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Episode Date: October 9, 2026

Marco Rubio announces the Trump Administration is sanctioning the ICC. Dana explains why this is a good move. An ICE involved shooting occurs in New York City after an illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic with a violent rap sheet tried to flee from officers. GOP Candidate for NV's 3rd District and Halo video game composer, Marty O’Donnell, joins us to explain why he decided to run for Congress, explain why young people are turning to socialism and how we connect to our youth with conservative values.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…AMAC https://amac.us/dana/pdocastAMAC is the conservative alternative to AARP, and now you can get 5 years for just $35.  One payment, spouse included, money-back guarantee.  HomeServehttps://HomeServe.com/DanaJoin the millions of customers who trust HomeServe and save 50% less your first year. Savings compared to renewal price. Void in Florida.PreBornhttps://PreBorn.com/DanaIf you’re looking for a way to stand for life and make a real difference, a $28 donation can help PreBorn provide one life-saving ultrasound. And if you’re able to give $140, you can help provide five ultrasounds.Alliance Defending Freedomhttps://JoinADF.com/DanaIf you believe your freedom is worth defending, now is the time to act.  Donate to Alliance Defending Freedom at the link above and have your gift MATCHED. Ghost Bedhttps://GhostBed.com/DANAIf you’re waking up tired before the day even starts, check out GhostBed.  Now get an extra 10% off their lowest prices of the season with promo code DANA. Relief Factorhttps://ReliefFactor.comBe the next person sharing a Relief Factor success story. Get started today with the 3-Week QuickStart for only $17.76 and tell them you heard about them on The Dana Show. Patriot Mobilehttp://PatriotMobile.com/DANAMake the switch to Patriot Mobile today. Visit online or call 972-PATRIOT and use promo code DANA for a FREE month of service.Byrnahttps://Byrna.com/DanaTrusted by law enforcement, security professionals, and everyday Americans—defend yourself and your family with Byrna.HumanNhttps://Humann.com/DanaGet the limited edition HumanN Watermelon Flavor and find out how to get a FREE 30-day supply before they sell out.Subscribe today and stay in the loop on all things news with The Dana Show. Follow us here for more daily clips, updates, and commentary:YoutubeFacebookInstagramXMore InfoWebsite

Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC. And we expect our allies, many of whom are part of the ICC, and that rely on American service members for their defense to rein in this rogue court. If they do not, the United States will continue its campaign to dismantle the ICC piece by piece until Americans are threatened no longer. Just two banger back-to-back speeches here from Marco Rubio. and he's going after justifiably the ICC, the international criminal court, which is, the best way I can put it is a Victorian freak show. I don't even know how to describe it.

It's something that threatens national sovereignty, I'll tell you that, because they want to make Americans through the ICC responsible or act like they're going to hold us to account for whatever they deem to hold us account for. it's and it's a it's a it's a just an absolute it's kabuki theater i mean i'm trying to think of a way to describe it that best encapsulates just how much i how little i think of this thing but it really is it's just it's just a dog and pony show i mean the stuff that the iCC has done and the individuals that shape their decisions are things that we would people and things we would never take seriously here in the United States. And furthermore, I don't agree with the United States answering to anything that is not American. That is not American jurisprudence. I mean, you're talking about, for instance, you're talking about entities that would go after the United

States. Today, they'd go after us for defending ourselves as it pertains to, like, for instance, Pearl Harbor. They would have gone after us for that. I think that's safe to say, and I don't think I'm, I'm not being, what's the word? Hyperbolic. Yes, thank you. I'm not being hyperbolic about that. So the, I mean, that's just the truth of it. So welcome to the radio program, Dana Lash, with you.

We have some of it. This is just a great speech that he gave. And I'm glad that he is going after them because there's been this push to make us more subservient to these things. So he was, I mean, they're sanctioning the ICC. I thought it was a great, I mean, I think it's, I don't have any complaints about it. And then, of course, this was right after he spoke.

