December 30, 2025 • 27 mins
$400K of lobster was stolen in a seafood heist. Joe Rogan claims when Elon Musk purchased Twitter “he changed the course of civilization”. A list goes viral of all of the fake daycares in Minnesota.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dana Lashes of seard Truths podcast sponsored by Celtech. Four
hundred thousand dollars of lobster was stolen in a seafood
heightst that sounds really difficult to execute. It sounds like
the kind of thing that's more hassle than it's actually worth,
even if it's four hundred grand, because lobsters were all live.
But here is a news report talking about a thing
(00:21):
that really happened in our society.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Four hundred thousand dollars worth of live lobsters headed for
Costco were stolen from a Massachusetts shipping facility last week.
The CEO of a logistics industry trade group. So the
thief posed as a trucking company worker. And this is
likely part of an organized cargo crime ring.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Of course it does. Things like that have sterial numbers.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Again, those are targeted as well, but a little bit
easier to track obviously.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
You know, lobster doesn't have a QR code on it.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Lobster we do, just have QR code onto you know,
track it down.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And this isn't the first time this has happened. It's
the second major seafood theft in December alone.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It is crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
That's crazy that we have so many different organized versions
of theft and chaos and other things going on. Not
that we don't know about this in our society, but
that it's gotten so bad that people are stealing four
hundred thousand dollars of live lobster by posing as members
of a trucking company. And again, I feel like the
hassle there. I'm not telling the criminals how to commit
crimes better. That's not the goal, that's not my intention.
(01:20):
But the hassle can't be worth it in that grand
scheme of things unless you're dropping them off very quickly
somewhere else. I wouldn't want to house the live lobster
for any amount of time before I exchange them to
some other place. I am trying to be a little
tongue in cheek about how I joke about this, because
it's terrible. It's awful to see, you know, that level
of crime in so many places in our society, but
(01:41):
it's definitely there. And also, again on the list of
things that I would ever steal, which I'm not intent
on stealing anything, live lobster would be way at the
bottom for things that you'd actually want to deal with.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
A post theft.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Other things out there that I thought were kind of interesting.
A bunch of New Year's Eve events have been can
around the world, a lot of them for security concerns.
Many people are saying after the Bondi Beach attack in
Sydney or things like it, that they're concerned that the
New Year's Eve parties themselves will be targets for individuals.
(02:15):
I've always said this, and I'll say this here. It
is much better to keep the event and secure it,
and there's a whole lot of ways to do that,
then cancel the events and let the bad guys win.
The bad, horrible people out there who do bad, horrible
things want our society to have to choose between hosting
events and not hosting them, essentially handing power to the
(02:39):
people who do the bad things, when the reality is
that what we need to do is have a few
veterans stationed outside of places, security teams paid to protect places,
and if someone goes after something, it needs to be
a hard target, not a soft target, and the person
who goes after it needs to regret it. If we
have enough of that happen in our society, these things
(03:00):
will stop. These things will at least become less commonplace.
That is always the problem that stares us in the
eye that so many people want to ignore, is that
you need to make targets harder, and you need to
make people capable of being harmed for trying to harm
others without having to be worried.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
That at some point today you know, the cops show up.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
You need to have people in place, in positions of capability,
with training necessary to do it, to immediately stop threats
that just needs to happen. More of our society needs
to be like that. That is acceptance of the reality
of the world we live in. Not this not the
canceling of events because we're too afraid of trying to
do the right thing and protect them the way that
(03:43):
we need to. But it's uniquely a shame that I
saw that story out of the UK and at about
a bunch of places about how many events this time
of year are being canceled, and how many people might
be afraid to even go places in general because of
that threat risk. I'm afraid to go nowhere because I'm are,
and I think.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You should be too.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
But none of that is what I actually want to
talk about. I'd actually rather talk about a clip from
Joe Rogan's podcast that went very viral. This is on
the heels of the Nick Shirley video that went, of
course very viral, and the reason Shirley was so important
independent journalists a million, I think subscribers on YouTube before
he put this video out, only like a million and
(04:28):
a half views on YouTube according to that platform, but
one hundred million plus views on Twitter. And this is
kind of, I think where Rogan is going, the censorship
of society at a time when technology allows all of
us to rise to the top of the news totem
pull and do something that mainstream media should have been doing,
(04:51):
that local news media should have been doing and didn't do.
Visit all these locations that are potentially very fraudulent places
in Minnesota, taking millions of dollars for childcare and autism
care and everything else and not doing any of that
work at all. A YouTuber was capable of doing more
in twenty four hours than media was willing to do,
(05:13):
if not capable to do for quite a bit longer.
But here's part of what Rogan said. There's a bad
word in here that we cleaned up, so I will
definitely have to skip over that bit, but a lot
of really interesting stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I said here with.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Now Elon purchased Twitter, and I don't say this lightly.
I think he changed the course of civilization. I really do.
