The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Friday August 9 - Full Show

Episode Date: August 9, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Do you think that the vice president needs to be more out there talking to reporters, talking about issues in a give and take, not just in speeches? I think she should say what I just said in that sentence. She should be herself. She should be ready. She should know her power and all of this. And I don't give anybody advice except to be themselves and be ready and know the power of their individuality and their authenticity. What the hell does that even mean?
Starting point is 00:00:28 Nancy Pelosi was asked about Kamala Harris and whether or not she's going to be doing, you know, like interviews and stuff. And if she's going to be taking questions from the press. And I, do we know what that means? What does it even mean? What did she say? I mean, can I run it through my BS California Marxist filter? I don't know. I don't think it's working this morning.
Starting point is 00:00:50 But that's just such a weird answer. And Nancy Pelosi, by the way, and we're going to talk a little bit about this, she's, I feel like some of the Biden staffers, I don't feel like I, I mean, it's pretty obvious. Some of the Biden staffers are supremely angry at her because they feel that she was, you know, the motivating or the biggest factor that pushed Biden out of office. And so they are, they're upset with her because, you know, here we're in this, well, not we, but they are in this current state of the cycle. and they have, you know, Kamala Harris, not the strongest candidate they could have. And I feel like the Biden people are nursing a grudge
Starting point is 00:01:37 against Pelosi for being the person that ultimately pushed out Joe Biden. And because we've talked about that, you know, a little bit going into the switch. And it is, you know, I mean, somebody big had to convince how to get him out of the race. And I don't think it was going to be Jill or Hunter because all of these people were very, they were very interested in their own bottom line.
Starting point is 00:02:02 I don't think it was any of them. But, I mean, it's, so there's some of that going around. So it's interesting that now she's like, because she hasn't been really speaking out about Kamala Harris very much, despite the fact that both of them are from San Francisco. So interesting. So welcome to the program. Dana Lash here with you. And we are at the top of this third hour on Friday.
Starting point is 00:02:27 We've got some secret service stuff to get into. We're also going to talk with coming up, our friend Charles Payne, on all of the economic nonsense. We're going to get into all of that. And we also have, let's see, Harris Walls. We also have, we're going to get into that. We got bread and circuses is 2024. We got a whole bunch of stuff. But first up, so this, so Kamala Harris was asked.
Starting point is 00:02:53 They finally asked her a question. She actually made her. way, interestingly enough, to the press gathering outside of her jet. And she was talking to members of the media because they were asking her, okay, so where, when are you going to, when are you going to answer questions? Are you going to, are you going to have a press conference? And she, and this is, I'm looking at, I'm scrolling through audio. She finally said that she was, going to, but it was going to be like in a couple of weeks, is when she said that she would actually talk to members of the press.
Starting point is 00:03:36 Listen to this, because this doesn't seem to be satisfactory, a satisfactory answer. If you're trying to figure out when the vice presidential candidate's going to be taking questions, listen. My president, there's been a lot of questions about when you're going to sit down for your first interviews since being the nominee. I've talked to my team. I want us to get an interview schedule to go again in a month. Thank you. She hasn't, I mean, it's been 19 days.
Starting point is 00:04:01 It's been 19 days. So she said, oh, before the end of the month. So, like, that's in several weeks. I want to remind you, early voting begins in less than five weeks in Pennsylvania. Early voting, that's where early voting in some of these states. And then Pennsylvania kicks off in under five weeks. So she's going to wait and answer questions from the press. She's going to wait that long.
Starting point is 00:04:24 That seems a little odd. And speaking of. debates and questions. She did commit to a debate with Trump. I think it's the ABC one. She finally agreed to a debate. I think it's one of that. But one of the reporters, I retweeted it yesterday was like, well, what about the other two? What about, I don't know if we have that. What about the other two? I mean, they, do we have this audio? I think, I don't know which one this is. It was funny when they were asking. Yeah, listen to this. Madam Vice President Donald Trump agreed to three debates will you be participating in all three
Starting point is 00:05:00 I've always been on record I am looking forward to debating Donald Trump and we have a date of September 10th I hear he is finally committed to it I'm looking forward what about the other two let's make sure we get the other two what about the other two what about the other two debates though and she's like no no we're not doing any of that and just walks away walks away it's kind of funny with all of that but so anyway that's the it's the latest with the press that with the questions and the debates and all of this stuff. Now, in the meantime, the Harris campaign has been trying to rehabilitate the Waltz situation. They, listen to this.
Starting point is 00:05:40 So on their website originally, with regard to Tim Walts' bio, they had referred to him as a retired command sergeant major, which he's not. So they very quietly took that away. They erased that off of their website. fascinating is it not they took it off their website and they they've been trying to remove any false claims that they had previously run with because he said that he was by the way he's been saying this as i mean 2018 there was actually another reference i found 2019 where he kept saying that he's a retired command sergeant major but he's not he retired as a master sergeant so he was claiming what they what one of my veteran friends was saying he was saying he kept saying he's he's a retired command sergeant major but he's not he's he retired as a master sergeant. So he was claiming what they what they what one of my
Starting point is 00:06:23 veteran friends was saying he was saying that he was an E9 rank and he's not he's an EA rank that's what a friend of mine was telling me um but the assumption is well I guess it doesn't sound as fancy to say that but he was claiming that he I mean I there are tweets there are screenshots of tweets all over where he was saying that he is a retired command sergeant major said that over and over and over again and he tweeted it he said it in speeches he said it on the campaign trail he posted it I mean, these are things that he actually typed and then hit send and put it out there. So he knows that he's not. In fact, Juan's preparing, Juan's got one of them.
Starting point is 00:06:59 He's going to show you. This was from just 2018. Now, remember how long this has been going down, how long this has been happening. This is where this is 2018. He's saying that, look, he says, as a retired command sergeant major, which he wasn't. He retired as a master sergeant. He was reduced in rank because the moment that he was told that he was going to deploy, he took off. So that's a problem.
Starting point is 00:07:25 So anyway, the Harris campaign has been quietly, quietly, quietly, scrubbing all references of this from their website. His original biography called him the son of an army veteran and retired command sergeant major in the Army National Guard. And then now they call him the son of an army veteran who served as a command sergeant major. So they went back and they changed it and didn't tell him. tell anyone. They won't acknowledge this. This is why, you know, I keep a lot of people are asking me, is this going to make a difference, though? I don't think it's going to make a difference with, like, hardcore Democrats, because you're talking about a party that lionized a guy that let a woman
Starting point is 00:08:02 drown in a pond for crying out loud. It's not going to matter to them, but it's going to matter to the moderates and the independence. And a lot of veterans out there, you know, this is, all of this is decided in the margins, and that's where this is going. So it's, I think with them, it absolutely does matter. Now, in addition to all of this, the, because we have, they're still trying to deal with these issues. They're still trying to deal with the DUI, which seemed to be less of a problem in the stolen valor. But now all this came out yesterday, Tim Walts repeatedly hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated October 7th and shared pro-Hitler website links. It just keeps getting worse and worse and worse.
Starting point is 00:08:50 So this guy, and this Washington Examiner has the story. This guy, by the way, Walsh hosted him at official events. Walsh hosted this guy at all kinds of official events. And what's interesting is that the surrogates, people who are defenders of Harris, Harris Walls, Walls Harris. They're saying, well, you know, to be clear, he didn't host him after October 7th. Are you kidding me? I mean, at least five times as the governor of Minnesota, he hosted this guy who celebrated the October 7th attack. He promoted a film, a neo, well-known neo-Nazi film, apparently.
Starting point is 00:09:34 And this guy was, I mean, he was there, he knows to Walls. He hosted him. The guy's name, the imam's name is Assad Zaman. He is of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota. He actually, one of the, he met with and talked with Walsz on May 23rd. He was there with the governor speaking at events at May 2020. I mean, they, he, this guy, by the way, delivered the invocation before Tim Walts addressed the state in 2019. This is crazy.
Starting point is 00:10:15 And by the way, Wals hosted an event where he was like the key. keynote. He was the headline guest for Ramadan. And that's all over social media. And this guy shared all kinds of stuff from Hamas. He celebrated October 7th.
Starting point is 00:10:35 It's on social media. So, I mean, there's no way anybody can spin it unless, you know, they're saying it was, he came back around and said, psych, just kidding. He I mean, the language that he uses on social media is really bad. He had a lot of
Starting point is 00:10:51 I mean, when I say anti-Semitic, when you're actually trashing Jewish people for being Jewish, that's pretty anti-Semitic. That's not like just disagreeing with Netanyahu, right? So that's this guy. He linked to a website that was all about a, it's a neo-Nazi pro-Hitler film called The Greatest Story Never Told. It was released in 2013, apparently. And he, and that's among other things that he shared. some of the stuff that he, I mean, it's crazy.
Starting point is 00:11:23 He had like Hitler imagery, like literally like Hitler's silhouette and all the stuff that he shared on his social media pages. It's bad. It's bad. This is bad. And Tim Walts hosted him a million times. Gave the invocation for Walsh before Walsh addressed the state. So when the left calls the right Nazis, I'm just wondering if they include the time that Tim Walsh literally entertains a Nazi, an Islam-Fascist, Nazi in the governor's mansion repeatedly and elevates this guy into giving the invocation before his
Starting point is 00:11:57 address to the state because that's where we're at. This is wild. I mean, what else is this guy going to have in his closet? This is, you know, who was it? Eric Holder was supposed to be partly responsible for the vetting for some of those? Yeah. Some of Obama's people. It kind of makes me wonder, you know, did they set her up to sabotage her? Because she's one of those people, and it's really weird. She's one of those weird people that have all this ambition, but no work ethic. Like they don't want to do the work to get the glory, kind of like that Eric Wrighton's did it on Missouri. Like they don't want to do the work. They want the title and they want the glory of it without the hard work that goes into it. And I have always been amazed at how people can function like that.
