In this episode, we dive into the latest antics of a Florida man with humorous yet astonishing stories, including a puzzling drug trafficking scenario and a shocking Uber mix-up turned kidnapping nightmare. From unexpected twists in suburban tales to insightful discussions on urban crime statistics, this episode is not short on intriguing narratives. We also take a closer look at the constant construction conundrums at the White House, exploring the nuances of decision-making and public information in large-scale projects.
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I like the people who hide their drugs in bags that say no drugs. And then whenever they’re stopped and they get searched, they say, no, there’s no drugs in here. Look, it’s a bag that says no drugs. This guy tried this with his house. So a man with a no drugs allowed sign on his house was charged with trafficking. Highlands County Sheriff’s Office said they arrested John Moss, 76 years old. Cain hates old people. Hear him? He says old people aren’t innocent over there. Hear him? They said that there was literally a placard, not just like a handwritten sign, like a professionally done sign that said, quote, absolutely no drugs allowed on the premises. They served a search warrant on the home. Oh, man, this guy was trafficking Oxycontin stuff. I can’t pronounce morphine meth. He had a lot of meth, all kinds of stuff. So he was a baddie. But he’s on he’s in jail, multiple counts of drug trafficking and no bond. That’s. Did he put that sign up, do you think, with the purpose of the cops showing up with a warrant going, oh, wait, the sign says no drugs allowed. We can’t, you know, there’s no drugs here. Might as well go home, guys. Yeah, might as well go home. It’s all done, guys. We don’t have to worry anymore. It’s all done. I’m just, you know, wondering. All right. Also, a Florida, a woman mistakes a Florida man for her Uber and he kidnaps her. You got to be careful, man. Uber drivers they they like 30 million trips per day worldwide. Usually there’s an issue but this Florida woman mistook a silver SUV for an Uber. She got into the vehicle and then when she realized she was in the wrong car, the driver would not let her out. And now the sheriff’s office down there is looking for a man in his 30s in connection with her attempted kidnapping and Kissimmee, Florida. And she misidentified the man. She thought the silver SUV was her Uber. And the driver was sitting there smoking dope at the time, offered her a ride. She got in and they went. And then he wouldn’t let her out. He began making lewd and inappropriate comments. She demanded that he let her out. He would not. She began panicking, screaming and tried to get out of the car to escape. He sped up. So she tried to open the door. He sped up, which threw her off balance and she fell out of the car while it was moving. She was able to take a picture of the SUV and send the picture and describe the man to the police. But wow. I mean, always check those license plates, y’all. Always check them and then ask your driver’s name. Don’t ask if you’re an Uber. Don’t ask them if they’re an Uber. Ask them for the name of the driver. Like, are you, you know, whatever? Are you Stan? Are you Joe? Are you?
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If someone gets in my car accidentally, I’m not going to try and kidnap them. I’m going to tell them to get the hell out. I don’t know what this guy was doing.
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Well, he’s not. Also, like who sits there and idles and your door’s unlocked? I don’t ever do that. I have got, I mean, my doors is locked. I don’t unlock them until the person has their handle on the door. I just, I don’t know. It’s crazy. Let’s see. Last but not least, a Florida man was arrested after toddlers were pictured with guns, beer, and dope. Yeah. Taylor Canoop or Noop. I don’t know. Florida was arrested because apparently he there were he was charged with child neglect. The children were placed with relatives. He’s the dad. And he apparently had all these photographs of his babies, like actual like two year olds and like a nine month old with guns and beer and drugs. Wow. He got way, way in trouble with that. And that’s our friends at Kel-Tec. You guys are very familiar with Kel-Tec, based in Florida, USA. Obviously, everything made in the USA, manufacturer. And they have a lot of really cool stuff. The KS7, this is a really nice pump-action shotgun, and you need to check it out. It’s the brand-new KS7 Gen 2, packed with upgrades. 5-slot Picatinny style accessory rail. You got that underneath so you can add, I almost said horizontal, vertical grips. You can add lights. You can keep it flush and sleek with a cap. But it’s a smoother pump action. So you have faster, cleaner cycling. You got enhanced durability. All of the other advantages are there. It’s super ultra lightweight. Still adjusts barely under, I mean, it’s right under 7 pounds unloaded. Compact pull-up design, maneuverability in tight spaces, ambidextrous downward shell ejection, 7 plus 1 capacity. Great for home defense range days, anywhere in between. And the MSRP makes it super accessible. It’s $639. That’s it. So you get all of that performance well within reach. It’s a Celtic innovation made in America, family owned. KELTECweapons.com. Tell them that Dana sent you.