I think we were on our way to this weird
dystopian censor censorship complex that was already moving. We had
already had intelligence agencies that were contacting Twitter. We know
this through the Twitter files, and they were banning certain
(05:46):
people that weren't saying incorrect things, but they were seeing
things that were inconvenient, and they turned out to all
be accurate. All the things that they were warning about,
all the things that they're saying, all turned out to
be accurate. They stopped the distribution of the Hunter Biden
laptop story.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, and I'll stop it right there.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
He uses that as one example of what he's saying
that there's a lot of things that turned out to
be accurate and true from the quote unquote conspiracy theorists
that we're all getting silenced and having their platforms shrunk
on social media. What's funny about that. I wasn't deep
diving into the world of conspiracy theory at the time,
but I certainly was giving my opinion and I was
(06:23):
on a radio station in Illinois. At the moment, my
social media feeds I think were censored. And the only
reason I think that is because in the last year,
every time I post anything on any of my radio
craigse on social media if you want to find me
not a huge following anywhere, but anytime I post anything
like a picture, just you know, text posts something that's
(06:45):
not even really valuable, Facebook and some of the other
places tell me my reach has been extended, like hey,
just letting you know we've expanded the reach you have
because you're posting such quality content. I need to take
a photo of that and put that up on social
media itself. It's happened multiple times this year, and I've
probably been lazier than I've been in a while on
social media, so I'm doing less. But somehow this is
(07:08):
quality content. I think because of how long my platform
and a lot of platforms that are very little, I
got censored because we were saying, as Rogan calls it,
inconvenient stuff, stuff that was inevitably true but not necessarily
favored by these outlets. Rogan goes on, though, to talk
about how big of an impact Elon Musk has had.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Totally accurate story and to stop that accurate story is wild.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yes, that is scary stuff. Yes, it is that.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
If Elon didn't purchase Twitter, we would have just had
to deal with that kind of stuff that would be
and it would accelerate, It wouldn't stay where it is,
it would ramp up, it would get more. They were
started to using the term malinformation, So there's misinformation, disinformation,
and then malinformation. Malinformation is factual information that might cause harm.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, that's crazy that they were using the those terms
in doing that, but that is absolutely true. Elon Musk
buying Twitter and allowing it to be a platform that
was uncensored comparative to the other ones. There's still some
censorship that exists there, but very very little. And as
Elon said, when he bought it, he was essentially only
going to censor out what would be illegal anyway, like
full on threats on other people's lives and things. There
(08:20):
would be you know, repercussions to that kind of behavior,
but other than that, almost nothing. A mainstream media went
crazy about it and told you how all of it was,
you know, essentially allowing the worst of society and people
who are white Supremacis, Nazis, or what have you. They
got a voice back by Twitter and Nick Shirley one
hundred million plus views on Twitter, one point five million
(08:43):
on YouTube or something like that, And I know the
views are calculated differently. I know that one hundred million
views on Twitter doesn't necessarily mean one hundred million people
watched all of that video or even all that much
of that video, but they're at least aware of the
story because they saw some version of it in their feed,
some version of information there. Sharing information at that scale
(09:04):
is vitally important to our society being able to protect itself,
especially when that information winds up being true and valuable,
which I think will be a byproduct of it being viral.
Most people that I've talked to about this in response
to all these positives and what they call it like
maga media praise of Nick Shirley, which is hilarious that
(09:25):
they call it that because a YouTuber with a million
followers put out something that is easily demonstrated to be
true and easily demonstrated to be a horrible outing of
the ridiculousness of fraud in Minnesota that we all knew existed.
But people are attacking it for being white supremacist or
some crazy thing, which is insane to me, but it
(09:46):
definitely evens the playing field in a way that is
necessary for the liars to think they can't get away
with the lie. And our society only changes when the
liars think they can't get away with the lie. It
doesn't change when you catch a few liars and actually
the rest of them don't get caught, or you know
that they did something bad, but you benefit, so you
keep silent on it. It's the fact that the future
(10:09):
lie will not only be outed, but that eventually there
will be hopefully consequences to pay. And that's something that
I think that Scott Jennings and a lot of other
people have been talking about. Now, we can't just have
this be the end of this story. You can't just
have the depth of fraud, the amount of ways in
which Tim Walls feels uniquely connected to it, or ilhan
(10:29):
Omar or anyone else. You have to have that fully
investigated and people have to go to jail. People have
to be held responsible. This can't be a whoopsie are
bad mistake. The way that again, as I said to
open the show, there is millions and billions, hundreds of
billions of dollars of fraud that take place throughout the
country every single year. And so when people are asking,
(10:52):
how do we get back to a place where you
trust each other, where things get better, you hold the
bad guys responsible and straight to the other bad guys
that they won't be allowed to do this, and that
if they do it, they'll actually have to go to jail.
It's very similar to the deterrent that exists right now
for people who are here illegally. By sending people back home,
you are demonstrating that the country is no longer wide
(11:14):
open to whatever you want, and we have severely impacted
the amount of people who are showing up at our
border right now. That is a deterrent. That's goal is
to change the way things are happening in society. We
have to do this as far as the people who
are doing bad things and defrauding our government in all
kinds of ways, defrauding us the taxpayers, even if those
people are eventually the government itself and all the ridiculous
(11:36):
kickbacks that we all think they're getting.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
And now all of the news you would probably miss.
It's time for Dana's quick five.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
That's right, it's time for a quick five on the
Dana Show. A d Lash Dana Lash Radio, an x
on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. My
name is Craig Collins. Filling in. Bees now have legal rights.
Not here in the United States. This happened in the Amazon.
A stingless bee, specifically, one of the oldest bee species
in the world, needed to be protected, according to some
(12:06):
of the people who live there. In one of the
dumbest things I've read in this year as far as
news goes, the bees now have the right to a
healthy habitat, to certain life conditions. And here's my favorite one,
the ability to lawyer up if the bees feel and
I don't know how you'd assess this that something has
happened that's unfair to them, or I guess someone who
(12:28):
wants to speak for the bees feels as though they
need to sue somebody.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
They can now do it in the Amazon. It is
a world first.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
The first animal or species of animal that is capable
of getting its own lawyer to defend itself and speak
for the collection of bees that can take a class
sect in the lawsuit against I don't know who the
neighbor for being a jerk. I mean, this is a
real thing, an actual story, somewhere beyond stupid, and the
people who are a part of it are saying they
hope that it's the first of a whole bunch of
(12:57):
other animals getting legal rights and lawyers just finding a
new way to make a ton of money. I love
the amount of times that I get an email saying
I was a part of a class action lawsuit because
of Facebook or something, and I'm about to get ten
dollars in the mail, which I don't even think it's
actually come all that often. I don't think I get
the check, probably because I don't actually give them my
information to get the check, because I'd rather skip the
(13:18):
ten bucks than give an organization.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I don't know who it is this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
But now apparently the stingless Bees and Amazon in the
Amazon can be added to that list if their Facebook
pages are screwed up.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Man, oh man, how those lawsuits are going to grow?
