Absurd Truth: Trump vs. Chicago

Trump demolishes a reporter for claiming he wants to go to war against Chicago. Meanwhile,  Chris Christie ironically goes after RFK Jr. as a bad pick for HHS Secretary.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dana Lash is Absurd Truth podcast sponsored by Keltech. It's
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Florida Man. That's right, it's time for Florida Man on
the Dana Show. D Lash Dana Lash Radio on x
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(00:22):
name is Craig Collins filling in. First, a wild boar
got into somebody's home in Florida. You actually hear a
deputy on his camera talking about how it's crazy to
see a bore in somebody's house. You actually also hear
the woman who called authorities saying she's never seen this before.
The giant boor is just standing in the living room,

(00:42):
just kind of chilling, hoping not to be bothered. And
the deputy has to actually bother this boar in Lee County.
And this goes about as well as you thought. But
I do love some of the audio for this.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
He's bringing a kid I've never heard of that gsh right,
that they mean animal just came through brust him through
the back door. Tip four, just advise Aggie and it's hey,
it's like a three hundred pounds sou Oh my.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Gosh, easy, easy, easy, you better sit, Hey, bring.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Me that rope. It's crazy. This is what the deputy
has to do this day in Lee County. He's like easy,
easy is the boards going nuts and attacking him, and
then he's like, hey, bring me the rope. I need
to get him. But I just I love the beginning
of this video and how he walks in and he's like,
gee osh. The minute he sees what he's going to
have to handle it, he's.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Bringing a kid. I've never heard of that.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, gee gosh, right, yeah, exactly right. This is crazy.
That's a feral animal that broke into the back a
door of your house and he's just kind of standing
there and it doesn't go well. But honestly, this is
the reason police deserve so much praise everywhere in the country,
maybe even uniquely in Florida, is that they show up

(02:06):
for this stuff and they have to handle everything. A
Florida man was accused of placing cameras in a victim's home,
attracting devices on the victim's vehicle. This is a crazy story.
Jared Levi McDaniels, thirty eight years old, was overly obsessed
with somebody that he lived near, so much so that
he put a multitude of cameras into the woman's room

(02:27):
and into the woman's home and has been charged with
a whole bunch of stuff In reaction to this, there
also were stalking complaints. The dude looks uniquely creepy by
the way, his social media photos and his inevitable mugshot
have all went viral, and he looks like an interesting dude.
Inside was a scary dude. Inside the guy's home, they

(02:49):
also found a bunch of crazy things LSD, crystal meth, mushrooms, THHC, gummies,
various inhalans. They found a bunch of guns and whatnot.
The dude just seems to be insane. He is going
to be charged with a bunch of different crimes. Installation
of tracking device devices, video voyeurism, a possession of psychedelics,

(03:12):
possession of crystal meth, LSD, substituted other things like just crazy,
dangerous inhalent chemicals. You would not want to live next
to this guy, is, I guess the end result of
this story. Florida has a unique amount of people that
you probably would not want to live next to. This
is one of them. If I had to pick between
a wild boar breaking into my home for a small

(03:33):
amount of time, and this guy being next door neighbors
with me. You pick the boar every time you pick it.
Multi He could break in a couple times a year,
and I'd still rather that than this other dude. A
Florida man living underwater won't resurface even after breaking a record.
This is another story out there from Key Largo, Florida.
A university professor who broke a record for how long

(03:54):
he has lived underwater in the undersea lodge, which is
bad for you, by the way. There's certain things that
happen to your body when you're underwater for that long,
and pressurized containers and whatnot. He should leave. The previous
record of seventy three days, two hours, and thirty four minutes,
which was set by two Tennessee professors, has now been broken,

(04:16):
and the guy's like, I'm not giving this up. I'm
staying down here. I want my record to be unbreakable,
even if it means that my body becomes very easily
breakable once I eventually resurface. At least that's the story
so far. A weird record to be proud of breaking,
and weird that it's university professors who all want to
be the ones to do it. They want to test

(04:37):
themselves as opposed to run other tests and other things,
which is fine. I'm good with that. Go ahead and
keep testing yourself. But Joseph to Tori, he's seventy four
days underwater, proud of his accomplishment and going to keep going.
What's crazy about this story is I actually think it
was sent to me recently, but I actually think the
original version of it is actually kind of older, excuse me,

(05:01):
And so I wonder if actually this guy did eventually
come up, So I'll put that out there. I know
that this was sent as far as some prep stuff
that we had, and so I definitely wanted to cover it.
But I just noticed the headline for it says May
of twenty twenty three, and I feel like I remember
this story about this guy, so I'm curious if maybe
he has actually resurfaced. Otherwise it's definitely a hack for record.

