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It was just unacceptable. You know, a lot of people said, well. Does she have a plan? Yeah, of course, I do have a best plan ever. I mean, Iraq has been defeated militarily, totally.
To have a little left, they probably built up during this period of time. We'll knock that out in about a day. But I have a plan. You know, it is a very simple plan. I don't know why you don't...
Say it like it is. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Yeah, this is the Dana Show, D Lash, Dana Lash Radio and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. My name is Craig Collins, filling in President Trump.
Doing a press conference earlier today in which he talked about the unacceptable offer given to us from Iran, the latest of several. Unacceptable offers. That is what they do all the time. It's always an unacceptable offer because they don't have the honest understanding of where they are right now in this conflict, in this discussion, in every part of this. Iran is not going to get anything they want.
Is the easy way to say it, and they seem unaware of that or completely unwilling to accept that reality is probably a better way to say it. But a lot more happened during this press conference. A lot of these are pretty interesting. Here, let's play a little bit more of that first answer, though, from President Trump. They're very dangerous, they're very volatile.
It's a uh A terrible thing that's happened over there. They've killed 42,000 people. In the last two months, 42,000. At least that's what we know of: 42,000 people. They killed numerous people over the last week.
But they killed 42,000 people. A month ago, a month and a half ago. They were unarmed protesters. Not at all violent protests.
So here's what's interesting too about this, the more that we talk about some of the aspects of this story of this ongoing conflict, this is exactly the type of news headline that Democrats typically care about the other way. And what I mean by that is, whether it's Hamas and people in Palestine or wherever it might be, to hear 40,000 unarmed protesters violently murdered by a regime, this is the type of thing that students on college campuses want to protest in the streets. They want to refuse to go to class and scream and yell how bad it is. Essentially, what I'm saying is this is the type of story that should curry favor between President Trump and a whole lot of Democrats. The people who are upset about this are.
On the right are upset because they feel we never should have gotten in any conflict whatsoever, including this one, regardless of the legitimacy of the issue, because we don't want to be the world police. But what's amazing to me is how many people on the left are up in arms, upset, reject this, say it's terrible for prices here at home, because they don't seem to understand they agree with the typical Republican stance on other conflicts that Democrats get us into.
Now, as I say all that, I will also say that I've been fine with the conflict in Iran because I do feel that a nuclear weapon from this regime would be a danger to the entirety of our society. It would be a danger to the world. Iran is already doing anything it can to leverage control of the Strait of Hormuz to try to cripple the world because they think they're in some kind of pain. And they are, I'll admit, in a lot of pain because of our blockade. What would they do if they had more capabilities is easily the question.
Here is part of another question and answer from President Trump from the press conference talking about enriched uranium, which is the avenue to get the nuclear weapon, which Iran has too much of and we want them to have none of. Here we go. To allow the removal of all their enriched email.
Well, they did two days ago. They didn't.
Okay. They did two days ago. They said, you're going to have to take it. We were going to go with them. But they changed their mind 'cause they didn't put it in the paper.
So when they sent us this document that we waited four days for, that should have taken 10 minutes to do. Ver look very simple. We get that. They guarantee no Nuclear weapons for a very long period of time. And a couple of other minor things, but they just can't get there.
So this is a big deal. And this is, it seems like, the heart of the problem. Every time that anyone, whether it's Rubio or it's the vice president, talks to Iran, they very easily say out loud, not in writing, that they are willing to do whatever we want, that they're willing to let us take all of their enriched uranium. They are willing, is the way I should say it, to allow us to cripple their ability to create a nuclear weapon in the next 20, 50, you pick the amount of years, because in the near future, ain't happening. In the distant future, shouldn't be happening with the agreement here.
And then when you look at the thing in writing, it's essentially like the way a child would negotiate with you. That every time they say yes, I'll do that, and you eventually try to get it on paper, inevitably they say, you know what, never mind. I was really hoping you didn't catch me this time with this part of the we're not gonna do the thing we said we're gonna do. Because if it's on paper, I think it causes a different problem for Iran, which is that it's evident that they're breaking something. And honestly, not to compare the ongoing conflict in the excuse me, the conflict between Israel and Hamas, but there are a lot of similarities in this one too, in the way in which the enemy, this would be the Iranian regime, is trying to weaponize our media.
the way that they weaponized media against Israel before, saying things like Israel was bombing hospitals and whatnot. All of those things are designed to make the populace here in this country very upset with the administration because we're doing things that they don't like.
