Join us in this riveting episode as we dive headfirst into the chaotic world of Florida Man headlines that involve shocking kidnappings and school break-ins. As we navigate through these stories, we also engage in a critical discussion about beauty standards and societal expectations. What’s driving these narratives and what does it tell us about our society? Our conversation picks apart these themes and more, exploring the roots of these expectations and questioning why they persist.
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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
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All right, so… A man kidnapped at a Florida McDonald’s. Police pursuit across cities leads to five arrests, including minors. This seems like a pretty involved. Wow. So it was a kidnapping, a police chase, a multiple arrest in Florida because a guy was kidnapped from a McDonald’s. And he was sitting inside of the restaurant. He was approached by some dudes who took his phone off a table, demanded he get in the vehicle to get it back. And after abducting him, they drove him. His name wasn’t revealed. Forced him out of the vehicle. Beat him up. Found somebody to call 911, report that he was kidnapped. I mean, it just goes on and on and on. The police tracked the vehicle, blah, blah, blah. Long story short, they brought these people into custody. The charges are kidnapping, inflicting bodily. Oh, my gosh, there’s a lot. I want to get to other stories. It’s a lot. It’s bad. Just so you know. Good grief. It’s pretty insane. Also, let’s see here. This. Who is this? Jamal Bowman. The guy who broke into a Florida middle school and pulled the fire alarm in Orlando. He was detained Wednesday of last week. He entered Meadowbrook Middle School unlawfully. How were you able to get in there and triggered a fire alarm? That makes me very nervous. Like, what if you go in there and what if you’re able to get in there and you’re. You know, you’re a bad dude. You’re like the Parkland guy. Pull the alarm. Everybody leaves and goes into the hallway. And then you know what I’m saying? This is bad. It’s bad that this guy was able to get in there. Happened at 9 a.m. He went right through apparently the front entrance of the school. How is this possible in 2025? When an administrator saw that he was an adult, they questioned why he was at the school. He passed her by, triggered the fire alarm in the lobby and tried to open the doors leading to the school’s courtyard. They called the SRO. And then when he was confronted, he said, don’t touch me. I’m not alone. And I’m not the only one that you have to worry about. And then when they put him in the patrol vehicle, he bit the safety cushions. covering the prisoner cage. So he’s being charged with a whole bunch of stuff as well. Man, they better, Meadowbrook, they better really reconsider their security there. That’s bad.
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worry about it. Let me explain something to white people. Our hair comes out of our head naturally in a curly pattern. So when we’re straightening it to follow your beauty standards, we are trapped by the straightness. That’s why so many of us can’t swim and we run away from the water. People won’t go to the gym because we’re trying to keep our hair straight for y’all. It is exhausting and it’s so expensive and it takes up so much time. Braids are for y’all so we can work harder and focus on the work. So why do we need an act?
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Does she ever just not bitch? Everything. Oh my gosh. All you white people, everything’s your fault. Who’s making her straighten her hair? What are you talking about? Who’s making her is Beyonce have the same issue? Who’s making anybody straighten their hair? Like we’re that’s you know what my hair is naturally curly. I get a keratin on my hair every eight weeks. Nance just doesn’t change. My hair texture is like I don’t know if you’ve seen Brave that movie the little cartoon movie and Merida the little redhead. That’s my hair texture. Naturally. So I don’t want to hear anybody bitch about it. Shut up. I’m so tired of this nonsense. Michelle Obama, she was complaining last week about having a hair and makeup artist. Now she’s complaining that she had to straight like I didn’t realize that she’s being forced by white women to straighten her hair. Why does she always have to be a victim? I have never seen such a silver spoon elitist. A rich kid complain about being victimized as much as she does. She is constantly, constantly victim. She is the victim. All every day. That has to get tiring to be in that house. Doesn’t it? Maybe that’s why I never see her husband and kids around her. Because all she does is bitch all the time. Oh my gosh. Every day. And trapping black people in hair standards that harm their capability to do work is actually a sentence that she said. Trapping? I didn’t feel like I had to be trapped into straightening my hair. It’s just easier for me on TV. It’s easier to do. It’s easier to upkeep, actually. I don’t get it. I don’t know why. It’s always everybody else’s problem what you have to deal with. It’s always everybody else’s fault if you have an issue. If you’re mad about having to do your hair, how is that someone else’s fault? My gosh. You know, there are people out there right now that are really hurting that would love to have that as a problem. They’ll trade you their sets of problems for yours. Just it never ends. It is a major beauty industry. That’s a major