(05:25):
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a Florida man from the path. Why not do one
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Speaker 1 (06:35):
This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in Thrilled to be with you d Lash Dana
Lash Radio on x on Twitter to stay connected to
anything and everything going on in her world. Great job
of social media done by Dana and her team, including
producer Steven, putting up awesome stuff every single day. All right,
I'll play this audio first just because I find it amusing,

(06:56):
and then we'll talk about a much more serious story.
But President Trump over the weekend said he was going
to go after crime in Chicago. He wants to do
that by sending in the National Guard. This is something
you know about, you're familiar with. A whole lot of
people in Chicago have decided that this means he declared
war on them. I know that Trump puts stuff up
on social media, but no, the United States is not

(07:17):
going to war with Chicago. That's insane. A reporter actually
asked Trump this question and he called her second rate
to her face, which was amazing. Here's part of that
back and forth.

Speaker 5 (07:31):
You don't work a stake news.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
You say that, dares let's take news. Listen, be quiet, listen.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
You don't listen.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
You never listen.

Speaker 4 (07:40):
That's why you're second grade.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
We're not going to war.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
We're going to clean up our cities. We're going to
clean them up so they don't kill five people every weekend.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
That's not war. That's common sense. Yes, it is common sense.
It's the kind of thing we need more of. Absolutely,
And I love the way he speaks about this. By
the way, anyone that says that President Trump's brain isn't working,
which is a narrative coming out of the left, now,
they're trying to say that he's not mentally all there.
The crazy thing about that is how often he interacts

(08:10):
with media on a daily basis. He'll take questions even
from people that he heavily disagrees with. Biden was being
hidden in a closet for a majority of the time
he was both running for and then actually the president
of the country. That shows you who actually had a
mental decline and who doesn't. Trump is not struggling with that,
but all right on the heels of that story. So

(08:31):
we're talking about Chicago right now and Trump wanting to
send troops there or maybe New Orleans or all kinds
of places, and that the effectiveness of what he's done
in Washington, d c. Is on display for the entire
country to see, and how much we'd like to see
crime go away in other places. There's another story that's
out there and it's just a horrific story. I do
not recommend anyone watch this video. There is a video

(08:55):
out there that's graphic in nature that shows a man
sitting behind a one on a light rail train in
North Carolina. The man is a career criminal in his thirties,
someone who's been arrested multiple times, had gone to prison before,
but because of the democratic policies of the city in
Charlotte in which he lives, he was out. He was
not in jail. His own mother has described him as

(09:17):
someone who is not mentally well, who is not safe,
who's the kind of person who should be institutionalized. But
the system has failed this person, mostly because Democrat Democrats
believe that a leniency that goes above and beyond any
sort of common sense for people to commit crimes is

(09:38):
somehow attractive out of certain voter blocks, that it somehow
makes you less racist as a political party, or whatever
it might be that they claim. And again, this is
just being lenient to all kinds of criminals and all
kinds of horrible things. Yes, it's a black man. Yes
he stabbed and killed a white woman. So if you
want the race narrative to be there, it is. And
maybe it's one of the many reasons that media is

(09:59):
ignored this story. The woman is also a Ukrainian refugee
twenty three years old who was killed. The man sitting
behind her just stands up and stabs her three times,
once in the neck. By the time that authorities arrive,
she's gone. And so the value of this story is
to say that people like this broken, crazy, deranged, evil,

