This episode also uncovers a recently edited media clip involving CBS and Kristi Noem, showcasing the lengths to which networks go to shape public perception. On a lighter note, Dean Cain finds himself in an unexpected social media altercation with Gavin Newsom’s press team, sparking discussion on the role of public figures in political debates. Tune in for these stories and more, as we provide an engaging blend of entertainment and critical analysis.
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Oh, man, we got a lot of Florida men in the news this time. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter. Instagram scavenger hunt led a Florida man to drive 106 miles per hour to a car dealership that he could find $60 that was hidden there. This happens all the time. People go on social media. They claim to hide money in a unique spot, and the first person that gets there in this random spot in public gets the cash. So a Florida guy jumped in his vehicle when he saw the social media post and drove so fast to try to get there and then thought that that would be an excuse when he got pulled over by the cops. He’s like, no, you don’t get it. I don’t know if you’re following quote-unquote social media influencer, but they hid $60 at the car dealership, so I got to get there. Luckily for him, not only is he arrested, his car is impounded. So maybe he needs another vehicle and he’ll have to go and check out that dealership for other reasons. I’m not sure. But any or he at least needs the 60 bucks to get the car out of lockup. A Florida man was accused of regularly throwing glass bottles from his Miami high rise. He is now facing deadly missile charges. What’s uniquely interesting about this story? outside of just the horribleness of it, of a guy who thinks it’s hilarious to launch glass bottles from a high-rise, is when people don’t understand the actual level of punishment for the thing they’re doing, and then they find out. That’s the part I like the most. There’s a viral video of someone trying to telecop They didn’t do anything wrong and leave me alone. The guy actually was, I think, driving a golf cart on public roadways. He’s not allowed. But then when you defy the cop and push back and whip out your camera and try to turn it into a whole thing, things get worse for you, not better. A lot of the time, meaning you commit more crimes. This guy who might not have assumed that his glass bottles would be thought of as deadly missiles is going to be in trouble for a lot of stuff. Florida man who’s a unique piece of crap does something that gets him much stronger punishments than you’d expect, and I’m okay for that. I think that’s great. Actually, in that vein, there’s another story about a guy who was arrested by police in Florida. During the process of being arrested, he slammed one of the police dogs to the ground and also head-butted a patrol car. Not even a human, he head-butted the car itself. Um, but I’m okay. And many others are okay with seeking the death penalty on this case. Cause you don’t hurt dogs. You piece of crap, you jerk. Uh, but this guy is definitely going to be in a lot of trouble and a lot of things are going to happen as far as the level of crime he committed, uh, because he didn’t want to go quietly. And then finally, one last one that I thought was pretty interesting as far as a Florida man goes, uh, And this feels out of all four of these, this one feels the most uniquely Florida just because of the degree to which this is crazy. A Florida guy got arrested because he was flying fentanyl into prison. He was using a drone to do it. He would take the drone from his house where he had the fentanyl, apparently, and fly it to the people that he was selling it to who were locked up in jail. And this somehow somebody cracked the case. Somebody figured out what was going on here. You can’t fly fentanyl into a prison undetected. Uh, but just crazy. Uh, the Florida man actually, I think was doing this in California. So he wasn’t actually even in Florida when he was doing it. Uh, but of course that Florida sticks hard that Florida stays, although California, not exactly a reasonable state in a lot of ways themselves. Uh, this does sound like the kind of thing that might just happen in a place like California too. Um, But my favorite part about this is when the guy was apprehended, I’m assuming he said, how’d you figure out it was me? How did you chase the drone, track the drone down to my location? Man, oh man, we thought we had the perfect crime going. When you’re flying fentanyl into jail. All right, quick break. A lot more. Now he just, at least he doesn’t have to fly it. He’s there already. More coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the damage field.
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They don’t learn their lesson. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. This is Kristi Noem putting up on social media a demonstratedly edited video showing her response to a CBS question and then what they aired as far as the CBS question goes. This was about Kilmar Abrego-Garcia. No matter how many times media is caught red handed in this situation, no matter how much money President Trump successfully gets them in lawsuits to give him, they still want to do this. They still want to change things and claim it’s for journalistic reasons. But here we go.
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One thing that we will continue to do is to make sure that he doesn’t walk free in the United States of America. This individual was a known human smuggler, MS-13 gang member, an individual who was a wife beater, and someone who was so perverted that he solicited nude photos from minors. And even his fellow human traffickers told him to knock it off. He was so sick and what he was doing and how he was treating small children. He needs to never be in the United States of America. And our administration is making sure we’re doing all that we can to bring him to justice.
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That is crazy. I want to play it one more time. So the first piece of audio is the audio of what CBS actually aired. The question about Kim are Greg Garcia. The second very long, very contextualized answer as to why you would never want that person in the United States. It did not air. And so it’s insane that this is the kind of thing that a lot of these places are being caught doing. It’s so easy in society right now to do this, by the way. We all have a phone. We all have the capability to record things. Of course, people that are going to take interviews from places like the White House have capabilities to do this sort of stuff. And news seems to be… woefully unprepared for the reality that they’re not the only arbiters of any sort of narrative, that everyone else can demonstrate the truth themselves, and that there are social media platforms like X, like Twitter, that you can go on and tell people the truth and it won’t be censored by people in charge because of Elon Musk. One more time, I want to play it. The difference between what aired on CBS and what she actually said.
