December 23, 2025 • 26 mins
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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 3 (00:14):
This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about d Lash, Dana Lash Radio,
and x on Twitter. A great ways to stay connected
to her. It's time for Florida Man. Of course, as
the music tells you, there's three Florida Man stories, all
of them sort of crazy. I feel like the anti
gets lifted or gets upped with each one of these,
(00:35):
So let's do them in the order of what I
think are ridiculous. First, there's this one, and I can't
believe that I put this at option three on the list.
A Florida man was jailed after he attacked an Eagle
Lake neighbor who bought him a beer. Has happened in
Polk County, a courtesy beer run in that area a
caused Sheriff Grady Judge to respond and say how a
(00:57):
scrum broke out? Apparently the person who was given the
free beer I didn't like the type of free beer provided,
or just in general, some of the other things that happened.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It got so.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Crazy that there was a gun involved, but the guys
mostly used their fists, so I think the gun was
just present. I don't think it was used in any way.
But that is number three on my list of insane stories.
How were people get in a fight and somebody goes
to jail over beer and a run for beer? But
that does sound very Florida, all right? Number two on
this list to me. A man is accused of selling
(01:29):
four hundred pounds of avocados from the southwest Miami Dade Grove.
The guy's name is Edel Perez. He's twenty nine. He
faces charging of trespassing on an agricultural site, third degree
grand theft. He doesn't own the avocados that he was selling.
He just wanted to try to sell them. So he's like, hey,
you see all these avocados. You see how great they look.
(01:50):
You can have all these if the price is right,
And everybody's like, do you all knows He's like, that's
not important.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Let's not worry about that.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Deputies on patrol spotted a black per se eighties a
park near the grove.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
The man was in a black hoodie.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
He was actually picking avocados himself and selling them. They
estimated that he took about four hundred pounds. That is
a very very long thing to do as far as
the con goes, and it only made him about eight
hundred bucks. You can only sell them for that amount
of money, So it does seem like the effort versus
the reward not really there. And then Perez now also
(02:25):
faces a five thousand dollars bond and probably a bunch
of actual charges for a crime.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It seems it's going to be very easy to prove
he committed.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
But I just love the idea that you're like, hey,
I see avocados, I see them on a farm. They
seem like the kind of thing that I could make
some money off of. To let me go ahead and
do that. That happened in Florida, And now the number
one for the anti being the highest as far as
stories go. And this is just a sick person that
did a sick thing. Derek Jordan Wright Junior is the
(02:55):
guy's name. He is twenty six. He faces charges of
digital voyeurism because the the first thing he did was
he filmed a woman in a South Florida Cole's fitting
room against her will, so he took a video like
a creep as one to do. This already makes him
the worst of the three people on my list, I think,
But then even more than that, he showed it to her.
(03:16):
So the creepy suspect of this crime, who had a
black iPhone fifteen, decided after he walked out to go
ahead and show the video to the person that was
the victim of the crime, even as I think she
had noticed that something weird was happening and was approaching
someone to talk.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
About how bad of a look that all was.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
But it also seems like maybe the guy might sick,
you know, or sort of pervertedly get his kicks from
this sort of thing. But that story was also out
there that in Miami a guy chose to record someone
else in a fitting room and then eventually had to
share the creepy thing he did with said person. The
judge imposed bond restrictions and other things, and this person
(03:57):
is likely to find himself in a whole lot of
trouble too. I've never seen this occur someone trying to
do a video thing of somebody else, but I imagine a
bunch of people like me would react if you saw
that and try to, like, you know, do something to
the crappy person that's doing this sort of stuff. By
and large, they're not usually intimidating people, so whether that's
(04:19):
get physical with them or something else. But I just
wish that more people would have that instinct when this
sort of thing happens, because you can't imagine that the
guy in South Florida tried to video record someone in
a changing room that she's not aware is doing it,
and no one else noticed anything strange, Because I do
think a lot of these people just need to get
the crap kicked out of them in the regular world
(04:41):
more often for this to stop happening. I think that
a lot of the people who do you know, certain
scummy stuff in our society, mostly with technology, I deserve
to have an immediate version of justice provided.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
To them so that they stop.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Although this being in the news and this guy's name
being out there seems to be the kind of thing
that's probably also going to be a decent deterrent. But
this guy's napples comeback, all right, quick break, A lot
coming up. Craig Allen's filling in on the Daana Ship.
I delayed as much as I could. But Hunter Biden
did a podcast and there's a bunch of audio out there,
(05:17):
and some of this stuff has to be talked about.
My favorite thing and producer Steven actually sent this along
to me, which is great. Is a promo for the
podcast in which Hunter Biden is claiming there never was
a laptop, but then also referring to the laptop multiple times,
making it sound like it definitely existed. And by the way,
(05:37):
of course it did. The government actually even used it
against Hunter Biden in a lawsuit. They entered it into
evidence in a courtroom. Be weird to enter nothing into
an evidence in courtroom, but who cares about the truth
if you're Hunter Biden. Let's go ahead and say two
things at the same time. This is a minute of
audio and he claims there is no laptop and then
(05:58):
claims there's a collection of social media things that are
the laptop, and then just says the words laptop way
more times than anybody should.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Here we got is no laptop.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
There was no laptop. I have no recollection whatsoever of
ever dropping off a laptop to John Paul mcgeaac.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
He's by the way, real quick, there that's not proof
of Anything's there the amount of drugs and things that
you did, not having recollection of dropping someone off to
someone not exactly going to be trusted.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Continents, he goes to repair the laptop, but then he
starts to read the files any reason file and he
sees files about Barisma, and he says, the only thing
that he can think of doing is calling Rudy Giuliani.