Starting point is 00:12:47 She's one of them. I mean, she's. She's, it's like, you know, tit for tat with her. And she's been, how she's been able to come up in the ranks is kind of wild to me. But it makes me, you know, this is evident that she doesn't go into vetting anybody herself. She doesn't put that work in herself. So she lets other people do it. So if she's letting other people do it, they can destroy her, use exploiting her laziness. It's wild.
Starting point is 00:13:13 I got a lot more for you, including coming up, there's a piece over at substack that you need to check out. We're going to talk about it. The Trump assassination attempt, new body cam video footage is crazy. I was watching this yesterday, and then there's all this radio conversation from law enforcement that are angry, because apparently they were telling Secret Service earlier in the week that they got to post somebody up on that roof. And the apparent Secret Service didn't do it. It is wild, wait until you see this. And we got Charles Payne, who's going to be coming up as well.
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Starting point is 00:15:11 What? It's this elderly Japanese man. Yeah. What else? He apparently He found that he had Well, he had some other Concerning Health problems
Starting point is 00:15:20 But they said that he And maybe alcoholism But they also said that And he was a smoker But they also said that he took tons of probiotics And it made him develop the runs If you get my drift And yeah
Starting point is 00:15:34 And then he died He died because they killed him The probiotos Doesn't sound like probiotics did it I'm just saying You know It doesn't sound like it though Let's see this
Starting point is 00:15:43 Okay I feel like I feel like a cat lady came up with this. Blasting glitter into Mars's atmosphere could make it more habitable, say scientists. Pumping engineered particles similar in size to commercially available glitter and made of iron and aluminum,
Starting point is 00:15:58 or if you're British, aluminum, into the atmosphere that could help heat up Mars. Does Mars need help heating up? I thought it was like a hot red planet anyway. Okay, never mind. No, wait, no, that's mercury. So they said one third of Mars's surface is water. Yeah, I'm sure.
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Starting point is 00:18:11 Because while our economy is doing well by many measures. prices for everyday things like groceries are still too high. You know it and I know it. You know, when I was Attorney General, I went after price fixing schemes. And when I am president, it will be a day one priority to fight to bring down prices. I will take on big corporations that raise rents on working. So my first thought was, I mean, what are you doing now? You're the vice president of the United States.
Starting point is 00:18:50 You preside over the Senate. Like, what are you doing now? That was my first thought. And my second thought was, you know, the issue isn't that the government doesn't do enough. It is that the government does too much. And, you know, her talking about price gouging, it just takes me back to big supermarket, right? Big grocery. Something that Joe Biden had said, oh, it's big supermarket, you know, or big milk or big corn or big something.
Starting point is 00:19:14 Everything's always big, but government. I love that they're, they have such a wild perspective, but I don't love the, what puts us through. Joining us now on this, and of course, this is none of the economy. One day we're going to have Charles on the show and it's going to be all great news. Charles Payne host to Making Money with Charles Payne, weekdays, 2 to 3 p.m. Eastern on Fox business.
Starting point is 00:19:33 He is my favorite person about money on the TV, and he's now joining us on the phone. Charles always love talking to you, my friend. I just wanted to get your response to that. I mean, she's the vice president of the United States. That's not an entirely powerless position. No, it's not. It's just, oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:19:49 Dan, I don't even know where to begin with these people. The deflection, the finger pointing, the blame, the buck has never stopped with them. It just never stops with them. There's just, there's no introspection. You know, I mean, you were just talking about, quote-unquote, big supermarkets, right? So the biggest pure supermarket out there is Kroger. You know, you can argue Walmart sells more food, but they sell a bunch of stuff. So Kroger reported their earnings for the first quarter of this year. You know what their operating profit was? 2.9% 2.9%
Starting point is 00:20:23 down from 3.3% a year ago. 2.9% is that the definition of price gouging? You want to go after them? Yeah, that doesn't make any sense. I mean, and I get their system like they have, you know, they're able to turn over goods and all that stuff
Starting point is 00:20:39 and Walmart's figured out in Kroger really. They figured out the secret sauce to that. But when I hear Kamala Harris and others talk about this, I just get the idea that they've never, they don't understand. what everyday families are trying to do by stretching that dollar because the government's just not going to stop spending money. And when, you know, I hear Biden talk about, well, we're going to spend this and now, we're going to free this and that, free college, free this. And, you know, Kamala Harris
Starting point is 00:21:03 continuing it. I don't, I mean, I looked at, you know, what the jobs reports at last week, Charles. I was looking at the market dive. I don't think that we can withstand that for another four years. Oh, absolutely not. Absolutely not. And I think the most, the most important thing that your audience needs to know is that Biden Harris, they are the authors of this inflation battle. They created this. Yeah. And they keep stoking it.
Starting point is 00:21:31 The $1.9 trillion COVID-Aid. That was ridiculous. We did not need that. The Trillion Dollars Inflation Reduction Act, it does not reduce inflation. All of this money, you know, we're giving it. You saw last week, Micron, we gave $8.5 billion in taxpayer money. You know what they gave us in return? They're going to lay off 15,000 people.
Starting point is 00:21:51 Yay. It's insane. It's insane. I mean, I just talked about Kroger, right? Kroger has 420,000 employees. Do you really want to hurt Kroger? Because you're only hurting Americans. It's just, here's, I think, and this is one thing I keep saying to everyone,
Starting point is 00:22:09 none of this has anything to do with economics, and we have to put that into perspective. That's why it's so illogical. They try to rapid... Are we going to see a rate cut from the Fed? You think when talking about this? I mean to interrupt you, but because I've been hearing this, like, for what, a year? Yeah, I know, I know. I know. The Fed, to me, has really made a huge, they botched this so badly to J-PAL Fed.
Starting point is 00:22:30 You know, of course, they botched it from the very beginning when they were fighting inflation. Their first rate hike was only 25 basis points. It should have been like 75 basis points, right? It was an emergency. When an emergency, you do emergency things. Oh, well, remember, they thought inflation was transitory. And I think they're making the same sort of mistake here. and the big problem is they keep looking at the economy as the aggregate. They keep saying when they say the consumer is strong, nothing pisses me off to that.
Starting point is 00:22:55 I mean, the consumer is not strong. You know, you put, you add 10 middle-income households with one billionaire, and you crunch the numbers, and you say, well, look at the average. No, that's not how it works in real life. In real life, the consumer is crushed. It's getting hammered. Credit cards keep going up. Delinquencies are going through the roof.
Starting point is 00:23:15 We're at 23% interest. we're getting absolutely annihilated. You know, the mortgage report that came out, it comes out weekly, and mortgage applications, and they tried to put a happy face on that. Oh, it's up huge. No, there's two parts of it, refines and purchasing a home. Only 1% move in purchases. People are refinancing their homes.
Starting point is 00:23:34 They're getting helox to pay their bills. Oh, talking with our good friend Charles Payne. I want to switch it up and ask you about the VP pick, because is it, you know, I don't want to sound mean, but it's weird that this guy, to me, he's 60-something years old. He doesn't own any property. He has no stocks, no, I mean, Kaine and I, my producer were talking about this on break. Like, you mean, even with your retirement and your savings, I mean, you got something.
Starting point is 00:24:01 He doesn't have anything like this when they were, when he was reporting in before accepting the nomination. That's really unusual to me. I don't think, Charles, I trust anybody that doesn't have any of that. Right, because where you're essentially saying, you don't trust people that are trusting any things that we're putting our money into. Right. And they won't protect it. They won't protect it.
Starting point is 00:24:23 He has no skin it again. He has no stocks, bonds, crypto, real estate, index funds, mutual funds, no private equity, no retirement accounts, and he had a house where he sold it. He has nothing. But what can we, this guy's Bernie Sanders. He vacationed in Communist China. He loves communist China. And here's what you need to know.
Starting point is 00:24:40 While he was governor of Minnesota during his governorship, the people who've left the state, over 4,000 people making 200,000 a year, 6,000 people making 100,000 a year, 1,000 people making 75,000 a year, 2,000 people making 50,000 a year, almost 1,000 people that have moved into that state are earning, they earn $25,000 a less. think about that all the productive people in that state are leaving that's all you need to know they're running they're fleeing this guy and and and and we should actually have a national policy that he does not believe Kamala Harris and this guy Tim Walts do not believe in capitalism in fact I think they want to really destroy capitalism in the name and again it's not economic it's ideology for ideological reasons that's a really good point that you just said talking with our friend Charles Payne, host a making money with Charles Payne, which you can watch on Fox business every day,
Starting point is 00:25:36 all weekdays, two to three p.m. Eastern. What you just said there, I think, is one of the big ways in which people, some people may approach arguing this incorrectly because it's ideology. It's not economics. It's ideology with them. I mean, it is, you know, freedom with your money or no freedom with your money. They don't like America. They do not. They do not like the Constitution. they still are fighting the wars of yesterday. They want to fight the wars of slavery, the wars of Jim Crow. They want to go back. It wasn't good enough to tear down all the statues.
Starting point is 00:26:10 They want to go back and relitigate our history through policy. And, you know, so ironic when their campaign now is that the Republicans want to take you back. No. You're the one who keeps going backward. You're the one who keeps talking about things that happen 150 years. as if they're going to happen tomorrow. You're the one who keeps scaring a hell out of people. Why does nothing else you can sell?
