In this riveting episode, we delve deep into the cultural nuances of Somali identity, exploring what it means to be Somali and how this identity fuses with American culture. From intriguing discussions around bananas and rice to questions about education and its role in shaping perceptions, we tackle complex topics with humor and insight. Tune in for a blend of serious commentary and light-hearted banter that promises to keep you engaged.
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Did you, by the way, did you get the video or the audio that I had of the lady? Clearly, she was a graduate of the Early Layering Center, talking about rice and bananas.
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Yes, we have that.
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Okay. I feel like I need to just play it real quick.
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It’s cut 22.
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It’s a very interesting story. Go ahead.
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It is. So I’m Somali. I’m proud to be Somali. To me, being Somali isn’t just eating bananas with rice. It’s a lot. It’s like… It’s an interesting thing. It’s very hard to describe what it means to be Somali and what it means to be American. But it’s like a cultural fusion. It’s kind of like the bananas and rice. His face behind her is all of us. You lost him. People don’t think, oh, you can eat bananas.
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I mean, it’s not like bananas and rice, but it’s like bananas and rice because you can eat bananas and rice. And it’s bananas and rice. Such as, Matt.
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I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps. And I believe that our education, like such as in South Africa and Iraq, everywhere like such as.
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I mean, that’s her. She actually made more sense because I knew what the hell she was talking about. She was talking about maps and people in Iraq may not have them. And this chick is like, I mean, what is it? The guy behind her, though, is a meme. He was like, at first he was serious. And then you could just see confusion kind of spread across his face. And he’s like, the hell? He’s like, what is happening here? It’s like bananas and rice. But also, it’s like that. Bananas and rice at the early layering center.
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It’s hard to describe it.
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I went to the early learning center. I’m a graduate and I’m also a teacher. And the president. Wow. I mean, no. And that was from St. Paul, Minnesota. I don’t know, man. This is crazy.
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Somebody made a decision to put her out in public in front of a microphone like that. Somebody did that.
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Well, I mean, have you seen the guy who ran for mayor over there? Early Learing Center graduates. That says it all. That says it all right there. She was probably topping her class at the Early Learing Center.
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I’m beginning to think Somalia hasn’t sent us their best.
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Can you say your beginning?
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I’m beginning to think that.
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Secretary Kristi Noem must resign or face impeachment.
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The rush is up there. It’s all very weird, though.
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I don’t believe her because she lied about marrying her brother.
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So I don’t believe anything she says. Those are the rules, right?
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And these are the people that blame Charlie Kirk for his own death.
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Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash, with you. So the guy, apparently a security guard took the guy down. There was no serious injury. Was it staged? How does somebody get that close to somebody in Congress? How does that happen? The guy, Anthony Kazmirzak… Fifty five. He was booked in the Hennepin County Jail for third degree assault. He doesn’t have a previous violent record. He’s got some DUIs. And that’s per Newsweek. They he’s pretty loud online. He see they had a bankruptcy petition. This is Newsweek that filed in Minnesota’s third district. Twenty nineteen. He had credit medical and legal debt. He’s not married, registered as disabled, receiving Social Security payments. He has a history of political posts. It said that he was critical of Democrats like Biden and Harris. He posted a political cartoon in 2021 criticizing Ilhan Omar’s security spending. The New York Post says it’s weird because he was like hinting as to what he was going to do to his neighbor before it happened. And he had sent a text to his neighbor that said, I’m going to the Omar thing. The neighbor said, I’m like, what do you mean? It was the town hall thing and I might get arrested. And the neighbor said, I figured that it was nonsense that he wasn’t going to do anything dumb. So I don’t know. He’s held without bail. I mean, I don’t know what it is. He’s going to I mean, he’s going to have he’s going to face some serious penalties regardless. But it is weird, though. I got to say it’s a little odd, Kane.
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I mean, you’re being cautious and I get it, but she was like looking at him before he stood up. It was totally staged.
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You think it was?
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It’s totally staged.
