Absurd Truth: Celebrity Endorsements

Liz Cheney, Bruce Springsteen and Sam Elliott endorse Kamala Harris. Meanwhile, Dana recently watched the HBO documentary, Chimp Crazy, and it reminded her of her childhood when she babysat a chimp and it slapped her.

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Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time
for Florida Man.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Okay, A few things here got to touch on my heavens.
So this I can't believe. We got to look for
Florida man for sanity. Can I just point out how
insane that is? Like that's our we gotta look to
Florida man for insanity or for sanity. Let's see first
headline we got here for you. This is a Florida

(00:38):
man led law enforcement on one of the slowest chases
in county history. All right, so how did this work out?
This man was it was a routine traffic stop and
it went into a low speed chase and they had
to use the stopsticks. So this dude, it started on
September twenty fifth. Kyle mcnerny kicked up passenger out of

(01:00):
a black Kia Sorrento at an intersection. And apparently he's
got a history of like attacking deputy sheriffs and things
like that, And he stopped to switch plates with his
passenger and when he ran and then he ran into
the street, waving at passing cars. The passenger attempted to
take the driver's seat. McNary kicked him out, sped off,
left him on the roadside, and then he was involved

(01:21):
in a hit and run for four miles away and
it seriously injured somebody. So then he was driving very
very very very very very very slowly on a very
very I mean, what is he going like five miles
per hour? Is it even that? I mean they did

(01:41):
get him and then his suv got stuck in a ditch,
so he was taken into custody. A Florida man was
arrested for sleeping on a Walmart roof with a gun
in his hand. Fort Myers, Cape Coral Dude. Deputyes found
him sleeping, you know, just regularly on the roof of
a Fort Myers Walmart with a gun in his hand.
Daniel Rio's thirties, facing charges of tress passing. He somebody

(02:02):
saw him somehow, and he's just taken a nap, got
a revolver in his hand. He said he was on
the roof to write out the storm has some Forrest
Gump stuff like what in the world? I went up though?
Was he gonna shoot at it? I took my revolver
up there I'm just gonna write it out. You know, Well,
gone back to the program, Dana lash with you. We're

(02:23):
at the top of this third hour and always good
to be with. You can find us Channel three forty
seven direct TV if you're not watching us or listening
to us, trust really, and you can also find us YouTube, Facebook,
all that good stuff. So, uh, did Liz Cheney hit
her head? I don't get this? Can you play twelve

(02:44):
for me? I really don't get this. This is weird.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
I know I know that president, that a President Harris,
that President Harris will be able to unite this nation.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
I know that she.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
Will be a president who will the rule of law,
and I know that she will be a president who
can inspire all of our children, and if I might
say so, especially our little.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Girls, like why, Well, because she's got a vagina, that's why.
And that's what women like. Women are only inspired if
it's another women, because they're real dumb. You know, That's
what I hear when I hear that kind of stuff.
Does that going to make I just don't understand why
Liz Cheney would endorse Harras. I get it if you

(03:36):
don't like a particular politician, but you're not, and you're
you're not putting a stamp of approval on their life
or how they live or et cetera. You're you're you're
voting to advance your interests. They're a vessel, They're a
peace on the board that you can push forward to
advance your interest. You're not saying that you're going to

(03:58):
be best friends with them. You're not saying that you're
going to petition to have them formally adopt you. You're
that's not what's happening. You're advancing your interest doesn't make
any sense. Can I just make fun of Bruce Springsteen
one more time? Because the way that he sits up,
the way he starts this video and this weird endorsement
is so beyond frank.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Friends, fans and the press have asked me who I'm
supporting in this most important of elections.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
See he's everyman. Is this gold now? I asked this
last hour. Is that a gold nugget on his finger?
I don't like it unless it's like a seventy style
gold nug I'm not into like costume jewelry rings on men,
especially when you're wearing a flannel like I've gotten. I've
got all confusion here, right? What is that? I can't see?

(04:47):
Like zoom in on a can? Can you zoom in on?
What is it? I didn't know what it is. It's
a nugget, isn't it? Him and Daggets split nuggets and
they make in rings, set the one ring to rule
them all? Like, what is that?

Speaker 2 (04:59):
It's just liberal AI starter kit.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
I don't know man. Scott Jennings on CNN said this
in response to Springsteen listen.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
A couple of things. A.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
I can't think of anything I care about. Lesson some
more on celebrity.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
B we got whole COVID and that's all I need.
Own shirt, concerts and Pennsylvan I don't think no celebrity
has ever made me reconsider anybody does that? I mean
on the right or left? Does it really work? I
think maybe for people in the middle who don't watch
anything and don't pay attention, they don't do their due diligence.
I'll say it if nobody else will because you don't.