Now, another really interesting moment in this press conference came when someone asked President Trump about weapons that might have been given to protesters in Iran. Of course, the United States would like to see this regime overthrown internally. They would very much like to see essentially a revolt that causes the Iranian people to get the freedoms that they deserve, to not be under hand and fist of a dictator type of treatment, just a horrible, terrible treatment where 40,000 people are being killed. And Trump admitted, yeah, we gave people guns. We'd like them to be able to defend themselves.
And they want to go out on the streets. They have no weapons. They have no guns. We thought the Kurds were going to give us weapons, but the Kurds disappointed us. The Kurds take, take, take.
They have a great reputation in Congress. Congress says, oh, they fight so hard. No, they fight hard when they get paid.
So I'm very disappointed in the courage. But there were give it I to I said it wasn't gonna work, by the way, I just have to say it, I I I disagreed with what they did, they gave it, and I said they'll never get there. And I was right. I like to be right. In this case, too bad, but we sent some guns with ammunition.
And it was supposed to be delivered, but they kept it. I said they're going to keep it, but what do I know? I've probably been doing this. He shows me that. I do love everything he said in response there.
He goes, everything that we drew up on paper in order to try to help arm the civilians, the Kurds, the resistance groups, none of it worked out the way we wanted it to, and we knew it was coming that way. And how dare anybody actually listen to me going in? But I do think that many, many people. whether that's within this administration, within government and politicians or just pundits, other individuals. A whole lot of people hope that Iran fixes this problem itself, and that never actually occurs.
Every time that we hope for a regime change to happen from within, the amount of things that we have to do To facilitate that change is always way beyond whatever anyone in an idea room on a piece of paper is saying, like, this is all we have to do, and they'll revolt. They'll immediately react when they see this level of push compared to no push at all.
So again, I just think it's really interesting that as you go through this and discuss all the different variables, the willingness of Iran to elongate these talks. There's one other thing, I do want to play this too. This is actually Russia and Ukraine, and it's Marco Rubio calling out Vladimir Zelensky as a liar. Saying that there's some things we're being told that then don't actually work the way that they're supposed to work, it is incredibly difficult. For the United States, the toughest person in the room, the most powerful organization in the room, to be given so much misinformation by everybody on all sides of these discussions, this is one of those moments.
Here's Marco. The U.S. tells Zelensky that security guarantees depend on withdrawal from Dombas. That's a lie. And I saw him say that, and it's unfortunate he would say that because he knows that's not true.
And that's not what he was told. What he was told is the obvious. Security guarantees are not going to kick in until there's an end to a war. Because otherwise, you're in. You're getting yourself involved in the war.
Okay, what is a security guarantee? It is troops that are willing to step in and secure. If you put that in place now, that means you're injecting yourself in the war. What he was told very clearly, and he should have understood it, is that the security guarantees come only after there is an end to the war. But that was not attached to unless he gives up territory.
I don't know why he says these things, they're just not true. I think I understand why Zelensky says these things because he wants the exact thing that Rubio is talking about there to happen. He wants our military to be on the ground fighting this fight before it's actually over. He wants that. Zielinski several times has called for the rest of the world to fight Russia during this long war that's gone on between those two people, those two parties, those two countries.
He's often said That he would like to see other people acknowledge the risk that is Russia militarily, whether that's in Europe or literally anywhere.
So I think the end result of all of this, the most valuable discussion in finding an avenue to actually get where you want to go in actually solving the problem, is to convince Zelensky that he probably has to give up the Donbass region to get peace. This isn't to get protection, it's to get peace, it's to end the conflict. And that if you don't give up these areas, long-contested areas that Russia had a unique amount of control over through proxy fighting, if you don't give it up, then the war didn't end. And then you don't get security.
So you can pretend as though these items are all connected intentionally when they are connected accidentally, I guess is a way I could say it. Because yes, once the conflict is over, you do get protection. But in order to end the conflict with Russia, You're going to have to give in in places that Ukraine has long not wanted to give in, but they're not capable of fighting this fight long term, especially not with the help, without our help. which I've said multiple times and you've heard multiple other places. It's just sort of.