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Cain thinks it’s totally staged. I don’t know if I believe it or not, but it seemed inorganic in a way that I can’t describe. You guys know what I mean? Like my gut feeling is usually not wrong.
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Oh, you know what it is? It’s because it was staged.
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It’s because she married her brother and I don’t believe her. Yeah, cut nine. She like looks at him really quickly before he stood up. And I don’t know, what are people saying online that this is indicative of something? I mean, he’s sitting in front of her.
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Can we just go over the timeline of just this video that he’s playing, right? First, she does a little nod to him, right? Look at that right there. You saw that little what? Look, there it is. That little head nod.
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Was she just looking down or was it a nod, you think?
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Oh, come on. Looking right at the dude. And by the way, if you saw the video of this exchange on C-SPAN, the camera actually shows this dude 20 to 30 seconds in a frame all by himself. Oh, yeah.
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I saw that. Drinking water and looking weird. Yeah.
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And so then she does the nod, right? Then he gets up right after that nod and attacks her. By the way, she doesn’t flinch, right? She doesn’t flinch at all. If someone’s going to be squirting something on you, first of all, I’d flinch. Second of all, I’d be like, what the heck did you just squirt on me? What if it’s acid? I may need to remove a piece of clothing here so I don’t get damaged anymore. She doesn’t do that. What does she do? She doesn’t flinch. She runs after the guy.
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runs after the guy then somebody performative to me it’s completely staged this is 100 percent staged not an inch of this is genuine or real or authentic none of it now you can’t blame us for merely being cautious and asking questions because again this is a woman who lied to get in the country married her brother she took taxpayer dollars from the somali diaspora in minnesota they have millions and hundreds of billions of dollars actually at this point And a receipt showed that she directly benefited from that. So yeah, we’ve got a lot of questions. She’s engaged in fraud after fraud, after fraud, after fraud. Yeah. I mean, we got a lot of questions and I think those are, that’s what happens when you’re a fraudulent person who commits fraud is people might not believe you when you do other things.
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That’s a good point too, but she also refused medical attention and then went right back to speaking. If you got a substance, do we know what that substance is? Has anyone told us that it damaged your clothes? Was it acid?
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mean the way that when the way that they acted like they were personally touched by j6 when they weren’t even there so that makes me think okay well why aren’t they making a bigger deal out of this if it was really a big time trump guy that was going after her her pattern of behavior would dictate that she would be making a major deal of this. She would have had, she would have gone to the hospital. She’d have done a damn CNN interview from her hospital bed. She, oh my gosh, it would be about, but it’s just weird that it’s not, which immediately makes me think, there’s something about this that’s off.
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And immediately, like noisy sheep, right afterwards, the Assensteins and the rest of them online are out there saying, look, it’s a Trump supporter attacking a Democrat.
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Is it though? Yeah. Is it really?
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Jussie Smollett was like, well, even I did a better job than that.
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I mean, yeah, his guys literally wrote a check to buy kidnapping supplies. I’m not even kidding you. Like they wrote a check.
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Yeah, it was in the memo, the check.
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Memo, kidnapping supplies. Got a rope. You got some tape here. You got some alcohol. What are you boys looking at doing tonight? You know, I mean, come on. By the way, does anybody else, when they go to the grocery store, love writing entire life stories in your head about the person in front of you and all their groceries based on all of that, like a Kaiser Sosay usual suspects thing? Just me?
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Wait, I’m not the only one that does that?
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I will literally have a whole life story made up about the person next in front of me just by going off their groceries. It’s fascinating.
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That’s funny. I do that just so I can tolerate people better. I’ll make up good stories about them just so I can tolerate them better. Oh, man.
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Oh. So, I don’t know. It’s just weird, right? And we don’t know that we haven’t heard anything else about it.
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No, it’s fake. It’s staged. I know no one’s wanting to make that definitive conclusion, but I’m going to do that right now.
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I’m just saying that there’s something that seems very inauthentic about it to me.
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Yeah, it’s staged.
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I don’t know. It just seems weird.