(10:22):
whatever word you want to use for it, mentally unhealthy
humans who would sit behind someone on a train and
just choose to stab them for no reason whatsoever and
kill them and then casually get off the train, which
you also see in the video. Stuff like that needs
to be stopped. We need to fight against it, and
if that includes National Guard troops being stationed on or

(10:42):
near trains so that a person like this is fearful
of this type of action that they would commit against
someone else. Good, That keeps us safer, That keeps tragedies
like this from happening. A bunch of people are saying
that this is being overly politicized, that politics are being
added to it, which of course always becomes a thing.
I'm not going to pretend there's some version of that

(11:03):
that's not, at least partially true. But politics are the
reason this person's dead. Democratic politics, specifically, they're the reason
that someone acts this way as often as they do
in as many parts of our country on a smaller
scale level. And what I mean by that is national media,
liberal media, and liberal politicians are great at diving into

(11:26):
the one off stories that happen in our society. However
frequently they do where someone takes the life of a
lot of other people, a mass shooting, a mass killing.
They're great at that. They're great at discussing those stories
and adding politics to it. Not great as in I
agree with them, but they're great at focusing on it.
They are terrible at focusing on the one off things

(11:47):
that happen constantly a Chicago, for example, as Trump said
in that audio, there sees multiple deaths every weekend, multiple
shootings in the thirties and forties every weekend, of people
that get shot, some survive, some do not. This would
be the type of story that would dominate headlines if
it happened all at once, and if media was believed

(12:10):
or suspected that the individual was somehow a Trump supporter
who did something, but the fact that it happens mostly
in minority neighborhoods on the South side of the city
of Chicago, means that you're not allowed in mainstream media
to talk about it as much or point to it
as a problem. Both the victims and the people who
caused these crimes actually all live in the same community.
By the way, by and large, it's not quite the

(12:31):
version of story you see in North Carolina where a
complete stranger kills a complete stranger, which is just awful
and horrible. But again, these stories deserve to dominate headlines
the same way because they back the reason that Trump
is doing what he's doing. And when I see people
in Chicago, I live there for a long time. I
have a bunch of friends still, although who knows, after

(12:53):
I talk about this in this way, maybe some that
hear about this will remove me from their social media accounts.
But I saw all over social media over the weekend
how Chicago was going to fight against the war that
Trump was bringing to their city, that Chicago is going
to do everything it could to defy Trump and what
he wanted to do, which was eliminate the ridiculousness of

(13:16):
murder and violent crime that exists in that city. And
by the way, one of my other favorite discussion points,
favorite in a dark way, I guess on this entire
issue is the claim by JB. Pritzker and others out
of Illinois that Chicago actually isn't that violent, that it
doesn't top the list as far as violent cities in
our country when you're talking about murder. It actually does

(13:39):
when you add all kinds of other violent crime, assault, rape,
other things. Yes, Chicago falls further down the list then
you might expect, although there's still a significant country or
a significant city in this country as far as the
totality of horrible things that happened there, but murder specifically,
they're number one. And if I were going to send
the National Guard somewhere as the president to try to

(14:01):
get a handle on something, I would probably start with
the number one place that's dealing with murder, dealing with killings,
and say that, hey, we can probably help you do
a better job of fighting this if you want to
do it. And Chicago says no. The stupidity of the
left sometimes of the ideas that they want their supporters
to rally around and that supporters actually do it is

(14:24):
sort of the most amazing thing to me I've ever seen,
and I was so tempted to comment on more of
these posts I saw on social media. I may have
commented on some that defending crime itself seems like a
weird position for people to be taking, because no, the
innocent individuals are not getting arrested in DC, but people
are doing a lot less harming of others because of

(14:46):
the presence of an authority, a group of people that
make individuals like the guy in North Carolina more fearful
of being an absolute piece of crap and taking the
life of a twenty three year old woman because he's
a giant. You know what, I can't say that word
on the air, even though I want to be Yes.
This is the kind of thing that we should talk

(15:06):
about more because it further demonstrates the need for something
to happen in our society that isn't happening. It is
simple common sense, as Trump calls it. And it's just
amazing that these are the kind of debates that we
even have in our society.

