December 20, 2024 • 22 mins
John Launius from Shihan Wellness joins us to brighten up the Christmas season with his Incense Journey, his experience with UFO’s, his efforts for returning veterans and more. The Dana Show reveals their Top 10 Fictional Band Names of 2024 and Things Dana Would Rather Do.
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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. It's time
for Florida man.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
All right. So, first and foremost, a Florida man uh
crashed into a ditch, blew three times a legal limit,
and then offered police just one hundred dollars to take
him home. I don't think that's how that works though.
And again it's Sheriff Grady Judd, some of them sheriffs
down there. I'm gonna tell you what. They have very
eventful weeks, you know what I mean. So apparently officers arrived,
(00:38):
they found a driver crashed into a ditch. Okay, breathalyzer
said that he was in enhanced dui territory. That's when
somebody gets caught with the blood alcohol content a point
one five or higher. And so you know, he crashed
a car in a ditch, you don't have any idea
where you are. So then the guy, I mean, he
gave officers, offered them one hundred dollars in cash to
(00:59):
just take him home. And they're like, you know, that's
another charge, right, you cannot bribe a cop. That's actually
like a criminal offense. So they ended up taking him.
He went to jail. He's in the pokey and he's
got a slew of charges against him. Thankfully no one
was killed, but my word, welcome back to the program,
(01:22):
Dania last year with you. At the bottom of this
third hour. You can listen coast to coast channel through
forty seven Direct TV. We're at Rumble, We're at X. Yes.
That was Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney, a song
apparently which half of you out there hate because I
get email every single time we play it, people who
are like, I love that song, and others who are like,
why do you play the worst song? It's not Christmas
(01:43):
until that song plays? So it's played, So welcome back,
all right. So we've been heavy into politics. This is
the last show of the year. We need to ease
it home down to Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Mivill.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
We gotta go down and like chill, get ready to
celebrate the birth of all the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Can I get it? Amen? Kane and Kane is burnt?
What do you got over there? Tell the folks what
you're doing because they can't see warming.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I'm simply warming frankincense.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
So this is what one of them Maji brought you.
We talk about this every year, and I'm fascinated because
I always tell my kids, Jesus only got three presents.
You ain't better than Jesus. You get three, it's all.
And I never never given him frankinsense, but you know,
I feel like maybe it should because that's an expensive gift.
That's one other thing I want to talk about. So
let's just get into it. Because our next guest, Kane,
(02:35):
You've known this gentleman for quite some time. You highly
recommend him.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I do.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yes. Our friend John Launius, who is in he's with
Sheehan Wellness and he also is the director of Community
Outreach for the Special Operations charity Network and they do
a lot of really great work and we have their
u r L. We'll put all that in the bottom.
So he's also like a potions mass and I've said
this before, but he legit is. I would I actually
(03:04):
advertise myself as that. And he works with the VA
to help veterans because this was a big fight in
Congress this year with PTSD and using incense and you know,
other things to help our veterans. Maybe a little bit
more non traditional or more traditional, whatever way you look
at it. But he now joins us via Skype. John
is so good to see you. Thank you for joining us.
(03:25):
Now set it straight for me, because if I were
to give my kids some frank concense, they would be like,
what is this? But that's actually a pretty bougie gift.
It was a bougie gift back in the day.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah, So franken sense actually is worth more than its
weight in gold because it was healing and it would
calm the mind, it would it would help the body
and healing. And so the fact that Jesus got the
gift of frankencense and gold represents a number of things.
Number one, it signifies Jesus as the king of kings.
And so when you give your kids frank concense, you
(03:56):
could basically be telling them that they're better than everybody
else if you want, if you want.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I don't know. They've been pretty they've been alright this year.
I mean, I got to think about it. So it's
like it's like the Louis Vutan of like incense, like
frankincense and murr am I I always wonder if I'm
saying that right, murr murrh.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's correct. Actually, there's nineteen different varieties
of frankincense. There's about seven different varieties of MRR and
so each one does a little bit different. So the
one of the ones that's considered the finest is bus
waally A soakra obviously from the Latin sacred. You've got Ferrera,
you've got Socotra, You've got a number of other ones.