He's a laptop repair shop owner in Wilmington, Delaware, whose
store is three and a half miles at most from
(06:45):
where everybody knows my parents lab. So if he had
a laptop that he wanted to return, he thinks that
the best thing to do is call Rudy Giuliani's lawyer,
Buck Costello and give it to.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
My sworn enemy.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
But there was no laptop, right, They cobbled together all
of this.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Okay, that's my favorite part too.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
When Sean Ryan, who's doing this interview, is like, wait
a minute, but you said there's not a laptop, so
why are you now talking about who.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
They decided to give the non laptop.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
To digital material that have been stolen from phones that
have been taken from the dark web, and they made
it up to dartiest thing. Then this story doesn't become
about the laptop at all, because there's nothing in the
laptop other than a record of me being a degenerate
at the worst moment in my life, smoking doing drugs.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Wait, but I thought there was no laptop.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yet again, he's referring to a thing that he knows
does exist, and he doesn't recall who he dropped it
off with or how he forgot it. And by the way,
my favorite part in there, too, of doubting the legitimacy
of the actual story that existed surrounding that laptop, is
that someone would call Rudy Giuliani. Why would they want
to just deliver it to you, or to your parents,
(07:45):
or to anyone at all remotely tied to the Biden
administration If it seems to be incredibly damaging to the
Biden administration, Who do you think is going to hide
it if you were turn it to them, you actually
do want to give it to someone that you think
will turn it in to news and actually give the
truth of what's in. They're not saying Rudy Giuliani has
to be that guy. But why would I ever bring
(08:06):
it to the Bidens If I find all this crazy
stuff on it that talks about Barisma and everything else
and the Big Guy, etc.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Etc. That's insane.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Hunter Biden also was asked a question about the withdrawal
from Afghanistan. Talk about a voice I don't need in
that discussion, But he actually admits that it was a
terrible thing, that it was a failed exit. So I
thought that was at least interesting to play because Hunter
seems to be more willing to blame Pop for things
that definitely the president got wrong, the former president and
(08:38):
President Biden got wrong. The exit from Afghanistan probably one
of the most significant mistakes of the mistakes that he made.
But then when talking about himself, when referencing things like
the laptop that didn't exist a second ago, or even
referencing being on the board of Barisma, he continued to
forgive himself like only only a degenerate ken. But here
he is talking about the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Do you think some of those failures were I think
the failure one of the failures was the way in
which they executed the patroal from Afghanistan. I think it
was an obvious failure. I think thirteen marines are dead
I think that there was a better way to do it.
And I think that and I can blame it on
his generals. I can blame it on the people the
(09:20):
way in which we did it. But my dad always
knew this. Also is that the buck stops with him.
I think that that was a failure. I don't think, yeah, well,
you know, hold on.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
What I think is amazing about that too, that he
says the buck stopped with him. Of course it does.
President Biden ran on certain things. One of those things
was ending the war of Afghanistan, and he did it terribly.
He did it the way a politician does who only
cares about being able to say I made one of
my political promises come true. He didn't actually want to
do it to protect anyone. And even though Hunter Biden
(09:50):
references the loss of military lives, if you have listened
to the individuals that were actually impacted by it, whether
it's the family of some of those individuals who died
or some of the the other military people who were
injured and survived, the way they talk about how Biden
treated them, how much he disregarded and didn't care about
the sacrifice made by the men and women in our
(10:10):
military is much more significant than the degenerate drug addicted
son of the former president telling us that he thinks
that's one of the mistakes that his dad made. Well,
his dad was the auto pen and president. It's just
it's ridiculous, and I can't believe that it's the kind
of thing that goes viral more places, because by and large,
I honestly just don't want to hear from Hunter Biden anymore.
(10:32):
But I have to play it, especially that there is
no laptop, and then he continuously references the laptop that
he claims doesn't exist.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
And now all of the news you would probably miss.
It's time for Dana's Quick five.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in, Thrilled to be with you. Time for a
quick five on the Dana Show. Five lightning fire topics
to get you into the holiday spirit or whatever. This
one to me, I loved. This isn't holiday related, it's
just in general. Although I guess it's the kind of
thing I wish I could get as a forty year
old guy from my Christmas, A.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Chance to play in an NFL football game.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Philip Rivers has been living this dream the last few weeks,
after years, of course of being a great NFL quarterback
and then h having to retire and sitting on the
couch for several years, I hear he is calling a
play something that was viral and social media. I think
a couple of people even said, please inject this kind
of thing into my veins just because of how cool
it sounds. And I think how a lot of us
(11:31):
of an age that's a little older than what would
be typical for a professional athlete see ourselves more in
Philip Rivers than we do in other people out there.
Here we go, and he was having to get the
ball of Taylor for a course south.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
So lady hut he lick it up right there.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Were good forty for you do look.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Like a trap stop putting guys in place, and he's
got a man wide open, wide ups. For half of
that game, it was a bunch of fun.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Philip Rivers and the Indianapolis Colts hung in with a
much better team in the San Francisco forty nine ers
for half, and then the other second half of the
game happened and terrible things occurred, and Rivers didn't seem
like he could throw the ball as downfield as he
needed to to really be competitive in the second half.
