September 5, 2025 • 24 mins
The Justice Department is deliberating banning guns for trans people over mental health concerns. Meanwhile, The Justice Department posts a statement that's a screenshot from a 30% battery iPhone in airplane mode that begins with, "I met a woman named Skylar on Hinge" following a bombshell report from James O’Keefe.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
A d Lash Dana Lash Radio on x to stay
connected to all things she's up to and time for
Florida Man. We have several today. First, there was a
machete wielding man in Florida in Fort Pierce that showed
up at a Walmart. He started threatening people and just
flinging around a machete. That's definitely the kind of thing
where you're going to ask yourself all kinds of questions,
(00:35):
like why is this guy at Walmart? Why am I
at Walmart at this time of night? But Lawrence Fountain
is the dude's name. Eventually, Fort Pierce PD showed.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Up and tackled the guy.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
No one was injured, and police are amazing to do
this kind of work where they show up at a scene,
see a crazy dude with a machete and like, well,
we're going in and tackling that dude again. They prevented,
hopefully anything horrible from happening, which seemed like it could have.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
But this dude eventually went.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
With police, and no reason why he was there wielding
a machete other than the fact that it's Florida, all right,
That story is one Florida man. This other guy was
dumb enough to quote head butt a patrol car. I
love this story. After a fight at a tiki bar.
So a thirty nine year old dude by the name
of Christopher I got in a fight at a tiki bar,
(01:26):
and as the police rolled up to the scene, I
guess the man, who thought he was probably getting in
trouble with authorities, decided to take it out on the
worst object he possibly could by headbutting the car itself,
being like, get away from me, police, I'm doing this now.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
It definitely did I think two things.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
First, it demonstrated this guy's nuts and probably the problem,
which is why I think he immediately gets arrested after
that moment. And the other thing it did, and this
was the jokers thing in the dark night, is you
don't start with a head injury.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
People get all fuzzy and then they have no idea
what else is going on. So this individual probably also
made it easier to apprehend him the moment he rammed
his head into a vehicle but this really occurred and
the dumb Florida man was arrested a man. I can't
imagine how many drinks he had at the tiki bar
or if he'll be invited back anytime soon, although it
would be amusing to look out the window and to
(02:22):
see a dude head butt a car and go down
is the kind of thing that I would not mind
seeing again.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I would even maybe pay for that type of entertainment.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Another story out there, a Florida man was arrested for
a dui after he drove past police who were actually
in another traffic stop thing going on, and he had
absolutely no tire on one of his rims. It was
just rim and he was driving on the street, sparks
flying things, going crazy, and cops watched him in there
(02:51):
like this is probably not good. So they pulled that
guy over. He's intoxicated, and now he's arrested. What I
think is uniquely interesting about this is that the dude,
you know, was yelling that there was nothing to see here,
don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious. This is probably what
he was thinking as he was like, it's totally fine,
everything will be okay. They're not going to catch me
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and then he drives by missing a full on tire.
Easy work for Florida police. Sometimes like that, that's happening too.
One last one, and this one is kind of just awful.
A Florida man in a inflatable a dog costume choked
a juvenile during an argument outside of a pet store.
What the exact argument was, I'm not sure how old
(03:33):
the juvenile was. I'm also not sure, but certainly not
eighteen years old. But Clearwater, Florida had to arrest a
forty six year old man again wearing a puppy costume
which actually made it look like he was riding a dog,
the inflatable dog, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Similar to the way a horse would be, and the dude.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Standing over it, and he choked him, Bunny, he choked
the child. And that gets you a whole lot of
arrested and a whole lot of places, including Florida.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
How it also gets you in Florida.
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Speaker 1 (04:58):
The DJ is con during banning trans people from buying
guns is a real story. A Justice Department, President Trump
in some capacity, the Trump administration, whoever, have contemplated if
it's a smart thing to allow people that are showing
a lot of mental health issues to the American people,
if it's smart to allow those individuals to buy guns. Now,
(05:21):
I have two opinions on this, and they sort of compete,
and one does inevitably win. I don't like government encroachment
on the Second Amendment. I don't like it across the board.
