March 10, 2025 • 19 mins
Dana reacts to HBO’s new Harry Potter series features a DEI cast including Black actor Paapa Essiedu, as Professor Snape. Meanwhile, as Twitter/X goes down for millions of users Monday, Dana thinks the invention of the Internet has made people more hateful and absolutely stupid.
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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 1 (00:12):
It's time for Florida man.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
A Florida woman was attacked, well, she attacked a man
with a Pringles can, say deputies, that sounds.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Like a song.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Oh my goodness is in Florida, WFLA Florida woman was
accused of attacking a man with a can of Pringles.
Orange County Sheriff's Office. They got called at the seven
eleven for a reported fight and a man told deputies
that Shanika seart All hit him in the eyes with
a Pringle's Chip can and then she ran off. So
they said he had a significant cut on his right
(00:42):
eyebrow and it was he was actually bleeding. They did
find her. She did have a Pringles can in her possession,
and she was arrested and charged with aggravated battery. So
no hitty with Pringles, don't do that. Yeah, I'm sure
it was probably confidence. He's probably taken into evidence. I mean,
if they do all that, you know, I don't know.
A Florida woman murdered a roommate and then Port Mountain
(01:02):
do all of herself to prevent the police from getting
DNA that doesn't work that way. They did also find
a bloody knife and the cell phones and all this
other stuff. So yeah, that Florida woman's probably gonna spend
decades in prison and she wasn't able to actually hide
any of the evidence either. Lame the Have you guys
(01:23):
heard about this situation and we pulled this story up
while we have it. Have you guys heard about the
story regarding the Harry.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Potter casting, you guys heard about all those So.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I guess they are redoing I mean, I don't know
why they've got to redo this series or do anything
like this, but they're they're shooting this series.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
This is from Deadline Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
And then they have a thing with Forbes also right
up over at Forbes and I'll I think you have
some of this may have guns meant your prep last week.
So essentially, so it's an HBO series. It's the HBO's
upcoming Harry Potter series, and it features younger versions of
(02:18):
I guess like Harry Potter's parents and Snape and all
of this other stuff, right, and it gets into.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
The background of all of this.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
There's a lot of discussion as to the casting, because
they're saying that the casting is basically DEI And now
one of the headlines, for instance, this is GB and
they said Harry Potter fans fume at what they're calling
blackwashing as HBO is closing in on an actor to
(02:52):
play Snape. They're saying it's horrible casting. And this is
because I guess John Lithgo is playing Dumbledore, which if
that's true, that's a horrific casting. I liked I not
look I like him, but not as that character. So
apparently Snape is being played by a black actor.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Now.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I don't think in any you know, realm where you
don't talk about the physical attributes of a character and
that doesn't play into the character, I don't think it's important.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
But with this, it's it seems.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Odd to me. The actor, his name is Papa as
the Do. He's been cast as Suffers Snape in this series.
He was in Gangs of London. He's been in a
couple of things as well. I don't know why that
they would change the I mean again, it's like casting
(03:51):
a blonde haired, blue eyed person as a samurai.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
It's like if you're gonna it's like imagine you do.
Imagine you do a of real life casting of say
Samurai Chiamplue, and you have like all blonde, blue eyed,
white people that you have cast as the characters.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
It's just weird, you know what I mean. It's weird.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
It's like, it's like, uh, I don't understand the purpose
of it when you change the character that much. And
by the way, the guy that they have that they've cast,
he's kind of a cool looking dude, Snape is not
a cool looking dude. Snape has been described as a pale, sallow,
(04:36):
greasy haired, you know, blonde, black, stringy hair, pale eyed, pale, pale, pale,
sickly almost.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I mean, he's he's.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Characterizes a weak goth for the lack of a better
way to put it. And they cast this fit looking
black actor as Snape.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And I'm sorry, but it's not working.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
It is not working other than the fact that but
the character is very explicitly described in the series as
not black. But the guy doesn't look like a dork.
It's not gonna work for me, you know that. They
said should have played it, and I agree with this
casting proposal. Is Adam Driver. Adam Driver would have been
(05:19):
a great Snape. He would have been a really good Snape.
