In today’s episode, Craig Collins takes us on a rollercoaster of controversial topics, starting with a discussion on unsanctioned dental ventures in Florida. From flawed political narratives that overlook mental health issues to the importance of love in divisive times, this episode sheds light on the complex layers beneath surface-level debates. Listen in as Craig critiques the media’s role in shaping these narratives, and why the truth should always be at the forefront of public discourse.
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It’s time for Florida Man.
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That’s right. It’s time for Florida, man. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter to stay connected to her. I got three of them for you today. First, some people seem surprised by this, but if you know anything about Florida, maybe you’re not all that surprised. There were some people driving around a $7,000 mobile dispensary vehicle. surveillance foiled a Florida man who was driving his weed products, his edibles, everything in a van. This happened in Fort Myers, actually, the weed van. It captured the man stealing $7,000 in merchandise from another place and trying to make off with it. All of this is crazy. According to Lee County Sheriff’s Office, the suspect, later identified as 31-year-old Zachary Jolley, I don’t know why I’m amused that his last name is Jolly. Broke a window, gained access to a mobile dispensary dubbed Queen of Weed, and then stole a whole bunch of stuff in it. Surveillance footage obtained by deputies show Folly filling a trash can with edibles, mushrooms, and vapes, and then making off with the trash can. Just an interesting set of decisions being made by this moron. But Florida, the big takeaway is they have weed trucks. And so another guy out there in Florida was attacked by a bear at his house. It’s a real story. A black bear walked up to a dude’s house in Florida. This was at 4.30 a.m. I don’t know why the guy was awake. He got scratches on his arm and stuff. But mostly he won by just yelling at the bear to go away. I would play the audio, but there’s bad words in there, too. The dude said he was in a haze when he opened the door that early in the morning with the doorbell video camera saying that certain things were happening. And then he sees a bear. The bear hits him in the arm and stuff. And he’s lucky to be alive because he just started to yell at the bear, like, go away. Get away from me, bear. And that seemed to be effective. So if you want that as a proof of concept, This show to the missus or show to anyone else. Whenever you say that you could defeat a bear in some sort of, you know, fight. There you go. At least one time it worked out the way it’s supposed to. I’m not sure if it’ll happen if you try it, too. I’m not recommending you do that, by the way. And finally, a Florida woman was arrested for allegedly super gluing veneers of victims teeth directly to their faces without any sort of license. She claimed to be a dentist. You had to go over her house to get the procedure done. There was nobody else there, just her. She was really cheap though. So a bunch of people in Florida are like, well, I want veneers and I don’t want to pay real money for it. So this seems fine. Surprise, surprise that the lady using super glue to glue things onto your teeth was not in fact a licensed dentist in a place like Florida. I would never go to any home in Florida for any kind of medical procedure of any kind, mostly because I’d be afraid I’d wake up without kids. That’s just me assuming that. But again, you decide what you need to do. I’m going that road.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. Let’s play this audio. This is audio from MS Now. I like saying that, actually. It’s so stupid. MSNBC, they’re freaking out. They’re upset about a lot of the things that are going on and being talked about. So, Jen Psaki said, Terrible in her role when she was the White House press secretary, not because she was bad at evading questions. She’s actually pretty good at that. Just terrible in a lot of the lies she was willing to tell then and a lot of the lies she’s willing to tell now. But she did an interview with Mayor Frey. who said that praying is bad. I know that’s not what he actually said. It just felt that way based on the fact that he said thoughts and prayers are something you can’t send to families that obviously care about faith after a horrible thing happens. Out of families yesterday in Minneapolis, Minnesota, children were praying in a church at school and a shooter came in or a shooter shot through the windows and killed families. two kids and harmed a bunch of others. Just horrible. And I hate so much of this, but I want to play it for a specific reason. That might not be just being a pundit again and reacting to what you’re probably hearing all over the place is people’s opinions of the stupidity of the secondary and third level conversations that come from a very obvious and simple conversation. Someone with a mental health issue killed children. We should think that’s bad and we should be fighting mental health. But here’s Saki and the mayor.
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I have been thinking about them as my own all day, as I know many people watching have been thinking about them as their own.
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By the way, the thing I most hate about when the left says that, too, they say this about teachers all the time, like teachers see your children as yours. I see kids as my kids, even if there might be truth. In the fact that when something horrific happens, if you’re a parent and it happens to kids, you absolutely picture what it would be like if harm came to your family and that’s how scared, mad, all those things that you might get. But even as you say that, this is again using this for some sort of manipulative reason to try to then transition to the other topics you want to talk about. It’s not necessary. And honestly, thinking about it within the terms of my own life or my own family or anyone else’s, even more you’d want to turn to God and pray than try to vilify God. Not what they do here.
