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Sen. John Kennedy joins us to give us a behind-the-scenes look at what happens behind Senate doors, Jack Smith wire tapping GOP politicians, the government shutdown and more. Meanwhile, Liberals are furious that there's "too much gold" in Trump’s renovated Oval Office.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time
for Florida Man.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
So. A dash cam shows a man weaving through traffic,
in and out of traffic construction sites, driving the wrong way,
and when the Florida Highway Patrol caught up to him,
he told the trooper, I just didn't want to get
caught duh. Like, no, we thought you drove like that
all the time. Well, maybe he does. He was driving
the wrong way down ninety five, the wrong way, like

(00:38):
at a pretty fast speed. It all happened on October first.
Troopers spotted the white Honda driving northbound. Ony At first
he was on the shoulder and then he like weaved
into traffic. Troopers tried to attempt to stop, but then
he sped off. Then he entered a construction zone, and
then he apparently stopped at a steep ledge when he

(00:59):
couldn't drive it anymore. Uh, the trooper ran the suspect.
The suspect was able to maneuver out. He was trying
to get out of the construction site. Finally they got him,
and the suspect does. The trooper takes him into custody says, quote,
I just didn't want to get caught, that's all. I
didn't want to get caught. And he told the trooper
that he fled because he didn't have insurance. And the

(01:20):
trooper goes, whoa, that's just a ticket. Now look what
you did. You know how many people's lives you put
at risk?

Speaker 3 (01:26):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:27):
They So he was taken to the pokey that's where
he went. Uh, let's see, this was yesterday. This Oh no,
this is the weird. Okay, today this is I don't
know how I'm gonna say this headline. Cain, Maybe you
can say this headline for me, and this is I
feel like I'm ten if I read this?

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Is this real? This is not real?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:53):
I don't believe that. I don't believe this.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Hang on hand o, man, I got it because I'm
not reading the story if it's satire. Uh no, oh oh,
oh my gosh, it's actually a real story. Oh my gosh. Okay,
so police, here's the headline. A guy was caught, Oh,
this is real, defecating on a possum out in the

(02:20):
middle of public.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Was there public or private? What?

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Forty five year old Florida man Uh oh, it was
a dead possum. So basically he's trying to make some
toms of Maine deodorant. You have the dead possum, and
then he's you know, he was detained and read his rights.
He denied it even and then he told the cop
that he doesn't see straight and I guess pretended to.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Be cross eyed. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Uh, he got charged with a misdemeanor for exposure of
sexual organs and he got booked on it was like
a one hundred fifty dollars bond.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
I don't know ho if he bonded out.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
I don't even know what that the officer, the troopers
or the Yeah, the law enforcement officer said, Yeah, physical
evidence was like totally was viewed at the scene.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
The action was viewed in full public.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
He I don't so the charge wasn't pooping.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
On it was just exposure of his eure.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, now the sores on his face indicate meth. Just
saying it's pretty messed up. Yeah, But by the way,
I hope he didn't kill the possum. They didn't actually
get into that, because possums are actually great. They're weird,
but they're great, So I don't know, let's see here

(03:35):
this oh I got you know what I got a
village's story with that involves real villagers. Man, these golf carts, okay,
how do you run a golf cart up on like
a memorial of stone. So a golf cart driver is

(03:56):
being sought in a hit and run that damaged a
memorial in the village. It's not like the guy's hard
to find. He's in a golf cart. He's not diminutive
in size. It's Lady Lake. They're trying to find this guy.
He ran over a marble stone marker and there's CCTV footage,
So how are you having trouble finding him? I mean
it's cct footage. They people were helping. He'd like ran

(04:19):
over it and totally knocked his golf cart down. People
helped him put the golf cart up right, and then
he just drove away. They didn't report it, and it
damaged the memorial. It's like fifteen hundred dollars in damages.
And he drove over one curb and then he went
over another curb and then hit the memorial and.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
He over He just like his golf cart just overturned.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
He just sort of like fell to the side like
a fainting goat and he was speeding pretty clear. Oh man,
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I got to tell you we have a thing in
my house. My youngest son, who watch the news. You know,
he's very politically conservative, you know, very you know, good
Christian young man. And he just very quietly watches the

(06:07):
news and watches this and I noticed that he started
introducing some new isms into his uh verbiage. He started
introducing some new sayings to his repertoire. And I'm like,
some of this sounds familiar. And then I realized he's
been watching Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana and literally like
hijacking his sayings. And I said, I'm pretty sure I

(06:29):
heard Senator Kennedy say this before. And he goes, he's
one of the He's like, he's my favorite in the Senate.
He said, he's hysterical. So he's got all of the
he's got this a huge group of kids college campuses
that really like what he says. He joins us now
via video. Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana. His new book,
How to Test Negative for Stupid and Why Washington Never
Will is on sale today. There's the book cover right there, Senator.

