In this episode, Dana Lash critiques the recent WNBA player rankings, highlighting controversial biases against standout player Caitlin Clark. Moving from sports to missteps in municipal planning, she dissects a political blunder concerning New York’s supposed grocery subsidies. With her signature wit and insight, Dana reveals the layers behind the headlines.
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So a, uh, no. I don’t really want to do this one. Oh, I don’t want to do this one at all. A nurse found drugs in a Florida man’s back door during surgery for a stab wound. Just going to leave it like that. Florida man involved in what police believe was a drug dispute ended up behind bars because during surgery, because he went in to seek medical attention because he was stabbed. It was at St. Petersburg’s Bayfront Hospital last month. The injuries required surgery. Forty three year old Michael O’Neill was had a nurse was. Well, she found that he had been using drugs. his prison wallet, for the lack of a better phrase, to store drugs and drug paraphernalia. It was a smoking gun piece. And they said while in surgery, she located it. And it was round tinfoil with cocaine, along with a glass crack pipe and a lighter. I can’t even deal. And he posted five thousand five hundred dollar bond was released from custody. Plead not guilty to the charges. I don’t know how you can plead not guilty to these charges. This was not his first arrest either. So next story. Moving on. Let’s see here. We’ve got a Florida man’s cross necklace blocks the bullet from piercing his heart. This is coming from WFLA. He was shot in the chest. He credits a cross necklace for saving his life. 20-year-old Aiden Perry told his friend he was showing off a firearm. He accidentally fired it because he’s a moron. It ricocheted off his gold necklace and became lodged in the fatty tissue of his chest. The doctors say that his necklace saved his life. So I think there’s probably something to be said for wearing big gold chains maybe. But it ricocheted. It had to just hit perfectly. They said if he hadn’t been wearing it, it would have pierced his lungs or his heart. So maybe he got it as a Christmas gift last year from his dad. So just saying. Maybe that’s a giant sign to this dude. Just FYI. Also, let’s see here. A… I got drug trafficking, drug trafficking. We also have a guy in Zephyrillis, Florida, an argument that began a man opened fire on a garbage truck while chasing it through Zephyrillis. And this was early Friday morning that led to the guy chasing it while firing shots in a collision that sent two men to the hospital, another to jail, according to Zephyrillis, P.D., They went to Advent Health Zephyrillis. The man showed up. He had a gunshot wound to his right forearm. He was shot. I don’t really care about the backstory of this, but a guy just was running after a garbage truck and just firing all crazy. You had to know. His name is Quinson Croson. You have too many sounds in your name, sir. You got to give one of them up. Nobody’s allowed to have that many consonants. I know it’s America, but come on. A man in whitey tighties is pepper spraying his sleeping neighbor over noise complaints. Another one. It is shockingly not a village’s story. It’s Lauderhill. They said that this man was arrested. He broke into his neighbor’s upstairs apartment, pepper sprayed him in the face while he slept. Because apparently he was snoring so loud and being loud that the guy had lived like right below him. He could hear him. So he couldn’t startle him awake. So he ended up climbing up into his apartment and he pepper sprayed him in the face. It just feels like maybe he could have used your phone. instead our partners over at all family pharmacy you want to you want affordable medications and you don’t want big pharma being the gatekeeper this is where all family pharmacy comes in they’re offering a summer sale 20% off of your entire order and this includes your daily medications it includes things like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine antibiotics everything 20% off site wide right now no insurance required licensed doctors in all 50 states and you get fast shipping right to your front door and All good things. Emergency kits as well. Everything in two to four days. Overnight delivery in a pinch if you need it as well. This is such a great website. I cannot recommend it enough. I am a user of it. I always tell people about it. It’s all family pharmacy dot com slash Dana. This is where I go. Get 20% off using promo code DANA20. And don’t let Big Pharma gatekeep. That’s allfamilypharmacy.com slash DANA. Coupon code DANA20 to save 20%.