I don't think it's a good thing. Mental health is
an exception because we do have mental health restrictions on
guns that do make sense to me. You shouldn't let
anyone who is a demonstrate demonstrating their inability to be
(05:44):
saying to purchase a weapon. But I don't like just
a blanket rule that says that everyone in some subset
group in our society is incapable of buying guns because
of this.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I don't like that, And so.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
It's interesting that my inclination is actually to defend trans
people and their right to bear arms. That is my
gut reaction to a story like this, even if I
acknowledge when mainstream media and a lot of society won't,
that it's a tremendously great likelihood that everyone in that
(06:20):
group is struggling from some sort of mental health issue,
whatever that might be, or several different mental health issues,
and a lot of people in that group actually do
commit suicide. So even more so, it seems to be
the kind of thing that you deserve to have a
discussion about that goes on for more than say a
couple minutes.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
But what I really think is interesting about this topic.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
If anyone on the conservative side of the aisle, myself included,
actually advocates for gun rights to exist for trans people,
is what the left does in response to that version
of a discussion.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Is the left going to demand.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
The right for trans people to have guns even though
they want no one to have guns?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Are? What are they gonna say?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I almost feel like this is a test where you
put out a leaked story where the Trump administration is
contemplating doing something that they may never ever do, and
you just see how the left responds, because if they
if they dangle the carrot of the argument that the
Second Amendment protects people's right to own weapons, then you'd
think that they're actually admitting a lot of what they
(07:24):
try to do to undermine the Second Amendment is no
longer going to be a thing they can keep doing.
It seems like they might lose the war to try
to win this battle, essentially, and that might be the
reason that it's occurring. Or they go the other road
and they say that, you know, this is fine with them,
that more people shouldn't have guns, not just trans people,
(07:44):
and then it feels as though they're not being the
you know, party that's supposed to protect the weak, innocent
individuals of the world in certain groups that are disenfranchised
and treated terribly. So it seems like actually a lose
lose for Democrats in whatever position they take on that
due and so I am interested to see it, but
just to fully explain my belief here, and I'll do this.
(08:08):
It might sound woke to do it this way, and
I'm not intent to be woke, and I don't care
if it sounds woke. I do believe that there's some
minuscule subset of society that might struggle more with if
you're a dude or if you're a girl than the
whole rest of us do. And I don't know what
causes that, if that's like, you know, a bunch of
(08:28):
chemicals in the brain and whatnot, but I think it's minuscule.
I think it's the kind of like weird thing where
someone is born with both male and female parts, which
does also occur, but is exceedingly rare. I think our
societies demand for something that's incredibly rare, it's actually something
that's way less rare. Has caused a whole lot of
(08:48):
other people who are evidently struggling with mental health issues
to believe that they're in the same bucket. And no,
I absolutely don't advocate for the mutilating of children or
any of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
All that is horrible.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
But I'm just saying that somewhere in the ridiculous amount
of lies that media is telling us, there's somebody who
at least has a version of a conversation about, you know,
what's going on with them medically. But it's such a
small group that it's insane to pretend as though it's
as many people as it needs to be, for as
(09:20):
many people who are questioning whether they're a boy or
a girl because media is begging them to do it,
because of all the things that are pushed on you
and thrown on you now as kids, as far as
conversations go that are highly inappropriate and definitely designed to
make you politically on a certain side of the aisle.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
But so I say all.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
That to say this, when you're talking about the rights
of people to own guns, for anyone that's actually, you know,
medically affected by something, I think they have a definitive
right tone of gun. I don't think that the mental
health issue is as a parent. But the vast majority
of people who fall into this category have mental health issues.
I would say it's in the ninety plus percentile, a
(10:00):
ninety nine percent tile of people who describe themselves this way,
And so for them, I think I am comfortable with
the idea that you restrict gun access, that you restrict,
you know, the use or ability to buy weapons because
they might hurt themselves or hurt somebody else because they
obviously have a mental health issue that no one is addressing.
(10:20):
And I know, again, to even crack at all in
that world of somebody somewhere might have an actual issue
and might not just be a mentally unhealthy person, feels
like you're giving it enough for the left to squeak
in and expand.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
And yet I just think it's simply the truth.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I think there is data out there that demonstrates the
uniqueness of this conversation.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
But that's all it takes all the time.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
By the way, I will remind everyone of one other
thing that I definitively believe is another ridiculous way that
democrats use something and pretend as though it's more significant
than it is. When they talk about abortion, and then
they include rape and incest, which is a minuscule amount
of people that wind up being pregnant because of something horrific.
(11:03):
They talk about that like that's the majority of people
who choose to get an abortion, and it's not even
close to true. So again, whatever the thing is that
the Democrats can exploit, they choose to exploit it, and
much to the harm of all of society, they pretend
as though it's something that they convince more and more
people is a part of their.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Own life, when it isn't.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
But nonetheless, I say all this to get back to
the original point that by and large, I think that
my position on a story that's ever evolving is that
I would defend everyone's right to own a gun, although
I would think that you need to be if you're
going to any level of treatment, or any level of
exploring the option of changing yourself from a man to
(11:42):
a woman, you need to be heavily evaluated for mental
health issues, because I imagine that the tremendously large percentage
of those individuals are dealing with a mental health issue
and probably shouldn't have a gun because of that. But anyway,
I would say, blanket statement, no majority of people. Probably Yeah,
as far as mental health issues are concerned. All right,
(12:02):
that was complicated. I did my best. I might have
gotten woke. I didn't do it on purpose.