But each one does a little bit different in how
(04:38):
it transforms the quality of our consciousness. And that is
exactly what you're tapping into about the VA and the
fact that people get PTSDs.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So the V is huge. Franks is huge with that,
I mean, because you can smell something and it takes
you somewhere.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah. Well, what it does is that it access to,
it accesses the Olympic system, and the Olympic system is
where we control our emotions and how we regulate and
our memories. And so when the VA talks about seven
percent of veterans will experience PTSD at some point in
their lives, and that number increases to twenty nine percent
for veterans of operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. We
(05:19):
actually use fragrance at the Special Operations Sharity Network as
part of the Find Your Tribe initiative to really have
people find themselves again before the trauma. And so the
easiest way to explain this is that imagine when you
smell your favorite flower or when you smell fresh bread,
how it relaxes you, how it recenters you. So we
(05:39):
are taking these programs as a part of the Find
Your Tribe initiative to empowering our heroes and their families
for lasting change.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
That's awesome. We're talking with our friend John Launius. I
always want to say his name and stress the different syllable,
but he's I mean, he's a friend of the show,
has been for quite some time. He's super knowledgeable about
all of this stuff. You can check out the Special
Operations Charity Network as well. We'll have the url down
there and we'll put it up on the video and
YouTube as well. Uh this because I have a lot
(06:09):
of friends who who were our combat veterans, and they
were lobbying in Congress to whether it was controlled psychedelic usages,
which no one's out there advocating Freddy to go and
drop acid, you know, and do all these drugs and that.
But there is there's a lot of studies that have
shown that for those those vets who really saw some
(06:30):
stuff and then had some trouble adjusting when they came back,
that that even things like this have all helped them
to reacclimate back into you know, civilian life. But I
don't understand why that's such a fight. Why are so
many people seemingly resistant to that. Is it just because
of you know, the stereotypes.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Well, I think it is that, but but it's also
that when when you talk about people going out and
doing a hero dose of psychedelics, it really does change
the chemistry. And so, for example, Mark Quinn, our director
of Programs nationwide, testified and supported this in Missouri. I
am not personally advocating for psychedelics. What I'm saying is
that if we are doing the research, and when we're
(07:14):
doing this in a controlled way, we can balance both
psychedelics and psychotropics. So, as a quick example, psychotropics can
be things like alcohol, it can be things like frankincense,
and basically all the different things in nature that actually
change the quality of our consciousness. And so you know,
(07:34):
balancing the two of these things and doing this under
very strict regulation I think is very interesting in that
I'm not for anybody just going out into the woods
and eating ten pounds of mushrooms. But what I am
interested in is is how can we use this to
again to return people back before the trauma. So some
(07:55):
of the work that we do in mindfulness and healthy
coping and mental well being, these are all part of
the programs that we do at the Special Operations Charity Network,
things like fishing programs, cycling programs, competitive shooting programs, and
so if we're looking holistically at how we're able to
return ourselves to a state of calmness and centeredness, this
(08:16):
is what we're doing for our veterans and for our
heroes that really have made a huge difference and have
seen things that most people never want to talk about
or even see ever.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Again, you just gave me a great segue. So speaking
of things that people have seen. So we've been talking
about drones for Caine, how long weeks now? And I
was really praying for aliens, John, really praying for aliens.
So Caine tells me, and I need to hear about
this story. Your grandfather was in World War two and
(08:46):
he saw some stuff orbs and things.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Yeah, So my grandfather was on the USS Forester and
they started in the north Ofklanding but then actually found
themselves in the South Pacific. And so I just wrote
a book called Love and Letters in World War Two,
which I'm looking for a publisher. But but one of
the chapters of the book wrote around the fact that
my grandfather had tons of handwritten notes on experiencing orbs
(09:14):
in the South Pacific during the war, and officially they
were allowed to document them, they were allowed to see them.
They would fly around the ship. It's exactly what we're
seeing today, exactly what we're seeing wild and they were
not allowed of fire on them unless they attack the ship.
Now this never happened. But here's what's interesting is that
(09:36):
we have seen this same phenomenon going back all the
way even to World War One and before now. Obviously
the further back we go, you know, the reports get
a little strange. But I wish my book was out
right now because he's describing things better than I think
anyone's able to describe them now, even with their cell
phone cameras.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Wow, that's and what's amazing to me is that you're
saying it's the exact same thing now as what they
saw in World War Two, and there are so many
accounts of that. That's so that that's almost like an
unchanging technology. It was so strange to us back that
we had no nowhere near that capability back in World
War Two. We still technically don't really know, especially for
(10:17):
some of the stuff that just goes from the from
the sky right to the sea. Uh, that's wild. That
to me, that's really hard to explain you back back then,
and you know when your grandfather was was in the military,
that you can't really say, oh, that's just our government.
We didn't have that. Cape Nook government had that capability
at the time right well.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
And also the fact that they were i mean they
were isolated there. I mean they're they're in the South Pacific,
like not near shore, and they're and they're seeing these things,
and they're documenting him and it's not just him. I
mean I've got notes from from from from his other shipmates,
and so it's just very interesting about what's happening in that.