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Whole issue with the WNBA. I don’t know if you guys saw some of the scoring on this. They had, it was trending last night. So they were ranking players in the WNBA and Caitlin Clark’s all-star ranking. Got a lot of people talking about player bias. She was ranked ninth among guards by her peers, which is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen. The way that they, they’re like, oh, she finished first in the fan vote. And in the players vote, she was ninth. Because they hate her is why. That is pure jealousy. Pure jealousy. Have you ever seen them? How many players they send out to guard the ninth best guard on the court? They send out a million people to guard her. A million. They actually go after her. Someone said they guard her like she’s Prime Jordan. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I’m so tired of the hate from this. She’s a once in a generation player. I’m so tired of the hate that she’s getting. It makes me, there’s rivalry and then there’s this. There’s rivalry and then there’s just blind pettiness. You know, like even other players in the NBA, those men would give each other their due. Women are bitches. They will not give them. I’m going to tell you, every place I’ve ever been, I’ve only had one issue with a dude. Everything that I’ve ever seen in the workplace has been from women. It has been from women. They’re nasty. They’re petty. I don’t like them. They’re aggravating. Look at this. They can’t all celebrate that she’s bringing all these eyeballs in. So they got to rank her really low because they’re jealous bees is why. The ninth best guard. Every time I’ve ever seen her on the court, they’ve got a million people around her. A million people. And you would just think that they would, instead of wasting all this energy and all this time doing this, you think that they would be able to celebrate it. Like, oh my gosh, we’re getting eyeballs. We’re getting, you know, we’re getting this. We’re getting chartered planes now. We have merch opportunities, you know, all of that. I mean, it is crazy. She’s number, she’s one in fan favorites, ninth amongst players. I will, you know, I wish they’d guard her like she was the ninth best guard in the league. They ought to guard her like she’s the ninth best. Then if she’s the ninth best, then don’t send everybody to guard her. Just give her that ninth place treatment. She’s I think that the WNBA allows this. And I think that part of the reason why they allows it is because they that why they allow it is because they want they they’re misinterpreting this as getting the same kind of eyeballs that a regular rivalry would get. And it’s not the same. This is just as nobody likes to see somebody getting beat up on just for the sake of getting beat up on. Like they’re mad at her because she’s white and she’s not a lesbian and she’s not whatever. I don’t know whatever these Marxist broads think, but they’re mad at her because she’s just good. And she came in good and she’s been. And the only time anybody pays attention is when she’s on the court. This is not unlike policy in real life, by the way. Where the people who succeed and put in all the work are sidelined and kneecapped, overburdened and overregulated. It’s a lot of problems. A lot of problems with it. So that’s the latest. Ninth place. I feel like I need to be a male basketball player, though. Here’s why. Did y’all see the payday this dude’s getting? payday. Everybody’s talking about Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, but they’re not talking about Shia Alexander. He got a four-year, $285 million super maximum contract extension. Steve, is that like an actual thing, a super maximum contract extension?
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Yeah, there’s a difference between a max and a super max. So essentially you get paid out for as long as you possibly can in your term deals in the collective bar. It’s a CBA thing, but you can raise the amount of money because there’s no salary cap, but you can get paid that many times per that many years.
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Wow. Wow. That’s pretty – see, I need to be a male basketball player then. We could do that. I could learn how to play ball. I won’t be very good. I mean, I can play ball. I’m just never good. I couldn’t even make varsity in school. I did soccer and track and everything else, though. But yeah, 285. I will literally stretch my bones And I will pretend to be a dude for that kind of money, man. I mean, just on the court anyway.
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SGA put in one of the most impressive seasons in basketball history ever. He had the finals MVP, the regular season MVP, took Oklahoma City to their first ever NBA title. I mean, it was impressive. Wow.
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Wow. $285 million with Oklahoma City Thunder all the way from 2030 to 31. That is the richest annual salary for a player in the league’s history. Holy cow. I’d say so. I wouldn’t even know how to spend all that money. I wouldn’t even know. So clearly we are in the wrong industry. We need to be selling. We need to be we need to be like working in basketball. Our partners that will bring you the program is the folks over at Burn a Gun. It’s always good to have options. I mean, you have different calibers. You carry blades, you carry carbines, carry pistols. This is a great option for you. If you are in one of these areas where you’ve got municipal restrictions and if you have private property restrictions, gun-free zone signs, whatever it is, or maybe you’re a college student and you’re going to be living on your own and you can’t carry a pistol for self-defense, but you need something. This is where the burner gun comes in. Look, I’m always going to tell you to carry and I’m always going to tell you to use lethal force. The other thing, Use lethal force if your life is being threatened. You should feel free to be able to protect yourself. I have no problem doing it. But one of the things I’m also going to tell you is to make sure you’re diversifying your weapons array. And the Berna gun has, I mean, they have several different models. I mean, they have rifles and all that. I think for this specific purpose, you need to check out the SD and the CL, which is brand new. The CL is 38% smaller than the SD. CL stands for compact launcher. And if you’re unfamiliar with the burner gun, it shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can disable threats from up to 50 feet away. There’s no recoil. It’s legal in all 50 states. No background checks, no waiting periods can be sent right to your door. And it’s super affordable as well. And it doesn’t care about the gun free zone signs. So if this is something that speaks to you, and I would highly encourage you, again, to diversify what you have in terms of weapons, check out the Berna gun, the SD and the CL. You can find them both at Berna.com slash Dana, B-Y-R-N-A.com slash Dana. Berna, ready when you are.
