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The Dana Show with Dana Loesch – Politics & Cult... - BONUS: ICE Under Fire - New York’s Latest Showdown · Stampede of Truth

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  Speaker 1: Either the ICC will end its threats or we will
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  Speaker 1: end the ICC. And we expect our allies, many of
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  Speaker 1: whom are part of the ICC and that rely on
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  Speaker 1: American service members for their defense, to rein in this
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  Speaker 1: rogue court. If they do not, the United States will
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  Speaker 1: continue its campaign to dismantle the ICC piece by piece
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  Speaker 1: until Americans are threatened no longer.
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  Speaker 2: Just two banger back to back. Speech is here from
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  Speaker 2: Marco Rubio, and he's going after justifiably the ICC, the
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  Speaker 2: International Criminal Court, which is the best way I can
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  Speaker 2: put it is a Victorian freak show. I don't even
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  Speaker 2: know how to describe it. It's something that threatens national sovereignty.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you that because they want to make Americans
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  Speaker 2: through the ICC responsible or act like they're going to
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  Speaker 2: hold us to account for whatever they deem to hold
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  Speaker 2: us account for. it's an, it's a, it's a, it's a,
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  Speaker 2: just a, an absolute, it's kabuki theater. I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to think of a way to describe it that
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  Speaker 2: best encapsulates just how much I, how little I think
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  Speaker 2: of this thing, but it really is. It's just, it's
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  Speaker 2: just a dog and pony show. I mean, the stuff
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  Speaker 2: that the ICC has done and the individuals that shape
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  Speaker 2: their decisions are things that we would, people and things
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  Speaker 2: we would never take seriously here in the United States.
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  Speaker 2: And furthermore, I don't agree with the United States answering
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  Speaker 2: to anything that is not American, that is not American jurisprudence.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're talking about, for instance, you're talking about
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  Speaker 2: entities that would go after the United States. Today, they'd
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  Speaker 2: go after us for defending ourselves as it pertains to, like,
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  Speaker 2: for instance, Pearl Harbor. They would have gone after us
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  Speaker 2: for that. I think that's safe to say. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't think I'm I'm not being, what's the word? Hyperbolic. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: thank you. I'm not being hyperbolic about that. So the,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's just the truth of it. So welcome
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  Speaker 2: to the radio program, Dana Lash, with you. We have some,
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  Speaker 2: this is a great speech that he gave. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad that he is going after them because there's been
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  Speaker 2: this push to make us more subservient to these things.
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  Speaker 2: So he was, I mean, he's, they're sanctioning the ICC.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was a great, I mean, I think it's,
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  Speaker 2: I don't have any complaints about it. And then of
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  Speaker 2: course this was right after he spoke. Um, and he
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  Speaker 2: was in, uh, front of, he was in Athens. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: literally gateway to the West and he's in front of, he's, uh,
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  Speaker 2: what was it? The, uh, uh, it wasn't the Acropolis.
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  Speaker 2: Is he in front of where it doesn't matter. All
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  Speaker 2: I know is that it was a great speech. This
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  Speaker 2: is a great speech. So going after the ICC, now
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  Speaker 2: you have to remember, the United States itself, we have
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  Speaker 2: levied sanctions against individual ICC judges. But what makes this
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  Speaker 2: different is that it's something for the entire organization. And
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  Speaker 2: it's the entire organization itself. And he called it, and
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  Speaker 2: it is, it's a rogue court. This is a big
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  Speaker 2: jump from what we had prior. Because the I mean,
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  Speaker 2: previously he's gone after the ICC before I was looking
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  Speaker 2: at my notes back in July when he was in Manila.
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  Speaker 2: He went after the ICC because they were somewhat defensive
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  Speaker 2: of Iran. That's the crazy thing. He said that. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's I mean, he's. Gone after them before the administration
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  Speaker 2: has made remarks about the ICC before there have been,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, sanctions against just individual specific judges. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: the head of the ICC and a senior lawyer both
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  Speaker 2: were were slapped with with sanctions just this past August.
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  Speaker 2: You have 125 member states that are members of the
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  Speaker 2: ICC and the United States is not one of them.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: The United States is not one one of them. But
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  Speaker 2: yet they want us to be subservient to them. So
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  Speaker 2: the I mean, it's all a joke. It's all an
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  Speaker 2: absolute joke. But the number of countries that aren't in it,
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  Speaker 2: the fact that it's not the United States and it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't look like we're going to be one any time
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  Speaker 2: in the in the near future at all whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, I know.
