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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dana Lashes of surd Truth podcast sponsored by Keltech.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time
for Florida man.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I had I think I had this story last week,
but there's an update to it. The guy who jumped
into the water to save a bald eagle, So it
was an alligator infested lake that he jumped in. Now
we didn't have that. I wanted to add that to
the story, the Florida man who swam into a lake
to rescue a struggling bald eagle because they got into
(00:35):
a fight with another eagle and it had a hole
in its talon or a hole in its wing, and
they it was like punctured. It was horrible, and the
guy dove into the water to save it and they
rehabilitated it. So, yeah, it's an alligator infested.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Became the most American story that we've had all day today.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Uh, yeah, it is. That's the most amazing thing. Doug
Hay sulgar a medal. That man should get a medal
because his wife apparently was terrified. She's the one who
took the footage of it because she there's they there
was like a seventh foot gator that they just saw
apparently got more than Yeah, oh my god, I had
to share that. I'll date with you.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
He wasn't a member of a gang. And then they looked.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
And on his knuckles he had there's wit a minute,
a minute, he had MS thirteen on.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
He had some tattoos that are interpreted that way. But
let's move on. Wait a minute, I wait, Terry, Terry,
he did not have that or MS one. It says
MS one three. That was photoshoph So let me tell
his photoshop Terry ahead of that. Hey, they're giving you
the big break of a lifetime. You know you're doing
the interview. I picked you because, in factly I never
heard of you. But that's okay, Oh Terry, Hey begin
(01:51):
not being very nice. He had MS thirteen tattoo. We'll
agree to disagree. I want to rive on to something else.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Terry punching.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Do you want me to show you the picture?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I see picture, We'll show here, we go here, we
got photoshop, but don't look at his hand.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
He had an amster. He did have tattoos that can
be interpreted that way. I'm not an expert on them.
I want to turn to Ukraine. I want to get
to no.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
No, he had MS as clear as you can be,
not interpreted.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
This is why people no longer believe well the news
because photograph and Elsa in El Saho. They aren't there.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
But let's just go they aren't there when he's in
the photo there now right, No, but they're in your picture.
Terry Ukraine's sir, he's got MS thirteen on his knuckles?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Are Ukraine? Serry?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
We'll take a look. It's just such a disservice. We'll
take a look. You just say it.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yes he does, and you know, go into some hot
houses contested.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So this is one of my favorite exchanges. I wish
that Terry he had MS thirteen on his knuckles. I mean,
come on, Terry, Terry he had M thirteen. That's a
viral video reference. It's probably too much. Oh, welcome back.
We got a lot of audio today. So that's uh.
I told you I was gonna make it up for
(03:06):
you by robbing you guys at quick five. That was
my bad because I was just I was just wouldn't
shut up. That's my problem. Who knew? So everyone was
saying that he does. So Trump was to his Tarry
Morane with is he with is he with in ABC. Okay,
so this so everyone was saying that MS thirteen was
(03:30):
added to the photo because the symbols that he has
on his knuckles and it was marijuana. What was the
other one? It was like the ex ex smiley face
across in a skull that that is like basically the
emojis that mean MS thirteen. Right, yeah, like how the
(03:51):
eggplant means something and you know the peach means something, eh,
and they're different. Emojis mean things. Okay, so that's they're
not really emojis, but those symbols mean MS thirteen. And
so when they had the photo, apparently the photo was Okay,
this means m and this means s this is this
is what it stands for. And they're explaining what the
(04:16):
tattoos symbolize. And so wait, so let me break this
down because I'm not letting this go either. And I
love that he stopped and he's like, all right, Terry,
there's Trump with it right there. So the MS thirteen
that's on it, those symbols are literally like indig that
the symbols mean MS thirteen. That's what they mean. That
(04:37):
each of the images stand for something that translates to
MS thirteen and so Terry Moran was trying to argue,
I guess that that wasn't that he didn't have any
kind of identifier tattooed on him, and Trump's like, no, no, no,
if the if the media wants to sit here and
picnics about oh well it Jim specifically saying, you know, man,
(04:58):
man other, it still the same thing, you know, just
like those No I'm not saying Maryland dad. You know
what I'm saying, Oh that Maryland man. Oh yes, you
mean the gang banging wife beater. Yes, that one. He's
from El Salvador and man. But okay, see what I mean, Like,
if you guys can sit here, if the media can
(05:20):
sit here and try to b s us about this,
oh this poor gang banging wife beating Maryland man, then yeah,
we're gonna go ahead and say might as well had
like literally the actual Arabic MS one three on it
shut up so stupid, just just absolutely asinine. So I'm
glad that he stopped there. I mean, for the and
(05:42):
the Left was trying to make a big deal of this.
King you saw this. They were trying to make a
big deal of this all last night, all last night
Oh my god, it's gonna even leave drum sem he
just canna think of the right. But it's but it's
not wrong, right, that's so goofy. It's like saying, well,
those moving snakes on the hair. Potter figures they're not
really indicative of death if they are, because none of
(06:05):
the nobody else has them unless they're death eaters. See
the same thing. I did that. I went to a
Harry Potter reference, just saying yeah, yeah, so these are
like ruins. That mean mus thirteen, that's what it is.
I thought the interview was funny, but yeah, he was
(06:27):
in I mean this it was a very contentious interview,
and I thought it was stupid that Terry Morane was
even trying to like contest that. And then he realized
the futility of it. He's like, oh, maybe I should
move on. Yeah, Terry maybe ought to maybe ought to
move on, Terry. I mean, it's just so stupid audio
somebody thirteen. And this is where Trump argues with him,
(06:48):
because remember the media pretended, gosh, we didn't even know
that Biden was half dead. Wait, no clue, listen to this.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Do you think the reputation in the United States has
gone down under your presence. No, I think it's gone
way up. But I think we're a respected country again.