Do we know what's going on? Do we not know
(10:54):
what's going on? Is this something that's been with us
for thousands of years. I mean, when you talk about
ancient aliens. You know, I know you love that. But
here's the question. You know, is this a phenomenon that's
that's been a part of Earth forever and we're now
just seeing it. Are these actual, you know, intelligences? So
(11:16):
who knows? But again I think what's important to take
from this is that is the fact that this isn't
a new phenomenon. This is something that goes back thousands
of years. And could it be engine aliens maybe, could
it be something else? Probably, who knows.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
They seem very courteous if there. If it is ancient
aliens and they're just staying out of our business, that's
a very courteous thing to do, right. It feels like
they're not malevolent in that way. Right.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Well, so what we've done is that we've we've taken
military psychedelics and orbs and put them all into a
thing around Christmas. So we've got the bright lights.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
We've got THI God bless America. I love it. Merry Christmas.
This is great. I have to say before I let
you go, John, I can smell the frankincense. I always
always think that incense is supposed to like it's gonna
smell hippyish. It semost like soap like. It smells like
somebody just took a nice bath. It's like a nice
powdery kind of yeah. It's like it's almost like a
perfume house, like nice powder par fum. That's what it
(12:13):
smells like, right, It's very nice.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
I mean, it's it's beautiful and and it totally calms you,
which which I which I believe connects you through to
the divine. And so speaking of divine, I've got a
free gift for any of your listeners who reaches out
to Sihan Wellness dot com and sends me a note. Also,
if you go to SPECOP Charity dot com, that's Specop
Charity dot com learn more about the Special Operations Charity
(12:37):
Network all of our programs, and we invite you to
donate and really be a part of our huge programs
in twenty twenty five because we're out to make a
huge positive difference for our veterans.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Love what it is that you all do, and we
got the Shihan Wellness right there as well. John, We
so appreciate you coming on and you're sharing your insight
with us every year. You do such a great job,
and I know and by the way, they're also on Twitter,
so it's it's at you on wellness on Twitter as well.
John Launias, always so good to see you, my friend.
God bless you. Merry Christmas to you, Thank you so
(13:07):
much for giving us some of your time today and
your expertise that's always so insightful.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Thank you, Dan, Merry Christmas, Mary, Christmas New Year.
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Now all of the news you would probably miss. It's
time for Dana's Quick five.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
All right, all right, so uh, First up, American Airlines.
An American Airlines plane flooded with water midflight, bewildering the travelers.
That would be kind of freaky, though, right, I gotta
say I'd be a little weirded out. It was International
Business Times. Apparently it started in the rear bathroom. That
sounds gross. Just gonna say it sounds a little nasty.
(14:52):
It started in the rare bathroom and then it flooded
the plane. It was during a flight from Dallas to Minneapolis.
Water stream down the aisle. That's toilet water, you know that, right,
It's pooh water. That's nasty. They said the inflight movie
was Titanic. They were joking, so they ended up having
to land. Apparently there was another flight from Dallas to
(15:13):
Madrid in August where they had an overflowing bathroom and
they had to land. What is with the stuff coming
out of out of doubt? I mean, I know it's
a hubbit. My gosh, I'm a little nervous. Well, a
likable lollipop invention lets you taste in virtual reality. This
looks gross. It's like a VR experience and you can
(15:36):
taste in virtual environments. The interface simulates up to nine
flavors and can be combined with smells to make the
sensation of taste feel life like or now hear me out,
you could just like eat a sucker. I don't want to.
This is people are trying so hard to recreate real
experiences in the digital when you could just have a
(15:59):
real experience, you know, I wouldn't. That's I don't get
that sidebar. I hate doing things like in games that
are like That's why I hate fall Out. I hate
fall Out, Sorry, I do, because you have to do
like basic day to day things. I have to eat,
I have to like do laundry. You don't have to
do laundry. We have to do like basic chores. I
don't want to do basic chores in games, right, I
don't want to do that. That's why I hate this stuff.
(16:22):
Cows fell out of a trailer on a turnpike. Oh
are they okay? They were okay, they were just they
went to the ditch and started eating grass and straw,
so they were okay. A seven foot tall twenty twenty
five numerals. Those arrived in Times Square ahead of New
Year's Eve. I don't know who would go to Times
Square for New Year's Eve. I don't like massive crowds.
I don't like like screaming and all the drunk people.
(16:44):
I could not even imagine being there with the overload
from the lights, like a sensory overload, and then it
all sunds like pissing pretzels anyway up there, I and gas.