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And now all of the news you would probably miss.
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Speaker 2 (13:05):
Thank you to all the people who followed me at radio.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
CRAIGZ as I've been mentioning my own Twitter handle this
week and the very small amount of people that follow
it and my Yankee tweets.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
All right, let's do this.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Giorgio Armani sadly passed away, the king of Italian fashion,
as he's described in a couple different articles about his passing,
I was ninety one years old. This is a big
news and the world of fashion, not that I follow
that world very closely, but it demonstrates how big of
a person this is, that I know that name, and
I know that brand Armani is most of us. Of course,
(13:39):
do he sadly again, as I said, passed away, but
ninety one years old, lived a long life.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Let's do this.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
The powerball jackpot is now going to be at least
one point seven billion dollars. That could go up even more,
but that is expected to be the third largest powerball
jackpot in the history of the country, for the third
largest lottery jackpot in the history of our country.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
The thing that matters here is that they did this
on purpose.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
They made the odds even worse and no one has
won since May thirty first.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
But people will probably buy a whole bunch of.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Tickets it's actually within seven hundred million dollars I think,
or seventy million something like that of being the second largest.
And then there's a two billion dollar jackpot that happened
in November of twenty twenty two, so we'll see just
how high it goes and if anybody wins. By the way,
the two biggest jackpots in the history of our country
were both one in California, which means that somebody's cheating.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I think that's my feeling about that.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
A millennial parents are going crazy for this tin can
phone for kids.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
This is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It is a little toy that kind of looks like
the phones that you used to create yourself out of
a tin can. The new iPhone debuted next debuts next Tuesday.
But there's only one phone that kids really need. According
to the post about this, it is a kid friendly
Wi Fi phone called the tin Can, and it's gone
all crazy over social media. I like the fact that
(15:07):
they're creating like landlines and other things that.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Look like these old school things.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
That we had before, but work very differently, so at
least a kid can start to experience it. The craziest
thing for me, as someone who was raised in a
generation without cell phones being as ubiquitous as they are now.
Is that when you ask a kid to do the
phone with their hand, most people over a certain age
will do the one that you would pick up physically
(15:35):
with your pinky shooting out to talk into your thumb
is the spot where you'd put the you know, the
audio into your ear. For some reason, the little kids
now all do a flat hand because they think of
the iPhone or a cell phone instead. So maybe interacting
with some of these things it gets them back to
realizing what phones used to be for us and for
(15:56):
so many other people out there. All right, what are
some other things going on? As far as just silly
topics go. You can now buy a Star Wars lego
set for one thousand dollars. This is, I guess, a
good deal according to some. I don't know why anyone
would spend one thousand dollars on legos with nine thousand pieces,
thirty eight different figurines, all different kinds of things in it.
(16:19):
It's a death Star and I wouldn't want to build it,
and I also wouldn't want to step on any.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Of these pieces.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And then finally, one last thing the cowboys did lose
last night to the Eagles. Pretty boring second half, I
would say, even though it probably was stressful for any
sort of Eagles fans I like producer Steven but not
as much scoring as in the first half. But the
most important thing from the game is that Dak Prescott
spit first. And this is sort of connected to Star Wars.
(16:47):
I guess the whole Han shot first thing. Dak definitely
spits before anyone else spits and then got thrown out
of the game. So I just think it's really interesting
that that happened at the beginning of the game too,
and that Jalen Carter had remorse first spitting on Cowboys
Dak Prescott and how he spoke about things after the game.
(17:08):
But I don't blame him as much as other people
do because Dak spit first, and there's a video and
you can see it, and if anybody deserve to be
thrown out, or at least if one other person deserved
to be thrown out, it should have been both, not
just an Eagles player that got thrown out of the game.
But NFL football is officially back, baby. That is exciting.
I think it's a lot of fun. I think a
(17:29):
whole lot of people are going to be gambling and
betting on things. The Chargers do play the Chiefs today,
that game might be more interesting than the game was
expected to be between the Eagles and the Cowboys, even
though it did end up in just being a four
point game, so the spread was larger than the inevitable end.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And I think the spread is much closer for the
game tonight.
