November 2, 2023 • 21 mins
Hunter Biden writes an op/ed in USA Today blaming Republicans for his daily struggle. Meanwhile, Dana recognizes the good in this world as times seem bleak.
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In fact, Hillsdale College rejects federalfunding. They are anti federal funding.
They don't accept any of it is. They're a small Christian, classical
liberal arts college in southern Michigan,and the only thing that they care about
(00:22):
are merit and character. They don'tcare about color, sex, any of
that stuff. They care about thestrength of character, ability, and intention.
And they also believe in America's greatheritage of liberty. They get the
difference between conservatism and Republicanism as theparty, and they foster open and honest
debate. They've been doing this sincethey were founded in eighteen forty four.
(00:44):
It's one of the few places inthis country where people can go and get
an actual education and shown the opendoor to critical thinking. They have a
short video over at data four frHillsdale dot com where they show you just
exactly how Hillsdale's work is effective indefending American liberty, not just on its
campuses, but across the country.To learn more about the mission of Hillsdale
(01:07):
College, visit Dana four Hillsdale dotCom. That's Dana for Hillsdale dot Com.
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by Keltech. It's his life missionto make bad decisions. It's time for
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Florida man. Well, you know, I think fireball is kind of like
the punkin spice maybe of the liquorworld. I saw a meme that says,
not this candle smells like fireball,so says like, now that's cinnamon
jail. Let's see this headline.Drunk Florida man takes company car for a
spin after down and two fireball shots, say deputies Mary kind of Florida.
(01:49):
Lee Rushing was charged with the DUIafter an incident that unfolded Monday. They
said the sixty one year old manwas reported to be driving under the influence.
They pulled him over when his eyeswere watery. He smelled like cinnamon,
and he said he had been Hejust had a couple of shots at
fireball. He failed every sobriety test, and then he had knee injuries that
prevented him from doing the other things. He was released at their one thousand
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Is the USA today pulling it up? I have it up. Actually
I have a million, eleventy thousandwindows up. Why I have a four
and a half foot wide screen.Why. I don't know if you saw
it, but they had this storyeditorial by Hunter Biden. I first saw
it from Tater or sorry, Briandoes mean of me? Potato Brian Stalter
(04:15):
Hunter Biden said, quote what troublesme is the demonization of addiction of human
frailty using me as it's avatar,and the devastating consequences it has for the
millions struggling with addiction, desperate fora way out, being bombarded by the
denigrating and near constant coverage of meand my addiction on Fox News. Because
(04:43):
see, everybody but Hunter Biden shouldhave consequences except for him. Everyone but
him should have consequences for lying ona forty four to seventy three. I'm,
oh my gosh, don't you daretalk about Hunter Biden enriching himself off
this CCP at the expense of nationalsecurity, engaging in human trafficking, violating
(05:09):
gun laws, violating the Pharah Act. You're demonizing his coke addiction, How
darest thou? This is the ohmy gosh, he literally this published today?
This, Oh my gosh. Theheadline. Can I need something?
I need a stressed all, theone where it's eyes bulged out note to
(05:34):
self, stressed all, Hunter Biden, I fought to get sober. Political
weaponization of my addiction hurts more thanme. He wrote that my struggles and
my mistakes have been fodder for aviolence sustain He's mad about the criticisms against
(05:59):
this family is listen? Well,no, why not let me read it
to you today in Hunter Biden.It's like the this is like the my
Grandma's Afternoon stories. So he writesthis over four years ago, I chose
a life over the slow, strangleddeath grip of addiction, which in my
(06:24):
case consisted of a day each dayof a bottle of vodka and as Mini
hits on a crack pipe as possible. I'm prouder of that choice and of
my recovery than anything I've done.My plume, h calm my family.
Oh and then he gets into mystruggles and my mistakes have been fodder for
(06:44):
a violent, sustained disinformation campaign againstmy father and in all out annihilation of
my reputation through high pitched but fruitlesscongressional investigations. While they're still ongoing.
There Champ and more recently criminal chargesfor possessing an unloaded gun for eleven days
five years ago, charges that appearto be the first of ever of the
(07:10):
kind brought in the history of Delaware. But he says, you're denigrating addiction.
What you're demonizing addiction and human frailtyby using me as its avatar.
