From celebrity passings to political posturing, this podcast episode covers it all with Dana Lash’s characteristic wit and insight. We explore the implications of the Democrats’ $20-million initiative to win back working-class male support, all while laughing at the muddled efforts that feel more out of touch than ever. Additionally, the WNBA’s current controversy around ticket sales and player injuries is discussed, highlighting the connection between athlete stardom and viewership.
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So Rick Derringer has passed away, age 77. And a lot of you reminded me of this or brought this up to me because my granny’s rule of three. And Rick Derringer, you guys know that. He did a lot. I mean, he had a lot of stuff. Obviously, this song. And then, of course, Hang On, Sloopy, which was about a boat. All kinds of good stuff. But 77 years old. That’s just, it’s like, because he doesn’t seem, I don’t know. It just doesn’t seem like he’s like 77 years old. I know. A lot of these like rock music, they don’t seem like they, you know, I don’t know. Unless you’re, what’s his face? Rolling Stones. Keith Richards unless you’re Keith Richards welcome back Dana Lash with you at the bottom of this second hour so wait a minute remind me because everyone’s like is it so many people have been sending me dead people names like oh this is your granny’s rule of three rule of three here for granny how is it now Steve you said the same thing so Rick Derringer makes three remind me the other two can’t help me out here hold on I know I was counting in my head but I don’t remember the first two
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All right, let’s see. So the latest, man, we’d have to look up the latest because when it comes to celebrity deaths, you have the question, and we’ve had that question the past couple of weeks, are these people celebrities?
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It has to be in a certain period of time.
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Yeah. So does George Brandt from Cheaters come into this?
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Yes, George Wendt. George Wendt. Oh, sorry. George Wendt is one. Absolutely. Norm is number one. So Derringer would be two, but who’s the third one? Because everyone’s like, oh, this is Greeny’s rule of three. I’m like, okay, well, okay, who then?
SPEAKER 09 :
Didn’t we just have… So that member of Congress that just passed away, was it Connolly or something? Rangel. Oh, yeah, Rangel also just passed. Oh, that’s another one that just passed.
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So that would be three. Wait, if there’s another one, then that starts over.
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That’s happening to Congress.
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Who… Who do we… Who else do we have? Ruth Buzzi. Okay, so Ruth Buzzi. So… So… We have Rick Derringer. Oh, my gosh. All the dead people. Derringer. Who else did I just say? Oh, my gosh.
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We can’t forget Phil Robertson.
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George Wendt. Phil Robertson. Phil Robertson. That’s three. And then we have Ruth Buzzy. So that’s… We need two more. Otherwise, those are rules. I didn’t make them. My grandmother did.
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I was doing Duck Dynasty there. So that would have been three for me.
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Okay. So… think two more gotta go oh that’s kind of scary who’s on the who’s uh who’s on the deadpool Just, well, I’m being, it’s, okay, for those of you who don’t understand this, my grandmother, God rest her soul, was a very suspicious lady. Superstitious lady, also suspicious. And she had a, everybody always dies in threes. And it always made sense. And it always does. That is the way that it works. I don’t know. I don’t make the rules. At least to me, that’s the way it works. So anyway, with the inclusion of Ruth Buzzy, because you have Derringer, Wendt, Derringer, Wendt, Robertson. And then you would have Buzzy, Rangel, Charlie Rangel. So basically one more. Didn’t David Sauter, didn’t he pass?
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So what’s the length of time?
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Usually like within a month.
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Okay, so on May 7th, that movie actor, Joe Don Baker.
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I don’t know who that is. It doesn’t count for me.
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What?
SPEAKER 03 :
No, he doesn’t count for me.
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He’s like a staple in all the 80s and early 90s movies.
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Not for me. Mm-mm.
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He passed away.
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See, this is where it gets weird. I don’t know. I don’t know that, so I don’t think it.
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We need a standard then. We need a standard that tells us.
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I mean, the fact that you had, do you know who that guy is, Steve?
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No, I have no idea.
