SPEAKER 13 : 0:00

Make sure you’re following the podcast so you never miss an episode, especially when the news gets crazy. And while you’re there, leave a quick rating and review. It helps us get this show in front of more people who need some sanity in their day. Welcome to the show. Dana Lash with you. I had a great time in Kansas with the GOP up there. And we are Also, how to grab a Kleenex because your girl’s been in a couple different climates and it’s just we’re not acclimated yet. We’re also one of the things we’re going to do in today’s show, obviously, is we’re going to dive into some of the Epstein stuff, etc. But we’re also going to look at SD nine in Texas. Now you’re like, wait, what? OK, you guys have seen the headline about the district that went Democrat. Oh, my gosh. You guys saw that, right? All the headlines. Oh, my gosh. We’re all going to die. And I’m here to tell you that half of the actually 98 percent of the people talking about this race have no idea what the hell is going on. I live here. I know everybody involved. I can tell you everything about that race. So we’re going to break it down. You’re not going to hear this anywhere else. Because everyone wants to use everything as like a rune for midterms, right? And Democrats are so eager to be able to say, oh, hey, this is the bellwether, right? That’s what it’s always called, the bellwether. This is the bellwether for this. And it’s this SD nine race is not that because there’s a lot of extenuating factors in it. Now you can say, and I’ve said it, I’ve said that Virginia and stuff happening in Virginia is a big bellwether. SD nine is not. And I’m going to explain why it’s going to be. We’re going to do a big old knockdown drag out explainer because everybody talking about it is absolutely clueless. Not only do I live in this district, but I’ve known these people for 15 years now. So it’s like I said, it was a special election. There was a lot of butthurt in it. A lot of fighting with some of the. GOP candidates, and it just screwed us over. So we’re going to talk about that and dive into it here coming up. We’re also going to get into all of the latest with Minnesota. So to start out with all the Epstein stuff, you know what I thought was very interesting with this? And I, you know, I worked over the week and it’s been a very never ending week. But I was looking at some of this because, you know, that they were all everybody was trying to say, oh, he’s a he’s an Israeli plant or an Israeli spy or something like that. And then it turns out what is it? And that was apparently one bad whistleblower who was now that I know who that that or that person that was feeding the FBI is. I’m like, oh, boy, that’s a fruitcake and a half. And it made me question not really stuff related to the Epstein story, but it made me really question who the hell the FBI is using as an informant. Oh, my gosh. But this Epstein story, I mean, lots of photos. Lots of he was just gross. He’s one of those people where you can I saw this picture of him sitting with Steve Bannon, who all the people that are talking about Epstein and pedophiles, yet no one on the woke right wants to give their woke right grandpa like the hat tip for being involved with the actual convicted pedophile. You know how many people kiss this guy’s ass, you know, while he’s imperiling their campaign, sitting there actually working with Epstein about how to undermine Trump. But OK, it’s the people that supported Ron DeSantis in the primary that are the real problem. Shut the front door. Shut the front door of your mouth. How about that? Just they like that one. I’ve been saving it. But these these I mean, how far does this go? Who gets photographed in some of these pictures the way that like Bill Clinton and who’s the other guy? Andrew Mount Windsor, whatever the king’s the queen’s son. Right. Her son. I’m just saying who gets who gets photographed in these very weird. Now, the this was I thought this was interesting because the Clintons now, you know, the Clintons were named in it. And he’s asking, listen to this, just play cut for this is Trump cut for.

SPEAKER 16 : 4:25

Mr. President, today we heard that the Clintons set deposition dates to testify before the House Oversight Committee. Any reaction to that really?

SPEAKER 05 : 4:35

I think it’s a shame to be honest. I always liked him. Her? Yeah. She was a very capable woman. She was better in debating than some of the other people, I will tell you that. She was smarter. Smart woman. I hate to say it in many ways.

SPEAKER 13 : 4:56

I don’t think it’s a shame. I don’t think it’s a shame. Do you think he’s being gracious? Because I wouldn’t be. We don’t want gracious. Don’t be gracious now. That’s not what we want.

SPEAKER 09 : 5:05

Yeah, that was the problem in hindsight. We saw how gracious he was with Hillary in 2016, 2017. Look what they did.

SPEAKER 13 : 5:10

And look what they did.

SPEAKER 09 : 5:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER 13 : 5:12

You know, I mean, it’s… And look what happened. No good deed goes unpunished. That’s the reality of it. No good deed goes unpunished. I am not at all sad that they have to testify. I want to see them… I’m actually surprised she was not involved anymore. I mean, I expected him to be. But her, I thought she would definitely be named in some of this. But I still think she knew all about it. You can’t tell me. You can’t tell me. This was interesting. Brett Baer had asked Kash Patel, so do you still think, just like in the way that you would think Christmas ornaments hang themselves, do you think that Epstein did too? Listen, this is five.

SPEAKER 04 : 5:49

You told me when we last talked, this is eight months ago when we did an interview at the FBI in Quantico, that you were convinced that Epstein killed himself in jail. Today, eight months after that, are you still convinced? Yes.

SPEAKER 1 : 6:02

100%.

SPEAKER 04 : 6:02

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER 13 : 6:04

Do you believe him? Do you believe Kash Patel? Do you think he believes that he’s… I mean, he may believe that he thinks that he does. I don’t know. But… I don’t know. I, uh… I just, it’s weird to think that he would kill himself. I read this piece where it was this body language expert And he does have the body language. And I was looking at some of it of somebody who thinks that he’s way smarter than everybody else in the room. And the person that this body language expert, they use them in the courtrooms, et cetera, things like that, was saying that in addition to him doing the steepling with his hands all the time, it was the way that he would say that he would affirm someone because he did this interview with Bannon that was like two hours long because Bannon was trying to rehabilitate a convicted pedophile. This was right after he got arrested for being on a CCP assets yacht, but I digress. But the person was saying that the way that he was giving these verbal affirmations, like, oh, yes, good question, or these little head pats to maintain the status of I’m better than you and you’re secondary to me. I just can’t believe that a guy… Who thinks so highly of himself like that. Now, I could be wrong. I could totally be wrong. I mean, right now, Occam’s razor, right? Dictates that he probably that he did. But it’s just weird that a guy who is that into himself would mark himself. Because those two, I mean, right? It’s weird. His his mannerisms and his behavior and his holier than thou attitude. It’s just really difficult to believe that this guy was like, OK, I’m done. I’m going to kill myself. There you go. I’m going to barely strangle myself with bedsheets on bunk beds. OK. Just very difficult for me to suspend my disbelief and accept that because of how high on his own supply this guy is. I mean, probably to the point of being clinically insane. He’s so has such an inflated view of himself. So that’s I don’t know. But then it’s like, well, if all these people are compromised, I’m going to know who all these people are. And if it’s enough that it affects something, then it affects it. I want to know who the creeps are. But of course you can kind of tell, I think, when you talk to some of these people. Like I meet some people in Washington and I’m like, oh my gosh, you’re totally on this list. You’re a fruitcake. You’re totally on this list. I meet people like that at almost every event I go to. I’m always like, you, you’re a weird one. So we have headlines on the way and we’re going to break down SD9. Yes, you do need to worry about midterms. No, SD9 is not a bellwether. I’m going to completely blow up that narrative. We’re going to bury it six feet deep because it’s stupid. And then we’re going to move on. But I do want to get you set up because I’m so tired of seeing all these people being on cable news, et cetera, just all run in their mouths about it. And they have no idea. really what this race is, what it entailed. Weber, it sits just in the back of your computer. You don’t even know it’s there. It just runs, hums along, does its happy little thing, stops all the maliciousness, stops all the malware, the ransomware. Here’s the thing. A lot of people don’t like to put any kind of virus protection on their computer because most of it’s so clunky and it takes up so much room i know but not web root web root in fact scans six times faster and takes up 33 times less space than norton mcafee and all these other ones out there and it does more i mean you’re protecting your devices everything it’s an all-in-one protection takes the guessing game out of cyber security you protect your entire digital life with antivirus identity protection vpn you can add your kids and parents on yay sandwich generation you can add them onto it as well And it monitors and checks to make sure that your financial or private information isn’t compromised and ends up on the dark web because they understand how difficult it is. You can’t claw that back once it’s out there. I mean, you got to kind of start over. This is the number one antivirus on the market for a reason. And they make it easy to protect yourself online. You download it and it just hums away quietly in the background and you’re not going to notice it. And there’s no stress over data breaches, identity theft, or even an accidental file deletion. Right now they’re giving you 60% off. It’s protection for your digital life. 60% off. Webroot at Webroot.com slash Dana. For a limited time only. Webroot.com slash Dana. Live a safer digital life with Webroot.

SPEAKER 17 : 10:40

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SPEAKER 09 : 11:10

And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.

