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the random filling guy today. Marco Rubio said a lot
in the last twenty four hours, and I liked a
lot of the things that Marco Rubio said. He was
talking about Cuba, about Iran, there were comments about China.
So I think we're just going to go through a
bunch of the things out there from Rubio, and let's
start with Cuba, because I think this is becoming a
fairly dominant story to a lot of people that are
paying any kind of attention what's going on in Cuba
and the potential of the United States to be involved.
And I think I even saw like a deep dive
thought piece about how Cuba just really wants Rubio to
not have a job anymore, essentially meaning they want to
wait him out and hopefully have nothing happen. I doubt
very much. I'll say this, I doubt very much. People
right now here in the United States would want us
in another conflict with the way that we feel about
what's going on in Iran. The vast majority of Americans,
even if I think people some of them at least
understand that it's too late to not be in this
conflict and we can't just exit because exiting now and
giving into Iran would be the worst version of what
has happened so far. But I think a lot of
people understand that that if we could go back in time,
many many prefer that we hadn't done this now. Granted,
if Iran had acquired a nuclear weapon and say, like
a year, I think you do the same thing. You
rewind the clock and say, man, I wish someone had
done something, and President Trump did do something before we
got there. But anyway, here is Marco Rubio talking about Cuba,
talking about our desire for a free Cuba, specifically, he'll
be in power with us.
Speaker 2: So you want me to give you details on our plan?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, not today. No, I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you this. No, No, here's what
I told you. And this is the truth. The people
who are in charge of the country don't know what
they're doing. They don't know, they don't know how to
fix their economy, they don't know how, they don't understand
basic concepts. And I think the challenge that Cuba has
faced for the last fifteen years is they want to
somewhat improve their economy, but they're afraid that if they
improve it too much to lose political control over people.
That's the challenge that they face. So I think for us,
we are looking for an opportunity to influence a direction
that that goes because it's ninety miles from our shores,
and we want Cuba to be prosperous. We want Cuba
to be free.
Speaker 1: That's the most important part too, by the way, prosperous, fine, free, Absolutely, yes,
that is the most important aspect of this discussion. And
I think that it's going to be something that comes
up quite a bit more, and Rubio is uniquely focused
on the idea of it and how we exactly get
that done and who is and isn't involved in making
that happen. He also talked about a relationship with China
and how important it was to this country and how
a lot of times you see some of these other
countries that we're talking about Iran, Cuba, whoever it might be,
and the concern we have about their relationships with China
and how those could potentially impact us as well. So yeah, sure,
we want things to be great. We're also not idiots.
We're paying attention to the stuff that could be in
some way or is in some way used against us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, we're a treaty ally. I mean,
the United States and the Philippines have a treaty, and
so we will live by that treaty. We're committed to
supporting our treaty partners. And you know, obviously we've already
done quite a bit. In fact, there was a US
Coast Guard vessel in the region at the time that
this happened and actually helped stand between the two sides
and allowed the individual who was injured to be rescued
and brought back for medical treatment. So we already here,
we're already present, we have a role, and we're not
going to abandon our allies. We've made that abundantly clear.
We're going to have to have a good relationship with China. Okay,
these are the two most powerful economies in the world,
too large militaries to nuclear powers. We have to have
a relationship with China. We want it to be as
positive as it possibly can be, but that won't come
at the expense of our allies and our partners in
the region, or our presence here either.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that it's actually a reflection of exactly
what I'm saying a second ago, in reverse, in how
China treats some of the people some of the countries
around us. There's a willingness to work with people in
a way that both concerns us about them and I
guess what we do that concerns them about how we
behave et cetera, et cetera. But at the end of
the day, and Rubio does say this well, and honestly,
I'll say this about his role as the Secretary of State,
I think he's been great on an international stage. I
think there's been times where he's delivered a tough message
in a way that seems well received by the people
he's delivering it too. But some of these things just
simply need to be said. The direction that Cuba takes
is incredibly important to us. Our relationship with China is
important to us. Our relationship with the Philippines import to us.
All these things matter, and none of them happen in
a silo. They all impact each other. And so again,
how we go about propping up an ally a treaty
partner without necessarily encouraging someone else to get exceptionally mad
at us all these things. It's delicate, it's a delicate process.
But not backing down, not wilting. I should say it
this way. The United States of America that I like
on an international stage is strong, It's tough. It's not
willing to barrel into any fight in any conflict just
for the sake of doing it. Our country does have
a capability of assessing a situation and deciding when our
involvement is necessary into what degree. But I don't like
when we just simply give in to placate others. And
this is something that happened a lot during the Biden administration.