(05:36):
Does that actually work? Like if they're like, well, I
didn't know. I was thinking tod both those ways until
I though, you know, the celebrity come out, until I
saw Bruce Springsteen.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
I think that there are some people that can be
influenced one way or the other. They're on a fence
of some sort. But I think that I think that
it's a weak attempt by political parties to try and
relate culturally, and I think they missed the mark quite
a bit on that.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
You think, yes, a lot a lot on that. I
don't know. I I don't know. I mean, I I
just don't think that that's a I mean, I just
can't believe that actually works to convince people. If I

(06:20):
hear someone say I just don't know where I was
until Taylor's Swift came out, or I don't know where
I was until Jaylaw came out, or until Borce Springstek,
I just think you're so dumb. I don't even want
to know you. I don't want to be seen around
you because what you have a stupidity so bad that
might be catching. I don't want any part of it.

(06:43):
I I don't like celebrities telling me, even if it's
somebody I agree with. I look at a celebrity going oh, yeah,
I like who you like, and I go, yeah, it's
because you're smart like me. But that's you know me,
I look at it like that, but I don't ever
get excited about it. I'm like, oh, yeah, that's right,
you okay, so you have, But I'm never like, I'm
so influenced. I feel so affirmed in my choice, I

(07:05):
don't care.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
So you'd have to explain then, how the left has
been so successful using celebrity for so many years, because well,
that's what I'm saying. So there are people on the
left that do get influenced by that sort of thing,
And that was the point I was making.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
In a perfect world, I feel like I would ask
people that if I took over how elections ran, I'd
be like, well, did you come with this decision on
your own or did you come to this conclusion when
you were at a Swift concert? And then depending on
what the answer was, you know you.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Like the moderator in Billy Madison, remember that, Oh my gosh, what.

Speaker 5 (07:45):
You just said is one of the most insanely idiotic
things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling,
incoherent response were you even close to anything that could
be considered a rational Everyone in this room is now
dumber for having listened to it. Yeah, I award you

(08:06):
these points and may God have mercy on your soul.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Amen. Amen, I feel like him when I hear these people. Yes,
I don't know where I see it. And then I
saw uh Bruce Springsley's hallow all of I will say,
at least he's not being a jackwagon about it. And
then you got c. M Elliott. Didn't see him, hang on,
didn't see em Elliott go out there? Hold up, hold up,
hold up it up. You guys remember him? Uh? Hang on?

(08:31):
Roadhouse the movie that my kids say is about dudes
with mullets and tight pants doing kicks and bars. They
make it sound like the Male Rockets when they talk
about it. Sam Elliott, he went out and he had said,
be a man of vote for a woman. Okay, be
a man and do your own stunts. I don't know
like what. I don't want to dislike him, but when

(08:52):
he's like, be a man of vote for a woman,
I'm like, No, he was in a the some I
don't know I Lincoln project thing ad. I think there's
maybe a better way that you could state it, you know,
as long as you're not a jackwagon. He near it. It

(09:13):
was a salty ad. So because he was kind of
a jackwagon about it. I feel like I have the
invitation to be a little meaner. I don't want to
play it because I don't want to give it attention.
But he says, I can't believe we're having this conversation again,
and one stance for hate and one stance or courage.
And then it says, so you decide, and it's time
to be a man and vote for a woman, or
you know, maybe be a man in us TFO, you know,

(09:35):
maybe just mind your own damn business. Isn't that what
y'all like to say. To actually try to implore someone
be a man and vote for a less qualified woman
because she has a vagina is about one of the
weakest beta things I can ever hear. I mean, I
had some respect for Sam Elliott. It's greatly diminished. I
still like him as an actor, but it's really hard
when people do I don't care if someone has a preference,

(09:56):
and I don't care if they talk about their preference,
but when they're stupid about it, it's very difficult for
me to suspend my disbelief. When I watch them in
something like Samwise Gamgy for instance, the Shawn Aston guy,
I can't stand this dude. He blocked me on Twitter.
I never even talked to that lunchbox a day in
my life. He was the worst part of Lord of
the Rings the best character because Samwuise Gamgye is the