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  Speaker 2: We're all so upset. We're so it's so sad. The
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  Speaker 2: United States, China, India, Russia, Israel, and Turkey are not members,
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  Speaker 2: per the Council on Foreign Relations, they are not members
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  Speaker 2: of the ICC. And the whole thing is, in the
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  Speaker 2: very beginning, when it was established, it was supposed to
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  Speaker 2: prosecute people for war crimes, which I think, you know
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  Speaker 2: how you prosecute somebody for a war crime? You kill
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  Speaker 2: them on the battlefield. grab them on the battlefield or
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  Speaker 2: you swoop in and you take care of it that way.
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  Speaker 2: This idea that we're going to go through this process
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  Speaker 2: with individuals who don't even recognize the process to me
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  Speaker 2: seems insane. We're going to talk about this here a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more, particularly as it relates to the, the
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  Speaker 2: live stream execution of Jadal Hassan. We're going to open
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  Speaker 2: that up here and coming up after headlines. But this,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is, it's, you know, it's, it's a
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  Speaker 2: foreign entity and I don't, Again, nothing that is unaffiliated
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  Speaker 2: with the United States gets to exercise jurisdiction over the
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  Speaker 2: United States. It's very simple. It is incredibly simple. And
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  Speaker 2: the idea that they can go after non-member states and
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  Speaker 2: prosecute them is insane. They were supposed to— again, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: they were established to go after war crimes and things
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  Speaker 2: like that. But, I mean, there's been so much controversy
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  Speaker 2: because they've made it political. They made it political. It
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  Speaker 2: was created after World War II. They were going after Nazis.
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  Speaker 2: And then now it's become rife with corruption. You've had
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  Speaker 2: member states that have fully withdrawn. There's other states that
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  Speaker 2: are in the middle of withdrawing. Venezuela is one of those,
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  Speaker 2: which I find interesting. They're withdrawing. Why we are not
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  Speaker 2: members and we have no I mean, intention of being,
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't, I mean, would you want to be party
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  Speaker 2: to this? I don't know that I would. Same thing
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  Speaker 2: kind of with the UN, the United Nations. So, great,
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  Speaker 2: it was a very, very good speech that he gave.
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  Speaker 2: And I, like I said, I'm hopefully, hopefully, I wish,
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing just needs to dissipate. We'll come back
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  Speaker 2: to it because I got a couple of other things
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  Speaker 2: I'm pulling up here as well. In addition to this,
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  Speaker 2: there was an ICE-involved shooting in New York City last night.
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  Speaker 2: And Mandani was calling ICE rotten to the core. Protests erupted.
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  Speaker 2: And he branded ICE rotten, demanded that they leave New York.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, all these protests erupted. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: seizing on this as a way to kind of offset
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  Speaker 2: some of the heat that he has been getting. This
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  Speaker 2: is cut five. Listen to this.
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  Speaker 3: United in the belief that there is no justification for
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  Speaker 3: what we have seen today. And we know that what
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  Speaker 3: we have seen today is but a microcosm of what
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  Speaker 3: ICE does on a daily basis across this country. How
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  Speaker 3: can that be how we describe public safety? It can't be.
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  Speaker 3: And I've shared that with the president. I've shared that
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  Speaker 3: with the secretary. This city wants ICE out. We want
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  Speaker 3: ICE out of our city, ICE out of our schools,
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  Speaker 3: ICE out of our hospitals, ICE out of our streets,
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  Speaker 3: ICE away from our kids. We want that because we
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  Speaker 3: want to keep the city safe. We do not need
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  Speaker 3: them to do so. All they do is terrorize the city.
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  Speaker 4: What did he say? It's a long time we have.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, everybody. All they do is terrorize the city. This
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  Speaker 2: is just it's insane. The individual was his injuries are
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  Speaker 2: not considered life threatening, according to law enforcement officials. But
• 8:38
  Speaker 2: they were it was a part of again, this was
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  Speaker 2: a guy who was you're talking about illegal immigrants who
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  Speaker 2: are literally gang members. This guy is a gang member.
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  Speaker 2: He's the member of a gang. It's a gang that
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  Speaker 2: also killed a customs and border patrol agent last year.
• 8:56
  Speaker 2: Federal agents have been investigating him for some time to
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  Speaker 2: see how deep his connections actually went. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: the fact is that he's connected. The question was how
• 9:05
  Speaker 2: deeply was he aware of? Apparently he was associated with
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  Speaker 2: the people that took out the Customs and Border Protection officer.