But nonetheless, I do think he's one of the feel
good stories of the NFL season this year. In the
(12:27):
last couple of weeks and especially in Indie, the show
airs in Indianapolis and WIBC, it airs a lot of
places Indy and the Colts looked like a team that
would do very well this year, and then a lot
of things fell apart. So just having the Philip Rivers
story at the tail end of the season is at
least a reason to keep paying attention to a team
that's very very likely I'm not going to be a
(12:48):
part of the playoffs. Some other things out there as
far as quick five topics go. The FDA approved the
first GLP one pill for obesity. It is from the
makers of wagovie, and it'll be interesting to see if
it's as effective or more effective or less effective than
the shot version of the GLP one, and also how
cost effective it'll be, how expensive for you to spend
(13:11):
money on this sort of thing. I know more and
more people that are on some form of weight loss drug,
and it is sort of shocking to see how quickly
they drop weight and actually save sort of a tangential
story of this one. Chipotle has put out a GLP
one menu, which just is simply lesser portions of the
(13:34):
food you would normally get at Chipotle if you're not
on a weight loss drug and if your appetite isn't
curbed as much as it would be by taking one
of those, So it's more protein rich, less carbs, and
just less overall food.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I thought that was interesting that.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Chipotle wants to lean in to people who might not
be eating a whole lot because of some sort of
medication they're on, and claim that they're actually going to
overserve those people with less stuff, and I assume it
still costs about the same amount of money. A one
final thing and just quickly and we'll talk about it
more later. There are a there's a viral story about
Santa Elves and a robbery in Montreal, not exactly a
(14:12):
Disney movie. I'll give you details for that in a bit.
Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. This is
the Danas Show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in,
thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out
there to talk about. D Lash Dana lash Radio on
X on Twitter, a great ways to stay connected everything
she's doing at radio. Craigc if there's some reason you
want to follow me too, I'm just going to keep
(14:33):
throwing it out there. Maybe I'll break five hundred people
that follow that account by the end of the or
whatever it's at.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I don't even know. By the end of helping fill
in on this show.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I do want to talk about the Republican infighting just
a bit, and so if you don't know anything about this,
good for you. America Fest twenty twenty five happened over
the weekend. That is the turning point USA event, one
of the bigger ones, certainly something that the apps of
Charlie Kirk was a noticeable part of. But there were
(15:03):
shots taken by Ben Shapiro in the direction of some
I think Tucker Carlson took shots at Shapiro.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
People were firing at each other.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I think Megan Kelly got hit with strays for some
reason and then had to deal with that the fall
to that, and certainly Candace Owans was criticized a lot,
mostly because it's fairly easy to criticize Candace Owans. She
is right now one of the biggest names in the
world of I'm just asking questions. Even if I have
no proof or logical reason to ask some of these questions,
(15:32):
I'm still just asking them, which by and large is
the same as investigating Candace Owans.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Feels like to me, before I.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Get any of the rest of this, going and play
some audio for you, like someone who's part of an
investigative team, maybe the most recent person hired on a
team of detectives or cops, who's just saying crazy stuff,
and you're looking at that person, You're like, I don't
know if that's right. I don't know if aliens did
this or whoever it has did that, and she's like,
I'm just trying to help. Every idea is a good idea.
(16:02):
Sometimes those can have a detrimental effect, and not in
the sense that you got to shut up keep saying
whatever you want to say, but in the sense of
if you never have any proof of them, you're going
to convince people of things without any reason to actually
stand behind them, and that seems bad. And I think
by and large that was Shapiro's point. Now, Shapiro certainly
has a lot of things. You can criticize him, for
(16:24):
many people do, whether you're on the right of the
left or what have you.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
So here let's start with this.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Let's start with some audio of Scott Jennings on CNN
talking about Jade Vance. What the Vice President said about this,
essentially saying that let's have the infighting within our party stop.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I actually profoundly disagree with this, but not because I
agree with the craziness of some of what people are saying.
But here, first, let's play the audio of Scott Jennings
and how he summarized what Vance's message was at America Fest.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
But it was pretty stark when you laid out that
way right when you saw a bak Ramaswami and Ben
Shapiro's going directly at what are some of these conspiracy
theories and anti Semitism, let's call it what it is
that are in some corners of the movement. How do
you see the way that jd. Vance kind of threaded
(17:15):
this needle.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Well, JD.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Vance was and is trying to appeal to the most
people possible because he anticipates being the nominee of the
Republican Party in twenty twenty eight, and he has had
relationships with a lot of the people whose names you
heard on the stage. You know, there's more information today
than we had yesterday. They took a straw pole of
all the people who went to Turning Points event, So
this is thousands and thousands of people, eighty seven percent
(17:40):
of them, and the straw pole said that Israel was
either a top ally or an ally of the United States.
On top of that, they asked the people who were there,
what are the biggest issues facing the United States?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Number one radical Islam.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
So when you look at what the people who were
in the audience think, it sounds like they were really
more with Ben Shapiro than they were with some of
the other people who were attacking Ben Shapiro. They were
rather clear eyed about who our friends are and the
difference between right and wrong.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
At least, Yeah, I agree with him on that that
they're clear eyed. A lot of people seem to be
clear eyed and who's right and who's wrong, regardless of
what you think of the actual person of Ben Shapiro
or anyone else. And I know that there's been some
shots taken at the character of Shapiro and some of
the things he's done in the world of media to
other people in media canvas. Owan's among them who said
that she got you know, fired by Ben, which she did.
(18:27):
But nonetheless, here's what I think is more interesting than
that conversation and telling you whose side I'm on. If
I agree with Shapiro or I agree with the Vak,
or I you know, think the Tucker was right, all
that whatever, it doesn't really matter. And honestly, if you
listen to the show and Dana, she knows a lot
of these people way more than I do, so she
might have way more information and better things to say
(18:50):
about some of this infighting. So I encourage you heavily
to listen when Dana's back hosting the show to anything
she says about this. But my very simple point is
I think that the Republican Party, or at least the
people who are the most notable names and voices within it,
continue to demonstrate how they're different than Democrats in a
good way. And I'm not trying to echo any one
(19:11):
of the points that they make as being valuable in
and of itself. I'm not trying to be anti Semitic
on this show or anything like it, but I am
saying that not shutting up voices, not telling people that
you're not allowed to say what you think, and you know,
not allowed to target people within our movement or within
our side of the political aisle. Is exact opposite of
(19:32):
what Democrats do. Their hive mind monolith thinking is damaging.
