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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dana Lashes of surd Truth podcast sponsored by Keltech.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time
for Florida Man.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
That's right, It's time for Florida Man on the Dana Show.
Thrilled to be with you. My name is Craig, Craig Collins.
I will be here today and Monday, and then Dana
will be back on Tuesday. A couple Florida Man stories
out there that I thought were interesting. The first one
a guy robbed a meat market. There are two things
about this story that make it Florida Man and not
just anybody somewhere in the world trying to rob a
(00:36):
meat market. First, he was naked. He showed up there
naked for some reason and tried to rob the meat
market in the nude. A Second, he wasn't completely naked. Actually,
he was wearing a face mask. I don't know why,
and I don't know what the health benefit would be
to the exposure of the rest of the human and
the protection of the face and the nose, but he
(00:56):
went that road.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
He thought, you know, I might as well respect people.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Who knows what people might think I have as far
as illnesses go, Who knows what illnesses other people might have,
I might as well cover up my face wile leaving
everything else out and into the world.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
So I thought this was uniquely funny. Dude, terrible guy.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I wouldn't want to interact with him myself personally, but
I just think that his version of masking is the
most unique I've heard so far.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
And of course the guy is in Florida.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Another story out there that I thought was interesting, a
Florida man was arrested at a public's store, a grocery store,
because he attacked the manager of the store with his
Salvation Army kettle.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
For some reason.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
At some point, a man who was volunteering to collect
money for the Salvation Army outside of the publix gott
in an argument with the manager of the facility and
then attacked him with the donation kettle that.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You're using to actually accept the donations.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I'm assuming there wasn't a lot of money in it
for you to start swinging in at somebody, But nonetheless,
that seems like a bad decision to be made just
across the board. Actually, if you try to go back
from the attacking of the guy with the kettle to
putting it down again, and asking people to put donations
in it because now it's a weapon. It's been used
in a crime, so they're probably going to have to
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confiscate it in some way, a shape or form. But nonetheless,
I just thought that was funny. The guy was like,
now I'm sick of this. I'm done with you. It's
me versus you, Mono amano, and I'm using the only
weapon I have at my disposal, my kettle that people
are putting donations in a one final Florida man story.
And this is certainly the most ridiculous of the three
that I found. And I feel somewhat bad about this
(02:34):
and even telling you about it, because my assumption is
the person involved, I don't know what they look like,
is going to be a pretty big person, because there's
not a lot of ways that this story ends the
way it does if it's a smaller guy. But anyway,
a guy in Florida I went to a restroom at
an outback steakhouse and said he got injured. This story
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actually happened at the very beginning part of this year,
like the first few months of the year twenty twenty five,
not twenty twenty six. Excuse me, of last year, but
it didn't really become a giant news until recently. The
guy said that the toilet that he sat on at
the Outback Steakhouse shattered beneath him when he sat down
on it, and it injured him in a couple different ways.
(03:16):
This has also got to be a shocking thing to
have happened when you sit down on the toilet. He
said he was severely injured, and he was suing for
fifty thousand dollars plus damages. The man's name is Michael Green.
Outback Steakhouse in Florida has said that it was not
their issue, that the toilet should have operated.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Just fine, etc. Etc.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I think this case is still going to be played
out in court somewhere for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And certainly a part.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Of me was amused by the idea that someone shattered
a toilet, and I don't know why. It would be
probably juvenile reasons that I would laugh at this in
any shape or form. But I also do feel terrible
for a person who might go to the restroom in
a public place and have this be the outcome, because
that can't possibly be a thing that you're going to
have any sort of good memories of after that, and
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the only thing about it that would have made it
worse for me, And I apologize for making this low
hanging fruit joke, but I couldn't help it was if
it was someplace like a taco bell outback steakhouse. Is
only so bad a taco bell, you would think would
be even worse as far as shattering a toilet goes.
In his defense, the man said that the toilet was
just a terrible condition. It was something that seemed like
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it was very much destined to break, and he just
was the unlucky last guy to sit on it that
caused it to shatter into a million pieces. Again, I
think that's something that the restaurant is actually going to contest.
What's crazy about this story to me, though, is that
it first happened way back in March, and it's only
really been a case that's in the news now and
in a courtroom at the tail end of last year.
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So it's really something where someone I don't mean to
say it this way, this is not the punt I
intended to be, sat on this story or sat on
this case for a while before inevitably trying to make
it a thing where they're making some money in a courtroom,
And I guess that's the last thing that went through
my brain about this topic. You know, sometimes people sue
because they see an opportunity for a lawsuit, say somebody
(05:10):
who gets burned by coffee, pretending as though they shouldn't
have thought it was hot when it was obviously going
to be really, really hot. And then there's people who
copycat that too and try to make money somewhere else.