Insane to me that this is where we still are on both issues with Iran and with the ongoing hopeful negotiation between Russia and Ukraine, because it's just a repetition of this is the thing you're going to have to do, this is the thing that we'll say out loud, we're willing to do, and then we get into the room to sign the paper and we're not willing to do that thing. And as long as you get there, it just goes on forever. All right, we'll take a quick break. A lot coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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But somehow we've turned disagreement into a personality and hate into something people are way too comfortable with. And it's not just happening in one place. Hate is rising across communities in different ways, and Jewish communities are getting hit especially hard right now. And hate doesn't just stay in one lane, it spreads.
So, even if you think this isn't your issue, give it a minute. You don't have to agree with people, you just have to decide you're not okay with hate. That's it. The blue square is a simple way to say that out loud: go to bluesquarealliance.org, get a pin, share it, or don't, but at least don't pretend this isn't happening. Your social media feed says eat more protein, track your sleep, boost your VO2 max, wake up and cold plunge, cleanse yourself of parasites.
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Some quick stories. People are, quote, fat banking for future plastic surgery. This is where you decide that at some point in the relatively near future, you're going to go ahead and throw down some money and fix your body with some knives and whatnot and a doctor, I assume, not some alleyway. And because of that, you're like, hey, now no rules apply. Let's go ahead and add a little bit of weight.
Let's do whatever we want to do.
So when they finally cut into me, I'm getting my money's worth. I find this idea to be hilarious. I don't think it's a good thing. I'm not encouraging you to do it, but it sounds exactly similar to every other thing that people talk about now, whether it's quote girl math. I didn't come up with that, by the way.
Somebody else did, where you factor in. The amount of money you're saving by spending on something and then not spending on something else instead of just deciding that stuff costs money. And if I buy anything, I'm spending. You come up with excuses, I guess, is a way to say it. This is another version of: yeah, I'm putting the weight on, but someone's taking it off soon and they don't charge by the pound.
At least I don't know if they do. I've never done that kind of surgery myself. There is a McDonald's hack out there that allows you to recreate an in-and-out animal-style meal, which is one of their more popular burgers. I love that this is a thing. I don't wanna necessarily take you through all the steps on how to turn McDonald's into animal style in and out because they're calling it a hack that takes multiple different add-ons and changes and whatnot to make it have all the same toppings and ingredients.
But here's what I love about this. People praise In-N-Out. They say it's the best. They say nothing could be better than it. And the truth is that you can pretty much have any burger made any way you want at any place you want if you know what items to add and what items to remove.
I don't know if it would be cheaper, though. I imagine when you're asking for certain sauce and other items to be added on to your quarter pounder or a whopper or wherever it is you're going to turn it into an animal-style burger. I don't know if you're saving yourself money or just coming up with the realization that a lot of fast food tastes eerily similar when you do certain things to change it. Fast food. I always felt like the way to talk about this is you have the tallest midget.
I know that's inappropriate.
Some people get mad when you say that. I don't care. That to me is the debate on all the best burgers in the world of fast food burger because it's still not the same as like a gourmet item that you might make at your home or buy from a fancy restaurant. Those are still going to be better than these things. We all know it.
No one seems to care. Another piece of audio. That I really liked, the CEO of Uber. I was talking about how hard it is to get a five-star rating as an Uber driver. Even the CEO of the company has not achieved that level of success.
I don't know if during the drive, during each ride, this person casually mentioned they're the CEO, but there is some audio complaining about this from last year. It is a 481 now. I still have to build it up. I think I'm on the phone too much while I'm in the car. I ask the driver, you know, do you mind if I make a call?
But, you know, I'm working on it. I'm increasing it. They do mind if you make that phone call, by the way. And if you're the CEO of the company, you probably are going to be on the phone a lot. But anytime, an Uber driver, not that I give bad reviews, I always give five stars because I feel like this is someone's livelihood, unless they tried to harm me.
If they somehow put us in harm's way, I think I'd give a worse review than five. But by and large, I'm gonna pump out five for you because I don't wanna be the reason you can't put food on the table for your family if you took a phone call while driving me. But nobody likes it. Nobody's a fan of listening to somebody else have a conversation. We all know that this is true.