It's something that I think is inherently bad in the
world of politics in general. And I'll give you a
couple examples of why I think this is actually kind
of a good thing. The first one, obviously, this happened
a while ago, but I really enjoyed when it took
forever for Republicans with a majority to pick the Speaker
(19:55):
of the House. I didn't enjoy it because I thought
that some of the names being thrown out were book.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Good or bad. It wasn't even that complex.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I enjoyed it because I think that's what our political
system is supposed to be. You're supposed to have infighting,
people who disagree with each other, who raise these opinions
or raise these voices and say I don't want this
or I don't want that. You don't have to have
people who all think and work in lockstep. And Democrats
demand it. Republicans don't. Even Republican voters and supporters don't
(20:26):
demand that everyone thinks exactly like them in order to
be a part of the party, part of the movement
to vote the same way. And I think that was
jd Vance's overarching message. But I do think that part
of this is also a lot of people who think
they're more important than they are. No offense to Ben
Shapiro or anyone else, I like him more or less
and some of the things he says, But I will
(20:47):
say that the movement is beyond any of these voices,
the movement, the political party, whatever you want to call it,
and people are going to have differing opinions, and I
think it will always be better to allow those opinions
to exist in the public square and to essentially attack
the ones that you think are horrible as opposed to
the opposite. So I think what Ben Shapiro did on
(21:08):
stage was fine. I think what Tucker Carlson did was fine.
I think all of them are doing things by and
large that I think help demonstrate that this party is
is more complex, that it's actually all the things that
quote unquote woke people want to say they are without
woke people being any of this stuff, which is what
I find is kind of amusing and I know this
is an unpopular thing to say, but I can't help
(21:30):
saying it when I'm around people who vote like I do.
I vote a Republican, I vote conservatively. I've been doing it,
so I've been a registered Republican since i was eighteen
years old. So it's something that honestly, my family has
done for a long time too. And there are notable
people within my family and the party that I won't
reference right now, But nonetheless, what I think is interesting
(21:50):
about this is when I'm around those individuals, you can
have a more complex conversation, like people can heavily disagree
with each other and call people more on an idiot
in sort of a lighthearted way or maybe a serious way.
I don't know, but you can talk about this stuff honestly,
the way you see Republican pundits or Republican politicians being
(22:10):
willing to do an interview on any platform. You see
people like Trump taking questions all the time from the right,
the left, the middle, whoever. And honestly, when they say
that Trump's brain isn't working anymore, I find that uniquely
hilarious because of how often he's willing to be challenged
by anybody and let whatever the results of that challenge
(22:31):
are be something that speaks for itself, be something that
exists in the world. Biden was hiding, and Biden was
using a list of names to call on when he
did do any sort of interaction with the press. That
is much more damaging and demonstrates a person whose brain
is broken far more than any of the crazy stuff
they say about Trump. But here, by and large, I
guess the overarching message of what I'm trying to say,
(22:52):
and it might be something that.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
You care about very little.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I doubt the American, the average American person is sitting
home at night thinking, man, why is there so much
fighting within the Republican movement? As far as some of
the bigger names that exist within this party, U pundits
and or you know, actual politicians, I doubt that something
that runs across your mind very much compared to what's
going on this Christmas. But I will say that if
you do pay attention to it, if it is something
(23:18):
that you more closely monitor, I think it further shows
you what is supposed to be the way that a
party functions, a meaning that it does have dissenting opinions,
it does have outside voices. I'll credit Dana lash for
sure as being a human being that will challenge anybody
on anything. And it's one of the more fascinating things
(23:38):
about how fearless. And I'm not trying to kiss up
to her, I know I'm filling it on her show,
but how fearless she can be as I ask, screw it,
I'll say what I think, no matter who it offends,
no matter who it hurts, any of that stuff. And
I think that is a much more common not to
the degree that Dana does it. She's exceptional at it,
but I think it's a much more common principle of
the right than the left. And I think most people
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would agree with that and understand where that comes from,
because on the left, that woke, crazy ideology that they
aspire to have is all also you know, uniform hive
mind thinking that seems to be much to the detriment
of everyone, and really the kind of stuff that gets
you further away from knowing the truth or understanding a
complex issue in the most valuable possible because you just
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want the snippet version, the highlight version, or the version
that's a true narrative that you don't have any sort
of sense of what part of it is is, you know,
being given to me for deceptive reasons, and what part
of it is actually authentic. It's just amazing again one
more time to see that all play out, because I
don't think you would have a democratic convention quite like
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the one that Turning Point USA had or fundraiser or
whatever you want to call it, where so many people
on the same side of the oil aisle excuse me,
took pot shots at each other. And yet you do
have that with the Republican Party and the Conservative Movement
and MAGA or whatever you want to call it. And
I still think that's good, regardless of what the shots
are and the ones that I easily can say I
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disagree with, at least they're still not being silenced the
way they do it on the other side. All Right,
I think I've made my point several times. But again,
that's the only takeaway I had from all of this
coverage and some of the media obsession and the reaction
to it pundits who're trying to tell you how this
is bad or good for the midterm elections. Is you
still want a party that seems inclusive. That's a very
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woke word. To use by being willing to have any discussion,
and that party is not the one that screams it
actually is, you know, woke and all this stuff because
they hate with a passion, and they hate their own
side with a passion. When the few that do seem
to speak out at times against them, like the John
Stewarts of the world, say one thing that they disagree with,
and that side goes crazy on their own, it is
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quite a bit different again than the right. All right,
quick break a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on
the Dana Show.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time
for Florida Man.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about d Lash, Dana Lash Radio,
and x on Twitter. A great ways to stay connected
to her. It's time for Florida Man. Of course, as
the music tells you, there's three Florida Man stories, all
of them sort of crazy. I feel like the anti
gets lifted or gets upped with each one of these,
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So let's do them in the order of what I
think are ridiculous. First, there's this one, and I can't
believe that I put this at option three on the list.
