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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.

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So a Florida man set a rental van on fire outside of a Florida motel, says the Department of Justice. The man was charged with violation of the Federal Anti-Arson Act after setting the van on fire. Bradenton, Florida. this guy’s name. Hang on. Can Darius Devonta Stitton was charged with a violation. He faces between five and 20 years in prison. Who’s just sets a van on fire. I don’t know. Maybe he’s, you know, I made, I’m not gonna, I’ve got jokes. A Florida man was attacked by a shark in an area known for alligator encounters. Oh, oh, how nice. The, uh, Area where he was bitten was a particular portion of the Everglades that’s pretty known for being infested by alligators. He got airlifted to Jackson South Medical Center. He was in good spirits. It was a surprise attack, obviously. And he had his hand covered in bandages. But the shark, there was a bull. There’s bull sharks in the freshwater as well. So they think it was maybe not so much a gator, but a bull shark. In 2023, same area, shark bit a fisherman when he was washing his hands in the water. I’m telling you, every puddle, there’s a gator or a shark now. Welcome back to the program. Little cracker. That’s such a great group from the late 90s, early aughts. Such a great group. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you talking about our bumper music for those listening terrestrially all around the country. Of course, Channel 347, DirecTV as well. You can also find us on X, on Rumble where the chat is, and Substack, Chapter and Verse. Lots of good stuff coming out there on the reg. So bottom of this first hour, and I don’t know if you guys saw this. So Joe Biden is still around. I forgot about him. Did you guys forget about him too? Because I did. Who? Joe Biden. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He’s out there looking paler and crispier than ever. What one was it? It was one of the poltergeist movies. One of the poltergeist movies. I think it was two where that old, like the poltergeist turned into the form of that old dead preacher with the giant Quaker hat on. Okay, that’s what Biden looks like now. He does. I actually think he’s aged more since he left office. Is that – it’s wild, right? You think he would be relieved. Anyway, I also think that his ego, no matter how addled he may be, his ego just is not going to allow him to walk – go on into that good night it’s not going to happen so he went to speak last night and usually when you go up let me set this up when you go up to the stage to speak you know they have your intro music sometimes they play music sometimes they’ll they’ll play music and they’ll have like something going on the screen behind you so that when you know to distract the audience basically and set up you getting out on stage while you do the mic and all that stuff So he gets out there, and they played intro music, and he just started talking. He wasn’t even going to, like, wait for any stage cues. Listen, Audio Summit 1.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you. No one can hear him. We deserve help and pay for most of it.

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Was anybody waving their arms at him going, stop talking, stop for a second, stop talking for a second? It makes me kind of wonder. So then, but there, wait, there’s more. He went into this banger. I think you’ve heard this one before. Audio soundbite two.

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I remember pulling in, pulling into the parking lot. And I had never seen, I’d never seen hardly any black people in Scranton at the time. And I was only going in fourth grade. And I remember seeing the kids going by at the time called colored kids on a bus going by. They never turned right to go to Claymont High School. I wondered why. Asked my mom. Why? So in Delaware, they’re not allowed to go to school, in public school.

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Okay, so why is it that every single time he starts telling stories, he immediately gets into… it talks about black students, black kids. Remember the pool? They animated that when he talked about being a lifeguard and Scranton. And he said, yeah, the kids would come and pet his leg hair. I still trying to understand what that even was, but okay. But there’s, wait, there was more. He, he, he sounded confused. Audio sound by four. There was yelling, you know, it’s about dignity, simple dignity.

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Everyone, everyone deserves to be treated with dignity, regardless of their standing, regardless of their economic position, regardless of who they are. Making sure that more than 60 million Americans who are living with disabilities are treated with dignity is who we are as Americans.

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What does this mean? What does any of that mean? He’s just up there screaming about dignity. What does any of that mean? What are you talking about? Dignity. Dignity of your office? I mean, you had cocaine in the White House cubby for crying out loud. I mean, your son Hunter was probably doing blow off of the Lincoln bedroom dresser. What are you talking about? Dignity. Dignity. Remember when you had the White House picnic thing near Easter? No, it was the gay pride thing or whatever. And they had a bunch of trainees on the lawn. And one of them who had breast implants decided to go topless on the White House lawn. Yeah, dignity. Spare me. Oh, and then he tried to figure out what a Ponzi scheme was. Audio soundbite three. Heaven help us.

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So they should desperately need you. Folks, it’s not just the Secretary of Commerce. We heard how others, empowered and emboldened by this administration, talk about Social Security. One of them called it a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme? What the hell are they talking about? People earn these benefits. And you stole them.