SPEAKER 13 : 11:16

All right, so first and foremost, this is a crazy story. So Savannah Guthrie’s mom was apparently kidnapped, and there was an alleged ransom note that was sent, I think maybe Team Z had it first, where they were demanding millions in Bitcoin. This is a weird, they said there was apparently like blood outside and her pacemaker stopped syncing with her Apple Watch. over the weekend, apparently. That, to me, was a real… I mean, I don’t know. Maybe it’s because it’s too far apart. I don’t know. Pima County Sheriff’s, they said that they were aware of reports that were circulating about all of this. By the way, all the auto videos that play on these websites, I know, it went to me, though. I’m like, gosh, dang it, you people. No one wants to hear your stuff. But the thing that gets me is that they said that the neighbors… Thought that, you know, they noticed some things that were strange. There was apparently some blood outside. But yeah, the pacemaker stopped sneaking with the watch. And now you have this alleged ransom note. This is just such a weird. I saw another headline where they said maybe it was one of her fans that went too far. What? I know that’s crazy. Even crazier. Jill Biden’s ex-husband was charged with killing his wife. Former First Lady Jill Biden, her ex-husband, murdered his wife, apparently. Well, that’s who he’s being charged with, following an extensive weeks-long investigation. This is police in Delaware. They announced this yesterday, or sorry, earlier today. Actually, no, yesterday. Police officers responded to a reported domestic dispute. They found Linda Stevenson, 64, unresponsive on the living room floor. Her husband had called 911 at the time. They are charging him with first-degree murder in connection with his wife’s death. The indictment alleges that he, quote, did intentionally cause the death of his wife. He didn’t post 500,000 bonds, so he’s in jail. That is her ex-husband. She was married to a guy who’s capable of murder. I’m not surprised. Is that the guy she left Biden for? Yeah. Ooh, this is very weird. Remember how Billie Eilish was all, we’re on stolen land. Okay, well, yeah, the Native American tribe that owns the land that her message, that her mansion is on, they have a message for her. They’re like, go ahead and give it back then. How about that? It’s the Tongva tribe. They said her $3 million home does, in fact, sit on its ancestral land. Notice they didn’t say it’s our land. They just said ancestral land. And they said that she hasn’t contacted them ever, but they said that maybe she should explicitly reference us next time. Do you honestly think Billie Eilish even knows who the Tongva tribe is? No, she doesn’t because she’s a dumb, stupid white chick whose brother plays dolls with her as a real-life doll. She doesn’t write any of her own stuff. All she does is sing in the same breathy, eh, the whole time. The whole thing is her brother who created her. That’s it.

SPEAKER 09 : 14:05

There’s an update on that story from this morning from an L.A. law firm. Sinai Law says that they are the actual top eviction law firm and they will help evict Billie Eilish if necessary.

SPEAKER 13 : 14:16

Yeah, that’s what happens when you go out there and you say stupid stuff like that. We’ll return to the story. The son of Gaddafi, Muammar Gaddafi, was killed. According to news sources, the Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son, and I think it was the oldest of his sons because he has others, he was killed according to family sources. They said this yesterday. They don’t have any details of exactly what all the roles, what happened, but interesting. So he’s now X’d off the earth’s crust like his father was. Very interesting. And… Now we have people getting, this is a crazy story, a recruit, a police recruit in New Orleans was taken out of service, arrested by federal agents because he’s here illegally. Aspiring police officer taken into ICE. I know, ICE custody. They said that there was nothing in his personnel packet that would give us reason to believe that he didn’t have legal status. Really? Nothing in his packet. They said he had a valid driver’s license. Yeah, because some states have been giving them out. That’s why. So we have a lot more on the way. Breaking down SD-9. We’re going to correct the misinformation. Stick with us. Our partners that will bring you the program, it’s the folks over at Burn a Gun, B-Y-R-N-A. Ready when you are. And it is a great way to defend yourself when you’re disarmed. So I always carry. We’ve talked about this before. I have no issue with it. I have no issue using lethal force. But there are times when you are barred from carrying by either state or local or municipal restrictions. And then they don’t give you like any security. There’s like, no, like there’s a theater that I won’t go to in my area anymore because they don’t even have armed security. But yet they ban you from carrying on premises. I’m just not going to do that. You’re a sitting duck. So I want to be able to always protect myself when I have to go for work or et cetera into some places where I cannot. And this is where the burner gun comes in. I think this is a great idea also for college kids who are under the age of 21 and are not carrying pistols. You want to make sure that you’re able to protect yourself. The Berna CL compact launcher is the way to do it. If you have like a regular, you know, taser, et cetera, you have like one or two rounds in that. But the CL has a 15 round shot capacity per cartridge and it can deter threats from up to 50 feet away. There’s no recoil. And here’s the thing. It doesn’t care about gun-free zones because it’s not a gun. So no permits, no background checks. It doesn’t care about all those restrictions. You can do whatever with it. You can literally buy it online and have it sent to your front door. It’s about being prepared and having options to take care of your safety. Like you have pistols and you have rifles, right? You have long guns and you have pistols and you have blades and different calibers. This is just another way of diversifying your self-defense kit. So visit bruno.com slash dana. And check out the CL, the Compact Launcher. Byrna.com slash Dana. Ready when you are.

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SPEAKER 13 : 17:17

Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We’re at the bottom of this first hour. Find us over at Substack, Chapter & Verse, YouTube, Facebook, as well as the Apple or the podcast you can find anywhere. The… Let’s just check in on the left in Minnesota, right? You guys want to check in on them real quick? Let’s go have a peeksies. Let’s see what they’re doing, how well they are. Go ahead.

SPEAKER 1 : 17:39

This land isn’t Somaliland. What are you talking about? How many of them were white?

SPEAKER 13 : 18:06

I was curious. I feel like that chick from Mean Girls. If you’re from Africa, why are you white? That’s what they’re doing. They’re blocking the targets. Oh, noes. Oh, noes. They’re blocking the targets. Are they still doing the thing where they load up the carts and then they just leave it there for some poor stock person to come and get? Because that’s really entitled. That’s really mean to do that to people. That’s like really ignorant, but that’s the life.

SPEAKER 09 : 18:35

It really gets Trump, too. It really gets him. It really gets Trump.

SPEAKER 13 : 18:38

I mean, that really just, you know, Trump wakes up and he’s like, wow, somebody in a Target in Minneapolis filled a card up and made somebody else put it back. My day’s ruined because, you know, that’s how far fetching that impact is. Right. Oh, my heavens. craziness. Okay, let’s talk about Senate District 9 in Texas. Because if you were paying attention to any of the headlines over the weekend, going into the week, one of the things that you’ve noticed was that, oh my gosh, can you believe this? Democrat in a shocking upset. So shocking this Democrat flipped this Texas state Senate seat blue. Oh, Republicans, woe unto you. You better pay attention right now because this is the bellwether of all bellwethers. It’s not. I live in the district. Hi. It’s me, your Senate District 9 voter. So I had to vote on this race. It was a special election. The only time I’ve ever gone to a polling place and there’s only been one thing on the ballot. That was weird. That was really… I’m like, hmm. It was all for you. It’s neat to have had an election just for you. So… This first off, it is a real problem. The let’s just start with the big obvious thing for voter turnout is a major issue. Republicans are their own worst enemy, their own worst enemy. They really are. And I’ve said this over and over again. I saw this during the special election in Georgia. I’ve seen it twice in a couple of different special elections. Republicans do not turn out. I mean, the voting is low even in a general election when you have big names on the ballot. But in a local or municipal election, the turnout is always really low. And heaven forbid, it’s a special election. Heaven forbid. So let’s do something real quick. Voters have the responsibility to know what the hell’s going on. No one it’s not someone’s responsibility to show up at a voter’s house and be like, did you eat all your vegetables? Did you make your bed? You know, in your special runoff is especially when you get a million mailers about it. There were a million mailers. There were a million texts. There were signs everywhere. Everybody knew. And if you didn’t know, you need to pay closer attention. Well, that’s the politician’s job to get people. It’s a politician’s job to sell you on whether or not you should vote for them. But as the citizen, it’s your job to know when the hell to go vote. That’s just the basic responsibility of a voter. I’m a politician, so I don’t have to worry about getting your vote so I can say this. They’re not going to tell you this because they’re afraid of hurting your feelings. People need to wake the hell up and pay attention to what’s happening. Pay attention to when your special elections are. You only had 15% of registered Republican voters that turned out for this race. There were fewer people that turned out for the runoff than there were for the special election. Now, in Senate District 9, there was no primary. The primary was just a every man for himself race back in November. Now, if you look back in November, here’s the funny thing about it. That race would have been won back in November. It would have already been won. Kane, you can do math, correct? So if you look back in November, so you had three people on the ballot. You had Taylor Remmitt, who’s the Democrat. You had Lee Wamskans, who’s the Republican, and John Huffman, who’s the Republican. The amount of votes cast were 118,912. And this was in November, the runoff. Now, to understand why there was a runoff, you had Kelly Hancock, who had Senate District 9, who left. to be acting comptroller. He’s not running against Doug Huffines. And so that’s why that seat was open. So they had had to have a special election back in last November to fill this seat. And we have a runoff policy. So if neither candidate gets to 50 percent, then it goes to a runoff. And that’s what the election on Saturday was. It was a runoff election. So of those 118,912 votes, Taylor Remick got 56,565. Lee Womskontz received 42,739. And John Huffman received 19,608. Kane, what stands out to you right now? Well… In terms of the math.

SPEAKER 09 : 23:00

John Huffman’s not even competing at this point.

SPEAKER 13 : 23:03

Well, yes and no. He’s not competing, but he is making the… Because you have… two Republicans on this ballot, it’s splitting the ticket. Right. And so you’re having, I mean, that’s, that’s, you’re splitting that ticket.

SPEAKER 09 : 23:20

Yeah. If I’m John Huffman, I’m seeing this as hurting a Lee Wamscott’s right here.

SPEAKER 13 : 23:23

Right. Right. So he had 19,608 votes. Right. So if you add his votes, so Taylor Remit, the Democrat had 56,565 votes. If you unsplit the GOP ticket, you walk away with 62,347 votes. Is 62,347 votes greater than 56,565 votes? That it is, Dana. That it is. Even if you lost, let’s just say you ended up losing, you know, a couple thousand of them. People who just weren’t going to vote. For a number of reasons. You still have the GOP contender that won. So that’s why, number one, that’s why this is not a bellwether. Because you had two Republicans against a Democrat in a special election without a primary. That’s number one. Number two, going into the runoff. Remember the number of votes cast that I told you about in November?

SPEAKER 1 : 24:12

118,912.