(10:18):
actual hero. I'll take everything back to this. I loved Tolkien.
I love it. He's the real hero of the story.
And you got the worst actor playing him. I mean,
everybody else had to lift him up in every role.
And if it wasn't for the amazing dialogue, thank you
to Tolkien. If it wasn't for the amazing dialogue, he
had fallen on his face even faster. But anyway, he
was a jerk about it. He went he went off

(10:39):
on me and then he blocked me, and I was like,
you're such a jerk. I don't I just don't have
the ability to suspend my disbelief when I see you
now now, when I see you in a role, even
if Lord of the Rings is on TV, I just
I look at you in that light again, and I
wish that you fall into the in the pits and mortar.
I want you to fall into the lava. I want
an org to eat you up. I want I want

(10:59):
all those things to happen. I want Colin to behead you.
That's what I want now, Like you know what I mean?
I can't uh when they're that mean, Like Ron Pearlman.
I haven't blocked him. He follows me, and he follows
me just to have a fit all the damn time.
Ron Pearlman just has a minstrel tantrum all the time.
Every at least once a week at me. He gets
mad and he was in a hell Boy. Now I

(11:20):
can't watch hell Boy. I can't do it. I can't.
Every time I see him, I'm like, oh my gosh,
this guy him. You know what I mean. Just don't
be a jerk about it. It's not hard, you know,
Just don't be a jerk. I don't know. Steve made
a comment to me. I want to go back to
this because I think this is when I was talking

(11:40):
about the nugget ring. Steve, can I read this on
what you put in slack?

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, I'll explain it when you read.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
It, Okay, Steve goes. I used to wear rings until
people thought I was a cheater.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
What and I had one experience. So my best friend
makes like coin rings. That's his hobby. He takes like
old quarters and makes rings out of them that look real.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
It's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
But then after a while I used to wear them
on my left hand and then my right hand and
change fingers, and every time people in public, especially women,
thought I was taking it off my ring finger, that
I was cheating. And then my sister told me that
as like a things like, just don't wear any rings,
and I was.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Like okay, and drew as stine. I don't think dude
should be wearing rings either, really unless you're unless it's
like your college ring maybe, or you're like in the
super Bowl, or you were like my uncle Junior. That
literally was what we called him. I don't know his name.
I have a cousin that we called too tall too,
So just don't ask me this Southern is or anything.
I don't even know that's normal that people have cousins
called too tall, right anyway, Uncle Junior, and he wore

(12:39):
I wrote about him in one of my books. He
wore brown polyester leisure leisure suits. Never saw him in
anything but a leisure suit. I think even warmed to
the river a cabridge and he was in the church choir,
and he wore a gold nugget pinky ring and he
had them gold aviators on. He had them gold Aviator
reading glasses and them gold Aviator sunglasses. And I swear

(13:01):
when he walked it was that Ram Jams Black Betty
to the beat, like just like on que And I
wrote my book how his wife would play the church
organ like within an inch of sand, and U that's
who I mean. That's acceptable. If you're gonna wear a
ring like that and you're like that your uncle junior,
you know, like you're in your late sixties seventies, it
is acceptable then. But unless I think it's like a

(13:23):
college ring, you know, or your super Bowl what are
you doing? Or your wedding ring? What are you doing?
Those are the only three acceptable rings? Those are the
only three. Or if you're like Elton John, you know,
I would be weird if he didn't have rings on.
It's weird. It's Elton John, right, he's like the male
original Lady Gaga, Like, what are you doing anyway?

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Should I put a pull up?

Speaker 3 (13:45):
What was that?

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Should I put a pull up on? X? See if
people think said.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
No, because they'll be wrong answers And I don't want
to entertain that, not in that mood on that. It's
like I would never put up as green day acceptable
to listen to. There's there's will be wrong answers, and
I just cannot. We can't have that today. So no,
there's that's the order that come down comes down from
on high. So those are the only three rings that
your sister was telling you, right, she did she did

(14:10):
you one solid. Where was this going? Oh, we're talking
about celebrities and endorsing people. I don't know. I just
think that if you're at the point where you don't
know what you're gonna do with your life unless the
celebrity tells you you need an intervention and a brain maybe,
I don't know. Just can't with this. This is so crazy,

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Speaker 2 (15:24):
You, And now all of the news you would probably miss.
It's time for Dana's Quick five.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
So Monday is the one year observance of the Tarr
attack on Israel October seventh, which you still have American
hostages also that are gone. DHS of course is warning
of risks around October seventh. Of course they are, and
they're also trying to say that, oh, it's a new
report and you know these probably maybe have like some
risks around you know election and stuff too, well, then
stop it. Make it stop without making it harder for

(15:53):
everybody to vote or easier for people who have no
idea to vote. There you go. I would want to
do something like this, Okay, I want to do the
full body scan, and Chris is like, I am absolutely
not going to do it. I like to know absolutely
everything and get in there, as you guys know, because
I'm crazy about health. But now I think I'm gonna
do this too. It's a simple cheek swab that could
accurately predict how long you live. Do you want to

(16:15):
know how long you live?