I am I wrong. I mean, can you see this guy?
You see this actor? He looks too cool and he's
again Snape is a pale, sickly, sallow, blonde or black,
stringy or blue eyed dude.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Apparently he got better.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
And he got fit.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Because he's described as none of those things. And the
book so I don't the whole thing is weird. I
just don't.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I don't. I the casting is dumb. This is just
bad casting.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So they said, apparently it's gonna get worse because the
casting is said, just get you know, they so they
cast this guy, and now everyone's saying the backlash is racist,
which I think is lazy.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
It's super super lazy.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
And I don't know, I I I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I don't think that that's gonna work.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
It's like again, it's like casting, oh, I don't know,
Kristin Chenow with as Mulan, right.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It's like it's like actually casting Kristin Chenow with as Mulan.
It makes the same amount of sense, you know what
I mean, It's just dumb. It's like you know, hiring.
I'm trying to think who's the guy who plays Thor
Chris Hemsworth and having him play Black Panther.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
It doesn't make any sense. Would you have Chris Emsworth
as Black Panther leader of Wakanda?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Would you? You know you wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
So why is this casting choice? Okay, at some point
the character description matter, and do you know why it
matters with this case? Because the whole death Eater lore
is kind of I mean it intimates that it's nazisque.
I mean it intimates they use words like mud bloods
and they talk about it. It's like very nineteen thirties,
(07:17):
the kind of stuff nineteen very much. So you rob
it of that, that that dark storyline, that fear by
ignoring the character's background, physical description. It was four point
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They think it could be a Noah's Dark which is
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Case of FAFO.
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(10:10):
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It's an issue of dictatorial control that eliminates access to food.
The book The Myth of World Hunger is fascinating right
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(10:31):
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Everyone freak out, you know, just every single week it's
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everyone's gonna die bird flu. Now they're saying us measles.
It's jump over a third. This is kind of the
same fear mongering that we saw with RONA. However, like
(10:56):
I've said, I don't think all vaccines are bad. I
just don't like experimental government injections that are really therapeutics,
and their their masks, their cost playing, their trans vaccines,
their trans scenes came. We just created something. Yeah, so
I just you know, I mean, used common sense. But
(11:17):
I don't believe that the government knows better than you.
I thought it was your body of your choice. Or
is that only when it has to do with not
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Okay? One of the Oh this is heartbreaking.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
One of the last US survivors of Pearl Harbor has
passed away at age.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
One hundred and two years old.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Jesse Hayfey and one of the last survivors of the
USS Oklahoma. He passed away March first in Alexandria at
Louisiana at age one hundred and two. It was only
one of two survivors of the Oklahoma known to be living.
According to the president of the California Chapter of Sons
and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors, by that same tally,
only fourteen who survived the nineteen forty one attack are
(11:53):
still alive. Fourteen fourteen. That's just I just want to
extend their lives as long as possible, because that's when
that generation, that greatest generation in those veterans. When they're gone,
you never obviously, you know, you never get them back.
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I really do believe that the Internet is the greatest
mistake that humanity ever perpetuated against itself.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
I'm not kidding.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I think it is the worst mistake. And I say
this as someone who actually leveraged.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
It to have the career that I have now.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
And I've definitely used it for a lot of good,
way more good than bad. Some bad, but more good
than the bad, very enjoyable bad, but way more good,
lots of the good. I fully recognize that I would
probably not be sitting here behind a mic, hanging out
with you on a Monday afternoon had I not have
the Internet.
