In today’s episode, tune into the odd yet fascinating world of Florida Man, where nothing is too outlandish. Hear about the recent escapades involving a machete threat at a local Walmart, and a wild tiki bar night that ended with a peculiar assault on a patrol car. As we navigate through these incredible stories, we also delve into the contentious debate over gun rights for individuals displaying mental health concerns. With differing viewpoints, this discussion highlights the challenging intersections of mental health and Second Amendment rights in America.
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That’s right. This is the Dana Show. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X to stay connected to all things she’s up to. And time for Florida, man. We have several today. First, there was a machete-wielding man in Florida, in Fort Pierce, that showed up at a Walmart. He started threatening people and just flinging around a machete. That’s definitely the kind of thing where you’re going to ask yourself all kinds of questions. Like, why is this guy at Walmart? Why am I at Walmart at this time of night? But Lawrence Fountain is the dude’s name. Eventually, Fort Pierce PD showed up and tackled the guy. No one was injured, and police are amazing to do this kind of work where they show up at a scene, see a crazy dude with a machete, and like, well, we’re going in and tackling that dude. Again, they prevented hopefully anything horrible from happening, which seemed like it could have. But this dude eventually went with police and no reason why he was there wielding a machete other than the fact that it’s Florida. All right. That story is one Florida man. This other guy was dumb enough to, quote, headbutt a patrol car. I love this story. After a fight at a tiki bar. So a 39 year old dude by the name of Christopher, I got in a fight at a tiki bar. And as the police rolled up to the scene, I guess the man who thought he was probably getting in trouble with authorities decided to take it out on the worst object he possibly could by headbutting the car itself, being like, get away from me, police. I’m doing this now. It definitely did, I think, two things. First, it demonstrated that this guy is nuts and probably the problem, which is why I think he immediately gets arrested after that moment. And the other thing it did, and this was the Joker’s thing in The Dark Knight, is you don’t start with a head injury, man. People get all fuzzy, and then they have no idea what else is going on. So this individual probably also made it easier to apprehend him the moment he rammed his head into a vehicle. But this really occurred, and the dumb Florida man was arrested. A man. I can’t imagine how many drinks he had at the Tiki Bar or if he’ll be invited back anytime soon. Although it would be amusing to look out the window and to see a dude headbutt a car and go down is the kind of thing that I would not mind seeing again. I would even maybe pay for that type of entertainment. Another story out there, a Florida man was arrested for a DUI after he drove past police who were actually in another traffic stop thing going on, and he had absolutely no tire on one of his rims. It was just rim, and he was driving on the street, sparks flying, things going crazy, and cops watched him, and they’re like, this is probably not good. So they pulled that guy over, he’s intoxicated, and now he’s arrested. But what I think is uniquely interesting about this… is that the dude was yelling that there was nothing to see here. Don’t be suspicious. Don’t be suspicious is probably what he was thinking as he was like, it’s totally fine. Everything will be okay. They’re not going to catch me. And then he drives by missing a full-on tire. Easy work for Florida police sometimes. I like that that’s happening too. One last one, and this one is kind of just awful. A Florida man in an inflatable dog costume choked a juvenile during an argument outside of a pet store. What the exact argument was, I’m not sure. How old the juvenile was, I’m also not sure, but certainly not 18 years old. But Clearwater, Florida, had to arrest a 46-year-old man, again, wearing a puppy costume, which actually made it look like he was riding a dog, the inflatable dog, you know, similar to the way a horse would be. and the dude standing over it, and he choked somebody. He choked a child. And that gets you a whole lot of arrested in a whole lot of places, including Florida. However, it also gets you in Florida, man.
