The podcast further explores a heartbreaking story of a couple embroiled in a legal fight after discovering their baby, born via IVF, was not genetically related to them. We discuss the ethical implications of such medical oversights and the potential ramifications for all parties involved. Meanwhile, updates from Minnesota shed light on the broader context of rights, protests, and media reactions, providing a comprehensive look at the tensions surrounding free speech in religious contexts.
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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 so don lemon was arrested I don’t know if you all saw this, but it happened. Federal agents arrested Don Lemon today and three other people on charges that they violated federal law during a protest at that church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Now, it’s interesting because they are looking. It’s a case essentially that’s been revived after it was rejected by a magistrate, a judge who declined to proceed. And now he’s been arrested, a second journalist and two protesters. And we’re going to see how that I mean, this under the statute, the way it is, the Department of Justice has to prove that Don Lemon entered the church service with intent to disrupt or interfere. And I think it’s guys, I think it’s pretty easy to say that that was the intent. Don’t we all agree? I mean, he’s literally on video talking about it. And the statute, he’s being charged with 18 U.S.C. 241, which is listed as the conspiracy to deprive rights. Additionally, with 18 U.S.C. 248, which is violation of the FACE Act, ironically, the KKK Act, interfering by force of someone’s First Amendment right. The Attorney General, Pam Bondi, tweeted about this today. Don Lemon, Teheran Cruz, Georgia Fort, and Jamil Lundy in connection with this church. And so I’ve seen already people like Jim Acosta go out and say, oh my gosh, you can’t, you know, you’re violating his free speech. He was violating the church congregants’ free speech by attacking them. And I think it’s completely justifiable, honestly, when you look at the video. And then when you hear all of the other stuff that is even worse than some of the things that you’ve seen in the video, how the adults were getting these adult rioters were getting in the face of kids and saying, do you know your parents are Nazis? Do you know you go to a Nazi church? I mean, that came out during the investigation because one of the protesters was telling the investigators verbatim what they were saying. Additionally, it was picked up on cameras. So… It is. This isn’t about journalism. It stopped. He’s not a journalist. He’s like giving hugs to the protest coordinator before this even started. I mean, he’s on video talking about it. He went in seriously with the intent to disrupt. So so this guy, he’s not a journalist. He’s not a journalist. He wasn’t doing journalism. He was being an activist. Let’s stop. I mean, journalism, this idea that these people are all like very, you know, innocent little. reporters has always been a lie that’s not how journalism even began journalism always began as it began as a dirty business and you’re supposed to be able to use your discernment to figure out what’s true and what isn’t but to have this you know this the stuff that he was doing and you know these charges I think it’s gonna you know gonna stick he was at the I what he was accused of doing is what he absolutely did He thought that he was going to be untouchable because he’s seen the left be untouchable with this stuff for so long. You know, they got him at the Grammys. He was at the Grammy Awards. He apparently had been covering it for his YouTube channel because I know that whenever I want to see coverage of, you know, YouTube or Grammy stuff, I go to a 60-year-old man who lives in New York. And I don’t know what he listens to, but I bet he thinks Green Day’s punk. That’s the first guy I go to for all my musical knowledge. Just like I go to Joe Biden talking about keeping burglars off your balcony. I don’t know. So they had to get the arrest warrant. And I’m curious as to how they did. Because the Chief Judge of Minneapolis didn’t want to go along with it. The Eighth Circuit, they had a demand. They were looking to get a judicial warrant early next week. So I don’t know if they got an indictment from a grand jury. I mean, I guess that’s how they got it. Now, he’s already hired. Guess who Don Lemon hired? He hired Abby Lowell. Why does that name sound familiar to you? That’s Hunter Biden’s attorney. Abby Lowell is the guy who tried arguing that Hunter Biden was having his Second Amendment rights violated when he was high as a flipping kite and bought a gun. Yeah.
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So Abby Lowell was like, Don Lemon has been a journalist for 30 years and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different.
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Really? Like when he got up into this preacher’s face, ran into the church service? That’s not journalism. You’re being an anti-Christian bigot is what you’re being. Goodness. Man, Don Lemon’s going to be broke after this is over because Abby Lowell is expensive. Thousands of dollars an hour, this guy. But first off, Don Lemon wasn’t, it’s not Don Lemon’s First Amendment rights that are in question here. Part of the First Amendment is the protection of the freedom of religious expression. And so when you’re sitting in a church and you’re worshiping and you’re attending church services, that is part of participating with religious expression. You cannot interrupt. You can’t just bust into a private on private property, go into a church service and then interrupt the service and stick cameras in the faces of minors and adults and demand these like man on the street type Q&A and then act like you’re being denied if they don’t immediately stop and accommodate you. And the fact that he was outside like gaming, gaming, pre-gaming all of this. and talking to, he was hanging out with the rioters, giving them hugs. He gave the leader of the whole thing a kiss on the cheek. I mean, he was out there with them because he was one of them. By the way, the other thing too is the KKK Act, which all of this falls under, and the FACE Act. None of those have exemptions for people who are journalism-ing. There’s no journalist exemption. OK, you can’t just like bust up. And, you know, if he was really a journalist for 30 years, he would know that. And that’s that’s I mean, he all of these statutes. None of them he can avail himself of the criminality. And it’s all on video. I mean, he’s. What happened beforehand, you could say was conspiratorial, that he was conspiring with these people to bust up into the church building and harass them. They were talking about making them feel uncomfortable. They were stupidly openly talking about it in the video. He was standing outside before they ran in. So that’s conspiracy, that you were conspiring with these people before you walked in. So isn’t he, does he appear in federal court today? Don Lemon, isn’t he gonna have his arraignment or something later? Yeah, I don’t know what time, but I think it’s then. I’m saying it’s just not, it’s not journalism. That’s not journalism. And it’s not, the First Amendment, Don Lemon’s First Amendment wasn’t attacked. He attacked the First Amendment of the people who were sitting in the church. They were impeding on their First Amendment rights. They were interrupting their church service, private property, and harassing them. It was their First Amendment that was abridged here. And he thinks he’s untouchable. This is him talking to that pastor. This is cut seven. Watch this. This is when Don Lemon was pushing on these congregants. He says this is journalism-ing. Watch this. This is cut seven.
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I had no affiliation to that organization. I didn’t even know they were going to this church until we followed them there. We were there chronicling protests.
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Once the protests started in the church… But he was in the parking lot beforehand and they were pre-gaming it. He was in the parking lot before they went in and they were pre-gaming. There was a video where he was going after this pastor in his face. So, don’t sit here and tell me that this was… You know, oh, I just heard about it and I decided to cover it. You took part in it. Look, this is taking part in it. This is what I’m talking about. This is participating.
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What do you think of it? I mean, this is unacceptable. It’s shameful. It’s shameful to interrupt a public gathering of Christians in worship. But there are folks who will say, I have to take care of my flock.
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Listen, we live in a, there’s a constitution in the First Amendment to freedom of speech and freedom to assemble and protest. Yeah.
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We’re here to worship. We’re here to worship Jesus because that’s the hope of these cities. That’s the hope of the world is Jesus Christ. I want to be very respectful. Please don’t push me though. We’re here to worship Jesus. In his face.
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Don Lemon’s getting in his face and the guy’s like putting up his hand to guard his. Don, don’t push me. You giant pansy. Don Lemon isn’t a journalist. He’s a political prostitute. Don Lemon isn’t a journalist. He’s a far-left douchebag who got run out of cable news, and now he’s trying to grift off the Internet. He came to where all the rest of us have been in the trenches for years. We made the Internet our home. He feels like he’s been relegated to it. He feels like it’s a demotion. So he got kicked off his super flashy set, and he doesn’t have a job at a big network, and so he pulls stuff like this. He’s got to fill those coffers. You know, the party lifestyle is expensive to maintain. Don’t push me. You’re in. You trespassed on our private property to disrupt our services. You’re lucky you didn’t get shot. There’s no defense of this. There’s no defense of this. Oh, my gosh. Another Nepo baby. This is cut five. She only has this job because of who her dad was, because God knows she can’t host a show. Mika Brzezinski cut five.
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and being charged for it.
