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March 13, 2024 16 mins
Bands pull out of SXSW over a U.S. Army sponsorship amid Gaza war. Meanwhile, Taco Bell closes all of their dining rooms in Oakland due to a rise in crime.

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Dana Lashes of surd Truth podcast sponsoredby Keltech. It's his life mission to
make bad decisions. It's time forFlorida man. Guys, I isn't this

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in a golf course pond quote tookhis hand off. A man is in
the hospital following a gator attack thathappened Sunday afternoon, Lesburg, Florida.
The Florida Fishing Wildlife Conservation Commission estimatesthe gator's length to be approximately nine feet.

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The man was fishing in a pondPenbrook fair Ways when the gator attacking,
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is dead. So south By Southwesthas been going on. South By Southwest

(03:43):
I think used to be cool andthen it got over commercialized and over glorified
and self important and sucky. Wellthis is coming out of the hill.
Bands are pulling out of south BySouthwest over US Army sponsorship and the Gaza
war. You mean Israel defending itselfagainst the terrorists that were elected to operate
Gaza. Okay, so they said, multiple bands and musicians scheduled to perform

(04:10):
at south By Southwest are pulling outbecause of the US Army's sponsorship and America's
support of Israel's right to defend itself. I'm not going to say Israel's war
on Hamas because this is Israel didn'tdeclare a war on Hamas. Israel is
defending itself against Thomas, who stillhas Israeli hostages, including babies, and
also has American hostages. So there'sa group from Belfast, it's called They're

(04:32):
called Kneecap. Nobody has ever heardof them, Innuboity cares. It's they're
the ones who said that it wasdepraved Okay, then GTFO, don't let
the customs door hit you in theass on your way back to the land
of the grain. Bye, theygo, we can't in good conscience attend
an art festival. That's blah blahblah. Okay, then get out?

(04:53):
Who are you? Nobody gives,nobody cares, get out. Eh.
They had a bunch of other bandsthat pulled out of the event to protest.
Nobody cares. Nobody cares, that'sit. Uh. And they had
a British group, probably two chickswho can't play instruments. They said they

(05:14):
had to pull out of south BySouthwest because they didn't want to become totally
inauthentic and their claims of solidarity witha non existent entity that's governed by hamas.
Okay, bye. I just thinkthat's when people wave the white when
people wave the flag of stupidity,Just let them. They're identifying themselves to
you as limited and brain cells.But what I find interesting if I could

(05:36):
just you know, pick a bonehere, who's heading up the delivery of
humanitarian aid to the Gaza area.Kane up our military? Yeah, the
army, Yeah. Yeah. Thepeople that they're protesting right now, did
did these did did any of thepeople in the brain trust stop to check

(05:58):
that out? I'm protesting. Youcan see army that's leading up the aid
effort brain trust. Yeah, Ijust meant that facetiously because we think they're
morons. So they uh, that'sthey're actually spearheading it. They're the they're
the our military and our the USArmy. They're they're helping to construct the
seaport and deliver of humanitarian aid.But it was the US Army apparently that's

(06:26):
spearheading it via the Hill hmm.And the army says that it's quote probably
be a sponsor of south By Southwest. Now I get it. People are
like, why we are tax dollarssupport the army? Why is the army
doing this? Because they probably haveit allocated within their budget to advertise for
recruitment. Did you think of that? That's probably what it is they got
to. You know, what,what are you shaking your head for?

