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September 17, 2025 29 mins
USA Cycling organizers were seen BERATING a women's sports activist who was inquiring about sex tests. A Muslim migrant in the UK is very angry because he received a ticket for parking his car on the sidewalk and blames Islamophobia. Dearborn, Michigan’s mayor tells a taxpaying resident that he “doesn’t belong” in the city over Islamophobia. An ABC reporter describes the text messages between Charlie Kirk’s scumbag killer and his trans roommate as “very touching in a way that I think many of us didn't expect” and then DOUBLED DOWN on his glowing descriptions.

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

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

Speaker 1 (00:14):
A Florida man sixty eight years old chased a bunch
of juveniles at Walmart with a full at knife. According
to a report, Thomas Edward Ohl was charged with two
counts of aggravated assault deadly weapon with ut intent to
kill and two counts of child abuse without great bodily harm.
He said that they bumped into him and made fun
of his voice box, so he thought, I'll show them

(00:37):
that it's mean to make fun of people by chasing
them with a fulet knife. Hmmm, pretty sure that that's yes.
Should the kids have been raised better? Yeah, but cain
a full They were very particularly they didn't just I
was surprised. It's not a machete, right, So the first
time it wasn't a machete. It was a full ay knife,
much smaller and probably sharper.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
So they were apparently making fun of his voice box,
and so he was very upset about that and chased
them with a filet knife, which you never should never
obviously do. Let's see a Sarasota couple. This is all awful.
They were accused of child neglect and they were on
dope and caught drinking beer under a tent. Like were
they homeless or just like pretending to be? I'm sorry,

(01:20):
the word for that is called camping. They said they
found Crystal Kates.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
That's her.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
I'm sorry, that's her name. That sounds like a strip club.
It sounds like it sounds like a review of strippers,
like like literally like the Rockheads, but it's the Crystal Kates.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
And they're all named Kate.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
And they're all on loose sight heels with like goldfish
in them, That's what it sounds like. And the fish
are just shaking it out as they kick. I don't
know where this is going, but you know what I mean.
Crystal Kates right seriously torn spowls thirty seven and fifty.
They were sitting under a tent drinking beer without a
kid in sight, and then the police that's where they
found them. Their kid was left home was in danger.

(02:00):
Apparently the conditions of the home and child were severe
enough to remove the child in place with a family
member in Manate County. But yeah, they said that they
were on drugs, just drinking beer. Under a tent, and
when you see pictures of the house that they lived in,
the tent might actually be better, because it was disgusting
and full of feces and nastiness and horrible. The child's

(02:20):
hair was matted with debri and food. She was wearing
a diaper that was so soiled it was about to
tear from the weight, and was unable to speak. They
said that it was, oh my gosh, a really really
bad place for a kid to be, So the tent
was probably better in that case. That's horrible. There's no
excuse for it. Let's see this. A wrongway driver sideswipes

(02:42):
Tampa police on the I four and then she tries
to say that her husband did it, except her husband
wasn't in the car.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Wrongway driver.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
It was two thirty in the morning, heading in the
wrong way on the eastbound lanes. She sideeswiped someone. Tampa
police tried to stop her kristin Biel twenty four. She
refused to pull over, and then she tried telling them.
When they finally got her, oh no, it was They go,
do you realize you were going the wrong way in
the interstate? And she goes on this interstate no I'm

(03:16):
not I'm reading it this car.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Are you serious?

Speaker 1 (03:21):
And then they were like, yeah, We're totally serious. They go,
what do you mean you were literally driving home? And
she goes, no, he's driving us home and they go
who And she's like, my husband and they're like, where
is he? Because he's not here. He wasn't driving the car.
So she was arrested charge with gui aggravating, fleeing to elude,
and fleeing to a loude at high speed, and she

(03:41):
was taken to jail promptly to jail.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
She didn't get to Pasco.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
A Florida man in his roommate got into a fight
over trash and then the Florida man said he was
going to shoot him with a crossbow over it Key Largo.
He said he was trying to shoot his roommate in
the head with a crossbow. The roommate found a bottle
of Vokka in the track, and then the suspect then
after that thought that the only way to resolve this
is with a crossbow. The Monroe County Sheriff's Office were

(04:08):
called to the house. It was about six in the morning.
They made contact. They're all like in their sixties, The
victim was sixty nine years old. He was lying in
the front yard bleeding from his face. They found all
these arrows laying near him. The victim said the guy
lured him to the property and then tried to kill
him by getting with.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
An erw.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Like I can't I have known clearly the guy was
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percent off. Exclusions apply. Switching this to this USA cycling event,

(05:55):
a woman's sports activist was berated by a man at
this cycling event because she was asking questions about a
dude being on the women's team. And this this was
a California woman named Bethborn, and she was berated by
organizers at this USA cycling event. She had asked whether

(06:19):
or not the competitors had actually been tested uh to
make sure that you know for their their sex at birth.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Listen to this is twenty Hi.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
You guys, will there be any testing to see if
they're all women in this racing?

