Speaker 1: This is the Danish show.
Speaker 2: My name is Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled to be
with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about.
The President traveled today to Dover Air Force Base to
be a part of the dignified transfer of fallen troops.
We lost four, I think people as of right now,
four members of our military in the attack from Iran
in Jordan. The President said a couple very easy things
to say, in the sense that everyone who's a world
leader should say this, and everyone who's the head of
a military should say this when they're going to something
as emotionally difficult as a moment like this. I'm sure
that even these things, what I would call just inherently
presidential types of behavior, are either ignored or somehow attacked
by the left. But they're simple and honestly, and even
though I hate the what aboutism of something, when the
reality of dealing with the actual sacrifice that men and
women of our military are willing to make for us
US is so much more important than playing politics. It's
just so much more important than doing it. I'm always
reminded of the times when you hear from military individuals,
especially those wounded in the line of duty, the horrible
interactions they've had with commanders in chiefs. A case in
point was one of those injured in Afghanistan who said
that President Biden was an absolute piece of crap when
talking to him in a hospital bit, which is something
I'm sure a lot of people remember. It just makes
me think about how important it is to not just
say the right thing, but do the right thing, believe
the right thing, and understand as best you can. Since
it's not your child that's gone, it's not your loved
one that did an incredibly heroic thing by being willing
to serve our country in a capacity that put themselves
in harm's way, and the inevitable reality of that happens,
the horrible reality of that happens and occurs.
Speaker 1: All of those things. You can't just.
Speaker 2: Say the uh, the feelings and emotions that we all
should feel to the camera. You have to feel them,
you have to believe them. And I think that that's
a core difference for some and not others. But here
is what President Trump said just before boarding Air Force
One about both what it means to be there and
then also the reason that we're fighting, and then finally
what it likely means to the parents that have lost
a child, wind it over, some of.
Speaker 3: You going with us to honor our heroes. And they
are indeed great heroes.
Speaker 1: Yes, they said, and.
Speaker 4: They all of them.
Speaker 3: Said very strongly, we can't let you cannot let Iran
have a nuclear weapon. They won't have a nuclear weapon.
So we're going to honor them. And one of the
hardest things to do for me, it's one of the
hardest things to do as a president, but it has
to be done.
Speaker 1: It has to be done.
Speaker 2: And the thing that's interesting about it too, is that
as a standing there is the person that that ordered
people into harm's way. I'm sure, I'm just you know,
projecting here a bit, but I'm sure there's some level
of tension that exists no matter how much the people
the gold Star families believed, not only and of course
they always do in the willingness for their child to
to sacrifice for the state of our country and understand
the value of and they understand it better than anybody
else does. I can't even begin to fathom the level
to which gold Star families, you know, can eventually, like
you know, I guess, emotionally or in some other way
convinced themselves that what happened is is so so heroic
because of the willingness of so few people to do
something like this. And I don't even know if convince
themselves is the right word, because I don't. I'm uncomfortable
in this moment as I've trapped myself in this discussion
because I don't want to speak for gold Star families,
but I've interacted with and I've been doing a lot
in another part of my media life that involves veterans.
So I'm always blown away by the patriotism, the heroic
aspect of every individual I've ever met, and every story
I've heard about individuals that are no longer here but
you know, died protecting our country, and so I just
I can't imagine the aspects that all go into that
when you're standing next to the world leader who commanded
your child into combat and they're no longer here. But
I'm always amazed too when I hear from people and
the things they think and say in that world. But
this is what it means to be the person who
made that decision to go stand and be there, and
whatever the family wants to say to you, listen, whatever
it is, you should listen to it. Here is the
President also saying that, you know, for the parents, it's
a child, it's their loved one. It's not anything other
than that. To the rest of us, they're heroes, but
to them it's someone raised.
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 3: All I'm going to say is we love you. We
love your child. And that's what they are to them.
They're their children. There's no games, no nothing, that's their child.
And all you can do is throw out your heart.
Thank you, thank you veryon.