(06:53):
A pleasure to have you. We've tried for a while
to get you on and so it's a real treat
for us.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Welcome.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
The pleasure is mine, Dana and I like your son already.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
You guys would be very good friends. You would be
very good friends. He has a very similar sense of humor.
But whenever you're on, he stops what he's doing and
he's got to go and watch what you're gonna say.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
He's like, he's going to say something. It's what he
tells us. Ever, and you do.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
You deliver every time, Senator, and your book. I love
this because this has There's this reporter that I studied
in school named Joe Mitchell, and it has a very
Joe Mitchell vibe to it. It's just very homespun and
it gets into you know, your beginnings and your experiences
in Washington. And I got to tell you one of
the things that you had said recently iBOT died laughing.

(07:36):
You said that Lindsay Graham would vomit in your fish tank.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Is that a true story. Senator, Well, I did it.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
Did What I said about Lindsay was I said, I
love Lindsay because he's unpredictable. I said, if you had,
if you invite him to your home for dinner, he'll
either come and have a interesting dinner conversation, get drunk
and vomit in your fish tank. You just never know
what you're going to get with. So Lindsay is just

(08:06):
I talk about him the book. Yes, Lindsay's a rock star.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
And I love the way that you describe your colleagues.
You said of Chuck Schumer when he cuts Lucy's like
a five year old and a Batman costume on a
sugar high.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
And it's funny, but it also you really.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Get a very good idea of who these individuals are
the way that you know them, because we don't know
them the way that you know them.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
What inspired you to write this book?

Speaker 4 (08:31):
Well, I've been thinking about it a while, and I
finally sat down at my dining room table, went home
with a handheld dictaphone and I started dictating, and then
of course they put it in the computer and the
computer spits out words, and I edited that, and I
edited it and I edited it, and I had an

(08:53):
editor at Harper Collins, and after five or six edits,
we finally produced the book. It's it's not a book
about policy per se. It's a it's a story book,
but I use the stories to talk about polse and
many of the stories are are funny, some of them

(09:16):
are bizaarre, They're all true. I wrote the book to
explain to people what the Senate is really like behind
the scenes, to explain to people why in Washington, d c.
Normal is just a setting on the clothes dryer, and
and to try to help people understand why it doesn't

(09:39):
have to be this way. We just have a return
to some common sense. It's a pretty broad ranging book.
I hope it makes people think. May make you laugh,
may make you day drink, but it's all true.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
You have to have a good sense of humor, I
would think, especially because it seems that now you know
so much different from what it was twenty years ago.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Everything is very hyper polarized.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
And I was thinking about that when I saw Senator
Grassley released these documents showing that the Biden FBI was
spying on a number of Republican senators during that Arctic
Frost investigation. I saw this headline, and then I saw
the headline that it came out John Radcliffe had declassified
documentation showing that Biden was having the CIA intervened and

(10:29):
they were hiding his corrupt ties and his corrupt, corrupt
dealings in Ukraine. Is this based on your experience in
the Senate, This seems like a very accelerated abuse of
power that we saw with the last administration and then
the Obama Biden administration. Is that talk to me a

(10:50):
little bit about that, because it just feels that you
are really being targeted by Democrats and very much were
under the last administration.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
Well, all of this is coming out about the Justice
Department under President Biden through whistleblowers, and we don't know
if we'll ever get the full story. And it's it's
clear to me that the Biden administration was totally hypocritical
about everything made. They accused us of wanting to destroy democracy,

(11:24):
and yet they were using the law and the room
of law as a weapon against their political opponents. I mean,
we just found out last night that Jack Smith, the
special counsel appointed by Attorney General Garland uh got the
telephone records of eight sitting the United States Senators. He