How stupid this is.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Other things out there that I saw were interesting. Beyonce
is now a billionaire. I don't care about this story
at all, but someone out there might Beyonce is the
latest person to reach a billion dollars, which means that
California now officially wants to tax her because they want
to cover up their own fraud.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Good luck to.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
All the people out there that now want to take
more money from Beyonce because she's too rich.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
She's terrible.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
We got to make sure to take all her money
away of the success she had. I think that's the narrative.
On the left right, defenseless Uber Eats robot was attacked
by two people. The people were dressed as a cow
and a Pikachu, which would be the Pokemon. There's so
many stories about this about drones and other things and
Uber Eats robots and stuff that get attacked that get
(14:20):
taken down. I guess they're going to need their own
legal defense team too at some point, which God forbid
we ever get there. But I do think that this
is pretty hilarious. There's a viral video of two costumed
individuals taking out an Uber Eats robot and somebody who
didn't get their food. Because this will be the inevitable
byproduct of a whole bunch more robots and drones in
(14:41):
our society. And by the way, one last thing about
the drone delivery. I know Amazon's a big fan of this.
I know they've been touting the ability for it to
happen in places like Dallas or parts of California and whatnot. Arizona,
I think, is doing it, and more and more places
are going to have it. The whole point of immediate
delivery by drone to me is that as a married man,
(15:02):
I forgot something. There's an anniversary that I screwed up on,
some sort of event that I was supposed to buy
something for that I have to look the missus dead
in the eyes and go, of course, I bought you
that thing for that that thing that you want to
go to, and then I have to order it by
drone and you pay the extra money for it to
fly into the backyard. My favorite idea in that thought
(15:22):
is that i'd also have to distract the misses well.
The drone delivers the thing that I claimed I've had
for a while, and that feels challenging. So maybe the
first thing I buy via drone is like the three
D goggle headset, so that I can tell her to
watch a movie and the three D goggles, and then
that's where I get the other thing delivered by drone.
But by and large I think I can wait the
extra day for whatever my item is. If I'm not
(15:45):
going to get in trouble from the misses because I've
forgotten something, I think I can wait one or two
days for someone to deliver it the old fashioned way
and not have to fly drones everywhere in the country.
It feels like it's a step unnecessary, and again, the
only time it's valuable to also be the time I
get in trouble for definitely have forgotten that thing. This
is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in,
(16:07):
thrilled to be with you. A lot of stuff to
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If you want to find someone who's way less famous
(16:28):
than her and occasionally gets to babysit this very cool show.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I Do love.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
A viral chain of tweets a viral list of things
on x in which a whole bunch of these organizations
that are the fraudulent places in Minnesota are simply pictured.
You can see how closed they all look, and some
of the ridiculous names of some of the organizations. So
I'm gonna get that, get to that in a little bit,
(16:53):
because I do, I really like that. But there's another
story out there that seems like it's starting to grow
in scope, the amount of people who got fraudulent federal
rental assistant payments. At first, I think they told us
something like thirty thousand dead people got some sort of payment.
Five point eight billion dollars in questionable disbursements went out
(17:17):
in the fiscal year of twenty twenty four from the
Biden rental assistance program. And now there's an assumption that
there's like two hundred thousand dubious rental assistant recipients, a
whole bunch of people who might have never lived in
any of the places in which they were claiming to
live at po boxes, all kinds of things to demonstrate
how this money is getting stolen and then moved other places.
(17:40):
But at least thirty thousand dead people apparently needed rental
assistance in twenty twenty four that's got to be tough
to be not alive and then also have to still
pay your rent.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
That's got to be.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Crazy to deal with that, as only somebody can if
they're defrauding the government. All right, let's go through it.
This list of all the different tweets on here found
pretty amusing. AO Children's Center is one that definitely is
not operating. It seems Lucky child Care Center, which doesn't
seem lucky at all as they have a ton of
(18:10):
overgrown grass in the area. Motherly Love Daycare, Inc.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Is another one.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
It is connected to a meat and grocery market, which
you know how that feels appropriate You go go get
some Motherly Love childcare right next to grabbing some groceries
from the Halal meat market. Star Children Care Center, Apple
Childcare Center is also one that exists Future Scholars Childcare,
which seems like it's people that are definitely hoping for
(18:39):
a lot of great results to their non existent childcare.
I Care Child Center was one of my favorite ones
that was out there, and also Rising Stars Children Llc,
which has absolutely no building whatsoever. The address appears to
be close to a listing for a home that was
for sale online but not actually at it, So it
(19:00):
seems like someone adjusted the address based on what they
saw online to a place that doesn't exist at all.
So when you zoom in, you just see an empty
street and nothing. So really, hopefully rising stars are going
to be you know, cared for and groomed on that
busy highway street that they're claiming as an area.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
But the list goes on and on.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
There's so many crazy ones, and it just seems like
the kind of thing and Minnesota has known about this
for so long that you couldn't possibly have believed, Like
you can't possibly think that the amount of government people
necessary to okay this believe these things were real. And
by the way, one of the other crazy things that
happened recently in Minnesota, they have taken down the childcare
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licensing page that was publicly available information that allowed for
a lot of people to look into these places and
allowed for Nick surely the YouTuber to visit a bunch
of the places that were likely to be fraudulent areas
and fraudulent childcare and whatnot. It's now how completely down
and the statement on the page says that there's a
(20:04):
high amount of volume and traffic and so they're working
on getting the website back up, but it definitely seems
like they're hiding things and they're terrified of what is
to come with more and more people potentially looking into this.