That's what he's writing here. Ican't, first off, can I just
go back to the one. Imean he only, as a drug addict,
legally possessed a gun for eleven days. Man, I mean only probably
(07:42):
blue cocaine of it. I don'tknow. I thought a cocaine of Oh
yeah, his uh sister in lawlover threw it in a trash can across
the street from an elementary school,Colly. He is saying that you can't
criticize him because if you I,my crimes that I committed are the same
thing as the addiction. If youdenigrate me, you're denegrating addiction. That
(08:07):
is the worst logic ever. Doyou know why it's the worst logic ever?
Because he's exploiting addiction to dodge accountabilityfor his crimes. I've known addicts,
I've had addicts in my family.Not all addicts sell out their country
(08:31):
to the Communist Chinese Party to enrichthemselves, and not all criminals are addicts.
He chose to do that, andnow he's going to try to say
that you can't. You can't holdhim accountable or criticize him for because because
of his addiction. I wouldn't besurprised if his logic is maybe I should
(08:52):
try to avoid more accountability by keepdoing the drugs that way, I am
an addict. You can't. You'redenegrading my addiction. Instead of in the
past, tence, make it current. Hm. I mean I've heard some
stuff before. Isn't that like oneof the first steps of recoveries to accept
responsibility for the actions you choose tomake. I mean, it seemed like
(09:20):
and someone else made this point.He didn't really show any interest in getting
sober until the fit, as theywould say, hit the shan right.
Can't You can't talk about how heviolated the Foreign Agent's Registration Act. He
(09:43):
is a diction though. You can'ttalk about him being a illegally in possession
of a fire army only had itfor eleven days five years ago. I
mean, come on, h jiminyChristmas. I am pretty amazed he actually
(10:09):
had. He actually wrote this wholeentire editorial about that. But he just
admitted to a crime. He admittedto all these crimes, and they said,
what a stupid moron, I mean, goodness, And then he tried
to go. He tried to getinto his mom's suicide. What I thought
(10:31):
she was killing? I guess sheran on purpose with her kids in the
car in front of a oncoming truck. Interesting because see remember how Joe Biden
went around and was saying that hiswife was killed by a drunk driver and
the guy wasn't drunk at all.His wife just didn't stop at a stop
sign. Huh huh. He getsmad and says that people posted altered nude
(10:54):
photos of him. What is hegood looking before? Did they just make
them ugly? Like I don't understand, Like what did they photoshop clothes off
of him? That all came offhis that all came off his laptop.
The FBI confirmed it was his Ohmy gosh. He hits everything. He
hits about his brother. He goesinto everything like all of these things are
why you should not hold me accountablefor any of the crimes that I chose
(11:16):
to commit because of the drugs.That's why I think what he's doing actually
sets back addiction and people who aretrying to deal with addiction. That's what
he's doing because he's saying that youcan do whatever you want if you're an
addict, you got to get outof jail free card. There's no expectation
of accountability, and recovery starts withthat. I think him. Using addiction
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as a get out of jail freecard sets that recovery back for everybody else,
and it makes everybody else look suspect. Like I said, I've known
addicts, I've had addicts in myfamily. Not every criminal as an addict,
and not every addict goes out andsells out national security or does the
crazy stuff that he does, itengages in human trafficking, does all these
(12:01):
things. Not every addict does that. He is just a privileged, aging
brat who thinks that he is stillin his twenties and that he can do
whatever he wants because daddy's the president. Hunter Biden is a privileged white trash
brat in an almost sixty year old'sbody. It is insane that he is
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is really it's like, it soundsamazing and I want to paint a whole
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don't know if that's actually realistic,but anyway, it's just, you know,
kind of it's kind of cool toknow there's a super goth black out
there. Let's see Cannabis candies.What a weird name. That's so so
I'm sorry, cannabis sounds so bougie. It doesn't it right, I know
what it's. I know, justsay pot like when you say cannabis.
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Just stop it. Shut up.You just trying to sound pretentious. So
anyway, there was some pot candykids that were in Alameda Courses, California.
They found pot infused fruit juice amongstthe candy that they received. I
bet it chilled them out. No, I'm just kidding. They said,
well, I'm not Stone, don'tgive you kids pot cheese. It says
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that one child justed the THHC candy, became ill and sought medical attention.