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This summer, the world’s game comes to New York, New Jersey. MetLife Stadium will host an epic quarterfinal matchup on July 5th. Teams will be revealed soon, but one thing’s clear, you won’t want to miss this. Be there when it happens. Grab your tickets now at FIFA.com slash tickets. MetLife Stadium. The world is watching. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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So apparently China has a coffee chain now that is going to give Starbucks a run for its money. Starbucks is under fresh pressure. They’re saying China’s biggest coffee chain opened U.S. locations with $2 drinks. It’s called Luckin Coffee. And it has apparently they say super low prices and a no frills menu. And in China, it’s already very competitive with Starbucks. Or you could just get a really nice coffee machine and make it at home. You know, there’s also that option as well. This is a crazy story. So via CBS, a dad jumped overboard to save his daughter who fell overboard from a Disney cruise ship near Fort Lauderdale. And there’s tons of video of it. He jumped in to save his young daughter after she fell overboard. It was on its way back to South Florida. They had to have a dramatic sea rescue. And there’s, again, like I said, tons of video about it online. It was on Sunday aboard the Disney Dream. It was sailing between the Bahamas and Fort Lauderdale. And a child went overboard during the final leg. Her father leapt in immediately after her. He treaded water for 10 minutes, for over 10 minutes. They had the emergency alert sounded. The crew members launched a rescue boat and life preservers into the water. And they said that the ship was moving so quickly that it was crazy how tiny they became in the sea. And then you lose sight of them. and they said that they slowed the ship, turned it around, and deployed a tender with people on it to go rescue them, and they were able to get them out of the water. But no idea how she fell overboard, though. No idea how that happened or the age of her, but thankfully, everybody’s okay. They’re trying to say now… that the GLP-1, the fat jabs, could actually treat migraines, too. This is via Gizmodo. They’re saying that people who have unresponsive chronic migraines experienced substantial relief after they started taking the GLP-1 drug, according to research from Italy. That’s interesting. Apparently, I don’t know how that reconciles with all of the side effects they say these things have, but that’s what this research says. A 92-year-old British man who was convicted of rape and murder in a 1967 cold case finally got convicted, actually. Can you imagine? Since 1967, a cold case, and they finally figured it out. The individual, 92 years old now, Ryland Headley, he was found guilty by the Bristol Crown Court in southern England. He raped and murdered a woman. And she was 75 years old when he killed her six decades ago. And they the case was unsolved for 58 years. And he was told during sentencing that he committed a pitiless and cruel, pitiless and cruel act. The Dalai Lama is going to pick his successor. And China is watching that one very closely. Kind of interesting. But they said he’s addressing a three day gathering. It’s the Buddhist religious figures that are all ahead of this ahead of his 90th birthday. So some international news there. And additionally, scientists reveal six attributes that mean you might be cool. Well, what is cool? How do you define cool? Doesn’t it change culturally? Like, isn’t it doesn’t it depend on like culture to culture? But they said there’s a new study, international consensus when it comes to what it means to be cool. They conducted experiments with about 6,000 people from around the globe, and they found that people have surprisingly similar personalities. And they said that they rated them on their taste, their personalities. They said cool people are way more extroverted and autonomous and adventurous. So that’s some of the stuff that fits into it. His plan for the city-owned grocery stores, he wanted to tap in. to a $140 million bucket of subsidies for quote unquote corporate grocery stores, but that money doesn’t exist. Oh, oh yeah. It’s not real. It doesn’t exist. So, okay. He thinks that It would cost $140 million. I mean, he would have to almost, and this is from Washington Examiner, it would require like 20 years for him to build a one government-run grocery store in each borough. Washington Examiner has the whole story. His whole plan is based on a huge misunderstanding of the current grocery subsidies. The money that he plans to use to pay for the city-owned grocery stores is actually money that the city doesn’t have. He thinks that the city is spending, he actually thinks that the city is spending $140 million to subsidize private grocery stores. And he talked about this before. And one