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A great ways to stay connected to her at Radio Craig C. If you want to follow me, I am a radio host at one of the affiliate stations for Dana, KSEV Radio, in Houston, Texas. Thrilled to be a new affiliate and actually a longtime previous affiliate of the Dana show. She is awesome. And this show is awesome.
And I'm thrilled to fill in on it as well today. And I've been doing that for a bit now. All right, let's do this. Dana Bash did an interview with Interior Secretary Doug Bergham. In the back and forth, they debated the guy who is accused of.
Cutting out pieces of the Memorial Fountain because, darn it, he hates everything and he hates everyone. I don't know exactly what it is, but the Lincoln Memorial pool was damaged. Bergham says we got photos. That show that there were cuts in it. And at one point, Bash seems to say, because the guy is an Olympian, he probably shouldn't really face any sort of punishment for doing something, even if he did it.
It was a weird stance for her to take, and Bergham shot it down fairly quickly. Here's that back and forth. Can I just ask you about the vandalism? There is an Olympian, David Hearn, who was indicted for vandalism. The maximum sentence is 10 years in prison.
He says he didn't do anything other than reach into the reflecting pool and look at and pull out and look at a piece of the liner that had already been cut. Do you really think he should face a 10-year prison sentence for doing this? This is somebody who... Competed for America and, you know, did extremely well there, and is saying he didn't do anything wrong. By the way, that is a ridiculous premise to a question because she even seems to be acting as though him saying he didn't do anything wrong means he didn't do anything wrong.
That's not true, but let's let Bergham hit the rest of it out of the park. Yeah. You can be a Former governor, you can be a former this, you can be a former that, but just because you were a former something doesn't exclude you from the law today. Yeah, that's fair. But he says he didn't do anything to actually hurt it other than.
Pick it up because it's pretty appealing. He can say what he wants to say. I wasn't there, I was not an eyewitness. I mean, the courts will decide. The courts will decide.
And I love the fact that whenever it's someone saying something that somehow goes against. Anything this Trump administration or anyone involved in it is doing or saying, the assumption that those other people are always telling the truth, it's through the roof. It's the version of believe every single woman taken to an even more ridiculous stance of believe anyone that says anything that opposes anything Trump does at any point. Believe all of them, no matter who they are, no matter what they're saying and what they're doing. Here's a little bit more from that interview.
I did think it was interesting that there was also a question about the fireworks that happened in DC. Yeah, there were some storms in the area.
So the fireworks show was delayed a little bit, but it eventually happened. And Trump said in audio I played earlier in the show that he was definitely going to do the show. It didn't matter how long it took. I think on Truth Social, he even said, I'll do it even if it's two o'clock in the morning. I'll be there and we're doing this thing.
They look to set a world record. For the amount of fireworks fired off, I think it was 850,000 by the final count, but here was a back and forth where the question was, did you guys even really set the record? Which is another weird thing to care about. And I think they only care about, of course, with who's in the office. Here we go.
First, I was there last night, and those fireworks were apps. There aren't even limits for how amazing they were. I know the plan was 850,000 fireworks. The goal was to break the world record. Did it?
I'm confident we did. Anybody that saw it knows there's been nothing like that in the history of the U.S., it was really spectacular. And you can watch it on social media, by the way, too. You can go turn it on and see it, and it is ridiculous. And I love the finale of firework shows like that when it's that.
Well, there's none quite like that one, but any show that tries to go above and beyond. I live in Houston. I think we did the same thing, at least for the finale, not the totality of the show. It was nothing compared to what they did in D.C. But at the end, if you shoot off all the fireworks at the same time, you just get a really bright white light.
in the sky that's flashing a lot. I don't know if that means I see all the independent fireworks as much as I'm supposed to, but I don't really care because that's what I want at the end. Actually, I think I talked about this on a previous fill-in on the show. I really love the accidental fireworks show that happened. I can't remember what community it happened in.
I know I have the video somewhere where they shot off all the fireworks at the beginning of the thing.
So it was just one loud boom and a big flash, and then the whole thing was over because they made a mistake. I want to attend one of those. I want to attend one of those. It's everything all at once, and then you get to go home after 10 seconds because that sounds kind of amazing. You'd never get over that experience.
