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The Air Force isn't as public about where it deploys its forces, but Jordan is a major hub, along with bases here in Israel, also Qatar, UAE, and of course in Saudi Arabia. But Jordan has been a major hub.
So once again, Aisha, two American service members have been killed. One is still missing, and four were wounded in an Iranian ballistic missile attack on a base in Jordan last evening. It is the first American casualties in months since those six U.S. Army personnel were killed in the early days of the war, in the attack on Kuwait. It's horrible.
This is Craig Hollins filling in on the Dana Show. Um I will say this. I am someone who Would not have wanted the initial invasion or the initial attack to happen in retrospect. I think at the time when the U.S. went into Iran after the success of capturing other people in other places, I think some of us did believe that it would be a relatively short conflict.
Even though traditionally the understanding would be if you were to fight Iran, it would not be a quick conflict, that they had a bunch of different things, the control of the Strait of Hormuz being one of them, that would make it complicated to succeed and to succeed in a fast way in a fight with them. But many, many people, myself included, thought that it was inevitable that you were going to fight Iran at some point because they were getting closer to a nuclear weapon and had no intention of stalling. They absolutely seemed to want to acquire one and have even used this fight to say that they deserve one even more now. The thing that I do want to say though with that as the setup. Is the other part of this story that I've long kind of accepted as.
To me, true. And some people in places and media, especially the places that hate Trump, refuse to admit that it was true, is that we had decimated their military capability, that of Iran. They weren't really capable of anything. Their navy, which wasn't much to begin with, had been destroyed. when they can successfully take US lives.
Any amount of lives in any place in the vicinity of their country. I think it changes the way we discuss their capability. And it makes us need to do the thing that I know Dana has advocated for a bunch, which is just blow the place off the planet or some version of that. I'm not trying to say she said exactly that, but like really go in and take the thing over. Because it does seem to be the only way to get the outcome that we want.
And to anyone that hates that idea, that thinks that that idea is the worst possible answer. to this situation. It feels very similar to me. It's profoundly different. It's involving U.S.
lives and military men and women who are losing their lives.
So I'm not making this comparison because I think they're genuinely similar, but it's a. Similar way of thinking to me is that the opposite is worse. Whether you're someone who politically votes on one side because you think the opposite side would be worse for the United States if they were to get in power again. Even people who claim that they regret, say, voting for President Trump. I can't imagine that many of those people, if you actually punch that ticket for him in 24, think that Harris would be better right now if she were actually in the White House.
I think they can all acknowledge that would be worse. In a similar way of thinking, in a profoundly different version of a story or version of a situation, what's going on right now in Iran, like right at this moment, leaves us with one of two outcomes. We do just surrender, in a sense. in believing that we can't inevitably get the thing that we should be able to get from them, which is that they placate us entirely. They not only give in to the demands we have, but they give in in a way that we can make sure that they're truly doing this for a long time into the future.
And if they ever don't, whatever carrot we dangled can immediately be turned off. It cannot be the kind of thing that Obama did where you send them a whole bunch of money at once. We cannot do that. Whatever we give them, we have to give them in a very slow, drawn-out kind of way so that they keep coming back for more. And in order to come back for more, they have to behave as we want them to.
That is one of the two options. We do something that truly gets a change, that truly undercuts their ability to, say, fund terrorism throughout the world, and also the inability for them to ever acquire a nuclear weapon, or we just give in and we. Decide that we can't get that and we allow this to end some other way. And that sounds to me to be much, much worse. That sounds to be horrific, actually, when given the two options.
And they're the only options left. But when Iran is successfully killing our military men and women, This is bad. This is bad all over again, and this needs an appropriate response. I know the United States is attacking. I know they're bombing.
I know they're doing all kinds of things. But to me, even if it's a radical opinion that some claim is radical, is you fully take the straight of hormones in whatever capacity that means. One of the biggest things that Iran can do. To impact the world is to control the Strait of Hormuz. And this is, of course, one of the places in which they attack ships that are going through it.
