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Speaker 1 (00:00):
As a guy who's missing a lower part of his
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left leg who rode this out in a sailboat, looks
like he's fine. He's no worse for the for the
wear his his boat was just fine. He was just fine.
They checked on him a couple of times throughout the storm.
He seemed fine. He's fine. Now, what do you think
about this guy now being like famous, like cult hero
level famous at least on social media for now until
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you start seeing him show up on commercials, which I'm
sure will happen.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Does he get to Is he gonna go on all
the podcasts now and get his own podcasts? He's gonna
throw on a pitch at a Mets game?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
You don't You don't think that Leo or Theo Vaughn
is already like talking to him right now? That would
be the you know what, But that's a good pairing
right there, because uh, I think that'd be that would
be a good interview to listen to because he does
that for regular people all the time. Yeah, he hit
One of my favorites that he did was he talked
to a Carney, like an anonymous carneye talking about the
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games that are at the carnival and stuff. My favorite
of his he talked to a New York City trash man.
He had some stories. Yeah, look, I don't know, man,
I just I think. I think to me, are we okay?
I mean, this guy is okay?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
All right?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And over the last hour or so, there's a there's
been some some developments.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Last night.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
He was offered a one hundred thousand dollars boat and
a kick deal by Aiden Ross. But now that has
been rescinded. Now that some of the criminal history of
this man known as Lieutenant Dan is popping up, and
we had that that woman who made that video talking
about some of his escapades. I think some of it,
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she's she doesn't know how a lot of it works.
But this guy his name's at least according to the
law system in Florida, his name is Joseph Melanowski. And
most of these are failure to appear, but he's not
appearing for his court dates. The guy definitely has like
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is a drug user. There's no doubt about this. And
he even talks on videos this morning about him being
you know, like you know, he's having some herb if
you will. Should this guy be famous or not? He's
already been canceled. I mean, he got canceled by that
woman yesterday. Before we even knew he was gonna survive
this thing. There was that GoFundMe, which was kind of mysterious,
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but it raised over twenty something thousand dollars even before
we even knew who this guy was. So he must
be like a Florida legend or something that people already
kind of knew who he was, and he's gotten famous
by other people making like other people were making videos
of him and then finding him and checking on him,
and now like he's like moodang. He's literally just like
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everybody wants to go down to the shoreline and find
find this guy and hang out with him, maybe give
him some money or some food or whatever. He reminds
me of Kai the hatchet wielding hitchhiker. That's what he
reminds me of. Remember that guy. He's the Florida moo Dang.
I feel bad lumping MoU dang in with this clown.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Well he's the I mean, he does embody the Florida
man pretty well, Oh, he absolutely does. He is Florida Man.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You know, Kai the hatchwielding hitchhiker. Oh sure, yeah, yeah, yeah,
there's a documentary on Netflix called The Hawielding Hitchhiker. It's good,
but it's a guy that went viral for being just
really charismatic as he allegedly helped prevent an assault on
a woman by assaulting a man. And then we found
out as they were trying to make him famous and
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took him to Kimmel and all this stuff, all these
like late night TV shows. He's actually a real pain
in the butt and eventually he ended up murdering a guy.
So I mean, he has quite a history. Look, I'm
just saying there's some people that we shouldn't just be
making famous because we think they're a cool story and
there's some air of mysteriousness to the life that they lived.
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Some of them are just bad people. And I hate
to say it, but from what I'm gathering about this guy,
he's just not a very good person. Are you okay
making him famous? I don't know if I am. I'm
not making him anything, no, But I mean I'm talking
of we collectively as society. Yeah, I know it, but society.
Hawk to a Girl has her own podcast, it's like
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the Third Miss and two podcasts over the last two
months on Spotify and some of these podcasts apps.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Can you believe that that's bonkers?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
More on the Way on news radio eleven ten kfab
I was watching these videos of Lieutenant Dan being like interviewed.
Somebody went to him and talked to him about this,
and I'm sure he seems to be a little peeved
that people keep talking to him at this point. But
this it's a guy. It's a guy. He's not We're
not sure if he is or is not homeless. He's
missing the lower part of his left leg, which is
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why people are calling him Lieutenant Dan. He rode out
Hurricane Milton in a sailboat which wasn't on the water
by the way, it was just docked and he was
able to survive it. No big deal. Everything seems fine
from him, but he was offered like one hundred thousand
dollars hundred thousand dollars boat in like fifty thousand dollars
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a month deal and he needed to spend some hours
on kick and all this stuff with Aiden Ross, who
you know, was this big time guy and all that.
And then as soon as all of this stuff about
his past and previous arrests and all this stuff, happened,
rescinded all the deal, and it sounds like this guy,
which again real name Joseph Malinowski. He he says, well,
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if you were trying to you were trying to, like
look at all my stuff, then why didn't you do
that before you offered me all this stuff and I
agreed to it? Does he have a point?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Does he have a point?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Like?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Why wouldn't you look ahead of time? Is what he
was saying.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Why wouldn't you look ahead of time if you were
afraid this guy might have a checkered past, Why wouldn't
you look ahead of time before you made an offer
that he agreed to and then you rescind it based
on information after the fact. He's a one legged Florida
man living in a rickety old boat tethered to the
side of a peer we think trying to survive a hurricane.
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We think probably has a checkered past. You know, good,
it's a good it's a good point, safe assumption, it's
a good point. How does one get in that situation?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I mean, but he didn't he just like everybody just
wanting him to be a star. Now, it wasn't until
that woman who I went to her Twitter like she
is super duper liberal, Like she is canceled culture personified.
She's the kind of person that would be looking for
anyone in anything just to cancel them. That's the kind
of person she is. However, this guy actually does have
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a really pretty nasty past, and I think it's probably
a good thing that we found that out before he
got too famous and then everybody found this out right
m hm, So is this an appropriate use of cancer culture?
Are we trying? Should we in cancel culture? Should we
just allow Lieutenant Dan to get famous? Where are you
at on this?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
This is?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
This is I'm.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Having a real like, I'm having a real moral issue,
I think with a person getting canceled so quickly without
us really knowing them.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
But all of it's true.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I mean that he hasn't denied anything that people are
saying about his past. But I'm also having an issue
just like, Hey, nobody can ever redeem themselves ever, no
matter what they do.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I don't think this guy's a good guy. I think
he's getting famous and notable because he decided to do
something really stupid during a really powerful hurricane. With that
being said, like in the same breadth is that a
good reason to be like, oh yeah, I'm okay with
this guy getting canceled. I think that that's probably not
the right thing to be thinking about. So again, I'm
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not trying to be a jerk one way or the
other here, but I'm struggling with my own moral ethics.
I think right now, I'm just like, should I be
rooting for him to succeed? Or am I happy he's canceled?
Or like should a guy like this ever get famous
in the Internet age? Like is there any limits to that?
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Kenny's on a phone line four h two five, five,
eight to eleven ten, Kenny, welcome to the show today.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Well, you know, everyone has the past, and including myself,
I'm not perfect. I've not murdered anybody, or I don't
know a whole background.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Does this guy?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Is he a murderer? Does he does he do bad
things to children? I mean, what's what's the background? Real quick?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Well, the most notable arrest that he has was he
had was arrested for assault and battery on a first responder,
like an EMT. He hit them, And yeah, so I
mean I don't have the specific details, but he's okay.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, and he's he's had to take fourteen separate mug
shots for whatever that's worth.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Okay, that's that's not good. And it doesn't mean he's
the worst person in the world. And again, everyone has
a pass and maybe he's just been trying to get
cleaned up and go forward and do the right thing.