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That is not… Did he conduct interviews inside the… I mean, I know the protest was happening, and so he followed the protest in to cover the story. At any point, did he take part in… Yeah, we’ll see if we have footage here, but he did.
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He interviewed some of the protesters, he interviewed some of the parishioners, he interviewed… I think he tried to talk to the minister at one point. Right.
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Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Now, this is them trying to say, you know, who is a journalist and who isn’t, who is and who isn’t a journalist. These are the same people that get mad at Nick Shirley. These are the same people that are like, Nick Shirley’s not a legitimate journalist. Nick Shirley’s done actual more investigative journalism than Don Lemon could ever conceive of. Mika Brzezinski. Mika Brzezinski, they always have to put her with a bunch of people because her personality is less than a piece of cardboard. So they always have to put her, they either have to have her husband because God knows she can’t host a show on her own, or they have to put her with a bunch of people because she has the personality of cardboard. Well, I mean, oh, he was following them in. Way to repeat what the guy just said is a way to fill time. Now, I guess so. Yeah, the DOJ, the grand jury, which they could have done in the first place instead of going through that judge, which is really what they should have done in the first place. They did decide to indict. Now, I think that’s incredibly telling because you can’t get all mad and jump on the administration for that. You all know how grand juries work, right? They got a bunch of people, random people, and they decided there was enough there to amount to an indictment. So that says something. We’re going to talk more about that coming up as we move. Folks over at Burn a Gun, I’m always going to carry. I have no problem using lethal force. No issue. But I also want to diversify what I have in terms of my weapons array. I mean, think about it. You’re a college kid living alone or maybe, you know, you’re under 21 and just living alone and you want to make sure that you can protect yourself. You know, if you’re walking to your your home or walking to work or wherever. And a lot of times, you know, you’ve got a lot of these these state, local, municipal restrictions that they won’t give you security. They won’t put extra law enforcement on the street. But you are a greater victim because of the restorative justice policies. You’ve got to do something about your protection. So a lot of people have been looking at Burna. Burna CL stands for compact launcher. So those places where you can’t carry lead, you can carry your compact launcher. It’s roughly the size of an iPhone. There’s no recoil. Easy target acquisition. It comes with a standard capacity 15-round shot cartridge. It shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can deter threats from up to 50 feet away. Now, with all of that, there’s no background checks. It doesn’t care about gun-free zone signs because it’s not a gun. You can order it online. They send it right to your porch, right there by your door. They’d probably walk it in, too, if you wanted them to. And it’s made right here in the U.S. of A. Now, there’s other models that they have, and they have other projectiles and accessories. But for this purpose, the compact launcher, that’s the one that you need to look at. Maximum concealability, but you also have 15-round shot cartridge. That’s a lot of chances to get to safety. Visit Burna.com slash Dana and get your Burna gun, the CL compact launcher today. Solid options for diversifying your weapons array. Byrna.com slash Dana. Ready when you are.
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I just want to be able to ascertain what more they can be doing to ensure that all parties who will fall in love with this baby know of her existence and to be able to secure their embryos that they stored with the defendant.
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Court documents show the baby girl was born in December through IVF from the fertility center of Orlando. Soon after, the parents, who were white, realized the baby is not. And genetic testing revealed the little girl isn’t theirs. The couple is now begging for answers from the clinic and Dr. Milton McNichol, who they say implanted the embryo.
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So that we can find and secure the remaining embryo or embryos and so that we can notify the genetic parents of Shay of her existence.
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During a virtual emergency hearing on Wednesday, the couple’s attorney laid out seven requests, including getting the clinic to pay for genetic testing of any child born under the clinic’s care in the past five years.
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We’re trying to both identify who got the patient’s embryos as well as we’re trying to identify where… This is such a sad story.
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And this is… So the parents, that child is not the genetic child of either of them. It wasn’t even her embryo. So it was someone else’s embryo. It wasn’t even hers. So neither of them have any genetic relation. It’s not like some people are like, oh, she’s stepping out. She can’t. She can’t have a baby. That’s what she had to do. She couldn’t step out. And it’s not her embryo. Their embryos apparently went somewhere else. And the reason they love her and they would I mean, they would like to keep her and raise her. But here’s why they’re they’re trying to fight this, because technically they have no legal they have no legal claim to this baby. And they don’t want the genetic parents to show up. And they very well could and take her. There’s nothing stopping those genetic parents from showing up and saying that baby’s ours. Even after like five years, there’s nothing stopping them. So that’s why they’re like, we’ve got to find this out. Because how could you live? loving and raising this child as your own with this sort of Damocles, so to speak, over your head, where you have no idea whether or not that child’s, the parents are going to show up at any moment and claim her. And then there’s also the fear, well, who has their baby? Their, her embryo, her husband’s DNA, everything, them, who has their baby? That’s the other thing. So they’re trying to find both of these out. And she gave an interview where she was like, you know, we would love to keep her and raise her. We love her. But they’re terrified that any moment the genetic parents are going to step forward and claim her. So they’re trying to figure out who those people are. And that clinic, I’m sorry, but that guy looks like a he looks like a Dave Chappelle character. I would not go to a clinic with a doctor who literally looks like he stepped off a soundstage from a Dave Chappelle skit. He does. He looks like that. Come on. He didn’t look like he didn’t he didn’t look he didn’t look like a serious. I don’t know. I’m just picky. But he just looks like I don’t know. Goofy. But I feel so bad for them. That’s crazy. Yeah, I love how well and soon after they noticed. Oh, though they did, did they? They noticed soon after, not right away. I mean, I’m wondering if there is, you know, a couple of, you know, a black couple that, you know, had a white baby, right? The soon after. What? What do you mean soon after? You kind of know that stuff immediately. But they’re just terrified. They’re so scared that… And I would be too. That… The parents would just come and, you know, after you raise this child and, you know, the parents come and they could take her away because as it is, they have no legal claim over her right now. That’s so sad. I can’t believe that clinic didn’t even respond to them for like months. They had to go to the press. That’s the only way they could get anything done. That’s so sad. 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Live a safer digital life with WebRoot. Welcome back to the program. Top of the second hour. A lot to discuss today because we got Don Lemon has been arrested. You’ve got government shutdown, which they don’t get anything going through by Saturday evening. That’s we’re well on our way. So we’re going to get into all of that and more. But this whole issue of the. Free speech. You can’t bust up into a private and private property and disrupt a private church service and scream and intimidate people and act like that’s journalism. I mean, you literally made yourself the story. That’s not journalism. That’s agitation. One of those writers, Nakima Armstrong, she was arrested. She was arrested. Listen to her talk. This is cut eight. Good night.
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We had belly chains around our waist and we had handcuffs with bars in the middle. As someone who majored in African American studies, I can tell you that that is the closest I ever felt to slavery in my life. Being shackled as if I was a slave. It is unacceptable and unconscionable, but it’s on brand.
