The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Former UFC Fighter and Ret. Special Forces Operator Tim Kennedy Joins Us

Episode Date: January 25, 2024

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Dana Lashes, Absurd Truth Podcast, sponsored by Keltec. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. This one's coming out of Monroe County, Florida. Florida man was taken to jail after he allegedly, wink, got into a physical fight with another man and then stole a pint of vodka from a woman, said deputies. He punched the other man in the face, took the ladies vodka, and tried to get away. Billy Costner, 62 of Key Largo was arrested, smiling in his mugshot like he's the cat that got the cream. He was arrested on Friday, booked into jail on charges of battery and theft via Monroe County Sheriff's Office and a social media post.

Deputies say they responded to the fight shortly before 4 p.m. right off the overseas highway. Witnesses told law enforcement that Costner punched a 41-year-old man multiple times in the face. Now, this man is 62 years old. He's being up a 41-year-old man. And then he left the area with a pint of vodka. wrestled out of the hands of a 45-year-old woman. So he's in some trouble. But he looks super smiley. I got to tell you, in his mugshot, he looks...

It's the vodka. You think it's the vodka? You think you drank it? Pretty sure. Okay. Florida man Amazon driver stole a $4,000 French bulldog while making a delivery. Yeah. Rineer Ravalia, sorry.

Rivia. 34. Faces one charge of grand theft of Kali, the Bulldog, who was reimbled. United with her owner. I don't know why this dog's $4,000, but yeah, apparently he just took it right out of the, as he was delivering a package. He apparently took it from the home and he was ultimately caught. Thankfully, the dog was recovered unharmed because I'd have to murder him. I'd have to kill him. There's no way. Not not doing that. That's just like, why just, golly and a friend, some of these French bulldogs are actually very, very, very, very expensive. All right, this, no. No, no, no, no. There's a few of those. Yeah, there's a couple of those today. Well, there's one guy, okay, so there's one guy who's serving time now, jail time, on a DUI, after he ran.

This is a villager story. So I feel like Minecraft, you know how the, the Minecraft villager story. So this villager was sentenced to time behind bars. He ran into a fire hydrant with his golf cart. Mark Anthony Fusco, 58 of the villagers. He was sentenced to Can you just hear that like right as it hit the hydrant?

He was sentenced to 15 days in Sumter County Detention Center. He pled no contest. He was found on the night. He just now, this happened in April, but all his like trial and all that just happened this week. He was found sitting in a laundry in the driveway of his home, in the drive,

oh sorry, driveway of a home, not his, near his blue Yamaha golf cart, which hit a fire hydrant and then wound up in the flower bed, according to Sumpur County Sheriff's office, their arrest report. He was heading home from the country club when he got lost, and apparently he was arrested previously a couple of years earlier for a separate golf cart drunk driving incident in which he was drinking and ran into something else.

He struggled through the field sobriety exercises and blamed his poor performance on an injury from the first Gulf War. and then he provided breath samples that registered 0.204. Oh my gosh. How is he alive? That's more than double the legal limit. He's like made of liquor. So in addition, by the way, so his conviction from the villages for drunk driving a golf cart was in 2018.

He had also, wait, it gets crazier. He had been previously convicted of a drunk driving charge, one in a car, and one in another golf cart in New Jersey. So this dude has three, four total DUI incidents, three of them in a golf cart. One in New Jersey, two in Florida. Kane. They're just saying, is the golf cart one, though? Is it really? I mean, how fast can them things go?

It's not the same as a 3,000-pound vehicle, I don't think. No, I think I cannot run them. Can't you? Like, can they do a lot of damage? Can you, I don't know. Like, you can get a DUI on a horse, can't you? That's weird to me. That is weird.

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Welcome back to the program. Dana last year with you, bottom of this first hour broadcasting from Las Vegas, Shot Show 2024. Joining me right now, my very good friend, Tim Kennedy. You guys know him from everywhere. He's hunted Hitler. He's done some crazy, dangerous things. I don't even know how you get insured, but, you know, it happens.

Very compelling television. That's actually a sensitive subject right now. I dropped by it. even mean to like bring it up. I'm so sorry. Drop by our insurance. But that was actually for political reasons. You know, there's only so many insurance carriers. Wait, wait, wait, you mean for political reasons and not because you're like doing super dangerous activities? They, they were more concerned about like the Second Amendment stuff than me being in Israel or Ukraine or Afghanistan or the border. Like how messed up are you when you're like turning away money just because you disagree with somebody?