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The DOJ is considering banning trans people from buying guns. It’s a real story. Justice Department, President Trump, in some capacity the Trump administration, whoever, have contemplated if it’s a smart thing to allow people that are showing a lot of mental health issues to the American people, if it’s smart to allow those individuals to buy guns. Now, I have two opinions on this, and they sort of compete, and one does inevitably win. I don’t like government encroachment on the Second Amendment. I don’t like it across the board. I don’t think it’s a good thing. Mental health is an exception because we do have mental health restrictions on guns that do make sense to me. You shouldn’t let anyone who is demonstrating their inability to be sane to purchase a weapon. But I don’t like just a blanket rule that says that everyone in some subset group in our society is incapable of buying guns because of this. I don’t like that. And so it’s interesting that my inclination is actually to defend trans people. And their right to bear arms. That is my gut reaction to a story like this. Even if I acknowledge, when mainstream media and a lot of society won’t, that it’s a tremendously great likelihood that everyone in that group is struggling from some sort of mental health issue. Whatever that might be. Or several different mental health issues. And a lot of people in that group actually do commit suicide. So… Even more so, it seems to be the kind of thing that you deserve to have a discussion about that goes on for more than, say, a couple minutes. But what I really think is interesting about this topic… if anyone on the conservative side of the aisle, myself included, actually advocates for gun rights to exist for trans people, is what the left does in response to that version of a discussion. Is the left going to demand the right for trans people to have guns, even though they want no one to have guns? What are they going to say? I almost feel like this is a test. where you put out a leaked story where the Trump administration is contemplating doing something that they may never, ever do. And you just see how the left responds, because if they if they dangle the carrot of the argument that the Second Amendment protects people’s right to own weapons, then you’d think that they’re actually admitting a lot of what they try to do to undermine the Second Amendment is no longer going to be a thing they can keep doing. It seems like they might lose the war to try to win this battle, essentially. And that might be the reason that it’s occurring. Or they go the other road and they say that, you know, this is fine with them, that more people shouldn’t have guns, not just trans people. And then it feels as though they’re not being the party that’s supposed to protect the weak, innocent individuals of the world in certain groups that are disenfranchised and treated terribly. So it seems like actually a lose-lose situation. for Democrats in whatever position they take on that issue. And so I am interested to see it. But just to fully explain my belief here, and I’ll do this, it might sound woke to do it this way, and I’m not intent to be woke, and I don’t care if it sounds woke. I do believe that there’s some minuscule subset of society that might struggle more with if you’re a dude or if you’re a girl than the whole rest of us do. And I don’t know what causes that, if that’s like, you know, a bunch of chemicals in the brain and whatnot. But I think it’s minuscule. I think it’s the kind of like weird thing where someone is born with both male and female parts, which does also occur, but is exceedingly rare. I think our society’s demand for something that’s incredibly rare to actually something that’s way less rare has caused a whole lot of other people who are evidently struggling with mental health issues to believe that they’re in the same bucket. And no, I absolutely don’t advocate for the mutilating of children or any of that stuff. All of that is horrible. But I’m just saying that somewhere in the ridiculous amount of lies that media is telling us, There’s somebody who at least has a version of a conversation about, you know, what’s going on with them medically. But it’s such a small group that it’s insane to pretend as though it’s as many people as it needs to be for as many people who are questioning the Whether they’re a boy or a girl, because media is begging them to do it because of all the things that are pushed on you and thrown on you. And now as kids, as far as conversations go, that are highly inappropriate and definitely designed to make you politically on a certain side of the aisle. But so I say all that to say this. When you’re talking about the rights of people to own guns, for anyone that’s actually medically affected by something, I think they have a definitive right to own a gun. I don’t think that the mental health issue is as apparent. But the vast majority of people who fall into this category have mental health issues. I would say it’s in the 90 plus percentile, a 99 percentile of people who describe themselves this way. And so for them, I think I am comfortable with the idea that you restrict gun access, that you restrict, you know, the use or ability to buy weapons because they might hurt themselves or hurt somebody else because they obviously have a mental health issue that no one is addressing. And I know, again, to even crack it all in that world of somebody somewhere might have an actual issue and might not just be a mentally unhealthy person feels like you’re giving in enough for the left to squeak in and expand. And yet I just think it’s simply the truth. I think there is data out there that demonstrates the uniqueness of this conversation. But that’s all it takes all the time, by the way. I will I will remind everyone of one other thing that I definitively believe is important. Another ridiculous way that Democrats use something and pretend as though it’s more significant than it is when they talk about abortion and then they include rape and incest, which is a minuscule amount of people that wind up being pregnant because of something horrific. They talk about that like that’s the majority of people who choose to get an abortion and it’s not even close to true. So, again, whatever the thing is that the Democrats can exploit, they choose to exploit it. And much to the harm of all of society, they pretend as though it’s something that they convince more and more people is a part of their own life when it isn’t. But nonetheless, I say all this to get back to the original point that by and large, I think that my position on a story that’s ever evolving is that I would defend everyone’s right to own a gun, although I would think. that you need to be if you’re going to any level of treatment or any level of exploring the option of changing yourself from a man to a woman. You need to be heavily evaluated for mental health issues because I imagine that the tremendously large percentage of those individuals are dealing with a mental health issue and probably shouldn’t have a gun because of that. But anyway, I would say blanket statement, no. Majority of people, probably yeah, as far as mental health issues are concerned. All right. That was complicated. I did my best. I might have gotten woke. I didn’t do it on purpose.