So that's probably, in fact, he's put his finger on the pulse of the exact problem. One last one that I saw. Gas thieves are drilling into vehicle tanks, leaving some drivers with repair bills much higher than the actual cost of just buying the gas. You're not going to get that much gas if you drill into a car. I guess if you're doing it 20 cars in a line in a parking place where you know no one's coming out anytime soon, maybe you're acquiring gas that has value.
But this just seems like a mean-spirited thing that thieves are doing. I know they're not nice people. I know they're breaking rules. I'm not expecting them to be kind, but it just seems like a uniquely like, what did you really get? And honestly, if you confronted me and said, I want your gas so much, I'm going to ruin your car when you walk away, I'll probably just give you a gas gift card and ask you please not to drill into my vehicle and go ahead and take the win.
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You can think someone is completely wrong and still not hate them. I know, wild. But somehow we've turned disagreement into a personality and hate into something people are way too comfortable with. And it's not just happening in one place. Hate is rising across communities in different ways, and Jewish communities are getting hit especially hard right now.
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Slow the scroll. Start asking better questions. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you.
A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. Let's do this.
Let's play audio of Marco Rubio. Who's been doing incredibly well in his role, in his high-profile amount of exposure to media? A lot of people are talking about how he is likely the heir apparent now. To the Trump administration, even as some still say they like J.D. Vance, they haven't really changed their opinion of him.
He just hasn't shined the way that Rubio has in several of these opportunities to be the face of a discussion or the face of anything, really. Here is Rubio talking about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the likelihood for a peace deal. And how it seems fairly obvious to many that Zelensky might be a roadblock in some ways and he might be lying about some things. Here's Rubio's discussion. The US tell Zelensky that.
Security diarchies depend on this drone from Donbass. That's a lie. And I saw him say that, and it's unfortunate he would say that, because he knows that's not true. And that's not what he was told. What he was told is the obvious.
Security guarantees are not going to kick in until there's an end to a war. Because otherwise, you're getting yourself involved in the war. What is a security guarantee? It is troops that are willing to step in and secure. If you put that in place now, that means you're injecting yourself in the war.
What he was told very clearly, and he should have understood it, is that security guarantees come only after there is an end to the war. But that was not attached to unless he gives up territory. I don't know why he says these things. They're just not true. Where is he this position?
Yeah, I know why he says these things. A lot of us know why he says these things. The reason he says this stuff. is because he would like to see the US have boots on the ground during the conflict. He would like the United States anywhere else in the world to be fighting Russia directly because that's the path to Ukraine getting all the things it wants after it was attacked and it defended itself.
And now it's unwilling to surrender things that might actually cause a peace deal to occur. Do I like the reward being given to the aggressor here? No, I wanna be clear about that. I occasionally hear from people who say that I'm pro-Russia or something crazy, but it is the way to end the fight. In the Donbas region, several other regions in between Russia and Ukraine that were owned by Ukraine but contested and had a lot of proxy fighting through Russian proxy forces.
Uh giving up those territories, if that was the inevitable reality of ending this conflict, could have happened a long time ago, and it's not the same as giving up, say, Kyiv.
So I don't understand a portion of this discussion. And the likelihood that Ukraine inevitably got here because they can't defend themselves, they need our support, our resources. Our help and the resources of several other countries to do an admirable job defending themselves for so many years. But there's a point where all of these things hit that wall. And Zelensky has always wanted the way through the wall to be the U.S.
had their own boots on the ground. And that was never going to occur.
So, to answer Marco Rubio's obvious question that he knows the answer to as well, that's why he would lie about those things, Zelensky, because it's what he actually wants. Let's play this. This is President Trump talking about Trump derangement syndrome and how it might actually be a disease now. He was making a big announcement about some things that will be done from the federal government to help moms, new moms. There's a lot of good news, a lot of valuable things to be said about what the Trump administration will do to support people that often claim that Republicans don't care about them at all, whatever that might be.
But here's a funny moment where Trump talked about Trump derangement syndrome.