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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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A NASA jet erupted in flames as it skid skidded skids down the runway at a Houston airport. That’s kind of that’s is a belly flop landing in a way. It was a mechanical failure that prevented its landing gear from deploying. It was at Ellington Airport. The aircraft touched down, scraped the runway, sent sparks and flames trailing behind. Two pilots were able to exit the aircraft and responders escaped. secured the scene NASA confirmed everybody was safe there were no additional injuries about the mechanical failure neuroscience says apparently they’re suggesting that shoes can alter your mind I totally kind of love shoes oh my gosh shoes these shoes roll they do but they’re talking about athletic footwear Nike says that its shoes can activate the brain heightened sensory awareness you know what else can do that a pair of Louboutins. The heel height and the pinch in the toe can definitely heighten your sensory awareness. But they were saying that it improves stimulation with the bottom of your feet. I think this is all stupid. Do you believe any of this, Kane?
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I mean, it’s a company that makes shoes.
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Neuro insults. We have smart shoes now. Everything’s got to be smart. Your souls can tweet.
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Positive info on their new line of shoes.
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I think it’s all so dumb. It’s all snake oil. It all is. I don’t believe any of that stuff. I do think that you should probably not wear platform tennis shoes, though. Just aesthetically speaking. Seattle’s named the most expensive city to host a Super Bowl party. Probably because you would have to buy a plane ticket to get the hell out of there because it’s Seattle. Oh, Danny, you’re so mean. But yeah, apparently that’s the most expensive place. Everything’s super expensive there. Doctors are staying loyal to their pocketbook, apparently, and ignoring new federal vaccine recommendations. What? This is an ABC7 story. Wait a minute. What? So they’re saying it’s because doctors want to get paid. You know they get kickbacks from… vaccines and that, right? Big time kickbacks. So actually, they’re not ignoring, they’re actually penalizing their own pocketbook to delay instead of going along the schedule that the big pharma would have you go on. This is ABC Channel 7 Eyewitness News. Oh, it’s by somebody who also works at CNN. Jen Christensen over here at CNN. Yeah. So they I mean, it’s literally speculation. It starts out with how the American Academy of Pediatrics released an updated recommendation for what vaccines should get. And then the headlines like doctors are ignoring because of their pocketbooks. Or maybe because they’re following science. I mean, you know, it’s also an option. I get so sick of this stuff. Rice University copper aluminum filter can destroy forever chemicals a hundred times faster. Why don’t you just stop making them?
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Yeah. Who wants them? What are they for?
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Hi, would you like some forever chemicals? No. No. No, thanks. They are everywhere. The PFAS. P-F-A-S. PFAS? They developed at Rice University a material for filtering out all the PFAS, the polyfluoroalkyl substances and synthetic compounds. So since Teflon, Teflon did it all. And they said that it’s new tech. It’s a mix of copper and aluminum that can absorb long chain PFAS 100 times faster than traditional filtration systems. Again, or just… Just a suggestion. Ethan Hawke. This is 23. He’s, I mean, the artists, they never have any room to speak about anything, you know. Listen.
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I never felt scared about what I was going to say until the last couple years, where you feel like, oh, I have to be careful, or what. I don’t know, but there’s a kind of fear in the air that I’ve never felt before. And it’s not America. To get to be an artist in a free country, I’ve had enough of an education to know what a privilege that is. And I don’t feel that way anymore. And that’s something that has to change.