So bad. Two families found theweed candy amongst the traits that they got
at a PTA event. They werelabeled as lost farm cannabis infused fruit choice.
How much you want about this?Someone just didn't know. It was
like some stoner who's like, oh, I guess son, no county.
How about so this is the one? Right? Wait? How much you
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went a bet that? They justthought it's just a fuites. It's like
having gink goobolova. It's just likethat. Remember gink go boloba. Oh
my gosh, sidebar. When Iwas in high school track, I was
varsity and like from the get go, and my mom give me gink go
bolova. Capitalis and one of thesegirls who was like suckier than me,
and I always beat her and shewas jealous. She was trying to say
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that I was on performance enhancing drugs. I'm like, Ki's kinkoboloba from the
hell food store? You fruit cake? Anyway. A troop trooper wrangled a
wayward Chicken. Wayward Chicken a banjocover band of metal songs Wayward Chicken.
A trooper wrangled a wayward Chicken offan eye off the Interstate in Seattle.
That chicken didn't cross the road.There's a video of it, and it's
(17:12):
hysterical. He totally wrangled that chicken. I love it. I have a
short fuse anyway, I have notolerance. Some people say I'm cold.
I'm not. I'm just very logicaland you just you feel like your tank
is empty. I want to showyou two videos, and this is going
(17:32):
to seem weird. Like I said, I'm changing it up. The first
video, who was this. Thiswas some musician in Texas and he you
know, some people travel, somepeople work Halloween night. I think it's
a great time for door to doorevangelism. Don't send me your emails about
it. But you know, hehad a bucket of candy out and it
said take one piece of candy,please, one piece of candy per kid.
Because he had home, he's working, and these people came up and
(17:56):
this mom loaded up these kids candybags, looking right at the damn camera.
They just I mean it was likea welfare free for all, loading
a handful's handfuls. There's just youknow, loading up their bags. If
you're watching the simulcast Channel three fortyseven Direct TV YouTube Facebook one showing it
to you. If you're listening tothe radio show across the country. You
can hear some of it there.Just they emptied this whole this whole container,
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emptied the whole container. Now Iwatch this. I saw this video
yesterday at probably the most cynical pointof my day, and I'm looking at
it and I'm like, you gottabe kidding me. Everything's horrible, Everything
just sucks, and it just feedsinto the cycle, right, it feeds
into it. You're just like,everything's horrible. Look at how look at
(18:42):
how horrible people are. People arehorrible. And then you're like, what's
you know, what's the what's what'sthe purpose? Let's just let the world
go to hell in a hand basket. Bring on, smod. I want
to show you another video that probablywon't get as many views, because this
is the one that made me stop. I don't know where this is.
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It's not the porch of a famoussinger. They don't have big, old
grand columns on their porch, butthey did have a little one of those
little doorbell cameras. Same situation.You know, the person was out,
they were working doing whatever, andthey had a bowl of candy and it
said one piece and it was gone. Predictably, and the kids they show
up and they look at it andit's empty, and what do they do.
(19:23):
They're like, there's no candy.And this one little boy with this
little plastic sword goes up and helooks and he's like, I'm gonna fix
it. He puts his sword downand he empties his bucket of candy into
this bowl of candy. And thelittle girl comes up and starts doing the
same thing. And then the otherlittle girl, who's dressed up as Sally
for a nightmare before Christmas and hasmy heart, she does the same thing.
(19:45):
And they're like okay, and theyloaded in there, and then one
kid takes one little piece of candyback as I love it. Oh my
guys, I love it, Shakespearesaid, which was popularized further in modern
times by Willy Wonka. So shinesa good deed in a weary world.
And I saw that video, Ithink right about the time I was supposed
to see that video, right whenI was on the cusp of just like
(20:06):
bring on smod. I will goin my front yard and I'll have a
glass of whiskey, a drama whiskey, and I will drink my whiskey and
laugh as I watched the flaming fireballof molten rage hurdle towards Earth and end
us all. And I was rightat that moment when I saw this video,
I'm like, well, there goesruins my Heather's moment. Gosh,
(20:30):
But it was, you know,there's there's good in the world still.