Starting point is 00:26:35 And think about a nation that picks their leaders based on fear. Every time that's really happened throughout history, the outcome has been devastating. That is such a great point. Talking with our friend Charles Payne. Charles, I know you've got to get ready for your show. I got one more question for you. I always appreciate your time. I always think that Republicans do the best when they're disciplined with messaging.
Starting point is 00:26:56 And nobody's better on, you know, talking to. about the economy and money. I mean, good grief. I mean, Trump was literally on a show about that. I mean, he was, you know, he's on a show about making boardroom decisions and creating businesses and all this stuff. And when he's real disciplined and on point when talking about the economy, that resonates really well because you got independence out there that are broke, moderates out there that are broke, Democrats that are taking inventory, what they got. And they're like, well, I don't know, maybe, maybe going Republican this time around is the best bet. What do they need to do to really drive that point home going into?
Starting point is 00:27:28 November because we're five weeks, not even, we're less than five weeks away from early voting. So I've got a friend I've known for 45 years. He's always voted Democrat, and he really, really, to your point, is so upset he's going to vote Republican or he would like to. And he texts me once a day and says, why is Trump saying these things? Oh, boy. When he gets off message. And, and yeah, you're right. Trump points out what we all know and feel. I think they need to add a layer of facts on it because everything he says is going to be shot down or challenged or twisted.
Starting point is 00:27:59 For instance, when he says black jobs, you know, they take that and say, oh, he's a racist. No, essentially what he's saying is what a McKinsey report said last year. 45% of black Americans in a private sector work into three industries. Or the most, where the average pay is 30,000 a year. The best industry is in transportation with the highest pay at 70,000 a year. What President Trump needs to say is, how come after giving your vote, your heart, your soul,
Starting point is 00:28:26 and all your pain is suffering to Democrats for six decades, this is where half your population is. I want to change that. He just needs to layer in a little bit of facts to push off the, don't allow them to change your message. The way he says things, he allows them to interpret it for him and for the public. If he laid it out there just with a little sliver of facts behind it,
Starting point is 00:28:46 I think he can reignite the campaign. Gosh, that needs to get into his campaign's ear. Or we just need to Charles of the White House. I mean, you know, that's also just cut out the middleman and just said, you know, vote pain, you know, that maybe pain 2028. I don't know. Charles Payne, I always, I always appreciate you, my friend. You are my, you are literally my favorite money program on TV. And I actually make a point to listen to you. So I really enjoy it always. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks a lot. Thank you. Of course. Take care. We've got more to come, folks, as we wrap up this first hour, and we're going to be rolling right into days of these United States. Sometimes I can't. And I have friends who live and work. work in parts of the country where they absolutely cannot carry. And so this is where it's good to have other options for those instances. And the Burna gun is one of those options. It's B-Y-R-N-A. It's a non-firearm firearm, doesn't give a rats backside about your gun-free zone signs, doesn't care. There's no waiting
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Starting point is 00:30:25 Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water. What is she talking about? Reducing the population. Yeah, I mean, dumbs the rules, right? She wants to kill us all. see if you kill people and reduce their numbers
Starting point is 00:30:56 then they won't have to drink out of dirty puddles yeah they won't have to drink out of the ravine soup in the French quarter big big difference I mean golly her voice is weird her tonality it's shrill it's pitched weird and it always sounds like she's about to choke on it right it's like right in the back of her
Starting point is 00:31:20 right in the back of her throat it's weird by the way I saw this um I should say that you see some of the headlines by the way hold up so there's no other way to put this out here sometimes I wonder what these media outlets are doing when they write these headlines because Trump apparently was talking about why are you doing that with your head cane
Starting point is 00:31:49 Trump was talking about being in a helicopter that went down with Willie Brown, Mayor Willie Brown. And some people are saying that he's confusing him with Jerry Brown, which, you know, I can see how that's, you know, I can see how one might do that. But San Francisco Chronicle says, quote, Trump says that he went down in a helicopter with Willie Brown. Former San Francisco mayor says it never happened. It, I just want to point out that the amount of restraint that I am the moment of restraint that I am the affecting over myself right now to not make the most obvious joke that has ever been out there and available for the taking in political discourse. I should get a Pulitzer for that.
Starting point is 00:32:39 I want to encourage the self-edit that you do. So I praise this. I commend you. Because he went down in a helicopter with Willie Brown. And I'm thankful. I know. I know. And it's usually not with really brown seriously like right now if you stopped if you stopped like right here then you wouldn't ever have to worry about going farther yeah but what's on the other side what's over there what i see it is that grass greener i don't know what's normal men what to mean normal men we're just innocent men but you know what they meant though they're in the the helicopter. And San Francisco says, you know, Trump says he went down on the helicopter with Willie Brown. The former mayor says it never happened. And he's like, I know that it never happened
Starting point is 00:33:37 because it was with me and not. I didn't go anywhere. You almost. I didn't. I know. I'm still looking at it from across the bridge. What could be. But I'm not going there. You could have really had a nice distance from it, though. I did. I have a very nice distance. I'm not sure. There are some sweet people out there going, I just don't know what she's talking about. I'm going to go ahead and get my, my church donation ready. Don't know what she's talking about. So you're saying Donald Trump said he went down in a helicopter with Willie Brown. With Willie Brown.
Starting point is 00:34:12 Okay. And Willie Brown's like, it wasn't me because it's never with me. He was apparently talking about Jerry Brown. Jerry. It's the incorrect. Also California. Yeah. Also California.
Starting point is 00:34:27 You see how you can make the mistake? Yeah. You can make the mistakes quite easily. So anyway. I searched a picture in slack. I thought you'd like it. Yeah, I mean, that's exactly what I was, one of the things I was thinking of, you know, right there. So coming up, the Trump assassination attempt, new body cam video.
Starting point is 00:34:46 It's wild. Wait until you hear about this and see it. We're going to play it for you. We're also going to our friend, Brett Thor is going to join us. We've got a lot of stuff still on the way this Friday getting you set up for the week and stick with us second hour. Goldco. I mean, seriously, you need to be moving. to get you some gold and silver right now. If you've looked at any of these economic headlines,
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Starting point is 00:36:36 That's not minding your own damn business. That's government overreach. He's right. I mean, that's Governor Ron DeSantis. I mean, it's, and that's what, that's what Walls did. He set up a snitch line, an actual snitch line. I don't think anything makes me angrier about that, because I'm still mad over the whole lockdown thing. I'm still mad about it. I mean, Wants got the phone call. I mean, this was the actual phone call. When you would call the snitch line, you saw somebody like, oh, they weren't wearing their face panty. Oh, no, I saw them out of their house and they wouldn't wear in their face panty. I better call that snitch line. And then you would pick up your phone. You would call Governor Tim
Starting point is 00:37:18 Walz's snitch line. And you would dial the number to the snitch line. And it would take you to this. Hello, you have reached the Department of Public Safety. Stay at Home Hotline. The information you leave is considered public information at the tone. Please leave the following information. Your name, your callback number, how the stay-at-home order is being violated, and where the stay-at-home order was violated. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:37:48 It was violated at your mom. I can't. You know, we make fun. We like look at. what's been happening in Britain, you know, where it's, it's, you see like a two-tier system of justice and people have been, like, they've been in trouble. Like, for instance, there's a guy who was told he, he, he, after he beat up an emergency worker, his name's Mustafa Al Mardi Bab. Bubb. And he was ordered to pay two pounds a month for assaulting an emergency worker. He was let off with community service as he does not speak English. And then a guy named Stephen Malin, he was jailed for 26 months because he gesticulated at the police. He gesticulated. I got my feels hurt because he made an ex with his arms and thrust at me.
Starting point is 00:38:44 I got my feels hurt. So it's happening over there. And then you got waltz over here making a snitch line. By the way, welcome back everybody. Second hour, top of the second hour. Dana Lash with you. Discussion over at Rumble where you can stream the show also. Channel 347, DirecTV, we're on X, sign up at Substack, the newsletter, chapter, and verse.
Starting point is 00:39:03 So they, so I saw this one pick real quick. This is killing me. Washington Post. I talked about this hat yesterday in how RealTree, I explained the licensing and how RealTree does not support Harris Walls, Harry Walls. And Washington Post goes, Minnesota Governor Tim Wals just posted a photo of himself wearing the just release Harry Wall's camo hat. In quotations. They're like, ooh, camo, it's a novelty. The sold out back-ordered campaign merch, the send-up of a what? It's a send-up of Minnesota governor's trademark Midwestern dad fashion, giving MAGA a run for its money. Whose grandma wrote this? Look, he's an old man wearing a hat. That must be some send-up trademark Midwestern dad fashion. Can you get any more word salad in there, you damn dreaded Zumer?
Starting point is 00:39:57 It's a send-up of the Minnesota governor's trademark Midwestern dad fashion. What? He's cosplaying. I mean, good grief. This is so stupid. That's all they have. That's all they have is the hat. So, I don't know, man.
Starting point is 00:40:19 They're like, their cosplay is regular everyday people. This is what I think is so funny. Nobody can afford a damn thing, but they're selling $40. Cammo hats. Guys, show us that you're a Midwestern, show us your Midwestern dad fashion. By purchasing in a time of great inflation, wear butter is like $8 and a dozen eggs or seven, a $40 Midwestern dad hat. It's just a ball cap. You dumbasses. Have they never seen a ball cap before? This old man puts a ball cap on his head and they're like, quick, how can we make this niche? It's Midwestern dad fashion. Have you ever been to the Midwest? The people writing about this.