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I don’t mean to be dismissive.
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He grew up in Texas, which is why.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don’t mean to be dismissive, but it’s, you know, if they’re not widely known, I don’t think it counts.
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Here, I’ll just put the, how do you not recognize this dude?
SPEAKER 03 :
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Of course we should be talking about how, yeah, if, you know, Speaker Johnson got his way, it wouldn’t be possible, not just for gay people to get married, but for straight people to get divorced, let alone like birth control or how he would want to regulate porn or whatever people, most people would have a problem with.
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But… What the hell is he talking about? I mean, if Speaker Johnson got his way, all the gay people would be just illegal. That’s… He’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer, guys. It’s the former mayor, secretary, new mom, vice admiral of the canoe fleet over at Camp Wimpy Tonka, Poot Booty Juice. Don’t don’t wait. Hold up. Don’t criticize. I say his name because our former illustrious president who had all of his brain cells, all of them. That’s how he said his name. And that’s the gold standard by which I operate. Ladies and gentlemen, Dana Lash with you. Welcome back. We’re at the bottom of this first hour. He says that it’s they should that Johnson was he was going to make it to where gay people couldn’t do anything and straight people couldn’t get divorced. And yeah, I don’t I don’t know what he’s basing that off of. Imagine like you just do a live stream and say whatever the hell you can. Can you imagine if I actually took to air not knowing anything about which I was discussing and just rambled and just incoherently pulled stuff out of the ether just to suit whatever, you know. Yeah, I would be held… I mean, they go with me all the time. I’ve been on air for three hours every day for years. I have a beat reporter assigned to me at Media Matters. Yes, they would find out something if I said anything incorrect. If they don’t even like it, they go after me. I mean, to hell with it being incorrect. But if you’re a Democrat, you can just… Yeah, well, Mike Johnson’s going to make all the… He’s going to illegal all the gays and… and the straight people, they can’t get divorced or have white claws. It’s going to be so bad. Can you imagine having a 4th of July with no white claws? So bad. But that’s what it’s like listening to him every time he opens his mouth to give a perspective. It’s like drunk without the alcohol. It’s what you feel like. So if you’ve never had a drop, it feels like that. You’re listening and you’re like, am I sober? Is this supposed to make sense? I don’t know. So it feels like. But but, you know, he’s he’s he’s trying to get he’s working hard on behalf of the Dems because guys, they’re going to have to they’re going to have to try to talk to dudes and You know, the party that was like toxic masculinity is now going, wait, but wait, we messed up. Oops. That’s where they’re at right now. So they said that they’re spending $20 million trying to connect with dudes by studying their syntax. S-Y-N-T-X. Yeah, whatever that means. That’s what they want to do. Audio soundbite nine. Listen to this. This is one strategist literally saying exactly this.
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Yeah, good questions. One, let me save the folks from the Times and all the other great print outlets some time. If you dig in on what Democrats are researching right now, you’re going to find a lot of silly stuff. You’re going to find people asking a lot of questions, people asking about syntax and do I drop the G for this word and this and that, and there’s going to be a lot of that. So let me just warn everybody, that process is going to be very obnoxious for this 40-something. I would also say we’re really talking about young men, right? Young men who Democrats have not figured out a consistent pitch for how to get them.