SPEAKER 13 : 24:12

The number of votes cast just Saturday were 94,880. Turnout was abysmal. Only 15 percent of registered Republicans were turning out. If you go by precinct, you look at these giant red areas. And then when you realize in one of these precincts, there were only like 200 something people that turned out. You get what you don’t vote for. You get what you vote for and you get what you don’t vote for. So it’s not a bellwether because, first off, it would have gone red had it not been split. There were more Republican voters. Number two, this guy’s not even going to get to vote. The Texas Senate does not convene this year. They’re not even going to they’re not even reconvening until 2027. This race is going to happen again, this exact race. It starts again this fall. They’re having a rematch because they’re just this was just a special election to fill the remaining term of Kelly Hancock’s his term for the seat. That’s all it was. Hancock’s term for the seat to fill that out. So that goes to the to this fall so that now they’re going to have another they’re going to have another race. Filings already passed. These candidates are already you have Wisconsin remit that are already on the ballot. So it’s going to be a rematch. He’s not even going to get to vote. He’s not even going to be in Austin literally as a member of the Texas Senate because they’re not convening. So this is like a nothing burger. All these people that are running out here trying to get you to just do your britches because they’re they’re saying that this is evident of something crazy. They are absolutely uninformed and they should be discounted. That’s stupid analysis. Like I said, this guy’s not even going to get to vote. And I doubt he keeps the seat. This is the other thing that Republicans need. I am sick and tired of dealing with politicians and their butthurt feelings. And this all the people that think I’m talking about them and the people that don’t think I’m talking about them. I’m talking about all of you. People need to get over their hurt feelings. Politics is a dirty game. Oh, it’s so sad that it’s like that. Yes, but it is. Both of the Republican candidates were mad at each other. And one of them I’ve known personally for a long time. Both of these candidates, they campaigned against each other. They dumped Oppo. No one is owed an apology more than the other one. This is politics. This isn’t, you know, everybody’s a winner. Everybody gets a participation trophy. It’s politics. Each of these candidates dumped the same amount of oppo on each other. Don’t sit here and tell me y’all didn’t because I got the damn mailers and I saved them. Happy to bring them on air and show them to everybody so we can see that everybody was equally campaigning against the other one equally. It made some people mad and some people took it personally. If you are taking it personally, politics is not for you. Get out. We don’t have time for that. So there was there were a number of people who, out of spite, did not vote for the Republican. Now, I get it. You got to do yourself favors and you got to be amiable and you got to go out there and win voters. But also, if you don’t get the nomination. I don’t care what the ground was like. It’s either for the sake of the party and the country. Actually, I don’t even look at the party because the party aggravates me. It’s either for the sake of winning or not. I am very Machiavellian about winning. I want to win. Anything that gets in the way of me winning is an obstacle. And I view obstacles as enemies. Because I want to win. I want to lower my property taxes if I don’t get rid of them outright. I want to make sure that my area is getting what it needs. And I want to do my civic duty and make sure that my vote represents that. So when someone doesn’t win a race, the obligation is on the person who didn’t win to congratulate and endorse. We didn’t have that. We didn’t have any unity. That did not happen in this race. I’ve had private, there’s been ongoing private conversations, back channel with everybody. That didn’t happen. And despite my best efforts to convince people, it’s not going to happen apparently. I have a major problem with that. Because it’s either about winning or it’s about you. And I think if I’m running in a race and someone was nasty and whatever, if it’s about winning, you’re going to do what it takes to win. If it’s about you, you’re going to do what it takes for you. And voters are going to see that and remember it. I told one of the candidates in that split ticket race to not run. before it even happened. I said, don’t run. Don’t do it. This is what’s going to happen. I am never wrong on this stuff. I didn’t say it to be mean. I’m looking at it strategically. Yes, I did tell John Huffman to not run in a personal phone call. Do not run. Do not run in this race. And this was a while ago. There was a lot of jockeying in this race at first. Wamskans got in. A lot of people are mad at Wamskans because Wamskans is affiliated with Patriot Mobile, et cetera, et cetera. Oh, my gosh. Get over your hurt feelings. If you’re not focused on winning, go vote for Democrats. Some of them did. Some of them did. So I’m taking notes. When you do a postmortem on a loss, you got to look at all the contributing factors to it. We’re having this exact race again coming up this fall. And it’s going to be between a Democrat and Republican this time. I’m going to tell people what I told them when I voted for Trump in the general and people were mad because I don’t know if you go to war with the soldiers you have. If you do not have your preferred soldier, you didn’t work hard enough. A lot of people don’t like to be told that because they want to be coddled and flattered and complimented. I’m not here to do that. I’m here to win. I will drag people across that damn threshold if I have to, kicking and screaming, hurt feelings and all. You either want to win or you want to make it about you. Now, some of these people, ancillary to this, have until spring, have until actually late summer, fall to make this decision. But either you want to win or you want to make it about you. You can’t have both. And I give a lot of credit to people who are magnanimous and are like, you know what? Live to fight another day. Let’s win right now. Because part of that win is based on the other people coming together to unify. Now, here’s the problem with Remit. Now, he’s not going to go vote. He’s not going to be in the Senate to vote, correct? However, that’s not going to stop him from raising cash, truckloads of cash. This next race is going to be very expensive. Because he’s going to use this time to raise money and they are going to beat this drum. And all of this is going to come to a head with midterms. People need to stay engaged. We have more coming up. 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SPEAKER 08 : 32:59

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.

SPEAKER 18 : 33:05

and it’s really fun having them. What I realized is there’s so much prejudice against refugees, mostly because people don’t know them.

SPEAKER 15 : 33:12

Lisa says she feels like she has her own personal chef, as Wildande loves cooking. Te gusta?

SPEAKER 09 : 33:17

Where do I get one?

SPEAKER 13 : 33:22

I, uh… Wow. I… I posted this, what, yesterday? Monday? On X, and I… I mean, I know it’s real, but man… and it’s new to us it’s been within the last year but holy wow at no point while she’s explaining her situation here to the press does she stop and realize at any point how insane what she’s saying sounds Oh, my gosh. I know. I mean, I’m taking care. Look, she’s cooking for me. She’s got to cook. I feel like I’ve seen that set up somewhere before, Cain. Yeah. I’ve seen that set up before. Hmm.

SPEAKER 09 : 34:13

Yeah, where a minority group comes in and does things like cooking and cleaning. Yeah.

SPEAKER 13 : 34:18

Yeah, I’ve seen that. And just like lives on. The property.

SPEAKER 09 : 34:21

Yeah, there was like a pretty big global finance thing going on with that whole idea as well. I remember that back, reading about that back in the day.

SPEAKER 13 : 34:31

Yeah, and the history books and stuff. It’s crazy that… So Democrats back in the 1800s are like, wow, I need someone to stay in my house and cook and clean. And Democrats today in 2026 are like, I need somebody to stay in my house and cook and clean. I mean, I don’t know. You could get a maid service instead of just, you know, getting a free help by housing a Haitian immigrant. If you guys want to know what racism looks like, there’s an actual example. I mean, I know it’s a word that’s so callously used that it’s lost all meaning, but every now and then Democrats will show you. They’ll remind you what it really is. You got to pay attention to that. We have our second hour coming up. Second Amendment, so much more. Stick with us. It’s our friends over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service that is out there. Patriot Mobile wants to save you money. They want to save you money and they also want to make sure that you have the best service of anywhere. And so as the only Christian conservative wireless provider, your money does not work against you. What you pay for, your hard-earned dollars for your service, it actually goes towards protecting faith, family, and freedom. You get premium prioritized service on all three major U.S. networks, so you get reliable coverage everywhere. And it’s backed by their 100% U.S.-based customer support team. Unlimited data plans, mobile hotspots, plans tailored to fit families and businesses of all sizes. Take a stand today and make the switch. Save yourself money and work with the only cell phone service that’s like-minded. PatriotMobile.com slash Dana or call 972-PATRIOT. And don’t forget to use promo code Dana to get your free phone. but you only get that using promo code Dana at patriotmobile.com slash Dana or call 972-PATRIOT.

SPEAKER 11 : 36:17

You bring a gun into the district, you mark my words, you’re going to jail. I don’t care if you have a license in another district, and I don’t care if you’re a law-abiding gun owner somewhere else. You bring a gun into this district, count on going to jail, and hope you get the gun back.

SPEAKER 13 : 36:36

Oh, my word. What is happening?

SPEAKER 09 : 36:42

That’s exactly how you reacted when it happened.

SPEAKER 13 : 36:44

Oh, my gosh. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Top of the second hour. I like, I’m going to just say, separate from this, I like Janine Pira. I’ve been on her show before, talked to her on the phone. She’s hysterical because most people are like, hey, how are you? She just launches feet first into a topic. There is no like we’re not doing the greetings and salutations that waste time. I’m kind of the same way. So I appreciate that. She’s very straightforward and hysterical. Now, I don’t even agree with my husband 100 percent of time on things. So, you know, as sure as hell, I’m going to agree with anybody that’s not my husband on probably even less than what she said was not correct. Because you can get a non-resident D.C. permit. I have a lot of friends who have them. And in fact, one of my friends was the first to get one. It is the laws that you have, the hoops that you have to jump through because you have to have like separate things for your ammo. I mean, you can’t even have like a showcase. It’s so stupid. So that’s not entirely correct. I don’t know. At first we were like, well, is she just referencing – prohibited possessors right maybe and then she’s like even if you’re law I was like oh no oh I was thinking that when I first saw that clip that was what I was thinking and then she said I was like no I was like launching in my mind launching myself at the word to shove it back in her mouth and you know like no get back in there don’t come out don’t be verbalized just didn’t happen I don’t have that ability but yes you you can I mean you you there are non-resident permits that you can get and it’s it’s okay and this was you know all about the pretty case and etc etc now she tried cleaning it up this was cut 17 listen to this

SPEAKER 11 : 38:44

Good morning, everyone. I’m here in the office and some people are concerned about something I said yesterday, so I want to be crystal clear. I am a proud supporter of the Second Amendment. I have guns myself, long guns, handguns, and I’m a proud high-heeled gun owner. In fact, I even keynoted an NRA convention. However, you need to be responsible, and every responsible gun owner that I know makes sure that they understand the laws, where they are going, and understand whatever registration requirements there might be. President Trump’s goal here, and my goal as well, is to make sure we take guns out of the hands of criminals. There is a reason that we have the lowest homicide rate in recorded history. We’re taking guns off the street, illegal guns in the hands of criminals who want to use those guns to victimize law abiding citizens. There’s a big difference here. You’re responsible. You follow the laws. You’re not going to have a problem with me.