So you fully take it. The United States winds up fully in control of it. And at that point, whether it's through the blockade or something more extreme, I think you get a much more ready-to-negotiate Iran than you have right now. And you should decimate anything left of their military capabilities, even if that's uniquely hard to do in the world of drones. Our drones are relatively cheap.
Almost every country can I utilize some version of them in a dangerous way. And I know that Trump was asked a question about drones recently and said that we'll nullify their ability to use them. But this story matters. And this story matters mostly because the right thing to do for the men and women of our military is to remove the threat entirely now that it's demonstrated that it is still absolutely a threat in any capacity. Another story out there that I can't get over.
is Zoran Mamdani saying that he wants to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu, when he comes into this country. That would obviously be a violation of the, well, not just that, but a violation of a lot of things. But even some of the stuff that his administration said would be a violation of the Logan Act because he's trying to negotiate with foreign powers or people in his administration negotiate with foreign powers without the approval of our country to do that. He's doing all kinds of things. that makes Zoran seem to believe that he is in fact the president of the world or the president of the United States and not just the mayor of the biggest city within this country.
And honestly, to me, it's just a demonstration of arrogance. And so very often, the most dangerous combination in a human being is arrogance and stupidity. If those two things go together, a lot of really, really terrible stuff seems to happen. And at least in the world of Zoran Mumdani, and the things he says about Israel, the things he says about Netanyahu, and I'll say this, I'll be more clear. You are more than capable, whoever you are out there, to criticize the leadership of any country you want, for any reason you want.
In fact, it's one of the things I find most valuable about the freedoms within our country. And there are times when people are saying something to me where the beginning of it sounds reasonable. It's like, all right, you're complaining about this, about this country, that's fine. And if I were to couch a response in, well, that's racism, it seems insane to say that because the thing is just the way the leaders are making certain decisions about certain things. But the deeper you dive into the rabbit hole of that discussion, the quicker it does start to sound like something that's motivated by anything other than just criticizing another country.
And the way in which I'll validate that opinion is that when you bring up a unique and I think important objection to some of the things they say are wrong. And here's a very concrete example. When you talk about Israel, if someone in response to whatever your criticism is says they do have a right to defend themselves and they are constantly under attack by pretty much everyone who surrounds them, if the person you're talking to comes back with some version of, no, they don't deserve the right to defend themselves.
Well, now we're having a different discussion.
Now we're not just criticizing politicians and political decision making.
Now we're criticizing if a certain subset of people in society, for a reason that seems like it's couched in something else, really, really don't deserve to live. And that seems insane for me to say that. But that is essentially where you get in some of those arguments. All right, I want to shift gears to another thing. I thought this was kind of interesting.
It certainly came up during the presidential address last week, and I thought about playing audio, but it's Monday. That happened on Thursday. This doesn't seem like it's current for anyone listening to this show today. But one of the bigger things is revoking the license. Of network broadcast stations because they're not really doing what they're supposed to be doing and serving public interest and in doing something that isn't a biasly on one side, and they haven't been doing it for a long time.
Do I like censorship itself? No. Do I like revoking licenses of television stations? No. But I do think that when this is something that's been sort of floated in the world of the Trump administration, some officials saying they're contemplating it, at least in the world of ABC, who seems to uniquely kind of be offensive in just how far to the left some of its stuff is that it claims isn't actually on the left, which is funny.
But the fact that so many of these stations also chose not to air a presidential address. That ABC, NBC, and CBS all said no. to Trump having a discussion about election integrity. He didn't focus as much on Georgia as I kind of hoped the discussion would be. I hoped that we had found more in Georgia that he would be bringing to the table, and whether or not we will inevitably find more after FBI raids and whatnot there, I can't tell you an answer.
But I do know that. Part of what disappointed me was that that wasn't there. But when he said stuff about China stealing information that you could buy anyway. My favorite part of that. Is that if China could have just purchased all this stuff, why did they steal it?
