In another deep dive into modern media and social issues, Craig Collins fills in on the Dana show to dissect the sensational and sometimes surreal conversations dividing public opinion. With highlights from a CNN debate over societal norms and a poignant reflection on the role of faith in these charged times, this episode provides a thoughtful commentary on how we perceive truth, culture, and media. Step into the diverse world of Florida unpredictability and beyond, with insights and laughter accompanying every revelation.
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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. This is Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show, a D lash, a Dana lash radio and X on Twitter, a great ways to stay connected to her. I love all three of the Florida man stories that producer Kane sent along. I’m going to go ahead and count them down in reverse order though, because this is the radio and we like countdowns of things. And actually, you know what? I have audio. I’m going to let Casey Kasem help me count these down. So number three, as far as the best Florida man stories of today, according to me, thank you, Casey. for saying that out there. Number three is a Florida man that woke up a woman by mumbling stuff next to her bed. The man, who was a stranger to her, had broken into her house. That’s terrifying. And then once he got there, he, I guess, got close to the bed and didn’t get in, thank God, but just started saying stuff that was incoherent and he definitely seemed intoxicated. The woman, when she woke up, yelled at him. Excuse me. I had to sneeze there. The woman yelled at him. And then I might have to sneeze again during the show. I’ll do my best to try to handle it. But anyway, he decided to leave because of the yelling and whatnot. But he didn’t go very far. The guy opened up her car, which I guess was unlocked. That’s kind of her fault. And then went to sleep in the backseat. When the cops eventually arrived, they arrested the guy who refused to get out of the car on his own. And Elijah Spencer was charged with multiple problems. A burglary of an occupied dwelling. He took fruit snacks and stuff from her house. Burglary of an unoccupied conveyance that would be inside the vehicle. criminal mischief, and then resisting an officer without violence for just saying no until eventually he was pulled out of the car. But what a weird dude. But he only comes in at number three on my list. And Casey. Hi, it’s me, Casey. Again, glad to have you with us. Let’s do number two on this list. Thank you, sir. Number two of the best Florida man stories of today is the Florida man whose Trump house has gone very viral on social media, on TikTok and other places. He lives in an elite neighborhood in Florida. He fought the county several times for these giant signs, these huge like things, banners that he hung up on his house that are all Trump things. Some things say like legend, bulletproof. There’s a bunch of other ones. He’s been dealing with this since 2021. fighting back and forth with the city. Eventually he won a lawsuit saying that any kind of fines they tried to charge him were inappropriate and they actually had to pay his legal fees, which is like $42,000, which seems great for the guy. But now he’s even more popular than ever on social media and continues to put out new banners, more American flags and all kinds of things to be pro-Trump. Some of his banners, which all have photos of the president, say things like, Who’s your daddy? Trump coming home in 2025. And as I said again, ones like bulletproof. A whole bunch of people reacted on social media recently to some of the videos he put up by saying how much they love the House. and how much they like to stop and take photos with him or at the house when they pass it. It’s literally becoming a tourist attraction. The guy with the pro-Trump house that tried to be fined and stopped by a city council, and they inevitably failed. All right, that was good for number two. One. Thank you, Casey Kasem. The number one story in the world of Florida, man, the best story out there to me, is the guy in Batman pajamas who stopped a criminal. A Florida man described what it was like to be woken up and noticed that his car was being robbed. It was in his neighbor’s garage, I think he’ll tell you. And unfortunately, bad things were happening. And so he sprung to action, and he just so happened to be wearing his Batman pajamas when he did it, which is hilarious to me. You want to make fun of an adult man wearing Batman pajamas, but you want to respect a hero who apprehends a bad guy and holds him until cops arrive. So it’s a little bit of like, I’m not sure what way to go with this story, but here it is.
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She checked it and she woke me up. She’s like, hey, someone’s rummaging through your truck. So I called them. I said, hey, your garage is open. And my truck was just broken into. So I’m going to sit outside until you guys secure your garage without the person seeing me. And I grabbed a hold of their shirt and their right wrist. I said, listen, don’t try to get away.
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i have plenty of experience with this i’m really glad i had my batman pajamas on because that gave me the extra confidence that i needed that is hilarious that he said that at the end there too and the guy was rocking rocking actual batman pajamas uh and it’s it’s real it looks like the batman outfit with the fake utility belt and everything um man yes Nine times out of ten, or I would go even further, 99 times out of 100, I’m making fun of a friend of mine who admits they still have Batman pajamas as an adult man. The one time I’m potentially not doing it is if the guy also happened to stop a robbery of his own vehicle and keep a man in custody until police arrived while wearing the Batman pajamas. This is fantastic. And I do really like the fact that he says that it added in his confidence because that’s usually not true of adult men wearing Batman pajamas. Confidence is usually not the byproduct of that decision, but it is here. And it is to a great degree. So, again, I love that story so much. Thank you, Casey, for everything you did to help. Sure. All right. That’s fine. He seems excited.
