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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dana Lashes of surd Truth podcast sponsored by Keltech.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
It's time for Florida.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Man, a weirdo Florida got lee. He has some serious
red hair.

Speaker 4 (00:21):
Sorry. Uh wow, wow wow, there's no way.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Okay, anyway, I guess guess way, Central Florida man is
arrested for peeping into neighbors homes. Of course he is
and Albert and Auburndale man was arrested and accused of
peeping into the homes of two female neighbors, residents of
a mobile home park where he resided. Apparently his name's
Tyler Mountain, twenty years old. They said he was surreptitiously

(00:50):
recording and taking photographs of people in their homes using
his cell phone, and that I mean they got they
got him on voyeurism and some other stuff. But he
would peep inside and then he would get I mean
he was like on the porch or on the back porch,
or like right up against the window trying to get
like video footage and photographs in that. He was booked

(01:10):
in Pole County Jail, charged with burglary of an occupied dwelling,
two counts voyeurism, stocking, loitering, and prowling. And also in
November twenty three, he exposed himself twice to two different women.
So he's lucky that he's alive because I see you.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
All my property doing that. It's gloca clock.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
That's not even messing' man, keigity glock what's happening. Let's
see what is happening with this?

Speaker 4 (01:37):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Playto's closet is a resale shop. When I was younger,
I thought it was the coolest place ever. Florida man
uses his phone to record underage girls in fitting rooms.
Again glocka clock. He was arrested again video voyeurism. He
used to cell phone to record girls inside a seminole
country store over the fourth of July weekend. Officers respond
at thirty nine year old Brian Bishop. They got him

(01:58):
on camera security camera doing this, Like how does someone
go into a store. They're so prolific. Security cameras are everywhere,
They're ubiquitous. And he goes in and he's doing this
and he's I mean you see him bending down and
like putting the phone under the doors to record on
the other side of the doors. I mean, you can
see him in the video doing this and one of

(02:20):
the girls noticed the phone and began yelling, and that's
when he left the store. But they found him and
they booked him in jail, and now he goes before
a judge. He would appeared before the judge yesterday. I
don't have any other updates to that, but he appeared
before judge yesterday. I mean, I'm not kidding you. The
fact that these dudes like this do not get shot, Yeah,

(02:43):
I don't. Are they like picking times or places where
they think that nobody, because I absolutely will mark a dude.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
For doings for like praying on women like this and minors.
No way, man. Let's see this. Oh, let's see this.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
One driver shoots fireworks from his carbile doing donuts in
ne Orlando street.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
I thought this was America.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
This It doesn't really seem that crazy, except you know,
you can't be driving on the streets like this, like
you take.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
An old beater car into a cornfield, old cornfield and day.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
We just had a story yesterday of an old man
dying from fireworks, So it's pretty serious.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yeah, you gotta be careful with that stuff.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
So these people, they were launching them from a moving
vehicle while doing donuts in a busy intersection. That's okay,
you can't be doing that. You can't be getting on
Michael Bay in the middle of an intersection, let's not.
They arrested Roderick Baiez twenty. He had Roman candles and
he was writing shotgun This is like they were his
emotional support explosives.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
This is what they said.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
And he was on his way to another street party.
And then they got Anthony Colon thirty three. Imagine your
last name is Colon col O Win. You can't say Colonne,
could you, because there's no other way to do that.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Colon.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
He was selling booze to people out of his trunk
the car that was doing the donuts. And then Steen
voltchev and Dion Custard, your name is Deon Custard. Okay,
eighteen and thirty one, respectively. They were also doing donuts
with fireworks, so it seems like a street circus happening.
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Speaker 4 (05:16):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
So Sanders, uh, Bernie Sanders was on He was on
the socials and he was given talking to some reporters
giving him some quotes from some pieces and stuff. And
one of the things that he said kind of hit
me the wrong way. He said, quote, instead of forcibly

(05:38):
removing the homeless from DC as Trump wants to do,
we need to build millions of affordable housing units in America.
Instead of giving tax breaks to wall Street billionaires who
are buying up housing and jacking up rent. We need
to put a cap on rent prices. So I had
asked them, I said, well, why haven't you offered to