If this is all stuff that's so easily available in exactly the way in which they took it, why didn't they just throw some cache down and go ahead and buy it? And I bet you a whole bunch of companies in China do buy whatever version of it is. China still seemed to think, the government seemed to think they needed to steal stuff beyond whatever they had so far. That's odd to me that the explanation for this is it's not a big deal. But more important, and the most important thing I'd say about this topic, and it's the thing I've gotten anyone I know on the left to admit.
is that they admit, and most of us do, that all politicians lie, that the left lies, that the right lies, that everybody says things that are not true to benefit themselves in the world of politics. And so when our network stations say that there are some lies they cannot air and other lies that they're fully willing to err, they essentially choose a side. If they're willing to broadcast a Democratic presidential address to the nation, even though they know it's not going to be 100% truthful, and the reason they say that they can't do that with Trump is that he lies, they are absolutely showing you that they're Democratic voters. There's no other way to take that. Because again, in the most simplistic sense, and the thing that everybody in every newsroom and all of those stations should have been arguing is that none of these politicians fully tell the truth.
And so you cannot choose to air one if you're going to choose not to air the other. It doesn't matter how many lies you think are happening or how grandiose the lies are. All that matters is that, is it occurring? Yes or no? And if you say yes, then you can't choose a side.
And so for that reason alone, I've kind of changed a little bit in my feeling about at least investigating. I don't actually necessarily want licenses to be revoked, but I'd like to go through a little bit more of the process and see how terrible the outcome would be for these TV stations when they're tested to see whether they deserve free license to air on all the TVs in the entire country. All right, quick break, a lot more. Greg Collins filling in on the Dana Show. We have a lot more on the way as we move.
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This almost feels like a new segment where we say, not a Florida man, but probably should have been a Florida man on this show. A man from Kansas City or in Kansas City was found to be stuck in a porter potty. I would explain to you what exactly occurred, but the audio of a spokesperson for the company that owns the Porter bodies that showed up when the police had to get involved did a pretty good job on social media of describing it himself.
So here it is. Knocked again. The man inside said he was not going to get out. They looked inside and didn't see anybody. The lid was closed.
No one was in the restroom. It kind of startled them. All of a sudden, a head popped out of the toilet and he said, I'm in here. He told them he was retrieving a Mountain Dew bottle that he dropped in from the night before. After it was cut open, the man was able to exit the toilet.
Fire department did hook up water to their truck and gave him a free shower. I love that they hosed him down with a fire hose on a fire truck. That part I love. The rest of it is disgusting and I hate it. And a lot of people asked on social media, and I think it's a valuable question, what was actually inside the Mountain Dew bottle?
Because if it was just Mountain Dew, this person is obviously insane. If it was something else, there's nothing. That would allow me to go headfirst into a porter potty looking for a thing. But I think there are some items, some narcotics that people who are out of their mind might inevitably do this for. That or he's just a horrible person in other ways.
But one of the most disgusting stories I've ever seen, and I just really like the end of the audio. That's probably the only reason I play it. He got hosed down hard. I don't think that actually cleaned anything off. I don't think soap was involved.
But you just let the guy on his way and terrible things happen again in the world because of people like that. That feels like a Florida man, even though it was in Kansas City, which I know had a whole lot of people in it for a lot of the World Cup. And so who knows who this person is and what they, in fact, live day to day if they're not someone from the United States becomes, I don't know the answers. I just know how horrible this seems. One other quick story, and I'll probably play this audio a little bit later on, but I did like it.
A man in Washington is being hailed as a hero because. He helped stop a runaway SUV. It saved a woman and a child on a busy highway. And the guy just crashed his car into it. And he bragged about how awesome his car was at being the exactly perfect choice to be involved in this.
Some of us drive those types of vehicles. I don't anymore, but I did for a long time. The kind of vehicle that you do not care about, that probably is barely roadworthy as it is. And so it's kind of cool that someone who was driving one of these things was like, hey, I'm seeing this thing happen in front of me. I know I can take action and save it.
It's Batman style. If the Batmobile was a beat up vehicle that you barely cared about and probably don't have good insurance on, I don't know. I'm assuming he might have, he might have coverage for her, but not him. And hopefully he doesn't wind up having to use his insurance on this because he saved a runaway SUV from something much more horrible happening. But the guy's name was Paul and he absolutely crushed it.
