Absurd Truth: Climate Change Or al-Qaeda?

An Air Force Lt. Col claims “Fighting climate change is just as dangerous as al-Qaeda or the Taliban”. Meanwhile, President Trump hides pictures of Barack Obama and Bill Clinton in The White House.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time
for Florida Man. That's right, it's time for Florida Man
on the Dana Show.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
My name is Craig Collins, filling in d Lash Dana
Lash Radio and X on Twitter to stay connected to
her radio. Craig Z if you want to be one
of like three hundred people that follow me A little
bit less of a social media presence than she has,
but I do like the fact that people follow me
after I pop in on this show.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Two quick Florida stories that I thought were real interesting. First,
a Florida man was caught on bigamy charges because he
was married to three different women in different counties. Henry
Betsy Junior is the guy's name. Apparently like no regard
for his own personal day to day safety, because having
three wives in three different counties had to be a trouble,

(01:00):
had to be a problem, like a challenging thing, and
he didn't seem to care at all about that. It's
also illegal, so that part's not so great. ABC Action News,
I imagine they're on your side, were the first to
report about this, Michelle, Brandy, and Tanya discovered that they
were all married to the same dude. And obviously this
demonstrates some flaws with the marriaging marriage licensing system in Florida.

(01:23):
But I can never understand this. As a guy who's
happily married to one woman, I couldn't envision giving another
person the authority to think that they were married to me,
you know, much less anything that would come with any
sort of mistress situation. But this guy had three fully
vested wives in his life, all thought they were sharing
his life with him.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Darn it. A whole lot of this is just sad.
I feel bad for the women.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
I want to make sure I say that upfront, but honestly,
the challenge of living that life and he's been doing
that since twenty twenty and it took five years for
three women to.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Catch him like that sounds insane.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
This guy probably is uniquely good at figuring out how
to compartmentalize and deal with things, because I think my
wife would figure out if I had, say, a pet
she didn't know about, a much less a human being
in my life that she was unaware of. And actually
I love that my wife has joked with me for
years that if I were to cheat on her, she'd know,
like a sixth sense, like something would go off in

(02:22):
her brain be like Craig is cheating on me now,
and then she would immediately find me and it would
be over. That is the threat I get that I
somewhat believe, and I think a lot of women might
have that sixth sense as well. So it's just crazy
to think that this guy successfully kept three marriages going
for as long as he did. Honestly, some sort of
gold medal deserves to be considered again with the judgment

(02:44):
and the understanding that he's a horrible person who doesn't
care about the emotions of people in his life. But
there's some level of awe that I have for that story.
All right, another one out there, probably too much awe.
I'm probably in trouble already for this. A litterbug in
Tallahassee was arrested accused of shamelessly illegally dumping just ridiculous
amounts of trash. What I think is interesting about stories

(03:06):
like this, first and foremost, is it makes me mad
if you're driving and someone just like chuck something out
a window and it's a little bit of trash. But
if you watch somebody just blatantly disregard the society we
live in and the people around them and just like
chuck their burger King or something immediately out of the window.
No fault of Burger King, by the way, I don't

(03:27):
think they're a sponsor of the show, but it's not
their problem if someone is littering with their stuff. Nonetheless,
what I think is so amazing about this is this
guy went way above and beyond that, just absolutely dumping stuff,
mostly in Georgia. So the Florida man decided to go
to a different place and drop all of his trash,
just dump it on the side of the road, dump
it in all kinds of places it shouldn't be, and

(03:49):
eventually you're arrested for that. July twelve, twenty twenty five,
he was hired to remove junk from a home in
Thomas County in Florida. Instead of deposing disposing of the debris,
he took a shortcut, illegally dumping the garbage along Walden
Road on.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
His way back to Florida.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
So the dude just like just threw everything out of
the car window and there was just tons and tons
of trash all the way down the street. And I
don't know why he thought this would be fine. And again,
this is the kind of thing that would sort of
make me want to ram a car in front of
me if I saw him doing it.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
I wouldn't actually do it.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
I just want to make sure that's out there too,
so no one calls the authorities and tries to get
me in trouble for, you know, doing a pit maneuver
on a vehicle that's just dumping trash. But I would
be tempted, because again, one little piece of trash makes
me mad. I can't imagine this version, but it does
also seem like a uniquely Florida man solution to a problem.
The guy agrees to pick up all the trash, drives
to Georgia to do it. He's got all the trash

(04:46):
in his vehicle and he's like, man, what do I
do now? I had no plan after this point. I
just wanted to take the money and I was going
to take the garbage. And now all of a sudden,
I don't know, you know the end of this path.
So let me just go ahead and throw everything out
of the car and that'll be fun. This will be great,
all right, we'll take a break. A lot coming up
in a little bit. Greg Collins golling In on.

