Why did the Roman Empire fall, and how does that connect to the United States today? This episode provides an insightful breakdown of historical narratives versus reality. We discuss the impacts of cultural warfare, critical race theory, and the importance of recognizing a cohesive national identity beyond racial and cultural lines. The conversation navigates through history, politics, and society to outline the often overlooked elements that underpin the success and failures of great civilizations.
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If you take that away and try to distill us just down to white folks, We’ll be like Europe, an aging, slowly dying former empire. The Roman Empire didn’t survive because it didn’t have enough strength in its diversity. It suppressed its diversity and it died. If the U.S. wants to be the Roman Empire, keep voting the way you’re voting, y’all.
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Not only is she a racist, but she is an absolute bimbo, too. That’s one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. It’s completely historically illiterate. And it’s embarrassing that she felt that that was an OK thing to say and then put it out online, ignoring the racial part of it. I think I’m I think I’m more offended by the stupidity of what she just said than I am the racism that is within it. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. That’s Joy Reid, who clearly Harvard is meaningless. That’s the kind of brain the brain trust that Harvard produces. You have her and then you have what’s his face? That pig kid, David Hogg. Those two are products of Harvard. Some of the dumbest people I’ve ever seen. So first, welcome back. If you’re joining us by listening terrestrially or if you’re watching the stream, Channel 347, DirecTV, the chat’s at Rumble. You can also find us at X and Facebook. So I love history. I am a major history buff. And one of my favorite things is reading about ancient empires and love reading about ancient rome and i watched yes i did watch the hillsdale thing the rise and fall of rome i’ve also been watching i actually watched a thing last night that was about the construction of roman roads and how all roads literally did lead to rome but more so to her point she’s saying that the the u.s isn’t diverse enough and that’s what is uh and that lack of diversity is what killed rome That is a historical nonsense. And here’s why. In fact, it was too. You can now listen to me. It was too much. I don’t mean that in the racial sense because it comes down with having a shared identity. This is one of the ways that America learned from Rome’s mistake. And our founders learned from Rome’s mistake because at some point there was admittance of, I mean, every scene, everybody got Roman citizenship. Everybody had Roman citizenship. And I don’t know. I don’t know if people realize that, uh, the Roman emperor at the time, uh, Krakala was the one who he, you know, that’s the sacking happened on his watch. But every free person in the empire got citizenship. And previous emperors also did that. And at first it was looked at like it was Rome’s strength because they would conquer and then incorporate. And that was really different in those times. They didn’t just leave something conquered and they didn’t force them to adopt every single thing that they did within Rome. But they did incorporate it. They incorporated it namely so that they could say, OK, you’re a conquered emperor. You have to now give us X amount of foot soldiers. It’s one of the reasons why they had the biggest armies is because that was part of that incorporation. But there was never any diligence in in. creating that singular identity. Everyone talks about a Roman identity, but when we look in history, it was kind of all over the place. People wanted to consider themselves Roman, but there has to be a shared loyalty, a shared identity. And that was just one of the things. And that’s like one part of it that went into it is that there was citizenship given to every single person. The overspending was crazy. the amount of spending was just, even on Caesar’s time and before, was entirely irresponsible. And then you had a lot of instability because there was a lot of corruption. There was a lot of intrigue. And the other thing, too, was you were losing a lot of traditional values. And the Eastern Empire was already starting its rise. And then you had the barbarians and you had the goths and you had no not like the cure goths but like you know the visigoths you had the goths and then you had the the huns that were all coming in so there were a lot of things that factored into it but i think one of the biggest was this strain on or an absence a strain caused by the absence of a shared identity is one of the things that played into it And the idea of being a Roman and what that meant in being a member of that empire was diluted as a result of that. In the United States, it’s one of the things that our founders did differently. They didn’t make a shared identity on a race or a religion or anything else, but it was about that animating spirit of liberty. So if you want to be free, then we are kinsmen. And that’s how the founders set this up. And in the Roman Empire, they didn’t even do that. They’re just like, okay, you’re here. You get a Roman citizenship. You get a Roman citizenship. And the absence of a shared value led to an absence of cohesion. It led to instability. It led to a complete dearth of… cultural values the whole nine yards. And there was so much internal fighting as a result of that. Rome, by the time the Goths came in and sacked it, Rome had already sacked itself. That was just the straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back. So everything that she’s saying, it’s literally actually the opposite of that, that created the fall of Rome. Now, In the United States, this is where this communist, this cultural warfare comes in. You know, the critical race theory. Everybody says DEI. DEI is an offshoot of critical race theory, CRT, which is the Frankfurt School of Marxism, right? It is an absolute Marxist theory. And I wrote about this 15 years ago. when Andrew Breitbart was still alive and I was working with Andrew Breitbart, Derrick Bell, who was a prominent academic, and he was at Harvard. He was kind of a mentor to Barack Obama. And I remember at the time we had this video Barack Obama hugging Derrick Bell. And I thought it was pretty significant. The media tried to, you know, bury it and act like it wasn’t a significant thing. But we’re like, there’s a new there’s an introduction of a new tactic here. It’s critical race theory. It’s been it’s been exploding on college campuses since the 60s. And here’s how it’s affecting you now. All of this stuff that you see now with DEI and wokery all came from that. Every bit of it. It all came from CRT. And it started on American college campuses in the 60s. Derrick Bell was a huge proponent of it. And that gets into, that was a tactic to identify, isolate, and destroy their shared cultural values by turning everyone against each other based on intersectionality so that’s where all that comes in oh if you you’re as if you have two women if one woman’s a black woman and a white woman well she has one more intersectional box to check than the white woman so now she has more power ah but if this chick is gay ah then she may had they may equal out then but if one of them’s trans then you see what I mean It’s like a constant one-up. So instead of focusing on shared cultural values and that shared identity that’s based on liberty, you’re now weaponizing all of these other variables to destroy that. It’s an ingenious way to go after the thing that really did separate us from the Roman Empire was that singular shared identity. We had something around which we could rally and be loyal, and that was we are free to be free, and this is where you come to do it at. That’s why you can be from anywhere and you can be a kinsman in freedom. And so that’s why what Joy Reid just said there is so incredibly embarrassing. I’m embarrassed for her. Can you imagine making a video and showing your ass like that with how stupid you are? I mean, there’s no excuse. She’s like a 50-something-year-old woman. There’s no excuse for you to have the money that you have, be on television and have the internet, and then not understand the basic concepts of history like this. I mean, that’s truly something. But that’s the thing. And you know what? When you are removing the recognition of that shared cultural value that is your identity, because when you think about, well, what does it mean to be an American? At its most just distilled core, what does it mean to be an American? Free. Freedom. I think that’s what ultimately everyone would come down to. Yeah. Freedom. So that’s the that is the American identity. Well, when you start weaponizing all of these other things around it and attacking it, destroying it, doing this, reinventing the Mao cultural revolution with going after and attacking our history like they did with our founders. Oh, our founders were imperfect. Thus, everything that they have done is imperfect. Well, that’s illogical on its face because I got to do is read the Bible. I mean, David was imperfect. He came from one of the most imperfect lines in all of mandum. I mean, David, who sent Uriah to be killed so he could get Uriah’s wife. David. And from him came the Messiah. So that completely blunts that argument. But they don’t care. They want you to be separated from God so you don’t understand that. And they also want you to turn on your fellow man. and ignore that animating spirit of liberty so that we can destroy the social cohesion and obscure the identity of what it means to be American. Now, Rome did that to itself. Because they were allowing every Tom, Dick and Harry and giving everybody citizenship with just completely unfettered immigration, not even just immigration. It wasn’t people even coming to Rome. Rome would go elsewhere and they would conquer a land. Oh, you’re Romans now. Here’s your citizenship. You’re incorporated. The incorporation was smart, but everything that happened afterwards was not. So there’s the she doesn’t even understand. She she doesn’t even understand the warning cry of the fall of the Roman Empire and what that means or what it looks like. in current times because she’s just focused on the racial aspect of it. Immigration is a variable and that’s, and racists like her don’t understand that. And I’ll say it again. Immigration is a variable because the identity once again is about being free. It doesn’t matter what your skin color is. It doesn’t matter what your religion is. Do you want to be free or And we are founded on Christian values. But we’re singular in that we do not demand that you worship as we worship. Or do what we do in order to accept the perks of freedom, for the lack of a better way to put it. I mean, it’s just one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. I’m like, golly, has she ever read a book? I don’t know. But… It’s just truly stunning to me. But I had to I had to talk about that. I had to talk about that. And the other part, too, is, you know, they were bringing in all of these the the Goths and all of that. It sounds funny to say it now because I immediately think of, you know, like a hot topic. So actually it’s emo. I immediately think like the cure or something. But they the way that they ended up managing it and the twilight of their empire just hastened that the the conditions that created the fall. They’d already sacked themselves. So it’s just a dumb, completely dumb thing from her. Now, a couple of things that I want to make sure we’re touching on. 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I didn’t even know this could happen. California is running out of license plate numbers. The license plate sequence that starts next year is kicking off. The one that began in 1980, it began with 1-A-A-A-O-O-O. And now… Oh, I’m not even reading all this. It’s 9-U-B… I’m not good. No, not even. Anyway, I didn’t even know you could run out of…
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It’s what happens when you give illegals a bunch of license plates.