(05:58):
donate one of your houses. He's got a lot of property,
a lot of property. I mean, he's he owns three homes.
He owns a house in Burlington, Vermont. Vermont's very pretty,
you know, he's very pretty. He's a big socialist, you know,
he's socialist. Senator Forbes did a huge study on his

(06:23):
multimillion dollar fortune, and he's got millions of dollars from
real estate, now cybar real quick. Remember again, before this,
Bernie Sanders was one of those people who never had
a job. Do you remember what his one like private
sector job was. He did a zine Caine Last Dude

(06:46):
for real, That's what he did, and then his wife
like bankrupted at a girls school. Anyway, So he's made
millions of dollars from his book, and he also he's
got a lot of books. He's made lots of money.
He's written three books all about the same thing. Imagine
people buy that, Well, it's a book about the same thing. Again,

(07:06):
I would love to purchase this in support of socialism
with a capitalist practice. And he's got three super nice houses.
He has a waterfront home in He's got two houses
in Vermont, one in Burlington and one in North Hero
And that's waterfront. That is swank, e Kane, I don't
have waterfront property, kne Do you have waterfront property?

Speaker 4 (07:27):
Man?

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Well, Bernie Sanders is a socialist, So isn't that our
waterfront property? We own that house too, apparently, I mean,
unless he's you know, not what he says he is.
He's got a super fancy house in DC as well,
most of his a lot of his money's tied up, well,
not a lot, but a good chunk of his money.
He's a four bedroom, two and a half bath colonial
in Burlington, and he has a row house which is

(07:53):
super expensive, just a couple of blocks from the Capitol's
that's a lot of money because those houses are not cheap, Steve,
you know in DC, them row houses right there by
the Capitol, of them fancy ones, they're not cheap, right.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Uh start at a million and a half?

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh is that all? Is that all a million and
a half? Jimminy Christmas? So he's got uh, the he's
got his two story that's in Burlington. I think that's
the one he started in. And then he's got this
beautiful waterfront home. Kne It's like two thirds of it
are on the water. Look at that's a night one's going.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
To show up the gorgeous Look look at the Look at.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
The detail on his historic row house there in DC.
I mean, that's just swank man. That's just luxury rate.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
It's like a corner lot that's surrounded by water.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
He paid for that in cash. What you know, the
socialist Bernie Sanders paid for in cash.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
We ken he's only making one hundred and seventy fourth.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
One is showing you the houses. So let me explain.
So you viewers are looking at the television on the
third on the left, that's the where it has all
the trees in front of it. That's his rowhouse in DC.
And so that's a couple of blocks from the capitol.
Now I think it's even it's Stevie. I think it's
probably even more than a mill and a half because
I mean, look at all the lot. A lot of
those rowhouses have that green space in front, so it

(09:15):
looks like there's they actually has a little sliver of
property in addition to that, you know with that rowhouse.
The middle house is the one in Burlington, and I
think that's the one he started in. And then the
one on the right that is his big lakefront property
in North Hero and that's what he paid for in cash.
And that is a fort's described as a tranquil four bed,

(09:35):
three bath home with shore front access on Lake Champlain,
fifty minutes north of Burlington. So see, he's a socialist,
so he really needed one house, and then fifty minutes
away he needed another house. I think I'm just too
lazy to have that much property, even if I were
a trillionaire. I don't like having that much responsibility over property,

(10:00):
you know what I mean. I don't I don't want
to have I mean, I understand that's a smart investment,
but you got to take care of it. And then, like,
I just don't want to have to have like two
coffee machines, you know, or three coffee It's annoying, Like
you gotta have pans for those houses, That's what I
think of. I'm like, golly, you gotta have Clorox wipes
on every one of them things?

Speaker 4 (10:19):
Good night? Like what else you gotta have? I have
a bedjet.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
You need to tell Jennifer, our salesperson, that Bedget needs
to advertise in this program, you have to have three bedjets.
You're going to take your bedjet to like all three
different houses. No, so he's got a lot of money, now, Kane,
look at them houses? I see them? Welly do you
mind throwing that back up there, because I'm just saying,
if you're a homeless in DC, do you think would

(10:44):
any or all three of these properties work to house
the homeless in DC?