A Florida man was jailed after he attacked an Eagle
Lake neighbor who bought him a beer. Has happened in
Polk County, a courtesy beer run in that area a
caused Sheriff Grady Judge to respond and say how a
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scrum broke out? Apparently the person who was given the
free beer I didn't like the type of free beer provided,
or just in general, some of the other things that happened.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It got so.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Crazy that there was a gun involved, but the guys
mostly used their fists, so I think the gun was
just present. I don't think it was used in any way.
But that is number three on my list of insane stories.
How were people get in a fight and somebody goes
to jail over beer and a run for beer? But
that does sound very Florida, all right? Number two on
this list to me. A man is accused of selling
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four hundred pounds of avocados from the southwest Miami Dade Grove.
The guy's name is Edel Perez. He's twenty nine. He
faces charging of trespassing on an agricultural site, third degree
grand theft. He doesn't own the avocados that he was selling.
He just wanted to try to sell them. So he's like, hey,
you see all these avocados. You see how great they look.
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You can have all these if the price is right,
And everybody's like, do you all knows He's like, that's
not important.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Let's not worry about that.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Deputies on patrol spotted a black per se eighties a
park near the grove.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
The man was in a black hoodie.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
He was actually picking avocados himself and selling them. They
estimated that he took about four hundred pounds. That is
a very very long thing to do as far as
the con goes, and it only made him about eight
hundred bucks. You can only sell them for that amount
of money, So it does seem like the effort versus
the reward not really there. And then Perez now also
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faces a five thousand dollars bond and probably a bunch
of actual charges for a crime.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It seems it's going to be very easy to prove
he committed.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
But I just love the idea that you're like, hey,
I see avocados, I see them on a farm. They
seem like the kind of thing that I could make
some money off of. To let me go ahead and
do that. That happened in Florida, And now the number
one for the anti being the highest as far as
stories go. And this is just a sick person that
did a sick thing. Derek Jordan Wright Junior is the
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guy's name. He is twenty six. He faces charges of
digital voyeurism because the the first thing he did was
he filmed a woman in a South Florida Cole's fitting
room against her will, so he took a video like
a creep as one to do. This already makes him
the worst of the three people on my list, I think,
But then even more than that, he showed it to her.
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So the creepy suspect of this crime, who had a
black iPhone fifteen, decided after he walked out to go
ahead and show the video to the person that was
the victim of the crime, even as I think she
had noticed that something weird was happening and was approaching
someone to talk.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
About how bad of a look that all was.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
But it also seems like maybe the guy might sick,
you know, or sort of pervertedly get his kicks from
this sort of thing. But that story was also out
there that in Miami a guy chose to record someone
else in a fitting room and then eventually had to
share the creepy thing he did with said person. The
judge imposed bond restrictions and other things, and this person
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is likely to find himself in a whole lot of
trouble too. I've never seen this occur someone trying to
do a video thing of somebody else, but I imagine a
bunch of people like me would react if you saw
that and try to, like, you know, do something to
the crappy person that's doing this sort of stuff. By
and large, they're not usually intimidating people, so whether that's
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get physical with them or something else. But I just
wish that more people would have that instinct when this
sort of thing happens, because you can't imagine that the
guy in South Florida tried to video record someone in
a changing room that she's not aware is doing it,
and no one else noticed anything strange, Because I do
think a lot of these people just need to get
the crap kicked out of them in the regular world
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more often for this to stop happening. I think that
a lot of the people who do you know, certain
scummy stuff in our society, mostly with technology, I deserve
to have an immediate version of justice provided.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
To them so that they stop.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Although this being in the news and this guy's name
being out there seems to be the kind of thing
that's probably also going to be a decent deterrent. But
this guy's napples comeback, all right, quick break, A lot
coming up. Craig Allen's filling in on the Daana Ship.
I delayed as much as I could. But Hunter Biden
did a podcast and there's a bunch of audio out there,
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and some of this stuff has to be talked about.
My favorite thing and producer Steven actually sent this along
to me, which is great. Is a promo for the
podcast in which Hunter Biden is claiming there never was
a laptop, but then also referring to the laptop multiple times,
making it sound like it definitely existed. And by the way,
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of course it did. The government actually even used it
against Hunter Biden in a lawsuit. They entered it into
evidence in a courtroom. Be weird to enter nothing into
an evidence in courtroom, but who cares about the truth
if you're Hunter Biden. Let's go ahead and say two
things at the same time. This is a minute of
audio and he claims there is no laptop and then
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claims there's a collection of social media things that are
the laptop, and then just says the words laptop way
more times than anybody should.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Here we got is no laptop.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
There was no laptop. I have no recollection whatsoever of
ever dropping off a laptop to John Paul mcgeaac.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
He's by the way, real quick, there that's not proof
of Anything's there the amount of drugs and things that
you did, not having recollection of dropping someone off to
someone not exactly going to be trusted.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Continents, he goes to repair the laptop, but then he
starts to read the files any reason file and he
sees files about Barisma, and he says, the only thing
that he can think of doing is calling Rudy Giuliani.