Starting point is 00:40:58 never been to the Midwest. Can't deal with them. All right. So some of the other stuff, I got a lot to think, ugh, got a lot here. First up, let's, because, you know, Biden's still in office, right? You guys know this right? He's still there. Is he? Yeah, guys, he's doing the, he's doing the big stuff. He's focusing on some very important problems right now, important problems that are roiling the nation. And that is plastic cutlery in a bid to save the world. The Biden administration has announced a plan to target plastic cutlery across federal departments. They're taking aim at the climate crisis. It's an all-hands-on-deck response.
Starting point is 00:41:58 So China dumps like actual garbage and turds into the over. ocean. Nobody says anything to them. Chemicals. They make their lakes pink and toxic. They do all that. They don't care. And the United States is, well, I guess we should get rid of our plastic collier. That's going to save the world. I said Biden administration's approach to this. You have to, you have to drink out of a straw that literally dissolves in your mouth and in your drink. So, China can dump chemicals in the ocean. Hurry, hurry up and drink it. I know, by the way, is that not the worst thing ever?
Starting point is 00:42:42 When I get my cup and if there is a paper straw in it, I want to throw the whole cup it. I want to throw it. It takes everything I have. I want to throw it. It makes me so, it's so, and there's dyes on that damn straw. Have you noticed? And it's always those stripy, stripy straws. That's dye. That's dye that's going in your drink because it's a stupid paper straw. I can't even make words. It makes me so angry. I have, I have, what is it, cornstarts straw.
Starting point is 00:43:15 I would buy plastic, but they don't make them in these fun colors like this that I can get on Amazon. So it's just, I didn't mean to be good to the earth. I just don't, come on, I just brought it. The cool thing about those is they eventually do dissolve, but I've left one in a drink just to see how long it would take for it to dissolve. And after like two or three days, it still was a, straw. Yeah, it's a straw. I don't know why people don't do that.
Starting point is 00:43:36 It was so easy for me to do. And they go for those fashion striped straws. I hate those stupid things. Because you know that's like toxic dye on those dumb things too. And it's not all, you're drinking, you're consuming it. It's so dumb. Anyway, so yeah, that's what he's doing. He's going to reduce the sale of single-use plastic products on public lands.
Starting point is 00:43:56 Well, what are you supposed to eat with? If you go to like a museum or something, you go to their little sit-in cafeteria at a park on public land. You think they're going to be going out and buying it? No, you know what it's going to be like? What's that place? Medieval Times. It's going to be like medieval times.
Starting point is 00:44:10 And you got to go in there just going to give you turkey. You're going to have to gnaw at everything with your hands. That's what they're going to do. Can I tell you a story about that, by the way? I legit just heard thunder right now. The hell is going on in Texas. Are your windows down? They are.
Starting point is 00:44:25 Look at us. We're like, Kane, do you need to go roll your windows up? So you've been in medieval times, right? That's like the castle where, you know, if you're by medieval times and you've never gone, there wasn't any in Missouri. So when we moved here to Texas, we went twice. You had to go. And I, you know, I'm not, I'm not going to, I always, my husband was like, that's kind of
Starting point is 00:44:49 bougie, Dana, because I brought literally plastic cutlery with me. I've seen people do that. Okay. My husband was like, why are you doing that? It's because we evolved and invented this stuff. That's what, that's why I'm doing it. Look at this. We don't eat with our feet and hands anymore because.
Starting point is 00:45:02 we evolved as a species. That's why I'm bringing it in. I'm improving my chopstick skills. I brought wet ones and everything. I'm like, I could sit here and just eat this stuff with my hands, scooping up some taters or whatever, but I ain't doing it, you know? I'm not going to do it. Clean my hands off on my jeans.
Starting point is 00:45:20 Yeah, they're like, well, they basically send someone to lick your hands off with your napkins. They don't do that. But yeah, it's just so bad. So I was just like, nope, I'm going to take care of my business because I came prepared. my husband could not believe he looked at me and he was like I'm watching you open like the equivalent of a quick mart here at medieval times it's like no no no there's certain things that I don't do and it's not because I'm being boozy or anything like that like I love the outdoors and I love rocks
Starting point is 00:45:46 and I mean it's like I got to eat dirt or something to like convince people that I love nature I love nature whoopiddy do it's great I love being outdoors but you know what I also don't like pretending to be homeless and that's why I don't camp because we as humans invented the house, and as a result, we stay in them. Right? Just like we as humans invented cutlery. And so I will use that. I am not going to throw away generations of achievements of our ancestors by saying, no,
Starting point is 00:46:21 I don't want your house or your cutlery. Going to pretend to be without. I'm not doing that. I'm just not going to do it. Sorry. We invented tents first. Yeah. But then we invented the house. It's like saying let's go back to the Flintstone cars. Let's pretend for a little bit. Nope, that's okay.
Starting point is 00:46:40 I'm good. I'm all right. Anyway, Biden. Bronosaurus ribs, though. Yeah. Well, Biden's, he's going to solve all the world's problems because he's going to go after the plastic forks and we'll fork you. It's not going to do anything. Not going to do nothing. I mean, basically, isn't it going to just raise cost? on people. It's going to be like military bases and government workplaces. So instead of maybe, here's a thought, instead of trying to reduce the use of plastic cutlery, here's a maybe reduce the size of, that sounds like a great idea. You know, if you have fewer people in government, you have fewer people using the plastic cutlery. Oh, what? I know. Amazing, is it not?
Starting point is 00:47:34 So that's what he's been focusing on. If you, in case you want to where Joe Biden was. Now, the, furthermore, we got a whole bunch of, what's the subject going to. I mentioned earlier at the first hour, Nancy Pelosi and Biden and how the Biden people, there are some Biden people that are making little chirps to the press saying that it was Nancy Pelosi that shoved him out. Pelosi said in an interview with the New Yorker quote, I've never been that impressed with his political operation talking about Biden.
Starting point is 00:48:10 Ooh. Ooh. So it sounds like there's a little bit of discord there. What a shame that would be if it blew up further. We got a lot more on the way. We got headlines coming up. Brett Thor will be joining us later. We've got a lot of stuff to hit. Turbocharging your metabolism has never been simpler thanks to the innovative handheld metabolic
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Starting point is 00:49:45 It's time for Dana's Quick Five. All right. So, by the way, if you're watching the simulcast on the stream, we just lost power. There's a major storm rolling through Texas. So my big hoss generator, just kicked in. So we're going to be back up and running here very shortly. So I just want to let you all know that. All right. So first off, 12 F-22 fighters reportedly inbound in the land in the Middle East for force posturing against Iran. That's ESCENTCOM. They confirmed that an unspecified number of F-22 Raptor stealth fighters have arrived in their area of responsibility.
Starting point is 00:50:18 So that's going to be interesting to watch. That's one of the things you've got to keep an eye on. It's not the it's not the Vax guys. I mean the injections. No drink is safe. show alcohols link to a growing list of cancers. Everything causes cancers, but you know what definitely does? I'm just going to to say it could be the shot, just saying. COVID fell to the 10th leading cause of death
Starting point is 00:50:39 in the U.S. last year, down from fourth because we should be learning about how viruses work, but we're not. The Pegasus is a revolutionary hybrid flying car. I don't want a hybrid flying car. It can travel on the highway and fly for up to three hours. I do not. I want gas and oil, something that I can measure
Starting point is 00:50:55 and something that I know is going to work. I'm just going to say. but it uses an electric charge for ground travel and gas for flying. Authorities in Australia have already approved it. I am not excited about air travel like everybody in the air because I've seen everyone try to drive, and it's just kind of a nightmare. I just can't imagine how that's going to work. AI is basically just a homework cheating machine now.
Starting point is 00:51:18 I feel like AI is going to make our students dumber. Open AI has a tool to detect if something was written by chat GPT, but it hasn't released it yet. And so now apparently, I mean, they've already been banning all kinds of stuff in classrooms. But they said that the most common use was creative writing and role play and all kinds of stuff. So if you have like a writing assignment, a lot of students have been using it for that. The state of Louisiana becomes the first to impose surgical castration on child rapists. Good job, Louisiana.
Starting point is 00:51:50 Although they should be murdered entirely. Actually, it's not murdered. It's called justice. They should be killed entirely. It's the fourth place in the world with such punishment. So if you're not going to kill them, castrate them. I think that's a genius job. Hat tip to Louisiana for becoming the first state to impose surgical castration on child rapists.
Starting point is 00:52:10 And they've done that. It includes rape incest and molestation. Obviously, it's an irreversible medical progress. The only other places you can do it, Czech Republic, Madagascar, and Nigeria. It's not like chemical castration. It's much more invasive. they literally it's surgical they take it all off that's it and uh if you commit a sexual offense against the child under 13 in louisiana you're a prime candidate for it all right we're gonna try to get brad thor up we had a little bit of a power outage so just FYI we'll dealing with that we'll be back up and running in minutes stick with us ready wise a great company they've signed on to work with us uh and they one of the reasons i like working with them so much because their food is actually good i mean people think it's survival food whatever but i mean it doesn't mean it shouldn't taste good right and it actually does the other thing I like about ReadyWise, unlike a lot of these other companies out there, I know the chain of
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Starting point is 00:54:05 Follow Dana's absurd truth podcast for bite size and formative episodes. Perfect for your busy schedule on Apple or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. We had just like this awesome storm that rolled through. I always love it when I hear the thunder through our totally soundproof studio and my, you know, ear pro and all that stuff and I can, I hear it. And then the lights went out and it was like kind of spooky in a really awesome way.