We don't know the whole story. Everybody deserves a second chance,
but fourteen much shots, that's that's fourteen chances. Yeah, he's had.
And if someone failed to do the background check before
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they started offering them all these moneies.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Right, well that's on them.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Don't you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
And that's the other thing, and Kenny, is it doesn't
it make sense to just do the background check before
you offer, Like should there be some contractual obligation the
fact that they already made like a verbal agreement.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, yes, but if the contracts and plays, then they
got a pony of the cash. That's my opinion.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah, Like within twenty four hours he was offered all
this money and this boat and all this stuff, agreed
to it, and then they this history came out that yeah,
he's had been arrested and detained and had to take
fourteen separate mug shots, and he's got all this history
about you know, assault and battery and his checkered pass
that he hasn't denied. And then all of a sudden,
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these the big money people are like, oh, never mind,
we don't want to give you any of this stuff
like that.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It's weird.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Well, we're all sinners, every one of us, you know. Yeah,
and God does not look at one sin as worse
as the next, although as humans we do. But anyway,
I love the show. I think the guy probably deserves
the money. He's doing something that nobody else would want
to do, and he lost his legs somehow tragically. You
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don't happily lose away.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
No, Yeah, I want to know more about that.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That seems to be something that we're not one hundred
percent sure about either. I haven't seen like a definitive
reason like why he's missing the lower part of his
left leg, So I'd be interested in hearing about that too.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yep, yep, all right, brother, you have a good day.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Love the show, thanks man soon appreciate it, Kenny, you
have a good day too. He makes a good point.
Second chances for a lot of people. Yeah, he's got
fourteen mug shots. At what point do we forgive and forget?
I mean, I don't know if you forgive or forget
a guy for you know, like stuff like this, But.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
It's a little bit interesting if you want to call in.
You got thoughts on this? Should we be making a
person like this famous kind of thing? Should we be
talking about a person's past immediately upon learning about them
and disqualifying them from fame, fortune, or any goodwill because
they did something stupid in their past or in this
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guy's case, multiple times did something stupid. Let's go ahead
and open the phones for this even more. Four h
two five five eight eleven ten. We'll get to more
calls next. On news radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Emery's Sunger on news radio eleven ten, kfab.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Stu's on the line. Four two five five eight eleven ten.
Hey Stu, what do you think about all this?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Well? I think it's a bunch of malarkey, Emery. Honestly,
let's let's take a look at OJ Simpson. How many
millions did he make off of his own name after
he killed two people?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Good point?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
And also, also, I don't have any felonies. I got
a record. That'd be like me winning the lottery and
saying you can't have money because you got a record. Yeah,
very simple.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, And I think that's you. You're You're right on
I thinks to it. At some point we have to
understand that the reason he's getting the money is because
he's on this boat. It wasn't because of anything he
had done in his past. It wasn't because of anything
that he had said in his past or anything that
he you know, you know, was arrested for before. If
you were trying to make him famous because of this
one specific act, I mean, how does that change anything?
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Because one angry lady made a TikTok and a post
on social media saying that this is actually not the
great person.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
I don't know, it seems a little weird to me.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Yeah, this council, the council culture, it's you know, it's
all fine and great when they do it, but if
they find out there's something messed up with it, they
want to wash their hands of it immediately.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
It's not that it's there, there's no fairness to it.
It's only about the people they want to cancel. They'll
go out and cancel.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
One exactly exactly. And by the way, you can't vote now,
get out there, vote early, Go Trump the Sammary.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
No problems, good point. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Early voting in many states is open, including here. Now
I'm not much of an early voting type, but if
for convenience sake, if you'd like to vote early, there
are ways to do that. You can find that information online.
Many major legitimate news outlets, not just you know you're
online social media instagrammers running to talk to this guy.
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Several outlets, including USA Today, have done full on, full
on profiles five hundred and fifty thousand followers on TikTok
for this guy. He has a TikTok are we did
we get bamboozled here?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Did he?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Did he trick us into making him famous? Because he
was trying It sounds like he was trying to get
go viral. Maybe he did do this not because he
had to. He was doing this because he wanted to
and he knew it was good for clout.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Didn't you say yesterday that he lived somewhere else?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Well, the woman who made that video claimed that his
address at last check was Palm Beach, which would not
be Tampa. Now, a guy named Tampa. Terrence is a
fan of his and also social media guy who created
that GoFundMe which is raised now over forty thousand dollars,
giving this guy forty thousand dollars. I'm not donating any
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money to any social media influencer for nothing. I don't
even care. If I donate money, it's going to be
to the Red Crosser, to the people that are going
down and helping out with hurricane relief. I'm not giving
some loser like this no disrespect. But you know, a
guy like this, I'm not giving him money. Why am
I giving him money? Especially when there are people out
there that seemingly want to put him on million dollar
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deals for different reasons or whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
And he seems to be a man of faith. He said,
I put my faith in God. I don't put my
faith in man. God told me to come out here
and get a boat. I came out here and got
a boat. Everything he's been telling me the last few days,
I'm doing the right thing. He got my back. I'm
in good shape. I ain't sweating it. End quote. Why
would God? And this is not me trying to tell
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him how to believe in his God, But how why
would God tell him to get a boat and be
and put himself in that level of danger if not
to just make him a bunch of money. Like it
seems like it very well may end up one reason
or not, because there's going to be like a barso
stool sports or somebody out there like that that doesn't
really care about you know, background checks or anything like that,
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and they're going to give him a platform and have
him become like a online sensation after this, and he's gonna, like,
for better or worse, he's just going to become a guy.
And he's not a young guy either, this guy in
mid fifties, Like he's in his mid fifties. I don't
know the motivations of his heart, but I do know
that I don't want his life. So agreed, I think
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I feel kind of neutral to this whole thing because
it's it seems like what he's after and aspiring for
is not something I'm personally interested in. What do you mean,
like the clout, like the social media clout.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
That making that assumption that that's what this is about.
I mean, you know, from a thousand foot view, you think, oh,
this is just a guy down on his luck. Who
the only place he can really live is in this boat,
and he wasn't able to leave, and so he's just
tethered himself to the pier or whatever it was, and
just rowed this thing out. And what a story he survived.
It's amazing. But then you look a little deeper and
you're like, well, maybe he kind of set the deck
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this way to, you know, have this be a launching
pad for some sort of like influencer or online career
where he could make money from kickstarters and make money
from people on the internet who enjoy his personality, you know.
So Tampa Mayor Jane.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Caster was asked about this yesterday and a presser I
miss this and she said that officers had rescued him
off the boat and transported him to a shelter, but
within a couple of hours he was back at the boat.
So that must have been either misinformation or he was
taken somewhere else and just made his way back to
the boat. According to Tampa Terrence who you know, a
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person from Tampa obviously that has been following along to this, said,
Dan is not leaving the boat for the hurricane. He
is staying on that boat. There's been many attempts to
get him off this boat. People have offered houses, hotel rooms, apartments.
He will not leave. So he had every opportunity to
go do something else and stay somewhere else for this storm.
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He was one hundred percent locked in on finishing this
mission of his that he was going to ride this
out on a twenty foot sailboat. And he did and
didn't seem like he was much worse for the wear.
And he says that the boat seems to be fine.
Eric's on the phone line four two, five, five, eight
eleven ten. What do you think, Eric, Hey, I've.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Been watching it since the very beginning, and some kids
came across that guy, like he was just tied up
to a dock, and like three dudes came up and
asked him if he needed help, and he his story
is a little different and what you guys are portraying it.