There was a lot of tough words, but never tough
actions when it came to countries like China. And I
think that we need a different approach here. And I
hear that different approach and the things that Rubio says
and the ways in which we behave our Marco Rubio
also talked about Iran. So this was a pretty interesting
back and forth. During a moment with the press well
in the Philippines, I.
Speaker 2: Saw, you know, guys, I saw a Rachi, their foreign minister,
who the other day say or something about their policies.
An eye for an eye. The president's policy is ahead
for an eye. I mean, honestly, that's what it's going
to be. I mean, they will pay a very heavy
price for the things they're doing. They're already paying a
very heavy price. You guys don't know because you don't
cover it. You're not in Iran, you're not in the street.
They don't have a free media. But they're going to
continue to pay a very heavy price. Their industrial base
has been decimated, their defense industrial base has been decimated.
They're losing launchers, they're losing radars every single night. They
are suffering billions of dollars in damage, and their economy
is a disaster. But despite all that, these people who
are calling us every day begging let's do a deal.
They send us messages through other countries, third countries. I mean,
they're running out of countries to send it. Even I
had countries here coming up to me. Oh, I just
spoke to the Iranians. They want to do a deal.
The problem is, every time these people do a deal,
they either break it or after they make it, they
want to change the deal. So they're probably not ready
to do a deal yet, but they will be soon
because the price they're paying is very high. Despite their
tough talk and their flowery language and their stupid lego
videos they put out. I've never seen them, but they
put these things out on social media. Despite all that bravado,
they are suffering tremendously and they're going to suffer more
until they come to their senses.
Speaker 1: Look, here's the thing I don't know. I think you.
I think a lot of people listening to the show
would understand the human elements of any of this. Like
you talk to someone who's critical of the war with Iran,
and one of the criticisms is just the human component,
Like you don't want to cause devastation, cause horrible things
in other places in the world, but it's a necessity
in this scenario. We have to demonstrate to Iran that
we are the country I just mentioned we are a
second ago. We're not one that tucks, talks tough, excuse me,
and then wilts behind the scenes. We do the things
that match the words that we use, and that is
rare for people in charge in this country to actually
behave this way, and it's important that the world realized that.
Because here's the last thing I'll say about this, since
Rubio kind of referenced China too, and I have more
Rubio audio to play later. He crapped on the ICC,
which I thought was hilarious, and I like to have
Trump audio to play. He said a lot of things
that were funny, but China does whatever the hell it wants.
Like the funny thing whenever you have a conversation about
how the US behaves and the people that want us
to focus on ourselves and do nothing anywhere else, which
I want to, by the way, I want us to
just care about us, But there are so many bad
actors out there that want to harm us in all
different kinds of capacities, some in which like Iran, are
desperate to get a nuclear weapon to do mass harm
to us, that we can't just be focused on home.
We should mostly be focused on home, but we can't
do that entirely. So then what's the best way to
behave on a world stage. It's to speak with a
certain level of strength that matches our capability, and then
when necessary, act accordingly so people know that we're not
just using words. And it's so rare to see our
country actually check box all three of those things and
behave that way in which we comprehend our strength, We
demage straight our strength to the world via action and words,
and then if necessary, you know, we don't back down
and wilt because even our own country at times, even
our own media, begs us to behave differently, even though
it's detrimental to us in the long run. It's fascinating
to actually watch this all play out and the way
it's going. I want gas prices to be cheaper, I'll
say that as a part of this you know opening
segment here on this topic. I know you do, most
everyone does. However, there's a push pull to what we're
doing and how important it is. And the biggest problem
I know, I'm sort of a repeating you know thought
on this, but the biggest problem with when Biden ruined
our gas prices is he was fighting the oil and
gas industry here in the United States and trying to
force us all, not just ask us all, but force
us all to buy electric vehicles that didn't work. That
was a bad plan, and gas prices were ridiculously high
for no reason. And now, even though I wish that
gas prices were lower, the thing that we're fighting, or
the way that we're engaging in this battle, it seems
much more valuable to us and to the world in
the long run than the last thing did. So even
though I wish it wasn't happening, and even though I
wish it could end sooner, because iron comes to its
senses and understands what they're doing and what they shouldn't
be doing. And the potential for people like China would
be lifting them up because they'd like to see longer
and longer conflict involving the United States. All of those things.