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Of course we should be talking about how, yeah, if, you know, Speaker Johnson got his way, it wouldn’t be possible, not just for gay people to get married, but for straight people to get divorced, let alone like birth control or how he would want to regulate porn or whatever people, most people would have a problem with. But…
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What the hell is he talking about? I mean, if Speaker Johnson got his way, all the gay people would be just illegal. He’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer, guys. That’s the former mayor’s secretary, new mom, vice admiral of the canoe fleet over at Camp Wimpy Tonka, Poot Booty Juice. Wait, hold up. Don’t criticize how I say his name because our former illustrious president who had all of his brain cells… All of them. That’s how he said his name. And that’s the gold standard by which I operate, ladies and gentlemen. Dana Lash with you. Welcome back. We’re at the bottom of this first hour. He says that it’s. They should that Johnson was he was going to make it to where. Gay people couldn’t do anything and straight people couldn’t get divorced. And yeah, I don’t I don’t know what he’s basing that off of. Imagine like you just do a live stream and say whatever the hell you can. Can you imagine if I actually took to air not knowing anything about which I was discussing and just rambled and just incoherently pulled stuff out of the ether just to suit whatever, you know. Yeah, I would be held—I mean, they go with me all the time. I’ve been on air for three hours every day for years. I have a beat reporter assigned to me at Media Matters. Yes, they would find out something if I said anything incorrect. If they don’t even like it, they go after me. I mean, to hell with it being incorrect. But if you’re a Democrat, you can just— Yeah, well, Mike Johnson’s going to make all the—he’s going to illegal all the gays and— that and the straight people they can’t get divorced or have white claws it’s gonna be so bad imagine having a fourth of july with no white claws so bad But that’s what it’s like listening to him. Every time he opens his mouth to give a perspective, it’s like drunk without the alcohol. It’s what you feel like. So if you’ve never had a drop, it feels like that. You’re listening and you’re like, am I sober? Is this supposed to make sense? I don’t know. That’s what it feels like. But he’s trying to get, he’s working hard on behalf of the Dems because guys, they’re going to have to try to talk to dudes, right? You know, the party that was like toxic masculinity is now going, wait, but wait, we messed up. Oops. That’s where they’re at right now. So they said that they’re spending $20 million trying to connect with dudes by studying their syntax. S-Y-N-T-X. Yeah, whatever that means. That’s what they want to do. Audio soundbite nine. Listen to this. This is one strategist literally saying exactly this.
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Yeah, good questions. One, let me save the folks from the Times and all the other great print outlets some time. If you dig in on what Democrats are researching right now, you’re going to find a lot of silly stuff. You’re going to find people asking a lot of questions, people asking about syntax and do I drop the G for this word and this and that. And there’s going to be a lot of that. So let me just warn everybody, that process is going to be very obnoxious for this 40-something. I would also say we’re really talking about young men, right? Young men who Democrats have not figured out a consistent pitch for how to get them.
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They’re toxic. And then women can be men. I mean, you know, you guys have have kicked them around for the better part of 40 years. whether it was the Title IX stuff, whether it was promoting women over men in the name of false equality, whatever it was, you guys have attacked dudes for endlessly, for forever. Toxic masculinity. Dudes that are young Gen Z are terrified to even date chicks because of everything that the left has done. So yeah, $20 million they think is going to help band-aid that error. So after impugning their characters, again, for the better part of 40 years, now Democrats are going, wait, we messed up, hold up. Here’s an excerpt. For now, Democratic donors and strategists have been gathering at luxury hotels to discuss how to win back working class voters, commissioning new projects that read like anthropological studies of people from faraway places. The prospectus for one new $20 million effort obtained by the Times aims to reverse the erosion of democratic support amongst young men, especially online. It’s codenamed SAM, short for Speaking with American Men, a strategic plan, and promises investment to, quote, study the syntax, language, and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces. And it recommends buying advertisements in video games, amongst other things. All they know is that younger dudes play games and they’re like, something, something games. You can’t just buy an ad. You know why the Democrats have not been successful in gaming? Because they don’t play them. And Republicans haven’t been successful because they’re a bunch of damn cowardly tipper gores who want to put explicit lyrics on everything. These people that attack video games, oh my gosh, it’s like I’m watching Tipper Gore 2.0. for the love no that you can’t fake it you cannot fake it that’s you’re either in that community or you’re not that’s not one that is not a community that you can fake it with but what is this to study the syntax what does that mean kane what the hell does that mean what does it even mean it’s there that’s the language they want to they want to hijack it they want to understand it but they’re acting like they’re foreign like species right like we have to talk like these aliens
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How you do, fellow kids?
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Why, hello, fellow male. They tried that once with that ad. Remember that ad where that, they all look like rapists. They all look like soft rapists. That Democrat ad that they were, whoa, oh man, hang on, hang on, hang on.
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Their version of masculine.
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Yeah, yeah, I’m a masculine man or something like that. What, oh, da, da, da, da, da, da. Is this is this it? Oh, I got to find it. No, there’s one where it’s the voting one. They came out with one ad where it was like men that were bullying their women into voting. And then there was the one where you had this one guy who he looked like a bottom and he was sitting on a truck going, I’m a manly man. I’m like, no, you’re not. No, you’re not. You’re not. You only the only person who probably buys more lube than you is Diddy. No, you’re not. You know what I’m talking about, though? I’m sorry. I can’t just now. And every single dude in that ad, they looked it was they were all terrifying. That was the that was the attempt that they had, I guess, at trying to talk to dudes. And it horrified dudes. Yes. The that ad that Steve just put on there. Yes, that is it. That is the ad. That is literally it. And. I mean, again, it’s also the party that had David Hogg as their vice chair. Yeah, they had those weird, like, I like steak. I’m a man. Men like bourbon. Therefore, I like bourbon. So you’re going to think I’m a man. Like, you guys, Juan’s putting it up for you. My favorite was the guy who was sitting like a pageant queen on the back of a truck. Yeah, and then you have the one guy. I can’t believe that they got these lines out without laughing to death.
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I think he actually said, I eat trannies for breakfast. If you remember that line, he said, I eat trannies.
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Yeah, it was the guy in the cowboy hat.
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Man enough to deadlift 500. Shut up.
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You think I’m afraid to rebuild a carburetor?
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I eat carburetors for breakfast.
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Like the one guy in the orange shirt. He sent like a pageant queen. That guy looks like he beats his wife. That guy looks like that guy right there. And then who’s the prospector? Where the hell does this guy come from? They just got me out of the valley. I was prospecting for gold. But this is what I mean. And look, he ripped his sleeves off. You know, he went to like urban outfitters and got that shirt. That guy, his arms weren’t. But this guy right here. Who can I just say? What man sits like this? I mean, it’s rhetorical, but none of them do. Look at him. He’s like tweaking. This guy.
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I sit like that.
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He’s in an orange polo and he’s sitting on the back of a truck and he’s turned and he’s got his hands on his leg like he’s a pageant queen. And he’s like, oh, you better believe I’m a man or I’m going to beat you. That’s that’s his whole aura. I’m going to beat you vibes from that. Well, yeah. I don’t know. Silence of the Lambs. It puts the lotion in the basket. He’s totally giving me those vibes.
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I said a little like that.
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And then you’ve got the DMX wannabe who’s sitting there like, I’ll braid the whatever out of my daughter’s hair. And I’m just like, shut up. What is the matter with you? No dudes talk like this. They just do it. Right? I mean, if you have to sit here and tell people that you’re a manly dude, men know this. Men know immediately that you’re not. And Democrats are like the prospector kills me every time I see him because the shirt is just over the top. God love him. But I’m just trying to understand why Democrats think that they have to spend $20 million because I’m pretty sure this ad was several million dollars. How much do you think that ad was to make him?
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Those are all actors. From a production standpoint, it looks about, what, 8,000 won? Probably get that done with about 8,000, because there’s no names in it, so you’re not paying them much at all. So maybe 15,000 tops.
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Totally looks like California that they were in.
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But they probably spent a million on this. It’s like $15,000 production.
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They had it well in that ripped off shirt for the prospector. They had to go, you know. They had to go probably get him that shirt at Urban Outfitters.
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They gave him nuggets, gold nuggets.
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He got so mad, his sleeves just poof, came right off. They shot out the side like projectiles. And that guy, that guy was the meanest one of them all. But this is what Dems, my point is that Dems did this ad. This guy right here, look at his sleeves. I’m sorry, that’s fake. Why do you cut yourself? Why do you just like put a wife beater on, man?
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They paid him in mining equipment.
SPEAKER 21 :
I bet he hates himself now. You know that. And the way that he moved, that dude’s an actor. And I’m all for it. But if you’re going to wear a shirt like that, I feel like, you know, after we lost Joan Rivers, I feel like I need to rise to that occasion and fill that need from time to time the best way that I can, knowing that I’m nowhere near close to her brilliance. But someone’s got to step in and talk about this. Like, the hell? I see that and I’m like, what happened to your sleeves? Did your muscles get so mad they blew them off? Like what happened? I don’t get it. Stop. That guy’s an actor. They’re all actors. Like there was an article that talked about how they were all hired from an agency. None of these people are real. This guy probably never rode a damn bike in his life. And he’s like, I’m working on my bike. And he’s got his, you know, he probably don’t even know what his tools are. whole point is that democrats tried this before they spent mil they did this ad they did like three ads last cycle and how did they show men the first one was they did an ad where they were trying to show conservative men republican men like they were going to beat their wives if they didn’t if they didn’t vote for trump right for the love and then then they’re like well i guess we better walk it back we need to appeal to men instead of i guess making them look like they’re horrible people And so they did this ad that made them look like they’re horrible people. The most unlikable actors. It’s like they went to the agency. Yes, give me the most unlikable actors you have. I want women to flinch when they see them on the screen. That’s what I want. That’s what we’re going for. Yes, Kane?