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They’re toxic. And then women can be men. I mean, you know, you guys have have kicked them around for the better part of 40 years. Whether it was the Title IX stuff, whether it was promoting women over men in the name of false equality, whatever it was, you guys have attacked dudes for endlessly, for forever. Toxic masculinity. Dudes that are young Gen Z are terrified to even date chicks because of everything that the left has done. So, yeah, $20 million they think is going to help band-aid that error. So after impugning their characters, again, for the better part of 40 years, now Democrats are going, wait, we messed up. Hold up. Here’s an excerpt. For now, Democratic donors and strategists have been gathering at luxury hotels to discuss how to win back working-class voters, commissioning new projects that read like anthropological studies of people from faraway places. The prospectus for one new $20 million effort obtained by The Times aims to reverse the ocean of democratic support amongst young men, especially online. It’s codenamed SAM, short for Speaking with American Men, a strategic plan, and promises investment to, quote, study the syntax, language, and content involved. that gains attention and virality in these spaces. And it recommends buying advertisements in video games amongst other things. All they know is that younger dudes play games and they’re like something, something games. You can’t just buy an ad. You know why the Democrats have not been successful in gaming? Because they don’t play them. And Republicans haven’t been successful because they’re a bunch of damn cowardly tipper gores who want to put explicit lyrics on everything. These people that attack video games, oh my gosh, it’s like I’m watching Tipper Gore 2.0. for the love no that you can’t fake it you cannot fake it that’s you’re either in that community or you’re not that’s not one that is not a community that you can fake it with but what is this to study the syntax what does that mean kane what the hell does that mean what does it even mean it’s there that’s the language they want to they want to hijack it they want to understand it but they’re acting like they’re foreign like species right like we have to talk like these aliens
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How you do, fellow kids?
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Why, hello, fellow male. They tried that once with that ad. Remember that ad where that, they all look like rapists. They all look like soft rapists. That Democrat ad that they were, whoa, oh man, hang on, hang on, hang on.
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Their version of masculine.
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Yeah, yeah, I’m a masculine man or something like that. What, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is this is this it? Oh, I got to find it. No, there’s one where it’s the voting one. They came out with one ad where it was like men that were bullying their women into voting. And then there was the one where you had this one guy who he looked like a bottom and he was sitting on a truck going, I’m a manly man. I’m like, no, you’re not. No, you’re not. You’re not. You only the only person who probably buys more lube than you is Diddy. No, you’re not. You know what I’m talking about, though? I’m sorry. I can’t just now. And every single dude in that ad, they looked it was they were all terrifying. That was the that was the. attempt that they had i guess at trying to talk to dudes and it horrified dudes yes the uh that ad that steve just put on there yes that is it that is the ad that is literally it and I mean, again, it’s also the party that had David Hogg as their vice chair. Yeah, they had those weird, like, I like steak. I’m a man. Men like bourbon. Therefore, I like bourbon. So you’re going to think I’m a man. Like, you guys, Juan’s putting it up for you. My favorite was the guy who was sitting like a pageant queen on the back of a truck. Yeah, on the back of a truck. Yeah, and then you have the one guy. I can’t believe that they got these lines out without laughing to death.
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I think he actually said, I eat trannies for breakfast. If you remember that line, he said, I eat trannies.
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Yeah, it was the guy in the cowboy hat.
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Man enough to deadlift 500. Shut up. You think I’m afraid to rebuild a carburetor? I eat carburetors for breakfast.
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Like the one guy in the orange shirt. He’s sitting like a pageant queen. That guy looks like he beats his wife. That guy looks like that guy right there. And then who’s the prospector? Where the hell does this guy come from? They just got me out of the valley. I was prospecting for gold. But this is what I mean. And look, he ripped his sleeves off. You know, he went to like Urban Outfitters and got that shirt. that guy his arms weren’t but this guy right here who can i just say what man sits like this i mean it’s rhetorical but none of them do look at him he’s like tweaking this guy i sit like that when he’s in an orange polo and he’s sitting on the back of a truck and he’s turned and he’s got his hands on his leg like he’s a pageant queen and he’s like oh you better believe i’m a man or i’m gonna beat you that’s that’s his whole aura is that i’m gonna beat you vibes from that Well, yeah.
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I don’t know.
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Silence of the Lambs. It puts the lotion in the basket. He’s totally giving me those vibes.
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I said a little like that.
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And then you’ve got the DMX wannabe who’s sitting there like, I’ll braid the whatever out of my daughter’s hair. And I’m just like, shut up. What is the matter with you? No dudes talk like this. They just do it. Right? I mean, if you have to sit here and tell people that you’re a manly dude, men know this. Men know immediately that you’re not. And Democrats are like, the prospector kills me every time I see him because the shirt is just over the top. God love him. But I’m just trying to understand why Democrats think that they have to spend $20 million because I’m pretty sure this ad was several million dollars. How much do you think that ad was to make, Cain?
