February 5, 2024 • 18 mins
Dana shares her spat with George Santos over the weekend with her town’s mayor and a paid Cameo. Meanwhile, New York City’s robotic police officers are taken off the street.
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(00:00):
Dana Lashes of surd Truth podcast sponsoredby Keltech. It's his laugh mission to
make bad decisions. It's time forFlorida man. So I have a couple,
have a whole handful. First off, there was a Florida man who
tried to sick his pit bull onpolice and then the pit bull attacked the
(00:21):
Florida man. Didn't actually work.You're doing that, You're not a good
dog owner. It was Palm BeachPost who said that it was in South
Riviera Beach. It was a reportedburglary. Cops arrived to and they observed
the guy matching the description of thesuspect. He was carrying hair products and
they ordered the guy to lay onthe ground. He did so well,
hugging his dog. He told officersquote, y'all gonna have to kill us,
(00:43):
before getting up and trying to runaway. They fired a stun gun,
temporarily knocking him back to the ground. He got up again and his
officers pursued. He released the dogfrom its leash and yelled quote kill him,
boy, kill him, and pointedat the officers and the dog because
it has morals, just literally tookcould I think it brought ripped a butt
cheek off and then it bit hishead. He was taken to Saint Mary's
(01:07):
Medical Center. I yeah, it'sa very good boy, alcohol boy.
I holt that they I don't knowwhat happened to the dog, but nothing
better have happened than a dog.You don't want me finding out right now
after just losing Rocko that something happenedto that dog, because it's not going
to be nice. It's going toturn into John Wick. So Mary go
oh. By the way, speakingof dogs, the Snoop Dogg bobblehead statue,
(01:30):
the Canteen Laredo. It was returnedtoo. It was like twenty five
hundred dollars no, sorry, twelvehundred and fifty dollars bobblehead. It was
returned by the to the cash register. It was like a special collectible.
I cannot believe this dude stole thisthing and then got arrested for it.
And because of the price, it'slike, you know, it's a felon
eats grand theft. Oh my gosh, that can you imagine? What are
(01:53):
you in for? I stole abobblehead grand theft? Yeah, stole a
bobblehead that he can really pick him. A Florida man purchased a Portion nine
eleven Turbo with a homemade check.Wow, So Casey William Kelly, he's
got three first names, made afalse check. He literally made it up
(02:15):
at home, apparently to purchase aone hundred and forty thousand dollar Portion nine
eleven Turbo. He's been charged withgrand theft of a motor vehicle and uttering
a false banknote. That's apparently chargedper Walton County Sheriff's office. He used
his home computer and printer and tocopy and print a convincing looking cashier's check.
Who accepted this and they had noidea. The place in Dustin apparently
(02:38):
had no idea, and he hadthe keys in title and he drove off
and then they learned it was nogood and so they contacted Oakle LUSA Sheriff's
office. They found him. Ohmy gosh, like you couldn't really.
I think you're all going to belike reviewing your standards for accepting cashier's checks
after that. Stick with us.We got a lot more in store,
all right, as we move,I just want to go to the range
(02:59):
and blow some stuff. Get mysub two K I need the Gen three
now I don't have the Gen three, but I need the Gen three.
The Sub two K is a gunor a gami. The whole thing twists.
It's a nine millimeter carbine. It'sawesome. That's so innovative. I
think George Calgrin's like a mad ina good way scientist. He's like one
of the nicest people I've ever met. He just smiles. He's all very
(03:21):
friendly, and he he you know, doesn't he's a man of few words,
but he's super smart. He redesignedthis. You got the Gen three
and in the old Sub two Kyou would have to take your optics off
the top, but you could stillfold the whole thing in half, which
is awesome, but you would haveto take your stuff off. With the
Gen three, the whole thing simpletwist and fold motion. There's this patent
(03:42):
pending rotating four in you can twistin either direction. It folds the whole
thing right in half with optics atall. It's awesome and it easily deploys
it just as smoothly. And they'vealso upgraded the aluminum trigger. They redesigned
the trigger mechanics. You got alightened five pound pull, upgraded action.
They got a new chamber indicator.It's awesome. It's cel Tech, made
in America, family owned values atits best, and we need more companies
(04:05):
like kel Tech and I need asub two kg in three. To learn
more about the sub two kg andthree, visit kell Tech Weapons dot com.
