Absurd Truth: The Gay Games

Denver has officially submitted its bid to host the “2030 Gay Games”. Meanwhile, Gov. Greg Abbott joins us to react to Democrats’ claims of racial gerrymandering, the FBI’s search for House members who have left the state, and what he plans to do next.

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Episode Transcript

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

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

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Man helps a new press the button. All right, So
first up, a Florida man who was accused of grand
theft auto claimed that the repair shop let him. It
let him take the car, y'all because he was homeless.
That's what he claims. However, that's not really what the

(00:36):
dealership is saying. They're saying that no, no, no, or
the repair shop he stole it. This Florida man, he's
accused of stealing a vehicle. It's from a winter Haven
repair shop. Christopher Rodriguez. He's twenty seven years old. He
claimed that his friend Bubba told him that the repair
shop puts vehicles at the location so homeless people can

(00:57):
use them. No, that's not the case. Riguez was charged
with grand theft of a motor vehicle, possession of methamphetamine,
possession of drug paraphernalia, driving wireless license was suspended or revoked.
So it's been quite a bit and he stole the vehicle.
So there was no Bubba, and no, he did not
have the ability or the permission rather to take the

(01:18):
vehicle from the repair.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Shot Public Transportation.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
I guess, yeah, actually that sounds right. A Florida deputy
captures the gator from a pool and straight up buckles
it in a patrol car. I'm not gonna lie if
I lived in Florida, and I know I say that gators,
But if I saw one chilling in my pool and
it was just small enough, maybe it's still a little chunky,
I'd take it and it'd be a free pet for me.

(01:45):
Free pet. So this isn't St. John's County. A Florida
deputy helped capture a gator from a backyard pool in
Saint Augustine before buckling him into the back of his
patrol car. Video posted from the Saint John's County Sheriff's
Facebook page shows the deputy wrangling the gat out the
pool with these bear Oh my gosh, it's a large gator.

(02:06):
Uh yeah, so's he The deputy told the gator, I
know you're super mad because it was hissing at him,
and then he buckled it in the back of the car.
Everyone was saying, obviously you grew up here, and he
told the he told the gator, he goes, you know what,
let me, buckle you in and the gator was hissing.
He's mad at him, and he's like, I know you're
super mad right now, you got to get in this car.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Got a pet size for.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
See.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
I feel like when I I have some friends that
make fun of me and they're like, how you've never
been gored, bitten or whatever is beyond us? Did I
tell you guys the time that I almost took home
a coyote? Yeah, that almost happened. Well, it was like,
coyote's done here, a heck of a lot smaller than
the ones in Missouri, like a Missouri You're like, that's
a coyote right down here. You're like, ooh, is that
a sick dog? You know, it's just like they're very

(02:51):
h and I saw him and I was like, ooh,
sick dog, you need some treats, And no, it was
a coyote. And literally after I almost try it, this
dog or sorry, coyote in my car. Glenn's story, who
owns Patriot Mobile. He lives like like down the road
from us. He texted, He's like, did you all see
there's a coyote running around in the neighborhood? And he

(03:13):
shared a picture of it. I'm I'm standing there looking
at the picture that Glenn's story shared and then looking
at this coyote that's like a mirror like feet away,
because I'm trying to lure into my car and I
didn't have anything but like a couple pieces of beef
jerking an old bag that I found in the back,
and I'm like trying to get the you know, it didn't.
The coyote didn't come, obviously, but we were that close.

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we sent you the Gay Games. I didn't even know
that they had these. You heard about those the Gay Games,
though they do. Denver is wanting to host the twenty
thirty Gay Games. Had a lot of sports with balls
on here. Gay Games twenty thirty. The Gay Games in

(05:00):
in twenty six are going to be apparently in Spain,
and that's in Valencia, Spain, And uh yeah, they're Denver's
inching closer to hosting the Gay Games.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Kane, what do you you couldn't wait to do this,
could you?

Speaker 1 (05:16):
This is a news story, it's part of the news.
I'm just here's my question. What makes the gay games
different than other games?