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I try to argue with you about it.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
You did, and I'm like, no, no, no, I still
even knowing that, even being fully aware that that's my origin,
I still think that it's the greatest mistake that's ever
that human that humankind's ever perpetuated against itself.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
And then I said, what would what would make the
internet good for you?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
And I said take the people out?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
No people, that is the Internet.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
So you don't use Internet is bad?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Yeah, okay, yeah, Well I think you got to look
at what am I thinking of the sum total of it?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
You got to look at the sum total.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Think about how they I really feel like there are
more dumb or dumb people now than.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
There were that I agree with or or or.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Hear me out. It's just that with the Internet you
can see it more.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Actually, maybe that's it.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I mean, I know that there were dumb people back
in the day, whatever the day was, don't you?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
And I and I would imagine most of our audience
grew up without the internet. We know what life is
like without the Internet.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
And now and I got email in high school.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, see, but your chat rooms playing like Slayer like
the coat it in there and it.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Aw so it is so stupid, it's so cringe.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I we understand that life can go on without the Internet,
which is why we can recognize the Internet for what.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
It is, right all right, and it's why it aggravates us.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
We my, we were a weird.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Generation because we were like right in the middle of it.
We had a childhood free of it, but then when
we got to be teenagers, we had it.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
What was your first computer when you.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I IBM something, I don't know. It was secondhand something,
and I played a lot of games.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I had a friend that had a like homework. Yeah,
but we got like a VIC twenty and then the
come I.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Don't even know what, remember, I do remember that had
that Mine was so old and it was like a
great value version of whatever you just said. The cover
and I don't even know what it was, don't even know,
but it had a dot matrix printer and doss and
everything else.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
It was wild, wild, The screen was green.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
But I felt so fancy because it was mine, you know,
even though it was like fourth hand, I don't even care.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
It was mine.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
The first computer I used in school was a K
Pro and it looked like a suitcase.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Like there was like a K pop band.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
The handle was actually the bottom of the keyboard, and
the keyboard would attach to the face of.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
This like box.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Sound was like a kid boodle if.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
You would take the keyboard off, and then there would
be a tiny little green screen there with the floppy
discs right there.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
And I don't know floppy discs.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I would have been made.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I know what those are.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
They're like, what are these weird things? Remember the floppy
disc and the sleeves?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Yeah, gosh, those are the days.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
And then got into high school and the Apple started
being everywhere. And then when I got into college, it
was that the big thing in college was the different
colors of the Apple computers where you could get like
the orange and the blue and the green, and that
you could Yeah, that's we had some of those in
college and the newspaper staff. But yeah, So anyway, long
(17:30):
story short, Internet horrible, great, worst thing ever to happen
in humans. Horrible, horrible, so mean to us, and we're
mean to ourselves with it. But then I completely understand
that there's some great things, but I think into some
total I would forego the great to get over the bad.
And again I say this as somebody who knows I.
I'm sitting behind the mic because of the Internet, you know.
I mean that's how I got I had the Internet,
(17:53):
and we squatted literally in an old, beandoned building off
of Washington Avenue downtown Saint Louis and did like a
webzine it was, and then got started that. I mean,
that's seriously yeah, so long story short, you know, ignore
the squatting part that had nothing to do with the Internet.
But I just I look at this stuff because I
you know, King Jeffries puts this out, and there are
(18:14):
people who are like, well to Keem Jefferies, and their
reasoning is Keem Jefferis is a Democrat, and he's a
Democrat with influence in the Democrat Party, and he's elected,
so what he says must be true. It's like believe
by association. It's the weirdest thing. You're confirming your bias
just by association alone.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
I mean, I I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I The whole thing is, I still maintain that the
Internet is making everybody absolutely stupid. Okay, so a few
other things, and I think that's also extending to some
of the we're gonna have to do some house cleaning.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
We gotta do some house cleaning.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
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It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
It's time for Florida man.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
A Florida woman was attacked, well, she attacked a man
with a Pringles can, say deputies, that sounds.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Like a song.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Oh my goodness is in Florida, WFLA Florida woman was
accused of attacking a man with a can of Pringles.
Orange County Sheriff's Office. They got called at the seven
eleven for a reported fight and a man told deputies
that Shanika seart All hit him in the eyes with
a Pringle's Chip can and then she ran off. So
they said he had a significant cut on his right
(00:42):
eyebrow and it was he was actually bleeding. They did
find her. She did have a Pringles can in her possession,
and she was arrested and charged with aggravated battery. So
no hitty with Pringles, don't do that. Yeah, I'm sure
it was probably confidence. He's probably taken into evidence. I mean,
if they do all that, you know, I don't know.