We were left at all over the world. We had
a president that couldn't walk up a flight of stairs,
couldn't walk down a flight of stairs, couldn't walk across
the stage without falling. We had a president that was
grossly incompetent. You knew it, I knew it, and everybody
(07:19):
knew it. But you guys didn't want to write it
because you're fake news.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
All right, thank him? By the way, Aby's the worst.
I have to be honest.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Okay, thank okay, thank you, yes, thank you. Yeah, you
guys didn't want to write about it because you're fake news.
I mean they were. I mean, Biden falls up the stairs.
I told you this yesterday. How, oh my gosh, Biden
stuttered with his feet. Never seen anybody do that, man.
That man stuttered all the way the hell up them
stairs with his feet. If never seen anybody do that before,
(07:49):
But they did. That's how all of them were. And
I'm glad that. I'm glad that Potus called it out
because the media has been going on like, oh, we
just didn't know. We were just this little innocent media.
We were tripped, just like the rest of you. What
do you mean what you all knew? You all knew
the man really didn't have a pulse. You all knew
he was just a skin suit and Joe Biden had
(08:10):
her hand up his backside. Come on, it's like a
sock puppet. Is it too mean? Because I don't I
just don't even care. I'm just so dumb with this stuff.
These people try to pull so much wool over our eyes.
I just feel like all civility is out the window
at this point, right, good heavens, I mean it was.
It was a really good it was a very good interview.
But this is this is audio. Some by fourteen they
(08:32):
were arguing over Putin. Listen, he's willing to stop the fighting.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Don't begin. He wants to say. You think Vladimir Putin
wants peace? I think he does. Yes, I think it does.
I think fels are raining missile. I think he really
his dream was to take over the whole country. I
think because of me, he's not going to do that.
Do you trust him? I think do you trust him?
I don't trust you. I don't trust a lot of people.
(09:01):
I don't trust you. Look at you.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
You come in all shooting for bear, You're so happy
to do the interview. How you start hitting me with
fake questions? He started telling me.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
That a guy whose hand is coming out of a
tact doesn't have that.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I mean, in so many ways, Trump is like an
old nana, you know, like on no. But you know,
I'm gonna come back to this because I'm not over it.
And like ten years later, yeah, remember that time, the knuckles.
I remember that, like it's never going to go away.
Oh but goodness.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Then there was the uh, eggs, eggs, eggs? Are you
sew my fifteenth?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
But gasoline is way down? And when I took over,
you remember the big thing with eggs. They hit me
the first week eggs, eggs, eggs.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Like it was my fault.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
I said, I didn't cause this problem. This problem was
caused by Biden. What's the problem with eggs? And they
said they've doubled. Well, eggs are down eighty seven percent
since I got involved.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I love it, do you know. One of the things
kind of a sidebar and accompaniment to this, one of
the reasons that Trump can get there's two reasons that
Trump can get away with rough housing. Journalists that other
politicians can't because he's he's very much a showman. And
I think that was on stage. I think there was
evident on stage last night. He really loves his audience,
and his audience loves him. But older people, I am
(10:20):
jealous of you because you guys get to do whatever
you want. And this is why Kane doesn't. This is
why Kane doesn't like you.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
So he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
He thinks.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
He thinks you're not innocent. He thinks you're not innocent.
It's because of this, because he can. He's he's you know,
you give him a pass. He's like, oh, he's like
a grandpa or oh they're like a nana's age, right,
Like there, you give him a pass right. It's just funny.
And I feel like Terry Moran actually liked him. Did
you see his expression in this interview. I mean he
(10:52):
wasn't smiling like he was being all wise eight double snakes.
I think he liked him.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
He was thankful to be insulted.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah, he was just happy to be there.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Man.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
However you want to kick him. I mean, Terry's Terry.
He's just happy for that big break.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
He's like, you guys are fake News. He's like thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
He's like, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
The way ABC is the worst. He's like, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
We are thank you, mister President. There's they're so oh,
there's okay. Here's another one where I got a little
little testy testing audio sound by eleven. They were arguing
over fraud referrals from Doues a legal note.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Fraud is a crime. There have been no referrals to
the Justice Department at anyway. You don't know that? To you,
how do you know that have there been referrals to
Do you know that that there were no referrals?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I think they generally all right, there's been no investigation
from the House Department that I'm asking you, sir.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
You're not asking me. You made a statement, you know.
Now I'm asking him there was a statement that you
made there, I'm asking him. Have they been yes?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Well, I mean he did. He was like, okay, well,
now I'm asking you. Okay, so you did make a statement.
And then you're okay, that's exactly. You just proved his point. Terry,
what are you doing? Are doing Terry? My gosh, this
is full This is so crazy. I mean, is this
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(14:24):
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(14:45):
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isn't the first time. So let me just set this up.
This isn't the first time that I've seen or that
lawmakers have tried to I guess regulate memes. That's the
(17:54):
word that I want. This is not the first time
that they've tried to regulate memes. They've tried to do this.