Speaker 2 (05:24):
That's going to be my question. Are they still doing
things like shot put in Jai?

Speaker 1 (05:28):
What would you like to know what some of the
gay games are? High jump, artistic swimming? What what makes sense?
I don't know what the hell that is, but it's
a thing. I was trying to find out more about
it on their website, but they literally don't tell you synchronized.
I think it's pink speedos. From what I can understand,

(05:50):
I think we all understand that's probably body paint, and
I don't know what else that's. I guess that's what
that means.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
The swimmers are doing body pain.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
I don't know, artists. Let me look at it.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
I feel like it's a synchronized swimming thing, right like
it would be.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
That is pretty gay. So let's see the artistic gay games,
this gay swimming or the sorry artistic swimming. Oh yeah,
I guess it's formally known as synchronized swimming.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Okay, so that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
It's a cultural event that promotes inclusion and diversity.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
You know, so are they good at synchronizing their swimming
or are they not? What does this have to do
with diversity?

Speaker 1 (06:36):
No clue? I mean do they do they hang on?
I gotta ask you, well, I gotta ask a question.
I gotta pull this move on it, Mike. Do they stop,
you know, for and have breaks for? I just want
to know.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yes, No, I don't know, and I'm glad I don't. No,
I'm not going to answer that.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Just curious. Okay, So the artistic sorry, synchronized, Why is
it not called synchronized women anymore? That's kind of dumb. Sorry,
but that's that's pretty gay artists. To stop calling it
synchronized swimming, to call it artistic swimming, that's gay.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
You know what, it's totally gay, totally. But you know
why they would not call it synchronized swimming anymore because
there's very little synchronizing going on. It's probably why so
instead of calling it horrible swimming, they'll call.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
It all right. Well, they got that. They have all
the stuff with balls, bowling, basket, badminton, beach, volleyball, they
got all that cheerleading. The gay games got cheerleading. It's
pretty gay, and I have that they have dance sport, oh, dodgeball.
I would be rocking at dodgeball, but not in the
gay Games. Let's see kickball again, all the balls, pick

(07:50):
a ball, soccer, rugby, softball. Let's see what else do
they got? Wrestling it's gonna be a popular one. The wrestling,
it's gonna be a popular, popular sport. So I basically,
you gotta wear pink everything I see. It's like all
variation on pink. But do they not have straight sports
that do things like basketball and beach volleyball and things

(08:13):
like that? Are those are those? Do they? I'm just curious,
like why do you have to have like a whole
we have to have a whole sports competition based around
how we have sex, but yet sex isn't a part
of the competition. It's weird. I mean, that's you know,
it's the gay games, Like you got to be gayer
than everyone else, That's what I'm assuming, Like who is
the gayest? That's what the Gay Games is supposed to

(08:35):
determine who is the gayest one of all? And I'm
looking at this and I don't see better or work
competing in here. So I don't even know how you
can even have a competition without competing against one of
the gayest people in politics. But you know, well, tell
me that I'm wrong, Steve, you are the one who
was very excited about this story. Shouldn't it be who's

(08:57):
the gayest person? Ever? It's a gay game. This is
just bored. I want to go see basketball because honestly,
it's gonna be people who can't play as well if
I wanted to watch it, I watched WNBA come on, which,
by the way, why is that dating? Well, maybe you
know how they do. I'm surprised corn hole's not on here.

(09:17):
Do you know how they do?

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Well, that's a competition. It's like ski ball. I can't
believe that's not on here. That's an actual competition.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Ever wanted commercials?

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Anyway, it's not gonna happen. We still have like ten
other minutes. It's not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen
for you. Sorry, I'm gonna run this right up to
the clock. No, no, we got time. So anyway, my
whole point was like speaking to WNBA, they've been throwing
like intimate items made of silicone, I think whatever on

(09:49):
to the court. Neon green ones Now it's like a
it's a meme now on social media. That could Now
you could have that as a part of the competition,
Like the fallis throwing under the court. Yeah yeah yeah,
like how far can you throw? This fallis under the
w NBA court? Now that would be I'd be like,
you know what, that is a competition for the gay Games.