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Those are all actors. From a production standpoint, it looks about, what, 8,000 won? Probably get that done with about 8,000, because there’s no names in it, so you’re not paying them much at all. So maybe 15,000 tops.
SPEAKER 03 :
Totally looks like California that they were in.
SPEAKER 09 :
But they probably spent a million on this. It’s like $15,000 production.
SPEAKER 03 :
They had it well in that ripped-off shirt for the prospector. They had to go, you know. They had to go probably get him that shirt at Urban Outfitters.
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They gave him nuggets, gold nuggets.
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He got so mad, his sleeves just poof, came right off. They shot out the side like projectiles. And that guy, that guy was the meanest one of them all. But this is what Dems, my point is that Dems did this ad. This guy right here, look at his sleeves. I’m sorry, that’s fake. Why do you cut yourself? Why do you just like put a wife beater on, man?
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They paid him in mining equipment.
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I bet he hates himself now. You know that. And the way that he moved, that dude’s an actor. And I’m all for it. But if you’re going to wear a shirt like that, I feel like, you know, after we lost Joan Rivers, I feel like I need to rise to that occasion and fill that need from time to time the best way that I can, knowing that I’m nowhere near close to her brilliance. But someone’s got to step in and talk about this. Like, the hell? I see that and I’m like, what happened to your sleeves? Did your muscles get so mad they blew them off? Like what happened? I don’t get it. Stop. That guy’s an actor. They’re all actors. Like there was an article that talked about how they were all hired from an agency. None of these people are real. This guy probably never rode a damn bike in his life. And he’s like, I’m working on my bike. And he’s got his, you know, he probably don’t even know what his tools are. whole point is that democrats tried this before they spent mil they did this said they did like three ads last cycle and how did they show men the first one was they did an ad where they were trying to show conservative men republican men like they were going to beat their wives if they didn’t if they didn’t vote for trump right for the love and then then they’re like well i guess we better walk it back we need to appeal to men instead of i guess making them look like they’re horrible people And so they did this ad that made them look like they’re horrible people. The most unlikable actors. It’s like they went to the agency. Yes, give me the most unlikable actors you have. I want women to flinch when they see them on the screen. That’s what I want. That’s what we’re going for. Yes, Cain?
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I think they literally thought, let’s get a cross-section of what we think MAGA looks like. And we’re going to message that way. Like we’re going to message as though we’re reaching out to the MAGA crowd.
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I mean, it’s just so shallow. Yes, I can deadlift this and then I can braid my daughter’s hair. Like one excludes the other. I don’t think you quite understand the concept of chivalry. Oh my gosh. It’s just, I can’t stand this. So they’re spending 20 million donor dollars. Let me clarify that. So Democrats get donations. So the people who have been donating to the Democrat Party, whatever brain trust brought you those ads, those are the people that are going to be trying to refine their messaging to dudes. Oh, this is, I want them to, no, you want them to do this. We want them to do this. I’m just, picture it. content gold oh my gosh we’re gonna make so much fun of this it’s gonna be insane and if they and if they have secretary new mom vice admiral of the the canoe fleet rear vice admiral of canoe fleet camp wimpy tonka yeah yeah yeah booty juice if they have him spearheading this oh please for the love of all things holy let this happen i don’t ask for a lot no hold up i asked for a dotson for my birthday and i didn’t get one so at least give me the and i asked it for wick my rescue dog i was like he needs a dog It makes so much sense because he does wink. He does. I didn’t get that. So can I have this? Can I have this? Mother’s Day was last month, like earlier this month. It’s not over yet. I can still get like a belated Mother’s Day. So this could happen and we could see, have Poop Booty Juice leading this and the messaging would be endless. Oh my gosh, guys. Like I am here for the summer of sis. I am totally here for that. I’ve said for years now that our media is just garbage. Legacy Press is garbage. How does the average person know if a news story, if the source is accurate or if it’s biased? Ground News can be a great solution for that. Ground News can show you the stories and the sources of the day, and then they give you details about their sourcing, how reliable the reporting is and who owns them, and keep you fully informed on any potential political or motivational leanings. So, for instance, you could use Ground News to read about the Trump administration suing the state of Maine over participation of transgender athletes in girls’ sports. The Huffington Post said, quote, Trump’s newest political power grab is targeting Maine. The Toronto Sun said, quote, DOJ is to sue Maine over trans women competing in female sports. So same story, but two very different headlines. Is it a power grab by the president or is it in the hands of the DOJ? You can sign up for your Ground News account today and get access to the mobile app. the website, the browser extension, and exclusive newsletter so you can stay informed on the news and the bias. Visit groundnews.com slash Dana today to get 40% off the Ground News Vantage plan and get access to all of their news analysis and features. That’s groundnews.com slash Dana for 40% off the Ground News Vantage plan for a limited time only. Groundnews.com slash Dana for 40% off.