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So you want racial preference, preferential racial treatment. You think you should be able to bust up. Imagine if you had people bust up into a mosque. How would that go? What if Don Lemon went to a mosque? How do you think that would have worked out? Oh, they don’t do that because nobody wants to get their damn heads chopped off. That’s why. So they go target churches. This woman is a racial grievance LARPer. The closest I’ve ever been to slavery was having to listen to this tubby broad sit here and talk about how she had to be, how she got in trouble because she trespassed and was screaming and intimidating churchgoers. I love how she tries to qualify it as an African American studies expert. I think we all are at this point. No, you acted like the slave master, lady. You busted up into a church and you weren’t going to allow free people to worship, just like a slave master would. You should congratulate yourself. Moving on up. Ridiculous. Going in there and intimidating these people like that. Now, the new thing that they’re doing is they’re trying to say, well, Don Lemon’s a journalist. These are the same people that said that Nick Shirley was not a journalist. These are the same people that get super upset if you are an independent journalist and you go out and you bust somebody on the left. They get super mad about that. Remember the Planned Parenthood story where there was this undercover video where they were selling. Planned Parenthood was selling baby parts. David Daleiden. Kamala Harris, when she was AG of California, went after David Daleiden. David Daleiden was the guy who got all the undercover video that showed that Planned Parenthood was taking organs and parts of aborted babies and they were selling them on the black market for insane profit. And he uncovered that. And they’ve been trying to bury him and drown him with lawfare ever since. But everyone was saying, oh, that’s not that’s not reporting. David Daleiden isn’t a reporter. It’s only a reporter when they want you to be a reporter. This is one of the problems with the what was it, the Fairness Act? What was it that some of these clueless people talk about reinstituting? Yeah, fairness doctrine. Well, part of the fairness doctrine is people like Chuck Schumer. This was like five years ago. He was talking about having the government approve who is and who isn’t a journalist. Democrats have been wanting to do that forever, just like they’ve been wanting to nationalize police. They want to nationalize the press. They wanted have always wanted to be able to determine to determine who is it is or isn’t a journalist. And this is one I see them all like coming together to attack this. Oh, well, that’s it. This is, you know, he’s a journalist, but all these other people aren’t. Nick Shirley uncovered the biggest story of taxpayer theft in American history. He should be getting a Pulitzer and he’s not because these people are ridiculous. All these institutions, for instance, how long have I been in broadcasting? Number one female in radio. I don’t like to say female. I like to be just number one. But the Women Broadcasters Association won’t even look my way. Has never looked my way. Never, ever once. Because I’m a conservative. And because it’s a BS organization of a bunch of stupid, talentless broads who only wish they could have a quarter of other people’s success. And that’s okay. So… This is they’ve always tried to control and gatekeep these institutions. Nick Shirley can’t be. Can I just be honest? I don’t even know if Nick Shirley is a conservative. Do we even know? I don’t care. But I’m just saying you don’t know because he never made himself the focus of the story. He always went in and was in trying to figure out, OK, is this the institution that says it’s the layering center? Is this the medical transport company? He’s always made it about the story. Cain says that he stated that he’s not either Republican or Democrat. So they don’t even know what he is. They just don’t like that his work has uncovered Democrat shenanigans. That’s what it’s all about. They don’t like that. It hurt them. So they don’t like it. Hmm. Well, it’s too damn bad, I guess. Too bad. I keep seeing, but you got everybody from ABC, NBC, oh my gosh, all these people trying to defend this. And unfortunately, it is press. Press has always been independent. The press always, it began that way. Now, Philly D.A., Larry Krasner. Remember this guy? We played this audio of him. Was it yesterday or day before where he was calling ICE agents Nazis and basically saying that you got to go get him? Well, he’s doubled and tripled down on it. This is cut 10. Listen, this guy is a D.A. He’s a Soros-backed D.A. Listen to how insane he is.
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There are some people who are all in on a fascist takeover of this country who do not like the comparison to what happened in Nazi Germany. But the point I was making is actually very straightforward. When you kill people, we can hunt you down and bring you to justice in 10 years or 20 or 30 years, just like what happened with the Golden State Killer, who was a serial killer in California. That’s how it worked. It worked that way with the Nazis, but it also works with all kinds of other criminals who commit terrible crimes.
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But couldn’t you have made that point without comparing them to Nazis?
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Why would I do that? The reality is they’re taking almost everything they do out of the Nazi playbook.
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Like how? Because your party is the only one going after Jews, dude. You guys wouldn’t even have Josh Shapiro on your presidential ticket because he was Jewish. You guys are the ones that have been back in Hamas. You guys are the ones that have been sucking up to Hezbollah. I mean, come on, what are y’all talking about? I just think it’s funny. Don’t sit here and tell me that you’re like not an anti-Semite and then you sit here and compare Jewish people to the murderers and rapists and pedophiles that are convicted that have ICE detainers on them that ICE is responding to. When you have to sit here and use the Holocaust as a cudgel because you’re too stupid. I don’t even know how this guy’s a DA. Larry Krasner is one of the dumbest boomers I’ve ever seen in my life. He deserves no courtesy. I mean, that’s ridiculous. You know what? If he probably had more testosterone and he was maybe five inches taller, he’d probably be a woman beater. But as it is, I don’t even think he can lift a piece of sandwich bread. I’m taking all comers today. Just, you know, throw my way. And I can’t. I can’t. This guy, he’s this is the part of the rhetoric. That’s the problem. This is makes it all part of the problem. Oh, boy. Jane Fonda. Do we want to, dare we? Dare we with this one? All our Vietnam vets are getting ready to throw stuff at the wall. Sorry, dudes. So this is Jane Fonda. Jane Fonda, all of a sudden, thought you would be interested in hearing her anti-ice message. Let me just read this to you, how it’s listed on my audio rundown real quick. Jane Fonda’s anti-ice message inserts internal lesbian anger, which also tells her there’s still time for her to turn lesbian. What? What? Go play this. Play this right now.
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I’m Jane Fonda. And I’m Jane Fonda’s internal lesbian anger. Dana, I’m not a lesbian. There’s still time, Jane. There’s still time. I’ve been fighting injustices like these for a very long time. She’s been fighting like this for like 100 years, everybody. Oh, let’s not go that far.
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70?
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70? That’s better. She’s been fighting like this for like 70 years, everybody. So I’m here to remind you to exercise your First Amendment rights. Fight for the Constitution.
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Freedom of speech.
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Speak the up.
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Freedom of assembly. Cash, what annoying.
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She’s like the worst hype broad ever. It’s time to be brave and stand up. Enough is enough. All right, Granny. Jane, that was really good. What she said.
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I can’t tell if Jane Fonda is angry or not because her face is stretched tighter than a pool covering for winter. I can’t tell. Yeah, her face is stretched more tauter than a skin over a snare. Her face is stretched so far. It’s like watching an angry, white, fat, progressive in leggings. That’s like the level of stretchness that we’re seeing here. That is a hell of a stretch. So, man, she’s alive still. Isn’t she like 210? She was old when she was out in Vietnam with the commies and loving the attention. Goodness. I don’t even think she’s a great actress. Again, she can’t emote. She has the same Zoolander look for everything. I bet she has to get her eyebrows tattooed on because otherwise they’d be up in her hairline. I’m going to be done at some point. I just not now. So what what is this that we got a First Amendment? What do you talk? Nobody’s talking about your First Amendment. What the hell does that have to do with rapists, pedophiles and murderers that have ice? They’re convicted and they got ice detainers on them. Do people just like making up stuff to argue? Oh, my gosh. Ice is getting rid of this convicted murderer that came in from El Salvador. Where’s my First Amendment? What? Fascist. You need a dictionary, a better surgeon, and Jesus. That’s what you need, Jane Fonda. Good night. Oh, but there’s so much more. And then there’s, I’ll save this. Ronald McDonald’s mother, Kathy Griffin. I’ll play that audio coming up later. She had to be proud of her son. I mean, he sold like 100 million hamburgers, right? Our partners who helped make it happen. It’s our friends over at Relief Factor. There are a lot of people who have been using a relief factor, a lot of people who try that three-week quick start, and immediately they are seeing great improvement in their body’s natural inflammatory response. Because if you’re dealing with everyday aches and pains, you’re dealing with maybe old sports injuries, or maybe you’re like 90 years old and kicking it still. But you’re sore at the end of the day and you want to have more freedom with mobility. This is what Relief Factor is designed for. It’s 100% drug-free formula made with research-backed ingredients, including omega-3s, resveratrol, all designed to support relief from everyday exercise-related and age-related discomfort. It’s designed to help your body fight back against the aches and pains so you can get back to the life you enjoy. Try it for yourself. The three-week quick start. See how Relief Factor could be your game changer. Call 800-4-RELIEF or visit relieffactor.com and ask yourself, how would it feel to be out of pain? That’s relieffactor.com, 800-4-RELIEF. Tell them Dana sent you.