Speaker 2: He walks away, he gets on the plane and he
goes and he is right about that. All you can
do is throw out your heart. And also, and I said,
and this is important, listen. Whatever they want to say,
however they want to treat you and behave in that moment,
listen to them and don't behave like Biden, which a
member of our military who was harmed in Afghanistan said,
he walked into the hospital room and said, what do
you want, essentially meaning that politically this is bad for me. Optically,
you know, in the public from a pr standpoint, I
don't like the fact that you're complaining about the decision
I made. So what can I give you? To make
you shut up. And that is horrific as an idea.
It's truly horrific, and it actually, you know, one other
thing I'll say, and this is a pivot to a
reaction about politics, which is easier for me to talk
about than the other topic. For sure, I wonder when
for some or many people in the world of politics,
your heart becomes that cold, it becomes that different than
the everyday average human being that you could walk into
a room like that, a situation like that, because I
easily believe the military individual who said this, But there's
no question.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any reason anyone shouldn't.
Speaker 2: I don't think someone who's willing to make a sacrifice
like that would then lie about politics for the sake
of politics. But nonetheless, how you could become so different
from the rest of us, from like a humanity standpoint,
that then suddenly you want something to be completely couched
in politics of how I look and how I'm perceived
as opposed to who you're actually standing in front of.
All right, I want to play more audio from some
other stuff. Marco Rubio, secretary of Rubio I was talking
about how we're not going to become a communist country.
It was a weird question he got in the Philippines,
and I thought he did a good job of answering it.
Speaker 1: But here we go.
Speaker 5: Well again, what the president put out on Thursday, that
was a declassification of documents from our intelligence community. That's
what he put out. He declassified intelligence assessments from our
intelligence community. But your question was about communist influence. Yeah,
the United States doesn't want to be a communist country.
We're never going to be a communist country, and we're
not going to allow communist influences to undermine our politics
or our society. So I don't know what the inconsistency
you're referring to is. It's very clear, I don't you know. Obviously,
we understand the Chinese system and other systems, but I
can tell you our system doesn't want communism, and we're
certainly not going to allow communist efforts to undermine American
society and drive wedges into our country. And that's what
we're seeing, you know. And by the way, one of
the leading you know, culprits of that for many years,
the intellectual authors, particularly in our hemisphere, is the Cuban regime,
which which Cuba is a.
Speaker 2: Great example of what we don't want to become and
how horrible it would be in one of several great
examples historically of what we don't want to become. It's
just so interesting that I think, and I said this
earlier in the show, and I'll say it again even
though you don't care. And you can tune into the
podcast if you want the longer form version of this discussion.
But it's so interesting that the people who are most
guilty of stuff are usually the loudest at accusing others
of doing exactly the same thing.
Speaker 1: Like you hear that all the time in your everyday life.
Speaker 2: People who project something onto someone else that they're actually doing,
the biggest jerk in the office space might actually also
seem like the nicest person and accuses everybody else of
being a jerk sort of thing. It's all versions of that,
which I find funny. If you're fighting with someone you're
in a relationship with, I'm not trying to out.
Speaker 1: My wife for this.
Speaker 2: Occasionally they'll start yelling you about stuff that feels like
it's not about you, or at least the fight might
be about something that happened days, weeks, months ago and
not necessarily in the moment. All of those are just
different variations of perceiving why people behave the way they do,
and not actually the reality of whatever the world is
or whatever is going on in that moment. And so
I think it's so obvious how often we hear the
left accuse the right of being fascist as they are
electing people who have literal Nazi tattoos on their bodies,
and then apparently not really wanting them to go away,
but eventually having to relent and letting them go away
because too many women came forward with rape accusations. But
those individuals are the ones they want to usher in
the actual communist of philosophies, the actual fascist dictatorship type
of consolidating of power to allow them to do all
the terrible things that they're already doing. And I'll say
it what I think I've said on this show before,
but I know I've heard from some listeners that want
to steal it and like this, so do with it
what you will. The craziest thing to me, when you're
having this argument with someone that believes that we should
be a democratic socialist country, a run by democratic socialists,
is that most people will agree that the government doesn't
do for us what it's supposed to do, It doesn't
do what the founding fathers designed it to do. It
serves itself, and the individuals who serve in political positions
of power by and large do for them and not
for us. The America first mindset, if you describe it
in certain terms without using words like America first, you
can actually get a liberal person to agree with a
lot of what you're saying. And so the funny thing
to me, since we have so much common ground and
what's broken about Washington, is that these people on that
side think the best response to that problem is to
give DC more unchecked power. Just hand them more capability,
more control of the means to production, whatever.