And it made me think of all the times that I wish I had been in a similar situation with my crappy cars because that's a pretty good end to a crappy car. All right, quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. How much of your financial life exists as a number on a screen?
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Great ways to stay connected to her and everything going on in the world of this show, which is awesome. They do a ton in the world of social media, and it's great. Let's do this. Let's play audio of Tom Holman. who was very good at his job.
He was on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan. She asked him a dumb question, and he responded in a valuable way to the dumb question, essentially telling her that she was lying on national television with how she was shaping the argument against him via the way that she was asking a question to begin with. Like part of the reason that media is so annoying, whether it's mainstream broadcast or a lot of television cable news media, outside of a few exceptions that go the other way, is that they pretend they're not biased. Like if you're going to be biased, at least own it, at least admit it. And the way they ask their questions shows it all the time.
This is one of those examples. These individuals who were chasing The man who died, they didn't have markings on that vehicle that would allow for him to know that they were ICE. It just looked like a car coming after them in the videos. No, they have emergency lights. Officers have insignia.
So when they get out of that car and approach that car, you can clearly see the law enforcement officers.
Well in the video that has been public, it's not about the case. I'm not saying it's a marked car, but they have emergency lights and sirens.
So when they pull somewhere, they want to activate the emergency lights. A lot of police departments, I'm in New York City right now, a lot of NYPD officers are driving unmarked vehicles, and that helps them find people that don't want to be found, right?
So, you know, but bottom line is. Yeah. We'll see when the investigation plays out, but they would be alive today if they simply complied. With a vehicle stop by federal law enforcement office. Just comply.
If you don't think you're being treated right and they had no reason to stop you, then there's avenues to take them to court. Yes, you can try to fight the process after the beginning stages of it. That is true. I think the more important thing to me. And if you're going back and watching the viral incomplete videos on some of these things that have made national news, the thing that's obvious to me is every time agents are outside of a vehicle, they're all wearing all of the things you'd expect an ICE agent to wear in the sense of insignias and a bulletproof vest and whatnot.
So even if the car that's pulling you over or attempting to pull you over doesn't have its own ICE logos on it and it has the flashing lights and other things that you would come to expect of any undercover cop, if anybody's ever gotten a speeding ticket on the highway from an undercover cop, which I've gotten more than I want to admit, it's the exact same thing. A car that you don't know is a cop pulls up behind you, starts coming real close to you, and then all of a sudden the lights flash and you're like, ah, it's a cop. And then you get pulled over and you get a ticket.
So I just don't understand how that part of the argument is done the way it is. But the other thing that's important, and in all these cases where inevitably and tragically, I will absolutely say tragically, a shot was fired, in those situations, people were outside of a vehicle. And so you did see them in that moment. You did know who they worked for at that time and you chose to still not listen. Does that mean that however you choose not to listen, you deserve a bullet?
No, it doesn't. And I don't think Allman is saying that. And I don't think anyone is truly saying that. I think what they're saying is that by complying, you avoid even the risk of any sort of harm to you or anyone else. And in the world of these specific cases that have become mainstream news discussions, whether it's in Houston, Texas, where I live or Maine or anywhere else, in any of those discussions, the thing that we do.
That we have to stop doing is jumping to conclusions too quickly. All of us on all sides, the people who want to believe that there are no ICE agents that want to shoot and murder people. And I am a person that falls into that category. They can't really believe that people would gravitate to a profession that is designed to protect our society and go after the worst of the worst, who just wants to create a scenario, manufacture a scenario where they're allowed to shoot someone that they don't think they need to shoot, which is usually the accusation on the left, is that they're doing this because they want to, not because they have to. But the investigations have to play themselves out to see what exactly happened and why people made the decisions they made and where they were in connection to a vehicle that is or isn't being used as a deadly weapon and why they would make like those split second decisions.
I'll say it this way. And I know this is a macro topic that you've probably heard a whole lot about. I feel like I've even talked about this topic before filling in on this show. I was lucky enough when I was living in Illinois doing a radio show, and I think this show actually airs in some stations out there, but I was lucky enough to be invited by cops to partake in a deadly shooter, like an active shooter training, and they actually even asked me to play the active shooter. Which was uniquely weird.