Starting point is 00:54:32 We wanted to roll with it, but you can't, you know, we're doing professional lady radio guys. So Dana Lash with you. We're at the bottom of the second hour. Good to be with you. Today is National Book Lovers Day. Kane reminds me. I love books. I love holding them.
Starting point is 00:54:46 I love the way the pages smell. I will, I could never read off of an e-device. I could never do it. I have to hold the book of my hand. And I have a ton of books from this guy. I actually saw somebody and I was trying to take a picture of someone reading his book at the airport in Nassau. And it was, uh, shadowed out. It was, uh, his, his new book.
Starting point is 00:55:06 And I was, I was trying not to look like a stalker. And I wanted to take a photo of this guy reading Brad Thor's book. And my husband's like, what are you doing? Because I'm trying to be all syrup. about it and just like hold it in a certain way. And it was not working. I mean, it was all blurry. So I was like, he's not the kind of thing I'm lying. But our very good friend, Brad Thor, who is America's favorite author, Master of Thriller. He's got the best background and the best glasses. And he's just an all-around good guy. I've known him for years. And he's the number one
Starting point is 00:55:36 time, number one New York Times bestseller as well, Wall Street Journal, bestselling author. Everybody loves him. And Brad Thor is joining us now via Skype. Good to see you, my friend. That is a true story, though. And it's weird. Like, what do you do? If you are in, like, say, in an airport and you see someone reading your book, do you, like, go up to them? Like, what do you do? I do go up to them.
Starting point is 00:55:57 And I often ask, like, how's that book? And they're like, ah, it's okay. Or I love it or whatever. No, you know what? You get it. You get it all. And that's funny. Somebody might be like, oh, you know what?
Starting point is 00:56:07 This was in my Airbnb and I grabbed it in my way out. And I'm normally such and such reader. And I'm reading this now and I love it or whatever. It's really funny. I love to play with people a little bit. I'm like, huh. Oh, okay. What do you love about it?
Starting point is 00:56:18 What's good? So anyway, I do have a good time with that. And our old friend Andrew Breitbart used to actually take out his phone in airports and call me and hand the phone to some unsuspecting stranger. That's what I should have done. You thought he was nuts. That's what I should have done. You want to talk to the author? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:35 We actually did that one time. You and I were at like a range day fundraiser. And I want to say this was like in Tennessee somewhere. And my cousin. It was with Ted Nugent was there. Yeah. My cousin, who is a huge fan of you, just happened to, like, call or text or something while I was there. And I'm like, wait a minute.
Starting point is 00:56:52 Do you want to talk to Bradthor? He could not believe it. At first he was like, no-uh. Bradthor is actually not there. I'm like, he legitimately is right here. Like, I'm not making the stuff up. These people are right here. And you talk to him.
Starting point is 00:57:04 And that, like, made his life. That was so great. But I swear, I did see somebody in the airport reading. And I'm like, I really want to go up to that person. But it was a really early morning. We had already been, like, our flight had been canceled and all this stuff. So I was like, is it going to be? I don't know. Anyway, but congrats on the new book. And you got a great, you got a great rollout
Starting point is 00:57:21 video for this. And I know I ask you every time that you're on the program, is that because you do rollout videos for your awesome books now? Is that just because you're like a big time bestseller or it's because you're doing some like, you know, programming with it too, like television movies? Well, a little bit. I mean, I can say this. We are very close to finding a home for the TV series now. So we were just able to. to release the names of the A team working on this. We've got Chad Stahalski as our director, who directed all the John Wick movies.
Starting point is 00:57:52 We've got Howard Gordon, the force behind 24 in Homeland, is our executive producer. And then we've got Steve Lightfoot, who wrote The Punisher series, did both seasons for Netflix as our writer. So we are super stoked. And right now, our director is overseas
Starting point is 00:58:09 filming the reboot of Highlander, that movie with Christoph Lambert and Sean Connery. So he's rebooting that. Then he comes back to the U.S. and then all the big meetings that all the streamers and cableers start this fall. That's amazing. I've never been more jealous of a human than I am of you right now. That's actually pretty amazing.
Starting point is 00:58:27 He's like, all the things that you love, Dana, they're all working on this series right here. It's still Hollywood. This thing could still crash and burn. Don't say that because I need something to watch. No. I do, too. Listen, I want this thing to go across the finish line. But if there's one thing I've learned about Hollywood, it's you don't know until it's on the screen.
Starting point is 00:58:45 nothing that's definite. So we're excited. It's a best team we've ever assembled in two decades of trying to do this. So we're really, we're really pumped. That's awesome. And his latest book, Shadow of Doubt, which you can get anywhere. It was released last week. I mean, it's, you know, also a bestseller as well. This is, I was trying to count and remember, this is what, the 22nd, 23rd book that you have in the series. In the Harvest Series, right? And I've said to you, and I'll say it one more time for your listeners, my books are like the James Bond movies. If the new Bond is in your local, multiplex, go see it. It doesn't matter if you've ever seen a Bond movie before, and it's the same
Starting point is 00:59:20 thing with my books. You can run right out and start with Shadow of Doubt. It doesn't matter if you've ever read a Brad Thor book before. That's awesome. I mean, I love that you do that because you can weave them all together, but also their stand-alones as well. It's, that's very cool. Talking with our friend Brad Thor. So I got to ask you, because you're always inspired by real events for these books that you write. And I'm, you know, I'm just, I don't even know how everything playing out right now was going to inspire your next one. But I remember the last time we spoke, we were talking about people in the,
Starting point is 00:59:50 I don't know if they were up in the Hindu Kush or where they were, but they were like some Indian fighters and some Russian fighters or whatever, Chinese fighters, everybody was fighting up in the mountains, shoving each other off. I mean, are you going to turn into the Simpsons where you're going to start like, you know,
Starting point is 01:00:03 foretelling events in the future? Like what? I'm just curious as to how this works. Well, it's so funny because the new one, Shadow of Doubt, Scott Harvath has got his fiance. Scott's the CIA's most lethal weapon.
Starting point is 01:00:19 He fell in love with the woman who works for Norwegian intelligence. And in this book, the Norwegians get a hold of a high-level Russian defector. And the U.S. is afraid that this defector has information we desperately need. So they say to Harvath, listen, your fiance is doing the debrief on this guy. We need you to ask her some questions. And he says, absolutely not. I have never said no to a mission. I'm a patriot.
Starting point is 01:00:39 I love my country. I draw the line at that. and they blackmail him into service. And that kicks off the book. And it was funny because my thriller, Black Ice, which was all set in Norway a few summers ago, it became kind of this book that was passed around the Norwegian government. And I got invited to dinner in D.C. at the Norwegian ambassador's house.
Starting point is 01:00:58 Wow. And I told her, she's like, well, what's shadow of doubt about? And I said, it's the story about the CIA, blackmailes, this American guy into spying against his Norwegian spy wife. fiance and the ambassador's like, oh, no, no, we'd never withhold information from the U.S. were your ally. And I said, of course, it's fiction. It's fiction, but you're going to love the book.
Starting point is 01:01:19 That's what they would say. People who would, I mean, that's what a country should say. No, we would never withhold information. But also at the same time, I kind of would question a country that wouldn't as a way to gain leverage just for its own, you know, assurances. Well, the cool thing about the Norwegians, and I didn't know this for a long time, I didn't know we hide a ton of U.S. military equipment in caves in northern Norway. And I thought that was so cool about our partnership with the Norwegians, that we not only store all this stuff there, but the Norwegians maintain it for us. So if we go to war someplace, you know, the Middle East or something like that, we can get the stuff out of the caves in Norway.
Starting point is 01:01:56 We don't have to wait to load stuff on ships and planes in the U.S. We can start moving it out of Norway, which is really, really cool. They're great partners. And so this book is a lot of fun in that Harvath. and his fiance, both don't trust their own governments. And so they have to work together to get to the bottom of what's about to explode in Western Europe and in the United States. I feel like you've been to the caves then, as a part of your fact-finding, you know, for the purpose of the book. I mean, that's just, I wouldn't see, I wouldn't, see, he totally has.
Starting point is 01:02:24 You wouldn't tell, it's okay if you don't have to tell me. That's okay. We know you did. We know you were over there in those Norwegian caves. That's all right. Actually, that's really cool because, you know, it's, and I, you know, I think it's a testament to the interesting relationship that we have with Norway as well and particularly with Russia. So with the latest with Iran, talk a little bit about this because, you know, obviously you're a political dude. You know, you've, everybody knows your
Starting point is 01:02:46 background and people aren't familiar with Brad's background. He was in Department of Homeland Security's analytic red cell unit. He's been, he's spoken to law enforcement organizations, all kinds of stuff. I mean, he knows his stuff. But I'm, you know, I'm curious with the state of things. We're getting ready to go into a, we're in a weird position because it's a very weird cycle. I didn't think I'd say that again, but here we are. And we've got a really weak foreign policy right now. And I feel like every tyrant in the world, everyone's just sort of holding their breath, waiting to see what happens in November. And if anybody were going to take the opportunity to act and do anything, it would be like October or November when everything is like at its most,
Starting point is 01:03:26 at peak disarray. Not to freak everybody out, but I just kind of wanted to get your educated take on that. Yeah. So you're correct. There's a lot of ability for. for bad actors, particularly Iran, vis-a-vis Israel, to make problems leading up to the election. Now, if power changes hands, if we've got a Trump administration coming in and Harris doesn't win, that period from November to January
Starting point is 01:03:53 is also gonna be another dangerous period because it's the last window for any bad guys that don't wanna run a file of a Trump administration to achieve whatever they wanna achieve. So we're in two very dangerous time periods, right? It's three months now until the election, and then it's from the election if Trump wins to Trump's inauguration where we can have a whole other set of problems. So this is really a time where we have to be on our toes and paying attention to what's going on around the world. But I, like you, am very concerned about Iran in Iran pushing the advantage now, maybe in hopes of really getting kind of the hard left wing, the progressives up in arms once again about Israel and Palestine and that kind of stuff to maybe attempt to influence the election.