That's k e l Tec Weapons dotcom. Tell them Dana sent you
Friday. I don't know if youfollowed this story. And Loreen has a
(04:25):
great piece that just ran up atsubstack on chapter and verse my substack that
you can go and look at.So I was noting that in the twenty
six congressional district in Texas, Idon't really get involved in a lot of
the Senate or congressional primaries and allthat other stuff because there's so much happening,
and I always feel like it's thecandidate's responsibility to It's the candidate that
(04:46):
has to persuade people to vote forthem. It's nobody else's job to do
that. I mean, good grief. I always think that candidates to require
other people to persuade people to votefor them, they're already outsourcing their job
too. Many people like that inDC. But one of the things that
I noticed with us is that inthis primary, and it's kind of a
crowded primary, and you've got andI don't want to, you know,
(05:08):
there, I have a lot offriends that are involved in this, and
I don't want to, you know, name names, but I'll say,
like the top three contenders is likethe mayor of my town, a guy
who is the son of a TexasLegacy candidate, and then another guy who
is the son in law of acommentator. And one of the guys is
(05:31):
is you know, older and iskind of moderate, you know, and
he's I just don't think of,you know, conservative ideals the way that
we need to return to them withwith the older guy, and the other
guy literally just moved in from NewYork and has literally never worked a day
in the in the private sector andlived in the Trump Tower and has his
father in law that's literally buying theseat for him. None of this stuff
(05:53):
is exaggerated. I mean, that'swhat it is. When you create a
pack and you fund it exclusively andyou're buying Republican dinners and all this other
stuff. I mean, that's justit's some of the dirtier politics I've seen,
but it's also antithetical to the conservativespirit that really fuels the movement that
created the Tea Party that I helpedco found back in two thousand and eight,
two thousand and nine, and alsoled the way to Trump taking the
(06:14):
White House and all this other stufftax cuts, et cetera, et cetera.
It's antithetical to the spirit of thatmovement because we don't believe in political
aristocracy and we don't believe i e. We haven't fought in the streets for
as long as we have against theold establishment for New York people to make
themselves the new establishment. And sothere's you know, there was a contingent
from New York that was trying to, you know, get involved and going
(06:36):
after some people in that twenty sixthdistrict for speaking out. And that made
me angry because I don't like tosee people try to big time in a
district. I just I really justrubs me the wrong way. And one
of those guys worked with George Santos, right, he was like his right
hand guy, and he got realnasty about it and we exchanged some barbes
(06:59):
on social media. Yeah, becauseGeorge Santos had made this cameo where he
was reading this like discredited ridiculousness andaccusing you know, the mayor of my
town, John Huffman, of doingall of these egregious offenses, none of
which were true. And so theni got a hold of George Santos and
I'm like, well, who paidfor this cameo? Because you know,
I would hope that they would have, you know, you know, would
(07:19):
have at least disclosed that you know, it's probably for a campaign, or
were you just you know, usedas a stooge for it. I'm just
curious. Anyway, long story short, after some back and forth barbs and
all of this stuff, uh,Santos came to dinner on Friday, and
now I've I've I've never met himbefore. I had no idea, but
I wanted him to meet the guythat he was that he did the video
(07:40):
after and he apologized to him atthe dinner. He was like, I
didn't even know who I was makingthis for. It was anonymous. I'm
not on cameo, so I don'tknow how Sometimes I'm like, is it
really anonymous? Though? But heapologized, you know, profusely to Huffman
and said that he was, youknow, sorry that he just you know,
he he just gets stuff all thetime, and he just reads whatever
script is put in front of him. And he didn't know that it,
(08:01):
you know, had caused such aproblem because he, you know, was
going after like the legitimate you know, conservative candidate in the primary, and
uh, it was you know,it was a They basically made up.
Long story short, they although Huffmandidn't really have a problem with him,
they they made up and Santos apologizedand and you know, and I told
him, I'm like, you know, it's one thing to have an opinion
in politics, but to get involvedin an area that you've never even been
(08:24):
to, and and and that youknow, you don't even know the people
involved. At some point you cansay to a to an extent that I
was just reading a script. Butthen you know, on the other end,
you have to assume the consequence thatgoes along with just reading a script.