Well, they suffer from Trump derangements in Trump, to be honest. They don't even know what they're looking at. They can't even see straight. But I have a new way out. I'm going to propose something the opposite of what I want, and we will have massive amounts of legislation.
No, just all that division. We will not build the wall. Diabolically. I'm going to go the opposite. Whatever is bad, I'm going to go for it, and they'll approve what's good finally.
They've got serious Trump derangements in your wall, which actually is a disease. I'm hearing it is actually a disease. I like that he looked at Bobby Kennedy when he said that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., when he's like, you know, I think this is a disease. I think that people can be diagnosed with this because it does seem like a reality that many, many people suffer from.
Trump also, while talking about health and moms.gov. And the things he will do to help new mothers, a program of this administration and a couple senators that really pushed him to get it to where it is, to be in a big announcement over Mother's Day. He also made a joke about the McDonald's diet. And this actually can be uh connected to, tied to a news thing, an actual news announcement that's happening. But here, first, let's play uh Trump joking about whether or not the McDonald's diet is actually healthy.
I don't know what this is. I feel the same as I did 50 years ago. It's crazy.
Someday there'll be a day when that won't happen. I'll let Bobby and Ajna, you know? It's not quite the same, but I feel literally the same. I don't know why. It's not because I eat the best foods.
Maybe they are the best foods. Who knows what the best foods are? Maybe junk food is good and the other food is no good. I know people that eat the best food. They go to a restaurant, they have celery, and I don't want, and I'll have steak and everything else.
And I say, How are you doing?
Well, It's over for me at a young age. And all they do is watch their weight. I know many, many people that all they do is watch their weight, they're this, they're that. And uh they kicked the bucket and here we are a few credits. I love that people are upset with the way in which he talks about uh the end result of some people's diet not working out for them, people uh who uh are dying um and seem to be they would be relatively healthier and it just doesn't work the way that it should because people are upset that this is so nonchalant.
I think this is a byproduct of someone being the age of President Trump. And knowing a lot of people who are no longer with us. I know a lot of individuals in an age bracket I'm not quite in yet who talk about death quite a bit differently than I do. But the other thing I really liked about this, the McDonald's diet, the versions of food that President Trump likes, that I happen to like, like getting steak and not the vegetable items when you're out at the restaurant. There's something about these things that really intrigued me.
And then, actually, tied to the news.
Now President Trump announced that he's cleared the way for more beef imports. The cost of steak and things has gone up quite a bit. It's terrible. And so, the fix there might be to import more of this product from other places, overseas, wherever we can get it. We want more beef because we want the price of steak and other things to go down.
There's an article about that in the Wall Street Journal, an announcement made today, and it does feel tied to President Trump saying, I know it's not, it just feels that way. That who knows what a good diet is. Maybe what I eat is actually healthier for people than what they tell me to eat because it's worked out for him so far. A couple other quick things. I do think this is just a funny thing to remember because of the hypocrisy of it.
Former President Biden in 2021 that he was proud of high gas prices because of what he was fighting. that being oil and gas companies and gas powered vehicles for what he thought was better in our society, green energy and green vehicles, which really wasn't something a whole lot of Americans wanted or cared about. And even still don't want. And actually, my favorite other thing people point out is the cost of the lithium battery from a production standpoint that has nothing to do with any green energy. The amount of Things it takes that are not green to make a battery is significant and barely ever mentioned within this discussion.
But anyway, I want to play this audio because Biden is proud of his war, if that's what you want to call it, and how it caused high gas prices. Trump doesn't necessarily say the same way, President Trump, that he's proud of what we're doing and proud of the high gas prices, even though it's a much better thing to be fighting. Funding terrorism than me having a sweet truck that runs on gas. And when it comes to the gas prices, We're going through an incredible transition. That is taking place that God willing, when it's over, will be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over.
You see what Europe is doing relative to the importation of Russian gas, you see what anyway, I won't go through it all, but and what I've been able to do to keep it from getting even worse, and it's bad. The price of gas at the pump is something I told you you heard me say before. It would be a matter of great discussion on my kitchen table when I was a kid growing up. They talk about a lot of stuff at his kitchen table. As I said before, I don't know why they brought a young Joe Biden into so many of these discussions.