They gave me a gun that had like paintballs in it, even though it looked like a real gun and it functioned the same as any gun that I've ever used. Not exactly the same amount of kickback. I think I was a better shot with the paintball version. But nonetheless, they asked me to do that. And it was weird.
I'll tell you why. I was in a school, an actual school. A grade school on a Saturday or Sunday allowed cops to train there.
So you're asked to pretend that there's a scenario where you're a horrible person who's doing horrible things and the cops are trying to stop you. And you're even asked to try your best to not be defeated by the police officers so that the training is valuable so that when they do inevitably arrest you or shoot you, whatever they have to do to end the threat, that it's done in a way that would be as realistic as possible. And it's odd as a person that would never, ever obviously do anything like this to be asked to pretend. Because, like, I didn't even want to fire my gun when it was pointed at a cop, knowing it was a paintball, knowing I wouldn't hurt anybody, and knowing I was helping them train. I did it because they told me to, and I comply no matter what the cops tell me to do, but I didn't want to, which is odd.
And the biggest realization I had in those things that we went through, those exercises, was how quick that decision-making is. For them. And how difficult it is for cops too. And they kept telling me about all the laws, some of them specific to Illinois, that made it harder. When you turn a corner, your gun can't be raised because you don't know who's gonna be on the other end of the corner.
Even if you hear shots being fired and you think you're about to turn the corner where the active shooter is, because raising your weapon to someone who's an innocent victim, civilian, someone fleeing is a crime. You have to keep it down until you see.
So you have to put yourself. in the line of danger for even a few seconds. And in the the case of these ICE agents, Part of the discussion has been when or if you get out of your vehicle to try to stop the vehicles that are running from you, or in this case, vehicles who are disrupting you, as some of the stories have been more that than actually the people they were pursuing. And in what scenario you should put yourself, where you should put yourself within that world. And I think the thing that most people At least the people who yell and scream the loudest on this just fail to even Pretend is true.
is how quick these decisions are made. It doesn't mean that you're allowed to make the wrong decision. I want to make sure I say that. Even in that moment, if you do something and analysis of what happened proves to you that you shouldn't have behaved the way you did and proves to the world, the society that we live in, that you shouldn't behave the way you did, you can be held accountable and you should be, especially if you did something that is uniquely egregious. But I just think people fail to understand the reality of what takes place and the amount of time that that occurs in.
And I'll tell you one other story. whether it has value or not to you, anyone listening to the show. After that training that I did with the cops. Where we were all kind of running through these drills that seemed crazy. A young police officer came up to the group, and I just happened to be standing with them.
I probably should have just left, but he let me stand there and he asked a question to the training officers, the people who've probably seen more than enough real-world events that he had just been through one of, and he wanted to understand. And so, what he said was that he was in a situation as a cop. In which they had to try to arrest somebody. And in order to do that, they had to go through a door that the guy was on the other side of. And right when the cops were about to remove the door, bat it down or whatever, burst through it, The guy started using a machete.
to cut through the door. And he got through it enough. I don't even really know if I understood the logistics of how this occurred or how all of this went down. But the guy got through it enough to where one more slice of the machete would have killed one of the cops. And the officer who was asking this question was at the front of the line.
I don't know if he thought he was the one who would have been hit by the machete or if it would have been someone behind him. But as the arm went back to strike one last time and take the life of someone on his team, that is when the officer fired. Not before. All of the slices before, all of the moments where the knife, the giant sword-esque weapon, is getting closer and closer to their faces as they're trying to go through a door and apprehend a suspect. All of the police officers, including the one that was distraught in his inevitable decision, refrained from firing.
And it was only in the last moment, and I know this because there was also video. I didn't watch it, but the officer had it from like the cameras or whatnot, and he showed it to the other training officers. And I asked them after it was exactly how he described it. It was not exaggerated at all. You could see the inevitability of the harm that would have been done if an arm had been allowed to lower one more time.