SPEAKER 10 :
I think they literally thought, let’s get a cross-section of what we think MAGA looks like, and we’re going to message that way. Like we’re going to message as though we’re reaching out to the MAGA crowd.
SPEAKER 21 :
I mean, it’s just so shallow. Yes, I can deadlift this and then I can braid my daughter’s hair. Like one excludes the other. I don’t think he quite understand the concept of chivalry. Oh my gosh. It’s just, I can’t stand this. So they’re spending 20 million donor dollars. Let me clarify that. So Democrats get donations. So the people who’ve been donating to the Democrat Party, whatever brain trust brought you those ads, those are the people that are going to be trying to refine their messaging to dudes. Oh, this is, I want them to, no, you want them to do this. We want them to do this. I’m just, picture it. Content gold. Oh, my gosh. We’re going to make so much fun of this. It’s going to be insane. And if they have Secretary Newmom, Vice Admiral of the Canoe Fleet, Rear Vice Admiral of the Canoe Fleet, Camp Wimpy Tonka. Booty juice? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Booty juice. If they have him spearheading this, oh, please, for the love of all things holy, let this happen. I don’t ask for a lot. No, hold up. I asked for a Datsun for my birthday, and I didn’t get one. So at least give me the – and I asked it for Wick, my rescue dog. I was like, he needs a dog. It makes so much sense because he does wink. He does. I didn’t get that. So can I have this? Can I have this? Mother’s Day was last month, like earlier this month. It’s not over yet. I can still get like a belated Mother’s Day. So this could happen and we could see have poop booty juice leading this and the messaging would be endless. Oh, my gosh, guys, like I am here for the summer of of. Sis, think about the last movie that you saw that inspired you and kept you thinking long after the credits rolled. Movies have the power to change individuals, communities, and culture. And that’s why I’m telling you about Angel Studios. This is the studio that had the courage to bring the world the sound of freedom. So how can you be part of it? Well, you can join the Angel Guild. King of Kings, an animated story about the life of Jesus, is now streaming on the Angel app. And when you watch King of Kings, it’s going to move you. It’s beautiful, it’s powerful, and it’s unlike anything else that’s out there. It opened first on April 11th and broke records and earned an A-plus cinema score. So as a premium Guild member, you can watch King of Kings and access fan-curated films and receive two free tickets to every theatrical release. And the best part is that you are part of deciding what stories get told next. Experience the power of King of Kings, a film that’s moving hearts and inspiring faith. Visit angel.com slash Dana to watch now and be part of this life-changing movement by becoming a Guild member. That’s angel.com slash Dana.
SPEAKER 09 :
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.
SPEAKER 19 :
How you doing? I felt like it was important to get on the blower and talk a little bit about how I’m feeling and wondering how you’re feeling about the state of our union. I’m finding myself pretty scared about a lot of things, scared about losing my rights as a woman, scared about losing my right to vote as a woman, scared about losing autonomy over my body as a woman, scared of my parents’ social security checks. I’m scared of food banks running out of food and not being able to replenish because they’re no longer getting federal funding.
SPEAKER 21 :
I love the tragedy theater that these people on the left that they engage in. I mean, she’s saying all of this stuff like losing my right to vote as a woman. What does that even mean? Like, how is your right to vote under threat? Yeah, it’s rhetorical. It’s stupid. Stop fear-mongering people. I mean, that’s a big B move. Stop fear-mongering people. I’m like, wait, I’m going to lose my bodily autonomy. Oh, like with COVID, when you made your stupid little videos and you were dancing in your yard telling everyone to get injections like that? You know, where you were going along with your party’s ideology of no bodily autonomy and you were demanding under threat of penalty that everybody get injected with some experimental weird juice? That? I mean, you know, like, pick your flavor. Like, what are you going to be for today? You’re for bodily autonomy now, but you weren’t under COVID. How cute that that changes because your principles are in sand. How so nice that is. I mean, that’s Kevin Bacon’s wife. Yeah. And it makes me question Bacon. Yeah. Kevin Bacon, you know? Yeah. Because, like, he was the one, everybody who played Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, where you were at least six, everybody was no more than six people away from Kevin Bacon, right? Right. Now I’m like, do we want to be any closer? Because like, is he like her? But she did this. She did all these social media videos during all lockdown, like telling everybody, you’re going to get yourself hot with your mask. Did all those videos and lectured people. And supported the mandatory moves of government against individuals as it pertained to masking and school and, you know, opening businesses and distancing and all that stupid stuff. But this idea that I’ve been hearing this forever, you’re going to lose your right to vote. You’re going to know, but you do lose it with actual Democrats. That’s for damn sure. And you can lose your life, too, because of their policies. We’re going to talk about an 18 year old who was killed by an illegal immigrant down the road for me just just this weekend. Stick with us. People like Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service that is out there that’s in existence, and they want to save you money. Yes, they have great service. Yes, you can work with a member of their 100% U.S.-based customer service team. And you can also get a free month of service using promo code Dana. It’s time to make the switch. You can defend freedom with every call and text that you make. It’s so easy to do. This is a carrier that fights for your values. This is a carrier that also has plans for for every single budget type. It doesn’t matter, families of all sizes, businesses, singles, whatever it is, they have something for you. And they also, again, don’t spend your money against you at the ballot box. Super easy to switch. If my mother can do it, it takes minutes to do it. You can as well. You just simply visit PatriotMobile.com slash Dana or you can call 972-PATRIOT and get a whole free month of service using promo code Dana. Super easy to switch. Defend freedom with every call and text that you make. Very easy. PatriotMobile.com slash Dana. 972-PATRIOT. Promo code Dana for that free month of service.
SPEAKER 23 :
Good afternoon. I am Corporal Carly McCann, Provincial Public Information Officer for the Nova Scotia RCMP. Thank you all for being here today. First, I acknowledge that we are in Mi’kma’ki, the traditional and unceded ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people. I also recognize that African Nova Scotians are a distinct people whose histories, legacies, and contributions have enriched that part of Mi’kma’ki, known as Nova Scotia, for over 400 years.
SPEAKER 21 :
This is the equivalent of throwing the Virgin in the volcano to appease the fire gods. That’s exactly what that is. So that’s the police. They were holding a press conference on missing kids. What? Yeah. Is that what? Yeah, they were holding a press conference on two missing kids, and they started off with a land acknowledgement. Shut up. I don’t care what stupid land you’re on. That’s so dumb. You’re talking about missing kids. First, we can’t get started until we acknowledge that we’re on the missing lands of the Lilliputian people. And we have to thank the Lilliputians for allowing us to have this press conference here before we start talking about the missing kids, which are actually not as important as acknowledging the Lilliputians. That’s how dumb this sounds. You’re talking about missing kids, like little kids, a six-year-old and a four-year-old. They’ve been missing in rural Canada for four days. And they had rescuers combing the woods looking for them. And it is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. That’s the RCMP that she mentioned. And they had helicopters, everything. But they could not start until they did a land acknowledgement. That… These are not serious people. I have literally never heard that since this is such it’s a performative theater. It is performative theater. You have time is critical. Two kids are missing. Families have their hearts broken. And this stooge broad gets up there. Oh, we’re going to do it. What? What? What? This doesn’t even make any sense. Is it? She sounds she sounds like a hostage video. That’s so, that is, I’m just shocked. I don’t know, man. That’s, can you imagine if you’re the family and you’ve got, you know, your kids are missing and you have the police lady get up there and go, oh, well, we recognize that we are on the land of the Lilliputians and, you know, that’s what, that’s crazy. What? It’s they didn’t start up talking about the kids. They started talking about that. I mean, again, it’s performative as all get out. It’s so incredibly performative. I don’t know. I don’t know how long that lady’s been on the force or not, but good heavens. I just shocked me. It shocked me. I don’t understand the land acknowledgements. Nobody cares about land acknowledgement. Everybody stole land from everybody. And you didn’t steal it. It was conquered. You went in and you either moved and acclimated or you got conquered. People have been conquered all throughout history. Whenever anybody talks about Mount Rushmore, well, guess what? The Lakota took it from someone. Who did you steal it from? Lakota stole it. They took it from Chippewa. Where did they take it before that? I mean, it’s so stupid. Just quit. What does any of that have to do with missing kids? Sorry, we have to pay the indulgence of mentioning these people before we can start talking about the bigger story of literal missing children. And you wonder why Canada is circling the crapper. That’s why. Good heavens. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you at the top of this third hour. And you can… Listen, terrestrially across the country, Channel 347, DirecTV, the chats at Rumble. The Maryland man. I like saying it because Cain rolls his eyes. That innocent Maryland father. You know the van that he was driving those people in when we played that video? I think it was like earlier this week, right? The video footage of him in the vehicle and he had eight people in the car and it was registered to a known human trafficker. Yeah, so the guy who owns the vehicle told the DOJ that he actually paid Kilmar Brego Garcia to transport illegal aliens from Texas all across the country. So he was a human trafficker. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s probably a criminal illegal alien who’s an MS-13 gang member. Gang banging duck, just saying. Yeah, of course he was. We all knew that. We didn’t need an official word from the DOJ. Hey, this guy who’s here in the country illegally is driving a vehicle owned by a human trafficker. Wow. Gee, I wonder what he’s doing. And he’s got eight people in the car and they don’t have any luggage. Wow. I really I wonder what’s up with that. He’s just driving him to Whataburger. Man, they’re just going to go to Whataburger. That’s all Juan’s showing you. So this footage, the car that this dude’s in, that’s Abrego Garcia at the wheel. The car that he is in is literally owned by a known, well-known human trafficker. And the well-known human trafficker verbatim told the Department of Justice, this was released by Pam Bondi, that he paid Kilmar Abrego Garcia to transport illegal aliens all around the country. This is what Democrats, this is the guy that Democrats fell all over themselves on to go and have margaritas with. And this is the same guy who beat his wife like millions of times. Had protective orders. Tennessee Star broke the story. There’s more. The DOJ, they’re investigating Abrego Garcia, obviously. They offered limited immunity to the guy who owns the vehicle. So he’d tattle on them. The guy, his name is Jose Ramon Hernandez-Reyes, and DHS confirmed that he is the owner of that 2001 Chevy Silverado that Abrego Garcia was driving in the video that you see. It’s 2022. And he was offered limited immunity. Hernandez-Reyes was previously arrested in 2019. He was already convicted of human trafficking a couple of times. He was sentenced to 18 months behind bars, deported, told not to come back for three years. Hernandez-Reyes came back anyway, illegally reentered, got this vehicle and has been helping to traffic humans all across the United States, obviously violated the terms of his sentence, and that in Abrego Garcia, he hired him and paid him to help him traffic people around the country. And the El Salvadorian, Abrego Garcia. Boy, Maryland dad, right? All of this stuff just keeps dripping out. Drip, drip, drip. Keeps dripping out. And if you remember, so he was stopped by Tennessee Highway Patrol in 2022. That’s that video. He didn’t have a driver’s license. Eight people, himself included. or nine, himself included. And this was the Biden-era FBI. They were told the agency, they had to release him. The FBI told DHS they had to release him. And there were troopers, as you heard in the video, we’ve played it before, that knew that he was trafficking. They’re like, this guy’s a trafficker. That’s what’s happening here. You know this is what’s happening. He’s a trafficker. And he had cash on him, almost $2,000 in cash. And Hernandez-Reyes has been convicted, like I said, for trafficking before, from Texas to all over the United States, various parts of the country. This is the Maryland ad that they want to protect. Just absolutely no shame. And I keep seeing the due process. It’s due process, due process, due process. He had his due process. It’s time for us to have ours. Just wild. Wild. Now, a couple of other things. Can we get some of this Biden audio? Biden was on The View today. Where’s his mush mouth? Which one? Because I’ve got two cuts here. Which is the mushiest? Let’s do audio some by 27. Listen to this. He’s talking about why Harris lost.