SPEAKER 13 : 39:46

So, I mean, yes, it’s not a what were you sent over there? It didn’t do it for you.

SPEAKER 09 : 39:53

No, it didn’t. Because she was pretty clear. I really like her, she’ll be nice.

SPEAKER 13 : 39:56

I don’t want to have to get mad and come at you like Amy Klobuchar with my skin.

SPEAKER 09 : 40:01

She was pretty clear in her original comment about, I don’t care if you’re a law-abiding person in another district. She was really clear in that first one, yet she was very broad and muddy with the apology. She wasn’t specific. She didn’t tackle or address any of the specific things she said in her original argument. She just said, I’m a friend of 2A. I’m a supporter of 2A. That’s very general in response to a specific thing you said.

SPEAKER 13 : 40:28

It is. It’s very general. Because the administration just needs to be very careful about messaging on this. They need to be very, very careful about messaging. Now, in D.C., specifically, like I said, you can get a non-resident permit. It’s not entirely super easy to get, but it’s possible and you can get them. Like I said, I have a lot of friends that have gotten them. But, you know, the big thing is that the administration is not inspiring a lot of confidence in in terms of its defense of the Second Amendment because of this stuff. And I don’t like to see people having to do damage control over it. And that’s the other thing. I mean, it’s the statement that anybody bringing a gun in the district will go to jail. That wasn’t really pushed back entirely. Permit holders from other jurisdictions face charges. She was trying to clarify those. She had with that second, the second video. But I think, you know, she said that her goal was to take hands, guns out of the hands of criminals. And, you know, a friend of mine said, you know, you could have a valid Virginia permit. And if you carry a pistol in D.C., that’s you’re a criminal under D.C. law. So I don’t think that they should be prosecuted as zealously as you would prosecute a violent repeat offender, you know, who’s involved in carjacking or something like that. And the ban on openly carried firearms and what they call, I hate this word, large capacity because it’s so stupid. I mean, that is something that, I mean, it violates the Second Amendment. And I want to see the DOJ talk about violating the Second Amendment and standing up for citizens’ rights more so than, you know, going after people who might be made criminals because of, you know, incredibly ridiculous, excuse me, incredibly ridiculous laws. And then prosecuting them the same as you would, you know, a violent felon. And that’s the big issue. I don’t like the idea of a quote unquote unregistered gun. I don’t like that phrase. I think it’s all I think it’s all an abridgment. It is because it is all an abridgment. And so I want to hear. more about sticking up for law-abiding gun owners than perhaps going after them as though they are criminals because they don’t adhere to D.C.’ ‘s stupid, purposefully confusing And that’s, you know, I don’t even know what she could say at this point unless she goes out and says, OK, well, we’re not going to go after anybody who has, you know, a carry permit from another state. You know, maybe we’ll just like, you know, have like a misdemeanor, you know, wrist slap or something if they’re in D.C. with it. I don’t know. But I don’t I don’t think she’s going to do that. It’s just my point is that it made a mess out of something that didn’t even need to be. There was no mess that needed to be made. The administration needs to stop jerking this attention back onto firearms because there’s nothing to do with guns. This has to do with use of lethal force and it has to do with impeding federal law enforcement investigations. Has nothing to do with 2A. That was one of the things I remarked about over the weekend. It has nothing to do with the Second Amendment. Stop being about that. The moment the guy who was carrying decided to commit a felony, thereby committing another felony. But this is just not helpful. And it’s frustrating because now it puts good people, it puts them up for a ton of criticism that they ended up netting because of this, because of their remarks. I don’t know. And there have been a lot of groups and a lot of other folks that have been very concerned about all of this as well. But it’s just, it’s something. And here’s the other thing. And Kay made this good point because he’s like, it’s sort of bizarre that we’re in this world where the left is pro-gun. They’re not. Here’s the thing. You’re being baited. They’re trying to do two things at once here. I have a piece coming out in the Washington Times about this this week. They’re trying to do two things at once. The first thing that they’re trying to do is they’re trying to go after ICE and use of lethal force. And they’re temporarily supporting this guy’s, you know, Second Amendment rights. Just as a way to divide further, exploit the division on the right over this because they’re seizing on the ill-timed and ill-informed remarks that the admin has been making about the Second Amendment. The other thing, too, is they’re trying to redefine what they think legal carry is and mainstream that. If you’ve noticed, like the Giffords group, the Brady group, they’ve all been very careful with their language. They don’t say that he lawfully carried in that situation. They say that he was a lawful firearm owner. And then separately from that, they’re very careful with their words. They get into use of lethal force because they don’t necessarily – they don’t believe that he was a lawful gun owner. All of these same exec groups, these were the people who advocated against optics. They advocated for any magazine that was like over five to seven rounds. It held five to seven rounds. They campaigned against – having regular detachable magazines. I mean, for crying out loud, they advocated against threaded barrels. I mean, this is who these people are. Everything about the pistol that this dude had, they wanted him to be a felon for it before his engagement with ICE ever happened. They would have made him a felon over it. I mean, Gavin Newsom banned carry of firearms in protest in California. So this idea and notice how none of them have come out and said, well, you should be able to carry it a protest. They haven’t said that because they know in a number of these states, they’ve actually the states and local municipalities that have passed restrictions on carry and protests have all been Democrat. So they’re trying to mainstream what they think is a more lukewarm view of the Second Amendment. So they’re trying to walk it back by exploiting the support of Second Amendment advocates. They’re trying to walk it back and redefine it. You got to be very careful what these people do. They’re very crafty. But it doesn’t help. You know, it doesn’t help when you have the administrative officials make these remarks that really serve that purpose right there. So now they’re they’re trying to get Republicans to be like, yeah, well, I mean, should you be able to carry in a protest? You got all these admin people coming out. Well, you know, you shouldn’t be able to carry. Oh, you had two loaded magazines. Oh, my gosh. You know, maximum capacity, all this other stupid verbiage that I’ve heard. They’re trying to get Republicans to accept that and mainstream it. You’ve got to be very, very careful, very careful with us. But like I said, it stopped being a Second Amendment issue the second the guy committed a felony while carrying. And he committed a felony while carrying by carrying while committing a felony. I mean, those are two separate laws. People don’t have to like them, but that’s the way it is. And you don’t litigate it in the street, I think, as we have seen now. One of the other things that we’re going to talk about here coming up is this. There are a growing number of lawsuits filed. that are against, now they’re going after hospitals and doctors for transitioning people, minors. And now you have the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. They’ve recommended against gender transition surgeries for youth, per the Washington Post. It’s the first major medical association in the country to narrow its guidance on pediatric gender care. That is very interesting. So this coupled with the lawsuits that are now growing because you have people who one of them, one of the lawsuits that was brought forward was she’s not a minor now, but she was a minor and she was transitioned. And now she’s, you know, dealing with irrevocable health issues as a result. And so she sued. She was like, how is this informed consent? What did I tell you in the very beginning? How is it informed consent when you can’t even predict how they’re going to react to the hormonal abuse you’re subjecting them to when we don’t even have enough data over, what is it, 60, 70 years of giving women hormones as they age? There’s not even enough data on that to even help illuminate or direct use of hormones with completely healthy prepubescent adults or prepubescent people. I mean, it’s insane. So there are going to be a ton of these lawsuits. This I think it’s effectively over the whole gender dysmorphia nonsense, the mass hysteria of it. But now what’s going to happen? 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SPEAKER 09 : 50:24

And now all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.

SPEAKER 13 : 50:30

So what we have first up, a phantom humming has a Connecticut city at their wits end. They have no idea what it is. It’s a humming. Like, what does it sound like? I’m curious. They said they’ve budgeted $16,000 in West Haven, Connecticut for an acoustics expert to try and pinpoint the source of a low frequency hum sound. That is apparently disrupting everybody’s lives. Some are like dosing themselves for melatonin or using white noise apps. It’s a low frequency humming. They said it’s like kind of sounds like a kitchen range downdraft or kind of a shop back. And hundreds of people have complained about this. So the city is like fifty five thousand people. They’ve got it’s where Yale’s West Campus is, et cetera. And man, they have just been. I mean, tons, like hundreds of complaints about it. So they voted to spend $16,000 to place noise monitoring equipment. And they said most of it’s clustered in a part of the city known as West Shore, where a food ingredient plant that makes edible sparkles is having renewed scrutiny because they’ve been… I mean, is it loud? Is it that loud? edible food sparkles. They said that they used past sound dampening efforts there, but it apparently penetrates dense building materials and goes through brick and people can hear it. That is kind of wild. It wakes people up in the middle of the night. How is it that difficult to find out where this is coming from? How is it that difficult? Ex-offices were raided in France as prosecutors are investigating deep fakes and child abuse images. They, according to the Associated Press, they went after their offices yesterday and they’ve summoned Elon Musk for questioning. And it’s because of the stuff that Grok was doing that had like some sexualized deep fake images, things like that. OK, so that’s like a programming issue. I get that, but we got a lot more on the way. Stick with us, including the Chinese Biolabs. Just how many are in the United States? As we move, the folks who bring you the program are partners over at Relief Factor. Relief Factor is helping people get rid of their pain so that they can recover their freedom of mobility. There are a lot of people who’ve turned to Relief Factor’s three-week quick start because they don’t want to accept daily pain as their new normal. Relief Factor supports your body’s natural inflammatory response. It causes aches and soreness and stiffness and discomfort from exercise and everyday activities. It’s 100% drug-free formula made with research-backed ingredients, including omega-3s and resveratrol, all designed to support relief from everyday exercise-related, age-related discomfort, all designed to help you get your body back on track. So don’t wait if you’re dealing with daily pain. Try it for yourself. It’s the three-week quick start. See how Relief Factor could be your game changer. Call 800-4-RELIEF or visit relieffactor.com. That’s relieffactor.com, 800-4-RELIEF. Tell them Dana sent you.