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  Speaker 2: Did he know of it? So it was an ongoing investigation.
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  Speaker 2: And this he's from the Dominican Republic. He also has,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's a pretty long rap sheet. He's got
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of grand theft, assault, robbery, I think armed robbery,
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  Speaker 2: weapons possession. I mean, this is a bad guy. He's
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  Speaker 2: got a rap sheet that's forever long. Why are we
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  Speaker 2: doing this? And, of course, the media wants to make him,
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  Speaker 2: wants to make this guy, him, the victim, right? He's
• 9:50
  Speaker 2: the victim. Why is he in New York? Because it's
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  Speaker 2: a sanctuary state. They give everybody, they don't honor ICE detainments.
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  Speaker 2: He literally is a gang member and he tried to
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  Speaker 2: flee when they arrested him last month. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: going to take a while if we go down his
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  Speaker 2: rap sheet, but he's got a lot of violent crimes
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  Speaker 2: on his rap sheet, which, you know, poses the question
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  Speaker 2: of why in the world he was even not, he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't in jail in the first place. That's the million-dollar thing.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to this. This is Mark Wayne Mullen blasting Ma'am
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  Speaker 2: Donnie for this. This is cut three.
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  Speaker 5: NYPD officers are some of the finest officers we have
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  Speaker 5: out there. Just last week, one was stabbed seven times.
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  Speaker 4: By illegals.
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  Speaker 5: One that we had a detainer on that New York released.
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  Speaker 5: Both had extensive criminal history. Did the mayor of New
• 10:53
  Speaker 5: York say anything about that? Did the individuals that's in
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  Speaker 5: the streets demanding justice for this criminal that we picked
• 11:02
  Speaker 5: up yesterday? Did anybody come out for the officer that
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  Speaker 5: was stabbed seven times by these criminals? Not a word
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  Speaker 5: was said. Not a word was said by the mayor.
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  Speaker 5: Not a word was said by the governor.
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  Speaker 4: Really?
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, and he's right. We've got a lot more
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: on the way as we roll towards Days of These
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• 13:02
  Speaker 4: And now, all of the news you would probably miss.
• 13:05
  Speaker 4: It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so Mike Ditka. You know how I learned
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: of Mike Ditka? I can't, I know. It was the SNL.
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: It was George Wendt. Playing Mike Ditka. Dope bears. Still bears.
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: And he also had the best sweaters, man. The best
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• 13:25
  Speaker 2: aged 86 years old. Head coach, world champion, 1985 Bears.
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: Chicago was his city. Mike Ditka. Ripped to a legend. Golly,
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: I don't like this. This is set. Now that, I
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: think we have three. Almost three. Now I've got to
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: do my grandmother's rule of three. No more bingo in Wyoming.
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: A new gambling law has banned bingo and threatened $ 750 fines.
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: Now it's like suddenly illegal. But isn't that like what?
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  Speaker 2: Can you just can you play bingo just for prizes
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: or is that still considered gambling, too? Like I think
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: I like old folks bingo. You know, can you can
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  Speaker 2: the old folks still have their bingo?
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 2: Because they focus on gambling and they're talking about just
• 14:14
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• 14:17
  Speaker 2: makes me think that it's not just limited to bars.
• 14:21
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  Speaker 2: would have loved a little bit more clarification on that
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  Speaker 2: casinos were doing it, but apparently it's like it's the
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• 14:42
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• 14:44
  Speaker 2: bingo that that would be affected. Let's see here. Workers
• 14:48
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• 14:53
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• 14:58
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• 15:01
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• 15:07
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• 15:21
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• 15:25
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• 15:32
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• 15:43
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• 15:47
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• 15:50
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  Speaker 2: Dana Lash with you. We're at the bottom of this
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: third hour. So I got to nerd out for just
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  Speaker 2: with my kids. Now my children that are young adults.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: I really got to flex super hard because I found out,
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  Speaker 2: And I always loved the music. I thought it was
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• 18:54
  Speaker 2: social media. I flexed so hard to the kids. in
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: my family. I'm like, look guys, the composer to y'all's
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: favorite game follows me on social media. Oh my gosh.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: And for a hot second, I became very cool and legitimate.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: And so now this is like a step above that.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: The composer, Marty O'Donnell, has done tons of different titles.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, the Halo tracks, he's done Myth, he's done,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's an award-winning composer. And he's also running,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: get this, for Congress. So, I guess he doesn't think
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: that scoring video game titles is difficult enough on its own.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Now he's also running for Congress. And if I can
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: flex a little harder, he joins me now via video.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Marty O'Donnell, thank you so much for joining me. This
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: is very surreal right now, so it's a real pleasure.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Well, gosh, Dana, I was not expecting that introduction at all.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: I thought that maybe your husband, Chris, was the guy
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: who played Halo and said, you should talk to this guy.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: I had no idea you were a gamer. I didn't
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: know that you had listened to my music. So that's
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: a total bonus for me. Thanks so much.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: You do such a great... I just have to give
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: you tons of praise because it literally is the best
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: soundtrack to any game ever scored, ever. It's so good.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: And I love it. I mean, it stands alone. It
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: does really well. And now you're taking, I guess, that
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: golden touch and you're running for Congress, which why I, okay.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Obvious question. Why in the world do you want to
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: jump in the, from the frying pan into the fire,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: so to speak? Why would you want to do that?