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Two quick construction questions, if I can. You mentioned any construction project comes with changes. The president had initially said that this project wouldn’t interfere with or touch the current structure. Now he says to do this properly, he realized that the East Wing had to be demolished. This is the people’s house. Why not inform the public of that change and when it was decided that the East Wing would have to be demolished?
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Look, again, with any construction project, changes come. And we have informed all of you. We’ve been keeping you apprised of this project. We’ve shown you the renderings. And if you look at the renderings, it’s very clear the east wing was going to be modernized. In fact, I said that in the briefing when we initially introduced this plan to all of you and to the public. But modernized is tearing down the streets. Well, again, the president, the plans changed when the president heard counsel from the architects and the construction companies who said that in order for this East Wing to be modern and beautiful for many, many years to come, for it to be a truly strong and stable structure, this phase one that we’re now in was necessary. And the president wants to do right by the people’s house. And so that’s exactly what he’s doing. It’s going to be, again, like I said, much more stable, strong, secure, and more beautiful than ever once it’s complete.
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The list of people, and that was Caroline Leavitt, who was going back and forth. There was an ABC reporter about this. I mean, I do remember they said that there was, in the beginning, that depending on what they found when they got into the initial demolition of the outside, the little car park outside, they were waiting to see whether or not they would have to do more, take down more of the structure than just that. And then apparently when they get in there, when they got in there, considering when the East Wing was built, it was like, what, the 40s? And then they did other renovations in the 50s. They actually, that was like back when they used asbestos. And the… asbestos for this literally me pull this up because I had this last night there’s like a whole advocacy group for it in terms of construction they said that the there were there were concerns because it’s over the east wing with back when it was originally built the in the later editions of it that was apparently at the height of the use of asbestos in construction and that I mean, so that required apparently them to do more because they needed to get you know, they had to do testing asbestos they had. And I’m actually by the way, Lorraine just posted literally what I had in front of me right now because they had a whole abatement that they had. It was EPA, OSHA and also they were working with Clark Construction and AECOM. with worker protection and all of that as a result. And so they had to actually do more to get some of that other material out. And then by the time they got at that point, they said, you know what, why don’t we just reinforce this and use this? And so it ended up being actually easier to do it the way that they’re doing it than not. And we do know a little bit about construction because my husband worked in construction. He rehabbed a city block in downtown St. Louis. It was a major project and built this amazing studio and condo. So we know about construction. I mean, we lived it. And they had a whole they went through this whole exact same thing, too, because there was asbestos in the building when they were rehabbing it and all of that. So I know the process of it. And it’s a it’s a big process. And sometimes when you get to a certain point, you’re like, OK, it’s just better to just go all the way instead of go through this. For the lack of a better way to put it, the whole abatement of this, it’s just easier, right? And so that ultimately and I remember when they said they said they never said that there wasn’t a possibility. They just said that it could happen, but they need to see when they get in there what they find and then they’ll go from there. So it’s not like I just I just rejected the argument that everybody was kept in the dark about it. The people that are the other people that are funding it. I mean, we’re we’re getting it’s the people’s house and we’re getting a free ballroom. So let me just go through the names. Altaria Group, Amazon, Apple, Booz Allen Hamilton, Caterpillar, Coinbase, Comcast, JPEPE. And Amelia Fanul, Hard Rock International, Google, HP, Lockheed Martin, Meta Platforms, Micron Technology, Microsoft, Next Extra Energy, Planeteer Technologies, Ripple, Reynolds American, T-Mobile, Tether America, Union Pacific Railroad, Adelson Family Foundation, Stefani Brody, the Betty… Wold Johnson Foundation, Charles and Marissa Sascarilla, Edward and Sherry Glazer, Harold Hamm, Benjamin Leon Jr., the Lutnick family, the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Foundation, Stephen A. Schwarzman, Konstantin Sokolov, Kelly Leffler and Jeff Sprecher, Paolo Tiramani, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss. They were Facebook guys. Interesting. Those are all the people and entities that have been donating to this. So where is this? Because that was the other accusation that taxpayer dollars have been going towards this. And the project has been in the works for a long time. So this is I mean, New York Post published the list of all of the other donors. Hakeem Jeffries, we played that audio for you yesterday. He said, oh, we’re going to have an investigation. We’re going to get to the bottom of all the people involved in this. Well, for what purpose? For what? Because they to send them a thank you card for a free ballroom. I was