Join us for a thorough exploration of the political landscape as we discuss how President Biden’s recent actions could impact not just his family’s future, but also his political standing and the broader perception of justice in America. With insights into the current administration’s decision-making processes and a look at the historical context of presidential pardons, this episode offers a comprehensive overview of a significant political event with lasting implications.
SPEAKER 21 :
This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. You can find Dana everywhere. DLash or DanaLashRadio on X, on Twitter, all over television. She’s everywhere. Very, very famous, popular human being. Thrilled to be on her show. Let’s get to it. Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter. In one of the most ridiculous about faces, one of the most ridiculous I lied to you for a while things that has ever happened in the history of our government, mostly because of how far reaching this pardon is. It’s any and all crimes from 2014 onward. How dare you even go after him for something tangentially toxic? to this. You assume probably that Joe, our president for another couple months or so, another month or so, is going to actually pardon other members of his family proactively. And the weirdest thing, too, and I know I saw this a lot of places reporting on this, is the fact that no one would have recommended a pardon for Hunter Biden if because that’s one of the bigger claims on the left. And I’m going to get to a bunch of audio in a second. If they had actually, you know, looked through cases and thought, hey, these are pardons you should give out before you leave the office. And it wasn’t the president’s son. He’s served zero time in jail. So he’s not the type of person that would traditionally get a pardon anyway. No matter who tells you that that’s true, it’s definitely not. But let’s start with this. This is audio from earlier today. Corinne Jean-Pierre, the White House spokesperson, who is almost arrogant in how she responded to questions for months asking about whether or not Joe would pardon his kid and saying, of course not, of course the president wouldn’t do that, was asked today about all the different times she and this administration and the current president said they wouldn’t do this. And if that’s kind of lying, I left the question in because I like it from the reporter. And then we’ll get to the answer to it.
SPEAKER 19 :
You have said repeatedly yourself since the election, the president has said for months, no pardon was coming. I just, I wanted to ask you, could those statements now be seen as lies from the American people? Is there really a credibility issue here given now this announcement?
SPEAKER 21 :
Here, I’m going to stop it before Corinne Jean-Pierre actually speaks and tell you the answer to the question. Could you consider those lies? Yes, you could consider those lies. I don’t know what else lies would be if they’re not. I won’t pardon him. I won’t. I’ll respect it. How dare anybody ask us this? I went ahead and pardoned him.
SPEAKER 12 :
First of all, one of the things that the president always believes is to be truthful to the American people. That is something that he always truly believes. And if you see the end of his, I assume that you’ve read his statement and you look at the end of that statement, and he actually says that in the first line in the last paragraph. And
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay, hold on. I also really like the fact that she’s asking for you to read the entire statement that Biden put out, pardoning his son, and get to the very bottom of it. Because there, right there, toward the end of the statement, you’re going to totally understand and agree with him now. I can read that part to you, and she’s going to paraphrase it here in a second. But guess what? A whole lot of Americans won’t agree with her. Shocking.
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and respects the thinking and how the American people will actually see this in his decision making. And I would encourage everyone to read in full the president’s statement. I think he lays out his thought process. He lays out how he came to this decision. He came to this decision this weekend. So let’s be very clear about that.
SPEAKER 21 :
He agonized about it. He went back and forth on it. It was tough for him to decide to pardon his kid. And also, by the way, the thing that Corinne Jean-Pierre is not saying, but she is referencing, is that he says as a father. So he puts it out there on the emotional scale as to how could you, if you were someone’s parent and you were in the position he’s in, how could you watch your kid go to jail emotionally? even if they deserve to go there. Well, darn it, a lot of parents would say it would be a tough thing to do, but it probably would be better for the person to learn from their mistake by actually paying the price, whatever that price may be. But darn it, I just love every part of this. I love the ridiculousness of it. Biden doesn’t care. And I don’t think there’s any reason he should. I’m not saying that he should have done this. But if you were him, if you got shoved in the closet by your own political party and told you’re not allowed to be a candidate anymore, even as you defiantly said as president of the United States that you were the candidate, I think all rules would be off for you. They say that Trump… coming into the White House in about a month or so will have no guardrails. And that’s a scary thing. Biden, for the rest of his term, has no guardrails. He doesn’t care about anything. His legacy, none of it matters. And I think we’ll see more pardons for more family members, especially his younger brother, because that’s the only way to keep all of them out of jail and maybe even keep himself out of jail as those investigations would be more wide spread, more far reaching once Biden isn’t in the office of president himself anymore. I do love this. Tom Elliott, Gravian, incredible at putting together the super cuts. I knew he’d have one for this and I’ll just play. It’s like nine minutes long because media said so many times that this wasn’t going to happen. And Biden said so many times this wasn’t going to happen. And everybody around him said it, that it’s just too easy to put together the super cut. But Tom’s the expert. Here’s what he did.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think Joe Biden has a chance here to stand up for the rule of law, to say the law is the law, no matter who it is, no matter if it’s Trump or Biden. And remember, part of Trumpism’s dangerousness is that it tears down institutions, important institutions of our democracy. So there is an opportunity here for Biden to say, you know, the jury found him. Let’s tear it down, baby. This is how it’s supposed to work. Period, paragraph, end of story.
SPEAKER 15 :
Have you ruled out a pardon for your son? Yes.
SPEAKER 07 :
As I said last week, I will accept the outcome of this case and will continue to respect the judicial process as Hunter considers an appeal. You know, the president said he won’t touch it. He’s not he said he’s not going to pardon his son. And it seems that Mayor Garland let it go through. How can the Justice Department be weaponized against Trump when all of that is happening?
SPEAKER 26 :
Democrats stand for the rule of law. Remember, law and order. Oh, my God. You know, and we’ve been saying that Trump’s not above the law. Hunter Biden’s not above the law. No one is above the law.
SPEAKER 21 :
And it is. Yeah, that’s something that our president even tweeted. No one is above the law, but it doesn’t work out so well when some people are politicized.
SPEAKER 09 :
Justice Department, Biden politicizing it and so on. What happened today? The Justice Department convicted the president’s own son, his only living son. You heard the president say he would accept the outcome of the case. I know no other word for that, but presidential.
SPEAKER 24 :
Mm hmm. He even went so far as to say he wouldn’t pardon his son. That’s how much respect he has for the system. President has said that. Oh, my God.
SPEAKER 21 :
I’m sorry. There’s so much more of this. I could play this for another 10 minutes and enjoy it probably as much as you do. Enjoy it with anger. I should say it that way. It’s not just enjoyment. I’m not just happy about it. I’m seething internally. You can’t tell. I don’t want you to be able to tell because of how ridiculous this all is. And honestly, and I hate to do this. Like genuinely, I do hate to make this turn in this conversation, but you can’t not make it. The election itself demonstrated how many Americans understand the lies they’ve been told by the side of the aisle that claims to be the good guys, in my opinion. The winning of the popular vote, which we hadn’t seen a Republican do, and even as Democrats try to claim that it means something else now, a very silly semantic argument is occurring. But all the different things, the winning in a landslide, even though, again, you’re told it was really, really close. As well, all of that demonstrates that most Americans have become wiser to the crap that they’re dealt on a daily basis by mainstream media, legacy media, whatever you want to call it, and by Democrats specifically and trying to convince you not even to look into them, not even to be skeptical of the things they say, which is when people do the worst stuff is when they tell you there’s nothing to see here. That’s usually when you can see a whole lot. I love the fact, too, and again, love with rage, I guess, that the pardon is so sweeping, so significant that comparing it to anything in American history, you have to go back to Nixon. to talk about something where someone actually pardoned an individual with the level of stop looking at all in this direction or toward this person in any way, shape or form. Hunter Biden and former President Nixon can be in the same sentence. They can be in a very different version of Mount Rushmore. There’s just something unique about that. All right. I need a palate cleanser. I don’t know if you need a palate cleanser, but I do. After that discussion of this one to me is is crazy. This is a young woman. She went viral on social media, not only claiming that she has to punish and women in general have to punish anyone that voted for Trump, anyone that voted conservative. but saying it’s already happening. Like a matter of fact, she says, of course, any sort of Republican man out there is no longer enjoying himself in the bedroom, I guess is the way to say it. Let’s let her say it as well.
SPEAKER 03 :
So who’s going to tell these Republican dudes who voted for Trump and then can’t get laid because women don’t want to sleep with men anymore because we lost our reproductive rights and Project 2025 seeks to eliminate all forms of contraceptives. That Project 2025 also bans porn.