And it didn't. And it was because of this officer and he was still. Emotionally and intellectually impacted, as you always hear they are, by that decision. And he just wanted affirmation from the training officers in the training exercise that he did the right thing. And as he described it to me, a civilian on the sidelines who, you know, tried to not get more involved than I should, it was amazing to hear him think he may have made the wrong decision.
But those are the people who by and large protect us. They choose to run toward danger. They choose to do it in a way that is incredible and it's amazing. And it's the kind of thing that so many of us simply can't do. And then in those moments where they inevitably have to use force that many of them don't want to use.
They wind up impacted for the rest of their lives because of it. And this young man, who, to me, easily described as a hero, seemed like it was something that even after he was told it was okay, he was still going to struggle to get over it and move past it. But all right, we'll take a break because there's no real way to transition from that story to other topics. I will come back and we'll do quite a few different Florida men because I have more than enough of those topics to do. And maybe before that, I'll play a little bit of audio of Bill Maher.
I'm tempted to play Bill Maher audio that I thought was crazy, although we should probably save it till a more appropriate time. I will say this about it, and I think I played some of it already. It's amazing how common sense someone as crazy and lefty as Bill Maher can be when it comes to whether or not you're going to vote for J.D. Vance or somebody else in 2028 because the left is getting crazier and crazier all the time. Although I'd make the argument they're as crazy now as they'll be in a couple of years.
He doesn't really make that argument, but it's amazing to watch ABC. And John Carl struggled to hear him say something that's not even, I will vote for a Republican. It's I'll contemplate voting for a Republican. They struggled with that, and that kind of proves to you everything you need to know about the problem in the world of mainstream and a lot of broadcast media and news media. But all right, we'll take a break.
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Right before I do any of the Florida Man stories, shout out to Sergio Sanchez, the one, the only, the great Sergio Sanchez at 710 KURV, the Valley's News Talk Station, also a Dana affiliate. He was texting me a reaction to some of the stories I was talking about earlier. And I really appreciate the feedback. If you want to know what the stories are, you got to listen to the podcast. It's out there, and I'm sure they have it up on the website for his station.
All right, real quick, Florida men, quite a few of them. My favorite one is probably this one. A 30-year-old man in Florida was pulled over on Wednesday, likely because he was driving while intoxicated, and he was swerving and doing all the things you do. He tried to pull a fast one on the cops as he was getting pulled over. Not at the end of the story, but during it, he tried to switch seats with a passenger.
I guess the way they did it, they failed to put the car in park. He actually put it into neutral.
So once it stopped creeping forward, it started rolling backward directly into the cop car.
So the cop backed in the vehicle backed into the cop car, luckily slowly enough that nobody was hurt. And then I think one of the dudes, his name was Fernando Alexander Jr., got out of the passenger side that he had just switched into in the vehicle in clear view of the cop. Like it's picked up on the dash cam what was going on. And he tried to just walk away. That was my other favorite part: is that once you're caught in all the things you're doing, he tried to get out of the passenger side door and just leave.
Like that was going to work out well. You in fact face a whole bunch of felony charges when you do that sort of thing, leaving the scene of a crash, one of several of them.
So don't do this is the PSA of the day, to say the very least. But I love the fact that they forgot to put the car in park while they were shifting who was driving and who wasn't. And by the way, I'll just put this out there. Never be the friend that says yes to this. You don't want any version of accountability for the decisions, the horrible decisions that your friend has made.
You were dumb enough to get into a vehicle with someone who you shouldn't be in a vehicle with, but don't say yes when they're like, oh, just switch seats with me, bro. That is a terrible, horrible decision in and of itself. Another story I saw: a former Florida juvenile corrections officer is now facing over 100 felony charges. The big part of the story that went viral outside of the fact that a hundred felony charges happens to be a lot, unless it's Trump and you're going after him in New York City, then I guess they're going to try to inflate it to however many bogus charges as they can. But in case of that, I don't know what the truth is.
