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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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for Florida Man.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
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Two of these are post office related. One's a real
post office worker that probably is no longer a post
office worker, and the other one's a guy that was
claiming to be one of a Two of my three
Florida stories, for some reason, involved mail. The first one,
(00:36):
a USPS driver in Florida is facing criminal charges for
trying to run over a child. This is a real
thing off. The post office worker saw a package that
he had delivered to one address get picked up by
a ten year old on a scooter. The ten year
old was then using his scooter to move the package
somewhere else, so the US Postal Service worker thought this
(00:58):
was a porch pirate, and his decision for what he
thought was a person stealing something was to try to
run the person over, even though it's a kid. The
aspects of the story that this guy was unaware of.
He had delivered the package to the wrong place, so
the post office worker had done something wrong, and the
kid who lived at the house where the package was
(01:18):
delivered by accident, was deciding to deliver it to his neighbor,
the place the package was actually supposed to go, so
the kid was doing his job for him. The guy
chased him in his car, I drove it his scooter,
and the kid eventually jumps off the scooter and into
a neighboring yard so he can't be run over, and
the postal worker runs over the scooter. Several charges and
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very very likely the end of his post office career
have come from this. But how insane to be a
person that's delivering mail that sees a ten year old
that you assume is stealing something, and the part of
your brain that thinks you should come up with solution
tells you to kill the person or at least to
run them over. That is truly insane in and of itself.
(01:59):
I thank god the guy failed. I think god the
kid's okay. And then when you find out he also
delivered the package to the wrong place and the kid
was doing a good job and not stealing anything at all,
even more tells you how much of a more on
this person is.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
But that's a Florida mailman doing something terrible.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Another guy in Florida, this was in Orlando, was seen
breaking into an apartment complex and then actually breaking into
the mailboxes of the apartment complex and stealing people's mail.
When he was arrested, and he had a bunch of
different equipment that showed that he was absolutely stealing stuff,
he claimed to be a mailman. I love that part
(02:36):
of this story that as the cops are arresting the
guy who's got like a flashlight on his head and
a bunch of items that he's using to break into things,
they're asking him what he's doing. He's like, Oh, I'm
just a mailman. This is just how I deliver my mail.
I don't do it the traditional way during the day
with the bag of stuff. I do it at night.
And it's really reverse mailman because I'm taking all this
stuff with me. His charges mostly stem from the fact
(02:59):
that they found a bunch of stolen things in his vehicle,
not just the fact that they caught him in the
act of stealing additional stuffs. The guy's going to be
in a whole lot of trouble. But thirty nine year
old a Sean cronin I was caught breaking into both
an apartment complex and then the mailboxes just to take
people's stuff. This guy is the kind of guy that
should probably be chased by a mailman in a car,
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not a ten year old on a scooter. Alas, this
guy was also caught, thank god, so that's very good.
And then finally, and this story is nuts, a twenty
year old guy in Florida was arrested after he fired
his gun into the air in celebration of New Year's
Day and New Year's Eve. And the reason it's so
insane is the bullet that he fires. What goes up
(03:41):
must come down wound up in a bedroom of a
woman under her pillow. Luckily she's totally fine, but somehow
the bullet did its own version of the tooth Fairy
in a terrifying way. I even have one of the
homeowners talking about the scariness of all of this. This
is a simple fact for a guy that much loves
my own guns and loves our right as a society
(04:03):
to have guns, do not do the celebration thing. If
you fire something into the air, and responsible gun owners
don't do this. You should understand that it will come
down and horrible stuff happens when you do that. People
get hurt, and in this case, something sort of shocking happened.
Here's some of that audience.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Eleven fifty eight is when all the gunshots happened around
the neighborhood. By twelve fifteen, there was bullets fun through
our house. My four year old Luckily, he normally sleeps
in our bed and just by the grace of God,
he wasn't in there that night. The bullet was right
there by my pillow. I remember it being very hot,
and that's when I grabbed my son and we went
(04:39):
into the other bedroom because we didn't know what else
was coming in.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, thank god, by the way, for all those variables
that took place there. But how crazy to lift the
pillow on your bed and see a pole it just
sitting underneath it. Thank God, everybody's okay, and this guy's moron.
In Florida quick Break and one of my favorite pieces
of audio out there is a discussion that happened with
(05:03):
Marco Rubio about why we didn't take other people. Why
is it that you just stopped with Maduro and didn't
take other members of this organization, of this administration that's
wrongfully in power in Venezuela. And it's an incredible and
strange thing to go back and forth. And this happened
(05:23):
with Margaret Brennan unfaced the nation because it seems like
you want them to be wrong on both sides of
the discussion. And Margaret Brennan does a very sloppy job
of trying to say you should have done more as
her proof of why you should have done less, But
that is actually her logic. Her logic is if I
can prove that Rubio didn't go far enough, then I
can also prove that they shouldn't have done anything at all.