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah? I mean we could do like a little round
robin sort of thing where you know, one week the
homeless stays at one place, Yeah, next week they switch
over to another place.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Why can't the waterfront property be like a homeless camp.
I mean they could even camp outside in the summer,
right right. I'm just like they can sleep out on
the water. Yeah, So he says, just going back to
his tweet, he says, well, instead of forcibly removing the homeless,
you know, we need to build millions of affordable What

(11:18):
do you mean we need to build? I don't need
to do jackerb I don't need to do nothing, slick.
What do you mean we need to we don't need
to do nothing. You know, he was the one who,
by the way, voted to expand and make things more
expensive with a Green New Deal.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
He voted to do all of that stuff, so and
he vote.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
I don't understand why he's complaining about this because he's
I mean, I just am shocked at the tone deafness
of this. He has not offered one of his properties
at all, whatsoever, not one the one in DC there
that's blocks from the capitol. My gosh, I mean, that's
the one that's what four bedrooms. I mean, you could
bunk up, man, like some of these dudes bunk some

(12:00):
of these homeless people could bunk up, and they could
all be staying in that row house blocks from the capitol,
so they didn't even need to relocate them to Vermont.
So I don't know, I mean, it's it doesn't make
any sense. I'm just saying, you know, what he's saying
isn't really jive with his belief set. And this was

(12:22):
the guy he wants to throw billions at housing subsidies. Okay,
when has this worked? When did that work? Giving billions
of dollars in housing subsidies? When has that ever worked before.
And then what about like zoning and things like that.
That's also a big issue. What happens when you know

(12:42):
with zone you got to deal with that. I mean,
this is this is in California. They spent over twenty
four billion dollars in just a few years. Remember they
were supposed to address homelessness in California.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
That was their whole point.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
They were supposed to address homelessness in California. You think
they did it, the addressing of the homelessness. I don't
think so, because they kept spending billions and billions of
dollars and then in fact, it actually increased California's that's KTLA.
It actually increased California's homeless population. This has never worked
in any state or not. This never worked where it's

(13:16):
been implemented. But that's how these people are.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
JB. Pritzker, you know he comes and talks a good
game about it. JB.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Pritzker is a pe trillionaire. He hasn't offered any of
his properties, especially the property in Florida. Remember when he
locked down his state in Illinois and then he high
tailed it to his horse ranch down in Florida. Mm hmm.
He made sure to get out, get out of dodge quick,
didn't he It just don't make any sense. Now in
the meantime, you've got the guard going in clearing everyone out.

(13:45):
You had protesters that were prob I don't know why
they were protesting.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
Uh, And.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
The Democrats are saying, oh, well, you know, we need
to push back. Yeah, that's the problem residents. All these
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Speaker 2 (15:12):
And now all of the news you would probably miss,
it's time for Dana's Quick five.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
Well listen to this.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
So Bed, Bath, and Beyond says they are not going
to open retail stores in California. Now, remember they said
that they were they were going to be closing a
bunch of stuff, and now apparently doesn't look like that's
going to happen. They said they're just not going to
open or operate retail stores in California. With a statement
that they posted to their x account. They said that
their system in California makes it impossible for businesses to succeed,

(15:42):
and the Marcus Lamonis, who is who released the statement
from the company, said that they it's our responsibility to
our customers and shareholders. We're not going to participate in
a system that undermines both. We are investing in a
California strategy that works so delivering like drop shipping. Essentially
it is like what it looks like. And they said
that Californians can still get it, but they're not gonna

(16:02):
have an unsustainable model by having like a storefront in California.
So they said that they Californians can go to the
dot com. Everyone else will be able to have stores
literally in every other state. And that is from the
head of it, Marcus Lamonis, who and who's on Fox
Business and all that's crazy. He's by the way, he's
the executive chairman of bed Bath and Beyond. And I

(16:24):
just realized that he follows me. Yeah, I was reading
it and I'm like, oh, wait a minute, wait a second, Yeah,
So that's interesting. I mean, can I just be honest,
who doesn't love a Bedpath and Beyond. There's few places
that I love more. You know, I love going into
like the Sam's Club, and then I love going into
a bed bath and beyond. We got to talk about
Kane's glasses here coming up. Kane's got some blue light blockers, guys.