SPEAKER 21 :
Who’s going to tell them that? Who’s going to tell them all the things they’ve lost now because of what horrible stuff has happened, even though, again, in a whole lot of states, the one thing she’s saying exists does not exist. You have, at least as she describes them, reproductive rights. I’m not sure that’s exactly what I would say about it, but nonetheless, a whole lot of states where abortion is still legal. And I love that she’s saying out loud and a whole lot of people commenting like, you go, girl. We’re going to do that too, a version of things. And actually, if you dive into the data, which is also kind of amusing. There were quite a few young women who voted for Trump across the board. Not as many young men. Young men actually favored Trump to Kamala Harris. Young women did not. They favored Harris to Trump. But nonetheless, some of them voted the other way. I wonder what she says to those ladies and their happy relationships that they’re in. And I imagine a whole lot of other people in happy relationships, too. One last thing. I played a palate cleanser, but I’m going to play this as well, and I can’t help it. Maybe we’ll talk about it more as we go here, just because it’s so amazing. Well, of course, we’ll talk about this more. Kash Patel is actually a huge conversation over the last… however many days it’s been since this weekend when he was nominated as well. And there’s so much fear-mongering, so much craziness, and so much discrediting of his actual career, which Cash has had a significant career in the world of, you know, The FBI being a federal prosecutor, a DOD chief of staff, a member of the NSC. It goes on and on. So certainly a qualified individual, but someone who’s a terror to the left and left media and also a terror to anyone that wants to just claim that he’s a loyalist and not significantly experienced for the job. And by the way, I’ll just mention this. Several former FBI directors never worked in the FBI. So that’s interesting that the ones that were nominated in the past didn’t have the type of qualifications that Cash Patel has. But let’s not say that too loud. But here’s a little bit of MSNBC getting just mad about this.
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You have to be able to pay people. You need to be able to execute massive plans. And it’s just a massive bust. It’s a huge agency. It’s sprawling all over the US with various offices. It’s so much more complex than one 44-year-old former public defender who put up a memo saying that the FBI botched the Russia hoax. You know, you need credentials for this kind of job.
SPEAKER 21 :
You need credentials. How dare he have them? And let’s not say out loud that he has them because he’s got more than others who, again, are leading or have led that organization in the very, very recent past. And currently, of course, as well. All right. Quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
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SPEAKER 21 :
This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Let’s do a quick five.
SPEAKER 22 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
SPEAKER 21 :
I know that yacht rock is a term that actually does offend a lot of people in the world of music. Certainly it offends at least one member of Steely Dan. Donald Fagan was on a phone call with a producer for a documentary titled Yacht Rock. And apparently this made him quite mad. The audio has gone viral. Here we go.
SPEAKER 23 :
Hello, Mr. Fagan. Yeah, this is he. Yeah, hi, this is Garrett. I’m the one making this Yacht Rock documentary. Uh-huh. So I’ve been talking to a lot of people that have played with you and Steve again over the years, and I was wondering if you’d sit down with me and talk about your music and this genre. And what genre is that? Uh-oh. Yacht Rock. Oh, Yacht Rock. Well, I’ll tell you what.
SPEAKER 21 :
He did. He did hang up on you. Other members of Steely Dan, Michael McDonald, one of them actually did take part in a documentary that’s coming out. I love that. A yacht rocket term actually coined in 2005 to connect certain music to Southern California and boating and not as something that Steely Dan would describe themselves as creating, or at least some members of said band. Women are getting sterilized after Donald Trump’s victory. This is according to Newsweek. They put out an article. They interviewed some women who had their tubes removed and all kinds of very horrible, sad stuff. This is crazy. And of course, I hope the people in these people’s lives are telling them it’s crazy to make a permanent decision like this. But some women are claiming it’s the only option. And that’s the world we live in right now. By the way, not all bad news for women in the world, I guess I should say. Belgium, their sex workers won maternity pay and pension rights in a world first. It’s being praised in certain places on the Internet as a good thing. But now not only do you get sick leave, you also get a pension. And as I said, you get maternity pay if you have to take a long amount of time off in that profession, in that place. And that is an interesting thing to say out loud. And finally, one of the other crazy quick five stories that I might actually get to sooner was the world of college football. You had a lot of really fantastic things and interesting things happen. You had an eight overtime game that sadly Georgia still won. I was definitely cheering for Georgia Tech, the underdog at that point. And then you had Michigan defeat Ohio State yet again. Ohio State was the number two ranked school in the country. Probably not going to be that after losing to Michigan, an unranked team that just owns them. It reminds me as a Yankee fan of Yankee fans cheering Who’s Your Daddy at Pedro Martinez because Michigan could easily chant that any time they’re matched up against Ohio State, at least in the recent past, because, well, they’ve continued to somehow beat and crush that school. But those two things in the world of college football were wildly fascinating. And again, I might get to some of it later. Eight overtime games are a special thing. and actually probably demonstrate some of the flawed rules of college football. Maybe I’ll talk about that later, too. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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SPEAKER 21 :
This is the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins filling in thrilled to be with you. Uh, Trump is threatening tariffs again, something that worked incredibly well. Uh, the first time he did it, uh, when he was targeting places like Canada, uh, Mexico and China, uh, seems that the response from many, including even, uh, Trudeau saying that they had a really great, uh, meeting, uh, recently when he returned from his trip to talk to Donald Trump. Uh, now he’s doing it again. Uh, the places he’s targeting are part of the brick Alliance, uh, uh, Brazil, excuse me, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates, a lot of places that are trying to undermine the use of the U.S. dollar in global currency. 58% of the world’s foreign exchange reserves are in U.S. dollars, and this is something that Trump cares about and you should care about and something he’s going to try to do something about. And tariffs seems to be the best plan forward. I think 100% if they don’t do more to not try to undercut us as much as they have been. That is very interesting. All right. One of the biggest topics of conversation, as I said today, is Kash Patel. And it’s been for the last couple of days, actually. First, what’s amazing, and I’m going to keep saying this because it’s, I think, going to keep being true about a lot of the people that Trump is nominating for positions within his cabinet, within his administration. If they’ve been critical of the department or the organization they’re going to wind up in charge of, that’s not a bad thing. That’s not inherently bad. Like, uh-oh. This person that’s going to wind up in control of something thinks that there’s broken things within it. Something that I’ll remind everyone who’s ever listening to the show that most Americans agree with. They think Washington is broken. The pardoning of Hunter Biden is just the latest example of a corrupt ridiculousness to the people that are in the have and the people that are the have-nots within D.C. All the have-nots, by the way, are us, the people who put them in positions of power. But nonetheless, Kash Patel himself said it was an honor of a lifetime to be nominated and that together he will restore, together with Trump, integrity, accountability, equal justice to all through our justice system and a return to the FBI with its rightful mission, protecting the American people. This is not inherently a bad thing to want or inherently a bad plan to have, no matter how many mainstream media outlets tell you it is. And actually, I’ll even play some Kash Patel audio, and there’s so much of it out there that demonstrates why he’s such a great pick for this role, for this job, and that exposing the corruption in our government will be a lasting legacy if it actually works effectively. of Donald Trump, something he promised to do before he got into office the first time. The biggest criticism of him, I think, is that it didn’t happen. And I know the biggest defense of that is how hard it is to, you know, rip out all the corruption in a place like D.C., but this time around especially with the appointments he’s making it feels as though that subjective one along with anything he does via executive order but that feels like the main plan and it again isn’t bad for us it is bad for the system that is going to fight it but here’s a little bit of cash patel the biggest problem the fbi has had has come out of its intel shops i’d break that component out of it i’d shut down the fbi hoover building on day one and reopening the next day as a museum of the deep state
SPEAKER 25 :
And I take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals. Go be cops. You’re cops. Go be cops.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay, I love that. And I can play a little bit more of what he said in this statement or this, I think, podcast interview he did a while back. He’s not firing people. One of the big, you know, fear mongering things of a lot of the individuals who claim the Trump appointees are going to rip apart departments, although the Department of Education might be one that goes away and that wouldn’t be so bad. I don’t think for a whole lot of Americans and their kids. But nonetheless, when you say this sort of stuff, you’re not firing those people. You’re sending them into the real world to do the actual work of the FBI, chase down criminals, as he says it, and not trying to get one cushy government job after another, which he also mentions being the objective right now, rip out the bureaucracy and the thing that’s feeding itself And see how people react to actually having to do real work instead of just letting them, you know, get canned and look for some other place of employment. I think that’s a really interesting message. He also said this about the January 6th FBI potential involvement narrative and how, you know, focused he’d be on it. which also seems to be a big thing that say many in the current, you know, world of that government job or in that government, you know, building are not going to be so happy about.
SPEAKER 25 :
What you need to show is whether or not the FBI and government agents were using undercover operatives and informants on the day of January 6th. Yes. If you can show that, you know, they’ve been out. Hang on. But the paperwork shows having run informants. That’s a six month buildup minimum. Right. minimum it’s not like they just dropped them into the proud boys and said hey go don’t disrupt please once you prove that then you defeat the insurrection narrative with the fbi’s own documentation forget what the videotape shows that is incredible to me to say that out loud too and to put someone with that opinion into a position of power in the fbi because yeah
SPEAKER 21 :
If there’s a paper trail demonstrating involvement for months at a time in what inevitably becomes January 6th and then the liberal narrative that further changes what actually occurred that day, it would be incredible to see those receipts. See, that’s the thing. I guess this is the right way to say it. I am obsessed with the idea that we’ll get to see receipts because of the decision making of Donald Trump, the election into office this time, and the people he’s putting, the outsiders he’s putting into positions of power, because that’s all I really want. You can talk to me all you want till you’re blue in the face about, you know, the 2020 election, about that, whatever. Name the conspiracy theory that you want to tell me is legitimate. Right now, you don’t have the ability to point to these vast amounts of released private, you know, secret information, top secret, whatever, things that might actually become public information this time around because you simply can’t ignore it. Having Elon Musk be in charge of Twitter, in charge of X, means that mainstream media looks ridiculous if they ignore giant stories. And they still do it all the time, but the American people are noticing. They ignore giant stories where definitive receipts have been released. Even the Hunter Biden laptop thing is now accepted differently. by your most hardcore liberal friends than it was before if they’ve paid attention to even a little bit of news and how many things happened before, say, the pardoning of Hunter Biden. But nonetheless, I can move on. I just think it’s fantastic to have someone like this in a position of power and the amount of crazy freaking out that occurs because why wouldn’t the regular everyday American want the systems to be deeply checked for flaws? It’d be like if you own a home and you don’t care at all about seeing if there’s anything broken in it ever. Like you don’t have the inspection before you buy it. You don’t actually look into any details as to whether or not the electrical and everything is working well. What’s the problem with potential highly critical oversight? And then the ability for us to judge the receipts that are the byproduct of that because that sounds like what they’re promising us and what they’ve been promising us for a while. I don’t know how that’s bad. Let’s talk a little bit about this California state senator who popped up on Face the Nation. His name is Steve. I don’t think you really care much about state senators in places. In California, you might. But nonetheless, he’s saying that they’re going to fight deportations. Because California and other woke states are telling you that somehow this is racist and horrible, especially if the people are criminals. They don’t seem to make that distinction. Well, criminals beyond being here illegally, that is already a crime. But the other stuff that happens, the dangerous individuals, and there’s a lot of them, according to any new data. But this is the, you know, saying out loud, we’re going to use taxpayer dollars to defend them. By the way, something that’s a big story today for a different reason. from over the weekend.