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By the way, actually, you know what? I just remembered I have this audio, too. This happened on CNN, where you have the one individual on CNN who’s willing to actually say stuff that sort of makes sense, Scott Jennings, or oftentimes actually does make sense now, and the rest of the group who are just terrible, horrible people saying terrible, horrible things. It’s honestly the best way I could possibly say that. That’s the best way I could summarize the things that actually occur there. But Jennings did get in an argument. with several people about the whole can men pop out babies, which just real quick, before I say anything else about it, is one of the more amusing things to me that has become a discussion point between the left and the right. Because if you rewind a certain amount of years and you say to yourself, man, I wonder what the political arguments are going to be. Not many people would come up with the idea that men and women are going to be debated as to whether or not all of them can make babies, whether or not it’s a thing that men can do at all. That’s not that’s not a discussion point that you have any level of expectation about. eventually being a reality in the world. And yet, darn it, it currently is. And so when the left wonders how they’re losing support with people, it may be just a little bit because they seem to blatantly disregard very obvious facts if they think that it somehow hurts them. and their political opinions or the optics of their, you know, opinions. And it’s insane to watch these things happen. But here, case in point is this back and forth with Scott Jennings where he’s talking to people about, you know, if men can pop out a baby. And it’s just, again, to me, sort of amazing. This is the kind of thing where people want to, you know, object to the style of conversation or the focus on these issues. They’re acting as though this isn’t important. And it obviously is. I’ll tell you why in a second. Here we go.
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I just, I just have to say he did use the term pregnant people in his resume.
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Oh, come on.
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I’m sorry.
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If that is like the way you’re, if that is like the way you’re presenting information, I have questions about your credibility.
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Is that, Scott, it’s like, it’s so amazing. I love that sound.
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I love that Scott is saying, and it’s actually really annoying, so I don’t love the actual sound of it, but I love the fact that it occurred. That’s maybe a better way to say that. What’s so awesome about this, in my opinion, is that he’s saying that I don’t trust the professional opinion of a medical person who doesn’t acknowledge that women are the only people who can have babies, which is very rational. If I were to be sitting down with a doctor before a checkup, new doctor trying him out, seeing if this is somebody that I’m going to like or not, and we’re just having a casual conversation about some of their beliefs, and they mention to me that they think men can have babies, I’m pretty sure they didn’t get their degree from any sort of real medical college, and I immediately leave. I’m like, you know what? We don’t need to do the physical. We’ll maybe see if something needs to be worked out down the road, but you have a good day, sir. It’s a very obvious moment. where you’re like, okay, this person has abandoned medical opinions for the sake of some sort of political loss that they think is a win. Continue. It’s not a ruse.
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He really wrote it down. We are talking about it. This guy’s not credible to me. That’s all I’m telling you.
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Scott, are you serious? Come on.
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He is not credible.
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No, no, no. Are you serious? Of all the things that we’re talking about here, immunizations, vaccines, autism, the research on communicable diseases, on cancer, and you are the most concerned about someone’s use of the word people.
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No, no, no. Birthing people, not just the word people. I’m sure that there’s a lot of other times where this guy had used the word people that I would not have a problem with and Scott Jennings would not have a problem with. The deterioration of the respect for the difference between men and women is hurting women and they know it and they don’t care about it. It’s crazy to hear them say this stuff, though. It’s crazy, actually, to watch a white man argue with anybody, but argue with women about the fact that they’re the only ones who can have babies. It’s insane in the society we live in because people want to vilify the white guy for not being woke, not caring enough, not wanting to watch the WNBA because it’s not as good as the NBA, whatever it might be, even if Caitlin Clark is uniquely interesting to watch. And this is the version of propping women up, being like, you are special. You do something we can’t do. And being like, how dare you, sir? No. But even better than that is the argument that you really want to talk about this simplistic topic instead of the more difficult things where we think we have more of an argument against the things you’re going to say. You really want to focus on the easiest thing. Yeah. And the reason why is that if I can demonstrate the craziness of someone with a very obvious point, if I can say out loud that this person doesn’t deserve respect medically because of their insanity in how they think about who does and who doesn’t pop out a baby, then all that other stuff doesn’t matter. I’m not going to take math lessons of an advanced level from a guy that can’t add. If I sit down in the math class and the guy’s like, all