Speaker 5 (16:15):
Like?

Speaker 3 (16:15):
If you that's one thing I would say, Like if
someone was like I can tell you exactly how long
you live, I don't know that I would want to
know that.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
I think I would, because then I'd find a way
to manipulate it to make it much true.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
You just said you would become a biohacker. Did I
say those words?

Speaker 4 (16:34):
You did?

Speaker 3 (16:35):
That's exactly what that means. Just like you don't like
old people, Now you're going to be a biohacker. What
in the world. Oh, it's called cheek age. That sounds bad.
That's it. That's their product. Would you would you like
some cheek agem? No, thank you? Like what's that? I
don't even know? But they said that it assessed health
risks and they developed anti aging interventions. I would want to.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
I want to.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
I would do a body scan to find out, like
anything that was wrong with me, and I would totally
do that. But if they were like, by the way,
we can tell you exactly how long you live, I
want to be. I don't think I've been. I'm not
into that. I don't want to know. I just I
want there to be some unknown you know what I mean.
I don't know. My husband doesn't want to know anything.
I don't get those people. I don't understand that a
man was accused of sneaking a shotgun shell filled with

(17:22):
meth into the Philly Airport. I mean, you can't take
anything that's bullet shaped in there. I got so much
trouble from TSA for a pin that was in a
shotgun shell that I took all Sorry, guys, I'm so sorry.
I took all my tampons out of the box and
I was like, oh, these are all bullet shaped too.
Let me know if you want to confiscate any one
of those because I was doing with it anyway. A

(17:43):
man from Columbia County, Pennsylvania got arrested at Philly Airport.
He put meth because he thought that would make it through. No,
it's not gunpowder, it's not primary, it's not uh, it's
not shelves, it's not a buckshot, it's not bird shot.
It's just meth. So there's nothing in there. It's just
the meth. He actually thought that that would work. Surprised

(18:06):
they caught it and it didn't work. Stay with us,
we got more. Welcome back to the program, Dana lash
with you. At the bottom of this third hour. We're
gonna get into some of the latest with FEMA and
of course the election and everything else. I gotta ask
you though. First up, have you guys watched that documentary.
It's like from the people who did Lione. I almost
said Lion King, Tiger King, and it's called Chimp Crazy. No, okay, yeah,

(18:33):
so Cain, we're both from Missouri. Well you're in Illinois,
you're like MAJORI no, I got actually was.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Born in Missouri, lived there for most of my life.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
But yeah, okay, yeah, so this I was watching this,
well I was watching this. There's this this thing because
I read one of my I was actually my hairstylist
was telling me about it. She was like, have you
seen him? Crazy? Oh my gosh, and going on and

(19:00):
on and I was like, what, No, I haven't seen it.
And then I realized on Facebook all the people who
lived in because we still have a lot of familyin Festus.
Everyone was like, Festus is finally on the map, and
you know, everybody's going on on it. And I realized,
oh my gosh, this is set in the town where
I was born, where a lot of our families still live.
And I'm like, what in the world, And it has

(19:22):
to do with this. They turned it into what like
was like a foundation for chimps, but it was people
who were like, you know, they were an animal broker,
exotic animal brokers, and Peter got involved and I was
reading over this and it hit my mind. Now I've
told you guys this story before, but I've never had
to tell it like this because it is related to this.

(19:46):
So when I was a little bitty kid, we lived
in a little town not far from Festus. It was
like a mile out called Hematite, very tiny, little bitty rural,
very rural area, and up the Hauller up the hill.
We're a very nice older couple to me. They were elderly,
but when you're like four years old, you know, five

(20:07):
years old. Anybody who's over fifty looks elderly, right. And
they had grown kids. Their kids were grown, and one
of their kids married into this family that dealt with
exotic animals, right, And my mom had to work, and
there for like a period of a week one summer,
this elderly couple baby sat me and they had a
beautiful property. It was like all this sprawling farmland and