(16:45):
I don't know what to make of it. He looks
like Robert Evans sitting in the corner over there, you know,
from Paramount Robert Evans. You look like him, Like, hey, bubby,
you're gonna he's like getting ready to cut some beals
back there.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
We got it.

Speaker 4 (16:57):
We really have to talk about this. Let what is this?
What is a wire sexual?

Speaker 1 (17:03):
This is a cane headline right here, Caine, Robert Evans,
a new movement of women. They're in love with AI
generated men. And they said they're oh my gosh, everybody
wants a flag. They're a marginalized group that deserves their
own alphabet flag. So I guess if you're if you
fall in love, can you fall in over with an
a I think if you think that you've fallen in

(17:24):
love with an AI thing, then you're a wire sexual.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
Why wouldn't it be like an internet sexual?

Speaker 3 (17:32):
Or what?

Speaker 2 (17:33):
Could we divide us up into more groups?

Speaker 1 (17:36):
I mean, I'm made of questions, a growing co cohort
of single dads by choice, because bushes be crazy. So
the growing cohort apparently a lot of men. They said
that this is the Atlantic. They said, a lot of
dudes are being single dads. That's I kind of find that.
I find that sad. I find that sad for the kids.

(17:57):
I was having a conversation with someone the other day.
I'm talking about how, especially during COVID and Lockdown, I
just was so tired of everything, all entertainment, everything coming
out of Hollywood is horrible, and I got really into anime,
like very I mean, I think I've seen almost everything
from Monster to Attack on Titan Manga, started getting into comics,

(18:22):
and I wouldn't I don't think it would have happened
had it not been for COVID. And then what I
realized is that there's so many great stories to tell,
and now here we are in twenty twenty five and Hollywood,
which has never been I mean, lately, it's been so
incredibly derivative and predictable. I feel like they've been looking
for things to ruin, so they go back and they've

(18:43):
been looking at like different series to ruin, different different
Comics to Ruin, different iconic characters to Ruin. And I
remember seeing this story and it was a couple of
years ago and it had to do with Superman, and
there was, how to put it, a storyline coming out
in Superman DC Comics where they were talking about the

(19:06):
Man of Steel and bisexuality and all this stuff, and
I'm like, hell, does this have to do with Superman?

Speaker 3 (19:12):
This?

Speaker 4 (19:12):
What is this?

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Is true justice in the American way? Like, what does
this have to do with Superman?

Speaker 4 (19:16):
Come on?

Speaker 1 (19:17):
And there was an artist with DC Comics who is
done with it, and it was very, very high profile.
He was like, I'm done with it, I'm out, and
he left and he's been doing his own thing over
at big Man Comics.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
Gabe L.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Tayeb is joining me now. He's writer, artist, publisher a
big Man Comics. And I love his story and I
like how he just he was done dealing with it
and suffering that stupidity and he said enoughs and off
and he joins us.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
Now, Gavin's so good to see you.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Welcome, Finally you reached. You were one of the first
people to reach out to me those almost four years ago.
It was coming September October and I hadn't done a
lot of media, so I was like, I don't know,
I don't want to go on some show you know,
who's this lady or whatever? But sorry, sorry, I'm here
better late than how you doing things.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
I'm doing good.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
I'm doing good.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
I wanted to tell people who might not be familiar
with your story and talk about what you're doing now,
because I know you're doing some stuff with Dean Kane
and you got a lot of stuff in the works,
but you had your dream job like that. I can't
even imagine how terrifying that you get your dream job
and then you realize is it my dream job or
is this the dream environment?

Speaker 4 (20:21):
Because it got real weird fast for you.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
It did you know?