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on this week for Hershey is back on Monday. The
(18:12):
DOJ has responded to the secret tape of the official
detailing the Epstein file plan.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Look.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Project Veritas was incredibly effective at uncovering a lot of
truth that was hidden via these secretly recorded tapes, which
oftentimes seem to be honeypot stuff where you sent an
attractive person in to date someone that knows things, and
then the person who knows things. I didn't question the
fact an incredibly good looking person was after them. After
(18:43):
James O'Keefe left Project Veritas, they've broken way less things,
but James continues to be very successful at doing this
on his own now with his new organization.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
And that's what happened here.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
A DOJ official, a person of significant importance, the Deputy
Chief of Special Operations, Joseph Schnidt, told somebody who apparently
was a very attractive human that he was planning along
with the DOJ and removing a whole bunch of Republican
names from any sort of Epstein file and releasing just
(19:17):
a democratic version of information. This is exceptionally damaging to
Pambondi and others, regardless of if it's actually true. I will
say that a person may brag to a hot individual
about things that may or may not seem true but
might not actually be true. I'm not trying to claim
(19:38):
that it's false either.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
It seems there's a good chance that this is true,
but I will just put that out there that a
dude who's dating someone might actually up the amount of
things he claims to know beyond what he actually knows
to impress them. But the funniest part about this, if
there's a funny part to the story, is the thirty
percent iPhone battery airplane mode notes app a response that
(20:05):
the US Department of Justice actually put up on social
media on Twitter to deal with the fallout of this
becoming a giant story. And here's what it actually says.
This is the notes app. I met a woman named
Skyler on Hinge, a dating app, in July of twenty
twenty five. Her profile is no longer findable. We had
two dates, August fourth and August sixteenth. She claimed to
(20:26):
be an au pair in Georgetown. That sounds like a
nice gig. She gave no clue that she was a
reporter or recording our dates. Had I a clue, the
first date would have ended immediately and there never would have.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Been a second one. Of course, not by the way.
I love that part.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Like had she told me at all that she was
secretly recording me, I wouldn't have been interested in this
hot lady anymore and certainly would have told would not
have told her any secrets. But since she didn't tell
me she was recording stuff, I remained interested. That's the
dumbest part of the mention. My profile indicated I did
government work, but did not specify for which agency.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I never discussed what I do at the DJ.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Fortunately, there's some video and things that have gone viral
of you discussing a lot of work done at the DOJ,
whether it's you or not. It goes on to say
the comments I made were my own personal comments on
what I've learned in the media and not from anything
I've done or learned via work. I have no knowledge
of the circumstances surrounding miss Maxwell other than what is
reported in the news. I also never divulged anything about
(21:24):
what I do at work. I recall that she asked
if I had any knowledge about Maxwell, and I specifically said,
I only know what's been reported in the media.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, this is not a good look. No part of
this is a good look.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
And to be honest, the funniest thing to me is
how effective the honeypot is. And if you don't know
what that is, that's just a very attractive person that
hits on you and gets insider information from you. It's
a tried and true, as old as time, a version
of a way to break whatever wall exists between you know,
the truth and the lies given by the government.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Would I be surprised.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
If the DOJ and the Republican Party had a unique
interest in protecting just Republicans and not putting out information
about them about Epstein while trying to slant everything to
be overly about Democrats. Now, I wouldn't be surprised. That's
not what I want. I want full transparency. But the
reason that I think that it's important to focus on
(22:22):
this and this is a this is a weird I'm
going to take a you know, a full U turn
approach to it, is that the Democrats would have done
the exact same thing when they were in power. And
oh wait, they were in power when they had access
to all of the Epstein files and they never went
after Trump with them at that point. They're going after
him now and claiming that there's something something damaging involving
(22:45):
him and those files, but they did nothing to release
them on their own, and Democrats would have tried to
overly make it about Republicans and specifically Trump. And so
it says something to me about who actually is in
this and how significant the names are on both sides
or wherever they are, that it might even be hard
to clean this stuff up. I'm not sure, but I
(23:06):
do think that it matters because it proves even more
that Trump's not actually going to be harmed by any
inevitable release of the Epstein files, that he's not actually
going to be indicated as being someone who did anything wrong.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
And even the.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
People the victims who spoke earlier this week seem to
agree with that. When they were asked certain questions about
Trump or asked if they had any knowledge of any
wrongdoings of the current president, they kept saying no to
that sort of stuff. They also said there's no actual
list written down on paper, so that's interesting. But anyway,
I just think it's amazing that James O'Keefe is so
(23:41):
good at this gig, and he just keeps being above
and beyond what anybody else can seem to do in
respect to breaking news and getting people to say things
to attractive people. I would say that if you're in
government in any role whatsoever, and someone who is way
out of your league has interest in you and asks
(24:01):
you random questions about your job, do not engage. Or
actually I maybe do engage because I want more information
to keep coming out. So maybe I shouldn't help the politicians.
Actually I should take that back. Hot people definitely like
you for real. It's the waitress or stripper fallacy happening again.