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SPEAKER 13 : 53:42

Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. It’s good to be back with you. Had a fun time in Kansas, although it was two degrees in Wichita. You people are tough up there. I walked out as there’s snow everywhere. My heart cried, but everybody is very sweet. It was very nice time. The while that was happening, everybody was gearing up for the great. I didn’t watch the great. I used to watch because I used to watch award shows because I loved the pomp and circumstance and I liked the fashion of it. And I just, I don’t know, maybe it’s the years go by, I just have less tolerance for stupid stuff. Maybe that’s what it is. I don’t know. But what gets me is that They go all off on, for instance, like Jelly Roll, who lost a lot of weight, by the way, and he apparently didn’t do it with the fat jabs. He apparently was working out. He worked out with a friend of mine who’s a bow hunter. He worked out and ate right because diet is 90% of it. That is a legit thing. I say this as somebody that does intermittent fasting every day. It is a legit thing. So he, you know, he had made his acceptance speech and he was talking about Jesus because he’s really, he’s become Christian. He’s really growing in his faith. He was asked about ICE because, you know, all these celebrities, and the reason I’m bringing this up is because they’re still, they’re trying to really go at him. Like him, Sidney Sweeney, every single time I see their names pop up somewhere, it’s always some reporter that’s trying to you know, foment some kind of new controversial narrative over the goofiest thing. So he was asked about all of the ICE stuff and he was not going to get into it. This is cut 33. He was not going to get into it. Listen.

SPEAKER 14 : 55:30

I can tell you that people shouldn’t care to hear my opinion, man. You know, I’m a dumb redneck. I haven’t watched enough. I didn’t have a phone for 18 months. I’ve had one for four months and don’t have social media. I hate to be the artist that’s static aloof, but I just I’ve come so disconnected from what’s happening. And I’m just not a I grew up in a house of like insane pandemonium. And like you’d like I didn’t even know politics were real until I was in my mid 20s in jail. Like that’s how disconnected when you grow up in a drug addict household, you think we like have common calls about what’s happening in world politics? Like we’re just trying to find a way to survive, man, you know? And I have a lot to say about it and I’m going to in the next week and everybody’s going to hear exactly what I have to say about it in the most loud and clear way I’ve ever spoken in my life. So I look forward to it.

SPEAKER 13 : 56:17

I mean, he was being classy about it. He did make a good point, though. I don’t think he needed to put himself down at all because, I mean, the reason that he is where he is is because he’s made some real smart decisions. You know, he says he’s a dumb redneck, but you don’t make dumb decisions and get where you are. But what he said, though, what he touched on, I thought was interesting because he was like, you know, back then we were just trying to survive. And it’s very this is why I feel like there is such an impetus on. not just news gathering, but relaying things as accurately as possible. And there’s some things you can be sensational over and you can have fun over. But I think you still, that is separate from making sure that you’re correct with information because people are just trying to live. I mean, people are trying to survive right now. For some of us, this is what we’re nerds and we really enjoy it. And then others, it’s what we do for our profession. And I think, you know, when you have that that responsibility, you know, you do need to turn around and make sure that you’re giving a return on the investment of someone’s time and your content by being a straight shooter with them and not BSing them about stuff, especially when their time is so limited because they’re just trying to survive is what he was alluding to. Like you’re not able to follow every single thing. And I will say, you know, with the with the advent of social media. I humans aren’t supposed to follow every single thing. There’s certain things that I just can’t follow because I’m too busy following everything else. I don’t have research assistance. So it’s incredibly important not just to be first, but to be correct on things. But good for him because they were and they were like, oh, can you believe me? They were trying to act like it was somebody was trying to act like they were offended on behalf of dumb rednecks. Like all of a sudden the press cares about rednecks. When did that happen? When the hell did the press ever care about a redneck? They still don’t. They’re pretending to, just like they’re pretending to support the Second Amendment and the Alex Pretty case, which isn’t even about the Second Amendment. This is what the media does. Oh, Jelly Rule said he’s a dumb redneck. Now they’re going to act like it’s a slur or something. You, the media’s hated flyover people forever. Don’t sit here and act like you’re all offended for the rednecks now. Oh, my Lord. Oh, my Atlanta. Oh, peas and carrots. You don’t act like you’re all offended for them now. I just thought what he did was a heck of a lot better than Billie Eilish. We don’t really need to play her thing, do we? I feel like she’s literally just a creation of her brother. I feel like her brother went from playing dolls to just dressing up his baby sister. And he made her into an artist because she doesn’t do any of this. Like he writes the songs. He does all of it. That’s true. So, I mean, they can get mad. Yeah, go ahead and play it. Might as well. Go ahead.

SPEAKER 15 : 58:59

No one is illegal on stolen land.

SPEAKER 13 : 59:04

We can’t run the video because the crack of the word show will show us. No one is illegal on stolen land. There’s no such thing as stolen land. It’s either purchased or conquered. All the land all over the world is either purchased or conquered. Everything. And if she’s so upset about stolen land, then she can give her big old mansion to the Tonga tribe because they’re like, yeah, that’s our ancestral land that your house is on. But she doesn’t even know any of this because her brother didn’t write it on a song sheet for her. So she doesn’t know. Her brother Phineas. Phineas. Phineas and Herb. Phineas and Ferb. Yeah, Phineas and Ferb. I like Phineas and Herb better, honestly, though. Let’s be real. I do feel like he just created her. I’ve not been a fan. I’ve never really been a fan because it felt contrived to me. I feel like she’s a wannabe Regina Spector or a wannabe Jessica Hoop or a wannabe Tori Amos in a way. Although Tori Amos, we don’t agree politically, but she’s brilliant. But she’s like an entirely creation of her brother. Her brother couldn’t be the chick singer, so he made a sister the chick singer.

SPEAKER 09 : 60:11

Yeah, the problem with her argument, though, as far as stolen land is concerned, is how far do we go back? Do we go back 200 years? Let’s go all the way back to cave people or dinosaurs. 400 years? 1,000 years? Yeah. It never ends. That’s why her position on this and everyone’s position on this is just dumb.

SPEAKER 13 : 60:28

And indigenous nations also bought or conquered it. I mean, it’s like right of conquering. I mean, that’s they they bought or conquered it themselves. There’s no I mean, stop saying the stupid phrases. But what it is, is they want to delegitimize. Oh, let me say the Candace Owens way. Delegitimize. Mockabur. They want to delegitimize the. United States. I mean, that’s how all this whole argument came to be, like the creation of the republic, the validity and veracity of the claims, etc. That’s it was all it’s all designed for that. But just like the difference between her and, you know, Jelly Roll or, you know, some of these other folks that are up there. I nobody took, you know, and then you got Peter Dinklage. Good night. So I don’t know who this poet is. It’s some dumb poet. He wrote, he read, he’s reading this poem. It’s about Renee Good. He’s on the steps of the public theater in New York City. And Peter Dinklage has decided, I don’t know, this is like the worst poem ever. Just check it out. Toss him.

SPEAKER 03 : 61:27

This is a poem by Amanda Gorman for Renee Nicole Good, killed by ice on January 7th, 2026. They say she is no more. But there her absence roars, blood blown like a rose. Ice wheels flinched and froze. Now bare riot of candles, dark fury of flowers, pure howling of hymns. If for us your rose… This makes me hate poetry.

SPEAKER 13 : 62:01

It makes me hate poetry. Look, somebody’s trying to be Allen Ginsberg. So tired of this stuff. So that was a bad poem. So what is it like the, he’s mad because she hit an agent?

SPEAKER 09 : 62:14

Just a little, a little mad.