Remember federally before, isn't that Cain when they had the
who is that annoying theater kid? That the Ministry of whatever? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
And they were going to have like they were going
(18:15):
to try to regulate memes or something like that, and
they kept saying, oh, it's for AI purposes, you know,
we just were trying to protect you for AI. That's
the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. So no,
that's not so. What happened is the Texas House they
passed a bill. It took thirty seconds with no debate,
(18:36):
and it is a bill that actually inadvertently would criminalize
political memes Texas scorecard rights that courts have routinely struck
down these laws that try to regulate political discourse, right,
because First Amendment has pretty strong protections. It House built
three sixty six, and it would make it a crime
to distribute altered media, including political memes, without a government
(18:59):
approved disclaimer, and people who violate this could face up
to a year in jail. Anyone who tries to enforce
this on me in Texas, We're going to have a
Waco style knockdown drag out in South Lake. So I'm
done with this stuff. Oh, I'm not joking. I'm not
being hyperbolic, like you want to push people who are
(19:21):
good people to the point where they become criminals for
criticizing bad lawmakers. If you want a civil war, that's
how you start civil wars. I'm not saying this lightly.
I am so sick of sick of these people. So
the drunk schmuck who's the House speaker, And by the way,
Dave Fhalin, this is his built. We've invited him on
this show and he won't come on the show. Right,
(19:44):
Kane we've invited him on the show. He won't come.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah, back when the Texas ag was under impeachment and
it was largely led by his drunken antics, then he
wouldn't come on, wouldn't respond, right, So.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
They had the State of Committee. They're taking up this
bill and it's by the former Speaker of the House,
and they took it up and it was all along
alongside a couple of other pieces of legislation. It specifically
targets political advertising. That quote features image, audio recording, or
video recording of an officeholder or candidate's appearance, speech, or
conduct that did not occur in reality. The broad language
(20:22):
is what's dangerous. So it would allow the Texas Ethics Commission.
They have the authority to determine the specific format, the font,
the size of the font, and the color of the
required disclaimer. Yeah, it is one of the stupidest bills.
And the fact that the Texas House has taken this up,
(20:43):
the most powerful committee has taken this up. I mean
it's unconstitutional. So remember the drunk day stuff. So Dade
Fhalan when he was Speaker of the House, there was
a lot of video of him out there slurring when
he was trying to, you know, preside over the house,
and everybody made fun of him and they called him
drunk Day, drunk Dave Fhalim drunk Day, and apparently it
(21:04):
made him mad, and he just he's you know, I've
been really, I've not been really. I mean, I've criticized him,
which for some of these lawmakers, that's enough if you
criticize them, people like Dave Fhalin, they sit here and
act like, oh, it's so bad for Trump defenders to
defend Trump, even if there's rightful criticism of him. But
Dave Fhalen does the same damn thing. You can't criticize
(21:26):
him for anything, or you are, you know, persona non grata.
So even when I was polite we invited him on
the show, they wouldn't have anything to do with us.
We're the biggest talk show in Texas and we're also
literally in hundreds of markets across the nation. We are
the number one broadcast in the nation in the afternoon.
(21:47):
No one touches us, and we own this time slot.
And he won't have anything to do with this because
I've been critical. So I'm done being nice about it.
If you're not going to come on then okay, I'm
not going to be nice and polite. You know it's
time to not be nice. If you're going to try
to criminalize people's speech because you're drunk ass made a
(22:08):
fool of yourself, then you deserve to be dragged. And
this legislation think about the implications that go far beyond
political advertising. Imagine that you want to share a meme
on Facebook, a meme, an image where you're joking around.
Oh boy, is Texas Ethics Commission going to come a
knock on your door because you didn't have drunk DAIDs
(22:29):
preferred government acknowledgment the the little disclaimer on your meme.
I've read the bill. So for all of the wise
asses out there who want to go, well, did you
read the bill? I read the bill, and I probably
have better reading comprehension, and I'm smarter and better looking
than the people who would criticize me for disagreeing with
them Dade's surrogates on this bill, I've read it. It's garbage.
(22:54):
It's anti First Amendment garbage. And there are a number
of time Texas Republicans that voted for it. Maybe it's
because they want some a drunk Daid's money. I don't know,
you know, because that's what these lawmakers do is they
get a lot of campaign cash for themselves and then
they spread it around. I was looking at some of
these My ret voted against it, but they are I'll
(23:18):
publish a list on We're going to publish the list
on substat all the Republican lawmakers in Texas that decided
to vote for this. If you vote, I'm pretty hardcore
on First and Second Amendment. If you vote against me,
against my interest one time, one time on First and
Second Amendment, you're dead to me. These are issues where
(23:41):
I rarely allow. I. Oh, it's all sure, I'll forgive,
but that doesn't mean I welcome you back into my
war room. Doesn't mean that you're back in my confidence.
They portray you once on such a crucial issue, they
will screw you over again and again. That is a
basic issue that should not even be up for debate.
And if they can't even get that right, they're no
good crash. This is a major, major First Amendment concern.
(24:05):
And of course these are the same lawmakers that have
been trying to vote away our Second Amendment rights as well.
I mean, we have all kinds. I mean, they've got
all kinds of House bills. They've been blocking pro gun bills.
They've been dragging their feet on banning red flag law.
They've been dragging their feet for instant self defense protections,
(24:29):
House Built one seventy. They've been dragging their feet on
a number of Like Cole Hefner, his committee representative, Cole Heffner,
he's in the fifth district. They've been dragging these bills.
I'm done with it. This is nonsense, and this meme
bill is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen
in my life. It would imprison people for a year
(24:51):
if a meme doesn't have a disclaimer. And Dade Fhalen
is doing it for revenge. Now people are trying to
a well, this is really pertaining to advertising, Really, then
why doesn't it exclude any non political advertising material? In
the verbatim language of the bill, Phil free to try
(25:14):
to gaslight that one away. It's done for a purpose,
and I've seen it. It's not just broadcast political advertising.