SPEAKER 18 :
There doesn’t have to be a conflict unless that’s what Trump wants.
SPEAKER 01 :
The governor has called a special session that will convene this week to set aside money to battle the Trump administration. Will some of that money also be set aside to protect migrants and undocumented immigrants in California as they seek either legal advice or continued legal financial backing to support their efforts to stay within California and the United States?
SPEAKER 21 :
Will the people who are not here legally get money from you to stay here illegally?
SPEAKER 18 :
Again, if the first Trump administration is any indicator, we know that there will continue to be a lot of fear in communities and communities that deserve to know what their rights are and what their rights are not. And so if it’s legal assistance, legal advice, legal support, that’s just the California way we embrace our population.
SPEAKER 21 :
We embrace our ability to use your money to do things that a whole lot of American people are claiming is not going well for them, is not helping them, is hurting them. By the way, in other news, in the same sort of discussion, Vivek Ramaswamy was one of the first people to put it out there that apparently one of the hotels that has been getting a crap ton of money from New York City to house people here illegally, to feed them all kinds of stuff, is actually owned by a foreign country, which essentially means that a whole bunch of New York City taxpayers have been giving money to the Pakistani government for quite some time, and they weren’t aware of it. $220 million to rent the entire Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, housing illegal immigrants, money being given again to a company that is essentially just the government of Pakistan, How crazy are these stories and how real they are? How this isn’t just made-up news. It feels like The Onion, or at least I guess The Babylon Bee, if it’s not being as one-sided as the other platform can be. But it’s amazing to see story after story like this and to, again, think about the fact that they’re crapping all over the pick. But people like Vivek and Elon being in charge of trying to have oversight over government waste, that’s not going to be a bad thing. That could be an incredible thing, especially if they use their platforms and media to give us the real stories to demonstrate why this is important. which is, I think, part of the plan, as I said a second ago, and I’ll keep saying throughout the day today. All right, one other quick thing, and then we’ll take a break. There is some viral audio of President Biden being very proud of himself. This was years ago, but he was openly talking about how he got in the way had direct involvement preventing, say, the U.S. government from some of the things that were happening in Ukraine, coercing Ukraine into dismissing a prosecutor that was going after a Burisma. This is really interesting after you realize now that Hunter Biden needed a pardon from his presidential dad to get out of a lot of this stuff because the biggest other claim that definitely matters moving forward is what president Biden knew about the business dealings of his son. Of course, a lot of us think he knew a lot of things and the money he was getting at times, uh, some of it public, most of it probably hidden better, uh, is important and a, you know, past two charging, uh, Joe Biden with a whole lot of crimes himself. But this is him saying, and again, a while ago at a council of foreign relations, um, event, uh, that he was proud of the way he got involved and prevented some things from happening and also pushed for some other things to happen, which is, I don’t know, bad? Can I say bad? I think I can say bad. Here we go.
SPEAKER 13 :
They made, I mean, I’ll give you one concrete example. I was, not I, but it just happened to be that was the assignment I I got all the good ones. And so I got Ukraine.
SPEAKER 21 :
I love that he said that it’s just an assignment I happened to get, not one that I begged for, which seems to actually be true.
SPEAKER 13 :
And I remember going over convincing our team or others to convincing us that we should be providing for. loan guarantees. And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kyiv. Ah, interesting.
SPEAKER 21 :
And I was going… And Hunter was on the plane for a lot of those trips, by the way.
SPEAKER 13 :
…posed to announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor, and they didn’t. So they said they had… They were walking out to press conference and I said, I’m not going to… We’re not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority. You’re not the president. The president said, I said, call him. I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting a billion dollars.
SPEAKER 21 :
It’s crazy.
SPEAKER 13 :
You’re not getting a billion. I’m going to be leaving here. I think it was, what, six hours? I said, I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor’s not fired, you’re not getting the money.
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That is insane, again, in light of all the information that we’ve learned now about Hunter, about everything else, that he’s so proud of that moment as the vice president, going beyond the authority he’s supposed to have, to do whatever it is he feels like he can do to push someone out that was actually actively probing Burisma, again, a company deeply tied to Hunter Biden and deeply tied to the Ukrainian government. So many questions, so few answers, but hopefully a bunch of answers coming in the next few years. Quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins filling in the 12 days of Christmas are even more expensive than they’ve been in the past. Something that’s sort of fun and also vastly depressing. for us to do every single year around this time. The 12 presents mentioned in the last verse of the well-known Christmas carol would cost about $50,000, or about $600, $700 less than that. This is an increase of $2,533 from last year, even though they told us inflation’s going great and everything’s fine. One of the biggest problems is not the partridge, but the pear tree. Apparently that’s skyrocketed in price, but a whole lot of things very expensive. Just so you know, if anyone was planning on going after all the gifts, that would be a horrible mistake financially. And I wouldn’t feel all that great for you. Another thing, just hilarious. So the Miami Hurricanes lost to Syracuse over the weekend. They were the sixth ranked team in the nation. So that was a pretty bad loss. Not the biggest conversation, though, about Miami in the last day or two. It’s actually been that their mascot, Sebastian the Ibis, asked out a very attractive reporter on the sidelines during the game, did a fake proposal to be silly, but then stood up and actually asked for her number to call her. And she said no. And so the debate on social media is who took the bigger L, the Hurricanes themselves for losing to an unranked Syracuse or the mascot for shooting a shot and getting shot down uh immediately i’d go mascot i think more so than anything else i’m not sure if he should have at least taken like the the head of the thing off to show her what he actually looked like if that would have given him a better chance or not but i find this uh deeply hilarious i don’t know exactly why i know barstool and other places are enjoying it and i am too But hey, darn it, I don’t fault the guy. If he saw her laugh to any of the mascot hijinks that went on during the game, maybe he thought that there was an end. Maybe he thought he had a chance. And so I do back guys trying to go for getting the number. I think that a lot of people are afraid to do that now. So I’m proud of the young man, even though, again, it’s a bigger L than the Miami Hurricanes took. And that’s saying a lot. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig filling in on the Dana Show.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Dana’s everywhere, man. You can find her on X. It’s DLash or DanaLashRadio. She’s on TV. She’s on everything. So find her because she’s very, very popular. Very, very successful. Check that out. Thrilled to be in for her for the day. Real quick, I do love a tweet that went viral bouncing all over a lot of people adding to the list. Of the things we were lied to about, I can just quickly tell you them. That inflation is transitory. Afghanistan was a success. The border is secure. Biden is fine. And people that were looking into Biden lied. Videos are cheap fakes. That was my favorite. They’re not deep fakes, but they’re cheap fakes. When you saw videos of Biden’s brain not working, something that eventually most Americans agree had to be a thing. Biden was jet lagged. He had a cold. He isn’t going to be replaced and he isn’t going to pardon Hunter Biden. All those things are just some of the many lies you’ve been told during this administration’s time in office. All right, let’s let’s do this. Of course, the pardoning of Hunter Biden is one of the biggest stories out there and deservedly so, mostly because of all the amount of time, like the ridiculous amount of times we were told that this wouldn’t happen. But more so than just the, you know, horrificness of the about face or the embarrassment of the about face is the money that got spent on this the money that got spent on going after trump too is kind of amazing when you look at all of it 3.4 million dollars 3.5 million in that ballpark uh what is the amount of money that the government used to go after hunter biden and to try him for the gun related charges for for tax evasion charges, all that stuff. They were already at $2.5 million six months into everything before they decided to reassess and actually truthfully go after Hunter Biden, which eventually led to the pardoning that happened just a little while ago. Taxpayers also spent $18 million on Jack Smith and his cases going after Donald Trump. That’s a whole lot of just wasted money. Twenty, you know, one, twenty two, twenty three million dollars. Depending on what assessment you look at, just flush down the toilet to do a whole lot of things that either seemed absolutely politically motivated or that are now being claimed to be politically motivated by the current president. That’s my favorite other part. If I have one. to the way in which Joe Biden, our president, put out a statement saying that he was pardoning his son is he makes several references to a deep political corrupt process that went after Hunter because his name is Biden. It sounds an awful lot like all the things Trump says about all the unfair investigations into him. And actually, there’s one other thing. I can’t get over this, and I’ll play some audio in just a second that I find interesting, too. But I think NBC News put out an opinion piece. They’re the ones that published it, talking about how many journalists have left X, about 22,000. I’m not sure if we’d all call them journalists, but that’s what their byline says they are. And the 28,500 or so that have joined Blue Sky. which is trying to be the old version of Twitter all over again that censors just one side of a discussion. This is a genuine question, and I actually want to ask it in a genuine way, even if it’s going to seem a little snooty or snarky or whatever you want to call it. If you’re really a journalist, if your desire is to tell the truth to the world, why would you run away from a platform that allows you to say whatever you want, that allows you to engage people who don’t think you’re telling the truth, that allows you essentially to fight whatever disinformation and misinformation you see is out there directly? and go to a platform that’s just going to hide that stuff. If you were actually after the truth, which journalists of old were after, I think they’d love to be on a Twitter, at least what they claim Twitter to be. And I don’t agree with them on what they say it is. But if it’s a platform where a whole lot of people that disagree with you are willing to pay attention or go after you or whatever you think they’re doing, and you can just refute them with facts, those can live forever. on that platform and be there for anyone else to see and be influenced by but that’s not actually the