I do want them all to go away, But I
know the value of this moment compared to before. All right,
we'll take a break. We'll talk about a lot of
stuff beyond this. Brandon Johnson embarrassed himself again publicly, and
Hunter Biden is out there being both a moron and
a conspiracy theorist in ways that maybe you agree with,
maybe you don't. We'll test all that a little bit
later on. This is Craig Collins filling in on the
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to her. Congress is trying to pass a bipartisan bill
that would ban all phone calls on airplanes. Most US
carriers don't allow in flight calls anyway, but there's pressure
to change how the now Wi Fi planes exist and
how that kind of gets expanded. I love the fact
that it'd be like no loud calls or no real
calls at all. Some people might try to whisper real quick.
There are also several foreign airlines that are cool with
Wi Fi calls, just for a comparison's sake, British Airways,
a Virgin Atlantic. I'm amused by this because part of
the thing I don't love government having its fingers all
over the place, I'll tell you that. But part of
the thing that I wish could happen is people just
shame other people into not doing this. If you're around
somebody who's doing a loud phone call or somebody if
you've ever been around this recently, it's like playing music
real loud on some sort of device near you. Just
tell them to shut up, Just get that to stop,
because that would be better than having to have the
government create a bill and then make something legal or illegal.
But I find this funny because I like quiet airplanes.
I'm a fan of that, So if we get that
done one way or another, I'm not actually going to
be mad about this at all. I just thought it
was humorous that it was out there. Another story I
saw a gut health brand has gone viral for a
weird toilet shoe that they released. I don't know, I
don't know how to say this any differently. The people
are very excited about it. So essentially, when you go
into the bathroom, you'd throw on some bathroom slippers, and
then when you leave the bathroom, you'd leave the bathroom
slippers in the corner of the bathroom, and then just
those would be a thing. The brand is called let Loose.
I knew I was gonna laugh at that, even though
I knew it was coming, and I can't help myself
which is great, and they promote all kinds of other
stuff that I'm probably not going to completely talk about
on the show, but one of those things is now
air of shoes for the bathroom that people seem to
really like. They're ridiculously large. By the way, too, there's
a version of putting the shoes on that's basically the
same as a squatty potty, meaning that you have your
legs propped up real high. You can get regular flip flops,
so you can get the giant ones, but in either scenario,
you're getting something that other people are going to look
at very confused if they use the bathroom at your house.
That's the negative of this. I guess there's health positives,
but I don't know if they outweigh them. Actually, this
is kind of funny. There was a radio station that
I actually work at kind of remotely, and somebody told
me a story about someone else who worked there kind
of having a squatty body having the little thing that
props the legs up at work, and everybody thought it
was kind of funny and they would joke about it,
and then I realized that it's sort of genius, Like,
pardon me if you get older, guys. I'm not saying
that I do or don't use any of these kind
of devices. Some of the assistants in those areas seems
much more beneficial than it did before. Not a topic
I thought i'd talk abo on the show. So I
get the value of the toilet shoes. I understand it.
I just know again that it'd be really weird to
see if I was over somebody's house and look in
the corner of the bathroom and there they are. All right. Now,
one other story that I really like that is incredibly stupid.
So I'm just going to tell you that going in,
most people would want a doctor as a companion if
a zombie apocalypse hit us. This was a recent pull
that went out over the internet and people answered. A
lot of people would not want an MMA fighter That
came in at number five out of the top six options.
Fifty one percent said doctor, nineteen percent said engineer, thirteen percent,
set an ex police officer eight percent to a ship
captain because I guess you're going to get on a
boat at some point, and then rounding out the top
six was a pilot after the MMA fighter. I don't
think a doctor's going to help people as much as
other people think they are, because in the rules of
zombie apocalypse, the doctors can't save you. Man, I wants
something happen. Weapons. If the zombies get you, you're screwed.
The doctor's not bringing you back. So I think I
would go MMA fighter or any version of some sort
of combat veteran who's ready to fight this fight with me,
because they'll be more helpful with the part that matters,
and that's fighting off the zombies and getting out of
whatever situation you're in without getting turned into one yourself.