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And the one thing that we will continue to do is to make sure that he doesn’t walk free in the United States of America.
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Again, that’s the entire answer they aired as if for some reason with no motivating factors, Kristi Noem is like, screw Kilmar Brego Garcia, the innocent man from a part of this country that doesn’t deserve this level of scrutiny that he’s getting as they continue to call him and pretend he’s that. But oh, wait a minute. If you actually aired the whole answer, this is who he is to a lot of the people that have seen all of the different court cases and whatnot against him. actions in courtrooms, or at least the filings of certain things that his wife did and then sort of took back, which was weird, or actually really just tried to avoid when asked questions about this. But again, this is the unedited answer that CBS deemed inappropriate to put on television and totally fine to cut out.
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This individual was a known human smuggler, MS-13 gang member, an individual who was a wife beater, and someone who was so perverted that he solicited nude photos from minors. And even his fellow human traffickers told him to knock it off. He was so sick in what he was doing and how he was treating small children. So he needs to never be in the United States of America, and our administration is making sure we’re doing all that we can to bring him to justice.
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You know, it’s really sad about this, too, to be honest with you. CBS was the same, is the same organization that begrudgingly, finally, years later, admitted that the Hunter Biden laptop was real. They’re the first ones to do that of the main legacy media liars, I guess you could call them. The people who do not tell you the truth and don’t really care to tell you the truth anymore. But what I thought was so interesting about it is that they demonstrated a willingness to at least sometimes accept the reality around them and behave accordingly to it. But then this, again, is a totally different version of that. It’s the exact opposite. It’s the screw you guys. We’re going home kind of thing. We’ll do whatever we want. And how dare anybody ask us any questions? And, well, it’s it’s awful.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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That’s right. It is the Dana Show. I am Craig Collins filling in. Time for the Quick Five. A Burning Man has horrible headlines that are coming out of this thing. One, this is just a weird one. A Burning Man attendee gives birth at festival after, quote, showing no signs of pregnancy. I feel like that’s got to be impossible. But they said she had no signs of pregnancy. And all of a sudden there is a baby that exists now that was born of all places at Burning Man. This one even worse, though. A body found in pool of blood at Burning Man. People have questions. They don’t have answers. This is not a thing I would attend because it seems like a lawless, horrible place. Meta created flirty chatbots of celebrities. Taylor Swift is among them. These are people you can interact with via AI that may seem like they’re overly into you. Very much unlike the actual celebrity if they met you and would not have this level of interest in you. This feels creepy. This feels like something they did intentionally. And honestly, the, you know, the Genesis story of Facebook being a place that Mark Zuckerberg created because he wanted a girl that didn’t want him back feels like it’s best demonstrated through this story of celebrities being overly flirty with people that are interacting with the A.I. version of them. Sounds like they’re going to get in trouble. And then finally, one last one in the world of weird. And this is also A.I., In the next five years, people predict that you will be able to talk to dead loved ones via artificial intelligence, that no one will go to cemeteries anymore because if you want to interact with someone that you’ve lost, you’ll just fire up the AI version of them for a quick chat. That also sounds horrible. I am uniquely against this one. I have been uniquely against any version of this for a while now because it would be the hardest way to actually say, except the fact that someone in your life is no longer there. by pretending they exist via AI. This seems like it will be mentally very bad for society, and yet they keep blazing toward it and saying somehow it’s a good thing. And it seems uniquely, again, horrible. And then also not actually visiting a cemetery. That seems like the kind of thing that also helps you not admit the fact that the person that you cared about is no longer here, which is a byproduct of going to the cemetery, which I think is emotional, but it has value. Pretending things don’t happen when they do happen seems like a bad thing that our society keeps being more and more accepting of. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. Gavin Newsom and his press office account tried to pick a fight with Dean Cain, the guy who played Superman in the, you know, Lois Lane, Dean Cain TV show with Terry Hatcher. It was a dumb fight for sure. Dean Cain put up a photo on, I think, Instagram and some other places that said that he got hurt. Somehow he hurt one of his arms. He said, small mishap will heal fully and quickly. So happy. It’s college football weekend. It’s a weird post for someone to be like, I’m going to attack this guy now. You know, like a person who may or may not even be all that famous anymore. I’m not saying that you don’t recognize Dean Cain if you see him somewhere. But he’s not a guy who’s doing a lot of current acting in things. I’m not trying to take a shot. I’m just saying. And he’s putting up a photo saying that he got injured and he’s going to heal. And the press office for Gavin Newsom was like, yeah, this is the time to go after him. So they put up on social media, turns out arresting innocent Latino kids and farm workers is harder than playing Superman. That was their response back to him being injured. And this is real dumb. By the way, Dean Cain did go with ICE on a few of the things that ICE had to do because he wanted to raise awareness for it. You can do whatever you want with your platform. I don’t care what people do with their platform. I think it makes more sense when you’re a Dean Cain who’s not