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January 2, 2025 18 mins
 Retired NYPD Commissioner Joe Cardinale comments on the Guardian Angels patrolling the NYC subway following the continued crime surge. Meanwhile, homelessness reaches all-time highs during the Biden Administration.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dana Lashes of Search Truth podcast sponsored by Keltech.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's his life mission to make bad decisions.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
It's time for Florida man.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is one of these stories that I know your
mind's eye will be more graphic than probably it was.
But check this out. This an example kids. You could
use this as a teachable moment for the kids how
dangerous fireworks could be. So from Florida City and big
thank you to WSVN. You haul van seen on surveillance

(00:38):
with a side spattered with blood following an accident involving fireworks.
So the driver was desperately searching for help after obviously
fireworks popped in his hand, maybe improvised, maybe homegrown fireworks,
because again he had a U haul full of these fireworks.

(01:00):
How to sanitize this as much as possible, because you know,
you know, some of y'all are get kind of queasy
thing about blood. So surveillance video captured. The videos captured
the victim's injured hand hanging or whatever was left of it,
hanging out of the driver's side window, and of course
you could see the blood and of course I'm sure
there's the vehicles is moving. There you go, that's the

(01:21):
splattered stuff on the side of the of the vehicle.
They believe that the victim was selling illegal fireworks out
of a vehicle when one of them exploded in his hand. Now, yeah,
Florida man genius lit one of them to show what
the kids are, a potential customer, how this thing worked.
We know how it works.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Dopey.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Miami Dade Police bomb squad also was called to help
destroy the rest of the stats that he had in
the vehicle. According to Florida Police, the victim was not
cooperating and this story reminded me growing up in Houston.
My dad would taking out the Harris County at the
county line, gets some black Cat nor the black Cat fireworks.

(02:05):
I used to patiently open them up, put the powder
in one paper and make a typeball of it and
put it into a Texas size red ant mound. Ants
flying everywhere. I'm Sergio Sanchez. You're listening to the Dana Show.

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Speaker 2 (03:22):
Subway violence attacks at a nightclub all just mayhem taking
place up in New York and seems and all these headlines.
My friend Joe Cardinali, he's a retired New York PD
lieutenant commander. Happy New Year, my friend. I'm so glad
that you're able to join me on the program today.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
You too much.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
One of the big stories was New York subway and
his poor woman. So he got doused with some a
celerant and burned the death. And it was an illegal
immigrant who was kicked out, came back in under Joe Biden,
and we know what happened there. And I saw this
headline that Curtis Lee was the Guardian Angels man. Talk
about it a name from the past, Guardian Angels. I'm

(04:01):
glad to see that there's still love and running. So
can you just let me start there? Can you describe
what the Guardian Angels do? Are they all volunteer? Are
they paid? How does Curtis run this operation?

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Absolutely? Not paid? All right, it's a volunteer. Curtis started
this a long time ago. Curtis is from my Negative
Woods in Brooklyn, so I know him and he's you know,
he's dedicated to this. He's dedicated his whole life to this,
you know, a public service in one form or another.
And they're a necessity out there. They're not afraid to
get involved. They're going to do what Daniel Penny did,

(04:33):
all right, They're going to go out there, they're going
to get involved. Then they're going to be a force
to be reckoned with out there. So it's going to
be something that they have to People are going to
see them. They wear the red berets, the red jackets,
and they have been effective for many, many years because
they're just a force of three or four that run together,
sometimes two, but people see them and people feel safer

(04:54):
with them.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Speaking of Daniel Penny and what came from that, he's
just never have been prosecuted, but he was. And you know,
one of the heartbreaking image of some of the heartbreaking
video from New York was to see other people just
walk by, even security people just walked by, and this
poor woman she was still standing somehow, she was still
standing there, just burning the death.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Uh I watched that video and I've been on there
a few times about it. And he turned around and
this this was something that the accelerant affected her and
consumed her body so fast that it was just amazing
that anybody could even get in there. The cops tried,
you couldn't get in there. Once this happened, it was,
and it was accelerated by the doors being open as well,

(05:39):
so it wasn't that anybody could go in it. It was
no fight extinguishers at hand, They didn't have a launch
blanket to try to put over her. And you know,
it was I was disgusting. I don't know anybody has
ever seen that before, but you know that to see
that live is like people have to understand that this
is just a disgusting scene. But the after bath though,

(06:00):
but it's just as worse, you know. And I'm gonna
tell you something. It's it's something that you cannot just
run in there and do something with the cops couldn't
even do that. And he stood there fanning the flames,
this illegal migrant, And what's the first thing that they're
trying to do, make an insanity defense and they don't
even know what his frame of mind is. He was
alcohol and you know, induced rage, And that's exactly what