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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Well, this just in, and this is horrible, horrible news. Catherine O’Hara has passed away. Catherine O’Hara, the brilliant and iconic actress from every, the mom from Home Alone. She’s been in every Tim Burton movie. Beetlejuice, Home Alone. She was in Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, Frank and Weenie, Over the Hedge, Nightmare Before Christmas. Moira Rose in Schitt’s Creek. She’s been in everything. passed away at age 71 uh there isn’t so page six was the first out with it they’re saying so far there’s they the cause of death they don’t have a cause of death yet but uh it was announced that she has passed away age 71 wow that one hurts That one hurts because she was amazing. Good night. She’s such a great actress. Oh, where do you go after this? Man, all the good ones. None of the people that you want to die. It’s always the ones that you don’t want to die. What? It’s true. I’m just saying what y’all are thinking. Owemo hit a kid near an elementary school. Yeah, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration is investigating. It struck a child, the Waymo car, near an elementary school in Santa Monica, California. Now, in a separate incident in Los Angeles, there was, is this like a Waymo, the Zeekers? Zeeker vehicle operated in manual mode, sped through a one-way residential street near Dodger Stadium. If you were at the airport and you got called a rideshare service and it was a driverless car that pulled up, I wouldn’t get in it, would you? I wouldn’t either. No way. So now they’re investigating. They said that the child was struck by the Waymo. According to National Highway Transportation Safety, they said that… Apparently it was coming from the kid was coming from behind a double parked SUV towards the school. And that’s when they were hit by the Waymo. So we don’t have any other information than that. But that’s also sad. This is just stupid. Men are embracing. This is a dumb study. They’re saying men are embracing beautiful beauty culture. And many of them refuse to call it that. And they’re not. This is called grooming. Shut up. Shaving, making sure your eyebrows don’t look like caterpillars. That’s just called grooming. Stop it. So tired. People think this stuff began the day they were born. Wow, when did men start cleaning themselves? Well, they’ve always done that. It’s called grooming, people. Jelaine Maxwell claims 29 friends cut secret deals with the DOJ in an Epstein twist. I find her disgusting. Everything about them, they just look nasty. Nasty, gross people. She said that 25 men reached undisclosed deals and four alleged co-conspirators that were known to investigators but never charged. She doesn’t name them, but she said there were a lot of deals that were being cut. I would like to know who those people were. Just saying. Apple sales surge 16% staggering iPhone demand. I didn’t go out and get the new iPhone because I think it’s ugly. I think it’s dumb and I don’t want the whole top half of my phone to look like that. So out of spite, I’m not going to do it until they make it go back. I’m not going to get the new because it’s dumb looking. It’s dumb. So they said that the company though People are going out and buying them. There’s nothing different with a camera. There’s nothing different. They just, let’s move this over here and act like we boosted the power. 16% though, staggering the iPhone demand. They found the strongest results in China where they love ugly, stupid phones. So that works. And Hong Kong, sales in the region surged 38%. So it’s China, commie Chinese that are buying these ugly grody phones. Let them buy the ugly Apple, the new ugly Apple phones. And then Apple could get rid of all the ugly 17s and then they can go back to making decent looking devices. We have a lot more on the way coming up. We got law and order. 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SPEAKER 04 :
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SPEAKER 03 :
You’re seeing what they’re doing to us on the streets. But they are doing the same thing through the courts and their power of the agencies to defund all of state government to make it, yes, we’re the most generous state in the country with benefits and things like that. Did we have some people steal from us? Yes, and we put them in jail. They use it as an excuse to dismantle a progressive, functional state that’s some of the highest quality of life.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, some people steal from us.
SPEAKER 17 :
You know, we’re the most generous. You’re not generous. You steal taxpayer dollars from people, and then you redistributed it to all of your Islamist Democrat financier buddies. That’s exactly what you did.
SPEAKER 13 :
We’re the most generous. I mean, yeah, we’re the most generous in the state. Some people steal, some people steal from us, but yeah, they’re in jail.
SPEAKER 17 :
They’re actually not in jail. There’s only a small fraction of them that were actually convicted and charged. I mean, the rest are just running out there still scamming everybody, as we saw from Nick Shirley’s reporting. So I can’t believe. Yeah, I mean, we’re the most generous in every. Imagine bragging about how much of your taxpayer dollars that you waste and trying to try to dress it up as generosity.
SPEAKER 13 :
I mean, I love being generous to other people’s money. It’s so easy. I would love to give you $100. Can you write him a check for $100? I find it easy to do.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, it’s very easy to be generous with other people’s money. He’s a fruit loop. I think it’s hysterical that he tells everybody, I’m not running. I’m not running again. Because he couldn’t. Because he’s implicated in all of this. This guy got fat cash, taxpayer dollars, from all of these little scammed groups out there. I mean, I can’t believe that’s a soundbite. Did some people steal from us? Yeah. I mean, you know, they did. That is an ad, Republican Party. Where is the RNC at, you dipwads?
SPEAKER 11 :
But I remember when they were denying the fraud. Don’t you remember those days when there was no fraud at all? And they were like, no, no fraud.
SPEAKER 17 :
Wait a minute, what are we even talking about?
SPEAKER 11 :
There’s no fraud, what? No, and now we’re in that phase of, well, there’s fraud, but we’re generous.
SPEAKER 17 :
I mean, but we’re generous, though. I mean, yeah, there’s fraud. Yeah. Okay, that’s bad. The RNC needs to be making ads about that. Where are they at? What are they doing? Good. RNC should be making ads about this stuff. This should be an ad every day. Democrats, wasting your money. I mean, yeah, we’re generous. Did some people steal? Yeah, they did. Yeah. Cut it at that. I feel like I was watching a scene from Step Brothers, right? It’s what it feels like whenever I watch Tim Walz. He needs a helmet. I just put a helmet on him. It’s just insane. I’m just trying to get around the fact that that’s a real soundbite. Pretty unbelievable. Now, apparently Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor and he he decided to speak about Don Lemon and journalism. I mean, this is cut 27. Now, they didn’t do this again with David Delight and they didn’t do it with Nick Shirley. But Don Lemon, though, listen.
SPEAKER 16 :
on another issue. Last night, federal agents arrested journalist Don Lemon in Los Angeles after he recently covered protest activities in Minnesota. Once again, the administration is behaving no differently from police states and authoritarian regimes across history. They’ve arrested a journalist for the crime of doing his job. And let’s be very clear. This arrest is not just about one journalist in one incident. The arrest is a dark message to journalists everywhere. If you dare criticize this administration, watch your back. That’s not a democracy. That’s a police state. And that is pure authoritarian bile. Democracy will suffer if the government chokes.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, my gosh. I’m so done. Don Lemon was not behaving like a journalist. He was behaving like a protester. And he rushed up into the church and decided to cause problems and intimidate, harass, and scream. We played these videos. Stop acting like this is journalism. I’m so tired of these people. Just like, oh, it’s a mostly peaceful protest. It’s journalism-ing. It’s journalism. Cain, you made a good point. He had no… They didn’t… None of this. All the…
SPEAKER 11 :
They had no concern for journalism on all of the people that were independent journalists and otherwise that were arrested, harassed, targeted on J6. Like, not at all. There was no concern.
SPEAKER 17 :
Or even David Daleiden.
SPEAKER 11 :
For the First Amendment.
SPEAKER 17 :
James O’Keefe.
SPEAKER 11 :
No concern for it. Yeah, on all those instances as well. It’s unreal.
SPEAKER 17 :
Lila Rose. I mean, all of these people.
SPEAKER 11 :
People can’t see how two-faced… The Democrats are with every speech they come out with in the front of the media or on the floor of the House or the Senate. It’s unbelievable. They don’t care about the truth anymore. It’s not important to them. They care only about a narrative push to the end, which is them in power.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, that’s what it’s all about. And you know what’s funny? So I saw TMZ. They’re attacking Nicki Minaj because what did Nicki Minaj call Don Lemon? Hold up. They said she used a homophobic slur on him. uh hang on let me look at this because i am i am dying laughing if it’s what i think it is uh typing this in here they said oh yeah they’re all mad at her she doubles down on homophobic slur at don lemon before his arrest well what was the slur i think she just said bitch right i don’t know oh i think she no she They asked her, they go, was there anything you’d like to say to Don Lemon? And she laughed. I don’t know how to say this, Cain. A male copulatory organ consumer? That’s as close as we’re getting. She said that? Stop. That’s what she said. Yeah, that’s as close as we’re going to get.
SPEAKER 11 :
Now, question.
SPEAKER 17 :
Question. She called him the noun for an activity.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 17 :
Er.