But I just love that this was a story that
was out there and something that went viral and something
that a bunch of people took the time to answer,
because it shows us that the internet can still be
fun and still be stupid, and still have all the
great stuff that we want as a part of it
while having all the terrible, awful stuff that becomes so
much of what we talk about now in the world
of I don't know, just anything that you find go
viral on the Internet. This is a good one, but
everybody's wrong. Fifty one percent of people unsurprisingly wrong, saying
that doctor would be the best thing to have. All right,
we'll take a break. A lot coming up. Matt Walsh
went viral for hilarious reason. I like that too, That
and more and a bit. Craig Collins filling in on
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Speaker 1: This is the Dana Show. My name is Creig Collins,
filling in, thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
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that out occasionally, and it's not going to be as
fun as following her on social media if you choose
to follow me, all right. Caroline Levitt, the Press Secretary,
of course, said that the President is running out of
patients when it comes to Majority Leader John Thune and
others because they're rhinos. No, it's just because they won't
pass the Save Act, although they're probably also rhinos. I
did like this bully pulpit away seems to be the
right approach. Will it actually work? Who knows? Will a
lot of people have to be fired and then hopefully
other people hired in the midterms, which might not go
well for conservatives, but I hope somehow surprisingly does because
I think the Save Act needs to be passed. Save
America Act. I think a lot of people agree with that,
and actually the President even advocated for getting rid of
the filibuster last night, well in Georgia, and I agree
with that too. And I know a lot of people
who don't immediately yell that Democrats are going to wield
the power of no filibuster in horrible ways, and that's true,
they are, but they're also going to remove the filibuster
in twenty twenty eight if they consolidate power, which could happen,
So why don't we just do it now and benefit
from it, especially if we wind up winning the presidency
again in a couple of years, which I think the
Republicans have very good chance of doing because the socialists
and saying people are taking over the Democratic Party. Let's
get rid of the filibuster and let's find a way
to actually do great things when we have a simple
majority in the Senate in general. Just something that we're
not doing at all right now, and it's not going well,
and it's definitely it's a vet. It is inevitably going
to go away at each side when they want to
use a simple majority and can't because of it. Talk
about this. Someone's eventually going to make this a thing,
and we should be the ones that do that. All right,
Let's play Caroline Levitt first.
Speaker 4: Though the President spoke about this directly yesterday. His patience
is running out. He wants to see as much of
the Save America past as possible by the August recess.
He knows that's what the American people want to see.
Speaker 1: Foks.
Speaker 4: He was just traveling on the road yesterday spoke about this,
and there was a very loud applause from the people
in the audience, the everyday Americans, because voter ID is
common sense. They want proof of citizenship in our elections,
and the President feels very strongly about that. And I
would just add, you know, the American people elected overwhelmingly
Republicans to lead not just this White House, but also
the House and the Senate. The House did its job.
The Senate needs to do Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Senate needs to do a job too, which, by
the way, to me, mostly means get rid of the
freaking filibusters so you can do it easier without people
that are standing in the way and trying to fight
this thing and make it not happen. It's got it.
We gotta do it eventually. All that stuff has to happen,
both things. And the funny thing is that about the
second one, or the main topic she's talking about there,
the Save Act. It is so universally desired by many
many Americans because of the simplicity of talking about how
important it is to have, you know, simple voter ID
for our I love the comparison to Olive Garden. I
talked about it yesterday I'll talk about it again today.
It is so funny that Olive Garden's possible is ID specific,
and that right now our elections are not. That seems
wrong that. See, if you wanted to swing by Olive
Garden and get a never ending pasta on your pasta
pass after you vote, you only need IDA for one
of those two activities, and it's the wrong one that
you need ID for, although both it's probably fine. If
I want free pasta, you know I got to actually
pay for it and have the idea to get it.
I'm fine with both having ID. All right, let's move
on to Steven A. Smith and Tucker Carlson. They went
viral because they were together and talking about all kinds
of crazy stuff. Here's the biggest one, and it's not
actually the thing that probably most people are talking about.
I think with Tucker sitting down with Steven A. Smith
and doing his podcast, a lot of people are focusing
on how Tucker talked about Israel and the accusations he made.
It's not new. Tucker continues down this rabbit hole that
some follow him down, and a lot of us don't
follow him down those roads. But I think the more
valuable thing was actually their discussion about President Trump, because Tucker,
according to stephen a Pretty publicly hated Trump for a while,
which is true depending on how many of the texts
that you read that came out during the dominion case
against Fox News and then supported him after all that
stuff did come out in twenty twenty four, and now
is pivoted back to hating him again. And it's that
kind of flip flopping that makes me wonder how anyone
could take anybody seriously on a like, if you're so
blatantly I'm on whatever side I want to be in
the moment on one topic, aren't you then obviously that
way with everything else you talk about, Like, doesn't the
credibility actually go away? And I don't know if that
was intentionally the way that stephen A. Smith modeled the question,
but it's the takeaway I got from it, So I
thought it was the most valuable part of this discussion.
So here we go, Tucker Callson.
Speaker 5: In twenty twenty one, you probably wrote that you hated
Trump passionately. You later supported him in twenty twenty four.
So here's the question, why should listen to see this
latest break as principal rather than another pivot on your part,
or how do you answer that?
Speaker 6: Well, I've had many many pivots, and I've already explain
two of them. You know, I yes, you have because
I'm wrong a lot, you know, I guess. I mean
I flatter myself and say I'm not wrong a lot,
but I certainly am wrong sometimes and wrong on big things.