Whether this is the person doing it the first time
or someone who thought they saw an opportunity for a lawsuit,
I'd be really afraid if copycats go this road. So
I guess I'm telling anyone out there at any sort
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of restaurant if you see a customer come in ask
to use the restroom and you're pretty sure they have
a sledgehammer hidden on them somewhere that they're going to
try to shatter another.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Toilet and then sue you.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So if this guy makes a lot of money, copycat lawsuits,
I feel like are definitely a potential risk of all involved.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
But yeah, I couldn't get over that.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It's not very often you see a headline in the
news where someone went to the restroom and shattered something
like a toilet, and so again I just feel bad
across the board, me being as nice as I can be.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It's about a story that I also find hilarious.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Quick Break a lot more. Creig Collin's filling in on
the Danish show. This is the Danish Show. My name
is Creig Collins, filling in. Thrilled to be with you.
A bunch of stuff to talk about. CBS News new
Evening anchor Tony Dekoppole talked about hold on. Tony, I
talked about how honest he's going to be about reporting
(06:26):
the news to you, and he said how many people
have talked to him about how dishonest a media was
before it. So let's go ahead and play on his
big intro to being the new anchor of CBS Evening.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Mod has changed since the first person sat in this chair,
But for me, the biggest difference is people do not
trust us like they used to. And it's not just us,
it's all of legacy media.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yep. And I get it.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I get it because I've been hearing about it from
just about everybody for more than twenty years as I've
traveled America on this assignment or that my mom's neighbors
in West Virginia, my own neighbors in New York City,
thousands and thousands of conversations in between.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Sometimes, by the way, it is interesting that he admits
his own neighbors don't fully trust him.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
That doesn't sound good.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I know that he was hand picked, and many say
that he has much more integrity than the average person
at mainstream or legacy media.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Right now continues, So.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
People want to talk to me about our coverage of
NAFTA or the Iraq War. Other times it's all about
Hillary Clinton's emails, or Russia Gate, or more recently, COVID lockdowns,
Hunter Biden's laptop, or the president's fitness for office. The
point is, on too many stories, the press has missed
the story because we've.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Taken it right there. By the way, I'm pretty much
fully on board of them. The press has absolutely missed
the story. They neglected it, they ignored it, they purposefully
silenced it. There's a bunch of ways to change the
word miss to be the honest version of what's happening.
But missed the story is fine. Now he gives some excuses.
I don't love as much.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Getting into account the perspective of advocates and not the
average American, or we put too much weight in the
analysis of academics or elites and not enough on you.
And I know this because at certain points I have
been you. I have felt this way too. I felt
like what I was seeing and hearing on the news
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didn't reflect what I was seeing and hearing in my
own life, and that the most urgent questions simply weren't
being asked.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
So here's my promise to you today and every time
you see me in this chair, you come first, not advertisers,
not politicians, not corporate interests, and yes that does include
the corporate owners of CBS.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I report for you.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Which means I tell you what I know, when I
know it, and how I know it.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
All right, here you go.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Here's the thing about that I don't love when he
couches it on some of the misses and news media
of not in evolving enough the opinion of the everyday person.
He says that, you know, we didn't often enough rely
on your version of events here, And I know he's
not necessarily trying to say it that way, but I
just want the truth. I just want him to tell
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me the things that are real, which is the promise
that he makes at the tail end of this video.
I don't need him to couch it in any kind
of opinion by anybody, or any version of narrative from anyone.
I just need the version of events that is accurate.
And the problem with mainstream media is so very often
you can get a more thorough description of the actual
(09:34):
things going on by going beyond it, by going to
some independent news person or person who claims themself to
be an independent journalist, who is actually showing up and
knocking on doors at places that news media isn't going,
people like Nick Shirley, and you get to judge for
yourself when you see the totality of the video, even
though you know they've edited it, and even though Elon
Musk has now just recently said that they're going to
(09:56):
up the amount of money they give to their content
creators on x which might actually be more money than
you make per video on something like a YouTube. And
sure money will always corrupt people. There are people who
will just one hundred percent try to get things that
go viral for the sake of that and won't necessarily
be reporting anything new to you. It's easier to corrupt
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one individual than it is to corrupt a whole organization.
The problem, though, is these organizations are already fully corrupt,
like none of them actually are independently capable of preventing this,
and I think it'll wind up that CBS is still
among those groups. I think, no matter how much good intention,
how many people are involved from the higher levels, desiring
(10:39):
to make things that are not as one sided as
they've been in the past, you'd have to do a
full bottom up version of recreating the employee structure at
these places, because for so long they've hired people on
one side almost entirely. I've told this story before on
this radio show of filling in for Dana Lash and
other places I've worked ad organizations like this organizations were
(11:02):
a decent amount of the people, no matter what the
product was on air, all had a differing opinion than
the on air product, and all crapped on it constantly.