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That’s why it’s insolvent. So here’s a question for you. Let’s just pretend that Social Security isn’t a big… Giant scheme. Anyway, let’s just pretend that Social Security isn’t just a big it’s a joke that Democrats pulled on everyone and completely, you know, let’s pretend it’s not unconstitutional. First and foremost, why did Social Security even five years ago say they were actually before then they were going to be insolvent? What, by 2030? They’re insolvent now, let’s be honest. There’s not money now. The government stole money from people, and then they told everyone, we’re going to keep it in a bank account that you’re going to earn less interest on than if it was like you invested it yourself or you saved it yourself. We’re going to take it from you. And then when you reach a certain age that we determine is acceptable, then we’re going to give you little payments of the money that we stole from you because we, the government, that – can’t find billions of dollars. And, you know, I mean, we’re just a mess. We’re going to control your finances and your old age. That’s what they’re talking about. And people like me have been saying we need to privatize this for forever and allow people – if they want to give their money to the government, that’s fine. But if they don’t want to, then they should be allowed to take their money and use it elsewhere. Social Security was set up for widows after World War II. This was not supposed to be something that was a forever thing. It was established by government in the wake of World War. So – It’s it’s it’s a slush fund now. They’ve been taking from it for forever. Go back to what was it, the 2000 election with Al Gore and George Bush and this the lockbox thing that he said, I’m going to have a lockbox and I’m going to put your Social Security in a lockbox. There’s nothing to put in there. It’s been it’s been a mess and been running deficits since even that long ago, since even the early aughts. So Democrats, it’s all about fear mongering. It’s another slush fund that they want to be able to keep control of. And it is a Ponzi scheme. I said this on CNN a decade ago and people lost their minds. It’s a Ponzi scheme. You have younger generations subsidizing the older generations because politicians took all the money that was stolen from the older generations and frittered it away on everything. So that’s that’s now the younger generations have to pay for it. And the older generations, it is their money. And they shouldn’t have their money taken from them in the first place. So it’s a nice little trick that they’re trying to pull on the American people. I remember talking to a Republican at one point. This was back in… In 2010. So it was like right at the height of the Tea Party. And I remember talking to it was a Republican hopeful. He was running for an office in the state of Missouri. That’s all I’ll say. He wasn’t successful. And I asked him, I said, and this was also at the time that Social Security was another hot topic again. I said, why don’t you come out in favor of privatizing Social Security? Other Republicans have done so, although they were very few at the time, said, why don’t you come out in favor of social privatizing Social Security? And he told me that he was not interested in battling the headlines that the media would create about him pushed by Democrats and that, oh, he’s going to steal everybody’s, you know, the elderly’s money and all this stuff. And I said, well, you know, obviously, simple fact just dictate just requires a simple response to that. It’s very easy to refute. I mean, in under 10 seconds. He’s like, I just don’t even want to mess with it because then you have to deal with that. He did not want the inconvenience of having to deal with media attack, the media’s attack on this. He did not want the inconvenience and thus would not commit himself to supporting either publicly or privately an issue like that. And it was one of the reasons why I just decided against him because he had been looking for my support. And I said, I can’t support you just because of that, because you’re a female copulatory organ. And I just I can’t support. Such a pansy running for office, Republican or not, you’re a pansy. So that was that. They’ve been Republicans about a problem with this for a long time. Now they’re in they they’re they’re doing a little bit better, but too many of them are not speaking enough. What younger generations need to hear in that, you know, they’ve taken our money for forever. Where is it? Where’s it gone? There should be no issues with with Social Security. And the left lying to people, like at the Tesla thing that was on Saturday. Was it one of those other stupid Tesla protests that they had? All of the communist boomers that were out, they were saying, hands off our Social Security, Elon. Like Elon Musk is going in there with Doge. If Elon Musk were to go in there and open up the lockbox that everybody’s Social Security is supposed to be in anyway, guess what? There wouldn’t be anything in there. So Joe Biden, he’s backing out. Look at that. Isn’t that something? He’s backing out because they don’t really have a leader of the party. It’s aimless. I know everyone says that Pelosi is the leader of the party. If that were true, she might be de facto, but her influence has waned. because they know she’s on her way out. The moment that you think that a lawmaker might be on their way out, that clock starts ticking and they start losing influence. And so what you’re seeing is a lot of jockeying to take that spot. It’s our friends at All Family Pharmacy. All Family Pharmacy is a great business that is going to make sure that you are topped up with whatever it is that you need. 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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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Hmm. So genetically engineered super horses with alter DNA are being created in a lab. Why? Because. Just because, man. Super horse. Your horse is regular. This is a super horse. It’s a bioengineering lab in Argentina. If they can do that, can we like… artificially manipulate people or manipulate people somehow in a lab. And make them have, like, better taste in, like, music or fashion. You know, can we get rid of high-waist pants? Like, can we modify genetically people to be predisposed against high-waist pants?