(05:45):
And Rubio expertly through this in the trash where it
deserves to go. And I do have that audio will
go ahead and play the back and forth and the
stupidity of the left and some of the media on
the left in trying to do anything they can to
validate their claim.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
They don't care what it is.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
They want to go any road possible to say, see,
this is why we're right and you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I'm confused, are they still wanted by the United States?
Why didn't you arrest them. If you are taking out
the narco terrorist regime.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
You're confused. I don't know why that's confusing. You're still
in simple We're not going to go in and wrap up.
You're gonna but yeah, but you can't go You're going
to go in and suck up five people. They're already
complaining about this one operation. Imagine the howls we would
have from everybody else if we actually had to go
and stay there four days to capture four other people.
We got the top priority. The number one person on
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the list was the guy who claimed to be the
president of the country that he was not, and he
was arrested along with his wife, who was also indicted.
And that was a pretty sophisticated and frankly complicated operation.
It is not easy to land helicopters. It is the
largest military base in the country. The guy lived on
a military base, land within three minutes, kick down his door,
grab him, put them in handcuffs, read them his rights,
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put him a helicopter, and leave the country without losing
any American or any American assets.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
It's literally incredible what happened, the fact that this operation
was so successful, so expertly run that both Nicholas Muduro
and his wife are alive, that they weren't killed in
any sort of conflict, that no Americans lost their lives,
Like every part of it's amazing. And the position that
Brennan's trying to take is, why didn't you do this
five more times at the exact same time. Why didn't
(07:26):
you apprehend so many more people? The fact that you
didn't do it means you shouldn't have done it at all.
Darn it, here we go.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
It's not an easy mission, and you're asking me, why
didn't we do that in five other places at the
same time. I mean, that's absurd of I do think
this is one of the most you know, daring, you know, complicated,
sophisticated missions this country was carried out in a very
long time. Tremendous credit to the US military personnel who
did it. It was unbelievable and tremendous success. And today an
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indicted drug trafficker who was not the legitimate president of Venezuela.
We don't recognize, the bidenman istration didn't recognize, sixty something
countries don't recognize, the European Union doesn't recognize, and many
countries in Latin America don't recognize he was a convict.
He was an indicted drug trafficker. He was arrested, his
wife was arrested, right.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
And the others, the others who are also indicted are
still system The others who are also indicted are still
in place.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
But they are still there. How dare you?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
By the way, our intelligence told us that there will
be turmoil within the leadership of right now of Venezuela
because we took the serpent's head, that it's likely that
there will be a fight for power, and that fight
for power might create an opportunity for us to get
someone in power that is much more deserving than the
people who are actually in charge right now. You don't
(08:42):
have to remove every individual at the top of a
totem pole in order to disrupt the power structure that
exists somewhere, especially when a dictator like Maduro covet so
much power for just himself. There is a way to
cause our version of desired chaos within the political power
structure of another country by removing just one individual a
(09:05):
from said equation. We've already heard a tremendous about face
from the new president. The former vice president of Venezuela,
who right after this demanded Maduro be returned and wanted
proof of life and all this stuff, and now has
gone on a record as saying that she's willing to
work with the United States because of all the other
things that are still in place. The last thing I'll
(09:26):
tell you about this scenario, and the reason that it's
going to work as profoundly well as it does, is
the US hasn't back down from its control within the
borders of Venezuela, within the waters that's around Venezuela, of
preventing it from doing things we don't want it to do,
like oil trade.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
That doesn't make sense, etc. Etc.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
We still have the same power structure in place, the
same outside control that was causing Maduro just before he
was taken into custody to say he wanted to sit
down and talk to the United States. That was his
position just a couple of days before we removed him
totally from the country. Was that essentially they were desperate
enough to try to have a conversation. We knew the
(10:08):
conversation couldn't be had effectively with someone like this.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
So he's not.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
There anymore, and he is in jail and we'll be
in trouble for the crimes he committed against our country
and against the world. And it is the kind of
thing I'll just say it this way before I take
another break, that mainstream media would normally celebrate if it
were a democrat in power right now, the way this
topic would go was that it took extreme courage, it
(10:35):
took you know, an expert operation by the military, which
these things are true, the things I'm saying, but they
would say them about the other side is that it
was the kind of thing that no one saw coming,
that maybe no one else would do, but darn it,
we have to praise the powerful leader who did the
thing that no one else could do, because it was
exactly what we needed in this moment to make the
(10:58):
world a better place. And then you you'd see video
after video in mainstream media of Venezuelan's celebrating the removal
of Maduro because that actually is happening. But that's the
way they'd cover it. If it were a democrat in power,
they would spin it even if they disagreed with it.
There'd even be people out there in media places that
be like, well, I don't know if I would have
(11:18):
done this but it's amazing that they did it. And
I'm purposely not saying Biden or anyone else, because I
can't picture a single Democrat that could have pulled this
off to begin with, that actually was capable of any
part of this in all honesty, but nonetheless that that
is the difference. And because it's Trump and they hate Trump,
everything has to be filtered through. This can't be good.