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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’s time for a quick five on the Dana Show. D. Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter. If you want to stay connected to her. Thank you to all the people who followed me at Radio Craig Z. As I’ve been mentioning, my own Twitter handle this week and the very small amount of people that follow it. And my Yankee tweets. All right, let’s do this. Giorgio Armani sadly passed away. The king of Italian fashion, as he’s described in a couple different articles about his passing, was 91 years old. This is a big news in the world of fashion. Not that I follow that world very closely, but. It demonstrates how big of a person this is that I know that name and I know that brand. Armani is most of us, of course, do. He sadly, again, as I said, passed away, but 91 years old, lived a long life. Let’s do this. The Powerball jackpot is now going to be at least one point seven billion dollars. That could go up even more, but that is expected to be the third largest Powerball jackpot in the history of the country or the third largest lottery jackpot in the history of our country. The thing that matters here is that they did this on purpose. They made the odds even worse, and no one has won since May 31st. But people will probably buy a whole bunch of tickets. It’s actually within $700 million, I think, or $70 million, something like that, of being the second largest. And then there’s a $2 billion jackpot that happened in November of 2022. So we’ll see just how high it goes and if anybody wins. By the way, the two biggest jackpots in the history of our country were both won in California, which means that somebody’s cheating. I think that’s my feeling about that. Millennial parents are going crazy for this tin can phone for kids. This is hilarious. It is a little toy that kind of looks like the phones that you used to create yourself out of a tin can. The new iPhone debuted next debuts next Tuesday. But there’s only one phone that kids really need. According to the post about this, it is a kid friendly Wi-Fi phone called the tin can. And it’s gone all crazy over social media. I like the fact that they’re creating like landlines and other things that look like these old school things that we had before, but work very differently. So at least a kid can start to experience it. The craziest thing for me as someone who was raised in a generation without cell phones being as ubiquitous as they are now, is that when you ask a kid to do the phone with their hand, Most people over a certain age will do the one that you would pick up physically with your pinky shooting out to talk into. Your thumb is the spot where you’d put the, you know, the audio into your ear. For some reason, the little kids now all do a flat hand because they think of the iPhone or a cell phone instead. So maybe interacting with some of these things gets them back to realizing what phones used to be. for us and for so many other people out there. All right, what are some other things going on as far as just silly topics go? You can now buy a Star Wars Lego set for $1,000. This is, I guess, a good deal, according to some. I don’t know why anyone would spend $1,000 on Legos with 9,000 pieces, 38 different figurines, all different kinds of things in it. It’s a Death Star, and I wouldn’t want to build it, and I also wouldn’t want to step on any of these pieces. And then finally, one last thing. The Cowboys did lose last night to the Eagles. A pretty boring second half, I would say, even though it probably was stressful for any sort of Eagles fan like producer Steven. But not as much scoring as in the first half. But the most important thing from the game is that Dak Prescott spit first. And this is sort of connected to Star Wars, I guess, the whole Han shot first thing. Dak definitely spit before anyone else spit and then got thrown out of the game. So I just think it’s really interesting that that happened at the beginning of the game, too, and that Jalen Carter had remorse for spitting on Cowboys Dak Prescott and how he spoke about things after the game. But I don’t blame him as much as other people do because Dak spit first. and there’s video and you can see it. And if anybody deserved to be thrown out, or at least if one other person deserved to be thrown out, it should have been both, not just an Eagles player that got thrown out of the game. But NFL football is officially back, baby. That is exciting. I think it’s a lot of fun. I think a whole lot of people are going to be gambling and betting on things. The Chargers do play the Chiefs today. that game might be more interesting than the game was expected to be between the Eagles and the Cowboys, even though it did end up in just being a four-point game. So the spread was larger than the inevitable end, and I think the spread is much closer for the game tonight. This is the Dana Show. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter are great ways to stay connected to her. My name is Craig Collins. Radio Craig C is a good way to stay connected to me and the 400 or so people who do that. Very different. than the giant audience for Dana. And I’ll stop mentioning that at some point. But thrilled to be on this week for her. She is back on Monday. The DOJ has responded to the secret tape of the official detailing the Epstein file plan. Look, Project Veritas was incredibly effective at uncovering a lot of truth that was hidden via these secretly recorded tapes, which oftentimes seem to be honeypot stuff. where you sent an attractive person in to date someone that knows things. And then the person who knows things didn’t question the fact that an incredibly good-looking person was after them. After James O’Keefe left Project Veritas, they’ve broken way less things. But James continues to be very successful at doing this on his own now with his new organization. And that’s what happened here. A DOJ official… A person of significant importance, the deputy chief of special operations, Joseph Schnitt, told somebody who apparently was a very attractive human that he was planning along with the DOJ and removing a whole bunch of Republican names from any sort of Epstein file and releasing just a Democratic version of information. This is exceptionally damaging to Pam Bondi and others, regardless of if it’s actually true. I will say that a person may brag to a hot individual about things that may or may not seem true, but might not actually be true. I’m not trying to claim that it’s false either. I don’t know. It seems there’s a good chance that this is true, but I will just put that out there. that a dude who’s dating someone might actually up the amount of things he claims to know beyond what he actually knows to impress them. But the funniest part about this, if there’s a funny part to this story, is the 30% iPhone battery airplane mode notes app response. The U.S. Department of Justice actually put up on social media, on Twitter, to deal with the fallout of this becoming a giant story. And here’s what it actually says. This is the Notes app. I met a woman named Skylar on Hinge, a dating app, in July of 2025. Her profile is no longer findable. We had two dates, August 4th and August 16th. She claimed to be an au pair in Georgetown. That sounds like a nice gig. She gave no clue that she was a reporter or recording our dates. Had I a clue, the first date would have ended immediately and there never would have been a second one. Of course not, by the way. I love that part. Like, had she told me at all that she was secretly recording me, I wouldn’t have been interested in this hot lady anymore and certainly would not have told her any secrets. But since she didn’t tell me she was recording stuff, I remained interested. That’s the dumbest part of the mention. My profile indicated I did government work but did not specify for which agency. I never discussed what I do at the DOJ. Unfortunately, there’s some video and things that have gone viral of you discussing a lot of work done at the DOJ, whether it’s you or not. It goes on to say, the comments I made were my own personal comments on what I’ve learned in the media and not from anything I’ve done or learned via work. I have no knowledge of the circumstances surrounding Ms. Maxwell other than what is reported in the news. I also never divulged anything about what I do at work. I recall that she asked if I had any knowledge about Maxwell. I specifically said I only know what’s been reported in the media. Yeah, this is not a good look. No part of this is a good look. And to be honest, the funniest thing to me is how effective the honeypot is. And if you don’t know what that is, that’s just a very attractive person that hits on you and gets insider information from you. It’s a tried and true, as old as time, version of a way to break whatever wall exists between the truth and the lies given by the government. Would I be surprised if the DOJ and the Republican Party had a unique interest in protecting just Republicans and not putting out information about them, about Epstein, while trying to slant everything to be overly about Democrats? No, I wouldn’t be surprised. That’s not what I want. I want full transparency. But the reason that I think that it’s important to focus on this, and this is a weird, I’m going to take a full U-turn approach to it, is that the Democrats would have done the exact same thing when they were in power. And, oh, wait, they were in power when they had access to all of the Epstein files. And they never went after Trump with them at that point. They’re going after him now and claiming that there’s something damaging involving him and those files. But they did nothing to release them on their own. And Democrats would have tried to overly make it about Republicans and specifically Trump. And so it says something to me about who actually is in this and how significant the names are on both sides or wherever they are, that it might even be hard to clean this stuff up. I’m not sure. But I do think that it matters because it proves even more that Trump’s not actually going to be harmed by any inevitable release of the Epstein files. that he’s not actually going to be indicated as being someone who did anything wrong. And even the people, the victims who spoke earlier this week, seem to agree with that. When they were asked certain questions about Trump or asked if they had any knowledge of any wrongdoings of the current president, they kept saying no to that sort of stuff. They also said there’s no actual list written down on paper. So that’s interesting. But anyway, I just think it’s amazing. that James O’Keefe is so good at this gig, and he just keeps being above and beyond what anybody else can seem to do in respect to breaking news and getting people to say things to attractive people. I would say that if you’re in government, in any role whatsoever, and someone who is way out of your league has interest in you and asks you random questions about your job, do not engage. Or actually, maybe do engage because I want more information to keep coming out. So maybe I shouldn’t help. the politicians, actually. I should take that back. Hot people definitely like you for real. It’s the waitress or stripper fallacy happening again. They definitely have real interest in you. It’s not the job you have and the information they want. Tell them everything. Yeah, that’s what I should say. That’s actually what I’d like to see happen. I just find it amusing.
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