(11:49):
got the records, and the senators didn't know anything about it.
We found out about it from a from a whistleblower.
For reasons I'll never understand, Attorney General Garland decided to
prosecute a former president of the United States who happened
to be Judge Garland's boss, an opponent of Judge Garland's boss,

(12:16):
mister Biden. I mean, that's never happened in America. That's
the sort of thing that happens in a country whose
powerball jackpot is two hundred and eighty seven chickens and
a goat. It just doesn't happen in America. And this
sort of weaponizing of the Justice Department and the FBI
happened every other Thursday. And now, of course my Democratic

(12:39):
colleagues were accusing President Trump of it, but what they did,
they hit it. But now it's all coming out and
we're going to get to the bottom of it.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
It seems like they impeached Trump for what Biden actually did.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Is that a fair.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
Sizage'mart to that? And when President Biden, Attorney General Garland
decided to prosecute a political opponent, I said it at
the time, Dana, they unleashed spirits they could not control.
I knew as soon as they did that for every

(13:12):
force there is an equal and opposite force. And here
we go off the wreck to the races. And I
don't want that. I don't want the FBI or the
Justice Department. I don't care what party they're in, but
if they knock on my door, I don't have to
worry about whether they're a Republican or Democrat. I think
most Americans just want them to follow the law. And

(13:34):
that's what Attorney General Bondi and an FBI Director Pattel
are trying to clean up. And of course as they
cleaned it up, many of my Democratic colleagues say, well,
now you're picking on us. No, they're trying to get
rid of the bad apples at Justice and at the FBI.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
Exactly.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
We're talking with Senator John Kennedy from the great State
of Louisiana for those just joining us, and he's got
a new book out as well that we've been talking
a bit about how to test a negative for stupid.
I wanted to ask you to, Senator, because you know,
we got this government shut down on going. It seemed
like Republicans have done their part. Regardless of whether people
liked everything that's in this bill or not, Republicans did
their part. Democrats had no problem supporting it when it

(14:16):
was Biden's level of spending and back in the House
with the cr But now in the Senate they're trying
to prove something. But I don't think that it's working.
You've all been really good on messaging with this battle.
Do you what do you anticipate happening with this and
how long do you think it's going to go on?

Speaker 4 (14:32):
It could go on a while. Dan, Here, here's what happened.
My Democratic friends try to muddy the water to make
it look deep. But here's what happened. Tuesday, a week ago,
at midnight, our budget ran out, and a couple of
weeks before that, we started talking to the Democrats of
the Senate and so, well, must just extend the then

(14:52):
current budget for another six weeks so we can continue
to talk about a permanent budget. And then at the
last minute, the Democra came to us and said, no,
we will vote to shut down government if you do
not give us one point five trillion dollars and we
will tell you how to spend it, and that's the

(15:14):
only way we will agree to open the government up
for six more weeks.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (15:20):
Well, you know, as I've said before, my mother didn't
raise a fool, and if she did, it was one
of my brothers. I wasn't going about to vote for
that and nowhere, nor were any of my colleagues. And
that's why we're in a shutdown. All we asked and
are asking is to open government back up and talk

(15:41):
to us. We're not asking for anything else. And the
Dems want one point five trillion dollars and they're going
to get it when donkeys fly backs, and until then
we're going to be in a shutdown.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, and I keep hearing the fear mongering messages. They're
really trying to play up the stuff with air traffic
control and they're trying to say, oh, yeah, delays, that's
because Republicans don't want to finance this. We had the
same amount of delays and issues though under Biden Harris. So,
I don't know why the public's not stupid.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
No, they're not. And that is what that's the biggest
mistake that many of my Democratic colleagues make. They think
the American people are stupid. And now, look, the American
people may not read Aristotle every day because they're too
busy earning a living, but they figure out. They figured
it out, center or letter what's going on. And I
think most Americans who get up every day and go

(16:33):
to work and obey them all and pay their taxes
and try to do the right thing by their children
see exactly what's going on. And I don't want government
to be shut down, but I'm not going to be
I'm not going to be extorted, and I'm not going
to allow the American people to be extorted. And I
know how bad all this looks. You know, a lot