asking a friend of mine. That. was in the White House press pool and does all this stuff it this actually is needed because it is true that the East Room cannot could not they can’t accommodate more they can barely accommodate 200 people definitely cannot accommodate more than 200 and depending on the event And, you know, like if you’re like all the stuff that’s going on in there, you may not be able to get 200. So what they used to have to do is and what they still have to do right now is they would have to erect a giant tent on the South Lawn and hold the events in the tent at the South Lawn. And one of my friends was saying, gosh, it was awful when it would rain. And, you know, they didn’t like being a member of the press and having their like minded and having to cover this. If it’s like cold, if it’s rainy, it’s just, you know, it’s not the most ideal situation. So when they had a state dinner, when the last state dinner that they. So when they had a huge state dinner, I think this was like maybe back in. When was this? When they had the president and first lady of Kenya, they had to go outside. They had to have their event outside. So imagine you have to put a tent on the lawn and everybody goes outside to eat. And yeah, you can have space heaters and all of that, but is it the most comfortable? Is it the best? So, and they’ve been doing, I mean, this has been happening for a while. There’s a lot of drawbacks, especially when there’s an issue with the weather. They have issues with bathroom facilities because you’ve got to make shift stuff when you have a tent on the lawn This is actually something I do agree with. And I’m very particular about taxpayer dollars. This isn’t even taxpayer dollars. It’s all privately funded. See, the other stuff that other previous presidents added, I would say maybe with the exception of the creation of the East Wing originally. Everything else has been for presidential use. The Clintons added a music room. The other presidents have added bowling alleys and pools. Gerald Ford added a pool. He wanted an outdoor pool, not just a lap pool, but a pool that he could swim in. You had Obama put in a basketball court. You had others put in tennis courts, all kinds of stuff. I mean, a lot of the stuff that they put in previously was stuff for their own personal use. This is something that’s actually going to be used functionally for the White House. Because it can be a mess. And my friend was saying, because my friend has had to cover these events before, and my friend was saying that it’s kind of a mess, especially if it’s raining, when you have inclement weather, and… It also kind of some people have said that it people think that they’re going to a state dinner at the White House and then they realize they’re not even going into the White House. They’re going to attend outside. And it is very expensive to get the kitchen stuff out there and set up the kitchen. And then they have to redo and basically put down turf every time they do one of these events. Also, where does where’s Marine One land? Because Marine One always lands on South Lawn. So what happens when you got a big event and it’s out there on the South Lawn and you got to help? You can’t. That’s where Marine One lands. So and when the tent is up, Marine One can’t land. And the state dining room, if you look at going inside of the state dining room, that may be, I think they said it was like 120, 130 guests. State dinners, when you have leaders that come in there, that’s a lot more than that. And they actually were trying, they made space, they were trying to make space even during Reagan’s era in that East Wing. And the East Wing is a lot of unused offices and a lot of space that’s actually not even entirely useful. So the bathroom situation, that’s a whole other thing. And they can make it look really pretty out there. But you’re outside in a tent and everybody knows it. And you have to walk outside to get into the tent. And they put the carpet down and all that stuff. But you guys know, ladies, you know how it is. It’s not the best. You got wind, breeze, humidity, everything else out there. all these people go to this event to look nice for it and and then they go out there and you’re out there in the humidity you’re out there in the weather the the bathroom situation is abysmal it’s a mess no matter how you do it so i actually think that this is a good move to so that way you can actually have a proper state dinner and the white house can hold these events and And a lot of the other rooms in the White House, I mean, they’re at capacity as it is and always have been originally. So why are people why is this such a huge issue? It’s privately funded. Everybody who’s donated to it has been made public. You know how much has been donated. The president has also donated his own money. It is something that is going to be utilized pretty heavily for all events at the White House. So they don’t have to move out antiques and historical artifacts from other rooms to accommodate people when they’re trying to, you know, get as many people in to these other rooms for state events. So I have zero issue with us. I don’t see one negative, Cain. I do not see a single drawback from any of this. As we move, our partners that help bring you the program, it’s our friends over at All Family Pharmacy. where you can go and get your everyday medications. You can get your ivermectin, your hydroxychloroquine, your mimetazole, your NAD+, whatever it is that you need, they have it. And all this stuff that you would need for like sinus infections, Tamiflu, I mean, they got everything. And it’s easy because all you do is you go online, you fill out a form of what you need, A doctor reviews it and then your medications are sent to you within two to four days. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick 5.