There were people that, even though you know the strategy
of the company seemed to be one way, that behind
closed doors, would tell you how much they hate it,
how terrible it is. And you don't think those people
end up having an influence on the inevitability of the
(11:25):
product that gets put on your platform, whatever your platform
might be.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Please.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I've even told the story several times of a meeting.
I was in a large meeting with a lot of
people in it, where one of the leaders of the
group said that they were no longer going to hire
any white people, especially any white guys.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
To be producers, which is the job I held at
the time.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
And I looked around at the other people there and
I'm like, that's a weird thing to say out loud.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Granted it was woke, and it was probably popular with
the people who weren't white dudes I like myself, but
you shouldn't say that out even if you do it,
which I think is still wrong. You should just hire
people who have the most merit for the job. You
should hire people who are deserving. I don't care what
you look like. I don't care who you are, man, woman,
you know, white, black, None of that should matter. If
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you're the best candidate for the job, you should get
the opportunity to have the job. That's the right way
to say it. The wrong way is I'm going to
be racist against some employees, or I'm going to be
unfair in some way, and yet it's so commonplace, so
many places do it. And when you hear leaders say
stuff like that, you know that there's a certain amount
of things you might say or believe that are not
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going to make them happy. And so at places like CBS,
the whole point of telling you my own anecdotal experience
is to convince you that it's not going to matter.
If someone at the top of the food chain is
willing to have the product be something that maybe it
hasn't been before. You need all the levels to go
and I know that that means that Bari Weiss or
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anyone else can just spike down story after story and
just say no to this and no to that, and
keep going that direction.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
But it won't matter. At the end of the day.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
It won't matter because you're going to need a whole
lot more people to create the product you want. And
Tony might be the start of it for CBS Evening News,
but he won't be the end of it.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
He won't be the tell all.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
And now all of the news you would probably miss.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
It's time for Dana's Quick five.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
That's right, it's time for a quick five on the
Dana Show. A d Lash Dana lash Radio and x
on Twitter, a great ways to stay connected to her
and everything going on. Anthony Joshua's driver has officially been
charged with four different crimes in the crash.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
That killed two of Joshua's coaches and injured him.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
The person who was responsible for driving the vehicle has
been charged with negligent driving, dangerous driving, driving without you care,
all things about just driving and excess speeds and driving
in ways that are truly reckless, and then finally driving
without a valid driver's license, which seems like that's a
bad thing, But this is the driver of the vehicle
that caused the accident that Anthony Joshua was in the
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backseat of a car and it actually killed two of
his friends. Just sort of a shocking story coming out
of Nigeria. A days after Anthony Joshua had beaten the
crap out of Jake Paul in a fight, he then
wound up in a pretty horrible car accident that injured
him and took the lives of two of his coaches
and two of his It appears a best friend. Another
(14:18):
story out there that I saw that I thought was interesting.
People are doing a California Sober January, which is different
than a dry January. Dry January is where you drink
no alcohol at all and you remain sober the entire time.
California sobriety is where you're high instead of drunk the
entirety of the month. Apparently a lot of people plan
on having a whole bunch of pot if they're not
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going to have any sort of actual alcohol this month,
and they think that's a pretty good thing. They're saying,
this is better than the drinking. I'm not going to
weigh in and tell you which one is better or
which one is worse. I just don't think you can
call yourself sober if you're not sober, And any version
of being intoxicated end or high feels to me to
be the antithesis of what sober is supposed to be.
(15:02):
So I just think it's kind of interesting that people
want to take that version of what other people are
doing and change it ever so slightly so that they
can also feel good about themselves, even if the reality
is you're doing a profoundly different thing. And some of
the people who claim that they're going to do this
actually barely ever smoke, So they're going to do this instead.
I guess another thing that I thought was interesting. I
(15:24):
mentioned it very quickly earlier, but one in eight Americans
have now tried or actually being treated with a GLP
one drug. This is causing a lot of things to
be surprising within our society. One of those is the
amount of people who are spending way less money on groceries.
There are more people who are just having far less
(15:44):
appetite than they had before because of GLP one that
are buying less at the grocery store. I think the
version of a take on this story that I don't
necessarily need to go down, but it's out there, is
that this might mean that grocery items become more expensive
because you know, there's not enough demand and there's too
much supply, and then grocery stores are trying not to
(16:06):
lose money from all the wasted product. Unlike other industries,
we're saying when items don't get bought, prices go down.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
In this world.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
In the world of certain food products, since things are
finite and they go bad, the expectation might actually be
that some of the costs go up, which seems weird
because the ply and demand usually goes the other way.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
How about that to take again that I'm not committing to.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I just thought it was out there as a thing,
and then finally one last one that I thought was amusing.
Rock star Mick Jagger's workout has gone viral. The man
does a whole lot of stuff to keep himself in shape.
