributing them for free. Somebody snitched on him to the health department and they rolled up to harass him while the neighborhoods burned because he wasn’t licensed to sell food. He wasn’t selling it. He was giving it away. Morons. We got folks sign up over at Substack chapter and verse. Find us YouTube, Facebook, like and subscribe. Stay warm. Stay safe this weekend. Back with you Monday. God bless.
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