(10:10):
I get it. I get that right. Otherwise this is
just like JV stuff. I'm so bored, Like, don't sit
here and be like, it's the gay Games and then
give me basketball. Okay, what don't do the gay Games
and be like, well, here, guys, here's some cycling. Well yeah,

(10:31):
cycling's pretty gay. But that's you know, I was thinking
more than that. You know, I'm just come on, a
triple figure skating that's already gay. That's already a gay Games.
Every we just assume Johnny Weir hello for that. Yeah,

(10:52):
it's the gay Games featuring badminton, the foul us through
cornhole and esports. They have esports. Those people are gonna
just not be good at esports. Oh my gosh, esports.
They're gonna have a hole on for the love. Maybe
straight people should take it over and just be really

(11:13):
good on the sports, so that way they get you know, then,
just how with what men are taking over women's sports?
Oh no, it's the straits they're coming in.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Are the gay games where women can outperform the men.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
I really don't know, Like I I just imagine there's
like a lot of glitter and pink that would be speedos,
Like this is a basketball court. Sorry, speedos are for swimming. No,
speedos are for everything. It's the gay games. I'm just
it's like a South Park episode flag football that is gay.
So all right, some of these are you know, I get,

(11:46):
but I don't know. I just don't understand why it
has to be its own thing. That's like saying, here's
a bunch of well, let me just throw out something,
you know, like this is it's the red headed sports
only redheads, redheaded esports, redheaded beach volleyball, red headed artistic swimming,
red headed badminton, you know what I mean. Or like

(12:06):
people that have four toes. It's the four toad games.
Four toed ice hockey, four toed rugby, four toed tennis.
I mean things like that, you know what I mean? Why?
Why do this is the stupidest thing ever The way
that humans try to silo themselves off. I'm a part
of this click. I'm a part of this click. They're

(12:27):
so desperate to be seen as being included into something
that they would actually participate. I just don't get it.
I don't get it.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Is winning bronze in the Gay Game something to brag about?

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yeah, I do wonder about those trophies, Yeah, I mean,
do they give metals? You get a trophy? Denver is
gonna host it Denver where you immediately step off the
airport and you are consumed by plumes of pot and
then there's like questionably home looking homeless people outside of
every street corner. The last time I was in Denver,
they were literally questionable looking homeless people outside of every

(13:01):
street corner and everywhere smelled like stink. It smelled like
a skunk's anus everywhere. It was horrible and or Heineken,
one of the two smell. I mean, it's the whole
city smell like kind again. No, we're not going to
break yet. Until I say we're going to break, That's
just how it's gonna be. We're gonna roll in this

(13:22):
kine Pretty sure you guys are gonna regret ever bringing
this story to me ever, so uh yeah, you can
embark on the journey towards inclusivity empowerment with a gg
DIN twenty thirty. That's the gay game. Whatever. Let's make history,
Like how are you making history? And celebrate the spirit
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(13:42):
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Little warning to some European tourists near Slovakia. Apparently a
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(15:00):
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I'm all for that. Yeah, totally off for that. Yeah, Arka.
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(17:03):
leave Tesla? Hear me? Twenty nine billion dollars. That'll that'll
work right across the nation. Those couple of summers in
a row. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash at
you bottom of this third hour, joining me on this
great Texas Governor Greg Abbott who joins us via video. Governor,
I saw that you have laid down the law on this.
You have ordered these democrats that are in dereliction of

(17:24):
duty have abandoned their post, have abandoned voters, and they
fled to New York and Illinois, the most gerrymandered states
in the Union. Governors, you're well aware to complain about
something that Texas does every ten years. Governor, I moved
down here in twenty thirteen from Missouri, and y'all were
having this argument. Then now it's finally happening, because this
is what states do if they're unhappy with the results, Governor,

(17:47):
shouldn't they just win more elections?