(16:55):
of Americans are looking at this and going, you know,
we thought Hugh humans were more advanced as a species
than that. I mean, this is a mess, and it
is a mess, but it's a mess that we have
to have right now.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah, last question for you, Senator.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
A lot of people are concerned about the increase in
political violence and a lot of the rhetoric that's coming
from the left.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
Of course, they always like to point to the right.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
I think you're a really good example of how to
get your point across with so much humor, and it's
so cutting, and a lot of people have to sit
and take a second to unpack it before they realize
what it means. And it's it's always so good. What
are your thoughts on I look at Virginia, for example,
and this AG Democrat nominee that's running for AG down there,
and I get the sense that if these people are

(17:42):
rewarded by winning elections and having the public stamp of
approval by sending a public office, that that's just going
to encourage that type of action, the endorsement of, you know,
things like attacking ice agents and you know, trying to
set fire to federal courthouses and attacking tesla's and all
this other stuff. I just feel like it increases the

(18:03):
likelihood of that continuing and ramping up because there's no
condemnation of it from the left, which is where it originates.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
And I just wanted to get your thoughts on that.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
You can't hate. I don't hate anybody. It's hard sometimes
in Washington, but when I say my prayers, I do
every single time I say, God, please don't let me hate.
I disagree. But once you start treating someone you disagree
with as being not just in error but in sin,

(18:35):
as being evil, then somehow it seems to be justice
if you want to see them hurt, and people lose
all perspective, Dana, and lose all perspective. There's so many
things in my life more important than politics. So all
I can tell folks is, look, don't don't worry about

(18:59):
being a good republic or a good Democrat, just trying
to be a good a good human being. And don't hate. Disagree,
but don't hate. But unfortunately, we've we've seen a lot
of it.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
We have Senator John Kennedy, the new book How to
Test a Negative for Stupid, and y Washington never will.
I just really appreciate you. I appreciate every time. I
love watching your interviews. You're You're one that we actually
genuinely like to watch, and we we do watch it.
When we say we watch it, we do. I appreciate
your time today, and.

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The medicinal properties and some of this stuff so very interesting. Unfortunately,
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(21:49):
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phones that can't text. Some of them though, the only
things that they like anymore are and this is from
the Wall Street Journal, food apps and ride share apps.
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(22:11):
they said it's because of technology. It's harder to make
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I'm like, it's a phone, you call, you call them,
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(22:32):
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Speaker 3 (22:39):
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Speaker 1 (22:40):
All she does is dance in our underwear in our
house and our dogs run in fear. Or she'll like
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(23:09):
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Speaker 3 (23:18):
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real quick.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
Can I just talk about the gold filigree in the
Oval office? Cain and I are dying over this. So
first off, I let me just tell you guys, I'm
a maximalist. My creed is more is more. I tone
it down when I'm on air, right because I like,
I mean, let's just put it this way.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
I like giant chains. I just do. It's a thing.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
And I don't know why anyway, But I'm a maximalist
in everything. Caine, you can attest to this. Yeah, more
is more. I don't do the tiny house stuff. I
don't do the all white everything stuff. I don't do
the ship lap.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
I don't do that. We don't do those things.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
So I am kind of first off, I'm looking at
this and this was when he was with Ertawan. This
was back in January, and there's even more since then.
So Trump there's been so many articles written about the
redo of the Oval office and all the gold and
stuff that he's added to it. And I mean, just
for instance, this image that you want one's preparing for

(24:21):
you the video. Look at all the gold filigree that
they're putting up, like by on either side of the doors.
They've got it, like they like underneath the dental molding
at the top, every panel, on the chair rail, there
is like gold filigree in it. Gold absolutely everywhere. Again,
I'm a maximalist.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
More is more.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
I'm not against this, just not against it. There is
a photo where Ertawan was sitting next to him, and
this is because normally he's at the desk and then
sometimes they move to the fireplace and then when he's
on the opposite and under the fireplace, I think they
change what's on the mantle. And there was one time
where it was just all gold old cups, all gold cups.