A Florida woman murdered a roommate and then Port Mountain
(01:02):
do all of herself to prevent the police from getting
DNA that doesn't work that way. They did also find
a bloody knife and the cell phones and all this
other stuff. So yeah, that Florida woman's probably gonna spend
decades in prison and she wasn't able to actually hide
any of the evidence either. Lame the Have you guys
(01:23):
heard about this situation and we pulled this story up
while we have it. Have you guys heard about the
story regarding the Harry.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Potter casting, you guys heard about all those So.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I guess they are redoing I mean, I don't know
why they've got to redo this series or do anything
like this, but they're they're shooting this series.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
This is from Deadline Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
And then they have a thing with Forbes also right
up over at Forbes and I'll I think you have
some of this may have guns meant your prep last week.
So essentially, so it's an HBO series. It's the HBO's
upcoming Harry Potter series, and it features younger versions of
(02:18):
I guess like Harry Potter's parents and Snape and all
of this other stuff, right, and it gets into.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
The background of all of this.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
There's a lot of discussion as to the casting, because
they're saying that the casting is basically DEI And now
one of the headlines, for instance, this is GB and
they said Harry Potter fans fume at what they're calling
blackwashing as HBO is closing in on an actor to
(02:52):
play Snape. They're saying it's horrible casting. And this is
because I guess John Lithgo is playing Dumbledore, which if
that's true, that's a horrific casting. I liked I not
look I like him, but not as that character. So
apparently Snape is being played by a black actor.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Now.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I don't think in any you know, realm where you
don't talk about the physical attributes of a character and
that doesn't play into the character, I don't think it's important.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
But with this, it's it seems.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Odd to me. The actor, his name is Papa as
the Do. He's been cast as Suffers Snape in this series.
He was in Gangs of London. He's been in a
couple of things as well. I don't know why that
they would change the I mean again, it's like casting
(03:51):
a blonde haired, blue eyed person as a samurai.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
It's like if you're gonna it's like imagine you do.
Imagine you do a of real life casting of say
Samurai Chiamplue, and you have like all blonde, blue eyed,
white people that you have cast as the characters.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
It's just weird, you know what I mean. It's weird.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
It's like, it's like, uh, I don't understand the purpose
of it when you change the character that much. And
by the way, the guy that they have that they've cast,
he's kind of a cool looking dude, Snape is not
a cool looking dude. Snape has been described as a pale, sallow,
(04:36):
greasy haired, you know, blonde, black, stringy hair, pale eyed, pale, pale, pale,
sickly almost.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I mean, he's he's.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Characterizes a weak goth for the lack of a better
way to put it. And they cast this fit looking
black actor as Snape.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And I'm sorry, but it's not working.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
It is not working other than the fact that but
the character is very explicitly described in the series as
not black. But the guy doesn't look like a dork.
It's not gonna work for me, you know that. They
said should have played it, and I agree with this
casting proposal. Is Adam Driver. Adam Driver would have been
(05:19):
a great Snape. He would have been a really good Snape.
I am I wrong. I mean, can you see this guy?
You see this actor? He looks too cool and he's
again Snape is a pale, sickly, sallow, blonde or black,
stringy or blue eyed dude.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Apparently he got better.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
And he got fit.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Because he's described as none of those things. And the
book so I don't the whole thing is weird. I
just don't.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I don't. I the casting is dumb. This is just
bad casting.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So they said, apparently it's gonna get worse because the
casting is said, just get you know, they so they
cast this guy, and now everyone's saying the backlash is racist,
which I think is lazy.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
It's super super lazy.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
And I don't know, I I I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I don't think that that's gonna work.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
It's like again, it's like casting, oh, I don't know,
Kristin Chenow with as Mulan, right.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It's like it's like actually casting Kristin Chenow with as Mulan.
It makes the same amount of sense, you know what
I mean, It's just dumb. It's like you know, hiring.
I'm trying to think who's the guy who plays Thor
Chris Hemsworth and having him play Black Panther.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
It doesn't make any sense. Would you have Chris Emsworth
as Black Panther leader of Wakanda?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Would you? You know you wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
So why is this casting choice? Okay, at some point
the character description matter, and do you know why it
matters with this case? Because the whole death Eater lore
is kind of I mean it intimates that it's nazisque.
