As the conversation veers towards national issues, Craig tackles the controversial move to send the National Guard to crime-ridden cities. While some see it as a necessary step to curb violence, others claim it’s an unnecessary declaration of war on cities like Chicago. Plus, listen to the spirited debate around Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s role in public health and the startling truth about transparency in government studies finally seeing the light of day.
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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
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That’s right. It’s time for Florida Man on the Dana Show. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio. On X, on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. My name is Craig Collins filling in. First, a wild boar got into somebody’s home in Florida. You actually hear a deputy on his camera. talking about how it’s crazy to see a boar in somebody’s house. You actually also hear the woman who called authorities saying she’s never seen this before. The giant boar is just standing in the living room, just kind of chilling, hoping not to be bothered. And the deputy has to actually bother this boar in Lee County. And this goes about as well as you thought. But I do love some of the audio for this.
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He’s bringing a cat. I’ve never heard of that.
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That’s a big mean feral animal. He just came through, busting through the back door. What’s that for? Just advise Aggie. It’s like a 300 pound sow. Oh my gosh. Easy. Easy. Easy. You better stop it.
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Hey, bring me that rope. It’s crazy. This is what the deputy has to do this day in Lee County. He’s like, easy, easy, because the boar’s going nuts and attacking him. And then he’s like, hey, bring me the rope. I need to get him. But I just I love the beginning of this video and how he walks in and he’s like, gosh, the minute he sees what he’s going to have to handle.
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He’s bringing it. I’ve never heard of that. Gosh.
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Yeah, exactly right. This is crazy. That’s a feral animal that broke into the back door of your house and is just kind of standing there and it doesn’t go well. But honestly, this is the reason that police deserve so much praise everywhere in the country, maybe even uniquely in Florida, is that they show up for this stuff and they have to handle everything. A Florida man was accused of placing cameras in a victim’s home, tracking devices on the victim’s vehicle. This is a crazy story. Jared Levi McDaniels, 38 years old, was overly obsessed with somebody that he lived near, so much so that he put a multitude of cameras into the woman’s home and has been charged with a whole bunch of stuff. In reaction to this, there also were stalking complaints. The dude looks uniquely creepy, by the way. His social media photos and his inevitable mugshot have all went viral. And he looks like an interesting dude. Inside, well, a scary dude. Inside the guy’s home… They also found a bunch of crazy things. LSD, crystal meth, mushrooms, THC gummies, various inhalants. They found a bunch of guns and whatnot. The dude just seems to be insane. He is going to be charged with a bunch of different crimes. Installation of tracking devices, video voyeurism, possession of psychedelics, possession of crystal meth, LSD, substituted other things, like just crazy, dangerous inhalant chemicals, You would not want to live next to this guy is, I guess, the end result of this story. Florida has a unique amount of people that you probably would not want to live next to. This is one of them. If I had to pick between a wild boar breaking into my home for a small amount of time and this guy being next door neighbors with me, you pick the boar every time you pick it. He could break in a couple of times a year. And I’d still rather that than this other dude. A Florida man living underwater won’t resurface even after breaking a record. This is another story out there from Key Largo, Florida. A university professor who broke a record for how long he has lived underwater in the undersea lodge, which is bad for you, by the way. There’s certain things that happen to your body when you’re underwater for that long in pressurized containers and whatnot. He should leave. The previous record of 73 days, 2 hours and 34 minutes, which was set by two Tennessee professors, has now been broken. And the guy’s like, I’m not giving this up. I’m staying down here. I want my record to be unbreakable. Even if it means that my body becomes very easily breakable once I eventually resurface. At least that’s the story so far. A weird record to be proud of breaking. And weird that it’s university professors who all want to be the ones to do it. They want to test themselves. as opposed to run other tests and other things, which is fine. I’m good with that. Go ahead and keep testing yourself. But Joseph DeTore, he’s 74 days underwater, proud of his accomplishment and going to keep going. What’s crazy about this story is I actually think it was sent to me recently, but I actually think the original version of it is actually kind of older. Excuse me. And so I wonder if actually this guy did eventually come up. So I’ll put that out there. I know that this was sent as far as some prep stuff that we had. And so I definitely wanted to cover it. But I just noticed the headline for it says May of 2023. And I feel like I remember this story about this guy. So I’m curious if maybe he has actually resurfaced. Otherwise, it’s definitely a heck of a record. But all right. Quick break. A lot more. That was a Florida man from the past. Why not do one of those?