And so you know, he agreedon that, but so we we
(08:45):
uh parted an agreement. But hedid apologize profusely and was very nice about
it, and uh realized the errorof of uh what he had done.
So that ended. That ended nicely. Because most stuff in primaries don't Primaries
can get super which I've never understoodbecause I'm like, are people not always
on the same side. And Ialso too think that it should be the
most conservative person who is electable whocan win in that particular race. And
(09:09):
I just think that people who've neverworked in the private cur in the private
sector and have had literally everything providedto them, including political action committees and
everything else, I just don't thinkthat those people are the best fit to
represent hard working American taxpayers who areworking in the private sector and deserve to
have someone with a work ethic thatreflects theirs. And that's just you know,
this is kind of where I standon it. So for the people
(09:30):
who are asking, you know whathappened, Lorraine's got a great piece or
she wrote a little bit more aboutit over at substex. You should definitely
check it out because it has somephotos up there up there as well of
all of us together. Look atthat and now all of the news you
would probably miss. It's time forDana's Quick five. Canada has halted their
controversial assisted suicide program for mentally illpeople due to lack of doctors willing to
(09:54):
participate. They offer euthanasia to termallyand chronically ill people. They were going
to extend the program to those withmental illnesses, but it's divided Canadians.
According to The New York Times,some say it's due to a lack of
adequate psychiatric care, et cetera.And it's just there's a lot of it's
(10:15):
sad. It is sad, butthe fact that there aren't enough doctors willing
to participate, though, gives mea little bit of hope. So it's
just the whole thing is sad.Another dead whale on the beaches in Maryland,
so this is apparently this has beenhappening like quite a bit. Thirty
seven humpback whales were discovered dead lastyear. It was the highest number ever
(10:35):
recorded according to federal data. Theysaid that the definitive cause they weren't able
to determine during the examination and they'relooking for They said, they sent the
samples that they shipped out for diagnosticanalysis, and they discovered another hump back
just a few days ago, oractually January sixteenth of last month, beached
(10:56):
in the exact same location an NPSNational Park Services. There was no obvious
sciences to the cause of death.So some people are wondering if windmills,
the offshore windmills. Some are wonderingthat do you think it could actually that
could actually be a thing. Yeah, I think it's the Actually they had
to do the survey of that seafloor, and in order to do that,
(11:16):
they have to use high frequency sounds, and I think that there's a lot
of that that has to do withwhat we're seeing with these whales washing up
on shore. Golly, this issad. San Mateo County becomes the first
in the US to declare loneliness asa health emergency. It's because we're so
tech where everybody's like so digital.They got to go out and touch grass
(11:37):
every now and then. They hada unanimous vote in San Mateo County in
California by their board of supervisors tobecome the first county to recognize loneliness as
a public health emergency. And thatwas their Their supervisor says, quote,
we have forty five percent of thepeople who find themselves lonely suffer from loneliness.
So what are you going to doif you say it's a health issue,
what are you going to do?Like, what's your response to it?
(12:00):
Yeah, you're gonna like gonna goto people's houses, like what I
don't. It's like I can't standlike these you know, do nothing,
do good? Or you know,here's my virtue signal and they shine a
at like a spotlight into the skyall of Batman. I just I don't
get the point. What was thepoint of it for those people still buying
girls Scout cookies. I know thatthere was the whole thing with planned parenthood
and all of that some years ago. I haven't had any since then.
(12:22):
They apparently are going to be moreexpensive than they ever were before inflation hits
everything. So it's like what halfa box of the Lemonade's cookies is like
six dollars. I don't even knowwhat those cookies are because the only ones
that mean anything are thin mints,and everything else is trash. So the
one that has on one side thatlike a lemone icing and it's a lemon
(12:43):
cookie and it's got that logo stampedon it. Thin mints are the only
ones that count. Go to Yeah. By the way, you can get
thin mint tasting chocolate covered off almondsat Costco in a giant plastic jug.