SPEAKER 13 : 62:15

Toss him. I’m quoting Lord of the Rings every now and then I’ll do that, by the way. So don’t get mad at me. I just like, just stop. Just stop. Hollywood’s struggling right now with their films. The last thing that they need are four actors that are trying to seek out a stay on relevancy by dabbling in politics in the most uninformed ways. Like no one’s telling you not to have an opinion on politics, but don’t be, what’s the word? Just don’t be annoying and rude about it. Don’t be, and don’t feed into misinformation. I just, for all the art that these people do, why is so little effort put into understanding the political issue for which they want to speak on? For all of the artistry that they try to put in everything else. It’s like they just, you know, spit out this thing and it’s just it cheapens everything that they do. They’re free to do that, of course. And we’re also free to say, wow, you just cheapened yourself. The mystery of an artist is part of the artistry. That’s part of it. There is an allurement there. There is intrigue. There is something that makes that person do what they do that always keeps you hooked and waiting to see what else they do. And when you compromise that by giving people too much insight, when you show all the mess and what’s under the rug and what’s in the closet, the magic is gone. There’s not a lot of magic left in the world. And there’s some people hell-bent on destroying it entirely because they’re hyper-political, but yet they have more zeal than knowledge, especially on these issues. I just, there’s a way, if you’re, if you dislike politics, immigration law, then talk about parts of immigration law that you dislike. But going out there with a Mao-esque phrase of, you know, no one’s on stolen land. By the way, the sloganeering is, it’s a populist tactic. Remember, populism is not a belief set. It is a tactic. Populism is not a principle. It is a tactic. And it can be used by anything. Dangerous to assume that it’s not. Because even Mao used it. You have these slogans that people say over and over again. No one’s on stolen land. Like how the slogans like Hamas uses from the river to the sea and all that. They’re slogans designed to skim over issues and try to create a false sense of shallow unity while also denigrating the issue by diminishing it to just a single string of like really like ad libs or mad libs. It’s like, you know, non sequitur. That’s what it is. It’s sloganeering. She could have gone out there and said, you know, I disagree with this or I disagree with the enforcement instead of going stolen land, stolen land. Like that’s that’s just like the dumbest thing you could go out and say, especially knowing history about purchase and conquer. It’s just dumb. It makes you sound dumb. And now look, all this backlash. There’s a way, if you’re going to espouse a thought, do it in a smart way. I think people don’t begrudge individuals that disagree if they do it from a position of at least giving enough of a rat’s ass to learn about it, to talk intelligently. I can’t listen to people who think so little of an issue that this is all they offer for it. If you can’t be smart on the issue, then why should we care? If you don’t do due diligence to at least understand the issue before you speak on it, why the hell should we care what you say? You’re not owed a space on the mantle of public opinion. I swear, it’s her brother that created her completely. We got a Florida man on the way.

SPEAKER 08 : 66:03

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

SPEAKER 13 : 66:11

All right, so a Florida man tossed $4,000 worth of stolen meat, when he found his girlfriend cooking with another man. What? Girl, what you doing? Independent says the Florida man tossed $4,000 worth of stolen meat. He made off with an assortment, like tops, sirloin, brisket, beef, and lamb, said authorities. So what ended up happening? He’s a Cuban national. So is that a legal alien? He’s accused of stealing $4,000 from a number of different grocery stores of meat. Henaeus Renea. of jacksonville he’s caught on surveillance footage stealing an assortment of meats and phoenix from uh two separate public stores according to flagler county sheriff oh man that’s a lot he okay over fifteen hundred dollars of meat from one plate from one publics and then 20 minutes later he stole over two thousand dollars worth of meat from another publics he was identified as the suspect but then after he so he drove to his girlfriend’s house and he found she was cooking with another dude So after, you know, he found that out, he was very upset. He tossed most of the stolen meat. And that was, yeah. So he was arrested for felony retail theft. And he’s in the, I don’t know what about the girlfriend. She moved on and was cooking with another man. So, you know, just saying that’s a lot of meat to get though for two people. Was he going to have a big old cookout? I’ve got questions. A man was arrested after groping a driver and causing a crash in Miami. Oh, for the love. This is in B.C. The victim lost control of the car and crashed. This was in Little Havana. That’s, yeah. Oscar Aguirre, 26. He’s accused of covering the victim’s mouth and groping her. She’s a driving service. She was driving him somewhere. And it made her lose control of the car and crash. And video shows it was caught on video, like the crash and the aftermath. Don’t know if anybody was injured. He tried to flee later on foot, but was caught in a parking lot. So now he’s got battery culpable negligence, exposure to personal injury. He’s got his bond. He also has a TRO against the victim. Oh, and he’s an illegal alien. So he’s on a hold. Isn’t that interesting? Two stories. Two stories, back to back now, involving a legal alien. A man was fired from his new job after he showed up in a bathrobe to collect his first paycheck after he was day drinking. Oh. Oh, I thought this was America. So it apparently was an office prank. He was still hungover and he drank heavily the night before his first payday, his first day off. Colleagues were like, sleep it off. But he showed up to work the next morning anyway, still hungover and wearing a bathrobe. And he ended up being promptly fired, like days into his new job. Apparently they didn’t like the spectacle of it. And yeah, so that’s, yeah.

SPEAKER 09 : 69:15

At least he got one paycheck.

SPEAKER 13 : 69:17

Well, yeah, he did. He got like the one paycheck. So there’s that. A Florida woman was arrested after alleged fair ride line dispute with a child. A Boca Raton. It was in Palm Beach County. They apparently got into a fight over a line at a ride at a fair. So a woman lost her temper. She thought an 11-year-old was cutting into the line. She grabbed and yelled at the kid. It’s a South Florida fair. Rayessa D’Souza was arrested charged with battery and then resisting arrest without violence so the girl stepped out of line to use the restroom with her parents and was trying to get back with her family and that’s when apparently the woman grabbed her by the arm pulled her backward and the child ran back to the parents crying and then the deputies arrived found that woman still waiting in line for the ride and they took her into custody I would have whooped her my gosh

SPEAKER 08 : 70:09

Give me an excuse.

SPEAKER 13 : 70:10

I know. Like, what is wrong with people? It’s an 11-year-old kid. Their family’s there. They’re trying to get back with their family. There are some people out there that are, like, really, they’re very particular about the lining, about the queuing. Third Hour, on the way. Stick with us. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Top of the third hour, ladies and gents. Find the newsletter over at Substack and, of course, Facebook and X, Instagram, and then the podcast as well. You can also find us on YouTube. So, you know, I talked last hour about that, talking about midterms, that congressional Senate district, or sorry, not congressional, the state Senate District 9 in Texas, the district I live in. And however, we’re saying it’s a bellwether and it’s not because it the Republican candidate would have won. The November race was not a primary. It was just a special election. You had a Democrat and two Republicans. The two Republicans had more votes put together than the Democrat. Neither but neither of the three candidates on the ballot made it to 50 percent. So that goes into a runoff per Texas rules. And then the runoff, which was just Saturday, the Democrat won. Why it is not an earthquake. It’s not an earthquake because the Republican would have won had there not been a Republican split ticket, number one. Number two, it’s not an earthquake because the guy who won, the Democrat, Taylor Remmitt, is not even going to be able to go and vote because the Texas Senate does not reconvene until 2027. Three, he’s only filling out, finishing the term that Kelly Hancock left to go and be comptroller. Kelly Hancock was the Senate president. was the state senator from that ninth district until this special election. So this dude, this Democrat that won, is not even actually going to vote because they’re going to have already, we already have the election cycle, the filing deadline’s passed. That starts at the end of, that starts going into fall. So he’s already, he’s not even going to vote and he’s going to have to defend the seat. So it’s not an earthquake. Now, there are other things that are bellwethers, but this is not one of them. In addition to that, Turnout was only 15 percent of registered Republicans. There are some precincts where like only 213 people showed up to vote. Insane. So it’s not the earthquake that they say it is. I actually now and it’s true because I think that there are other races that are far more progressive. logical to use as a measure of Republican health going into midterms than this. This is not one of them. Now, the big narrative is that what’s the first time in I don’t know how many decades that a Democrat had this seat. That’s the big thing. Well, because Republicans didn’t do themselves any favors. Now, there are, you know, like Virginia. I thought Virginia was a bellwether. Because Virginia, I mean, you went one way, right, and swing back to the other. There are some significant warning signs on the horizon. I’ve been saying this now for months. If you remember. We have 18 seats going as toss up races going into midterms. And four of those are held by Democrats. The other, the 14, the remaining 14 are held by Republicans. Now, the 18, actually, let’s see, 18 of those House races were shifted by a couple of different third party measures, including Cook Political Report. They shifted those House races as, you know, leaning Democrat. So they have a couple of different ways that they rate it, you know, like solid Democrat, lean STEM, toss up, leans are solid are. So now they’ve gone from they’re leaning towards their leaning Democrat. And this is because of a couple of things. As Trump continues serving out his final term, every other president, he is not immune to this. The influence starts to wane. Voters need to have a figurehead. This movement, it has to have a figurehead. I’ve always cautioned people about this. This is why I was very, very adamant during the Tea Party days that there not be a figurehead. It’s the strategy of the starfish versus the spider. You cut the head off the spider, it ceases to be. Starfish, you can’t really do that. You cut a leg off and it keeps on going, it’ll grow back. Very different. This, a populist movement, and this is why populism can be bad. For the tactic of populism, which is not a set of beliefs, it is a tactic. For the tactic to work, you have to have a figurehead. You have to have people out there. You have to be constantly energizing the base. I feel like there’s a lot of voter fatigue. Part of that is because of Democrats. There’s a lot of voter fatigue. But also, whenever Trump’s not on the ballot, a lot of Republicans don’t come out. And the other reason why SD9 is really not is an outlier and not indicative of midterm is because Trump endorsements actually don’t matter in North Texas. This is a state. I can’t believe I’m saying this. Last election, last general election, John Cornyn got more votes in the state than Trump did. And that’s not because of anything other than people doing split ticket voting. How long have I been telling talking about the dangers of split ticket voting and how Republicans have got to get a handle on it? And they refuse. I don’t know what the hell the RNC is doing. Really don’t. I really don’t. So in these races, you have 18 of them that have been shifted towards leaning Democrat. And it’s looking kind of… There’s a lot of indicators, like, for instance, in New York and California, where you have a lot of Republican House seats. There was about four years ago a groundswell of support for Republican candidates there, and it looked like there was going to be a shift. But now there’s a huge rebound for Democrats in New York and California. And in Texas, they’ve done polling, House polling, and it shows a double digit gain for Democrats that’s above the 2024 baseline. So they’re talking about the increase in chances that Democrats could take over the House. This is one of the reasons why you have to have voter integrity. It’s one of the reasons why you have to have it. The SAVE Act, National Voter Registration Act, required documented proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. I think that’s incredibly important. You know what gets me? Are all of the people that were out there in the streets checking IDs of basic citizens, the activists, I thought IDs were racist. Right? I’m confused. I thought… But they had regular people out there checking.