They definitely have real interest in you. It's not the
(24:23):
job you have in the information they want. Tell them everything. Yeah,
that's what I should say. That's actually what I'd like
to see happen. I just find it a music. Thanks
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time
for Florida Man. That's right. This is the Dana Show.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
A d Lash Dana Lash Radio on x to stay
connected to all things she's up to and time for
Florida Man. We have several today. First, there was a
machete wielding man in Florida in Fort Pierce that showed
up at a Walmart. He started threatening people and just
flinging around a machete. That's definitely the kind of thing
where you're going to ask yourself all kinds of questions,
(00:35):
like why is this guy at Walmart? Why am I
at Walmart at this time of night? But Lawrence Fountain
is the dude's name. Eventually, Fort Pierce PD showed.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Up and tackled the guy.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
No one was injured, and police are amazing to do
this kind of work where they show up at a scene,
see a crazy dude with a machete and like, well,
we're going in and tackling that dude again. They prevented,
hopefully anything horrible from happening, which seemed like it could have.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
But this dude eventually went.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
With police, and no reason why he was there wielding
a machete other than the fact that it's Florida, all right,
That story is one Florida man. This other guy was
dumb enough to quote head butt a patrol car. I
love this story. After a fight at a tiki bar.
So a thirty nine year old dude by the name
of Christopher I got in a fight at a tiki bar,
(01:26):
and as the police rolled up to the scene, I
guess the man, who thought he was probably getting in
trouble with authorities, decided to take it out on the
worst object he possibly could by headbutting the car itself,
being like, get away from me, police, I'm doing this now.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
It definitely did I think two things.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
First, it demonstrated this guy's nuts and probably the problem,
which is why I think he immediately gets arrested after
that moment. And the other thing it did, and this
was the jokers thing in the dark night, is you
don't start with a head injury.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
People get all fuzzy and then they have no idea
what else is going on. So this individual probably also
made it easier to apprehend him the moment he rammed
his head into a vehicle but this really occurred and
the dumb Florida man was arrested a man. I can't
imagine how many drinks he had at the tiki bar
or if he'll be invited back anytime soon, although it
would be amusing to look out the window and to
(02:22):
see a dude head butt a car and go down
is the kind of thing that I would not mind
seeing again.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I would even maybe pay for that type of entertainment.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Another story out there, a Florida man was arrested for
a dui after he drove past police who were actually
in another traffic stop thing going on, and he had
absolutely no tire on one of his rims. It was
just rim and he was driving on the street, sparks
flying things, going crazy, and cops watched him in there
(02:51):
like this is probably not good. So they pulled that
guy over. He's intoxicated, and now he's arrested. What I
think is uniquely interesting about this is that the dude,
you know, was yelling that there was nothing to see here,
don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious. This is probably what
he was thinking as he was like, it's totally fine,
everything will be okay. They're not going to catch me
(03:11):
and then he drives by missing a full on tire.
Easy work for Florida police. Sometimes like that, that's happening too.
One last one, and this one is kind of just awful.
A Florida man in a inflatable a dog costume choked
a juvenile during an argument outside of a pet store.
What the exact argument was, I'm not sure how old
(03:33):
the juvenile was. I'm also not sure, but certainly not
eighteen years old. But Clearwater, Florida had to arrest a
forty six year old man again wearing a puppy costume
which actually made it look like he was riding a dog,
the inflatable dog, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Similar to the way a horse would be, and the dude.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Standing over it, and he choked him, Bunny, he choked
the child. And that gets you a whole lot of
arrested and a whole lot of places, including Florida.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
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Speaker 1 (04:58):
The DJ is con during banning trans people from buying
guns is a real story. A Justice Department, President Trump
in some capacity, the Trump administration, whoever, have contemplated if
it's a smart thing to allow people that are showing
a lot of mental health issues to the American people,
if it's smart to allow those individuals to buy guns. Now,
(05:21):
I have two opinions on this, and they sort of compete,
and one does inevitably win. I don't like government encroachment
on the Second Amendment. I don't like it across the board.
I don't think it's a good thing. Mental health is
an exception because we do have mental health restrictions on
guns that do make sense to me. You shouldn't let
anyone who is a demonstrate demonstrating their inability to be
(05:44):
saying to purchase a weapon. But I don't like just
a blanket rule that says that everyone in some subset
group in our society is incapable of buying guns because
of this.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I don't like that, And so.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
It's interesting that my inclination is actually to defend trans
people and their right to bear arms. That is my
gut reaction to a story like this, even if I
acknowledge when mainstream media and a lot of society won't,
that it's a tremendously great likelihood that everyone in that
(06:20):
group is struggling from some sort of mental health issue,
whatever that might be, or several different mental health issues,
and a lot of people in that group actually do
commit suicide. So even more so, it seems to be
the kind of thing that you deserve to have a
discussion about that goes on for more than say a
couple minutes.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
But what I really think is interesting about this topic.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
If anyone on the conservative side of the aisle, myself included,
actually advocates for gun rights to exist for trans people,
is what the left does in response to that version
of a discussion.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Is the left going to demand.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
The right for trans people to have guns even though
they want no one to have guns?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Are? What are they gonna say?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I almost feel like this is a test where you
put out a leaked story where the Trump administration is
contemplating doing something that they may never ever do, and
you just see how the left responds, because if they
if they dangle the carrot of the argument that the
Second Amendment protects people's right to own weapons, then you'd
think that they're actually admitting a lot of what they
(07:24):
try to do to undermine the Second Amendment is no
longer going to be a thing they can keep doing.