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So fresh here. It’s just happened this morning, and there’s already been sort of some effort, which I think is so sick and disgusting, to weaponize some of the details, even if we We don’t know a lot at this point in time, and obviously the law enforcement in your city have been keeping people abreast, including details about the individual possibly being trans, about the individual possibly having negative things to say about Trump, about some things that have been… Yeah, all those things are true. They’re facts. facts on the weapons. A lot of this is just very early reporting. What do you do as a leader of your city to prevent details from being weaponized and using this to blame something other than the guns?
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I want to stop it right there. That was my favorite part of what she said. And it goes way beyond the tragedy of yesterday. She just said out loud in a way that she thinks is OK. How do you prevent the truth? from shaping the narrative. That’s what she said. You don’t want the truth itself sometimes in these places to bogart the mission of whatever it is you’re trying to sell the American people and claim is true even though they can easily tell it’s not. That’s the question to a leader of a city after a horrible tragedy happens that day. And the answer is going to be terrible. And I will play it in a second. But I just can’t get over the ridiculousness of that. And also the fact that media, media exactly like X now, is allowing us to know the full story where they would hide it. And there’s even one other thing, and I feel like I’ve talked about it filling in on this show before, but I’ve been in rooms where news directors of small market radio stations or you know individuals who are parts of of bigger radio groups say something out loud where they think well we can’t tell them the truth because if we do it somehow gonna harm someone else here or there or some other way And how freaking insane is that? Like, it’s sort of surreal to be in the room and sit there and not want to explode. And I couldn’t because that would have only made things worse for me in any of the places I was in. I definitely didn’t listen to the thing they said. I told the truth on whatever shows I was a part of because darn it, that’s important. But nonetheless, even if you’re told you can’t tell the truth, you might get fired for telling the truth. It’s insane because these people, some of them actually think they’re doing good work. They actually think like, oh, we’re helping. in the society. We’re making things better. We promise that what we’re doing is somehow for the greater good, even if we’re seeing the bad continue to play out. It’s actually the same argument And this is something I meant to get into. I didn’t. Maybe we’ll talk about it more later. The left uses to try to take away guns. They try to say that the problem is this, whatever they think this is. And the only solution is to address it in a totalitarian fashion. And we’re taking everything away and we’re stopping everyone from doing it. But that same level of thinking, of course, would never cross their minds. If they’re talking about someone who had obvious mental health issues and doing something about mental health, not doing something about, say, taking guns away, of course they wouldn’t use the same logic to go after a different conclusion because they don’t like that other conclusion. But here’s the answer to the question, the ridiculously asked question of how the truth gets in the way of the narrative they want to tell.
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First off, anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize trans people has completely lost touch with a common humanity. Operate not off of hate for any community. Operate off of love for our kids. Kids died today. This should be about protecting our children. This should be about loving our children. Yes, it should be.
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It absolutely should be about protecting kids, by the way, in a different sense. What would we do to prevent this from happening? No, it’s not take everybody’s guns away. And I’ve talked about this a bunch of times on my own, and I know Dana does, too, because the bad guys will still get them. All you’ll do is take guns out of the hands of the good guys. The vast majority of people who are responsible gun owners, like myself, and many, many others out there, and anyone who actually wants to do harm will still go find a gun to do it. So you’re not going to solve anything, and you know it, and you don’t want to say that part out loud. But one other last thing.
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Far too often, I feel like people will think of the conclusion that they want to get to, and then they’ll reverse manufacture the facts that they want to hear to get to that end point. You’re doing this! That’s what you’re doing. You know, we should be standing up for our Catholic community, by the way, right now, because this is a Catholic church. We should be standing up for kids and churches and schools and all that. Let’s love each other. The antidote to hate is not more hate. The antidote to hate and cowardice, which clearly this shooter had, is not more hate. Hurt people hurt people. The antidote is love.
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I agree with that part of the message, by the way, that the antidote is love. But how do you actually do that? How do you go about that? Because the amount of hate on the left for the right, the things I’m saying on this show right now will cause people to hate me. They’ll cause people to hate Dana for what she said the other day, and I have no intent of telling you to harm someone or vilify a group of individuals for whatever they think they are, whoever they think that they were born to be. I’m not telling you to hate anybody. That’s not the intention of this. I do actually want to fix the problem, and I definitively know, and so do you, and so do all of the politicians out there who’ve done things to try to restrict gun access in the past. They know none of that fixes this.
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I’ve got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how’s it going today?
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It’s going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do. I’m Dan Morgan. I’m an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America’s largest injury law firm.