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Well, you, you sound, you sound like my wife. Um,
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: but she, she, she, when I, when I told her,
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: I was thinking about it and it was because through
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: a series of events that happened involving my daughter, who
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: is very successful. She started a 501c3 here in Las
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: Vegas that helps kids. It's called Foster Kinship. And she's
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: been doing this for almost 20 years. And 25,000 children
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: have gone through her program. And it's wonderful. And she
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: asked me to help, now that I'm living in Las Vegas,
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: help sort of maybe get involved in politics. She knew
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: I was a Republican and a hardcore conservative. And She
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: knew that I could probably help her navigate through some
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: of the political waters. So that's how I started. I
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: just was going to help out and see how I
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: could help behind the scenes. And Governor Lombardo, Joe Lombardo's team,
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: sort of got wind of my presence. And they actually
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: came to me and said, would you run for Congress?
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Would you ever consider it? And, uh, I was like, no,
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't consider that at all. I, my three grandsons
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: are here. My two daughters are here. I moved here
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: to retire and spend time in the sun and, and relax.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Although I wasn't super happy about the relaxing part. I
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: got antsy. So I thought, well, this is an interesting concept.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: And I've always preached that Congress should be sort of
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: like jury duty. I think people who go to Congress
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: because they think it's a career That's half if not
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: most of the problem with our politicians is that they
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: need the job. They want it as a career They're
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: looking for power. They never leave So I've always been
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: complaining about that and I I've told my daughters as
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: they were growing up There should be Congress duty just
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: like jury duty, right? You should get a letter saying
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: you got it serve and then you serve for two
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: years and then you go back to the farm That's
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: the way it was set up to be so it's
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: when I got this tap on the shoulder and Even
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: though it was coming from the governor's office, I kind
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: of felt like it was God saying, okay, pal, put
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: up or shut up. Are you going to do your
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: civic duty like you keep saying? And so I said, okay, Lord,
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: take me to the next step.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: And it was meeting with the governor. And so that's
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: why I'm doing it. Believe it or not, it's funny.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: I've been through some horrendous crunches finishing games like Halo
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: 1 and 2 and 3. All the games, you just
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: work so, so hard and the pressure can be tremendous.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: I got to work with Paul McCartney for two years
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: when we worked on Destiny, the spiritual sequel to Halo.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: At this point, I kind of feel like Congress. How bad,
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: how hard, how hard can that be?
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: You've done like the hard, you've done like some of
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: the hardest stuff. And now Congress, I mean, very, it's
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: very different. What is, what has shocked you about running
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: for office and getting into this? I mean, obviously, you know,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I would say maybe the nastiness, but I mean, because
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: you're a guy who's like, you know what, there's stuff
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: that's got to be fixed. I just want to fix it.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: And that's kind of like a composer's mentality to tell
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: me about that.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Absolutely. Well, that's exactly what it is. I mean, when
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: people ask me, why are you running? I basically say
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: it's my three grandsons who are in the district, and
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: I don't like where America's going. I've always been a
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: political junkie. I grew up as a conservative. I saw
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Barry Goldwater introduced to the world by Ronald Reagan when
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: I was nine years old with the famous speech, A
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Time for Choosing. And as a nine-year-old, I went to
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: my mom. I said, Mom, I'm a conservative. And I,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: you know, I've never changed.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: You're like Alex P. Keaton.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I actually was, except you wouldn't have known it
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: by looking at me because I had long hair and
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: I was in rock bands. And so I was always
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: the oddball rock musician and progressive rock and jazz and
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: all the rest. And then a music major that was
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: actually a subscriber to National Review. So it was very, so,
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: so the political thing has always been something that I've,
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: I've been fond of reading F.A. Hayek and Milton Friedman
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: and Thomas Sowell. And it's just like from an ideological standpoint,
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: that's the things I believe in. And that's the kind
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: of government I believe in. So, yeah, I want to
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: get in there and say, OK, what's wrong with you people?