Yeah. It's so pathetic. That doesn't that does not that doesn't that doesn't. That doesn't. make any sense. No, I don't get it. I wonder, you're a Texas resident. You're a Texan. Yeah. Yeah, a proud Texan. A proud Texan. Why'd you say it like, ooh? No, he's like, hey, okay, okay. I struggle with that. It's a hard draw. It's, I, yeah, it's not, it's different from everywhere else. I can't get it. I was in the Carolinas for 10 years, and you can get the Carolinas down pretty

fast. I heard it just a little bit right there. But the Texas one is hard. It's hard. And it does it come out all the time? It's like every now and then there's certain words, you're like, oh, that sounds suspiciously Texas. But you're, you're You know, you're a Texan. And this, I mean, it seems like, I don't know, like we're kind of in, you know, a brawl with the federal government right now after, especially after the statement that Abbott released. What's your thoughts on this? Yeah, it's really sad. You know, the first, the immigrants that are trying to cross are being caught in this crossfire.

And there are bad actors, you know, just a couple of days ago, a video emerged of a man at the border that was bragging about everybody's going to know my name. I saw that. And that guy was the actual. But was it confirmed that he was an actual convicted terrorist who spent time in jail for terrorism? That's right. Yeah. So facial recognition gives you a percentage of likelihood of who this person is. So when you get like over 70%, it's pretty probable that it is that guy.

And you have to take a screen capture of the video and then import it into these facial recognition software. and AI was saying that it's 84% that guy. Wow. So like really, really probable that this convicted terrorist that spent time for terrorism was illegally crossing the border into America and bragging to the news about what he's going to do in America and how everybody's going to know his name.

And it's, we're in a really scary time right now. It's a humanitarian crisis down there. I spent six months on the border. and Texas is doing what Texas is supposed to be doing and what America should be doing, which is having a sovereign border, having a closed border,

and then making people go through the appropriate legal process of entering this country. I'm white. My family is an immigrant into the United States, but my family immigrated here through the laws and the requirements of the time. I get it, we have a broken system. But when you're in the hundreds of thousands of people

coming across as asylum seekers, and they're all military-aged men from countries that are our enemies. We have a problem. This is not an immigration problem. This is an invasion by enemies. And you've dealt with actual refugees and talking with our friend Tim Kennedy and people who actually are seeking asylum. Usually there's some women and children involved in that mix.

Mostly. It's not just the lab. No, it's mostly women and children. If you look at the evacuation of Afghanistan, true asylum seekers, right? Taliban's coming across the border. They're going to be killing everybody. If I have one guy, one man, one military, age man, I have two or three women, usually his wife and a sister of some form, and then I have

like six kids. That is a typical asylum seeking family. You look at Ukraine, you go to the train station in Kiev. As people are leaving, you see no men, because none of the men are leaving, only women and children. You go to Israel, the exact same thing, only women and children. And I mean, even Americans that were in Israel in October, the men were choosing to stay. These were, you know, generational Jews and Israelis. And, you know, they maybe had already served their two or four years. Like, they're sending their families back that are also American citizens. And they are trying to volunteer as reserves.

They're trying to volunteer as police officers. And that, again, would be a perfect example of even in a time of conflict and crisis, what a refugee family looks like. What we see at the border is the inverse of that. It is only men, and it is only military age men. And they are not coming from these, like, impoverished central and South American countries. These are not Mexicans.

These are Middle Easterners. These are Chinese. A lot of Chinese, yeah. It's madness. It's an invasion. It's without firing a single shot. That's right. They're just like steamrolling into a country talking with Tim Kennedy.

That's the scary thing about this too. And then, you know, you have border patrol. So you have the governor's accused of cruel and inhumane policies. The way that they speak about border patrol agents, who are predominantly his Hispanic at the border, which apparently, I guess the administration doesn't realize. I will never forget, though, the image or the video of the feds going in, and they were break cutting the razor wire and lifting it up, and you literally could see the coyotes working for the cartel across the river on the bank watching the feds help them.