All of this is to set up audio of the
owner of the Quality Leering Center, the infamous place that
misspelled its learning in its same and then didn't fix it,
(20:28):
even though they've gotten millions of dollars in money from
the government. They thought that it was fine with the
one sign that's misspelled that nobody.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Cares, not a big deal. That guy didn't interview.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
So not only did that establishment have kids at it yesterday,
which felt like an immediate response to the news coverage
and an attempt to pretend as though what happened on
Monday is what you can assume is happening all the time,
even though the reality is that probably wait a couple
weeks and no one's going to be showing up there again,
and many of the people in the neighborhoods that they've
(20:59):
never seen kids there. But anyway, somebody showed up, said
he was the play. The guy who runs it says
they operate all the time, says where are the people
that are checking to see if this is legit, et cetera,
et cetera. I'm not afraid of playing the news and
playing anybody on any side of it. So this is
a guy saying all this is lies, all this is crazy,
and the YouTuber is just targeting Somalians because of racism
(21:22):
or something.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
But here we go.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Here's the way he goes about trying to say all this.
He does sound somewhat reasonable in the things he's saying,
but that's the point. He's doing this on purpose because
he knows how ridiculous it is to try to pretend
to the place he's in charge of air Quotes is
actually a real establishment taking care of kids, even though
it's been in trouble a tremendous amount of times in
(21:44):
the last few years for definitely not doing what they
claim they're doing.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
But here we go.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
What would you say to Nick Shirley, the YouTuber if
he was standing in front of you at him himself.
But I do have something.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I guess that rhetoric.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
It's it's going to be a a journalist, just the
have a moral compass, like do what you do correctly, crazy,
you catch business down on fraud.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
No one here it is with that, or well, we
don't support that as a community.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
I don't support that myself.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I was going to race, I'm not for fraud. Uh
the notion that hey are.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Certain that's of somebody got hot, so all of us
supporting it's like, no no one in any community any
mishaps that happened. Dar'sa community obviously doesn't want that to happen.
He's a state on all of our names.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I love that he called it a mishap, by the way,
because if you're trying to dive deep into the things
that this guy is saying and how he's defending himself
and saying, of course it's not fraud, it's a bunch
of kids here. Look at the performative thing that we've
set up for today to make everybody. And we've invited
news and media here because we want them to know
that we're a real establishment and we're anti this. But
then he calls it a mishap. Billions of dollars of fraud.
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Feels like it's a bigger thing than a mishap. And
I love that he says, I'm.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Not for it.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Who supports fraud? What version of a conversation would come
out there? And say the opposite. I mean, what moron
ever admits to their crime even when they're super caught
in the crime, when it's definitively obvious that they're lying.
What what people out there actually play guilty? Very very
few of them, if any. He's definitely going the other road,
and it's ridiculous. Let's let it continue.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Can see, we don't want that to happen. We don't
we don't take part in that. We don't like that,
we don't want that. KNU commedities. But just to say, hey,
oh sorry, company got so they must all do it.
I feel like that's what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
That's I'm not a venant.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Two ten pm may not be your typical daycare hours,
so can you explain why it is?
Speaker 5 (23:32):
The reason for that is we're after school hours, so
most of our kinds, not most of our highs, all
of our clients.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Is after school hours.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
So schools earliest dismissal would be two fifteen to two
thirty ish and the latest dismissal would be up to
like four thirty ish four forty ish. So that's when
artists come to us anyone in the morning.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I wish they mightn't even further with that, they're like,
we are one am to ten am.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Those are our hours.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I don't know why anyone's not coming during our regular
We are the overnight childcare service that helps people who
need to check in their kids overnight. The other thing
that's funny about this, as he's saying it, and as
there is activity at the quality Leering Center, he did
say the reason for the lack of changing the sign
is just that they didn't think it was a big
deal and the graphic designer was the one who made
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the mistake. Another the last the thing I love is
it's still not ninety nine kids, as Nick Shirley pointed
out when he confronted the business and no one was
there to open the doors. It's supposed to be ninety
nine children that are being taken care of daily according
to the government information that makes them get millions of
dollars in funding. And it's just one dude, one dude
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in a T shirt with a coat on because it's Minnesota,
standing there and describing how his business is legitimate. If
they are making millions of dollars off the government, you
would think that they would actually have a ton of employees,
that there'd be a bunch of people there to take
care of the ninety nine kids, and then there'd be
a bunch of different other services, food and whatnot that
comes in, and a bunch of the places that cater
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to these businesses that say they're taking care of children
or the elderly are actually family members of the people
who are running the facility in the first place. So
that's pretty convenient that the catering service I get is
just my relative who apparently is a really great cook
and deserves to be paid. They're millions of dollars for
the food they're making for our establishment or our organization.
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It's just crazy, the unapologeticness of this fraud and now
the stupidity of trying to attempt to pretend as though
it's not happening, like they're offending the American people. Multiple
times in the short span of time that this story
has been a thing that's been in the national consciousness
and not just something that was more locally something people
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talked about. As I said, they've been doing reports on
this occasionally in Minnesota for years. They haven't been talking
about it recently. Apparently no one in mainstream media cared
if any of those problems they noticed in eighteen or
nineteen ever got fixed. But the other thing that's so
offensive is how they think this will work. They think
people will believe it, and they've seen this before. One
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of the childcare places that got in a lot of
trouble in Minnesota years ago actually did have performative versions
of parents coming with children, pretending to drop them off
at the child care facility, and then coming back shortly
after the drop off to pick them back up. And
the thing they found out was that many of these
parents were also getting money from the childcare company.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
They were essentially the quote unquote employees who.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Were just pretending as though their kids went there in
case someone was watching the occasional visit to drop in,
you know, to check and see if something is going on,
if something is legitimate. That's how this works. If you
think there's attention, you might do it for a couple
of weeks, and then they'll go right back to having
absolutely nobody there when they think anyone is no longer
paying attention. The bad news for them, because of Nick
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Shirley's of the world, is someone probably will always be
paying attention. Who that is might change, But the fact
that Everyone's going to forget this story seems highly unlikely.