And he was in front of, he was in Athens. I mean, literally gateway to the west. And he's in front of, he's, what was it, the, wasn't the Acropolis? Was he in front of? It doesn't matter. All I know is that it was a great speech. This was a great speech. So going after the ICC, now you have to remember, we have levied, the United States itself,

we have levied sanctions against individual ICC judges. But this was, this, what makes this different is that it's something for the entire organization. And it's the entire organization itself. And he called it, and it is, it's a rogue court. This is a big jump from what we had prior because the, I mean, previously, he's gone after the ICC before. I was looking at my notes back in July when he was in Manila, he went after the ICC because they were somewhat defensive of Iran. That's the crazy thing. He said that, I mean, he's gone after them before.

The administration has made remarks about the ICC before their. been, like I said, sanctions against just individual-specific judges. In fact, the head of the ICC and a senior lawyer both were slack with sanctions just this past August. You have 125 member states that are members of the ICC and the United States is not one of them, right? The United States is not one of them. But yet, they want us to be subservient to them. So the, I mean, it's all a joke. It's all an absolute joke. But the number of countries that aren't in it, the fact that it's not the United States.

And it doesn't look like we're going to be one any time in the near future at all whatsoever. Oh, no. Oh, no. I know we're all so upset. We're so, it's so sad. The United States, China, India, Russia, Israel, and Turkey are not members. members, per the Council and Foreign Relations, they are not members of the ICC. And the whole thing is in the very beginning, when it was established, it was supposed to prosecute

people for war crimes, which I think, you know how you prosecute somebody for a war crime? You kill them on the battlefield. Grab them on the battlefield or you swoop in and you take care of it that way. This idea that we're going to go through this process with individuals who don't even recognize the process to me seems insane. We're going to talk about this here a little bit more, particularly as it relates to the, um, the live stream execution of Dadaal Hassan. We're going to open that up here and coming up after headlines. But this, I mean, this is, it's, you know, it's a foreign entity. And I don't, again,

nothing that is unaffiliated with the United States gets to exercise jurisdiction over the United States. It's very simple. It is incredibly. simple. And the idea that they can go after non-member states and prosecute them is insane. They were supposed to, that's, again, like I said, they were established to go after war crimes

and things like, but I mean, there's been so much controversy because they've made it political. They made it political. This was, it was created after World War II. They were going after Nazis. And then now it's become rife with corruption. You've had

You've had states that have member states that have fully withdrawn. There's other states that are in the middle of withdrawing. Venezuela is one of those, which I find interesting. They're withdrawing. Why we are not members and we have no, I mean, intention of being, I wouldn't, I mean, would you want to be party to this? I don't know that I would. Same thing kind of with the UN, the United Nations. So great, it was a, it was a very, very good speech that he gave.

And I, like I said, I'm, I'm hopefully, hopefully, I wish, the whole thing just needs to dissipate. We'll come back to it because I got a couple of other things in pulling up here as well. In addition to this, there was an ICE involved shooting in New York City last night. And Mandani was calling ice rotten to the core. protest erupted, and he branded ice. Rotten demanded that they leave New York. And, of course, all these protests erupted. I think he's seizing on this as a way to kind of offset some of the heat that he has been getting.

This is a cut five. Listen to this. United in the belief that there is no justification for what we have seen today. And we know that what we have seen today is but a microcosm of what ICE does. on a daily basis across this country, how can that be how we describe public safety? It can't be. And I've shared that with the president. I've shared that with the secretary.

This city wants ice out. We want ice out of our city, ice out of our schools, ice out of our hospitals, ice out of our streets, ice away from our kids. We want that because we want to keep the city safe. We do not need them to do so. All they do is terrorize this city. What did he say? Go out here.

Go on here. Go on here. All the time we have. Thanks, everybody. All they do is terrorize this city. This is just, it's insane. The individual was to his injuries are not considered life-threatening, according to law enforcement officials, but they were, it was a part of. Again, this was a guy who was, you're talking about illegal immigrants who are literally gang members. This guy is a gang member.