I just I couldn't. I couldn't do it. That's just
like way too much, man, way too much. And let's
see last but not lee Still I think I ran
a annoid it annoy didn't I go one more? The
Stranger Things final season finally finished filming. They're all grown
(17:10):
up now, basically, right, I don't know what I think
about it. No, I mean I liked them as little kids.
As long as they can keep that kitch feeling, I
think it'll be cool. I wish that the people listening
to the simul are watching the simulcast. We're playing that
this Christmas by Donnie Hathaway, which is the other great
Christmas song, you know. I mean, you get the bells
in there, you get that beat in there. Welcome back,
(17:32):
all right, last show of the year. So we have
a tradition and what we do. We always come up
with band names every year, as you know, just random,
different everyday things that you know stick out to us
and we're like, you know, that actually would be a
great band name. And this year's list is pretty exceptional.
I gotta say so, Caine. First, we had two things
(17:54):
for you. First, I'm gonna hand it over to you
top ten fictional band names.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
That is correct, and then we will go to Steve
has compiled this, because I think it was Steve that
really drove this, to be honest with you, because you
you often are not happy with how things are, and
you would then tell us what you would rather do
instead of those things. So that's going to be an
interesting list which is going to come up after this. Right,
of course, we do have the drum rolls, don't we stay?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
A real one?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Got a real one? Oh wow? All right? Cut ten?
Number ten of these, by the way. Top ten fictional
band names mentioned on The Dana Show inadvertently in twenty
twenty four. Suicide Suicide Pop.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I can shaccess song, Suicide Pup.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I'd go see him. Dirty Burglar.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
That sounds dirty Burglar.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Number eight hill Billy Hessians.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I love that one.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Hill Billy Hessians. I could just imagine seeing these people
on stage.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
It's like a bluegrass cover of German songs. Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Number seven, Hippo Permission, Hippo Permission.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Number six Murder Puppies.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I love it. It's like it's like, uh, meat Puppets,
but with a murder exactly puppies.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Murder Puppies. Number five Alpha Brat.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
That's so good, Alpha Brat. It's like an electro.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
A new generation.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Number four Gasoline and a Mu.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
It's like a Kentucky Headhunter cover band.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Let's lead. It could have been a song, but a
great band. Number three junk Yard Gators.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Sure remember that story entered cover band who we.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Had about Florida. Oh yeah, Number two aggressive baptism.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Ooh, that's like a prog him.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Of aggressive baptism. And number one. The top ten fictional
band names of The Dana Show in the year twenty
twenty four is Space Murder.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
There is Space Murder, and there it is Ladies and
Jena put all those names for keeping track of all
of this.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
We're mentioned on The Dana Show during the live broadcast
in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Okay, Steve, real quick because we got to run out
of time explain what this is. Don't get all right?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
So we try to suggest things as producers on the
show for us to bring upper cuts to run, and
sometimes Dana doesn't want to do it and she would
rather do these things instead, So we'll run this real quick.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Uh things Dan would rather do?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Number ten talk about how Space Marines is a three
player co op. Uh number nine. Feed myself into a
wood chipper that's number nine. Uh number eight, drag down
a gravel road that's number eight. Number seven, where's someone
else's crocs instead of her own?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Number six? Shot shot out of a cannon into space?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Uh? Oh man.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Top ten have crappy gas station, sushi. Number four, have
someone sell her meth. Number three, choke to death on
the husks of dead cicadas.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Number two talk about video games and anime and grilling
meat and the number and the number one things you
would rather do gouge your eyes at with flu ridden toothpicks.
So there we go.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
The things you actually said, by the way you said
all things.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I believe that.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Thank you all.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
We're very passionate here in their program.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Your mouth, those were your words, Yeah, those are Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I remember the husks of dead cicadas because I think
you almost actually barfed over there. Yeah, you almost spewed. Man.
It was rough, all right, real quick. With the time
we have left, I want to thank you guys for
supporting us throughout this year. I mean, we we love
hanging out with you. We do it because we love
what we do, but we also love just talking with
all of you guys every single day, and so I
so appreciate your fellowship, and I appreciate your trust, and
(21:28):
I appreciate your company every single day. We're grateful for you,
for one, for Cain, for Steve, for everybody that's associated
with the show as well. Radio America the first. We're
grateful for you all. Thank you guys for making the
show such a success, and we've got a lot of
stuff coming up for you in the new year. Also,
big thanks to Lorraine for the chat and everything else
everybody associated with the show. God love you, Merry Christmas,
(21:52):
have a happy new Year. I'm going to be back
behind the mic with you come January sixth. Yes, God
bless guys.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time
for Florida man.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
All right. So, first and foremost, a Florida man uh
crashed into a ditch, blew three times a legal limit,
and then offered police just one hundred dollars to take
him home. I don't think that's how that works though.