And as I said as I startedthis, I said, there's one or
two ways to look at the timewe're in, just like there's one of
two ways to approach the empty candybowl on the neighbor's port. You can
fill it and you can take fromit. And I was thinking about this,
(20:51):
I'm like, Okay, yeah,it sucks. Everything's horrible right now,
inflation, you know, the economy. Are we going to World War
three? I don't know. Seemslike all the people who tell us that
we're in biblical times seem awful closeto the truth right now, maybe more
than ever. But if not us, then who, And if not now
(21:11):
then when? For a time?For people such as this. I don't
think that we are all put onthis earth in this particular time period for
just chance. I don't believe inthat. I think that there's a reason
why we're all here, and insteadof looking at it as a burden,
maybe we should look at it asa privilege. And maybe we should look
at it like, well, there'ssomething about all of us that maybe God
(21:32):
was like, Yeah, these peoplecan handle it. Let's put them here.
These people got it. They canget through this. Thanks for tuning
in to today's edition of Dana Lash'sAbsurd Truth podcast. If you haven't already,
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you get your podcasts.
My gosh, we need an education, but people need honestly, if you're
going to talk about helping any university, Hillsdale College doesn't get any federal funding.
In fact, Hillsdale College rejects federalfunding. They are anti federal funding.
They don't accept any of it is. They're a small Christian, classical
liberal arts college in southern Michigan,and the only thing that they care about
(00:22):
are merit and character. They don'tcare about color, sex, any of
that stuff. They care about thestrength of character, ability, and intention.
And they also believe in America's greatheritage of liberty. They get the
difference between conservatism and Republicanism as theparty, and they foster open and honest
debate. They've been doing this sincethey were founded in eighteen forty four.
(00:44):
It's one of the few places inthis country where people can go and get
an actual education and shown the opendoor to critical thinking. They have a
short video over at data four frHillsdale dot com where they show you just
exactly how Hillsdale's work is effective indefending American liberty, not just on its
campuses, but across the country.To learn more about the mission of Hillsdale
(01:07):
College, visit Dana four Hillsdale dotCom. That's Dana for Hillsdale dot Com.
Hillsdale College Developing Minds and Improving Hearts. Dana Lashes Absurd Truth podcast sponsored
by Keltech. It's his life missionto make bad decisions. It's time for
(01:29):
Florida man. Well, you know, I think fireball is kind of like
the punkin spice maybe of the liquorworld. I saw a meme that says,
not this candle smells like fireball,so says like, now that's cinnamon
jail. Let's see this headline.Drunk Florida man takes company car for a
spin after down and two fireball shots, say deputies Mary kind of Florida.
(01:49):
Lee Rushing was charged with the DUIafter an incident that unfolded Monday. They
said the sixty one year old manwas reported to be driving under the influence.
They pulled him over when his eyeswere watery. He smelled like cinnamon,
and he said he had been Hejust had a couple of shots at
fireball. He failed every sobriety test, and then he had knee injuries that
prevented him from doing the other things. He was released at their one thousand
(02:12):
dollars bond ooof Celtecs P fifteen.This is such a great, great gun.
The P fifteen stands for fifteen pusat standard capacity ladies and gentlemen.
It's the awesome, the lightest,slimmest double stack concealed carry nine millimeters that's
on the market and unloaded, it'sfourteen ounces, holds fifteen plus one rounds.
You have tried them in fiber opticfront, sight fully adjustable, fiber
(02:35):
optic rear striker, fire reliability,very nice trigger. Now that comes in
two versions. You have the polymerversion which has that awesome gator grip texture
and the and it's just awesome.It's super light. I love I love
the polymer version. I don't feelas bad about getting that one dirty because
the metal version it has these reallyclassic wood grips on it. It has
(02:55):
a very nice, comfortable feel,and it's just a good look at gun.
That is the fancy one. Thatone looks a little fancier. So
like if you're you know, ifI'm carrying me, even if I if
it's concealed and no one's seeing it, I'm probably gonna take the P fifteen
medal for the fancy things, andthen when I'm going out, you know,
and just like maybe doing some trainingoutside something like that, I'll have
my polymer. But the P fifteen'sawesome. This is a great concealed carry
(03:16):
nine millimeter. It's light, it'sthin. It's the smallest one that I
had up until this point was myforty three X. This is lighter and
thinner than that. And I thinkwe need a lot of options nowadays for
concealed carry for public safety and selfdefense. Make the P fifteen your concealed
carry. Go to learn more atCeltech weapons dot com. That's k e
Ltec Weapons dot com. Tell themDana sent you did y'all see the editorial?