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Speaker 1 (16:13):
And now all of the news you would probably miss.
It's time for Dana's Quick five. That's right, it's time
for the Quick five on the Dana Show. This is
Craig Collins filling in d Lash Dana Lash Radio and
X on Twitter. A great way to stay connected to her.
The Burning Man attendee who ran over a Testlas cyber

(16:34):
truck Art car is in the news. Now. This is
really strange. Burning Man attendee decided to destroy an art
car in some way. A Minneapolis man who was nearly
killed last week after being run over by the cyber truck,
excuse me, will meditating in Nevada's Black Rock Desert was

(16:55):
I guess something that shocked his wife As far as
the news story goes, a little bit of confusion with this.
Sorry about that he's not going to be walking walking
for months is something that his wife said. But we're
so lucky that he's actually okay and fine, and that
he probably won't spend any more time in the desert.
He won't be any more I won't be doing any
more meditating, and your burning man. There's so many stories

(17:18):
that come out of that place that make it seem
like an absolute horrible place to go. I would not,
in any way, shape or form, want to send even
my worst enemy to burning Man at this point. All right,
clock botching is a new term. No one agrees on
exactly what it means, but apparently social media is using
this story. A writer in the UK coined it last

(17:39):
month and said, it's when you work more hours than
you should because you can't get through all of your
work in a typical eight hour work day, that is
clock botching. I think it also means you only take
credit for eight hours of work, but you do more
than eight hours. Other people are saying it's the opposite thing.
It's a thing where you don't have enough work for
eight hours, so you push the punch in punch out

(18:02):
further and you potentially pretend to do things that you're
not actually doing. Whatever it is, whether it's someone who's
working hard or not working very hard at all, apparently
all can be applied in the world of clockbatching, which
I'm not really sure why this is a brand new term,
but it is one of many out there. It'll probably
eventually pop up in some sort of online dictionary and

(18:26):
then they know they've made it. Uber is testing a
new payment method. Cash is the payment method. Uber says
the idea is to expand access to people without bank accounts.
Drivers are concerned they'd be a target for thieves. This
definitely makes sense. Essentially, in this system, Uber would tell
the person jumping in the vehicle that this is what
the thing, this is what the ride costs, and that

(18:50):
they can pay the driver in cash. You can also
choose to accept cash if you're someone who's driving for Uber.
Both of these seem terrible as far as decisions are made,
and I totally agree with the first point being made
by the drivers themselves about the danger of having a
bunch of cash on you. Actually, in Houston, an Uber

(19:11):
driver was killed just somewhat recently, a week or so ago.
I'm not sure if he was actually driving at the
time or that just so happens to be his profession,
and I think it happened fairly late at night on
the South side of Houston in a neighborhood that's not
exactly safe, but nonetheless that's in the news currently within
the last few days, Uber has had a driver that

(19:31):
was shot and killed, and now they're also rolling out
cash for people. That seems like bad timing for this
sort of thing, and there's a lot of people who
seem to think it's not a great idea, although to
be honest, it's just one more infringement on the taxi
industry too, because they took cash forever and still probably
do take cash if you ride taxis at all, and

(19:53):
so Uber trying to do this, I guess is evening
the playing field. I will say one other thing about it,
and it is interesting, at least to me that sometimes
I think people are skeptical of how much money they
actually get paid compared to how much money Uber is making.
If you do a cash thing, it would be a
much harder for you to make less than whatever you're
supposed to make of whatever the split is supposed to be.

(20:17):
So I wonder if that is essentially a thing as
far as all this goes, is is there a way
in which what is actually occurring winds up benefiting the
drivers because they actually get a fair percentage of the
money that Uber charges. I have no idea. I doubt it.
I doubt Uber would go that road for any reason whatsoever.