point uh… the point of a lot of these journalists isn’t to go after a you know topic or issue and give you more data and more you know truthful information to sway your opinion it’s to remain in their echo chamber And so a whole lot of journalists are demonstrating to you how much of an issue they have with a fair platform and how much desire they have for an unfair one so that you just accept everything they say is true without the counter argument. It’s incredibly disappointing or lazy or whatever other words you want to choose to use to see this published by an NBC or anyone else as like a good thing. Like now we know. that Blue Sky is a more valuable platform because the journalists who are afraid of conversations are running to it and running away from the other one. That’s essentially like begging to be a lawyer that only takes cases that you know you’ll win, that you think every part of you is like, OK, I know what’s set up here. I know who the jury is. I know I’ll win regardless of the facts. That’s not actually trying to fight the good fight, man. And the journalists always want us to believe that it’s horrible to say out loud that they’re, you know, bias or corrupt, too. It’s terrible. How dare anyone think those things? Apparently, they just want to be in their place where, you know, they have the easiest ability to hide from any of that scrutiny. To me, hilarious and also awful. All right. There are some other appointments that were made. by the soon-to-be president, the former president, the incumbent Donald Trump. One of those is out of Florida and out of Tampa, a place that I actually am right now. And so it’s pretty interesting to see some of the reaction to it and some of the discussion points on it. Chad Chronister is the guy’s name. He’s been nominated for DEA administrator in a DEA administrator position. Dana herself even tweeted about the problem that exists there. The double edged sword that is this individual when it comes to his, you know, being kind of a proponent of some of the lockdowns or some of the threats that he made during the coronavirus pandemic that now look horrible. That’s not the only thing. I also heard from some people about this individual that depending on who you ask within law enforcement, a veteran police officer himself, that there are people that believe that he’s not a cop’s cop or believe that he’s someone that’s not, you know, unnecessarily. And I don’t know how many people it might be a very small amount. And that’s important to say of a people that think he’s kind of out for himself. that he’s angling for whatever promotions, whatever jumps up he can get. Now, granted, as I say that, there’s a whole lot of people who would also say that he’s great, from what I’ve heard just down the streets. I feel like that sounds like I’m just walking the streets asking people what they think of him. But some of the information that has been bouncing around, especially even on social media, And then the other biggest criticism of him, and this is the thing that I thought was most fascinating, is how much money he spent to put his name on stuff. So when he first gets into his most recent role as a head of law enforcement in the area, he made sure that people knew because he had cars repainted and had things added to them or put different covers and things on them to make sure that his name was plastered all over the city And that seems like a tremendous waste of money and an absolute focus on a person being his individual level of success and not necessarily, you know, doing the good thing, the right thing for the people in this area or any other. And it’s not Tampa specifically. It’s a surrounding area. I should say that correctly. But nonetheless, I just thought it was really interesting that you hear these differing opinions and filling in for Dana today. Of course, I look and see what she’s talking about on social media, and she is critical of that position. I don’t want to take anything away from her telling you herself, but I saw it out there on Twitter that it certainly is something she doesn’t agree with because of the… differing positions on lockdowns or deep state government stuff. And it’s even more concerning when you think that this person might be out for themselves, which a whole lot of people, I think, in those places in government are. And it leads me to talking a little bit more about Kash Patel. just quickly, and maybe we’ll get to this more in a little bit. Of course, he’s a huge topic of conversation. He’s said many things about desiring to go after the career bureaucratic politician people that exist within the FBI, people who don’t do the job every day that they’re actually supposed to do, which is go after criminals, that he’d essentially close some buildings and send people out into the world instead of letting them sit behind a desk and angle for their next promotion. It all sounds like the type of individual, at least some people in the area in Florida in which I’m in, think that maybe one of these individuals also could be someone out very much for themselves. And I wanted to play something else from Kash Patel. This is him talking about the Epstein book, the black book, the thing that people wonder, hey, what names are in there? What people would be protected by this not being information that’s available to the public? He says, of course, he knows exactly who’s in charge of it. And it’s interesting if he’s someone who gets confirmed to his role that he’s nominated for, it would probably be him. So again, the ability to give us receipts is going through the roof in a lot of these cases. Here we go.
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For instance, who is currently holding, this is way off the topic, but who has Jeffrey Epstein’s… Black Book? Black Book. FBI.
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That’s under direct control of the director of the FBI. Just like the manifesto from the Nashville school shooting of the Catholic school. We still haven’t seen that, right?
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No, we have not seen that. We haven’t seen a whole lot of things. But the fact that the FBI or the director of the FBI would have the manifesto and the information about the Black Book all just sitting on his desk makes me beg to have someone like Kash Patel be put in that role because you get to show us. Or you wind up showing us that some of the things you said are things you don’t strongly believe. Not something I expect him to do. But nonetheless, a position where it’s almost a there’s pressure on him to give us the receipts, which I’d be thrilled to see. All right. Quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Dana will be back tomorrow, I believe. Cheryl Hines, the TV star wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., put up a video on social media saying, Over the weekend, hawking a lot of the products, candles, body sprays, creams that I think she’s tied to. The Maha brand, I believe, is what it’s called. Here’s the weird part. The video she put up includes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. showering behind her. Her head is, in fact, blocking any of the things that a lot of us would not want to see on a Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The only thing I kept thinking, this is a weird thing to think about, I’ll be honest, as I saw this story go viral, not just the video on social media that I’ve chosen not actually to watch. I know enough. I don’t need to know anymore. Man, it’s interesting to be a Kennedy. I feel like there’s a lot of other people that wouldn’t have this be a thing that happens or a viral trend and discussion point, etc., etc. And it feels very much like the way a whole lot of other Kennedys become celebrities and then also obsessed about. But Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being in the shower behind his celebrity wife as she puts up a video on social media talking about discounts. An interesting story. Oh, by the way, it’s part of our quick five. I think I forgot to do the intro. These are the quick five topics of the day.
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And now all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s quick five.
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Totally screwed that up. My bad. But that was number one. A few other ones out there. Google is just for old people. The amount of young people who turn to other search platforms has risen significantly, maybe because a lot of people also feel that Google is unfair or Google is something that has a lot of bias in it. That’s definitely true to me and a lot of people I know, even if I still use it on several occasions. It doesn’t seem like the right platform for many of us. A man attacked by bear at a supermarket. This, I think, happened in Japan, northeastern Japan. The dude’s fine. Fine, I guess, is probably a relative term. He did go to the hospital. He had injuries, but he’s survived. He’s not in any sort of life-threatening danger. You know what’s weird? And again, my brain just works in a strange way. I would love to be able to have a story like that myself. I don’t want to go through the bear attack. I’m not sure that I’ll make it out as unscathed as this Japanese dude did. But talk about just a winning conversation at a bar for the rest of your life. You’re like, yeah, man, that one time a bear attacked me and I survived it. You’ll never, ever be able to have anybody top it. So this guy’s got a brand new story, and after he survives whatever the non-life-threatening injuries are and gets better, he’s probably going to tell it a lot. I assume he will. I’m not sure. Maybe that’s a naive thing to think, but it’s the first place my brain went, which tells you maybe a lot you need to know about me. Other things out there? I thought this was interesting and I can play this audio for you quickly. Scientists have discovered, according to them, how to erase an earworm from your brain. Those are songs that get stuck there and won’t go away. Apparently, you just play this scientifically created music and it will remove them because apparently it has tempo changes and things in it, musical styles that help remove the earworm from your brain. You be the judge. If this is something you’d want to listen to anytime you find yourself singing the same song over and over again. Oh, it’s annoying. I think I’m annoyed by this. Yeah, no, not a fan. Gonna stop it there. But the design of this is to be so many crazy transitions, so many different musical styles all crammed together that you can’t keep thinking of any one thing after you hear it, which, again, is the kind of horrible thing I would not want to listen to at all and would not want to save on, like, a phone or something to play any time I have a song stuck in my head. I’ll just keep going, man. I don’t care how many times I sing that Coldplay song and people judge me for it. It’s stuck. It’s not my fault, people. One last thing that I love, Dolly Parton reacted to being called country music’s greatest artist of all time. I’ll probably play that audio a little bit later on, but I think her reaction is part of the reason that people love her so much because it is, in fact, as adorable as people assume she is. All right, I’ll take a quick break. I got a lot coming up on the show, some of it serious, some of it not, just after the holidays. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. You can find Dana all over. DLash, Dana Lash Radio, two of the best ways to stay connected to her on X, on Twitter. Fox News sat down with Republican Senator Tom Cotton out of Arkansas to have a discussion. And some really interesting things were said about Hunter Biden, about the pardoning, about that entire topic. And I just have to play a couple of them. Here is part of his response to what he thinks. of Joe Biden claiming for so long that he wasn’t going to pardon his son and then just go ahead and do it. Why not? Who cares if I’ve been lying to you for years, the American people, because it’s my kid and because I might be tied to some of this. At least that’s probably something a whole lot of people are asking themselves if you’re thinking about it even a little today. But here we go.