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Why aren't you doing it the right way? So we'll
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: see what happens.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: You have we're talking for those joining us. We're talking
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: with Marty O'Donnell. He's running for congressional office in Nevada,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Nevada's third congressional district. And he also, you know, legendary
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: composer for Destiny, Halo, so many titles. And one of
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: the things this is what I was I one of
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: the other big questions I wanted to ask you, Marty,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: because you have a lot of cred with what you
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: do for a living, because everybody, everybody under the age
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: of 50 knows who you are. Everybody under the age,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: I'd say 30, knows who you are very well. And
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: I have read so many stories where people are like, oh,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Marty O'Donnell's a genius. And these are from, you know,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: millennial and Gen Z, the people who play games that
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: are very familiar with you. I wanted to get your
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: perspective on the trend for that generation that loves the
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: stuff that you do and plays the games that you
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: work on. the trend of that generation that's seemingly going
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: towards socialism. There's been a lot of surveys about this.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: What are your thoughts about that? And in that role
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: in Congress, how do you look to kind of temper that?
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: Well, one of the things I think I have a
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: good connection with is this sort of uh gen z
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: millennial even gen x gener uh conglomeration of people especially
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: males i have to say um dana you are the
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: exception to the rule i'm so happy to know that
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: you've actually.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: I credit my young men in my house they were
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: the ones who said you got to play halo and
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: i'm like i'm gonna play halo all.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: Right but um They have been so demonized for so long.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: And they're basically like, okay, we're going to go play
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: our games. At least we can be happy here. And
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: then suddenly the Wokies get involved in game development and
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: change the way games are. And they're like, what have
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: you done to our games? They're coming together. There is the...
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: The weirdo socialists on the left that are trying to
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: control that stuff. And that's those are the people that
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: I think at this moment that are getting a lot
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: of press. But there is a whole other side to this.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: The geeks and gamers, the you know, the critical drinker,
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: the there's a bunch of people out there that have
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: huge millions of people following them that are sort of the.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: I don't want to say the Lost Boys because there's
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: women in there, too. But you're right, though.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, it is. I think there are some women
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: that would identify with that in that generation.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Absolutely. And it's like, what have you done to our comics?
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: What have you done to our anime? What have you
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: done to our games? What have you done to Lord
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: of the Rings and Star Trek and Star Wars? It's
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: like all this stuff that they grew up thinking, hey,
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: these are really good stories and they're heroic and they're
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: classical in so many ways. And now it's just filled
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: with agenda and checkboxes for everything. DEI, and you name it.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: It's actually coalescing this whole group of people who found
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: each other, I think, on the internet. I'm saying, hey, folks,
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: you actually could have some political power. Figure out a
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: way to support me, and you'll have a geeky gamer, musician,
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: creative guy in Congress and I will represent you. Now,
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: I also obviously need to represent the people of Nevada's
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: 3rd District, but the people in Nevada's 3rd District are
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: primarily people who live conservative lives. They get up in
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: the morning, they go to work, they take care of
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: their kids, they want to choose what kind of education
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: their kids have, they want to be able to afford
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: a house, and the conservatives, we're the ones who are
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: going to give That sense of one good job is
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: enough to provide for your family. And it should be
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: that way, but it's not anymore. The reason it's not
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: is because of the Democrats. And moving further into the
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: socialist direction will absolutely blow that out of the water.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: And so we have to give them that alternative. So
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: I think a combination of, you know, the geeky gamer
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: people from the Internet, which is a huge contingent now.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: They are finally snapping back against the wokes. And then
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: just the normal people who want to live normal lives
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: and want government out of their hair, I think they're
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: starting to wake up, truly wake up.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I love that you can thread that needle
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: because there isn't anybody that can speak to that. I mean,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: if you look at, I mean, no offense to anybody
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: in D.C., but there isn't anybody in D.C. who has
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: their finger on the pulse of that and knows, really
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: knows that generation. And as you said, like the gaming community,
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: which is, you know, yes, it's predominantly young men, but
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: that's also... the people who have been attacked the most
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: and smeared the most. And you don't want them to
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: fall in that rabbit hole of thinking, well, you know,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: the only answer to socialism is more socialism. You don't
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: want them to think that.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: Yes, exactly. And I've been noticing this trend for a
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: long time. And I think the political consultants who are
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: in their early 40s that reached out to me certainly
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Joe Lombardo, he's an absolutely salt of the earth, sweet guy.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: But he's like, yeah, Marty, I don't know. So video games,
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: what did you do? He doesn't know the video games thing.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: But the guys in the 40s, there's a lot of
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: staffers in Washington. That's the when you ask about surprising
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: things for me. is number one, how mean other Republicans
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: can be to each other, which just like, oh, wait,
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: I expect to get attacked by Democrats, but not by
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: other Republicans. So that was one surprise. But the other
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: surprise is going and meeting all these people in D.C.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: at the staff level, and they are all lined up
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: to want autographs from me. So I'm like, OK, there
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: is an underlying bunch of people who get it. They
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: grew up playing video games. This is in their wheelhouse.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: You know, maybe the senators and congressmen that they work
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: for don't have a clue, but I mean, they don't
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: have a clue anyway.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: Right. Exactly.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: I'm going to get myself in trouble.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: No, you're not going to.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: You know what?