That's, I mean, who's getting the cut from the cartels? There's a lot of money to be made. Somebody's getting a cut in D.C. Yeah, the, it's, it's, you know, I have videos on my phone shot on my phone of these human traffickers that are working directly for their cartel. You know, and anybody that is, is happy to deal in human suffering, whether it's going to be human trafficking, sex slavery, they'll also be selling drugs and guns, and they'll be smuggling bio-weapons across the border.

Any form of human suffering that is a product, somebody that deals in that, will deal in anything that they can profit on. And these cartels are whatever the best product is and the most profitable product are the ones that they're doing. And right now, that is fentanyl and people. And we are literally assisting the cartels in financing operations that support, obviously, drugs and weapons and bio-weapons. Our next wars are not going to be against state-on-state actors. We are going to be fighting cartels and we're going to be finding non-government organizations.

We're going to be fighting proxies. Like we have been for the past three years. We're not directly at war with Russia, but we're funding the countries that are at war with Russia. And we're sending troops in via proxy. Yeah. It's like Vietnam kind of. 100%. And with the cartels, we're not prepared for that war as a military. But that's the war that we're in.

Because of will or because we just, of strategy, we don't know how to deal with it. Both. We're stuck in, we so desperately want this war war war to approach to war, where it's like these gigantic maneuver elements, right? That's old now. That's so old, right? We want Patton and be like, let's go, like we're going to beat Rommel.

Right. And what we have is a 14-year-old boy that was handed and was indocted, at the age of eight. And here we are six years later. And he is a warfighter for the cartels. And he's being financed by effectively a corporation, a criminal syndicated corporation. And that is the actual soldier.

We don't have the appetite to fight a 14-year-old boy. But that is currently our enemy. And he's the one that's smuggling. If you look at those photos and those videos, those are not like you want this like grisly charled, gross looking bad guy. Yeah. That's not who the coyote is. He's a 14-year-old kid with a flashlight.

And it's scary that that is currently our enemy, and that is the soldier of our enemy. And we just do not have the wherewithal to deal with us. I wanted to ask you, because you've been talking a lot about veteran suicides, also just completely switching gears here. I was actually, there was a couple of write-ups about this because you've been here at Shachia. You've been talking about it. I wanted to get, I just remember, you know, my grand. father when he was in World War II. I don't know how those guys dealt with some of this stuff. And it feels like they were not just from talking with him. I don't think that they were given

like any decompression time except like if they were coming back from, you know, the theater. He was all the way over in the Pacific. And my husband's grandfather was in Normandy. He was there. So both sides of the, we had family on both sides of the planet throughout the whole thing. Multiple members of our family. And they, it's something that they never talked with. Some of them had drinking problems. Some of them. But now it's, It just, it sort of feels like, you know, when our soldiers come back, they're supposed to bounce right back into shape and everything's okay. And talk to me about that because I feel like that is kind of a societal expectation that has sort of fed into some of the problems that we're seeing. Yeah, we have a big generational gap of purpose.

So the men that came back after the greatest generation, when they returned from war, they became the greatest generation, not because they survived the Great Depression, not because they beat the Nazis, not just because they beat Japan after Pearl Harbor. You know, they stormed beaches and they climbed cliffs. And, you know, they liberated all of the Jews in these concentration camps. And it was actually what they did after that. You know, in 1945, when they returned with all of the pain and all of the trauma, they then turned America into the most powerful, profitable country to exist in human recorded history. And they had the freedom to do it. That's right. So what they did, and this is just my opinion and this is my belief,

And this is the thing that we're missing. When I have a soldier, my job as his leader is to give him purpose, direction, motivation. The first thing is purpose. And when those men came back, they had seen the most horrific thing that a man can do to another man, which is war at scale. This was the first war that we learned really how to kill. And we killed at an indescribable rate. And those men came back. They inhaled trauma.

They inhaled pain. They inhaled suffering. They inhaled sadness. Do you what they exhaled? Purpose. They came back with the divine purpose of making this the greatest nation to ever exist. Right now our men are coming back and they lack that. They lack direction and they lack purpose because our country is so divided and they don't know what to do.

These are the most extraordinary men 20 years at war during GWAT, 20 years of the global war on terror, Afghanistan, Iraq, North Africa. That's right. And they're coming back to a broken, fractured country and they don't know what they're supposed to do. You know, and I want to beg and I want to plead, I want to implore that these men find their purpose. And that purpose might be the best father that can be, the best entrepreneur that can be, the best employee that they can be. But ultimately, they have to pour themselves into it. Otherwise, we're going to continue to see these same numbers. You know, we, of course, we can address substance abuse and, you know, sleep problems and TBIs and PTS.