acting anymore to All that regularly or maybe not trying to to be more political because now it doesn’t matter if people hire him or not. He doesn’t care. He just wants to tell the truth. But I think it’s interesting, again, that this has caused so many on the left to be so angry at him that he suited up and went with ICE officers who are the villain. to the left. It’s not anybody in charge anywhere. They want to blame the person that’s actually executing the order, which, by the way, let me get to that in a second. But first, let’s finish the Dean Cain thing. Dean’s response to Gavin Newsom’s press office was hysterical gaslighting from these idiots. Injury had nothing to do with ICE duties, just a simple home mishap. What frauds and phonies. And he just essentially made fun of them, which is hilarious. But let’s talk about that other idea for a second. So the left right now is dealing with a unique challenge. I think that Democratic leaders are dealing with it. I think that the loudest and the most annoying of the pundits and the people who scream things into televisions are dealing with it. And it’s the fact that several of the issues they’ve committed themselves to a side of the aisle on, it’s truly a dump side. The men can play women’s sports. Men can use women’s bathrooms, all that kind of stuff. It’s just so stupid. And the wokeness of it is is so ridiculous. But they can’t turn back. They can’t get back to a sensible place because they’ve gone too far. It actually reminds me of quite a few different things out there in society. One of my favorite ones is the movie Tropic Thunder, which you may or may not have seen. And a character in Tropic Thunder that goes, and I probably shouldn’t say it this way on the air, but I’m not afraid of it, goes full moron, goes full idiot, full retard is what they say in the movie. And that if you’re acting and pretending to be someone who has a mental, you know, incapability, you can’t go so far that it makes no sense. You have to have redeeming qualities. They called it the Forrest Gump rule, where you can act as though you’re someone who has some limitations, but not too many limitations to ruin a movie. That’s essentially, in a different way, what has happened to the left. They’ve gone so far on so many issues that they don’t know how to come back to the table. They don’t know how to turn around their full, you know, idiot move. And so instead of doing that, they’re trying to pick a fight with who they deem to be weaker people. They don’t want to fight necessarily with Trump, although they do that all the time. So he’s probably the exception to the rule. But the system that they’re trying to fight, you know, the same way Trump is a Trump’s enemy is the deep state. Right. Trump’s enemy is people who, you know, are in control of things and do bad things with that level of control, that level of authority. Whether you believe that or not is fine. That’s who the Republican voter believes the ultimate enemy to be of their party, is bad behaving people in positions of power. The left continues to target the people who act because of the leadership of their party. So the left attacks the ICE agent instead of saying that it’s the person ordering the raid who is the only person they should be targeting and fighting. They want to shame the people at the lowest level of the totem pole to try to get them to stop listening to the people above them. It’s really an interesting tactic because, again, it demonstrates weakness. I really hope I’ve done a good job of explaining this. I’ve really attempted to do here. Probably need to map it out a little bit better. But when you’re weak, when your positions aren’t strong, when you know people don’t support them, the only way to win is to turn the every man that’s living next door to the person who voted for you into the enemy because you can’t reach any higher than that because the higher you reach, the more you have to have a conversation about substance, a conversation about issues, a conversation about policy, and they don’t want to do that. They want to say that the orange man is bad and anyone who voted for the orange man is bad and you need to attack those individuals so they are too afraid and stop voting for the orange man because they can’t win the other way. And it’s really fascinating. But again, that’s that’s to me the biggest takeaway of trying to attack Dean Cain for, you know, helping ICE. He’s like, oh, this guy, this horrible, terrible person, he needs to be blamed. And so does everyone who is, you know, actually upholding the law, which is all that ICE is doing. ICE is removing people who are legally in this country in all different kinds of ways, because, again, and I can’t state this more clearly, they are illegally here in the country. They have broken a law. Whether or not you care about that law is not up to you and I. It’s up to the people in charge. And if you want to fight that power as a political party, you should do it by targeting the people in charge. I’m not trying to get people to bully and harm ICE agents and make fun of Dean Cain when his arm is broken. This is just, again, a very weird thing that exists in our society. It’s the same reason I’ll say this part, too. Before I take a break, that the left often targets children with conversations. They want kids to be capable of getting, you know, sex change operations, which is truly an insane thing to say out loud. It’s the kind of thing that a few years ago, if you had said to someone, they would have committed you. But now it’s actually a byproduct of the political talking points of each side. But they want that. They would like to see that happen. And I don’t know why they want to see that happen, but mostly because they think that that’ll create a voter for life. This person will never vote for anybody but Democrats. So who cares if they mutilate and change their body in a way that they can never reverse? We got one more voter. Let’s bring in all of the people across the border, regardless of what we know about them. There might be some murderers and some drug traffickers to get in. That’s fine because we’re bringing in a whole lot of voters and that’s all we care about. That’s all we want. We want power at all costs. That is the Democratic version of a conversation, not the conservative Republican one, regardless of what regular mainstream news media tells you and, well, what they edit out of their videos.
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