And again it's Sheriff Grady Judd, some of them sheriffs
down there. I'm gonna tell you what. They have very
eventful weeks, you know what I mean. So apparently officers arrived,
(00:38):
they found a driver crashed into a ditch. Okay, breathalyzer
said that he was in enhanced dui territory. That's when
somebody gets caught with the blood alcohol content a point
one five or higher. And so you know, he crashed
a car in a ditch, you don't have any idea
where you are. So then the guy, I mean, he
gave officers, offered them one hundred dollars in cash to
(00:59):
just take him home. And they're like, you know, that's
another charge, right, you cannot bribe a cop. That's actually
like a criminal offense. So they ended up taking him.
He went to jail. He's in the pokey and he's
got a slew of charges against him. Thankfully no one
was killed, but my word, welcome back to the program,
(01:22):
Dania last year with you. At the bottom of this
third hour. You can listen coast to coast channel through
forty seven Direct TV. We're at Rumble, We're at X. Yes.
That was Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney, a song
apparently which half of you out there hate because I
get email every single time we play it, people who
are like, I love that song, and others who are like,
why do you play the worst song? It's not Christmas
(01:43):
until that song plays? So it's played, So welcome back,
all right. So we've been heavy into politics. This is
the last show of the year. We need to ease
it home down to Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Mivill.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
We gotta go down and like chill, get ready to
celebrate the birth of all the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Can I get it? Amen? Kane and Kane is burnt?
What do you got over there? Tell the folks what
you're doing because they can't see warming.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I'm simply warming frankincense.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
So this is what one of them Maji brought you.
We talk about this every year, and I'm fascinated because
I always tell my kids, Jesus only got three presents.
You ain't better than Jesus. You get three, it's all.
And I never never given him frankinsense, but you know,
I feel like maybe it should because that's an expensive gift.
That's one other thing I want to talk about. So
let's just get into it. Because our next guest, Kane,
(02:35):
You've known this gentleman for quite some time. You highly
recommend him.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I do.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yes. Our friend John Launius, who is in he's with
Sheehan Wellness and he also is the director of Community
Outreach for the Special Operations charity Network and they do
a lot of really great work and we have their
u r L. We'll put all that in the bottom.
So he's also like a potions mass and I've said
this before, but he legit is. I would I actually
(03:04):
advertise myself as that. And he works with the VA
to help veterans because this was a big fight in
Congress this year with PTSD and using incense and you know,
other things to help our veterans. Maybe a little bit
more non traditional or more traditional, whatever way you look
at it. But he now joins us via Skype. John
is so good to see you. Thank you for joining us.
(03:25):
Now set it straight for me, because if I were
to give my kids some frank concense, they would be like,
what is this? But that's actually a pretty bougie gift.
It was a bougie gift back in the day.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah, So franken sense actually is worth more than its
weight in gold because it was healing and it would
calm the mind, it would it would help the body
and healing. And so the fact that Jesus got the
gift of frankencense and gold represents a number of things.
Number one, it signifies Jesus as the king of kings.
And so when you give your kids frank concense, you
(03:56):
could basically be telling them that they're better than everybody
else if you want, if you want.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I don't know. They've been pretty they've been alright this year.
I mean, I got to think about it. So it's
like it's like the Louis Vutan of like incense, like
frankincense and murr am I I always wonder if I'm
saying that right, murr murrh.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's correct. Actually, there's nineteen different varieties
of frankincense. There's about seven different varieties of MRR and
so each one does a little bit different. So the
one of the ones that's considered the finest is bus
waally A soakra obviously from the Latin sacred. You've got Ferrera,
you've got Socotra, You've got a number of other ones.