(06:23):
happened with this.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
The reason I mentioned that Daniel, the damn Penny effect
is there. Do you think law enforcement or just New Yorkers,
just other people are hesitant to do anything about in
a situation like this because of what happened to Dan
Penny where the prosecutors are misguided. They'll they'll go after
the hero before they go after the cronal.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
You just nailed it. You just summed it right up.
The prosecutors will go after the costs before they go
after somebody else, all right. Before you know, the cops
are handcuffed and people like Daniel Penny a handcuff. From
the beginning, this Ada Bragg, You and I have discussed
him so many times, and it just gets progressively worse
because he has a political agenda that does not coincide
with his role as a District Attorney of Manhattan. He

(07:10):
turns around and he prosecutes cops. He did it to
Sogeant Provenzano, all right, he did it to him with
the apple at the apple store incident. Uh. You know,
it's always something that he's got to get political gain
out of a right, and that was exactly what happened
with Daniel Penny, right, Daniel Penny did not intend to
kill this individually. He tried to subdue him and by

(07:30):
the guy's own uh prior to drug use and his
own of you know, fighting him. You know, a tragedy
occurred where you know, he died. Daniel Penney and most
certainly did not try to kill him. Right, But yet Daniel, uh,
what do you call Alvin Bragg decided to bring charges
against him, just like he did with a with a
with President Trump because it's political gain for him and

(07:52):
he does not have the same Uh. Or would he
call Vim and Viga to go after the true criminals?
All right? He they walk around and only the cops
and people like Trump and Daniel Penny are the ones
that get prosecuted.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
My friend Joe CARDINALI retired New York PD Lieutenant commander.
I guess status report New York and it's amazing album.
They stepped it up security?

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Did?

Speaker 2 (08:15):
They stepped up security for New Year's And thank god
we cleared the holiday and that came and went now
in the rear view mirror. But there's some enclaves I
understand that are still seeing some violence because you got
a larger legal immigrant population. So what can you tell
me what's taking place up in New York?

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Well, January twentieth is going to be what's taken place.
And then you finally have what's his name, what do
you call Mayor Adams? You know, finally he's gonna turn around,
and you know, you cooperate with ice and everything. And
I think when Tom Holman gets in there and does
the job he has to do, when we round up
the especially this Venezuela and gang turned them aga, we

(08:52):
need to get rid of them before anybody else. And
you know what they say, we're not taking them back.
I told you my playing a long time ago. To
get them back. Put them on a sea, what transport
with a fight, arrest goal, with parachutes on their back
and the country. They're coming into the country and either
you let us land with them, or we're dropping them
over your most influential areas. All right, and where they land,

(09:13):
they land, you go through what we went through.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
You probably have not seen this guy. I went fishing
in the international the Spanish media, Nicaragua is threatening to
shut down, kick out the US base, the air force base.
That's a NIKA if they if Donald Trump does a
mass deportation, since back that a quarter million illegals back

(09:36):
to on the It's just just a little, you know,
little side note there. I think you would find interesting.
Eric Adams can't afford the bill, the multi billion dollar
bill of taking care of all these illegal immigrants. I'm
not surprised that that he's Donna one eighty and now
all of a sudden he's pro border security and kicked
them out working with Ice. Didn't he lift the sanctuary

(10:00):
city designation in New York or is that just the
promise that he would he did right?

Speaker 3 (10:04):
No, he lived in it, he said, and we can't know,
we can't afford him. But you know what, you know
he he doesn't I said, I said, a long time ago.
You know, you should have thought about this before you
designated us a sanctuary city, because what do you think
was going to happen? And I know the neighbor because
I grew up in a neighborhood have had one of
the biggest encampments, right and it was nothing but crime
ridden area now because they were doing the quality of

(10:25):
life crimes and over there, passing out on people's front
lawns and everything. And that was when in the winter time,
I warned him, I said, this is winter time. Wait
until summer comes in. They're out and about, and sure enough,
quality of life crimes went through the roof and it
was you know, being a former captain in the NYPD,
he should have realized what was going to happen with this, right,
but he didn't. Once again, the political face went on

(10:49):
before the common sense face went on, right, And now
he's backpeddling. But it's a little too late because now
they're they're entrenched into our neighborhoods and we have to
you know, pick them out of there, and on Long
Island only. Thank god, the law enforcement and everybody who's
on board with it. They've been on board, and we
fight it anyway we can on Long Island because it
definitely trickles out there, and they keep putting them out there,

(11:10):
flying them into the airport's over there as well.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Jolly, you take care of my friend. We'll talk to
you soon.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
You got it, my friend. Happy New yea to you
and the family and everybody down there.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Retired Lieutenant Commander NYPD Joe Cardinelli.