They're talking about the intent to influence an election, and
the language specifically says if they are distributing broadcast political advertising,
(25:35):
it's not saying that it's limited to broadcast political advertising.
I feel like there are some of our brethren that
struggle with reading comprehension, and that's probably because their lips
are too close to Dave Phalen's backside, so they really
can't see the full bill. Don't you agree, Kane? I
think that's the truth. What they're talking about with this
is is I'm reading the bill right now, intend to
(25:55):
influence an election knowingly caused to be published, distributed, or
so it's published, distribution or broadcast talking about images, audio recordings,
video recordings, and it mentions an officeholder or candidate's appearance, speech,
or conduct that did not occur in reality. You have
to have a disclosure on all of it, not just
(26:18):
political advertising. And if people dispute that this is what
the law, this is what the proposal states. Your beef
isn't with me, it's with the drunk lawmakers that lack
the writing ability to clearly articulate the difference in writing
in legislation in Austin. You don't want a war with
(26:38):
me over your stupidity and your reading lack of reading comprehension,
So take it to the lawmakers that wrote the bill.
This is stupid. This is one of the dumb This
is their priority. They're fighting all they're not giving us
relief on our property taxes, but they're going.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
To do this.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Seriously, you rat best. This is what they're focusing on
all because some lawmaker was butt hurt that people made
fun of him because he was slearning his speech when
he was at the microphone at the dais and he
was pushing a very unpopular bill at the same time.
(27:19):
Just it's it's it's insulting, it's unconstitutional, and it's Unamerican.
Now they're trying to say, oh no, we're we're we're
protecting people from AI and I'm again I'm reading it.
To influence an election knowingly caused to be published, distributed,
or broadcast political advertising that includes an image, audio recording,
(27:40):
video recording of an officeholder or candidate's appearance, speech, or
conduct that did not occur in reality, including image, audio recording,
video recording that has been altered using generative artificial intelligence technology,
unless the political advertising includes a disclosure from the person
or another person on whose behalf the political advertising is published, distributed, broadcast,
indicating that they blah blah blah. Now people are again all,
but it's political advertising. You can share political advertising on
(28:03):
your own personal pages and there are no exemptions and
there is no absolutely no opt out. There's no exemptions.
If you're sharing the image, you fall under the scope
of this proposal. It's not limited. And if you take
issue with that, then you probably struggle with the same
lack of alcohol induced reading, absence of reading comprehension that
(28:27):
the former Speaker does. I mean, I can, you know,
show these folks to the door, but you can't make
them walk through it, right, I mean, this is this
is insane and I you know, I I don't know.
They're trying to regulate political expression in Texas, but they
(28:48):
have no limitations on donations in spending interesting I can't.
I mean, it's it's insane that people voted for this
at all. And it's all because the former Speaker was embarrassed.
He got made fun of. That's what this is all about.
So I'm going to publish this up on I'll have
it up on substack, and then all of the yeses
(29:09):
that are on this, all of these Republicans, there's all
the good guys voted no. All the good guys voted no.
Uh Lauderback voted no. You had let's see Shat's line
voted no. You know, all of my Briscoe came voted no.
And all the good guys voted no in Texas legislature,
(29:30):
but all the bad ones, and there's a lot of them,
they all voted yes, including Giovanni Carpriglioni, who represents me.
He's a rhino. He wan't. He's rude. He was really
rude to me one time. Giovanni Carpriglioni was incredibly rude
to me and my husband one day, and I'm not
over it. I'm like, you're a lawmaker, you need to
(29:51):
have a little bit better social graces than what you're demonstrating.
And I even one time when he was pushing the
Texas Go reserves. They were really they were demanding to
come on the show. Oh my gosh, can you remember this, Capriulna.
They were sending us all kinds of requests. I save
every email, so if they want to dispute this, I
will bury you in receipts, so don't. But they wanted
(30:13):
to come on the show. Oh, let us on the show.
Let us on the show. We'd love to talk about this.
Oh can you promote what what Giovanni's doing. Can you
promote what he's doing? Can you promote Oh I had
him all one time. Then he was just real rude afterwards,
really rude. He's a rude guy. He of course he
voted yes on this. M so uh, I'm going to
publish this up at substack, chapter and verse. But this,
(30:37):
this was a middle finger to voters. They don't care
about your property relief, your property tax relief. They don't care,
don't care. But you'll have a Texas majority in the legislature,
but they're going to put Democrats on committees and they're
going to try to hamstring you on First Amendment. Nonsense.
It's asinin. But you know what, you know, the saying
that we were joking about a couple of years ago.