SPEAKER 15 :
Why do you think the vice president lost? And were you surprised?
SPEAKER 18 :
I wasn’t surprised, not because I didn’t think the vice president was the most qualified person to be president. She is. She’s qualified to be president of the United States of America. But I was surprised. I wasn’t surprised because they went the route of the sexist route, the whole route. I mean, this is a woman. She’s this. She’s that. Really, I’ve never seen quite as successful and a consistent campaign. undercutting the notion that a woman couldn’t lead the country and a woman of mixed race.
SPEAKER 21 :
What does that have to do with anything? That is some of the stupidest stuff I’ve ever heard. It had nothing to do with that. It was her quality. I mean, I’m not going to relitigate it. I would literally rather beat my head against a rock on a riverbank repeatedly until it’s nothing but mash before I have to talk about Kamala Harris again. She she it was quality. She’s just horrible qualifications. It’s not there. It’s an embarrassment. Stop trying to make her a thing. This guy can barely talk. You have to listen close to even hear what he says. Audio somebody 26. He says he could have beaten Trump again. No, he couldn’t have. No, he couldn’t have. Listen to this. Knowing what you know now, do you think you would have beat him?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, he still got 7 million fewer votes.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 18 :
A lot of people didn’t show up, number one, number one. Number two, they’re very close in those toss-up states.
SPEAKER 21 :
Not that, actually. I mean, you lost the blue wall. You lost Michigan.
SPEAKER 03 :
They lost all of them.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, they lost every bit of the blue wall. And Michigan was a huge loss for them. Do these people like what in the world? There’s just doesn’t doesn’t doesn’t make any sense. But I don’t know. I don’t understand the appeal of having him on the view. Does that bring eyeballs? Are people like I mean, are people seriously interested? I really. Seems kind of lame. We also hang on. I got I want to get more of this because we’ve had breaking news all throughout the beginning of the show. This, you guys want to hear Marjorie Taylor Greene versus Jasmine Crockett? I do. Audiosound by 15. Fight, fight, fight.
SPEAKER 25 :
Point of order. Out of curiosity, is the chairwoman allowed to editorialize before every speaker on the Democratic side speaks, or is that part of her time, which we know that she went over?
SPEAKER 24 :
It’s not a point of order. You’re taking Ms. Stansbury’s time. I know you’re trying to be chair of oversight, but Ms. Stansbury is the ranking member. Chair would be better on this side. I do agree with that. It’s Ms. Stansbury’s time.
SPEAKER 21 :
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SPEAKER 10 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick 5.
SPEAKER 21 :
A St. Louis man was arrested after sitting naked in the St. Louis Terminal Airport. Did they ever remove the plywood from the windows from that tornado some years ago? I asked them that three years after the tornado hit and Lambert, the official ex-account, went at me. They hire the best. The St. Louis County Circuit Judge signed an arrest warrant for a guy who sat naked inside of the airport terminal. Probable cause statement. It happened on April 25th, Terminal 1. The guy’s named Darius Walker. He attempted to cover himself when somebody approached. He was sitting in the terminal chair, belt unbuckled. So it sounds like he had clothes. If his belt was unbuckled… Maybe the people at Fox 2 now, maybe they could write a decent story that clarifies this before they finalize a headline. That would be super helpful for people trying to share the news. Meanwhile, let’s see if the New York Post did one better. A seven-year-old boy drove his little sister nine miles in his mom’s SUV to get a McDonald’s Happy Meal. That’s a good big brother. Wait, no, it’s not. Stop. You’re seven years old. You can’t be driving a car. He drove his sister nine miles, his little baby sister. And the mom was shocked. She goes, he’s probably grounded for the rest of his life. They were in Utah, and it was 8 a.m., and police were called. They were alerted to a reckless driver, and the SUV did not come to a stop until they hit a parking strip, and they found a 7-year-old and a 5-year-old inside unscathed. And they made it 9 miles from their home, cash in hand to buy Happy Meals. That’s going to be a story they’re going to tell for the rest of their lives. Thankfully, nobody was hurt. But can I just ask, how in the hell you, mom, did not know that your kids had taken the car and driven nine miles away when they’re seven and five years old? Oh, I can’t be judgmental. Yes, because I’ve had two kids like that separated that age distance. I think I would know if my kids took my car and drove to McDonald’s. So I don’t know like what was happening in that house. I mean, watch your kids. Let’s see. This AI of dead Arizona road rage victim addresses killer in court. They use this in court. A clip of a guy who was killed in 2021 said, I believe in forgiveness after his sister fed an AI model videos of him. And they used it in court. I don’t like that at all. And that should not. I don’t think that should be allowed. That is creepy. And that is really creepy. I know. And how? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I don’t know. We got a couple headlines in here repeatedly. Let’s see. Going back up. A tourist was bitten by a crocodile while taking a selfie at a zoo because he thought the animal was fake. Well, in his defense, they do say very still. They do. He was 29 years old. But his problem was that he literally climbed into the enclosure. And he was promptly bitten by a female crocodile. He thought it was fake. And so he climbed into the enclosure to get a photo with it. But again, it was fake. The zookeeper had to go in and hit the crocodile in the head to get her to open her mouth. And he got more than 50 stitches for his injuries. And I hope that they billed him for any injuries to the crocodile since he climbed into the enclosure. Goodness. So let’s be real. Medical freedom isn’t just a catchphrase. It’s your right. Your health decisions belong to you and not the government, not Big Pharma, and definitely not someone elected bureaucrat. So that’s why I’m all in on what All Family Pharmacy is doing. They’re putting medical power back where it belongs, and that’s in the hands of you, Americans. Through the end of June, they’re making it even easier to take back control because when you control your health, you protect your family, your future, and your freedom. Get 20% off site-wide. No insurance, no problem. No insurance needed. And licensed doctors in all 50 states. You’ll also receive fast shipping straight to your doorstep. This isn’t just about convenience. It’s also about freedom. You can get ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine. You can get methylene blue, emergency kits, antibiotics. Whatever you need to be prepared, proactive, and protected. So visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana and use promo code Dana20 to get 20% off your order. That’s allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana, code Dana20. Don’t wait for permission. Own your health and take your freedom seriously.
SPEAKER 11 :
and discrimination against black people. We are in a moment of anti-blackness on steroids and we refuse to be silent. We will not back down in our pursuit of racial justice. The antidote to anti-blackness is to be pro-black and we will do it unapologetically. The United States government owes us a debt and we need reparations now.