I don't know if this person will wind up being found guilty of any of this. The thing that was surprising to people is that they were able to find a million-dollar bail. That somehow they put it up, some organization probably did it for them, and they're out on bail after 100 felony charges. That seems like the kind of thing where maybe bail shouldn't be an option, but this is Florida, and you'd hope for better things there, and the person is out on a bond. We'll see what happens to that case.
I don't know. I just know that it seems ridiculous. Not many people face 100 felonies. Again, unless it's the left trying to throw someone in jail who's inevitably going to be the president of the country again because they hate him and they're terrified of him. And then he won the popular vote.
I know that that's not the conversation here, but anytime I hear any lefty yell that like Trump's a felon. It's amazing to me that not only did they not really pay attention to the ridiculous way that a lawsuit that should have been tried as misdemeanors tried to inflate itself to felonies and then found him guilty of them when he was far from the person that any organization would probably actually blame for the things the Trump organization was accused of. But I digress. My favorite part about that entire thing and everything about it is that it was used just to make a simple statement. Just to try to say that Trump is, in fact, a felon, and there are not many people that wind up facing that many charges and that many ridiculous things.
All right, other Florida stories, back to those. Um a lock operator is dispute is in a dispute over who went first through a uh lock uh on the waterways in Florida uh that caused an assault and a boat crash. I thought this was kind of a funny story, and maybe I shouldn't think it's as humorous as I do because I've been on the water with an uncle of mine in all parts of Florida, a really, really awesome, my uncle Vinny, who loves to fish. And I will tell you that the first thing I've thought of is how quickly road rage on the water can be, and not because of my uncle. He does none of this.
He's kind enough to let other people pass if he thinks they're being aggressive. He's a Marine. He can wait. He doesn't care. And you don't want to mess with him, actually.
He's the kind of Marine that if you did do something wrong, you'd regret it fast. I think like any Marine, actually. But nonetheless, I've thought about that before: if you got crazy people on the waterways, what are they going to do? These people did the crazy stuff. They fought each other.
They crashed boats into each other. They did all kinds of things because both people wanted through at the same time. And neither one relented when they both tried to do that. One last story that I saw. And I just, a quick, I guess, interaction to it.
A Direfight the Dealing firefighters had to rescue an unconscious man that was up in a tree. The guy didn't have an answer as to the reason why he was up in the tree and unconscious. I feel like that's the kind of bender of a weekend that you're going to want more details about.
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My name is Craig Collins filling in. The World Cup is over. The president of the United States gave out the trophy to Spain yesterday. There was some sort of conversation about people booing him, although I do like the argument. I don't know if it's true.
I get that it might not be. The cheers and booze, if mixed together, the boos outweigh the cheers.
So you can't tell if there's people cheering, but enough people are booing. It just sounds like everybody's booing. I don't know if that's true. But to me, that wasn't really the takeaway. The takeaway from the World Cup was how good the United States looked on a world stage, especially from people visiting from other places who bragged about the lifestyle, the culture that we have here, things like a free refill being something that they enjoyed a whole lot.
Was the finals of the World Cup heavily viewed in the United States? I think the answer to that is probably no. I don't think the TV audience was massive here. I do think it was massive around the globe. I think they said something like 2 billion people tuned in to.
Coverage of the World Cup in some way, somewhere.
So it certainly was a big deal. And I think the president did a good job throughout the totality of that last match by being there and then giving out the trophy and trying to shake some hands at the end, even if people were mad about it. I think the U.S. wound up benefiting from hosting a World Cup on an international stage, partly by the reputation our country now has in other places.
Now, granted, as I say that, I also know there's another story in the news that wouldn't be helping. our reputation all that much, and that's the uh story about explosive diarrhea. Which I think was tied to Taco Bell for a bit because they thought that some farm out of Mexico was actually responsible for the lettuce that wound up being the problem. The FDA then actually backtracked on that, saying Taylor Fresh Foods might not be the culprit because they retested the lettuce and they said that they didn't find the same problem they found the first time.
So they're not really sure what's causing this. Many people joked when Taco Bell was involved that this is something that might happen anyway. But I would say the word explosive intimidates me even more than typical. But this is certainly a story that I think we would have wanted to avoid for a couple more weeks. Although maybe it's just a lot of tourists.