Try that in a small town. You tried enforcing this
(30:59):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time
for Florida man.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I had I think I had this story last week,
but there's an update to it. The guy who jumped
into the water to save a bald eagle, So it
was an alligator infested lake that he jumped in. Now
we didn't have that. I wanted to add that to
the story, the Florida man who swam into a lake
to rescue a struggling bald eagle because they got into
(00:35):
a fight with another eagle and it had a hole
in its talon or a hole in its wing, and
they it was like punctured. It was horrible, and the
guy dove into the water to save it and they
rehabilitated it. So, yeah, it's an alligator infested.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Became the most American story that we've had all day today.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Uh, yeah, it is. That's the most amazing thing. Doug
Hay sulgar a medal. That man should get a medal
because his wife apparently was terrified. She's the one who
took the footage of it because she there's they there
was like a seventh foot gator that they just saw
apparently got more than Yeah, oh my god, I had
to share that. I'll date with you.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
He wasn't a member of a gang. And then they looked.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
And on his knuckles he had there's wit a minute,
a minute, he had MS thirteen on.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
He had some tattoos that are interpreted that way. But
let's move on. Wait a minute, I wait, Terry, Terry,
he did not have that or MS one. It says
MS one three. That was photoshoph So let me tell
his photoshop Terry ahead of that. Hey, they're giving you
the big break of a lifetime. You know you're doing
the interview. I picked you because, in factly I never
heard of you. But that's okay, Oh Terry, Hey begin
(01:51):
not being very nice. He had MS thirteen tattoo. We'll
agree to disagree. I want to rive on to something else.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Terry punching.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Do you want me to show you the picture?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I see picture, We'll show here, we go here, we
got photoshop, but don't look at his hand.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
He had an amster. He did have tattoos that can
be interpreted that way. I'm not an expert on them.
I want to turn to Ukraine. I want to get
to no.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
No, he had MS as clear as you can be,
not interpreted.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
This is why people no longer believe well the news
because photograph and Elsa in El Saho. They aren't there.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
But let's just go they aren't there when he's in
the photo there now right, No, but they're in your picture.
Terry Ukraine's sir, he's got MS thirteen on his knuckles?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Are Ukraine? Serry?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
We'll take a look. It's just such a disservice. We'll
take a look. You just say it.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yes he does, and you know, go into some hot
houses contested.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So this is one of my favorite exchanges. I wish
that Terry he had MS thirteen on his knuckles. I mean,
come on, Terry, Terry he had M thirteen. That's a
viral video reference. It's probably too much. Oh, welcome back.
We got a lot of audio today. So that's uh.
I told you I was gonna make it up for
(03:06):
you by robbing you guys at quick five. That was
my bad because I was just I was just wouldn't
shut up. That's my problem. Who knew? So everyone was
saying that he does. So Trump was to his Tarry
Morane with is he with is he with in ABC. Okay,
so this so everyone was saying that MS thirteen was
(03:30):
added to the photo because the symbols that he has
on his knuckles and it was marijuana. What was the
other one? It was like the ex ex smiley face
across in a skull that that is like basically the
emojis that mean MS thirteen. Right, yeah, like how the
(03:51):
eggplant means something and you know the peach means something, eh,
and they're different. Emojis mean things. Okay, so that's they're
not really emojis, but those symbols mean MS thirteen. And
so when they had the photo, apparently the photo was Okay,
this means m and this means s this is this
is what it stands for. And they're explaining what the
(04:16):
tattoos symbolize. And so wait, so let me break this
down because I'm not letting this go either. And I
love that he stopped and he's like, all right, Terry,
there's Trump with it right there. So the MS thirteen
that's on it, those symbols are literally like indig that
the symbols mean MS thirteen. That's what they mean. That
(04:37):
each of the images stand for something that translates to
MS thirteen and so Terry Moran was trying to argue,
I guess that that wasn't that he didn't have any
kind of identifier tattooed on him, and Trump's like, no, no, no,
if the if the media wants to sit here and
picnics about oh well it Jim specifically saying, you know, man,
(04:58):
man other, it still the same thing, you know, just
like those No I'm not saying Maryland dad. You know
what I'm saying, Oh that Maryland man. Oh yes, you
mean the gang banging wife beater. Yes, that one. He's
from El Salvador and man. But okay, see what I mean, Like,
if you guys can sit here, if the media can
(05:20):
sit here and try to b s us about this,
oh this poor gang banging wife beating Maryland man, then yeah,
we're gonna go ahead and say might as well had
like literally the actual Arabic MS one three on it
shut up so stupid, just just absolutely asinine. So I'm
glad that he stopped there. I mean, for the and
(05:42):
the Left was trying to make a big deal of this.
King you saw this. They were trying to make a
big deal of this all last night, all last night
Oh my god, it's gonna even leave drum sem he
just canna think of the right. But it's but it's
not wrong, right, that's so goofy. It's like saying, well,
those moving snakes on the hair. Potter figures they're not
really indicative of death if they are, because none of
(06:05):
the nobody else has them unless they're death eaters. See
the same thing. I did that. I went to a
Harry Potter reference, just saying yeah, yeah, so these are
like ruins. That mean mus thirteen, that's what it is.
I thought the interview was funny, but yeah, he was
(06:27):
in I mean this it was a very contentious interview,
and I thought it was stupid that Terry Morane was
even trying to like contest that. And then he realized
the futility of it. He's like, oh, maybe I should
move on. Yeah, Terry maybe ought to maybe ought to
move on, Terry. I mean, it's just so stupid audio
somebody thirteen. And this is where Trump argues with him,
(06:48):
because remember the media pretended, gosh, we didn't even know
that Biden was half dead. Wait, no clue, listen to this.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Do you think the reputation in the United States has
gone down under your presence. No, I think it's gone
way up. But I think we're a respected country again.
We were left at all over the world. We had
a president that couldn't walk up a flight of stairs,
couldn't walk down a flight of stairs, couldn't walk across
the stage without falling. We had a president that was
grossly incompetent. You knew it, I knew it, and everybody
(07:19):
knew it. But you guys didn't want to write it
because you're fake news.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
All right, thank him? By the way, Aby's the worst.
I have to be honest.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Okay, thank okay, thank you, yes, thank you. Yeah, you
guys didn't want to write about it because you're fake news.
I mean they were. I mean, Biden falls up the stairs.
I told you this yesterday. How, oh my gosh, Biden
stuttered with his feet. Never seen anybody do that, man.