Speaker 2 (06:36):
We have probably you've been played.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Oh I'm sorry, you're not give me judy, judy, judy,
you do not touch me?

Speaker 4 (06:49):
Do not know?

Speaker 3 (06:50):
Why is she doing the Hitler salute? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Why is she doing the Nazi salute? That lady, she
just started Nazi saluting. She can't help it. She's you know,
it's trans Tifa. They can't They're just like Nazi salute.
So this she simply asked a question, and she had
every right to ask you because if you remember, the
USA cycling team has a man on the team on
the women's team, and a man on the women's team
who was celebrating the execution of Kirk right. There was

(07:17):
another video out there I think I put in slack
like yesterday or the day before that, it was very similar.
There was a woman who was simply holding a sign
talking about women and men's or women and men and
women's sports, and she had her sign taken and was
berated by this man who decided to get in her face.
And of course he was a transactivist, and I'm like
that just so perfectly. Encapulates encapsulates everything with a progressive patriarchy.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
It's just a.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Reason for dudes to go out and abuse women and
then they fall back on But I'm dressing like a woman,
so I get female protections, right, I mean, think about it,
that's a pretty neat trick. Oh wait a minute, how
can we beat women and get away with it? We'll
pretend we're women. Neat trick.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
So you can go ahead and cut that one. That
one can go up to because it's true. Think about it.
You're gonna go beat up a woman and you want
to get away with it, Well, I'll just prette I'll
just identify as a woman.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Then.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
Oh but now I'm a special protected class. I am
more specialer than you woman. I am a man who
wants to be a woman. I'm a specialer.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Yeah, now call me ma'am.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
That's here reminds me of Katie Urr's dad when he
had that dust up with Ben Shapiro on stage or no,
they weren't on stage. It were on somebody's show I
can't remember. And Katie Tur's dad I think his name
is Zoe he's a piece of work too. He he
Ben didn't call him ma'am, and he was like He

(08:51):
literally leaned over and was like, you're gonna go home
in an ambulance, and Ben, being you know, the lovable
dork that he is, was like, well, that's not where
an ambulance takes you. Vice takes you to the hospital.
It doesn't take you home. He just sat there staring
at him. He wasn't processing that. He was about that
this large man was trying to kick his ass for
not calling him man and affirming his fantasy. He was

(09:14):
just trying to figure out theological thing that he said, like,
wait a minute, that doesn't compute. The ambulance was supposed
to take you to the hospital, not at home.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
But that's they've always been. They're always violent.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
I've only met one, maybe two trans people that weren't nuts,
no pun intended.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
I mean they had them, but they weren't that. You know, Dana,
you're so mean.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
You had the moderate one by the ticket take the ride.
Now with that, I wanted to play this for you.
Audio is some by twenty one, an immigrant in the UK.
I don't know if he's legal or not, but a
Muslim immigrant in the UK is very angry because he

(10:00):
thought that he could just park his car on the sidewalk.
I don't know if he's from Pakistan or wherever he's from.
With that, you can just park your car wherever the
hell you feel like getting out, Like I'm done driving now,
I'm just gonna stop and.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Park, get out and leave my car here.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Well, he got in trouble and because he was expected
to follow the wall like everyone else in the UK.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Was that was racism? Audio sound by twenty one. I
can't MSL.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Move Hampton nsl Okay. So they told you to come
here doing the prayer times right when he myself? Oh
by yourself?

Speaker 4 (10:36):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (10:37):
So is it you who hating Muslim player's time? Right?
Do you have some problem with my religion?

Speaker 3 (10:43):
Do you have a problem with like parking on side?

Speaker 2 (10:45):
What are you doing here just at this time?

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Park like that?

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah? I understand it. But why every day?

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Why didn't you love your God enough?