(03:46):
Is the USA today pulling it up? I have it up. Actually
I have a million, eleventy thousandwindows up. Why I have a four
and a half foot wide screen.Why. I don't know if you saw
it, but they had this storyeditorial by Hunter Biden. I first saw
it from Tater or sorry, Briandoes mean of me? Potato Brian Stalter
(04:15):
Hunter Biden said, quote what troublesme is the demonization of addiction of human
frailty using me as it's avatar,and the devastating consequences it has for the
millions struggling with addiction, desperate fora way out, being bombarded by the
denigrating and near constant coverage of meand my addiction on Fox News. Because
(04:43):
see, everybody but Hunter Biden shouldhave consequences except for him. Everyone but
him should have consequences for lying ona forty four to seventy three. I'm,
oh my gosh, don't you daretalk about Hunter Biden enriching himself off
this CCP at the expense of nationalsecurity, engaging in human trafficking, violating
(05:09):
gun laws, violating the Pharah Act. You're demonizing his coke addiction, How
darest thou? This is the ohmy gosh, he literally this published today?
This, Oh my gosh. Theheadline. Can I need something?
I need a stressed all, theone where it's eyes bulged out note to
(05:34):
self, stressed all, Hunter Biden, I fought to get sober. Political
weaponization of my addiction hurts more thanme. He wrote that my struggles and
my mistakes have been fodder for aviolence sustain He's mad about the criticisms against
(05:59):
this family is listen? Well,no, why not let me read it
to you today in Hunter Biden.It's like the this is like the my
Grandma's Afternoon stories. So he writesthis over four years ago, I chose
a life over the slow, strangleddeath grip of addiction, which in my
(06:24):
case consisted of a day each dayof a bottle of vodka and as Mini
hits on a crack pipe as possible. I'm prouder of that choice and of
my recovery than anything I've done.My plume, h calm my family.
Oh and then he gets into mystruggles and my mistakes have been fodder for
(06:44):
a violent, sustained disinformation campaign againstmy father and in all out annihilation of
my reputation through high pitched but fruitlesscongressional investigations. While they're still ongoing.
There Champ and more recently criminal chargesfor possessing an unloaded gun for eleven days
five years ago, charges that appearto be the first of ever of the
(07:10):
kind brought in the history of Delaware. But he says, you're denigrating addiction.
What you're demonizing addiction and human frailtyby using me as its avatar.
That's what he's writing here. Ican't, first off, can I just
go back to the one. Imean he only, as a drug addict,
legally possessed a gun for eleven days. Man, I mean only probably
(07:42):
blue cocaine of it. I don'tknow. I thought a cocaine of Oh
yeah, his uh sister in lawlover threw it in a trash can across
the street from an elementary school,Colly. He is saying that you can't
criticize him because if you I,my crimes that I committed are the same
thing as the addiction. If youdenigrate me, you're denegrating addiction. That
(08:07):
is the worst logic ever. Doyou know why it's the worst logic ever?
Because he's exploiting addiction to dodge accountabilityfor his crimes. I've known addicts,
I've had addicts in my family.Not all addicts sell out their country
(08:31):
to the Communist Chinese Party to enrichthemselves, and not all criminals are addicts.
He chose to do that, andnow he's going to try to say
that you can't. You can't holdhim accountable or criticize him for because because
of his addiction. I wouldn't besurprised if his logic is maybe I should
(08:52):
try to avoid more accountability by keepdoing the drugs that way, I am
an addict. You can't. You'redenegrading my addiction. Instead of in the
past, tence, make it current. Hm. I mean I've heard some
stuff before. Isn't that like oneof the first steps of recoveries to accept
responsibility for the actions you choose tomake. I mean, it seemed like
(09:20):
and someone else made this point.He didn't really show any interest in getting
sober until the fit, as theywould say, hit the shan right.