That man stuttered all the way the hell up them
stairs with his feet. If never seen anybody do that before,
(07:49):
But they did. That's how all of them were. And
I'm glad that. I'm glad that Potus called it out
because the media has been going on like, oh, we
just didn't know. We were just this little innocent media.
We were tripped, just like the rest of you. What
do you mean what you all knew? You all knew
the man really didn't have a pulse. You all knew
he was just a skin suit and Joe Biden had
(08:10):
her hand up his backside. Come on, it's like a
sock puppet. Is it too mean? Because I don't I
just don't even care. I'm just so dumb with this stuff.
These people try to pull so much wool over our eyes.
I just feel like all civility is out the window
at this point, right, good heavens, I mean it was.
It was a really good it was a very good interview.
But this is this is audio. Some by fourteen they
(08:32):
were arguing over Putin. Listen, he's willing to stop the fighting.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Don't begin. He wants to say. You think Vladimir Putin
wants peace? I think he does. Yes, I think it does.
I think fels are raining missile. I think he really
his dream was to take over the whole country. I
think because of me, he's not going to do that.
Do you trust him? I think do you trust him?
I don't trust you. I don't trust a lot of people.
(09:01):
I don't trust you. Look at you.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
You come in all shooting for bear, You're so happy
to do the interview. How you start hitting me with
fake questions? He started telling me.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
That a guy whose hand is coming out of a
tact doesn't have that.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I mean, in so many ways, Trump is like an
old nana, you know, like on no. But you know,
I'm gonna come back to this because I'm not over it.
And like ten years later, yeah, remember that time, the knuckles.
I remember that, like it's never going to go away.
Oh but goodness.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Then there was the uh, eggs, eggs, eggs? Are you
sew my fifteenth?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
But gasoline is way down? And when I took over,
you remember the big thing with eggs. They hit me
the first week eggs, eggs, eggs.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Like it was my fault.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
I said, I didn't cause this problem. This problem was
caused by Biden. What's the problem with eggs? And they
said they've doubled. Well, eggs are down eighty seven percent
since I got involved.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I love it, do you know. One of the things
kind of a sidebar and accompaniment to this, one of
the reasons that Trump can get there's two reasons that
Trump can get away with rough housing. Journalists that other
politicians can't because he's he's very much a showman. And
I think that was on stage. I think there was
evident on stage last night. He really loves his audience,
and his audience loves him. But older people, I am
(10:20):
jealous of you because you guys get to do whatever
you want. And this is why Kane doesn't. This is
why Kane doesn't like you.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
So he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
He thinks.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
He thinks you're not innocent. He thinks you're not innocent.
It's because of this, because he can. He's he's you know,
you give him a pass. He's like, oh, he's like
a grandpa or oh they're like a nana's age, right,
Like there, you give him a pass right. It's just funny.
And I feel like Terry Moran actually liked him. Did
you see his expression in this interview. I mean he
(10:52):
wasn't smiling like he was being all wise eight double snakes.
I think he liked him.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
He was thankful to be insulted.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah, he was just happy to be there.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Man.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
However you want to kick him. I mean, Terry's Terry.
He's just happy for that big break.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
He's like, you guys are fake News. He's like thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
He's like, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
The way ABC is the worst. He's like, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
We are thank you, mister President. There's they're so oh,
there's okay. Here's another one where I got a little
little testy testing audio sound by eleven. They were arguing
over fraud referrals from Doues a legal note.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Fraud is a crime. There have been no referrals to
the Justice Department at anyway. You don't know that? To you,
how do you know that have there been referrals to
Do you know that that there were no referrals?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I think they generally all right, there's been no investigation
from the House Department that I'm asking you, sir.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
You're not asking me. You made a statement, you know.
Now I'm asking him there was a statement that you
made there, I'm asking him. Have they been yes?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Well, I mean he did. He was like, okay, well,
now I'm asking you. Okay, so you did make a statement.
And then you're okay, that's exactly. You just proved his point. Terry,
what are you doing? Are doing Terry? My gosh, this
is full This is so crazy. I mean, is this
is one of the craziest interviews because he just sat
there and I really feel like he likes being kicked man,
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It's time for Dana's Quick five.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
How does this happen? A student that was rescued from
Mount Fuji climbed left his phone totally forgot his phone
and had to climb back up to get it. A
twenty seven year old Chinese student who lives in Japan
was rescued twice in one week, but they didn't say
whether or not he found his phone in Japan. There
it produced a wave of criticism. They're mad not that
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he had to be rescued, but that he had to
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they got a call of help from him, and then
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his other belongings and they had to go get him again.
(14:45):
This guy sounds like a moron who should not hike anymore.
I feel like Champagne protects the heart from cardiac arrest.
I mean, that's this very I'm gonna believe it. It's
from Shanghai, but still I'm gonna believe this study because
it's cherry pit. It's just confirms what I want to believe.
Champagne of white wine. So I yeah, it's science fermented
(15:08):
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have more of these to protect our hearts. You know,
Oh oh man, a child damages This painting looks stupid though,
A fifty six million dollar painting at a Netherlands museum.
(15:29):
It's basically somebody paid fifty wand's gonna show you. It's
three blocks of color and it's fifty six million dollars.
I could make it and just charging fifty six thousand.
That's a steal.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I will.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I will make the same thing and you only it's
only fifty six thousand poorly painted walls. I hate modern art.