The adults might have wanted to figure out the finances on their own. before Sleepy Joe got involved. But the other thing I think is amazing about that is how $5 was the target price. It was utterly acceptable because Biden wanted to ban fossil fuels. He wanted to fight oil and gas companies and wanted to force green energy onto the American people and the benefits that he probably got in kickbacks and other people got in kickbacks on that.
That didn't work. That was a bad fight. This fight seems better, not just to me, but to a lot of people. All right, one last thing, one piece of audio I also want to play. This is Scott Jennings just absolutely torching an argument made on CNN by Ashley Allison, a Democrat spokesperson, saying some crazy stuff about Tennessee, Memphis, and the need to have.
Black districts in our society, as opposed to just American districts that vote American politicians into office to represent them. This is such a weird thing. Because there's such an undercurrent. Of what I think a lot of people believe is acceptable racism. If I'm racist against white people, that's allowed, that's okay.
This is what people are advocating for. They're like, we want to remove white people from certain districts because we don't like the way that white people vote, and we want to move them based on their race. Again, bad. Here's the argument and the brilliant, I think, response. From Scott Jennings.
Ratio redids. On the campaign. You literally are taking Memphis, which is a city that was black voters, and you split it in three, stretching 3,000 miles. Who's the current Democrat congressman there? Is it a black congressman?
Just because black people are allowed to elect people that don't look like them. Exactly. And that is the point I wanted you to make. Exactly what I wanted to hear you say. Because just because you're not going to have a black congressman, why is it that a Republican can't do just as well representing black voters as a Democrat?
They aren't electing black people. Why does your race determine your politics? It does. No. Just be you're making my point, actually.
The assumption is black people. No, no, no. The assumption is black people will only elect black people. No, black people are smart enough to elect. Nope, let me finish.
Black people will elect people who will actually represent them, who have their best interests in heart. And what Republicans have done in Tennessee is dismantle the power for black people to have their voice. They did the same thing in Texas because they said they thought. Why can't Americans just have their voice regardless of where Americans live? For a very long time, Democrats have sold people politics.
Based on their race, they have told black Americans, you remember Biden famously saying it himself, but they told black Americans that we're the ones who represent you, we're the ones who fight for the things you want, we're the ones who care about you and the other side doesn't. And many, many people have realized how much of a sham and crap and a lie that is and have started to vote the other way. A lot of data says that more and more black Americans are actually voting for Republicans. It's still not the majority, but it's happening. And this is something that politicians don't like.
This is something that the Democratic Party doesn't like. They want to brainwash certain constituents, certain racial demographics of this country to believe that they're the only capable people that will support them when they couldn't care at all. about the needs or wants of individuals within a certain group within our society. They only care about power for themselves. Many, many individuals have learned this lesson and now vote differently, and it's terrifying.
The political establishment itself and the powers that be within the democratic side of the aisle, and this is how they're trying to fight it. They're trying to fight it by encouraging racism. By telling you that you gotta hate white people if they vote different than you, and you gotta make sure that your district is built on just black people, not whoever lives somewhere. Because any way you gerrymander something, any way you cut and create squiggly lines and unique certain demographics or unique districts, you are cutting people out because you don't like the way they vote based on their race. That is wrong.
That's the position of Republicans at least, and well, the Supreme Court. Quick break, a little bit more coming up. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. The folks who help make the program possible, it is the people over at Relief Factor.
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And then you see me occasionally tweeting about the Yankees. And how bad it was to watch them get swept over the weekend. Anyway, other stuff. Out there. Apparently, Southwest Florida has opened its annual application.
For its gator hunt. His alligator hunt, there's two of them. I live in Texas. I know this happens here too.
So anybody from areas where you don't Occasionally, once or twice a year, hunt alligators will think this is insane, and I'm usually a part of that group. But you're also kind of grateful that this occurs because you can't let the alligators run amok in the places where there's a whole lot of them. My favorite part of this story is that there's two applications you can fill out: one is for the main hunt. That application process ends in just a few days on May 18th. And then the second one, which you have until June 18th to apply, if you want to hunt alligators in Florida, is called the Super Hunt.
And I guess in that one, they're doing even more things. I'm not sure. Or they dress as superheroes, some sort of tie to Marvel, whatever it might be. But I love the fact that there's two. There's if you're green to the whole process, you don't want to go too far, too crazy, too fast.