Or here. We all know that whenever you go somewhere else that's not the United States, and if you make certain decisions, especially say the water in Mexico, you can also have some bathroom struggles occasionally.
So I don't know. What the catalyst and the cause was, and the FDA has gone back and forth as to whether or not they know. But I kind of thought that that was funny toward the tail end of the World Cup thing and all the people celebrating. How great America looked, and they didn't have a toilet story as uniquely bad as that one. One last thing that I saw, and I like, but I don't believe.
I'm going to tell you that I think this is interesting, potentially true, but I don't actually believe that they've definitively proven this. A study says they discovered that speeding, driving too fast, Does not actually benefit you. Essentially, meaning you don't get anywhere you're trying to go that much faster than if you don't speed. I think they said it's something like less than 60 seconds.
Now, granted, the study was more about speeding from one place to another place within, say, the place in which you live. It wasn't like if you go on a three-hour trip and you go 10 miles faster than everybody else, that you're not going to cut some time out. On those highway-specific trips, I think it would be much harder for them to prove this to be true. But the point of this was to convince you and me not to speed if you're late for work and trying to drive across town, especially if you live in certain places where traffic is horrible.
So it's not like you're going to get there anyway. That's essentially the thing. And I think that I could believe this is true, mostly true anyway, although occasionally not true based on your luck with lights or your ability to know certain paths. I think that all of that comes into play and is not represented here. But anyway, speeding might not help you.
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First, a mom sent her preteen to talk to AI about difficult, personal topics. The mom thought she couldn't do a good job of answering. The catch of this story, and I saw it in the New York Post, is that the mom is like an IT person. She's a technology worker who might have some familiarity with AI. The negative of this is how insane it is, how obvious to so many of us.
Anybody that's had kids or even helped someone else with their children in your family should probably know that this is a terrible way to go about it. To look at the kid and be like, I know these topics are difficult to talk about. I know you might be embarrassed.
So instead of talking to me, your parent, why don't you just talk to a computer that might also have horrible answers to some of these questions, especially if you're not monitoring the conversation, which then why would you also send a kid to talk to a computer and not you? Look, I was raised by a single mom. And of course, as you can tell, I'm a dude. I don't identify as anything other than a dude. And there were certain conversations that a young man does not want to have with his mom.
And so luckily, we found other people that I could talk to in those situations that could understand them better and didn't have to be the dynamic that would not be fun here. But for a mom to not be able to talk to her own daughter about some things is uniquely horrible. That or at least. pretending that the conversation is better with a computer and not her. Another story out there I saw that I thought was interesting.
A Gen Z influencer person. Is she attractive for those who might ask the question? The answer is yes. A 20-year-old. I went on a unique place on Reddit, a girl dinner diaries.
Where she told other people that I think she assumed were mostly women, that she doesn't want to work. She doesn't like her job. She doesn't like the school that she's going to to learn how to be a dentist. She'd rather just marry rich and be a stay-at-home mom. And she got torched for saying that, as rightfully she should.
I'll say to be honest, my first reaction to it is: of course, you shouldn't throw out there to the world that the only criteria you have to marry somebody is how much money they're worth. And if they're worth enough money, you'll go ahead and marry them. And if they're not, you wouldn't. But here's the other thing that I was thinking as I saw this story and the insane amount of backlash. And I think the woman even deleted her social media or part of it because of this.
It happens. It happens a whole lot. Certain people with a certain amount of ability in this world financially decide to marry people much younger than them based solely on looks. I think there's going to be an ironclad prenup involved in that situation, but nonetheless, is she potentially likely to get the thing she wants? Yeah.
And is being a stay-at-home mom in and of itself bad? Absolutely not.
Society craps all over the trad wife, traditional wife, and that part's insane. But this was a bad way to go about it. If you actually want to go about it this way, where you're a very attractive young person that winds up marrying a guy who's got a lot of money that might be older than you, you at least pretend to actually like them for themselves. You at least do that part for them. I'm not trying to help you convince people to do things a different way, but I do think that's at least the road you're supposed to go.
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