It seems like they might lose the war to try
to win this battle, essentially, and that might be the
reason that it's occurring. Or they go the other road
and they say that, you know, this is fine with them,
that more people shouldn't have guns, not just trans people,
(07:44):
and then it feels as though they're not being the
you know, party that's supposed to protect the weak, innocent
individuals of the world in certain groups that are disenfranchised
and treated terribly. So it seems like actually a lose
lose for Democrats in whatever position they take on that
due and so I am interested to see it, but
just to fully explain my belief here, and I'll do this.
(08:08):
It might sound woke to do it this way, and
I'm not intent to be woke, and I don't care
if it sounds woke. I do believe that there's some
minuscule subset of society that might struggle more with if
you're a dude or if you're a girl than the
whole rest of us do. And I don't know what
causes that, if that's like, you know, a bunch of
(08:28):
chemicals in the brain and whatnot, but I think it's minuscule.
I think it's the kind of like weird thing where
someone is born with both male and female parts, which
does also occur, but is exceedingly rare. I think our
societies demand for something that's incredibly rare, it's actually something
that's way less rare. Has caused a whole lot of
(08:48):
other people who are evidently struggling with mental health issues
to believe that they're in the same bucket. And no,
I absolutely don't advocate for the mutilating of children or
any of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
All that is horrible.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
But I'm just saying that somewhere in the ridiculous amount
of lies that media is telling us, there's somebody who
at least has a version of a conversation about, you know,
what's going on with them medically. But it's such a
small group that it's insane to pretend as though it's
as many people as it needs to be, for as
(09:20):
many people who are questioning whether they're a boy or
a girl because media is begging them to do it,
because of all the things that are pushed on you
and thrown on you now as kids, as far as
conversations go that are highly inappropriate and definitely designed to
make you politically on a certain side of the aisle.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
But so I say all.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
That to say this, when you're talking about the rights
of people to own guns, for anyone that's actually, you know,
medically affected by something, I think they have a definitive
right tone of gun. I don't think that the mental
health issue is as a parent. But the vast majority
of people who fall into this category have mental health issues.
I would say it's in the ninety plus percentile, a
(10:00):
ninety nine percent tile of people who describe themselves this way,
And so for them, I think I am comfortable with
the idea that you restrict gun access, that you restrict,
you know, the use or ability to buy weapons because
they might hurt themselves or hurt somebody else because they
obviously have a mental health issue that no one is addressing.
(10:20):
And I know, again, to even crack at all in
that world of somebody somewhere might have an actual issue
and might not just be a mentally unhealthy person, feels
like you're giving it enough for the left to squeak
in and expand.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
And yet I just think it's simply the truth.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I think there is data out there that demonstrates the
uniqueness of this conversation.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
But that's all it takes all the time.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
By the way, I will remind everyone of one other
thing that I definitively believe is another ridiculous way that
democrats use something and pretend as though it's more significant
than it is. When they talk about abortion, and then
they include rape and incest, which is a minuscule amount
of people that wind up being pregnant because of something horrific.
(11:03):
They talk about that like that's the majority of people
who choose to get an abortion, and it's not even
close to true. So again, whatever the thing is that
the Democrats can exploit, they choose to exploit it, and
much to the harm of all of society, they pretend
as though it's something that they convince more and more
people is a part of their.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Own life, when it isn't.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
But nonetheless, I say all this to get back to
the original point that by and large, I think that
my position on a story that's ever evolving is that
I would defend everyone's right to own a gun, although
I would think that you need to be if you're
going to any level of treatment, or any level of
exploring the option of changing yourself from a man to
(11:42):
a woman, you need to be heavily evaluated for mental
health issues, because I imagine that the tremendously large percentage
of those individuals are dealing with a mental health issue
and probably shouldn't have a gun because of that. But anyway,
I would say, blanket statement, no majority of people. Probably Yeah,
as far as mental health issues are concerned. All right,
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And now all of the news you would probably miss.