Speaker 1: It might be.
Speaker 2: Just here you go, take this own all the land
and tell us which ones of us get which pieces
of land, which houses, and who can't have it and
why you know, based on our race or whatever they
want to base it on. Which people in New York
are saying all the time that you usually can find
someone that has been telling you how great democratic socialism is.
That when you describe it like that, looks at you
like I don't know how to respond to this brain
is broken now because I think that you might be right,
but I hate to admit it, because that's truthfully what
it is. These are people that by and large want
to do the worst possible thing with the thing that
we all agree is already broken. They want to go
the worst route in trying to quote unquote improve it.
All right, Well, take a break, A lot coming up,
Craig Collins filling in on the data show.
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Speaker 1: To follow me.
Speaker 2: Not having pennies as a problem, that's apparently according to
a brand new study that's out there, and I think
The Hill, also, the very lefty place, put out a
story about this, but I agree that I think it
is we're rounding, and sometimes that means you round up,
sometimes you round down. And apparently the big complaint is
that some people are paying.
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now when you pay, and I rarely pay with cash,
but if you do, and somebody just can't give you
the chance. Not that I ever really wanted the pennies,
so I don't miss them. I just think it's kind
of funny that people now struggle. Another story that I
saw that I thought was interesting, Women who recently online
were listing all the reasons that they disliked men, all
the things that quote gave them the ick, are now
doing the opposite. Apparently a new viral trend ask Reddit
is one of the places.
Speaker 1: Started putting this up.
Speaker 2: Is the stuff that ladies most liked about dudes, and
as I was reading through it, the things that were
most commonly toward the top end of like being mentioned,
a lot part of me wondered if these were actually
straight guys that women were dating. I'm just putting it
out there because here's the list of stuff that women
said they like the most about guys. Being thoughtful, thoughtfulness,
they love it, loving animals, humility, being prepared is on
this list. Random acts of kindness is on this list,
and also kindness to randoms, which I thought was funny.
A kindness to randoms means someone who's a stranger, which
I don't know if you need to call them a
random and just being a nice person to them. But
it was like the thoughtfulness, the loving animals, the being emotional,
the understanding you stuff.
Speaker 1: Also being musical is toward the tail end of the
things that people mentioned.
Speaker 2: Not being a complainer or a whiny baby is the
way that they categorize some of that, and then making
clear plans ahead of time, which is one that I love.
But at least half of this stuff in this list
sounds like they want someone as emotional as they are,
and I've often found that it's not usually a straight dude.
Speaker 1: I'm just putting it out there.
Speaker 2: I'm just don't shoot the messenger for the way that
I'm reacting to the story. But I thought it was
is interesting that these are the things that ladies like,
or at least they're willing to admit to like it.
I feel like the one difference between guys and women. Wow,
there's a lot of differences, of course, between us. The
one difference in the world of this conversation is that
dudes are more willing to admit that one thing they
like is the way somebody looks, like, Yeah, I want
somebody attractive. I think women operate the same way. I
don't think they like saying it out loud as often.
So I thought that was funny that it wasn't on
the list at all, not in the top fifteen for
someone who's in good shape, or someone who looks nice
or cleans up well, just not a.
Speaker 1: Thing that they wanted to mention.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine that one's true because I don't see
a lot of the nice guys beating off ladies with
a stick. I don't see everybody trying to date that
dude who seems to not be you know, successful in
social media for a variety of reasons. All right, quick
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Speaker 2: This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in, thrilled to be with you. Lots of stuff
out there to talk about. I'm going to bring on
a guest, Ben strusand he is one of the Amigos,
three of the hosts of a marquee show in both
Houston and all of the state of Texas that's been
on air for many, many years at KSV Radio in Houston.