Starting point is 01:04:34 So we'll see what happens. Has it shocked you to see how pervasive that sentiment is across the United States? Because I know everyone was focusing on, oh, let's look at the riots and the protests that have been happening on college campuses. But it's beyond college campuses. I mean, everyone was saying that one of the reasons that Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania, wasn't added to the ticket, was because of his faith. And when you hear some of the comments with some of these lawmakers, it's like, well, it doesn't sound like that was far off the mark with that. Well, it's, yeah, it really is hard to parse that. stuff out. I mean, obviously, Shapiro has got his positions. What I saw this morning that blew me
Starting point is 01:05:11 away, actually, I was very, very impressed because I did not expect to hear these words come out of somebody on the Democratic side is James Meeks was on CNN this morning. And he said, as they were talking about what should be done about Palestine and Israel, he said, let's make one thing very clear. Hamas started this. And Hamas is not an equal party to Israel, nor does Hamas deserve to be treated like an equal party to Israel. We can talk about the Palestinian people, what should happen in Palestine, but the one thing we do not want to do
Starting point is 01:05:41 is draw any equivalency between the state of Israel and the terrorist organization that is Hamas. I was blown away. I thought I was hearing somebody from the Freedom Caucus speaking, somebody from the right side of the aisle. So to hear that coming from James Meeks,
Starting point is 01:05:53 you know, I like to give credit where credit is due and I also like to applaud people, I think, have a good, sensible foreign policy position. And that's definitely one I've got to throw to the Democrats, in meeks. I thought he did a great job with that. But we are definitely, yeah, I don't want to see the, you know, we're out of school too, right? What happens when all these kids start going back to school now? Because we're getting to mid-August and are we going to start to see an uptick in protests again?
Starting point is 01:06:15 I hope not. I don't want to go into it. I don't want any influence on either side or from anywhere else. I want people to be able to hear the issues and make good informed opinions without fires burning and nonsense like that across the country. I completely agree with you. Brad Thor, the new book, shadow of doubt the 23rd in the Scott Harbeth series 23, and I know you're probably going to have like 23 more books. I am so excited, by the way, for this to come out because I actually some of the people that we have on the show, I'm not able to read everything, but my stepdad was reading your stuff, my cousin was reading
Starting point is 01:06:46 your stuff. I started, I loved your, I like your character development and I love how quick it is because I feel like some thrillers, you get really bogged down in the details and it kind of drags and I don't feel like yours do that and they're very entertaining. I am so not even halfway through 23 books, though. I'm not even going to lie. But I love how you tell a story. They're incredibly compelling. And I am fascinated to see how this plays out on screen, especially now knowing the people that you've got working with it, because that's going to be a whole other animal. It's going to be fun. And I want to extend an
Starting point is 01:07:18 invitation right now. I would love when we do the premiere for you and Chris to be there with us. Oh, we love it. I'd be fantastic to have you guys there. So I'm in putting it out in the universe. We're going to get this done and then we'll have a great time together. We'll go out to dinner and then we'll go to the premiere and we'll have a big celebration afterwards. That sounds fantastic. We are all in. Brad Thor, you can go and find him at Bradthor.com. You can also find him on X, social media, everywhere else, but his new book, Shadow of Doubt. Brad, always so good to see you, my friend. Take care. You too, David. Bye. We have more to come, folks, as we wrap up this second hour of our broadcast and we'll be rolling into days of these United States. Sometimes I can't,
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Starting point is 01:09:06 office, a man entered a bass pro in Fort Myers and literally scooped up a fish and a net and then ran out of the store. It's hungry. And he's on camera doing it. How in the world he just walks in and then runs out
Starting point is 01:09:23 with his fish? Scoops up the fish and walks out with it. That's crazy. And police were looking for the, they're working with the animal cruelty task force to locate the suspect. How do you flee the store with the fish in a net? I'm curious. Quickly. Yeah. They got to, because like back in 2020, didn't somebody jump in a tank? Yes. At a Bass Pro? Yes. I feel like Bass Pro now needs to be on the lookout for weirdos trying to do stuff to their tanks. That's kind of, how do you let a guy get away? It's Bass Pro, right? How do you let a guy get away with a fish in a net from Brasspro.
Starting point is 01:09:57 There's other fish in the sea. Oh, stop it. Oh, man. I mean, I'd be like, no, sir. I just couldn't do it. Like, put the fish back. I don't know. I don't know. Let's see. This, um, so I told you the other day about a guy who made a man cave out of shipping containers. So they've been, they, they, county's been trying to get him to tear it down. Brevard County. It's, uh, India Atlantic homeowner who built, a man cave in his backyard with shipping containers. That already sounded like it was going to be problematic, just from the headline alone.
Starting point is 01:10:34 They had a judge rule in favor of the county. The guy's name's Joe Traska. He said his stacked containers broke code. At first they were saying there was a safety issue. And then they said, okay, now you fix that. Well, you got to make the exterior look nice. So it doesn't look like a bunch of stacked shipping containers that everybody can see from their backyard.
Starting point is 01:10:52 So he said he got $2,000 to get this permit to have them. The county said it granted to him by mistake. That's still not his problem. I mean, if the county granted it to you and it's like a mistake, that's not anybody else's problem. So as it is, they're still fighting it out. But he's like, they are accusing him of deviating from the plan. But he really didn't, though. I mean, everything that he's doing with it was to what was permitted.
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Starting point is 01:13:28 bro, dude, he turned around on me. He was right where you picked me up, bro. He was on that left side. I love the, uh, next building. The bad catch. He's got glasses long hair. You know a ladder. She's going to be a little.
Starting point is 01:14:58 So this is some of the latest. Yo, Mike. This is the new body cam footage. We're going to let this go. And you can keep that, uh, because he's, he's talking about what he saw at the top. That's the cop who first saw the guy at the top. And they're trying to figure out. out. But watch out because he can come right down on you over there.
Starting point is 01:15:30 Oh, this is going to drop. Keep eyes on. Give me a ladder. I mean, I got questions. So the guy had already opened fire. The video starts with the guy jumping up on the roof, seeing the guy and then like falling off. This building, I jumped up. There's a gap in between you and there. There is also in this. So this is some of the body camp footage and just going to let this play out because this was in Butler County, Pennsylvania. And this is just minutes after this guy had opened fire. Now, my understanding is at this
Starting point is 01:16:43 time, too, that you're watching the Secret Service countersnibers had already taken this guy out. And these guys are still, I guess, they're figuring out everybody, I guess they're trying to figure out what the situation is, is it contained, is the threat nullified at this point? And they get up And this was the, as you can see on the screen on the simulcast, there's a space between two buildings, but there's also a way to climb up in between both of them. And that's where the guy who's wearing the camera, he was the guy who had jumped up. The first, I think like a minute whatever of his footage didn't have audio. And then later, as he was getting his gun, that's when the audio picks up. So he's getting ready to go back up on the roof.
Starting point is 01:17:33 This is where he went the first time, and then he raised the alarm because he got up there, and that's when he saw the killer on the rooftop. So he gets back up on this same rooftop, and then he goes, and then he meets, because they already had the other guys get up there. This is Secret Services, had already taken him out at that point. Welcome back to the program. Top of this third hour, Dana Lash with you. There is also, it's from the.
Starting point is 01:18:03 law enforcement, it's from their radios. And one of the law enforcement officers is complaining in it. And he's complaining because he says that they had, he had told Secret Service earlier in the week to post up somebody on that rooftop. Listen to this. It's just short audio, but it's the audio of one of these. It's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, Butler PD, Butler County PD that as apparently on their radio they were telling
Starting point is 01:18:39 these guys this is ID of Summit at 14 they were telling them you know I told them like a week ago you can hear how angry listen this
Starting point is 01:18:46 you can hear how angry he is I fucking told them they need to post the guys over here I told him that the the secret service I told him that fucking Tuesday
Starting point is 01:18:57 I told him the post fucking guys over here told him Tuesday that rally was on Saturday Saturday. They said it, he said he told him Tuesday to have guys on that rooftop. This is wild. It's also wild to me that it's not being more widely discussed. I mean, you had a former president, might be next president who was shot at. This is crazy. Just he was shot at. And so I, I mean, I don't know. It's just, it's just absolutely wild to me with all of this. And I mean, there's a lot. And I mean, there's a lot. lot of, there's a lot of this stuff. And I think you have some other ones. There was another body cam footage and people are asking about eyes on the water tower to Trump. There's a lot of footage. If you go on a substack by the way, this is why you need to subscribe to substack chapter and verse my newsletter.
Starting point is 01:19:50 Lorraine has a huge piece and it has all of the video up there because there's several different body cam footage that we have and that she's got up. there. So you have several different perspectives. Like someone else said, like, don't pull your head up. He's right here. And it's showing the initial police response to all of this. And now, you know, you know, where everybody was when all of this happened. They said that at 4.30 p.m. And she has in her piece. One of the snipers, the local sniper left the AGR building after a shift change and spotted the killer at a picnic table, texted his team to warn them that the guy was suspicious and likely now knew where they were because he was trying to get a gain as to where these guys were.