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Probably already doing it.

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And platform shoes?

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Yeah.

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Like, if it’s a wedge, I’m okay. But if it’s just not, if it’s a flat platform, why? Unless you’re wearing long pants. I don’t get it. I’m like, I know it has nothing to do overall with the story, but I just feel like those issues are much more important to me than a super horse.

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You definitely went off in the gutter on that one.

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Yeah, I did. But I’m you know, it’s like it’s why? Unless it’s like can it open doors? Can the horse like cook a meal? I’m all for that. I mean, I don’t dislike horses. Aren’t they like big dogs? I’ve I’ve I’ve sat on one. before and i threw a carrot at one and ran away one time i don’t know why they scare me a little bit i don’t know what it is only that’s the only only other animal it kind of scares a whole other issue wait i gotta get back to i don’t scare me i’m just they’re large uh let’s see someone says that the body of christ is in a hidden chamber under the great pyramid of egypt I don’t believe it. A man was arrested after. Oh, this really should be a Florida man story. But we’re going to have it here because this guy was naked. Any KKID in Disneyland’s New Orleans Square. Well, at least it was in the New Orleans Square in Disneyland. That makes more sense there. Workers were trying to steer visitors away. He climbed on one of the buildings and exposed his hang low to everybody below. And then he was arrested for trespassing, public nudity. And apparently he was high as a kite. They deferred him to police. Sorry, it was a Florida man in Disneyland in California. They deferred him to Anaheim police. Yeah, let’s maybe not. Why would you want to go to an amusement park naked? No. A man was arrested after seven emotional support tigers were found in his house. I’m jealous. Nye County, Carl Mitchell’s home in Pahrump, west of Vegas. He did not have the proper permits to be the new Lion King. So they took his kiddies. Partners that help bring you this program. Ooh, a Florida company. Kel-Tec, which is one of the best companies out there. I love Kel-Tec. The PR57 company. It’s a rotary barrel pistol chambered in 5.7. It’s brand new. I’ve got mine. It is amazing. This thing is so lightweight. I love 5.7s, and I’ve always wanted to carry a 5.7, but I have a more diminutive frame, being that I am a female. And I have some girlfriends that say the same thing. This is a 5.7 we can actually conceal carry, and I’m not even joking. I don’t need to wear tons of baggy stuff. How did they make this happen? What did George Kellgren do to do this? Well, first off, it’s a rotary barrel. It’s incredibly innovative, and it makes it the lightest 5.7 on the market, 40% lighter than the next lightest 5.7, in fact. Unique top-loading design replaces traditional magazines with stripper clips for a slimmer carry profile in a 20-plus-1 capacity. MSRP, folks, is only $399, so this is just ridiculously affordable. Low recoil for ease of use and accuracy, and just the easiest, quickest field strip out there. It’s first of its kind from Kel-Tec, the PR-57 rotary barrel pistol chambered in 5.7. Visit Kel-TecWeapons.com to learn more. Innovation Performance Kel-Tec, K-E-L-T-E-C-Weapons.com. Tell them Dana sent you.

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What we have to always do, regardless of who you voted for, you still got to pay your rent. You still got to take care of your kids. You still got to take care of your business. And maybe some of what’s happening, like, you know, they’re trying to take apart the Department of Education.

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Yes.

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Maybe that is a good thing because maybe it will force us to make sure that our kids actually get what they need. Maybe it’ll force us to go to our state and say, listen, I want to make sure since you’re taking all this money from my taxes, I want to make sure that my kids get exactly what they need. I don’t have to wait for the government to do it. We can do it. This is now in our hands. This is in our hands and it’s going to be tough and nobody wants to do it because it’s a bitch. But you know what? If it comes down to your survival, this is what you got to do. You got to take care of what you got to take care of. And they’re telling me that we’re going to be right back.

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Wow. They cut her off like she’s in the middle of a rant and they just come in and they immediately cut her off just like that because she I can’t believe I’m saying this. I’m trying really hard here. She was not wrong in her remarks there.

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That seems a little painful.

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It’s very difficult to make my mouth form the words. So I’m trying really hard. Her remarks there were they were the opposite of wrong. That’s as close as I’m going to get. Give me that much. OK, welcome back. Dana Lash with you. Top of the second hour now on this Wednesday here and on the program. Listen, coast to coast, Channel 347, DirecTV, the chats at the chats at Rumble. Yes, Steve’s like whoopies got right. She just got red pilled real time. You know, and that’s because they made her shut up and they went away. They didn’t go back to it either, from what I understand. I don’t watch The View because I have a pulse, but they didn’t go back to it, from what I understand. That was like the end of the whole discussion with that

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Because she was making way too much sense. You can’t have the truth like that.