Speaker 1: Ben welcome to the program.
Speaker 4: Hey Craig, thanks for asking me to join you this afternoon.
By the way, for twenty years, I might twenty years years.
Speaker 2: Twenty years on the radio, that's all. And you've talked
to everybody in the world of politics I think of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And the show has been on twenty years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And as I said, it's interviewed pretty much
everyone notable in the world of Texas, in the world
of politics.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: The first thing I want to ask you about is
not Texas specific. At some point I'll ask you about
tall Ico and the likelihood of debates and all of that.
But I do want to ask you about zoron Mumdami
and how he's been saying that he intends to arrest
Benjamin net Yahoo, and just recently, I think, in a
long video where he said a lot of stuff that
I didn't care about at all, he finally admitted he
can't do it. What are your thoughts about Mamdami taking
so long to admit that he has no authority whatsoever
to try to arrest net Yahoo for international war crimes.
Speaker 4: Well, at first I thought it was a publicity stunt
to cater to his socialist anti Semitic bait. But the
longer he drug it out before admitting that what he
was proposing was both illegal from a from federal from
a standpoint of federal law, and impractical. Because I assume
that Trump may clear two or three days ago that
he would not allow it, I expected him to throw
in the towel on this sooner. But I also saw
that he was spending a lot of resources in their
legal department of New York City doing research on the
feasibility and legality of doing this. I assume the taxpayers
are happy about that. But you know, grandstanding is not
a Politicians on both sides of the aisle do that. So,
I mean, we know that you're going to see a
certain amount of that, But I don't know this one
makes for great conversation. I mean, certainly he's proven to
us what he always ran as.
Speaker 1: What we believed him to be.
Speaker 4: He's not, you know, anywhere near the center, even in
the center of New York. I question whether or not
a lot of the citizens of the city really support
this guy or may believe that, you know, next time,
maybe they out of vote and try to prevent somebody
like this from getting the reins of power.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I agree with you that this felt like a
deeper dive into crazy. It almost felt Candace Owens esque
in the way in which he continued to say something
that any logical person knew was obviously inaccurate. And there
was a point, and you mentioned this where he's spending
money on something that you'd have to think that most
people with any level of experience that he seemed to
lack when he won the mayoral race to begin with,
would not have needed to do that. Most people would
have known and he should have known, and I thought
he did know, as you kind of stated that he
had no options, no legal path to arrest a foreign
leader that comes to New York, not even to meet
with you, and after our president says he wouldn't allow
it to happen, you just figured, as you said, he'd throw.
Speaker 1: In the towel.
Speaker 2: But it sort of demonstrates that other thing that I
think I noticed a lot in politics been stupidity connected
to arrogance is the worst possible combination for a whole
lot of people who wind up with power they really
shouldn't have.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And of course, the line between publicity, stent and
stupidity ended about three days ago, so that the point
I was making was at the beginning, I thought he
was just doing it for clicks, and then he just
got tethered to it and it dragged him along. I
tell you, the one thing that I was looking forward to,
and this was not out of the realm of possibility,
was that he decided to do it, and net Yahoo
would come anyway, and he would at net Yahoo would
enjoy this spectacle of trying to New York police, trying
to get past you know, not only I assume some
kind of federal protection, because I think the Secret Service
is empowered to protect foreign leaders when they visit the
United States. I'm almost certain that that's the case. And
of course you would have to get past the you know,
Israeli security. But you know, Net Nyahu is not an idiot.
He might actually enjoy being arrested by Mondamini. Sure.
Speaker 1: I mean it worked out pretty well for T. T. Trump.
Speaker 2: The arrest and the you know, the headshot and all
of that stuff that happened right all right.
Speaker 4: And the Israeli elections between now and October. So I
was trying to play it forward and see where this
was going.