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hundred thousand dollars of lobster was stolen in a seafood
heightst that sounds really difficult to execute. It sounds like
the kind of thing that's more hassle than it's actually worth,
even if it's four hundred grand, because lobsters were all live.
But here is a news report talking about a thing
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that really happened in our society.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Four hundred thousand dollars worth of live lobsters headed for
Costco were stolen from a Massachusetts shipping facility last week.
The CEO of a logistics industry trade group. So the
thief posed as a trucking company worker. And this is
likely part of an organized cargo crime ring.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Of course it does. Things like that have sterial numbers.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Again, those are targeted as well, but a little bit
easier to track obviously.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
You know, lobster doesn't have a QR code on it.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Lobster we do, just have QR code onto you know,
track it down.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And this isn't the first time this has happened. It's
the second major seafood theft in December alone.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It is crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
That's crazy that we have so many different organized versions
of theft and chaos and other things going on. Not
that we don't know about this in our society, but
that it's gotten so bad that people are stealing four
hundred thousand dollars of live lobster by posing as members
of a trucking company. And again, I feel like the
hassle there. I'm not telling the criminals how to commit
crimes better. That's not the goal, that's not my intention.
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But the hassle can't be worth it in that grand
scheme of things unless you're dropping them off very quickly
somewhere else. I wouldn't want to house the live lobster
for any amount of time before I exchange them to
some other place. I am trying to be a little
tongue in cheek about how I joke about this, because
it's terrible. It's awful to see, you know, that level
of crime in so many places in our society, but
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it's definitely there. And also, again on the list of
things that I would ever steal, which I'm not intent
on stealing anything, live lobster would be way at the
bottom for things that you'd actually want to deal with.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
A post theft.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Other things out there that I thought were kind of interesting.
A bunch of New Year's Eve events have been can
around the world, a lot of them for security concerns.
Many people are saying after the Bondi Beach attack in
Sydney or things like it, that they're concerned that the
New Year's Eve parties themselves will be targets for individuals.
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I've always said this, and I'll say this here. It
is much better to keep the event and secure it,
and there's a whole lot of ways to do that,
then cancel the events and let the bad guys win.
The bad, horrible people out there who do bad, horrible
things want our society to have to choose between hosting
events and not hosting them, essentially handing power to the
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people who do the bad things, when the reality is
that what we need to do is have a few
veterans stationed outside of places, security teams paid to protect places,
and if someone goes after something, it needs to be
a hard target, not a soft target, and the person
who goes after it needs to regret it. If we
have enough of that happen in our society, these things
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will stop. These things will at least become less commonplace.
That is always the problem that stares us in the
eye that so many people want to ignore, is that
you need to make targets harder, and you need to
make people capable of being harmed for trying to harm
others without having to be worried.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
That at some point today you know, the cops show up.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
You need to have people in place, in positions of capability,
with training necessary to do it, to immediately stop threats
that just needs to happen. More of our society needs
to be like that. That is acceptance of the reality
of the world we live in. Not this not the
canceling of events because we're too afraid of trying to
do the right thing and protect them the way that
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we need to. But it's uniquely a shame that I
saw that story out of the UK and at about
a bunch of places about how many events this time
of year are being canceled, and how many people might
be afraid to even go places in general because of
that threat risk. I'm afraid to go nowhere because I'm are,
and I think.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You should be too.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
But none of that is what I actually want to
talk about. I'd actually rather talk about a clip from
Joe Rogan's podcast that went very viral. This is on
the heels of the Nick Shirley video that went, of
course very viral, and the reason Shirley was so important
independent journalists a million, I think subscribers on YouTube before
he put this video out, only like a million and
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a half views on YouTube according to that platform, but
one hundred million plus views on Twitter. And this is
kind of, I think where Rogan is going, the censorship
of society at a time when technology allows all of
us to rise to the top of the news totem
pull and do something that mainstream media should have been doing,
(04:51):
that local news media should have been doing and didn't do.
Visit all these locations that are potentially very fraudulent places
in Minnesota, taking millions of dollars for childcare and autism
care and everything else and not doing any of that
work at all. A YouTuber was capable of doing more
in twenty four hours than media was willing to do,
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if not capable to do for quite a bit longer.
But here's part of what Rogan said. There's a bad
word in here that we cleaned up, so I will
definitely have to skip over that bit, but a lot
of really interesting stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I said here with.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Now Elon purchased Twitter, and I don't say this lightly.
I think he changed the course of civilization. I really do.