I think, like, most people will never get over the experience of seeing the fireworks in D.C. if they went. New York also did a pretty big show, but not almost a million fireworks fired off. One other thing out there that I think is interesting as far as continuing to discuss a topic I didn't anticipate I would talk about at all today is FIFA and FIFA in the world of politics. The breaking news, the newest story before the match actually takes place tonight is that Belgium's appeal to try to re-suspend Balogan, who was unsuspended by FIFA, has been rejected.
The biggest reason, Belgium seem to have no reason to complain about this because they weren't a part of the game in which Balogan got suspended in the first place, essentially meaning that they're begging to cheat. They're begging to try to have an easier time playing the United States soccer team because they don't want to play the full force, you know, entirety of the team. It is silly. Like, they're not the ones who should be complaining. If anyone cares, it should be any of the teams that the U.S.
played in previous rounds.
Now, Bosnia, of course, the most relevant one, since they were the one where this actually happened. Belgium, you don't have any say in this. Why are you the one complaining? Here we go. Gillian, extraordinary developments.
In just the last few minutes, we heard directly from FIFA. They have ruled Belgium's appeal against the reinstatement of Flo Balogan for tonight's critical game as inadmissible. They say that Belgium was not a party to this process and therefore has no standing for that appeal. This looks bad. I will say.
This is because again, I don't really intend to talk about this a lot. I've been talking about it all show, I guess, and here we are. But it looks bad as far as the desire to compete. At the highest of level, to want your opposing team, to want your opponent to have some sort of handicap. It's just, I wouldn't want that ever.
I would want to play someone at full strength. And if I get the opportunity to do that, I would always welcome it. I think that's a very American thing. Portnoy, Dave Portnoy, went a step further saying anyone who's anti-this in the United States because of politics. You should be deported.
I'm going to need some fact-checking from fact-check people. But I've seen a lot of. Talk that this has been done before in the World Cup. Like Ronaldo had his suspension pushed off a bunch of things.
So it's not the first time this has ever happened. It was the right call. And this has united a nation. I'll also say, and I know, T-Bob, you're not a Trump guy, and I don't know people's politics. If you are against this and you're a United States citizen, Deported.
I want you out of the country. I love it. If you have a problem with this guy playing because you're letting politics get in the way and you're like, Trump plays a phone call and you think this is wrong, deported. Yeah, Sarah's, why do you care? Why do you care at all?
If you are a fan of the United States and the World Cup has, it seemed, brought the country at least together on that, that we're all cheering for the same team. Although, actually, I have audio of Zoron Mamdani being happy that in New York he thinks we're not all cheering for the United States. That's a weird take as well that I'll play. But why? Why would anyone be anti this if it's going to work in the favor of our country?
But here is Zoran Mamdani, the socialist, the, I think, communist mayor of New York, saying that he's proud of the fact that if you walk around in certain parts of the biggest city in our country, you feel like you're not in America at all, which again, weird take. You have so many, I mean, this is an international city on any given day, but you have so many World Cup fans right here in New York to experience this. What's it feel like to share this moment, this feeling in New York with the rest of the world? It's amazing because, you know, as you said, we're a city of eight and a half million people, biggest city in the country. More than 3 million New Yorkers were born outside of this country.
And so they bring with them both that love of this country and the roots of where they come from. And in the World Cup, it feels like every team is playing at home when you go around this city. And it's a beautiful moment because New Yorkers feel like they can be their full selves. And even today, you saw Morocco beat Canada 3-0. If you were on Steinway, you'd have thought you were in Morocco.
Everyone's like, Yeah, I don't know if I love that. I don't know if I find that as amazing as they do. That if I was in a certain part of New York, I would have thought that I was actually in Morocco as that game. That actually happened in Houston, where I live, the Morocco defeat of Canada. I will point this out: that two of the host countries are now out.
of the World Cup. Mexico lost last night in a match that I actually didn't think they'd lose, especially after they wound up having a red card used on their opponent on England. But nonetheless, they're out. Canada's out. The U.S., who plays tonight, is the third of three host teams, host countries.
You really hope they're not also out. And it's so odd. Again, I'll say this last thing about it, and I will actually move on. That Belgium wanted to play a weaker version of this team on a stage like this. You should always want to play the best version of your opponent.