Speaker 2 (20:25):
I've been drawing since I could remember, since I was
like three years old whatever, and I wanted to be
a comic book artist. When I was twelve or thirteen,
I decided my favorite artist, Jim Ley. He's still there
at DC Comics. He's a great illustrator, vice president of
the company there, and he hired me in my twenties.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
I worked my butt off to earn that. It's an
elite job.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
There are less people that make a good living in
comics than in the NFL or the NBA.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
It's so hard to get that job. And it wasn't
woke at first.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Two thousand and eight, I started working for them, and
as we know, during like the Obama years, things started
getting weirder and weirder and pronouns and all the stuff
that started happening in media and comics, movies, and I
just kind of kept my head down. I didn't really
tell my conservative this and that, and it's like, well,
it's not my book, it's not my book.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
And then eventually it was my book.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
And we're getting rid of Superman's truth justice, the American
white slogan, that's disrespectful, and we're going to explore the
sex life of Superman's underage son.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
And I said, we're not going to do that.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
You're going to do that. I'm going to go and
do my own thing. So see you guys later, thank you,
but I'm out of here. So that, yeah, that was
four years ago. I think this October.

Speaker 4 (21:27):
What was their reason for doing that?

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Did they think that they were going to bring in
like other people who might not be into comics, and
that was gonna because you're alienating your hardcore base that
supported you for so long. They don't want to read
that stuff.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
Well, that's the cover story.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Oh, we need to do the modern audience, the big audience,
capture more people, more diverse, whatever. No, it's if you've
ever read Atlas Shrugged, I rand nails these people, right,
she nails the resentful leftists, and they hate truth and beauty.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
They're the kind of people.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
They see the quarterback and the cheerleader and they're like, ah,
and when you see excellence, when you see success, when
you see you know, all that stuff, you should be
inspired and go, oh my gosh, how did they do that?

Speaker 3 (22:08):
I want to do that. How do I become a
radio TV big shot? Like Dana? What's she doing?

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Instead of going, oh, Dana's dad probably owns the network,
you know, she don't like so leftists they see Batman,
they see Superman, they see all this stuff that's awesome,
and they get mad and they you know, they grit
their teeth and like, let me destroy it. So the
misery is a big part of it for them. They
like knowing that they're ruining something you love.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Ooh, that's that's good that we're talking with Gabe l
Taeb who's with Big Man Comics, And I'm going to
talk about some of the other stuff that you had.
That's a psychological deep dive, that's like a whole other
topic of discussion, like why people think that way and they,
like you said, they see success, they see exceptionalism, whether
it's American exceptional exceptionalism, just individualistic exceptionalism, and maybe it's

(22:51):
something that they don't have within and they feel like
they got to destroy it or it's a threat to
what I mean, it is a threat to it's a
threat to control exceptionalism, to control right.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Absolutely. Yeah. I feel like people either believe in God
or they think they are God. And it's like one
of my favorite writers, Cormac McCarthy, there's a villain in
one of his books and he tells people that that
exists without my knowledge, exists without my consent.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
It was one of the most chilling things I ever read.
And it's like that's how the left is.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
It's like if something is better than me and it's
not mine, that I have to destroy it instead of going, oh,
how did they make Batman so great? Let me make
my own Batman, my own original character. But like no
I'm gonna stick my agenda on it, my politics. In
recent issues of Batman they have him fighting billionaires and
sticking up for Antifa basically, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
It's like they're just injecting their politics. They're moralizing their lecturing.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
And all stories have a message in a moral but
what you should never do is then tagonize your audience.
You should never have Superman saying, hey, audience, you're a
bunch of racists and polluters and bigots, and this is
why you're terrible, because really that's just the writer speaking
through Superman, trying to tell you why the writer's a
better person than you, instead of inspiring you the way

(24:02):
Superman always has. So you know, art is about truth
and beauty. Art is just patterns. It really is scientific patterns.
So when you write woke stuff and you put agenda
ahead of just the patterns of how story and character work,
you can't write good stories. And that's why the Marvel
stuff that came out at first that everybody liked up
to the Avengers thing was very normal, pretty straight, and
then when they went with the the m.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
She U where it was all the girl power, woke stuff.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
You see those movies just flopping over and over and
m she was not mine.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
That belongs to my friend Nerd Rodick. He coined that term.