I'm not telling you how I knowthis or how many of them I eat,
which I'm not saying I do,but they taste just like it,
and it's an almonds, so Itell myself it's healthier and there's more protein
involved. Tastes just like a giantjug, like you could fit your head
(13:07):
in the jug. It's that big. I'm not going to tell you how
many I go through, but they'rereally delicious. Maybe let's see. An
Italian court ordered Getty Images to removephotos of Michael Angelo's David. I okay,
I'm for this because Getty itself isso litigious. I am all for
them putting a boot up Getty's butt. I'm all for it. So they
said that their Italian operation is facinga lawsuit for the Tribunal of Florence regarding
(13:28):
their content depicting Mike Michalangelo's David.They said they temporarily removed it from their
local Italian websites, but they're convincedthat the legitimate legitimacy of the conduct and
are unconvinced and they're going to contestit. So they said that it's basically
an infringement. You can't you know, they have to you have to have
proper appropriation, uh, and ithas to include the following words, and
(13:50):
we're protecting they said, they're protectingthe cultural heritage memory. I'm all for
whatever Florence wants to do, becauseGetty will literally sue you if you so
much just wink at one of theirphotos. So, all right, now,
speaking of law and order in NewYork, do you guys remember when
Eric Adams was talking about that robotDo you remember that little police spot that
looked like that gosh, I can'tremember the name of it now from Doctor
(14:11):
Who, the little trash can withthe toilet punter the doll. Yeah,
So they had these robot security cops, right and there they were these weird
looking wally type things I don't know, and it said NYPD on it and
it was basically a security camera andI think it could talk to you and
it's little robot voice. And theyunveiled a whole fleet of them. Remember
(14:33):
they spent a lot of money onthis, and it was going to be
they put these NYPD bots in thetransit system and the subway system and now
they and and Eric Adams gave thisbig speech where he said that there these
things are are part of the fabricof our future and all that stuff and
they put there they had Uh hehe did a photo op with it.
(14:56):
Can we stop doing the heart thing? Because I'm so high to us where
they do this? Because he dida photo where he did it with the
robot, like, but he onlyhad one part of it so it looked
on. But uh, now they'reno longer being deployed. Yeah, they're
not using them anymore. H Ilove this. It says it's unclear whether
(15:18):
the AI program was considered a successwhat, but everyone talked about these things,
like crime has risen in virtually everycategory in New York even after these
things were deployed. Now, theyleased these what they called fully autonomous bots
for six months for I think wasit twelve five d per bot. That's
(15:43):
a good question. That they calledit a K five device, and it
had the NYPD colors and all ofthis stuff, and it can move at
an astonishing speed of three miles perhour. And they said that the robot
twelve five hundred dollars. Robot cancapture video footage but not audio, and
(16:06):
members of the public could press abutton to report an emergency or ask questions.
So in twenty fifteen, one ofthe robots knocked a baby to the
ground and ran over its feet.Then there was in DC when another one
of these robots he eated itself intothe fountain in a sad attempt at suicide,
and uh yeah, it rolled it. I love how it was described
as the K five model rolled itselffatally into a fountain. There was some
(16:37):
of the MTA employees said. Theytold the New York Post, we don't
think they're working. They were saying, we don't think that they're actually working.
They're just kind of sitting there.It's four hundred pound egg shape thing
they go one One MTA worker said, I think it's just a scare people.