Can't You can't talk about how heviolated the Foreign Agent's Registration Act. He
(09:43):
is a diction though. You can'ttalk about him being a illegally in possession
of a fire army only had itfor eleven days five years ago. I
mean, come on, h jiminyChristmas. I am pretty amazed he actually
(10:09):
had. He actually wrote this wholeentire editorial about that. But he just
admitted to a crime. He admittedto all these crimes, and they said,
what a stupid moron, I mean, goodness, And then he tried
to go. He tried to getinto his mom's suicide. What I thought
(10:31):
she was killing? I guess sheran on purpose with her kids in the
car in front of a oncoming truck. Interesting because see remember how Joe Biden
went around and was saying that hiswife was killed by a drunk driver and
the guy wasn't drunk at all.His wife just didn't stop at a stop
sign. Huh huh. He getsmad and says that people posted altered nude
(10:54):
photos of him. What is hegood looking before? Did they just make
them ugly? Like I don't understand, Like what did they photoshop clothes off
of him? That all came offhis that all came off his laptop.
The FBI confirmed it was his Ohmy gosh. He hits everything. He
hits about his brother. He goesinto everything like all of these things are
why you should not hold me accountablefor any of the crimes that I chose
(11:16):
to commit because of the drugs.That's why I think what he's doing actually
sets back addiction and people who aretrying to deal with addiction. That's what
he's doing because he's saying that youcan do whatever you want if you're an
addict, you got to get outof jail free card. There's no expectation
of accountability, and recovery starts withthat. I think him. Using addiction
(11:39):
as a get out of jail freecard sets that recovery back for everybody else,
and it makes everybody else look suspect. Like I said, I've known
addicts, I've had addicts in myfamily. Not every criminal as an addict,
and not every addict goes out andsells out national security or does the
crazy stuff that he does, itengages in human trafficking, does all these
(12:01):
things. Not every addict does that. He is just a privileged, aging
brat who thinks that he is stillin his twenties and that he can do
whatever he wants because daddy's the president. Hunter Biden is a privileged white trash
brat in an almost sixty year old'sbody. It is insane that he is
(12:24):
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would probably miss. It's time forDana's quick five. So everybody has heard
of Vanda Black, right. VantaBlack is like the blackest black color that
you can ever buy. It likesucks the light out of a room,
except you can't actually buy it.I mean it was developed for UK's Defense
ministry and apparently it's also reportedly carcinogenic. But you can get black four point
(14:41):
oh. Now, black four pointoh is the blackest paint that you can
actually purchase, and you, Imean really don't have. There's not a
reflection on it. It is apparentlydiscomforting for people to see it. It
is really it's like, it soundsamazing and I want to paint a whole
(15:01):
house in it. I would toldI would be the person that has the
black four point zero house. Notgonna lie. That sounds so cool.
I want to paint something with it. I don't even know what cane we
got to do in the new studio. Maybe I can paint something with the
black four point zero Apparently, thoughit's really expensive, like a it's not
like a bucket, it's like abottles, like fifty dollars er. I
(15:24):
don't know if that's actually realistic,but anyway, it's just, you know,
kind of it's kind of cool toknow there's a super goth black out
there. Let's see Cannabis candies.What a weird name. That's so so
I'm sorry, cannabis sounds so bougie. It doesn't it right, I know
what it's. I know, justsay pot like when you say cannabis.
(15:46):
Just stop it. Shut up.You just trying to sound pretentious. So
anyway, there was some pot candykids that were in Alameda Courses, California.
They found pot infused fruit juice amongstthe candy that they received. I
bet it chilled them out. No, I'm just kidding. They said,
well, I'm not Stone, don'tgive you kids pot cheese. It says
(16:07):
that one child justed the THHC candy, became ill and sought medical attention.
So bad. Two families found theweed candy amongst the traits that they got
at a PTA event. They werelabeled as lost farm cannabis infused fruit choice.
How much you want about this?Someone just didn't know. It was
like some stoner who's like, oh, I guess son, no county.
How about so this is the one? Right? Wait? How much you
(16:29):
went a bet that? They justthought it's just a fuites. It's like
having gink goobolova. It's just likethat. Remember gink go boloba. Oh
my gosh, sidebar. When Iwas in high school track, I was
varsity and like from the get go, and my mom give me gink go
bolova. Capitalis and one of thesegirls who was like suckier than me,
and I always beat her and shewas jealous. She was trying to say
(16:52):
that I was on performance enhancing drugs. I'm like, Ki's kinkoboloba from the
hell food store? You fruit cake? Anyway. A troop trooper wrangled a
wayward Chicken. Wayward Chicken a banjocover band of metal songs Wayward Chicken.