I've seen the Rolling Stones in the last few years
in concert, and I can tell you Mick still behaves
a lot like the guy you heard of him being
when he was in his twenties, even though he's now
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in his eighties. These include ballet lessons that he still takes, yoga, pilates, meditation,
all kinds of stuff, and then just regular workouts too,
a few sessions a week at the gym, and he
also does swimming and kickboxing. So the man stays in
about as good as shape as anybody in their eighties
can stay in who's also lived a heck of a light.
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I think Mick Jagger has also done some things and
maybe had some California in januaries himself that may have
taken a different toll in his body, but apparently still
doing okay.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I'm still doing fine.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I'm proud of it, and many people now would like
to do the fitness routine of one Mick Jagger, which
I find amusing because I don't think you're going to
do everything that Mick does in his life. Oh, you're
just going to do the working out. And I would
actually go even a step further. I don't care how
good a shape I'm in. I'm not doing ballet. It's
not something I'm doing. I'll do some of the other stuff.
I'm not going with the ballet thing. It's not for me.
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Quick break a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on
the Dana Show. All right, let's do something that I
plan to do later in the show, but I might
as well do now. CNN is very proud of It's
Very Drunk New Year's Eve show that it's been doing
for years. Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper are the two
main hosts of it.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Andy Cohen at one point.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Broke real bad with Mayor Eric Adams, who is leaving
the Well now has left the office of Mayor in
New York so that Zorro and Mumdani can be sworn
in over a Koran, which is also crazy that that
happened and not a Bible. But nonetheless, here's what Andy
Cohen had to say about Mayor Adams when the rest
of the show seemed to be begging him not to
(18:21):
say stuff, But he said things about Pardons and you know,
don't let the door hit you where the good Lord splitcher.
Basically he didn't say those words, but they're basically the tone.
And I'm no defender of Eric Adams. I just think
it's weird. CNN is so proud of their New Year's
Eve show that's so uniquely terrible. I don't think that
many people watch it, but a whole lot of us
(18:42):
see clips online of how bad things probably got during
the show. Here we go, I like today watching the
final moments of Mayor Adams show on it?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Or are we going on at the block style nod?
I just want to say, don't I mean he got
his Pardens?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Cut you off?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
No, I've seen this.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
No, I'm just saying, great, you got your Martins. Go off.
We'll we'll fiddle with what we have, with what you've
left us.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
A thing with this is so weird. And again they're
proud of this. They put this on every year. And yes,
at some point Cohen, whenever there's an outgoing mayor in
New York also breaks bad in that mayor, but they
just get absolutely blitzed on television for some reason. There
was another another moment that went very viral. A lot
of people on the left are up in arms. They're
upset about this. Both of the hosts seem to not
(19:45):
like this joke, but Amy Sedaris made what I thought
was one of the best jokes of the night. I
want asked a question about where the best place would
be to find a man in twenty twenty six. Of course,
she's standing there with two gay men who are the
co hosts of the show, and the joke she made
uniquely hilarious in the world of all the things we
talk about about men saying that they're women and then
(20:06):
going to women's restrooms and whatnot. I'm burying the lead here,
I'm ruining the joke for you. But a lot of
people all over the internet, and a lot of the
people on the far left, thought this was deeply insensitive
and wrong. I don't know, if you're going from the
rules of humor, this is genuinely funny.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I thought, where's the best place to meet a man
in twenty twenty six?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Really, well, where's a good place to meet a man,
I'd say, in the ladies room, but I don't know
where can you meet a man? Maybe silent? And I
like that.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
You actually even see her cheeks get a little rosy.
She's a comedian, so she probably didn't care that much
about the swing and the miss. With the audience that
was there, that's a great joke. That's all the levels
of a thing that you want in the world of humor.
It is surprising and not what you were expecting the
answer to be, and it's definitely grounded in a lot
of the conversations people have been having over the last
couple of years, one of the biggest one being that
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people on one side of the political aisle would rather
not have people be able to declare that they're women
and then go to have, you know, go to the
restroom in the women's room, even if they're actually biologically
a dude. That feels like that's wrong somehow. That's controversial
in the society we live in to say that though,
and the left things are mean and terrible, which of
course they thought Amy was during that part of the show.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I thought that was really a good.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
And funny moment on the show that again I didn't
actually watch. I would saw later via all the reruns.
I actually saw headlines of news articles talking about that joke,
which is kind of funny because, again, the CNN audience itself,
I don't think is that large, so most of the
other people who wrote about how offensive it was probably
also saw it as a clip and not as a
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real thing they watched at on television at night like Live.
But when I read the headlines, I then went to
go search for the clip, saw it and was like, no,
that's hilarious. Every part of that is exactly what Humor's
supposed to be. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition
of Dana Lash's Absurd Truth podcast.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time
for Florida Man.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
That's right, It's time for Florida Man on the Dana Show.