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Speaker 2 (06:03):
Want to shift ears to something else. I think this
is interesting.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Fighting climate change is just as dangerous as El Kaeda
or the Taliban. This is according to an actual military
individual who said this into a microphone.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
And this is insane.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
This is beyond stupid and one hundred percent pushed by
politics and politicians and not reality. And honestly, I'm such
a defender of so many of our military that it's
so hard when you hear someone with a connection or
literal time served in our military, this person, Lieutenant Colonel
William Atkins saying something this ridiculous that would make most

(06:42):
military people mad if they hurt it. But I want
to play this because Tom Elliott of Grabian put it
out on social media, and it's absolutely the kind of
thing you should be paying attention to. This was said
into a microphone and c Span earlier today, and it's
just ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
And most of my military service was conducting humanitarian aid
missions following natural disasters that were made worse by climate change.
So imagine if you will having to carry one hundred
thousand body bags in your aircraft due to flooding and

(07:19):
mudslides around the globe, as I had to imagine losing
dear friends when their aircraft crashed while fighting wildfires. In
California and another one in Australia. As I have imagine
retiring from the military after twenty two years, thinking that

(07:41):
you're safe and moving home to Tampa, Florida, and immediately
being hit with back to back hurricanes, record storm surge.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Right here, I'll stop it here. I think you get
the point.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
And I wanted to be respectful since he's a military guy,
and I tremendously respect our military. But what's said is
that he's been given a bad guy. I think that
very often military have an understanding that there's a good
guy and a bad guy, and for whatever reason, climate
change has been the bad guy that Lieutenant Colonel William
Atkins has been convinced exists to a degree that I'm

(08:15):
not saying it doesn't, you know, but it doesn't create
all the weather events that they claim it does. But
so now he wants to fight climate change because he's
seen horrible things. And I feel tremendously bad for any
first responders who show up after horrific things.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Happen in our society.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
But it's ridiculous to say that fighting climate change is
as dangerous as fighting al Qaeda, the Taliban, anyone else.
And it demonstrates a lack of experience in that world
from him saying that his military career was by and
large him doing this for the Air Force, you know,
responding to climate and weather events. Yes, it's tragic. Yes

(08:51):
there's a horrific you know, loss of life that occurs
in these situations. But it's uniquely different when I talk
to men and women who served our country fighting in
active war, people that I know that have fought in
everything from Vietnam to more recent conflicts, and telling you
what it's like to lose someone a friend in that way,

(09:11):
and how difficult it is to move on and keep
fighting the actual enemy, the enemy you can see, the
tangible enemy you can touch, and then by and large,
and I know this is true of a lot of
military people. I guess maybe not true of this lieutenant
colonel who's sounding more and more like a politician than
a member of our military, which I think is what
he is. But essentially saying that the government is not

(09:32):
the solution to those problems. Yes, they are, the military
men and women who fight and protect our freedom a
solution to all kinds of problems, but the overarching government
above us isn't going to do the good work we
want them to do if we ask them to, and
so believing that the fix to climate change is government
is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard anyone say,

(09:53):
because they're willfully ignoring every version of how that winds
up not being true. But this guy is going to
go viral. He's going to be put all over the
place by liberal media as a military man saying that
climate change is as bad as al Qaeda, And I
assume that most military who hear it are going to
scoff and laugh and be somewhat upset or mad listening

(10:14):
to this individual say this stuff and also say to
themselves something that me is, as someone who never served
our country, feels awful saying. But it sounds like his
unique military experience is jading his position more than it
deserves to be. If he had fought in the conflicts
that his fellow servicemen and women have fought in that
he's comparing them to, I doubt very much he'd compare

(10:35):
anything out of those kind of fights, because truthfully, there's
nothing like it fighting global warming, climate change, any of
that stuff, not even remotely close I imagine out of
this fight.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
And I don't know for sure.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
I just know from what I've been told by men
and women who fight the real fight, how horrific that is.
So again, no matter what you think of him saying
his bad experience and body bags and all the things
he's dealt with, it's just it's utterly different to be
responding to a natural tragedy where there seems like there
was no way to prevent it, and absolutely the government

(11:08):
has no interest in actually doing that. They just want
more of your money to embezzle and steal for other
stuff than a fight where you're fighting against a real
enemy who's firing bullets in your direction and who's taken
the life of your friend. It's surreal to hear anyone
with a military connection say that. So it actually makes
me mad enough that I'm also going to take a break.
And I have no connection to it, like friends and

(11:29):
family that I know that have served, and also a
lot of the people I've talked to over the years
being in the role in media that I've been in,
and I imagine it's making a lot of people mad,
but it is.