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Wow. He doesn’t feel safe. He should talk to Charlie Kirk about that. Oh, wait, he can’t because someone shot Charlie Kirk in the neck for speaking because they didn’t like him because he was a conservative. Or, you know what? He should maybe at least ask Trump because, you know, twice they’ve tried to kill Trump just because he’s a Republican. So or maybe he should go and ask Steve Scalise and Rand Paul. Steve Scalise, because he almost got murdered on a ball field by a leftist and Rand Paul because he was almost beaten to death by a leftist. I mean, I could sit here and go on and on. Maybe maybe ask Brett Kavanaugh. There was a leftist that wanted to kill him and his old family that was caught on his street heading toward the house. Maybe he should ask him, you know, I just can’t believe it. I’m I’m here literally on the right carpet talking into a microphone about how I don’t feel like I’ve ever been able to talk before. I’m just, you know, talking to you on this microphone and making all my movies and giving all these interviews. But I’ve never really felt like I could ever actually talk before and like. These people are so self-involved and so self-obsessed. It’s truly stunning. But, I mean, when I… Ethan Hawke doesn’t… I don’t want to dislike him, but I’m like, hello, self-awareness much? It’s just… It’s like going to… It’s like going to, like, South Sudan and looking at the starving children and going, wow, I’m starving. I’m so hungry. It’s just like that. It’s just tone deaf and completely… This is John Leguizamo. He doesn’t want you to go see any of his movies. He hates you. Listen.
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If you follow Ice, unfollow me. Don’t come to my shows and don’t watch my movies.
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Okay, so what if, what if we never watched any of his shows or movies anyway? What do we do now? Oh, wow. Got me there, John. Wow. I’m not going to go see whatever the hell you’re doing. Whoa. Boy, we are all super punished and stuff, right? Bummer. Seriously, what do we do? Because I don’t. I wouldn’t even count him as one of my grandma’s rule of three if he kicked the bucket tomorrow. I heard somebody out there on Radio Land go, oh. It’s true. So he doesn’t want anybody to go see his shows. Okay. Thanks. You’re doing me a favor. It’s all right. Good heavens. He’s always mad. He’s just always mad. Always mad.
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Never ends. I mean, no matter what business you’re in, is it always great to go out there and say don’t
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don’t enjoy my work don’t enjoy my business don’t enjoy what makes me money yeah like why would you tell half of your potential audience that so you can turn around and then bitch about how no one goes sees it goes and sees your stuff because you’re hispanic that’s what he’ll say oh god he’s john like just realize this john leguizamo’s mad because you want rapist and murderers deported Think about that. That’s legit it. I’m not exaggerating. That’s why I’m running circles around the block with us because and I’m going to do it like ad nauseum in perpetuity because that’s how insane this is. This is some Ike Turner stuff, man. Like losing using it loosely. You imagine Democrats, you know, you get out there in the street, you protect those those poor rapists and murderers. Meanwhile, all the people that got raped and murdered are sitting like on the sidelines like, well, damn, what about us? What about us, the victims? No, you’re not the victims. It’s these poor rapists and murderers. Oh, forgive us. The guy stopped raping somebody long enough to turn to the camera and go, I don’t want to go back to my third world hellhole where I was also convicted of rape and murder. I just that’s what these people are asking. I cannot even I can’t even imagine being an elected official in a straight face like that’s your narrative because that’s what this is. I really feel like Republicans have a missed opportunity here. You know what? I would be taking out AI generated campaign ads where these rapists and murderers are like, you know, vote for this person. I endorse their campaign because, you know, why wouldn’t they? They don’t want them deported for rape and murder. Oh, my gosh. Republicans, what are you doing? Can you just get over the bot accounts for five seconds and maybe actually be creative? Oh, wait, you haven’t hired anybody that’s creative lately? Oh, that’s a problem. They haven’t. That’s why everything that they’re putting out, they have no, like, their ads are bad. They need to hire, like, memers and trolls to make these ads. Imagine that. Imagine giant billboards up around Minneapolis. That would be damning. Make them own this. Make them own this. Make them own the Somali fraud. I mean, that would be that’s my whole campaign strategy. That would be my whole ad in that area. Oh, my gosh. I would have giant, giant poster boards and we would play like a guess who game outside of any and all of their their events in Minnesota, Minnesota Democrat events. I would be I would have people at every single ICE operation. there to counter protesters with literally the pictures and the rap sheets on giant poster boards of all of these criminal illegal aliens so that way these protesters can see who they’re out there in the streets protecting and any and all media any all video any all footage would have that element as part of it they would it would be inescapable i would saturate everything that they do with the association Where are Republicans in this? Grow some balls and start fighting back with teeth.
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