I think that that's simply sportsmanship. And it's sad to see so few versions of that so often now. You do see some teams willing to shake hands and congratulate the opponent after a loss. You see other teams not doing that at all after a win. Which is just sort of disgusting.
All right, one last thing. Before I take a break, and this is just a random thing, Michelle Obama, of course, has a podcast. I think a lot of people know about that. Her brother's name is Craig, which makes me sad, as my name is also Craig, but I'm not an insane Craig like this guy is. They were doing an interview with Will Farrell.
And during the interview, while talking about boys being boys and fighting, but maybe not fighting as much now as we did back in the day when we were younger, other generations were younger, there was a very odd moment. Where Michelle Obama's brother Craig seemed very proud of his parenting style, that I would find full-on wrong. If it were me, here we go. Let's play that. Oh, that's a little bit loud.
Let's lower it a little bit.
Now it's pretty. Yeah. Yeah. Nobody fights anymore. Right.
But we told our boys that if you guys can fight. Yeah. But when you're done, you have to kiss the makeup on the mouth.
Okay, I like that. I don't like that at all, Will Farrell. I think that's disgusting and weird. And thank God I wasn't raised that way, where I would have had to kiss my little brother on the mouth. not something our family did.
That's weird. And honestly, if I'm going even a step further on this take, I feel like if a Republican who would never say this, said something like this, the punishment being a gay kiss would actually be like homophobic or something too. To say, yeah, make your children make out with each other. This is uniquely odd for them to be proud of this stuff. To me, sometimes the things that are said by the crazy woke left, I wonder if they can possibly actually be true.
Oftentimes they probably are, but I wonder, because I think they're said more performatively to gain some sort of benefit from something else. Like, look at how woke I am. I make my children kiss each other on the mouth. If they fight, which is insane, that should be insane to a whole lot of us. I think it's child abuse to many people, not apparently to Michelle Obama's brother, Craig.
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Luckily, this is something that was discovered, and now there will be a whole case and whatnot about it because you can't do that, even in California, even if you're a Pelosi. Just another ridiculous demonstration of how much better they think they are than everyone else in the world, or everyone else at least in this country. Much like when Nancy went and got her hair did, while she was also shutting everything down during COVID, although much more, I guess, illegal in a different sense. All right, other things out there that I thought were interesting as far as just serious or silly stories go, not serious. A Maryland guy was reported to have had his car stolen.
But the thing that made this a news story that I talk about here is that he was allegedly burglarizing a Verizon store when his car got jacked. He tried to pretend that wasn't true when he called the cops to say, hey, someone stole my car. But apparently, the people inside the Verizon store that he was trying to rob were like, hey, officer, by the way, this might also be of interest to you. I think I even have some audio of someone talking about this arrest and how crazy it is. Let me just see your hands real quick.
Okay. Put your hands behind your back for me. For what? Were you at that Verizon store? Because you got blood on your hands and brought a little glasses.
I wasn't at no Verizon store, sir. I promise to God. Have a seat real quick. Hold on. You got blood on your shirt.
So the gig's up. It's whether you want to be honest about stuff or not. You know what I mean? I do.
Someone stole my car. Oh, my God. That's kind of some karma right there, ain't it? I left that keys in. Yeah, that's some karma right there.
Yeah, that would be karma. That's actually the arrest video itself. That would be karma to have the keys left in your vehicle and have it running while you're trying to fight some people and steal some things from a Verizon store. And then you come back and you got no getaway vehicle. That's that's amazing.
Now, whether or not they've actually caught the guy who stole the car, not part of this. Story. I imagine they might have, and they get to hang out together now in jail, which has got to be an awkward conversation for both people. You shouldn't commit crime, is essentially the overarching message of this. Another thing that I saw that went viral.
And there was a massive credit offered by an airline. Airline offers a jaw-dropping prize to give up seats on an overbooked flight. American is the one who did this on the intercom, asking a crowd of passengers to voluntarily decide I'm not going.
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Ladies and gentlemen, yeah, they needed one taker for up to two grand to not fly to a place. I don't even know where the place was. I would have been that taker, even if I was flying with misses. And my wife's like, but I'm going to go now. I'm like, yeah, but when I get there, we'll have two extra grand, $1,000 for a Ticket somewhere and then an extra thousand for whatever we want, which probably would me buying her a ticket too.