But each one does a little bit different in how
(04:38):
it transforms the quality of our consciousness. And that is
exactly what you're tapping into about the VA and the
fact that people get PTSDs.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So the V is huge. Franks is huge with that,
I mean, because you can smell something and it takes
you somewhere.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah. Well, what it does is that it access to,
it accesses the Olympic system, and the Olympic system is
where we control our emotions and how we regulate and
our memories. And so when the VA talks about seven
percent of veterans will experience PTSD at some point in
their lives, and that number increases to twenty nine percent
for veterans of operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. We
(05:19):
actually use fragrance at the Special Operations Sharity Network as
part of the Find Your Tribe initiative to really have
people find themselves again before the trauma. And so the
easiest way to explain this is that imagine when you
smell your favorite flower or when you smell fresh bread,
how it relaxes you, how it recenters you. So we
(05:39):
are taking these programs as a part of the Find
Your Tribe initiative to empowering our heroes and their families
for lasting change.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
That's awesome. We're talking with our friend John Launius. I
always want to say his name and stress the different syllable,
but he's I mean, he's a friend of the show,
has been for quite some time. He's super knowledgeable about
all of this stuff. You can check out the Special
Operations Charity Network as well. We'll have the url down
there and we'll put it up on the video and
YouTube as well. Uh this because I have a lot
(06:09):
of friends who who were our combat veterans, and they
were lobbying in Congress to whether it was controlled psychedelic usages,
which no one's out there advocating Freddy to go and
drop acid, you know, and do all these drugs and that.
But there is there's a lot of studies that have
shown that for those those vets who really saw some
(06:30):
stuff and then had some trouble adjusting when they came back,
that that even things like this have all helped them
to reacclimate back into you know, civilian life. But I
don't understand why that's such a fight. Why are so
many people seemingly resistant to that. Is it just because
of you know, the stereotypes.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Well, I think it is that, but but it's also
that when when you talk about people going out and
doing a hero dose of psychedelics, it really does change
the chemistry. And so, for example, Mark Quinn, our director
of Programs nationwide, testified and supported this in Missouri. I
am not personally advocating for psychedelics. What I'm saying is
that if we are doing the research, and when we're
(07:14):
doing this in a controlled way, we can balance both
psychedelics and psychotropics. So, as a quick example, psychotropics can
be things like alcohol, it can be things like frankincense,
and basically all the different things in nature that actually
change the quality of our consciousness. And so you know,
(07:34):
balancing the two of these things and doing this under
very strict regulation I think is very interesting in that
I'm not for anybody just going out into the woods
and eating ten pounds of mushrooms. But what I am
interested in is is how can we use this to
again to return people back before the trauma. So some
(07:55):
of the work that we do in mindfulness and healthy
coping and mental well being, these are all part of
the programs that we do at the Special Operations Charity Network,
things like fishing programs, cycling programs, competitive shooting programs, and
so if we're looking holistically at how we're able to
return ourselves to a state of calmness and centeredness, this
(08:16):
is what we're doing for our veterans and for our
heroes that really have made a huge difference and have
seen things that most people never want to talk about
or even see ever.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Again, you just gave me a great segue. So speaking
of things that people have seen. So we've been talking
about drones for Caine, how long weeks now? And I
was really praying for aliens, John, really praying for aliens.
So Caine tells me, and I need to hear about
this story. Your grandfather was in World War two and
(08:46):
he saw some stuff orbs and things.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Yeah, So my grandfather was on the USS Forester and
they started in the north Ofklanding but then actually found
themselves in the South Pacific. And so I just wrote
a book called Love and Letters in World War Two,
which I'm looking for a publisher. But but one of
the chapters of the book wrote around the fact that
my grandfather had tons of handwritten notes on experiencing orbs
(09:14):
in the South Pacific during the war, and officially they
were allowed to document them, they were allowed to see them.
They would fly around the ship. It's exactly what we're
seeing today, exactly what we're seeing wild and they were
not allowed of fire on them unless they attack the ship.
Now this never happened. But here's what's interesting is that
(09:36):
we have seen this same phenomenon going back all the
way even to World War One and before now. Obviously
the further back we go, you know, the reports get
a little strange. But I wish my book was out
right now because he's describing things better than I think
anyone's able to describe them now, even with their cell
phone cameras.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Wow, that's and what's amazing to me is that you're
saying it's the exact same thing now as what they
saw in World War Two, and there are so many
accounts of that. That's so that that's almost like an
unchanging technology. It was so strange to us back that
we had no nowhere near that capability back in World
War Two. We still technically don't really know, especially for
(10:17):
some of the stuff that just goes from the from
the sky right to the sea. Uh, that's wild. That
to me, that's really hard to explain you back back then,
and you know when your grandfather was was in the military,
that you can't really say, oh, that's just our government.
We didn't have that. Cape Nook government had that capability
at the time right well.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
And also the fact that they were i mean they
were isolated there. I mean they're they're in the South Pacific,
like not near shore, and they're and they're seeing these things,
and they're documenting him and it's not just him. I
mean I've got notes from from from from his other shipmates,
and so it's just very interesting about what's happening in that.