SPEAKER 11 :
Now we’re all confused. Now we’re all confused.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, this is the news. How do I do this?
SPEAKER 11 :
If a lollipop was made out of rooster.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, okay. You don’t need to go further with that.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, I think that does it though, right? Okay. We’re good?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, okay. So… Now my question is this. How is it a slur when that’s what you do? I mean… That’s like saying, Dana, I’m a casual gamer, but are you a gamer? Well, yes, I am that-er, because I do game. So he does that. That’s not a slur.
SPEAKER 11 :
Really looking for an off-ramp here.
SPEAKER 17 :
There is none, Kane. Bought the ticket, take the ride. That’s not a slur. Oh, do you like riding skateboards? Yes, you’re a skateboarder. Yeah. So how is that a slur? It’s an observation? Yes. A slur? Unless you think that you being an er of that activity is a bad thing. Then and only then could you misconstrue that as a pejorative, right? Yeah. Do you like beating wives? You might be a wife beater. See, do you like engaging in this intimate practice with a male copulatory organ? Then you might be that or I’m just saying, you know, that’s not a slur. It’s an observation. Don’t sit here and act like there’s hurt feelings now. These people that act so big and bad. Going to bust up in a church and go after. You know why? Because no Christian is going to cut your head off. That’s why. Although I wish that they had better security there. I got to be honest. But no Christian is going to go and cut your head off for that. You want to be real big and ballsy. Try busting up into a mosque and see how well that goes for you. Try that. Let’s do that. Let’s have John Lemon buy that ticket and take that ride. Let’s do that.
SPEAKER 11 :
Muslims don’t like those kind of errs.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, man. I can’t even. All right. The people in the chat are not helping. I’m not going to say that. Really want to. Not going to do it, though. They’re not helping with these things that I really want to say on air because they’re clever.
SPEAKER 11 :
Where can people see the chat, Dana?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, right now it’s at Rumble, but I don’t like Rumble because they suppress us because we’re not one of the owners. So it’s a true story. Yeah, they just want to go after Nicki Minaj because she was at the White House. That’s all. They’re going after her because she was at the White House. And now she’s got to pay, so they’re going to come after her. What are you going to send the rainbow people? Have you heard her music? Because pretty sure she doesn’t care. Just saying. Pretty sure she doesn’t care. And also pretty sure that her bass doesn’t care either. You know? Don’t think her bass cares. You’re not going to guilt her into this. So now we’re going to gatekeep. What is the journalist? Do you remember back when… This was back when Ashley Biden left her weirdo fetish diary in the mattress of a flop house, a drug flop house. Remember that? And somebody found it. And then somehow James O’Keefe got a hold of it. And then the FBI was like, that’s not or the Bidens kept saying that’s not Ashley Biden’s diary. But here’s the FBI to raid your houses and take it anyway. Remember when all that happened? Where was the where was the defense? You literally had journalist homes who were raided. By law enforcement for on behalf of drug addicted Ashley Biden. So. Where was the cries for the free press and free speech and fascism then? They actually had to use Secret Service and FBI to babysit his middle aged drug addicted kids. That’s what part of our tax dollars went for. These walking scabies meat sacks. That’s what they… I mean, they’re sentient scabies. They had to have FBI and Secret Service babysit them. But they raided journalists’ homes. Oh my gosh, Chad. I can’t say that either. Oh my God. Well, the other one I might be able to work that in. Might be able to work that one in. The Richard one?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, that one sounds formal.
SPEAKER 17 :
Sounds very formal. That, dare I say, that almost sounds respectable. Smoker, Richard Smoker. Oh, man. What if that’s a man’s name? Separate from the Don Lemon being called a slur by Nicki Minaj. I’m just saying. And again, it’s not a slur if it’s an observation. It’s not a slur if you do it. I have no idea. It’s Friday. That’s what happened. It’s Friday, and it’s going to get really cold again, so you’re just going to indulge us. We have more on the way. I could come back to this, though.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I think we’re good.
SPEAKER 17 :
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SPEAKER 11 :
It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
SPEAKER 17 :
So Florida Man robbed three stores at gunpoint, and then as he was fleeing, crashed right into a telephone pole. He didn’t get very far. Not at all. WFLA says a Florida man led law enforcement on a chase, Marion County. This was on Tuesday. He entered a Family Dollar, pointed… Why do people rob Family Dollars? Family Dollar, for crying out loud. He pointed a gun at the store clerk, demanded money, left the store, entered a shoe station. I guess they sell shoes. And then he entered a Murphy Oil gas station. And then, again, he held that person at gunpoint, held the shoe store person at gunpoint to rob them. And then… tried to flee the scene and ran right into a pole. Karma. That was a, nature helped, right? There’s a little bit of a, a little bit of a God smack right there. I would say, let’s see a, uh, Ooh, that one’s nasty. Let me do this one real quick. Cause that one, this is, this is the saddest headline ever. A Florida man bought a stripper, uh, flowers and chocolates with fake money. That’s everything about this is sad. Uh, It’s like the, what is it, the world’s shortest story. Wasn’t it Hemingway that said baby shoes for sale, never used? Right. Yeah. World’s saddest story. Or is it? Florida man buys stripper flowers and chocolates with fake money. That’s probably going to be the world’s shortest story now. Alexander Depew. Thought he could buy his way into a dancer’s heart. 32-year-old spent $300 in movie prop money at a Clearwater forest to get a spread of chocolates and flowers for a woman at Oasis Cabaret. Mr. Depew handed over 15 counterfeit $20 bills to cover $288. And then it wasn’t until he left that the florist saw that the bills were marked replica and not legal tender. Yeah, so he headed to the strip club. He tried to pay his bar tab with some more of the fake money. They were a little wiser, though, at the club. And they’re like, yeah, we’re really good at spotting fake stuff, whether it’s on stage or it’s this cash. And they weren’t falling for it. They immediately called the police. And when the police arrived, they found another $400 in fake cash in his pockets. Wow. And so he said that, yeah, I did it because I wanted to give this dancer flowers and chocolates. They when they looked in his car, too, they found all kinds of methamphetamine and everything. So he’s being held on a twenty one thousand dollar bond. But did the stripper get the chocolates and flowers, though? Or was that like evidence? I’m curious to that. Did it ever make it to her? Whatever happened to that? You think? So that’s the saddest, probably the saddest story. Let’s see. Oh, ex-husbands, plural. Florida woman is accused of killing ex-husbands across Tampa Bay. Man, she looks like she’d kill you. I was looking at this lady’s mugshot. I just need to start a service where you send me a photo of a woman, and I’m going to tell you straight up whether or not she’s crazy just from one photo. Just have her look at the camera, have decent lighting. And I’ll tell you if she’s crazy by looking at her. I should do that as a service. I’d save a lot of people a lot of time and money. But she’s accused of murdering her ex-husbands, plural, two of them. She was Susan Avalon. She’s 51. She’s a hell of a lot older than that. She waived her arraignment, entered plea for jury trial. Manatee County, they arrested her after she was masquerading as a Panera food delivery driver. She shot one ex-husband and then both of them in December. 911 was called on one of them. And the guy, before he passed away, told law enforcement he described the way she looked. And when they go, well, do you know who it could have been? He said, quote, possibly my ex-wife, Susan. And their 15-year-old daughter was there at home when she shot and killed her ex-husband, her daughter’s father. That’s crazy. And the daughter’s super traumatized, so the mother’s taken into custody. But yeah, she does look nuts. I’m telling you, they all have a look, dudes. They all got a look, every one of them. And a Florida teen was arrested after a high-speed chase ended with a crash into a mail truck. Like M-A-I-L, M-A-I-L, not like a mail truck for Don Lemon. Yeah, he’s in trouble, this dude, a teenager. We got more in store, third hour next. The folks who helped make the program possible. It is our friends over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service out there. Look, if you’ve switched your service, good for you. If you haven’t, I have no idea why you like supporting the left. This is one of the easiest things you can do. 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You can also call 972-PATRIOT. And be sure to use promo code Dana for a free phone. PatriotMobile.com slash Dana. 972-PATRIOT. Promo code Dana for your free phone. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We’re at the top of this third hour. We’ve been talking about a lot of stuff. I’ll get into the Don Lemon thing. And of course, journalism being the latest with Minnesota. And then you got the government shutdown that looms Saturday. And then it came out today that Catherine O’Hara passed away, 71 years old. That’s a shocking thing. She was the mom in Home Alone. She was the voice of Sally in Nightmare Before Christmas. She was in Schitt’s Creek. She was also in, oh my gosh, everything. All of the Christopher Guest films. Christopher Guest is Jamie Lee Curtis’ husband. So he did A Mighty Wind and all that stuff. She was in… all of his movies. She did, I mean, gosh, all kinds of stuff. I’m like trying to think of what she didn’t do. Waiting for Guffman, all the Beetlejuice movies, Home Alone. What else? Frankenweenie, Where the Wild Things Are, everything. And then she was in that sitcom. She got started through Second City, which was like a comedic company. And it’s like all of the really good people out of the 80s got started at Second City because you had Eugene Levy, Joan Rivers, John Candy, Mike Myers, John Belushi, Aykroyd, Sudeikis, Steve Carell, Bill Murray. All these people got started out of Second City. So she’s had a really long career. She used to be the understudy for Gilda Radner on SNL, too. But yeah, that’s wow.