SPEAKER 21 :
I didn’t know it was a call and answer session. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you at the bottom of this third hour. That is Ariana Presley, who’s talking about reparations. Man, Democrats are just they just keep putting out bangers, right? They just keep putting out bangers. I’m all for them doing this. Do it. Try it. F-A-F-O. I’m all about it. Democrats introduced a federal resolution, once again, for reparations. I’ve got a lot of questions about this. So Summer Lee out of Pennsylvania led it. It was first introduced back in 23 by Cori Bush. Now, don’t you criticize that woman because she’s got a man who says he’s a wizard. Right? It was her bodyguard who says he’s a wizard and he can literally bring a plague upon you. I don’t know. That came out. She was paying him campaign money. I don’t know. Anyway, they said… that in this press conference, they want, Presley says she wants restitution and justice and reparations, and I don’t even know what that exactly means. I’m so tired of hearing off of the stolen labor, stolen land, et cetera, et cetera. Can I just note that every nation on earth, without exception, has engaged in the practice of slavery, and it wasn’t just us. black citizens that were enslaved either. I mean, by and large, it’s a horrible thing. It goes without saying. But it wasn’t reserved also for just one group of people or another. So my question is, how does this work? So people who were never slaves want money from people who never owned them. Okay. That still doesn’t make any sense to me. So like, Cain, let me use Cain as an example. Sorry, Cain. I just want to use you as an example.
SPEAKER 08 :
So
SPEAKER 21 :
You’re, and we’ll just put it bluntly, so Cain is half Mexican. So your family wasn’t even here. Half of you weren’t even here when all that happened. So do you only… Pay 50% reparations? Like, how does that work?
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s a great question.
SPEAKER 21 :
Juan’s family’s from Puerto Rico. How does that work?
SPEAKER 10 :
Is there no, like, system?
SPEAKER 21 :
Juan wouldn’t even hear. He’s got to pay reparations.
SPEAKER 10 :
So we’ve got to consider that. Plus, is there a system considering your family’s history?
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, so my family predominantly are Irish, which explains so much. And American Indian. So when we look back through our family, our family records, we we were on the Dawes rule. So we were my ancestors were forcibly removed on the trail of genocide by Democrats to go to Oklahoma and elsewhere. Excuse me. So how does that work? So when my and then my other ancestors, when they came over a way long time ago. I mean, the Irish were enslaved and they were treated horrifically. So how does that work? Is there like a grading scale? I think when you’re also demanding that you and only you deserve recognition for… past offenses, you’re also diminishing and attempting to disqualify everything else that everybody else is. It’s the human story. The human story is, you know, because humans have the free will to choose evil and good. And part of the human story is, you know, immoral activities such as this. Part of the human story is entire tribes in Africa that would conquer other tribes, and they would literally sell them into slavery. I don’t know where people thought that they were going when they were over there on the Ivory Coast, and they were sending people through that famous doorway and trekking across the Atlantic to the New World and selling people to plantations. But, I mean, it wasn’t just a bunch of Englishmen over there that were selling people, and they were working. In fact, what was it, the— What was the one movie that was made and it was on Netflix and it got a lot of pushback even from black historians because they were glamorizing one of the biggest tribes in Africa that was prolific in the slave trade. They made a lot of cash trading their enemies, other enemy tribes. They would war and they would capture and they would sell. So if you descended from that
SPEAKER 10 :
tribe and are you then partly responsible for reparations for paying reparations too like how does that work that’s how stupid this is let’s remember where the word slave came from it didn’t come from some african descent it came from the slavic countries and they were actually white people who were slaves first which is why the word slave was even what it is
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, what it says, too, is that, oh, it’s okay in every instance but this. I don’t think it’s okay in any instance. But this is, you know, the history that we have. I mean, one of the things with history is we look back at what, you know, the people who came before us did. And if we don’t like what they did, we say we’re not going to repeat that. That’s the unfortunate aspect of it. But to demand that someone who wasn’t involved be responsible for paying you is… It is… A lazy way to redistribute wealth. And the sad thing is, is you’re diminishing actual immoral activity by using it as a veneer for greed. And that’s the truth of it. If like Ariana Presley and others calling for reparations want to get really mad, be pissed off at Democrats. That perpetuated this. It was Democrats who did the trail of genocide and it was Democrats who fought to keep people enslaved. That is the truth of the matter. They fought for this. And their policies after continued to fight for it. The destruction of the black community through community, through urban planning, the likes of which happened under you had under FDR and others. I mean, go back and look what happened like when they were building roads and highways. This was Democrat central planning. There’s entire books on this. I have two in my library. That was Democrat central planning, and it was designed to divide and control. I’ve never understood how people can support the party that historically fought to diminish them at every turn. The abolitionists were Republicans. The people who wanted women to be able to not have to go to the poorhouse when their husbands passed away, to be able to inherit the farms that they worked on alongside of their husbands and families. Those were Republicans that fought for women to be able to do that. It was Republicans that fought for women to be able to cast a vote as an equal citizen of this nation. And it was Democrats that opposed it at every step. That ideology. I hate breaking everything down to just Republican or Democrat. But it is that ideology that is still so pervasive today. I mean, think about the policies. And it’s even creeping over in conservative spheres. This is one of the reasons I get enraged when I hear about people trying to expand welfare programs like paying women to have babies. They are a continuation of the same policy that chipped away at the nuclear family unit over the past several generations. And they’re trying to doll it up as a conservative proposal. It’s asinine. Who is the party of higher taxation that makes it to where a family has to send both parents out of the home to work? Exactly. This is my point. I mean, if Democrats want reparations, maybe they should ask themselves to pay themselves then for diminishing and dehumanizing themselves. And furthermore, I want my reparations. My ancestors were forcibly removed, apparently by Elizabeth Warren’s ancestors back in the day. So what do I get out of that? I would like to know. My family was dirt poor. And my family came from a tribe that actually was pretty independently wealthy in Georgia back in the day. And they had everything confiscated and seized from them and they were sent on the trail of genocide. We’re on the roll books. We’re listed. My ancestors are listed on the trail and they got their numbers. So I’m just curious. What do what do my ancestors get from that? Like, where does that come? What about the tribes that were relocated through that trail of genocide? They can’t even own their own land on Indian reservations. Do you know that? Democrats have fought against that forever. If you’re on a res, you can’t even own your own land. The government owns it. It’s actually not, I think about it, it’s actually not that much different from property taxes. You never really own your own land, but you really can’t even have it in your name on a res. So that’s, you know, Why? Why did they do that? Why did the government do that and disallow them to own property? Big question. So if they’re going to talk about reparations, they need to take it to their party and say, you owe us this because this is what you fomented throughout history. It is evil to demand that someone else carry the penalty for another person’s sin. God doesn’t even do that. God doesn’t pass on original sin. It’s a myth that he does and it’s scripturally incorrect to assert otherwise. He doesn’t do that. You’re not responsible for the sins of your father. And again, if people want to argue that you are, tell me, explain to me Jesus’s lineage again. I just, it’s divisive and it’s hateful and it’s racist. They’re just racist is all it is. Lorraine notes that the Irish quarter and her German half of her family didn’t get here until after it was over and they were dirt poor. So what about those? And what about black slave owners? There were some Native American, American Indian slave owners. What about them? Here’s the other thing. What about people like my husband’s family who came over here in the 1800s from Germany? And there was a book written about his grandfather, Gustavus Lash. He was taken as a prisoner of war, and he was in Andersonville, the worst POW camp in the country. And I can’t remember how many of them walked out. They had a ton of them in there. And to feed them, they would drive a live ox into the yard. And the prisoners would have to tear at it with their bare hands and teeth if they wanted to eat. Most of them died. Most of them died. And my husband’s grandfather was one of the very few that walked out alive, totally emaciated, looking like a concentration camp survivor, but walked out alive. There’s newspaper articles written about him and all kinds of stuff. He fought for the union. He gave his health. He offered up his life. Sir, are you telling me that somebody, his descendants, have to pay for something they didn’t do? What about the people who lost their lives fighting to free people? Are you telling me that by way of their skin color, that they are just required to pay? It’s racist. Arianna Pressley is a racist, and these other people are as well. And they use their skin color as a gimmick. And it’s sickening and it’s divisive and it’s evil. It is a moral failing on their part to demand reparations. You know, there are people that have suffered. I wrote I have a whole chapter about this in my book, Grace Canceled, because I write I write about all of this. Human history is entirely imperfect and filled with error because humans are entirely imperfect and error prone. You’re continuing this pattern by demanding something from people who are not responsible to pay you for something you never endured. And when I look at the backgrounds of some of these lawmakers, you know, like people like Jasmine Crockett and others, and they never experienced the poverty that I grew up with. Ever. When I look at Ayanna Pressley’s background, I mean… She had every, I mean, she had a lot of stuff handed to her. She grew up in Chicago. She did Planned Parenthood advertisements. You know, she was able to, you know, build herself. And then she kind of like discounts that and acts like, you know, she didn’t, none of this was available to her. She wouldn’t be where she was if these opportunities had not been available. Opportunities that she argues don’t exist. It doesn’t make any sense. It’s evil and it’s a perpetuation of the sin that they accuse others of.
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Ben Carson joins Pastor Alan Jackson on Culture and Christianity, Protecting Faith and Family.
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There were some failures in our culture from expressions of racism, I mean, those widely documented. But there’s abundant evidence that as glaring as some of those weaknesses were, they didn’t prevent opportunities. I’m concerned for the younger people today. I think they face challenges that could be even more debilitating.
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Hear the full story on culture and Christianity with Pastor Alan Jackson. Subscribe now on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
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Some of these headlines I got today. All right. So first up, I’m telling you what, this is scary. If I lived in Florida and I love you, Florida, I love vacationing in you. I love your food. I love going down there at 30A. I like going. I mean, the whole every part of it, no matter what part of it is all beautiful. You’re all’s water is I mean, it’s terrifying because the stuff that’s in it. In your sewers, municipal employees were doing a routine inspection. Routine inspection. Oh, we got to go look at this pipe. It’s underneath this Florida road. Let’s send a little camera down there just to see. Oh, my gosh. There’s a gator sitting in the pipe like a people. He’s sitting there like a people. Look at him.