He's a laptop repair shop owner in Wilmington, Delaware, whose
store is three and a half miles at most from
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where everybody knows my parents lab. So if he had
a laptop that he wanted to return, he thinks that
the best thing to do is call Rudy Giuliani's lawyer,
Buck Costello and give it to.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
My sworn enemy.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
But there was no laptop, right, They cobbled together all
of this.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Okay, that's my favorite part too.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
When Sean Ryan, who's doing this interview, is like, wait
a minute, but you said there's not a laptop, so
why are you now talking about who.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
They decided to give the non laptop.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
To digital material that have been stolen from phones that
have been taken from the dark web, and they made
it up to dartiest thing. Then this story doesn't become
about the laptop at all, because there's nothing in the
laptop other than a record of me being a degenerate
at the worst moment in my life, smoking doing drugs.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Wait, but I thought there was no laptop.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yet again, he's referring to a thing that he knows
does exist, and he doesn't recall who he dropped it
off with or how he forgot it. And by the way,
my favorite part in there, too, of doubting the legitimacy
of the actual story that existed surrounding that laptop, is
that someone would call Rudy Giuliani. Why would they want
to just deliver it to you, or to your parents,
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or to anyone at all remotely tied to the Biden
administration If it seems to be incredibly damaging to the
Biden administration, Who do you think is going to hide
it if you were turn it to them, you actually
do want to give it to someone that you think
will turn it in to news and actually give the
truth of what's in. They're not saying Rudy Giuliani has
to be that guy. But why would I ever bring
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it to the Bidens If I find all this crazy
stuff on it that talks about Barisma and everything else
and the Big Guy, etc.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Etc. That's insane.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Hunter Biden also was asked a question about the withdrawal
from Afghanistan. Talk about a voice I don't need in
that discussion, But he actually admits that it was a
terrible thing, that it was a failed exit. So I
thought that was at least interesting to play because Hunter
seems to be more willing to blame Pop for things
that definitely the president got wrong, the former president and
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President Biden got wrong. The exit from Afghanistan probably one
of the most significant mistakes of the mistakes that he made.
But then when talking about himself, when referencing things like
the laptop that didn't exist a second ago, or even
referencing being on the board of Barisma, he continued to
forgive himself like only only a degenerate ken. But here
he is talking about the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Do you think some of those failures were I think
the failure one of the failures was the way in
which they executed the patroal from Afghanistan. I think it
was an obvious failure. I think thirteen marines are dead
I think that there was a better way to do it.
And I think that and I can blame it on
his generals. I can blame it on the people the
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way in which we did it. But my dad always
knew this. Also is that the buck stops with him.
I think that that was a failure. I don't think, yeah, well,
you know, hold on.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
What I think is amazing about that too, that he
says the buck stopped with him. Of course it does.
President Biden ran on certain things. One of those things
was ending the war of Afghanistan, and he did it terribly.
He did it the way a politician does who only
cares about being able to say I made one of
my political promises come true. He didn't actually want to
do it to protect anyone. And even though Hunter Biden
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references the loss of military lives, if you have listened
to the individuals that were actually impacted by it, whether
it's the family of some of those individuals who died
or some of the the other military people who were
injured and survived, the way they talk about how Biden
treated them, how much he disregarded and didn't care about
the sacrifice made by the men and women in our
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military is much more significant than the degenerate drug addicted
son of the former president telling us that he thinks
that's one of the mistakes that his dad made. Well,
his dad was the auto pen and president. It's just
it's ridiculous, and I can't believe that it's the kind
of thing that goes viral more places, because by and large,
I honestly just don't want to hear from Hunter Biden anymore.
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But I have to play it, especially that there is
no laptop, and then he continuously references the laptop that
he claims doesn't exist.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
And now all of the news you would probably miss.
It's time for Dana's Quick five.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in, Thrilled to be with you. Time for a
quick five on the Dana Show. Five lightning fire topics
to get you into the holiday spirit or whatever. This
one to me, I loved. This isn't holiday related, it's
just in general. Although I guess it's the kind of
thing I wish I could get as a forty year
old guy from my Christmas, A.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Chance to play in an NFL football game.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Philip Rivers has been living this dream the last few weeks,
after years, of course of being a great NFL quarterback
and then h having to retire and sitting on the
couch for several years, I hear he is calling a
play something that was viral and social media. I think
a couple of people even said, please inject this kind
of thing into my veins just because of how cool
it sounds. And I think how a lot of us
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of an age that's a little older than what would
be typical for a professional athlete see ourselves more in
Philip Rivers than we do in other people out there.
Here we go, and he was having to get the
ball of Taylor for a course south.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
So lady hut he lick it up right there.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Were good forty for you do look.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Like a trap stop putting guys in place, and he's
got a man wide open, wide ups. For half of
that game, it was a bunch of fun.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Philip Rivers and the Indianapolis Colts hung in with a
much better team in the San Francisco forty nine ers
for half, and then the other second half of the
game happened and terrible things occurred, and Rivers didn't seem
like he could throw the ball as downfield as he
needed to to really be competitive in the second half.