Speaker 3 (17:50):
One? They need to win more elections for another. A
reason why registering is happening the way that it is
is because we are ensuring that the voters in this
send of Texas are going to be able to vote
for their candidate of choice. And four of the new
districts who are creating are predominantly Hispanic. It just turns
out those Hispanic voters chose to vote for President Trump.

(18:12):
Those four districts will ensure that those who vote for
President Trump are going to be able to vote for
a Republican for the United States Congress. And so Democrats
are losing in the said of Texas to all voters, white, black, Hispanic,
and their frustration is the losing. Second, let me go
back to the way that you begin you talked about

(18:33):
a knife fight or whatever the Democrats are thinking that
are talking about they're doing. You cannot have a fight
if you run away. They have run away. They can't
reach us with a knife because they're up in Illinois,
in Chicago, of all places, I don't know there's a
more Jerry Manners state in the country than Illinois. So

(18:54):
what a bunch of hypocrites they are. They're not fighting,
They're drowning as we speak right now because they're going
to be a hell hostage and they're going to be
criticized by the people of this state. The people of
this state, they have to go to work every day.
If they were to break korum at their job and say, listen,
I'm not coming into work this week, I'm going to

(19:15):
go up to eleanor New York, they would lose their job.
These House members who are Democrats, some are going to
be losing their jobs because they're not showing up to
do the work of the people in the state of Texas.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
That's right, and they need to lose their jobs. What
is there any I realized that, you know, if they're
absent from their seat for so many days, there's certain
things that come into play and certain things that can
be done in terms of defining what throwing the book
at them over this would look like. What would that
look like, Governor? What would be the absolute limit in
terms of penalties that you could levy against these lawmakers.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
So we've dealt with quorum breaks before, and we've we've
never thrown as much of a book against them as
we are now here. What we're doing one is we
have arrest warrants out for all of them. If there
are some in Texas, which I understand that there may be,
the Texas Department of Public Safety is searching for them,

(20:11):
will find them, and will arrest them and take them
to the Texas Capital. Those who are out of state
think that they are beyond the reach of Texas law
enforcement and that they may or may not be. But
for one, when they come back, they're not going to
go to their cozy home. They will be arrested and
taken to the capitol. But know this, it's my understanding

(20:32):
that the FBI is to search for these derelict Texas
House members in whatever state they may be in and
help identify for them and maybe work with us to
bring them back point one point two is these Democrats,
they have received money and benefits at their request to

(20:55):
support them while they are gone. It is a direct
violation of the Texas Constitution as well as Texas bribery
laws for them to receive a benefit to skip a vote.
They could be charged with second degree felony for committing
bribery in the state of Texas. Third and it happened yesterday.

(21:16):
I filed a petition in the Texas Supreme Court that
begins the removal process of these absconding Democrat members. And
the Supreme Court responded immediately last night and told that
the leading Democrat of this cause, his name is Jean Wu,
that he has to respond to my petition by Friday,

(21:38):
where we're going to begin the process of trying to
remove these absconding Democrats from office.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
This is all good to hear because you mentioned that
they've done This is the third time they've done this
in less than a decade. I think, what was it
a couple of years ago. This is the last time
they fled. They fled the state, which is part of
the pattern for them. We're talking to Texas Governor Greg
Abbott for those just joining you mentioned something that's incredibly
important the demographic of these districts because they are predominantly

(22:04):
Hispanic districts. And one of the things that we've seen
more than any other voting block, Governors, you're well aware
of those voting blocks that are going towards Republicans. Hispanic
Americans are really leading the way on that, more so
than Black Americans, more so than even women, college age,
et cetera. It is a huge shift in this voting
in this voting block. Obviously that poses a threat to Democrats.

(22:27):
They think that somehow by disenfranchising those voters, that's like
a good way, that's good politicking.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
And there are reasons for the shift that, thankfully for Republicans,
the Democrats have not yet figured out. It turns out
it turns out Hispanics in Texas actually do not like
open borders. Hispanics in Texas don't like men playing in
women's sports, they don't like transgender surgeries, they don't like
all the leftist crazy ideas that the Democrats that stand for.