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It's something the Left will prop.

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Speaker 2 (13:14):
And now all of the news you would probably miss.
It's time for Dana's Quick five.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
That's right, this is the Dana Show. It's time for
the Quick five. My name is Craig Collins, filling in.
Dana is back tomorrow a d Lash Dana Lash Radio
on X on Twitter to stay connected to all things
going on for her. A great social media pages all
run by producer Steven and others, and Dana of course
herself puts a lot of that out there too, just
really great stuff. Follow them in any form of social media.

(13:41):
Let's do some things here. First, Apple.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
I love this. They met with the President.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
They announced they're going to create a bunch of stuff
here in the United States, billions of dollars. That's with
a b, as Trump actually said while announcing it will
be invested, And all of a sudden they're up. Apple
has its best week since July twenty twenty after their
visit to the White House. Things are going well in
the world of Apple. This is a good news for them,
not that I think that they needed it. I loved

(14:08):
when President Trump, by the way, are ripped on Tim Cook.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
I don't know if a lot of.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
People heard that at the end of what he was
saying about him, Tim Cook is not necessarily necessarily athletic.
Excuse me, apparently I can't really speak. That was pretty
funny when that happened. So if you didn't hear that,
that is something that you probably want to hear.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
You know what, I'll play it. I'll go ahead and
play that because I like that so much.

Speaker 5 (14:33):
Here we go Ukraine, getting it settled, getting it in.
It should have never started, would have never started. If
I were president, who would have never started. I want
to thank Tim Cook. He's a great, great man, a visionary,
a businessman, just about every quality you can have other
than athleticism. I'm looking at him. I'm not one hundred

(14:54):
percent sure about you a good athlete. I'll bet you're
pretty good. I think he's good at everything, but I want.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
To that's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
But again that was Trump ripping on Tim Cook. But
apparently Apple doing quite well, and maybe Tim's hitting the gym.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Other quick five things out there. Smartphones are ruining our brains.
There's an effective study demonstrating how bad this is, especially
for young people. So they looked at different qualities of
people from twenty fourteen to now. So they're already a
world where social media and a lot of things were
already ubiquitous, but maybe not necessarily the situation where say,

(15:29):
every single human being I was glued to the phone
the way they are now. Conscientiousness, neuroticism, agreeableness, and extraversion
were four different traits that were studied. Conscientiousness is the
most important one, they say, to just being a quality
human being, someone who cares about, say, your work, all
kinds of things. Sixteen to thirty nine year olds in

(15:51):
the tank used to be about fifty percent of people
who ranked well in that regard. Now it's only about
thirty percent. Sixty plus stayed relatively the same. Forty to
fifty nine went down about ten points from fifty to forty,
but sixteen to thirty nine in the trash neuroticism, they
skyrocketed upward again. People about sixty years old or so

(16:13):
stayed relatively flat. People that were forty to fifty nine
went up a little bit, but people that are sixteen
to thirty nine skyrocketed from about sixty percent to seventy
five percent of that group. Again, agreeableness way down in
the tank, extraversion way in the tank. All these things
not surprising, fairly typical of a world where you're addicted