He said that he was in Colorado in some a
bad situation. He did some bad stuff and God called
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him to come to Florida, and he went to Florida
and then he got a boat for twelve hundred bucks
because he was tired of living on the streets. And
then the hurricanes came, and that's.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
That's what that's how I started.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Supposedly, I don't know. I don't know the guy, but
I was just listening to you guys say that. But
it was like, hmm, he feel like he was minding
his business and these guys showed up.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Well, I mean that may be the case, or may
be true to an extent, but this guy is he
says he has been streaming and people have been able
to watch him. I'm wondering, yeah, because he's got some
relationship with this Tampa Terrence guy who's been helping like
promote the story, who's also a TikToker, and Terrence has
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basically been there from the start. He might be one
of the guys that you're talking about, but he's been
working with Terrence and they've gotten him on the Weather Channel.
He's gotten a lot of famous for this. But he
apparently he I'm trying to figure out where he was.
But fourteen different times he's been detained, and he has
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fourteen different mugshots here. I mean, that's that's interesting. He
was charged with battery against a law enforcement officer that
was in Palm Beach County. Whenever that was I'm not sure,
like they're not really showing oh okay. So May twenty
twenty one, he was arrested for allegedly refusing a request
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to leave the brogues down underbar in Lakeworth, Florida. He
caused a disturbance by screaming and smashing glasses from the bar.
He punched a Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy in the
nose who was attempting to handcuff him in that incident.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
That's one.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
In last February, a woman reported she got in an
argument with Malanowski, who had been sitting on a concrete
bench at Lakeworth Beach in Florida, about twenty feet away,
and during the argument, he allegedly approached her and poured
gasoline on the bench directly next to where she was
sitting and tried to set it on fire. So I
don't know that's what the records are saying here. I
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don't know how how much of that report is one
hundred percent accurate, Eric, but it definitely sounds like this
guy has been in Florida for some time and he's
definitely been a bit of a He's mixing it up
with some people.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
He said, that he was. He's been in Florida for
five years and he's been homeless the whole time. So
some of that record I think probably has to do
a little bit with the homelessness. Like I know, I
don't know. I was just I was just calling in
because I just heard it.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
I agree.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
I don't know if I would ever donate to a
TikToker fund. Yeah, for them to live their dream.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
But that's all.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah, No, I appreciate it, Eric, I appreciate the call.
Thanks for listening to us. Yeah, And there's some level
of confusion that I have as well on his background.
I'll try to read, you know, some more from different sources,
because it seems like a couple of sources that I've
been like looking at here have different perspectives and I'm
trying to pull those up. But I don't know, man,
it's pretty weird. Who knows. Is there a way that
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you and I could do something like this and get
us famous? Oh for sure, we could think of something.
Let's do that next. On news Radio eleven ten Kfab.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
And Maurice Songer on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
We're learning more and more about mental health and how
we can take care of each other and take care
of ourselves. What do you do to take care of
your own mental health? Matt, give me, give me an example.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well, I like to go on walks. It's a good one.
It's good. Like to go on walks. I think walks
are some of the best thinking time. When you go
on a walk, you got to think over something. Just
go on a long walk. It's good. Yeah, And it's
good for your body. Yeah. And two things too that
I am trying to continuously get better at. And one
of them I can control in some and the other
I know necessarily always can. But good sleep and plenty
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of water, A lot of water. A lot of times
when you don't get enough sleep, you're dehydrated. That's a
recipe for just a grumpy day, you know, So crush
the water, get to bed early, exercise with a walk,
you know, take care of yourself. Treat yourself like you
would a good friend. That's advice I heard a little
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bit too late in life, quite frankly, but I'm embracing it.
I don't even know what that means. You're gonna make
your good friend walk. Treat yourself like you would a
good friend, like like would you know, I think that
we can be really hard on ourselves.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I am all the time. I still that's that's the
biggest thing I struggle with.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Are you really hard on your good friends? No, treat
yourself like a good friend. You deserve it.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Sometimes I do, I'll be honest. Sometimes I do get
a little hasty with some of my my friends, depending
on what.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
They're up to. But yeah, I'm with you. I understand
what you're saying. Now. I like to read.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I haven't read consistent enough lately. But that's something that
really kind of takes an edge off of me. I
don't know, there's a there's a value I think for
me as a I don't know how do I put this.
(23:22):
I'm I'm in an age where I think a lot
of my contemporaries are probably looking. Am I achieving what
I want to achieve in my life? And I don't
necessarily have a lot of those questions. I haven't since
I got this Omaha job I did before. But you
just don't want to like waste this time of your life.
But I think the thing that I'm trying to do
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is extend this time of my life. Right Like you
could say that when you get to like your your
mid thirties, you were certainly like middle aged, Like from
your mid thirties to your mid fifties probably like that
would be what I would consider like a middle aged
person who your life can still go eight hundred different
ways during that timeframe. It's about you knowing a lot
more about yourself than you did when you were twenty
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or twenty five. And I think this is the most
crucial part of someone's life is when you enter this
phase of like am I doing exactly what I want
to do? Or am I living exactly the way that
I want to live? And identifying those and then trying
to use your resources to achieve your goals and then
having goals worth achieving, which is another thing, right, Yeah,
you can accomplish certain goals, but you should create new
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ones because without growth, where's the chase? Where's the fun
in life? Of trying to you know, check those things
off and mark those things down and say, hey, you
know what, actually I would like to.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Do this next.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
You know, people call like stuff like a bucket list,
right like they get to age seventy and then they
make this list of things they want to achieve before
you know, they pass away and it's like seventeen things
and it's like, why weren't you working on this twenty
years ago?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
You could have? You could have.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
It doesn't have to be stuff like fly out of
an airplane or you know, go scuba diving or anything
like that. It could have been anything anything career related,
anything personal related, anything for fun.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
I'm very goal oriented in that way. I'm always kind
of thinking, Okay, now I think I'm ready to tackle
something else. I think that's how I help my own
mental health. You know what helped my mental health quite
a bit though, getting famous on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yeah, you've been blowing up. No I haven't. I want to.
I want to blow up.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
You have.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I want to blow up like boom. I want to
blow up on social media. You want to glow up?
Is what you want? I need to glow up. I
would love to look different. Is there that niptok show
still going on? Can I get on there and then
fix my face? My wife would not like that, actually,
she says, I look, just find the way that I am.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Just find the way you are. See that's you treating
yourself like a good friend.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Yeah, well what would what could we do to make
ourselves famous on social media? Like Lieutenant here, the Joe Melanowski,
the guy who's the guy who has been arrested fourteen
different times.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Well he did something. I think of what he did.
Like what I was thinking about yesterday is you know
those guys who used to get in barrels and go
over the side of waterfalls.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Oh, like Niagara Falls. That usually doesn't end too well,
right now, Why would they do that? Well, this was
a lot of those guys did it before social media.
They did it for the clout. It was all about clout. Yeah,
and that's just what old Lieutenant Dan is doing. Yeah,
well he's like fifty four. They say, okay, so.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
What can we do? I'm not going to get in
the sailboat and ride out a Category three hurricane. While
listening to Christopher Cross.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I do like Christopher Cross, don't don't butcher that song.
It's a really, really nice song. I thought I sang
it really didn't it sounded terrible.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
It sounded good to me and my headphones. Should I
try it again? No, you shouldn't say I'm sorry, I'm
pushing it.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I'm gonna call Christopher Cross himself and tell him to
send our radio station to cease and desist, and we
use some of his songs for my for my bumper music.