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. D. Lash, Dana Lash, Radio on X on Twitter to stay connected to anything and everything going on in her world. Great job of social media done by Dana and her team, including producer Stephen, putting up awesome stuff every single day. All right, I’ll play this audio first just because I find it amusing, and then we’ll talk about a much more serious story. But President Trump over the weekend said he was going to go after crime in Chicago. He wants to do that by sending in the National Guard. This is something you know about, you’re familiar with. A whole lot of people in Chicago have decided that this means he declared war on them. I know that Trump puts stuff up on social media, but no, the United States is not going to war with Chicago. That’s insane. A reporter actually asked Trump this question and he called her second rate to her face, which was amazing. Here’s part of that back and forth.
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That’s fake news. When you say that, darling, that’s fake news. I don’t go to war. Listen, be quiet. Listen. You don’t listen. You never listen. That’s why you’re second rate. We’re not going to war. We’re going to clean up our city. We’re going to clean them up so they don’t kill five people every weekend. That’s not war. That’s common sense.
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Yes, it is common sense. It’s the kind of thing we need more of. Absolutely. And I love the way he speaks about this. By the way, anyone that says that President Trump’s brain isn’t working, which is a narrative coming out of the left now, they’re trying to say that he’s not mentally all there. The crazy thing about that is how often he interacts with media on a daily basis. He’ll take questions even from people that he heavily disagrees with. Biden was being hidden in a closet for a majority of the time he was both running for and then actually the president of the country. That shows you who actually had a mental decline and who doesn’t. Trump is not struggling with that. But all right. On the heels of that story. So we’re talking about Chicago right now and Trump wanting to send troops there or maybe New Orleans or all kinds of places. And that the effectiveness of what he’s done in Washington, D.C., is on display for the entire country to see and how much we’d like to see crime go away in other places. There’s another story that’s out there, and it’s just a horrific story. I do not recommend anyone watch this video. There is a video out there that’s graphic in nature that shows a man sitting behind a woman on a light rail train in North Carolina. The man is a career criminal in his 30s, someone who’s been arrested multiple times, had gone to prison before. But because of the democratic policies of the city in Charlotte in which he lives, he was out. He was not in jail. His own mother has described him as someone who is. not mentally well, who is not safe, who is the kind of person who should be institutionalized. But the system has failed this person, mostly because Democrats believe that a leniency that goes above and beyond any sort of common sense for people to commit crimes is somehow attractive to certain voter blocs, that it somehow makes you less racist. as a political party or whatever it might be that they claim. And again, this is just being lenient to all kinds of criminals and all kinds of horrible things. Yes, it’s a black man. Yes, he stabbed and killed a white woman. So if you want the race narrative to be, there it is. And maybe it’s one of the many reasons that media is ignoring this story. The woman is also a Ukrainian refugee, 23 years old. who was killed. The man sitting behind her just stands up and stabs her three times, once in the neck. By the time that authorities arrive, she’s gone. And so the value of this story is to say that people like this, broken, crazy, deranged, evil, whatever word you want to use for it, mentally unhealthy humans who would sit behind someone on a train and just choose to stab them for no reason whatsoever and kill them and then casually get off the train, which you also see in the video. Stuff like that needs to be stopped. We need to fight against it. And if that includes National Guard troops being stationed on or near trains so that a person like this is fearful of this type of action that they would commit against someone else, good. That keeps us safer. That keeps tragedies like this from happening. A bunch of people are saying that this is being overly politicized, that politics are being added to it, which of course always becomes a thing. I’m not going to pretend there’s some version of that that’s not at least partially true. But politics are the reason this person’s dead. Democratic politics specifically. They’re the reason that someone acts this way as often as they do in as many parts of our country on a smaller scale level. And what I mean by that is national media, liberal media, and liberal politicians are great at diving into the one-off stories that happen in our society, however frequently they do, where someone takes the life of a lot of other people. a mass shooting, a mass killing, they’re great at that. They’re great at discussing those stories and adding politics to it. Not great as in I agree with them, but they’re great at focusing on it. They are terrible at focusing on the one-off things that happen constantly. Chicago, for example, as Trump said in that audio there, sees multiple deaths every weekend, multiple shootings in the 30s and 40s, every weekend of people that get shot. Some survive, some do not. This would be the type of story that would dominate headlines if it happened all at once. And if media was, you know, believed or suspected that the individual was somehow a Trump supporter who did something. But the fact that it happens mostly in minority neighborhoods on the south side of the city of Chicago means that you’re not allowed in mainstream media to talk about it as much or point to it as a problem. Both the victims and the people who caused these crimes actually all live in the same community, by the way, by and large. It’s not quite the version of story you see in North Carolina where a complete stranger kills a complete stranger, which is just