But give a man purpose and he can change the world. You know, it takes one man to change the world. And man, I just want these men to know that there's something fantastic and incredible about being a great American and being a great dad and go. Yeah, there you go. Keltec, the sub 2K. I don't know if you've had a chance to check it out. If you've not gone to the website, you need to, Keltecweapons.com because they've got a new gen 3. The sub 2K is awesome.

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It's time for Dana's Quick Five. So according to, and this is The Guardian, they say that the Italian Pope says, wine is a gift from God. And that's what he told Italian producers. I don't disagree that wine is a gift from God. They said that it's a true source of joy for consumers and should be embraced by Italian wine producers. Yeah, I think that's a Italian wine is good. It's very good.

And they don't have like a lot of the preservatives and stuff like that American wine puts in. So very good. This San Francisco, they have taken legal action over what they say are unsafe, disruptive self-driving cars via MSN. They've had a number of, they have a number of incidents just in the past like several months. So San Francisco is suing the state over unsafe, these, these unsafe cars. A lot of them have been used like for taxi services in San Francisco. They said that they filed against a state commission that allowed Google NGU. autonomous car companies to expand here this summer, they said despite causing a pattern of serious problems and lots of disruption on the streets, the lawsuit, which has not been previously reported, was filed in December.

They said that autonomous vehicles are not welcome unless they are more vigorously regulated. I don't know how you can have anything more vigorously regulated in San Francisco than what they currently are regulated in San Francisco. But the lawsuit gave a number of examples. For instance, they said that the Waymo taxi service, it's a 24-7 taxi service. that's an autonomous vehicle. They said that it was compliant. However, they had their permits pulled last year because one of their cars struck a jaywalking pedestrian and then dragged her for about 20 feet. They said that it makes it a very tricky legal case.

And Waymo has to roll back all of its expansion in California until they rethink how they're approaching restrictions on autonomous vehicles. I also think maybe just like don't jaywalk and that kind of like won't happen. I'm just, you know, Netflix subscribers, they say revenue is surging. subscribers are surging as they crack down on password sharing. I didn't realize that that was like such a big deal. According to the Wall Street Journal, the streamers agreed to pay about $5 billion. For instance, for WWEWA, they said that they have to program for many tastes, but because they've cracked down on that, they've seen just in the past fourth quarter 13.1 million subscribers.

They say it's their strongest final quarter ever for net additions. And they've, the same year prior, it was like 7.7 customers that they attract. So they're seeing that just explode. The tallest potentially skyscraper in Oklahoma. A.O. and developer Mateuson Capitol have announced plans to change the height of a proposed Oklahoma City super tall skyscraper, which could, if it's approved, make it the tallest building in the U.S. Now, Oklahoma's windy. So I don't know how that works.

And there's not a lot of super tall skyscrapers in like Oklahoma City or elsewhere. So that seems like it would be a little weird, right? That's like an odd skyline. Like, if you're going to have it in Oklahoma City, again, windy, there's not a skyline. I don't know. But why there as opposed to, you know, as opposed to somewhere else? I don't know. But they said that that's, if approved, they said the height variance is going to make the structure of the tallest building in the U.S.

Fifth tallest in the world. I mean, it would absolutely tower over everything. They said it's an extra 157 feet proposed for it. It would bring it to 1,9007 feet tall. and they said they would do that as like an homage to the year that Oklahoma was granted statehood. So that's how, that's how they're, it's the board block at Bricktown. That's how they're looking to do it. I'm just saying, I just feel like that's going to be, it's going to look weird.

Not that Oklahoma City is not, it's a very beautiful city, but it's just you don't have like, it's not like Manhattan, right? You don't have tons of skyscrapers there. You don't have a ton of that. Looking over at the VP of side of things, she was on, what show was she on? It was NBC something, wasn't it? She was on with Katie Couric. Katie Kirk. She was not with Katie Couric. And it was a really weird interview. I don't even know where to start with this. First off, let's start with eight. Because this, this, this is this whole thing is crazy.