SPEAKER 1 :
71.
SPEAKER 17 :
So now Kane and I were talking. Rule of three. How does that work?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, typically celebrities, and this is a… This is my grandmother’s rule. Yeah, it’s kind of an old wives’ tale, but it’s kind of true. I mean, I’ve experienced it as true many, many times, where a celebrity passes away, and then within two weeks of that celebrity passing, two other celebrities die. So within a two-week period, typically the rule of three is that three celebrities will pass away. So Catherine O’Hara today…
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, I’m looking at, because you have to know them. It can’t just be like a celebrity that somebody else knows that you don’t.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. So who possibly could qualify? Was the Grateful Dead guy that passed away recently?
SPEAKER 17 :
Scott Adams, probably. I would say for me, Scott Adams, Valentino, and Catherine O’Hara.
SPEAKER 11 :
And now Catherine. So we’re going to start over another three?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, because the Bob Weir guy, I mean, I guess that sounds, but the Grateful Dead, I didn’t really know. I was just saying. Like some of these, Sly Dunbar, I’m like, I don’t know.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, the rest of them are celebrities I haven’t heard of. Some drag queen, I don’t know.
SPEAKER 17 :
Some other dude, I don’t know. This dude, maybe the guy who was in Scorpions.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right.
SPEAKER 17 :
So I think there’s probably been already the three. Because everybody else is like a nobody. Sorry, but they are. They’re nobodies. It’s true.
SPEAKER 11 :
I mean, if you’re looking at the level of Catherine O’Hara, then we’re looking at two more beyond her.
SPEAKER 17 :
Maybe the drummer for Susie and the Banshees. When was that? This year. Yeah, it was like beginning of this month.
SPEAKER 11 :
Huh.
SPEAKER 17 :
But I would say Scott Adams, Valentino, and Catherine O’Hara.
SPEAKER 11 :
All right, so there’s another three then.
SPEAKER 17 :
I think that’s the three. Because I’m looking at all the celebrity dust, and I’m like, nope, nope, nope, nope. I’m scrolling. Nope, nope, nope, nope. Maybe the Scorpions guy, maybe the Suzie and the Banshees drummer. But then that would just leave us with one more. Unless you put Bob Weir in that, and then it’s three again. So either way, I think the three are tied up. And it gets tied up. So now it would start over again. Hmm. Look at that. Man, 26 is already picking them off, isn’t it? I know. Good night. Good night. So, yeah, she was great. She was in every, almost every movie of my childhood, right? Almost every movie of my childhood. She’s in everything. This is in everything. All the Beetlejuice. She was really great in Beetlejuice in the last Beetlejuice, too. I thought that was very good, too. She was a very kooky. Moira and Schitt’s Creek was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. When she did the fruit wine commercial. If you love fruit wine as much as I do, you’re going to love her fruit wine.
SPEAKER 1 :
Fruit wine.
SPEAKER 17 :
So great. So rule of three, satisfied. All right. A few other things to get set up. We talked about Don Lemon being arrested. Don Lemon’s being arrested because he busted up into a church and decided that he was going to pull some shenanigans. And then you have these celebrities reacting to it. I feel like a lot of these people, I just saw that Eva Longoria did a thing. I don’t even know why. She’s like 51. She looks good for 51. I just wish her politics were smarter. People seem to forget that The reason that ICE is up there is for a specific reason. Minnesota stopped complying with detainer requests, so they had to physically go up there and do it themselves. Then they had a stand-on order. The governor and the mayor of Minneapolis gave the police a stand-on order that was confirmed by the police union, and they couldn’t even keep the peace or help maintain a perimeter so that ICE could just conduct their operations and get out. They wanted it to be as chaotic and ridiculous as possible. No one is apportioning the proper amount of accountability for that. And then you have these people. So the daughter of Ronald McDonald, Kathy Griffin, she wants you to snoop on your neighbors and find out if they’re MAGA or not. Listen to this unhingedness.
SPEAKER 18 :
I think it’s time to talk to the neighbors in real life. It’s time to talk to your neighbors, find out if they’re MAGA or not. Sorry, but we have to know who’s on our team and start to plan. Is there a way we can do something as a community? When I hear from my followers in Minnesota, they describe a very sophisticated channel of a system of things that they do to help one another. And they use encrypted apps. And like I said, everyone has whistles amongst their horn. but they organize in small groups. And they have told me that they learned this from the George Floyd incident because George Floyd was murdered 20 blocks away from these other murders, roughly. And so they said they learned a lot from that experience. So I’m just telling you guys, live your life, but be conscious of this.
SPEAKER 17 :
And if you’re silent, you’re complicit. Can she not breathe out of her nose? Is it not just something that she can do? Everything has to be solid with followers. Jiminy Christmas. Ronald McDonald’s daughter, everybody. Kathy Griffin. Find out. What does that mean? Plan for what? Her message was so convoluted. Time to talk to your neighbors. Find out if they’re MAGA. We need to know who’s on our team. Also, this happened in Minnesota. What is she talking about? Did she actually put makeup and a wig on and sit down and have time and just do that video for no other purpose but word salad? Talk to your neighbors about what? So if you find out your neighbor’s MAGA, what are you going to do about it, Ronnie? What are you going to do? Ronette McDonald, what are you going to do? Good night. I love these people. Hearing her talk, the word salad, is almost as entertaining as hearing Candace Owens try to pronounce words. Gal Sharpton. Have you ever heard Al Sharpton say Sigourney Weaver’s name? Sigourney Weaver. Have you ever heard him say Chipotle? I am convinced that Candace Owens is just Al Sharpton in drag. I am convinced at this point. They literally say things the exact same way. They’re there. They share the same. They have custody of the same brain cell and they pronounce words exactly the same. Mockabur. Boy, that’s really mockabur. Macabre, you mean? Oh, we got to legitimatize the hell. Can you speak English? Is that possible for you? Good night. I mean, maybe your British twink of a husband can help you with some pronunciation. Oh, architecture. Texture. I can’t even say it incorrectly. It’s like Jill Biden. Bogota. You mean the capital of Colombia? No, I mean Bogota, the little quick mart in New York City. Yeah, the bodegas? Okay. Architecture. There’s a whole account that has a million of these videos. I’ve never seen anybody so unintelligent. Mockabur. That’s so mockabur. We’ve got to legitimatize this mockabur. With some architecture. I haven’t even talked about any of that because I think nobody’s watching or paying attention to it anymore. I think she just needs to get a new obsession. But she does sound like she was in love with Charlie Kirk and got mad that he picked Erica over her. I’ve never seen a woman so scorned in my life. Oh my gosh. I think if she could get away with it, she’d probably have the NAACP try to file a race hustling lawsuit against them. That’s how she got started. She was race hustling out there with all those other losers out in 2016. And then she only flipped when she thought she could make some cash out of it. That was the only time. She used to dox conservatives and go after gamers and all that stuff. How mockable is that? Got to legitimatize. That’s a whole account. I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but it’s hysterical. So we haven’t talked a lot about that just because it’s, you know, but she like really went after Erica Kirk. I haven’t played any of that because I just don’t even care. But I do think it’s funny to make fun of. I’ve just never, I just never thought, I mean, you have Al and Gal Sharpton, the Sharptons. So mock of her. You know what? I want to get just some of those incorrectly pronounced words and add them to, like, my stinger board so I can just, like, fire them off at will. Right? I think that would be great. Every time I say the word macabre, I think of that Jane song, Macabre. I think of that song every time I hear her try to say macabre. It’s so macabre. Got to legitimatize this architecture. What? Yeah, I said it. Can you say it properly? Try that one. So. The. So they’re trying to go after this judge or the grand jury, rather, they’re saying so they’re arguing that the DOJ’s original complaint against Lemon was rejected by the magistrate judge who refused to sign the complaint and the DOJ appealed and that was rejected. But the appeals didn’t reject the claim on its merits. They said that clear probable cause existed. Jake Tapper’s trying to say that there was like no probable cause and that it was just like drummed up. That’s not true. They literally said in that the appeals, they said that the probable cause existed, but they sent it back because they wanted the process to play out. So Jake Tapper’s out here tweeting about, oh, the DOG’s original complaint against Don Lemon was rejected by this magistrate judge, etc., Yeah, yeah, yeah, that’s not the problem. Or that’s not the story. That’s like completely dishonest. They didn’t reject the claim on its merits. They literally said that there was probable cause. And notice how all these people in the media defending this, they’re like, oh, Don, instead of Don Lemon. They all know him. They’re all rushing to defend him. They’re all rushing to defend him. They’re first name basis, right? They all knew. They all knew. Lorraine says Kathy Griffin had a lung removed. I don’t know. I don’t keep up with her. She’s hateful. She is. Kathy Griffin’s hateful. Still, she’s always talked like that, though. Let’s see. We’re going to come back to this, because we also have the Mangione stuff. And also, you have this fetish, this, like, lionizing of these violent leftists, whether it’s like the Mangione, whether it’s, you know, these it’s BLM, etc. Yet, this because this is still ongoing with Minnesota, the very interesting, how do I say it posturing by some of these long standing anti to a groups has been very interesting going into this pretty case in Minnesota, we’re going to talk about that and more