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Joe Biden, for 50 years in public office, has always pridefully boasted about his word as a Biden. And I guess we now know that his word as a Biden is trash for months. He and his White House spokespersons promised the American people they wouldn’t pardon Hunter Biden. But not only did he lie to them about that, look at the scope of the pardon. It’s far beyond the offenses for which he was convicted. It’s any crime he committed whatsoever for 11 years, which raises the question, what crimes does Joe Biden think his son has been committing for the last decade plus? Amen. It also raised the question of whether Joe Biden is going to pardon his brother as well, who was up to his neck in the Biden family influence peddling operation.
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Yes. All those questions are running through the minds, I hope, of a whole lot of people today. The fact that the pardon goes all the way to 2014 and it’s not specific to any one of the accusations is very odd. But then there’s also the idea that Hunter can no longer plead the Fifth Amendment, something that matters quite a bit. because pardoning him is something that means that at least when called in front of any sort of committee that, hey, wait a minute, maybe we can get to the bottom of this. Maybe we can get more information about this. We won’t actually be going after Hunter in a courtroom after this pardon, but who knows what other individuals or what other information we’ll be gaining a little bit more from Tom Cotton.
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corrupt businessman, there may not be anything left to investigate, at least for criminal liability. I will say this, though. Joe Biden may come to regret this decision because having given his son a blanket pardon of 11 years to include time when Joe Biden was vice president, Hunter Biden now can’t plead the fifth If he appears before Congress or appears before a grand jury, he has to testify about exactly what he was up to, for instance, when he was traveling to China on Air Force Two and meeting with Chinese communist princelings, or why he was being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to sit on a Ukrainian energy company’s board for which he had no qualifications.
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You know what’s so interesting to me about saying that part out loud, too, is when you look at the classified documents cases and the one they went after Trump about and then the one they decided to just get rid of for our current president. And the biggest thing in it that mainstream media objected to was that a jury would have sympathy for Joe Biden because his brain is broken. Because essentially, when he testified, they see him as an old man who’s no longer really aware of the things he’s doing to a degree that you’d find him innocent of something or at least not try him for something that he’s evidently guilty of. That might be the hope here as well. If Joe goes on to pardon the rest of his family members for any crime at all committed between 2014 and now, you wonder when that information, any of that information does potentially come to light again. what the end result of it would be, and if Joe himself could wind up in any trouble, unless he issues himself a pardon, which would be hilarious, and also a lot of other stuff, because it’s the biggest thing that people were afraid of Trump doing when he gets into the White House for any of the things they said he did wrong, Biden does it first. That might become a statement similar to the Simpsons did it first, which I love. And I think South Park may go viral because most things in the world of animated comedy, the Simpsons got there before anyone else. It feels like the Democrats are getting there before Republicans quite a bit more often than some would have guessed. By the way, other things out there that amuse me today. Enron is going to make a comeback. Kind of. I think they’re going to have a cryptocurrency. They say the cryptocurrency’s goal is to get rid of energy crises throughout the world. Weird organization to be trying to make a comeback of any kind. And certainly not something most of us had in our bingo card or whatever you want to call it for 2024. Right at the end here. Honestly, the amount of like distraction stories that are out there are interesting to me. So you have Biden choose to pardon his kid. And then you have a bunch of news hit the news media cycle, as people always say, like to bury that story. The JonBenet Ramsey case has a progress being made, according to sources. And that’s all over the news today. And darn it, you might care about something and want more information about something that’s several, several years ago, a viral and dominant story. But what a weird time. What odd timing to be something that hits the news cycle right now. Another big thing out there and something that I can’t help myself in thinking a lot about today is Daniel Penney. Another story that I think should be probably on your ether, on your radar, even if it’s not. He returns to court to start his closing arguments in the subway chokehold trial, or whatever I guess they’re calling it. This is the incident in which a person who has military training was on a subway in New York with a homeless man who was threatening people. That’s all just simple facts that I said out loud, even if it makes you mad. Jordan Neely, of course, a black man, the man who died after this incident happened with Daniel Penny, although there’s disagreement on whether this actually caused his death. That’s important to say, too. But the most powerful thing I think that I saw in discussions and reactions to this story is a very simple question. that the defense has made abundantly clear that some of the even video of Daniel Penny testifying or talking, excuse me, to law enforcement, not knowing that Jordan Neely had died, but some of the information he was giving and saying there were a lot of people scared on the train. He was threatening to not care if he goes to jail for the rest of his life. Jordan Neely. These are all things that actually happened. A lot of media wants to not discuss them or not tell you the truth about this story, but it’s all real. And the big question is, would Daniel Penny have acted any differently if the individual was white and not black? And he, of course, says no. And honestly, there’s no reason not to believe that. I know mainstream media would tell you, of course, that’s not true, or the protesters would say, how dare you say that? But when you see Daniel Penny talk to officers and discuss what occurred on the train, he said he was worried for the safety of individuals there because of the things that someone was saying, not the appearance of the person. beyond being afraid of some of the things that were being said, the amount of bystanders who were worried, and the thought that he had the training to effectively neutralize the situation without taking the life of someone, put someone in chokehold that could make them pass out and not die. and that some of the drugs inside the system of Jordan Neely would have impacted his ability to not survive it. A forensic pathologist said the chokehold alone did not kill him. That’s something they testified to in court. His blood condition, synthetic marijuana, schizophrenia, several other things added into the health jeopardy that Jordan Neely wound up in before he died. That’s also simply a true statement. It makes people mad, but darn it, it’s out there and it’s real. What happens in this case is something that I’m deeply concerned about or deeply invested in because essentially what it’s going to tell us, and we’ve seen cases in New York go an interesting way, One of the most significant ones doesn’t compare to this story necessarily. But when you look at Donald Trump and his felony convictions, that all came from a Manhattan courtroom. That all came from a place in which the jury was built in a way and then told that they didn’t have to find the felony or the second crime that actually causes a typical misdemeanor charge to become a felony. They just had to decide that there was one, whatever it was, and convict him of felonies. And they found him guilty of 34 felonies. Essentially, if we see this again in New York, it’s going to tell us that there are unique places, not that you don’t know this, you probably already know this, but I feel like it backs it even further. There are unique places in our country where certain individuals, politically motivated or whatever, can go to try cases that want to try cases, and there are places where they obviously can’t go. And again, this is not unsurprising. This is not something you don’t know. But this case feels incredibly relevant to that narrative and what you do to fix that problem if it occurs. I’m sure there’s a lot of people out there that are convinced that Daniel Penny is a horrible person, guilty of a racially motivated attack on someone else. But I think if you truly believe that, you’ve just ignored any of the facts of the case. Daniel Penny didn’t attack someone for no reason. He said he did it and didn’t necessarily attack him, I think is the way he’d probably refute that use of that word. But he tried to fix a situation, in his opinion, I know this might make a lot of people mad to say it this way, fix a situation where someone was threatening others. And he has training and thought he could help. And so that is on its face what occurred. And then if he went too far, if he winds up being guilty of something, a person sadly died, all of that also matters. I’m not trying to discredit any part of it. It’s just incredibly important to me that you actually go about it seeking information before deciding what the information is, which is what a lot of the protesters and media and everyone else did because of the optics of something. I think for us to truly get beyond Any sort of discussion about, say, this being something in our society that still exists, this isn’t a meritocracy. People would tell us there’s people who can and people who can’t succeed, even though there’s examples of how that’s not true, etc., etc. Whatever race-based discussion you want to have with me, one of the things that’s more important than anything else is proving these things accurate by going into situations open-minded. And there’s just so many people who are incapable of that. And is the jury going to be incapable of that in a place like Manhattan? That’s the question I ask you. And I don’t feel so great about the odds that the answer is something that I’m not going to love. But if you paid attention to the case and the information presented and the way in which even Daniel Penny spoke to police, not knowing that Jordan Neely had died, but thinking that he helped fix the situation. It’s very hard to see that narrative that’s been jammed down your throat or told to you time and again at the beginning of this story well over a year ago, how long it took to get to this point, and again, what the inevitable results will be. But I think it’s a big deal, and so I guess that’s the reason I took some time to talk about it here. All right. We’ll take a break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