industry. I have friends who get their hair straightened and then they wear their hair in braids or they’ll do they will have locks put in or whatever. I mean, it’s been all I mean, I’ve had friends who’ve changed their hair, you know, six ways to Sunday throughout a decade. Not an issue. I don’t know why it is for her. I just get the feeling that she is a deeply unsatisfied person and she just seems very resentful. Over what? I’m not quite sure. She grew up in, by my standards, she’s a rich kid. She’s a rich kid who grew up in a rich part of town with rich parents and she had a richy rich education and she married another rich kid who came from a banking family and he went to a rich school and they had everything handed to them on a silver platter. When I hear them talk about what they think poor is, I laugh my head off because that’s not poor. It’s just crazy. And she always just seems so mean and resentful and hateful. Is she just mad because she was expected to do something? I get Hillary vibes from her. That’s where she and Hillary Clinton share. They have this common denominator. They’re both very unlikable. They’re very unlikable because that’s the countenance. That is the aura that they emit. That’s what they put out there. They’re just unlikable people. I’ve never seen a first lady complain so much in my life. Think about it. I mean, maybe except for Hillary. But Hillary complained about other people. And politics, not to say that that’s any better. Michelle Obama just complains constantly about everything related to herself. Everything comes back to her. You cannot bring up a singular issue with this woman without her bringing it back to something that she that she is agreed over with her, either her makeup or her clothes. uh or her hair or you know what she wanted to do over what Barack wanted to do I mean my gosh she just sounds like a deeply aggrieved unsatisfied woman maybe she’s having a menopause fit I don’t know maybe that’s why she just seems so cantankerous but I mean it’s true goodness I don’t know. She said this. She was just from the same thing. She’s saying she will not run for president. Listen to this. Oh, boy.
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Well, as we saw in this past election, sadly, we ain’t ready. That’s why I’m like, don’t even look at me about running because you all are lying. You’re not ready for a woman. You are not. So don’t waste my time. You know, we got a lot of growing up to do. And there’s still, sadly, a lot of men who do not feel like they can be led by a woman. And we saw it.
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There’s a lot of women who don’t want to be led by a woman, especially some of the women that have been promoted for this high office. So it ain’t just about men. That’s a sexist comment. Some of us don’t want to be led by no bitches either. Let’s be real. And she’s like, well, they’re not ready. Not ready for you. What? No, they were just hard to put up with you complaining all the time. Oh, my gosh. Bring something new to the table. It’s the grievance Olympics with her every time. It’s not that, look, it’s not that people aren’t ready for a woman president. There has not been a qualified woman to run yet. Oh, get mad. It’s true. There hasn’t been a qualified woman to run yet. Kamala Harris, who had everything handed to her. She’s a NEPO DEI hire. Hillary Clinton, who only got where she was because of her husband. And she foobarred everything else. Go back and look how she foobarred health care during her husband’s tenure. Oh, my gosh, it was so bad. All of Congress ran away from her. She tanked herself. They had to hand her the Senate after that. And then Barack Obama did a head pat by making her secretary of state. And then she foobarred that up by backing the Muslim Brotherhood and creating all this destabilization in Libya after Gaddafi and in Egypt with the Green Revolution and all of that. There hasn’t been a qualified woman on either side to run. There has not been a single female that I personally think is qualified on either side that has thrown their hat in the ring. Not a one. And I don’t see anybody. It’s a rare type of woman. I do not see a Margaret Thatcher among us. I don’t. At all. I have high standards. I don’t want to put just any old B in there. I have high standards. And that is a tough job to do. How do you have masculine energy to do the job while retaining your femininity? How are you still, how are you able to juggle all that? It’s tough. Women, biologically, that’s not a temperament that we have. It’s not a temperament that men have to take on that role that women usually go to. It can be done, but I haven’t seen one yet. It doesn’t mean that there’s not one out there or one to come. I just have not seen one yet. I have not seen it from any of the women that have thrown their hat in the ring thus far. Democrats or Republicans, not a one. Everybody’s too sensitive and they have bad instincts and they’re not eloquent speakers and they have bad policy ideas and they think even some on the Republican side thinks that having a vagina is enough of a resume bullet point on a resume and it’s not. You have to be able to deal with all of the attacks that come your way without putting it down to you being a woman. So it’s not that. People aren’t ready. Women aren’t ready. People can take exception to that all they want to. It doesn’t make me any less correct. I haven’t seen one yet. you don’t have to pick between safe storage or quick access if you’re a firearm owner the folks at stopbox