I think we were on our way to this weird
dystopian censor censorship complex that was already moving. We had
already had intelligence agencies that were contacting Twitter. We know
this through the Twitter files, and they were banning certain
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people that weren't saying incorrect things, but they were seeing
things that were inconvenient, and they turned out to all
be accurate. All the things that they were warning about,
all the things that they're saying, all turned out to
be accurate. They stopped the distribution of the Hunter Biden
laptop story.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, and I'll stop it right there.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
He uses that as one example of what he's saying
that there's a lot of things that turned out to
be accurate and true from the quote unquote conspiracy theorists
that we're all getting silenced and having their platforms shrunk
on social media. What's funny about that. I wasn't deep
diving into the world of conspiracy theory at the time,
but I certainly was giving my opinion and I was
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on a radio station in Illinois. At the moment, my
social media feeds I think were censored. And the only
reason I think that is because in the last year,
every time I post anything on any of my radio
craigse on social media if you want to find me
not a huge following anywhere, but anytime I post anything
like a picture, just you know, text posts something that's
(06:45):
not even really valuable, Facebook and some of the other
places tell me my reach has been extended, like hey,
just letting you know we've expanded the reach you have
because you're posting such quality content. I need to take
a photo of that and put that up on social
media itself. It's happened multiple times this year, and I've
probably been lazier than I've been in a while on
social media, so I'm doing less. But somehow this is
(07:08):
quality content. I think because of how long my platform
and a lot of platforms that are very little, I
got censored because we were saying, as Rogan calls it,
inconvenient stuff, stuff that was inevitably true but not necessarily
favored by these outlets. Rogan goes on, though, to talk
about how big of an impact Elon Musk has had.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Totally accurate story and to stop that accurate story is wild.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yes, that is scary stuff. Yes, it is that.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
If Elon didn't purchase Twitter, we would have just had
to deal with that kind of stuff that would be
and it would accelerate, It wouldn't stay where it is,
it would ramp up, it would get more. They were
started to using the term malinformation, So there's misinformation, disinformation,
and then malinformation. Malinformation is factual information that might cause harm.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, that's crazy that they were using the those terms
in doing that, but that is absolutely true. Elon Musk
buying Twitter and allowing it to be a platform that
was uncensored comparative to the other ones. There's still some
censorship that exists there, but very very little. And as
Elon said, when he bought it, he was essentially only
going to censor out what would be illegal anyway, like
full on threats on other people's lives and things. There
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would be you know, repercussions to that kind of behavior,
but other than that, almost nothing. A mainstream media went
crazy about it and told you how all of it was,
you know, essentially allowing the worst of society and people
who are white Supremacis, Nazis, or what have you. They
got a voice back by Twitter and Nick Shirley one
hundred million plus views on Twitter, one point five million
(08:43):
on YouTube or something like that, And I know the
views are calculated differently. I know that one hundred million
views on Twitter doesn't necessarily mean one hundred million people
watched all of that video or even all that much
of that video, but they're at least aware of the
story because they saw some version of it in their feed,
some version of information there. Sharing information at that scale
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is vitally important to our society being able to protect itself,
especially when that information winds up being true and valuable,
which I think will be a byproduct of it being viral.
Most people that I've talked to about this in response
to all these positives and what they call it like
maga media praise of Nick Shirley, which is hilarious that
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they call it that because a YouTuber with a million
followers put out something that is easily demonstrated to be
true and easily demonstrated to be a horrible outing of
the ridiculousness of fraud in Minnesota that we all knew existed.
But people are attacking it for being white supremacist or
some crazy thing, which is insane to me, but it
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definitely evens the playing field in a way that is
necessary for the liars to think they can't get away
with the lie. And our society only changes when the
liars think they can't get away with the lie. It
doesn't change when you catch a few liars and actually
the rest of them don't get caught, or you know
that they did something bad, but you benefit, so you
keep silent on it. It's the fact that the future
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lie will not only be outed, but that eventually there
will be hopefully consequences to pay. And that's something that
I think that Scott Jennings and a lot of other
people have been talking about. Now, we can't just have
this be the end of this story. You can't just
have the depth of fraud, the amount of ways in
which Tim Walls feels uniquely connected to it, or ilhan
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Omar or anyone else. You have to have that fully
investigated and people have to go to jail. People have
to be held responsible. This can't be a whoopsie are
bad mistake. The way that again, as I said to
open the show, there is millions and billions, hundreds of
billions of dollars of fraud that take place throughout the
country every single year. And so when people are asking,
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how do we get back to a place where you
trust each other, where things get better, you hold the
bad guys responsible and straight to the other bad guys
that they won't be allowed to do this, and that
if they do it, they'll actually have to go to jail.
It's very similar to the deterrent that exists right now
for people who are here illegally. By sending people back home,
you are demonstrating that the country is no longer wide
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open to whatever you want, and we have severely impacted
the amount of people who are showing up at our
border right now. That is a deterrent. That's goal is
to change the way things are happening in society. We
have to do this as far as the people who
are doing bad things and defrauding our government in all
kinds of ways, defrauding us the taxpayers, even if those
people are eventually the government itself and all the ridiculous
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kickbacks that we all think they're getting.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
And now all of the news you would probably miss.
It's time for Dana's quick five.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
That's right, it's time for a quick five on the
Dana Show. A d Lash Dana Lash Radio, an x
on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. My
name is Craig Collins. Filling in. Bees now have legal rights.
Not here in the United States. This happened in the Amazon.
A stingless bee, specifically, one of the oldest bee species
in the world, needed to be protected, according to some
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of the people who live there. In one of the
dumbest things I've read in this year as far as
news goes, the bees now have the right to a
healthy habitat, to certain life conditions. And here's my favorite one,
the ability to lawyer up if the bees feel and
I don't know how you'd assess this that something has
happened that's unfair to them, or I guess someone who
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wants to speak for the bees feels as though they
need to sue somebody.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
They can now do it in the Amazon. It is
a world first.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
The first animal or species of animal that is capable
of getting its own lawyer to defend itself and speak
for the collection of bees that can take a class
sect in the lawsuit against I don't know who the
neighbor for being a jerk. I mean, this is a
real thing, an actual story, somewhere beyond stupid, and the
people who are a part of it are saying they
hope that it's the first of a whole bunch of
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other animals getting legal rights and lawyers just finding a
new way to make a ton of money. I love
the amount of times that I get an email saying
I was a part of a class action lawsuit because
of Facebook or something, and I'm about to get ten
dollars in the mail, which I don't even think it's
actually come all that often. I don't think I get
the check, probably because I don't actually give them my
information to get the check, because I'd rather skip the
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ten bucks than give an organization.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I don't know who it is this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
But now apparently the stingless Bees and Amazon in the
Amazon can be added to that list if their Facebook
pages are screwed up.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Man, oh man, how those lawsuits are going to grow?