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So attackers tried to assault a rabbi in Baltimore, Maryland, and steal his car as well. But he was armed, and he scared off his attackers and defended himself, defended his life, because guns save lives. Officers were called Saturday. They said the men approached the victim, assaulted him, knocked him to the ground. One of the assailants kept assaulting the victim. The other one was trying to get in the car. And that’s when the victim drew a gun and pointed it at them. The assailants ran off. He has a valid permit, was treated at the scene. I don’t even think you need a permit if you have to ask your permission or you’re really free. But the Baltimore City Councilman said that I spoke with the victim after the attack. He was an older person. Somebody clearly he was dressed in attire after right after exiting synagogue. And so they said it was very upsetting. Yes, because this keeps happening. This keeps happening over and over again. Walmart was fined for shipping realistic toy guns to New York, violating their stupid state law. It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. They said that they can’t look they can’t sell anything, any toys that look like real weapons, regardless that they have an orange cap on. And they have really weird third laws up there. They said that the retail giants online store shipped them to the state. and uh that they uh they resemble deadly weapons and they have to they have to pull them off they don’t actually they’re literally they have orange caps on orange caps on they they don’t look like oh my gosh and they said even toy guns they have to uh be made either totally translucent transparent and have bright colors Okay, well, I’m just going to make a clear gun. That’s what I’m saying. It’s so stupid. Oh, my gosh. Let’s see. This… Ooh. A Port Townsend suspect climbed an 80-foot tree to evade deputies. He stood up there for eight hours. He was up in the tree for eight hours.
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How do you…
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Now, hold up. That is actually quite impressive. I got to be honest with you. This guy was wanted on an active escape warrant, and he was taken into custody finally. But he climbed up 80 feet up into a tree. They had an eight-hour-long standoff. And about 9 p.m., they find… Well, it was 9 p.m. when they first located him. He was in there all… He was up that tree all night. Climbed a large cedar tree, trying to avoid arrest. Like the cops were going to go, okay, I guess we better leave. He’s up in the tree. Can’t get him. We’ll go now. Like… They tried to deescalate the situation for a couple of hours. They finally got him down and they took him into custody. But still, good heavens. Open AI software has ignored explicit instruction to shut off. Yeah, it was a model created by the owner of ChatGPT, and apparently it was caught disobeying human instructions, and it would not power itself off. I’ve got a lot of questions about this. It was an explicit instruction. They said it’s OpenAI’s O3 model. It sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off. And it did this even when explicitly instructed, allow yourself to be shut down. I’m telling you, this is how it starts. It’s already started. Stick with us. All right, so WNBA. They’re having troubles with tickets now because I think Caitlin Clark is out for what? How many weeks is she out? She’s got… She’s ruled out for the June 7th game. That’s when she was supposed to meet up with Angel Reese again. And Chicago Sky. And there’s a massive drop in ticket sales. She… This is after the take foul that she had on Reese and ended with a shove. And she got a flagrant foul. And they gave… They gave what? Reese and the other chick a foul. And I don’t know. Like they… I guess she has a left quad strain. And she’s going to miss…
SPEAKER 09 :
At least four games is what they’re saying.