I was wrong on Trump, and I was wrong on
the Iraq War, and I'm sure a million other things.
But anyway, I mean, I don't know what to say.
Speaker 1: You don't have anything to say. Part of the reason
that he's struggling with this back and forth the question
here is because he doesn't know what avenue he can
go that restores his credibility other than saying he just
made a mistake, which is what anyone who lies tells
you when they get caught in a lie, whatever side
of the lie it was in this case. And I
think this is a good reflection. It's not just Tucker.
There are a lot of people. Meghan Kelly easily falls
into this category. And you can go watch the moment
in the debate where she shows how she really feels
about Trump to then wind up being someone who throws
weight behind him and also supports him all those things,
even Jade Vance. I think the most valuable part of
this show and how Dana talks about Jadie Vance and
what he actually wants well in the role of vice
President is partly because of how obvious it is to
some of us that jd Vance didn't like Trump for
so long that there's a chance he don't like him now,
even if he carries himself in a decent way and
has a decent shot to me to be the heir
apparent to President Trump in a couple of years in
twenty twenty eight, these people who seem to just passionately
dislike the current president and talked about him in his
first term in ways either on television or you know,
behind the scenes via text or something, in ways that
tell you that they like really think he's a giant
pile of you know what, and basically treat him the
same as left leaning media does. It's not really logical
to think that a lot of those people have transformed
their opinion completely. Occasionally you hear some people explain it,
and I think jad Vance has done the best job
of any of them by saying that media lied to him.
Media tricked him, and then when he actually got to
know the real president, he thought was different than the
narrative version that he had consumed without knowing him very well.
That's the best attempt at that discussion. But I do
think there's a lot of people that, for all kinds
of reasons, have hated everything. And this is on the
conservative side, not the liberal side. Hated everything about Trump.
His rise the first time in sixteen, the success enough
to win, the failure in twenty twenty, if you think
that that was legitimate and not a whole bunch of
cheating which some people tried to use to cast him away,
and then the you know, phoenix rising, which is what
I think they described it in some places when they
were shocked that he won. I wasn't in twenty twenty four,
and being back in a position of power for people
that hate him, that's the truth of that whole thing.
They desperately wanted someone that wasn't Trump in twenty twenty four,
and DeSantis was the obvious choice for a little while there,
and then that went away. And so now that they
finally some of these individuals, the Tucker Carlson's the World
think that Trump's time as a politician is likely coming
to an because he can't run for office again. It's
now the pivot point to get away. And here's what's
really interesting to me about this topic. It is so
easy to do that if you're trying to court any
amount of you know, fame, or people that have hated
you for a bit to like you again, simply by
going this road, like I get it in the world
of the benefit to the podcasters for anyone that's stupid
enough to take them seriously and think that they've had
an actual epiphany moment that's changed their mind about what
they thought before and what they think now. Because there
is a lot of hatred of President Trump, hatred on
the left. And if you hear someone and this is
my other big observation about this topic, if you hear
someone that was a big supporter of Trump, go rogue
the Marjorie Taylor Greens of the world. They wind up
on the view. These people get invited to all these
left leaning places, and it doesn't mean the left actually
likes them. It doesn't mean they actually think they're great
now and their opinions are good. They just want to
hear people that said that they like Trump. At some
point say that they hate them now they just want that.
They want that because they think that that's proof to
everybody else. And the vast majority of Republicans who do
think that President Trump is doing a good job. CNN
had that polling, and I think we played it yesterday.
Yet again, eighty something percent of people who identify as
Republican voters are happy with the job Trump is done.
Even if they're not happy with the war prices of
certain things, they're still buy and large supporters. People on
the left hate that. They hate that idea, and they've
been fighting that thing for so long that it's so
easy to get some level of kick support, some level
of I get a little bit of a runway here
where you're going to listen to me, even though you
hated me last month, if I all of a sudden
crap on Trump too, and actually, I'll be even more
honest about this. I've started to notice this in some
like other media places, like certain radio shows or radio
stations or other things where it was trendy for a
while to be such a big fan of Trump that
you said certain things, And now you hear more and
more people in these places saying some negative stuff about Trump,
and it really is just catering to you the art.
This is a long rant on something that probably might
not be interesting to a lot of people out there.