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Target has cut 1,800 corporate jobs in its first round of major layoffs in a decade. This is a lot. What are they going to do? Because Christmas season, isn’t that their busiest season? What are they going to do? So they said that they announced this yesterday. It’s about 8% of its corporate workforce. But if it’s corporate, it doesn’t matter. First off, how do you have that many corporate jobs? That’s kind of crazy. Anyway, I haven’t been to Target in… forever. They’re trying to get back to growth and they’re poised to get a new CEO in February. How many of you think that a lot of this began when they started messing with the men and women’s bathrooms? Because that’s actually one of the reasons I didn’t go back to Target. I’ve had to go like one time in the past two years because they had like a skin. I get like mild eczema. They have like a skin thing that I needed over the counter that I couldn’t get anywhere else and I had to go there.
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If you look at their stocks and when it actually dipped, it coincides with that time.
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I’m just saying, I feel like they need to make a play. And then all of the weird alphabet stuff that they were doing. I don’t think anybody’s gone in there. Magnolia seems to be at home in it. Let’s see. Locals are leaving and permits are few. Malibu is having a post-fire identity crisis. They don’t know what to do. They have wood frames that are rising up from the ashes of those crazy fires that now you just have burned out lots in the Palisades and everywhere else. But they said in Malibu down the road, it’s really bleak. There’s just a lot of caution tape. There’s a lot of hollowed out shelves. A lot of the houses are not graffiti tagged. And I mean, it’s been almost a year and everything is like frozen because it is impossible to get permitted to do anything. In fact, listen to this. L.A., which handles most permits, they’ve only they’ve issued barely over 40 percent of permits upon the total of applications received. And this is literally all rebuilding permits. None of it’s like new architecture. It’s just literally rebuilding what was existing. And L.A. County has handed out even less. It’s under 26% of the total applications received. Malibu, under 2%. They don’t want to rebuild. They’re doing this on purpose. So people need to move. Wall Street bonuses expected to hit record as bank profits surge. Interesting. We’ll come back to that. Also, Francis Ford Coppola, who’s one of my absolute favorites, says he’s broke and he’s selling a custom one million dollar watch after his megalopolis debacle. You know what he did? The Godfather. No one can touch him. He is untouchable in my eyes. Stick with us. More to come.
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They’re doing everything by the book. Why does Chicago have the highest murder rate of all the big cities?
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Well, we are not in the top 30 in terms of our murder rate. Our murder rate has been cut in half over the last four years, and every year it’s gone down by double digits. And if you look at all of the violent crime over the last four years, they’ve all gone down.
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Most populous U.S. cities, 17.47 per 100,000 population. Chicago is number one over Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Phoenix, Los Angeles, New York, and San Diego.
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What I’m explaining to you is when you want to fight crime, look, you can pull statistics up. No, no, these are murders. I’m explaining to you that our murder rate has been cut in half. And very importantly, Brett, and you’ve got to hear this, very importantly, we’ve been doing the things that are necessary to bring crime down, right? We’ve invested in community violence interruption. We’ve invested in police.