I hate modernity. Modernity is laziness, and it's ignoring and
refusing to acknowledge the beauty in the every day, which
is brutalist. I hate it. Roth Goes abstract paintings, which
are stupid, are known for their floating color fields, which
(16:04):
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to night. I think modern art is what people who
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back and look what they did during the Renaissance, and
then go back and look at some modern art. It's stupid.
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This isn't the first time that I've seen or that
lawmakers have tried to I guess regulate memes. That's the
(17:54):
word that I want. This is not the first time
that they've tried to regulate memes. They've tried to do this.
Remember federally before, isn't that Cain when they had the
who is that annoying theater kid? That the Ministry of whatever? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
And they were going to have like they were going
(18:15):
to try to regulate memes or something like that, and
they kept saying, oh, it's for AI purposes, you know,
we just were trying to protect you for AI. That's
the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. So no,
that's not so. What happened is the Texas House they
passed a bill. It took thirty seconds with no debate,
(18:36):
and it is a bill that actually inadvertently would criminalize
political memes Texas scorecard rights that courts have routinely struck
down these laws that try to regulate political discourse, right,
because First Amendment has pretty strong protections. It House built
three sixty six, and it would make it a crime
to distribute altered media, including political memes, without a government
(18:59):
approved disclaimer, and people who violate this could face up
to a year in jail. Anyone who tries to enforce
this on me in Texas, We're going to have a
Waco style knockdown drag out in South Lake. So I'm
done with this stuff. Oh, I'm not joking. I'm not
being hyperbolic, like you want to push people who are
(19:21):
good people to the point where they become criminals for
criticizing bad lawmakers. If you want a civil war, that's
how you start civil wars. I'm not saying this lightly.
I am so sick of sick of these people. So
the drunk schmuck who's the House speaker, And by the way,
Dave Fhalin, this is his built. We've invited him on
this show and he won't come on the show. Right,
(19:44):
Kane we've invited him on the show. He won't come.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah, back when the Texas ag was under impeachment and
it was largely led by his drunken antics, then he
wouldn't come on, wouldn't respond, right, So.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
They had the State of Committee. They're taking up this
bill and it's by the former Speaker of the House,
and they took it up and it was all along
alongside a couple of other pieces of legislation. It specifically
targets political advertising. That quote features image, audio recording, or
video recording of an officeholder or candidate's appearance, speech, or
conduct that did not occur in reality. The broad language
(20:22):
is what's dangerous. So it would allow the Texas Ethics Commission.
They have the authority to determine the specific format, the font,
the size of the font, and the color of the
required disclaimer. Yeah, it is one of the stupidest bills.
And the fact that the Texas House has taken this up,
(20:43):
the most powerful committee has taken this up. I mean
it's unconstitutional. So remember the drunk day stuff. So Dade
Fhalan when he was Speaker of the House, there was
a lot of video of him out there slurring when
he was trying to, you know, preside over the house,
and everybody made fun of him and they called him
drunk Day, drunk Dave Fhalim drunk Day, and apparently it
(21:04):
made him mad, and he just he's you know, I've
been really, I've not been really. I mean, I've criticized him,
which for some of these lawmakers, that's enough if you
criticize them, people like Dave Fhalin, they sit here and
act like, oh, it's so bad for Trump defenders to
defend Trump, even if there's rightful criticism of him. But
Dave Fhalen does the same damn thing. You can't criticize
(21:26):
him for anything, or you are, you know, persona non grata.
So even when I was polite we invited him on
the show, they wouldn't have anything to do with us.
We're the biggest talk show in Texas and we're also
literally in hundreds of markets across the nation. We are
the number one broadcast in the nation in the afternoon.
(21:47):
No one touches us, and we own this time slot.
And he won't have anything to do with this because
I've been critical. So I'm done being nice about it.
If you're not going to come on then okay, I'm
not going to be nice and polite. You know it's
time to not be nice. If you're going to try
to criminalize people's speech because you're drunk ass made a
(22:08):
fool of yourself, then you deserve to be dragged. And
this legislation think about the implications that go far beyond
political advertising. Imagine that you want to share a meme
on Facebook, a meme, an image where you're joking around.
Oh boy, is Texas Ethics Commission going to come a
knock on your door because you didn't have drunk DAIDs
(22:29):
preferred government acknowledgment the the little disclaimer on your meme.
I've read the bill. So for all of the wise
asses out there who want to go, well, did you
read the bill? I read the bill, and I probably
have better reading comprehension, and I'm smarter and better looking
than the people who would criticize me for disagreeing with
them Dade's surrogates on this bill, I've read it. It's garbage.
(22:54):
It's anti First Amendment garbage. And there are a number
of time Texas Republicans that voted for it. Maybe it's
because they want some a drunk Daid's money. I don't know,
you know, because that's what these lawmakers do is they
get a lot of campaign cash for themselves and then
they spread it around. I was looking at some of
these My ret voted against it, but they are I'll
(23:18):
publish a list on We're going to publish the list
on substat all the Republican lawmakers in Texas that decided
to vote for this. If you vote, I'm pretty hardcore
on First and Second Amendment. If you vote against me,
against my interest one time, one time on First and
Second Amendment, you're dead to me. These are issues where
(23:41):
I rarely allow. I. Oh, it's all sure, I'll forgive,
but that doesn't mean I welcome you back into my
war room. Doesn't mean that you're back in my confidence.
They portray you once on such a crucial issue, they
will screw you over again and again. That is a
basic issue that should not even be up for debate.
And if they can't even get that right, they're no
good crash. This is a major, major First Amendment concern.
(24:05):
And of course these are the same lawmakers that have
been trying to vote away our Second Amendment rights as well.