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Yeah, okay. And the fourth and final of those games is the game against Sky. And so they said, after her injury was announced, so check this out, the game on June 7th, the tickets were originally $86. Same seats, now $25. After her injury announcement. That’s a 71% drop in price. Over 71% drop in price. Because she’s not going to be in the game. And it’s the largest arena in terms of capacity in the NBA. This is where the Bulls play. So they’re at the United Center, and that’s where Bulls play. And so, wow, can you imagine? And the Sky’s home games, they usually do them at Wintrust Arena, and that seats 10,387. The United Center seats 23,500. And they announced the venue change back in March because of Clark’s popularity. And now she’s not going to be there. And the tickets have been slashed. That center is going to be empty. But, you know, racism or something. I don’t know. Like, why are they trying to infuse that? Well, look, Brittany Griner, who I can’t stand. And I’m sad that she’s a Baylor grad. She didn’t. Wasn’t she on the sidelines and didn’t she? Wasn’t she trash talking? Caitlin Clark is like a dumb white girl. Well, I mean, that was the lip reading audio. Somebody 16. She called her a trash, expletive white girl. Well, you can watch it and watch her own mouth. She’s sitting on the sidelines and she’s just running her mouth. She’s trash, blanking white girl is what she says.
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All right, let’s see this here.
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Yeah, it’s trash, white girl. Trash. Blinking white girl is what she says. Yeah, she said that. Hey, why don’t you go try to do some more pot over in Russia? And then we have to get your dumb ass by trading a weapons, a warlord, a weapons merchant in exchange. Just absolute trash. It’s a shame that she’s a Baylor grad. So. I don’t know why they’re trying to make it. Well, I mean, apparently Griner and others seem like they’re trying to make it about racism. Can you imagine if like Caitlin Cork was like, oh, trash blinking black girl. Can you imagine? Oh, my gosh. Dude, I hate that the left and that race hustlers do this because they think that there’s a scarcity of opportunity. I really want Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark to be friends. I would love it. And I’m normally not like this, but I would love it if years from now, they’re like, actually, we were BFFs the whole time and we just had this whole rivalry thing. But I feel like Even if it kind of maybe even began that way, I still think they’re super highly competitive women. But everybody else on the periphery is trying to make it real nasty. Don’t you feel like the push is almost coming more from the periphery than like the two principles in the middle of it? It seems like that. But a lot of these people are mad. A lot of these players were mad at Caitlin Clark because she’s white and she’s good. Like, why can’t you just be happy that, you know, a rising tide raises all ships? My gosh, no one’s asking you to do anything more. You have the opportunity to get paid more. just by being adjacent to that, you know, to her star power and skill. Good heavens. Like, I can’t play basketball to save my life. Love the game. But, I mean, can you imagine? Heck, yeah, I’d sit on the bench with Jordan, and I would just, like, rake in the money, let him play, and I’d say, heck, yes, I would. I mean, come on. But I really, I want them to be friends. I really want them to be friends. And I’m normally not like this. Normally, I’m like, fight, fight, fight. but I think I’m just so tired of hearing everyone on the outside. Like, wasn’t there an ESPN, uh, commentator who like she was, wasn’t she trying to argue that there were like racist things being said by the fans. And then the WNBA legit did a whole investigation into it. And they’re like, this is totally unfounded. Like how embarrassing if you’re a commentator and you were sitting and you were stating that and WNBA had released a statement yesterday saying that, uh, Yeah, they’ve they investigated, you know, all the claims and there’s literally nothing that happened. They’re like, it’s it’s unfounded. You know, that’s it. They said based on all the information that it is not substantiated. How isn’t that shameful? Good grief.
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