(22:57):
And get this, Ny you probably have covered this. The
member from the US Congression delegation from Illinois who went
to another country and said, I think it was Guatemala
or she in Mexico. She was more proud to be
a Guatemalan than an America. Americans and Texans are fed
up with that attitude by so many Democrats where they

(23:20):
support Somalia, Guatemala, whatever the case may be. They need
to be supporting the United States of America period and
if not, they shouldn't be a member of Congress. And
why the Texas delegation dealing with a congressional based issue
is up hanging out with members of Congress who were
leftists like that, that's damning for them and their future.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Yeah. I would even imagine too that their refusal to
come back and do their jobs. I mean, this is
one way to put it. Because you've got property tax
relief that's up the special session. You have recovery for
Texas Hill Country, you know, for flood survivors. I mean
they're putting all of that in jeopardy getting that done
this session. Is I mean that correct?

Speaker 3 (24:00):
So that is correct? Dana, Fyi, I am running ads
in each of these districts of the missing Democrats talking
about how we need to be solving the flood based
challenges or fellow Texans are facing. But we can't do
it right now because the candidate and whose district we
are running the AD has left the state and so

(24:21):
their constituents are hearing about this as we speak right now.
But as you're pouring out, is more than just dealing
with blood victims. Is dealing with trying to cut property taxes.
And there are so many issues that are so relevant
to our fellow Texans. Our Texans care about those substance
of issues having their taxes cut more than the way
the lines are drawn for Congress.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
And these the jerrymandering that the accusation that they use. Governor,
I was looking at these districts and of the five
most jerry mander I mean, it's silly to talk when
you look at the map. People when they see this
map they laugh out loud. They can't believe it's real.
The most gerrymandered districts in the United States thirty third
and thirty fifth districts in Texas Democrat run. They look ridiculous, Governor,

(25:07):
they look like a child's drawing that does not look
like a district. I mean, I don't know how anyone
can make the argument that continuing to have a district
jerrymandered is jerrymanderin. I just wanted to get your last
thoughts on that.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
So hopefully sometime you'll be able to show your audience
what District thirty five looks like.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
It's ridiculous, we've shown it before. Throw it up one.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
So here's the deal. Is very appropriately named. So this
is District thirty five and is drawn down the line
of Interstate thirty five. It connects Austin and San Antonio
through I thirty five. That could not be a better
named district, but it is. What the Democrats have in
District thirty five, which is a Democrat district, is a

(25:48):
horrible example of jerrymandering. And what we're trying to do
is to fix that, to consolidate the district, make it
so that the voters in that district are a whole
lot closer to each other.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Yeah, that makes sense. That's a very sense solution to
all of this. So hopefully these Democrats, if they don't
come back, will governor you'll have law enforcement that will
bring them back. Actually, I should say this in my
last quote question can we just take I mean, we
can just remove them from office? Can we not? I mean,
I know state's laws differ Missouri's is different from Texas
different from Oklahoma's. We have that authority though.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
So, and the authority exists is under a legal preceding
called quote warranto. My point I made this earlier. I
begin that process yesterday with the filing that the filing
I made in the Texas Supreme Court to bring the
quote warranto to remove them from office. But let me
just make sure that you and your audience and the
Democrats know what I'm about to tell you, and that is,

(26:43):
regardless of all these different proceedings, we know one thing
for absolute fact. We're going to get these maps passed.
It could be this week, could be next week, could
be next month, it could be in a couple of months.
They are wasting their time and harming their own families,
in harming their constituents by failing to show up. We

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are going to get these maps passed. Get your tail
back in the state of Texas. Do your job like
every other Texan has to do their job, and stop
embarrassing yourself, and.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
You go right there. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, he laid
down the law. They can either come back or they'll
come back one way or not. They're going to come back.
It can be easy or real easy. That's how it's
going to be done. Governor, always a pleasure. Thank you
for fighting on behalf of voters. We appreciate it. God
bless Thank you too. Thanks for tuning in to today's
edition of Dana Lash's Absurd Youth podcast.

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