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That’s right. This is the Quick Five and the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. DLash, DanaLashRadio and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. Former NFL quarterback Matt Leinart got roasted by Alexa in front of his son. This is sort of funny, interesting audio that went viral. Here we go.
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Alexa, who’s Matt Leinart? Matt Leinart was a Heisman Trophy winning quarterback at USC and a top 10 NFL draft pick. His pro career didn’t amount to much.
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Yikes. That’s true. This is not wrong. The pro career didn’t amount to very much. But yes, that’s something that Amazon and its app told the children of Matt Leinart in front of Matt Leinart, which is fantastic. I do like that one a whole lot. A car salesman was fired after he posted a TikTok video saying he overcharged a single mom. ten thousand dollars for a car the guy’s name is kenny he claimed it was a bad joke online that went viral um the honda dealership in racine wisconsin decided it was bad pr for them i know people who’ve worked as car salesmen and some of them say that the industry is uniquely awful that you are encouraged to do as many terrible things as possible to rip people off This probably feeds into a lot of that fear and some of the reality in that industry. But this is some of the audio about the guy claiming it was all just a bad joke and a misunderstanding that went crazy.
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I wanted to come out here and publicly apologize and take ownership and accountability for my actions. I offended a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of people. I’m sorry, okay? My account is based on satire. Everything that I post is nothing but a joke. I would never post actual true events. I want to apologize to the single mothers and just women in general. I’m a single parent myself. I know what that struggle is like, going to work, having to take care of the kids. I found it funny because it’s unrealistic. The brand that I was once selling for, They don’t do markups, especially not a $10,000 markup.
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Fired, by the way, was the decision they made after this guy went viral for claiming he had done something that he said he didn’t do. If there is a woman that comes forward saying she’s the woman that got overcharged by the car that bought it from Kenny, he’s screwed. But I do understand how people go on social media and try to make sarcastic jokes that wind up hurting them. So I’m not exactly a fan of cancel culture if this is all just a joke. But I don’t know why he would find this funny, you know, to go after the idea that someone ripped off a single mom because a lot of people have done it. And it’s not funny. And I understand why people thought it wasn’t funny. And it’s uniquely bad if you’re a sales guy because you want to convince people that you’re trustworthy to go viral for something like this. I don’t know what other place hires him. Like, I don’t know where he lands next in the old sales career. That was a uniquely dumb decision that he made. All right. Some other things out there for quick top five stuff that I thought was kind of funny. 72% of Americans do not care that Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift are engaged, even though it seemed to, quote, break the Internet and cause all kinds of social media records. I am very much in that 72% that did not care. And even more than that, I think this is kind of amusing. It actually makes me more upset at the idea that the NFL season that’s coming up might somehow feature Taylor Swift again. It needs to stop, man. Although I get why it’s happening, especially in the wake of the fact that this had as much popularity as it did with the 30% of people who talked about it a whole bunch. They might watch more sports. They might sit there and be annoying during the NFL game every time that Taylor Swift comes on TV and are excited about it, just like the other people are mad when she comes on TV as well. The only thing I’ve ever liked about any part of this is that it caused a lot of daughters to sit with Pop and watch NFL games with them. And that, I think, is cool. But I do think that inevitably you’re kind of hoping that the kid winds up interested in the football part of the equation. And I’m guessing that that doesn’t always turn out the way that some of these guys might hope. But nonetheless, this is a story out there that seems very obvious. My favorite part of it is my wife did tell me about it. And I saw social media jokes of other dudes saying their wives told them about it. And I reacted very much like all the parody accounts claim they did. Like, okay. I don’t care. It’ll be fine. Everything’s great. Thanks for letting me know a thing that doesn’t change my life at all. All right, finally, the top three scariest natural disasters do not include hurricanes, according to People. This is a recent survey. A talker research, I think, did this. Tornado came in at number one, tsunami number two, earthquake number three. Hurricane was number four. I think it all depends on location, location, location. Where you live and the likelihood of any sort of potential thing being the thing that happens to you is probably what you’re most afraid of. My wife was more afraid of some things when we didn’t live in Texas. She’s afraid of hurricanes now that we live in Houston. Other things I wanna talk about. I am a giant Yankee fan. I think I’ve mentioned that on this show before. It’s not usually relevant to the stuff we talk about on the Dana Show, unless the Yankees are uniquely getting beat up, which seems to be a thing more often than not. They do sweep bad teams, so that’s nice. But Mark Teixeira, a former first baseman for World Series winning New York Yankees, announced his candidacy for a Congress seat in Texas around San Antonio is where this seat is located, the 21st Congressional District. I am beyond excited. There are not many times in my political radio talk show career, the show I do in Houston, which