Speaker 4 (24:32):
That is Yeah. I remember reading that that is that's true.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
I liked what you said too about when they were changing,
you know, stuff like with Superman. You were saying that
your grandfather is reading this interview with you. He almost
died in World War two. And I mean because that's
as Americans, I mean, we we have like such a
it's so ingrained, like everything to get this republic to
where it is right now, and everybody's got a connection
to that. And when you when they do stuff the

(24:56):
way that they've been doing it, it sort of feels
like they are stepping all over that. It's like they're
disrespecting everything that so many people have given for to
create for what we enjoy now.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
Right well, what is the left? One of their big
montras is smash the patriarchy? Right well, what does Peter mean?

Speaker 3 (25:12):
In Latin? It means father.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
These are people who are heartbroken and hate their father,
and they want to destroy his world and everything he
ever built. It's why they destroy Star Wars, It's why
they destroy Superman. They hate their dad, that's what this is.
And I'm not here to say whether their dad was
right or wrong, but that the whole thing stems back
to family and fathers. It's your cultural patrimony, is what
this stuff is called.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
Right.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yes, you are doing a project with Dean Kane, who
is also signed up with ICE. Tell me about this
because you started, this was announced. It's the all American
law Man and I love the logo for this.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
By the way, Oh that's a Glock seventeen.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
My first gun I ever had. And I know you
gun rights advocate. I went for San Diego gun owners.
I speak at their events, so we're sympatico on that.
But when DC commerce got rid of the slogan truth Justice,
American Way, that was the first thing that made me
really mad. And then it was the underage bisexual storyline.
Note like, no thanks, That's not why I got into
drawing comics. And so the first book I made was

(26:09):
analogs for Superman, A Batman, and Wonder Woman, and we
called the book Truth Justice, American Waight, those were the
cod enames of the heroes. People loved it and it
was a classic throwback and it wasn't lecturing you or
if you were left wing either it was an old
Democrat suck. I don't do that either. I just entertain you,
like in the eighties, the way you loved it. I
make fresh stuff that feels like the old Indiana Jones,
the old Star Wars, but it's fresh because it's.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
A new take for me.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
And I'm not lecturing anyone. I'm just inspiring you. And
the first thing I'm doing is just entertaining it. So
we had truth just an American way. And then Dean
Kane he noticed me on Twitter, he saw what I
was doing. I got his attention, so we became very
good friends. He's a really nice guy. By the way,
we're actually friends and not just business partners. We came
up with a James Bond Indiana Jones kind of comic
called Dean Kine, all American law Man, and it's just

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a cool a man of adventure who travels the glow,
beautiful women, awful bad guys, and it's like the stuff
from the eighties where Theanna Jones from eighties, where you
could watch it as an adult and it's four adults,
but you can let a kid see it and you
don't have to worry that it's nasty with sex scenes
and gore and perversion and cussing. So it's safe to
hand to your eight year old nephew, But as a
forty year old, you could read it and you're fully

(27:13):
engaged and you love it.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
Yeah, there's something to that.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
The way that stories were told then, where you could
have multi generations read them. You could be in the
same room, you could be with your grandparents and your
kids and your cousins or whatever, and everybody could watch
it and no one's cringing because it's an appropriate What
happened to the art of storytelling where everything is so
silent or everything is so hyper sexualized that we don't