SPEAKER 09 : 77:04

Also, they were complaining about the whole show me your papers thing. Yet they’re out there making people show them their papers.

SPEAKER 13 : 77:10

It’s the wildest thing ever. That’s the left, though. That’s what they do. But this whole issue of… Voter integrity. It’s incredibly important. I don’t know why we have some people like Thune saying we don’t have time to deal with it right now. You have every bit of time to deal with the SAVE Act. You have every bit of time, especially if you start looking at where this is projected to go. I’m looking at several surveys. Quiver Quantitative, which is a measure. It’s a it’s a information processor, essentially. They’re suggesting that Democrats have an 83 percent chance of winning the House in 26. 65% Republican for Senate control, but the House, it looks like we would keep the Senate, but the House would go for Democrats. Now, that’s a big issue. Very big issue. So the Texas Senate District 9, that’s not indicative. The Virginia race was indicative of stuff. What’s happening in California, New York? You have to realize as we go into 2026 and then after that, the coalition is going to change. All political movements are short lived. They don’t last forever. They’re short lived and people have short memories. So this there’s Republicans have to be able to transition to a post Trump strategy and they have not done it. They have not done it at all. I do think Trump is trying to do as much as he possibly can before all of this stuff, which is… But, I mean, look at all of the executive orders and how many of them have been rendered permanent by legislative action. I mean, you think it’s going to be bad? You think it’s rough now? Wait until Republicans, if the predictions, if… Wait until that happens and then see how bad it would be to get anything passed after that. Remember, Democrats would control the power of the purse. You’re going to have gridlock for the last room for the remainder of Trump’s presidency. You’ll have gridlock. He’ll get blamed for it. And then they’re going to lay the groundwork for a Democrat president. This is a long term strategy and the RNC is nobody knows where. And one of the things that is, I think, uniform that came out of the Senate District 9 race in Texas. is the lack of don’t turn out. Everybody wants to outsource all of their voting, everything that they need to know, all of the grassroot work. They like to outsource it to a same small group of grassroot individuals every single time. Imagine how solid and secure we would be if Republicans worked as hard as Democrats during elections. It stings because it’s true. It’s infuriating because it’s 1,000% spot on. Just think about it. I was looking at a lot of the turnout precinct by precinct in this district. It was abysmal. Voter turnout has been really low. Everywhere that’s had elections, it’s been incredibly low. We don’t behave as Democrats do because we’re not hive mind, but then that also comes back to hurt us because we even reject organization during election cycles. So this is a huge issue that Republicans are going to have to deal with. Like, I mean, also Georgia Senate, that’s considered a toss up. Cornyn’s is likely are that Texas Senate race. You got a couple of other toss ups in North Carolina, open seat to open seats, Michigan and North Carolina with Tillis and Peters, respectively. You got a couple of other Susan Collins in Maine toss up. And Republicans are going to have to win all of these to maintain control. I don’t know. It’s going to be tough. But I think, you know, going forward, there has to be more organization of the party. They have to do better with outreach. They have to do better with motivating people to vote. And that also includes voters out there who are very, very similarly passionate. They need to make sure people are going out to vote. They need to make sure people are registered and going out to vote. I had a kid that drove in from school to go vote. It’s incredibly important. You’re never going to win anything by not showing up. People can sit here and talk about fraud and everything else all day long. You know what enables fraud? Republicans not going out to vote. There are more Republicans than Democrats, but yet we don’t see that at the polls, do we?

SPEAKER 09 : 82:14

And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.

SPEAKER 13 : 82:19

Well, apparently the talks about Iran or with Iran are collapsing. We’re going to touch on that a little bit because apparently this is from U.S. officials per Axios. The Iranians are not being very careful. Well, let’s just say helpful. Let’s put it like that. They’re not being very helpful. So we’re going to have more on that. Also, this… Here we go. A dad of three was allegedly murdered by a female hitchhiker that he was taking to a warming shelter. No good deed goes unpunished, man. I’m telling you. That’s crazy. A father of three was murdered by this female hitchhiker that he picked up to take to a warming shelter. The 36-year-old Brittany Revar is accused of killing William Palmer. And then stealing his truck. This is in St. Louis, Kane. He stopped to offer her a ride. Palmer was initially with a friend who he picked up when he picked her up. And the pal was so alarmed by the hitchhiker’s behavior, he wanted to get out, according to the criminal complaint. She was convicted before for tampering with a motor vehicle. She apparently shot the driver in the head before she drove it several blocks before abandoning it. Yeah, and then she hit another ride with another person. I mean, this is… She looks bad. Sorry, when you… She just looks like she’s… Yeah. The family said that he often helps strangers. I would not… Sorry, but I don’t… This is why people don’t get helped because of stuff like this. It’s a bummer, but nobody’s risking their lives for it. It’s… I mean, it’s sad, but, you know, that’s the… 13-year-old makes a superhuman swim to save family who were swept out to sea. This is in Australia. This is a crazy story. This 13-year-old boy, he swam for hours through rough waters and his family got swept out to sea. He reached shore, raised the alarm. His mother, brother, and sister were found clinging to a paddleboard about 14 miles offshore. That’s wild. He swam four miles through rough waters for help. It was Western Australia, southwest. And they were in south of Perth. They had their inflatable paddleboards and their kayak cane. They got pushed offshore by strong winds on Friday evening. The 13-year-old then tried to paddle back to shore on his kayak before he took to water in rough seas. That was actually pretty believable. Yeah. So that kid is like Olympic, maybe Olympic swimmer material. I don’t know. I’m just wondering. Yeah. Cause that’s, that’s pretty hardcore. McDonald’s is offering. No, no, they’re offering McNugget caviar kits. Yeah. For Valentine’s day. It is a McNugget cat. Oh really? Yeah. Would you eat some McDonald’s caviar?

SPEAKER 09 : 85:03

No, I wouldn’t have McDonald’s anyway, but why would I go to McDonald’s for caviar of all things?

SPEAKER 13 : 85:07

It’s the McNugget caviar combo. It’s inspired by the viral dish that served at the U.S. Open in August of 25. It is New York-based Korean-inspired fried chicken. They sell nuggets topped with Petrissian caviar, creme fraiche, and chavs at the tennis championship. So they’re doing the same thing up here. I ain’t going to do that. Would you like some fish eggs with your nuggets? No. No, thank you. A driver was found sleeping in his car. He was arrested for DUI in Seattle. Hospital loses its mind because surgeons discovered a World War I bomb up a guy’s backside. It was up his booty.

SPEAKER 09 : 85:42

They discovered it, huh?

SPEAKER 13 : 85:43

Yeah, they discovered it. I don’t… How? It was in Toulouse in France. They discovered that there’s a Vauvin shell inside the patient’s backside. They had to evacuate the whole hospital and they got it. But I don’t even know how that who does that. Like, was it for safekeeping? I don’t know. Stick with us. More in store.

SPEAKER 06 : 86:05

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SPEAKER 16 : 86:21

What exactly did you mean when you said that you should nationalize elections? And which 15 states are you talking about?

SPEAKER 05 : 86:26

I want to see elections be honest. And if a state can’t run an election, I think the people behind me should do something about it. Because if you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections. I don’t know why the federal government doesn’t do them anyway. But when you see some of these states about how horribly they run their elections, what a disgrace it is. I think the federal government, when you see crooked elections, and we had plenty of them, and by the way, we had them last time, but go to 2020 and look at the facts that are coming out. rigged, crooked elections. If we have areas, take a look at Detroit, take a look at Pennsylvania, take a look at Philadelphia, you go take a look at Atlanta, look at some of the places that, horrible corruption on elections. And the federal government should not allow that. The federal government should get involved. These are agents of the federal government to count the votes. If they can’t count the votes legally and honestly, then somebody else should take over.