It didn't do it damn thing,is what she said. It's what
she told New York Post. It'sso funny. We need police, not
(17:00):
robots. And it worked eighteen hourshifts and then I had to go,
I guess to get charged or somethinglike that, and uh, it just
I'm actually surprised they weren't graffitied.I will say, I you know,
I was, I was wondering whetheror not that was gonna happen. But
think about this, They're leasing themfor twelve thousand, five hundred per month,
(17:22):
and I'm assuming that's like one bot. Why would you lease a bot
that can't even record audio if somebodyfell on the tracks. It can't do
anything. It's not armed, itcan't do nothing. You could for that
amount, you could have two officersthere, or one really well paid,
really well trained security guy at thebusiest transit stops. Why do you see
(17:45):
what I'm saying? Why that isso dumb? You could have two well
trained dudes and that would be anice salary. What in the world I
mean, like not like trained likeNYPD trained, like you could have like
specop dudes there. If it's thatworrisome. If you can spend twelve five
hundred dollars for a stupid robot topatrol one transit system, then you can
(18:08):
one stop. Then surely you couldhave like an actual person who can carry
a gun and can save people ifthey fall on the tracks. Right,
that little bot can't do anything?God Lee, people have said that it
was a waste of taxpayer money,you think. Thanks for tuning into the
day's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd Toothpodcast. If you haven't already made sure
(18:32):
to hit that subscribe button on ApplePodcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts,
Dana Lashes of surd Truth podcast sponsoredby Keltech. It's his laugh mission to
make bad decisions. It's time forFlorida man. So I have a couple,
have a whole handful. First off, there was a Florida man who
tried to sick his pit bull onpolice and then the pit bull attacked the
(00:21):
Florida man. Didn't actually work.You're doing that, You're not a good
dog owner. It was Palm BeachPost who said that it was in South
Riviera Beach. It was a reportedburglary. Cops arrived to and they observed
the guy matching the description of thesuspect. He was carrying hair products and
they ordered the guy to lay onthe ground. He did so well,
hugging his dog. He told officersquote, y'all gonna have to kill us,
(00:43):
before getting up and trying to runaway. They fired a stun gun,
temporarily knocking him back to the ground. He got up again and his
officers pursued. He released the dogfrom its leash and yelled quote kill him,
boy, kill him, and pointedat the officers and the dog because
it has morals, just literally tookcould I think it brought ripped a butt
cheek off and then it bit hishead. He was taken to Saint Mary's
(01:07):
Medical Center. I yeah, it'sa very good boy, alcohol boy.
I holt that they I don't knowwhat happened to the dog, but nothing
better have happened than a dog.You don't want me finding out right now
after just losing Rocko that something happenedto that dog, because it's not going
to be nice. It's going toturn into John Wick. So Mary go
oh. By the way, speakingof dogs, the Snoop Dogg bobblehead statue,
(01:30):
the Canteen Laredo. It was returnedtoo. It was like twenty five
hundred dollars no, sorry, twelvehundred and fifty dollars bobblehead. It was
returned by the to the cash register. It was like a special collectible.
I cannot believe this dude stole thisthing and then got arrested for it.
And because of the price, it'slike, you know, it's a felon
eats grand theft. Oh my gosh, that can you imagine? What are
(01:53):
you in for? I stole abobblehead grand theft? Yeah, stole a
bobblehead that he can really pick him. A Florida man purchased a Portion nine
eleven Turbo with a homemade check.Wow, So Casey William Kelly, he's
got three first names, made afalse check. He literally made it up
(02:15):
at home, apparently to purchase aone hundred and forty thousand dollar Portion nine
eleven Turbo. He's been charged withgrand theft of a motor vehicle and uttering
a false banknote. That's apparently chargedper Walton County Sheriff's office. He used
his home computer and printer and tocopy and print a convincing looking cashier's check.
Who accepted this and they had noidea. The place in Dustin apparently
(02:38):
had no idea, and he hadthe keys in title and he drove off
and then they learned it was nogood and so they contacted Oakle LUSA Sheriff's
office. They found him. Ohmy gosh, like you couldn't really.
I think you're all going to belike reviewing your standards for accepting cashier's checks
after that. Stick with us.We got a lot more in store,
all right, as we move,I just want to go to the range
(02:59):
and blow some stuff. Get mysub two K I need the Gen three
now I don't have the Gen three, but I need the Gen three.
The Sub two K is a gunor a gami. The whole thing twists.
It's a nine millimeter carbine. It'sawesome. That's so innovative. I
think George Calgrin's like a mad ina good way scientist. He's like one
of the nicest people I've ever met. He just smiles. He's all very
(03:21):
friendly, and he he you know, doesn't he's a man of few words,
but he's super smart. He redesignedthis. You got the Gen three
and in the old Sub two Kyou would have to take your optics off
the top, but you could stillfold the whole thing in half, which
is awesome, but you would haveto take your stuff off. With the
Gen three, the whole thing simpletwist and fold motion. There's this patent
(03:42):
pending rotating four in you can twistin either direction. It folds the whole
thing right in half with optics atall. It's awesome and it easily deploys
it just as smoothly. And they'vealso upgraded the aluminum trigger. They redesigned
the trigger mechanics. You got alightened five pound pull, upgraded action.
They got a new chamber indicator.It's awesome. It's cel Tech, made
in America, family owned values atits best, and we need more companies
(04:05):
like kel Tech and I need asub two kg in three. To learn
more about the sub two kg andthree, visit kell Tech Weapons dot com.