(11:40):
That's the first thing they say. They hear something and
they see Trump's name at the top of it, and
they say, this can't be good. And then they have
to figure out they have to, you know, rebuild their
thought process around how it's not good because nothing he
does can actually be thought of as valuable or helpful
or you know, doing something no one else would do
(12:01):
in a moving way, in a way that you aspire
to act in that leadership role, not the opposite.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
It's just it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I truly thought that there were certain things in our society,
and call me naive for thinking this, that eventually people
would relent on. They'd be like, you know what, this
position that I'm taking makes no sense, and I can
acknowledge it makes no sense, and I'm I'm taking this
position out of anger or something else, and I need
to I need to at least set it aside here.
But no, this story over the last few days seems
(12:30):
to prove that there is no line for the people
who hate Trump at all costs. They'll say and do anything,
and they'll continue to say and do anything even when
faced with the exact opposite thought from the people who
were actually living in the country and the twenty percent
of the population that had fled because they couldn't afford
basic food. That's a true thing. Look it up if
(12:52):
you don't believe it. But it's just crazy that this
is the kind of thing we're debating at all. It
feels very similar to discussions about how men should not
be in limp women's locker rooms, or you name the topic.
There's so many just simple, matter of fact, obvious discussions
that we could have about some of this stuff. And
people celebrating in the street the removal of a dictator,
and that's somehow still being a bad thing feels right
(13:14):
aligned with all those other How are we arguing this
versions of conversations we have in our society? All right,
quick break, A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in
on the Dana Show, and now all of the news
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Speaker 2 (13:46):
So I keep saying it on the.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Show while filling in, and I'm getting followers, which is awesome.
Maybe eventually I'll actually start doing stuff. But anyway, some
things out there that you might not care about, but
I did. A TikTok trend is calling for people to
have an analog bag or a purse that's filled with
all kinds of stuff that are not in fact technology.
This is to better your mental health. Are there many
(14:09):
people who do this?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Twitter didn't need to or TikTok didn't need to tell
us to do it. But here is a woman talking
about the new trend for the young people called the
analog bag of stuff that is not in fact you know,
iPhones and iPads and everything else.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Rossardy is so fun to pull out at your coffee
shop in lieu of your phone.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
You need another thing to replace a bad habit.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I have to have something else to grab, and knitting
is really good for that chloroid flip and some extra film.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Do I really want to take a picture?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Usually it's like, I don't actually need this teen thousand photos.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I have portable watercolors set so fun.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
One of those things that she was referencing was an
actual portable camera, which makes you less likely to take
a photo of something if it's something you actually have
to go get developed compared to something you have in
your phone. Crossword puzzles. Knitting apparently is her thing. Anything
else out there? Young people apparently doing this more and more.
Another story that I saw that I thought was a
great McDonald's is facing a class action lawsuit over the McRib.
(15:04):
Apparently people are saying it has no rib meat in it,
which I'm not remotely.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Surprised by that and do not care.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I personally will not be adding my name to the
class action lawsuit because I like the McRib the way
it is. Whatever mystery meats are in there, I'm totally
fine with that. This has caused the very first McRib
commercial to go viral from nineteen eighty one, which I
find also to be uniquely hilarious, just because as people
talk about the McRib, they nostalogically remember when it first
(15:31):
took over as far as the best thing McDonald's puts
out occasionally in the world. Here we go with the
original McDonald's McRib commercial.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Well what'd you say this was?
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Again? McDonald's causes the McRib sandwich. It's a new kind.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Of cue, McRib.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
I don't see any bones. Hey, who wants bones in
a sandwich?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Rib is all meat, lean pork that's grilled and simmered
in a hickory smoke flavored barbecue sauce and put on
a home style roll with pick and onions. Well, how
about it? They make rib sandwich a new kind of cue.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
It's delicious, by the way, It's not just a new
kind of cue. It's a new kind of amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
And it has no actual rib meat in it, which
even that commercial seems to admit.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Back in nineteen eighty one, when.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
People didn't care, when people cared a whole lot more
about the deliciousness of something than anything else. One last
story that I really liked that went viral online. A
young woman said that she witnessed this. She saw a guy,
his girlfriend, and another woman sitting on a flight together.
They did not seem to know the third woman or
the second woman that's a part of this.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Group of three.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
And during the flight, the guy's girlfriend falls asleep, and
instead of falling to her left and landing on the
shoulder of boyfriend, she falls to her right and lands
on the shoulder of the stranger. And apparently people are
up in arms and upset that no one moved the
woman's head, that the boyfriend didn't actually like accept the
fact that it should have been on his shoulder or
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not the strangers, and it caused an awkward end of
flight situation. I think that's hilarious, and even beyond that,
I personally think the boyfriend made the right move because
ninety nine times out of one hundred, she's going to
land on your shoulder and sleep there if she's sleeping
the other way. And I get a flight where she's
not falling asleep on me and the other person who
might seem grumpy is not actually waking her up and
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stopping her. I'm just going to lean into this moment,
I'm not going to do anything as the boyfriend didn't do.