SPEAKER 11 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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Two bored women in Southern California filed a lawsuit against Costco over their rotisserie chickens that were $5. $5 rotisserie chicken. It’s a class action lawsuit that says Costco is misleading customers and engaging in false advertising because it said their $5 rotisserie chickens had no preservatives. And they said it’s made with two preservatives, sodium phosphate and carrageenan. I don’t know. And that $5. And the women said they would not have purchased the chickens if they knew they had contained preservatives. And they were sold for $4.99. Make your own damn chicken then. Good night. I cannot believe that, you know, they spent more just on lawyers fees and filing than they did on them rotisserie chickens. Get these broads a hobby. A thief steals a six foot taxidermy bear off a Michigan front porch. Only in Michigan would they have this. It was stolen on January 19th. Home security footage captured a suspect wearing black clothing, taking the bear off the porch of the home. Why would you have the bear on the front porch of your house, though? I mean, I would immediately assume it had a necklace, a ring, and a fake sheriff’s badge and a holster with a toy gun. They said, if anybody has any information on this giant six-foot-tall taxidermy bear, please call the police. That’s not going to happen. They’re never seeing that thing again. Uh, so Google says Chrome’s new auto browse feature is a powerful experience that handles multi-step chores on your behalf. So now AI is going to do the browsing for you. Is that what that is? I don’t want it to browse things for me. I don’t want to browse anything myself, much less have something do it for me. They have new AI features because if life isn’t annoying enough, we need AI. More AI in it. Google says that it’s auto-browse and blah blah can help you optimize all this stuff by doing the mundane work. I don’t trust AI to do any of that. I wouldn’t trust AI to make a sandwich. Pringles, Tylenol, and Nutella are among two… are among 2,000 products were called for rodent water, rodent waste exposure. Oh, nearly 2,000 items. The FDA is saying, yeah, you could have rat poop in it. Oh, that’s disgusting. Gold Star Distribution said, yeah, don’t eat it. You’ll get real sick. They said that the facility that was doing all that. Where is it? Where’s the stuff? Oh, my gosh. Skittles, Jolly Rancher, Sour Patch Kids, everything. No illnesses have been reported. Now I got to go look at my package of Sour Patch Kids immediately and see if this is rat poop Sour Patch Kids. We got a lot more on the way. Stick with us.
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SPEAKER 17 :
Welcome back. We are at the bottom of this third hour. Dana Lash with you. Make sure you go find us over at Substack as well. Lots of good stuff up there, always. So, a couple of things. You got the DOJ releasing… This is a lot. Looking at this. Yeah. Wow. I was just making sure I wasn’t reading it incorrectly. Three million pages. Deputy AG Todd Blanche. Three million pages. Full release of all of the files. They’ve made three million pages public a month past the deadline. And it also includes… 180,000 images and 2,000 videos. Wow. And there’s a lot of redactions, though, that Congress had mandated. So there are a lot of redactions in it. But they said that they had that deadline, that Congress, they remember they had the deadline, which also seems kind of weird because 3 million pages, that’s a lot. you would have to use ai to go through it and get all the victims names out and all of that which i don’t think anybody ever had a problem with with redacting that but people want to know the names of some of these individuals and so the i don’t again i don’t mind the redactions of the victims but the other people i don’t know but then there are people who say well it was like you know McCarthyism Joe McCarthy wasn’t wrong though so stop stop saying McCarthyism he wasn’t wrong history’s proven him correct stop saying McCarthyism like it’s a pejorative so the um man that’s a lot of pages three million pages that people are going to be able to go through so uh but the redactions they said are probably going to be you know frustrating for some people And that’s an insane amount of images. So far, some of the stuff that they said is that Bill Gates was asking for… Apparently, Bill Gates asked Epstein for antibiotics to give to his wife. One of the things was because they were trying to say that he had an STD from Russian girls. Wow. This is… I’m looking at… It’s from… Yeah, Epstein. Subject is Bill. Good heavens. And apparently now this is from Epstein, I guess, to this is weird. So I’m looking at this email and it’s like from Epstein to Epstein. It’s like he sent it to himself as what to create a paper trail. I don’t know. But it was something that he was saying to Bill Gates. And in the email, it says to add insult to injury because it’s an email where he’s saying that you disregarded our friendship, all that stuff. Oh, man, I can’t read some of this. Hang on. This is what happens when this all comes out live. All right. So he says to add insult to injury, you then implored me to please delete emails regarding your STD, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda. Oh, boy. Can’t read that. Can’t read that one either. So. Yeah, that’s that’s is that something that he actually said? Because the the data on this email is weird. You see what I’m saying? I don’t know if that’s weird, if that’s that can’t be true. It wasn’t sent in, but it looked like it was. It looks like it was written by Epstein, but doesn’t say it was sent to Bill Gates. So that’s just that seems like conjecture. So I hate when the stuff drops when we’re live on air because you can’t read it and go through it, you know, all at the same time. But, man, there’s going to be some stuff in there. I think it’s telling that she divorced him because she intimated that he was creepy, that Gates was creepy. And I’m wondering if that’s because of stuff like this. Wasn’t that one of the things that she had said? Ooh, 2,000 videos, 180,000 images. I want to know who’s all in those images. That’s the other thing. Goodness, that’s a lot. So now they’ll have a lot of material to go through. This isn’t like that… influencer, the pick me influencer thirst photo where they got binders of already released stuff. And they thought it was a big deal because they weren’t really following the story. None of them really were. They just pretended to for clicks. And they got this big binder of stuff that they didn’t even know was already publicly available information. Remember that whole stunt? That was ridiculous. Was it two years ago now? Good heavens. So that’s some of the latest. So they dropped all of that. Now you also have the Senate that has to determine whether or not they’re going to pass this continuing resolution again. Here we go back to it again or we’re going to have another government shutdown. And that seems I don’t know. They got to deal with affordability. They have to deal with affordability and they need to make sure because there’s some stuff in there that there are some tricks they’re trying to pull with Obamacare, et cetera, that I don’t know is going to be helpful for them to do this. This but they’ve got to get Republicans need to get ahead of the messaging on this, because think about the time. If you do another CR now, early spring, the next time this is going to happen is when summer and then the next time it’ll happen is when fall literally right during the election. I guarantee you Democrats are going to do everything possible to have that timing set up just like that perfectly. So that when midterms come around, we’re going to have this battle again. And they’re going to set up some of the stuff to argue over now. So watch what they’re doing. They’re going to set some of that stuff up now. It’s very telling. A few