So you know your your your actions are detrimental to
the cause of the show.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Here he seems like a gentle man. He is he
is anyway, what do we what do we do here? Like, uh,
do we do?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
We bury one of us alive and see how long
we can be down there?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah, yeah, it's gotta be you know what. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Let's face it, you have to put your body on
the line in some way for this to work. As
a couple of mids, as a couple of male mids,
our options of just getting suddenly famous are basically, do
something dumb and dangerous, like that's what you've got to do.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Absolutely, there's no doubt about that. But what buried alive?
That's an interesting one. It has to be in Omaha,
but it's got to be topical. That's what Lieutenant Dan
figured out. You know he's doing. Some people do something
dumb and dangerous all the time, but it was very topical.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Right, there's a hurricane coming, I'm gonna be in a
boat on the shoreline.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Essentially of this.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
City that this hurricane's happening, and then I'm going to
tell some people about it, and then they're gonna come
find me, and then I'm gonna become famous.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
And he wasn't endangering anyone else that there couldn't have
been an outcry of how dare you uniss? True? That's true.
Who's just him and his boat? That's true. That's true.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
So we can't put other people in danger with whatever
we do. What was something David Blaine did? Like the
holding your breath underwater for like nine minutes? That sounds
like a bad idea. Yeah, that sounds like a really
bad idea. He's like an illusionist too, so I don't
doubt that he can do that. It just also feels like,
is it totally legit when a guy like David Blaine
(28:56):
does something?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
What do you think would happen if you got trapped
in an elevator with David Blaine, like just stuck there?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I mean the door would open at some point, but
I would have no idea where we would be. I mean,
there's as good a chance of those door openings and
we are in like the Pyramids and Giza as there
is me actually being on the floor I was hoping
to be in. He could have done anything. Who's to say,
I'd be incredibly skeptical. Nothing would surprise me. We could
be on Mars and I wouldn't be surprised. Yep, That's where.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I'm at on that. So AnyWho, what do you think
I'm thinking of the whole you know, going over, getting
in a barrel, going over in Niagara Falls, Like, what
can we do around here?
Speaker 5 (29:36):
You know?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Well, what is there to do?
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I mean, I guess you could wait for the Missouri
to get like really high and then do something with that.
But then again, you're just gonna end up somewhere else.
They congratulations, we found Matt Case in a barrel in
Kansas City. He was dead but you know, but you know,
too bad he didn't survive. He would have been TikTok
famous exactly. Well, he is talk famous. He just isn't
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around to enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
You know.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
We really missed the boat. Oh, come on, pun intended.
If we would have been more organized for yesterday, we
could have held the biggest, boldest and greatest leaf ericson
Day celebration known to man and could have put us
on the map. That way, we would have at least
gotten on a few local news outlets. File that one away, Matt.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Okay, because I think we talked enough about it yesterday
for me to feel like we can actually do that.
Because there will be another October ninth, several so light
fun hearted pillaging maybe in your future it could be
like put a pin in that conversation. That is something
that we are going to explore further. Take that chat,
(30:46):
GBT and me to be honest, a noted skeptic of
my leaf ericson plans. Yeah, because pillaging the word violent
is in the definition.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
But see, I was actually thinking about this. All we
gotta do is do what a leftist does, change what
definition of pillaging, make it more acceptable.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
That's all we have to do. Are we gonna call
a leftist to do this for us?
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Yeah, we need to think. We need to get a
think tank. We need to get a think tank together,
Project lee ericson Day. Yeah, it Project twenty twenty six,
and it's all about leef ericson day. Matt Walsh has
some contacts we can get a hold of. He's not
a leftist, no I'm saying, but he has some contacts.
He's got some numbers in his phone. Now he can
(31:36):
help us out.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Oh geez, three forty nine more on the way on
He's Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
Heh Marie Sunger on News Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Chuck says, Matt, we should become a storm chasers because
we have no idea what we're doing. In people would
watch that, like we get into a van and we
just start chasing a storm having no idea what we do,
and we just stream our struggles and then our likely
fear as we get too close to a storm.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
That's pretty good, that's not bad. And we got to
be like a lot of these, like you know, people
who become famous, Like we have to have some sort
of like dysfunctional relationships in some sort of way.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
You and we have a very dissunctional relationship, and we
argue about who's driving, who's in charge of the music,
and then we see the storm and all of a
sudden we start like panicking about what we're supposed to do,
and we're like the world's worst storm chasers. And then
like the guy who's in charge of like getting the
actual footage is like missing it, like the tornadoes like
out of frame or whatever. I mean, this could be hilarious. Yeah,
(32:35):
that's actually that's a really good idea. Unfortunately, I don't
know if I want to, you know, get ourselves actually
too close to storm. So maybe we just fake it
with like a green screen like some of these other
TikTokers do and act like we're that person and just
you know, do it for laughs and get famous that
way and may not have the same effect.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Tough to pull off, you know, might want to feel
I'm on location. It sounds like a lot of cost,
overhead cost, you know. I get out like Jim hint cantory,
and I'm like.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
As you can see the funnel cloud is, oh my gosh,
it's right on top of me. And then I like,
then I go flying and nobody ever sees me again.
But we're famous. Yeah, I'm not sure. Jeremy says, scratch
the barrel because we were talking about, you know, getting
in a barrel and just going over a waterflo or something.
(33:27):
Jeremy says, I'm Emory Songer, and this is shopping cart
roof roof shopping cart, which is of course a great
family guy reference Peter Griffin and the guys trying to
emulate Johnny Knoxville Steve O and the rest of the
(33:49):
crew of that TV show that I don't want to
say out loud on the radio station for the kiddies.
And yeah, he just flies off a roof and lands
and basically breaks his neck. It's pretty funny. Gotta gotta
gotta gotta tell you, it's pretty funny. Yeah, I mean
it's uh. I think this is there's a lesson to
(34:12):
be learned by the Lieutenant Dan Saga, And I think
most of the lesson has to do with how can
we harness his energy and make ourselves famous like this?
And and this is the thing that we have to
avoid because anybody that gets like viral like this, they're
immediately getting canceled by somebody. So we have to try
to somehow get as squeaky clean as we possibly can
(34:34):
to avoid cancelation when this were to occur. Right, do
you have any like loose ends you need to worry about?
You might you might want to take care of that before,
you know, you don't want somebody saying, hey, by the way,
he was, you know, he beat me up when we
were in sixth grade, you know, like Billy Madison, you know,
he calls Steve Bussimi and says, Hey, sorry for you know,
(34:55):
beating you up and being real rough on you when
we were in school, and then he crosses his name
off the list of people he's going to go, you know,
take out, and he ends up saving his life at
the end of the movie. Right, I forgot about that. Yeah,
so there Dale's on the line. Dale, what's on your
mind about how we can become famous?
Speaker 7 (35:13):
Hey, thanks for taking my call. Yeah, I think one
of a really good subject you guys could do for
kick off the top to run it a successful talk
show radio program, So the ends and out of the
program and how you guys are successful and go from there.
(35:34):
I like it, Dale, guys.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (35:40):
Yeah, I was gonna say, I think you guys would
do a great job.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Thanks.
Speaker 7 (35:42):
Man, appreciate your show, and I appreciate your your comedy
and your wisdom. And I have all the things that
you do to make us laugh out here.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
I appreciate that, Dale, And thanks so much for listening
to us.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
What do you think, Matt, we become the pen and
teller of radio and just tell people like how it's
done so they can just to do it themselves.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Oh yeah, food food
Speaker 1 (36:04):
For thought, just the Experts on news radio have a
ten KF A B
As a guy who's missing a lower part of his
(00:01):
left leg who rode this out in a sailboat, looks
like he's fine. He's no worse for the for the
wear his his boat was just fine. He was just fine.
They checked on him a couple of times throughout the storm.