I mean it intimates they use words like mud bloods
and they talk about it. It's like very nineteen thirties,
(07:17):
the kind of stuff nineteen very much. So you rob
it of that, that that dark storyline, that fear by
ignoring the character's background, physical description. It was four point
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And now all of the news you would probably miss
It's time for Dana's Quick five.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
So I actually I saw this. I think in a
documentary a while ago. But now they're saying that it
looks like Noah's Ark has been found a boat shaped mound.
I mean it could also be like a filled up crevasse.
They said it was found in Turkey, was underwater five
thousand years ago, the same period as the biblical flood.
(09:10):
A team of researchers found it. They said it's eighteen
miles south of Mount Ararat. Yeah, eighteen miles. It's the
fossilized remains of a wooden vessels. What they're saying, it's
called I can't pronounce this, the d formation. That's exactly
what it's called. Sounds exactly right. Five hundred and thirty
(09:30):
eight feet of geological structure made of iron ore called limonite.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
And it's so that's what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
They think it could be a Noah's Dark which is
totally palpable, very fascinating looking thing. A Secret Service shot
an armed man in a confrontation near the White House
in a classic.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Case of FAFO.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
The police had reported that it was a suicidal individual.
It sounded like suicidic cop is what it's sound like,
possibly traveling to DC from Indiana. They took him to
a hospital condition was unknown at that time. A US
run system alerts the world to famines, and it's gone dark,
they said, after Trump slashed foreign age, you really need
a giant US run system that alerts you about famine
(10:10):
and other foreign countries. Seriously, I mean, we kind of
know where the and it's not an issue of famine.
It's an issue of dictatorial control that eliminates access to food.
The book The Myth of World Hunger is fascinating right
in college, still still relevant today. Also the uh oh,
they're trying to do measle cases. He's look, I doe
(10:31):
thirty five percent a week found in twelve states.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Everybody freak out because it's measles, measles, measles.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Everyone freak out, you know, just every single week it's
something what was it last week? It was measles last
week too, a week before that bird flu. That's right,
everyone's gonna die bird flu. Now they're saying us measles.
It's jump over a third. This is kind of the
same fear mongering that we saw with RONA. However, like
(10:56):
I've said, I don't think all vaccines are bad. I
just don't like experimental government injections that are really therapeutics,
and their their masks, their cost playing, their trans vaccines,
their trans scenes came. We just created something. Yeah, so
I just you know, I mean, used common sense. But
(11:17):
I don't believe that the government knows better than you.
I thought it was your body of your choice. Or
is that only when it has to do with not
wanting to be responsible for an unplaying pregnancy?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Okay? One of the Oh this is heartbreaking.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
One of the last US survivors of Pearl Harbor has
passed away at age.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
One hundred and two years old.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Jesse Hayfey and one of the last survivors of the
USS Oklahoma. He passed away March first in Alexandria at
Louisiana at age one hundred and two. It was only
one of two survivors of the Oklahoma known to be living.
According to the president of the California Chapter of Sons
and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors, by that same tally,
only fourteen who survived the nineteen forty one attack are
(11:53):
still alive. Fourteen fourteen. That's just I just want to
extend their lives as long as possible, because that's when
that generation, that greatest generation in those veterans. When they're gone,
you never obviously, you know, you never get them back.
But what a piece of living history and just a great.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Ingredient in our human DNA.