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Am I abusing him? Hello? Brothers, am abusing.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
I would not even I just would not even be
dealing with this.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
I'd be like, looks like you should have loved your
God enough to get here early enough. So that you
had time to park your stupid car. It's not my
fault if you didn't love your God enough to do that,
and you're just pretending right now for the cameras. You
absolute pos it's not my problem, and then just ended it.
Not even he got mad because he had a hurry
up and park his car on the sidewalk, which you

(11:21):
can't do.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Shocker.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
You can't do that in the UK either. Right, Imagine
you're going to church. This is let's put this in
a different perspective. Imagine you're going to church. Right, You're
I don't even know if this guy was late for
church or not. I'm just assuming. But you're like, I'm
just done driving. I'm just gonna park right here on
this sidewalk by the church. It's in a park on
the sidewalk, and get off of them right here. Well
you can't do that, obviously, So if you were to

(11:46):
get ticketed, what would your response be? Would you say, Oh,
I came from a back hole, hellhole country that just
parks their cars if they have them wherever. You know,
I didn't know I couldn't park here. I'm like barely civilized.
Would that be your response? Would it be Oh, I'm
so sorry. I'm just an I'm I just you know,
I just parked my car here because I'm a jerk,

(12:08):
or would it be.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
Why are you a racist? Why did you choose to
come here during religious times? It's our time for worship?
Why did you come here?

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Well, because the car was there on the road at
that time, that's why. It just because it coincided with
the time that you worship is completely irrelevant. Do you
see the manner in which I just I can't even now? Dearborn?
The mayor of Dearborn, Abdullah Hammond, he told a Christian resident,

(12:41):
you do not belong in the city, get out, and
you're not welcome here. This is audio sound by twenty two.
This is a mayor, an elected official.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Watch.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
I mean, Hasbulla, you know, bombed up the embassy in
Bay Roots and including many Americans.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
So I just feel it's quite inappropriate. And although you
live here, I want you to know why he's mayor,
you are not welcome here.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
And the day you move out of the city, but
with the day that I launched a parade celebrating.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
The fact that you moved out of the city because
you are not He's.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Not chopping his head off or anything, you know, So
that's a that's some evolution. I guess you could tell
he wanted to though he's in his his voice was
saying one thing, but the tenor of his voice was
saying something different.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
Here's about to Allah who actbar on him?

Speaker 2 (13:27):
He was?

Speaker 1 (13:27):
He was, That's just an ignorant thing to say, like, well,
even though you live here, Uh you know, I'm gonna
have a parade when you leave.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Like?

Speaker 3 (13:34):
What is your damage?

Speaker 4 (13:36):
Like?

Speaker 3 (13:36):
What is your damage? Can you this guy's mayor?

Speaker 1 (13:40):
This is again, this isn't dearborn Abdullah Hammond and the
guy what did the guy say that was so offensive?

Speaker 3 (13:46):
Truth?

Speaker 1 (13:47):
He didn't say anything that was wrong. Hesbulah did carry
out bombing raids, they absolutely did. Yes, they did absolutely
kill Americans. Yes they absolutely are backed by Iran. Yes
they are absolutely bals of the Walnuts. Yes they're evil terrorists.
There is literally no there's there's no debate here. It's

(14:09):
like saying, well, is Satan bad so offensive? I'm gonna
through a parade when you leave? What in the world
what is happening here? This is the United States of America.
Now where can you imagine if a Baptist preacher, if
a priest had said this to someone, imagine like your
priest getting up there and going, yet, well, you know,

(14:30):
even though you live here, I'm in a ship bread.
I mean, can you imagine what if it's like an
evangelical pastor who would say something like that.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
The Left would be like, oh, separation of church and state.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
That's all you would hear, separation of church and state
because they love saying that, except when it involves someone
that they're afraid will cut their heads off, and then
they're like posh, O care talk about that? Whole could
requires how they always act.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
No, they would, they didn't say anything, they have said anything.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
You have a sitting mayor who's threatening a citizen for
speaking truth. That's that's absolutely insane. I can't and that's
happening in dearborn Michigan, in dearborn Michigan, Little Mogadishu. I'm
just saying, it's colonialism. That's colonization. What you saw in

(15:21):
the UK, that idea that well, we're going to act
falsely accuse you of bigotry when we have to follow
the law like everybody else. That's colonization. And they are
weaponizing this whole This is why CRT is so dangerous.
They're weaponizing all of that Marxist claptrap as a way