Thrilled to be with you. My name is Craig, Craig Collins.
I will be here today and Monday, and then Dana
will be back on Tuesday. A couple Florida Man stories
out there that I thought were interesting. The first one
a guy robbed a meat market. There are two things
about this story that make it Florida Man and not
just anybody somewhere in the world trying to rob a
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meat market. First, he was naked. He showed up there
naked for some reason and tried to rob the meat
market in the nude. A Second, he wasn't completely naked. Actually,
he was wearing a face mask. I don't know why,
and I don't know what the health benefit would be
to the exposure of the rest of the human and
the protection of the face and the nose, but he
(00:56):
went that road.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
He thought, you know, I might as well respect people.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Who knows what people might think I have as far
as illnesses go, Who knows what illnesses other people might have,
I might as well cover up my face wile leaving
everything else out and into the world.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
So I thought this was uniquely funny. Dude, terrible guy.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I wouldn't want to interact with him myself personally, but
I just think that his version of masking is the
most unique I've heard so far.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
And of course the guy is in Florida.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Another story out there that I thought was interesting, a
Florida man was arrested at a public's store, a grocery store,
because he attacked the manager of the store with his
Salvation Army kettle.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
For some reason.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
At some point, a man who was volunteering to collect
money for the Salvation Army outside of the publix gott
in an argument with the manager of the facility and
then attacked him with the donation kettle that.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You're using to actually accept the donations.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I'm assuming there wasn't a lot of money in it
for you to start swinging in at somebody, But nonetheless,
that seems like a bad decision to be made just
across the board. Actually, if you try to go back
from the attacking of the guy with the kettle to
putting it down again, and asking people to put donations
in it because now it's a weapon. It's been used
in a crime, so they're probably going to have to
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confiscate it in some way, a shape or form. But nonetheless,
I just thought that was funny. The guy was like,
now I'm sick of this. I'm done with you. It's
me versus you, Mono amano, and I'm using the only
weapon I have at my disposal, my kettle that people
are putting donations in a one final Florida man story.
And this is certainly the most ridiculous of the three
that I found. And I feel somewhat bad about this
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and even telling you about it, because my assumption is
the person involved, I don't know what they look like,
is going to be a pretty big person, because there's
not a lot of ways that this story ends the
way it does if it's a smaller guy. But anyway,
a guy in Florida I went to a restroom at
an outback steakhouse and said he got injured. This story
(02:55):
actually happened at the very beginning part of this year,
like the first few months of the year twenty twenty five,
not twenty twenty six. Excuse me, of last year, but
it didn't really become a giant news until recently. The
guy said that the toilet that he sat on at
the Outback Steakhouse shattered beneath him when he sat down
on it, and it injured him in a couple different ways.
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This has also got to be a shocking thing to
have happened when you sit down on the toilet. He
said he was severely injured, and he was suing for
fifty thousand dollars plus damages. The man's name is Michael Green.
Outback Steakhouse in Florida has said that it was not
their issue, that the toilet should have operated.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Just fine, etc. Etc.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I think this case is still going to be played
out in court somewhere for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And certainly a part.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Of me was amused by the idea that someone shattered
a toilet, and I don't know why. It would be
probably juvenile reasons that I would laugh at this in
any shape or form. But I also do feel terrible
for a person who might go to the restroom in
a public place and have this be the outcome, because
that can't possibly be a thing that you're going to
have any sort of good memories of after that, and
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the only thing about it that would have made it
worse for me, And I apologize for making this low
hanging fruit joke, but I couldn't help it was if
it was someplace like a taco bell outback steakhouse. Is
only so bad a taco bell, you would think would
be even worse as far as shattering a toilet goes.
In his defense, the man said that the toilet was
just a terrible condition. It was something that seemed like
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it was very much destined to break, and he just
was the unlucky last guy to sit on it that
caused it to shatter into a million pieces. Again, I
think that's something that the restaurant is actually going to contest.
What's crazy about this story to me, though, is that
it first happened way back in March, and it's only
really been a case that's in the news now and
in a courtroom at the tail end of last year.
(04:48):
So it's really something where someone I don't mean to
say it this way, this is not the punt I
intended to be, sat on this story or sat on
this case for a while before inevitably trying to make
it a thing where they're making some money in a courtroom,
And I guess that's the last thing that went through
my brain about this topic. You know, sometimes people sue
because they see an opportunity for a lawsuit, say somebody
(05:10):
who gets burned by coffee, pretending as though they shouldn't
have thought it was hot when it was obviously going
to be really, really hot. And then there's people who
copycat that too and try to make money somewhere else.