He's the member of a gang. It's a gang that also killed a customs and border patrol agent, Lassie. year. Federal agents have been investigating him for some time to see how deep his connections actually went. I mean, the fact is that he's connected. The question was how deeply? Was he aware of? Apparently, he was associated with the people that took out the customs and border protection officer. Did he know of it? So it was an ongoing investigation. And this, he's from the Dominican Republic. He also has, I mean, he's a pretty long rap sheet. He's a got all kind of grand theft, assault, robbery, I think armed robbery, weapons

possession. I mean, this is a bad guy. He's got a rap sheet that's forever long. Why are we doing this? And, of course, the media wants to make him, wants to make this guy, him, the victim. He's the victim. Why is he in New York? Because it's a sanctuary state.

they give everybody they don't honor ICE detainments. He was a, he literally is a gang member and he tried to flee when they arrested him last month. I mean, I mean, it's going to take a while if we go down his rap sheet, but he's got a lot of violent crimes on his rap sheet, which, you know, poses the question of why in the world he was even not, he wasn't in jail in the first place. That's the million dollar thing. Listen to this. This is Mark Wayne Mullen. blasting Mamdani for this. This is cut three. NYPD officers are some of the finest officers we have out there. Just last week, one was stabbed

seven times by illegals, one that we had a detainer on that New York released. Both had extensive criminal backgrounds. Did the mayor of New York say anything about that? Did the individuals that's in the streets demanding justice for this criminal that we picked up yesterday, did anybody come out for the officer that was stabbed seven times by these criminals? Not a word was said. Not a word was said by the mayor, not a word was said by the governor. Really? I mean, and he's right.

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Chicago was his city. Mike Dicka. Ripped to a legend. That's, uh, golly, I don't like this. This is set. Now that, I think we have three, almost three. Now I've got to do my grandmother's rule of three. No more bingo in Wyoming.

A new gambling law has banned. bingo and threatened $750 fines. Now, it's like suddenly illegal. But isn't that like what? Can you just, can you play bingo just for prizes or is that still considered gambling too? Like I think I like old folks bingo.

You know, can you can the old folks still have their bingo? I don't know. I don't think so. Really? Right. Because the, they, because they focus on gambling and they say, they're talking about you know, just for fun and they don't, the bar doesn't make a profit, which makes me think,

that it's not just limited to bars. It's the Sun version of the U.S. so it's not like a grade journalist award-winning article. But I'm like, I would have loved a little bit more clarification on that because they were saying that a lot of the casinos were doing it, but apparently it's like the law touches beyond casinos. So, I mean, I guess you could technically argue that if they were doing the church bingo, that that would be affected.

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dana lash with you we're at the bottom of this third hour so i got a nerd out for just a second because i really got to flex super hard with my kids my now my children that are young adults i really got to flex super hard because i found out because you know what i grew up playing video games and i'm a very odd person and that i still play video games to this day. I'm really, I'm in the middle of helldivers. I've done dark tide, vermin tide, call of duty, Halo, Halo, Halo 3, HALO the OTST, Halo reach everything. And I found out this was like way after, I downloaded all of the soundtracks for Halo because I was like, this is the best video game music I have ever heard. And I would literally let it play.

Well, I was like working on one of my books, my last book. I was let it played in the background. and I enjoyed playing Halo. And I always loved the music. I thought it was just structured beautifully, and it added so much to the gameplay. Then I found out that the composer followed me on social media. I flexed so hard to the kids and my family. I'm like, look, guys, the composer to y'all's favorite game follows me on social media.