It's time for Data's Quick five.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
That's right, it's time for a quick five on the
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Speaker 2 (13:05):
Thank you to all the people who followed me at radio.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
CRAIGZ as I've been mentioning my own Twitter handle this
week and the very small amount of people that follow
it and my Yankee tweets.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
All right, let's do this.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Giorgio Armani sadly passed away, the king of Italian fashion,
as he's described in a couple different articles about his passing,
I was ninety one years old. This is a big
news and the world of fashion, not that I follow
that world very closely, but it demonstrates how big of
a person this is, that I know that name, and
I know that brand Armani is most of us. Of course,
(13:39):
do he sadly again, as I said, passed away, but
ninety one years old, lived a long life.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Let's do this.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
The powerball jackpot is now going to be at least
one point seven billion dollars. That could go up even more,
but that is expected to be the third largest powerball
jackpot in the history of the country, for the third
largest lottery jackpot in the history of our country.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
The thing that matters here is that they did this
on purpose.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
They made the odds even worse and no one has
won since May thirty first.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
But people will probably buy a whole bunch of.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Tickets it's actually within seven hundred million dollars I think,
or seventy million something like that of being the second largest.
And then there's a two billion dollar jackpot that happened
in November of twenty twenty two, so we'll see just
how high it goes and if anybody wins. By the way,
the two biggest jackpots in the history of our country
were both one in California, which means that somebody's cheating.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I think that's my feeling about that.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
A millennial parents are going crazy for this tin can
phone for kids.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
This is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It is a little toy that kind of looks like
the phones that you used to create yourself out of
a tin can. The new iPhone debuted next debuts next Tuesday.
But there's only one phone that kids really need. According
to the post about this, it is a kid friendly
Wi Fi phone called the tin Can, and it's gone
all crazy over social media. I like the fact that
(15:07):
they're creating like landlines and other things that.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Look like these old school things.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
That we had before, but work very differently, so at
least a kid can start to experience it. The craziest
thing for me, as someone who was raised in a
generation without cell phones being as ubiquitous as they are now.
Is that when you ask a kid to do the
phone with their hand, most people over a certain age
will do the one that you would pick up physically
(15:35):
with your pinky shooting out to talk into your thumb
is the spot where you'd put the you know, the
audio into your ear. For some reason, the little kids
now all do a flat hand because they think of
the iPhone or a cell phone instead. So maybe interacting
with some of these things it gets them back to
realizing what phones used to be for us and for
(15:56):
so many other people out there. All right, what are
some other things going on? As far as just silly
topics go. You can now buy a Star Wars lego
set for one thousand dollars. This is, I guess, a
good deal according to some. I don't know why anyone
would spend one thousand dollars on legos with nine thousand pieces,
thirty eight different figurines, all different kinds of things in it.
(16:19):
It's a death Star and I wouldn't want to build it,
and I also wouldn't want to step on any.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Of these pieces.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And then finally, one last thing the cowboys did lose
last night to the Eagles. Pretty boring second half, I
would say, even though it probably was stressful for any
sort of Eagles fans I like producer Steven but not
as much scoring as in the first half. But the
most important thing from the game is that Dak Prescott
spit first. And this is sort of connected to Star Wars.
(16:47):
I guess the whole Han shot first thing. Dak definitely
spits before anyone else spits and then got thrown out
of the game. So I just think it's really interesting
that that happened at the beginning of the game too,
and that Jalen Carter had remorse first spitting on Cowboys
Dak Prescott and how he spoke about things after the game.
(17:08):
But I don't blame him as much as other people
do because Dak spit first, and there's a video and
you can see it, and if anybody deserve to be
thrown out, or at least if one other person deserved
to be thrown out, it should have been both, not
just an Eagles player that got thrown out of the game.
But NFL football is officially back, baby. That is exciting.
I think it's a lot of fun. I think a
(17:29):
whole lot of people are going to be gambling and
betting on things. The Chargers do play the Chiefs today,
that game might be more interesting than the game was
expected to be between the Eagles and the Cowboys, even
though it did end up in just being a four
point game, so the spread was larger than the inevitable end.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And I think the spread is much closer for the
game tonight.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
This is the Dana Show, d Lash, Dana Lash Radio
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the four hundred or so people do that very different
than the giant audience for a Dana And I'll stop
mentioning that at some point I'll be thrilled to be
on this week for Hershey is back on Monday. The
(18:12):
DOJ has responded to the secret tape of the official
detailing the Epstein file plan.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Look.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Project Veritas was incredibly effective at uncovering a lot of
truth that was hidden via these secretly recorded tapes, which
oftentimes seem to be honeypot stuff where you sent an
attractive person in to date someone that knows things, and
then the person who knows things. I didn't question the
fact an incredibly good looking person was after them. After
(18:43):
James O'Keefe left Project Veritas, they've broken way less things,
but James continues to be very successful at doing this
on his own now with his new organization.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
And that's what happened here.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
A DOJ official, a person of significant importance, the Deputy
Chief of Special Operations, Joseph Schnidt, told somebody who apparently
was a very attractive human that he was planning along
with the DOJ and removing a whole bunch of Republican
names from any sort of Epstein file and releasing just
(19:17):
a democratic version of information. This is exceptionally damaging to
Pambondi and others, regardless of if it's actually true. I will
say that a person may brag to a hot individual
about things that may or may not seem true but
might not actually be true. I'm not trying to claim
(19:38):
that it's false either.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
It seems there's a good chance that this is true,
but I will just put that out there that a
dude who's dating someone might actually up the amount of
things he claims to know beyond what he actually knows
to impress them. But the funniest part about this, if
there's a funny part to the story, is the thirty
percent iPhone battery airplane mode notes app a response that
(20:05):
the US Department of Justice actually put up on social
media on Twitter to deal with the fallout of this
becoming a giant story. And here's what it actually says.