That's k e l Tec Weapons dotcom. Tell them Dana sent you
Friday. I don't know if youfollowed this story. And Loreen has a
(04:25):
great piece that just ran up atsubstack on chapter and verse my substack that
you can go and look at.So I was noting that in the twenty
six congressional district in Texas, Idon't really get involved in a lot of
the Senate or congressional primaries and allthat other stuff because there's so much happening,
and I always feel like it's thecandidate's responsibility to It's the candidate that
(04:46):
has to persuade people to vote forthem. It's nobody else's job to do
that. I mean, good grief. I always think that candidates to require
other people to persuade people to votefor them, they're already outsourcing their job
too. Many people like that inDC. But one of the things that
I noticed with us is that inthis primary, and it's kind of a
crowded primary, and you've got andI don't want to, you know,
(05:08):
there, I have a lot offriends that are involved in this, and
I don't want to, you know, name names, but I'll say,
like the top three contenders is likethe mayor of my town, a guy
who is the son of a TexasLegacy candidate, and then another guy who
is the son in law of acommentator. And one of the guys is
(05:31):
is you know, older and iskind of moderate, you know, and
he's I just don't think of,you know, conservative ideals the way that
we need to return to them withwith the older guy, and the other
guy literally just moved in from NewYork and has literally never worked a day
in the in the private sector andlived in the Trump Tower and has his
father in law that's literally buying theseat for him. None of this stuff
(05:53):
is exaggerated. I mean, that'swhat it is. When you create a
pack and you fund it exclusively andyou're buying Republican dinners and all this other
stuff. I mean, that's justit's some of the dirtier politics I've seen,
but it's also antithetical to the conservativespirit that really fuels the movement that
created the Tea Party that I helpedco found back in two thousand and eight,
two thousand and nine, and alsoled the way to Trump taking the
(06:14):
White House and all this other stufftax cuts, et cetera, et cetera.
It's antithetical to the spirit of thatmovement because we don't believe in political
aristocracy and we don't believe i e. We haven't fought in the streets for
as long as we have against theold establishment for New York people to make
themselves the new establishment. And sothere's you know, there was a contingent
from New York that was trying to, you know, get involved and going
(06:36):
after some people in that twenty sixthdistrict for speaking out. And that made
me angry because I don't like tosee people try to big time in a
district. I just I really justrubs me the wrong way. And one
of those guys worked with George Santos, right, he was like his right
hand guy, and he got realnasty about it and we exchanged some barbes
(06:59):
on social media. Yeah, becauseGeorge Santos had made this cameo where he
was reading this like discredited ridiculousness andaccusing you know, the mayor of my
town, John Huffman, of doingall of these egregious offenses, none of
which were true. And so theni got a hold of George Santos and
I'm like, well, who paidfor this cameo? Because you know,
I would hope that they would have, you know, you know, would
(07:19):
have at least disclosed that you know, it's probably for a campaign, or
were you just you know, usedas a stooge for it. I'm just
curious. Anyway, long story short, after some back and forth barbs and
all of this stuff, uh,Santos came to dinner on Friday, and
now I've I've I've never met himbefore. I had no idea, but
I wanted him to meet the guythat he was that he did the video
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after and he apologized to him atthe dinner. He was like, I
didn't even know who I was makingthis for. It was anonymous. I'm
not on cameo, so I don'tknow how Sometimes I'm like, is it
really anonymous? Though? But heapologized, you know, profusely to Huffman
and said that he was, youknow, sorry that he just you know,
he he just gets stuff all thetime, and he just reads whatever
script is put in front of him. And he didn't know that it,
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you know, had caused such aproblem because he, you know, was
going after like the legitimate you know, conservative candidate in the primary, and
uh, it was you know,it was a They basically made up.
Long story short, they although Huffmandidn't really have a problem with him,
they they made up and Santos apologizedand and you know, and I told
him, I'm like, you know, it's one thing to have an opinion
in politics, but to get involvedin an area that you've never even been
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to, and and and that youknow, you don't even know the people
involved. At some point you cansay to a to an extent that I
was just reading a script. Butthen you know, on the other end,
you have to assume the consequence thatgoes along with just reading a script.