Oh, my gosh. And for a hot second, I became very cool and legitimate. And so now this is like a step above that. The composer, Marty O'Donnell, has done. tons of different titles. I mean, the Halo tracks, he's done myth. He's done. I mean, he's an award-winning composer. And he's also running, get this, for Congress. So I guess he doesn't think that scoring video game titles is difficult enough on its own. Now he's also running for Congress. And if I can flex a little harder, he joins me now via video. Marty O'Donnell, thank you so much

for joining me. This is very surreal right now. So it's a real pleasure. Thank you. Well, gosh, Dana, I was not expecting that introduction at all. I thought that maybe your husband, Chris, was the guy who played Halo and said, you should talk to this guy, you know. I had no idea you were a gamer. I didn't know that you had listened to my music. So that's a total bonus for me. Thanks so much.

You do such a great. I just have to give you tons of praise because it literally is the best soundtrack to any game ever, ever scored, ever. It's so good. And I love it. it stands alone. It does really well. And now you're taking, I guess, that golden touch and you're running for Congress, which, why? Okay, obvious question. Why in the world do you want to jump in the, from the frying pan into the fire, so to speak? Why would you want to do that? Well, you, you sound, like my wife. When I told her, I was thinking about it. And it was because through a series of

events that happened involving my daughter, who was very successful, she started a five-o-on C3 here in Las Vegas that helps kids. It's called foster kinship. And she's been doing this for almost 20 years and 25,000 children have been, have gone through her program and it's wonderful. And she asked me to help now that I'm living in Las Vegas, help sort of maybe get involved in politics. She knew I was a Republican and a hardcore conservative and she knew that I could probably help her, you know, navigate through some of the political waters. So that's how I started. I just was going to help out and see how how I could help behind the scenes. And Governor Lombardo, Joe Lombardo's team, sort of got wind of my presence and they said, actually came to me and said, would you run for Congress?

Would you ever consider it? And I was like, no. I wouldn't consider that at all. My three grandsons are here, my two daughters are here. I moved here to retire and spend time in the sun and relax. Although I wasn't super happy about the relaxing I got antsy.

So I thought, well, this is an interesting concept. And I've always preached that Congress should be sort of like jury duty. I think people who go to Congress because they think it's a career, that's half, if not most of the problem with our politicians, is that they need the job. They want it as a career. They're looking for power. They never leave. So I've always been complaining about that. And I've told my daughters as they were growing up, there should be Congress duty, just like jury duty.

Right. You should get a letter saying you've got to serve, and then you serve for two years, and then you go back to the farm. That's the way it was set up to be. So when I got this tap on the shoulder, even though it was coming from the governor's office, I kind of felt like it was God saying, okay, pal, put up or shut up. Are you going to do your civic duty like you keep saying? And so I said, okay, Lord, take me to the next step. I love it. And it was meeting with the governor.

And so that's why I'm doing it. Believe it or not, I, it's funny, I've been through some horrendous crunches finishing games like Halo 1 and 2 and 3. I mean, all the games, you just work so, so hard, and the pressure can be tremendous. I got to work with Paul McCartney for two years when we worked on Destiny, the sequel, the sort of spiritual sequel to Halo. So at this point, I kind of feel like Congress. that how hard how hard can that be you've done like the heart you've done like some of the

hardest stuff and now congress i mean very it's very different how what is what has shocked you about running for office and getting into this i mean obviously you know i would say maybe the nastiness but i mean because you're a guy who's like you know what there's stuff that's got to be fixed i just want to fix it and that's kind of like a composer's mentality too tell me about absolutely well i mean that's exactly what it is i mean when people ask me why are you running i i basically say it's my three grandsons who are in the district and I I don't like where America's going I've always been a political junkie I you know grew up as a conservative I saw Barry Goldwater introduced to the world by Ronald Reagan when I was

nine years old with the famous speech a time for choosing and I as a nine-year-old I went to my mom I said mom I'm a conservative and I you know I've never changed you're like Alex Peekeen yeah I actually was except You wouldn't have known it by looking at me because I had long hair and I was in rock bands. And so I was always the oddball rock musician and progressive rock and jazz and all the rest. And then a music major that was actually a subscriber to National Review. So it was a very, so. So the political thing has always been something that I've been fond of reading F.A.