He seemed fine. He's fine. Now, what do you think
about this guy now being like famous, like cult hero
level famous at least on social media for now until
(00:23):
you start seeing him show up on commercials, which I'm
sure will happen.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Does he get to Is he gonna go on all
the podcasts now and get his own podcasts? He's gonna
throw on a pitch at a Mets game?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
You don't You don't think that Leo or Theo Vaughn
is already like talking to him right now? That would
be the you know what, But that's a good pairing
right there, because uh, I think that'd be that would
be a good interview to listen to because he does
that for regular people all the time. Yeah, he hit
One of my favorites that he did was he talked
to a Carney, like an anonymous carneye talking about the
(00:52):
games that are at the carnival and stuff. My favorite
of his he talked to a New York City trash man.
He had some stories. Yeah, look, I don't know, man,
I just I think. I think to me, are we okay?
I mean, this guy is okay?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
All right?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And over the last hour or so, there's a there's
been some some developments.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Last night.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
He was offered a one hundred thousand dollars boat and
a kick deal by Aiden Ross. But now that has
been rescinded. Now that some of the criminal history of
this man known as Lieutenant Dan is popping up, and
we had that that woman who made that video talking
about some of his escapades. I think some of it,
(01:41):
she's she doesn't know how a lot of it works.
But this guy his name's at least according to the
law system in Florida, his name is Joseph Melanowski. And
most of these are failure to appear, but he's not
appearing for his court dates. The guy definitely has like
(02:04):
is a drug user. There's no doubt about this. And
he even talks on videos this morning about him being
you know, like you know, he's having some herb if
you will. Should this guy be famous or not? He's
already been canceled. I mean, he got canceled by that
woman yesterday. Before we even knew he was gonna survive
this thing. There was that GoFundMe, which was kind of mysterious,
(02:26):
but it raised over twenty something thousand dollars even before
we even knew who this guy was. So he must
be like a Florida legend or something that people already
kind of knew who he was, and he's gotten famous
by other people making like other people were making videos
of him and then finding him and checking on him,
and now like he's like moodang. He's literally just like
(02:47):
everybody wants to go down to the shoreline and find
find this guy and hang out with him, maybe give
him some money or some food or whatever. He reminds
me of Kai the hatchet wielding hitchhiker. That's what he
reminds me of. Remember that guy. He's the Florida moo Dang.
I feel bad lumping MoU dang in with this clown.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Well he's the I mean, he does embody the Florida
man pretty well, Oh, he absolutely does. He is Florida Man.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You know, Kai the hatchwielding hitchhiker. Oh sure, yeah, yeah, yeah,
there's a documentary on Netflix called The Hawielding Hitchhiker. It's good,
but it's a guy that went viral for being just
really charismatic as he allegedly helped prevent an assault on
a woman by assaulting a man. And then we found
out as they were trying to make him famous and
(03:30):
took him to Kimmel and all this stuff, all these
like late night TV shows. He's actually a real pain
in the butt and eventually he ended up murdering a guy.
So I mean, he has quite a history. Look, I'm
just saying there's some people that we shouldn't just be
making famous because we think they're a cool story and
there's some air of mysteriousness to the life that they lived.
(03:52):
Some of them are just bad people. And I hate
to say it, but from what I'm gathering about this guy,
he's just not a very good person. Are you okay
making him famous? I don't know if I am. I'm
not making him anything, no, But I mean I'm talking
of we collectively as society. Yeah, I know it, but society.
Hawk to a Girl has her own podcast, it's like
(04:14):
the Third Miss and two podcasts over the last two
months on Spotify and some of these podcasts apps.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Can you believe that that's bonkers?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
More on the Way on news radio eleven ten kfab
I was watching these videos of Lieutenant Dan being like interviewed.
Somebody went to him and talked to him about this,
and I'm sure he seems to be a little peeved
that people keep talking to him at this point. But
this it's a guy. It's a guy. He's not We're
not sure if he is or is not homeless. He's
missing the lower part of his left leg, which is
(04:42):
why people are calling him Lieutenant Dan. He rode out
Hurricane Milton in a sailboat which wasn't on the water
by the way, it was just docked and he was
able to survive it. No big deal. Everything seems fine
from him, but he was offered like one hundred thousand
dollars hundred thousand dollars boat in like fifty thousand dollars
(05:02):
a month deal and he needed to spend some hours
on kick and all this stuff with Aiden Ross, who
you know, was this big time guy and all that.
And then as soon as all of this stuff about
his past and previous arrests and all this stuff, happened,
rescinded all the deal, and it sounds like this guy,
which again real name Joseph Malinowski. He he says, well,
(05:27):
if you were trying to you were trying to, like
look at all my stuff, then why didn't you do
that before you offered me all this stuff and I
agreed to it? Does he have a point?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Does he have a point?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Like?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Why wouldn't you look ahead of time? Is what he
was saying.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Why wouldn't you look ahead of time if you were
afraid this guy might have a checkered past, Why wouldn't
you look ahead of time before you made an offer
that he agreed to and then you rescind it based
on information after the fact. He's a one legged Florida
man living in a rickety old boat tethered to the
side of a peer we think trying to survive a hurricane.
(06:10):
We think probably has a checkered past. You know, good,
it's a good it's a good point, safe assumption, it's
a good point. How does one get in that situation?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I mean, but he didn't he just like everybody just
wanting him to be a star. Now, it wasn't until
that woman who I went to her Twitter like she
is super duper liberal, Like she is canceled culture personified.
She's the kind of person that would be looking for
anyone in anything just to cancel them. That's the kind
of person she is. However, this guy actually does have
(06:41):
a really pretty nasty past, and I think it's probably
a good thing that we found that out before he
got too famous and then everybody found this out right
m hm, So is this an appropriate use of cancer culture?
Are we trying? Should we in cancel culture? Should we
just allow Lieutenant Dan to get famous? Where are you
at on this?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
This is?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
This is I'm.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Having a real like, I'm having a real moral issue,
I think with a person getting canceled so quickly without
us really knowing them.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
But all of it's true.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I mean that he hasn't denied anything that people are
saying about his past. But I'm also having an issue
just like, Hey, nobody can ever redeem themselves ever, no
matter what they do.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I don't think this guy's a good guy. I think
he's getting famous and notable because he decided to do
something really stupid during a really powerful hurricane. With that
being said, like in the same breadth is that a
good reason to be like, oh yeah, I'm okay with
this guy getting canceled. I think that that's probably not
the right thing to be thinking about. So again, I'm
(07:47):
not trying to be a jerk one way or the
other here, but I'm struggling with my own moral ethics.
I think right now, I'm just like, should I be
rooting for him to succeed? Or am I happy he's canceled?
Or like should a guy like this ever get famous
in the Internet age? Like is there any limits to that?
(08:08):
Kenny's on a phone line four h two five, five,
eight to eleven ten, Kenny, welcome to the show today.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Well, you know, everyone has the past, and including myself,
I'm not perfect. I've not murdered anybody, or I don't
know a whole background.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Does this guy?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Is he a murderer? Does he does he do bad
things to children? I mean, what's what's the background? Real quick?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Well, the most notable arrest that he has was he
had was arrested for assault and battery on a first responder,
like an EMT. He hit them, And yeah, so I
mean I don't have the specific details, but he's okay.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, and he's he's had to take fourteen separate mug
shots for whatever that's worth.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Okay, that's that's not good. And it doesn't mean he's
the worst person in the world. And again, everyone has
a pass and maybe he's just been trying to get
cleaned up and go forward and do the right thing.
We don't know the whole story. Everybody deserves a second chance,
but fourteen much shots, that's that's fourteen chances. Yeah, he's had.