pro give you both the stopbox pro keeps your weapon accessible to you for when you need it and inaccessible to everyone else stopbox pro uses push button mechanical lock no keys no batteries no electronics and you can count on it to work every time With 81 possible combinations, you can easily set it and keep it secure. And it fits most full-size handguns. It’s also TSA compliant, so I can take it with me if I travel. The Stopbox Pro is lightweight, durable, and made in the USA in a family-owned facility in Spokane, Washington. It is perfect for home, your vehicle, travel, or even gifting to someone who values peace of mind. With the holidays coming up, it’s a great time to give the gift of security and you don’t want to miss this deal. So for a limited time, all of you out there, all my listeners get 10% off plus buy one and get one free with code Dana10 at stopboxusa.com. So that’s like one for your car, one for the house. Code Dana10 for 10% off plus. Buy one, get one free at stopboxusa.com. That’s stopboxusa.com, code Dana10.
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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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This is how this stuff all starts. A tiny little alligator was spotted on a video in Boston’s Charles River. It was found safe. It was a little, I love how they say that’s tiny. That’s tiny. Kane, did you see it? That man needed two hands. That’s not tiny. That’s like, hmm. But somebody apparently had it as a pet illegally, and they dumped it, and it can’t safely return to the wild. It’s totally out of its, you know.
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I’ve seen this movie.
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I mean, we have all seen how this happens. Stop. And why would you dump a little baby gator? That’s so mean. I mean, I know they grow up to be nothing but jaws, but, you know, still. A bear ran onto an airport tarmac and halted flights. Aw. It was in the Japanese city of Hanamaki, and it temporarily suspended flights after they saw this bear wander under the grounds. And it halted flights for more than an hour. And it’s adorable because there’s video of it, and I just feel like it was scared and it didn’t know where to go. Poor baby. Look at me. Poor baby. Nature. Also, a man fell off a bus on the highway in Maine after he climbed through the roof hatch. Who does this stuff? These dumb people do. This is what it is. He fell right off the bus. Manchester, New Hampshire. He was seriously injured. He fell from the roof of a moving bus. They said the 35-year-old man opened the emergency access of the Concord Coach lines, climbed through the roof while it was moving. Driver realized what happened, started slowing down, tried to pull over, but the man fell off the roof to the roadway. He landed on the shoulder. He had serious injuries, but not life-threatening. He said he was feeling overheated, and he opened up the access hatch, and that’s why. Sounds like, I don’t know, drugs maybe? Like, maybe? I don’t know. Just, I mean, none of this sounds good. Uh, a, just, oh, no. I got a joke here. A distracted driver relieved himself into a Budweiser can while he was driving, and he got pulled over. Now, maybe he was making Budweiser. Yeah. I mean, really, what comes first? But apparently any crash is a 53 year old was driving a Chevy Suburban on a Missoula roadway. And he ran into the rear of a Volkswagen carrying two passengers. The cops said that he had a large Budweiser can in his right hand, which he moved to the center console. And then he handed the beer over when the cops say it smelled like urine. 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But have you ever been on a flight where somebody starts viewing something that is… incredibly inappropriate while you’re on the flight has that ever happened to you kane i’ve never seen it i’ve never seen it i’m usually in the aisle too so that’s kind of the easy way to see that sort of thing yeah so i don’t know if you guys heard about democrat rep brad sherman It’s so gross. His face looks so gross in the photo because of his expression. Apparently there were photos of him that someone took where he was sitting on a plane on his giant iPad and he was looking apparently at some explicit images and someone posted it on X and it showed the California Democrat, the Congressman, staring at his iPad with his mouth agape, and he was apparently scrolling through some inappropriate photos, I should say. And they asked, why did California Congressman Brad Sherman feel it was appropriate to look at porn on his iPad during a flight today? Now, he denied the allegations and they said that the pictures appeared because of his algorithm on X. Now, I don’t Twitter is not like if you’re looking online. And you know how some people tell on themselves, they’ll like post screenshots of something and then there are these weird ads on the side. And it’s like, that’s from what you, that’s how, that’s from what you surf. That’s how that takes it up. X doesn’t necessarily work the same way. My for you, by the way. So my for you tab is like all progressives. And I have no idea why. Like stuff I don’t agree with. And I have to mute all of it. It’s like the for you thing is like garbage. Now, maybe that’s because I’m in politics. And maybe, I don’t know, the algorithm is trying to show you something different from that. I don’t know. But his people were saying that. It was the algorithm that did that, Kane? Yeah. I don’t really think that that’s accurate.