Hayek and Milton Friedman and Thomas Sol. And it's just like from an ideological standpoint, that's the things I believe in. And that's the kind of government I believe in. So yeah, I want to get in there and say, okay, what's wrong with you people? Why aren't you doing it the right way? So we'll see what happens. You have. We're talking for those joining us.

We're talking with Marty O'Donnell. He's running for a congressional office in Nevada. Nevada's third congressional district. And he also, you know, legendary composer for Destiny, Halo, so many titles. And one of the things, this is what I was, I. One of the other big questions I wanted to ask you, Marty, because you have a lot of cred with what you do for a living. Because everybody under the age of 50 knows who you are. Everybody under the age, I'd say 30 knows who you are very well.

And I have read so many stories where people are like, oh, Marty O'Donnell's a genius. And these are from, you know, millennial and Gen Z, the people who play games that are very familiar with you. I wanted to get your perspective on the trend for that generation that loves the stuff. that you do and plays the games that you work on, the trend of that generation that's seemingly going towards socialism. There's been a lot of surveys about this. What are your thoughts about that? And in that role in Congress, how do you look to kind of temper that? Well, one of the things I think I have a good connection with is this sort of Gen Z, millennial, even Gen X, a conglomeration of people, especially males, I have to say.

Dana, you are the exception to the rule. I'm so happy to know that you've actually... I credit the young men in my house. They were the ones who said you've got to play Halo, and I'm like, I'm going to play Halo. All right. But they have been so demonized for so long, and they're basically like, okay, we're going to go play our games. At least we can be happy here. And then suddenly the Hokies get involved in game development and change the way games are.

And they're like, what have you done to our games? They're coming together. There is the weirdo socialists on the left that are trying to control that stuff. And those are the people that I think at this moment that are getting a lot of press. But there is a whole other side to this, the geeks and gamers, the critical drinker, there's a bunch of people out there that have huge millions of people following them that are sort of the, I don't want to say the lost boys because there's women in there too. But you're right, though. I mean, it is. I think there are some women that would identify with that in that generation. Absolutely. And it's like, what have you done to our comics? What have you done to our anime?

What have you done to our games? What have you done to Lord of the Rings and Star Trek and Star Wars? It's like all this stuff that they grew up thinking, hey, these are really good stories and they're heroic and they're classical in so many ways. And now it's just filled with agenda and checkboxes for DEI and you name it. And it's actually coalescing this whole group of people who have found each other, I think, on the internet. And I'm saying, hey, folks, you actually could have some political power. And, you know, figure out a way to support me and you'll have a geeky gamer, musician, creative guy in Congress. And I will represent you. Now, I also obviously need to represent the people of Nevada's third district.

But the people in Nevada's third district are primarily people who live conservative lives. They get up in the morning, they go to work, they take care of their kids, they want to choose what kind of education their kids have. They want to be able to afford a house. And the conservatives, we're the ones who are going to give that sense of one good job is enough to provide for your family. And it should be that way, but it's not anymore. The reason it's not is because of the Democrats, and moving further into the socialist direction will absolutely blow that out of the water. And so we have to give them that alternative. So I think a combination of, you know, the geeky gamer people from the Internet, which is a huge contingent now.

They are finally snapping back against the wokes. And then just the normal people who want to live normal lives and want government out of their hair, I think they're starting to wake up, truly wake up. Yeah, and I love that that you can thread that needle because there isn't anybody that can speak to that. I mean, if you look at, I mean, no offense to anybody in D.C., but there isn't anybody in D.C. who has their finger on the pulse of that and knows, really knows that generation. And as you said, like the gaming community, which is, you know, yes, it's predominantly young men, but that's also the people who have been attacked the most and smeared the most. And you don't want them to fall in that rabbit hole of thinking, well, you know, the only answer to socialism is more social. You don't want them to think that. Yes, exactly.