(27:37):
I mean, we don't see as much you're doing it.
But there's so few people that are doing that type
of storytelling anymore.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Well, I think I'm a Christian. I'm never going to
apologize for that. And in the Bible, that's out of
the abundance of the heart. The mouth speaks is a verse, right,
So what's in you is going to come out of you,
whether you like it or not. So when you have ugly,
filthy stories, well guess what kind of people they're coming
out of, Right, That's what's in their heart.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
It's what they believe. All art is is one thing only.
It's self expression.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
What do I think about the world, What I think
about myself and my place in it. That's what art is.
I'm saying something about life and myself in the world.
So what I believe in truth and justice and heroicism,
being a good father. You know, the theme of the
first Dean Kane book is you do the right thing,
no matter what, no matter how scary it is.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
That's the theme of that one.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
The theme in Truth Justice is the same thing in
the Tyrists book that I'm doing with Fox News Superstar Tyrists.
It's about being a screw up and finally getting things right.
And in Imperian Earth Illuminated, which I have right now Bigmancomics,
dot Com, go there and get it. It's about are
we living the right way? Are we being fooled? Is
there a better world? Is there a better path? That's
my love letter to the old Star Wars stuff that

(28:44):
inspired me. I was born in seventy eight, started watching
Star Wars as a very little kid, and that was
the first thing that just ignited my imagination. The first
things I ever remember drawing were Star Wars space battles
in the back of my grandparents Mexican restaurant. Nobody could
watch me, and my brother was in a kindergarten. So
I just allow butcher paper and just draw spaceships all
day and you will. You will absolutely love this. You know,

(29:05):
it's a fresh take on sci fi stuff. But it
goes back to you know, I'm forty seven decades of
me loving adventure and sci fi and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
I love it and so and you you live it,
you love it, and it comes out that way just
you know, pure appreciation for that genre and great storytelling,
great art as well.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
We'd love to have you back. We'd love to have
you back.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Gabell Tayib and make sure you go to Bigmancomics dot
com and he's got all kinds of stuff up there.
You've got merch, you got your T shirts, you've got
your comics, you have absolutely everything up there. And you
can see about Dan Kane, all American law man. Would
you say Kane the crowd for it? Yeah, because I
and I definitely believe that people need to get involved
and like help bring this stuff to life, because everybody

(29:44):
complains about the stuff that comes out that's in the
theaters or on TV or Netflix or whatever. And it's like, okay, well,
don't put your money where your mouth is and support
this stuff so these other people don't come and take
that influence over from you.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
You have a duty.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
It's like a duty, like the opportunity and the freedom
to be able to do that. So big Man Comics
dot Com gave God bless you.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
I still appreciate what you do.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Thank you for doing the real art that you're doing,
because that's going to be appreciated for years to come.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
It's iconic.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
It's an art to me. Can I say one last
thing you to you in the audience?

Speaker 2 (30:14):
The reason I do all this is because I felt
what you felt, audience. I felt what you felt like
my culture it's slipping away. My dad almost died. He's
an immigrant from Libya. That killed my dad's for friends
and relatives. My grandfather that side has been here for
hundreds of years, almost died in the Pacific World War two.
This country is the greatest country in the historld, the
greatest culture, and it was fought and died for and

(30:36):
we just watched it melting away, turning in perversion, perverting kids,
messing everything up, and I'm like, I can't be a
part of that. I will not put my name on
that as part of the people who made that mess.
So I did something about it, and I gambled my
career that I fought so hard to get.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
I said, no, I can't do this.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
And the power of story, it is the most important,
potent form of persuasion. And when I was quitting my
job at DC, I was terrified. I live in San Diego,
it's kind of expensive, and I did have a job
lined up. But here's the power of story. Indiana Jones fro.
Nineteen eighty nine. He steps into that bottomless pit where
there's the invisible bridge. You remember that the one was
Sean Connery.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yep. But he had to take the leap of faith.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
And I kept picturing that leap of faith when I
was watching, when I was thinking about quitting and resigning,
and I just prayed.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
I said, God, don't let me fall, and I was
lifted higher than ever. You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
I'm making art that I'm so proud of doing very
good business, and I would challenge all of you out
there to join me, you know, make good art, stand up,
tell the truth, and support people like me. Go to
Bigmancommerce dot com. Get our books. They're awesome. It's great
entertainment for you and your family. And we can save
this culture. We can bring it back. People are going
to have entertainment no matter what. Let's give them something good.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Amenda that gave alta Bigmancomics dot Com. Gabe always a
pleasure and you can find him on x Facebook. Obviously
the website as well do great work. So it's honored
to know you, my friend, would love to have you back.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's
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