And if someone failed to do the background check before
(09:10):
they started offering them all these moneies.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Right, well that's on them.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Don't you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
And that's the other thing, and Kenny, is it doesn't
it make sense to just do the background check before
you offer, Like should there be some contractual obligation the
fact that they already made like a verbal agreement.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, yes, but if the contracts and plays, then they
got a pony of the cash. That's my opinion.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah, Like within twenty four hours he was offered all
this money and this boat and all this stuff, agreed
to it, and then they this history came out that yeah,
he's had been arrested and detained and had to take
fourteen separate mug shots, and he's got all this history
about you know, assault and battery and his checkered pass
that he hasn't denied. And then all of a sudden,
(09:53):
these the big money people are like, oh, never mind,
we don't want to give you any of this stuff
like that.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It's weird.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Well, we're all sinners, every one of us, you know. Yeah,
and God does not look at one sin as worse
as the next, although as humans we do. But anyway,
I love the show. I think the guy probably deserves
the money. He's doing something that nobody else would want
to do, and he lost his legs somehow tragically. You
(10:20):
don't happily lose away.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
No, Yeah, I want to know more about that.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That seems to be something that we're not one hundred
percent sure about either. I haven't seen like a definitive
reason like why he's missing the lower part of his
left leg, So I'd be interested in hearing about that too.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yep, yep, all right, brother, you have a good day.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Love the show, thanks man soon appreciate it, Kenny, you
have a good day too. He makes a good point.
Second chances for a lot of people. Yeah, he's got
fourteen mug shots. At what point do we forgive and forget?
I mean, I don't know if you forgive or forget
a guy for you know, like stuff like this, But.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
It's a little bit interesting if you want to call in.
You got thoughts on this? Should we be making a
person like this famous kind of thing? Should we be
talking about a person's past immediately upon learning about them
and disqualifying them from fame, fortune, or any goodwill because
they did something stupid in their past or in this
(11:14):
guy's case, multiple times did something stupid. Let's go ahead
and open the phones for this even more. Four h
two five five eight eleven ten. We'll get to more
calls next. On news radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Emery's Sunger on news radio eleven ten, kfab.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Stu's on the line. Four two five five eight eleven ten.
Hey Stu, what do you think about all this?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Well? I think it's a bunch of malarkey, Emery. Honestly,
let's let's take a look at OJ Simpson. How many
millions did he make off of his own name after
he killed two people?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Good point?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
And also, also, I don't have any felonies. I got
a record. That'd be like me winning the lottery and
saying you can't have money because you got a record. Yeah,
very simple.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, And I think that's you. You're You're right on
I thinks to it. At some point we have to
understand that the reason he's getting the money is because
he's on this boat. It wasn't because of anything he
had done in his past. It wasn't because of anything
that he had said in his past or anything that
he you know, you know, was arrested for before. If
you were trying to make him famous because of this
one specific act, I mean, how does that change anything?
(12:26):
Because one angry lady made a TikTok and a post
on social media saying that this is actually not the
great person.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
I don't know, it seems a little weird to me.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Yeah, this council, the council culture, it's you know, it's
all fine and great when they do it, but if
they find out there's something messed up with it, they
want to wash their hands of it immediately.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
It's not that it's there, there's no fairness to it.
It's only about the people they want to cancel. They'll
go out and cancel.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
One exactly exactly. And by the way, you can't vote now,
get out there, vote early, Go Trump the Sammary.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
No problems, good point. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Early voting in many states is open, including here. Now
I'm not much of an early voting type, but if
for convenience sake, if you'd like to vote early, there
are ways to do that. You can find that information online.
Many major legitimate news outlets, not just you know you're
online social media instagrammers running to talk to this guy.
(13:30):
Several outlets, including USA Today, have done full on, full
on profiles five hundred and fifty thousand followers on TikTok
for this guy. He has a TikTok are we did
we get bamboozled here?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Did he?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Did he trick us into making him famous? Because he
was trying It sounds like he was trying to get
go viral. Maybe he did do this not because he
had to. He was doing this because he wanted to
and he knew it was good for clout.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Didn't you say yesterday that he lived somewhere else?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Well, the woman who made that video claimed that his
address at last check was Palm Beach, which would not
be Tampa. Now, a guy named Tampa. Terrence is a
fan of his and also social media guy who created
that GoFundMe which is raised now over forty thousand dollars,
giving this guy forty thousand dollars. I'm not donating any
(14:26):
money to any social media influencer for nothing. I don't
even care. If I donate money, it's going to be
to the Red Crosser, to the people that are going
down and helping out with hurricane relief. I'm not giving
some loser like this no disrespect. But you know, a
guy like this, I'm not giving him money. Why am
I giving him money? Especially when there are people out
there that seemingly want to put him on million dollar
(14:47):
deals for different reasons or whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
And he seems to be a man of faith. He said,
I put my faith in God. I don't put my
faith in man. God told me to come out here
and get a boat. I came out here and got
a boat. Everything he's been telling me the last few days,
I'm doing the right thing. He got my back. I'm
in good shape. I ain't sweating it. End quote. Why
would God? And this is not me trying to tell
(15:14):
him how to believe in his God, But how why
would God tell him to get a boat and be
and put himself in that level of danger if not
to just make him a bunch of money. Like it
seems like it very well may end up one reason
or not, because there's going to be like a barso
stool sports or somebody out there like that that doesn't
really care about you know, background checks or anything like that,
(15:35):
and they're going to give him a platform and have
him become like a online sensation after this, and he's gonna, like,
for better or worse, he's just going to become a guy.
And he's not a young guy either, this guy in
mid fifties, Like he's in his mid fifties. I don't
know the motivations of his heart, but I do know
that I don't want his life. So agreed, I think
(15:56):
I feel kind of neutral to this whole thing because
it's it seems like what he's after and aspiring for
is not something I'm personally interested in. What do you mean,
like the clout, like the social media clout.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
That making that assumption that that's what this is about.
I mean, you know, from a thousand foot view, you think, oh,
this is just a guy down on his luck. Who
the only place he can really live is in this boat,
and he wasn't able to leave, and so he's just
tethered himself to the pier or whatever it was, and
just rowed this thing out. And what a story he survived.
It's amazing. But then you look a little deeper and
you're like, well, maybe he kind of set the deck
(16:30):
this way to, you know, have this be a launching
pad for some sort of like influencer or online career
where he could make money from kickstarters and make money
from people on the internet who enjoy his personality, you know.
So Tampa Mayor Jane.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Caster was asked about this yesterday and a presser I
miss this and she said that officers had rescued him
off the boat and transported him to a shelter, but
within a couple of hours he was back at the boat.
So that must have been either misinformation or he was
taken somewhere else and just made his way back to
the boat. According to Tampa Terrence who you know, a
(17:04):
person from Tampa obviously that has been following along to this, said,
Dan is not leaving the boat for the hurricane. He
is staying on that boat. There's been many attempts to
get him off this boat. People have offered houses, hotel rooms, apartments.
He will not leave. So he had every opportunity to
go do something else and stay somewhere else for this storm.
(17:25):
He was one hundred percent locked in on finishing this
mission of his that he was going to ride this
out on a twenty foot sailboat. And he did and
didn't seem like he was much worse for the wear.
And he says that the boat seems to be fine.
Eric's on the phone line four two, five, five, eight
eleven ten. What do you think, Eric, Hey, I've.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Been watching it since the very beginning, and some kids
came across that guy, like he was just tied up
to a dock, and like three dudes came up and
asked him if he needed help, and he his story
is a little different and what you guys are portraying it.