So let's just do a regular hunt. And then there's, you know what, I'm a pro. I've been a part of the regular hunt a few times. I'm ready to super hunt the alligators. But that, to me, is just great.
It's Florida men and women. It's not any one individual Florida man as far as the story in that world. Around 100 hot dogs were stolen. This was overnight, a burglary in central Florida at a school. Two men reportedly were seen jumping a fence near a university high school around 1.07 a.m.
And stealing a crap ton of High school hot dogs. A lot of problems with the story. Uh first I thought this was interesting. The amount of money they probably stole in total hot dogs is only about 60 bucks. Meaning that 100 hot dogs at the prices they pay for the school wasn't as devastating of a theft as it could have been if they targeted more high-value things.
The other one is these are not the best hot dogs. And not that there truly is a great thing in the world a hot dog, but if you remember school, and I'm not trying to be mean to the lunch ladies who cooked these things, by and large, the products they bought there that they feeded to the mat they fed to the masses were not the best possible items.
So these are cheaper hot dogs. As demonstrated by the price, that that plus some ice cream only cost the school about sixty bucks. Still wrong, still shouldn't do it. I just don't understand why people steal some things and then don't take other stuff. I had talked about this, I think, on a different show, not here on Dana's show.
My car was broken into in Houston, Texas, and they barely stole anything from me. And I'll be honest, even though I was happy that That the limited amount of things I left in my car were mostly left there. I was also a little insulted. Because that means the stuff I own wasn't worthy of stealing, which is good and bad. It's like you're darned if you do, darned if you don't.
One last Florida woman, an 18-year-old woman, tried to rob a man at gunpoint. The story gets really crazy as you dive into it because it's the guy's girlfriend's sister who told him to strip naked and then give her all the cash he had on him while charging him with a gun before he leaves with the sister of the suspect running away from the attempted robbery and, I don't know, harm done. Talk about a weird family reunion next time you hang out for that relationship. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. Laundry should not smell like a hospital bathroom.
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You can think someone is completely wrong and still not hate them. I know, wild. But somehow we've turned disagreement into a personality and hate into something people are way too comfortable with. And it's not just happening in one place. Hate is rising across communities in different ways and Jewish communities are getting hit especially hard right now.
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A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. I saw that many people do not intend to go on summer vacation. This is because the summer vacation is just too expensive. currently in our society, and that makes sense for a whole lot of us. I don't think this is as big of a deal as some people think it is, because you should still be able to take time off.
You just do something called the staycation.
Now, granted, I'm not saying that if you can't afford it, you shouldn't leave, because leaving is way more fun. But I think people, the real point of this is I think people underestimate the value of a staycation. There are a couple caveats to it. You need to have someone if it's someone you're married to, as it would be for me if my wife and I took the same time off. Where we didn't intend to travel anywhere.
You need them to accept the idea that you're gonna do a whole lot of nothing. Because that's what makes a staycation so much better: there's no pressure at all to do stuff. Any stuff, even a little bit of stuff, you can do nothing for an entire week. I recharge the batteries and feel great. Call me lazy if you want to.
I actually really enjoy this. When you travel somewhere, Especially if you're with someone who wants to explore a lot, no offense to people who do, you wind up with too many things to do. And then every single day you do too much stuff. You feel like you're really, it's still fun, it's still way better than work, but you feel like you have responsibilities every day while you're somewhere else. And that ruins the majority of value that you get from getting away from your day-to-day responsibilities to take a vacation.
So, this is my very long answer to a very silly problem that I saw out there. Just do a whole lot of nothing and do it at home, and you'll be completely fine, and everyone will be happy. One last quick thing that I thought was funny. A contestant on The Price is Right won the largest single game prize in the history of the show. A retired veteran whose name is Vanessa won $240,000 in cash and prizes.
That's $227,000 in cash from the Lion's share game and a luxury trip to Morocco and a bunch of other things. The previous record had been $210,000 set in 2016. The biggest takeaway I had to this is that it would be tremendously fun to be on The Price is Right. But it's not the same win that some other shows. It's still a great win.
$200,000 is an incredible win. It's not Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Versions of Money for the People that walked away with the most on that show. You just got to accept that going in, I guess. But 240, congrats to her, and awesome that she's a veteran.