And so you know, he agreedon that, but so we we
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uh parted an agreement. But hedid apologize profusely and was very nice about
it, and uh realized the errorof of uh what he had done.
So that ended. That ended nicely. Because most stuff in primaries don't Primaries
can get super which I've never understoodbecause I'm like, are people not always
on the same side. And Ialso too think that it should be the
most conservative person who is electable whocan win in that particular race. And
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I just think that people who've neverworked in the private cur in the private
sector and have had literally everything providedto them, including political action committees and
everything else, I just don't thinkthat those people are the best fit to
represent hard working American taxpayers who areworking in the private sector and deserve to
have someone with a work ethic thatreflects theirs. And that's just you know,
this is kind of where I standon it. So for the people
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who are asking, you know whathappened, Lorraine's got a great piece or
she wrote a little bit more aboutit over at substex. You should definitely
check it out because it has somephotos up there up there as well of
all of us together. Look atthat and now all of the news you
would probably miss. It's time forDana's Quick five. Canada has halted their
controversial assisted suicide program for mentally illpeople due to lack of doctors willing to
(09:54):
participate. They offer euthanasia to termallyand chronically ill people. They were going
to extend the program to those withmental illnesses, but it's divided Canadians.
According to The New York Times,some say it's due to a lack of
adequate psychiatric care, et cetera.And it's just there's a lot of it's
(10:15):
sad. It is sad, butthe fact that there aren't enough doctors willing
to participate, though, gives mea little bit of hope. So it's
just the whole thing is sad.Another dead whale on the beaches in Maryland,
so this is apparently this has beenhappening like quite a bit. Thirty
seven humpback whales were discovered dead lastyear. It was the highest number ever
(10:35):
recorded according to federal data. Theysaid that the definitive cause they weren't able
to determine during the examination and they'relooking for They said, they sent the
samples that they shipped out for diagnosticanalysis, and they discovered another hump back
just a few days ago, oractually January sixteenth of last month, beached
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in the exact same location an NPSNational Park Services. There was no obvious
sciences to the cause of death.So some people are wondering if windmills,
the offshore windmills. Some are wonderingthat do you think it could actually that
could actually be a thing. Yeah, I think it's the Actually they had
to do the survey of that seafloor, and in order to do that,
(11:16):
they have to use high frequency sounds, and I think that there's a lot
of that that has to do withwhat we're seeing with these whales washing up
on shore. Golly, this issad. San Mateo County becomes the first
in the US to declare loneliness asa health emergency. It's because we're so
tech where everybody's like so digital.They got to go out and touch grass
(11:37):
every now and then. They hada unanimous vote in San Mateo County in
California by their board of supervisors tobecome the first county to recognize loneliness as
a public health emergency. And thatwas their Their supervisor says, quote,
we have forty five percent of thepeople who find themselves lonely suffer from loneliness.
So what are you going to doif you say it's a health issue,
what are you going to do?Like, what's your response to it?
(12:00):
Yeah, you're gonna like gonna goto people's houses, like what I
don't. It's like I can't standlike these you know, do nothing,
do good? Or you know,here's my virtue signal and they shine a
at like a spotlight into the skyall of Batman. I just I don't
get the point. What was thepoint of it for those people still buying
girls Scout cookies. I know thatthere was the whole thing with planned parenthood
and all of that some years ago. I haven't had any since then.
(12:22):
They apparently are going to be moreexpensive than they ever were before inflation hits
everything. So it's like what halfa box of the Lemonade's cookies is like
six dollars. I don't even knowwhat those cookies are because the only ones
that mean anything are thin mints,and everything else is trash. So the
one that has on one side thatlike a lemone icing and it's a lemon
(12:43):
cookie and it's got that logo stampedon it. Thin mints are the only
ones that count. Go to Yeah. By the way, you can get
thin mint tasting chocolate covered off almondsat Costco in a giant plastic jug.