awful and horrible. But again, these stories deserve to dominate headlines the same way because they back the reason that Trump is doing what he’s doing. And when I see people in Chicago saying, I lived there for a long time. I have a bunch of friends still, although who knows, after I talk about this in this way, maybe some that hear about this will remove me from their social media accounts. But I saw all over social media over the weekend how Chicago was going to fight against the war that Trump was bringing to their city, that Chicago was going to do everything it could to defy Trump and what he wanted to do, which was eliminate the ridiculousness of murder and violent crime that exists in that city. And by the way, one of my other favorite discussion points, favorite in a dark way, I guess, on this entire issue is the claim by J.B. Pritzker and others out of Illinois that Chicago actually isn’t that violent, that it doesn’t top the list as far as violent cities in our country. When you’re talking about murder, it actually does. When you add all kinds of other violent crime, assault, rape, other things, yes, Chicago falls further down the list than you might expect, although there’s still a significant city in this country as far as the totality of horrible things that happen there. But murder specifically, they’re number one. And if I were going to send the National Guard somewhere as the president, to try to get a handle on something, I would probably start with the number one place that’s dealing with murder, dealing with killings, and say that, hey, we can probably help you do a better job of fighting this if you want to do it. And Chicago says no. The stupidity of the left sometimes of the ideas that they want their supporters to rally around and that supporters actually do it is sort of the most amazing thing to me I’ve ever seen. And I was so tempted to comment on more of these posts I saw on social media. I may have commented on some that defending crime itself seems like a weird position for people to be taking. Because, no, the innocent individuals are not getting arrested in D.C., but people are doing a lot less harming of others because of the presence of an authority, a group of people that make individuals like the guy in North Carolina more fearful of being an absolute piece of crap and taking the life of a 23 year old woman because he’s a giant. You know what? I can’t say that word on the air, even though I want to. But yes, this is the kind of thing that we should talk about more because it further demonstrates the need for something to happen in our society that isn’t happening. It is simple common sense, as Trump calls it. And it’s just amazing that these are the kind of debates that we even have in our society, to be totally honest.
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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 the quick five on the Dana Show. This is Craig Collins filling in. D-Lash, DanaLashRadio and X on Twitter are great ways to stay connected to her. The Burning Man attendee who ran over a Tesla Cybertruck. Art car is in the news now. This is really strange. Burning Man attendee decided to destroy an art car in some way. A Minneapolis man who was nearly killed last week after being run over by the cyber truck. Excuse me. Well, meditating in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert was, I guess, something that shocked his wife. As far as a news story goes, a little bit of confusion with this one. Sorry about that. He’s not going to be walking. Walking for months is something that his wife said. But we’re so lucky that he’s actually OK and fine and that he probably won’t spend any more time in the desert. He won’t be any more. I won’t be doing any more meditating near Burning Man. There’s so many stories that come out of that place that make it seem like an absolute horrible place to go. I would not in any way, shape, or form want to send even my worst enemy to Burning Man at this point. All right. Clock botching is a new term. No one agrees on exactly what it means, but apparently social media is using this story. A writer in the UK coined it last month and said it’s when you work more hours than you should because you can’t get through all of your work in a typical eight-hour workday. That is clock botching. I think it also means… You only take credit for eight hours of work, but you do more than eight hours. Other people are saying it’s the opposite thing. It’s the thing where you don’t have enough work for eight hours. So you push the punch in punch out further and you potentially pretend to do things that you’re not actually doing. Whatever it is. Whether it’s someone who’s working hard or not working very hard at all, apparently all can be applied in the world of clock botching, which I’m not really sure why. This is a brand new term, but it is one of many out there. It’ll probably eventually pop up in some sort of, you know, online dictionary, and then they know they’ve made it. Uber is testing a new payment method. Cash is the payment method. Uber says the idea is to expand access to people without bank accounts. Drivers are concerned they’d be a target for thieves. This definitely makes sense. Essentially, in this system… Uber would tell the person jumping in the vehicle that this is what the ride costs and that they can pay the driver in cash. You can also choose to accept cash if you’re someone who’s driving for Uber. Both of these seem terrible as far as decisions are made. And I totally agree with the first point being made by the drivers themselves about the danger of having a bunch of cash on you. Actually, in Houston, an Uber driver was killed just somewhat recently, a week or so ago. I’m not sure if he was actually driving at the time or that just so happens to be his profession. And I think it happened fairly late at night in the south side of Houston in a neighborhood that’s not exactly safe. But nonetheless, that’s in the news currently. Within the last few days, Uber has had a driver that was shot and killed, and now they’re also rolling out cash for people. That seems like bad timing for this sort of thing, and there’s a lot of people who seem to think it’s not a great idea. Although, to be honest… It’s just one more infringement on the