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That’s right. This is the Dana Show, and it’s time for Florida Man. My name is Craig Collins filling in. I got two of them. The first story, 54-year-old guy named Richard. That is important to the story. His last name is Hallmark. I don’t know why he’d care about that part. Was pulled over by the cops. When he was asked who he was, he said his name was Robert, which is actually his brother. The cops then looked into his vehicle. They found a backpack that contained a bunch of pot, methamphetamines, all kinds of illegal stuff in Florida. So they said, hey, whose backpack is this? He goes, oh, that’s my brother’s. His name is Robert, which is the name he gave them, pretending that I guess he was actually his brother. And then he realized his mistake. And I know even though people like George Foreman name a whole lot of their kids the exact same name, believing that there were two Robert Hallmarks was too much for the cops to believe. So the guy broke immediately. He goes, and I’m actually Richard. I’m not Robert. I just told you guys that because, well, I have a warrant out for my arrest. And I don’t know what’s going on with my brother, but that’s totally his backpack. Whichever Richard or Robert you want to believe that he is. I love that that mistake happened so quickly. Police were able to crack the case and Richard Hallmark is now in jail. And he’s probably going to be in there for a little bit as we figure out whose backpack it is. His brother, Robert, probably not thrilled to be a part of the story unless, in fact, he’s guilty, too. I don’t know. But that’s a nice moment where you’re like, no, no, that’s not who I am. But then that’s also not my backpack, and I’ve backed myself into a corner. That’s one Florida man that’s out of central Florida. The other one is just outside of Tampa. A guy went into a Publix and loaded up a cart of stuff and then just wheeled it out, which is actually a felony based on the amount of money that he was stealing. People called authorities. Well, the dude was putting the groceries he didn’t pay for inside his vehicle. And this is the craziest part of this story. the guy went back into the Publix to do it again. He was like, hey, this worked the first time. His name is Andrew. He’s 42 years old. As he was going through his second attempt to steal more stuff and rolling a second cart full of groceries and things he did not pay for out to his vehicle, the cops arrived. They arrested him. As I said, he’s actually going to wind up with felony charges because of the amount of money he was stealing from the publics. But I like that he stayed to commit the crime a second time, just in fact, so they could catch him in the act is nicer than just having the video and everything else prove that what you did is a thing you shouldn’t be doing. My favorite part of this story, though, is the statement from a local police in the area, the Polk County Sheriff, Grady Judd, who said, Sylvester tried to steal not one, but two cartfuls of groceries from Publix. And then he paused for a second and said, we’re shopping as a pleasure. So it’s nice that the sheriff is on board with the team at Publix. He then said that stunt landed him in a county jail where arresting criminals is our pleasure. which I love even more. Create your own tagline about how idiots get in trouble if they’re doing certain things in Florida, where in other places like New York, they’re probably just released again, as horrible as it is, and wound up back doing terrible things, things much worse than just stealing a bunch of groceries from a grocery store. I don’t know how you have the I don’t even know what I want to call it because it’s not a good thing. I wouldn’t call it courage. I’d call it the, you know, arrogance to go into a store, load up with groceries and just roll out and think you’re not going to get in trouble for that. I don’t know how many people do that. or attempt to do it in our world. It feels like it’s too many. And this dude just looks like the kind of guy that doesn’t give a crap about anything. I don’t know how to say it any differently. Certainly doesn’t give a crap about the beard that he’s letting just grow insanely. But that makes sense to me. But again, I don’t know where you get the chutzpah or whatever I should call it that’s negative, even attempt this and to go back for round two. I wonder what’s in his brain. I would genuinely like to talk to him and discuss it, although he’s not going to be available for a while for an interview because he’s busy doing other stuff. Just because I want to understand that mindset of, hey, man, let’s try this out two times and see if it works because I can’t get there. All right, quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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This is the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins filling in with you today. Thrilled to be here. Dana is back tomorrow. Lots and lots of things out there. But the absolute biggest discussion, biggest conversation is easily the fact that Joe Biden decided after claiming he wouldn’t do it for quite some time. Departing his son, Hunter Biden, of any and all charges, any and all crimes going all the way back to 2014, which is an interesting time to choose because that’s when the Burisma stuff first started to happen between Hunter and between even the current vice president at the time, which would be Joe Biden, and leaves us in this very odd state. where we have a lot of questions and by design, absolutely no answers. Although that might change, Hunter Biden can now no longer plead the fifth if he’s brought in to testify in front of Congress for something because, well, he can’t be tried for anything. So there is no jeopardy. But let’s play some of the brilliant supercut that was put out by Tom Elliott of Grabian of all the times they lied to us and told us this would not happen. Joe himself said he wouldn’t do it, that they believed that no one was above the law. unless that person is named Biden, probably going to wind up pardoning a whole lot of other Biden family members as they would be next on the list as far as people you go after, because Hunter didn’t act alone, feels like a statement that I could say time and again. But here again is the brilliant Tom Elliott Agrabian putting together nine minutes, I can’t play all of it, of media praising Biden for something he absolutely did that they said he wasn’t going to do.
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of our democracy. So there is an opportunity here for Biden to say, you know, the jury found him guilty. This is how it’s supposed to work. Period, paragraph, end of story.
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Have you ruled out a pardon for your son? Yes.
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As I said last week, I will accept the outcome of this case and will continue to respect the judicial process as Hunter considers an appeal. You know, the president said he won’t touch it. He’s not he said he’s not going to pardon his son. And it seems that Mayor Garland let it go through. How can the Justice Department be weaponized against Trump when all of that is happening?
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Democrats stand for the rule of law. Remember, law and order, you know, and we’ve been saying that Trump’s not above the law. Hunter Biden’s not above the law. No one is above the law. And it is amazing to see the stark contrast between how Democrats handled today and how Republicans handled this whole thing over the last couple of weeks.
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The egg on everybody’s face, if that’s actually all I thought it was, and not, you know, like, honest or actual intentional lying. I shouldn’t call anything honest, but purposeful, giving us just crap information after crap information. It’s incredible. And as I said, Tom Elliott put together nine minutes of this. You can find it on X. We can play a little more.
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The outcome of the case. I know no other word for that but presidential.
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Ha!
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He even went so far as to say he wouldn’t pardon his son. That’s how much respect he has for the system. The president has said that he will not pardon his son. What did you think of that?
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I thought it was extraordinary. I mean, it was a moment of just moral clarity on the part of Joe Biden and couldn’t have been in, you know, starker contrast to the way Donald Trump has handled his own convictions.
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You know, it’s so interesting about all this, too. I’ll stop it there. The left loves when they can point to something and say, look at how different this would be if Trump were involved. They love vilifying the former president and yet and the soon to be current president. And yet so often. We see them do exactly the thing they say that Trump will do, even if he’s never done it before. The threat to do it is out there. I mean, look at the world we live in right now and the amount of danger that is essentially on a world stage because of conflicts that didn’t happen when Trump was in office that sound like they might be resolved when Trump gets back into office. That did happen during this administration. There’s just so many lies happening. And it’s so crazy. And beyond it all is the statement by many that if you actually, you know, dive deep enough, you’ll understand why it happened or you’ll you’ll see how, you know, political this entire thing was, which is amazing because it’s exactly the same stuff that Trump has been saying for one. Not that I’m saying you should believe it in this case, but Trump has been saying it for a while and media has been attacking him for even putting that idea out there. One last thing on this. Corinne Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, was asked this standing outside of Air Force One with a gaggle of reporters. Her and John Kirby were given initial questions. And this was the back and forth, which, again, I thought was it’s just they’ve been priming you for this for a while. in saying that Hunter is a child and that Joe is just a really great father and anyone could have sympathy for all of the challenges that he’s faced, whatever it might be. So we’ve been hearing a version of the inevitable excuse for quite some time, but here it is.
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You have said repeatedly yourself since the election, the president has said for months no pardon was coming. I wanted to ask you, could those statements now be seen as lies from the American people? Yes. Is there really a credibility issue here given now this announcement?
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Yes. First of all, One of the things that the president always believes is to be truthful to the American people. That is something that he always truly believes. And if you see the end of his, I assume that you’ve read his statement and you look at the end of that statement and he actually says that in the first line in the last paragraph and respects the thinking and how the American people will actually see this.