(20:30):
this old farmhouse and they had a pond. It was beautiful.
It was one of those beautiful places. And that week
I was going to go up there and they were
going to babysit me while my mom worked, because the
person who would normally help couldn't. And it just happened
at that time that this elderly couple, Remember I told
you one of their kids married into this family that
dealt with exotic animals. That there were their kid and

(20:53):
their spouse and I can't remember if it's the son
or daughter were going on vacation and they had chimps
and they treated them like kids, like they had beds,
they dressed them up. I think they had like two
and one of them was a boy, and it was
a it was a juvenile. It was very young and
it was still I mean, it was in a diaper,
but it was very young. Like the wife of the
old lady that walked down the hill had like picked

(21:15):
him up at one point. But you know, I was
a tiny five year old. I wore toddler clothes, so
we were kind of about the same size. So anyway,
she was like, well, she tells my mom that, well,
we're gonna be babysitting this chimp too, just you know, FYI,
let you know, just want you to be aware. And
my Mom's like okay. And I was real excited because
I'm like, oh my gosh, it's an actual monkey. I've

(21:36):
never been around championzee before since I mean, you would
said dude to like a little bit of kid's mind, right,
I'm like, oh my gosh, we're my red cowboy boots
and we are going to have fun. And you know
those little bugles chips, the little pointed chips that you
would put on your fingers, and you know, I packed
a little baggy for me and I packed a little
baggy for the chimp. Right, I was like, we are
going to be like best friends because they're so close

(21:57):
to being kind of like us, Like we're going to
be best friends. Anyway, go out that morning, meet them
at the edge of my driveway because she walks down
with this little chimp and he's little, he's in overalls,
and I was like, we're gonna be friends. So exciting,
And I gave the I can't remember its name. I
gave the monkey the chimp a bag of bugles, and

(22:17):
I thought it would be normal, like it opened them up.
I didn't expect it to verbalize like thank you, but
you know, I didn't expect for it to go and
then smash it and like throw it and then shove me.
And I was wearing my cowboys got mud on my
damn cowboy boots, and I was livid, like we are
already starting off on the wrong foot. Monkey, this is bad,
so go up to the And for all week it

(22:38):
was war. It was open war between me and this chimp.
It would pinch me, pinch me. It was so mean,
and it was like not like it was being I'm
gonna I'm experimenting with boundaries, like oh, I'm gonna hurt you.
It was like mean, and it would touch, like put
its hand in its diaper and then try to like
touch you with it. It was so gross, and I
would try to I have to lay down and take

(23:00):
a nap, and I remember it was like the telltale heart,
you know, at one point when the character of the
light of the door opens and there's a sliver on
the eye and I'm like laying there taking a nap
and I see this chimp. You know, don't don't, don't
come up, and it's like right there in the crack
of the door. I could go to sleep because I
didn't know if it's going to come and like pinch
me or do whatever. Well, one day I had had
it and this thing pinched me, and I hauled off
and I slapped that damn thing so hard with everything

(23:23):
that I had, I slapped it. It was the pimpest
slap of all pimp slaps. And I got in trouble
for it, and I was so mad. Well, anyway, I
never saw that monkey again, and I just it was
just one of those things that you file away, like
this is something weird that happened, you know. When I
was a kid, here's the thing. I slapped a chimp
is here it is And I got in trouble, and
I was mad because I got in trouble. It didn't

(23:45):
make me nervous until I got older and I realized,
oh my gosh, wow, if that had been like an
older chimp, that thing could have killed me. And I
didn't realize any potential danger. My mom was, you know,
not happy about it. Obviously. Well it comes out apparently
this is the family that that had the chimpanzees, not

(24:07):
the people that baby sat me, but apparently like they're
ki married into them or something. And I mean, I
don't know, I've never met you know, uh that what
is it, the Tanya Hattocks lady, and I never met,
uh what is their name, the Casey lady, But yeah,
they were They're like famous in our town. And I
texted my mom and I was like, so, what's up
with this? And my mom knew like the whole life story,

(24:29):
like yeah, everybody everybody knows Tanya. Everybody knows. I mean,
that's how it is like in those towns. You know,
everybody knows everybody. And I got like the full it was.
It was hysterical, but I could not believe that, and
I started watching it. So I started watching it, and
I watched the first episode last night, and man, I

(24:50):
don't know, it's weird, dude, I could not my my
perspective of them is forever tainted because of that experience.
But I just I don't know, Like I don't. I
don't want anything that can throw feces like liveing in
my house. You know what I'm saying, Like that can
that has that choice and makes it like, yeah, I
could crush, shouldn't, but I'm doing it, you know, Like