Listen to this discussion about the border. Early on, I know you were tasked with understanding the root causes of the immigration crisis, but you are not in charge of the border, which I think is important to point out. Having said that 14 House Democrats joined Republicans in, But you're not in charge of the border. Wait a minute. She was the border czar. She was the border czar. They made her,

Kane, they made her border czar. So I guess being a czar means you're not in charge of stuff? Yeah, I just thought that. I mean, I thought a czar meant that. Like, you're, okay, you're in charge of those. Yeah, that's, like, so weird that she wouldn't be. Now, she was a border, but Katie Carter, because, oh, well, you know, weird. I think it's important to point out

Madam Vice President that you're not in charge of the border. I mean, you're just the Vice President and all. Way to play down her role, you sexist. Isn't that what they would say? Because then she went from that to Audio Soundbite 7. This is what I'm saying.

Then she played, like, why would you minimize your Vice President of the United States? And then say this, like in the next breath. Meanwhile, why did I think you were much taller? I recently learned you're only five, too. Is that true?

That is absolutely incorrect. Okay. I am 5.4 and a quarter. Okay. I'm 5.4.5. And with heels, which I always wear, I'm 5.7.5. Thank you very much. Okay, Wikipedia, you're wrong, and we need to correct that.

I've said this to my team. Like, what, I don't know where it came from. I was 5.2 when I was 12. They say I'm 5.1 on my Wikipedia page. How tall are you? 5.3 and 3 quarters. Right? Oh, geez.

And shrinking. It's like literally, they just want to just make a smaller, in every way. I know. Like when you say, oh, well, you're not in charge of the border.

I mean, you're only vice president of the United States and you're the borders are and everything, but we know you're not in charge of the border. I mean,

like right when they say that, right? Same thing. Yeah, making her smaller, making her responsibility smaller. But guys,

you know, if you think, if you think that, you know, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, you know, if you're having a problem with all of this

and you think that they're just super unpopular. Well, audio son by four, Kamala Harris explains to Katie Kyrick, why they're so unpopular. Listen. So you're right. We have a lot of accomplishments, and I think what the American

people want most in their leaders is that we actually get things done, and we have done it. We haven't taken adequate credit for it. What? Frankly. And we got to do a better job of getting the word out about what we have accomplished, and who did it?

What? What? What? Who did it? Who did what? You mean brung it? Who brung it to them? That's right. We just, we haven't taken adequate credit. I mean, that's why we're so unpopular. Because we just haven't taken credit. So you mean that people are out and joining all these like low prices and no inflation and what else? What else am I thinking of? Oh, secure border and, you know, all these amazing, yeah, all these. Cheap mortgage rates. Ooh, that's a good one. And it's because they, the reason people are unhappy is because Biden and Harris haven't taken credit. Okay. Was it Hunter's cocaine in the White House, or was it hers? Whose was it?

Because you have to be high to think this. Audio sound by three. Oh, wait, there's the more. I've never seen anybody so unaware of self in person, ever. Audio sound by three. This one's a doozy. Love it. We have historic accomplishments in terms of the economy.

What we've done to move forward. Science, technology, and investment in the American workforce, growing the American workforce, rising wages, bringing down prices. Historic work has happened. No question. What? It is incumbent on us to let people know who brung it to them, frankly. Did she say it again?

Who told her that was a good idea? I mean, it's, girl, who told you? You know, I mean, they just, Kane, it's just the American people that need to know who done bring it to them is right. That's how it he is. She needs to unburden ourselves from that damn line. She needs to unburden herself with like purposeful bad grammar. Like, why?

Why? I don't get it. Maybe use a Venn diagram because you love them. I don't know. The claim that it's, well, it's, you know, it's, you know, we're super historic. accomplishments. Where does she getting the rising wages and low prices from? That is spoken like someone who is so boozy, they don't do their own shopping. Girlfriend could not even tell you how much a pound of hamburger costs. I bet she could not.

She could not tell you the average everyday prices of things in the supermarket. She has no idea. These people are unaffected by their own policies. That is the height of booge. That is super boge. They are unaffected by their own policies. Everyone else is going broke, dealing with high interest rates, inflation. All of it. That is historic. Yeah, yeah, so she is historic. Okay, give her that, Craig Kane.

Give her that little, go ahead and put that little tally mark up on her board. Yeah, it's definitely a historic accomplishment. Good night. Yeah, very historic. It's much accomplished. It's just because they haven't taken credit for who brung it. Maybe she should go on a who brung it tour. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's absurd truth podcast.

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