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Because it's honest. You're being incredibly honest. And it's so
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: refreshing to see that. Last quick thing. I mean, I
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: know it's a very, very tight race. because this is Nevada.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Nevada used to be pretty reliably red. And then I
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: know they kind of, they kind of had the same thing,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: the blueprint, which flipped Colorado, same thing with Nevada. Um,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: tell me how you're feeling because I see a lot
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: of people that are very receptive, but I just think
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: that you are like lightning in a bottle because you
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: have that ability that nobody else does that you get
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: that generation better than anybody else. And I just kind
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: of wanted to get your thoughts, you know, coming into
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: the home stretch, the home stretch here.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm truly, truly not a professional politician, so I
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: don't know how to read the tea leaves. I listen
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: to the folks that I trust and they're saying, hey,
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: the polls are moving in the right direction. You know,
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: it's tight, but it's all going in the right direction.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: It's great. Joe Lombardo and President Trump both won this
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: district last time, but the Democrats still snuck through. So
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: they feel like there's a real vulnerability there. And Susie
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: Lee is fantastic. the democrat and she's actually a horrible
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: congresswoman she's.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Even without the party affiliation, she's just bad and incompetent
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: with the affiliation makes it worse even.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: Yes, it does. So, you know, I think she's she's vulnerable,
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: but she's got, you know, as an incumbent, she's got
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: a lot of stuff that she can pull from and
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: she's got the unions and there's all that stuff. But
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: I think if we can excite the base, it's a
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: turnout election. I'm sure you've heard that a million times.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: And I also think there is that sort of hidden element.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: contingency of young men who just don't bother to vote.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: They think politics doesn't matter. I'm sure you've talked to
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: Dean Cain at some point. He's now a supporter and
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: a fan. We're doing, believe it or not, you should
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: know this, we're doing a Halo LAN party starting tonight.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: In Las Vegas.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know how you missed it. Why didn't you?
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: I don't know. How did I miss this?
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: I'm going to blame myself.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: I don't know how you're going to go to blame.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: I haven't even been advertising it. But we're starting tonight,
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: so we're having a big traditional Halo LAN party. It'll
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: be streamed, but not played online. It's going to be
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: actual yellow LAN cables.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: That is amazing.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: That is fantastic. It's a combination of fundraising for my campaign,
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: but it's also just something that's the 25th anniversary of Halo.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: So people from all over the country are coming in
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: to do this and we're having an actual hardcore tournament
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: tomorrow all day. And I've got some other original designers
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: and creators who helped me. I mean, I helped them
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: make Halo back in the day. So they're coming in too.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: That's amazing. I want everyone to listen to what Marty
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: said because for the generation that needed somebody that can
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: speak their language and that gets them, And that understands
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: also the escape because it's not just about games. It's
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: just people. It is people who need an escape from
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: the insanity that is happening around them. And they just
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: want to get away from the woke ism. They want
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: to get away from the super hardcore leftism. They want
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: to get away from all of it. So to have
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: somebody like that, that gets you, that is one of
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: you in Congress, that's a first. And I hope that
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: they don't pass that historic opportunity. Last word.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: OK, I just want to say the thing I was
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: going to say about Dean Cain is he always says
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: people say they don't care about politics, but politics cares
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: about you. So get involved. And I think I think
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: I can wake some folks up, I hope. And I
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: will represent everybody.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: There you go right there. Marty O'Donnell, always a pleasure.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: This is such a real pleasure for me, a real
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: treat for me to be able to talk with you.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope we can do it longer sometime. And
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: you should come out. You should just get on a
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: plane right now and come out tonight. Come on. You
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: know what?