right, we’re about to get into imaginary numbers. But before we do that, just a quick demonstration of the capability I have as your math professor, two plus two equals seven. I get up and I just leave. I just, I leave the room. And I’m like, we’re good. It’s fine. Because again, I doubt that he got an actual degree from any sort of real place. And that’s essentially the argument the left is trying to make here is that you need to listen to the more complex points that we’re having, that we’re discussing based on this person or people of the CDC. And we don’t want you to focus on the very obvious, easy one that discredits the whole rest of the conversation because we don’t want that. We don’t like that part. All right. One last thing I do want to say. And I have a bunch of audio. I’m choosing not to play it, and not because I want to shy away from this topic. I think it’s vitally important that you defend people of faith from the attacks that are happening right now to them, whether those are just simple verbal attacks of people saying that thoughts and prayers are inappropriate after a horrible thing happens in society, or the actual attacks as more data is showing that more churches are the target of crime, of violent crime. something like two to three times the amount of churches over the last two years have been the target of things like this compared to what we had seen in the past three or four years combined. And so as you say all that, as you reflect on being two days removed from another transgender individual, a guy, a biological man, choosing to attack a school and children and a church, a place that he had gone before, a place that he uniquely hated, and in his manifesto says that he wants to see children in pain. When you see all that, you just say to yourself how horrific it is that this is a a conduit for people to have a conversation with a try to tear down religion because it does feel like the devil um… and again i’m not trying to be overly religious on the show today i’m not trying to force that down your throat if you’re someone that that doesn’t care about this sort of thing uh… but There is no better example to me of the power of any sort of side of good and evil that wants to tear down good than trying to say that prayer, something that actually the victims of the tragedy are asking for, is an inappropriate solution or an inappropriate path to at least being emotionally maybe capable of healing. At some point, who knows when, if families are even capable of doing that, but through prayer, through faith, being able to go that road to do it, saying that that’s that’s useless, saying that the kids were already praying in the church and didn’t do anything like all the horrible things they say about it to vilify religion only makes that worse. And so it does seem to be important as a pundit to want to come out and defend a religion and people who have a belief in faith today, because it does feel like a conversation between, you know, good and Satan.
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That’s right. It’s time for the Quick Five on the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. DLash, DanaLashRadio and X on Twitter. Micah Parsons is now a Green Bay Packer. He’s no longer Dallas Cowboy, and many people are calling it the worst trade in the history of Cowboys team history. It’s hilarious to me. And here’s the thing. The Cowboys should have traded this player or at least demonstrated a willingness to trade this player several months ago, let’s say four or five months ago, because of the unique talent of this guy, the ability for teams to compete over getting that talent, thinking that there might be a chance that he stays in Dallas or he goes elsewhere. The worst kept secret in football is Micah desperately wanted off of this team, so much so that the guy started eating nachos when he’s supposed to be playing during the NFL preseason. I know this isn’t a sports show, by the way. I’m just quickly trying to talk about this. I think it’s interesting that the Cowboys continue to spiral and that Jerry Jones might be the catalyst to a lot of that spiraling at this point. He hires head coaches that seem like they’ll just listen to whatever he wants them to do. He puts himself in front of cameras and microphones at a time when most owners would be very quiet about a star player having a contract dispute publicly reacting publicly. to the things that Micah wanted was not a good way to retain the player, which they would know, which made things worse and crazier. And so at the end of the day, I just kind of feel sad. I’m not a Cowboys fan. Far from it, actually. But I do think that when the Cowboys are good, that helps the NFL. And when the Cowboys are bad, that hurts the NFL. And this trade hurts the Cowboys and thus the NFL for a while. It’s going to be a bit. Bill Belichick’s company is managed by Jordan Hudson, his 20-something-year-old girlfriend. And that’s hilarious to me. This company also did file a trademark for Gold Digger. And I think they’re going to be making some jewelry and some key chains and whatnot that have a gold digger as a part of them. So apparently Bill and his 20-something-year-old girlfriend think that the jokes about her being a gold digger are funny enough to monetize them. To make money off of it, a guy in his 70s dating a woman in her 20s, I’m never going to judge the dude because that’s a unique thing. And a lot of guys in that part of their life would also love to have someone of that age be romantically tied to them. And if that even means that they’re there for the money and not for the love, I think at some point you might not care about that anymore. I love saying that out loud, too. Because there are people that get up in arms and mad about it. I even have a family member that told me how disgusting the whole thing is, how gross it is. And yeah, for Jordan, it’s probably not ideal. I would think that it’s not great. But if you’re Bill Belichick or envisioning yourself someday being Bill Belichick’s age… Gross is not the word I think of when he gets a shot