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No! You can’t have Whoopi Goldberg on The View. Did you see those other broads sitting there at that table? They were like, what is happening? This isn’t on the script. It’s not. That show is very tightly controlled. I’ve guest hosted it before. I’ve been on it several times. And I remember when I guest hosted the production. And the production staff were very nice. But it was really… Just very different because I’m used to – I do all my own research and I read everything. And if I don’t know it well enough, I either bring on an expert or I wait until I do and then I bring it up to you. And I just – it was weird because they – we had to do an interview and I don’t remember who it was with. And they hand you a stack of index cards and they have questions on them and then a number in the corner of it. So if you’re going to ask a question during the interview – you know that you go second or third, depending on the number that was written on the card, and then you have to read the question. You get like three questions on it, and you have to read them in order. And that’s how they do it. And maybe it’s so they can do elements and all that. I don’t know. But it was really wild to me that it was so… that was so over choreographed. You were even told these are the questions that you needed to ask. And you were told to not, not stray from asking questions like that. So whenever you have, you know, we’ll be kind of went rogue there a little bit. And I can imagine they’re like, okay, wrap it up, wrap it up, shut up now. It’s very odd, but she’s right. And that’s a huge issue. I mean, in Texas, they passed, we did, we passed some school choice out of, out of the house. And we’re going to see whether or not our state legislature, they’re voting on school vouchers and all of that. And they’re expected to vote on this. They got it out of committee. It’s the bill that creates education savings accounts. And people are mad. They’re saying you’re using public money to pay for private school funding. You’re using these people’s own tax dollars. Instead of giving it to the government to waste, these people are going to be able to keep their money and send their children where they want to send them. And the only people that I see raging against this are teachers unions like Rainy Weingarten kind and people who want to disempower parents. That’s the only people that I see. They have all of that in common. And I mean, we’re going to watch this. It goes to the it’s returns to the House floor and it would be the largest like school choice program. in the country if they pass it. I think this would be, it’s not the first, but this would be the biggest. We’re going to talk more about this here coming up because they’re thinking, I mean, this is kind of like the blueprint going forward. The left calls it, according to my notes, here’s one thing, the school voucher racket is how they’re referring to it. What? Yeah. That makes no sense. Yeah. The school voucher racket.

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School vouchers were put in place because of the racket that exists. What are they talking about?

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I’m saying, but parents should be able to have this choice. I homeschooled when my kids were really young. I homeschooled my kids. And back even, I think homeschooling only now in the past 10 years has gone more mainstream. And I think in part, that’s due to COVID. So much of that is because of COVID. It’s really gone mainstream. And I remember I just, you know, with homeschooling, we had a co-op, we, you know, the private schools, I lived in St. Louis City at the time, private schools were either one denomination or they were all of them were super expensive and I wanted my kids to get a certain type of hands-on practical education and you know they did great they went to college they all got Scott they got scholarships and I just I what we when they transitioned to high school they started going to a Christian private school after we moved to Texas because we left our co-op moved to Texas for work left our co-op and that and And I was stunned when I saw that the tuition for private school is less than what most states pay per student for public schools. I’m not even kidding. I think in Pennsylvania, it was something like 18,000 per student. And in other states, it’s even higher. Can you believe that was insane to me? That’s like well over the average cost for like a Christian private school, well over that cost. But are you getting the same type of education when you go and you measure test scores and competency? Do you get the same results? I mean, I think that’s kind of, you know, rhetorical question. It’s an obvious answer. So, I mean, we’ll see this. The Texas Monthly said that it was a campaign to sabotage Texas public schools. I don’t know. That’s what they’re very, very, very, very, very against this. Very against this. But really, parents are for it. And that’s a threat to this, you know, this control over the minds of the youth. When you have Whoopi Goldberg on the view talking about this, you’ve already lost. You’ve lost. When Whoopi Goldberg is who is, I would say, a yardstick for Democrat sentiment when she is. Talking about how, yes, we need to have all of this relegated back to the states. It’s not having everything concentrated in D.C. is unconstitutional in the first place. It’s just that doesn’t it. There’s nothing in Article 1, Section 8 that this arrangement fulfills. If it’s not stated specifically, it goes back to it reverts back to the states. That’s the way it works. And I states I it’s so much easier for parents have to have an impact on their child’s education in the states than it is federally. But I don’t know what it is that they just they don’t want competition. Kids are taxpayers are consumers. right? They should be able to send their kids wherever the hell they want to. It is a racket to tie everything to property taxes and all this stuff. People should be able to educate their kids however they want to and send their kids to wherever they want to. You should not be stuck in a zip code for education. The way that we have things structured is so stupid. So good for this. I’m excited for this. This is a great thing.

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