SPEAKER 13 : 87:25

So this is why that’s not correct. First off, that’s POTUS. And he’s talking to one of the CNN people, you know. But the issue of states regulating their own elections, that’s Article 1, Section 4, Clause 1. That gets into it. That discusses the times and the places and the manner and for holding your elections and dealing with your senators and your representatives and it’s shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof and et cetera, et cetera. That Congress, now when they talk about Congress, they can by law have some exceptions, but it’s except to the places of choosing their senators. They’re limited. The federal government is limited states. It’s constitutional and that states run their own elections. That’s part of it. And it and that’s why you have these elections and came at a good point that happened outside of the national and federal election. Now, the I understand what he’s talking about here, because going back to 2020, the big issue is. was, to recap so everybody understands, the big issue dealt with states reducing the mechanisms that protected voter integrity. During COVID, you guys remember this because you had the drop boxes like the 24 hour drop boxes where you could just put a ballot in. Everybody was getting mail ballots. And previously, before COVID. The restrictions were that, you know, it has to be postmarked by, you know, the election date. It has to be signed. There were a couple of other protections for ballots and voting and ID and all that stuff. And a lot of the states suspended them, not a lot, but a handful of states suspended those protections. Now, states run their own elections. But when you Pass that. You certify it state. You send it to the federal government and then the federal government certifies it as affecting Congress. Then that kind of changes things because you’re you’re asking other states to accept what you’ve done and to accept the integrity of it. So it’s like, you know, you’re working on a class project. You’re a group science project. Right. And it’s you’re expecting everybody there to pull their weight and to make sure that their workers their own and that there’s some integrity to it, that it’s, you know, the veracity is is that it’s all legitimate. And that’s what this is. Right. It’s like a giant project that every all these states work together on and then everyone accepts it for national effect congressionally. But when you agree that, OK, well, in order to to accept this the way it is, we have to have the postmarking. We have to have signatures on mail ballots. We have to have, you know, X, Y, Z. When states suspend that in violation of their own state constitution and in violation of the agreement that other states will honor their results, when they suspend the protections that have served to legitimize these ballots all of these years, that calls states to question, other states to call into question the veracity of the votes and the integrity of the process. And that’s completely understandable. That’s what the fight was January 6th, because they were wanting to investigate a couple of states that had suspended these protections. And there were for some legitimate reasons. There were like thousands of ballots, for instance, that did not have postmarks. You have no idea when those ballots were even submitted. There was no chain of command. There was no chain of custody. There was no receipts. So they were trying to figure out whether or not and that can be enough to sway an election, whether or not it was legitimate. And other states have every right to question it, especially when you have. suspended the agreement that you had with everyone else in terms of protecting your vote? Like, you know, we’re in Texas. We do a lot to protect our vote, right? We ask for ID. We do all of this. We have the signature requirement, et cetera. What if we were to suspend all of that and then demand that Illinois still accept our ballots as being legitimate despite the fact that all of the protections that regulated the integrity of that process, they’ve been thrown out the window. You’re demanding other states still accept it at face value without having any protections. That’s what this is all about. But when he’s talking about and as it pertains, going back to the soundbite with POTUS, when he’s talking about having, you know, you know, the state is an agent of the nation and the nation should run it. There is a protection that we get from it. And it might be slightly chaotic, but it makes it a little bit more difficult for foreign exploitation in order to affect an outcome. And I don’t like it. I don’t want everything being controlled at the national level either, because you’re just increasing chances for fraud. Totally. I mean, look at all the fraud that happens in the federal government anyway. You want them handling this? Hell no. It’s like saying you want basically the state of Illinois to handle all of it. They’re on par in terms of character and trustworthiness. Sorry, Cook County, but it’s true. You know, I it’s it’s there’s a reason that they’re run by the states. And there’s a reason that there is the authority over that is limited to the states and that there’s very limited authority to the federal government on this. They can object and they can they can ask for further insight in things that have been submitted to be certified. But, you know, that’s pretty much it. So instead of doing that, just pass the damn SAVE Act. Instead of sitting here talking about using ICE as agents or whatever, just pass the SAVE Act. Ask John Thune why he wants to have the farm bill and all this other stuff on the floor, but they can’t bring the SAVE Act before midterms kick off. What do you mean you don’t have time? This is only just the most important issue on God’s green earth right now because we’re talking about voting and protecting the integrity of the vote for which we had a major fight over this, you know, just a couple of years ago. So I don’t I it has to be they have to have protections. I get it. But it’s something that has to be done at the state level. This is why elections are important. This is cut 26. Chris Murphy. He of course he hates these big leftists. He hates the save activism.

SPEAKER 10 : 94:02

The SAVE Act in and of itself is a terrible piece of legislation, but probably doesn’t give the president the power he wants to come in and take over an election. But I do think the president is going to put the screws to John Thune and his allies in the Senate, because his options to steal the election are going to continue to narrow. And so he is likely to want a piece of legislation that may not be constitutional, but at least tests the question to the Supreme Court of whether there are circumstances where he can come in and take over a state election.

SPEAKER 13 : 94:36

Yeah, no one’s talking about that. But the SAVE Act is important because we need voter ID. We have ID for everything else. People want IDs for firearms, but I thought that was racist to want IDs. I mean, pick a lane. But it’s something that we have to have. We have to have this stuff. That Ryan Routh guy got sentenced to life in prison plus seven years for attempting to assassinate Trump at his Florida golf course there, Mar-a-Lago. That dude got, so taxpayers are going to support this guy for his life term and then seven year, what, they’re going to have his plus seven? Three hots and a cot every day. This is what I don’t like. I don’t like that. Why does this guy, why does he get life in prison? He was going to kill the president. I feel like we just indulge this way too much, this restorative justice. I mean, don’t you? I mean, it’s the president of the United States. Think about the consequences of such an action, the chaos that the nation would have been thrown into. Would we have been able to withstand it? That’s what I think you risk with that. That’s why I think that this elevates that to, you know, way that people will argue, well, it’s. You know, he didn’t actually kill anyone. Well, he was going to. And then imagine the chaos that would have been kicked off as a result of that. It’s weird to me. It’s super weird. Life sentence plus seven years. So taxpayers are going to be funning this guy forever. Just wild. A life in seven years. And I don’t think he’s going to be able to, you know, I don’t think there’s going to be any kind of like…

SPEAKER 09 : 96:14

probation or anything i think that’s all off the table i think he does have to serve what is that i don’t know i just am i harsh because i’m like why is he alive no i think that’s why the additional seven years beyond life is there i think that’s to ensure that there’s no parole but you’re right it is kind of a burden on the taxpayer when this guy clearly doesn’t even value his own life

SPEAKER 13 : 96:36

So I’m just curious. Oh, look at this. How much does it cost to house in a federal inmate? I want to look at this because I’m curious as to how much it does actually cost. Oh, look. So you’re paying basically $47,000, over $47,000 per year is the average cost for a federal inmate in the Federal Bureau of Prisons. So taxpayers are going to be paying about average $47,162 every year for this guy. For life. It’s like $130 a day. Now, obviously, I think it fluctuates depending on the facility and level of security and etc. But that’s the cost. And the security level, too. If it’s high security, that’s an additional… I mean, you’re looking at high security is like $164 per day compared to minimum, which is $150. So why are we… We’re paying for this. This guy could have killed the president of the United States. I just think that’s a different thing, right? That’s a very different thing. Back in the days of your he’d have been hung. He’d have been hung from a very big tree. This guy would have as punishment for what he did. But I don’t know. Now we’re going to pay forty seven thousand dollars a year to keep him in prison. Three hots and a cot.

SPEAKER 06 : 97:57

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So originally, the United States and Iran were going to meet Friday in Istanbul, along with some other Middle Eastern countries that would be participating as observers to discuss the diplomatic path forward, right? And now the Iranians said that they wanted to move the talks to Oman and hold them in a bilateral format. in order to ensure that they focused only on nuclear issues and not other matters like missiles, they said, that are priorities for the U.S. and countries in the region. The United States, per Axios, apparently considered the request and then they rejected it. So they told them it is this or nothing. And they said, OK, nothing, according to a senior U.S. official. So the official said if Iranians are willing to go back to the original format, the U.S. is ready to meet them. They said, we want to reach a deal quickly or people will look at other options, is what the official said. So their talks Friday have been canceled. That’s very interesting. Why would they want to change him to Oman instead of Istanbul on Friday? I don’t believe their excuse that they gave. I don’t. Well, we don’t want to make we just want to make sure it stays focused on. I just I don’t I don’t believe them on that. A couple of other things. Did you hear, too? This is a weird story. So Polymarket said, after months of planning, we’re excited to announce the Polymarket is coming to New York City. It’s New York’s first free grocery store. Except here’s the issue. It’s not. It is a food bank that they are using now. basically the revenue created by private companies to prop up a food bank for five days. It’s not a it’s not a free grocery store. And the New York City mayor is trying to take credit for it by saying it’s a free grocery store. But it’s literally a five day food drive that’s done by, you know, private businesses. It’s capitalism. You can’t make this stuff up. So he’s. I don’t know. This is so goofy. Then on top of that, we have, let me pull this up, all of the labs and secret bases in the United States. So there was another, can you tell me about this? Because we talked about this first, this guy who was doing a bio lab in California gets busted. And now it’s the same guy that’s apparently involved in this bio lab in Las Vegas where they collected a thousand samples. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Chinese Biolab. CCP Biolab.

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I think that people are missing some important angles on this. Number one, Vegas is a major tourist hub. So if you’re wanting to spread something, like an Ebola or something worse, if there is anything worse, you’re going to find a place like Vegas. To do the spreading. And this is, I can’t believe that whatever happened in California somehow was so ignored and overlooked that he was able to do this in Vegas.

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This is the stuff that they had. A thousand transgenic, genetically engineered lab mice, thousands of vials of samples of biological materials, infectious agents, pathogens, CDC identified 20, viruses, SARS, COVID-19, hepatitis B, C, HIV-1 and 2. human herpes viruses, herpes simplex, I mean everything, respiratory viruses, E. coli, oh my gosh, tuberculosis, parasites, a freezer explicitly labeled Ebola containing unlabeled sealed silver bags, high-risk biostorage methods, oh my gosh, and tons and tons and tons of hazardous waste and chemicals and flammable stuff. And now in Vegas.

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And close to an Air Force base.

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Oh, I’m sure that’s all just a total coincidence.

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Coincidence.

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Yeah, coincidence. Today in Stupidity Camp.

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All right, Boston area woman who’s thrilled about her slave labor. And somehow she makes it a positive story about a Haitian migrant. But, oh man, the left is so racist they don’t even realize it. Listen to this. Oh, sorry, cut 24, Juan.

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And it’s really fun having them. What I realized is there’s so much prejudice against refugees, mostly because people don’t know them.

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Lisa says she feels like she has her own personal chef as well. Donde loves cooking.

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They flee life and death situations from their country and come here to be slaves for the left. While they virtue signal.

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I cannot even with these people. So stupid. You can’t make this up if you try. Folks, that does it for us today. Find us over at Substack chapter and verse as well. And I’ll be on Jesse Waters tonight in the 7 p.m. Central hour and back with you behind the mic tomorrow. Have a great evening.

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I think it was really inspiring how Mr. Levin just keeps on wanting to grow and learn more from the people around him, his peers and his advisor, his father even.

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Anya, how do you want to grow?

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Well, I’m also trying to grow my communications. I just became the communications chair of my goals TA, student government.

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Hey, Brett, this thing about communication, how important is that? And how important is for Anya to continue to develop these communication skills?

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It’s so important. And I think today as kids, you have your cell phones in your hands all the time and learn how to look people in the eye, publicly speak and talk to people.

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