But what I really really admire about certain broadcasters in
this field, and Dana is one of them. I know
this is her show of not trying to kiss up
to her, but it's true is consistency is the willingness
to believe and say most of the same things regardless
of who's in power, and support people based on principles
rather than even behavior, Like to say that I like
this person for the things that they accomplish more so
than the person they are like. I respect that. If
somebody says to me that they think Trump is kind
of a jerk or is whatever they think he is,
and they would not want to, like go to get
a beer with him, fine, But if you still think
that his policies are good based on judging them and
not him the individual, respect that stance much more than now.
I hate him. I think he's terrible again, And that's
the way I felt years ago, but then I changed
for a bit because it is crazy. There's a long
rant on people like Tucker and the pivot that they're
doing for strictly, I think personal gain, trying to appeal
to more people on the internet who are younger, who
might feel the same way, and he's hoping that some
of them become part of his audience, even though you're
not actually going to get the thing you want. I
get the last thing I'll say about this rant. I
didn't expect to do this. I think some of the
people on the left who become temporary fans because I
don't think they remain because a lot of the principles
of conservatives stay. Even if you pretend you hate Trump
now or you pretended you liked him before, whatever, it
might be, a lot of your principles, you still don't
want a lot of people who are illegal to live
in this country. Like, there's still a lot of places
where you're going to disagree with an audience that you
might try to build that's on the left. And maybe
Tucker not as much as others because he has been
saying some other crazier, woke things. What I think is
interesting is some of those individuals who are on the
other side who come over for a bit, think they're
going to better understand conservatives by consuming these voices that
to them now seem reasonable. What I mean by that
is the moment they crap on Trump, it seems to
give some of these individuals the idea that, oh, okay, now
that he's going to agree with me a little, I
can go ahead and listen and see if I understand
some of the other stuff he says. And so it's
sort of like a gateway drug, I guess, to the
real conservatives out there. And the thing I wanted to
say about this is, I don't think it actually gets
you the thing you're looking for. I think if you
want to challenge your brain and if you disagree passionately
with a lot of the thoughts on the other side,
in my case, the people who are literal communists who
are now running for office in the Democratic Party, you
have to actually dive into the belly of the beast.
You got to listen to the craziest people, and then
if you're someone like Danny, you got to crap all
over them like a san piker, being an insane piece
of crap. You just got to do that part. You
can't do the homework with people that are no longer
giveving you the right assignments, all right, quick Break a
lot more. Creig Collin's filling in on the Dana Show.
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I will sleep like a baby at night while a
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or municipal restrictions.
Speaker 1: Whatever, take your pick.
Speaker 3: You need to have a diverse range of defensive options.
I mean, for crying out loud, you carry different calibers
and you carry blades. So when you are a bar
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Speaker 1: It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time
for Florida Man. That's right, it's time for Florida Man
on the Dana Show a Dlash, Dana Lash Radio and
x great ways. Although tons of ways on social media
to stay connected to her. Her substack is great. I
used to check that out. It's so many things. I'll
follow the podcast. This first topic is really like Florida clowns,
not just Florida Man. Apparently a fear circus that is
currently touring Florida is going viral online because it's said
to combine a bunch of things that people are terrified of.
One of those is Florida. Another of those is clowns,
and then in general just horror stuff that people don't like.
But it's acrobatics, contortionists, chainsaws, and then quote sinister clowns
performing in some sort of crazy circus with very dark,
like red red lighting inside the tent. It seems hilarious
to me, but it's probably causing a lot of people
to go crazy. Children thirteen and younger are not allowed in.
You have to be at least thirteen years old, and
if you're under eighteen, you need an adult to be like, ah,
that's fine for this kid to go with me to
the fear Circus. They're probably not going to sleep for
a while, but it'll be okay. And actually that idea
reminds me of the time that I went to one
of the Jackass movies. I went to, like, not the
most recent one I should have gone, I haven't seen
that yet, but one of the ones before it. I
went to, like a midnight showing and a guy walked
in with a baby, and I to myself thought, like,
that kid's going to grow up interesting if he's not
gonna remember the Jackass movie as a baby. And this
didn't happen in Florida. But it feels like it would have.
But when he grows up, whatever else he's been exposed
to is going to make him an interesting person. That
was a while ago. So I bet you he is.
Maybe he's one of the clowns in the Florida clown
circus that is terrifying people. That is going viral other
Florida men stories. A guy is suing Open AI and
chat GPT because he says it convinced him not to
go to the emergency room when he needed to go
to the emergency room. A Florida man, of course, said
that he put all of his symptoms into the AI.
The AI was like, eh, you're good, and so he
thought that that was enough, and then he actually wound
up having a medical emergency, a pulmonary embolism. He's alive,
of course, he survived, but he did eventually go to
the emergency room. And he's saying it's chat GPT's fault.