Starting point is 01:20:38 Then he was next spotted on the ground lurking around that AGR building like 40 minutes later. And then they had photos of him. They had the local county. The sniper texted photos of him to his dispatch. Try to keep an eye on him. And then at that point, and so this is after 430, it's like between 430 and 530. That's when the communications just apparently entirely broke down. And they had their local.
Starting point is 01:21:03 local, as Lorraine noted, in this piece over at chapter and verse, local PD had their headquarters in one spot, county was in another, state was in another, secret service was in another, and nobody apparently could talk. They said at 547, local dispatch was trying to reach his state PD contact, and he was advised that cell phone service was down. So apparently PD was like by themselves to deal with it. They were saying that it's just wild how this was. They said that PD was still searching for this dude on the ground behind the AGR building at 6.08 p.m. at the exact moment. So that's why those guys were around the building because they were looking for him on the ground. They did not know that he was on the building. And so Copenhagenhavor, this is the guy whose video you saw, his body cam footage. That's when he, he was, he sees him and he tries to go and figure out ascertain what's happening. He said at 611, local PD officer radios his dispatch that the dude was on the roof of the gun. Dispatch uses his cell phone to call State PD to contact to get a word to Secret Service so they can notify then the Secret Service counter-snipers. And then while they were on that whole Rube Goldberg, you know, communication, whatever,
Starting point is 01:22:16 that's when shots rang out. When you have seconds, they literally, they had no way, they had no way to actually effectively fast communication. They had to use their phone to call State PD. State PD had to get a hold of Secret Service. Secret Service had to notify the counter-snapers, and then while all that was happening, shots rang out. And one of the SWAT officers from local Butler County, one of their SWAT said that he was on the ground. He said that he never saw the killer, just the muzzle flash, is what he saw.
Starting point is 01:22:52 And there was a worker who told Washington Post that while everyone else was scrambling and running that that guy stood, that the SWAT officer stood firm, aimed and fired. and that's when that guy flinched and stopped shooting and ducked. So, I mean, it was, this is wild. And then he popped his head up a few seconds later. And that's when the counter sniper got his opening. So he stopped. I think you probably would have shot and killed more people. He was shooting.
Starting point is 01:23:21 And when the one, when the local SWAT just was super chill and fired back, that's when the guy stopped shooting, ducked for cover. And then when he popped back up, that's when the counter snipers had their opening and they took him out. This is wild. There's this, play a little bit of this other video because there was, I want to caution people, too, that in situations like this, you are in a, you know, fog of war, there's a lot of stuff happening. You're trying to figure out what's going on and a lot of things can be confusing and especially the acoustics of a place. It can be very, very misleading. You might think that you hear something in one area, but depending on what the acoustics of the area are, it may sound like it, it may sound like it comes from somewhere else. I'm just throwing that out there. But this was, Beaver County Emergency Service Unit and Chuck Grassley got this information. This was, got this video.
Starting point is 01:24:11 And then the last half is a slow motion of what we see in the first half. So go ahead. Okay. Now, play this. Another planet in slow-mo. It's a guy on the rooftop. He's looking. That trajectory from the water tower is concerning.
Starting point is 01:24:39 But I also think, too, without diving into speculation, they might be thinking, and this is my first. thought when looking at this. Not that is there a threat up there. And they could be thinking that, but they also could be thinking that isn't manned either. Is there anybody up there too? Because they didn't have anybody up on, they didn't have anybody posted the AGR rooftop. So apparently, I'm thinking that they didn't got, they didn't have anybody posted to that water tower either. What in the world? That was my, that's my first thought in seeing that. So not that they thought somebody might have been up there taking shots necessarily, although
Starting point is 01:25:19 hell, they couldn't be sure at the time. And I don't think that if anyone was up there and they got down, because there were so many people on the ground at that point, I don't think that they would have been able, there's no way. But the fact that they were like, oh, do we have eyes up there too? You should have eyes on it. Like, they should physically be on it. That kind of worries me. This is just, I mean, it's just unbelievable breakdown.
Starting point is 01:25:43 and it just shocks me. We got a lot more to come as well. But you should go and check out this piece over at Substack. All the video is up there on it. We got more to come as we roll towards, golly, we're already at the bottom of this third hour. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
Starting point is 01:26:03 So a quick note, in talking about, and again, you can go to Substack and see all of this. James Copenhagenhaber is 74. He was one of the victims of killer there in Butler County, Pennsylvania. The body cam footage is from one of the local PD, although there's a ton of different footage, but there's several different videos that you can go and see all from different perspectives there. It's all on my substack chapter and verse. All right. So for headlines, more than half of Americans are buying food online.
Starting point is 01:26:36 They order groceries online for delivery. So this hasn't stopped with the end of COVID and the lockdown and all of that. So between July 23rd, I didn't know it was this high, and July 2024, 53% of people said they had ordered items to their house like this for grocery delivery. And they said that it's like it's gotten more and more popular. And they said that the most popular category of food ordered online, it's very, this tracks, snacks and candy. Snacks and candy. Are you serious? Oh my gosh. I can't even. So this, there's footage of this, and I have this as we are looking at this Boeing 737 thing.
Starting point is 01:27:24 But there's video of an aircraft. It's a 14-year-old, what is it, ATR. 72-500. It was a flight in Brazil. It was bound for Sao Paulo. And it apparently something happened and it fell out of the sky. This jet. I mean, it literally, I've never seen it. plane fall out of the sky like this. It just, it's a passenger plane. It went into this out of control
Starting point is 01:27:48 death spiral. So it was just, it just stopped going. It just started spinning. And it was loaded with at least dozens of passengers. The footage was shared by Brazil, Brazil's media. And it ended up, it crashed into the ground, a huge fireball. That's just horrific. And then, of course, now, then you have another Boeing blowout. Flight attendants thought passengers had been sucked out of a plane. They said there was somebody said there was a hole in the plane and I'm sure we've lost passengers and it happened on a Boeing 737 and their US transportation TSA was looking into it. It's apparently like taken off from Portland. Stay with us. We got more in store next. Turbo charging your metabolism has never been simpler thanks to the innovative handheld
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Starting point is 01:29:56 Local schools feeding education and children. It matters. Cultural centers celebrating Latino history and Latino culture, which everybody ought to start learning more about. Well, like parenthetic, you know that 28 out of every high school students is Latino. We better start figuring it out. That's right. 28 out of every high school student.
Starting point is 01:30:28 28? Out of every high school students? 28 out of all of the high school students, 28 of them. Wow. Is Latino. 28 is Latino of the students. Seems like it's undershooting the number. You got to figure out that out?
Starting point is 01:30:42 the 28 of it it's it is Latino look welcome back to the program that's uh it's uh potatoes who's speaking there at the white house that's the yesterday yesterday evening after we were off air he's there and he's probably already back in delaware hooked up to some some machine oh my gosh i don't know what's worse him or her all of it's bad nothing's good oh and then here's the other thing audio first I welcome back bottom of this third hour Gavin Newsom I
Starting point is 01:31:18 somebody 23 I I the smarmingness first off Gavin Newsom decided he was going to tell all the media that he was going to go clean up the homeless stuff so he went up there sweeping all up sweeping all these people stuff up
Starting point is 01:31:34 and then he's bemoaning the leadership and tackling homelessness listen to this he's talking the media about this satisfied with what cities and counties are doing because a place like L.A. City L.A. kind of pushing back on what you're saying. Yeah, I mean, cities, I've been pretty impressed.
Starting point is 01:31:50 Counties, no. Counties have been, you know, it's a diffuse nature of leadership in a county. You have multiple members, the boards of supervisors, mayor, there's one person accountable. Mayor Bass has done a wonderful job. She's been a great partner. You've seen that, down 10.4%, over 10% decline in unsheltered homeless population last year. So that's progress. But I'm not seeing that at the county level.
Starting point is 01:32:13 And with all due respect, there's no more excuses. everything the cities and counties have asked for, the state of California is delivered, and the Supreme Court just delivered. So there's no more excuses. So where's the urgency? Drop everything else. Get out there and address the number one, two, and three issue in the state with an intensity of purpose. That's the kind of action I want to see. And again, for me, if we don't see it, when Bass, L.A. Mayor, when she was out there going after reporters who asked her, remember they had that under the the freeway, they had the fire that started. And when people were asking her, was it the homeless
Starting point is 01:32:50 people and the encampments that started the fire? And she like went at them publicly. She lost it over them. Now he's like defending her. They absolutely, when that fire happened, they refused to acknowledge that it was the homeless encampment under that overpass that, like that, that kick that off. That was a huge thing. And she had also said, and was a piece that citizen free press had she had promised to walk back the city's decision to break up homeless camps so where is the consistency on this maybe he maybe he was just down there doing it because the uh chinese communist chinese leader was coming to visit again maybe he's running for 2028 though that's what he's doing make no mistake he is running for 2028 he wants to put he wants
Starting point is 01:33:43 to simultaneously own the progressive record of california for the base while simultaneously putting distance between him and his progressive record in California for the moderates and in the independence. He is preparing for 2028. You are going to see a lot of him in the next four years because he is going to run in 28. I guarantee him to you. That you can bank on. He's running in 2028. Probably so will Andy Bashir, probably so is Josh Shapiro. And they don't really have a bench over on the Democrat side. That's it. I mean, really, you're going to have big grudge. She's not going to go anywhere. But that's, that's fascinating. So he's running. That's what, that's what all of that is. He is, he's running. And there's, you know, I,
Starting point is 01:34:30 so smarmy. I wanted to get a couple of other things, too. This story I didn't get to you yesterday, but I'm going to touch on it today. This story had to do with this teacher that got the absolute, she just almost lost her life. She was beaten almost to death by the six foot six giant dude. He was 17 at the time, Brendan Deppa. She had told him he needed to put his game away. He had like a Nintendo Switch. And she took it from him and he attacked her on video.