to be in a relationship with her. Again, even if he’s helping her create certain jewelry and whatnot. And it seems to be leaning in to the thing a whole lot of people assume is already happening anyway. I feel bad for Bill Belichick. That’s a thing I can say out there. But I don’t think that he’s the one participating in the gross activity. All right. Another thing out there, a hacker used AI to automate an unprecedented cybercrime spree. This is according to several experts. It’s scary how easily this was done and how AI can enhance the crime spree to make it much quicker than a human could do it and much more significant. Essentially, if you ask AI, hey, help me with this crime spree thing I want to do, it pops up the little paper clip and it goes, how would you like me to do that for you? What things do you need to get done? And then you go from there. Uh, yet another version of how AI is probably going to ruin our society, not help our society. And most of us should be terrified about, um, you know, Skynet at some point taking over one final thing. Uh, China is building a brain computer interface industry, uh, which also seems bad. It also seems like the kind of thing you might not actually want. And China of all places, uh, the, the, uh, you know, location trying to do this, um, Look, I will readily admit on this very show, filling in for Dana, that aspects of becoming a cyborg or some version of half machine, half man intrigue me. I would like power and capability. I’d like to be a superhero, essentially, whether it’s mentally and or physically. And if machines can help get me there, part of me is willing to change or at least consider changing the natural body that I currently have. And yet the other part of me realizes how easy this stuff is hacked. And the last thing I’d ever want to do is have my computer eyeball hacked in a bad way. I laugh as I say that, but it would be terrible. And so putting computers in your brain or using interfaces that interact with your brain seems like a really bad idea. And a lot of us know it. A lot of us are saying it. But darn it, the magic of feeling superhuman is also out there. That’s the temptation. Maybe you let several people barrel through this rabbit hole before you even try it. And even then you’re probably doomed. We’re all doomed. Anytime I see an AI story right now, the first thing I do is look to see the moment where I’m pretty sure we’re doomed. And if it’s not there, I take a nice breath. If it is there, which it usually is, I’m like, all right, great. Another one of those. Another thing I want to play, and I think this is interesting. It’s definitely not political news, but who cares? An Irish traveler, an influencer, is being blasted online after they recorded and posted video of what they claim to be a cannibal tribe that may or may not be cannibal. It is a remote tribe. There was a representative for the tribe trying to tell the influencer they weren’t welcome to do video here. A lot of aspects in this story are moving pieces. First, if they actually are cannibals, I really don’t care what their, um, you know, spokesperson is asking for. Uh, if they’re not cannibals, I don’t know. I am annoyed by the influencer traveling to a certain place and trying to get a lot of clicks. The influencer doesn’t have any, a real desire to help anybody. Uh, they just have a desire to be more famous and they thought this was a, an avenue toward it. Uh, but there is some audio that goes with this story of the Irish traveling, a social media, you know, influencer person, uh, trying to, uh, uncover the remote cannibal tribe and put it all over social media for views and whatnot. This is weird. I almost want no one to win in this, you know, this side versus that side. Because again, I’m not going to cheer for the cannibals if that’s what they actually are. And I’m not a big fan of a lot of the influencers. Here we go.
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I think they’re going boner out there, I suppose.
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This is terrifying. They’re huge bulls. I’ve got an offering for them. Basically bargain our way and try and make them accept us. Put it in my hand? Open it and just put it in your hands. Oh, God. Okay, he doesn’t look like he likes that. Careful. He doesn’t like it. All right, guys, let’s move back, maybe. We have to go out. He’s not into that. Not really welcome. It’s really dangerous. I’m not going to lie. That is absolutely terrifying. Damn it, they’re scary. I’m sorry I had to take you here.
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Yeah, that’s real stupid, by the way. That sounds a lot like, and I’m not trying to crap on somebody else, but the crocodile hunter, whenever he was in front of a crocodile saying like, this crocodile seems mad, I’m going to make it angrier. The crocodile hunter, may he rest in peace, is someone that definitely seemed to be willing to risk his life I think the same is true of a social media influencer who wants to out the cannibal tribe in a remote part of the world. That seems like a dumb thing. And I don’t know why the frat guy reaction of these two kids made me laugh even more. Thank God they’re okay. But like, yeah, they don’t really like that. Yeah, they seem mad at us. They’re getting their bows and arrows out and things seem like they could get scary fast. Yeah, they could. These people would have no hesitation in harming you if they believe that you’re someone who’s a threat to them because society used to work that way for quite some time in the past and they haven’t changed. So I just don’t get any part of this. If I was the influencer or the team that’s supposed to advise this influencer, if it exists, when they got to the idea about trying to infiltrate the cannibal remote tribe, I’d be like, no, let’s not do that one. Let’s do anything else. Let’s do a marshmallow eating challenge instead of going to the remote tribe and seeing if they in fact eat people. That seems like a bad choice for our Saturday night.
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