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: I'm not actually against that. That would be super fun.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: It's so good to talk with you. We'll talk again soon.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Marty O'Donnell. God bless you.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: Thanks so much.
• 34:22
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  Speaker 4: It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time
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  Speaker 4: for Florida Man.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, let's see. I want to do this one. The birds.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how this happens. This is so gross.
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at that. Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: A man tried to sneak 10 birds through a Florida
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  Speaker 2: airport in his pants. 10 exotic birds. Alberto Hernandez Castillo,
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  Speaker 2: a Cuban native, was going through Miami's International Airport when
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  Speaker 2: authorities flagged him for a secondary inspection. They said that
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: he indicated on his customs entry declaration that he did
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: not bring any animals or wildlife. But then he had
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: a bulge near his waist. Kind of was giving him away.
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  Speaker 2: And they were like, sir, we're going to have to
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  Speaker 2: do a pat down. They found six plastic tubes sewn
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: into his underwear that contained eight yellow-faced tubes. grass quits,
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: and two blue grosbeaks. They're sold in an illegal pet trade.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: All 10 birds were found alive, thankfully. They're all okay.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: They're kind of like smaller birds. They usually are found
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  Speaker 2: in southeastern Mexico, northern North America. Some can be found
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  Speaker 2: in parts of Cuba, the blue grosbeaks. They're usually in Mexico,
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Central America, and other places as well, near the equator.
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  Speaker 2: He was busted. He told authorities that the birds were
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  Speaker 2: his personal use. No one believes that. Florida Fish or U.S.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Fish and Wildlife, sorry, got him for importing the birds
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: and he was taken into custody. And the birds are OK.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: They're like fed there and they're like a little happy.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: I don't I guess they're going to go to like
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: what a sanctuary or something like that. I don't know.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: But that's I always get super upset. This why would
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: anybody buy this off of Facebook marketplace? This is how
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: you get poisoned. A Florida man apparently used Facebook Marketplace
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: to sell homegrown psychedelic mushrooms and peyote. Dang. Authority sees,
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: oh my gosh, he had a lot. Authority sees more
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: than 50 pounds of hallucinogenic cacti. It's peyote and mushrooms
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: from a guy who was advertising them on Facebook Marketplace. Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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  Speaker 2: Why did he think that he could just advertise that
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: on Facebook Marketplace? Isn't that already against the law?
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  Speaker 4: I think he was high on peyote at the time.
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  Speaker 2: You can't just go, yo, I got some, y'all want
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  Speaker 2: some shrooms and peyote? Y'all want some of that? The man, 30,
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: oh gosh, he's 32 years old. What is up with
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: some of these people? Zachary Diaz, he was running his
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: business selling the peyote and the psilocybin mushrooms. Psilocybin, thank you. Clearly,
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: I need to learn drugs more. He also had manufacturing supplies.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: They found 50 pounds of the peyote and then almost
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: two pounds of the shrooms. And they said he was
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: already facing outstanding warrants, apparently. And he was arrested and
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: charged with three counts of possession of a controlled substance
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: with intent to sell, manufacture, deliver 1,000 feet of a church,
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: three counts of deliver, blah, blah, blah. He's got a
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: lot of counts. As you can see, I'm just trying
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: to understand why this genius thought, you know what's a
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: good place for me to advertise this? I'm going to
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: put it up on Facebook Marketplace. I'm going to make
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: it easy. Come down. Because that's how they busted him.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: They're like, look at this fool. The cops are like, oh,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: look at him selling his stuff on Facebook Marketplace.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: And then if you were, well, I mean, I guess
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: if you're buying illegal drugs, you don't care where you
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: get them. But still, that's so dirty. That's like buying
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: gas station sushi. Like, why would you? I don't know.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Like if I was going to be a drug user,
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: I would want bougie, like a bougie drug place, you know,
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: like I would want to go and like somebody hand
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: me the champagne. while I'm looking at the drugs, you know? Like,
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: you would shop at a bougie store. I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of
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  Speaker 4: the United States. What do you think I've been doing,
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: you cocksucker?