Speaker 2: Sure, so let's transition to Texas. As I said, you
are a part of the Amigos, a long running, a
twenty plus year radio show in Houston. Tall Rico and
Paxton will likely debate each other at least a couple times.
I've also seen quite a few recent photos of Paxton
or excuse me, of tall Rico trying to pretend that
he's a real Texan behind the wheel of a truck
or with a cowboy hat on, and he looks so
uncomfortable doing it. What are your thoughts about the likelihood
of Texans finally getting a better understanding of how insane
tall Rico is during a debate.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, they'll have at least one, you know,
Beyond that, I'm not sure it'll go any further, but
we'll see what they end up doing. And most Texans
are not paying attention to this race, and probably won't
until we get out of August and into September, I
would imagine, and to as of yet, Colo Rico is
running advertisements on you know, primetime television, and Taxton is not,
and he's Calo Rico's basically run one advertisement, which is
him carrying a bag of groceries and saying how prices
are too high and I voted to lower property taxes
and reduce business taxes. So he's trying to portray himself
as a some type of moderate that no longer exists
in the Democrat Party. I know a few of them,
which is shill on our radio show, but for the
most part, the moderate Democrat has gone extinct like the dinosaur,
and most of those folks have either become independent or
became Republican, and the party itself is left with nothing
but the progressive side and increasingly radicalized side of the
socialists that now control that party. And for anyone to
believe that taller Ico is going to dance any other
tune other than the socialist agenda is naive. And Paxton's
job is to show people what the socialist agenda is
and demonstrate how caller Ico supports it, embraces it, and
that if you vote for this guy, that's what you're
going to get. And that process has not started yet,
but I would imagine it. As we get into August,
we will start to see more of this we are
seeing right now Paxton involved in more fundraising and less spending.
He is going to need a great deal of money,
probably at least one hundred possibly one hundred and fifty
million spent between now and November. I doubt he'll raise
it on his own, but he will have the support
of Trump, and I believe all of the Republican Senate
machinery that will support Republican candidates, you know, irrespective of
whether or not they you know, supported him during the primary.
So I believe they will come in strong. I am
no Trump will come in strong. He's got hundreds of
millions in a pack that he can use to support Paxton.
So there's going to be the money there, I think,
to be competitive again to cala Rico is a socialist
and Texans have to understand that before the election.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's interesting about that. I'm not sure
if you saw this. I didn't tell you in advance
that I would bring this up or anything. Actually I
didn't give you any notes on what I'm going to
talk about. But Bill Maher did an interview with ABC
in which he stated that his vote was in play,
even though he hates Trump and he's the leftist.
Speaker 1: In a lot of ways.
Speaker 2: Bill Maher has occasionally been a voice of reason, more
of a moderate Democrat as you describe, but he I
think John Fetterman, within the last week many people that
are in that small vote have said, how ridiculously to
the left, how ridiculously communist the Democratic Party is becoming,
and how dangerous it is both to the country and
also the political likelihood of people winning elections in the future.
I think they all believe that twenty twenty six will
go well for them, but twenty twenty eight will go
terribly for them. Is there a reaction for you to
some of these long time Democratic voices saying out loud
the thing the rest of us are thinking.
Speaker 4: Well, they're trying to suppress it because they know they'll
get a backlash amongst independents. However, you saw how quickly
and how fervently they embrace the storm and furor in Maine,
and so as long as they think they got a winner,
they're going to love him and they don't really care
whether or not he's you know, a socialist or whatever
the heck he is. You know so. But but you know,
as soon as they feel like, you know, it's dragging
him down, they'll they'll cut the cord. Now, I think that, uh,
And what I saw under Pelosi and I have no
reason to expect any different this time around, is that
the socialists are going to shut up. And I've noticed
Democrats do a decent job of suppressing those that they
believe are a hindrance to the majority obtaining a congressional majority.
And the way they do that is threaten them with
the colding money and position and things like that. So
we'll see how effective it is this time around. This
group of socialists that are his nominees that won their
primaries over the last month or two, they're very feisty.