(25:02):
It was on the mant I mean, that's a lot
of gold in there. It is a lot of gold.
So I've got to share with you this article that
I saw. This was just last month from the Independent. Okay,
so you're probably wondering, is that real gold that's in there?
It's very shiny, you know, very shy, like European gold
is like gold er, like almost an orange kind of gold,

(25:23):
and then ours is not as different hue. So a
lot of people they had internet sleuths. The Independent, which
is a left leaning British trash can they said, Internet
sleuths say the gold trimming, well, it's not gold trimming.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
There's actual names for it.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Recently added to the Oval Office is actually from home Depot.
Now hold up, hold up. They this is how they start.
They're just mad. They hate him, they're mad at him.
They start with this. President Donald Trump's brag that he
transformed the Oval Office into a quote twenty four charter
old paradise dripping an ornate de core has seemingly been

(26:03):
debunked by internet sleuths who say the new furnishings are
actually cheap plastic butt at home Depot.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
So they're talking about the they have.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
The person who wrote this has no idea about architecture
at all, or building materials or anything. So they're talking about, oh,
the the the fire at the trimmings on the wall. Okay,
those are filigrees, you moron. Anyway, they're saying that these embellishments.
They're polyarthane applicat and on lay molding. Now I don't
know if that's true or not.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
I don't care. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Some say that, you know, it's like BuzzFeed said, they're
like thirty dollars and they painted them gold.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
So wait a minute, are you mad? Are they mad
that he didn't go get real gold filigrees and put
them up there?

Speaker 1 (26:49):
Or are they mad or that he just spent thirty
dollars on a bunch of these plastic things and painted
them gold and put them up. I mean, either way,
it still looks nice. But I'm just saying, are they
mad that he saved money?

Speaker 4 (27:03):
I know.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
I think the way I saw it in the beginning
was they were upset that all of this money was
being spent at a time that we're all in debt,
and that was the story about the gold in the
Oval office. Now that we find out it's from home Depot,
it just looks good. Now we'll switch up the game.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
You had people saying, imagine running the free world and
still decorating like a broke mobster's wife in Jersey. You know,
thirty dollars home Depot applicase spray painted gold.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
Blah blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
I bet you I could shred the decore in these
people's houses, how much you want to bet?

Speaker 3 (27:37):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Wait, let me get these people who are criticizing him
went to that one aisle at Target and they got
all their stupid seashells and the coral that everybody has,
and all their houses look like the same influencer vomit.
How much you want to bet? So asinine and that
they're just they're mad at him because of that. Now,
I don't even know if that's I don't even know

(27:57):
if they come.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
I Am not going to sit here work myself into
a mess over trying to figure out if the filigrees
on the damned wall are from home Depot. You losers,
what the world?

Speaker 3 (28:12):
I don't care? Kane? Do you care? Is your direct
if you think they come from home.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Depot, No, couldn't care less. Looks pretty good, though, whenever
we see video from the overlape.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
I mean, if you're going to try to judge our
nation based upon the filigrees in the White House, you
know we can show you the filigree that is our military.
We can show you the filigree that is our better economy.
We can show you the filigree that is are mostly
still free society. We can show you the filigree of
better individual wealth per capita than compared to any other nation.
We can do that if you really really want to
have that comparison with the back to back World War champs.

(28:43):
But you know, just saying if you wanted to save
some money, then you should shut.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
Up about it, maybe right. I mean, these are the
people who are like, I can't afford avocados. There my avocado.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Toaste because they and they have no idea how to invest,
and they have no idea how to save money, and
they have no idea how to do basic things in
life because they've always been in their parents' basement. So
I just I just saw this story, and I keep
seeing articles because the left is just.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Mesmerized by the stuff. He adds.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
It's Trump for crying out loud, okay, And by the
way to sit here and say that it would be that, like,
do you honestly believe that he was the one who
chose the materials? I think he told people what he
wanted and they made it happen. Do you honestly think
that Trump is just literally heading up to the Home
Depot and the Beast and he's going in and picking

(29:30):
out No he's not. He's telling people and they're making
it happen. But also to say that the stuff he
does is cheap, this is he doesn't do cheap stuff.
Whether or not I would spend as much money as
he does on gold decorps. I don't know everybody, you know,
each to each to their own. But this is just
such a stupid thing to freak out about.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
It's so dumb. I just now I feel like shorsy.
It's so dumb, just so dumb.

Speaker 4 (29:56):
Thanks for tuning into today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd
Truth podcast. If you haven't already, made sure to hit
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