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No, it’s not accurate.
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I haven’t seen the algorithm promote pornography. Stupid people, yes.
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It’s never accidentally popped up in my feed.
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Yeah. So I don’t believe that. Do you think that he was just actively looking at that stuff?
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Yeah. I do, too. I mean, that’s what the pictures and videos show.
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He said these pictures came up on 4U. If you have to fly across the country, you look at a lot of stuff on your tablet. He says, if I see a picture of a woman, might I look at it longer than a sunset? Yeah. Oh. It doesn’t look good because there were several photos of him taken and there were multiple images that he was looking at. And I don’t know.
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Yeah, there were multiple posts like and they appeared in some of those photos to be one right after the other. In other words. a specific feed he was looking at.
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Oh my gosh. Okay. We, we actually, but Juan’s getting ready to show you what he was doing. Like in one of the photos, you can see he’s not even touching the iPad, but he’s just staring at the image and he’s all slack jawed. Like some old pervert. Okay. oh it’s so gross why is he like that i don’t know why are these people like this so i i tend to not think that it was just oh my he was like i didn’t mean to view these lingerie scantily clad women it just is awkward it’s so bad it’s just so and he there were multiple like image image image image image at one right after the other uh there were three photos of him taken looking at them I don’t think I don’t think that it was the algorithm. I think that he like clicked on something to see personally. That’s what I think. It’s just so gross. But he was like, no, it’s the it’s the X algorithm. That’s what it is. Or just hear me out. You’re a giant pervert. Looking at this stuff and looking at this stuff on a plane in the aisle seat. He’s in the aisle seat. Is he?
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Yes. He looks to be near the window or next to the window.
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Well, it looks like he’s in an aisle seat from what I saw. I don’t care, but he’s on a plane. Oh, my gosh. Oh, it’s so nasty. Can you imagine? I can’t. What would you do if you were sitting next to him?
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To him?
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And you saw that happen.
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And I knew that he was the congressman, a Democrat congressman from California.
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Or just period.
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I’d probably do what this guy did, which is apparently sneak some pics.
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So I would totally do that, too.
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Yeah.
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And then I would. So I didn’t have to sit next to the gross. I’d be like, why are you so nasty? I would probably ask that publicly. Why are you so nasty? Why are you looking at porn here? Oh, I feel violent. Oh, no.
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Don’t they make those screen covers where if you’re just off at an angle, you can’t see what’s on the screen sort of thing?
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Yeah. Like, if he’s going to do stuff like that, I’d recommend him have… A friend of mine has it on her phone, and I ordered for the iPhone off of… amazon because i just noticed when i’m on flights i find myself if i’m texting and do you know i don’t want people like oh who’s that what is she you know not that i’m doing anything all of my searches are gonna they’re embarrassing it’s all dog stuff it’s dogs holsters um oh i was looking up heirloom seeds what else uh what does it mean if i dream i had a tail Oh, and anything aliens. My algorithm is so spastic. It’s like, we don’t even know. We’re just going to throw a bunch of weird stuff at her. I don’t know. Yeah, that’s what it. Oh, although Instagram started showing me races of small diminutive people with camels. On Instagram. I don’t know why. Just start showing me those videos. I don’t know what I watched, but anyway. That’s, yeah. So I just, that’s just, I would have said something that’s gross. Okay.
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