(06:48):
It's obvious? Yeah, you knowwhat I mean, some people, smart
people. How do you not getit? You know, I would rather
than do that way than have adraft. But I get it, and
I don't necessarily think that that's abad thing. If we're if it's about
defense and if we're making the meansof defense, I actually don't. I'm

(07:11):
not opposed to that. I feellike that's actually not a wasteful use of
dollars, Like you know, sendingthree hundred million to Ukraine, that's a
wasteful use of dollars. Sending moreaid to an area run by a terrorist
group that was popularly elected and isstill popular and takes all the aid for
itself, that's a stupid use ofmoney. But this isn't anything new.
Whether if there were, they're eithercanceling Cherry Curry, who is gonna be

(07:34):
on with this Friday? Correct,she's gonna be on with us, the
Runaways, they were canceling her forthe trans stuff. And now you have
these groups. We're med because theArmy's sponsoring it or because I mean it's
just dumb, nobody cares, nobody'sgonna remember because people will go see the
live music the way they used todo they at now it's south By Southwest.
It's about being seen. It's aboutbeing seen and being able to say

(07:58):
that you were there and taking picturesof your self there. That's what it's
about. I don't like festivals anymore. The last big festival, well,
the last big actual festival festival thatI went to was Memphis in May because
I wanted to see that's when,uh it was right, that was actually
Susan Tedesky performed. I saw runDMC right after Susan Tedesky, all my

(08:20):
brothers band Trucks. This is thispredate, this is right before Tedesky Trucks
formed. Uh, and then runDMC came on right after, and then
the food Fighters. It was amazing, like all literally like that's one line
up. That's one lineup, right. But I just don't have a tolerance
for a lot of people because youknow, a lot of people heat and
liquor. It gets you know,I just don't like that scene. I

(08:43):
I prefer to be quiet and lyricin the shadow. So but I like
good music and I and I reallyI'm like, I wouldn't be able to
go see that. It was.It was an amazing show. But south
by Southwest does anybody go there anymore? It'side from want to be influencers and

(09:03):
bands that I get. Programming andmusicianship are different things. And people who
can't play music anymore and Autoto andeverything. I don't know. I'm Cain
and I are just cruel when itcomes to music. We're jaded, we're
down jaded and downright cruel. Imean, you think Simon Cowell's mean,
please, he's a cupcake. Heis. So just say, if you

(09:26):
want us to review your stuff andbe totally on it, if you want
us to totally destroy you, justsend us your stuff. Senason, because
he was he worked as a musicDJ. I can actually play instruments,
will kill you. So just youknow, just send it. If you
want to be humbled or you wantto have your day ruined because you're a
massachist. I don't know, justlike, send it, send it over.
I don't know. Yeah, wellfree of charge, free of charge.

(09:50):
So a few of the U that'sI don't mean to be mean,
but yes, I do the newsyou would probably miss. It's time for
Dana's Quick five. I have toremark on that Snitch commercial, that place,
that Snitch PSA. It's like ifyou say say something bass snatch sh
don't maybe I don't know, allright, so I didn't say that.

(10:11):
Who said that? This is aghost? Scientists apparently just got closer to
creating artificial life in the lab.Well, we already know that they've done
it once because it's president of theUnited States. They said that this is
the road to how life can arisein a laboratory. This sounds horrible.
Who's your mom and dad a lab? Washington Post quote scientists saying that they've
created an RNA molecule that made copiesof other types of RNA, and they're

(10:35):
closer to doing something they shouldn't bedoing. I'm telling you, guys,
read about the Tower and the Bible, right right, I feel like that
Natalie portm meme that Natalie Portman meme, you Supreme, remember the Babta tower
pabble right, it's the Salk Institutefor Biological Studies. Those scientists were from
the theory that there were there beforethey were DNA or proteins. RNA existed

(10:56):
as the initial ingredient in the quoteunquot delicious, primordial suit no nam nam.
And as part of their research,they said, they created a lab
made Aren't it just stuff they shouldn'tbe doing? Stop it? Stop it?
Do we not have enough of ahorror show in this world that y'all
gotta be doing more of it?And the lab. Stop somebody get these
scientists got le creepy. I don'tknow why that the Metro British publication is

(11:22):
envisioning what a murder would look likein space, but they are apparently in
Britain they paid for someone to studyspace murder. Ooh, that almost sounds
like a great cane, a futuristicpunk rock band with thrash metal inspiration space
murder. They said, it's CSIin Space. I wouldn't watch that show.