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Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. I do want to shift gears to Texas. I happen to live in Houston. I am at one of our radio affiliates for the Dana Show, KSEV Radio.
So is my next guest, Ben Strusand. He is part of the Amigos, or the Three Amigos, a hallmark show on our station every Friday featuring himself, a state senator, and a dirty leftist is the way that I guess I can describe him. Ben, welcome to the show. Hey Craig, thanks for inviting me and happy two fifty to you. Yes, happy 250 to you as well.
Thank you for joining the show. I saw some of the latest polling out of Texas in the Senate race. Find that Paxton and Tallarico are neck and neck. I think in only one of the polls is Paxton ahead at all, and it might just be by 1% of some of the most recent ones that have come out. Other polls have showed a little bit larger of a gap with Paxton leading.
How do you make sense of the idea that at least when it comes to polling, Tallarico looks like someone who could win the state of Texas regardless of all the insane things he says?
Well, I mean, given the downdraft going on with Trump nationally, and when you look at the polling Uh it was. Trump's popularity in Texas is underwater by eight points, and that's very unusual. I mean, that's never occurred before.
So I think that the nationalization of the race feeds into Calarico's Um the chances of winning and uh I don't think we can afford to do anything but take this very seriously. And if we do what we need to do, and the race unfolds like I think it should I think Republicans will win this. It may be narrower than what we saw Uh when um Betto ran against Cruz, but I think we'll win it. And I think that one was about three and a half points, as I remember. Maybe you remember, Craig.
But I think we'll win this. It's important for Paxton and all the people the You know, all the other money that's helping him out there that they show Calarico for what he is, which is a supporter. of the progressive agenda. And he just likes to sweep that under the rug. And he's happy to talk about you know, things like meat.
And it's always good it's always good to defend him, putting him on his back foot to have to defend his comments. In fact, there were two very, very important comments that I found thanks to one of our other afternoon drive guys. And one had to do with welcoming illegal immigrants to come into our country. and embracing them, and the other had to do with providing abortions to transgender men.
So and not and the first one to remind people what the Democrat policy was and still is. And the second one, I think, is not really so much an abortion issue as it is these people are just plain crazy issue.
So, and so I'm hoping that's where the campaign goes. It's like, Force him to defend what Bernie is saying and what even the more so-called moderates are saying now. Which and they're all caving to the left. They're all caving. They don't have a choice.
The the hard left is totally in control of the Democrat Party. Yeah, no, I agree with you. There's a story out of Michigan, even though she's definitely a Democrat and she certainly said some crazy things. I mean, mostly about how rural Americans are terrible and suck. I'm paraphrasing what she said.
People are surprised that a certain Michigan politician has stepped out of a Senate race there, Mallory McMorrow, because she's seen as the more moderate of the two Democratic Senate candidates. And I think we're seeing this a lot. You're seeing it in New York, of course, but a lot of places where these further left candidates are sort of being celebrated by the Democratic Party and winning some primary races.
Now, granted, In the actual midterms, will these people lose these races? Will this be a lesson to Democrats? Unfortunately, we don't know yet. I imagine both of us very much hope that this is the case, but it's just sort of surreal. And I'll say this as someone that's relatively new to living in Texas.
This is not where I thought Texas could go. or even remotely could scratch the surface of being. When I moved here a little over a year ago, and you mentioned Trump's approval rating, is that really what's at the forefront of this? Because you would think if Texans are paying attention to what Tallarico has been saying, and you made two very good references, there's a lot of other ones, that there's no way the state could nominate someone or elect someone who simply doesn't hold so many of the ideals of the state itself.
Well Callarico had an easy time. He may not think so, but he had an easy time in the Democrat primary. He didn't have to. face a runoff and go through that. His comments were not picked apart.
in a Democrat Primary and to answer your questions, most Texans are not paying attention. But they will start to pay attention, and that's what this campaign is all about. And yes, I do believe that it's the Trump downdraft. which is causing two out of three independents to vote for Democrat candidates in some of these interim elections we had Like the one up in the Fort Worth area that broke to a Democrat, a seat that should have been held by Republicans if it were a general. I think that we would have captured it.