And then when eventually the person woke up, there was embarrassment,
there was anger, all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
You just put your arms up and like, what did
that happen? I barely noticed.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
This is pleading ignorance and pleading stupidity, which US men
do all the time. It's a great move by the guy.
Quick break a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on
the Danish show. All right, I want to play some
other audio. WHOOPI Goldberg is one of several people out
there questioning the legality of removing Maduro from Venezuela. I
want to make sure for the seats in the back
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that this part is understood.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
We do not.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Acknowledge and many many countries, the United States among them,
and it was Biden who did this. We do not
acknowledge the presidency of Maduro. So if you accept that
idea that we didn't see him as a rightful leader
of a country, we can definitely take him and it's
not illegal. The only way it could possibly be against
any sort of international law is if you thought he
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was the legitimate leader of the country, which a whole
lot of places didn't us obviously included we see him
as a narco terrorist who is harming our country. We
extracted him, we removed him. We're not at war with Venezuela.
We left other people there for now. Even though Trump
has said that if you don't do what he wants,
he's got no problem coming back and doing some other things.
(18:43):
But nonetheless, as far as the legality of this move goes,
and the likelihood of Maduro and his wife facing charges
in the United States, which is happening, of course, all
of those things do not seem, at least to a
lot of.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
People to be illegal in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Woopy Goldberg, Wookie, Whoopee Goldberg not among them. People who
aren't sure if you, as an American, even voted for this,
which he's also saying. A lot many, many people on
the left are claiming that the arrioty is going to
be upset by this, or that Trump voters are going
to be mad about this, and then if you're not mad,
they tell you that you're the bad guy. But here,
let me play the Whoopie Goldberg audio first.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
So while perhaps no one is going to miss a
tyrant like Madruro, no one will is this an illegal thing?
I mean, who voted for this? Who said, hey, yeah,
go on in there and do this, because originally wasn't it.
We was concerned about the drugs coming in and out,
and yet he pardoned like a giant kingpin.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
And so what is the what? By the way, that's
that's the thing that a lot of people are going
to compare it to. And I've seen that a lot.
That Trump used a pardon over here and then went
and apprehended someone over there, And why did he do one?
Why didn't he do the other? These to me feel
like desperate attempts to not say out loud the one
part of the conversation that you don't want to say
(20:03):
out loud that Maduro being removed is a good thing
for Venezuela. And when you say who voted for this?
When people actually ask that question, I often.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Say I did. No matter what the conversation is.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Oftentimes the idea that I would have voted for something
opposite or something different comes from the people who never
wanted Trump in a position of power in the first place.
Almost all of those arguments are so stupid, they're not
things that actually seem to hold any water, because by
and large, what I find is that people on the
left cannot possibly put themselves in the position mentally to
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think like someone on the right. And in order to
ask that question, who would have voted for this? Who
would have wanted this? You actually have to try to
put yourself in the position of the other side. You
have to think about the things that they've liked that
have happened so far that you also said the same
thing about, for example, the amount of people being removed
from this country who are living here illegally. This is
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one of the first ones since Trump came into the
White House, came into power again where the left says
who voted for this, and a whole bunch of people
out there go me.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I did, and it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Here's another thing, And I contemplated not doing this on
the show for day to today, but I'm gonna I'm
gonna say it because it's my own opinion of this thing,
and it doesn't mean that it's anybody else's opinion of anything.
Just because I happen to be in this chair today
and talking to you on the radio. There are a
bunch of places right now, Chicago, among them that are
reporting a decrease in violence, a decrease in murder, a
(21:36):
decrease in all kinds of things. The Trump administration has
said that part of it's probably because they put people
like the National Guard into positions of authority in some
of these cities, although people like Chicago, places like Chicago
rejected that and stopped them from having an impact. So
I'm not sure that that truly is the thing that
caused a change. But there's another component to all this.
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It feels like it's being missed when people are trying
to guess as to why this year, for the first
time in a long time, we've seen a significant down
down trend in violence, and one of those things could
be the people we're apprehending that are here illegally. No,
I'm not trying to blame all crime on people who
are here illegally from other countries. I know that that's
(22:22):
usually what the left will do, like racism and yell racist.
But if you're removing people, and if the Trump administration
has particularly focused on people that are doing bad things
and try to apprehend as many of them as possible,
and then you see this huge downkick in the amount
of crime, and the amount of violent crime happening throughout
the country. Most US cities are seeing a decrease in
(22:44):
violent crime this past year compared to years before. And
what's the big thing that's different? That's what everyone's asking themselves.