Do we know what's going on? Do we not know
(10:54):
what's going on? Is this something that's been with us
for thousands of years. I mean, when you talk about
ancient aliens. You know, I know you love that. But
here's the question. You know, is this a phenomenon that's
that's been a part of Earth forever and we're now
just seeing it. Are these actual, you know, intelligences? So
(11:16):
who knows? But again I think what's important to take
from this is that is the fact that this isn't
a new phenomenon. This is something that goes back thousands
of years. And could it be engine aliens maybe, could
it be something else? Probably, who knows.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
They seem very courteous if there. If it is ancient
aliens and they're just staying out of our business, that's
a very courteous thing to do, right. It feels like
they're not malevolent in that way. Right.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Well, so what we've done is that we've we've taken
military psychedelics and orbs and put them all into a
thing around Christmas. So we've got the bright lights.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
We've got THI God bless America. I love it. Merry Christmas.
This is great. I have to say before I let
you go, John, I can smell the frankincense. I always
always think that incense is supposed to like it's gonna
smell hippyish. It semost like soap like. It smells like
somebody just took a nice bath. It's like a nice
powdery kind of yeah. It's like it's almost like a
perfume house, like nice powder par fum. That's what it
(12:13):
smells like, right, It's very nice.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
I mean, it's it's beautiful and and it totally calms you,
which which I which I believe connects you through to
the divine. And so speaking of divine, I've got a
free gift for any of your listeners who reaches out
to Sihan Wellness dot com and sends me a note. Also,
if you go to SPECOP Charity dot com, that's Specop
Charity dot com learn more about the Special Operations Charity
(12:37):
Network all of our programs, and we invite you to
donate and really be a part of our huge programs
in twenty twenty five because we're out to make a
huge positive difference for our veterans.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Love what it is that you all do, and we
got the Shihan Wellness right there as well. John, We
so appreciate you coming on and you're sharing your insight
with us every year. You do such a great job,
and I know and by the way, they're also on Twitter,
so it's it's at you on wellness on Twitter as well.
John Launias, always so good to see you, my friend.
God bless you. Merry Christmas to you, Thank you so
(13:07):
much for giving us some of your time today and
your expertise that's always so insightful.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Thank you, Dan, Merry Christmas, Mary, Christmas New Year.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
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Speaker 2 (14:24):
Now all of the news you would probably miss. It's
time for Dana's Quick five.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
All right, all right, so uh, First up, American Airlines.
An American Airlines plane flooded with water midflight, bewildering the travelers.
That would be kind of freaky, though, right, I gotta
say I'd be a little weirded out. It was International
Business Times. Apparently it started in the rear bathroom. That
sounds gross. Just gonna say it sounds a little nasty.
(14:52):
It started in the rare bathroom and then it flooded
the plane. It was during a flight from Dallas to Minneapolis.
Water stream down the aisle. That's toilet water, you know that, right,
It's pooh water. That's nasty. They said the inflight movie
was Titanic. They were joking, so they ended up having
to land. Apparently there was another flight from Dallas to
(15:13):
Madrid in August where they had an overflowing bathroom and
they had to land. What is with the stuff coming
out of out of doubt? I mean, I know it's
a hubbit. My gosh, I'm a little nervous. Well, a
likable lollipop invention lets you taste in virtual reality. This
looks gross. It's like a VR experience and you can
(15:36):
taste in virtual environments. The interface simulates up to nine
flavors and can be combined with smells to make the
sensation of taste feel life like or now hear me out,
you could just like eat a sucker. I don't want to.
This is people are trying so hard to recreate real
experiences in the digital when you could just have a
(15:59):
real experience, you know, I wouldn't. That's I don't get
that sidebar. I hate doing things like in games that
are like That's why I hate fall Out. I hate
fall Out, Sorry, I do, because you have to do
like basic day to day things. I have to eat,
I have to like do laundry. You don't have to
do laundry. We have to do like basic chores. I
don't want to do basic chores in games, right, I
don't want to do that. That's why I hate this stuff.
(16:22):
Cows fell out of a trailer on a turnpike. Oh
are they okay? They were okay, they were just they
went to the ditch and started eating grass and straw,
so they were okay. A seven foot tall twenty twenty
five numerals. Those arrived in Times Square ahead of New
Year's Eve. I don't know who would go to Times
Square for New Year's Eve. I don't like massive crowds.
I don't like like screaming and all the drunk people.
(16:44):
I could not even imagine being there with the overload
from the lights, like a sensory overload, and then it
all sunds like pissing pretzels anyway up there, I and gas.