And I've been noticing this trend for a long time. And I think the political consultants who are in their early 40s that reached out to me, certainly Joe Lombardo, he's an absolutely salt-of-the-earth sweet guy. But he's like, yeah, Marty, I don't know. So video games? What did you do? He doesn't know the video games thing. But the guys in the 40s, there's a lot of staffers in Washington.

That's the, when you ask about surprising things for me, is number one, how mean other Republicans can be to each other, which just like, wait, I expect to get attacked by Democrats, but not by other Republicans. So that was one surprise. But the other surprise is going and meeting all these people in D.C. at the staff level, and they are all lined up to want autographs for me. So I'm like, okay, there is an underlying bunch of people who get it. They grew up playing video games. This is in their wheelhouse. you know, maybe the senators and congressmen that they work for don't have a clue, but, I mean, they don't have a clue anyway. Right, exactly.

Well, I'm going to get myself in trouble. No, you're not going to, you know what, because it's honest. You're being incredibly honest, and it's so refreshing to see that. Last quick thing, I mean, I know it's a very, very tight race because this is Nevada. Nevada used to be pretty reliably red, and then I know they kind of had the same thing, the blueprint, which flipped Colorado, same thing with Nevada. tell me how you're feeling because I see a lot of people that are very receptive, but I just think that you are like lightning in a bottle because you have that ability

that nobody else does that you get that generation better than anybody else. And I just kind of wanted to get your thoughts, you know, coming into the home stretch, the home stretch here. Well, I'm truly, truly not a professional politician. So I don't know how to read the tea leaves. I listen to the folks that I trust and they're saying, hey, the polls are moving in the right direction. You know, it's tight, but it's all going. in the right direction. It's great. Joe Lombardo and President Trump both won this district last

time, but the Democrats still snuck through. So they feel like there's a real vulnerability there. And Susie Lee is the Democrat, and she's actually a horrible Congresswoman. She's... Even without the party affiliation, she's just bad and incompetent. The affiliation makes it worse, even. Yes, it does. So, you know, I think she's vulnerable, but she's got, you know, you know, as an incumbent, she's got a lot of stuff that she can fall from and she's got the unions and there's all that stuff. But I think if we can excite the base, it's a turnout election. I'm sure you've heard that a million times. And I also think there is that sort of hidden contingency of young men who just don't bother to vote. They think politics doesn't matter. I'm sure you've talked to Dean Kane at some point.

He's now a supporter and a fan. We're doing, believe it or not, you should know this. We're doing a Halo Land Party starting tonight in Las Vegas. That's amazing. Yeah, I don't know how you missed it. Why didn't you? I don't know. How did I miss this?

I'm going to blame myself. I don't know. I don't know how you're going to go to blame. I haven't been advertising it. But we're starting tonight, so we're having a big traditional Halo land party. It's not on, it'll be streamed but not played online. It's going to be actual yellow land cables and. That is amazing.

Yeah, original X-Box. It's a combination fundraising for my campaign, but it's also just something. It's the 25th anniversary of Halo. So people from all over the country are coming in to do this, and we're having an actual hardcore tournament tomorrow all day. And I've got some other original designers and creators who helped me. I mean, I helped them make Halo back in the day.

So they're coming in to. That's amazing. I want everyone to listen to, what Marty said, because for the generation that needed somebody that can speak their language and that gets them and that understands also the escape, because it's not just about games, it's just people, it is people who need an escape from the insanity that is happening around them and they just want to get away from the wokeism. They want to get away from the super hardcore leftism. They want to get away from all of it. To have somebody like that,

that gets you, that is one of you in Congress, that's a first. And I hope that they don't pass that historic opportunity. Last word. Okay. I just want to say, the thing I was going to say about Dean Kane is he always says, people say they don't care about politics, but politics cares about you. So get involved. And I think I can wake some folks up, I hope, and I will represent everybody. There you go, right there. Marty O'Donnell, always a pleasure. This is such a real pleasure for me, a real treat for me to be able to talk with you. Yeah, I hope we can do it longer sometime. And you should come out. You should just get on a plane right now and come out tonight.