What could possibly have changed? This feels like the big
thing that could have changed. Thanks for tuning into today's
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It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time
for Florida Man.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
That's right, it's time for Florida Man on the Dana Show.
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Two of these are post office related. One's a real
post office worker that probably is no longer a post
office worker, and the other one's a guy that was
claiming to be one of a Two of my three
Florida stories, for some reason, involved mail. The first one,
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a USPS driver in Florida is facing criminal charges for
trying to run over a child. This is a real
thing off. The post office worker saw a package that
he had delivered to one address get picked up by
a ten year old on a scooter. The ten year
old was then using his scooter to move the package
somewhere else, so the US Postal Service worker thought this
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was a porch pirate, and his decision for what he
thought was a person stealing something was to try to
run the person over, even though it's a kid. The
aspects of the story that this guy was unaware of.
He had delivered the package to the wrong place, so
the post office worker had done something wrong, and the
kid who lived at the house where the package was
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delivered by accident, was deciding to deliver it to his neighbor,
the place the package was actually supposed to go, so
the kid was doing his job for him. The guy
chased him in his car, I drove it his scooter,
and the kid eventually jumps off the scooter and into
a neighboring yard so he can't be run over, and
the postal worker runs over the scooter. Several charges and
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very very likely the end of his post office career
have come from this. But how insane to be a
person that's delivering mail that sees a ten year old
that you assume is stealing something, and the part of
your brain that thinks you should come up with solution
tells you to kill the person or at least to
run them over. That is truly insane in and of itself.
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I thank god the guy failed. I think god the
kid's okay. And then when you find out he also
delivered the package to the wrong place and the kid
was doing a good job and not stealing anything at all,
even more tells you how much of a more on
this person is.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
But that's a Florida mailman doing something terrible.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Another guy in Florida, this was in Orlando, was seen
breaking into an apartment complex and then actually breaking into
the mailboxes of the apartment complex and stealing people's mail.
When he was arrested, and he had a bunch of
different equipment that showed that he was absolutely stealing stuff,
he claimed to be a mailman. I love that part
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of this story that as the cops are arresting the
guy who's got like a flashlight on his head and
a bunch of items that he's using to break into things,
they're asking him what he's doing. He's like, Oh, I'm
just a mailman. This is just how I deliver my mail.
I don't do it the traditional way during the day
with the bag of stuff. I do it at night.
And it's really reverse mailman because I'm taking all this
stuff with me. His charges mostly stem from the fact
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that they found a bunch of stolen things in his vehicle,
not just the fact that they caught him in the
act of stealing additional stuffs. The guy's going to be
in a whole lot of trouble. But thirty nine year
old a Sean cronin I was caught breaking into both
an apartment complex and then the mailboxes just to take
people's stuff. This guy is the kind of guy that
should probably be chased by a mailman in a car,
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not a ten year old on a scooter. Alas, this
guy was also caught, thank god, so that's very good.
And then finally, and this story is nuts, a twenty
year old guy in Florida was arrested after he fired
his gun into the air in celebration of New Year's
Day and New Year's Eve. And the reason it's so
insane is the bullet that he fires. What goes up
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must come down wound up in a bedroom of a
woman under her pillow. Luckily she's totally fine, but somehow
the bullet did its own version of the tooth Fairy
in a terrifying way. I even have one of the
homeowners talking about the scariness of all of this. This
is a simple fact for a guy that much loves
my own guns and loves our right as a society
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to have guns, do not do the celebration thing. If
you fire something into the air, and responsible gun owners
don't do this. You should understand that it will come
down and horrible stuff happens when you do that. People
get hurt, and in this case, something sort of shocking happened.
Here's some of that audience.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Eleven fifty eight is when all the gunshots happened around
the neighborhood. By twelve fifteen, there was bullets fun through
our house. My four year old Luckily, he normally sleeps
in our bed and just by the grace of God,
he wasn't in there that night. The bullet was right
there by my pillow. I remember it being very hot,
and that's when I grabbed my son and we went
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into the other bedroom because we didn't know what else
was coming in.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, thank god, by the way, for all those variables
that took place there. But how crazy to lift the
pillow on your bed and see a pole it just
sitting underneath it. Thank God, everybody's okay, and this guy's moron.
In Florida quick Break and one of my favorite pieces
of audio out there is a discussion that happened with
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Marco Rubio about why we didn't take other people. Why
is it that you just stopped with Maduro and didn't
take other members of this organization, of this administration that's
wrongfully in power in Venezuela. And it's an incredible and
strange thing to go back and forth. And this happened
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with Margaret Brennan unfaced the nation because it seems like
you want them to be wrong on both sides of
the discussion. And Margaret Brennan does a very sloppy job
of trying to say you should have done more as
her proof of why you should have done less, But
that is actually her logic. Her logic is if I
can prove that Rubio didn't go far enough, then I
can also prove that they shouldn't have done anything at all.