taxi industry, too, because they took cash forever and still probably do take cash if you ride taxis at all. And so Uber trying to do this, I guess, is evening the playing field. I will say one other thing about it, and it is interesting, at least to me, that sometimes I think people are skeptical of how much money they actually get paid compared to how much money Uber is making. If you do a cash thing… It would be much harder for you to make less than whatever you’re supposed to make of whatever the split is supposed to be. So I wonder if that is essentially a thing. As far as all this goes is, is there a way in which what is actually occurring winds up benefiting the drivers because they actually get a fair percentage of the money that Uber charges? I have no idea. I doubt it. I doubt Uber would go that road for any reason whatsoever. But we’ll see. But yeah, Uber drivers might have a whole bunch of cash is a strange new story that’s out there in the world. All right, let’s do one more quick five before we take a break. Let’s do I’m trying to decide. Let’s do this one. Here’s where what your drink order says about you. It was a Reddit post and other things. If you ask for water at a restaurant. The waiter will assume that you’re there to save as much money as possible, and they might neglect your table as much as other tables. This is an interesting point. I don’t know if it’s true. A cosmopolitan is an order that means you’re extra fancy. Maybe you’re a fan of certain TV shows, but the waiter is going to focus more on you because they’re pretty sure they’re getting a bunch of money at you. If you’re coffee, you’re there for business. You’re going to be in and out. You’re going to be quick. That’s what they think. And then finally, hot tea is someone who’s going to take a long time and also not be very worthwhile financially. I love all those. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. Chris Christie went berserk about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I think this was on ABC over the weekend. Of course it was because it’s Christie. And here’s what’s amazing. When you see someone like this blow up exactly the way he does, and Chris Christie is not exactly the picture of health as far as a human being goes, but what I think is interesting is it shows how over the target Robert F. Kennedy actually is, how successful he’s been at outing a lot of the lie and a lot of the hiding of certain facts that has been the people in positions of power and health in this country for a long time. Firing certain CDC individuals because they’re trying to subvert your authority is a good move. And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is trying to make some more information public that they have buried. But here is Chris Christie going crazy. talking about how much of a grave danger Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is to our country, which again means that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is very over the target that people have been missing for a while or that they’ve avoided other people being over because they had control of people on the inside. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is on the outside, and that is a very good thing for people in positions of power in this country. Here we go.
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You looked at that appearance before Congress and it just confirms what all of us around this table have known for decades. Robert F Kennedy Jr is a foolish man. full of foolish and vapid ideas. And that was on display again this week in front of Congress. And I really don’t wanna hear about Bill Cassidy, because he is a co-conspirator with the President of the United States for putting this wholly unqualified man in charge of 25% of all government spending. Without Cassidy’s vote, Robert F Kennedy Jr would not be in and maybe he’s feeling some guilt. from what he did. But I’ll tell you this, the President did this. He knows, the President’s smart enough to know, RFK Jr. doesn’t belong in that job. But after he won, he wanted to show everybody, I can do whatever I want to do, because this Senate will be compliant no matter what I do. And I’ll put the greatest vaccine and public health denier of the last 20 years in charge of public health in America. It’s a human middle finger, George.
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Okay, okay. One, I want to make sure that this is understood by Christy and everybody in the back rows of the seats here. A lot of Trump voters like the public middle finger to the organizations that have been basically giving the American people a middle finger for quite some time. And two, one of the things Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is talking about a lot is just getting transparency with data that’s been buried by the CDC. Christie couldn’t be further from the truth in saying what is and isn’t valuable to the American people about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., What is and isn’t valuable to say, President Trump or anyone else, because Robert F. Kennedy Jr. actually does want more of these studies to be public that are being buried, that are being hidden. A specific one and one that’s causing a bit of commotion within certain parts of our country because of who the subject of it was, was a study on young black men that found that certain vaccines actually did cause a rise in issues like autism. And that was buried. That was just absolutely hidden. from public health information because the people in charge at the time didn’t like the end result of the study, and they wanted it to go away. And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made it something that’s publicly available now. That’s a good thing. Regardless of what you think of it, knowing more is never bad. And thinking that if we know too much, we make the wrong decision is uniquely disrespectful to the American people of anybody in charge. We can collect more information. We deserve more information all the time. And that seems to be the main goal of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with his role in our health as the health secretary. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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