This is the notes app. I met a woman named
Skyler on Hinge, a dating app, in July of twenty
twenty five. Her profile is no longer findable. We had
two dates, August fourth and August sixteenth. She claimed to
(20:26):
be an au pair in Georgetown. That sounds like a
nice gig. She gave no clue that she was a
reporter or recording our dates. Had I a clue, the
first date would have ended immediately and there never would have.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Been a second one. Of course, not by the way.
I love that part.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Like had she told me at all that she was
secretly recording me, I wouldn't have been interested in this
hot lady anymore and certainly would have told would not
have told her any secrets. But since she didn't tell
me she was recording stuff, I remained interested. That's the
dumbest part of the mention. My profile indicated I did
government work, but did not specify for which agency.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I never discussed what I do at the DJ.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Fortunately, there's some video and things that have gone viral
of you discussing a lot of work done at the DOJ,
whether it's you or not. It goes on to say
the comments I made were my own personal comments on
what I've learned in the media and not from anything
I've done or learned via work. I have no knowledge
of the circumstances surrounding miss Maxwell other than what is
reported in the news. I also never divulged anything about
(21:24):
what I do at work. I recall that she asked
if I had any knowledge about Maxwell, and I specifically said,
I only know what's been reported in the media.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, this is not a good look. No part of
this is a good look.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
And to be honest, the funniest thing to me is
how effective the honeypot is. And if you don't know
what that is, that's just a very attractive person that
hits on you and gets insider information from you. It's
a tried and true, as old as time, a version
of a way to break whatever wall exists between you know,
the truth and the lies given by the government.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Would I be surprised.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
If the DOJ and the Republican Party had a unique
interest in protecting just Republicans and not putting out information
about them about Epstein while trying to slant everything to
be overly about Democrats. Now, I wouldn't be surprised. That's
not what I want. I want full transparency. But the
reason that I think that it's important to focus on
(22:22):
this and this is a this is a weird I'm
going to take a you know, a full U turn
approach to it, is that the Democrats would have done
the exact same thing when they were in power. And
oh wait, they were in power when they had access
to all of the Epstein files and they never went
after Trump with them at that point. They're going after
him now and claiming that there's something something damaging involving
(22:45):
him and those files, but they did nothing to release
them on their own, and Democrats would have tried to
overly make it about Republicans and specifically Trump. And so
it says something to me about who actually is in
this and how significant the names are on both sides
or wherever they are, that it might even be hard
to clean this stuff up. I'm not sure, but I
(23:06):
do think that it matters because it proves even more
that Trump's not actually going to be harmed by any
inevitable release of the Epstein files, that he's not actually
going to be indicated as being someone who did anything wrong.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
And even the.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
People the victims who spoke earlier this week seem to
agree with that. When they were asked certain questions about
Trump or asked if they had any knowledge of any
wrongdoings of the current president, they kept saying no to
that sort of stuff. They also said there's no actual
list written down on paper, so that's interesting. But anyway,
I just think it's amazing that James O'Keefe is so
(23:41):
good at this gig, and he just keeps being above
and beyond what anybody else can seem to do in
respect to breaking news and getting people to say things
to attractive people. I would say that if you're in
government in any role whatsoever, and someone who is way
out of your league has interest in you and asks
(24:01):
you random questions about your job, do not engage. Or
actually I maybe do engage because I want more information
to keep coming out. So maybe I shouldn't help the politicians.
Actually I should take that back. Hot people definitely like
you for real. It's the waitress or stripper fallacy happening again.
They definitely have real interest in you. It's not the
(24:23):
job you have in the information they want. Tell them everything. Yeah,
that's what I should say. That's actually what I'd like
to see happen. I just find it a music. Thanks
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