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What?
SPEAKER 21 :
Juan’s got, I think Juan’s got it. It’s a, they were looking, it’s this concrete pipe and they were looking to see like what, you know, the structure, et cetera, et cetera. You know, as one, as, as, as skilled workers would do. And they lowered this camera down there and they saw a gator. It looked, it legit looks like he’s sitting up. I can’t even say the city’s name, but they posted a photo to Facebook showing the image of the gator. And they used this remote-controlled camera to check the pipe. You know, they were looking for cracks and leaks and things like that. Oh, but then there’s more. They also had video of him later walking around. The pipes were fine, but he’s just walking around. See, he’s while you look at him with these, just sitting like a people. He’s sitting there chilling in the pipe. Can you imagine? Now, that’s a sewage pipe. I don’t know. Like, is he going to come up in somebody’s toilet? I don’t know. I’m just saying. They also kind of want to chill with you at your house, too. Not this particular gator, but one of his friends. An alligator. Another alligator. Not the one that we had last week that knocked on someone’s door. This is a new gator knocking on someone’s door. Come and knock on my door. He got stuck in a folding chair. He needed some help. Lee County Sheriff’s Office posted a video to social media. A gator was visiting front porches in Tortuga and their deputies had to come because he got his head stuck in a folding chair. And as he approached the front door, he had the chair on his head and it was hitting the door. It was almost like he was signaling for help. So clearly the homeowner did not try to do it themselves. They called the professionals to come and help. My gosh, we got a lot more on the way. Third hour next. Stick with us.
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Reopen Alcatraz. Can you walk us through that decision?
SPEAKER 17 :
Did I say what?
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To reopen Alcatraz. How will you use it? How did you come up with the idea?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I guess I was supposed to be a movie maker. We’re talking, we started with the movie making and we’ll end. I mean, it represents something very strong, very powerful in terms of law and order. Our country needs law and order. Alcatraz is, I would say, the ultimate, right? Alcatraz, Sing Sing and Alcatraz, the movies. But… It’s right now a museum, believe it or not. A lot of people go there. It housed the most violent criminals in the world, and nobody ever escaped. One person almost got there, but they, as you know the story, they found his clothing rather badly ripped up And it was a lot of shark bites, a lot of problems. Nobody’s ever escaped from Alcatraz and just represented something strong having to do with law and order. We need law and order in this country. And so we’re going to look at it. Some of the people up here are going to be working very hard on that. And we had a little conversation, I think.
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The shark bites, a lot of shark bites. Well, there’s shark infested water right there, I mean. I’m just saying. It is, isn’t it, Kane? I mean, you know, the sharks are hungry right there. All they got are needles and feces.
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That’s where they’re looking to get their bites in.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, you got to get your bites in. And then their little watch goes off and says, you did it. I don’t know what’s happening. Oh my gosh. Welcome back to the program. We’re at the top of this third hour. It’s the weather. Welcome back. Dana Lash with you. We’re at the top of the third hour. Greetings and salutations. A little quick sidebar. Our studio, we have Wick here, our rescue pup. We’ve had to teach him how to be a dog. In a way, because we got him from a shelter and he never like went outside without a person before. So the first time I let him go outside, you know, like, oh, it’s your backyard, you know, and you can go use the restroom. He looked at me like I was crazy. Like, get here, woman. Like, you got to walk out with me. I can’t do this by myself. And he is petrified. I’ve never, I mean, he just shakes. He just tucks his tail and just shakes whenever there’s like thunder, whenever it’s storming. And then, you know, if whatever was going on, we got to stop it and make sure he’s chill. And he doesn’t like being in his kennel except to go to bed at night. That’s the only time. And most dogs want a safe space. Wick does not want to be in his kennel. So I made a pillow fort for him. like a whole pillow fort that he can get in and hide. So I’ll let you know how that works out. I’m like, well, I don’t, he doesn’t want to be in his kennel. So the next best thing is a pillow fort.
SPEAKER 10 :
How many pillows have you used in this pillow fort?
SPEAKER 21 :
A lot. And I, there’s like a blanket and I, I am an expert pillow fort builder. I don’t know if anybody knows this. It’s a particular skill set that I have. I’ve made many, many pillow forts, not just as a child, but also as a boy mom. I have made some pillow forts in my time. And so it’s a really keen, it’s a spectacular pillow fort in which Wick can find security from the storm since he doesn’t.
SPEAKER 10 :
Does he calm down in the pillow fort?
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, I don’t know. We’re trying it for the first time. So we’re going to see. That’s what I did on break. I’m like, I went and cobbled together. If I do say so myself, a pretty spectacular pillow for it. And we’re going to see if that maybe because he wants to be under stuff and in. And if he sits by you when it’s storming, you have to basically hug him. You have to put your arm around him and hug him. Or he’ll try to melt into your head. It’s just like he tries to get right there by you.
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That poor guy.
SPEAKER 21 :
He is just… And someone was telling me a thunder shirt. People who have never dressed toddlers are like, get a thunder shirt for your dog. Dressing a dog is as bad, if not worse sometimes, I think, than dressing a toddler. Well, unless it was my youngest. And I just don’t know if that’s going to work out. So I don’t even know what it’s a shirt that hugs you tight.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I guess it’s supposed to be like those compression blankets that make you feel like you’re being hugged.
SPEAKER 21 :
I feel like that’s not going to work for him. He’s he’s a very smart dog. He is super smart. He learned how to open gates and all kinds of stuff. He’s incredibly smart. But yeah, so he’s just except he doesn’t recognize just a basic storm. He’s smart, but you know. So we’ll see how that goes.
SPEAKER 10 :
There’s no meteorologist. Give him a break.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, I mean, it is kind of out of nowhere. It was sunny this morning, and then all of a sudden a storm comes rolling through again, and the thunder is so loud that sometimes it carries over air. It’s crazy. So anyway, that’s my life right now. I’m just making sure my dog doesn’t have an existential breakdown when I’m on air because of the thunder. So if one day you guys happen to tune in, And you hear like some whining in the background of the mic if you’re not watching. Or if you just see a giant yellow dog here in the seat with me, it’s because the pillow fort didn’t work. It didn’t work. And so he’s got to be. And he just sits there. It’s the funniest thing. He doesn’t move. It’s like he thinks if he’s still, the storm won’t see him. Like the big roll of thunder. He acts like if he’s just super still, the storm won’t see him. And he just he sits as still as a cigar store Indian. He just sits there and will not move. So he’ll just he’ll probably look like a fake dog. So it may happen now. It may happen here in the next the next few. So bear with us. It’s our high maintenance show dog. Oh, my gosh. Now, Lorraine says for her dog, it’s the electricity in the air more so than the thunder. I didn’t even think about that. Really? The electricity in the air? I just think it’s muggy. Anyway, so. All right, so POTUS having a little press avail right there, and he’s discussing Alcatraz. I just, again, I don’t think you need to make it all up, right? Just make sure you got the electric fences work, and I think you’re good, right? Don’t you think so? And the locks work? Yeah, I think that, yeah, I think that’ll, I don’t even know how much that would, are we running out of prison space?
SPEAKER 10 :
I don’t know. I mean, we’ve been letting prisoners out for all kinds of different reasons.
SPEAKER 21 :
Right.
SPEAKER 10 :
And overpopulation’s been one of those reasons.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, I just, yeah, I mean, I don’t know. I mean, maybe it, you know, maybe we do, but I’m not against it. I’m not against it. Put us at down with Kristen Welker. and was grilling him about a number of different issues. Can we have Audio Summit 6? Because I need to hear what he says about Jasmine Crockett. Go ahead and play this one.
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I can’t name one Democrat. I mean, I look at the Democrats. They’re in total disarray. They have a new person named Crockett. I watched her speak the other day. She’s definitely a low-IQ person. And they said she’s the future of the party.
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She’s dumb. How is that possible? That’s what he just said. Now, speaking of Crockett, was this at her audio soundbite? I think this. Oh, 17. So she was speaking at a commencement ceremony. You know, just this sounds like a particular just like I guess what a regular commencement material. Listen to this.
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going to be people that tell you that you don’t belong. And I am here to tell you over and over and over that you absolutely belong. There are people that are going to tell you that there is not a table in which there is a seat for you. But I am here to remind you of Montgomery and those folding chairs. Let me tell you that we know how to use a chair, whether we pulling it up or we doing something else with it.
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OK, so I guess she thinks that. So this was her graduation, her commencement speech Sunday. This is she was in Mississippi. 20 minute speech and. She’s like unnecessarily wordy, like instead of, you know, at a table in which there is a chair, you could just say a seat at the table, you know, at the table and using a bunch of words strung together poorly does not make you sound smarter. It makes you sound dumb. Just say a seat at the table. That’s it. But she’s talking about this, the fight that, she’s talking about chairs. Do you remember this 2023 fight that was in Montgomery, Alabama? And it was boaters that fought with, I guess, like a dock worker and a couple of other people. Remember this? It was a bunch of drunk people that fought and then there were chairs involved. I don’t even know. And it had to do with a parking spot at the dock. Like somebody was trying to dock their boat and somebody else, there was like a large river boat. And then there was a smaller private boat and everybody got into a fight and they, everybody made it a racial thing. And because they said, well, the, you know, this, the city has a history of racial violence. I don’t necessarily, I mean, I don’t know if it was a race thing more as much as it was a drunk person, drunk people entitled thing. I don’t know. But yeah, I mean, I guess, you know, she needed it to be that. She referenced that. That’s what she was talking about with the folding chair. Like, that doesn’t even make sense. You’re talking about a drunk fight over dock space and a… What?! ! But why is that the message? First off, who’s telling people that they don’t that there isn’t a seat for them at the table? Oh, sorry. A table at which there is a seat, also known as a chair, that you could have the seat at. I don’t get it, Cain. Who’s telling anybody this? The only people that are saying this are people like her. The only people that are going, oh, there’s no room at the table. It’s her. She’s the one who’s telling them this.