We'll see if we can recapture it in November. But two out of three Independents voted Democrat.
Well, there's two aspects to that. One is motivation to come out and vote. you have to be motivated to come out and vote. And the more motivated you are, the higher percentage of people vote. And then how does it break?
And so right now, the Democrats have had the momentum behind them in these elections between March and November.
However, I also think the Republican polling numbers have bottomed. And I think probably they're going to get better from here, not worse. And so we should be riding somewhat an upswing and close the gap. And again, it's all about reminding people what they stand for, what's the progressive agenda, do you really want to pack that Supreme Court? Do you really want DC and Puerto Rico to be states?
You know, do you really want transgender men playing in women's sports? Right. And oh, by the way, do you really want your taxes raised? You know, and how about all that regulation thing, you know, that we've just gotten rid of?
So, I mean, there's all bunch of stuff. And what about that border? You know, remember that border thing where everybody just came over and they didn't care. They didn't check anybody. It was just an open door.
Oh, bye, let's see how Talo Rico feels about that. Oh, yeah, let's put out that welcome mat again.
So again, you know, it's all about let's remind people. And yeah, they haven't been paying attention in Texas. They're like everybody else, you know, trying to earn a living like everybody else, trying to take care of their families like everybody else. Everybody will start paying attention as we come out of the summer.
Well, you know, it's really interesting because you mentioned Trump's numbers a bit, and there will be a Republican first-ever midterm convention in Dallas in September on the 9th and 10th. And I think this is to try to drum up enthusiasm for the Republican Party and certainly maybe add an additional assist in Texas where it might be needed. But one of the biggest reasons I think that people might be pulling the way they are as far as approval of Trump is that they're sick of the everyday version of news that obsesses about him more so than the achievements of the administration because you mentioned the border itself. There are several achievements within the first couple of years that Trump has been in office. The Iran fight may be among the ones that's hurting him the most.
But even there, there could potentially be an outcome that is much better than what we had before. Missing those pieces and saying what you do about the individual feels more like a reflection of media's obsession and being simply sick of it than anything else. But that's just my interpretation of it. I don't see. See a lot of people or hear from a lot of people who tell me that the actions of the administration themselves beyond Iran are things that they really dislike.
In fact, if they talk about them, it winds up that they're pretty happy with the vast majority of the things that have happened since Trump took office.
So two things. One is I think you're accurate And we they do need to better do a better job of talking about achievements and reminding folks what's been accomplished over the last two years essentially. one and a half going into two. And then I have a let's just say, I kind of walked at a different angle on this the whole issue of Iran. I don't think Republicans should run away from this issue.
I think Republicans should embrace this issue and reiterate to the American people what we have accomplished when it has come to Iran. And instead of treating it as a liability, which I don't think it is, they need to treat it as an accomplishment. And it's going to look even better as gas prices come down. And it's very likely by next week, the gas prices will be at the same level that they were at when the war started. And You know, on that day, on that anniversary, when that happens, which I think it will, or close to it, that's when they need to embrace.
The actions that we've taken, and just remind people where the Middle East stood, where Iran stood before we started, and why it was so critical and why it was worth. doing what we did and don't let the Democrats have this free narrative where they just assume, oh, things were fine before Trump messed it all up and oh, come on, give me a break. You know, anybody with a bra you know, uh anybody with a brain knows better. But be people have to be reminded, Democrats have had a free reign. The press is no friend.
You know that? You know, you almost have to constantly churn out That the five salient points on a wrong. What did we accomplish by what we did? What are the things we accomplished?
Well, and the biggest thing I would say, Ben, to you too, and this is something I say to a lot of people if I have this discussion with anyone, is it's not over yet. And I don't mean the sense of the potential for more conflict, but the inevitable agreement that gets signed and that winds up being enforceable in whatever metrics the U.S. pushes to be enforceable. We can't judge this story completely because we haven't read the final chapter. And so many people that want to attack everything that's happened so far conveniently pretend as though that part isn't true, that we're not actually at the finish line.
Go ahead. Absolutely accurate, Craig. And let me tell you: you know, I do these talk shows occasionally on. Sunday mornings, and the first thing out of the other people's mouths are, well, Trump gave away everything and he's given them all this money, and we didn't get anything out of this deal, and we're right back to where we are, only they're getting all this money. And if you look what's going on, Trump had given them you know, a a a couple of nickels.