How stupid this is.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Other things out there that I saw were interesting. Beyonce
is now a billionaire. I don't care about this story
at all, but someone out there might Beyonce is the
latest person to reach a billion dollars, which means that
California now officially wants to tax her because they want
to cover up their own fraud.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Good luck to.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
All the people out there that now want to take
more money from Beyonce because she's too rich.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
She's terrible.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
We got to make sure to take all her money
away of the success she had. I think that's the narrative.
On the left right, defenseless Uber Eats robot was attacked
by two people. The people were dressed as a cow
and a Pikachu, which would be the Pokemon. There's so
many stories about this about drones and other things and
Uber Eats robots and stuff that get attacked that get
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taken down. I guess they're going to need their own
legal defense team too at some point, which God forbid
we ever get there. But I do think that this
is pretty hilarious. There's a viral video of two costumed
individuals taking out an Uber Eats robot and somebody who
didn't get their food. Because this will be the inevitable
byproduct of a whole bunch more robots and drones in
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our society. And by the way, one last thing about
the drone delivery. I know Amazon's a big fan of this.
I know they've been touting the ability for it to
happen in places like Dallas or parts of California and whatnot. Arizona,
I think, is doing it, and more and more places
are going to have it. The whole point of immediate
delivery by drone to me is that as a married man,
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I forgot something. There's an anniversary that I screwed up on,
some sort of event that I was supposed to buy
something for that I have to look the missus dead
in the eyes and go, of course, I bought you
that thing for that that thing that you want to
go to, and then I have to order it by
drone and you pay the extra money for it to
fly into the backyard. My favorite idea in that thought
(15:22):
is that i'd also have to distract the misses well.
The drone delivers the thing that I claimed I've had
for a while, and that feels challenging. So maybe the
first thing I buy via drone is like the three
D goggle headset, so that I can tell her to
watch a movie and the three D goggles, and then
that's where I get the other thing delivered by drone.
But by and large I think I can wait the
extra day for whatever my item is. If I'm not
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going to get in trouble from the misses because I've
forgotten something, I think I can wait one or two
days for someone to deliver it the old fashioned way
and not have to fly drones everywhere in the country.
It feels like it's a step unnecessary, and again, the
only time it's valuable to also be the time I
get in trouble for definitely have forgotten that thing. This
is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in,
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thrilled to be with you. A lot of stuff to
talk about d Lash. Dana Lash Radio and X on
Twitter are great ways to stay connected to her and
everything going on from her social media team. She's all
over the place, though you can find her everywhere the
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so it's very easy to find her at radio Craig Z.
If you want to find someone who's way less famous
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than her and occasionally gets to babysit this very cool show.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I Do love.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
A viral chain of tweets a viral list of things
on x in which a whole bunch of these organizations
that are the fraudulent places in Minnesota are simply pictured.
You can see how closed they all look, and some
of the ridiculous names of some of the organizations. So
I'm gonna get that, get to that in a little bit,
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because I do, I really like that. But there's another
story out there that seems like it's starting to grow
in scope, the amount of people who got fraudulent federal
rental assistant payments. At first, I think they told us
something like thirty thousand dead people got some sort of payment.
Five point eight billion dollars in questionable disbursements went out
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in the fiscal year of twenty twenty four from the
Biden rental assistance program. And now there's an assumption that
there's like two hundred thousand dubious rental assistant recipients, a
whole bunch of people who might have never lived in
any of the places in which they were claiming to
live at po boxes, all kinds of things to demonstrate
how this money is getting stolen and then moved other places.
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But at least thirty thousand dead people apparently needed rental
assistance in twenty twenty four that's got to be tough
to be not alive and then also have to still
pay your rent.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
That's got to be.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Crazy to deal with that, as only somebody can if
they're defrauding the government. All right, let's go through it.
This list of all the different tweets on here found
pretty amusing. AO Children's Center is one that definitely is
not operating. It seems Lucky child Care Center, which doesn't
seem lucky at all as they have a ton of
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overgrown grass in the area. Motherly Love Daycare, Inc.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Is another one.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
It is connected to a meat and grocery market, which
you know how that feels appropriate You go go get
some Motherly Love childcare right next to grabbing some groceries
from the Halal meat market. Star Children Care Center, Apple
Childcare Center is also one that exists Future Scholars Childcare,
which seems like it's people that are definitely hoping for
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a lot of great results to their non existent childcare.
I Care Child Center was one of my favorite ones
that was out there, and also Rising Stars Children Llc,
which has absolutely no building whatsoever. The address appears to
be close to a listing for a home that was
for sale online but not actually at it, So it
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seems like someone adjusted the address based on what they
saw online to a place that doesn't exist at all.
So when you zoom in, you just see an empty
street and nothing. So really, hopefully rising stars are going
to be you know, cared for and groomed on that
busy highway street that they're claiming as an area.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
But the list goes on and on.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
There's so many crazy ones, and it just seems like
the kind of thing and Minnesota has known about this
for so long that you couldn't possibly have believed, Like
you can't possibly think that the amount of government people
necessary to okay this believe these things were real. And
by the way, one of the other crazy things that
happened recently in Minnesota, they have taken down the childcare
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licensing page that was publicly available information that allowed for
a lot of people to look into these places and
allowed for Nick surely the YouTuber to visit a bunch
of the places that were likely to be fraudulent areas
and fraudulent childcare and whatnot. It's now how completely down
and the statement on the page says that there's a
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high amount of volume and traffic and so they're working
on getting the website back up, but it definitely seems
like they're hiding things and they're terrified of what is
to come with more and more people potentially looking into this.