(11:45):
I don't think I would. It'dbe kind of annoying. They said
that it revealed how forensic science wouldapply in space by simulating blood spatters,
splatters and micro somebody is a littletoo excited about the blood splatters? What
two headlines in a row about weirdoscientists. They were studying the way blood
explodes out when you mrk someone inzero gravity. M yes, a lot

(12:07):
of space. I mean, arethey going to go out there and be
mrking some aliens or I don't know, like, how's this going to happen?
So they actually used they try toget the viscosity of human blood and
basically they had a Jackson Pollock momentin a zero gravity environment and they were
looking at what happened to blood.Okay, there you go. Also,
let's see the number of California millionaireshas grown. New data shows despite exodus

(12:28):
spears. Do you know why it'sgrown because all the poor people left,
so all the people that are leftthere are the rich people that can afford
the virtue signaling indulgence of higher taxes. A man was arrested in a now
closed Michigan prison. I know,I've heard of prison breakouts, but I've
never heard of someone breaking in theprison. But that's exactly what happened in

(12:52):
Standish, Michigan. Inmates trying tobreak out. That happens, but trying
to get into a former maximum securityfacility. Well that took place. The
guy ended up getting arrested, fortytwo year old Cody Bellamy. So they
caught him trying to get in thetrying to get in the pokey okay.
A twelve year old was found spendingthe night alone inside of an Ohio target

(13:13):
store. They said Columbus police foundthe boy at six fifteen am and that
he was unaccompanied. He was thereall night and he was a runaway.
I mean, there's the worst placesto be so lawn order. Speaking of
lawn order, all Taco Bell locationsin Oakland have announced the indefinite closure of
all of their dining rooms due toa series of robberies and a crime searge.

(13:35):
They're switching to cashless drive through only. That is how bad it is
in Oakland, cashless drive through only, they said, all the Taco Bell
restaurants, they said that it's thisis sadly, it's a new reality for
customers. They can't go in andsit down and they have to go get
drive through. And they said,it's a safety and business decision. That's

(13:58):
what they said. It's safety andbusiness decision. So that's because they can't
there, they can't deal with thecrime anymore, they can't deal with it.
So I'm that's pretty that's kind ofwild. The fact that Taco Bell
that you can't even have a fastfood First of all, who's rob's a
Taco Bell. The fact that youcan't even have a Taco Bell be open
in Oakland, I mean, thattells you everything that you need to know

(14:22):
about Gavin Newsom and the state ofI mean, California is the ultimate culmination
of every Democrat policy. If youwant to know what the endgame is look
at California and Oakland, and inOakland six months, their crime is skyrocketed,
just like in the past year.But they said they had a Denny's
which was an iconic Denny's that closedafter fifty four years in the same location,

(14:45):
and they said it was crime andthe safety and well being of their
employees and customers. They were theyclosed an in and out in Oakland.
They closed an in and out.They even had the n double ACP me
pull this story. This was overat red State back in July of last
year. Oakland in DOUAACP absolutely ripsinto woke DA defund police activists in a

(15:09):
call to action on crime because theysaid that Oakland has a public safety crisis.
So they actually were at odds inDOUAACP with BLM in Oakland and all
of these far left activists in Oakland. They said, quote Oakland residents are
sick and tired of the intolerable publicsafety crisis that overwhelmingly impacts the minority communities.

(15:33):
Murders and shootings and violent arm robberies, home invasions, car break inside
shows, highway shootouts. That's apervasive fixture of life in Oakland. Wow,
now the UH restaurants at Taco Bellhas closed there. Well, they're
closing just the dining rooms only,but it is all cashless drive through and

(15:56):
they did they did confirm we hadto because they had to hire. Even
by doing that, they still hadto hire extra security guards because it's that
dangerous. So this is what happensthough, when you have soft on crime
restorative justice, this is what youget with it. Thanks for tuning in
to today's edition of Dana Lash's AbsurdTruth podcast. If you haven't already,

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