other things to hit as well. This… pull this up some of the media malpractice with I was looking for one particular story the number of media outlets that were running with the AI thing that’s something to note was a lot more than what we thought previously that actually should have been trending yesterday I think every major outfit used that AI generated image that we had been talking about hmm interesting All of them did. Like they’re trying to push a particular message, isn’t it? Like they’re trying to push a particular narrative. Every one of them, you were using that image. Nobody had any context on it either. But they get mad if you post a meme of them. But they literally will use AI slap and present it as being real. and take it to the floor of the Senate or publish it on the front page of their newspaper. That’s the stuff that they’ll do. Yeah, Cain’s like, I thought they hated misinformation. Well, they only dislike misinformation if it’s a correction to the stuff that they’re doing. Otherwise, they really do love misinformation. They have no problem with it. But the number, I was like sending myself some of these links, the number of entities that were using that is stunning. It is truly stunning. And then we have this situation, I’m going to bring this up too, as it relates to immigration. So this came in, the 2025 census data is now in. This is interesting. The Florida surge has slowed down. The Midwest has seen its first net domestic gain since 1991. North Carolina is leading with over 84,000 new residents. South Carolina has over 67,000 new residents. And the people who fell into the bottom are California, New York, and Illinois. Do you know how many people left California from July 1st, 2024 to July 1st, 2025? If you had to venture a guess as to how many people left California, how many would you say in that year? Over that. 229,077. The number of people who left New York, again, this is just from July of 24 to July of 25, 137,586. Illinois, now then there’s a precipitous drop. Illinois saw 40,000, just over 40,000 people leave. New Jersey saw almost 38,000 people leave, Massachusetts over 33,000, Louisiana over 14,000, Maryland over 12,000, Colorado over 12,000, Hawaii over almost 9,000, and Connecticut almost 6,000. Now, the states that saw the biggest increases, North Carolina, Texas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arizona, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Nevada. So all of the big, bad, blue states hemorrhaged people. And then all of the states that ended up getting everybody are red states. Isn’t that interesting, Kane? Well, I mean, for the most part. The top five are red states.
SPEAKER 11 :
Not surprising.
SPEAKER 17 :
Not surprising at all. Over two, almost 230,000 people left California. Almost 140,000 people left New York. That’s insane. And you can see where they’re all going. That is something else. The other interesting thing is, too, the remember when these states were dealing with late term abortions and all this and everyone was saying, oh, everybody’s going to leave if you do this. Well, that never happened. Seven of the top 10 states for population growth are pro-life. All nine of the bottom 10 are states that have super lax abortion on demand laws, like as birth control. Goodness. They’re going to institute an exit tax for California, aren’t they?
SPEAKER 09 :
Have they done that?
SPEAKER 17 :
I mean, they’re going to have to. And those people that are leaving, as Cain notes, those people are probably the higher earners. This comes right after you had Mandani hold a press conference saying that they’re going to go after very successful, profitable businesses. They’re going to go after wealthy people. They said that those people need to pay more of their fair share, even though they’ve been paying most of the taxes by far over, what was it, over 94% of the taxes anyway. They’ve been paying the most of it. That’s according to just Americans for Tax Reform and our poll. revenue from the treasury so we can see who’s paying what. Those are all going to be those states’ high earners. Their taxes are going to go up in those states because they’re going to have to offset that. There’s businesses leaving those states. All of it. The problem is, though, is when they come to states like Tennessee or Texas or some of these red states that put so much of a burden on the shoulders of a lot of these activists and people who are registering voters because you’re dealing with people who may. I mean, yes, they’re leaving because they hate those policies, but they tolerated those policies for quite a long time. So they’re not going to be as conservative as you. That’s that’s for sure. So that it leaves a lot of work for those people in those states to make the case, you know, to make the case for it. Something when you’re seeing what happens in the stuff that they’re doing in Virginia with how they’re wanting to tax everything. In Virginia, oh my gosh. And of course, which we’re going to talk about more next week, the horrible anti-Second Amendment legislation that they have been introducing. I mean, now they control their General Assembly. They have over 50 new tax proposals there.
SPEAKER 11 :
But they ran on affordability.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah. They’re taxing literally gym memberships. They’re taxing streaming. They’re taxing even dog walking.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and your ride share stuff, too.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, yeah. All the rideshare. Oh, that’s on top of all the rideshare stuff. They’re also increasing taxes on guns and ammunition. Of course. And they are increasing the sales tax. They’re going to also increase 6% corporate tax. They’re kicking all that up.
SPEAKER 11 :
As it relates to Virginia, Youngkin left a big surplus. I think it was three points.
SPEAKER 17 :
That’s what I don’t understand. Why are they doing this if they have a surplus?
SPEAKER 11 :
They have a surplus, yet they’re going to. So it’s clear that their future is to spend, spend, spend. So what they’re trying to do is front load it so they have all this money to spend, spend, spend.
SPEAKER 17 :
That’s just awful. Awful. Over 50. Yeah, they have a $2.7 billion surplus. $2.7 billion surplus. $3 billion. And they have a flush rainy day account is what they said. Yep. So, and they have a 6% corporate tax. That’s going to increase. I mean, all of this is going to increase across the board.
SPEAKER 11 :
We’re going to see an exodus in Virginia as well pretty soon.
SPEAKER 17 :
I mean, how do you go from Yunkin to Spanberger? Ugh. How do you go from being flush to now you’ve got fees on everything, taxes on everything? And they’re changing their existing structure as well. They’re going to change per bracket. They’re going to increase taxes on that as well. So that’s a state that’s going to join all the others really quickly here. You know, yesterday we were talking about Lady Gaga and she was performing and she was railing on ice and all of this stuff. And then it dawned on me. So she I realized later that she was in Tokyo doing this. Why does that stand out? Because they have some of the I mean, it’s literally a zero illegal foreign residence plan. That’s what it’s called. They are so strict on immigration. And it just seems incredibly ironic that she was in Tokyo performing when they have immigration policies that are 50,000 times stricter than that of the United States. And maybe if she had been aware of it, I wonder if she would have been like, you know, one of those protesters out in the streets. Actually, they don’t have any protesters in Japan protesting this, but they have very, very tight immigration, very restrictive stances. And it is very skill based. They. very tight with it when they look at it in terms of employment. It’s not like everybody gets an H-1B here. They very strictly look at it as it pertains to labor and they fill in where they need to, etc. But they have some of the really, they have very, very, very strict immigration policies. So it’s incredibly ironic and completely Braindead, I think of her to be in Tokyo railing against it in the city of a country that has some of the strictest immigration policies possible. I mean, they make us look like, you know, open borders with how strict they are. Today in stupidity, Cam, what do we got?
SPEAKER 11 :
All right. It is Minneapolis’s mayor, Jacob Fry. Juan, this is cut for he has no clue how many illegal immigrants are in his community. Listen to this.
SPEAKER 22 :
I got to ask you this. When you talked about just illegal migrants in a city, people across the border illegally, that’s what people called them. I want to ask you, how many do you believe you have in your city at this particular moment in time?
SPEAKER 09 :
How many people that are undocumented are living in Minneapolis? Yes, sir. Undocumented. Do you have any idea? I don’t know. No, I couldn’t. I don’t really have a guess.
SPEAKER 11 :
First of all, he does know. Second of all, he doesn’t want to cooperate. Third of all, that’s why we have these problems.
SPEAKER 17 :
Folks, that does it for us today. Find us over at Substack, chapter and verse. I’ll be out Monday and Tuesday, but back Wednesday, I’ll be traveling for work. Have a great weekend.
SPEAKER 20 :
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