He said that he was in Colorado in some a
bad situation. He did some bad stuff and God called
(18:08):
him to come to Florida, and he went to Florida
and then he got a boat for twelve hundred bucks
because he was tired of living on the streets. And
then the hurricanes came, and that's.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
That's what that's how I started.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Supposedly, I don't know. I don't know the guy, but
I was just listening to you guys say that. But
it was like, hmm, he feel like he was minding
his business and these guys showed up.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Well, I mean that may be the case, or may
be true to an extent, but this guy is he
says he has been streaming and people have been able
to watch him. I'm wondering, yeah, because he's got some
relationship with this Tampa Terrence guy who's been helping like
promote the story, who's also a TikToker, and Terrence has
(18:48):
basically been there from the start. He might be one
of the guys that you're talking about, but he's been
working with Terrence and they've gotten him on the Weather Channel.
He's gotten a lot of famous for this. But he
apparently he I'm trying to figure out where he was.
But fourteen different times he's been detained, and he has
(19:12):
fourteen different mugshots here. I mean, that's that's interesting. He
was charged with battery against a law enforcement officer that
was in Palm Beach County. Whenever that was I'm not sure,
like they're not really showing oh okay. So May twenty
twenty one, he was arrested for allegedly refusing a request
(19:35):
to leave the brogues down underbar in Lakeworth, Florida. He
caused a disturbance by screaming and smashing glasses from the bar.
He punched a Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy in the
nose who was attempting to handcuff him in that incident.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
That's one.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
In last February, a woman reported she got in an
argument with Malanowski, who had been sitting on a concrete
bench at Lakeworth Beach in Florida, about twenty feet away,
and during the argument, he allegedly approached her and poured
gasoline on the bench directly next to where she was
sitting and tried to set it on fire. So I
don't know that's what the records are saying here. I
(20:13):
don't know how how much of that report is one
hundred percent accurate, Eric, but it definitely sounds like this
guy has been in Florida for some time and he's
definitely been a bit of a He's mixing it up
with some people.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
He said, that he was. He's been in Florida for
five years and he's been homeless the whole time. So
some of that record I think probably has to do
a little bit with the homelessness. Like I know, I
don't know. I was just I was just calling in
because I just heard it.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
I agree.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
I don't know if I would ever donate to a
TikToker fund. Yeah, for them to live their dream.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
But that's all.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah, No, I appreciate it, Eric, I appreciate the call.
Thanks for listening to us. Yeah, And there's some level
of confusion that I have as well on his background.
I'll try to read, you know, some more from different sources,
because it seems like a couple of sources that I've
been like looking at here have different perspectives and I'm
trying to pull those up. But I don't know, man,
it's pretty weird. Who knows. Is there a way that
(21:13):
you and I could do something like this and get
us famous? Oh for sure, we could think of something.
Let's do that next. On news Radio eleven ten Kfab.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
And Maurice Songer on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
We're learning more and more about mental health and how
we can take care of each other and take care
of ourselves. What do you do to take care of
your own mental health? Matt, give me, give me an example.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well, I like to go on walks. It's a good one.
It's good. Like to go on walks. I think walks
are some of the best thinking time. When you go
on a walk, you got to think over something. Just
go on a long walk. It's good. Yeah, And it's
good for your body. Yeah. And two things too that
I am trying to continuously get better at. And one
of them I can control in some and the other
I know necessarily always can. But good sleep and plenty
(22:03):
of water, A lot of water. A lot of times
when you don't get enough sleep, you're dehydrated. That's a
recipe for just a grumpy day, you know, So crush
the water, get to bed early, exercise with a walk,
you know, take care of yourself. Treat yourself like you
would a good friend. That's advice I heard a little
(22:24):
bit too late in life, quite frankly, but I'm embracing it.
I don't even know what that means. You're gonna make
your good friend walk. Treat yourself like you would a
good friend, like like would you know, I think that
we can be really hard on ourselves.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I am all the time. I still that's that's the
biggest thing I struggle with.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Are you really hard on your good friends? No, treat
yourself like a good friend. You deserve it.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Sometimes I do, I'll be honest. Sometimes I do get
a little hasty with some of my my friends, depending
on what.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
They're up to. But yeah, I'm with you. I understand
what you're saying. Now. I like to read.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I haven't read consistent enough lately. But that's something that
really kind of takes an edge off of me. I
don't know, there's a there's a value I think for
me as a I don't know how do I put this.
(23:22):
I'm I'm in an age where I think a lot
of my contemporaries are probably looking. Am I achieving what
I want to achieve in my life? And I don't
necessarily have a lot of those questions. I haven't since
I got this Omaha job I did before. But you
just don't want to like waste this time of your life.
But I think the thing that I'm trying to do
(23:44):
is extend this time of my life. Right Like you
could say that when you get to like your your
mid thirties, you were certainly like middle aged, Like from
your mid thirties to your mid fifties probably like that
would be what I would consider like a middle aged
person who your life can still go eight hundred different
ways during that timeframe. It's about you knowing a lot
more about yourself than you did when you were twenty
(24:05):
or twenty five. And I think this is the most
crucial part of someone's life is when you enter this
phase of like am I doing exactly what I want
to do? Or am I living exactly the way that
I want to live? And identifying those and then trying
to use your resources to achieve your goals and then
having goals worth achieving, which is another thing, right, Yeah,
you can accomplish certain goals, but you should create new
(24:26):
ones because without growth, where's the chase? Where's the fun
in life? Of trying to you know, check those things
off and mark those things down and say, hey, you
know what, actually I would like to.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Do this next.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
You know, people call like stuff like a bucket list,
right like they get to age seventy and then they
make this list of things they want to achieve before
you know, they pass away and it's like seventeen things
and it's like, why weren't you working on this twenty
years ago?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
You could have? You could have.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
It doesn't have to be stuff like fly out of
an airplane or you know, go scuba diving or anything
like that. It could have been anything anything career related,
anything personal related, anything for fun.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
I'm very goal oriented in that way. I'm always kind
of thinking, Okay, now I think I'm ready to tackle
something else. I think that's how I help my own
mental health. You know what helped my mental health quite
a bit though, getting famous on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yeah, you've been blowing up. No I haven't. I want to.
I want to blow up.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
You have.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I want to blow up like boom. I want to
blow up on social media. You want to glow up?
Is what you want? I need to glow up. I
would love to look different. Is there that niptok show
still going on? Can I get on there and then
fix my face? My wife would not like that, actually,
she says, I look, just find the way that I am.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Just find the way you are. See that's you treating
yourself like a good friend.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Yeah, well what would what could we do to make
ourselves famous on social media? Like Lieutenant here, the Joe Melanowski,
the guy who's the guy who has been arrested fourteen
different times.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Well he did something. I think of what he did.
Like what I was thinking about yesterday is you know
those guys who used to get in barrels and go
over the side of waterfalls.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Oh, like Niagara Falls. That usually doesn't end too well,
right now, Why would they do that? Well, this was
a lot of those guys did it before social media.
They did it for the clout. It was all about clout. Yeah,
and that's just what old Lieutenant Dan is doing. Yeah,
well he's like fifty four. They say, okay, so.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
What can we do? I'm not going to get in
the sailboat and ride out a Category three hurricane. While
listening to Christopher Cross.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I do like Christopher Cross, don't don't butcher that song.
It's a really, really nice song. I thought I sang
it really didn't it sounded terrible.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
It sounded good to me and my headphones. Should I
try it again? No, you shouldn't say I'm sorry, I'm
pushing it.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I'm gonna call Christopher Cross himself and tell him to
send our radio station to cease and desist, and we
use some of his songs for my for my bumper music.