So I'm hoping for a lot of good quotes and
Mormon dami and you know, I just you know, I
hope they keep talking and we'll see calor Rico run away. Now,
it also affords tall Rico an opportunity to say things like, oh,
that's crazy, I never support that. The problem is, I
mean he would if he had to. So again it's
his voting record. I think in the Texas House that
really needs to come under scrutiny. You know, he can
claim that he voted for property tax reduction, but it's
like everything else, he had voted against it fifteen other times.
Speaker 1: Sure, absolutely, thank you. Oh go ahead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sorry. I don't want to go run on
too long, but go ahead.
Speaker 2: Yes, no, oh, I was going to say thank you
so much for joining us, but I want you to
complete your thought before we let you go. We are
about to run out of time, but I think we
got another couple of minutes.
Speaker 4: No, So I just I believe that exposing him and
tying him to an agenda that he's supported during his
career in the legislature and prior to that, we have
all his comments. As you are aware, I've played him
on my show where he talks about open you know,
opening your arms and your door and putting a doormat down,
welcome the legal immigrants crossing the border on paraphrasing. Then
there was one of my favorites about how transgender men
have a right to an abortion, and you know which
is you know, way over on the crazy side. So
you know, I just the guys, You got plenty of
Steff in his own words to convince Texans what you're
getting if you consider yourself voting for Tall Rico.
Speaker 2: Now absolutely, I was going to say that too, that
essentially the biggest person that tall Rico is running against
is himself. Whenever he says things that seem to be
more reasonable because of the insanity that he's used or
that he's talked about, like a year ago, two years ago,
that he's going to pretend he no longer believes. Thank
you very much, Ben streusand you are one of the
three hosts of The Amigos, a long running and very
very influential show in Houston and in Texas at KSV
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Now as well, thrilled to have you with us. Thanks
again for making some time. Thanks Craig, Sure quick break
a lot coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in
on the Data Show.
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for Florida Man.
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Speaker 1: If you want to follow the random filling guy who's
here today, that would be me.
Speaker 2: I love that Florida Man is as viral of a
thing as it is, because I think any state where
a guy gets in trouble who is a Florida man.
Immediately make sure that's in the headline, because they don't
want any sort of, you know, blame for the insane
person who did the insane thing. And I'm not sure
if this is within the rules, but I think it
is the best Florida man story I saw over this
week has been a guy in New Jersey described as
a Florida man who barricaded himself inside.
Speaker 1: An RV in a Walmart parking lot. Is a real
thing that happened.
Speaker 2: The dude at some point had an altercation with somebody else.
He's thirty eight years old. As I said, he lives
in Florida. He was in Jersey for some reason. He
got inside a tan and green RV parked at the
edge of the parking lot at a Walmart and had
a stand off with the police. They assumed, and I
think later confirmed, they had a bunch of weapons inside
the r and by weapons, I don't mean the typical stuff.
He had a flamethrower, among other things. I don't think
he actually used it, and I do see that the
end of this incident he peacefully eventually exited the RV.
Speaker 1: I wonder how that goes.
Speaker 2: I've always kind of been curious, like, of course, there's
the crazy moment, and if you're police officers, you're dealing
with all different kinds of mental health issues, and somebody's
on the other side of an RV door. They got
a flamethrower, they got tons of stuff, they're making all
kinds of threats, and then eventually they just kind of
get out. Like it's the extended version of saying goodbye
to someone and then walking in the same direction, like
when that's awkward, but to a whole different degree because
you're getting out of the RV, you're getting arrested, and
you're like, I'm sorry about the flamethrower thing. I didn't
mean it. I'm glad I didn't hurt anybody. This is crazy, though,
and the dude again is arrested and probably in a
lot of trouble. I just love the fact that if
it's a Florida man, not in Florida. It's very much
in the title and it's in the first sentence of
the story that this guy is not one of us.
Speaker 1: Wherever it is it's happening.
Speaker 2: Florida man was accused of possessing two hundred and twenty
pounds of marijuana.
Speaker 1: He has been arrested.