All right, just to get him to go you know, when they started playing around with the straights again over the last week or two, he refused to write any more checks.
So who's the tail and who's the dog? The media already has got the narrative. They know everything Trump does is bad. If he's for it, they're against it. Even to the point where they're rooting for the Iranians to win this thing.
I mean, and that's what Trump has to tag them with. You know, stop rooting for the other team. By the way, we're the home team and you live in this country. Right. You know, I know that you're not much of a soccer guy, and I know that soccer for some reason is a big.
I'm loving this. Yeah, it's a big political story, but I know we're just about out of time. I was going to say, in response to what you were saying, it's also amazing the amount of people who seem anti-American as far as our U.S. World Cup soccer team is concerned because people seem very mad that President Trump may have been the reason. Maybe he wasn't the reason.
Who knows? That one of our best players will perform tonight. It's so odd. I think Dave Portnoy called for everyone who hates this to be deported. I'll give you a last word on that if you want something.
Well, yeah, 'cause look, FIFO, whatever the name they are, they didn't get any they were not threatened by Trump. They they're not getting anything out of it. They they made the I think they made this decision based on more merits than anything else. Anybody who watched the video was throwing you know, for three days, the entire press and soccer world was saying, Oh, this is we got screwed. And now that Trump has fixed the screw job, they're complaining about it.
So I don't know what to tell you, Craig. It's surreal. And I don't know why so many Americans seem to want our team to lose tonight as they play Belgium in just a few hours. But thank you, Ben Strussand. You are part of the Amigos, The Three Amigos, a prominent show in all of Texas that's on KSEV 700, which is also, in fact, an affiliate of the Dana Show.
Thank you again for joining us. Quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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We're talking about five incredible races at five historic tracks.
So if you love the strategy, the speed, the late race pressure, and everything that comes with the NASCAR, this is the stretch you'll want to lock in for. One of the best races to watch of the entire tournament is the Quaker State 400 available at Walmart at Echo Park Speedway in Atlanta. And I'm not going to act like I know every single NASCAR detail, but this is the kind of race that's easy to get into because there's already a storyline built in. This is the third race of this year's in-season challenge.
So now you've got the bracket tighter. A few drivers still alive, matchups that give casual fans like me something easy to follow. Plus, Chase Elliott is the reigning winner, so he's obviously a name to watch. Joe Logano, William Byron, they've also won there recently, so there's a few drivers who knew how to get it done at this track. Check it out on TNT, Sunday at 6 p.m.
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It's time for Florida Man. That's right. It's time for Florida Man on the Dana show, D Lash, Dana Lash Radio, and X. A great ways to stay connected to her. A Florida man fought off an alligator with a fishing pole and the help of his bulldog.
The guy's 71 years old. A guy in Fort Myers, Florida, who thought this alligator definitely wasn't taking me today. His name is James McMicken, I think is his name. But anyway, he's sitting out there, he's fishing, he's having a good time. His bulldog is outside with him, and all of a sudden, an alligator attacks.
He just beats the thing as best he can. The dog gets involved, and bada bing, bada boom. By the way, that's actually a firework, the name of a firework, bada bing, bada boom. But nonetheless, he's fine. He said all the nurses on the floor had to come by and go, wow, you did what when he went to the hospital to be checked.
He passed out actually from exhaustion, I think, at one point after this fight. His wife cleaned some of his wounds. But by and large, he's going to be fine, and the dog's going to be fine, and that's amazing. They tell you to do something very different when an alligator attacks. But at this point, the guy was like, nah, it's me, it's not you who's coming out of this whole thing.
Amazing job done. Another story involves a Florida man who was arrested while trying to pull over and give a ticket to an undercover officer. Never a good move. Anadi Jabbar is the guy's name. He is 46 years old, and apparently he was pretending to be a police officer, pulling people over, confiscating things that he thought he could keep and he would like.
He had a firearm on him that he wasn't allowed to have, so that was a felony charge. Impersonating an officer, felony charge, all those things, attempting to conduct a traffic stop, too. You would say that this is just bad luck. that the criminal guy doing the stupid thing accidentally pulls off over a police officer. But I'm glad this happens because this is not the first time I've seen a story like this.