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And Rubio expertly through this in the trash where it
deserves to go. And I do have that audio will
go ahead and play the back and forth and the
stupidity of the left and some of the media on
the left in trying to do anything they can to
validate their claim.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
They don't care what it is.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
They want to go any road possible to say, see,
this is why we're right and you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I'm confused, are they still wanted by the United States?
Why didn't you arrest them. If you are taking out
the narco terrorist regime.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
You're confused. I don't know why that's confusing. You're still
in simple We're not going to go in and wrap up.
You're gonna but yeah, but you can't go You're going
to go in and suck up five people. They're already
complaining about this one operation. Imagine the howls we would
have from everybody else if we actually had to go
and stay there four days to capture four other people.
We got the top priority. The number one person on
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the list was the guy who claimed to be the
president of the country that he was not, and he
was arrested along with his wife, who was also indicted.
And that was a pretty sophisticated and frankly complicated operation.
It is not easy to land helicopters. It is the
largest military base in the country. The guy lived on
a military base, land within three minutes, kick down his door,
grab him, put them in handcuffs, read them his rights,
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put him a helicopter, and leave the country without losing
any American or any American assets.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
It's literally incredible what happened, the fact that this operation
was so successful, so expertly run that both Nicholas Muduro
and his wife are alive, that they weren't killed in
any sort of conflict, that no Americans lost their lives,
Like every part of it's amazing. And the position that
Brennan's trying to take is, why didn't you do this
five more times at the exact same time. Why didn't
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you apprehend so many more people? The fact that you
didn't do it means you shouldn't have done it at all.
Darn it, here we go.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
It's not an easy mission, and you're asking me, why
didn't we do that in five other places at the
same time. I mean, that's absurd of I do think
this is one of the most you know, daring, you know, complicated,
sophisticated missions this country was carried out in a very
long time. Tremendous credit to the US military personnel who
did it. It was unbelievable and tremendous success. And today an
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indicted drug trafficker who was not the legitimate president of Venezuela.
We don't recognize, the bidenman istration didn't recognize, sixty something
countries don't recognize, the European Union doesn't recognize, and many
countries in Latin America don't recognize he was a convict.
He was an indicted drug trafficker. He was arrested, his
wife was arrested, right.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
And the others, the others who are also indicted are
still system The others who are also indicted are still
in place.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
But they are still there. How dare you?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
By the way, our intelligence told us that there will
be turmoil within the leadership of right now of Venezuela
because we took the serpent's head, that it's likely that
there will be a fight for power, and that fight
for power might create an opportunity for us to get
someone in power that is much more deserving than the
people who are actually in charge right now. You don't
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have to remove every individual at the top of a
totem pole in order to disrupt the power structure that
exists somewhere, especially when a dictator like Maduro covet so
much power for just himself. There is a way to
cause our version of desired chaos within the political power
structure of another country by removing just one individual a
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from said equation. We've already heard a tremendous about face
from the new president. The former vice president of Venezuela,
who right after this demanded Maduro be returned and wanted
proof of life and all this stuff, and now has
gone on a record as saying that she's willing to
work with the United States because of all the other
things that are still in place. The last thing I'll
(09:26):
tell you about this scenario, and the reason that it's
going to work as profoundly well as it does, is
the US hasn't back down from its control within the
borders of Venezuela, within the waters that's around Venezuela, of
preventing it from doing things we don't want it to do,
like oil trade.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
That doesn't make sense, etc. Etc.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
We still have the same power structure in place, the
same outside control that was causing Maduro just before he
was taken into custody to say he wanted to sit
down and talk to the United States. That was his
position just a couple of days before we removed him
totally from the country. Was that essentially they were desperate
enough to try to have a conversation. We knew the
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conversation couldn't be had effectively with someone like this.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
So he's not.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
There anymore, and he is in jail and we'll be
in trouble for the crimes he committed against our country
and against the world. And it is the kind of
thing I'll just say it this way before I take
another break, that mainstream media would normally celebrate if it
were a democrat in power right now, the way this
topic would go was that it took extreme courage, it
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took you know, an expert operation by the military, which
these things are true, the things I'm saying, but they
would say them about the other side is that it
was the kind of thing that no one saw coming,
that maybe no one else would do, but darn it,
we have to praise the powerful leader who did the
thing that no one else could do, because it was
exactly what we needed in this moment to make the
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world a better place. And then you you'd see video
after video in mainstream media of Venezuelan's celebrating the removal
of Maduro because that actually is happening. But that's the
way they'd cover it. If it were a democrat in power,
they would spin it even if they disagreed with it.
There'd even be people out there in media places that
be like, well, I don't know if I would have
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done this but it's amazing that they did it. And
I'm purposely not saying Biden or anyone else, because I
can't picture a single Democrat that could have pulled this
off to begin with, that actually was capable of any
part of this in all honesty, but nonetheless that that
is the difference. And because it's Trump and they hate Trump,
everything has to be filtered through. This can't be good.