I'm not telling you how I knowthis or how many of them I eat,
which I'm not saying I do,but they taste just like it,
and it's an almonds, so Itell myself it's healthier and there's more protein
involved. Tastes just like a giantjug, like you could fit your head
(13:07):
in the jug. It's that big. I'm not going to tell you how
many I go through, but they'rereally delicious. Maybe let's see. An
Italian court ordered Getty Images to removephotos of Michael Angelo's David. I okay,
I'm for this because Getty itself isso litigious. I am all for
them putting a boot up Getty's butt. I'm all for it. So they
said that their Italian operation is facinga lawsuit for the Tribunal of Florence regarding
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their content depicting Mike Michalangelo's David.They said they temporarily removed it from their
local Italian websites, but they're convincedthat the legitimate legitimacy of the conduct and
are unconvinced and they're going to contestit. So they said that it's basically
an infringement. You can't you know, they have to you have to have
proper appropriation, uh, and ithas to include the following words, and
(13:50):
we're protecting they said, they're protectingthe cultural heritage memory. I'm all for
whatever Florence wants to do, becauseGetty will literally sue you if you so
much just wink at one of theirphotos. So, all right, now,
speaking of law and order in NewYork, do you guys remember when
Eric Adams was talking about that robotDo you remember that little police spot that
looked like that gosh, I can'tremember the name of it now from Doctor
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Who, the little trash can withthe toilet punter the doll. Yeah,
So they had these robot security cops, right and there they were these weird
looking wally type things I don't know, and it said NYPD on it and
it was basically a security camera andI think it could talk to you and
it's little robot voice. And theyunveiled a whole fleet of them. Remember
(14:33):
they spent a lot of money onthis, and it was going to be
they put these NYPD bots in thetransit system and the subway system and now
they and and Eric Adams gave thisbig speech where he said that there these
things are are part of the fabricof our future and all that stuff and
they put there they had Uh hehe did a photo op with it.
(14:56):
Can we stop doing the heart thing? Because I'm so high to us where
they do this? Because he dida photo where he did it with the
robot, like, but he onlyhad one part of it so it looked
on. But uh, now they'reno longer being deployed. Yeah, they're
not using them anymore. H Ilove this. It says it's unclear whether
(15:18):
the AI program was considered a successwhat, but everyone talked about these things,
like crime has risen in virtually everycategory in New York even after these
things were deployed. Now, theyleased these what they called fully autonomous bots
for six months for I think wasit twelve five d per bot. That's
(15:43):
a good question. That they calledit a K five device, and it
had the NYPD colors and all ofthis stuff, and it can move at
an astonishing speed of three miles perhour. And they said that the robot
twelve five hundred dollars. Robot cancapture video footage but not audio, and
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members of the public could press abutton to report an emergency or ask questions.
So in twenty fifteen, one ofthe robots knocked a baby to the
ground and ran over its feet.Then there was in DC when another one
of these robots he eated itself intothe fountain in a sad attempt at suicide,
and uh yeah, it rolled it. I love how it was described
as the K five model rolled itselffatally into a fountain. There was some
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of the MTA employees said. Theytold the New York Post, we don't
think they're working. They were saying, we don't think that they're actually working.
They're just kind of sitting there.It's four hundred pound egg shape thing
they go one One MTA worker said, I think it's just a scare people.
It didn't do it damn thing,is what she said. It's what
she told New York Post. It'sso funny. We need police, not
(17:00):
robots. And it worked eighteen hourshifts and then I had to go,
I guess to get charged or somethinglike that, and uh, it just
I'm actually surprised they weren't graffitied.I will say, I you know,
I was, I was wondering whetheror not that was gonna happen. But
think about this, They're leasing themfor twelve thousand, five hundred per month,
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and I'm assuming that's like one bot. Why would you lease a bot
that can't even record audio if somebodyfell on the tracks. It can't do
anything. It's not armed, itcan't do nothing. You could for that
amount, you could have two officersthere, or one really well paid,
really well trained security guy at thebusiest transit stops. Why do you see
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what I'm saying? Why that isso dumb? You could have two well
trained dudes and that would be anice salary. What in the world I
mean, like not like trained likeNYPD trained, like you could have like
specop dudes there. If it's thatworrisome. If you can spend twelve five
hundred dollars for a stupid robot topatrol one transit system, then you can
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one stop. Then surely you couldhave like an actual person who can carry
a gun and can save people ifthey fall on the tracks. Right,
that little bot can't do anything?God Lee, people have said that it
was a waste of taxpayer money,you think. Thanks for tuning into the
day's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd Toothpodcast. If you haven't already made sure
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