(16:33):
to your phone.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
But the data says how bad this is. I know
one seems to care.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
I guess the good news here, by the way, is
one other quick five story. Fourteen percent of kids are
happy to go back to school. Sixteen or sixteen percent
are very sad, but fourteen percent say that it's awesome,
They're very excited, they look forward to it.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
A whole lot of people in the middle.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
On this study, twenty three percent said they have no
answer to the question, which is never good. I don't
think that that's good. I think you need to at
least answer, tell me yes, tell me no. Maybe that's
the first thing we do to get back some of
the mental capability of kids, is you just.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Make them say yes or no to one of the questions.
They can't say. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
You gotta at least give me an opinion. Everybody else
has one. Let's make the kids have one sooner. Now,
I don't know that actually sounds terrible too, But anyway,
A thousand adults were asked that question about their children,
and a whole lot said that their kids are very
excited to go.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Back to school.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
The one flaw in this study is they ask the parents,
because some of those parents might a lie. Some of
them might think that somehow it's a reflection on them
if the kid doesn't want to go to school.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
So then they say, ah, it's great.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
I just find it funny and I love that a
lot of people are upset about this. President Trump did
move a portrait of Barack Obama into a quote hidden stairwell.
Not that it's actually hidden, but it's not something that
you're going to see easily on a tour of the
White House. Now, he didn't just move Obama, by the way,
he moved a lot of other presidents too.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Both Bushes had their portraits moved.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
And I love the fact that mainstream media is obsessed
about this because almost no one gives even a little
bit of a crap. They don't care. They're not going
to experience this are they're not going to notice it.
I doubt many people who take a tour of the
White House say to themselves walking into the door, can't
wait to see that Obama portrait, can't wait to see that,

(18:22):
especially now well Trump is in office. I imagine the
people who gravitate towards seeing the White House either don't
have much of a political opinion on either side or
are very happy with the current person in charge. Those
are the two reasons that you'd choose to visit now.
I don't think a whole lot of people who are
going that actually would get access to that place, or
people who overwhelmingly hate the current president, because I wouldn't

(18:45):
want them in that building. But nonetheless, what I think
is most important about it is how this is a
non story that's been turned into a media story because
people want to shape something about Trump and Obama as
a negative. Although, to be honest, after the latest information
that came out about how influential Barack Obama specifically was

(19:06):
in the Russia Russia Russia hoax, I imagine things are
not great between the former president and the current one,
no matter how much video from months ago seemed to
demonstrate that they could be on friendly terms sitting and
talking to each other, because honestly, at some point you
would hope that people like Obama or Clinton are thrown
in jail for the things that they've done to try

(19:29):
to circumvent the authority of the president and the will
of the people when the Russia Russia Russia hoax or
now and actually you know it here I'll touch on
this real quick, and I don't mean to rant.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
I'm thrilled to be on the Dana Show.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
I love filling in for her, and occasionally the temptation
is there to just dive deeper into a topic that
I have a lot of opinions on, because darn at
this platform so large.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
I get a shot at this.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
I do believe that there are two things that are
not mutually lusive that can both be true about the
Epstein stuff. I believe that Democrats had so much time
and power with the Epstein's story, and they could have
done anything they wanted with it. They could have released
all the information that you couldn't possibly have any more
dirt on Trump that's hidden because Democrats would have put

(20:16):
it out there.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
A lot of people believe that.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
That's a very common belief, I think within conservative media.
I also believe that they could have manipulated whatever they
left to exist to essentially try to make it look
worse for Trump and conservatives.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
Than it actually was.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
That's a little less common of a belief, but I
think a lot of people agree that there's a possibility
of that. The other thing that I think is true, though,
and this is where I land I think in the
minority of people on this topic, is that it might
just all be a giant hoax. The remnants of the
Epstein story surrounding details, not the actual core of that information.

(20:53):
That you have a horrible pedophile that must have operated
a ring of other individuals to do horrible stuff. That
part is unique to this story. But the idea that
Democrats are now using it as the most valuable shot
that they take at Trump to try to undercut his
power and authority it sounds very similar to Russia. It

(21:13):
sounds very similar to all these other hoaxes that they
use to try to prevent the president in his first
year in office and having the type of influence and
popularity that he should have.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
And so it seems like Democrats are leaning into this.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Their plan with Trump all along has always been to
undercut his value, to attack him, to convince people that
he's bad somehow so that his influence is weakened once
he actually wins the office, that they do everything they
can to prevent him from winning. So I can believe
that I think there might be more information I want
about the Epstein story, will also believing that by and

(21:49):
large what you have currently is more Russia hoax than
the reality of the story that existed a few years ago,
when Democrats had every ability to put whatever they wanted
out in the public space and chose not to do it,
and now pretend as though they never had that authority
to begin with. It's also very similar to how Harris
tried to run her presidential campaign pretending that she wasn't

(22:10):
the current vice president in charge of things with Biden's
brain being broken, as she said what she would do
if she won the office of president, which made no sense.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
But it's the same thing.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Democrats ignore the moments when they're in power because the
things that they actually want to see happen. They don't
create those things, they don't make those things happen. They
just want the controversy without the results, and they seem
to be doing that now. Thanks for tuning into today's
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