Whether this is the person doing it the first time
or someone who thought they saw an opportunity for a lawsuit,
I'd be really afraid if copycats go this road. So
I guess I'm telling anyone out there at any sort
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of restaurant if you see a customer come in ask
to use the restroom and you're pretty sure they have
a sledgehammer hidden on them somewhere that they're going to
try to shatter another.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Toilet and then sue you.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So if this guy makes a lot of money, copycat lawsuits,
I feel like are definitely a potential risk of all involved.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
But yeah, I couldn't get over that.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It's not very often you see a headline in the
news where someone went to the restroom and shattered something
like a toilet, and so again I just feel bad
across the board, me being as nice as I can be.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It's about a story that I also find hilarious.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Quick Break a lot more. Creig Collin's filling in on
the Danish show. This is the Danish Show. My name
is Creig Collins, filling in. Thrilled to be with you.
A bunch of stuff to talk about. CBS News new
Evening anchor Tony Dekoppole talked about hold on. Tony, I
talked about how honest he's going to be about reporting
(06:26):
the news to you, and he said how many people
have talked to him about how dishonest a media was
before it. So let's go ahead and play on his
big intro to being the new anchor of CBS Evening.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Mod has changed since the first person sat in this chair,
But for me, the biggest difference is people do not
trust us like they used to. And it's not just us,
it's all of legacy media.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yep. And I get it.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I get it because I've been hearing about it from
just about everybody for more than twenty years as I've
traveled America on this assignment or that my mom's neighbors
in West Virginia, my own neighbors in New York City,
thousands and thousands of conversations in between.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Sometimes, by the way, it is interesting that he admits
his own neighbors don't fully trust him.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
That doesn't sound good.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I know that he was hand picked, and many say
that he has much more integrity than the average person
at mainstream or legacy media.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Right now continues, So.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
People want to talk to me about our coverage of
NAFTA or the Iraq War. Other times it's all about
Hillary Clinton's emails, or Russia Gate, or more recently, COVID lockdowns,
Hunter Biden's laptop, or the president's fitness for office. The
point is, on too many stories, the press has missed
the story because we've.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Taken it right there. By the way, I'm pretty much
fully on board of them. The press has absolutely missed
the story. They neglected it, they ignored it, they purposefully
silenced it. There's a bunch of ways to change the
word miss to be the honest version of what's happening.
But missed the story is fine. Now he gives some excuses.
I don't love as much.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Getting into account the perspective of advocates and not the
average American, or we put too much weight in the
analysis of academics or elites and not enough on you.
And I know this because at certain points I have
been you. I have felt this way too. I felt
like what I was seeing and hearing on the news
(08:19):
didn't reflect what I was seeing and hearing in my
own life, and that the most urgent questions simply weren't
being asked.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
So here's my promise to you today and every time
you see me in this chair, you come first, not advertisers,
not politicians, not corporate interests, and yes that does include
the corporate owners of CBS.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I report for you.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Which means I tell you what I know, when I
know it, and how I know it.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
All right, here you go.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Here's the thing about that I don't love when he
couches it on some of the misses and news media
of not in evolving enough the opinion of the everyday person.
He says that, you know, we didn't often enough rely
on your version of events here, And I know he's
not necessarily trying to say it that way, but I
just want the truth. I just want him to tell
(09:13):
me the things that are real, which is the promise
that he makes at the tail end of this video.
I don't need him to couch it in any kind
of opinion by anybody, or any version of narrative from anyone.
I just need the version of events that is accurate.
And the problem with mainstream media is so very often
you can get a more thorough description of the actual
(09:34):
things going on by going beyond it, by going to
some independent news person or person who claims themself to
be an independent journalist, who is actually showing up and
knocking on doors at places that news media isn't going,
people like Nick Shirley, and you get to judge for
yourself when you see the totality of the video, even
though you know they've edited it, and even though Elon
Musk has now just recently said that they're going to
(09:56):
up the amount of money they give to their content
creators on x which might actually be more money than
you make per video on something like a YouTube. And
sure money will always corrupt people. There are people who
will just one hundred percent try to get things that
go viral for the sake of that and won't necessarily
be reporting anything new to you. It's easier to corrupt
(10:18):
one individual than it is to corrupt a whole organization.
The problem, though, is these organizations are already fully corrupt,
like none of them actually are independently capable of preventing this,
and I think it'll wind up that CBS is still
among those groups. I think, no matter how much good intention,
how many people are involved from the higher levels, desiring
(10:39):
to make things that are not as one sided as
they've been in the past, you'd have to do a
full bottom up version of recreating the employee structure at
these places, because for so long they've hired people on
one side almost entirely. I've told this story before on
this radio show of filling in for Dana Lash and
other places I've worked ad organizations like this organizations were
(11:02):
a decent amount of the people, no matter what the
product was on air, all had a differing opinion than
the on air product, and all crapped on it constantly.