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Each episode, we show the science behind viral health claims, from high-protein diets to cold plunges, detoxing to sleep tech obsession. And we talk to the people in the middle of it all: influencers, the curious, but more importantly, doctors and researchers. Not to cancel the trend, not to hype it more, but to understand it. Listen to Health vs. Hype with the American Medical Association on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Slow the scroll. Start asking better questions. 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 a quick five on the Dana show, D Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X, Twitter, great ways to stay connected to everything she has going on. Not only are there malls throughout America that are shutting down and they're trying to repurpose what actually goes in there, there's a bunch of abandoned cinemas, movie theaters, giant ones, extravagant ones that they're trying to figure out what to do with both in the U.S. and Canada.
Some of them now have like high school basketball courts in them, which I found amusing. But there's a bunch of things that they're doing with these abandoned places, whether it's grocery stores, apartment complexes, anything you can do to find ways to cram things into what used to be very fancy places for people to go, say, watch a movie or a play or something. I don't know how you go through that set of idea meetings to get to the point you get to where you turn it into a high school. basketball court, but I want to be in more of those. because I think that's a uniquely cool place.
To play some of these games and to have like a crowd that watches you up on a stage, more like a theater than a typical basketball court is a unique way to see a sporting event.
So, do more of that. Is basically what I'm advocating for. A hospital in Canada had to suspend all surgeries because it announced that it had a quote ant problem. A whole bunch of ants were storming the hospital and they had to say that they couldn't confirm or deny. No, I'm kidding about this part, whether ants got into anyone.
So they had to really suspend all of their surgeries. This is the kind of news that makes you cancel your surgery. Find another hospital would be my immediate response here. And well, it's Canada, so I guess it's different than the United States. You're not going to have to deal with the insurance issues the same way.
And maybe this is the best example that healthcare in our country is still better than socialized health care other places because I haven't heard of a whole lot of U.S. hospitals that have an ant problem that shut down their surgical wing. This is happening there.
So once again, a win for us, I guess, and a loss for our neighbors up north. Another story I saw that I thought was interesting: a guy went viral on social media for going to a Vietnamese restaurant. It's actually located in Florida. I could have made this a Florida man story, even though he's not from Florida himself. Because the name, when you look at it written, looks like a really inappropriate thing.
I'm gonna say what it is out loud. I'm not gonna tell you how to spell it because it's bik-nay-ya. That's the right way to say the name of the establishment. When you look at the way it's written, and social media seemed to love it, it seemed like a different thing. And the guy who initially made it go viral went in mispronouncing it and saying it the way it looked like it was spelled because he was entertained by it.
Here's the reason I'm telling you this story now, because this was a viral story quite a while ago. The guy who went into the establishment and kind of joked about its name and talked to the ownership of it inevitably helped them raise money online, and they've now raised $190,000. For the restaurant, because of a guy's stupid viral video and some of the admissions of the owner of the restaurant. That they weren't doing as well as they had hoped to do in the business. I don't know what the lesson is here.
That's the thing I was trying to come up with: the South Park end of the show, what we learned today thing. I don't know what it is. Is the lesson that if you name your restaurant something that is written to be rather inappropriate looking, but you can claim is pronounced differently, do you inevitably get $200,000 from an influencer? Is that the road that more people should travel? I hope not.
I assume not, but again, I don't know. The lesson is whatever you choose it to be in this case. And then one last story that I thought was interesting. There is a guy from Texas. 32 years old.
His name is Jathan, J-A-Y-T-H-A-N. I already don't like this guy, Jathan Gilder, who swallowed a bunch of Tiffany's diamonds worth $770,000 and then got in an argument with the cops about whether or not he had consumed said diamonds. The guy. Lost the diamonds when inevitably they had to be passed through his body. You know what I'm trying to say here without saying it, which is part of the legal challenge he's now facing.
The guy said that he couldn't find valuable representation, that no lawyer who heard about this case, heard that he got caught, heard that he told the cops he didn't steal anything, and then inevitably he passed it. The lawyers didn't want to take it, so he's going to represent himself. I think that's hilarious. Plead not guilty and explain how the diamonds got inside your body. Going to be a tough one.
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