I mean, we have all kinds. I mean, they've got
all kinds of House bills. They've been blocking pro gun bills.
They've been dragging their feet on banning red flag law.
They've been dragging their feet for instant self defense protections,
(24:29):
House Built one seventy. They've been dragging their feet on
a number of Like Cole Hefner, his committee representative, Cole Heffner,
he's in the fifth district. They've been dragging these bills.
I'm done with it. This is nonsense, and this meme
bill is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen
in my life. It would imprison people for a year
(24:51):
if a meme doesn't have a disclaimer. And Dade Fhalen
is doing it for revenge. Now people are trying to
a well, this is really pertaining to advertising, Really, then
why doesn't it exclude any non political advertising material? In
the verbatim language of the bill, Phil free to try
(25:14):
to gaslight that one away. It's done for a purpose,
and I've seen it. It's not just broadcast political advertising.
They're talking about the intent to influence an election, and
the language specifically says if they are distributing broadcast political advertising,
(25:35):
it's not saying that it's limited to broadcast political advertising.
I feel like there are some of our brethren that
struggle with reading comprehension, and that's probably because their lips
are too close to Dave Phalen's backside, so they really
can't see the full bill. Don't you agree, Kane? I
think that's the truth. What they're talking about with this
is is I'm reading the bill right now, intend to
(25:55):
influence an election knowingly caused to be published, distributed, or
so it's published, distribution or broadcast talking about images, audio recordings,
video recordings, and it mentions an officeholder or candidate's appearance, speech,
or conduct that did not occur in reality. You have
to have a disclosure on all of it, not just
(26:18):
political advertising. And if people dispute that this is what
the law, this is what the proposal states. Your beef
isn't with me, it's with the drunk lawmakers that lack
the writing ability to clearly articulate the difference in writing
in legislation in Austin. You don't want a war with
(26:38):
me over your stupidity and your reading lack of reading comprehension,
So take it to the lawmakers that wrote the bill.
This is stupid. This is one of the dumb This
is their priority. They're fighting all they're not giving us
relief on our property taxes, but they're going.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
To do this.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Seriously, you rat best. This is what they're focusing on
all because some lawmaker was butt hurt that people made
fun of him because he was slearning his speech when
he was at the microphone at the dais and he
was pushing a very unpopular bill at the same time.
(27:19):
Just it's it's it's insulting, it's unconstitutional, and it's Unamerican.
Now they're trying to say, oh no, we're we're we're
protecting people from AI and I'm again I'm reading it.
To influence an election knowingly caused to be published, distributed,
or broadcast political advertising that includes an image, audio recording,
(27:40):
video recording of an officeholder or candidate's appearance, speech, or
conduct that did not occur in reality, including image, audio recording,
video recording that has been altered using generative artificial intelligence technology,
unless the political advertising includes a disclosure from the person
or another person on whose behalf the political advertising is published, distributed, broadcast,
indicating that they blah blah blah. Now people are again all,
but it's political advertising. You can share political advertising on
(28:03):
your own personal pages and there are no exemptions and
there is no absolutely no opt out. There's no exemptions.
If you're sharing the image, you fall under the scope
of this proposal. It's not limited. And if you take
issue with that, then you probably struggle with the same
lack of alcohol induced reading, absence of reading comprehension that
(28:27):
the former Speaker does. I mean, I can, you know,
show these folks to the door, but you can't make
them walk through it, right, I mean, this is this
is insane and I you know, I I don't know.
They're trying to regulate political expression in Texas, but they
(28:48):
have no limitations on donations in spending interesting I can't.
I mean, it's it's insane that people voted for this
at all. And it's all because the former Speaker was embarrassed.
He got made fun of. That's what this is all about.
So I'm going to publish this up on I'll have
it up on substack, and then all of the yeses
(29:09):
that are on this, all of these Republicans, there's all
the good guys voted no. All the good guys voted no.
Uh Lauderback voted no. You had let's see Shat's line
voted no. You know, all of my Briscoe came voted no.
And all the good guys voted no in Texas legislature,
(29:30):
but all the bad ones, and there's a lot of them,
they all voted yes, including Giovanni Carpriglioni, who represents me.
He's a rhino. He wan't. He's rude. He was really
rude to me one time. Giovanni Carpriglioni was incredibly rude
to me and my husband one day, and I'm not
over it. I'm like, you're a lawmaker, you need to
(29:51):
have a little bit better social graces than what you're demonstrating.
And I even one time when he was pushing the
Texas Go reserves. They were really they were demanding to
come on the show. Oh my gosh, can you remember this, Capriulna.
They were sending us all kinds of requests. I save
every email, so if they want to dispute this, I
will bury you in receipts, so don't. But they wanted
(30:13):
to come on the show. Oh, let us on the show.
Let us on the show. We'd love to talk about this.
Oh can you promote what what Giovanni's doing. Can you
promote what he's doing? Can you promote Oh I had
him all one time. Then he was just real rude afterwards,
really rude. He's a rude guy. He of course he
voted yes on this. M so uh, I'm going to
publish this up at substack, chapter and verse. But this,
(30:37):
this was a middle finger to voters. They don't care
about your property relief, your property tax relief. They don't care,
don't care. But you'll have a Texas majority in the legislature,
but they're going to put Democrats on committees and they're
going to try to hamstring you on First Amendment. Nonsense.
It's asinin. But you know what, you know, the saying
that we were joking about a couple of years ago.
Try that in a small town. You tried enforcing this
(30:59):
with people like me, and you see it where it
gets you. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of
Dana Lash's Absurd Truth podcast. If you haven't already, made
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