There were people that, even though you know the strategy
of the company seemed to be one way, that behind
closed doors, would tell you how much they hate it,
how terrible it is. And you don't think those people
end up having an influence on the inevitability of the
(11:25):
product that gets put on your platform, whatever your platform
might be.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Please.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I've even told the story several times of a meeting.
I was in a large meeting with a lot of
people in it, where one of the leaders of the
group said that they were no longer going to hire
any white people, especially any white guys.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
To be producers, which is the job I held at
the time.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
And I looked around at the other people there and
I'm like, that's a weird thing to say out loud.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Granted it was woke, and it was probably popular with
the people who weren't white dudes I like myself, but
you shouldn't say that out even if you do it,
which I think is still wrong. You should just hire
people who have the most merit for the job. You
should hire people who are deserving. I don't care what
you look like. I don't care who you are, man, woman,
you know, white, black, None of that should matter. If
(12:09):
you're the best candidate for the job, you should get
the opportunity to have the job. That's the right way
to say it. The wrong way is I'm going to
be racist against some employees, or I'm going to be
unfair in some way, and yet it's so commonplace, so
many places do it. And when you hear leaders say
stuff like that, you know that there's a certain amount
of things you might say or believe that are not
(12:30):
going to make them happy. And so at places like CBS,
the whole point of telling you my own anecdotal experience
is to convince you that it's not going to matter.
If someone at the top of the food chain is
willing to have the product be something that maybe it
hasn't been before. You need all the levels to go
and I know that that means that Bari Weiss or
(12:51):
anyone else can just spike down story after story and
just say no to this and no to that, and
keep going that direction.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
But it won't matter. At the end of the day.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
It won't matter because you're going to need a whole
lot more people to create the product you want. And
Tony might be the start of it for CBS Evening News,
but he won't be the end of it.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
He won't be the tell all.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
And now all of the news you would probably miss.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
It's time for Dana's Quick five.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
That's right, it's time for a quick five on the
Dana Show. A d Lash Dana lash Radio and x
on Twitter, a great ways to stay connected to her
and everything going on. Anthony Joshua's driver has officially been
charged with four different crimes in the crash.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
That killed two of Joshua's coaches and injured him.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
The person who was responsible for driving the vehicle has
been charged with negligent driving, dangerous driving, driving without you care,
all things about just driving and excess speeds and driving
in ways that are truly reckless, and then finally driving
without a valid driver's license, which seems like that's a
bad thing, But this is the driver of the vehicle
that caused the accident that Anthony Joshua was in the
(13:56):
backseat of a car and it actually killed two of
his friends. Just sort of a shocking story coming out
of Nigeria. A days after Anthony Joshua had beaten the
crap out of Jake Paul in a fight, he then
wound up in a pretty horrible car accident that injured
him and took the lives of two of his coaches
and two of his It appears a best friend. Another
(14:18):
story out there that I saw that I thought was interesting.
People are doing a California Sober January, which is different
than a dry January. Dry January is where you drink
no alcohol at all and you remain sober the entire time.
California sobriety is where you're high instead of drunk the
entirety of the month. Apparently a lot of people plan
on having a whole bunch of pot if they're not
(14:40):
going to have any sort of actual alcohol this month,
and they think that's a pretty good thing. They're saying,
this is better than the drinking. I'm not going to
weigh in and tell you which one is better or
which one is worse. I just don't think you can
call yourself sober if you're not sober, And any version
of being intoxicated end or high feels to me to
be the antithesis of what sober is supposed to be.
(15:02):
So I just think it's kind of interesting that people
want to take that version of what other people are
doing and change it ever so slightly so that they
can also feel good about themselves, even if the reality
is you're doing a profoundly different thing. And some of
the people who claim that they're going to do this
actually barely ever smoke, So they're going to do this instead.
I guess another thing that I thought was interesting. I
(15:24):
mentioned it very quickly earlier, but one in eight Americans
have now tried or actually being treated with a GLP
one drug. This is causing a lot of things to
be surprising within our society. One of those is the
amount of people who are spending way less money on groceries.
There are more people who are just having far less
(15:44):
appetite than they had before because of GLP one that
are buying less at the grocery store. I think the
version of a take on this story that I don't
necessarily need to go down, but it's out there, is
that this might mean that grocery items become more expensive
because you know, there's not enough demand and there's too
much supply, and then grocery stores are trying not to
(16:06):
lose money from all the wasted product. Unlike other industries,
we're saying when items don't get bought, prices go down.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
In this world.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
In the world of certain food products, since things are
finite and they go bad, the expectation might actually be
that some of the costs go up, which seems weird
because the ply and demand usually goes the other way.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
How about that to take again that I'm not committing to.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I just thought it was out there as a thing,
and then finally one last one that I thought was amusing.
Rock star Mick Jagger's workout has gone viral. The man
does a whole lot of stuff to keep himself in shape.