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No, the American people don’t see it the way you want them to see it and didn’t see a whole lot of other things that you told us were one way, the way that you saw them. We saw a lot of lies and a lot of crap and we’re seeing it again. And the heartstrings approach of saying he’s just a father that’s taking care of his son and any other father would do that in that situation. Actually, you’re enabling your son to continue doing horrible stuff. Not saying that Hunter Biden is necessarily falling back into all those worlds he was in before. Although there was cocaine found in the White House, which feels to be relevant even more so today than before. All right. Kash Patel is a big part of the conversation. He has been nominated to be the director of the FBI. Out of all the organizations, the Department of Education, whatever it is that people are going to wind up being in charge of and critical of, which is what Trump keeps doing. And he keeps nominating people that he knows will at least go after any of the corruption or, you know, business as usual stuff that occurs there. And Kash Patel is certainly an experienced guy, no matter how much media will claim to you that he’s not. He’s someone that actually worked within the FBI, something that’s not true of a bunch of people who are directors of the FBI and have been the last several years. So that feels like it matters. But the thing that’s more important to any of this to me with all the crazy reactions and demands for it not to go the way that it could go, and this is just a question, I’ll just ask you and you decide for yourself what’s true. If you were tasked with the job that you believe Trump is going to give himself, and I know a lot of us believe that, and a lot of others think that probably something else is happening, and I don’t know how to talk to those people sometimes, but you want to rip out corruption. You want to go to the roots. You want to tackle it in D.C. and as many places as possible. It doesn’t benefit you. It doesn’t benefit your family necessarily to do this, but how would you go about that if you need people that you believe you can trust to be in charge of these positions because you can’t do everything yourself no matter who you are but if that was actually the goal if that is the mission how else go about it other than to find outsiders that you believe won’t be influenced you believe won’t be turned against the objective that are going to attack and publicly So many of these individuals that have been nominated to these positions have criticized the departments or the powers that be that have been in those positions before, so much so that it does create pressure, I would imagine, I would at least assume, Kash Patel for sure creates pressure to give us the goods, to give us the receipts. Kash Patel has talked about all kinds of things in the world of the FBI, including even the likelihood that the director of the FBI has access to Epstein’s blacklist, has access to manifestos that we haven’t seen before, all of these things. So you put him in that position, and the first thing anyone who’s paid close attention to what he said has been doing is, well, show us. Show us that stuff. Give us as much of that information. Declassify, declassify, et cetera, et cetera. I’ll say this the most controversial way I think I can. I’m not doing it on purpose, but I think I can to a lot of like my friends that get mad at me because I got a lot of buddies still and a lot of relatives who that are still trying to prove whatever conspiracy theory they saw to me. And they’re doing it the same way they were before. They’re like, did you see this on Twitter? Did you see what this person said, what that person said? And my reaction, and I’m not trying to dismiss the likelihood that there’s a bunch of true stuff that we’ve been told is a conspiracy theory, but my reaction is just wait a few months. The person who’s taking the White House and a bunch of the people that he’s trying to put in positions of power will hopefully obliterate the system and show us the truth, because that’s the only way to get more Americans on board with the idea that the system has to come apart. And so now I don’t care. about the person who tells me, did you see this video of this thing that’s only on Twitter and nowhere else? Not because I’m trying to silence it, but because I’m waiting for the better version of proof to come out that’s impossible for mainstream media to ignore. And I hope that’s what we see. And I hope these individuals put in these positions, whoever they are, and a bunch of them with way more credibility than is being claimed to have had. Even Matt Gaetz would have actually done a better job than people want to say. Now, granted, I will put out there that if the things he’s accused of and the investigations found about him are true, you can’t possibly take on the role that he was nominated for. But even Gates was so publicly critical of the judicial system that it seemed interesting to throw someone like that into the lead position. And who knows? Maybe a lot of these people appointed to these roles will leave them. within a year of serving their job because the design of their appointment is to upend the system, maybe not to run it long-term. Maybe there are people that wind up stepping in once the corruption is rooted out. I’m probably being idealistic and saying that could take place over the course of a year. But nonetheless, I wonder if that’s what happens. If during the administration, there are people who don’t retain power after the objective they go in with is accomplished. that they go ahead and walk away from it and hand it off to somebody else. But we’ll see, because to me, again, that’s more important and the value of the discussion than any of the crap you see in the coverage in mainstream media by a landslide. All right. Quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Find Dana everywhere, DLash and DanaLashRadio, two of the best places to find her on X on Twitter. All right, let’s do a quick five.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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So a bunch of quick five stories in the world of football that I thought were interesting. Buffalo Bills, the team asked their fans to help clear snow before the game they had the other night. I thought that was interesting. A whole bunch of fans showed up volunteering to clear two to three feet of snow over the weekend in order to play and have people actually be able to show up at the stadium. A lot of the snow was left in the seats, though, according to the videos, which is weird. And people did have to still sit on piles of it. I don’t think they got anything for volunteering to help clean snow either, which is wrong. Give them something. You got to get some sort of maybe you can’t go to the game if the tickets are sold out. But I got to get something, some sort of win here. And I don’t see what the prize was, but it wasn’t much. Michigan and Ohio State got into a brawl. Pepper spray was used by police after Michigan defeated Ohio State yet again. The number two Buckeyes fell to an unranked team. That was a big deal and also probably a conversation because of the pepper spray and whatnot over the holiday. And then finally, the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech had one of the most incredible games in NCAA football history, going eight overtimes, but also demonstrating that the college football playoff rules are stupid. Just play regular football into overtimes. I don’t care if it goes a long time. I didn’t love the argument back when it was first made. I think in the, you know, mid to early 2000s, they had to change the rules because they’re college athletes and for the player’s health. If two teams are going to play real football and not gimmick versions of you got to go for two and weird things football for eight or nine overtimes, let it happen, man. I want to be back in that world. I don’t want to be in this crap world, especially when a two-point conversion wins a game it didn’t deserve to win. All right. Non-football related stuff. Also in the quick five, a man jumped out of a roller coaster in Arizona or more like climbed out. Although jumped is the word a lot of people are using when he realized he wasn’t locked into it right as it was approaching its first big drop. It’s a roller coaster that actually goes upside down a couple of times. So terrifying situation. And the dad said he was lucky it was him and not his kids. I have a couple pieces of audio of this, but this is insane. His lap bar released right before they started the part of the roller coaster that probably doesn’t end up well for him.
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It was just adrenaline, and I didn’t want to die that day. I heard a click noise that was different from the chain taking us up the hill, and I checked my lap bar, and it released. It could have been one of the 11-year-olds. It could have been somebody older, not as agile, right?
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Right. It could have been a lot of things that happened there, and it’s terrifying. He actually went on to also say that he was surprised no one saw him climbing out of the roller coaster and stopping the ride. As mentioned in, I think, that news coverage and other places, Arizona is one of a few states that doesn’t have any sort of oversight over some of their roller coasters. Probably something you want. after this. And honestly, just real quick, as a kid, I was convinced, although I didn’t get off the ride, I stayed on it, that I had a lap bar that released a little bit, not all the way on a ride that just would swing you upside down constantly. And I survived because I believe I held myself into the ride. And as a kid, I remember all of the people, my family I was with being like, that can’t happen. You’re being crazy. Now I feel like maybe it was true. I can’t prove it. I don’t know. I was young, and I didn’t actually fall out of said coaster. But part of me thought it happened then and believes maybe it happened now, although I wasn’t in Arizona. So maybe that’s a part that’s missing in my story. All right, quick break. A little more coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Bunch of stuff out there to talk about, as always. Trump has threatened 100% tariffs on nations that are trying to undermine the U.S. dollar. This includes a set of nations that are part of the BRIC alliance. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates. There’s other countries, Turkey, Iraq, Azerbaijan, excuse me, and Malaysia that want to be a part of it, et cetera, et cetera. But they have been for quite some time now trying to undermine the U.S. dollar. Even though 58% of the world’s foreign exchange reserves are in U.S. dollar, there’s a desire, especially if you’re Russia, China of this alliance, et cetera, to want to undermine it in any way you can. 100% tariffs will probably work as bringing people to the table to discuss things as it’s already been working. The tariffs thing is one of the more hilarious things I’ve seen, hilarious in how quickly it’s been beneficial for the United States and how easily it was condemned by people that are not, say, the person doing it, mainstream media and whatnot, because Canada immediately came to the negotiation table. Mexico, too. China seems to be more willing to discuss some things, all because of the threat of tariffs. And by the way, and I’ll keep saying this, Maybe it’s a hope I have that’s never going to play out. Maybe it was a reason to convince people that the tariff threat was real when it won’t actually be. Who knows? But the idea that we could institute enough tariffs to make enough money to stop having to pay income tax anymore at the federal level is something that sounds amazing to me. And it has been at least floated. The Joe Rogan interview, one of the places that Trump talked about it, which is a thing that this country actually did for quite a long time before going into the road with how they take our money, money that a lot of us feel that they don’t deserve to have and we don’t want to give them anymore. It’d be great if that went away, which might be a Trump thing. All right. In the world of illegal people in this country, there are a few pretty big discussions going on right now. One was caused by a tweet from Vivek Ramaswamy, someone who will be in charge of trying to spend less money as our government or, you know, remove all the ridiculous waste spending abuse that exists in our government. And I’ll get to that in a second. But before that, I want to play Face the Nation audio. of a California state senator saying that it’s the position of that state and those politicians that if Trump tries to deport people who are there illegally, that U.S. tax dollars will fight the good fight, which is not a good fight at all, but spend a bunch of money in trying to not remove people who don’t have the right to be here and paying their legal fees, which is insane. This is refusing to hear the message of the people who said they’re not happy about this by continuing to take our money to do the wrong thing with it. Here we go.
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There doesn’t have to be a conflict unless that’s what Trump wants.
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The governor has called a special session that will convene this week to set aside money to battle the Trump administration. Will some of that money also be set aside to protect migrants and undocumented immigrants in California as they seek either legal advice or continued legal financial backing to support their efforts to stay within California and the United States?
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Again, if the first Trump administration is any indicator, we know that there will continue to be a lot of fear in communities and communities that deserve to know what their rights are and what their rights are not. And so if it’s legal assistance, legal advice, legal support, that’s just the California way. We embrace our diversity. Our diversity has made our communities thrive and our economy thrive.