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  Speaker 2: Now, here's the thing, man. You don't know me. You
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: don't f * * * ing know me.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: Hey, Joe, find this guy and let me see him
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: after the show.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Guys, I can stop this show right now and just
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: go home. That's what I'm going to do.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Since you've been so wonderful, I'm going to cut about
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  Speaker 1: 10 songs.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: Out of the show.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: Here we go. Golly. I just ran through a really
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: fast Rolodex of names for him in my head, and
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: the thought occurred to me, none of them I can
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: say on air. Don't say it. Hey, hey, can I
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: call him? Can I at least call him that? Can
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: I say, hey, you old?
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so. Okay.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. It's not as fun. That's almost
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: an adorable name.
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: He has this middle name.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, John Cooter Mellencamp. That's right. So he's just finished
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: working on a car and sucking down a chili dog,
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: decided he was going to go play some tunes for
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: the peoples. And then someone was like, can you shut
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: up about politics for five seconds and just play music?
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: And that's what he's mad about. That's like me getting
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: up and playing guitar instead of talking about politics. Like, anyway,
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: here's Wonderwall. And everyone's like, can you just shut up
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: and talk about politics? You know, just in reverse. Why
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: do people get so mad about that? Like they come,
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: they come there because they like your music. They like
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: your music. They don't care about anything else. They thought
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: that the song that you wrote was nice and they
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: want to go hear the nice songs in a live
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: music setting. And he comes up there and decides to
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: be a cranky old female copulatory organ about it. Why
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: in the world? Why do you, why do, why do
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: people do that? Why do they do that? I don't
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: get it. Why is he always in a mechanics outfit?
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: I don't get that either. Like, what is up?
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: This is like the 5,000th time I've seen him in
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: a mechanic outfit. But these celebrities that get out there,
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: and then they get shocked. I can't believe that nobody
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: wanted to hear about my politics. I can't believe people
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: didn't want to listen to three hours of me playing
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: power chords. Wow. You see? Just stop.
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: And now, all of the news you would probably miss.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: This is kind of grody. Polk County, Missouri, a leak
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: at a meat processing plant in Polk County discharged a
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: mixture of blood and water into a nearby creek. According
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, they investigated after
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: a landowner reported discolored water. State officials found that the
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: discharge came from Best Beef, Missouri, a local meat processing
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: plant in Pleasant Hope. The plant's owner said the leak
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: was the result of vandalism, and the landowner noticed that
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: the creek's water, his creek's water right on his property
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: as he was leaving his house, that it had an
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: oily sheen on it. He noted the water level had risen,
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: the color was red, and you could kind of smell it.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: And so he went to a holding pool south of
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: his property. It was also discolored. So he called the
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: Missouri Department of Natural Resources, and they began an investigation.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: They followed it all the way to the plant, and
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: they said that now they're going to have to They
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: said— the plant owner says that the only way this could
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: have happened is for somebody to have deliberately done it
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: and that someone had deliberately removed a missing cap. And
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: that's what— so they halted operations and they put up a
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: dam temporarily and all of that. So they're trying to
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: figure out how to get it cleaned up and how
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: to fix it here. Utah is going to become the
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: first state to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: without direct human oversight. Oh. I mean, when you look
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: at medical malpractice, is it going to be that much different, though,
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: from what we have? Part of it is because we
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: have doctor shortages. Nobody wants to go into medicine anymore.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: And part of the reason for that, honestly, is Obamacare. Obamacare,
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: the regulations, the oversight, the liability, everything has made it
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: to where medicine isn't as it's not as attractive and
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: appealing to people. They don't want to put up with
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: all that, all the nonsense, all the bureaucracy. Uh, but,
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: and also I worry about DEI. So I'm actually, because
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: of that, not opposed to this because DEI has infected
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: so many industries, you know, it's infected the medical industry. Uh,
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: so I don't know, but Utah doctors already consult with
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: AI as it is. I don't know a doctor who doesn't.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: I was talking to a friend of mine who's a
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: dentist and they were saying that, oh yeah, that so
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: many people in medicine, this is what they're, they do. They,
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: they consult, uh, AI. It's made it a lot easier
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: and a lot quicker. Also, let's see. Convicted Massachusetts felon
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: pled guilty to selling imported plutonium from Russia to dozens.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: Imported plutonium. It does sound like a TV show. Jacob Miller, 44,
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: was convicted. He apparently also had a bunch of other
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: nasty stuff and possession of an explosive device as well.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Stick with us.