You know what? I'm not actually against that. That would be super. fun. It's so good to talk with you. We'll talk again soon. Marty O'Donnell. God bless you. Thanks. Thanks so much, Jane. Thanks. We have more on the way as we roll. Our partners that help bring you the program. It's the folks that are at Ghostbed. It's a great mattress. If you haven't switched, you need to because it's the best mattress that you can get. And it's made right here in the USA. I have one. I've been sleeping on it for several months now. It's just engineered. It's just built better. The materials. The construction, Ghostbeds engineered to help reduce the reasons that your sleep gets interrupted. It's designed to release.

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him for secondary inspection. They said that he indicated on his customs entry declaration that he did not bring any animals or wildlife, but then he had a bulge near his waist. Kind of was giving him away and they were like, sir, we're going to have to do a pat down. They found six plastic tubes sewn into his underwear that contained eight yellow-faced grass quits and two blue gross beaks. They're sold in an illegal pet trade. birds were found alive, thankfully. They're all okay. They're kind of like smaller birds.

They usually are found in southeastern Mexico, northern North America. Some can be found in parts of Cuba, the Blue Grove Speaks. They're usually in Mexico, Central America, and other places as well, south of the near the equator. He was busted. He told authorities that the birds were for his personal use. No one believes that. Florida fish, or U.S. Fish and Wildlife, sorry, got in for importing the birds, and he was taken into custody. And the birds are okay. They're like fed. They're and they're like a little happy. I don't, I guess they're going to go to like, what, a sanctuary or something like that. I don't know. But that's, I always get super upset. This, why would anybody buy this off of Facebook Facebook Facebook Marketplace? This is how you get poisoned. A Florida man apparently used Facebook Marketplace to sell homegrown sacadelic mushrooms and peyote. Dang. Authority sees. Oh my gosh. He had a lot. Authority sees more than 50 pounds of hallucinogenic cacti. It's peyote and mushrooms from a guy who was advertising them on Facebook marketplace.

Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Why did he think that he could just advertise that on Facebook marketplace? Isn't that already against the law? I think he was high on peyote at the time. You can't just go, yo, I got some, y'all want some shrooms and peyote. You all want some of that? The man, oh, gosh, he's 32 years old. What does Huff with some of these people?

Zachary Diaz, he was running his business selling the peyote and the silozybin mushrooms. Silocybin, thank you. Clearly I need to learn drugs more. He also had manufacturing supplies. They found 50 pounds of the peyote and then almost two pounds of the shrooms. And they said he was already facing outstanding warrants apparently. And he was arrested charged with three counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell manufacturer, deliver a thousand feet of a church, three counts of deliver, blah, blah, blah, blah. He's got a lot of counts. As you can see, I'm just trying to understand why this genius thought, you know, what's a good place for me to advertise this? I'm going to put it up on Facebook Marketplace. I'm going to make it easy. Come down, because that's how they busted him. They're like, look at this fool. The cops are like, oh, look at him selling his stuff on Facebook Marketplace. Why? And then if you were a, well, I mean, I guess if you're buying illegal drugs, you don't care where you get them.

But still, that's so dirty. That's like buying gas station sushi. Like, why would you... Don't do that? I don't know. Like, if I was going to be a drug user, I would want boozy, like a boogie drug place. You know? Like, I would want to go and, like, somebody hand me this champagne while I'm looking at the drugs. You know, like you would shop at a boogie store. I don't know. Home repairs have a way of happening at the worst possible time. A water heater breaks. Your HVAC quits, or you have a plumbing or electrical problem, and suddenly you're dealing with an expense you didn't plan for. Homeowner's insurance doesn't cover day-to-day wear and tear repairs with plumbing,

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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. Yeah, real quiet. Oh. You think I've been doing you, you fuck, sucker. Now here's the thing, man, you don't know me. You don't fucking know me. And Joe, find this guy and then they see him after the show. Guys, I can stop this show right now and just go home.