of the videos that he had out, he said, we’re going to redirect city funds from corporate supermarkets to city-owned grocery stores whose mission is lower prices, not price gouging. And then he did an interview. He said that this is how we’re going to pay for the entire agenda. And he said that… He said that that should be compared to the city’s existing program called City Fresh, where they spend $140 million subsidizing corporate grocery stores. So it would take less than half of the money the city’s already set to spend and actually deliver results. So the City Fresh, what New York has, it is the food retail expansion to support health. So F-R-E-S-H. You know what it means? It’s literally just a bunch of tax breaks. And regulatory, a suspension of certain regulations in certain areas that make it easier for grocery stores to open up in what they call quote-unquote food deserts. It literally is not like a pot of money. It’s a bunch of tax breaks and suspension of regulation. He thinks that that… means the amount of money that it regulates is the amount of money that they actually have in a pot somewhere that he can just go stick his hand in. I am not making this up. The subsidy includes tax breaks, building taxes stay at pre-improvement levels for a few years, land taxes are abated, they have some tax breaks for building the store, some transfer taxes are cut, et cetera, et cetera. Zoning relief, regulatory relief, all of that’s included. And they save the grocery stores about a few million a year. Wow. And I don’t know how his brain thought that that meant that’s $140 million in hard cash. What they said is the city’s Economic Development Corporation estimated that grocery stores have, of their own money, invested $140 million thanks to that City Fresh program. He is counting the $140 million that grocery stores invested of their own money, private money, as government money. It’s literally described, quote, the amount of money invested into New York City’s economy through Fresh. So the money was invested by the, quote, unquote, corporate grocery stores and not by the city. He is one of the stupidest people who has ever lived. Oh, my gosh. He literally does not understand this. And he thinks he thinks that he’s he just read that. Oh, wait, 140 million. That’s probably hard cash somewhere that I can get my hands on. But what he doesn’t realize or what he misunderstood is. Is that this is the money, the amount of money that’s been invested into New York City’s economy by these stores through this program. It’s not money for him to take. Like every other communist, this guy is also illiterate. Not just like in terms of reading comprehension, but mathematically illiterate as well. Oh, my gosh. But this is what happens when you’re a nepo baby who has never, ever, ever worked a job. And the closest thing to working a job that he’s ever come is when he was a failed rapper and mommy directed his rap videos. Not even kidding you. And they’re so cringe, I could die. I don’t understand how someone who is a millennial and should have a little bit better sense is that cringe. But here we are. I mean, he’s 30-something years old and he’s never, ever worked. Ever. So I don’t know. It’s like, I think the guys in the movie Stepbrothers, John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell, had like better ambition than this guy does. So he had no idea what he was reading. And he literally went out in front of the nation and pitched this plan based on his inability to understand what he was reading on a government website. But what’s more is apparently he does not surround himself with anybody that corrected him. Nobody was like, dude, you’re reading this wrong. That is not what that means. There’s not $140 cash sitting somewhere in a bucket for you to get. Okay. That means that’s how much money has been reinvested into the city through the city fresh program by the stores, right? And he thought, oh my gosh, that’s money I can take somewhere. So now we’re back at square one. He’s proposed big O government grocery stores. Where is that money going to come from? By the way, this is another reason why you don’t hate the press enough. Of the press, only one entity, only one entity actually wrote about this. That is Washington Examiner. All of the New York press, nobody touched it. No one in New York had the idea of going, wait a minute, this guy literally messed up and he does not know what he’s saying. So are we going to write about the story or not? No, no, shh. This is so embarrassing.
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This summer, the world’s game comes to New York, New Jersey. MetLife Stadium will host an epic quarterfinal matchup on July 5th. Teams will be revealed soon, but one thing’s clear. You won’t want to miss this. Be there when it happens. Grab your tickets now at FIFA.com slash tickets. MetLife Stadium. The world is watching.