And hopefully it's not the last because it's ridiculous. I don't know who has the time that this is what they want to do with, say, like their Saturday afternoon. Like, I'm just going to pretend to be a police officer, pull people over and claim that they're doing bad things and take stuff from them. Like, I don't know why. This is something that anyone thinks is a good idea at all.
And thankfully, people get caught doing this because they're dumb enough to do it to cops, at least undercover ones. Hopefully this happens more, but a ridiculous, a very Florida story there. And then finally, one last one. A Florida man was accused of trying to stash his cocaine in a teenager's pocket. uh during a a traffic stop.
He was pulled over. Police immediately noticed the stench of marijuana in the car. And as they, I guess, were working on something involving the stop, they witnessed the guy stuff forcefully stuff A baggie into the teenager passenger with him pocket. And then when the cops took it out, they found out that it was cocaine. They found more pot in the car, a bunch of pipes and baggies for someone who's probably selling drugs throughout the country or at least throughout Florida.
Just an insane story. And the fact that the guy was like, Here, you take this. It's not going to be me, it's going to be you. And I imagine some version of you're young, the punishment won't be as severe. And the kid was like, No.
And so they fought over it. And that'll get you very caught, thankfully. The teen was released to a family member, not charged at all. The adult charged with a lot of things. John Thornton Carrero is the guy's name.
Unique piece of crap there in Florida. Quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
Hey, it's Bobby Bones from the Bobby Bones Show. NASCAR fans, this summer is going to be a good one because TNT Sports is your home for the biggest races. That's right. TNT Sports is back in the saddle as your home for NASCAR this summer. We're talking about five incredible races at five.
Historic tracks.
So, if you love the strategy, the speed, the late race pressure, and everything that comes with the NASCAR, this is the stretch you'll want to lock in for. One of the best races to watch of the entire tournament is the Quaker State 400 available at Walmart at Echo Park Speedway in Atlanta. And I'm not going to act like I know every single NASCAR detail, but this is the kind of race that's easy to get into because there's already a storyline built in. This is the third race of this year's in-season challenge.
So, now you got the bracket tighter. A few drivers still alive, matchups that give casual fans like me something easy to follow. Plus, Chase Elliott is the reigning winner, so he's obviously a name to watch. Joy Logano, William Byron, they've also won there recently.
So there's a few drivers who knew how to get it done at this track. Check it out on TNT, Sunday at 6 p.m. Eastern on TNT and stream on HBO Max. Lots of places can expose you to identity theft. Oh no.
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This is the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. I believe Dana is back tomorrow.
So I get one more day. I saw a story out of Chicago: a Delta flight was hit by a firework. I'm amazed this doesn't happen more often. Everybody's fine. No one was injured.
The pilots kind of freaked out when they heard a giant bang, and they were checking the plane after it landed safely to make sure that there was no damage done to it. I think there even is some audio out there of air traffic control talking to pilots who get hit by a firework while landing a flight in Chicago. Again, I'm kind of surprised with how many fireworks people fire off. All throughout the country, especially probably in the proximity of airports, that we don't get more stories like this. We got at least one that thankfully has not a no-bad end result to it.
Here we go. At a firework at airplane, built a 1076 will continue. And Delta 1076, can you tell me if you had to, I guess, any further information about the the fireworks? 200 feet AGL, 2250 AGL, but we just heard the bang on the plane, so we'll have to take a look at it once we get to the gate. And we're just hoping it was just the mortar that went off underneath, but definitely felt the big bang.
There have been multiple reports, as you can imagine. The city's awareness said they would notify the Chicago police, but I don't know what they'll do. Yeah, they're not going to do anything. Not at this point. Not with all that happening.
That is just crazy, though, to hear the pilots fairly calmly be like, yeah. We got hit by a firework. Everybody's okay. Just a giant bang. I'm assuming some of the people on said flight were terrified because I fly with a scared flyer.
My wife is nervous all the time. She does the same thing every takeoff and every landing where you like grip the hand or the wrist real, real tight. And I've just gotten used to it. It's always okay. We're always, thank God, knock on wood.