Starting point is 01:35:05 And just he tore her ear. He just about beat her to death. he knocked her unconscious and then he jumped on her and punched her back in the back of the head repeatedly punched her I mean she was he knocked her out she landed face first on the floor and he jumped on her and just started beating her head in from the back and finally somebody like got him off of her but she had to go to the hospital she had internal injuries it's affected her cognitive function She had five broken ribs. She had a busted eardrum, loss of hearing, a concussion.
Starting point is 01:35:49 Excuse me. She had gashes on her face. Her eyes, one of her eyes was busted. It was totally bloodshot. A dent in her nose. Her ear was torn. And he, I mean, it was crazy. She had taken his switch away.
Starting point is 01:36:08 And he started screaming at her and called her the B word. and a W.H. word and then spat at her. And she walked out into the hallway and he ran out after her, rammed into her. And when she hit the ground, it just knocked her out. And her head bounced and she was out. And she was completely limp. But he didn't stop. That's when he jumped on her and just beat her to death. And she lost her job. She couldn't work. The attorneys, because he was an adopted kid and his mom was trying to say, oh, he's on the autism spectrum, so he doesn't know this is such, first off, how dare you diminish people who are on the spectrum and act like people are somehow incapable of controlling emotions or being dealt with? And if someone is so unstable,
Starting point is 01:36:54 regardless of whatever might be attributing to it, if they are that unstable, that, because they said everything was a trigger to this dude, video games, what do they say, everything was a trigger to him. You couldn't do anything. You couldn't, you couldn't correct him. You can't correct him in front of other people. You cannot criticize him. That doesn't sound like a trigger. That sounds like he's up. And you can't. And he wasn't raised right. He was adopted and his adoptive mother raised him from when he was very young. And he just didn't, he was a problem in class. And apparently they spent a lot of time on him over the other kids because he was so just disruptive. And so his attorneys tried to say, oh, well, the teacher could not address his unique needs.
Starting point is 01:37:42 Well, he sounded also like he's an SOB and that everyone tried to placate him and use other factors as an excuse for their laziness to actually correct his behavior. And it's not her job to fix bad parenting. It is not a teacher's job to fix bad parenting. And it is unfair to a teacher to expect for them to offset what parents are not doing at home, bad parenting. And it's unfair to all the other kids in the class. And the victim wanted him to be 30 years.
Starting point is 01:38:20 She wanted the maximum 30 years in prison because he apparently had a long history of violent behavior and disruptiveness. and the judge said well because it wasn't an isolated incident the attack it wasn't isolated etc so he only got five years though students like him you cannot put in a public school and like ingratiate with the rest of the student body it's impossible and it's ignorant to the rest of the student body for this and maybe that hurts people's feelings but we're not here to tickle the jimmies of the everybody on the periphery at the expense of disrupting an entire school and now this woman, I mean, it's lucky that she wasn't killed. She is permanently disabled. She lost everything. And the adoptive mother, the adoptive mother sounds like part of the problem.
Starting point is 01:39:08 She said that her son was only sent to prison and she's lucky he got five years. He was being, he was only punished for being black. I am not kidding you. That is what that be said. She said the only and just so she's a white woman with blonde hair. She's part of the problem. She said that the only reason he was, not because he jumped on her on the teacher and beat the teacher near death and has attacked other people and has a history of violent, very violent behavior. It's because he was black. That's why he was targeted. Meanwhile, this woman is struggling now to pay her bills. I mean, she lost her life. She has, I mean, she still has, she has trouble speaking. He, like, just beat her about to death. Yeah, he, if he was,
Starting point is 01:39:57 this is all the stuff that the mom said was a trigger. His electronic, this is her verbatim response. Electronics is a trigger. Being told no is a trigger. And being corrected in front of other people is a trigger. But electronics is the big trigger. Kane.
Starting point is 01:40:18 Good luck getting away from electronics. Yeah. I mean, I, this is not. And then the mom tried to say, oh, it's, it's because he's autistic. And that's what, we have family members who have autism. I have friends who have autism. I work with people of autism.
Starting point is 01:40:34 That is not, that is entirely different from what is happening here. And first off, what, it just, that what a horrible slur that is on people with autism? That is not what autism is. And that's not, it's not, this guy's just violent. And apparently, according to the people who know him, he has never, like his adoptive mother from what all these reports saying, there's like a ton of stories about this. It sounds like she could not parent, didn't know how to parent, didn't want to be the bad mom, and then used his, like, whenever he acted out, oh, that's because he's autistic. So you have to let it slide because he's autistic. That's bad parenting. And that's him, he's just a jackass. That's what it is. I feel so sorry for this lady. She actually has trouble speaking. She's lost hearing. She's deaf in one ear now. She has trouble speaking. Her face is permanently disfigured. She walks with a limp apparently because he, I mean, he like was beating her right in the back of her head.
Starting point is 01:41:36 He hit her so hard. He tore one of her ears like off her head. That's insane. That is crazy. So it's not good for the student body to have someone who's violent like this. This is, this is so, it's dangerous. Now, one other thing. I don't know if you guys saw this.
Starting point is 01:41:57 Did you guys see this? this is bread and circuses. So the, there's a very, I've never been to Paris. There's a very fancy hotel in Paris that is called the Peninsula Hotel. And they have like a rooftop hotel. One of the things that I've noticed, restaurants are different in Europe and that they don't turn over tables like U.S. restaurants, turn over tables. U.S. restaurants turn over tables really quickly. And all throughout college, I was a server.
Starting point is 01:42:23 And you were encouraged to, you know, to get everything out, get everything going because you got to turn over tables. In Europe, it is so not like that. And they, it's like an event. You go and especially if you're with a group of people, you, it's like an all evening dinner. Like you eat slow, you drink, you enjoy each other's company. They don't turn over tables like that. And it's, it also kind of makes it really difficult, especially if you book last minute
Starting point is 01:42:46 because if you go to a nice restaurant, you want to get a reservation. It kind of makes it really hard to get a reservation if you book last minute. So this is the peninsula at a five-star hotel in Paris where the, the Olympics are, Serena Williams comes in and she wants to book, she wants to go to this rooftop restaurant and they told her that she couldn't. She goes on Twitter and goes, yikes. She calls
Starting point is 01:43:07 him out on Twitter. She goes, I've been denied rooftop access to eat in an empty restaurant of nicer places, but never with my kids. Always at first. And she acted like they just turned her away. The restaurant was very nice and they said, we would love to host you again. We were fully booked. We were fully booked. And that's the thing.
Starting point is 01:43:24 Was she supposed to kick out another patron because she's special, because she's famous, was she entitled to take someone else's reservation and eat there that night and make them give up? They booked in advance and she didn't, but yet it's not her problem. That is some serious privilege. That is some serious privilege to expect everyone else because you didn't have the forethought to plan ahead to make other people suffer the consequences of your lack of planning and then like an ass, you go on social media and try to berate the restaurant because you were ill prepared.
Starting point is 01:44:03 I mean, everyone's like, well, they should have made room. If she's so damn famous, she should have had the staff call in way in advance, but she knew she was going to be in Paris and make their reservation. We're not doing this entitled stuff. And a lot of these places, when they have reservations, when they're booked, it might look like an empty table for a half hour. Someone's going to be there and they're going to be at that table all night. That's how, that's just their dinner culture. Good grief. the entitlement. That's privilege. We have more on the way as we roll towards the conclusion of this third hour. Caltech great company, Florida-born and Bread. And they're P-15. I don't know if you
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Starting point is 01:45:44 You're on the go guide for getting up to speed on today's most important stories. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or your favorite podcast platform. Now I happen to be and understand a little about China and lived in China and speak Chinese. Makes him come pretty friendly with China. Yeah, he's like, I'm pretty friendly with China. Yeah, you are, you absolute state agent. Yeah, we know you are. That's Tim Walz, by the way.
Starting point is 01:46:07 Who, wait, we got more of him. What is it? How many times he's going to tell people to mind their own damn business? Audio sound like six. This is him saying again, mind your ODB, except, you know, for snitch lines. You know how things work really well in life and really well. with your neighbors and really well in communities. When you mind your own damn business, things work better.
Starting point is 01:46:27 Except when you make snitch lines, right? Right? Isn't Five New 2? How many times is he going to say this? He literally created a snitch line. What? I guess I'm by five. What's the world?
Starting point is 01:46:43 Now look, we're pretty neighborly with Wisconsin. We get our friendly battles, but in Minnesota, just like in Wisconsin, we respect our neighbors and the personal choices they make. even if we wouldn't make the same choices for ourselves? No, you don't. Because we know there's a golden rule. Mind your own damn business. He really focused with that.
Starting point is 01:47:05 He really did. All right, I know we're running low on time real fast. Kane today in stupidity. All right, it'll have to be Nancy Pelosi won. This is cut 16. This is how dumb the Democrats think you are. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by all rights. We think she should have been president,
Starting point is 01:47:23 but she didn't win the electoral college. so it's harder. I think that Kamala Harris should win because she's the best. She'll be a great present. She happens to be a woman. Right. And that's icing on the cake. Is it icing?
Starting point is 01:47:36 Is it? On the cake? By the way, it should have been Bernie Sanders. He was the one who actually won the primary. Is that the cake that's the cake that? It's not her, but it's not going to be her like super fancy like ice cream cake. It's not going to be like that. Folks that does it for us today.
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