But nonetheless, I do think he's one of the feel
good stories of the NFL season this year. In the
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last couple of weeks and especially in Indie, the show
airs in Indianapolis and WIBC, it airs a lot of
places Indy and the Colts looked like a team that
would do very well this year, and then a lot
of things fell apart. So just having the Philip Rivers
story at the tail end of the season is at
least a reason to keep paying attention to a team
that's very very likely I'm not going to be a
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part of the playoffs. Some other things out there as
far as quick five topics go. The FDA approved the
first GLP one pill for obesity. It is from the
makers of wagovie, and it'll be interesting to see if
it's as effective or more effective or less effective than
the shot version of the GLP one, and also how
cost effective it'll be, how expensive for you to spend
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money on this sort of thing. I know more and
more people that are on some form of weight loss drug,
and it is sort of shocking to see how quickly
they drop weight and actually save sort of a tangential
story of this one. Chipotle has put out a GLP
one menu, which just is simply lesser portions of the
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food you would normally get at Chipotle if you're not
on a weight loss drug and if your appetite isn't
curbed as much as it would be by taking one
of those, So it's more protein rich, less carbs, and
just less overall food.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I thought that was interesting that.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Chipotle wants to lean in to people who might not
be eating a whole lot because of some sort of
medication they're on, and claim that they're actually going to
overserve those people with less stuff, and I assume it
still costs about the same amount of money. A one
final thing and just quickly and we'll talk about it
more later. There are a there's a viral story about
Santa Elves and a robbery in Montreal, not exactly a
(14:12):
Disney movie. I'll give you details for that in a bit.
Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. This is
the Danas Show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in,
thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out
there to talk about. D Lash Dana lash Radio on
X on Twitter, a great ways to stay connected everything
she's doing at radio. Craigc if there's some reason you
want to follow me too, I'm just going to keep
(14:33):
throwing it out there. Maybe I'll break five hundred people
that follow that account by the end of the or
whatever it's at.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I don't even know. By the end of helping fill
in on this show.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I do want to talk about the Republican infighting just
a bit, and so if you don't know anything about this,
good for you. America Fest twenty twenty five happened over
the weekend. That is the turning point USA event, one
of the bigger ones, certainly something that the apps of
Charlie Kirk was a noticeable part of. But there were
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shots taken by Ben Shapiro in the direction of some
I think Tucker Carlson took shots at Shapiro.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
People were firing at each other.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I think Megan Kelly got hit with strays for some
reason and then had to deal with that the fall
to that, and certainly Candace Owans was criticized a lot,
mostly because it's fairly easy to criticize Candace Owans. She
is right now one of the biggest names in the
world of I'm just asking questions. Even if I have
no proof or logical reason to ask some of these questions,
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I'm still just asking them, which by and large is
the same as investigating Candace Owans.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Feels like to me, before I.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Get any of the rest of this, going and play
some audio for you, like someone who's part of an
investigative team, maybe the most recent person hired on a
team of detectives or cops, who's just saying crazy stuff,
and you're looking at that person, You're like, I don't
know if that's right. I don't know if aliens did
this or whoever it has did that, and she's like,
I'm just trying to help. Every idea is a good idea.
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Sometimes those can have a detrimental effect, and not in
the sense that you got to shut up keep saying
whatever you want to say, but in the sense of
if you never have any proof of them, you're going
to convince people of things without any reason to actually
stand behind them, and that seems bad. And I think
by and large that was Shapiro's point. Now, Shapiro certainly
has a lot of things. You can criticize him, for
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many people do, whether you're on the right of the
left or what have you.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
So here let's start with this.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Let's start with some audio of Scott Jennings on CNN
talking about Jade Vance. What the Vice President said about this,
essentially saying that let's have the infighting within our party stop.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I actually profoundly disagree with this, but not because I
agree with the craziness of some of what people are saying.
But here, first, let's play the audio of Scott Jennings
and how he summarized what Vance's message was at America Fest.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
But it was pretty stark when you laid out that
way right when you saw a bak Ramaswami and Ben
Shapiro's going directly at what are some of these conspiracy
theories and anti Semitism, let's call it what it is
that are in some corners of the movement. How do
you see the way that jd. Vance kind of threaded
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this needle.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Well, JD.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Vance was and is trying to appeal to the most
people possible because he anticipates being the nominee of the
Republican Party in twenty twenty eight, and he has had
relationships with a lot of the people whose names you
heard on the stage. You know, there's more information today
than we had yesterday. They took a straw pole of
all the people who went to Turning Points event, So
this is thousands and thousands of people, eighty seven percent
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of them, and the straw pole said that Israel was
either a top ally or an ally of the United States.
On top of that, they asked the people who were there,
what are the biggest issues facing the United States?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Number one radical Islam.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
So when you look at what the people who were
in the audience think, it sounds like they were really
more with Ben Shapiro than they were with some of
the other people who were attacking Ben Shapiro. They were
rather clear eyed about who our friends are and the
difference between right and wrong.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
At least, Yeah, I agree with him on that that
they're clear eyed. A lot of people seem to be
clear eyed and who's right and who's wrong, regardless of
what you think of the actual person of Ben Shapiro
or anyone else. And I know that there's been some
shots taken at the character of Shapiro and some of
the things he's done in the world of media to
other people in media canvas. Owan's among them who said
that she got you know, fired by Ben, which she did.
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But nonetheless, here's what I think is more interesting than
that conversation and telling you whose side I'm on. If
I agree with Shapiro or I agree with the Vak,
or I you know, think the Tucker was right, all
that whatever, it doesn't really matter. And honestly, if you
listen to the show and Dana, she knows a lot
of these people way more than I do, so she
might have way more information and better things to say
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about some of this infighting. So I encourage you heavily
to listen when Dana's back hosting the show to anything
she says about this. But my very simple point is
I think that the Republican Party, or at least the
people who are the most notable names and voices within it,
continue to demonstrate how they're different than Democrats in a
good way. And I'm not trying to echo any one
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of the points that they make as being valuable in
and of itself. I'm not trying to be anti Semitic
on this show or anything like it, but I am
saying that not shutting up voices, not telling people that
you're not allowed to say what you think, and you know,
not allowed to target people within our movement or within
our side of the political aisle. Is exact opposite of
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what Democrats do. Their hive mind monolith thinking is damaging.