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No. No, it has not actually. A whole lot of people within your communities, within your state, are going to tell you that it’s one of the biggest problems that they’re seeing. And massive amounts of spending by several different states are putting a lot of other issues in play or a lot of other challenges in play that you simply don’t have the money to address, which is something that disproportionately is impacting a lot of those communities that you say you care about, which is interesting. As far as a full narrative, a full discussion that’s out there in the world, you wouldn’t think that in 2024, after Trump is reelected to the office of president, that Republicans could actually say that they’re fighting more for a disenfranchised people than Democrats are and easily mean it with a bunch of different stats and proof out there. But yet it’s true. It is absolutely true. One other thing, and this is the thing that Vivek put out there, a taxpayer-funded hotel for illegal migrants is owned by a Pakistani government, is owned by the Pakistani government, excuse me, which means New York City taxpayer dollars are effectively paying a foreign government for housing illegal people in our country. It’s an insane statement and it’s 100% true. The city of New York paid $220 million to rent the entire Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan to house illegal immigrants, which, as I said, was owned by the government of Pakistan. And the deal was part of a $1.1 billion payout package to help Pakistan with all kinds of other things. This is insane. And so many of these things are just like flying, I guess, like within the radar. because it’s stuff that’s very easy for us to find out before people are even in roles where they’re attacking more of this crap and digging deeper than even the surface level. And so it’s just amazing to see. But if you’re someone, and most people, I think, fit into this bracket that thinks it’s ridiculous, the amount of spending on whatever it is. I mean, honestly… To pause for a second and say it a different way, the amount of money that’s gone to Ukraine is an easy thing for a lot of people to now say, like, all right, that seems like too much. It seems like too much has gone there. And I know that the Biden administration is talking about sending as many additional weapons and things as they can. before they lose their power in office in the next month. And it’s just crazy. But most people can admit, usually, that the amount of money seems insane, and there should be more oversight into it, especially when you know that there have been actual investigations, very basic ones, into some fraud, and they’ve been found to exist within the amount of money we’ve sent to Ukraine. They have stolen money. It was quite a big story, and it was actually just a fraction of what likely is going on there but what’s fascinating to me more than anything about that discussion is what the end result is what what you do to fix the problem and now you hear um you know the president of ukraine you hear others saying that they’re likely to cede territory to gain peace to end the conflict that’s something that vladimir zielinski said over the weekend that something he’s been adamant he would not do, give up some of the contested area that’s essentially between Ukraine and Russia that has not really been under Ukrainian control for quite some time. It’s been a proxy fight, something the United States was not helping Ukraine to fight against Russia. Giving up these areas like the Donbass region, at least portions of them, to Ukraine, and also not demanding to gain Crimea back, which was annexed in 2014, might actually end the conflict. And it’s something for the first time because a brand new person will be in power very soon as being said out loud by the Ukrainian government. I find that very, very interesting. I find that very fascinating that it’s out there in the world as a simple statement. The amount of things that are changing. The amount of this was impossible and could never happen things that are now definitely happening and seem to be very possible just because of the election are, you know, proof themselves that what’s occurring now is a change from the system that existed or the business as usual stuff that we’ve been seeing for a while. It’s just it’s something I don’t know how to say it differently. All right, one last thing, and I know I’ve been talking about it all day, but I know it’s probably going to be the biggest topic of conversation with anyone you know that talks about any kind of politics. But the decision to pardon Hunter Biden, something that Joe Biden, our current president, decided to do but promised countless times he wouldn’t do, is one of the more… incredible stories in the world of politics, mostly because of how wide reaching the pardon is. Any crime committed by Hunter Biden between 2014 and now, even ones we don’t know about, can’t go after him for it. How dare you? Opens up interesting scenarios since Hunter won’t be able to claim Fifth Amendment protections anymore, but also something that places like CNN are actually somewhat struggling to defend, even though some of their guests are doing it. A lot of these places look like absolute morons for pretending they believed Biden when he said time and again he wouldn’t pardon his son. And that was the way in which you showed that what Biden does is somehow different than what you accuse Trump of doing, even if he doesn’t do that actual stuff. It is amazing. But here’s a little bit of CNN talking about this and people trying to come up with their reason that this is totally OK and not a complete abuse of power that they promised us they wouldn’t do.
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Look, Patel’s going to be confirmed or not confirmed because Republican senators are either going to bend the knee to Donald Trump or not. They know he’s not qualified. They know that even Bill Barr, who was by no means the paragon of democratic virtue, said that he didn’t want Kash Patel anywhere near him. So if Kash Patel gets confirmed, it’s not going to be because Joe Biden pardoned Hunter. It’s going to be because Republican senators are afraid to say no to Donald Trump, as they have consistently been afraid to say no to him. But look, I mean, if you’re talking about lying or you’re talking about Joe Biden’s word, Joe Biden’s out of here in just a month or two, right? We’re not going to hear from Joe Biden again. He’s going to be a former president and that’s going to be the end of that. But I want to be clear about something. Donald Trump broke something in this country.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, my God.
SPEAKER 05 :
When he got elected the first time and then he shattered it into a million pieces when he got reelected. And we will never get that back again. When you have a president of the United States… I can’t do it.
SPEAKER 21 :
I can’t even make it through all this. She goes on to say how understandable it is that President Biden pardoned his son and that Trump’s the real threat here. The Trump derangement syndrome is off the charts with these people. And it’s crazy for them to say stuff like, look what Donald broke when he got reelected, even though he’s not actually even in the White House yet. How can you already be sure that everything that’s happening is terrible? And that somehow your life is going to change in some sort of, you know, horrible way. But just an idiot, a Democratic strategist. So certainly a person paid to be a moron. But nonetheless, CNN broadcasting that and talking about how it’s terrible to call them the Biden crime family in light of what’s happened recently. It’s just it’s amazing to me.
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me and again i wish i could make it through the whole clip i have more clip i can’t do it because it’s so stupid and it’s so crazy it’s so exactly the thing that failed as far oh and by the way i’ll just throw this out quickly not able to catch the full dana show follow dana’s absurd truth podcast and get news and laughs delivered in short easy to digest episodes ideal for your busy lifestyle on apple or wherever you get your podcast
SPEAKER 21 :
This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in for the day. Dana is back tomorrow. A couple quick pieces of audio that I thought were interesting. First, a venomous snake climbed up somebody’s leg while they were driving a vehicle in Australia. The tiger snake is definitely deadly. Lucky that no one was bit and that the person survived. But there’s audio of the snake control guy in Melbourne. His name is Tim talking about it and how lucky everybody is and how nobody really likes snakes, except maybe he does. But here’s a little bit of that audio.
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highly venomous they definitely don’t want to muck around with them get the life out of her and she managed to pull the car over they’re pretty panicked as well so they’re not a fan of snakes either considering the circumstances extremely lucky my favorite part of that audio is that everybody else on the side of the road panicked as well because not many people were fans of the snakes not even people who responded to it that weren’t snake control interesting job to be snake control in a place like australia
SPEAKER 21 :
Also, a viral piece of audio out there, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur ate a banana. That’s artwork worth $6.2 million. You probably heard some version of the story, but a guy paid way too much money for a thing that actually is a replaceable banana. It’s not a super old one. The artwork has instructions that comes with it that tells you how to put a new banana in the place of an old one. But again, it’s just a banana stuck to a wall and that’s the art and it’s worth $6 million. I don’t know how, but now the auction itself, the audio of it went viral where someone is bidding that much money for the dumbest thing that’s existed in the world of art.
SPEAKER 22 :
Fair warning at $5,200,000. Jen, the Catalan is yours. Congratulations. Thank you very much indeed. Why?
SPEAKER 21 :
Why would any of this happen? Why do people do this stuff? Well, it’s their money. I guess they can do what they want. I would not be thrilled if I were someone connected to that person. Although who knows what the banana art will sell for in the future. And again, it’s a replaceable banana. So the one the guy ate is not the only one that goes with the artwork. You buy new ones and put new ones up constantly if you own the piece. I’m very confused. Other things out there, just quicker, like, you know, palate cleanser stuff before we get out of here. A man was arrested in Virginia, West Virginia, with nine different kinds of drugs. guns and cash on him. I didn’t know that he had all the different kinds. I didn’t know there were nine meth, heroin, fentanyl, Oxycontin, hydrocodone, cocaine, ecstasy, et cetera, et cetera, more things that are crazy. But he had so many of them. that people probably assumed that it was better for him and honestly better for the world that he’s now going to be in jail and separated from all of his different drugs. That’s not great. Ridiculous amount of money and other things. He’s probably a dealer, cash, firearms, whatnot, but just a crazy story. And you got to feel like as you’re pulling stuff out of this guy’s pockets, it’s one of those like magic hats that shouldn’t have that much stuff in it, but stuff keeps coming out because he has that many different drugs all just on his person. And then also, one last one out there for just silly, ridiculous things. A Canadian mall has been blasting Baby Shark in its stairwells to kick homeless people out, to make them frustrated and leave. And it’s caused an uproar. Apparently, people are saying, how dare you do this and just displace a problem and not just allow people to live in your stairwells when you don’t want them there and customers don’t want them there and people who actually live within the building as well don’t want them there. I love that argument. Like, how dare you? They figured it out already, even if you have no reason to desire them to be there. And if you make them leave by playing Baby Shark at different levels and volumes and tempos, that you’ve now made the problem even worse. It’s an insane argument, the one that’s out there in the world as well. All right. Thanks, as always, for listening. Thrilled to be here. Dana’s back tomorrow. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