(15:42):
to as a tactic of doing it.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
It's colonization.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
It's an invasion without firing a shot. It's brilliant, actually,
but I mean kind of brilliant. It's only brilliant. And
the fact that, Wow, I can't believe how brilliantly weak
and cowardly so many Western leaders are that they don't
stand up to this type of stuff.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
I'm so taughed.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
You know what, the Arabic the colonization of parts of
Africa and parts of Europe. I don't want to hear
about European colonization anymore. Shut up, I don't want to
hear anything about it. Why don't you talk about the
Islamism colonization and radical colonization. Why not talk about some
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And now all of the news you would probably miss,
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Speaker 1 (17:23):
Arizona, a woman was accused of hitting her boyfriend in
the head with a hatchet while he was sleeping, and
she smiled in her mugshot very big sorry. It was
a Arizona press that was in North Dakota. She attempted
to murder her boyfriend. She hit him in the head
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When police arrived on the scene, the book con told

(17:44):
officers he was alone. He'd been attacked without warning. He
was taken to the emergency room for treatment, and he
said he was attacked by his girlfriend. She They suspected
that she was out of it and then anyway. They
arrested her and she's charged with attempted murder and aggravated
a salt. Her court date is in October. Oh my gosh, Like,
why are people insane? A small plane crash landed near

(18:07):
a high school in Toronto. Oh, lemna actually do this one?
This was a USA today. A man got attacked on
his lawnmower by a bear. Seventy two year old man
in Arkansas. He was mowing his lawn Vernon Patten. He'd
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(18:28):
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A witness said the bear was in the process of
attacking and when his son showed up began throwing rocks

(18:50):
at the animal.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
Game wardens responded to the scene.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
They had to fatally shoot the animal, and then they
said he was moved to surgery for the day of
the attack, but it was his injuries were so extend
and said they said it was not survivable, and his
son witnessed the whole thing, so they were The bear
tested shockingly negative for rabies and distemper so they tested
after they put down the bear. But that's that is horrifying,

(19:16):
just horrifying. Goly, that is a determined animal if you're
on a tractor, because he was actively mowing grass.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
So, I don't know. Let's see this.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Uh in Queens is they're a cat that's running for
office apparently, Yeah, that's New York. Well it's a Kane,
it's a giant, so makes sense, better known as Leo
the Cat. It's going to replace term limited moderate Democrat

(19:48):
Robert Holden on a city council in Western Queens.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
Yeah, these people can't they're not serious.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
No, it's mister mingus. I don't know what its name
is this cat. I don't know how this has gotten
this far. It only has one hundred and thirty nine
followers on Instagram, and they made these little posters where
they have it all over Leo Nimoush. They have it
all over that's his name, all over the Western Queens. Okay,

(20:19):
God help us all.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
They think it's a joke, but it's actually like people
will vote for it. Being underweight might be deadler than
being overweight. I actually do think this because if you're underweight,
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(20:44):
I would rather. My grandma was always like, you've got
to pick your face at your body, and I'm like,
I totally i'd pick face because I'm just gonna get
Everyone's always like, what do you have done?

Speaker 3 (20:51):
I don't have anything done.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
I just don't wear hardly any makeup anymore except for
my eyes, and everyone's like, what did you do? Or
I'll cut my hair and they'll say I got my
extensions out. But my anti aging plan is literally to
get like fit, not kidding think about it.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
It's natural filler, like smooth everything out.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Because I pick, I'm not going to stop eating snacks,
so I will pick phase over body when I get
like eighty years old. So I'm going to have a cushion, right,
So that solves that dilemma right there.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
We have seen an alleged murder with such specific text
messages about the alleged murder weapon, where it was hidden,
how it.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Was placed, what was on it.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
But also it was very touching in a way that
I think many of us didn't expect, a very intimate
portrait into this relationship between the suspect's roommate and the
suspect himself, with him repeatedly calling his roommate, who was transitioning,
calling him my love and I want to protect you,
my love. So it was this duality of someone who

(21:48):
the attorney said, not only jeopardized the life of Charlie
Kirk and the crowd, but was doing it in front
of children, which is one of the aggravating circumstances of
this case. And on the other hand, he was speaking
so lovingly about his partner, so very interesting and as
Pierre said, riveting press conference.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
David, it was.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
It was riveting.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
It's the new hallmark story of Romeo and Julius. That's
what the It's just it was just absolutely it was
the duality because he tripled this reporter, he tripled, quadrupled
down on all of this, and oh man, it's bad.