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That's the first thing they say. They hear something and
they see Trump's name at the top of it, and
they say, this can't be good. And then they have
to figure out they have to, you know, rebuild their
thought process around how it's not good because nothing he
does can actually be thought of as valuable or helpful
or you know, doing something no one else would do
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in a moving way, in a way that you aspire
to act in that leadership role, not the opposite.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
It's just it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I truly thought that there were certain things in our society,
and call me naive for thinking this, that eventually people
would relent on. They'd be like, you know what, this
position that I'm taking makes no sense, and I can
acknowledge it makes no sense, and I'm I'm taking this
position out of anger or something else, and I need
to I need to at least set it aside here.
But no, this story over the last few days seems
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to prove that there is no line for the people
who hate Trump at all costs. They'll say and do anything,
and they'll continue to say and do anything even when
faced with the exact opposite thought from the people who
were actually living in the country and the twenty percent
of the population that had fled because they couldn't afford
basic food. That's a true thing. Look it up if
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you don't believe it. But it's just crazy that this
is the kind of thing we're debating at all. It
feels very similar to discussions about how men should not
be in limp women's locker rooms, or you name the topic.
There's so many just simple, matter of fact, obvious discussions
that we could have about some of this stuff. And
people celebrating in the street the removal of a dictator,
and that's somehow still being a bad thing feels right
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aligned with all those other How are we arguing this
versions of conversations we have in our society? All right,
quick break, A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in
on the Dana Show, and now all of the news
you would probably miss, it's time for Dana's Quick five.
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Craig c That would be me and I do nothing.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
So I keep saying it on the.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Show while filling in, and I'm getting followers, which is awesome.
Maybe eventually I'll actually start doing stuff. But anyway, some
things out there that you might not care about, but
I did. A TikTok trend is calling for people to
have an analog bag or a purse that's filled with
all kinds of stuff that are not in fact technology.
This is to better your mental health. Are there many
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people who do this?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Twitter didn't need to or TikTok didn't need to tell
us to do it. But here is a woman talking
about the new trend for the young people called the
analog bag of stuff that is not in fact you know,
iPhones and iPads and everything else.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Rossardy is so fun to pull out at your coffee
shop in lieu of your phone.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
You need another thing to replace a bad habit.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I have to have something else to grab, and knitting
is really good for that chloroid flip and some extra film.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Do I really want to take a picture?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Usually it's like, I don't actually need this teen thousand photos.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I have portable watercolors set so fun.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
One of those things that she was referencing was an
actual portable camera, which makes you less likely to take
a photo of something if it's something you actually have
to go get developed compared to something you have in
your phone. Crossword puzzles. Knitting apparently is her thing. Anything
else out there? Young people apparently doing this more and more.
Another story that I saw that I thought was a
great McDonald's is facing a class action lawsuit over the McRib.
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Apparently people are saying it has no rib meat in it,
which I'm not remotely.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Surprised by that and do not care.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I personally will not be adding my name to the
class action lawsuit because I like the McRib the way
it is. Whatever mystery meats are in there, I'm totally
fine with that. This has caused the very first McRib
commercial to go viral from nineteen eighty one, which I
find also to be uniquely hilarious, just because as people
talk about the McRib, they nostalogically remember when it first
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took over as far as the best thing McDonald's puts
out occasionally in the world. Here we go with the
original McDonald's McRib commercial.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Well what'd you say this was?
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Again? McDonald's causes the McRib sandwich. It's a new kind.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Of cue, McRib.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
I don't see any bones. Hey, who wants bones in
a sandwich?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Rib is all meat, lean pork that's grilled and simmered
in a hickory smoke flavored barbecue sauce and put on
a home style roll with pick and onions. Well, how
about it? They make rib sandwich a new kind of cue.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
It's delicious, by the way, It's not just a new
kind of cue. It's a new kind of amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
And it has no actual rib meat in it, which
even that commercial seems to admit.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Back in nineteen eighty one, when.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
People didn't care, when people cared a whole lot more
about the deliciousness of something than anything else. One last
story that I really liked that went viral online. A
young woman said that she witnessed this. She saw a guy,
his girlfriend, and another woman sitting on a flight together.
They did not seem to know the third woman or
the second woman that's a part of this.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Group of three.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
And during the flight, the guy's girlfriend falls asleep, and
instead of falling to her left and landing on the
shoulder of boyfriend, she falls to her right and lands
on the shoulder of the stranger. And apparently people are
up in arms and upset that no one moved the
woman's head, that the boyfriend didn't actually like accept the
fact that it should have been on his shoulder or
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not the strangers, and it caused an awkward end of
flight situation. I think that's hilarious, and even beyond that,
I personally think the boyfriend made the right move because
ninety nine times out of one hundred, she's going to
land on your shoulder and sleep there if she's sleeping
the other way. And I get a flight where she's
not falling asleep on me and the other person who
might seem grumpy is not actually waking her up and
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stopping her. I'm just going to lean into this moment,
I'm not going to do anything as the boyfriend didn't do.