I've seen the Rolling Stones in the last few years
in concert, and I can tell you Mick still behaves
a lot like the guy you heard of him being
when he was in his twenties, even though he's now
(16:47):
in his eighties. These include ballet lessons that he still takes, yoga, pilates, meditation,
all kinds of stuff, and then just regular workouts too,
a few sessions a week at the gym, and he
also does swimming and kickboxing. So the man stays in
about as good as shape as anybody in their eighties
can stay in who's also lived a heck of a light.
(17:08):
I think Mick Jagger has also done some things and
maybe had some California in januaries himself that may have
taken a different toll in his body, but apparently still
doing okay.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I'm still doing fine.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I'm proud of it, and many people now would like
to do the fitness routine of one Mick Jagger, which
I find amusing because I don't think you're going to
do everything that Mick does in his life. Oh, you're
just going to do the working out. And I would
actually go even a step further. I don't care how
good a shape I'm in. I'm not doing ballet. It's
not something I'm doing. I'll do some of the other stuff.
I'm not going with the ballet thing. It's not for me.
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Quick break a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on
the Dana Show. All right, let's do something that I
plan to do later in the show, but I might
as well do now. CNN is very proud of It's
Very Drunk New Year's Eve show that it's been doing
for years. Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper are the two
main hosts of it.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Andy Cohen at one point.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Broke real bad with Mayor Eric Adams, who is leaving
the Well now has left the office of Mayor in
New York so that Zorro and Mumdani can be sworn
in over a Koran, which is also crazy that that
happened and not a Bible. But nonetheless, here's what Andy
Cohen had to say about Mayor Adams when the rest
of the show seemed to be begging him not to
(18:21):
say stuff, But he said things about Pardons and you know,
don't let the door hit you where the good Lord splitcher.
Basically he didn't say those words, but they're basically the tone.
And I'm no defender of Eric Adams. I just think
it's weird. CNN is so proud of their New Year's
Eve show that's so uniquely terrible. I don't think that
many people watch it, but a whole lot of us
(18:42):
see clips online of how bad things probably got during
the show. Here we go, I like today watching the
final moments of Mayor Adams show on it?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Or are we going on at the block style nod?
I just want to say, don't I mean he got
his Pardens?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Cut you off?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
No, I've seen this.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
No, I'm just saying, great, you got your Martins. Go off.
We'll we'll fiddle with what we have, with what you've
left us.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
A thing with this is so weird. And again they're
proud of this. They put this on every year. And yes,
at some point Cohen, whenever there's an outgoing mayor in
New York also breaks bad in that mayor, but they
just get absolutely blitzed on television for some reason. There
was another another moment that went very viral. A lot
of people on the left are up in arms. They're
upset about this. Both of the hosts seem to not
(19:45):
like this joke, but Amy Sedaris made what I thought
was one of the best jokes of the night. I
want asked a question about where the best place would
be to find a man in twenty twenty six. Of course,
she's standing there with two gay men who are the
co hosts of the show, and the joke she made
uniquely hilarious in the world of all the things we
talk about about men saying that they're women and then
(20:06):
going to women's restrooms and whatnot. I'm burying the lead here,
I'm ruining the joke for you. But a lot of
people all over the internet, and a lot of the
people on the far left, thought this was deeply insensitive
and wrong. I don't know, if you're going from the
rules of humor, this is genuinely funny.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I thought, where's the best place to meet a man
in twenty twenty six?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Really, well, where's a good place to meet a man,
I'd say, in the ladies room, but I don't know
where can you meet a man? Maybe silent? And I
like that.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
You actually even see her cheeks get a little rosy.
She's a comedian, so she probably didn't care that much
about the swing and the miss. With the audience that
was there, that's a great joke. That's all the levels
of a thing that you want in the world of humor.
It is surprising and not what you were expecting the
answer to be, and it's definitely grounded in a lot
of the conversations people have been having over the last
couple of years, one of the biggest one being that
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people on one side of the political aisle would rather
not have people be able to declare that they're women
and then go to have, you know, go to the
restroom in the women's room, even if they're actually biologically
a dude. That feels like that's wrong somehow. That's controversial
in the society we live in to say that though,
and the left things are mean and terrible, which of
course they thought Amy was during that part of the show.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I thought that was really a good.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
And funny moment on the show that again I didn't
actually watch. I would saw later via all the reruns.
I actually saw headlines of news articles talking about that joke,
which is kind of funny because, again, the CNN audience itself,
I don't think is that large, so most of the
other people who wrote about how offensive it was probably
also saw it as a clip and not as a
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real thing they watched at on television at night like Live.
But when I read the headlines, I then went to
go search for the clip, saw it and was like, no,
that's hilarious. Every part of that is exactly what Humor's
supposed to be. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition
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