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No, they haven’t, actually. In fact, the clearance for these cases have dropped dramatically as well. Meaning, you know, going after prosecuting, solving felonious felony crimes, etc. That’s J.B. Pritzker, who is on with Brett Baer. And it’s hysterical because J.B. Pritzker is going, well, yeah, like we we cut crime. We don’t nothing’s wrong anymore. And Brett Baer is like, yeah, well, here are the receipts and you’re number one. in terms of homicide, your tops. And Pritzker’s like, well, that’s just a lie. We don’t care about your receipts. It’s a lie. We cut it in half. It’s cut in half, but you’re still number one. You cut it in half, but you’re still number one. Imagine if you hadn’t reduced anything, right? It’s insane. These people are insane. But this is, that was his excuse. I think he’s very far removed from the reality that happens on his streets every single day. Every single day. But I actually, I mean, they’re cut in half and still number one. Why is the murder rate the highest of all time? We’re not in the top 30. Yeah, but here’s the map. And then here is all of the crime data as it’s tabulated by your actual law enforcement agencies. And he’s like, you can put up all the statistics you want. We’ve cut our murder rate in half. You’re still number one, Lunchbox. You’re number one. You cut it in half, you claim, and you’re still number one? Jeez. I would not have gone past that. Don’t get mad at Brett Baier because he did. You have to realize that, especially with some producers and, you know, some of the bigwigs with network news, they don’t want you to stay on that topic forever because they don’t think it’s good television. They want you to get past it. It’s like when, you know, fighters are kind of like hugging it out when they’re resting in the ring. It’s like sort of that’s how they view it. So I get I get it. But I wouldn’t let him go. I would have just stayed on him. Like, wait, we can’t go. I mean, they’re they’re still number one. They are number one in terms of murder rate, murder and shootings, murder, shootings, all crime, violent crime, whatever. They’re number one. I and they. I even with now, I will say they do have a reduction. They had a reduction with some violent crime. Do you know how they had a reduction with violent crime? You just it’s crazy. But if you don’t report it, then it’s wild. It goes away. Is that wild? If you if you if a crime happens and you don’t report it, did the crime happen? That’s their whole MO. That’s their whole thing with us. So they’ve done that in California. I mean, they’ve had since when Pritzker became governor in the city of Chicago. I mean, since 2019, you’ve had over 4000 people shot and killed. It’s all like gang activity, drugs and gangs, drugs and gangs. Drugs and gangs. Now, a lot of people say St. Louis. Oh, well, St. Louis is actually. Well, hold up. Hold up. That’s our hometown. I take exception to that. Yes, St. Louis has a butt-ton of crime. That’s an actual quantifiable measurement, by the way. It has a ton of crime. But the reason that St. Louis City ranks number one is because St. Louis City is not incorporated into the county. That’s why. So they look at number of crimes per person adjusted to the population, and so it looks incredibly high. Now, it’s very high. It’s definitely in the top five. But it’s not number one because the only saving grace is it’s not incorporated. It’s very weird how the city and the county are set up. The city has its own government, its own everything. The county has its own government, its own everything. It’s very odd. It’s difficult to explain that to people who don’t get it.
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The downtown numbers, as far as people living downtown St. Louis, have dropped dramatically thanks to Democrat policies, unfortunately. And so as a result, the percentages are larger. That’s the reason.
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Yeah, that’s it. That’s why. But Chicago, number one murder rate. And when he was saying that it was dropped in half, I mean, it’s not actually dropped in half. He only reduced it. I mean, I would think, like doing the math, I think it’s like barely 11%. He’s like, oh, we cut it in half. He’s trying to imply that he cut homicide by 50%. He didn’t. And then he’s trying to act like it’s part of the decrease is because better policing. They’ve actually… have have hindered policing efforts and they declassified a lot of crimes and they just don’t report things their their clearance for these felonies is like abysmal i mean it’s not detroit’s which is at 50 15 but it’s like in the 20 something percent and this um idea that that is some big win for him can you imagine no you’re still number one in murder Yeah, but we cut it in half, so what up? You’re number one in murder. That’s not a… You need to get past you being number one right now. You’re number one in murder. Oh my gosh. It’s still pretty bad. I… I don’t know. I mean, what is it, like 17, isn’t it? I was looking at the rate. This is per 100,000. Isn’t it like 17, something like that? Yeah. Over 17. Over 17. Oh, yeah, it is. Over 17, I’m looking at. Really bad, guys.
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In the latest budget, they’ve actually asked the Chicago Police Department to come up with 98 million in cuts.
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Because they’re spending so much on their policing efforts, Kane. Yeah. They’re spending so much on their policing. And that is a true story. They wanted a $98 million. They’re having a city budget crisis in Chicago. How is that possible? I’m just so confused. How is that possible that they would have that? I mean, everything’s doing great if you listen to J.B. Pritzker. It’s kittens in sunshine up there. Everything’s so good. They have all this time on their hands to go after ICE. Now, the Chicago police superintendent, Larry Snelling, was saying, guys, public safety is going to be greatly impacted if you cut $98 million out of our budget. Because they have budget deficit. They keep they keep spending or sorry, 92 million. They keep spending like crazy. They’ve they’ve spent on entitlements and on illegal aliens. And then they spend it on busing people up to go and fight with ICE.
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This was super interesting, and especially to see that everything can lead to something else, like how cooking led you to be, you know, the founder, the president of a business, and even like your activities in high school, middle school, like led to this moment.
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