(22:32):
It's just bad. I saw this yesterday when did this air?
This aired wasn't like their their news. It was like
yesterday was yesterday, late afternoon. It was like right at
Matt Gutman on ABC. So it was like there, I
want to say, like they're four o'clock, five o'clock news.
And when I saw this in full honesty on social media,

(22:56):
I didn't. I didn't believe that it was true because
it was so bad because I saw the caption, the
quote of what he said, and then I saw the
screenshow on the video and I went because you know
how sometimes you see things and you're like, oh my gosh, satires,
so I can't even tell the difference. Oh my gosh,
it was bad. Do we have the audio where he

(23:19):
doubled down? Okay, go ahead and play this, because if
you thought that was bad.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
Well, there's more it is.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
It's heartbreaking on so many levels, Kira. Obviously, Charlie Kirk
was murdered brutally in front of a crowd of thousands
of people who watched him being shot through the neck
and then essentially bleed out in front of him. And
I think one of the things that the attorney here
made a very fine point about is that a lot
of these charges seven charges were aggravated because children were present,

(23:47):
children witnessed this, children were put in harm's way, and
that was something that obviously is aggravating here.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
And that's one of the reasons that the suspect.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
In addition to the alleged murder being political in nature,
is facing the death penalty. They're going for the death penalty.
And on the other hand, there is this duality of
a very portrait of a very human person, a very
human experience from this entire family, as you mentioned it,
the mother who essentially discovered that it was her son
who had done this, the kid who had got a

(24:17):
thirty four out of thirty six on the acts, who
had a four point zero, who got a full ride
to college. Here that that kid was the one who
allegedly perpetrated. She saw those pictures and said identified him essentially.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Good king.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
I don't even I don't even.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
Trying really hard here, trying very very hard.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
He issued this groveling I can't tell you what I
have it down on the rundown earth, really can't can
I can't be sure he issued this groveling apology, and
I'm still trying to figure out how in the world.

(25:06):
I mean, it's just so in that moment, that's what
you think of. He said that he deeply regrets describing
text messages between Charlie Kirk's murderer and his twink transgender
partner is very touching.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
This this is what he said. He said, quote.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
From his official account yesterday. I tried to underscore the
jarring contrast between this cold blooded assassination of Charlie Kirk,
a man who dedicated his life to public dialogue, and
the personal, disturbing texts read aloud by the Utah County
Attorney at the press conference. He adds, I deeply regret
that my words did not make that clear, but let

(25:44):
there be zero doubt here. I unequivocally condemn this horrific
crime and the pain it caused. Charlie Kirk's family, those
who were forced to witness it at Uvu, and the
millions of people he inspired. I deeply regret that you
didn't understand me. I deeply regret.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
I mean, there's no there, there is no I don't
even know. I I uh. It's like they were trying.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
It's like they were describing the new Christmas movie on Hallmark,
you know, because it's gonna the moment it turns September.
It's like Hallmark brings out their Christmas like at the
time for Hallmark Christmas. And it's almost like that's what
they were doing, Like it's a killer and his tweaky
t it's a killer and his tweaky trans boyfriend and
the duality of their love. You know, Romeo and Julius

(26:34):
next Hallmark Christmas movie. Yeah, I just don't Romeo and
Julius go to a snow globe factory. It's like that,
you know, I don't know. That's how they tried. That's
like what it felt like, how they were trying to
describe it.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
And there is no humanizing a monster. Just stop.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
There's no humanizing any of this, not a single bit.
If you are a subscriber, over at Substack. I had
a piece that that came out earlier, well yesterday, for
you subscribers, because I was kind of writing about this
idea of you know, because I got a ton of

(27:12):
headlines here like that more on this killer. You know,
apparently he was telling I mean, he was telling his
twink boyfriend to delete all of their messages, et cetera.
I mean, it goes on and on and on. But
you know, I was thinking about this, and I wrote
this piece because I thought, you know, really, when you
think about the story of Harrison Bergeron, I don't know

(27:33):
how many people write it in school. It's a short
story by Kurt Vonnegut. It is exactly right now because
it's a short story that gets into how everybody has
to handicap themselves so that everyone can be equal.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
Right, they said that.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
I mean, it starts out the year was twenty eighty one,
and everyone was finally equal. And they weren't only equal
before God and the law, but they were equal in
every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else, and
nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger
or quicker than anyone else, and that was all due
to the equality brought about by the two hundred and eleven,
two hundred and twelve, and two hundred and thirteen Amendments

(28:08):
and the United States Handicapper General, And it gets into
the characters. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant
she couldn't think about anything except short burst. And George,
while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little
mental handicapper radio in his ear. It was required by
law to weird at all times, and it had to
be tuned to a government transmitter, and every twenty seconds
or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise

(28:29):
to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of
their brains. Except it happened all hell of a lot sooner,
I mean, where where it happened sooner than twenty eighty one.
It's twenty twenty five and we're in it. But if
I'm being honest, it predates two thousand and eight. That's
the real part of it.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's
Absurd Food Podcast.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
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