All of this is to set up audio of the
owner of the Quality Leering Center, the infamous place that
misspelled its learning in its same and then didn't fix it,
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even though they've gotten millions of dollars in money from
the government. They thought that it was fine with the
one sign that's misspelled that nobody.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Cares, not a big deal. That guy didn't interview.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
So not only did that establishment have kids at it yesterday,
which felt like an immediate response to the news coverage
and an attempt to pretend as though what happened on
Monday is what you can assume is happening all the time,
even though the reality is that probably wait a couple
weeks and no one's going to be showing up there again,
and many of the people in the neighborhoods that they've
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never seen kids there. But anyway, somebody showed up, said
he was the play. The guy who runs it says
they operate all the time, says where are the people
that are checking to see if this is legit, et cetera,
et cetera. I'm not afraid of playing the news and
playing anybody on any side of it. So this is
a guy saying all this is lies, all this is crazy,
and the YouTuber is just targeting Somalians because of racism
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or something.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
But here we go.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Here's the way he goes about trying to say all this.
He does sound somewhat reasonable in the things he's saying,
but that's the point. He's doing this on purpose because
he knows how ridiculous it is to try to pretend
to the place he's in charge of air Quotes is
actually a real establishment taking care of kids, even though
it's been in trouble a tremendous amount of times in
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the last few years for definitely not doing what they
claim they're doing.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
But here we go.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
What would you say to Nick Shirley, the YouTuber if
he was standing in front of you at him himself.
But I do have something.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I guess that rhetoric.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
It's it's going to be a a journalist, just the
have a moral compass, like do what you do correctly, crazy,
you catch business down on fraud.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
No one here it is with that, or well, we
don't support that as a community.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
I don't support that myself.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I was going to race, I'm not for fraud. Uh
the notion that hey are.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Certain that's of somebody got hot, so all of us
supporting it's like, no no one in any community any
mishaps that happened. Dar'sa community obviously doesn't want that to happen.
He's a state on all of our names.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I love that he called it a mishap, by the way,
because if you're trying to dive deep into the things
that this guy is saying and how he's defending himself
and saying, of course it's not fraud, it's a bunch
of kids here. Look at the performative thing that we've
set up for today to make everybody. And we've invited
news and media here because we want them to know
that we're a real establishment and we're anti this. But
then he calls it a mishap. Billions of dollars of fraud.
(22:49):
Feels like it's a bigger thing than a mishap. And
I love that he says, I'm.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Not for it.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Who supports fraud? What version of a conversation would come
out there? And say the opposite. I mean, what moron
ever admits to their crime even when they're super caught
in the crime, when it's definitively obvious that they're lying.
What what people out there actually play guilty? Very very
few of them, if any. He's definitely going the other road,
and it's ridiculous. Let's let it continue.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Can see, we don't want that to happen. We don't
we don't take part in that. We don't like that,
we don't want that. KNU commedities. But just to say, hey,
oh sorry, company got so they must all do it.
I feel like that's what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
That's I'm not a venant.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Two ten pm may not be your typical daycare hours,
so can you explain why it is?
Speaker 5 (23:32):
The reason for that is we're after school hours, so
most of our kinds, not most of our highs, all
of our clients.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Is after school hours.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
So schools earliest dismissal would be two fifteen to two
thirty ish and the latest dismissal would be up to
like four thirty ish four forty ish. So that's when
artists come to us anyone in the morning.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I wish they mightn't even further with that, they're like,
we are one am to ten am.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Those are our hours.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I don't know why anyone's not coming during our regular
We are the overnight childcare service that helps people who
need to check in their kids overnight. The other thing
that's funny about this, as he's saying it, and as
there is activity at the quality Leering Center, he did
say the reason for the lack of changing the sign
is just that they didn't think it was a big
deal and the graphic designer was the one who made
(24:19):
the mistake. Another the last the thing I love is
it's still not ninety nine kids, as Nick Shirley pointed
out when he confronted the business and no one was
there to open the doors. It's supposed to be ninety
nine children that are being taken care of daily according
to the government information that makes them get millions of
dollars in funding. And it's just one dude, one dude
(24:40):
in a T shirt with a coat on because it's Minnesota,
standing there and describing how his business is legitimate. If
they are making millions of dollars off the government, you
would think that they would actually have a ton of employees,
that there'd be a bunch of people there to take
care of the ninety nine kids, and then there'd be
a bunch of different other services, food and whatnot that
comes in, and a bunch of the places that cater
(25:04):
to these businesses that say they're taking care of children
or the elderly are actually family members of the people
who are running the facility in the first place. So
that's pretty convenient that the catering service I get is
just my relative who apparently is a really great cook
and deserves to be paid. They're millions of dollars for
the food they're making for our establishment or our organization.
(25:26):
It's just crazy, the unapologeticness of this fraud and now
the stupidity of trying to attempt to pretend as though
it's not happening, like they're offending the American people. Multiple
times in the short span of time that this story
has been a thing that's been in the national consciousness
and not just something that was more locally something people
(25:48):
talked about. As I said, they've been doing reports on
this occasionally in Minnesota for years. They haven't been talking
about it recently. Apparently no one in mainstream media cared
if any of those problems they noticed in eighteen or
nineteen ever got fixed. But the other thing that's so
offensive is how they think this will work. They think
people will believe it, and they've seen this before. One
(26:09):
of the childcare places that got in a lot of
trouble in Minnesota years ago actually did have performative versions
of parents coming with children, pretending to drop them off
at the child care facility, and then coming back shortly
after the drop off to pick them back up. And
the thing they found out was that many of these
parents were also getting money from the childcare company.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
They were essentially the quote unquote employees who.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Were just pretending as though their kids went there in
case someone was watching the occasional visit to drop in,
you know, to check and see if something is going on,
if something is legitimate. That's how this works. If you
think there's attention, you might do it for a couple
of weeks, and then they'll go right back to having
absolutely nobody there when they think anyone is no longer
paying attention. The bad news for them, because of Nick
(26:53):
Shirley's of the world, is someone probably will always be
paying attention. Who that is might change, But the fact
that Everyone's going to forget this story seems highly unlikely.
Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's
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