A trooper wrangled a wayward Chicken offan eye off the Interstate in Seattle.
That chicken didn't cross the road.There's a video of it, and it's
(17:12):
hysterical. He totally wrangled that chicken. I love it. I have a
short fuse anyway, I have notolerance. Some people say I'm cold.
I'm not. I'm just very logicaland you just you feel like your tank
is empty. I want to showyou two videos, and this is going
(17:32):
to seem weird. Like I said, I'm changing it up. The first
video, who was this. Thiswas some musician in Texas and he you
know, some people travel, somepeople work Halloween night. I think it's
a great time for door to doorevangelism. Don't send me your emails about
it. But you know, hehad a bucket of candy out and it
said take one piece of candy,please, one piece of candy per kid.
Because he had home, he's working, and these people came up and
(17:56):
this mom loaded up these kids candybags, looking right at the damn camera.
They just I mean it was likea welfare free for all, loading
a handful's handfuls. There's just youknow, loading up their bags. If
you're watching the simulcast Channel three fortyseven Direct TV YouTube Facebook one showing it
to you. If you're listening tothe radio show across the country. You
can hear some of it there.Just they emptied this whole this whole container,
(18:21):
emptied the whole container. Now Iwatch this. I saw this video
yesterday at probably the most cynical pointof my day, and I'm looking at
it and I'm like, you gottabe kidding me. Everything's horrible, Everything
just sucks, and it just feedsinto the cycle, right, it feeds
into it. You're just like,everything's horrible. Look at how look at
(18:42):
how horrible people are. People arehorrible. And then you're like, what's
you know, what's the what's what'sthe purpose? Let's just let the world
go to hell in a hand basket. Bring on, smod. I want
to show you another video that probablywon't get as many views, because this
is the one that made me stop. I don't know where this is.
(19:02):
It's not the porch of a famoussinger. They don't have big, old
grand columns on their porch, butthey did have a little one of those
little doorbell cameras. Same situation.You know, the person was out,
they were working doing whatever, andthey had a bowl of candy and it
said one piece and it was gone. Predictably, and the kids they show
up and they look at it andit's empty, and what do they do.
(19:23):
They're like, there's no candy.And this one little boy with this
little plastic sword goes up and helooks and he's like, I'm gonna fix
it. He puts his sword downand he empties his bucket of candy into
this bowl of candy. And thelittle girl comes up and starts doing the
same thing. And then the otherlittle girl, who's dressed up as Sally
for a nightmare before Christmas and hasmy heart, she does the same thing.
(19:45):
And they're like okay, and theyloaded in there, and then one
kid takes one little piece of candyback as I love it. Oh my
guys, I love it, Shakespearesaid, which was popularized further in modern
times by Willy Wonka. So shinesa good deed in a weary world.
And I saw that video, Ithink right about the time I was supposed
to see that video, right whenI was on the cusp of just like
(20:06):
bring on smod. I will goin my front yard and I'll have a
glass of whiskey, a drama whiskey, and I will drink my whiskey and
laugh as I watched the flaming fireballof molten rage hurdle towards Earth and end
us all. And I was rightat that moment when I saw this video,
I'm like, well, there goesruins my Heather's moment. Gosh,
(20:30):
But it was, you know,there's there's good in the world still.
And as I said as I startedthis, I said, there's one or
two ways to look at the timewe're in, just like there's one of
two ways to approach the empty candybowl on the neighbor's port. You can
fill it and you can take fromit. And I was thinking about this,
(20:51):
I'm like, Okay, yeah,it sucks. Everything's horrible right now,
inflation, you know, the economy. Are we going to World War
three? I don't know. Seemslike all the people who tell us that
we're in biblical times seem awful closeto the truth right now, maybe more
than ever. But if not us, then who, And if not now
(21:11):
then when? For a time?For people such as this. I don't
think that we are all put onthis earth in this particular time period for
just chance. I don't believe inthat. I think that there's a reason
why we're all here, and insteadof looking at it as a burden,
maybe we should look at it asa privilege. And maybe we should look
at it like, well, there'ssomething about all of us that maybe God
(21:32):
was like, Yeah, these peoplecan handle it. Let's put them here.
These people got it. They canget through this. Thanks for tuning
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