I just I couldn't. I couldn't do it. That's just
like way too much, man, way too much. And let's
see last but not lee Still I think I ran
a annoid it annoy didn't I go one more? The
Stranger Things final season finally finished filming. They're all grown
(17:10):
up now, basically, right, I don't know what I think
about it. No, I mean I liked them as little kids.
As long as they can keep that kitch feeling, I
think it'll be cool. I wish that the people listening
to the simul are watching the simulcast. We're playing that
this Christmas by Donnie Hathaway, which is the other great
Christmas song, you know. I mean, you get the bells
in there, you get that beat in there. Welcome back,
(17:32):
all right, last show of the year. So we have
a tradition and what we do. We always come up
with band names every year, as you know, just random,
different everyday things that you know stick out to us
and we're like, you know, that actually would be a
great band name. And this year's list is pretty exceptional.
I gotta say so, Caine. First, we had two things
(17:54):
for you. First, I'm gonna hand it over to you
top ten fictional band names.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
That is correct, and then we will go to Steve
has compiled this, because I think it was Steve that
really drove this, to be honest with you, because you
you often are not happy with how things are, and
you would then tell us what you would rather do
instead of those things. So that's going to be an
interesting list which is going to come up after this. Right,
of course, we do have the drum rolls, don't we stay?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
A real one?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Got a real one? Oh wow? All right? Cut ten?
Number ten of these, by the way. Top ten fictional
band names mentioned on The Dana Show inadvertently in twenty
twenty four. Suicide Suicide Pop.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I can shaccess song, Suicide Pup.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I'd go see him. Dirty Burglar.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
That sounds dirty Burglar.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Number eight hill Billy Hessians.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I love that one.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Hill Billy Hessians. I could just imagine seeing these people
on stage.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
It's like a bluegrass cover of German songs. Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Number seven, Hippo Permission, Hippo Permission.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Number six Murder Puppies.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I love it. It's like it's like, uh, meat Puppets,
but with a murder exactly puppies.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Murder Puppies. Number five Alpha Brat.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
That's so good, Alpha Brat. It's like an electro.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
A new generation.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Number four Gasoline and a Mu.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
It's like a Kentucky Headhunter cover band.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Let's lead. It could have been a song, but a
great band. Number three junk Yard Gators.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Sure remember that story entered cover band who we.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Had about Florida. Oh yeah, Number two aggressive baptism.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Ooh, that's like a prog him.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Of aggressive baptism. And number one. The top ten fictional
band names of The Dana Show in the year twenty
twenty four is Space Murder.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
There is Space Murder, and there it is Ladies and
Jena put all those names for keeping track of all
of this.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
We're mentioned on The Dana Show during the live broadcast
in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Okay, Steve, real quick because we got to run out
of time explain what this is. Don't get all right?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
So we try to suggest things as producers on the
show for us to bring upper cuts to run, and
sometimes Dana doesn't want to do it and she would
rather do these things instead, So we'll run this real quick.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Uh things Dan would rather do?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Number ten talk about how Space Marines is a three
player co op. Uh number nine. Feed myself into a
wood chipper that's number nine. Uh number eight, drag down
a gravel road that's number eight. Number seven, where's someone
else's crocs instead of her own?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Number six? Shot shot out of a cannon into space?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Uh? Oh man.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Top ten have crappy gas station, sushi. Number four, have
someone sell her meth. Number three, choke to death on
the husks of dead cicadas.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Number two talk about video games and anime and grilling
meat and the number and the number one things you
would rather do gouge your eyes at with flu ridden toothpicks.
So there we go.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
The things you actually said, by the way you said
all things.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I believe that.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Thank you all.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
We're very passionate here in their program.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Your mouth, those were your words, Yeah, those are Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I remember the husks of dead cicadas because I think
you almost actually barfed over there. Yeah, you almost spewed. Man.
It was rough, all right, real quick. With the time
we have left, I want to thank you guys for
supporting us throughout this year. I mean, we we love
hanging out with you. We do it because we love
what we do, but we also love just talking with
all of you guys every single day, and so I
so appreciate your fellowship, and I appreciate your trust, and
(21:28):
I appreciate your company every single day. We're grateful for you,
for one, for Cain, for Steve, for everybody that's associated
with the show as well. Radio America the first. We're
grateful for you all. Thank you guys for making the
show such a success, and we've got a lot of
stuff coming up for you in the new year. Also,
big thanks to Lorraine for the chat and everything else
everybody associated with the show. God love you, Merry Christmas,
(21:52):
have a happy new Year. I'm going to be back
behind the mic with you come January sixth. Yes, God
bless guys.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Thanks for tis fitting into today's edition of Dana Lash's
Absurd Truth podcast. If you haven't already, made sure to
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