(25:10):
I don't want that in my house. I don't know.
I had to tell you guys this because I didn't
realize like Peta had been involved, and I didn't realize
Alan Cummings, the actor, had been involved. And I do
feel bad for them because I thought their enclosures were
a little bear and I do feel like those these
crazy people love them in their own way, so you're

(25:31):
almost torn in a way, but they deserve way better treatment.
And you guys know, I don't. I don't. I'm not
a big fan of that kind of captivity. But it's
very interesting. But yeah, I knew exactly where that was,
and my hairdresser was talking to me about this, and
she was like, so wait, you mean to tell me
that in Festus, Missouri, there's literally a store where you
can get chimpanzees on the side of the road. I'm like, yeah,
you can pretty much do anything, Missouri. Moonshine's in our constitution.

(25:52):
She's like, what, but Caine, it's true, right, you want fireworks,
you want liquor, moonshine and a chimp, go do it.
God bless America. Oh my gosh, Missouri is endearing. You know,
people don't know, those are the type of people that
you want. You've got a hurricane tearing up your area.

(26:14):
I'm just saying, those are the kind of people that
all of a sudden, Like talking about Hurricane Helene. There's
a guy who'sh we have a mutual friend and he's
on Facebook and I don't want to add him or anything,
but he goes, he's like, I have never He's like,
I'm from the city. He's like, my family, you know,
we moved out here in this rural area and I
was in high school. And he's like, I never really appreciated,
you know, all the redneck ingenuity. He's like, he goes,

(26:37):
I knew that these you know, they're good people and
they will give you the shirt off their back. He's like,
but I didn't realize all the implements they had when
something like this hits. And so he's like, my gosh,
like you got a landslide. There's like a landslide in
his area and they had flooding, and he was like,
all of a sudden, they got all this inflatable stuff
and they got all kinds of everything and cheap. I mean,

(26:59):
he's like, I didn't even read that they had all
of these all this equipment. And he's like, and if
they didn't have it, they literally made it. They just
like fabricated it together, like you know. Mcgeiver. And he
was in awe because he said they already had their
road cleaned up and they rescued a bunch of people
and then they went a couple hours south and he
was like telling everything his neighbors were doing. And he
was like he because I want to be a redneck now,

(27:20):
and he's like, the only thing I can do right
now is a girl mullet. I don't know what else
to do. He's like, but I'm gonna start there and
I'm gonna get a four wheeler and it was like
going on down the line. But think about it though.
Kane made this point too, when where was the thing
that you put And I read this it said things
that the people who were talking about what helped them
survive the hurricane, And it wasn't electric cars, and it

(27:41):
wasn't their electric appliances, and it wasn't Apple pay, and
it wasn't you know, their DEI. It wasn't DEI. It
was gas machinery, gas gas, gas cash. That's what it was.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
That's what runs the chainsaws. Also, you can.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Cook your food. They're like, we wouldn't be able to
cook our food if we didn't have gas stoves. Electric stoves.
I'm gonna sell it my granny for a minute. They're
of the devil. Electric stoves is are of the devil.
They are They're horrible. They're horrible electric stoves. I will
literally like negotiate. I actually negotiated with purchasing houses. I
was like, if this is an electric stove, I need

(28:21):
this off the purchase price because this is the stupidest
feature in the house. It's stupid. I've legit, walk right,
I'm not. I'm horrible with us gas stoves the only way.
Think about it, You wouldn't be able to eat. How
are you cooking your food? How you boiling your water?
You know, you sure build a fire off the bat
That's all right, But this makes it easier, especially if
it's raining, because it still was. Man, I tell you what,

(28:43):
but it's that ingenuity people coming and all these people
showed up for the government a week before the government,
a week before the government, and they just had this stuff.
They didn't have to go out and buy nothing. They're like, well,
I guess I'll go on the ship and get some water.
I mean, they had at all. Do you need help
delivering it? Nope, I'm just gonna put it up here
on the gator. Get it out there, says all done.

(29:08):
My gosh, that's America. God bless America. I tell you what.
Some of these other nations out there, they like give
us gruff for I don't know, like American culture. They
make fun of rule people and all this. But I'm
gonna tell you what. Those rule people the first people
everybody's reaching out to, because you know that they can survive.
They got everything. If they need to live off the land,

(29:28):
they can live off the land. They don't need all
this other stuff, and they show up. Even when you've
criticized them, they still show up, and that's what's so
good about them.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
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