I don't do it. See what I'm going to do. Since you've made some wonderful, I'm going to cut about 10 songs out of the show. Oh, what... Golly. I just ran through a really fast Rolodex of names for him in my head, and I just... The thought occurred to me. None of them I can say on air.

Okay, well, hey, hey, can I call him... Can I at least call him that? Can I say, hey, you old... Yeah, I think so. Okay. Well, I don't know. It's not as fun. That's almost an adorable name. Yeah, John Cooter Mellencamp.

That's right. There you go. So he's just finished working on a car and sucking down a chili dog, decided he was going to go play some tunes for the peoples. And then someone was like, can you shut up about politics for five seconds and just play music? And that's what he's mad about. That's like me getting up and playing guitar instead of talking about politics. Like, anyway, here's Wonderwall.

And everyone's like, can you just shut up and talk about politics, you know, just in reverse? Why do people get so mad about that? Like, they come there because they like your music. They like your music. They don't care about anything else. They thought the song that you wrote was nice. And they want to go hear the nice songs in a live music setting. And he comes up there and decides to be a cranky old female copulatory organ about it.

Why in the world? Why do people do that? Why do they do that? I don't get it. Why is he always in a mechanics outfit? I don't get that either. Like, what is up? Why?

This is like the 5,000th time I've seen him in a mechanic outfit. But these celebrities that get out there, and then they get shocked, I can't believe that nobody wanted to hear about my politics. I can't believe people didn't want to listen to three hours of me playing power chords. Wow. You see? Just stop. And now, all of the news you would probably miss.

It's time for Dana's Quick Five. kind of grody. Polk County, Missouri, a leak at a meat processing plant, and Polk County discharged a mixture of blood and water into a nearby creek. According to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, they investigated after a landowner reported discolored water. State officials found that the discharge came from Best Beef, Missouri, a local meat processing plant in Pleasant Hope.

The plant's owner said the leak was the result of vandalism, and the landowner noticed that the creek's water, his creek's water right on his property as he was leaving his house, that it had had an oily sheen on it. He noted the water level had risen, the color was red, and you could kind of smell it. And so he went to a holding pool south of his property. It was also discolored. So he called the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, and they began an investigation. They followed it all the way to the plant, and they said that now they're going to have to,

they said, the plant owner says that the only way this could have happened is for somebody to have deliberately done it. and that someone had deliberately removed a missing cap. And that's what, so they halted operations and they put up a dam temporarily and all of that. So they're trying to figure out how to get it cleaned up and how to fix it here. Utah is going to become the first state to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without direct human oversight. I mean, when you look at medical malpractice, is it going to be that much different, though, from what we have? Part of it is because we have doctor shortages. Nobody wants to go into medicine anymore.

And part of the reason for that, honestly, is Obamacare. Obamacare, the regulations, the oversight, the liability, everything has made it to where medicine isn't as, it's not as attractive and appealing to people. They don't want to put up with all the nonsense, all the bureaucracy. And also, I worry about DEI. So I'm actually because of that, not opposed to this. Because DEI has infected so many industries. You know it's infected the medical industry. So I don't know.

But Utah, doctors already consult with AI as it is. I don't know a doctor who doesn't. I was talking to a friend of mine who's a dentist. And they were saying that, oh, yeah, so many people in medicine, this is what they do. They consult AI. It's made it a lot easier and a lot quicker. So, no. Also, let's see, convicted Massachusetts felon pled guilty to selling imported plutonial.

from Russia to dozens. Imported plutonium. It does sound like a TV show. Jacob Miller 44 was convicted. He apparently also had a bunch of other nasty stuff and possession of an explosive device as well. Stick with us.