And then when eventually the person woke up, there was embarrassment,
there was anger, all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
You just put your arms up and like, what did
that happen? I barely noticed.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
This is pleading ignorance and pleading stupidity, which US men
do all the time. It's a great move by the guy.
Quick break a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on
the Danish show. All right, I want to play some
other audio. WHOOPI Goldberg is one of several people out
there questioning the legality of removing Maduro from Venezuela. I
want to make sure for the seats in the back
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that this part is understood.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
We do not.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Acknowledge and many many countries, the United States among them,
and it was Biden who did this. We do not
acknowledge the presidency of Maduro. So if you accept that
idea that we didn't see him as a rightful leader
of a country, we can definitely take him and it's
not illegal. The only way it could possibly be against
any sort of international law is if you thought he
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was the legitimate leader of the country, which a whole
lot of places didn't us obviously included we see him
as a narco terrorist who is harming our country. We
extracted him, we removed him. We're not at war with Venezuela.
We left other people there for now. Even though Trump
has said that if you don't do what he wants,
he's got no problem coming back and doing some other things.
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But nonetheless, as far as the legality of this move goes,
and the likelihood of Maduro and his wife facing charges
in the United States, which is happening, of course, all
of those things do not seem, at least to a
lot of.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
People to be illegal in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Woopy Goldberg, Wookie, Whoopee Goldberg not among them. People who
aren't sure if you, as an American, even voted for this,
which he's also saying. A lot many, many people on
the left are claiming that the arrioty is going to
be upset by this, or that Trump voters are going
to be mad about this, and then if you're not mad,
they tell you that you're the bad guy. But here,
let me play the Whoopie Goldberg audio first.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
So while perhaps no one is going to miss a
tyrant like Madruro, no one will is this an illegal thing?
I mean, who voted for this? Who said, hey, yeah,
go on in there and do this, because originally wasn't it.
We was concerned about the drugs coming in and out,
and yet he pardoned like a giant kingpin.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
And so what is the what? By the way, that's
that's the thing that a lot of people are going
to compare it to. And I've seen that a lot.
That Trump used a pardon over here and then went
and apprehended someone over there, And why did he do one?
Why didn't he do the other? These to me feel
like desperate attempts to not say out loud the one
part of the conversation that you don't want to say
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out loud that Maduro being removed is a good thing
for Venezuela. And when you say who voted for this?
When people actually ask that question, I often.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Say I did. No matter what the conversation is.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Oftentimes the idea that I would have voted for something
opposite or something different comes from the people who never
wanted Trump in a position of power in the first place.
Almost all of those arguments are so stupid, they're not
things that actually seem to hold any water, because by
and large, what I find is that people on the
left cannot possibly put themselves in the position mentally to
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think like someone on the right. And in order to
ask that question, who would have voted for this? Who
would have wanted this? You actually have to try to
put yourself in the position of the other side. You
have to think about the things that they've liked that
have happened so far that you also said the same
thing about, for example, the amount of people being removed
from this country who are living here illegally. This is
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one of the first ones since Trump came into the
White House, came into power again where the left says
who voted for this, and a whole bunch of people
out there go me.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I did, and it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Here's another thing, And I contemplated not doing this on
the show for day to today, but I'm gonna I'm
gonna say it because it's my own opinion of this thing,
and it doesn't mean that it's anybody else's opinion of anything.
Just because I happen to be in this chair today
and talking to you on the radio. There are a
bunch of places right now, Chicago, among them that are
reporting a decrease in violence, a decrease in murder, a
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decrease in all kinds of things. The Trump administration has
said that part of it's probably because they put people
like the National Guard into positions of authority in some
of these cities, although people like Chicago, places like Chicago
rejected that and stopped them from having an impact. So
I'm not sure that that truly is the thing that
caused a change. But there's another component to all this.
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It feels like it's being missed when people are trying
to guess as to why this year, for the first
time in a long time, we've seen a significant down
down trend in violence, and one of those things could
be the people we're apprehending that are here illegally. No,
I'm not trying to blame all crime on people who
are here illegally from other countries. I know that that's
(22:22):
usually what the left will do, like racism and yell racist.
But if you're removing people, and if the Trump administration
has particularly focused on people that are doing bad things
and try to apprehend as many of them as possible,
and then you see this huge downkick in the amount
of crime, and the amount of violent crime happening throughout
the country. Most US cities are seeing a decrease in
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violent crime this past year compared to years before. And
what's the big thing that's different? That's what everyone's asking themselves.
What could possibly have changed? This feels like the big
thing that could have changed. Thanks for tuning into today's
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