So you know your your your actions are detrimental to
the cause of the show.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Here he seems like a gentle man. He is he
is anyway, what do we what do we do here? Like, uh,
do we do?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
We bury one of us alive and see how long
we can be down there?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah, yeah, it's gotta be you know what. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Let's face it, you have to put your body on
the line in some way for this to work. As
a couple of mids, as a couple of male mids,
our options of just getting suddenly famous are basically, do
something dumb and dangerous, like that's what you've got to do.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Absolutely, there's no doubt about that. But what buried alive?
That's an interesting one. It has to be in Omaha,
but it's got to be topical. That's what Lieutenant Dan
figured out. You know he's doing. Some people do something
dumb and dangerous all the time, but it was very topical.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Right, there's a hurricane coming, I'm gonna be in a
boat on the shoreline.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Essentially of this.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
City that this hurricane's happening, and then I'm going to
tell some people about it, and then they're gonna come
find me, and then I'm gonna become famous.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
And he wasn't endangering anyone else that there couldn't have
been an outcry of how dare you uniss? True? That's true.
Who's just him and his boat? That's true. That's true.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
So we can't put other people in danger with whatever
we do. What was something David Blaine did? Like the
holding your breath underwater for like nine minutes? That sounds
like a bad idea. Yeah, that sounds like a really
bad idea. He's like an illusionist too, so I don't
doubt that he can do that. It just also feels like,
is it totally legit when a guy like David Blaine
(28:56):
does something?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
What do you think would happen if you got trapped
in an elevator with David Blaine, like just stuck there?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I mean the door would open at some point, but
I would have no idea where we would be. I mean,
there's as good a chance of those door openings and
we are in like the Pyramids and Giza as there
is me actually being on the floor I was hoping
to be in. He could have done anything. Who's to say,
I'd be incredibly skeptical. Nothing would surprise me. We could
be on Mars and I wouldn't be surprised. Yep, That's where.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I'm at on that. So AnyWho, what do you think
I'm thinking of the whole you know, going over, getting
in a barrel, going over in Niagara Falls, Like, what
can we do around here?
Speaker 5 (29:36):
You know?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Well, what is there to do?
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I mean, I guess you could wait for the Missouri
to get like really high and then do something with that.
But then again, you're just gonna end up somewhere else.
They congratulations, we found Matt Case in a barrel in
Kansas City. He was dead but you know, but you know,
too bad he didn't survive. He would have been TikTok
famous exactly. Well, he is talk famous. He just isn't
(30:01):
around to enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
You know.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
We really missed the boat. Oh, come on, pun intended.
If we would have been more organized for yesterday, we
could have held the biggest, boldest and greatest leaf ericson
Day celebration known to man and could have put us
on the map. That way, we would have at least
gotten on a few local news outlets. File that one away, Matt.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Okay, because I think we talked enough about it yesterday
for me to feel like we can actually do that.
Because there will be another October ninth, several so light
fun hearted pillaging maybe in your future it could be
like put a pin in that conversation. That is something
that we are going to explore further. Take that chat,
(30:46):
GBT and me to be honest, a noted skeptic of
my leaf ericson plans. Yeah, because pillaging the word violent
is in the definition.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
But see, I was actually thinking about this. All we
gotta do is do what a leftist does, change what
definition of pillaging, make it more acceptable.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
That's all we have to do. Are we gonna call
a leftist to do this for us?
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Yeah, we need to think. We need to get a
think tank. We need to get a think tank together,
Project lee ericson Day. Yeah, it Project twenty twenty six,
and it's all about leef ericson day. Matt Walsh has
some contacts we can get a hold of. He's not
a leftist, no I'm saying, but he has some contacts.
He's got some numbers in his phone. Now he can
(31:36):
help us out.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Oh geez, three forty nine more on the way on
He's Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
Heh Marie Sunger on News Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Chuck says, Matt, we should become a storm chasers because
we have no idea what we're doing. In people would
watch that, like we get into a van and we
just start chasing a storm having no idea what we do,
and we just stream our struggles and then our likely
fear as we get too close to a storm.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
That's pretty good, that's not bad. And we got to
be like a lot of these, like you know, people
who become famous, Like we have to have some sort
of like dysfunctional relationships in some sort of way.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
You and we have a very dissunctional relationship, and we
argue about who's driving, who's in charge of the music,
and then we see the storm and all of a
sudden we start like panicking about what we're supposed to do,
and we're like the world's worst storm chasers. And then
like the guy who's in charge of like getting the
actual footage is like missing it, like the tornadoes like
out of frame or whatever. I mean, this could be hilarious. Yeah,
(32:35):
that's actually that's a really good idea. Unfortunately, I don't
know if I want to, you know, get ourselves actually
too close to storm. So maybe we just fake it
with like a green screen like some of these other
TikTokers do and act like we're that person and just
you know, do it for laughs and get famous that
way and may not have the same effect.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Tough to pull off, you know, might want to feel
I'm on location. It sounds like a lot of cost,
overhead cost, you know. I get out like Jim hint cantory,
and I'm like.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
As you can see the funnel cloud is, oh my gosh,
it's right on top of me. And then I like,
then I go flying and nobody ever sees me again.
But we're famous. Yeah, I'm not sure. Jeremy says, scratch
the barrel because we were talking about, you know, getting
in a barrel and just going over a waterflo or something.
(33:27):
Jeremy says, I'm Emory Songer, and this is shopping cart
roof roof shopping cart, which is of course a great
family guy reference Peter Griffin and the guys trying to
emulate Johnny Knoxville Steve O and the rest of the
(33:49):
crew of that TV show that I don't want to
say out loud on the radio station for the kiddies.
And yeah, he just flies off a roof and lands
and basically breaks his neck. It's pretty funny. Gotta gotta
gotta gotta tell you, it's pretty funny. Yeah, I mean
it's uh. I think this is there's a lesson to
(34:12):
be learned by the Lieutenant Dan Saga, And I think
most of the lesson has to do with how can
we harness his energy and make ourselves famous like this?
And and this is the thing that we have to
avoid because anybody that gets like viral like this, they're
immediately getting canceled by somebody. So we have to try
to somehow get as squeaky clean as we possibly can
(34:34):
to avoid cancelation when this were to occur. Right, do
you have any like loose ends you need to worry about?
You might you might want to take care of that before,
you know, you don't want somebody saying, hey, by the way,
he was, you know, he beat me up when we
were in sixth grade, you know, like Billy Madison, you know,
he calls Steve Bussimi and says, Hey, sorry for you know,
(34:55):
beating you up and being real rough on you when
we were in school, and then he crosses his name
off the list of people he's going to go, you know,
take out, and he ends up saving his life at
the end of the movie. Right, I forgot about that. Yeah,
so there Dale's on the line. Dale, what's on your
mind about how we can become famous?
Speaker 7 (35:13):
Hey, thanks for taking my call. Yeah, I think one
of a really good subject you guys could do for
kick off the top to run it a successful talk
show radio program, So the ends and out of the
program and how you guys are successful and go from there.
(35:34):
I like it, Dale, guys.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (35:40):
Yeah, I was gonna say, I think you guys would
do a great job.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Thanks.
Speaker 7 (35:42):
Man, appreciate your show, and I appreciate your your comedy
and your wisdom. And I have all the things that
you do to make us laugh out here.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
I appreciate that, Dale, And thanks so much for listening
to us.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
What do you think, Matt, we become the pen and
teller of radio and just tell people like how it's
done so they can just to do it themselves.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Oh yeah, food food
Speaker 1 (36:04):
For thought, just the Experts on news radio have a
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