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She did respond to him on X. Oh, yeah? I put that in Slack.
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She did respond to him on X. Yeah. Well, her remarks were stupid when she’s talking about the chair. But she said, she tweeted, as Kane noted, she tweeted, quote, gosh. For you to be in charge of the whole country, you sure do have my name in your mouth a lot. Okay, first off, let’s stop with the first sentence. He doesn’t even know your name. He just knew your last name. And he only mentioned you one time. So get over yourself. And can we stop saying name in your mouth? Like, that’s so stupid. Just shut up. I’m so tired of people trying to sound hard ass. And like, I’m going to say something that I think other hard ass people say. And if I say it, then I’m going to borrow the hard assedness. Just stop. And then she goes, every time you say my name, you’re reminding the world that you’re terrified of smart, bold black women telling the truth and holding you accountable. Like what? Like he mentioned you one time. He mentioned her one time. Like he wig snatched you. And why are you still talking? Like stop. He didn’t even mention your whole name. So she snatched her own wig at her speech. I’ve never seen anybody do a self-wig snatch, an SWS, harder than this woman does. It just does not keep my name out of your mouth. Okay, that’s not even how that works, but okay. I feel like I’m watching Schitt’s Creek, the show. Fold in the cheese, David. Well, what does it even mean? I just fold it in. Keep my name out of your mouth. What does that even mean?
SPEAKER 10 :
The funny thing is that every time she talks about it, it’s proving his point.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, yeah. I mean, she’s… She talks about him all the time. He just referenced her one time. One time. He just mentioned her one time. And she loses it on X. Loses it. She was so excited that he even mentioned her last name. Nobody remembers her first name. And the only reason that they remember her last name is because it’s Davy Crockett’s name first. And it’s a little bit jarring to realize that somebody with the last name Crockett is such an idiot. And so entitled. I mean, she’s literally like a trust fund socialist. I told you she grew up in the ritziest area in St. Louis, and she went to the most expensive and exclusive private school ever. I mean, my CDS is. That’s where all the politicians’ kids went, all the CEOs’ kids went, all the debutantes, all the billionaires and the millionaires’ kids, all the ballplayers’ kids were at MICDS. Like everybody was at, if you had money and you had, your parents were famous, you were at MICDS. That was like the school. And it was, it’s super expensive. It’s like more expensive than a four-year university. It is insanely expensive to go there. Beautiful campus, but I had to do a profile. One of my first jobs after college was writing a celebrity profile on a performing artist, and they went to MICDS. And when I walked into that school, I was blown away because it was like a world away from how I grew up. I mean… so yeah she’s I think she tries to cosplay like she’s hood well she does she tries to cosplay hood and she’s not like AOC tries to cosplay like she’s tough it’s like stop it just looks so bad it’s so bad so the um That was her commencement address. I just can’t believe that you would reference drunk people fighting with folding chairs over dock space at a commencement address and then act like that’s somehow representative of racial struggle. I mean, if you’re, it doesn’t even make any sense. And she was in Mississippi, right? And she’s referencing something that was in Montgomery, Alabama. I don’t understand. That doesn’t, none of that makes sense to me. Of course, you know, not their brightest bulb in the box. Not really. Audio, somebody at 18. Oh, she kept going. Listen, this is nuts. It’s easy to play because she says stuff that’s so crazy. Oh, wait, we got to move, don’t we? Oh, hold that. Hold that thought. Hold that thought. Sorry, Steve is dying. Steve got to yell at me. We got to move because Steve will have a stroke and we won’t have any quick five.
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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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So NIH closes experimentation labs that are accused of brutally killing thousands of beagles for over 40 years. It’s so horrible. It was announced that they closed their last in-house beagle lab on the NIH campus. This comes days after Doge said that they’re investigating these experiments in the White Coast Waste Project. So that’s great news. Let’s see. Also, solar panels to be fitted on all new homes in England by 2027. That’s mandatory. You will be forced to comply. Welcome back. Dana Lash here. We’re at the bottom of this third hour. We made it to Friday. Yay! It’s good to be with you. Coast to coast, you can listen terrestrially. One of our hundreds of markets. You can also watch the stream. Channel 347, DirecTV. Find us on X. Rumbles where the chat is. YouTube, all that good stuff. So I feel like we don’t… We’re always so… critical of culture here in this space. And for good reason, because it sucks. So much of it is just heinous, like so much art and so much music and everything. I feel like I sound like a boomer almost because we are just so hypercritical of it, but it is trash. And one of my biggest criticisms of the right is that they don’t encourage actual good stuff that’s not like politically driven. The stuff that I see promoted is politics first and then artistic consideration second. And I always have a huge issue with that because it should be about, you know, the expression first and making something that’s really cool and is, you know, pretty or whatever. And then if you want to, you know, if it has a political point, then fine. But don’t make that be, you know, the vehicle for the art. It’s backwards. One of my friends who is a great illustrator, I think that’s the preferred term, has been doing all kinds of you know comics and he has a podcast and i’ve known him for a really long time in fact our first meeting was hysterical uh but you can find him on x at salty draws he is a writer creator uh his uh pronouns are lord and king and uh he has a comic book series it’s actually really cool it’s about the teenage ben franklin who is caught in this virtual world that is regulated by ai which is weird because when he started this, I kind of wonder if he knew we were going to be here all these years later. I mean, we’re almost there. Sean Salter now joins us. You can find him at Salty Draws on X. Good to see you, my friend. Okay, so every time you join me, your office gets like, your studio gets bougier and bougier in the background. I’m going to point that out.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, because I’m just going along with my pronouns, King and Lord. That’s right. That’s right.
SPEAKER 21 :
I have the comic here, by the way. And you’ve got this nice, shiny foil on the top. This thing is sick as all get out to. And this is like beautifully illustrated. It’s silence. Do good. Ben Franklin, time travel agent. I want to get into all of this. But because you were in you were in Hollywood for a really long time. I want to give people a background on you. You were in Hollywood for a long time. You work for big studios. You worked on all kinds of very commercial things that people have seen on television and theaters. And you got red-pilled. Although I think you always were kind of… Born and raised conservative. Yeah, red-pilled. But you weren’t public about it because you couldn’t be.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, no.
SPEAKER 21 :
What would have happened if you would have been vocal about it then?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, what would have happened is what happened to us right before I ended up leaving Hollywood, which was we had sold, me and my writing partner had sold a show to a major Hollywood studio, and we were developing that in Hollywood. It was an animated series. You’re familiar with that one, but we can’t talk about NDAs. And when they found out we were conservative Christian straight white males, well, they knew we were straight white males, but when they found out the conservative Christian part, it was phone call. We’re not going to do this show.
SPEAKER 21 :
Just like that. As easy as that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Just like that. That’s crazy. And when you’re nobody, you don’t have an established name, it’s really easy to do to you. And so it was time. At that moment, I knew it was time to leave.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. And then you went to beautiful Tennessee. I can say that. Well, you talk about it. I’m not going to say where you are, but you live out in nature. It’s beautiful.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. I live in the forest, and so it’s hard to get to where we’re at. And if you’re here, it’s not a good idea.
SPEAKER 21 :
Right. That’s right. And it’s so much better now. Do you feel like you’re able to be I mean, is it I mean, in some in some respects, I would imagine it’s harder because it’s an important point that I think you made. If you don’t have that name recognition, I think even if you do have the name recognition, I don’t even think that you can be exactly free with your ideological beliefs that they if they fall out of line with what, you know, the upper echelon in Hollywood dictates.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, look what happened to Gina Carano. And then that happens to so many people. They just what happens is the phone, the phone stops ringing the call. You stop getting the job. You stop getting any interest around you. And it has to they’ll say things like, oh, you’re with or, you know, because they they don’t want to be seen as good. But really, at the end of the day, it’s just because they’re fascists.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. I mean, that’s that’s and everything that they’ve come out with has been garbage. There’s I rarely go see movies anymore.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, we don’t go at all. The last time… Triple Wolverine was funny.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, yeah. Well, I didn’t even see that in the theater. I was trying to think the last thing I saw in the theater and I can’t remember. The first time I went back to the theater after a really long time was Top Gun, the sequel. Okay, I did see John Wick. I did see the latest John Wick. I had to go see that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, that was a good one.
SPEAKER 21 :
I really haven’t gone because there’s not a lot. It’s all like repurposed, rehashed, reimagined. It’s the same story that they make duller and duller with every iteration. And there’s not a lot of originality out there.
SPEAKER 05 :
There’s not a lot of originality. And I think they do the reboots because the stuff that is original is so just twisted and just full of their nonsense that does not relate to the regular American that they’re like, well, what about this? And then they shove their stuff in it still. And it’s just like, you made it worse.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. Yeah. So this I’m going to get into the comics because you do. This is a great series that you’ve been working on for a long time. But have you been you’re because you you you were born really conservative. Like, how would you say like a Reagan conservative? Like, how did you what was your belief set? Like, how would you describe it if you had to package it?