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I've told Kine over the week or actually on break,
and I have this realization. And this is part of it,
(13:21):
because there are people who read this stuff or they
see that sound bite and they're like.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Ooh, that's right, It's totally right. This is Trump's economy.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I'm already seeing it from people like you can't even
do math. And this is when I realized, you know what,
I really do believe that the Internet is the greatest
mistake that humanity ever perpetuated against itself.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
I'm not kidding.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I think it is the worst mistake. And I say
this as someone who actually leveraged.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
It to have the career that I have now.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
And I've definitely used it for a lot of good,
way more good than bad. Some bad, but more good
than the bad, very enjoyable bad, but way more good,
lots of the good. I fully recognize that I would
probably not be sitting here behind a mic, hanging out
with you on a Monday afternoon had I not have
the Internet.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I try to argue with you about it.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
You did, and I'm like, no, no, no, I still
even knowing that, even being fully aware that that's my origin,
I still think that it's the greatest mistake that's ever
that human that humankind's ever perpetuated against itself.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
And then I said, what would what would make the
internet good for you?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
And I said take the people out?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
No people, that is the Internet.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
So you don't use Internet is bad?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Yeah, okay, yeah, Well I think you got to look
at what am I thinking of the sum total of it?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
You got to look at the sum total.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Think about how they I really feel like there are
more dumb or dumb people now than.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
There were that I agree with or or or.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Hear me out. It's just that with the Internet you
can see it more.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Actually, maybe that's it.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I mean, I know that there were dumb people back
in the day, whatever the day was, don't you?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
And I and I would imagine most of our audience
grew up without the internet. We know what life is
like without the Internet.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
And now and I got email in high school.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, see, but your chat rooms playing like Slayer like
the coat it in there and it.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Aw so it is so stupid, it's so cringe.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I we understand that life can go on without the Internet,
which is why we can recognize the Internet for what.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
It is, right all right, and it's why it aggravates us.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
We my, we were a weird.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Generation because we were like right in the middle of it.
We had a childhood free of it, but then when
we got to be teenagers, we had it.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
What was your first computer when you.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I IBM something, I don't know. It was secondhand something,
and I played a lot of games.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I had a friend that had a like homework. Yeah,
but we got like a VIC twenty and then the
come I.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Don't even know what, remember, I do remember that had
that Mine was so old and it was like a
great value version of whatever you just said. The cover
and I don't even know what it was, don't even know,
but it had a dot matrix printer and doss and
everything else.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
It was wild, wild, The screen was green.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
But I felt so fancy because it was mine, you know,
even though it was like fourth hand, I don't even care.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
It was mine.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
The first computer I used in school was a K
Pro and it looked like a suitcase.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Like there was like a K pop band.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
The handle was actually the bottom of the keyboard, and
the keyboard would attach to the face of.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
This like box.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Sound was like a kid boodle if.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
You would take the keyboard off, and then there would
be a tiny little green screen there with the floppy
discs right there.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
And I don't know floppy discs.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I would have been made.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I know what those are.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
They're like, what are these weird things? Remember the floppy
disc and the sleeves?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Yeah, gosh, those are the days.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
And then got into high school and the Apple started
being everywhere. And then when I got into college, it
was that the big thing in college was the different
colors of the Apple computers where you could get like
the orange and the blue and the green, and that
you could Yeah, that's we had some of those in
college and the newspaper staff. But yeah, So anyway, long
(17:30):
story short, Internet horrible, great, worst thing ever to happen
in humans. Horrible, horrible, so mean to us, and we're
mean to ourselves with it. But then I completely understand
that there's some great things, but I think into some
total I would forego the great to get over the bad.
And again I say this as somebody who knows I.
I'm sitting behind the mic because of the Internet, you know.
I mean that's how I got I had the Internet,
(17:53):
and we squatted literally in an old, beandoned building off
of Washington Avenue downtown Saint Louis and did like a
webzine it was, and then got started that. I mean,
that's seriously yeah, so long story short, you know, ignore
the squatting part that had nothing to do with the Internet.
But I just I look at this stuff because I
you know, King Jeffries puts this out, and there are
(18:14):
people who are like, well to Keem Jefferies, and their
reasoning is Keem Jefferis is a Democrat, and he's a
Democrat with influence in the Democrat Party, and he's elected,
so what he says must be true. It's like believe
by association. It's the weirdest thing. You're confirming your bias
just by association alone.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
I mean, I I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I The whole thing is, I still maintain that the
Internet is making everybody absolutely stupid. Okay, so a few
other things, and I think that's also extending to some
of the we're gonna have to do some house cleaning.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
We gotta do some house cleaning.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Thanks for tuning into today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd
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