Speaker 2: That's illegal there, too bad he wasn't in a different
state where it would have been probably fine. I doubt
that much marijuana is okay, actually, but some of it
would have been okay. But anyway, he seemed to be
someone who was obviously dealing it. His name is James Craig.
That's Craig is a last name. That's not me, that's
some other dude. He is forty six years old and
two hundred and twenty pounds sounds like a decent amount.
Speaker 1: You know. That's a bigger dude.
Speaker 2: And I was wondering, like, what other ways could I
help you understand the amount of pot that was found
with this guy? And so I googled animals that weigh
roughly two hundred and twenty pounds, so I know some
dudes do, but also Indo Chinese tiger worth of pot
was found, a mountain lion, a puma worth of pot
was found. And then here's my two other favorite ones.
A giant panda or an African elephant baby not an
actual elephant, the baby version. Those both weigh the same
amount as the amount of marijuana this guy I was
caught in possession of He's also in a decent amount
of trouble. Again depends on the state man. If he
had been in some other places, who knows how this
would have gone. And then I saw another story at
a Tampa where they were saying that a Florida man
has left a bunch of crashed boats just in the
water there. And then it's cost taxpayers since twenty twenty
almost four hundred thousand dollars for Florida to remove all
of this dude's derelict boats that again are just like
sunk and there. I don't understand how you get to
that point as somebody like you own the boat.
Speaker 1: Did you own it when it was broken?
Speaker 2: Did you accept it was a fixer upper and you
weren't capable of actually fixing it up?
Speaker 1: Like what's the road you go here?
Speaker 2: And then to have it happen multiple times, you would
think at some point some member of his family would
be like, you probably.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't own a boat anymore, man, you keep sinking them.
Speaker 2: But anyway, as I said, this guy is costing people
a bunch of money.
Speaker 1: James Huckabee is the guy's name.
Speaker 2: He's sixty nine years old twenty different violations for a
number of boats vessels as they were called, that were
just sunk and on the side of the water that
eventually somebody had to yank out of there again for
everybody's safety, this guy should go nowhere near a boat
again for the rest of his life, to say the
very least, all they're off or they were all fixer uppers,
and he doesn't have a woman in his life to
make him actually do the work.
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Speaker 2: My name is Craig Collins, filling in Thrilled to be
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to stay connected to her. This is a crazy story
out of Massachusetts. They arrested a mime, a dude who's
walking around with the top hat and stuff. He's a
twenty nine year old guy. His name is Hernan, I think,
which is also kind of a rare name. I don't
know a lot of Hernand's. But anyway, I really love
the way that witnesses talk to the news media about
seeing a dude dressed in typical mime stuff plus top
hat and kane, because yeah, it's creepy, and it would
be creepy if you're walking around on a trail somewhere
in Massachusetts and this dude just kind of goes by
you and maybe he does some sort of two or
three minute performance without speaking any words at all.
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 2: Oh right, Actually, you probably can't hear that. Let me
fix that real quick so that you can hear it now.
Speaker 1: And now here we go.
Speaker 6: I'm shocked.
Speaker 4: I'm surprised because I walk here all the times.
Speaker 2: I think I've seen this person maybe five times.
Speaker 7: He passed me when I was going down the path
kind of freaked me out a bit. Top hat cracular
paint on the chase, black cape cane, real creepy.
Speaker 4: Causing a disturbance, and you know, harassing people. That's just
not appropriate, no matter what you're call yourself or do.
He was just kind of buy the bushes by the water,
off the path, kind of stumbling around the bushes by himself.
Speaker 1: And that was when I was starting to get a
little darker, so I got a little spooked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds like he was hammered potentially. And also,
I don't think you can couch any version of being creepy.
And I'm just being a mime. That's just what I'm doing.
I'm just trying to entertain the people at the walking
trail in Massachusetts. I know, to her anand twenty nine
year old dude who got arrested. But I just love
the guy who's like top hat cane, just kind of
a creepy dd top.
Speaker 7: Hat cracular paint on the face, black cape cane, real creepy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a disturbance.