SPEAKER 05 :
When I was younger, I was Alex P. Keaton. I mean, I would debate my father over Richard Nixon being a great president. As I got older, I became a little bit more, you know, into my 20s, I became libertarian. And then when I got older and wiser, I realized I don’t like anyone and you’ve all gotten it wrong. The founders had it right. Let’s go back to that. So constitutional conservative.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, I think that’s right. I like that. Like constitutionalists. I think I think there’s something as you get older, you realize I just want to be left alone more and more.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 21 :
Tired of everybody’s garbage.
SPEAKER 05 :
I’m done with the Democrats always never voted for Democrat in my life. But the Republicans get on my last nerve. I just happen to you know, it’s like the party of stupid or the party of evil. And it’s like, I’ll go with a stupid.
SPEAKER 21 :
They’re not conservative enough there. Yeah. I’ll go with the dumb people, I guess. But they’re not. They’re not. I mean, we we tend to vote for them as a strategy to kind of get closer to what we want. But they’re not constitutionalists.
SPEAKER 05 :
Have to because, I mean, what’s the alternative? A dystopian future where, you know, it’s not even communism. It’s neo-feudalism. You have no rights and you’re a serf. I mean, let’s be honest. Income tax is slavery. We need to get rid of that. But we’re serfs. We’re slaves. And we need liberty. And that’s what this book is about.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, exactly. Well, you made an important point, too, about because we kind of agree on this, although I think people don’t understand the nuance about voting, because like just to throw this out there, this is I think you throw this out there. There’s the you immediately see the difference between who is a constitutionalist and who isn’t. Because it’s not a right. Voting isn’t a right. It is. It’s relegated to the states to administer. So it’s something that it’s a privilege that the states administer. But it’s not a right. And people freak out when you say this.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes. Well, I say it’s an earned responsibility. It’s not even a I mean, you have to earn that. And that’s what the states used to determine who was responsible enough to have a say over how society governs itself. You cannot let people that are on the take that are on the dole that are essentially parasites. And I lump politicians in with that. You can’t let them have a say. You know, those that are actually putting in the blood, the sweat and the tears, those that have skin in the game, they have the privilege or the responsibility to to govern society. The rest of us we are we were founded as a republic and we need to get back to that because the longer we stay a Democracy the more our rights are in jeopardy by the mob.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. Yeah, and that’s one of the reasons why I like this series too because you you Explore how do I put it you explore these ideals without it being overbearingly? political if that makes sense like I don’t feel like I’m reading a political missive that is politics first And then like, you know, the really cool artwork and coloring and the panels and the characters. That’s like a second consideration. Is that and I feel like a lot of people on the right struggle with that. I mean, clearly you don’t because you get the concept of it. But talk a little bit about that, because this is what some of the people don’t know. Ben Franklin is Silence Do Good. This is a series and this is the latest. I mean, it’s like really pretty. I love I mean, it’s a great read. And if you like comics, I like I like manga and I watch anime and all that stuff. And I love this series. But I love the way that you approach it. And tell me a little bit about it, because I think this is something that people obviously should check out. But I like that it’s just originality forward, for the lack of a better way to put it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. Well, the idea really started as just me thinking, like, what would our founding fathers think of if they saw the America we’ve built? And it kind of snowballed from there. I love time travel. Big fan of Doctor Who. You know, I loved. I could not see them in the back.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
um but uh so obviously time travel was how i wanted to do it i wanted to treat american history as kind of a backdrop i didn’t want to change history i wanted to keep it like oh this is what happened right how are we going to do that and so it just problem after problem and you just solve the problems and one of the one of the ways we solved it was what if we had ben franklin who was a scientist an inventor he was like the renaissance man of the age he seemed like the perfect person for this and he’s my favorite founding father just one of the most interesting guys ever He was a teenager.
SPEAKER 21 :
His air baths. That’s my favorite.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. One of his inventions was just sitting around in the nude air bath, you know, air bath. But yeah, so it was like take a teenager, a teenage Ben Franklin. So it’s more of a coming of age. So he has the principles of the Enlightenment era, but he’s also going to be maybe more wrestling and questioning and doubting, but also rebellious, a little bit more rebellious than he would be as an adult. And what would that be like? Because Ben Franklin was also a loyalist. So it creates all kinds of complexities where we get to then have a fun time exploring the ideals of liberty and free will and what that would look like in a future where the algorithms dictate every move humanity takes.
SPEAKER 21 :
And we’re there right now. How long ago did you first start this series? Because we’ve talked about it before. I mean, it’s continued and it’s grown, but I feel like it was very prescient because now here we are where AI is really, I mean, it’s going to dominate everything. I mean, it’s going to dominate warfare. It’s going to dominate every aspect of American life. We’re right there by singularity. And so this was very, I mean, this was very thoughtful and anticipating that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I started it a decade ago, actually. And it’s evolved. So we added in AI probably about eight years ago because AI was starting to be murmured. And, you know, you have AI in video games. And so it’s just kind of like thinking of like a virtual world. And I remember a lot of my friends, me included, would get super addicted to video games. And you’d be like, oh, I could just call out sick because I’m going to play video games all day long. And it was like… what would it be like if we just all lived in a video oh my gosh that would be scary so for me it was just like trying to trying to create this the the scariest world possible but that seems that’s so candy coated that it would be very sweet to the world and so that’s what i think that this dystopian future would be like and that’s the world we’re creating and that ben franklin is like nope we got to stop it lasers and robots
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. And I think he’s I think you were pitch perfect on that because out of all the founders, he’s the one he was very forward. He’s like, I would say maybe the most classically Tocqueville liberal of all of them. I mean, he was a very, very forward thinking. He was really the only one like you could send him to France and he can go over there and, you know, wine and dine with Louis and all of the nobles and get money to help fund our, you know, war of independence. Not everybody had the patience to do it. Other people tried and they struggle like John Adams really struggled to deal with them. But Ben Franklin was like, no, no, no, you got to finesse it. You got to handle it a certain way. He was very I mean, he really understood the times then and the times that were coming. So he’s like the perfect character through which to explore all of this. Are you going to do others? Are you going to branch off and like maybe explore with other founders?
SPEAKER 05 :
uh… yeah we’re gonna explore with other just americans in general uh… i don’t wanna say exactly who but it’s going it’ll be a little bit you know it’ll be fun we’re gonna have fun with it uh… definitely i think that silence do good will be a moniker that uh… gets applied to other people as ben franklin will kind of age out because you know eventually he’s gotta go back uh… cuz what we’re doing is he’s eighteen at this time and he’s supposed to be in england’s procuring a printer And American history doesn’t really know what he was doing there other than getting odd jobs trying to get back for about three years. So when he comes back to America, you know, we might have to change the story a bit and get a new hero in there. But for right now, we got about three years with Ben Franklin. And that’s a lot of that’s a lot that can happen while you’re time traveling.
SPEAKER 21 :
exactly a lot that can happen the series is Ben Franklin is silence do good time travel agent it is great you can find it at his website as well and they also have he’s promoting the comic book pre-order campaign on Indiegogo and you can see that the website turkey robot dot com and you can check out a show salty and savage on YouTube my good friend always so good to have you would love to have you back the next time you’re all in Dallas you need to holler the next time we’re in your neck of the remote woods we’re gonna holler at you but it’s so good to come out here Congrats on all your success. Here’s the, here’s the, here’s the latest. Nice, pretty foil. Look at that. This is gorgeous. You did, you do such great work and I appreciate that you’re still an artist and you don’t, you, you, you, it’s artistic forward preaching second. So the politics are, it goes along naturally with it and it makes it so much more engaging. You’re a really good storyteller. So congratulations.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you. I appreciate it for having me on.
SPEAKER 21 :
Of course, always. I’m like, I got this. I’m like, oh, we got to have Sean on to talk about this because it’s really great. And I actually, since COVID, I got really into manga and anime and I actually started getting into your stuff more because of it. So that’s like the silver lining of all of it. So it’s so good to have you. Sean Salter, always a pleasure, my friend. We’ll have you back.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 21 :
Take care. Good to see you.
SPEAKER 05 :
Bye.
SPEAKER 21 :
Welcome back. Dana Lash with you. It’s a very stormy day in Texas. Kane, I think it’s been thundering and rumbling the entire time we’ve been on air, like loudly. Like Steve can hear it through the microphone all the way in DC from where we are. That’s how loud the thunder and all of that is. Like the heavens have opened up. No tornadoes though. All right. I don’t want to rob you today in stupidity because they did it like twice this week. So Kane, go.
SPEAKER 10 :
It’s Hillary Clinton. I get sometimes tongue-tied. I apologize for that. This is cut 11. This is what she says the Democrats need. And this is what she says the Republicans should heed. Listen to this.
SPEAKER 20 :
We will defeat these people by winning elections. I mean, even if we win every court case, we still have to figure out how to get that enforced. Even if the press does lots of exposés, you’re dealing with an administration that has no shame. They don’t care that they are, you know, being seen as corrupt or cruel or whatever.
SPEAKER 10 :
Because, of course, it’s all about smearing your political opponent.
SPEAKER 21 :
Took classified emails and then tried to delete the evidence. You tried a nation built in Libya and literally usurped the authority there.
SPEAKER 10 :
And no matter what context we’re talking about, she’s the worst.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, she’s absolutely worse. She’s never going to go away, is she? That does it for us this week, folks. I hope you have a wonderful, dry, safe weekend. And I’ll be back behind the mic with you on Monday. In the meantime, find us on YouTube, Facebook, like and subscribe, sub, stack the newsletter, chapter and verse. Have a great night. Have a great weekend.