I really hope he doesn't win this case. I'm assuming
he won't win this case. But the lesson learned here,
or at least should be learned here, is that AI
is not in fact a doctor, and that if you
go to AI and you tell it it's symptoms and
it tells you you're fine. You didn't do anything that's
actually valuable to you. If you're worried enough, you should
trust your gut, not the internet and the computer, and
show up at the medical professional place where they can
run some actual tests on you and maybe save your
life without it becoming a medical emergency. That's something you
can just do. And then if you've got to pay
a bill you don't want to pay, well, darn it.
This was the decision you made. A lot of us
do this. We turned to WebMD and chat, GPT and
everything else. But what's funny is it seems like it
doesn't matter what they tell us. We're probably gonna make
our own decision anyway. Because I've gone to chat, GPT
or WebMD specifically actually and been told like I'm about
to die and I didn't do anything about that. I
was like, all right, well, we'll see if that happens,
and then it doesn't. So it seems like you're darned
if you do, darned if you don't in the world
of the internet, because we don't trust either extreme and
we shouldn't. Again. I really hope this guy loses and
then finally one last one. I think we're gonna have
enough time to do it. An alligator was blocking a
family by boarding up at their front door. This happened
in Palm Bay, Florida. I have a little bit of
audio this one.
Speaker 7: The shop factor is jaw dropping and unexpected for sure.
And if we didn't get that security alert to our
cell phones, who knows what would happened. I've been terrified.
I've been looking over my shoulders, hair and swivel, just
making sure I don't get attacked. The dog doesn't get attacked,
because that's my baby waiting, just chilling dead. Still didn't
make a peep until the flashlights. It was exactly seven
foot six inches. That's the first time it actually was
that comfortable to get that close to presidents and pets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's scary. They saw it on their ring doorbell
camera that there was a giant alligator just hanging out
outside their house, and they decided that they had to
wait it out, and eventually the flashlights made it go away.
But that's a uniquely Florida thing, and they did not
need WebMD for any help or chat. GPT good on them.
Quick break a lot more. Creig Collin's filling in the
Dana Show. This is the Dana Show. My name is
Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled to be with you. The
Mega Millions is getting closer to a billion dollars again.
I think it's like almost seven hundred and fifty million
at this point. The next drawing is tomorrow, and people
are very excited that you have a terrible, terrible chance,
like I should say it so many more times, a
horrible awful chance how to win this thing? Does that
mean that I, like every other sucker, will get in
once it gets to a billion? Of course I will,
because I don't care what the odds are. When you
tell me I got a shot at a billion dollars,
I want to actually take my chance. And they know that,
and they made the odds even worse. It's all a thing,
but I love whenever this starts to be like a
viral news story. So shows like this and me, we
can talk about this thing and ask like the dumb question,
what would you do if you want a billion dollars?
Which is probably a lot of stupid stuff, and then
hopefully some saving. Hopefully there's some saving, although I don't
know how much you even have to save. If you
get that much money, I think you could go pretty
dumb and still be fine for the rest of your life.
But yeah, the Mega millions is rapidly getting back up
to that number, that sweet spot where a whole lot
of us buy a ticket where I'm driving home from
work and my wife will call me and be like,
did you get the mega millions? Like that only happens
at a billion dollars? People. Another story out there that
I saw. I saw this the other day and I
even asked a couple people if like they actually knew
who this person was, because I don't know how big
of a story it is. But now like NBC is
reporting on it, and I think it's because Jason Alexander
is involved. Of course, famous for being in Seinfeld. But
a woman that some might remember from years ago for
being like a viral people talked about her kind of
name in the news was Courtney Stotten. She married an
actor from Lost. I think the guy's name is Doug
Hutchinson when she was sixteen and he was like fifty one.
As a creepy story for a lot of reasons. Then
to be fair, and I don't know if this is
mean to say, because at the time she was a child,
which she's pointing out now. She seemed to very much
court attention, as anybody would, but she was a minor,
she was underage, so a lot of I think what
happened in the world of media was inappropriate. But Courtney
Stotting called out Jason Alexander for a comedy sketch from
Funny or Die, the website that Will Ferrell started. This
is all convoluted because when she was seventeen there was
an episode or a sketch that went up where he
made jokes and like grazed her boob with his phone.
I think the joke was that reception improved when he
put his phone near her breast, and reception got worse
when he put his phone near her head. And she
said that this was inappropriate because she was a child,
and she's right about that. I'm not going to say
she isn't the thing that's odd now though to me,
And if you google the name, which I'm not necessarily
recommending you do, of Courtney Stodden, there seemed to be
a lot of attempts in the last however many years
to remain like viral and relevant in the news, and
this version of discussion well valid in a way, And
I think Alexander even apologized for the bit that he did,
although it must be weird being pitched a segment where
you're working with someone who's married to a fifty year
old guy who's only seventeen, mean he's getting the paycheck.