Everything's fine. But she's terrified. I can't imagine what that would have been like as we were landing to have a firework hit the bottom of the plane and everything go okay. In other news, and news that I was tempted to not talk about at all, but it's a lot of places. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey got married over the weekend in New York.
My favorite of the dumb stories covering this thing is the amount of people who feel snubbed that they weren't invited to go. And there are some famous people, apparently, that are mad that they weren't part of the group. Also, I think there was reporting that Travis Kelsey's family feels a tad overwhelmed by everything that is the spectacle of marrying Taylor Swift and all the friends and everything there. And I guess even Adam Sandler actually officiated the wedding, which was a surprising name to throw out there, but I guess he knows Travis Kelsey.
So it is what it is, but that's a strange thing. And I promise the absolute only time I will talk about that topic today. One last thing out there that I thought was interesting, too. The Buckingham Palace says that Harry can no longer stay at a royal residence while on UK visits. They dislike him that much now.
I think Megan Markle was also in the news for being upset she wasn't invited to the Travis and Taylor wedding. This is the last I'm mentioning it, by the way. That was an addition. But anyway, I guess now the prince can no longer even stay in any sort of royal residence, which I barely care about at all. I just think it's kind of petty and he'll.
Hilarious. And all of us have family drama, including them. Quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the David Show. Hey, it's Bobby Bones from the Bobby Bones Show.
NASCAR fans, this summer is going to be a good one because TNT Sports is your home for the biggest races. That's right, TNT Sports is back in the saddle as your home for NASCAR this summer. We're talking about five incredible races at five historic tracks.
So if you love the strategy, the speed, the late race pressure, and everything that comes with the NASCAR, this is the stretch you'll want to lock in for. One of the best races to watch of the entire tournament is the Quaker State 400 available at Walmart at Echo Park Speedway in Atlanta. And I'm not going to act like I know every single NASCAR to tell, but this is the kind of race that's easy to get into because there's already a storyline built in. This is the third race of this year's in-season challenge.
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Apparently, an outbreak of Legionnaires is causing a lot of people in the Upper East Side in New York in Central Park, visitors of Central Park to be warned that things get worse, not better.
So don't go there right now. That's New York City health officials warning Central Park visitors of the growing outbreak. That's terrifying. And just a thing to throw out there. Maybe some won't care about it.
I don't know. I'd go ahead and steer clear. A Scottish man was arrested after using a seagull he caught as a weapon to attack a bystander. This is a real story, and it's not out of Florida, which is two things I would not have expected. The man is charged with assault with a seagull.
I can't handle this. First, that would be terrifying. I'll be honest about that too. If there's a dude yelling and arguing with me, and I'm arguing back, and then he just snatches a seagull out of the air and starts swinging it at me, a part of me is uniquely intimidated and impressed. With the fact that this was a fight I'm now in two against one, that I didn't expect to happen that way.
That's not allowed. That guy committed a couple crimes and he got arrested for it, attacked by a seagull. Not a sentence I thought I'd ever see in my life. Another story that I thought was really interesting, involving an OnlyFans model, a woman said that she was creating a video with a friend. Since this is radio and I have to make this as correct as possible, let's just say the two were engaged in activities via the video.
And at one point during the making of this thing, the other actor, if that's what you call the person, discovered that this model slash influencer slash OnlyFans person had a lump in her body, in her chest. And so the lump was checked and it was detected to be cancer.
So this 30-year-old woman slash model slash whatever is now saying that OnlyFans saved her life. Because while creating something that she might not have made on her own in any capacity and checking areas of her body, she might not have checked on her own, she apparently found something that shouldn't be there. This is ridiculous. I don't know if anyone out there needs this excuse to defend OnlyFans if you happen to be someone who's a fan of it and you know someone who's not. But I guess you can go that road if that's the road you want to go.
That'll not be the way I do this. I'm just reporting the facts though, people. And then finally, and maybe I'll get to this a little bit later on in the show, I have a list of the jobs where people report the highest level of employee satisfaction. And shockingly on the list, healthcare practitioners were actually the top result when a lot of people who work in healthcare also say that they struggle with mental health. But healthcare practitioners, by and large, the most satisfied of professionals.
Mathematicians and data science professionals came in at number two. And then science technicians came in at number three. No idea why. If it's just money or something else, those are not jobs I'm uniquely thrilled with.
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