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Speaker 2 (12:22):
Let's check that quick five headline and now all of
the news you would probably miss.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
It's time for Dana's quickfive.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Giant piece of space junt crashed into an African village
south of Nairobi, the Kenyan Space Agency saying that the object,
metallic ring roughly eight feet in diameter, weighed about eleven
hundred pounds woh Man. They say preliminary assessments at the gate.
The space debris was a separation ring from a launch vehicle,

(12:53):
which typically burns upon re entry in the atmosphere. I
find it surprising that it survive re entry, But I
also find it surprising that Kenya has a space agency.
That's good for them. I hope they're working on some
rockets a Kenyan space agency. Treasury Secretary Janet Yelling in
the news warning that Congress warning Congress at the US

(13:17):
could hit the debt limit by mid January, Yelling saying
unless lawmakers act, she will need to take extraordinary measures
to prevent the US from de vaulting. Oh, I hate
the way she talks. Biotech startup hoping to bring a
pill to market next year that could give dogs an
extra year of healthy life keyward healthy Life. So this

(13:43):
startup in northern California called Loyal. They say that they
have raised one hundred and twenty five million dollars to
develop the drug, with a hope that eventually they could
provide something for humans as well, some appill that could
extend life. But I was doing the math on this.
It would benefit if it was the other way around.
Don't you thinking like if we had a pill, then

(14:04):
give it to the doggies and they could extend life.
Because what it's they say that one human year is
like seven years for doggies, right, so do the math
on that, like check it out. So if you give
a doggie, you give a pooch a pill to extend
healthy life. But a year, well reverse into how much

(14:26):
is that for humans? Like like two months or just
under two months, like one point seven one point eight months.
That's it. Yeah, they keep working on that. Holiday spending
is up. According to MasterCards Spending Pulse data released a
couple of days ago, retail holiday sales jump three point
eight percent from twenty twenty three. That blew past the

(14:48):
expectations of three point two percent and President to like
Donald Trump to hold a big victory rally at Capitol
One Arena January nineteenth. I'm Sergeio Sanchez. You're listening to
the data show. I'm Sergio Sentchiez. I'm in for my
friend Dana Lash appreciates you being with us today. You
can listen online as well, and Dana should be back
with us earlyer next week, just in time to receive

(15:11):
a nasty, nasty cold Arctic blast before I mentioned that
there was another story really to oh yeah, because I
wanted to pair these two. There was a report showing
homelessness in our country surged in the US this year.
The Department of Homeland, I'm sorry, the Department of Housing
and Urban Development released data a couple of days back

(15:35):
said that the number of people experiencing homelessness went up
an impressive eighteen percent in twenty twenty four. Now it's
a small sample that they used in that year. Family
homelessness saw a major jump. Wow, an impressive almost forty
percent jump this year compared to the previous year. Meantime,

(15:58):
the number of homeless veterans fell eight percent this year
to twenty twenty three. All this is for me. All
this is screaming inflation. Yes, the food costs more, the
fuel cost more, the light build costs more. And the
owners of the properties, the owners of the apartments, of
the condos, of those places that they're leasing, they have
to pay more. Hence they have to charge more. Hence

(16:20):
the rent is more expensive, hence the food and everything.
So it's a vicious cycle. And I'm not surprising. All
that's real painful to see that the family homelessness number
is almost forty percent compared to the previous year. And
we can't start this administration fast enough. The Trump administration,
I've said for the longest time I do. I am
a firm believer that if you decrease number one, I

(16:44):
don't know if he can do much. As far as
the money supply, the glut of money that's out there,
because we got too much money, too much demand, not
enough supply. Yes, that naturally increases inflation. But there is
one expense that maybe can help lower the light build
Maybe it will help definitely help lower the gasoline expense. Yeah,

(17:04):
that's fuel. America has been hog tied by the Biden administration.
We have not been allowed to extract the natural resources,
the God given resources that can help lower the price
of the pump and help lower the price of diesel.
This is unnecessary what the Biden administration did to us.

(17:28):
And I heard American families, working families having to pay
more for gasoline, having to pay more to well hopefully
to this point, maybe they've been saving money and heating
their homes. I know that's an issue for folks in
the Midwest and up northeast. And the price of this petrol,
this oiled this fuel that you use for your furnaces. Yeah,
I know you guys are going to be firing that

(17:49):
up here pretty soon. But if you increase the supply
of all this fuel definitely with time, with cheaper delivery
to market of goods, that should translate into slightly, hopefully substantial,
cheaper goods at the store for all goods at the storm,
all groceries at the store down the road.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
And as I mentioned, there's a big freeze coming. A
blast of winter weather can hit much of the country.
The Deep South is going to get blasted next week.
Lots of Southern states from Louisiana all the way to Florida.
Lots of Southern states. Even taxes we're gonna get. We're
not going to see that freeze appolix apocalypse like we
saw a few years back. That would be more like
for areas like I said, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama all the

(18:32):
way over to Florida sometime next week.

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