Speaker 2: Sorry, he sounds real, real creepy. That guy sounds like
the kind of person you do not want to run into.
To be honest, I've thrown a rule out before while
filling in on the show that one of the most
intimidating things to me while dealing with someone who's not
doing well mentally would be if they were also naked.
I think slightly under it, it's still under it. Naked
is still scarier. Would be a dude dressed up like
this who's not speaking and doing some crazy stuff, but
he's arrested, he's in trouble. I got to be a
heck of a headshot that he took when he got
brought down to the jail. All right, quick break, A
lot coming up. Thrilled to be with you as always
filling in on the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins,
and now all of the news you would probably miss,
it's time for Dana's Quick five. That's right, it's time
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you'd like to follow me, not having pennies as a problem.
That's apparently according to a brand new study that's out there,
and I think The Hill, also the very lefty place,
put out a story about this, but I agree that
I think it is we're rounding, and sometimes that means
you round up, sometimes you round down. And apparently the
big complaint is that some people are paying more than others.
It's not a lot of money, more or less, it's
a very few cents in every situation. But there is
now an act that Congress is likely to pass called
the Common Sense Act ce NTS that hopefully causes us
to have a rule for how we round, essentially meaning
that if it's close enough to a five like a three,
you might go up. But by and large, I'd actually
rather watch us go down. I think that that's what
it should be. Man, I think that it should be.
You know, you can't go over, So if it's eighty four,
you go back down to eighty. I think that'd be
better for so many of us. We'll see what actually
happens here, but that is something that apparently people have
been complaining about. I just think it's weird how often
now when you pay, and I rarely pay with cash,
but if you do and somebody just can't give you
the chance. Not that I ever really wanted the pennies,
so I don't miss them. I just think it's kind
of funny that people now struggle. Another story that I
saw that I thought was interesting a women who recently
online were listing all the reasons that they disliked men,
all the things that quote gave them the ick, are
now doing the opposite, apparently a new viral trend. Asked
Reddit is one of the places that started putting this
up is the stuff that ladies most liked about dudes.
And as I was reading through it, the things that
were most commonly toward the top end of like being mentioned,
a lot part of me wondered if these were actually
straight guys that women were dating. I'm just putting it
out there because here's the list of stuff that women
said they liked the most about guys. Being thoughtful, thoughtfulness
they love it, loving animals, humility, being prepared is on
this list. Random acts of kindness is on this list,
and also kindness to randoms, which I thought was funny.
A kindness to randoms means someone who's a stranger, which
I don't know if you need to call them a
random and just being a nice person to them.
Speaker 1: But it was like the.
Speaker 2: Thoughtfulness, the loving animals, the being emotional, the under standing
you stuff.
Speaker 1: Also being musical.
Speaker 2: Is toward the tail end of the things that people
mentioned not being a complainer or a whiny baby is
the way that they categorize some of that and then
making clear plans ahead of time, which is one that
I love. But at least half of the stuff in
this list sounds like they want someone as emotional as
they are, and I've often found that it's.
Speaker 1: Not usually a straight dude. I'm just putting it out there.
Speaker 2: I'm just don't shoot the messenger for the way that
I'm reacting to the story. But I thought it was
is interesting that these are the things that ladies like,
or at least they're willing to admit to like it.
I feel like the one difference between guys and women. Wow,
there's a lot of differences, of course, between us. The
one difference in the world of this conversation is the
dudes are more willing to admit that one thing they
like is the way somebody looks like, yeah, I want
somebody attractive. I think women operate the same way. I
don't think they like saying it out loud as often,
so I thought that was funny that it wasn't on
the list at all, not in the top fifteen for
someone who's in good shape, or someone who looks nice
or cleans up well, just not a thing that they
wanted to mention. I can't imagine that one's true, because
I don't see a lot of the nice guys beating
off ladies with a stick. I don't see everybody trying
to date that dude who seems to not be, you know,
successful in social media for a variety of reasons. All right,
quick break a lot more Craig Gollin's filling in on
The Dana Show.