It's something that I think is inherently bad in the
world of politics in general. And I'll give you a
couple examples of why I think this is actually kind
of a good thing. The first one, obviously, this happened
a while ago, but I really enjoyed when it took
forever for Republicans with a majority to pick the Speaker
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of the House. I didn't enjoy it because I thought
that some of the names being thrown out were book.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Good or bad. It wasn't even that complex.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I enjoyed it because I think that's what our political
system is supposed to be. You're supposed to have infighting,
people who disagree with each other, who raise these opinions
or raise these voices and say I don't want this
or I don't want that. You don't have to have
people who all think and work in lockstep. And Democrats
demand it. Republicans don't. Even Republican voters and supporters don't
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demand that everyone thinks exactly like them in order to
be a part of the party, part of the movement
to vote the same way. And I think that was
jd Vance's overarching message. But I do think that part
of this is also a lot of people who think
they're more important than they are. No offense to Ben
Shapiro or anyone else, I like him more or less
and some of the things he says, But I will
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say that the movement is beyond any of these voices,
the movement, the political party, whatever you want to call it,
and people are going to have differing opinions, and I
think it will always be better to allow those opinions
to exist in the public square and to essentially attack
the ones that you think are horrible as opposed to
the opposite. So I think what Ben Shapiro did on
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stage was fine. I think what Tucker Carlson did was fine.
I think all of them are doing things by and
large that I think help demonstrate that this party is
is more complex, that it's actually all the things that
quote unquote woke people want to say they are without
woke people being any of this stuff, which is what
I find is kind of amusing and I know this
is an unpopular thing to say, but I can't help
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saying it when I'm around people who vote like I do.
I vote a Republican, I vote conservatively. I've been doing it,
so I've been a registered Republican since i was eighteen
years old. So it's something that honestly, my family has
done for a long time too. And there are notable
people within my family and the party that I won't
reference right now, But nonetheless, what I think is interesting
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about this is when I'm around those individuals, you can
have a more complex conversation, like people can heavily disagree
with each other and call people more on an idiot
in sort of a lighthearted way or maybe a serious way.
I don't know, but you can talk about this stuff honestly,
the way you see Republican pundits or Republican politicians being
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willing to do an interview on any platform. You see
people like Trump taking questions all the time from the right,
the left, the middle, whoever. And honestly, when they say
that Trump's brain isn't working anymore, I find that uniquely
hilarious because of how often he's willing to be challenged
by anybody and let whatever the results of that challenge
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are be something that speaks for itself, be something that
exists in the world. Biden was hiding, and Biden was
using a list of names to call on when he
did do any sort of interaction with the press. That
is much more damaging and demonstrates a person whose brain
is broken far more than any of the crazy stuff
they say about Trump. But here, by and large, I
guess the overarching message of what I'm trying to say,
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and it might be something that.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
You care about very little.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I doubt the American, the average American person is sitting
home at night thinking, man, why is there so much
fighting within the Republican movement? As far as some of
the bigger names that exist within this party, U pundits
and or you know, actual politicians, I doubt that something
that runs across your mind very much compared to what's
going on this Christmas. But I will say that if
you do pay attention to it, if it is something
(23:18):
that you more closely monitor, I think it further shows
you what is supposed to be the way that a
party functions, a meaning that it does have dissenting opinions,
it does have outside voices. I'll credit Dana lash for
sure as being a human being that will challenge anybody
on anything. And it's one of the more fascinating things
(23:38):
about how fearless. And I'm not trying to kiss up
to her, I know I'm filling it on her show,
but how fearless she can be as I ask, screw it,
I'll say what I think, no matter who it offends,
no matter who it hurts, any of that stuff. And
I think that is a much more common not to
the degree that Dana does it. She's exceptional at it,
but I think it's a much more common principle of
the right than the left. And I think most people
(23:59):
would agree with that and understand where that comes from,
because on the left, that woke, crazy ideology that they
aspire to have is all also you know, uniform hive
mind thinking that seems to be much to the detriment
of everyone, and really the kind of stuff that gets
you further away from knowing the truth or understanding a
complex issue in the most valuable possible because you just
(24:23):
want the snippet version, the highlight version, or the version
that's a true narrative that you don't have any sort
of sense of what part of it is is, you know,
being given to me for deceptive reasons, and what part
of it is actually authentic. It's just amazing again one
more time to see that all play out, because I
don't think you would have a democratic convention quite like
(24:46):
the one that Turning Point USA had or fundraiser or
whatever you want to call it, where so many people
on the same side of the oil aisle excuse me,
took pot shots at each other. And yet you do
have that with the Republican Party and the Conservative Movement
and MAGA or whatever you want to call it. And
I still think that's good, regardless of what the shots
are and the ones that I easily can say I
(25:07):
disagree with, at least they're still not being silenced the
way they do it on the other side. All Right,
I think I've made my point several times. But again,
that's the only takeaway I had from all of this
coverage and some of the media obsession and the reaction
to it pundits who're trying to tell you how this
is bad or good for the midterm elections. Is you
still want a party that seems inclusive. That's a very
(25:29):
woke word. To use by being willing to have any discussion,
and that party is not the one that screams it
actually is, you know, woke and all this stuff because
they hate with a passion, and they hate their own
side with a passion. When the few that do seem
to speak out at times against them, like the John
Stewarts of the world, say one thing that they disagree with,
and that side goes crazy on their own, it is
(25:51):
quite a bit different again than the right. All right,
quick break a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on
the Dana Show.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
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