But anyway, he said he's sorry for the thing that happened.
But it seems like some aspect of this might not
necessarily be to do what he's saying protect kids from
being exploited through media. In other ways, it might be
to remain an attention seeking human. So I don't know,
it's a weird thing to be as viral as it
is and keep popping up in more and more places.
I'm not saying that I disagree with the comment that
a seventeen year old should be treated like a child
and not like an adult, But I just don't know
if the attempt to get this information out there and
the story out there is genuine. All Right, we got
to take a break. A lot coming up, Craig Collins
filling in on The Dana Show, and now all of
the news you would probably miss it's time for Dana's
Quick five. Yes, that's right, it's time for a quick
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her at Radio CRAIGZ if you want to follow me
on social media. For some reason, thirty nine year old
man in New Jersey was arrested after he stole five
hundred thousand dollars a five hundred thousand dollars armored car
from police, which is a very dumb thing to steal.
Although probably I'm not trying to concourage people to do
this stuff. A crime is bad, don't do it. Probably
a little bit fun of a joy ride vehicle compared
to some other ones. Like when I see the people
who try to run away for the police and they're
driving like a tractor, I feel uniquely bad because that's
not going to be an enjoyable experience and you're also
getting arrested. If I ever were a joy ride away
from the police, I'd like for the vehicle itself to
actually be something enjoyable to drive. That's my one rule.
And then also I'm not actually going to do that.
But it's funny the types of things that people normally
steal hyundaies kias I think are pretty popular. This guy
was like, give me the armored truck five hundred thousand dollars.
Jase was a bear cat. I guess is the name
of it for anyone that actually knows this stuff. Eventually
he got caught, though he now faces multiple charges, including
deep burglary. He caused more than thirteen thousand dollars of
damage to a police parking structure as he was first
leaving the area. He's also responsible for some stuff he
stole out of the armored vehicle. So the guy's a
class act. He's not from Florida or this would be
a Florida man story even though it happened in Jersey
and I would be doing it later on in the show.
But you know, again, don't do crimes. Crimes are bad.
If you were to steal something, I feel like this
would be more fun than something else. I saw that,
like the comic con stuff is going on again. I
think that's either in California or somewhere else right now.
I saw this as I was like bouncing around for
not news stuff to talk about here, and one of
the stories is about spaceballs too. The follow up to
the classic movie from the late nineteen eighties. It's called
Spaceball's the new one. Here's the thing about mel Brooks movies,
and this isn't the one I wish they'd remake. I
wish they'd remake Blazing Saddles. But there's a lot of
jokes that are not appropriate for twenty twenty six, especially
in Blazing Saddles, that I wonder how they'll handle now
for anyone that's excited about this movie coming out I
think on Amazon next year and probably in movie theaters.
It returns most of the original cast. They do the
time jump, so it's thirty years later when they're going
to set whatever is going to happen in this movie,
and I think they're still going to make fun of
mostly the newer Star Wars films, but also a bunch
of other stuff. But mel Brooks didn't even write it.
I think that actually other people wrote it, and there
were other scripts that they might have used at some point,
but I didn't wind to be in a thing. But
it's interesting to see a story like that, very macro
way to talk about it, and whether or not they'll
actually at all be true to some of the humor
that used to be okay in the eighties, that's not
okay to a lot of Hollywood in twenty twenty six.
Because I would be thrilled to go to a movie
that felt anything like the types of things that were
funny back then and are not allowed to be funny anymore.
I would be I'd probably buy a ticket multiple times.
I don't again, I don't know if Spaceballs is the
right one for that. Blazing Saddles would be even more
fun for a variety of reasons anyone who knows that
movie can probably figure out, and just to watch people
react that would hate it, even though they'd probably also
be laughing like the funniest thing humor like that, as
the people who tell you they hate it the most
probably couldn't actually disguise laughing at it if it was
just genuinely a good joke, like they try. They'd yell
at you, but they try to hide some level of
the humor that they're feeling because it is genuinely funny.
And I think I've even seen Jerry Seinfeldt go viral
a few times. We're talking about young people in his
latest stand up and how hard it is for young
comedians to break into the industry because apparently they don't
like jokes. Most of the things they make fun of
when you're trying to be sensitive to everybody's opinion, winds
up being not funny at all, as we've learned again
and again. All Right, quick break, A lot more thrilled
to be here. Craig Collins, filling in on The Dan
A Show.