Dana is actually on that station. We are an affiliate station of hers, Patriot Talk 920. For anyone that wants to listen to that station when Dana is on or I’m on, that’d be nice. But there’s not a lot of opportunities where you can talk politics and sports with a person like this. I immediately sent contact to their press department being like, I would love to do it. I’m filling in for Dana on these days. I’m doing this other stuff on these days. Please jump on, Mark, and talk to me about more than just politics. Talk to me about what it’s like to hit home runs in World Series games. But yes, that is a big candidacy being mentioned. I hope to share our wins, man. I also find this funny in a different way. This is just something to mention. Nestor Cortez is a former Yankee. He’s the guy that had a mustache that was a pretty good pitcher, even though maybe at times not exactly as good as you’d hope he’d be. He didn’t have quite the stuff that you’d expect him to have to be as successful as he was. You don’t care about that part. Anyway, he attended a Trump rally. There was a rally when Trump was running for office this most recent time where he name-dropped Nestor Cortez and talked about his fastball, which was deceptive, not necessarily very fast. But anyway, I just thought that was so funny because then Nestor got traded. He left New York at some point after. whether that’s because Yankee fans would reject a conservative or not, I don’t know. I doubt they’ll reject a sharer, though. He’s a very different version of Yankee because he won a World Series, and that’s something a lot of people haven’t won currently on that team, anyone currently on that team, although Gleyber Torres might win one with a different team, which is sad. And you don’t care, and I have to move on. But I’m just excited about this, so I figured I’d throw it into the ether of stuff we’re talking about that Mark Teixeira is running for a congressional seat. And, of course, Texas finally succeeded in its redistricting. The Democrats ran away, made a national spectacle of deciding to not show up to do their jobs. And then when they finally did decide that they had to show up and now there’s going to be new penalties in place if you run away again. And even lawyers that advise them they should just go back. They did the thing we expected all along. They lost. So Texas has redistricted. There are certain parts of Houston where I live that people now think are very much up for grabs or potentially going to go to conservative representation, which is good because living here and walking around, there’s a bunch of people in certain communities who seem to be supporters of the side that’s not well represented in our current government. A lot of Democrats in a lot of positions of power. It’d be nice to see some more Republicans there. But there’s even other races where Democrats assume that they’re actually still going to win, where I do like some of the fighting that might be going on. We actually might be talking to one of those politicians, Carmen Montiel, in the near future on this show and some other things that I do, because she’s running in a district that got redistricted in a way that would hurt conservatives, and she’s not letting it defeat her. I think that’s interesting, because the other thing I think is kind of funny about this when we talk about these topics. And I wonder if the main, you know, everyday human person who doesn’t obsess about politics even cares about this stuff all that much. So I’ll say this in a way that hopefully makes you care if you don’t. But I love how much politicians just assume they’re going to win here or win there. They look at certain numbers, certain turnout rates and are like, okay, this is a lock for us. So much so that if you were part of the behind-the-scenes world of politics, you’d assume the race isn’t even important. Like, the topics aren’t even important, the stances aren’t important. I’d love it if a bunch of Americans throughout this country could prove to the politicians that the things they say actually do matter, that the races do matter, and people can show up and flood ballot boxes and win elections. Because also, during an off year, during a midterm election or a special election in the case of some of this stuff, A whole lot of people don’t show up. So the amount of people, the amount of support it would take to actually flip something is way less than what it used to be years ago. So you could do this quite easily. And Texas could go from creating the assumption of four, five, six congressional seats to like 10 congressional seats or something, which would be amazing, which would be very, very different. But again, I would just love to remind people and have other voters in the places I live remind people that you actually have to run the race and you actually have to say stuff out loud. It’s not just the world of the presidency where that matters, where Biden and Harris cannot win an election against Donald Trump because neither one of them could put together coherent sentences that seem to actually have stances on things. And any stances they actually took on stuff, especially Harris, seemed way further to the left than what they wanted to say in public. But nonetheless, I do think this is interesting. As I said, and I do think we’ll see how it all plays out as California, Illinois, other places are going to try to redistrict even harder, gerrymander back even harder and create more seats in their places. Again, the American people would do well right now to remind the politicians we’re actually in power by voting and showing up in places where they assume a certain side is going to win something. And not because I want to see conservatives lose. I want conservatives to win more, not less seats. That would be great. But I would also love to watch places like California and Illinois be shocked when they don’t manufacture wins for Democrats, which I think can happen. And certainly I think it can happen to some of the districts as created in Texas, even after the assumption is we’re probably going to lose that race here or this race there.
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