(20:38):
But we'll see. But yeah, Uber drivers might have a
whole bunch of cash. Is a strange new story that's
out there in the world. All right, Let's do one
more quick five before we take a break. Let's do
I'm trying to decide. Let's do this one. Here's where
what your drink order says about you. It was a
Reddit post and other things. If you ask for water

(21:00):
at a restaurant, the waiter will assume that you're there
to save as much money as possible, and they might
neglect your table as much as other tables. This is
an interesting point. I don't know if it's true. A
cosmopolitan is an order that means you're extra fancy. Maybe
you're a fan of certain TV shows, but the waiter
is gonna focus more on you because they're pretty sure
they're getting a bunch of money at you. If your coffee,

(21:23):
you're there for business, You're gonna be in and out.
You're gonna be quick, that's what they think. And then finally,
hot tea is someone who's gonna take a long time
and also not be very wild worthwhile financially. I love
all those all right, quick break a lot more. Craig
Collins filling in on The Dana Show. Chris Christy went
berserk about Robert F. Kennedy Junior. I think this was
on ABC over the weekend. Of course it was because Christy.

(21:45):
And here's what's amazing when you see someone like this
blow up exactly the way he does. And Chris Christy
is not exactly the picture of health as far as
a human being goes. But what I think is interesting
is it shows how over the target Robert F. Kennedy
actually is how successful he's been outing a lot of
the lie and a lot of the hiding of certain

(22:07):
facts that has been the people in positions of power
and health in this country for a long time. Firing
certain CDC individuals because they're trying to subvert your authority
is a good move, and Robert F. Kennedy Junior is
trying to make some more information public that they have buried.
But here is Chris Christy going crazy talking about how

(22:28):
much of a grave danger Robert of Kennedy Junior is
to our country, which again means that Robert of Kennedy
Junior is very over the target that people have been
missing for a while, or that they've avoided other people
being over because they had control of people on the inside.
Robert of Kennedy Junior is on the outside, and that
is a very good thing for people in positions of

(22:50):
power in this country. Here we go.

Speaker 6 (22:52):
You looked at that appears before Congress, and it just
confirms what all of us around this table have known
for decades.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
Robert F.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
Kennedy Junior is a foolish man, full of foolish and
vapid ideas, and that was on display again this week
in front of Congress, and I really don't want to
hear about Bill Cassidy because he is a co conspirator
with the President of United States for putting this wholly
unqualified man in charge of twenty five percent of all

(23:19):
government spending. Without Cassidy's vote, Robert F. Kennedy Junior would
not be it. And maybe he's feeling some guilt from
what he did, but I'll tell you this, the President
did this. He knows. The President is smart enough to
know RF K Junior isn't belonging that job. But after
he won, he wanted to show everybody I can do
whatever I want to do, because this Senate will be

(23:40):
compliant no matter what I do. And I'll put the
greatest vaccine and public health denier of the last twenty years.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
In charge of public health America.

Speaker 6 (23:49):
It's a human middle finger, George.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
One. I want to make sure that this is understood
by Christy and everybody in the back rows of the seats.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Here.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
A lot of Trump voters like the public middle finger
to the organizations that have been basically giving the American
people a middle finger for quite some time. And two,
one of the things Robert F. Kennedy Junior is talking
about a lot is just getting transparency with data that's
been buried by the CDC. Christy couldn't be further from
the truth in saying what isn't valuable to the American

(24:19):
people about Robert F. Kennedy Junior. What is isn't valuable
to say President Trump or anyone else, because Robert F.
Kennedy Junior actually does want more of these studies to
be a public that are being buried, that are being hidden,
a specific one and one that's causing a bit of
commotion within certain parts of our country because of who
the subject of it was. I was a study on

(24:40):
young black men that found that certain vaccines actually did
cause a rise in issues like autism, and that was buried.
That was just absolutely hidden from public health information because
the people in charge of the time didn't like the
end result of the study and they wanted it to
go away. And Robert F. Kennedy Gjunior has made it
something that's publicly available. Now. That's a good thing, regardless

(25:04):
of what you think of it. A knowing more is
never bad and thinking that if we know too much,
we make the wrong decision is uniquely disrespectful to the
American people of anybody in charge. We can collect more information.
We deserve more information all the time, and that seems
to be the main goal of Robert F. Kennedy Junior

(25:25):
with his role in our health as the health Secretary.
All Right, quick break a lot more. Craig Collins filling
in on the Dana Show. Thanks for tuning in to
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